When I booked this place I didn't know what to expect but was surprised how awesome this place was for me and my family. The size of the place is quite generous for my young ones to run around and has Baby First TV on cable and provides all your basic stuff such as towels, soap, shampoo etc and also has a nespresso machine and capsules for the morning coffee hit I needed and the cupcake Elin provides is the icing on the cake! Elin who showed me the place has the best customer service, even better than some 5 star hotels in the area. Differently worth the stay. The apartment also has some restaurants, dry cleaning and pharmacy which is quite convenient. One thing to note is to contact Elin before you reach the place to obtain the keys as the security might be a bit confused on which apartment is the correct one.
beautiful view of city from 35th storey.
When we arrived at this apartments, the staff wasn't there for quite a long wait. We tried to reach her by phone, no answer. We even called agoda to fix this because it made us think that we were being scammed. Agoda gave us another number of the staff but we couldn't reach it too. But thankfully after an hour(?) the staff came, she told us that she left her phone at the apartment. To compensate, she gives us a few hours (more time than we supposed to check-out from the property). Besides that, the room was very clean and spacious. Nothing to complain. There's even balcony with city view. Also the place is very close to shopping centers.
Having holiday with family need a large space for staying and The Cupcake Apartment can provide it. Despite all the disadvantage, the cupcake apartment can be a one of the choice for long staying during holiday with families. Good location and easily to find.
Wifi excellent. Good & courteous security guards.
Ok ok. But sewage smell was horrible. Management of the building should do something or suction suggested to reduce the horrible smell. Toilet too small. The toilet floor and shower area and glass partition need to be thorough clean. Water heater not hot. Fridge not clean. Dining Table glass not cleaned.
My family of 6 rented the Brownie Suite during the first week of December 2015. Via Agoda.com, we initially booked the Red Velvet Suite (which has 3 beds), but upon checking in, requested to switch to the Brownie Suite (which has 4 beds). Elin the property manager agreed to our request without even blinking an eye. Great service, Elin. We made a good choice: Brownie Suite is on the top floor of this 36-storey apartment complex and affords a fantastic panoramic view of the city that's unblocked by any other building. There's an Alfamart, a nasi padang restaurant, a dimsum restaurant, and a PHD outlet on the ground floor, so you should be able to find food quite easily. My kids walked through the streets of Semanggi to the Ciputra World Mall, and it took us about 10 minutes to get there. The neighborhood streets are narrrow though, but perhaps that's what adds up to the character of Jakarta.
Uncomfortable feeling when reached the hotel. No sign on Cupcake Suite Apartment. The real name of apartment is Tamansari Apartment. Do not expect to find a real beautiful reception lobby and this is medium level apartment in the context of overall apartment performance/rate. Difficult to find representative restaurant within/nearby the apartment/hotel. In summary : This apartment is quite OK if you just need the place to sleep and take a rest. Do not expect too much when you need something else than a place to sleep.
i like to stay in the cupcake suites. the room is very clean and comfortable. the stay is very kind.
Lovely, clean facilities at a very central location. Personal welcome by extremely friendly and helpful staff. Perfect WIFI/cable. Awesome swimming pool and gym.
After spending 4 nights at a different hotel that didn't have room for our final night, we moved to the Red Velvet Suite of the Cupcake Suites Apartments. It was such a welcome change, I wish I had known about these apartments before! Staff is super friendly and welcoming and the box of homemade cupcakes was an unexpected but much appreciated touch. The well-maintained and fully equipped apartment has two bedrooms (very comfortable beds!) and is tastefully decorated with pops of red to give a modern and stylish interior. We really enjoyed our one night stay and would definitely recommend the Cupcake Suites Apartments to others!
We enjoyed our short stay, the staff were friendly and efficient always ready to help in any way. We will be back!


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SMS Usage Remains Strong In The US: 6 Billion SMS Messages Are Sent Each Day
Michael O'Grady, Forecast Analyst
In two recently published forecasts — the Forrester Research Mobile Media Application Spending Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (EU-7) and the Forrester Research Mobile Media Application Spending Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (US) — we looked at mobile and tablet content usage for games, music, video, and messaging across the US and seven countries in Western Europe. As content availability becomes more synonymous with handset choice, the forecast helps us understand the proportion of mobile commerce that we can attribute to those who use and pay for digital content.
Even with the increased use of instant messaging, SMS remains the workhorse of mobile — with a 14% increase in the number of SMS messages sent in 2011 compared with 2010. More than 2 trillion SMS messages were sent in the US in 2011, which equates to more than 6 billion SMS messages sent per day. Text messaging users send or receive an average of 35 messages per day. Although by 2017 SMS will dominate mobile content spend less than it does today, it will still remain significant.
SMS messages allow quick, direct communication that works on all types of phone. In addition, US adults are more than twice as likely to have adopted SMS as any other form of mobile messaging, such as email, MMS, or instant messaging. With more than 80% of the US population owning a mobile phone and with almost 70% of these phone owners regularly sending or receiving text messages, SMS will remain a significant part of the mobile landscape for the foreseeable future.
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Q: Calculus: volumes My tutor gave me this question and I don't know how to tackle this type of question.
Consider the solid of revolution obtained when the region surrounded by $x=2$, $x=3$, $y=1$ and $y=\frac{x}{x+3}$ is rotated about the line $y=1$. Find an expression for the cross-sectional area of this solid at a point $x$.

A: Here's a rough sketch of the region, which I've labelled $R$.

When you revolve the red line about the line $y=1$, it traces out a disk; this disk is one of the cross-sections of the resulting solid of revolution. The radius of the disk is the length of the red line, which is the $y$-coordinate at the top of the line minus the $y$-coordinate at the bottom. The $y$-coordinate at the top is $1$; the one at the bottom is $\frac{x}{x+3}$. Thus, the radius of the disk is
$$1-\frac{x}{x+3}=\frac3{x+3}\;,$$
and the area of the disk is $$\pi\left(\frac3{x+3}\right)^2=\frac{9\pi}{(x+3)^2}\;.$$

A: If you can imagine the shape formed, you will see that the radius of the cross-section is simply the difference between $y=1$ and $y=x/(x+3)$, or $r = 1 - x/(x+3)$.
The area is therefore $\pi r^2 = \pi \left(1-\frac{x}{x+3}\right)^2$

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Fallow (IRE)
1957 – c. 1979
Worden II (FR) x Galloway Queene (GB), by Colombo (GB)
Family 3-i
The product of a cross between a stamina-laden sire and a mare by a top-class miler, Fallow made no show as a racer at 2 and was exported to Argentina in late 1959. She proved the worth of her bloodlines by becoming a top broodmare for Haras Argentino, producing eight stakes winners. Her descendants include champions in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, and Scandinavia.
Race record
A bay mare; no further information available.
As a producer
Fallow produced 16 named foals. Her important foals are as follow:
Farm (1965, by Idle Hour) won the 1968 Polla de Potrancas (Argentine One Thousand Guineas) and Gran Premio Selección (Argentine Oaks) and was the Argentine champion 3-year-old filly of 1968/1969, she was also the Argentine champion older female of 1970/1971. She was imported to the United States, where she became the second dam of four stakes winners and the third dam of multiple Grade 3 winner River Squall. She is also the third dam of Brazilian Group 2 winner Urban Habitat.
Factory (1966, by Idle Hour) won the 1970 Premio Arturo R. Bullrich and Premio Miguel Angel y Tomas Celman, both now Group races in Argentina. She is the dam of 1983 Premio Otoño (ARG-G2) winner Factorial (by Dancing Moss) and is the third dam of 2004 Gran Premio O.S.A.F. (PER-G1) winner and Peruvian champion miler Zorro Rojo and of Babae, a multiple Grade/Group 3 winner in Chile and the United States. Factory is also the third dam of Chilean Group 3 winner Charleston.
Fizz (1967, by Idle Hour) won the 1972 Gran Premio de Honor (now a Group 1 race in Argentina and the 1973 Premio Chacabuco (ARG-G2). She was later sent to Brazil, where she won the 1973 Grande Prêmio Brasil (BRZ-G1) and was the Brazilian champion older female of 1973/1974. She was imported to the United States but was a disappointing broodmare there, although she is the third dam of Argentine Group 3 winner Una Pasion.
Fazenda (1970, by Dancing Moss) won the 1974 Premio Enrique Acebal (ARG-G3). Imported to the United States, she was a disappointing broodmare there but is the second dam of Argentine Group 3 winner Fabuloso Champ.
Farandole (1971, by Dancing Moss) is the dam of 1985 Gran Premio 9 de Julio (ARG-G1) winner Faranloy (by Liloy) and 1984 Gran Premio Joaquin S. De Anchorena (ARG-G1) winner Fayrsal (by Halpern Bay). She is also the second dam of 1996 Gran Premio Enrique Acebal (ARG-G1) winner Furla and 2000 Gran Premio Municipal de Vina del Mar (CHI-G1) winner Atreo and is the third dam of 2008 Gran Premio Tanteo de Potrancas (CHI-G1) winner Está Bailando, the Chilean co-champion 2-year-old filly of 2007/2008. In addition, Farandole is the third dam of 2005 Scandinavian champion sprinter Alpino Chileno, 2012 Ecuadorean Horse of the Year Trottier, and South African Group 2 winner Federal Reserve.
Fairly (1972, by Dancing Moss) won the 1976 Premio Criadores (ARG-G2) and was Group 1-placed. Imported to the United States, she was a winner there but proved disappointing as a broodmare.
Fact (1973, by Dancing Moss) was the runner-up in the 1976 Gran Premio Selección and won the 1978 Osunitas Handicap in the United States. She is the dam of 1988 San Simeon Handicap (ARG-G3) winner Bolder than Bold (by Plum Bold), listed stakes winner Little Hailey (by Blushing Groom), and Grade 1-placed restricted stakes winner Fiction (by Perrault). She is the second dam of 1997 Cape Fillies Guineas (SAF-G1) winner Igreja and 2001 Gran Premio Estrellas Sprint (ARG-G1) winner Taimazov and the third dam of New Zealand Group 3 winner Veronica Franco.
Farmer (1974, by Dancing Moss) won the 1979 Gran Premio de Honor (ARG-G1) and two Argentine Group 2 races.
Fazendeira (1975, by Dancing Moss) produced multiple Argentine Group 3 winner Prince Joe (by Lode) and is the second dam of 1999 Gran Premio Joaquin V. Gonzalez-Internacional (ARG-G1) winner Joup.
Far (1979, by Dancing Moss) won the 1985 Handicap Forlitano (a listed race) and was Group 1-placed.
Fallow spent her broodmare career at Haras Argentino.
Pedigree notes
Sired by 1953 Washington, D.C., International winner Worden II (a son of the noted stamina influence Wild Risk and a marked influence for stamina in his own right), Fallow is inbred 4x3 to 1925 St. Leger Stakes winner Solario, the English/Irish champion sire of 1937, and 4x4 to 1916 French and Spanish champion 3-year-old male Teddy, the French champion sire of 1923. She is also inbred 5x4 to two-time English/Irish champion sire Phalaris, 5x5 to nine-time English/Irish champion sire St. Simon, and 5x5 to 1910 Two Thousand Guineas and Eclipse Stakes winner Neil Gow. Fallow is a full sister to Fallow's Sister, dam of 1986/1987 Argentine Horse of the Year Fain (by Dancing Moss), two-time Argentine champion Fatly (by Dancing Moss), and Argentine stakes winner Flamigera (by Dancing Moss). Fallow's Sister is also the third dam of multiple Argentine Group 1 winner Fairy Magic, 2004 Grande Premio Juliano Martins (BRZ-G1) winner Marenostrum, Chilean Group 2 winner Flash, and Argentine Group 3 winner Casey.
Also a half sister to Psall (by Psidium), second dam of Peruvian Group 2 winner Skulda and third dam of 2006/2007 Peruvian champion miler Farrel, Fallow is out of Galloway Queene, whose sire Colombo was the English champion 2-year-old male of 1933 and won the following year's Two Thousand Guineas. Galloway Queene is a half sister to English stakes winner Strong I' th' Arm (by Nearco) and to stakes-placed Chaste and Fair (by Big Game), dam of stakes winner Rue de Romance (by Watling Street), second dam of 1969 Metropolitan Handicap (SAF) winner Peter Beware and 1968 Excelsior Handicap winner Peter Piper, and third dam of 1980/1981 Argentine champion 2-year-old male Big Safety, 1995 Gran Premio de Potrancas (ARG-G1) winner Cubata, Japanese Group 2 winner Kyoei Ascent, and Argentine Group 3 winner Safety Rama. She is also a half sister to My Ladyship (by Blue Peter), third dam of Brazilian Group 3 winner Verdagon, and to Faerie Lore (by Rhodes Scholar), dam of English stakes winners Pretence (by Ujiji), King's Own (by Chamossaire), and Arabian Night (by Persian Gulf); second dam of 1955 Prix La Rochette winner Belle Epoque; and third dam of 1969 Prix Daru winner Budapest. Finally, Galloway Queene is a half sister to Faerie Dance (by Dante), second dam of 1975 Barbadian Horse of the Year Kingly Street, and to Antonia (by Big Game), dam of 1967 Gladness Stakes winner Sparrow Hawk (by Honeyway) and second dam of 1981 South African Guineas (SAF-G1) winner Heracles.
Galloway Queene and her siblings are out of Faerie Queen (by Solario), a half sister to 1937 St. Leger Stakes winner Chulmleigh (by Singapore) and to 1939 July Stakes winner and two-time Argentine champion sire British Empire (by Colombo). Produced from 1930 Oaks Stakes winner Rose of England (by Teddy), Faerie Queen is also a half sister to Eastern Rose (by Singapore), dam of English stakes winner Exotic II (by Colombo) and second dam of 1957 Craven Stakes winner Blue Peak.


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Author Archives: Tim Schütz
Tim Schütz is a PhD researcher in Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. His current research focuses on civic data and infrastructure in highly polluted communities. As a member of the Design Group for the Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography (PECE), he is interested in research project architecture and community outreach.
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Data Activism and Petro-Public Knowledge "Across Borders": The Formosa Plastics Global Archive
 Tim Schütz, Shan-Ya Su  April 27, 2021
When our research group entered the Formosa Plastics museum in Taiwan, the first thing we noticed was a massive piece of kauri wood, sitting protected under a dome of glass. Wang Yung Ching, chairman of the company and formerly Taiwan's richest person, had acquired the burl in 2002, after seeing it in an art gallery in the southern port city of Kaohsiung. As our tour guide explained with excitement, Wang was captivated by the wood's radiant strength, representing the "immeasurable capabilities and longevity of the Formosa Plastics Group", making it an ideal "centerpiece" for the company's six-floor museum[1] . Exhibits celebrate the founder and spirit of the Formosa Plastics Group (complete with dioramas and wax figures) and a miniature replica of Formosa's 6th Sixth Naphtha Cracking Plant in Central Taiwan. The fourth floor has an Earth Conservation Theatre. The sixth floor conveys how Formosa has given back to society through investment in education, hospitals, and cultural heritage projects[2] . (read more...)
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Archiving for the Anthropocene: Notes from the Field Campus
 Tim Schütz  October 28, 2019
Editors's note: Click here to read the author's MA thesis expanding on this topic. On a chilly Sunday afternoon in March, our Field Campus group walked through downtown Granite City, Illinois. Located just 6 miles north of St. Louis, the downtown was a markedly post-industrial landscape. Many of the red brick buildings were vacant and showed signs of lasting decay. Weedy patches of open land occasionally provided views of a large nearby factory. It was hard to tell if coffee and sandwich shops were closed forever. The factory, a U.S. Steel Corps manufacturing plant called Granite City Works was founded by two German immigrants in 1896, along with the city itself. In 2009, the National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) ranked neighborhoods in Granite City at the second highest risk for cancer in the country, highlighting the plant's coke ovens as a likely source (McGuire 2009). Coke oven emissions include benzene, arsenic, and lead (Earthjustice 2019) – that people breathe, and soils absorb. Another source of toxic air pollution has been the NL Industries/Taracorp lead smelter. Before its closure in 1983, the smelter contaminated over 1,600 households in Granite City and beyond, eventually turning into an EPA superfund cleanup site (Singer, n.d.). The US EPA recognized that the highest concentrations of lead in the air are around smelters. Lead in the air means lead in the soil. Tearing down houses in "blighted" sections of the city exacerbates the problem since demolitions release the lead in the paint of older buildings (Blythe 2019). Granite City is certainly a hot spot. As we walked through Granite City, we were guided by our local collaborator and artist Chris Carl, whose work with the urban renewal group New American Gardening "explores garden making on vacant lots and post industrial land." Chris led us to the particular plot, pointing to a number of concrete blocks scattered around the ground. One of the blocks featured a warning symbol etched into its top, the other had the letters 'Pb' scrawled upon it – which, as he informed us, is the chemical abbreviation for lead. The blocks were Chris's "DIY version of a lead remediation," an intervention he began after a project by the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences and a visit by EPA officials who confirmed low levels of lead all over the area after conducting the requisite soil testing. The levels on the site we were standing on, however, had proven to be "off the charts." Notably, both Madison County and the U.S. Steel Trust had provided funding for this pilot plot. (read more...)
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Home » Air Transport » Russia waiting for Cessna Denali
Russia waiting for Cessna Denali
Posted on September 7th, 2017 by Russian Aviation Insider in Air Transport, Russia
Deliveries are expected to begin in the first half of 2020 (Textron Corporation)
Jet Transfer, the official representative of Cessna Aircraft in Russia and Kazakhstan, has been accepting orders for the new Cessna Denali single-engine turboprop model.
The Denali is intended as an answer to the Daher-Socata TBM and Pilatus PC-12 business turboprops. Its development was announced two years ago. Jet Transfer CEO Alexander Evdokimov says deliveries are slated to begin in the first half of 2020.
He adds that a great amount of interest in the model has been observed in Russia: "The main driver of this growth is the Denali's greater economic efficiency at a similar cost compared to its competitors."
Jet Transfer expects to have secured several orders for the aircraft by the time deliveries begin. Private customers have demonstrated particular interest. According to the company's conservative estimate, which takes the relative instability of the Russian market into account, private individuals in the country will be purchasing a total of up to five Denalis per year.
Orders can also be expected from small airlines and industrial enterprises, which could use the type to form a fleet of business aircraft for corporate transportation or other air operations.
A maintenance system for the aircraft will be set up in Russia. It will likely be run by Jet Transfer's partner company Flight Center, which is based in Voskresensk, Moscow Region.
The Cessna Denali is being designed from scratch. The project reached the static testing phase in May 2017, the same time as the fuel system and propeller tests were announced.
The aircraft will be equipped with the new-generation 1,240-liter GE Aviation Advance Turboprop engine, whose development began around the same time as the aircraft program was launched. The powerplant will come with a 266.7-cm five-bladed carbon propeller by McCauley Propeller Systems.
The airplane is designed to carry eight to 11 passengers, and will have a range of 2,963 km with four passengers on board. Its maximum cruising airspeed will be 519 km/h.
By Valentin Makov
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Q: SQL : select only first row when there is duplicate data in group How to select only one row data in each different group when I'm using sum with group by?
I would like to remove the second row and show only first row and third row.
This is my query:
SELECT f_provider, SUM(f_rebate_amount) as total_cashback,
       DATE(f_match_time) as match_time, f_status
FROM rebate_history
GROUP BY f_provider, f_created_time, f_status


Do you run or know of a great fitness class in the Crawley area?
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In fact we're unashamedly different — our background in martial arts and combat sports means you'll get in a great shape AND learn something new and interesting too.
We have a wide range of fitness and martial arts classes for all levels of fitness and ability.
Offering karate and kickboxing classes for ages 3 to 65.


This model by Unique Replicas in 1:24 scale comes with a raw wood coffin with 2 simple A rests, flower wreath and an easel to hold it. The hood, doors and split rear doors open. This and similar Studebaker hearses in different scales and with other detail variations can often be found on eBay . The model shown (with darker wood items) can be purchased HERE at $64.99.


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Q: sed command is failing, how to fix that? I have a github actions workflow, to send emails at the end of build, I have created a html file and kept place holders there.
At the pipeline, I am running sed commands to replace the place holders with the github variables.
- name: Update HTML file values
  shell: cmd
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    set html=".\\installs_repo\\Projectwise ISM files\\${{ env.Version }}\\mart_installs_email.html"
    copy /Y ".\\installs_repo\\Projectwise ISM files\\${{ env.Version }}\\mart_installs_email.template" %html%
    sed -i "s|VAR_WORKFLOW|${{ github.workflow }}|g" %html%
    sed -i "s|VAR_REPO|${{ github.repository }}|g" %html%
    sed -i "s|VAR_RUNNER|${{ github.run_number }}|g" %html%
    sed -i "s|VAR_REF|${{ github.ref_name }}|g" %html%
    sed -i "s|VAR_COMMIT|${{ github.event.head_commit.message }}|g" %html%
    sed -i "s|VAR_COUNT|${{ env.git_commit_count }}|g" %html%
    sed -i "s|VAR_URL|${{ secrets.DAILY_BUILDS_URL }}|g" %html%
    sed -i "s|VAR_VERSION|${{ env.Version }}|g" %html%

But whenever there are spaces or new lines or special characters like * in the variable value, especially commit message (VAR_COMMIT is place holder), the pipeline is failing.
If there is space or new line before the commit message.

If there are multiple lines and stars(*) also.

My html file is below with var_ is for place holders.
<!DOCTYPE html>

VAR_WORKFLOW - Successful

    GitHub Repository
    VAR_REPO

    Version
    VAR_VERSION

    Github Actions Build Number
    VAR_RUNNER

    GitHub Branch Name
    VAR_REF

    Commit Message
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    Daily Builds
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How much do you know about where we get our pork in Australia? Simon Bryant takes us through a few of the basics.
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CERES are serious about organic. This is why they support a system which is moving from strength to strength.
Local, seasonal, organic. It's all the rage, but what are the realities of cooking with the seasons?
Feeding the world today does not depend on the total quantity of food produced, but rather the location of it's production and it's cost.


The porosity and distribution of pores within carbonaceous materials including coals and chars are key attributes in understanding and parameterising the performance of these important materials in energy systems. However, most experiment techniques for determining these are limited and applicable only to a small size range of accessible pores. CSIRO has conducted preliminary experiments to determine the applicability of Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS) techniques to the determination of the size, shape and distribution of pores within these materials. Determination of these properties relies on fitting models to the data obtained.
The most commonly used approach involves fitting a combination of mass and surface fractals, and whilst it is successful at producing realistic distributions, it is subtle and intricate in ways that make it applicable only to a defined range of conditions and fitting inputs.
The aim of this project is to develop an alternative curve fitting algorithm for sub Porod non smooth (potentially fractal) porosity. This will allow industry and the research community to more fully appreciate the assumptions that underpin the models and the requirements for obtaining a good fit as well as develop a more comprehensive understanding of the influence that the factors of pore shape, distribution and size contribute to the SAXS pattern observed.


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Star Dragon gets VFL chance
Ben Lloyd in action for Bell Park in 2021. (Sports Media Image/Marcel Berens)
A BREAKOUT season across half-back has earned Bell Park gun Ben Lloyd an invite to Geelong VFL pre-season training.
Lloyd was a standout for the Dragons as they posted a 7-4 win-loss record.
Recruited from Ovens and Murray club North Albury ahead of the 2018 season, Lloyd claimed Bell Park's best-and-fairest and was named in the GFL Coaches' Team of the Year for the first time.
Surprisingly, he failed to poll a Mathieson Medal vote despite a slew of high-possession matches, including a season-high 41 disposals in the Round 3 win over Geelong West.
"After the year he's had, he deserves the opportunity," Dragons coach Shane Jack said.
"Benny's a really good influence down back for someone who is only 22; he shows some real poise with the footy.
"I had a chat to (Geelong VFL boss) Nathan Tweddle earlier in the year about Ben, and they kept a bit of an eye on him, and they were keen to get him down."
GDFL: FORD FINDS NEW HOME ON THE HILL
Lloyd will join fellow Dragons Ben Worme, Will Christie and Isaac Wareham at GMHBA Stadium, while Keegan Gray will continue at Werribee.
However, fellow Tiger Aiden Domic will join Charlie Wilson and Luke Smith as departures from Hi Sushi Oval.
"He's just opened up his gym in Ballarat, and he's living in Ballarat as well," Jack said.
"He's acquitted himself really well at Bell Park, but with opening up his own business, he'll align himself with a Ballarat club."
Bell Park commences pre-season training next Monday with a five-week block in the lead-up to Christmas.
"We've got a lot of eager kids with the under-19s going back to under-18s," Jack said.
"We've got 20-25 of those boys wanting to jump straight back into it.
"We'll get them back nice and early and get them back involved at the footy club."
Meanwhile, Colac's Liam McCarthy has also earned an invite to train with the Cats after earning Team of the Year honours.
However, Mathieson medalist Harry Benson has knocked back an offer to join Geelong and looks set to remain as a full-time player with St Mary's.


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Boys basketball: Freeport uses size to fend off Poland
Lee Horton, Sun Journal, Lewiston, Maine
Jan. 7—POLAND — Poland kept coming, but Freeport kept answering.
In the end, the Falcons' size advantage and timely playmaking were too much, and they escaped Poland Regional High School with a 78-69 Western Maine Conference boys basketball victory Saturday.
"But it was a good game. That was a lot of fun," Knights coach Bill Flynn said. "I was telling the guys, it's a really tough one to swallow, you know, because you play hard, we didn't really do too much wrong, and it's just the way it works in basketball."
Freeport grabbed an early lead and forced Poland to play from behind for most of the game.
The Knights fought back throughout the game and got within striking distance a few times — they even led once — but each time JT Pound and the Falcons staved off Poland's comeback bid.
"I think it was really just putting it behind us," Pound said, "and really just starting our plays up again and getting shots up."
The Knights were particularly dangerous from beyond the 3-point arc. Fourteen of their 24 made field goals were 3-pointers.
"They were hitting 3s, but we were hitting two or three twos to one of their 3s, and that just managed to keep the lead," said Falcons coach Tyler Tracy, who previously coached the Knights and was coaching at Poland for the first time since leaving in 2021.
Pound, Freeport's junior big man, scored in the post but also made three 3-pointers to finish with a team-high 29 points.
"That's his game. He's inside-out. He's pretty dynamic," Tracy said. "When he's hitting boards and scoring underneath, then he can step out and knock that down, it makes it tough to defend."
Two of Freeport's other tall players, Cody Wall and Will Maneikis, contributed 15 and 10 points, respectively, off the bench.
Poland sophomore John Patenaude led all scorers with 33 points. Senior Hayden Christner made six 3s and finished with 19 points.
The Falcons (3-3) set the tone by scoring the game's first seven points.
Patenaude came off the bench and scored the Knights' first points of the game, which spurred their first rally. Patenaude scored Poland's first 10 points and Christner ended the first quarter with a buzzer beating 3-pointer that cut Freeport's lead to 19-13.
The Knights (2-5) opened the second with a pair of 3s to tie the game at 19-19, and another 3 gave them their only lead of the game, 22-21. But their many fouls in the first quarter haunted them and Freeport's size advantage became daunting.
Free throws and Pound propelled the Falcons on a 14-0 run that turned their one-point deficit into a 36-22 advantage. Pound scored 11 in the quarter, and had 15 in the first half.
Pound said Freeport took advantage of the size difference by "using our plays and posting up, really sealing, and just making quick moves."
The lead grew to 40-25, but Poland finished the half with an 8-0 run to cut it down to 40-33.
Patenaude, who scored 17 in the first half, and freshman Damon Howze hit two 3s apiece in the second, and Christner and Gio Warren each made one.
"Once Johnny gets going in a rhythm," Flynn said, "he's slippery going to the basket, he can shoot from the outside really well, and once he gets going, he's really tough to slow down. And I also thought he opened the game up for Hayden, who's as good a shooter as anyone, particularly on the catch-and-shoot."
Treys by Christner and Shane Yorkey, and five points by Patenaude, put Poland within one point, 45-44, midway through the third quarter.
Pound spent most of the third on the bench after picking up his third foul, as did Connor Slocum, who picked up his fourth less than a minute after Pound was called for his third.
In Pound's absence, Wall scored six points and the Falcons took a 51-46 lead into the fourth quarter.
"Connor Slocum's been our most steady and consistent player, and he was in foul trouble. It was nice to see the team respond with him out (of the game), because he can be our emotional leader and kind of calms us down when things go a little chaotic," Tracy said.
Pound scored the first five points of the fourth and assisted on a bucket by Maneikis as the Falcons opened the final period with a 7-0 run.
Christner hit three 3s in the fourth, including a four-point play, and the Knights kept fighting, but the closest they got was within six points a few times. Max Maneikis helped Freeport seal the win with a late 3-pointer and a pair of free throws.
"Basketball's a funny sport, it comes down to two, three possessions," Flynn said. "I felt like we did the things right on our end to do what we needed to do, but they made three really nice buckets there at the end that kept us apart."
As he did in the second quarter, Pound scored 11 points in the fourth.
Slocum finished the game with nine points, bolstered by 7-of-11 shooting at the free throw line, while Max Maneikis scored seven.
Prior to the game, Poland shared a message of appreciation to Tracy over the public address system for his 11 seasons coaching the Knights. His tenure included guiding Poland to the Class B South final in 2014 and a pair of Maine McDonald's Class B South Coach of the Year honors, in 2012 and 2015. He left for Freeport, where he is a teacher, prior to the 2021-22 season.
"I'm a competitor, once the ball goes up, it's all the same to me," Tracy said. "But, obviously, there's a lot of people here that I care about and love, and a lot of those kids I've coached forever.
"It was tough at the end, seeing them and knowing that they battled, they were tough today, and they lost. I love 'em, you know, you don't like seeing people you love sad. That was the toughest part."
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Let's post some love after the riots and before Thanksgiving. I'm sure this blog will feature a few rants, including the exasperation that parents apparently experience (Can parents really disown their kids? My mom told me that quite often) and me wondering why I didn't do this when I was 20. But today I'd like to share the love.
I've loved people, moments, bands and stuff. I love my record collection. I've always thought if my house caught fire the first order of business would be to save my autographed Ramones albums. But there really is no comparison to the love a parent feels for a child. It's like some drug-like state of euphoria and anxiety. Like what you thought love was supposed to be like when you were 13.
I was one of those people who made fun of "breeders" with their mini-vans and screaming brats on cross-country flights. As a childless dude, I had ultimate autonomy. If I wanted to go see a band on a Wednesday night, I would just go. If I wanted to spend my money a blue leather jacket because it looked like something Axl Rose might wear, I could do it. (It was on Kings Road, London in 1991 and I would give anything to trade that ugly thing in on a baby bike trailer.) People who had babies were just adding to the population bomb and the rising idiocracy. Look at that mom, smoking in her kid's face. Forced sterilization!
Of course, I had to reconcile my hostility with my feminist values. Pro-choice means you can also choose to produce mini-yous if you want to and maybe this generation of rug rats will be the one to finally smash patriarchy. Each wave of youth gets a little less douchebaggy, right?
But then we got pregnant. It was planned. We said, "Let's get pregnant!" and a month later we were. In fact on our second date, sitting at the bar in Binks on Alberta, I looked at Andrea and said, "We're going have kids, aren't we?" And the dread started to fade. That autonomy that had defined my masculinity for decades seemed like something I was ready to let go of, for something much better.
I've a lot of amazing moments in my life. April 29, 1985. I played guitar onstage with U2 in my hometown of Atlanta. Pretty awesome, right? It does not even compare to the first time we heard our baby's heartbeat. The world changed in that instant. I heard a giant whooshing sound, like a massive black hole being shrunk down to a tiny singularity. My life was no longer about me and all the things and experiences I could collect. It was now about that heartbeat and protecting it with all my might. For the rest of my life.
That moment changed me. It destroyed my ego and opened up a part of my heart that I never even knew was there. In that moment, my life as a human finally started. And now that she's here, I just have to look at her and the dopamine starts flowing in my brain. So I look at her a lot. I can't believe that she's here and that I had anything to do with her creation. Babies are the best drug ever.
Welcome to the other side 🙂 And Happy Thanksgiving.


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Steve Bruce Promises Investigation Into Newcastle's Staggering Injury Crisis
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Newcastle manager Steve Bruce has admitted he may need to investigate the source of Newcastle's injury crisis, as three more players were consigned to the treatment room following the Magpies' draw with Wolves.
Paul Dummett was forced off at Molineux after just 12 minutes with a hamstring injury, after a groin strain had kept the left-back out for much of the Christmas period.
Dwight Gayle also hobbled off with a hamstring injury just 16 minutes later, before Joelinton suffered a groin strain but played through the pain barrier as Newcastle recorded a credible draw.
SB on injuries: "I haven't known anything like it. I thought it was going to be a repeat of Leicester where we lost four players in 12 minutes. Joelinton should have come off. He played at half pace in the second-half but had courage to carry on. We're down to the bare bones." pic.twitter.com/dXAQKKskZ1
— Newcastle United FC (@NUFC) January 11, 2020
Remarkably, Gayle's hamstring problem was Newcastle's sixth soft tissue injury in the space of 120 minutes of action.
The Magpies finished their New Year's Day clash with Leicester with 10 men, after Fabian Schar, Jetro Willems, Jonjo Shelvey and Javier Manquillo all sustained soft tissue injuries. Bruce admitted he needs to get to the bottom of the club's unprecedented injury crisis.
Quoted by the Evening Chronicle, Bruce said: "We have not changed any of the medical department from last season.
"Whether it's bad luck or we have to go a little deeper to look at it we need to find out."
Bruce had blamed the intense Christmas fixture schedule for the sheer volume of injuries picked up against Leicester.
There is no let up for his side this month though, as the games continue to come thick and fast with three matches in the space of eight days over the course of the next two weeks.
Newcastle's draw with Rochdale in the FA Cup third round means the Magpies face their reply with the League One side on Tuesday night, followed by the visit of Chelsea in the Premier League and then a midweek trip to Goodison Park.
Despite the hectic week of fixtures, when asked if he would blood some youngsters in the FA Cup in light of the fresh injury crisis, Bruce appeared reluctant to do so.
"We already have two kids in the team in the Longstaffs as far as I'm concerned," Bruce added. "Sean got his his chance because of injuries last year and is getting the chance again."


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Lumbersexuals, rejoice! The arcade sports game you've waited for is here! In December of 2014, The Atlantic boldly proclaimed the lumberjack aesthetic was making a comeback, and with this return […]
Lumbersexuals, rejoice! The arcade sports game you've waited for is here!
In December of 2014, The Atlantic boldly proclaimed the lumberjack aesthetic was making a comeback, and with this return to glory emerged the antithesis to the metrosexual: a lumbersexual. While metrosexuals are marked by their attention to personal beauty and attention to details traditionally perceived as less-than-masculine, the lumbersexual spends equal time, effort, and money on his appearance, but striving to emulate the ideals of Paul Bunyan. With the rise of lumberjack culture, of late the country has welcomed axe-throwing bars into its communities, and entrepreneurs are raking in the dough selling beard oil to the proudly bearded men who care to keep the hair soft and supple for their lovers. Visionary video game studio, Mega Cat Studios, has embraced the lumberjack culture, producing a wildly addictive competitive sports arcade game full of axe-throwing mayhem.
Choosing from three modes of gameplay, including a tournament mode where players must climb the ladder, or log as it were, to win the log jamming competition, a quicky mode for a one-off axe-throwing competition, or an online mode, players choose either to compete in an original style of competition or cheerleader. To win the axe-throwing competition, players must balance on a log floating in fluids including clear ocean water, lava in the pits of hell, and even mayonnaise. In original mode, players must maneuver through the fluids, competitors aim to throw an axe past their opponent, scoring either two or five points depending on the region the axe lands in. These competitors are fierce, though, and have no qualms about catching the axe mid-throw, no matter how much force is behind it. Each set is played to eleven points, and the first to three sets wins the match. If this sounds like the kind of quick-paced action that draws players in by saying, "One more," over and over again until four hours have seamlessly passed by, that's because that's exactly how the game plays.
Though cheerleading mode may give the impression of a lighter, more upbeat style of play, choosing this mode is a choice to step up the carnage. Cheerleader mode plays exactly like original mode with the added obstacle of each competitor having four cheerleaders on his or her side of the pond blocking the hurled axes from the endzone. These competitors have a strong desire to win, however, and as a result, the cheerleaders are mowed down one by one until there's a wide enough opening to begin scoring points. Even while being mowed down, these cheerleaders maintain their pep and positivity in delightfully charming animations that really speak to the charm of the design of this game.
Let's break this game down a bit further.
Presentation Grade: A
From the first menu, the developer's vision for this game is realized. With retro 80s-inspired artwork, lines are crisp, colors are vibrant, and it feels like you're stepping into an arcade of yesteryear. Menus are simple and clear. It's incredibly obvious where to go for exactly which mode you're wanting to play, and finding controls is equally simple. The game is incredibly approachable and inviting for players who might not typically find themselves playing an arcade game of this style.
Graphics Grade: A+
Though the concept may seem straightforward and simple, the devil is always in the details. The various levels are immersive and well-developed. Again, the vision for each of these levels is clear and shows follow-through from concept to implementation by the designer. While characters each have a funny backstory, their personalities really come through in sprite design and in their animations and movement. Everything down to the bearded man who emerges from the depths of the swamp, mayo, or pond water depending on the level, transitions happen incredibly smoothly. Everything is well-polished.
Sound Design Grade: B
The sound in this game is very much in keeping with the theme of the game, but it gets repetitive quickly and lacks depth. While what is done is well-executed, the lack of diverse sound effects in actual gameplay is somewhat noticeable.
Gameplay Grade: A-
Gameplay is straightforward, addictive, and fun. It does not take long to learn the mechanics of gameplay, or how to collect and use various powerups that appear on-screen. There are moments in certain matches where it seems like it is easy to lull into a zone of throwing the axe the exact same way each time, scoring points without fail. This ease is not consistent, however, and even computer-controlled opponents do offer a real challenge and diverse styles of gameplay.
Overall Grade: A
Casual gamers should absolutely pick up this title. Fans of retro-style graphics will have blasts of nostalgia wash over them as they work their way through tournament mode with various competitors. It is also a great pick for someone who wants something they can boot up quickly, blow off some steam for about fifteen minutes, and then be able to walk away without getting drawn into an overwhelmingly captivating experience. Discovering unique powerups and each character's special move, like Bruiser's power-up where he enlarges himself to a hulking mass making it near-impossible to get an axe past him adds a depth to the game that significant enhances replay value.
It can not be said enough how fun this title is. It is a unique take on an arcade pong-style game, offering lots of charm and well-developed details. Even just taking time to read through the various character bios to learn their motivations for entering the log jammer tournament or enjoying the trash-talk of your chosen competitor as you progress through the tournament ladder makes this game worth having in your collection.
It is also our pleasure at Nerd Jock Blog to be able to offer a giveaway of this uniquely entertaining title. Enter to win a Steam download of this title here. Additionally, a winner will be chosen from someone who retweets and follows the competition tweet at @NerdJockBlog33 on Twitter. Winners will be chosen and notified on Friday, December 21st. Good luck!
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The report recommended major changes in the teaching process in India that had led children to memorise what they were taught without really comprehending it.
In 1993, a committee chaired by the late Professor Yash Pal submitted its report to the Ministry of Human Resource Development. The committee was set up two years earlier in response to an emotional speech the novelist RK Narayan had given in the Rajya Sabha, where he was a nominated member. This was his maiden speech and the topic he chose to discuss was the burden of the school bag that he had seen children carry every morning. He said that school bags and the daily drudgery of our children's lives represented a national madness. When Narayan ended his speech, many members had tears in their eyes. The committee chaired by Yash Pal was asked to find out why school bags were getting so heavy and what could be done to solve the problem.
A circular issued by the Ministry of Human Resource Development last week has brought the school bag back in focus. The circular lays down rules regarding the maximum weight of the bag that school children can be asked to carry. It is 1.5 kg for Class 1 and Class 2, and 2.3 kg for Classes 3, 4 and 5. It jumps to 4 kg for Classes 6, 7 and 8, and finally to 5 kg for Class 10. Homework is banned for Classes 1 and 2. How these rules will be implemented and who exactly will be held responsible if the rules are breached are interesting questions to consider. Imagine an inspector catching a Class 3 student's bag weighing more than 2.3 kg. The headmistress will perhaps empty the child's water bottle or throw the lunchbox out to bring the bag within the prescribed limit.
This year is the 25th anniversary of the Yash Pal committee's report, Learning without Burden. Its analysis shows that heavy schoolbags are only a symptom of deeper problems that lie in the concept of knowledge shared by curriculum designers, teachers and parents. Knowledge is commonly viewed as a body of information to be memorised for regurgitation during examination. The Yash Pal report berated the common one-way teaching process that stifles children's own desire to learn. In this process, haranguing begins in the nursery and mutates into a regime of oppression through daily homework and weekly tests. The final kill comes with the Board and entrance exams. Cramming is what helps most children to cope with life. And some who cannot, end their lives.
The Yash Pal report gave a dozen concise recommendations. Some of these were aimed at policy reforms while others were to be implemented at the school level. In the former category were ideas for improved curricular designing, teacher training and the examination system. Yash Pal chaired the drafting committee of the National Curriculum Framework (2005), which elaborated on the older recommendations, aiming to promote understanding rather than memorisation in schools, and encouraging children to "construct" knowledge on their own.
The National Council of Educational Research and Training, the top advisory body on matters of curriculum design and textbooks, implemented these recommendations in its new syllabi and textbooks. The recommendations for changes in teacher training and exam reforms did not get the same attention from parallel organisations. Ideas for change at the school level aroused initial enthusiasm but the larger social pressure to maintain the status quo, especially in the context of homework, regular testing and coaching discouraged any significant shifts in institutional routines.
Last week's instructions issued by the human resource development ministry ignore the broader perspective of the Yash Pal report and the National Curriculum Framework. The list of the permissible weight of school bags given in the circular reminds me of a story about the late JP Naik who was member-secretary of the Kothari Commission (1964-'66). After the approval of its report, Naik said, the Maharashtra government issued a circular, instructing all schools to strictly adhere to child-centred methods. The beauty of such circulars lies in their directness. The human resource development ministry's circular assumes that someone will weigh the bag and fix responsibility if the weight exceeds the specified limit. On the number of subjects and textbooks, the circular follows the National Council of Educational Research and Training's practice, paying little attention to the diversity of practices followed in different states and by private schools across the country. As for pedagogy and examination playing a crucial role in making the schoolbag heavy, the circular has little to offer.
In his book, The Epic City, Kushanawa Choudhury offers a description of Kolkata's College Street. We get a glimpse of the throttling grip in which exam guides and other such books hold the vast majority of children. "Publishers have realized that what little money is to be made comes from cashing in on the insecurities of the young," wrote Choudhury. The Yash Pal report brought the human resources development ministry and the rest of us close to this truth about our education system. A quarter century later, the ministry prefers to weigh the schoolbag rather than look inside it.
Krishna Kumar is a former director of NCERT and the author of Education, Conflict and Peace.


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This document describes how to manually set the network interface to overcome JMX (Java Management Extensions) related issues.
Systems with more than one network interface.
During the installation process the JVM configurations for (MBean server for jconsole and the Remote objects for jmxtools) updates the value of server address with one of Network Interfaces. If it chooses the wrong one, clients will not be able to connect.
Laptop users tend to move from network to network a lot and this can cause problems with the registry entries set up for JMX.


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Michigan's RPS ballot defeat: A policy failure or success?
Despite heavy reliance on fossil fuels, Michigan's electorate soundly defeated a Renewable Energy Amendment in 2012 (Proposal 3). The proposal would have mandated that 25% of its electricity come from renewable energy resources by 2025. Prior to the election the State had legislated a 10% goal of adopting more renewable energy into its electricity system through a renewable portfolio standard. Was the defeat a policy failure? This paper employs concepts from the policy failure literature to answer the question. We argue that a traditional policy evaluation such as cost-benefit analysis (CBA) needs to be considered along with broader "political" evaluations. CBA results are complemented with political analysis, which reveal the complexity of evaluating key energy strategies.


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Tight spaces are no longer a problem. Until that huge dream house comes along, design has made it so that any tight apartment could benefit from a wide range of furniture items to suit the needs of the most ostentatious owners. This Concealed Kitchen from Casa Fendi is particularly stylish. With an amazing lacquered wood finish on the outside and the Fendi logo embedded in the doors, the luxurious "miniature" kitchen stands out and could probably astonish anyone who visits your home. But this kitchen is not only elegant, but it is also unbelievably practical, being given that it is only 246cm wide.
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With PM Modi's visit to Nepal within a month after Mr. Oli's visit to India, do you think that the relations between the two countries are becoming better now?
What in your view prompted the frequent reciprocal visits in such a short span of time?
What were the key outcomes of Mr. Oli's visit to India and how do you think it helped improves Indo-Nepal ties?
What are we expecting as key objectives and agendas of discussion of Mr. Modi's visit to Nepal?
What could be the key areas for cooperation between India and Nepal post PM Modi's visit?


Just for today, live in the now. It's a 24 hour program and you only have to worry about this hour. This hour you are clean and in the right place looking for and accepting help.
Grant me the patience to accept this hour of abstinence without reservation.
It's the little things that count, that add up to make a life, that weave themselves into the fabric of my day and make it feel whole. My morning routines, the activities of my day the people I encounter and share my time with. Little things like a pleasant walk, exercise, my daily errands and even eating my favorite foods all come together to make my day. As I move through my day today, I will take time to notice and be grateful for whatever gives me pleasure. I will say a quiet thank you for all that life is handing me.
God does not owe me happiness because I no longer am an intolerant, abusive, self-centered, practicing addict.
Today I am growing in my awareness that my mind, body and spirit need exercise and nourishment. Through prayer and meditation, exercise and reading, I am developing a personal program for physical, mental and spiritual growth.
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The City of Longmont experienced major flooding in certain areas of the city during the September 2013 floods. Repairs are ongoing to infrastructure that was damaged. Maeve Conran caught up with Dale Rademacher, Director of Public Works and Natural Resources for the City of Longmont about the ongoing repairs and the legacy of the flood on the City of Longmont.
The St. Vrain river carved a new channel in Longmont as a result of the 2013 flood.
Sunset bridge in Longmont is the last bridge in the city yet to be repaired.
Sunset bridge in Longmont was severely damaged during last September's floods, it is still closed to the public.


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Stories in Valmiki Ramayana
Valmiki Ramayana has been the wonder of Indian classical literature. It is one of the two epics. Mahabharata is the other epic.
The Ramayana deals mainly with the story of Sri Rama who is an incarnation of lord Vishnu, according to the Indian tradition. Some minor stories have also been retold by
Prof. K.G. Krishnamurthy in this book "Stories in Valmiki Ramayana." This book is the English version of the book written in Kannada in the year 2000 A.D. by the same author.
Prof. K.G. Krishnamurthy hails from Shimoga in Karnataka. He studied Sanskrit as a major subject in B.A. He did his M.A. from Bombay University with distinction. He is a 'Shastri' of Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Bombay. He has passed M.A. in English from Karnatak University, Dharwar. Prof. K.G. Krishna murthy did M. Phil. from Bangalore University. He taught Sanskrit in colleges in Shimoga, Sagar and Bangalore. He served at the Rural College, Kanakapura for 35 years as Professor of Sanskrit. At the end of his service he worked in B.M.S. College for women, Bangalore.
Prof. K.G. Krishnamurthy has authored many books: 'Samskruta-bhashe mathu sahitya' was the first book jointly written by him and his frind late Dr. B.S. Ramakrishna Rao. 'Samskrita Sahityada Sanskshiptha Charithre', Ramayanada Upakathegalu are his other works in Kannada. His translation of Katha saritsagara is published by Karnataka Anuvada Sahitya Akademy. He has edited two texts book for Sanskrit students of Bangalore University.
A few years ago, I started to study Valmiki Ramayana with Kannada translation of Vidvan N. Ranganatha Sharma. After reading the first sarga, which itself contains the story of Rama in about 100 shlokas, I eagerly began to note the contents of the succeeding sargas. A story depicting the origin of Ramayana is narrated in the second sarga. Story of the sage Rishyashrunga, stories regarding the name given to Angadesha, Malada and Karusha, Tataka are told in those sargas. These stories tempted me to separate them from descriptions and write one after the other in simple Kannada so that story-loving readers, especially children, enjoy reading them. The Balakanda contains many such stories told by different people on different occasions. The main story of Rama supported by other stories makes the reader enjoy the epic Ramayana. Even though other Kandas also have some stories, the Uttarakanda is packed with more such stories relating to Ravana, his forefathers, his brothers, and his son Indrajit. Many other stories, even though not related to the main theme of the Ramayana, have been narrated in it. Thus, we can enjoy reading stories one after the other. I collected about 50 stories and wrote in simple Kannada giving suitable titles to them.
When I met my bosom-friend late Dr. B.S. Ramakrishna Rao and told him about my venture, he felt very happy and forced me to bring the stories in a book form. He himself went through the manuscript and read the proof of the print. Thus, "Ramayanada Upakathegalu" was published in the year 2000 A.D. and was well received by the book lovers. The copies were sold out within 2-3 years. Now, I am bringing out the second edition of the same work.
I t was my desire to reach larger readers through the English version of the same book. I began translating into English a year ago. When I revealed the project to my teacher and men tor Prof. T.S. Krishnamurthy, he encouraged me to expedite the translation work. It is his pressure that made me to shun laziness and complete the translation work. He has, out of love and affection, gone through the manuscript and made suitable corrections. He extracted some stories from Ramayana and asked me to add to the book. The last eight stories in the book are written by him. His writing has enhanced the value of the book. I am grateful to my teacher and out of high regard for him, I humbly dedicate this book to him.
I myself have done the DTP work and read the proof. Mistakes, if found, are mine. I sincerely thank MIS Prapti Prakashana for publishing this book. My thanks are due to MIS Vidya Bharati Press for neat printing.
The literary heritage of India is one of the world's most outstanding miracles. Even excluding vast Vedic texts, works like the Ramayana, Mahabharata and Bhagavata would themselves rank among the greatest human achievements. If we were to look for the place where India deserves to be credited for distinct and uncommon originality, it is perhaps in the above three monumental works. These texts are not mere books, but may be termed as 'Indian universe'!
As a sage and a poet Valmiki stands one amongst the greatest figures in the literary history of the world. He has so stamped himself on his monumental work, the Ramayana, that it has remained the very paragon of Indian epics. Apart from the main story, many beautiful and enchanting stories abound in the Ramayana also as in other two works. These stories have given solace and delight to the readers.
Here is a collection of such stories selected from that immortal epic. These are of bewildering variety and have lessons for all, young and old, and so deserve to be read with interest. Prof. K.G. Krishnamurthy has done a magnificent job, for he knows where to dive to retrieve these gems and pearls of stories from the ocean of the great epic. This is no idle claim. In fact, he is an adept in that venture.
The kannada version of these stories published in January 2000 has had an enthusiastic reception from the reading public. Prof. Krishna murthy has now brought this English version. In this version he has added a few more stories which are equally rewarding. He has written these stories in lucid and elegant English prose. Therefore, the book is eminently readable.
This foreword provides me an opportunity to acknowledge my appreciaton to the author for bringing out this useful collection of stories from that classic of an epic, the Ramayana. At the prsent moment, when there is a growing interest in the cultural heritage of the country, the publication of these stories in an enduring form, will, it is hoped, be welcomed by the reading public. If he brings out a similar collection of stories from the sister epic, the Mahabharata also, that would provide a beautiful and strong second string to Prof. Krishnamurthy's literary lute.
1 Origin of Ramayana 1
2 Rishyashrunga 3
3 Angadesha 7
4 The kingdom of Malada and Karusha 8
5 Tataka 8
6 Siddhashrama 11
7 Kushanabha and his hundred daughters 12
8 The lineage of Vishwamitra 14
9 The river Ganga 15
10 Birth of Kumara 16
11 Sagara and his sons 19
12 Gangavatarana 25
13 Amritamanthana 27
14 Diti's penance 29
15 Ahalya episode 31
16 The story of Vishvamitra 33
17 Shunahshepa episode 42
18 Sacrifice of Ambarisha 44
19 Menaka and Vishvamitra 46
20 Vishvamitra became Brahmarshi 47
21 The killing of Rishikumara 50
22 Pancha apsara Sarovara 54
23 Ilvala and Vatapi 55
24 Mayavi episode 56
25 Fight beween Vali and Dundubhi 58
26 Sampati 60
27 Anjaneya-Hanuman 65
28 Birth of Pulastya 66
29 Birth of Kubera and Pushpakavimana 68
30 Birth of predecessors of Ravana 70
31 Birth of Malyavanta and others 71
32 Birth of Ravana and others 75
33 Capture of Lanka by Ravana 80
34 Marriage of Ravana and others 81
35 Curse of Vedavati 87
36 Gods threatened by Ravana 89
37 Curse of Anaranya 90
38 Fight between Ravana and Yama 91
39 Curse of Nalakubara 97
40 Killing of Sumali 98
41 Kidnapping of Jayanta 100
42 Capture of Indra 101
43 Boon to Meghanada 102
44 Reason for Indra's defeat 103
45 Capture of Ravana by Kartaviryarjuna 106
46 Release of Ravana 108
47 Friendship between Vali and Ravana 109
48 Birth of Hanuman 111
49 A sage and a sword 115
50 A dog gets justice from Sri Rama 117
51 King Nriga 118
52 Story of Dandakaranya 120
53 Shudra tapasvi -Shambuka 121
54 King Shweta 123
55 Vritra and Indra 125
56 King Nimi and Sage Vasishtha 126
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I was born in El Paso, Texas in 1983. My dad joined the Navy after I was born and we started moving around the big Navy bases in the United States. We lived in San Diego, Virginia Beach, and Honolulu. I went to college in Colorado where I met my wife Molly. Right after I graduated college I joined the Navy and married my wife. Six years and three children later I decided to get out of the Navy and become a teacher with my wife. My wife and I are now both ELL teachers in Colorado Springs. I love being challenged, learning, working out, spending time outdoors, and trying to to be the best version of myself.


Who will win and who will get robbed at the upcoming Emmy awards?
The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards will air on NBC this Monday with hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che. Here's our predictions for who will (and won't) take home the awards at this year's ceremony.
Barry is an exceptional dark comedy that rightfully received an impressive 13 Emmy nominations for its first season. If the Emmy doesn't go to Barry, I wouldn't mind seeing The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel take home the award. All of this aside, Atlanta had another standout season and is an undeniable fan favorite, which tips the odds in its favor.
Have you ever noticed how the entire country seems to shut down on Sundays at 9 p.m.? It's because everyone is busy watching Game of Thrones on HBO. That cult-like following leads me to believe that Game of Thrones will win again this year, despite strong showings by The Americans and The Handmaid's Tale.
We all know Donald Glover is a genius, but Bill Hader gave the performance of a lifetime in his new series, Barry. Hader's performance in the titular role shows viewers a completely different side to the funnyman. His ability to transform into this troubled, distressed hitman is an accomplishment for which he should undoubtedly be acknowledged.
It's more than likely that Sterling K. Brown will pull off a repeat performance at this year's Emmys and take home another trophy — he consistently brings his "A" game, and there's not a dry eye in the room after one of his touching monologues on This Is Us.
To take a cue from the title of this series, Rachel Brosnahan is absolutely marvelous in her portrayal of Miriam "Midge" Maisel. She fully commits to the role and captivates audiences throughout the series.
Elisabeth Moss continues to shine in her harrowing role in The Handmaid's Tale. Moreover, Sandra Oh's nomination is well deserved. Oh has hit her stride as Eve Polastri in Killing Eve, and thankfully received the recognition she deserves. On top of her phenomenal performance, Oh's nomination made history as the first Asian woman to earn an Emmy nomination for Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
Baldwin will likely win again for his portrayal of President Trump on Saturday Night Live. I fear, however, that his win will be more so a political statement and less so a recognition for his performance, which at this point is quite tired.
I'd much rather see the award go to someone more deserving. Kenan Thompson has been at the heart of SNL for the past 15 seasons, and his Emmy nomination is both well-deserved and long overdue. Additionally, I'm engrossed by Henry Winkler's performance in Barry, and I would love to see him recognized.
Kate McKinnon is the backbone of the current cast, having had another exceptional season. McKinnon is a joy to watch every week, and she'll rightfully win for the third year in a row. If voters were to go another way this year, I'd be happy to see Alex Borstein get the recognition she earned for her impressive and intricate performance in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, but I doubt that'll happen.
It's possible that the three Handmaid's nominees in this category will split the votes among themselves, clearing a path for Vanessa Kirby to take home the Emmy.
Tune in to NBC on Monday to see if these predictions come true.


Horizontally-acquired genetic elements in the mitochondrial genome of a centrohelid Marophrys sp. SRT127.
In silico strcutral modelling and analysis of elongation factor 1alpha and elongation factor-like proteins.
Characterization of spliced leader trans-splicing in a photosynthetic rhizarian amoeba, Paulinella micropora, and its possible role in functional gene transfer.
Extensive molecular tinkering in the evolution of the membrane attachment mechanisms of the Rheb GTPase.
Phylogenomics places orpha protistan lineages in a novel candidate supergroup.
Fates of evolutionarily distinct, plastid-type glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase genes in kareniacean dinoflagellates.
Genomic divergence within non-photosynthetic cyanobacterial endosymbionts in rhopalodiacean diatoms.
A non-photosynthetic diatom revelas early steps of reductive evolution in plastids.
The draft genome of Kipferlia bialata reveals reductive genome evolution in fornicate parasites.
Genome sequencing reveals metabolic and cellular interdependence in an amoeba-kinetoplastid symbiosis.
Organelles that illuminate the origins of Trichomonas hydrogenosomes and Giardia mitosomes.
Global Kinetoplastea phylogeny inferred from a large-scale multigene alignment including prarasitic species for better understanding transitions from a free-living to a parasitic lifestyle.
Mitochondria genome of Palpitomonas bilix: Derived genome structure and ancestral system for cytochrome c maturation.
Metabolic capacity of mitochondrion-related organelle in the free-living anaerobic stramenopile Cantina marsuplialis.
Proposal of a Twin-arginine translocator system-mediated constraint against loss of ATP synthase genes from nonphotosynthetic plastid genomes.
The mitochondrial genomes of Kudoa species are extremely divergent among metazoa.
Plastid genome-based phylogeny pinpointed the origin of the green-colored plastid in the dinoflagellate Lepidodinium chlorophorum.
Multiple losses of photosynthesis in Nitzschia (Bachillariophyceae).
Morphological identities of two different marine stramenopile environmental sequence clades: Bicosoeca kenaiensis (Hilliard 1971) and Cantina marsuplialis (Larson and Patterson, 1990) gen. nov., comb. nov.
Evolutionary roles of SL-trans-splicing in the primary endosymbiosis.
Orphan protistology, accelerating in Japan.
Phylogenomic approach to the early evolution of Foraminifera.
A multi-grained MPI/OpenMP parallelization of the maximum-likelihood phylogenetic inference with the nonhomogeneous model.
Genome analysis of a symbiotic cyanobacterium in a dinophysialean dinoflagellate, Orthocercus magnificus.
Comparative genomics of photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic Cryptomonas (Cryptophyta) species.
Mitochondrial genome of strain SRT308: insights into structure and gene content fo the ancestral euglenozoan mitochondrial genome.
A model for endosymbiotic genome reduction: epithemiacecan diatoms and their nitrogen-fixing organelle, spheroid body.
Yuji Inagaki; Takuro Nakayama; Ryoma Kamikawa.
Genome evolution of the nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterial endosymbiont in the diatom Epithemia turgida.
Nitrogen-fixing organelles, spheroid bodies, in rhopalodiacean diatom cells as an evolutoinary model for understanding organelle acquisition.
Recent progress in placing newly-discovered lineages of protists in the deep tree of eukaryotes.
Molecular phylogeny of the amitochondriate lineage, Fornicata, based on multi-gene analysis.
Intragenomic gene conversion in the evolution of bacterial peptide-chain release factors.
Sohta A Ishikawa; Ryoma Kamikawa; Yuji Inagaki.
Difference in transcriptional regulation between two genes encoding plastid-targeted GAPDH in the dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi.
The phylogenetic position of the katablepharid Leucocryptos marina based on seven mitochondrial gene sequences.
Molecular evidence for the residual nuclear genome of the green algal endosymbiont in the dinoflagellate Lepidodinium chlorophorum.
Spliceosomal introns in a split form: Another aspect of intron evolution in eukaryotes.


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Shannon Burns
Shannon Burns reviews 'Dying in the First Person' by Nike Sulway
During boyhood, Samuel and his twin brother, Morgan, invent and in a sense inhabit a world and language called 'Nahum'. Years later – after a family tragedy ...
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Jennifer Maiden's The Fox Petition: New Poems (Giramondo) conjures foxes 'whose eyes were ghosts with pity' and foxes of language that transform the world's headlines
Letters to the Editor - October 2015
CHILDHOOD SEX!
Shannon Burns's splendid ABR Patrons' Fellowship essay, 'The Scientist of His Own Experience: A Profile of Gerard Murnane', is rich in insights and pithy observations, plus some rather fine photographs (August ... More
Shannon Burns reviews 'Something for the Pain' by Gerald Murnane
Narrators in Gerald Murnane's novels and stories have occasionally scorned autobiography. Near the beginning of A Million Windows (2014), for example, we find: 'Today, I understand that so-called autobiography is only one of the least worthy varieties of ficti ... More
'The scientist of his own experience: A Profile of Gerald Murnane' by Shannon Burns
The town of Goroke (population six hundred) stands almost exactly between Melbourne and Adelaide, in the Wimmera region of Victoria. It is, in many ways, a typical small country town. If you drive there in the morning during late spring or early summer, you'll need to slow the car to avoid kangaroos on the road. Magpies are everywhere. Horses and other livestock m ... More
Coetzee Colloquium
Few authors summon the various modes of irony to better purpose than J.M. Coetzee. Typically, before Coetzee gives a reading, the audience can safely suppose that they are in for a good laugh, the odd squirm and cringe, and at least one moment of bewilderment. But there are exceptions to this general rule, and the several hundred people who gathered to hear Coetzee ... More
Shannon Burns reviews 'Three Stories' by J.M. Coetzee
Each fiction in this small but handsome volume emerges from an interesting, perhaps even 'transitional' phase in J.M. Coetzee's writing life: between the publication of Disgrace (1999) and Slow Man (2005); before and after receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003. The first story in the collection also predates Coetzee's move to Adelaid ... More
Gerald Murnane's new novel
Gerald Murnane – one of our most original voices – has published a new novel about the narrator and 'dark-haired females'. Shannon Burns describes it in his review as 'a triumph of creative configuration'. More
Shannon Burns reviews a new biography of Kafka
Franz Kafka lived in Prague in the early part of the twentieth century, during a period of considerable turmoil. Before succumbing to laryngeal tuberculosis aged forty, he witnessed the disintegration of an empire and the subsequent formation of a republic. Kafka also endured the administrative and domestic realities of a world war and was among millions of European ... More
Shannon Burns reviews a new biography of Derrida
By what right, and in accordance with what set of social conditions or teleological commitments, ideologies, cultural and biographical conventions, and in whose name might one begin to speak of, formulate, detail, or analyse the life of Jackie aka 'Jacques' Derrida?
Glyn Davis reviews Winners Take All: The elite charade of changing the world by Anand Giridharadas
Michael McGirr reviews King of the Air: The turbulent life of Charles Kingsford Smith by Ann Blainey