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EPISODE #2009-31 Part #1
Judge Ellen Landregan was starting to get a headache, not to mention some nasty eyestrain, from watching Kevin Fowler and Cass Winthrop ping-pong their arguments back and forth in front of her.
"Your honor, I think this is pretty self-explanatory," Fowler said, then proceeded to explain it to her anyway. "Mr. Harrison never gave up parental rights to his son. With the death of Victoria McKinnon, custody of Kirkland Harrison should have gone to his biological father — "
"Which it would have," Winthrop interrupted. "Had Mr. Harrison been something trivial like legally alive. At the time of Mrs. McKinnon's death, he was believed dead, as well."
"A fact that Mr. Harrison did not know due to having fled Bay City in fear for his life. He was in hiding, cut off from communicating with anyone from his past."
"Grant was the one who faked his own death, but he didn't expect to be declared dead?" Cass feigned confusion.
"What Mr. Harrison hoped and what he knew are two different things."
"Be that as it may, surely your client can understand that as Mrs. McKinnon believed Grant Harrison to be dead, she made other arrangements for her children's well-being, namely that her sister, Marley Frame, would be given legal custody of Kirkland."
"Understand? Yes. Accept? No. The threat to Mr. Harrison's life is no longer an issue. In light of this, my client has come to claim his son."
"After ten years of abandonment. During which there was no attempt to contact the child at all. No phone calls, no e-mails. Not even a birthday card."
"A fact that Mr. Harrison's son seems to have moved past. A fifteen year old boy has no trouble understanding that until the threat to his father's life was neutralized, Mr. Harrison did not want to put Kirkland in harm's way."
"Tabling the debate of whether any child should be around Mr. Harrison due to the fact that he has to deal with death threats on a regular basis, Your Honor, Mr. Harrison faked his death with the assumption that he would be considered dead. By doing so, Mr. Harrison, for all intents, surrendered his custodial rights to Kirkland's mother. Therefore, whatever arrangements she made are perfectly legal."
"But not necessarily binding. Upon learning of Mrs. McKinnon's death and the situation regarding his son — "
"Took him a decade to pick up a newspaper or figure out how to boot up his Internet connection, did it?"
"— Mr. Harrison returned to Bay City to assume custody of Kirkland. Which, as the biological father, he has every legal right to do."
"Not when he knowingly allowed himself to be declared dead."
"A fact which, as I have stated over and over, he did not know."
"Oh, please."
"My sentiments exactly," Judge Landregan interrupted, and genuinely tired of the two attorneys, turned her focus to their clients, who, after a quick assessment, puzzled her even more.
On one side, you had Grant Harrison, former Senator and Mayor of Bay City. Quite familiar with his sordid history and the accusations made but never proven, not to mention his self-confessed ten-year abandonment, the deck was certainly stacked against him.
But then you had the new Mr. and Mrs. Frame, who, quite frankly, puzzled her even more.
Judge Landregan had reviewed the circumstances under which Mr. Frame had taken on the daily care of the boy he referred to as Kirkland Frame, and everything seemed quite reasonable. What threw up a red flag was that, given that he'd raised Kirkland for over ten years, one would think Mr. Frame might appear more invested in the current proceedings. Yet his head was obviously not on what was going on in the courtroom, which was also quite apparent to his new bride, judging by the confused and anxious looks she kept throwing him.
Even forgiving the obvious, desperate move of their rushed nuptials; somewhat understandable and actually quite common when single parents felt threatened and were looking for ways to solidify their position, there was something going on between the pair that warranted a closer examination...
Fortunately, Judge Landregan was perfectly positioned to do just that.
"It is the decision of this court," she pronounced. "That before final custody of Kirkland Harrison can be decided, a more thorough assessment of both petitioners needs to be conducted. Mr. Harrison and Mr. and Mrs. Frame will each individually submit to several interviews with agents from Social Services. Kirkland Harrison will also be interviewed as to his feelings and wishes on this matter."
"And in regards to visitation, Your Honor?" Kevin raised.
"Visitation is granted. Mr. Harrison is to work out the details with the boy's current legal guardian, Mrs. Marley Frame. I will order that, given Mr. Harrison's past history, he surrender his passport to the court until further notice."
"That's all?" Jamie suddenly started, his attention jolted back to the proceedings. "Grant gets to pick right back up where he left off after dumping his son for ten years?"
Finally, some emotion. "If proof of the claim of abandonment is forthcoming, it will be taken into consideration when determining custody."
Jamie shook his head incredulously. "You have got to be —"
A restraining hand over each of Mr. Frame's shoulders from both his lawyer and his wife prevented Jamie from completing that statement, and Judge Landregan from having to charge him with contempt of court.
"That's my decision," she said to Mr. Frame, all the while noting the smug smile on Mr. Harrison's face.
"Bollocks," Carl spat and jerked his head across the table towards the entrance to TOPS.
Rachel turned in her chair to see what, or whom, exactly her husband was currently glaring daggers at, and realized that Donna was walking towards them. Escorted by Matt.
"Agreed," she told him.
"Hi, Mom. Carl," Matt appeared ready to at least slow down; out of politeness and obligation, if nothing else.
But Donna refused to break her stride, sweeping by them with only a curt nod and a vague, social smile in Carl and Rachel's direction, pulling Matt with her.
Carl gripped his knife and fork so tightly, he was amazed he didn't feel the metal liquefy and dissolve in his hands. He couldn't hear Matt's greeting over the roar in his head as every blood cell in his body boiled and pounded against his skull. He tensed, wanting to spring, wanting to pounce, wanting to act.
But all Carl did was nod politely in return.
And remind himself, "Soon...."
All things considered, the hearing didn't go nearly as badly as Marley had feared it would. One look at Jamie, though, and she knew he didn't agree.
But, then again, he'd been in a foul mood when she first met him at the courthouse. She didn't have a chance to ask him what was going on before they were ushered into the courtroom, where instead of her having a rock to lean on, Jamie had just sat there like a rock.
She simply did not understand him these days. What happened to her Jamie?
"Let's get out of here," Marley smiled up at him, hoping to soften the hard look in his eyes. "I'll buy the first round."
He shook his head and she felt the slam of a wall go up between them. "I can't. Not tonight. I have to — "
"No," Marley shook her head, patience gone. "You've brushed me off long enough. Whatever it is you think you need to do can wait. Tonight you're focusing on me."
"Marley, let the good doctor tend to his duties," Grant warmly suggested behind her. "We can't have the poor and huddled masses suffering. Besides, you and I have business to discuss regarding Kirkland. Which we don't need Jamie for."
"Go screw yourself," Jamie bit at Grant before stalking away without a word to Marley.
"Jamie!" she called after him, ready to follow, but stopping when she realized it would be useless.
Whatever was going on with him, Jamie didn't want to let her in. And frankly, between him and Donna, Marley was beginning to tire of beating her head against their walls.
Besides, she had other things to worry about. Things that were at least willing to give her the time of day.
"Now, how about that dinner?" Grant continued without missing a beat. "I'm famished. Would you prefer The Bay City Grille or Carlinos?"
"Carlinos," Marley sighed, defeated. "First rounds of drinks is on you."
Gregory knocked on the door to Steven's dorm room, gambling that if, as Allie said, Sarah had moved out of the Cory mansion, this was the logical place for her to go. Despite her waxing poetic about her mother way back when the five of them first went out to dinner, Gregory still got the feeling it wouldn't be Sarah's first choice of living arrangements.
Steven, shirtless and wearing only pajama bottoms, opened the door. As Gregory predicted, Sarah, dressed in the matching navy top, was behind him, sitting cross-legged on the bed, highlighting passages in a thick textbook on Cognitive Science.
"I'm sorry to interrupt," Gregory meant it, too. "I needed to talk to Sarah."
She looked up. "I'm kind of busy."
"You hurt Allie a lot," Gregory said.
She shrugged, but refused to meet his eyes. "Yeah, well, sucks to be her."
Gregory closed the door behind him, crossed the room and sat down across from Sarah. He asked simply, "Why?"
"None of your business."
Gregory didn't reply. He sat, waiting quietly and expectantly.
And, from Steven's point of view, creepily. "What's going on?" he asked Sarah.
"Nothing. Allie and I had a fight. Stuff happens. Didn't know she'd sic her lap-dog on me."
If Gregory was offended, his face didn't show it. Which, to be honest, kind of pissed Steven off even more. Ever since they were kids, his younger cousin's utter inscrutability had always kind of pissed Steven off. And that was before Gregory had humiliated him in public. "Okay. You heard her. It's none of your business. Go away."
Gregory ignored Steven and reminded Sarah, "You told Allie she wasn't worth being friends with anymore. Did you mean it?"
Steven wanted to know the answer to that one himself. "Ouch. That's kind of cold."
"It was also personal. Between the two of us. I didn't ask for our conversation to be taken to committee."
"Look, believe me, Sarah," Steven offered. "I know what it's like to get angry and blurt out stuff other people sometimes see as... harsh."
Now Gregory looked amused.
And Steven really wanted to punch him. Instead, he focused on Sarah, admitting, "When I get angry, my mouth starts operating without a run code from my brain. I'm sure if you just told Allie you didn't mean it —"
"I meant it," Sarah said. She turned to Gregory. "You can tell her I meant it."
"Sarah..." Steven began. "You guys have been friends, like, forever."
"Exactly. Which means a whole lot of stuff has gone on that neither one of you knows anything about. And I plan to keep it that way."
"I want you to destroy him," Felicia calmly told Cass as he and Frankie sat across from her in their living room. "Kevin Fowler. I want you to do whatever you can — legally and otherwise — to obliterate him. I want him to lose, I want him disbarred, and I want him to suffer. Actually, in all honesty, I would like him to drop dead. But I'll settle for suffering. Or, at the very least, losing."
For the umpteenth time since it had first been presented to him, Cass parsed through Lori Ann's guardianship document. "The problem is, if we challenge this, it's not like custody will automatically go to you. Lori Ann would become a ward of the state. The court will appoint her an advocate, and while he or she will undoubtedly be less obnoxious about it than Fowler — "
"Hard to imagine anyone could be more, isn't it?"
"I don't think they'd be any better or any easier for us to work with. All those issues he listed for why you wouldn't make the best guardian for Lori Ann, he didn't pull them out of thin air. They're Adoption 101. Judges do care about those things. Besides, there isn't a lot here to work with for a legal challenge. He didn't miss a comma."
"You mean, he didn't miss a trick. I caught him interviewing a couple of prospective adoptive parents."
"For Lori Ann?" Frankie queried.
"He said not. But I'd be an idiot to believe him. You can't let a total stranger decide the fate of my own daughter's child, Cass."
"A court-appointed advocate would be a total stranger, too," Cass pointed out. "And I've already gone ahead and filed a petition to have you named Lori Ann's guardian."
"Kevin," Felicia pronounced the name as if it were a synonym for pestilence. "Doesn't think the court will like my petition. Remember, I'm single, I'm old, I'm an alcoholic — "
"Recovering!" Cass held up a finger and corrected, angrily.
"You think Kevin cares?" Felicia shook her head. "All he has to do is come up with some picture-perfect, young married couple to make me look bad in comparison..."
Cass looked at Frankie. Frankie looked at Cass. He raised an eyebrow. She smiled and nodded her head, just once. Cass grinned back and squeezed her hand.
Then, in near unison, they both turned to Felicia and announced, "We can adopt her!"
Allie realized that a public bathroom on the Bay City University campus was probably not the optimal location for her mission. On the other hand, she doubted that she was the first — or the last — person to use it for precisely this purpose, and if evidence was discovered, there'd be a lot of potential suspects in addition to her. Such was the beauty of a large university.
Furthermore, since her grandmother's house was out of the question, a public bathroom was exactly where Allie was when she took a deep breath and pondered the results of an unquestionably positive home pregnancy test.
Back in his suite after Kirkland's custody hearing, Kevin filed his day's notes from the Harrison case, and took out the file he'd started for Rick and Mindy Lewis of Springfield.
Sifting through the stack of personal documents they'd provided at his request, Kevin frowned, and reached for the phone, calling Mindy.
When she picked up, he asked, "You do know that your birth certificate isn't valid, right?"
To read more of Kevin's conversation with Mindy (including her take on the encounter with Felicia), go to: http://twitter.com/melindasuelewis


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Sports game released by Accolade, Inc. in the year 1988 by the name Serve & Volley is an excellent 3rd-person (Other) perspective game that can be played online by clicking on the link here.
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3 Minutes To Midnight Cracks A Conspiracy On Nintendo Switch In Mid-2019
Scarecrow Studio have announced that 3 Minutes to Midnight will release on Nintendo Switch, a point-and-click comedy adventure that takes inspiration from LucasArts classics like The Secret of Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, and Sam & Max Hit the Road.
When an explosion in New Mexico shatters the night, plucky teenager Betty Anderson wakes with a jolt. But, where is she? And, who is she? Whatever blew up in the desert has wiped her memory clean, but Betty has far more to worry about than amnesia.
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Single Arm Study Using the Symphony -- MRI Guided Focused Ultrasound System for the Treatment of Leiomyomas
Single arm, first-in human feasibility study using the Symphony - MRI guided focused ultrasound system for the treatment of leiomyomas. The study is expected to accrue over 12 months. This study will help determine the feasibility to ablate leiomyomas, as measured by MR thermometry and contrast enhanced imaging. In addition, the study will look at the efficacy and safety of the treatment, as measured by the reduction in fibroid size and reduction in symptom severity score and a...
Evaluation of the SafeR Mode in Patients With a Dual Chamber Pacemaker Indication
The aim of this study is to assess the benefits from the AAISafeR/SafeR algorithm of Symphony 2550 or REPLY DR in a wide range of pacemaker patients. The expected benefits will be a result of the reduction of the percentage of ventricular pacing. It contributes to the longevity of the cardiac pacemaker and has an effect on the incidence of sustained (or persistent) Atrial Fibrillation and Heart Failure. These clinical benefits are a result of spontaneous ventricular act...
Evaluation of the Reliability and Usability of the Reusable "BrownieForSymphony" Pump Set in Home Use
The overall purpose of this study is to evaluate the reliability and usability of the reusable BrownieForSymphony pump set in home use. The primary objectives of this study is to asses and compare the System Usability Scale (SUS) score of the BrownieForSymphony pump set and the current used Symphony pump set. Secondary Objectives The secondary objectives of this study are: to evaluate the rate of usability problems with the BrownieForSymphony pump set - to e...
SYMPHONY: A Study of Macitentan in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension to Validate the PAH-SYMPACT
SYMPHONY is prospective, multi-center, open-label, single-arm, Phase 3b psychometric validation study of the PAH-SYMPACT, a new quality of life questionnaire for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension. Patients will be in the study for 5 1/2 months, 4 months of which they will receive macitentan, 10 mg, once daily. The primary objectives are to demonstrate the final content validity of the PAH SYMPACT instrument, to demonstrate the psychometric characteristics of reliab...
Spontaneous Atrio Ventricular Conduction Preservation
In case of sinus node dysfunction, it is often necessary to choose the safer option provided by a DDD pacemaker even though the most appropriate mode of pacing is AAI mode. In addition to saving energy, the latter mode allows spontaneous ventricular activation, the haemodynamic consequences of which are, in most cases, better than those obtained with dual chamber pacing. Recent studies as the MOST study suggest also that ventricular desynchronization imposed by right ve...
The Symphony Triple A Study: Using Symphony in Treatment Decisions Concerning Adjuvant Systemic Therapy
Rationale: Prediction of prognosis in patients with breast cancer is important to determine the indication for adjuvant chemo-, endocrine- and immunotherapy. Apart from the clinicopathological parameters incorporated into the Adjuvant!Online predictive model, the validated 70-gene signature MammaPrint® is predictive of outcome too. MammaPrint® is advised in the current Dutch CBO guideline (2012) for hormone receptor positive, invasive ductal breast cancer in individual...
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Comparison of Visual Performance of Four Types of Multifocal Intraocular Lenses
This investigation assessed the visual performance of presbyopia and cataract patients after bilateral implantation of 4 distinct sorts of multifocal IOLs: At lisa tri, PanOptix, ReSTOR, and Symfony. The clinical results demonstrated here were excellent for four groups, however, there were also differences in group ReSTOR, UCVA and BCVA for the intermediate and near of the other groups showed less vision also symphony group for far distance demonstrated less vision than other g...
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Data protection authority finds traffic and location data from cell phones not "personal" - noyb appeals to federal administrative court
In June 2020, noyb had filed a formal complaint against the Austrian mobile provider A1. The reason: A1 had persistently refused to disclose location data and certain traffic data to a customer, citing the outdated ruling practice of the data protection authority prior to the applicability of the GDPR (25.05.2018). The argument: the data on a cell phone would not be "personal" because someone other than the owner of the cell phone could have used the device. In mid-October, the Austrian data protection authority (DSB) issued a decision stating that A1 had been justified in refusing to provide the information and that there was no reason to deviate from the previous decision. The decision, which is only superficially substantiated, is not legally binding - noyb has now filed a notice of appeal with the Federal Administrative Court, which will now review the matter.
Location data: Your cell phone - but not your data!
Who else could it have been. Regarding the location data generated by the user's cell phone - these indicate the geographical location of the cell phone - the DSB regrettably saw no reason to depart from its old ruling practice before the GDPR. Since a user cannot prove that the location data generated relates exclusively to him or her, location data is generally not covered by the right to receive a copy of the data under Article 15 of the GDPR. The DPA thus concludes from the abstract possibility that someone else may have used the user's cell phone that the user has no right of access to the data generated by his cell phone - a highly personal, password-protected device. This is despite the fact that the person concerned has protected the cell phone with a PIN, has made a declaration that he has never lent the cell phone and there is no other indication that someone else could have used the cell phone. If one continues this reasoning of the DSB, there is virtually no claim to receive a copy of the data. After all, with any Internet-enabled device or account, it is theoretically possible that someone else is using it.
"It is disappointing that the DSB has not taken our complaint as an opportunity to revise your simply illogical ruling practice. Let's think this through: you have a smartwatch? No data disclosure on collected health data, someone else might have been wearing it! You use Netflix? No data disclosure, someone else might have been watching TV with your account! You order regularly on Amazon? No data disclosure, someone else might have placed an order! As a result, the fundamental right to data access would only exist in exceptional cases." - Marco Blocher, data protection lawyer at noyb.
Impossible to prove. Of course, there are scenarios in which, contract holder and cell phone user fall apart - e.g. in the case of a company cell phone or the contract for a minor child. In the case at hand, however, it is a private individual contract of a childless user. Nevertheless, A1 and now also the DSB insinuate without any evidence that he would pass on his cell phone - which, on top of that, is locked by PIN and fingerprint. He would have to prove the opposite, but he could not - even an affidavit of exclusively own use was not accepted by the authority.
"Apart from the fact that even the blanket insinuation of third-party use of the private cell phone is completely out of touch with life, the DSB does not allow a user to show that it is indeed exclusively his cell phone. This is also a bottomless pit: A user simply cannot prove exclusive use of a device or account unless he or she videotapes his or her entire life. Here, the DSB should have relied on general life experience and settled for prima facie evidence. With decisions like this one, the DPA is becoming the gravedigger of the data subject rights provided for in the GDPR." - Marco Blocher, data protection lawyer at noyb.
Traffic data: Only the authorities are allowed to know
Misinterpretation of the legal situation. Regarding traffic data, the DPA also saw no reason to depart from its questionable historical ruling practice. Traffic data includes IP addresses, log data, time and duration of the connection, or the amount of data transmitted. Although the GDPR requires that a user receives a copy of all personal data concerning him, A1 only transmitted an itemized bill, the rest is concealed from the user. The DPA covers this procedure with an undifferentiated standing sentence: the Austrian Telecommunications Act takes precedence over the GDPR as a more specific rule:
"Also with regard to traffic data, the DPA simply cited a historical decision as justification and did not respond to our complaint with a single word. The fact that the Austrian Telecommunications Act displaces the rights under the GDPR would only be possible if it implemented rights under the e-Privacy Directive that actually conflict with the GDPR. This is not the case: the e-Privacy Directive does not require a restriction of the right to information under data protection law in any word. Although legal doctrine is also clearly in favor of a right to information also within the scope of the e-Privacy Directive, mobile providers are given what appears to be arbitrary special treatment." - Marco Blocher, data protection lawyer at noyb.
Authorities may know more than the user? Moreover, it is particularly problematic that the DPA relies, among other things, on § 99 para 5 TKG 2003 to justify why a mobile user is not to be provided with information about all traffic data. This provision does not even implement the e-Privacy Directive, but was introduced in the course of the "Data Retention Directive", which was repealed by the ECJ, and was retained as appropriate. It allows police, public prosecutors and courts to demand a user's traffic data from the mobile network provider in connection with possible criminal data. From this, the DPA concludes that only these state institutions are entitled to access all traffic data - but not the user himself, although Article 15 of the GDPR and Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights enshrine a fundamental right to self-disclosure.
"Here, the DPA is completely barking up the wrong tree. Because authorities and courts are allowed to get traffic data from the mobile provider under strict conditions, the user himself should never get it? That is not at all the content or purpose of the provision and not compatible with the GDPR!" - Marco Blocher, data protection lawyer at noyb.
National traditions and special treatments must give way to the GDPR. The GDPR is applicable in all EU member states since 25.05.2018 and replaces national data protection laws that existed before. Within the scope of the e-Privacy Directive (e-Privacy Directive for electronic communications), the member states may or must in some cases also issue special rules under data protection law for "providers of electronic communications services" (such as A1). In relation to the GDPR, the following applies: If a national provision implementing the e-Privacy Directive and a GDPR provision pursue the same objective, the GDPR provision must take a back seat if it would impose additional obligations on the provider (Article 95 GDPR). For this reason, consent is not required under the GDPR for technically necessary cookies, for example. For the objective "data protection rights of data subjects", however, the e-Privacy Directive does not provide any regulation at all - not even regarding traffic or location data - so that the GDPR rights of data subjects " (access, rectification, deletion, etc.) apply as everywhere else. There are no additional obligations; a mobile operator such as A1 simply has the same obligations to data subjects under the GDPR as any other company.
Against this background, national special approaches - such as the historical practice of the DPAs - must not be maintained. After all, the GDPR requires uniform application throughout the EU. noyb is committed to ensuring that this European standard is also enforced. It now remains to be seen whether the Federal Administrative Court will correct the DPA's decision.
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The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has suggested a penalty of between €28 million and €36 million for Facebook in a draft decision made against the company. Austrian privacy and data rights campaigner Max Schrems's NYOB organisation, which filed the original complaint against the technology giant, has published the commission's draft decision online.


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Bromances Proven To Reduce Stress
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Trending News: Stressed? You, My Friend, Need A Bromance
Because beers with the boys on Friday is actually good for you.
Bromances can help keep you calm by producing the stress-busting hormone oxytocin — and perhaps give you the urge to have a quick cuddle, too. Hug it out, big guy.
Embrace the bromance, because new research shows that men who have friendships with other men have higher levels of the "cuddle hormone" oxytocin, which helps you cope with stress.
Scientists at the University of California tested the benefits of the male friendships on rats, and found that it helped them cope with mild stress. You know, like having their cheese taken away or stumbling across a mousetrap.
They put pairs of rats in cages together, before moving them into a confined space on their own for three hours. When the rats were reunited, they were friendlier with each other than they were before, and they touched and huddled together more — quite a surprise since male rats can often be aggressive when housed together.
The researchers measured oxytocin levels in the rats' brains, and found that levels were higher in the rats who had buddies.
RELATED: Why Men Lose Friends In Their 20s
The researchers didn't test whether the same was true of male-female relationships, because the experiment would have invariably ended in sex, said Elizabeth Kirby, author of the paper. Presumably she was still talking about the rats.
But she said the study showed that male friendships can help to combat stress.
"A bromance can be a good thing. Males are getting a bad rap when you look at animal models of social interactions, because they are assumed to be instinctively aggressive. But even rats can have a good cuddle — essentially a male-male bromance — to help recover from a bad day."
"Having friends is not un-masculine," she added. "These rats are using their rat friendships to recover from what would otherwise be a negative experience. If rats can do it, men can do it too," she said.
But, she says, a bromance doesn't have to be deep and meaningful to be healthy.
"Any sort of social bonding increases oxytocin levels — it doesn't have to be a deep discussion," she says.
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U.S. Track & Field Athlete Kenna Wolter Accepts Sanction for Anti-Doping Rule Violations
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USADA announced today that Kenna Wolter of Santa Maria, Calif., an athlete in the sport of track and field, has accepted a two-year sanction for her anti-doping rule violations while a member of the Thinking Feet Track Club.
In 2016, USADA obtained non-analytical evidence that Wolter, 28, used and possessed two dietary supplements, one containing ostarine and the other containing methylstenbolone. She used one of the supplements for a couple weeks in late 2015 and the other supplement for two to three weeks in March 2016. Ostarine and methylstenbolone are non-Specified Substances in the class of Anabolic Agents and prohibited at all times under the USADA Protocol for Olympic and Paralympic Movement Testing, the United States Olympic Committee National Anti-Doping Policies, and the International Association of Athletics Federations Anti-Doping Rules, all of which have adopted the World Anti-Doping Code (the Code) and the World Anti-Doping Agency Prohibited List.
During USADA's investigation, Wolter, who had previously been in the USADA Registered Testing Pool and received anti-doping education, immediately admitted to using dietary supplements containing prohibited substances based on the recommendation and assurances of her coach, Kenta Bell of the Thinking Feet Track Club. USADA concluded that a reduction in the otherwise applicable four-year period of ineligibility was appropriate based on Wolter's prompt admission of her anti-doping rule violations, full cooperation, and substantial assistance to USADA officials since the start of its investigation.
Wolter's two-year period of ineligibility began on December 13, 2016, the date she admitted her anti-doping rule violations. In addition, Wolter has been disqualified from all competitive results obtained on and subsequent to November 30, 2015, the approximate date she first possessed and used a prohibited substance, including forfeiture of any medals, points and prizes. To date, Wolter is one of nine individuals affiliated with the Thinking Feet Track Club to have accepted a sanction during the course of USADA's investigation.
Along with education and testing, robust anti-doping programs enable investigations stemming from tips and whistleblowers. USADA makes available a number of ways to report the abuse of performance-enhancing drugs in sport in an effort to protect clean athletes and promote clean competition. Any tip can be reported using the USADA Play Clean Tip Center, by email at playclean@usada.org, by phone at 1-877-Play Clean (1-877-752-9253) or by mail at the address below.


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Qld shuts border to Sydney amid outbreak
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20 December 2020, 12:44 am ·3-min read
Queensland will close its border to greater Sydney amid an outbreak of coronavirus that has reached 70 cases in the NSW capital.
Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says people from Sydney, the Blue Mountains, the Central Coast and Illawarra-Shoalhaven will be ordered into 14-day quarantine on arrival in Queensland from 1am on Monday.
Queenslanders in the NSW capital have been given until 1am Tuesday to get home, but they will need to be tested for COVID-19 and go into self-isolation on arrival.
"If you are from greater Sydney now is not the time to travel to Queensland," Ms Palaszczuk said.
"We love you, we want you to have a peaceful Christmas at home, and hopefully in the months to come we'll be able to welcome you back to our wonderful Sunshine State, but now is not the time."
The premier said police checkpoints will return to the state's road borders with NSW and at the state's airports, just three weeks after they were removed.
Deputy Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski said the checkpoints will be set up as soon as possible.
"So anyone that's in Sydney now thinking 'I can drive through to Queensland and slip through', they will probably find a checkpoint by the time they get here," he warned.
Commissioner Gollschewski said home quarantine orders will also be strictly enforced, with a northern beaches resident and an international flight crew member recently fined for breaches.
Ms Palaszczuk also warned venues to "get their house in order" after an inadequate check-in system at a Brisbane pub hindered the work of contact tracers earlier this week.
She said some names on paper sign-in forms at the Glen Hotel at Eight Mile Plains were illegible, making it hard to trace people who may have come into contact with a NSW COVID-19 case who visited on Tuesday.
The premier said all clubs, pubs and restaurants must implement electronic check-in systems by 3pm on Wednesday.
"As I said the majority of people are doing the right thing, but people now have had months to get their house in order and we are in a serious situation, so that means we must be able to contact trace at any step in time," Ms Palaszczuk said.
Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said inspectors will blitz venues and businesses across the state to enforce COVID-19 health measures from Sunday.
She also said even though many restrictions had been relaxed in recent weeks, social distancing, hygiene measures and checking into venues remain critical.
"Let's not wait until we have community transmission again before we act, COVID-19 is as contagious today as it was at the start of 2020," Ms D'Ath said.
Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young is worried that traces of the virus have turned up in sewage testing in tourist areas including the Gold Coast and Cairns, as well as Cleveland on Brisbane's bayside and Townsville in the state's north.
She urged anyone from Sydney, and particularly the northern beaches, who is already in Queensland to get tested.
Ms Palaszczuk said if cases continue to balloon in NSW it would be necessary to hold a national cabinet meeting.


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The Museum of naive art - Museum of fine arts in Zagreb, devoted to the work of naive artists of the 20th century. The Museum Fund consists of more than 1,850 works of art, including paintings, drawings, sculptures and engravings are mostly Croats, but there are other well-known international artists of this genre.
In 1952 in Zagreb was founded Peasant art Gallery. In 1956 it was known as the Gallery of primitive art and was part of the Municipal Gallery (now Gallery of modern art). Since 1994, in accordance with the decision of the Croatian Parliament, the Museum called the Croatian Museum of Naive Art. The Museum works according to strict museological principles, and is considered the world's first Museum of Naive Art. Since 2002, the Museum focused on coverage of schools and students and the intensification of education each year prior to the International day of the Museum.
Naive, or primitive, primitive art is an independent segment of art of the 20th century. Naive art appeared in Croatia at the beginning of 30-ies. Naive art was originally associated with the works of peasants and workers, of which the most successful over time, became professional artists. To the naive art is represented by works by artists that are somehow self-taught, have not undergone special training, but who have reached a high level of art. Recognizable individual style and poetic nature distinguishes naive artists from "fans". The vision of the artist-primitivist typically display unusual proportions and certain non-Boolean form and space. Thus, the artists Express their free creative imagination by analogy with other areas of 20th-century art, such as symbolism, expressionism, cubism and surrealism.
In Croatia, naive art is also seen as a democratic movement, which proves that, regardless of formal training, anyone can create a work of art. The overall themes of the work include such as "joy of life", "lost childhood" "in the world", etc.
In the Museum collection, the focus is on Croatian artists famous Chlebinska school, and also some independent artists. The collection of work, starting in 1930. Known generalić was one of the first naive artists in Croatia, who developed a distinct creative style and have attained a high professional level in his art. In the 30-ies is dominated by social issues, while in later works show an idealistic landscapes that give the imagination greater scope than image just open space. The work of the second generation Chlebinska school artists (50-60) include the figures of the burlesque and the grotesque, as well as works inspired by biblical topics, with a strong use of colors.
The Museum organizes special thematic exhibitions focusing on individual artists or to highlight certain aspects of naive art.
In the gallery of modern art exhibited the most complete collection of paintings, sculptures and drawings 19th-20th centuries Croatian artists. The collection numbers around 10,000 works of art from 1934 in the historic Palace Vranyczany in the centre of Zagreb.
Gallery of modern art, and originally national for Croatian art, dates from the early 1900's, when it was founded the artistic society of the paintings and sculptures acquired by their members, as well as donations from Bishop Strossmayer. In 1905 was purchased 3 works in Foundation future Gallery of contemporary art. The collection grew gradually and until 1914 was presented only to interested parties. As the collection expanded, in 1934, the gallery moved into its present building. Vranyczany Palace was built in 1882. Great techniques of the past were replaced by the contemplative atmosphere of the Gallery of modern art.
Complete reconstruction of the Palace took place from 1993 to 2005, when the current exhibition was presented to the public. Two floors of the Palace became equipped contemporary galleries, showing visitors a permanent collection of Croatian modern paintings and sculptures. In a completely renovated historical rooms, the gallery presents "200 years of Croatian fine arts (1800-2000)", a representative selection of 650-700 of the best artists, sculptors and manufacturers of medals. Gallery of modern art has become the best known and most complete Museum of Croatian modern art. Since 1960, there are retrospective and monographic exhibitions of works by famous Croatian artists as well as theme exhibitions of Croatian and European modern art.
In addition to the permanent exhibition, the Gallery of Modern art holds a special exhibition. In 2009 he created a multi-sensory Tactile Gallery, which aims to help visually impaired visitors to experience the main features of the Croatian modern art through touch and sound.
In 2010 was opened a new multimedia exhibition entitled "the iconography of the cities in the Croatian art of the first half of the 20th century." The viewer presents the motif of the city in drawing, painting, graphics, artistic photos: on posters and in films, in literature and music. The exhibition includes more than 150 works.
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Says "if the (Iran nuclear) deal gets rejected, they still get" $150 billion.
— Donald Trump on Sunday, August 16th, 2015 in an interview on "Meet the Press"
Donald Trump: Iran gets to keep $150 billion even if U.S. rejects nuclear deal
By Lauren Carroll on Sunday, August 16th, 2015 at 6:26 p.m.
Billionaire GOP candidate Donald Trump sits down with Chuck Todd for an expansive interview about his positions on immigration, Iran and ISIS on Aug. 16, 2015.
Whether Congress approves it or not, Iran will still reap all the financial benefits of the nuclear deal, Donald Trump said on NBC's Meet the Press Aug. 16.
When asked by host Chuck Todd how he would work with the Iran deal if he becomes president, Trump, running for the Republican nomination, said he would be "tough" on the contract, but it would be hard given all the money Iran would already have acquired as a result of the deal.
"The problem is by the time I got in there, they will have already received the $150 billion," Trump said. "Do you know if the deal gets rejected they still get the money? Which is something I found out a week ago. I couldn't believe it. If the deal gets rejected, they still get all of this money. Iran is going to be unbelievably powerful and unbelievably rich."
Does Iran actually get $150 billion from this deal? And if Congress rejects the deal, does Iran still get the money? Let's take one question at a time.
The $150 billion
It's true that Iran will reap significant economic benefits from the deal because many sanctions levied against Iran will be lifted as long as Iran complies with restrictions on its nuclear program. But it's not like Iran will automatically receive a check or, as some critics have called it, a signing bonus.
"Will some considerable portion get transferred to Iran? Sure. But not all of it will automatically. That's not how this works," said Michael Malloy, a law professor at University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law and an expert on economic sanctions.
First, the money already belongs to Iran; Iran just hasn't been able to access it. The $150 billion figure, primarily thrown around by critics, typically refers to the dollar amounts of Iran's foreign assets that could be unfrozen when sanctions are lifted. An example is money Iran has earned from selling oil but is held by a foreign bank.
There's also the many billions of dollars Iran has lost in revenues and opportunity costs because the country has not been able to fully participate in the global marketplace, Malloy said.
But $150 billion is on the high end of estimates of the value of Iran's foreign assets, which start as low as $25 billion, said Garbis Iradian, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance. Most experts we interviewed, including Iradian, peg the amount of unfrozen assets at about $100 billion, but no one is 100 percent sure of the amount.
You can probably get to $150 billion if you count up every possible type of money that sanctions have made difficult for Iran to access and use, said Richard Nephew, an expert on economic sanctions at Columbia University's Center on Global Energy Policy.
Iran has financial obligations other than the sanctions, so even if all the sanctions are lifted, they won't suddenly have all of these assets at their disposal. For example, Iran owes billions to China for infrastructure projects. Lower estimates take into account restrictions on the money other than the sanctions, Nephew said.
So even if the total assets are $150 billion, it's unlikely that that much will actually be available to Iran when sanctions are lifted.
The Obama administration has said that after Iran pays its outstanding financial obligations, it will have about $56 billion at its disposal.
What if Congress rejects the deal?
While the exact amount of Iran's unlocked sanctions is less precise than Trump describes, experts told us that Trump's broader point is largely correct: Even if Congress does not approve lifting the United States' sanctions, Iran will likely be able to get a good chunk of the money it currently cannot access.
This is because other countries and international bodies, including the European Union and the United Nations, could decide to stop enforcing their own sanctions against Iran anyway.
Iradian estimated that Iran would be able to access $40 billion of its currently inaccessible assets in that scenario, and the Iranian economy could get an even bigger boost if European companies decided to invest heavily in Iran.
The United Nations, for one, has already passed a resolution to provide Iran with the funds withheld under the sanctions if Iran meets its end of the bargain, noted George Perkovich, an expert on nuclear strategy and vice president of studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Of course, Iran wouldn't be able to access all of its assets in this scenario because much of them are tied up in the United States' sanctions.
"There would be some crumbling of the sanctions wall, but that does not on its own free up the entire $100 billion," Malloy said, adding that the United States controls much of the petroleum market, which is important to Iran's economy.
At the end of the day, the discussion entails a lot of speculation, but nearly every expert said there's a reasonable likelihood that other countries would choose to stop enforcing sanctions no matter what the United States decides to do.
It's worth noting that it will be difficult for Congress to maintain the sanctions because there would have to be enough votes to survive a presidential veto.
Trump said of Iran that "if the (nuclear) deal gets rejected, they still get" $150 billion.
Experts told us that even if Congress rejected the nuclear deal -- thus maintaining current U.S. sanctions -- other countries could stop enforcing their own sanctions anyway. As a result, Iran would be able to access at least some of its assets that have been frozen under international sanctions. However, experts said it's highly unlikely that this would amount to $150 billion, the maximum estimate of how much Iran could benefit by the lifting of all international sanctions without regard to Iran's outstanding financial obligations. Without United States participation, the best estimate we could find was $40 billion.
Trump's claim is partially accurate but cherry-picks the high end of estimates for the unfrozen assets. We rate Trump's claim Half True.
Published: Sunday, August 16th, 2015 at 6:26 p.m.
Researched by: Lauren Carroll
Edited by: Katie Sanders
Subjects: Foreign Policy, Nuclear
NBC, Meet the Press transcript, Aug. 16, 2015
New York Times, "Value of Iran Sanctions Relief Is Hard to Measure," Aug. 5, 2015
PolitiFact, "Bill O'Reilly tells Huckabee: Russia, China 'said clearly' they would not keep Iran sanctions," July 30, 2015
PolitiFact, "Israeli ambassador uses odd logic to relate Iran's frozen assets to the U.S. treasury," July 17, 2015
White House, Iran Deal Q&A, accessed Aug. 16, 2015
LobeLog, "Iran's Economy after the Nuclear Deal," July 20, 2015
Phone interview, Michael Malloy, law professor at McGeorge School of Law, Aug. 16, 2015
Phone interview, George Perkovich, vice president at Carnegie Endowment, Aug. 16, 2015
Email interview, Garbis Iradian, chief economist at the Institute of International Finance, Aug. 16, 2015
Email interview, Richard Nephew, program director at the Center on Global Energy Policy, Aug. 16, 2015
Email interview, Jim Walsh, research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Security Studies Program, Aug. 16, 2015
Email interview, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, economics professor at Virginia Tech, Aug. 16, 2015
Email interview, Matthew Bunn, professor at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affaris, Aug. 16, 2015


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Dear Screen-L Subscribers,
We would like to announce two new horror publications from University of Texas Press, which we hope will be of interest.
Screening Stephen King
Adaptation and the Horror Genre in Film and Television
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/screening-stephen-king
Since the 1970s, the name Stephen King has been synonymous with horror. His vast number of books has spawned a similar number of feature films and TV shows, and together they offer a rich opportunity to consider how one writer's work has been adapted over a long period within a single genre and across a variety of media—and what that can tell us about King, about adaptation, and about film and TV horror. Starting from the premise that King has transcended ideas of authorship to become his own literary, cinematic, and televisual brand, Screening Stephen King explores the impact and legacy of over forty years of King film and television adaptations.
Simon Brown first examines the reasons for King's literary success and then, starting with Brian De Palma's Carrie, explores how King's themes and style have been adapted for the big and small screens. He looks at mainstream multiplex horror adaptations from Cujo to Cell, low-budget DVD horror films such as The Mangler and Children of the Corn franchises, non-horror films, including Stand by Me and The Shawshank Redemption, and TV works from Salem's Lot to Under the Dome. Through this discussion, Brown identifies what a Stephen King film or series is or has been, how these works have influenced film and TV horror, and what these influences reveal about the shifting preoccupations and industrial contexts of the post-1960s horror genre in film and TV.
University of Texas Press |  | March 2018 | 240pp | 9781477314920 | Paperback | £22.99*
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A Place of Darkness
The Rhetoric of Horror in Early American Cinema
Kendall R. Phillips
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/a-place-of-darkness
"Film is a telling lens for cultural history. . .[and] the book's central arguments make for great reading, as Phillips lays out the ways that proto-horror movies contained distinct and disparate rhythms (suspense, surprise, superstition), how the need for legitimacy led to literary adaptation as a horror standard, how movies developed alongside audiences to bring new immediacy to onscreen dread, and how shifting visions of the Other forced movies to constantly renegotiate what, exactly, people were meant to be afraid of." - NPR Books
Horror is one of the most enduringly popular genres in cinema. The term "horror film" was coined in 1931 between the premiere of Dracula and the release of Frankenstein, but monsters, ghosts, demons, and supernatural and horrific themes have been popular with American audiences since the emergence of novelty kinematographic attractions in the late 1890s. A Place of Darkness illuminates the prehistory of the horror genre by tracing the way horrific elements and stories were portrayed in films prior to the introduction of the term "horror film."
Using a rhetorical approach that examines not only early films but also the promotional materials for them and critical responses to them, Kendall R. Phillips argues that the portrayal of horrific elements was enmeshed in broader social tensions around the emergence of American identity and, in turn, American cinema. He shows how early cinema linked monsters, ghosts, witches, and magicians with Old World superstitions and beliefs, in contrast to an American way of thinking that was pragmatic, reasonable, scientific, and progressive. Throughout the teens and twenties, Phillips finds, supernatural elements were almost always explained away as some hysterical mistake, humorous prank, or nefarious plot. The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, constituted a substantial upheaval in the system of American certainty and opened a space for the reemergence of Old World gothic within American popular discourse in the form of the horror genre, which has terrified and thrilled fans ever since.
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Vincent Kompany set to return for Manchester City's Champions League semi-final clash with Real Madrid... but Yaya Toure is a doubt
Vincent Kompany was rested for Manchester City's win against Stoke
But Manuel Pellegrini has confirmed Kompany is set to return on Tuesday
Manchester City host Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-finals
Yaya Toure is a doubt after coming off with a thigh injury
By Chris Wheeler for MailOnline
Vincent Kompany is ready to lead Manchester City into Tuesday's Champions League semi-final against Real Madrid, but Yaya Toure could be a doubt for the Etihad clash.
Kompany was rested for City's win over Stoke on Saturday after making a comeback from his latest calf injury at Newcastle on Tuesday.
Manager Manuel Pellegrini thought it would have been too much of a risk to play his skipper three times in seven days, but confirmed that Kompany is set to take on Cristiano Ronaldo.
Vincent Kompany pictured in training earlier this week - he is set to play against Real Madrid on Tuesday
Yaya Toure leaves the pitch after suffering an injury during Saturday's match against Stoke City
Toure walks off to recieve treatment as Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini looks on concerned
Manchester City 4-0 Stoke: Fernando, Sergio Aguero and... Manuel Pellegrini admits Manchester City spared him feeling... Isco was on the brink of joining Manchester City before he... Everton and Leicester interested in signing Manchester City...
'Vincent is okay, he worked this morning,' said the City boss, who also rested Fernandinho and left Kevin De Bruyne on the bench.
'It was a risk to play two games in 72 hours. If he had played today he could maybe have had problems for Tuesday. It was better for him not to take a risk.'
David Silva played 57 minutes on his return from an ankle injury, and Pellegrini also took off Fernando as a precaution after the Brazilian felt discomfort in his knee.
However, Toure struggled to finish the game with a thigh injury.
'The doctor will assess him,' said Pellegrini. 'Yaya finished with a muscle injury so we'll see tomorrow.'
Toure is helped to his feet on the Etihad pitch as his Manchester City team-mates look on
Kompany (right) shares a hug with team-mate Kelechi Iheanacho during Thursday's training session


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Flying Clubs Club Connector Newsletter Question of the Month: Can a Club Enter into A Reciprocal Use Agreement with Another Club?
Question of the Month: Can a Club Enter into A Reciprocal Use Agreement with Another Club?
October 18, 2020 By Stephen Bateman
We rarely get a question that we can answer with a definitive yea or nay. Most flying club and other aviation questions require vague responses such as "may be", followed by an examination of rules, regulations and interpretations. This one, however, is definitive and is categorially and resoundingly…NO!
We do see the point and intent, though. Perhaps flying club A operates a Piper Lance, whereas flying club B has a Stinson. Members of both clubs agree that it would be nice to have access to both planes, so they can share the features of the aircraft with a wider group of pilots. All they have to do is include each other's member roster on the scheduling system, and off they go…right? Again, a resounding…NO!
Regular readers of Club Connector will know that flying clubs, whilst not themselves identified in any Federal Aviation Regulation (unlike members who, when acting as PIC must abide by all regulations relating to their certificate and the certification of the aircraft), clubs are most definitely controlled in behavior, operations and membership—especially those clubs that operate from airports that have received public funding and are so obligated under "grant assurances". This applies to pretty much every public use, publicly funded airport and even some privately owned airfields. See the link at the end of this article to determine if your airport is so obligated.
With the demise of Advisory Circular 00-25, the legal book-of-words pertaining to flying clubs is FAA Order 5190.6: The Airport Compliance Manual and its Amendment. Surprisingly, the amendment did not revise the Order from version 6B to 6C and so it is still relatively unknown by airport managers, FSDOs and others.
The Order is quite clear in the definition of a flying club (operating at a federally obligated airport):
…a flying club is a nonprofit or not-for-profit entity (e.g., corporation, association, or partnership) organized for the express purpose of providing its members with aircraft for their personal use and enjoyment, only.
The definition continues to state that club aircraft must be vested in the name of the club and (equally) owned by all its members. As an aside, in a Directors Determination, the FAA expanded the meaning of "ownership" to include the case of clubs that lease aircraft. More details can be found in Question of the Month in the March 2018 edition of the Club Connector newsletter.
It is clear, then, that only club members can fly club aircraft and those members must have an equal responsibility for those aircraft. To do otherwise, for example non-members acting as PIC in club aircraft, would mean that the "club" is acting as a provider of commercial aviation services (such as an FBO renting aircraft), which puts the operation on a whole different footing, as detailed in the Amendment. Moreover, you may get into big trouble with the airport, FAA, IRS and your insurance company.
So, there can be no notion of one club providing reciprocal services to another club. They are separate organizations, with separate members and operate aircraft for those members, only.
Perhaps the same end can be achieved by looking at the intention—which let's assume is that club members want to get access to aircraft not in the club's fleet, or perhaps to fly in an area different from home base. Of course, there is nothing wrong with buddying-up with other clubs to participate in fly-outs (and ins!), club meetings, safety sessions and so on.
Working with the assumption that your club members want access to different airplanes and different flying experiences, let's look at a few ways you can achieve the same end, but without becoming a rogue club:
Change the fleet. This sounds a bit drastic, but we know of at least one club that discovered during a strategic planning survey of members, that they all would prefer a different club aircraft! So, ask the question—are members still satisfied with the club's mission and equipment? If not, change it!
Expand the fleet. If members are looking for different flying experiences, perhaps it is time to expand the fleet. This can get a bit involved, as everyone will likely have a different airplane in mind, so we suggest you review Chapter 7 in "The Guide to Starting a Flying Club", as well as read the Club Connector article Question of the Month July 2019: How do we go about adding a club aircraft?
Expand your reach. If you want to expand your radius of operations and attract new members, think about setting up multiple bases of operations—under one club banner, of course. Depending on your location, this may look like a "wing" of your club at a resort airport, an island strip, a floatplane base—anything that fits your dream and mission. This is the theme of this month's Flying Club Spotlight. We also spoke about this back in 2014, when we followed the Octopus Flying Club as it expanded operations from its home base in Maryland, to additional location in Florida.
Merge with another club. We have heard of situations where one club might think about "amalgamating" with another. Perhaps the clubs operate from the same airport or at least close by, and they see value in joining together to get economies of scale. As mentioned earlier, only club members can fly that club's aircraft, so merging the clubs would appear to be a solution. It's not quite as easy as merging the rosters, as presumably both clubs are established as legal entities (non-profit corporation or LLC) in their respective states, and aircraft for each club are likely owned and registered, or leased, in the name of each club. The way around this would be close down one club and transfer its assets to the other club (or close down both ands start from scratch). We strongly advise you to speak with a business lawyer in your state to ensure that this is done correctly, and to minimize tax (including sales tax) implications.
Is Your Airport Federally Obligated?
To determine if your airport is federally obligated (has received federal funds for improvements and so is held to the contract of grant assurances), follow this link https://www.gcr1.com/5010web/
Enter the three-character airport identifier—for example FDK for Frederick Airport—and click on SUBMIT.
On the "General Information Tab", which is the initial page that pops up, scroll down to the NPIAS line (National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems).
It will look something like: NPIAS/Federal Agreement: NGY
The NGY means: N = Airport is in the NPIAS. G = Grant Obligations. Y = Civil rights related assurance (always accompanies G). The other letter that you might see is "S" = Surplus Property—meaning the airport land is obligated in perpetuity.
An airport that is not bound under grant assurance will not have any codes on the NPIAS line, for example at York Airport, in Pennsylvania (THV)
As always, fly lots and fly safe.
Stephen Bateman
Director, Flying Clubs Initiative
Steve is Director of the You Can Fly Flying Clubs Initiative, which helps start and grow flying clubs, nationwide. Steve is a CFI, an AOPA staff instructor, LSRM-A and FAASTeam lead representative. Contact Steve at [email protected]
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Home / News / Erewash MP presents train station petition to Downing Street
Erewash MP presents train station petition to Downing Street
April 20, 2012 By Ilkeston Railway Station Leave a Comment
Member of Parliament for Erewash Jessica Lee welcomed Peter Hemmett, Editor of the Ilkeston Advertiser to Westminster yesterday (Thursday 19th April 2012) where they handed the Advertiser's "Get Ilkeston Back on Track" petition into Number 10 Downing Street.
The petition, organised by the Ilkeston Advertiser, contains 1,564 signatures calling on the Government to reopen a railway station in Ilkeston.
It marks the latest step in Miss Lee's long running campaign to re-establish a station in the town after a gap of more than 45 years. Ms Lee and Mr Hemmett had previously made one final push for signatures for the petition on Saturday (14th April 2012) in Ilkeston market place.
Immediately after the Downing Street presentation at 2:30pm, Ms Lee returned to Parliament where she spoke in the Westminster Hall Debate on Regeneration. In her speech Ms Lee highlighted how infrastructure and in particular a new train station would be a integral to the successful regeneration of Ilkeston as a town.
"Thank you very much, Mr Howarth, for calling me to speak. It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship this afternoon.
I apologise to all present for my late arrival for this debate. It was not without sending a note to the Chairman in advance to explain, and indeed the reason I was detained is entirely material to the speech that I will now make.
I was on the way to Downing Street for an appointment at 2.30 pm to hand in a petition. It is a petition prepared by my local newspaper, the Ilkeston Advertiser, which has been running a campaign to reopen the train station in Ilkeston, one of the two towns in my constituency of Erewash. This is a long-running campaign by the newspaper; indeed, it has been a community campaign for many years. The reason it is relevant to this debate is that we have already heard about a number of different aspects of regeneration, but for me infrastructure is at the heart of regeneration and it is a key element of what we are trying to achieve around the country when we consider regeneration.
I will expand on that point about infrastructure and say why it is relevant to my constituency of Erewash. Ilkeston is now the largest town in the country without a train station and, as I have already said, it is one of the two towns in the constituency of Erewash.
The lack of a train station in the town brings difficulties because it deprives people in my area, particularly young people, of the mobility to go out and seek extra training and new jobs. They could get to both Nottingham and Derby much more quickly if they had the mobility that a train service offers. Of course, a train service would also bring visitors, shoppers and new businesses into the town and, in my view, the resulting opportunities would be endless. Derbyshire county council, which is doing a great deal to try and press for this project, says that there would be 150,000 extra journeys if the project were successful, which would bring massive economic benefits to Ilkeston and indeed beyond.
So I have started my speech by referring to what I regard as a key component of the whole concept of regeneration, which is mobility for people, and that mobility is achieved through infrastructure.
In many other ways, my constituency is quite blessed in terms of infrastructure. The M1 motorway runs right through the heart of my constituency and, as I have explained, we are near to both Nottingham and Derby, and we are also near to Sheffield. However, in terms of social mobility and particularly for young people, train travel is extremely important, and local rail services—along with longer term and larger infrastructure projects such as High Speed 2—are key in achieving that social mobility. I will certainly continue to do all that I can to campaign for the train station in Ilkeston to reopen. I can tell all right hon. and hon. Members in Westminster Hall today that our campaign group has been lucky enough to have had a meeting with the Secretary of State for Transport on this matter, and we are waiting for a response from her. I look forward to receiving her response and I know that our campaign has backing from across the community in Erewash."
Commenting further after the debate Miss Lee added:
"We in Ilkeston no longer want to be known as the largest town in the country without a train station and the fantastic response from local resident to this petition is testament to that. This campaign goes beyond political affiliation; it is first and foremost about doing what is right for the people of Ilkeston. I believe a new station is key to the regeneration of the town, bring us massive social and economic benefits and can assure the people of Ilkeston that I will continue to work hard to make the proposed station a reality. I would like thank Peter and The Ilkeston Advertiser for their continued support for the Ilkeston Train Station Campaign."
Source: Ilkeston Advertiser
Filed Under: News Tagged With: Downing Street, Erewash, ilkeston, Ilkeston Advertiser, railway, Westminster


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WWF files court proceedings against government department
over Sakhalin II oil-and-gas project
by WWF-UK and The Corner House
first published 15 August 2007
On 15 August 2007, WWF and The Corner House filed for a judicial review of the decision by the UK Government's Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) to support Sakhalin II oil-and-gas project off the far eastern coast of Russia.
Under the Freedom of Information Act, The Corner House obtained a letter written by ECGD to the Bermuda-registered Sakhalin Energy Investment Company (SEIC) on 4 March 2004. The letter confirms that ECGD has approved conditional financial support for $650 million of contracts for two British sub-contractors of SEIC (with interest, the amount of public money at risk amounts to $1 billion according to ECGD's figures). (Until December 2006, Royal Dutch Shell was the majority shareholder of SEIC, but has since sold most of its holdings in the company to the Russian state-owned Gazprom.)
Despite the March 2004 letter, the then Department of Trade and Industry government minister, Mike O'Brien, subsequently told Parliament that no decision on ECGD support had been taken, a position that the ECGD still maintains.
In correspondence with Friends of the Earth UK, ECGD has since confirmed that its March 2004 conditional decision on Sakhalin is legally-binding. The decision thus conflicts with ECGD's stated policy to give preliminary indications of support "entirely without commitment".
The ECGD's promise of support, moreover, was made before assessing the environmental and social impacts arising from Sakhalin II, whereas its own policy stipulates that support can be given only after such assessments have been made.
The oil-and-gas project threatens the critically endangered Pacific Gray Whale, salmon fisheries, internationally-important wetlands and migratory bird habitats. Local communities have been adversely affected without having been consulted or provided with adequate compensation.
Although the ECGD states that its support is conditional upon being reassured as to these impacts, it is now impossible to mitigate many of them since the Sakhalin II oil-and-gas project has already been substantially constructed.
WWF has today filed court proceedings [1] against a British Government department to expose operations that undermine the UK's 'ethical foreign policy' and are seriously damaging the environment.
WWF, in partnership with environmental and social justice organisation The Corner House, has filed the case against the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD) -- the government department charged with facilitating British business abroad.
This follows the discovery, through a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, that ECGD had committed to underwriting $1bn of contracts for the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company (SEIC) -- despite three years of assurances to the British public that this decision was still being considered.
SEIC is a Bermuda registered company responsible for Sakhalin II, a major oil and gas development in Russia. The Sakhalin II project, which is in fact almost completed, has already caused serious environmental damage and threatens the extinction of the Western Pacific gray whale.
In a letter from ECGD to SEIC dated 4 March 2004 [2], which WWF received as part of the FoI request, ECGD gave a legally-binding commitment to support Sakhalin II subject to certain conditions being met.
But the very next day (March 5 2004), Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) minister Mike O'Brien told parliament that no decision had been made. "ECGD is awaiting further information on this issue and will want to be sure that the potential impact on the Western gray whales is minimised. I am aware of the range of issues to which this project gives rise and I will approve support only if I am satisfied that these have been addressed," he said.
Almost $1 billion of UK taxpayers' money would be at risk from ECGD's support for the project.
James Leaton, WWF-UK's Oil and Gas Policy Adviser, said:
"ECGD's support for the Sakhalin II project effectively gave the backing of the UK government to an environmental catastrophe. ECGD has paid lip-service to the environment, but shows no intention of taking concrete action to prevent damage caused by the projects it backs. Supporting this project shows no coherence across the UK government on protecting biodiversity or tackling climate change."
Nick Hildyard, a co-director of The Corner House, said:
"ECGD has broken its own policies. It says that it only gives a commitment to support after it has assessed the environmental impacts of a project. But, in this case, it gave a legally-binding promise before getting assurances on the environment. It is impossible now to address many of those impacts, since the work has already been done. ECGD must not be allowed to offer UK government money willy-nilly to environmentally damaging business ventures benefiting foreign countries."
Documents comprise:
WWF and Corner House Research vs Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform.
Witness Statement of Nicholas Hildyard, The Corner House
Witness Statement of James Leaton, WWF-UK
Letter from ECGD to the Sakhalin Energy Investment Company (SEIC), 4 March 2004, released under Freedom of Information request.
Sakhalin Environment Watch
WWF (UK)
Sakhalin oil & gas


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How to Use End-to-End Encryption in Facebook Messenger Right Now
Meta is still rolling out end-to-end encryption to Messenger, but here's how to enable it now.
Jake Peterson
UpdatedJanuary 24, 2023
Image: Meta
Meta might not be a bastion of digital privacy (and very well may be an enemy of it), but the times might be a-changin'. Last summer, the company announced it is testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Facebook Messenger as the default, meaning all Messenger users would have their chats protected from spying eyes unless they choose not to. A fresh announcement this week, on Jan. 23, confirms these tests are expanding, which means you may soon be able to enjoy the protections of E2EE on your Messenger app without doing a thing.
But until that happens, it's pretty easy to enable E2EE in Messenger right now. Here's how to do it.
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How end-to-end encryption works
With typical messaging, texts are stored openly on your device, the device you send them to, and the server of the messaging platform (i.e. Facebook Messenger itself). Those messages can be read by anyone with access to the devices where those messages are stored, including the hosts of the messaging platform. That makes it easy for a company like Meta to hand over your messages to an authority, should such a request come through.
With end-to-end encryption, however, messages aren't sent and stored in plain text, but rather they're "scrambled." If you were to try to read an encrypted message, it would appear as an unrecognizable jumble of characters, making it useless to intercept.
To unscramble the message, you need a "key." For messaging purposes, that key is either your device or the recipient's device. Those two devices are the only devices capable of unscrambling your particular conversation—even though Meta is facilitating the passage of these messages, it has no way to unscramble the messages for itself or anyone who comes asking for them.
Meta is testing E2EE as the default messaging protocol for all conversations in Messenger, which would offer these benefits to all users out of the box. While the initial tests only included a few hundred users, Meta has expanded the pool of testers as of Monday, Jan. 23. However, chances are your chats still aren't E2EE yet, and you probably need to enable them yourself.
How to enable end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger
This hidden feature is called "secret conversation," and it's fairly straightforward to use (albeit a bit buried). To start, open a chat you'd like E2EE for, then tap the person or group name at the top of the display. Under "More actions," tap "Go to secret conversation" or "Start end-to-end encrypted chat," and Messenger will instantly open up a new E2EE chat.
The catch is that the other user needs to be using a device and Messenger app that is compatible with secret conversations and E2EE. If they aren't, you'll get an error message when you try to send anything in a secret conversation.
E2EE used to be quite limited on Messenger. You'd get a simple black and white theme to denote the special nature of the chat, all without the usual bells and whistles you'd expect from a Messenger chat. However, thanks to a recent update, you can access many of the usual Messenger features, like chat themes, custom emojis and reactions, group chats, group pictures, link previews, active status, and chat bubbles (Android only).
That said, there are still some limitations as of this article. You can't make audio or video calls, encrypt large groups, or send payments just yet. Still, we're making major E2EE progress in Messenger. Just keep in mind, you'll see two chats in your app for each contact you started a secret conversation with. Make sure you tap on the thread with the lock icon, not the normal conversation, if you want your messages protected. Once E2EE is fully rolled out, I expect this won't be a problem.
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