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A saga of outrage and science reform.
Posted March 20, 2019 | Reviewed by Ekua Hagan
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This is a story of innovative science, an outrage mob, and how politics and activism insinuate themselves into psychological science; but it is also a story of how one of the innovations of the science reform movement stepped in, albeit a bit awkwardly, to save the day.
Rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) is a new term. Let's unpack it. Gender dysphoria refers to "strong, persistent feelings of identification with another gender and discomfort with one's own assigned gender and sex."
Rapid onset is now easy: It is such feelings and discomfort appearing more or less suddenly and apparently out of the blue.
Is ROGD a real thing? Maybe. Lisa Littman, M.D., and MPA and a researcher at Brown University, conducted a study surveying the experiences of parents involved in one of four online communities for parents of transgender children or "gender skeptical" parents and children. There were 256 completed surveys. Their children were mostly adolescents or young adults.
From the parents' standpoint, about 80 percent of their children announced their transgender identity "out of the blue." The study also presented evidence that the parents reported transgender identity was linked with mental health issues.
The parents reported that those worsened after their child announced the new identity, as did their relationships with the child (keeping in mind that some of the children were adults at the time of the survey).
Other findings also indicated that the parents saw a decline in their children's social adjustment after the announcement (e.g., more isolation, more distrust of non-transgender sources, etc.).
This would probably be of only passing interest to a person with a general interest in psychology but for three things:
Outrage Mob
Orwellian "Correction" (a correction-that-did-not-correct-any-errors)
A Constructive End
The publication of the paper was greeted by the outrage of trans activists who denounced the paper and Littman, calling it hate speech and transphobic. Brown initially touted the paper as providing bold new insights into transgender issues, but then removed it from their announcements.
Why such outrage? Trans people have and continue to suffer wicked discrimination and ostracism. Any paper that suggests that trans identities are superficial is likely to be seen as "harming" or "denying" their identities, and the very term "rapid onset" implies that trans identity may not have been indelibly etched in the trans-identifying children of the parents in the study. Throw in links to social isolation and other mental health issues and you have a whole barrage of conclusions that understandably might be viewed as insulting derogations of trans people. And, given the ugly history of marginalization and victimization, a certain sensitivity to threats and derogation among some trans activists is probably understandable.
That, however, is irrelevant to the scientific question of the reality of ROGD. I am not saying "ROGD is real." I am saying that the sensitivity of trans people to bona fide threats to their selves and identities is irrelevant to the scientific question of whether ROGD is real.
Fortunately, in this case, there was actually a counter-outcry, decrying Brown and the activists for threatening academic freedom. There was even a petition. Which I not only signed, I commented on.
Orwellian Correction
In response to the outcry, PLoS instituted post-publication review of the paper. Post-publication review refers to professional critique and re-evaluation of a paper after it is published. There currently is almost no post-publication peer review in psychology, and I return to this point in the third section.
At the end of that process, PLoS did two things:
They apologized for their handling of the paper the first time around.
They persuaded Dr. Littman to revise the paper and post a "Correction."
Both the original paper and "correction" are provided in the link above, so anyone can see for themselves that there were, in fact, no corrections. Science journalist Jesse Singal contacted PLoS about this state of affairs, and then posted on Twitter their acknowledgment that there were no errors or falsehoods in Dr. Littman's paper, shown here:
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In my experience, a "correction" that is not a correction is unprecedented in psychology and most scientific publishing. Corrections do occur, but primarily for errors — important typos or erroneously computed statistics. In this case, however, the "correction" was nothing more than adding some additional discussion about limitations to the work and some minor reframing to ensure readers understood that the work was preliminary.
What is going on here? It's hard to know for sure, but it fits what psychiatrist Scott Alexander has called "isolated calls for rigor."
He also warns readers to beware of such isolated calls for rigor. Why? He uses a metaphor. Let's say someone argues that there is no such thing as private property. I disagree, but, ok, one could make a serious argument for it. However, if one only argues for this after stealing your cow, but not after you steal their gold, then their argument is not serious because they clearly do not actually believe it. It is just being used to steal your cows.
I sometimes use that phrase, "you are just stealing cows" to call "hypocrisy" in science when people raise plausible-sounding methodological critiques for research that offends them but give a pass to research that uses identical methods but produces conclusions that they like. I have posted several essays on Psychology Today that make just this point, and you can find some of them here, here, and here.
Post-Publication Peer Review Is a Good Thing and It Worked
Science, especially social science, is way, way, way not perfect. Once upon a time, in psychology, scientists acted as if "It is published, therefore it is an established fact." This was dumb. Like really super cosmically dumb, for scientists. Something is not a "fact" just because it was published, especially in psychology, where many classic findings have not been replicated, and, even when they have, their conclusions may not have been justified.
Dr. Littman's revised paper is definitely better than the one first published, not because anything was "corrected" but because bona fide nuances and uncertainties about the paper were better acknowledged.
For example, the research is much more clearly cast as exploratory and preliminary, rather than having "discovered" ROGD. The original did not actually say that, but it was plausibly read as implying that it had. This is GOOD! In fact, Dr. Littman herself, in an interview here, indicated that she felt the revision was actually a constructive improvement over the original.
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Post-publication peer review is a good thing. With the advent of electronic publishing, it is far easier now to make revisions than it was in the olden days when scientific journals were in magazine-like form. There should be more of it.
However, If post-publication peer review is disproportionately used in response to politically motivated outrage mobs, it will become just another tool for advancing political biases in academic science -- for stealing cows.
I am rooting for #1; I am worried about #2; and, most likely, the real world of scientific publishing will be messy, where both end up occurring to some degree. I am probably as dissatisfied as some of you at not providing a neat, tidy, happy ending.
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Enzile Özdemir v. Turkey (54169/00)
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CHAMBER JUDGMENT ENZİLE ÖZDEMİR v. TURKEY
The European Court of Human Rights has today notified in writing its Chamber judgment1 in the case of Enzile Özdemir v. Turkey (application no. 54169/00).
The Court held, unanimously, that there had been:
· a violation of Article 2 (right to life) of the European Convention on Human Rights on account of the disappearance and presumed death of Mehmet Özdemir;
· a violation of Article 2 of the Convention on account of the failure to carry out an effective investigation into the circumstances in which Mehmet Özdemir disappeared;
· a violation of Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment) concerning Enzile Özdemir;
· no violation of Article 3 concerning Mehmet Özdemir;
· a violation of Article 5 (right to liberty and security) concerning Mehmet Özdemir; and
· no violation of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination).
Under Article 41 (just satisfaction), the Court awarded the applicant 40,000 euros (EUR) in respect of pecuniary damage, EUR 23,500 in respect of non-pecuniary damage and EUR 2,176 for costs and expenses. (The judgment is available only in English.)
1. Principal facts
The applicant, Enzile Özdemir, is a Turkish national who was born in 1953 and lives in the village of Bağivar, Diyarbakır. She is married to Mehmet Özdemir with whom she has eight children.
The case concerned Ms Özdemir's allegations that her husband was abducted and killed by Turkish security forces and that the authorities failed to carry out an adequate and effective investigation into her allegations.
Ms Özdemir submitted that her husband, a member of HADEP (People's Democracy Party), had been harassed by the security forces and had had criminal proceedings brought against him in 1995 and 1997 on charges of involvement with the PKK (The Kurdistan Workers' Party). 20 days before her husband disappeared, their home had been raided and he had allegedly been instructed to report to the police every day.
On 26 December 1997, Ms Özdemir alleged that, according to eye-witnesses, her husband, sitting in a coffee house with friends, was approached by armed men in civilian clothes and then forcibly taken away in a taxi.
On 29 December 1997 Ms Özdemir lodged a complaint with the Public Prosecutor's Office at Diyarbakır State Security Court requesting information as to the whereabouts of her husband. Her complaint was stamped "taken into custody by Security Directorate". She was later informed that it had been stamped by mistake and her husband was not in custody.
Ms Özdemir made other complaints to the Diyarbakır authorities, namely the Public Prosecutor's Disappearance Bureau and the Security Directorate, as well as to the Human Rights Commission of the Turkish National Assembly. In each complaint, she repeated the date, place and manner in which her husband had been abducted. She maintained that she could not name eye-witnesses to the abduction as they were afraid to testify.
The public prosecutor opened an investigation almost immediately after the disappearance. Custody records were checked, Ms Özdemir and her sister-in-law were interviewed and the security forces were regularly requested to provide updated information as to developments in the case. The security forces repeatedly denied that Mehmet Özdemir was in custody.
On 19 December 2003 the prosecutor decided not to open criminal proceedings regarding Mehmet Özdemir's abduction. The official enquiry into his disappearance was left open until the end of 2007.
Ms Özdemir has had no news of her husband for more than ten years and she presumes that he must be dead.
2. Procedure and composition of the Court
The application was lodged with the European Court of Human Rights on 7 September 1999.
Judgment was given by a Chamber of seven judges, composed as follows:
Nicolas Bratza (British), President,
Josep Casadevall (Andorran),
Giovanni Bonello (Maltese),
Riza Türmen (Turkish),
Kristaq Traja (Albanian),
Stanislav Pavlovschi (Moldovan),
Lech Garlicki (Polish), judges,
and also Fatoş Aracı, Deputy Section Registrar.
3. Summary of the judgment2
Relying on Article 2 (right to life), Article 5 (right to liberty and security) and Article 13 (right to an effective remedy), the applicant alleged that her husband had been abducted and killed by Turkish security forces and that the authorities had failed to carry out an adequate and effective investigation into those allegations. Also relying on Article 3 (prohibition of inhuman or degrading treatment), she further alleged that her husband had probably been subjected to ill-treatment in detention and complained about the anguish and uncertainty she had suffered from not knowing of her husband's whereabouts. Lastly, she alleged that her husband had been subjected to discrimination on account of his Kurdish ethnic origin and political opinions, in breach of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination).
1 Decision of the Court
2 Article 3
4 Article 13
Decision of the Court
Concerning the disappearance and presumed death of Mehmet Özdemir
The Court noted the circumstances surrounding Mr Özdemir's disappearance, particularly the criminal proceedings against him, and recalled that it had previously found that the disappearance in south-east Turkey in the mid-1990s of a person suspected by the authorities of involvement with the PKK could be considered life-threatening. Indeed, Ms Özdemir's claims concerning the way in which her husband had been abducted were credible and similar to other such disappearances reported at that time.
Furthermore, Ms Özdemir's version of events had been consistent and her allegations, although denied, had not been challenged by the Government.
No news having been heard of Mr Özdemir for more than ten years, the Court came to the conclusion that he had to be presumed dead following unacknowledged detention. No explanation had been given by the Turkish authorities as to what had occurred following that detention. The Court therefore found that the responsibility for his death lay with Turkey and held that there had been a violation of Article 2.
Concerning the alleged inadequacy of the investigation
The Court found that there had been striking omissions to the prosecutor's investigation which had not gone beyond the most basic procedural steps. It was struck by the fact that the prosecutor had made no attempt to identify possible eye-witnesses, such as the owner of the coffee house, the waiters or nearby shopkeepers, to an abduction which had occurred in a public place. No attempt had been made either to clarify why the applicant's complaint of 29 December 1997 had received an official stamp. It had simply been dismissed as a mistake.
The Court therefore concluded that the investigation carried out had been inadequate, in further violation of Article 2.
Concerning Mehmet Özdemir
The Court noted that there was no evidence, namely eye-witness testimony or Mr Özdemir's physical remains, to establish exactly how he had died and was therefore unable to find beyond all reasonable doubt that he had been subjected to ill-treatment. Consequently, the Court held that there had been no violation of Article 3 as concerned Mr Özdemir.
Concerning Enzile Özdemir
The Court found that the applicant had suffered for ten years, and continued to suffer, distress and anguish as a result of the disappearance of her husband and of her inability, despite her persistent efforts, to find out what had happened to him. She had never received any plausible explanation as to what had become of her husband following his detention apart from denials or simply having been informed that an investigation had been ongoing. The manner in which her complaints had been dealt with by the authorities had to be considered to constitute inhuman treatment, in violation of Article 3.
The Court found it to be a serious failing that, apart from the applicant's stamped complaint of 29 December 1997, there was no official trace of her husband's detention.
Furthermore, the Court's findings in relation to Article 2 left no doubt that the authorities had failed to take prompt and effective measures to safeguard Mr Özdemir against the risk of disappearance.
Accordingly, the Court found that Mr Özdemir had been held in unacknowledged detention, in violation of Article 5.
The Court held unanimously that it was not necessary to examine separately the applicant's complaint under Article 13.
The Court found that there was no evidence in the case file to substantiate the applicant's allegation that her husband had been a deliberate target of a forced disappearance on account of his ethnic origin or his political opinions. There had therefore been no violation of Article 14.
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Rangers' Filip Chytil calls out Blackhawks' Sam Lafferty for 'cheap' hit: 'That's what he wanted to do'
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Rangers win 4-3 in OT to end Devils' 11-game road win streak
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Kid Line helping Rangers get first series lead this playoffs
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Hurricanes Rangers Hockey New York Rangers center Filip Chytil (72) celebrates after scoring on Carolina Hurricanes goaltender Antti Raanta during the second period of Game 6 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup second-round playoff series, Saturday, May 28, 2022, in New York. Shesterkin had assists on Zibanejad's first-period goal and Chytil's second of the second period to give him three assists in 13 postseason games. The Rangers won their fourth straight elimination game, including Games 5, 6 and 7 against the Penguins. The Rangers led 2-0 after 20 minutes and added to it early in the second period. MILESTONESRangers F Chris Kreider played in his 93rd postseason game, tying Walt Tkaczuk for fifth place in franchise history.
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Abstract: Epideictic rhetoric reifies and reshapes the shared values of a community, and in this article, I reread William E. Coles Jr.'s The Plural I as showing forth a classroom built upon epideictic rhetoric, his own epideictic pedagogy asking that teachers of writing engage student work not expecting to be persuaded but as observers of rhetorical display.
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10/01/1942 Colonel-General Ernst Udet, head of Luftwaffe aircraft production and development, commits suicide because of his failure to provide adequate replacements and new improved aircraft models to the Luftwaffe.
21/01/1942 The Luftwaffe, with 400 aircraft available, begins a series of raids against London and ports in southern England.
Bomber Command is issued with Directive No.22, which ends the recent period of aircraft conservation by the RAF, although attacks are still not to be pressed in the face of bad weather or 'extreme hazard'. The reason for this change is that the new Lancaster bomber, was just entering service and that Bomber Command was now equipped with a new navigation device called GEE, which it was hoped would make locating targets easier. However, it only had a range of 400 miles and could be jammed.
Air Marshal A. T. (Bomber) Harris is appointed C-in-C of Bomber Command. Harris already had a reputation of being a determined and forceful character and was totally convinced that the bombing of Germany could bring her to her knees and be decisive in winning the war.
03/03/1942 RAF Bomber Command, under its new C-in-C, Air Vice Marshal Harris, attacks the Renault plant in the Paris suburb of Billancourt. Of the 235 RAF planes that took off, only 1 failed to return. The new navigation device, GEE wasn't used, although the target was marked with flares for the first time and serious damage done to production facilities, although many French workers were killed. However, this successful raid was a much needed morale boost for the bomber crews. On this same night, the Lancaster bomber makes its operational debut, laying mines of the French port of Brest.
08/03/1942 The RAF use GEE for the first time for target marking during a raid on Essen. The technique was known as 'Shaker' and consisted of aircraft marking the target with flares, allowing aircraft further behind to see the target more clearly. However the results of the raid were disappointing.
09/03/1942 The RAF returns to bomb Essen once more, but again are unable to inflict much damage due to the constant industrial haze over the city and the lack of landmarks, which made the city notoriously difficult to find.
28/03/1942 Under the new tactical doctrine of area saturation bombing, introduced by Air Vice Marshal Harris, the RAF launches a heavy incendiary attack (234 bombers) against Lübeck on the Baltic that devastates 265 acres of the old city. The RAF lost 13 aircraft and from one of these the Germans were able to obtain their first specimen of the GEE equipment. In retaliation for the raid on Lübeck, Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to bomb historic British towns and cities.
16/04/1942 An official inquiry into British bombing policy is setup under Mr. Justice Singleton. This was the result of a debate between Churchill's two top scientific advisors, Lord Cherwell and Sir Henry Tizard. Cherwell, supported by the Air Ministry, drew up a list of 58 German cities and towns whose destruction would knock Germany out of the war. Tizard argued that less emphasis should be put on the bombing of Germany and more on using the aircraft in the Battle of the Atlantic.
17/04/1942 The RAF makes a daylight raid against Augsburg in southern Germany with 14 Lancaster bombers. The raid is pressed home with great gallantry, with squadron leader J.D. Nettleton being awarded the VC. However, 7 aircraft are lost, which convinces Air Marshal Harris that daylight raids by heavy bombers were too costly.
23/04/1942 The RAF raids Rostok with 142 aircraft.
24/04/1942 The Luftwaffe raids Exeter in the first of Hitler's retaliatory raids, which were soon to become known as the 'Baedeker' raids after the famous guidebook series of that name. The RAF raid Rostok employing 91 aircraft.
25/04/1942 The Luftwaffe attack Bath as the 'Baedeker' raids continue.
26/04/1942 The RAF again attacks Rostok, this time with 128 aircraft. The Luftwaffe again raid Bath.
27/04/1942 The RAF use 107 aircraft in another raid against Rostok. Norwich is attacked by the Luftwaffe.
12/05/1942 The first contingent of the US Eighth Army Air Force arrives in Britain.
17/05/1942 Air Marshal Harris is given permission by Churchill for a raid on Germany by 1000 bombers. This was in spite of the fact that the RAF's operational strength at this time was only 500 aircraft. However, it was believed that by enlisting RAF Coastal Command and the RAF's training squadron's, then the magical 1000 bombers could be found. Harris believed that the only way to get a commitment for strong bomber force, was to demonstrate what could be done with one. He planned to launch operation 'Millenium', before the end of the month.
18/05/1942 The RAF launches a major attack against Mannheim.
20/05/1942 Mr. Justice Singleton's report is published. This concluded that GEE was disappointing, but that more accurate bombing might result when a new aid, H2S, being developed, came in to service. provided that greater accuracy could be achieved, then bombing could prove a 'turning-point', but only after sustained effort.
23/05/1942 Air Marshal Harris issues his orders for operation 'Millenium'. The target is to be Hamburg, with Cologne as an alternate. The raid was to take place on the night of the 28th/29th May, or the first suitable night thereafter.
25/05/1942 RAF Coastal Command refuses permission for their aircraft to take part in operation 'Millenium', which means that a shortfall of 250 aircraft is expected. However, by scraping up all the resources within Bomber Command, he manages to find the required 1000 bombers.
31/05/1942 Bad weather over Hamburg, means the alternate target, Cologne is selected by Bomber Command for the first 1,000 night-bomber raid of the war. 1,046 heavy bombers take off with 850 claiming to have attacked the target with 1,455 tons of explosive. The raid lasted about 75 minutes, a new departure from the past when aircraft were given much more latitude as to when they attacked the target. The raid destroys 600 acres of built-up area, kills 486 civilians and makes 59,000 people homeless. Of the participating aircraft, 40 failed to return and a further 19 crashed for one reason or another.
01/06/1942 Himmler is put in charge of the German ARP system.
02/06/1942 The RAF' launches it's second 1,000 bomber raid (although only 956 took off) and hits Essen, but due to the haze over the city, the results were minimal and the RAF lost 31 aircraft. Nevertheless, Churchill was highly impressed and sanctioned further raids on this scale.
06/06/1942 A German bomb, undiscovered for 13 months explodes. 19 people are killed, more than 50 injured and 300 families made homeless.
14/06/1942 Air Marshal Harris is recognised for his achievements with the recent 1,000 bomber raids with a knight-hood.
21/06/1942 The Luftwaffe carries out a night raid against Southampton.
24/06/1942 The Luftwaffe launches the first in a series of night raids against Birmingham.
25/06/1942 The RAF launches its third 1,000-bomber raid, with 1,006 aircraft against Bremen. This time Coastal Command provided 102 Hudson bombers, after Churchill's insistence that they take part. As with the previous 1,000 bomber raids, a full moon had been selected to aid in finding the target. The raid caused heavy damage to the Focke-Wulf plant and devastated 27 acres of the inner city. The RAF lost 49 aircraft, a high proportion of them being manned by trainee crews.
04/07/1942 For the first time, 6 Douglas A-20/Boston bombers of the USAAF's 15th Bombardment Squadron were combined with 6 Douglas A-20/Boston bombers from the RAF's 226 Squadron for raids on German airfields in Holland. 2 USSAF and 1 RAF aircraft failed to return.
31/07/1942 Heavy RAF night raid on Düsseldorf.
17/08/1942 The first all-American bombing raid in Europe is conducted against Rouen by Eighth USAAF.
28/08/1942 A massive RAF raid against Nuremberg is launched, killing 4,000 civilians and destroying over 10,000 houses.
11/09/1942 Heavy RAF raid on Düsseldorf.
18/09/1942 The RAF's Pathfinder Force flies its first mission, which is against Flensburg.
21/09/1942 RAF raids are conducted against Munich and the Saar valley.
25/09/1942 RAF Mosquitoes make a successful low level daylight raid on Gestapo HQ in Oslo.
11/10/1942 The first night raid on Britain by Luftwaffe for 15 days.
23/10/1942 The RAF launches bombing raids against the Italian cities of Genoa and Turin.
29/11/1942 Prime minister Churchill warns the Italian government that RAF bombing of Italian cities will continue until Italy abandons the war.
An Italian radio broadcast, reports of large-scale evacuations of Turin, Genoa and Milan.
04/12/1942 The U.S. 5th Air Force launches its first raid against the Italian port of Naples.
20/12/1942 The navigation and bombing radar aid 'Oboe' is used operationally for the first time by Bomber Command.
World War 2 Timelines 1939-1945 - European Air War 1941


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The new organization will provide end-to-end services for pharmaceutical and biotech companies seeking to accelerate immuno-oncology and cell therapy research
TAMPA, Fla., Oct. 3, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Moffitt Cancer Center announced today the launch of a first-of-its-kind contract research organization (CRO) focused on accelerating immunotherapy research. The subsidiary will provide a one-stop-shop for pharmaceutical and biotech companies to accelerate their immuno-oncology and cell therapy research through collaborative clinical trial support and administration.
Immunotherapy is an emerging area in oncology, specifically cell therapies like chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) therapy. In 2017, the American Society of Clinical Oncology named CAR T-cell therapy the advance of the year. Eighty percent of lymphoma and leukemia patients who have received CAR T therapy have benefitted from the therapy, and more than half remain in remission. Moffitt was involved in the clinical trials that led to the approval of CAR T therapy and continues to be a leader in cell therapy clinical development and delivery.
The cancer center has enrolled more than 3,000 patients in immuno-oncology studies over the last five years.
"Moffitt saw a unique opportunity; one that furthers our mission to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer. There are currently no other immunotherapy clinical research organizations in the United States. We can provide a much needed service that will bring new immunotherapies to patients more quickly," said Thomas Sellers, Ph.D., MPH, center director and executive vice president at Moffitt.
The CRO will offer end-to-end services for pharmaceutical and biotech companies. This will include preclinical study, manufacturing, clinical trial design and oversight, as well as data management and regulatory assistance. The goal is to take a company's drug or medical device from initial discovery to clinical testing and Food and Drug Administration approval.
"This CRO will be the premier partner for advancing immunotherapy-based clinical trials in the country. We have a facility certified in Good Manufacturing Practice, a system for ensuring that products are consistently produced and controlled according to quality standards, that is producing these therapies and will establish a network of partners to facilitate multi-center clinical trials," said Brian Springer, MHA, vice president and associate center director of research administration at Moffitt.
Moffitt is seeking investment and partnerships to support the wholly-owned, for-profit subsidiary. The cancer center also will be appointing a Board of Directors to oversee operations. The CRO is expected to be fully operational in 9 to 12 months.
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Moffitt is dedicated to one lifesaving mission: to contribute to the prevention and cure of cancer. The Tampa-based facility is one of only 51 National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, a distinction that recognizes Moffitt's scientific excellence, multidisciplinary research, and robust training and education. Moffitt is a Top 10 cancer hospital and has been nationally ranked by U.S. News & World Report since 1999. Moffitt devotes more than 2 million square feet to research and patient care. Moffitt's expert nursing staff is recognized by the American Nurses Credentialing Center with Magnet® status, its highest distinction. With more than 6,500 team members, Moffitt has an economic impact in the state of $2.5 billion. For more information, call 1-888-MOFFITT (1-888-663-3488), visit MOFFITT.org, and follow the momentum on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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With The Don banished, silenced on Twitter and other social media, and left only to spread lies about his golf game, this was the time to cut the head off the orange snake. After all, the snake was being served up on a platter with the sign: Convict and Banish.
Mitch McConnell, a snake of different color, saw an opportunity to lead the beheading. In his conniving manner, he intimated he would be willing to consider bringing the ax down. But a funny thing happened. Talk of challenging his leadership role spooked him and he joined 44 other Republicans to try to cancel the trial completely. The "Grim Reaper" also wanted to avoid a scenario where his cronies would publicly be on record with their vote, as for now, big business has decided they won't throw money into Republican coffers for supporting the "Big Lie" and failure to denounce The Don's actions. (We will see how long that lasts!)
Though there is precedent for impeachment trials after a public official leaves office, the Republicans decided to continue their odious sycophancy. And anyway, what's all the hubbub about instigation of an insurrection. Just a few dead police officers (two by suicide), 140 injured, confederate flags carried through the halls of the Capitol, a guy wearing an Auschwitz t-shirt, threats to lawmakers lives and and a lively chant of "hang Mike Pence" for good measure. As I said, what's all the hubbub?
In fact, The Don's legal team decided to jump ship because he insisted that they use the "they stole the election defense." Imagine arguing that the election was a fraud, stolen from The Don, so it was his right to incite a riot to take back what was properly his. So in other words, "Yeah, he did it, but you can't steal stuff from people and not expect someone to fight back!"
Let's face it folks, if many Republicans are still propagating the "Big Lie," that Biden is an illegitimate president, and instigating an insurrection against your own government doesn't rise to the level of convict and banish, then any hope of sanity and unity is gone.
When members of congress do not feel safe in their work place because of menacing colleagues, we have arrived at a dark place.
At a press conference Nancy Pelosi, someone who was a target of the rioters, stated it very clearly: "The enemy is within."
This quote from A.O.C. directed at Ted Cruz regarding their mutual support of the anti-Wall street populism of the "Game Stop" stock extravaganza says it all.
"I am happy to work with Republicans on this issue where there's common ground, but you almost had me murdered 3 weeks ago so you can sit this one out," she responded. "Happy to work w/ almost any other GOP that aren't trying to get me killed. In the meantime if you want to help, you can resign." Talk about speaking truth to power!
Cruz, the poster child for unity, response was to cry foul and state that A.O.C.'s anger stoked further division.
Mr. Unity, what have you got to say about fellow Republican, Qanon lady, Marjorie Taylor Greene, who, in an October 2020 video surfaced recently by Mother Jones, said that the "only way you get your freedoms back is it's earned with the price of blood."
What's that I hear? Umm! Thought so. So you can take your cry for unity and shove it up your ass. You are scum. A sniveling, conniving, morally bankrupt opportunist who gives a shit about no one but yourself and desire for power. And that goes for you too, Josh Hawley.
Lady Q has also repeatedly claimed in multiple videos and social media posts that several school shooting massacres were "false flag" events perpetrated by government officials in an attempt to drum up support for gun control laws.
Lady Q has implicated anti-Semitic conspiracy theories that a Jewish owned international investment banking firm, Rothschild, Inc. was somehow involved in creating the devastating fires in California this past summer and suggested the fire was caused by a beam from "space solar generators."
Cori Bush, a black, newly elected congresswomen from St. Louis, felt so threatened by Lady Q, that she asked for her office, which was located next to Lady Q's, to be moved.
And then there is Kevin McCarthy, House Minority Leader, making a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, to lick the soles of The Don's shoes to ask for forgiveness for ever turning against him. McCarthy's response to the dangerous conspiracy theory Q Lady was to appointment her to the Education Committee, where she will promote curriculum that promulgates theories that the Jews are behind everything that is wrong with America and for that matter, the world. Heil Hitler, sister Q.
Let's imagine that conversation K.M.'s conversation with The Don:
K.M. Mr. President.
The Don: It's about time you showed up. I had you on my list of who to primary.
K.M. Mr. President, Mr. President, I don't know what got into me. Maybe I was drugged by A.O.C. Marjorie told me that I must have been zapped by a mind control laser beam sent by some Jew that rearranged my thoughts. Do you forgive me? Please forgive me, Mr. President. We need you. You are our fearless leader.
The Don: On your hands and knees Kevin.
K.M. But Mr. Pres..
The Don: Shut up and lick.
K.M: But Mr. Pres…
The Don: Shut up and lick…thatta boy.
K.M. Mr. President. Why are you pulling down your pants?
The Don: Remember all that talk about the pee tapes in the Steele report in the hoax Russia investigation? Well they were true!
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The good old boy network is alive and well in Kerrville, at least with KISD and the local newspapers. In an email sent to Kerrville Breaking News publisher Rebekah Strickland today, Kerrville ISD plainly refused to send Kerrville Breaking News press releases, stating that they would only send them to Kerrville Daily Times and Hill Country Community Journal.
By stating that, they basically said that the Kerrville community could only get press release information if they paid to get the news from one of the local newspapers. That brings this question to light. "Should the community have to pay to know what is happening in their childrens' schools?" While other media sources charge for news, Kerrville Breaking News is entirely free for readers and the entire community, so why wouldn't Kerrville Independent School District want to show transparency and utilize this new media format?
Here is the email sent to Rebekah Strickland this morning.
Kerrville Breaking News and Golden Hills Marketing president, Mike Taylor called Glenda Kelley personally to ask her why KISD would exclude KBN and all other media outlets from receiving press releases, other than KDT and HCCJ. All questions were only answered with the repeated line, "We only send press releases to KDT and HCCJ". Mike left a message for the superintendent to call him back, and he was called back later in the day by Dr. Mark Foust. He basically repeated the same line over and over again as well.
Every other school district that we request information from, sends it to us promptly. Why should a public entity, funded by our tax dollars, be able to pick and choose which news media outlets to send information to?
Is this acceptable to you? Should you have to pay to get information regarding the schools in your community? If you want to see information from KISD on KerrvilleBreakingNews.com, please email glenda.kelley@kerrvilleisd.net or call 830-257-2200 ext. 1011 and leave a message if no-one answers.


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Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga, one of the leadership election candidates of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), attends a debate on September 12, 2020. (AP)
Japan PM hopeful Suga says he may need help from outgoing Abe on diplomacy
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Published: 12 September ,2020: 11:15 PM GST Updated: 12 September ,2020: 11:23 PM GST
Japanese prime minister hopeful Yoshihide Suga said Saturday that he lacks the kind of diplomatic skills that outgoing leader Shinzo Abe has, including Abe's personal friendship with President Donald Trump, and that he will need his assistance if he assumes the top job.
Abe in late August announced his intention to step down as prime minister due to health problems. He has led Japan since he returned to power in December 2012 for a second stint as prime minister.
Suga, the chief Cabinet secretary, is expected to win Monday's party election and then be endorsed in a parliamentary vote on Wednesday because of the majority held by the ruling bloc.
Abe has traveled to 80 overseas destinations during his tenure, bringing stability and consistency to Japanese diplomacy and raising the country's profile in the international community, experts say. He was noted especially for developing a personal friendship with Trump.
Read more: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says he will resign due to poor health
"Prime Minister Abe's leadership diplomacy was truly amazing. I don't think I can match that," Suga said as he joined the two other contenders at a public debate. Former Defense Minister Shiberu Ishiba and former Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida are also in the race.
"I think there is a diplomatic stance that would fit me and I will stick to my own style, while also seeking assistance from the Foreign Ministry. And of course I will consult with (Abe)," Suga said.
Suga served as a policy coordinator and adviser to Abe, the point man behind the centralized power of the Prime Minister's Office and its influence over bureaucrats in implementing policies. The son of a strawberry farmer in northern Japan and a self-made politician, Suga is a rarity in the country's largely hereditary world of politics.
Bu despite his influence and his political skills at home, Suga has hardly traveled overseas, and his diplomatic skills are unknown, though he is largely expected to pursue Abe's priorities.
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Re: Multiple Alerts still not fixed!
A long shot but try and restart the router to which the base and Arlo Q are connected.
I also just realized another issue; I changed the notification sound within the app, and when I received the notification (multiple times) it's the phone's default sound, not the sound I just selected. So yeah, somethingn is definetely messed up with the app.
I will try this tonight and see if it fixes everything.
Not being able to choose the notification sound in the app is a known bug. In android you have to set the sound in the android notifications section.
Settings, notifications, arlo......... choose your sound in there. Ignore the sound section in the arlo app itself.
@pc2k17 has the sound settings fix for Android for sure. App is busted. Use phone settings.
Arlo app update push from Google. Started getting double notifications. Got irritated, uninstalled app reinstalled. Got three notifications for same event. Screwed around with it including several uninstall and reinstall and got one extra notification for each time I reinstalled. Picked "Silent" to keep from going berzerk, after much gnashing of teeth and playing with things (as extreme as a factory reset - which worked by the way), it became obvious that this started when my phone updated to Oreo and that the Arlo app and Android 8 were not getting along for updates and reinstalls. Though there are many many posts on the sequence one should try to eliminate this problem, when this happened again - and I swore I was not going to factory reset my phone - I tried to insure that when I killed Arlo, I got every vestige of it out of my phone.
It is essential that Automatic Restore under Google Account on your phone in the (Backup and Restore) section is OFF. Also turn OFF Back Up My Data under Google account just for good measure.
It is essential that then you have cleared both the cache and data in the Arlo app, and you force stop the app. Uninstall the app from the phone not Google Play.
Theoretically the app is gone, the google restore settings are not in play and google will not back up until you are ready to turn that feature back on.
Power cycle your phone for good measure or for an extreme measure, you can do a soft reboot if you care to (phones may vary slightly on technique) with Arlo gone. Doesn't take long.
For another extreme measure (one I take anyway), I do a Samsung account backup with Arlo gone, then restore. This is quick, just a few minutes and nothing is lost.
Some have said they have success with less steps and less hassle, but I had one failure with one shorter version and I am too lazy to figure out why.
Then reinstall which should bring normal operation.
You can turn your stuff back on.
Some overkill above, but why not?
I just did all the steps (except for the Samsung back up and restore) in the order you presented. Currently waiting for a notification to see if it's fixed.
still not fixed. but got better lol. Getting 2 alerts instead of 4 per notification now. At least it's a step towards the right direction! Still very annoying and needs to be fixed!
For no reason at all One camera will give me 10 to 11 notifications at about 5 Seconds Apart with each video being 11 seconds long. When I look at each video not a motion or sound. This could happen every hour or every 30 minutes or whenever it wants. It gets annoying hearing my phone beep every 5 seconds and giving me nothing in the videos. This only happens to one camera. Any ideas?
First, I would remove the camera from its location to eliminate environmental triggers. Put it anywhere that has the least possibility of any heat source variables or variables such as heated dust from a furnace blower starting. If it still continues with the camera relocated, and you have set the sensitivity where you want it (normal 80%), I would reboot the base and uninstall and reinstall the camera battery to reboot it also.
I have done every fix that is on this forum and it still gives me 4&5 alerts... This has to be fixed.
Me too! Nothing works. I'm so annoyed!!!!
You all have my sympathies. If you have tried more than once with the routines suggested here, what may be going on is that you caught something at a point where timing did not work properly. But if you are going nuts, perhaps the best work around for now is to roll back to the previous app.
Make sure you turn off auto updates at the Play Store.
Arlo app developers do not seem to be on top of mobile OS changes and this has been going on since Android 8.0.0 was rolled out.
Which version is supposed to not have the multiple alerts? I tried all the versiosn between June and Nov 2018 and still had the same multiple alert issue.
Continue to hold down the Volume Up and Home keys.
Press the Volume Down key until wipe cache partition is selected.
Wait until reboot system now is selected.
Numerous people have posted that the recommended fixes did not work for them. I'm glad they worked for you, but they are not fixing the issue for many of us.
Interesting. I have never seen the uninstall, delete all backups, reinstall not work.
Tried that too, didn't help.
This is the first time I've seen the suggestion to wipe the cache partition using recovery mode, so I gave it a try. Unfortunately, it didn't help either -- still getting four notifications for every event.
By the way, on Galaxy S8 or later you need to use the Bixby button rather than the Home button; i.e. hold down Volume Up and Bixby, then power up using the Power button.
I wish someone would get this fixed. I have 4 cameras in range of my driveway and get 16 notifications. Sometimes 32, because no one seems to be concerned about the delay in receiving the notifications either.
All of this coupled with the motion delay on the cameras which renders them useless is forcing me to look elsewhere for security cameras.
Arlo is a great idea but after more than a year of glitch after glitch after glitch I'm thinking they're not worth the aggravation.
I've tried everything in these posts as far as turning everything off, uninstalling, reinstalling over and over.
I restarted my base station today and started getting only ONE alert per event, for the first time in weeks. I had already restarted the base station before (including a full power down) and it had NOT helped, so I'm not suggesting that restarting the base station is a "fix" for the issue. I also tried all of the other "fixes" that have been mentioned in multiple forum threads, and none of them had worked either (at least not for me, they did for some others).
So while restarting the base station is not a consistent fix for the multiple notification issue, it's at least something to try.
I have had multiple notifications since the arlo app was updated on 11/20 (or 11/22). Nothing would fix it, not even factory resetting the phone and reinstalling everything.. Now today it's working correctly., a single tone per notification. I have no idea why.. The Arlo app hasn't been updated nor has Android.
I'm on a galaxy s9+ with android 8.0.0.
My Galaxy S8 dropped from four notifications per event to one today as well. I restarted my base station this morning and thought that might have been a factor (although I had done it before and it didn't help), but maybe it was just a coincidence. Like you, there was no app or Android update.
It's an after Christmas miracle! After today's update multiple alerts are gone!!!!!! I couldn't be happier! Arlo team please do not mess it up again.
My experience with multiple notifications has gone on for several months. I have tried all of the suggested solutions to no avail. I find it is irresponsible of Arlo support to allow this go on for this link of time. I am of the opinion that it is related to the Arlo Smart Premier plan. I Arlo support is unable to manage something that would appear basic support, I will be forced to chose another option.


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14 Journalists Earn Aging-Focused Reporting Fellowships
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The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and Journalists Network on Generations are welcoming 14 distinguished reporters for the next cohort of the Journalists in Aging Fellows Program, now in its 10th year.
They represent a wide range of general audience, ethnic, and community media outlets, including public radio and television affiliates, daily newspapers, and national publications. This year's group brings the program's total number of participating reporters to 170. The new fellows were chosen — by a panel of gerontological and editorial professionals — based on their proposals for an in-depth aging-focused story or series.
These projects, to be produced in 2020, span such concerns as cultural challenges in the U.S. for older Arab, Indian, and Latino immigrants; health issues for African American and other long-held prisoners on reentry to the community; continuing struggles of low-income older Puerto Ricans in the wake of the 2017 hurricanes; increasing homelessness among older adults in Cape Cod; challenges to ageist stereotypes; and the crisis of loneliness and isolation.
The participating journalists will convene during GSA's 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting — scheduled for November 13 to 17 in Austin, Texas — where they will have access to the latest aging research and approximately 4,000 expert attendees. The fellows program is supported by funding from The Silver Century Foundation, The Retirement Research Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, and The John A. Hartford Foundation.
"This program is unique in that it not only provides its participants with a first-rate educational overview of trends and new developments in the field, it does so at the country's largest gathering of researchers on aging," said Todd Kluss, GSA's director of communications. "We congratulate the new fellows and their outlets on demonstrating a commitment to serving their communities with fact-based, topical stories on the experiences of people as we age."
Kluss co-directs the Journalists in Aging Fellows Program together with Paul Kleyman, the founder and national coordinator of the program's media partner, the Journalists Network on Generations.
"While much of the media continues catering to youth markets, our fellowship program has helped inform the public of the twin stories of aging in America," Kleyman said. "At this time when we face a looming retirement crisis for elders and their families, our rapidly aging population also offers tremendous contributions to communities and the economy, contributions still to be fully tapped."
In Austin, the fellows also will participate in a daylong educational workshop, where researchers will discuss new trends and provide insight on key issues facing Americans as they age. Continuing fellowship grants also are being provided to allow six previous fellows to participate in the meeting. A continuously updated list of nearly 700 stories generated by the program's alumni is available at www.geron.org/journalistfellows.
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Hassan Abbas (Arab American News)
Project: Three-part series on intergenerational family relations in the Arab American community of Detroit and Dearborn, Michigan, focusing especially on religious or ethnic affiliations of Arab American subgroups and socio-economic conditions affecting them.
Mayra Acevedo (WIPR-TV Puerto Rico)
Project: Four-part, Spanish language series (captioned in English), plus a half-hour special, on how nonprofits are helping impoverished older Puerto Ricans, many ineligible for benefits because they own homes —including those damaged by 2017's Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
Tina Antolini (KQED Public Radio's "California Report")
Project: As part of a documentary series on ageism, an examination of how a group of nuns challenge traditional notions of "successful aging" while living long, meaningful lives interdependently.
Agustin Duran (La Opinión, Southern California)
Project: Three-part series on a retirement challenges for Latinos in Southern California, such as undocumented status, lack of health insurance, being eligible for only small Social Security benefits, and homelessness.
Cecilia Hernandez-Cromwell (Telemundo Noticiero Oklahoma)
Project: Three-part series on the physical and emotional effects of undocumented immigrants' journey to the U.S., far from home and family; the impact of stress and injuries over years of heavy labor without health insurance; and the toll on caregivers.
Kate Ferguson (Real Health Magazine)
Project: "Aging in Place: Today's Prison Population," a two-part series in print and online on health and mental health issues for older prisoners reentering communities and their families, with a focus on model approaches by progressive law-enforcement agencies.
Katherine Ellen Foley (Quartz)
Project: How researchers can better meet the needs minority older adults, a group historically excluded from clinical dementia research despite their higher-than-average rates of dementia, and the fact that Alzheimer's disease may manifest differently in people of color.
Judith L. Kanne, RN (Atlanta Senior Life)
Project: Two-part series on combatting elder abuse in Georgia through prevention.
Jon Kelvey (The Carroll County Times, Maryland)
Project: An investigation of how the true cost of living, both for prime-age wage earners and those in long-term care, calls for a more realistic living wage threshold — one that reflects what people need to be earning to ensure independence in old age in today's reality of wage stagnation and rising costs of basic necessities.
Joanne Laucius (Ottawa Citizen, Ontario, Canada)
Project: Story package with video interviews on increasing loneliness among older adults in Canada and its potential health risks.
Cynthia McCormick (Cape Cod Times, Massachusetts)
Project: Two-part print series package with reporting, sidebars, and profiles, plus a public radio podcast on the disproportionate numbers of older homeless people on Cape Cod and how officials are addressing what is becoming a statewide crisis of housing insecurity for older adults.
Jaya Padmanabhan (India Currents)
Project: "Loneliness and its Linkage to Food for Aging Indian American Immigrants," underscoring the need for health care services to account for how access to traditional foods affects cultural beliefs and behaviors of older people, particularly in Indian cultures.
Joelle Renstrom (Slate)
Project: A three-part series on the science, practical considerations, and social/ethical implications of radical life extension discoveries, such as emerging "rejuvenation technologies" and how they might promote widening social and cultural rifts.
Luanne Rife (The Roanoke Times, Virginia)
Project: An investigation of whether older Virginians with mental illness or dementia who lack family and funds are receiving appropriate services or are being housed in psychiatric hospitals, despite legal requirements that they be placed in the least-restrictive settings.
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Texas Lawyer Ordered To Watch What He 'Prays' For On Facebook
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DALLAS (1080 KRLD) – Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the right to a fair trial, and Facebook postings have stirred-up a hornet's nest in Ellis County.
It starts with Waxahachie lawyer Mark Griffith, who doesn't mind telling anyone he prays for help before court, during a trial and on Facebook.
It's the Facebook part that is at issue, another new twist in the odd world that social media has created.
Twice, in separate trials, the Ellis County District Attorney's office has convinced judges to stop Griffith from posting running commentary of a trial in his prayers on Facebook.
"No lawyer is allowed to make running commentary in the public forum regarding witnesses, the character of witnesses, the opinion of the guilt or innocence of defendants or suspects in criminal cases." said Patrick Wilson, Ellis County District Attorney. He claims it's basic legal ethics.
The argument doesn't hold water with Griffith. He contends his office has a history of tweaking the DA in criminal cases, and he sees the argument over his prayers on Facebook as an effort by the District Attorney's office to throw him off balance.
"I can assure you he's not going to" said Griffith. "What he attacked was my firm's personal Facebook page and prayers mentioned by me prior to trial and during trial. And there's not going to be a motion, and there's not going to be any order from any court, that's going to keep me from praying and asking for God's wisdom as I'm fighting for his children."
Wilson says Griffith knows better and is hiding behind religion. "Prayer has nothing to do with this. The right to free speech has nothing to do with this" says Wilson. "This has everything to do with maintaining the integrity of our judicial system. And if he wants to fight that fight with the state bar of Texas, good luck."
Griffith is quick to point out an instruction virtually every judge gives every juror during a trial: Jurors are not to read, listen to or view accounts of the case during the trial. The case is to be decided from the evidence presented in court. Griffith says he has never found a juror who didn't take that admonishment to heart.
But the murky world of social media can present challenges to the most conscientious of jurors. What if, Wilson asks, a person were to copy one of Griffith's postings then repost it on their Facebook page? Or what if they send it along through Twitter
"That's absolutely a concern." Wilson argues. " Unless someone knows how to completely lock down and prohibit jurors from even looking at social media during the course of a trial, this is the only way to appropriately control a trial. And prayer has nothing to do with it."
So far the judges have sided with the state in a broad way. Griffith is allowed to pray on social media, so long as those prayers don't contain a running account of the trial.
Griffith plans to appeal. "I am not going to give up my faith."
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"The biggest winter energy myth: That you need to idle your car before driving."
The Washington Post's Wonkblog recently published that headline, which is being disputed by some Alaska auto shop owners who advise residents to warm up engines, albeit briefly, when temperatures dip significantly below freezing. Better yet, say employees with state and local governments, plug in your car for a few hours when the thermometer drops to 20 degrees or below.
"The worst thing is to just hop in your car and take off," said John Stoehner, owner and general manager of Alaska Spring and Performance, an automotive repair shop in Anchorage.
While most newer vehicles will start and run in temperatures below zero degrees, that doesn't mean they necessarily should, said Ralph Seekins, owner of Seekins Ford Lincoln in Fairbanks, a city where normal temperatures in January range from 2 degrees to minus 18.
"You'll wear your engine block out far more quickly," he said. "(There are) unintended consequences that people don't think about in the Lower 48."
Seekins agreed that an engine will heat up more quickly when a vehicle is driven slowly than when it's idling, as reported by Wonkblog, quoting the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy. He said, though, that doesn't stop the quiet wear and tear during travel; nor does it help with visibility through frost-covered windows.
Typically, when temperatures drop below zero, Seekins said, he will start his car and let it run for roughly seven minutes in the morning. At minus 40 degrees, he will start his car for a few minutes every four hours. But at 32 degrees, he said, he will just get in and drive.
"That's a warm spell," he said.
In Anchorage, it's against municipal code to idle an unattended vehicle for more than 20 minutes, regardless of the weather, though that doesn't apply to police cruisers, fire trucks, ambulances, public utility vehicles and municipal vehicles providing public transportation.
Kurt Adler, owner of A&A The Shop in Anchorage, suggested that at 20 degrees and below, Anchorage residents warm up their vehicles for five to 10 minutes to kick-start the defroster and heater -- what Seekins called "creature comforts." But Adler said it takes only two to three minutes for a vehicle to reach "optimal driving conditions."
"We get in our car and we turn on the wipers, the blower, the radio, and pretty soon our alternator is going from temperatures of 20 degrees to 250 degrees because it's starting to generate all of this electricity and trying to push it into your battery that's still at 20 degrees and doesn't hold a charge," Adler said. "You want a $300 to $400 alternator change?"
When it comes to idling, fuel consumption and emissions also factor in.
"You might use 15 cents of electricity during that time," Morris said. "But you can cut your idle time from seven minutes to three minutes."
According to a 2001 study by Sierra Research Inc. prepared for the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, a car in temperatures between 20 degrees and minus 20 emits 59 percent less carbon monoxide when plugged in for two hours and idled for 10 minutes.
The study also identified 10 minutes as the "optimum" idle period. A car idled for 10 minutes and then driven dispenses less carbon monoxide overall than if just driven cold, it said.
Wonkblog, citing a 2009 study in Energy Policy, reports that all vehicle idling, including idling in traffic, contributed to 1.6 percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.


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Bill Rogers - Part 1 (The 1981 Open Championship)
Forty years after his Open Championship win at Royal St. George's, Bill "Buck" Rogers takes us through his major championship experiences, including that victory in 1981 when he was the PGA Tour Player of the Year and winner of seven events around the world. He gave David Graham a run at Merion in the 1981 U.S. Open and was in the final group with Tom Watson at Pebble Beach in 1982. Ben Crenshaw had to talk him into playing the British Open and he almost missed his tee-time in the first round. Facing adversity on the final day, he recovered from a double on the 7th to make that famous walk to the 18th green to claim the Claret Jug. Hear how the obligations that came with being a winner ultimately extinguished Bill's passion for the game as he tells us his life story, "FORE the Good of the Game".
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Bill Rogers is a Texan through and through, but he spent parts of his childhood on military bases in Germany and Morocco and the international theme continued into his golf career.
He played in the Walker Cup in 1973 and quickly became a consistent money winner on the PGA Tour. His two greatest victories, however, came in Britain. In 1979 he eliminated Sandy Lyle before beating Isao Aoki in the final to win the World Match Play Championship at Wentworth.
PGA Player of the Year in 1971, he won seven times around the world, including the World Series of Golf in America, twice in Australia and once in Japan. He was runner-up to David Graham in the US Open at Merion and then won The Open at Royal St George's.
It was his second appearance in The Open and he had to be persuaded to play by his friend and fellow Texan Ben Crenshaw. The pair were first and second after two days but while Crenshaw slumped to a 76 in the third round, Rogers followed up his 66 of the previous day with a 67 to lead by five strokes.
A double bogey at the seventh in the final round brought Bernhard Langer within one stroke but three birdies in four holes from the ninth put the American comfortably ahead again. He won by four from Langer and by seven from Ray Floyd and Mark James.
A year later he was third behind Tom Watson and Jack Nicklaus at the US Open and he was eighth in the 1983 Open at Birkdale but that was the last time he made the cut.
In 1988 he retired from tournament golf having burned himself out playing in events around the world. He has been based in San Antonio ever since, as a club professional, golf course designer and college coach.


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Today, I'm honored to host author and martial artist Lorna Suzuki, whose fantasy series THE IMAGO CHRONICLES have been optioned for a major motion picture trilogy! I met Lorna through Twitter, where we connected over a mutual love of writing and martial arts, and a deep respect for the true historical ninja (aka, "shinobi"). I'm honored Lorna could join us today to share a little more about her writing and inspirations. Lorna Suzuki is a martial arts practitioner/instructor with 30+ years experience in a discipline based on 6 traditional samurai schools and 3 schools of ninjutsu. When not teaching, she is the
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BETRAYAL AT IGA Autumn, 1565: After fleeing Kyoto, master ninja Hiro Hattori and Portuguese Jesuit Father Mateo take refuge with Hiro's ninja clan in the mountains of Iga province. But when an ambassador from the rival Koga clan is murdered during peace negotiations, Hiro and Father Mateo must find the killer in time to prevent a war between the ninja clans.
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