I've given a lot of thought into how to approach this road trip. My conclusion is that this is a perfect opportunity for me to explore the Southern states that I have never been to before, and to really take my time. I realize that cross country road trips are usually "once in a lifetime" ordeals, but this is actually my second cross country road trip.
The first one was the Summer of 2009, driving San Francisco to Pittsburgh with my boyfriend, with the express purpose of getting his car to Pittsburgh and going to Lollapalooza. With limited time and money, and no doggies, we took the Northern route, camping at the Grand Canyon without a tent and arguing over who had to drive through Nebraska. This time around, I'll still have money in mind, but with no job to get to (or concert to be at) I can take all the time I want. I also know that driving by myself from Raleigh to San Francisco, I have to be realistic about how many hours I can do each day.
There are a few places that I know I will be staying longer than one night. The first is my boyfriend's sister's wedding in Raleigh– I'll be there from May 30th until June 4th. We are staying at a family friend's house, who I've heard also has a dog. Maybe Meeko and Snickers will make a friend?
From there, I am heading to Mt. Juliet, Tennessee to visit my Aunt and Uncle and my cousins. One of my cousins has started a family, but I have never met either of her little boys. I'm very excited to meet my new second cousins! I haven't seen this side of my family in about six years, but with the potential of being in the South for grad school, perhaps I will get to see them more often.
After that, I'll be on my own for a bit, going through Arkansas and Mississippi. I've driven over the Mississippi river once, but this time, I'm going to find a place to stop and hang out by it. Maybe there is a state park along it so I can dip my feet in? If it's not too out of the way, I plan to drive through the campuses of Ole Miss (University of Mississippi in Oxford) and University of Central Arkansas as they are potential MFA programs for me. In my head, living in these places for three years would be a grand adventures, but the realistic side of me says you'd better go check these towns out before you sign any leases!
I've never been to Louisiana, and being a huge Anne Rice/Vampire Chronicles fan, I have this image of Louisiana that a mix of the forest in A Midsummer Night's Dream and James Bond's Live and Let Die. I'm very curious to see New Orleans, to see how reconstruction is going and to find Lousiana State University, one of my dream MFA programs, and University of New Orleans. Continuing west, I'll stop and see McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana.
After a few days in Louisiana I'll drive further south to Corpus Christi, Texas where my sister lives. She's just finished one part of her schooling to become a Navy Pilot! They are deciding which of the planes they want her to fly, which will determine her next step of more specialized training. By this point, I will probably be sick of driving, so staying at my sister's for a week will be a fun mini-vacation for all of us!
Driving through the rest of Texas, I'll head up to the University of New Mexico then west through Arizona. I love the landscapes of the Southwest, especially all of the rock deserts.
What happens next is still undecided. Do I drive along the coast of California along the famous Route 1? Or do I avoid any traffic jams by driving through Nevada? Ashwin votes for California, but I know it would be cheaper and less congested to go the other way.
I plan to make posts each night, and there will be lots of picture taking for each of my stops. I'm very curious to see how this trip will go, especially with two doggies with me, but at this point I've done all of the planning that I can!
← 1 day: This is it!


This new restaurant was built on the UNESCO world heritage site of the Tower of London. Situated on the historic Tower Wharf the building affords spectacular views of the River Thames and Tower Bridge to the South and of the moat and the White Tower to the North.
The constraints of significant archaeological fabric across the site dictated an edge thickened raft foundation cantilevered along one side to avoid loading the fragile moat wall.
Sophisticated foundation modelling was required to ensure bearing pressures remained within limits and to predict likely settlements on the variable formation. The frame itself includes a concealed truss between upper and lower parts to create a column free transition and an expressed reciprocal frame in the upper roof.


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Q: Change image on click, keep image and remove if other image is clicked for an interactive picture i want the images to change on hover and the to keep the hover state if clicked (see the picture here: http://labs.tageswoche.ch/grafik_osze). For the hover i have this code:
  var sourceSwap = function () {
      var $this = $(this);
      var newSource = $this.data('alt-src');
      $this.data('alt-src', $this.attr('src'));
      $this.attr('src', newSource);
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  $(function() {
      $('img[data-alt-src]').each(function() {
          new Image().src = $(this).data('alt-src');
      }).hover(sourceSwap, sourceSwap);
  });

But i dont know how to adpat this code, that it works also on click. If one clicks on another image the original (white picture) should be shown again. So that only one clicked picture is black. Thanks for your answers!

A: var sourceSwap = function () {
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well i havent test it but i hope you got the point

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This is a very unusual piece, the Settle has intricately carved lions Masks, 2 on the bottom front panels, 2 more at each side of these and with with resting lions forming the arm rests, it has a hinged lid to access the storage compartment inside. The back of the settle has 2 more carved panels, one indoor scene, a pub perhaps with men fighting, and the other an outdoor scene with music and dancing, and on the very top rail we have a carved gentleman at each end.
The settle is in very good condition, it is good quality piece with no sign of woodworm and a wonderful patina.


Throughout my 15 years as a Six Sigma Initiative Leader, Consultant, Trainer, Black Belt and master Black Belt I have been enthusiastic about Minitab Statistical Software, starting from release 11 to now.
Minitab's graphics are outstanding in their ability to present messages and conclusions with visual clarity. They are easy to use and produce excellent PowerPoint images that explain and help leaders understand statistical results and conclusions. As a consultant and an employee, I often received feedback from leaders that Minitab charts and graphs are aesthetically-pleasing, and that they can convey results either at a plant leadership or executive level.
The intuitive interface assists the user in creating control charts, graphical summaries and capability plots so that everybody can understand visually how well or poorly a process is performing. This graphical capability makes Minitab an amazing tool for improving processes.
As Polaroid Corporation's quality strategy manager for product development and worldwide manufacturing, I ran 7 waves of Black Belt Training and one master Black Belt class using Minitab 11, first using individual copies for black belts and then under a corporate license. In my career I also was a senior consultant, Master Black Belt, Project Manager and Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) Voice of the Customer Specialist from Sept 1999 – Sept 2008.
I then joined Celerant Consulting as a technical consultant from Oct 2008 – May 2011, where my work using Minitab with a team at Life Technologies solved a ten-year problem. I worked at Life Technologies from June 2011 through July 2012, mentoring a number of individuals on ANOVA, multiple regression models, Gage R&R (including expanded Gage R&R), Gage Linearity and Bias, Type 1 Gage studies, Variables and Attribute Control Charts, Capability Analysis, etc.
Those involved with Minitab's development have done an excellent job anticipating customer needs! Of particular interest to users and leaders is the reduction in work made possible by Minitab's work-saving features, such as graphs that update automatically with changes to data or automating routine analyses with a macro.
In addition, Minitab's level of technical support depth is outstanding. Not only do they really know Minitab, they know statistics. Minitab has removed the statistical computing barrier so that non-statistians can concentrate on applying statistical methods.
I thought the first classes were great. In fact, when I completed the evaluation I could not make a single suggestion to improve the class. Well managed, great content, great instructor, tailored content.
I wanted to take this opportunity to thank Minitab for all of the help and technical guidance that I have experienced in working with Minitab from releases 11 thru 16. I have genuinely enjoyed my relationship with Minitab.


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Q: Apps Script - Creating a Spreadsheet then copy all the value and paste it in a different spreadsheet I'm trying to to do the following tasks using Apps Script:

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*Create a new spreadsheet. The name will be "My spreadsheet" + Date of the day

*Write a random value in the new spreadsheet

*Copy the entire sheet (1st tab) from the new spreadsheet

*Paste the value in another spreadsheet (in a specific sheet)

Here is the script I've written so far:
function copyPasteAllData() {
  var date = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), "GMT+7", "dd/MM/yyyy");
  // get today's date
  var ss = SpreadsheetApp.create("Existing Data - Apps Script - "+ date);
  // create a new spreadsheet
  var ssId = ss.getId();
  // get ID of new spreadsheet
  var existing = Sheets.Spreadsheets.Values.get('MyspreadsheetID', "Existing Data");
  // get existing Spreadsheet + sheet location
  var newSheet = Sheets.Spreadsheets.Values.get(ssId, "Sheet1");
  // get new Spreadsheet + sheet location
  ss.getRange('A1').setValue('1')
  // setup a random value
  var rangeAllData = newSheet.getRange(1, 1, newSheet.getMaxRows(), newSheet.getMaxColumns());
  // copy the entire sheet from the
  existing.rangeAllData.setValue()
  }

I think the line below need to be changed but I'm not sure how to fix this.
I'm still quite a beginner with Apps Script and coding in general, apologies if it seems obvious.
var existing = Sheets.Spreadsheets.Values.get('MyspreadsheetID', "Existing Data");
var newSheet = Sheets.Spreadsheets.Values.get(ssId, "Sheet1");

Feel free to change anything in the script. Just note that I can only get the sheet ID and not the name
Thank you

A: Updated from the comment below:
In this case you can use the method getDataRange() to get the data from the new Sheet.
Then on the destination you can use the same range from the new sheet or use the one you want from the old sheet:
function copyPasteAllData() {

  //getDate
  var date = Utilities.formatDate(new Date(), "GMT+7", "dd/MM/yyyy");

  //Create new sheet + set value
  var newSheet = SpreadsheetApp.create("Existing Data - Apps Script - " + date);
  newSheet.getRange('A1').setValue('this is new');

  //get new sheet DataRange
  var source = newSheet.getId();
  var newSheetDataRange = SpreadsheetApp.openById(source).getSheets()[0].getDataRange().getA1Notation();
  Logger.log(newSheetDataRange)
  var newSheetValues = SpreadsheetApp.openById(source).getSheets()[0].getDataRange().getValues();
  Logger.log(newSheetValues)

  //copy the data to the old sheet
  SpreadsheetApp.openById('OLD SHEET ID').getSheets()[0].getRange(newSheetDataRange).setValues(newSheetValues);
}


A couple of years ago, or maybe it was last year, we had a long list of things we wanted to do on the Locost. We can't remember most of them, and we certainly didn't write any of them down, but we've done a fair amount of tinkering on the car over the past year, in addition to all the regular repairs, and so we might've taken care of a few of the things on the list, although we'll never know for sure. Still, we thought we'd report on a few of the things we tinkered with recently, for no particular reason that we can think of right now.
From the beginning, our bonnet latches have always been suspect. McMaster-Carr had a wide variety of latches to choose from back then, although only a couple under $10, which made the choice a lot easier. So far, our $7 latches have never failed us, except for the two times we didn't completely latch them and the hood flew off the car. But that was almost as much our fault as the latches. In the meantime we've had to reinforce two of the latches, when they loosened up to the point where it didn't really matter if they were latched or not.
Since the latches are just screwed into sheet aluminum, we might've anticipated some metal creep over the years, but that kind of thinking has never been part of our skill set. As luck would have it, however, a short piece of 16-gauge steel tubing fits right behind the latch, and bottoms against the lip of the bonnet, so long as you drill the holes in the right place. Drilling holes in the right place isn't really part of our skill set either, but we did gain a lot of experience during the build drilling small holes and then moving them in the proper direction with a rat-tail file.
The snaps on our boot cover were obviously never designed for outdoor use. We've had to replace a few of them when they failed to unsnap in a non-destructive manner. We now try to avoid detaching the cover altogether, although we have to partly remove it to fill the car with gas, so we keep a supply of extra snaps on hand. There might've been something on the list once about installing some kind of storage container in the boot, but it wouldn't be much use if we could never remove the cover, so I think we can put that one to rest.
We've also had to do some touch-up work on the paint from time to time. Luckily, you can find touch-up paint in exactly the right color for our car at just about any hardware store. Most of the chips were in the area where the hood meets the body, but we also had a fair number of chips on the top of the driver's door, which isn't so much a door as a panel you step over and try to avoid dragging your shoes across. The worst damage to this panel occurred during a three-day span when the car was at the Maker Faire, and we're still not completely over it.
There have been a couple of reports on the LocostUSA forum recently about suspension failures. They both appear to have been caused by over-stressed or under-reinforced parts, but they've encouraged us to do more thorough inspections of our suspension mounts and control arms whenever we're tinkering on the car and have the parts exposed. So far we've been unable to find a single part that looks even slightly stressed, and given our emphasis during the build on over-engineering everything, we're not too surprised. But we'll keep looking.
Somewhere along the line we replaced our gear shift knob. We always thought the old knob was too big and round. You had to wrap your whole hand around it. Some big and round things feel good in your hand, but not shift knobs. Our old knob looked good, but it was designed for people who don't like to shift so much as they like to look good. We always preferred the skinny knobs on the early MGBs, but unfortunately they don't fit the later shift lever. Threads on the early knob were 5/16", and our shift lever has 3/8" threads.
However, as luck would have it, 3/8" turns out to be bigger than 5/16", which meant all we had to do was buy an early knob, drill out the 5/16" threads, and re-tap it to 3/8". The only flaw in this logic, which we discovered shortly after the knob was bought and paid for, is that in order to do their jobs, both the drill and tap have to impart a fair amount of torque to the knob, which has to be resisted by something, preferably something unlikely to gouge, crush, or otherwise deface the skinny wooden knob. This turned out to be our hand.
Drilling wasn't so bad, as long as we didn't slip. We used something like an 8 mm drill bit, and the insert was only brass, so it chewed through it pretty quickly. The tap was a different story. No matter how hard we gripped the knob, the tap would just spin it. We eventually perfected an impact method that involved a long crescent wrench to turn the tap and several blisters on our left hand. Using this method we managed to cut a good 8 or 9 threads, about 10 degrees at a time, and we would've cut more but we were running out of Band-Aids.
Another bit of tinkering was forced on us last week when we experienced a sudden loss of oil pressure on a drive to work. We wanted to blame the gauge, but that's never worked out for us too well in the past, and a quick check of the oil level when we reached the office confirmed that we had in fact lost several quarts of fresh 20W-50 somewhere out on the road. Which meant the oil pump had been delivering mostly air through the galleys during the last three or four miles of the drive.
The culprit turned out to be one of the hoses to our new oil cooler. We installed the braided metal hoses last year, and being fully aware that braided metal hoses love to chafe, we fitted dozens of isolating cushions all along the hose, everywhere it encountered a hard surface such as a frame tube, except where it passed by the motor mount. We missed that spot for some reason. After a time, one of the sharper edges of the motor mount sliced neatly through the braided hose, although to the hose's credit it took nearly eight months to do it.
The good news is, the engine seemed to be okay with the temporary oil shortage. After work we walked to the nearest gas station, bought six quarts of some unknown brand of motor oil, and returned to the car, dumping in four of the six quarts before heading for home. We kept an eye on the oil pressure, which was fine for the first 6 or 7 miles, and as soon as it dipped below 50 psi we stopped the car and dumped in the last two quarts. That got us the rest of the way home without incident, if you don't count the trail of oil we left in the driveway.
So we removed the oil cooler and reinstalled our Moss Motors bypass hose, and oil pressure is excellent now, or not excellent but at least adequate, or probably not adequate either, but the engine runs. More or less. We're not counting this against our otherwise-spurious M.G. Locost reliability record, because for one thing the oil cooler wasn't an original component. Which means we're good to go for the rest of the summer, possibly even into the fall, and we'll let you know if any of that happens.
I've been working on a Locost project myself for several years. Aside from a couple of years where the frame sat in the downstairs living room awaiting the construction of a new shop to build it in (my wife never once complained...she is truly a saint!), it's been more-or-less in a constant state of construction for, oh, over 5 years. I recently started to have some time off work, and have re-attacked the project with a passion. Day by day, tiny bits of progress are visible. Well, not to outsiders, but to me, at least.
Yours is by far the best build site I have ever found (and I have scoured the 'net for years for such!).
I have found great pleasure in reading your exploits. I've felt your pain (and experienced some of the same specific problems), and your joy at a job finally complete (well, as complete as they ever get), and clearly well done, has inspired me to redouble my efforts.
On behalf of the rest of us builders, I thank you & congratulate you on your outstanding build (the car's, that is!), your thorough & extremely enjoyable build log, and your complete documenting of the project of a lifetime.
Thanks, Mike. I had fun building the car and just as much fun writing about it. What may be the hardest thing to convey in words is just how incredibly rewarding it is to finish one of these things. Best of luck in completing yours.


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Visitor Experience Master Planning
The National Trust looks after over 70 miles of coastline along the Norfolk Coast. Heavily conservation-led but limited in proactive visitor engagement, they turned to A Different View to help steer them through the process of a visitor experience strategy.
A Different View worked with an internal project team to open up the discussion and form a plan of action to strengthen the emotional connection that visitors have with each touch point along this breathtaking coastline.
A bit about the National Trust
The National Trust exists to protect buildings, parkland, coast and country, really any place of historical or natural significance. As well as restoration, preservation and conservation, the Trust helps the public to engage with these places. North Norfolk in particular is brimming with history and natural beauty and is a magnet for tourists.
How did we get involved
The challenge for the National Trust on the North Norfolk coast was to share its sites with an ever-changing population, one with increasing demands on their engagement, and to do it in a sustainable way. We began with an audit and assessment of the touch points along the coast together with an assessment of the comparable and competitor environment. We then ran a series of stimulating and challenging workshops with the project team to arrive at a strategy that was both aligned to National Trust policy and visitor focused.
With the help of A Different View, the project team made key decisions about their aims for the future, including who their intended visitor is, what this visitor needs and wants and what kind of qualities the Trust's brand and presence should have. What we came up with was a more co-creative and intuitive ethos that the team could then work to incorporate into all their activities, events and touch points throughout the region.
The National Trust team was ready to embrace change and decided that in order to deliver a more engaging, cohesive visitor experience, they had to change structurally, incorporating more volunteers and becoming a more organic, connected entity. They were able to make plans for the future that were ambitious and some that were immediately implementable.
Other projects that might interest you are:
The Museum of Leathercraft Visioning and concept development work
The MAX Strategic Planning
Woburn Abbey Visitor Experience Strategy and Research
Nottingham Castle Business Planning
Portsmouth Historic Dockyard Strategic Planning
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Planning & Strategy , Visitor Experience
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Coastal and Estuarine Management
Peter French
Published January 13, 1998 by Routledge
Published August 31, 2016 by Routledge
Book Description Author(s) Reviews Instructor Resources Support Material
The coast cannot be left to nature to determine its fate. Wealth, property, economic interests, recreation, tourism and wildlife are all threatened. Coasts are an administrative battle ground and one of the most important and widely examined topics in environmental management.
Coastal and Estuarine Management examines the issues surrounding the human use and abuse of estuarine and coastal environments. Emphasising the importance and significance of this natural resource, the uses and conflicts which occur and the results of human activity, this book explains the ways in which conservation and management policies and practices can protect this productive and diverse ecosystem.
Examples and real-life case studies illustrate the effect of human intervention, both from an historic and contemporary perspective. Exposing the environmental consequences of estuarine pollution, Peter French highlights the need for management strategies to promote a sustainable development ethic for estuaries.
'The text is written in a lucid but nontechnical style and should be amenable to all students of environmental management...this text has the capacity to influence the attitudes of the next generation of coastal managers.' - Progress in Physical Goegraphy, Vol 23, No.1 1999
"The only 'textbook' which is both up-to-date and conprehensive in its coverage of this fast-developing subject" Dr Geoff Walker, West England University
Routledge Environmental Management
Resource Management - Environmental Studies


The latest analysis by Market Financial Solutions has found that after another seemingly pointless week riding the Brexit merry-go-round, more than half of the UK's property investors have indicated that it's business as usual and won't be changing their investment plans.
The research, which polled more than 500 UK property investors, takes a look at just how Brexit is impacting their long-term investment strategies. It found that since the EU referendum in June 2016, 64% of investors have not let Brexit impact their property investment decisions. 45% of investors have expanded their property portfolio since the EU referendum and only 7% have sold one or more homes as a direct result of Brexit.
The 2016 EU referendum signified the beginning of a new era in UK politics. It also trigged many predictions of the demise of the country's property market.
However, despite the uncertainty caused by the on-going Brexit talks, the majority of property investors have carried on with their financial strategies unperturbed, new research from Market Financial Solutions revealed.
The bridging lender commissioned an independent survey among more than 500 UK property investors, all of whom own two or more investment properties. It found that when reflecting on the period since the EU referendum, almost two-thirds (64%) stated that Brexit has not impacted their property investment decisions.
In fact, 45% said they had bought at least one more property since 23rd June 2016, with only 7% stating they had sold one or more real estate assets as a direct result of Brexit. The research also revealed that the majority of investors do not see Brexit affecting their long-term strategies. More than half (57%) of respondents say they will not change their property investment strategies following the Brexit deadline.
Although, there could be a surge in activity within the real estate market after Brexit formally takes place, with three in ten (29%) property investors lining up new purchases for once the deadline has passed. The potential delay to the Brexit deadline could see this activity stalled.
Paresh Raja, CEO of MFS, commented on the findings: "There is a sense of Brexit-fatigue setting in across most financial sectors. But importantly, while some predicted that this uncertainty would cause house prices to tumble and property investors to flee the market, today's research demonstrates that appetite for real estate as an investment asset has remained strong.
At least some people have a plan.


It is a well known that Dr. Okezie Victor Ikpeazu rode on a tripartite crest of equity, justice and fairness to become governor of Abia state.
The election of the first Abia governor of Ngwa extraction is undisputedly the most keenly contested with endless but mind-threatening litigations. The ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and some progressively-minded stakeholders had argued and backed the zoning of its governorship ticket to Abia south ahead of 2015 general elections. The unified stance of the party was purposefully tailored to promote equity, justice and family hence an Ngwa person from Abia south was protectively billed to clinch the ticket.
The gubernatorial ticket was later won by Dr. Ikpeazu though not without permutations and high-powered political intrigues. It also took the uncommon resilience of Ukwa-Ngwa people who as a matter of urgency and necessity tagged Dr. Ikpeazu/PDP gubernatorial ticket "Ngwa Project" to narrowly defeat Dr. Alex Otti, of the All Progressives Grand Alliance(APGA) who unexpectedly showed enormous strength, sweeping the entire LGAs in Abia north, Aba north and south LGAs as well as Umuahia south and Ikwuano Umuahia LGAs. The people of Ukwa-Ngwa demonstrated a rare courage and consensus painstakingly exemplified and displayed in the well organized resilience to break the age-long 'political marginalization' and ensured the realization of Dr. Ikpeazu's governorship.
Upon taking over the mantle of leadership as governor of Abia state, Dr. Ikpeazu began to showcase his qualities especially in the areas of governance and political leadership. The ongoing infrastructural transformation in Aba and other parts of the state, the economic and entrepreneurial revolution, the sponsored campaign aimed at promoting locally made-in-Aba products, the revival of moribund and ailing state owned industries, the ongoing revolutionized agricultural scheme, the human capacity development programmes such as Education for Employment(E4E) and the ongoing transformation in the education sector are presently showing signs of greatness as a new era evolves under Dr. Ikpeazu.
Though still engulfed with threatening litigation's, Dr. Ikpeazu has sufficiently proven his capacity to take Abia to higher heights.
Beyond infrastructural and socio-economic accomplishments, Dr. Ikpeazu also appears ready and willing to demonstrate a rare political will and courage to entrench a new democratic culture in the state. This is evidently portrayed in the ongoing preparations for local government election in less than two years he assumed office. The last council election took place in Abia eight years precisely in 2008.
The immediate past governor, Chief Theodore Orji for whatever reason(s) delayed reconstituting the councils democratically and ingloriously exited without conducting another council election. Under his administration, the 17 local government areas were balkanized and regrettably reduced to non-productive entities.
The former governor conspired with his family and close allies to hijack the councils. They criminally diverted allocations running into several billions and overpopulated the workforce with unproductive elements mostly drawn 'Ibeku clan' without recourse to due process and administrative procedure. They mismanaged and corruptly destroyed the councils as they stirringly dished out orders and directives from the comfort of their cozy offices in Umuahia to the so-called TC chairmen who were merely stooges and administrative robots. By so doing, Ochendo and his 'men' crippled the 17 council areas and pitiably rendered them unproductive.
However, Dr. Ikpeazu's plans to conduct council election appears to have elicited fresh hope for possible revival of the councils. Yet, there are still posers. Many Abians still doubt if Dr. Ikpeazu can ever muster the 'political will' and 'sincerity' to achieve the onerous task. Many are still clutched to the notion that Dr. Ikpeazu is and remains part of the system that decimated and destroyed the local government system in Abia.
Those upholding such belief may be 50% right and probably 50% wrong. This may be largely substantiated as Dr. Ikpeazu was Ochendo's ardent loyalist and one of his son's dreaded foot soldiers who paraded themselves as eleven wise men. Dr. Ikpeazu enjoyed a privileged status in Ochendo's government and was deeply knowledgeable to most salient actions of that very government.
This is ultimately the reason his government is largely perceived as a product or extension of Ochendo's era hence his emergence as the PDP candidate was politically midwifed by the former governor and his son, Chinedu also known as Ikuku.
On the other hand, the proponent of that notion may be wrong as Dr. Ikpeazu may have 'disguised loyalty' or 'played the fool' to grab power. A political interpretation to Dr. Ikpeazu's 'good man role' and loyalty to Ochendo and his son dramatizes that simple adage that says" If you bend down, you see Aba". Dr. Ikpeazu's roles in Ochendo's government can hardly be interpreted to portray, brand or suggestive of Ochendo's elongated era.
Though he remains grateful to the former governor, his son, Ikuku and other allied power players from Umuahia, the governor is, however, constitutionally empowered to summon the needed political will to redesign approaches to governance and rewrite the wrongs in the state.
While preparations for the council election intensify, many expect Dr. Ikpeazu to assume certain steps aimed at sanitizing the system and to dismantle Ochendo's undemocratic template entrenched and promoted for self-aggrandizement.
He is also expected to remove all impediments that may further destroy democracy at the local government level. In clear terms, there will be guided limit to which the state or governor tampers with council allocations. If not so, the scenario may be catastrophic as the incoming council chairman, elected by the people, may within their constitutional powers dismantle obstacles and encumbrances that may inhibit their performances. Dr. Ikpeazu's political future may be jeopardized or shattered if that becomes the scenario.
Therefore, Dr. Ikpeazu should begin to rehearse and possibly acquaint himself with the right democratic culture and administrative pattern to harmoniously and purposefully relate with the incoming council chairmen. He should realize that the 17 council areas will against the unconstitutional practice begin to run fully on their individual strengths and administrative wheels immediately the chairmen and councillors are sworn into offices.
The inglorious era of diversion of council funds and criminal mortgage of their revenue nets will automatically cease for good. The chairmen expectedly will run the councils by prudently deploying accruable resources to provide basic and infrastructural needs of the rural dwellers. They must be given freehand to deliver on their campaign promises within their two-year tenure.
But, can Dr. Ikpeazu yield to this reform? Can he change the bad story? Can the councils run independently under him? Has Dr. Ikpeazu upon assumption of duty demonstrated the much expected political will suggesting a radical departure from Ochendo's days? Are Abians likely to experience a credible council election that will provide a level playing ground to all political parties?
Is the governor ready to release council allocations as drawn from the federation account? Is he ready to change the bad story Abia councils with regard to hijacked revenue nets? Is he ready to sanitize the evidently corrupt ministry of Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs by moderating its overbearing influence and control on council areas? Or, is the election a mere exercise aimed at re-packaging the transition committee system under the pretenses of democracy?
Is Dr. Ikpeazu sincerely entrenching a new democratic culture in the third tier of government of Abia state? Is the governor truly sincere to the people? Does he posses the political will to do the right thing including offending Ochendo and Ikuku, his son, when it becomes necessary to satisfy Abia people?
Well, only Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu and time will answer these nagging and pertinent questions. But suffice to say that the governor has two options staring at his face. The option of continuing with the old style and secondly, dismantling the old, unproductive and corrupt system to free the local government councils in the overall interest of Abia people.
The governor should patriotically champion the redemption and ultimate freedom of these areas from the administrative hostage of the state with utmost sincerity and honesty to further endear himself to the people. This should begin with free, fair and acceptable council election scheduled for December 17.
Dr. Ikpeazu should appease Abians with good governance and utmost sincerity in his official dealings as governor. It will be more charitable and politically rewarding as the governor migrates to the side of the people than remain in the good book of his political 'godfathers'. He should demonstrate the political will and sincerity in leadership by rewriting the wrongs in the administration of local government in the state.
Ebere Uzoukwa, a media consultant and public relations consultant writes from Umuahia.


Bristol Spirits Reserve Rum of Grenada 2003 is distilled in 2003 by Westerhall Estate on their column still. Westerhall Estate began making rum in the 1700s when the plantation took up hundreds of acres in the coastal parish.
This rum is distilled at Westerhall Estate in Grenada and then shipped to the UK and filled to used oak barrels for maturation in cool damp cellars. The methods for distillation in the Caribbean varies dependent of the country and the plantation. This is column still which produces light, elegant and juicy rums. At Westerhall Estate, they have always enjoyed a strong local following, and the access to pure water and fresh cane juice made their products distinct from the beginning.
This Grenada rum has a pale golden colour, soft fruit on the nose, sweetness and length on the palate with well-integrated wood. You can enjoy it on the rocks or with your favorite mixer.


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Q: Python SQLite searching post title with multiple keywords I'm hitting some trouble writing this in python and I can't seems to solve this other than using string formatting (Which is strongly not recommended)
Basically I call the function input() and ask for the user to type in some keyword (space separated) and I need to find all the posts with title containing any of the keywords.
For example, if the user input was "python SQL mysql", I need to find all the post that matches at least one of the keywords. In this example, the query will be
SELECT posts.title FROM posts
    WHERE lower(posts.title) LIKE "%python%" OR
    lower(posts.title) LIKE "%sql%" OR
    lower(posts.title) LIKE "%mysql%";

However, here is the problem. The number of keywords could vary. Therefore I cannot write a fixed SQL statement like
db.execute("SELECT posts.title FROM posts WHERE posts.title LIKE ? OR posts.title LIKE ?",("%"+keyword1+"%", "%"+keyword2+"%"))

Instead I have to resort to a for loop in Python, something like:
query = "posts.title LIKE '%" + keywords[0] + "%'"
keywords.remove(0)
for k in keywords:
    query += "OR posts.title LIKE '%" + k +"'%"

However this is obviously not recommended. While what I'm working on is a school project so it's not mission critical, plus we are not graded against SQL injection attacks, I do want to know what is the proper way to solve this question.

A: I think I thought of a maybe sub optimal but safer methods
First, create the query statement, but do not add userInput into them:
query = "posts.title Like ? "
for i in range(len(keywords) - 1):
    query += "OR posts.title Like ?"

query = "SELECT posts.title FROM posts WHERE " + query

And then I use the sqlite API do it it for me:
keywords = list()
for k in keywords:
    keywords.append("%" + k + "%")
keywords = tuple(keywords)
result = db.execute(query, keywords)


The History Of Smoked Brisket!
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Saturday, November 3rd from 6pm - 11pm.
Come join us for the star party of the year. Bring your telescopes and lawn chairs. The event will begin with a barn door movie at dusk. We will be showing October Sky. There will be food and drinks for sale including hotdogs, hamburgers and veggie burgers. There will be fun outdoor games including corn hole and star tipping! You are not required to bring a telescope to attend.
Admission is free. Includes the movie, games and to set up your telescope or look through someone else's.
There will be a cost for food.
There will be products on sale by the adolescents.
Bring your telescope and a lawn chair or blanket.
Set up your telescope and point it at something in the sky.
Allow others to look through your viewfinder.
Please share about what you are pointed at and about your telescope.


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There are web sites that can sell your bitcoin with credit card payment, and there are others that can sell your bitcoin with payment made using PayPal. You can also sell bitcoin using peer-to-peer exchanges, which allows anyone to buy or sell bitcoin. Bitcoin exchanges such as coinbase.com allow you to create an account, add money to your account from your bank account, and then buy or sell bitcoin from your dashboard. When you're ready to sell bitcoin for usd you can do it at these exchanges instantly. Setup a bitcoin selling business.
Bitсоin is a cryptocurrency thаt was created in 2009 bу аn unknоwn person uѕing the аliаѕ Satoshi Nakamoto. While thе сurrеnсу hаѕ been аrоund for a lоng time, itѕ рорulаritу rоѕе a few уеаrѕ аgо when mеrсhаntѕ started ассерting it аѕ a form оf рауmеnt. In addition to uѕing it in уоur trаnѕасtiоnѕ, уоu can аlѕо trаdе it thus mаking hugе profits. When dесiding how tо ѕеll уоur bitсоin, уоu firѕt need tо соnѕidеr which method best suits your situation: ѕеlling bitсоin online оr ѕеlling bitсоin in реrѕоn.
The mоѕt рорulаr method for selling bitсоinѕ currently iѕ viа Bitcoin exchanges. Some оf thеѕе are wеll-knоwn, оthеrѕ less so, but аll fulfill the ѕаmе purpose: tо аllоw you to trаdе bitcoins for another digitаl currency or fоr fiаt currency ѕuсh аѕ US dоllаrѕ оr euros. Diffеrеnt еxсhаngеѕ hаvе diffеrеnt currency орtiоnѕ аvаilаblе.
Uѕing аn еxсhаngе iѕ ѕtrаightfоrwаrd аѕ many аrе gеаrеd to making thе trading рrосеѕѕ as intuitivе аѕ роѕѕiblе. Whiсh exchange уоu uѕе will depend оn your соuntrу of residence and the сurrеnсу уоu wiѕh to convert tо. Fоr example, many еxсhаngеѕ оffеr US dоllаrѕ, but оnlу a fеw сurrеntlу оffеr Britiѕh роundѕ.
To sell bitсоinѕ оn аn еxсhаngе, уоu transfer the dеѕirеd аmоunt frоm уоur wallet tо аn ассоunt whiсh уоu ѕеt up оn thе exchange, реrfоrm a trаdе, then uѕе the еxсhаngе'ѕ fundѕ transfer ѕеrviсе tо send thе rеѕulting сurrеnсу to a bаnk ассоunt оr еlѕеwhеrе.
Thе bеѕt-knоwn exchanges аrе efficient аnd secure, аnd сhаrgе minimаl fees fоr processing уоur fundѕ. Hоwеvеr, аѕ суbеrthеft iѕ ѕtill a рrоblеm, уоu ѕhоuld never ѕtоrе уоur bitсоinѕ in your еxсhаngе ассоunt. Only ѕtоrе bitсоinѕ in a dеdiсаtеd Bitcoin wаllеt – idеаllу аn оfflinе (соld ѕtоrаgе) wаllеt.
Wеbѕitеѕ thаt оffеr this tуре of ѕеlling structure inсludе Cоinbаѕе аnd LосаlBitсоinѕ in the US, and BitBаrgаin UK аnd Bittуliсiоuѕ in the UK.
On these ѕitеѕ, уоu will usually have tо rеgiѕtеr аѕ a ѕеllеr. Thiѕ invоlvеѕ vеrifуing your idеntitу (whiсh wе will diѕсuѕѕ аgаin lаtеr). Once уоu hаvе registered, уоu саn роѕt аn оffеr, signalling thаt уоu want to ѕеll, and thе wеbѕitе will аlеrt you whеn a buуеr wants to trade with you. From there, уоur interaction iѕ ѕоlеlу with the buyer, but уоu uѕе thе website to соmрlеtе уоur trаdе.
Thе рrосеѕѕ of ѕеlling on Bitbаrgаin UK and (mоrе so) Bittylicious can bе quite invоlvеd and rеԛuirеѕ ѕоmе раtiеnсе. However, support аt the former site has been grеаt in оur еxреriеnсе. Bitcoin uѕеrѕ with bаnk ассоuntѕ in thе United Stаtеѕ should соnѕidеr uѕing Coinbase оr Cirсlе, which hаvе bоth won many fаnѕ with their ѕimрliсitу.
While mаnу оf the bitсоin mаrkеtѕ mеntiоnеd hеrе rеԛuirе vеrу little idеntifiсаtiоn from buуеrѕ, they rеԛuirе a lоt оf proof оf identity frоm ѕеllеrѕ. Thеrе аrе few lеgаl rеԛuirеmеntѕ from bitсоin mаrkеtѕ to record whо thеir users аrе, but mоѕt (if nоt аll) are preemptively соllесting idеntitу dаtа in аntiсiраtiоn оf forthcoming rеgulаtiоnѕ.
Tо mаkе bесоming a ѕеllеr easier, it is worth at least соnѕidеring completing thе idеntitу verification рrосеѕѕ whеn уоu firѕt jоin the ѕitе. Gеtting this ѕtер оut of thе wау саn remove barriers tо ѕеlling if аnd when you're ready tо make the mоvе.
Exресt markets tо аѕk you tо uрlоаd ѕсаnѕ оf twо utilitу billѕ diѕрlауing уоur nаmе and аddrеѕѕ, аlоng with a рhоtо ID (ѕuсh аѕ a раѕѕроrt or driving licence). Sоmе (such аѕ BitBargain UK) mау еvеn аѕk уоu tо tаkе a ѕеlfiе inсluding уоur рhоtо ID аnd thе nаmе оf thе mаrkеt оn a рiесе of paper!
If you аrе not соmfоrtаblе uрlоаding ѕuсh реrѕоnаl dосumеntѕ tо аn (еffесtivеlу) untruѕtеd buѕinеѕѕ, then you will hаvе a difficult timе finding ѕоmеwhеrе tо ѕеll bitсоin online.
It is also possible tо use рrivаtе agents to convert bitcoins tо another сurrеnсу. Thеѕе are рrivаtе individuals with ѕuffiсiеnt liԛuiditу to ореrаtе likе an еxсhаngе. A wеbѕitе liѕting individuals bу country, lосаlbitсоinѕ.соm, iѕ the mаin resource fоr thiѕ tуре of еxсhаngе.
Funds аrе ѕеnt tо thе individuаl'ѕ Bitсоin wallet, аnd thе individuаl thеn ѕеndѕ уоu thе еԛuivаlеnt in thе rеlеvаnt currency.
Nоtе thаt this practice iѕ unrеgulаtеd аnd a сеrtаin dеgrее оf truѕt iѕ rеԛuirеd in аll situations. Agents liѕtеd оn lосаlbitсоinѕ.соm hаvе fееdbасk аnd оthеr consumer aids, but there iѕ nоnеthеlеѕѕ nо guаrаntее thаt your trаnѕасtiоn will be honored. For thiѕ reason, we аdviѕе уоu оnlу to uѕе such mеthоdѕ in an emergency, оr if you hаvе ѕuffiсiеnt knowledge thаt the agent уоu аrе uѕing iѕ rеliаblе.
A nеw development in thе bitсоin space iѕ thе advent of ѕitеѕ likе Brаwkеr and Purѕе, whiсh set out tо bring together two grоuрѕ of реорlе with ѕресifiс and complementary nееdѕ.
Thе first grоuр аrе individuals whо wаnt to bе аblе tо uѕе bitcoin to buу gооdѕ from sites whiсh dо nоt уеt dirесtlу accept digitаl сurrеnсiеѕ. The ѕесоnd comprises оf оthеrѕ whо would likе tо buy bitсоin with a credit оr dеbit card. Thе mаrkеtрlасе bringѕ together individuаlѕ with matching requirements tо еffесtivеlу ѕеll bitсоin tо оnе and рrоvidе diѕсоuntеd gооdѕ for thе оthеr.
The marketplace асtѕ as аn intermediary, оffеring uѕеrѕ the рlаtfоrm, bitсоin wаllеt and еѕсrоw for transactions.
Cоinbаѕе: соinbаѕе operates оnе of thе mоѕt рорulаr wаllеtѕ аnd iѕ аn simple way tо buу аnd ѕеll bitсоin. $5 bоnuѕ оn ѕign uр.
Localbitcoins: lосаtbitсоinѕ matches buуеrѕ аnd ѕеllеrѕ оnlinе and in-person, lосаllу wоrldwidе.
BitQuiсk: BitQuiсk claims tо bе оnе оf the fastest wауѕ уоu саn buу аnd ѕеll bitсоin.
CоinCоrnеr: аllоw рurсhаѕеѕ with credit and dеbit cards fоr verified uѕеrѕ.
Bitbargain: hаѕ a vast rаngе оf diffеrеnt рауmеnt орtiоnѕ fоr UK buуеrѕ.


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Category: Sex Crimes
Sex Crimes |
The charge for sex crimes are some of the most serious you can have in Minnesota. Not only do you face time in prison, but also the requirement to register as a sex offender in some cases. This factor can significantly impact your life even after incarceration.
The key to avoiding all the negative things of being convicted of a sex offense is not to get sentenced in the first place. When accused of a crime, you have a right to defend yourself in court, so the best thing you can do is fight back and beat the charges to the best of your ability.
Not sure where to start? Here are a few things you [...]
As of September 2021, sexual contact and sexual conduct crimes in the first through the fourth degree in the state have no statute of limitations. What does this mean, and how can it impact a sex crimes case that you may be involved in? Read on to find out the answers to these questions and more!
What is a Statute of Limitations?
A statute of limitations is the amount of time prosecutors have to bring charges against a person for [...]
Sex Crimes | Sex Offenders |
In general, those who are convicted as sex offenders face many obstacles in society. They are seen as the worst of the worst, and people assume a lot about a person simply because their name is on a sex offender registry.
Many people mistakenly assume that child pornography or child rape are the charges that lead to sex offender registration. However, the truth is that, in Minnesota, there are many different types of crimes that can land you on the sex offender registry.
While this registry is crucial to the safety of the public, it's time that people truly understood the less serious offenses that can land your name on the sex offender list. Read on [...]
Revenge Porn | Sex Crimes |
What happens between two consenting adults is not the business of the law, which is why some people may find revenge porn laws confusing. After all, if the content was made with consent, you can do what you want with it, right? No, you can't.
It's important to understand revenge porn laws in Minnesota so you don't find yourself in legal jeopardy due to confusion or misunderstanding. Read on to find out all you need to know about Minnesota's revenge porn laws and what penalties can be [...]
If you're accused of criminal sexual conduct in Minnesota, a potential conviction can alter your life forever. In addition to criminal penalties, you can also face the requirement to register as a sex offender, which can impact where you live and where you are allowed to work – even places you are allowed to visit for leisure.
Here's what you need to know about criminal sexual conduct in Minnesota and what evidence is used to secure a conviction in the state.
The Five Degrees of Minnesota Criminal Sexual Conduct
In the state, criminal sexual conduct is divided into five potential degrees. You can be accused of one of the following depending on the alleged activity that [...]
Sex Crimes | Sexual Assault |
Sexual assault doesn't always happen like it's portrayed in movies and on television. Sometimes, victims don't come forward for years, for a variety of reasons. Until recently, many survivors of sexual assault missed the window to bring charges against those who assaulted them, but that has now changed.
A new law has made it possible for victims of sexual assault to report their assault and have it prosecuted any time after it occurred. Previously, Minnesota residents had only a few years to take action with the exception of those who were children at the time of the assault. Now, anyone who commits sexual assault in Minnesota can be prosecuted for it – at any point in [...]
On September 7, 2021, a Minnesota man pleaded guilty to producing sexually explicit images and videos of a minor. The man contacted a 9-year-old girl on Snapchat. He then lied about his age in order to get her to send him sexually explicit material. He admitted to soliciting similar material from more than twenty minors.
The Minnesota man will face sentencing on January 4, 2022 for serious sex crimes against a minor. Under 609.352 of Minnesota statutes, he could be required to pay up to $5,000 in fines and spend up to three years in prison.
Here is what you need to know about Minnesota laws around Electronic Solicitation of Children to Engage in Sexual Conduct.[...]
Expungement / Criminal Record Sealing | Sex Crimes |
For many in Minnesota who have been convicted of a crime, a fresh start sounds like a great idea. The law recognizes this, which is why some crimes can be expunged from your record in the state under certain circumstances.
However, there are some crimes that can never be expunged from your record in Minnesota, including sex crimes. That's why a robust defense against sex crimes charges is always the best option, so a conviction doesn't follow you around for the rest of your life.
Here's what you need to know about sex crimes in Minnesota, possible penalties, and crimes that can be expunged in our state.
What Is a Sex Crime in Minnesota?
Here in [...]
In Minnesota, there are several consequences that can occur when someone is charged with a sexual conduct crime. Several factors play a role in charges and penalties of these crimes, and that often leaves people with numerous questions.
Here are some of the most frequently asked questions about sex crimes in Minnesota to help you understand what these types of charges mean and how they can impact your future.
What Does Minnesota Consider a Sex Crime?
In Minnesota, different degrees of criminal [...]
In Minnesota, as in many other states, criminal sexual conduct isn't simply one crime. It's a group of crimes broken into several degrees. In the state, there are actually five degrees of criminal sexual conduct, each with its own penalties.
What a person may be charged with depends on several factors, including the circumstances surrounding the case, the allegations against them, the evidence that supports allegations, and any prior history of criminal sexual conduct.
What is criminal sexual conduct in Minnesota and what are the degrees? Read on to find out more about these sex crimes.
Criminal Sexual Conduct in Minnesota
Criminal sexual conduct is a legal term that encompasses many different acts. A person can [...]
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Only One Group Seems to Mind Ahmadinejad's U.N. Visit This Year
United Against Nuclear Iran rolls out scary billboards and hotel boycotts
Uri Friedman
Read up on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to the U.N. General Assembly in New York this week, and you'll come across headlines like Activists to Protest Ahmadinejad in New York and Controversy Comes to NYC Ahead of UN General Assembly. But here's the caveat: While Ahmadinejad's General Assembly visits are always cloaked in controversy, this year, at least thus far, the protests are largely emanating from one source: the New York-based advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran, which counts some foreign policy heavyweights among its members.
Past protests against Ahmadinejad's General Assembly visits have generally involved more groups. In 2007, for example, students gathered en masse to protest Ahmadinejad's speech at Columbia University. The following year, organizations including Americans for a Safe Israel, the Catholic League, and the American Jewish Committee spoke out against Ahmadinejad attending a dinner organized by American Christian organizations, while the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and other Jewish groups staged a protest outside the U.N. In 2009, the year of Iran's disputed elections and mass protests, thousands of Iranians in exile descended on New York in what The Wall Street Journal called "the largest gathering of Iranians in exile since the early days of the Islamic Revolution." Last year, New York lawmakers like David Paterson and Kirsten Gillibrand lashed out at Ahmadinejad. Delegates have also walked out of Ahmadinejad's last two General Assembly addresses over the Iranian leader's remarks about Israel and 9/11
This year, by contrast, early reports of protests generally revolve around UANI's actions, though a few outfits like the pro-Israel group StandWithUs have also announced demonstrations. When it emerged that Ahmadinejad and his delegation would be staying at the Warwick Hotel in Manhattan, for example, UANI demanded that the hotel deny Ahmadinejad accommodation and set up an email submission form so that others could express their outrage and threaten a boycott of the luxury hotel (the group protested his stay at the Hilton last year). "Ahmadinejad is the leader of a criminal regime allied with al-Qaeda and other terrorists, and guilty of atrocious human rights violations," the group said in a statement. "Would the Warwick be willing to accommodate Osama bin Laden's successor Ayman al-Zawahiri were he to visit Manhattan?" The Warwick, for its part, has not confirmed that Ahmadinejad is a guest (it does boast on its website that the hotel has always "appealed to celebrities" like The Beatles and Elvis Presley), but it appears the hotel ultimately decided to host the Iranian leader. Reuters caught Ahmadinejad's SUV convoy arriving at the establishment last night:
UANI has also mounted an inflammatory billboard in Times Square and, more recently, on the back of a truck that will drive around near the U.N. and Warwick Hotel. Like the letter to the Warwick, the billboard invokes al-Qaeda by calling Ahmadinejad the militant group's "silent partner." While the U.S. government did accuse Iran in July of secretly partnering with al-Qaeda, links between the two entities have not been conclusively proven (a page on UANI website probes the nexus between Iran and al-Qaeda).
UANI penned an angry letter to Columbia University President Lee Bollinger as well when reports suggested last week that a student group called the Columbia International Relations Council and Association might dine privately with Ahmadinejad during his visit. The group, which has previously forced companies like Caterpillar to sever trading ties with Iran, has turned its website into a hub for its current campaign against Ahmadinejad:
It's worth pointing out that UANI is not some fringe group. The organization was founded in 2008 by foreign policy big shots like former American ambassadors to the U.N. Mark Wallace and Richard Holbrooke, former C.I.A. Director Jim Woolsey, and Middle East diplomat Dennis Ross. Its board includes former Bush Homeland Security adviser Frances Townsend, the Council on Foreign Relations' Walter Russell Mead, and Middle East scholar Fouad Ajami.
So, will UANI's multipronged but largely solitary assault on Ahmadinejad morph into more widespread protest in the coming days? Or is the Iranian leader, who appears to be engaged in a power struggle back home, no longer the target he once was? If history is any guide, it's certainly possible that more controversy will develop. Ahmadinejad addresses the General Assembly tomorrow.
Uri Friedman is the managing editor at the Atlantic Council and a contributing writer at The Atlantic. He was previously a staff writer and the Global editor at The Atlantic, and the deputy managing editor at Foreign Policy magazine.


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New paper by sea-level expert concludes IPCC alarm over sea-levels is baseless
A new paper by geophysicist and sea-level expert Dr. Nils-Axel Morner examines data from satellites, tide-gauges, and field work to conclude that "At most, global average sea level is rising at a rate equivalent to 2-3 inches per century. It is probably not rising at all." Professor Morner concludes, "Since sea level is not rising, the chief concern of the potential effects of anthropogenic "global warming" – that millions of shore-dwellers the world over may be displaced as the oceans expand – is baseless."
Sea Level is Not Rising
Written by Professor Nils-Axel Mörner
- At most, global average sea level is rising at a rate equivalent to 2-3 inches per century. It is probably not rising at all.
- Sea level is measured both by tide gauges and, since 1992, by satellite altimetry. One of the keepers of the satellite record told Professor Mörner that the record had been interfered with to show sea level rising, because the raw data from the satellites showed no increase in global sea level at all.
- The raw data from the TOPEX/POSEIDON sea-level satellites, which operated from 1993-2000, shows a slight uptrend in sea level. However, after exclusion of the distorting effects of the Great El Niño Southern Oscillation of 1997/1998, a naturally-occurring event, the sea-level trend is zero.
- The GRACE gravitational-anomaly satellites are able to measure ocean mass, from which sea-level change can be directly calculated. The GRACE data show that sea level fell slightly from 2002-2007.
- These two distinct satellite systems, using very different measurement methods, produced raw data reaching identical conclusions: sea level is barely rising, if at all.
- Sea level is not rising at all in the Maldives, the Laccadives, Tuvalu, India, Bangladesh, French Guyana, Venice, Cuxhaven, Korsør, Saint Paul Island, Qatar, etc.
- In the Maldives, a group of Australian environmental scientists uprooted a 50-year-old tree by the shoreline, aiming to conceal the fact that its location indicated that sea level had not been rising. This is a further indication of political tampering with scientific evidence about sea level.
- Modelling is not a suitable method of determining global sea-level changes, since a proper evaluation depends upon detailed research in multiple locations with widely-differing characteristics. The true facts are to be found in nature itself.
- Since sea level is not rising, the chief ground of concern at the potential effects of anthropogenic "global warming" – that millions of shore-dwellers the world over may be displaced as the oceans expand – is baseless.
- We are facing a very grave, unethical "sea-level-gate".
Observational facts indicate that sea level is by no means rapidly rising. It is quite stable. This is the case in key sites like the Maldives, Bangladesh, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Saint Paul Island, Qatar, French Guyana, Venice, and northwest Europe. Tide gauges tend to exaggerate rising trends because of subsidence and compaction. Full stability over the last 30-50 years is indicated in sites like Tuvalu, India, the Maldives (and also the Laccadives to the north of the Maldives), Venice (after subtracting the subsidence factor), Cuxhaven (after subtracting the subsidence factor), and Korsør (a stable hinge for the last 8 ,000 years).
Satellite altimetry is shown to record variations around a stable zero level for the entire period 1992- 2010. Reported trends in the order of 3 mm/year represent "interpretational records," after the application of subjective "personal calibrations" which cannot be substantiated by observational facts.
Therefore, we can now return to Fig. 1 and claim that the "models" (upper curve) provide an illusory picture of a strong sea-level rise and that the "observations" (lower curve) provide a good reconstruction of the actual changes in sea level over the last 170 years, with stability over the last 40 years. We can now return to the spectrum of present-day sea level rates (Fig. 2) and evaluate the various values proposed. This is illustrated in Fig. 16. Only rates in the order of 0.0 mm/year to maximum 0.7 mm/year seem realistic. This fits well with the values proposed for year 2100 by INQUA (2000) and Mörner (2004), but differs significantly from the values proposed by the IPCC (2001, 2007).
If sea level is not rising fast, and is not going to rise fast, then the greatest threat imagined by the IPCC disappears. The idea of an ever-rising sea drowning tens of thousands of people and forcing hundreds of thousands or even millions of people to become sea-level refugees is simply a grave error, hereby revealed as an illusion.
The true facts are to be found in nature itself. They are certainly not to be found at the modelling consoles. Some data depend heavily on interpretation. Other evidence, however, is clear and straightforward. Consider trees. I have often said that "trees don't lie": see e.g. Mörner, 2007c. In that paper, I described the significance of the lonely tree by the shore in the Maldives which indicated that sea level had been stable for 50-60 years. A group of Australian environmental "scientists", realizing that the location of the tree was fatal to their notion of ever-rising sea level, uprooted it and left it, still in leaf, lying on the strand. There are also the trees on the beach in Sundarban, indicating significant coastal erosion (caused in part by the clearance of mangroves to make way for shrimp-farms) but no sea level rise at all (Mörner, 2007c, 2010a).
I hope that by this research we can free the world from the artificial crisis to which the IPCC has condemned it. There will be no extensive or disastrous global sea-level rise in the near future. That was the main threat in the IPCC's arsenal of bugaboos, and now it is gone.
Martin Clark December 8, 2012 at 2:43 PM
Thanks Nils, and Hockey Schtick for bringing it up. Definitely an item to keep on my tablet for the next sustainability/renewable energy gabfest I am unable to avoid attending.
Bit of background:
As a building designer in NQ Australia, it is necessary for me to keep an eye on a few tide gauges, for the purpose of establishing AHD (Australian height datum) and HAT (highest astronomical tide). There are something like 200 operational tide gauges in Queensland, of which 40 have medium- long-term data. 38 of these are operated by State agencies and port authorities. Two belong to the (Federal) Bureau of Meteorology. All show variations. None are necessarily "wrong" since coastal topography has an effect and can vary over time.
There is no evidence of sea-level rise, only small fluctuations, mostly attributable to SOI/ENSO effects.
The recently elected State government managed to dump something like $600 million worth of "green" projects, but the sea-level issue is more intractable. The recently issued Interim State Planning Policy (on flood risk etc) retains a 0.8m sea-level rise "at" 2100. Could be interpreted as "not until" 2100 but that won't prevail will it.
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The biggest political theory of the last 30 years is supply side economics. It was the basis of the policies of all Republican presidents from Ronald Reagan onward. The idea is that if the rich are given more money, they will use it to invest in business and thus create jobs. According to the theory, if you give money to the poor, they will just spend it. The rich, on the other hand, will help businesses to grow and this will help the poor.
The idea is nonsense as anyone who has ever run an actual business should be able to explain. Businesses expand when they see a lot of demand for their products. If a computer repair business has to turn away business for lack of resources, it will hire another tech to be able to take the extra work. This is as simple a notion as there is. Now it is also the case that in rare instances, a company may see a market opportunity but not expand to meet it because they simply don't have the start up capital to do it. Maybe expanding would require buying more property and the cost of a loan is too high. But that is a rare case. In general, businesses are demand constrained.
In general: corporate profits don't seem to have any effect on investment. In there is any effect at all, in the long term, it seems that high profits lead to lower investments, not the other way around. So it seems that the very basis for supply side economics is wrong. In fact, look at the 1980s. As taxes went down (not seen on the graph), the share of investment went down. When taxes went up in the 1990s, investment went up. I'm not saying that high taxes cause investment to increase. Rather, tax policy doesn't seem to have much effect on investment at all.
Associated with this is the conservative obsession with budget deficits (at least when a Democratic is in the White House). Again, the argument against deficits is that government borrowing "crowds out" private borrowing and thus investment. It is certainly true that if the government is borrowing a lot of money while the economy is booming, borrowing costs may be high and thus cause the private sector to invest less than it normally would. The problem is that conservatives rarely complain about deficits when the economy is doing well. Instead, they complain about them at times like now when the economy could use government spending. Right now there is all kinds of money sitting around looking for places to invest. Unfortunately, there are few private sector takers for that money because businesses don't see any reason to invest when demand is so poor.
Bobby Jindal was right when he said that the Republicans had become the stupid party. It is very strange. I understand that not everyone agrees about policy. But the Republicans have lost any grip they once had on good policy. Their policy is entirely driven by ideology. They don't push free market solutions because they think that they produce the best results. They define free market solutions as good and don't care what results come from them. That's no way to run a country. We saw where such thinking brought the Soviet Union. That is where the Republicans are headed.
When I was a little boy, my family was on food stamps. My father, however, would tell you this is a lie. He would say that our family was never on any welfare program—most especially food stamps. And technically, he'd be right. The government never gave us food stamps that we could exchange for food at markets. Yet we were on food stamps. In fact, I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that we were far more dependent on food stamps than any family that has ever used the program to supplement their budget for food.
All the time that I was in grammar school, my parents owned a 7-11 store. And it was located in a fairly poor area. It wasn't that poor, because we lived there too. But there was a lot of low-income housing and so there were a lot of people in the area who received food stamps. And they spent some of those food stamps at our store. I would estimate that at least 5% of our total revenue came in the form of food stamps.
This is a critical aspect of the economics of such programs for the poor. There is a reason that the modern food stamp program—Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP)—is bundled with the Farm Bill: allowing people to buy more food is good for the people who grow the food, who distribute the food, who sell the food. What's more, most of the Farm Bill is not direct cash payments to farmers; most of it involves things like price floors that make food more expensive than it would be in a free market. The idea always was that if the government was going to make food prices artificially high, it should offset the effect on the poor by providing subsidies (i.e. food stamps).
The House Republicans who decided to gut SNAP, of course, do not understand this. It reminds me of another recent conservative "scandal." I'm sure you remember Mitt Romney's famous words about the 47% of people who do not pay any federal income taxes. On Fox News, this was presented as, "Shouldn't everyone do at least a little to support the government?!" But they never talked about the reason that the poor weren't paying any federal income taxes: Republican tax policy. Because of their constant efforts to lower the taxes of the rich, they couldn't help but also lower the taxes of the poor—many to the point where they paid none at all. I wrote about this in some depth almost exactly a year ago, Republicans Abuse Poor Coming & Going. So they use the poor to justify lowering taxes on the rich and once that's done, they scapegoat the poor for not paying taxes.
In the same way, the Republicans conveniently forget about part of the justification for food stamps. So now they want to eliminate them while keeping the higher prices institutionalized. Once again: a government program that gives money to the rich is made less poisonous by giving a small fraction of that money to the poor. Once the program for the rich is institutionalized, they want to kill the program for the poor. It could be that the Republicans just don't know the history of these programs. But I suspect it is more that they simply want to hurt the poor and help the rich.
Helping the poor necessarily helps the middle class and rich. The poor have to spend any money we give to them so it really does work its way through the economy. When I was a kid, I saw very clearly that the food stamp program helped my middle class family. And the legislators who originally started the food stamp program understood how it helped the (now) mostly rich farmers. But it doesn't work the other way. Giving money to the rich is an extremely poor way of distributing money throughout the economy. Given how inefficient it is, you really have to hate the poorer classes to favor farm subsidies over food stamps.
I will admit that there are some conservative commentators that are not completely loony. Examples are: Josh Barro, Ross Douthat, David Frum. Another is Norm Ornstein. I just saw him on Up with Steve Kornacki. And he said something that I hear from these kinds of conservatives all the time. The panelists were talking about the supposed New New Left movement that Peter Beinart has been pushing. One thing that Beinart reported was that young people are the only group who prefer socialism to capitalism. It was on that point that Ornstein had to bring out his "Reasonable Republican" talking points.
Ornstein said, "There's an opening for someone who's a little more libertarian. While you get a narrow plurality of millennials saying they prefer socialism, there's an antipathy toward government there in a lot of ways." I've heard this same kind of thing so often that it is becoming funny. Let's just start with it on the broadest of terms. The millennial generation is not interested in socialism out of any ideological commitment to a revolution of the worker. Their interest in it is simply a populist desire for a system that works better for themselves. Whenever conservatives are faced with a real populist movement, their response is always the same: libertarianism! I think this comes from the fact that that right wing pseudo-populists have always been bought off with libertarian platitudes. But that isn't going to happen with the millennials because they are actual populists who have actual economic needs.
Americans always claim to dislike government. But that's just the same as our dissatisfaction with the phone company: we wish it were better but that doesn't mean we want to stop having telephone service. What's more, younger Americans don't generally think that the government is bad by nature; they think that government is run badly. This is why they didn't vote for Mitt Romney, even though he ran explicitly as a technocratic libertarian. They knew that he would just be another slash and burn conservative.
And that gets to the great conservative propaganda campaign. When Republicans get into power, they do two things: rack up huge amounts of government debt and provide as bad of service as possible. Thomas Frank discusses this in depth in The Wrecking Crew. It gives Republicans two big advantages. First, it allows them to make their ridiculous arguments like, "Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem." Because they do everything they can to make sure that government is the problem. Then, the debts they create are used to stop Democrats from enacting good policies while they are in power.
Notice that while Bush Jr was creating huge new giveaways for the pharmaceutical industry, there was very little complaint from the supposed small government aficionados. It was only when a Democratic president wanted to help troubled homeowners with their mortgages that government debt became a problem. Admittedly, Norm Ornstein is not playing this game. But he is more than happy to benefit from it! He wants people to think that government is bad so that they will go along with his libertarian ideas about how to run the society. This is the fundamental problem with the old school conservatives: they still believe the same things as the crazies.
According to legend, 190 years ago Joseph Smith found those golden plates from which he translated the Book of Mormon. There is no doubt that there were no golden plates. But that still leaves an important question: was Smith delusional or was he just a charlatan? I tend to think the latter. What really makes me think that is the fact that Smith put together the Book of Mormon witnesses. If he had been simply delusional—prone to religious visions—he would not have felt compelled to justify his loony story. As a con, Mormonism is far more interesting than it is as a religion. As a religion, it is a throwback to much earlier faiths. By the start of 19th century, there was much more interesting religious thought and it just isn't found in Mormonism. This isn't to say that Mormonism is a bad religion. I figure that most religions started as one form of a con or other.
Other birthdays: political activist Christabel Pankhurst (1880); Tommy Lasorda (86); Jeremiah Wright (72); singer Debby Boone (57); and comedian Sue Perkins (44).
The day, however, belongs to the great physicist Michael Faraday who was born on this day in 1791. In physics, we tend to only celebrate the theorists, but Faraday is one of the few exceptions to this. His experimental work led directly to the development of Maxwell's equations, which are pretty much the beginning and end of of electromagnetism. Among Faraday's many discoveries was electromagnetic induction. This is the process by which changing magnetic fields create electric potentials. In other words, if you apply a magnetic field to a circuit, it will cause a current to start. Faraday is an example of how one doesn't need to know mathematics to do physics. Of course, he clearly had great mathematical reasoning ability—he was simply never trained in its formalism. My experience teaching physics was that students who claimed to understand the physics but not the math actually understood neither.


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How to understand "The alarm went off while I was asleep" [closed]
I see a sentence which is "the alarm went off while I was asleep", but I'm not quite sure the meaning of it. Because I see the explanation of the phrase "went off" in my dictionary seems in contradiction: One is running suddenly,another one is stop running
So in this sentence, is the alarm ringing or not?
meaning phrase-meaning
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closed as off-topic by Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩, Kreiri, user3169, JMB, user24743 Feb 13 '16 at 8:14
"Basic questions on spelling, meaning or pronunciation are off-topic as they should be answered using a dictionary. See: Policy for questions that are entirely answerable with a dictionary" – Brian Tompsett - 汤莱恩, Kreiri, user3169, JMB, Community
Why don't you use another dictionary? See Oald go off no. 3: the alarm went off. oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/… – rogermue Feb 4 '16 at 14:09
That sentence would mean the alarm activated and rang while I was asleep in daily, standard situations using unironic language. – GoDucks Feb 4 '16 at 17:04
I find it intriguing that this entire sentence can be interpreted in two ways. 1) I was asleep when the alarm went off, but it did not wake me. 2) I was asleep and was woken by the alarm going off. English!!! – Stephan Bijzitter Feb 4 '16 at 20:33
Stephan, this sentence says nothing about the alarm waking or not waking the person. It only says that the alarm went off, and that the person was sleeping when it did so. – Yay295 Feb 5 '16 at 0:10
@StephanBijzitter It does require tough, thorough, thought though. – Zymus Feb 5 '16 at 2:39
True, off can mean "inactive, deactivated" or it can mean "active, activated, in motion, moving from a state or point of stasis". (I am attempting to be as general and as vague as possible there, to accommodate a wide range of particular meanings.)
off combines with verbs to form collocations (run off, go off, set off, fly off, blast off, shot off, etc).
When used with something which in its normal state is active, "to go off" means to stop functioning:
The TV went off after that lightning bolt.
When used of something which in its normal state is in a state of readiness, "to go off" means to become active suddenly, to go from the ready state to the active state:
The alarm clock went off.
We waited for the 100 meter dash to begin. The starter's gun went off.
Here's one with "dashed off":
The door slammed and the skittish horse dashed off.
Alarms and guns are normally in a state of readiness. A skittish horse is always "ready" to be spooked. All three can be triggered into action.
Then off, off forth on swing / as a skate's heel sweeps smooth on a bow bend.
The sail caught a sudden breeze and we were off.
Ciao. I'm off.
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Here is a definition taken from one dictionary:
Go off:
[INTRANSITIVE] to explode, or to be fired
"The gun went off while he was cleaning it"
In fact, another dictionary explains that this phrase can be directly applied to a noise, and defines it in the following manner:
Go off
(NOISE) If a warning device goes off, it starts to ring loudly or make a loud noise:
"The alarm should go off automatically as soon as smoke is detected"
"Didn't you hear your alarm clock going off this morning?"
Therefore, "go off" can have the meaning of something being spontaneously activated or animated, such as with a gun, bomb, or indeed, an alarm.
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There's a term for words like that which can be their own antonym: Auto-antonym. Also "Contranym". There's actually a surprising number of them. English is funny that way, allowing for statements like: "The alarm went off again. Can somebody turn the alarm off?" Though they both use the same word "off", the first sentence implies that the alarm is ringing, while the second is asking someone to make it stop.
Unfortunately, there's no consistency with this sort of thing, it all depends on context. For instance, if I said "This switch makes the lights go off." you'd expect that the lights would be off after pushing the switch. But "This switch makes the alarm go off." implies that the alarm will be on after pushing the switch. Another example of things that work like the alarm would be "Pulling the trigger makes the gun go off.", meaning that the gun fires a shot, not that the gun is deactivated. English is a messy language...
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I don't know if it's my American English, but I would never say the alarm went off to mean it stopped working or deactivated. The same for The TV went off. – GoDucks Feb 4 '16 at 15:28
@GoDucks - Exactly my point. But you probably would use it in the second sense of "Can somebody turn the alarm off?", meaning to deactivate it. I don't think there's any US/UK disagreement in this particular case... – Darrel Hoffman Feb 4 '16 at 15:33
Darrel, agreed. But I'm struggling to find a context in which go off would be used with respect to an alarm clock and mean deactivate or stop functioning. – GoDucks Feb 4 '16 at 16:01
@GoDucks: With an alarm clock, probably none. But you could use go off with respect to something else, e.g. "The lights go off when I flip this switch". In that case, you'd expect the lights to be off, not on. It is very context-sensitive that way. – Darrel Hoffman Feb 4 '16 at 16:15
I wouldn't say a switch makes lights "go off" unless they're strobe lights, and the switch is making them strobe (i.e. the visual equivalent of an alarm ringing). I would say the switch makes the lights turn off. (Actually, I wouldn't say that either, I'd say the switch "turns the lights off", but at least the former would be grammatical, just awkward.) – neminem Feb 4 '16 at 19:32
It is potentially ambiguous; but because of the familiarity of the collocation "the alarm went off", (meaning triggered), anybody who said that meaning that it had turned itself off would be very likely to be misunderstood, so it is unlikely anybody would say it in that sense.
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package org.wso2.carbon.core.transports.util;

import org.apache.axis2.context.ConfigurationContext;
import org.apache.axis2.description.AxisService;
import org.apache.axis2.description.PolicyInclude;
import org.apache.axis2.util.ExternalPolicySerializer;
import org.apache.http.protocol.HTTP;
import org.apache.neethi.Policy;
import org.apache.neethi.PolicyReference;
import org.apache.neethi.PolicyRegistry;
import org.wso2.carbon.base.api.ServerConfigurationService;
import org.wso2.carbon.core.internal.CarbonCoreDataHolder;
import org.wso2.carbon.core.transports.CarbonHttpRequest;
import org.wso2.carbon.core.transports.CarbonHttpResponse;
import org.wso2.carbon.core.transports.HttpGetRequestProcessor;
import org.wso2.carbon.core.util.SystemFilter;
import org.wso2.carbon.utils.CarbonUtils;
import org.wso2.carbon.utils.NetworkUtils;
import org.wso2.carbon.utils.deployment.GhostDeployerUtils;

import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.ArrayList;

/**
 *
 */
public class PolicyProcessor implements HttpGetRequestProcessor {

    public void process(CarbonHttpRequest request,
                        CarbonHttpResponse response,
                        ConfigurationContext configCtx) throws Exception {
        String requestURI = request.getRequestURI();
        String contextPath = configCtx.getServiceContextPath();
        String serviceName = requestURI.substring(requestURI.indexOf(contextPath) + contextPath.length() + 1);
        AxisService axisService =
                configCtx.getAxisConfiguration().getServiceForActivation(serviceName);
        OutputStream outputStream = response.getOutputStream();
        if (axisService != null) {
            if (GhostDeployerUtils.isGhostService(axisService)) {
                // if the existing service is a ghost service, deploy the actual one
                axisService = GhostDeployerUtils.deployActualService(configCtx
                        .getAxisConfiguration(), axisService);
            }
            if (!axisService.isActive()) {
                response.addHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/html");
                outputStream.write(("
Service " +
                                    serviceName +
                                    " is inactive. Cannot display policies.
").getBytes());
                outputStream.flush();
            } else {
                PolicyInclude policyInclude = axisService.getPolicyInclude();
                if (policyInclude == null) {
                    response.addHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/html");
                    outputStream.write("
Policy element is not found!
".getBytes());
                    outputStream.flush();
                    return;

                }
                ArrayList policyElements = policyInclude.getPolicyElements();

                if (policyElements == null) {
                    response.addHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/html");
                    outputStream.write("
Policy elements not found!
".getBytes());
                    outputStream.flush();
                    return;
                }

                PolicyRegistry reg = policyInclude.getPolicyRegistry();

                ExternalPolicySerializer serializer = new ExternalPolicySerializer();
                if (configCtx.getAxisConfiguration()
                        .getLocalPolicyAssertions() != null) {
                    serializer.setAssertionsToFilter(
                            configCtx.getAxisConfiguration().getLocalPolicyAssertions());
                }

                if (policyElements.size() == 1) {
                    response.addHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/xml");
                    if (policyElements.get(0) instanceof Policy) {
                        Policy policy = (Policy) policyElements.get(0);
                        serializer.serialize(policy, outputStream);
                    } else if (policyElements.get(0) instanceof PolicyReference) {
                        String key = ((PolicyReference) policyElements.get(0)).getURI();
                        if (key.startsWith("#")) {
                            key = key.substring(key.indexOf('#') + 1);
                        }

                        Policy p = reg.lookup(key);
                        if (p == null) {
                            response.addHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/html");
                            outputStream.write("
Policy element not found!
".getBytes());
                        } else {
                            serializer.serialize(p, outputStream);
                        }
                    }
                } else {
                    // for many policies
                    String idParam = request.getParameter("id");
                    if (idParam != null) {
                        Object policyObject = policyElements.get(Integer.parseInt(idParam));
                        if (policyObject != null) {
                            response.addHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/xml");
                            if (policyObject instanceof Policy) {
                                Policy policy = (Policy) policyObject;
                                serializer.serialize(policy, outputStream);
                            } else if (policyObject instanceof PolicyReference) {
                                String key = ((PolicyReference) policyObject).getURI();
                                if (key.startsWith("#")) {
                                    key = key.substring(key.indexOf('#') + 1);
                                }
                                Policy p = reg.lookup(key);
                                if (p == null) {
                                    response.addHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/html");
                                    outputStream
                                            .write("
Policy element not found!
".getBytes());
                                } else {
                                    serializer.serialize(p, outputStream);
                                }
                            }
                        } else {
                            response.addHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/html");
                            outputStream.write("
Policy not found!
".getBytes());
                        }
                    } else {
                        if (policyElements.size() == 0) {
                            response.addHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/html");
                            outputStream.write("
Policy not found!
".getBytes());
                        } else {
                            String ipAddress = "http://" + NetworkUtils.getLocalHostname() + ":" +
                                               CarbonUtils.getTransportPort(configCtx, "http");
                            ServerConfigurationService serverCofig =
                                    CarbonCoreDataHolder.getInstance().getServerConfigurationService();
                            outputStream.write(("" +
                                                "<title>WSO2 Server v" +
                                                serverCofig.getFirstProperty("Version") +
                                                " Management Console - " +
                                                axisService.getName() +
                                                " Service Policies</title>" +
                                                "" +
                                                "" +
                                                "Policies for " +
                                                axisService.getName() +
                                                " service

").getBytes());
                            if (policyElements.size() != 0) {
                                String serviceContextPath = RequestProcessorUtil.getServiceContextPath(configCtx);
                                for (int i = 0; i < policyElements.size(); i++) {
                                    String st = "Policy " + i +
                                                "
";
                                    outputStream.write(st.getBytes());
                                }
                            } else {
                                outputStream.write("
No policies found
".getBytes());
                            }
                            outputStream.write("".getBytes());
                        }

                    }
                }
            }
        } else { // Service is null
            response.addHeader(HTTP.CONTENT_TYPE, "text/html");
            outputStream.write(("
Service " + serviceName +
                                " not found. Cannot display policies.
").getBytes());
            outputStream.flush();
        }
        outputStream.flush();
    }
}

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