In 2009, Cambridge University celebrated its 800th anniversary. It is now a far cry from the days of 1209, when scholars taking refuge from hostile townsmen in Oxford migrated to Cambridge and settled there.
As part of the 800th celebrations, Quentin Blake, renowned illustrator presented the University with a 70-foot-long mural depicting famous alumni from the University of Cambridge. This was placed in one of the main corridors at Addenbrooke's Hospital, and forms part of Addenbrooke's Art Walk. I'll return to the mural later.
The Art Walk and the Art in Hospitals movement raises some interesting questions about the place of art in hospitals. The question is not so much about whether there should be art displayed in hospitals, but whether there is any health gain in them being displayed.
Grayson Perry, writing in The Times questions the value, and the type of art that is displayed. He says, "The idea of art being used as a sort of visual muzak or trendy organic balm rankles slightly. Hospitals are places of extreme drama: death, injury, birth and the saving of life are hourly occurrences. This is not reflected in the art that ends up in them. The emphasis seems to be on calm - few, if any, of the works loaned by hospital charities seem to tackle the churning existential questions that must clamour in the heads of so many in hospital". He concludes with, "If hospitals want to use art, please can they treat us as adults? Part of healing might be facing up to the realities of being stuck in a fallible body. I don't want the last thing I see from my deathbed to be a jaunty painting of fishing boats".
On the other hand, Dr Lee Elliot Major, writing in The Telegraph, and after initial scepticism, argues the case for giving us art for health's sake. She noted that nearly 400 academic papers had been identified showing the beneficial impact of the arts. She draws attention to one study carried out by Dr Rosalia Staricoff at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. It found that the length of stay of patients on a trauma and orthopaedic ward was one day shorter when they experienced visual arts and live music, while their need for pain relief was significantly less than for those in a control group. Visual arts and live music also reduced levels of depression by a third in patients undergoing chemotherapy. Dr Major quotes Carol Jennings, the renal transplant co-ordinator at Great Ormond Street Hospital as saying, "The opportunity to take part in something creative can offer optimism, a welcome break in a life preoccupied with blood tests and the knowledge that their existence can never be as carefree as that of their friends".
The fact that some people do not want to see pictures of jaunty fishing boats, does not detract from the overall value of this kind of art for the vast majority of people. Roger Ulrich and Craig Zimring, in their work, The Role of the Physical Environment in the Hospital of the 21st Century, say, "Results suggest a consistent pattern wherein the great majority of patients respond positively to representational nature art, but many react negatively to chaotic abstract art. Although nature pictures and other emotionally appropriate art elicit positive reactions, there is also evidence that inappropriate art styles or image subject matter can increase stress and worsen other outcomes".
I like the words of Kathy Hathorn, President of American Art Resources, "Throughout time, art has reached out to the human soul and touched the spirit of the beholder. Its ability to provide solace, inspiration and hope, makes it an indispensable element of the total health care environment".
Back to Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Art Walk. I do not pretend to understand art. I cannot comment on brush strokes, texture, colour or light; I just know what pleases me, and what affects my emotions. I spent three days recently visiting my son at Addenbrooke's, and I was worried and upset. God knows what he must have been feeling like. Walking past Quentin Blake's mural each day had an effect that is hard to describe, as it was very personal. For a while it brought a sense of calm, interest and humour. It was a way of dealing with the worry and upset, and this was for a visitor. Don't anyone tell me that art doesn't work. Music and a good book may have had the same effect, but the truth of the latter does not diminish the impact of the former. As Damian Hebron, Arts Co-ordinator with Addenbrooke's Arts when the mural was presented said, "Art at the hospital can make a real difference to how it feels to be there".
The mural is well worth seeing. Described as Cambridge's answer to the Bayeux Tapestry, it consists of 15 original drawings depicting different episodes from the University's history. Quentin Blake is a graduate of Cambridge, and his unique style will be well known to readers of Roald Dahl's children's books. He depicts well known, and less well known important characters over the centuries. Do click on the link below to see a slide show of the mural, narrated by Quentin Blake himself.
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It's been a dank and dreary day today, but lit up by a visit to Bromley House. Following my last blog, my friend Colin offered to show me around the house as he was a member. I jumped at the chance, and we agreed to meet for lunch (which included his wife Gail) at The Bell Inn, which vies with Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem as being the oldest Inn in Nottingham. You'd think that after hundreds of years they'd have sorted this out, but apparently not, and the argument rages on. Oldest or not, The Bell provided a very agreeable lunch.
Following lunch, Colin and I made our way the few yards through the hustle and bustle of Angel Row, and went in through the door between Barnardo's Charity Shop and MSR Newsagents. There is nothing on the outside of the building to indicate what awaits you when you get inside (except a stone plaque which says '1752 Bromley House'). My, what magic awaits when you enter through the inner door.
Bromley House is Nottingham's only subscription library, with currently over 1100 members. The library was formed in 1816, and moved to Bromley House in 1822. This Georgian house was built in 1752 for George Smith, grandson of the founder of Smiths Bank, the oldest known provincial bank in the country. The library bought the building for £2,750, which according to the National Archives currency converter, is the equivalent of £115,280 today. This may be a meaningless exercise, but it does show that people were prepared to put in a considerable amount of money to establish a library in its own premises.
Walking in to the foyer, I was immediately struck by two things. One was the silence. This was remarkable as only a few yards away were thousands of people, buses, taxi's and cars, all going about their business. I could have been in the middle of the country. The other thing to strike me was when looking up the central stair well, you saw, four floors up a beautiful sky light, cascading light down through the centre of the building. The area was bright and newly decorated.
The first room to enter incorporated the reception desk. This part is the main library and includes a gallery area, which was accessed by a magnificent spiral staircase. It had obviously seen better days, as a notice advised that only one person at a time could use the staircase, but it was gorgeous. Bromley House has upwards of 40,000 books in the collection, which includes ancient and modern. Apparently, as a subscription library, it just requires two members to ask for a book to be purchased, and the words of Jean - Luc Picard are enacted, "Let it be so".
Leaving the galleried room, you go on an amazing journey through a labyrinth of small rooms, all stacked floor to ceiling with books. In looking at many of the books, it is obvious that the library's conservation volunteers will never be short of work. The library has on-going renovation plans, and it is clear to see what needs to be done. I really hope they are successful in raising the necessary money for this magnificent building. My tour finished in a room that is no less interesting than any other. Here members can sit to read the daily newspapers, and have tea or coffee at a reasonable price - there is an honesty bowl for the money, which I found to be endearing, which in itself may be a reflection on the standards of my previous working life. On the floor of the room is a brass meridian line; when the sun shines through a special hole in the window at midday, it lines up with the line on the floor, and apparently this was used to set the clocks in Nottingham many years ago. The cataloguing of books may not be up to modern library standards, and a card index system is still used rather than a computer one, but hey, if it works, that's fine by me, and adds to the charm of this unique place.
The last thing to see was the walled garden. What a beautiful oasis this is right in the heart of the city. There can't be others like it, and though I saw it in the depths of winter, I could imagine it being a colourful, tranquil place for library members to sit out in the summer.
Bromley House has been operating as a library for 195 years, feeding the intellectual appetites of the residents of Nottingham. Great men and women have passed through its doors and contributed to its effectiveness. Long may it continue and flourish.
Thank you Colin for introducing me to one of Nottingham's gems.
The clock struck midnight (I didn't actually hear it, but it must have done somewhere). New Year's eve was over, now it was New Year's day.
I'd had my own private party that evening. I'd decided that it was going to be a Queen night. I mentally danced (as I'm brilliant in my head) to "Tie your mother down", "A kind of magic", "Love of my life", "Another one bites the dust" and of course basked in the beauty of "Bohemian Rhapsody". I also kept pace with Brian May on air guitar, and I'd never sounded better. There was a party in the pub next door, and I'm sure that the music group were quite good, but unfortunately they had to suffer unfair comparison with the Kings of Pop.
At Midnight I was standing on my balcony, a quality cigar in one hand, and a glass of port in the other. Then the spectacle started. Fireworks from a house two streets away, then another and another. A brilliant spectacle of sound and vision. In the distance could be heard the deep rumbling of firework crackers, all moulding it seemed into one long burst of sound.
Fireworks were thought to have originated in China around 2,000 years ago, and throughout history, right up to today, they are thought to have the power to fend off evil spirits and ghosts that are frightened by the loud bangs. I'm not sure how many people in West Bridgford had this in mind when they were setting off their fireworks, but if I was an evil spirit frightened of loud noises, I wouldn't be any where near the place. For most people it's just fun. The New Year was being welcomed in a very special way, and I loved it.
In a wonderful juxtaposition; while I was marvelling at the noisy fireworks display, Chinese Lanterns began to drift serenely across the horizon. There was noise and silence, fireworks and lanterns, both beautiful in their own way. It is thought that Chinese Lanterns were first used nearly 2,000 years ago. They were invented as a military aid, used as a method of communication on the battlefield.
Lanterns are now traditionally released with a wish to bring good luck and prosperity in the coming year.
Whether you believe in the origins of fireworks and lanterns is beside the point. I for one am happy to ward off evil by any means, and also to seek good luck and prosperity for the future. Who does not wish the new year to be at least as good, if not better than the old one?
I have my own personal hopes and dreams for 2011, but I also never want to lose sight of a bigger picture. I want to follow Martin Luther King, who said, "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity".


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Shabnam, formerly a teacher, is our Community Correspondent from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Being denied a much-deserved scholarship for completing matriculation with first division just because she came from a Muslim family did not stop Shabnam from pursuing higher education. Now the first graduate in her family, Shabnam believes that she has fulfilled her father's dreams. Threatened by her progressive educational background, Shabnam's in-laws were very wary of her presence in the family. Her parents started to get worried and they suggested that she take a divorce and return home, "I did not lose faith, or my temper. Anger does not resolve…
According to The National Sample Survey (NSS) 59.4 per cent of India's rural homes defecate in the open. This is despite the fact that the government runs schemes like the Total Sanitation Campaign (TSC) and has borne an expenditure of 19,626 crore INR ($4.3 billion) in the last 10 years.
VV-PACS Community Correspondent Shabnam reports from Jagdishpur village, Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh where over 200 people do not have access to a toilet and have to resort to defecate in the open. Sangeeta Devi is one of those people and being heavily pregnant does not help her situation. Women and girls in general are afraid to go outdoors to defecate due to the dangers to their physical well being from animals. Added to this, most just feel ashamed to go out in public.
Out of the three past Village Heads, only one was willing to look into the matter, but still nothing has been done about it. The villagers themselves are low-income labourers without the luxury of spare money to build their own toilet. The price paid by locals for not having a toilet is immense. Between 400,000-500,000 children under five die each year from diarrhoea in India.
So despite all this expenditure on schemes like the Total Sanitation Campaign why are villagers not benefiting? The simple answer is that funds often get misused along the way. In many cases, the Village Head and other officials siphon money away either not constructing a toilet at all or by constructing a shoddy unusable structure. Uttar Pradesh is a perfect example of how states fail to deliver on official promises. For the 10 years, the Uttar Pradesh government dutifully reported steadily rising access to latrines in rural areas with the help of $600m in public funds under the Total Sanitation Campaign. It was stated that coverage officially increased from 19.23 per cent of households in 2001 to 82.47 per cent a decade later.But the reality is far from the statistics. The 2011 national census showed only 21.8 per cent of households had toilets.
Shabnam and other Community Correspondents have been covering such stories of ghastly sanitation from different parts of Uttar Pradesh. In Jagdishpur, Shabnam will not stop campaigning until the current Village Head builds the community toilets for this village. It's time to join your voice to the community's efforts.
Call to Action: Please call Mr Bhaiyyalal, Village Head, Jagdishpur Village on +91- 8874014044 and tell him to ensure that the residents of Jagdishpur get access to toilets immediately.
About the Partnership: The Poorest Areas Civil Society (PACS) Programme and Video Volunteers have come together to create the Community Correspondents Network. The videos generated by the network will be able to highlight voices from the margins, providing skills to social communicators to provide advocacy tools to community based organizations.
Similar stories of activism in Uttar Pradesh whereby community members have reported malpractices and managed to bring about positive results are listed below.
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Shabnam, formerly a teacher, is our Community Correspondent from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. Being denied a much-deserved scholarship for completing matriculation with first division just because she came from a Muslim family did not stop Shabnam from pursuing higher education. Now the first graduate in her family, Shabnam believes that she has fulfilled her father's dreams.
Threatened by her progressive educational background, Shabnam's in-laws were very wary of her presence in the family. Her parents started to get worried and they suggested that she take a divorce and return home, "I did not lose faith, or my temper. Anger does not resolve any problem. Newly married into the family, I was certainly scared. Of, say, the ten things that bothered me, I started by putting forward one; that was my first step towards change. My mother-in-law threatened me when I was going for VV's conference in Delhi, saying that she will send men after me. So, my mother agreed to accompany me. Today, the situation has completely changed, my work has cast such a (positive) spell on them, and they push me towards achieving more now and appreciate me. My husband also accompanies me to meetings sometimes."
Dissatisfied with her profession as a teacher, Shabnam felt that she was not doing much to bring about social change, so, she chose to join VV as a Community Correspondent in 2015. Since then, Shabnam has reported on stories revolving around sanitation, education, health, gender, community development, social security schemes and public amenities.
Shabnam also runs a gender discussion club with 25 women participants who are more than eager to attend these meetings. It is because of the commitment she has devoted towards her work as a Community Correspondent that she is able to gain the trust of her peers. The club has successfully encouraged families to send their girls for further education and take up jobs far away from home in other states. Those who earlier refused to let Shabnam into their homes because of her religious identity now welcome her, realising the absurdity of conservative beliefs and illogical practices.
Shabnam was introduced to videos when she was working as a teacher with Sahbhaghi Shiksha Kendra. There was some inhibition in the beginning and she was reluctant to take out the camera in public for fear of being judged, but she chose to face her fear and today she uses it with much confidence; her camera has become her comrade wherever she goes.
"Even if I am unable to shoot a video of an issue, I don't feel bad about it. Since I am always involved with the people from the community, our discussions have led to change and people now themselves take notice of atrocities and violation of their rights and raise their voice against it," she says.
Initially, the administration would talk ill of her to the community, planting seeds of doubt in their heads about her actions and willingness to help them. It was only her perseverance that did not let her deter from the goals she wanted to achieve.
Losing her newborn niece in the neighbourhood Primary Health Centre due to medical negligence and corruption infuriated Shabnam and she immediately decided to intervene. She took out her camera and started recording a video of the hospital staff and their improper conduct. That's when a doctor pleaded with her and apologised and today, the hospital has not only improved its infrastructure but also its quality of care, the patients are now treated with respect.
The other issue that Shabnam is passionate about is water and sanitation. Having faced acute water shortage during her stay in Mumbai, she was well aware of the water crisis Indian cities face. Back in Varanasi, she faced the same problem but this time, she made sure she did something about it. She met the panchayat (village council) head and made a video on the issue, the video eventually reached a viewer in the United States who proposed to sponsor the installation of a water facility in the area. and within three months, handpumps were installed in Moviya village. When the problem was resolved, a woman from the told Shabnam that she had faith in her, and knew that she would not make hollow promises; the community's support motivates Shabnam.
"I could not have imagined that videos could be such a powerful medium had I not engaged with them. It cuts across all mediums of interventions," says Shabnam.
Shabnam now dreams of a self-reliant and self-dependent community, a 'Shabnam' in each household to carry forward the work she has undertaken.
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10 Things You Should Know About The Three Kingdoms Period
by Will | History
This list includes important facts, events, assassinations, and battles from the Three Kingdoms Period. The Three Kingdoms Period is one of the most well known, and bloodiest periods of Chinese history. It was ignited by a series of bloody rebellions, and created power gap which multiple warlords tried to fill. After countless battles killing millions of people, the country was eventually split between three kings, Sun Quan, Cao Cao, and Liu Bei. Years of fighting ensued between them until the period finally came to it's surprising end.
What Set If Off?
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The Three Kingdoms Period started with the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the year 184 AD and lasted until 205 AD. Eventually the rebellion was suppressed but it weakened the reigning Han dynasty significantly. This is because the current emperor decided to solve the problem by giving more power to a group of people called the inspectors. Although the rebellion was suppressed it was a short sighted strategy as some of the inspectors abused their new power, and turned against the Han.
One these inspectors was known as Dong Zhuo. He was an opportunist who kidnapped the emperor while he was still a child, and made him a puppet of his will. Eventually Dong Zhuo was faced with a giant coalition army intent on ending his corrupt regime. Eventually Dong Zhuo was defeated after being assassinated by his bodyguard Lu Bu. Although the tyrant was gone, they hadn't restored the Han, instead a new dictator was in charge named Cao Cao.
Cao Cao's Military Genius
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The Han had completely lost it's power but still reigned on paper. Cao Cao was the one who was really in charge, and the emperor was his puppet. However Cao Cao was a political, and military genius, and wouldn't be deposed as easily as Dong Zhuo. Cao Cao got embroiled in a conflict between Yuan Shu, Tao Qian, Lu Bu, and Liu Bei. Cao Cao forced the Yellow Turbans to surrender in 192, drove Yuan Shu to the south of the Huai River in 193, heavily damaged Tao Qian in 194, defeated Liu Bei in 196, and killed Lu Bu in 198.
After all this Cao Cao had gained large territory in the North China Plain. Cao managed to come into contact with the Emperor, in 195, who was fleeing Li Jue, who most likely wanted to use him as a puppet. The emperor was looking for a loyal subject to protect him, and Cao Cao was more than happy to pretend to be that subject. After establishing the court Cao Cao had managed to make the emperor his puppet.
The Battle Of Guandu 200 AD
Jonathan Groß / (CC BY-SA 2.5) Cao Cao's Territory: Blue / Yuan Shao's Territory: Red
Cao Cao was one of the most powerful warlords in China now, and a battle with one of the other most powerful warlords was inevitable; this was the Battle of Guandu. Cao Cao marched with 40,000 troops against Yuan Shao who had almost three times as many troops. Cao Cao dominated the battle and won a decisive victory over Yuan Shao. A fire attack on Yuan Shu's supplies played a large part in this victory. Without supplies the larger army collapsed easily. The battle was a stalemate for a long time.
Neither side could make any leeway for about half a year. Cao Cao almost retreated but was convinced not to by one of his subordinates. Cao's forces were low on supplies, which is why he considered retreating but he thought of a better idea instead. It was brought to his attention that Yuan Shu was also low on supplies, and so he decided to raid his supply base. 5,000 troops dressed up as reinforcements for Yuan Shao and attacked the base; leaving it in flames. By the end of the year 207 Cao Cao had gained control of the whole North China Plain. He even had half of china's population under his control.
Emergence Of Wu
There are three main players during the three kingdoms period, one of them is Sun Quan of Wu. Sun Quan came to power after both his father, and his older brother were assassinated. Sun Quan was only 18 when he took power but quickly gained the respect of those under him. He began expanding to the west in 203. 5 years later he had gained control of the area south of the Yangtze river, and achieved naval dominance over the river. He had achieved much but knew he would have to deal with Cao Cao at some point.
What Happened In Jing
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Jing was a large territory located in the centre of China. It was an important strategic position. Liu Biao was in charge of Jing, and also a relative of Liu Bei. Liu Bei was currently living with Liu Bei, after seeking refuge from Cao Cao. While staying in Jing, Liu Bei managed to come into contact with a famed strategist known as Zhuge Liang. So far Liu Bei had been attempting to free the emperor from Cao Cao's grip but failed at every turn. However his luck would begin to change after coming into contact with Zhuge Liang. When Cao Cao's armies marched on Jing, Liu Biao quickly surrendered but Liu Bei refused to give in. Liu Bei held his ground at the Yangtze river against Cao Cao but was defeated and forced to retreat. He fled to Sun Quan, who he hoped could help him defeat Cao Cao.
The Battle Of Redcliff
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Cao Cao moved to invade Wu, claiming to have an army of 1 million people. Sun Quan was pressured by his advisers to surrender to such a large force, knowing he would probably be treated well. Sun Quan refused to bow to Cao Cao, and instead to ally with Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang. Together they had only 50,000 troops. With such small numbers it was inevitable they would end up losing to Cao Cao, but they weren't going down without a fight. Cao Cao's fleet met the Wu fleet on the Yangtze River.
The Wu forces launched a devastating fire attack against the much larger fleet. Cao Cao's soldiers were mostly from the north and weren't used to sailing. To avoid them feeling seasick Cao Cao had chained the ships together, which stopped them from rocking so much. Although this seemed clever at first, the Wu forces exploited this to their advantage. They set his ships ablaze, and the fire quickly spread as they were all stuck together. Cao Cao's men were also incredibly sick from the long forced march they had to go on. Amazingly Wu forces managed to force the much larger navy into defeat.
The Land Was Split Between Three Kingdoms
The Battle at Red Cliff was Cao Cao's chance to unify China under his rule once and for all. Failing here meant that the land would eventually be split between three people, Cao Cao, Sun Quan, and Liu Bei. Liu Bei eventually managed to gain vast territory, much to the dismay of Sun Quan. This is when the country is fully split between three kingdoms, which is how it gets it's name the Three Kingdoms Period. The country was split into a stalemate between the three kingdoms. Each one knowing that if they make the first move to invade one kingdom, their undefended homeland will be attacked by the other.
Cao Cao's Death
Cao Cao died in 220, and his son Cao Pi declared himself emperor. Liu Bei invaded Wu out of outrage over them killing his general, Guan Yu. He launched an attack againt Wu with ended in utter defeat. Shu was defeated by Wu general Lu Xun, who launched a fire attack against their troops. Liu Bei died not long later. His son Liu Shan inherited his territory, but allowed Zhuge Liang to act as regent.
Three New Emperors Arose
Liu Shan succeeded his father and became emperor of Shu, Cao Pi had already declared himself emperor of Wei after his father's death, and Sun Quan declared himself emperor of Wu. There were now three new emperors, and empires. Zhuge Liang launched a series of Northern Expeditions against Wei. Each of these expeditions failed. This is partly because they had lost Jing, which made it difficult to establish supply routes. Zhuge Liang was bested by Wei strategist Sima Yi, and was forced to retreat multiple times.
Sima Yi's forces managed to kill Zhuge Liang at the Battle of Wu Zhang Plains. When Sima Yi realised he was dead, he quickly pushed the offensive but was pushed back. Shu now had little hope of ever conquering Wei. Wu prospered under Sun Quan. He managed to quell rebellions from the Shanyue, and conscripted them into the army and workforce. The increased soldiers made them more able to defend against We's constant assaults, and the increased manpower made their economy flourish.
How It Ended
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Shu slowly became more corrupt as eunuchs gained more influence, and had no major success against We. They were invaded by Cao general Deng Ai, who force marched his troops through an area which was originally believed to be impossible to pass through. Deng Ai defeated Shu and forced them to surrender. Wei emperors mostly had short lives, and eventually their power was usurped by the Sima Clan. Descendants of Sima Yi took power and declared the Jin dynasty only 40 years after Cao Pi had declared the Wei dynasty. Jin now only had to deal with Wu.
Although Sun Quan was a brilliant ruler, his son wasn't so great. As soon as Sun Liang ascended to the throne, Wu began a steady decline. As Wu became weaker over time it was only inevitable that Jin would launch an invasion. All of Wu's famous and most skilled general had died, and no one was competent enough to defend against Jin. Jin launched a five pronged attack with completely overwhelmed the Wu forces. Sun Hao surrendered, and Jin had successfully unified the country.
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That is, the Lord himself creates and sustains a Master/Initiate relationship. It's correct to infer that if you spurn the Master, you are spurning the Lord who sustains both the Master and your own soul, the divinity abiding within you. Nothing is more serious. No cancer or broken back can ever as deeply affect the fulfillment of your whole being as much as an initiate's spurning of the Master.
As some enlightened initiates have declared, "Beloved Master, here at your feet is my only hope." They were speaking from their higher consciousness. They knew the significance of abiding in the love and instruction of the Master.
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1:5 Then the seamen were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the Sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep.
1:6 So the ship captain came to him, and said unto him, What mean you, O sleeper? arise, call upon your God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
1:8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray you, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is your occupation? and from where come you? what is your country? and of what people are you?
1:9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the Lord, the God of Heaven, which has made the Sea and the dry land.
1:10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him. Why have you done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.
1:11 Then said they unto him, What shall we do unto you, that the Sea may be calm unto us? for the Sea wrought, and was tempestuous.
1:14 Wherefore they cried unto the Lord, and said, We plead to you, O Lord, we plead to you, let us not perish for this man's life, and lay not upon us innocent blood: for you, O Lord, have done as it pleased you.
2:2 And said, I cried by reason of my affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and you heard my voice.
2:3 For you had cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods compassed me about: all your billows and your waves passed over me.
2:4 Then I said, I am cast out of your sight; yet I will look again toward your Holy Temple.
2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the Earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet have you brought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.
2:7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto you, into your Holy Temple.
2:9 But I will sacrifice unto you with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.
2:10 And the Lord spoke unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
3:2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid you.
3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yes, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
4:2 And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray you, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that you are a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repent you of the evil.
4:3 Therefore now, O Lord, take, I plead to you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
4:4 Then said the Lord, Do you well to be angry?
4:5 So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the East side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, until he might see what would become of the city.
4:7 But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it struck the gourd that it withered.
4:9 And God said to Jonah, Do you well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.


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Q: What is the command use to change from master to a worker node in Kubenetes? This is a beginner's question, but I am stuck for that.
There is a cluster containing 2 nodes, "master" and "node01". Initially, I am in the "master" node console, now I want to do some version update on "node01", what is the command for me to switch to the node01 console?
master $ # my original console, which is of master node.
master $ # what command I need to run to switch to next console ???
node01 $ ...

A: Simple answer: ssh into node01.
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Curators/Caretakers
Paul F. Kennedy 2016 to Present
Lead Docent: Margaret "Peg" Derfler, Pittsburgh Chapter, NSDAR
James Halttunen, 2014 to 2016
Emily Weaver, 2011-2014
Kelly Linn, 2005-2011
Franklin LaCava, 2001-2004
Eugene Churma, 1985-2001
Paul Herrmann, 1983-1985
George Parkas
George Parkas, 1964-1984
Husband of Iva Parkas. Last caretaker to live in Caretaker's Lodge prior to its demolition in March 1966.
Harry H. Uplinger
Harry H. Uplinger, 1959-1964
Shared role of caretaker with wife, Bertha. Retired in 1964 owing to construction of Point State Park and proposed demolition of Caretaker's Lodge.
Marie Mowery, 1952-1959
Iva Richey Parkas
Iva Richey Parkas, 1946-1952
With a teaching degree in history, she moved from Texas after marrying Pittsburgher, George Parkas. She became a member of the Pittsburgh Chapter NSDAR in December 1973, eventually serving as its regent.
Mary Lips McClelland
Buchanan Beck
Mary Lips McClelland – Buchanan – Beck, 1919-1946
Originally serving as a housekeeper to James Bruckner, she eventually became the caretaker of the Block House. Married three times, she was known throughout Pittsburgh as "Aunt Molly." She died in the Block House yard as a result of a stroke on July 4, 1946.
James Bruckner, 1912-1919
Civil War veteran. Census records list his occupation as "Janitor at Public Building".
Mary & Edward McGonigal, 1911-1912
Referred to as "curator" in 1911 newspaper, Mary McGonigal was a niece of Mary Golden and had helped at the Block House prior to Mary Golden's death.
Anthony Manson, 1911
Special Guard for 3 months.
Mary Golden, 1904-1911
Wife of Matthew Golden, she assumed curator/custodian position after Matthew's death in 1904. She remained at her original home until the DAR constructed the Caretaker's Lodge on Penn Avenue in 1905. Mary Golden sadly committed suicide in the Caretaker's Lodge on July 4, 1911. Edith Ammon of the Pittsburgh Chapter DAR was appointed as guardian of Mary's daughter, also named Mary.
Matthew Golden, 1894-1904
First curator/custodian of the Block House. He lived in the Point District in a house that straddled the Block House property line. He passed away in 1904 leaving behind his wife, Mary, and their daughter.
An 18th century stone sundial was found on the Block House property during its 1894 restoration. The sundial commemorates the Battle of Bushy Run of August 1763 in which both the 60th Royal American Regiment and 42nd Black Watch Regiment fought against Native American Indians in an effort to relieve the siege on Fort Pitt.


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If We Dig Graves For Them There Will Be None Left For Us
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In walked Colonel Sanders, a Chinese man with a white goatee and square black glasses.
The first time I asked who my father was, my mother pointed at the box TV and said, That's him. We were watching a period drama where the empress poisons several concubines with coal gas, and when my mother pointed between the butterflied eyes of the lead actress, the screen switched to commercial. In walked Colonel Sanders, a Chinese man with a white goatee and square black glasses. He sauntered out of a bruise-black portal to the past, emerging into the fluorescence of a KFC so bright and clean it looked like the surface of a lemon. He was husked in plastic armor like a terra-cotta soldier, his hair a Qing-style braid, yellow-white as a sickened cornea. I stared at the screen and tried to remember his face, the smoothness of his cheeks clashing with the whiteness of his hair, but the image submerged into the mist of my mind as soon as another commercial came on.
I didn't see my father again until my mother started taking me to work after school. She managed a hair salon with my fifth aunt, and I got to ride in the front seat even though she said I was too small and light and would probably catapult through the windshield if she braked too hard. If you see a cop, duck, she said, even though I was too short to be spotted through the passenger window. Next to the freeway was a billboard with Colonel Sanders's face on it, except his hair was short and his face decorated in pigeon shit, his goatee whisked away by the wind of passing cars.
Stop, stop! I always called, but my mother didn't stop—she sped on the freeway, complaining the whole way that all my fifth aunt ever did at the salon was gossip and smoke. She didn't watch over any of the girls, who stole from each other's tip jars. She didn't keep the books. She didn't take phone calls, citing bad English, even though—according to my mother—she seemed to have no trouble reading old issues of People magazine. Fifth aunt tore out pictures from the magazines that were stacked on the glass coffee table for waiting customers, claiming that she was only saving the hairstyles to paste to the walls or glue into the binders for customers to graze, but all the photos she ripped out were mostly of shirtless men. My mother tore out the holed pages and said, That woman is a rodent. We are not related. She summarized all of my fifth aunt's vices as we drove to the salon, one window cracked wide enough for the wind to hook the voice out of her mouth and scatter it onto the hood of the car behind us, while I craned my head and tried to keep my father's face in sight.
But I only ever saw him blurred and behind me, a face the size of a city, and one day I saw that a corner of the billboard had been dog-eared, his face vandalized completely, teeth redacted with black spray paint, his mouth stuffed with a floppy-eared dog, even his head mauled bald. My mother didn't say anything, didn't slow down, but I thought maybe she noticed, because that night while we were driving home, she veered off the highway and jerked into the parking lot of the KFC. My eyes were fried by the sight of my father's face gilding the side of an entire stucco building: I imagined it was a temple advertising its deity, a god in a bleached goatee. Grabbing my hand to cross the parking lot—my mother always said little girls get killed when they're not soldered to something—she led me through the doorway, which blistered with light so bright I had to squint as we walked in. My heart floundered like a fish, and I wondered if my mother could feel the panic through my palms. It was empty inside, which watered down my hopes of worshippers and effigies, monks dedicated to the missing, but I walked up to the cash register with more divine purpose than I had ever approached anything, including the time I was a substitute flower girl for my fifth aunt and walked up to the altar, proceeding to spray my patent leather Mary Janes, glittered white tights, and tulle purple skirt with piss—I'd been so nervous about missing my cue to walk that I hadn't gone to the bathroom all day. For years after, my nickname was Dog-Baby, and though everyone who split their blood with me had been present that day, I pretended there was another family who had never met me, who was still waiting to know me, and who never once saw me kneeling, attempting to lid the puddle with my shadow.
My mother stood behind me and pulled me back from the counter. She ordered for us both—a bucket of bone-in chicken, mashed potatoes, corn. When our order was ready and our name was called—I was startled to hear our name in the maws of strangers—my mother prodded her plastic fork into the Styrofoam cup of potatoes and said, This is what Americans call vegetables. Corn and infant mush. The gravy gripped the potatoes like a scab, and she pierced it with her fork before pushing it all to me, the chicken, the corn, the potatoes I pretended to savor, when really it reminded me of crumbled sofa stuffing. My mother propped her chin on her hand, and only under the fluorescent showerheads did I see how exhausted she was, how little she'd wanted to stop, her eyes sinking into her skin like my fork into the creamed corn. Still, even tired, she was more beautiful than any billboard: her chin pedestaled on her palm, her profile shadowed holy. She only lifted her head when I started to gnaw the chicken, the skin singeing my fingertips, grease garnishing my wrist. Around my mother's wrist was a gold peanut pendant I tried cracking with my teeth whenever she was asleep, though this only resulted in deforming my only adult molar into a meteorite.
My eyes were fried by the sight of my father's face gilding the side of an entire stucco building
In front of the TV, she could crack chicken bones with her teeth, sucking out the marrow, and she ate the bones so clean they must have been born that way. I suckled at a drumstick larger than my fist, but even when I finished, the bone was a flagpole, flapping with sinew and skin, and she pried it from my fingers, vacuuming the cartilage into her mouth, the bone coming out clean as an arrow. How do you do that, I asked her, and she smacked the back of my head and said, Don't eat and talk, even though her own mouth was meshed with meat. But how? I asked. Cause I've got teeth inside my teeth, she said. And extra tongues, six of them, that come out like the brushes of a car wash.
This feature of her mouth, I later thought, must be why she spent so much time with Rich Uncle—they shared an affinity for cleanliness. Rich Uncle owned all the car washes in the city, and he drove a BMW to our apartment building and parked it on the street even though it got robbed a few times. His BMW was like a beacon, brighter even than the windows of the KFC, and his hair was always wet and shining, a pelt he fingered as he talked to my mother on the sofa, his arm nudging hers. He wore glasses, but they weren't square and black like the ones my father wore on TV: They were gold-framed, two slender ovals that reminded me of pried-open mouths, and sometimes I imagined jabbing my fingers inside.
My mother first met him when he came into the salon one morning, his hair shaggy and long like a Japanese pop star's, and when my mother asked how short he wanted it, he said he only needed to trim an inch. He came back the next day and asked for another inch. Then another and another, and my mother laughed every time. He was a series of subtractions. I've never had a man shed his hair as an excuse to see me, she said, and I watched from behind the glass counter—I sat on a stack of holed magazines and suckled a hard green guava candy—as my mother leaned over him with her fingers threaded through scissors, her spare hand pinching the tip of his exposed ear until it pinked, a gesture so quick I thought I imagined it. She took a long time to brush the hair clippings from his neck, my own skin prickling beneath that touch, and after that, he came over to our apartment most weekends, most evenings. I asked a few times if he would live with us, and my mother always said no, our place was too small, though I knew it was an excuse, since our box TV slept in its own room. We watched it together every night, both of us on the white vinyl sofa, my head pillowed on her hip, and whenever my father came on, his square glasses so clean that there wasn't even glare on them—He must own more car washes than Rich Uncle, I thought—I knew this was his room.
Rich Uncle sometimes called me his daughter, and that was a relief, since he didn't know about Dog-Baby. On evenings when my mother fell asleep on the sofa early, without inviting me to beach my head on her belly and watch TV, Rich Uncle tucked me into bed in the neighboring room. I thought it was just like an American movie, getting tucked in at night. When he did this, he patted my floral Costco comforter smooth over my body, his hands pausing on my private parts, sometimes pinching them under the layer of cotton, the same way my mother had twisted his ear. I squirmed under my comforter, trying to roll onto my side, but he tucked in the edges of the comforter so tightly that I had to lie flat, and even after he left, the heat of his hands ironed me down until morning, and I didn't move until my mother turned on the weather.
I wondered if my father would ever tuck me in, or if someone had tucked him in for so long that he became completely flat, stickered to billboards and the sides of buildings, unable to loosen himself and stand up and leave the parking lot he was assigned to stare at, no mother to indicate that it was morning, that he was free to face anything. I decided that out of solidarity for his inability to look at anything he wanted, for being pinned in place while the rest of us passed him, I would also abstain from free-ranging my gaze, and so I no longer taunted him by searching for his face on the freeway, and I no longer asked my mother to stop when we flicked by the KFC, and to this day I still can't look at a bucket of the stuff or pass one of those glowing signs without wanting to puke out of all my orifices. I don't like the sodium, the clots of corn, the way a bare chicken breast gets sheened in green grease. The shoulders, the wings, all parts of its anatomy make me gag.
It was years before someone told me Colonel Sanders was American, a white guy from Kentucky, not at all from the Qing Dynasty. They laughed when I told them what my mother said and that sometimes, when I'm driving alone on a freeway, pretending the radio is chorusing her old complaints, I mistake every headlight, every roadside sign, for that man's face, and I have to avert my eyes, aim them at something empty. That sounds dangerous, they said. I don't tell them about the bucket I kept from the first and only time I ate at KFC: After I watched my mother siphon the remaining sinew off my drumstick, my stomach filling with that sight, I ducked my head and forced myself to finish every piece in the cardboard tub as quickly as my single-rack teeth would allow. When I was finished, when our stacked bones were the aftermath of a pyre, I told her we could finally go home and sleep. She nodded and picked up the bucket, which had gone sheer with grease, but I tugged at the rim of it. I told her I wanted to keep it, because it had my father's face on it, and my mother slackened her fingers and let go. Don't worry, I wanted to say to her, I'm only asking for the part of him that is mine, just the face, no body, not even a leg bone. I told myself later that her lack of resistance meant approval, but I know now that she wanted to go home, and I was gripping the bucket with all my fingers, then squeezing it between my legs the entire drive back, accidentally crushing one side of it, and when we were home, I stuffed it with wads of toilet paper so that it would remain eternally round and drumlike, an artifact of the empty temple, where an echo could be the kind of love you never had to touch. The emblazoned face was translucent with oil, more of a window than a presence, and sometimes when I rotated the bucket in the light, I could imagine anyone filling it. The bucket now holds my toilet bowl brush. People sometimes ask how come I keep it, if it's some kind of novelty item, the kind you can sell on eBay, complete with a grease stain that resembles Jesus, the whole thing saran-wrapped against erosion. No, I say, it's just something that belongs to me.
K-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice novel BESTIARY (One World/Random House, 2020), which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award. In 2021, her chapbook BONE HOUSE was published by Bull City Press. Her short story collection, GODS OF WANT, is forthcoming from One World in July 2022.
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We wanted to embellish her legend, but now we were only the witnesses of her want.
We grow into forgetfulness and unfist our bones and litter them for crows.
Müllerian Mimicry
Three-fourths of this feeling comes from starting over with Crystal again. An unusual fourth comes from the house's wide windows.
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A house birthed me and will likely be the death of me.
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March never happened, and I think so many of us wish it hadn't happened. My computer and my website wouldn't talk to each other and it's taken most of the month to sort it out. But it will take longer to sort out the disbelief, anger, and fury in my head. The madman who gunned down 50 praying Muslims and wounded another 39 is to be nameless. Thanks to our gutsy Prime Minister even the media refer to him as the accused or the man. He will get nothing in the way of publicity and though his name has to be mentioned in court that's about the only place. His victims, though, are well named and honoured. We've been led by our Prime Minister and she proved for us that what she said when she was elected, that there would be changes because the world had to change and learn to care.
My own community held remembrance services for those killed. We had prayers and flowers and candles in every church, in the front of the court house and the council multicultural centre. We still have people meeting to remember or doing some kindness for our own small Muslim group in town. The best thing though is that most people will now speak out if they hear or see any racist behaviour. Casual talk and unfunny jokes are now called and that's making those flap jaws think and watch their tongues. And the average Kiwi who was a bit careful about being emotional is now opening up and even giving everyone hugs. Nice!
Writing life has been frantically busy. but so has ordinary life. I've worked at short stories, three off to market today, done my usual end of month columns for Writing Magazine and have pushed on with the novel. It's getting to the last third, that lovely slope where writing is so much easier because the novel finally makes sense. The characters have kicked up their heels and sorted out a different plot line, but it's better than the one I intended - I think!
The winter veg are ready to plant, the fruit trees have all been fed and put to bed for the winter. The tubs of geraniums and begonias have been cut back, fed and put to bed for the winter. And today April brought in a southerly and our lazy Autumn sun vanished, the temperature dropped over night by ten degrees, and I'm hunting up warm woolly sweaters.
March was hell and I hope April will be easier.


Peak performance is something professions and amateurs strive for. Many people speak about the 10000 hours mentioned in Malcolm Gladwell's book Outliers. This was K. Anders Ericsson's research and the technology can easily be applied to our recovery and you don't need 10000 hours.
In this episode I reference the book 'Peak' written by K. Anders Ericsson. A most remarkable book and one of the 7 books I believe has had the biggest impact on my life. Changing your life can be tough going at the best of times and Anders book proves that its not a fruitless attempt. All his work is backed up with research and data and I strongly recommend buying this book and reading it.
From cognitive bias as such subjective opinions as personal music taste to the many studies of chess champions and classically trained music virtuoso's, he has squeezed out what it takes to rise above any pursuit and excel in your chosen objective.
I'm glad this podcast gave me an opportunity to revisit the material and share it with you.
I hope you enjoyed this podcast.
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This week don't miss our Iles Formula Hair Talk Featuring Kelsey Gustovich From Chris McMillan Salon. Having trained with some of the top hair dressers in LA, such as, Chris McMillan, Dominick Serna, and Chris Appleton, she was able to start paving her own way in Los Angeles. With 8 years of experience, specializing in cut and styling, Kelsey is a hairstylist at the Chris McMillan Salon in Beverly Hills. Her contagious smile and upbeat energy rubs off on every client she styles. When she's not in the salon you can catch her on set of an editorial, getting clients Red Carpet ready, or in NYC, Denver, and Cleveland where she also makes guest appearances taking haircut clients. Kelsey's love and passion for hair only pushes her to do more and excites her for whats to come in the future. Read what Kelsey has to share below.
IF: Tell us what you think is the biggest challenge in hairdressing today?
I think the biggest challenge in hairdressing today is keeping up with social media. Although it's fun at times and a great way to get your work out there, it's a lot of pressure to keep up with it.
IF: What's the most enjoyable part of your job?
The most enjoyable part of my job is making people feel beautiful. Whether you are changing someones look or they are just coming in to get a blow out before a special occasion, to see your clients face light up and feel more confident is a beautiful thing. I feel so blessed to have a career that I believe, sometimes changes lives.
IF: Why did you choose the path of hairdressing and was it easy to fall into this work?
Ever since I was a little girl I have always been obsessed with hair. I was the go to hair stylist in my small town in Ohio before I was even licensed! After I got licensed I knew I needed to move so that I could fullfill all my dreams. Then, after beauty school I moved to LA at 19 to make those dreams a reality!
IF: If you had not made the decision to be a hairdresser what would you have been?
If I had not made the decision to be a hairdresser I would most likely be in the health and wellness field. I've always been a very healthy person. To get my mind off of hair sometimes, I enjoy looking up healthy recipes or work out videos.
IF: What is your greatest strength?
My greatest strength is changing someones look. I'm not afraid to take someone with super long hair to a pixie. I love change. Especially when I have a client sit down in my chair and they are ready for a new look, my mind starts filling up with ideas!
IF: Your favorite hairdressing tools?
My favorite hairdressing tool would be my parlux blow dryer and Ibza round brushes! Couldn't live without them!
IF: Tell us about your relationship with Iles Formula. How you discovered us and which formula is your favorite?
I am OBSESSED with Iles! I discovered Iles through Chris McMillan. I remember when he was sent their shampoo, conditioner and finishing serum, that was all I would hear him recommending his clients. I soon dove into their products and have been so happy ever since!
IF: What was the most challenging job you ever had?
IF: What was your worst hair moment and why…. privately or on set/stage or in the salon?
One of my worst hair moments, was when I was in a hair show that I had thought I was doing hair for. When I showed up, I actually was one of the models. I ended up going along with being one of the models (worst decision ever) I had extensions all knotted in my hair and teasing! I had the worst time getting everything out of my hair!
IF: If you could style anyone's hair, who would it be and why?
Oh man, if I could style anyone's hair it would be Cindy Crawford. I've always adored her, especially her gorgeous hair!
IF: Where do you pull hair inspiration from?
I pull a lot of my hair inspiration through magazines or Pinterest.
IF: Your advice to young hairdressers starting out?
My advice to a young hairdresser starting out is challenge yourself, be humble, be the hardest worker, and have a positive attitude. I feel if you are truly passionate with whatever you do, you will always be successful!


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So I long ago signed up to receive campaign emails from both Barack Obama and John McCain, and among the interesting tidbits from the latter's most recent e-blast of financial solicitation, from today: six uses of some version of the word reform, five uses of the word Democrat, and zero uses of the word Republican. All of which further underscores the ridiculousness of McCain's previous lampooning of Obama as a "celebrity," given that McCain so clearly fancies himself — both in record and out of political necessity for this election cycle — a brand unto himself. Yes, "R" is the new scarlet letter, and a self-designation to be scrupulously avoided. That is George Bush's true legacy.
Modest in scope and temperament, Chris Smith's The Pool serves as a pleasing neorealistic dip for foreign film aficionados who may have somehow been suckered into recently seeing Bangkok Dangerous. Set in Goa, India, the story centers around 18-year-old Venkatesh Chavan (below) and his orphaned 11-year-old friend Jhangir Bhadshah, who have survived their traumatic childhoods, and work at a small hotel and restaurant, respectively, sleeping on mats and making extra money by selling plastic bags at a local market. After an upper-class family moves back into their home — which happens to have a shimmering pool that goes unused — Venkatesh befriends the head of the household (Nana Patekar, the film's only professional actor), strikes up a friendship with his upstart teenage daughter, Ayesha Mohan, and tries in wayward fashion to point his compass toward a more comfortable way of life.
At some point, a couple years from now, in a video store in northeast Missouri, some boomer-aged arthouse cinephile will confuse David Koepp's Ghost Town with Terry Zwigoff's 2001 film Ghost World, and rent the former. And they will not be happy.
From Tony Stone, the filmmaker behind Severed Ways: The Norse Invasion of America, comes a great, and chilling, send-up of the Republicans' bizarre chants of "Drill, baby, drill!" at the recent Republican National Convention. Just a bit overlong, still at only two minutes, it nonetheless packs a nice satiric wallop, courtesy of footage from Body Double, and other flicks. To view before the copyright hounds make their claims, click here.
Per Variety, Ben Affleck is doing the smart thing for his next foray behind the camera. After having wrapped up a role opposite Russell Crowe in the political thriller State of Play, he's going back to the gritty blue-collar Boston suburbs for The Town, an adaptation of a Chuck Hogan novel, The Prince of Thieves, which Affleck will rewrite, direct and star in for Warner Bros., playing a career thief who becomes smitten by the manager of a bank. The tonal and geographic authenticity of Affleck's directorial debut, Gone Baby Gone, was one of its strongest selling points, so while at first half-glance this is likely more The Thomas Crown Affair than Out of Sight, that's not necessarily a bad thing. It's right in Affleck's wheelhouse, and thus still a good move, all other variables unseen.


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Title: Influence of H-bonding on self-assembly and tunable dual-emission of carbazole-based Zn(II)-terpyridine metallocycles
Authors: Sun, Handong
Gao, Yang
He, Tingchao
Hu, Peng
Koh, Teck Ming
Grimsdale, Andrew C.
Source: Gao, Y., He, T., Hu, P., Koh, T. M., Sun, H., & Grimsdale, A. C. (2014). Influence of H-Bonding on Self-Assembly and Tunable Dual-Emission of Carbazole-Based Zn(II)-Terpyridine Metallocycles. Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics, 215(8), 753-762.
Series/Report no.: Macromolecular chemistry and physics
Abstract: Two carbazole derivatives with terpyridine units attached to the 3,6-positions are synthesized, 1 with a hydrogen at the 9-position and 2 bearing a dodecyl chain there, to evaluate the influence of H-bonds on their self-assembly behavior with metal ions. The unalkylated derivative 1 assembles with zinc ions to form a single product identified by NMR, electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) as a pentametric metallocycle (Zn-1), whereas 2 forms a mixture of two assemblies (Zn-2). The pentamer Zn-1 shows tunable dual emission in the blue and green regions by varying the solvent and excitation wavelength, and molecular packing studies by powder X-ray diffractometry (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), polarising optical microscopy (POM), and atomic force microscopy (AFM) reveals a high propensity to form ordered layers. A fluorescence quenching experiment of electron-rich Zn-1 with C60 shows a high association constant of Ksv = 3.2 × 105m−1, suggesting effective charge transfer between Zn-1 and C60 molecules.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/macp.201300737
Rights: © 2014 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
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Monokote® Z-146
High density, cementitious fireproofing
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Monokote® Z-146 high density cementitious fireproofing has been developed by GCP Applied Technologies to meet specialty, commercial and industrial fireproofing requirements.
Monokote Z-146 is a Portland cement-based, factory-mixed material requiring only the addition of water on the jobsite for application. It is spray applied directly to structural steel (beams and columns), providing up to 4 hours of fire resistance. Its physical characteristics are excellent for areas exposed to environmental or climatic conditions.
Monokote Z-146 may be used in areas where high durability is required such as parking garages. This product is ideal for use in clean room environments where issues such as particle emissions and off gassing are critical to the interior environment within the building.
Monokote Z-146 offers the following advantages to architects, engineers, and applicators:
Factory pre-mixed - Ready to use. No job site proportioning required. Simply add water in a standard paddle-type plaster mixer and apply with conventional plastering equipment.
Non-toxic - The factory-mixed blend of common Portland cement and other inert materials requires only the addition of water for mixing and application.
Attractive finishes - Monokote Z-146 may be sprayed or hand troweled after spraying to achieve a lightly textured appearance.
Equipment versatility - Monokote Z-146 can be mixed in standard plaster mixer. After mixing, Monokote Z-146 may be spray-applied with commonly available pumping and spraying equipment.
Moisture resistant - The Portland cement base affords excellent fire protection characteristics in areas subjected to high humidity.
Durable - Hardness and durability help resist accidental physical damage.
Weatherable - Able to withstand freeze/thaw, wind, rain and other climatic conditions.
Monokote Z-146 may be used in parking garages, exterior areas, mechanical rooms and other areas where a highly durable product is required.
All material to be used for fireproofing should be delivered in original unopened packages bearing the name of the manufacturer, the brand and proper Underwriters Laboratories Inc. labels for fire hazard and fire resistance classifications.
The material should be kept dry until ready for use. Keep packages of material off of the ground, under cover and away from sweating walls and other damp surfaces. All bags that have been exposed to water before use should be discarded. Stock of material is to be rotated and used before its expiration date.
Steel & Concrete Surfaces
Prior to the application of Monokote Z-146, an inspection should be made to determine that all steel surfaces are acceptable to receive fireproofing. The steel to be fireproofed should be free of oil, grease, excess rolling compounds or lubricants, loose mill scale, excess rust, noncompatible primer, lock down agent or any other substance that will impair proper adhesion. Where necessary, the cleaning of steel surfaces to receive fireproofing will be the responsibility of the general contractor.
Prior to application of Monokote Z-146, a bonding agent, approved by the fireproofing manufacturer, should be applied to all concrete substrates to receive Monokote Z-146.
The project architect will determine if the painted/primed steel to receive fireproofing has been tested in accordance with ASTM E119, to provide the required fire resistance rating.
Recommended* Specifications
Test Method/Notes**
Dry density Min. 40 pcf (640 kg/m3 ) ASTM E605
Bond strength Min. 10,000 psf (478 kN/m2) ASTM E736
Compressive strength @ 10% deformation 500 psi (3.45 KPa) ASTM E761
Hardness 40 ASTM D2240
Yield — Theoretical maximum
Color — Natural concrete gray
Volatile Organic Content (off gassing) at 122 °F (50 °C)organic compounds C6-C28 Less than 1 PPMW part per million by weight t Dynamic headspace (Thermal desorbtion gas chromatography—mass spectrometry)
Leachable ammonia Less than 50 PPB, 50 nanograms/mg Leachable ion by ion chromatography
* Independent test values exceed recommended specification limits. Report available upon request
** ASTM International test methods modified for Bond Strength and Compressive Strength, where required, for high density, high performance products.
Monokote Z-146 should be mixed by machine in a conventional, plaster-type mixer or a continuous mixer specifically modified for cementitious fireproofing. The mixer should be kept clean and free of all previously mixed material. Adjust the mixer speed in a conventional mixer to the lowest speed which gives adequate blending of the material and a mixer density of 50 to 60 pcf (800 to 961 kg/m3) of material.
Using a suitable metering device and a conventional mixer, add all water to the mixer as the blades turn. Mixing should continue until the mix is lump-free, with a creamy texture. All material is to be thoroughly wet. Overmixing Monokote Z-146 will reduce pumping rate and will negatively affect in-place density and mechanical properties.
Monokote Z-146 material should not be used if it contains partially set, frozen or caked material.
Monokote Z-146 should have a minimum average dry, in-place density of 40 lbs/ft3 (640 kg/m3).
Monokote Z-146 is formulated to be mixed with water at the job site.
Monokote Z-146 is applied directly to the steel, at various rates of application which will be job dependent, using standard plastering type equipment or continuous mixer/pump units. A spray gun, with a properly sized orifice and spray shield and air pressure at the nozzle of approximately 20 psi (0.138 MPa), will provide the correct hangability, density and appearance.
Note: If freshly sprayed Monokote Z-146 does not adhere properly, it is most likely due to a too wet mix, poor thickness control, or an improperly cleaned substrate.
An air and substrate temperature of 40 °F (4.5 °C) minimum should be maintained for 24 hours prior to application, during application and for a minimum of 72 hours after application of Monokote Z-146.
Field Tests
The architect will select an independent testing laboratory (for which the owner will pay) to sample and verify the thickness and density of the fireproofing in accordance with the provisions of ASTM E605-77, Standard Test Method for Thickness and Density of Sprayed Fire-Resistive Material Applied to Structural Members or Uniform Building Code Standard No. 43–8, Thickness and Density Determination for Spray Applied Fireproofing.
Note: No recognized field bond strength test procedure exists for sprayed fireproofing materials with bond strengths greater than 1,000 psf (4,882 kg/m2) such as Monokote Z-146. Where bond strength specifications exceed 1,000 psf (4,882 kg/m2) it is recommended that independent laboratory test data based upon a modified version of ASTM E736 be submitted to verify specification compliance.
Monokote Z-146 is slippery when wet. Signs reading "SLIPPERY WHEN WET" should be posted in all areas in contact with wet fireproofing material. Anti-slip surfaces should be used on all working surfaces.
SDS (Safety Data Sheet) for Monokote Z-146 are available on our web site at www.gcpat.com or call toll free at 866-333-3SBM.
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