I am currently leading the VICARIO project which will create next-generation, collaborative teleoperation systems for intuitive operation in hazard-prone environments and industry. Specifically, the objectives are the development and integration of technologies including: (i) novel hydraulic quadruped field robot; (ii) new dexterous robotic manipulator arm; (iii) novel master hand exoskeleton haptic device; and (iv) new user interaction interfaces with augmented and virtual reality systems.
My previous research focused on the design and development of robot-assisted surgical tools for microsurgery, particularly, transoral laser microsurgery. The research also involved holistic design, development, and assessment of novel devices and intuitive user interfaces for robot-assisted technologies using GUI software, computer vision techniques, and human factors and usability studies. My research background is in distributed wireless sensing, autonomous navigation, sensor fusion, mechanical design, and user interface development.
Originally from Pune, India, I graduated with a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the Government College of Engineering (COEP), in 2003. The bug to tinker with robots led me to an applications engineering position with Rockwell Automation India Ltd., in New Delhi, India, which introduced me to the basics of plant automation and industrial robots for manufacturing processes and automobile assembly lines. The curiosity to design robots and improve them got me to pursue graduate studies in USA.
Beginning with my Master's in Integrated Manufacturing Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University (NCSU) in 2005, I got the opportunity to design and program mobile robots, and work on state-of-the-art technologies including wireless sensor networks. Here, under the guidance of Prof. Steve Jackson, I developed a smart-home automation solution for in-situ wall-moisture sensing using low-power WSNs. Subsequently, I joined the Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (CRIM) at NCSU to continue on for my PhD in Electrical Engineering with Prof. Edward Grant. My dissertation was on sensor-network assisted mobile robot navigation.
In the summer of 2011, I interned at the Robert Bosch Robotics Research Center in California, working manipulator state estimation using low cost sensing technology - accelerometers and gyroscopes. I collaborated with the Stanford Biorobotics group (Prof. Kenneth Salisbury) and adapted my solution for the PR2 robot arm as well as the new low-cost Stanford Arm.
Leonardo S. Mattos, Diego Pardo, Emidio Olivieri, Giacinto Barresi, Jesus Ortiz, Loris Fichera, Nikhil Deshpande, and Veronica Penza, "Microsurgery Systems", in The E-Medicine, E-Health, M-Health, Telemedicine, and Telehealth Handbook (Two Volume Set), Eren H., Webster J. G., (eds.), CRC Press / Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Thomas Henderson, Hongchang Peng, Nikhil Deshpande, and Edward Grant, "The Role of Symmetry in Structural Bootstrapping", in Bridges between the Methodological and Practical Work of the Robotics and Cognitive Systems Communities - From Sensors to Concepts, Amirat Y., Chibani A., Zarri G. P. (eds.), Springer series on Intelligent Systems Reference Library, December 2011.
Nikhil Deshpande, Giorgio Peretti, Francesco Mora, Luca Guastini, Jinoh Lee, Giacinto Barresi, Darwin G. Caldwell, Leonardo S. Mattos, "Design and Study of a Next Generation Computer Assisted System for Transoral Laser Microsurgery", OTO Open, Vol. , Iss. , SAGE Publications Inc., 2018, pp. .
Alperen Acemoglu, Nikhil Deshpande, Leonardo S. Mattos, "Towards a Magnetically-Actuated Laser Scanner for Endoscopic Microsurgeries", Journal of Medical Robotics Research, Vol. 3, Iss. 2, World Scientific, 2018, pp. .
Nikhil Deshpande, Jesús Ortiz, Ioannis Sarakoglou, Claudio Semini, Nikos Tsagarakis, Anais Brygo, Jorge Fernandez, Marco Frigerio, Lorenzo Saccares, Stefano Toxiri, and Darwin G. Caldwell, "Next Generation Collaborative Robotic Systems for Industrial Safety and Health", in Safety and Security Engineering VII, C. A. Brebbia, F. Garzia, M. Lombardi (eds.), WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, Vol. 174, 2017, pp. 187-200.
Nikhil Deshpande, Edward Grant, Thomas C. Henderson, and Mark Draelos, "Autonomous navigation using received signal strength and bearing-only pseudogradient interpolation", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Vol. 75, 2015, pp. 129-144.
Leonardo S. Mattos, Nikhil Deshpande, Giacinto Barresi, Luca Guastini, and Giorgio Peretti, "A Novel Computerized Surgeon-Machine Interface for Robot-Assisted Laser Phonomicrosurgery", The Laryngoscope, Vol. 124, Iss. 8, DOI: 10.1002/lary.24566, John Wiley & Sons, Aug. 2014, pp. 1887-94.
Nikhil Deshpande, Edward Grant, and Thomas C. Henderson, "Target Localization and Autonomous Navigation using Wireless Sensor Networks - A Pseudo-Gradient Algorithm Approach", IEEE Systems Journal Special Issue on Sensor Networks for Advanced Localization Systems, Vol. 8, Iss. 1, March 2014, pp. 93-103.
Kyle Luthy, Edward Grant, Nikhil Deshpande, and Thomas C. Henderson "Perimeter Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 60, Issue 2, February 2012, pp. 266-277.
Lucia Schiatti, Jacopo Tessadori, Nikhil Deshpande, Giacinto Barresi, and Leonardo S. Mattos, "Human in the Loop of Robot Learning: EEG-based Reward Signal for Target Identification and Reaching Task", In Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2018), pp. -, May 21-25, 2018, Brisbane, Australia.
Manish Chauhan, Nikhil Deshpande, Giacinto Barresi, Claudio Pacchierotti, Domenico Prattichizzo, Darwin G. Caldwell, and Leonardo S. Mattos, "Design and control of a novel robotic microsurgical forceps for Transoral Laser Microsurgery", In Proceedings of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2017), pp. 737-742, July 3-7, 2017, Munich, Germany.
Nikhil Deshpande, Manish Chauhan, Claudio Pacchierotti, Domenico Prattichizzo, Darwin G. Caldwell, and Leonardo S. Mattos, "Robot-Assisted Microsurgical Forceps with Haptic Feedback for Transoral Laser Microsurgery", In Proceedings of 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2016), pp. 5156-59, Aug. 16-20, 2016, Orlando, USA.
Manish Chauhan, Giacinto Barresi, Nikhil Deshpande, Darwin G. Caldwell, and Leonardo S. Mattos, "Novel Modular 2-DOF Microsurgical Forceps for Transoral Laser Microsurgeries: Ergonomic Design and Preliminary Evaluation", In Proceedings of 38th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC 2016), pp. 5216-19, Aug. 16-20, 2016, Orlando, USA.
Manish Chauhan, Leonardo S. Mattos, Darwin G. Caldwell, and Nikhil Deshpande, "Design and Modelling of Novel Modular 2 DOF Microsurgical Forceps for Trans-Oral Laser Microsurgeries", In Proceedings of 2016 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2016), pp. 1339-44, July 12-16, 2016, Banff, Canada.
Nikhil Deshpande, Leonardo S. Mattos, and Darwin G. Caldwell, "New Motorized Micromanipulator for Robot-Assisted Laser Phonomicrosurgery", In Proceedings of 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2015), pp. 4755-4760, May 26-30, 2015, Seattle, USA.
Nikhil Deshpande, Edward Grant, Mark Draelos, and Thomas C. Henderson, "Received Signal Strength based Bearing-only Robot Navigation in a Sensor Network field", In Proceedings of 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), pp. 4618-4623, Sept. 14-18, 2014, Chicago, USA.
Nikhil Deshpande, Jesus Ortiz, Darwin G. Caldwell, and Leonardo S. Mattos, "Enhanced Computer-Assisted Laser Microsurgeries with a "Virtual Microscope" based surgical system", In Proceedings of 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), pp. 4194-4199 , May 31-Jun 7, 2014, Hong Kong, China.
Giacinto Barresi, Nikhil Deshpande, Leonardo S. Mattos, Andrea Brogni, Giulio Dagnino, Luca Guastini, Giorgio Peretti, Darwin G. Caldwell, "Comparative Usability and Performance Evaluation of Surgeon Interfaces in Laser Phonomicrosurgery", In Proceedings of 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013), pp. 3610-3615, Nov 3-7, 2013, Tokyo, Japan.
Nikhil Deshpande, Leonardo S. Mattos, Giacinto Barresi, Andrea Brogni, Giulio Dagnino, Luca Guastini, Giorgio Peretti, Darwin G. Caldwell, "Imaging based Metrics for Performance Assessment in Laser Phonomicrosurgery", In Proceedings of 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2013), pp. 4850 - 4856, May 6-10, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Philip Roan, Nikhil Deshpande, Yizhou Wang, and Benjamin Pitzer, "Manipulator State Estimation with Low-cost Accelerometers and Gyroscopes", In Proceedings of 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012), pp. 4822-4827, Oct. 7-12, 2012, Vilamoura, Portugal.
Mark Draelos, Nikhil Deshpande, and Edward Grant, "The Kinect up close: Adaptations for Short-range Imaging", In Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2012), pp. 251-256, Sept. 13-15, 2012, Hamburg, Germany.
Thomas C. Henderson, Elaine Cohen, Anshul Joshi, Edward Grant, Mark Draelos, and Nikhil Deshpande, "Symmetry as a Basis for Perceptual Fusion", In Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2012), pp. 101-107, Sept. 13-15, 2012, Hamburg, Germany.
Nikhil Deshpande, Edward Grant, and Thomas C. Henderson, "Target-directed Navigation using Wireless Sensor Networks and Implicit Surface Interpolation", In Proceedings of 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2012), pp. 457-462, May 14-18, 2012, St. Paul, USA.
Nikhil Deshpande, Edward Grant, and Thomas C. Henderson, "Experiments with a "Pseudo-Gradient" Algorithm for Target Localization Using Wireless Sensor Networks", In Proceedings of 2010 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI 2010), pp. 74-79, Sept. 5-7, 2010, Salt Lake City, USA.
Luca Guastini, Leonardo S. Mattos, Nikhil Deshpande, Francesco Mora, and Giorgio Peretti, "Innovative Laser Control in Transoral Laser Microsurgery", In AAO-HNSF Annual Meeting, September 2017, Chicago, USA.
Nikhil Deshpande, Luca Guastini, Francesco Mora, Giacinto Barresi, Leonardo S. Mattos, and Giorgio Peretti, "RALP: Robot-assisted Laser Phonomicrosurgery provides precise and intuitive laser micromanipulation for uniform resections", In 21st ENT World Congress (IFOS 2017), 24-28 June, 2017, Paris, France.
Luca Guastini, Nikhil Deshpande, Leonardo S. Mattos, Francesco Mora, and Giorgio Peretti, "Novel Robotic Micromanipulator for Transoral Laser Surgery", In AAO-HNSF Annual Meeting, September 2015, Dallas, USA.
Nikhil Deshpande, Luca Guastini, Leonardo S. Mattos, and Giorgio Peretti, "Novel Micromanipulator for Robot-assisted Microsurgical System for Transoral Laser Surgeries", In World Congress on Larynx Cancer, 26-30 July, 2015, Cairns, Australia.
Luca Guastini, Nikhil Deshpande, Leonardo S. Mattos, and Giorgio Peretti, "Next Generation Robot Enhanced Microsurgical System for Transoral Laser Surgeries", In 3rd Congress of European ORL-HNS, 7-11 June, 2015, Prague, Czech Republic.
Luca Guastini, Leonardo S. Mattos, Nikhil Deshpande, Jesus Ortiz, Francesco Mora, and Giorgio Peretti, "Redesign of the Microsurgical Interface with a Novel, Computer-Assisted "Virtual Microscope" System in Laser Phonomicrosurgery", In AAO-HNSF Annual Meeting, September 2014, Orlando, USA.
Thomas Henderson, Hongchang Peng, Krzysztof Sikorski, Nikhil Deshpande, and Edward Grant, "Symmetry: A Basis for Sensorimotor Reconstruction", Technical Report UUCS-11-011, School of Computing, University of Utah, May, 2011, Salt Lake City, USA.
Manish Chauhan, Nikhil Deshpande, and Leonardo S. Mattos, "Design of a Robotic Microsurgical Forceps for Transoral Laser Microsurgery", In 7th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery, (CRAS 2017), Sept. 14-15, 2017, Montpellier, France.
Alperen Acemoglu, Nikhil Deshpande, and Leonardo S. Mattos, "A Magnetic Laser Scanner for Non-contact Endoscopic Ablations", In Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, 25-28 June, 2017, London, UK.
Manish Chauhan, Nikhil Deshpande, Darwin G. Caldwell, and Leonardo S. Mattos, "Design of robot assisted microsurgical forceps for Transoral Laser Microsurgery", In 6th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery, (CRAS 2016), Sept. 12-14, 2016, Pisa, Italy.
Manish Chauhan, Nikhil Deshpande, and Leonardo S. Mattos, "Novel modular 2-DOF microsurgical forceps for Trans-oral Laser Microsurgeries", In 5th Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery, (CRAS 2015), Sept. 10-12, 2015, Brussels, Belgium.
Nikhil Deshpande, Leonardo S. Mattos, and Darwin G. Caldwell, "Motorized 2-DOF Spherical Orienting Mechanism for Laser Micromanipulation in Trans-oral Laser Microsurgeries", In Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics, 20-23 June, 2015, London, UK.
Nikhil Deshpande, Jesus Ortiz, Leonardo S. Mattos, and Darwin G. Caldwell, "A 'Virtual Microscope' Surgeon Interface in Computer-Assisted Laser Microsurgeries", In Co-SuR Workshop on Cognitive Surgical Robotics: From Virtual Fixtures to Advanced Cooperative Control, 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013), Nov 7, 2013, Tokyo, Japan.
Loris Fichera, Diego Pardo, Nikhil Deshpande, and Leonardo S. Mattos, "On-line estimation of ablation depth during CO2-laser exposure", In Co-SuR Workshop on Cognitive Surgical Robotics: From Virtual Fixtures to Advanced Cooperative Control, 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2013), Nov 7, 2013, Tokyo, Japan.
Nikhil Deshpande, Giacinto Barresi, and Leonardo S. Mattos, "Human-factor oriented approach to improve surgeon-machine interface design", In 1st Russian-German Conference on Biomedical Engineering (RGC 2013), 23-26 October, 2013, Hannover, Germany.
Giacinto Barresi, Leonardo S. Mattos, Nikhil Deshpande, Andrea Brogni, and Darwin G. Caldwell, "Comparative Ergonomic Evaluation of User Interfaces for Laser Phonomicrosurgery", In Eurosurge Workshop on Evaluating Effectiveness and Acceptance of Robots in Surgery: User-centered Design and Economic Factors, 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA 2013), May 6-10, 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Giacinto Barresi, Nikhil Deshpande, Leonardo S. Mattos, Luca Guastini, Giorgio Peretti, and Darwin G. Caldwell, "Usability and Performance: Comparative Evaluation of Surgeon Interfaces in Laser Phonomicrosurgery", In 3rd Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Computer/Robot Assisted Surgery, (CRAS 2013), Sept. 11-13, 2013, Verona, Italy.
Thomas Henderson, Hongchang Peng, Krzysztof Sikorski, Nikhil Deshpande, and Edward Grant, "The Cognitive Symmetry Engine: An Active Approach to Knowledge", In Workshop on Knowledge Representation for Autonomous Robots, 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2011), Sept. 25-30, 2011, San Francisco, USA.
Nikhil Deshpande, "WSN-assisted Multi-robot Coordination in Event Response Mechanisms", In Workshop on Smart Sensor Networks and Robotics, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems, (MFI 2010), Sept. 5-7, 2010, Salt Lake City, USA.


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This Monday, Kushites will be making vegan, gourmet versions of a few classic American dishes using local, natural ingredients.
Hors d'oeuvres served on arrival.
Entree: Juicy Gourmet Mushroom Burger in a gluten-free bun topped with Guava BBQ Sauce, Crisp Local Greens and Sundried Tomatoes made from scratch. This will be accompanied by String Bean Fries and our Oshun Salad containing beautiful, edible flowers.
Dessert: pancakes topped with apple sauce made from our delicious, local Otaheiti Apples.
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I haven't realized how much good stuff from the 80's I missed to watch until Netflix streaming becomes available. With recommendations from hubby who knows a lot about the 80's (music and movies), I have been able to relive the 80's moments through movies. At first I thought it's lame but when I started to watch old movies that I actually like, then I really got interested with more stuff back then. Glad there's Netflix. However, it's just disappointing to know that they will soon increase their rent fees. Oh well, anyway, the following are the movies from the 80's that I have enjoyed watching recently.
There are so many good movies from the 80's. Back to the Future and Karate Kid 1 & 2 are some of my favorites.


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 Carl-Dieter Spranger (* 1939, Leipzig), político alemão (CSU)
 Franz Ernst Eduard Schönebeck, pseudônimo: Eduard Spranger (1882, Lichterfelde  1963, Tübingen), filósofo, educador e psicólogo alemão (en)
 Günter Spranger (1921, Chemnitz  1992, Chemnitz), escritor alemão (de)
 Iris Spranger (* 1961, Halle/Saale), político alemão de Berlim(SPD) (de)
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Celery is a common supermarket food, and is also relatively inexpensive even when buying the organic variety that is much better for your health as it is free of chemical pesticides.
Perhaps far too much attention has been given lately to other types of superfoods on the market that can burn a real big hole in your pocket when even just buying a small amount, and has overshadowed the humble celery that may hold the solution to your digestive problems.
Celery has been found to improve liver health by helping to detoxify it in one recent study.
And when you have a healthy liver you strengthen your whole digestive system as the liver is a part of this system.
Another way celery offers you a solution for poor digestive function is by being rich in fibre. Fibre is vital for great digestive health as it helps to keep you regular and can even help to protect you again colorectal cancer.
The recommended amount of fibre an adult should be getting daily in their diet is 18 grams. When it comes to fibre, both insoluble and soluble types are considered beneficial to your health.
Fibre rich foods like celery can also slow down the absorption rate of carbohydrates in your blood which can help to keep your blood sugar levels steady and prevent serious diseases like diabetes.
Juicing – Celery juice is rich in essential vitamins and minerals like and juicing can help to flush out toxins and increase the production of white blood cells necessary for healthy immune function.
Soups – Celery mixed with onion and garlic makes for an excellent soup base before adding your other veggies, cook these ingredients in a little coconut oil and brown them off before resuming with your other vegetables.
Salads – Finely chopped celery gives an even better crunch to any salad. Use it last and sprinkle on top with some walnuts for extra protein and deeper flavour.
The state of the bowels gives us an indication to how the rest of the body is functioning and feeling. For the most part many of us are not aware that as we mindlessly shove food down our throats, day in day out, our body has to do its best to break these down and this requires a lot of energy.
If we are putting food in that is a constant challenge to digest, like cookies and crisps, then our bodies will become tired and weary.
So be kind to your digestive system by putting into it foods it was designed to eat. These are foods that are found in nature, not foods that have been made by a machine in a factory.


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SFJAZZ Collective: A Unique Concept
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I was expecting an interesting evening of music from the SFJAZZ Collective, but I had no idea just how much fun it would be.
5/8 of SFJAZZ Collective (Robin Eubanks, Avishai Cohen, Matt Penman, David Sanchez, Miguel Zenon)
The concept seems simple: each year since their inception ten years ago, they chose a modern jazz composer (Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, and Stevie Wonder, to name a few) and performed work by that composer as well as new work composed by the members of the Collective.
For this year's tenth anniversary season, they are performing work from the previous jazz masters they have covered and work from present and past members of the Collective.
SFJAZZ Collective (Avishai, David and Miguel, l to r)
The current members of the Collective are Miguel Zenon (alto saxophone), David Sanchez (tenor saxophone), Avishai Cohen (trumpet), Matt Penman (bass), Robin Eubanks (trombone), Warren Wolf (vibraphone), Edward Simon (piano), and Obed Calvaire (drums). There was not a weak link in the group.
The set list was quite interesting. One number they performed, "Crystal Silence" by Chick Corea, is one I had the privilege of hearing Chick perform with Gary Burton. I was extremely pleased that the version they performed this night was on a par with that of Chick and Gary.
I thoroughly enjoyed the way they perform, letting each member take solos as well as introduce the songs. This is a true collective in which each member of the eight-person band has equal participation.
Apparently each member has their own band as well, and I look forward to seeing some of them perform.
Possibly because they were about five feet away from me but definitely because they are amazing players, watching Miguel and David play was especially thrilling.
Something that impresses me when I'm sitting close to the performers as I was this night is that they make it seem effortless. I understand that's because they are masters of their instruments, but it never ceases to wow me.
I plan to see this Collective every time they pass through Boston because it will always be a fantastic show, regardless of the composer who is featured that year or the members of the Collective. I'm thankful that a friend suggested the show, breaking my self-imposed 12-day break from attending shows!
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I've loved the arts all my life... I go to a lot of concerts, take lots of photos and want to share them. Every once in a while I do something other than a concert, too. The Boston area is full of opportunities to indulge my passion - I'd like to help make it yours too!
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Posted on March 28, 2014, in concert reviews, music, Uncategorized and tagged Avishai Cohen, boston, concert review, David Sanchez, Edward Simon, jazz, Matt Penman, Miguel Zenon, music, Obed Calvaire, Regattabar, Robin Eubanks, SFJAZZ Collective, Warren Wolf. Bookmark the permalink. Leave a comment.
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Incentive fees boost Och-Ziff | City A.M.
HEDGE fund company Och-Ziff Capital Management Group yesterday reported higher-than-expected quarterly earnings because it collected more incentive fees as its portfolios delivered strong returns.
The New York-based company, which participated in the Glazer family takeover of Manchester United in 2005, reported distributable earnings of $281.4m (£179m) or 69 cents per share.
A year earlier, the company reported distributable earnings of $28.9m or seven cents.
Och-Ziff, which went public in November 2007, highlights distributable earnings – income from the Och-Ziff Funds segment minus adjustable income taxes – as the best measure of its performance.
At the end of December, Och-Ziff reported $23.1bn in assets under management, up four per cent from the previous quarter but down 14 per cent from a year earlier when investors began pulling money out of hedge funds at the height of the financial crisis.
For Och-Ziff, which distinguished itself from many rivals by not restricting investors' ability pull out, money began to flow in again during the last weeks of the year.
Three of Och-Ziff's four portfolios reported double-digit gains with the OZ Asia Master Fund turning in the best performance with a 33.96 per cent gain.
"We surpassed the high-water marks on our assets under management with our OZ Master Fund having one its best years ever and our Asia Master Fund achieving record performance," chairman and chief executive Officer Dan Och said.
Total revenue jumped 214 per cent to $440.6m.


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Q: Use View from a Query across multiple SELECTS I've got a query in similar structure to below
SELECT blah
FROM   A, B, C
WHERE  $SOME_COMMON_IF_AND
AND    $SPECIFIC_1

UNION

SELECT blah
FROM   A, B, C, D
WHERE  $SOME_COMMON_IF_AND
AND    $SPECIFIC_2

UNION

...

In am attempt to reduce query time, I'm trying to strip out the $SOME_COMMON_IF_AND parts and project it as a view, and have the SELECT clauses use this view as a baseline.
I can't seem to figure out the correct syntax to do this, any suggestions?
Thanks in advance!
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For example:
(SELECT blah
FROM   A, B, C
WHERE  $SOME_COMMON_IF_AND)
AS WORK_TABLE_1

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SELECT blah
FROM   WORK_TABLE_1
WHERE  $SPECIFIC_1

UNION

SELECT blah
FROM   WORK_TABLE_1
WHERE  $SPECIFIC_2

UNION

....

This is on DB2 but I'm look for a general SQL solution, the original query is a beast (1000 line +), hence me abstracting the WHERE clause. Please let me know if more clarification is needed.

A: What you're looking for is called a common table expression.  It's just like having an in-line view:
with
work_table_1 as (
   SELECT blah
   FROM   A, B, C
   WHERE  $SOME_COMMON_IF_AND
)
SELECT blah
FROM   WORK_TABLE_1
WHERE  $SPECIFIC_1

UNION

SELECT blah
FROM   WORK_TABLE_1
WHERE  $SPECIFIC_2

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Juan García-Santacruz Ortiz (* 11. Januar 1933 in Navahermosa, Provinz Toledo; † 12. März 2011 in Toledo) war ein römisch-katholischer Theologe und Bischof von Guadix.

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Juan García-Santacruz Ortiz studierte 1956 nach dem Theologiestudium am Priesterseminar von Toledo Erziehungsphilosophie mit Schwerpunkt Psychologie. Er empfing am 26. Mai 1956 in Toledo die Priesterweihe. Er war als Seelsorger in verschiedenen Pfarreien tätig. Er war Leiter der Caritas Interparroquial (1974–1979) und Mitglied des Lehrkörpers der Schule der Priesterbruderschaft (1982–1992) und der Hochschule für Berater (1984–1992) sowie Kanoniker der Kathedrale von Toledo (1987–1992). Zudem lehrte er Religion an der Colegio Mayol (1973), das Instituto El Greco (1974–1978) und Instituto Alfonso X el Sabio (1978–1983).

Papst Johannes Paul II. ernannte ihn 1992 zum Bischof von Guadix. Die Bischofsweihe spendete ihm am 14. Juni 1992 Erzbischof Mario Tagliaferri, Apostolischer Nuntius in Spanien; Mitkonsekratoren waren Marcelo Kardinal González Martín, Erzbischof von Toledo, und José Méndez Asensio, Erzbischof von Granada. Seinem altersbedingten Rücktrittsgesuch wurde durch Papst Benedikt XVI. 2009 zugestimmt.

In der spanischen Bischofskonferenz CEE war er Mitglied der bischöflichen Kommissionen für Migration (1993–1996), Seminare und Universitäten (1993–1996) und des Laienapostolats (1996–2005). Von 2005 bis 2011 war er Mitglied der Bischöflichen Kommission für das kulturelle Erbe gewesen.

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Poop & Nigger
Posted on July 17, 2017 by tteclod
Presenting, "Poop & Nigger"
Apparently, this internet meme is censored in China.
Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly
Megyn Kelly opens her new show with complaints from women who've received propositions from men, and how each man's career has been ruined as a result.
And a black ballerina.
And a black married Hollywood couple: Wil & Jada Smith.
Then Trump Russia stories.
Don't hire women.
Don't conduct business with women.
PS: How would this story play if Ms. Kelly reported stories of men who lost business opportunities because faggots didn't get the ass-fucking requested?
Planet of the Apes isn't contemplative dystopian fiction; it's contemporary allegorical fiction.
The premise of the recent Planet of the Apes movie franchise is that human civilization falls when human beings release a viral "cure" for mental disease that also wipes out huge portions of the human race, simultaneously uplifting the general intelligence of chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans to near-human (but not equal to human) cognition. Human civilization is not supplanted by apes – the apes themselves are not capable of supporting the heights of civilization – so the entire infrastructure of modern life slowly collapses.
The most recent film, War for the Planet of the Apes, is less a war narrative and more a story of how humanity finally falls to utter ruin as the apocalyptic virus mutates into a disease that robs humans of their superior cognition amidst an orgy of military violence.
Symbolically, the film effectively expresses many desires of non-European ethnicities with a mythic foretelling of European collapse at the hands of an inexplicable calamity. It describes the means by which lesser ethnics desire European demise, namely, robbing that ethnicity of its historic mastery of science, literature, and violence. it provides a map to the failures of lesser ethnics more than praise for their special advantages.
Even so, it fails where such envy usually fails: it paints a false vision of its intellectually and technologically superior humans as deeply frail creatures that abandon hope amidst the terror of impending doom, genocide opposing people at every opportunity, and slaughter their own kin at the first sign of illness. It's fiction through-and-through, but it's a fiction meant to drive anger and assuage national egos deeply scarred by failure and defeat at the hands of superior men who resisted violence until all other options were exhausted.
I don't recommend viewing the film, but familiarize yourself with the plot synopsis and themes: the people writing the story want you dead, and they're telling you why.
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Sig MCXVery occasionally I'll listen to National Public Radio (NPR) during the afternoon, usually All Things Considered on the local station KUAR. I listened to the show this past Friday while NPR's usual talking heads purporting to advocate opposing views, Mr. David Brooks and Mr. E.J. Dionne, discussed politicians' responses to the Orlando massacre perpetrated by Omar Mateen. If enough time has passed since the event and your reading of this essay that Mr. Mateen is not familiar to you, I'll provide a very brief summary.
Mr. Mateen, a man about 29 years old, entered a night club in Orlando, Florida, killed 49 people, and injured more than 50 others with a rifle and a handgun. Both guns he used were so-called semi-automatic (self-loading) firearms which he purchased legally. Some early reports indicated another murderer may have assisted Mateen, and yet other reports indicate a person in the nightclub, perhaps a guard, returned fire. At the time I am writing this, neither of these reports is confirmed, and the former report of a second murderer is increasingly less likely to be true. Reports now almost one week later are starting to include stories of heroism where various people responded to save others, but the bulk of the emerging narrative seems to indicate that Mateen began shooting around 2 am, which is around closing time for the club, and thereafter took hostages when police arrived. He purported to have armed assistance and bombs, as well as hostages, so the police hesitated to enter the night club and subdue him. During the three hours police attempted negotiations with him, many wounded died. When the police finally took action to end the stalemate, they killed Mateen.
So, almost a week later, NPR radio broadcast Mr. Dionne and Mr. Brooks discussion of the political reaction to this latest massacre. Generally, members of the Democratic party and several more so-called liberal members of the Republican party now advocate for tighter gun restrictions. These legislators and politicians intend by such legislation further restricting gun purchases, transfer, manufacture, and ownership to so impede the purchase of firearms necessary for these massacres that such mass homicides are not possible. Mr. Dionne, who favors such restrictions, voiced his opinion during the NPR radio broadcast that, "You can't kill 50 people without an automatic weapon." His statement, while plainly false, is more deeply deceptive and deceitful than the simple misstatement of facts regarding the type of weapon(s) used or the number of homicides, but it's important that I begin by dispensing with the most obvious lies before describing the deep cruelty Mr. Dionne inflicts upon an unwary audience.
As I described earlier, Mr. Mateen used two weapons. The first was a Sig MCX, which is a special rifle compatible with, but not based upon, the AR-15 standard. The rifle is modular: it is designed to be broken into several pieces and built to the preferences of the firearm owner. In this regard, the MCX is less a "rifle" and more a "rifle system," like the AR-15, that can be configured according to any one of several stated purposes. At this time, I have read reports that the rifle was configured anywhere between a .223 caliber and 9mm caliber. Mateen also carried a handgun, reportedly a Glock 17, which probably fired a 9mm x 19mm Parabellum cartridge. A week after the shooting, it is still not clear how long Mateen spent shooting at club patrons and employees, how many rounds of ammunition Mateen fired, how many people he hit with his firearms, nor the lethality of either weapon as he used them. What we do know is that Mateen killed 49 and injured 53, and that most of those killed were shot between 2 am and 3 am, the former time and latter times being the first and last times one homicide victim, Eddie Jamoldroy Justice, sent mobile phone text messages to his mother during the massacre.
I contacted Mr. Dionne while the broadcast was ongoing using the internet publishing service, Twitter, and he published a response to my message corrected his plain error, that the weapons used were not automatic. This is a just and appropriate response on his part, were that his only error, perhaps misspoken within an extemporaneous comment, but he did not address my more meaningful critique of his commentary, which is that substantially more than 50 people may be killed without the use of an automatic weapon.
My example was the victims of the Oklahoma City bombing perpetrated by Tim McVeigh. McVeigh used a mixture of ammonium nitrate, nitromethane, & diesel fuel to construct a bomb and placed it within a rented Ryder truck, which he parked in front of the Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma city. The explosion he ignited killed 168 people, including a large number of children at a daycare on the ground floor. McVeigh claimed to have been unaware of the presence of a daycare on the ground floor, having already purportedly excluded the Federal Building in Little Rock, Arkansas, as a target due to the presence of a florist on the ground floor of that facility. Regardless, McVeigh was not repentant of the deaths of so many children, citing the US bombing campaigns against Iraq that targeted similarly occupied buildings, calling the presence of the daycare in the building a use of "human shields."
McVeigh's stated motive for the mass-murder bombing was vengeance for the deaths at the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas a few years earlier. McVeigh travelled to the vicinity of the compound after it was besieged by federal law enforcement authorities following a botched Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) raid during which both Branch Davidian members and ATF agents killed one another in a gun battle. After some days of ongoing negotiations, the federal authorities assaulted the compound. Simultaneously, a fire arose in the building. Official Federal reports on the matter concluded that the Branch Davidian members started the fire, but the timing of the fire coincident with the law enforcement attack and suspected use of incendiaries, as well as the ensuing deaths of many children within the compound, created suspicion among much of the public that law enforcement may have caused the fire, and if not, utterly botched its initial and final actions against the Branch Davidian members and the compound where they lived with their minor children. Regardless, this particular government-initiated mass murder or criminal-initiated mass suicide, depending on your opinion of the evidence, killed 76.
Many years later, in 2001, several men hijacked four jet airplanes and successfully crashed three of them into three structures: the Pentagon near Washington, DC, and both of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. The fourth plane crashed while en route to Chicago after turning toward D.C., presumably to crash into another capitol building. About 3,000 people died as a result of the plane hijackers' efforts, 44 on the plane that did not strike any building. That one plane could have seated about 200.
Very recently here in Little Rock, unidentified shooters struck more than twenty people with bullets. Although some victims received previous wounds, not one perished. Police still have not arrested a single person purportedly responsible for the shooting. Media variously report at least two shooters initiated a gang shootout, and others joined the fray thereafter.
My point referencing all these incidents (and others internationally I neglect to mention) is to establish the futility of banning firearms in whole or in part for the purpose of impeding future mass murder. As a rule, the greatest mass murders aren't accomplished with firearms, but with some other means specifically or incidentally preferable to flinging small high-velocity projectiles at people.
Also, as a rule, firearms primarily see use as a means of defense or law enforcement or sport. Despite all the aggravated robberies and murders criminals commit, firearms use is primarily a lawful activity which supports society, private citizens in peril, and the 'environment.'
Advocacy for firearms restrictions is advocacy for a police state, for if the accusation – firearms cause mass murders – is false, then the only remaining motive is to restrict firearms to police, thus removing self-defense from the rights of previously free men and making us all slaves and property of the government.
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October 24, 2019|In Cricket, Features, Interviews, Longreads|17 Minutes
Varun Shetty interviews Sanju Samson
By Varun Shetty
More than seven years after his List A debut, Sanju Samson made his first century in 50-overs cricket earlier this month and turned it into a double . He has now returned to the India squad after a long wait.
In this interview, he opens up on the crucial break that made it possible, the near-impossible task of replacing someone like MS Dhoni, and the question everyone has been asking him for a while now: why doesn't he make these big scores more often?
In 2018, you didn't have a century in any format. What do you feel about your year so far?
Before the start of the season, I had close to two-three months of rest. I didn't play any competitive games. I've really used the time to good effect. When you continuously play cricket for a long time, you tend to keep going with the motions. Having two to three months really helped me realise why I started playing cricket. The fun part [had been] lost. It was focusing more on the result and where I have to reach and what I have to do. Those three months have given me a more clear picture of why I started playing. I've started enjoying my cricket. I've started loving batting. Before, I used to bat for long because I had to bat. Now, I love to bat. The love towards my game has changed and automatically I think the results show. The more you enjoy something, the more it gives you back. That's what has changed and I'm really enjoying this season.
Did you work on your cricket during that break?
(Chuckles) The only thing I know is to play cricket and work on my fitness. So I just gave time for that. Fitness was the most important thing. If you keep playing, you can only maintain your fitness. But if you get a break you can take it to the next level. The first month I worked mostly on my fitness and later on my skills.
Did you feel you had to do a bit extra, considering you had failed a fitness test last year?
Absolutely. It does play on your mind. Just before that fitness test, I was my fittest ever, actually! I was working hard. But it happened just after the IPL and I had a small niggle in my knee, so I didn't train for one week. I went and did the fitness test directly, without training or even running in the ground. I thought I was at my fittest and I could easily do it, but it didn't happen. It was unlucky but I've been working hard and I'm confident about it.
You've raised your level now?
Definitely, not only my running, but I've also gained on my muscle work. I have a bit more muscle and have bulked up for the season.
So that explains the double-hundred?
(Laughs) Definitely, yes. Batting for the whole 45-50 overs and running hard between the wickets – I was batting with Sachin Baby and he made me run a lot of doubles and triples. I also had to keep for 50 overs.
After that innings was the biggest challenge of my life. People were seeing that after 20 overs [of keeping], I had a headache. They were saying, you can stop and another keeper can come in. But I wanted to challenge myself. It took two to three days to recover after that.
What clicked for you on that day?
Things have been really clicking for the last one or two months. The way I've been batting in the India A series, the 91 I scored off 48 balls; the start of the tournament [Vijay Hazare] also I was batting well. I scored 60-odd against Karnataka and unfortunately got run out at the bowler's end. Things were going really well. I could feel something special was coming. I didn't feel like it would be a 200, but I knew something big was coming.
The results in cricket keep varying. If you're batting well, if you play six or seven innings, you're only allowed to succeed once or twice. But when you succeed, you have to make it big. I thought the whole tournament I'd been playing well and I was happy that I was able to convert. I think I played normally that day. I never went after the bowlers or smashed the ball. I just looked at the ball and reacted and things came on nicely that day.
What were some of the conversations you had during that innings?
I was in the zone, so you just keep quiet and enjoy it. Lot of fun happening in the middle – I was the happiest when I was playing that innings. I was laughing a lot and I got my first hundred. I was spending some time in the 90s and I got over it after hitting a six to complete my first List-A hundred. That was all very special. Even after I'd got 50, I told myself that if I get a hundred today then I can get a double. The way I was playing in that tournament, I knew that if I complete a hundred, I have to make it something special.
A lot of people must ask you how come it's taken so long to get that hundred. Was it a relief to get that out of the way?
Yeah, seriously, it was. If you're not good enough and you're not scoring that hundred, then you can say that you will improve. But I have been playing some really good innings and getting out in the 90s or 89 not out and all that. I knew it would come. If you're desperate about it, it won't come. Everything in my life has happened at the right time, so I just have to keep on preparing and if it has to happen, it will happen. I was happy to wait this long – and when it happened, it was a double.
Were there times in the past when you felt frustrated?
I have come a long way. I debuted at 18 or 19 for India and in that time, I've had a lot of ups and downs. I've seen success early in my life and failures as well. So I'm mature enough and experienced enough to understand that things will happen. Everyone was saying, "You've not got a hundred, you've not got a hundred." But what I said to myself was, "Sanju, everything has happened so nicely. You've scored two IPL hundreds." I've scored hundreds in a 20-over game, so it's not a big thing to score one in a 50-over match at that level. I've scored against the best bowlers in the world. If I get desperate and say to myself that I need to score more centuries in domestic cricket, it will bring unwanted pressure on me. I just go out there and enjoy myself. That's what you need to get results.
After two-three years at this level, did you feel the expectations were too much?
I was fortunate enough to play with people like Rahul Dravid at the age of 19 and have him as a coach at India A. And meeting lots of people, like Ajinkya Rahane, Shane Watson, Steve Smith, Ben Stokes, Joe Buttler – I talk a lot with them about the game.
The main thing is that you need to understand what you're aiming at. I'm a wicketkeeper-batsman and the Indian team has the most successful captain and keeper in the world. So MS Dhoni was someone I had to replace if I wanted to play for India. It was not going to happen. You have to be realistic about what you're aiming for. At that point I knew I had a lot of time to prepare myself. You need to be prepared to make yourself worthy to play in the Indian jersey. I was lucky to get four or five years in the domestic season, in the IPL or in the India A set-up. Everything doesn't happen quickly.
For someone who was drilled to hit along the ground and described as a calm player by your early coaches, you're quite an aggressive batsman these days. How did that happen?
It's a very funny thing. My father never allowed me to hit the ball in the air when I was young [in Delhi, where Samson grew up] and then I started hitting sixes when I came to Kerala. I can't tell you how it happened, really. I love hitting the ball and it just happens. Nowadays if you ask me whether I like a perfect defensive shot or a six, then definitely I would go for a six. That's how the game has changed for me. Now, the boundary- and six-hitting comes more naturally to me. I practise that a bit more. I like to go after the bowlers and the shots.
But sometimes that will come in the way of, say, a hundred, right?
Yeah, it will. The joy of playing allows me to play like that, I think. In this type of style, failures will happen. I'll fail a lot. But you've to accept that that's your game plan. When you succeed, you've to make it big.
But I've developed another style also. If you ask me to rotate the singles or stay at the crease and create partnerships, I can do that. I think I have two types of game. If there is nothing to achieve or there is no set time, then I go with my natural style. It's very important to have two styles.
How did you raise the level of your batting?
I've worked hard with my Rajasthan Royals coach, Zubin Bharucha. Spending five or six years with him, I think he has known a lot about my game. Lots of people have helped me. I can't name everyone. Everyone has given me something. I believe the best coach you have is yourself. I have sat back and understood what this generation or what this Indian team is going through. And if I stand there one day, how will I respond to a situation. I'm watching TV, seeing what the team is going through and thinking about how I would apply my game.
You had many off-field distractions last year, like issues with the Kerala Cricket Association. Did that affect your mindset?
There have been lots and lots of issues, but there's no point in going back and talking about them. Lots of things happened, good and bad, and I'm happy that they happened and made me who I am. If only good things had happened and if everyone was on my side, I would be much softer than who I am. Now I'm ready to face any situation.
As a wicketkeeper, how hard is to get to that [Dhoni] level and what have you done?
As a wicketkeeper I've been shuffled around a lot. I get selected to the IPL team or India A or even Kerala and sometimes the management says I have to field [instead of keeping]. And I think: are you serious? (laughs) Because everyone wants me to keep and be picked for the Indian team as a wicketkeeper. But I don't want to impose myself. I'm happy to field for the team. In the IPL, they felt I'm a much better fielder than I am a keeper because I move around and take good catches. I said, okay. I can't really tell them I have an Indian selection [pending]. So whatever the team demands, I'll do it. I think I'm a really good fielder too, so if they want to play me as a batsman, I can do that. I can move around quickly in the field. If they want me to keep, I can keep too. I've been keeping regularly for my state side in one-day cricket for the last three to four years.
You once said that you felt your batting concentration was going down in red-ball cricket because of the keeping. Has that improved?
That has changed. If you are an automatic keeper, that doesn't happen. But, as I said, if I play as a batsman, mentally, it is a bit challenging. But now I've coped with it and know how to deal with it.
I must tell you – The Nightingales
Ain't nothing better in the world than watching an incompetent piano solo. More than a decade later, this is a story I would pay to hear. But at the time, it was the end of an era.
Varun Shetty interviews Hanuma Vihari
Hanuma Vihari looks back at his eventful first year in international cricket, and talks about learning to keep his desire for a place in the team from hijacking his game
Gautam, Kazi arrested on spot-fixing charges
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Congratulations to Christina Nam for winning the Cleveland Philharmonic's Concerto Competition! Christina will perform Korngold Violin Concerto with the orchestra on March 9.
The next Starling Chamber Orchestra concert on March 2, 2019 will feature Skye Park with the Brahms Violin Concerto, and Bartok's Divertimento for String Orchestra. The concert starts at 7:00 pm in Werner Recital Hall at CCM.
Starling Project students and alumni have won awards such as the International Tchaikovsky Competition, The China International Violin Competition, and the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.


Being a single parent is not easy. It is like doing two jobs in one sitting. Single parenting requires you to be an understanding mother or a tough and a providing father all at the same time. Stress and single parenting, therefore, works together, giving single mom and dad a terrible headache every single day.
Stress and single parenting are the usual topics in self-help books in parenting. Psychologists believe that raising children and even just a child is a very stressful task that requires ample management of emotional, behavioral and spiritual aspect of a single parent. Without the proper guide from self-help books, counsellors, group therapy, a single parent will deteriorate emotionally due to stress.
So how could you manage stress and single parenting? Psychologists say that in order for a parent to manage both stress and single parenting, he or she should enumerate things that brings him or her the stressors.
The universal stressors in single parenting for a female parent is how she could manage her household while she works her way to earn a living for 8 to 9 hours during the day. Self-help books on how to manage stress and single parenting gives single moms a good advice.
Firstly, if their job requires them to be out of the house in the usual office hours, she could hire a nanny during those times that she is away. But if she wants to have a quality time with her child or children, it would be for the best if she would leave her day job and establish a work from home business or job.
The internet isn't there to merely entertain us. In fact, billions of dollars worth of business deals have been transacted through the internet. Of course, this isn't just on sales transactions — sales on goods sold such as in Amazon or Ebay — but also those transactions that pay off a service using Paypal or other online payment mode.
Yes, believe it or don't, many people, single parent or not, who earn a living through the internet not for selling goods but for offering and selling a service.
If you are a fast typist, you can offer typing services through 'telecommuting.' It is a secretarial job that doesn't require a single parent to be 'on-site' or at the place where the office is located.
Some employers, especially those who are always on the go, hire 'virtual assistant' to help them with clerical or typing or secretarial jobs. Employers simply email the typing or research job to their virtual assistant with the instructions on how to do it and when to submit it, and the virtual assistant shall submit to the employer the typing and research job at the time the employer has specified.
The virtual assistant will be paid online via Paypal or Online Checks, every 15th and 30th of the month, or as agreed by both parties.
This way you can manage both stress and single parenting. Even if your two children are howling at each other, you can pacify them while you are waiting for the next job that your virtual boss will give you. Working online or telecommuting is one of the best ways that you can manage stress and single parenting.
As for single dads, the problem that they usually face is how to keep in-tune with his child or children's feelings and emotional needs. This is the most usual cause of stress with a male doing the single parenting.
Of course, unlike a single mom, not all single dads want to work at home. They feel that this is not a very manly job. To psychologists, however, single dads doesn't have that much liberty to think this way.
Single parenting is totally different to regular parenting (a household with a mother and a father). A single parent must adjust to the usual activities expected of a 'regular' parent. So, a single dad must accept the fact that he can't be just like 'any other dad' and work his bottom from sunrise till night.
A single dad needs to be at the side of his children, like a mother. If he can't accept this fact, he cannot possibly manage stress and single parenting.


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Santa Anita Park Horse Racing Picks for Saturday 1/9/21
Jay Ginsbach — @FairwayJay Jan 9th, 2021
It's a great time to dive into horse racing, and FanDuel Racing gives you the chance to do just that.
Starting at 3:00 p.m. EST, we have 10 races at Santa Anita Park. Using numberFire's projections as a guide, here are some of the best bets.
As always, check the program for scratches and changes, and check the weather and track conditions.
(I will reference Equibase's Speed Figure in selected races, which tells you how fast a horse has been running in each of its races -- adjusted for track, distances, and conditions.)
Gregdar and Rip City, Race 1
FanDuel Racing Odds: 3/1 and 5/2
Saturday begins at 'The Great Race Place' with an Allowance race for older horses going 1 mile on the turf. The projected winner by numberFire's algorithm is Lane Way (3/1), with Rip City (5/2) placing. Daily Horse Picks' (DHP) top pick is Rip City in front of Gregdar (3/1) with top turf rider Umberto Rispoli on board for EPO trainer Phil D'Amato. DHP gives the top speed ratings to Rip City on the rail and Liberal (10/1) on the outside No. 8 post with leading jockey Flavien Prat riding.
Lane Way drops from a tougher Grade I race but finished second at this level three back and third two races ago versus three-year-olds in a minor stakes race.
Rip City has won four straight races for trainer Richard Mandella, and in his last race, he came home in a blistering 22.25 seconds over the final quarter mile in Allowance company. He's posted three triple-digit speed figures across his last four races, and the galloping gray son of Zip City faces a stronger group today.
Gregdar may have a pace advantage after stretching out to two turns last race and scoring a solid press-pacing win with fast fractions. If he gets loose on the lead against this better group, he may hold up.
Fighting Mad, Race 8
FanDuel Racing Odds: 9/5
Race 8 is the $200K Grade III La Canada Stakes for older fillies and mares going 1 1/16 miles. It's a formful race of seven runners, and according to the projections at numberfire and Guaranteed Tip Sheet, we'll see the two favorites battle it out.
Hard Not to Love (2/1) has hit the board in 9-of-9 starts, according to Horse Racing Radar. DHP has her speed rating tops in the field, and she's more of a sprinter. Still, she finished in front of Fighting Mad in a route in the fall.
Fighting Mad (9/5) launches her comeback after a disappointing third-place finish as the favorite in September knocked her out of the Breeders' Cup Distaff. The Bob Baffert-trained mare is ridden by strong gate jockey Abel Cedillo. She has top speed figures at route distances and is the class of the field in two-turn races. That gives her the top pace rating, per DHP.
Miss Stormy (8/1) is the top choice of DHP and is expected to move forward in her second start of a layoff, with Mike Smith riding for trainer Carla Gaines.
Jolie Olimpica, Race 9
Race 9 is the $100K Grade III Las Cienegas for older fillies and mares, and it's sprinting 6 furlongs on the turf. The top pick according to numberFire's projections is co-favorite Oleksandra (9/5) with strong stretch rider Joel Rosario in the irons. She's won 7-of-16 starts and finished in the money 13 times, including two of her three graded stakes outings in 2020. She missed the board in her last race, the Breeders' Cup Turf Sprint, but she's won three times in four starts at this distance, according to Horse Racing Radar.
Jolie Olimpica (8/5) is the very slight morning line favorite, and she has five wins and two seconds in seven starts. She has the highest speed figures in the race, touching 116 in two of her last three graded stakes starts. Mike Smith rides for trainer Richard Mandella.
Lighthouse (5/1) is the other potential challenger with top turf rider Umberto Rispoli in the saddle. She steps up with just one Grade III race to her credit but had a strong upward pattern last year.
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UK PM Rishi Sunak Unveils 5-Step Crackdown On Illegal Immigration
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday set out a new five-step strategy to clamp down on illegal immigration, with a promise to end the government's backlog of asylum applications by the end of next year.
Hundreds of additional staff will be deployed to a new unit to monitor small boats crossing the English Channel as well as a dedicated unit to handle claims from Albanians - among the largest cohort of illegal migrants despite Albania being categorised as a safe country. The new plans also cover housing 10,000 asylum seekers waiting for their claims to be processed in less expensive accommodation than hotels.
"It is unfair that people come here illegally. It is unfair on those with a genuine case for asylum when our capacity to help is taken up by people coming through, and from, countries that are perfectly safe," Sunak said in a statement in the House of Commons.
"It is not cruel or unkind to want to break the stranglehold of the criminal gangs who trade in human misery and who exploit our system and laws. Enough is enough. As currently constructed the global asylum framework has become obsolete," he said.
Under the government's five-point agenda, which Sunak said had been devised by him and his Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, a new permanent unified Small Boats Operational Command will be set up to coordinate intelligence, interception, processing, and enforcement. It will involve more than 700 new staff and double the funding given to the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) for tackling organised immigration crime in Europe.
The second step he set out involves freed up immigration officials being able to increase raids on illegal working by 50 per cent. The third area of focus will be to counter the GBP 5.5 million daily bill for the use of hotels to house asylum seekers and make use of alternative sites such as disused holiday parks, former student halls, and surplus military sites.
The fourth area covers a doubling of asylum application caseworkers "radically re-engineering" the end-to-end process with shorter guidance, fewer interviews, less paperwork and introducing specialist case workers by nationality.
The fifth and final area highlighted by Sunak in Parliament is aimed at tackling the large numbers from a "safe, prosperous European country" of Albania, who make up a third of those arriving via small boats.
"The Prime Minister of Albania has himself said there is no reason why we cannot return Albanian asylum seekers immediately," said Sunak.
"Last year Germany, France, Sweden all rejected almost 100 per cent of Albanian asylum claims. Yet our rejection rate is just 45 per cent. That must not continue. So today I can announce a new agreement with Albania - and a new approach," he said.
The agreement covers embedding UK Border Force officers in Tirana airport in Albania to combat organised crimes and a new dedicated unit for the country expediting cases within weeks, staffed by 400 new specialists.
"We must be able to control our borders to ensure that the only people who come here come through safe and legal routes. However well intended, our legal frameworks are being manipulated by people who exploit our courts to frustrate their removal for months or years on end," said Sunak, also announcing plans for new legislation that will set an annual quota for refugees coming to the UK.


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2016 - 爱荷华, 美国
爱荷华州立大学斯特德家庭儿童医院
The University of Iowa Stead Family Children's Hospital is the first phase of the masterplan by Foster + Partners to modernize the university's healthcare campus and improve quality of care. The masterplan aims to stitch the campus together by revitalising the surrounding landscape and opening up the hospital to create a better healing environment. Dedicated to saving children's lives, the design of the new hospital focusses on making the often traumatic experience of being in a hospital more humane for the young patients and their families.
The 140-bed children's hospital is conceived as a bright, uplifting environment. Colour is introduced at lower levels, articulating the building's function as a children's hospital through the transparent façade, and double height atrium 'lightwells' bring light and views into the interior, opening up views of the tree canopy and landscape beyond. Playrooms for children and comfortable living rooms for families are situated throughout the building to offer a respite from the intensity of the experience. The bedrooms are designed around the needs of the patient, with each incorporating a large picture window to create a visual connection with the outside world. The rooms also contain generous family zones for the parents to stay with their children overnight. Integrated brise-soleils provide protection from the sun and cast ripples of light and shade on the interior.
With eight operating theatres and specialist imaging laboratories, the hospital is the focus of the entire healthcare campus. Maximising the therapeutic qualities of the natural setting, the lozenge-shaped patient tower extends into a new public park, which faces an existing football stadium. Breaks in the towers reduce their scale and allow daylight to penetrate the site and hospital buildings. All vehicles have been moved into the basement parking, and at ground level, the building is transparent and highly permeable, with public spaces and community facilities.
爱荷华 美国
浏览地图
地区 49,844m²
客户 University of Iowa Healthcare
合作建筑师 Heery International
环境工程师 CCRD
景观设计师 Gustafson Guthrie Nichol
照明工程师 CD+M Group Lighting Design
网站 https://uichildrens.org
Nigel Dancey
Spencer de Grey
Dominik Hauser
华润大学
斯坦福大学James H. Clark Center
加州州立大学海峡群岛
Samson Pavilion, CWRU and Cleveland Clinic
帝国理工亚历山大弗莱明爵士楼
西伦敦学院


A wonderful weekend was spent at Goa!! All new faces and all new stories! And with the end of the journey it was bags of memories filled with enumber of beautiful smiles! Speaking about Goa it was just a stress buster treat to eyes after the heavy schedules of study! Ofcourse every trip is complete with family, few people were missed to the core!
The journey from Pune Junction to Madgaon,Goa was all a package of exchanging formal handshakes and a few faking extra happy smiles with eagerness of what will be next 3 days of Goa be like… Finally dropping down all our luggage at Madgoan Station lifted the friendly wave in all of us!!
Entering the bungalow with ever smiling Geet, the sweety pie Vaishnavi and my photogenic darling baby Samu got our excitement to peak like what next!? After a tiring journey of long wait for bungalow keys the refreshing bath made us all set for the day in Goa! The simply dressed ladies from Pune looked no less than the most beautiful Goan beauties after dressing up!!
3 days just flew off!! With so many games, dance, songs photography sessions, long drives in cradle of nature!!
A really refreshed start was what Goa tour gave me!
Special thanks to you Jaiswal Uncle for arranging the most memorable trip and all of you for a wonderful company!
With all Ganesha going back to their homes here's a small request placed!!!
बप्पांचा निरोप घेताना दरवर्षीच डोळे अगदीच पाणावतात, १० दिवस पूर्ण घरात एक वेगळीच ऊर्जा पसरवणारा विघ्नहर्ता लाडका गणेश अखेर चालला आपल्या घरी!!!
बप्पा जाता-जाता तुला एकच मागावसं वाटतं….
तु इथे १० दिवस राहीलास, घरातल्या TV वर लागणारी news ऐकलीस, रोज बाबा पेपर वाचत असतानाही तु तिथेच होता!!! म्हणजे जगातलं वातावरण तुला माहीतच आहे!!
हिंदू आणि मुस्लिम, Higher आणि lower caste ह्या गुंत्यात एवढे अडकलोय की आम्हाला हेच कळत नाही सगळ्यांचं रक्त लालच आहे, जगायला सगळेच श्वास घेतात, म्हणजे तिथे नाही ना आपण बघत की मी हिंदू आहे तर भगवा श्वास आणि मुस्लिम असेल तर हिरवा श्वास – असं काही नसताच ना!
बाप्पा आम्हा सगळ्या मुलांना ही सद्बुद्धि दे की आम्ही ह्या गोष्टीला समझु आणि माणुसकी हा धर्म पाळु, म्हणजे पुढच्या वर्षी तुझ्या स्वागतासाठी आम्ही सगळेच फक्त मंडप न सजवता आमची मन पण चांगल्यी विचारांनी सजवु!
गणपती बाप्पा मोरया. पुढच्या वर्षी लवकर या. !!!


DOTA was a custom Warcraft 3 mod developed in 2003 by Eul, and has since grown and evolved organically through the years as a one man project. Leadership passed from Eul to Guinsoo in 2004, and then to Icefrog in 2005, who has remained the sole developer till today.
The game design of DOTA is driven through the feedback of the playerbase, shaped by the unique quirks and mechanics of the Warcraft 3 engine. Icefrog is a famously reclusive figure – he rarely interacts with the community, and no one knows his real identity. Icefrog is seen as the mysterious game designer prodigy, who consults no one on his design decisions, only descending from his mountain perch every few months to reveal the fruits of his labours (a new patch, maybe new heroes) without explanation. Today, Valve is working on developing DOTA2, which is the same game but with improved graphics.
LOL is developed by Riot Games, and it was designed by a team of experienced and talented developers, many with storied histories and credentials. Zileas (currently Design Director at Riot Games) was a key developer in World of Warcraft and Warcraft 3, as well as being a competitive Starcraft player himself. LOL's designers make a lot of effort to engage with the community, explaining their design philosophies and debating game balance. Their vision is clear: with rigorous design, and learning from the missteps of other major games like DOTA and WOW, they aim to create a game that both attracts new players and yet retains depth and strategy to engage the competitive scene.
DOTA was never monetized, and this shows in their game design, which is aimed at satisfying veteran players. LOL on the other hand generates substantial revenue for their developers, and their design is aimed at creating a low barrier to entry, making it easy for new players to join and start playing.
This question is a core idea in game design, so we'll start by covering this concept.
Complexity is never good in itself. It's a negative trait you accept in order to gain other, more positive traits. It's like asking whether a 500 page novel is better than a 300 page novel – it's a false question. The real question is always going to be, which one told a better story?
You will see this analogy played out over and over in game design.
What game designers really want to achieve is something called "gameplay". It's the interaction between players that creates the "game", and hero skills require some complexity in order to make that happen. For example, say you had a skill that you could cast on an enemy hero to deal damage to it. That's kind of boring: it's low complexity, but also generates very little gameplay. By increasing the complexity of the skill, we can create more gameplay. For example, if the skill had to be targeted on the ground, and there was a 1 second travel time – now the attacker has to predict the movement path of the victim to land the attack, and the victim is also given a chance to dodge the skill. The game immediately ramps up and become more engaging to BOTH players, at the cost of only a small amount of complexity.
Where to draw the line is where it gets contentious. How much complexity do you really want to trade for gameplay? As you scale up the complexity you get less and less gameplay in return, and that comes with all sorts of negative effects that we will go into later – Burden of Knowledge, False Choice, Unclear Optimization, and many more. Each concept will get a blog post on their own.
The Invoker from DOTA is an example of a hero that is deemed "ok" in DOTA but too complex to exist in LOL. Using a system of elemental orbs, he has to invoke spells into existence before casting them, and he can only have two spells active at once. He effectively has 14 different spells which do vastly different things, making it very difficult to play him and more importantly, also very difficult to play against him.
Overly complex mechanics can create a "Burden of Knowledge" problem when the gameplay it tries to create relies on the victim understanding what is going on. It's basically like being introduced to a game by a friend, and you think you understand the rules and you get a few turns in, and then suddenly your friend goes "Aha now you've lost, due to this obscure mechanic I never explained to you!"
The poster boy for illustrating this effect is the Bloodseeker's Rupture in DOTA. If he casts Rupture on you, for the next 5 seconds, if you move, you continuously take damage. In theory, this skill is supposed to create interesting gameplay – it's supposed to give the victim a choice of whether to stay still and fight, or decide if it's safer to run to a better position and accept some damage in return. It's an interesting mechanic, and needs great player judgement to use, especially when multiple heroes are involved in the clash – you might be better off running towards your ally who has a heal spell, for example, or moving slightly to dodge an area target damage effect another enemy was going to cast on you. Considering there are over 100 unique heroes in DOTA, it's quite possible that new players who do not understand what is going on may attempt to flee or chase the enemy, and thus continually take damage until they die, without ever understanding what it was they were doing wrong.
Riot would never release a champion with this level of Burden of Knowledge, despite the interesting gameplay it can provide. There are less costly ways of achieving the level of gameplay and interaction they want. Again, we come back to the origins of the games themselves: DOTA is optimized for veteran players, while LOL is optimized for new players.
Notice the focus is on the person playing against the character design in question. Complexity can be acceptable if it only impacts the person that chooses to play that character, because that is his choice to make. Some players will deliberately seek out complex heroes to play, because they enjoy them. However, complexity is a bad thing if it impacts a person playing against that character: you don't get to choose your opponents, and if you face something with a high burden of knowledge (like the Bloodseeker) and don't know how to deal with it, you will have a very frustrating experience.
Skills that follow this design philosophy can be found in both games. Both Nidalee's Javelin Toss and Mirana's Sacred Arrow follow this pattern. They are both "skill-shots" - you fire the projectile, and it flies in a straight trajectory until it hits something - with a unique twist, in that they gain effectiveness the further they travel. This means it's trivial to land the shot at close range, but it will be ineffective. Players can potentially spend months mastering their use – figuring out the maximum range, trying to predict enemy movement patterns, making the best tradeoff between range and actually being able to land it. But from the victim's perspective, there is nothing complex about this interaction – all they need to know is being hit by an enemy projectile is generally bad (true for all enemy projectiles) and they should get out of the way if they can. Hence these abilities do not create a Burden of Knowledge problem for the victim, and are regarded as examples of well designed skills which create a lot of interesting gameplay.
The next post will deal with the concept of "Power without Gameplay".


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UV prevention measures may influence rheumatoid arthritis incidence
By Lynda Williams, Senior medwireNews Reporter
Increased ultraviolet (UV)-B exposure reduces the risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in women, US researchers suggest, but the drive to protect against skin cancer in recent years may have negated this benefit.
The investigators identified a change in the relationship between UV-B exposure and RA from the 1976 Nurses' Health Study (NHS) of 106,368 women aged 30-55 years to the 1989 NHSII of 115,561 women aged 25-42 years.
Specifically, NHS results showed that women in the highest tertile for exposure over long-term follow-up (>117 Robertson-Berger units×10-4 [RB], median 164 RB) had a 21% lower risk for RA than women in the lowest tertile for exposure (=109 RB, median 104 RB), after adjusting for confounding factors including age, race, smoking, parity, menopause, and income. The risk was 16% lower for women in the middle tertile (median 113 RB).
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By contrast, UV-B exposure had no significant impact on the risk for RA among participants of NHSII, report Elizabeth Arkema (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts) and co-authors.
"Our study adds to the growing evidence that exposure to UV-B light is associated with decreased risk of RA," the researchers write.
"The mechanisms are not yet understood, but could be mediated by cutaneous production of vitamin D and attenuated by use of sunscreen or sun avoidant behavior," they say, noting that women in the later NHSII study are more likely to have followed advice to protect against the sun than NHS participants.
There was no significant difference in the NHS and NHSII trends when UV-B exposure was calculated for each woman at time of birth or at age 15 years, and the researchers note that the majority of women did not move out of their state between birth and age 30 years. "Therefore, it is difficult to determine whether the effect we observed is due to exposure during childhood or during adulthood," Arkema et al comment in the Annals of Rheumatic Diseases.
In all, 933 NHS and 381 NHSII participants were diagnosed with RA during follow-up. UV-B exposure was determined from latitude, altitude, and cloud cover of each participant's state of residence. The 20-year absolute risk for RA for women in the highest and lowest tertiles for UV-B exposure was 0.7% and 1.2%, respectively, compared with 0.5% and 0.5% for the NHSII study.
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There was no need to send a letter out. the way i see it, is if the fans are worried about being squashed/injured, then they shouldnt run to the front of the stand. If they get hurt, then its their fault. letters have been sent out, they have been warned, its entirely up to the fans.
i got one... so did dad..
Well in that case, You should be banned from here for posting useless cr*p that noone wants to see!
seriously.. you felt the need to start a new post because of that?
What a exciting life you must lead.. the stewards obv thought nothing of it as noone was kicked out, and it was their fault in the first place for opening the gate with so many people around!
you dont have to look at us..
At the end of the day, You are there to watch the football, not concentrate on whats going on around you. I sit in the snakepit, Heard one chant sung by 2/3 fully grown men about galatasary, and that was it.
As for the chavs, Its up to them what they do. If they are there to cause trouble, let them. Its them who will be kicked out/banned etc.
I sat very close, and basically one certain steward seems to have a thing about one of the young lads, and thinks its ok to pull him about, grab his arm etc for not sittting down, where there are clearly a large number of other people standing around him.
Its not a major problem, just annoying that the barclay are sanding with nothing being done about that.. if its one rule for them, it should be the same for us..
I can guarentee (sp?) they wont be telling us to sit down for the ipswich/Leeds matchs..
Well seeing as the international break is boring, i thought i would post it.


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Відкритий чемпіонат Франції з тенісу 2000  — тенісний турнір, що проходив на відкритому повітрі на ґрунтових кортах Стад Ролан Гаррос у Парижі з 29 травня по 11 червня 2000 року. Це був 99 Відкритий чемпіонат Франції, другий турнір Великого шолома в календарному році.

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Минулорічний чемпіон Андре Агассі не зумів захистити титул, поступившись у другому колі. Чемпіонат знову, вдруге, виграв Густаво Куертен,

Минулорічна чемпіонка Штеффі Граф завершила кар'єру й титул не захищала. Перемогла Марі П'єрс із Франції. Для неї це була друга перемога в турнірах Великого шолома, але чемпіонкою Франції вона стала вперше.

Переможці в чоловічому парному розряді Вудіз завершили кар'єрний Великий шолом. Тодд Вудбрідж виграв свій 10 мейджор, Марк Вудфорд — одинадцятий.

Мартіна Хінгіс здобула 8-ий титул Великого шолома в парному розряді, вдруге в Парижі. Її партнерка П'єрс виграла парні змагання Великого шолома вперше (і востаннє).

Змішана південноафриканська пара де Свардт / Адамс виграла турнір Великого шолома вдруге, але в Парижі — уперше.

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 Відкритий чемпіонат Австралії з тенісу 2000
 Вімблдонський турнір 2000
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Виноски

Відкритий чемпіонат Франції з тенісу
2000 у тенісі
Травень 2000
Червень 2000
2000 у французькому спорті