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Devoted & Disgruntled 9 What are we going to do about theatre and the performing arts?
Devoted and Disgruntled 9
What are we going to do about theatre and the performing arts?
Facilitated by Phelim McDermott
25th-27th January 2014
York Hall, Bethnal Green, London E2 9PJ
An invitation from our co-artistic director, Phelim McDermott:
Now that it's in its ninth year I'd love to tell you this event isn't needed anymore, that our organisations, artists, audiences, producers and our wide performing community are as connected up all through the year as they would be at a D&D event, but they aren't. Not even close.
To begin, let me go back to that first invite: in 2003 I asked you to come to a conference where we could work fast and effectively on the stuff that needed to happen in theatre, to spread the word about what we were doing well and work hard on changing the things we could be doing better. I called it Devoted and Disgruntled in the hope that people would realise I didn't want it to be a moaning shop; I wanted connection and a home for people's dreams to be nurtured. I wanted people to find a place they could have the difficult conversations that are necessary for change - that's exactly what D&D has become.
I've seen people change and grow during D&D over these last nine years, and it really is only the beginning. I've watched people ask where the leaders are that the community needs and slowly realise that they are those leaders - I've watched people step into their power. Sometimes they stepped into that role out of passion, sometimes out of anger, wanting to claim the right to do what needed to be done to improve the state of the arts in this country. The result: festivals, venues, companies, projects, deeper relationships, births – it's abundantly clear by now that D&D is more, much more, than a talking shop. The talk that takes place at a D&D event results in extraordinary initiatives.
So as I write this I feel as passionate and frustrated as I did nine years ago when I sent out that first invite. I feel hugely excited by the pioneering theatre-makers whom I know are out there, connecting up and making beautiful work, and deeply saddened by the present backlash against the arts. It's not a backlash because the arts aren't valuable: it's because the arts are incredibly valuable and more than that they are powerful. The arts are the place where we can still ask the difficult questions, still imagine better worlds: if artists and theatre makers can't tell stories of revolution, change and possibility, who will do it? We need these stories, now more than ever. So I will be there in January again, to create some space for those seeds of possibility to grow - will you join me?
D&D is only ever as vital as the people who come so if you think this event is not for you, do come; if you've been every year, come again; if you have been to a few, missed a few, please come back; if you have almost made it but never quite got there, make it this year; if there are people that you wish would come but never have, invite them yourself; if you think we are a group of people that only have one identity come and challenge us.
There is no better place than at D&D to hold the dreams that we need to keep safe, the values and meaningful ideas that are going to take us through the next year and beyond. Come and do the work to make this event unnecessary in years to come, to make a world that is connected and vital and thriving.
Phelim McDermott
Co-Artistic Director, Improbable
Booking for this event has now closed.
Start: 25th January, 2014 at 10:00am
End: 27th January, 2014 at 3:00pm
Author: Ben Monks
Location: York Hall, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PJ York Hall Bethnal Green London E2 9PJ York Hall, Bethnal Green, London, E2 9PJ
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D&D Ally event: How do we create inclusive access in the arts for mothers, fathers and carers in Devon and the South West?
A D&D Ally event hosted by Mother Who Make Devon and South-West.
WOMEN (opera)
I called this session because we had a lot of people comment on the lack of a female signatory on the event invitation. I felt this probably said something bigger about the opera industry. I'm a relative newcomer to working in opera, but am very aware of gender imbalance in theatre, so I was curious to find out about similarities and differences.
Why Ensemble structures dominate German Theatre and Opera
A session which wanted to look at the importance of having an ensemble ethos in Opera and Theatre Companies and how that worked as an established model in German Theatre and Opera.
Why big dogs and little dogs should be friends: big & small opera companies in partnership
Large and small opera companies can share information, especially when programming is related. Large companies can benefit from mentoring small companies by getting foreknowledge of talent coming up and from start-up practices, which are responsive and fast moving. Small companies are more reactive and therefore it pays for large companies to keep tabs on them, which they can do most effectively by supporting them!
Emergency D&D: What action can we take as the arts sector in response to the proroguing of parliament?
A free D&D satellite at Battersea Arts Centre.
D&D: How can outdoor arts change the world?
A free day-long Open Space for all outdoors arts practitioners and anyone curious to join in.
D&D satellite: What can we do to support and represent awesome women in the arts?
A free satellite D&D hosted by Cambridge Junction
D&D satellite: What can role-play gaming and theatre learn from each other?
A free D&D and RPG day, created with Adventurers Wanted, hosted by Omnibus Theatre.
D&D: What can we do to mainstream disability arts and support disabled artists, audiences and participants?
A free satellite D&D as part of Drunken Chorus' "A Bit of a Do" festival.
D&D: What can we all do about people from working-class backgrounds being under represented in the arts?
A Devoted & Disgruntled Open Space event hosted by Physical Fest 2019 and Unity Theatre
Devoted & Disgruntled at the GII Symposium 2019
A 2-day D&D Open Space on all things improvisatory, hosted by Middlesex university and the Global Improvisation Initiative
D&D satellite: Writing: what do you need, and what can you share?
A free evening satellite D&D event, hosted by WGGB – the writers' union.
Devoted & Disgruntled: NOW what are we going to do about European theatre?
A free afternoon D&D satellite Open Space, part of A Piece of the Continent Festival, produced by Actors Centre in association with Voila! Europe.
D&D Ally event: What are we going to do about keeping European theatre alive on British stages?
A free D&D Ally event run by Brexit Stage Left Festival
Devoted & Disgruntled 13: What are we going to do about theatre and the performing arts?
Join us for our 13th annual Devoted & Disgruntled Open Space.
About Devoted & Disgruntled
Devoted & Disgruntled is a nationwide conversation about theatre and the performing arts, run by theatre company Improbable.
Open Space Technology (OST) is a great way for groups to think, talk and take action together. It can work for as few as 5 people, and as many as 5000.
D&D satellite: What are we - of all genders - who work in performing arts going to do about sexual abuse in our industry?
A free satellite D&D exploring ways to tackle sexual harassment in the industry
Devoted & Disgruntled: What are we doing to make the opera industry truly reflect the diversity of the country, on and off stage?
A free day-long event about improving diversity and accessibility in Opera.
Join us for our 14th annual Devoted & Disgruntled event on 'What are we going to do about theatre and the performing arts?'
Devoted & Disgruntled: What can we do to be better allies?
A free satellite D&D Open Space event, hosted by Rich Mix
A double-bill with Adventurers Wanted. Join us for a morning of games, and an afternoon of free Devoted & Disgruntled Open Space.
Devoted & Disgruntled: What can we do to put the heart back into Sutton's arts?
A free Open Space event for anyone who cares about the arts in Sutton, hosted by Arts Network Sutton.
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Discussion in 'Installation/Configuration' started by edony44, Nov 15, 2006.
but often, i can't connect to ispconfig because the port 81 is closed !
So i've read some post about proxy or a second ip but i don't see a good solution .
I'm on ubuntu 6.10 i can install a proxy and i've 2 connection to my gateway ( router ) so i can have 2 ip simultaneous .
If you have an unused second public IP address, you can use that for ISPConfig.
Then restart your main Apache and ISPConfig.
i can have access to my websites but not to ispconfigs..
in /etc/host but nothing change ..
I think that the problem came from my gateway ..
I don't know if i can redirect the 80 port to 2 ip .


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2018 Hospital Privilege Update
Insights / Daniel J. Margonari, Healthcare and Long-Term Care / 0
Article by Daniel Margonari, Esq.
Once a lawsuit is brought against a hospital and the discovery process gets underway, hospitals have routinely relied on a litany of privileges to protect documents from discovery. Most notable are the often asserted protections of the Pennsylvania Peer Review Protection Act. Overall, 2018 has been an eventful year regarding the case law related to those discovery protections often asserted by hospitals in Pennsylvania. As such, this article seeks to provide a quick recap of those key changes and some thoughts moving forward.
Peer Review Privilege
The most significant legal update in the peer review arena was the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's ruling in Reginelli v. Boggs. In short, the court examined the PPRPA's protections as they applied to a physician's performance review file which was maintained by the physician's employer, an emergency medicine physician practice group.
The court refused to extend the peer review privilege to the performance review file, but in doing so, painted with a fairly broad brush. The court maintained a strict interpretation of the peer review privilege, apparently adopting a very rigid interpretation of the statute. Given the language of the opinion, we have already seen a push by attorneys for patients attempting to use the Reginelli case to circumvent peer review objections.
Attorney-Client and Work-Product Privileges
In the summer of 2017, the Superior Court issued their ruling in BouSamra v. Excela Health. The case involved a lawsuit by two formerly credentialed physicians against a hospital and individual defendants. The privilege issue which was examined was whether the attorney-client and work-product privileges extended to communications between in-house counsel for the hospital and a third-party PR consulting firm hired by the hospital. Specifically, per the opinion, the communications involved opinions of the hospital's external counsel which were forwarded by in-house counsel to the PR firm.
The Superior Court ultimately held that the hospital's attorney waived attorney-client privilege by forwarding impressions of external counsel to a third party. The court also held that the work-product privilege did not apply, as the email was not sent by the hospital to the PR firm to help outside counsel in preparing a case for trial.
While this opinion appears to erode the ability of a hospital's legal team to work with the hospital's PR team, this opinion may not stand for long. As January of 2018, the Supreme Court granted allowance of appeal and arguments were heard in October. In a well-argued matter, the Supreme Court did not appear to tip its hand as to where the ultimate opinion will land.
Thoughts Moving Forward
While the Reginelli decision received a significant amount of attention in the Pennsylvania medical-legal community, opinions like Reginelli and BouSamra only add to the growing case law in which the Pennsylvania appellate courts appear to be limiting a health care provider's ability to utilize the delineated statutory privileges. While the ultimate scope and impact of these opinions remain to be seen, the opinion emphasizes the importance of careful and proactive planning in developing a sound structure for medical review activities to ensure the providers engaging in the review activities are afforded the autonomy and confidentiality necessary to ensure continued improvement of medical services, as the PPRPA intended. To this end, any health care provider engaged in review activities should presently reassess both its policies as well as how the actual employees/physicians are engaging in such activities to ensure strict compliance with the statutory requirements.
In assessing any review activities, it is also important to note that Federal law can also provide an alternative or supplemental confidentiality protection. While utilization is slowly gaining traction nationally, several hospitals have yet to implement and/or utilize a federally registered Patient Safety Organization ("PSO"). Under the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act, creating a federally registered PSO affords the materials and work product of the PSO discovery protections.
While the case law surrounding this privilege is still far from developed, it provides a promising alternative, or even secondary protection, to heath care providers seeking maintaining the confidentiality of material related to retrospective investigations conducted by health systems. Specifically, in a recent case, Burns White was able to obtain a written opinion by a Pennsylvania trial court upholding the patient safety work product privilege under the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act. In a developing area of law, this opinion demonstrates the effectiveness of PSOs in protecting the necessary confidentiality of review activities. In light of the developing precedent, PSOs appear to be positioned to afford providers the peace of mind necessary to have the candid and constructive reviews necessary to promote the continued improvement of patient care.

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Goldman Is Said in Talks With U.S. to Settle Criminal Case Tied to Malaysia Investment Fund
To settle the case, the New York investment bank would pay a fine of around $2 billion and accept the appointment of a monitor for its compliance procedures, reports say.
Rob Daniel
Goldman Sachs (GS) - Get Report is negotiating with the U.S. government to settle a criminal investigation tied to a Malaysian corruption case, according to reports.
To settle the case with the U.S. Justice Department, the New York investment bank would pay a fine of around $2 billion and accept the appointment of an independent monitor for its compliance procedures, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal.
Goldman's Asia subsidiary also would plead guilty to violating U.S. bribery laws, some of the people familiar with the matter told the Journal.
The case arose from Goldman's raising of $6.5 billion for a client, called 1MDB or 1Malaysia Development Bhd. 1MDB is a Malaysian-government-owned investment fund.
U.S. authorities said that much of that money was stolen by a Malaysian government adviser and two Goldman bankers, the Journal reported.
The authorities charge that the bank ignored warning signs about the adviser in an effort to garner fees of about $600 million, the report said.
Goldman is separately discussing a settlement with Malaysia, Bloomberg reported. The country publicly is demanding $7.5 billion from from Goldman, Bloomberg reported.
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Are Self-Published Authors "Real" Authors?
Categories In Think Pieces
This old chestnut of an argument has recently reared its head again: "Self-published authors aren't real authors." (See also: "Self-published books aren't real books.") So, of course, let's go through the debate once more.
What this pronouncement almost always boils down to is the idea that, in order for any book or author to be "good," they must go through–and ultimately succeed in passing–a vetting process that traditionally consists of finding an agent, then a publisher, then undergoing a number of editing and proofreading cycles as well as a professional formatting and book design (cover and interior). The cherry on top is generally the marketing and promotion one hopes comes with all this so that the book and author, after all that work, can shine bright in the cluster of other stars hoping to be noticed.
So, what someone who declares they "don't read self-published books" really means is that they only trust a limited number of people and a capitalist industry to choose for them what is worth their time and money.
Look, there are perks to gatekeeping. Yes, I really did say that. Having a minimum standard for entry isn't necessarily a bad thing. And sure, there are plenty of self-published books that fail on one or more fronts: grammar, structure, design, etc. Supporters of self-publishing will often argue that these problems can be seen in "traditional" books, too, and they aren't wrong, but the percentages of these kinds of flaws are typically much lower in books put out by bigger publishers. (Though, those numbers are sliding, based largely on the constricted editing cycle in publishing these days; the industry is moving towards quantity over quality since that seems to work so well for self-published authors. In fact, what we're really up against is a decline in reader demands and standards, but that's a different argument.) In the end, what this boils down to is that you are much more likely to come across poorly produced self-published works than you are mainstream ones. And some of that is just a law of averages; there are so many more self-published titles than mainstream ones because publishing does have limits, but individuals can do a lot more a lot faster to put out their own books and there are so many more people self-publishing.
All that said, there are plenty of reasons a book or author doesn't get an agent or publisher, and not all of them–not even most of them–are because the book is bad. As I've said so many times, publishing is about what sells, and there are thousands of great stories that aren't considered marketable by the industry for one reason or another. Agents will sign, and publishers will publish, a less well-written book if it's more likely to sell than a well-written one. If the subject on trend, if the author is already a name (or has a big TikTok following), a manuscript might get snapped up regardless of flaws. Meanwhile, a worthy story that doesn't easily fit into a genre and thereby is considered more difficult to market will be rejected. Remember that agents don't get paid until they sell the book, so they're looking for something they can sell quickly. Publishing houses, too, are looking for books they can turn around and make money on. "Well written" is only one criterion, and sometimes not even the most important one, as it's often seen as something (a) fixable, or (b) readers won't care that much about if they're into the story or characters or themes or whatever.
And none of this even approaches the arguments about how many minority authors use self-publishing when the industry tells them their stories have no value in the broader market.
But let's just look at the question: Are self-published authors "real" authors? And the answer comes down to how you define a "real" author. If it's someone who has written a book, then yes, self-pubbed authors are real authors. If it's someone who has published a book, then again, the answer is yes. If it's someone who has gone through the very specific process of agent to publisher to mass published tome that is then sold to bookstores and libraries, then… probably not? Each self-published author puts in the time and effort to write a book and publish it to the best of their ability. Sometimes there are financial constraints on that. Sometimes the best of their ability is not as informed as it could (arguably should) be. But my books are in many libraries and sometimes also in stores, so… Does that leave me in limbo? What about self-published authors that invest in editors and designers?
In truth, we shouldn't be judging books or authors by how they came to the market. The books themselves should stand on their own merits. But there will always be people who look down on anyone working outside the norms, no matter the reasons. Arguing with them is pretty pointless.
2023 Reading Bingo
As promised in my most recent YouTube video, here is the bingo card for this year's reading challenge:
2022 in Review: Writing
Categories In Flashbacks, Writing
Although the year is not quite over, it's about time to start wrapping things up and examining what worked, what didn't, and how to move forward. I intend to do this in bits and pieces by looking at different aspects of my life through the year. Naturally, I'll start with my writing.
It's difficult to believe I actually started writing The Switchgrass Crown in April 2021, but that is the doc's creation date, and looking back, it makes sense. I was shopping GoMP and by February/March of 2021 had realized that, despite coming close, I was not going to have an agent. (Those were dark days for my mental health.) At the same time, I began tinkering with a Merlin fanfic that began to bloom into something else. I set it aside, though, to do final edits on GoMP and prep it for self-publication. So I didn't really start working on TSC in earnest until fall of 2021, and it was finally released on December 1 of this year. I did not even try to get an agent this time because of the terrible impact the last round of querying had on me; I've come to the conclusion that I'll never be the right fit for "traditional" publishing.
Still, it seems I'm not entirely the right fit for indie publishing either. TSC did not do as well out of the gate as I'd hoped–certainly not as well as GoMP did, and I think that's due to a couple factors. 1. Time of year. GoMP came out in October of 2021, which was the right time for the subject matter. TSC coming out during the holidays when it's not a holiday book (it is, in fact, set during summer) was probably a misstep, but I didn't want to not have a book at all in 2022. (Now it looks like I won't have one in 2023.) 2. Subject matter. GoMP was easy to explain: two ghosts solve a murder. TSC is more complicated and I don't like to try to explain it because I don't want to give twists away. That makes it a harder sell, I think. It's a blend of genres that isn't easy to encapsulate.
On the plus side, I can hope that TSC finds its readers over time. But I'm largely disappointed with its launch. I wouldn't release a non-holiday title during the holidays again. But I'll probably keep writing weird genres because that's what interests me.
Meanwhile, I wrote an unplanned novella over the summer titled "One Night in Wildcat Woods" that did better than I might have expected. This story sprang up from my love of Stranger Things. I was traveling and started playing around with the idea of two Eddie & Steve types lost in the woods, and… ta-da! I put it up for free, so that might be a leading factor in its popularity. That and the fact that I think just as many people love Stranger Things as I do. I'm now working on a holiday story for Drew and Rayze that will be up just in time for Christmas if all goes according to plan. (Yes, there was supposed to be another story besides, but it needs more work, so I've had to postpone its release.)
Those are my only writing releases this year: one novel, one novella, and one shorter story planned. February was my best month for sales, though December is currently in second and may surpass February if TSC catches on sooner rather than later.
I did participate in a couple of events this year. For one, my local library invited me to return (I had spoken there in 2018) to do a Q&A for their writing group. I had so much fun doing that, even though I talk too fast.
And, speaking of talking too fast, I was a guest on the Creative Writing Life podcast. I love, love, love doing stuff like that and was so flattered to be asked.
I've also signed up to participate in Literary Love Savannah next July, so I have that to look forward to! We're going to do karaoke, have round-table discussions, a big masquerade ball… I certainly hope some of my supporters will come out to see me and all the other great authors, and I can't wait to meet my readers and fellow scribes!
That covers my writing life in 2022. I'll discuss what I read this year in another post (and probably also in a YouTube video), I'll talk about travel I did (and didn't) do, and possibly recap my social media stats as well. If there's a topic you'd like to see a summary of in terms of the year in review, let me know in the comments!
Names in TSC
Categories In Writing
Every author has his or her own way of naming characters. For me, the characters often name themselves, but sometimes they tease me, kind of like a game of Rumpelstiltskin. They'll make me guess. If they're nice, they might give me hints like, "It starts with B" or, "It's one syllable." Then I have to figure it out from there.
For The Switchgrass Crown, I knew Lucas and Fay's names right away. Lucas… I don't know. He just is Lucas. Fay, of course, is a nod at the Arthurian underpinnings of the story. Her name was deliberate, and I think she lives up to it. Below, I have some notes on other character names in TSC.
Emory. His original name was Murphy! I wrote about half the book with that name before realizing it was too similar to Muriel's name. And I knew I didn't want to changer her name, so Murphy became Emory. Honestly, I think it suits him better, too. When I changed the name, his character became more solidified in my mind at the same time.
Landis. I met a certain person with this last name a few years back, and it's safe to say he made an impression. When devising the character for TSC, this felt like the perfect name. I realize it's kinda similar to Lucas, but since the story is told from Lucas' POV, I don't think there's much chance for confusion. At least, I hope not.
Rowland. This is Lucas and Fay's last name, borrowed from actress Gena Rowlands (though I dropped the "s"), who I worked with on a film set, and she is just so lovely. In truth, Lucas didn't have a last name for most of my writing, but at some point I realized I needed one and Rowland sounded right.
Vivienne. Another nod to Arthurian legend. There was never any question about Viv's name or character.
Muriel. She's a swimmer, so the name suits her. And honestly, I just love the nickname "Muri." I did at first spell it "Murielle," but didn't want to do that and "Vivienne." So I chose to change Muri's spelling because Viv really feels like she needs those extra letters but Muri doesn't.
Geoffrey and Desmond. Des was always Des. But Geoff was first named Gregory, and it didn't suit. Still, like that old game of Rumpelstiltskin, I knew it was something with a G that was more than one syllable. Eventually, I guessed correctly, and as with Emory, once he had the right name, Geoff's personality came clear as well.
You can read The Switchgrass Crown for free via Amazon's Kindle Unlimited. Or ask your local bookseller to order a paperback copy for you. (At the time of posting, I do not recommend ordering a paperback from Amazon because it is listed by third-party merchants with a surcharge. Barnes & Noble has it listed for the correct amount.)
The Switchgrass Crown
Out today! The ebook is exclusively at Amazon (and can also be read via Kindle Unlimited). The paperback can be ordered from any bookstore. As of release, I wouldn't recommend ordering the paperback from Amazon; it is only being sold by third-party merchants at a steep mark-up. B&N has the correct list price, or you can always hit up your favorite independent bookstore and ask them to order a copy for you. ^_^
Here is a handy map Angel made of the setting for TSC. It's not exact or to scale, but it's still nice to have as a reference.
The Men of TSC
The Ladies of TSC
Above: visual references of how I envision some of the main characters of TSC. The story is told from Lucas' POV.
Presentation Handout
Loglines v. Tag Lines
Categories In Writing, Writing Advice
I read a tweet a little while ago about "high-concept stories" and how they can be distilled into a single sentence. This is, generally speaking, true. But then the example given was… Well, I'm not going to post it, but it was not a high-concept logline. It was more of a tag line. You know, the kind of thing you'd see on a movie poster, or maybe even on the back of a book. It doesn't tell you the plot. Instead, it's meant to intrigue the reader into wanting to know more.
For example, "Following the leader just got deadly" is not a logline. It is a tag line.
When trying to come up with a logline, it helps to be old school and think about the write-ups in TV Guide. (Yes, I'm that old.) Often one sentence long, these summed up the plot of a show or episode neatly so viewers knew what to expect and could decide whether to watch. "A small-town detective discovers a hidden temple and must destroy a grass-roots cult before it spreads" is a logline. It leaves no questions about the plot, only, hopefully, the desire to see it play out—which, ultimately, is the goal in getting people to watch the movie or read the book. The tag line for this might be more like: "He must betray life-long friends in order to save them." (I'm assuming the detective has lived in this town his whole life, so the cult members are old friends… You know, never mind.)
Another way to differentiate a logline from a tag line is that a logline answers the question, "What is your book/movie about?" You wouldn't answer that with a tag line. At least, you shouldn't. If an agent or producer is asking, you would seek to give a succinct answer. "It's about a spy whose lover is accused of treason and he's forced to choose sides." Not, "Can he be both loyal to his country and his heart?"
A tag line is open-ended and sometimes posed in the form of a question (see above). Even when it's not, it's meant to create a question in the mind of the consumer—ideally, a question the consumer then feels driven to answer by watching or reading. How did following a leader become deadly? Can this detective save his friends and friendships?
In short, the tag line poses a question, either explicitly or implicitly. The logline answers one—specifically, what the story is about. A tag line will often sound a little like a marketing slogan. A logline will sound more like a summary. They're used in different ways, though each serves the purpose of drawing in an audience.
AMC's IWTV Eps 2 & 3
Categories In Reviews
All right, it seems only fair to update my thoughts after having watched two more episodes of Interview with the Vampire. I very much appreciate that Lestat's true character is being slowly revealed. OR… it could be that he is trying and failing to change. That much is not entirely clear, but I suppose that's kind of the point.
I also appreciate that the show attempts to explain the differences between Louis' attitude in the book versus this current incarnation. They play it off as Daniel pointing out that, when he interviewed Louis in the 1970s, Louis did not have such a romanticized view of Lestat. (Even going so far as to pull quotes directly from the source material.) We are meant to understand that (a) vampires' memories are not infallible, and (b) additional time and distance—and healing, perhaps—have given Louis a different perspective. In truth, it probably would depend on the day. After all, anyone can look back at a time or moment in their lives and think it was the best of times, and then on another day think it was terrible. And relationships really are that complicated. "I loved him," "we were toxic," and "I learned a lot about who I am and what I want out of life and love" can all be true.
Still, I sigh a little at the imminent introduction of Claudia. She will likely be aged up, in part to mitigate potential distaste from the viewers, and largely for production reasons. I cannot say why, exactly, I fear the show will fumble this story line, but I do harbor a bit of dread—and not the good kind. I hope to be pleasantly surprised.
In all, I will say these two episodes were better than the first, and I am enjoying the overall build of the characters. (I am also wondering if the show will stick with the literary fact that Lestat never learned to read.* Was he fibbing when "reading" that paper? It felt like he was.)
LOUIS: What do you mean, you can't read?
LESTAT: I… [shrug]
LOUIS: You mean you can't read English?
LESTAT: [sigh] I look at things and understand their meaning, their intent. I do not need to read. In any language.
LOUIS: But… for pleasure? Entertainment?
LESTAT: There are many ways to be pleased and entertained that do not involve words, Louis.
Can't say I relate, Lestat, but you do you.
* IIRC—and it has been a looooong time—Lestat can look at books and absorb or glean the information without reading them. But I distinctly remember him saying he only learned to read a few prayers and to write his name for the year or so he was at school.
AMC's Interview with the Vampire
I have only watched the first episode of AMC's take on Anne Rice's vampires, but I have some mixed feelings. And yes, I understand why some changes were made, and I don't have a problem with those. I don't think Louis needs to run a slave-owning plantation in order to tell this particular story. His being a person of color doesn't faze me either. And I actually appreciate they kept his brother's death as a key incident on his road toward damnation; it is, imho, a far more interesting origin story than simply losing one's wife and child. That he was already attracted to Lestat is a nice touch as well.
In fact, it is with Lestat's character that I thus far have the most grievance.
Again, I've only watched one episode, so things may yet change. But this Lestat is not nearly as much fun as he should be. His sense of mischief has been watered down in favor of playing up his intellectual side. He tells Louis he loves him? Uh, hello, will the real Lestat please show himself?
Lestat, as Rice wrote him, has a grand character arc over a long series of books (those last two notwithstanding; I could not finish Prince Lestat and didn't even try the Atlantis thing). He goes from impulsive brat to thoughtful over, well, centuries and a number of trials. At the time he meets Louis, at least in the book, he is desperate. He has arrived in the New World with his father and needs money and shelter. Louis is wealthy, pretty, and an easy target. The codependency isn't healthy, and Lestat's understanding of "love" is largely self-centered and underpinned by insecurity. He thinks he loves Louis, or at the very least he believes he's doing Louis some kind of favor by turning him. But Lestat really does it for himself, and the relationship falls apart pretty quickly.
Maybe this will happen in this show? What I would kind of like to see, when thinking about how The Vampire Lestat starts, is the story later told from Lestat's POV. After all, he does not hesitate to call Louis a liar. But what's strange is that this story, as taken from Louis' POV, is thus far romanticizing Lestat. Does Louis, as he tells it to Daniel two centuries later, mean to show that he did romanticize Lestat at first? Will things go sideways now and Lestat's manipulation become clear to him? (It seems like Lestat has already begun systematically removing Louis' support system, or am I reading too much into it out of a desire for book-version Lestat to appear?) Or have the writers of this show fundamentally changed Lestat's character? It's obviously too soon for me to tell; I have one more episode to watch, and another comes out this weekend, I believe. I'll keep watching—for now. At the very least, I'm curious, which is as good a start as any, I suppose.


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NNS Takes On The Lady In Black Friday Night On ESPN2
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Regan Smith and Trevor Bayne spent the first five weeks of the NASCAR Nationwide Series battling for the series' points lead. But the points picture is quite different after both drivers had a tough time Friday night. Regan Smith's seventh place finish dropped him to second place , two points back from new points leader Chase Elliot. Bayne finished Friday's race in twenty-third, dropping him to fifth overall in the points standings. Now, both drivers look to move back up the ladder this weekend when the Nationwide Series heads to Darlington Speedway this weekend.
The NASCAR Nationwide will take on "The Lady in Black" Friday night in the VFW Sport Clips Help A Hero 200. The race will be broadcast live on ESPN2 beginning with Nascar Countdown at 7:30pm ET. Nicole Briscoe will anchor the broadcast. She will be joined by NASCAR veterans and ESPN analysts Rusty Wallace and Ricky Craven for the pre-race broadcast. Allen Bestwick will call all of the flag-to-flag action from the booth. He will be joined by NASCAR legend and ESPN analyst Rusty Wallace and former NASCAR crew chief Andy Petree.
Pre-race ceremonies for Friday's race are expected to begin at 8pm ET, with thegreen flag expected to drop at 8:16pm ET. More information on Friday's broadcast and more on ESPN's NASCAR coverage is available online at http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar. To keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and "Like" it. Fans can always keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews in the Phil's Picks blog at https://philspicks.wordpress.com.
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Dale Earnhardt, Jr. To Serve As In-Race Reporter Tomorrow Night In O'Reilly Auto Parts 300
The NASCAR Nationwide Series heads this week from NASCAR's smallest track to one of its biggest.
Trevor Bayne and Regan Smith are now tied atop the NNS points standings as the NNS gears up for Round 6 of the series' schedule. Round 6 brings the NNS to Texas Motor Speedway for the O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 live from. ESPN2 will have live flag-to-flag coverage of tomorrow night's race beginning with the network's weekly pre-race show, NASCAR Countdown at 8pm ET.
Dale Earnhardt, Jr. will make a rare appearance tomorrow night, driving the #88 Ragu Chevy Camaro. He will also serve as ESPN2's in-race reporter. ESPN analyst Rusty Wallace will discuss the race with Earnhardt during the race's pace laps and caution laps.
Pre-race coverage on ESPN2 is expected to begin at 8:30pm ET.
More information on tomorrow night's coverage of the O'Reilly Auto Parts 300 and the rest of the 2014 NNS schedule is available online at http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar. To keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews, go online to http://www.facebook.com/philspicks and "Like" it. Fans can always keep up with the latest sports and entertainment news and reviews in the Phil's Picks blog at https://philspicks.wordpress.com.
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NNS Roars Into Thunder Valley This Weekend
The NASCAR Nationwide Series heads to "Thunder Valley" this weekend.
Points leader Regan Smith looks to extend his lead over Trevor Bayne when the Nationwide Series makes its way to Bristol Motor Speedway for the Drive to Stop Diabetes 300 Presented by Lilly Diabetes. Coverage on ESPN2 begins with live qualifying at 10am ET. NASCAR Countdown follows at 1:30pm ET with the green flag expected to drop at 2:13pm ET.
Allen Bestwick will anchor Saturday's broadcast of the 300-lap event. He will be joined in the booth by former Winston Cup champion and ESPN analyst Dale Jarrett and former NASCAR crew chief Andy Petree.
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NNS Series "Heats Up" This Weekend In Phoenix
NASCAR's next generation heads out west this weekend. The second race of the NASCAR Nationwide Series' 2014 season takes the series to Phoenix International Speedway for the Blue Jeans Go Green 200. ABC will have all of the action beginning with NASCAR Countdown at 3:30pm. The green flag is expected to drop at 4pm ET/1pm PT.
All eyes will be on the current NNS points leader Regan Smith when the NASCAR Nationwide Series takes to the track at Phoenix International Speedway this weekend. Smith, who has been an underdog since his NASCAR Sprint Cup debut at the 2007 Daytona 500, looks to keep his momentum going from last weekend's huge win. He currently sits atop the NNS points standings, six points ahead of Trevor Bayne, who won the 2011 Daytona 500.
Allen Bestwick will call all of the lap-by-lap action for Saturday's broadcast. He will be joined by former Winston Cup Champion and ESPN analyst Dale Jarrett and former crew chief Andy Petree. More information on this weekend's coverage is available online at http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar.
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SRM Dental College, Ramapuram is the FIRST and the ONLY College conducting Inter Dental Academic Competition – Prize Examination in Pharmacology for Dental Colleges in Tamilnadu and Puducherry.
Dr. R. Shivakumar, MD, Ph.D., – Chairman, SRM University, Ramapuram and Trichy campus, Professor Dr. Nafeesa Iqbal, MD., and Assistant Professors – Dr. V. Vinodhini, Ph.D., & Dr. T.S. Subashini, Ph.D., of Pharmacology Department are instrumental in conducting the event successfully for the past 12 years.
As per the Chairman's instructions, it is planned to disseminate the idea to other institutions of Ramapuram and Trichy Campus. Initially, a programme entitled "Guidelines to Conduct Prize Exam" was organized on 25.11.2017 for all the senior faculty members – HoDs and Professors of Easwari Engineering College to enable them to conduct the Prize Examination in their respective departments. Professor Dr. Nafeesa Iqbal, MD., delivered the 'Welcome Address'. Director General, Dr. T. S. Sridhar, Ph.D., Principal – EEC, Dr. K. Kathiravan, Ph.D., and Dean – Academic, Dr. A. Saravanan, Ph.D., graced the occasion.
SRM Dental College Dean, Dr. K. Ravi, MDS extended his support for the successful execution of the programme.
Professor Dr. Nafeesa Iqbal, MD., and Assistant Professors – Dr. V. Vinodhini, Ph.D., & Dr. T. S. Subashini, Ph.D., of Pharmacology Department were the Resource Persons. Twenty Five faculty members from Easwari Engineering College attended the programme. At the end of the session, HoDs and Professors of Easwari Engineering College, addressed the feedback of the programme and assured that they would conduct the Prize Exam in their respective departments in a very efficient manner.


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Cleveland traded veteran guard Kyle Korver to Utah for Alec Burks and two future second-round draft picks Wednesday, and some of Korver's now-former Cavs teammates were reportedly upset by the swap.
Korver, 37, says he's happy to relocate back to Salt Lake City, where he played for the Jazz from 2007-10.
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Q: Implementing service worker in existing ASP.NET Core MVC application I'm developing an ASP.NET Core MVC web application where I have these two tasks that should be running as background services:

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*Set the user status as "Expired" if EndOfSubscription date is == DateTime.Now

*Before 1 month of EndOfSubscription date send a reminder e-mail to this user

After searching, I found that I can use service worker to implement this. But I'm totally confused how to use this service worker in existing ASP.NET Core MVC web application where I need to access my models and database.
Should I isolate these tasks in a separate service worker project? But in this case should I share the same database for both projects?
Can someone guide me with main steps in this kind of situations?
Thank you in advance.

A: Service worker or Worker service?

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*A Service Worker is a way to run background tasks in a browser and definitely unsuitable if you want to execute something on the server.

*A Worker service is essentially a template with the (few) calls needed to run a BackgroundService/IHostedService in a console application and (optionally, through extensions) as a Linux daemon or Windows service. You don't need that template to create and run a BackgroundService.

The tutorial Background tasks with hosted services in ASP.NET Core shows how to create and use a BackgroundService but is a bit ... overengineered. The article tries to show too many things at the same time and ends up missing some essential things.
A better introduction is Steve Gordon's What are Worker Services?.
The background service
All that's needed to create a background service, is a class that implements the IHostedService interface. Instead of implementing all the interface methods, it's easier to inherit from the BackgroundService base class and override just the ExecuteAsync method.
The article's example shows this method doesn't need to be anything fancy:
public class Worker : BackgroundService
{
    private readonly ILogger<Worker> _logger;

    public Worker(ILogger<Worker> logger)
    {
        _logger = logger;
    }

    protected override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
    {
        while (!stoppingToken.IsCancellationRequested)
        {
            _logger.LogInformation("Worker running at: {time}", DateTimeOffset.Now);
            await Task.Delay(1000, stoppingToken);
        }
    }
}

That's just a loop with a delay. This will run until the web app terminates and signals the stoppingToken. This service will be created by the DI container, so it can have service dependencies like ILogger or any other singleton service.
Registering the service
The background service needs to be registered as a service in ConfigureServices, the same way any other service is registered. If you have a console application, you configure it in the host's ConfigureServices call. If you have a web application, you need to register it in Startup.ConfigureServices:
public class Startup
{
    public Startup(IConfiguration configuration)
    {
        Configuration = configuration;
    }

    public IConfiguration Configuration { get; }

    public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
    {

        services.AddDbContext<OrdersContext>(options =>
            options.UseSqlServer(
                Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection")));

        ...

        //Register the service
        services.AddHostedService<Worker>();

        services.AddRazorPages();
    }

This registers Worker as a service that can be constructed by the DI container and adds it to the list of hosted services that will start once .Run() is called in the web app's Main :
public static void Main(string[] args)
{
    CreateHostBuilder(args).Build().Run();
}

Using DbContext and other scoped services
Adding a DbContext as a dependency is trickier, since DbContext is a scoped service. We can't just inject a DbContext instance and store it in a field - a DbContext is meant to be used as a Unit-of-Work, something that collects all changes made for a single scenario and either commit all of them to the database or discard them. It's meant to be used inside a using block. If we dispose the single DbContext instance we injected though, where do we get a new one?
To solve this, we have to inject the DI service, IServiceProvider, create a scope explicitly and get our DbContext from this scope:
public class Worker : BackgroundService
{
    private readonly ILogger<Worker> _logger;

    private readonly IServiceProvider _services;

    //Inject IServiceProvider
    public Worker(IServiceProvider services, ILogger<Worker> logger)
    {
        _logger = logger;
        _services=services;
    }

    protected override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
    {
        while (!stoppingToken.IsCancellationRequested)
        {
            //Create the scope
            using (var scope = _services.CreateScope())
            {
                //Create OrdersContext in the scope
                var ctx = scope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<OrdersContext>();

                var latestOrders = await ctx.Orders
                                            .Where(o=>o.Created>=DateTime.Today)
                                            .ToListAsync();
                //Make some changes
                if (allOK)
                {
                    await ctx.SaveChangesAsync();
                }
            }
            //OrdersContext will be disposed when exiting the scope
            ...
        }
    }
}

The OrdersContext will be disposed when the scope exits and any unsaved changes will be discarded.
Nothing says the entire code needs to be inside ExecuteAsync. Once the code starts getting too long, we can easily extract the important code into a separate method :
protected override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
{
    while (!stoppingToken.IsCancellationRequested)
    {
        _logger.LogInformation("Worker running at: {time}", DateTimeOffset.Now);

        using (var scope = _services.CreateScope())
        {
            var ctx = scope.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<OrdersContext>();
            await DoWorkAsync(ctx,stoppingToken);
        }

        await Task.Delay(1000, stoppingToken);
    }
}

private async Task DoWorkAsync(OrdersContext ctx,CancellationToken stoppingToken)
{
    var latestOrders = await ctx.Orders
                                .Where(o=>o.Created>=DateTime.Today)
                                .ToListAsync();
    //Make some changes
    if (allOK)
    {
        await ctx.SaveChangesAsync();
    }
}

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Charles Bonnet and his Danae: the discovery of parthenogenesis
At 7.30 p.m. on June 1st 1740, in Geneva, a young man named Charles Bonnet watched the birth of an aphid. His account of the event (Bonnet 1745) suggests that his emotions at the time were akin to the pride and satisfaction of a young father at the birth of his first daughter. Twelve days previously, at 5 p.m. on May 20th, he had watched the mother of this aphid being born, and since that time he had kept her in meticulous isolation, anxiously watching her through four successive moults until she reached adulthood and provided him with the proof of virgin birth that he was looking for. He likened his role to that of Acrisius, the king of Greek legend who imprisoned his daughter Danae in a tower of bronze for fear that she would be impregnated.
Charles Bonnet was born in Geneva in 1720, the only son in a wealthy French family. He went at least partially deaf at the age of seven, and after being teased at school he received his first education from private tutors. In his teens he became increasingly absorbed in the wonders of nature, and in particular he marvelled at insect life, avidly reading the major books on natural history published in French at that time such as Spectacle de la Nature (1732) by Noël-Antoine Pluche, and in particular the series of volumes entitled Mémoires pour servir a l'Histoire des Insects (1734-1742) by the polymath René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur.
Réaumur is one of the most amazing people in the history of science, with interests ranging over the whole of science and technology, from bees to the building of bridges (Ratcliffe 2005). He greatly influenced the way in which science developed in the 18th century, by advocating and practising experimentation to dissociate the "true marvels" of the natural world from the myths and prejudices with which they had become so closely entangled in medieval times. He was also a great communicator. The young Bonnet found the wide-ranging ideas of Réaumur about insects especially exciting. A major part of the third volume of Réaumur's Mémoires pour servir a l'Histoire des Insects, published in 1737, was devoted to the natural history of aphids and their natural enemies. In this volume, Réaumur suggested an experiment to rear aphids in isolation in order to prove whether, as had long been suspected, they could give birth without mating. Réaumur had tried to do this experiment himself several times, but without success.
So, in May 1740, Bonnet decided that he would make his own attempt, using an aphid of the black bean aphid (Aphis fabae) group collected from a spindle tree. He placed a twig of spindle bearing a few leaves in water in a glass vial, and buried the vial up to its neck in soil in a flower-pot. On one of the leaves he then placed a single aphid that he had observed being born, and inverted a glass vase over the twig so that its rim was in close contact with the surface of the soil. Then his vigil began, keeping daily watch on his "little prisoner" from 4 or 5 o'clock in the morning until 9 or 10 o'clock at night, and maintaining a precise account of everything that happened. Using a hand-lens he observed its moults with some trepidation, fearing at each one that it would fall from the plant and be lost. Eventually the day arrived when his charge attained adulthood, and his patience was soon rewarded. The young aphid born at 7.30 p.m. on June 1st 1740 was the first of 95 offspring born to his virgin mother in the next 21 days, every birth being meticulously recorded.
Fig. 1 Bonnet's table recording the births of the 95 offspring (pucerons = aphids) of the virgin mother aphid in his 1740 experiment. The asterisks signify births that he did not actually observe.
Today, even to a non-scientist, this may seem a simple, almost naïve experiment. In the context of his time, however, its design and careful execution were exceptional, and won him the immediate honour of admission as the youngest corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Paris. One might question the lack of replication, and the wisdom of relying on a single individual aphid that could easily have been lost; but then part of the value of the experiment was the attention that he was willing and able to lavish on this one solitary aphid. In fact with the encouragement of Réaumur and other members of the Academy, Bonnet repeated the experiment next year with two more aphids from the spindle tree, and then went on to demonstrate parthenogenesis in several other aphid species. It had been put to him that impregnation of an earlier generation might have somehow been passed down to his aphids, so in July 1741 he set out to rear solitary aphids through a succession of generations, this time using the elder aphid (Aphis sambuci). He succeeded as far as the fifth generation, but then lost his aphid during transfer to a fresh elder leaf before it had attained maturity. The following year he succeeded in rearing his spindle-tree aphid through six generations, and an aphid on plantain through five, and in 1743 he took his plantain aphid through nine generations.
However, he was still worried that some prior impregnation might have occurred, and its effects passed down in some way through the generations. The trouble was that Bonnet, living more than 150 years before the science of genetics, had no real conception of how the essential characters of a species were passed from one generation to the next, nor of the real significance of sexual reproduction. His interpretation of his experiments was rooted in the idea of preformation; that is, that every female contained the preformed "germs" of all her descendants, and that these would develop if they were stimulated to do so as a result of insemination by a male, and then provided by the female with adequate nutrition. He knew he had demonstrated that aphid "germs" could develop without any stimulation by the semen of a male, or at least that mating did not have to occur in every generation, but he was unaware that the resultant offspring differed in any significant way from those resulting from sexual reproduction.
Bonnet knew that some aphid species had sex, and in fact he described and studied the behaviour of males and egg-laying females of the sexual generation of a large aphid* ("l'éléphant des pucerons" - probably Lachnus roboris) on the branches of oak. He then moved on to other lines of investigation in zoology and botany and made other important discoveries, for example he was the first to show that insects breathed through the series of lateral pores that we now call spiracles. Later in life his eyesight deteriorated and he was forced to cease his studies of living organisms. Instead he turned his attention to philosophical matters. His ideas on evolution – he was one of the first biologists to use this word – were very influential at the time, but were of course very different to those of Darwin nearly a century later, and seem strange to us today. He continued to believe that each female organism contains within its germ cells an infinite series of preformed germs put there by the creator, and hence that all life is preordained and that species are immortal and immutable.
Fig. 2 Charles Bonnet in the 1770s.
To explain the fossil findings of extinct species, Bonnet suggested that the earth is periodically struck by global disasters in which most organisms died, but then the survivors climbed to a new level in the scale of nature ("Bonnet's ladder"). Thus, minerals became plants, plants became insects, and higher up the ladder fish became birds, and birds became quadrupeds. Man was of course at the top of his evolutionary ladder, and would develop into angels after the next global disaster. To our eyes today, Bonnet's scheme of things (assuming that he was not entirely right!) comprises a remarkable mixture of truth and misconception.
In the next article I shall describe what we now know about the way in which aphids develop from unfertilised eggs. It will become evident that, 250 years later, we still have no complete answer to the mysteries of aphid parthenogenesis.
Bonnet, C. (1745) Traite d'insectologie ou Observations sur les Pucerones. Durand, Paris 228 pp.
Ratcliff, M.J. (2005) Experimentation, communication and patronage: a perspective on René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur (1683-1757). Biology of the Cell 97: 231-233.


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The Quest for Serenity in World Religions
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Author: Arvind Sharma
Publisher: D. K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Every religion, even ideology, needs to provide its followers with ways of coping with the vicissitudes of life, especially when personal tragedy tears a gaping hole in the fabric of meaning. This book describes the search for serenity as found in what are conventionally referred to as the world religions and identifies a similarity in the pattern which seems to underlie these approaches, thereby extending the application of the comparative method to religious psychology.
Arvind Sharma formerly of the I.A.S., is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the Faculty of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
He has published extensively in the fields of Indology and Comparative Religion, and is currently engaged in promoting the adoption of a Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World's Religions.
What is your favourite emotion?
The answer would perhaps depend on the person asked, and on the situation in life the person happens to be negotiating at that time, but it is likely that whatever the choice, it will probably be a positive emotion. That is to say, it is likely to be love rather than hatred, hope rather than despair, patience rather than anger, restraint rather than indulgence and so on. The world religions are united in appealing to such positive emotions. Some scholars have even argued that both the Eastern and the Western religious traditions often opt for essentially the same positive emotions, although the manner in which they do this may have prevented the point from becoming obvious and has to be argued for. Huston Smith makes this point in his response to the following question by Jeffrey Kane: Would you say there are certain universals one would find through many of the world's religions?' His response runs as follows:
Yes. Two levels need to be distinguished here. The one which is the more explicit is what we should do, but beyond that is the question of the kind of person we should try to become.
Now, on the first level, what we should do, there are four problem areas in human life that we have to be dealt with. These are: violence, wealth, the spoken word and sex. In lower forms of life these problem areas are monitored quite adequately by instinct. Man, though, is an animal without instincts, so these problems areas can get out of hand. Moral precepts are devised to secure appropriate, life-sustaining behavior in the four areas, and they are remarkably uniform across cultures: don't murder, don't steal, don't lie, don't commit adultery. These are the basics guidelines concerning human behavior.
He then goes on to say: As for the kind of person we should try to become, the virtues point the way. In the west these are commonly identified as humility, charity, and veracity. Humility has nothing to do with low self-esteem, it is to recognize oneself as one look upon your neibhour as fully one (with all the rights and privileges pertaining thereto) just as you are one. Veracity begins with not being deceitful, but it ends in the sublime objectivity that sees things exactly as they are, undistorted by our subjective preferences. These are the virtues in the west. Asia, interestingly, has the same three but entres them by the back door, so to speak, by speaking of the three poisons-traits that keep the virtues from flourishing in us. The tree are: greed (the opposite of humility), hatred (the opposite of charity), and delusion (the opposite of veracity). To the extent that we expunge these three poisons, the virtues will flood our lives automatically. The convergence of East and West in these areas is remarkable.
It's a pity that serenity does not find a place in this list along with humility, charity and veracity. I hope this book helps to demonstrate that the quest for serenity is as much a part of world religions as the search for the other virtues. Alternatively, one could argue that if world religions are engaged in the quest for reality at the metaphysical level, and in the quest for virtue at the moral level, then they are equally engaged in the quest for serenity at the psychological level.
Religion plays many roles but surely one key role which it plays in our lives is to try to beckon us to the shore of serenity, when we find ourselves being tossed to and fro on the stormy sea of life. Every world religion offers a similar hope and yet in its own unique way; each throws out a life-line to us but these lines have their own texture.
This book is an attempt to chart this quest of serenity in world religions, wherein a common pattern seems to underlie this quest for serenity. It seems as if whatever goes on in life can be placed into two distinct dynamic categories: (1) that which we can control, and (2) that which we cannot control and that life achieves a serene balance if we actively pursue those aspects of life which lie under our will, and graciously accept as the will of God, or of some higher force or power, over which we have no control.
Preface V
1 The Quest for Serenity in Hinduism 1
2 The Quest for Serenity in Buddhism 13
3 The Quest for Serenity in Confucianism 21
4 The Quest for Serenity in Taoism 31
5 The Quest for Serenity in Judaism 49
6 The Quest for Serenity in Christianity 57
7 The Quest for Serenity in Islam 63
8 Conclusion 71
Bibliography 73
Index 77
By Arvind Sharma
Yoga Vasistha (Set of 6 Volumes) - A Rare Book
By Swami Jyotirmayananda
The Word Speaks to the Faustian Man: Volume Two (Mundaka Upanisad and Mandukya Upanisad with Gaudapada Karika) (A Translation and Interpretation of Sankara's Bhasya for the Participation of Contemporary Man) - An Old and Rare Book
By Som Raj Gupta
YOGA AND THE BIBLE: THE YOGA OF THE DIVINE WORD
By Joseph Leeming
Quietitude of The Mind
By Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
Bliss: Living Beyond Happiness and Misery (Talks on The Shiva Sutras)
By Osho
The Essence of Yoga: Reflections on the Yoga-Sutras of Patanjali
By Bernard Bouanchaud
Yoga Vasistha (Volume I: Vairagya Mumukshu Utpatti)
Yoga Vasistha (Vol. VI: Nirvana Prakarana Uttarardha)
Take Your Time: How to Find Patience, Peace and Meaning
By Eknath Easwaran
Samatvam (The Yoga of Equanimity)
By Swami Satyananda Saraswati
Enlightenment East and West
By Leonard Angel
The Aesthetic Experience According to Abhinavagupta: Chowkhamba Sanskrit Studies Vol. LXII
By Raniero Gnoli
The Doctrine of Maya in Advaita Vedanta (An Old and Rare Book)
By D.R. Satapathy


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10/10 C/D RATING
Highs Incredibly light and quick, agility plus uncompromised ride quality, beautiful and functional design.
Lows Suffers considerable turbo lag, brake pedal feels like a leg workout, climbing out of it is another exercise.
Verdict The 720S hits all the supercar hallmarks: exotic looks, extreme performance, and a shockingly high price.
By Eric Stafford
The 2021 McLaren 720S is a beautifully sculpted, brutally quick, and brilliantly engaging supercar. It's a pity that this dead-eyed, dihedral-doored machine costs more than most people's houses, because driving it is pure joy. Whether piloting the fixed-roof coupe or the drop-top Spider (a.k.a. convertible), their rocket-like acceleration and raucous soundtrack materialize from the same 710-hp twin-turbo V-8 feeding the rear wheels. The 720 S's greatest hits include a 2.6-second shot to 60 mph, 1.10 g of cornering grip, and a zero-to-70-mph stop in just 141 feet. Best of all, those figures are basically interchangeable between body styles. While the McLaren's interior isn't as flamboyant as, say, Lamborghini's, it indulges the driver with better outward visibility and fewer distracting controls. With the 2022 720S, it's all about the melding of driver and car—and few other vehicles produce a purer connection.
For 2021, McLaren makes no significant changes to the 720S lineup. It continues to be offered in both coupe and convertible body styles. Those seeking an even more track-focused version will prefer the McLaren 765LT, which boosts horsepower to 754 and further reduces the 720S's already light curb weight.
Pricing and Which One to Buy
Luxury coupe
$314,000 (est)
Performance coupe
Luxury Spider
Performance Spider
Most convertible supercars are compromised by more weight and less rigidity, but the 720S Spider is hardly affected at all. Despite the retractable hardtop adding some weight, the Spider is just as quick as the coupe and its open-air cockpit enhances the driving experience. We'd choose it in the Performance spec, with its carbon-fiber exterior addenda and racy interior upgrades. Likewise, we'd select the Pirelli P Zero Corsa tires for maximum stick and the electrochromic glass roof. Personalization options are extensive and subjective, so the only other add-ons we'd want are the front and rear parking sensors, front-end vehicle lift, and McLaren Track Telemetry with a lap-time recorder and three cameras.
Engine, Transmission, and Performance
Both the coupe and convertible version cradle a twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter V-8 that produces 710 horsepower and 568 pound-feet of torque. Those totals are funneled through a paddle-shifted seven-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission. The 720S coupe we tested at our track rocketed to 60 mph in 2.6 seconds and reached 100 mph in 5.2 ticks. We also had the opportunity to pilot a similar version at our annual Lightning Lap, where we called it "wonderfully fun and scary fast." We drove one on a twisting and ill-maintained road in California, where its advanced suspension was able to smooth out imperfections and the steering system was a communicative companion. The experience was further evidence that McLaren has unrivaled chassis tuning.
Fuel Economy and Real-World MPG
According to the EPA, the 720S is rated for 15 mpg in the city, 22 mpg on the highway, and 18 mpg combined. However, we expect its real-world fuel economy to vary drastically depending on how much time it spends with its throttle wide open.
Interior, Comfort, and Cargo
The core of every 720S is its carbon-fiber tub that helps limit weight and ensure rigidity, all while protecting passengers. Contained within this lightweight structure is a two-seat cabin that caters to the driver. While its interior design is less flashy than rivals from Ferrari and Lamborghini, the aesthetic is pleasing, and outward visibility is excellent. Sure, it can be a pain to escape from the low-slung seating position, but that's standard supercar procedure. Instead, the cabin can be outfitted with a variety of premium materials and bespoke options. Don't expect ample space to store small items in the 720's cabin but at least there is a luggage compartment under the hood.
The Car and Driver Difference
Our Comprehensive Car Testing Explained
Why We Test: Every Number Tells a Story
Infotainment and Connectivity
Every 720S is fitted with a vertically oriented 7.0-inch touchscreen that includes conventional features such as Bluetooth, a four-speaker audio system, and two USB ports. Those who want a more powerful audio system to drown out the sound of this six-figure supercar's twin-turbo V-8 can upgrade to a 12-speaker Bowers & Wilkins unit. There's also an optional track-data recorder (called McLaren Track Telemetry) with or without three exterior cameras to save lap times and relive moments at the racetrack.
How to Buy and Maintain a Car
How to Buy or Lease a New Car
How to Buy a Used Car
Safety and Driver-Assistance Features
The 720S does not offer any traditional driver-assistance technology but can be equipped with several useful options that help keep it free of dents and scratches. For more information about the 720S's crash-test results, visit the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) websites. Key driver assists include:
Available front and rear parking sensors
Available front-end lift system
Warranty and Maintenance Coverage
The McLaren includes a standard warranty plan that spans three years with no mileage limit. The company also offers extended coverage of up to 12 years with a limit of 12,000 miles per year.
Limited warranty covers three years and unlimited miles
Powertrain warranty covers three years and unlimited miles
No complimentary scheduled maintenance
mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive, 2-passenger, 2-door convertible
PRICE AS TESTED
$411,300 (base price: $319,100)
twin-turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 32-valve V-8, aluminum block and heads, port fuel injection
244 cu in, 3994 cc
7-speed dual-clutch automatic with manual shifting mode
Suspension (F/R): control arms/control arms
Brakes (F/R): 15.4-in vented, cross-drilled, carbon-ceramic disc/15.0-in vented, cross-drilled, carbon-ceramic disc
Tires: Pirelli P Zero PZ4, F: 245/35R-19 (93Y) R: 305/30R-20 (103Y)
Wheelbase: 105.1 in
Length: 178.9 in
Passenger volume: 47 cu ft
Cargo volume, top up/down: 7/5 cu ft
Curb weight: 3343 lb
C/D TEST RESULTS
Zero to 60 mph: 2.8 sec
Zero to 100 mph: 5.5 sec
Rolling start, 5–60 mph: 3.6 sec
Top gear, 30–50 mph: 2.6 sec
Standing ¼-mile: 10.3 sec @ 143 mph
Top speed (drag limited, mfr's claim): 212 mph
Braking, 70–0 mph: 141 ft
Roadholding, 300-ft-dia skidpad: 1.09 g
C/D FUEL ECONOMY
Observed: 12 mpg
EPA FUEL ECONOMY (C/D EST)
Combined/city/highway: 18/15/22 mpg
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"Back To The Future" Earned $4.8 Million At The Theatres On Back To The Future Day
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Oct. 21 marked the official "Back to the Future Day," and with that, fans turned out in big numbers for a theatrical re-release of the time-travel trilogy.
The re-release generated an estimated $1.65 million in 1,815 North American theaters on Wednesday and a total of $4.8 million worldwide, Universal reported.
The original trilogy grossed more than $416 million over the three films, which included 1985's "Back to the Future," 1989's "Back to the Future Part II" and 1990's "Back to the Future Part III."
Internationally, the day grossed an estimated $3.2 million for a worldwide total of $4.8 million.
"Back to the Future Day" has been celebrated in many different ways: On Wednesday, Universal Pictures unveiled a new video of Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd), who delivers a special message to fans from behind the wheel of a DeLorean.
Michael J. Fox was presented with the first "living pair" of power-laced MAG shoes first featured in "Back to the Future 2" courtesy of Nike.
Pepsi also released a limited edition bottle titled Pepsi Perfect.
Way back in 1985, Doc Brown and Marty McFly (Fox) traveled to Oct. 21, 2015 using a souped-up DeLorean.
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"Strictly Ballroom" AU. Virgil Hastings, champion ballroom dancer, is recovering from an embarrassing loss at the Florida Statewide Championship. He's lost his dancing partner and rumors abound about his unconventional dance moves. Things are looking pretty bleak when novice dance student Patton approaches Virgil with an offer: He wants to dance with Virgil, using Virgil's steps, at the National United States Grand Prix Championship. With three weeks to train, can they pull off the best routine the American Dance Federation has ever seen?
In which Darla is Susan, and Susan is Abby; being a Ghostbuster is one of the most dangerous and exciting extended missions she has ever been on, and she is seriously contemplating NEVER letting Erin meet her boyfriend.
A bit of original rambling, partly to make wordcount for mininanowrimo, and partly just to get this out of my drug-addled head. FB welcome.
In which John is an empath, Sherlock is Sherlock, and an epic bromance happens. In the aftermath of The Great Game, John creates an unexpected bond between himself and Sherlock. Now they have to learn how to deal with it. John is better at this than Sherlock is.
When working in the lab at Barts, Sherlock gets a visit from Mike Stamford and his... invisible friend?
No, it's not Mike going mad. He actually DOES have an invisible friend. Who lends Sherlock his mobile.
When consulting detective Sherlock Holmes steps on one toe too many at a crime scene, he's consigned to a desk job in an archaic office on the seventh-and-a-half floor of the New Scotland Yard. It's in this bleak office that Sherlock discovers a portal into the mind of renowned author John Watson. Grander than his mind palace, this new wonderland affords Sherlock new vistas of experimentation. To learn more about the mystery behind the portal, Sherlock seeks out and befriends Watson. But then it all goes wrong when others find the secret portal door—including the man whose brain he visits.


Teshainesh Hibtit from the Eritrean community is part of the Auckland Resettled Community Coalition and recently attended the national Living Wage Movement training: Building Power in Our Communities: A 5-day residential leadership course.
The training is based on the practice of Industrial Areas Foundation, regarded as doing the best grassroots organising in the United States and it provides a model that is unique to NZ. The training aims to build the capacity and imagination of the Movement's leaders from the faith, union and community sectors so they can join together in common cause and influence the people who can make a difference in the issues that matter to them.
"People together are power, not individuals alone. If we share ideas and we start small, one by one, developing relationships with others, then with other groups, together we can have power and gain solutions," said Teshainesh.
A key element of the training is learning about effective action and conducting a mock political candidates' meeting in front of guests. In Auckland, the training was followed by a real action, the Peoples' Assembly: An Election Special, designed to gain a commitment from candidates to a Living Wage at Auckland Council. Teshainesh and other members of her community attended. It was a successful action and there is now a majority of councillors in Auckland who support raising some of the lowest paid workers in the city out of poverty.
"It showed that "practice makes perfect" – "we had a plan, we practiced, then we got people along" to the event and it was successful.


To organize the monitoring and central control for the all equipment of telecommunication network (telephone, microwave transmission, dispatch, mobile telephony) in real-time mode, the Comita Group of Companies developed a unique hardware-software complex (APC).
APC (apparatus-program complex) is an assemblage, analysis and storage of information about the state of equipment and the possible problems with the layout of theirs immediately fixing also by the remote operative system.
System redundancy of management (geo-redundancy).
The platform has a wide functionally and user-friendly Russian-language interface with configurable user modes (geographical, structural, functional), is easy to modify and able to work in offline mode.


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Mocktails trend brings more non-alcoholic options to menus at bars, restaurants
By Josh Cascio
Mocktails growing in popularity amid 'Dry January'
Josh Cascio reports
SAFETY HARBOR, Fla. - Data from the CDC shows more than 140,000 Americans die from excessive alcohol use every year. It's one reason why "mocktails" are becoming so popular.
The non-alcoholic drinks are crafted in the same way as a cocktail – just without the alcohol.
Mocktails have taken off in the last couple of years, and there's a growing market for those wanting a finely crafted drink while cutting back on their alcohol consumption.
READ: Coffee, love for family inspires sweet treats from Roasted Whisk
Nestled in the heart of Safety Harbor, Gigglewaters offers a social club vibe with a bar that's fully stocked with all the classics. Lately, however, they aren't the only drinks flowing.
"We're approaching it with the same integrity of a cocktail, and it just doesn't have the alcohol," said Gigglewaters owner Rachel Fine.
Whether people are looking for a reset like "Dry January," or other health benefits that come with cutting back on alcohol, more consumers found themselves sipping mocktails than ever before.
Bars and restaurants across the Tampa Bay area are taking notice.
MORE: Five-O Donut Company expanding to Ellenton
"We have mocktails on our main cocktail menu, and they're ordered at the same frequency that regular cocktails are," Fine said.
Little Saints, a plant-based mocktail company that started during the pandemic, started with the founder's desire to cut back on drinking.
"We thought that alcohol was helping our anxiety, we thought it was like taking the edge off, but then I think we learned it is making it worse," said Megan Klein, the founder of Little Saints.
Klein credits Gen Z as being the generation to care for mental health. She said that's helped create a market for those looking for an alcohol alternative.
For Gigglewaters, the mocktail trend is a welcomed one.
"There's absolutely a market for, I think, it's a natural expansion for a bar to get into a craft beverage," said Fine.


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Our primary business for the past years has been construction, modernization, maintaining, and servicing vertical transportation equipment. Equipment in our care ranges from the very earliest kinds of machinery to the most sophisticated state-of-the- art applications. We perform modernization of hydraulic and traction elevators carrying both freight and passengers.


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U.S. Representatives Welch and McKinley introduce resolution to recognize Building Safety Month
Mechanical Hub Team May 14, 2019
Building Safety Month promotes the importance of modern building codes and the code enforcement officials who protect America's communities.
Washington — Representatives Peter Welch (D-VT-At large) and David McKinley (R-WV-1) introduced House Resolution 352, which designates May as Building Safety Month, a month-long celebration recognizing the importance of sustainable, resilient and safe infrastructure to communities throughout the United States. This congressional resolution is the first specifically honoring building safety since 1983.
Building Safety Month reinforces the need for the adoption of modern, regularly updated building codes, and helps families, communities and businesses understand what it takes to create safe and sustainable structures. The International Code Council created the campaign 39 years ago. The 2019 weekly themes focus on disaster preparation, training and education, clean and abundant water, the relationship between building safety professionals and property owners, and innovations in building safety.
The resolution, in part, declares that: "The House of Representatives supports the goals and ideals of Building Safety Month; and recognizes the essential service provided by Federal, State, and local building departments, fire prevention bureaus, and Federal agencies in protecting lives and properties."
Representative Welch said, "Safe buildings are the bedrock of strong communities. I am happy to introduce this resolution recognizing the importance of safe, resilient and sustainable buildings across America."
"After spending more than fifty years in the construction industry, I know firsthand the importance of safe, resilient and sustainable homes, buildings and infrastructure. As one of only two licensed engineers in Congress, I am proud to support this resolution," stated Representative McKinley.
"Thank you to Representatives Welch and McKinley for being champions of Building Safety Month and for their support of building codes and code professionals," said Code Council CEO Dominic Sims, CBO. "This resolution will raise awareness about the importance of modern codes and standards in making our buildings safer and our communities more resilient."
Representatives Welch and McKinley currently serve as co-chairs of the High Performance Building Congressional Caucus, a bipartisan effort to educate about the benefits of high performance buildings and to highlight the economic, environmental and societal benefits of these buildings.
Learn more about Building Safety Month and how to get involved at www.buildingsafetymonth.org.
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On April 14th at the OSU CH2M HILL Alumni Center, over 620 people instantly quieted as Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Larry Rodgers took the stage to introduce renowned poet Rita Dove. There was not an empty seat in the house as she accepted the prestigious Stone Award, presented to her by President Ed Ray. Rita spoke on the importance of poetry to the world, read several of her poems from her new collection, and answered questions from the audience on her writing process and her opinions on written versus spoken word.
Grassroots Books and Music, a small bookstore in downtown Corvallis, was also in attendance. The store had contacted the publisher of Rita's new collection of poems and was able to make the book available to the OSU community nearly a month before it will be released to anyone or anywhere else in the world.
Earlier that day Rita spoke to the graduate students of the School of Writing, Literature, and Film and gave a second reading the following day at the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Portland.
The video below, shown at both the Corvallis and Portland readings, depicts the outreach to bring Rita's poetry to the community in honor of her visit to receive the Stone Award. These events included writing workshops in local schools and public libraries led by OSU School of Writing, Literature, and Film graduate students, a painting and collage class inspired by Rita's works, and a public lecture on "Reading Rita Dove" by Dean Larry Rodgers.
Rita Dove served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1993 to 1995 and Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2004 to 2006. She has received numerous accolades, including three lifetime achievement awards, 25 honorary doctorates and the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. Dove is the only poet to receive both the National Humanities Medal (1996) and the National Medal of the Arts (2011). Dove holds the Commonwealth Professor of English chair at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where she has been teaching since 1989.
The Stone Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement honors a major American author who has created a body of critically acclaimed literary work and has been—in the tradition of creative writing at OSU—a dedicated mentor to succeeding generations of young writers.
OSU alum Patrick F. Stone ('74) and his wife, Vicki, established the prize to spotlight what they see as one of OSU's best kept secrets: the MFA Program in Creative Writing, which has a growing reputation for its emphasis on mentoring students, building community and reaching out to underserved populations—including at-risk youth and military veterans. The Stones' $600,000 commitment has allowed OSU to award prizes in 2012, 2014 and 2016, and will continue to provide award funding through an endowment. The honorarium for the award is $20,000, making the Stone Prize one of the most substantial awards for lifetime literary achievement offered by any university in the country.
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Editing The Bard: How OSU Students Modified Romeo and Juliet
A group of dedicated Oregon State University student writers and editors released a new version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet this past October.
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