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Rumblings of discontent in leafy Cheshire have turned to outright antagonism between the county's various councils, with one now claiming that vulnerable children will suffer most from proposed local government reorganisation.
Cheshire's current two-tier system - a county council and six district councils - is about to change, with the county split between two unitary authorities.
Chester city council, one of four districts that initially proposed the two unitary authority solution, has since changed administration, and changed its mind.
Now Cheshire county council, which proposed a single unitary structure, is campaigning against the decision of a recent judicial review that confirmed the "two Cheshires" solution: it is backed by the Cheshire Schools' Forum, which says the reorganisation would "seriously damage an excellent service, benefiting over 100,000 children".
Joan Feenan, director of children's services for Cheshire, says her feelings range from despair and anger to a great sense of responsibility for the children in her care. "It will greatly affect the roll-out of the children's centres, where the authority is seen to be a high performer, with a 'deep green' rating from government on our progress," she says. "If we're split, all of that planning goes back to square one. In terms of effective use of money, it makes no sense. And the children's centres do target those who are particularly vulnerable."
The Children's Trust, which is currently in the final stages of planning and must be set up by 2008, will have just one year's life before the new system kicks off in 2009, she continues. "All the work we've done with our partners to commission services for children and families will have been for very little."
Finally, she points out, direct services to vulnerable children such as those with special educational needs, young carers and victims of crime can only be delivered across Cheshire because of the county's size and buying power: many smaller authorities simply don't have the resources to offer such highly skilled and staff-intensive support.
"Disastrous" is how headteacher Denis Oliver describes the potential impact of two smaller unitary authorities on the children's services in his school and eight catchment primaries. He's in charge of Holmes Chapel comprehensive, which sits on the edge of the planned east-west boundary. "Over the eight years I've been here, we've nurtured what are now incredibly strong partnerships and trust with our primary schools. We have lots of collaborative learning projects, as well as initiatives to identify children at risk of not reaching their potential. Under the boundary proposed for the two unitary local authorities, half my partner primaries will be on one side, and half on the other."
The division means that specialist services that have been jointly planned and delivered by his staff, partner primaries and children's services experts from nearby local authorities will no longer be viable - for practical reasons. How can an autism expert from an East Cheshire primary continue to work with a child from a school that is now in West Cheshire? Nor indeed for economic reasons - budgets don't easily cross borders. Added to this, the effectiveness of services for the most vulnerable children often depends on the personal relationships that build up over months and years. The time it will take to rebuild that trust, argues Oliver - even if a much smaller authority is able, on its own, to afford such specialist expertise - represents vital months in a child's life and development.
Assistant head Keith Simpson, who is responsible for inclusion, spells out the impact he fears the division will have, not just for his school, but for others with similar cross-county partnerships.
"We'd be in a situation of not being able to work with the professionals we already have relationships with. It'll break down a very smooth, active service. All this work completely meets the Every Child Matters agenda. Plus, everything through extended schools focuses on meeting children's and parents' and the community's needs - and we're doing that already."
Holmes Chapel comprehensive is geographically in very particular circumstances. But the Cheshire Schools Forum represents over 330 secondary and primary school heads and 4,000 governors: its members are so unhappy that the forum has written to Ed Balls, secretary of state for children, schools and families, expressing their fears and asking for the decision to be reconsidered.
Andy Robinson, chair of the Cheshire Association of Headteachers, says: "If somebody could put on the table a proposal saying 'This is how it's going to deliver for all children, how it's going to improve things for vulnerable children, and how it's going to make what is already high-performing better, then I'd be interested. But I'm not seeing that."
There has recently, he notes, been enormous change in order to bring together children's services, and the hard work takes commitment and effort from all involved: "When you're just starting to make a bit of progress, disrupting all that is of tremendous concern."


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The same kinds of restrictions on publishing company names also apply to author pen names. You don't want to have the same name as another author. And you want to be able to register your alternate author's domain name.
Names are important to me. Holly Lisle believes that you shouldn't think about naming a character until after you've fleshed her out and know enough about her to choose a name that fits. That doesn't work for me. While I'm deciding on hair and eye colors, body type, occupation, personality traits, etc., I can't get a good idea of what those are until I figure out what her name is.
So I spend hours thinking about who am I and what business I'll be working for. I know that, like the names of my characters, the right names for my publishing company and pen names will eventually come to me. I just wish it weren't such hard work.

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I start with an admission. My knowledge of Hungarian football is next to nothing and the significance of Vasas Budapest's three-one victory over Budapest Honved on Saturday in the league is totally lost on me. But none of that takes away from the final goal of the match which proved to be one of the most memorable goals of the weekend.
The match was over by halftime after a brace from Toth and a third from Nemeth had put the hosts 3-up at the break. But Honved managed to save some face by "winning the second half" thanks to a brilliantly improvised goal from Zoltan Hercegfalvi in the 59th minute.
Looking to get on the scoreboard, Honved sent the ball up to Ivorian striker Guie Gneki Abraham on the edge of the box. After taking a solid first touch, Abraham found himself faced with two defenders blocking his path to goal, but out the corner of his eye he spotted his teammate Hercegfalvi busting a gut to get into the danger area.
With the outside of boot, Abraham slipped a gentle pass in-between the two covering defenders. However the Vasas number 21 managed to get the faintest of touches to lift the ball slightly off the ground and change the direction of ball from its original target.
What happened next was pure instinctive genius from Hercegfalvi.
Finding the ball popping up just behind him, the striker never broke stride as his lifted his right foot behind his back, managing to connect the heel of his boot perfectly with the ball. Sending the ball goalwards, a stunned and stranded Vasas goalie stood on and watched as the ball drifted past him and into the net.
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June 5th, 2015
Today was going to be another fun day as we were meeting up with two blogging friends, Em of Dartmoor Ramblings, and Seagull Suzie of Beautiful Brixham. There won't be any pictures of them on here as I promised them their anonymity. There will be shots of our day together though, of my beloved Dartmoor.
Em was a gracious host. We spent several hours with her and a lovely evening with Seagull Suzie at our local pub. As you might guess from their blogs, they are lovely ladies who take marvelous photos.
Our nephew has done an amazing job getting us around and Gregg and I are so grateful, especially Gregg who normally does all the driving when we are on vacation over here. Would you believe I am too nervous to drive on the opposite side of the road now? After all those years of driving in England, at least from the age of 18 to 25 when I met Gregg, and now 40 years in America, it has taken its toll on the left-hand, right-hand driving on the road. I just can't teach myself to switch any more. Gregg had a lot of time as a passenger to take in all the sights and he thoroughly enjoyed each and every relaxing ride.
We arrived at Em's pretty home earlier than we expected but she didn't mind at all and welcomed us in, gave us a lovely cup of tea with home made cookies (I would love that recipe Em). We talked for a little while and then she asked us if we would like to go for a walk. We were all looking forward to it.
Case in point, two jumped in front of the car. Fortunately we weren't going very fast and we saw them coming. It was a winding, hilly and narrow road. We followed them for several minutes, having to keep pace with them trotting right in front of us. They made us laugh with the nonchalance of it all. They didn't get off the road until they were good and ready. It was quite an adventure getting to Em's, a fun one and that scenery! I can go on and on how absolutely stunning the Moors are. You can see them in greater detail on Em's blog. Her photos show her great love of them and of nature in general.
Em is very knowledgeable about the area and during our walk showed us the remains of bronze-age villages.....
and the names of different wildflowers, bluebells and many others.
I really wish I had taken more notes of them. I do remember, and she will have to correct me if I am wrong, that one particular delicate little wildflower was picked in abundance and stuffed into pillows back in the old days. They would have been soft as down and their aroma must have been lovely.
Em took us up to one of the Tors. A Tor is a high hill, especially a bare rocky one, the term mainly used in the Southwest of England. The word's origin is Old English torr, probably of Celtic in origin; compare Scottish Gaelic torr pile, Welsh twr. I found the above info here.
Em, my niece and nephew climbed to the top. There was an easy path up but Gregg and I stayed below and enjoyed waving to them. We sat on a rock below and enjoyed the surrounding scenery. Incredible!
If you have taken a look at Em's blog, you will already know about Snippet and Jack. They are sweet little dogs and so much fun. They both loved climbing and exploring. Here's Jack on the Tor.
Here is our nephew playing with Snippet.
At one point Jack disappeared down an animal burrow under a huge rock.
Not knowing how clever he is - he is part Jack Russell and the Jack Russell breed was originally made for such things, we were a bit concerned. But Em said if we walked away he would know and follow us. He did of course. I must say, we all fell in love with Snippet and Jack, and this lovely dog came by for a visit. He was accompanied by two of Em's friends riding their horses.
We had a lovely time with Em and I was quite sad for it to be over. She gave us a fantastic walk and thank you so much Em, for sharing your part of Dartmoor with our family, a gift we will all remember for a lifetime.
Em had recommended a place for lunch in Chagford, a town which was on our way back to the cottage. It was called The Old Forge Caffe and Restaurant. A great choice! The lady who took our order was very nice and welcoming. The chef was actually the owner. Our niece had ordered a cheeseburger and fries and she said the fries were the best she had ever tasted, and was nice enough to tell the lady. She beamed and said she would tell the chef/owner, and that he would be very happy to hear that. Our nephew ordered pork chops with veggies.
Gregg ordered the English Rarebit (above photo). He told our niece and nephew how his mother had made it all the time when he was growing up, and this was a nostalgia food for him, that his mother would have loved this version. She would.
I ordered ham with a jacket potato and baked beans. The beans were not out of a can, most definitely home made and had a delicious, tomato-ey flavor. We all had a salad which came with our meal.
I had a pot of tea for one and....
everyone else had freshly made lemonade.
Lastly, we shared dessert. I can't remember what the cake was but it was delicious topped with the ice-cream. It also came with a raspberry sauce.
After our meal it was time to get back to the cottage so that we could meet up with Seagull Suzie at our local pub. It was a lovely evening and so very nice meeting her. We talked and talked and talked. So much fun and meeting these two ladies in one day was a very enjoyable experience. Our evening went quickly and it was once again time to say goodbye.
Thank you Em and Seagull Suzie, loved meeting you both and we will look forward to the next time.
June 6th, 2015
After our long day out yesterday we stayed at the cottage to have a rest day, and caught up on mundane things like laundry. Niece and nephew went off shopping and we were glad they had time together, as they had been so good to us we felt they deserved some time to themselves.
At 6.25 p.m. they came home after having a very enjoyable shopping trip, and had a lovely browse around the stores. They brought dinner home. They are certainly taking care of all our needs.
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After coming back from the flea market yesterday I was so tired I had no motivation to post anything. Even worse, I was so enthralled by the whole excursion while I was there that I neglected to take any photos of anything. Not even my super cute outfit I wore. I may re-enact it later this week. Still, it was a blast. We stayed from 9 am to 2 pm, and I didn't even look at everything that was there.
While I took quite a bit of cash (in case I found something amazing I couldn't pass up), I was very good and didn't spend much at all. More importantly, I got a few items I've had on my wish list for a while, so I felt my purchases were very purposeful.
The first thing I bought was this great Guess watch. I've been searching for a large menswear-ish gold watch for ages, but never really wanted to pay too much money. This watch is in pretty great shape and only cost me $10. I also knew I had to have it because the leather band was able to fit my wrist. My wrists are exceptionally small so I pretty much always have to get watch bands adjusted to fit me properly.
Next, I bought this black purse. I have a go-to oversize black bag I have been using for the past year, but it's faux leather and is definitely on its last leg. I've been searching for a replacement bag for a while, but hadn't really been able to find something nice enough in my price range. This vintage SAS bag is just the right size and is leather, so I know it will be durable. It only cost me $5! I am so in love with it already.
My only other purchases where this skirt and dress. I can never resist a cute pencil skirt, and this wool one also came in my fave color combo of black/red/white. While I can't say I really needed another skirt, for $5 it was a no-brainer. The dress is a sheath that I am pretty sure someone made at their home since it has no tag. It's a bit too big for me so I will have to get it taken in, but I couldn't resist the golden mustard color and silky material. Plus the top has really beautiful pleating. Again, it only cost me $5.
So even though I only spent $25 altogether, I definitely think my trip was a success. I got some things that I love and didn't break the bank. I will surely be going back next month now that I know what I've been missing all this time.


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Anyone who picked up a magazine or watched TV in the early 2000's probably remembers the shocking images and hard-to-swallow facts of the anti-smoking 'Truth' campaign. Ad spots like the ominously (and appropriately) titled "Body Bags" delivered statistics about the dangers of smoking without an ounce of sugar coating–and with a healthy dose of shock value. Even if you didn't want to hear it, you were compelled to pay attention (especially when your loving daughter cut out the magazine ads and stuck them to your steering wheel…you're welcome, Mom!).
Now, champion of all things green and climate-related Al Gore is hoping to elicit the same can't-look-away public reaction when it comes to not-so-pretty facts about global warming. Gore's Climate Reality Project has hired Arnold Worldwide, one of the agencies behind "Truth," to raise awareness about the dangers of climate change and challenge the "fake science" and half-truths being circulated.
Arnold has answered the call to action by creating a website/social media tool called "Reality Drop," which finds climate news from all over the Web and compares it with the most relevant science. Articles displayed in red are said to contain myths and denier-science, while those displayed in green contain evidence that climate change is an undeniable scientific fact. Visitors to the site are encouraged to share the green articles on Facebook and Twitter, and also to "drop some reality" on the red articles by posting comments containing copy-and-pasted scientific facts provided on the Reality Drop website.
Pete Favat, chief creative officer at Arnold in Boston, said, "There's massive coal-money going into creating fake science and denier science that denies climate change is happening…They pay a lot of money to spin fiction, so the objective was to create something where people could drop facts into denier-science websites and forums to stir up the pot and get people to speak up against this false information."
And in case "dropping reality" on corporations' asses for the good of Mother Earth isn't enough of an incentive in and of itself, the more green articles people share and the more truth they post in red articles' comments, the more virtual "points" and "badges" they can earn. The idea: by encouraging some positive, healthy competition amongst users, the campaign can make its content more shareable and get others involved.
Here is a video introducing the world to the concept of Reality Drop. While (mercifully) less grotesque than the Truth video, the similar underlying message — a call to fight back against big corporations that don't have our best interests at heart — makes it almost equally compelling. Lines like "We've got the one thing big fossil fuel can't buy — we've got you, and now you've got Reality Drop," clearly meant to position "us" against "them" in the interest of the global good, are delivered dexterously; we can certainly see some of the same minds behind "Truth" at work here.
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Complex published a list of "10 Excuses Rappers Make When Their Album Flops" today (April 30).
It includes Asher Roth's 2009 proclamation that "My album was undershipped" as one of its excuses. "Asher Roth was unable to make the big splash he was hoping for with his 2009 debut album Asleep in the Bread Aisle despite having one of the biggest singles at the time in 'I Love College,'" the story says. "After the project debuted with only 65,000 copies sold, Roth said it was because of his label's decision to undership his album."
Complex says that Kid Cudi, 2 Chainz and Wale have also made the same claim.
Angel Haze's rationale that "My album leaked" also made Complex's List. "The irony behind this particular incident with Angel Haze is that she leaked her own album," the story says of her Dirty Gold project. "The result: Dirty Gold sold just 857 copies in its first week."
"I made this album for myself" is another excuse rappers use, Complex says, using Eve's 2013 album, Lip Lock, as an example.
"The album was her first in over a decade, and marked a drastically different sound from the former first lady of Ruff Ryders," Complex says. "'I knew the music I put on it and the singles I put out wouldn't be on the radio,' she said following its release. 'I kind of did that on purpose. I wanted to make the music I wanted to make.' Her core fan base was less than enthused by this musical change, which led to Lip Lock selling less than 9,000 in its first week."
Complex's "10 Excuses Rappers Make When Their Album Flops" is as follows:
"My album was under shipped."
"My album leaked."
"I made this album for myself."
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"My fans don't want to hear me grow musically."
"I don't measure my success by album sales."
"My album will gradually sell more over time."
"My album was only sold by select retailers."
"My fans aren't supporting me at SoundScan."
"I don't care about record sales."
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Nintendo got an unexpected flurry of résumés recently from dozens of would-be bounty hunters. Looking for a bit of viral marketing...
Nintendo got an unexpected flurry of résumés recently from dozens of would-be bounty hunters.
Looking for a bit of viral marketing for its new "Metroid Prime 2" video game, Nintendo posted a bogus ad on Monster.com seeking a "Bounty Hunter," a popular character from the game. It listed such qualifications as "comfortable with using high-tech (some would say alien) weaponry" and "experience operating in subterranean, low-oxygen, zero-gravity environments."
The company received résumés from more than 90 serious applicants, apparently with less than stellar IQs.
We've heard of out-of-work software testers. But who knew there was such a large group of soldiers out there just waiting for their first intergalactic job opportunity from Redmond?
Speaking of dimwits, lawyers for the recording industry tried to bust a dead, computer-illiterate granny for P2P file sharing. According to the Charleston (S.C.) Gazette, Gertrude Walton of South Carolina was named as the sole defendant in a federal lawsuit aimed at stopping the illegal trade of music on the Internet.
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The suit claimed Walton made more than 700 pop, rock and rap songs available for free on the Internet under the screen name "smittenedkitten."
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Walton, who died two months ago at age 83, hated computers, her daughter, Robin Chianumba, told the newspaper. Her mother would not be leaving the memorial park to attend the hearing, she added.
Google has become not only a household word but a common verb. Amazon.com's A9.com, on the other hand, is only now getting some buzz.
Search for placement
Last week, on the Fox TV show "The O.C.," the search service got a mention when a teen character announced, "I A9.com'd him."
Doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, does it? But for Amazon, it's hard to beat the TV placement, especially the kind, as the company says, it didn't even have to pay for.
A9.com ranks 30th among search services.
Speaking of TV, looks like The Donald will no longer get to boss around Bill's employee.
Reality bites
Microsoft employee Verna Felton last week became the first contestant to walk off Donald Trump's reality TV show "The Apprentice." That leaves 17 others to fight it out over the next four months to win a job with Trump.
Felton, a marketing specialist, said she was mentally and physically exhausted.
Who needs Trump for that? For ambitious workaholics, there's plenty to offer right at home.
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Wired.com apparently found it highly newsworthy that iPods have been spotted on Microsoft's campus.
No, no way
Citing an unnamed source, no doubt following a lengthy investigation, Wired revealed that about 80 percent of Microsoft employees who have a portable music player have the one made by Apple Computer.
One can hardly wait for the next report: Perhaps the shocking tale of Microsoft employees who use Google.
Efforts by Philadelphia and other cities to develop public wireless networks got blasted this week by — surprise — telecom industry-sponsored studies.
Look who's talking
A report by the New Millennium Research Council (NMRC) warned of "grave flaws" in such "dubious" government schemes that could leave taxpayers stuck with a heavy burden.
The report found that the proposed municipal wireless networks are likely to be more expensive than cities expect, deplete funds needed elsewhere and unfairly compete with the private sector. But the report didn't mention the benefits of providing Internet access to residents who wouldn't otherwise have it or couldn't easily afford it.
The report was also less than transparent about the biases of its sponsor. Turns out that NMRC is part of Issue Dynamics, a telecom lobbying company, the magazine eWeek reported.
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AMR: Not semantics, but close (? maybe ???)
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Okay, necessary warning. I'm not a semanticist. I'm not even a linguist. Last time I took semantics was twelve years ago (sigh. ) Like a lot of people, I've been excited about AMR (the "Abstract Meaning Representation") recently. It's hard not to get excited. Semantics is all the rage.


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Monday: Rest, work travel
Tuesday: 7 flat miles at an 8:49 pace, done as one-mile laps around a lakeside park I found.
Wednesday: 2.5 very hilly miles, 9:15 pace. After I woke up, realized work was going to be crazy all day long, and decided a quick run would be better than no run. It was a good decision.
Thursday: 11.3 miles, 9:16 pace with four stops for water and 15g of carbs at the halfway point. My son was at his nursery school, work was calm, and I found myself with a few hours to kill. I intended to run something moderate like 6-8 miles and set off on my favorite loop. About three miles in, I felt really good so I headed up a big hill and over Red Mountain into a different part of the city. I have a good mental inventory of where water and bathrooms are available, so I wasn't worried. OF COURSE I immediately got very lost, had to ask directions, and ended up with this mess. It wasn't too bad, though. I just wish the temperature had been a little cooler.
Friday: Decided to hit up the same vinyasa yoga class I went to last week. I sort of feel like it's a good upper body workout as well. Also saw the chiropractor and not to be all woowoo but I really think it's helping.
Saturday: 13.2 miles with the Track Club, 9:12 pace with four stops for water. Fuel was 100 calories of salted chocolate almonds immediately before and 6 oz of sports drink during. It was very humid, which is getting...very old. The full marathoners were doing a 17-mile run, so I just cut a bit off the route. Of course, you can't stop at just 13 when you can add a bit and make it a "half marathon," right??! The average pace on this one would have been a bit faster, but the first mile was like 10:45. Our whole household had a sleepless night, which happens. I skipped coffee and food and just jetted out the door. I am so grateful for all of the little snacks I keep stashed in the car, and I dove head-first into a massive iced redeye immediately after finishing the run. Coffee. Don't underestimate its power.
Sunday: Traditional "Big 3" powerlifting weights workout. I am now squatting over my body weight! Followed by an hour-long spin class.
Totals: 34.1 miles of running, 1 yoga class, 1 weights session, 1 cross training cardio session
Ok, here are some pictures from our week.
|At the county fair...more pictures soon!
|Please excuse my RBFS. I realized my hair had gotten way way WAY too long, especially for someone who runs outdoors in the humid South. So here is a before picture.
|Insane workdays mean my sweet husband is preparing me a lot of little breakfasts that look like something you'd get in a fancy spa. I'm not complaining.
|A quick trip to see my parents.
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Roughly 13 vitamins are required in order for a human to survive. Some of these vitamins have so-called antioxidant properties. This means that these vitamins can act to protect the body from the deleterious effects of free radicals.
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CS770/870. Class 8 Splines. Splines. Smooth piecewise curves Mostly cubic polynomials Parametric curves. Control points Knots. Some interpolate (= pass through) the control points, Others do not. Hierarchical Bicubic B- Splines. Hermite splines. Define end points and gradients.
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Smooth piecewise curves
Mostly cubic polynomials
Parametric curves
Control points
Some interpolate (= pass through) the control points,
Others do not.
Define end points and gradients.
Continuity C0 end points match
C1 1st derivatives match
C2 2nd derivatives match
y = a +bu + cu2+du3
Splines are arrange to have continuity at the joins (knots)
C0: The curves touch at the join point.
C1: The curves also share a common tangent direction at the join point.
C2: The curves also share a common center of curvature at the join point.
At knot
C1 continuous
Matching end points, matching gradients
Example: u1 = 0, y1 = 2.0, dy1/du1 = 1
u2 = 1, y2 = 3.0, dy2 /du2 = -2
Find a,b,c,d to define the curve
Write out the equation
y = a +bu + cu2+du3
dy/du = b + 2cu +3du2
For any (y1,g1) (y2,g2)
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_cy = 3.0f*(y2 - y1) - 2.0*dy1 - dy2;
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x is a function of u.
To get a 3D Hermite, just do it 3 times for x, for y and for z.
x,y,z all are functions of a common u.
For the start just define a normal at right angles to the starting forward vector. E.g. start track horizontally F(0,0,1), S(1,0,0), T(010);
Do this by defining the gradients.
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Use the vectors.
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The at position, should be the center of the ball.
The up direction should use the top vector
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If we have n control points and n splines we can make a set of curves.
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Reliever Antonio Bastardo has reportedly agreed to a two-year, $12 million contract with the New York Mets.
I've been waiting to see what Yoenis Cespedes will do for the past few days even though I don't really expect him to stay with the Mets, but strengthening the bullpen is important too.
Bastardo, 30, spent the first six years of his career with the Philadelphia Phillies before being traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates after the 2014 season.
For his career, Bastardo has 388 strikeouts in 316.1 innings and has held opposing batters to a .199 batting average. Against lefties, Bastardo has been even better — they've hit just .178 against him.
I wrote to Bastardo at the Phillies spring training camp in 2011, but I did not get my card back until the beginning to the 2012 season. It's interesting that he chose to sign the card in the small empty spot at the bottom rather than across the photo.
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Ratio of waist circumference to height is strong predictor of intra-abdominal fatBMJ 1996; 313 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.313.7056.559d (Published 31 August 1996) Cite this as: BMJ 1996;313:559
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EDITOR,—Waist circumference1 and the ratio of waist circumference to height2 have been proposed as better indicators of the need for management of weight than the classic body mass index. The relevance of the different proxy measures is presumed to relate to their prediction of intra-abdominal fat, but a comparison has not yet been reported.
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Editorial: Ingress/Niantic Labs Invite Fiasco
By now everyone's heard of Ingress right? It's that new augmented reality game from Niantic Labs which is a part of Google. Well it's still in closed beta after launching back in November. I was one of the lucky ones and got my invite on Thanksgiving. But for many out there, it's getting very frustrating trying to get an invite to play a game that's on their phone taking up space that they can't use. Since they can't play the game without an invite.
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Now luckily or unluckily, we've been given a number of invites over the past few weeks to give out to our readers. And in most cases our readers are thankful, but there are those few who are upset and think that we really don't have any invites. In fact in our current giveaway which is only about halfway done, we've already gotten close to 12k entries. Now we only have 5 invites to give out. Which means there's going to be a lot of people who won't win. And many of them might just give up on trying to get an invite.
Closed-Beta could be the Downfall of Ingress
We all know about closed-beta, it's basically to test out the game and make sure everything's working right. I don't blame Niantic Labs for having Ingress as a closed-beta. When I first got my invite, the servers went down a few times, and it's better to have that happen in a beta than when it's available to everyone. But how many people do you think are actually getting an invite everyday? I'm willing to bet it's pretty low, around 200-500 people. Those numbers may be wrong, as I am just estimating from what I see on Google+. Why is the roll out so slow? You'd think it'd be much faster since they want people playing the game. And if the life span of the game is only a couple of years, by the time it comes out of beta no one will play it anymore.
Our Invites
We have gotten invites a few times from various people at Niantic, altogether around 25-30 of them. But we usually don't get any when we ask for them. We ask for them so we can help everyone get one. Not everyone is good at being creative, and that's the major way of getting an invite through Google+. Now this goes back to what we talked about in the last section. Why is Niantic being so stingy with these invites? You'd think they'd help us out since we can help them make the game even more popular, after all this is an Android blog and Ingress is an Android-only game.
The few invites we do get, we have users on Google+ calling in our integrity and credibility by saying we don't actually have invites to give out. These are probably people who have lost all hope of getting an invite. And once they get one, will probably never play the game. After dealing with these people, we should get some more invites to give out, right?
Final Thoughts
Ingress is a great game, and I really can't wait until it's in open-beta so everyone can join in the fun. But if it doesn't happen soon, I'm afraid all interest in the game may fade. In our last few posts related to Ingress, we've seen interest fading big time already. Not to many people are interested in Ingress when they can't even play it. So, yes Niantic Labs, we are calling you out! Give out more invites. There are thousands…actually closer to millions of people that want to play Ingress and cannot. If you want Ingress to succeed get more people into the game.
Have you gotten your Ingress invite yet? If not, feel free to let off some steam in the comments below. But we do ask that you keep it clean, any comments with vulgar language will be removed.


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I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful 100 percent.Thanks to its size, the movements of an elephant tend to be slow and ponderous. While it's impossible to know whether an elephant's inner life is more somber and dignified than, say, that of an otter, it certainly looks that way. This impression of elephants is compounded by the fact that elephants are observed engaging in what appears to be reverence for their dead. It seems likely that they are aware of their own mortality. The prodigious memory of elephants also makes it seem that their lives must be more burdened by history and the past than animals with less powerful memories, which exist more "in the moment". An anthropomorphized elephant or mammoth will typically be honorable and stoic. A young elephant may be more playful, but is unlikely to be a willful troublemaker. Ironically, while in Real Life female elephants tend to be the most involved in the complex social behaviors which make them so easily identified-with, fictitious elephantine heroes tend to be males — perhaps because something so massive and thick-skinned as an elephant seems masculine even when the beast is female. Some aspects of Real Life elephants, such as their excellent memories, may be portrayed widely in fiction, while other aspects, such as the feeling of Unstoppable Rage and lust males feel during musth, may be played down. Compare Genial Giraffe, another friendly animal that is often seen together with elephants.
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- In Sands of Destruction, hospital administrator Elephas Rex refuses to turn away patients.
- It turns out that he is a former war criminal who hopes to die having saved more lives than he took.
- Big Convoy, Santon, and the toy only Ironhide.
- Jack "the Drought", who possesses the ability to transform into a massive wholly mammoth, is a major inversion, as he is a destructive brute who razes countries to the ground to complete his goals.
- In The Jungle Book Hathi the elephant like its book counterpart is the temperate but righteous leader and lawgiver of the jungle.
- Subverted for Rumsshi, the God Of Destruction for Universe 10 in Dragon Ball Super whom despite being an elephant, is shown to be a lazy Jerkass Gods not to mention being an Ungrateful Bastard who refused to acknowledge that Beerus and Goku saved him from being indirectly killed by Zamasu.
Audio Drama
- Benjamin Blümchen, the hero of the eponymous German Language audio drama series for kids, is a talking elephant with a strong sense of justice and a Gentle Giant personality.
Card Games
- In Magic: The Gathering, elephants (including the loxodon) are usually Green or White, the colours most invocative of honour. Still, as Light Is Not Good, the loxodon of Mirrodin were brute bigots incapable of acknowledging moral complexity.
Comic Books
- Brother Warth in the Green Lantern series is a member of the Blue Lantern Corps., hand picked by its leader.
Eastern European Animation
- Elephant from 38 Parrots is Adorkable, shy, bookish and constantly apologizing.
- Hatkhi from the Soviet Jungle Book adaptation is a very respected and dignified authority figure, akin to a lawkeeper, and with none of the goofy traits of his Disney counterpart.
Film — Animated
- The title character in Dumbo is playful but never malicious. The Matriarch plays the trope more straight: "We elephants have always walked with dignity."
- The Matriarch would be a subversion because she ostracizes Dumbo for his big ears.
- Mrs. Jumbo plays it straighter, not that it helps her.
- Manny from Ice Age is an honorable mammoth. He feels morally obligated to return a human baby to his family even though he knows that the child could one day grow up to be a mammoth-killer.
- In The Jungle Book, elephants are like honorable, respectable (if not too bright) British army officers.
- Tantor, the African Elephant from Tarzan may be a coward, but when his friends are in danger he overcomes his fear and helps them.
- Inverted by elephant ice cream vendor Jerry Jumbeaux Jr in Zootopia, a racist jerk who refuses service to Nick simply because he's a fox.
Film — Live Action
- Inverted in the Sci Fi Channel movie "Mammoth". Scientists reconstituted a mammoth from DNA. It Came Back Wrong and went on a murderous rampage.
- The Jungle Book (2016) has the elephants play a more important role, with them becoming Physical Gods who had shaped the jungle into its current state. They become grateful to Mowgli rescuing one of their calves, and they in turn help him put out the fire he accidentally started near the end of the movie.
- In Babar, the elephants live in The Kingdom, while the rhinoceroses seem to be a military dictatorship ruled by an Insane Admiral.
- Polite Elephant in the works of Richard Scarry.
- Dr. Seuss wrote of Horton, an elephant who was always faithful, 100%: He both safeguarded the Whos and incubates an egg in his custody.
- The Tarzan novels feature an elephant named Tantor.
- In The Jungle Book, Hathi is a wise (and honorable) Lord of the Jungle, who follows orders from nobody. Except for Mowgli, sending him on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
- Elmer the Patchwork Elephant which is about an elephant named Elmer who for some reason is colored like a rainbow patchwork quilt.
- Bill Peet's The Ant and the Elephant.
- In Roald Dahl's The Enormous Crocodile, the eponymous Card-Carrying Villain's attempts to prey on children are all foiled by four friendly animals, the fourth one being Trunky the Elephant, who gets rid of him once and for all by grabbing him with his trunk and hurling him into the sun. (It's a kids book; Cartoon Physics apply.)
- Older Than Feudalism example: In Reynard the Fox, a 12th century parody of Medieval Feudalism where carnivores are nobles and herbivores are peasants, the elephant was allowed to join the royal court because of his great intelligence.
- In Bravelands, elephants are the most spiritual animals in the Bravelands, telling the future by touching the bones of dead animals. The past is very important to them, and they love telling stories. Just like in real-life, a matriarch leads them and lets the herd make decisions together.
Religion and Mythology
- Played entirely straight in Hindu Mythology, with elephants often symbolizing wisdom, grace, power and kingliness. Eight divine elephants carry the world on their backs, and a white four-tusked elephant is the mount of the storm god Indra. The elephant-headed god Ganesha, one of the most popular gods in Hinduism, removes obstacles and gives people good luck, as well as protecting children.
- And in another Indian example, this time from Buddhism. The Buddha was an honorable elephant in several of his previous lives, and the popularity of white elephants in Thailand has to do with Buddha taking the form of a six-tusked white elephant.
Live-Action Television
- Not a anthromorphized example, but Prehistoric Park features Martha the mammoth.
- She first appears unsuccessfully trying to aid her sister, who has died falling in a pit trap made by early humans.
- Though an outcast from the African elephant herd, it is Martha who stands up to Matilda, a young T. rex, when Matilda targets the matriarch's calf.
- In Primeval, a Columbian mammoth saves James Lester from a Future Predator in one episode. At the beginning of the episode he'd been making jokes about selling the mammoth for ivory. At the end of the episode, he brings it treats and cements his status as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
- In Walking With Beasts, honorability seems to increase in the proboscidean family tree as it gets closer to modern elephants.
- In "Mammoth Journey", female woolly mammoths and their young live in family groups that stick together and quietly help each other when facing predators and climatic hardships. The most unprovoked aggression seen consists of an adult male on heat chasing a bison herd away with a mildly threatening trotting and an old male scaring two cave lions out of his way when he migrates south. Said lions are feeding on a human carcass.
- Deinotheres in "Next of Kin", in contrast, are sadistic bullies that seem to revel on chasing hominids out of waterholes or because they are on heat. Bear in mind that this is as much elephantine behavior as the one exhibited by the mammoths. The series gives all positive traits to one lineage and all negative traits to the other, who also happens to be the uglier, less elephant-looking one.
- Goofy-looking moeritheres in "Whale Killer" are perfect pacifists that don't really look or act like elephants. One is chased by the threatening Basilosaurus, but unlike most prey animals in the series it is given the chance to escape.
- Inverted in the comic song "The Elephant" by Michael Flanders and Donald Swann, which starts, "An elephant's life is tedious, laborious, and slow. / I've been an elephant all me life, so I bloomin' well ought to know!" The elephantine narrator then describes how he avoids the dutiful life of the typical elephant by shamming amnesia. "Me mind's a perfect blank. / Now life is very much easier. Amnesier's to thank."
- The British folk song Nellie the Elephant, which later received an Animated Adaptation.
Video Games
- The Pokémon Donphan is known for clearing roads after disasters.
- The title character of Elephant Quest is both stoically determined to regain his hat, and loyally prepared to undergo Side Quests for his friends while he does so. Averted with the other elephants, who are excitable Apathetic Citizens.
- The aforementioned Ganesha in Mythology section is featured in Smite and is a guardian that shares his kill benefits even better to his nearby teammates. He's also able to slow down while granting protections to his teammates.
Western Animation
- Woolie from Cats Don't Dance.
- Subverted with Stampy from The Simpsons. As Bart's pet, he was surly and destructive, so the family sends him to a sanctuary, thinking that he would be more peaceful among his own kind. But once there, he started being the same way toward the other elephants, causing the caretaker to remark that some elephants are just jerks.
- In Tom and Jerry cartoon "Jerry and Jumbo", an elephant loyally defends Jerry from Tom after Jerry pulls a nail from the elephant's foot.
- Dolores from some of the Classic Disney Shorts.
- In the Disney short Elmer Elephant, the title character is a heroic anthropomorphic elephant who saves his Love Interest Tilly Tiger from a fire.
- The short Goliath II is about a mouse-sized elephant who wants to get the respect of his pompous father.
- Lumpy from Winnie-the-Pooh and his mother are both kind and heroic Heffalumps (elephant-like creatures) - in stark contrast with the other, villainous Heffalumps of the franchise.
- Raj from Camp Lazlo.
- Mama Mirabelle and her son Max from Mama Mirabelle's Home Movies
- Strong Sad from Homestar Runner, who isn't fully an elephant but has elephant feet which he calls "soolnds". They prevent him from being able to jump, which is true with elephants in real life.
- Ellivan from Jungle Junction.
- The Looney Tunes short Hobo Bobo.
- The Elephants from the elephant village in ThunderCats (2011) . These elephants notably subvert the "elephant never forget" stereotype, since while they are wise, they have very poor memories which they are apparently infamous for. They're also pacifistic to the point that they prefer to solve their problems by meditating until the answer comes to them rather than act straight away. But that doesn't mean they're complete pushovers.
- Lotsa Heart elephant in Care Bears
- The Large Family, a slice of life show focusing on a town full of antropomorphic elephants.
- Ella the Elephant, based on the books by Carmela D' Amico and Steven Henry.
Real Life
- The United States Republican Party has an elephant as the mascot, perhaps to invoke an image of stability.
- Actually this is an aversion. The elephant symbol comes from a political comic comparing Republicans to Elephants that had gotten fat and corrupt off of said corruption (back then, elephants were seen as taking too much resources and doing too little to justify such an expense). Democrats similarly were being ridiculed by the donkey for being stubborn and stupid, but since those animal traits are still associated with donkeys in modern times so it's easier to see the satire. Unusually, these days the adopting of both animals positive traits are better seen with Republicans, through this trope than Democrats (at the time, Democrats countered that the Donkey was useful to farmers, which was once their base).
- The Oakland Athletics baseball team uses an elephant as its mascot, as well as one of its alternate names.
- Real elephants are used in Indian temple processions to carry gods, and some of them are sacred animals that bless devotees.
- Joseph Merrick was nicknamed the "Elephant Man" due to his disfigurement, but he was a very kind and honorable person albeit the mistreatment he often suffered from society.


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Everyone should have received a bag of goodies today. The bags contained some information from the city (sorry we are late getting these out; we got them last fall) plus a nifty Grandview Hills magnet to remind us all of the URL for this site and the email address for the list.
Please keep the magnet handy so you can check the website often for updates. Or, you can subscribe to the RSS feed. Also, any neighbor can request an account on the website and be able to post comments, blog info, participate in the forums, etc. Just make sure to put enough information in so we know it is someone who should have an account (name, address). Occasionally, spammers request accounts, which we remove.
As for the email list, anyone on the list can send a message to it and it will reach all the neighbors who are on the list. The list is secured so people need approval to join. If you are not already on the email list or need to update your email, please send me a message (you can click on my name at the top of this post and then contact me.) And spread the word to new neighbors who may not be on the list. This is the easiest, most efficient way to keep the majority of the neighborhood in contact.
From the city, there were a few flyers, including last year's waste program information and the lower the boom ordinance. Once again, we apologize for not getting these out last fall. Life was hectic and it just didn't happen.
We hope to see lot of folks at the upcoming block party and meeting on June 13. Also, we'd love for anyone stopping by the farmer's market on June 6 to come by our table at the Blooming Neighborhood Celebration. Don't forget to send me a brief bit about why you live in Grandview Hills!


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December 2, 2011
Now that you've seen it, what did you think? Sex. NC-17. Fassbender. McQueen. You've heard the buzz, it's finally time to see it for yourself. Even with that NC-17 rating, Fox Searchlight is releasing Steve McQueen's Shame, one of the edgiest yet highly acclaimed films this year, in its uncut form. Michael Fassbender stars as Brandon, a sex-addicted man living in Manhattan whose life is thrown out of balance when his fragile sister, Carey Mulligan, suddenly shows up. Is it as good as everyone is saying? And how is Fassbender - Oscar worthy? Once you've seen it, leave a comment below with your own thoughts on Shame.
To start the discussion, I love this film, it's one of my favorites films of the year (here's my Telluride review), which was surprising because I didn't like McQueen's last effort, Hunger (that's for another day). I believe Fassbender gives one of the best performances of his life, completely embodying the character, and using every little nuance, movement, and glance, as a method of adding an even more immense depth to the character of "Brandon." At it's core, Shame is simply a brilliant, meticulous, contemplative character study that lets its performances speak for themselves. The opening with that moody score and the way it builds was tremendous (one of my favorite openings ever, to be honest) and from that point on it never lets down.
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Patrice de Maistre, financial adviser to the 87-year-old, was being questioned by investigators, according to an official in the prosecutor's office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre.
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Mrs Bettencourt's finances have been at the center of a political storm that includes claims that she gave money illegally to President Nicolas Sarkozy's conservative party during his 2007 election campaign. Mr Sarkozy and his party's treasurer have denied the claims.
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