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MURRIETA: Dog owner admits felony in mauling of…
MURRIETA: Dog owner admits felony in mauling of boy at Lowe's
Robert Kahn, 62, of Murrieta, who was charged with criminal negligence after his dog bit and seriously injured a toddler, sits with defense attorney Nic Cocis in a courtroom at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley in June.
A security camera image from Lowe's in Murrieta shows Robert Kahn, with his Akita, gesturing to the father of the boy the dog had just attacked as he leaves the store Dec. 28.
Chester the Akita, quarantined at a shelter in Wildomar after the attack at Lowe's.
By Sarah Burge |
A Murrieta man whose dog mauled a toddler at a Lowe's store pleaded guilty to felony negligence on Friday, receiving six months' house arrest and a dressing down from the judge who called his conduct "absolutely appalling."
Robert Steven Kahn, 63, who had been free on bail, admitted to the charge against him in a plea to the court Friday morning at the Southwest Justice Center in French Valley. Citing his lack of a criminal history, Judge Judith Clark sentenced him to six months' work release or house arrest and three years' probation. As a term of his probation, he is not allowed to have a dog.
On Dec. 28, Kahn took his leashed 90-pound Akita, named Chester, into the garden center of the Murrieta home improvement store and allowed a 3-year-old boy to pet it, even though the dog had shown aggression toward children twice before.
After the dog bit and seriously injured the boy, Kahn apologized to the child's father but hurried out of the store without leaving his name or contact information. The toddler required 50 sutures for injuries to his face and neck. Police tracked down Kahn and arrested him a few days later.
The dog was turned over to an Akita rescue group and Kahn has been sued by both the family and Lowe's.
In court, Kahn offered no explanation for his actions.
"I'd just like to apologize to the family," he said.
Prosecutors said the previous incidents of aggression occurred in October and November 2013. In the first, Chester was in his front yard when he tried to bite a 5-year-old boy who reached out to pet him, leaving a scrape on the child's hand. In the second, Kahn was at a Home Depot store with Chester when the dog bit a child on the elbow. The bite didn't break the skin. Neither incident was reported to authorities.
Defense attorney Nic Cocis said previously that Kahn had never been in trouble with the law, is the author of several books and had a previous career as a newspaper editor. He said Kahn didn't consider the dog dangerous.
Cocis said previously that Kahn left after the Lowe's attack because he was afraid his dog would be taken away and killed. At a previous hearing, the attorney said that such cases are typically handled as civil matters and argued that Kahn's conduct didn't rise to the level of a crime.
But the case appeared to touch a nerve with the judge, who had harsh words for Kahn. Leaving the scene of the attack, she said, was felony conduct.
"I think that is so cold, so callous," Clark said. "That's just a level of depravity I have a hard time contemplating."
"You were more concerned about your dog than you were about a person and that really, really bothers me," she added.
"You deserve to have that classification as a convicted felon," Clark said. "I feel very strongly about that."
The judge also weighed in on the increasingly common practice of dog owners taking their pets into stores and other businesses.
She said non-service dogs have no business "anyplace other than PetSmart," whether it's a big dog like an Akita or "one of these puppies I see being carried around in somebody's purse."
Unsuspecting members of the public shouldn't be the "experimental training group for socializing somebody's dog," she said, especially a dog that has a history of aggression.
Though the resolution of Kahn's case didn't involve a plea bargain with the Riverside County district attorney's office, prosecutor Josh DeGonia said the victim's parents were consulted about the proposed sentence and they agreed it was acceptable. DeGonia said their primary concern was assuring that Kahn would not be allowed to own another dog.
The boy's father, Mahmoud Zubaidi, read a written statement to the court on Friday describing the suffering the attack had caused his family. He called Kahn an "irresponsible person" deserving of a prison sentence.
Regardless of the Akita's history of aggression, Zubaidi said, Lowe's is no place for dogs. He paused and choked back tears as he described his son's injuries.
He said Kahn didn't move quickly to stop the attack and then walked away without helping, leaving the family "a mental and emotional wreck."
It was a "nightmare" not knowing for days whether the dog had been vaccinated and fearing their son might have to undergo the additional trauma of rabies treatment, he said.
Zubaidi said his son underwent a lengthy surgery during which he suffered life-threatening complications from anesthesia.
He said his son will have to keep out of the sun for months to come because of his injuries and has endured teasing from other children because of the heavy sunscreen, hat and glasses he must wear.
The boy "can't have a normal life like other kids," he said. "For the rest of his life he will have to suffer the physical and emotional consequences."
The Zubaidi family's lawsuit, which names both Kahn and Lowe's as defendants, alleges the company was responsible for the incident because it did not prevent Kahn from taking his dog inside the store. The complaint also contends store employees did not call 911 in the aftermath of the attack.
Shortly after the incident, Lowe's spokeswoman Karen Cobb said the chain does not allow non-service animals on the premises for "safety and sanitary reasons."
Contact the writer: 951-368-9694, sburge@pressenterprise.com
Sarah Burge


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Yes... Frig, I am not that far north LOL. 5.5 hours form Toronto. But anyway, Please let me know what you did to solve the issue, I see this topic is getting off topic I really need help with this, Link2FS is a Major part of my Sim. And with it gone.... The whole think i s kind of useless.
Its almost like the version of Simconnect installed, isn't being seen By Link2FS and just plane won't run. There needs to be some little thing I can do to make it work. And I did use the version specified in the post.
Even better would be for Jim to Recompile using the New version, and that would work even better LOL. But I know he is busy.
I know you are busy, and I am really sorry to ask directly. I am guessing you really don't know how to respond to my plea for help with Link2FS.
I actually have it running now, with FSX-Steam, however it says FSX is not running.
You know your code, could you please tell me what it is looking for when it is running to determine if FSX is running or not?
Do you have it looking for the fsx.exe process? Because that is the process that is running. Or is it still because SimConnect still isn't connecting properly?
Sorry again for the Direct Question.
So I am gathering that Link2FS Sees the correct Version of Simconnect.. But FSX-SE Isn't communicating with that version to say it is running.
my old computer I manually edited the register after an install and removed anything to do with FSX but you have to be careful when regedit.
Thanks Tom, I am way beyond that LOL. Thanks for trying. I did all that, but Link2FS Just runs and says FSX is not running when it is.
What a Shame.. As Jim Says, "If it doesn't work, try Something else" Too bad I really thought this software was going to be BIG.


The events in Fukushima,Japan should put everyones mind at rest, a 30+ year old power station survives a Tsunami and earthquake.
The tsunami and earthquake were much bigger than it was even designed to cope with, and the only noticable effect was the news agencies went into meltdown over their stupid scaremongering.
How many health scares has Wylfa on Anglesey caused? Compare that to how many are caused by coal,oil and gas power stations. It's a no brainer.
I was asked recently if I would be happy with a Nuclear power station being built in 'My Back Yard' and to be fair (as I have looked into them and feel I have a well informed/balanced opinion) the answer is an resounding 'Yes'.
Instead of accepting the drivel that the press were spouting about Fukushima I decided to learn about what the risks were instead, and I suggest others do the same.
Remember if we don't build these new plants the lights will go out. We can't rely on the wind turbines. Wylfa B is a must for Anglesey.
Go here for the latest alternative view on Wylfa B.
I live on Anglesey and I STILL think it's a bad idea. How would you like it if there were people burying radioactive waste on YOUR doorstep? Plus, if it blows we all die. Lots of fun that idea. It's not renewable, it's not safe, and it is NOT a good idea. Stick to wind and tidal. Much better.
Why Anglesey again? If it's so safe build one in London, surely they could do with extra employment too!
Anglesey is approx 18 miles from Wylfa to the Menai or Britannia bridge, the exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant was 18 miles, so where do the entire population of this island go in the event of a disaster?
Do we all invade Bangor if we can get there in time? How on earth haven't these questions been answered? How was the first ever built here when they knew an exclusion zone would mean the entire Isle of Anglesey's population seeking refuge over the bridge pronto!
It's no wonder now why most of the 'team leaders' and 'higher ranking' employees of Wylfa power station live in areas closest to the bridge!! They must obviously know something we don't.
Please don't mistake me coming across as an anti-nuclear fanatic, I used to work in the power station a few years ago, and know a thing or two on how it is run or dare I say how the figures are adjusted to get the right readings!
I strongly feel after Japan's disaster .. enough is enough! Thanks but NO THANKS!!
Anglesey shouldn't be wrecked by big ugly power stations that have the potential in case of disaster to wipe out the whole island. Wales needs good renewable energy not renewable energy that poses a threat to not only humans but all life. renewable energy is supposed to help the environment but I don't see how any nuclear power station could achieve this.
On Anglesey it is approx 18 miles from Wylfa to the Menai or Britannia bridges, the exclusion zone around the Fukushima plant was 18 miles, so where do the entire population of this island go in the event of a disaster?
Do we all invade Bangor if we can get there in time? How on earth haven't these questions been answered?
How was the first ever built here when they knew an exclusion zone would mean the entire Isle of Anglesey's population seeking refuge over the bridge pronto!
It's no wonder now why some of the 'team leaders' and 'higher ranking' employees of Wylfa power station live in areas closest to the bridge!!
They must obviously know something we don't.
it was a dissaster in Ukraine but you cant compare the two incidents. what happened in Chernobil was because of political pressure and ignoring proper rules.
In Japan they have faced a mega natural shock, big earthquake and tidal wave.
So please, dont confuse. We need nuclear because old power stations are closing and we need the electricity.
Today is the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear accident. A big cloud of nuclear dust spread across Europe.
Even today there is still a 30km exclusion zone around the abandoned site.


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Flags and Vexillology.
Today marks the centenary of the creation of Northern Ireland, when the Fourth Home Rule Bill went into effect. Someone posted to the Facebook group Flags and Vexillology a photograph of an early flag for Northern Ireland, a blue ensign with six six-pointed stars surrounding a shield of the traditional province of Ulster. This flag, however used, was superseded by the Ulster Banner, taken from the shield of the arms of Northern Ireland, which was granted in 1924.
Heraldry-wiki.com.
Paul Halsall also draws our attention to an article at West Cork Historical Society Forum, about what happened to the once numerically strong (but still minority) Unionist/Loyalist population of Cork after 1920.
In 1919 the Unionist community in County Cork was prosperous, numerous and committed in varying degrees to the Unionist cause. They had their own newspaper, held parades and maintained a complex social system. Yet by 1923 their community lay decimated, torn asunder by a campaign of murder and intimidation and forced into a supposedly "Free State" which did little to protect them. What brought about such cataclysmic changes? How was the campaign of murder conducted and for what reasons? Did Cork Unionism maintain its identity during those violent years – and can this still be seen today?
The numerical decline between 1911 and 1926 of the Protestant (and mostly unionist) community in Cork, and indeed throughout Southern Ireland, is startling. The historian Hart puts the level of Protestant decline during this period at no less than 34% (the Roman Catholic population declined by merely 2%) and comments that "this catastrophic loss was unique to the Southern minority and unprecedented: it represents easily the single greatest measurable social change of the revolutionary era"
It is difficult to argue with Hart's assessment that this population decline is unique in British history – representing "the only example of the mass displacement of a native ethnic group within the British Isles since the 17th century"
More at the link. Those who weren't murdered fled to Northern Ireland or Britain. Reminds me of my own Loyalist ancestors following the American Revolution.
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Professor Miles Fisher
Miles Fisher graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1979 and was a consultant physician at Glasgow Royal Infirmary from 2001 to 2020. In 2010 he was appointed as an Honorary Professor at the University of Glasgow. He was a Vice-President (Medical) of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 2011-14, President of the Scottish Society of Physicians for 2015-16 and Co-chair of Scottish Heart Arterial disease Risk Prevention (SHARP) in 2017.
His clinical and research interests include diabetes and the heart, hypoglycaemia and new treatments for diabetes. He was a member of the DIGAMI 2 study steering committee and was the Scottish co-ordinator. He was an events adjudicator for the HOPE, HOPE-TOO and cardiovascular outcome trials, and for the albiglutide Harmony Phase 3 development programme. He has been involved in guideline development for the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), and in guideline reviewing for SIGN, ESC, the EASD and NICE.
Professor Fisher is the editor or co-editor of four books on heart disease in diabetes, three books on hypoglycaemia and a book on SGLT-2 inhibitors. He has authored or co-authored 49 book chapters, 82 original papers, 75 review articles, 36 leaders and editorials, 54 drug notes for Practical Diabetes and 15 drug notes for the British Journal of Cardiology. He was the co-author of the diabetes chapter in the 19th, 20th and 21st Editions of Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine.


Polywater -- instructive scientific fiasco; Polywater, by Felix Franks. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. $12.50.
A little less than two decades ago, reports from the Soviet Union told of discovery of a remarkable form of water. It boiled at twice the temperature required for normal water, froze only at several tens of degrees below zero C. Furthermore, and again unlike ordinary water, it did not become lighter as it neared the freezing temperature. Ice of this strange water would sink rather than float.
Thus was born the saga of polywater -- one of the most intriguing and revealing episodes of "pathological science" in modern times. By the time it had run its course in the early 1970s, a number of leading scientists had put their reputations on the line, endorsing what turned out to be a glorious mistake.
Moreover, the Western press and public had been solemnly warned by one such scientist that experimenters were playing around with a form of water that, if it escaped the laboratory, could extinguish life on earth.
Here is choice material for the historian of science, and Franks, a distinguished surface chemist and expert on water, has made the most of it in this book, due to be published in May. His book not only recounts an intriguing case history of how scientists fooled themselves; he also gives readers an interesting account of the nature of real water and its importance on this planet, as well as an insight into the sociology of natural science.
As he is careful to explain, the scientists who fell for polywater were fooled, but they were not basically foolish, at least in the beginning. They had reason to believe they were on the trail of a major discovery, the stuff of which Nobel Prizes are made.
The material was hard to prepare and could be studied only in small quantities. Even then, measurements strained the skill of the most careful experimentalists. So it was not immediately obvious that the remarkable properties claimed for this substance were due to contamination, as it turned out. Furthermore, finding such a substance would have been a key discovery.
The properties suggested that this was a polymer (a linking of molecules) -- hence the name polywater -- that would be the most stable form of water. This implied, among other things, that it could convert all other forms of water to itself if released into the environment. Since polywater would be a biological poison, the prospect caused some alarm.
As the polywater episode unfolded, many scientists rushed in to work on it, or sometimes to deride it. There was a scramble for "priority" of discoveries and much unprofessional pushing and shoving. Dr. Frank presents this story in a way that reveals how scientists go about their work "objectively" yet exhibit the normal human frailties, and how they are constrained both by the politics of the scientific community and of the governmental system of research funding.
This is not the definitive last word on the polywater episode. Dr. Franks himself notes that we do not have enough perspective on such a recent event for that. But it is an brightly written, informative book that gives an accurate feeling for the pitfalls and the great stre ngth of the scientific enterprise.


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Trypsin je trávicí enzym, který se vyskytuje v dvanáctníku. Podobně jako pepsin štěpí peptidické vazby bílkovin obsažených v potravě.

Trypsin patří mezi hydrolázy, konkrétně proteázy. Vzniká ve slinivce břišní jako proenzym trypsinogen. Ten je pak v dvanáctníku aktivován enzymaticky enterokinázou a také působením dříve vzniklých molekul trypsinu (jde o autokatalýzu). Oproti pepsinu, jehož aktivita je nejvyšší v silně kyselém prostředí žaludku, katalyzuje trypsin proteolytické (rozkladné) reakce v mírně zásaditém prostředí, které je typické právě pro dvanáctník. Trypsin se od pepsinu liší také větší specifitou – neštěpí bílkoviny v náhodných místech, ale pouze na karboxylovém konci aminokyselin lysinu a argininu, pokud po nich nenásleduje prolin.

Využití
Izolovaný trypsin se využívá například v cytogenetice, kde se nechává působit na chromozomy.

Další využití má trypsin v proteomice, kde se používá ke specifickému naštěpení proteinů na peptidy před určováním pomocí hmotnostního spektrometru.

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Externí odkazy

Proteázy
Trávicí enzymy

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The black curagh working slowly through this world of grey, and the soft hissing of the rain gave me one of the moods in which we realise with immense distress the short moment we have left us to experience all the wonder and beauty of the world.
This week Beanie and I reached the J. M. Synge episode of The Irish Identity. The quote above found me at the perfect time, as I neared the end of Emily St. John Mandel's lovely Station Eleven, and on the day the President announced his intention to withdraw from the Paris Climate Agreement.
Even after the people of the south island, these men of Inishmaan seemed to be moved by strange archaic sympathies with the world. Their mood accorded itself with wonderful fineness to the suggestions of the day, and their ancient Gaelic seemed so full of divine simplicity that I would have liked to turn the prow to the west and row with them for ever.
Melanie has begun a link-up for sharing daily learning notes, always an engaging topic (if you're anything like me). I used to have an entire side-blog for my daily notes, and then a different one, and then a different one. These days I'm tracking things on paper, but I do like to compile some of our best resources and rabbit trails here pretty often, as you know.
Our various readings continue to interconnect in satisfying ways. We spent a couple of weeks on Wordsworth (you don't leave this house until you know a good bit about the Romantics, that's just the way it is) and are reading Coleridge this week, and that has created excellent crossover with our readings about the French Revolution. Except a MOST UNFORTUNATE THING happened and that is: while (continuing on in the juggernaut of world history) reading aloud about Napoleon, my tongue got twisted and his name came out BonaFART. Never, never, never shall I be allowed to live this down. Never, never, never shall I be permitted to read another word about him without a ripple of giggles across the room. Waterloo can't come fast enough, believe me. I might have to move to Elba myself.
ANYWAY, back to Coleridge. We began a discussion of "Frost at Midnight" today, which is one of my most beloved poems. It's a good many years since I've lived where there's frost, but I still look at a winter sky and inhale the cold air and think of silent icicles quietly shining to the quiet moon. We found so much to discuss in the first stanza that that's as far as we got for now—and the best is yet to come.
Today during our after-lunch block (that's when I focus my attention on Huck and Rilla), we did cornmeal letters. Uppercase printing for Huck and lowercase cursive for Rilla. This was a new activity for Huck and he enjoyed it tremendously. (And ate a whole lot of dry cornmeal, gah.) He's not yet shown much interest in writing or drawing—loves to paint big swirls and stripes of color, but crayons interest him not at all—but we have a Montessori Letter Shapes app that mimics this kind of tactile finger-tracing, and he used to play that quite a lot. When I put the plate of cornmeal in front of him today and showed him what we were going to do, he asked, politely puzzled, "But how do we reset it?" No reset button, you see. Oh my digital-era child.
"Round Buildings, Square Buildings, and Buildings that Wiggle Like a Fish by Philip M. Isaacson. Twelve years ago, this children's book was my introduction to the study of architecture. I've never looked at buildings the same way since.
Round Buildings, Square Buildings was edited by my first boss in publishing, the great Stephanie Spinner. It was near completion by the time I came on board; I don't think I did much more than look over galleys and jacket copy, and probably put through the request for Mr. Isaacson's author copies. It's one of those books I sat at my desk reading, unable to believe my good fortune: This is my job now; I'm getting paid to read.
Before Round Buildings I hadn't done much real seeing of architecture. There were buildings I loved: the sandstone administration building (formerly a convent) of my first college, Loretto Heights, with its red tower soft-edged against a blue sky, and inside, a gorgeous mosaic floor—tiny tiles set into place by wagon-training nuns, so the story went. But even there, I was drawn more to story than to form. Most of the buildings that captured my imagination, pre-Isaacson, lived in books: Green Gables, the House o' Dreams, Jane's Lantern Hill house with its "lashings of magic." The Muskoka cabin. (No one does houses better than Montgomery.) Plumfield. Juniper's cottage. Miss Suzy's tree-house with its acorn cups. Vicky Austin's grandfather's house-in-a-converted-stable with the stalls full of books. A great many English houses in a great many English novels.
But most of the time, my eye was drawn more to nature than to man's edifices. I had next to no vocabulary for understanding architecture. Isaacson changed that in a paragraph with his description of the creamy walls of the Taj Mahal changing colors as the sun moved across them—the very passage I read with Beanie and Rose this morning. He writes about harmony and you find yourself looking for it everywhere you go. He made me see my world differently—just as John Stilgoe's Outside Lies Magic changed how I looked at just about everything else: power lines, rain gutters, a sculpture garden, the line at the DMV. The way Betty Edwards's Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain changed the way I see faces.
Clicking through these old posts, I see I've made a connection between these three books before. They're transformative, all three.
Funny also to see in the old Stilgoe post I linked above, "Way Leads on to Way," that I'd been reading Fifty Famous Stories Retold* to Beanie that year—in March, 2008, when she was seven years old. And now here's Rilla seven, and I'm reading it to her. (Today's tale: Androclus and the Lion. It drew cheers, and a narration with gusto. Because LION.) I have to laugh: way doesn't just lead on to way; sometimes it leads right back full circle. I didn't choose Round Buildings for the older girls and Fifty Famous Stories for the seven-year-old at the same time—again—on purpose; I guess it's just that I've been doing this long enough now that I know what works for us, and these things have worked time and again. It did strike me this morning, reading the Isaacson, that the Stilgoe might be a satisfying read for Jane and Rose right about now.


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I was just thinking how much I love pink & gold as a combo. It's becoming a recurring theme every holiday.


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Das Schloss Cronheim (früher Leonrod'sches Schloss genannt) ist ein Schlossbau in Cronheim, einem Ortsteil der Stadt Gunzenhausen im mittelfränkischen Landkreis Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen. Das Wasserschloss ist unter der Denkmalnummer D-5-77-136-149 als Baudenkmal in die Bayerische Denkmalliste eingetragen. Das Schloss, in Teilen erhaltene Vorgänger und das Gelände um das Schloss sind als Mittelalterlicher Wasserburgstall, frühneuzeitliches Wasserschloss Cronheim zusätzlich als Bodendenkmal unter der Nummer D-5-6929-0192 ausgewiesen.

Lage
Der Schlossbau befindet sich im Ortskern von Cronheim nördlich der Dorfkirche St. Maria Magdalena und westlich des Allodiums Cronheim auf einer Höhe von 474 Metern über NHN. Die postalische Adresse lautet Cronheim 178.

Architektur
Das heutige Schloss wurde 1564 auf einem mittelalterlichen Vorgängerbau zunächst als Zweiflügelanlage in Form einer Wasserburg angelegt. Es war durch zwei Vorburgen und einen Stauweiher gesichert. Um 1597 erfolgte der Ausbau zu einer Vierflügelanlage, die an den Außenecken in Richtung Westen durch Rundtürme, in Richtung Osten von oktogonalen Ecktürmen flankiert war. Im Atrium verband ein ebenfalls oktogonaler Treppenturm die Geschosse. Das Schloss ist exakt nach Nord-Süd/Ost-West ausgerichtet und folgt nicht den durch den Straßenverlauf vorgegebenen Achsen.

Erhaltungszustand
Noch erhalten sind der zweigeschossige Hauptflügel im Osten und anschließende Teile des Süd- und des Nordflügels sowie zwei oktogonale Ecktürme, von denen der Südturm, auch Hungerturm genannt, um 1400 gebaut wurde, zusammen mit der noch vorhandenen Toranlage. Der Turm im Norden wurde beim Ausbau der Burg zur Vierflügelanlage im 16. Jahrhundert errichtet. Gegen Süden ist unter Einbezug von Teilen des mittelalterlichen Wohnturms (12./13. Jahrhundert), des Vorgängerbaus, etwa die Hälfte erhalten. Darin befindet sich heute das Museum Mikrokosmos Cronheim, ein Dorf – drei Religionen. Vom Nordflügel steht etwa noch ein Drittel. An der Innenseite wurde der hölzerne Verbindungsgang aufwendig restauriert. Der im 16. Jahrhundert errichtete Treppenturm und der gesamte Westflügel wurden zum Teil im 19. Jahrhundert wegen Baufälligkeit abgetragen. Heute befinden sich dort moderne Gebäude, die von der AWO als Therapiezentrum genutzt werden. Teilweise erhalten sind auch die mittelalterlichen Vorburgen, die ehemalige Wehrkirche St. Maria Magdalena und Teile des hochmittelalterlichen Allodiums sowie Teile der inneren und der äußeren Ringmauer des Schlosses im Süden und Osten. Diese wurden in ihrer ursprünglichen Höhe stark gekürzt, enthalten jedoch noch teilweise die ursprüngliche aufwändige Sandsteinmauerbekrönung.

Geschichte
Im Mittelalter war Cronheim ein freies, reichsunmittelbares Rittergut. Ein befestigtes Allodium, zu dem das erste Herrenhaus gehörte, wurde mit königlicher Genehmigung um 1140 einige Meter östlich des heutigen Schlosses errichtet. Teile dieses Gebäudes sind heute noch in Haus Nr. 180 erhalten. Eine erste, bescheidene Wasserburg wurde wohl bereits gegen Ende des 12. oder Anfang des 13. Jahrhunderts errichtet. Mitte des 14. Jahrhunderts wurde die Anlage stark ausgebaut. Dazu gehörte die Errichtung einer Vorburg Richtung Osten unter Einbeziehung des bereits befestigten Allodiums. 1403 wurde das Schloss durch den Nürnberger Burggraf Johann III mit Umgehung der Vorburg zerstört.

Durch Heirat kam das Rittergut Cronheim an die Herren von Leonrod, die 1564 mit dem Bau der heutigen Wasserburg, zunächst als Zweiflügelanlage, begannen. Durch Erbschaft kam 1580 das Rittergut Cronheim an Sebastian Neustädter genannt Stürmer, bevor dieser es 1595 oder 1597 für 47.000 Gulden seinem Schwager Friedrich von Eyb zu Eybburg verkaufte. Friedrich baute das Schloss als Vierflügelanlage aus, verschuldete sich beim Ausbau jedoch so sehr, dass er 1604 gezwungen war, das Schloss seinem Schwager Geyer von Giebelstadt zu Goldbach zu verpfänden. Der Eichstätter Fürstbischof Johann Christoph von Westerstetten erwarb das Schloss 1630. Der Kauf war jedoch unrechtmäßig, wodurch nach Ende des Dreißigjährigen Krieges das Rittergut an die Vorbesitzer Fuchs von Bimbach zurückfiel, die es zur Begleichung von Schulden an Graf Johann Heinrich Notthafft verkauften. 1661 bot Johann Heinrich Notthafft 1661 seine Cronheimer Güter dem Deutschen Orden zum Kauf an. Der Verkauf verzögerte sich jedoch, so dass der Eichstätter Bischof Marquard schließlich von seinem Lösungsrecht Gebrauch machen konnte und an dessen Stelle in den Kaufvertrag einstieg. So kam Cronheim am 2. August 1661 wieder zum Bistum Eichstätt. Der eigentliche Kaufvertrag wurde wegen strittiger Punkte jedoch erst knapp zehn Jahre später, am 10. Januar 1671, unterschrieben. 1668 wurde das Schloss dem Pflegeamt Arberg unterstellt und ein Vogt übernahm die Verwaltung des Schlosses. Die Markgrafen von Brandenburg-Ansbach versuchten mehrfach die Herrschaft über Cronheim zu erlangen. 1707 wurde das Schloss von Musketieren des Markgrafen gestürmt und teilweise verwüstet. 1796 annektierte das Königreich Preußen das eichstättische Amt Cronheim, bevor 1802 die Rittergüter Cronheim und Eybburg vom preußischen König an den bayerischen Kurfürsten Max Josef übergeben wurden. Dieser schenkte das Rittergut Cronheim seinem Minister Maximilian von Montgelas, der es bereits ein Jahr später an den preußischen König weiterverkaufte. Ab 1804 war das Schloss unbewohnt und litt während der Napoleonischen Kriege stark unter Truppeneinquartierungen. Danach erwarben diverse Privateigentümer das mittlerweile baufällig gewordene Schloss. Zwischen 1840 und 1848 musste der im 16. Jahrhundert errichtete und zwischenzeitlich in Schieflage geratene Treppenturm zusammen mit dem Westflügel und Teilen des Nord- und Südflügels wegen Einsturzgefahr abgerissen werden. 1999 wurden die übrigen Teile des Schlosses unter großem Aufwand restauriert. Heute ist im Schloss neben einem öffentlich zugänglichen Museum auch ein Schlossladen untergebracht. Die AWO unterhält in anderen Gebäudeteilen ein Therapiezentrum.

Literatur
 Daniel Burger: Neue Befunde zur Baugeschichte des Schlosses Cronheim, Stadt Gunzenhausen, Lkr. Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen. In: Beiträge zur Archäologie in Mittelfranken. - Büchenbach. - . - 5 (1999), S. 221–254.

 Hans-Heinrich Häffner: Schloß Cronheim bei Gunzenhausen in Mittelfranken. In: Burgen und frühe Schlösser in Thüringen und seinen Nachbarländern. Herausgeber Wartburg-Gesellschaft zur Erforschung von Burgen und Schlössern, Band 5, 1999, Deutscher Kunstverlag, München 2000, ISBN 3-422-06263-7 / ISBN 978-3-422-06263-4.

 Karl Ried: Cronheim ein ehemaliger Adelssitz. Eichstätt 1934.
 Ralf Rossmeissl und Evelyn Gillmeister-Geisenhof: Mikrokosmos Cronheim: ein Dorf, drei Religionen. Hrsg.: Kreisverband der Arbeiterwohlfahrt Roth-Schwabach e.V. Selbstverlag, Roth-Schwabach 2000, ISBN 3-933474-09-4.

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Q: Honestly confused on how to apply Swing Timers to my program, can someone take a look? I was reading about Swing Timers and the example really looks nothing like I was trying to do so I found it logically confusing to apply it to my program. I'm starting to think I don't even need a timer for this.
Here is what I am trying to do:
I am making a JFrame program that has the user enter a credit card number into a JTextField. Before they do this there is a JLabel that says "Please enter your number into the text field", then once they enter this into the field and hit enter, depending on whether my code determines that the card number is valid or not valid, the JLabel will change to "Invalid" or "Thank you, processing."
However, I have unsuccessfully found a way to make it change text based, it just seems to stay with whatever text I initially give it.
So could someone please look at my code and change it to do what I am asking? That would be excellent. You guys have been helpful in the past.
public class CreditGraphics {

    public String cardNum;
    public JFrame frame;
    public JPanel panel;
    public JLabel label;
    public JTextField text;
    public Timer timer;

    public CreditGraphics() {
        frame = new JFrame("HI");
        panel = new JPanel();
        label = new JLabel();
        text = new JTextField(16);
        panel.add(label);
        panel.add(text);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        panel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500, 500));
        frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
        label.setText("Hi");
        label.setText("Hello");
        text.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                cardNum = text.getText();
                timer = new Timer(2000,this);
                timer.setInitialDelay(1000);
                timer.start();
            }
        });
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new CreditGraphics();

               }
        });
    }

    public void checkCard(){

    }
}

A: You have some major problems with your Timer's ActionListener as it is adding the anonymous inner ActionListener object, the this in the Timer's constructor, to itself. So it will call the very same actionPerformed inside the Timer that is called by the JButton that starts the Timer -- quite confusing. If your program were to need a Timer, you would do well to make sure to give it its own ActionListener, and not the same ActionListener that you add to your JButton as you're doing now.
Most importantly, do you even need a Swing Timer? I don't think so since you don't appear to be wanting an action repeatedly happening every xxx milliseconds, or an action that occurs once after xxx milliseconds, and since all you want to do is change the text. I suggest that instead you simply change your JLabel's text in the anonymous inner ActionListener class, and just leave it at that. If your requirements are different, then you will want to clarify and expand on your question.
So in semi-pseudocode, something like:
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
  String userText = text.getText();
  if (testIfTextValid(userText)) { // some method to test if input OK
    label.setText(INPUT_VALID);  // String constant for JLabel to display

    // here pass the userText to other parts of your code that needs to use it

  } else {
    label.setText(INPUT_INVALID);
  }
}

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Lisette Lanvin (1913–2004) was a French film actress.

Selected filmography
 Student's Hotel (1932)
 Youth (1933)
 Nitchevo (1936)
 Jenny (1936)
 The Kings of Sport (1937)
 The Club of Aristocrats (1937)
 A Woman of No Importance (1937)
 The Pearls of the Crown (1937)
 Orage (1938)

References

Bibliography
 Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.

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1913 births
2004 deaths
French film actresses
20th-century French women


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Gold leaf allows the inherent tactile quality of materials covered in it to shine through fully thanks to its one ten-thousandth of a millimeter thickness. We feature two gold and platinum restrooms in our store that use construction tiles taking advantage of this fact. There are motifs symbolizing Ishikawa Prefecture on the walls, so please feel free to see for yourself the lavishness composed by gold and platinum and get a feel for the texture and thinness when you visit our shop. Our branch store in Higashi Chaya District also has a wall featuring gold leaf at the entrance, so be sure to stop by there, too.
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The amazing Game of Thrones TV series: This changes everything.
written by thomasmdbrooke
Whilst travelling in Australia back in 1999, I started reading the first novel in the series of a Song of Ice and Fire. This novel was of course Game of Thrones, and I knew straight away that this book was something that went beyond any normal fantasy epic – this was excitement bound up with characters of rare depth and intrigue, and a story of such magnificence that it could rise to the top of the fantasy genre. Little did I expect back then however, that Game of Thrones would change the rules in how we now define commercial success.
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However, when I first heard that HBO were going to make a TV adaptation of one of my favourite fantasy series, my overwhelming thought was not one of enthusiasm or anticipation, instead it was trepidation – please don't let them mess it up! Why the lack of faith? Apart from the obvious fear that they might try and dumb it down or water down the more shocking bits (Ha! If anything, they made it more shocking!) my reticence was due to a number of factors. Firstly, how could any TV series possibly capture the sheer scale and magnitude of Games of Thrones? The gigantic castles, the armour, the costumes, the number of sets needed would be astronomical, even in our CGI aided days. And yet they managed it and I don't think anyone could have possibly done it any better. They captured the heart of Westeros so completely that as soon as I now hear the opening title sequence to the show I'm instantly transported into George R R Martin's marvellous magical realm.
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My second worry was based around the characters. The reason I enjoyed the novels so much was that the personalities of the main characters were so well defined and described, and I worried they wouldn't survive the transition onto the screen. It is the age old worry of any adaptation, that your favourite character might not be shown how you originally imagined them and that this may in some way shatter your own immersion in the story. I shouldn't have worried, the casting was inspired, characters such as Daenerys, John Snow, Jaime and Cersei Lannister are captured so completely and perfectly that I now can't imagine them in any other way. As for Tyrion and Tywin Lannister, well I can only say that Peter Dinklage and Charles Dance did such an incredible job in portraying them that they have become the embodiment of brilliantly realised fantasy characterisations. No mean feat considering that Tyrion was considered most people's favourite character in the novels and therefore the expectations were that much higher.
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My third worry is the only one that still bothers me, and that was that the novels are still not finished. At first this wasn't too much of a concern as they had so many novels and material to get through that George R R Martin should have had plenty of time to finish the books first. After all, for all the brilliance of the TV series, the books will always be the real place where Westoros resides – it's just because in books your immersion can be so much greater as you learn every detail, thought, and motive of each twist and turn in the story. I hadn't realised however, how much of George R R Martin's time would be taken up working on the TV adaptation. So much so that the TV series is set to overtake the novels and that the final climax to the amazing story will be shown on screen first. This I think is a shame, and I did feel a little betrayed when I heard the news. When I first started reading the books, I began to think that at one time they would become a fantasy literary classic that could be mentioned in the same breath as The Lord of the Rings. But will the last novels even be written now? Who really knows, and even if they are, will the same amount of work and attention be put into them as the earlier novels that so completely managed to capture my imagination in the first place?
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But I don't want to throw cold water on what is a brilliantly actualised television series, the sort of televisual feast that I could have only dreamed of growing up. It has been so successful that countless millions of new fans have been brought over to the fantasy genre, fulfilling the long held wish of mine, that finally people wake up to fantasy and realise the amazing talent and brilliance of fantasy authors throughout the world. It has become the new benchmark for success and it shows that the mass appeal of fantasy novels no longer has any boundaries. It's been wonderful to watch this series unfold before me, I just wish he'd finished writing the books first….
Next week, I will wrap up my Games of Thrones series with a breakdown of my favourite characters from the series and my thoughts on them.
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D. Wallace Peach says
I read all the books in about 3 weeks preparing for the TV series. I wanted to get the full experience of Martin's world before HBO condensed it. I expected the televised series to change it and that was okay with me as long as I'd read the "real" story first. And I like what HBO did even though it is quite different. Now, so much time has passed since I finished the books (like 5 years) I won't go back to finish them. I've forgotten the details and would get all confused between the paper and screen. Too bad, I think, that he couldn't finish the books on time 😦
thomasmdbrooke says
Yes, I completely agree. It's a shame he never finished the books first. It can't be helped now, HBO will have to release a new series each year until its conclusion. With books people are prepared to be patient, but TV is never so accommodating.
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WORLD ASSOCIATION OF INVESTMENT PROMOTION AGENCIES WORLD INVESTMENT CONFERENCE
Date: Thursday, 21 October 2021
The twenty-fifth World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies (WAIPA) World Investment Conference was held alongside the virtual World Investment Forum 2021. In the wake of COVID-19 it discussed "Regeneration of IPAs in a new decade" — the crucial importance of IPAs during and after the pandemic that has had an impact on lives and economies globally. Bringing together IPAs from all over the world, government officials, development sector leaders, decision makers from the private sector and academia relevant to FDI policy and strategy, the World Investment Conference via several panels reviewed the past two and a half decades of investment promotion, debated the rise of digitalization and the importance of data-driven investment promotion, and aimed to examine how investors and locations alike benefit from IPAs and how IPAs are able to highlight their role further as a critical element in the promotion and facilitation of investments.
Panel 1: A quarter century of investment promotion: Success stories and the future outlook (10:00-10:50)
An overwhelming majority of IPAs were created after 1990[1].This surge of institutions specializing in investment promotion in the 1990's also influenced the creation of WAIPA under the auspices of UNCTAD in 1995. Slightly over a quarter of a century later we look at how the work of IPAs has changed, with agencies emerging and disappearing over the last few years, what international institutions can do to assist agencies, how their work has been impacted by COVID-19 and how IPAs can even expand their crucial role in promoting and facilitating investments into their countries or regions.
[1] WAIPA. (2019). "Overview of Investment Promotion: Report of the Findings from the WAIPA Annual Survey of 2018." WAIPA, Geneva.
Panel 2: Data-driven investment promotion: How data influences the world of IPAs (11:00-11:50)
As in most areas of life, data, their management and use, are becoming increasingly important issues for investment promotion. Data help agencies to prove the value of their work by referring to numbers collected on FDI, at the same time data help agencies to take decisions more effectively and even to create leads for further investments. This panel will look how important the collection of accurate data is and how IPAs can use data to their benefit.
Panel 3: Business-oriented IPAs: High-end services and added value for investors (12:00-12:50)
IPAs are an important link between business and governments. As agencies are usually linked to the government, they understand the dynamism within government structures; yet being in contact with investors on a daily basis at the same time, it is crucial for agencies and their employees to speak the same language as the investor. This unique position has also made IPAs of vital importance during the COVID-19 pandemic that has imposed a difficult situation on many companies. This panel will examen how investors see the functions of IPAs, how governments may utilize IPAs more strategically and effectively and how IPAs are able to highlight their role further as valuable elements in the promotion and facilitation of investments.
In light of the above, since the establishment of WAIPA the idea of createing a body that brings private sector expertise to the WAIPA member IPAs has been fully supported by the Steering Committee as well as the General Assembly of WAIPA. In line with the Association's strategy issued by its General Assembly, the proposal for a private sector advisory body gathered momentum and led to the decision of the Steering Committee, in April 2020, to recommend the establishment of a Business Advisory Board.
The private sector will play an important role in the work of WAIPA in establishing best practice and helping IPAs to enhance their corporate capacity and provide the best possible assistance to the private sector before, during and after their investments. The private sector understands the need to put the United Nation's SDGs on its priority list, and that projects that can generate sound rates of return can at the same time have optimal socio-economic impacts.
Awards ceremony: Strengthening IPA Advocacy Services 2021 Awards (13:10-14:00)
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Prison That Once Held The Mahatma is Now Giving Inmates a Special 'Voice'
Navajivan offered to print the magazine for free in appreciation of the new initiative of the Sabarmati prison
Post author:Kaushik Joshi
Post category:Police / Rehabilitation
In an interesting endeavour by a police officer, creativity broke free from the cocoon of prison bars and found its way into the printed word.
Thanks to the efforts of Sunil Joshi, Superintendent of Police, Valsad, Gujarat, the Sabarmati Central Prison in Ahmedabad, launched a periodical called 'Saad' The voice of prisoners, that carries their literary contributions. The magazine was launched earlier this year and is in Gujarati.
Joshi hit upon the idea when he was posted as the jail superintendent in Ahmedabad. He says, "In the course of my informal conversations with prison inmates, I learnt that several of them had various talents which could be tapped. The idea was to give meaning to their life in prison. So, I motivated some of them to write and was pleasantly surprised with what I read. I also found that some inmates were good with graphics. This made me realise that their talents should be tapped and allowed to flow into something of substance."
Sunil invited students of the prestigious NID (National Institute of Design) in Ahmedabad to train the prison inmates in graphic design.
Magazine cover (Source: Kaushik Joshi)
The Saad quarterly magazine was launched, and it was then proposed that it would be printed by the Navajivan Trust.
Founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1919, Navajivan Trust is a publishing house that has published more than 800 titles in English, Gujarati, Hindi and other languages so far.
Navajivan offered to print the magazine for free in appreciation of the new initiative of the Sabarmati prison where once Gandhiji was imprisoned by the British. "When the jail authorities approached us for printing the magazine, we agreed immediately. We will do it for free and also look after the distribution," says Vivek Desai, managing trustee of the Navajivan Trust.
Although Navajivan offers some editorial help, the prisoners have taken the jobs of editing, proof-reading and coordinating, upon themselves. Navajivan also sells the textiles and furniture made by the prisoners through its outlet called Sattva, located in its premises in Ahmedabad.
Contributions to the magazine include poems, short stories, crossword puzzles and cartoon strips. While the subjects are varied —they touch upon humanity, communal harmony and lessons of life learnt behind bars.
A snapshot of those contributing to the magaizne. (Source: Kaushik Joshi)
At present, the magazine is distributed in the police headquarters and various offices of the police authorities, and in the future, Joshi hopes that the magazine will be sold on newsstands as well. He also plans to invite inmates of other jails in Gujarat to contribute to the magazine.
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This initiative is connected to the broader issue of prison reforms. Mr JR Muthalia, Deputy Inspector General of Prisons, Gujarat, says, "Sabarmati Central Jail is where Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders were imprisoned by the British for long. So, we seek to inject some Gandhian spirit through various reformative measures for the prisoners. In the wake of it, we have now decided that the prisoners who are illiterate will leave the barracks as literate after serving their sentence. We will also help them prepare for SSC and higher secondary exams."
As they say, it is not the prison buildings but what goes on inside them that needs change.


The U.S. EPA has released its long-anticipated final rule setting the 2014, 2015 and 2016 renewable volume requirements (RVOs) under the renewable fuel standard (RFS), along with the 2017 RVO for biomass-based diesel. While the rulemaking increases volume requirements above levels proposed in May and takes a small step in overcoming the E10 blend wall in 2016, the RVOs fall below statutory levels.
The EPA has set 2014 and 2015 RVOs at levels reflecting actual biofuel use during those years. For 2014, the rule requires 16.28 billion gallons of renewable fuel, including 33 million gallons of cellulosic biofuel, 1.63 billion gallons of biomass-based diesel, and 2.67 billion gallons of advanced biofuel. On a percentage basis, the 2014 requirement for cellulosic biofuel is 0.019 percent, with the biomass-based diesel requirement set at 1.41 percent, the advanced biofuel requirement set at 1.51 percent and the renewable fuel volume set at 9.19 percent. When compared to the proposed rule released in May, the proposed percentage standard for cellulosic biofuel has been maintained at 0.019 percent, while the proposed percentage standard for biomass-based diesel has dropped slightly from 1.42 percent. The advanced biofuel requirement also dropped slightly from 1.52 percent. The total renewable fuel percentage however, increased slightly from the originally proposed 9.02 percent. The statutory volume requirements for 2014 would have included 18.15 billion gallons of total renewable fuel, including 1.75 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuel and 3.75 billion gallons of advanced biofuel. Overall, the 2014 volume requirement falls 1.87 billion gallons below volumes called for in the RFS statute.
For 2015, the EPA's final RVO is 16.28 billion gallons of renewable fuel, including 123 million gallons of cellulosic biofuel, 1.73 billion gallons of biomass-based diesel, and 2.88 billion gallons of advanced biofuel. On a percentage basis, the rule calls for 0.069 percent U.S. transportation fuel to be comprised cellulosic biofuel, up from 0.059 proposed in May; 1.49 percent for biomass-based diesel, up from the proposed 1.41 percent; 1.62 percent for advanced biofuel, up from the proposed 1.61 percent; and 9.52 percent of renewable fuel, up from the 9.04 percent proposed in May. Statutory levels for 2015 would have been set at 20.5 billion gallons, including 3 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuel, and 5.5 billion gallons of advanced biofuel. Overall, the final 2015 RVO falls 4.22 billion gallons short of the level called for by statute.
For 2016, the EPA has set the RVO for renewable fuel at 18.11 billion gallons, including 230 million gallons of cellulosic biofuel, 1.9 billion gallons of biomass-based diesel, and 3.61 billion gallons of advanced biofuel. On a percentage basis, the rule calls for total biofuels to account for 10.10 percent of the transportation fuel pool, up from the proposed 9.63 percent announced in May. The percentage for cellulosic biofuel is 0.128 percent, up from a proposed 0.114 percent. The percentage for biomass-based diesel has also increased, from a proposed 1.49 percent to a level of 1.59 percent. In addition, the percentage requirement for advanced biofuel has increased from a proposed 1.88 percent to 2.01 percent. Statutory levels for 2016 would have been set at 22.25 billion gallons of total renewable fuel, including 4.25 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuels and 7.25 billion gallons of advanced biofuel. Overall, the final 2016 RVO falls 4.14 billion gallons short of the level called for by statute.
The rule also sets the 2017 requirement for biomass-based diesel at 2 billion gallons, up from the 1.9 billion gallons proposed in May.
According to McCabe, the RFS is intended to push increased availability of renewable fuels. Noting that fuels like E10 will still be available, she said the EPA anticipates increased availability of fuels like E85 and E15.


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Simon Gibbons
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Mayo Clinic Rochester
Tissue-derived Factors and Macrophage Polarization in Diabetic Gastroenteropathy
The long list of complications associated with diabetes mellitus includes gastroenteropathies such as gastroparesis, a syndrome defined by delayed emptying of gastric contents with no mechanical obstruction. Few treatments are available for diabetic gastroparesis, which can be a disabling disorder due to not only the symptoms of nausea, vomiting, early satiety, bloating and pain but also the adverse impact of altered gastric emptying on glycemic control. Recently it has become clear that several cell types that regulate gastrointestinal motility are affected in the pathophysiology of diabetic gastroparesis including neurons and smooth muscle but the most robust link is between delayed gastric emptying and changes in macrophage polarization, which associates with loss of pacemaker cells (interstitial cells of Cajal, ICC) in the gastric muscularis propria. Our overall hypothesis is that development of diabetic gastroparesis depends on molecules generated in response to diabetes by cells in the gastrointestinal muscle layers and that these molecules alter the balance of tissue macrophage polarization between injurious and cytoprotective phenotypes. We will test this central hypothesis in one specific aim, which is supported by strong preliminary data, by determining the molecules generated in gastric tissues exposed to diabetes that alter the balance between injurious and protective phenotypes of macrophages in gastric tunica muscularis. We have found that: 1. 62 genes including leptin were associated with development of delayed gastric emptying in diabetic mice. 2. Leptin protein was highly expressed in a subset of cells in the gastric muscularis propria of diabetic mice with delayed gastric emptying. 3. Expression profiling identified predominantly cytoprotective markers in sorted gastric muscularis propria macrophages from diabetic mice with loss of function mutations in the leptin receptor (Leprdb/db). We will use a combination of deep sequencing analysis, FACS separation of cell types, in vitro models of diabetic injury, and in vivo mouse models to study diabetes and macrophages to investigate the central hypothesis. As a result we expect to find that local synthesis of leptin in combination with other factors predisposes gastric tunica muscularis to macrophagemediated injury. Completion of the project will identify new directions for testing novel options to treat both gastroparesis and other complications of diabetes.
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Google Stadia pre-orders go live today for a $129 November launch
Google Stadia's release date has been leaked ahead of today's Stadia Connect livestream. The new game streaming service is going to kick off in November this year with a $10/month Stadia Pro subscription ($12 Canadian) that will net you 4K gaming at 60fps right off the bat.
We were expecting to hear all this good stuff later on today as Google had aimed to get the news out early via its own livestream before next week's E3 show swallows up all the gaming news. But it probably hadn't wanted to get it out quite this early, and yet a French Canadian site has now posted a feature leaking all the details before it can get it all on video.
The translation may be a little rough, and the prices might well be in Canadian dollars, but the key points are pretty clear. Yes, Stadia will have a monthly subscription model, but it will only cover a select catalogue of games, with newer titles having to be purchased individually. If you're thinking Xbox Game Pass you'll be in step with Google's own thinking. If you're thinking Xbox Game Pass for PC we'll have to have words about your imagination when it comes to titling a new service…
The La Presse article (via Resetera) explains that from later today you'll be able to pre-order the Founder's Edition kit – yes, it's copying Nvidia – which gives you a Chromecast Ultra, the Stadia Controller, Destiny 2, and a three month subscription, all for the princely sum of $169 Canadian. That translates to $129 US, or around £130.
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According to the piece the Founder Edition will be the only way to access Stadia at the November launch, though Google is reportedly promising that, in 2020, any machine which has the Chrome browser installed on it will have complete access to the Stadia streaming platform.
Along with the Founder Edition there will only be a single subscription tier available at launch, a $12 per month Stadia Pro sub. That's likely in Canadian dollars, so could end up being around $10 US or £10 in the UK. At the November launch it will be available in 14 countries, which would be the US, Canada, the UK, and some other European countries too.
With the Stadia Pro sub you will reportedly gain access to 4K game streaming at 60fps, and a small game catalogue will be included for free with that. Another 31 different titles will be available to purchase for the platform at launch, which will include Assassin's Creed Odyssey, The Division 2, and four other Ubisoft titles, as well as Bethesda's 2016 version of Doom, and all three of Square Enix's recent Tomb Raider franchise.
The article states that the catalogue will be rapidly expanded and "all games can go on Stadia, there is no constraint," Google's Majd Baker is reported to have said.
There will also be a Stadia Base subscription, though that lower-tier sub isn't scheduled to appear until 2020, when the platform is opened up beyond the Founder Edition kit. That will be a free platform sub, but won't offer access to any of the free games, and will be limited to 1080p. The only games you'll be able to stream on the Stadia Base sub will then be the ones you buy yourself.
In terms of the connection you're going to need, for both subscriptions there will be a minimum download requirement of 10Mbps and with a necessary 1Mbps upload speed. The stream will adapt to the network it's running on, but to enjoy 4K streaming with 5.1 audio you're going to need a 35Mbps downstream connection.
Google says that the aim of the platform is to provide a level of computational power that no gaming PC or console can ever match, which will allow devs to create more sophisticated experiences for Stadia than for any other platform.
"It gives an elasticity of resources," Baker says, "that will allow them to create incredible games. For example, games where there are 10,000 players at the same time and where the rendering is infinite."
In terms of the latency, Google is adamant that gamers won't see any difference between a local console and its Stadia streaming platform. "Tests have shown that there is no difference in latency between Stadia and Xbox One S," says Baker.
Part of that could be the 'negative latency' Google also references in the piece. This sounds like some sort of technical voodoo that is able to predict a player's movement in the gameworld to reduce any feeling of latency. Hopefully we'll hear more about that tonight, as well as whether any of this leaked information is true too…
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BBVA Mexico presents alliance to finance solar panels
The banking institution, SunPower-Maxeon, and Powen are the allies.
The BBVA Mexico bank announced the alliance with two of the most important companies in solar panels in the country, SunPower – Maxeon and Powen, to put in the hands of its clients the opportunity to invest in clean energy through financing solutions. Aligned with its sustainable strategy, the banking institution continues to develop business opportunities with all sectors to benefit the different customer segments it serves.
This alliance for cardholders offers up to 24 months without interest (MSI) with all BBVA Mexico credit cards (except BBVA Crea cards, Mi Primera Tarjeta, Negocios and MicroNegocios) so that they can invest in solar panels and also obtain differentiated prices from part of the suppliers that make up this alliance, which have a presence throughout the national territory.
Hugo Nájera Alva, general director of Customer Solutions at BBVA Mexico, commented: "Solar panel systems have become an accessible option for families and businesses in our country."
Some of the benefits obtained by installing a solar panel system are: generating savings of up to 98% in electricity bills (depending on the number of panels installed); increase in capital gains on real estate; as well as a significant decrease in greenhouse gas emissions generated. In this sense, a system of four solar panels on average prevents the production of more than two tons of CO2, which is equivalent to 46 saved trees.
In addition, solar panels are capable of producing energy even on cloudy days because they do not need to directly receive light (with solar irradiation it is enough to generate production) and they work in practically any weather condition, topography and geographical location.
The alliance offers up to 24 months without interest with BBVA Mexico credit cards so that users of the banking institution can invest in solar panels, allowing them to significantly reduce their billing for electricity consumption through photovoltaic energy.
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The Canadian Premier League's first season was everything it set out to be
The CPL's first year was a success—and that's critical for the development of soccer in Canada
By Benedict Rhodes Jan 14, 2020, 2:00pm EST
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"When we were at that age, players like myself maybe had to leave the country to go play professional soccer, but now we have a professional league here."
BRAMPTON, Ont.—After decades of hoping that Canada might one day have a sustainable, fully-professional soccer league of its own, and multiple failed attempts, 2019 was a big year for Canadian soccer.
The Canadian Premier League played their inaugural season, kicking things off at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Ont. on April 27, and it's finally fair to say that the league fans have been hoping for has been established—and it appears that it's here to stay.
With the goal of giving Canadian players a place to play at home, the league set up two notable roster rules to grow the game domestically: the first was restricting no more than seven international players which was crucial to showcasing homegrown talent; secondly, there were requirements to play Canadians under the age of 21, which forced clubs to invest in more young Canadian talent, and in turn, some previously unknown players have grown into stars across the league.
Whether it was the players starting out their professional careers, finally getting a shot at regular minutes, or returning home to Canada after playing abroad, the Canadian Premier League showed in year one that it is living up to that intial goal.
Tristan Borges, midfielder for Hamilton's Forge FC, is the perfect example of the kind of player that the league was designed for.
What an afternoon for @ForgeFCHamilton's @tristandborges who took home a lot of hardware at the first-ever #CanPL Awards Tuesday afternoon.@BTFR17 recaps the event https://t.co/N0SRVi6Lbz
— Waking the Red (@WakingtheRed) November 26, 2019
After playing for the Toronto FC academy, Borges joined Dutch club SC Heerenveen. He returned to Canada in the summer of 2018, joining Sigma FC (an academy setup in Mississauga, ON) before joining Sigma Head Coach Bobby Smyrniotis at newly-founded Forge FC for the CPL's inaugural season.
Borges, 21, stepped almost seamlessly into the professional game, leading the league in goals and tying for the lead in assists, becoming a star in the process. At the first CPL Awards in November, he picked up three of the six awards handed out: the Golden Boot (most goals), Player of the Year, and Under-21 Canadian Player of the Year.
His Forge FC team made it all the way to the two-legged CPL Finals at the end of October and early November, eventually beating Calgary's Cavalry FC 2-0 on aggregate to win the league's inaugural season.
However, despite all of his individual and team accolades over the past season, there was an overarching, perhaps more significant, accomplishment by everyone involved: the league established a legitimate foundation to build on.
"It's very, very bright," Borges said of the future of Canadian soccer. "I have a brother myself that's 13 years old, and he's playing soccer. When we were at that age, players like myself maybe had to leave the country to go play professional soccer, but now we have a professional league here.
"Players who aren't in the league right now have a bright future to look into."
Tristan Borges extends his lead in the Golden Boot race! He puts the home side ahead before half.
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— Waking the Red (@WakingtheRed) October 26, 2019
Another award winner at the 2019 CPL Awards, Cavalry FC Head Coach Tommy Wheeldon Jr., who picked up Coach of the Year, also heaped praise on the league.
"We've defied a lot of skeptics, haven't we?" Wheeldon Jr. said to reporters at the CPL Awards. "People have said 'you can't do this' and 'you can't do that', and there's a lot of 'cant's' in there.
"I think what we showed is we can."
One fan who has been waiting ages for a league to start up in Canada is Forge FC fan Allan Gorman, who is the leader of the team's supporters group, the Barton St. Battalion.
"There was about two and a half years of waiting for it, and from that first game to now has flown by," he said. "That first game was incredible, and then a few of us went out to Halifax for the first away game the next weekend.
"We decided to drive up there, which was about 19 and a half hours each way. It was incredible because it was Halifax's first match."
Sharing the inaugural season with Allan was his eight-year-old son, James.
"That meant the world to me; he's taken to the players beyond belief. He looks at Bekker (Kyle Bekker, Forge FC captain) with starry eyes every single time he sees him."
As a fledgling league, there can be a lot done to continue to grow, and Gorman would like to see a bit more done to promote the league.
"I think everyone can agree that the marketing could probably be stepped up a little bit," Gorman said. "It's going to grow over time, but it's one of those tricky things; whether they spend millions trying to promote it now, or let it grow organically, but I think we'd all like to see a bit more promoting."
The 2020 season is just around the corner, and with all seven teams already starting to make changes to their rosters, next season already promises to be just as exciting as year one was.


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Jet is the logical progression from SubLOGIC's popular Flight Simulator software, which simulated a Cessna aircraft. This exciting simulation of the F-16 Falcon and the F-18 Hornet is SubLOGIC's answer to the many requests for a game with more action. The flight characteristics of these aircraft were faithfully reproduced and, as such, Jet may require a little more time to master than other flight simulation programs. While it can be frustrating at first, with a little practice and some helpful hints, you'll be on your way to Ace status at mach speed.
A common problem with first-time Jet pilots is they're too heavy with the controls. It's best to make changes a little at a time until you get the feel of the controls. You aircraft will not stop the maneuver as soon as you let go of the stick or neutralize your pitch, it will continue on for a second or two. You must anticipate this reaction and take the controls off early. Otherwise, you'll overcontrol, then overcompensate in the other direction as a reaction. Take it easy, think about what you want to do, and maintain a light touch on the stick.
Trying to get the aircraft safely off of the carrier is one of the first problems players experience. Catapult launches can be tricky. The best way to master them is to establish a procedure and follow it every time you launch. The following procedure should get you safely into the air so you can get on to other things.
Apply full power and afterburner.
Press L to launch your aircraft.
Carrier landings are difficult. You will have to practice the landings to master them. A few bits of information will make the process easier.
When trying to line up for a landing, use the lines on the water to help position yourself while you're still a good distance away from the ship. These lines run perpendicular to the landing strip on the ship and represent one-mile intervals. So, if you're flying across these lines and headed towards the ship, you are close to being correctly lined up. If you are flying down or with the lines, you are flying across the ship's path and you aren't lined up correctly for a landing. Also, you can use the magnified views to see how well you are lined up when far away from the ship (remember to go back to 1X to help judge your landing).
Don't make too big a deal about getting perfectly lined up either. You can hit the deck at any angle as long as you touch the white wire before you plunge off the deck or hit the tower. You don't even need to land from the right direction. You can come in on a heading of 270 and still land just fine. All you have to do is to land on the deck and then taxi over to the wire.
That brings up another point: If you miss the wire when landing, all is not lost. If you keep your speed brake out and cut your power you can still land on the deck, turn your plane around, and taxi back to the wire. So if you miss the wire, you don't have to go around for another landing attempt like a real pilot would. Simply put the plane down and taxi back to the wire.
The default weapons load for air-to-air missions is four Sparrows and four Sidewinders. Since you will probably fire several missiles before you start any heavy maneuvering, there is little harm in the extra weight of two more of each missile type. When the arming menu comes up, add two more Sparrows and two more Sidewinders.
The often-seen three-against-one scenario and the lack of countermeasures equipment (such as flares and chaff) limit the amount of ACM (air combat maneuvering) possible. Most of your time is spent trying to outmaneuver enemy missiles. Some tactics will improve your chances of making kills and surviving the fight. Theoretically, you should be able to get off the first shot. Your AIM-7 Sparrow missiles have more than twice the range of a AA-2 Atoll. But the game designers took away this advantage and programmed the Atoll with the longer range, so the MiGs will always shoot first.
You aren't limited to the range indicator. You may fire and score hits on targets before the indicator turns black. A good tactical plan when outnumbered is firing a salvo of four Sparrows before your indicator turns black. Then begin your evasive maneuvers to avoid the incoming missiles.
During your evasive maneuvering you should arm your AIM-9 Sidewinders for an opportunistic short range shot that may present itself.
Defensive maneuvering is very important in this game since you aren't equipped with flares or chaff. Successful maneuvering is usually divided into two segments.
The first part of the maneuver involves flying at a right angle to the incoming missiles. This will usually cause them to fly behind you and then turn towards you. Once this happens, the second phase begins. At this point you should turn hard toward the missiles and start a spiraling climb that forces the missiles to constantly change direction and climb, thereby using their fuel. You must turn towards the missiles, not away from them. Turning away would only give them a better position behind you. You can mix a series of loops with the climbing turns, which may also cause the missiles to miss.
Use of your afterburners should be limited during defensive maneuvering because the added heat will only provide a stronger signal to the enemy heat-seeking Atoll missiles.
If you are hit, you can still attempt revenge. You will have several seconds of spinning before your plane breaks up. Take this time to arm and shoot all of your Sidewinder missiles if the enemy is close, or Sparrows if he is further away. When you "punch out," your missiles may still have time to find their mark and score another kill for you. Take care not to hang around in the cockpit too long. If you're still inside when the plane breaks up, you will lose your opportunity to use the rest of your allotted aircraft.
The dive bombing technique seems to be the best technique in Jet. Though it does place you in a position to be fired at occasionally, you will score more hits than trying to pop up from a low level. The additional speed and energy picked up during your dive can be used to outmaneuver any missiles that may be fired at you.
When first learning to dive-bomb, you should follow the procedure outlined below. As your skill improves, you can attempt to drop bombs from lower altitudes, or from farther away, to reduce your exposure.
Launch, maintain your heading, and climb to 5000 feet. Make sure your view is set for 1 or 2 x .
Once you reach 5000 feet, start a turn to your right; continue to climb.
A target should come into view shortly. Stop your climb at 10,000 feet and line the target up directly in front of you. Maintain level flight; cut your afterburners.
Watch your radar screen. When the target is halfway between you and the edge of the screen, start your dive. Center the target in the middle of the range circle.
Now set your view to 8 x and make any small adjustments to center the target. When on 8 x view, make very small course corrections because any small change you make will cause a large change on the screen.
Drop your weapon as you pass through 5000 feet. Pull up, turn away from the target, and go back to 2 x or 1 x for maneuvering. If you're fired on, Start a hard spiral climb.
At position 1, you encounter an incoming missile. Turn to take a path at a right angle to the missile's path. This will generally cause the missile to pass behind you. At position 2, the missile is behind you. Break hard in the direction of the missile. Once again the missile should be forced to change directions and miss behind you. At position 3 start climbing turns. Turning away from the missile at position 2 (doffed lines) will only give the missile a better shot at you.
It's very important that you learn to use the magnified view option when aiming air-to-ground weapons. If you're on 2 x, you may think the target is perfectly lined up, but by going to 8 x you'll often find that the target isn't in the center of the circle and further minor adjustments are necessary.
Also, you should take care when maneuvering at high magnification levels. These levels will severely limit your field of vision and give you a distorted picture of what is happening; a shallow dive will look very steep at 8 x .
Jet is compatible with the series of scenery disks offered by SubLOGIC. While you cannot use these disks for combat missions, they could be used to stage aerobatic routines at one of hundreds of airports across the country. With the San Francisco disk you could perform a show over the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island.
These disks have one additional benefit: The fuel gauge will not work. You can fly for an unlimited period of time. While this might not be realistic, it can be a lot of fun as you cross the country, going from disk to disk in record time.


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