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The answer is really simple and there is no reason for a bias.This is the situation:SourceThe Oruc Reis is presently in the sea region south of Kastelorizo (red arrow). The region is according to Greece part of its shelf and according to Turkey part of its EEZ.This whole debate stems from the question about whether the Greek Aegean islands can exert a shelf and EEZ. In accordance to UNCLOS (the UN Convention and Laws of the Sea) islands do have both a shelf and EEZ. According to Turkey that is not a signatory they don’t (unless they are the north part of Cyprus).When two parties disagree on the implementation of an International Law, Convention, or Treaty they usually enter a dialogue based on said Law and they either settle disputes using mutual compromises (the way Greece and Egypt recently did), or they go to the International Court of Justice to arbitrate, as was done in the Canada–France Maritime Boundary Case regarding the overseas French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon.What they don’t do is send an oil/gas exploration ship accompanied by military vessels in the disputed area. You may think that this sentence is biased but don’t take my word for it. Here’s what the US State Department said:"The United States is aware that Turkey has issued a NAVTEX for research in disputed waters in the Eastern Mediterranean. We urge Turkish authorities to halt any plans for operations and to avoid steps that raise tensions in the region."That was a statement back in July 22 when the Oruc Reis did not leave the port of Antalya to conduct operations.Just a few days later it did even with this US addendum to the same statement:“The United States is deeply concerned by Turkey’s stated plans to survey for natural resources in areas over which Greece and Cyprus assert jurisdiction in the Eastern Mediterranean. Such actions are provocative and raise tensions in the region”Now, before anyone says anything about the US and its role, I specifically picked the US and its State Department not because I like them or their policies, but because it is (in)famous for keeping equal distances and not taking sides regarding any Greco-Turkish brawl at any cost. Not to mention that this is a Trump government State Department and we know the close ties between the current US President and the President of Turkey.

You can sue. It may be difficult to show that any wrong doing was knowingly done on the landlords part. Key reason, they let family members in, not strangers. I’m sure that there may have been some statement made by those individuals that it was ok. Your specific situation aside, there’s an easy fix. I put a section in all of my lease contracts that states if all the occupants of the property that has been leased, over the age of 18, pass away, whom is allowed to come and close out the place for them. Anyone can, and I suggest that everyone does, ask that this sort of information is added into the lease contract. At a minimum it can be added as an addendum to the lease. Know that, based upon state law, a landlord still has the right to collect finial rent until the property has been properly cleared, if the rent is not paid, they still hold the right to consider the property abandoned and use that property as a means to gain the value of the lost rent.I have had a few tenants pass away while renting from me. In a couple of cases there were no know realitives and nobody wanted to come and clear out the apartment. Once, family wanted to pick through and take the ‘good stuff’ and then leave the ‘trash’ behind for us to clean up. Fortunately my manager at the time was savvy to this fact and stated that the contents would be boxed up by ‘his crew’ and they could come with a vehicle to remove ALL the contents. The family declined. Mind you, the rent was two months overdue at this time. Fortunately we got a family that had suffered a total fire loss come to us to rent a few days later. After removing personal contents and returning those to the family we allowed the destitute family move in on a furnished apartment with food in the cupboards and everything.

Whoa, the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine is still around. This takes me back.Back in 1998, I got a mailing that included a very professional looking paper casting doubt on the link between human activities and global warming. Two things about the paper caught my eye. First was its source: it was mailed from the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine in Cave Junction, Oregon. Now it so happens I ’ve been to Cave Junction. It's a wide spot in the road, so called because there's a turnoff for Oregon Caves National Monument. Cave Junction is not a major population center, much less the site of a university or major research labs.The paper was called Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide by Arthur B. Robinson, Sallie E. Baliunas, Willie Soon and Zachary W. Robinson. It had a lot of interesting graphs of carbon dioxide and temperature trends, and looked for all the world like a reprint from a journal. Same type fonts, similar paper stock, the works. The problem came when I looked for a citation, because if I were going to use any of this information, I would certainly need to provide a citation. And all scientific reprints have one, either at the beginning, the end, or on the top or bottom margin of each page. This one didn't. Now if you want to disseminate information, you can simply photocopy your paper and send it out. Even some high-class journals do this. But this one was professionally printed, folded, and stapled on the spine. Someone had gone to a lot of trouble to make this look like a published scientific paper. And that bothered me. I filed the paper away.So in October, 2007, I got a mailing that was deja vu all over again. This one was from the Petition Project. It had a cover letter by Frederic Seitz, President Emeritus of Rockefeller University and past President of the National Academy of Sciences, asking me to sign a petition urging Congress to reject the Kyoto Accords. There was a petition card, and there was a reprint, this one on glossy paper, in color, and again bearing the address Cave Junction, Oregon. This article, also titled Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, was by Arthur B. Robinson, Noah E. Robinson and Willie Soon. This one did bear a citation, from Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (2007), vol. 12, pp. 79-90.Just to close the circle, the first two references cited in the paper were to Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide by Arthur B. Robinson, Sallie E. Baliunas, Willie Soon and Zachary W. Robinson, in Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (1998; then known as the Medical Sentinel, vol. 3, pp. 171-178), and Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide by Willie Soon, Sallie E. Baliunas, Arthur B. Robinson, and Zachary W. Robinson, in Climate Research (1999, vol. 3, p. 149-164). (I'll say this - they make bibliographic searches easy!) So it's possible the 1998 paper was a preprint or reprint of the Medical Sentinel paper.A scan of the journal's contents shows very little real science. It may well be that the two papers on climate change are the most scientific papers the journal has ever published. There are a lot of articles critical of medical peer review and government regulation. And there are a host of tangential articles and book reviews favorable to far right and libertarian ideology. I could see a medical journal publishing a review of an extreme book like The Bell Curve that was widely publicized and had a bearing on medicine, but what serious medical journal would ever have a reason to review books on privatization of roads, the Minutemen, the 101 most dangerous academics (I was excluded both from this and People's list of sexiest men. O the injustice!), or a hostile revisionist work on Lincoln?A New York Times story dated April 22, 1998 stated:The National Academy of Sciences has taken the extraordinary step of disassociating itself from a statement and petition circulated by one of its former presidents that attack the scientific conclusions underlying international efforts to control emissions of industrial waste gases believed to cause global warming.Many atmospheric scientists and ecologists who believe global warming to be a serious threat had expressed anger and alarm over the article because it was printed in a format and type face similar to that of the academy's own journal, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [emphasis mine] In his letter, Dr. Seitz, a longtime skeptic on the question of global warming, also identified himself as a past academy president.So there’s a good reason the 1998 paper looked like a legitimate reprint except for the all-important citation. It was a counterfeit.A Global Warming CounterfeitBack when I reviewed those “papers,” their petition had only 650 signatures. Only 16% had credentials even marginally related to climate change.650 Climate Skeptics?Judging from the links here to current analyses, nothing has changed. There’s no consensus against climate change, and the vast majority of signatories have no credentials in climate change whatever. It’s just another counterfeit.AddendumCave Junction has no university of major research facilities, but last time I checked on OISM, they did get funding for various research on things like disaster preparedness.