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Digital Transformation, Customer Experience, Workplace Culture
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This event will consist of a series of Seminar presentations, followed by a Discussion led by WSTA Board Members. The Seminar presentations will focus on Digital Customer Experience (DCX) technologies. Then we invite you to join us for a lively and informative discussion on Culture in the Workplace, including how emerging/maturing technologies and office space play into a firm's culture. Read on for a full description.
Digital Customer Experience (DCX) has become the watchword of next-generation customer interaction. On the customer-facing side, technologies such as social platforms, chatbots, human-machine interfaces like Alexa and Siri, and virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR) are dramatically changing how financial services firms interact with customers (whether individuals or businesses). On the back technologies like AI, machine learning, and advanced analytics are providing financial executives with unprecedented insight into customer desires and behavior.
In sum, these technologies have the potential to radically transform financial services firms. They can spawn new lines of business, new products and new partner channels.
But these technologies have also heightened expectations from the digital ecosystem, and Wall Street firms need to dial up the pace of change to meet these expectations. These include protecting data while making it available to authorized users; storing, retrieving, and analyzing the data, and delivering the insights via a range of user experiences.
This seminar is designed to share visions and experiences on leading-edge methods to handle obstacles and accelerate this journey.
Participants will learn:
Which emerging DCX technologies deliver the biggest bang for the buck
How to beef up cybersecurity, data governance, and infrastructure to address the challenges posed by DCX
How to optimally staff and organize to implement DCX
How to measure the success of DCX initiatives
How to partner effectively to deliver a holistic DCX experience
Culture in the Workplace Discussion:
In today's environment, the war for talent has become even more challenging. Financial firms are facing steep competition from the technology industry, FinTech startups, and other industries. In addition, the workforce now consists of multiple generations and Diversity and Inclusion is a key focus. How does a company's culture influence the ability to attract and retain the best and brightest? Can culture make a difference on how effectively teams perform? Do we need to make adjustments to our cultures as our workforce becomes more diverse? How do firms use their culture to differentiate against potential competitors? How do emerging/maturing technologies and your office space play into your culture? Come join us for a talk on Culture in the Workplace as we tackle these questions.
8:00AM-8:30AM Registration & Breakfast
8:30AM-8:35AM WSTA Introductions: James Kostulias, Managing Director, Retail Client Experience, TD Ameritrade and WSTA President
8:35AM-9:20AM Keynote Presentation: "Digital Business Transformation: Investment Management"
Chuck Thomas, Senior Director, Advisory, Gartner
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Chuck Thomas is a Senior Director, Advisory in Gartner's Financial Services Practice, where he focuses primarily on investment management and wealth management. Mr. Thomas is also responsible for setting the agenda for and collaborating with the Wealth Management Leadership Council (WMLC) research team, helping to shape Gartner's view on the present and future of investment management and wealth management.
Leaders must develop and share a vision for the future of their firm to avoid disruption. Unlike previous cycles, customers are driving the transformation. And their expectations can and will change.
While the vision may not be set in stone it will provide guideposts to an uncertain future. So regardless of the scenario or strategy you choose, when your firm needs to adapt you will have put in place the vision, culture and customer centricity to do.
9:20AM-9:45AM Premier Sponsor Presentation: "Bringing the Customer to the Center of Your Digital Transformation"
Javier Ponce Suarez, Group VP, Global Head of Digital Transformation, Atos
As the Group Head of Digital Transformation at Atos, Javier Ponce Suarez is focused on transforming global corporations to the digital era by bringing in different set of innovations that can drive the employee and the customer experience. His research work aims to engage technology within the Atos Scientific Community of artificial intelligence (AI), digital ethics and the unpredictability of AI systems future behaviors and its impact on society.
For more than 15 years, Javier Ponce Suarez has served in various roles at Atos spanning technical and managerial positions, growing his experience in client innovation and mapping Atos' digital capabilities to strategic priorities for customers. Ultimately, his goal in any role is to advance the organization to live, learn tell and inspire digital transformation. A culmination of his work is exhibited by the Atos Digital Transformation Program, a program that builds a plan through exhaustive exercises to identify the key strategic initiatives that the company must address moving forward.
In addition, Javier is a member of the Atos Scientific Community, a global network comprised of 150 of the top scientists, engineers and forward thinkers from across the Group. As a member, he focuses on researching how organizations can transform to be adaptable to the current, fast pace business technology environment. He also serves as an Atos Distinguished Expert within the data intelligence domain.
The financial services industry is facing intense challenges in maintaining relevance in a rapidly changing environment. Changing technologies, changing regulations, changing business models and most importantly changing customer needs. Javier Ponce Suarez, Atos' Global Head of Digital Transformation, will be describing key elements, such as omnichannel and personalized experience providing real-time service anytime, anywhere, on-demand contextual & social, Digital Open Platforms and marketplaces, Intelligent Automation and AI, and Trust and Compliance foundations, to maximize the customer experience. Javier will be walking us through different examples of diverse digital transformation journeys reflecting on how organizations can navigate this change, while always keeping their customers, and their data, at the center of the transformation.
9:45AM-10:10AM Luncheon Sponsor Presentation: "Reimagining the Employee Experience: Place Employees at the Heart of Your Strategy for Greater Returns"
Lisa Woodley, Vice President, Customer Experience & Digital, FSI Business Consulting, NTT DATA Services
Lisa Woodley has nearly 20 years' experience bringing tech and business people together to design new customer experiences. As VP of Customer Experience for the Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) practices at NTT DATA Services, Lisa leads her team in bringing the customer experience perspective to technology innovation to create experiences that elevate the brand and drive business value.
In addition to her role at NTT DATA, Lisa is an adjunct faculty member at Rutgers University where she teaches User Experience (UX) Design as part of the Rutgers Center for Innovation in Education Masters of Business Science program.
Many financial services institutions look to workplace productivity solutions to save costs. But cost is only one of the benefits banks should be considering when digitizing the workplace. Research findings, commissioned by NTT DATA Services, reveal that more than 80% of respondents who factored employee input into their strategy experienced greater productivity in the workplace. Not only do these companies experience less resistance to change, they also see increased revenue, and, for 81% of companies, more innovation overall. Learn more details from this study and learn how NTT DATA helped a major U.S. bank assess the efficacy of IT tools and services across the enterprise, measure performance against Employee Experience goals, and create a roadmap for the organization to transform its IT services to meet the demands of a modern workforce.
10:10AM-10:35AM Break and Demo Area Visit
10:35AM-11:00AM Presentation: "A Holistic Approach to Customer Experience in Retail Banking"
Michael Douglas, Product Marketing Executive, OutSystems
Michael Douglas has spent the past 10 years in enterprise application development software helping companies transform their business with enterprise mobility and now low-code. As Product Marketing Executive at OutSystems, Michael helps companies across multiple verticals understand how low-code can impact their business.
The retailing banking industry fully recognizes the need for digital transformation to improve the customer experience, but many banks are taking a piecemeal approach to their digital strategy. Digital bolt-ons to legacy systems, siloed applications, and a disjointed view of the customer are leading to a less than stellar user experience for the customer.
We invite you to explore how banks should be thinking about a holistic approach to their digital customer experience and what they can do to ensure success.
11:00AM-11:25AM Presentation: "One Portfolio to Secure and Accelerate Digital Transformation"
Sanjay Tailor, Vice President Digital Strategy and Financial Services, Broadcom
Sanjay Taylor has over 25 years of experience working with Fortune 500 financial services organization to advise on how to best leverage technology to build out strategic plans to support their respective initiatives which include – agile transformation, open banking, and developing new customer centric security models. He has also consulted on how to drive Agile at Scale to accelerate the prioritization, development and delivery of new critical business services, and how to leverage deep analytic data to gain insights into the behavior of consumers to further enhance customer experiences. He also worked with partners to build out innovative FS applications. Lastly Sanjay has led joint development efforts working with a number of large financial organizations to jointly develop new capabilities for the industry.
Sanjay often serves as a speaker at industry events sharing his insight and experience in the Financial Services space.
New Technologies and market drivers are impacting the way financial services organizations are able to service customers. In order to succeed, your business model needs to be agile and available 24/7 if you are going stay competitive. During this session Sanjay will share his thoughts on how to become an Agile Bank and the need to drive Agile at Scale so that your organization can move quickly in the ever-changing Digital Economy. He will touch on the importance to drive greater personalization, capture key CX insights through analytics, and through open banking, how to partner with third party providers to deliver new rich payment services and experiences. Lastly, he will discuss how Security is playing a critical role enhancing the customer experience through risk-based authentication.
11:25AM-11:50AM Presentation: "Your Clients should be on Your App"
Lisa Kaplan, Director of Relationship Development, Moxtra
Lisa Kaplan has spent over 20 years in the collaboration space focusing on Financial Services. As an early employee of WebEx, she has extensive experience in changing the way people work together. Now as Director of Relationship Development for Moxtra, Lisa is helping companies to digitally transform client engagement and business collaboration in the age of mobility.
The broad adoption of mobile is rapidly changing the industry landscape. More than ever, it is imperative for your business to be a part of this digital world. Are you ready for mobile?
Explore how you can digitally transform for the mobile era to secure the growth and direct loyalty of your clients. See how some of the world's leading institutions re-imagined their digital experience to enable clients to interact with them, on-demand, and close business – all from within their app.
11:50AM-12:30PM Lunch and Demo Area Visit (Lunch Sponsored by NTT DATA)
12:30PM-12:55PM Presentation: "Strategies for Keeping up with the Accelerating Rate of Change"
Brett Bicker, Solutions Architect, Kofax
Brett is a Solutions Architect at Kofax. He advises on intelligent automation solution strategy and architecture for digital transformation initiatives at some of the largest global corporations in banking, financial services and insurance. Brett focuses on collaboration with business and IT executives on enterprise strategies related to cognitive document automation and robotic process automation (RPA), as well as specific ways to optimize customer onboarding experiences and transform lending processes.
The average weekly hours per employee are steadily rising. 62% of workers said their work has a significant amount of drudgery and 42% said they spend 30 minutes of every hour doing busy work (Conversica). What if you could empower your workforce by giving them enhanced data movement, better information availability, enhanced operations and faster decision making?
This session will provide you with greater insights of how artificial intelligence and automation can be accelerators to modernizing your processes to reduce tedious work and deliver business values such as smarter automation and improved customer experience.
12:55PM-1:20PM Presentation: "Driving Digital Transformation While Mitigating Risks and Ensuring Compliance"
Terry Ray, SVP and Imperva Fellow, Imperva Inc.
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Terry Ray is the SVP and Imperva Fellow for Imperva Inc. As a technology fellow, Terry supports all of Imperva's business functions with his years of industry experience and expertise. Previously he served as Chief Technology Officer where he was responsible for developing and articulating the company's technical vision and strategy, as well as, maintaining a deep knowledge of the Application and Data Security Solution and Threats Landscape. Earlier in his tenure at Imperva, he held the role of Chief Product Strategist where he consulted directly with Imperva's strategic global customers on industry best practices, threat landscape, application and data security implementation and industry regulations.
He continues to operate as an executive sponsor to strategic customers who benefit from having a bridge between both company's executive teams. He was the first U.S.-based employee, and during his 15 years at Imperva, he has worked hundreds of data security projects to meet the security requirements of customers and regulators from every industry.
Terry is a frequent speaker for RSA, Gartner, ISSA, OWASP, ISACA, IANS, CDM, NLIT, The American Petroleum Institute and other professional security and audit organizations in the Americas and abroad. Terry also provides expert commentary to the media and has been quoted in Security Week, SC Magazine, CBS News, the BBC and others.
Market fragmentation, the influx of modern digital solutions by fintechs, and the foray into the banking world by tech giants, are all intensifying competition for financial firms, placing them under immense pressure to adopt cloud technology and transform their businesses.
However, digital transformation also creates new levels of risk as there are now more users interacting with more apps and data that resides everywhere. Moreover, firms continue to face the challenges of complying with increasingly complex regulation and maintaining operational performance while protecting their assets from internal and external threats.
This presentation explores how you can maintain the balance between risk mitigation, compliance and business transformation.
What you will learn from this session:
• What are the common challenges faced by financial services firms as they embrace digital transformation?
• Why do breaches still happen? – The shortcomings of relying on traditional perimeter-based and identity-based security.
• What is the right approach to assess risk? Why is this recommended by leading analyst firms?
1:20PM-2:15PM "Culture in the Workplace" Lively Discussion led by WSTA President and 1st Vice President
James Kostulias, Managing Director, Retail Client Experience, TD Ameritrade
James Kostulias is Managing Director, Retail Client Experience, at TD Ameritrade. He oversees all aspects of the Client Experience and is responsible for the firms Retail, Learning & Development, Client Segmentation, and LEAN & Problem Solving strategies, as well as the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system.
Kostulias has more than two decades of experience in the financial services industry and has spent more than 15 of those years with TD Ameritrade across their Retail, Technology, Project Management, Application Development and Active Trader businesses. He's held a variety of leadership roles within the organization, most recently as Head of the TD Ameritrade and Scottrade Integration where he was responsible for all aspects of integration planning, strategy and execution, balancing four million client accounts to the penny.
James is currently the President of the Wall Street Technology Association, previously sat on the FINRA Technology Advisory Committee, and is a graduate of the SIFMA Securities Institute Program at Wharton. Kostulias holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Rutgers University and Series 7, 24 and 63, licenses.
Casey Santos, Chief Information Officer, General Atlantic
Casey Santos began her career at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Mission Control as a propulsion systems engineer supporting multiple Space Shuttle missions including the first Mir/Space Shuttle docking mission and the first Hubble Space Telescope repair mission. She left NASA to be an IT consultant, implementing technology to serve multiple industries, such as Oil and Gas, Finance, Automotive, and Electronics. Casey also worked as a strategy consultant in McKinsey's Business Technology Offices in Madrid and New York before transitioning to McKinsey's private investment office as head of IT.
Casey Santos joined General Atlantic in 2014 and works from the firm's New York office. Currently in her role as Chief Information Officer at General Atlantic, Casey focuses on delivering innovative technology to support a global team of investment professionals and its investors. She also works closely with some of the technology companies that General Atlantic invests in.
Ms. Santos holds a B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and both an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and a Masters in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.
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OMAHA, Nebraska — The following is the 2019 College World Series schedule, game times, television channels and live streaming information from Omaha, Nebraska.
The eight teams advancing to this year's tournament are led by No. 2 national seed Vanderbilt, with Louisville, Texas Tech, Arkansas, Florida State, Mississippi State, Michigan and Auburn also joining the party.
Live streaming and television coverage of the College World Series, which runs June 15-26 in Omaha, Nebraska, will be available on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN3 and WatchESPN.
2019 NCAA Baseball Regional Round: Times, Schedule, Stream, TV Channels: Day 2 June 1
The College World Series will see the eight advancing teams competing in two double-elimination brackets, with the winners of each brackets meeting in a best-of-three series to determine the national champion.
First pitch at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha is slated for Saturday, June 15 at 2:00 pm ET, with No. 8 national seed Texas Tech (44-18) going up against Michigan (46-20), live on ESPN and WatchESPN.
Saturday's second game will feature the No. 5 national seed Arkansas (46-18) taking on Florida State (41-21). Pitch time for this one is scheduled to begin at 7 pm and ESPN will carry the live coverage.
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There are two games on the schedule for Sunday, June 16 as well.
Pre College World Series favorite and No. 2 national seed Vanderbilt (54-11) will battle against No. 7 national seed Louisville (49-16) at 2 pm ET.
ESPN and WatchESPN will provide the live coverage.
The doubleheader will begin at 6:30 pm and this will feature No. 6 national seed Mississippi State (51-13) matching talents with Auburn (38-26) on ESPN2.
College World Series Schedule
Game 1: Michigan vs. Texas Tech, 2 p.m., ESPN, WatchESPN
Game 2: Florida State vs. Arkansas, 7 p.m., ESPN, WatchESPN
Game 3: Vanderbilt vs. Louisville, 2 p.m., ESPN, WatchESPN
Game 4: Mississippi State vs. Auburn, 7:30 p.m., ESPN2, WatchESPN
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White Collar Crime: Officially Induced Error can halt a Criminal Trial
In a significant judgment, the Irish Supreme Court has recognised that officially induced error or entrapment by estoppel may prohibit criminal proceedings though the parameters of this legal objection are tightly drawn.
In DPP v Casey,1 the accused had been convicted of conspiracy to defraud for the misstatement of seven transactions showing a positive balance of €7.2 billion as a deposit in the accounts of Anglo Irish Bank plc. In fact, this was that bank's own money routed through another financial institution so as to appear as a deposit from an outside source. The accused was chief executive of that latter financial institution.
At trial, one of the accused's answers to the charge was that he had official authorisation for this form of misleading accounting. Following his conviction and first unsuccessful appeal, the Supreme Court then certified the following question for a subsequent appeal as a point of general public importance.
"Whether the defence of 'officially induced error' or 'entrapment by estoppel' is available in this jurisdiction and, if so, what its parameters are and whether it was open to the applicant on the evidence in this case."
In recognising officially induced error as an answer to a criminal charge in Ireland, the court concluded that:
An answer to a criminal charge of officially induced error is an exception to the rule that ignorance of the law, or mistake as to the law, cannot excuse criminal conduct;
For officially induced error to be accepted so as to bar the continuation of a criminal prosecution, the accused must prove that he went in good faith to seek legal advice from the authority that a reasonable person would see as possessing ostensible authority to advise on whether a proposed course of conduct was or was not lawful;
In seeking advice, it is not enough that an accused give a vague outline to that authority of what he proposes. Instead, the proposal about which legal advice is sought must be specific, describing accurately that conduct which is the subject matter of the later criminal charge;
What the official advises must be specific and must amount to legal advice, or advice of mixed law and fact, in a manner which clearly and unequivocally authorises the conduct as a matter of law;
It is not sufficient for the advice to be such as to reasonably put the accused on notice to make further enquiries;
The advice must cover the situation in issue;
That advice must be accepted honestly by the accused and must be such that a reasonable person would be likely to act on it;
In the commission of the offence, there must be no deviation from the apparently authorised conduct; and
To raise the defence, the accused must precisely describe before the trial judge what he did rather than evading responsibility through not admitting conduct.
The court went on to explain that officially induced error is not a justificatory or excusatory defence in criminal law: rather, it amounts to a legal objection to the continuation of the criminal process rooted in Article 34.1 and Article 38.1 of the Constitution and founded on justice and due process.
An accused seeking to rely on officially induced error or the indistinguishable entrapment by estoppel should raise the matter by written notice to be dealt with by the trial judge before the jury is sworn. The accused must establish on the balance of probabilities the elements of unfairness leading to the trial judge staying the prosecution. If the accused is successful, that ends the trial. If not, the facts underlying the defence become irrelevant to the criminal trial run in front of the jury. However, if it ultimately transpires that an accused was foolish or mistaken in acting as he did, this may be pleaded in mitigation of sentence.
Although the court ultimately concluded that an answer of officially induced error could not succeed on the facts of this particular case, the judgment is significant as it recognises for the first time that this type of legal objection can halt a criminal trial in Ireland. However, it is clear from the rigorous test set out by the Supreme Court that it will only be in exceptional circumstances that such an argument will prevail.
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Last June, Daisy Robinton addressed the new graduates of UCLA's molecular, cell, and developmental biology program from home via Zoom. Long blond hair swept to one side, smile wide, sunny, and luminous through the screen, she exuded warmth even as she shared the serious lessons of her journey from walking in their shoes as a UCLA biology student to obtaining her PhD at Harvard to becoming a biopharma startup CEO. Then, still smiling, she paused her own story and dropped on the young graduates a question that could drive their careers.
"What are you furious about?" she asked.
Robinton herself is furious about the fact that science and medicine have spent decades mostly ignoring more than half of the population: women. Medical history is littered with examples of women suffering ill effects of drugs—such as the antihistamine Seldane, which caused dangerous heart arrhythmias, disproportionately in women—that weren't adequately tested on them because most clinical trials were filled primarily with men. The National Institutes of Health didn't start requiring clinical trials to enroll women until 1993 or animal studies to include females until 2016. As recently as 2020, Robinton heard a lead researcher working on a COVID-19 treatment suggest that they study it only in male hamsters, because females' hormone cycles would make the data too messy. Meanwhile, women are left to struggle through debilitating ailments with inadequate treatments while medical research still heavily favors male bodies.
Robinton is determined to bring her particular blend of human warmth and cold research chops to the principle that it's possible to give a damn about women's well-being—and use science to do so. Her first target, which she's tackling through a new venture called Oviva Therapeutics, is menopause.
Menopause (the end of a woman's menstrual cycle) is a huge physiological and life event that our medical system typically treats as something of a hiccup. Its symptoms afflict a vast majority of women, disturbing to varying degrees their sleep, mental health, cognition, and sexual function—sometimes for years on end. It also marks the inflection point from relative youth and fitness to the gerontological decline of older age. After a woman's last cycle, the risks of heart disease, bone fragility, Alzheimer's, and other disorders all leap, but it's not entirely clear what role menopause plays in those risks.
(Author's note: While this article uses the term "women" broadly in discussing ovarian health and menopause, we recognize and appreciate that people of other genders, such as nonbinary people and transgender men, may also experience menopause.)
When Robinton dug into the research about menopause a few years ago, she recalls feeling shocked. "I was like: Oh my god, so many women hit 50 and sex is painful or they don't want it, they don't feel well, they can't sleep, and we just accept this as a given for half of their life?"
"I want to sleep well, I want to have a great sex life, I want to feel great and be energetic."
The importance of living to our healthiest potential is personal to Robinton, a lifelong athlete who has made a second career modeling for top fitness brands like Adidas, Lululemon, and Athleta. Her life partner, Adam Cobb, is a fitness and performance coach. She values good sleep so much that as a kid she sometimes put herself to bed at 8pm. As Robinton sees it, menopause is lurking out there in every young woman's future, waiting to steal our potential. But she's not content to let it stay that way.
"Everyone is always talking about how hot longevity is, but [ovarian aging] is such an obvious early signal and early intervention point that could impact half the population if someone cared enough to put the money into it," she says.
Her startup, Oviva Therapeutics, backed by Cambrian Biopharma, aims to create therapies to interrupt menopause and prolong women's ovulating years deep into their lives, not only extending their fertility but potentially extending their youthful health as well. In approaching that work, Robinton and her colleagues are asking medical questions so big that they border on the existential: Can we not just slow menopause, but stop it altogether? And what happens if we do?
Pushing back the fertility cliff
For all the microscopic detail in her doctoral and postdoctoral research on the molecular underpinnings of cells' development, Robinton's life's work is essentially well-being. It started in her childhood bedroom in Palo Alto, California, at around 2 o'clock in the morning. Her older sister, Lily, had recently been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Each night, their father came into Lily's room in the wee hours to check her blood sugar as Lily screamed in protest against the pricking of her finger. Then, on a couple of nights, Lily's sugar crashed—a life-threatening event. Her father found her unconscious, and Daisy, age 7, watched through the glass door that separated the sisters' bedrooms as her father straddled Lily and furiously rubbed glucose gel into her gums until she came to, confused and crying.
Lily, the oldest of the five Robinton siblings, had been their ringleader. But Daisy recalls that after the diabetes diagnosis, "she really went into a shell." So Daisy decided on those frightening nights that she would do something to help, and she ultimately settled on science "as a way to unlock potential for people."
Her epiphany about the chasm in women's health research and investment came later, around age 30, when she ended a long-term relationship and started to worry about her biological clock. She consulted with a fertility doctor and was staggered by everything she hadn't known—and most women don't know—about her own biology. For instance: Every month we ovulate one egg but also lose approximately a thousand more, summoned from our limited supply but not fully developed. If a woman misses her natural fertility window, the in vitro fertilization process is brutal on her body, and its likely success rates are low. And finally, somewhere in our 50s, our ovaries shift into their old age, even as the rest of our bodies remain younger, and for many of us, our health and quality of life begin to deteriorate from there.
"That actually scared me a lot more than the fertility cliff," Robinton recalls. "These things are important to me. I want to sleep well, I want to have a great sex life, I want to feel great and be energetic." Yet our only real treatment for menopause—hormone replacement therapy—dates back 50 years and brings a modestly increased risk of breast cancer and other health problems along with the relief it provides from hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, vaginal discomfort, bone loss, and brain fog. "Historically in the practice of medicine for women there's this accepting that some degree of suffering is just normal and there's no effort to alleviate it," Robinton says. "It felt like such an egregious example of neglect that I could contribute to."
A single egg cell in the ovary of a woman, surrounded by supporting cellular tissue.
Robinton, who now lives in Los Angeles, was deep in reading on women's health when she met Cambrian Biopharma Founder and CEO James Peyer for coffee and told him her thinking. Cambrian's focus is lengthening the human healthspan, the period of life spent in good health. Their specific approach is to develop medicines to prevent the diseases of aging before they happen. Peyer asked Robinton to join Cambrian to find a way to translate her research into a medicine to slow the ovaries' aging—in other words, to preserve the ovaries' store of viable eggs and hopefully, in so doing, keep a woman's monthly cycle turning. "We don't have any good treatments for menopause once it's happened, and we are doing nothing to prevent it, and all of those things combined make it a fantastic opportunity," Peyer says. "Also, half the population is going to get it and most of them don't want to. The market size has never really been estimated because no one has ever taken a real shot on goal."
Robinton and Peyer's gamble was this: We still don't know exactly what causes menopause, but it seems likely that the hormone changes that come with the depletion of eggs over time are the trigger. Nor do we understand why that shift ushers in the risks of aging across the whole body. But it stands to reason that delaying the first could delay the second. In other words: recognizing the problems that occur in the presence of menopause, it was time to ask what would happen in the absence of it. If, that is, Robinton could find the right biochemical key to unlock the ovaries' natural timeline.
Modeling and the science life
Asking big questions has always come naturally to Robinton, who notes that she's the daughter of an artist and an engineer. One of her early mentors, UCLA Professor Bob Goldberg, remembers that she stood out as a college freshman for her broad, conceptual thinking and unabashed willingness to ask off-the-wall questions. Her longtime friend Kyla Searle sees her as a natural storyteller who is now using science to try to rewrite the story of women's lives. "I think Daisy uses the scientific model to really openly and curiously consider the world around her," Searle says.
That balance between the expansiveness of ideas and the nitty-gritty of tiny details has played out in the dialogue between Robinton's twin careers of science and modeling—which sometimes created tension, but which Robinton believes has benefited both pursuits.
She started modeling her senior year in high school to stay busy when a torn ACL stopped her from captaining the soccer team and working as a restaurant hostess. She landed her first big job with Abercrombie & Fitch soon after and kept modeling part time in college. Even as she toiled in the lab and worked as a teaching assistant for the molecular biology classes taught by Goldberg, she dated actors and attended afternoon pool parties with LA's glitterati. Yet she kept quiet about the other half of her life among scientists.
"I wanted to be seen and received by my colleagues and peers, and I thought that would make it more difficult for me to be respected and taken seriously," she says. And not without reason. Once, when she was presenting a poster at an international stem cell conference, wearing a sleeveless knee-length Calvin Klein dress from the business casual section of Macy's, a senior male faculty member, trying to be helpful, advised her to wear something else because she was distracting people from her ideas. Robinton remembers thinking, "If that's something that's going to cost me a job or opportunity, I don't want that job anyway."
But modeling jobs paid her way through UCLA, with her parents' budget already stretched by five kids, and later supplemented her meager PhD stipend at Harvard. More than that, modeling became a part of her scientific practice, as it allowed her to release her natural playfulness and connect with the world outside the lab. Sitting in the styling chair for hours before a shoot, she would explain her scientific work to makeup artists and fellow models, then bring their real-world questions and concerns back to her research. "The modeling provided this kind of spaciousness for getting out of the weeds," Robinton explains. "And I think that's really important when you're doing super detailed, rigorous work, because you can get so focused in on your little question that you're working on. It's really important to remember the big picture."
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Freezing ovarian tissue is classified as experimental. Maybe it shouldn't be.
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Robinton's inquiry into women's health ultimately led her to a small, but potentially powerful, detail: the ovarian hormone AMH. Anti-Müllerian hormone is released in the ovary around newly maturing eggs. It prevents additional eggs from maturing, effectively holding them in reserve. A woman's natural AMH levels typically peak around age 25, then gradually decline to undetectable levels after menopause.
When Robinton went searching the existing science for potential keys to postponing menopause, tweaking AMH was one of the only viable possibilities she found. Two Massachusetts General Hospital researchers, Patricia Donahoe and David Pépin, were working to map its chemical structure (which they and colleagues ultimately did in 2021). And Pépin had developed a lab-grown, "recombinant" form of AMH that he was testing as a way to maintain the ovary's reserve of eggs. "This was really brand new stuff," Peyer says, "although it feels a little like work that should have been done 15 years ago after the genome was sequenced."
Oviva could be running clinical trials for menopause prevention by the end of the decade.
Donahoe, Pépin, and Robinton agreed to team up. Just a week before they made their successful pitch to Cambrian to fund Oviva in early 2021, Robinton learned she was pregnant, and soon after that learned she was carrying a girl—a girl who would grow her entire life's supply of eggs in the womb but naturally start losing them before she was born—and another future woman who deserves better.
Oviva is now testing Pépin's version of recombinant AMH as a potential drug. Still in preclinical development, it has been studied extensively in mice, and further work is being done in several other species, such as cats. The company plans first to seek approval for it as an ovarian function treatment, for a specific medical indication to be announced in early 2022. But that's just a stepping stone to the bigger goal of testing it to stave off menopause, perhaps for as long as a woman wants, perhaps forever. For now, recombinant AMH is too expensive to manufacture to be able to give women a daily dose for years. But Peyer says they have some ideas for how to make that "cheaper and cheaper—to target pennies a day," Peyer says, "and when we get to that point we can think about slowing menopause." If their version of recombinant AMH proves safe and effective, he predicts Oviva could be running clinical trials for menopause prevention by the end of the decade.
That, at least, is the plan for now, though plenty of things could get in the way. "The number one thing on my mind is that our hypothesis about menopause is that it's based on the depletion of the ovarian reserve, but no one's ever tested that, because there has never been a tool to stop the ovarian reserve from depleting," Peyer explains. Similarly, no one has ever had the opportunity to find out what else happens in the body if you preserve eggs and prevent menopause. Robinton believes, based on her research, that it will propel women through more years of living healthily, living to their best potential. "But the real answer," she says, "is we don't know."
An incredible, little thing
Regardless of what Oviva discovers through its work with recombinant AMH, Robinton is in pursuit of something bigger. Even if AMH doesn't work as hypothesized, she and Oviva hope to build a trend of more and more reputable scientists investigating real treatments for women—and in so doing, bring the field more of the attention and investment it deserves. All the while, they'll continue researching new leads. Through the AMH work, "we're getting this gold," Robinton says, "this incredible data trove of how our cycles work and how our bodies respond when you change one little thing."
One little thing, of course, can be the difference between good and bad health at the smallest and largest scales. Most of Robinton's prior work, from stem cell genetics to the developmental roots of neurodegenerative diseases, has centered on the tiny biochemical cues that change a cell's destiny. She wants to know: What signals must be present for a cell to reach its ultimate potential? What happens when a signal goes awry? And what does that mean for the potential of the whole organism?
"I weirdly link the two things, personal identity and cellular identity," she says. "They really feel connected in my brain and my personal life and my interest in studying science."
After all, each of us starts as a single cell that divides into two, then four, then eight. Each of those cells holds the potential to grow any cell in the body, and tiny signals can send it in totally different directions—which is how Robinton also sees people, as the rightful owners of limitless potential.
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Q: How to compare 2 dynamic values in ngIf I am new to Angular,
trying to compare 2 property values of a Json in ngIf,
I have Address object with following properties Line1, Line2, City, County, Zip code, Country
I want to show County value on the UI, If County not equal to City,
I am using Angular 7
Example Address 1 on the database:

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*Line1: abc123

*Line2: xyz

*City: London

*County: London

*Country: UK

Since County value is equal to City values
On the UI I want to Show:

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*abc123, xyz, London, UK

Example Address 2 on the database:

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*Line1: asdf456

*Line2: lkj

*City: London

*County: qwerty

*Country: UK

Since County value is not equal to City values
On the UI I want to Show:

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*asdf456, lkj, London, qwerty, UK

so trying below code but it is not working.

{{address.county}}

Tried with single quotes

{{address.county}}

and three equals '==='

{{address.county}}

Thanks in advance

A: If it is dynamic like Observable etc:

{{address.county}}

| async Is an pipe for dynamic values Observables and Promises. Small tip try to not use this pipe in *ngFor loop.

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This course examines the processes employed in the manufacture of food products, with a particular focus on thermal processing technologies. Fundamental concepts such as units and dimensions, mass and energy balance, fluid flow, homogenisation, and heat transfer will be covered. Commonly used preservation technologies based on thermal processing such pasteurisation, sterilisation, concentration (evaporation, membrane concentration), drying, canning and refrigeration will be covered. Some representative unit operations will be taught through practical sessions carried out in the laboratory/ pilot plant with particular reference to the processing equipment.
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Students will be provided with a list of relevant reference books, book chapters and recent journal papers. Lecture slides and supporting materials will be provided through the Learning Hub (accessible through myRMIT. There is no single textbook which covers entire materials used in this course.


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The synopsis of Yoshio Aramaki's The Sacred Era set my hopes high, leading me to choose it from the long list of books PopMatters made available for review. Yet in a most disappointing turn of events, the basic details of the narrative of The Sacred Era far outshine its actual execution. As science fiction grounded in a fictionalized Christian philosophy, with world-building that combined futuristic technology with archaic societal organization, The Sacred Era had the potential to be far more enchanting and thrilling than it ever was at any point. The basic plot outline is as follows: the protagonist, known only as "K," is chosen to leave his rural village to take a specialized service exam in the capital city of the post-apocalyptic Christian-ish empire of Igitur. Once he passes the extremely difficult logic- and theology-based exam, he is introduced to a world of privileged knowledge not only about his civilization's own religious philosophy, but about how this philosophy intersects with metaphysical and scientific concepts of space (and time) travel. Once he has joined this privileged elite, he is assigned to conduct research on a mysterious planet known only as "Bosch," and along the way learns the truth of his society's religious beginnings and scientific capabilities. It's quite a mouthful, and not exactly easy to distill in only a few sentences, but nonetheless the concept was extremely interesting to me, as someone who enjoys books like David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks (and Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 to a lesser extent). Namely, I find myself gravitating towards stories that combine fantasy, science fiction, and more recognizable elements of life into one grand, tied-together conclusion about our world (or a world much like our own). The Sacred Era promised a twist on this kind of narrative, albeit with an additional emphasis on Bible-esque themes of holiness and heresy.
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Q: tfidf w2v giving NaN values While using TFIDF Word2Vec giving NaN values on the review of Amazon fine foods dataset after sampling it to 100k data points I am getting NaN values in the sentence vector...
I tried almost everything with the code but am not getting real values..
After printing the sentence array this is the output I am getting -
[nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
 nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
 nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan]
[nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
 nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
 nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan]
[nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
 nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
 nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan]
[nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
 nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
 nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan]
[nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
 nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan
 nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan nan].....

The code is as follows -
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfVectorizer
from sklearn.feature_extraction.text import TfidfTransformer
tfidf = TfidfVectorizer(ngram_range=(1,2), analyzer='word')
final_tfidf = tfidf.fit_transform(final_data['CleanedText'].values)
tfidf_feat = tfidf.get_feature_names()
tf_sent_vectors = []
row = 0

for sent in list_of_sent:
    sent_vec = np.zeros(50)  #initializiing the sent_vec
    weighted_sum = 0   #initializing the weightedsum
    for word in sent:
        try:
            vec = w2v_modelk.wv[word]
            tf_idf = final_tfidf[row, tfidf_feat.index(word)]
            sent_vec += (vec * tf_idf)
            weighted_sum += tf_idf
        except:
            pass
    sent_vec /= weighted_sum
    print(sent_vec)
    row += 1

Any kind of help will be appreciated !!

A: Here According to your code  tf-idf features may be like {'hi','jik','this by' etc} .
Because of uni grams and bi grams.so till here it ok
But the critical section is
"for word in sentence:"
For suppose if the sentence=["This is good"]
so tf-idf feaures be {'This','is','good','This is','is good'}
Now line in code
for word in sentence:
we get output as{'T','h','i','s', and so no } we get single characters
so as these single characters might not be in tf-idf and might not be in w2vec model
i.e The correction would be     for word in sentence.split(" "):


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Inquisitor is a genus of small predatory sea snails,  marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pseudomelatomidae.

Distribution
This marine genus occurs in the Indo-west Pacific, from the Red Sea and East Africa to Japan; also off Australia.

Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), the following species with valid names are included within the genus Inquisitor:

 Inquisitor acervatus Cotton, 1947
 Inquisitor adenicus Sysoev, 1996
 Inquisitor aemula (Angas, 1877)
 Inquisitor aesopus (Schepman, 1913)
 Inquisitor alabaster (Reeve, 1843)
 Inquisitor angustiliratus Sysoev, 1996
 Inquisitor angustus Kuroda & Oyama, 1971
 Inquisitor arctatus Kilburn, 1988
 Inquisitor armillatus Stahlschmidt & Fraussen, 2014
  † Inquisitor awamoaensis (Hutton, 1873)
 Inquisitor carmen (G. B. Sowerby III, 1916)
 Inquisitor chocolatus (E. A. Smith, 1875)
 Inquisitor citreus Stahlschmidt & Fraussen, 2022
 † Inquisitor cosibensis (Yokoyama, 1920)
 † Inquisitor cotteri Vredenburg, 1921
 Inquisitor dampieria  (Hedley, 1922)
 Inquisitor eburatus Bozzetti, 2011
 Inquisitor elachystoma (Martens, 1901)
 Inquisitor elegans  Bozzetti, 1994
 Inquisitor elkeae Stahlschmidt, 2013
 Inquisitor exiguus (Kuroda & Oyama, 1971)
 † Inquisitor flemingi (Vella, 1954)
 Inquisitor flindersianus Hedley, 1922
 Inquisitor formidabilis Hedley, 1922
 † Inquisitor fraudator (Finlay & Marwick, 1937)
 Inquisitor frausseni Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
 Inquisitor fusiformis Stahlschmidt, 2013
 Inquisitor glauce (Dall, 1918)
 Inquisitor harrymonti Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
 † Inquisitor hebes Marwick, 1931
 Inquisitor hedleyi (Verco, 1909)
 Inquisitor hormophorus Sysoev & Bouchet, 2001
 Inquisitor imperceptus Stahlschmidt & Fraussen, 2022
 Inquisitor incertus (E. A. Smith, 1877)
 Inquisitor indistinctus Sysoev, 1996
 Inquisitor insignita (Melvill, 1923)
 Inquisitor interrupta  (Lamarck, 1816)
 Inquisitor intertinctus (E. A. Smith, 1877)
 Inquisitor isabella Kilburn, 1988
 † Inquisitor ischnos (Philippi, 1887)
 Inquisitor janae Stahlschmidt & Fraussen, 2022
 Inquisitor japonicus (Lischke, 1869)
 Inquisitor kilburni Wells, 1994
 † Inquisitor komiticus Laws, 1939
 Inquisitor kurodai (Habe & Kosuge, 1966)
 † Inquisitor lanceolatus (Hupé, 1854)
 Inquisitor lassulus Hedley, 1922
 Inquisitor latifasciata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
 Inquisitor latiriformis Kilburn, 1988
 Inquisitor lorenzi Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
 Inquisitor mactanensis Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
 Inquisitor mastersi (Brazier, 1876)
 Inquisitor michaelmonti Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
 Inquisitor midas Stahlschmidt & Fraussen, 2022
 Inquisitor millepunctatus Stahlschmidt, Poppe & Tagaro, 2018
 Inquisitor minutosternalis Kosuge, 1993
 Inquisitor mirabelflorenti Cossignani, 2016
 Inquisitor modulatus Stahlschmidt & Fraussen, 2022
 Inquisitor multilirata (E. A. Smith, 1877)
 Inquisitor nodicostatus Kilburn, 1988
 Inquisitor nudivaricosus Kuroda & Oyama, 1971
 Inquisitor odhneri Wells, 1994
 Inquisitor plurinodulatus Cotton, 1947
 Inquisitor plurivaricis Li B.Q., Kilburn & Li X.Z., 2010
 † Inquisitor powelli (Dell, 1950)
 Inquisitor pseudoprincipalis (Yokoyama, 1920)
 Inquisitor radula (Hinds, 1843)
 Inquisitor ritae Stahlschmidt & Fraussen, 2017
 Inquisitor rubens Morassi, 1998
 Inquisitor rufovaricosus (Kuroda & Oyama, 1971)
 Inquisitor sexradiata (Odhner, 1917)
 † Inquisitor shibanoi Masuda, 1967
 Inquisitor solomonensis (E. A. Smith, 1876)
 Inquisitor spicata  (Hinds, 1843)
 Inquisitor stenos Sysoev, 1996
 Inquisitor sterrha   (R. B. Watson, 1881)
 Inquisitor subangusta (Schepman, 1913)
 Inquisitor taivaricosa Chang & Wu, 2000
 Inquisitor variabilis (E. A. Smith, 1877)
 Inquisitor varicosus (Reeve, 1843)
 Inquisitor vesculus Stahlschmidt & Fraussen, 2022
 Inquisitor vividus Li B.Q., Kilburn & Li X.Z., 2010
 Inquisitor vulpionis Kuroda & Oyama, 1971
  † Inquisitor waihoraensis Marwick, 1931
 Inquisitor zebra (Lamarck, 1822)
 Inquisitor zonata  (Reeve, 1843)

Species brought into synonymy
 Inquisitor acutus Marwick, 1928 †: synonym of Mauidrillia acuta (Marwick, 1928) †
 Inquisitor alma Thiele, 1930: synonym of Inquisitor lassulus Hedley, 1922
 Inquisitor asper Marwick, 1926 †: synonym of Aoteadrillia asper (Marwick, 1926)†
 Inquisitor coriorudis Hedley, 1922: synonym of Vexitomina coriorudis'(Hedley, 1922) (original combination)
 Inquisitor coxi Angas, 1867: synonym of Vexitomina coxi (Angas, 1867)
 Inquisitor essingtonensis Smith, 1888: synonym of Inquisitor mastersi (Brazier, 1876)
 Inquisitor exigua Marwick, 1931 †: synonym of Aoteadrillia exigua (Marwick, 1931) † (original combination)
 Inquisitor fibratus Hedley, 1922: synonym of Inquisitor spicata (Hinds, 1843)
 Inquisitor flavidula [sic]: synonym of Inquisitor flavidulus (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822) (incorrect gender ending)
 Inquisitor flavidulus (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Clathrodrillia flavidula (Lamarck, 1822)
 Inquisitor granobalteus Hedley, 1922: synonym of Turricula granobalteus (Hedley, 1922)  (original combination)
 Inquisitor immaculatus Tenison-Woods, 1876: synonym of Paracuneus immaculatus (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
 Inquisitor ihungia Marwick, 1931 †: synonym of Aoteadrillia ihungia (Marwick, 1931) † (original combination)
 Inquisitor japonicum [sic]: synonym of Inquisitor japonicus (Lischke, 1869) (incorrect gender ending)
 Inquisitor jeffreysii (E. A. Smith, 1875): synonym of Funa jeffreysii (E. A. Smith, 1875)
 Inquisitor kawamurai (Habe & Kosuge, 1966) : synonym of Cheungbeia kawamurai (Habe & Kosuge, 1966)
 Inquisitor lacertosus Hedley, 1922: synonym of Bathytoma lacertosus (Hedley, 1922)  (original combination)
 Inquisitor laterculata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870): synonym of Cheungbeia laterculata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1870)
 Inquisitor laterculoides (Barnard, 1958): synonym of Funa laterculoides (Barnard, 1958)
 Inquisitor mammillata (Kuroda and Oyama,1971): synonym of Mammillaedrillia mammillata (Kuroda and Oyama,1971)
 Inquisitor metcalfei Angas, 1867: synonym of Vexitomina metcalfei (Angas, 1867)
 Inquisitor minimarus Kosuge, 1993: synonym of Ptychobela minimarus (Kosuge, 1993)
 Inquisitor multicostellata Smith, 1888: synonym of Inquisitor latifasciata (Sowerby, 1870)
 Inquisitor nudivaricosa Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971: synonym of Inquisitor nudivaricosus Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971
 Inquisitor perclathrata Kuroda, 1960: synonym of Clavus (Clathrodrillia) perclathrata Azuma, 1960 (nomen nudum)
 Inquisitor petilinus Hedley, 1922: synonym of Conticosta petilinus (Hedley, 1922) (original combination)
 † Inquisitor problematicus Powell, 1942 : synonym of † Inquisitor awamoaensis (Hutton, 1873)
 Inquisitor sinensis (Hinds, 1843): synonym of Crassispira sinensis (Hinds, 1843)
 Inquisitor spadix (Watson, 1886): synonym of Paracuneus immaculatus (Tenison-Woods, 1876)
 Inquisitor spaldingi (Brazier, 1876): synonym of Inquisitor spicata (Hinds, 1843)
 Inquisitor spurius Hedley, 1922: synonym of Turricula nelliae spuria (Hedley, 1922) (original combination)
 Inquisitor suavis Smith, 1888: synonym of Vexitomina suavis (Smith, 1888)
 Inquisitor subochracea (E. A. Smith, 1877): synonym of Aguilaria subochracea (E. A. Smith, 1877)
 Inquisitor taylorianus (Reeve, 1846): synonym of Funa tayloriana (Reeve, 1846)
 Inquisitor tuberosa (E.A. Smith, 1875): synonym of Brachytoma tuberosa (E. A. Smith, 1875)
 Inquisitor ventricosa Smith, 1888 : synonym of Inquisitor glauce (Dall, 1918)
 Inquisitor versicolor Weinkauff & Kobelt, 1876: synonym of Inquisitor radula (Hinds, 1843)
 Inquisitor vexillium (Habe & Kosuge, 1966) : synonym of Ptychobela vexillium (Habe & Kosuge, 1966)

See also
 List of marine gastropod genera in the fossil record

References

 Sysoev, A. & Bouchet, P. 2001. New and uncommon turriform gastropods (Gastropoda: Conoidea) from the south-west Pacific. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 185: 271–320
 Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods.'' Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp.

External links
 Hedley C. (1918). A checklist of the marine fauna of New South Wales. Part 1. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 51: M1-M120
  Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56

 Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308
 Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Pseudomelatomidae

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For 5 days at the end of January we hunkered down and enjoyed that wonderful silence that comes with the snow. It was so beautiful, so quiet and so annoying!!! It must be my age – love it for a day and then – lets just get on!!!! Many parts of the moor suffered from a mass influx of visitorsthat blocked most access roads and then left behind them sack loads of rubbish – why?! Fortunately no one made it past our entrance save a couple of tractors.


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Olga BURDUNIUC, Editor-in-chief of Journal
MD, MPH, PhD in medical science, associate professor
Head of Microbiological Laboratory, National Agency for Public Health
The discipline of Microbiology and Immunology, Department of Preventive Medicine
Nicolae Testemitanu State University of Medicine and Pharmacy
Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
e-mail: olgaburduniuc3@gmail.com
Research experience and interests: Improving diagnostics for detection of multidrug resistance pathogens, evaluation of Biosecurity and biosafety aspects in microbiological laboratories and elaboration of biological risk management measures, developing new compound with antifungal activity.
She has participated as coordinator and principal executor in national and international scientific projects, scientific events. The research results were disseminated on various national and international scientific forums, mentioned with diplomas and medals. She has published over 160 scientific papers, including 7 in international journals with impact factor, one monography, 9 methodological recommendations, 8 guidelines, 3 certificates of innovation, and 8 patents.
She is a Member of the OH AMR Partnership JPIAMR Management Board Advisory Group. She has experience working on developing Evidence Briefs for Policy (EBP) on Antimicrobial Resistance. She is Chair and General Committee representative of Moldavian NAC in the European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing.
She founded a non-governmental association and currently is president of the Moldavian Biosafety and Biosafety Association. She is a member of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases; the European Biosafety Association; the International Federation of Biosafety Associations.
As a part of the National AMR Focal Point team for CAESAR activities, she has experience on establishing AMR Surveillance and Laboratory Network. Also, she organized national seminars and workshops for microbiologists, clinicians, epidemiologists and veterinarians in order to develop good practice in AMR surveillances on One Health approach; meetings to disseminate knowledge on AMR to all stakeholders; awareness-raising activities during the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week and promoting in human and animal sectors.
She was an Organizing Committee member of EuroSciCon – Vaccines Immunization 2020, United Kingdom and Executive Committee member of Balkan Conference on Medical Mycology and Mycotoxicology (Balkan Fungus) Romania, Timisoara, 2018. She was the secretary of the intersectoral collaboration group for developing the National Program for surveillance and control of antimicrobial resistance (on One Health approach).
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She has participated in national and international scientific projects, national and international scientific forums, round tables, workshops, training. She has published over 150 scientific papers, including 3 monographs; presented communications at more than 50 scientific forums.
C. Croitoru is a member of the Moldavian Biosafety and Biosafety Association; Society of Hygienists of the Republic of Moldova, Society of Hygiene and Public Health of Romania, the Romanian Society of Occupational Medicine.
She was a member of the Organizing Committee of the Scientific-Practical Conference "Occupational Health: Problems and Achievements" (Chisinau, 2014), member of the Organizing Committee and Scientific Committee of the International Conference "Individual, Family, Society - Contemporary Challenges" (Romania, Bucharest 2014, 2015, 2017).
C. Croitoru is a member of the editorial board of the "Journal of Hygiene and Public Health" (since 2014), and "Public Health Current Research" (since 2018); a reviewer in the World Journal of Public Health (WJPH).
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She has published over 130 scientific papers in various renowned journals and conference materials, including books, guides, chapters in monographs, etc.
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Based in Osaka-Japan, and starting off as a fashion designer, she became a professional aroma therapist and began teaching aroma therapy. After various experiences in her life, she happened to get inspired to produce a film so as to fill the universe with gratitude and that being her mission in life. She did everything such as shooting, interview, editing video, writing a song for the ending song and singing it herself to create the film. The title is "The Miracle of the Gifted Quarter – Life's Truth revealed", which contains many scenes in which Katsuko Yamamoto, a teacher at a special-needs school, communicates with students.
Within two years after the completion of the film, it spread abroad with English subtitles. And a hundred and twenty thousands people watched it by the end of 2011. It was invited to the Japan Film Festival in Los Angeles and received a standing ovation at a screening in Columbia University, which is the summit of video technique.
She completed the second film "The Miracle of the Colored Light" in 2008, and also completed the third film "A Great Blessing" in 2011. On the same yer she also appeared on a Murakami Kazuo film "Switch" by Suzuki Naoki.
On the National Human Rights Day in 2013, "The Miracle of the Gifted Quarter" got played at the headquarters of the United Nations in New York.
In total, the film has been played at 1800 places in 18 different countries and has reached 180,000 viewers.


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Charil Ann Herring, 81, of Zion, IL, passed away suddenly on October 27, 2018.
She was born February 26, 1937. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends.
A private cremation took place on November 1, 2018.


Update 1: There been some debate on this page, with some individuals saying I'm overreacting, and some feeling that its justified. I've updated some statements in the article accordingly.
Update 2 (12 May 15): Phottix (makers of the Odin flash triggers) has just posted an article that points out that the D750 hotshoe is slightly longer than standard. I believe this is the same issue that I was reporting on below with my YongNuo triggers. It's nice to get some vindication from a major manufacturer.
The D750 was released on last week, and I've had a few days to play around with mine. It's pretty good, and a nice upgrade from my D600. I AM kind of annoyed by the presence of Auto and Scene mode on the shooting dial, as I'd rather have a U3 and U4 mode. I also think that having the rear LCD be required to set WB and QUAL is a bit of a mistake as it will be distracting for those of us who shoot in dark environments. The ISO 12800 support is also of questionable usefulness. However, I think I can adjust to these changes, and overall it's a much better camera. But really, I would still like that extra AF-On button. Nikon added the extra INFO button instead, which is borrowed from their amateur cameras (D5300, D3100), when they could have moved it up a little and made it the AF we've all been asking for.
Anyway, this post is not about those issues. It's about the issues I've found so far. Are they bugs? Features?
AF Operation Changed - Why?
AF Point selection: Single Point.
AF-S Priority selection (menu a2): Focus.
Assign AE-L/AF-L Button (menu f4): AF-ON (in other words, enable back-button focusing).
Now, go take some shots. If you're having the same bug, you will find that you are unable to fire the shutter unless you are also holding AF-ON. Switch to AF-A single point and you will again be able to fire. For the time being, I am using this as my workaround (usually AF-S with Group-AF).
UPDATE: Some users have pointed out that this is called "Focus Trapping" and is the normal behavior on the D810 (and D800 with the most recent firmware). However, it doesn't really explain why Single Area and Group Area selection have different behaviors. It also makes it confusing to have different behaviors across the product line (the D600 definitely didn't do this).
My best guess as to why Single and Group area behave differently is because focus trap is incompatible with any mode that takes into account multiple points or changing areas, like group AF, AF-A, and AF-C. So the new behavior is only implemented on AF-S.
I've also had some issues with my Yongnuo YN-622N-TX flash transmitter. It's AF illuminator won't work, which is possibly related to the previous issue. Whereas the YN-622N-Tx worked perfectly with the D600 and D610, I have numerous issues on the D750. For one, the modeling flash feature won't work. Also, pressing the D750's flash adjustment button pops up the internal flash rather than letting me make setting changes. This indicates that the YN-622N-TX isn't being recognized. What's even worse is that I can't use it to remotely adjust power levels on the remote flashes! I use the YN-622N-TX as master, and a set of YN-622N's together with a pair of YN-568EX TTL flashes.
UPDATE: I figured it out. The D750 hotshoe is a little longer than previous models (again, why silently change the spec? It's just like the AF issue). This causes the pins to slightly misalign. So if your flash or trigger is not being recognized, pull it back in the hotshoe slightly. With my trigger I will hear a soft 'click' as the frontmost pin drops into place, indicating alignment. After properly aligning it, I have no further issues with modeling flash or the AF-assist LED working. Just make sure your YN-622N-TX says "AF-ILL" on the LCD if you want to use its illuminator. The camera cannot be in AF-C.
So it seems that the camera doesn't realize how back-button focusing is supposed to work! Have you all experienced this too?


The Ghana Atomic Energy Commission was established by an Act of Parliament, Act 204 of 1963, as the sole Agency in Ghana responsible for all matters relating to peaceful uses of atomic energy. The Act 204 was amended in 1993 by PNDC Law 308 mainly to enable it to create other institutes under the Commission. This amendment resulted in the creation of two other Institutes in addition to the National Nuclear Research Institute (NNRI) formerly Kwame Nkrumah Nuclear Research Institute (KNNRI). The two Institutes are the Radiation Protection Institute and the Biotechnology and Nuclear Agriculture Research Institute (BNARI).
The founding Act 204 of 1963 has been superseded by Act 588 of 2000 to make provision for GAEC to undertake commercialisation of its research and development results.
To make proposals to the Government for Legislation in the field of nuclear radiation and radioactive waste management.
To advise the Government on questions relating to nuclear energy, science and technology.
To establish, for the purpose of research and in furtherance of its functions, Institutes of the Commission and to exercise control over the boards of management of the Institute.
To encourage and promote the commercialisation of research and development results through its Institutes.
To supervise the carrying out of all requirements designed to secure the safety and health of radiation workers and the environment.
To engage in research and development activities, as well as in the publication and dissemination of research findings and other useful technical information.
To oversee and facilitate the development of human resources in the fields of nuclear science and technology, and to promote the training of scientific, technical and non-scientific personnel of the Commission.
To maintain relations with the International Atomic Energy Agency and other similar international and national organisations on matters of research and development of nuclear energy and nuclear technology.


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Q: DateTimeOffset.Now in T-SQL I'm executing a INSERT to a sql 2008 db. How do I specify in T-SQL to insert NOW in a DATETIMEOFFSET column? GETDATE()?

A: Maybe.
This would give you the local time of the server where SQL is installed.
Do you want to store timezone etc too? If so, SYSDATETIMEOFFSET() may be better


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New Chapter from Winds of Winter, Named 'The Forsaken' Revealed, GRRM Says There Will Be More of Mercy and Certainly More Deaths!
George R.R Martin, the author of A Song of Ice and Fire series, has been providing frequent updates to fans regarding his upcoming sixth installment, The Winds of Winter. It doesn't happen too often but he does manage to bring out details through his blog or his website.
He is the best-selling author by his own admission but he has been working at a very slow pace. This is mainly due to his difficulty in responding to deadlines while he is traveling and blogging, not to mention other distractions as well. Due to this delay, the TV series, Game of Thrones, has completely overtaken the book series.
The author has been working at a really slow pace but recently he announced that since the fans wanted an update, he will provide an update. However, it was immediately declared that he is still working on Winds of Winter.
To the fans, the 67-year-old author said that they aren't the only ones who are disappointed. HBO, the publishers and the editors are all disappointed. His foreign publishers, translators, and agents are also pretty disappointed.
Sadly, no one is more disappointed than GRRM himself. Up to now, the status of this novel remains the same and there was no announcement regarding the sixth book's release date.
At a recent convention, George RR Martin teased more deaths and Mercy chapter. The author didn't tell us about an exact release date and didn't tell us how much is yet to be completed.
A Breathe Cast report states that at the Balticon 50 convention, Martin confirmed that there will be more deaths in his books so fans should prepare for some of their favorite characters dying. GRRM declared that there will be more chapters on Mercy, in the next book. He confirmed that Mercy is the alter ego of Arya Stark.
Martin had earlier shared a sample chapter named Mercy, with the fans. In the sample chapter, Arya was seen to be the member of a theater group and had Mercy as her assumed name. She used her skills to lure a Lannister guard away from his post and kill him.
At the end of the chapter, fans came to know that Mercy is actually Arya. Martin confirmed that Mercy was indeed Arya's name but she didn't take this name for killing a single Lannister guard. She wishes to kill more people while using this name.
She was last seen in Braavos and there is nothing suggesting that she will be traveling to Westeros any time soon. Many storylines have started converging in the Game of Thrones TV series.
At the same time, Martin provided his fans with a generous helping from The Winds of Winter, during the recent Balticon 50. Martin told us the story of Aeron Greyjoy and how he suffered in the hands of Euron, his brother.
Aeron was last mentioned at the kingsmoot of Euron. He tried to get away that time so that he can develop a resistance against his brother's rule. Now, fans found out that Euron's men have kidnapped Aeron and he has been placed in deplorable dungeons. He kept facing continuous torture from the latter.
The recollections of Aeron in earlier books revealed that he was afraid of the sound of a door or a gate opening, every time he encountered his brother. There was a valid reason behind it and Euron was finally revealed to be a kinslayer and an abuser.
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Anyone who has visited the city before will probably know that Mozart is very big business here. At this intimate theatre, he is honoured by marionettes. Don Giovanni is the only show and it runs throughout the year (from June through September, daily except Wednesday). Fortunately, unlike most theatres in town this one is air-conditioned, but that's not the only reason to come. The puppeteers are real masters and even people who don't like opera get a kick out of the antics of these wooden performers. A puppet Mozart conducts the recorded orchestra, just as the real Mozart conducted the actual premiere of this opera in Prague.
You can save even more money on Die Zauberflote Tickets by buying tickets to another concert in Prague at the same time. Other great concerts at National Marionette Theatre are listed below.