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Tetranchyroderma sinaiensis , Hummon, William D., 2011
Hummon, William D., 2011, Marine Gastrotricha of the Near East: 1. Fourteen new species of Macrodasyida and a redescription of Dactylopodola agadasys Hochberg, 2003, ZooKeys 94, pp. 1-59: 30-32
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Tetranchyroderma sinaiensis ZBK sp. n. Figure 15
Tetranchyroderma EgyD Hummon (2009) [E Med & Red Seas Database]
Adult Lt 423 µm; PhJIn at U34. Body of medium length, narrow; head end rounded, without pestle organs, tentacles or lobes; neck indistinct along the rear pharynx, trunk broadening slightly in the mid-body, before narrowing gently to the caudal base; caudal pedicles short, borne on short lobes, with a wide concave margin separating the two lobes, incising medially to U97. Glands 8 per side, small, scattered in lateral columns. Epidermis covered with tetrancres of similar size, slightly smaller fore and aft; ancres occur in 45-50 rows of 9-10 ancres each, excluding the entire oral hood, but extending onto the base of the caudal lobes. TbA 7 per side forming arcs radiating from forward to outward, tubes inserting directly on the postoral body surface at U03-U05; TbVL 43 per side, 1 at U06, a group of 36 at U25-U80, 1 at U89, and a group of 5 at U93-U97; TbV 5 per side in a transverse row at U85; TbDL 9 per side, of two sizes, 7 (short) subequally spaced at U10-U90, and 2 (long) at U86 and U93; TbL/D per se absent; TbP 5 per side on the caudal pedicles, forming the fused 'two fingers and a thumb' typical of the family, supplemented by a cirrata-like structure projecting from between the 'fingers,' with 5 additional tubes in the space between the peduncles. Locomotor ciliature: a single field that covers the entire ventral surface at U04-U96. Mouth subterminal, as broad as the fore end of the body; buccal cavity lightly cuticularized; pharynx, broad throughout, has inconspicuous basal pores; intestine narrows fore to aft, anus is ventral at U94. Hermaphroditic; testis on left side as seen from below; vas deferens appears to open in front of the anus; developing ovum occurs above the hindgut; caudal organ is longitudinally ovoid and thick-walled, with an interior of refractive material and a central canal in the fore half; frontal organ is ovoid, hyaline and bi-layered, bearing active sperm, and partly embedded in the rear of the ovum.
Adult Lt 423 µm (others Lt 241-410); LPh 146 µm (others LPh 95-141) to PhJIn at U34 (others PhJIn at U39-U34) (Fig. 15). Body of medium length, narrow, ventrally flattened, dorsally vaulted; head end rounded, without pestle organs, tentacles or lobes; neck indistinct along the rear pharynx, trunk broadening slightly in the mid-body, before narrowing gently to the caudal base; caudal pedicles short (L 11 µm) borne on short lobes, with a wide concave margin separating the two lobes, incising medially to U97. Widths at mouth /rear pharynx /mid-gut /caudal base, and locations along the length of the body are as follows: 21 /36 /49 /27 µm at U02 /U25 /U61 /U97, respectively. Glands 8 per side (4-6 µm diameter) scattered in lateral columns at U08-U90.
Cuticular armature: Epidermis armored with tetrancres, taller than wide (L 6, W 3 µm), of much the same size over much of the body, slightly smaller fore and aft; ancres cover dorsal surface in some 45-50 rows of 9-10 ancres each, being absent from the oral hood, but extending onto the base of the caudal lobes.
Adhesive tubes: TbA 7 per side (L 3-5 µm), forming arcs radiating from directly forward to obliquely outward, the medial-most being smaller than the other 6 and set slightly to the rear of the arc, all tubes inserting directly on the postoral body surface at U03-U05. TbVL 43 per side, 1 at U06 (L 8 µm), just behind the TbA, a group of 36 at U25-U80 (L 10-12 µm), 1 at U89 (L 10 µm), and a group of 5 at U93-U97 (L 10-12 µm); TbV 5 per side (L 11-12 µm) in a transverse row at U85; TbDL 9 per side, of two sizes, 7 (L 6-8 µm) subequally spaced at U10, U28, U44, U55, U65, U75 and U90, and 2 (L 17-19 µm) at U86 and U93; TbL/D per se are absent; TbP 3 per side on the caudal pedicles, forming the fused 'two fingers and a thumb' typical of the family, (L terminal tubes 7 µm, L tube on the inner margin 4 µm), supplemented by a blind cirrata-like structure projecting dorsoposteriorly from between the 'fingers,' with 5 additional tubes (L 5 µm) in the space between the peduncles 3 on one side and 2 on the other.
Ciliation: Short sensory cilia surround the oral opening (L 2-4 µm), with a number on the oral hood and several laterally (L 15-24 µm), the longer ones being vibratile; other cilia occur regularly along the lateral (L 8-11 µm) and dorsolateral (L 14-17 µm) body surfaces, numbering 23 each. Ventral locomotor ciliature forms a single field of transverse rows from TbA to anus, lying between the TbVL columns, the field narrowing from anus to caudal base; individual cilia are 6-8 µm in length.
Digestive tract: Mouth subterminal, as broad as the fore end of the body (15 µm width); oral hood extends from U00 to U02; buccal cavity lightly cuticularized; pharynx, broad throughout, has inconspicuous basal pores; intestine narrows gradually front to rear and bends around the reproductive organs in the hind-gut region; anus is ventral at U94.
Reproductive tract: Hermaphroditic, testis on right side as seen from above (left side as seen from below); vas deferens opens in front of the anus; developing ovum (up to 48 × 32 µm) occurs above the hindgut; caudal organ, large, longitudinally ovoid and thick-walled (43 × 12 µm), has an anterior protuberance, a concentric circular pore in the rear, an interior of refractive material, and a central canal in the fore half; frontal organ, ovoid, hyaline and bi-layered, bears active sperm, and is partly embedded in the rear of the ovum.
Common in frequency of occurrence (30-60% of samples), scarce to prevalent in abundance (3% to greater than 30% of a sample, occasionally a co- [cdom] or dominant [dom]); sublittoral in very fine to medium, well to medium sorted sand at 0.5-10 m water depth (sometimes in very fine-very to coarse, poorly to very poorly sorted sand at 2-15 m water depth, amid fringing corals or between coral platforms, of both healthy and unhealthy corals, or at 1.5 m water depth at the base of a seagrass bed).
Geographical distribution:
RED SEA:EGYPT {Abu Ramada 1 [video], Abu Ramada 2 [dom], Abu Ramada 3, Marsa Bareika N [dom], Daghashland [video], Far Garden [2-videos], Giftun Island SE [video], Main Beach Ras Mohamed NP [cdom], Moon Beach, Moon Valley, ^ Na'ama Bay S (27°53'N, 34°19'E) [3-videos], Nabq S [video], Ras Nasrani, Ras Qanti [video], Tareef el-Reeh S [dom]}; ISRAEL: {Coral Beach M2, M3, M4 & M5, Princess Hotel [video], Snuba DS [video]}.
There are 12 video sequences of Tetranchyroderma sinaiensis sp. n., all from the upper Red Sea in Egypt and Israel. Five of these are available as MPEG 2 (and MPEG 1) from Hummon (2009): #1505 a mature Lectotype adult of Lt=423 µm (LPh=146 µm), collected in July 1994 from Na'ama Bay, S. Sinai, Egypt; #1504 a mature adult of Lt=410 µm (LPh=141 µm) from Giftun Island SE, near Hurghada, Egypt; #1508 a mature adult of Lt=371 µm (LPh=110 µm) from Ras Qanti, S. Sinai, Egypt; #1506 a mature adult of Lt=241 µm (LPh=95 µm) also from Na'ama Bay; and #1509 a juvenile of Lt=154 µm (LPh=73 µm) from Far Garden, S. Sinai, Egypt.
Sinaiensis (pronounced 'sinaiënsis' with a dieresis over the 'e' to indicate that it is to be pronounced separately from the diphthong 'ai') is named after the geographical region, the Sinai Peninsula, in which it was first found.
Taxonomic affinities:
Tetranchyroderma sinaiensis sp. n. is the only species of medium length in the genus without pestle organs, tentacles or lobes, a PhJIn at U39-U34, and tetrancres, which also has TbA 7 per side; TbVL 43 per side, two solitary tubes at U06 and U89, and two groups of 36 at U25-U80 and 5 at U93-U97; TbV 5 in a row on either side at U85, TbDL 9 per side, of two sizes, 7 short at U10-U90, and 2 long at U86 and U93, TbP 3 per side as 'two fingers and a thumb' on small pedicles with a blind cirrata-like structure inserting between the 'fingers' and 5 additional tubes in the space between pedicles, but lacking TbL/D per se. Tetranchyroderma pachysomum Hummon, Todaro & Tongiorgi, 1993 is the only other species in the genus that has tetrancres, TbD and TbV, but it is a short, squat animal, with differing numbers and arrangements of adhesive tubes than in Tetranchyroderma sinaiensis sp. n.
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What about the workplace, though? What about safety?
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provides this update for employers to address those questions. Specifically, we are going to preview the November elections, review a surprising federally-approved study of medical marijuana, and see what is new in impairment testing.
Personal Use Marijuana and the November 2016 Elections
As previously noted, many states have already legalized medical and/or personal use marijuana. To date approximately 23 states plus Washington, D.C. have adopted medical marijuana laws (see this
). So far, though, only 4 states have enacted personal use marijuana laws (Oregon, Washington, Colorado and Alaska).
The list of personal use states does not include some of the usual suspects. For example, neither California nor Nevada is on the list. This may change in November. Proponents are attempting to qualify
marijuana legalization measures
for the ballots in numerous states, including California, Nevada, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, and Arizona. Many of these measures will not make it to the ballot, but some will and some
may be approved by voters
The bottom line is that marijuana is continuing its path to being entrenched in the economy and the culture. On the day after the election, marijuana may be legal in more places than it is today. It will not be legal in fewer places.
DEA Approves Research into Treating PTSD with Marijuana
While marijuana has been legalized in a number of states, it remains an illegal drug under federal law. Although the
2016 Budget Act defunded DOJ from interfering with state medical marijuana laws
, this does not change the fact that marijuana (medical or not) remains a Schedule I controlled substance under the federal Controlled Substances Act. Moreover, Congress has taken no action to remove marijuana from Schedule I of the CSA and President Obama last year described Congressional action as
Nevertheless, just last month the US Drug Enforcement Agency
approved a study
designed to consider the potential benefits of using marijuana to treat military veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. The PTSD rate among veterans following active duty significant (especially as compared to the general population) and has been the subject of much discussion. June is
PTSD Awareness Month
and the
VA's National Center for PTSD website
is an excellent resource for basic and specific information.
Because PTSD treatment is so important, the search for better and more effective treatments is getting attention. The search includes a California-based non-profit research group called the Multidisciplinary Approach to Psychedelic Studies wanting to determine whether marijuana might be effective in the treatment of PTSD. MAPS sought and obtained DEA approval for such a study. MAPS described the study in a press release.
"The randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled study will test the safety and efficacy of botanical marijuana in 76 U.S. military veterans with treatment-resistant PTSD. The study is funded by a $2.156 million grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) to the California-based non-profit Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), which is sponsoring the research.
The trial will gather safety and efficacy data on four potencies of smoked marijuana with varying ratios of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD). By exploring the effectiveness of a variety of marijuana strains, the study seeks to generate naturalistic data comparable to how many veterans in medical marijuana states currently use marijuana. Results will provide vital information on marijuana dosing, composition, side effects, and areas of benefit to clinicians and legislators considering marijuana as a treatment for PTSD."
The Bullard Edge
hopes that this study leads to a better understanding of PTSD treatment (whether or not marijuana is part of that treatment).
Marijuana in the Workplace – Impairment Testing
As we discussed just last month in our
Merle Haggard themed post
, the fact that medical and personal use marijuana are now legal in many states does not mean that employers must change their drug policies. The law in Oregon and Washington is clear: an employer may adopt a drug policy that prohibits marijuana and need not modify that policy to accommodate a medical marijuana user or an employee using marijuana consistent with state personal use laws.
One of the pushbacks that we see is the complaint that marijuana should be treated like alcohol since both are
. The argument goes: just as employers are not allowed to discipline employees for off-duty alcohol use, so should they be barred from disciplining for off-duty legal marijuana use.
While that argument is compelling on the surface, it ignores the impairment component. In the case of alcohol, impairment may be readily tested if an employee reports to work impaired after drinking alcohol off duty. There is no comparable test for marijuana impairment.
A number of laws legalizing marijuana also prohibit driving while impaired by marijuana. This is to be determined by a blood test for TCH; where levels are above a specified threshold the driver is considered impaired. Recently, the
AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety
released the results of a study it commissioned finding these TCH tests to be ineffective. Here is an excerpt from the
Conclusions section of the study
(emphasis added).
There is no evidence
from the data collected, particularly from the subjects assessed through the DRE exam,
that any objective threshold exists that established impairment, based on THC concentrations
measured in specimens collected from cannabis-positive subjects placed under arrest for impaired driving. An association between the presence and degree of indicators of impairment or effect from cannabis use were evident when comparing data from cannabis-positive and cannabis-negative subjects. However, when examining differences in performance in these parameters between subjects with high (>5 ng/mL) and low (<5 ng/mL) THC concentrations, minimal differences were found.
There was no correlation between blood THC concentration and scores on the individual indicators, and performance on the indicators could not reliably assign a subject to the high or low blood THC categories
Until there is a reliable test for impairment, the law is unlikely to require employers to modify their drug policies.
Best regards,
The Bullard Edge
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By BBN Staff: In 2017, the Ministry of Human Development, Social Transformation and Poverty Alleviation and the Ministry of National Security introduced the Belize Youth Challenge (BYC) program.
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Cenovus Energy Sets Out to Slash Emissions
Canada's Cenovus Energy on Thursday unveiled plans to reduce per-barrel greenhouse gas emissions by 30% by the end of 2030, as the country's oil industry faces growing pressure from environmental activists.The Alberta-based integrated oil and gas company said it will spend an additional C$1.5 billion on businesses run by the country's indigenous communities.Opposition from environmental and indigenous groups have stalled new pipeline projects in Canada and the United States that are needed to move Canadian crude to refineries. Investors in the region have also become more vocal about environmental…
US Judge Halts Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
A U.S. judge in Montana has halted construction of the Keystone XL pipeline designed to carry heavy crude oil from Canada to the United States, drawing a sharp rebuke on Friday from President Donald Trump.The ruling of a U.S. Court in Montana late on Thursday dealt a major setback to TransCanada Corp, whose stock dropped 2 percent in Toronto. Shares of companies that would ship oil on the pipeline also fell.TransCanada said in a statement it remains committed to building the $8 billion, 1,180 mile (1,900 km) pipeline, but it has also said it is seeking other investors and has not taken a final investment decision.The ruling drew an angry response from Trump…
Canada Environment Minister: 'No Apologies' for Oil Sector Support
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Canada Dreams of Oil Exports to Asia, but California Beckons
The nationalization of a crude oil export pipeline in western Canada has buoyed long-standing hopes for crude exports to markets beyond the United States - but the most likely destination for much of that oil is California. Faced with declining production from Latin America and rising prices for higher-grade crudes from the Middle East, the Golden State is importing more oil from Canada - much of it via the Trans Mountain pipeline, which Kinder Morgan Canada last month sold to Ottawa for C$4.5 billion ($3.5 billion). The Canadian government has pledged to "immediately" start work on the C$7.4 billion Edmonton-to-Vancouver expansion…
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Canada is prepared to cover some losses Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd might suffer if a proposed oil pipeline expansion is delayed and thinks other investors are ready to step in if need be, Finance Minister Bill Morneau said on Wednesday. The company has given Ottawa a deadline of May 31 to provide assurances it can proceed with a plan to more than double the capacity of its Trans Mountain line from Alberta to British Columbia. The government of the Pacific coast province opposes the project on environmental grounds. "We are willing to indemnify the Trans Mountain expansion against unnecessary delays that are politically motivated…
Canada Moves Crude One Truckload at a Time
At an Alberta oil loading terminal, a convoy of big rigs are gearing up to haul Canadian crude oil hundreds of miles through bone dry fields across the U.S. border into Montana, where the oil will be transferred to pipelines and rail cars headed south and west. Trucks loaded with crude are an increasingly common sight at the border. Production has risen in the world's fifth largest producer but full pipelines and a rail car shortage have made it difficult for drillers to ship oil out of Canada. Some oil producers are feeling the pressure from customers.
Trudeau's Political Troubles Boil as Pipeline Surprise Weighs
Canada's government got just 24 hours notice that it would be thrust into a political and economic crisis by an ultimatum from a pipeline operator, government sources said, leaving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau scrambling for options in a dispute that could damage his re-election chances. The Kinder Morgan Canada pipeline issue has pitted Ottawa against the Pacific province of British Columbia and could turn into a constitutional crisis, derail Trudeau's energy strategy and dent business confidence. Trudeau broke off a foreign trip to hold an emergency…
Canada Cabinet to Discuss Troubled Kinder Morgan Pipeline
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet on Tuesday with his cabinet ministers to discuss Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd's threat to walk away from a troubled pipeline expansion as various levels of government signal interest in spending public funds to ensure the project proceeds. The company, losing patience with moves by politicians and activists to block plans to almost triple the capacity of its Trans Mountain pipeline, is vowing to halt all work on May 31 unless the challenges can be resolved. The 90-minute cabinet meeting is due to start at 3 p.m. (1900 GMT). The pipeline carries crude from Alberta's oil sands to the Pacific province of British Columbia.
Kinder Morgan Halts Most Work on Disputed Canada Pipeline
Kinder Morgan Canada on Sunday suspended most work on a C$7.4 billion ($5.8 billion) oil pipeline expansion that has become the focus of protests, a move underscoring uncertainty over major energy projects in Canada. Company Chairman Steve Kean said he would scrap plans to nearly triple the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline, which takes crude from Alberta's oil sands to a facility in the Pacific province of British Columbia, unless the various legal challenges could be resolved by May 31. The announcement was a blow to the Liberal government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, which approved the project and says it is in the national interest.
Canada Pipeline Feud Hits B.C. Wine Purchases
Canada's oil-rich province of Alberta struck back at neighboring British Columbia on Tuesday, halting purchases of that province's wines in retaliation for its potentially holding up expansion of a crude pipeline. British Columbia proposed rules last week to temporarily block increased oil shipments through the province, adding another hurdle to Kinder Morgan Canada's planned C$7.4 billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. Alberta's New Democrat Premier Rachel Notley said the Alberta Gaming & Liquor Control Board, which is the distributor for all liquor retailers in the province, will immediately stop importing British Columbia wine. "This is one good step to waking B.C.
Canada Court Throws Out Permits for Seismic Testing in North
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I think that it is in Canada's national interest to enter CAR. The best thing Canada could do to help the struggle in CAR would be to send soldiers alongside the French to protect civilians and negotiate a peace treaty. Canada could provide CAR with humanitarian aid in the refugee camps providing people with food and water people with food and water. This would help the displaced civilians help out the poverty stricken people. They could also provide aid for the hospitals by giving them instruments needed to help injured people from the war. This would help them because of the large amounts of wounded people and with the lack of supplies needed. Another thing that Canada could do is provide the people of CAR with security alongside the French. This would decrease the amount of civilian fatalities by a lot and would help the country to stay as strong as it would be able to. Canada could help the French try and stop the conflict because without foreign aid the fight between the Selekas and Anti Balakas would keep going and CAR would fall deeper and deeper into the pit of war and poverty. This is important because the country needs to stay as strong as possible in the unfortunate condition that it is in. As you can see Canada would provide a lot of support for the country in need.
It is not in Canada's national interest to militarily and diplomatically challenge other counties. The first reason would be physically going against other countries could lead to a war. It is not worth it for Canada to take force because the effects of a war have the potential to be way worse than the effects of boats moving through the arctic could have. One benefit countries would have from using the arctic for shipping would be how much faster trading would be. Although having boats move through the arctic is not so environmentally friendly it is the safer way for Canada to deal with the problem.
It was not in Americas national interest to use the atomic bombs. First of all Japan was pretty much defeated already because of the air bombings, naval blockade and destroyed navy. Also it has been said that Prince Konoye who was the leader of Japan thought that they had already been defeated before the bombing occurred. another thing showing that America did not need to bomb Japan could be how there was a threat of the USSR entering Japan and the fact that Japan could not get any food or raw materials because no countries would trade with them. Finally the last thing showing how the bombing were needed would be how Japan had no allies in this battle anymore because Germany had already been defeated. In all the bombing were an overkill to an already broken down country.
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At the most fundamental level, it is not known what method the brain uses to store information, and how it searches and then retrieves relevant information, and how it knows what it is looking for when we try to recall information at a further date. To try to explain these processes purely with recourse to only chemical reactions and physics seems extra-ordinary.
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How does memory work?What an interesting question,and yet no one has attempted to provide an answer to this fundimental question. Let me try to assist you in making sense of this seemingly unanserable question.Lets look at this computer,we know that it has a memory.In its memory this machine stores lots of information.When we click on the mouse we retrieve information from the computer memory and display it on the screen.So throught the mouse we send a signal to the central information storage unit i.e.memory.I trust it is the human memory your question is about! My theory is that the human memory works in a similar way.Each human being has access to a storage system of information.How large a storage system each person has depends on a number of factors.1,how old you are.2,your level of education.3,your experiences of life and all that that involves.4,and your circumstances during thoes experiences.Thoes i would say are some of the most obvious factors in creating a large storage system,ie.memory.When life or some specific circumstance poses a question for us,our central nervous system sends a signal to our memory.If our memory holds the answer then back that answer comes to us.If your memory is not familiar with the question then back will come the reply :dont know,or not sure.Is that of any help??
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The City of Dublin is investing in the future of the City's beloved Historic District by working with Heritage Ohio, Ohio's official historic preservation and Main Street organization.
On March 3, 2020, Heritage Ohio will send a Downtown Assessment Resource Team (D.A.R.T.) to Dublin to provide a community assessment, engage with residents and ultimately provide suggestions for enhancing the revitalization of Historic Dublin.
herThe D.A.R.T. will work with a committee appointed by City Council to determine priorities and develop consensus on how to foster economic development, preserve historic buildings and promote cultural tourism.
As part of the D.A.R.T. visit, there will be a Community Visioning Session. All are invited to attend:
When: Tuesday, March 3, 2020
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What: Community members will gain a greater understanding of the basic tenets of downtown revitalization and set the vision for future growth. Whether you live in Historic Dublin, or visit the area, we need your feedback!


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Our Board members take care of running things here at LV=. They make sure your voice gets heard, whether you're a member or a customer.
Date of appointment: 1 January 2017 (Non-Executive Director), 20 June 2017 (Chairman)
Experience: Alan has extensive financial services experience across insurance, banking and investments. Prior to his appointment at LV=, Alan was chair of Permanent TSB group, one of the four leading banks in Ireland, and was senior independent director of Sainsbury's Bank and on the board of MetLife Europe. Alan has also previously served as the chair of the University of Bedfordshire, the Irish Life Group in Ireland and the Highways Agency as well as being a non-executive director at the Department of Transport, Financial Ombudsman Service and the Office of Fair Trading. As an executive, he has also been managing director of Post Office Ltd, chief executive officer of National Savings & Investments and chief operating officer for UK and Europe of Prudential Assurance. Alan is also a past chair and current patron of 'Action for ME', the UK's leading charity supporting sufferers of ME/CFS.
External appointments: Chair of Chetwood Financial Ltd
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Experience: Wayne joins LV= from the Phoenix Group where he was Group Chief Risk Officer and Phoenix Life Board Director. During his 13 years at Phoenix, Wayne held a variety of roles across risk management, finance and corporate development before becoming Chief Risk Officer in 2013.
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Date of appointment: 7 March 2016
Experience: David has had a 38 year career in financial services. He joined us from Aviva PLC where he was the chief executive of UK and Ireland life insurance, the largest business unit within the Aviva group. Previous positions include sales director, marketing director and chief operating officer. David brings a mix of strategic, transformation and operational experience with a strong focus on customers, risk and governance. He is a former chair of the ABI Retirement and Savings Committee.
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The Hot Club of Cowtown
Swing revivalists at the Ark Monday
From the September, 2009 issue
The Hot Club of Cowtown first came to Ann Arbor from their home base of Austin in 1998. As the name suggests, the trio (fiddle, guitar, and bass) combined gypsy jazz with the 1930s Texas country-jazz fusion now known as Western swing, and they were fabulous. There've been swing revivalists of various kinds who've equaled them technically, but few in whose hands the music seemed so alive and contemporary. At the center of the sound were, and are, the fiddle of Elana James and the guitar of Whit Smith. Their sparkling instrumental repartee seemed to have the element of competition that's been central to good jazz from the beginning.
The group released several more albums, appeared on A Prairie Home Companion and at Britain's giant Glastonbury festival, and generally got better and better. Then, as so often happens with young roots musicians who master an old style completely but don't know where to take it next, they split up. Smith and James formed their own trios, and James spent an eventful several months touring with Bob Dylan. That could easily have been the end of the Hot Club of Cowtown, but they had a level of musical imagination, and perhaps a way of taking the music personally, that brought them back together and made them try to go beyond what they had done before.
That involved stepping onto revivalist music's edge, a narrow space between music that's frozen in time and music that loses its connection with the things it's reviving. Their new album, Wishful Thinking, takes risks and makes a consistently intriguing attempt to walk that line. Pure Western swing instrumentals bump up against original songs (some with drums, the first time the group has used them) that go beyond the romantic conventions current when these styles were young. James contributes a song about a high school reunion and one inspired by Federico Fellini's film Nights of Cabiria, pushing the boundaries of what the listener might expect
from the band.
Several of the new songs deal with the complications of long-term on-and-off relationships, and they naturally lead the listener to speculate as to what degree they reflect the personal factors behind the band's ups and downs. But it really doesn't matter what those might be--the important thing is that James and Smith have found new resonances in old styles, and in so doing have created music that doesn't sound exactly like anything else out there. And, James says, "Bob Dylan taught me that you have to keep some mystery. Don't give it all away."
Elana James has relatives in this area, so the Hot Club of Cowtown generally brings it's A game when they play here. Their return to the Ark with their new music, on September 28, ought to be well worth checking out, partly because it's the kind of concert where almost anything could happen.
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If you're shopping for a new light mech, you might be interested in an overview of light mech cockpits that I've put together. In this video, I take a look at the 18 light mechs currently in the game, describe their cockpits one by one, and then look briefly at a few mechs from other weight classes that have good cockpit views. (I have at least one variant of every light mech chassis, but considerably fewer mediums, heavies, and assaults, so that last bit is just based on my personal collection of mechs.)
If you're new to MWO and leaning towards light mechs, you might also be interested in some advice I prepared for new light pilots. This video covers some basic points that I'd learned about the game after several months of play, and would have found helpful when starting out. The video's a year old now (I didn't get around to publicising it at the time), but the advice is fairly general, so most of it still applies.
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Customer churn is term used in the game industry to refer to the act when a player abandons the game and moves on. Historically, such terminology wasn't used or considered in the game design process, but with the advent of social games based on the free to play -model, the monetization practices of the industry changed.
Where as game developers receive the same amount of money from the player whether they finish the game or not with traditional games, social games are generally free to download. Thus they contain optional microtransactions within the game, so developers have to consider how to retain paying players for as long as possible before they churn to maximize their revenue. In their article "Early churn prediction with personalized targeting in mobile social games" Miloš Miloševi,Nenad Živic ́and Igor Andjelkovi ́propose a model predicting and combating churn in social games.
Game designers usually approach this issue from two different directions: behavioral or technical/data driven approach. Behavioral approach focuses on making the game more fun and addicting, while data driven approach focuses on detecting and solving issues that players might face when trying to advance in the game in addition to incentivizing players that struggle to advance to keep on playing.
This article uses the latter approach. The paper builds on data collected in 2015 from 2 000 000 randomly selected players on the mobile free to play online social football manager game Top Eleven. More than 70% of new players will only play a game for one day. So the issue becomes, how to predict which players are likely to churn, and how prevent them from churning based on the limited data that can be gathered from them? The authors propose a two-part methodology for preventing churn:
1. Churn prediction algorithm based on the behavioral data from the first day of play
2. Churn prevention system based on personalized push notifications.
The prediction system is based on a binary classification system; using a number of algorithms (Logistic regression, Decision tree, Random Forest, Naive Bayes and Gradient Boosting), players are divided into a binary classification system: Those likely to churn and those likely to continue playing.
The would be churners are then targeted with push notifications on their mobile phones. These notifications will then try to lure the player back by trying to trigger their competitiveness and either showcasing a feature of the game the player didn't experience, or by explaining more about a feature they used the most.
To test this model in action, a system was devised to split the player based into three different groups: baseline, control and test. The control group of players didn't receive a notification, while the baseline group received a non-personalized notification and the test group a notification that was personalized to them based on data gathered from their gameplay. These notifications either contained information about the core loop features (features essential to the gameplay) and side loop features (non-essential features).
The results were promising. It was shown that it is possible to return churners by using personalized targeted push notifications. The retention of players receiving a personalized notification was substantially increased. The method is notable for the fact that it doesn't cost developers anything: incentivizing players with gifts of in-game currency can eat revenue from a free to play game, but using information about the game as an incentive in push notifications doesn't cost the developer anything.
Original article: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957417417303044
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Hi Frothers!
That's a wrap-up for me in the Arctic.
After close to 2 months walking on a frozen Ocean whilst I am usually used to gliding on it, regardless of the toy chosen, I will be back to warmer temperatures very soon…in South America. But first, I have 6 days straight of travelling. Ikerasak crossing the sea-ice to Uummannaq (sleepover)- helicopter to Qaarsut – plane to Ilulisat (sleepover) – Plane to Kangerlusuaq – Then Copenhagen (sleepover) – Paris – Dubai – Sydney (sleepover) – Santiago de Chile, final destination. Frequent Flyer points written all over it !
As I leave behind the Arctic Ocean, the Sun doesn't go to bed anymore, the temperatures are slowly rising to -5 degrees, making it feel like Summer when I compare it to the -25 degrees when I arrived.
I've met great people. I've been diving in the coldest waters I'll ever be diving into, I've seen more life under the ice than I ever expected to. I've seen the most amazing landscapes that I have ever been blessed to see. I've done so many things that I never imagined I would do. I've had ups. I've had a few downs. But the taste of this Adventure is forever a sweet one.
Bye Bye snow and ice. Hola America del Sur. Off to see what the Chilean & Peruvian coastlines have to offer in regards to liquid water this time, and beaches made of sand and rocks.
Till then, hasta luego.
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For more of my (polar & current) adventures on instagram: @franckgazzola