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\section{Introduction}

The last decades have witnessed an impressive rise of machine learning methods,
which have profoundly impacted many areas of science, ranging from high energy
physics and quantum computation to material design, and have played a vital
role
in recent milestone discoveries~\cite{Alfa_Fold, CARLEO}. Many machine
learning-based applications are targeted to perform specific tasks such as
image
recognition, natural language processing,  sentiments analysis, and
handwriting
recognition, to name a  few~\cite{darmatasia,tandel,ahlawat,han2014speech},
with
the aim of improving accuracy, decreasing processing speed, and reducing human
efforts to perform tasks that are perceived as mundane or labor intensive. In
microfluidics, in particular, they have been used to study shapes and predict
transport properties of flowing droplets~\cite{hadikhani,mahdi,khor}.

Deep neural networks have become one of the fundamental mathematical models for
implementing machine learning algorithms~\cite{goodfellow}.
Computer vision is one such application domain that uses deep neural networks to
perform essentially two tasks, object recognition and object tracking. For
example, a computer vision application connected to a  camera observing a
traffic junction could easily count the number of cars passing through it and
monitor their speed, thus making it a widespread tool for smart
traffic management~\cite{osman2017}.

Recently, we employed two state-of-the-art computer vision algorithms, namely
You Only Look Once (YOLO) and DeepSORT, to recognize and
track droplets in high internal phase dense emulsions and infer
individual droplets trajectories. These emulsions consist of highly ordered
liquid droplets arranged in crystal-like
structures~\cite{montessori2021_1,montessori2021_2,bogdan2022}, and have shown
promising  applications in electrochemical sensing and tissue engineering
\cite{costantini2014}.
Such materials represent a fundamental challenge to  non-equilibrium
thermodynamics as they feature highly non-Newtonian mechanical and rheological
properties. Thus, studying the rich dynamics of these classical
many-body systems is crucial to optimize their disegn as well as the
microfluidic devices employed for their synthesis and applications.

In this work, we revisit the tools employed to infer the trajectories of the
droplets in dense flowing emulsions simulated using lattice Boltzmann
methods, presenting an analysis of such trajectories (obtained via computer
vision tools, see Fig.10 and video4.avi in Ref.\cite{durve_epjp}) in terms of
quantities generally adopted to characterize the behavior of active matter
systems.

The paper is structured as follows.
In the next Section we describe the system under investigation; later in
Section~\ref{sec:alorithms}, we take a brief overview of the computer vision
algorithms deployed to get individual droplet trajectories and in
Section~\ref{result}
we present the analysis of the inferred trajectories.

\section{Physical system}
\label{sec:LB}

The system under study is a soft granular material made of approximately
monodisperse fluid droplets (white region in Fig.~\ref{fig:translocation})
immersed within an inter-droplet continuous phase (dark orange lines) and
surrounded
by an external bulk phase (region outside the emulsion). Its structure closely
resembles that of a double emulsion with multi-core
morphology~\cite{utada2005,costantini2014,montessori2021_1}, where a high volume
fraction of dispersed droplets, generally above the close packing limit for
spheres, arrange in a tightly packed configuration. This material is produced
within a microfluidic channel which, in our system, consists of an inlet
reservoir followed by a thinner channel connected to a further downstream
reservoir. Further details about the simulations, performed via lattice
Boltzmann methods \cite{montessori2015lattice,coreixas2019comprehensive,
succi2018lattice}, can be found in Ref.~\cite{durve_ptrsa}.

\begin{figure}[]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.9]{emulsion.png}
\caption{\label{fig:translocation} Snapshot of a dense emulsion
simulated by Lattice Boltzmann methods.}
\end{figure}

In the next section, we briefly describe the algorithms employed to analyze
videos of the physical system.

\section{Algorithms}
\label{sec:alorithms}

Two algorithms were combined to achieve droplet tracking. The first one,
called You only look once (YOLO), is tasked with identifying the
droplets in an input image while the second one, called DeepSORT, for
tracking the droplets in sequential frames.

\subsection{You Only Look Once (YOLO)}

YOLO is a single-stage state-of-the-art object detection
algorithm. The current version of YOLO (YOLOv5) is the
fastest and most accurate object detector on two commonly used, general-purpose
object detection datasets called Pascal VOC (visual object
classes)~\cite{pascal} and Microsoft COCO object detection datasets~\cite{coco}.
The image analysis speed, i.e. inference speed of the YOLOv5 networks, is at or
above  60 frames per second (FPS)~\cite{zhou2021, luiz2021} for general object
detection.

The YOLO algorithm is the fastest due to its smart operating
procedure~\cite{redmon, redmon1}. The input is divided in a $S \times S$ grid,
with each cell responsible for detecting an object within
the cell. Each grid cell then predicts $B$ bounding boxes with their
confidence score for each detected object and $C$ conditional class
probabilities for the given object belonging to a specific class. This
information is then combined to produce the final output
as a single bounding box around the detected object and the class of that
object. This final output is then passed to the object tracking DeepSORT
algorithm.

The training dataset is used to train the YOLO networks for recognizing the
droplets. The training dataset contains several images of droplets and
associated label files, which include the location and dimensions of the
droplets in each image. The training data is used to get predictions and update
the network parameters based on true and predicted output in an iterative
process. The technical details of the training procedure to train a YOLO
network
for droplet recognition is described here~\cite{durve_epjp, durve_ptrsa}.

\subsection{DeepSORT}

The DeepSORT algorithm
constructs trajectories of all the detected objects by analyzing sequential
frames \cite{wojke}, employing a classical Simple Online
Real-Time tracking module~\cite{Bewley2016_sort} in the first stage. This
module uses the Hungarian
algorithm~\cite{hungarian} to distinguish detected objects in two
consecutive frames and assigns individual objects their unique identity. The
module also uses a Kalman filtering~\cite{kalman} for predicting the
future position of the objects based on their current positions.
At the second level, the deep network
learns object descriptor features to minimize the identity switches as the
object moves in subsequent frames. The YOLO and the DeepSORT algorithms
together accomplish droplet recognition and tracking, thus allowing to obtain
the trajectories of individual droplets (see Fig.10 in Ref.~\cite{durve_epjp}).
These ones will be analyzed in the next section.

\section{Analysis of the droplet trajectories}
\label{result}

Preliminary observations (see video4.avi in Ref.~\cite{durve_epjp}) indicate
that, in a densely packed configuration, the droplets are moving along the same
direction, in a way akin to birds in highly polar
flocks~\cite{Cavagna2015,ballerini}. To dig more deeply into such analogy, we
compute a polar order parameter $\psi$ which is typically used to measure
direction consensus in moving particles~\cite{vicsek1995}. It is  computed as
\begin{equation}
 \psi = \frac{1}{N} \bigg\lvert \sum_{i=1}^{N} \frac{{\bf v}_i}{\vert {\bf v}_i
\vert} \bigg\rvert,
\end{equation}

were N is the total number of droplets, ${\bf v}_i$ is the velocity vector of
the $i^\text{th}$ droplet and $\vert . \vert$ is the modulus of a vector. If
$\psi=1$ all the droplets move in the same
direction while $\psi \approx 0$ means that droplets move randomly.

The polar order parameter is shown in Fig.~\ref{order_para}(a). The high
average
value of $\psi$ ($\psi>0.94$) indicates that the droplets are moving more or
less in the same direction except at a time interval when they are about to
enter the
narrow channel. In Fig.~\ref{order_para}(b), we compare an individual droplet's
heading direction with the average moving direction of the emulsion. This
comparison is made by measuring the cosine of an angle $\theta$ between the
velocity vector of the emulsion (taken as the resultant velocity vector of all
the droplets) and the individual droplet's velocity vector. Except before
entering the narrow channel, the droplets move in the direction of their bulk
motion as indicated by the cosine value close to unity. In a system containing
self-propelled particles (flock of birds, for example), such a high value of
polar order parameter and cosine of $\theta$ corresponds to a highly ordered
state
in which the agents move in a common direction~\cite{Cavagna2015}. These
observations show apparent
similarities between a flock of birds and the emulsion in terms of dynamical
properties. These similarities raise an interesting question, i.e.  whether the
well-known  models~\cite{vicsek1995,couzin2002,barberis} to mimic the behavior
of active  matter systems by taking into account
only local interactions can account for the dynamical properties of the
emulsion observed here.

\begin{figure} []
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.5]{order_para.png}
\caption{(a) Polar order parameter $\psi$ computed at each
frame. It accounts for moving direction consensus. The black line indicates
average of $\psi$ over all the frames. (b) Cosine of angle
between individual droplet's moving direction and average
direction of all the droplets. Cosine of the angle computed for individual
droplet is shown with a unique color.\label{order_para}}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure} []
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.7]{Fig_scatter.png}
\caption{Scatter plot of individual droplet's moving direction and average
moving direction of its neighbors. The left column shows neighbor
selection in the
opposite direction of the motion of the droplet while the right column shows
neighbors  selected in front of the moving droplet. The middle plot is computed
with a full circle with radius $R$ as the neighborhood of a droplet. The range
of $\phi$ is chosen as (0, 1),
meaning the actual value of the angle is $2\pi\phi$. The points on the red line
correspond to the instance when $\theta_i =\theta_S$, while points within the
two black lines
indicate instances where $\theta_i$ and $\theta_S$ are within 10 degrees of
each other. Thus, points within the band bounded by two
black lines show instances when individual droplet's
moving direction is approximately same as it's neighbors.
\label{scatter_plots}}
\end{figure}

\begin{figure} []
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.45]{neighborhood1.png}
\caption{The neighborhood of the droplet $i$, placed at the center of a circle
of radius $R$, is the sector  of the circle enclosed by an angle $2\pi\phi$.
The
``front''  neighbors are the droplets whose center of mass is within
the sector shaded with dark gray color while the
``back'' neighbors are the ones whose center of mass
is within the sector shaded with light gray color. The vector ${\bf v}_i$ is
the speed of the droplet $i$.}\label{neighborhood}
\end{figure}

Figure~\ref{scatter_plots} shows a scatter-plot of
an individual droplet's moving direction with the average direction of its
neighbors. The neighbors of a droplet $i$ are defined as the droplets that are
within distance $R$ from the droplet $i$ (see Fig.~\ref{neighborhood}) and
within the sector of the circle with an angle $2\pi\phi$. The value of $R$ is
chosen such that the circle contains the immediate neighbors of the droplet
$i$, while the values of $\phi$ are varied between $0$ and $1$. We analyzed two
cases, one in which the accounted neighbors are in front of the moving
droplets,
and a further one in which the neighbors are behind the moving droplets. This
neighborhood definition allows us to see how these
droplets positioned at two different locations affect the motion of an
individual droplet $i$, an effect that can be inferred by counting the
number of instances in which a given droplet is aligned with the average
direction of its neighbors. In Fig.~\ref{analysis_scatter_plot}, we plot
the fraction $F$ of points located  within a band indicated by the two black
lines of each snapshot of Fig.~\ref{scatter_plots}. The points within this band
correspond to an instance in which an individual droplet's moving direction is
within ten degrees of its neighbors, i.e. $\vert \theta_i - \theta_S \vert<
0.175$. Here $\theta_i$ is the moving direction of droplet $i$, and $\theta_S$
is the moving direction of neighbors of droplet $i$.
The results show that the droplets are aligned for a comparatively longer time
with the droplets behind it rather than the droplets in front of it, thus
suggesting that the droplets pushing from behind have higher influence on the
individual droplet's moving direction.

\begin{figure} []
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=0.9]{analysis_scatter_plot.png}
\caption{Fraction of instances in which a given droplet is closely aligned with
its neighbors as the neighborhood area is varied by changing the angle $\phi$.
\label{analysis_scatter_plot}}
\end{figure}

\section{Conclusions}

In this work, we revisit the deep learning-based algorithms to infer the
droplet trajectories by analyzing the output of lattice Boltzmann simulation
of dense emulsions. We measure various quantities like polar order parameter
and deviation of individual droplet's moving direction with its neighbors.  The
results suggest that the droplets are aligned for a comparatively longer time
with the droplets behind it rather than with  the droplets in front of it,
meaning that the droplets pushing from
behind have higher chance to affect the direction of an individual droplet.
It would be interesting to perform similar analysis on data generated by active
matter systems in order to further investigate to which extent the analogy with
moving emulsions holds
and provide further hints to write down a dynamical model of such emulsions in
confined systems.

\section{Acknowledgments}
The authors acknowledge funding from the European Research Council under the
European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (No. FP/2014-2020) ERC Grant
Agreement No.739964 (COPMAT). We gratefully acknowledge the HPC
infrastructure and the Support Team at Fondazione Istituto Italiano
di Tecnologia.

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Monday marks the beginning of National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week, dedicated to recognizing the work of emergency dispatchers. To highlight their crucial role in ensuring people in need of help receive the assistance they need, Free Press reporter Jonathan Juha met with Melissa Jorgensen, one of about 140 communications operators at the OPP communications centre in London, to talk about her job and the challenges and rewards it brings.
Q: What is like working as an emergency dispatcher?
A: There are days that are really hard, but it is a rewarding job. I'm proud of the work I do and that my co-workers do. I can honestly say we help save lives, and that's not something that everybody can say. You come into work and every day it's going to be different. You never know what you are going to get. Some days are calmer than others — and we prefer the calmer days — but it's good work that we do and we know we are helping the community."
Q: What are some of the most challenging aspects of this job?
A: Nobody calls the police because they are happy. Most of the time they are experiencing a traumatic event or something has happened and they need help. I have talked to people who have found loved ones deceased . . . I have heard people die on the phone; you are talking to people in volatile situations . . . There are times when you may choke up on the phone and you need to get it together until you get off the phone because you are that voice that is helping that person."
Q: Given that, how big of a reality is post-traumatic stress disorder for emergency dispatchers?
A: "That's a huge (topic for us). Although we are not going to the event and we are not seeing it first-hand, we are listening to it . . . Sometimes you feel helpless because you want to be able to jump through that phone to help somebody while you are waiting to get the first responders there. So we have an excellent support system with our colleagues . . . Co-workers are our main support system. When you hear someone next to you taking a really bad call, you go afterwards and ask them if they are OK. We've got each other's back."
Q: Despite those challenges, what parts of the job make it worth it?
A: "At the end of the day, you know you are helping somebody. Talking someone through a terrifying situation . . . you are that calm on the other line that keeps them safe and when you know that help arrives, you know you have done something to help that person. That's hugely rewarding. When you talk someone out of ending their life, for example, and you keep them on the phone, you keep them busy until help arrives . . . knowing you have helped and that you have impacted someone's life like that, it really can't get much better than that."
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Q: Using KeyVaultClient through a proxy Currently I'm using Azure KeyVault during startup to load some configuration like this:
configBuilder
    .AddAzureKeyVault(keyVaultConfigSection.Vault, GetKeyVaultClient(clientConfigSection, keyVaultConfigSection), new DefaultKeyVaultSecretManager())
    .AddEnvironmentVariables();

private static KeyVaultClient GetKeyVaultClient(ClientConfigSection clientConfigSection, KeyVaultConfigSection keyVaultConfigSection)
{
    HttpClient httpClient = null;

    //proxy
    if (!CustomEnvironment.NotProductionEnvironment())
    {
        var handler = new HttpClientHandler()
        {
            Proxy = new WebProxy(keyVaultConfigSection.Proxy),
            UseProxy = true
        };
        httpClient = new HttpClient(handler);
    }

    return new KeyVaultClient(async (authority, resource, scope) =>
        {
            var authContext = new AuthenticationContext(authority);
            var clientCred = new ClientCredential(clientConfigSection.ClientId, clientConfigSection.ClientSecret);
            var result = await authContext.AcquireTokenAsync(resource, clientCred);
            if (result == null)
                throw new InvalidOperationException("Failed to retrieve access token for Key Vault");
            return result.AccessToken;
        }, httpClient ?? new HttpClient()
    );
}

This works fine when I'm not in production environment.
But in our production environment keyvault is blocked so we have to go through a proxy.
But when running the code I get this error: Microsoft.Azure.KeyVault.Models.KeyVaultErrorException: 'Operation returned an invalid status code 'BadRequest''
Have anyone done this before and can point me in the right direction?

A: It seems that it has not been fixed, and here is the workaround.
1.Referenced System.Net.Http.WinHttpHandler Nuget package to get access to WinHttpHandler in .NET Core.
2.Created a new MyKeyVaultCredential that inherits from KeyVaultCredential and overrides ProcessHttpRequestAsync method
public override async Task ProcessHttpRequestAsync(HttpRequestMessage request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
 {
     if (request == null)
     {
         throw new ArgumentNullException("request");
     }

     var accessToken = await PreAuthenticate(request.RequestUri).ConfigureAwait(false);
     if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(accessToken))
         request.Headers.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Bearer", accessToken);
     else
     {
         var httpClientHandler = new WinHttpHandler()
         {
             WindowsProxyUsePolicy = WindowsProxyUsePolicy.UseCustomProxy,
             Proxy = new MyWebProxy(configuration),
             SendTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(120),
             ReceiveDataTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(120),
             ReceiveHeadersTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(120),
         };

3.When I instantiated the KeyVaultService, I had to provide WinHttpHandler with my proxy and my new key vault credential instance.
var httpClientHandler = new WinHttpHandler()
     {
         WindowsProxyUsePolicy = WindowsProxyUsePolicy.UseCustomProxy,
         Proxy = new MyWebProxy(configuration),
         SendTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(120),
         ReceiveDataTimeout = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(120),
         ReceiveHeadersTimeout= TimeSpan.FromSeconds(120),
     };

     var httpClient = new HttpClient(httpClientHandler);

     client = new KeyVaultClient(new  MyKeyVaultCredential(configuration, GetToken), httpClient)

Hope this helps.


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Egypt, Mali discuss counter-insurgency cooperation - Daily News Egypt
Politics Egypt, Mali discuss counter-insurgency cooperation
Menna Zaki November 11, 2014 1 Comment
Minister of Defence Sedki Sobhi met with Mali's Army Chief of Staff General Mahmane Toure to discuss the importance of coordination and cooperation between African countries to counter the threats posed by "terrorist organisations" in Africa, said a Tuesday statement by the armed forces.
Sobhi has met with Mali's Minister of Defence Bah N'Dao in August where they discussed ways to strengthen military cooperation between both countries.
Mali has been suffering from conflict in its northernmost region, after the Tuareg, an ethnic minority spread across several countries in the Sahara, and Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists, launched a campaign against the Malian government in 2012, which then led to a French military intervention.
Egypt's armed forces face attacks by Islamist militant groups as well. On 24 October 30 security personnel were killed in two separate attacks in North Sinai.
In reaction the Egyptian military has undertaken security measures, particularly in North Sinai, to eliminate "terrorist elements". These measures involve the relocation of residents living on the border with Gaza to destroy all the smuggling tunnels connecting the town of Rafah to the Gaza Strip.
A state of emergency that included a nighttime curfew was imposed on the area for a period of three months in order to disrupt insurgent activity.
The majority of attacks staged in Sinai were claimed by Ansar Beit Al-Maqdis, who pledged allegiance to the 'Islamic State' group in Iraq and Syria on Monday.
Topics: Daily News Egypt Defense Minister DNE mali
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Kay was first elected as the Conservative MEP for Wales in June 2009.
A successful career in investment banking & fund management has equipped her with in-depth knowledge of the global financial markets and led to her appointment as a Coordinator on the Economics and Monetary Affairs committee (ECON) in the European Parliament.
Most recently Kay was also appointed Vice Chairman on the Economic and Monetary Affairs committee. She has worked on financial reform legislation including EMIR, MiFID II and CSDR and is currently the Co-Rapporteur for the EU legislation on recovery and resolution of CCPs.
John became Global Head of Fixed Income and Structured Finance at AXA Investment Managers in November 2013, he is also a member of AXA IM's Management Board and Committee Executive.
Previously, he was Managing Director and Global Head of Portfolio and Liquidity Management at Barclays and before that Chief Economist and Principal at Summit Capital Advisers, performing macro-economic analysis and developing investment strategies in North America, Europe and Japan.
Prior to this, he spent 10 years at the World Bank. He worked as a Senior Economist designing structural adjustment loans, before moving to join the Investment Department and in 1990 was named Chief Investment Officer responsible for managing a portion of their USD20billion global fixed income portfolio.
He holds a MA in International Economics and has Certificate in European Studies from Columbia University, a Doctorate in Psychology from the Sorbonne and a BA in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard.
Sam is the Trading & Technology Correspondent at Financial News, where he writes about exchanges, clearing houses, high-frequency trading, cryptocurrencies, and market structure.
Aside from Financial News, his work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and Marketwatch. Prior to joining Dow Jones, he wrote about markets as a senior reporter at a London-based newswire.
Sam graduated from the University of Stirling with an honours degree in Philosophy and Journalism.
Prior to that, he was in senior relationship management in the prime services teams at JP Morgan and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and prior to that as Head of Membership at the London Stock Exchange. Julian read Economics at The University of Reading and has an MBA from Henley Business School.
Åse has extensive experience in the area of Sustainability and ESG. She is a currently the Chief Sustainability Strategist at Nordea and as a member of Nordea's Business Ethics and Values Committee, she works closely with the Group Executive Management to integrate Sustainability into the core business strategy and the banks existing risk framework.
As a former Director in several multinational companies like Tele2 and Millicom, she worked on the ground with impact investing in over 35 countries in Africa, Latin America, EuroAsia and Europe. She has also been a consultant at Nordea Asset Management, Responsible Investments and Nordea Life and Pension.
Jeremy works as a Senior Economist in the Market Intelligence and Data Analysis Team at the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). In this role, he contributes by assisting IOSCO committees and secretariat staff with research and data analysis, and also with drafting reports on market structure, institutions, products and behaviours.
Jeremy has eighteen years of experience working in economic analysis and policy, financial regulation, and statistical, risk and intelligence analysis. He has worked as an economist at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, the Australian Treasury and the Office of National Assessments. Before joining IOSCO, Jeremy was the Principal of Halevi.Tarleton, an economics and statistical consultancy.
Jeremy holds a Bachelor of Economics (with Honours) from the University of Sydney, and a Master's degree in Public Administration from Japan's National Graduate Institute of Policy Studies. He is also an Associate of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.
Matthew is Director, Market Structure for the European Markets business at Barclays, based in London. He advises the Markets division on future regulatory change, forms the advocacy position of the markets division on areas of regulatory change, and engages with politicians, trade associations, regulatory bodies and clients to make sure this is articulated effectively.
Prior to that, Matthew was Director of Regulation and Market Structure EMEA at Nice Actimize with overall responsibility for Sales and Marketing and analysing the effects of new regulation on existing and new clients. He chairs the British Bankers Association MiFID Steering Committee, and also co-chairs the Fix Trading Community for the EMEA region. A regulatory specialist, he is an expert in high-frequency trading and market surveillance in the post-MiFID landscape and their implications for trading desks and compliance departments.
Neil is Managing Editor of Sustainabonds, which was launched in September 2017 to focus on green and social bank bonds and related initiatives. The publication builds on the experience of Neil and his team in covering instruments ranging from covered bonds to hybrid capital, most notably in The Covered Bond Report, which he founded in 2011.
Neil previously worked for more than 10 years at EuroWeek (now GlobalCapital), including a stint as editor, where he covered a wide range of sectors, including corporates and SSAs. He holds a degree in Philosophy from the London School of Economics.
Alan currently runs the Macro Platform team, running pricing, hedging and algo development for macro e-trading.
Alan started his career as a developer at a digital and satellite imaging company in Cambridge, UK, working on digital terrain modelling, and some of the first web mapping tools. He joined JPMorgan in 2000, and held several development roles in eFX, Commodities, and Rates – finishing as a program manager building out a new Interest Rate Swaps and Options pricing and risk management system.
Alan then joined Credit Suisse in 2009 and ran eFX IT during a large buildout phase, before moving to the business in 2013 where he initially joined the forwards desk to develop an ecommerce capability, before also taking responsibility for the spot pricing and hedging applications.
Louis runs the investment management team at LNG Capital, leading idea generation across credit markets. As CIO, Louis oversees investment and directs the organization's investment management decisions. He has over 30 years investment experience with expertise in government bonds, investment-grade, high-yield, distressed, and special situations.
Louis founded LNG Capital in 2007. Previously he was Head of Fixed Income at RAB Capital, a London-based 7 billion AUM hedge fund. He had overall responsibility for fixed income research trading and investments. Prior to his role at RAB, Louis held senior positions at Goldman Sachs London, J.P. Morgan London, and began his career on Wall Street as a graduate of the highly acclaimed Salomon Brothers international management training program.
Louis holds a dual B. Sc. in Finance\International Management from Georgetown University Washington DC, an exchange Master's degree programme at Boccioni University Milan, and an MBA from London Business School with distinction.
Mariano is Global Head of Syndicate and Credit Trading at Crédit Agricole. His remit includes Syndication across all asset classes and currencies, and secondary trading of Covered, Corporate, Financials, Emerging Markets and structure bonds.
Prior to that, Mariano was instrumental in the development of the Global Bond Business at Crédit Agricole CIB, first as Global Head of Credit Trading and then as Head of Global Debt Markets.
Prior to joining Crédit Agricole CIB, Mariano worked at Strategic Value Partners and ING in Argentina, Brazil and New York. Mariano started his career in Capital Market Argentina.
Mariano holds a Finance degree from the Universidad de Palermo in Argentina.
Christoph is Head of Multi-Asset Trading at Union Investment. He joined Union in 2014 and, with his team, is responsible for all trading activities associated with portfolio management of cash equities, fixed income, fund and ETF business, FX, listed and OTC derivatives, and securities lending.
Christoph graduated with a Diplom-Bankbetriebswirt and has more than 20 years of international investment banking, trading and management experience, having worked for companies on the sell- and buy-side, most recently as Head of Execution Sales at Barclays Bank and at Alpha Trading.
Richard is Head of Fixed Income and a Managing Director in the Securitisation Division. He joined AFME in June 2010 after a 25-year career in law and finance during which he held leadership positions at J.P. Morgan, Deutsche Bank and Société Générale. Richard has led and negotiated industry positions on many critical regulatory initiatives in recent years, including calibration of the Basel capital and liquidity rules and establishing "simple transparent and comparable securitisation" under the Basel Task Force on Securitisation Markets, as well as rules on risk retention and transparency.
A frequent visitor to Brussels, he has helped rehabilitate the securitisation industry in the eyes of key European policymakers and continues to be a strong advocate for the benefits of securitisation for the European economy. Richard read law at Cambridge University and before his investment banking career qualified as a solicitor with leading international law firm Clifford Chance.
Ashlin began her career at LIFFE where she was responsible for the management of the bond futures contracts including refining of the specifications and new products. Around the time of the automated trading evolution, Ashlin moved to work for an electronic trading operator, MTS, and again was responsible for product management, becoming increasingly involved in market structure issues.
She then moved to at Citi in 2007 where she is currently heading up EMEA Fixed Income Market Structure and was until recently responsible for EMEA G10 rates and credit e-commerce, leading electronic innovations on behalf of both sales and trading to ensure Citi's offering to its client base remained competitive.
In recent years, Ashlin has become increasingly involved in impacts to the industry arising from regulatory changes; assisting in internal and external advocacy; and providing thought leadership to Citi's clients.
Juan joined Deutsche Asset Management in 2013 with 19 years of industry experience. Prior to joining, Juan was Head of Fixed Income Trading at Fidelity Investments International, London.
He holds a B.A. in Economics from Kingston University London and a M.Sc. in International Banking & Financial Studies from Heriot-Watt University, Scotland.
Brian has 25 years' experience in financial services, primarily in Fixed Income. He is currently helping BNY Mellon format its business plan for Fixed Income in EMEA. His other recent consultancy work has been as an expert witness/advisor giving guidance to leading investment banks on Fixed Income products.
Since 2015 Brian has been a non-executive director and original equity investor in the peer to peer lending company Invest and Fund and before that he was Managing Director Head of Flow Rates EMEA for Nomura International PLC. Prior to Nomura Brian spent over thirteen years at Royal Bank of Scotland Global Markets where he was Global Head of Sterling Delta Trading.
After graduating with a M.Eng in Engineering and Computer Science from Oxford University Brian joined the Credit Suisse Technical Associate program. He started designing and coding trading systems before running the inaugural electronic trading area before moving into trading itself.
Daniel, PhD, FRM, Managing Director, is Head of the Market Structure and Electronic Trading team in EMEA within BlackRock's Trading and Liquidity Strategies Group.
In this capacity he is responsible for evolving BlackRock's electronic trading capabilities and vision across asset classes. He is also Global Head of Trading Research and responsible for transaction cost modelling, market microstructure and execution research. Daniel lead BlackRock's MiFID II implementation for Trading, being responsible for the integration of new data, methodologies and technology into the BlackRock trading platform.
Daniel holds a Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Cologne. He is a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) charter holder.
Lucy is the Financial Regulation and Brexit Editor at Financial News, writing about challenges and trends arising from financial market reform, technological innovation in the back office, or regtech, and the UK's exit from the European Union.
Aside from Financial News, her work has also appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, and The Wall Street Journal. She previously spent five years covering financial regulation and the legal profession in Europe and Asia.
Lucy graduated from the University of Bristol with an honours degree in Archaeology and holds a diploma in Newspaper Journalism.
Peter joined the International Capital Markets Association (ICMA) in September 2016, on secondment from the European Investment Bank (EIB), where he was Head of Investor Relations. At ICMA his main focus has been the Green Bond Principles. This builds on a decade of experience in Green Bond markets at the EIB. He also contributes to Infrastructure and Public Sector workstreams.
Previously he was an Associate Director at Citigate Dewe Rogerson, the world's largest investor relations consultancy ex-US at that time. Prior roles spanned investor relations, marketing and economic analysis, at firms including the German Treuhandanstalt privatisation agency.
Peter has a degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from Oxford University, and studied Corporate Finance at London Business School and International Marketing at INSEAD.
David Owen is a Managing Director and Chief European Economist for Jefferies International Limited, with a focus on the ECB, the BoE and the macroeconomic drivers of financial markets.
He joined Jefferies in 2009 having formerly worked for Dresdner Kleinwort, where he was a Managing Director and Chief Economist, Developed Markets and before that Chief European Economist. The macro team at Kleinwort's was Number 1 ranked in surveys such as Institutional Investor, Greenwich and Extel for European and UK Economics.
He has a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Economics from Warwick University and a M.Sc. in Economics and Econometrics from Southampton University. He formerly chaired the Investment Advisory Committee of Save the Children and is a former Council Member of the Society of Business Economists in the UK.
Pablo Portugal is a Director in AFME's Public Policy and Advocacy Division, based in Brussels. His focus is analysis and engagement across Europe on capital markets and securities regulation, market liquidity, bank structural reform and shadow banking.
Prior to joining AFME, Pablo was engaged for six years with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, where he worked in several financial reporting, auditing and financial sector areas.
His previous experience includes roles in Brussels-based policy organisations and the United Nations. He has also contributed to various business and finance publications and speaks English, Spanish, French and Italian.
Born in Peru, Pablo holds a B.Sc. Econ from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and a Master's degree in Political Theory from the London School of Economics.
Brett, CFA, Managing Director, is a member of the Product Strategy Team within BlackRock's Global Fixed Income Portfolio Management Group. Having joined BlackRock in 2013, he leads the iShares EMEA Fixed Income Product Strategy team.
Brett holds an M.Sc. in Economics from University College London and a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Southampton. He is also a CFA charter holder.
David joined BlueBay in September 2013 as Head of Credit Strategy within the Chief Investment Office. He is also a member of BlueBay's Investment and Asset Allocation Committees.
Drawing on more than 20 years of applied macroeconomic, policy and sovereign credit experience, he advises and coordinates the Investment Committee macro and credit perspective. As a member of the Asset Allocation Committee, he shares responsibility for tactical asset allocation across BlueBay's suite of multi-asset credit funds.
David was previously global head of Fitch's Sovereign and Supranational Group, responsible for more than 130 ratings of the world's largest fixed-income issuers. Prior to Fitch, David was a senior economist at UBS Investment Bank and at HM Treasury where he advised on international economic and debt issues, including representing the UK at international debt restructuring negotiations at the Paris Club of Official Creditors. David holds an M.Sc. from Birkbeck College, University of London and a first-class degree in Economics.
Zoeb joined Salomon Brothers in 1990 and started his career trading European Government Bonds. In 2001, after the merger with Citigroup, Zoeb became head of the Rates Sales business in Europe.
Since 2009, he has been back to head Euro Government and SSA Trading and in 2010-2011, was also responsible for US Government Bond Trading. Zoeb is a Board Member of MTS, part of the Bond Market Contact Group of the European Central Bank and co-chair of the Primary Dealer Board of AFME.
Zoeb graduated from Cambridge University with an M.A. in Economics.
Lee is responsible for foreign exchange execution globally and also oversees fixed income trading in the UK and Asia. In 1991 Lee joined Sun Life Investment Management (which became part of AXA IM) as a member of the US equities team, moving into the fixed income team in as an analyst and then as an investment manager.
He then moved to Trading & Securities Financing (TSF) to help establish fixed income, foreign exchange and money market dealing. Lee also worked with the business to develop electronic systems and oversee transaction cost analysis activities.
Lee is Chair of the Investment Association's FX Working Group and a member of their Fixed Income Trading Stream. He is also a member of the Bank of England's FX Joint Standing Committee on FX and a member of the Quorum15 Board.
Julien joined Meridiam in 2011. He serves as a Partner, Leadership Council Chair and Corporate Development Director, with current responsibility over the development and deployment of Meridiam Transition.
Prior to joining Meridiam, Julien worked at the French Ministry of Finance's Agence des Participations de l'État, where he was responsible for managing the French Government's shareholding in EDF. Prior to this, Julien was the Deputy Head of the European Affairs Division of the French Treasury. He also worked for Veolia Transport and the infrastructure division of Proparco, the French Development Finance Institution.
He teaches Energy Regulations at Sciences-Po Paris and is a Millenium Fellow of the Atlantic Council. He is also a contributor to several international think tanks or public organizations in the energy transition and infrastructure sectors.
Julien holds a Master's degree in Engineering, a Master's degree in Environmental and Energy Economics and a Master of Public Affairs from the École des Ponts in Paris.
James is a Senior Vice President in AllianceBernstein's Fixed Income group. Prior to joining AllianceBernstein, James was head of the Governance Group at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, Senior Counsel at Evergreen Asset Management Corp. and General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer of Yamaichi Capital Management Inc.
James also worked in the legal department of The Dreyfus Corporation and with the law firm of Cole and Dietz, and he was with Alliance Capital (the predecessor of AllianceBernstein), from 1982 to 1986. He serves on the Board of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and is an active participant in securities industry forums. James is a member of the New York Bar and a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
He graduated from SUNY at Stony Brook and received his J.D. from New York Law School.
Victoria is AFME's Director of Fixed Income, having joined the association in November 2015. She is responsible for the AFME Primary Dealers, Credit and Covered Bond Boards, focusing on developments in regulation, policy and market structure.
Victoria has more than 19 years of fixed income experience in banking, vendor sales, broking and market making. Prior to AFME, Victoria worked at Barclays Investment Bank working on fixed income electronic trading.
Ed is currently Head of Policy for Global Markets, Infrastructure and Sustainable Finance for HSBC Holdings and a member of the City of London Green Finance Initiative.
Ed sits on HSBC's Climate Business Council which is leading HSBC's prioritisation of sustainable finance and is also Chair of ICMA's Regulatory Policy Committee. Prior to joining HSBC, Ed worked at the London Stock Exchange, managing EU public policy and chairing the Management Committee of the Federation of European Exchanges.
Ed's career began in the Parliament Office of the House of Lords. He has an MBA from the University of Warwick Business School.


Estelle has lived in Nevada County since 1981 enjoying the privilege of raising three sons.
She has degrees in Elementary Education and Accounting and has worked in the accounting field for 30 years with the last 10 years working with non-profits. Currently she is the Finance Manager for Music in the Mountains and the treasurer for the Nevada County Composers Cooperative.
Hiking, bike riding, learning how to garden and work on her never ending home remodel with her partner, Mark, occupy her spare time.
Nevada County resident for over 35 years. Father of three children, two currently attend NUHS. Employed by Siemens Water Technologies since 1991, I supervise industrial water treatment operations at the Telefunken Semiconductor plant in Roseville, CA. Our family enjoys the wide variety of outdoor activities found locally. A long time fan of the many cycling events held in Nevada City, I seized the opportunity to take up mountain biking when my son joined the Nevada Union MTB Team when in high school. Its been uphill, downhill, uphill since.
Jet Lowe has lived in Nevada City since 1987, married to Robert Lowe, MD. Their two children both attend Nevada Union High School.
Jet is a GIS/CAD specialist for the Tahoe N.F., Nevada City, CA. She has 37 years in federal employment, 30 with Forest Service, 7 with Department of Defense. GIS training from ESRI courses, education in business and computer science at San Francisco State University. Jet enjoys cooking, riding bikes and horses, and scenic drives.
John moved from Santa Cruz to Grass Valley in 2000 and worked at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital. In 2001 he opened his private practice, Seivert Physical Therapy.
As a business owner, John has provided countless volunteer hours evaluating and treating sports injuries from the youth sports teams of NUHS's cross country and mountain bike teams and the Bear River HS football team.
John is also a competitive age group bike racer competing in road, mountain, and cyclo-cross events. He and his two kids enjoy the great outdoors of Nevada County skiing, biking, swimming, and hiking.
Owner of the Tour of Nevada City Bicycle Shop, experienced MTB/road racer, member of numerous corporate and community service boards and committees, and Nevada City City Council member, Duane is the volunteer promoter of the Nevada City Bicycle Classic and local organizer of the Amgen Tour of California.


The presidential debate is the trending topic you may be talking about with friends or family this morning or see throughout social media feeds.
During a recent Open Doors Facebook Live event, we discussed the passing of Uzbekistan's president, Islam Karimov. After his passing in early September, he was buried in the historic cemetery, Shahi Zinda, located in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Is Boko Haram More Extreme Than Islamic State?
Can someone be too extreme even for the Islamic State? It seems that in recent weeks, there has been a rift between the two Islamic extremist groups, Boko Haram and ISIS, over Islamic State's decision to replace its leader, Abubakar Shekau.
Esther, one of the 47 women that were abducted by Boko Haram from the Chibok State Secondary School in 2014, recently escaped. While it is not known as to how she escaped, her arrival is an answer to many prayers.


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Over the last few months I've revisited a classic TV-Series: The X-Files. No small feat mind you, as this show ran for 9 seasons consisting of a total of 202 episodes and two theatrical movies. Every weekday I watched at least two episodes which still resulted in taking at least five months to watch it all. Over these months I finally caught up with what I missed back in the 90s when this show was on TV and heard enough about it, but never watched it.
For those last few people on this planet who don't know what this series was about here's a quick summary: Special Agent Fox Mulder is part of a department of the FBI called the X-Files. X-Files are cases that are deemed unsolvable and as the series showed us this is mostly due to paranormal causes. Mulder is a true believer in the paranormal and hated by most of his fellow co-workers who call him Spooky Mulder. To debunk his work on these files The Bureau assigns him a partner: Medical Doctor and Special Agent Dana Scully, a skeptic who never believes Mulder's theories when it comes to the weird cases they come upon and always seems to be looking the other way just when ghosts, aliens and monsters present themselves to Mulder, making it standard for her to exclaim "Mulder, you don't really believe that <insert paranormal activity> is responsible for killing all these people?". Eventually she does become a believer, but that would take at least 7 seasons and quickly after that a new skeptic agent is introduced just the keep the dynamic the same.
There are two types of X-Files episodes: the general Monster-of-the-week episodes and the Myth-arc episodes. The first are basic standalone episodes which tackle a different case every week, the second are connected episodes about a government conspiracy to cover up the existence of extraterrestrial life and the abduction of Mulder's sister Samantha, the latter is his motivation to uncover the conspiracy throughout the entire series. The myth-arc episodes were generally the episodes which would have major events happen to the main characters, like the abduction of Dana in season 2, her cancer, her pregnancy in Season 8 and Mulder's loss of his believes in season 5. These myth-arc episodes would eventually even create a soap-opera-like storyline around Fox Mulder's family as his entire family was part of the government conspiracy and he found out his real father was the man behind it all; the Cigarette Smoking Man or Cancer Man as he was nicknamed.
Personally I preferred the standalone episodes over the myth-arc episodes, mostly because it becomes quickly clear that most myth-arc episodes will never give any answers and at the end of an episode all the evidence Mulder has just gathered will be taken from him over and over again. Only in the later seasons will the myth-arc episodes actually receive some conclusion, though when the conspiracy is finally stopped in season 6 a new one pops up a few episodes later.
The first two seasons consisted of mainly episodes that played it straight and took themselves serious despite some really preposterous stories, both seasons have their share of memorable episodes, like season 2's "Humbug", but in retrospect I found that it never had a sense of must-see TV. That changed with season 3 which had episodes that had a more lighter approach and some of them which were even very funny. This season had some great episodes like "Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose", "Pusher" and "Jose Chung's From Outer Space". The 3rd season carefully balanced serious episodes with funny ones and the obligatory myth-arcs. This would go on with season 4 and 5, both which were regarded as possibly the best of the series. Season 6 felt drastically different as the production went from Vancouver, Canada to Los Angeles, California. The episodes shot in Canada had a colder feel to them even when they were mimicking being close to the Mexican border. From season 6 on this changed and a lot of episodes were set in the sun. This took away part of the creepy atmosphere but paved the way for an even lighter approach to The X-Files than just the occasional humorous episode. Though season 6 is generally regarded as the season the started alienating the fans, I found this season to have its fair share of good episodes like "Drive", "Triangle", "Dreamland", "Arcadia" and "The Rain King" amongst other. Season 7 would be the last season to feature Duchnovny as he would be abducted in the final episode of the season and had Scully become a believer as she no longer could deny the existence of alien life as well as the paranormal since she had to perform an autopsy on an invisible corpse in one episode.
Seasons 8 and 9 saw Duchnovny being replaced by Terminator 2's T-1000 Robert Patrick who played the role of John Doggett. He was introduced in a plot line where he is saddled with the task to find the abducted Mulder but ends up getting assigned to the X-Files and as a new partner to Dana Scully. His job is to do what she did before to Mulder: doubt every crazy explanation she comes up with to which she would generally respond something like "I've seen things you can't imagine…" This is the same woman who was conveniently unconscious when a giant UFO came up out of the ice, flew over her head an disappeared in the '98 movie. Mulder did have a reoccurring role in the second half of season 8 but would disappear entirely throughout season 9 sans the series finale. The last season also put Scully in a more supporting character position as Agent Monica Reyes would become Doggett's new partner.
Despite the negativity surrounding the last seasons I still found X-Files to be very watchable up until the very end. The last Monster-of-the-week story featuring Ben from Lost who is able to use telekinesis and to transform his house into that of The Brady Bunch is one I won't quickly forget. Now matter how weak a season is generally regarded there are gems to be found in every one of them.
Sadly the X-Files also had it's fair share of flaws. First and foremost is Dana Scully's character. Now this might offend a lot of fans but this series had her character either conveniently missing out on all the paranormal stuff going on around or had her ignore the events she did witness only to make up some possible-plausible scientific explanation. Episode after episode miraculous stuff happened around her or even to her, and every time Mulder came up with a really out-there explanation which would eventually prove correct she would mock him. After she's abducted by aliens in season 2 she conveniently doesn't remember anything when she returns. I would start believing Mulder in season 1 already if I was his partner.
Then there's the myth-arc that pops up every season opening, finale and occasional mid-season episode. As I stated earlier these episodes generally have no real progress or give little to no insight into the whole conspiracy. Especially in the earlier seasons these mostly revolved around Mulder having a lead on some proof that aliens exist, going after it, eventually finding only to see things like a wagon full of aliens corpses being blown up. At the end of the day Mulder had nothing and was back to zero. These episodes also feature recurring characters like Alex Krycek and The Cigarette Smoking Man who basically seem to be unable to die despite the producers of the show having us believe so on multiple occasions. In the beginning these characters are mysterious and intriguing but eventually they become caricatures of themselves and there are multiple times both Mulder and Scully can put an end to these people who do pose a threat to them but they just never pull the trigger. The myth-arc is also never engaging because there's a lot time between the episodes and the never really end on cliffhangers and such aside from the two-parters. In one episode Mulder is infested with the black oil that takes over a person's body, but it's basically never mentioned again and as far as I can tell he didn't get an antidote or something. They could've better taken an entire season and make it all about the conspiracy having each episode end with a cliffhanger. Now they just feel like obligatory filler most of the time. Whenever I watched episodes with the black oil, alien bounty hunters or super soldiers I was glad when the next one had just Burt Reynolds as God or something like that.
One of the aspect I hated the most of the last two seasons was how Mulder was such an important character while he was nowhere to found. His ghost was always there as characters constantly referred to him. It became quickly annoying and Robert Patricks way of saying of "Mulder" is almost as annoying as Duchovny's way of saying the word "Truth".
With 202 episodes the series is full of guess stars who where nobodies then but since then have had successful careers. The list is long but among the guest stars are Ryan Reynolds, Jack Black, Tea Leoni, Seth Green, Brad Dourif, CCH Pounder, Terry O'Quinn, Giovanni Risibi, Peter Boyle, R. Lee Ermey, Lucy Liu, Luke Wilson, Michael Emerson, David Faustino, Burt Reynolds, Danny Trejo, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Shia LaBeouf, Bruce Campbell, Tony Todd, Bryan Cranston, Tobin Bell, Jane Lynch, Aaron Paul and many more. It's always fun to watch an episode and see Walter White from Breaking Bad holding Mulder at gun point.
For anyone with a lot of time left on their hands The X-Files is still an entertaining series that holds up fairly well. The only thing I really kept running into was that the episodes never begged me to immediately watch the next one, something which The Shield or Dexter did, but those series tell season wide stories whereas the X-Files is more self contained. It's not the best series out there, but I do regard it as a classic show with some brilliant episodes.


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