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- Aside from the 117 m high chalk cliffs, the park is also home to ancient beech forests dating back over 700 years. Explore this unique landscape on foot, by bike or take an off road safari.
- For over a hundred years, the narrow-gauge railway has been driving in the scenic south-east of the Rügen island. It connects the former residence town of Putbus with the Baltic seaside resorts.
- Labelled as UNESCO World Heritage since 2002, Stralsund represents a mixture of cultural treasure of Brick Gothic as well as futuristic buildings like Ozeaneum, Europe’s museum of the year 2010.
- The remains of a Slavic fortress from 12th century, listed fishing village Vitt, two over 100 years old lighthouses next to former GDR bunker complex are all bearing witness to the history of Cape.
- A 1,250-m-long treetop walk takes guests through the forest on a route packed with information and adventure stations. The viewing platform situated 40 m above the ground offers fantastic views.
- Numerous white villas constructed in Art Neveau beautify the most popular Rügen’s resorts. The long sandy beaches, promenades and piers lure to take a stroll and enjoy the maritime atmosphere.
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I have a personal Oracle installation on my development machine (Oracle 12.1 EE, Windows 7, 16 GB RAM (about 7 of which is unused at all times), SSD) which is used exclusively for running automated tests.
- Default Oracle installation using their GUI - all defaults were accepted during installation.
- One database user/schema.
- The schema is wiped before and after every run of the whole test suite (i.e. database objects are regularly dropped and recreated; the user itself is not dropped). This step does not need to be optimized, its time is insignifikant in relation to the total runtime.
- During the test run, between individual scenarios, the tables are either wiped by
TRUNCATEdepending on circumstances.
- All objects, including all data rows, are recreated everytime the suite runs. There is no permanent data staying around between suite runs or individual tests.
- It would be totally irrelevant if there were any data loss at any time, up to including having to wipe the whole schema or even the DB itself.
Obviously, there is a lot of overhead right now, since Oracle doesn't know that I don't care about my data. So it will have its redo log etc. chugging along like usual.
What is a good configuration to make my use case as quick as possible? I.e., turning off as many security/consistency/history features as possible; avoiding writing buffers to the HDD as far as possible, etc.?
The time for the one-time initial setup and teardown (i.e. CREATE TABLE ... DROP TABLE) is insignificant in relation to the runtime of the test suite.


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The International Monetary Fund says France could return to "sluggish" growth as early as 2010 after having "weathered the current crisis better than most large economies."
AFP - The French recession will slow down this year and the country will begin a return to "sluggish" growth in early 2010, the International Monetary Fund said Sunday.
"The economic contraction is expected to slow in the remainder of 2009, followed by a sluggish return to growth beginning in early 2010," the IMF said in a report following consultations with France, the fourth largest contributor to the international body.
"Given underlying economic structures and early policy action, France has weathered the current crisis better than most other large economies."
But the fund cautioned that "the country remains in deep recession, and short-term policies to support recovery are essential."
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Modern women really can have it all – work, family, friends and fans – but having a sense of humour helps! By popular demand, Shamim Sarif’s collected blogs from 2009 are all here, together with full colour photos and captions.Hilarious and insightful, the blogs follow Shamim’s work as a writer, director, mother and wife – the 21st Century musings of an exhausted Renaissance woman....
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|Press Release - Aug 15, 2013 Back Download|
|Celebrating Thousands of New Potential Radio Stations on National Radio Day Aug. 20|
Nonprofit Applicants For the Last Frequencies Available on the Seattle Radio Dial Attend a Public Celebration Honoring National Radio Day. Sponsor Brown Paper Tickets Issues a "Last Call" to File an Application.
Aug. 14, 2013 (Seattle) -- Nonprofit applicants for the last frequencies available on the Seattle radio dial will share their plans for the airwaves at a free community lunch and cake-cutting celebration honoring National Radio Day, Aug. 20, at Jack Straw Productions, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, from noon to 1:30 p.m, produced and sponsored by Brown Paper Tickets. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is expected to license up to 8 new radio stations for the greater Seattle area, and more than 1,000 stations nationally, from applications received during a once-in-a-lifetime, two-week window that will open Oct. 15. This is the last time that the airwaves in some of the nation's largest cities, will be licensed to nonprofit organizations.
Brown Paper Tickets is sponsoring and organizing this celebration of National Radio Day as a "last call" for nonprofits to begin their LPFM application as part of it's National Make Radio Challenge, an initiative of the Doer Program for strengthening communities. More information can be found at http://community.brownpapertickets.com/Doers/radio.html.
The National Radio Day celebration is free and open to the public with registration at http://nationalradioday.brownpapertickets.com, or through Brown Paper Tickets' 24-hour hotline at 1-800-838-3006.
WHAT: A free community party celebrating National Radio Day, featuring
applicants for King County's 8 potential new radio stations, as well as applicants from Pierce and Kitsap counties, talking about how they will use the airwaves if the FCC approves their application. This event also serves as a "last call" for nonprofits who think they would benefit from being able to use radio to advance their mission to file their FCC application in time for the Oct. 15 deadline.
WHEN?:Tues., Aug. 20, 2013, noon-1:30 p.m.
WHERE?:Jack Straw Productions, 4261 Roosevelt Way NE, Seattle, 98105.
WHO?:Several local nonprofits in the process of applying for LPFM licensing.
The public is invited and welcome to attend!
WHY?It is estimated that there is room for roughly 8 LPFM frequency licenses in King County. A two-week application window for these licenses opens Oct. 15 for these last frequencies available, yet not many nonprofits and communities who are eligible to apply for them are aware of this powerful opportunity that may never be offered again.
This public celebration of National Radio Day serves as a way to look
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"last call" for nonprofits to begin their LPFM application, as it will take the
full 2 months left before the FCC deadline to complete.
Brown Paper Tickets' social mission is building healthy communities, and the company firmly believes that LPFM is an important and powerful tool for groups with a common purpose to communicate, cooperate, bond and thrive. The Not-Just-For-Profit ticketing company has donated 5 percent of all profits to charity for more than 10 years, and has invested in bringing awareness about the LPFM opportunity to nonprofits, giving guidance on how to fund a station and on how to successfully complete the FCC application. More information can be found at http://community.brownpapertickets.com/Doers/radio.html.
Even in the digital age, radio reaches the widest audience worldwide,
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With the publication of our September issue, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine is pleased to announce the selection of the 2016 Article of the Year.
Based on scientific content, article downloads, mainstream media mentions, and references on social media platforms, our editors selected “All-Cause Mortality Attributable to Sitting Time: Analysis of 54 Countries Worldwide” by Mr. Leandro Rezende at the University of Sao Paolo as this year's top manuscript. Mr. Rezende and co-authors investigated the relationship between sitting time, mortality, and life expectancy in 54 countries, estimating that sitting time was responsible for 3.8% of all-cause mortality, or approximately 433,000 deaths per year, among those countries studied.
Articles in this supplement examine evidence linking factors in early adulthood to subsequent cancer risk, while also identifying opportunities to incorporate that evidence into public health practice. The researchers assess risks that may be uniquely faced in early adulthood, highlight environmental factors that influence individual decisions, and discuss possibilities for early intervention.
Models of HIV incidence, prevalence, and mortality for the U.S. over 10 years demonstrate the U.S. could achieve an estimated 46% reduction in HIV incidence by 2020 and a nearly 70% reduction in HIV incidence by 2025 with proper implementation of the U.S. National HIV/AIDS Strategy.

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Formal Definition of Coloured Petri Nets
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This chapter contains the formal definition of non-hierarchical CP-nets and their behaviour. A non-hierarchical CP-net is defined as a many-tuple. However, it should be understood that the only purpose of this is to give a mathematically sound and unambiguous definition of CP-nets and their semantics. Any concrete net, created by a modeller, will always be specified in terms of a CPN diagram (i.e., a diagram similar to Figs. 1.7 and 1.13) — or by a hierarchical CPN diagram (to be introduced in Chap. 3). It is in principle (but not in practice) easy to translate a CPN diagram into a CP-net tuple, and vice versa. The tuple form is adequate when we want to formulate general definitions and prove theorems which apply to all (or a large class) of CP-nets. The graph form is adequate when we want to construct a particular CP-net modelling a specific system.
KeywordsFormal Definition Occurrence Sequence Token Colour Resource Allocation System Reachable Marking
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Today, Halloween, is a red-letter day for readers of GoodStuffNW. Not because I'm going to be handing out extra-large bars of extremely expensive Recchiuti chocolate to the first 1,000 trick-or-treaters who ring our bell. No, much as I'd love to, I'm not doing that. Bad for the teeth, you know.
Mad Genius Comics, with the first installment of a heartwarming little zombie Christmas story called Johnny Zombie. Instigated, oddly enough, by the decision on the part of Karl and his wife, Myrna, to adopt a baby.
"That was the tipping point," he explained. "It suddenly became about my legacy, and what I could leave behind for our son or daughter. I plan to do any number of characters and concepts at Mad Genius. Some of these comics will be drawn by others, some I’ll draw myself, and I wouldn’t rule out me drawing someone else’s story, but I’ll always own or co-own anything that appears on Mad Genius Comics. Remember— I’m doing this for the kid!"


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5 edition of Perspectives on bacterial pathogenesis and host defense found in the catalog.
Perspectives on bacterial pathogenesis and host defense
|Statement||edited by Bernhard Urbaschek.|
|Series||Studies in infectious disease research|
|Contributions||Urbaschek, Bernhard, 1922-|
|LC Classifications||QR201.B34 P47 1988|
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american thoracic society international conference, may , • denver colorado host defense mechanisms against bacterial respiratory infections. a host defense mechanisms against viral respiratory infections copd pathogenesis: cellular expression and protein responses. b drug induced and connective tissue related. Bacterial plasmids originating in a wide range of genera are being studied from a variety of perspectives in hundreds of laboratories around the globe. These elements are well known for carrying "special" genes that confer important survival properties, frequently neces sary under atypical conditions. Classic examples of plasmid-borne genes are those provid ing bacterial resistance to toxic. Seminal and current research in molecular and physiological aspects of plant interactions with pathogens, including mechanisms of pathogenesis, host-pathogen recognition and host defense, with an emphasis on critical evaluation of primary literature. Students also complete a . Of all the defense mechanisms in the animal host, the inflammatory response may be the most important for dealing with microbial infection. Inflammation is necessary for the proper functioning of all the host defenses, including the immune defenses, because it focuses .
Infectious diseases caused by pathogens including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites are ranked as the second leading cause of death worldwide by the World Health Organization. Despite tremendous improvements in global public health since , a number of challenges remain to either prevent or eradicate infectious diseases. Many pathogens can cause acute infections that are effectively Cited by: 6.
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The result is bacterial replication to produce an im balance of a potentially commensal relation which, under other defined conditions, would be optimal for the survival of both the host and bacterial cells. Virulence and pathogenesis are both absolute and relative terms.
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Key aspects of bacterial, fungal, and parasite pathogenesis, as well as innate immunity, are covered. with bacterial induced cell death are apoptosis and necrosis  (Table 1). Abstract Microbes are the key players for deteriorating the host defense. They enter inside the host system, colonize the host cells, evade the host immunity and ultimately leads to tissue injury and ultimately Size: KB.
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|Boomtown Rats - Live at Hammersmith Odeon 1978|
Actor: The Boomtown Rats
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The Boomtown Rats were founded in Ireland in 1975. They moved to London in 1976 and came to the forefront of New Wave music. Their debut single, "Looking After No.1," reached No.11 on the UK singles chart and began a seque... more »
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BUY THIS DVD!!! You won't regret it.....
Robert D. Farrish | Hartford, CT | 03/12/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"I bought this DVD on a whim, not really sure what to expect as I had never seen the rats in concert. I was totally blown away by it. Bob & company were a really great live band. Extremely high energy combined with tighter playing and greater chops than one would typically expect from bands of that particular genre. Bob shows that he is also an amazing frontman. He does a great job engaging the audience.
Considering that this footage is 27 years old, the picture quality is quite good. Not as good as you might get with a concert filmed in the 21st century, but certainly more than watchable. There is the occasional piece of conceptual footage dubbed over the live action, but not enough to be really annoying. The audio quality is quite good. Good enough that you might just want to listen to the audio track without watching the DVD.
The inclusion of two promo videos from one of Bob's solo albums seems to be a bit of an odd choice for a bonus, but cool to see anyway. Might have been nice if they had tacked on a couple of the videos that didn't make it to the "Someone's Looking at You" DVD like "Up All Night", "Joey's On the Street Again" or "Me & Howard Highes." But these are all minor gripes, this is certainly a DVD worth owning if you're a Rats fan or a fan of the late 70s UK music scene. A great bit of history nicely captured on this DVD.
GO BUY IT!!!!"
Pretty Darn Good
Stuck in the 80's | Indianapolis, IN | 03/31/2006
(4 out of 5 stars)
"Although the sticker on the dvd describes it as a never before released concert by the Boomtown Rats, I believe this was actually available in the late 70's/early 80's under the name "A Tonic for the Troops" (i.e. the name of their 2nd album). I watched it back then on our Betamax player!
This is a great show. The sound quality is good for such and old concert. The enthusiasm of the band comes through wonderfully. Makes me wish I had lived in England back then. The mix of tracks is a nice representation of the Rats 1st and 2nd albums. Plus, you get to hear the rare "Doing the Rat", which I have never managed to find on vinyl.
The only reason I don't give the dvd a 5 star rating is because of the extras. There are three extra audio tracks, which are accompanied by sort of artsy, slow motion, re-cut video of the concert. Why didn't we simply get to see the actual footage from these extra songs? There are also two solo, studio videos by Bob Geldoff. I think they must have been made some time after he went out on his own. I found them depressing, after seeing his younger, more energetic stage performance with the Rats.
All in all however, a very nice piece of post-punk, new wave pop."
The Rats at their best!
M. D. Givetz | Southern California | 04/10/2005
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"In 1979, I saw this show on German Television and I was hooked. What a great live band and this concert shows The Boomtown Rats at their best. I've been looking for this particular show for over 25 years. Thank You for finally putting this out!!!!! BRILLIANT!!!!! Every Boomtown Rats fan should own this!!!!"
Yes, Yes, Yes!
Douglas Manion | 03/24/2005
(5 out of 5 stars)
"A must have for Rats fans. And anybody who just likes good, solid, "brilliant" rock and roll should take a look also. Some of the camera work is cheesy and dated, but this is the Rats in their prime. Geldof proves he belongs in the same showmanship pantheon as Ray Davies and Mick Jagger. The sound quality is phenomenal. Crank up the volume."

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Poise will use the cash, administered by the Pennsylvania state health department, to assist health partnerships in the region. Notably, the funds will be used to improve the uptake of COVID-19 vaccine in ZIP codes that the Black Equity Coalition has recognized as especially susceptible. Among the grant’s objectives are higher demographic messaging and information analysis on COVID-19 testing and education outreach in dozens of counties. Gary-Webb says researchers had a sense of the place the inequities could be discovered as a end result of they knew the neighborhoods. They first layered in percentages of Black households in poverty as properly as knowledge on the locations of federally qualified health facilities to advise health authorities on where and when to increase testing.
Heres Why Experts Assume Suicides Dropped Through The Pandemic
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Crude extracts of different parts of Moringa oleifera are extensively used in African traditional medicine to manage and treat a plethora of human ailments. However, there is little or no information regarding the use of M. oleifera extracts against the formation of advanced glycation end-products (AGEs). AGEs are implicated in the development of vascular complications of diabetes mellitus, other age-related and neuro-degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease. We investigated the effects of crude leaf, seed and root extracts of M. oleifera on the formation of major types of AGEs. Hexane, ethyl acetate, methanol and aqueous extracts of the leaf, seed and root parts of M. oleifera and standard inhibitor aminoguanidine were incubated with a bovine serum albumin (BSA)-glucose mixture at 37°C for 20 days. The amounts of fluorescent AGEs (FAGEs), total immunogenic AGEs (TIAGEs) and NƐ(carboxymethyl)lysine (CML) were determined and the percentage inhibitory activity of each plant extract calculated. Only the methanol and aqueous extracts of all M. oleifera parts demonstrated anti-glycation effects against FAGEs while extracts from all plant parts exhibited significantly higher anti-glycation effects than standard inhibitor aminoguanidine against TIAGEs. For CML, the methanol extract of all plant parts was found to have an effect comparable to aminoguanidine. The findings suggest that crude extracts from various parts of the M. oleifera plant, especially the polar contents have the ability to inhibit the formation of various types of AGEs.
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What Evidence Would Persuade You That Man-Made Climate Change Is Real?
Ronald Bailey below has decided to move to the side of the Gods after having been a skeptic. So his arguments for his new belief are interesting. What he says is that warming is still going on even though we cannot detect it. Some small changes are happening that would happen if there were warming so that is enough to convince him.
The story that heat suddenly started to hide in the deep ocean 18 years ago is just a desperate guess propped up by shaky statistics that ignores the nature of heated molecules -- which is to rise. Even frantic Warmist Stefan Rahmstorf doesn't accept that story. He is an oceanographer and that background makes it clear to him how implausible the ocean story is.
Bailey seems unaware that the small changes concerning him have mostly occurred over quite a short timescale, a scale too short to be sure that there is any reliable trend. Starting your measurements of Arctic ice from 1979, for instance, is a very short time span for estimating a trend, considering the slow and erratic pace of climate events. And in the last few years the trend seems to have reversed anyway
More importantly, he does not even address the problem posed by the very small scale of temperature change over the last 100 years or so. Why is a temperature rise of less than one degree Celsius a problem? Nobody noticed it when it was happening so why would anybody notice a continuation of that trend? The Warmist answer is a prophecy of Armageddon. And in that we DO have a regularity of nature: Prophecies of Armageddon always fail.
Warmists prophesy that the warming trend will not continue on its gentle way. It will suddenly accelerate due to feedbacks. But the principal feedback proposed (clouds) is highly speculative and on the best evidence wrong. Take that feedback away and all the rest of Warmism could be true and yet give no grounds for concern. The whole scare depends on feedbacks that probably won't happen and which have certainly not so far been observed
Furthermore, the focus on CO2 is tendentious. There are many influences on climate so even if there were warming going on how would we know that CO2 was the guilty party? Correlation is not causation, as Bailey himself admits. Global warming theory perfectly easily allows that the warming effect of CO2 will be too minute to detect.
I could go on but will close with a comment by James Taylor of the Heartland Institute -- received via email:
"Ron Bailey presented and then debated a straw man. Few people argue against the notion “that man-made climate change is real.” The pertinent issues for skeptics regard context, pace, and consequences – and to a certain extent the relative importance of anthropogenic vs. natural forcings. Bailey habitually creates and then debates weak global warming straw men, which leads me to believe Bailey either lacks the intelligence to discern what is being debated or is deliberately misrepresenting what key issues are in dispute regarding the global warming debate".
In 2005, I changed my mind about climate change: I concluded that the balance of the scientific evidence showed that man-made global warming could likely pose a significant problem for humanity by the end of this century. My new assessment did not please a number of my friends, some of whom made their disappointment clear.
At the 2007 annual gala dinner of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a D.C.-based free-market think tank, the master of ceremonies was former National Review editor John O'Sullivan. To entertain the crowd, O'Sullivan put together a counterfeit tale in which I ostensibly had given a lecture on environmental trends pointing out that most were positive. After my talk, O'Sullivan told the audience, a young woman supposedly approached me to express her displeasure with regard to my change of mind on climate change.
Continuing his fable, O'Sullivan recounted to the hundreds of diners that I had tried to explain why my views had shifted. Eventually realizing that the young woman was having none of it, I then purportedly asked her if it wasn't enough that we two actually agreed on most environmental policy issues. The young woman paused for a moment, said O'Sullivan, and then retorted, "I suppose that Pontius Pilate made some good decisions, too." Being compared, even in jest, to the Roman governor who consented to the crucifixion of Jesus is, to say the least, somewhat disconcerting.
Welcome to the most politicized science of our time.
So what evidence would convince you that man-made climate change is possibly real? Keep in mind that despite what progressive dimwits like Naomi Klein might assert, the scientific evidence does not mandate any particular program.
What about higher temperatures? Obviously, in order for there to be any man-made global warming, temperatures must be going up. Are they? Yes.
Concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have increased from 280 parts per million in the late 18th century to around 400 ppm today. And the trend in average global surface temperatures has been increasing since the late 19th century. As I've reported before, all of the global temperature datasets, both the instrumental and satellite, find that the atmosphere has warmed since the 1950s.
By how much? Summed over the past 35 years—that is, since the advent of satellite monitoring—temperatures have increased by at most 0.56 C° (1 F°) and at least by 0.455 C° (0.8 F°). In general, the instrumental records suggest that surface temperatures have warmed on average by about +0.9 C° (1.6 F°) since the 1950s.
Let's look at the near-term trends. The average rate of increase since 1979 varies among the temperature datasets from a high of +0.16 C° to a low of +0.13 C° per decade. The rate of surface temperature increase dramatically slowed after 1998 to rate of around +0.05 C° per decade. Of course, correlation does not imply causation, but how sure can you be that the rise in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases just happens to coincide with an entirely natural increase in average temperatures? Conversely, how sure can you be that a natural decline in average temperatures is not temporarily countering a trend toward to higher temperatures caused by accumulating greenhouse gases? Explanations based on natural variability work both ways. I will address the recent “hiatus” in temperature trends below.
What about converging daytime and nighttime temperatures?
Climatologists predicted that man-made warming would produce a decrease in the differences between low nighttime temperatures and high daytime temperatures. And indeed, a decrease between day and night temperatures has been occurring in the United States, China, Spain, and other regions. This phenomenon is global, although more recently daytime and nighttime temperatures have been increasing at about the same rate. Along with the observed increases in average temperature, heat waves have become more common since the 1950s.
What about earlier spring and later fall seasons?
Many studies find that the onset of spring is occurring earlier than it did decades ago. A 2015 study reports that the advent of spring in the Northern Hemisphere occurs about 4 days earlier than in 1980. A 2006 European study found that spring is arriving about 3 days earlier, and a 2014 study reported that the growing season in the Northern Hemisphere is expanding.
Part of the reason that spring is advancing is that the extent of snow cover in March and April in the Northern Hemisphere has been falling. As a 2011 study in the journal Cryosphere reports, "The rate of decrease in March and April Northern Hemisphere (NH) Snow Cover Extent (SCE) over the 1970–2010 period is ~0.8 million km2 per decade corresponding to a 7% and 11% decrease in NH March and April SCE respectively from pre-1970 values." The decline in snow cover is broadly in line with climate model predictions.
What about disappearing glaciers and Arctic sea ice?
The Arctic-wide melt season has lengthened at a rate of 5 days per decade from 1979 to 2013, according to a 2014 study in Geophysical Research Letters. A 2014 review article looks at what satellite data are telling us about recent climate trends in the Arctic. Temperatures are rising at 0.6°C per decade, about 4 times the global average. Sea ice extent has been falling at 3.8 percent per decade, and spring snow cover is dropping by 2.1 percent per decade. The Greenland ice sheet has been losing mass at a rate of 34 gigatons per year, though that has increased sevenfold since 2002 to an estimated 215 gigatons per year.
Ice is not melting only in the Arctic. Most of the world's 130,000 mountain glaciers are also disappearing.
The growing extent of sea ice in the Antarctic over the past decades is a climate change conundrum. On the face of it, more sea ice would indicate cooling rather than warming. Researchers are still trying to figure out what is going on. One idea is that warmer waters are melting the bases of freshwater Antarctic ice shelves. The fresh water then cools the sea surface thus promoting the freezing of more sea ice. When climate researchers don't understand what is going on they often attribute the empirical trends to "internal variability."
What about stronger rainstorms?
As temperatures increase by 1 degree Celsius, global average water vapor in the atmosphere is estimated to increase by around 7 percent. It is difficult to determine the average global humidity. But a 2005 study parsing satellite data finds that the atmosphere did moisten, as predicted, between 1982 and 2004. A 2014 study confirmed the finding and suggests that the increase is mostly the result of man-made warming.
Increased atmospheric humidity suggests that precipitation should also increase. The data show that this is happening. A 2013 study that analyzed data from nearly 9,000 weather stations from around the globe found increases in annual maximum daily precipitation at nearly two-thirds of the stations since 1900. (Climate change does not appear to be exacerbating hurricanes, tornadoes, or droughts.)
What about warming oceans?
Does the recent 17-year hiatus in rising global temperatures cut strongly against the notion of man-made global warming? The pause certainly was not predicted by the computer climate models. As the researchers at the private consultancy Remote Sensing Systems have noted, "The troposphere has not [their emphasis] warmed as fast as almost all climate models predict." University of Alabama in Huntsville climatologist John Christy compared 102 climate model predictions with actual temperature data and found that "their response to CO2 on average is 2 to 5 times greater than reality." Pretty damning.
Other researchers have reluctantly come to acknowledge that there has been a slowdown in surface temperatures. But while surface temperatures may be on pause, they are convinced that "global heating" is not. Lots of researchers have been reporting that for the past couple of decades, 90 percent of the extra heat from greenhouse warming has been sequestered in the oceans. In February, Nature Climate Change asserted that planetary warming continues "unabated," with most of the excess heat being absorbed by the top 2,000 meters of the oceans. Just how and where the heat gets buried in the oceans remains controversial.
Last year an intriguing study in Science suggested that natural variability in the North Atlantic can keep transporting heat downward into the deep ocean for periods lasting 20 to 35 years. Those researchers propose that "the latter part of the 20th century saw rapid global warming as more heat stayed near the surface. In the 21st century, surface warming slowed as more heat moved into deeper oceans."
How about some falsifiable predictions?
Another February 2015 article in Nature Climate Change makes the bold prediction that the current hiatus will likely last only until the end of this decade. Around 2020, the authors suggest, the oceans will start to release the stored heat and surface temperatures will begin to rise rapidly. An even more alarming (alarmist?) article in the April 2015 Nature Climate Change asserts that the rate global average temperature increases will rise to 0.25°C per decade by 2020, "an average greater than the peak rates of change during the previous one to two millennia."
The future course of man-made warming depends on climate sensitivity, conventionally measured as how high average temperature would eventually increase if atmospheric carbon dioxide were doubled. In recent years, there has have a lot of back and forth between researchers trying to refine their estimates of climate sensitivity. At the low end, some researchers think that temperatures would increase a comparatively trivial 1.5 degrees Celsius; on the high end, some worry it could go as high as high 6 degrees Celsius. The uncertainty over this variable is largely why I think that future warming could become a signficant problem. In a 2014 article in Geophysical Research Letters, a group of researchers calculated that it would take another 20 years of temperature observations for us to be confident that climate sensitivity is on the low end and more than 50 years of data to confirm the high end of the projections. How lucky do you feel?
In his magisterial 1960 essay "Why I Am Not A Conservative," economist Friedrich Hayek observed:
"Personally, I find that the most objectionable feature of the conservative attitude is its propensity to reject well-substantiated new knowledge because it dislikes some of the consequences which seem to follow from it—or, to put it bluntly, its obscurantism. I will not deny that scientists as much as others are given to fads and fashions and that we have much reason to be cautious in accepting the conclusions that they draw from their latest theories. But the reasons for our reluctance must be rational and must be kept separate from our regret that the new theories upset our cherished beliefs."
It might be that it is just so happens that natural climate variability has boosted global temperatures and the trends discussed above are occurring coincidentally at the same time the concentrations of carbon dioxide are 30 percent above their highest levels in the past 800,000 years. Correlation does not imply causation. The data cited (and uncited) do not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that man-made climate change is real. However, in my best judgment the preponderance of the evidence suggests that the greenhouse gases produced by humanity are warming the climate and that it could be a significant issue later in this century. In the foregoing I have aimed to cite data, not model outputs. I have long been a critic of computer climate models.
To restate: The existence of man-made warming does not mandate any particular policies. So back to the headline question: If generally rising temperatures, decreasing diurnal temperature differences, melting glacial and sea ice, smaller snow extent, stronger rainstorms, and warming oceans are not enough to persuade you that man-made climate is occurring, what evidence would be?
Joe Bastardi: Is There Anything in the Global Warming Debate That Would Convince Me I'm Wrong?
There is a constant process I go through, from a forecast for tomorrow, to when I train with weights. Unless challenged, you do not improve. So the challenge is listed in the title above. I must always seek the right answer. It’s not getting soft, it’s simply using this methodology to either confirm or deny my idea.
So, is there anything in the global warming debate that would convince me I’m wrong?
As a matter of fact, yes.
1.) The PDO, which is tracking nicely with the 1950s, turned cold early- and mid-‘50s, warmed late (as it is now) and then turned cold again. The AMO, which is in its warm endgame now, turned cold, but temperatures did not fall. However, since 2007 and the flip of the PDO, there has been a slight decrease in global temperatures based on NCEP CFSR data.
That’s one factor.
2.) Another is the top of the stratosphere, which has been cooling since the late 1970s. But since the Pacific flipped, it’s warming! That to me says there was an expansion in levels below it (warming). Now, the question becomes: Is this warming driven by the cycles of the ocean – which I believe – that reverses as it cools, leading to stratospheric warming? (We may be starting to see that now and the result would be stronger cold invasions over the continent.) Or is it truly because of the increase in human-caused greenhouse gases? (There’s nothing we can do about nature, though one may argue fossil fuel CO2 is entirely natural, since it comes front plant and animal life anyway.)
From 1979-2008, it cooled over the Arctic region.
But over the last several winters, it is reversing and warming.
3.) I am watching the Southern Hemisphere, because ice expansion in an area surrounded by water seems to be a perfect counter-balance.
Notice how total global sea ice, again since the decadal shift in the Pacific around 2007, has returned more or less to normal!
4.) Finally, I am waiting for someone, somewhere, to quantify the global water vapor, which I believe is the true measure of the climate system. Over the tropics, where the trapping hot spots are supposed to occur, water vapor varies directly with the ups and downs of the tropical oceans. Understanding that, and the relationship to global cloudiness, would be huge.
Example: The 400 mb mixing ratios anomalies over the tropical Pacific in the warm cycle of the Pacific 1978-2007:
Since the PDO flip, it has dried out, and this is in direct opposition to the trapping hot spot theory over the tropical oceans.
Objective satellite-era-based measurements in conjunction with oceanic cycles would be a much better way of measuring where the climate is going. Obviously, a sustained increase in water vapor, by far the most prominent greenhouse gas, would be indicative of a change that is meaningful. The bulk of the “warming” has been where it’s dry and cold. In the long-running record highs, it’s not getting hotter. Additionally, the current hysteria that everything is the worst ever is a function of several non-scientific, highly subjective variables. Chief among them is the fact that we can observe almost everything now, and people are not acquainted with what has happened before in detail. If we want to continue to follow along with global temperatures, then it’s a simple test: Watch what they do over the next 15-20 years as the oceans cool.
These are things I look at that can lead me to say, Joe, you are wrong.
For me, this debate is far from settled. And it’s the atmosphere that should settle it, not agendas.
Now, I ask people who don’t see things my way: Is there anything that can challenge your position on this? If not, then your position is dogma, very different from what is needed to strive for the correct idea on this matter.
Nutty Muslim Professor: “The Patriarchy is Killing our Planet,” US to Blame for Rape in Middle East
Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, who has taught at University of Sussex’s School of Global Studies and and Brunel University, has written an article in which he claims that “global warming,” among other crises, are “gendered,” and men are at fault.
The piece, titled “Patriarchy is killing our planet – women alone can save her,” appeared in “The Ecologist.”
Dr. Ahmed specifically pins the world’s problems specifically on men; not specific men, but men as a whole. The way to solve it is by destroying the patriarchy.
He explains, “The global epidemic of violence against women and their systematic exclusion from the power structures that rule us are integral to man’s violent exploitation of Earth and her resources.”
Detailing the problems that face the earth, Dr. Ahmed writes, “The global crises we face today are legion, but their disparate nature is illusory.” In reality, they all have the same source: men.
Ahmed writes, “In all these cases, we see that our relentless plunder of our own planetary life-support systems, correlates with our unnerving tendency to divide, exclude and ‘Otherize’, often in ways that are so insidious we find it difficult, even painful, to acknowledge these processes.” He concludes, “But to this day, one of the most ever-present yet still unacknowledged processes is patriarchy.”
He then explains the different things that men have caused. He writes, “Climate change is gendered…Poverty is gendered… Food and water is gendered… Violence is gendered.”
To “the patriarchy,” Dr. Ahmed writes, “rape is good for business.” He even blames the rape of women in Middle East countries on “Western” arms dealers and “Western intervention”. In “Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine, to less developed regions like Africa,” the rape of women is, in part, the United States’ fault, he writes.
Ahmed then attacks capitalism, writing, “Contemporary global capitalism might be making some people richer, but it is making more people poorer and unhappier, in a context of accelerating uncertainty and conflict. And by the end of this century at least, we face the prospect, according to the consensus of our best scientific minds, of a largely uninhabitable planet if we continue business-as-usual.”
In the end, “misogyny is an integral function of planetary destruction,” Ahmed concludes. “If we want to save the planet, patriarchy must die. That means recognizing and taking responsibility for the fact that patriarchy is integral to the structures of power we take for granted, across East and West.”
Australian study finds Earth is greener than 10 years ago: Total amount of vegetation found to have increased significantly over past decade
Carbon is good for you
For years we have been told mankind is destroying the planet, felling trees and systematically ripping up forests. So it may be a surprise to some that Earth is actually greener today than it was a decade ago.
In an authoritative new study, scientists have calculated that the total vegetation on the planet increased substantially between 2003 and 2012.
While tropical jungles are still disappearing – felled for timber and to make way for cattle pasture – tree growth elsewhere has outstripped the loss.
The unexpected findings show that the area of ground covered by plants has increased in Russia, China, Australia and Africa, leading to a net gain in vegetation cover.
Some of this is due to deliberate conservation, such as a huge tree-planting campaign by the Chinese. Elsewhere high rainfalls have resulted in faster growth of shrubs and grasses on the plains of Africa, northern Australia and South America. And the abandonment of large agricultural areas following the collapse of the Soviet Union led to forests reclaiming farmland.
But whatever the cause, the increase in vegetation is indisputably significant.
The Australian team, whose results are published in the journal Nature Climate Change, found the ‘greening effect’ has been so substantial that the world’s trees and plants are storing 4billion more tonnes of carbon than they were a decade before.
Carbon dioxide in the air is sucked up by plants’ leaves and converted through photosynthesis into the food they need to grow, locking the carbon in their wood. The 4billion tonne increase in plant carbon storage is the equivalent of 7 per cent of the 60billion tonnes of carbon dioxide emitted through industry and transport over the same period.
The surprising results – gathered by scientists who analysed 20 years of satellite data – comes after decades of warnings about environmental catastrophe caused by deforestation.
The scientists studied radio waves naturally emitted by the Earth’s surface to calculate the amount of vegetation covering the land. Using satellites, they were able to calculate the way forest patterns had changed over 20 years, which they say is a more accurate way of measuring deforestation than simply surveying land use.
Study author Professor Albert van Dijk, of the Australian National University, said: ‘Previous analyses of vegetation biomass focused on forest cover change. With our approach we found unexpectedly large vegetation increases in the savannas of southern Africa and northern Australia.’
Lead author Dr Yi Liu, of the University of New South Wales, warned that the gains may be easily lost as weather patterns shift with climate change.
He said: ‘Savannas and shrublands are vulnerable to rainfall – one year can be very wet, and more carbon will be fixed in plants, but the next year can be very dry, and then we will lose the carbon fixed in previous years.’ He added that huge vegetation loss is still occurring on the edge of the Amazon forests and in the Indonesian provinces of Sumatra and Kalimantan.
And while the increase in grasslands and pine forests is a rare glimmer of hope for conservationists, it only goes some way to mitigating the ongoing loss of tropical rainforest, which supports more species than any other ecosystem on Earth.
Will Rachel Carson Be the First Woman on the $20 Bill?
Isn't this racist? Her unfounded attacks on DDT have led to millions of African deaths
There’s a movement afoot to put a woman on the $20 bill and retire the slavery-supporting, Trail-of-Tears-blazing President Andrew Jackson from his long-held post.
Among the top 15 nominees is marine biologist Rachel Carson. In 1962, Carson authored Silent Spring, a seminal book for the environmental movement that warned of the degradation of natural systems if pesticide use continued unchecked. Drawing from many scientific studies, she described how DDT enters the food chain by accumulating in the fatty tissues of animals (humans, too). Today DDT is classified internationally as a probable carcinogen that persists in the environment for long periods.
Silent Spring was a bestseller, in part because, as the President’s Science Advisory Committee under John F. Kennedy acknowledged when it examined and later defended Carson’s findings, the American public had previously been unawares that pesticides were toxic.
The scientific community also largely backed Carson up, but chemical companies and some government scientists went on the attack. Carson’s gender was regularly used as a means to undermine her work; she was called “hysterical,” a “nun of nature,” and a “sentimental woman who loved cats.”
During the several years it took to finish Silent Spring, Carson learned she had breast cancer—a diagnosis she kept secret for fear that the chemical industry would use it to discredit her. She died in 1964. Carson didn’t live to see the formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency six years later or the 1972 ban of the sale of DDT within the U.S.—two events she helped bring about.
Nobody needs to be paid to be climate skeptics -- because Warmist "Science" Is so Bad
Members of the Scientific Council of the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF) recently criticized the Royal Society’s positions on climate.
Their clear, authoritative scientific objections to the Royal Society’s positions reveal the weak scientific foundation on which the great climate fervor has been based. The public must either become conversant enough to grasp this or step back and get out of the way of those who have. Scientists don’t need to be paid to oppose the ideas of climate orthodoxy, because those ideas are just so damn bad.
To the Bitter End
Accusing scientists of venal motives when they raise questions about climate has come to be what passes for scientific debate. Unlike the GWPF critique, this is not science at all. Al Gore recently renewed calls for climate deniers (as they are pejoratively called by the dogmatists) to be punished. This follows brazen political-style attacks on scientists because of their views on climate. In particular there has been an aggressive assault questioning our ethics, morality, competence, and even sanity. It has been amazingly coordinated, coming simultaneously from a number of fronts: activists, Congress, Hollywood, and even some psychologists.
This entire assault could not be more anti-scientific. The protagonists are political interlopers in science who do not understand or respect the nature of scientific truths and how they are discovered, let alone how they are justified. One of the greatest lessons from the history of science is that humans don’t only get things wrong, but they stubbornly hang on to the stupidest of ideas to the bitter end. I do not absolve myself from this; it is my legacy as much as yours.
The Followers of Eris
What the dogmatists understand well is eristic argument, after Eris the Greek goddess of discord and chaos. Eristic tactics come to us from the ancient Greek sophists. Eristic methods manifest themselves today in the works of Saul Alinsky. As the goddess’s qualities suggest, they are inherently divisive. The objective is victory, not truth. This is foreign to the training and personalities of most scientists. I, like other scientists, go into debates with a collegial attitude, tolerant of contrary thinking, no matter how wrong it may seem. Freely doubt the ideas; respect the people. When confronted with eristic tactics though, which are often absurd, aggressive, and deeply irrational, we are left gobsmacked. Like any other humans, scientists can speak the language of political nonsense, but they speak it badly. Their famous political naivety makes them easy prey for any political operative. And so we loose against eristic tactics, even when we know they are coming.
The followers of Eris see opposition in terms of a struggle for power, while scientists see opposition as a means for testing thinking. For scientists, opposition is a feature not a bug. Authorities can proudly convince themselves to be absurdly wrong, until some brave souls stand up to them. Sometimes there is a heavy price.
An easily comprehensible example would be the case of the physician Ignaz Semmelweis. He proposed that patients would be helped if you thoroughly washed your hands between patients. The consensus among experts of his day was that he was wrong. He was driven out and ended his days in a psychiatric hospital. This phenomenon is not the exception, but the rule. In countless cases ranging from obscure technical issues, known only by experts, to grand insights like continental drift, this story, or something like it, has been played out again and again in history.
It does not mean that experts are always even mostly wrong. It only means that when humanity does take a step ahead, that step naturally concerns something that prideful experts didn’t know before. Over the generations, this lesson has been gradually absorbed into the scientific world. The heretics and crackpots might just be right, and so there is an awareness (even if grudging) that tolerance of what seems wrong is essential—the scientific version of free speech. It is probably no accident that scientific advances tend to be made in the freest environments. Scientists must ask critical questions of each other about their works to move us all ahead. It’s their job. Opposition is necessary, but only opposition with a presumption of good will, where all agree that the objective is truth, not crushing your enemies.
The Field That Never Was
Climate, as the scientific field we know today, is very young. It was cobbled together from pieces of a number of established fields and elevated into the limelight only very recently as science goes. It was particularly vulnerable to antirational inroads because there was no core body of scientific knowledge, like say physics or chemistry have. Before the great climate fervor, the term “climate science” was virtually unheard of. Instead, climatology was a tranquil, narrow, and descriptive area, with little funding and few practitioners. Today’s version, climate science, is driven as much by trumped up public fears as traditional scientific objectives. I have heard many times that what we scientists should work on “depends on what policymakers want.”
The fields and methodologies of climate science are a disjointed collection that few have anything approaching a universal command of, let alone a universal command from which to form a knowledgable consensus. Is climate research the gathering and description of data? Is it statistical time series analysis? Is it meteorology extended by supercomputers? Is it molecular spectroscopy? Is it oceanography, glaciology, geology, thermodynamics, physics, orbital mechanics, computer science, survey research, economics, biology, dynamical systems theory, solar physics, or much more? It is easy to say “all of the above,” but specialists in these subfields often wonder privately what the other specialties are actually there for. For example, “do we really need complex models when greenhouses are so simple?” Or, “We modelers can help paleontologists more than they can help us.” There are many such examples.
The shared vision of this collection of fields, as they stand, has simply not been academic for the most part. Its identity is inextricably bound to the climate fervor itself, which is created and fanned by politicians and media through relentless promotion, torrents of funding, and the punishing of nonconforming scientists. It is unclear what defines climate science as a whole academically, let alone what climate is in and of itself. No, we don’t even have a coherent, physically based, definition for climate, let alone climate change. That is not because we can’t recognize change, but we do not know what parts of the endless, ongoing ubiquitous change actually count. This is as deep a problem as there is in modern science. All we have are ad hoc definitions guarded from scientific criticism by ignorant followers of Eris. Those followers call this settled science.
The dogmatists and followers of Eris have destroyed the collegial atmosphere among scientists, and they push for scientists on the wrong side of their dogma to be treated as enemies of the state, as we have all recently witnessed. Science, as a whole, has been damaged by them. Because of them, climate science remains frozen and deeply flawed with no way to grow up, despite avalanches of funding thrown at it. Money is not enough. Academic freedom sometimes seems like a gratuitous anachronism, but climate science is the very thing it was made for. Fortunately, some academic organizations, such as the American Meteorological Society and the University of Delaware, have taken a principled position on this. But others seem to have wilted. Modern universities and academic institutions are not as independent as we would like to believe. They live on grants and government funding.
Eristic methods have proven most effective politically. But the political victories of those employing them are hollow. They cannot ultimately defeat the scientists opposed to their dogma because those scientists have never been playing a political game, no matter how much dogmatists rant and flail otherwise. They easily push us out of political and popular discourse, but Nature is the final judge. On that, they are way over their heads. No eristically-charged hyper-politics can ever trump Nature. If it is not already obvious to you that the dogmatists have egg on their faces because of this, hold on, Nature has more coming. Eventually stonewalling with, “What egg on my face?” will only leave the wider public laughing at them even more than they already are.
There is no justification for acting like vicious badgers toward scientists. The response of some GWPF scientists to the climate orthodoxy shows that scientists do not need to be paid to have reason to question the climate orthodoxy. Its positions are scientifically very weak, not strong, and it is the dogmatists that are responsible for that weakness. If they want to employ the credibility of science to support their agendas, they must learn to treat scientists holding contrary views in a credible manner. Such scientists have an important and respected role to play in advancing science. Dogmatists, of course, don’t easily change, so this stalemate may well continue until intelligent laymen have had enough and push them off the stage. Meanwhile, we are still here, and we are not going anywhere.
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In her own words, a sexual assault survivor describes hearing that her nurse wasn’t prepared to perform a rape kit. Another nurse describes how a similar situation haunts her. Read the full story here.
Reporting and audio collection by Alison Bowen. Audio recording in studio by Roger Morales. Produced by Randi Shaffer.


A new Irish far-right group is targeting members of the Jewish community in Ireland. The group has begun producing stickers with an anti-Semitic caricature alongside a list of names of prominent Irish people with Jewish backgrounds.
Also targeted are asylum seekers and NGOs who, the group argues, are conspiring with the government to “silence” critics of Ireland’s immigration policies.
Anti-Semitism and conspiracies
The movement goes by the name M269 Gang. In its Telegram group pictures of the stickers have been uploaded. And photos of the stickers being placed in towns around the country have also been shared.
One sticker shows an anti-Semitic caricature of a Jewish man with text blaming Jewish people for COVID-19. Another sticker, using the same anti-Semitic caricature, lists the names of well-known Irish people of Jewish background. Alongside this list are displayed the names of other prominent Jewish people known to have worked with the British Empire in previous centuries. The word “Coincidence?” is placed under the two lists, apparently in an attempt to draw a link between them.
Other stickers produced by the group target asylum seekers, migrants, and NGOs. One claims that the housing crisis is “intentional” and that the government is “using mass immigration to keep rents high”. And that NGOs are being used to “silence” critics of the crisis.
The “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory is also referred to in some stickers. Advocates of the “Great Replacement” believe there is a global conspiracy involving governments and elites to replace the white population of western countries. On one sticker produced by M269 it’s written that Irish people “are being replaced”. Another calls emigration to Ireland an “invasion”.
“Our issue IS race”
According to posts in its Telegram group, the name M269 group refers to a “racial code” for people of Irish origin.
M269 is in fact one part of the Y chromosome which makes up the DNA of people of Irish descent. The group administrator insisted that use of M269 as the group’s name is to show that racial origin is important to them:
Using a DNA marker for our name makes it clear that our issue IS race, we are “race-ist” [sic].
The administrator went on, proclaiming that the so-called Irish “race is under attack”. It’s contended that the source of these attacks are “NGO marxists [sic]”. And that the government, permissiveness in society, and “parasitic capitalists and hordes of foreigners” are also responsible.
The Beacon showed the stickers in question to the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI). In response, a spokesperson said that “Such abusive material is truly abhorrent to see”. They called on people to “show zero tolerance to race-based lies and hate”, especially in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic.
It was also pointed out that last year the UN criticised Ireland for its lack of hate crime legislation and not having a national action plan on racism. And although the new government has promised to introduce both measures, the ICI insisted that this “happens quickly”.
The Irish Network Against Racism (INAR) was also contacted about the stickers. Its spokesperson highlighted that Ireland has a “long and ignoble history of antisemitism”. More recently though, the far right is still trying to stoke anti-Semitism “in subtle and not-so-subtle guises”.
The sticker campaign represents one of these attempts and that
This cynical attempt at manipulation of people’s anxieties and the targeting of Irish jews in this manner has sinister echoes of European history.
INAR’s spokesperson called for a safe and inclusive Ireland that shows Jewish people and minorities that the far right “don’t represent us” all.
This article was updated on 4 August to include a statement from the Irish Network Against Racism.
Featured image via Flickr – William Murphy


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Jesse dreams of working the land that’s been in his family forever. But he’s cursed to lose everything he loves most.
Scarlett is desperate to escape her “charmed” life. But leaving a small town is easier said than done.
Despite their history of heartbreak, when Jesse sees a way they can work together to each get what they want, Scarlett can’t say no. Each midnight meeting between Jesse and Scarlett will push them to confront their secrets and their feelings for each other.


The newly constructed Ghazi High School was inaugurated today by both Afghan and U.S. government
Ghazi High School, 1959.
officials, including H.E. Minister of Education Ghulam Farooq Wardak and U.S. Deputy Ambassador James B. Cunningham. Funded through USAID’s Kabul Schools Program, 5,400 students will be able to study in the rebuilt school.
The Ghazi High School was established as a “Lycée” in 1926 and from the beginning, had instruction in English. After it was almost completely destroyed by decades of war, USAID began working with the Ministry of Education to rebuild the school.
“As far as construction, capacity, design, and use of space, Ghazi is the best school in Afghanistan and I am very thankful to USAID for funding it,” said Minister Wardak.
Ghazi High School, September 2009. Well conceived pre-fabricated highly rigid formworks allow for very fast progress.
Construction for the 8,200 square meter three-story school began in 2007 and includes buildings with 72 classrooms, an enclosed link way that connects the classroom blocks, and ramps for wheelchair access. The school was designed and constructed to international seismic safety standards to prevent damage from earthquakes.
“The new Ghazi High School is a symbol not just of America’s commitment to education, but also of our commitment to the future of Afghanistan as a stable, prosperous, and secure country,” said Ambassador Cunningham. “We are pleased to be partners in the progress represented here today by this beautiful school, its esteemed teachers, and its eager students.”
USAID created the Kabul Schools Program to support the Ministry of Education’s ambitious plans to expand quality and access to education, and when the program finishes in 2012, the Ministry will have the capacity to serve the educational needs of more than 12,000 boys and girls in greater Kabul City. In addition to rebuilding the Ghazi school, the Program is constructing new buildings for the Sardar Kabuli High School and has provided clean drinking water and sanitary facilities at seven Kabul high schools.


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ROYAL OAK — For the first time, the Detroit Zoo is offering mobile bidding for the Sunset at the Zoo silent auction. Bidders can submit offers in advance on their smartphones through GiveSmart and do not need to be present at the event on June 13 to participate.
More than 30 silent auction items are up for bid at Sunset, including a Shinola watch and factory tour, afternoon tea at the Whitney, a weekend at the Grand Traverse Resort and Spa, an Old English “D” diamond necklace, and breakfast with the giraffes at the Detroit Zoo.
To view the complete catalog of silent auction items and participate in mobile bidding, visit www.detroitzoo.org/sunset/auctions. Bidding will close at 10:30 p.m. on June 13; winners will be announced shortly thereafter and will receive a confirmation text on their phones.
Themed “Howling at the Moon” in support of the Detroit Zoo’s future wolf habitat, Sunset at the Zoo takes place from 7 to 11:30 p.m., rain or shine. The zoo closes at 2 p.m. on June 13 in preparation for the festivities.
Presented by Strategic Staffing Solutions, Sunset at the Zoo offers a strolling supper with tastes of signature dishes from 40 of the area’s finest restaurants as well as desserts and zoo-themed specialty drinks. The event also features a live auction, live entertainment, dancing in the moonlight and access to the Zoo’s award-winning animal habitats as the sun goes down.
Supporter tickets for the 21-and-older soiree are $175 per person. Patron tickets are $300 and include a VIP reception, sponsored by the Detroit Jaguar Retailers, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on June 13. For information and tickets, visit www.detroitzoo.org/sunset.


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Finastra and Larky have agreed to a partnership in order to provide enhanced mobile banking solutions for its customers.
Larky’s nudge will be available to Finastra customers that include banks and credit unions with an effort to drive engagement with account holders and increase mobile banking.
“Finastra’s Universal Banking core, digital, and analytics solutions are redefining end-to-end, open banking. This new collaboration demonstrates our commitment to expand our ecosystem, advance innovation and meet the new demands banks and credit unions face,” said Narendra Mistry, Chief Product Officer, Universal Banking Business Unit at Finastra. “Larky’s advanced location and segmentation capabilities complement our digital-first strategy, driving high engagement from mobile users and enabling banks and credit unions to better reach their account holders no matter where they are.”
Larky’s nudge allows for location-based mobile push notification campaigns, guides users to financial institutions’ offerings and elevates account holder interactions by reaching them at a time, place and setting that is best suited to their needs, according to a press release. The implementation will set out to result in increased app engagement and increase the use of a financial institution’s mobile banking platform.
Finastra is a provider of financial software applications and marketplaces serving financial institutions of all sizes. The company boasts more than 8,000 customers.

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The war over “cyberwarfare services” between the Pentagon and China is heating up. Profits win over national security.
Many Silicon Valley companies say it’s too difficult to work with the Pentagon, and are fearful that embracing the US government too tightly could cost them huge profits in the Chinese market. In the past, the US government has led the way in technology and security operations. Now the private sector – and the Chinese – are taking over.
In order to modernize national security operations, the US Department of Defense has been trying to woo Silicon Valley, but technology companies aren’t being so accommodating, as they rely on China for both their supply chain and large customer base.
Peter Singer, of the New America Foundation, said, “China’s hi-tech military capabilities – including the world’s fastest supercomputer, a soon-to-launch “unhackable” quantum communications satellite, a hypersonic weapons programme and armed ground robotics – have left the United States trying to play catch-up.”
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The New Jersey Soldiers 14U boys basketball team won the championship at the Premier 1 Events Beach Blast last weekend. Pictured are (from left) Kevin Castro, Michael McGee, Brian Bravo, Dom Troiano, Amir Jones, Dylan Delvecchiop, Ben Harris, Ernie Troiano, coach Keith Palek.
Two AAU boys basketball teams from Cape May County won championships at a local tournament over the weekend.
The 14U and 12U teams from the New Jersey Soldiers, based out of Woodbine, each went unbeaten in three games in their respective pool play before winning championship games at the Beach Blast tournament hosted by Premier 1 Events. The event was held at various locations in the Wildwoods and Lower and Middle townships.
The 12U team beat another Cape May County team, the Bruins, in the championship game.
— Brian Cunniff
The New Jersey Soldiers 12U boys basketball team went unbeaten and won the championship at the Premier 1 Events Beach Blast last weekend. Pictured are (from left): back row – Anthony Edwardi, coach Mitch Plenn, Patrick Grimley, Oguer Nunez, Dino Christensen, Carter Mostecki, coach Joe Trombetta, coach George Dunner; front row – Noah Plenn, Charlie Dunner, Macky Bonner, Jacob Plenn, Anthony Trombetta, Timmy Travagline.