final String TAG = "send_fallback_sms";
        if (PermissionChecker.checkSelfPermission(context, Manifest.permission.SEND_SMS)!= PermissionChecker.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
            Log.d(TAG, "No permission.");
            return;
        }
        SharedPreferences sharedPreferences = context.getSharedPreferences("data", Context.MODE_PRIVATE);
        String trust_number = sharedPreferences.getString("trusted_phone_number", null);
        if (trust_number == null) {
            Log.i(TAG, "The trusted number is empty.");
            return;
        }
        if (!sharedPreferences.getBoolean("fallback_sms", false)) {
            Log.i(TAG, "Did not open the SMS to fall back.");
            return;
        }
        SmsManager sms_manager;
        if (sub_id == -1) {
            sms_manager = SmsManager.getDefault();
        } else {
            sms_manager = SmsManager.getSmsManagerForSubscriptionId(sub_id);
        }
        ArrayList<String> divideContents = sms_manager.divideMessage(content);
        sms_manager.sendMultipartTextMessage(trust_number, null, divideContents, null, null);

    }
}
Every Monday morning for 14 years my brother was beaten up. The reason? In a school of 700 Man U and Liverpool fans, he was the only West Ham supporter. Every Saturday the Hammers got hammered so, as their sole representative, he did too. Perhaps if he'd seen Green Street, he'd have been inspired to fight back.
Matt (Elijah Wood) is an award-winning journalism major at Harvard, who gets screwed over by his WASP roommate and expelled, so runs away to London to visit his sister Shannon (Claire Forlani). She has married into cockney royalty and acquired some charming in-laws - Stevie Dunham, a wide boy stockbroker, and his brother Pete. With nothing better to do, Matt slips into a Fight Club-esque world of lager-fuelled violence with the Green Street Elite - West Ham's very own "firm" of hardcore football hooligans. Pete's the leader of this gang of loveable ruffians and Matt feels proud when he earns his own nickname - The Yank (he would have been less pleased if he had a better grasp of rhyming slang). He learns the value of loyalty, of standing by your mates, even when it seems wiser to run away very fast, but when loyalties are tested it's no longer just a game. Mucho bloodshed ensues.
Although there's mercifully little football in this, there's also minimal emotional depth. German director Lexi Alexander (yes - a WOMAN!) is a former kickboxing champion and the fight scenes have an intoxicating visual impact, but man cannot live on beer and bloodshed alone.
For an aspiring journo, Matt writes a very dull diary and is so lacking in self-awareness that he fails to recognise his own culpability in the tragic events that unfold. The Dunhams are buggered, but it's okay because Matt has learnt an important lesson. I would have happily given him a good kicking myself.
Charlie Hunnam makes a distractingly girly thug, as Pete. He walks the walk of Liam Gallagher but talks the talk of Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. Odd. On the other hand, Marc Warren is brilliant in the supporting role of Stevie.
It's nice to end on a positive note and this is a refreshingly non-tabloid depiction of hooliganism. They may be aggressive, badly dressed and obsessed with primitive morality, but they also hold down proper jobs and use words of more than two syllables.
Check it out if you think you're hard enough.
A Yank comes to West Ham and learns how to be a hooligan.
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How Good is the Sixers Defense?
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The 2011-12 Sixers lead the entire NBA in point differential. Let that sink in for a second. It's getting close to the point where people are going to have to notice the best team in the league without a star player. The Sixers team defense thus far has put them at the top of the Atlantic Division.
It wasn't long ago that Eddie Jordan glossed over defense in favor of Princeton Offense cramming. Doug Collins came in a year later and installed some of his own systems that led them to being a solid defensive team. But this year, through 7 games against unspectacular competition, they've allowed the fewest points per game including two straight where they've held the Raptors and Pistons to under 75 points.
Is this a case of poor shooting from the opposition? The numbers say teams are shooting 26.3% from three-point range against the Brotherly Lovers and under 40% from the field. That's not, uh, well that's not very good. A ton of credit has to be given to the best wing defender in basketball, Andre Iguodala, but that doesn't explain why everyone else is having their man shoot into a Fisher Price Rim. Excellent team D has been played by Thaddeus Young, Elton Brand, Evan Turner, and even HOLY REPUBLICANS Spencer Hawes. It'd be nice for Dre to get more credit for his world class defense than his mediocre jump shot.
The guard play from Jrue Holiday, Louis Williams and Jodie Meeks hasn't been exactly elite, but the other guys have been picking them up and, let's be honest, it hasn't hurt that they're making one out of every four shots from beyond. I'm inclined to think that yes, the Sixers defense has been quite solid this year. They're typically doubling on one player from the other team (Eric Gordon and LaMarcus Aldridge come to mind) and rotating quickly, closing well on shooters. And for the past million or so years, the Sixers have had some of the worst three-point defense in the league, so it's nice to see them inducing misses.
There's no question that Collins has a goal for what he wants his team to look like. It's why Marreese Speights was traded for a GameCube and Craig Brackins and Andres Nocioni sit on the bench. Collins has kept the offense limited with simple pick-and-rolls and down screens and presumably spent most of his efforts working on defense and trying to generate points off turnovers. This, as a result, has turned the