According to Patrick Kelley, Wee Kee Jin and Yek Sing Ong (all personal students of Master Huang), it is THE fundamental exercise of the Huang system and the one the old man himself considered to be the quintessential exercise for understanding his system.
If you like the Dan Harden terminologi, I find this exercise to be working the misogi way of utilizing opposing forces while also fantastic for working on song qua and being mindfuld of tension in the lower back. At least initially - there are different levels, but this is the basic version.
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It is a basic exercise, but also covers important aspects that so many people lack. I like it.
I would much rather see a basic exercise done correctly than a complicated one done poorly. And if you go back to the source of the problem usually it's because they spent more time training other things rather than the basics. Foundation is key.
The problem is when foundations are delivered without any connection to a measurable end goal. Maybe there is some degree of concern that if the desired outcome was properly articulated then students would go off and find a more efficient way to acheive it on their own.
It isn't really working yet - I believe it launches in late may.
Is this the exercise you mentioned Wayne?
GrahamB: That the exercise physically might seem simple, does not necessarily imply that what is going on internally is simple or easy, and the exercise without benefit. Standing is deceptively simple from the outside too, yet it is the cornorstone in, and gateway to, many internal systems and their principles such as six direction training, breathwork etc.
northern_mantis: I am no expert, but I find the exercises in the Huang tradition very good for the purpose of getting connected to the ground in a "heavy" way, and releasing excessive muscular tension, which have a way of blocking the internal connections in the body. This leads to (one kind) of connection and physical stability.
But getting "vertically connected" through exercises such as this makes it easier to begin getting "horisontally connected" via six direction training, is my experience.
I'm constantly amazed by how many people are satisfied with so little.
I know nothing about Huang Taiji but I have read about him but what I saw from the 'neigong' piece is in line with pre exercise (for lack of a better word) routine that one starts before actual taijiquan practice. They tend to mimic a format of yu bei shi (beginning stance(s) where one raises the hands in various quadrants (sides/front/daigonal raising) with lowering and raising with and without hands and at times raising within lowereing and lowering within raising. At best, it mimics 8 shi taijiquan as individual posture(s) practice!
Torben starts out with the Huang stuff, because it provides a good foundation for working with Sam Tam's stuff.
It helps to remove brakes in your system and is a tried and true way and accessible way of learning basic movement patterns, learning to use intent, to what being connected feels like, using as little muscular force as possible, learning what a "groundpath" is and other basic but necessary steps.
Working on expansion, inflation, dantian etc. without first having "flesh hanging from the bones" runs the risk of just creating unnecessary tension, dis-connect and being an ineffective process. Remove brakes before pushing the speeder.
Wayne hansen: You ask why he doesn't cross his hands in the earlier video.
Are you maybe thinking of this exercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgvDBUXuEWE&t=8s ?
If so, they are unrelated exercises. I do not know how prevalent the practice of it is. Some of the Huang students following master Jeng from Peace Park in Taiwan practice it, and Patrick Kelly knows it as well, although I have heard he doesn't teach it for whatever reason.
I think that while good, there are certain internal principles that are best realized in classic standing positions, rather than these loosening exercises. But it depends on what part of the internal on focuses on as well, of course.
Focusing on these things however is easily countered by someone with more, perhaps better, tools in the internal toolbox - which is why high level master Huang practitioners like Wee Kee Jin are easily controlled by people like Sam Tam.
Is there a video of the movement done the way you are talking about it, Wayne?


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The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (SIVAPCD) held a workshop on July 26 to obtain comments and launch the public comment period on the district's proposal to amend Rule 2201 (New and Modified Stationary Source Review (NSR) Rule). The district is proposing to amend Rule 2201 to respond to comments received from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the district's February 18, 2016, amendments.
In February of this year, the district adopted previous amendments to Rule 2201 as a requirement for the district's reclassification from moderate to serious non-attainment for the 1997 and 2006 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS, or standards) for particulate matter. These amendments included replacing the name "Routine Replacement" with "Replacement Emissions Unit" and removing the term "routine" from the definition in section 3.35.
However, CARB rejected the removal of "routine" believing this could be a relaxation of the district's NSR Rule that would not be allowed by California Health and Safety Code and refused to okay the rule for inclusion in the State Implementation Plan.
In response to CARB's concern, the district is proposing to amend section 3.35 by reintroducing the term "routine" and changing the name from "Replacement Emissions Unit" to "Routine Replacement Emissions Unit." The district believes that the proposed amendments to section 3.35 do not change the district's longstanding interpretation and implementation, and are consistent with the current SIP-approved Rule 2201 (amended April 21, 2011)—satisfying both the original comment from EPA and the recent comment from CARB.
Other proposed changes to Rule 2201:
1. Temporary Replacement Emissions Unit Definition
The district is proposing to amend District Rule 2201, section 3.41 to clarify that the existing unit being replaced by a Temporary Replacement Emissions Unit must have a valid District Permit to Operate. Also, the district noted that ongoing equipment development may result in discontinued manufacturing of units in need of replacement and that new offerings by the manufacturer may have a higher rated capacity. In such situations, the district proposes that rated capacity of replacements adding up to 10% will be exempt from BACT requirements as well.
2. Federal Major Modification Definition
Federal Rules (40 CFR 51.165) contains provisions that do not allow "netting out" of Federal Major Modification requirements for VOC and NOx emissions increases in an extreme ozone non-attainment area. The district is proposing to amend District Rule 2201, section 3.18.1 by including additional rule language that clarifies the Federal Major Modification calculation requirements, consistent with the district's current practice.
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Gibson P. fit 40 animal crackers in his open mouth.
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Andy Norris, from distributors Viking Arms, has made some great memories with his own K3
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Leaked NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 series specs are monstrous
With a total of 4,352 CUDA cores, the RTX 2080 Ti will be a monster for gaming enthusiasts.
NVIDIA is largely expected to make a splash at Gamescom next week with a new set of graphics cards, something the GPU maker not-so-subtly hinted at earlier this week. And now we may have an idea of the monstrous specs in store for gamers, thanks to a new leak.
According to the folks at VideoCardz.com, NVIDIA is set to debut not only the new RTX 2080 but also its high-performance sibling, the RTX 2080 Ti. Typically NVIDIA leaves a gap between the release of its base series and its Ti brethren, so it's surprising to see they're potentially set to be announced together.
But digging into the specs, things get pretty interesting. According to the report, the RTX 2080 Ti will include 4,352 CUDA cores, along with 11GB of 352-bit memory with a total bandwidth of 616 GB/s. For comparison, the current 1080 Ti packs 3,584 Cuda cores and 11GB of 352-bit memory at 484 GB/s.
Meanwhile, the RTX 2080 tones things down a bit with 2,944 Cuda cores and 8GB of 256-bit memory with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s. That's greater than the current GTX 1080, which sports 2,560 Cuda cores with 8GB of 256-bit memory at 352 GB/s.
Both models are expected to be built on NVIDIA's new Turing GPU architecture, which the company initially debuted this week with its Quadro RTX cards for professionals. The Turing architecture includes new capabilities ranging from hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing, AI, and more.
Lastly, VideoCardz.com offered an early look at a Gigabyte RTX card featuring a triple-fan setup. You can check out the shots below:
If you're hyped for NVIDIA's upcoming RTX cards, we'll know much more when the company's Gamescom event kicks off next week at 6 p.m. CET (12 p.m. ET) on August 20.
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Anurr two hunner an' twinty-two. Jist fur you, an' you, an' you.
by Angus Shoor Caan
The limerick is thought to take its name from the City of Limerick in Eire. It became popular in the mid-nineteenth century after the London-born poet Edward Lear published his Book of Nonsense. So it's a type of poem named after an Irish city and it was first popularised by an Englishman. But what do you call a limerick that's been written by a Scotsman? Why, a McLimerick, of course!
Coont Thum Five is a collection of over 200 McLimericks. They've all been penned by the Ayrshire writer and poet Angus Shoor Caan as a follow-up to his earlier collections of McLimericks, Coont Thum, Coont Thum Again, Still Coontin' and Four Hunner an' Coontin'.
In true Scots fashion, the McLimericks in all five collections are witty, irreverent and sometimes bawdy. In fact, we at McStorytellers, the website dedicated to showcasing the work of Scottish-connected short story writers, were so tickled by them that we rushed to publish them. We hope you'll be tickled by them as well.
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Becoming 'the next Pat Hughes'
Tony Miller is currently the sports information director at Goshen College. Photo contributed by Comm-Mar.
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Tony Miller—my brother—was born to Lyle and Bonnie Miller on May 2, 1993. Now 22 years old, he spent the first month of his life in Memorial Hospital of South Bend. It was determined within a year of his birth that he had cerebral palsy, a condition that, in his case, affects fine motor skills and his ability to walk.
While Tony was in the hospital, our parents would spend as much time with him as they possibly could. Due mostly to jobs, they were not able to spend every minute of every day with him, so they recorded cassette tapes of their voices.
"We would read him stories," our father, Lyle, told me. "But there are only so many stories we can read." Lyle would often read out of the media guide from his favorite Major League Baseball team, the Minnesota Twins. "This was not an attempt to get him to like the Twins," he said. "This was just a way to get him to hear our voices."
When Tony came home, he spent many evenings home with our father, while our mother was at work. Lyle would spend time talking to him about sports, watching Jeopardy and reading stories. These activities exposed Tony to a world of words.
Tony recognized at a young age that he would never be able to participate in sports in the same way that most kids would. His physical limitations meant that mobility was often a struggle for him.
However, Miller also realized that varsity baseball was not the only way to participate in sports. "Most boys growing up dream of playing baseball professionally," said Tony. "I, however, wanted to be the next Pat Hughes. I remember the first baseball game I watched on television. I was in the dining room at home watching game seven of the 1997 World Series and realizing that people get paid to talk about baseball. I knew that was what I wanted to do."
At age four, Tony set his mind to that dream.
Throughout his childhood Tony was involved in sports in many settings. He would attend as many sporting events as possible and write game notes of plays. He would keep a scorebook of my Little League baseball games, and began operating the scoreboard for middle school basketball during his fifth grade year at Chandler Elementary.
Tony continued his love of sports through high school. He operated the scoreboard for as many sports as he could during high school, which resulted in nine varsity letters.
"I had the third most varsity letters in my graduating class—nine." Miller said, "Without ever setting foot on the playing surface during competition."
His senior year at Bethany Christian High School, Miller did his senior job shadowing with Josh Gleason, the current athletic director at Goshen College and the previous sports information director.
Gleason recognized Tony's potential. "Tony had a way of picking up on ways of keeping stats that was remarkably fast," Gleason said. "That was something I remembered when he gave his application for sports information director when the position opened up a little over a year ago."
In September, Tony became the sports information director at Goshen College. "He has a memory for all sorts of details," said Gleason. "He also has been in Goshen his whole life. He knows this program in a way that most 20-year-olds would not. His brain is detail-oriented and thorough. In addition, he has top-notch writing skills and a memory for stats that is one of the best I have seen."
For example, Tony claims that his favorite form of citation is Chicago style, "because the citation manual is massive," he said, holding his hands 16 inches apart.
When you step foot into Tony's office, it appears as if he never leaves. The desk, often strewn with papers, computers, cameras and wrappers from snacks, is a visual of time and energy Miller has spent in his profession. "My shelves and drawers are organized," said Tony, smiling. "My folders are organized by sport and are in chronological order."
"It's weird to think that Dad almost had to force me to apply for this job," Tony said, remembering the process. "But if I got the chance to have a job of this nature for a long time, I would continue to take it."
Tony realizes that his job also comes with struggles, especially for somebody who has somewhat limited mobility due to his cerebral palsy.
"It has almost been a blessing," Tony said about his mobility. He claims that it has caused him to be more efficient in what he takes with him to sports events. It has also caused him to be more observant in watching sports. Due to that, he has been more proficient in keeping statistics. "Everything I take has a purpose," said Tony.
He talked for more than an hour. As is the nature of his job, he was able to keep track of many things at once. During the conversation he had two open computers on his desk as well, both of which open to social media as well as a phone that would buzz every five minutes. During our conversation, he listed more than 20 facts about sports at all levels, demonstrating how much there was that was kept in his mind; surprisingly, it was not overflowing out of his ears.
While Tony considers himself to be an introvert, he will not shy away from giving statistics to anybody he meets. "If Tony gets to know you," said Jason Samuel, Tony's former boss at 91.1 The Globe. "He will talk forever."
"Fall is my busy time," said Tony. "I have the most sports to cover this season compared to winter and spring."
Tony can often be found in his office when he is not at a game or at home.


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Selenicereus macdonaldiae ist eine Pflanzenart in der Gattung Selenicereus aus der Familie der Kakteengewächse (Cactaceae).

Beschreibung
Selenicereus macdonaldiae wächst ausgestreckt oder kletternd und wird bis zu 8 Meter lang. Aus den glänzend grünen, oft mit einem purpurnen Hauch, Trieben von 1 bis 1,5 Zentimetern Durchmesser entspringen Luftwurzeln. Auf ihren 5 bis 7 Rippen befinden sich 2 bis 3 Millimeter hohe, abstehende und abgeflachte Höcker. Die Areolen sind braun, die wenigen Dornen bis zu 2 Millimeter lang.

Die Blüten sind 30 bis 36 Zentimeter lang und erreichen Durchmesser von 22 bis 26 Zentimetern. Ihre äußeren schmalen Blütenhüllblätter sind hell bronzefarben bis mehr gelblich, die inneren sind reinweiß und breiter. Das Perikarpell und die Blütenröhre sind mit Schuppen, Dornen und Haaren bedeckt. Die länglich eiförmigen, roten, gehöckerten Früchte sind ziemlich dicht bedornt. Sie werden bis zu 8 Zentimeter lang.

Verbreitung und Systematik
Selenicereus macdonaldiae ist nur von kultivierten Exemplaren bekannt. In ihrem in der Erstbeschreibung als Honduras angegebenen Verbreitungsgebiet wurde die Art bisher nicht aufgefunden.

Die Erstbeschreibung als Cereus macdonaldiae wurde 1853 von William Jackson Hooker veröffentlicht. Nathaniel Lord Britton und Joseph Nelson Rose stellten sie 1909 in die Gattung Selenicereus. Ein Synonym ist unter anderem Cereus grusonianus Weing. (1905).

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Harassed by telemarketers? Chances are, your rights are being violated. Telemarketers, credit card companies, debt collectors and other businesses have to follow strict phone marketing laws, but hundreds of companies don't play by the rules.
Robocalls Class Action Lawsuits
If you're being hit with telemarketing or debt collection calls, you may be entitled to financial compensation by filing a civil lawsuit under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act. And thousands of other consumers could be in the same position, so you don't have to go it alone.
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act allows you to file a class action, representing the interests of hundreds, or thousands, of people who have been harassed, too.
Battling Telemarketer Harassment Through TCPA Litigation
The Telephone Consumer Protection Act is a federal law, passed in 1991, that restricts the activity of telemarketers, debt collectors, credit card companies and any other businesses that want to solicit (or advertise) to consumers using phone calls.
Since the late-1980s, most companies that rely on telephone advertisements for their marketing have used autodialers, machines or software programs that can automatically dial telephone numbers at an extremely-rapid rate.
Debt Collectors & Scam Artists
The introduction of autodialers led to an explosion in telephone solicitation, an explosion that had a very predictable effect: telemarketers began to annoy American consumers like never before. Scam artists got into the act, too. Using an autodialer, a fraudster from inside the country or outside it can spam about one phone number every minute, hoping to swindle the unsuspecting people who pick up.
Debt collectors also found benefit in autodialing, using the speed at which their new software could dial to harass and hound people at all hours of the day.
It was a huge problem, one that Congress tried to fix in 1991, passing the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) to cut down on the use of autodialers and pre-recorded messages, both of which make it a lot easier for marketers, businesses and con artists to torment their victims.
Your Rights Under The TCPA
It's now illegal for a company to use an autodialer to call your cell phone unless you provide them with express written (or recorded oral) consent to do so. That's true for marketing-related text messages, too. It's illegal to call your home phone and use a pre-recorded (or otherwise artificial) message. And it's illegal to place a solicitation call to anyone, regardless of the method, before 8 a.m. and after 9 p.m. local time.
Alongside these restrictions, lawmakers created the National Do-Not-Call Registry, a voluntary roster of phone numbers that, in most cases, telemarketers can't call without breaking the law.
TCPA also required business to keep internal company Do Not Call lists. Annoyed by a business that's trying to sell you something? Just ask to be put on their internal registry. If the same company calls you within the next five years, they're breaking the law.
The TCPA Needs Private Enforcement
The plan, of course, was to reduce the amount of telemarketing calls placed to US citizens. And, while the Telephone Consumer Protection Act has certainly made some headway, illegal telemarketing calls are still surprisingly common.
But you probably already know that. Around 80% of us are now on the National Do-Not-Call Registry, but telemarketers keep calling. So does "Rachel from Card Services" (that's a scam) and a host of shady cruise companies who tell you you've won a free trip, then try to steal your credit card number.
Those people are breaking the law. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act gives you a way to make them pay.
How Much Money Can I Win?
Under the TCPA, private citizens who are being harassed by illegal phone calls can file a civil lawsuit for financial compensation. You can sue the company or companies who are harassing you for monetary damages. The law outlines specific compensation amounts for various violations:
$500 for each illegal telephone call
$1,500 for illegal telephone calls that are "willful or knowing"
There's also a little wiggle room built into the law. In practice, you can sue either for $500 per illegal call or your actual monetary losses, if the illegal call put you out for more than $500. And you can also seek an injunction against the violation, securing a court order that forces them to comply with the law or suffer even greater penalties.
How TCPA Class Actions Can Help You Win Compensation
Is filing a civil lawsuit worth it? In some cases, the answer is an unqualified "yes!" If you've been hounded for months by dozens of illegal debt collector calls, it's probably in your best interests financially to pursue compensation in a private robocall lawsuit. Each call is $500, unless the person calling you knew that what they were doing was illegal and did it anyway. Then, it's $1,500, which can add up quickly.
When Banding Together Is The Best Option
In other situations, filing a personal lawsuit might not be financially viable. If you only got one illegal phone call, and the maximum available award is $1,500, you might actually lose money in the end, because you'll probably still be on the hook for attorneys' fees and court costs.
That's where class action comes in. Lawsuits filed under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act are often brought as class actions, because they allow hundreds or thousands of individuals, all of whom received an illegal telemarketing call, to pursue compensation together.
How A Class Action Lawsuit Works
In a robocalls class action, one initial plaintiff (or a small group of plaintiffs) files a civil lawsuit, but tries to convince a court that the allegations in the lawsuit actually apply to a much-wider group of people. Once the complaint has been certified as a class action, you and your legal team will go out and try to notify everyone who could be entitled to compensation that they should join the case.
Then, the legal process goes forward as normal. Both sides engage in settlement negotiations, hoping to find a mutually-agreeable resolution to put the case to rest. If no settlement can be reached, the case is set for trial and, hopefully, the jury delivers a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs.
Once the compensation amount has been worked out, it needs to be distributed. All of the potential class members submit their claims, providing documentation to prove that they deserve some of the money. After that, the settlement funds are doled out, usually by a third-party company designated by the court.
Recent TCPA Class Action Results
That's class action in a nutshell, but why is it a good idea? Class action is an effective way to litigate TCPA violations, because it spreads attorney costs and court fees around. By sharing the costs of litigation, a bunch of people who are all owed a small amount of money can still come out ahead in the end.
And TCPA class actions also happen to work. Over the last three decades, hundreds of large companies have been forced to pay huge settlements and jury verdicts in robocalls class action lawsuits.
Bank of America announced in 2014 that the company would offer $32 million in compensation to settle six separate TCPA-related class actions, according to Bloomberg. Plaintiffs accused Bank of America, along with subsidiary FIA Card Services, of using an autodialer and pre-recorded messages to call their cell phones without prior consent. And, while Bank of America denied the allegations, the company still decided to settle. It remains one of the largest TCPA settlements in American history.
Resort Marketing Group agreed to settle illegal telemarketing claims in June 2017, offering between $7 and $12 million to a class of plaintiffs who accused the company of making pre-recorded solicitation calls to cell phones and landlines on behalf of Royal Caribbean, Norwegian and Carnival Cruise Line. Nearly two million people have filed claims against the settlement fund so far.
In 2016, debt collection agency Convergent Outsourcing announced a $5.5 million settlement to resolve allegations that the company had used an autodialer and artificial voice recordings to harass cell phone numbers without prior express consent. Around 503,000 cell phone owners are expected to be eligible for a share of the settlement.
Solar panel company SolarCity agreed to create a $15 million settlement fund in 2017, resolving allegations that the company had made heavy use of illegal robocalls, slamming consumers cell and home phones with automated calls to sell solar panels.
In 2011, home security system manufacturer Monitronics (now known as MONI) was hit with a class action lawsuit that said the company had used autodialers and pre-recorded voice messages to call residential and cell numbers, including numbers that were already on the National Do-Not-Call Registry. As in most of these cases, Monitronics denies any and all allegations of illegal activity, but, in August 2017, the company agreed to settle the class action for $28 million. A final hearing to approve the settlement agreement has been scheduled for April 5, 2018.
In 2013, three separate people filed class action lawsuits against Collecto, a debt collection company. In their complaints, the plaintiffs accused Collecto of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act by using autodialer systems to harass them on their cell phones. Moreover, the cases said that Collecto routinely called the wrong numbers, essentially hounding people for money that someone else owed. Collecto has denied these allegations through five years of litigation in the US District Court for Massachusetts, a federal court in Boston. Even so, the company agreed to settle case for a total of $3.2 million in July of 2017.
That's just a small sample of the hundreds of settlement agreements that have been reached in TCPA class actions. And you could do the same thing. If you're being harassed by telemarketers, hounded by a debt collector or have heard from "Rachel from Card Services" one too many times, you may be able to do something about it.


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Upgrades to the latest Windows and Mac operating systems (Windows 10 OS Version 1607 and macOS Sierra) are available to university computers. Staying current and using the latest operating system typically improves performance and security.
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Sometimes we have these running thoughts in our mind around money. The first step in letting them go is acknowledging them. Let's borrow benefits and take some charge off of some thoughts.
Sometimes we have to forgive ourselves for our limiting beliefs about money. Let's borrow benefits and tap some charge off.
Sometimes we take on beliefs that are passed down from our family. Let's borrow benefits and tap some charge out of a family belief.
Once you start to see some of the family thinking around money and where your beliefs come from you can then start to release them. Ex. How do you treat money and how do you talk about your home? Do you respect money and your belongings?
KC: Even though I respect money and my belongings are tidy I tend to only carry $5's with me at a time and buy things only on sale and not of the highest quality because I don't think I'm worth it. I'm willing to start changing that belief.
KC: Even though I hear my fathers "descriptive" coming out of my mouth I am open to changing that pattern.
KC: Even though I have this belief that I'm not worth it I'm open and willing to replace that belief.
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The Art of Animation is a great option due to the family suites they feature that are perfect for a family of 5. These suites offer a bedroom, two bathrooms and dining area where the table converts to a double bed, and a sitting area with a pull-out couch. The pool at this resort is beyond amazing with a special surprise where you can actually hear the music UNDER water!
Port Orleans Riverside is a lovely resort that is spread out but has lots to offer such as biking/walking trails along the Sassagoula River, a fun pool themed after old-fashioned swimming holes, fishing, and so much more.
Disney's Beach Club Resort is one of my favorites. Once again, Disney has come through with an awesome pool called Stormalong Bay that features a water slide in what looks like a shipwreck, a lazy river, and all of this is near the beach overlooking the Boardwalk Inn. Another great benefit to this location is the easy access to Epcot, just a 5-10 minute walk to the International Gateway entrance. There are also a number of amazing restaurants here such as Yachtsman Steakhouse, Cape May Cafe and Beaches & Cream Soda Shop!
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wirkt immer gut angezogen und auch edel. Ihr könnt den Look natürlich auch durch Accessoires wieder etwas lockerer stylen!
Ich persönlich hatte mich für meine puderfarbene Karottenhose und Schuhe entschieden und habe den Rest des Look sehr edel mit Top, Blazer und großem Hut gehalten.
Today I show you another autumn trend – powder colors and black! You can't do anything wrong with this combination because it looks always dressy and also classy. Of course you can pimp up the look with accessory which makes it more casual!
I chose a trousers and shoes in powder colors and the rest of the look is classy with black top, blazer and hat.


For Bevin and Trump, that path has been similar in many ways.
Both were educated in the private school system before becoming wealthy businessmen. Both ran for office as political outsiders promising to disrupt the establishment and rallying the support of those who felt left behind by their government. Both overcame long odds in a vicious primary full of personal attacks to become the major nominee of their party.
Bevin was elected despite trailing in pre-election polls. Now, as the presidential race grows tighter in swing states, the question lingers: can Trump pull a Bevin-like upset on Tuesday?
Bevin prided himself in being the outsider candidate, the one who was going to disrupt the system. And his chilly relationship with the establishment helped him solidify those credentials.
He sees the same in Donald Trump.
Bevin and his top officials declined to be interviewed for this story.
Both Bevin and Trump heavily self-funded their campaigns during their primary elections, relying on personal wealth they had amassed while in the business world as they campaigned in their respective vehicles — Bevin's golden Chevy Suburban and Trump's personal airplane.
Despite their wealth — or perhaps because of it — both candidates played well with voters who felt left behind by establishment politicians.
Both have displayed a fondness for social media — potentially helped by the two former Bevin aides who now work on Trump's communication staff — that has allowed them to deliver their message directly to the masses.
Grayson should know. His 2010 bid for the U.S. Senate, an election where he was handpicked by U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell to replace former Sen. Jim Bunning, was upended by an outsider in his own right — Rand Paul.
For Bevin and Trump, their primary elections were fraught with mudslinging. While Trump appeared in the middle of the fray, incrementally taking out each candidate, Bevin presented himself above the bickering, allowing him to pull off an upset.
Bevin wasn't afraid of a fight. He engaged in daily battles with the media throughout his fall campaign. Calls to see Bevin's tax returns went ignored. Questions about previous comments were rebuffed.
Trump has been dogged by the press as well, decrying the "media conspiracy" against him.
That ability to pick fights has occasionally been a liability for both Trump and Bevin. The temperament of both candidates served as a target for Hillary Clinton and Jack Conway.
By the time Bevin stood on the floor of the Republican National Convention to announce that Kentucky cast 17 votes for "the next President of the United States, Mr. Donald J. Trump," he was a sitting governor standing next to a grinning U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
He had come a long way.
Just two years earlier, McConnell steamrolled Bevin's first dalliance into politics, running negative ads about his Tea Party challenger on the same day Bevin announced his candidacy.
After Bevin lost, he refused to endorse McConnell in the general election, raising the ire of establishment Republicans in Kentucky.
Trump has had his own clashes with the establishment. More than 160 Republican leaders have refused to endorse, or unendorsed, Trump.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan notably wavered before endorsing Trump shortly after Trump won the Republican nomination, causing Trump to return the favor by refusing to endorse Ryan in his reelection bid against a Tea Party candidate until the last minute.
McConnell refused to talk about Trump through the month of October, instead focusing on maintaining the Republican majority in the Senate. A week before the election, he finally told a rally of supporters that the country needed to elect Trump.
Bevin, though, had won the support of the establishment crowd by the time the general election rolled around.
And at an annual dinner for Kentucky Republicans, Bevin mocked speculation of a lack of unity in the party by making a video showing him wearing Mitch McConnell apparel.
Trump on the other hand has not seen the establishment rally around his candidacy.
The two most powerful political leaders in Congress have refused to talk about Trump of late, although House Speaker Ryan, R-Wisconsin, did say he voted for Trump.
Since his election, Bevin has applied his outsider mentality to Frankfort, perhaps providing a window into what a Trump presidency might look like.
"Bevin looks at Frankfort and at our state and his style is to change things," Grayson said.
That desire for change has caused Bevin to clash with Democratic leaders at the Capitol. Regardless of whether Bevin started the battles, he hasn't been reluctant to engage.
For Grayson, Bevin's results have been positive, so far.
"Bevin has turned out to be a better governor than people thought he was going to be," he said.
Grayson said Trump and Bevin both share the entrepreneurial mindset, meaning they look at government like a business. That mindset revolves heavily on accomplishing tasks, he said.
Others say Bevin's no-holds-barred approach makes him appealing as a politician.
Where the two men seem to differ the most is in their brand of Republican ideology.
Trump's campaign has been mired in allegations of misogyny and sexual assault while Bevin has a reputation as a religious man and loving father of nine.
And though Bevin and Trump both come from a business background, that doesn't mean Trump will match Bevin's approach to governing.
"There's no guarantee that a business leader is going to be effective at leading a governmental structure," Dugi said.


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A: Because you're setting datatype to json, I'd guess you do not need to parse the JSON yourself. Please note that the parsed response is provided in the done method's first argument, see this example from the jQuery docs:
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})
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A: If you're already using jQuery, just let them do the grunt work for you!
$.getJSON("http://0.0.0.0:8080/", function(json){
// do your JSON work here
});

If for whatever reason you can't use $.getJSON, in your $.ajax request, set a success callback function like the one i have over here.

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La Junta Nacional de Justicia (JNJ) es un organismo constitucional autónomo encargado de nombrar, ratificar y destituir a los jueces y fiscales de todos los niveles en la República del Perú. Asimismo, tiene la potestad de nombrar, renovar en el cargo o destituir al jefe de la Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales (ONPE) y al jefe del Registro Nacional de Identificación y Estado Civil (RENIEC).

Su creación fue propuesta en julio de 2018 con la finalidad de sustituir a su predecesor Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura, organismo que se había visto envuelto en actos de corrupción. La reforma de la Constitución que permitió su creación fue aprobada por el Congreso en septiembre de 2018 y luego ratificada por la población mediante un referéndum realizado en diciembre de ese mismo año. Finalmente, en febrero de 2019 la Junta Nacional de Justicia fue creada al expedirse su ley orgánica y entró en funciones en enero de 2020 al elegirse a sus miembros.

Historia

Antecedentes

La Constitución de 1979 creó un órgano denominado Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura cuya función principal era el formular las propuestas para el nombramiento de los magistrados de la Corte Suprema y de las Cortes Superiores ante el Presidente de la República, que era quien finalmente realizaba la designación con cargo a su ratificación por el Senado. Este sistema dejó de existir como consecuencia del autogolpe de 1992 llevado a cabo por el entonces presidente Alberto Fujimori y la posterior dación de una nueva constitución.

La Constitución de 1993, mantuvo nominalmente al Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura como órgano integrante del sistema de justicia, pero reformuló completamente su rol constitucional, otorgándole el poder de seleccionar, nombrar, ratificar y destituir directamente a los magistrados del país. Es decir, ya no había intervención alguna del Poder Ejecutivo, sino que el propio consejo se encargaba de seleccionar al ganador de cada concurso e incluso de extenderle el título oficial que lo acreditaba como juez o fiscal, no siendo tampoco necesaria la ratificación de los vocales y fiscales supremos por el Congreso. Con este esquema se tuvo por finalidad eliminar toda injerencia de carácter político de los otros poderes del Estado.

El 7 de julio de 2018, IDL Reporteros hizo públicos los llamados CNM Audios que mostraron a varios miembros del Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura involucrados en actos de tráfico de influencias y corrupción. Como consecuencia de ello, el presidente de la República Martín Vizcarra convocó para el día 20 de julio a una legislatura extraordinaria del Congreso con la finalidad de que se debata la remoción de todos los miembros del Consejo, apelando al artículo 157° de la Constitución. La remoción fue aprobada por el Congreso con 118 votos a favor, cero en contra y cero abstenciones.

Creación

Luego de la destitución de todos los miembros del Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura , el Presidente Martín Vizcarra remitió al Congreso una propuesta de reforma de la constitución con la finalidad de modificar el sistema de designación y evaluación de magistrados, lo que suponía la sustitución del Consejo Nacional de la Magistratura por un nuevo órgano que se llamaría Junta Nacional de Justicia. El 18 de setiembre de 2018 el Congreso de la República aprobó la ley de reforma constitucional que recogió la propuesta del Poder Ejecutivo, la cual fue luego ratificada por la población en el referéndum del 9 de diciembre de 2018. La modificación constitucional fue promulgada el 9 de enero de 2019 bajo la designación de "Ley N° 30904 - Ley de Reforma Constitucional sobre la Conformación y Funciones de la Junta Nacional de Justicia". Finalmente, el 19 de febrero de 2019 el organismo fue oficialmente creado al promulgarse la Ley N° 30916 - Ley Orgánica de la Junta Nacional de Justicia.

Implementación

Por la sola entrada en vigencia de la ley orgánica a inicios de 2019, quedaron automáticamente designados cinco de los siete integrantes de la comisión especial que se encargaría de elegir a la Primera Junta Nacional de Justicia, restando definir a los dos integrantes que provendrían de la elección entre los rectores de las universidades públicas y privadas. Dicha elección de produjo el 1 de marzo de 2019, con lo cual la Comisión quedó conformada y lista para iniciar sus funciones. En abril de 2019 la Comisión aprobó su reglamento interno y anunció que a fines de ese mismo mes se realizaría la convocatoria pública para elegir a los miembros de la primera Junta Nacional de Justicia. Luego de un primer concurso público que resultó fallido al no cumplir con su finalidad, un segundo proceso finalmente concluyó el 30 de diciembre de 2019 con la elección de los miembros titulares y suplentes de la primera Junta Nacional de Justicia.

La elección de esta primera Junta no estuvo exenta de críticas, pues se formularon cuestionamientos a la designación de Marco Tulio Falconí Picador y María Zavala Valladares, razón por la cual la Comisión Especial dispuso que se suspendiera su juramentación a efectos de revisarse su designación. De otro lado, a la ceremonia de juramentación de los restantes cinco miembros de la Junta no asistieron la fiscal de la Nación Zoraida Ávalos y la presidenta del Tribunal Constitucional Marianella Ledesma, quienes no se presentaron en reclamo por la falta de transparencia en la elección de los magistrados relacionada con los dos miembros cuestionados y con el hecho de que no se hubieran publicado las actas de la elección antes de procederse a la juramentación. Posteriormente, al evaluarse los descargos de María Zavala Valladares, el 9 de enero de 2020 se le tomó el juramento de ley y quedó incorporada a la Junta como miembro titular .

Conformación y atribuciones

Comisión especial
Según la ley orgánica de la Junta Nacional de Justicia, sus miembros son elegidos por una comisión especial integrada por los siguientes siete representantes de entidades públicas y privadas del país: el Defensor del Pueblo (quien la preside); el Presidente del Poder Judicial; la fiscal de la Nación; el presidente del Tribunal Constitucional; el contralor general de la República; un rector elegido en votación por los rectores de las universidades públicas licenciadas con más de cincuenta años de antigüedad y un rector elegido en votación por los rectores de las universidades privadas licenciadas con más de cincuenta años de antigüedad.

Esta Comisión cuenta con el apoyo de una Secretaría Técnica Especializada, adscrita al despacho del Defensor del Pueblo.

Conformación
De acuerdo con su ley orgánica, La Junta Nacional de Justicia está conformada por siete miembros titulares y siete suplentes, seleccionados por una Comisión Especial, mediante concurso público de méritos. El cargo de miembro de la Junta Nacional de Justicia dura 5 años sin posibilidad de reelección inmediata. Para ser miembro de la Junta Nacional de Justicia se requiere: ser peruano de nacimiento, ser ciudadano en ejercicio, ser mayor de cuarenta y cinco (45) años y menor de setenta y cinco (75) años, ser abogado, no tener sentencia condenatoria firme por delito doloso y tener reconocida trayectoria profesional y solvencia e idoneidad moral. Los actuales miembros de la Junta Nacional de Justicia son:

En el mismo proceso de selección que determinó la elección de los siete miembros titulares se eligió también igual número de suplentes, quienes de ser necesario serán llamados en el orden de mérito obtenido para reemplazar a cualquier miembro titular que por alguna razón cese en sus funciones. Los suplentes elegidos, en orden de mérito, son los siguientes: Abraham Siles Vallejos, Mónica Rosell Medina, Marco Tulio Falconí Picardo, Jaime de la Puente Parodi, María del Pilar Tello Leyva, Jorge Calderón Mendoza y Jacinto Rodríguez Mendoza. En el caso de Falconí, este inicialmente había sido considerado como miembro titular, pero al determinarse que había recibido una bonificación indebida en su puntaje, fue desplazado a la posición de tercer suplente. En su lugar fue considerado como miembro titular Guillermo Thornberry Villarán, quien hasta ese momento ocupaba la posición de primer suplente.

Atribuciones
El reformado artículo 154 de la Constitución Política del Perú, establece que la Junta Nacional de Justicia se encarga de nombrar, previo concurso público de méritos y evaluación personal, a los jueces y fiscales de todos los niveles. Además, ratificar, con voto público y motivado, a los jueces y fiscales de todos los niveles cada siete años. Asimismo, destituir a los jueces de la Corte Suprema y fiscales supremos; y, de oficio o a solicitud de la Corte Suprema o de la Junta de Fiscales Supremos, respectivamente, a los jueces y fiscales de todas las instancias. Se señala también que la Junta Nacional de la Justicia ejecutará en conjunto con la Academia de la Magistratura, la evaluación parcial del desempeño de los jueces y fiscales de todos los niveles cada tres años y seis meses. Por otro lado, se remarca que los no ratificados o destituidos no podrán reingresar al Poder Judicial y al Ministerio Público.

Estas competencias aparecen ratificadas en el artículo 2 de su ley orgánica, donde además se establece que la Junta Nacional de Justicia tiene la facultad de nombrar, renovar en el cargo o destituir al jefe de la Oficina Nacional de Procesos Electorales (ONPE) y al jefe del Registro Nacional de Identificación y Estado Civil (RENIEC).

Consejo Consultivo
A finales de enero de 2020, la JNJ creó un consejo consultivo que tiene por objeto deliberar, analizar y proponer medidas y recomendaciones para coadyuvar en el proceso de institucionalidad de la Junta Nacional de Justicia a fin de garantizar su autonomía e imparcialidad y el cumplimiento de sus funciones. Está integrado por nueve miembros ad honorem:

 Diego García-Sayán Larrabure
 Jaime de Althaus Guarderas
 Javier de Belaunde López de Romaña
 Gonzalo García Núñez
 Víctor García Toma
 Gorki González Mantilla
 Beatriz Merino Lucero
 Violeta Bermúdez Valdivia
 Gladys Echaiz Ramos

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Sitio web oficial de la Junta Nacional de Justicia - JNJ
 Web de la Comisión Especial para la elección de la JNJ
 Ley N° 30916 - Ley Orgánica de la Junta Nacional de Justicia.

Poder Judicial de Perú
Consejos de la Magistratura
Crisis política en Perú de 2017-2020
Organizaciones fundadas en 2019


KidZania Singapore adds to the extensive list of great family-friendly activities that you enjoy on your day trip to Sentosa Island. The complex promises to entertain as well as educate youngsters, with several different zones of fully interactive learning stations that are dotted around an indoor 'kid-sized city'.
Some of the highlights out of the 80 or so role-playing activities at KidZania Singapore include a fully-sized fuselage of a Boeing 737, a replica bank, and a mini-hospital where kids can brush up on their triple-coronary bypass surgical skills.
One cool feature at KidZania Singapore is their mini introduction to the global economics concept, whereby the kids can earn a salary (in the form of 'kidZos', the official currency), then pay for items, services and even set up a bank account. It's a learn-through-play concept borrowed from KidZania's other successful branches that are now spread to a dozen countries across the world, including Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
The kids have a selection of jobs to take their pick from to earn the money. These include becoming builders, police officers, doctors, and nurses – no previous experiences required. KidZania Singapore also teaches the basic concepts of global economics, with activities that help boost the children's confidence, teambuilding and communication skills, and while also promoting logical and creative thinking.
It's also worth noting KidZania's 'six basic rights for a better way of life for all'. They are: 'to Be', 'to Know, 'to Care', 'to Play', to 'Create' and 'to Share'. These easy-to-remember 'rights' all have their own resident cartoon character (who are known as 'RightZkeepers') in the form of Urbano, Vita, Cheeka, Beebop, and Bache. You can get to know each character better on your next visit to KidZania Singapore.
Located on Sentosa Island, KidZania is easy to reach if you're not staying on the island. Just take the MRT to Vivo City then catch the quick and inexpensive Sentosa Express across the island. There is a free shuttle service which goes around the island – you can get off at Palawan beach to find it.


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BY MIKE FIELDS (Oct. 28. 2016)
Justin Thomas won the CIMB Classic in Malaysia last week, successfully defending his title in Kuala Lumpur.
Thomas is showing lots of early promise on the PGA Tour. When the Louisvillian won the CIMB Classic last year he was only 22 — the youngest Kentuckian ever to win on tour. J.B. Holmes was 23 when he won for the first time.
Thomas is the seventh former KHSAA state champ to win on the PGA Tour, following in the footsteps of Gay Brewer, Frank Beard, Bobby Nichols, Russ Cochran, Kenny Perry and Holmes.
Here's how Kentuckians have fared on the PGA Tour over the years, including how old they were when they won for the first time:
Kenny Perry (Lone Oak, WKU) was 30 when he got the first of his 14 victories on the PGA Tour. He has $39 million in career earnings, including the Champions Tour.
Bobby NIchols (St. Xavier, Texas A&M) was 25 when he got the first of his 12 victories on the PGA Tour, including the 1964 PGA Championship. He had $2.9 million in career earnings, including the Champions Tour.
Frank Beard (St. Xavier, Florida) was 24 when he got the first of his 11 victories on the PGA Tour. He had $1.8 million in career earnings, including the Champions Tour.
Gay Brewer (Lafayette, UK) was 29 when he got the first of his 10 victories on the PGA Tour, including the 1967 Masters. He had $2.7 million in career earnings, including the Champions Tour.
J.B. Holmes (Taylor County, UK) was 23 when he won the first of his four PGA Tour titles. He has $20 million in career earnings.
Steve Flesch (Covington Catholic, UK) was 35 when he got the first of his four victories on the PGA Tour. He has $18 million in career earnings.
Jodie Mudd (Butler, Georgia Southern) was 28 when he got the first of his four victories on the PGA Tour. He has $2.8 million in career earnings.
Justin Thomas (St. Xavier, Alabama) was 22 when he got the first of his two victories on the PGA Tour. He has $8 million in career earnings.
Ted Schulz (Ballard, Louisville) was 29 when he got the first of his two victories on the PGA Tour. He has $2.7 million in career earnings.
Russ Cochran (Paducah St. Mary, UK) was 33 when he got his only victory on the PGA Tour. He has $13.5 million in career earnings, including the Champions tour.


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As the Supreme Court continues to ignore the letter of the law, it's important that these six individuals understand the full impact of their decisions on the American people," he said.
"That's why I introduced the SCOTUScare Act to require the Supreme Court and all of its employees to sign up for ObamaCare," Babin said.
Babin's potential legislation would only let the federal government provide healthcare to the Supreme Court and its staff via ObamaCare exchanges.
"By eliminating their exemption from ObamaCare, they will see firsthand what the American people are forced to live with," he added.
"House bill would force the Supreme Court to enroll in ObamaCare." Mark Hensch, TheHill.com, 2015-06-25.


2014 Creative Pay It Forward — Done, Sent, Received!
Did you jump on the Creative Pay-it-forward bandwagon earlier this year? A friend makes you something during 2014 and you agree to make gifts for the first five people who sign up on your Facebook post. I received a beautiful Dresden pillow from my friend Laura, made with Ellen Luckett Baker fabric, and three people signed up to receive something I'd made. This circle scarf in Nani Iro fabric was for my cousin Laura (Lauras everywhere!). I used the new tutorial from my friend Elizabeth of Andpins. My version only uses one fabric and it's a bit narrower than hers; if you're looking for an easy-to-make gift, I recommend it!
This Honey Cowl was for my friend Kaesmene. I've known her since college and this Madelinetosh DK twist color will look great on her. She's a quilter and sewist, so I of course had to knit her something.
I posted a tutorial for this sketchbook cover back in March. It was for a friend from college who is a terrific artist. She lives on the ocean and I thought Sphere by Zen Chic would be great.
I've since picked up another yard of the same Nani Iro fabric to make myself an identical circle scarf. It'll have to wait until January, however, as I'm fully into holiday gift projects.


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Launched at the end of November, Jersey City's new, CivicLive-powered website boasts a modern, sophisticated design that highlights the city's youthfulness, diversity and history all in one. A big part of Jersey City's website revamp involved modernizing in order to meet citizens' needs.
CivicLive helped Jersey City to develop a usable website, designed with a citizen-centric information architecture—meaning website content is arranged in a user-friendly way, making it easy for citizens to find what they're looking for. Jersey City's new website is fostering community engagement because its citizens can effortlessly access city services online, on any mobile device.
The City's website is also equipped with a bold, new design. Our creative team helped to skillfully and seamlessly incorporate the City's updated branding guidelines, offering a design that shows off the city, its artistry, history and community.
Village of Arlington Heights, Illinois
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The Village of Arlington Heights in Illinois prides itself on its history and tradition. For them, a website redesign meant finding new, modern ways to showcase the village's lively community and local businesses. To do this, CivicLive equipped their new website with a comprehensive business and wedding directory. The website also boasts a subsite that highlight's the Village's local "Shop. Dine. Play." offerings, ensuring residents and visitors alike can easily find local businesses, restaurants and city activities.
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Leeds' ENGINE have shared a new video and single for 'And I Say' which will be released on the Leeds based CPWM 7" Singles Club alongside art-rock quintet The Golden Age of TV for the label's 11th 7" release.
Surfing in from the outer rim of Burley and noisily settling on the Meanwood Nebula, electro-pop outfit ENGINE continue to blaze an individual DIY trail in Leeds. The group combines sampled psychedelics with introverted song-writing of a bygone era. With their recent debut album Cucumber Water now and an ever growing live reputation including support slots with Connan Mockasin, Infinite Bisous and C Duncan under their belts, ENGINE have moved forward with the driving, infectious, electronic groove ridden flawless pop song 'And I Say'.
They are joined on this 7" by The Golden Age Of TV. Having only formed a little over year ago the Leeds quintet have already made a huge impression with their razor sharp, whip smart and perfectly crafted indie pop. With only three singles to their name so far, they have quickly been turning heads and already gaining support from Radio 1 with Huw Stephens playing every song so far, 6 Music, Radio X, The 405, DIY and Clash as well as performances at Reading & Leeds and with bands like Fickle Friends, Toothless & Alex Cameron.


Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-term autoimmune disorder that primarily affects joints.It typically results in warm, swollen, and painful joints. Pain and stiffness often worsen following rest. Most commonly, the wrist and hands are involved, with the same joints typically involved on both sides of the body. The disease may also affect other parts of the body. This may result in a low red blood cell count, inflammation around the lungs, and inflammation around the heart.
RA affects about 24.5 million people as of 2015. This is between 0.5 and 1.% of adults in the developed world with 5 and 50 per 100,000 people newly developing the condition each year. Onset is most frequent during middle age and women are affected 2.5 times as frequently as men. In 2013, it resulted in 38,000 deaths up from 28,000 deaths in 1990.
25% of these new patients receive second-line biological treatment mostly TNF blockers or Rituximub.
~40% do not respond to anti TNF (also known as TNF blockers) treatment. This means: advancing disease, unneeded suffer and waste of financial recourses.
Currently, there is NO way to know in advance whether a patient will respond to either of the drug families.
Genefron PDK IFR 300 (RA patients) – Used for predicting RA patients' response to second line, anti-TNF family of drugs (such as Humira, Enbrell etc). The test is based on specific biomarkers (specific gene expression levels) of the patient immune system. The accuracy of the testis 88%, (Vs. 50%-60% random success) and it is approved by the Israeli MOH.
Genefron IFR 310 (RA patients is currently in clinical trials) is used for predicting RA patients' response to B cell depletion drugs . The major goal of BCD therapy is to destroy autoimmune disease producing B cells in patients with autoimmune diseases, while at the same time retaining protective B cell immunity. Although it is widely used, the BCD mechanism of action is not fully clear. IFR310 presents ~90% accuracy vs. 60% today.


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US Navy Develops Laser Weapon Prototypes for Destroyers, Cruisers (and Maybe Carriers)
September 14, 2016 Topic: Security Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: US NavyNavyMilitaryTechnologyAircraft Carrier
The laser weapon will be developed through a three-phased approach and fire from Destroyers, Cruisers and maybe even carriers. These weapons could quickly incinerate enemy drones, small boats and even missiles.
by Kris Osborn
The Navy plans to arm its destroyers and other ships with high-tech, low-cost ship-board laser weapons engineered to quickly incinerate enemy drones, small boats, aircraft, ships and missiles, service officials told Scout Warrior.
The Office of Naval Research is working on 12-month, $53-million deal with Northrop Grumman to develop a Laser Weapon System Demonstrator through three phases; the phases include an initial design phase, ground-testing phase and then weapons testing at sea aboard a Navy Self Defense test ship, a Northrop statement said.
"The company will design, produce, integrate, and support the shipboard testing of a 150-kilowatt-class solid state (electric) laser weapon system," the Northrop statement added. "The contract could grow to a total value of $91 million over 34 months if ONR exercises all of its contract options."
Office of Naval Research officials told Scout Warrior an aim of the developmental program is to engineer a prototype weapons for further analysis.
"This system employs multi-spectral target detection and track capabilities as well as an advanced off-axis beam director with improved fiber laser technologies to provide extended target engagement ranges. Improvements of high power fiber lasers used to form the laser beam enable the increased power levels and extended range capabilities. Lessons learned, operating procedures, updated hardware and software derived from previous systems will be incorporated in this demonstration," Dr. Tom Beutner, director of the Air Warfare and Weapons branch, Office of Naval Research, told Scout Warrior in a written statement a few months ago.
"The possibilities can become integrated prototypes -- and the prototypes become reality when they become acquisition programs," an ONR official said.
(This first appeared in Scout Warrior here.)
It is not yet clear when this weapon might be operational but the intention seems to be to arm surface ships such as destroyers, cruisers and possibly even carriers or an LCS with inexpensive offensive or defensive laser weapons technology.
"It is way too early to determine if this system will ever become operational. Northrop Grumman has been funded to set-up a demo to "demonstrate" the capabilities to senior leadership, who will then determine whether it is an asset worth further funding and turning into a program of record," a Navy official told Scout Warrior.
Both Navy and Northrop Grumman officials often talk about the cost advantages of firing laser weapons to incinerate incoming enemy attacks or destroy enemy targets without having to expend an interceptor missile worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Navy officials describe this as getting ahead of the cost curve.
"For about the price of a gallon of diesel fuel per shot, we're offering the Navy a high-precision defensive approach that will protect not only its sailors, but also its wallet," said Guy Renard, director and program manager, directed energy, Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems.
Meanwhile, the Navy has already deployed one laser system, called the Laser Weapons System, or LaWS, which has been operational for months.
LaWS uses heat energy from lasers to disable or destroy targets fast, slow, stationary and moving targets. The system has successfully incinerated UAVs and other targets in tests shots, and has been operational aboard an amphibious transport dock in the Persian Gulf, the USS Ponce.
The scalable weapon is designed to destroy threats for about $59-cents per shot, an amount that is exponentially lower that the hundreds of thousands or millions needed to fire an interceptor missile such as the Standard Missile-2, Navy officials explained.
While at sea, sailors have been using the LaWS for targeting and training exercises every day and the weapon has even been used to disable and destroy some targets, service officials said.
Navy sailors and engineers have discovered some unanticipated intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance value from the laser weapons system by using its long-range telescope to scan for targets as well, Navy officials said.
Laser weapons are expected to figure prominently in the Navy's future plans in several respects. New Navy platforms such as the high-tech destroyer, the DDG 1000 or USS Zumwalt, is engineered with an electric drive propulsion system and extra on-board electrical power called an Integraed Power System. This system is in part designed to power-up ship electrical systems and accommodate emerging future weapons systems such as lasers and rail guns.
"Laser weapons provide deep magazines, low cost per shot, and precision engagement capabilities with variable effects that range from dazzling to structural defeat against asymmetric threats that are facing the US Naval force," Beutner added.
In addition, laser weapons integrate fully into the Navy's emerging "distributed lethality" strategy aimed at better arming the surface fleet with a wide array of offensive and defensive weapons.
Kris Osborn became the Managing Editor of Scout Warrior in August of 2015. His role with Scout.com includes managing content on the Scout Warrior site and generating independently sourced original material. Scout Warrior is aimed at providing engaging, substantial military-specific content covering a range of key areas such as weapons, emerging or next-generation technologies and issues of relevance to the military. Just prior to coming to Scout Warrior, Osborn served as an Associate Editor at the Military.com. Osborn previously served at the Pentagon as a Highly Qualified Expert with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army - Acquisition, Logistics & Technology. Osborn has also worked as an anchor and on-air military specialist at CNN and CNN Headline News. This story originally appeared in Scout Warrior.


Steel is well-known for its incredible durability against various stress factors. The impact tolerance, tensile strength, and heat resistance of steel far outclasses that of plastic polymers. Stainless steel alloys represent a further improvement that grants enhanced resistance to various caustic and corrosive chemicals.
However, just how tough is stainless steel? This is a common question from companies looking to order a stainless steel basket or tray for high-intensity applications. Specifically, many companies with heat treatment processes wonder "what is the melting point of stainless steel?" because they have to use the steel for a high-temperature process, such as annealing or sterilization of other metals.
How Much Heat CAN Stainless Steel Take Before Melting?
There are countless different formulations of stainless steel out there, from the austenitic stainless steels (such as 304, 316, and 317) to the ferritic stainless steels (such as 430 and 434), as well as the martensitic stainless steels (410 and 420). Additionally, many stainless steels have low-carbon variants. The problem with trying to make a blanket statement about the melting point of stainless steel is that all of these alloys have different temperature tolerances and melting points.
You might have noticed that each of these melting points is expressed as a range, rather than an absolute number. This is because, even within a specific alloy of stainless steel, there is still the possibility of small variations in the formulation which can affect the melting point.
These are just a few of the more common alloys of stainless steel on the market. There are many more variations of stainless steel that could be used in a range of applications—far too many to cover them all here.
While these are the melting points of these stainless steel alloys, the recommended maximum use temperatures of these alloys tends to be far lower.
Learn more about the characteristics of steel and other alloys under high heat here!
At extremely high temperatures, many materials begin to lose their tensile strength. Steel is no exception. Even before reaching the melting point, stainless steel becomes less rigid and more susceptible to bending when heated.
For example, let's say a stainless steel alloy retains 100% of its structural integrity at 870°C (1679°F), but at 1000°C (1832°F) it loses 50% of its tensile strength. If the maximum load of a basket made with this alloy were 100 pounds, the basket would then only be able to hold 50 pounds of weight after exposure to the higher temperature. Any more weight, and the basket could bend out of shape under the load.
Also, exposure to high temperatures could have effects other than making stainless steel easier to bend or break. High temperatures can affect the protective oxide layer that keeps stainless steel from rusting—making it more susceptible to corrosion in the future.
In some cases, extreme temperatures can cause scaling on the surface of the metal. This can impact the performance of a parts handling basket or other custom wire form. Or, high temperatures can lead to thermal expansion of the metal in a custom wire basket, causing welded joints to come loose.
So, even if your particular process wouldn't bring a stainless steel parts basket to its melting point, high temperatures could still do damage in other ways.
This is why Marlin Steel's engineering team runs finite element analyses on each and every basket design. By testing the effects of high temperatures on a design, the engineering team can spot potential issues like scaling, and test alternative materials that can prevent such problems from making the design invalid.
Get more insights into the properties of stainless steel by downloading the Stainless Steel Properties Sheet today!
What Grades of Stainless Steel Resist Oxidation at Specific Temperatures?