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Life is unpredictable and full of surprises. Changing one’s mind after making a decision is a common occurrence that can happen to anyone, at any time.
Sometimes people change their minds because they’ve been given new information, while others may have just needed more time to think things through. Or they realize that their decision wasn’t the best one after all. Whatever the reason is, it happens to most people at least once in their lifetime.
If someone has decided to go down a different path than you after you’ve made a decision together, there are 15 tips on how to handle the situation.
Don’t take it personally
When someone changes their mind about something, try not to think too much into it. They might have needed more time or they may have just gained new information that made them feel differently about the choice. Think of it as a sign that you probably should’ve done more research about your decision before concluding.
Remember that things change
The first thing to remember is how unpredictable life can be and that people have a right to change their minds just as much as we have a right to our own opinions and ideas. Sometimes the person’s thoughts or feelings might have changed about a situation so it’s best just to let them make their decision when they need to make it even if you think it might be the wrong one!
Give them space
Sometimes when somebody has changed their mind about your decision, it means that they need to take some time for themselves to think things through clearly. If you’ve given them enough space and they still want to go down a different path than you do, then don’t try to change their mind again. Just try talking to them later when they feel better prepared so it’ll be easier for you both to communicate with each other again successfully.
Find out why
If you think it’s best, ask the person why they’ve changed their mind about your decision. This might just give you some insight into what went wrong with your conversation in the first place and how you can fix that problem next time! It could help you not to repeat the same mistake twice.
If the person has a good reason for changing their mind, be understanding and accepting of their decision. They may have had a change of heart because they realized that what they wanted wasn’t the best thing for them. Try to be supportive and helpful during this time to make things a little easier for them.
Respect their choice
Even if you don’t agree with the person’s decision to change their mind, it’s important to remember that this is their choice to make and you should always respect it. Just because somebody doesn’t want to do something with you doesn’t mean that they’re a bad person-they might have just had a change of heart for whatever reason.
Don’t give up
Even if the person has decided to go down a different path than you, don’t give up on them. They might still need your support during this time and you could be exactly what they need to get through it. Just because they’re not following the same decision as you don’t mean that the relationship has to end there.
Be patient but don’t let them forget
If you think that life is unpredictable, then it might be important to give the person some more time for them to come around. But make sure not to wait too long because if there’s something truly worth fighting for, you don’t want to lose that opportunity while you’re waiting on somebody else! It will work out in due time so just keep yourself busy in meantime.
Keep them updated
As an extra step, try keeping the person updated about your decision and how it’s working out for you even if they’re not following the same path as you are. This might just give them a little added motivation to come around later on when things have been going better for you.
In the end, it’s important to stay positive about what’s happened between you and the person. If life is unpredictable, then so are people and sometimes things don’t work out the way we thought they would in our heads. Just stay patient and trust that something better is waiting for you down the road.
Don’t be upset
If someone changes their mind about your decision, don’t take it too personally. Remember that this isn’t just about you and if they feel differently now than they did before, then that’s their right to change their opinion. That’s what makes people unique and that’s what adds to the complexity of life.
If the person who changed their mind seems a little confused about the situation, be honest and open with them so they finally understand what’s going on. This might just be exactly what they need to come around to your way of thinking again so you don’t have any more problems in the future as well as helping them not to repeat this mistake.
Remember what’s important
Remember what’s truly important when dealing with somebody who changes their mind about your decision or if this is something that keeps happening to you over time. Always remember that people are unique individuals with their thoughts, feelings, opinions, experiences, and backgrounds because no one person is the same as another in this world!
Don’t hold grudges
Never hold a grudge against somebody who has changed their mind about your decision or if they change their mind again at some point in the future. If life is unpredictable, we can never tell what twists and turns are around the corner so don’t worry over something as little as this because everything has a purpose! Everything happens for a reason whether we know that reason or not yet.
Forgive and forget
Finally, the best thing to do is to forgive and forget. If somebody has changed their mind about your decision, it’s time for you to let go of any anger or resentment that you might be feeling. This will only poison your mind and heart so it’s best to just let it go. And as for forgetting? Well, sometimes we can’t control what happens in life but we can always choose how we react to it. So try to move on as best as you can!
Life is unpredictable and things happen. People change their minds all the time for different reasons. If someone has changed their mind about a decision you made together, don’t take it too personally and try to follow these 15 tips! They might just help get things back on track again!
Do you have any additional tips on what to do when someone changes their mind? Let us know in the comments below! Thanks for reading!


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Normans brought with them when they conquered England in 1066. The Vernint family lived in Normandy where it is a "Norman baronial name." CITATION[CLOSE]
The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X) One of the first on record was Roger, "Baron of Venron c. 1030." CITATION[CLOSE]
The Norman People and Their Existing Descendants in the British Dominions and the United States Of America. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0636-X) Another reference claims the first record of the name was "William de Vernon, who assumed that surname from the town and district of Vernon, in Normandy, of which he was proprietor in 1052." CITATION[CLOSE]
Burke, John Bernard, The Roll of Battle Abbey. London: Edward Churton, 26, Holles Street, 1848, Print. Vernon Castle in Normandy was the family's place of residence prior to the Norman Conquest of England in 1066.
Early Origins of the Vernint family
Cheshire at Shipbrook(e), where William de Vernon was granted lands by Hugh d'Avranches, 1st Earl of Chester. His son Richard settled at Shipbrook(e), near Northwich. The Cheshire family which had become the Barons of Shipbrooke, "became connected with Derbyshire by the heiress of Avenell's marriage with Richard Vernon in the 12th century; [and their] daughter and heiress married to Gilbert de Francis, whose son took the name of Vernon, seated himself at Haddon Hall in this county, and was the ancestor of the different branches of the House of Vernon." CITATION[CLOSE]
Shirley, Evelyn Philip, The Noble and Gentle Men of England; The Arms and Descents. Westminster: John Bower Nichols and Sons, 1866, Print. "The manor [of Draycott-in the-Clay] was included in the Conqueror's gift to Henry de Ferrers, and has for many ages been possessed by the noble family of Vernon. In a meadow beyond Draycott mill are the ruins of an ancient mansion, surrounded by a moat." CITATION[CLOSE]
Lewis, Samuel, A Topographical Dictionary of England. Institute of Historical Research, 1848, Print.
Early History of the Vernint family
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Vernint Spelling Variations
Before the advent of the printing press and the first dictionaries, the English language was not standardized. Sound was what guided spelling in the Middle Ages, so one person's name was often recorded under several variations during a single lifetime. Spelling variations were common, even among the names of the most literate people. Known variations of the Vernint family name include Vernon, Vernen, Vernin and others.
Early Notables of the Vernint family (pre 1700)
Outstanding amongst the family at this time was Sir William Vernon, High Sheriff of Lancashire, Chief Justice of Cheshire (1229 to 1236); Warine Vernon, 4th Baron of Shipbrook, married Alice heiress of Nether Haddon and Haddon Hall, Derbyshire; his son Sir Richard was Chief Justice in 1249; Richard Vernon, Baron of...
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Migration of the Vernint family to Ireland
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Migration of the Vernint family to the New World and Oceana
To escape the political and religious chaos of this era, thousands of English families began to migrate to the New World in search of land and freedom from religious and political persecution. The passage was expensive and the ships were dark, crowded, and unsafe; however, those who made the voyage safely were encountered opportunities that were not available to them in their homeland. Many of the families that reached the New World at this time went on to make important contributions to the emerging nations of the United States and Canada. Research into various historical records has revealed some of first members of the Vernint family to immigrate North America: Daniel Vernon who settled in Rhode Island in 1630; Randle and Robert Vernon settled in Delaware in 1685; John Vernon and his wife settled in New Jersey in 1685.
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The timing of sitting exams can play a pivotal difference in the test outcomes, according to research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Researchers reviewed results from about 2 million national standardized tests taken in Denmark by students aged 8 to 15, from 2009-2010 and 2012-2013, finding that students aged 15 and under suffered from mental fatigue as the school day progressed, and that their test scores dropped later in the day. The effect appeared to be the greatest on those who scored the poorest — suggesting that tests later in the day might hurt struggling students the most. However, the research also found that the idea of giving pupils some time off during the school day helped improve exam performance.
The researchers also recommend that standardised tests be held at the same time of day, to avoid throwing off the results by making some take them when their brains are taxed.
The findings revealed that test performance decreased as the day progressed. As each hour went by, scores declined. But they improved after breaks of 20 minutes to 30 minutes, the research showed.
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A lieutenant with the Department of Corrections is due to retire in a few months. But before he does, he is hoping for a last-minute transfer from Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women, which has been plagued by abuse in recent years.
His reasoning? He fears a prisoner will falsely accuse him of sexual misconduct, triggering an investigation that could destroy his career and keep him from collecting the pension he has worked years to earn.
The officer’s concerns are documented in an April report from a federal prison monitor overseeing Edna Mahan after the U.S. Department of Justice in 2020 found rampant sexual abuse of inmates by corrections officers.
Now, as leaders work to rid the state’s only women’s prison of abuse, monitor Jane Parnell said the facility must address false sexual abuse or harassment allegations, which she charged inmates have used to threaten and retaliate against officers they don’t like.
Parnell said prisoners are “weaponizing” the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), a federal law protecting inmates from sexual abuse.
She called it one of the “most prevalent and vociferous” messages she heard during interviews with both staff and inmates.
“Some prisoners have literally been known to say to staff and or other prisoners, ‘I’m going to PREA you’, meaning they are going to file a false PREA complaint on that person,” Parnell wrote in her report.
Advocates acknowledge that inmates sometimes file false complaints. But they say they stem from many years of abuse in a system where women’s complaints have long been ignored.
“As long as there is neglect and a blind eye turned to issues that prisoners raise around mistreatment or any abuse, as long as people feel as though they have been ignored, then there is always potential to create false stories to get attention,” he said. Nafeesah Goldsmith, a former Edna Mahan inmate and prison lawyer.
So far this year, there have been 50 PREA complaints against corrections officers at Edna Mahan, union representatives said. According to the DOC, 20 officers are currently reassigned because of those investigations. In comparison, prisoners made 22 complaints in all of 2019, according to a state report.
DOC Commissioner Victoria Kuhn said in a statement that the department “has zero-tolerance for any abuse of the incarcerated population and takes enforcement of the PREA law seriously.”
Still, she added: “It is equally critical that the Department investigate each allegation in an appropriate, thorough, and expeditious manner to ensure safety, to lessen misuse of PREA, and to establish trust in the system.”
Parnell, one of the nation’s leading prison reform experts, wrote that a relatively small number of prisoners are making false allegations at Edna Mahan but said the consequences could be “devastating.”
She and DOC officials, union leaders, advocates, and current and former prisoners say false allegations create staffing problems, hurt employee morale, and diminish those who have legitimate complaints. Parnell said they could also delay promotions or retirement benefits, which is why officers don’t want to work at Edna Mahan.
William Sullivan, president of Local PBA 105, the union representing most DOC officers, said working at Edna Mahan is simply “not worth the chance.”
He said one prisoner recently “PREA’d” more than a dozen officers who had been in contact with her.
“I would venture to say every single officer at Edna Mahan walks on eggshells out of fear of being falsely accused of PREA or assault allegations,” Sullivan said. “It is such an issue that officers who, in the past, may have been proactive and by the book do the bare minimum out of fear of this.”
‘Hell of a weapon’
Edna Mahan, in recent years, has been plagued by allegations of sexual and physical abuse, making national headlines. The facility is under a federal consent decree, and the DOC recently announced a nearly $ 21 million settlement with prisoners abused while in its custody.
Last year, Gov. Phil Murphy ordered the prison closed, though no date has been set.
Parnell, the federal monitor, said it is not uncommon for false complaints to rise as a spotlight is put on a prison.
But former prisoners and advocates say it goes beyond that.
False allegations are “a desperate act that results from desperate conditions,” said Julie Abbate, a former DOJ employee who helped expose abuse at Edna Mahan.
“To the extent that a handful of women may be using PREA in a way other than it was intended, that’s an indication of a severe problem going on at the facility level,” she added.
Goldsmith, the former inmate turned advocate, recalled how she and others constantly complained to the prison ombudsman while incarcerated but eventually gave up because authorities ignored them.
“If you had listened to them then, then we wouldn’t be having this conversation,” she said.
Goldsmith said she does not condone making false allegations, but because officers have always wielded power in prison, women have begun using PREA to flip that.
“What do you think they mean when they are saying, ‘I’m going to PREA you?'” She said. “It’s, ‘I’m going to reverse the power that you think you have on me, and I’m going to put it on you. I am the one in control. ‘”
“It’s a hell of a weapon,” Goldsmith added.
Bonnie Kerness, a longtime prisoner advocate, said a prisoner recently described how the weaponization of PREA is also used against other inmates to get someone moved from a unit.
“It’s such a mess,” said Kerness, program director for the nonprofit American Friends Service Committee’s prison program.
A logistical nightmare
In 2003, Congress unanimously passed PREA, a landmark law to protect prisoners against sexual abuse and harassment by staff and other inmates.
It provides prisoners ways to report alleged misconduct and mandates that they have access to medical and mental health services for any alleged abuse.
In New Jersey, once an inmate makes a complaint, it triggers an investigation by the DOC’s Special Investigations Division. Accused officers are typically moved to a unit where they have no contact with prisoners during the probe, which can take months, said Sullivan, the union leader.
If the alleged actions could constitute criminal charges, the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office jointly investigates the matter.
In the interim, another officer fills the accused officer’s position, creating a shuffling of personnel to ensure all units are well staffed.
As complaints rise, Sullivan said it becomes a logistical nightmare.
“It creates a huge, huge issue with staffing,” he said of false allegations.
The concerns come as DOC Commissioner Victoria Kuhn said the department is down 600 officers, a shortage she claims has existed since 2017.
After SID investigators interview officers and witnesses, they determine if the allegation was substantiated. Then the facility’s administrator takes action based on the finding.
Parnell said there are two ways for the DOC to address the abuse of PREA.
She suggested the department increase the speed and efficiency of its investigations so accused officers and inmates can more quickly return to their usual duties or housing units if cleared of wrongdoing.
“When this happens in an immediate and consistent manner, the prisoners quickly learn it doesn’t ‘work’ to file a false PREA allegation,” she wrote in her report.
Secondly, Parnell said the DOC could start holding those who file false allegations accountable, though she warned that could discourage inmates with legitimate complaints.
She recalled how one prisoner made a PREA complaint that was later substantiated but initially felt “discounted as a victim” because of the perception created by false allegations.
Sperrazza, the DOC spokesman, said prisoners have been criminally charged or faced administrative charges for false PREA complaints, though the decision to punish is “made on a case-by-case basis with care to not discourage legitimate victims from coming forward for fear of retaliation. ”
He said the DOC created a new Special Victims Unit – made up of investigators in SID who have received trauma-informed specialized training – to handle all PREA allegations in a timely manner.
Abbate, the advocate, said “swift, thorough and accurate investigations” are key to dismantling the problem and ensuring PREA is used as designed.
“It’s really heartbreaking if these folks use these reporting mechanisms for purposes other than they were intended,” she said. “Overall, it tends to hurt folks who are true survivors. Nobody wants that ever. It is hard enough to get someone to believe someone who is locked up. ”
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Details of the film's top secret plot appeared to have been leaked in recent weeks, with sources insisting the two divas would appear in a ceremony uniting Cantone's character Anthony Marantino and Willie Garson's Stanford Blatch.
Minnelli herself told an Australian newspaper she performed a version of Beyonce's Single Ladies (Put a Ring on it) for the film.
But Cantone insists the rumours are false - hinting they are part of a deliberate ploy to throw fans and the press off the scent.
The actor tells NYPost.com's PopWrap blog, "No, nothing's true. I hadn't even read that. That's hilarious."
And he laughs off the suggestion of a Minnelli cameo: "No, I would have self-combusted! I would have been dead. I wouldn't be here talking to you. I don't even know that she's in the movie."


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The Ruin of a Rogue by Miranda Neville, Book Two of her Wild Quartet series, features an heiress whose love of Roman antiquities leads her into trouble. In spite of herself, she is drawn to a totally unsuitable man because he seems to know his way around artifacts.
Of course, Marcus, Viscount Lithgow, is only after Anne’s fortune. He hides it well until Anne learns the truth by eavesdropping. She then leads him on a really funny tour of all of London’s most boring attractions to get revenge.
But her annoyance is overcome when he inherits the very thing guaranteed to fascinate her as much as he himself does, a partially excavated Roman ruin. He gets back at her by requiring her to do housework to gain access to the Roman villa.
All past scandals, and there are some big ones, are explained and resolved by Christmas through a couple unexpected plot turns.
Gotta love a heroine who isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty.
Piece de Resistance by Sandra Byrd is the third and final book in her French Twist series. In it, we find out which suitor heroine Lexi chooses. No, I won’t spoil it for you.
Somehow I missed reading the first book, Let Them Eat Cake. I did read Bon Appetit, the second book and found the finale just as charming. I was engaged by the characters and curious to learn the outcome.
Lexi faces some ups and downs as she tries to get a bakery off the ground. She turns to the Bible for inspiration, solace, and advice.
Despite the Christian orientation, the characters are not saccharine sweet. They all share, however, an underlying moral compass.
I’m somewhat of a foodie, so that aspect of the book captured my interest. Byrd even throws in a few recipes. I also appreciated the quotations with which she begins each chapter.
I took a quick glance at Byrd’s website and see she has started an historical series. Something to look forward to.
I’m a little late reviewing a Christmas book. I have to confess I was off celebrating without my computer along. The winter season is still upon most of us, so I hope a few more snowflakes are appropriate.
Rachel Brimble’s book Christmas at the Cove is the fourth in her Templeton Cove series. The British town is a lot like the island where I live in Florida. Everybody knows everybody else’s business. That’s a good thing sometimes, but not if you have a secret you’re trying to hide.
Carrie visited a few summers ago and had a week-long fling in spite of herself with handsome lady’s man Scott. Now she’s back to let him know about the daughter that resulted. She knows she has to share that daughter but doesn’t want to share her heart.
Scott isn’t sure he’s ready to be a daddy. His own father abandoned him and his family. Is he destined to follow suit?
The twosome must overcome doubts and backtrack to develop trust in each other. Through their ups and downs, they keep the welfare of their daughter foremost. Gotta like that in a couple.
Ever notice how some historical romances are more historical than others? Being set in an historical period doesn’t necessarily mean that what is happening in the outside world spills over into the plot. It may still be just girl meets boy, complications ensue, HEA, only in period costumes and with titles.
This isn’t the case with The Secret Life of Lady Julia by Lecia Cornwall.
After a scandal that causes her family to disown her, Lady Julia ends up in Vienna during peace talks. The stakes are high and intrigue is the name of the political game. Julia is now a servant attached to the British delegation led by Viscount Castlereagh and his shrewish wife. Because she can understand several languages, she is asked to listen and report on any conversations she may hear. Along the way, she meets and impresses French Prince deTalleyrand and soon finds herself in the middle of a plot.
Throughout, Julia can’t get Thomas, the man who caused her downfall, out of her head. He has had his own scandal, been disowned, and turned to jewel theft to support himself. Where better to find jewels to steal than in a city where all the rich and powerful of Europe are gathered? Naturally, there paths cross again.
Both Julia and Thomas, though disgraced, have the honor and character to redeem themselves, and the long-awaited HEA finally occurs.

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In a previous article, we exposed the deceptive tactics used by the food industry to manipulate consumers and promote unhealthy processed foods. However, the web of food industry deception is vast, and there’s always more to uncover. In this follow-up article, we’ll delve deeper into the manipulative practices of food companies and provide additional guidance for choosing whole, low-processed foods that promote better health.
Deceptive Marketing: The Health Halo and Buzzwords
The food industry is notorious for using misleading marketing strategies to sell their products. One such tactic is the use of health halos, which make products seem healthier than they are. For example, a product may be labeled as “natural” or “organic,” implying that it’s a healthier option, even though these terms don’t necessarily guarantee better nutrition.
In addition, buzzwords like “gluten-free,” “non-GMO,” and “no artificial flavors” are often used to create a health halo around products that may still be heavily processed or high in sugar, fat, or sodium. According to AGDAILY, these buzzwords can be misleading, as they may not have a direct impact on the nutritional value of a product.
Unmasking Misleading Claims: A Closer Look at the Ingredients
A study published in the National Library of Medicine emphasizes the importance of looking beyond marketing claims and examining the actual ingredients in a product. Even products labeled with health halo buzzwords can contain unhealthy ingredients like added sugars, artificial sweeteners, and unhealthy fats.
To make informed decisions about the foods you consume, always read the ingredients list and nutrition facts label. Pay attention to added sugars, sodium content, and unhealthy fats, and prioritize products with fewer, whole food ingredients.
Tips for Navigating the Food Industry’s Deceptive Tactics
- Ignore buzzwords and health halo claims: Don’t be swayed by marketing claims on the front of the package. Focus on the ingredients list and nutrition facts label to get a clear understanding of what you’re consuming.
- Stick to whole, minimally processed foods: Choosing whole, low-processed foods like fruits, vegetables, lean meats, and whole grains can help you avoid many of the deceptive marketing tactics used by the food industry.
- Be skeptical of too-good-to-be-true claims: If a product promises miraculous health benefits or weight loss, approach it with caution. Remember that there’s no magic pill or food that can replace a balanced diet and regular exercise.
- Consult with a registered dietitian or nutrition expert: If you’re unsure about a product or need guidance in making healthy food choices, consider consulting a registered dietitian or a trusted nutrition expert.
The food industry continues to use deceptive marketing tactics and misleading nutritional claims to sell their products. By educating yourself on how to spot nutrition misinformation, reading labels carefully, and focusing on whole, minimally processed foods, you can make better choices for your health. Stay vigilant, question suspicious claims, and prioritize a balanced diet to stay one step ahead of the food industry’s manipulations.


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GOSHEN — Rick Clark thumbed the fabric of an old Parade 5,000 T-shirt as he shared memories from his years in the running world.
He has 32 of those shirts, one for each year of the Elkhart County 4-H Fair’s Parade 5,000 road run, which he has directed since its inception in 1982.
Clark carefully unfolded a handful of shirts and laid them on the kitchen table at his Goshen home. Each shirt, each year has a story. And for a man who coached cross country and track runners at Goshen College and Goshen High School for 36 years, there’s no shortage of supply.
At 64, Clark looks like he could qualify for the Boston Marathon. But a 2012 stroke left his speech impaired and made it difficult to walk — let alone run — without assistance.
His son, Graham, has assisted with organizing the race since Clark’s stroke, but Rick Clark is still the heart and soul of the Parade 5,000.
He retired from coaching in 2010, but he never stopped being a coach. People still call him “Coach,” a distinction he carries with great affection.
Tim Yoder, Elkhart County 4-H Fair president and former Goshen High School runner, said he derived this year’s “All In” theme from Clark’s motivational pre-meet talks with the team.
“He would talk about in track and cross country, if we all were in and we all did our jobs ... then we’d win,” Yoder said. “It was just one of those things that stuck with me. If you think about the fair — if we’re all in, if we all just do our jobs, we win.”
Clark fondly rattles off names of runners who have become Parade 5,000 staples over the years. There’s Lawrence Scholl, of Goshen, who has only missed one race since 1982. There’s husband and wife duo Peter and Tammy Casaletto, who each won the race five years in a row and hold course records in their age groups.
Clark chuckles as he remembers Dexter Lehman, who ran down the wrong road in the middle of the 1987 race but still ended up setting the course record. Lehman’s 15:01 mark has never been broken.
Parade 5,000 Road Run
Sunday, July 20. Check in is at 11 a.m. Race begins at 1:20 p.m.Where:
The starting line is at Rogers Park. The race follows the Elkhart County 4-H Fair parade route.Cost:
$20 (Free admission to the fair afterwards)Deadline:
Saturday, July 19.Register: runrace.net
Rick Clark’s advice to first-time runners:
“This is a hot run. They’ll need to do some training in the heat of the day. Make sure they get used to it. ... Don’t go out to race it. Go out to be part of the event.”
The Parade 5,000 was the product of the fervent running boom in the 1970s and ’80s.
Clark pitched the idea to the 4-H Fair president at the time, who eagerly accepted.
“They said (the director) would have to be on the fair board, and they pointed to me,” Clark said. “And 32 years later, here I still am.”
Since the race directly precedes the parade and runs along the same route, runners are cheered by the hundreds of people lined up for the festivities. It’s that touch, Clark says, that makes this race special.
“The first year, people sitting along the parade route didn’t really respond to runners,” he said. ”Now they respond to runners real well. That’s what gets the numbers up, I think.“
After three decades of tinkering, Clark has the 5K running like a well-oiled machine. He has a strong relationship with sponsors, volunteers who know what’s expected of them and a new online-only registration process that streamlines the sign-up process.
Like football and basketball, the running scene has changed over the past several decades. As the sport has evolved, Clark has watched the race evolve.
"I think running has become a mainstream activity, whereas it used to be something only the competitive people did — the high school or college runners,” he said. “Now entire families sign up to run it. Brothers and sisters sign up to run it. You get people with their baby strollers, they’re runners now.”
Clark has watched the field swell from 163 to the mid-400s. He has watched high school runners dressed as gorillas, SpongeBob SquarePants and superheroes cross the finish line. He’s pulled the race through the 1990 flood and instituted the Dick Shank Lifetime Fitness Award in 2011.
Shank, a longtime state legislator from Elkhart, was a running aficionado until his death in 2009.
“He used to say, ’Any day I could run was a good day,’” Clark said.
The way Clark talks, he would spearhead the 5K for another 32 years. But his wife, Jan, tells him he’s retiring in two years — after the 35th annual Parade 5,000.
Though he hasn’t narrowed down a successor, Clark knows the race has been set in motion to live on without him. He hopes the next director carries on the legacy of the race while also implementing new ideas.
In all his years as the race director, Clark has never actually had a chance to run the 5K. He planned on tackling that goal after retirement, but the stroke has mostly confined his athletic endeavors to a three-wheel bicycle.
He can still try to walk it, though, as Graham Clark suggested.
Yoder agreed that “Coach Clark” will set a goal to see it through, affectionately calling his former coach “stubborn and determined.”
And if he does, the T-shirt he’ll add to the growing collection will tell a whole new story.

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CHICAGO — Adult superstar Sara Jay is heading to Chicago this weekend for Exxxotica, set for June 12-14 at the Donald Stephens Convention Center, 9291 Bryn Mawr Ave, in Rosemont, Ill.
Sara will be signing at her own table and is available for pictures and autographs, and will have new videos on hand.
“Chicago Exxxotica is really a great convention and I urge the fans to come check it out,” Sara Jay says. “It is usually packed on Friday nights with tons of couples. I guess Chicago couples love their porn stars!”
The popular star will also head to Texas for Exxxotica in Dallas, on August 7-9.
Sara continues to be one of the best-known figures in adult and recently partnered with Pure Play Media on a production and distribution deal. Her #TeamBJ World Cup Twitter pledge and resulting DVD with Siri was one of the biggest hits of 2014.
Sara Jay appears each Thursday in a live show for members of her official website, and is set to appear on Playboy’s JukeBoxx Live on Wednesday, June 24.
For more information, visit SaraJay.com.


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The music industry’s lobbying arm claims that services using machine learning to alter tracks are infringing on artists’ rights. As first reported by TorrentFreak, the Recording Industry Association of America listed AI-powered music websites that make remixes, improve homemade tracks, or strip songs of vocals or instrumentals harm artists, in a response to a request from the Office of the US Trade Representative.
Artists working within all kinds of media have raised concerns in recent years—and increasingly, with the rising popularity of text-to-image generators like DALL-E—about whether AI-generated art infringes on individuals’ copyright. Most AI content generators depend on datasets that are filled with original artworks, texts, or audio, and use those original works without the owners’ permission. “There are online services that, purportedly using artificial intelligence (AI), extract, or rather, copy, the vocals, instrumentals, or some portion of the instrumentals (a music stem) from a sound recording, and/or generate, master or remix a recording to be very similar to or almost as good as reference tracks by selected, well known sound recording artists,” the RIAA wrote in its submission. “To the extent these services, or their partners, are training their AI models using our members’ music, that use is unauthorized and infringes our members’ rights by making unauthorized copies of our members works. In any event, the files these services disseminate are either unauthorized copies or unauthorized derivative works of our members’ music.” The RIAA specifically names Acapella-extractor and Remove-Vocals, which remove the instrumentals or the vocals from songs, respectively, and Songmastr, which claims to “make your songs (almost) as good as” something made by a professional artist, by using their music as a reference.The RIAA has a long history of aggressively pursuing legal action for copyright infringement, music piracy, and peer-to-peer file sharing. Most recently, it went after NFT platform HitPiece with a demand letter, claiming that selling music as NFTs without the artists’ approval infringed on their rights. This article was updated to clarify that HitPiece received a demand letter from the RIAA.

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The Philadelphia 76ers and New Orleans Pelicans faced off in a close contest on Wednesday night. The Sixers won the game after Anthony Davis missed a final free throw attempt to tie the game.
The final score is actually a bit misleading, as the Philadelphia 76ers were in charge for the majority of this game. Of course, the Sixers coughed up a decent lead and almost blew the game.
I’m getting ahead of myself though. Let’s go back to the first quarter.
The Sixers torched the Pelicans’ defense early on. Which is impressive, as it’s anchored by the very talented Anthony Davis. New Orleans even elected Davis to guard Ben Simmons to start the game, which was an interesting move.
Joel Embiid started off strong, pouring in a quick eleven points — which would foreshadow the rest of the game for him. The Sixers held a good lead, leading 38-28.
The Sixers kept up the good play throughout the second quarter, which also contained the most aggressive the Sixers have seen Ben Simmons in a while. Simmons had 17 points going into halftime.
The third quarter showcased even more good play from the Sixers, as they kept their lead for the most part. E’twaun Moore started to heat up, but the team kept New Orleans at a comfortable distance. This was promising to see, as the Sixers are known for having third quarter struggles.
The fourth quarter had a ton of back-and-forth between the two clubs. Former Sixer Jrue Holiday began to remind us of the former All-Star that is he, and poured in bucket after bucket. It got to the point where the Pelicans were only down by five.
The Sixers began to choke when Ben Simmons dribbled out an entire shot clock with no real off-ball movement, and before you knew it New Orleans had the chance to tie and send the game to overtime.
Pelicans coach Alvin Gentry drew up a play for the Pelicans, which eventually busted. Anthony Davis got the ball at the three-point line and sent up an off-balance prayer. Joel Embiid fouled him.
Fortunately for the Sixers, Davis missed the final free throw and the ball was tipped out to the half court mark. Time expired and the Sixers won the game, moving to 10-0 at home (being the only undefeated team at home in the entire NBA).
There were many positive takeaways from this game, so let’s take a look at some grades:
There is an arising debate on whether Anthony Davis or Joel Embiid is the best center in the NBA. Both are amazing talents, but Embiid took this battle by a long shot. He was incredibly effecent on offense from everywhere, and New Orleans didn’t have an answer for him. They actually elected Julius Randle and Nikola Mirotic over Anthony Davis to guard him (which is an interesting decision).
It’s hard not to give Joel Embiid an A for putting up 31 points and 19 rebounds, but he did turn the ball over at an unusually high rate and almost caused the game to go into overtime. Overall, it was a great outing for The Process.
Aggressive Ben Simmons is the best Ben Simmons. It was great to see him take this game by the throat and destroy the rim on multiple occasions. He scored 17 points in the first half, which is a great accomplishment by itself. The fact that Simmons achieved this stat-line while being defended by Anthony Davis is more than impressive.
Simmons also bounced back in terms of the free throw line, shooting 4-4. While he didn’t look to score much in the second half, he did achieve six of his seven assists in that period. The 22 points were a season-high for Simmons. The only real gripe you can have with Simmons is his turnovers, but even that is nit-picking.
Landry Shamet poured in a career high 15 points in the game. Shamet has been one of the best surprises this season, as he’s already a quality role player for the team. Shamet was absolutely deadly from three-point range, and really buffered the blow that was J.J. Redick struggling.
Shamet also looked really solid defensively tonight. What he lacks in athleticism he makes up for in basketball I.Q. Apart from getting into foul trouble, this was Shamet’s best showing yet. What a steal for being pick 26.
Jimmy Butler had his worst offensive showing as a Sixer, but fortunately he is a two-way player. Butler was very solid on defense and kept Jrue Holiday quiet for the majority of the game. He was very good in rotational defense and had a few steals in the close moments of the game. The Sixers are still implementing him into their offense, and tonight shows that. Going forward they need to give Jimmy Butler more touches in the clutch.
Wilson Chandler is quietly becoming a very important piece for the Sixers. It’s great to see, and it’s even better knowing that going forward he will be off a minute restriction. Chandler has been a great floor spacer and offensive talent for the Sixers. He has recently taken on the role of being their stretch four, and has thrived in it. Chandler managed to hit a clutch shot in the fourth quarter, much like in recent games. While it was on limited shots, Chandler produced well offensively tonight.
Apart from tonight’s game, reports came out about Markelle Fultz having a recent wrist injury, and also having second thoughts on being a Sixer going forward. Pay attention to The Sixer Sense as we will break down that article and offer our thoughts on the very weird situation.
The Sixers continue to play amazing at home, which is good news for their next game on Friday against the struggling Cleveland Cavaliers.

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Suicide and homicide rates show strikingly different trends in the United States.
The suicide rate has been increasing. It has been led by a rise in suicides in rural America, which are up 40% in 16 years. The homicide rate, on the other hand, has been decreasing over the same time period, though there has been a slight uptick in recent years.
Racial differences in homicide and suicide rates are particularly eye-catching. Over the past week, the CDC has released data, first on suicides:
As shown, the overall, age-adjusted suicide rate in the U.S. is 13.5 per 100,000. The suicide rate (per 100,000) among whites (17.1) is more than 2.5 times the rate among blacks (6.3) and Hispanics (6.7).
To put those numbers into perspective, the death rate in 2016 from car accidents in the U.S. was 11.6 per 100,000. That means that the average white person was more likely to die by suicide than in a car accident, while the average black or Hispanic person was likelier to die in a car accident than by suicide.
The data for homicide rates are shown below:
Overall, the age-adjusted homicide rate was 6.2 per 100,000, a slight increase from 2015. In 2016, the homicide rate (per 100,000) for whites was 2.9, blacks 22.8, and Hispanics 5.3. Put another way, compared to whites, Hispanics were roughly twice as likely and blacks eight times as likely to be murdered.
Comparing Suicides to Homicides by Race
The contrast between races is further underscored by creating a "suicide-to-homicide" rate ratio (or vice versa). For whites, there are roughly 6 suicides for every 1 homicide; among blacks, there are about 3.5 homicides for each suicide; and the rate ratio among Hispanics is roughly 1:1, with suicide slightly edging out homicide.
When we discuss our "gun violence" and "suicide" epidemics in this country, these statistics should help clarify where public health and safety resources are best spent. Suicide disproportionately affects whites, while homicide disproportionately affects blacks.
Source #1: "QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Suicide Rates,by Race/Ethnicity — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2015–2016." MMWR 67(14): 433. Published: 13-Apr-2018. DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6714a6.
Source #2: QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Homicide Rates, by Race/Ethnicity — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2015–2016. MMWR 67(15): 462. Published online: 20-Apr-2018. DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6715a8.


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A report came in on September 22 about an old dog that was chained up and being denied basic necessities such as food and water, despite being unwell. Although GWARP has been involved in animal rescue for several years, this was a new level of cruelty for them. The dog seems to be suffering from bone cancer and has been left untreated for an extended period of time. It has been living with a short chain, fed only scraps and junk, which has caused malnourishment and deficiency in vitamins, ultimately leading to the development of osteosarcoma, a type of bone cancer.
According to the veterinarian, the cancer found in the dog is typically a result of severe injury and bacterial growth that can form into a tumor. In this case, it seems to be accurate because the person who brought the dog to the vet witnessed it being brutally beaten by its intoxicated owner. The owner had kept the dog tied up in his backyard for an extended period, limiting its mobility to two feet due to the short metal chain.
The rescue team had asked to save the boy, but the owner denied their request, stating that the boy was his property. So the team sought help from the nearby police. The dog seemed heartbroken when they left him and spoke to the cops. Eventually, after several hours, they managed to provide the owner with the necessary paperwork, and he relented. However, he insisted that they could not take the dog unless they reported him.
After realizing that the poor dog needed immediate medical attention, we decided to take him for blood tests and medical check-ups without any delay. Unfortunately, our boy had to undergo amputation right away, and we sent fabric samples for histology. We know that there is a long journey ahead of us.
The X-rays revealed that Jordan was suffering from Osteosarcoma, a severe form of bone cancer. Thankfully, we found out that he did not have any metastases in his lungs, which gives him a slim chance of survival. However, the tumor is growing rapidly, and his skin is starting to tear due to its speedy development.
To help Jordan overcome his traumatic past and let go of any negative energy from his previous owner, we gave him a long bath.
Regrettably, Jordan’s condition was too severe to be treated in Azerbaijan, and he had to travel to Turkey for further treatment. His travel date was scheduled for a few days later.
Once in Istanbul, Jordan underwent a brief sedation procedure to get an X-ray of his whole body before surgery.
Fortunately, the amputation surgery went according to plan, and the cancerous limb was removed.
It’s been three days since Jordan’s operation, and he’s already adapting to his new life. He quickly regained his appetite and enjoys our food immensely. Please continue to wish him a speedy recovery and a long and happy life ahead. We all love you, Jordan!
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World Blood Donor Day 2018
Be there for someone else. Give blood. Share life. 14 June 2018 Every year, on 14 June, countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day. The event serves to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood and to raise awareness of the need for regular blood donations to ensure the quality, safety and availability of blood and blood products for patients in need.
Transfusion of blood and blood products helps save millions of lives every year. It can help patients suffering from life-threatening conditions live longer and with a higher quality of life, and supports complex medical and surgical procedures. It also has an essential, life-saving role in maternal and child care and during the emergency response to man-made and natural disasters.
A blood service that gives patients access to safe blood and blood products in sufficient quantity is a key component of an effective health system. An adequate supply can only be ensured through regular donations by voluntary, unpaid blood donors. However, in many countries, blood services face the challenge of making sufficient blood available, while also ensuring its quality and safety.
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Cyndi Lauper has withdrawn from her lover in the poignant ballad “Time After Time.”
Tearful guitars start the single, setting a lonely tone. It’s two a.m. Lauper hears the clock on her nightstand tick. She turns and touches the right side of the bed. It’s her boyfriend’s spot. She wonders how he is doing. She can’t make sense of her emotions, which seem to change every hour on the hour. She remembers cuddling in his arms at night. She nearly forgot the special moments she had with him.
Lying in my bed I hear the clock tick/And think of you/Caught up in circles confusion/ Is nothing new/Flashback warm nights /Almost left behind/Suitcases of memories/Time after.
Further in the verse, she says that he thinks she’s running away from him. Although he’s tries to contact her, she has already shut him out. He pleads for her to calm down. She eventually does, but she finds herself sinking back into her melancholy.
Sometimes you picture me/ I’m walking too far ahead/You’re calling to me, I can’t hear/What you’ve said/ Then you say go slow/I fall behind/ The second hand unwinds.
In the chorus, her boyfriend says that he will be there for her whenever she needs him. He will rescue her if she starts heading towards a downward spiral. Each and every time, he will comfort her.
If you’re lost you can look and you will find me/Time after time/If you fall I will catch you, I’ll be waiting/Time after time.
In the second verse, she believes he wants nothing to do with her. She perceives herself as a lost cause. However, he’s calling her friends and family, trying to figure where she is and if she’s doing all right. He knows her better than she knows herself.
After my picture fades and darkness has/Turned to gray/Watching through windows, you’re wondering/If I’m OK/Secrets stolen from deep inside/The drum beats out of time.
The chorus is sung again.
Part of the first verse is sung again.
You said go slow/I fall behind/The second hand unwinds.
The chorus is sung again.
Lauper realizes he is not going to let her flounder and self-destruct.
Time after time/Time after time/Time after time.
In “Time After Time,” Lauper believes she is a difficult person, unworthy of love. She runs away and shuts people out. However, her devoted boyfriend who loves her unconditionally is willing to help her through anything. The relationship is given depth. The couple’s intimacy and history is apparent. They’ve been together for a long time. They love and have seen each other through every tough part of their life. Now, it’s her boyfriend’s turn to help her.
Lauper’s vocals are full of loss. But there is a glint of hope in them also. She knows she will not be abandoned, despite how much she may fight his compassion.
“Time After Time” is a sure-fire classic.


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LG G3 photo leaks suggest huge display
A duo of new high-resolution LG G3 photos have emerged online, providing a good look at what the upcoming 2014 flagship will look like.
With an LG G3 launch event scheduled for later this month, it’s not surprising that some brand new images of the phone have leaked online.
From what we can see from the images, the LG G3 will feature a huge display, which would be in line with rumours of a 5.5-inch 2560 x 1440p QHD resolution screen.
The screen seems to run nearly edge-to-edge, with a slim bottom bezel thanks to on-screen navigational buttons like the LG G2.
There’s a headphone jack on the bottom of the G3 along with a micro USB port for charging and microphone.
As for the back of the device, the redesigned volume rocker, hold button, new dual LED flash and camera casing all feature. There’s also the new purported IR blaster on the left hand side of the camera module.
Plus, there’s a new hole on the bottom left hand corner of the rear panel, which we previously believed to be a new sensor when seen on leaked cases, but have since had second thoughts.
The speakers on the LG G2 were at the bottom, either side of the micro USB port, but on the LG G3 they are nowhere to be seen.
Therefore, that port on the back must be the relocated speaker, which would explain the shape and location. Although, we fear the speaker could be easily covered when you’re holding the phone, muffling and occasionally muting the noises emitted by the phone.
Other rumoured LG G3 specs include a 2.5GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon processor with 2GB of RAM and 16GB of internal storage.
It is also expected to pack microSD card support, but we can’t see the side of the device properly to give any weight to those rumours.
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Stable Process Membrane Switch Overlay Low Resistance Extremely Waterproof
Membrane switch is an operating system that integrates button functions, indicating elements, and instrument panels. It consists of four parts: panel, upper circuit, isolation layer and lower circuit. When the membrane switch is pressed, the contacts of the upper circuit are deformed downwards and are in contact with the plates of the lower circuit. After the finger is released, the contacts of the upper circuit bounce back, the circuit is disconnected, and the circuit triggers a signal. Membrane switch has rigorous structure, beautiful appearance and good sealing performance. It has the characteristics of moisture resistance and long service life. Widely used in electronic communication, electronic measuring instruments, industrial control, medical equipment, automobile industry, smart toys, household appliances and other fields.
PET Membrane Switch Overlay Description:
The main technical indicators
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2. Processing thickness:0.2mm -4.0mm
3 Copper foil substrate thickness: 18μ(1/ 2OZ ),35μ( 1OZ ),70μ( 2OZ )
4 Common material: FR-4 , CEM-3 , CEM-1, Polytetrachloroethylene,FR-1(94V0,94HB)
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6. HASL: tin layer thickness:≧2.5-5μ
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7 pounds extra lean ground pork and poultry ( FRESH NEVER FROZEN!!!)
( I use about 2/3rds pork to 1/3 ground chicken or turkey)
3 Large onions..minced and lightly sauteed ( set aside to cool)
2 level TBS sage
2 Level TBS ground black pepper
3.5 TBS Sea Salt
1/2 cup parsley..either dried or fresh chopped.
Mix thoroughly with hands until all spices and onions are well incorporated.
Roll into balls and flatten into patties...Stack patties seperated by small pieces of parchment paper...wrap, label and freeze!!
I do mine in packages of 4 as we use them a lot for breakfast.

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The “Sequence Editor” is really a video editor. Its purpose is to take individual “strips of film” that have been separately rendered, and to then “string them together” to create a complete film. Another very important purpose of this tool is to “composite,” or combine, one or more strips that each contain separate layers of material into one.
(Note: In this context, I use or abuse the word “layer” to refer to “strips of film,” not the twenty-odd buttons on the edit screen.)
Let us consider for example some nasty space-fight sequence between two players, call 'em “Luke” and “Darth,” who are fighting on some narrow bridge beside a yawning reactor-shaft next to an improbable window with starships floating outside. (Pick any scene from Star Wars…) How would one do that, and more to the point, do it efficiently?
How would one do that in a way that accommodates the inevitable changes, and that preserves the considerable investment in render-time without demanding that everything be generated all over again? How, indeed…
Well, the process of creating the movements for Luke and Darth are the subject of a separate tutorial, on the Action Editor and NLA’s. So let’s pretend that we’ve already choreographed those sequences, lit the scene and placed the cameras. We’ve done all that, and the question is what to do next.
What we obviously cannot do is to set everything up, push the “Render” button, and check back in a week after our poor computer has laboriously ground-out every single frame. (Well, I say “obviously,” but quite plainly it isn’t obvious, because that is exactly what most beginning animators do!) Any change, no matter how slight, would force the poor computer to do everything all over again, and vast amounts of the work are repetitive.
What do we instead? We break it up into pieces. Each piece contains only what it must contain. Then we re-use those pieces. Let me explain …
We’d probably start by shooting just one frame of our “abyss” from each camera position, because the cameras (let us say) do not move. Since the background does not change, we need only one solitary frame.
There is nothing at all in the camera’s view except the abyss. And there is a “hole,” perhaps a flat plane with Alpha=0.0, where the window for the starships will be.
We output these images to a file-format, such as .TGA or .PNG, which supports “Alpha” and we have the Premul key pressed. Also, we press the RGBA button on the render-page so that our output-data includes Alpha information. Every layer must include it.
(As an aside: “Alpha” refers to transparency information. An opaque object has Alpha=1.0; completely transparent 0.0; ghostly is around 0.5. This is the source of “masking” information which allows layers of image data to be combined.)
(Note: use the “search” button in this website, say on the keyword “premul,” to find lots of prior threads! And, yeah, I’m still-workin’ on a tutorial.)
Now we shoot the scene of the starships, from whatever camera position works. (They won’t change significantly from either camera we use.) For simplicity let’s say that just one frame is needed; the starships ain’t moving. Keep it simple = one frame. We only care about the small region which will actually be visible through the window.
Now we shoot Darth from Luke’s camera, and we separately shoot Luke from Darth’s camera, and maybe we shoot from a third camera that covers both. Each actor performs his entire routine, and there’s nothing at all on-camera except those actors. Once again we shoot to PNG or TGA’s, and we have Premul set.
Each actor performs on a plane which has OnlyShadows set in its materials, so that the plane isn’t there (it’ll be part of the background), but the shadows that the actors cast upon that plane are there.
Now, for each strip, we composite the actors to appear in front of the background (using the AlphaOver filter), and for the background to appear in front of the Starships, who will be visible “through” the window. This is very fast because it involves no separate, repetitive rendering of the background or of the ships. The shadows neatly appear to be cast “upon” the highly detailed background. But what we are doing is a very straightforward, two-dimensional process being applied to the various pixel-matrices that comprise each frame of our finished picture. Very efficient, very fast.
(And that massively detailed background? Yes, it’s one frame, rendered once, and repeatedly used in every output-frame involving a camera-shot taken from that particular camera.)
At this point, the three strips of film (one for each camera) are now “complete.” They show the performance of the actors, in their entirety, from each of three camera angles. Each frame includes material that changes from frame to frame (the actors), and material that doesn’t change but was simply copied (backgrounds, starships) having been rendered only one time.
Next, we put on our cinematographer’s hat. We cut-together each of the three strips of film from each camera, determining the sequence of camera-cuts that the viewer will actually use when observing the “fight to the death.” Sir John Williams furnishes us the soundtrack as a .WAV file and we put that in. We use the Sequence Editor to produce this strip. And thus we produce our final film.
Oops! Panic! Now the customer wants a little robot-dog (let’s call 'im “Lucas”) to zip into the scene! Or he doesn’t like the details of the handrail on our bridge. What do we do?!?! :o
Very little. 8) The customer is simply asking for another layer, and we generate that layer (“just the dog, ma’am, just the dog…”, or maybe a single frame with nothing but the changed handrail), and re-composite the thing and we’re done. No time-consuming re-rendering. Shots in which the dog and/or the objectionable handrail do not appear, do not even get changed at all. You could do it in fifteen minutes once you’ve generated the new material.
Terror! Two days before the film is to be proudly shown at SIGGRAPH, you discover a flaw in the background … the one it took you two weeks to render! Ahh, but it’s only a small area, so you fix it, render only the area containing the defect (from each camera POV), composite the “patch” right over the affected area in the (single…) background frames. Re-render the whole thing and nobody is the wiser, because the net result is that the problem truly is gone even though it only took you a couple of hours (after a lot of panic and beer) to fix it, and you fixed it perfectly.
All movies are made this way: separately generated “strips of film,” cut together in the final-edit to make the scenes you actually see. Sci-fi films scenes are produced by many layers of material combined, seamlessly and digitally, into one finished image.


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The ‘Terroir Moselle wine and architecture route’ is a ‘preparatory’ cooperation project gathering six LEADER areas, five wine growing areas from four regions and three countries.
Projects & Practice
In an area where the agricultural sector is under pressure due the expansion of a nearby urban centre, the diversification of farming activities e.g. ice-cream production and marketing, can ensure the farm’s sustainability.
An investment project for the modernisation and automation of a frozen fruits processing plant in order to minimise production losses.
Setting up an innovative lavender distillery in response to increasing market demands for high quality, niche products.
A modern hen farm producing eggs for human consumption, set up a new unit to process non commercial eggs and therefore increase its competitiveness.
A project that supported local municipalities in their campaign to reduce the use of pesticides by their citizens.
LEADER support for an arts in education project that promotes gender quality among school children in rural areas.
LEADER support helped establish a web school for local businesses providing them with the tools to better organise their work and market their services and products.
A French hazelnut farm used EAFRD support to develop a visitor centre, helping boost direct sales and educate citizens on hazelnut production and processing.
Local authorities in France’s Midi-Pyrénées region used EAFRD funding to develop a medical centre to improve the quality of health services particularly for the elderly.

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This has been a rough year to be a growth stock investor. The iShares S&P 500 Growth index has been beaten down by around 22% and many of its components have lost more than half their value in 2022.
When most people see trouble they tend to run first and ask questions later. On Wall Street, though, cool-headed analysts are still enthusiastic about some of the stocks they’ve been assigned to watch.
Shares of Lovesac (LOVE 3.24%), Invitae (NVTA 14.86%), and Amyris (AMRS 17.62%) have lost a lot of ground, but analysts up and down Wall Street expect them to recover in big ways. The average target on these stocks is more than triple their recent prices.
Lovesac shares have lost 49% of their value this year even though the underlying business is succeeding in measurable ways. This is why the investment bank analysts who follow the company pinned a consensus price target on the stock that suggests a 230% gain over the next 12 months.
This company may be named after the giant beanbag chairs it sells, but most of its revenue these days comes from sales of modular sectional sofas called Sactionals. Seats, sides, and backs are interchangeable so a customer’s first loveseat can expand to accommodate growing needs. With hundreds of replaceable upholstery options, families can even change their appearance to match a new home or remodel.
Demand for premium seating hit a fever pitch amid the most stringent COVID-related lockdowns. Fear of declining sales now that Americans are spending less time at home has been pushing the stock down, even though sales growth is still incredibly strong. During Lovesac’s fiscal fourth quarter ended Jan. 30, 2022, sales jumped 51% year over year to $196 million.
Furniture’s generally a low-margin business, but not the way Lovesac does it. A Sactional large enough to be called a sofa costs a few thousand dollars, so a lot of that revenue reaches the bottom line. Net income during fiscal 2022 more than tripled year over year to reach $45.9 million. As Lovesac’s customers keep coming back to upgrade their Sactionals and replace worn-out upholstery, investors can look forward to steady earnings growth for many years to come.
Shares of Invitae are down a stunning 74% this year, but Wall Street analysts think it can rebound. The consensus price target for this diagnostics industry stock represents a 283% premium over its price now.
Invitae is a highly innovative diagnostics provider that …….


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Tragedy averted: a fire broke out at a gas station in Lagos
Tragedy averted: a fire breaks out at a gas station in Lagos
On Wednesday, a fire engulfed the Yerevan Oil service station in the Ogba district of Aguda, Lagos state.
PUNCH Metro found out that the fire started immediately, rescuers who stormed the station found out that the cause of the fire was a fuel leak from a tanker truck with 33,000 liters of gasoline.
Lagos State Emergency Management Agency spokesman Nosa Okunbor said the fire was extinguished by agency officials and the Lagos state fire department.
Okunbor said: “The LASEMA Task Force extinguished a fire this morning at the Yerevan Oil filling station located on Ajayi Road in Ogba Aguda, Lagos State.
“Upon arrival, an investigation by the LASEMA response team revealed that the fire occurred following a spill from a tanker loaded with 33,000 liters of Premium Motor Spirit.
“Hell quickly died down, however, thanks to an immediate response from the agency team and the Lagos State Fire Department.
“The leaky valve, which is the source of hell, was closed; the fire was extinguished, and the truck and the entire area were closed to avoid secondary accidents. “
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A traffic stop led to the arrest of a convicted felon in East Nashville.
Authorities stopped a vehicle on Russell Street near South 9th Street just before midnight Thursday for a traffic violation.
A passenger inside was 31-year-old William Marquez Wright.
Officials said they found him in possession of a pistol and a variety of narcotics.
Authorities stated they could smell marijuana as they approached the vehicle, and Wright was allegedly seen trying to hide a bag of marijuana under the front seat.
He was detained, but authorities said he attempted to struggle and pull away multiple times. That’s when officers felt the gun – a loaded .380 pistol – in Wright’s pocket.
Cocaine, Tramadol (a narcotic painkiller), marijuana, and digital scales were also recovered.
After refusing to identify himself, Wright’s name was confirmed through fingerprints during the booking process.
He was being held in lieu of a $105,000 bond. Wright was charged with drug possession for resale, violating the crooks with guns law, gun possession by a convicted felon, and resisting arrest.
Authorities confirmed he had previous felony convictions for possessing marijuana for resale, burglary, and robbery.


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GURGAON: The Haryana government has set May 30 as the deadline for property owners to apply for registration of their unauthorized constructions, which are falling within 30-metre radius of the National Highways (NHs) and all major roads.
A spokesperson of Town and Country Planning department (DTCP) said that the owners of these buildings, which have been constructed in this area, could get their constructions regularized by submitting applications at the local district town planner (DTP) office, within the stipulated deadline.
"We will not extend the deadline further. So, those failing to apply this time should be ready to face action from the enforcement wing of the local TCP department," said an official.
It's not just individuals but even in the case of government offices, the departments have to apply for regularization.
Though this move by the government is seen as a big relief to unauthorized built-up areas in these areas, there are signs that the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) will raise questions. Sources said that by allowing unauthorized structures to remain there permanently, the government was limiting the scope of widening of existing roads. "When there is no scope for expansion on the ground, you have to opt for elevated passages and that makes for an expensive proposition," said an official.
The NHs and all other major roads in Haryana would soon require widening and upgradation considering the widespread economic activities and rapid industrialization across the state.
Only a few months back, an expert committee of NHAI had blamed the state government for increasing traffic chaos on Delhi-Gurgaon expressway. It had found that Haryana government approved land use changes after the project was awarded. The land use and transport plan (LUTP) for Gurgaon was changed in June 2006 when the expressway project was nearing completion. The new LUTP permitted more traffic generating land uses, commercial and industrial than the earlier plan.
The report mentioned, "All land use changes are within the catchments of the highway and therefore the access perforce has to be somewhere in the project length itself. It will be a bonanza for the concessionaire and a disaster for the highways and its users."


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Dine like a lord! Frangipane tart with lemon pastry and apples
Lady Macdonald, owner of foodie paradise Kinloch Lodge, shares more of her family’s favourite recipes
Your mouth should be watering any minute now
You can still find delicious British-grown Cox’s apples to use in this tart or try any other tasty eating variety, says Claire Macdonald
For the pastry
- 120g (4oz) hard butter, straight from the fridge, diced
- 175g (6oz) plain flour
- 1 rounded tbsp icing sugar
- Rind of 1 lemon, finely grated
For the filling
- 4 good eating apples, or 6 if they’re small
- 175g (6oz) almonds, flaked or halved
- 120g (4oz) soft butter
- 120g (4oz) caster sugar
- 1 large egg, plus 2 large egg yolks, beaten
- A few drops of almond extract
- Rind of 1 lemon, grated
- 50g (1¾oz) butter, melted
- 1 rounded tbsp granulated sugar
- Crème fraîche, to serve
Make the pastry by putting all the ingredients into a food processor and whizzing to the texture of fine crumbs. Press these firmly over the base and up the sides of a 20cm (8in) flan dish or tin. Put this into the fridge for at least an hour.
Meanwhile preheat the oven to 180°C/ fan 160°C/gas 4. Bake the pastry straight from the fridge for 20-25 minutes or until it is biscuit coloured. The sides will slip down but, using a metal spoon, you can easily scrape them back into place up the sides.
Remove the pastry from the oven and allow to cool. Leave the oven on. To make the filling, peel, quarter and core the apples and then cut each quarter into three slices.
Pulverise the flaked or halved almonds in a food processor, dry-fry until pale golden in colour and then cool. I do try never to buy ready-ground almonds – their flavour isn’t a patch on those you grind yourself.
Beat together the butter and sugar until soft and pale and then beat in the cooled, dry-fried pulverised almonds, the beaten egg and yolks, the almond extract and the grated lemon rind.
Spread this mixture over the cooled baked pastry base. Arrange the apples on top, pushing them down into the almond mixture.
Brush the surface with the melted butter and sprinkle the tablespoon of granulated sugar evenly over the surface. Bake for 25-30 minutes or until the apple slices are starting to colour. Remove the tart from the oven, allow to cool and serve with crème fraîche.
Extracted from Lifting The Lid, A Life At Kinloch Lodge, Skye by Claire Macdonald, published by Birlinn (£9.99, birlinn.co.uk). Order a copy at mailbookshop.co.uk, p&p is free for a limited time only.
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California: Sign up for the Pacific Southwest California Recreation Resource Advisory Committee
The Pacific Southwest California Recreation Resource Advisory Committee advises both the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management about fees charged for recreation on federal lands in the state. Its recommendations do not supersede the agencies’ decision authority, but the panel helps assess public opinion.
Eight vacancies are expected on the 11-member panel in July 2010, including specific positions that represent different areas of both motorized and non-motorized recreation, such as snowmobiling, cross-country skiing, backpacking and horseback riding. Other seats are reserved for environmental groups, guides, tourism agencies and Indian tribes. Each seat has a three-year term.
The deadline to apply has been extended to Jan. 9. Individuals may apply or be nominated. For information, including a nomination packet, contact Michael Ayers at (916) 978- 4644 or visit the Forest Service Web site.


Bottom-Up Enterprise Information Systems: Rethinking the Roles of Central IT Departments
Cross-functional, enterprise, and infrastructure systems integrate information across an organization for use by multiple stakeholders. Development or configuration of these large, multimillion-dollar projects is normally overseen by top management in conjunction with the central information technology (IT) department. There is, however, an increasing number of such systems arising from functional areas or departments in which users work, with central IT and top management being challenged to implement controls on these systems only after they go live.
Chua, C. E., & Storey, V. C. (2017). Bottom-Up Enterprise Information Systems: Rethinking the Roles of Central IT Departments. Communications of the ACM, 60(1), pp. 66-72. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1145/2950044
Business and Information Technology
Keywords and Phrases
Computer applications; Computer science, Bottom up; Cross-functional; Enterprise information system; Functional areas; Infrastructure systems; Multiple stakeholders; nocv1; Top management, Information systems
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© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), All rights reserved.
01 Jan 2017
This research was supported by DesignerTech, the University of Auckland, and the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University.


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A-72-year-old man of Mongu has been speared in the head and he died instantly.
Police Spokesperson Esther Katongo said the Muyendekwa Liomba was found lying in a pool of blood with a spear still stuck on his head.
Ms Katongo said the incident happened on February 16 around 01:00 hrs where Mr Liomba was killed by unknown assailants.
“This follows a report from Muleta Muleya, 59 of Chisonga area that his cousin Liomba of Lukweta area in Nalikwanda was murdered by unknown people and that he sustained multiple deep wounds,” she said.
She said the reason for the murder has not yet been established, however, it is suspected that it could be on suspicion of practicing witchcraft.
“A spear is alleged to have been used in the act. The body of the deceased was found lying in a pool of blood with a stabbed spear still stuck in the head,” she said.
Ms Katongo said the body is in Lewanika General Hospital mortuary awaiting postmortem.


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SHORT INTERVIEW WITH PEPE
Me: so what's your favorite Pepe Time?
Pepe: fuuuuuck dude I dunno... [yaaaaaawn] fuck, I dunno. I checked them all out last night. Its hard! I think Power To The Coil got the most comments. That one and the Lemon Lime.
Me: what was your least favorite Pepe Time, like "fuck this one"!
Pepe: I think The Hater did one about his truck and how much he wanted for it. That was just straight bullshit hahaha
Me: which Pepe Time represents you the best?
Pepe: I’m not too sure.
Me: what if you told somebody "all these stories are about me, but read this story. It’s all me!" which one would it be?
Pepe: so many stories, dude. Let me think. I dunno dude. I think I Don't Like Sweets represents hahaha me the most hahahahaha but then again I think they’re all ENHANCED anyway.
Me:you want to say anything to your Pepe Time fans?
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If My Heart Had Wings - Faith Hill - 2001 (Album - Breathe)
The Breathe album for Faith was a big hit and sold a ton. The title song was huge, selling millions and became a real romantic favorite for many during its run. As great of a song as it was and is, this is the song I really loved from this album. Faith had pivoted greatly in the late 90's from a traditional country sound to a far more poppy country sound. She was not alone in that and had great success, introducing herself and country to a whole new batch of fans. Faith Hill was very influential to many up and comers in country, as she had it all. Great country songs, great pop songs, big exposure, very successful tours with her husband Tim McGraw, and enviable style and beauty. I feel she inspired many young women to pursue their dreams in hoping they might be next. This album was about the zenith of her run. True the Cry album was very successful, as was Fireflies, I feel many fell in love with Breathe and it remains many fans favorite. You have no problem hearing the song Breathe these days in country and pop stations libraries, but this not as much. This is a terrific song. It has that feeling from the first note that this is a hit song. Enjoy!


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The federal chancellor assures that he will modernize the armed forces to the maximum within a period of five years
After decades of savings and massive disarmament in its armed forces, Germany is preparing to invest massively in re-equipping its army to make it the most powerful in the old continent. “Germany will soon have the largest conventional army in Europe within the framework of NATO,” Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the Stuttgarter Nachrichten and Stuttgarter Zeitung newspapers today. After highlighting the extraordinary budget of 100,000 million euros approved by the three parties of the government coalition – Social Democrats (SPD), Greens and Liberals (FDP) – after arduous negotiations with the conservative opposition of Christian Democrats (CDU) and Bavarian Social Christians (CSU) Scholz stressed that this is a radical shift in German security policy, which will “significantly strengthen” the military might of its armed forces.
The head of the German government indicated that he hopes that this very week the Bundestag, the federal parliament, will approve with the necessary two-thirds majority thanks to the agreement with the conservatives of the constitutional reform that will allow this extraordinary expense to be made during the next five years. The pact was reached after negotiations in which, among others, the Finance Minister, the liberal Christian Lindner, the Foreign Minister, the environmentalist Annalena Baerbock and the Defense Minister, Christine Lambrecht, as well as several prominent members of the opposition participated. conservative and the inspector general of the Federal Army, General Eberhard Zorn. Scholz thus fulfills the promise made three days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine last February, when he announced that the 2022 national budgets will include an extraordinary spending of 100,000 million euros for military purposes.
“These means will be used for the necessary investments and the rearmament of the armed forces. From now on, we will invest more than 2% of our GDP in our defense from year to year,” the Federal Chancellor stated at the time. Lambrecht also declared on Monday that his ministry’s budget will increase this year by more than 7% to reach 50.3 billion euros. Olaf Scholz stressed that with the financial package for military purposes approved together with the main opposition party, Germany “will be able to fulfill its defense commitment better than ever and will be able to make its contribution to the Atlantic Alliance so that we can defend ourselves against any external aggression.” . The initiative of his government will help “the security of Germany and Europe to be greater and is the appropriate response to the change of era that has begun with the Russian attack on Ukraine.”
The head of the federal government also rejected criticism for allegedly insufficient military support from this country to Ukraine. “We have supplied weapons and we will continue to supply weapons,” Scholz said in the interview with the two Stuttgart newspapers, in which he recalled that at the end of July and after their completion fifty “Gepard” battle tanks will be delivered and that Ukrainian military are currently being trained in the German Palatinate in the handling of heavy self-propelled howitzers «Panzerhaubitze 2000». He also stressed that Germany has agreed with several partners in Eastern Europe such as the Czech Republic or Slovenia to deliver Soviet «T72» tanks to Ukraine, which will be replaced in those countries by German-developed tanks such as the «Leopard ».
The federal chancellor stressed that Germany’s allies are well aware that “the federal army does not have a surplus of heavy military vehicles in operation that can be sent immediately” to Ukraine and admitted that it is “a big problem” that the army of this country “is structurally underfunded since 2010”, which “still limits our defensive capacity”. This will change radically with the extraordinary budget of 100,000 million euros approved now, Scholz pointed out.

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Bearcats Soar Past Eagles
The Binghamton Bearcats rolled to a 113-65 romp over the Elmira College Soaring Eagles at the Events Center on Saturday afternoon. The win gives Binghamton a 9-6 non-conference record while Elmira falls to 2-7.
The Bearcats were up by a 53-37 score at the half and turned the offense into high gear blowing past Elmira defenders for a 60-28 edge in the second half. The Bearcats hit 66 percent of their shots and went 11-21 from three-point range for 52 percent. Overall in the second half the Bearcats went 21-28 for for a blistering 75 percent.
Binghamton had four players in double figure led by 19 from Willie Rodriguez who made nine of 11 shots. Right behind him was Bobby Ahearn with 16 points. Oneonta's Albert Odero played in his second game as a Bearcat and scored 13 points. Odero electrified the crowd with a pair of spectacular dunks. Everson Davis finished with 11 points including a perfect 4-4 at the foul line.
The Bearcats open their America East schedule next Saturday at 1 PM when they host the Maine Black Bears at 1 PM. Binghamton will then head on the road for games at New Hampshire and Hartford.


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Abrahm Lustgarden: How Oil and Gas Drillers Avoid Paying RoyaltiesAugust 2013
Income from oil and gas production doesn’t always trickle down to landowners, as companies find ways to minimize the share they pay in royalties.
Abrahm Lustgarten: EPA Drops the Ball, AgainJuly 2013
In its latest abdication, the EPA hands over the Wyoming Fracking Study to a drilling company.
Abrahm Lustgarten: Why the EPA Reversed its Stance on Polluting Texas WaterMarch 2013
Emails to Heather Podesta from an interim director raise questions about outside influence on the agency’s decisions.
Abrahm Lustgarten: Land Grab Cheats North Dakota Tribes Out of $1 Billion, Suits AllegeFebruary 2013
A controversy implicates tribal politicians, Wall Street traders, and oil speculators.
Abrahm Lustgarten: Message from Mexico – U.S. Is Polluting Water It May Someday Need to DrinkJanuary 2013
While Mexico searches for untapped aquifers, the US government allows companies to pollute potential sources of fresh water.
Abrahm Lustgarten: How the Feds Let Industry Pollute the Nation’s Underground Water SupplyDecember 2012
Even as water grows more precious, the Environmental Protection Agency has permitted oil and gas, mining and other industries to contaminate aquifers in more than 1,500 places.