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Karsten Schroeder, CEO, Amplitude Capital
Karsten Schroeder is the CEO of Amplitude Capital and the portfolio manager for the Amplitude Dynamic Trading Fund. He oversees all the key decisions related to product development, trading ideas and strategy for the Amplitude's range of funds. Together with his partners he founded Amplitude Capital in September 2004.
Prior to that he was with McKinsey where he was involved in a number of key Corporate Finance projects involving blue chip European clients. Karsten received his Business Diploma from the HHL in Germany. Growing up in former Eastern Germany, he also lived in the US and Australia.
Karsten started trading Futures and Options at a young age and eventually turned his passion into his profession. He regularly speaks at conferences and appears as a frequent guest on business channels, such as Bloomberg and CNBC.
Matthew Sargaison, Chief Risk Officer, AHL
Matthew Sargaison is the Chief Risk Officer for AHL. Prior to joining AHL in 2009 Mr Sargaison spent 13 years working in credit risk systems development at Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital and UBS. Before that he originally worked for AHL from 1992 to 1995 in its formative years as a trading system engineer and institutional product designer. Mr Sargaison gained his BA/MA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge in 1991 and a Masters in Advanced Computer Science from the University of Sheffield.
Katrina Price, CAIA, Manager, PAAMCO's portfolio solutions group
Katrina Price, CAIA, is a manager in PAAMCO's portfolio solutions group, where she focuses on working with European and Middle Eastern investors in constructing bespoke fund of hedge fund portfolios. Katrina serves on the Portfolio Solutions Management Committee where she represents the group's European activities. She joined PAAMCO as an Account Management Analyst in the Irvine, California office in 2007 and moved to London, where she is now based, in January 2009. She received a BA in Psychology, Philosophy and Neuroscience from the University of Redlands and an MSc in Neuroscience from Oxford University.
Yutaka Matsuo, Associate Professor, Institute of Engineering Innovation, The University of Tokyo
Yutaka Matsuo is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Engineering Innovation, The University of Tokyo. He received his BS, MS, and PhD degrees from The University of Tokyo in 1997, 1999, and 2002 (supervised by Prof. Ishizuka). He joined the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) during 2002–2007. His emphases of study are web mining (specifically social network mining), text processing, and semantic web in the context of artificial intelligence research.
Mr Matsuo is a prominent young researcher in the information technology field in Japan. He has authored more than 30 journal papers in Japanese during the past seven years in addition to 60+ international conference papers. He received the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence (JSAI) Best Paper Award in 2002, the JSAI Anniversary Project Award in 2006, and Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ) Nagao Special Researcher Award in 2008. He joined the editorial committee of JSAI in 2004, and currently serves as Associate Editor-in-Chief. He received the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Postdoctoral Fellowships for Research Abroad in 2005 and stayed for two years at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) at Stanford University. After returning to Japan, he joined the faculty of The University of Tokyo in 2007.
Mr Matsuo is a PC member of several conferences and an editor of journals including the International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), and IEEE Transaction on Knowledge Engineering and Data Mining (TKDE).
Suhail Shaikh, CFA, Partner, Head of Research, Fulcrum Alpha
- Goldman Sachs, Investment Strategy Group, 2002-2005
- Goldman Sachs, Global Equity then Global Fixed Income & Currency Asset Management, 2000-2002
- London School of Economics & Political Sciences, 1997-2000
- CFA Charterholder since 2003
Daryl Cook, Managing Director, Senior Research Portfolio Management, TUDOR
Daryl Cook, Managing Director, Senior Research Portfolio Manager - Tudor Systems Trading Group Mr. Cook joined Tudor in July 1993 and has been a Managing Director since 2007. He is a member of the Systems Group's Portfolio Oversight Group, working closely with Steve Evans, the Managing Director of Tudor's Systems Trading Group. He has 17 years experience of developing technical models and a number of those models are currently trading in Tudor Tensor. Prior to joining Tudor, Mr. Cook was employed by Reuters where he helped to develop their IDN infrastructure (1988-1993), and Scicon Ltd. (1985-1988). Mr. Cook holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics from Bristol University (1985).
Richard Brown, Global Business Manager, Machine Readable News Program, Thomson Reuters
Mr. Brown is the global business manager for the machine readable news program at Thomson Reuters, responsible for the product portfolio, which includes its archive product, real-time feeds, and news analysis solutions. Prior to his current assignment, Mr. Brown co-founded and was the Chief Operating Officer at Foresight Research Solutions, LLC, a New York-based independent research firm and member of the NASD and SIPC. Prior to Foresight, Mr. Brown was a senior client manager for International Business Machines in New York. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Management and International Business from the Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.
Dr. Paul Wilmott, Founder, Wilmott
Paul is a researcher, author, consultant, lecturer and expert witness working in risk management, derivatives and most things quantitative in finance. He has written over 100 research papers in mathematics and finance, and several best-selling, and some would say ground-breaking, text books including: Paul Wilmott On Quantitative Finance, Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance and Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance. He founded the website you are now reading, the eponymous quant magazine, a successful volatility arbitrage hedge fund and the world's largest, high-level quant education program, the Certificate in Quantitative Finance. Paul is one of the authors of the Financial Modelers' Manifesto.
Paul Wilmott has been called "cult derivatives lecturer" (Financial Times), "the smartest of the quants, he may be the only smart quant" (Portfolio magazine), "the finance industry's Mozart" (Sunday Business), "financial mathematics guru" (BBC) and "arguably the most influential quant today" (Newsweek)
John Moody, Portfolio Manager, J E Moody & Company LLC
John Moody is portfolio manager for J E Moody & Company LLC, a quantitative commodity hedge fund. He was named a Rising Star of Hedge Funds at the 2009 Institutional Investor Hedge Fund Industry Awards. Media coverage has included feature articles in Institutional Investor's Alpha, Bloomberg Markets, Advanced Trading, Barclay Managed Funds Report and U.S. News & World Report.
Professor Moody's academic appointments have included Principal Investigator at Berkeley's International Computer Science Institute, Director of the Computational Finance Program at Oregon Graduate Institute and positions on the Computer Science and Neuroscience Faculties at Yale University. He is a past Program Chair and General Chair of the Neural Information Processing Systems and Computational Finance conferences. Dr. Moody received his PhD and MS in Physics from Princeton and BA Honors in Physics at the University of Chicago. Moody has over two decades of experience trading futures and options.
Tom Myers, VP, Business Development, Tick Data
Tom Myers joined Tick Data as its Vice President of Business Development in October 2007. Mr. Myers began his career in the financial
markets in 1995 as a Product Marketing Manager with Omega Research, Inc. (now TradeStation Group, Inc.), and has continued his career in
the industry with positions as the Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Nirvana Systems, Inc., Director of Marketing and Public
Relations for ProTrader Securities Corporation, President and Co-Owner of Transcend Capital, Founder and President of V2R Ventures,
and Managing Director of Business Development for Nexa Technologies, Inc. (Tick Data's parent company). Mr. Myers has a Bachelor
of Science degree in Business Administration from Northeastern University, and has Series 7, 24 and 63 licenses.
Dr. Richard Peterson, MarketPsych LLC
Dr. Peterson has spent his career working at the intersection of mind and markets with the goal of improving the results (and lives) of investors and advisors. At MarketPsych LLC he trains his financial industry clients to
improve their emotion management, self-understanding, and client relationships using modern psychological techniques.
Richard Peterson's book Inside the Investor's Brain (Wiley, 2007) was called "outstanding" and "a seminal text" on investment psychology by Barrons. Dr. Peterson is frequently featured in the media including appearances on CBS Evening News, CNBC, NPR, BBC, PBS, and the Wall Street Journal.
Dr. Peterson has cum laude undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Arts and a Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D.) from the University of Texas. He performed postdoctoral neuroeconomics research at Stanford University and is Board-certified in Psychiatry.
In addition to training investors, Dr. Peterson is himself a registered investment advisor and portfolio manager for MarketPsy Capital LLC, where he manages their quantitative market-neutral long-short investment fund. Additionally, Dr. Peterson has developed popular financial personality tests, published in academic journals and textbooks, is an associate editor of the Journal of Behavioral Finance, and is on the Educational Advisory Board of the Market Technicians Association.
Dr. Peterson's forthcoming book, MarketPsych: Overcoming Market Fear and Discovering Your Investor Identity (co-authored with MarketPsych's Dr. Frank Murtha) is slated for release by Wiley in the fall of 2010.
Simon Kerr, Feature Writer, Hedge Funds Journal
Simon Kerr is an experienced analyst of both financial markets and hedge funds. He has been in the hedge fund industry since 1998 and has acted as a consultant, portfolio manager and fund director within it. He has selected funds for a fund of hedge funds, and was himself a first quartile money manager running portfolios for institutional investors. He has used his risk management expertise gained across varied fund formats and asset classes to develop his own "hedge fund doctor" service, turning around under-performing funds. He wrote the definitive book on the European hedge fund industry in 1999 and contributes to The Hedge Fund Journal as well as having a well regarded blog.
Oliver Prock, CEO, Salus Alpha Capital
Oliver Prock is CEO and CIO of Salus Alpha Capital GmbH. He graduated from Vienna University of Business and Economics with an MBA and has gained experience in different investment fields such as financial engineering, product development, trading and sales. He started his career working for an American CTA. Later on, he was in charge of derivatives and structured products at Raiffeisen Zentralbank AG.
Before he became CEO of Salus Alpha, he worked at Erste Bank, where he was responsible for the prop investments as well as for the development and the management of alternative investment products of Erste Bank. Mr. Prock has over 16 years of professional investment experience working for banks and investment companies in Austria and abroad.
As CEO and Fund Manager he has achieved important successes in the past years in the range of alternative investments, as for instance the introduction of the first world-wide the UCITS III compliant alternative investment fund "Salus Alpha Equity Hedged". Also, the successful development of the Alternative Investment Indices listed on the Viennese Stock Exchange was realized under his management.
Further, Mr. Oliver Prock is founding member and chairman of the board of the Vereinigung Alternativer Investments (VAI). Vereinigung Alternativer Investments (VAI), founded in 2003, is the first independent agency for protecting and representing interests of the providers of alternative investment products on the Austrian capital market.
Apart from providing support to the members in all areas, the VAI oversees the increase of popularity of alternative investments and the improvement in the understanding of these investment vehicles as one of its major tasks. In addition, the VAI tries to increase the attractiveness of Austria as the investment location for alternative investments through various measures.
Dr. Jim Conklin, Managing Director and Head of Investment
Research, Management Committee, Product Development Committee, FX Concepts
Jim began his career in finance at Lehman Brothers in 1997 as a Foreign Exchange Strategist after a 10-year career as an economist with positions at the University of Madrid, the Bank of Spain and the University of Texas (Austin). From 2000 to 2004, Jim served as an FX and Fixed Income portfolio manager at Putnam Investments and West End Capital (Bermuda). From 2005 to 2008 Jim was Managing Director at Fortress Investments, managing quantitative portfolios in FX, Fixed Income, Commodities and Equities.
Jim is a cum laude graduate of Princeton University and has a PhD in Economics from Stanford University.
Guatum Mitra
Gautam Mitra (London, UK) is an internationally renowned research scientist in the field of computational optimisation and modelling. He has developed a world class research group in his area of specialisation with researchers from Europe, UK, USA and Asia. He has published three books and over hundred refereed research articles. He was Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Brunel University between 1990 and 2001. In 2001 he established CARISMA: The Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Optimisation Modelling Applications. CARISMA specialises in the research of risk and optimisation and their combined paradigm in decision modelling. Professor Mitra is also a Director of UNICOM Seminars and OptiRisk Systems ; OptiRisk specialises in the research and development of optimisation and financial analytics tools.
David Nowakowski, Director of Credit Strategy, Roubini Global Economics
David Nowakowski is director of credit strategy at Roubini Global Economics. David brings over 12 years of market experience to RGE. Previously, he was a managing director at Atlas Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund focused on emerging markets. His experience includes working at the Rohatyn Group, an emerging market hedge fund group, where he was the fixed-income and currency strategist, Lazard Asset Management, where he was a fixedincome portfolio manager, and Solomon/Citigroup, where he worked in capital markets and liability management. David holds a bachelor's degree in physics and mathematics and a master's degree in physics from Harvard University, as well as a master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics.
Rob Passarella, Vice-President, Dow Jones Financial Markets Group
Robert Passarella has spent over 18-years on Wall Street in the gray zone between business and technology. Rob has always focused on leveraging technology and innovative information sources to empower Equity Research and serve clients. A veteran of Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Merrill Lynch, and Bear Stearns; he has seen the transformational challenges first hand, up close, and personal. Always intrigued by the consumption and use of information for investment analysis, Rob is passionate about leveraging alternative data and news for investment analysis. Robert holds a BBA in Finance from Baruch College and an MBA from the Columbia Business School. He currently works for Dow Jones as Vice President of Dow Jones Financial Markets Group.
Armando Gonzalez, President & CEO, RavenPack
Armando Gonzalez is President & CEO of RavenPack, the leading provider of real time news analysis in finance. Armando is an expert in the field of text analytics and applied semantic technologies. He has designed systems that turn textual news into data that can be easily consumed by quantitative models and trading programs. These state of the art systems can process content from thousands of sources with low latency and automatically read and analyze tens of thousands of news stories in real-time. Armando is widely regarded as one of the most knowledgeable authorities on automated news and sentiment analysis. His commentary and research has appeared in leading business media such as the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones, CNBC, among others. Armando holds degrees in Economics and International Business Administration from the American University in Paris and is a recognized speaker at conferences on behavioral finance and algorithmic trading across the globe.
Rafael Molinero, CEO & Founder of Molinero Capital Management
Rafael Molinero is the CEO and Founder of Molinero Capital Management, a quantitative futures trading hedge fund based in London. Rafael has 15 years of experience in the hedge fund and financial industry. He was previously a Proprietary Portfolio Manager as well as the Risk Manager for five years at Rotella Capital Management, a large US CTA. He traded proprietary capital using quantitative models he developed. He also managed a team of researchers as well as created the Risk Department. Prior to his role at Rotella, he launched the Structured Products & Alternative Asset Management Group at Carr Futures and designed hedge funds structured products for clients. He was also in charge of managing one of the Fund of Funds portfolios.
Rafael Molinero holds an MBA with High Honors (top 1%) from the University of Chicago and has a Masters in Applied Mathematics from ENSIMAG, one of France's top universities.
Justin Dew, Senior Managing Director, Director, Strategic Development, Welton
Justin Dew is a Senior Managing Director with Welton Investment Corporation. As the Director of Strategic Development, Mr. Dew is responsible for business development, expanding the firm's East Coast presence and identifying, evaluating and executing strategic growth opportunities. He previously was a Managing Director and Head of Strategic Development with the Clinton Group where he was responsible for development of new investment strategies, investor relations and sales. Prior to the Clinton Group, Mr. Dew worked at Standard and Poor's where he served as the Senior Director and Global Head of Alternative Strategies. Mr. Dew holds an MBA from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from Ithaca College. He joined the firm in 2008.
Jesse J. Redmond, Evolved Alpha
Mr. Redmond is the Founder and Co-Portfolio of Evolved Alpha, an open-architecture multistrategy fund that allocates to liquid alpha-return strategies. Evolved Alpha was launched in February, 2010, following a successful two years as a Founding Partner and the Co-Portfolio Manager of Alpha Titans fund-of-funds. During his tenure Alpha Titans outperformed its peers in over 80% of the months by a cumulative margin of 16%. Prior to managing Alpha Titans, he served as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of Santa Barbara Market Neutral Fund, a fund-of-funds with a unique focus on pure alpha, quantitative strategies with high barriers to entry. From 1999-2003 Mr. Redmond was Vice President for Fisher Investments where he contributed to all aspects of growing their business from one billion dollars in assets under management when he joined in 1999 to over fifteen billion when he left four years later. In addition to developing and maintaining many of the firm's top institutional relationships, he focused on designing strategies that would generate independent return streams from traditional markets. Mr. Redmond began his career at Franklin Templeton Investments, and graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, with a B.A. in Business Economics.
Arnaud Chretien, Founder, Chairman and CIO, Aequem Capital
Arnaud CHRETIEN is founder, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Aequam Capital. He started his professional career in 1987 as an Option Market Maker and Stock Trader. In 1989 he started to trade on interest rate futures with BIP/Dresdner Bank Group. From 1992 to 1997 he was managing Option Brokers in Paris. He moved to Switzerland in 1997 to launch his first Quantitative CTA fund. He became Senior Hedge Fund Manager of the CTA FALCON Futures Fund managed at Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) in 2001 before joining Société Générale Asset Management Alternative Investments to be Head of the Global CTA desk in 2004.
Arnaud is also the founder and Chairman of the association QUANTVALLEY (http://www.quantvalley.org/).
Michiel Swaak CFA, Managing Director, QIC Quantitative Management
Michiel is Managing Director of QIC Quantitative Management and is responsible for the QIC Asia Pacific Market Neutral Fund. Before joining QIC, Michiel was a Founding Member and Associate Director of Macquarie Bank's MQ Asset Management. Prior to this he held a variety of positions in Quantitative Research and Portfolio Management at Aegis Equities Research, AEGON Asset Management, SPF Investment Management, and ABN AMRO. Michiel is a CFA Charter holder and earned an MSc in Financial Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
The QIC Asia Pacific Market Neutral Fund is one of only a few funds in the world that invests across the entire Asian region using a systematic investment process. It employs a suite of different stock-selection screens to capture significant alpha currently available in Asia, and does so with low risk via a widely diversified portfolio. This diversification is made possible by the breadth of the Asian markets. The portfolio's market-beta exposure is explicitly managed within tight limits, as are net country and sector exposures.
QIC commenced operations in 1989 and was formally established in 1991. Since then, we have grown to be one of the largest institutional investment managers in Australia, with more than 80 institutional clients and $57 billion in funds under management.
Spencer Greenberg, (PhD, Candidate, NYU's Courant Institute) CEO and Chief Software Architect, Rebellion Research
Spencer Greenberg is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Software Architect of Rebellion Research, the quantitative hedge fund that he co-founded in 2005 at the age of 22. Mr. Greenberg graduated Magna Cum Laude from Columbia University's School of Engineering with a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics and a minor in computer science. He is currently a math PhD candidate at New York University's Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, specializing in the mathematics of machine learning.
Prior to founding Rebellion, Mr. Greenberg worked on projects in pure and applied math with Columbia professors, performed computer programming work for Neuberger Berman, LLC, and developed software for a leading counter-terrorism think tank. Mr. Greenberg has spoken about artificial intelligence and investing on Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Radio, CNBC, Canada's Business News Network, China's Phoenix TV, and in the Wall Street Journal.
Sonia Schulenburg, PhD, CEO and Founder, Level E Limited
Sonia Schulenburg is the CEO and founder of Level E Limited, Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellow and Research Associate at the Centre of Intelligent Systems and their Applications at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.
Sonia holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh and a BEng in Computer Engineering (Honours, summa cum laude) from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Sonia has developed both, her technical and business skills concurrently. She holds a Professional Certificate in Accounting from University of California, San Diego and a Postgraduate Degree in Corporate Strategy and Finance from Napier University, where she graduated with Distinction in both.
Sonia was the Co-Founder and Partner in West Coast Fisheries in California before moving into the Investment Banking market with Accival, the Financial Group of BANAMEX, one of Mexico's largest financial conglomerates, where she headed up the Innovation Department from 1995. It was here that Sonia began to carefully articulate her vision of a more intelligent and disciplined approach to financial trading.
After completing her PhD, Sonia was a Senior Research Fellow and Principal Investigator at Napier University (2000-2004) in the area of Evolving Artificial Traders for Successful Market Trading. In 2005 Sonia successfully completed her Royal Society of Edinburgh Enterprise Fellowship with the launch of Level E. From 2006 she has raised over GBP £2 million to fund Level E's research and development of MAYATM, a smart, fully automated trading platform.
Academically, Sonia has over a dozen contributions in published book chapters, international conference proceedings and has been linked to the Santa Fe Institute since she completed the Fellowship in Computational Modelling and Complexity. She has a collection of invited presentations, workshops and tutorials internationally. Sonia is a member of Editorial Boards and Committees of International Journals and Conferences in the areas of Evolutionary Computation and Computational Finance such as IEEE Evolutionary Computation, Task Force on Finance and Economics, the International Workshop of Learning Classifier Systems (IWLCS), the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), the Congress on Evolutionary Computing (CEC), Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications (BIC-TA) amongst others.
Paul Hawtin, Managing Director and Founder, Derwent Capital Markets Ltd.
Mr. Paul Hawtin, ACSI is Managing Director and Founder of Derwent Capital Markets Ltd, a family owned investment boutique based in Mayfair, London. The Firm currently manage private accounts for HNW and UHNW individuals and are in the process of launching the Derwent Absolute Return Fund Ltd (Cayman). The Fund has generated a huge amount of interest within the investment community due to its unique investment strategy - mining social media data (more specifically Twitter) to derive market sentiment with the ability to predict market direction with a high level of accuracy. Paul has a passion for "thinking outside the box" and has developed quantitative adaptive trading strategies that deliver consistent, absolute returns for investors. Prior to setting up Derwent 2 years ago Paul worked for Saxo Bank A/S and before that setup and managed several successful start-ups based outside the finance industry.
Derwent's principal business focus is the launch of the new Fund, they have already raised £25m starting capital amongst private investors and institutions. The Fund expects to launch in March/April this year.
Dr. Francisco J. Vaca, CEO and CIO, Founder, Vaca Capital Management
Dr. Vaca is the founder and sole trading principal of Vaca Capital Management LLC. Dr. Vaca has over 15 years of experience in the research, development and trading of quantitative investment strategies. He has been featured and quoted in Futures Magazine, Active Trader Magazine and REUTERS. Vaca Capital Management LLC was selected as one of the "Top Traders of 2010" by Futures Magazine.
Dr. Vaca manages two distinct trading programs. The first, the Vaca Global Diversified Program, is a systematic global diversified futures program, which is Vaca Capital s flagship program. The second, Vaca Capital Partners L.P., is an intra-day, high frequency trading program that trades equities listed on the NYSE and NASDAQ exchanges.
Prior to forming Vaca Capital Management LLC in November 2000, Dr. Vaca was an Executive Researcher at C&D Commodities, Inc., where he researched and implemented systematic trading strategies for the futures and equities markets from 1996 to 2000. Dr. Vaca earned his B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the Universidad Michoacana (Mexico) and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Dave Cliff, Professor of Computer Science, University of Bristol
Dave Cliff is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. He has more than 20 years of experience as a researcher in computer science and complex adaptive systems. He has previously worked on the faculties of the University of Sussex, the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, and the University of Southampton. He also spent seven years working in industry: initially as a senior research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Research Labs where he founded and led HP's Complex Adaptive Systems Research Group; then as a Director in Deutsche Bank's London Foreign-Exchange Complex Risk Group. His research for HP included early work, in the mid-1990s, on novel decentralized management systems for utility-scale ("cloud") computing systems; as part of that work he invented the Zero-Intelligence Plus (ZIP) adaptive automated trading strategy. In 2001 a team of researchers at IBM showed that ZIP algorithmic traders consistently outperform human traders. In October 2005, Cliff was appointed Director of the £15m EPSRC-funded five-year UK national research and training initiative in the science and engineering of Large-Scale Complex IT Systems (the LSCITS Initiative: see www.lscits.org). He is author or co-author on about 100 academic publications, and inventor or co-inventor on 15 patents; he has undertaken advisory and consultancy work for a number of major companies and for various departments of the UK Government; and he has given around 200 keynote lectures and invited seminars. He is currently serving as a member of the eight-person expert panel (led by Clara Furse, ex-CEO of the London Stock Exchange) for the UK Government's "Foresight" project investigating the future of computer trading in the financial markets.
Claire Smith, Senior Analyst and Partner, Albourne Partners Limited
Claire Smith is a research analyst and partner of the hedge fund advisory firm Albourne Partners, based in Geneva. She is responsible for covering quantitative equity strategies, which includes quantitative equity market neutral, statistical arbitrage, convertible arbitrage and volatility arbitrage. Prior to joining Albourne in 2004, Claire was running her own consulting business providing hedge fund research to London-based fund of fund managers as well as editing and writing finance industry trade journals and feature articles. From 1986 to 1998 Claire was employed at various UBS group companies as a derivatives dealer, marketer and product structurer. Career highlights would be initiating a synthetic warrants issuance program at SBC in 1994, becoming head of the London convertible sales team in 1995 and head of European investor derivatives marketing at UBS in 1996. Claire started her career as a credit analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank after completing a Masters program in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London.
Axel Groß-Klußmann, Doctoral Candidate, Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin
Axel Groß-Klußmann is a doctoral candidate in econometrics at the Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin and scientific employee at the Quantitative Products Laboratory of Deutsche Bank. His research focuses on empirical finance based on high-frequency data. Using pre-processed news data from a text analytics engine he recently studied the impact of news on stock markets from a high frequency perspective. Besides, his research covers modelling and forecasting stock market liquidity and intraday volatility. Axel holds a diploma in Economics with a quantitative emphasis from the Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet Kiel and a B. Sc. in Mathematics from Fernuniversitaet Hagen.
Tim Meyers, Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Coriolis Management, LLC.
Mr. Meyers is responsible for the management and oversight of Coriolis Funds, a systematic long/short US Equity Hedge Fund. The Coriolis model is based on the risk management techniques that permeate reinsurance portfolio management processes, and was developed by Coriolis CIO and co-founder, Vineet Kalucha, who spent nearly two decades in the reinsurance industry. The Coriolis model 's primary objective is first to preserve capital, and then beat the S&P 500 index on an annualized basis. Coriolis' strategy is based on a trend-following system that invests only in publicly-traded US securities and ETFs. To date, Coriolis has had 3 down months in its 28-month investment history and has produced annualized net returns of 30.63%. The fund strategy employs no options, contracts, derivatives or any instrument that has expiration.
Mr. Meyers has three decades of experience in all aspects of alternative investments. In the early 80's, he started his career with Deloitte's KKR team, and following that, became a partner and CFO in a large real estate firm that was sold to Trammell Crow. In the 90's, he ran a large family office for the founder of a software company that was sold for $2.2B and created a fund-of-funds of alternative investments. In 2000, he became a founding partner of a private equity firm that raised $450 million during Tim's tenure.
Mr. Meyers is Chair-elect of George Mason University Foundation, his alma mater's non-profit foundation, and has been its investment committee chair for the last six years. He has a MS from Virginia Tech and has served as chair and director on numerous boards of privately-held companies and not-for-profits.
Stephane LAMOINE
Stephane LAMOINE (49) has been one of the precursors of quantitative asset management since 1987. He was one of the first members of the Q group in 1994. Throughout his career, he accumulated significant experience in the fields of financial analysis, brokerage, equity sales, trading, corporate finance and financial software.
Stephane created Saint Honore Global in 1987 for LCF Rothschild, a world equities fund managed through convergence of quantitative top down asset allocation and fundamental bottom up stock picking with the first performance fee to be authorized by the French COB. Stephane was also manager of the Luxembourg based fund Ecu d'Or, the best performing gold fund in Europe in 1988 and 1989 thanks to Intensive pairs trading.
He Launched Indexis in 1990, the first index trackers at Credit Agricole and was also manager of the asset allocation funds Modulaction. He then joined Societe Generale where he initiated the restructuring of the organization towards meeting AIMR standards and developed a in-house database and a very innovative backtesting system.
Stephane left SGAM as CIO in 1994 to develop Proof9 Inc that rapidly became a leading developer of investment strategy solutions and backtesting systems with offices in New York, London and Paris. The company lost several key clients in and after the 9/11 and sold its intellectual property to Blue Mile advisers.
Stephane joined a big US hedge fund in 2003 as an independent consultant to implement and test his investment principles using Bluemile's technology. After the spectacular risk/returns achieved during live tests carried out in 2006, he created the Iskandia Capital Fund in 2007, an international equity market neutral quantamental fund.
Arnaud Vincent
Arnaud Vincent is a PhD candidate at the Cerna, Mines-ParisTech (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris) in addition to being the Chief Innovation Officer for a French bank. Arnaud is specialized in genetic algorithms and heurisitics applied to finance, chemical engineering and manufacturing.
His current research is focused on an automated trading system able to follow sentiment analysis (Twitter, Google or mail realtime analysis) to optimize risk and positions.
Bradford Paskewitz, CEO and Founder, Paskewitz Asset Management
Bradford Paskewitz has been developing and trading quantitative strategies since 1987, with a primary focus on the futures and equity markets. He has done this work at firms such as Banque Indosuez, Lehman Brothers, Credit Suisse, Schonfeld Securities and Bear Wagner. He now runs Paskewitz Asset Management (PAM) where strategy R&D is the ongoing focus. Over the course of a twenty two year career in finance, he has focused on the problem of market price forecasting and has continually kept abreast of technological forecasting methods and techniques as they emerge, with the goal of remaining at the frontier of forecasting technology and implementation. His proprietary quantitative research infrastructure currently enables him to develop new quantitative strategies and trading programs in both U.S. and foreign futures, equity and currency markets. PAM has been a registered CTA since January 2007 and Bradford Paskewitz is an Associated Person and Principal of PAM. Since 2003 he has also been CEO of Qualsolutions, Inc., which provides R&D and technical consulting services to PAM. Qualsolutions has foreign teams located in Beijing and Zhengzhou China, and provides financial market consulting services using their select team of Chinese quants and programmers. From 1982-87, he worked as Director of R&D at Electro-Catheter Corporation on an artificial heart project. He began his career at General Electric, with the Re-entry Systems Division conducting missile radar signal processing R&D (1980-82).
His education includes a BS in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science from Princeton University and an MS in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
John Godden, CEO, IGS Alternative Investment Solutions
John is a well known commentator and advisor on Hedge Fund investing.
He is currently CEO of the IGS Group, a specialist Alternative Investments company engineering strong connections between Investors and Opportunities in the Alternative Asset arena. IGS specialises in clear advice on product design and Portfolio Construction, market positioning and distribution for Hedge Funds, Fund of Funds and Service Providers.
John has recently been closely associated with the design and construction of several Managed Account Platforms and is involved in M&A in the Alternative Fund Management space. He advises client companies on Infrastructure and Fund construction and has been involved in several new fund launches.
John was previously head of the European arm of HFR Asset Management prior to which he worked with Barclays Capital and Paribas focusing on Structured Derivatives and some of the first Fund Derivatives.
John began his career in the Pension Consultancy sector before moving into Capital Markets having studied Pure Mathematics.
Giovanni Beliossi, Owner, FGS Capital LLP
Giovanni is Managing Partner at FGS Capital LLP, where he is the CEO and is responsible for portfolio management. Previously he was Associate Director of hedge funds at First Quadrant Ltd, where he set up and was the portfolio manager of its Pan European long/short equity market neutral portfolios, and was responsible for UK-based hedge fund business. He has extensive experience of managing equity market neutral portfolios since 1995, when he joined the firm. Prior to that he was a tenured Research Fellow with the Economics Department of the University of Bologna in Italy, and he has held appointments with BARRA International and Eastern Group Plc. He co-founded the Real Options Group to look at research and applications of Real Options to corporate finance and investments. He is an active member of AIMA (Alternative Investment Management Association) and a Research Committee member of Inquire UK. He is a Board member of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE). He is the European Chair of the Steering Group of the Investor Risk Committee (IRC) of IAFE working on guidelines for disclosure and transparency for hedge funds. Giovanni is a CFA Charterholder.
Joe Rothermich, CFA, Lincoln Vale Adaptive Strategy
Joe has 15 years of experience in research and management consulting and over 6 years in financial R&D and quantitative portfolio management. He was the Chief Technical Officer of Natural Selection Financial, Inc., performing financial research and development. As a Senior Scientist at Natural Selection, Inc., he performed evolutionary algorithms and computational intelligence techniques to real-world problems for clients across various domains such as biotechnology, commercial applications, and government security. Previously, Joe worked as a researcher and consultant at Icosystem Corporation, a company specialized in bioinspired computing and complexity science, and as a managing consultant at Accenture, leading the finance and treasury business process design on international enterprise software engagements.
Joe received an M.Sc. in Natural Computation at the University of Birmingham, UK, and a B.S. in Systems Analysis from Miami University. Joe is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
Pacome Breton, CAIA - Chief Risk Officer, FQS Capital Management
Prior to joining FQS Capital Management, Mr. Breton served as Head of Quantitative Research and Risk Analysis at Pioneer Alternative Investments (Milan & London), a member of the Unicredit group. During his tenure, he was a member of the investment committee, which oversaw USD $4 billion in assets under management. He managed a team of six professionals who specialised in global quantitative research, portfolio construction and quantitative review of investments or potential investments.
Mr. Breton served as Market Risk Manager at Société Générale (Tokyo) where he was in charge of the equity derivatives desk and the ongoing monitoring and surveillance of 15 proprietary desks in Asia. At FQS Capital Management, Mr. Breton reports independently to the investment committee and its Chairman, Dr. Robert J. Frey, and reviews all hedge fund investments. Mr. Breton graduated in General Engineering (Master of Science) at Compiegne University of Technology (UTC) in France and completed his Masters in Quantitative Finance at Italy's Bocconi University. He is also a registered Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA).
Dr. Ranjan Bhaduri, Managing Director and Head of Research at AlphaMetrix Alternative Investment Advisors
Dr. Ranjan Bhaduri is Chief Research Officer and the Global Head of Research at AlphaMetrix Alternative Investment Advisors. Prior to joining AlphaMetrix, he was a Vice President and on an Investment Committee at Morgan Stanley where he conducted due diligence and helped design customized portfolios of Alternatives. Earlier, he was at a Canadian Fund of Funds, and at a multi-billion dollar capital management firm where he was involved in all aspects of its fund of hedge funds and structured finance business. He has also worked with two major Canadian investment banks in the Financial Strategy Consulting Group and in Global Risk Management & Control, respectively.
Dr. Bhaduri has held advisory roles at the East-West Center, a leading think tank on the Asia-Pacific region, and at ClassMouse, an early stage software company. He has taught finance and mathematics at several universities and lectured on Derivatives for the Montreal Exchange. Dr. Bhaduri holds a PhD in pure mathematics and a Masters in Combinatorics & Optimization, as well as a MBA in Finance and International Business.
Dr. Bhaduri holds both the CFA and CAIA charters. He is a member of the American Mathematical Society, the Mathematical Association of America, the Toronto CFA Society, and the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). Dr. Bhaduri serves as a member of the All About Alpha Editorial Board, and as a CAIA Chicago Chapter Executive.
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Peter holds a MSc in theoretical physics from TU Berlin. As part of his MSc, he studied the behavior of dynamical systems at the Salk Institute, La Jolla, USA.
For 3 years, he worked towards a PhD in theoretical neuroscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. At MIT, he studied the learning behavior of artificial neural networks. He finished this PhD at TU Berlin (magna cum laude) and published his work in Nature.
Peter also worked on a second PhD in financial engineering, which he received from Witten/Herdecke University (UWH), Germany (magna cum laude). At UWH, he developed a quantitative event-driven trading strategy for the prediction of Mergers & Acquisitions.
Peter founded the Global Arbitrage Group (GAG) in 2005. GAG offers specialized asset management services and develops custom-tailored investment solutions for portfolios of institutional investors and holders of large private assets. GAG creates added value in the areas of Global Tactical Asset Allocation, Absolute Return / CTA and Risk Management.
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Marco Fasoli, PhD, Managing Partner, TITIAN
Marco is Managing Partner, Co-Founder and Co-CIO of TITIAN, a technology and trading firm that develops and utilizes artificial intelligence, machine learning based trading systems designed to recognize price patterns and predict short-term market movements. These technologies are used to run the TITIAN Pattern Recognition Program (TPRP), which trades 21 highly liquid futures markets across bonds, currencies, equities and commodities with a 24 hour trading horizon. The TPRP consists of 420 self-learning, predictive trading systems able to generate their own predictive algorithms, self-tune their own settings and alter their own internal structure to adjust to the evolving behavioral characteristics of each market traded. Marco is responsible for the design, development, testing and integration of TITIAN's software and systems, and for the creation, testing and implementation of live operational trading strategies based on these systems, including the TPRP. His primary research interests are in advanced machine learning methods for time series analysis. Previously, over a period of 17 years he was a Managing Director of Jefferies (global investment banking firm), a Managing Director and Partner of Broadview (global technology investment banking firm), a Director and Partner of Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett (global econometric consultancy), and a Senior Associate at Booz Allen & Hamilton (global technology consultancy). Marco holds PhD, MA and BA degrees in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. Marco's PhD was sponsored by the UK Science and Engineering Research Council and his PhD thesis resulted in the publication of several papers in leading scientific journals, including the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences.
Denis Beaudoin, CEO, Finaltis
Denis is the CEO and founder of Finaltis. He has 18 years of asset management and financial markets experience (Paribas, Dexia AM, ...).
Finaltis manages liquid assets through quantitative, absolute return investment strategies with a focus on equity market neutral and trend following CTA. The team comprises of 17 people, including 9 senior fund managers and researchers. Total Assets under Management are north of $360 mm. Finaltis is a founding member of QuantValley.
Denis graduated from HEC, Paris. He is a lecturer in Quantitative Investment Strategies (MSc classes) at Université Paris Dauphine.
Christophe Le Lannou, Head of Quantitative Trading, Carrousel Capital Ltd
A graduate of Ecole Polytechnique of Paris and Ecole des Mines of Paris, Christophe began his career in 1997 working as a trader within the equity and equity derivatives departments of a number of major banks in London, most recently as a proprietary volatility trader at Swiss Re Financial Products. He has a strong expertise in trading equities, equity options, convertible bonds and other structured products, and as well in arbitrage and relative value trading. Christophe joined Carrousel in 2007, to take charge of the research and the development of new systematic strategies, and manages the Centrix IX systematic portfolios since their launch in July 2010.
Peter Kambolin, CEO and COO, Systematic Alpha Management, LLC
Peter Kambolin is the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Systematic Alpha Management, LLC. He is in charge of general management of SAM and oversees company's trading operations, marketing activities, compliance and research. Mr. Kambolin received his B.A. in Finance from Baruch College (1995), magna cum laude. He worked at Commonwealth Associates, Inc. (RR), Unibank (Operations), Fifth Avenue Research and Advisory Group, Inc. (Equity Research), Utopia Capital Management, Inc. (Portfolio Manager), Phillip Louis Trading (Proprietary Trader), Thor Futures, LLC (Principal) and Thor Capital, LLC (Founder and Principal), before co-founding SAM. Peter holds a Series 3 National Commodity Futures License.
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A Comic's Plea to Bachelorette Parties
Guest Post from Keith Alberstadt.
1. Dress subtly. It's a lot classier if you go out with your friends and have fun without the veil of condoms and the Life Saver T-shirt that advertises the "suck for a buck" opportunity. Why would guys want to give you a dollar to suck candy off of your shirt when you're getting married in a week? It's like paying for a sip of someone else's beer. Better idea…get your single, hotter maid of honor to wear that shirt. You could pocket so much more cash.
2. Act like you're no longer in the eighth grade. In other words, if the party is going to be in public, don't have a penis theme. The 4-foot inflatable penis, the penis cake, the penis straws for your drinks, the penis tiara…all of it makes you look like you still giggle like schoolkids when someone says the word "duty". Unless you're a walking billboard for a new Jenna Jamison movie, don't bother. It's obnoxious. And finally…
3. Don't go to a comedy club. I don't care how much a club markets themselves as "your party headquarters", don't do it. Please listen to me on this one. Please don't go to a comedy club. This cannot be stressed enough. Comedians don't really hate bachelorette parties…rather, we abhor them. More often than not, these gaggles enter the club already drunk, and they somehow expect the show to be all about the bride-to-be. That's obvious when the MC announces your presence, and your gaggle responds with a raucous "WOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" loud enough to turn off Earnhardt fans.
I will say that there is some value to your presence at the club…it's mildly amusing to see daggers shoot out of the eyes of one gaggle if another gaggle is there at the same time. The most common mindset among gaggles is that theirs should be the only party that night and their precious penis-loving, condom-veil girlfriend should be the center of attention. The tension thickens when it's learned that both bachelorettes have, God forbid, the same wedding day. Holy crap, that's hilarious! It's like the Bloods learning that the Crips are on their turf, only there's more vicious hatred involved between drunk gaggles. And just in case you're oblivious to another girl having the same wedding date as you, you have your trusty gaggle leader to tell you. She's the coordinator of this little soiree and she's almost – almost – as irritating as you.
The truth is, the comic on stage wants you to have fun, but he doesn't care that you're getting married, and neither do any of the paying customers. My best guess would be that some of your friends in the group don't really give a hoot either. They're probably there because you asked them to be a bridesmaid. Why did you need twelve bridesmaids? Most likely because some girl you knew had eleven last year. Having less than eleven would simply be less expensive and un-catty, and that's apparently not your style.
Bad attitude on my part? Maybe. I'm writing this after a weekend in Cleveland. The comedy club there is incredible, but one night we had two gaggles show up. It's too bad irritation can't be measured, because I'm pretty sure I broke a record.
Here's a sample of one of the shows:
Me: "…I got a call from my dad today. I don't think Dad has…"
Gaggle Member: "SHE'S GETTING MARRIED NEXT WEEK!"
Entire Gaggle: "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Me: "Okay, that's great. So anyway, my parents are like…"
Gaggle Coordinator: "Excuse me!!! In case you didn't hear, she's getting married!"
Entire Gaggle: "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!"
Multiply that by 25 minutes and you've got yourself a transcript. Dear God in Heaven it was annoying. If gaggles traditionally hit the town with their bachelor party counterparts, I bet there would be lawyer vendors on the premises selling prenups.
Okay, I'm done. Thank you for letting me vent a little. It relaxes me. Just so you know, no bachelorettes were harmed in the making of this column, unfortunately. And if I have offended any of you, you can suck it. No buck required.
Posted: July 7th, 2009 under Ruminations, theorizations and stuff. Author: Paolo .
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Comment from Phil Johnson
Time: August 1, 2009, 12:41 pm
Too true… Every once in awhile you can get some good material out of them, but it's rare.


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South Park girls dispatch Hopewell in Class AAA semifinal blowout
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After losing to Hopewell in the 2012 WPIAL Class AAA championship game and Jan. 19 in the Pittsburgh Classic, the South Park girls basketball team needed something special when it took on the Vikings in the WPIAL Class AAA semifinals.
All the girls did was make it personal.
"After last year we were really upset and we knew we had to get back at them, and after losing to them a month ago we really had to get back at them," South Park junior forward Halie Torris said. "The last time we were up by like 20 and they came back and beat us, so we knew we had to keep coming for all four quarters."
South Park (22-2) never stopped pressing the attack against Hopewell (21-4). Torris and Shelby Lindsey each scored 23 points to lead the third-seeded Eagles back to the WPIAL Class AAA championship game with a 75-55 victory over the No. 2 Vikings at West Allegheny.
"This was very personal," South Park coach Reggie Wells said. "We had to make it personal, because you can't just go out there and run up and down, because they're competitors."
Like she has so many times this season, senior Shatori Walker-Kimbrough almost single-handedly willed Hopewell back into the game. The Maryland recruit scored a game-high 39 points, including 15 points in a desperation comeback attempt in the fourth quarter, but she was fighting an uphill battle after South Park opened up a 31-point lead in the third quarter.
"In the past, what would happen is she would outscore our top three scorers, and we just couldn't let that happen again," Wells said. "She's going to get hers, and we knew we would have to get 70 from our top three scorers if we had to get going."
South Park didn't quite get 70 out of its top three, but with 46 from Torris and Lindsay and another 19 from Allison McGrath, the 65 points was enough to make the difference. It also helped that the Eagles shot 50.9 percent (28 of 55) from the floor in the game, including 15 of 27 (55.6 percent) in the first half, which gave them a 38-20 lead at the intermission.
"They made their shots when they had to, and you have to give them credit: They played an exceptional game," Hopewell coach Jeff Homziak said. "They beat us on the boards, they got to loose balls and they were just a lot quicker and more in position than we were. They played an excellent game, and they're deserving of going on and playing in the championship."
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3 Weeks until the wedding
One week, ah ah ah. Two, two weeks, ah ah ah! Three! Three weeks left, ah ah ah.
The count and I have something in common, we like counting up and down. The other thing we have in common is that we both like the color purple. With 3 weeks left before the wedding there are only a few things left to do.
A few things? Jenn asks. It seems like more than a few things (this is Jenn now). I still have yet to find a hair stylist who is not going to charge an enourmous ammount. What is up with a $200 fee for EACH bridesmaid's hair? The cake topper should arrive soon and speaking of mail, we keep getting more awesome gifts! People are sooo generous!
I hope I can catch up on some sleep before the big day. I have decided to take at least 3 days off for mental health surrounding the wedding. I have to make appointments for nails, meet with vendors, make the programs and place cards, and… I don't even know.
Sunday is my SoCal shower – very excited for that except for the extreme cleaning I have to do tonight. Wish me luck on that one!


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Former major league slugger Jose Canseco apparently doesn't approve of the job Bud Selig has done as commissioner of Major League Baseball.
The one-time Bash Brother painted this odd, dragon-like portrait of Selig and has put it up for sale on Twitter.
Thus is my painting of Bud Selig. It is for sale. Make me an offer. twitter.com/JoseCanseco/st…— Jose Canseco (@JoseCanseco) March 6, 2013
Since last playing in the majors in 2001, Canseco's contributions to society have ranged from helping to expose the use of performance-enhancing drugs in baseball to attempting to become everything from an ultimate fighter to a reality TV star.
Canseco, who believes he was black-balled from the majors because of his controversial revelations about steroids and PEDs, finished his 17-season major league career with 462 homers.


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It's time to start thinking about those summer vacation plans! I know I'm looking forward to a few trips to Rehoboth Beach and possibly a trip to South Carolina. So of course, I'm in the process of thinking about my must have beach vacation outfits.
When traveling to the beach I like to be stylish, but comfort is also important. You don't really have to do much when it comes to the outfits because more than likely, it's going to be warm, sunny and breezy – those elements make for simple outfit solutions. Nonetheless, let's take a look at my 3 Must Have Beach Vacation Outfits.
Dinner Date – I'm a fan of florals all year, but especially during the summertime! Pairing a pair of fun floral pants with a flowing tank top is perfect for a beach vaca dinner date. If you want to add sexy strappy heels, go for it. You can also wear a pair of cutsey sandals. Add some bangles and a clutch and you're all set!
So tell me, what summer trips do you have planned? What are some of your must have beach vacation outfits? Let me know!
Next Wednesday, I'll be sharing a few of my must have items for summer. It'll be short and sweet and it just may include a giveaway! 😉 In the meantime, don't forget to link your recent outfit(s) to my Personal Style Linkup – I LOVE seeing your outfits and who knows, you may be featured as my favorite look next week! Until tomorrow, be blessed and stay safe…XO!
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This couple's wedding may have been the geekiest wedding ever
Meet Kristin and Zachary. They're a geeky couple who love each other and geeky things so it was fitting that they decided to have the geekiest wedding ever. How geeky? How about Nintendo cartridge invitations. Doctor Who shoes. A Star Wars guestbook. A Lego cake. Butterbeer. An Xbox achievement for the first kiss. And… »


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A cheery town with many diversity, it's the one which on the island has kept the connection with the past the most and that's visilble in the way that its habitants live and talk.
Except the fertile valley Lopar has many sandy beaches. The most known is Rajska plaza (Celestial beach), ideal for those who are not too good swimmers and for kids because of the long shoal. Beside Rajska plaza there are many other sandy beach and the most known are the naturist beaches: Ciganka, Sahara and Stolac. The shoal sandy beaches, the warm water, the dense forest that protects from the winds and the sun are particulary attractive to families with kids. In the proximity of Rajska plaza there is situated a sport centre that offers a variety of sports such as: tennis, soccer, basket, volleyball, mini golf course, table tennis and many water sports.The accomodation, apart from the one offered in the touristic village and the camping of San Marino, consist in private houses, rooms, apartments and flats. Even if the tourism has changed the look of the town their habitants are always the same, smiling and friendly.


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Training Day for the media
How one department took an innovative approach to train members of its local press on use-of-force realities
In two cases occurring within a short timeframe, young offenders in Winnipeg, Manitoba, died in edged-weapon confrontations with police — in the public hullabaloo that followed each encounter the same shopworn questions reverberated in the media and among armchair critics:
Aggravated trainers in the Officer Safety Unit at the Winnipeg Police Service training academy decided it was time to do more than just bitch about naïve civilians' Hollywood-based misperceptions. "We wanted to be proactive in some way that would produce more informed analysis and assessment of police actions in high-stress, dynamic situations," said Cst. Barney Bergen, a Winnipeg use-of-force instructor.
The upshot: a carefully-crafted crash course in force realities for representatives of the city's media, with simple but critical ground rules.
They had to lay aside their cameras, tape recorders, and (at least until the end of the day) their conflict-seeking questions. They had to stay for the whole six-hour presentation; no snatching just bits and pieces on the fly. And they had to listen with an open mind. In exchange, they'd learn "the realistic expectations people should have of officers' performance under acute stress in use-of-force encounters."
More than a year after that "leap of faith" experiment, Bergen said, the department is still reaping benefits. "I was one of the skeptics in the beginning. In the past, some of our officers have had very negative, even traumatic, experiences with the media. But since the program, we've seen more balanced coverage and better interaction between news outlets and our Media Liaison Office. It has helped prevent wild spin-doctoring and out-of-context reporting."
As a result of such improvements, he believes, the public has an opportunity to gain a more grounded grasp of the how city's nearly 1,400 police "go about enforcing the law" and a better comprehension that "when possible we always try to resolve encounters without having to use force."
To sustain the progress, Winnipeg is considering a refresher repeat of Media Training Day. Bergen and other planners would welcome hearing ideas that have worked for other departments in taming the news beast — you can e-mail Bergen at firstname.lastname@example.com but also consider sharing your thoughts in the comments area at the end of this article so others can benefit as well. Meanwhile, for those interested in replicating Winnipeg's approach, here are key elements.
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With the enthusiastic support of police executives, the training cadre had put together a fast-paced presentation consisting of PowerPoint lecture and live demonstrations. It was made clear that the speakers — Sgt. Jeff Quail, P/Sgt. Ron Bilton, Cst. Adam Cheadle, and Bergen — would not answer questions about or draw examples from any currently "unresolved investigations." The guests could take notes, but no recording or photography was permitted.
"Our intent," Bergen said, "was to show that officers are highly trained and have a lot of tools available for dealing with what they encounter on the job, including various force options, but at the end of the day they are human beings. We wanted this to be the big take-away."
Policy Prep
The department's use-of-force policy was explained, so the audience understood when and how officers officially can resort to force. Canadian law was reviewed, including the fact that a reasonable perception of impending "grievous bodily harm" — not only the fear of imminent death — is legal justification for defensively employing lethal measures
"A real eye-opener to some," Bergen said of the reaction to that information. The "totality of circumstances" concept was explored and illustrated, and the control options in Winnipeg's version of the force continuum were described, from command presence through deadly force, along with their relative intensities. Popular misconceptions like shooting to wound and shooting a weapon out of a suspect's hand, were debunked.
Particular attention was given to officers' training in verbal direction, "to show that 'tactical communication' is a defined skill set, more than just buzz words," Bergen said. "We discussed the basic philosophy of trying to defuse volatile situations with words, what kind of persuasive appeals and techniques officers use.
"We wanted to reinforce that officers are not just jumping to go hands-on unless it's absolutely necessary. They don't want to go home to their families bruised and banged up, with more scars on their bodies."
The team was careful not to reveal "any tactical information related to force that might compromise officers on the street," Bergen stresses. "Things like the formula used to determine when deadly force is justified might give a suspect the edge in manipulating a confrontation, so we avoided that kind of information."
TASER Demo
After explaining the type of resistance for which a CEW is appropriate, a TASER was fired at an inert target. "We made clear that this is not a device that officers use flippantly," Bergen said. Research documenting the comparative safety of the weapon for officers and suspects alike (relative to baton strikes and fights, for example) was also emphasized.
Stress Impact
In "not too academic terms," Quail described the neuro-anatomy of the brain and explained how stress affects vision, cognitive perception, decision-making, motor performance, and memory. For this, he drew heavily on scientific research conducted and/or reported by Dr. Bill Lewinski's Force Science Research Center (both Quail and Bergen are certified in Force Science Analysis).
"This knowledge is vitally important in any post-analysis of a major force event," Bergen said. "An involved officer's judgment, perceptions, behavior, recollections, and articulation of what happened are very real concerns, and if it's not understood how these all are affected by a sudden stress load, his or her actions and responses may not get a fair, impartial, and accurate evaluation.
"An incident that seems to have one explanation may in fact have been shaped by very different influences. We wanted to impress on the media that to judge any force encounter without analyzing all the factors potentially involved is a travesty."
Revealing Role Play
One reporter volunteer was armed with a Simunitions training gun and led to a corner of the gym, where he was told he would experience a confrontation and should react as if he were an officer coming upon the scene. The other media reps were positioned at different distances and angles as "witnesses." A video camera was set up to tape the event.
Without warning, two role-playing trainers burst from a side room. One wielding a knife and screaming, "I'm gonna kill you!" chased the other and brought him to the floor. After "stabbing" the victim, the assailant rose, turned toward the officer with knife raised, and snarled verbal threats. The startled "officer" fired at the suspect to stop the attack.
Instructed not to discuss the incident, the shooter and the others were immediately hustled into another room and given questionnaires to fill out regarding their observations: How far away was the attacker from the subject? — a question that's "always raised when knife offenders are shot," Bergen explains. Were any weapons present, and if so, what were they? What, if anything, did the victim say? Were any shots fired, and if so, how many? And so on.
The shooter had additional questions to answer: If you shot, did you hit the assailant, and if so, where and how many times? What was the assailant wearing? If he had a weapon, where was it? And so on...
"These are the kind of questions officers are asked after a shooting," the group was told when they'd finished. "Not having accurate answers can seriously impact your credibility.
"Everybody was absolutely amazed at how inconsistent the answers were among them — and how different they were from what they saw when we played the videotape. When we asked the 'officer' to explain what was going through his mind during the incident, he was stunned at the limited amount of information he could recall. And he hadn't even been directly threatened!"
The day ended, Bergen said, with a "good discussion" of the scenario and how the reporters' responses tied in with the stress dynamics Quail had outlined earlier.
Bergen thinks the media training day "absolutely" was worth the effort. Kelly Dehn, a police reporter for CTV-Winnipeg, enthusiastically agrees. The day "put you in an officer's shoes," he recently told PoliceOne. "You got a real sense of what an officer has to decide in a split-second, a whole new perspective on what an officer goes through. I had a much better understanding the next time I went out on a police story. What good reporter wouldn't appreciate that?"
Relations between the police and the media are likely always to be a bit dicey. "There are bound to be mistakes on both sides," Bergen said, "and maybe we'll end up getting burned somewhere downrange. But at least this shows we're trying for more transparency, trying to lower the walls a bit."
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Moon Glow
6-10 p.m., Saturday March 16 | Free.
Join the new Glow Gallery for a galactic themed mixed media art exhibition of Evan Hildebrandt and Rowland Augur. Get ready for blast-off where you'll encounter moon-men, rolling fog, lasers, galactic audio art sounds by Sven Menninger and friends. MOON GLOW is a multi-sensory experience intended to help the participant explore the innate truths that the cosmos hold.
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A place they sell an old ancient stamp
A place that never grows so damp
And all to think of in your dreams,
It might not be what it seems.
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Happy New Year! I'm back with part 5 of a nine-part blog series that describes the requirements for hosting primary unstructured enterprise data in the cloud.
This entire blog series includes an introduction and the following set of requirements:
• Introduction
• Accessed like traditional storage
• Easy to use enterprise features
• Comprehensive data integrity/protection
• Data security/privacy
• Continuous availability
• Non-blocking performance
• Administrative transparency and control
• Provides good investment value
When talking to enterprise IT professionals (our customers), the second-most frequently-referenced concern/consideration (second only to "don't lose or corrupt my data," which was covered in my last post) is "don't let anyone else see or steal my data."
As this first post of the year comes right after Network World has named Zetta as one of the "10 Storage Startups to Watch," I would like to say that it is certainly rewarding to see editors such as Jon Brodkin recognize that while "many companies are concerned about the safety of trusting their information to a third party, to help ease those concerns, Zetta has built a system that encrypts data at rest, and can withstand multiple hardware and network failures without losing data." There are certain baseline security/privacy criteria that must be met prior to trusting a cloud storage solution with primary copies of enterprise data.
Wireline encryption: Using a storage service (as opposed to an inside-the-firewall solution) clearly implies a need to secure the data in transit from the enterprise to the service. Fortunately, this is increasingly facilitated by the protocols themselves. Most file transfer protocols and Web-optimized storage protocols have encrypted versions readily available today, including sFTP, FTPS, and Secure WebDAV, run over HTTPS. Even traditional storage access protocols are building in wireline encryption in recognition of our increasingly Internet-driven existence, such as NFSv4.
While we encourage customers to use these encrypted protocols, there are clearly use cases that require the use of unencrypted protocols. The solutions here are also tried and true — either encrypt prior to sending the data, contract for a dedicated network link, or work with the service provider to put in place a secure tunnel, such as a VPN.
Logical partitioning within multi-tenancy: By some definitions (certainly mine), a service must be multi-tenant before it can be considered a "cloud" service[i]. In order for enterprise IT professionals to have confidence using a cloud storage service for enterprise data, they must know that their data cannot be accessed while resident in service infrastructure. The first step to this is to ensure logical separation between customers at the "front door" of the service infrastructure — the initial customer access point to the service. Virtualization makes this easy — simply house every customer's mountpoint as a unique URI within a distinct virtual machine instance. This way, you know that your access point is completely unique to you, and is not a shared resource comingled with other users.
At-Rest Encryption: By far the most significant feature to ensuring data security is default encryption at rest, supplied by your service provider at no additional cost. Ideally this should be facilitated by a full Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) backed by FIPS 140-2 compliant key repositories, with advanced bit encryption, a robust key rotation scheme, and ideally per-customer or per-volume keys. Strong encryption at rest is really table stakes for any enterprise-class data storage service.
To reiterate a common theme across these posts — it is important to remember that these are the baseline requirements that your cloud storage provider should take in consideration from the development phase. These types of customer requirements drove the design of the Zetta storage solution, which was built specifically to house enterprise primary data in the cloud.
I'll be back in a few days to touch on the next requirement, continuous availability architecture.
[i] Note that this is not a statement unique to storage services, but to any kind of service.


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Whittle le Woods
WHITTLE-LE-WOODS, a village, a township, and a chapelry, in Leyland parish, Lancashire. The village stands 2 miles E by S of Leyland r. station, and 6 SSE of Preston; is a scattered place; and has a postal pillar-box under Preston, and a large brewery. The township comprises 1,357 acres. Real property, £6,576; of which £80 are in quarries. Pop. in 1851, 2,310; in 1861, 2,151. Houses, 443. The decrease of pop. was caused by the stoppage of a manufactory. The property is sub-divided. Shaw Hall is the seat of T. B. Crosse, Esq. Medicinal springs were discovered in 1845; they arise from coal-borings, at a depth of 265 feet; they are much frequented by invalids and pleasure parties; and they gave rise to the erection of baths, a public hall, and a spacious hotel. The chapelry was constituted in 1830. Pop., 2,856. Houses, 587. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Manchester. Value, £150.* Patron, the Vicar of Leyland. The church was built in 1823.
John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72)
Archives and librariesLocal studies information is held at Chorley library.
- St John the Evangelist, Preston Road, Church of England
- St Chad, South Hill, Roman Catholic
CensusDetails about the census records, and indexes for Whittle le Woods.
Church History
Church Records
- St John the Evangelist, Preston Road, Church of England
- Preston Road, Wesleyan Methodist
- St Chad, South Hill, Roman Catholic
- St Therese of Lisieux, Dawson Lane, Roman Catholic
You can also perform a more selective search for churches in the Whittle-le-Woods area that are recorded in the GENUKI church database. This will also help identify other churches in nearby townships and/or parishes. You also have the option to see the location of the churches marked on a map.
Civil RegistrationThe Register Office covering the Whittle le Woods area is Chorley.
Description and TravelYou can see pictures of Whittle-le-Woods which are provided by:
GazetteersAsk for the gazetteer for a calculation of the distance from Whittle le Woods to another place.
Historical GeographyIn 1835 Whittle le Woods was a township in the parish of Leyland.
MapsView maps of Whittle-le-Woods and places within its boundaries.
You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SD579214 (Lat/Lon: 53.687342, -2.638974), Whittle-le-Woods which are provided by:
- This place shown on a Google map.
- Google Streetview
- StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps.)
- Open StreetMap
- Bing (was Multimap)
- OldMaps (Old Ordnance Survey maps.)
- Old Maps Online (Other old maps.)
- National Library of Scotland (Best site for old maps)
- Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
- English Jurisdictions in 1851 (Unfortunately the LDS have removed the facility to enable us to specify a starting location, you will need to search yourself on their map.)
- Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
- Elgin Road Works
- Mario (Lancashire Council maps, less than historic county)
- GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)
- All places within the same township/parish shown on a Google map.
- Nearby townships/parishes shown on a Google map.
- Nearby places shown on a Google map.
Probate RecordsFor probate purposes prior to 1858, Whittle le Woods was in the Archdeaconry of Chester, in the Diocese of Chester. The original Lancashire wills for the Archdeaconry of Chester are held at the Lancashire Record Office.
You can also see Family History Societies covering the nearby area, plotted on a map. This facility is being developed, and is awaiting societies to enter information about the places they cover.


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24 - 24 Aug 2016
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What kind of genius are you? Find out when you flaunt your rock knowledge and belt out karaoke with the cast of your favourite musical magic show.
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Some Kind of Genius Tour is coming to Darwin.
In 2010, the RocKwiz Team took to the road and played thirty five shows in nineteen venues across this wide brown land. A rotating cavalcade of stars surprised and delighted packed houses across the country. Contestants from the audience demonstrated amazing rock knowledge and performed Karaoke with the RocKwiz Orkestra.
Expect the unexpected when the RocKwiz team unleashes its unique brand of energetic musical magic. High profile stars and up and coming artists will rub shoulders with contestants selected from the audience. The 'RocKwiz - Some Kind Of Genius Tour' is an extension of the television show, but bigger, bolder and braver. More guests, more songs and more questions. Watch the cast cut loose and revel in the freedom of the big stage.
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Book your room at Park & Suites Confort Marseille Aéroport
Get an overview of this hotelResidence in Vitrolles with free airport shuttle and fitness center
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Simply enter your Nectar card number when prompted. Your points will be credited 30 days after you return from your trip.*Offers may apply
Situated near the airport, this residence is 2.8 mi (4.5 km) from Eurocopter and within 6 mi (10 km) of Karting de L'Etang and Parc du Griffon. Tour Musee and Roquepertuse Archaeological Site are also within 9 mi (15 km).
Property Features
This smoke-free residence features a fitness center, self parking, and a business center. Free WiFi in public areas and a free airport shuttle are also provided. Additionally, laundry facilities and multilingual staff are onsite.
Room Amenities
All 94 rooms feature kitchens with refrigerators and microwaves, plus free wired Internet and flat-screen TVs with cable channels. Guests will also find WiFi, premium bedding, and coffee makers.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!
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High-speed wireless Internet access is complimentary. A business center is on site. A roundtrip airport shuttle is complimentary to guests during limited hours. This Vitrolles residence also offers a fitness center, multilingual staff, and laundry facilities. Parking is available onsite for a surcharge.
Park & Suites Confort Marseille Aéroport is a smoke-free property.
- Free airport transportation
- Total number of rooms - 94
- Number of floors - 3
- Business center
- Elevator/lift
- Fitness facilities
- Laundry facilities
- Multilingual staff
- Year Built 2008
- Self parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- Front desk (limited hours)
- Free WiFi
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- Family Hotel
- Free Wi-Fi
- Kitchen
- Laundry facilities
- Refrigerator
- Microwave
Available in all rooms: WiFi (surcharge) , Free wired high-speed Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
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- Premium bedding
- Air conditioning
- Refrigerator
- Coffee/tea maker
- Kitchen
- Microwave
- Private bathroom
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Desk
- Cable TV service
- Flat-panel TV
- WiFi (surcharge)
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Cookware, dishware, and utensils
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Cribs/infant beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Continental breakfasts are available for a surcharge and are served each morning between 7 AM and 9:30 AM.
Nearby Things to Do
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Golf lessons available nearby
To make requests for specific accessibility needs, complete the "Special or Accessibility Requests" section of "Trip Preferences" when you book your hotel.
- Accessible bathroom
- Accessible parking
- In-room accessibility
- Roll-in shower
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 4 PM
Check-in time ends at 9 PM
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Check-out time is 10 AM
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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Towels are available for a surcharge. For more information, please contact the office using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 0.77 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 13 years of age.
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A new NASA study concludes that cars are the biggest net contributor to climate change:
Cars, buses, and trucks release pollutants and greenhouse gases that promote warming, while emitting few aerosols that counteract it. In contrast, the industrial and power sectors release many of the same gases—with a larger contribution to radiative forcing—but they also emit sulfates and other aerosols that cause cooling by reflecting light and altering clouds...
In their analysis, motor vehicles emerged as the greatest net contributor to atmospheric warming now and in the near term, with a total radiative forcing of 199 mWm-2 in 2020. The researchers found that the burning of household biofuels—primarily wood and animal dung for home heating and cooking—contribute the second most warming. And raising livestock, particularly methane-producing cattle, contribute the third most. The industrial sector releases such a high proportion of sulfates and other cooling aerosols that it actually contributes a significant amount of cooling to the system. And biomass burning—which occurs mainly as a result of tropical forest fires, deforestation, savannah and shrub fires—emits large amounts of organic carbon particles that block solar radiation.
Now, obviously, if we want to slash net emissions to zero in the next few decades, we'll need to eliminate or offset all of our emissions, including the ones that cause comparatively less warming (or "forcing"). Less bad does not mean good.
But this adds more evidence to the idea that our first target, especially in the U.S., should be cars and trucks. And we already know that the way to solve the problem of cars is to build better cities.
You could rewrite the headline here to say, "NASA confirms that bright green cities are essential to climate action."
If the raising of livestock is really the third largest contributer to climate change, then that's another good reason to eat less (or no) meat. Particularly cattle.
Why isn' the airlines whom exhaust a trememdous amount at sky level, not ground level never included??
Another report to make drivers feel guilty, please let me correct it: cars are not ruining the planet, it's their use of fossil fuels that do.
If all cars were running on solar energy, they would be climate neutral. Our goal shall be to make cars able to run on renewables, not to give up motorized individual transport.
"If all cars were running on solar energy, they would be climate neutral."
That's an absurd statement.
From manufacturing to road-building to health care costs, cars have massive climate, environmental and social impacts beyond their tailpipe emissions. Even if they ran on fairy dust, cars would have a massive impact on the planet.
And, of course, they mostly run on oil, and will for the foreseeable future.


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ELLICOTT CITY, Md. (AP) — Howard County Police have identified a motorcyclist who was killed when his vehicle crashed with a car in Ellicott City.
Police said Wednesday that 24-year-old Terrence Alan Robinson of Windsor Mill was pronounced dead at Howard County General Hospital after Tuesday morning's accident.
Police say an officer saw Robinson speeding on Route 40. Authorities say the officer activated his emergency equipment and tried to stop the vehicle, but stopped following it to avoid a high-speed pursuit.
Police say Robinson drove through one red light, then a second at Rogers Avenue. Officers say the motorcycle was hit by a car making a legal left turn on a green arrow.
Officers say Robinson did not have a motorcycle operator's license and his standard driver's license was suspended.
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A look at the winter weather news in the D.C. area.
WTOP compiles must-hit, must-watch events for the month of December.


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