As I was born and grown in the communist Czechoslovakia behind the "iron curtain", I didn't have a clue about Patrick's Day for a long period of time. We've been taught and brainwashed about great soviet heroes and holidays instead.
Fortunately, we were allowed to keep some of the old myths, legends and fairy tales as well, especially if they didn't sound too religious. And so we got the hidden wisdom through elves, fairies, witches and other fairy-tale beings.
One of those mythical characters is Vodyanoy – a completely green creature that rules over the waters. Because we don't have a sea in my country, Vodyanoy usually lives in ponds, lakes or deep river bays. He looks elegant, prefers green or red top hat and has a tailcoat, from which the water is always dripping. We really have a lot of stories where Vodyanoy appears. Some Vodyanoys are good or cute, others are evil and scary, but you can easily recognize them because of green color and water, dripping from their clothing.
The reason, why the Vodyanoy myths came back to me in these days, was the last prompt on Deviant art. The challenge was to draw a green picture in honor of the St. Patrick's Day. I tried to fulfill my intention, celebrating the Irish heritage. I drew for hours but the mind didn't flow in the Irish mood at all. So much green has caused to me to see more Vodyanoy, sitting in a really green pond.
I would say that no matter how many things you learn in life, cultural roots remains with you for ever. What do you think?
Recently I have noticed how many trees of Larch (Larix decidua) are fresh and green as in early spring unlike the others that proofed passing tropical summer by falling yellow leaves. Looking down I saw the finest hay instead of grass under every Larch on my way, while the isles of new green appeared on other places after few rains in last days.
It almost looked that Larch had a unique ability to keep water for its solo needs and not to share it with its close neighbors. At that moment I saw the evil Queen from Snow White, because especially this summer a drop of water was a step to survive. But Her Majesty Larch didn't care about survival of the others but only about her own beauty and freshness.
From strange reasons I felt disappointed. It hurt my naive fair-play attitude and broke the current idea of larch as a fragile individual to be protected. Even as a little girl I touched the soft larch needle rather than plush toys. I admired the courage for being different from other conifers because children knew how classmates could punish otherness. I loved this extraordinary tree as well as walks around the river in my hometown, where they grew much and witnessed my teenage years and dates.
I still love the scent of larch that is similar to pine, but slightly softer. I love the exclusive homemade "honey" from the young cones full of tasty resin, and I love the beauty of larch wood in shades of red. But from now, I will never believe that Larch is weak.
Thinking about it I realized that Larch in the system of Bach flower remedies helps to increase our self-esteem and self-confidence. So, there must be some, right?
Later I also had to admit that during my lifetime I often wanted to protect those who had demonstrated weakness but didn't really need my support. This was a bitter pill to learn from Larch, but thanks for it!
There are people who come to life with the sun and have almost no limits. On the contrary, my body switches to hibernation as soon as it's too hot or hot for too long. And it has been so over the past few weeks!
Luckily, some rain came today and brought happiness to my soul. I walked (not danced) in the rain and absorbed the drops by the whole surface of my body. It was so different from common shower. Although the shower was more comfortable, the rain today was more cleansing because it touched not only the body but also the soul, perhaps because I was so thirsty for it.
Later I noticed that the portion of today's rain was nothing for the nature around. The soil remained dry and cracked, the fallen water somehow disappeared. Berries stay dried on the bush, sadly announcing low to zero harvest. And the leaves on the trees become yellow and start to fall as if autumn was already there.
One must be happy for a little thing and I'm looking forward to a nice sleep today, if possible without thinking of tomorrow's hell.
Water is lazy, quiet and cold. Therefore it represents sleep, silence, darkness and even death. Water cannot move on its own. Its movement is always caused by external forces such as gravity or Moon in the case of high and low tides.
So, why we do say that healthy water must flow? And that standing water is an opportunity to grow molds and diseases? Because the external forces of nature and the Universe never stop. And if the water stands, then something acts against those natural or universal forces.
We humans love to act like this. Here are some examples of how we block the natural flow of water in our civilized lives.
On a macro scale, I would mention a boom of concreted riverbed which didn't respect the original streams and which, a few decades later, cause disastrous floods.
Inside of human body, we often block natural sweating, which is the most effective way to get rid of toxic substances through the largest body organ – the skin. Instead we massively use inappropriate deodorants that block the sweat glands and forbid them natural working, which is the exact parallel to the amount of concrete used in the artificial riverbeds.
I understand that the sweat can smell badly and we live close to each other, especially in cities. On the other hand, the amount and smell of sweat depends on what we drink and eat, how our metabolism works, and how much stress we live in. If we focus more on these improvements, we don't have to use devastating deodorants, but only light natural versions.
Emotions like sadness or regret require natural flow of tears to overcome difficult situation. But the common social habits often demand to hold tears back. Again, it is close to the parallel with concrete riverbeds. If you block the flow of tears for a long time, there is born a retention tank of emotions that will rupture in future for sure. And then all the pain pours at once.
Sleep is another good example inside the water element. Naturally we are set up to sleep at night, silence and darkness. In such conditions, the body really rests and gains enough strength for the next day. How many of us respect biological clocks and go to sleep with the sun? First I admit that I am a night creature and I don't want to get up early in the morning. Even though I know it is bad, and it spoils my metabolism and water levels in my body. This is definitely my weakness.
But that's not all yet. Night sleep should be in silence and in dark. But where to look for them, especially if we live in cities? Unfortunately we live in constant light and sound smog, so darkness and silence become unachievable ideals. And so the water element is spoiled a bit more every day, and thus our physical and emotional health. In the long-term it is definitely worth to invest in the light and soundproofed bedroom.
I prefer to stop with negative examples now and present a few positive tricks how to improve the quality of the water in our lives.
Dreaming is a nice quality inside of water element. And it could be a lucid dreaming even though it seems very useless. Fantasy is an eternal ally of water, so use it as much as possible. You can start with drawing or painting, let be inspired by fantasy rather than reality. No matter of the outcome, the process is beneficial.
Being alone and in silence is always a tool for harmonizing the water element in your life. Therefore, prayer, meditation and relaxation techniques are so effective.
And how about influence of the previous elements?
Fire and water are of course opposites. But the life needs both of them. Water is quiet environment, which needs to get a fiery spark to create a fetus. Water represents woman, waiting for male (fiery) sperm. And do you remember that Air represents socializing? If a man and a woman socialize well, then they create a new life.
Frequent topic is the relation between emotions and mind, i.e. water and air. Take real elements for help. If you don't saturate water with oxygen enough, your water environment would be dead, even it has appropriate temperature (fire). So using only emotions without oxygen of our minds doesn't keep us alive. Then we could tend to stay alone, dreaming, without connection to other people. So much water takes the life spark out and we become more dead than alive.
In the case of too much oxygen in water you can see big bubbles, so the water looks more like soda water full of wild whirlwinds, where isn't even one quiet thing. This is a parallel of overestimated mind and underestimated emotions, which means a stressful life without rest.
And both examples above worked with appropriate temperature. Imagine there is not enough fire, so the water becomes ice. And this represents situation, when emotional person doesn't put fire into the water. From warm feelings, hardness or even cruelty become.
And that's why we should maintain balance among the elements. Sometimes is useful to implement small tricks and so to change the sequence of other events.
Next, I will speak about the Earth and the mutual influence with previous elements.
Imagine the real air. What qualities does it have? First, it's invisible. Second, you cannot touch it. It's all around us and can even expand if we give it space. It's in constant motion, never stops. So, where to look for the air parallel in our lives inside of the 4-element system?
Our mind if full of thoughts that are invisible and we cannot physically touch them. They are definitely moving constantly and sometimes they even expand exponentially. So, our thoughts belong to the element of Air. And if we talk about pollution in case of the real air, we should talk about pollution of our mind as well.
What can pollute our mind? All the useless information we often starve for! Living in the information era, we are obsessed with information and we often forget to put filters in order to keep our mind clear and healthy. Never ending stress on production and/or consumption of information is the most dangerous source of pollution in the segment of Air.
How to reduce it? Breathing and exercise (which leads to better breathing) are good ways how to clean the mind, and both belong to the Air as well. There is a wide range of breathing exercises, some of them are very aerobic, but you can be successful even with the quiet ones, based on yoga for example. Or you can walk regularly. Especially when you walk in nature, it's a good way how to clean your mind and reduce the information overpressure.
I believe that is what you are exactly doing already. Perhaps you just didn't realize it was compensation inside of the Air's element.
Talking is a very similar issue. Communication also belongs to the Air, as well as all the social bonds. If we tend to overwhelm our lives by talking either in a virtual or in real world, we simply need some physical exercise again. We need to move and breathe.
If we want to achieve a balance across all the elements, we need to learn how to identify them in our lives. So, what else belongs to the Air?
All kind of invisible waves meets the condition of being invisible, untouchable and in constant motion. The sound is a good example. If you think your place is too noisy, go outside or anywhere to the silence. Breathe deeply.
The same definition and solution is valid for the electromagnetic waves. They can pollute your inner Air system and cause damage. We cannot do much, but we have to count with these omnipresent waves in total sum.
Finally, I would like to mention cooperation with the previous element. Let's go back to the real air, for better imagination. The air is a good tool to keep the fire alive. Breathing to the fire is a way how to wake up the flames. On the other hand, too much of air means a danger for the fire. You can either kill it or spread it out of control. And that's why is important to keep the Air in reasonable limits.
Too much thinking, talking, collection of useless information, being in noisy places or in places with huge density of electromagnetic waves can kill your joy, laugh, excitement and even your vitality. Or it could spread sparkles of your interest into million directions, so you became lost.
The Air, as well as the Fire, is a good tool, but dangerous master.
Next, I will speak about the Water and the influence of the Air and the Fire to the Water.
As I have already mentioned in the article Seasonal clock, I work with four elements on many levels. It keeps me fascinating how several basic principles can be applied to something such complex as life.
Speaking of the 4-element system, the players are fire, air, water and earth. Each of them has its own spirit and each of them is needed. If we learn how to identify them in our lives, we can find a way how to reach balance more easily.
Although many say that water is the main player and without water it would not be life, I will start with the fire because only the fire warms the water to the temperature suitable for living. And this is also a nice example how the elements affect each other and cannot even exist separately.
The fire is the first spark of life and the feeling we are still alive. It is a small flame that may become a torch. Depending on conditions and our will, the torch brings the light and heat as long as we feed it. To keep the fire we need to supply oxygen (the element of air) and fuel, for example wood (the element of earth). On the advanced level, we also need to make the fire safe, having some shelter for it. And this belongs to the earth as well.
The fire represents everything that warms or burns or what brings the light. The fire means interest, curiosity, joy, laugh, activity, competition, excitement, passion, enthusiasm, etc. For simplicity I would call interest as the core of the others. People like the fire, being attracted to it by invisible forces, but they are also afraid of being burned. Then they build the shelters in the name of safety, too tight for life. And then, they complain that there is not enough joy or success in their lives. Or that they miss the sense (light) in their lives.
How to solve it? Anything that arouses your even small interest is a flame whose future you have in your hands. Is there enough oxygen and suitable fuel for it? Which kind of oxygen and fuel is needed for your particular case of interest? And are you willing to feed it? Then just try! No fire is dangerous from the very beginning. And only when you taste and like the first fruits it's the time to think about the shelter, no earlier. So you avoid many disappointments and energy losses.
The fire itself isn't positive or negative, it is neutral or better to say natural force whose priority is to shine and warm. No good or evil inside. It is our will and experience which make the fire either a tool or a weapon. Trying to separate from the fire means the same like to separate from the life, dying alive. It is only fair to accept it, just as the fact that accidents happen.
Finally, I must say that having a lack of fire is just as dangerous as having it too much. Imagine how difficult is to keep living in desert, how much suffering it costs. So if you don't balance the fire of your excitement and desire, your life may turn to desert. In my case, I tend to be too enthusiastic sometimes and forget to eat, drink and even go to toilet. The subject of my deep interest can claim the fire so urgently that simply switches other requirements off, including basic biological functions. So I know that I have to be careful because all kind of addictions work on the same principle.
What to do? If you have too much fire inside, find a way to let it out. It is better to diversify methods and make regular breaks across your activities. Never hold the fire back! You would create a volcano with uncertain date of explosion.
I will bring the fire topic throughout the other elements again, speaking about their mutual influence.


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Enhancements Are Blackbox Non-Trivial: Impossibility of Enhanced Trapdoor Permutations from Standard Trapdoor Permutations
Mohammad Hajiabadi
Abstract: Trapdoor permutations (TDP) are a fundamental primitive in cryptography. Over the years, several variants of this notion have emerged as a result of various applications. However, it is not clear whether these variants may be based on the standard notion of TDPs.
We study the question of whether enhanced trapdoor permutations can be based on classical trapdoor permutations. The main motivation of our work is in the context of existing TDP-based constructions of oblivious transfer and non-interactive zero-knowledge protocols, which require enhancements to the classical TDP notion. We prove that these enhancements are non-trivial, in the sense that there does not exist fully blackbox constructions of enhanced TDPs from classical TDPs.
At a technical level, we show that the enhanced TDP security of any construction in the random TDP oracle world can be broken via a polynomial number of queries to the TDP oracle as well as a weakening oracle, which provides inversion with respect to randomness. We also show that the standard one-wayness of a random TDP oracle stays intact in the presence of this weakening oracle.
Category / Keywords: Black-box separations, Enhanced Trapdoor Permutations, Trapdoor Permutations
Original Publication (in the same form): IACR-TCC-2018
Date: received 23 Sep 2018, last revised 24 Sep 2018
Contact author: mdhajiabadi at berkeley edu

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Glory daze: Jimbo Fisher recalls lone season in Arena League
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Brent Zwerneman , Houston Chronicle April 16, 2019 Updated: April 16, 2019 7:40 p.m.
As Jimbo Fisher recalls it, being thrust against a wall could separate the men from the boys in the Arena League of the 1980s.
Photo: Godofredo A. Vasquez, Houston Chronicle / Staff photographer
COLLEGE STATION — Based on his own playing days, Jimbo Fisher can provide his Texas A&M quarterbacks with an eye-popping example of performing under pressure.
"Coach was mad at us about something," Fisher recalled of Perry Moss and Fisher's lone season with the Chicago Bruisers of the Arena League in 1988. "The quarterbacks were Ben Bennett, Willie Totten and me."
During a scrimmage against another Arena League team, a livid Moss called his quarterbacks together.
"He said, 'I tell you what. You each get one drive. You score, you stay. You don't, you get cut,'" Fisher said.
Fisher, less than a year earlier the NCAA Division III national player of the year at Samford, said he had an eyebrow-raising, one-word reaction: "Damn!"
"Ben went first, I went second, and Willie went third," Fisher remembered. "Ben threw a little hitch pass, the guy broke a tackle, and he ran for a touchdown. And I said, 'How 'bout this (stuff)?'"
Fisher then tossed a longer pass that his receiver dropped. Fisher followed up with his own short pass that the receiver mercifully took for a touchdown.
"So that was good," Fisher said.
Unfortunately for Totten, his receivers didn't come through with a score, and the quarterback who'd once teamed with Jerry Rice at Mississippi Valley State had to abruptly pack his bags.
"The next day, me and Bennett were there," Fisher said. "And Willie wasn't."
The second-year A&M coach added with a shake of his head, "Talk about pressure to make a team."
A few months prior, Fisher had watched a dozen rounds of the NFL draft come and go without his name being called. At 5-9 and 185 pounds, he'd been told he was too short to play in the NFL despite a strong arm, athleticism to spare and loads of quarterback savvy, the last attribute already getting him assistant college coaching offers right out of Samford.
It's why Fisher, who has carved out an exceptional college coaching career, roots for the smaller dudes chunking passes at football's highest level.
"It's funny how the game has changed with shorter quarterbacks now," Fisher said. "Now, that ain't the norm. You've got to be really special — don't get me wrong. There is an old (Terry) Bowden saying: 'If a duck can pull a truck, hitch him up.' There are always exceptions for guys at quarterback who are athletic.
"I love to see the Baker Mayfields and Russell Wilsons of the world and now Kyler Murray. It's great for our sport, and I root for them. Because I know even as talented and gifted as they are, there are still some things that handicap them because of 'measurables.' But the game has changed, and you coach around (height). It's a lot easier to do."
When he went undrafted in 1988, Fisher wasn't ready to give up the game. So he agreed to give the Arena League, then in its second year, a shot. One dizzying, amusing (at least in retrospect) moment let Fisher know he wasn't quite playing the game he'd learned on grass fields back home in West Virginia.
"We were playing the Detroit Drive, and Thomas Boyd — he'd played at Alabama and then in the NFL — was a linebacker," Fisher said. "We all kind of knew each other because you practiced against each other in the Arena League. He had this high voice, and he said, 'I'm gonna get you!'"
Fisher recalled that during that exhibition game against the Drive in the spring of 1988, he ran to his right, then turned and fired a pass back across the field.
"When I did, Thomas put his helmet right into my chest — that's when you were still allowed to do that to a quarterback," Fisher said with a slight smile. "And the wall was right there in the Arena League. Thomas hit me and then came off of me, and we both hit that wall.
"I rolled back onto the field about three times, and I was kind of dizzy, man. I remember thinking, 'This ain't real ball, man, with these walls. This is a little different.'"
About midway through that season, Fisher tore up his knee in one of the nation's most renowned stadiums — for basketball. That injury in Madison Square Garden against the New York Knights sidelined him for the season, brought Totten back to the Bruisers roster, and was the final shove into coaching that began as quarterbacks coach at Fisher's alma mater Samford under Bowden.
Fisher will always remember that one year of pro football, however, and the lessons he learned while pressing on — and being pressed against walls.
"It was ball," Fisher said, even if it wasn't altogether "real" ball. "Just ball on a smaller field, in a tighter area."
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Brent Zwerneman is a staff writer for the Houston Chronicle covering Texas A&M athletics. He is a graduate of Oak Ridge High School and Sam Houston State University, where he played baseball.
Brent is the author of four published books about Texas A&M, three related to A&M athletics. He's a four-time winner of APSE National Top 10 writing awards for the San Antonio Express-News, including a second-place finish for breaking the Dennis Franchione "secret newsletter" scandal in 2007.
His coverage of Texas A&M's move to the SEC from the Big 12 also netted a third-place finish nationally in 2012. Brent met his wife, KBTX-TV news anchor Crystal Galny, in the Dixie Chicken before an A&M-Texas Tech football game in 2002, and the couple has three children: Will, Zoe and Brady.
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>>>> yes, of course in practice it happens.
>>> I work on IVI systems that lack a CMOS battery that boot up several years in the past every morning that will have their time jumps to present when the NTP updates start to be received.  On such systems we have seen video playback freeze because of the multi year gaps between 2 frames. Flipping gettimeofday() to clock_gettime() did fix this issue.
>> Uh, time jumping forward is monotonic, and there is no reason for FFmpeg to hang on jumps in that direction.
>> This sounds like some calculations are done the wrong way.
>> Not to mention that switching to a monotonic clock does not actually _guarantee_ this won't happen, since as said jumps forward are monotonic and as such possible even with it.
>> Thus I'd claim for this specific issue I'd say your patch hides the bug instead of fixing it.
Sorry, that code is not at all obvious. While highly theoretical I expect that putting a system into suspend mode, waiting 20 years and then switching it on will also make the monotonic clock jump forward.
If not, just suspending the FFmpeg process will.
It kind of is important for people reviewing to know when you give examples that might not actually exist, otherwise it's a bit hard to make sense of the code.
Clock jumping certainly happens. The problem is that both whether they cause issues and whether using the monotonic clock fixes them (which btw. either way will still leave your code broken on systems without it) is a different question.
So the details are kind of important to judge the risk/benefit of your proposal.
> to find a player that do not like that.
It certainly would help if you in that case can find one such player, a testcase is always a big help.
Also there are in principle other ways that can be considered for fixing it, basically applying the timestamp discontinuity filter also during encode as one example.
Not saying they are necessarily better, just that I don't see a monotonic clock as an obvious solution at least for multimedia.


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Q: Recurse from within let binding - Scheme I know Scheme is tail-recursive, but if a function calls itself from within a let binding, will the bound values stay in memory even if they are not needed? I have code similar to this:
(define (some-function)
  (let ((c (read-char)))
    (some-function)))

The actual function is a bit more complicated, but it shouldn't matter since the flow and such is the same. Will the value of 'c' be kept since the function is called from the inside of the let block? I don't want to use up tons of extra memory if this function keeps going for a while.

A: If a function is tail recursive, that is if the recursive function call is the last thing evaluated as part of the function, which is the case in your code, the recursion does not keep any local variables in memory, so the stack space consumption remains constant.
If it weren't tail recursive, that is if there still remained something to be done after the recursion, c would have to be kept in memory making the function consume O(n) stack space where n is the number of recursion. An example would be this:
(define (some-function)
  (let ((c (read-char)))
  (+ c (some-function))))

Here the addition will be executed after the recursion, so c has to be kept in memory while the recursive call executes.

A: Consider your example:
(define (some-function)
  (let ((c (read-char)))
    ; <HERE>
    (some-function)))
(some-function)

Suppose we run this program. The program will loop invoking some-function over and over. At some point the garbage collector is activated. Suppose for the sake of argument, that the process (the running program) is interrupted at the point marked <here>.
The job of the garbage collector is to reclaim memory that is no longer in use.
What does "in use" mean?
A piece of memory is in use, if it (or values occupying the memory) might be used when the program continues. The name c is bound to a character, so that character can not be reclaimed. However since the call to some-function is tail recursive only one invocation of some-function is active at a time. This means that all old values of c can be reclaimed.
For a named loop where the loop function is tail called only the most recent values are in use. (The values stay in memory until the garbage collector is activated though).
A little experiment, try:
(let loop ((v 0))
  (loop (make-vector 100000 42))

This program loops and loops. For each round a vector of length 100000 is allocated. If you run out of memory, you know that the values of v aren't garbage collected. If the program runs uninterrupted, then the garbage collector has made it possible to recycle the memory.

A: In tail position, the bound variable doesn't need to exist. Only the variables available when the procedure is created is available at the call time.
(define (some-function)
  ;; only global variables exist at this point
  (let ((c (read-char)))
    ;; c exists for a brief time
    (some-function)))

After the variable some-function is evaluated inside the procedure, then c is removed before applying whatever some-function was evaluated to. There exists only one c at a time.`
Imagine this slightly altered version:
(define (some-function previous)
  (let ((c (read-char)))
    (some-function c)))

Here we have the same except some-function and c is evaluated before c and previous are removed and the apply is started.
It is a requirement that the procedures and variables are handled in this way. It's called tail call optimization.
When a procedure gets created, the variables that is used in them needs to exist for the duration of the procedures existence:
(define (some-function2)
  (let ((c (read-char)))
    (lambda () c)))

(define test (some-function2))
(define test2 (some-function2))

Now. The variable is moved to be something connected to the procedure and still not a part of the environment when the some-function2 call is finished. The procedures are called closures and the c in each are closure variables that live on even after the binding procedure is done. If you are used to other languages you can think of these variables that live on to be on the heap. These "free variables" are what made Scheme special when it was created in the 70s and every programming language since is more or less based on this principle.

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The Living Coral Biobank, labelled a "coral ark" by its proponents, would serve as a technologically advanced facility where 800 different types of hard corals would be kept and bred, in the event live samples are needed to revive populations wiped out in nature in the future.
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Arkansas Traveler – new article & more pics from the trailer shoot
Posted June 1, 2010 by admin
KansasCity.com has a nice, long article about Arkansas Traveler here and they also posted a bunch of pictures from the trailer shoot.
A native of North Carolina and long a Civil War buff, Bridgers almost a decade ago began writing a screenplay about a fictional Confederate officer named Waylon McClawhorn, who in the last days of the conflict escapes a Union POW camp in Illinois and makes his way down the Mississippi and back to his home in Arkansas.
Along the way, Waylon encounters bad men of various stripes — whom he ruthlessly and efficiently eliminates — and reluctantly picks up fellow travelers such as the abused Myrtle (Bettis). Sometimes, Waylon gets advice from a shadowy figure named John Bass (Bridgers wrote that role for himself).
"Waylon's got the Civil War version of post-traumatic stress syndrome," the bearded, boyish-looking Bridgers said. "He hallucinates this specter that tells him what to do. Basically, John Bass is Waylon's subconscious.
"In the end, it's all about Waylon's redemption, about how he rejoins the living." (…)
"Sean gave me his script when we were both on 'Deadwood,'" Dillahunt recalled. "I was really surprised. Good writing is hard to come by. It's a sign of how much people like this script that they'll work free to make it happen."
Dillahunt said he jumped at the chance to play Waylon McClawhorn, if only in the trailer.
"I wish I had a high enough profile that just by my getting involved something like this could get made," he said. "It's important to me that it gets made. Doesn't even matter if I'm in the finished film." [KansasCity.com]
For more pics, go to Wide Awake Films' Facebook page.
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New film in development: Arkansas Traveler (and other updates)
Posted April 9, 2010 by admin
The news I mentioned yesterday:
Garret has a new film in development called Arkansas Traveler. It's a western written by Deadwood's Sean Bridgers, still in the development stage, with Bridgers and Angela Bettis also attached to star. (Go here for the synopsis.)
Last week, they filmed an extended trailer for the film. Blue Springs Journal was there and wrote a really good article about it.
"…Understanding that period and understanding it on a level that other people don't – that rubs off on the actors and the performance," Bridgers said.
Bridgers, an actor by trade, is familiar with period pieces. He played Johnny in HBO's frontier series, "Deadwood," as did the star of "Arkansas Traveler," Garret Dillahunt, who played Francis Wolcott. Dillahunt also played Ed Miller in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford."
"When I've been around and heard the actors talk about being around a historical setting, it really makes their jobs easier to transport into that era," Bears said.
The cast and crew of "Arkansas Traveler" tread carefully around one of the log buildings as the inescapable mud from the rain the day before makes for sloppy, unsure footing. Wide Awake Films and the co-directors production company, Travelin' Productions hope the "teaser" they filmed here in Missouri last month will translate into a feature-length Hollywood film. — Blue Springs Journal
And in other news:
Pretty Bird will finally be released on DVD (!) on June 29. You can preorder it on Amazon.
Winter's Bone will be screened at several film festivals – Dallas (April 8 – 18), Kansas City (April 14 – 18), Boston (April 21 – 28), San Francisco (April 22 – May 6) – before it is released in June. For additional screenings, interviews and Q&As with Debra Granik and the cast, visit this page on Facebook.
Finally, a Terminator update. Last week, Thomas Dekker told io9 that a DVD movie still might happen. The fans over at SaveTheSCC.com are plotting their next big move (Comic Con) and continuing the weekly campaigns, so visit them when you get a chance.
Page updates: Burn Notice (screencaps), Gary Unmarried (screencaps), Baryo (pics), Arkansas Traveler (page & synopsis)
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I think Blue is usually considered the best of the Colors trilogy, but I prefer Red and even the much-maligned White. Sunrise is a vastly more important film in the grand scheme of cinema, but only half of it is really entertaining.
I don't love Sunrise like many people do. It's easily Red for me.


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NI Water spends millions to upgrade pumping station
NI WATER has revealed plans to upgrade a local pumping station.
Sunday, 28th April 2013, 7:25 am
Planning permission has been granted for the £2.7 million scheme, which will see the upgrade of the sewage pumping station at the junction of Maralin Avenue and Drumbeg Drive.
The scheme will also include alterations to the station and associated works.
NI Water are currently in the process of finalising land issues at Drumbeg Drive, which is off the Moira Road in Lisburn and a spokesperson has said that it is anticipated that work will get underway in the next 4-8 weeks on the construction of a new pumping station.
The new pumping station will be located in the grass area adjacent to the existing NI Water pumping station.
This £2.7 million project will also involve pipelaying as part of the construction of the new station in the grass area opposite Maralin Avenue.
The spokesperson for NI Water explained: "This essential upgrade work will improve the sewerage infrastructure in the area and will improve the water quality in the River Lagan, meeting Northern Ireland Environment Agency standards.
"We will need to remove some trees initially to progress with the work, but the replanting of trees will take place towards the end of the project.
"Once the project gets underway, it is anticipated that it will take approximately twelve months to complete."
She added: ""NI Water would like to thank the public in advance for their patience and cooperation, and will keep the community updated as this essential upgrade work progresses."
Customer queries regarding this work should be directed to Waterline on 08457 440088.


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This toolkit for school safety committees provides a step-by-step guide for school communities seeking to improve safety on their campuses during student arrival and departure times.
This is a step-by-step guide for school communities seeking to improve safety on their campuses during student arrival and departure times. The intended audience for this handbook is your school safety committee or similar group of adults invested in improving student safety before and after school. While it is very important to have a good plan for how to drive near school, This is not a traffic engineering manual to improve the flow of cars or increase convenience for drivers, although those might be secondary benefits. The focus is on student safety throughout, which means slowing traffic down. Arrival and departure is not just about drop-off and pick-up by car. It also encompasses and prioritizes the experience of the students who walk, take the bus, or ride bikes to school.


Join us for a two-hour drop off playdate that Includes open play, arts and crafts, story time, leadership building, a team challenge and a lot of fun! The more children that sign up, the price per child drops! So, invite your friends. Life is always better with a PAL!
10 am Greeting and Introduction We'll greet our playdate squad in the City Treehouse lobby. We'll say our goodbyes to moms and dads and get to know each other with some casual crafting and open play. Specialists may ask little ones to wear a green PAL pinnie, depending on the location and programming at that time.
10:30 am Facilitated Open Play Time Specialists will engage children with fun games and imaginative play. Children will crawl, slide and climb! By helping children associate physical activity with fun and feeling happy, we can instill healthy behaviors at a young age that will affect their desire to be active and healthy as they grow! Specialists will be spread throughout the gym area and toddler room to provide supervision on all equipment.
11 am Cognitive Group Learning Our Group Challenge is designed to instill teamwork, drive problem solving and bring home our "Play It Forward" theme of the day! From scavenger hunts to our favorite "I Got Your Back, PAL" guessing game, children will work together to successfully complete the challenge!
12 pm Pick Up and Highlights We'll wind down our day with story time. We always encourage our older children to read to our younger children, with some assistance from our team. Mixed age playdates unlock opportunities for leadership and role modeling from our older friends. We'll be ready for pick up at the very spot you left us, but this time, we'll get to share all the fun we've had while you've been away! Specialists will make sure Parents names match authorized persons for pick up. Thanks for coming! Hope to see you next time.


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A Cultured Pearl For Chinatown North
April 22, 2013 | by Bradley Maule
Very much the "before" picture: Pearl Street between 10th & 11th | Photo: Bradley Maule
With two distinctive projects in the planning phase, a nondescript alley might well become the cultural nexus of Chinatown North. On Pearl Street, a narrow B-street spanning 10th Street to Broad Street just north of Vine, the Asian Arts Initiative (AAI) sees a new public space with outdoor art; at its eastern end, the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation (PCDC) has its anchor in a 23-story mixed-use building with a working title of Eastern Tower Community Center.
Chinatown North is among the identities of a neighborhood also identified as Callowhill, Loft District, and more recently, the Eraserhood. For a community that's been bureaucratically assailed by the Vine Street Expressway, the Gallery, the Convention Center, and a would-be Phillies ballpark, Chinatown, in spite of a strong sense of community, has repeatedly gotten the short end of the city's progress. And still, with a resilient base and steady immigration, it's quietly expanded northward. A redefined Pearl Street and a sleek new tower would lend some weight toward that identity.
The Asian Arts Initiative is familiar with the challenges Chinatown has had to deal with. The community driven art center, which engages people to explore the Asian American experience and social context, was in 2007 displaced by the expansion of the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Now at 1219 Vine Street—on the north side of the Expressway—it has a firsthand perspective and valuable stake in the neighborhood's growth. Out its own back door lies Pearl Street, an alley lined by parking lots, loading doors, dumpsters, and the occasional discarded mattress. With its own initiative to turn that around into something desirable, AAI won a $250,000 grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
"What we have now is not just an opportunity to grow, but to serve the needs of diversity in the neighborhood," said Gayle Isa, AAI's executive director. To do that, AAI has hired Oakland's Walter Hood, whose work includes the landscaping of the de Young Museum in San Francisco and the Greenprint, a vision for Pittsburgh's Hill District to embrace its urban forestry, a project which grew out of the Penguins' new hockey arena development in 2008.
Eastern Tower Community Center | Image: PCDC
"There isn't a model for this project," Hood said during a fact finding visit last month. "[Pearl Street] has a beautiful presence, but we have to balance romance with the realization that there are odd and disparate lots." He also added, of the Eastern Tower, "this building's presence establishes the place of Pearl Street."
At 23 stories and 262′, it would easily be the tallest building in the neighborhood, a visible signature for Chinatown. PCDC, whose mission is to preserve the live-work mixed-use integrity of Chinatown, aims to exemplify that mission in the tower half a block from Holy Redeemer, the Chinese Catholic Church whose preservation PCDC grew out of during the planning and construction of the Vine Street Expressway.
At 10th & Vine, the building would extend the vitality of 10th Street—Chinatown's main street, from the Friendship Gate at Arch to the 10th Street Plaza sitting atop the Expressway. A three-story community center would front Vine Street, with the tower portion set back along Pearl Street.
Andy Toy, PCDC's managing director for the project, emphasized the community aspect of the Eastern Tower. It will feature a recreational center, a daycare/pre-school facility, and 144 housing units. "Mixed income is important, and affordable housing is vital," he said, explaining that 78% of the residential portion would be for the median area income ("market rate for Chinatown"), and 22% affordable, possibly subsidized. "We also hope to have a museum of sorts, maybe a picture gallery with the history of Chinatown."
Pearl Street sneaks between the Packard Building and Roman Catholic High on its way to North Broad Street | Photo: Bradley Maule
Given that each project is still in planning, the potential for collaboration on Pearl Street is significant. Places for celebrating Chinese New Year, playing chess, practicing tai chi, and dining alfresco were among the ideas induced from an informal brainstorming session with Hood, Isa, Toy, and others from PCDC, AAI, and Holy Redeemer. The collaboration extends all the way to Broad Street, really, as Pearl Street passes by the Reading Viaduct, Post Brothers' Goldtex development, Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission, Roman Catholic High School, and the Packard apartment building, among others. Incidentally, Tejoon Jung of KlingStubbins is the architect for both the Eastern Tower and the Goldtex conversion.
Great is the number of community members who stand to benefit from a newly knitted Pearl Street. Isa hopes to have all of their input. "We're hoping to have a June project of building on Pearl Street, with tables and chairs, for neighbors and the community to be engaged," she said, stressing that it's still in the research and plan phase with Hood. By October, she expects to have project ideas and schematics that AAI can present to neighbors at a daylong feast, gain feedback, and establish a plan for buildout from there.
Toy indicated that PCDC is aiming to have funding for the Eastern Tower in place by fourth quarter 2013, with two years of construction to follow. Along the 10th Street side of the project, he noted that the roof garden on the three-story portion will fashion a view corridor that, thanks to framed passages, will appear layered, akin to a pearl. "Of course a pearl is an irritant," Isa quickly interjected, to great laughter.
But like its eponym, Pearl Street will build off of an irritant—in this case an ugly and undesirable streetscape—and ultimately serve a great value.
Tags: Asian Arts Initiative Callowhill Chinatown Chinatown North Loft District Pearl Street public spaces real estate development
Bradley Maule Bradley Maule is co-editor of the Hidden City Daily and the creator of Philly Skyline. He's a native of Tyrone, Pennsylvania, and he's hung his hat in Shippensburg, Germantown, G-Ho, Fishtown, Portland (Oregon), Brewerytown, and now Mt. Airy. He just can't get into Twitter, but he's way into Instagram @mauleofamerica.
Bob Bruhin says:
Of course, I love to kid about "neighborhood identity" as much as the next urban dweller… and it totally goes without saying that my preferred moniker for this region is "Eraserhood." That doesn't make it so, though. I can call the neighborhood whatever I want, and Asian Arts can call it whatever they want. It remains Callowhill officially, despite all of our various, overlapping visions.
More importantly, however, is the simple fact that our visions ARE overlapping. Right now the neighborhood is really still pretty much a fronteer. There is plenty of room for growth and change and improvement — especially improvement. We don't all have to agree on one central vision to continue the growth and improvement. The arts and culture centers focused here right now are already varied and diverse. The very best we can hope for is that they continue to diversify, bringing vibrant, welcome change wherever they land.
Just save a little part of the history that made this neighborhood unique. Paint it, greenscape it, or wrap it in a modern skin, but keep it real. That's all I would ask of our neighbors right now.
Hi Bob, we at Asian Arts Initiative are very much interested in and excited by the at times competing and at times overlapping 'identities' of our neighborhood. One of the current projects in our Social Practice Lab residency series is directly focusing on collecting feedback from the multiple layers of constituencies that live, work and play here. The project is called Write Sky, created by artist Dave Kyu. Please take a look at the Call for Participants and feel free to forward to anyone you know who may be interested in getting involved: http://www.asianartsinitiative.org/programs/socialpractice.php#davekyu
Nancy Chen
Public Programs Assistant
Asian Arts Initiative
I love this, it's great to see them building important things in that neighborhood. And that building is very cool. I look forward to seeing it go up.
Whoa, welcome back Brad! Does this mean there is a chance of phillyskyline.com getting updated in the future? I've missed that!
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The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners adopted the Values, Mission and Vision Statement on June 2, 2011 to provide a framework for making decisions that impact Multnomah County government and the community.
Knowing the mission, vision and values of the organization enables leaders and employees to consider the greater good when making tough decisions.
The Multnomah County Board of Commissioners plans for the needs of a dynamic community, provides leadership to ensure quality services, prioritizes the needs of our most vulnerable and promotes a healthy, safe and prosperous community for all.
Build a community where everyone is healthy and anyone who needs help has a place to find it.
The community knows about and is engaged in what we do.
We have the resources to meet the community's needs.
Everyone in our community shares equally in opportunity, regardless of what they look like, where they come from, what they believe in, or who they love.
There is a fully funded safety net to protect the most vulnerable people in our community.
Social Justice – Promote equity in the community, include people who have not been included in the past, help those who need help.
Health – Support a healthy community from birth through adulthood.
Public Safety – Maintain safe neighborhoods through prevention, intervention and enforcement.
Integrity – Be honest and trustworthy, creating transparency and harmony between what we think, say and do. Put the County's mission above personal goals.
Stewardship – Demonstrate tangible, cost effective results from our work; decisions are clear, evidence-based, and fair.
Creativity and Innovation – Think in new ways, value new opinions and recognize ingenuity and resourcefulness.
Sustainability- Focus on the long-term environmental and economic well being of the community.


This article is the twenty-seventh in a continuing series chronicling the unfolding history of the Obama Administration. The writer's opinions are not offered, leaving the readers to arrive at their own conclusions.
Day388/Feb15th/Monday: President's Day holiday, the President returned from Camp David, but had no scheduled events.
The President met with United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan in the Oval Office of the White House.
The President met with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson in the Oval Office.
The President met with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in the Oval Office.
The President met with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Situation Room of the White House.
The President and Vice President Joe Biden met with United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office of the White House.
Day391/Feb18th/Thursday: The President and Vice President Joe Biden met with the co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, Erskine Bowles and Alan Simpson, in the Oval Office of the White House.
The President met with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the Oval Office of the White House.
The President and Vice President Joe Biden met with United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack in the Oval Office.
The President and Vice President Joe Biden met with U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis s in the Oval Office.
Day396/Feb23rd/Tuesday: The President met with United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk in the Oval Office of the White House.
The President and Vice President Joe Biden met with U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates in the Oval Office.
The President had dinner with business leaders, including members of the executive committee of the Business Roundtable, in the State Dining Room of the White House.
The President attended a credentialing ceremony for foreign ambassadors in the Oval Office of the White House.
The President and Vice President Joe Biden met with United States Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke in the Oval Office.
Day399/Feb26th/Friday: The President and Vice President Joe Biden met with United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the Oval Office of the White House.


Our new Pixelbobby keyring kits have proven to be very popular and I have to say I am thoroughly enjoying making them myself, they're very addictive. These mini mosaic kits are a new direction for us but we felt they would fit in with our products perfectly, especially with our jewellery makers that also offer keyrings as part of their handmade items.
They are perfect for both hobbyists and professional crafters alike and you are very welcome to sell the items you make with ours and Pixelhobby UK's blessing. We decided to start with the keyring kits to ease you in gently to this unique craft and depending on your feedback we have the option of adding magnets and full size pictures to our range.
If you're not familiar with Pixelhobby, or you've bought a kit but not made yours yet then this blog post is perfect for you. I'm going to walk you through the basics and will also be adding a video to our You Tube channel soon.
Firstly choose your Pixelhobby mini mosaic keyring kit, that can be tough to start with. For this tutorial I've chosen the owl kit.
Open your packet and you'll find 3 sheets of pixels, small 2mm squares which are used to make the design, a blank clear plastic keyring base plate, a chain and the chart showing you which colour goes where, you'll find that on the reverse of the main picture.
You will also need a pair of tweezers, my preference is to use the angled type. I will give you a tip before we start, it's much easier to use to place the pixels if you hold the tweezers like an L so they resemble a hockey stick with the flat part towards the surface you're working on. If you hold them the other way with the bend in the tweezers pointing up you're more likely to ping the pixels across the table as I did the first time I tried.
I like to follow the chart whilst having it at the side of me however, the chart is exactly the same size as the base plate so you can overlay it if you prefer. As the base plate is clear you can easily see the chart through it. To make the design image simply pull a coloured pixel off the sheet, they're held on by little pips, and place over the corresponding pin that sticks up from the base plate. Push down with your finger or your tweezers to fix it in place and repeat. You may find it easier to work in rows or in colours, I've tried both ways and found it makes no difference. The pins are rigid so ensure equal spacing of your pixels meaning there are no problems fitting a pixel into a space in the middle of a cluster. Carry on filling all the spaces until you've completed your design and then it's time to add the key chain.
To join the two ends of the chain together lay the finished keyring down with the open part of the connector facing you and lay the last ball of the chain into the gap. Then, holding on to the connector, slightly pull the chain left and down to secure. Now you have a finished keyring.
You could add the finished keyring to a bag before securing if you want to use it as a permanent charm or alternatively add a large split ring so you can add and remove keys as required or add it to your handbag as a decoration. We have 25mm keyring loops in stock and will be adding more variations for you to choose from very soon.
As you can see there are way more pixels in your pack than you need so don't panic if you do ping a few across the carpet, you have plenty. There are lots of options for using the leftover pixels on future projects and we'll be getting in some extra supplies in the future so you will be able to purchase base plates and chains on their own. We thought the kits would be the best place to start with a view to stocking the components separately as soon as we know what you our customers want.
I mentioned before in a previous post we are delighted to be the first official stockist of Pixelhobby UK products in Ireland and I can't wait to get feedback from you all so don't be shy, share your pics and comments with us. As always you can leave a review on our website for these and any of our products as well as post on our Facebook page, in our customer group and here on our blog.


Yoga is available at Body 2 Fit!
Do you want to feel less stressed? Have more energy? Feel (and look) younger? Get fitter and more flexible? Feel stronger? Reduce back and joint aches and pains?
If you answered yes to any of the above, we are here to help you stand taller, feel stronger and move with confidence. It's time to take the first step towards creating a healthier, fitter version of you.
At Body2Fit, we're all about living life to the full without being held back because of the toll work and life takes on the body. With some simple exercises and movement on a regular basis, we're 100% sure that you will feel better, move better and look better too.
We offer classes in different styles of yoga including Ashtanga, Hatha and Vinyasa Flow. Class sizes are limited to ensure that everyone is given individual attention. All our classes are beginner friendly – our team of instructors will help guide you through moves and exercises, giving options where needed, so that everyone can leave class feeling taller, stronger and ready to take on the world again (even after a long day at work!).
To come and meet the team and experience the classes for yourself we invite you to a FREE Yoga taster session. No obligation, no pressure, just the opportunity to give yoga a go and see how you feel. If you've wanted to try a class but were worried that you can't touch your toes, or you'll be the only one in the class who won't be able to keep up we'll show you that anyone can do this.
Want to claim your FREE yoga taster session, or not sure which class will suit you best? Call us on 01642 680 680 or email info@body2fit.org and we will be happy to advise.
Ashtanga yoga is a modern flowing style of yoga, aiming to improve flexibility, strength, cardio, support injuries and promote weight loss. It is a no-nonsense approach which follows a set series so you can quickly get up to speed with the routine. In a class, we work hard, and we relax hard. No matter what level you are, you will receive verbal and physical guidance to ensure you get the postures right from day one. Ashtanga yoga will get you in great shape, boost energy levels and make you feel like a stronger, more positive person every day.
Hatha yoga is a generic term that refers to any type of yoga that teaches physical postures. Here at Body 2 Fit, Hatha yoga introduces you to basic yoga postures. The focus is on stretching the body to ease out muscle tension, increase strength and improve flexibility whilst also offering breathing practices and relaxation to calm the mind and ease stress. You probably won't work up a sweat in a hatha yoga class, but you should end up leaving class feeling longer, looser, and more relaxed.
Vinyasa classes are known for their fluid, movement-intensive practices. The class is sequenced to allow you to smoothly transition from pose to pose, with the intention of linking breath to movement. It encompasses many different types of yoga, including Ashtanga and power yoga. If you enjoy a challenge, vinyasa may be just your ticket.


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Einstein gravity waves
On the Reality of Gravity Waves
9:25:00 AMAlexander S. Anderson
A few weeks ago, researchers at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) announced a monumental, unprecedented discovery. They had confirmed evidence of gravity waves, first theorized by Albert Einstein in his general theory of relativity. Einstein himself scientists despaired of ever detecting the event, since the effect was so small, about one thousandth the width of the nucleus of an atom. (Which itself is only a very small portion of the atom)
But what was actually discovered, here? Are gravity waves really something "out there," that really exist in the universe?
This may seem like a very strange question. If scientists discovered them, surely they really exist? And this is precisely what most scientists hold, that a gravity wave really something that does exist, and that LIGO's huge detectors really did detect them. So why the question?
In one of the most dominant philosophical schools, logical positivism, thought that the entities posited by scientific theories were not truly real, that they were instead 'instrumental,' they helped us explain the things that we do see. Positing the existence of "electrons" helps us understand things like circuits and static and chemical reactions. The idea is that the electrons don't actually have to exist to perform these functions, as long as the observed universe acts according to the theory, electrons will have served their function.
Which, of course, would make "detecting" new entities a little less than compelling. Especially since there are so many things that scientific theories tell us exist that we cannot directly see or touch, from radio waves to neutrinos to atoms to, well, gravity waves. Perhaps the early positivists saw these entities starting to pile up and became concerned. That, and their modes of detection became more and more indirect.
Take gravity waves, again. There are some nice, fancy videos that attempt to explain the discovery with with cool graphics, but no video can really be accurate to the exceedingly tiny gravity waves, hurtling at high speeds throughout the universe. To really explain what gravity waves are and why they matter, a fairly long story needs to be told.
This story could be told in a more or less complex way, but it would need to include the fact that Einstein, in order to account for certain problems, theorized that the presence of matter warped both space and time. In fact, this was what gravity really was: warped space that drew objects in the universe together. But if space and time can be warped, just like water and air, perhaps you could generate waves in them as well.
This was the thought, but this speculative possibility was seen as very unlikely to detect, as Einstein's equations predicted the effect would be very, very small. The result is that the detectors are lasers that are miles long, and the results come from tiny, almost undetectable fluctuations in the stream of light. The result, after it is run through a labyrinth of detectors and computer programming, is a graph.
Scientists still have to interpret this graph in order to be reasonably certain they have a glimpse of gravity waves. The whole process is almost astonishingly indirect, and when you add that the event that caused the waves is theorized to be the collision of two black holes ― which are also undetectable directly — and it becomes more plausible to question whether any of these things really exist. If we have to tell such a long story to get to these objects, are we sure that the objects are truly out there? It seems very far away from our direct experience, even if it seems plausible. How can we really believe this whole story?
I think the answer to this is to realize that stories are actually essential for human understanding of, well, anything. Bare facts and dates do not give us and understandable history, they need to be connected within a narrative. The narrative does not tell just the what, like the facts do, it also attempts to explain the why and the how. This is like a scientific theory. A theory is like this, it is not a pile of facts, but rather the structure that makes the facts make sense.
Gravity waves come out of a story which tries to tie all the data we see together. Without the theory, we would have no explanation for those wobbling lasers. If we even noticed them at all. The fact that we were looking is owed to the power of this narrative. Eventually, maybe, we will have to scrap the current theory and come up with another narrative to explain what was just discovered by LIGO, but LIGO would not have discovered it without Einstein's narrative and the problems he set out. Gravity waves are surely real, even if we end up describing them differently in the future. Such is the power of narrative.
Alexander S. Anderson


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Conclusion of Boke Diallobe Middle School Latrine Project – Senegal
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Sarah Keyes.
To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE.
The project was to build a 2-compartment latrine at the middle school.
Sarah reports:
The latrine project has been successfully completed.
The original project concept was for the construction of a latrine for use by students and teachers at the new middle school in Boke Diallobe. However, this was modified prior to implementation.
The director of the school took charge of the project and followed it through to completion. The decision was made that a faculty latrine would better serve the needs of the school, and the plans were changed to build the two latrines within the administrative building, which is still under construction.
The hole was dug for the septic tank, which was then lined. A concrete platform was placed in each of the two chambers. The structure was built of cement blocks, made on site. A metal roof was placed on the building, and the project was completed with steel doors.
The facility built for the school will be helpful and appreciated by the school community. The funding was extremely appreciated by the village to benefit the education of the children.
We are grateful to Sarah for completing this project. Although she has left the village, she has remained in Senegal for a third year of Peace Corps service.


Scott Miller serves as a Managing Director of Originations at Bridge Debt Strategies LLC. Prior to joining Bridge, Mr. Miller was Managing Director, and Head of Originations for Redwood Trust. While at Redwood Trust Mr. Miller had direct involvement in the creation and growth of the commercial real estate platform, including being responsible for originating over $450 million of subordinate debt and $2.5 billion CMBS whole loans. Prior to joining Redwood he held commercial real estate roles at Keybank, Deutsche Bank and Prudential Mortgage Capital Company. Mr. Miller holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Bucknell University and is a graduate of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.