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Subpart B—First-Class Airman Medical Certificate
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§ 67.101 – Eligibility.
§ 67.103 – Eye.
§ 67.105 – Ear, nose, throat, and equilibrium.
§ 67.107 – Mental.
§ 67.109 – Neurologic.
§ 67.111 – Cardiovascular.
§ 67.113 – General medical condition.
§ 67.115 – Discretionary issuance.
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To be eligible for a first-class airman medical certificate, and to remain eligible for a first-class airman medical certificate, a person must meet the requirements of this subpart.
Eye standards for a first-class airman medical certificate are:
(a) Distant visual acuity of 20/20 or better in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses. If corrective lenses (spectacles or contact lenses) are necessary for 20/20 vision, the person may be eligible only on the condition that corrective lenses are worn while exercising the privileges of an airman certificate.
(b) Near vision of 20/40 or better, Snellen equivalent, at 16 inches in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses. If age 50 or older, near vision of 20/40 or better, Snellen equivalent, at both 16 inches and 32 inches in each eye separately, with or without corrective lenses.
(c) Ability to perceive those colors necessary for the safe performance of airman duties.
(d) Normal fields of vision.
(e) No acute or chronic pathological condition of either eye or adnexa that interferes with the proper function of an eye, that may reasonably be expected to progress to that degree, or that may reasonably be expected to be aggravated by flying.
(f) Bifoveal fixation and vergence-phoria relationship sufficient to prevent a break in fusion under conditions that may reasonably be expected to occur in performing airman duties. Tests for the factors named in this paragraph are not required except for persons found to have more than 1 prism diopter of hyperphoria, 6 prism diopters of esophoria, or 6 prism diopters of exophoria. If any of these values are exceeded, the Federal Air Surgeon may require the person to be examined by a qualified eye specialist to determine if there is bifoveal fixation and an adequate vergence-phoria relationship. However, if otherwise eligible, the person is issued a medical certificate pending the results of the examination.
Ear, nose, throat, and equilibrium standards for a first-class airman medical certificate are:
(a) The person shall demonstrate acceptable hearing by at least one of the following tests:
(1) Demonstrate an ability to hear an average conversational voice in a quiet room, using both ears, at a distance of 6 feet from the examiner, with the back turned to the examiner.
(2) Demonstrate an acceptable understanding of speech as determined by audiometric speech discrimination testing to a score of at least 70 percent obtained in one ear or in a sound field environment.
(3) Provide acceptable results of pure tone audiometric testing of unaided hearing acuity according to the following table of worst acceptable thresholds, using the calibration standards of the American National Standards Institute, 1969 (11 West 42d Street, New York, NY 10036):
Better ear (Db) 35 30 30 40
Poorer ear (Db) 35 50 50 60
(b) No disease or condition of the middle or internal ear, nose, oral cavity, pharynx, or larynx that—
(1) Interferes with, or is aggravated by, flying or may reasonably be expected to do so; or
(2) Interferes with, or may reasonably be expected to interfere with, clear and effective speech communication.
(c) No disease or condition manifested by, or that may reasonably be expected to be manifested by, vertigo or a disturbance of equilibrium.
[Doc. No. 27940, 61 FR 11256, Mar. 19, 1996, as amended by Amdt. 67-19, 71 FR 35764, June 21, 2006]
Mental standards for a first-class airman medical certificate are:
(a) No established medical history or clinical diagnosis of any of the following:
(1) A personality disorder that is severe enough to have repeatedly manifested itself by overt acts.
(2) A psychosis. As used in this section, "psychosis" refers to a mental disorder in which:
(i) The individual has manifested delusions, hallucinations, grossly bizarre or disorganized behavior, or other commonly accepted symptoms of this condition; or
(ii) The individual may reasonably be expected to manifest delusions, hallucinations, grossly bizarre or disorganized behavior, or other commonly accepted symptoms of this condition.
(3) A bipolar disorder.
(4) Substance dependence, except where there is established clinical evidence, satisfactory to the Federal Air Surgeon, of recovery, including sustained total abstinence from the substance(s) for not less than the preceding 2 years. As used in this section—
(i) "Substance" includes: Alcohol; other sedatives and hypnotics; anxiolytics; opioids; central nervous system stimulants such as cocaine, amphetamines, and similarly acting sympathomimetics; hallucinogens; phencyclidine or similarly acting arylcyclohexylamines; cannabis; inhalants; and other psychoactive drugs and chemicals; and
(ii) "Substance dependence" means a condition in which a person is dependent on a substance, other than tobacco or ordinary xanthine-containing (e.g., caffeine) beverages, as evidenced by—
(A) Increased tolerance;
(B) Manifestation of withdrawal symptoms;
(C) Impaired control of use; or
(D) Continued use despite damage to physical health or impairment of social, personal, or occupational functioning.
(b) No substance abuse within the preceding 2 years defined as:
(1) Use of a substance in a situation in which that use was physically hazardous, if there has been at any other time an instance of the use of a substance also in a situation in which that use was physically hazardous;
(2) A verified positive drug test result, an alcohol test result of 0.04 or greater alcohol concentration, or a refusal to submit to a drug or alcohol test required by the U.S. Department of Transportation or an agency of the U.S. Department of Transportation; or
(3) Misuse of a substance that the Federal Air Surgeon, based on case history and appropriate, qualified medical judgment relating to the substance involved, finds—
(i) Makes the person unable to safely perform the duties or exercise the privileges of the airman certificate applied for or held; or
(ii) May reasonably be expected, for the maximum duration of the airman medical certificate applied for or held, to make the person unable to perform those duties or exercise those privileges.
(c) No other personality disorder, neurosis, or other mental condition that the Federal Air Surgeon, based on the case history and appropriate, qualified medical judgment relating to the condition involved, finds—
(1) Makes the person unable to safely perform the duties or exercise the privileges of the airman certificate applied for or held; or
(2) May reasonably be expected, for the maximum duration of the airman medical certificate applied for or held, to make the person unable to perform those duties or exercise those privileges.
Neurologic standards for a first-class airman medical certificate are:
(1) Epilepsy;
(2) A disturbance of consciousness without satisfactory medical explanation of the cause; or
(3) A transient loss of control of nervous system function(s) without satisfactory medical explanation of the cause.
(b) No other seizure disorder, disturbance of consciousness, or neurologic condition that the Federal Air Surgeon, based on the case history and appropriate, qualified medical judgment relating to the condition involved, finds—
Cardiovascular standards for a first-class airman medical certificate are:
(1) Myocardial infarction;
(2) Angina pectoris;
(3) Coronary heart disease that has required treatment or, if untreated, that has been symptomatic or clinically significant;
(4) Cardiac valve replacement;
(5) Permanent cardiac pacemaker implantation; or
(6) Heart replacement;
(b) A person applying for first-class medical certification must demonstrate an absence of myocardial infarction and other clinically significant abnormality on electrocardiographic examination:
(1) At the first application after reaching the 35th birthday; and
(2) On an annual basis after reaching the 40th birthday.
(c) An electrocardiogram will satisfy a requirement of paragraph (b) of this section if it is dated no earlier than 60 days before the date of the application it is to accompany and was performed and transmitted according to acceptable standards and techniques.
The general medical standards for a first-class airman medical certificate are:
(a) No established medical history or clinical diagnosis of diabetes mellitus that requires insulin or any other hypoglycemic drug for control.
(b) No other organic, functional, or structural disease, defect, or limitation that the Federal Air Surgeon, based on the case history and appropriate, qualified medical judgment relating to the condition involved, finds—
(c) No medication or other treatment that the Federal Air Surgeon, based on the case history and appropriate, qualified medical judgment relating to the medication or other treatment involved, finds—
A person who does not meet the provisions of §§ 67.103 through 67.113 may apply for the discretionary issuance of a certificate under § 67.401.
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Am operating with 64 bit windows 8 operating system and i have vmware 7.0.0 workstation installed. What i do is click on new virtual machine specify the location of backtrack image set other things and start the virtual machine. Starts fine. Then i get a menu Backtrack live CD with options from which i chose Backtrack Text- Default boot text mode following a tutorial this
But am constantly getting the same error message for all 3 images:
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Have no idea why this is happening first i thought may be it is because the image is for 32 bit windows and i have 64 bit operating system so i downloaded the 64 bit backtrack r3 image but unfortunately it is showing the same. Help me with this error please!

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Leaker who caused Fornite an "irreparable injury" provides his defence
Fortnite Season 4 leaker gives his side of the story.
The former Quality Assurance Tester who leaked Season 4 files has released his defence following legal action taken by Epic Games for breach of a non-disclosure agreement.
These files contained details about the meteor that hit Dusty Depot and Tilted Towers; finding their way onto the likes of Reddit. Back in early April, there was quite a bit of mayhem surrounding the future of Tilted Towers.
Big reveal ruined
Epic believes these leaks caused an "irreparable injury"; one that could never be "fully compensated monetarily", claiming it ruined the big reveal.
The QA tester involved is Thomas Hannah, who is alleged to have revealed information to a third-party. In a defence statement, Hannah claimed that he merely confirmed what the Reddit poster Adam DiMarco already knew.
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However, Defendant categorically denies that DiMarco ever obtained from Defendant any additional information other than as already admitted in previous responses hereinabove of what Defendant actually did discuss with DiMarco because Defendant had no further such details."
Specifically, Defendant never worked on, had access to, or ever had any knowledge or information regarding Season 4″.
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Q: getYear() in JavaScript returns 118 I need to calculate the date of the last Monday that before the latest weekend. Having used what I believe to be the most common Stack Overflow suggestions I have the following code:
const getDayOfTheWeek = () => {
  let date = new Date();
  let clonedDate = new Date(date.getTime());
  console.log(clonedDate);
  const dow = clonedDate.getDay();
  console.log(dow);
  const offset = dow+6;
  console.log(offset);
  const newDate = new Date(clonedDate.setDate(clonedDate.getDate() - offset));
    console.log(newDate);
  const newNewDate = new Date(newDate.getTime());
  console.log(newNewDate);
  const day = newNewDate.getDate();
  const month = newNewDate.getMonth();
  const year = newNewDate.getYear();

  console.log('the year is ',year, 'the month is ', month);
}
getDayOfTheWeek();

It returns the year as 118 and the month as 5 which are ... not that Monday I need. newNewDate, on the other hand is the last Monday. I was wondering what causes it. I am aware that there are too many reassignments that are not needed. Please help.

A: Whatever you are doing is perfect only, the only mistake is you are using getMonth() and getYear() and misunderstanding them.
date.getMonth() gives you months ranging from 0-11. So 5 is actually June month.
date.getYear() this method returns the year minus 1900, so actual is 118+1900=2018, instead you can use date.getFullYear() which will return 2018
Also, you don't need so many steps.
the function can be simply stopped with newDate as given below
const getDayOfTheWeek = () => {
  let date = new Date();
  let clonedDate = new Date(date.getTime());
  console.log(clonedDate);
  const dow = clonedDate.getDay();
  console.log(dow);
  const offset = dow+6;
  console.log(offset);
  const newDate = new Date(clonedDate.setDate(clonedDate.getDate() - offset));
    console.log(newDate);
  const day = newDate.getDate();
  const month = newDate.getMonth() + 1;
  const year = newDate.getFullYear();

  console.log('the year is ',year, 'the month is ', month);
}
getDayOfTheWeek();

This will give "the year is 2018 the month is 6"
Hope this helps.


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Thai PM Say's Within 20 Years Thailand Will be Free of Corruption
Prime Minister Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha delivers a speech under the theme Hand in Hand to mark the Anti-Corruption Day at the Bangkok Convention Centre in Bangkok.
BANGKOK – Addressing an audience on anti-corruption day in Bangkok, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said the government has launched a long-term strategic plan to root out graft and that Thailand will be free of corruption within the next 20 years.
"Corrupt people must be weeded out, and we must stop people falling prey to the scourge in future," he said.
The plan focuses on several areas, ranging from building awareness among students and school children to improving ways to prevent and punish corruption the Bangkok Post reported.
Anti-Corruption Organisation of Thailand (ACT) chairman Pramon Suthiwong said everyone should join hands to fight corruption, calling on Thais to be "active citizens" in curbing graft.
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At the end of 2015, under military rule the Corruption Perception Index for Thailand as reported by Transparency International ranked Thailand at 76th, the same as the previous year with a score of 38 out of 100, according to the annual report.
With such a low score, Thailand's rate of corruption level was considered as a country with a 'serious corruption level', the report said. Countries with score higher than 50 were considered as relatively clean from corruption. The world average score is 43, it said.
Thailand's level and score is the same as 2014, it said, suggesting there was no significant improvement in anti-corruption efforts.
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"The most comprehensive and interpretive study of the mining industry available to historians. . . . It is a book that will stand the test of time."
-W. Turrentine Jackson, Technology and Culture
"Mark Wyman's sympathetic account of the Western metal miners includes graphic details of their bitter struggle for unpaid wages, for industrial safety legislation, for corporate liability in the event of mine accidents and for workmen's compensation. . . . Throughout the book one finds the compassion and understanding that mark works in the best tradition of historical scholarship."
-Milton Cantor, The Nation
"Wyman has looked at miners in the larger context of American industrialization during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In doing so, he has produced a stimulating, informative account of how this group of workingmen responded to changes in the work place brought on by changes in technology, corporate capitalism, and the shifting labor forces of the day."
-James E. Fell, Jr., Pacific Northwest Quarterly
"Wyman's compassionate and thoughtful study is an important contribution to the social history of western mining. Hard Rock Epic is also a significant addition to the literature on the process of industrialization. It amply demonstrates that no group in the American West was so deeply affected by the Industrial Revolution as the hard rock miners."
-Jeffrey K. Stine, The Midwest Review
"Hard Rock Epic is both a descriptive and analytical study of the impact of technology on the life of metalliferous miners of the West. It is thoroughly researched, drawing heavily upon primary sources and the most relevant recent scholarship concerning the hardrock men. The study is judicious and balanced. . . . [and] fits well into the growing body of scholarship on Western metal mining. Historians of labor and the American West will find this volume instructive and definite contribution to their fields of study."
-George C. Suggs, Jr., The American Historical Review
Mark Wyman is Professor of History at Illinois State University, Normal.
Part One: Impact
Chapter I. Machinery on the Route to the Mines
Chapter II. Who Will Work?
Chapter III. Payday--Perhaps
Chapter IV. Betrayed by the New Technology
Chapter V. The Question of Blame
Part Two: Organized Responses
Chapter VI. The Union Impulse
Chapter VII. Responses to the Dangers Below
Chapter VIII. The Dilemma of Political Action
Chapter IX. Radicalism and the "Red-Hot Revolutionists"
Chapter X. Epilogue: End of the Pioneer Era
Water and Los Angeles
William F. Deverell, Tom Sitton
Shaped by the West, Volume 2
William F. Deverell, Anne F. Hyde
Braided Waters
Wade Graham
Atlas of Yellowstone
W. Andrew Marcus, James E. Meacham, Ann W. Rodman, Alethea Y. Steingisser
Where Minds and Matters Meet
Volker Janssen
Empire and Liberty
Virginia Scharff
The Other California
Verónica Castillo-Muñoz
David Brower
Tom Turner


The Research & Development department is a driving force of TELERAD. It allows the company to remain a leader in the field of aeronautical and maritime communications.
All equipment manufactured and marketed by TELERAD, from the first radio for the Merchant Navy in the 50's until the recent radios supporting the VoIP technology for Air Traffic Control, were designed by the TELERAD Research & Development Team.
The study and design are based on simulation and development software (ADS / Agilent, Spice, Integrity / GreenHills, ISE / Xilinx …), but testing and implementing remain very important, based on a wide experience related to 'Radio' environment, such as co-site specific constraints, reliability and performance requirements.
All these constraints, specific to civilian or military environments are considered and integrated in the early design phases.
In addition, the Research and Development department has got 3D mechanical design and PCB design expertise.
The engineers of the Research & Development department have extensively contributed to the development of different technologies in the ATC field such as 8.33 channelization, VDL Mode 2, GBAS or VoIP.
They are involved in ETSI (European Technical Standard Institute) and in Eurocae (The European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment) standardization process.
Moreover they are present in different working groups of the European Agency for the safety of air navigation 'EUROCONTROL' and participate to the implementation of technologies for the Single European Sky (SESAR).
TELERAD is recognized as an innovative company, it also offers R&D services to industrial customers.
Whether in the radio frequency domain (power amplification, reception, frequency synthesis…), software development, digital signal processing or analog and digital hardware, TELERAD engineers can analyze and respond to your specifications.
remote control and monitoring systems.
The wide expertise of TELERAD engineers allows addressing many areas like SDRs (Software Defined Radio), NAVAIDS (radio navigation systems), redundancy or remote control and monitoring systems.


So we're in to the 2nd day of the 4th round of industrial action by junior doctors. It's a disgrace that our highly trained and valuable medics have been put in this position by a government intent on breaking their promise that the NHS would be "safe" in their hands. As with Jeremy Hunt's handling of this entire situation, it was a lie.
When the junior doctors return to work tomorrow, the battle for the future of the NHS will continue, inside the Houses of Parliament. The NHS Reinstatement Bill, which has cross party support, aims to remove our health service away from the prying hands of private contractors and keep it in public hands, ensuring that the most important thing remains patient care, not shareholders bank balances.
MP's must vote in favour of the bill to ensure this happens, that's why today I have written to our local MP asking her for support. I ask you please to do the same. You can write to your local MP by entering your postcode at https://www.writetothem.com/.
Please help to do what the Conservative government clearly can't – keep the NHS safe.


If you are one of those experiencing rough skin due to frequent drinking and overtime work, you must remember following tips so that your skin could revive in 2014.
The first thing recommending is applying ampoule. Many people are probably experiencing lack of sleep at the end of the year. Thus, using ampoule will brighten up the skin tone and provide glow on skin. In addition, ampoule is mostly extracts of powerful ingredients so it could supply excessive nutrition to skin.
The second item is facial mask. When one feels stressed out from overtime work, heat goes up to face and causes pimples on skin. Therefore, using facial mask that was stored in refrigerator is highly recommended as it provides cooling effect and revitalizes skin condition.
The last recommended item is sleeping mask. Unlike usual facial mask, sleeping pack continues to provide moisture and nutrition to skin all night while one sleeps. As a result, one could feel the skin tightened and brightened much more than last night.
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Compare to last year
Sensitive business transactions referred to our team of sustainability experts
(454 in 2014)
Due diligence checks carried out by our underwriters to detect potential sustainability risks
Each of the eight policies of our Sustainability Risk Framework contains criteria and qualitative standards which define precisely when a transaction may present a "sustainability risk". In 2015, we introduced a new online Sensitive Business Risk (SBR) assessment tool, which enables our underwriters to screen potentially sensitive transactions for their impacts on the local environment and on the human rights of the affected people and workforces.
The online tool is easy to access, provides clear guidance to our underwriters about what to assess in further detail and ensures consistent documentation in our standard underwriting tools. At the same time, it enables our central sustainability management unit to adjust key policy parameters and make them effective "at the push of a button". We believe the tool has thus further strengthened due diligence of potential sustainability risks in our core business. In the first six months since its launch, our underwriters used it to carry out checks on 3 550 transactions.
If this initial screening reveals any potential issues, our underwriters carry out further due diligence measures. Finally, they transfer the most critical transactions through the Sensitive Business Risks (SBR) referral tool to our team of sustainability experts, who conduct targeted research to decide whether the transaction at hand is acceptable on ethical grounds.
This decision takes the form of a binding recommendation either to go ahead with the transaction, to go ahead with certain conditions attached, or to abstain. If there is disagreement about the recommendation, the case can be escalated to the next management level and, ultimately, to the Group Chief Risk Officer and the Group Executive Committee.
The accessibility and clarity of our new online assessment tool led to a decrease in the number of transactions referred to our sustainability experts for an assessment – from 454 in the previous year to 309 in 2015. Of these, we issued negative recommendations in 32 cases and positive recommendations with conditions in 24 cases.
Sensitive Business Risks referred to our expert team in 2015
Number of Sensitive Business Risk referrals
When making these decisions, we refer to internationally recognised ethical principles. Swiss Re is a signatory to the UN Global Compact, which derives its human rights principles from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, its labour principles from the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work, its environment principles from the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development and its anti-corruption principles from the United Nations Convention against Corruption.
This web of ethical principles helps us to make decisions that are aligned with universal fundamental rights. However, this is not sufficient for decisions in a business context. We also need to consider the social and economic implications of our decisions in their respective cultural contexts and, last but not least, the implications for our business. Balancing these different aspects requires us to carefully and consistently assess transactions and their local effects, often in collaboration and dialogue with external experts and local stakeholders.
Thus, our decisions are neither subjective nor entirely objective. In essence, they reflect our recognition of global fundamental rights, of human suffering and our commitment to limiting unwanted negative impacts of our business transactions, either by withdrawing or by influencing our clients' behaviour.


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Andy Warhol Ram-Elephant-Orangutan-Rhino (poster)
Exhibition poster
13"W x 19"H standard poster
Unframed (rolled)
In conjunction with the exhibition ANDY WARHOL: ENDANGERED SPECIES, on view October 7, 2018 – February 17, 2019:
http://www.ukrainianmuseum.org/ex_181006warhol.html
Andy Warhol: Endangered Species (1983), on loan from the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Wyoming. Gift of the 2006 Collectors Circle, an Anonymous donor, and the Art Acquisitions Fund. ©2018 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy of Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York.
The Andy Warhol: Endangered Species series from 1983 includes: Bighorn Ram, Black Rhinoceros, Grevy's Zebra, Orangutan, San Francisco Silverspot, African Elephant, Bald Eagle, Siberian Tiger, Pine Barrens Tree Frog, and Giant Panda, as well as the 1985 silkscreen, Sea Turtle. An important component of the show at The Ukrainian Museum is a section dedicated to Andy Warhol's early years growing up in Pittsburgh. At the vanguard of the Pop Art movement, Andy Warhol is recognized as one of its greatest architects. But the influences from his youth, when he was immersed in the culture of his Carpatho-Rusyn origins, impacted his evolution into a world-renowned artist. This exhibition not only features the still relevant Endangered Species series, but also looks at Andy's heritage and other inspirations from his early years that spurred him along the path toward becoming one of the most influential American artists. Augmenting the Endangered Species exhibition are several early drawings by Andy Warhol, as well as a few personal artifacts and family photo prints.