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Xavier's Matt Stainbrook doesn't need surgery
Xavier center Matt Stainbrook has big plans this summer.
Xavier's Matt Stainbrook doesn't need surgery Xavier center Matt Stainbrook has big plans this summer. Check out this story on cincinnati.com: http://cin.ci/1ktPCug
Shannon Russell, srussell@enquirer.com Published 12:32 p.m. ET April 30, 2014 | Updated 9:02 p.m. ET April 30, 2014
Xavier's Matt Stainbrook works his way around NC State's Jordan Vandenberg during the first half of the NCAA First Four at UD Arena.(Photo: The Enquirer/Cara Owsley)
He's taking four graduate level classes plus the course associated with the basketball team's August trip to Brazil. He also plans to work the Musketeers' basketball camps, shed about 20 pounds, and become a stronger offensive presence by relying more on his right hand.
"This is the summer where I'm going all out. It's my last summer," Stainbrook said at Tuesday's awards banquet at Cintas Center.
The 6-foot-10 senior's left knee ailed him near the season's end but may soon be a thing of the past. He strained his MCL at Seton Hall and missed the regular-season finale against Villanova but returned for two Big East tournament games and the NCAA tournament loss to NC State.
"I found out two weeks ago that I didn't need to have surgery, which is a good thing. Based on rehab and stuff we've done, my MCL was tightening up on its own and I'll be able to be OK in a couple weeks," Stainbrook said.
Although Stainbrook "definitely wasn't 100 percent" in his final three games, he didn't want to miss the opportunity to play in the postseason.
Now, feeling better and eager to improve upon his averages of 10.6 points and 7.4 rebounds, he's embracing his final collegiate offseason. That means winnowing his weight from the 267-270 range to a more mobile 250 to 255 pounds.
"This summer for me, I really want to get well-conditioned. I want to get down to the lowest weight I've ever been in my life," Stainbrook said. "I want to get my body fat percent down and my strength up, and overall I want to work on my right hand. Because that's going to make me a bigger scoring threat in the post."
And the heavy load of grad courses? It's part of his plan to finish his MBA by the year's end.
MOVING ON: Semaj Christon, Isaiah Philmore, Justin Martin and Kamall Richards were absent from the banquet.
Christon is working out in Philadelphia as he gears up for the June 26 NBA draft. Philmore is splitting his time between Maryland and Philly to prepare for a career overseas, and Martin and Richards are transferring.
Coach Chris Mack said Christon's next steps include a pre-draft camp and NBA workouts in May and June. Asked whether the guard has had feedback on his draft prospects, Mack said the process is still very fluid.
"I've heard anywhere from 25 to 40 being projected," Mack said. "But again, your workouts and sit-down interviews really determine whether you're a 25 or whether you're a 40."
Philmore has dual citizenship in Germany and hopes to take his hoops career there. While most European teams carry a set number of Americans, Philmore's exemption in Germany should make it easier to open a roster spot there, Mack said.
BACK TO WORK: Freshman guard Myles Davis was mired in offensive woes at the end of the season, as evidenced by his 1-for-22 perimeter shooting in the last eight games.
He's eager to recharge his game this summer.
"I just think it might have been confidence level for me. I worked hard before practices to get my shot back and my rhythm back but it wasn't falling for me. Sometimes stuff happens. You just go on a cold streak," Davis said. "I plan to come back even stronger to make sure something like that doesn't happen."
Davis underwent minor surgery on his left knee last September and injured the knee in November. Although he was never fully healthy, he declined to use it as an excuse.
Davis said he's about 90 percent healthy now. His offseason plans include losing 10 pounds.
"I'm trying to get quicker and athletic and adjust my game to college. Even though I'm not one of the most athletic guards out there, my game could still work on the college level and probably higher," Davis said. "I'm really just working on becoming a mature basketball player."
NEW ROLE: Former student manager Joe Sullivan is Xavier's new grad assistant. He fills the position vacated by Dante Jackson, an assistant basketball coach at Northern Kentucky University.
OPEN SCHOLARSHIP: Xavier has one open scholarship for next season. Mack said the staff will fill it if it finds the right player.
"We're only going to take one if the right player is a good fit for us, talented enough – whether it's an incoming freshman, a transfer that doesn't play right away, one that has to sit out," Mack said. "We're looking at all different options but we're not necessarily completely 100 percent."
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IN THE NAME OF ALLAH, THE COMPASSIONATE, THE MERCIFUL
All praise is due to Allah, the Lord and the Cherisher of the Universe. May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon our beloved prophet, Muhammad (PBUH), his household, companions and the followers of the right guidance till the Day of Judgment. Allah, the Exalted, says in the Qur'an:
"Be ye foremost (in seeking) forgiveness from your Lord and a Garden (of Bliss) the width whereof is as the width of heaven and earth prepared for those who believe in Allah and His apostles: that is the Grace of Allah which He bestows on whom He pleases: and Allah is the Lord of Grace abounding." Q57:21.
"O ye who believe! Turn to Allah with sincere repentance: in the hope that your Lord will remove from you your ills and admit you to Gardens beneath which Rivers flow the Day that Allah will not permit to be humiliated the Prophet and those who believe with him. Their Light will run forward before them and by their right hands while they say 'Our Lord! Perfect our Light for us and grant us Forgiveness; for Thou has power over all things". Q66:8
Abu Huraira narrated that Allah's Apostle (PBUH) said,
"Whoever observes fasts during the month of Ramadan out of sincere faith, and hoping to attain Allah's rewards, then all his past sins will be forgiven". (Bukhari Hadith 1.37)
Some good deeds that are recommended and those actions to be avoided during Ramadan include the following:
1. Supplications while breaking the fast
Ibn Majah related from 'Abdullah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'Aas that the Prophet, upon whom be peace, said: "A fasting person, upon breaking his fast, has a supplication that will not be rejected. When 'Abdullah broke his fast he would say: "O Allah, I ask of You, by Your mercy that encompasses everything, to forgive me".
It is confirmed that the Prophet would say, before breaking his fast: "O Allah, for You I have fasted and with Your provisions do I break my fast."
At-Tirmidhi (hadith 2248) recorded, that the Prophet said: "Three people will not have their supplications rejected: a fasting person until he breaks his fast, a just ruler, and an oppressed person".
2. Being generous and studying the Qur'an
Being generous and studying the Qur'an is recommended during any time, but it is especially stressed during the month of Ramadan. Al-Bukhari recorded that Ibn 'Abbas said:
"The Prophet was the most generous of people, but he would be most generous during Ramadan when he would meet with [the angel] Gabriel. He would meet with him every night and recite the Qur'an. When Gabriel met him, he used to be more generous than a fast wind."
The Qur'an was revealed in the month of Ramadan. It is recommended that Muslims should read the whole Qur'an, at least one time, during Ramadan. It is not enough to read only the Arabic text, we should try to read the translation of the Qur'an in the language we understand very well. The essence of reading Qur'an is to get familiar with its teachings, ponder on over Allah's words and follow them the injunctions in it.
Zaid bin Khalid Juhaini narrated that the Messenger of Allah (PBUH) said: "Whoever provides food to a person fasting, to break the fast, his reward will be equivalent to the reward of the person who is fasting without any decrease in the reward for goodness of the person who is fasting." (Al-Tirmidhi).
Those that cannot fast due to old age or permanent sickness are expected to feed the fasting Muslims as a ransom if they can afford it.
"As for those who can fast with difficulty, they have (a choice either to fast or) feed a poor person. But whoever does good of his own accord, it is better for him. And that you fast is better for you if only you know." Q2:184.
3. Performance of Taraawih and Tahajjud.
Tarawih and Tahajjud are supererogatory salat observed after Ishai prayers and in during the late night respectively.
Al-Bukhari and Muslim record from 'Aishah that during the last ten days of Ramadan, the Messenger of Allah would wake his wives up during the night and then remain apart from them (that is, being busy in acts of worship). A version in Muslim states: "He would strive [to do acts of worship] during the last ten days of Ramadan more than he would at any other time".
4. Avoidance of immoral acts and lies
Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet (PBUH) said, "Whoever does not give up false statements (i.e. telling lies), and evil deeds, and speaking bad words to others, Allah is not in need of his (fasting) leaving his food and drink". (Bukhari 8.83)
Abu Hurairah narrated that Allah's Apostle (PBUH) said, "Fasting is a shield (or a screen or a shelter). So, the person observing fasting should avoid sexual relation with his wife and should not behave foolishly and impudently, and if somebody fights with him or abuses him, he should tell him twice, 'I am fasting' ..." (Bukhari 3.118).
5. Performance of Umra
Ata narrated that he heard Ibn 'Abbas saying, "Allah's Apostle asked an Ansari woman 'What prevented you from performing Hajj with us?' She replied, 'We have a camel and the father of so-and-so and his son (i.e. her husband and her son) rode it and left one camel for us to use for irrigation.' He said (to her), 'Perform 'Umra when Ramadan comes, for 'Umra in Ramadan is equal to Hajj (in reward),' or said something similar". (Bukhari 3.10)
6. I'tikaf and seeking the night of Qadr.
I'tikaf means to confine oneself in a mosque for prayers and praise of Allah, leaving worldly things and be devoted in religious duties during the last ten days of Ramadan to seek the night of majesty about which Allah, the Exalted, says:
"We have indeed revealed this (Qur'an) in the night of Power (Qadr): And what will explain to thee what the Night of Power is? The Night of Power is better than a thousand Months. Therein come down the angels and the Spirit (angel Gabriel) by Allah's permission on every Decree: Peace!... This until the rise of Morn!" Suratul Qadr, 97:1-5
Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet (PBUH) said, "Whoever established prayers on the night of Qadr out of sincere faith and hoping for a reward from Allah, then all his previous sins will be forgiven; and whoever fasts in the month of Ramadan out of sincere faith, and hoping for a reward from Allah, then all his previous sins will be forgiven". (Bukhari 3.125).
As to the supplication during the night of qadr, Aisha asked Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) to tell her what prayers to say on Laylat al-Qadr (night of power) if she knew which night it was, and he told her to say, "O Allah, Thou art forgiving and loves forgiveness, so forgive me". (Tirmidhi 2091. Also by Ahmad and Ibn Majah)
Those of us who cannot do I'tikaf for one reason or the order can seek the night of qadr in our various homes by engaging is supererogatory prayers and supplications during the last ten nights of Ramadan. It is unfortunate that some Muslim organizations have turned the night of Power into a night of social gathering and collection of money and donation instead of a night of religious devotion.
7. Zakat al-fitr (Ramadan charity)
Zakat ul-fitr is a type of charity which must be paid by every Muslim, young and old, male and female, free and slave, at the end of the month of fasting (Ramadan).
Ibn 'Umar narrated that: "Allah's Apostle enjoined the payment of one Sa' of dates or one Sa' of barley as Zakat-ul-Fitr on every Muslim slave or free, male or female, young or old, and he ordered that it be paid before the people went out to offer the 'Id prayer. (One Sa' = 3 Kilograms approx.)" (Bukhari 2.579).
In another hadith reported by Abu Dawud, Ibn Majah, and ad-Daraqutni from Ibn 'Abbas. The Messenger of Allah, upon whom be peace, enjoined zakat ul-fitr on the one who fasts to shield one's self from any indecent act or speech and for the purpose of providing food for the needy. It is accepted as zakah for the person pays it before the 'id salat, and it is sadaqah for the one who pays it after the salat.
Every free Muslim must pay zakat ul-fitr for himself, his wife, children, and servants whether they, his dependants, participated in Ramadan fasting or not. Some scholars agree that zakat ul fitr could be done with money, the equivalent cost of 3kg of grain (rice, beans, corn, barley, etc ) that is consumed locally. The reason they gave is that one of the reasons for this zakat is to make the poor happy on the day of festival and that providing them with money to buy what they like will equally serve the purpose. Other scholars maintained that grain should be used since this was used during the time of the prophet (PBUH) and that the poor can sell the grain if he/she needs money.
8. The Forbidden Days to Fast, the days of 'id (Islamic festivals)
All scholars agree that such a fast is prohibited. It does not matter if the fast is obligatory or voluntary. 'Umar testifies: "The Messenger of Allah has forbidden fasting on these two days. Concerning the 'id of breaking the fast, it is for you to break your fast [of Ramadan]. On the 'id of sacrifice, you should eat from what you sacrifice." This is related by Ahmad, an-Nasa'i, atTirmidhi, Abu Dawud, and Ibn Majah.
It is not permissible to fast during the three days following the 'Id al-Adha. Abu Hurairah reported that the Messenger of Allah, upon whom be peace, sent 'Abdullah ibn Hudhaqah to announce at Mina: "You are not to fast these days. They are days of eating and drinking and remembering Allah". This is related by Ahmad.
It is unfortunate that some Muslims fall into an error of fasting on Ramadan festival day. In some countries, people are divided on the day to start and end Ramadan fasting, some will decide when to start and end fasting regardless of the time the moon is seen. This set of people is following their personal desires and not Islamic teachings. Every Muslim is expected to begin Ramadan fasting whenever he/she hears that the moon has been sighted regardless of the place it was sighted within a country. The prophet (PBUH) said that fast should begin and end when the moon is seen but if the moon could not be seen due to cloud, then fast should begin and end after 30 days of the month. And that people who started Ramadan late because they did not hear about the moon MUST not fast on the 'Eid ul-fitr day (Ramadan festival). They should make up the lost days of fasting latter. We should be careful of the warning of Allah, the Exalted,
"It is not fitting for a Believer man or woman when a matter has been decided by Allah and His Apostle to have any option about their decision: if anyone disobeys Allah and His Apostle he is indeed on a clearly wrong Path". Q33:36
" ... then let those beware who oppose the Apostle's order (sunnah) lest some trial befall them or a grievous Penalty be inflicted on them". Q24:63.
One of the reasons Allah prescribed fasting is for us to learn self-restraint so that we can be pious. We should have this in mind as we prepare for Ramadan. If we could do away with some of our bad habits for 29 or 30 days, we should able to completely do away with them in our life. This is the teaching we should understand and imbibe.
May Allah accept our acts of worship, have mercy on us, count us among those that will witness the coming Ramadan and help the oppressed and poor people all over the world.
Peace be on you.
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This 185-mile loop follows quiet dirt roads and two-tracks through woodlands and grasslands among 800+ extinct volcanoes of all sizes, from small cinder cones to the towering San Francisco Peaks in northern Arizona. Optional side trips include fire lookouts, cinder cone summits, and Lava River Cave. This loop also serves as a northern extension to the popular Coconino Loop to create a longer, incredible experience.
Perfect for bikepackers looking to get off the beaten path while following dirt roads and two-tracks, the San Francisco Volcanic Field Loop meanders through northern Arizona's San Francisco Volcanic Field. 800+ volcanoes that erupted over the past few million years dot the landscape - some are a few hundred feet tall, and some tower many thousands of feet above the surrounding countryside. From Flagstaff, the route heads west toward Bill Williams Mountain on dirt roads and jeep tracks, passing through sprawling parks and ponderosa pine forests.
Beyond Williams, the route enters deserted, dry pinon-juniper woodlands and then high grasslands of the Babbitt Ranches. You'll pass eerily dark, yawning cinder cones before climbing into the young, cindery landscape of Sunset Crater National Monument. Sunset Crater is the youngest volcano in the area, having erupted just 1,000 years ago. The tallest peaks in Arizona, the San Francisco Peaks, are the final feature you'll experience, climbing high into aspen forests at over 9,000 feet and then descending a hugely scenic water pipeline service road that's closed to motorized use back toward Flagstaff.
This is a stellar ~3-day route with numerous options for side exploration and minimal technical riding in countryside rarely visited. But water is scarce, so plan accordingly.
Ideal time of year (and potentially weather conditions): Late spring, early fall. The route is rideable May-October, but the summer months will be warm and monsoon storms in July and August should be avoided.
You NEED an Arizona State Land Department Recreation Permit.
The northern part of the route passes through land owned by Babbitt Ranches. Public access and camping is permitted - simply respect their land and stock.
Water sources on this route are limited and include many stock tanks that are most reliable in late Spring and late Summer. Waypoints for these are provided with labels like "poor" (unreliable, likely silty) and "good" (more reliable, cleaner water). DO NOT plan that every stock tank will have water, and carry more water than you expect to need. Water from some stock tanks is often silty and will clog water filters and is not amenable to UV water treatments. Carry a means of chemical water treatment like Aqua Mira or iodine.
The Craters and Cinder Cones Loop was developed by Kurt Refsnider to create a northern extension to the popular 250-mile Coconino Loop (developed by Scott Morris and Chad Brown) and to share with bikepackers one of Kurt's favorite Arizona landscapes.
This 60-mile segment climbs west out of Flagstaff on old two-track across Observatory Mesa before meandering in and out of grassy parks and through ponderosa pine forests. Farther west, the route passes Lava River Cave, traverses Spring Valley, climbs over the east shoulder of Sitgreaves Mountain, and then crosses Interstate 40. The final miles pass Dog Lake Reservoir and Bill Williams Mountain before dropping quickly into the touristy Route 66 town of Williams. Riding is mostly on dirt forest roads with some short sections of rougher two-track.
Stay at the U.S. Forest Service Spring Valley Cabin Bunkhouse below Sitgreaves Mountain (mile 31). Reservations required; call the Kaibab N.F. (928-635-8200) for information.
There are no resupply options on this segment until Williams. Williams offers restaurants, a grocery store, and motels.
The northern part of the route passes through land owned by Babbitt Ranches. Public access and camping is permitted - simply respect their land and stock and abide by Leave No Trace ethics.
At the farthest northeastern corner of the loop is SP Crater, a striking cinder cone that's worth a hike to the top for a stellar view into the crater itself. Approach using the obvious steep trail on the southwest side of the cone and then scrambling to the top. Plan for ~90 minutes round trip at least for this side hike.
After circling around SP Crater, you'll begin climbing back toward the San Francisco Peaks, passing the yawning Colton Crater along the way. The route then turns east around O'Leary Peak and onto loose cinder trails that link into the back entrance of Sunset Crater National Monument. These cinder trails are usually packed enough from ATV traffic, but they're slow going for ~4.5 miles as you experience the otherworldly landscape and views of the 1,000-year-old Sunset Crater.
Recommended printed topographic maps: Trails Illustrated maps 856 (Flagstaff/Sedona) and 854 (Sycamore Canyon/Verde Valley) provides nearly complete coverage.
The impressive SP Crater, the San Francisco Peaks' Inner Basin, and Waterline Road.
Like on the first segment of the route, water sources are limited in this dry landscape. The most reliable water sources are (1) a pipe-fed stock tank at mile 44, (2) several pipe-fed stock tanks between miles 51 and 53 (FILL UP HERE!), (3) Sunset Crater N.M. Visitor's Center at mile 98, (4) a pond in Lockett Meadow at mile 105, and (5) a piped spring at the high point on the route at mile 98.
There are no resupply options on this segment until returning to Flagstaff aside from a gas station 7 miles northeast of Williams.
Dispersed camping is permitted in most areas of this segment except for the first ~12 miles northeast of Williams. Sunset Crater N.M. has a small campground near the Visitor's Center, and there's another campground in Lockett Meadow just before the high point on the route.
You NEED an Arizona State Land Department Recreation Permit for this section of the route.
The Colorado Plateau Landscape Guide is a resource for bikepackers to learn about and connect with the places through which they ride - in this case, the broader Colorado Plateau region. The guide serves as an informative resource to educate backcountry travelers about the interconnected landscape layers of the Colorado Plateau. It is designed to offer an overarching understanding of the broader landscape layers, the physical, biological, and anthropological.
The Craters and Cinder Cones Loop passes through the Coconino National Forest, the Kaibab National Forest, and Sunset Crater National Monument. The route closely bypasses the Kachina Peaks Wilderness and the Kendrick Mountain Wilderness, both of which provide crucial protected habitat for flora and fauna that contribute to the overall ecosystem health of the San Francisco Volcanic Field. Sunset Crater and Wupatki National Monuments protect and preserve cultural history, artifacts, and sacred sites as well as provide habitat for endemic flora and fauna.
The scientific community overwhelmingly agrees that Earth's climate is changing. Projections for how climate change will impact the Southwest include an increase in mean annual temperature, a decrease in annual precipitation, and an increase in extreme weather events (including strong storms and droughts). Within the San Francisco Volcanic Field – a land of ponderosa pine forests and high grasslands – the implications of a hot and dry future are of concern for the forests and sustainability of livestock grazing.
The world's largest contiguous ponderosa pine forest extends along northern Arizona's Mogollon Rim from Grand Canyon to New Mexico. In the face of a warming, drying climate in the southwest, extended drought and intensifying fire regimes coupled with the current state of choked forests composed of small trees and an overgrowth of understory pose a threat of devastating wildfire that threaten the future of these forests and the communities that call them home. Proactive forest management focused on strategic thinning and controlled burning to restore forest health and equip the forest to handle pressures of climate change are critical actions to preserving the future of the ponderosa pine forest. The Four Forest Restoration Initiative is a landscape-scale restoration initiative between multiple National Forests in effort to restore 2.4 million acres of forest over the next 20 years, renovating large-scale forest management in the process. The initiative will support more natural fire regimes, improve the health of the ponderosa pine ecosystems, further supporting its ability to survive in a hotter drier climate, support watersheds, and protect communities and local economies.
Average temperatures in the Southwest are anticipated to increase by 2 to 6 °F by mid-21st Century. The resulting ever-intensifying periods of drought will add pressure to livestock grazing in the Southwest. As temperatures continue to increase, water sources will become more limited, cattle will be under greater stress, and grasses will grow more slowly. Livestock management will need to adapt to the pressures of this climate change. The Craters and Cinder Cones Loop passes over both public and private land. The private land is owned by a conservation-oriented ranching family, Babbitt Ranches, LLC, the largest private landowner in Arizona. Babbitt Ranches, founded in 1886, recognizes the importance of sustainable ranching and land management on the Coconino Plateau region. The Landsward Institute is a partnership between Babbitt Ranches and Northern Arizona University that exists to support the ecosystems, habitats, and sustainable rangelands of the Coconino Plateau region and Little Colorado River Valley and conducts and supports related research.


We are very proud to announce that Ashtaria, after a beta period has been published on Kongregate, the popular online game websites.
Set in a fantasy world, Ashtaria is a combats based RPG well acclaimed on Facebook.
During the beta period we had a great time with Power Users: we introduced significant improvements and now the is open to the vast Kongregate community.
We are going to do what we like to do: talk with players about Ashtaria and enhance this stunning fantasy role play game. Create your hero, learn talents and spells, free the Kingdom of Arenyas from a terrible threat… Enter in Ashtaria!


Orthopaedic Surgeons give a treatment to the musculoskeletal system, sports injuries and degenerative diseases. The body parts which get treatment from an orthopaedic surgeon include bones, joints, nerves, ligaments and tendons. Their work is not easy so the salary they are offered is most promising around the world.
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Afterword in Italian and English on the last page.
London: Schott Music Ltd., No.12154, 1983. Plate 8497.
Some think that Wilhelm Rust, for whatever reason, withheld this from publication with the BGA. The manuscript was discovered in 1917. It is now Mus. Ms. Bach P. 968 of the Royal Library of Berlin.


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Q: meaning of richtext box.invoke I am new to C#, i have read something about threading like begininvoke and eventhandler stuff. but could you explain what's the following code is doing on the richtextbox?
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*is this Invoke similiar to begininvoke?
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could you explain what's the following code is doing on the richtextbox?

It executes the code in the anonymous method on the UI thread.

is this Invoke similiar to begininvoke?

Yes, but Invoke is synchronous, whereas BeginInvoke is asynchronous. In other words, a call to Invoke will block until the UI thread executes the specified action, whereas BeginInvoke will return immediately, without waiting for the action to be executed by the UI thread.

in the msdn, it describe it as Executes the specified delegate on the thread that owns the control's underlying window handle.Not quite sure about the meaning of it.

In Windows Forms, controls can only be accessed on the thread that created them. So if you're executing something on a different thread, and you perform an action on a control from this thread, you can't do it directly; you need to ask the UI thread to perform this action. That's what Invoke and BeginInvoke are for.

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In the November, December and January editions of Scide Splitters, I reviewed humorous stories eligible for the 1941 Retro Hugo short categories (novella, novelette & short story). I followed this up with a list of "25 Stories Worth Reading Before Making Retro Hugo Nominations" (the list included humor and non-humor stories). Now that we are into the final phase of voting (the deadline for casting ballots is July 31st), here are my thoughts on the official nominees as I work on filling out my ballot.
First, let me throw out a few statistics. 10 of my 25 "Worth Reading" were humor. Only two of those made the final ballot. However, 11 of the final 15 nominees were on my list of 25 recommended reads. So, on the whole, I would say the nominees are a fairly worthy bunch. I'm just a little disappointed (though not surprised) that more humor didn't make the cut.
Novellas – Heinlein vs. de Camp & Pratt. The only nominee not to make my recommended list was Heinlein's "Magic, Inc." so it should be no shock that it ends up at the bottom of my ballot. I was a little surprised not to see "Darker Than You Think" by Jack Williamson make it. The reason it did not is largely due to some people mistakenly promoting it as a novelette. So it was initially announced as a novelette finalist before award administrators realized it was ineligible due to length.
The hard decision for me here is picking between "The Roaring Trumpet" and "If This Goes On…" I call it a tie, but since I can only give one the top spot, I defer to the old axiom, "When in doubt, laugh." "The Roaring Trumpet" marked the beginning of the Incomplete Enchanter series. It is filled with adventure, Norse gods and laughs. What more could you want?
Novelettes – All five finalists were on my recommended list, though my favorite ("The Hardwood Pile" by L. Sprague de Camp) failed to garner a nomination. I knew it was a long shot given the worthy competition.
My top four here are all close together. But ultimately, 1940 was Heinlein's year, and it is possible that he could sweep all three short Retro categories. It was his breakout year as a writer. He was the Guest of Honor at the 1941 WorldCon in Denver. He was born in Missouri and later lived in Colorado. All the stars seem to be in alignment. And while I more-or-less coin tossed him into second place in the novella category, I won't do that here.
"Vault of the Beast" is the replacement for "Darker Than You Think" and while it is a solid story and created quite a buzz at the time of publication, it finishes a distant fifth. "Farewell to the Master" is the classic that became the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still. Damn good, but just short of Heinlein's narrative powers. "It!" is exceptionally well written, but I am not much of a horror fan. If this were the Retro Stokers, I would have to give it the nod.
My nominations that failed to make the cut: "The Hardwood Pile" by L. Sprague de Camp & "The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years" by Don Wilcox.
Short Stories – The class of this group, at least for me, is "Requiem." Maybe younger generations don't get it, but this story perfectly expressed the yearning for space that I grew up with and that I continue to carry to this day.
"Strange Playfellow," or "Robbie" as it was later renamed, was the first of Asimov's robot stories, and a very good one at that. In many other years, this would be my first choice. Of the two Brackett stories, "The Stellar Legion" is by far the best. "Martian Quest" is comparatively amateurish. Borges' "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" is good but uneventful.
My nominations that failed to make the cut: "Revolt of the Ants" by Milton Kaletsky & "Quietus" by Ross Rocklynne & "The Gods Gil Made" by Ross Rocklynne.
One more stat for you – 12 of 15 nominees in the short categories were edited by John W. Campbell. Ergo Best Editor ‐ Short Form = John W. Campbell.


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L'Archidiocèse de Bangalore est une circonscription ecclésiastique de l'Église catholique en Inde du Sud.  Ayant son origine dans l'ancienne mission de Mysore le diocèse est créé le  par Pie XII et, 13 ans plus tard, élevé au rang d'archidiocèse le . Il comprend aujourd'hui la ville de Bangalore et les trois districts de Bangalore, Kolar et Tumkur, dans l'état de Karnataka en Inde.

Histoire
La mission dans le royaume de Mysore est confiée aux pères des Missions étrangères de Paris en 1845, qui devient un vicariat apostolique en 1850 sous la direction de  Charbonnaux. Mysore devient un diocèse en 1886, mais c'est autour de la ville de Bangalore que se développe le travail missionnaire avec création de paroisses, couvents et écoles.  Au cours du  la ville de Bangalore elle-même devient beaucoup plus importante que Mysore.

En 1940 le diocèse de Mysore est bifurqué en deux avec la création de celui de Bangalore. Le premier évêque en est le père M.B. Despastures MEP.  Le  Bangalore est déjà élevé au rang d'archidiocèse métropolitain. Lors de la réorganisation des états de l'Union indienne en 1956, Bangalore est faite capitale du Karnataka, confirmant l'importance de la ville qui ne cesse de croitre.

En 1988 le diocèse de Shimoga est érigé, reprenant les districts de la partie septentrionale de Bangalore. L'archidiocèse comprend 128 paroisses. Son église la plus ancienne est la basilique Sainte-Marie, à Shivajinagar (Bangalore) qui date de 1702. La cathédrale Saint François-Xavier date de 1857.

Suffragants
Tous les diocèses de l'état de Karnataka sont suffragants de Bangalore : Belgaum, Bellary, Chikmagalur, Gulbarga, Karwar, Mangalore, Mysore et Shimoga.

Institutions nationales
L'archidiocèse est un centre très important de la vie de l'Église catholique romaine en Inde. Plusieurs institutions de caractère national s'y trouvent, comme le Saint-John Catholic Medical College, plusieurs facultés de théologie (Dharmaram Pontifical Atheneum, Carmelaram Theology College, Saint Peter Pontifical Institute, Kristu Jyoti College, etc), l'Institut social national des jésuites, la Redemptorist academy, le Centre liturgique et catéchétique national (NBCLC), le Centre national des religieux frères, et d'autres.

De très nombreuses congrégations religieuses, masculines et féminines y ont leur noviciat ou maison de formation, ainsi que provincialat.

Évêques et archevêques

Évêques de Bangalore
 1940-1942 : Maurice-Bernard Despatures (des MEP)
 1942-1953 : Thomas Pothacamury

Archevêques de Bangalore
 1953-1968 : Thomas Pothacamury
 1968-1971 : Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, fait secrétaire  de la 'Propaganda Fide' en 1971, et Préfet de la Congrégation pour les Églises orientales et créé cardinal en 1985
 1971-1986 : Packiam Arokiaswamy, transféré au siège de Thanjavur
 1986-1998 : Alphonsus Mathias, démissionnaire
 1998-2004 : Ignatius Pinto, démissionnaire
 2004-     : Bernard Moras

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The Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation, operating as Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS), is a Crown corporation that manages a legal monopoly over the online retail and wholesale distribution of recreational cannabis to consumers and privately operated brick and mortar retailers respectively throughout Ontario, Canada.

Founding
After the federal government announced recreational use of cannabis would be legalized in 2017 or early 2018, then Premier Kathleen Wynne commented the LCBO stores might be the ideal distribution network for stocking, controlling and selling such products. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU), which represents LCBO staff, also lobbied for the LCBO to have a monopoly on cannabis sales.

In response to the federal Task Force on Marijuana Legalization and Regulation recommendation against selling cannabis in conjunction with alcohol,
in September 2017, the Ontario government announced the LCBO would be the sole vendor of recreational marijuana to the public in that province, but not through the 651 stores that sell alcoholic beverages. A new Crown corporation, the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corporation (OCRC), was established as a subsidiary of the LCBO with a mandate to initially open 40 stores before legalization took effect in October 2018. OCRC also entered a partnership with Shopify to use the company's platform for operating the province's online cannabis sales. In March 2018, OCRC adopted the trading name Ontario Cannabis Store for its retail services. The OCS logo, designed by a Canadian subsidiary of Leo Burnett Worldwide as part of a $650,000 marketing and branding contract, was derided as "boring" and "underwhelming".

Change in mandate
Following the 2018 provincial election, the new provincial government led by Premier Doug Ford announced the OCRC would not be opening physical stores and that cannabis sales in Ontario would instead be conducted by private stores. Under this new model, the OCRC continues to operate the provincial online cannabis sales service and serves as the wholesale supplier for private stores in Ontario. The Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario is responsible for the regulation and licensing of private cannabis stores in province. The OCRC was also reorganized to operate directly under the Ministry of Finance rather than as a subsidiary of the LCBO.

Brick-and-mortar stores
Because of a cap on the number of retail outlets, operated by private enterprise, permits to operate cannabis stores were based on a lottery system. Only 25 licences were issued initially, and another 50 were subsequently awarded. (The government continued to operate the on-line sales business via its Ontario Cannabis Store site.)

Ontario Attorney General Doug Downey announced in December 2019 that by April 2020, the lottery, and the cap on the number of licenses, would both be eliminated. Some 20 new ones would be issued per month. The intent was to increase the number of retail outlets in the province, and to make up for the stores which had already closed. Increasing the supply was expected to help "combat the illicit market".

Effect on black market
The black market remained persistent as of October 2019, partly because of a lack of retail outlets in many communities and because of the lower prices charged of illicit product. Illicit sales accounted for 86% of the Canadian market, with prices being 30-35% lower on average according to a report. As of September 2020, the legal market had gained ground. OCS said the legal market made up 25.1% of sales. The average price for dried flower on the OCS had fallen to $7.05 per gram after taxes, compared to the average price for illicit cannabis at $7.98 per gram. The growth is also attributed to an increase in brick-and-mortar retail, with 110 stores operating as of Q3 2020, compared to just 22 at the same time last year.

References

See also

 Cannabis in Ontario

Canadian provincial cannabis departments and agencies
Cannabis in Ontario
Crown corporations of Ontario
2017 establishments in Ontario
Cannabis shops in Canada


In a statement, Logan's said that CEO Sam Borgese will leave. The casual dining chain had struggled with falling sales recently and is the fourth restaurant chain to file for bankruptcy since November, following Quaker Steak & Lube, Buffets LLC (which operates Old Country Buffet, HomeTown Buffet, Fire Mountain and Ryan's), and Johnny Carino's, which filed in July. Most have blamed slumping casual dining sales and increased competition.
Logan's had more than $546 million in debt as of June 30; the company went public in 1995 and was bought by the Cracker Barrel chain in 1999 before being sold to a privately held LRI in 2006.


In this post we will address the growing need for a faster loading process for your most important data and the benefits of customizing Hot Data Selection for your applications. We will also review a real world example of an application of GigaSpaces MemoryXtend, and how it can help you achieve optimum business results.
With growing market demands for faster processing and constantly growing datasets, more and more companies are turning to in-memory computing in order to achieve real-time processing and benefit from application scalability and high availability. In-memory computing is RAM-based, and since RAM can be expensive, in-memory computing may seem costly to many organizations.
Thus, IT architects and decision-makers are facing a performance dilemma between memory and storage. Businesses need a way to serve applications at the same time that data is being analyzed— in a way that will not impact performance or require maintaining multiple infrastructures. The answer is GigaSpaces InsightEdge Platform, powered by Intel® architecture.
Combining InsightEdge Platform, Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors, and Intel® Optane™ solid state drives (SSDs) with integrated BigDL makes it easy to innovate real-time analytics and AI apps with low risk, low total cost of ownership (TCO), and high agility—now and into the future.
With the ability to define your organization's priority data to be saved in RAM along with the latest innovative technologies, such as Intel Optane technology, exciting opportunities for in-memory computing solutions are now available.
High latency read is a problem every developer faces, with every application. Using the key values methodology is perfectly fine when you don't have too much data or if you have only simple data. However, if you need to cache large amounts of data, then you definitely require a faster solution that can handle such volume, with easy query capabilities.
There's a better solution to help you make the most of your RAM and control TCO and to make sure that valuable RAM space is used for valuable data. With customized hot data selection, you can take control and utilize RAM for the data that you deem as critical while saving (evicting) the desired data to multi-tiered data storage such as SSD and Storage-Class Memory (3DXPoint).
With the new GigaSpaces' MemoryXtend Customized Hot Data Selection feature, you can easily define the exact data you need for easy, quick load.
MemoryXtend for Flash/SSD delivers built-in high-speed persistence leveraging local or attached SSD devices and all-flash-arrays (AFA). It delivers low latency write and read performance, as well as fast data recovery.
MemoryXtend is based on RocksDB, which is optimized for fast storage environments.
In the MemoryXtend architecture, data is stored across two tiers: a space partition instance (managed JVM heap) and an embedded key/value store (the blob store). MemoryXtend comes with a built-in blob store cache. This cache is part of the space partition tier, and stores objects in their native form.
If the object exists in the JVM heap (including the blob store cache), it will be immediately returned to the client. This is known as a cache hit.
Otherwise, the space will load it from the underlying blob store and place it on the JVM heap. This is known as a cache miss.
MemoryXtend users can customize which data will be stored in the blob store cache. By defining "hot data" criteria, only data that matches the criteria would be stored. Up until now, this customization was relevant only for initial load stage. On apps start/restart, persisted hot data would be loaded to the cache.
We have now expanded this customization to operate throughout the applications operation stages. This means that at any given time only custom hot data will be stored in cache.
What is a Customized Hot Data Selection?
In most cases, a data grid stores the result of recent data queries, assuming that these queries will be repeated in the near future and that they are all equally important. For example, the grid may hold critical data for 3,000 stock prices, while an application may query data such as 'Get me all inactive users', which is no longer in the RAM. If you have not defined a customized Hot Data Selection, then such a query will flush critical data from RAM and replace it with the less important 'inactive user' data from the latest query.
When customizing your Hot Data Selection, important queries and data are predefined and prioritized to ensure fast and predictable results according to your business goals.
A typical scenario for Customized Hot Data Selection can be seen in eCommerce (Black Friday for example), transportation, and financial industries. In this post we will focus on a trading use case to help better understand the use and benefits of customizing caching.
TradeWallStreet.com is a hypothetical online NYSE trade platform. Millions of users buy and sell stocks, stock options, and bonds, based on their current price. The platform generates and consumes multiple data types, from user personal information to stock analysis. Not all data is created equal. Certain data, like stock data, will be in much higher demand. The platform designers decide to store this high-demand data in a fast storage.
Objects that fit one of the queries will be stored in the blob store cache.
Reading hot data that is NOT stored in RAM - a hot data cache miss. This scenario might occur when the RAM is full.
space_blobstore_hot-data-cache-miss - subgroup of cache misses.
For directions on how to configure these metrics follow this link.
InsightEdge and XAP support datasets of tens and even hundreds of terabytes and enable storing, processing, and analyzing data at speeds comparable to RAM, with significantly reduced TCO and a decreased server footprint.
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Each industry and organization has different needs for its data. You have to find the right fit for you.
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Rafa wraps up Davis Cup in front of adoring crowd
Rafael Nadal beat Denis Shapovalov 6-3, 7-6 (7) to give Spain its sixth Davis Cup title with a win over first-time finalist Canada.
Roberto Bautista Agut, playing three days after the death of his father, had given Spain a 1-0 lead by beating Felix Auger-Aliassime 7-6 (3), 6-3 in the first singles match.
The Spanish crowd that packed the Caja Magica centre court erupted when Nadal converted his third match point to clinch the title for Spain at the inaugural Davis Cup Finals with an insurmountable 2-0 lead.
The top-ranked Nadal won all of his eight matches at the revamped competition that debuted a World Cup-style format.
Tournament organiser and Barcelona soccer star Gerard Pique, his wife Shakira - who performed in the closing ceremony - and Spanish King Felipe VI were among those celebrating Spain's first Davis Cup title since 2011.
That winning feeling.
The celebration was especially emotional for Bautista Agut, who sent Spain on its way to victory after returning to the team following the death of his father on Thursday.
He pointed his finger to the sky after winning the final point. His father's health deteriorated after an illness that stemmed from a 2016 accident. Spain's Marcel Granollers and Feliciano Lopez were scheduled to face Shapovalov and Vasek Pospisil in the doubles if needed, although Nadal was likely to play if the title had been at stake. Nadal played in the decisive doubles on Friday and Saturday.
Nadal sealed Spain's win, however, with a straight-sets win over the 20-year-old Shapovalov, who is ranked 15th.
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The YKK-sponsored Widnes Wild moved up to second place in the Laidler Division table after a 4-point weekend that saw them win away at Sheffield on Saturday before beating league leaders Bradford Bulldogs in the most dramatic of fashions at Planet Ice Widnes on Sunday.
The trip to Sheffield was the return fixture to the first game of the season that had seen a very close encounter in Widnes with the Wild only just managing a 4-3 win. This game was also very closely matched with the Shots on Goal coming out at 40 to 45 overall but this time the Wild made more of their chances in front of goal.
They led 2-3 at the end of the first period but then hit three unanswered goals to lead 3-6 before the home team managed to fire their third goal of the game at 51.24. A 7th goal for Widnes – a first goal for new signing Ross Jordan – scored with just 80 seconds left on the clock, rounded off the scoring for the night and gave the Wild their second win in two starts.
Jakub Hajek top scored with 3 goals and 1 assist, Mikey Gilbert contributed 1+3, Michal Novak 1+1, player coach Ollie Barron 0+3 and another new signing, Daniel Fay, also scored his first goal for the club.
On Sunday night, the Wild welcomed league leaders Bradford Bulldogs to Planet Ice Widnes. The Bulldogs have had a really impressive start to the season and they had beaten Altrincham Aces 5-1 on Saturday night so a tough game was anticipated.
Bradford actually opened the scoring on 11 minutes but the lead didn't last long as Chris Gee equalised for the Wild just 60 seconds later. The score remained 1-1 at the first break but then a 3-1 second period – with goals from Jakub Hajek, Danny Bullock and Tom Jackson looked to have put the Wild in control of the game. However, two goals early in the third period put Bradford right back in the mix and, for the last 10 minutes, the result really could have gone either way.
Mikey Gilbert edged the Wild back in front with a goal at 50.09. Bradford equalised just two minutes later and then went ahead again a minute after that.
The game was played on a knife edge for the next 5 minutes as another Bradford goal would have probably handed them the win while the Wild were desperately trying to force another equaliser. The decisive goal came with just 1.44 left on the clock as Mikey Gilbert's strike levelled the score and sent the game into sudden death over time.
The atmosphere around the rink was electric and there was still a sense of "anything could happen" as the extra 5 minute period commenced. Luckily, the Wild faithful were spared some 4 minutes and 30 seconds of potential nerve jangling agony as Czech import Jakub Hajek made a great breakaway and scored the golden goal with just 25 seconds played in the period.
The crowd erupted, Widnes took the win and Bradford had to settle for a single point for the overtime loss.
The YKK sponsored Widnes Wild travel to play Telford Tigers next Saturday 29th September and then are away to Hull Jets the following Saturday 6th October. The next home game is on Sunday 7th October when they take on the Blackburn Hawks development team at Planet Ice Widnes – 5.30pm face off.
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The 10 Best Animal Dads
By Josie F. Turner, Journalist specialized in Animal Welfare. Updated: December 10, 2017
We tend to assume that it's always the mother who takes care of her offspring, but in fact there are many species in which the father does everything within his reach to help his young survive, nurtures them, and ensures they stay healthy and happy.
In this AnimalWised article we'll list the 10 best animal dads: you may have an inkling as to some of them, but you're sure to be surprised by others. What animal would sacrifice himself for his children? Which one feeds them and carries them around?
You'll discover that to be a great dad you don't need to be huge or to have big claws. If you're a father yourself, you'll understand many of the behaviors of these fathers from the animal kingdom. Parenting is not only for humans!
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The Emperor Penguin
The Seahorse
The Owl Monkey
The Giant Water Bug
The Black-Necked Swan
The Gray Wolf
The Red Fox
The Catfish
The Darwin's Frog
The Barking Frog
Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) are famous for being the largest penguin species, but also for the love they have for their young.
In this species, the female penguin lays a single egg during the unforgiving Antarctic winter. After that, she must go to the sea and feed, so it is the penguin dad who incubates the egg, huddling together with other new fathers for two months in the windy, freezing cold dark. During this period, the dad cannot feed at all. Once the penguin chick is born, the task of raising it and feeding it is shared by the two parents.
Here you can learn more about where do penguins live and what do penguins eat.
There are more than fifty seahorse species (Hippocampus), and besides their odd physique - it is hard to remember seahorses are fish! - they are famous because it is the males who become pregnant, not the females.
The male seahorse has a special brood pouch, which is displayed during the courtship ritual. If it is successful, the female deposits unfertilized eggs. The fertilization happens inside the pouch with the help of external agents such as seawater. During the seahorse's pregnancy, the father nurtures his eggs with prolactin, a hormone. The process lasts from a week and a half to a month, and the mother visits the pregnant father regularly.
Once the pregnancy is done, the newborn seahorse are hatched inside the pouch and released afterwards. Some seahorse species can give birth to 2,500 young! While the energy spent makes the seahorse one of the best animal dads, the truth is that after the birth both parents abandon the young, and only 0.5% of their offspring survives.
Owl monkeys (Aotus), also called night monkeys, are very special fathers. They are the only true nocturnal type of monkey, and for them, the task of parenting never ends. Owl monkeys form pair bonds, and they are monogamous; in general, they have one child every year.
What places owl monkeys in our ranking of the 10 best animal dads is that after the first week, the males carry their young around, help nurture them and groom them. On the other hand, the mother is only in charge of lactation. This makes the energy expense of the pair more balanced.
Want to learn more about monkeys? Don't miss the native monkeys of India and our guidelines on monkeys as pets.
While not exactly pretty, giant water bugs (Belostomatidae) are very good fathers. The males of this family of insects are the ones who carry the fertilized eggs until they hatch, as they are laid on their wings. In the species where the eggs are laid on the ground, it is still the males who guard them.
The male giant water bug is responsible for protecting his offspring, carrying up to 150 eggs on his back. He certainly deserves a place in our list of the best animal dads!
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In fifth place in our list of the best fathers in the animal kingdom is the black-necked swan (Cygnus melancoryphus). If you've ever come across these swans and seen them carry cygnets on their backs, it was probably the dad, not the mom!
The dads of this swan species carry their chicks on their backs to protect them from predators, the cold and other dangers. The male takes care of his offspring for a year, although he makes the greatest effort during their first few weeks of life.
Gray wolves (Canis lupus), for all their fame of fierceness and wildness, are excellent parents. They are among the animals most faithful to their mates, and the males are exemplary fathers. The wolf dad takes care of feeding his mate after she has given birth, and he also cares for his litter and teaches them how to hunt and survive.
The other aspect that makes the gray wolf one of the best animal dads is that this species also practices alloparental care; if a wolf pup is lost or abandoned, a pair may adopt it and raise it as their own. Here you can learn more about a gray wolf's diet and hunting habits.
Closely related to the gray wolf, the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) can be an excellent father to his kits. When the fox kits are born, they are very vulnerable and their mother must stay with them 24/7. The father is in charge of feeding his mate for the first three months.
While fox dads do not actively raise their young, they do teach them how to hunt and ensure their survival. If the mother dies or disappears, for instance, the father will provide for the kits and teach them.
The catfish is not a species, but an order of fish (Siluriformes). There are many species of catfish, but in general the male protects his young by carrying them in his mouth until they reach a size that allows them to survive. During that time, the male catfish goes without eating for the sake of his offspring, which places him in our list of best animal dads.
The male of the Darwin's frog (Rhinoderma darwinii) is certainly a model father. In this species, pregnancy is quite a complicated process for the mothers, which lay their eggs on leaves. Once they are fertilized, the dad takes charge and protects them. When the embryos are developed enough to start moving, the dad puts them into his mouth!
The Darwin's frog protects his young inside his vocal sac - and we're talking about 40 eggs - and after a few days, they hatch. The dad still carries them around and nurtures them through a yolk-like substance in his sac. When they are grown, he can "vomit" his happy little tadpoles.
As you can see, frogs make great dads! The barking frog (Craugastor augusti) gets its name from the unique noise it makes. The fathers are overly protective of their young and, in extreme cases, they may even urinate on their eggs if they lack the water they need to survive.
Interestingly, barking frogs do not go through the tadpole stage. Instead, they hatch as froglets. Doing your utmost to save your children, no matter how peculiar, is to be admired. This is why the barking frog makes our list of the 10 best animal dads!
Did you enjoy reading our list of the 10 best animal dads? Have we forgotten a father than deserves to be on this list?
Leave your comments and share these items to celebrate Father's Day. We at AnimalWised know how important it is to be a good father. Perhaps the incredible lengths these fathers go to for their young can inspire us to be better parents ourselves.
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var createCompounder = require('lodash._createcompounder');

/**
 * Converts `string` to camel case.
 * See [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase) for more details.
 *
 * @static
 * @memberOf _
 * @category String
 * @param {string} [string=''] The string to convert.
 * @returns {string} Returns the camel cased string.
 * @example
 *
 * _.camelCase('Foo Bar');
 * // => 'fooBar'
 *
 * _.camelCase('--foo-bar');
 * // => 'fooBar'
 *
 * _.camelCase('__foo_bar__');
 * // => 'fooBar'
 */
var camelCase = createCompounder(function(result, word, index) {
  word = word.toLowerCase();
  return result + (index ? (word.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + word.slice(1)) : word);
});

module.exports = camelCase;

},{"lodash._createcompounder":2}],2:[function(require,module,exports){
/**
 * lodash 3.0.0 (Custom Build) <https://lodash.com/>
 * Build: `lodash modern modularize exports="npm" -o ./`
 * Copyright 2012-2015 The Dojo Foundation <http://dojofoundation.org/>
 * Based on Underscore.js 1.7.0 <http://underscorejs.org/LICENSE>
 * Copyright 2009-2015 Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud and Investigative Reporters & Editors
 * Available under MIT license <https://lodash.com/license>
 */
var deburr = require('lodash.deburr'),
    words = require('lodash.words');

/**
 * Creates a function that produces compound words out of the words in a
 * given string.
 *
 * @private
 * @param {Function} callback The function to combine each word.
 * @returns {Function} Returns the new compounder function.
 */
function createCompounder(callback) {
  return function(string) {
    var index = -1,
        array = words(deburr(string)),
        length = array.length,
        result = '';

    while (++index < length) {
      result = callback(result, array[index], index);
    }
    return result;
  };
}

module.exports = createCompounder;

},{"lodash.deburr":3,"lodash.words":5}],3:[function(require,module,exports){
/**
 * lodash 3.0.2 (Custom Build) <https://lodash.com/>
 * Build: `lodash modern modularize exports="npm" -o ./`
 * Copyright 2012-2015 The Dojo Foundation <http://dojofoundation.org/>
 * Based on Underscore.js 1.8.3 <http://underscorejs.org/LICENSE>
 * Copyright 2009-2015 Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud and Investigative Reporters & Editors
 * Available under MIT license <https://lodash.com/license>
 */
var baseToString = require('lodash._basetostring');

/** Used to match [combining diacritical marks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_Diacritical_Marks). */
var reComboMark = /[\u0300-\u036f\ufe20-\ufe23]/g;

/** Used to match latin-1 supplementary letters (excluding mathematical operators). */
var reLatin1 = /[\xc0-\xd6\xd8-\xde\xdf-\xf6\xf8-\xff]/g;

/** Used to map latin-1 supplementary letters to basic latin letters. */
var deburredLetters = {
  '\xc0': 'A',  '\xc1': 'A', '\xc2': 'A', '\xc3': 'A', '\xc4': 'A', '\xc5': 'A',
  '\xe0': 'a',  '\xe1': 'a', '\xe2': 'a', '\xe3': 'a', '\xe4': 'a', '\xe5': 'a',
  '\xc7': 'C',  '\xe7': 'c',
  '\xd0': 'D',  '\xf0': 'd',
  '\xc8': 'E',  '\xc9': 'E', '\xca': 'E', '\xcb': 'E',
  '\xe8': 'e',  '\xe9': 'e', '\xea': 'e', '\xeb': 'e',
  '\xcC': 'I',  '\xcd': 'I', '\xce': 'I', '\xcf': 'I',
  '\xeC': 'i',  '\xed': 'i', '\xee': 'i', '\xef': 'i',
  '\xd1': 'N',  '\xf1': 'n',
  '\xd2': 'O',  '\xd3': 'O', '\xd4': 'O', '\xd5': 'O', '\xd6': 'O', '\xd8': 'O',
  '\xf2': 'o',  '\xf3': 'o', '\xf4': 'o', '\xf5': 'o', '\xf6': 'o', '\xf8': 'o',
  '\xd9': 'U',  '\xda': 'U', '\xdb': 'U', '\xdc': 'U',
  '\xf9': 'u',  '\xfa': 'u', '\xfb': 'u', '\xfc': 'u',
  '\xdd': 'Y',  '\xfd': 'y', '\xff': 'y',
  '\xc6': 'Ae', '\xe6': 'ae',
  '\xde': 'Th', '\xfe': 'th',
  '\xdf': 'ss'
};

/**
 * Used by `_.deburr` to convert latin-1 supplementary letters to basic latin letters.
 *
 * @private
 * @param {string} letter The matched letter to deburr.
 * @returns {string} Returns the deburred letter.
 */
function deburrLetter(letter) {
  return deburredLetters[letter];
}

/**
 * Deburrs `string` by converting [latin-1 supplementary letters](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin-1_Supplement_(Unicode_block)#Character_table)
 * to basic latin letters and removing [combining diacritical marks](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combining_Diacritical_Marks).
 *
 * @static
 * @memberOf _
 * @category String
 * @param {string} [string=''] The string to deburr.
 * @returns {string} Returns the deburred string.
 * @example
 *
 * _.deburr('déjà vu');
 * // => 'deja vu'
 */
function deburr(string) {
  string = baseToString(string);
  return string && string.replace(reLatin1, deburrLetter).replace(reComboMark, '');
}

module.exports = deburr;

},{"lodash._basetostring":4}],4:[function(require,module,exports){
/**
 * lodash 3.0.0 (Custom Build) <https://lodash.com/>
 * Build: `lodash modern modularize exports="npm" -o ./`
 * Copyright 2012-2015 The Dojo Foundation <http://dojofoundation.org/>
 * Based on Underscore.js 1.7.0 <http://underscorejs.org/LICENSE>
 * Copyright 2009-2015 Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud and Investigative Reporters & Editors
 * Available under MIT license <https://lodash.com/license>
 */

/**
 * Converts `value` to a string if it is not one. An empty string is returned
 * for `null` or `undefined` values.
 *
 * @private
 * @param {*} value The value to process.
 * @returns {string} Returns the string.
 */
function baseToString(value) {
  if (typeof value == 'string') {
    return value;
  }
  return value == null ? '' : (value + '');
}

module.exports = baseToString;

},{}],5:[function(require,module,exports){
/**
 * lodash 3.0.1 (Custom Build) <https://lodash.com/>
 * Build: `lodash modern modularize exports="npm" -o ./`
 * Copyright 2012-2015 The Dojo Foundation <http://dojofoundation.org/>
 * Based on Underscore.js 1.8.2 <http://underscorejs.org/LICENSE>
 * Copyright 2009-2015 Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud and Investigative Reporters & Editors
 * Available under MIT license <https://lodash.com/license>
 */
var baseToString = require('lodash._basetostring'),
    isIterateeCall = require('lodash._isiterateecall');

/** Used to match words to create compound words. */
var reWords = (function() {
  var upper = '[A-Z\\xc0-\\xd6\\xd8-\\xde]',
      lower = '[a-z\\xdf-\\xf6\\xf8-\\xff]+';

  return RegExp(upper + '+(?=' + upper + lower + ')|' + upper + '?' + lower + '|' + upper + '+|[0-9]+', 'g');
}());

/**
 * Splits `string` into an array of its words.
 *
 * @static
 * @memberOf _
 * @category String
 * @param {string} [string=''] The string to inspect.
 * @param {RegExp|string} [pattern] The pattern to match words.
 * @param- {Object} [guard] Enables use as a callback for functions like `_.map`.
 * @returns {Array} Returns the words of `string`.
 * @example
 *
 * _.words('fred, barney, & pebbles');
 * // => ['fred', 'barney', 'pebbles']
 *
 * _.words('fred, barney, & pebbles', /[^, ]+/g);
 * // => ['fred', 'barney', '&', 'pebbles']
 */
function words(string, pattern, guard) {
  if (guard && isIterateeCall(string, pattern, guard)) {
    pattern = null;
  }
  string = baseToString(string);
  return string.match(pattern || reWords) || [];
}

module.exports = words;

},{"lodash._basetostring":6,"lodash._isiterateecall":7}],6:[function(require,module,exports){
arguments[4][4][0].apply(exports,arguments)
},{"dup":4}],7:[function(require,module,exports){
/**
 * lodash 3.0.9 (Custom Build) <https://lodash.com/>
 * Build: `lodash modern modularize exports="npm" -o ./`
 * Copyright 2012-2015 The Dojo Foundation <http://dojofoundation.org/>
 * Based on Underscore.js 1.8.3 <http://underscorejs.org/LICENSE>
 * Copyright 2009-2015 Jeremy Ashkenas, DocumentCloud and Investigative Reporters & Editors
 * Available under MIT license <https://lodash.com/license>
 */

/** Used to detect unsigned integer values. */
var reIsUint = /^\d+$/;

/**
 * Used as the [maximum length](https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-number.max_safe_integer)
 * of an array-like value.
 */
var MAX_SAFE_INTEGER = 9007199254740991;

/**
 * The base implementation of `_.property` without support for deep paths.
 *
 * @private
 * @param {string} key The key of the property to get.
 * @returns {Function} Returns the new function.
 */
function baseProperty(key) {
  return function(object) {
    return object == null ? undefined : object[key];
  };
}

/**
 * Gets the "length" property value of `object`.
 *
 * **Note:** This function is used to avoid a [JIT bug](https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142792)
 * that affects Safari on at least iOS 8.1-8.3 ARM64.
 *
 * @private
 * @param {Object} object The object to query.
 * @returns {*} Returns the "length" value.
 */
var getLength = baseProperty('length');

/**
 * Checks if `value` is array-like.
 *
 * @private
 * @param {*} value The value to check.
 * @returns {boolean} Returns `true` if `value` is array-like, else `false`.
 */
function isArrayLike(value) {
  return value != null && isLength(getLength(value));
}

/**
 * Checks if `value` is a valid array-like index.
 *
 * @private
 * @param {*} value The value to check.
 * @param {number} [length=MAX_SAFE_INTEGER] The upper bounds of a valid index.
 * @returns {boolean} Returns `true` if `value` is a valid index, else `false`.
 */
function isIndex(value, length) {
  value = (typeof value == 'number' || reIsUint.test(value)) ? +value : -1;
  length = length == null ? MAX_SAFE_INTEGER : length;
  return value > -1 && value % 1 == 0 && value < length;
}

/**
 * Checks if the provided arguments are from an iteratee call.
 *
 * @private
 * @param {*} value The potential iteratee value argument.
 * @param {*} index The potential iteratee index or key argument.
 * @param {*} object The potential iteratee object argument.
 * @returns {boolean} Returns `true` if the arguments are from an iteratee call, else `false`.
 */
function isIterateeCall(value, index, object) {
  if (!isObject(object)) {
    return false;
  }
  var type = typeof index;
  if (type == 'number'
      ? (isArrayLike(object) && isIndex(index, object.length))
      : (type == 'string' && index in object)) {
    var other = object[index];
    return value === value ? (value === other) : (other !== other);
  }
  return false;
}

/**
 * Checks if `value` is a valid array-like length.
 *
 * **Note:** This function is based on [`ToLength`](https://people.mozilla.org/~jorendorff/es6-draft.html#sec-tolength).
 *
 * @private
 * @param {*} value The value to check.
 * @returns {boolean} Returns `true` if `value` is a valid length, else `false`.
 */
function isLength(value) {
  return typeof value == 'number' && value > -1 && value % 1 == 0 && value <= MAX_SAFE_INTEGER;
}

/**
 * Checks if `value` is the [language type](https://es5.github.io/#x8) of `Object`.
 * (e.g. arrays, functions, objects, regexes, `new Number(0)`, and `new String('')`)
 *
 * @static
 * @memberOf _
 * @category Lang
 * @param {*} value The value to check.
 * @returns {boolean} Returns `true` if `value` is an object, else `false`.
 * @example
 *
 * _.isObject({});
 * // => true
 *
 * _.isObject([1, 2, 3]);
 * // => true
 *
 * _.isObject(1);
 * // => false
 */
function isObject(value) {
  // Avoid a V8 JIT bug in Chrome 19-20.
  // See https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2291 for more details.
  var type = typeof value;
  return !!value && (type == 'object' || type == 'function');
}

module.exports = isIterateeCall;

},{}],8:[function(require,module,exports){
'use strict';

// foreign modules

var camelCase = require('lodash.camelcase');

// this module

// https://github.com/angular/angular.js/blob/41b36e68/src/ng/compile.js#L706
var CLASS_REGEXP = /([\w\-]+)(?:\:([^;]+))?;?/g;

/**
* @public
* @param {String} klass contents of an HTML 'class' attribute
* @returns {Object} key-value pairs of properties encoded in the string
*/
function decode (klass) {
  // we intentially mispell "class" to pass ES3 syntax in IE8 and under
  var lastSemicolon = klass.lastIndexOf(';');
  var result = {};
  var matches;
  var key;

  if (lastSemicolon === -1) {
    // no semi-colons, so the whole string is just basic CSS classes
    result['class'] = klass;
    return result;
  }

  result['class'] = klass.substring(lastSemicolon + 1, klass.length).trim();
  klass = klass.substring(0, lastSemicolon + 1);
  klass = klass.replace(/\s/g, '');
  klass = klass.replace(/\:;/g, ';');

  matches = CLASS_REGEXP.exec(klass);
  while (Array.isArray(matches)) {
    key = camelCase(matches[1]);
    if (matches[2] === undefined) {
      result[key] = true;
    } else {
      result[key] = matches[2];
    }
    matches = CLASS_REGEXP.exec(klass);
  }

  return result;
}

module.exports = {
  decode: decode
};

},{"lodash.camelcase":1}]},{},[8])(8)
});

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Spain counting on fresh faces for World Cup redemption
By Reuters/Ed Dove &nbspJune 13, 2016 | 05:52 pm GMT+7
Spain are steadily turning to the next generation ahead of their Euro 2016 opener against the Czech Republic later on Monday as the defending champions look to redeem themselves after a miserable World Cup two years ago.
For Spain's disappointing showing in 2014, coach Vicente del Bosque retained 16 of the squad that won the title in 2010, but only eight winners remain for Euro 2016, with players such as Alvaro Morata, Hector Bellerin and Thiago Alcantara introduced as part of a significant changing of the guard.
Sergio Ramos is confident the new boys, five of whom were part of the 2013 European under 21-winning side, can lead Spain into a new golden era.
"People got used to us winning," he told reporters on Sunday, "and maybe we did too, we didn't value our achievements.
"This team can shine at the same level as before, or almost as much. The players may have less experience, but they've integrated well."
Morata, in particular, looks set to play a key role as the latest player to lead the line for del Bosque who has toyed with various striking options during his eight-year tenure.
Top scorer David Villa started at the 2010 World Cup, Fernando Torres scored in the victorious finals of both Euro 2008 and 2012 while Diego Costa was added to the team in 2014.
Alvaro Negredo, Fernando Llorente and Roberto Soldado were all given opportunities to prove that they could be the right man to adapt to Spain's distinctive playing style.
However, none of the aforementioned strikers have been included this time, with del Bosque naming Morata, Aritz Aduriz and Nolito, with Cesc Fabregas also an option to repeat his effective false nine role from Euro 2012.
"I think we had the best forwards in the country's history with Fernando, David and others," said Andres Iniesta, "but now it's different.
"We have new players like Alvaro and Aritz, and there's Cesc," he continued. "We have full confidence that they'll score goals at the critical moments."
Del Bosque is delighted with the squad's blend and has warned people to expect something a little different from the team that will face the Czech Republic in Toulouse.
"If you consider some of my past teams, it's not the same now," the coach said. "We have younger players and we have veterans. We have confidence in all of them."
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How Social Workers Can Play a Role In Suicide Prevention
Social workers have a critical role to play in preventing suicide in this country. They deliver suicide prevention programs and information to students, emergency room patients and their families, veterans' groups, first responders, and other groups; staff suicide prevention hotlines; provide therapy and manage suicide prevention programs; and help gather data. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health (NIMH), suicide was responsible for the loss of 47,000 people in 2017. That is an alarming number and sadly much work remains to end this epidemic.
Understanding Suicide Statistics
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) over the past ten years suicide has been among the top five leading causes of death for Americans in the following age groups: 10 to 14, 15 to 24, 25 to 34, 35 to 44, and 45 to 54. For the first three age groups, suicide was the second leading cause of death in 2017. The older adolescent group also had the highest total percent of individuals (about one in ten) who had suicidal thoughts over the past year and the highest percent of individuals who attempted suicide.
The overall suicide rate for the U.S. has increased steadily over the past decade and half from a rate of 10.7 in 2001 to a rate of 14.0 (per 100,000) in 2017. This trend has not been seen in other western countries such as Canada and the U.K. In fact in many wealthy countries suicides have decreased over the past ten to twenty years.
The CDC's Web-Based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System (WISQARS) allows users to filter data on fatal injuries by cause, location, and demographics. Exploring the data yields further information about suicide in the U.S. in 2017. The highest age- adjusted suicide rates were in western states not including the west coast (see Figure 1). Men committed suicide at four times the rate of women, but women had more suicidal thoughts and attempts. White Americans had more than double the rate of suicide of Asian Americans, Black Americans, and Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans had a suicide rate five points higher than White Americans.
Educating Patients, Families, and the Public about Means
Means of committing suicide have a major impact on lethality. In 2017, more than 50% of men who committed suicide did so with a firearm, while only 31.2 percent of women completed a suicide attempt with a firearm. Poisoning was a much more prevalent means of committing suicide for women than men.
According to Means Matter: A project of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 90% of individuals who attempt suicide and fail DO NOT go on to complete suicide; but with guns there is usually no second chance as 85% of suicide attempts by firearm are fatal. There is often greater impulsivity involved in the decision to commit suicide by gun. Many individuals who use a gun to commit suicide do not suffer from mental illness; rather the impulsive act of committing suicide by gun may follow an argument or break up.
Understanding Risk
Social workers need to understand suicide risk factors to develop effective prevention approaches. A first suicide attempt is a warning sign. A diagnosis of major depression, bipolar depression, or another serious mental illness is a risk factor as well. Additional risk factors include having experienced psychological trauma in one's life, substance abuse, and a family history of suicide.
Social workers have an important role to play in counseling patients and families about risk factors related to means of suicide as well. For example, household gun access triples the risk of death by suicide. Social workers need to understand demographic risks as well. For example, white men and veterans commit suicide by firearm at very high rates. Furthermore, suicide by firearm among young children who have been bullied or who have mental health problems is also becoming more common.
Delivering Evidence-Based Therapies and Programs
Suicide can be effectively prevented through therapy and/or medication. Therapies that are effective in preventing suicide in suicidal and/or depressed patients are dialectical behavioral therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Common psychotropic medications to treat depression can also decrease suicide risk.
According to the CDC, "personalized safety planning" is an evidence-based approach to preventing suicide. For patients with suicidal thoughts or who have gone to the emergency room due to a suicide attempt, a PSP can reduce the threat of future attempts by educating patients and their families about "ways to limit access to lethal means such as firearms, pills, or poisons. The plan also lists coping strategies and people and resources that can help in a crisis." Routine screening for suicidal thoughts and behaviors in emergency rooms and for high-risk populations such as incarcerated individuals is another effective approach to preventing suicide.
Social workers play an important role in preventing suicide among youth by delivering universal, targeted, and individual prevention programs to middle school and high school students. According to the Suicide Resource Prevention Center (SRPC) evidence-based suicide prevention programs for youth in schools and other settings include:
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LEADS: For Youth (Linking Education and Awareness of Depression and Suicide) (curriculum delivered in high schools)
Model Adolescent Suicide Prevention Program (MASPP) (rural Native American youth)
Emergency Department Means Restriction Education (suicidal youth ages 6 – 19 and their families)
Lifelines Curriculum (universal)
Multisystemic Therapy with Psychiatric Supports (MST-Psychiatric) (therapeutic)
Emergency Room Intervention for Adolescent Females (targeted)
American Indian Life Skills (AILS) (universal for Native Americans)
CAST (Coping and Support Training) (small groups therapeutic)
Not Being Afraid to Talk about Suicide
Social workers need to use the best assessment tools for assessing suicide risk and receive continuous training on how to talk to patients about suicidal thoughts. Dr. Dana Alonzo, a Professor at Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service, believes many clinicians are uncomfortable speaking to clients about suicide and warns this can drive away patients who need care most. In speaking to clients about suicidal thoughts Dr. Alonzo suggests clinicians:
Create an accepting, safe, non-judgmental space for clients to disclose suicidal thoughts
Maintain a transparent, neutral stance throughout the interview
Consider the number and timing of questions
Convey to the client that alternatives to suicide exist even though they may be hard to identify at this time
Personalize treatment.
Working for a Hotline or Crisis Center
Social workers also may have an opportunity to work for suicide prevention hotlines and crisis centers. The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (NSPL) provides free and confidential support and information to callers who are routed to professionals working at local crisis centers. The NSPL also has designed a digital outreach project called #BeThe1To which helps educate the public and professionals about how to prevent suicide. Here is a graphic that can be shared through social media or elsewhere:
The NSPL has several resources and guides for professionals including suicide risk assessment standards and guidelines on follow up care.
Social workers have so many opportunities to prevent suicide in this country including implementing evidence-based programs and therapies. Students who are interested in suicide prevention should identify professors who are knowledgeable about suicide prevention and have some practice experience. They should also seek out fieldwork opportunities that will allow them to gain experience working at a crisis center, hospital, or outpatient clinic.
Stephanie Bosco-Ruggiero
B.A. Political Science| Vassar College
M.A. Urban Affairs | University of Delaware
Social Policy | Fordham University Graduate School of Social Service Doctoral Program
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Former Goa Shiv Sena chief Shivprasad Joshi accused of fraud
Pernem: Former Shiv Sena Goa Chief Shivprasad Joshi who is also Chairman of The Pedne Multipurpose Co-Operative Society has been accused of a fraud by a local lawyer.
In a police complaint filed with Pernem Police Station by Advocate Ashish Swar, Joshi has been accused of misappropriating the funds which were deposited in The Pedne Multipurpose Co-operative Society.
The lawyer has said that his father had filed complaint against Joshi and nine others on May 18, 2018 against Joshi.
Swar in a fresh complaint has said that the Cooperative society is not repaying the amount in Fixed Deposit, Saving Bank Accounts to the people.
He has said that the people are denied their own money and the office of the society is closed every day. "When people approach the society office for repayment of money, they have to return empty handed," the complaint mentions.
The lawyer has said that "people are being looted and cheated as the funds are misappropriated."
The complaint mentions that Shivprasad Joshi has committed the offence of cheating, criminal breach of trust, misappropriation of public money.
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