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Withering Academia
Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of "university", and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as "the locus of seeking truth and learning through methodological inquiry", will subsist in different forms. The conclusion is therefore pessimistic with respect to the academic system as it presently exists but not to scholarly endeavour as such. However, the transformation predicted is expected to be fundamental.Download Info
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- Bruno S. Frey, 2010. "Withering Academia?," CESifo Working Paper Series 3209, CESifo Group Munich.
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I have seen so many articles this last year about trips to Central America, it's amazing to think that this is the same place that was in the news just a decade ago for bloody civil wars and extreme poverty. Well, much of the poverty is still there, but countries like Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Guatemala are realizing that tourism is a lot more profitable (and fun) than war.
The most recent example of this bullish view on Central America I found in the Washington Post this weekend. It's article on Guatemala looks at the vast array of things to do down there, from trekking mountains, to wandering Mayan ruins to heading to Antigua, where one of the coolest festivals in the world takes place during Easter week.
Now I have to tell you that I have been to Guatemala, and I found it a very cool place. I felt safe the whole time I was there, and yes, the Antigua festival (my photo at right) is one of those things that you should try to do once in your lifetime. One interesting things about this article is that the author says he actually bought a house in Guatemala. If that isn't a sign that things have changed drastically there, I don't know what is.
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Timberlake has signed on to perform during "DIRECTV Super Saturday Night," held Feb. 2 in New Orleans.
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LaEx-World Bank Managing Director Mahmoud Mohieldinst weekend, Egypt's upper house of Parliament formally sanctioned a "reconcilement law" which, according to the head of the justice ministry's legislative committee, Sherif Omar, is designed to "encourage businessmen to settle their financial disputes," even if they previously fled the country to escape conviction for corruption. The new law will provide retrials for individuals convicted of financial crimes, and it has many supporters. One of them is Omar, who believes that this quasi-amnesty will "lead dozens of businessmen to return to Egypt." A second justice ministry official asserts that the law will inject much-needed capital back into the economy.
Nonetheless, multiple civil society groups publicly oppose the measure – with good reason. While the law requires a committee headed by the justice minister to oversee the new process, this set up, as raised last week by the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), may actually prevent legitimate judicial supervision by allowing the executive branch sole oversight. EIPR has a point and the organization captured the problem perfectly:
"The committee could easily be politicized and pave the way for the return of Mubarak-era officials."
That is exactly what we must watch for now.The Ahram Online article cited above names several former Mubarak-era ministers tried for profiteering and financial corruption who may return home. For us, the most notable fugitive mentioned is former Minister of Trade Rachid Mohamed Rachid. As detailed in our year-and-a-half long investigation into the role former Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohieldin played in at least three suspicious (and potentially criminal) privatization transactions (two of which connect Mohieldin to Rachid), Rachid fled Egypt in early 2011. He was tried in absentia, convicted and sentenced to five years in prison for embezzling public funds and profiteering. Subsequently, he was charged in absentia yet again and sentenced to an additional fifteen years for squandering public funds.
Mahmoud Mohieldin, Image Courtesy of the World Economic ForumAccording to an internal document sent from World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on December 18, Mahmoud Mohieldin – Egypt's former Minister of Investment during the deposed Hosni Mubarak regime – has apparently been demoted from his post as Managing Director. Mohieldin is now the Special Envoy on Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Financial Development. While it is not yet clear what the Special Envoy will do about the MDGs and the United Nations, two things are certain: 1) Mohieldin has exchanged a central post at the Bank for a peripheral one, and 2) this is a pattern.
Over the last year-and-a-half, we have been investigating Mohieldin for his role in at least three suspicious (and potentially criminal) privatization transactions in Egypt. During this investigation, we have repeatedly pressed the World Bank to release Mohieldin's financial disclosure records, arguing through various appeals that this information is a matter of public interest. The World Bank refuses to release the records, but instead has been actively shuffling Mohieldin around. We can't help but notice that each time he moves, Mohieldin has lost a good chunk of his authority.
For example, near the beginning of this year, we acquired two World Bank organizational charts: one issued in January 2011 and a second in November 2011. When compared, the charts show that General Services, which include procurement at the Bank, were transferred from Mohieldin to Vincenzo La Via during the year. Apparently, former Bank President Zoellick (responsible for Mohieldin's appointment in September 2010) thought Mohieldin should no longer be responsible for that any longer. The decision to remove procurement responsibilities from Mohieldin is hardly surprising, given the avalanche of corruption allegations that we have tracked that hit him and his cronies after the fall of the Mubarak regime. While his appointment as Managing Director under Zoellick and the protection from investigation that the Bank afforded him was troubling enough, his new role as Bank President Kim's Special Envoy on Millennium Development Goals and Financial Development is also disturbing.
It is not yet clear that Kim is aware of the shadow over Mohieldin as a consequence of his past dealings in the Mubarak government. What is clear is that Mohieldin has no experience protecting anyone from poverty other than himself. How he qualifies as an advocate for the MDGs is a mystery, but it probably indicates the low priority now assigned both the MDGs and Mohieldin at the World Bank in 2013.
Michael Termini is International Officer for the Government Accountability Project, the nation's leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization.
In November, the U.S. Department of the Treasury issued two reports that contain information about the whistleblower protection records of the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs).
In part, these reports are responsive to a spring 2012 GAP petition that urged the Department to include these data in its future reports.
The reports contain useful information about the implementation record at four MDBs. Key findings include:
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According to one report, from January 2009 – July 2012 "233 staff and consultants made protected disclosures to INT [the Office of Institutional Integrity] of alleged misconduct." During this time period, the Bank's Office of Ethics and Business Conduct (EBC) received 26 whistleblower retaliation allegations. It appears that the EBC did not substantiate any of these allegations. The report also says that the final level of the Bank's internal grievance system, the Administrative Tribunal, received 13 cases of alleged whistleblower retaliation during this time period and found in favor of six of the applicants.
GAP has several observations about these statistics. First, on the positive side:
However, the figures also show that:
Moreover, the report could be strengthened by showing whether the Tribunal substantiated the whistleblowers' retaliation claims. Often, such cases involve not only allegations of retaliation, but also allegations of due process violations, and in GAP's experience, the Tribunal has been hesitant to substantiate retaliation, even in cases (i.e.: decision no. 448 and 437) in which it sided with the applicant on other claims. The statistic would also be more meaningful if it indicated whether the relief received by whistleblowers who prevail is comprehensive and covered the consequences of reprisal. Finally, the Treasury Department's report implies that the Bank's whistleblower policy is "consistent with international best practices." GAP disagrees.
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On September 13, 2012, Egypt's Administrative Court ruled that the selling of nearly 96% of the stake of Assiut Cement to a foreign investor (CEMEX, a global building materials firm based in Mexico accused of violating environmental laws in the United States) was illegal, and therefore invalid. The Court order that Assiut be returned to the people of Egypt.
In November 1999, the Mubarak regime sold Assiut Cement to CEMEX for 1.38 billion Egyptian Pounds (LE). At the time however, the book value of Assiut was LE 2.3 billion and its market value was nearly ten times as much: a staggering LE 13 billion. The court found that the procedures followed in this transaction were unlawful and resulted in the gross depletion of Egypt's national wealth. Two former employees of Assiut filed the case; they had been forced, along with others, to apply for early retirement. In protest, workers staged multiple strikes at the factory during 2012.
The court has now instructed Assiut to rehire all of the 2,545 workers (out of 3,777) whose employment contracts were terminated as a result of the fraudulent deal.
So, the Mubarak regime sold a valuable state-owned asset to a foreign investor for a fraction of its true value, costing Egypt billions and leaving thousands of its citizens without jobs. Does this pattern sound familiar? If not, it should – we have seen the same pattern in questionable privatization transactions executed not long after Assiut Cement was privatized. This all too familiar development is indicative of a longstanding practice in the country which was accelerated in part by the subject of GAP's own investigation into privatization fraud in Egypt: the former Minister of Investment, Mahmoud Mohieldin.
We began this investigation with the sale of the state-owned department chain in the country, Omar Effendi (OE). The Bank Information Center produced an in-depth report on that transaction. The sale of Omar Effendi was also annulled in May 2011 by the Administrative Court (our investigation into the OE affair and other dubious transactions involving Mohieldin can be found here, here, and here). Mohieldin himself remains free from scrutiny; he is a Managing Director at the World Bank, which refuses to release his financial disclosures – despite our repeated attempts to secure them.
Over the past weekend, the New York Times broke the story about electronic surveillance of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) whistleblowers by the agency itself. The Washington Post followed up today with the news that FDA lawyers approved the surveillance, which included:
…confidential letters to at least a half-dozen Congressional offices and oversight committees, drafts of legal filings and grievances, and personal e-mails…
At GAP, we've been defending John Kim, a World Bank whistleblower who exposed the details of debates internal to the Bank about weakening anti-corruption measures to be put in place. As part of their pursuit of Kim, World Bank investigators hacked his personal email account and read hundreds of non-Bank messages, including those between Kim and his family's attorney that were written five years before the incident purportedly under investigation. In any credible legal environment, these communications are protected by attorney client privilege … but that did not stop the World Bank's "Vice Presidency for Institutional Integrity" (INT).
Kim's attorney repeatedly requested the internal authorizations INT claimed to have secured from senior management to launch such invasive surveillance, but investigators never produced them. GAP could not determine whether the authorizations even existed, never mind whether they were at all limited in time and scope. The depth of the privacy invasion strongly suggested they were not.
The process was simple. INT deployed an off-the-shelf program – Encase – that costs a couple of hundred dollars and overrides passwords.
So, while "investigating" a 2008 leak, INT found that Kim had also leaked the information about the Bank's anti-corruption measures during the period when the press focused on Paul Wolfowitz's delinquent behavior as World Bank president. At the time, hundreds of Bank employees were leaking information about the Bank's internal debates to blogs, press, and GAP. Because the investigation didn't establish that Kim was the source of the 2008 leak, the Bank fired him in 2009 for whistleblowing about Wolfowitz years before.
World Bank headquarters in Washington, DCIn response to Richard Behar's article in Forbes, "The Fate of a World Bank Whistleblower," the World Bank claimed that GAP client John Kim, the subject of the piece, was not, in fact, a whistleblower. We at the Government Accountability Project (GAP) want to set the record straight. For 34 years, we've represented whistleblowers – thousands of them now – and we know one when we see one. John Kim was a whistleblower, and the World Bank fired him in order to punish him for telling the truth.
The World Bank makes much of the fact that a whistleblower protection policy is in place there. But it is a weak policy, riddled with loopholes. Kim's attorney therefore argued that Kim should be reinstated because he was a whistleblower and because, as a consequence of his whistleblowing, Bank management violated his rights as a staff member. The Administrative Tribunal ruled that the Bank violated Kim's rights, but the whistleblower policy failed to protect him. The ruling the Tribunal issued is thus silent on why Bank management picked John Kim, out of over 10,000 employees, to spy on, hack, marginalize and fire. The Tribunal simply ruled that this was what happened. At GAP we know that it happened because Kim made a public interest disclosure to the press about anti-corruption debates at the Bank. There was no other reason. The Bank did not present an alternative explanation and the Tribunal didn't ask for one.
To our knowledge – and we keep close track – since 2008, when the whistleblower protection policy was put in place at the World Bank, not a single whistleblower has been able to protect him or herself from retaliation using that policy in arguments before the Tribunal.
Bea Edwards is Executive Director of the Government Accountability Project, the nation's leading whistleblower protection and advocacy organization.
On June 5, in my last blog, I stressed the need to keep a close watch on the courts and ruling military government in Egypt. Since then, the urgency to do so has escalated. Underscored in that piece was the very real threat that the courts were incapable of enforcing the law, and that the iron fist of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak still had a grip, despite the revolution. My worry was that the Mubarak regime simply shifted form into the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), which then allowed many Mubarak holdovers to remain in government, most notably the generals, prosecutors and judges.
At the time of that last writing, the Egyptian courts themselves were already being tried by tens of thousands of distressed Egyptians in Tahrir Square – the symbolic epicenter of the revolution. On June 2, Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison for complicity in the deaths of unarmed protestors during the uprising. The ruling disappointed the families of the murdered demonstrators, since the Interior Ministry officials most directly responsible for their deaths were set free. Moreover, all of the additional charges of corruption levied against not only Mubarak, but his two sons Alla and Gamal, were also dropped. The sons of Mubarak however, as tracked in previous posts (here, here, here and here), remain in custody to apparently answer for charges of money laundering and insider trading. But is it at all realistic in this climate to believe that these charges, or similar ones pending against officials associated with the Mubarak regime, will actually go anywhere?
If SCAF has anything to say about it, the answer appears to be "no." Mubarak's own crimes were minimized by SCAF, which, despite its promise to transition the country to a legitimate democracy, is keeping its power intact while shoring up the very institutions and individuals the Egyptian people revolted against last year.
As president of Dartmouth University, President Obama's nominee to head the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, presides over extreme, traumatizing, pervasive, revolting and potentially illegal hazing at fraternities. Andrew Lohse, the whistleblower who exposed it, is now, alone, among those charged with misconduct, on the brink of expulsion.
Janet Reitman of Rolling Stone investigated Dartmouth's infamous fraternity system and described the violence, class privilege and ritual abuse that fraternity pledges must survive in order to join the clubs. On this site, we don't quite have the stomach to detail the particulars of hazing at Dartmouth, but suffice it to say that the customs mainly involve forcing the younger boys to wallow repeatedly in the bodily emissions of the older ones. Extreme binge drinking is, of course, part of the fun, as well as, inevitably, gang vomiting.
It is also common knowledge at Dartmouth that the frat boys at times fall back on date-rape drugs to romance their girlfriends. An un-named Dartmouth girl reported to Reitman having two drinks at a fraternity party:
The next thing she remembers is waking up in the hospital with an IV in her arm. "Apparently, security found me in front of the house. That was my introduction to the frats: passing out from drinking, waking up in the hospital and not having any idea what happened." What she did notice were bruises that looked like bites on her chest that hadn't been there before.
GAP's Shelley Walden holds the GAP & NTU petition in front of the Department of the TreasuryLast week, GAP delivered copies of our joint petition, Protect Whistleblowers at U.S. Taxpayer-Funded International Banks, to key officials at the Treasury Department and in Congress, in conjunction with Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner's testimony before the House Committee on Appropriations (State, Foreign Operations and Related Programs Subcommittee). This joint petition was produced with coalition partner National Taxpayers Union. Thank you to the more than 500 supporters who signed the petition!
Geithner was slated to testify about the reforms required by Congress as part of the U.S. contribution to the General Capital Increases at the Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). Unfortunately, Geithner failed to mention whistleblowers once in his testimony, despite the fact that the U.S. Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2012 requires the Treasury Department to report whether the World Bank, African Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank are making "substantial progress" toward "implementing" best practices for the protection of whistleblowers from retaliation before the U.S. can contribute tens of billions of dollars in cold cash and guarantees to bailout these institutions.
The Treasury Department recently released its report to Congress and unfortunately, it is not responsive to the whistleblower protection requirements in this legislation. Given that Congress is on the verge of contributing billions of dollars to the MDBs, one would think that Congress would have spent part of the hearing evaluating Treasury's report and determining whether the MDBs have complied with the reforms required. As sometimes happens, much of the hearing was devoted to unrelated issues.
Here at GAP, we were both shocked and pleased this morning to see that the World Bank advocates the public disclosure of financial assets by public officials as an effective anti-corruption measure.
Disclosure by public officials of their income, assets and interests should be mandated if the fight against corruption is to succeed, according to a study released today by the Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative of the World Bank and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
Does this mean that the Bank itself will release the long-sought financial disclosure records of its Managing Director Mahmoud Mohieldin? We sure hope so. Mohieldin, you will recall, was the Minister of investment under the corrupt regime of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. He was lucky enough to depart the country six months before the revolution that sent the Mubarak family to jail and sentenced Mohieldin's fellow Ministers to lengthy prison terms.
GAP requested the public disclosure of Mohieldin's financial assets after a whistleblower in Cairo called attention to his central role in a badly flawed and ultimately annulled privatization project. Allegations of fraud related to the privatization were also widely publicized. The whistleblower claimed that Moheildin and his staff sold a government company to a private investor for half of its real value.
We made the first request for Mohieldin's financial information, which he was to make to the Bank as a condition of his hire, through the Bank's Access to Information program. GAP received the following response:
Specifically the information you request is covered by the "Personal Information" exception under the AI Policy. However, we would like to inform you that the summary of such information for the calendar year 2010 will be disclosed in due course through the World Bank Annual Report. For the calendar year 2009, you can find the summary of such information publicly available at: http://go.worldbank.org/MXXC54C2X0.


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While Oklahoma may have been one of the last states to ban cockfighting, one of our very own is in position to decide if the federal animal-fighting law will be effective or filled with loopholes.
Congressman Frank Lucas, whose district covers nearly half of Oklahoma, is chairman of the House Agriculture committee. There is legislation before his committee that would close a loophole in the federal animal fighting law by prohibiting attendance at animal fights and providing elevated penalties for bringing a child to an animal fight. The bill is called the Animal Fighting Spectator Prohibition Act, and it is championed by Reps. Tom Marino, R-Pa., and Betty Sutton, D-Ohio, as well as Sens. Richard Blumenthal, D-Mass., Mark Kirk, R-Ill., Scott Brown, R-Mass., David Vitter, R-La., and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.
We encourage Congressman Lucas to join the 228 House co-sponsors, 300 law enforcement agencies and numerous animal lovers that strongly support this legislation.
Spectators finance illegal animal fights with their admission fees. It is the large sums of money that spectators gamble away at dog fights and cockfights that attract this criminal element to the pits that litter our communities. Spectators are the key component of a profitable dogfighting pit. Worse, children are all too often brought to witness the cruelty. The message these children receive is that laws don't matter, cruelty is acceptable and that animal life is expendable for something as frivolous as a cheap bet between friends.
Under Oklahoma state law, it is illegal to attend an animal fight. Most animal-fighting raids are handled by local law enforcement, and that is how it should be. Yet there are a handful of cases that are handled by federal law enforcement, usually the USDA. Some animal fighting rings are multi-jurisdictional, operating across numerous state lines. Your local sheriff cannot drive into Texas and start interviewing witnesses.
In those cases, federal intervention is warranted and federal prosecutors deserve the same sort of animal-fighting law that Oklahoma district attorney's enjoy.
The thought of dogs ripping at each other's necks in a bloody fight to the death, or a rooster with a razor-sharp knife tied to his leg slicing through his opponent's chest, has led to passionate opposition to animal fighting among most of the general public. Because so many of these criminal animal-fighting rings operate in an interstate manner was the reason a federal animal-fighting law was passed in 1976.
Yet what we have seen when the federal law has been used is that dogfighters and cockfighters abandon their animals at the first sign of a raid. They claim to be spectators so as to avoid prosecution. It is time to close that loophole and ensure that the entire cast of characters at animal fights is prosecuted.
No more loopholes. Congressman Lucas, the ball is in your court. Make us proud and help get this done before year-end.
Grantz is executive director of Enid SPCA.
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When is my plane due to Renew or Re-Register?
Aircraft registration renewal is due three years after the aircraft was registered or last renewed. The registration renewal due date is scheduled five months before registration expires.
You can determine the due date for your renewal application using the Aircraft Registration Renewal Schedule shown below. In the first column, find the expiration date shown on your aircraft's Certificate of Aircraft Registration or in the on-line look up an N-number web page, then follow across the schedule to the third column titled Renewal Application Due Date, for the date that applies for your aircraft.
2013 | Aircraft Registration Renewal Schedule | 2014 | ||
For Registrations That Expire on This Date |
A Renewal Notice Will be Mailed On or About This Date |
New Certificate Expiration Date |
Oct, 31, 2013 | May, 01, 2013 | Jun, 01, 2013 | Aug, 31, 2013 | Oct, 31, 2016 |
Nov, 30, 2013 | Jun, 01, 2013 | Jul, 01, 2013 | Sep, 30, 2013 | Nov, 30, 2016 |
Dec, 31, 2013 | Jul, 01, 2013 | Aug, 01, 2013 | Oct, 31, 2013 | Dec, 31, 2016 |
Jan, 31, 2014 | Aug, 01, 2013 | Sep, 01, 2013 | Nov, 30, 2013 | Jan, 31, 2017 |
Feb, 29, 2014 | Sep, 01, 2013 | Oct, 01, 2013 | Dec, 31, 2013 | Feb, 29, 2017 |
Mar, 31, 2014 | Oct, 01, 2013 | Nov, 01, 2013 | Jan, 31, 2014 | Mar, 31, 2017 |
Apr, 30, 2014 | Nov, 01, 2013 | Dec, 01, 2013 | Feb, 29, 2014 | Apr, 30, 2017 |
May, 31, 2014 | Dec, 01, 2013 | Jan, 01, 2014 | Mar, 31, 2014 | May, 31, 2017 |
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Dec, 31, 2014 | Jul, 01, 2014 | Aug, 01, 2014 | Oct, 31, 2014 | Dec, 31, 2017 |
An aircraft may not be operated unless a new registration certificate has been issued, and is carried in the aircraft. | This renewal notice contains the on-line application code and is mailed only to the address on file as of this date. | Renewal applications are due by mail or by on-line filing on this date. | When a good application is not filed at the Registry by this date, renewal certificates may be delivered after the old certificate expires. | These expiration dates will be shown on a renewal certificate when the renewal application is filed at the Registry before the old certificate expires. |
When is my plane due for Re-registration?
Aircraft issued registration before October 1, 2010, that are to continue operating as a U.S. civil aircraft, must file a re-registration application with the FAA Aircraft Registry in accordance with the schedule shown below. This will enable the new registration certificate to be issued before the old registration certificate expires.
Aircraft Re-Registration Schedule
If the Certificate was issued in: | The Certificate Expires: | The Owner must apply for re-registration between these dates, - to allow for delivery of a new certificate before expiration. |
December of any year | June 30,2013 | February 1,2013 and April 30, 2013 |
January of any year | September,30,2013 | May 1, 2013 and July 31, 2013 |
February of any year | December 31, 2013 | August 1, 2013 and October 31, 2013 |
March through November of any year | The certificate has expired. | Application for registration may be made under 14 CFR § 47.35 |
To see when your aircraft's registration certificate was issued look up your registration here.
Will the FAA notify owners when it is time to Re-Register and Renew Registration?
Yes, the FAA Aircraft Registration Branch will send courtesy notices to the registered owner(s) of an aircraft at the mailing address on file. The notices will be mailed six months prior to their aircraft's registration expiration date. Owners should receive the notice before the opening of a three month window established for them to file their re-registration or renewal application. Filing an aircraft's re-registration or renewal application during the designated window allows time for processing the application and the delivery of a new certificate before the old certificate expires. Filing at the beginning of the window allows for the correction of application errors and replacement of certificates that were misdirected during delivery.
Is this the only notice that will be sent?
No. If the aircraft is not re-registered or renewed before the close of the designated filing window, the FAA will send a second courtesy notice advising the owner of the pending expiration and their options. A third notice will be sent when an aircraft's registration expires. It will inform the owner that the N-number assigned to the aircraft will be cancelled if the aircraft is not registered within 30 days.
Can I send in my application early?
Re-registration and renewal applications may be filed as much as 30 days before the three month filing window. Applications made more than 30 days early will be returned to the registered owner with instructions to re-file the application and fee during the assigned time interval. Fees sent with a premature application will be refunded under separate cover. It is advised to file at the beginning of the assigned window. This will allow time to resolve any issue that may arise and delay the new certificates arrival.
Can re-registration and renewal be completed on-line?
Yes, most aircraft owners should be able to re-register their aircraft or renew their registration on-line. The first notice sent will have a code that enables on-line application, provided the aircraft's current ownership and registration address(es) match what is shown in FAA records, the ownership still meets citizenship requirements, and the $5 fee can be paid by credit card. Please proceed carefully; the on-line code is good for one use only.
Can I mail my Re-Registration or Renewal form? / What's the address?
Yes, you can apply for re-registration by mail. Anyone who has registration changes to report or does not apply online during the suggested window will have to send their application by mail. The blank, forms are available on our registration Forms Page and may be completed on line.
For U.S. Postal Service regular and Priority mail use:
FAA Aircraft Registration Branch AFS-750 PO Box 25504 Oklahoma City, OK 73125-0504
For Overnight or Commercial Delivery Services, use:
FAA Aircraft Registration Branch AFS-750 6425 S Denning Rm 118 Oklahoma City, OK 73169-6937
What is the Re-registration / Renewal fee? How do I make Fee payments?
The re-registration and renewal fees are both $5.00 per aircraft. Fees for on-line transactions are paid through Pay.Gov which accepts Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover credit cards. If you are mailing your application and payment, please pay by check or money order made payable to the Federal Aviation Administration.
How does the on-line Re-registration / Renewal web page work?
Upon receiving the "Notice: Expiration of Aircraft Registration letter", the aircraft owner will access the Aircraft Re-registration / Renewal web page at http://registry.faa.gov/renewregistration/. In the "Let's get started" box enter the aircraft's N-number and the re-registration/security code into the indicated spaces, then select Next". Depending on the type of code you are issued, this will display either a Re-registration or Renewal application filled out with the information then on file with the FAA Aircraft Registration Branch for this aircraft. The page also offers the owner the option to affirm that no changes to the registration information shown are needed or that there is a change to be reported. Before selecting an option, carefully review the information shown.
If you find that: the aircraft description matches your aircraft; the owner or owners' names* are listed properly; the mailing address and physical address are correct; the owner(s) still meets citizenship requirements under 14 CFR §47.3; and the aircraft is not registered in another country; then you should affirm that no changes are needed to this registration by selecting that bar. This will take you to a page where you may proceed with payment, or to add the first aircraft to your cart and proceed to the re-registration or renewal of another aircraft. Follow the instructions and select the links appropriate to your situation.
If you find that: there is an unreported change in address or ownership*; a loss of qualifying citizenship status by an owner; or the aircraft is registered in another country; then select the bar indicating that there are changes to report. This will redisplay the form with active fields for you to enter your updates or report changes. When you are finished making your entries; print the form, sign it, and mail it to the FAA Aircraft Registry at the address shown on the form. If only an address has changed and the aircraft will remain registered in your name, include the $5.00 re-registration/renewal fee with your form. Before signing the form, please review the Helpful Information" section on the right side of the form to verify who should sign, the title signers should show, and to find direction to further assistance if needed.
* The Re-Registration and Renewal Application forms only have room to show the first two owners of an aircraft. To verify the names of any additional owners, you can look up an N-number on-line and review the names shown as other owners. From the Re-Registration / Renewal web pages in the left margin under Aircraft Inquiry" select Online". This link will take you to the Aircraft Inquiry page. Select N-Number" to bring up the N-Number Inquiry page. Enter the N-number of your aircraft in the space provided and select the "Submit" button. This will bring up the aircraft registration information page for your aircraft, you may have to scroll down to see Other Owner Names.
Is there a way to pay for multiple on-line re-registration or renewal actions with one credit card payment?
Yes. The on-line re-registration / Renewal web page now accepts as many as 25 re-registration actions in one session. This includes accepting payment of the multiple re-registration fees in one on-line credit card transaction. The aircraft must be due for re-registration or renewal according to the applicable schedule, and the window for on-line re-registration applications must still be open.
I can't find my online re-registration / renewal security code, can I get it resent or by phone?
No, the code is sent once with the first notice of registration expiration. It can not be re-issued or provided by phone. You may re-register your aircraft following the instructions under "How do I re-register without the code provided in the notice letter?"
How do I re-register / renew without the code provided in the notice letter?
If you did not receive the notice with the on-line re-registration / security code, if your designated filing window has closed, or you have a registration change to report then you must mail your re-registration or renewal application and fee. Select Look up an N-number from the Do you want to..?" box on the right side of the Aircraft Registration page. Enter your aircraft's N-Number in the space provided and select "Submit" to perform an N-number inquiry for your aircraft. Review the registration information shown for your aircraft; the names of the owners, the mailing address, the type of registration and status. It may be useful to print the results page.
Return to the Aircraft Registration" web page, and select the link for "Aircraft Registration Forms". From the Registration Forms List select AC Form 8050-1A Aircraft Re-Registration Application if you are re-registering you aircraft. Select AC Form 8050-1B Aircraft Registration Renewal Application, if you are renewing your aircraft's registration. Both forms may be filled out on-line. Complete the top half of the form using the information from the N-number inquiry. If your mailing or physical address has changed, enter the new address in the spaces provided. If your mailing address is a P.O. Box then you must also provide a physical address. Check the box for the appropriate certification statement, print the form, and sign it as appropriate for the aircraft's type of registration. Send the form and the $5 re-registration fee to the FAA Aircraft Registration Branch at the address shown.
Does the expiration of registration affect the leases, liens, security agreements already on file at the FAA Aircraft Registration Branch?
14 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 49 - Recording of Aircraft Titles and Security Documents, provides regulations for the recording of certain conveyances affecting an interest in U.S. registered aircraft. The validity of any instrument recordable under this part such as a bill of sale, lease, lien, or security instrument is governed by the laws of the State, possession, Puerto Rico, or District of Columbia in which the instrument was delivered. This rule did not make any change to Part 49, and the Aircraft Registration Branch does not anticipate any changes in the examination and processing of these instruments. It is notable that an aircraft with expired registration is not registered, which means new instruments may not be recorded until the aircraft is again registered. However, when an aircraft's registration expires, the recorded bills of sale, liens, leases, and security interests that are part of the aircraft record will remain a part of that record. Recorded instruments will be available for review during periods of expiration as they are now following the sale, export, registration cancellation, and even the demise of the aircraft.
Does expiration of registration affect an aircraft's airworthiness certificate?
Because an aircraft with an expired registration is not registered, its airworthiness certification would be considered ineffective. Without registration the aircraft is not authorized for flight. Once registration is restored, the airworthiness certificate not having been surrendered, revoked or terminated would become effective again provided it was otherwise compliant with maintenance, inspections, and any other requirements for an effective airworthiness. If you have further questions please contact an airworthiness inspector through your nearest Flight Standards District Office.


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We observe, from the example of the Roman Consuls in restoring harmony between the patricians and plebeians of Ardea, the means for obtaining that object, which is none other than to kill the chiefs of the opposing factions. In fact, there are only three ways of accomplishing it; the one is to put the leaders to death, as the Romans did, or to banish them from the city, or to reconcile them to each other under a pledge not to offend again. Of these three ways, the last is the worst, being the least certain and effective; for it is impossible that, after dissensions that have caused so much bloodshed and other outrages, a forced peace should be enduring. The parties meeting each other daily face to face will with difficulty abstain from mutual insults, and in their daily intercourse fresh causes for quarrel will constantly occur.
The city of Pistoja furnishes a most striking example in point. Fifteen years ago that city was divided into two factions, the Panciatichi and the Cancellieri, and this division continues to the present day; but then they were in arms, whilst now they have laid them down. After many disputes, they had come to bloodshed, to the pulling down of houses, plundering each other's property, and every other kind of hostilities; and the Florentines, upon whom it devolved to restore order in that city, always employed for that purpose the third means, namely, conciliation, which, however, invariably led to greater troubles and disorders. So that, tired of this method, they resorted to the second; that is, they removed the chiefs of the factions by imprisoning some and exiling others to various places; and thus they succeeded in restoring order in a manner that could and does endure to this day. Doubtless, however, the first means (that of putting the chiefs of the factions to death) would have been the most effectual, but would have required a power and courage not to be expected from a feeble republic like Florence, which could with difficulty employ even the second method.
These, as I have said in the beginning, are some of the errors which the princes of our day are apt to commit. When they are called upon on great occasions to take decided measures, they ought to examine the conduct of the ancients on similar occasions. But the weakness of the princes of the present day, caused by an effeminate education and want of instruction, makes them regard the maxims of the ancients as inhuman, or impossible of application. And certainly modern opinions are very far from the truth when they maintain, as some wise men of our city did not long since, that "Pistoja must be controlled by means of factions, and Pisa by means of fortresses." They do not see that both of these means would have been equally useless. I will say nothing here of fortresses, having discussed that subject at length in a former chapter; but I will show how nothing is to be gained by attempting to control cities by means of keeping alive factions. For it is impossible either for prince or republic to preserve an equal influence over both the old factions, it being in the nature of man in all differences of opinion to prefer either the one side or the other. Thus, one of the parties being malcontent, you will lose the city on the occasion of the first war, it being impossible to hold it against enemies from without and within. If the government of the city is a republic, then there is no surer way of corrupting the citizens, and to divide the city against itself, than to foment the spirit of faction that may prevail there; for each party will strive by every means of corruption to secure friends and supporters, which gives rise to two most serious evils: first, that a government which changes often, according to the caprice of the one or the other faction, can never be good, and consequently never can secure to itself the good will and attachment of its citizens; and, secondly, that such favoring of factions keeps the republic of necessity divided. The historian Biondo attests the truth of this when he says, in speaking of the Florentines and Pistojans: "The Florentines, whilst endeavoring to restore harmony in Pistoja, became divided amongst themselves." The evils resulting from such a division are manifest. In the year 1501, Florence lost Arezzo, the Val di Tevere, and the Val di Chiana, which were taken from her by the Vitelli and the Duke Valentino. The king of France sent a Seigneur de Lant to cause a restitution to the Florentines of all the places they had lost. The Seigneur de Lant, finding in all the castles only men claiming to belong to the party of Marzocco,* censured this division most severely, saying that, if in France any one of the subjects were to call himself of the king's party, he would immediately be punished, because such a remark could have no other meaning than that there were people in the country who were opposed to the king, who wanted the whole realm to be his friends, and that it should be united and without parties. But all these diversities of opinion and modes of governing spring from the weakness of those who are at the head of governments, and who, lacking the requisite force and energy to preserve their states, resort to such expedients; which in times of tranquillity may occasionally be of service, but when trouble and adversity come, then their fallacy becomes manifest.
[* ]Marzocco was the name familiarly given by the people of Florence to the marble lion supporting the arms of Florence, at the door of the Palazzo Vecchio. Thence the party supporting the government of Florence was called the party of Marzocco. The marble lion is attributed to the chisel of Donatello.


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This is a quality pack that will last for a long time.
- Excellent ventilation
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This is a great durable pack for those day long hikes as you would expect since it is a day pack. Its air flow back is very comfortable in the summer but it does push the pack a few inches off your back which can cause some back pain by the end of a hike if you're carrying a heavier load.
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