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NTSB: Boeing Tests Should Have Shown Danger - 0 views

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    Tests by Boeing that were approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) before the 787 Dreamliner was certified to fly showed minimal danger of smoke, let alone fire
Wallid pilots

Video: FAA to allow Dreamliner test flights - 0 views

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    The troubled 787 Dreamliner, grounded in the wake of problems with the plane's lithium-ion batteries, will be sent on crew-only test flights. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
anonymous

EtG/EtS Non-DOT Approved Off-Duty Testing of #HIMS #Pilots: #aviation #aviationnation #... - 0 views

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    "@weyhrauchlaw: EtG/EtS Non-DOT Approved Off-Duty Testing of #HIMS #Pilots: http://t.co/tYb1WTjg8O #aviation #FAA http://t.co/D1KWdSaTda"
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    "@weyhrauchlaw: EtG/EtS Non-DOT Approved Off-Duty Testing of #HIMS #Pilots: http://t.co/tYb1WTjg8O #aviation #FAA http://t.co/D1KWdSaTda"
anonymous

WEYHRAUCH LAW GROUP Provides legal support to the aviation community & pilots in the HI... - 0 views

  • example of additional HIMS testing requirements and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) violations NOT KNOWN to pilots prior to "volunteering" for the FAA's HIMS program
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    Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Documents: Additional Testing Requirements & HIPAA Violation(s)
anonymous

WEYHRAUCH LAW GROUP Provides legal support to the aviation community & pilots in the HI... - 0 views

  • 'Special Issuance,' may take several YEARS to accomplish. During this time, there is almost always NO salary, the costs associated with it are NOT reimbursed
  • It is, quite literally, the FAA's way, "or the highway." In effect, the pilot is beholden to his/her assigned medical providers (about whom she has no choice) and treatment philosophy.
  • this becomes the pilot's only mode of maintaining sobriety, and the only method about which she can be forthcoming; other modes of maintaining sobriety will elicit suspicion, and delay issuance of the below:
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    Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Documents: FAA Special Issuance Allowing ONLY Alcohol Breathalyzer and/or Blood Testing for Alcohol and/or Liver Function
Warplanes .com

CV-22 Osprey hangs in chamber for warfare testing - 0 views

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    A CV-22 Osprey, flown by the 8th Special Operations Squadron in Eglin Air Force Base, Fla. hangs in the anechoic chamber at the Joint Preflight Integration of Munitions and Electronic Systems hangar.
Warplanes .com

C-17 Globemaster III @ 20: Boeing remembering its first flight - 0 views

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    The Boeing Company celebrated the 20th anniversary of the first flight that was done by the C-17 airlifter in Long Beach, California. Test aircraft T-1 took off from the Boeing Long Beach site on a two hour flight that proved the engineering and design concepts of the aircraft and marked the beginning of the program on September 15, 1991.
anonymous

A Prescription to End Drinking - WSJ - 0 views

  • prompting addiction experts to make a push for using medications to help people quit or cut down on excessive drinking.
  • As a result, experts say, the most effective treatments are highly individualized.
  • The Food and Drug Administration has approved three prescription drugs to treat alcohol problems. But they are seldom used, largely because 12-step programs have dominated the treatment field, NIAAA experts say.
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  • neurobiologist George Koob, director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), which is leading the effort to bring new, evidence-based treatments to more people.
  • “We not only use it, we encourage it. If there’s something that can improve your chances of recovery, all the better,” says Joseph Lee, medical director for youth at the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, which uses naltrexone and acamprosate.
  • newer behavioral treatments try to empower patients instead, and focus on developing skills to stay sober.
  • “Over the last 25 to 30 years, much of the neurocircuitry of addiction has been identified,” opening up new targets for interventions, says David Goldman, chief of the NIAAA’s neurogenetics lab
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    A Prescription to End Drinking Data on Medicine for Alcohol Disorders Pushes Doctors Beyond 12-Step Programs -- **Also see Melinda Beck's radio interview on same page**
anonymous

MuckRock * Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Discrimination - 0 views

  • Awaiting Response Past due by 1 month, 3 weeks
  • Brent Weyhrauch is making this request to Department of Transportation of the United States of America.
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    Human Intervention Motivation Study (HIMS) Related Discrimination: FOIA Request to the USDOT PAST DUE/DELINQUENT BY CLOSE TO 2 MONTHS...
anonymous

Should Addicts Be Forced Into 12-Step Rehab Programs? No | Chaotic Pharmacology - 0 views

  • Should Addicts Be Forced Into 12-Step Rehab Programs? No
  • Forced interventions such as forced psychiatric therapy (used sometimes to addict patients) is considered as torture by governmental (e.g, United Nations) and non-profit organizations (e.g., Mad in America
  • There is no sufficient evidence to support 12-Step rehab programs as a safe and effective intervention for the treatment of addictions
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  • There is also insufficient evidence supporting the routine use of drug testing (e.g., phosphatidylethanol – PEth)
  • AA is Faith-Based, Not Evidence-Based
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    Chaotic Pharmacology: Should Addicts Be Forced Into 12-Step Rehab Programs?
Alex Parker

Video feature: US Navy's F-35C makes flawless first carrier landing - 1 views

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    The US Navy's variant of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter has successfully completed its first-ever landing on an aircraft carrier, marking a major milestone for the programme. Two F-35C aircraft landed on the USS Nimitz off the coast of San Diego, California, as part of the fifth-generation fighter's initial at-sea testing phase.
Alex Parker

October's top stories: Heathrow's 8.2% cash boost, Edinburgh tests Google Glass - 1 views

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    The UK's Heathrow Airport recorded revenues of £1.97m, representing an 8.2% increase in the first nine months of 2014, while the US tightened restrictions on passengers travelling from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, who can now only enter the country through one of the five airports screening for the disease.
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