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€1+ million campaign kickstarts Tourism Ireland's promotional drive for 2015
The campaign – which is being rolled out in Great Britain, the United States and Mainland Europe – has been timed to coincide with the Christmas holiday period and aims to grab the attention of travellers everywhere as they begin looking at potential destinations and planning their holidays for the year ahead.
Niall Gibbons, Tourism Ireland's CEO, said: "Our end-of-year campaign has been specially designed to highlight short breaks and holidays in Ireland and to appeal to our key target audiences in Great Britain, the US and Mainland Europe – kickstarting our promotional effort for 2015. It has been timed to coincide with the holiday period when people typically begin planning their holidays for the year ahead."
2014 was a strong year for overseas tourism, with about 7.3 million visitors (+8.8% growth over 2013) contributing more than €3.6 billion in revenue to the economy. Niall Gibbons continued: "Throughout 2014, Tourism Ireland undertook a packed programme of promotions, to bring Ireland to the attention of travellers everywhere. We are determined to ensure that the tourism growth we have seen continues. Our aim is to welcome a record 7.74 million visitors to Ireland in 2015."
Highlights of Tourism Ireland's end-of-year campaign include:
For the first time ever, Tourism Ireland will 'wrap' the Daily Telegraph in Britain this week. An attractive, four-page wrap – featuring images of the Cliffs of Moher, Eyries (on the Beara Peninsula), Powerscourt Gardens and Dublin – will cover the Daily Telegraph tomorrow (29 December), reaching more than 1.2 million 'culturally curious' readers across Britain. The campaign has been timed to ensure Ireland is 'top of mind' with this key audience as they begin considering holiday and short break destinations for 2015, inviting them to "come and find your now at Ireland.com".
Tourism Ireland is also working with the Mail Online this week, promoting Dublin as the 'must visit' city break destination in 2015. Highlighting the experiences of some of the international celebrities who have visited Dublin during 2014, a feature will run in the popular TV and showbiz section of dailymail.co.uk (the section which has the highest traffic on the site), on 29 and 30 December. Targeting our 'social energiser' audience, the article will give readers some helpful tips about where the "A-listers go when they're in town" including "Rihanna's go-to Irish pub, Beyonce and Jay-Z's favourite restaurant and Victoria Beckham's top fashion store". Ads highlighting Dublin will also run on the site this week.
Tourism Ireland's campaign with Classic FM continues over the Christmas period, reaching about 6.6 million of our 'culturally curious' audience across Britain. A series of online films fronted by Phil Spencer (of Location, Location, Location fame) is running on classicfm.com, capitalising on Phil's celebrity status to endorse Ireland.
Millions of potential holidaymakers will see ads for Ireland on television across the United States this week – through Tourism Ireland's major, week-long, national TV campaign. The campaign began on Friday (26 December) and will continue through New Year's Eve. The brand new ads went live on television for the first time on Friday, on three major networks, NBC, CBS and ABC, in seven cities – New York, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Ireland ads are airing around premium entertainment programmes with large audiences over the holiday period, including the high profile New Year's Eve Countdown, the Michael Bublé Christmas Special and the Kennedy Center Honors. The ads will also reach millions more Americans, through the online channels of the various TV networks.
The US campaign also includes Ireland ads airing on PBS (Public Broadcasting Service) around season five of the hugely popular Downton Abbey in January and February; the ads have also been airing around the re-run of series four, during December.
In France and Germany, Tourism Ireland's new Dublin ad is appearing in cinemas during the month of December, reaching up to 4 million French and 750,000 German arthouse cinema-goers. A similar cinema campaign in Germany, in December 2013, proved to be extremely successful, with German travel agents and tour operators reporting a good boost in early bookings.
Online advertising in the Catalonia region of Spain during December has been promoting Dublin and the New Year's Festival (NYF Dublin), highlighting ease of access from that part of Spain – and in particular the new Vueling flight from Barcelona to Dublin, which kicks off next May.
And advertising in conjunction with leading online travel agents Opodo, GO Voyages and eDreams in France, Germany, Italy and Spain has also been promoting Dublin as a dynamic, exciting city break destination – with a focus on NYF Dublin, as well as on the Temple Bar TradFest, which takes place in January 2015.
Tourism Ireland is the organisation responsible for promoting the island of Ireland overseas as a leading holiday destination.
Tourism is the island of Ireland's largest indigenous industry; responsible for in excess of 4% of GNP in the Republic of Ireland and employing approximately 200,000 people.
By the end of 2014, we will have welcomed an estimated 8.6 million overseas visitors to the island of Ireland, delivering revenue of about €4.26 billion. Overseas tourism business accounts for 59% of all tourism revenue.
Tourism Ireland's international website is www.ireland.com, available in ten different language versions for over 30 individual markets around the world.
Tourism Ireland welcomes +8.6% growth in overseas visitors for January-November 2014


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Notably, many states; continents; regions; urban and rural communities; families thinking and lifestyle of have been impacted by the outbreak a harmful pandemic pandemic known as Covid-29.
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global public health emergency characterized with high infectivity, a high mortality rate, and a long incubation period. According to Elis (2020), COVID-19 pandemic is a black swan event that caused a ripple effect on every aspect of human life. In the view of mineth (2020), The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is a human social and economic crisis that has attacked the core of human existence. The virus continued to spread uncontrollably around the world; as of May 11, 2020, 2,403,888 people had been infected globally (WHO, 2020). The outbreak is predicted to reach its peak in June 2020, declining only from July 2020 onwards (WHO, 2020). The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all segments of the population, especially vulnerable groups such as the old, the infirm, the disabled, the marginalized and the poverty-stricken (Donthu & Gustafsson, 2020).
COVID-19 has also pushed businesses across the world to rapidly operate in newer and more resilient ways.
In response to the pandemic outbreak, the leaders of many countries decided to save lives before saving the economy, declaring sudden or phased lockdowns in their countries. Policies like "social distancing" and "stay-at-home" were implemented overnight, which severely damaged several businesses across industries and consumer markets suffered scarcity (Donthu and Gustafsson, 2020, Leite et al., 2020).
However, The COVID-19 pandemic, lockdown and social distancing mandates have disrupted the consumer habits of buying as well as shopping. It affected people's psychology and behavior intensively. One of the most typical behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic is panic buying, which refers to the behavior of buying unusually large amounts of products based on the need of coping with public health emergency (Imanet 2004). Loss of control, insecurity, social learning, and fear of scarcity are the core factors that causes panic buying (Imanet 2004). thus, the Covid-19 restriction measures mandated by Governments had a massive effect on markets as movements were restricted likewise transportation, market places restricted to opening 2-3 times a week, social distancing and no direct contacts in all sectors, and so many more. Hence in this study, the researchers aims at discovering and ascertaining how Covid-19 and its mandated precautionary measures affected markets and products.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
COVID-19 has created a very difficult challenge throughout the world in addition to many illnesses and deaths, large portions of the world population are quarantined or have had their freedom of movement limited. Several mandated preventative measures created a hintch among human activities and daily survival. Nevertheless, the production and supply of goods was at the minimum level as staffs observed the stay at home policy and businesses were also shutdown due to safety measures enacted to contain the spread of the virus. inversely, this resulted to scarcity of goods in the markets as panic buying behaviour took place across many countries of the World just like in the case of Nigeria and resulted the inflation on scarce products. Therefore, food shoppers suffered different challenges during the coronavirus pandemic, such as limited public transportation, food stock-outs (i.e. exhausted inventories), and reduced hours at supermarkets and grocery stores.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
This study is carryout on the bases of achieving an empirical investigation of Covid-19 effect on Products' Sales and Marketing. The following are other specific objectives;
To ascertain the effects of Covid-19 on sales and marketing of products in Nigeria.
To investigate the extent to which Covid-19 affected the availablity and price of products in Nigeria.
To investigate the effect of Covid-19 on consumers purchasing power and buying behaviour.
To examine the extent to which Covid-19 prevention measures affected sales and marketing strategies.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTION
what is the effects of Covid-19 on sales and marketing of products in Nigeria
What is the extent to which Covid-19 affected the availability and price of products in Nigeria?
What is the effect of Covid-19 on consumers purchasing power and buying behaviour?
To what extent did Covid-19 prevention measures affected sales and marketing strategies?
This study on the critical investigation on Covid-19 effect on product sales and marketing will serve as a source material to other researchers who may be conducting a research on a similar topic. More so, students, academic pioneers and the Government will find this material relevant as the information contained therein is of national scope which can be of interest to the citizens at large.
This study is carryout on the investigation of Covid-19 effect on Products' Sales and Marketing using Ugbogologo Market Asaba Delta state as case study.
1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
The study is limited, based on the fact that there are not time and material resources to see to the whole Nation. This is delimited to Delta State only and the findings may not reflect the situation in the other markets (big/small) in the country.
Covid 19: This is also known as coronavirus and it is a communicable respiratory disease caused by a new strain of coronavirus that causes illness in humans.
Product: a product is an object or system made available for consumer use; it is anything that can be offered to a market to satisfy the desire or need of a customer
Marketing: Marketing refers to activities a company undertakes to promote the buying or selling of a product, service, or good. It is one of the primary components of business management and commerce.
Market: A market is a composition of systems, institutions, procedures, social relations or infrastructures whereby parties engage in exchange. While parties may exchange goods and services by barter, most markets rely on sellers offering their goods or services to buyers in exchange for money.
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The U.S. Senate plans to vote on a health care repeal bill next week that has been crafted in secret. The Senate inherited a terrible bill (American Health Care Act, AHCA) from the House that even President Trump now admits is "mean, mean, mean." Despite initial claims that the Senate would start over with a new bill, it has become clear that the Senate is, in fact, using the terrible House bill as a blueprint and ultimate changes may simply be window dressing or make the bill even worse than the House bill. Texas Senator John Cornyn predicted that, "80 percent of what the House did we're likely to do."
Reminder: What the "Mean" House Bill Does
Causes 23 million Americans to lose their insurance coverage
Cuts Medicaid for all 50 states- $834 billion in cuts over 10 years, which is used to pay for huge tax cuts to wealthy individuals and corporations. Medicaid is the backbone of our health care system. In Texas, Medicaid pays for more than half of all births, covers more than 40 percent of all children, and pays for the care of two-thirds of people in nursing homes. Medicaid funding helps keep rural hospitals open and the safety net intact. All of Medicaid will be cut, not just the ACA expansion for adults. Cuts to Texas will be an astonishing $1.5 billion per year on average.
Sharply raises premiums and out-of-pocket costs for millions of Americans who do not get insurance through their jobs, especially for older people, lower income people, and people with pre-existing health conditions.
Erodes protections for people with pre-existing conditions and requirements that insurers cover fundamental care, like maternity, mental health care, and substance use treatment.
Possible Senate Changes
Though bill drafts are not being made public, the following are reported as some of the changes under discussion:
Even deeper Medicaid cuts than the House bill, affecting every state Medicaid program.
Delay the ending of the ACA's Medicaid expansion, which will ultimately lead to just as many low-income American losing coverage as the House bill.
Cosmetic tweaks to the rollback of protections for people with pre-existing conditions, but with similarly bad results. For example, an insurer couldn't deny coverage to people with cancer, but they can refuse to cover cancer treatment.
Making subsidies for Marketplace insurance slightly more generous than the House's AHCA, but still dramatically lower than the current ACA subsidies so that millions can no longer afford coverage.
Adding a modest amount of funding to help counter the opioid crisis, but not enough to offset massive Medicaid cuts or make up for insurance policies that would no longer have to cover substance use treatment.
Unprecedented Secrecy
The bill is being written in extreme secrecy. Even some Republican Senators are complaining that they do not know what is in the bill. While work taking place behind closed doors isn't new in D.C., the level of secrecy and lack of transparency with the AHCA is unprecedented for a health care bill. When asked by a reporter why proposed policy changes are not be shared, a Senate aide said, "We aren't stupid." This deeply cynical stance reflects a glaring reality – the public is overwhelmingly opposed to the AHCA. Keeping the bill secret until the last possible moment may be the only way to pass it.
Unprecedented Opposition
Polling puts support of the AHCA at a measly 29% nationwide. The bill is unpopular in every state, even deep-red Texas, where only one-in-three voters are estimated to support the bill. In fact, if passed, the AHCA would be the least popular piece of major legislation out of Congress in decades, less popular than even the bank bailout during the Great Recession. Major patient advocacy groups, like AARP, the American Cancer Society, and the March of Dimes, and major health care associations representing doctors and hospitals are united in their opposition as well.
Senate leadership wants to vote in the coming weeks, as early as the end of June, but possibly in July. If the final Senate bill does any of these, it is still unacceptable:
Causes millions of Americans to lose their health coverage;
Contains huge Medicaid cuts and shifts costs to Texas county taxpayers through "per capita caps" or "block grants." Medicaid cuts should be taken off of the table, period. Medicaid is not a piggy bank that can be raided to fund huge tax cuts for people who likely have great insurance;
Makes coverage less affordable, by increasing premiums or out-of-pocket costs; or
Weakens pre-existing condition protections, including by allowing insurers to exclude basic health care services needed by people with health conditions.
Don't be misled. If the Senate bill is "slightly less mean" than the House bill or only causes 80 percent of the harm, that is still way too much.
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Texas Cuts Access to Women's Health Care- Again
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Need Health Insurance? Look Beyond Sticker Price
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Health Insurance Marketplace Enrollment Timeline
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Census Data Reveal New Facts on Health Insurance
There were several key takeaways from this week's U.S. Census release about health insurance. Here are my favorites: Things got better There...
ACA's "Family Glitch" Hurts Millions
Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was passed 5 years ago, more than 16 million people have gained health insurance...
Texas' Uninsured Rate Worst in the Nation
They say everything's bigger in Texas, and Texas now has the biggest percentage of uninsured residents in the country—sitting just...
Statewide Meetings Are Our Chance to Request Federal Health Care Funding
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Winston Churchill once quipped that "democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried." Like...
Marriage Decision Makes Health Insurance Benefits Accessible
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Supreme Court Protects Affordable Health Insurance
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King v. Burwell: Measuring the Potential Harm to Texas
The U.S. Supreme Court is preparing to issue a ruling in King v. Burwell, the case challenging Affordable Care Act...
King v. Burwell: 4 Things You Need to Know
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Hundreds of bills have run out of time in the Texas Legislature, but a flurry of amendments and maneuvers mean...
The Coverage Gap and the Welcome Mat Effect
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5 Things to Know As Feds Question Texas' Uncompensated Care Waiver
In a phone call to the state's Health and Human Services Commission last week, the federal government told Texas that...
Limiting Surprise Medical Bills
No one likes an unexpected bill, but Texans are fed up with the surprise bills they receive after ER visits,...
Refunds and Repayments from Marketplace Subsidies Very Likely
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Coverage Expansion Would Help Your County
Do you know how many local jobs would be created in your county if Texas closed the health care Coverage...
Health Care Coverage Comes to the Capitol Steps
Several hundred health care advocates from across Texas met at the Capitol this morning to rally for expanded health coverage...
Texas Has a Lot to Lose in King v. Burwell
Yesterday the Supreme Court heard oral arguments on the King v. Burwell case. The plaintiffs argued that the Affordable Care Act...
ACA and Your Taxes, Part Two
Earlier this week we released Part One of this series which discusses the impact of the ACA on tax filing...
ACA and Your Taxes, Part One
It's tax time, and one of the big changes many people will see on their taxes this year has to...
Countdown to Coverage: Last Call to Enroll in 2015, Avoid Fines
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Countdown to Coverage: Lack of Awareness Still a Huge Obstacle
With just days left until the end of open enrollment in the Health Insurance Marketplace, Texas still has a long...
Countdown to Coverage: Getting Enrollment Assistance
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Countdown to Coverage: December 15 Deadline for January 1 Coverage
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NO Penalties for Texans in the Coverage Gap who are Uninsured
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As we near the launch of the second Marketplace enrollment period this Saturday, uninsured consumers are gearing up to Stop,...
It's Health Insurance Shopping Season
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Countdown to Coverage: Marketplace Open for Shopping
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Countdown to Coverage: Importance of Financial Assistance
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Countdown to Coverage: Signup Assistance Makes a Difference
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New Report Shows Surprise Medical Bills Taking Toll on Texans
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Young and Concerned About my Future
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The Supreme Court Takes Up Women's Contraceptive Insurance Benefits
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Enrollment Opportunities for Texas Latinos
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The Final Rule for ACA Navigators: Better or Worse and How to Proceed?
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Medicaid Expansion Would Give Uninsured Texas Women Access to Health Care They Need
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New ACA Enrollment Numbers Show Impressive Increase in Texas, But One Million Are Still Left Out
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State's Navigator Rule Could Impede Health Insurance Enrollment
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Minimize the Impact of the Hunger Cliff
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Setting the Record Straight on Pre- and Post-ACA rates
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My First Volunteer Shift at Insure Central Texas
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Countdown to Coverage: Opening Day
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Countdown to Coverage: Young Adults and the Marketplace
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Countdown to Coverage: How will Obamacare Affect YOU? Two Quick and Easy Tools
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Countdown to Coverage: Key Dates
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Countdown to Coverage: Meet the Marketplace
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In Farm Bill Debate, No Clear Path for SNAP
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2013 Lege Wrap-Up: Health Insurance Reform
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Farm Bill Update from the Food Team
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There Is No Excuse For Texas Not To Reach A Deal With Medicaid Expansion
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Stacey Pogue joined the center in 2008. She focuses on health policy issues. Before coming to the center, she did health policy and research work with the Medicaid and CHIP Division of the Health and Human Services Commission and the Texas Department of Insurance. In 2010 and 2011, she was selected to serve as a funded Consumer Representative to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). Pogue earned a Bachelor of Science in Geography, summa cum laude, from Texas A&M University in 1997 and a Master of Public Affairs from the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin in 2005.
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I believe she's there for you to swap between pre- & post- Antorus phases.
Finally, he shows us that even if we stop the Burning Crusade, we are doomed to fall to the Void, as represented by that Void-corrupted world that is somewhere out there.
Well seeing how the files are named it could be just a updated version of the things in the Astromancer's fight.
Interesting - I think it could work both ways. It could represent other planets, but it also parallels Azeroth's progression. We're fighting the fel now, and if we're victorious against the Burning Legion, do we fall into the next trap?
Yeah they use the same filename pattern for Astormancer's fight. But also in Argus part of the raid at Antorus Pantheon you can see void planets in the sky. Pantheon sky model is loading up filenames that are new in 7.3.0 and are also called "7XP_Astromancer" but they are only used for Antorus raid. I was checking up today what are new texture files added in 7.3.2 and I saw those new ones, and they are not called by any sky model yet. So it is possible that it can be used for future content.
Well it could be that files are for that part of the raid since the patch notes do say that they added certain preparation stuff for Antorus raid but that the raid comes at a later date.
What's the point of this article? These assets are used in the Seat of the Pantheon, and like you state yourself, the Star Augur fight. If they're going to show something in the sky like they did with Argus, it's going to be unique art. Not something we've seen twice already.
I belive phase one is just one of moons of Azeroth.
Those are not used on Augur fight or Pantheon, they are not used by any sky model. If they were used in some of sky model i wouldn't need to bruteforce their names.
Are there any images yet of the new Silithus? Or will they be patched in later?
It is less about Azeroth's progression, and more about how pointless it is to fight. The vast majority of the universe is lifeless and cold, those few that dared to carry the spark of life have been shattered by the Legion, and even the few that either resisted or avoided notice have been devoured by the Void. In the face of such annihalation, is it not better to stand at the right hand of the devil, than to be in his path and accomplish nothing?
Seriously, if after all the struggle and sacrifice that everyone had to make in Legion we all go back to a nearly unchanged Azeroth just to play stupid Orcs vs Humans again I am going to unsub. Done it in WoD, came back for Legion, if next xpac doesn't move the story forward because "Oh people want things to stay the same, they like just fighting against the opposite faction" I'll be leaving the game until the devs get their $#!t together and push the damn story forward again.
actually they revealed it a while back when they revealed the argus portals to other worlds i distintly remember a zone being shown that was a desert with quicksand and desert wind knockbacks similar to the rivers of highmountain but the desert area was never added as a argus portal world so it may very well have been silithus instead.
My money is on an Old gods & Naga expansion. Remember, not everyone went to Argus though, just a few champions (Khadgar, Illidan, Velen, Vereesa, Liadrin) and an elite strike force, mostly Draenei, that could fit on the Vindicaar. The faction leaders and bulk of our armies are still on the Broken Shore.


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I had to use include on MyAppModule for the ActivityModule, without it, the application crashed saying it could find a constructor on Context and couldn't inject the Activity's Context.
Is the graph configured correctly? I'm adding the modules to the graph in the Application and in a BaseActivity and I thought it was enough and I didn't need the include, but I'm not sure I completly understand the configuration process of this.
Edit
Like this, dagger gives no errors but if I try to inject an Activity Context, at runtime it's null.

A: The solution, if anyone is interested, was to remove
injects = {
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        AddFragment.class,
        AddMapFragment.class,
        MyActivity.class,
        ListFragment.class,
        MyMapFragment.class,
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        UserLoginFragment.class,
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        UserProfileFragment.class,
        UserRegisterFragment.class,
        WelcomeFragment.class
}

from MyAppModule and put it in ActivityModule.

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By Brianna Aubin
Last weekend, an anonymous hacker (or possibly whistle-blower) released nearly 160 MB of emails exchanged between some of the most prominent US and European scientists in the climate change debate. The results aren't getting quite the degree of media attention they deserve, especially in light of the upcoming Copenhagen meeting, but after some hours of selective trawling through the database I wanted to share what I felt were some of the more outrageous gems that I found.
For example, here is an excerpt sent from scientist Michael Mann at the University of Virginia to New York Times environmentalist reporter Andrew Revkin on the subject of a published skeptic paper; Mr. Revkin wanted to know if there was anything about the paper that warranted a response. What was Mann's answer?
The McIntyre and McKitrickpaper is pure scientific fraud. I think you'll find this reinforced by just about any legitimate scientist in our field you discuss this with. Please see the RealClimate response… The Moberg et al paper is at least real science. But there are some real problems with it (you'll want to followup w/ people like Phil Jones for a 2nd opinion).
Wait. Please see the RealClimate response? You mean the RealClimate site about which Prof. Mann later wrote his fellow scientists Tim Osborn and Keith Briffa to reassure them that they could:
think of RC as a resource that is at your disposal to combat any disinformation put forward by the McIntyres of the world. Just let us know. We'll use our best discretion to make sure the skeptics don't get to use the RC comments as a megaphone…
Incidentally, Andrew Revkin was the reporter who broke this email story for the New York Times. His piece can be read here.
Now if you go back to that first excerpt, you'll see that Prof. Mann also urges Mr. Revkin to contact scientist Phil Jones for a good second opinion. You mean, the Prof. Jones who wrote this?
I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie from 1981 onwards) amd from 1961 for Keith's to hide the decline.
The trick refers to two sets of data, one derived from tree rings and the other from temperature measurements. Apparently, they were giving different results, some of which were found inconvenient. Now if I had two different data sets that were giving me different results, my first reaction would be to ask myself which one was wrong and why. But apparently that's something only us old-fashioned, ethical scientists and engineers do. Prof. Jones claims that this was only an unfortunate word choice and that he really doesn't recall the details (his defense can be read in the Revkin article referenced earlier). Sure. And my friend's gravitational assist trajectory solver was coming up with some amazing trajectories when it was accidentally combining the position of Mars with the mass of Venus. Too bad it wasn't true in real life. (Side note: he discovered the bug and fixed it.)
But really, we need to give Prof. Jones the benefit of the doubt. After all, in the words of scientist Ben Santer:
The sad thing here is that Phil Jones is one of the true gentlemen of our field. I have known Phil for most of my scientific career. He is the antithesis of the secretive, "data destroying" character the CEI and Michaels are trying to portray to the outside world…. The bottom line, Rick, is that I am incensed at the "data destruction" allegations that are being unfairly and incorrectly leveled against Phil and Tom by the CEI and Pat Michaels.
No, whatever Prof. Jones's blind spots, he would never deliberately destroy research data just to keep it from getting into the hands of people he disagreed with. Right?
Can you delete any emails you may have had with Keith re AR4? Keith will do likewise. He's not in at the moment – minor family crisis. Can you also email Gene and get him to do the same? I don't have his new email address. We will be getting Caspar to do likewise.
You can delete this attachment if you want. Keep this quiet also, but this is the person who is putting in FOI requests for all emails Keith and Tim have written and received re Ch 6 of AR4. We think we've found a way around this.
Right?!?
When the FOI requests began here, the FOI person said we had to abide by the requests. It took a couple of half hour sessions – one at a screen, to convince them otherwise showing them what CA was all about. Once they became aware of the types of people we were dealing with, everyone at UEA (in the registry and in the Environmental Sciences school – the head of school and a few others) became very supportive.
So… okay, maybe not.
But wait; these individual scientists may be doing things that are unethical, but it's still true that there isn't much skeptic literature in any peer-reviewed journals, right? See:
So more likely he won't submit for peer-reviewed scrutiny, or if it does get his criticism "published" it will be in the discredited contrarian home journal "Energy and Environment". I'm sure you are aware that McIntyre and his ilk realize they no longer need to get their crap published in legitimate journals. All they have to do is put it up on their blog, and the contrarian noise machine kicks into gear, pretty soon Druge, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and their ilk (in this case, The Telegraph were already on it this morning) are parroting the claims. And based on what? some guy w/ no credentials, dubious connections with the energy industry, and who hasn't submitted his claims to the scrutiny of peer review.
Well, let's just say you'd be surprised. Just look at this:
I know editors have difficulty finding reviewers, but letting this one pass is awful – and IJC [the International Journal of Climatology] was improving.
Just for interest! Keep quiet about both issues. In touch with Wei-ChyungWang. Just agreed with him that I will send a brief response to Peiser. The allegation by Keenan gone to SUNY. Keenan's about to be told by SUNY that submitting this has violated a confidentiality agreement he entered into with SUNY when he sent the complaint. WCW has nothing to worry about, but it still unsettling! All related to a paper in Nature from 1990! Keenan ought to look at the temperature data (which he has) rather than going on and on about site moves. See the end of this email and the response about E&E and the 3 reviewers. Amazing! We all knew the journal was awful.
Let me fill you in a bit (confidentially). You probably know the panel members. We were concerned that the chair would be a strong person. It is Jerry Mahlman — about the best possible choice. Richard Smith is the statistician — also excellent. Dave Randall, too — very good. As token skeptic there is Dick Lindzen — but at least he is a smart guy and he does listen.
One approach is to go direct to the publishers and point out the fact that their journal is perceived as being a medium for disseminating misinformation under the guise of refereed work. I use the word 'perceived' here, since whether it is true or not is not what the publishers care about — it is how the journal is seen by the community that counts…. Mike's idea to get editorial board members to resign will probably not work — must get rid of von Storch too, otherwise holes will eventually fill up.
Or these:
I went to JGR site to look for index codes, and I see that the offending article has been downloaded 128 times in past week (second). All the more reason to get on with it [publishing the rebutting article]….
To get a spread, I'd go with 3 US [reviewers], One Australian and one in Europe. So Neville Nicholls and David Parker. All of them know the sorts of things to say – about our comment and the awful original, without any prompting.
This is truly awful. GRL has gone downhill rapidly in recent years.
It's one thing to lose "Climate Research". We can't afford to lose GRL.
I'm not sure that GRL can be seen as an honest broker in these debates anymore, and it is probably best to do an end run around GRL now where possible.
If you think that Saiers is in the greenhouse skeptics camp, then, if we can find documentary evidence of this, we could go through official AGU channels to get him ousted. (note: Saiers was eventually ousted)
This was the danger of always criticising the skeptics for not publishing in the "peer-reviewed literature". Obviously, they found a solution to that–take over a journal! So what do we do about this? I think we have to stop considering "Climate Research" as a legitimate peer-reviewed journal. Perhaps we should encourage our colleagues in the climate research community to no longer submit to, or cite papers in, this journal. We would also need to consider what we tell or request of our more reasonable colleagues who currently sit on the editorial board…
I can't see either of these papers being in the next IPCC report. Kevin and I will keep them out somehow – even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!
And obviously the anthropogenic advocates found a solution to the skeptics ability to get published in peer-reviewed journals too: disparage the journals and redefine the process of peer-review. The Journal of Geophysical Research, Environment and Energy, Climate Research, and Geophysical Research Letters — all of them "corrupted" by skeptics… and all of them immediately denounced as rubbish thereafter. Of course, there will be those who will say that perhaps all of these journals really were going downhill. However, considering that four separate journals were referenced in the emails (and perhaps more that I didn't see), I find this defense hard to believe.
So just from this (never mind the material that I didn't include), we can see that there is a pattern of fiddling with the data, deleting information, maligning opponents, stacking the media deck, and blacklisting journals on the part of the anthropogenic climate change advocates. Does this mean that the idea of anthropogenic change is out altogether? No. But I do think it's safe to say now that many of the most prominent anthropogenic advocates in the debate are no longer trustworthy and neither is their data. So how about we put a hold on the international agreements and costly emissions proposals until we've gotten the whole fiasco straightened out.
Articles written by Brianna Aubin
Tags: AGW, climate, corrupt data, emails, global warming
Categories: News, Politics, Science | Comments (10) | Home
10 Responses to "ClimateGate"
Tom | November 28th, 2009 at 6:11 am
Excellent article, Brianna, and a heroic research effort! I've read a few reports in the media (mostly UK media) and seen a few quotes of the emails, but nothing like the detail you've provided here.
This is a prime example of what happens when scientists become "true believers" and are corrupted by political correctness. I agree completely with your conclusions — this doesn't mean that there is no AGW, but it does mean that we need to be very skeptical of the data and conclusions drawn from them, and we need to re-think hugely expensive and life-altering measures like cap-and-trade. We also need to be very cautious about our involvement with the international community on climate and environmental issues because some folks (most notably the Europeans) are fully invested in the most extreme fears of global warming.
larry | November 28th, 2009 at 8:47 am
The mixture of science and politic is scary.
The scientist is looking for recognition and fame.
The politician wants total countrol.
Sadly one hand washes the other.
Brianna | November 28th, 2009 at 10:40 am
I didn't get it out as quickly as I wanted because it took a while to get the full context of the data and bludgeon it into order. Rest assured that there are even more gems like this than I have shown; I only included here the most damning ones and the ones that flowed best in the article.
Here is the best single list of tips that I found regarding the East Anglia emails. In order to check them out, just click on any of the links above to take you to the email website, then start typing the numbers at the end of each tip into the search bar. A lot of them are already included in the article of course, but like I said, space was limited and I was trying to make things flow, so… have fun.
* Phil Jones writes to University of Hull to try to stop sceptic Sonia Boehmer Christiansen using her Hull affiliation. Graham F Haughton of Hull University says its easier to push greenery there now SB-C has retired.(1256765544)
* Michael Mann discusses how to destroy a journal that has published sceptic papers.(1047388489)
* Tim Osborn discusses how data are truncated to stop an apparent cooling trend showing up in the results (0939154709). Analysis of impact here. Wow!
* Phil Jones describes the death of sceptic, John Daly, as "cheering news".(1075403821)
* Phil Jones encourages colleagues to delete information subject to FoI request.(1212063122)
* Phil Jones says he has use Mann's "Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series"…to hide the decline". Real Climate says "hiding" was an unfortunate turn of phrase.(0942777075)
* Letter to The Times from climate scientists was drafted with the help of Greenpeace.(0872202064)
* Mann thinks he will contact BBC's Richard Black to find out why another BBC journalist was allowed to publish a vaguely sceptical article.(1255352257)
* Kevin Trenberth says they can't account for the lack of recent warming and that it is a travesty that they can't.(1255352257)
* Tom Wigley says that Lindzen and Choi's paper is crap.(1257532857)
* Tom Wigley says that von Storch is partly to blame for sceptic papers getting published at Climate Research. Says he encourages the publication of crap science. Says they should tell publisher that the journal is being used for misinformation. Says that whether this is true or not doesn't matter. Says they need to get editorial board to resign. Says they need to get rid of von Storch too. (1051190249)
* Ben Santer says (presumably jokingly!) he's "tempted, very tempted, to beat the crap" out of sceptic Pat Michaels. (1255100876)
* Mann tells Jones that it would be nice to '"contain" the putative Medieval Warm Period'. (1054736277)
* Tom Wigley tells Jones that the land warming since 1980 has been twice the ocean warming and that this might be used by sceptics as evidence for urban heat islands.(1257546975)
* Tom Wigley say that Keith Briffa has got himself into a mess over the Yamal chronology (although also says it's insignificant. Wonders how Briffa explains McIntyre's sensitivity test on Yamal and how he explains the use of a less-well replicated chronology over a better one. Wonders if he can. Says data withholding issue is hot potato, since many "good" scientists condemn it.(1254756944)
* Briffa is funding Russian dendro Shiyatov, who asks him to send money to personal bank account so as to avoid tax, thereby retaining money for research.(0826209667)
* Kevin Trenberth says climatologists are nowhere near knowing where the energy goes or what the effect of clouds is. Says nowhere balancing the energy budget. Geoengineering is not possible.(1255523796)
* Mann discusses tactics for screening and delaying postings at Real Climate.(1139521913)
* Tom Wigley discusses how to deal with the advent of FoI law in UK. Jones says use IPR argument to hold onto code. Says data is covered by agreements with outsiders and that CRU will be "hiding behind them".(1106338806)
* Overpeck has no recollection of saying that he wanted to "get rid of the Medieval Warm Period". Thinks he may have been quoted out of context.(1206628118)
* Mann launches RealClimate to the scientific community.(1102687002)
* Santer complaining about FoI requests from McIntyre. Says he expects support of Lawrence Livermore Lab management. Jones says that once support staff at CRU realised the kind of people the scientists were dealing with they became very supportive. Says the VC [vice chancellor] knows what is going on (in one case).(1228330629)
* Rob Wilson concerned about upsetting Mann in a manuscript. Says he needs to word things diplomatically.(1140554230)
* Briffa says he is sick to death of Mann claiming his reconstruction is tropical because it has a few poorly temp sensitive tropical proxies. Says he should regress these against something else like the "increasing trend of self-opinionated verbiage" he produces. Ed Cook agrees with problems.(1024334440)
* Overpeck tells Team to write emails as if they would be made public. Discussion of what to do with McIntyre finding an error in Kaufman paper. Kaufman's admits error and wants to correct. Appears interested in Climate Audit findings.(1252164302)
* Jones calls Pielke Snr a prat.(1233249393)
* Santer says he will no longer publish in Royal Met Soc journals if they enforce intermediate data being made available. Jones has complained to head of Royal Met Soc about new editor of Weather [why?data?] and has threatened to resign from RMS.(1237496573)
* Reaction to McIntyre's 2005 paper in GRL. Mann has challenged GRL editor-in-chief over the publication. Mann is concerned about the connections of the paper's editor James Saiers with U Virginia [does he mean Pat Michaels?]. Tom Wigley says that if Saiers is a sceptic they should go through official GRL channels to get him ousted. (1106322460) [Note to readers – Saiers was subsequently ousted]
* Later on Mann refers to the leak at GRL being plugged.(1132094873)
* Jones says he's found a way around releasing AR4 review comments to David Holland.(1210367056)
* Wigley says Keenan's fraud accusation against Wang is correct. (1188557698)
* Jones calls for Wahl and Ammann to try to change the received date on their alleged refutation of McIntyre [presumably so it can get into AR4](1189722851)
* Mann tells Jones that he is on board and that they are working towards a common goal.(0926010576)
* Mann sends calibration residuals for MBH99 to Osborn. Says they are pretty red, and that they shouldn't be passed on to others, this being the kind of dirty laundry they don't want in the hands of those who might distort it.(1059664704)
* Prior to AR3 Briffa talks of pressure to produce a tidy picture of "apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data". [This appears to be the politics leading the science] Briffa says it was just as warm a thousand years ago.(0938018124)
* Jones says that UK climate organisations are coordinating themselves to resist FoI. They got advice from the Information Commissioner [!](1219239172)
* Mann tells Revkin that McIntyre is not to be trusted.(1254259645)
* Revkin quotes von Storch as saying it is time to toss the Hockey Stick . This back in 2004.(1096382684)
* Funkhouser says he's pulled every trick up his sleeve to milk his Kyrgistan series. Doesn't think it's productive to juggle the chronology statistics any more than he has.(0843161829)
* Wigley discusses fixing an issue with sea surface temperatures in the context of making the results look both warmer but still plausible. (1254108338)
* Jones says he and Kevin will keep some papers out of the next IPCC report.(1089318616)
* Tom Wigley tells Mann that a figure Schmidt put together to refute Monckton is deceptive and that the match it shows of instrumental to model predictions is a fluke. Says there have been a number of dishonest presentations of model output by authors and IPCC.(1255553034)
* Grant Foster putting together a critical comment on a sceptic paper. Asks for help for names of possible reviewers. Jones replies with a list of people, telling Foster they know what to say about the paper and the comment without any prompting.(1249503274)
* David Parker discussing the possibility of changing the reference period for global temperature index. Thinks this shouldn't be done because it confuses people and because it will make things look less warm.(1105019698)
* Briffa discusses an sceptic article review with Ed Cook. Says that confidentially he needs to put together a case to reject it (1054756929)
* Ben Santer, referring to McIntyre says he hopes Mr "I'm not entirely there in the head" will not be at the AGU.(1233249393)
* Jones tells Mann that he is sending station data. Says that if McIntyre requests it under FoI he will delete it rather than hand it over. Says he will hide behind data protection laws. Says Rutherford screwed up big time by creating an FTP directory for Osborn. Says Wigley worried he will have to release his model code. Also discuss AR4 draft. Mann says paleoclimate chapter will be contentious but that the author team has the right personalities to deal with sceptics.(1107454306)
Warren Bonesteel | November 28th, 2009 at 11:10 am
searchable database located here:
http://www.eastangliaemails.com/index.php
Go. Read, Learn. Don't take anyone else's word for granted, not even mine.
Do your own research. Think for yourself.
Cristla | November 28th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
Great Article Brianna
I agree with Tom on the research effort.
Harvey | November 29th, 2009 at 1:28 am
Excellent article Brianna, thanks!
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