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Wed, Jul 13, 2016

Senate Approves FAA Reauthorization Bill

Now Goes To President Obama For Signature, Funds Agency For Just Over A Year

U.S. Senate has given final approval to the “FAA Extension, Safety and Security Act of 2016.” The legislation extends the FAA’s funding and aviation taxes at current levels through September 30, 2017. The legislation includes provisions addressing the challenges of integrating unmanned aerial vehicles into the national airspace, bolstering airport security, and streamlining the third-class medical process for general aviation pilots.

The Senate passed the legislation two days after the House passed an identical bill.

The third class medical reform included in the bill will save general aviation pilots time, money, and frustration while giving them tools they need to take charge of their health and fitness to fly. For most pilots who have held a valid FAA medical certificate within 10 years from the date the legislation is signed into law, the reforms mean they will never again need to see an FAA aviation medical examiner (AME). Most other pilots who have never held an FAA medical certificate will need to go through the medical certification process only once. Even pilots who have a medical condition that requires a special issuance medical certificate will only have to go through the process once in most cases.

“We are grateful to Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-OK), and Joe Manchin (D-WV), two general aviation pilots who led the third class medical reform effort in the Senate, along with all of their colleagues who have helped make medical reform a reality,” said AOPA president and CEO Mark Baker (pictured). “In addition, we appreciate the hard work of Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune (R-SD) and Ranking Member Bill Nelson (D-FL) for their tireless work in advancing an FAA reauthorization bill through the Senate and including third class medical reform in the FAA extension.” 

“NATA thanks Congress for taking swift action on the bipartisan agreement reached last week by the House Transportation and Senate Commerce Committees,” stated William R. Deere, the association’s Senior Vice President for Government and External Affairs. “Lawmakers have long-considered aviation a non-partisan matter and the legislation now before the President for signature represents the hard work of congressional members and staffs from both sides of the Capitol and political aisles. However, some key aviation issues remain unresolved so we will continue to work with Congress toward enactment of more comprehensive, long-term legislation that includes improving the agency’s regulatory consistency and other provisions that will assist the agency and aviation businesses to operate more efficiently.”

READ MORE: Aero News

Sat, Jul 09, 2016

WingX Pro7 Releases Version 8.6.5

Several New Features Included In Latest Update

WingX Pro7 Version 8.6.5 is now available on the Apple App Store. The company says it has added some new capabilities including TFR Events (aka Stadium TFRs) - we even tell you who is playing, the new FAA Airman Certification Standards (ACS) which replaces the older FAA Practical Test Standards (PTS), and WingX Pro7 can now update Stratux firmware wirelessly with just a couple of taps.

With all the sporting events that are held throughout the US, it can sometimes be tricky to come up with a flight plan or route that will not interfere with these events and find yourself flying in a TFR. WingX Pro7 displays red rings on the moving map to indicate a Stadium TFR. Tapping on the TFR provides detailed TFR information - it even shows who is playing in the NFL or MLB game.

WingX Pro7 has had airport geo-referencing for many years (without upgrading to a 'Pro' subscription), but sometimes you need more than that. Let's say you want to go to a specific FBO at the airport. Now with WingX Pro7 you can select a specific business on the airport and WingX Pro7 will drop a pin on the business's exact location right on the Airport Diagram. Tap on the pin and WingX Pro7 displays the business phone number, website, physical address, hours of operation, facilities, amenities, and even rental car information. And on your iPhone, tap on the phone number and WingX Pro7 will automatically call the business.

Read More: AeroNews

Who's Flying?

Source: https://www.faa.gov/data_research/aviation_data_statistics/civil_airmen_statistics/

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Fasting Boosts the Immune System and Creates New Stem Cells

by Tony Isaacs

(The Best Years in Life) Fasting has long been popular for the things it helps us eliminate, mainly weight and toxins. Now, exciting new research has found that what fasting adds may be even more important because it induces the body to create new stem cells and regenerate our vital immune system that is our first line of defense against disease and illness.

In what promises to be one of the most important medical discoveries of our time, researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles have found that fasting (food deprivation) for 2 - 4 days in both humans and mice resulted in the creation of new stem cells and a renewed immune system. The implications for this discovery are huge: increased longevity and overall health as well as use against specific conditions such as cancer and other diseases – and might even help brain cell regeneration to help combat dementia and brain trauma.

Details of the Study

In the study published in the June 5th edition of the journal Cell Stem Cell, researchers cut off the food source for both mice and humans in separate trials. When they cut off the food source, white blood cell counts dropped. White blood cells are the cells the body uses to fight disease and infection. However, instead of the body being less able to fight infection due to lower white blood cells, just the opposite happened: the fasting cycle naturally "flipped a regenerative switch" on.

With each fast the depletion of white blood cells resulted in new cells in the immune system. When researchers found reduced levels of the enzyme PKA (Protein kinase A), which regulates glycogen, sugar, and lipid metabolism in the cells, they realized that there was a switch being turned on. This switch enabled the creation of new cells and also lowered the levels of IGF-1, a hormone that has been linked to aging, tumor growth, and cancer risk.

As corresponding study author Valter Longo explained, "PKA is the key gene that needs to shut down in order for these stem cells to switch into regenerative mode," Longo said. "It gives the 'OK' for stem cells to go ahead and begin proliferating and rebuild the entire system. And the good news is that the body got rid of the parts of the system that might be damaged or old, the inefficient parts, during the fasting. Now, if you start with a system heavily damaged by chemotherapy or aging, fasting cycles can generate, literally, a new immune system."

"When you starve, the system tries to save energy, and one of the things it can do to save energy is to recycle a lot of the immune cells that are not needed, especially those that may be damaged. What we started noticing in both our human work and animal work is that the white blood cell count goes down with prolonged fasting. Then when you re-feed, the blood cells come back. So we started thinking, well, where does it come from?"

“We could not predict that prolonged fasting would have such a remarkable effect in promoting stem cell-based regeneration of the hematopoietic system,” said Longo.

Source: http://www.tbyil.com/Fasting_Boosts_the_Immune_System_and_Creates_New_Stem_Cells_Tony_Isaacs.htm

How To Find Out Everything Google Knows About You!

When you use Google, you are making a deal. You get to use services like Gmail, Drive, search, YouTube, and Google Maps for free.

In exchange, you agree to share information about yourself that Google can share with advertisers so their ads are more effective. For instance, airlines want to target people who love to travel. Children's clothing makers want to target parents.

Google uses a lot of methods to learn about you. There's the stuff you tell Google outright when you sign up for its Gmail or to use your Android phone. This includes your name, phone number, location, and so on.

But Google also watches you as you scamper around the internet, deducing your interests from your internet searches — what do you search for? click on? — from your use of Google's other services and from other websites you visit.

By visiting a hard-to-find page called "Web & App Activity," you can see what Google is watching.

Then by visiting a site called "Ads Settings," you can see what Google thinks it knows about you, and you can change what it's telling advertisers about you.

Read on for the details:

Reincarnation is a fascinating subject that has remained on the fringe of scientific study for too long. Fortunately, it has recently begun to attract serious interest from the scientific community. Decades ago, American astronomer and astrobiologist Carl Sagan stated that “there are three claims in the [parapsychology] field which, in my opinion, deserve serious study,” with one being “that young children sometimes report details of a previous life, which upon checking turn out to be accurate and which they could not have known about in any other way than reincarnation.” Fast forward to today, and amazing discoveries have been made, as multiple researchers have taken it upon themselves to study this intriguing and inexplicable — at least from a materialist scientific worldview — phenomenon. Subjects like reincarnation belong to the non-material sciences, an area of research that deserves more attention. As Nikola Tesla himself said, “the day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.”

University of Virginia psychiatrist Jim Tucker is arguably the world’s leading researcher on this topic, and in 2008, he published a review of cases that were suggestive of reincarnation in the journal Explore.

A typical reincarnation case, described by Jim, includes subjects reporting a past life experience. The interesting thing is that 100 percent of subjects who report past life remembrance are children. The average age when they start remembering their past life is at 35 months, and their descriptions of events and experiences from their past life are often extensive and remarkably detailed. Tucker has pointed out that these children show very strong emotional involvement when they speak about their experiences; some actually cry and beg their parents to be taken to what they say is their previous family.

According to Tucker:

The subjects usually stop making their past-life statements by the age of six to seven, and most seem to lose the purported memories. This is the age when children start school and begin having more experiences in the current life, as well as when they tend to lose their early childhood memories.

Sam Taylor

Sam Taylor is one child Tucker studied and wrote about. Born 18 months after his paternal grandfather died, he first began recalling details of a past life when he was just over a year old:

When he was 1.5 years old, he looked up as his father was changing his diaper and said, “When I was your age, I used to change your diapers.” He began talking more about having been his grandfather. He eventually told details of his grandfather’s life that his parents felt certain he could not have learned through normal means, such as the fact that his grandfather’s sister had been murdered and that his grandmother had used a food processor to make milkshakes for his grandfather every day at the end of his life. (source)

Pretty remarkable, isn’t it?

Ryan – A Boy From The Midwest

Ryan’s story began when he was 4 years old, when he was experiencing frequent, horrible nightmares. Once he turned five, he made an announcement to his mother. He told her, “I used to be somebody else.”

He would often talk about “going home” to Hollywood and would beg his mother to take him there. He told her detailed stories about meeting stars like Rita Hayworth, dancing in Broadway productions, and working for an agency where people would frequently change their names. He even remembered that the name of the street he used to live on had the word “rock” in it.

Ryan’s mother Cyndi said that “his stories were so detailed and they were so extensive, that it just wasn’t like a child could have made it up.”

Cyndi decided to check out some books about Hollywood from her local library, thinking that maybe something inside would catch her son’s attention, and it did. Cyndi said that once she found the below picture — of the man Ryan claims to have been in his past life — everything changed.

They decided to seek Tucker’s help, who took on the case and started his research. After only approximately two weeks, a Hollywood film archivist was able to confirm the identity of the man in the photo. The picture was from a film titled “Night After Night,” and the man was Marty Martyn, who had been a movie extra and then later became a powerful Hollywood agent before passing away in 1964.

Martyn had in fact danced on Broadway, worked at an agency where stage names were often created for new clients, traveled overseas to Paris, and lived at 825 North Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills. These were all details that Ryan was able to communicate to Tucker before they learned the identity of who he described; for example, Ryan knew that the address had “Rox” in it. Ryan was also able to recall how many children Martyn had and how many times he was married. More remarkable still is the fact that Ryan knew Martyn had two sisters, but Martyn’s own daughter did not. Ryan also remembers an African-American maid; Marty and his wife employed several. These are just a few of 55 incredible facts that Ryan can remember from his previous life as Marty Martyn, though as he ages, his memories become increasingly dim.

READ MORE: http://www.collective-evolution.com/2016/05/05/6-extraordinary-cases-of-kids-who-remember-their-past-lives/