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The challenge of ever-shrinking backup windows for exponentially growing data is expanding beyond central data centers to departments across most corporations. Data production across many corporate departments is estimated to be growing at rates approaching 100% per year due to regulatory requirements, growth in e-mail traffic, rich media content, etc. The business-critical nature of applications such as e-mail, databases and groupware, and the global reach of most corporations, is reducing the time window available for backup from days to hours.
Client/server backup basics
Traditional LAN-based client/server backup supported by applications such as Veritas' NetBackup, Legato's NetWorker, and Computer Associates' ARCserve continues to be the most commonly used practice for tape backup in departmental environments. In this method, one server on the LAN is designated as the backup media server. While it can be any server on the network that has been designated to play the role of backup server, it is typically a dedicated server used only for backup.
This method provides a centrally managed backup environment. The backup media server manages backups for application servers on the network; only a client agent must be installed on the remote backup clients. This solution requires a single license for tape backup software and enables amortizing the cost of tape libraries or autoloaders across many servers, thus making it easier to justify the cost of tape automation. In addition, this architecture supports heterogeneous environments since the backup clients do not necessarily have to be running the same operating system as the backup server; for example, a Windows server can function as the backup server for a network of Linux application servers.
TCP/IP and backup performance
LAN infrastructure in general, and TCP/IP protocol processing specifically, play a significant role in the performance and efficiency possible using client/server backup. While having multiple TCP/IP-based Gigabit Ethernet LAN segments can broaden the backup data path, no matter how fast backup data enters into the backup server, the TCP/IP protocol processing capability of backup and application servers can become a bottleneck.
Extrapolating from Sun's testing of Veritas backup software shows that IA-32 backup servers require 8MHz of CPU power for every megabyte per second (MBps) of backup data moved to or from the network, while each MBps of data moved from disk to tape (or vice versa) requires 5MHz of CPU capacity. For example, an IA-32 server that needs to back up a number of clients over the network to local tape at a rate of 30MBps would need 390MHz of available CPU power, with 240MHz of the CPU capacity taken up by TCP/IP protocol processing. As another example, an application server that needs to back up a database residing on local disks to a remote backup server at a rate of 30MBps would need 390MHz of available CPU power, again with 240MHz of CPU power consumed by TCP/IP protocol processing.
Another pitfall of client/server backup is the mismatch between tape speed and network speed. Today's tape systems can write data at a uniform rate of 20MBps to 30MBps per tape drive. While Gigabit Ethernet LANs can theoretically feed data to the backup server at up to 110MBps, in reality TCP/IP protocol processing limits application servers to forwarding data at a fraction of that rate. While LAN-based TCP/IP communication is typically intermittent, tape drives such as DLT systems require continuous, streaming data from the backup server. When the tape drive starves because data is arriving over the network slower than the tape drive is writing, it leads to a condition where the tape drive continuously stops, rewinds, and restarts while waiting for additional data to arrive from the LAN, significantly reducing performance.
A common approach to balancing tape speed and network speed is the use of multiplexing, or feeding parallel data streams from application servers to the backup server, enabling the tape drives to be fully utilized. However, multiplexed streams require a significant amount of CPU resources on backup servers, again essentially driven by protocol processing I/O requirements.
An alternative is to replace the client/server backup architecture with a Fibre Channel SAN-based backup architecture. While Fibre Channel SANs have a number of attractive features for backup–including removal of heavy backup network overhead on LANs and network servers, as well as reliable, gigabit-level backup operations–the expense and difficulty of deploying Fibre Channel SANs make it an unlikely option for most corporate departments.
Enter TOEs
More than a dozen companies–including Adaptec, Alacritech, Astute, Broadcom, Emulex, Intel, iReady, Layer N, QLogic, Seaway, Silverback, Trebia, and Xiran (a division of SimpleTech)–have introduced products or announced plans in the emerging TCP offload engine (TOE) area. Products include TOE network interface cards (TNICs), iSCSI host bus adapters (HBAs), and TOE chips that offload TCP termination from host CPUs. For a Gigabit Ethernet connection, terminating TCP in hardware versus software can improve server performance by up to 50%. While in the longer term, IP storage using iSCSI HBAs is potentially a larger and more-lucrative market for TOEs (IP storage relies on iSCSI, a protocol that sits on top of TCP), the server market has an immediate need for TNIC products to improve performance of applications such as file serving and client/server backup.
For backup, deployment of TNICs (currently ranging from slightly less than $500 to almost $1,400) in backup media and application servers could relieve the backup network-processing bottleneck, without the cost of deploying Fibre Channel SANs. TNICs have the potential of significantly increasing throughput to storage devices for processing of large amounts of data. In addition, backup media and application server resources are freed up for additional application processing.
"Medium to large IT departments are using our accelerators in their backup servers for multi-drive tape backup servers, as well as tape libraries and new disk-to-disk backup appliances," says Joe Gervais, director of product marketing at Alacritech. "TNICs can offer significant benefits for customers when multiple systems are archiving data simultaneously to a backup server with multiple tape drives."
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) is one site that found significant gains in overall backup performance and efficiency through the use of Alacritech's TNICs. Prior to TNIC deployment, UPMC was struggling with the labor- and time- intensive nature of a distributed local tape backup process, need for capacity expansion on an aging server population, and limited capital budget for infrastructure improvements. Alacritech's TNIC accelerator cards have enabled UPMC to centralize network backups and dramatically reduce backup windows, while extending the life of its server infrastructure.
"We're using Alacritech accelerators to implement a networked backup strategy that would enable us to move from local tape backups to a centrally managed, IP-based backup approach," says Kevin Muha, technical lead in UPMC's Network Server Group. "We're backing up at least 5TB of data in 12 hours rather than in four days."
A growing approach to improving backup performance, as well as capitalizing on the falling costs of hard disk drives, is the use of disk-based backup systems, which are typically used as a staging area before copying data to tape in a two-step backup architecture. Adaptec, for example, is targeting this market with its ASIC-based, full-offload TNIC. "Backup and restore windows continue to be a key pain point of IT managers, and TOEs help alleviate this issue," says Ram Jayam, vice president and general manager of storage networking at Adaptec. Adaptec's internal testing has shown that its TNIC cards provide more than a 30% throughput improvement compared to standard NICs, while freeing up server CPU cycles for disk I/O use, which significantly reduces backup/restore times.
The entry of new players in the TOE market should result in substantial declines in TNIC prices. Ryo Koyama, CEO of iReady, says his seven-year-old company has shipped more than 250,000 TCP/IP offload engines, primarily in embedded devices. iReady's recently announced EthernetMAX product is a combination TOE-enabled Gigabit Ethernet NIC and iSCSI HBA. "Addressing volume applications such as network backup will require widespread TOE deployment," says Koyama.
Saqib Jang is a principal at Margalla Communications, a Woodside, CA-based strategic and technical marketing consulting firm focused on storage networking. He can be contacted at [email protected].


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The following plan establishes the procedure and appropriate contact personnel for students, faculty, staff, and guests to follow in the event that the Pittsburg area experiences a severe weather emergency.
The National Weather Service uses the following terms to alert the public to "weather conditions which, may or already have produced tornados."
Severe Thunderstorm Watch: Weather conditions exist which could produce thunderstorms in the area. These storms can produce a tornado.
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: A severe thunderstorm has been observed and is moving toward the area.
Tornado Watch: Weather conditions are such that a tornado could develop in the area.
Tornado Warning: A tornado has been sighted and is moving toward the area.
When notification of a severe weather watch/warning is received from the National Weather Service, University Police dispatch will immediately initiate their severe weather watch/warning notification plan, calling key departments. Each area is then responsible for communicating key information to students, faculty and staff in their administrative areas according to their established mechanisms of official communication.
During uncertain weather conditions, when possible, individuals should listen to radio or watch local television weather broadcasts as well as being alert for municipal tornado siren notification (an indication that the possibility of tornado is imminent), and/or listen for outdoor broadcast of warning messages via the university wide-area emergency broadcast system (WEBS).
All building team leaders, departmental heads, directors and/or supervisors should familiarize their staff with the content and terms of this policy. In addition they should discuss this emergency plan with their staff at the beginning of each academic semester, and with new personnel upon beginning work. All members of the campus community, particularly staff and faculty are urged to become familiar with the characteristics of their respective buildings so they can better promote the safety of all students, faculty, staff, and guests should severe weather conditions occur.
Storm Refuge Areas: Signage designating STORM REFUGE AREAS (black background with white lettering) are installed in all campus buildings. Floor plan drawings (pdf format) for each university owned building showing storm refuge areas are available to university faculty and staff via GUS (log-in required) under the PSU Internal Documents tab. Storm refuge areas are illustrated in these drawings by single hash lines applied to the corresponding rooms and corridors.
1. The following procedures are to be observed during severe weather warnings.
a. Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Sirens will not sound. Supervisors should monitor the situation if uncertainty exists regarding weather conditions. All building personnel should be alert for damaging wind or hail. If the likelihood of damage exists, staff and building users should evacuate the areas of danger and move to designated storm refuge area as available or to the lowest level of a building to seek a protected inner hallway or area that does not have exposed windows.
b. Tornado Warning: If it appears that a tornado is imminent, the Sirens will continue until the event has passed and the all clear is given.
All individuals present should go to designated storm refuge areas as available or to the lowest level of a building to seek a protected inner hallway or area that does not have exposed windows. Building team leaders, area supervisors and managers or maintenance supervisors will utilize available staff to occupy "key locations" (stairwells, doors, etc.) and guide people. Large open areas with wide roof spans such as auditoriums, gymnasiums, cafeterias and ballrooms must be checked and cleared of people. The safest areas usually are lowest levels and away from glass windows. People should not seek shelter in laboratories, which contain hazardous substances.
c. If Areas Are Evacuated: Where applicable, employees are instructed to secure all monies, lock all cash registers and secure computer terminals and valuables unless doing so would jeopardize their safety. The custodial personnel on duty will lock off all elevators and direct building users to use only safe stairwells. Freight elevators can be used for disabled persons in wheelchairs. (See Building and/or Campus Evacuation Plan). All persons should remain under cover until the all-clear is given by local radio and/or television stations, the National Weather Service Radio System, law enforcement personnel or other official sources of information. Tornado warning sirens continue to sound intermittently through the duration of the warning with only brief gaps in continuous sound to avoid malfunction of the equipment. Cessation of the sirens indicates expiration of the warning and indicates an all-clear indication. Expiration of tornado warnings can also be confirmed by contacting the University Police dispatch at 235-4624.
2. If Damage is Observed after the all-clear is given, the staff members in charge should observe the following procedures:
a. If it is an emergency on campus, call University Police dispatch by dialing 911 (via university phone) or 235-4624 (via cell or off-campus phone).
b. If damage to the building leaves the area uninhabitable, emergency personnel will close the area and cancel functions until further notice.
3. In the Event Personal Injury Occurs as a result of severe weather, the following procedures should be observed:
a. Call University Police dispatch by dialing 911 (via university phone) or 235-4624 (via cell or off-campus phone). Advise the dispatcher of the location and extent of any injuries. Information regarding respiratory or cardiac failure and/or severe bleeding should be reported.
b. Normal emergency first-aid procedures should be followed.
c. If a telephone is not available, someone should be sent to a working telephone to report any injuries. If possible, this person should be a police officer or staff member.
d. DO NOT RETURN TO A BUILDING ONCE EVACUATED, until told to do so by University official or emergency personnel.
July 2008
Updated: April 2010
Page revision date: 04/20/2018

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related post: S.1639 george bush's illegal alien amnesty bill cloture vote
What's wrong with the Senate?
It's bad enough that they are attempting to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.
It's bad enough that they effectively REJECTED an amendment last week that would have prohibited illegal aliens from collecting Social Security benefits that they accrued while in the country ILLEGALLY using FRAUDULENT Social Security numbers! (Or as radio commentator Rush Limbaugh said: "You steal it! You've earned it!")
But now, they're actually trying to grant HIGHER wages and virtually guaranteed employment to ILLEGAL aliens!
Here's what columnist Robert Novak wrote on Monday; commenting on a newly updated study of the Senate amnesty legislation offered by The Heritage Foundation:
"The bill extends the Davis-Bacon Act's requirement for the payment of 'prevailing wage' levels to all temporary guest workers. That puts them ahead of American workers, who have this protection only on federal job sites."
"Foreign guest farm workers, admitted under the bill, cannot be 'terminated from employment by any employer . . . except for just cause.' In contrast, American ag workers can be fired for any reason."
Effectively, the Senate is sending a message to ILLEGAL ALIENS: "Come on in. We'll guarantee you wages and employment rights that aren't even guaranteed to most Americans!"
It's outrageous! It's sheer madness!
"President Bush and Congress would do better to start with securing the border and strengthening enforcement of existing immigration laws. We might also try improving on Ronald Reagan's idea of a pilot program for genuinely temporary workers.we suppose the only thing we have going for us is that s.2611 now moves to the house and this year every seat in the house is up for reelection. another good thing about this bill is that with this vote we can see which senators truly are working for the destruction of america.
The fair and sound policy is to give those who are here illegally the opportunity to correct their status by returning to their country of origin and getting in line with everyone else. This, along with serious enforcement and control of the illegal inflow at the border—a combination of incentives and disincentives—will significantly reduce over time our population of illegal immigrants."
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MAGELLAN RoadMate 5220-LM 5 inch Touchscreen w/Lifetime Maps
Contents of the package
FeaturesRoadMate 5220-LM
Magellan brings you the RoadMate 5220-LM. Enjoy the security of knowing your maps are always up to date by taking advantage of the Free Lifetime Map Updates feature, which allows you update your maps for free up to four times a year. There are many features to this Magellan RoadMate to make your trip effortless. Some of the features make navigation easier. With the all Landmark Guidance your routing instructions use landmarks instead of street names. You'll hear instructions like "Turn left at the Shell Gas Station". Then the upgraded Junction View generates a large view of the freeway you are on and with unmistakable arrows, visually guides you to the correct lane.
Traffic Camera Alerts by PhantomALERT are included at no additional cost. These audible and visual warnings alert you to fixed red light and speed cameras. This is verified crowd source data that you refresh on your unit by the free Content Manager from Magellan. You can even become one of the many reporters on the street by submitting your own discoveries or rating the reliability of the alerts you are shown. Premium content is available for an extra cost which includes black-spots (high accident areas), school zones, and dangerous intersections.
Best Parking is another great feature which makes parking in the city a much easier affair. Also updated by Content Manager, Best Parking provides parking garage locations with both their hours of operation and their entrance location. Choose the garage that is close to your destination and is also affordable. Once you have selected a garage you are guided directly to the entrance. No more searching for the entry! The integrated Exclusive AAA Tourbook gives you detailed information on hotels, restaurants, and attractions so that you have the information you need to make your destination decisions. And what happens if you break down out on the road? On the special "Where am I?" screen you'll not only have your present location given in terms that a tow truck driver can understand, you'll also have the AAA phone number listed and a place for you to enter in your AAA membership number. No more digging through your wallet or glove compartment!
The RoadMate navigation experience is both intuitive and robust. The OneTouch Favorites Menu allows you quick access to your favorite places or even your favorite previous searches. As you type the first few letters of your target address QuickSpell instantly narrows the search based on your destination. SayWhere technology speaks the street names throughout the preloaded maps of the 50 United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Spoken Street Names: Hear the names of the streets called out in the voice navigation.
Quickspell: Magellan's patented method of helping you enter in addresses correctly - even if you are not sure of the spelling.
7 Million Points of Interest: Make it easy to find gas stations, restaurants, ATMs, coffee shops, and much more.
Highway Exit POIs: Find gas stations and rest areas along your route while you are navigating.
Multi-Destination Routing: Plan your entire afternoon or driving vacation with all your stops in one route.
Built-in Maps: A wealth of detail in millions of points of interest as you travel the 50 United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.
Automatic re-route: Missed the turn? It happens to the best of us. Quickly get back on track with auto re-route.
Customizable Route Method: Select shortest distance, fastest time, most use of freeways, or least use of freeways.
Address Book: You can definitely get there from here! Create and store personal points of interest and skip repeated address entry.
Auto Night View: Adjusts color and contrast for easy night viewing.
SpecificationsBattery Life - Estimated (Hrs) 2 Hours
Cartography - Preloaded Yes
Junction View Yes
Screen Size 5"
Screen Type Color
Box Dimensions 3"H x 6"W x 6"L
Item number: RM5220SGLUC
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Article Highlights:
- Hobby Versus For-Profit Endeavor
- Factors Used To Determine For-Profit
- Three out of Five Rule
- Hobby Deductions
Whether an activity is a hobby or a business may not be apparent to the customers of the endeavor, but distinguishing the difference is necessary for tax purposes because the tax treatments are substantially different. The IRS provides appropriate guidelines when determining whether an activity is engaged in for profit, such as a business or investment activity, or if it is engaged in as a hobby.
Internal Revenue Code Section 183 (Activities Not Engaged in for Profit) limits deductions that can be claimed when an activity is not engaged in for profit. IRC 183 is sometimes referred to as the "hobby loss rule."
This article provides information that is helpful in determining if an activity qualifies as an activity engaged in for profit and what limitations apply if the activity was not engaged in for profit.
Is your hobby really an activity engaged in for profit? In general, taxpayers may deduct ordinary and necessary expenses for conducting a trade or business or for the production of income. Trade or business activities and activities engaged in for the production of income are activities engaged in for profit.
The following factors, although not all-inclusive, may help you determine whether your activity is an activity engaged in for profit or a hobby:
- Does the time and effort put into the activity indicate an intention to make a profit?
- Do you depend on income from the activity?
- If there are losses, are they due to circumstances beyond your control or did they occur in the start-up phase of the business?
- Have you changed methods of operation to improve profitability?
- Do you have the knowledge needed to carry on the activity as a successful business?
- Have you made a profit in similar activities in the past?
- Does the activity make a profit in some years?
- Do you expect to make a profit in the future from the appreciation of assets used in the activity?
An activity is presumed to be engaged in for profit if it makes a profit in at least three of the last five tax years, including the current year (or at least two of the last seven years for activities that consist primarily of breeding, showing, training, or racing horses).
If an activity is not for profit, losses from that activity may not be used to offset other income. An activity produces a loss when related expenses exceed income. The limit on not-for-profit losses applies to individuals, partnerships, estates, trusts, and S corporations. It does not apply to corporations other than S corporations.
Hobby deductions If it is determined that your activity is not for profit, allowable deductions cannot exceed the gross receipts for the activity.
Deductions for hobby activities are claimed as itemized deductions on Schedule A and must be taken in the following order and only to the extent stated in each of the three categories:
- Expenses that a taxpayer would otherwise be allowed to deduct, such as home mortgage interest and taxes, may be taken in full.
- Deductions that don't result in an adjustment to the basis of property, such as advertising, insurance premiums, and wages, may be taken next, to the extent that gross income for the activity is more than the deductions from the first category.
- Deductions that reduce the basis of property, such as depreciation and amortization, are taken last, but only to the extent that gross income for the activity is more than the deductions taken in the first two categories.
If you have questions related to your specific business or hobby circumstances, please give this office a call.


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Can democracy, one top political scientist asked last week, 'function effectively in a society marked by vast economic inequality'? The fate of the modest new White House bid to tax our rich may tell the tale.
By Sam Pizzigati
Most Presidents of the United States end up with a catchphrase attached to their tenure, a memorable line that defines them. The buck stops here. Ask not what your country can do for you. Tear down this wall! President Obama last week may have muttered his.
"This is not class warfare," the President declared last Monday as he unveiled a new set of proposals for hiking taxes on wealthy taxpayers. "It's math."
GOP leaders, in their desperation to defend an intolerable tax status quo, are insinuating that billionaire Warren Buffett must be hiding some deep dark secret.
GOP leaders on Capitol Hill appear to have done the math — on what the White House proposals would mean for them personally — and they don't much like what they see.
Millionaire members of Congress spent last week blasting away at the White House tax plan, an assault that prompted one group of affluent Americans who support higher taxes on America's wealthiest to circulate a clever video that blasted away at the congressional millionaires. The video, in turn, infuriated wealthy congressional defenders of tax breaks for the rich even more.
"I'm not looking to raise taxes on me, no, but I am also not looking to raise taxes or anyone with incomes higher than me or incomes lower than me," Rep. John Campbell from California fumed to Fox News, "because that's not what got us into this problem and that is not what is going to get us out of this problem."
Campbell and his deep-pocket pals have reality upside down, again. Massive tax breaks for wealthy Americans have contributed mightily to "this problem" — the nation's fiscal crisis — and if the nation doesn't start undoing those tax breaks for the rich, the only alternative will be massive cutbacks that hurt working families.
That's what President Obama meant when he asked Americans to "do the math," and the White House tax plan announced last week definitely does start the nation down the "undoing" road.
The specific proposals in the White House plan — most notably provisions that would let the Bush tax cuts expire for couples over $250,000, limit how much affluents can trim their taxes with itemized deductions, and end the loophole that saves hedge fund managers $200,000 on every $1 million they make in "carried interest" — would raise about $1.5 trillion over the next decade.
The White House may not be offering specifics on how to implement the Buffett rule — or 'comprehensive tax reform' in general — but progressive tax advocates certainly are.
But the President last week went beyond these specifics. He called on Congress "to undertake comprehensive tax reform" that would move the nation to "a simpler, fairer, more progressive tax system than we have today."
On this future system, the White House didn't offer specifics. The President did offer one overarching principle, the notion that no household making over $1 million should pay less of its income in taxes than middle class families pay — what the President is calling the "Buffett Rule," in a nod to the billionaire whose attacks on tax unfairness have re-energized the tax reform debate.
The White House may not be offering specifics on how to implement the Buffett rule — or "comprehensive tax reform" in general — but progressive tax advocates certainly are. They rushed last week into the breach.
The most detailed offering came from Citizens for Tax Justice. CTJ released a report that surveys options that range from ending preferential treatment for capital gains — the big reason so many rich pay so little in taxes — to erasing the "deferral" rules that help corporations sidestep taxes, a key driver of the executive pay windfalls the Institute for Policy Studies documented last month.
No one in the Capitol Hill know expects either these broader reforms or the measures that the President proposed last week to go anywhere in Congress over the next year. At this point, the tax wars seem to be all about positioning for the 2012 elections and the new Congress that begins in 2013.
In this positioning dance, GOP leaders in Congress are scrambling, somewhat desperately, to figure out how to defend the tax status quo. Billionaire Warren Buffett's outspoken attacks on a tax system that has him paying 17.4 percent of his income in federal tax while his office employees pay, on average, 36 percent have congressional apologists for grand fortune clearly off balance.
GOP leaders, in their desperation, have resorted to insinuations that Buffett must be hiding some deep dark secret. By the end of last week, they were demanding that Buffett disclose his tax return.
"I'd love to see Buffett's tax returns so we can see what he's really doing, because he's kind of operating in the dark here, making some claims," Senator Jim DeMint from South Carolina told one interviewer.
Buffett, added Rep. Tim Huelskamp from Kansas, is "afraid to show the proof" — as if the "proof" that substantial numbers of wealthy Americans are paying tiny percentages of their incomes in taxes hinges on one billionaire's tax returns.
The "proof," in reality, is coming from every statistical direction. The nation's top 400 taxpayers paid on average, the IRS reports, just 18.11 percent of their incomes in tax in 2008, about what Buffett paid last year. A tenth of Americans making between $10,000 and $20,000, notes the Center for American Progress, pay taxes at higher rates than a quarter of our millionaire earners.
How did this state of affairs ever come to be? Vanderbilt University tax analyst Larry Bartels last week offered one explanation.
Our current tax system, Bartels suggests, reflects "a broader pattern of policy-making skewed toward the interests of affluent citizens." In a distinctly unequal United States, "low-income people are likely to get their way only when their preferences happen to agree with the preferences of high-income people."
The upcoming battle to enact the tax increases on the wealthy the President proposed Monday, Bartels feels, may force us to face more fundamental truths.
"If our leaders cannot bring themselves to support even this timid tax increase for the most fortunate Americans," he observes, "that will be bad news both for our fiscal prospects and for our civic faith that democracy can function effectively in a society marked by vast economic inequality."
Sam Pizzigati edits Too Much, the online weekly on excess and inequality published by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies. Read the current issue or sign up at Inequality.Org to receive Too Much in your email inbox.


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Section 1. The territorial and political subdivisions of the Republic of the Philippines are the provinces, cities, municipalities, and barangays. There shall be autonomous regions in Muslim Mindanao and the Cordilleras as hereinafter provided.
Section 2. The territorial and political subdivisions shall enjoy local autonomy.
Section 3. The Congress shall enact a local government code which shall provide for a more responsive and accountable local government structure instituted through a system of decentralization with effective mechanisms of recall, initiative, and referendum, allocate among the different local government units their powers, responsibilities, and resources, and provide for the qualifications, election, appointment and removal, term, salaries, powers and functions and duties of local officials, and all other matters relating to the organization and operation of the local units.
Section 4. The President of the Philippines shall exercise general supervision over local governments. Provinces with respect to component cities and municipalities, and cities and municipalities with respect to component barangays, shall ensure that the acts of their component units are within the scope of their prescribed powers and functions.
Section 5. Each local government unit shall have the power to create its own sources of revenues and to levy taxes, fees and charges subject to such guidelines and limitations as the Congress may provide, consistent with the basic policy of local autonomy. Such taxes, fees, and charges shall accrue exclusively to the local governments.
Section 6. Local government units shall have a just share, as determined by law, in the national taxes which shall be automatically released to them.
Section 7. Local governments shall be entitled to an equitable share in the proceeds of the utilization and development of the national wealth within their respective areas, in the manner provided by law, including sharing the same with the inhabitants by way of direct benefits.
Section 8. The term of office of elective local officials, except barangay officials, which shall be determined by law, shall be three years and no such official shall serve for more than three consecutive terms. Voluntary renunciation of the office for any length of time shall not be considered as an interruption in the continuity of his service for the full term for which he was elected.
Section 9. Legislative bodies of local governments shall have sectoral representation as may be prescribed by law.
Section 10. No province, city, municipality, or barangay may be created, divided, merged, abolished, or its boundary substantially altered, except in accordance with the criteria established in the local government code and subject to approval by a majority of the votes cast in a plebiscite in the political units directly affected.
Section 11. The Congress may, by law, create special metropolitan political subdivisions, subject to a plebiscite as set forth in Section 10 hereof. The component cities and municipalities shall retain their basic autonomy and shall be entitled to their own local executive and legislative assemblies. The jurisdiction of the metropolitan authority that will thereby be created shall be limited to basic services requiring coordination.
Section 12. Cities that are highly urbanized, as determined by law, and component cities whose charters prohibit their voters from voting for provincial elective officials, shall be independent of the province. The voters of component cities within a province, whose charters contain no such prohibition, shall not be deprived of their right to vote for elective provincial officials.
Section 13. Local government units may group themselves, consolidate or coordinate their efforts, services, and resources for purposes commonly beneficial to them in accordance with law.
Section 14. The President shall provide for regional development councils or other similar bodies composed of local government officials, regional heads of departments and other government offices, and representatives from non-governmental organizations within the regions for purposes of administrative decentralization to strengthen the autonomy of the units therein and to accelerate the economic and social growth and development of the units in the region.
Section 15. There shall be created autonomous regions in Muslim Mindanao and in the Cordilleras consisting of provinces, cities, municipalities, and geographical areas sharing common and distinctive historical and cultural heritage, economic and social structures, and other relevant characteristics within the framework of this Constitution and the national sovereignty as well as territorial integrity of the Republic of the Philippines.
Section 16. The President shall exercise general supervision over autonomous regions to ensure that laws are faithfully executed.
Section 17. All powers, functions, and responsibilities not granted by this Constitution or by law to the autonomous regions shall be vested in the National Government.
Section 18. The Congress shall enact an organic act for each autonomous region with the assistance and participation of the regional consultative commission composed of representatives appointed by the President from a list of nominees from multisectoral bodies. The organic act shall define the basic structure of government for the region consisting of the executive department and legislative assembly, both of which shall be elective and representative of the constituent political units. The organic acts shall likewise provide for special courts with personal, family, and property law jurisdiction consistent with the provisions of this Constitution and national laws.
The creation of the autonomous region shall be effective when approved by majority of the votes cast by the constituent units in a plebiscite called for the purpose, provided that only provinces, cities, and geographic areas voting favorably in such plebiscite shall be included in the autonomous region.
Section 19. The first Congress elected under this Constitution shall, within eighteen months from the time of organization of both Houses, pass the organic acts for the autonomous regions in Muslim Mindanao and the Cordilleras.
Section 20. Within its territorial jurisdiction and subject to the provisions of this Constitution and national laws, the organic act of autonomous regions shall provide for legislative powers over:
(1) Administrative organization;
(2) Creation of sources of revenues;
(3) Ancestral domain and natural resources;
(4) Personal, family, and property relations;
(5) Regional urban and rural planning development;
(6) Economic, social, and tourism development;
(7) Educational policies;
(8) Preservation and development of the cultural heritage; and
(9) Such other matters as may be authorized by law for the promotion of the general welfare of the people of the region.
Section 21. The preservation of peace and order within the regions shall be the responsibility of the local police agencies which shall be organized, maintained, supervised, and utilized in accordance with applicable laws. The defense and security of the regions shall be the responsibility of the National Government.


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A high-ranking Taliban commander is captured in Pakistan, and the (now entirely predictable) dance begins. Says the Guardian:
Mullah Barader has been in Pakistani custody for several days, with US and Pakistani intelligence officials both taking part in interrogations, according to the officials. Though Barack Obama has banned US agencies from using forms of torture such as waterboarding, Pakistani questioning techniques are frequently brutal.
That's right. Because the American chattering classes have their panties in a bunch about acts of "torture" that don't do any permanent damage to the victim, Barader is in the hands of Pakistanis who are likely to fuck his shit up the old-school way, with knives and cattle-prods and blowtorches. And yet, this is supposed to count as a moral victory.
All the manufactured indignation about Guantanamo Bay has similarly perverse effects. When you tell U.S. troops that every enemy combatant they accept a surrender from is going to be made into an international cause celebre that will be used to damage their war effort, the effect will be — count on it — that they stop accepting surrenders. This means that all the soi-disant "innocents" swept up in these operations will become innocent corpses. Instead of being stuck in a facility that's a resort hotel compared to any prison in the Mideast, they'll be dead — victims of someone else's moral vanity.
I was born and educated into the class that produces "gentry liberals", but I've come to loathe them. This is why. It's always someone else who pays the cost of their posturing. Very often, it's the people they claim to be helping: the black teenager who ends up in a drug posse because because minimum-wage laws would force the small businessmen in his 'hood to take a loss if they hired him for a legal job; the coal miner who gets pneumoconiosis because nuclear-plant construction was strangled in environmental red tape; the woman found in an alley strangled with her own pantyhose, because the handgun she could have shot that rapist with was denied her by force of law.
They're so very, very convinced of their moral superiority, they are. The pious anti-torture crusaders, the "economic-justice" cod-Marxists, the no-growth environmentalists, the gun banners, and all their kin in the tribe of wealthy white left-liberals. Armored by their certitudes and their sheepskins and their class privileges, they sail serenely above the deadly consequences of their meddling. Not for them any need to worry about second-order effects or process costs or who actually pays the cost for their delusions, oh, no. They are the anointed, and lofty intentions are their sovereign excuse however much damage they do.
Truly, I hate them all. Perhaps I hate them more intensely because I so narrowly escaped being one of them. But it's really the invincible stupidity and myopia that gets me, and the way their "compassion" stinks of narcissism. Some days I think if I could have just one wish, it would be this: let their folly come back on their own heads.
Individual liberty anywhere is a threat to the Progressive-Collectivist Cause everywhere.
'Inferior Class' labors for malevolent narcissists
Who bears the costs of moral vanity?
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Stimulus-Bailout means U.S. cares
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Say it ain't so, Joe
SEIU-Obama Mob exposed in another typical Pay-to-Play scheme
More Joe Sestak stories: here
Calling SEIU operatives into question: Rep. Joe Sestak's admission that the White House tried to lure him out of a primary challenge to Sen. Arlen Specter made Pennsylvania the fifth state this cycle in which the Obama administration has tried unsuccessfully to clear the field for Democratic senate candidates.(from dailycaller.com)
The White House or the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have tried unsuccessfully to eliminate or discourage contested primaries in Pennsylvania, Colorado, Ohio, North Carolina and New York.
Many Washington political hands shrugged at White House involvement in races across the country, citing precedent under the Bush and Clinton presidencies. But Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, who was White House political director under President Ronald Reagan, said the Obama political operation is "pretty heavy-handed."
"Ronald Reagan said we don't take sides in primaries and his own daughter ran. He did not endorse her," Barbour told The Daily Caller, referring to Maureen Reagan's unsuccessful 1982 U.S. Senate bid.
The big takeaway for most from Sestak's admission Thursday – he said the White House offered him a high-profile government appointment to move him out of the Pennsylvania Democratic primary – was that it amplified ongoing questions about the potency of the Obama political operation.
More Joe Sestak stories: here
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Managing American Decline
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MultiGate collectivist hoax exposed!
What to say to a global warming alarmist
It has been tough to keep up with all the bad news for global warming alarmists. We're on the edge of our chair, waiting for the next shoe to drop. This has been an Imelda Marcos kind of season for shoe-dropping about global warming.(from ocregister.com)
At your next dinner party, here are some of the latest talking points to bring up when someone reminds you that Al Gore and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won Nobel prizes for their work on global warming.
ClimateGate – This scandal began the latest round of revelations when thousands of leaked documents from Britain's East Anglia Climate Research Unit showed systematic suppression and discrediting of climate skeptics' views and discarding of temperature data, suggesting a bias for making the case for warming. Why do such a thing if, as global warming defenders contend, the "science is settled?"
FOIGate – The British government has since determined someone at East Anglia committed a crime by refusing to release global warming documents sought in 95 Freedom of Information Act requests. The CRU is one of three international agencies compiling global temperature data. If their stuff's so solid, why the secrecy?
ChinaGate – An investigation by the U.K.'s left-leaning Guardian newspaper found evidence that Chinese weather station measurements not only were seriously flawed, but couldn't be located. "Where exactly are 42 weather monitoring stations in remote parts of rural China?" the paper asked. The paper's investigation also couldn't find corroboration of what Chinese scientists turned over to American scientists, leaving unanswered, "how much of the warming seen in recent decades is due to the local effects of spreading cities, rather than global warming?" The Guardian contends that researchers covered up the missing data for years.
HimalayaGate – An Indian climate official admitted in January that, as lead author of the IPCC's Asian report, he intentionally exaggerated when claiming Himalayan glaciers would melt away by 2035 in order to prod governments into action. This fraudulent claim was not based on scientific research or peer-reviewed. Instead it was originally advanced by a researcher, since hired by a global warming research organization, who later admitted it was "speculation" lifted from a popular magazine. This political, not scientific, motivation at least got some researcher funded.
PachauriGate – Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC chairman who accepted with Al Gore the Nobel Prize for scaring people witless, at first defended the Himalaya melting scenario. Critics, he said, practiced "voodoo science." After the melting-scam perpetrator 'fessed up, Pachauri admitted to making a mistake. But, he insisted, we still should trust him.
PachauriGate II – Pachauri also claimed he didn't know before the 192-nation climate summit meeting in Copenhagen in December that the bogus Himalayan glacier claim was sheer speculation. But the London Times reported that a prominent science journalist said he had pointed out those errors in several e-mails and discussions to Pachauri, who "decided to overlook it." Stonewalling? Cover up? Pachauri says he was "preoccupied." Well, no sense spoiling the Copenhagen party, where countries like Pachauri's India hoped to wrench billions from countries like the United States to combat global warming's melting glaciers. Now there are calls for Pachauri's resignation.
SternGate – One excuse for imposing worldwide climate crackdown has been the U.K.'s 2006 Stern Report, an economic doomsday prediction commissioned by the government. Now the U.K. Telegraph reports that quietly after publication "some of these predictions had been watered down because the scientific evidence on which they were based could not be verified." Among original claims now deleted were that northwest Australia has had stronger typhoons in recent decades, and that southern Australia lost rainfall because of rising ocean temperatures. Exaggerated claims get headlines. Later, news reporters disclose the truth. Why is that?
SternGate II – A researcher now claims the Stern Report misquoted his work to suggest a firm link between global warming and more-frequent and severe floods and hurricanes. Robert Muir-Wood said his original research showed no such link. He accused Stern of "going far beyond what was an acceptable extrapolation of the evidence." We're shocked.
AmazonGate – The London Times exposed another shocker: the IPCC claim that global warming will wipe out rain forests was fraudulent, yet advanced as "peer-reveiwed" science. The Times said the assertion actually "was based on an unsubstantiated claim by green campaigners who had little scientific expertise," "authored by two green activists" and lifted from a report from the World Wildlife Fund, an environmental pressure group. The "research" was based on a popular science magazine report that didn't bother to assess rainfall. Instead, it looked at the impact of logging and burning. The original report suggested "up to 40 percent" of Brazilian rain forest was extremely sensitive to small reductions in the amount of rainfall, but the IPCC expanded that to cover the entire Amazon, the Times reported.
PeerReviewGate – The U.K. Sunday Telegraph has documented at least 16 nonpeer-reviewed reports (so far) from the advocacy group World Wildlife Fund that were used in the IPCC's climate change bible, which calls for capping manmade greenhouse gases.
RussiaGate – Even when global warming alarmists base claims on scientific measurements, they've often had their finger on the scale. Russian think tank investigators evaluated thousands of documents and e-mails leaked from the East Anglia research center and concluded readings from the coldest regions of their nation had been omitted, driving average temperatures up about half a degree.
Russia-Gate II – Speaking of Russia, a presentation last October to the Geological Society of America showed how tree-ring data from Russia indicated cooling after 1961, but was deceptively truncated and only artfully discussed in IPCC publications. Well, at least the tree-ring data made it into the IPCC report, albeit disguised and misrepresented.
U.S.Gate – If Brits can't be trusted, are Yanks more reliable? The U.S. National Climate Data Center has been manipulating weather data too, say computer expert E. Michael Smith and meteorologist Joesph D'Aleo. Forty years ago there were 6,000 surface-temperature measuring stations, but only 1,500 by 1990, which coincides with what global warming alarmists say was a record temperature increase. Most of the deleted stations were in colder regions, just as in the Russian case, resulting in misleading higher average temperatures.
IceGate – Hardly a continent has escaped global warming skewing. The IPCC based its findings of reductions in mountain ice in the Andes, Alps and in Africa on a feature story of climbers' anecdotes in a popular mountaineering magazine, and a dissertation by a Switzerland university student, quoting mountain guides. Peer-reviewed? Hype? Worse?
ResearchGate – The global warming camp is reeling so much lately it must have seemed like a major victory when a Penn State University inquiry into climate scientist Michael Mann found no misconduct regarding three accusations of climate research impropriety. But the university did find "further investigation is warranted" to determine whether Mann engaged in actions that "seriously deviated from accepted practices for proposing, conducting or reporting research or other scholarly activities." Being investigated for only one fraud is a global warming victory these days.
ReefGate – Let's not forget the alleged link between climate change and coral reef degradation. The IPCC cited not peer-reviewed literature, but advocacy articles by Greenpeace, the publicity-hungry advocacy group, as its sole source for this claim.
AfricaGate – The IPCC claim that rising temperatures could cut in half agricultural yields in African countries turns out to have come from a 2003 paper published by a Canadian environmental think tank – not a peer-reviewed scientific journal.
DutchGate – The IPCC also claimed rising sea levels endanger the 55 percent of the Netherlands it says is below sea level. The portion of the Netherlands below sea level actually is 20 percent. The Dutch environment minister said she will no longer tolerate climate researchers' errors.
AlaskaGate – Geologists for Space Studies in Geophysics and Oceanography and their U.S. and Canadian colleagues say previous studies largely overestimated by 40 percent Alaskan glacier loss for 40 years. This flawed data are fed into those computers to predict future warming.
Fold this column up and lay it next to your napkin the next time you have Al Gore or his ilk to dine. It should make interesting after-dinner conversation.
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Oracle Responds to HP Lawsuit — Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) today issued the following statement: — "Oracle has long viewed HP as an important partner," said Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. "By filing this vindictive lawsuit against Oracle and Mark Hurd, the HP board is acting with utter disregard …
Discussion: Fast Company, Engadget, Tom Foremski, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, SiliconANGLE, Erictric, Techie Buzz, Between the Lines Blog and Reuters
Tom Foremski / IMHO Blog| ZDNet: Is Ellison trying to devalue HP prior to a bid?
Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Rips "Vindictive" HP Lawsuit
Kristen Nicole / SiliconANGLE: Oracle Responds to HP Lawsuit, Speaking on Coop-atition
Bertrand Vasquez / Erictric: Oracle Responds to HP Complaint Against Mark Hurd
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog: HP: Mark Hurd is violating our trade secrets as part of Oracle
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Hani Durzy / Data Central:
BREAKING: HP Files Civil Complaint Against Hurd; Includes Statement and Link to Full Complaint — In response to the news of Mark Hurd's intention to join Oracle, HP today filed a civil complaint in the California Superior Court (County of Santa Clara) against Hurd. HP's statement on the matter:
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Nick Farrell / Inquirer: HP sues Mark Hurd
Kevin Schram / Thoughts from the Sidelines: Mark Hurd Sued By HP To Block Employment At Oracle [HP's Fallen …
Erica Ogg / CNET News: HP suing former CEO Mark Hurd
Danny King / DailyFinance: HP Sues Ex-CEO Mark Hurd Over New Oracle Job
Ashlee Vance / New York Times: H.P. Sues Its Ex-Chief in New Job
MG Siegler / TechCrunch: HP Confirms It Is Suing Mark Hurd For Potential Leakage Of Trade Secrets To Oracle
Kristen Nicole / SiliconANGLE: Mark Hurd Sued by HP, Less than 24 Hours After Landing President Gig at Oracle
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John Paczkowski / Digital Daily: HP Sues Former CEO Over Oracle Gig (Read the Complaint)
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Amit Chowdhry / Pulse2: HP Files Civil Complaint Against Former CEO Mark Hurd
David Neal / V3.co.uk: Mark Hurd appointed Oracle president
Owen Thomas / VentureBeat: HP lawsuit adds drama to Oracle's Mark and Larry Show
John C Abell / Epicenter: Mark Hurd Lands At Oracle, HP Sues (Update II)
Lee Gomes / Digital Tools: Will Success Spoil Mark Hurd?
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog: HP sues Mark Hurd over trade secrets
Gabriel Madway / Reuters: HP sues ex-CEO Hurd after his hiring at Oracle
Jennifer Valentino-DeVries / Digits:
Analysis: the H-P Suit Against Mark Hurd — Hewlett-Packard is suing former CEO Mark Hurd, alleging breach of contract and threatened misappropriation of trade secrets, a day after he was named co-president of rival Oracle. Below, a look at some of the most salient points in the suit.
Discussion: Computerworld, Bloomberg, Salon, DealBook, Techdirt, Electronista, eWeek, Tech Trader Daily, TechEye and The Tech Herald …
Patrick Thibodeau / Computerworld: Lawsuit shows HP sees Hurd as primal threat
Dan Gillmor / Salon: Mark Hurd joins Oracle: Lawyers, start your engines
Mike Masnick / Techdirt: Misguided Insult To Misguided Injury: HP Sues To Stop Mark Hurd From Taking New Job
Jeffrey Burt / eWeek: HP Sues Ex-CEO Hurd over Oracle Position
Peter Elstrom / Bloomberg:
Oracle Will Pay Hurd $950,000 a Year With Target Bonus $5 Million for 2011
Oracle Will Pay Hurd $950,000 a Year With Target Bonus $5 Million for 2011
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Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog: Oracle's offer letter to Hurd: We'll pay you $950,000, bonus up to $10 million
S. John Tilak / Reuters: Oracle says Hurd eligible for up to $10 million bonus
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Rene Ritchie / TiPb: Updated: Apple resets Game Center in advance of iOS 4.1 launch
Victor Agreda, Jr / TUAW: Game Center is live... mostly
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Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac: Engadget, and others, review the new iPod Touch and Nano
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Charles Starrett / iLounge: Apple confirms: no Game Center on iPhone 3G
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iPod nano (sixth generation, late 2010) — Biggest nano makeover yet gains Multi-Touch but loses features and screen size — No iPod model has received as many makeovers—both minor and dramatic—as the iPod nano. (Perhaps not coincidentally, no other iPod model has sold as well.)
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Rene Ritchie / TiPb: iPod nano not iPod OS, not iOS, something new?
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Google Changes Coming Tomorrow: AJAX Results, 30 Results Per Page, Streaming Results & More? — We know Google is having a big search event tomorrow and we suspect that is why Google is showing the Google Balls logo today. Google told me "today's doodle is not related to a birthday but is fast …
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MG Siegler / TechCrunch: Google's Kinetic Logo Apparently Has To Do With Their Big Search Event Tomorrow
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Cody Barbierri / VentureBeat: Salesforce.com launches Chatter Mobile to keep on-the-go employees updated
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Alert The Enterprise: Seesmic Integrates With Salesforce Chatter — How businesses and brands deal with social media has become one of the defining issues of the recent web era. Today a pretty big leap is taking place which may define the next phase. Two of the biggest players …
Discussion: Between the Lines Blog, ReadWriteEnterprise, The Cloud Blog and Seesmic Blog, Thanks:loic
Sam Diaz / Between the Lines Blog: Salesforce announces Chatter Mobile apps for iOS, Blackberry, Android
Klint Finley / ReadWriteEnterprise: Enterprise Mobility Heats Up as Salesforce.com Announces Chatter Mobile
John Taschek / The Cloud Blog: Seesmic goes Enterprise
Mike Beltzner / The Mozilla Blog:
Firefox 4 Beta With Faster Graphics and New Audio Capabilities for the Web — The latest update to Firefox 4 Beta brings super fast graphics and incredible new audio capabilities to the Web. Firefox 4 Beta now leverages hardware acceleration to improve graphics performance for Windows users …
Discussion: CNET News, Download Squad, Bas Schouten, Mozilla, V3.co.uk, Softpedia News, eWeek, BetaNews, Pluggd.in, Erictric, The Register, ReadWriteWeb, Techie Buzz, TechCrunch, Lifehacker and The Tech Report
Stephen Shankland / CNET News: Mozilla fixes Firefox holes, curtails clickjacking
Sebastian Anthony / Download Squad: Firefox 4 Beta 5 released: hardware acceleration turned on by …
David Neal / V3.co.uk: Mozilla boosts sound and vision in Firefox 4 beta
Darryl K. Taft / eWeek: New Firefox 4 Beta Bolsters Graphics, Audio and Security
Tim Conneally / BetaNews: Firefox 4 beta 5 beefs up video, audio, security features
Bertrand Vasquez / Erictric: Mozilla Releases Firefox 4 Beta 5
Cade Metz / The Register: Firefox 4 beta gets hard on Windows
Adrianne Jeffries / ReadWriteWeb: Mozilla Hopes Web Games Will Remind Us That Browsers Are Still Awesome
Keith Dsouza / Techie Buzz: Firefox 4 Beta 5 Adds Hardware Graphics Acceleration, Audio Capabilities and HSTS
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: Firefox 4 Beta, Now With Faster Graphics And Visual Sound
Kevin Purdy / Lifehacker: Firefox 4 Beta 5 Now Available with Default Hardware Acceleration, Menu Redesign
Cyril Kowaliski / The Tech Report: Fifth Firefox 4 beta enables Direct2D by default
Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:
Google Scribe — Google launched a very interesting tool that offers suggestions as you type: Google Scribe. It's not exactly the service I anticipated 3 years ago, but Google Scribe works surprisingly well. For example, I started to type "This works sur" and Google suggested …
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Andy Beard and WebProNews
Andy Beard / Niche Marketing: Google Scribe SEO
Chris Crum / WebProNews: Google Scribe Predicts What You're Going to Type
Kevin Marks / Epeus' epigone:
If Google predicts your future, will it be a cliché?
If Google predicts your future, will it be a cliché?
Discussion: InformationWeek and Techie Buzz, Thanks:kevinmarks
Thomas Claburn / InformationWeek: Google Knows What You're Thinking, Sometimes
Keith Dsouza / Techie Buzz: Google Scribe Gives Autocomplete Suggestions As You Type
Justin Bieber Has Dedicated Servers at Twitter — Justin Bieber uses 3% of Twitter resources at any moment. According to a Twitter employee—talking to designer Dustin Curtis—Bieber has "racks of servers dedicated to him. I'm sure this will excite his haters (hello 4chan!) even more.
Discussion: Mashable!, Go Rumors, Technologizer and CNET News, Thanks:jesusdiaz
Samuel Axon / Mashable!: 3% of Twitter's Servers Dedicated to Justin Bieber
Stephaine Larsson / Go Rumors: Justin Bieber On Twitter - Consumes 3% Of Website Servers
Chris Matyszczyk / CNET News: Report: Justin Bieber is 3 percent of Twitter
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
How Ping Might Grow — Matt Drance on Ping: … Agreed. Ping on the iPhone feels like a decent native client to a social network. Ping on the desktop (Mac/Windows) feels like an afterthought to iTunes — one little source list item halfway down the list, with content that doesn't seem designed at all.
Discussion: Apple Outsider, Thanks:atul
Matt Drance / Apple Outsider: Why Ping Matters
Adam Jackson / TheAppleBlog: iTunes in the Cloud and Why This Scares Me
Melissa Petro / The Huffington Post:
Thoughts From a Former Craigslist Sex Worker — People — not just prostitutes — have sex for many reasons. Sometimes, for some of us, one reason is money. From October 2006 to January 2007 I accepted money in exchange for sexual services I provided to men I met online in what was then called the …
Discussion: PC World
Barbara E. Hernandez / PC World: Five Lessons Learned in the Craigslist Adult Services Shutdown
John Paczkowski / Digital Daily:
Confirmed: RIM Acquires DataViz Assets — Rsearch In Motion (RIM) has indeed acquired software developer DataViz — well, most of it anyway. — "RIM has acquired some of the assets of DataViz and hired the majority of its employees to focus on supporting the BlackBerry platform," …
Jessica Dolcourt / CNET News: BlackBerry maker RIM buys Documents To Go's Data Viz
Bill Ray / The Register: RIM goes for Documents To Go
Ed Hansberry / InformationWeek: RIM Acquires Documents To Go Maker DataViz
Bertrand Vasquez / Erictric: Research In Motion Confirms Acquisition of DataViz
Sarah Reedy / Light Reading: RIM's DataViz Buy Could Help With Tablet Biz
Tricia Duryee / mocoNews: RIM Continues To Pick Up Some Assets—This Time From DataViz
Simon Sage / IntoMobile: RIM's Acquisition of DataViz Officially Confirmed
Christian Zibreg / Geek.com: Rim allegedly buys mobile office developer DataViz, Documents To Go for webOS nixed
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat: BlackBerry maker RIM acquires Office document platform developer DataViz
Jason Ankeny / FierceMobileContent: RIM acquires Documents to Go developer DataViz
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider: RIM Buys Another Company — This Time To Defend Itself Against Microsoft
Eric Savitz / Tech Trader Daily: RIMM Reportedly Buys DataViz
Humberto Saabedra / PhoneNews.com: RIM Acquires DataViz, DataViz Pulls webOS Version
Rodney H. Brown / Mass High Tech: Blackberry maker RIM reportedly buys DataViz for $50M
JG Mason / Gadgetell: RIM buys Documents To Go maker
Nick Bilton / Bits:
Do People Want 'Amateur Hour' on Their TVs? — Last week Steven P. Jobs, Apple's chief executive, unveiled a new version of the Apple TV, which is smaller and, at $99, less expensive than the previous model. — Before showing off the new device, Mr. Jobs walked the audience through a list …
Martyn Williams / PC World:
Freed Journalist Tricked Captors Into Twitter Access — A Japanese journalist freed over the weekend by captors in Afghanistan managed to send two Twitter messages before his release while teaching a captor how to access the Internet on a new cell phone, he said Tuesday.
Discussion: TechEye, The Huffington Post, IntoMobile, Phone Arena, Mashable!, The Next Web, Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, The Blog Herald, Journalism.co.uk, Switched and Associated Press
Nick Farrell / TechEye: Twittering journalist fools Taliban
Samuel Axon / Mashable!: Abducted Journalist Tweets from Captor's Cellphone
Jeff Cormier / The Next Web: Journalist tricked captors to gain Twitter access and eventually, freedom.
Brian Barrett / Gizmodo: Imprisoned War Reporter Tweets Status From Captor's Cellphone
James Johnson / The Blog Herald: Kidnapped Journalist Tweets After Outsmarting Captors With Their Own Phone
Mari Yamaguchi / Associated Press: Abducted Japanese reporter returns home
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Why iTunes song samples are still only 30 seconds — Apple's plan to extend the length of song samples doesn't appear to be dead. — "We are in active negotiations with Apple," about the length of song samples, said Hanna Pantle, a spokeswoman for Broadcast Music Inc., (BMI) …
Discussion: 9 to 5 Mac, MacRumors, The Next Web, TUAW, AppleInsider and Electronista
Matt Brian / The Next Web: What Happened To Longer iTunes Music Samples?
Chris Rawson / TUAW: Extended iTunes song previews delayed, licensing may be to blame
Dan Frommer / Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's Why Microsoft Needs To Make Office Apps For The iPad — One thing has been consistent since Apple's iPad launched in April: Apple's iWork apps, its versions of Microsoft Office apps — Word ("Pages"), Excel ("Numbers"), and PowerPoint ("Keynote") — are near the top …
Kyle VanHemert / Gizmodo:
Leaked WebOS 2.0 Shots Show a Bevy of New Features — Two dozen or so purported webOS 2.0 screenshots have fluttered out onto the web, and while their origins are a bit hazy, they show plenty of interesting new features, like Dropbox support baked into the OS.
Ross Miller / Engadget: WebOS 2.0 beta screenshot extravaganza
Devin Coldewey / MobileCrunch: New webOS Shots Show Off Services, Default Apps For Filetypes
Andrew Munchbach / Boy Genius Report: webOS 2.0 screen shots emerge
Chris Smith / Thoughts from the Sidelines: webOS 2. for Palm / HP Smartphone / Tablet Available Leaked …
Vlad Bobleanta / Unwired View: WebOS 2.0 screenshots leak
Asad Rafi / Fone Arena: WebOS 2.0 beta screenshots leaked!
Evan Selleck / SlashGear: webOS 2.0 Images Appear Online, Showcasing Plenty
Seth Weintraub / 9 to 5 Mac: WebOS 2.0 to support MobileMe storage?
Gareth Halfacree / bit-tech.net: WebOS 2.0 screenshots leak
Sean Fallon / Know Your Cell: Palm webOS 2.0 beta screenshots emerge
Leon Neyfakh / New York Observer:
In Facebook's Crosshairs — It was not an invitation that Dennis Crowley could have been thrilled about. Mark Zuckerberg wanted him to do what, exactly? Fly to California and stand onstage while Facebook unveiled the launch of a new location-sharing check-in feature that tech pundits …
Cari Tuna / Wall Street Journal:
Slow-Going for Web-Privacy Software — Products Help Surfers Stay Anonymous, but Customers Are Few; 'It's Hard to Get Users to Pay for Anything These Days' — Looking to tap into Web surfers' privacy concerns, new companies are popping up to help people browse the Internet and send messages anonymously.
Katie Gatto / VatorNews:
Backupify raises $4.5M to back up data — Avalon Ventures, General Catalyst, Lowercase, First Round invest in saving our social-media data — Data is invaluable, even if it's a random Tweet about your lunch that day. — And, Backupify - now flush with new cash - is hoping to ensure …
Discussion: Red Herring, Business Wire, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE and Xconomy
Matthew Lynley / VentureBeat: Backupify raises $4.5M to save your social media shenanigans
Kristen Nicole / SiliconANGLE: Backupify Backed by $4.5M, Building Clouds for Social Media Marketers
Gregory T. Huang / Xconomy: Backupify Brings In $4.5M
Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:
Is Google's Mobile Loss in China Kai-fu Lee's Gain? — Former head of Google China, Kai-fu Lee, insists—insists— that he is not happy that Google imploded its business in China. "Seeing the work that I put in, how could I be happy to see that?" he says. In fact, in a press release …
Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: A Facebook Bill Of Rights — Facebook has come along way from being Mark Zuckerberg's afterschool project. In fact "The Facebook Effect" author David Kirkpatrick implied at TechCrunch Disrupt that Facebook was so influential it should be governed …


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The Perfect Server - CentOS 6.1 x86_64 With nginx [ISPConfig 3] - Page 6
18 Install PureFTPd
PureFTPd can be installed with the following command:
yum install pure-ftpd
Then create the system startup links and start PureFTPd:
chkconfig --levels 235 pure-ftpd on
/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd start
Now we configure PureFTPd to allow FTP and TLS sessions. FTP is a very insecure protocol because all passwords and all data are transferred in clear text. By using TLS, the whole communication can be encrypted, thus making FTP much more secure.
OpenSSL is needed by TLS; to install OpenSSL, we simply run:
yum install openssl
Open /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf...
vi /etc/pure-ftpd/pure-ftpd.conf
If you want to allow FTP and TLS sessions, set TLS to 1:
[...] # This option can accept three values : # 0 : disable SSL/TLS encryption layer (default). # 1 : accept both traditional and encrypted sessions. # 2 : refuse connections that don't use SSL/TLS security mechanisms, # including anonymous sessions. # Do _not_ uncomment this blindly. Be sure that : # 1) Your server has been compiled with SSL/TLS support (--with-tls), # 2) A valid certificate is in place, # 3) Only compatible clients will log in. TLS 1 [...]
In order to use TLS, we must create an SSL certificate. I create it in /etc/ssl/private/, therefore I create that directory first:
mkdir -p /etc/ssl/private/
Afterwards, we can generate the SSL certificate as follows:
openssl req -x509 -nodes -days 7300 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem -out /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem
Country Name (2 letter code) [XX]: <-- Enter your Country Name (e.g., "DE").
State or Province Name (full name) []: <-- Enter your State or Province Name.
Locality Name (eg, city) [Default City]: <-- Enter your City.
Organization Name (eg, company) [Default Company Ltd]: <-- Enter your Organization Name (e.g., the name of your company).
Organizational Unit Name (eg, section) []: <-- Enter your Organizational Unit Name (e.g. "IT Department").
Common Name (eg, your name or your server's hostname) []: <-- Enter the Fully Qualified Domain Name of the system (e.g. "server1.example.com").
Email Address []: <-- Enter your Email Address.
Change the permissions of the SSL certificate:
chmod 600 /etc/ssl/private/pure-ftpd.pem
Finally restart PureFTPd:
/etc/init.d/pure-ftpd restart
That's it. You can now try to connect using your FTP client; however, you should configure your FTP client to use TLS.
19 Install BIND
We can install BIND as follows:
yum install bind bind-utils
Next open /etc/sysconfig/named...
vi /etc/sysconfig/named
... and make sure that the ROOTDIR=/var/named/chroot line is comment out:
# BIND named process options # ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ # Currently, you can use the following options: # # ROOTDIR="/var/named/chroot" -- will run named in a chroot environment. # you must set up the chroot environment # (install the bind-chroot package) before # doing this. # NOTE: # Those directories are automatically mounted to chroot if they are # empty in the ROOTDIR directory. It will simplify maintenance of your # chroot environment. # - /var/named # - /etc/pki/dnssec-keys # - /etc/named # - /usr/lib64/bind or /usr/lib/bind (architecture dependent) # # Those files are mounted as well if target file doesn't exist in # chroot. # - /etc/named.conf # - /etc/rndc.conf # - /etc/rndc.key # - /etc/named.rfc1912.zones # - /etc/named.dnssec.keys # - /etc/named.iscdlv.key # # Don't forget to add "$AddUnixListenSocket /var/named/chroot/dev/log" # line to your /etc/rsyslog.conf file. Otherwise your logging becomes # broken when rsyslogd daemon is restarted (due update, for example). # # OPTIONS="whatever" -- These additional options will be passed to named # at startup. Don't add -t here, use ROOTDIR instead. # # KEYTAB_FILE="/dir/file" -- Specify named service keytab file (for GSS-TSIG) # # DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING -- By default, initscript calls named-checkzone # utility for every zone to ensure all zones are # valid before named starts. If you set this option # to 'yes' then initscript doesn't perform those # checks.
Make a backup of the existing /etc/named.conf file and create a new one as follows:
cp /etc/named.conf /etc/named.conf_bak
cat /dev/null > /etc/named.conf
vi /etc/named.conf
// // named.conf // // Provided by Red Hat bind package to configure the ISC BIND named(8) DNS // server as a caching only nameserver (as a localhost DNS resolver only). // // See /usr/share/doc/bind*/sample/ for example named configuration files. // options { listen-on port 53 { any; }; listen-on-v6 port 53 { any; }; directory "/var/named"; dump-file "/var/named/data/cache_dump.db"; statistics-file "/var/named/data/named_stats.txt"; memstatistics-file "/var/named/data/named_mem_stats.txt"; allow-query { any; }; recursion no; allow-recursion { none; }; }; logging { channel default_debug { file "data/named.run"; severity dynamic; }; }; zone "." IN { type hint; file "named.ca"; }; include "/etc/named.conf.local";
Create the file /etc/named.conf.local that is included at the end of /etc/named.conf (/etc/named.conf.local will later on get populated by ISPConfig if you create DNS zones in ISPConfig):
touch /etc/named.conf.local
Then we create the startup links and start BIND:
chkconfig --levels 235 named on
/etc/init.d/named start
20 Install Vlogger, Webalizer, And AWStats
Vlogger, webalizer, and AWStats can be installed as follows:
yum install webalizer awstats perl-DateTime-Format-HTTP perl-DateTime-Format-Builder
cd /tmp
wget http://n0rp.chemlab.org/vlogger/vlogger-1.3.tar.gz
tar xvfz vlogger-1.3.tar.gz
mv vlogger-1.3/vlogger /usr/sbin/
rm -rf vlogger*
21 Install Jailkit
Jailkit is needed only if you want to chroot SSH users. It can be installed as follows (important: Jailkit must be installed before ISPConfig - it cannot be installed afterwards!):
cd /tmp
wget http://olivier.sessink.nl/jailkit/jailkit-2.14.tar.gz
tar xvfz jailkit-2.14.tar.gz
cd jailkit-2.14
make install
cd ..
rm -rf jailkit-2.14*
22 Install fail2ban
This is optional but recommended, because the ISPConfig monitor tries to show the log:
yum install fail2ban
We must configure fail2ban to log to the log file /var/log/fail2ban.log because this is the log file that is monitored by the ISPConfig Monitor module. Open /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf...
vi /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf
... and comment out the logtarget = SYSLOG line and add logtarget = /var/log/fail2ban.log:
[...] # Option: logtarget # Notes.: Set the log target. This could be a file, SYSLOG, STDERR or STDOUT. # Only one log target can be specified. # Values: STDOUT STDERR SYSLOG file Default: /var/log/fail2ban.log # #logtarget = SYSLOG logtarget = /var/log/fail2ban.log [...]
Then create the system startup links for fail2ban and start it:
chkconfig --levels 235 fail2ban on
/etc/init.d/fail2ban start
23 Install rkhunter
rkhunter can be installed as follows:
yum install rkhunter


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Anti-biotech activists are like zombies in a horror movie: No matter how many times you defeat them, they keep snapping back to life, determined to wreak brand-new havoc.
So a month after suffering a bad loss in California on Election Day, they're shifting their misconceived movement to Connecticut, Oregon, Vermont, and elsewhere. The next engagement is already well underway in the state of Washington, where the frightening extremism of what they really hope to achieve is also on full display.
Their outrageous goal is nothing less than a complete ban of crops enhanced by biotechnology–and they must be stopped.
Last month, 53 percent of Californians said "No!" on Proposition 37, a fatally flawed ballot initiative that would have mandated warning labels for safe food products that may contain ingredients derived from genetically modified crops.
Prop 37 was a bad idea from the start. It would have driven up grocery-store bills without aiding consumers at all. Farmers, doctors, scientists, and just about every daily newspaper editorial page in the state opposed it. In the end, so did most voters.
Yet anti-biotech activists are preparing to strike again. In Washington, they're gathering signatures now for a ballot initiative modeled on Prop 37. They even have an official name for it: Initiative 522, or I-522. And they've raised almost $200,000 in its behalf, according to Linda Thomas of KIR.
Organizers are well on their way to meeting a goal of collecting 320,000 signatures by December 31. They believe this will give them more than enough to guarantee the 242,000 valid names they will need for certification by the secretary of state. If that happens, their proposal will move to the state legislature. As soon as January, lawmakers could approve the measure or allow I-522 to go on the ballot in November 2013.
Odds are the legislature will defer to voters. That's what happened earlier this year with I-502, an effort to legalize and regulate marijuana. Supporters had gathered signatures, and lawmakers let it appear on the ballot. Last month, 55 percent of voters approved it.
It remains to be seen how I-502 will affect drug use, as selling or possessing pot remains illegal under federal law. But consider the irony: Shortly after Washington voters decided to relax drug laws, anti-GM activists are asking them to impose a crackdown on one of the safest and common technologies in agriculture.
Reasonable people can disagree on the decriminalization of pot. Yet the idea that voters would take a laissez-faire approach to marijuana and then almost immediately impose draconian restrictions on mainstream food ingredients is just plain bizarre.
The opponents of biotechnology try to present a reasonable face to the public, but their real agenda is radical–and it's already on full view in the state of Washington.
On Election Day, as Californians were casting their ballots against Prop 37, voters in Washington's San Juan County considered an even more dangerous measure: a total ban on the growing of GM crops.
San Juan County, home to less than 16,000 people, is tiny compared to California and its population of almost 37 million. So its drastic initiative didn't generate much attention during the campaign season–and neither did the result, in which 61 percent of the county's voters decided to outlaw the kinds of plants that farmers in much of the rest of the country take for granted.
This is the true mission of the anti-biotech movement: the utter elimination of genetically modified crops from the United States.
If the "Just Label It" crowd wanted to stop at labeling, its leaders would have condemned the vote in San Juan County. But they did no such thing. For people who love to spew out press releases and shout on blogs, their silence was curious–and also revealing.
The rest of us must speak out against both the effort to push new food-label laws and the even more harmful agenda that lies behind it. We know the truth about modern food and agriculture, and it's our job once again to make sure voters hear about it as well.
Ted Sheely raises lettuce, cotton, tomatoes, wheat, pistachios, wine grapes and garlic on a family farm in the California San Joaquin Valley. He volunteers as a board member for Truth About Trade &Technology (www.truthabouttrade.org).


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July 23, 2008
Export the Feeds from a Google Reader Folder
But what happens when you need to export the feeds from a single folder so you can share them with a friend or upload them to a site? Google Reader lets you export the feeds from a folder:
(you should replace FOLDER with the actual name of the folder)
Another way to share the subscriptions from a folder is to make it public and to use this link for the OPML file:
(USERID can be obtained from the public page created by Google Reader)
This also works if someone shares with you the page of a public folder and you want to obtain the list of subscriptions from that folder. If I share with you my Googlers folder:
you can easily obtain the link to the corresponding OPML file by replacing shared with public/subscriptions:
{ Inspired by Abhijeet M. }
9 comments:
- AnonymousJuly 23, 2008 at 1:05 PM
Thanks Ionut ! I updated my post too.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 24, 2008 at 8:37 PM
Now if Reader would just allow me to rename folders.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 16, 2008 at 7:53 AM
Thanks, but this should be an usual feature.ReplyDelete
Also agree with Tsudohnimh on folder renaming.
good method to export a certain feed~ReplyDelete
Does google reader support exporting feed or folder to xml file ?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousNovember 14, 2009 at 6:07 AM
How do I export a Folder as RSS?ReplyDelete
I am only able to get an export as Atom Feed, but I need an aggregation of all feeds from a folder as RSS...
Thanks so much for this post. I have tried this a couple times, but it ends up pulling all my feeds, not just the feeds from a specific folder. Any thoughts would be most appreciated.ReplyDelete
i get only list, not contents of all feeds.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 17, 2012 at 7:27 AM
wish Google could automatically identify friends birthdays instead of we asking them and filling it manually..ReplyDelete


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- Create credit card shape using Rounded Rectangle Tool. The credit card format specifies a size of 85.60 × 53.98 mm (3.370 × 2.125 in) and corners rounded with a radius of 3.18 mm..
- Apply the following layer style adjustments to created shape.
- Place vector decorative elements into new layers, download them here.
- Choose Overlay Blending Mode for them.