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During a late April hearing of the International Trade Commission, Gary Adams, a National Cotton Council economist, highlighted some of India's "increasingly trade-distorting activities: increases in internal support prices, new export subsidy programs, and a continuing governmental assistance to the textile industry."
The trade-distorting trends "need to be halted and reversed, whether through consultations or formal trade disputes," said Adams in a later press conference.
Pointing to a World Trade Organization decision against the United States in a case brought by Brazil, Adams said the issue with India is one of fairness. Because of the WTO ruling, "the United States changed our cotton programs and eliminated some provisions. Since then, we've seen U.S. production decline significantly. Exports have also declined."
However, as U.S. cotton production has dipped, "other countries such as India have stepped into the void with increased production, increased exports and increased subsidy programs. Because of all these developments, there's been no real or lasting recovery in worldwide cotton prices. As a result, we see smaller producers like those in western Africa that continue to suffer from a lack of profitability."
Recent actions
Adams highlighted several recent actions by India regarding cotton.
• Minimum support prices for cotton as high as 48 percent.
• Using current exchange rates and converting them to a cents-per-pound basis, "that comes to about 72 cents per pound for the most commonly-produced qualities of cotton. Compare that to international prices ranging between 55 and 58 cents per pound.
• The discrepancy between Indian support prices and world prices has led the Indian government to authorize purchases of up to 11.7 million bales of the 2008 cotton crop, said Adams. "India is now a major exporter of cotton fiber and directly competes with the United States in many significant markets."
• A new export subsidy scheme for Indian cotton — equal to 5 percent of the export's value.
"It was already the case that Indian cotton is often offered at a 3- to 5-cent discount compared to similar growth in other countries. Now, the addition of an export subsidy allows India to increase this discount relative to its competitors."
The NCC, said Adams, doesn't believe India, under the WTO, has the authority to apply cotton export subsidies. Plus, despite WTO membership requiring it to do so, India hasn't reported its support levels since 2002.
"We believe the United States should press India to make those submissions and make them current."
Will a formal case have to be filed against India in order to have action taken? Not necessarily, said Adams.
"Oftentimes, there will be some initial stages the countries can go through. Before a case is launched, formal consultations can occur. Countries can decide if some resolution can be reached without launching a formal dispute settlement proceeding."
USTR Kirk
Asked about recent statements by U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk regarding the need to revisit trade positions taken by the Bush administration, Adams was encouraged. "We've seen some of Kirk's statements as well as some broader statements from the Obama administration about a thorough review of U.S. trade policy and where things need to go. Some of those statements we find encouraging because they've talked about the potential for rebalancing, particularly with regard to the Doha trade negotiations."
The NCC is concerned with the focus of the Doha negotiations — "particularly in the way of domestic support. The restrictions and limitations on domestic support aren't met with equal ambition on the market access side."
NCC representatives were scheduled to meet with Kirk during the last week of April. "Obviously, we'll touch on India. But we'll (also) touch on China, the broader WTO negotiations, the Brazil case. I'd think other commodity groups are doing likewise."
Brazil case
Considering the abrupt reversal of the globe's fortunes — along with the changes in U.S. cotton policies — will the Brazil case against the United States be revisited?
"As much as we'd like to interject some of these new developments into the Brazil case, because of the structure and way those cases are handled, there's no way to do that formally. … Even though we're in 2009, they're still tied to the facts of the case from several years ago. That's a frustrating aspect. There isn't credit, or a full appreciation, for the current economic environment both in general and in the world fiber market. There's no appreciation, or acknowledgment, of the changes in both U.S. policy as part of 2008 farm bill or in India's policies.
"That isn't to say there is no remedy to the situation. But with the Brazil case, at a later date, a new compliance panel would have to be established so you can get the new facts fully incorporated into the arguments. So, there is some recourse down the road. But, in the short-term, the Brazil case won't show any credit or formal acknowledgement of what's going on in the fiber market and in U.S. and other countries' policies."
Another issue, said Adams, is that there have been "so many loopholes for developing countries that we don't see them stepping up to the plate offering additional access or making the same level of commitments and concessions required of the United States. India is a perfect example because they've gone through the negotiations (while) trying to stay under the radar and not make any commitments."
Why does the United States get the blame for West African cotton farmers' woes when India is obviously manipulating the markets?
Saying the blame on U.S. cotton has become "tiresome," Adams claimed the "focus by the West Africans and other cotton-producing countries on the United States is misplaced. We've been saying that for a number of years and it's even more evident now when you look at U.S. production declines and U.S. export declines and the fact that other countries have stepped into the void. And we haven't seen any real, or lasting, price recovery.
"An unfortunate and somewhat frustrating part of this for U.S. cotton farmers is, when you get right down to it, the United States is an easy target. We're a developed country that developing countries can take a united stance against. And, frankly, we're much more transparent in the support we supply to our growers. Add all that together and it makes us an easy target."
Adams is unsure what India's response will be to the ITC investigation. "My guess is, before the Indian government does anything they'll wait to see what the ITC comes up with. …The ITC has a date of Nov. 12 for submitting the results of their study to the Senate Finance Committee, which requested they launch the investigation."
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Whether it is a "roughing it" summer tent camping trip or a comfy stay at a cabin in the woods, there's always a possibility for a black bear sighting or encounter in North Georgia. With more than 75 established campgrounds and an estimated 5,100 black bears in the State, campers should always be aware and prepared for a black bear encounter. The key to preventing an unfavorable experience is to properly store food and garbage.
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Though the American black bear (Ursus americanus) is now considered the most common bear in North America and the only native bear found in Georgia, at one point the species was nearly eradicated from the state due to poaching and habitat loss. Yet, because of sound wildlife management practices Georgia's current black bear population is healthy and thriving and estimated at approximately 5,100 bears statewide.
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MIAMI — Indiana Pacers coach Frank Vogel has called Roy Hibbert "the best rim protector in the game." That same Vogel took that same Hibbert off the floor on two critical defensive possessions late in overtime of Game 1 of the Eastern Conference finals on Wednesday.
The result? Two LeBron James layups and a 103-102 Miami Heat victory in overtime. Commence the torching of Vogel.
Vogel is very good at his job, the architect of the No. 1 defense in the league. But on more than one occasion in these playoffs, he has been caught over-coaching. This isn't the first time he's sat Hibbert on a late-game defensive possession, but it's the time that decision came back to really bite him in the rear end.
Indiana was in position to steal Game 1 and home-court advantage in the series. Paul George got them to overtime with a 32-foot bomb at the end of regulation and, after James' first Hibbert-less layup, got them a one-point lead with three clutch free throws with 2.2 seconds on the clock in OT.
After the Heat called timeout, Hibbert was on the floor.
I repeat, Hibbert was on the floor. And it was just one possession earlier when James beat George Hill off the dribble and got a layup because Hibbert wasn't on the floor.
But Vogel looked at Miami's lineup and called his own timeout, for the sole purpose of replacing Hibbert with Tyler Hansbrough. Over-coaching 101.
"That's the dilemma they present when they have Chris Bosh at the five spot and his ability to space the floor," Vogel said afterward. "We put a switching lineup in with the intent to switch, keep everything in front of us, and try to go into or force a challenged jump shot."
Vogel's fear was that, if Hibbert stuck by the basket to protect the rim, Bosh could free up a teammate with a screen or knock down an open jump shot.
The Pacers did switch as the Heat set multiple screens on the inbounds play. But when James caught the ball at the top of the key, George closed out a little too hard. The Heat had the floor spaced well, so when James blew by George, there was no one in position to help or protect the rim. James laid the ball in with his left hand and the buzzer sounded.
Game over. Opportunity lost.
"Obviously, with the way it worked out, it would have been better to have Roy in the game," Vogel said. "But you don't know. If that happens, maybe Bosh is making a jump shot and we're all talking about that."
And maybe if Hibbert was on the floor and James just scored over him, we're talking about the Heat's offensive mentality. After attempting 11 mid-range shots in the first quarter (and only five from the restricted area), they attempted just 13 mid-range shots (and 31 from the restricted area) over the remaining 41 minutes.
They didn't let Hibbert's presence keep them away from the rim. They smartly attacked the Pacers' defense both from the middle and from the baseline, drew Hibbert's attention, and dumped the ball off to cutters for layups and dunks.
"We're an attacking team," Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said. "It takes a great commitment and effort to be able to do it together, to get our attack. So you play a very good defensive team like this, you might not necessarily get it on the first option of your attack. And you have to have the poise and patience to work your offense, get to the proper spacing, move bodies, and have those opportunities in the paint."
(Someone send that quote to the New York Knicks.)
"The first quarter, it was more of taking the first available look," Spoelstra continued. "And a lot of times, it was that pull-up or long jumper."
After averaging just 30.7 points in the paint in three regular season meetings against the Pacers, the Heat had almost twice that (60) on Wednesday. And all of their biggest buckets of the night came at the rim, including a Dwyane Wade layup over Hibbert in the final minute of regulation and a Bosh put-back over Hibbert in the final minute of OT. So it's not as if Hibbert was stopping everything.
But you have a much better chance of protecting the rim with Hibbert on the floor than with him on the bench. In his 12 minutes off the floor in Game 1, the Heat were 9-for-12 in the restricted area and just 1-for-9 elsewhere. And if the 7-foot-2 guy is in the game and protecting the rim on that final possession, you can certainly live with the elsewhere.
Hibbert was obviously disappointed afterward, but he had his coach's back.
"I could see why Coach wanted to take me out," he said. "With 2.2 seconds left on the clock, they can throw it to Bosh and I'm over-committing in the paint and he can hit a jump shot. My mentality is always to protect the rim. I wish I was in there, but I have complete faith in Coach's decisions."
If the situation comes up again, the decision might be different.
"I would say we'll probably have him in the next time," Vogel said.
The Heat have now won 46 of their last 49 games. Opportunities to beat them do not come often. Vogel can only hope that there is a next time.


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Access to quality information is crucial to tackle Peru's environmental problems
By the early 2000s, Peru faced serious environmental problems. Air pollution in urban areas was so severe that it caused thousands of premature deaths every year. In fact, air quality in Lima was worse than in other large Latin American cities, such as Mexico City or Sao Paulo. Other environmental challenges that damaged people's health included air pollution inside homes caused by the use of wood for cooking; insufficient access to clean water, sanitation, and hygiene; and exposure to lead, a highly toxic chemical. Together, these environmental problems caused 12 million cases of illnesses annually, dramatically affecting young children, the elderly, and poor people who couldn't afford medical care. The World Bank estimated that these negative impacts had an economic cost equivalent to 2.8% of Peru's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2003.
One of the main reasons the Peruvian government wasn't able to respond promptly to these serious environmental problems was the country didn't have governmental organizations with a clear responsibility for environmental protection. Another important reason was the absence of a system of reliable environmental information to support the government's decision-making process. For example, there was little awareness about the seriousness of air pollution, largely because most cities didn't have a functional air quality monitoring network. Even in the few cities that did, the information was not widely disseminated. In the absence of such information, it was difficult to identify which environmental problems were most severe, and to develop actions and assign resources to solve them. In addition, lack of information limited the opportunities for the public—including the poor families and other vulnerable groups that suffered the most from pollution —to discuss their environmental concerns and agree on solutions with government officials.


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Chances are that you have a bunch of questions concerning The Elder Scrolls Online and how exactly lore will play out. Luckily, the community team has chosen a handful of queries to answer.
The lore-centric Q&A was posted to the official Elder Scrolls Online site and answers a lot of fans' questions regarding the Daggerfall Covenant faction, orcs and different locations that are thought to exist in the game.
Of course, the team didn't reveal too much, but they did confirm that players can adventure around the Alik'r Desert town of Tava's Blessing, which is the settlement that predates the city of Lainlyn.
One fan asked about the orc city of Orsinium and whether or not it existed as a major city or as a kingdom during the era in which The Elder Scrolls Online is set. It turned out the Daggerfall Covenant is responsible for restoring the city to the Orcs of Wrothgar, who are in turn rebuilding it.
Another fan asked if the Adamantine Tower, which is the oldest structure in the land, would be a location that players can visit in-game. The only response given was you can see the tower from the shores of Iliac Bay. Whether or not you can visit is still a mystery.
Click on the link above to check out the rest of the Q&A and learn more about the lore of the land. The Elder Scrolls Online will be released on the PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 and Max in Spring 2014.


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For PostgreSQL 9.0 and newer
In current releases of PostgreSQL "CREATE OR REPLACE LANGUAGE" is the native syntax for installing a procedural language with no error if it's already installed.
Also PL/pgSQL is installed in the template databases at install time, so will be included in all newly created databases by default, so there's usually no need to install it in schema installation scripts.
For PostgreSQL 8.4 and older
While there is no CREATE OR REPLACE for languages like there are for functions, you can simulate one for the common case where you want to add the pl/pgsql language to a database. Normally this will trigger an ERROR condition if the language is already installed:
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CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION make_plpgsql() RETURNS VOID LANGUAGE SQL AS $$ CREATE LANGUAGE plpgsql; $$; SELECT CASE WHEN EXISTS( SELECT 1 FROM pg_catalog.pg_language WHERE lanname='plpgsql' ) THEN NULL ELSE make_plpgsql() END; DROP FUNCTION make_plpgsql();
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The use of fertilizer in rice has come a long way since USDA and Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station scientists began performing experiments at the LSU AgCenter Rice Research Station 100 years ago this spring.
"Most of the first rice crop planted on the station in 1909 was not fertilized at all," said Justin Harrell, an LSU AgCenter agronomist based at the current Rice Research Station east of Crowley, La., who spoke at the station's Centennial observance on July 1.
"A select few of the cuts were fertilized with 200 pounds of acid phosphate and 50 pounds of nitrate of soda, both common fertilizers available at the time. We don't know why J. Mitchell Jenkins, the first rice breeder at the station, did not fertilize all of his rice that year. Perhaps the cost was prohibitive or he only had a limited supply of the fertilizer."
Acid phosphate fertilizer is also known as superphosphate, which is made by treating rock phosphate with sulfuric acid, Harrell told participants at the field day held in conjunction with the Centennial. The nitrate of soda was a 16 percent nitrogen source, which was mined in the Chilean desert and imported into the United States.
In the first 20 years, potassium fertilizers were relatively expensive because they had to be imported. "Some K fertilizers were available from wood ashes, cottonseed hulls and tobacco stems, however, most K had to be imported from Germany where K-bearing minerals were being mined from K-rich brine deposits as early as 1839," he said.
"After America's entry into World War I in 1917, imports of K fertilizer from Germany were halted, and we began to search for our own sources of potassium minerals. This search led to the discovery of potash deposits in Carlsbad, N.M., in 1925 and in Searle's Lake in California around the same time."
World War II also had ramifications for the U.S. fertilizer industry. As America's involvement in the war escalated, production of solid ammonium nitrate skyrocketed because it could be used as an explosive for bombs. Additional plants were erected to increase production, and ammonium nitrate was stockpiled.
"After the war, the oversupply of fertilizer was made available for agriculture use, which really jumpstarted the N fertilizer by supplying farmers with an affordable source of N," said Harrell. "The war also helped create a new delivery method for fertilizers and other farm chemicals as pilots trained during the war returned home and began looking for jobs."
The roster of scientists who have held Harrell's position at the Rice Research Station reads like a who's who of rice fertility specialists. Besides Jenkins, who was primarily a rice breeder, the list has included Rufus W. Walker; D. Marlin Brandon; Patrick Bollich, now resident director of the Central Research Station in Baton Rouge; and Jason Bond, now a weed scientist with the Delta Research and Extension Center in Stoneville, Miss.
Harrell says the tradition of nutrient and cultural management research continues at the Rice Research Station with the collaboration of rice nutrient management scientists from other rice-producing states.
He and Rick Norman, rice fertility specialist at the University of Arkansas, said scientists are working on two promising technologies — the use of canopy reflectance measurements to evaluate the midseason N needs of rice and a rice nitrogen soil test, which would allow farmers to apply nitrogen to rice on a field-by-field basis.
"Rice researchers have developed a method for measuring the amount of N a silt loam soil will mineralize during the rice growing season," said Harrell. "This method enables an N fertilizer rate recommendation not just based on soil texture, previous crop and cultivar, but on an individual field-by-field basis. We're conducting validation experiments on the new rice nitrogen soil test to evaluate its robustness."
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Cortese has ego problem - Le Tissier
Southampton hero Matt Le Tissier has accused executive chairman Nicola Cortese of having "a bit of an ego problem" following his shock decision to sack manager Nigel Adkins this week.
Le Tissier said he was stunned by news of Adkins' exit and replacement by Mauricio Pochettino - and slammed Cortese for his failure to account for his decision at a subsequent press conference.
Le Tissier told BBC Radio Five Live's Sportsweek: "I don't know if Nigel was becoming too popular and the chairman didn't like it - he does appear to have a bit of an ego problem."
He went on: "It is a little bit bizarre, but some of the decisions that have been made have been a little bit bizarre since the current chairman took over. In a way it wasn't a surprise because I think he's been looking to get rid of him for a while now.
"The strangest thing about it all for me was he brings the new manager in about a minute after he sacked Nigel and then he hangs the new manager out to dry at a press conference on his own, which I thought was an incredibly cowardly thing to do.
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Mihini/Run Mihini on an Open Hardware platform
This page describes a scenario for illustrating the use of Mihini on an Open Hardware Linux-based platform such as BeagleBoard or RaspberryPi.
The goal would be for someone to be able to be only one hour away from taking a bare development board and have it configured to collect data out of the GPIO sensors.
Please bear in mind that Mihini is still under development.
- 1 Step 1 - Get Mihini
- 2 Step 2 - Start Mihini on your device
- 3 Step 3 - Setup Koneki environment
- 4 Step 4 - Create your first application
- 5 Step 5 - Install your application
Step 1 - Get Mihini
To get Mihini, you have 3 options :
Step 2 - Start Mihini on your device
One of the features of Mihini is to manage the life cycle of your application. In order to do so, applications are run from another program: the
Appmon. We need to start it.
As a service
If you have installed Mihini from a
.deb, you have an init script to just do what you want to:
/etc/init.d/mihini {start|stop|restart|status|purge}
Or if you have installed Mihini from a
.rpm or the AUR (ArchLinux User Repository), you can use
systemctl {start|stop|restart|enable|disable}
On your device, here a RaspberryPi with user
$ cd ~/mihini $ sudo ./bin/appmon_daemon -a /home/pi/mihini/start.sh -w /home/pi/mihini -u pi -g pi -n 5 2>&1 | logger -t Mihini &
Notice: we launched
appmon_daemon and
mihini with
root user rights, and applications managed by
appmon_daemon will be launched using user
pi that should give sufficient user rights for most of needs.
Possible starting issues The execution of ps aux must show something like the following line to successfully verify that the daemon is running:
root 2360 0.0 0.0 2028 300 pts/0 S+ 09:55 0:00 ./bin/appmon_daemon -a /home/pi/mihini/start.sh -w /home/pi/mihini -u pi -g pi -n 5
If this is not the case this may be due to a missing library. Check with ldd bin/appmon_daemon and ldd bin/agent that all required libraries are resolved. If not, try this code
cd /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ sudo /bin/sh -c 'echo "/home/pi/mihini/lib/" > 01-mihini.conf' sudo ldconfig
Now the respective ldd commands re-executed should resolve.
Stop Mihini manually
$ sudo killall agent appmon_daemon
Step 3 - Setup Koneki environment
- Download Lua Development Tools
- Install Remote Development Support for LDT
- Configure the remote target in the Koneki environment
- Define your device and configure its "SSH Lua" paths like this (to reach the presented view, open the Views "Remote Systems" and "Properties". In "Properties" toggle Show Advanced Properties to true, then select "Ssh Lua" from the "Remote Systems" View)
- If you want the text version
- Define your device and configure its "SSH Lua" paths like this (to reach the presented view, open the Views "Remote Systems" and "Properties". In "Properties" toggle Show Advanced Properties to true, then select "Ssh Lua" from the "Remote Systems" View)
LUA_PATH: /home/pi/mihini/lib/?.lua;/home/pi/mihini/lib/?/init.lua;/home/pi/mihini/lua/?.lua;/home/pi/mihini/lua/?/init.lua;./?.lua
LUA_CPATH: /home/pi/mihini/lib/?.so;/home/pi/mihini/lua/?.so
LD_LIBRARY_PATH: $LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/pi/mihini/lib
- Configure the "Mihini execution environment"
- Download the latest Mihini execution environment here
- Setup this Execution Environment in your LDT environment (Preferences > Lua > Execution Environments))
- Create a launch/debug configuration and test your script.
Step 4 - Create your first application
You could blink a LED, use a touch sensor, measure the temperature and available RAM of the board... I decided to keep it simple in this tutorial, my application will simply log :). The file is
local log = require "log" local sched = require "sched" local function main() log("GENERAL", "INFO", "My first Mihini app is alive :)") end sched.run(main) sched.loop()
To run the above example, select the main.lua file, right-click Run As/Lua Remote Application, it will then be executed on your Raspberry.
Step 5 - Install your application
All you a have to do in order to enable Mihini to handle you application is:
- Create a launcher
- Provide sources
Create a launcher
Mihini Application container runs executables. To run a Lua application, we need to set some variables beforehand and then lauch your application. In order to do so lets create the proper launcher. In the Mihini world, it is an executable file called
run. Here is its content:
#!/bin/sh # Setting up paths export LUA_PATH="/home/pi/mihini/lib/?.lua;/home/pi/mihini/lib/?/init.lua;/home/pi/mihini/lua/?.lua;/home/pi/mihini/lua/?/init.lua;./?.lua" export LUA_CPATH="/home/pi/mihini/lib/?.so;/home/pi/mihini/lua/?.so" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/home/pi/mihini/lib" # Running app /home/pi/mihini/bin/lua main.lua
Now the my application folder looks like
$ find raspapp/ raspapp/ raspapp/run raspapp/main.lua
Install application
First of all, I presume you already have an Appmon Daemon running. You may wonder which way you can interact with Mihini. While starting, Mihini opens a
Telnet server on port
2000, it enables you communicate with its runtime. We are about to use it to install an app available at '/tmp/raspapp', which will be named 'sample', this application will benefit from autostart ( the last
true parameter ).
$ telnet localhost 2000 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. Lua interactive shell > appcon = require 'agent.appcon' > = appcon.install('sample', '/tmp/raspapp', true) 2013-01-22 13:33:45 APPCON-INFO: Installing application "sample" = ok
We can check that the application is properly installed
> for app, t in pairs(appcon.list()) do print( app ) for field, data in pairs(t) do print("\t", field, data) end end sample autostart true runnable true
CTRL-D to quit.
We can even check logs:
$ tail -f /var/log/syslog | grep Mihini
Over the air
One day, it will be possible to install application to your remote system Mihini just from its IP, and even more:
- Use the Koneki tools to create an application package
- Deploy the package on a publically available web server
- Connect to the Mihini console and for a connection to the testing server
- You may want to have udev rules so as your USB devices (typically the 3G stick) does not end up having an always changing /dev/ttyUSB<something> file descriptor...
- For a Sierra 3G stick, create a 99-aircard.rules in /etc/udev/rules.d, with the following rules (your ID_VENDOR_ID and ID_MODEL_ID may be different):
SUBSYSTEM=="tty", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="1199", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="68a3", ENV{ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM}=="03", SYMLINK+="ttyATConsole0"
SUBSYSTEM=="tty", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="1199", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="68a3", ENV{ID_USB_INTERFACE_NUM}=="04", SYMLINK+="ttyATConsole1"
- For a serial-USB adapter: http://hintshop.ludvig.co.nz/show/persistent-names-usb-serial-devices/
- Remove Lua comments to save some flash on very tiny devices (could probably be part of the build process btw)
find . -type f -name '*.lua' -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i '/^[ \t]*--/d'
- Strip binary code, to save flash too
find . -type f -name '*.so' -print0 | xargs -0 $STRIP_EXECUTABLE_PATH


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By Maeve Reston
With contributions from CNN's Jim Acosta, Dana Bash, Gloria Borger, Dylan Byers, Jeremy Diamond, Lauren Fox, Athena Jones, Ashley Killough, Betsy Klein, Elizabeth Landers, MJ Lee, Kevin Liptak, Tom LoBianco, Rene Marsh, Phil Mattingly, Dan Merica, Sara Murray, Manu Raju, Jake Tapper, Deirdre Walsh and Jeff Zeleny
Chapter 1: 'Parallel universes'
One Republican lawmaker called President Donald Trump's first weeks in office "batshit crazy."
Someone else who regularly speaks with the President described him during a particularly low point in March as a "caged animal" in the White House.
"He wanted to win. He didn't want to do this," this person said, referring to the task of governing.
Another person close to Trump portrayed a tight inner circle of top aides gripped by paranoia to the point that if one of them goes into that office alone, the other one is there within two minutes to make sure their voice is heard.
The presidency poses profound challenges for the 70-year-old Trump, who owes much of his success in business and last year's campaign to a savvy ability to cultivate a favorable persona. Now that he's in the White House, the problem, many sources said, is that Trump is so concerned about an image he can't control and staffers are so anxious about their standing with him that the administration easily slides into dysfunction.
Trump concludes his first 100 days in office Saturday with the lowest approval rating of any president at this juncture, according to polls dating back to the Eisenhower administration. A CNN/ORC poll released this week found that 44% of respondents approved of Trump's handling of the presidency while 54% disapproved. That vulnerability is underscored by the willingness of even Trump's closest GOP allies those who desperately want to turn his unlikely administration into a noble cause to critique his shortcomings.
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It's not unusual to see reminders in store windows that remind shoppers they are being watched on security cameras. But some retailers are getting a little more personal and are tracking customers' movements by their cell phones.
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Stores including Nordstrom (NYSE: JWN), Family Dollar (NYSE:FDO), Cabela's, Mothercare, Benetton and Warby Parker are enlisting the help of technology to track their customers, according to the New York Times.
But before consumers get enraged or creeped out—the in-store tracking isn't much different than the data mining that online retailers do with shoppers' search and spending habits. Instead of analyzing keystrokes and search history, some brick and mortar retailers are following shoppers' moves throughout the store by following their smartphones' Wi-Fi signals.
"They are just incorporating what exists in the online world into the brick-and-mortar world," says Credit.com and IDT911 founder Adam Levin. "My thing is—you don't have cameras in the online world."
Nordstrom opted to suspend its program, which monitored customer movements from the Wi-Fi signals on their smartphones, after pushback from shoppers. The retailer posted a sign letting customers know it was tracking them, and due in part to some of the comments, the program was suspended, the Times reported.
Many consumers likely don't realize they are even being tracked both in stores and online, Levin says. "The in-store tracking may even be more concerning because it's able to analyze physical behavioral data from customers."
And Levin says this type of tracking is just the beginning.
"This is the future. I think they will do facial recognition, retinal exams to do things to accommodate you. This is the price we are paying [for tailored deals and offerings] and privacy is eroding."
In 2011, two shopping centers in New York managed by Forest City suspended this kind of tracking after Sen. Chuck Schumer, (D-N.Y.), raised privacy concerns, according to Credit.com, calling for opt-in processes for shoppers. But currently, there is no such process currently in place, so the only way for consumers to protest against this is by turning off their phones when shopping.
Levin says not all people are willing to trade their privacy for a good deal, but the issue is that many people don't realize what's happening behind the scenes.
"The only way people can stand up for privacy is if they get the information that allows them to understand and process what is really going on."


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House passes bill to pay furloughed DoT workersRep. Gerry Connolly wants to make sure the 2,000 or so Transportation workers who were furloughed last week get paid. The Virginia Democrat introduced a bill Tuesday and the House passed it this morning to pay the employees for the two days they were off due to the lapse in the Highway Trust Fund legislation. President Obama signed into law a ...Published about 9 years ago |
Bill calls for feds who owe taxes to be firedCongressman Jason Chaffetz wants federal employees who don't pay their taxes to be fired. The Republican from Utah introduced a bill Wednesday and will offer it as amendment to legislation focused on vendors Thursday during a markup by the House oversight and Government Reform Committee. "We have about 100,000 federal employees how are seriously delinquent and have tax debt that is ...Published about 9 years ago |
Transportation Department furloughs endFurloughs at the Department of Transportation have come to an end and employees are to return to work Wednesday. In a press release Tuesday evening, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said, "I am pleased that the Senate has acted to break its logjam and extend the Highway Trust Fund for another 30 days. This means that our valued employees may return to ...Published about 9 years ago |
Stack's letter on Internet reveals anger at IRSAUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- In a letter posted on the Internet, the software engineer who slammed his plane into an office building housing federal tax employees Thursday expressed his anger at the government, specifically the Internal Revenue Service. A U.S. law official says investigators are looking at an anti-government message on the Web linked to Joseph Stack. By Thursday afternoon, ...Published about 9 years ago |
Dulles TSOs who missed work during snowstorm marked AWOLWhen it comes to an agency's reputation among federal employees, the Transportation Security Administration has long been a bottom feeder. Morale is low, attrition is high and it has no leader. And if that were not enough, the agency now has some really unhappy transportation security officers at Dulles International Airport who say they are being marked AWOL, absent without leave, ...Published about 9 years ago |
Senate bill aims to boost small business contractingCivilian agencies might soon be required to set aside a percentage of funds from multiple-award, multiagency contracting vehicles for small businesses. The provision, included in the 2010 Small Business Contracting Improvements Act introduced by Sens. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, on Thursday, would require agencies to reserve for small firms a yet undetermined portion of orders placed against federal ...Published about 9 years ago |
Senator puts blanket hold on presidential nomineesSen. Richard Shelby, R-Ala., has placed a blanket hold on all executive nominations on the Senate calendar in an effort to win concessions from the Obama administration and Pentagon on a variety of fronts affecting his home state, according to aides to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. Reid spokeswoman Regan Lachapelle said Shelby is blocking more than 70 pending nominations. ...Published about 9 years ago |
OPM Releases Strategic Plan on Veterans EmploymentWashington, DC – The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) released a government wide Strategic Plan to increase support and access for Veterans seeking employment with the Federal government. The plan is part of President Obama's Veterans Employment Initiative, a pragmatic, straightforward approach to helping the men and women who have served our country in the military find employment as civilians ...Published about 9 years ago |
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Obama calls for loan forgiveness for public service, transparencyIn a State of the Union address that ranged from job creation to education reform, President Obama also called for restoring trust in government, streamlining the federal budget, and extending debt forgiveness to students who spend 10 years in public service careers. Saying "no one should go broke because they choose to go to college," Obama proposed a program that would ...Published about 9 years ago |
Withdrawal of TSA nominee raises concern about agency workforceThe lack of permanent leadership at the Transportation Security Administration is delaying action on several agency personnel issues, union leaders and other observers said on Wednesday. "TSA has a number of issues that continue to contribute to its high attrition rate and low workforce morale," said Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, in a statement. "Many of these ...Published over 9 years ago |
Pay and Benefits: Watch Tax TrapMost people who have earned a paycheck probably have discovered that the federal income tax withholding formula can be complicated. But changes to withholding stemming from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act are causing even more head-scratching than usual this year, both inside and outside the federal workforce. "When the tables first came out, there was a flurry of questions," ...Published over 9 years ago |
Defense takes aim at contractor business systemsThe Defense Department is getting tough on contractors that fail to maintain adequate controls against waste, fraud and abuse. In a draft rule posted Friday in the Federal Register, Defense proposed allowing contracting officers to withhold payments from companies with certain deficiencies in their business systems. A clause would be added to contracts requiring firms to certify that they have no ...Published over 9 years ago |
Feds are left out of excise tax compromiseFederal employee groups fear that they are being left out of a health care reform compromise forged by unions and lawmakers to alleviate the effects of a proposed excise tax on insurance plans. The deal, posted on the Web sites of the AFL-CIO and the National Education Association, would raise the premium threshold level at which a 40 percent tax kicks ...Published over 9 years ago |
2011 Pay Raise Poker ChipFed-watchers will be checking President Obama's budget or State of the Union address for clues of a possible link between the size of the next pay raise and soon-to-be-proposed major overhaul of the federal civil service system. Well-plugged in folks, like Politicio, are reporting that after a year of massive spending (to both save the economy and pump a little pork ...Published over 9 years ago |
Women's Group Pushes Overhaul Of Pay-For-Performance ProgramsFederally Employed Women plans to lobby Congress and the Obama administration to make changes in pay-for-performance programs after a majority of FEW members said in a survey they did not support their agencies' alternative pay systems. "We firmly believe that just pointing out problems does not help," said Sue Webster, national president of the employee affinity group. "We are also offering ...Published over 9 years ago |
Economy loses 85K jobs, unemployment rate steadyWASHINGTON -- The economy lost more jobs than expected in December while the unemployment rate held steady at 10 percent, as a sluggish economic recovery has yet to revive hiring among the nation's employers. The Labor Department said Friday that employers cut 85,000 jobs last month, worse than the 8,000 drop analysts expected. A sharp drop in the labor force, a ...Published over 9 years ago |
Leaders of Federal Worker Union Find Many Reasons To Be Merry About 2009Workers at the Department of Housing and Urban Development know how to party. The L'Enfant Plaza Hotel ballroom was filled around noon Wednesday with employees ready for a plentiful buffet. The Rooted East band rocked as government workers accustomed to sitting 9 to 5 behind a desk did the Electric Slide in the middle of the day. Amid all this, it ...Published over 9 years ago |
Baltimore Mayor Dixon Resigns, Leave Office Feb 4Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon resigned Wednesday, part of a plea deal that brings a years-long corruption investigation to a close and ends the tenure of the city's first female mayor. Dixon, 56, will leave office Feb. 4, the day she is sentenced both for a guilty plea she entered in a perjury case and for her embezzlement conviction last month. She ...Published over 9 years ago |


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I love predictions. I love making them I love reading other people's. I just love them. It's weird, if you think about it, because what's the point? Odds are you'll just end up looking stupid, because it's the future, dummy. You can't REALLY predict it. But whatever. I can't get enough, and if you can't either here are my ALDS and NLDS predictions:
Reds vs. Phillies
If the Reds don't win game one, I don't think they have any chance in this series. This may seem strange, because winning game one on the road against Roy "Doc" Halladay (one of my favorite nicknames in sports) seems like an impossible feat. However, Edinson Volquez is capable of shutting the Phillies down and if he can pull that off and give the Reds some momentum, the rest of the pitching could follow suit and carry the Reds into the NLCS. However, I think the Phillies starting pitching will prove to be too much. I just can't see Johnny Cueto and co. kicking their way out of this one. And luckily, if anyone tries, there will be a "Doc" on hand...
Phillies in four
Giants vs. Braves
The Braves are the sentimental choice because Bobby Cox is old and oddly shaped. (More sentimental for the old part.) This is understandable because who doesn't want to root for Bobby Cox? As annoying as seeing the Braves in the playoffs literally every year in the 90s and early 2000s was, the fact is they haven't been there for several years. Plus they have those awkward red uniforms so they seem like a completely different team. The problem? They are a completely different team, and they just aren't all that good. They can't stack up against a rotation like San Francisco. A rotation that is, ironically enough, reminiscent of (Maddux, Glavine, Smoltz).
Giants in four
Rangers vs Rays
This is a terrible matchup for the Rays. Sure they have homefield advantage, but where does that advantage come in if nobody shows up? Plus, the Rays best hitter has a bum quad, and I don't trust their starting pitching. If Lee shuts the Rays down in game one, I see a sweep. In a related story, I think Lee will shut the Rays down in game one.
Rangers in three
Twins vs. Yankees
I always get nervous making predictions for my team. I'm superstitious. I just feel like I'll jinx them or reverse jinx the Yankees or jinx a jinx that unjinxes a jinx...or something. At this point, nothing that happens in a Twins vs. Yankees series would surprise me, and I actually think this is a fairly even matchup. So with one gigantic knock on wood...
Twins in five
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
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The family of a woman killed in the mass shooting at the Washington, D.C., Navy Yard has filed a lawsuit for more than $37 million against the U.S. Navy, the Department of Veterans Affairs and two government subcontractors.
Mary Francis Knight, 51, was killed by civilian contractor Aaron Alexis on Sept. 16.
Her family claims that the Navy's lax security allowed Alexis to enter Building 197 at the Navy Yard with a sawed off shotgun and a hundred rounds of ammunition without any metal detector screening. He opened fire, killing 12 and shooting three others.
They're also suing the subcontractors for hiring Alexis, and the Department of Veterans Affairs for releasing him from a VA hospital where he was treated for psychological issues in Rhode Island.
Alexis was a contractor with The Experts, subcontracted by Hewlett-Packard. Both companies are named in the suit.
Less than six weeks before the shooting, The Experts withdrew Alexis' access to classified material for two days in August when mental health problems became evident, senior U.S. officials said. But the Experts restored his access quickly and never told the Navy about the incident, the officials said.
Hewlett-Packard terminated its contract with The Experts shortly after the shooting.
An administrative claim filed last month -- the first step in filing a lawsuit -- said the family is seeking $37.5 million. A court in Tampa, Fla., where Knight's family lives, is handling the case.
Knight worked as a civilian employee in information technology at the Navy Yard. She lived in Virginia and commuted to D.C. for about five years, and had also worked as an adjunct professor at a community college in Northern Virginia.
She was the mother of two daughters.
"She was a great patriot who loved her country and loved serving the U.S.A.," a family spokesperson told News4 shortly after her death.