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Tello è un comune della Colombia facente parte del dipartimento di Huila.

Il centro abitato venne fondato da un gruppo di gesuiti nel 1631, mentre l'istituzione del comune è del 1º marzo 1811.

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Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Comuni del dipartimento di Huila

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Four prisoners freed from Guantánamo: three in Albania, one in Spain
On Wednesday, four prisoners were released from Guantánamo: an Egyptian, a Libyan and a Tunisian arrived in Albania, and a Palestinian arrived in Spain. All four had been cleared by military review boards at Guantánamo under the Bush administration, and had then been cleared by President Obama's interagency Task Force, but, like dozens of prisoners in Guantánamo, they could not be repatriated because of fears that they would be tortured if returned to their home countries or subjected to other ill-treatment, or because they were effectively stateless.
The Spanish government, which declared last week that it would take up to five cleared prisoners from Guantánamo, announced that the first of these men arrived in Spain on Wednesday. The Spanish Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba told reporters that the man is Palestinian, but would not give his name, citing privacy concerns. According to the press agency dpa, Rubalcaba explained that he "would get a residence permit, the possibility to work and freedom of movement in Spain, though Guantánamo prisoners taken by European countries could not leave those countries." He added that Spain would only accept prisoners "with no criminal charges in the European Union, the United States or their countries of origin."
As well as accepting the Palestinian, the newspaper Periódico reported that other prisoners, "believed to include a Syrian and a Yemeni citizen," were "expected to arrive in Spain shortly," adding that they will be "placed in different locations under the care of NGOs," and will also be "placed under surveillance not only to protect the Spanish public, but also to protect the individuals from al-Qaeda reprisals over their possible revelations to US intelligence services."
Cementing its role as America's closest ally when it comes to clearing up "the mess" that is Guantánamo (to quote President Obama's words from last May), the Albanian Ministry of Interior announced on Wednesday that it had accepted three cleared prisoners, who could not be repatriated because of the fears outlined above. Albania has now taken eleven cleared prisoners from Guantánamo, having accepted eight in 2006, when no other country in the world was prepared to do so (five Uighurs, an Algerian, an Egyptian and an ethnic Uzbek from the former Soviet Union).
Announcing the arrival of three prisoners in Albania, the Ministry of the Interior stated, "This transfer is a result of the engagement of the Albanian government in backing the Obama administration's policy to close the detention center in Guantánamo and transfer prisoners to friendly and safe third countries." In a press release, the US Justice Department identified the three men as: Abdul Rauf Omar Mohammad Abu al-Qusin, a Libyan; Sharif Fati Ali al-Mishad, an Egyptian; and Saleh bin Hadi Asasi, a Tunisian.
Their stories, like those of the majority of the 584 prisoners released from Guantánamo, demonstrate, yet again, that, behind the blustering rhetoric of former Vice President Dick Cheney and his swarming acolytes, the majority of the men held at Guantánamo had no involvement with terrorism, and that a disturbingly large number of them were innocent men seized by mistake.
Of the three men rehoused in Albania, for example, one was a businessman, living in Europe, who had traveled to Afghanistan to provide humanitarian aid, one was a veteran of Afghanistan's war against the Soviet Union, who had married an Afghan woman, and was seized in a house in Lahore, Pakistan, far from the battlefields of Afghanistan, and the other man, as was common in 2001, before the 9/11 attacks, had been persuaded to travel to Afghanistan to help the Taliban defeat their enemies, the Northern Alliance, in a long-running civil war that had nothing to do with al-Qaeda or international terrorism, and had not raised a finger against US forces.
Sherif El-Mashad: An Egyptian businessman and humanitarian aid worker
Sharif al-Mishad (also identified as Sherif El-Mashad) is an Egyptian, born in 1976. A talented athlete and carpenter in his youth, he enrolled in a technical school to learn woodworking, cabinetmaking, painting, tiling, plumbing and roofing, and, after graduating, spent three years working in Sinai at some of Egypt's largest beach resorts. There, he began to learn Italian from the tourists, and in 1997, after his father died, decided to travel to Italy, to stay with his uncle, an Italian citizen who lived in Como, in the hope of finding better paid work to provide for the family.
Once he had secured a work permit, he worked in a restaurant and a bar, but soon found that his skills as a craftsman would pay better. After working as an apprentice with two painting companies, he obtained a license from the Chamber of Commerce in Como to work as an independent contractor, and set up his own company, "Sherif El-Mashad," running the business out of his home.
In the spring of 2001, he met a wealthy Kuwaiti businessman, who encouraged him to travel to Afghanistan to do charity work. As he explained to his lawyers, at the London-based legal action charity Reprieve, he saw this as "a dual opportunity," allowing him not only to network with a well-connected businessman, but also to help those less fortunate than himself by distributing humanitarian aid — food, clothes, and blankets. Providing an analogy to his lawyers, he explained that the plan was akin to "organizing a charity gala with a prospective business partner."
As a result of this meeting, El-Mashad booked a round-trip ticket, intending to stay in Afghanistan for a couple of months, before returning home to work. It was obvious that he had no intention of staying any longer, because, as his lawyers, explained, two days before he left Italy in July 2001, he had billed a customer almost €15,000 for painting services to be collected on his return.
His mother, who is the deputy principal of a school in Egypt, explained in 2006 how she had advised her son against traveling to Afghanistan. "I never wanted him to go on that trip", she said, "because I knew that the region was unstable and so many events were taking place there, but he was stubborn. He was very kind and grateful to his family, though." A week after his arrival, according to his mother, "he called his uncle, who lives in Italy, and told him that he arrived and asked him to reassure me."
After that, he effectively disappeared off the face of the earth, until his uncle called to say that he had received a postcard from Guantánamo (via the International Committee of the Red Cross), in which he wrote that "he had been visiting a friend in Afghanistan and subsequently enlisted in a 'rescue organization' that offered 'humanitarian aid to the Afghani people.'" Although he ended up staying in Afghanistan for longer than he intended, helping his friend, who, as he explained in Guantánamo, "passed out donations to help the Afghani people," they remained safe in Kabul until November 2001, when, with the Northern Alliance approaching, and rumors spreading that Arabs were no longer safe, they set off for the Iranian border, intending to return home. As he also explained, "I had a valid visa to Iran and a return ticket with an Iranian airline." However, when they discovered that the border crossing was closed, they realized that they would have to leave via Pakistan, but were detained by Pakistani soldiers after crossing the border and arriving in a small village. El-Mashad then spent three weeks in a Pakistani prison in Peshawar, and was then flown to the US prison at Kandahar airport, where he spent several more months before being transferred to Guantánamo.
There seems to be no reason to dispute this story, and El-Mashad clearly explained it at length to his interrogators in Guantánamo, telling them how he traveled to Kabul, how he met up with the Kuwaiti businessman, how he "heard of the attacks in America while listening to the radio," how he and "all who were present with him were sorrowful and none of them were happy," and how he fled from Afghanistan and was seized.
However, once he was in US custody, he became the victim of patently false allegations made by other prisoners, either through coercion or torture, or through the promise of preferential treatment, of the kind that are disturbingly familiar to those who have studied closely the rulings in the prisoners' habeas corpus petitions over the last year and a half.
One of these allegations was made by a prisoner who was rescued by US forces from a prison in Afghanistan, and then transported to Guantánamo, even though he had been imprisoned as a spy by al-Qaeda and had been subjected to horrendous torture. This prisoner claimed that, in early 2000, El-Mashad "participated in torturing him through beatings and electric shocks", even though, as El-Mashad pointed out, he was in Italy in early 2000 and had the documents to prove it.
He also told his lawyers that, in the early days of his imprisonment, "I was first accused of aiding the Arabs in Bosnia. Then they changed the accusation that I was there just for training. In both cases, it's impossible that I was in Bosnia at the time of the war in 1991, simply because at that date I was 14 years old! From 1991-1997 (the duration of the Bosnian war) I was studying at my school and I never left my country to anywhere. I have the proving documents." He also explained that another set of false allegations came about because the US authorities mistook him for a significant figure in al-Qaeda, which led to a number of other false allegations, including claims that he trained recruits in urban warfare at a military training camp. Another false allegation, made by an unnamed "source", was that he sold videotapes of the bombing, in 2000, of the USS Cole.
"Throughout my life, I was never involved in any banned or illegal activities by any means," he told Cori Crider of Reprieve in August 2008, during his first visit with a lawyer from the legal action charity, adding, "I don't have any file with any police office or any bad record with any authority." He also explained that Italian agents had visited him in Guantánamo and had confirmed that there was no case against him. "They told me they knew I was innocent and they would ask the United States to release me," he said, adding, "My case is very clear. I have physical evidence to defend myself against these charges."
Abdul Ra'ouf al-Qassim: A Libyan seized in Pakistan
Abdul Rauf al-Qusin (also identified as Abdul Ra'ouf al-Qassim, and named in court documents as Abu Abdul Raouf Zalita) is a Libyan, born in 1965, who was cleared for release from Guantánamo in 2006. A soldier in the Libyan army from 1983 to 1989, he had then deserted, traveling to Afghanistan "to immigrate and to start a new life," as he explained to his military review board in Guantánamo in May 2005. After fighting with the mujahideen until 1993, when the last remnants of the Soviet regime fell, he "traveled back and forth between Pakistan and Afghanistan" — at one point studying at university in Quetta — and also met and married an Afghan woman, Rahima, with whom he had a daughter, Khiria, who has spent the whole of her young life without her father.
Al-Qassim was captured in Lahore in May 2002, at the house of a Pakistani, after escaping from war-torn Afghanistan with his pregnant wife, but although it was clear that he had not taken up arms against the Americans, it was far less clear that he would not be regarded as a threat by the government of his home country. At his review in 2005, he explained (via a military officer assigned to him instead of a lawyer) that he had received military training at two Libyan camps in Afghanistan, but only because he was living there, and also admitted that he had joined the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group — exiled opponents of the Gaddafi regime — but only "out of desperation — he was broke, had no place to go, was hungry, unemployed and had no way to support himself." He added that his family "did not receive monetary support from the [LIFG], but he received food, shelter and an allowance for clothes." He also agreed with previous statements he had made: that he "did not believe in violence," and that he "angrily defined [al-Qaeda's] leadership and members as 'savages' who twist the meaning of Islam, thereby hurting all Muslims."
Although al-Qassim stated that a Libyan delegation, who visited Guantánamo in 2004 (and were actually flown there by the CIA), told him that they "knew he was with the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group only by name," that he was "obligated to be with them," and that they would "take care of him," he repeatedly told his Assisting Military Officer that he was "afraid of returning to Libya." His AMO reported, "He said he does not want to go to Libya because he feels he cannot trust them and because they put people in prison for no reason. He said he feels that if he returns to Libya, even after being released by the United States, he would be sent back to prison." Such was his concern that the Presiding Officer noted, "For the record, make sure that we put in our report that the Detainee is afraid of returning to Libya."
In spite of this, the US government sought to repatriate al-Qassim, and his lawyers — at the Center for Constitutional Rights — fought a legal battle for over three years to prevent his forcible return. In a court filing in December 2008 (PDF), they noted his ongoing legal limbo:
The Government has cleared him for transfer from Guantánamo, and has twice attempted to repatriate him to Libya, the country from which he fled to Afghanistan more than a decade ago in order to avoid religious persecution. Petitioner has a credible fear that he will be subject to imprisonment, torture and possible summary execution if he is forcibly returned to Libya, and he has resisted all attempts to repatriate him to that country. He remains detained in Camp 6, an isolation facility, more than six years after his detention and nearly two years after the Government's first notice of intent to transfer him out of Guantánamo.
Saleh Sassi: An insignificant adventurer
The third man released in Albania, Saleh bin Hadi Asasi (more commonly known as Saleh Sassi, and also identified in Guantánamo as Sayf bin Abdallah) is a Tunisian, born in 1973, who, like the two men described above, was cleared for release by a military review board under the Bush administration, and by President Obama's Task Force.
A welder and a skilled laborer, he moved to Italy in 1998, hoping to find work and a better life, and settled in Turin, where he secured a work permit and found employment in the construction industry. Apparently persuaded to travel to Afghanistan during a vacation from work, he reportedly spent some time at a mountain outpost north of Kabul, and was later wounded when a truck he was traveling in was shot at. Hospitalized, first in Kabul, and then in Khost, he was transported to the Pakistani border, where he was seized by the Pakistani authorities.
In Guantánamo, as his lawyers at Reprieve noted, he was often held "in brutal conditions." The vast majority of his imprisonment was spent in isolation, which caused him to suffer clinical depression. In discussions with his lawyers, he explained that his imprisonment was "a long and unending nightmare." He was also visited by teams of foreign interrogators — both Italian and Tunisian. In late 2002, Tunisian agents came to Guantánamo and left no doubt about what awaited him if he were to be returned to Tunisia, which included "water torture in the barrel."
What now, and what next?
With the release of these four men, 188 prisoners remain in Guantánamo, but while the Albanian and Spanish governments are to be congratulated for offering homes for men who would otherwise rot in Guantánamo for the rest of their lives, the Italian government, which is only interested in taking prisoners who can be put on trial in Italy (as demonstrated with the transfer of two Tunisians in December) ought to be ashamed that it did not accept Sherif El-Mashad, who was so clearly seized by mistake, and who, with family in Italy and viable skills that he could use once more, has, essentially, been betrayed by the country which he once called home.
Above all, though, the greatest shame must settle on the United States, which still refuses to accept its own responsibility to provide new homes for cleared prisoners who cannot be repatriated. The exact number of prisoners in this category is difficult to establish, because the Obama administration has not provided details of the nationalities of these prisoners (who now number 106). When the Task Force announced its final decisions about the prisoners last month, it was reported that around 60 of the 106 are Yemenis. These men will not be released until the Obama administration finds some spine, having capitulated to fearmongering about Yemen after the failed plane bomb at Christmas, and suspending all further releases to Yemen. Back in October, it was reported that three others are Saudis (who, in theory, could be returned tomorrow), which means that around 42 of the cleared prisoners are awaiting new homes.
Two of these, who have been offered a new home in Switzerland, are amongst the remaining seven Uighurs, another is an Uzbek who has been offered a new home in Latvia, and three others (plus one of the Yemenis) are, as mentioned above, expected to arrive in Spain shortly. However, that still leaves 36 men waiting for new homes, and it seems probable that the countries of Europe, which, before Wednesday, had taken 12 cleared prisoners (with Bermuda and Palau also taking another ten of the Uighurs), will run out of largesse before all 36 are rehoused, leaving the US government — and its people — with a stark choice: hold them forever, or, as was planned last April (before Obama scuppered the proposal), bring some of them to live in the United States.
This is not only the right thing to do; it will also demonstrate to the American people — and to its surplus of hysterical pundits and politicians — that not everyone who was held at Guantánamo was a terrorist, bent on the destruction of the United States. Why is it, I wonder, that Europeans — in Albania, Belgium, France, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland — can understand that between 90 and 95 percent of the men held at Guantánamo had no connection to terrorism, and that many of these men are still imprisoned, awaiting an end to their long and lawless ordeal, but Americans cannot?
Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US, and available from Amazon — click on the following for the US and the UK). To receive new articles in your inbox, please subscribe to my RSS feed (and I can also be found on Facebook and Twitter). Also see my definitive Guantánamo prisoner list, updated in January 2010, details about the new documentary film, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo" (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, and launched in October 2009), and, if you appreciate my work, feel free to make a donation.
As published on the Huffington Post and Antiwar.com. Cross-posted on AlterNet, Common Dreams, The Public Record, Axis of Logic.
See the following for articles about the 142 prisoners released from Guantánamo from June 2007 to January 2009, and the 48 prisoners released from February 2009 to January 2010, whose stories are covered in more detail than is available anywhere else –- either in print or on the Internet –- although many of them, of course, are also covered in The Guantánamo Files: June 2007 –- 2 Tunisians, 4 Yemenis (here, here and here); July 2007 –- 16 Saudis; August 2007 –- 1 Bahraini, 5 Afghans; September 2007 –- 16 Saudis; September 2007 –- 1 Mauritanian; September 2007 –- 1 Libyan, 1 Yemeni, 6 Afghans; November 2007 –- 3 Jordanians, 8 Afghans; November 2007 –- 14 Saudis; December 2007 –- 2 Sudanese; December 2007 –- 13 Afghans (here and here); December 2007 –- 3 British residents; December 2007 –- 10 Saudis; May 2008 –- 3 Sudanese, 1 Moroccan, 5 Afghans (here, here and here); July 2008 –- 2 Algerians; July 2008 –- 1 Qatari, 1 United Arab Emirati, 1 Afghan; August 2008 –- 2 Algerians; September 2008 –- 1 Pakistani, 2 Afghans (here and here); September 2008 –- 1 Sudanese, 1 Algerian; November 2008 –- 1 Kazakh, 1 Somali, 1 Tajik; November 2008 –- 2 Algerians; November 2008 –- 1 Yemeni (Salim Hamdan) repatriated to serve out the last month of his sentence; December 2008 –- 3 Bosnian Algerians; January 2009 –- 1 Afghan, 1 Algerian, 4 Iraqis; February 2009 — 1 British resident (Binyam Mohamed); May 2009 — 1 Bosnian Algerian (Lakhdar Boumediene); June 2009 — 1 Chadian (Mohammed El-Gharani), 4 Uighurs to Bermuda, 1 Iraqi, 3 Saudis (here and here); August 2009 — 1 Afghan (Mohamed Jawad), 2 Syrians to Portugal; September 2009 — 1 Yemeni, 2 Uzbeks to Ireland (here and here); October 2009 — 1 Kuwaiti, 1 prisoner of undisclosed nationality to Belgium; October 2009 — 6 Uighurs to Palau; November 2009 — 1 Bosnian Algerian to France, 1 unidentified Palestinian to Hungary, 2 Tunisians to Italian custody; December 2009 — 1 Kuwaiti (Fouad al-Rabiah); December 2009 — 2 Somalis, 4 Afghans, 6 Yemenis; January 2010 — 2 Algerians, 3 prisoners of undisclosed nationality to Slovakia, 1 unidentified Uzbek to Switzerland.
Posted in Asylum in Europe, Closing Guantanamo, Egyptians in Guantanamo, Guantanamo, Libyans in Guantanamo, Palestinians in Guantanamo, Prisoners released from Guantanamo, Tunisians in Guantanamo
Susan says...
I would like to start a website too. A small one maybe. Of course nothing as extensive as yours. Do you have a suggestion about how to begin deciding on where on the web to go?
I'm actually thrilled to see these Guantanamo victims freed & so are those who have worked with you & me to help this process. I'm wanting to see Mr. Aamer next. I'm excited because a whole community of people may be joining together to help this effort too. I'm wondering from the conversations I have with the very few people who agree with everything the propagandized news stations say, if the reason U.S. citizens don't see issues in the opposite alignment with the rest of the world is because they have believed the lie about being superior to everywhere else in the world. It is scary because sometimes such arrogance can cause people to be illiterate, wrong and lonely. They or We think everyone is out to get us because we are the main country with freedom, money and Christianity, even though we have more people in private prisons than nearly every other country. We think we don't need to fix our healthcare and agricultural system because its better than everyone else's, even though we have more people with diseases and no insurance and many eating disorders and cancers from the pesticide food & contaminated water.
...on February 28th, 2010 at 6:01 am
Good to hear from you, and I believe you're onto something about the dangers of a sense of superiority in the US.
As for starting a website — a blog — I'd suggest that WordPress, which I use, is a good option, or perhaps Blogger, which is a Google blog. Both are free and easy to use and set up, but you may want to find a techie-minded friend to give you a bit of advice at the beginning.
Let me know how it goes!
...on February 28th, 2010 at 11:59 am
Guantanamo update « The Lift – Legal Issues in the Fight against Terrorism says...
[…] here for more background information on the four […]
...on March 14th, 2010 at 11:08 am
Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Adel Al-Gazzar Returns Home To Egypt And Is Arrested - OpEd says...
[…] how grimly ironic it was that al-Gazzar — and another cleared Egyptian, Sharif al-Mishad, who was released in Albania in February 2010 — couldn't be repatriated because of fears that they would be tortured by the same torturers […]
...on June 15th, 2011 at 1:05 am
Exiled Guantánamo Uighurs In Hamburg Art Exhibition - OpEd says...
[…] new homes in 15 countries with which they had no previous association. Ten of these countries — Albania, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland […]
...on July 2nd, 2011 at 6:02 pm
Greetings Andy!
You have probably already come across these press reports. Sharif Mashad is reported to been forbidden to leave Albania. He has written assurances from the new Egyptian government that he won't face repercussions if he returns to Egypt.
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/321759
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/albania-unlawfully-denies-ex-guantanamo-prisoner-return-to-egypt
...on March 26th, 2012 at 11:23 pm
Thanks, arcticredriver. I had seen the reports, but I haven't had time to put anything up here. Thanks for getting in touch!

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This report presents the findings of research into the risks to delivery of WASH results posed by climate change in Africa, drawing on rapid case study reviews of WASH programming in Malawi, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. A separate Case Study Report provides further detail on country background and findings.
Water is predicted to be the main channel through which the impacts of climate change will be felt by people, ecosystems and economies. However, predicting impacts on the availability and quality of freshwater resources, and more so water-dependent services and sanitation, remains difficult. While there is a high level of confidence in the processes linking emissions to warming, much less is known about how warming will manifest itself at the local level through changes in rainfall, runoff, groundwater recharge and climate extremes. This reflects challenges with the downscaling of climate models, but also the significance of intervening factors such as changes in land cover which may have a greater influence on local systems and services than climate change. In general, the level of confidence in climate change projections decreases as their potential utility for making decisions on how to adapt increases (OECD, 2013).
At the same time, the rapid increase in awareness and concern about climate change, and the need to identify concrete adaptation responses, risks driving demand for certainty beyond what the science community can realistically achieve (Conway, 2011). What is clear, however, is that existing levels of climate variability, together with other pressures on resources and services, already cause major problems. These will undoubtedly get worse as climate change intensifies and other pressures increase, with the result that hard-won public health and poverty alleviation gains could be lost (Howard et al, 2010; Calow et al, 2011).
Against this background, Section 1 of this report begins by looking at the WASH landscape, the gains made, but also some of the bottlenecks that hold back progress. In view of their importance and the sums of money involved, it is remarkable how little is known about the performance of services, why they so often fail, and the resources they depend on. For example, donor-supported programmes across Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) prioritise both service extension and rehabilitation, but do so with little if any evidence on performance or the causes of failure.
Given the uncertainties with rainfall projections, but also the known risks associated with existing variability, there are strong arguments for a vulnerability rather than an impact-led approach to risk assessment and planning. This implies a stronger focus on ensuring the reliability and protection of drinking water sources and simple changes to latrine design to reduce the risks of flooding under current climate variability as a first step towards adaptation through relatively low cost changes in design or practice. Where long term investment decisions are involved, e.g. with dams, treatment works and piped networks, a greater range of variability should be considered to avoid costly mistakes. In terms of economic appraisal, longer time frames and the need to balance current costs with more distant benefits raise questions around the appropriate discount rates to apply.
How can this be achieved, and what needs to change? While there is a proliferation of toolkits and guidance on climate change adaptation, there is remarkably little on WASH, or on the practical substance of adaptation more widely (Fankhauser & Burton, 2011). Moreover, what there is has focused almost exclusively on system vulnerability and technical change. The technical emphasis mirrors a wider trend in adaptation policy: specifically the preference for concrete and more readily identifiable (and measurable) things, and the reduction of adaptation policy to lists of analytical, planning and delivery processes that need technical know-how to make them work (Lockwood, 2013). As Section 1 makes clear, however, it is far from clear that a lack of technical capacity (or the toolkits that support it) are the most pressing constraints. Rather, we see problems with the ability to deliver basic public services, resilient or not. Hence the argument, summarised in Section 1, to reframe the problem: from climate change and WASH to WASH governance in an era of climate change.
Having looked at the context for adaptation decision-making in WASH, Section 2 of the report looks at the risks to delivery of WASH results in three countries: Malawi, Sierra Leone and Tanzania. In each country, the aim was to canvass opinion on a risk screening approach that could be applied by programme designers and implementers to identify and mitigate risks. In light of the discussion above the approach considered climate change in context – as one of a number of threats affecting WASH outcomes - and focused also on WASH institutions and governance. The approach is relatively simple and straightforward to apply and is based on a two-step process. Step 1 is a national level assessment of risks to WASH that can be set out as a 'traffic light' scorecard, using documented indicators of vulnerability and expert judgment. Step 2 attempts to determine the extent to which a WASH programme addresses key risks and vulnerabilities, again using a simple scoring system, documented evidence and expert judgment. This helps identify adaptation options or measures. Guidance on the approach and how to apply it is presented in Appendix B. While the scorecard approach is not intended for country comparisons, and the focus of the country visits was on the screening approach rather than results and option identification, a number of common issues emerge from the country consultations.
Firstly, while there is a general awareness of climate risk in all three countries, there are opportunities to translate this into practical measures that could increase the resilience of WASH programmes. In terms of longer term climate change, uncertainties in climate projections present perhaps an entirely rational barrier to prioritisation, at least for simple systems with a design life of 10-20 years (Conway, 2011). However, this is more difficult to justify given the widely perceived impact current climate variability already has on WASH results. While the causes of service failure or under-performance can be difficult to unravel, floods undoubtedly cause sanitation systems to overflow, result in damage to infrastructure and create widespread health problems. Existing seasonality of rainfall affects the performance of springs and shallow wells tapping smaller groundwater systems with low storage, leading to water rationing and use of unsafe sources. And environmental degradation exacerbated by intense rainfall events clearly impacts on infrastructure and poses a longer term threat to the resource base. In all three countries, simple steps could be taken to mitigate some of these risks, identified in the country workshops and Step 2 of the screening process. Addressing issues such as catchment protection, water resources management and the lack of basic knowledge on resource conditions and trends will take longer, but is essential as climate change accelerates and competition for water grows (Howard et al, 2010; Calow et al, 2011).
Secondly, the risk screening process suggests that existing political and institutional bottlenecks act as a serious brake on service delivery and sustainability. An effective central state remains important for adaptation because of its direct role in allocating resources and setting incentives. Effective local government is necessary to deliver services, or oversee their provision by others. Yet capacity constraints continue to block pathways to better WASH outcomes. These include the ability to supervise construction and enforce standards, and the ability (and incentive) to build and use a knowledge base on local climate, water resource conditions and pressures, and environmental conditions more generally. These bottlenecks are being addressed in partnership with government in each of the country programmes. Overcoming them is central to the delivery of more resilient water and sanitation services – arguably more so than technical change alone.
Section 3 of the report looks at the use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) as a means of appraising the adaptation options prioritised through the risk screening process. The value of CBA lies in its ability to narrow the scope for 'pure judgement', providing a more secure and transparent basis for investment decision-making. However, robust CBA requires reasonable data on what would happen to WASH interventions and outcomes 'with' and 'without' adaptation. Since there are few hard data linking climate to WASH outcomes, and the current study was based on very limited time in-country, the examples provided in this report are indicative. The main aim is to show how CBA could be used as an appraisal tool, alongside risk screening, to identify a broad set of adaptation options and then go about prioritising them.
The approach outlined in Section 3 focuses on potentially low regret interventions that could be expected to offer significant economic benefits under a range of different climate futures (IPPC, 2012). These include changes to water point construction, and simple changes to the design of sanitation systems. These are termed Best Practice (options) under Existing and Increasing Climate Variability (BPEICV), and are compared with Business as Usual (BAU) baselines in which low regrets measures are not implemented. This provides us with the 'with' vs. 'without' comparison needed to identify differences in costs and benefits. Also considered are a number of softer adaptation options, including better catchment management, flood risk mapping and hydro-meteorological data collection, where benefit estimation and attribution become more difficult.
The low regrets measures tend to increase net benefits relative to the BAU case, with benefits estimated using Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) averted and projected time savings. Global studies have shown that these comprise the largest proportion of benefits of WASH interventions. The simplest CBA applications described in Section 3 take the form of a 'discrete option analyses' in which the impact of a single type of intervention within a WASH programme is examined. In the Tanzania case, the best practice intervention involves improved, drought-resistant construction of boreholes for rural water supply. This incurs additional upfront costs in the form of deeper drilling and the supervision of contractors, but results in an uninterrupted stream of benefits over a 10 year period, compared with a baseline in which drought results in the failure of the source, loss of benefits and extra rehabilitation costs. In this illustration, the benefit-cost ratio (BCR) rises from roughly 1.4 to 1.7 with the intervention – a modest increase. Discrete option analysis is also used to show how the performance of alternative rural sanitation designs can be evaluated. In Malawi, raising and lining rural latrines in a (hypothetical) flood-prone area incurs additional costs but is assumed to prevent most flood-induced collapses. The result is an increase in the BCR from 2.1 to 2.9. In each case, assumptions (e.g. around flood frequency and severity) can be changed to see how sensitive the results are to key variables.
More challenging programme-level CBAs are illustrated for Malawi and Sierra Leone that include several (linked) interventions. In the Sierra Leone case, for example, CBA is applied to flood risk mapping and improved (flood resistant) latrine design in the informal settlements of Freetown, assuming major floods occur every five years. In the Malawi example, the most detailed of the three country illustrations, data on the functionality of rural water supplies over time and likely causes of failure are used to identify benefits that could be attributed to investments in (climate-sensitive) water resources assessment, monitoring and catchment protection that might increase the functionality of water points. In both cases, BCRs increase with the interventions compared with the no intervention baseline, in the Malawi case from around 2.8 to 3.1 over a 20 year period, and in Sierra Leone from 2.3 to 2.7. Again, key variables such as flood and drought frequency, the costs of infrastructure damage and the benefits arising from uninterrupted access to services can be changed as better data become available. Although these worked examples are tentative, the findings suggest that adaptation pays: across all three countries and in each CBA illustration, investment in additional adaptation (the difference between best practice and business as usual) incurs extra upfront costs, but leads to greater future benefits over modest (10-20 year) time horizons.
In terms of next steps, it is important to highlight the limitations of the research presented and the gaps that need to be filled. Firstly, the risk screening approach outlined in Section 2 attempts to be both simple enough to be applied quickly, and detailed enough to provide useful insight into programme design. This is a difficult balance, and the end result may be too generic for some. An obvious way forward would be to provide a programme breakdown between rural water supply, rural sanitation, urban water supply and urban sanitation along the lines of WSP's Country Status Overview (WSP, 2011). This could replace or supplement Step 2 – the programme level assessment.
Secondly, the economic analysis could be strengthened and extended in a number of ways, since this report provides only a preliminary set of examples. Sticking to relatively simple options such as water point construction and latrine design, the aim would be to flesh out some damage/failure functions based on previous climate events, assembling available data and case histories on what happened to WASH infrastructure and services during and after flood or drought episodes (for example). Using a stronger mix of primary and secondary data than we were able to gather here, future investment scenarios and sensitivity tests could then be prepared, using different frequencies of extremes, or increasing the damage function to represent more intense extremes in the future. This could also inform decisions around whether to invest heavily in upfront climate proofing, or accept damage and cost 'spikes' associated with the periodic repair or rehabilitation of less robust, lower cost infrastructure.
End-to-end assessment of national-level WASH policies and major donor portfolios in three countries, using many of the AGWA principles as they existed in 2013.
Finally, Section 4 of the report summarises the main conclusions of the project and identifies some next steps in terms of the application of research findings and further research needs. A main conclusion is that clear opportunities exist to increase the resilience of WASH, and that adaptation should start with the measures that tackle existing climate risks that countries such as Malawi, Tanzania and Sierra Leone already face. A key argument is that many of these measures, such as improved siting, design and construction of water points, or changes in latrine design, are relatively simple, if capacity exists to implement. The preliminary CBA conducted on this project suggests that such measures are likely to bring positive returns, even over short time periods. Perhaps more importantly, the report illustrates how CBA can be used to compare the costs and benefits of different adaptation measures, and how sensitivity analysis can be applied to see how results change under different scenarios and assumptions. From a policy angle, the distinction drawn between 'Business as Usual' programme design and 'Best Practice under Existing and Future Climate Variability' may also be helpful in defining - and putting a monetary value on – additionality. That is, the demand from developing countries for adaptation to be supported over and above Official Development Assistance (ODA), and the need for developed countries to ensure that any additional finance is used to reduce vulnerability to climate change specifically.


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Faking It never felt so good in this red-hot new standalone by New York Times bestselling author K. Bromberg.
FAKING IT is coming to audio first September 25th and we have the hot new cover!
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Zane Phillips mistook me for his dog walker. It shouldn't surprise me that the man with a suit more expensive than my rent would assume that I was there to serve him. The positive? I put him in his place. The negative? I missed my job interview because of it. Now I find out he's a rich Australian entrepreneur, and he wants to make up for tanking my interview.
Yes, he's impossibly hot – but he's also an arrogant jackass – so…no thanks.
But after a little white lie I tell spirals out of control, I'm somehow offered the chance to play Zane's girlfriend to help promote his new dating website – and the best part? He can't say no because he'll get caught in his lie, too.
Little did I know this would entail sharing a tour bus with him for the next few months. The fact that the bus has just one bed isn't the most ideal of circumstances, but this spokesperson gig might be the kick in the pants my career needs, so why not take a chance?
Famous last words.
Now I'm crisscrossing the country – and sharing that bed – with the one guy I can't stand. And even worse, my traitorous body is wondering at every turn what it's like to be down under the gorgeous Australian. But as the miles unfurl, so does our passion…and if I'm not careful, I might end up believing that fairy tales really do come true.
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Q: Spring WS Client — Authentication using KeyStore/TrustStore and Credentials (Basic Auth) I have a Spring WS client that needs to authenticate using a keystore/trustore combination and also via basic auth.
This is the relevant Spring config that I currently have:
@Configuration
public class SpringWSConfig {
  @Bean
  public Jaxb2Marshaller jaxb2Marshaller() {
    Jaxb2Marshaller marshaller = new Jaxb2Marshaller();
    marshaller.setPackagesToScan("io.shido.credit.domain");
    return marshaller;
  }

  @Bean
  public WebServiceTemplate webServiceTemplate() throws Exception {
    final WebServiceTemplate template = new WebServiceTemplate(jaxb2Marshaller(), jaxb2Marshaller());
    template.setDefaultUri("https://domain.tld/SVC/data");
    //template.setMessageSenders(new WebServiceMessageSender[]{ messageSender(), messageSender2() });
    //template.setInterceptors(new ClientInterceptor[] { wss4jSecurityInterceptor() });
    template.setMessageSender(messageSender());
    return template;
  }

  @Bean
  public HttpsUrlConnectionMessageSender messageSender() throws Exception {
    HttpsUrlConnectionMessageSender messageSender = new HttpsUrlConnectionMessageSender();
    messageSender.setTrustManagers(trustManagersFactoryBean().getObject()); // set the trust store(s)
    messageSender.setKeyManagers(keyManagersFactoryBean().getObject()); // set the key store(s)
    return messageSender;
  }

This works for the keystore/trustore part. I'm able to do the SSL handshake successfully, but right now I'm getting an HTTP 401 (Unauthorized). So I tried:

*

*To have multiple senders; one of them HttpComponentsMessageSender with the username and password on it...but it doesn't work

*To configure a ClientInterceptor with some Wss4jSecurityInterceptor config/settings...also doesn't work

*To use a sender that inherits from HttpsUrlConnectionMessageSender, add a username and password fields, overwrite prepareConnection and set connection.setRequestProperty to use an Authorization header. This time I get an HTTP 405 (Method Not Allowed)
Any clues how to do this?

A: I ended up creating a new class and injecting it as a message sender in the Spring's WebServiceTemplate. That solves the HTTP 401 (Unauthorized) — don't quite remember about the HTTP 405 (Method Not Allowed).
@Bean
public HttpsUrlConnectionMessageSender messageSender() throws Exception {
  HttpsUrlConnectionMessageSender messageSender = new BasicAuthHttpsConnectionMessageSender(username, password);
  // ...
  return messageSender;
}

// You might need org.springframework.ws:spring-ws-support in order to
// have HttpsUrlConnectionMessageSender
public final class BasicAuthHttpsConnectionMessageSender extends HttpsUrlConnectionMessageSender {
  private String b64Creds;

  public BasicAuthHttpsConnectionMessageSender(String username, String password) {
    b64Creds = Base64.getUrlEncoder().encodeToString((username + ":" + password).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
  }

  @Override
  protected void prepareConnection(HttpURLConnection connection) throws IOException {
    connection.setRequestProperty(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, String.format("Basic %s", b64Creds));
    super.prepareConnection(connection);
  }
}

Refer to this answer also for more info. Both are related (if not almost the same).

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Home Criminal Indian Penal Code Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code
Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code
Bharati T V
The Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 1983 introduced Chapter XX-A to the Indian Penal Code. This new Chapter provided for offences of cruelty by husband or relatives of husband. Section 498A was inserted into the Code under the said Chapter. The Supreme Court has observed that this Section has given a new dimension to the concept of cruelty for the purposes of matrimonial remedies and the type of conduct described in this provision is relevant to prove cruelty[i].
The provision under section 498A considers the following aspects as cruelty by husband or his relatives-
1. A willful conduct by husband or his relatives to drive the woman to commit suicide or to cause her grave injury or danger to life, limb or health. It is to be noted that health under this section includes physical as well as the mental health of the woman.
2. Harassment of woman with a view to coerce her to give or get any unlawful demand for any property or valuable security. The provision also covers the coercion imposed on the persons related to woman to meet the same unlawful demands of the husband or his relatives.
The wrongful demand by husband or his relatives may not always be as a marriage demand. In the case of State of Punjab v. Daljit Singh[ii], the Court held that demand for money after four years of marriage for a specific purpose, nowhere related to marriage demand but causing harassment to wife so much that she was made to end her life is sufficient for conviction under section 498A.
Thus, the offence of cruelty by husband or his relative is not added as an offence against marriage under Chapter XX. The section 498A provides a wider protection than being just a matrimonial remedy. Therefore, all harassments and violence against women while demanding for money or any other valuables are considered as cruelty under this provision.
In B. S. Joshi v. State of Haryana[iii], the Supreme Court while discussing the object of introducing Chapter XX-A observed that, Section 498A was added with a view to punish the husband or his relatives who harass the wife to coerce her or her relatives to satisfy unlawful demands of dowry and the object of introducing the section was to prevent the torture to a woman by her husband or his relatives.
Prospective effect of the provision-
The provision under Section 498A applies prospectively and not retrospectively. The requirement for the application of this provision is the continuance of marriage. In the case of Prasanna Kumar v. Dhanalaxmi[iv], the Court where a dowry harassment which had ended in March 1983 by the husband disserting his wife before the new provision came into force in 1983 held that to be not covered under this section. This clearly described that the new provision does not have retrospective effect.
Further, in the case of Vasanta Tulshiram Bhoyar v. State of Maharashtra[v], the Court held that where the relationship of marriage is continuing, the events of cruelty taking place prior to the amendment can be covered under the new provision. But this application does not mean that the new provision has retrospective effect.
Section 498A of IPC and Sections 2(1) and 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961-
The provisions under the Dowry Prohibition Act necessarily requires that dowry should have been given or agreed to be given. But in case of provision under section 498A of IPC mere demand for dowry is considered as an offence. The explanation (2) to section 498A mentions the words 'demand for property or valuable security' which clarifies that mere demand for dowry is an offence under section 498A unlike the provisions of Dowry Prohibition Act which requires payment of dowry or dowry agreed to be paid.
In the case of Vadde Rama Rao v. State of Andhra Pradesh[vi], it was on record that the husband accompanied his wife to his in-law's home to ask for the unpaid balance dowry and also demanded for additional dowry. On the way back to her husband's home, wife disappeared and her parents lodged a missing complaint. Later the body of the wife was found in a river. The court held that the death of the wife was directly in relation to the harassment by the husband while he coerced her and her parents to give dowry and convicted the husband under section 498A.
The section not only covers the case of harassment to a wife, but it also covers the cruelty to a mistress. In the case of Vamgarla Yedukondala v. State of Andhra Pradesh[vii], the court held that if the cruelty or harassment of the kind described in the section is meted out to a mistress which leads her to commit suicide, then the section would cover her case also.
Punishment for the offence under section 498A-
The provision further prescribes punishment for the offence of cruelty by husband or his relatives. The punishment is imprisonment for a term which may extend to 3 years and also liable to fine.
Is the offence of cruelty by husband or his relatives under section 498A compoundable?
The offence under section 498A is non-compoundable. But the State Amendment of Andhra Pradesh has classified the offence under section 498A as compoundable. The State Amendment provides that where the wife has condoned the matrimonial cruelty of which she was a victim and has resumed consortium with her husband, the court will permit to compound the complaint.
In the case of Thathupadi Venkatalakshmi v. State of Andhra Pradesh[viii], the court held that if the wife has resumed consortium with husband by condoning him of the offence of cruelty, the court will not obstruct the wife from taking back the complaint. But if the police have filed the charge-sheet, then wife shall not be permitted to withdraw the charge-sheet.
Edited by Sakshi Agarwal
[i]Shobha Rani v. MadhukarReddi, AIR 1988 SC 121
[ii] 1999 Cr LJ 2723 (P&H)
[iii] AIR 2003 SC 1386
[iv] 1989 Cr LJ 1829 Mad
[v] 1987 Cr LJ 901 Bom
[vi] 1990 Cr LJ 1666 AP
[vii] 1988 Cr LJ 1538 AP
[viii] 1991 Cr LJ 749
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I have misplaced the original charger that came with the VP8. I always use my Amazon Kindle charger for my cell phone and also for my VP8 since I bought it last October.
Well, I purchased a Plugable Pro 8 Charging and Docking station. I unboxed it, plugged in the wall outlet, and plugged the VP8 to the microUSB plug with the other end of the cord into the USB socket.
No charging light! ARGH! So I plugged the VP8 into the Amazon Kindle charger plugged into the wall. Charging light comes on!
Then, I take the Amazon Kindle charger out of the wall, remove the USBtoAC plug and plug the USB end into the Plugable Pro8 Charging and Docking station. NO CHARGING LIGHT. ARGH.
So I take the Amazon cable and plug it into a USB socket on my Lenovo laptop. NO CHARGING LIGHT. I try three other USB cables with microUSB to the VP8 and the other end plugged into the USB socket of my Lenovo laptop. NO CHARGING LIGHT.
What the...? Does the VP8 not charge from a 5V USB source? That is going to render my Plugable Pro8 as worthless.
A typical USB laptop port provides limited power--only around a quarter of the amperage that the DV8P wants. And so the charging via your laptop may be occurring (slowly) but the charging light not lighting--or there just may not be enough power to start the charging process.
As to Plugable, I would contact them, as they seem to aim to please, and my understanding is that the device indeed should work as you attempted.
The Venue 8 Pro needs a 10 watt charger. At 5 volts that comes to 2 amps, so look for a charger rated at 2.1 amps. A USB port on your computer isn't going to cut it.
Working well: the Blackberry Playbook charger available thru Amazon.com, at a very reasonable price; 1.8 Amps but still just fine. With a 6' attached cable and foldaway blades.


[Oslo, Norway, July 11, 2018, NRC] "South Sudan's Independence Day is overshadowed by conflict and an unprecedented humanitarian crisis,'' said Country Director for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Rehana Zawar. NRC calls for the recent peace deal to deliver real change.
Seven years after South Sudan's independence, over four million people have been displaced and 7.6 million people are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance. NRC calls for parties to the conflict in South Sudan to ensure the recent peace deal actually brings an end to fighting and displacement.
South Sudan has one of the high rates of out of school children in the world with 2.2 million children unable to access education.
There are on average 7 reported cases of sexual and gender based violence every day.
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Demand for ready-made reefers is strong despite health concerns around smoking, suggesting the pre-roll product category is a burgeoning area for growth resembling the early commercial tobacco days when smokers shifted away from rolling their own cigarettes.
"Pre-rolls are rock stars. Pre-rolls are still in high demand, although supply has been low," said James Burns, chief executive of Alcanna Inc., which owns five NOVA Cannabis stores in Alberta.
Canada's national cannabis supply shortage prevents stores from offering larger amounts of pre-rolls, though retailers expect demand will remain strong when the amount of available pot increases.
Alberta Gaming, Liquor and Cannabis (AGLC), the province's sole recreational marijuana wholesaler that is in the midst of an overall shortage, sells out of pre-rolls "almost instantly" whenever they get them in stock, a spokeswoman said.
"Pre-rolls will grow substantially as a percentage of total sales based on what we've seen in U.S. states," said Tom Adams, managing director of BDS Analytics.
Consumer feedback and testing shows that people like the so-called entourage effect, which is when all of the plant's compounds interact with the human body. In contrast, other cannabis products contain specific compounds that have been extracted from the plant to produce more isolated effects.
"Through consumer feedback and testing, the industry's finding out that people like that entourage effect. It will keep smoking flower in the game forever because it will be hard to perfectly match this entourage effect," Mr. Adams said.
In Arizona, California, Colorado, and Oregon, BDS Analytics' GreenEdge point-of-sale tracking data show pre-rolls made up roughly 6.6 per cent of pot sales the past three years, up from 3.5 per cent in 2015.
In Canada, this would equate to US$310-million in sales in 2022, if recreational pot purchases reach the US$4.7-billion as forecast by Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics.
In five states where adult-use cannabis is legal, 100 million pre-rolled joints were sold in 2018 at an average retail price of US$7.73 each, with single packs the most popular size, BDS data show.
Of the 75,000 Canadian cannabis reviews gathered by Lift & Co, 30 per cent said they preferred smoking joints. In 2018, it was the most preferred method of consumption by those aged 35 to 44.
"Pre-rolls are a very popular product and we often sell out of the highest potency strains within two or three days, although we consistently have stock of the more balanced products for perhaps the novice or casual consumer, who might prefer those," said Jason Kostiw, spokesman for High Tide Inc., which owns Canna Cabana stores.
Customers have told High Tide they like the convenience and small portions that pre-rolls offer.
"The vast majority of cannabis consumed on the illicit market is smoking. As people move to the legal market, they're looking for some of the convenience that you get from pre-rolls," said David Abernathy, vice-president of data for Arcview Group in California.
Mr. Abernathy expects pre-roll sales in Canada will be similarly popular.


TTM Technologies, Inc. Asia Pacific's Silicon Platforms divison in Shanghai receives best supplier award from SEMCO (Samsung Electro Mec Hanics Co., LTD.) for outstanding technical support. | TTM Technologies, Inc.
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TTM Technologies, Inc. Asia Pacific's Silicon Platforms divison in Shanghai receives best supplier award from SEMCO (Samsung Electro Mec Hanics Co., LTD.) for outstanding technical support.
HONG KONG - April 3, 2012 - TTM Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: TTMI) announced that its Silicon Platforms facility in Shanghai ("SMST - SP") was presented with the 2011 Best Supplier Award for Best Product Innovation by SEMCO (Samsung Electro Mechanics Co., Ltd.) in recognition of its contribution and outstanding technical support for printed circuit boards. Eight other suppliers were also recognized by SEMCO for supplier excellence at an event in Suwon, Korea on Mar 30, 2012.
SMST - SP, a member of TTM Technologies, Inc. under the Asia Pacific Business Unit was established in 2002 to focus on the advanced technology IC substrate market including CSP, BOC, SIP, RF and memory modules. SMST- SP is located in Shanghai with about 900 employees.
TTM Technologies, Inc. is a major global printed circuit board manufacturer, focusing on quick-turn and technologically advanced PCBs and the backplane and sub-system assembly business. TTM stands for time-to-market, representing how the company's time-critical, one-stop manufacturing services enable customers to shorten the time required to develop new products and bring them to market. Additional information can be found at www.ttmtech.com/.


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Those are the first of the strawberries from the patch in the backyard. If I don't get some bird netting, they may be the last too. Anyone else having trouble with the birds eating the berries?
Have you ever made a recipe that you just weren't sure about? Even while I was baking this, I didn't know if it would be good or not. I had the idea to change up the recipe for Tuxedo Bars and I had a strawberry cake mix in the pantry. Chocolate and strawberries go together, right?
I asked about the cake on Facebook, just to see if others thought it sounded good. I also wanted to know what kind of icing to put on it. I couldn't decide between chocolate, vanilla or strawberry. After reading all the opinions of readers on the EaH Facebook page, I decided to go with strawberry icing.
The result was marvelous! The fresh strawberry frosting really set off the cake and the mini chocolate chips gave it just enough chocolate flavor. This makes a 15×10 inch sheet cake, so it's great for a crowd. But I think it would also freeze well, if you have more than you can eat.


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Q: while using OnEachRow it not rollback entries from second table if database error occur laravel excel if their error comes it rollback the entries from the first table. but it does not roll back the entries from the second table.
Can anyone guide how it is possible?
what my case.
if their error comes it rollback the entries from the agent table. but it does not roll back the entries from the payment table.

To create this error I hardcoded the value for the third row and set the status value to null. but status only takes an integer value why it creates the error.

it gives an error  Incorrect integer value: '' for column 'status'
but it rollback entries form agent table but not from payment table

class noteImport implements OnEachRow {

    public function onRow(Row $row){
        $row = $row->toArray();

            $Option = [
            "firstpay" => 1,
            "amount" => 1,
            "payment_type" => 1,
            "info" => "1",
            "enter_date" => date('y/m/d'),
            "recieve_date" => date('y/m/d'),
            "status" => $row['srno'] != 3 ? 1 : "",
            ];

            $agent = Agent::create([
            "agent_code" => "1",
            "name" => "1",
            "address" => "1",
            "phone" => 454,
            "password" => "asd",
            "upload" => "1",
            "status" => 1,
            ]);

        $agent->payment()->create($Option);
    }
}


Recent reporting in the Wall Street Journal that President Trump "has given the Central Intelligence Agency secret new authority to conduct drone strikes against suspected terrorists" is causing a lot of hand-wringing. Should it?
An article by Mark Mazzetti and Eric Schmitt in today's New York Times discusses a Pentagon plan for expanding/developing the global basing framework for counterterrorist activities, particularly those involving SOF and "intelligence operatives." This should not come as a surprise.