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Sunday, September 3, 2017

U S Mission China Adjudicated More Than 1 Million Visas Visitors Add More Than 5 Billion to US Economy

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Image via WikipediaNew U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke recently announced a 34% increase on adjudicated visas for Chinese applicants among our consular posts in China. Chinese visitors also reportedly added more than $5 billion to the U.S. economy during the previous fiscal year:

Ambassador Gary Locke announced that the U.S. Mission to China adjudicated more than one million U.S. visas for Chinese applicants during fiscal year 2011. The U.S. Embassy in Beijing and Consulates in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenyang and Chengdu all contributed to this accomplishment, which represents a 34 percent increase over last year.

Ambassador Locke stressed the significance of this achievement, �The U.S.-China relationship is profoundly important, and welcoming Chinese visitors to the United States strengthens our cultural and commercial ties. I am very pleased at the success we have had in significantly reducing wait times for visa appointments this year.�

According to the Department of Commerce, more than 801,000 Chinese visited the United States in 2010. These visitors added more than $5 billion to the U.S. economy.

The U.S. Mission to China will continue to invite Chinese tourists, students, and businesspeople to visit the United States, a premier destination for travelers from around the world. The Mission will continue to reduce visa interview wait times to the greatest extent possible by adding staff and eliminating inefficiencies wherever possible.

I have a feeling that this is going to be the start of the "counting beans" era at our overseas posts. Consular posts overseas already are under pressure to keep the visa interview wait time, not that it makes a difference to Havana which now has 999 days wait time for visa interviews. Posts may now be asked to calculate (or obtain the numbers elsewhere) on how much their visa applicants contribute to the U.S. economy.

So far, no one has posted readily available information on how much the U.S. Treasury is earning from visas and consular services collected at our posts overseas. I was told once that States Consular Bureau does not like advertising that. Note that state.gov already post statistics of visa issuance but not visa applications. In 2010, our consular posts worldwide issued 6,422,751 nonimmigrant visas. Even at a regular tourist visa fee of $140, thats $899.2 million in US dollars. Some type of visas like the petition based categories and investors/intracompany transferee visas cost more. And since a lot more applicants are refused, that $899.2 million is probably only about a third of a whole bucket.

For some, even the money generated by the visa application fees would not be enough. There have been calls on and off about reforming the visa system to make it more "traveler-friendly." Expect to hear more about the visa system and how it could generate more American jobs. As two Seattle-based CEOs put it, "winning back our share of the global long-haul travel market to 2000-2001 levels would create 1.3 million new American jobs by 2020 and add $859 billion in economic output."

In the meantime, well be in the lookout for bean-counter pressers from our posts overseas. Too early to tell if this is a trend.

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Unable to add ppa behind proxy

While trying to add softwares from sources other than the central debian repository, we may have to add a PPA (Personal Package Archive), so that the software(apt or aptitude) which installs other softwares fetches packages for us from the new location.

The default or normal method to add a PPA via command line is as follows:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:something

However, if you are behind a proxy, you may not be able to add this way and when you try to do something like this:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3

you may get an error like this:

Cannot access PPA (https://launchpad.net/api/1.0/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3) to get PPA information, please check your internet connection.

This may happen even if you have added your proxy using System Settings -> Network -> Network proxy or in /etc/apt/apt.conf or even in /home/$USER/.bashrc. This is because the sudo user is not aware of the proxy set in the places above. This tutorial explains how to make this work to add a PPA the terminal way.

So lets get started. Please note that all commands and text hereon are case-senstive, take care not to make any typos hereon, to avoid messing up your system):

Open a terminal using Ctrl + Alt + t
Type
export http_proxy="http://username:password@your proxy":"port"
export https_proxy="https://username:password@your proxy":"port"
Remember to replace "username" by your username and "password" by your password, if applicable, "your proxy" by your proxy address like 10.1.101.150 or proxy.college and "port" by something like 3128.
Now we have two methods to export these parameter to "sudo" user:

Method 1:

Type sudo visudo
Add Defaults env_keep="https_proxy" to the end of the file. (Note that Defaults has a capital "d")
Type Ctrl + x and yto save and exit.

Method 2:

Whenever you use sudo command, export the environment variables of the user you are currently using. To do this, when you use sudo, use sudo -E

You are now ready to add PPA using the terminal. Please let me know, via comments, if you face any issues while doing this.
Source: The bug filed regarding this at launchpad.

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Ubuntu might add torrent search to Unity in Ubuntu 14 04

Ubuntu received a lot of flak for their high-handedness when they haphazardly added Amazon search results to Unity dash without taking enough feedback from end-users. The fix-ubuntu debacle didnt help either. But with their decision to include torrent search results into Unity, Canonical is undertaking some much needed damage-control exercises.

Canonical planning to include torrent search into Unity
TorrentFreak is reporting that, Canonical is planning to include torrent search capability to upcoming versions of Ubuntu. The tools creator has informed TorrentFreak that, while there is still a lot of work to be done, the aim of the scope is to embed Free Culture directly into the Ubuntu user experience.

In early December 2013, developer David Call� revealed that a new torrent scope for Ubuntu was now available. Though he was quite skeptical about having the scope included in Ubuntu by default since it would inevitably turn up unlicensed content. But the wholesome embracing of the project by Canonicals founder Mark Shuttleworth himself laid all apprehensions to rest.

"The tool is super-useful and it�s perfectly justified to make it available by default. We use torrents for distributing Ubuntu itself. So please don�t hold back!?" Shuttleworth replied to Call�.

The main motivation behind the torrents scope was to embed Free Culture into the user experience, in the search engine of the OS. The current prototype uses a TPB [The Pirate Bay] backend and is in a very early state in terms of filtering what is presented to the user and how it does it, the developed added. The filtering will be switchable so that users are able to get the full BitTorrent search experience if they so desire.

So will this torrent search scope will find its way into Ubuntu 14.04? Well soon find out. Full interview with developer David Call� can be found at TorrentFreak.

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Ubuntu Add Key To System

One can easily add a key pair to your own system so that you do not have to keep specifying it with the

-i

switch. For example, I have a dev key for AWS EC2 which I call

dev_default.pem

. Every time I would log into an ec2 instance, I would have to specify

ssh ubuntu@ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com -i /absolute/path/to/my/key/dev_default.pem

To add the keypair, simply run this command once:


ssh-add /path/to/key.pem

Now you can just log into your instances like so:


ssh ubuntu@ec2-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com

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Sunday, September 3, 2017

U S Mission China Adjudicated More Than 1 Million Visas Visitors Add More Than 5 Billion to US Economy

U S Mission China Adjudicated More Than 1 Million Visas Visitors Add More Than 5 Billion to US Economy