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Freed Gitmo detainees back in rebel ranks, officials say
By - The Washington Times - Tuesday, July 6, 2004
Several detainees released by the U.S. military from the detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have rejoined their former comrades-in-arms and taken part in fresh attacks on American troops, according to Defense Department officials and a senior Republican lawmaker.
"We've already had instances where we know that people who have been released from our detention have gone back and have become combatants again," said Rep. Porter J. Goss, Florida Republican, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
"It's the military Willie Horton," he said, referring to the murderer who absconded on a furlough granted by then-Gov. Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts in 1987. The freed Horton pistol-whipped a Maryland man and raped his fiancee, and the case became an issue when Mr. Dukakis, a Democrat, ran for president in 1988.
"I do in fact have specific cases," Mr. Goss said in an interview. But when pressed for further details, he declined to say more.
A Defense official independently confirmed that several such cases had involved Afghans released from Guantanamo.
"At least five detainees released from Guantanamo have returned to the [Afghan] battlefield," the defense official said on the condition of anonymity.
When asked how U.S. authorities could know, the official declined to comment.
"That gets into intel stuff. I can't go there," the official said.
The case of the released detainees threatens to become a political issue as Congress returns in the aftermath of June's U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the Guantanamo Bay detainees have a right to file writs of habeas corpus.
According to Mark Jacobson, a former senior official at the Pentagon who helped put together the handling practices for detainees at Guantanamo, every detainee is fingerprinted and photographed.
"We build up pretty extensive biometrics on these guys," he said. "There are a lot of different ways we could know that someone we'd captured or killed had already been in our custody."
The five known individuals represent just under 10 percent of the 57 Afghans released from Guantanamo, leaving open the possibility that more among the other 52 might also be fighting U.S.-led forces.
"I would hope our intel is good enough that we'd know if someone we'd released was back on the battlefield," said Mr. Jacobson, now a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan.
At least one of the five men known to have rejoined the fight after being released appears to have been a Taliban field commander. Press reports from Afghanistan in April said that Mullah Shahzada, who was released from Guantanamo in spring last year, had been captured or killed.
Shahzada may have become active again almost immediately after his release.
In May 2003, the New York Times interviewed in Quetta, Pakistan, a "former fighter" who went by the name "Mullah Shahzada." The report did not mention whether he had been detained in Guantanamo.
Mr. Jacobson said that person could be the same "Mullah Shahzada," but cautioned about the common use of aliases among Taliban guerrillas.
Until recently, the U.S. military made decisions about who should be released from Guantanamo on a case-by-case basis that Mr. Jacobson described as "pretty meticulous."
"Even if five got through," he said, "that's still an 'A' grade."
The Defense official also defended the review process.
"It's very thorough, but it's not foolproof," he said. "We err on the side of caution, but mistakes are going to be made."
The defense official said that the process was complicated by Afghanistan's lack of system of personal-identity cards or other definitive records.
"These people don't have driver's licenses," he said. "They don't even have birth certificates. Some of them are trained in deception and counter-interrogation techniques.
"One guy had 13 aliases."
Earlier this year, facing a Supreme Court challenge to the legality of the Guantanamo detentions, the Pentagon began work on a more structured review process for detainees, under which an annual hearing would consider whether they still posed a threat.
The initial plans for the new system were unveiled June 23 by Navy Secretary Gordon England.
Mr. England declined to comment on whether detainees released under the old, case-by-case review system had taken up arms again, but said it was one pitfall the new process he was in charge of was designed to avoid.
"Obviously, we don't want to release someone who's going to come back and attack America or our allies," he said in an interview.
But the Supreme Court ruling last week and the prospect that the Pentagon will now face an avalanche of litigation from the 500-plus detainees still held at Guantanamo have left plans for the new system in limbo.
Mr. England said the Pentagon "is still reviewing the [Supreme Court] decision."
"We just don't know what we're going to do yet," he said.
The defense official said that the Pentagon might use the new review process anyway for two reasons.
First, the military hopes it will reduce the number of detainees before the U.S. government begins the arduous process of preparing to defend against habeas corpus writs. And second, the Pentagon wants to show the courts that some due process is being granted at Guantanamo.
Mr. Jacobson said that it would have been wiser to treat the detainees captured in Afghanistan as prisoners of war "straight off the bat," rather than leaving them in the legally murky situation of unlawful combatants.
"That way," he pointed out, "the only question is 'When is the conflict over?' The courts don't get involved."
Mr. Goss said that he would hold intelligence committee hearings on detention issues later this month.


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Solskjaer to begin much-needed rebuilding job at United
By STEVE DOUGLAS , AP Sports Writer, Associated Press
Manchester United coach Ole Gunnar Solskjaer looks out from the bench prior the Champions League quarterfinal, second leg, soccer match between FC Bar
Manchester United's Paul Pogba runs with the ball during the Champions League quarterfinal, second leg, soccer match between FC Barcelona and Manchest
Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has spent much of his time as Manchester United manager harking back to the club's trophy-laden past under Alex Ferguson.
Now it's time to focus on the future — and he knows it.
United's 4-0 aggregate loss to Barcelona in the Champions League quarterfinals highlighted just how far England's biggest club remains behind the best in Europe, six years after Ferguson's retirement.
"I've said all along this isn't going to change overnight," Solskjaer said, "and the next few years are going to be massive for us to get to the level where Barcelona and other teams are at the moment."
The so-called "new-manager bounce" provided by Solskjaer's arrival in December as the replacement for Jose Mourinho masked the frailties that still existed in United's team. From 14 wins — and only one loss — in his first 17 matches in charge, when United arguably overperformed, Solskjaer has now presided over five losses in his last seven games.
United is out of the Champions League and might not get back into the competition next season after dropping to sixth place in the Premier League.
So, the questions are coming thick and fast: Was United hasty in making Solskjaer its permanent manager on the back of his successful three months as interim coach? How much does United need to spend in the offseason to build a squad capable for challenging for the big titles? Will Paul Pogba still be at United next season? Does United need a director of football?
"We've got a rebuilding job," Solskjaer said after the 3-0 loss to Barcelona in the second leg on Tuesday.
With his permanent smile and positive outlook, the Norwegian coach has been a breath of fresh air at United following the gloomy final months of the Mourinho era. His regular and sentimental references to the glory days under Ferguson — in which he played a major part — endeared him even more to fans.
At first, he was a caretaker manager but the clamor to hire him on a permanent basis became so intense that United's American ownership relented and gave him a three-year deal on March 28. His results up to that point possibly merited it, but United could have waited until the end of the season.
United is currently on its worst run of results this season and some of Solskjaer's selections are being scrutinized — for example, left back Luke Shaw playing as a left-sided center back in the first leg against Barcelona and center back Victor Lindelof as a right back in the second leg. Many fans wonder why Ashley Young is still being picked.
Solskjaer's favored counterattacking approach worked perfectly in United's hot streak, but the team often had little control. Can he change his style of play to adapt to all types of games?
OFFSEASON TARGETS
The squad clearly needs a shake-up, especially in defense where the much-criticized Young continues to play as an out-of-position full back. Center backs Chris Smalling and Phil Jones are still there, too, eight years after being members of the United team that lost 2-1 to Basel to get eliminated from the group stage of the Champions League.
With Ander Herrera reportedly set to join Paris Saint-Germain, central midfield seems a problem area for Solskjaer, too. Brazil international Fred has struggled to make an impression in his first season in England after moving from Shakhtar Donetsk for about $70 million despite an improvement in recent weeks, and it may be asking too much for 22-year-old Scott McTominay to be a regular.
Solskjaer also might want to strengthen the right wing, where Jesse Lingard is currently first choice. England international Jadon Sancho, who plays for Borussia Dortmund, is one option under discussion.
Can executive vice chairman Ed Woodward, whose record in the transfer market has been widely criticized, and the relatively inexperienced Solskjaer be trusted to get the right players in ahead of next season?
POGBA'S FUTURE
Solskjaer's most important work this offseason might simply be keeping Pogba at the club, especially if United does not qualify for the Champions League.
Pogba has been linked with a move to Real Madrid, where coach Zinedine Zidane has spoken of his admiration for his compatriot and fellow World Cup-winning midfielder. Solskjaer has said he expects Pogba to stay, but the situation could change if the club's record signing pushes for a transfer.
DIRECTOR OF FOOTBALL
United has lacked direction and strategy since Ferguson's departure, particularly in its selection of coaches and players, and the club is looking to hire a director of football — or sporting director — for the first time.
It will be a much-needed appointment to modernize the structure at United, helping Woodward — the man who is effectively running soccer operations at the club — in areas such as recruitment, contracts and other administrative matters, as well as providing a middleman between the board and the coaching staff.
Various names have been mentioned in relation to the role but the search is ongoing. United needs to make the appointment as soon as possible so Solskjaer's offseason planning can be accelerated.
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Medicare Will Reveal Individual Doc Pay Starting Mid-March
Robert Lowes
In a move that worries organized medicine, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today that it will begin to disclose how much Medicare pays individual physicians on a case-by-case basis in response to requests under the Freedom of Information Act.
The agency said it will "weigh the balance between the privacy interest of individual physicians and the public interest in disclosure of such information." In the process, it will guard the privacy of Medicare patients.
The new policy takes effect 60 days after its publication today in the Federal Register.
Opening Medicare's checkbook down to the individual provider level is the latest government effort to make healthcare more transparent to the general public. This fall, CMS will launch a Web site where it will post payments and gifts that physicians receive from drug and device makers. In addition, CMS will expand its Physician Compare Web site this year to include quality-of-care information for clinicians in group practices.
The decision to reveal, in some cases, what Medicare pays individual physicians is the culmination of a decades-old dispute about what the public ought to know. The predecessor of the Department of Health and Human Services proposed a similar plan in the 1970s only to have a federal district judge in Jacksonville, Florida, slap a permanent injunction on it in 1979 because, in his view, it violated a law called the Privacy Act. In May 2013, however, US District Judge Marcia Howard in Jacksonville lifted the injunction, saying that the federal judiciary interprets the Privacy Act differently than it did in 1979. The American Medical Association (AMA) had fought to preserve the injunction.
Payment Data Can Be Misinterpreted, Say Medical Societies
After last May's crucial court decision, CMS invited the public for advice on when and how to reveal what Medicare pays a particular physician. The agency received more than 130 comments, including a good number from the medical profession.
One physician called the idea of disclosing individual reimbursement "punitive."
"My voice is small, but you need to know that a lot of my peers are quitting, and there is no one there to replace them," the physician wrote.
"Releasing physician payment data will do nothing but create an adversarial relationship between patients and their doctors and not lead to greater fraud detection," wrote another clinician. "Many of our local doctors have already dropped Medicare and Medicaid as payers simply out of frustration with attacks on our profession such as this."
A letter signed by the AMA and dozens of other national and state medical societies struck a hopeful note by saying that "if used correctly," Medicare claims data could improve the quality of care. Then the societies ticked off various ways the information could be misused and misunderstood, unless the necessary safeguards were adopted.
For example, patients might misinterpret a physician's Medicare compensation if they are not privy to how much it costs him or her to run a practice. In other words, revenue doesn't equal income. Any release of payment data, therefore, should be accompanied by caveats about its limitations, according to the medical societies.
The AMA and its allies also asked CMS to allow physicians to review Medicare payment data and correct any errors before it enters the public realm lest they suffer harm to their reputations and livelihood.
To illustrate how compensation data can be misleading, Donald Fisher, PhD, the president of the American Medical Group Association, presented CMS with a scenario of a salaried surgeon in a group practice. The surgeon generates a hefty amount of Medicare revenue in part because a physician assistant frees him to spend more time in the operating room. A potential patient could look at this surgeon's reimbursement data and conclude that he earns more than he actually does.
"The emphasis on individual physician-level data is a relic of an outdated care model and a fragmented healthcare delivery system," Fisher wrote CMS. In addition, he warned that releasing a physician's Medicare pay could make him or her the target of "unwanted marketing attempts" or "criminal activity."
Journalists Have Sought Robust Disclosure
While organized medicine has urged CMS to proceed cautiously with its new disclosure policy, others want it to go full speed ahead.
Dow Jones, the publisher of the Wall Street Journal, said during the policy comment period that greater transparency would help journalists and watchdog organizations ferret out fraud, waste, and abuse in Medicare.CMS should release payment data "as broadly and granularly as possible," said the company, which had sued in federal court to lift the injunction against making the information public.
A coalition of groups that included the Society of Professional Journalists, Public Citizen, and the Center for Public Integrity chimed in by saying that medical practices are like any other business that receives federal dollars — they're not entitled to privacy. The coalition urged CMS to go a step further and create a publicly accessible database of Medicare reimbursement so anyone could look up what an individual clinician earned.
The new policy announced today by CMS gave no indication, however, that such a database is in the works.
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Robert Lowes is a journalist for Medscape Medical News. A former senior editor at Medical Economics magazine and contributor to numerous healthcare publications, Robert has covered medicine from almost every conceivable angle — public policy, managed care, education, ethics, medical malpractice, information technology, billing and collections, waiting-room design, and first-degree murder. His articles have won major awards such as first place in the annual journalism competition of the National Institute for Health Care Management, and several have been republished in books. Robert also is an anthologized poet. He can be contacted at rlowes@medscape.net.
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Q: vue-router 4 redirects default url to page not found I am migrating my vue application vue 2 to vue 3 by following vue migration official documentation. I have updated vue-router package. After updating router.js if i am running the application in my local by default it is routing to 404 page not found component.
Previously, It was routing to overview page(http://localhost:8080/overview). Now this url is routing to page not found. Here is my router.js
router.js
    /* [IMPORT] Library */
import { createRouter, createWebHistory } from 'vue-router';
/* [IMPORT] Common module */
import store                  from '~/common/store';
/* [IMPORT] modules */
import devModule              from '~/module/devModule';
import pageNotFoundPage       from '~/page/common/pageNotFound';

/* [IMPORT][PAGE] OverView */
import overviewPage           from '~/page/overview/overviewPage';

const routes = [

        { path: '/'   , redirect: '/dev'},
        { path: '/dev', component: devModule, children: [
            /* Default routing*/
            { path: '', redirect: 'overview/overview'},
            /* OVERVIEW */
            { path: 'overview', redirect: 'overview/overview'},
            { path: 'overview/overview' ,   component: overviewPage}
        ]},
        /* [404] anything else... */
        { path: '/:catchAll(.*)'   , component: pageNotFoundPage },
    ];

    export const router = createRouter({ history: createWebHistory(), routes });

/* [intercepter] */
router.beforeEach(function(to, from, next) {
    // 1. Update current URL :: for store
    store.commit('moveMenu',to.path);
    // x. go to next menu
    next();
});
export default router;

Why it is not routing to overview page after migration? Any suggestion or guide will be helpful related to this.

A: You should concatenate the child route path with parent one like :
http://localhost:8080/dev/overview

for more details check nested-routes section in official docs

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Background: World Health Organization report in 2014 indicates a considerable range of alcohol consumption across the world which had a growing trend during last 5 years. A study on 5,231 students in 57 universities has shown that alcohol consumption became more common than other drugs, and alcohol is in the first rank for repeated usage. In another study in 2010, the prevalence of alcohol use was 15.1% among high school students in Tehran with predominant use among boys. This study was aimed to estimate the hidden population of alcohol consumer, commissioned by the Bureau of Mental and Social health and Addiction, Ministry of Health of Iran.
Methods: In 2012, Iranian Ministry of Health has implemented a national program for estimation of the frequency of alcohol abusers from the hidden and high risk population by an indirect method. The method of network extension, social network measurement and data collection tool were done through questionnaire.
Results: The consumption of alcohol is more than other substances in the country and it is estimated to involve 1,583,752 individuals. This was observed in all of the provinces and included more than 2,000 individuals per 100,000 population which consumed alcohol at least once in the past year. In young population, 1,063,557 people have consumed alcohol at least once in the previous year, which represents an incidence of 5%. Consumption in men aged 18 to 30 years is higher than the other age-groups. In terms of geographical separation, Isfahan, Fars, Tehran, Kurdistan, Zanjan, Yazd and Golestan provinces are at a very high risk.
Conclusion: Alcohol is a serious health problem in our society. Based on higher rate of consumption in men and younger population, there must be higher attention. Adjusting systems for alcohol screening and treatment policies should be prioritized. In addition, studies to estimate the knowledge, attitude and practice of alcohol abusers are required.


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Missouri Precedent Defends Education Funding Adequacy for Taxpayers
The Missouri Supreme Court upheld today the circuit court ruling on the long-contested Funding Formula Adequacy Trial, definitively establishing that Missouri's current public school funding formula meets the state's obligations and dismissing arguments brought by almost half of Missouri's public school districts that funding was unconstitutionally distributed and inadequate, and that additional spending was needed.
In 2007, Cole County Circuit Court Judge Richard Callahan ruled against the school district plaintiffs in favor of the state and 3 taxpayer-intervenors. Today's concurrent ruling comes after the school districts appealed that decision to the State Supreme Court, and ends the long, expensive court battle.
The decision that Missouri is meeting its obligation to fund public schools is prudent and saves taxpayers from shouldering billions of additional blank-check state spending for public education. It has, however, cost both taxpayers and students. School district plaintiffs spent taxpayer dollars, and taxpayers also support state legal services that defended Missouri's formula. Students lost out on millions of dollars that could have been spent in a classroom, but were instead spent in the courtroom.
This trial and the resounding dismissal of the plaintiff districts' claims offer several distinct lessons as Missouri pursues excellence in education.
The State Supreme Court will not be the "good cop" and circumvent the powers of the legislative branch to appropriate funds. When local tax levies and lobbying efforts failed to change the funding formula to the extent that these school districts desired and they turned to Constitutional arguments to secure more funding, the court had this to say:
"Notably, the introductory clause… concerning the 'diffusion of knowledge' outlines the purpose and subject of Missouri's public education system. But, it provides no specific directive or standard for how the State must accomplish a 'diffusion of knowledge.' Plaintiffs are attempting to read a separate funding requirement into [the clause] that would require the legislature to provide "adequate" education funding in excess of the 25-percent requirement… Such language does not exist….
Reading a free-standing obligation to provide certain school funding into the introductory language… would be contrary to the specific flexibility afforded the legislature…"
More money does not equal better education. Missouri cannot spend its way to excellent, or even adequate performance. State funding is merely one aspect of the framework set up to house public education: it is how we as a state move resources toward the goal of educating our children. Those resources can be spent wisely or poorly. They can be spent on programs, materials and staff that educate effectively, but they may be spent on methods that don't work. The structure into which we put our resources is at least as important as how much we spend.
A new era of education reform is coming. Education Secretary Arne Duncan spoke in St. Louis last week, and presented a new way of thinking about funding education: tie it to reforms that work.
Announcing billions of dollars in grants available for education, Duncan gave caveats that grants would be awarded where innovation was the driving force. He stressed that Missouri should consider having a portfolio of options to offer children with different needs and strengths.
"In St. Louis, the city and Missouri the state has a chance to compete for unprecedented discretionary resources," said Duncan. "In every one of the those applications, we're going to look for capacity, we're going to look for a visionary plan, we're going to look for someone who wants to challenge the status quo and we're going to look for folks who are willing to collaborate, and if St. Louis and Missouri can do that, you have the chance to do something very special in the years ahead."
More than anything, the conclusion of the Adequacy Trial offers us a clear opportunity to shift our focus to a new way of thinking about improving Missouri education and also the way we can fund that goal.
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Missouri Supreme Court Opinion available HERE.
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Snow is not something I normally am grateful for, except for the fact that I work at home when it snows. I am definitely not a snow girl, I don't like the cold, shoveling snow, driving in the snow or being housebound. However, one good thing about Colorado that most people don't realize is that normally when it snows here, unlike many places where it snows, whether it is 1 or 6 inches of snow, the roads will be clear the next day or even that afternoon.
It snowed last night, granted just a light dusting and I had to rush out this morning to catch a photo of what was left, for this I am grateful.


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Africa: How Illegal Trade Is Wiping Out the African Grey Parrot – allAfrica.com
The East African (Nairobi)
Africa: How Illegal Trade Is Wiping Out the African Grey Parrot
When A flock of African Grey Parrots flew overhead in Kakamega Rain forest in western Kenya, we were elated.
In their natural habitat, the birds vanished into the canopy. It was split-second but fascinating sighting.
To then see the African Grey Parrot caged like a prisoner — or any other wild creature — is sickening to the core.
I have never understood people who keep exotic pets in cages instead of leaving them in their natural homes. I would love to cage these people and feed them with treats. Maybe then they would value freedom.
Unfortunately, the yen for exotic pets is on the rise — with tech-savvy traders finding that using social media is easy to market their illegal wares.
It is not limited to the African Grey Parrot but to anything from cheetahs to pangolins caught in the wild.
A report by World Animal Protection and World Parrot Trust titled "Illegal online trade in endangered parrots: A groundbreaking investigation" shows the horrific increase in the trade.
The population of the African Grey Parrot has crashed by between 90 and 99 per cent between 1990 and 2010.
In the international bestseller, Blood River — Into Africa's Broken Heart by Tim Butcher, about his epic journey following the River Congo in 2000 in the footsteps of the Henry Morton Stanley's 1874 expedition, Mr Butcher describes meeting a man in the forest, dressed in rags, carrying a flock of African Grey Parrot tied to a branch. They are for sale in the city, which would take him days to reach.
The African Grey Parrot is only found in the equatorial rainforest that belts across Africa's waist.
Poverty-driven citizens in war-torn countries make the parrot and other creatures easy targets for trade that is illegal.
What makes African Grey Parrots so attractive as pets is their ability to mimic people. Cute and caged, they make for amusing pets.
Online to Sell
The report shows that the online trade is rife with social media used as a marketing tool. Some 84 per cent of the export is from DRC with Nigeria, Ghana and Cote d'Ivoire sharing the rest.
Importers are largely Pakistan, Turkey and Jordan in the lead with China, India, Thailand and others trailing behind, including the North African countries. With little enforcement and lack of tracking systems, it is easy to trade.
One post showed more than 150 African grey parrots for sale online.
The report calls for action by including airlines, technology companies and government agencies to disrupt this trade and implement the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species in Flora and Fauna regulations to protect the endangered parrot in its natural habitat.
The parrots are largely flown out on commercial flights in terrible conditions, packed as cargo in tightly squeezed cages. Needless to say, the mortality rates are high and many are dead on arrival.
In one incident, on 15 August 2018, a shipment departed Kinshasa, DR Congo via Istanbul, Turkey, arriving in Kuwait two days later.
Seized by Customs, the documentation listed a species of bird not on the Cites list. Under Cites, trade in the African Grey Parrot from the wild is illegal.
On the same dates, a shipment departed Kinshasa on Turkish Airlines for Beirut via Istanbul. Over 40 were dead on arrival. One cage photographed clearly shows the Turkish Airline logo.
The list is long. The mortalities high.
The finding in the report call for governments to strengthen the regulation of trade in wildlife, and for airlines to act on their commitments through agreements such as the United for Wildlife Transport Taskforce, the United for Wildlife Buckingham Palace Declaration, the International Air Transport Association and the Animal Transport Association.
Above all, it needs strong public awareness that life is not to be spent behind bars.
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Q: How to make yum aware a source package was installed? I removed a yum package and installed a higher version of the same package from source.  But yum doesn't see it.  Whenever I try to install a yum package, it tries to install the older yum package and doesn't see the source package I installed.
Is there a way to get yum to see the source package?  Bear in mind I don't know how to create rpms from source yet.

A: I'll elaborate with an answer.
yum is basically a front-end for rpm in that it can query and install from remote repositories and also query and resolve dependencies rather than having to use rpm manually to install a package and its dependencies in the correct order. There are other things, but those are the most important.
Due to this, yum uses the rpm database and associated files in the /var/lib/rpm drectory. This database is updated when packages are installed, removed, erased, etc. If software is compiled from source or installed via a script that creates binaries, libraries, headers, etc or with another utility like snap, pip, cpan, gem, etc, then yum and rpm haven't the least idea that it's on the system because it's not in the database.
That is why yum can't see the software that you compiled from source.

A: Sadly (happily?) rpm does not have the equivalent of deb's equivs-build, "a program that creates Debian packages which can be used to inform dpkg about locally installed packages and their dependencies."
It is easy to hack together an empty rpm and install it to inform rpm that a package is installed (but not what files your source install added to your system).
The first is fpm:
$ fpm -s empty -t rpm -n foo -v 1.2.3 --iteration noop

Note that fpm eases building rpms if you want to go down that path in the future.
The second is rpmfluff:
$ python
>>> import rpmfluff
>>> foo = rpmfluff.SimpleRpmBuild("foo", "0.1", "1")
>>> foo.make()

Another simple option like fpm for making a real rpm with files in it is checkinstall. (I don't know if it works anymore.)

After you ./configure; make your program, CheckInstall will run make
install (or whatever you tell it to run) and keep track of every file
modified by this installation ... When make install is done,
CheckInstall will create a Slackware, RPM or Debian compatible package
and install it with Slackware's installpkg, "rpm -i" or Debian's "dpkg
-i" as appropriate


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Google Announces Android M At Google I/O 2015
by Brandon Chester on May 28, 2015 2:00 PM EST
Google IO
Android M
Today Google formally announced the next version of their Android operating system at their Google I/O developer conference. Much like how Android Lollipop was originally previewed under the name Android L, the next major release of Android is being referred to as Android M. After the comprehensive redesign and under the hood changes in Lollipop, Android M brings a greater focus on bringing greater polish to Android and improving the user experience. During the keynote Google outlined six major areas that they had targeted for improvement in Android M.
The first area of improvement is permissions. The permissions system on Android has been less than optimal since its earliest days. The big issue has always been that applications have to ask for permissions access at the time of install. This means that if a user wanted to install an application like Skype, but didn't want to give it access to their microphone, then they would not be allowed to install the application at all.
Android M changes the existing permissions system this by breaking down user permissions into specific categories, and having apps ask the user for permission at the time access to a feature is required. You can see an example of this above, where an application like Whatsapp will ask for microphone access when the user tries to do something that requires it. This means that the user can grant applications some permissions but not others, and they can manage permissions access after the fact. It also makes it more clear to the user what an application is asking to do.
The new permissions system in Android M is only available for applications that target Android M with the new version of the Android SDK. Unfortunately, this means that it won't be automatically available to existing applications when users update to Android M.
The next area of improvement in Android M is to the behavior of web views within other applications. This is through a feature called Chrome Custom Tabs. Essentially this feature allows applications to have the Chrome browser run atop their app whenever the user clicks on a link. This means that all of a user's autofill data, passwords, and cache are available when they open links within that application.
The third major improvement Google is making in Android M is to how Android Intents handles web links. Because many web services now have native applications, selecting a link in an application will often bring up a menu asking the user whether they would like to open that link using a web browser, or whether they would like to have an app on the phone handle it. With Android M, app developers can now have the operating system verify that certain types of links are meant to be opened with their app by checking with the web server that those links point to and verifying that it is meant to be opened with that app.
Google's next two areas of focus relate strongly to Android Pay, the mobile payments system they announced at MWC earlier this year. Android Pay is not strictly an addition to Android M, as it will be available on devices that run KitKat or newer. However, Android M will allow a greater degree of security when using Android Pay through a new API to standardize fingerprint sensors on Android devices. This means that users will be able to authorize Android Pay transactions both at stores and in apps using their fingerprint. It also means that app developers will be able to use a user's fingerprint for verification, which is currently not feasible with the various different standards and implementations for fingerprint scanners on Android devices.
The last area of focus in Android M is arguably the most important. It's a focus on power usage, and more specifically, the power that a device uses when it's idle. With an OS like Android which supports multitasking, there's always a delicate balance between managing power and keeping applications running in the background updated. With Android M, Google is introducing a new feature called Doze. Doze uses motion detection to see whether or not a device has been left idle for a long period of time, such as when it's sitting on a table or in a dock. If it has been left idle for a long period, the operating system will greatly scale back background activity in order to reduce idle power usage. According to Google, they've seen up to 2x longer idle battery life on the Nexus 9.
In addition to improvements in power usage, Google is implementing new charging options for future devices that use USB Type C. Type C allows devices to negotiate whether they should be the device being used to charge from, or the device being charged, and this will be supported in Android M. This means that a user can use their tablet's battery to charge their smartphone from.
Android M looks like a more minor release than Android Lollipop was. However, what Google has detailed here is only scratching the surface of the many small improvements and bug fixes that it will bring to Android. Other improvements include changes to how text selection works, and further changes to the not very popular changes to the volume controls that were made in Android Lollipop.
Much like when Android Lollipop was announced at Google I/O last year, this year's release is accompanied by a preview for developers so they can test their apps and give Google feedback on the changes that they are making to Android. The Android M developer preview will be available today for the Nexus 5, the Nexus 6, and the Nexus 9.
webdoctors - Thursday, May 28, 2015 - link
Considering the extremely slow deployment of Android L, does M really matter? How many phones will actually have it in 2015 or even 2016?
Android 5.x is barely hitting 10% of the market based on dashboard stats: http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/inde...
theblacklaser - Thursday, May 28, 2015 - link
I agree 100%. I actually chuckled at this line: "Unfortunately, this means that it won't be automatically available to existing applications when users update to Android M."
Users updating? Not likely. There's no incentive for phone makers to update old hardware when they can sell users new hardware. It's a thoroughly broken system. Thank god for projects like cyanogenmod, but even there, unless you have a very very popular device, you're probably not going to see a ton of support.
bplewis24 - Thursday, May 28, 2015 - link
lol @ cyanogenmod.
quiksilvr - Thursday, May 28, 2015 - link
It is a really annoying problem. Phone manufacturers and OEMs need to stop having uninstallable applications on here. Hell, their launcher should be uninstallable. Their keyboard. I wish the Vanilla Settings was just baked into the OS and just have a section for OEM specific functionality they want to add.
The OEM's launcher, settings/notifications, keyboard and apps are really the main things that can become removable apps/additions on top of Vanilla Android. Make those easily removable and bam, Vanilla Android that can be updated in a timely fashion and you just choose what you want from the OEM (or not if it is hindering your update).
Alexvrb - Thursday, May 28, 2015 - link
That's one really nice thing about WP, you can remove any preinstalled junk you don't want and all WP devices are stock OS.
Anyway the new permissions looks interesting. My dad would love that. Only question is... will compliance be mandatory for future apps and/or updates of existing apps? If it's something developers can ignore/bypass/opt-out of, it's useless.
MonkeyPaw - Thursday, May 28, 2015 - link
The problem really comes when a security flaw is never patched. I think most people can deal with the fact that their phone's UI never changes. At the very least, they've gotten exactly what they paid for, just nothing more, much like feature phones of yesteryear. Then again, sometimes these upgrades aren't even a benefit when poorly implemented. When my LG G2 finally got Lollipop this month, it lost a couple useful features that it had under KitKat (like when you plug in headphones, it pops up a customizable list of apps that you can launch). Now the phone can be noticeably slower at simple tasks. Occasionally when I hit the home screen, it takes a second or two to load the apps on the screen. I thought Android L was supposed to be faster? No wonder adoption is so terrible after this long.
Android has 2 major problems. The lack of updates, and that OEMs customize the OS. The very thing that Android does best (customization and diverse hardware support) is also it's downfall. No one entity can manage to keep all devices current, and the blame is shifted from Google, to the OEM, to the carriers.
timrichardson - Thursday, May 28, 2015 - link
I disagree with your OEM problem. After HTC, nexus and now my second Samsung, i think many Samsung additions are valuable. Auto switching away from weak WiFi, floating notifications, restricted WiFi networks, adaptive sound equalizer, color control ... And stock keyboard used to be poor; Samsung licensed Swiftkey but added text shortcuts. touch wiz gets a bad rep but in the keynote about M Google admitted Android has been enriched by OEM innovations (a lot of them come from Samsung.)
Security is a fair call although the separate webview app of Lollipop is a breakthrough.
Shidell - Thursday, May 28, 2015 - link
Android's progress isn't tied to adoption. It will continue to move forward.
ajp_anton - Thursday, May 28, 2015 - link
If they are two years behind on L, it just probably means they will be two years behind on M as well, and when that time comes, you'll be happy that two years earlier M was introduced.
(Of course you, and we all, would be even more happy if they eliminated or even reduced those two years...)
Yeah, I don't think you understand the appeal of Android and how it works for most people.


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Accusations of deliberate, cruel abuse of refugee children must prompt a more humane approach
Published: October 17, 2016 6.55pm EDT
Amy Maguire, University of Newcastle
Amy Maguire
Senior Lecturer in International Law and Human Rights, University of Newcastle
Amy Maguire is a member of Amnesty International and a Co-Chair of the Indigenous Rights subcommittee of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights.
University of Newcastle provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU.
Children's access to education in Nauru has declined following the acknowledgement of their refugee status. ABC/Four Corners
Australia's mandatory detention of young people offshore, as part of its asylum-seeker policies, has been frequently cited as evidence of a failure to ensure children's rights.
However, two new reports, from the ABC's Four Corners and human rights group Amnesty International, argue that it is more than a failure. Instead, Australia stands accused of deliberately inflicting grave physical and mental harm on children.
In 1989, acknowledging the special care, protection and safety owed to children, the international community adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child. As with conventions focused on the rights of women and people with disabilities, this convention draws on the fundamental rights owing to all people.
The convention is the world's most widely ratified human rights treaty, with 196 state parties. Australia signed and ratified it in 1990. Australia is obliged to ensure the rights the convention enshrines for all children within its jurisdiction.
Yet a significant implementation gap remains. Australia has not comprehensively amended its legislation to comply with the convention's requirements. This means Australian courts cannot directly enforce children's rights as protected in international law.
'Island of Despair'
Amnesty International's report, Island of Despair, investigates Australia's refugee processing centre on the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru.
Amnesty accuses the Australian government of creating a deliberately punitive "open air prison" in Nauru, where refugees and asylum seekers are exposed to systematic human rights abuses.
Amnesty identifies several areas of particular concern regarding the rights of children detained on Nauru. Nauruan law and administrative capacities are criticised as woefully inadequate in relation to child protection. Children who have experienced abuse have been inappropriately dealt with by health care and investigative officers.
The report also notes that refugee children lack proper access to education in Nauruan schools. Those who have accessed education have reported bullying and violence from local students and teachers.
Amnesty cites the September 2016 findings of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, which expressed grave concerns that Australia's arrangement with Nauru:
fails the best interests test;
exposes children to severe mental health risks and increases the incidence of suicidal ideation and self-harm; and
inflicts further trauma on children who are already traumatised, including through sexual assault, abuse, intimidation and lack of proper health care.
'The Forgotten Children'
Amnesty's report follows Monday night's Four Corners program, The Forgotten Children, which told the stories of some of the 128 refugee children currently living on Nauru.
The program featured former teachers at the Save the Children school, which operated while all asylum-seeker children were detained in the centre. These teachers risk prosecution under Australia's anti-whistleblower law for discussing their experiences.
According to Gabby Sutherland, a former teacher on the island, immigration detention on Nauru is:
… death by slow torture … the place is set up to make people go mad or just make people, just make people die inside.
Sutherland and her colleagues told of children who were initially engaged, enthusiastic students before withdrawing into self-harm and mental anguish. Children interviewed emphasised the harm they suffered when cast as criminals and the hopelessness of indefinite detention on a remote and inhospitable island.
The program revealed how children's access to education in Nauru has declined following the acknowledgement of their refugee status. The Save the Children school was shut down and Australian authorities informed refugee families that their children would need to access education in Nauruan schools.
The children's testimony helps to explain Amnesty's characterisation of Nauru as an open air prison for refugees. As was recently made clear in the release of logs of abuse on Nauru, those still detained there face unconscionably high rates of sexual assault, mental ill-health, squalid housing conditions and other abuses.
Yet refugee children released from detention into the Nauruan community have not found safety, liberty or the opportunity to rebuild their lives. Instead, they found local schools to be violent, and they have withdrawn from education due to discrimination, intimidation and insecurity. Several children report sexual assault and other abuses by Nauruan perpetrators.
Thirteen-year-old Misbah, from Burma, has been on Nauru for 1179 days. She told the program:
We ran away from Burma because of the raping, things in Burma that's happening to the girls and burning houses, and stealing, and we came here, we came to Australia, we tried to get to Australia, and now we are here, the same thing happening, raping, stealing, killing.
I've seen people, now people died, some people burn themselves, some people take too much medicine and died and some people say that they get harm – they get the Nauruan tried to harm them, to hurt them and many other things like, stealing, stealing, raping.
Misbah asked her mother if they could go back to Burma, but her mother said no because they would be killed. Misbah responded:
Even we are dying in here every day so why not just, we just not die one day, let's just go back.
Australia's obligations
Australia does not have territorial jurisdiction over refugee children in Nauru. However, it retains effective jurisdiction over them. It funds and directs the centre's operations at a cost of A$573,000 per person per year.
Australia has the legal and administrative capacity to bring all refugees in Nauru to Australia for resettlement, and to process any outstanding asylum claims onshore.
In its report, Amnesty recommended Australia end its policy of mandatory offshore detention for asylum seekers travelling by boat. It called on the government to bring all asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and Manus Island to Australia immediately.
Further, it recommended Australia make reparations to those it has traumatised through its practices and ensure they receive adequate health care.
In the spirit of successive recommendations from human rights advocates, watchdogs and international organisations, Amnesty calls on Australia to take a more humane approach to the protection of refugees.
Senate oversight of government action
A Senate committee is currently investigating allegations of abuse in detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru.
The Australian Medical Association's submission calls for the immediate release of all children in offshore detention. It notes the Australian government's obligation to meet children's health needs on Nauru and Manus Island.
Amnesty asserts Australia knowingly inflicts abuse and harm on refugees and asylum seekers in pursuit of its policy to "stop the boats". Faced with ever-mounting evidence and international condemnation, the Senate inquiry is charged with responding to the accusation that Australia is deliberately engaged in the abuse of children.
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Microsoft Garage partners with IIIT Hyderabad to accelerate learning on quantum computing
Srivatsa Ramesh
Microsoft Garage was inaugurated at Hyderabad a year ago as a resource for Microsoft employees that supports experimentation and encourages problem-solving in new and innovative ways, empowering people to achieve more. Today, reinforcing its commitment, Microsoft Garage has partnered with International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad (IIITH) to run a series of lectures on quantum computing.
These lectures are part of a course offered as a pool elective for B.Tech and M.Tech students. Microsoft will provide the scholars with practical experience in quantum computing and quantum algorithms with access to the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit and Microsoft Q#.
Quantum computers have the capacity to solve complex problems that would otherwise take billions of years for today's computers to solve within weeks, days, and even minutes. This has massive implications for research in healthcare, energy, environmental systems, smart materials, and more. It also creates a need to start building a quantum-ready workforce well versed in quantum computing skills.
Leveraging Microsoft's strength in quantum programming and algorithms, Microsoft experts will participate in lectures for three weeks on 'Quantum Information and Computation' – an integrated IIIT course which includes practical projects as part of the curriculum. Through Q# and the Microsoft Quantum Development Kit, students will have access to Microsoft's GitHub resources and katas, samples and libraries.
Microsoft has a goal of empowering students to think innovatively to craft solutions for real-life challenges. Microsoft's academic initiatives provide skills and training to launch successful careers and provide students with unparalleled hands-on experience, guidance, and mentorship from industry veterans. Through programs like this Microsoft Garage India and IIITH one, students are encouraged to dream big, build creatively, and learn through practice, while gaining lifelong career skills as part of their journey.
Microsoft began its quantum program more than 15 years ago and, today, has a worldwide community of experimentalists, developers, theoreticians, and computer scientists working together to deliver our unique approach to quantum computing. "This collaboration with Microsoft Garage India and IIIT Hyderabad is part of our continued effort to the enrich the innovation journey of engineering students and make technology more accessible," says Dr. Krysta Svore, General Manager of Quantum Software at Microsoft.
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Q: Hide and show keyboard in flutter I have two screens in my flutter app, in the first screen, i use this code for hide the keyboard:
SystemChannels.textInput.invokeMethod('TextInput.hide');
And that works fine, but when i navigate to next screen, the keyboards is still hiding, even when i called this code,that is supposed to do the opposite of the previous one:
SystemChannels.textInput.invokeMethod('TextInput.show');
Is there another way to recover the keyboard on the second screen?


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Le Nouveau stade de San José (en ), est un futur stade de football espagnol situé à San José, quartier de la ville de Saragosse, en Aragon.

Le stade, doté de  places, servira d'enceinte à domicile à l'équipe de football du Real Saragosse.

Histoire

Issu d'un projet de l'architecte Joaquín Sicilia, le futur stade a pour but de remplacer le Stade de La Romareda.

Événements

Notes et références

Stade de football en Aragon
Stade portant le nom d'un lieu
Sport à Saragosse
Real Saragosse

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645 Ventures secures $347M to finance seed-stage startups with metrics
Nnamdi Okike and Aaron Holiday's venture firm, 645 Ventures, just secured $347 million in commitments. The data-driven duo raised the funding to finance seed-stage startups with metrics.
Aaron Holiday and Nnamdi Okike prefer data over the type of pattern matching that most venture capitalists swear by. Given their origins, it is hardly unexpected. Okike was a principal at the data-driven investing juggernaut Insight Partners before starting their venture business, 645 Ventures, in 2014.
While Holiday was a software developer at Goldman Sachs before joining straight from DFJ Gotham Ventures. Of course, when a firm is first getting started, data is difficult to get by.
Okike and Holiday claimed that 645 has just received $347 million in capital commitments from a variety of traditional venture investors (foundations, family offices, and endowments) across two new funds because their proprietary software and "resource-intensive model to early-stage investing" is performing so well. One is an early-stage fund worth $195 million, while the other is a $153 million fund that will support its breakthrough winners as they become older.
In a market when LPs are feeling far less wealthy than they were a year ago, these are significant sums. A vast cry from the pair's $7.6 million proof-of-concept fund, the funds are also. They later raised an additional $40 million from LPs in 2018 and $160.6 million in 2020; as a result, they currently oversee $555 million in total.
It's possible that some liquidity from FiscalNote, a provider of policy management software that started trading publicly in August following its merger with a blank-check firm, was helpful. According to the team, seven more portfolio firms have since been sold, and many more—including two businesses whose subsequent rounds were managed by Insight—are significantly more valuable than when 645 Ventures financed them.
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The $1.4 billion valuation of Panther Labs, a cloud security company, and Overtime, a sports league startup that has received a $100 million expansion round, are two other achievements to celebrate (for the time being). Naturally, there have been misses as well.
Okike laments that he and Holiday "sadly passed" on the chance to invest in the NFT marketplace OpenSea while it was in the startup stage. He claims that they "didn't realise how quickly the NFT market was developing" at the time.
The good news is that there are a tonne of other fantastic New York-based firms to invest in, says Holiday. As a board member of Cornell Tech, I can attest to the fact that the city is experiencing a surge in the number of young entrepreneurs and tech founders moving their headquarters from other tech centres to New York City. The group also views it favourably that more "storied Silicon Valley VCs," who "previously saw San Francisco as the centre of the world," are setting up shop in New York. This includes Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, which both did so earlier this year.
Do they worry about the competition at all? Really? Okike replies. As a lead investor, "we have adjusted our product to deliver a compelling value proposition."
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I find these two drills provide effective baseball practice plans that your players will have fun with as well. Adding the element of competition always enhances your players investment in the practice.
I do this baseball game where half the team is on 1st and half on 3rd.
There is a tee at home plate and one player from the first team gets up to bat. The player hits the ball off the tee and runs the bases until the other teams player touches the ball after running from the base to touch it.
The team with the most runs wins. I usually let them bat once to twice depending on time and the winning team doesn't have to do something at the end of practice.
The players really like it and it's conditioning and hitting practice. This is a drill you can tweak and change to fit the way you want it to go too.
To get batters to focus on the ball as it leaves the pitchers hand, I have a few baseballs marked with different color dots, and pitch to them.
They are told to hit only the ball with say the red dots. This forces them to focus on the ball from the moment it leaves the pitchers hand. Make sure the batter can't see the color dots before you pitch the ball.
You can make it into a competition, by eliminating a batter when he swings at the wrong color ball. Kids love it!


April 4, 2019—The National Reinsurance Corporation of the Philippines (Nat Re) donates USD 5,800 to support the development of the earthquake alert mobile application of the ASEAN Insurance Council's (AIC) Catastrophe and Risk Management in ASEAN (CARMA).
CARMA, initiated by the ASEAN Natural Disasters Research Works Sharing (ANDREWS) Committee and managed by Catalytics Pte Ltd, is an online portal for sharing disaster risk management information in the region. It allows organizations and individuals to share and access data and research papers, and register for projects related to natural perils and/or catastrophes for free. It also sends to subscribers on a weekly or monthly basis e-mail newsletters containing new articles, research papers, and/or projects related to their chosen topics.
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Q: IST time format returns NAN in JS

console.log(Date.parse('Wed Jul 07 04:49:10 IST 2021')); // returns NAN
console.log(Date.parse('Wed Jul 07 04:49:10 EDT 2021')); // working as expected

How to convert IST dateString (Wed Jul 07 04:49:10 IST 2021)  to number.

A: As mentioned in comments, spec doesn't prescribe Date.parse() to handle the timezone abbreviations. Only a few of those are supported by major Date.parse() implementations out-of-the-box, and EDT is one of them. The biggest issue with recognizing IST is that this abbreviation might actually mean three different things:

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*India Standard Time (Standard Time) (UTC +05:30)

*Israel Standard Time (Standard Time) (UTC +02:00)

*Irish Standard Time (Daylight Saving Time) (UTC +01:00)

... so it's quite difficult to parse the source string in a deterministic way. So your best bet would be replacing IST with a numeric timezone identifier (+05:30 for India Standard Time, for example).