Former Minister of Education, Oby Ezekwesili, has reacted to the ongoing debate over the disclosure of lawmakers' take home pay by Senator Shehu Sani.
Sani, who represents Kaduna Central Senatorial District in the National Assembly, had revealed amount he and his colleagues receive monthly.
He confirmed that each Senator gets N13.5 million as running cost.
The lawmaker noted that this was in addition to the over N750,000 monthly consolidated salary and allowances of each member of the Senate.
In a series of tweet via her Twitter handle @obyezeks on Monday, Mrs. Ezekwesili said Mr. Sani gave answer to "what Nigerians have been asking for".
She explained how she was attacked by the National Assembly when she asked for transparency in their financial operations.
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You may have seen this or something like it making its way around on the internet. There were attached remarks that had been added by some electronic editors that were not entirely accurate, so they have been removed by this editor. However, the remarks made by Mr. Scott are worthy of of reading and pondering. Mr. Scott had two children at Columbine that day – one survived the killings. Also It might be useful to recall that this is not the most violent society in history, but it is not on the way down on that scale either.
"I am here today to declare that Columbine was not just a tragedy — it was a spiritual event that should be forcing us to look at where the real blame lies! Much of the blame lies here in this room. Much of the blame lies behind the pointing fingers of the accusers themselves. I wrote a poem just four nights ago that expresses my feelings best. This was written way before I knew I would be speaking here today.
"As my son Craig lay under that table in the school library and saw his two friends murdered before his very eyes, he did not hesitate to pray in school. I defy any law or politician to deny him that right. I challenge every young person in America, and around the world, to realize that on April 20, 1999, at Columbine High School prayer was brought back to our schools. Do not let the many prayers offered by those students be in vain. Dare to move into the new millennium with a sacred disregard for legislation that violates your God-given right to communicate with Him. To those of you who would point your finger at the NRA — I give to you a sincere challenge. Dare to examine your own heart before casting the first stone.


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Whicker: The season of Montrezl Harrell isn't over yet
Harrell's progress this season augurs well for the Clippers' future, but first comes Game 4 on Sunday vs. Golden State
Clippers forward Montrezl Harrell at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2019. (Photo by Scott Varley, Daily Breeze/SCNG)
By Mark Whicker | MWhicker@scng.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: April 20, 2019 at 1:48 p.m. | UPDATED: April 20, 2019 at 6:01 p.m.
LOS ANGELES — When you're Montrezl Harrell and you're from eastern North Carolina and you play like a ticked-off tractor-trailer with wings, you generally don't escape football.
Indeed, Harrell was a defensive end for North Edgecombe High. Every year he would line up against Tarboro High, which had Todd Gurley.
"I played against him," Harrell said, "but honestly, there wasn't too much tackling going on. A little burst of speed, and he was out. We kicked off to him in the second half and he went 98 yards. He was just a beast among talents."
Harrell liked football, though. At Louisville, he threatened to come out for the team. The problem was the schedule.
"You got full practices all week, just for that one game," Harrell said. "I had more love for basketball, a lot more connection."
Fans of the Clippers have seen the two worlds converge. The result is a legitimate NBA force.
In Harrell's fourth season, he increased his minutes by nearly 900, played 82 games and averaged 26.3 minutes, 16.6 points and 6.5 rebounds. He came off the bench in lockstep with Lou Williams, and the Clippers had a one-and-a-half average margin in fourth quarters, fourth in the NBA.
Beyond that, Harrell was a one-man ethic. His hands are elongated suction cups that pluck rebounds that most players can't even see. He plays like an ambulance, all lights flashing. At Louisville, he lost his captaincy because he was too hard on his teammates. Rick Pitino, not known for sensitivity, had to tell Harrell that there was room for only one scold.
"I was a second Coach P, he rubbed off on me," Harrell said. "He finally said, 'Look, let me do this, it's a lot different when it comes from a coach.' And in the pros it's different. I'm a veteran but I'm a young player, too.
"I'm blessed to play this game. In the summer, I'll go to Venice Beach and play down there. It's just being passionate. A lot of people have to work at their jobs and it's tough. I don't have nights where I don't feel like playing."
Harrell is not the only Clipper who, so far, has resisted entitlement. That is why they are currently playing, for however long.
Game 4 of this first-round series is 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Staples Center, and the Clippers are down 2-1 to the Warriors, who were superior for all 48 minutes in Game 3.
Harrell has a foundation that helps kids in Tarboro and Rocky Mount, a part of the Coastal Plain that has been slapped around by the economy. His 2015 draft party was in a restaurant back home, not in Adam Silver's green room. His father Sam is the coach of the JV team at Montrezl's high school.
He was part of the grab-bag Houston gave the Clippers in exchange for Chris Paul, who may yet win the Rockets a championship. Is it the mythical trade that helped both teams? It certainly helped Harrell.
"Kevin McHale was my coach and then J.B. Bickerstaff, and when Mike D'Antoni came along it was three coaches in two years," Harrell said. "I usually played in back-to-backs, because Nene (Hilario) didn't. They didn't have time to see my game, didn't know what I'd been working on."
The first major coach to see it was Seth Greenberg of Virginia Tech. Assistant coach John Richardson clued him in when Harrell was a junior.
"I drove five hours there and it was ridiculous how hard he ran and how much effort he put out," Greenberg said. "Then he came to campus and watched us beat Duke, and he said, 'Coach, I want to play for you,' and I said, 'Well, Trez, you just saved me some time because I was going to offer you.'''
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Then Virginia Tech fired Greenberg and Harrell chose Louisville over Kentucky and Florida. The Cardinals won the NCAA title when he was a sophomore.
"I'm happy for him but sometimes I feel sick," Greenberg said. "We would have had four possible NBA players. He's the most competitive big man I was ever around. I wish I could have coached him, but it was just good to know him because he and his family are so genuine."
But you get only so far with effort. The Clippers play higher than their contracts. Harrell says effort has taken him far, but other guys play hard, too. His game is positioning and footwork and those All-NBA hands.
"I tell my guys, throw it up there," he said. "I'll catch it. If I don't, it'll be my turnover before it's yours."
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De Forces Libanaises (Arabisch: القوات اللبنانية, al-Quwwāt al-Libnānīyah, Nederlands: Libanese Strijdkrachten) was de benaming van een militie, thans politieke partij in Libanon.

Als christelijke militie speelde de Forces Libanaises een belangrijke rol tijdens de Libanese Burgeroorlog van 1975 tot 1990. Na de burgeroorlog werd de FL omgevormd tot een politieke partij. Tot de Cederrevolutie van begin 2005 werden de activiteiten van de FL ernstig belemmerd door Syrië. Als gevolg van de Cederrevolutie was de Syrische regering genoodzaakt haar troepen uit Libanon terug te trekken. Sindsdien kan de FL haar activiteiten vrijelijk ontplooien.

Geschiedenis

1977-1982

De FL werd in 1977 door Bashir Gemayel opgericht als militaire tak van het Libanees Front, de coalitie van christelijke en rechtse partijen, om te strijden tegen de milities van de Libanese Nationale Beweging van linkse islamitische en seculiere partijen.

De FL was de sterkste christelijke organisatie tot haar uiteenvallen in 1978. De Forces Libanaises was een los verbond van christelijke milities, de militaire tak van de Falangistische Partij, de Kataeb Reguliere Strijdkrachten, van Pierre Gemayel, de Tijgermilitie (van de Nationaal-Liberale Partij) van oud-president Camille Chamoun, de Marada Brigade van oud-president Suleiman Franjieh en de radicale Bewakers van de Ceders van Ettienne Saqr. In 1978 viel het Libanees Front uiteen toen oud-president Franjieh tegen de steun van Israël aan het front was. Hij en zijn aanhangers verlieten het front. In juni 1978 werd er door Bashir Gemayel een aanval bevolen op het huis van de familie Franjieh in Ehden. Hierbij kwamen Tony Franjieh (zoon van Suleiman Franjieh), diens vrouw en tweejarig dochtertje en 30 anderen om het leven. De actie was niet zozeer een wraakactie omdat Suleiman Franjieh het Libanees Front had verlaten maar om hem op die manier te dwingen zich weer bij het front aan te sluiten. Dit bleef echter uit en Franjieh en diens Marada Brigade kregen steun van Syrië in hun verzet tegen de FL. Een deel van de Marada Brigade had zich moeten overgeven en werd opgenomen in het FL.

De eenheid binnen het maronitische kamp was nu gebroken. Op 7 juli 1980 ging de FL over tot een verrassingsaanval op de Tijgermilitie (Arabisch: Numur) van de Nationaal-Liberale Partij (NLP). De Tijgermilitie maakte officieel deel uit van de FL, maar was wel een zelfstandige eenheid binnen de organisatie en stond onder leiding van Dany Chamoun, zoon van oud-president en NLP-leider Camille Chamoun. Gemayel wilde van de FL een centraal geleide christelijke militie maken, onder zijn centrale gezag. In de straten van Oost-Beiroet vonden hevige gevechten plaats tussen het FL en de Tijgermilitie, waarin de laatsten het onderspit dolven. De restanten van de Tijgermilitie werden opgenomen in het FL, dat nu de machtigste christelijke militie was geworden. Met uitzondering van de Armeense milities en de restanten van de Marada Brigade was de FL de enige christelijke militie in Libanon.

1982-1988
Bashir Gemayel werd op 23 augustus 1982 tot president van Libanon gekozen. Op 14 september 1982 werd het hoofdkwartier van de Falangistische Partij in Beiroet getroffen door een bomaanslag waarbij Bashir Gemayel en zijn volgelingen om het leven kwamen. Hierna richtte de FL de Bloedbaden in Sabra en Shatila aan waarbij vooral de Palestijnen in vluchtelingenkampen het slachtoffer werden. Bashir Gemayels broer, Amin Gemayel, werd de nieuwe president van Libanon en zijn neef Fadi Frem werd de nieuwe commandant van de FL. De relatie tussen Amin Gemayel en Fadi Frem was koel en in 1984 werd de laatste als commandant vervangen door een andere neef van Gemayel, Fuad Abou Nader. In 1985 werd Abou Nader echter aan de kant geschoven door Elie Hobeika die commandant werd van de FL.

Hobeika begon geheime onderhandelingen te voeren met de Syriërs. Hij hoopte de sympathie van de Syriërs te winnen en tot president van Libanon te worden benoemd. Op 28 december 1985 tekenden Hobeika, Nabih Berri van Amal en Druzen-leider Walid Jumblatt van de Progressieve Socialistische Partij (PSP) onder druk van de Syriërs het Tripartite Akkoord. Volgens het Tripartite Akkoord zouden de FL, Amal en de PSP ophouden elkaar de bevechten en moesten de confessionele verhoudingen veranderen. President Amin Gemayel en stafchef Samir Geagea waren tegen het Tripartite Akkoord omdat in hun ogen de macht van de christenen zou verzwakken. Geagea werd commandant van een ontevreden FL-fractie en viel op 15 januari 1986 het hoofdkwartier van de FL in Oost-Beiroet, waar Hobeika zich ophield, aan. Hobeika vluchtte naar Parijs en vestigde zich later in Damascus. Geagea herbewapende en herorganiseerde zijn FL-fractie en in de gebieden beheerst door de FL voerde Geagea een sociaal welzijnsprogramma in.

Later (1989) keerde de FL zich krachtig tegen het Akkoord van Ta'if (22 oktober 1989), dat o.a. voorzag in een nieuwe machtsverdeling onder christenen en moslims.

1988-1990
In september 1988 liep de ambtstermijn van president Amin Gemayel af. Men was er niet in geslaagd een nieuwe president te kiezen. Op 23 september 1988, de dag dat zijn ambtstermijn verstreek benoemde Gemayel op de valreep een zes officieren tellende militaire overgangsregering onder leiding van de chef van de generale staf, de maroniet, generaal Michel Aoun. De benoeming van Aoun tot premier was een ernstige schending van het Nationaal Pact uit 1943. Volgens het Nationaal Pact moest de premier namelijk altijd een soennitische moslim zijn. Onder leiding van de soenniet Selim al-Hoss werd een internationaal erkende tegenregering gevormd. De FL besloot generaal Aoun te steunen. Later trok Hobeika zijn steun aan Aoun terug, waarna er in februari 1989 een krachtmeting plaatsvond in Oost-Beiroet tussen de soldaten van Aoun en de FL van Geagea. Er vielen meer dan 70 doden. Op 18 februari 1989 onderwierp Geagea zich aan Aoun. Aoun trachtte zijn machtsgebied verder uit te breiden, maar de Syriërs sloten daarop het door Aoun en Geagea gecontroleerde gebied af. Op 14 maart kondigde Aoun een bevrijdingsoorlog af tegen Syrië. Geagea zag in dat een oorlog tegen Syrië zinloos was, maar gezien de populariteit van Aoun onder de christelijke bevolking, bleef hij hem steunen.

In 1990 heeft Aoun de oorlog verklaard tegen de FL. Hij probeerde de macht in Oost-Beiroet en de noordelijke kuststreek over te nemen maar Aoun was zwaar verslagen. De strijd werd grotendeels in het voordeel van Geagea beslecht, de noordelijke kuststreek en Oost-Beiroet vielen in handen van de FL. In oktober 1990 werden Aoun en diens manschappen verslagen. Aoun vond asiel in de Franse ambassade.

1990-heden

Na de Libanese Burgeroorlog werd de FL een politieke partij en bood president Elias Hrawi Geagea meerdere malen een ministerspost aan, maar hij weigerde steeds omdat hij tegen de Syrische aanwezigheid in Libanon was. De relatie tussen Geagea en de regering werden hierdoor steeds slechter.

In 1994 werd Geagea op last van de Libanese autoriteiten gearresteerd en ervan beschuldigd dat hij zijn FL nooit had omgevormd van een militie tot een politieke partij. Ofschoon zijn medestanders hem hadden gewaarschuwd voor een ophanden zijnde arrestatie en hem hadden geadviseerd om Libanon te verlaten, weigerde hij Libanon te ontvluchten. Hij werd meerdere malen tot levenslang veroordeeld voor o.a. de moorden op ex-premier Rashid Karami (1987) en NLP-leider Dany Chamoun (1990). Volgens Amnesty International verliep het proces oneerlijk en was het politiek gekleurd.

FL-aanhangers namen actief deel aan de Cederrevolutie van (maart-juni) 2005 die als gevolg van de moord op premier Rafik Hariri plaatsvond en als doel had de Syriërs onder druk te zetten om hun troepen uit Libanon terug te trekken. De Syrische troepen verlieten stapsgewijs sinds april 2005 Libanon. De FL sloot zich aan bij de Lijst Martelaar Rafik Hariri, geleid door Saad Hariri. Bij de parlementsverkiezingen in Libanon die in mei en juni 2005 werden gehouden verkreeg de FL als onderdeel van de Lijst Martelaar Rafik Hariri 4% van de stemmen, goed voor vijf van de 128 zetels tellende Nationale Vergadering (Libanees parlement). Op 18 juli 2005 verkreeg Samir Geagea amnestie en vertrok samen met zijn vrouw Sitrida Geagea voor korte tijd naar Frankrijk, om zich uiteindelijk definitief in Libanon te vestigen. Samir Geagea werd na zijn terugkeer tot voorzitter van het Uitvoerend Comité van de Forces Libanaises gekozen. In 2015 was hij kandidaat voor het presidentschap van Libanon namens de coalitie van Hariri, maar in januari 2016 trok hij zich terug ten gunste van Michel Aoun, die toen werd gekozen.

Ideologie
De FL is een centrum-rechtse politieke partij en naar eigen zeggen streeft de partij naar een seculiere samenleving. Toch is de FL vooral een partij die gesteund wordt door christelijke maronieten.

Partijlogo
Het huidige logo van de FL is een ceder op een rond wit veld met een rode omlijning.

Het vorige logo van de FL was een christelijk kruis. Dit lokte negatieve reacties uit onder priesters die de FL vroeg een ander logo aan te nemen vanwege het gewelddadige verleden van de beweging.

Commandanten van de FL (als militie)
 Bashir Gemayel — 1977-1982
 Fadi Frem — 1982-1984
 Fuad Abou Nader — 1984-1985
 Elie Hobeika — 1985-1986
 Samir Geagea — 1986-1990

Voorzitter van de FL (als partij)
 Samir Geagea — 1990-heden

Zie ook
 Libanese Burgeroorlog
 Politiek in Libanon

Externe link
  Officiële website

Libanese politieke partij

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Art: Psychotherapy is said to be an art and a science. It's a science in terms of it's purpose- understanding and making use of elements in the world. It's an art in the sense of creation- when we are sitting together in a room we are creating a new metaphor, an aesthetic with a meaning of it's own.
Belonging: I like this word because it has Be and Longing in it, two states of mind that are deeply connected. Psychotherapy has everything to do with Being: who and how we are in the world, and with Longing for things we lost and those things we never had. Belonging may be the way our longings shape who we are and how we see ourselves. Psychotherapy is the process of bringing the being and the longing together.
Change: This is a good word not only for politicians, in the heart of my practice stands my belief in our capacity for change and for doing good in this world. A Psychotherapeutic relationship is a place where change is facilitated.
Dreams: Freud said: "The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind." Dreams are amazing, creative thoughts. Understanding their language can enrich our waking life and bring unconscious thoughts, feelings and wishes into our consciousness.
Emotions: One of the main goals of psychotherapy as I understand it, is helping patients to better emotionally process their experiences. This impacts the way we perceive the choices that we have. This can have an enormous impact on the quality of our lives.
Freedom: Psychotherapy, as a process of knowing and understanding ourselves, can relieve us of symptoms of depression, anxiety, obsessions, low self-esteem and other feelings, which limit our choices, and the range of our experience. Psychotherapy is a process that can give us a freedom to choose, experience and dream in a way that was never possible before.
Giving Up: If you ever feel like giving up, that things are just not worth it- try psychotherapy first, there will be other opportunities to give up. Being a one on one medium, you and your psychotherapist will find the thing that is worth it for you and will fight for that thing to be seen and known in a way that will make things worthwhile again.
Horoscope: Unlike the horoscope in the newspapers, the process of psychotherapy is different for each individual. I, as a therapist, am interested in a person's thoughts, feelings and experiences. I want to know how you feel about a situation, what it reminds you of, what you think about it. I want to share the experience of our time together. It is through this experience that a patient can grow. I don't have formulas, I don't' consult with stars: I listen, think, feel and experience it all over again every time.
Immigration: Is a difficult thing to go through and to process. As an immigrant to this country myself, I use my experience and interest in this process to help my patients put words to their own experience and explore how it had impacted their lives.
Jargon- I try to avoid it as much as possible.
Knowing: Getting to know one self is often said to be one of the goals of psychotherapy. This could mean many things: knowing how our past experiences impact our behavior and the choices that we make, knowing what is important to us and knowing how to emotionally process our experiences. The goal of psychotherapy is to help with all those knowings.
Love: is not all you need, but it sure helps. I believe growth happens in the context of a loving relationship. Psychotherapy is a special form of loving relationship, one that is somewhat mysterious and difficult to define. Nonetheless, it is a loving environment that promotes growth in a unique and exciting way.
Memories: Human beings have interesting relationships with memories: we are nostalgic, they haunt us, and they impact our expectations and our wishes. Psychotherapy works with memories, like with thoughts, dreams and feelings finding connections and understanding how they impact our lives and the choices we make.
Not Knowing: There is so much unknown in the psychotherapy process. We don't know each other; don't know what we will find. Not-knowing is an important part of the process, it keeps us going: asking questions, making links, going deeper.
Ongoing: I meet with patients in my office, once, twice or three times a week. Psychotherapy is an ongoing process in which continuity is very important. It is a commitment on both sides: sometimes painful but also extremely rewarding.
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy: Psychoanalysis starts with Freud and continues with a hundred years of thought, ideas and development. Studying psychoanalysis is an ongoing process for me, it informs my practice and enriches my life.
Questions: A psychotherapy session is a place where questions will be considered seriously. We won't always be able to answer all of them but there will be a place for us to think about them together, you won't believe how exciting it can be to seriously think together.
Relationship: Psychotherapy can help in improving relationships. it is, in itself, a relationship. When I sit in a room with a patient I am fully there, my training, background and experience enable me to help you use this relationship to deal with the things that are troubling you.
Suffering: "anger leads to pain, pain leads to suffering, suffering leads to hate" (yoda, star wars) well, perhaps it's not that simple. Though suffering is a big part of human experience, it is what we do with it that determines the impact that sadness and suffering will have on our daily lives. Trauma, depression, dissociation and addiction are all ways in which our psyche tries to deal with the suffering in our lives. Psychotherapy offers other tools to deal with difficult emotions in a way that promotes growth.
Truth: Do you ever get a sense that things around you are fake, unreal or meaningless? Psychotherapy can help you find out who you truly are, what are the things that have meaning for you, what is real in your life.
Unconscious: Freud came up with the concept of the unconscious and changed our society's way of thinking about the world, ourselves and our relationships. Not that the world is a better place now but I do think that Freud's contribution enables us, as individual human beings, to stretch beyond the concreteness of our daily lives. Some of our behaviors, our thoughts and dreams are not conscious to us but impact the decisions that we make and the way we live our lives. Knowing more about them is a fascinating life-changing process.
Veronica: I don't have a patient named Veronica and even if I did, I wouldn't tell you. The therapeutic relationship is confidential, what you tell me stays in the room, I will not discuss it with anyone.
Witness: Not only in court we need a witness to validate our reality, we need it internally as well. The stories we tell, and those that are listened to, construct our history, give meanings to our lives.
X: There are no xs in psychotherapy, we can talk about anything.
You: a psychotherapy session in your time. A time for you to think, feel and be. It's often a time when you can discover new and exciting things about yourself.


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Q: Delete an sms from inbox I would like to delete an SMS from the inbox once it is read by the user. How to do this?
Edit:
public class SmsReceiver extends BroadcastReceiver {
@Override
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    Bundle bundle = intent.getExtras();
    SmsMessage[] msgs = null;
    String address = null;

    if(bundle!=null)  {
        String info = " ";
        Object[] pdus = (Object[]) bundle.get("pdus");
        msgs = new SmsMessage[pdus.length];

        for (int i=0; i<msgs.length; i++) {
            msgs[i] = SmsMessage.createFromPdu((byte[])pdus[i]);
                address=msgs[i].getDisplayOriginatingAddress();
                info += msgs[i].getMessageBody().toString();

        }
        /*String str=bundle.getString("state");
        Log.v("State",str);*/

        if((PhoneNumberUtils.isWellFormedSmsAddress(address))){             //set ! and address length

        //abortBroadcast();
        Log.v("phone num","wellformed");
            Uri deleteUri = Uri.parse("content://sms");

            Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(deleteUri, null, null,
                    null, null);
            while (c.moveToNext()) {
                try {
                    // Delete the SMS
                    String pid = c.getString(0); // Get id;
                    String uri = "content://sms/conversations/" + pid;
                   context.getContentResolver().delete(Uri.parse(uri),
                            null, null);
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    Log.v("exception","occurred");
                }
            }

        }

    }
}

}
What is wrong with this code? The sms is not getting deleted

A: You can use following method for deleting SMS from Inbox,
private void deleteMessage()
{
    Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(SMS_INBOX, null, null, null, null);
    //c.moveToFirst();

    while (c.moveToNext())
    {
        System.out.println("Inside if loop");

        try
        {
            String address = c.getString(2);
            String MobileNumber = mainmenu.getParameterData().getMobileNumber().trim();

            //Log.i( LOGTAG, MobileNumber + "," + address );

            Log.i( LOGTAG, c.getString(2) );

            if ( address.trim().equals( MobileNumber ) )
            {
                String pid = c.getString(1);
                String uri = "content://sms/conversations/" + pid;
                getContentResolver().delete(Uri.parse(uri), null, null);
                stopSelf();
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

A: try this for complete solution for deleting...
    public void deleteSMS(Context context, String message, String number) {
    try {
        Uri uriSms = Uri.parse("content://sms/inbox");
        Cursor c = context.getContentResolver().query(
                uriSms,
                new String[] { "_id", "thread_id", "address", "person",
                        "date", "body" }, "read=0", null, null);

        if (c != null && c.moveToFirst()) {
            do {
                long id = c.getLong(0);
                long threadId = c.getLong(1);
                String address = c.getString(2);
                String body = c.getString(5);
                String date = c.getString(3);
                Log.e("log>>>",
                        "0>" + c.getString(0) + "1>" + c.getString(1)
                                + "2>" + c.getString(2) + "<-1>"
                                + c.getString(3) + "4>" + c.getString(4)
                                + "5>" + c.getString(5));
                Log.e("log>>>", "date" + c.getString(0));

                if (message.equals(body) && address.equals(number)) {
                    // mLogger.logInfo("Deleting SMS with id: " + threadId);
                    context.getContentResolver().delete(
                            Uri.parse("content://sms/" + id), "date=?",
                            new String[] { c.getString(4) });
                    Log.e("log>>>", "Delete success.........");
                }
            } while (c.moveToNext());
        }
    } catch (Exception e) {
        Log.e("log>>>", e.toString());
    }
}

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Robot-assisted surgery to remove cancerous prostate glands is effective in controlling the disease for 10 years, according to a new study led by researchers at Henry Ford Hospital.
The study also suggested that traditional methods of measuring the severity and possible spread of the cancer together with molecular techniques might, with further research, help to create personalized, cost-effective treatment regimens for prostate cancer patients who undergo the surgical procedure.
The findings apply to men whose cancer has not spread beyond the prostate, and the results are comparable to the well-established and more invasive open surgery to remove the entire diseased prostate and some surrounding tissue.
The research study is published this month online in European Urology, the official journal of the European Association of Urology.
"Until our analysis, there was little available information on the long-term oncologic outcomes for patients who undergo robot-assisted radical prostatectomy, or RARP," says Mireya Diaz, Ph.D., Director of Biostatistics at the Henry Ford's Vattikuti Urology Institute (VUI) and lead author of the study.
"As one of the very first hospitals to establish a structured RARP program a little over a decade ago, we were able to determine the long-term effectiveness of the technique thanks to the continued feedback of our patients and the follow-up efforts of the VUI team," Dr. Diaz adds.
Prostate cancer, a malignancy that develops in the prostate gland, is often treated successfully in its early stages with surgery. Surgeons who treat prostate cancer have twin goals: eradicating the patient's cancer while safeguarding the nerves that govern urinary and sexual function. Surgeons with the most extensive experience performing robotic prostatectomy are more likely to achieve these goals.
Robotic prostatectomy, also know as robot-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy, is the most advanced treatment option for patients who are candidates for surgery. Operating through five or six tiny holes in the abdomen, surgeons remove the cancerous tissue while preserving the vital nerves and arteries that control bladder and sexual function. This nerve sparing prostatectomy approach helps men retain their urinary control and sexual function.
In the hands of an experienced robotic surgeon, robotic prostatectomy offers patients a shorter hospital stay, less blood loss, significantly less pain, a faster recovery, improved urinary continence and sexual function, less scarring, and excellent clinical outcomes.
Surgeons here perform minimally invasive robotic prostatectomy procedures using a laparoscopic surgical robotic unit known as the da Vinci Surgical System. With da Vinci prostate surgery, miniaturized surgical instruments enable surgeons to manipulate tissue with great accuracy and remove the patient's prostate gland while minimizing harm to the surrounding tissues. Da Vinci prostate surgery provides surgeons with significantly enhanced magnification of the surgical field, making it easier for them to see and avoid the important nerves that run through the prostate, reducing the risk of urinary incontinence and sexual dysfunction.
The researchers followed 483 consecutive men who had cancer that had not spread outside the prostate and received RARP as their first treatment. All cases were from 2001 to 2003, the earliest years of Henry Ford's robot-assisted prostate surgery program.
Using several standard measures of cancer-treatment success - including biochemical markers of recurrence, incidence of metastasis or the spread of cancer beyond the prostate, and cancer-specific survival - the researchers found that 98.8 percent of the patients survived cancer for 10 years after their surgery.
Further analysis showed that the severity of the cancer after RARP was the best predictor of a recurrence, and the level of prostate-specific antigen, or PSA, in the bloodstream - which is now routinely measured as a test for the possible presence of prostate cancer - can be combined with severity to determine future treatment.
The study suggests that persistent PSA levels after RARP signals the risk that cancer may progress and soon require a second or salvage treatment of another kind. Lower risk patients after RARP warrant careful monitoring within five years after surgery and more protracted later, while those at higher risk may need follow-up monitoring beyond 10 years.
Further research and the collection of consistent, solid evidence will allow the creation of more personalized regimens for cost-effective treatment following RARP, the study concluded.


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All that jazz at CCP fest
CULTURAL Center of the Philippines President Raul Sunico with jazz musicians AMADÍS MA. GUERRERO
By: Amadís Ma. Guerrero (Contributor) Philippine Daily Inquirer / 02:00 AM July 25, 2016
"JAZZ involves a lot of improvisation," says Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) President Raul Sunico. "That explains its special appeal among young people. It implies freedom, spontaneousness."
"This is what jazz is all about," added Sunico. "There is soft jazz which is soothing and hard jazz which is electronic. We want to make sure there is a blending of music here."
Sunico spoke at a press conference at the CCP to announce the Winds and Jazz International Band Festival to be held July 26-31 at the CCP Main and Little Theaters, Silangan Hall and the adjacent Harbour Square (call 8323704).
The festival will highlight various symphony bands from around the country and abroad. There will be varied styles of the jazz genre, including Asian ethnic fusion, performed by Philippine and international jazz soloist and groups. And there will be evening concerts, pocket concerts, sunset concerts, and lobby preshows, trade shows, band clinics and instrument repair sessions.
Performers come from Antipolo City; Taytay, Rizal; Las Piñas City; Calamba City, Laguna; Muntinlupa City; Malabon City; Leyte; and Pasay City. School bands are from De la Salle Santiago Zobel School, Adamson University, University of the Philippines and University of Santo Tomas (UST).
The military will be represented by bands from the Philippine Army, Philippine Coast Guard and Presidential Security Group.
Participating foreign artists are from the United States, Puerto Rico, Canada, Norway and Singapore.
The press launch was enlivened by performances—strategically placed—by the Music Gear Woodwind Trio, who played delightful airs from Mozart operas, Adamson University Acoustic Band and Banda Zamora led by Dondon Resurrecion.
"There is an enthusiasm for jazz festivals in the Philippines, and what makes this event different is the presence of symphonic bands," Sunico said. "There are a few transformations; we are focusing not just on big bands but on individual instruments."
Festival director is Herminigildo Ranera of the UST Conservatory of Music.
"We have more participants, more activities this year," he said. "We have 50 bands and 30 groups, plus foreign artists. Jazz has many styles, ragtime, blues. It involves many players."
He added: "I hope this tradition continues for many years. We are showcasing bands, local talents, educating our people and offering them not just classical music but also jazz and symphonic bands."
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Following the success of our 2009 Forum on Indigenous Learning and Teaching, a second Forum was held at the University of Melbourne in October 2013. While the first Forum had highlighted exemplary teaching practice in classroom contexts, our external evaluator noted that the next step was to 'develop guidelines for best practice assessment'. It was time to tackle key issues in assessment and evaluation.
- How do we know our students are achieving the learning outcomes we aim for?
- Which assessment methods are most appropriate and effective, and why?
- Do we systematically evaluate 'what works' in our teaching and assessment?
- How can we prove that our teaching leads directly or indirectly to benefits for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander communities?
Several of the presenters at the 2013 Forum have kindly made the audio files and powerpoint slides from their presentations available below. We encouraged presenters to interact with the audience, but please note that some contributions and questions from the audience have been edited out due to poor sound quality.
Measuring Success in Indigenous Teaching: Why bother?
Summary of Forum Participants' Evaluations.


Wing (Cambodia) Limited Specialised Bank and Sathapana Bank signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Friday to offer payment collection service for Sathapana's customer. The MOU is signed by Mr. Kato Norihiko, Sathapana Bank CEO and Mr. Jojo Malolos, Wing (Cambodia) Specialised Bank CEO.
This partnership will provide both Sathapana and WING's customers with convenient and seamless money transfer between Sathapana's bank accounts and WING's accounts and wallets across Cambodia digitally.
It will also enable Sathapana's customers to make loan repayment degitally through Wing accounts or through Wing's 5,000 Cash Xpress Agents nationwide. Sathapana customers can make loan repayment through Wing account via USSD code or WingMoney Mobile App with the comfort of being at home at any convenient time. In addition, Sathapana's customer shall also have an access to other Wing services such as phone top-up, utility bill payment, money transfer and a lot more.
For customers who don't have Wing account, they can register for a Wing account in 3 different ways (1) through *989#, (2) Wing Money Mobile Apps available on Play Store or IOS Store & (3) through Wing Website. Also, they can apply for a Wing account at any of the 5,000 Wing Cash Xpress Agent across the country bringing along with them the following required document such as ID card or Passport, Government ID or Driving License. For opening account with SATHAPANA Bank, you could visit any 168 branches at your nearest location to your home/office with your valid national ID or passport.
SATHAPANA Bank Plc. is one of the leading commercial banks in Cambodia with total assets of over USD1billion as of 30 September 2017 (unaudited). The bank provides full banking services; loans, deposits, domestic and foreign remittances, guarantees, export andi import settlement, etc. throughout the country with 168 branches, 100 ATMs and more than 4,000 employees.


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Cradle is a 2015 science-fiction first-person adventure game on the topic of transhumanism, developed by Flying Cafe for Semianimals.

Reception
The game was reviewed by various critics.

References

External links

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text:
package ws.epigraph.wire;

import org.jetbrains.annotations.NotNull;

/**
 * A set of input/output format factories for some format
 *
 * @author Konstantin Sobolev
 */
public interface FormatFactories {
  @NotNull FormatReader.Factory<? extends OpFormatReader> opReaderFactory();

  @NotNull FormatWriter.Factory<? extends OpFormatWriter> opWriterFactory();

  @NotNull FormatReader.Factory<? extends ReqFormatReader> reqReaderFactory();

  @NotNull FormatWriter.Factory<? extends ReqFormatWriter> reqWriterFactory();
}


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Scientists Find Links Between Interleukin 17A and Inflammation, Organ Protection in SLE Patients
by Jose Marques Lopes, PhD
The cytokine interleukin 17A (IL-17A), while playing a role in inflammation, may also serve a protective purpose in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, new research shows.
The study, "IL-17A levels in systemic lupus erythematosus associated with inflammatory markers and lower rates of malignancy and heart damage: Evidence for a dual role", appeared in the European Journal of Rheumatology.
Immune cells produce IL-17A, which is involved in several chronic inflammatory diseases. The cytokine protects against tumor growth by modulating the immune response. However, excessive IL-17A can lead to tumor proliferation by overcoming cytokine interferon gamma (IFN-γ) tumor surveillance properties and causing local blood vessels to grow.
IL-17 inhibition benefits those with ankylosing spondylitis, a form of spinal arthritis. In mice, overexpression of IL-17A has been linked to nephritis, or inflammation of the kidney, which is caused by SLE. Importantly, increased levels of IL-17A have been reported in the sera of SLE patients. Therefore, inhibiting IL-17 could be a therapeutic pathway in SLE.
Johannes Nossent, MD, PhD, of the University of Western Australia's School of Medicine and Pharmacology, led the research team, which evaluated the clinical associations of interleukin IL-17A in SLE patients of Northern European descent and mostly in a state of low disease activity.
The cross-sectional study involved 102 SLE patients (86 percent of them females) recruited from a regional registry. The researchers determined IL-17A levels, SLE disease activity and cumulative damage, and analyzed links between IL-17A and disease activity. They also determined autoantibody profiles and studied the interplay of immune cells across disease states and damage development in SLE patients.
Researchers found that SLE patients had higher immunoglobulin G levels and lower counts of T-cells and B-cells (immune cell types). However, IL-17A levels did not differ from the healthy controls and did not fluctuate significantly over several years of observation.
In SLE patients, IL-17A levels had no bearing on disease activity or cumulative damage, but were inversely related with age, systolic blood pressure and years of smoking. Researchers also found inverse correlations with heart damage and cancer history, which suggests a protective role for IL-17A.
Among other parameters, serum levels of IL-17A correlated with the pro-inflammatory cytokine IL-6 and immunoglobulins G and M (types of antibodies), but were inversely correlated with platelet count and pre-albumin levels, a marker of chronic renal failure.
These results support "the possible involvement of IL-17A in the inflammatory pathway in SLE, although the main source and driver of IL-17A levels remain unclear," according to the study. However, it also shows that IL-17A "may also serve a protective purpose in SLE patients." Overall, the "dual role of IL-17A suggests that inhibiting pro-inflammatory IL-17 effects in SLE patients could have wider and significant clinical implications."
Future studies should analyze patients with diverse genetic backgrounds and states of disease activity, said researchers, who also urged information on the cellular source and causation of effects by IL-17A.
Jose Marques Lopes, PhD
José is a science news writer with a PhD in Neuroscience from Universidade of Porto, in Portugal. He has also studied Biochemistry at Universidade do Porto and was a postdoctoral associate at Weill Cornell Medicine, in New York, and at The University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada. His work has ranged from the association of central cardiovascular and pain control to the neurobiological basis of hypertension, and the molecular pathways driving Alzheimer's disease.
Tagged disease activity, IL-17A, immune cells, Inflammation, interleukin 17A, malignancy, organ damage.
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About 10 years ago, someone encouraged me to read a 'purple' book, 'The Way of Initiation', written by a man called Serge Benhayon. As I read the book, I found myself reflecting on what was presented as it was so different from all the usual books I had come across previously. The points that Serge was making in his book were novel in the sense that I hadn't thought about life that way previously, yet it made sense to me. I was wary and looking for the catch but couldn't find any and what was interesting was that the more I read, the more my body felt at ease with what I was reading; there was a truth behind the words that I could feel.
From there, I started to consider coming to a workshop presented by Serge to find out more about, not only this man, but also listen to what he was presenting about life. I had what could be considered by normal standards, a comfortable upbringing and life, but could feel that there was nonetheless still something missing.
I left that first workshop knowing that I would be back for more because, while I couldn't fully grasp everything that was spoken about at the time, I knew in every cell in my body that what was presented was providing everyone there with the tools for living and understanding life in a more complete and joyful way.
There is much to say about Serge Benhayon, a truly extraordinary man who writes volumes of paradigm shifting books, presents in trainings for 5 days in a row without notes or preparation, develops new healing modalities, serves in projects all over the globe, gives healing sessions and consults one to one, working hard, very hard indeed, sometimes up to 20 hours a day. And working hard without losing the connection to his love, care and tenderness, as working hard normally means in this world.
A world teacher, who is so humble, seeing himself as no more special than others, considering himself as the forever student. No arrogance, and no difference in his appearance if he meets you for the first time, or if you are a friend of 20 years. His love radiates in all directions constantly, as true love does. The many testimonies on this site cover many aspects that he brings, and I am sure he will be remembered as one of the world's greatest philosophers of all times.
I have been studying Serge Benhayon for 10 years, being a student myself, and my key question was not how he is able to bring all that he does – because he is fully transparent in showing and explaining that to the finest detail to everyone who is open to listen, but why is he able to bring all of this to us, and so consistently each day, almost every moment? His consistency in what he brings since 1999 is to me the truly remarkable thing about Serge Benhayon.
When I asked him recently, he answered, 'Purpose'.
I have had the pleasure of interviewing and working with many presenters over my many years working in television and not too many stand out of the crowd. One man did certainly turn my head and has continued to do so over the few years I have known him. I first met Serge Benhayon when I attended one of the healing courses he presented for Universal Medicine. I remember back then that I felt an immediate response to what Serge was saying.
To me it was like, 'Far out, not only does this guy know his stuff, I can really feel that he is speaking the truth.' More interestingly he didn't have 'cheat notes', a reference book, even a PowerPoint to refer to. No, he delivered three full days to a crowd of hundreds, with nothing but his knowledge.
When I look back over my life I can see that much of the time I was on an out of control roller coaster going nowhere but round and around, repeating the same patterns that always ended up with the same outcomes no matter what I did. I looked, often desperately, for answers to life's endless questions but couldn't seem to find what I was looking for. But throughout these unsettled times there was one constant, times when a 'light' would be shone that would stop me in my tracks and give me a moment to pause.
It used to feel like I was being offered a reason for keeping on going, not to give up but to trust that there will be an answer one day to all the questions I had about life.
Goodness I must have been really bad in a past life/lives as look at all the 'bad' things that are happening to me now.
I feel like I'm in a 'pressure cooker' class in this life to get rid of all the karma that I have accumulated so why, what's coming?
I don't want to be a teenager again, it's just way too hard!
When I look back now, all these moments seem to be not just questions that I was looking to have answered but little lights shining on a path to somewhere – but to where I had no idea, just that I needed to be patient.


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Ford and Rivian no longer plan to work jointly on electric vehicles.
By Nick J Adam On Nov 20, 2021
Ford Motor and Rivian have dropped plans to develop an electric vehicle together, although Ford remains a major investor in the start-up automaker.
The companies formed a partnership in 2019 when Ford invested $500 million in Rivian. They originally envisioned working closely on electric vehicles, but Ford discarded a plan to use Rivian's chassis for an electric model for its Lincoln brand while saying they still intended to cooperate. On Friday, the companies said collaboration was no longer in prospect.
"As Ford has scaled its own E.V. strategy and demand for Rivian vehicles has grown, we've mutually decided to focus on our own projects and deliveries," Rivian said in a statement. "Our relationship with Ford is an important part of our journey, and Ford remains an investor and ally on our shared path to an electrified future."
The change in plans was reported earlier by Automotive News, based on an interview with Ford's chief executive, Jim Farley.
Since its investment in Rivian, Ford has started rolling out electric models of its own. The Mustang Mach E, a sport utility vehicle, has drawn favorable comparisons to competing models from Tesla. Ford is expected to start making a battery-powered version of its F-150 pickup next year, and it has taken tens of thousands of orders from customers.
"We respect Rivian and have had extensive exploratory discussions with them," Ford said in a statement. "However, both sides have agreed not to pursue any kind of joint vehicle development or platform sharing."
After an initial public offering of stock this month, Rivian has a market value of nearly $115 billion, significantly more than Ford's valuation of $77 billion. Rivian has just started production of an electric pickup and an electric S.U.V., and has delivered only a small number to customers so far.
Ford's holding in Rivian amounts to about a 12 percent stake.
Rivian is working on an electric delivery van for Amazon, another major investor.
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Disease model or not, ABT knows how to get sufferers back to recovery.
At A Better Today Recovery Services, they focus on the individual rather than on intellectual debates about the nature of alcoholism.
To those who have no first-hand experience, it's easy to see addiction as a point of weakness. After all, how hard is it to just put down the bottle, stop using drugs, or stop eating so much? In reality, the answer is, of course, "very hard." Addiction isn't a simple personality flaw as many people believe it to be; it's an illness that requires professional assistance to treat. Those suffering from addiction are unlikely to change without guidance and medical intervention, just as with any other disease.
Like anything, there are many schools of thought about whether or not addiction is a disease or a life choice—but the American Medical Association (AMA) decreed that alcoholism was an illness in 1956 and a disease in 1966. In addition, 12-step proponents, and the literature of 12-step, perpetuate the notion that addiction is a disease that can be arrested but not cured. Those who believe that addiction is a disease subscribe to the notion that sobriety or abstinence doesn't eradicate the addict label. The disease, according to those who believe in it, is less about the individual's behavior and more about the thinking which causes the person to drink or use drugs to excess. A Better Today Recovery Services, a treatment center with facilities in Scottsdale, Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Portland, is dedicated to getting to the bottom of that behavior, offering a unique range of treatment programs for their prospective clients: depression and substance abuse; customized lengths of time in treatment to match long-term recovery; disease-model awareness; and comprehensive, extensive inpatient programs. They know that recovery isn't one-size-fits-all and it's important to find the best program that works for you.
Many people with addiction or alcoholism use or drink in order to escape their way of thinking. Those who support the disease model believe that alcoholics are born with a genetic predisposition to alcoholism that their behavior then exacerbates and that the cure for the disease is the maintenance of a strong spiritual condition through the practice of attending 12-step meetings and practicing AA's 12 steps. These steps focus on cleaning up the past, making amends for bad behavior, trying to rid oneself of character defects and most significantly developing a relationship with a Higher Power. Many who don't believe in the disease model say that people with addiction or alcoholism choose to drink or use drugs in addictive ways and that couching their behavior as a disease abdicates them of responsibility for the damage their behavior causes. The anti-disease advocates believe that telling alcoholics and addicts they suffer from a disease actually harms them because it prevents them from getting better. Disease advocates argue that by teaching alcoholics and addicts that they have a disease, those who are suffering are able to forgive themselves for their egregious behavior and find recovery without shame. While the debate is worthwhile, no one denies that alcohol dependence is both progressive and degenerative. The body becomes physically addicted to alcohol after constant, repeated use, requiring more and more of it to achieve the same effect. It's also highly degenerative in that it can trigger long-term effects like cirrhosis of the liver and cancer. Alcoholism also tends to run in the family, carrying on from generation to generation. Other supporters of the disease model argue that alcohol alters a person's brain chemistry, which causes dramatic physical and psychological changes.
The disease of alcoholism doesn't occur overnight, either. Alcohol researcher E.M. Jellinek famously outlined four distinct phases by which alcoholism operates, biologically speaking. The first phase is called "pre-alcoholic," in which the person drinks socially and develops a tolerance. This is also where the drinker believes they're only drinking to relieve stress or to "take the edge off." The second stage is called the "prodromal phase," which is an early-alcoholic stage wherein the drinker starts becoming prone to blackouts (drunken action, with no memory of it) as well as an increased tolerance to the effects of alcohol. It's also the phase when the drinker begins hiding their alcohol consumption from others. It's the obsession for alcohol that leads to the "crucial phase," which is characterized by "out-of-control drinking" at inappropriate times, not to mention a series of negative consequences in their personal and professional lives. Finally, the "chronic phase" puts drinking at the center of all activities, leading to a wide variety of health problems. Combined, Jellinek's phases make clear that alcoholism has the shape and structure of any other medical disease or condition—albeit one that is incredibly hard to find a cure for.
A Better Today Recovery Services knows these arguments all too well, having built an incredible network of individualized treatment programs for its clients. Disease model or not, ABT knows how to get sufferers back to recovery. First and foremost, it offers treatment programs customized to one's drug of choice: alcohol, cocaine, meth, heroin, or pills—rather than lumping everything into one impersonal program of recovery. Secondly, its menu of treatment options are second to none: cognitive behavioral therapy, yoga therapy, equine therapy, group therapy. You name it.
"I wasn't so sure at first," Debbie said, a former patient of A Better Today's Scottsdale campus. "Everyone told me that I was weak. I was drinking only because I was weak, they said—not because I might have a disease. A Better Today really opened my eyes to that difference," she admitted. She's not alone. The treatment center boasts a success rate that's as impressive as its roster of medical professionals, caretakers and interventionists. Without A Better Today, many would be lost in the debate between "disease" and "choice" as options when it comes to addiction. A Better Today simply offers a third option: "Live."
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Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route: EIR release
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Information request and response under the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004.
FOI reference: FOI/18/00747
Date received: 9 March 2018
Date responded: 6 April 2018
1. The volume of fuel, broken down into both petrol and diesel, has gone missing from AWPR sites since the start of the project.
2. The total estimated cost of the missing fuel, broken down into petrol and diesel during the same time frame?
3. Are there any security measures to prevent people stealing fuel from the AWPR site to use for non-Transport Scotland purposes, and if so, what are they?
4. How long have each of those security measures been in place?
5. Has an investigator or an investigative team been told in to look into claims that hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of fuel have been stolen from the AWPR project?
6. Finally, could you please tell me the total fuel stocks on the AWPR, broken down into both petrol and diesel, for each month since the start of 2016 up to and including the date of the receipt of this email?
As the information you have requested is 'environmental information' for the purposes of the Environmental Information (Scotland) Regulations 2004 (EIRs), we are required to deal with your request under those Regulations. We are applying the exemption at section 39(2) of the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 (FOISA), so that we do not also have to deal with your request under FOISA.
This exemption is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exemption. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exemption, because there is no public interest in dealing with the same request under two different regimes. This is essentially a technical point and has no material effect on the outcome of your request.
1. Under the terms of the exception at regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs (information not held), Transport Scotland is not required to provide information which it does not have. This information is not held by Transport Scotland, nor is it held on our behalf. This exception is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exception. While we recognise that there may be some public interest in the volume of fuel missing from the AWPR/B-T site, clearly we cannot provide information which we do not hold.
2. Under the terms of the exception at regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs (information not held), Transport Scotland is not required to provide information which it does not have. This information is not held by Transport Scotland, nor is it held on our behalf. This exception is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exception. While we recognise that there may be some public interest in the cost of missing fuel from the AWPR/B-T site, clearly we cannot provide information which we do not hold.
3. An exception under regulation 10(5)(e) of the EIRs (substantial prejudice to confidentiality of commercial or industrial information) applies to the information you have requested. This exception applies because disclosure of this particular information would, or would be likely to, prejudice substantially the confidentiality of industrial information provided by Aberdeen Roads Limited (ARL), the contractor for the project, and thus cause substantial harm to their interests. Disclosure of this information could identify the project site as a potential target for criminal activity and compromise the integrity of its security.
This exception is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exception. We recognise that there is a public interest in disclosing information as part of open and transparent government, and to help account for the expenditure of public money. However, there is a greater public interest in protecting the industrial interests of companies which enter into Transport Scotland contracts.
4. An exception under regulation 10(5)(e) of the EIRs (substantial prejudice to confidentiality of commercial or industrial information) applies to the information you have requested. This exception applies because disclosure of this particular information would, or would be likely to, prejudice substantially the confidentiality of industrial information provided by Aberdeen Roads Limited (ARL), the contractor for the project, and thus cause substantial harm to their interests. Disclosure of this information could identify the project site as a potential target for criminal activity and compromise the integrity of its security.  This exception is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exception. We recognise that there is a public interest in disclosing information as part of open and transparent government, and to help account for the expenditure of public money. However, there is a greater public interest in protecting the industrial interests of companies which enter into Transport Scotland contracts.
5. The responsibility for the security of materials on the AWPR/B-T site rests with ARL. ARL has confirmed it is not aware of any current incidents and has robust security systems in place.
6. Under the terms of the exception at regulation 10(4)(a) of the EIRs (information not held), Transport Scotland is not required to provide information which it does not have. This information is not held by Transport Scotland, nor is it held on our behalf.
This exception is subject to the 'public interest test'. Therefore, taking account of all the circumstances of this case, we have considered if the public interest in disclosing the information outweighs the public interest in applying the exception. We have found that, on balance, the public interest lies in favour of upholding the exception. While we recognise that there may be some public interest in the total fuel stocks on the AWPR/B-T project, clearly we cannot provide information which we do not hold.
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Our goal is to offer you the best products, at the lowest prices possible and provide a superior shopping and customer service experience.
We started the Cycle Taiwan Shop to enable us to remain focused on what we love doing: riding bikes and working with bikes! We are not a faceless retail company, but a rider operated enthusiast bike shop.
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El Retrato del escritor Ramon Reventós es un dibujo a la acuarela con carboncillos y lápiz sobre papel realizada por Pablo Picasso alrededor de 1899 y 1900 en Barcelona y que forma parte de la colección del Museo Picasso de Barcelona.

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Este retrato, de trazo seguro y suelto, forma parte de la serie de retratos de estilo modernista que Picasso hizo de sus amigos y conocidos. Todos ellos eran asiduos de la taberna Els Quatre Gats, local de tertulia barcelonés de la vanguardia artística. En el reverso hay un dibujo académico en lápiz Conté sobre papel, que representa un antebrazo y una mano sosteniendo un disco. No está firmado ni fechado.

Esta galería de retratos integra la primera exposición individual de Picasso en Els Quatre Gats en febrero de 1900. De este modo, intenta hacerse un lugar en este género artístico, entonces dominado por Ramon Casas, retratista oficial de la burguesía catalana. De hecho, la idea de la exposición monográfica surge del entorno de Picasso después del enorme éxito de la exposición de Ramon Casas en la Sala Parés en octubre de 1899, donde, entre otras obras, se mostraron 132 retratos al carbón.

La colección de retratos se parece intencionadamente en formato, técnica y factura a los retratos de Casas. Pero los de Picasso son más espontáneos, de trazo más decidido, y él, a menudo, más que buscar el parecido detallado, incide en los rasgos permanentes del retratado, se interesa por la psicología del personaje.

Jaime Sabartés, en su libro Retrats i records, expresa el espíritu del momento: «Lo que queremos es que la gente se dé cuenta de que hay otro que dibuja, y que Casas no retrata a todos los que están y que en sus exposiciones no están todos los que son [...] Los dibujos de Picasso son más espontáneos, su trazo es más franco, más decidido, más loco, si se quiere, pero es más seguro, más preciso, denota más humor y más perspicacia; una observación más profunda y una comprensión más rápida.»

Crítica de la exposición de retratos
La exposición le sirvió a Picasso para darse a conocer, pero no tuvo una gran resonancia en la prensa. Se recogen aquí, por su interés histórico y respetando la ortografía original, dos fragmentos de las críticas aparecidas en la prensa de 1900:

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Consumers of Yakutia stole electricity worth 86,9 million rubles in 9 months
Yakutia 24 TV channel with the reference to Yakutskenergo PJSC Press Service: They revealed 1,499 facts of unaccounted electricity consumption in the amount of 86.9 million rubles for the nine months of 2019.
"From January to September, 288 cases of uncontracted and unaccounted electricity consumption by legal entities were recorded. The total amount of acts of violations is 55,1 million rubles. Consumers paid 33,4 million rubles, taking into account the acts, drawn up previously," the company said.
The most violations occur in the domestic sector. Half of them were registered in Yakutsk (571 cases, damage – 20,5 million rubles) and Mirny (91 facts of violation amounting to more than 3,1 million rubles).
For nine months, controllers of Energosbyt drew up 1211 acts on unaccounted consumption towards the residents of the republic worth a total 31,8 million rubles. The total amount of illegally used electricity amounted to 15,3 million kW/h.


With its 2.000 inhabitants the County of Brtonigla (Verteneglio) is situated in the north-west part of the Istrian Peninsula and it is within reach of the western frontier of our hospitable and friendly Republic of Croatia. The Adriatic Sea washes the western part of the county and the eastern one is reached by the Mirna River.
Brtonigla became the feud of the Acquilea patriarchies in 11 C and in 13 C it became the ownership of the feudal nobilities of Momjan. From 14 C till the end of 18 C Brtonigla was under the state protection by Venice. In after years this region have been in continuos sway of the French, the Austrians and the Italians as well. After the Second World War Brtonigla as a part of so-called Zone B came under the administrative power of the Free Territory of Trieste, and in 1954 passed to Yugoslavia. Brtonigla today is an integral part of the Republic of Croatia. In the very center of Brtonigla the parish church of Sv. Zenon was erected in 1862 on the remains of the 15 C church with detached of 36 meters campanile erected in 1491. There are the baroque altars on each side of large nave. This altar of Blažena Djevica Marija (The Virgin Mary) 17 C with its statue of Madonna and Infant carved in wood is distinguished one. The fant is of the same century and the crypts are of the 17 C . There are nine churches and chapels in Brtonigla and Nova Vas. The church of Gospa Lurdska in Radini and the church of Sv. Josip Radnik in Fiorini date from 20 C. Furthermore, three of them are located in Brtonigla: the parish church of Sv. Zenon, the chapel of Sv. Rok which is of rectangular structure with sami-circular apse and with wooden altar contains the statues of Virgin Mary and the Saints and was erected in the place of an older chapel dated from 14 C. The last one of the group of these three churches is the chapel of Svih Svetih renovated in 19 C with its crypts dated from 1567. The late-baroque parish church of Sv. Mihovil dates from 16 C and was renovated in 1822 and 1870. The mentioned church is located in Nova Vas. The Pavići village near by, surrounded by rich greenery, there is the ancient chapel of Sv. Lovro. The Gothic chapel of Sv. Mihovil is situated in the local grave-yard of Nova Vas not far from the Serbani village with wonderful view of the River Mirna. Another Gothic style chapel of Gospa Nogaredska and the last one counted in this area is located in the local cemetery of Brtonigla. In the neighborhood of Brtonigla there are smaller villages: Fernetići, Fiorini, Grobice, Karigador, Katunari, Katunari Valle, Kovri, Kršin, Kras, Lukoni, Marinčići, Pećine, Punta Mala i Velika, Radini, Stancija Drušković, Škrinjari, Turini, Valentići… where hard-working people live.
The well-known slogan of Brtonigla is: SMALL PLACE OF GREAT DISCOVERIES that really means visitors of Brtonigla have real opportunity to see many things of their interest in this small and picturesque county, as for instance they can admire an unforgettable landscape, beauty of Nature, discover historical traces and centennial culture, can walk numerous pathways those lead to new scenarios and have new experiences as well. Brtonigla, just as other places in Istria, has a very interesting history. The settlement was erected on a picturesque hill on the place of the former remains of the ancient castle. After Roman conquest fortifications became towns and then feudal castles as well. To this very day this area rich in architectural remains of numerous castles, prehistoric settlements from the Bronce Age is proclaimed the Ancient Monuments. For the first time Brtonigla was mentioned in the old manuscript od 1234 under name of Ortoneglo, Roman Hortus Niger (Black Gardens) probably after its black and rich soil. It seemed that since 9 C this area was at long last at peace, but its prosperity was first disturbed by wars, diseases and conquests.


Sorry I haven't blogged much this week. I had plans to every night but with the exception of the fatshionologie post which to be fair was scheduled I haven't felt te motivation to blog.
I have plans to blog. About today and my adventures in Manchester.
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This was taken for #FMSphotoaday street. i've been rubbish at this this week. I need to catch up.
I have a slight obsession with taking pictures of my feet this week. The look rubbish without a filter but i quite like them.
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The goal of the NASA Applied Remote SEnsing Training (ARSET) is to increase the utility of NASA earth science and model data for policy makers, regulatory agencies, and other applied science professionals in the areas of Health and Air Quality, Water Resources, Eco Forecasting, and Disaster Management.
The two primary activities of this project are webinars and in-person courses.
Appropriate use and interpretation of satellite imagery.
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