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Google Chrome is a nice web browser. It not only gives faster web browsing, it also comes with nice extensions to do cool stuff with Chrome. But malicious Chrome extensions can ruin your Chrome experience. Sometimes when you install a software from untrusted source, it also installs a Chrome extension that changes new tab page, search settings, and home page. You may also see irritating ads around the web pages in your browser. Most of this kind of extensions are malware or adware. So, you need to take extra care while downloading software. You can also try Extension Defender. It is a Chrome extension that scans all installed Chrome extensions for unwanted and malicious apps.
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Extension Defender scans all installed extensions and apps of your Chrome browser against known malware, spyware, and adware. After installation, it adds a shield like an icon in OMNI bar. Clicking on this icon takes you to a new page that asks you to scan all extensions.
Clicking on Scan button scans all the installed extensions. If you have any suspicious extension installed in your browser, it will notify you in the search result page along with the author name and plugin id. You should remove all the suspicious extensions from your browser.
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The atom interferometer team is interested in interferometry with Matter-wave. In particular, we have been developing atom interferometers with separated arms. These interferometers allow to set up controled perturbations on a single path.
The high sensitivity of quantum interference patterns to these external perturbations can be exploited to measure weak external forces or internal atomic properties with high sensitivity. In particular, our experiments are designed to test the electromagnetic interactions, such as Atom polarisability, Atom-atom interactions, Atom-surface interaction, Atom neutrality. These measurements have applications in fundamental physics and atom metrology. We also study curiosity of quantum mechanics : Topological phase shift, decoherence and dephasing.
Our previous studies on atom interferometry based on a lithium beam can be found here.
Alexandre Gauguet, Tangui Rodzinka, Romain Calviac, Ashley Béguin, Baptiste Allard
The new apparatus is based on an atomic fountain interferometer. A sample of ultra-cold atoms (BEC) is prepared in an optical trap. The atoms are launched vertically with an initial velocity (≈ 2 m/s) using an optical lattice which transfers momenta of optical photons to the atoms. A sequence of laser pulses acts as beamsplitters and mirrors for the atoms, splitting the atom wave-function into a coherent superposition between two trajectories, and then recombining them in order to interfere. In our setup, we plan a large momentum transfer from an optical lattice to atoms leading to a large separation between the two paths of the interferometer. At the output of the interferometers the atom population oscillates according to the accumulated phase shift. The atom population is measured with the induced fluorescence emitted by the atoms in both outputs of the interferometer.
One of the prospects in fundamental physics is to measure the electrical neutrality of matter. All experimental evidence to date indicates that atoms are electrically neutral (the electron and proton charge magnitudes are equal and that of neutron charge is zero) within a small error: 10-21 the elementary charge. The origin of the extremely fine tuning might be considered as a hint for new physics beyond the standard model. Indeed, the atom neutrality is strongly connected to the electric charge quantization. This remarkable property is a natural consequence in superstring models or grand unified groups, but also conventional extensions to the standard model could lead to charge quantization. On the contrary, some new theoritical models proposed dequantization of the electric charge either in the framework of extension to the SM or using assumptions beyond the SM.
The measurement of the atom neutrality with an atom interferometer is based on the scalar Aharonov-Bohm effect. This effect consists in applying opposite electric potentials ±V on the two interferometer arms. These electric potentials are turned on only when the atom is inside the electrode assembly where the electric potential is constant and the electric field is cancelled, so that the atom does not feel any force. However, if the atom carries a non-zero electric charge, its electrostatic energy is modified and this modification gives rise to a phase shift proportional to the electric charge, to the applied voltage V and to the duration τ of the voltage pulse. To perform such an experiment it will be necessary to separate the atoms by several cm, in order to have clear separated interaction zones and long duration of the voltage pulse. The smallest measurable charge with our interferometer, depends on the sensitivity of the interferometer. This new method can potentially surpass by orders of magnitude below the current bounds.
We are developping BEC source on a chip. The source combines on a chip, the magnetic trapping with microscopic wires and an optical dipole trap. It will also be possible to condense two isotopes of rubidium. This experiment will test new solutions in atom optics engineering which might have an impact in technological applications for transportable or on-board applications like inertial sensors and geodesy.
With the hybrid solution, the atoms can be loaded efficiently in a pure optical trap by turning off carefully the magnetic field. Because of the specific collisional properties of the 85Rb, a pure optical trap is essential to obtain a Bose Einstein condensate with this isotope. The strategy to get the dual-species BEC consists in finishing the cooling of the two rubidium isotopes in the same optical trap. The optical trap is also essential to avoid magnetic fields which could be harmful for precision measurements.
We moved to new labs !!
June 2022
We moved the BEC interferometer experiment and the atom chip experiment in new labs. Ready for new challenges in this amazing building.
Characterization of an atom interferometer in the quasi-Bragg regime
March 2022
We present a joint experimental and theoretical study of atom interferometers using BEC manipulated by an optical lattice in the quasi-Bragg regime. The results focus on the diffraction losses and multiport features, which could guide the future studies of atom interferometry.
80 hk LMT Interferometer
February 2021
We demonstrate a 80 hk LMT interferometer using a sequence of 1st order Bragg pulses. The total duration of the interferometer is 10 ms and the phase sensitivity is 20 mrad shot-to-shot.
Interference pattern with a BEC-interferometer
November 2020
We got an atom interferometer in the so-called Mach-Zehnder configuration. The beamsplitters and mirror are made with 1st order Bragg diffraction. The fringe visibility is 0.8. The interaction Time between the Bragg pulses is 2ms.
Zeeman state preparation of the BEC
September 2020
Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a crossed dipole
trap, purified to any one spin projection state by a spin-distillation process applied during the evaporation to BEC.
Rabi flopping between two momentum states
February 2020
A vertical optical lattice interacts with a BEC to drive first order Bragg diffraction. We have shown Rabi oscillation between momentum states separated by 2hk.
Cold atoms into the new atom chip setup
June 2019
We have loaded 10 millions atoms in the magnetic trap created with the microscopic chip made in LAAS. This experiment aims at developing efficient ultra-cold atoms sources for onboard atom interferometers.
Response of an interferometers based on sequential light pulses
January 2019
We calculated the sensitivity function of a LMT-interferometers using sequential accelerating light pulses. The sensitivity to laser phase fluctuations is calculated, and we show that the pulse sequence can be engineered to mitigate the phase noise sensitivity.
HOORAY ! We get our Rubidium BEC
December 2018
Bose-Einstein condensate of rubidium atoms are obtained using an all-optical trap based on a crossed dipole trap generated by a 50W multi-mode fiber laser (1064 nm) and a 6 W dimple trap at 1560 nm. Pure BEC with more than 40 000 atoms are obtained every 5 seconds.
85Rb and 87Rb Mirror-MOT observed in the new vacuum Chamber !
January 2017
We load 5 billions cold atoms of rubidium 85 and 87 in a magneto-optical trap near the surface of an atom chip.
Atom interferomtry team and visitors
June 2016
Sina, Kessi, Maxime, Boris, Alex, Julien, Elise, Julien, Jean-Philippe, Gilles, Jacques.

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Former Boston prosecutor Bobby Constantino decided to find out first hand what New York's criminal justice system looked like from the perspective of a lawbreaker, and if he—as an upscale-looking white guy—would be treated differently than someone who looked less affluent and/or was non-white.
The answers Constantino got are both interesting to read and disturbing.
Here are some clips from Constantino's story, written for the Atlantic.
Ten years ago, when I started my career as an assistant district attorney in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, I viewed the American criminal justice system as a vital institution that protected society from dangerous people. I once prosecuted a man for brutally attacking his wife with a flashlight, and another for sexually assaulting a waitress at a nightclub. I believed in the system for good reason.
But in between the important cases, I found myself spending most of my time prosecuting people of color for things we white kids did with impunity growing up in the suburbs. As our office handed down arrest records and probation terms for riding dirt bikes in the street, cutting through a neighbor's yard, hosting loud parties, fighting, or smoking weed – shenanigans that had rarely earned my own classmates anything more than raised eyebrows and scoldings – I often wondered if there was a side of the justice system that we never saw in the suburbs. Last year, I got myself arrested in New York City and found out.
On April 29, 2012, I put on a suit and tie and took the No. 3 subway line to the Junius Avenue stop in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville. At the time, the blocks around this stop were a well-known battleground in the stop-and-frisk wars: Police had stopped 14,000 residents 52,000 times in four years. I figured this frequency would increase my chances of getting to see the system in action, but I faced a significant hurdle: Though I've spent years living and working in neighborhoods like Brownsville, as a white professional, the police have never eyed me suspiciously or stopped me for routine questioning. I would have to do something creative to get their attention.
I walked up to the east entrance of City Hall and tagged the words "N.Y.P.D. Get Your Hands Off Me" on a gatepost in red paint. The surveillance video shows me doing this, 20 feet from the police officer manning the gate. I moved closer, within 10 feet of him, and tagged it again. I could see him inside watching video monitors that corresponded to the different cameras.
As I moved the can back and forth, a police officer in an Interceptor go-cart saw me, slammed on his brakes, and pulled up to the curb behind me. I looked over my shoulder, made eye contact with him, and resumed. As I waited for him to jump out, grab me, or Tase me, he sped away and hung a left, leaving me standing there alone. I've watched the video a dozen times and it's still hard to believe.
I woke up the next morning and Fox News was reporting that unknown suspects had vandalized City Hall. I went back to the entrance and handed the guard my driver's license and a letter explaining what I'd done…
In the end I was found guilty of nine criminal charges. The prosecutor asked for 15 days of community service as punishment. My attorney requested time served. The judge—in an unusual move that showed how much the case bothered him—went over the prosecutor's head and ordered three years of probation, a $1000 fine, a $250 surcharge, a $50 surcharge, 30 days of community service, and a special condition allowing police and probation officers to enter and search my residence anytime without a warrant.
At my group probation orientation, the officer handed each of us a packet and explained that we are not allowed to travel, work, or visit outside New York City.
"Wait, what?" I blurted out. "This is true even for nonviolent misdemeanors?"
"Yes, for everyone. You have to get permission."
After the orientation, I went straight to my probation officer and requested permission to spend Christmas with my family in Massachusetts. I listened in disbelief as she denied my request—I'd worked with probation departments in several states, and I knew that regular family contact has been shown to reduce recidivism. My probation officer also refused to let me go home for Easter and birthdays……
In a letter to the LA County Board of Supervisors on Monday, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca explained to the board members the broad strokes of the hiring practices that resulted in a list of questionable hires three years ago when the department merged with LA County's Office of Public Safely—or OPS—and was asked to absorb what officers it could from that small county police force.
According to an LA Times investigation into the matter, out of 290 new hires, around 100 were inappropriate candidates for law enforcement. Some were droppingly inappropriate. like, for example, the woman who had a fight with her husband then, in a fit of pique, blasted away at the man with her service weapon as he frantically ran a zig-zag-pattern in order to dodge her bullets.
The supervisors were not at all thrilled with Baca's one-and-a-quarter-page letter, which did not answer many of the question that the board deemed pertinent—namely how in the world did this happen? The letter mostly blamed the hires on retired undersheriff Larry Waldie. This was not an explanation that the board members appeared to find satisfying, particularly Supervisor Antonovich who made a motion that Baca be required to report again to the board in two weeks.
In the meantime, LA Times reporters Robert Faturechi and Ben Poston talked to Assistant Sheriff Todd Rodgers about the matter and Rogers said that he and the sheriff admit that there had been 80 bad hires, but that reforms were being put into place to prevent such a thing from happening in the future.
Sheriff's Department spokesman Steve Whitmore reiterated to WitnessLA that former undersheriff Larry Waldie had been an extra layer in addition to the usual hiring protocols, and it was he who made the improper hiring selections.
"The sheriff takes full responsibility, and has decreed that we will do what is necessary to reform the system," said Whitmore. "But it was Undersheriff Waldie who was in charge of that project."
Former LASD commander Bob Olmsted, who is running against Baca in the 2014 sheriff's race, said that from what he knows of the situation, the problems with department hiring practices are "systemic," and not limited to merely those 80-100 problem hires from the OPS.
Olmsted also said he'd spoken to another retired undersheriff who told him that the sheriff would have had to sign off any and all people hired from the county police.
"All the paperwork absolutely would have gone straight to the sheriff," Olmsted said.
In an LA Times editorial about the bad hires that ran on Tuesday morning before the board meeting, editorial board member Rob Greene writes that the hiring issues point to other problems in the department.
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Sheriff Lee Baca had his hands full last week responding to the arrests of 18 of his current and former deputies amid a continuing investigation into abuse of inmates at Los Angeles County's jails, so let's hope he hasn't forgotten that he is due to report today on the previous week's scandal: the hiring of dozens of deputies with personnel records that showed lying, cheating, excessive force and irresponsible use of firearms.
The two matters aren't related in any formal sense; none of those arrested Dec. 9 was among the group that moved over to the Sheriff's Department in 2010 when the county's public safety police force was dissolved. But it doesn't take a leap of imagination to recognize a link between bad hiring practices and bad deputy conduct, especially if the sheriff's hiring of those 280 public safety officers three years ago followed standard policy….
The serendipitously-named Luke Money of the Santa Clarita Signal reports about LA County's determination to get a larger slice of California's realignment dollars. Here's a clip:
With state savings likely totaling more than $2 billion and county resources strained to provide adequate services for thousands of offenders, county supervisors voted Tuesday to ask the state to dole out more dough to fund the cost of the controversial state prison realignment program.
Members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors decided during their meeting Tuesday to request more funding from the state to help supplement services that have been strained by an influx of inmates under the 2011 law, which shifted responsibility for some criminals from the state to counties.
"Realignment resulted in a 25 percent increase in the jail population over the first two years of the program," reads a board report. "The population count was 15,463 on Sept. 30, 2011, and 19,225 on Sept. 30, 2013."
The state will likely save in excess of $2 billion as a result of realignment, according to Los Angeles County Chief Executive Officer William T. Fujioka, while sending out less than $1 billion to California's 58 counties to help offset the cost of the prisoner shift.
On Tuesday, Probation Chief Jerry Powers presented an extensive two-year report on how realignment is going in LA County, which Powers said, gets 30 percent of the realignment prisoners. Among his points, Powers outlined some parts of the county's approaches to the realignment challenges that are beginning to succeed, such as the use of "flash incarceration," short jail terms of around 10 days, that are used for small infractions instead of parole revocation.
Allison Pari of KHTS AM Radio has more on Powers' lengthy and comprehensive report:
Chief Probation Officer Jerry Powers opened the report by explaining that L.A. County is currently the only county in the state that has created a year two report on the results of AB 109.
He and the other presenters also emphasized that some of the data from year two is not complete, because those offenders released during 2013 may not have completed their probation or treatment.
During the first two years, more than 18,000 prisoners were released into the county under the Post-Release Community Supervision program, but the active probation population peaked at 10,300, according to the Probation Department's full report, available here.
Powers said that of those 18,000 who have gone through the program so far, 1,900 have outstanding warrants, a similar ratio to other counties in the state.
He also said that flash incarcerations have significantly increased between years one and two–from more than 2,500 to more than 9,700–primarily because the Probation Department has become more comfortable with using this method of dealing with probation violators.
Flash incarcerations are seven to 10 day sentences given to AB 109 offenders for technical violations, such as failing to report to their probation officer.
Concerning recidivism, Powers said that the percentage of rearrests has been cut in half between years one and two– 43 percent rearrested vs. 21 percent rearrested…


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At the opening plenary of ICTD 2010 (London, December 2010), Anita Gurumurthy asked critical questions about the ethics and the social impact of the network society, beyond a mere economic approach, as she shared her thoughts on the critical research agendas in ICTD. She also participated in a panel which debated on the issues of openness on the last day of the conference. She argued for how openness would be meaningless unless there were enabling policies both at local and global levels and the open technology architecture was not merely globally present, but also locally meaningful. Read her intervention here.


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Building a Culture for One-to-One
Schools designing one-to-one technology plans rightfully spend huge amounts of time and resources in choosing hardware, software and much more. In my previous Blog Post Building a Community for One-to-One, I shared our school's story of working through some of these details. I'd like to share our experience with the actual roll-out and early elements of success.
A strong culture built around core school values, learning community and celebration were all involved in nex+Gen's story of success. At the core of our one-to-one program was an integration with our wall-to-wall project and problem based learning model. Through our partnership with the New Tech Network, we found frameworks, tools and pedagogy for building our own unique program. These core values were co-created by our students and teachers and were endorsed school wide.
Many schools around the country grapple with the idea of loaning computer hardware. Questions of theft, loss, damage and safe use of the computer online are very serious issues to be addressed. Our approach to these issues started with the New Tech Schools model. In that model schools maintain a culture that promotes trust, respect and responsibility. Student and teachers alike have exceptional ownership of the learning experience and their school environment.
This focus relates to every part of school community. At nex+Gen we have something called a 'passport' which allows students to move freely around the school. Our school was designed with "cubbies" instead of rows of lockers. Additionally, our classrooms or 'learning studios' have no doors.
A key to our success was building a strong learning community using our New Tech School's learning management tools combined with other tools such as Gmail, Word, Presentation, and Chat. Our teachers updated their knowledge and skills sets to integrate these tools into their projects. They created electronic repositories or 'briefcases' online where students had direct access to workshops, readings and resources for projects. As a result, students became more engaged and accountable for their place in the learning community. Rarely were laptops taken for granted. Instead, they became a trusted tool to be used when needed.
We believed that by setting high expectations and providing specific activities on core values we that we would build an effective culture within our learning community. This supports our quality one-to-one model and creates an academic environment best suited for developing students for college and career.
Nex+Gen has thrived in many ways over the past 4 years. Our school has high comparable test scores to other well performing districts. Students' technology use shows evidence of highly effective collaboration skills, inquiry and analysis. We involve community members and have students present projects showcasing their communication skills. When distributing computers, we had a ceremony that included our friends from Dell, Intel, local vendor TIG and our superintendent Winston Brooks. With a properly cared for laptop at the ready, all of this and much more has been possible for our students.
Learn more about nex+Gen: Videos illustrating important elements of nex+Gen's one-to-one rollout - August 2010 and February 2011
Dr. Michael Stanton is the Founding Principal and Director of nex+Gen Academy, a small School of Choice in Albuquerque Public Schools. nex+Gen is a member of the New Tech Network. He earned his Ph.D in 2009 from the University of New Mexico, College of Education in Organizational Learning and Instructional Technology with a minor in Educational Leadership. His school is an Exemplary School and Demonstration Site for wall-to-wall project and problem based learning, smart use of technology in a 1 to 1 setting, and a learning community and cultural that develops and supports core values and enduring skills in agency, collaboration, inquiry and analysis, and communication.
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Getting data from your EMR does not need to be like drinking out of a fire hydrant
"Reading an EMR is like taking a drink out of a fire hydrant, it is bloated with repetitive data" – Keith Kein, MD http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2015/01/emrs-can-hurt-physicians-lawsuits-heres.html …was the tweet that led me to Keith Kein's blog on risks of EHR data in lawsuits. I would be lying if I didn't admit that I was irritated by the headline and even more frustrated by the content. Dr. Kein went on lament that Electronic Health records are systems designed to make billing more efficient, and that in the absence of efficiencies for physicians many are "copy and pasting" from one note to another to add efficiencies and instead often add incorrect, old or repetitive data to the chart.
These are not new assertions, and I have spent many hours sitting next to physicians listening to these complaints and more, as we work to implement new systems or improve existing ones. In many facilities there is a tension between the clinicians and the administration that gets simplified by one group saying "The Problem is the EHR" and another saying "The problems is how they are using it." The truth is much more complex.
The first generation of Electronic Medical records were built to replace a paper process. The act of transforming what we did on paper to what we do on computers was revolutionary at the time – we have data saved, easily available, legible and yes, codeable and auditable. Billing is faster and more efficient. Capturing the necessary clinical information for billing appropriately has been a part of the landscape of American medicine for some time before electronic health records, and was a focus of this first generation of applications.
We are now in a new and exciting time in the development of EHRs. We are starting to move beyond the phase of translating the paper process of electronic. The question before us now is – what is the best technology to practice the best medicine? This is the conversation that I have with physicians, nurses, office managers and Administrators when we start to talk about build, design and/or optimization.
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- How do we make the job of data collection & transfer of information easy for all parties involved?
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These are my favorite discussions. We are often limited in our thinking to what we understand an application to be capable of. I think all too often we forget to take a step back and explore what will really help move an organization forward and use that as our starting point. Often times we even find the solution is using our existing technology in a different way, or investing in one area of improvement will improve user satisfaction and in the end help us all provide better medicine.
It is not easy. In a climate of ever changing regulations, incentive programs, billing models and software updates, we are all to often focused on what is the next big project insead of on what is the right thing to do for this practice, this organization, this health care setting.
Every conversation should always come back to this. How are we going to practice the best medicine today, and tomorrow?
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Great analysis. It's definitely more complex than what people make it out to be. Plus, far too often in these discussions they like to compare the ideal (ie. no documentation and all the information at your fingertips whenever you need it) instead of comparing against the alternative (paper).
Although, it does raise an interesting question which I don't think you addressed. Can you make a beautiful documentation system that doesn't have a bunch of extraneous distractions (ie. a full page of normals that hide the abnormals) in the current billing system? I agree that many people focus on the wrong things, but focusing on better patient care doesn't mean that the billing requirements don't muck up our documentation.
Hello John and thanks for taking a moment to read our blog. As one of the primary note builders here at Galen, I feel confident in saying that we CAN make a clean and streamlined note that includes all applicable billing documentation. Getting to that point is the trick however. It takes a flexible EHR, a solid understanding of healthcare workflows, practices for documentation and the engagement of physician champions. When we first heard about the move to ICD-10, one of the things we began working on was figuring out how to build a better note, given all of the new requirements. We are proud to say that we have figured out how to do that in a way that is meaningful and efficient, yet doesn't distract from patient care as a whole.


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Game of Thrones fans who attended the IMAX premiere of two remastered episodes from Season 4 were treated to a special teaser trailer for Season 5. But luckily for the age of the Internet, the video was released thereafter, giving the world a special preview of what's to come this spring. Could Westeros finally gain the hero it deserves? Check out the full trailer and screenshots after the break. Continue reading
'Game of Thrones' to be Remastered and Played in IMAX Theatres This January
With the upcoming fifth season of Game of Thrones on the horizon, HBO has announced that they will be the first television network to feature programming in IMAX theatres. The final two episodes from season four will be digital remastered and formatted for 150 IMAX screens across the U.S. of A. Following the episodes, fans will be greeted with a first look at the highly anticipated new season. Learn more about when this will all take place after the jump. Continue reading


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There's no doubt Margot Robbie's Harley Quinn was the standout character in Suicide Squad. It's why, since then, we've heard the character will not only be in Suicide Squad 2, but possibly a Gotham City Sirens movie as well as a Harley and Joker movie. But the actress is reportedly working on a fourth Harley movie that has nothing to do with any of those.
Robbie spoke to MTV about the project, which she says she's been working on for two years and is unrelated to the other projects that have been discussed. Watch the clip.
Robbie has definitely spoken about various Harley projects before, but with so many in play, it seemed likely she was referring to something that had already been leaked. But the way she says it here, all of these projects, including this mysterious solo take, are in various stages of development and any one of them could come out before the others—which, you have to think, would help determine anything that followed.
This comes on the heels of Robbie saying she thinks she'll be playing the character next year. So you have to wonder, which project will that be in?
Oh, and don't forget she might also provide Harley's voice for a new streaming show.


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Lululemon's Transparency Issues Just Got Worse
Lululemon athletica reported first-quarter earnings after the bell on Monday. However, the company's impressive results were overshadowed by a surprising announcement from CEO Christine Day that she's leaving. Shares plummeted on the news. So what's next for the yoga apparel company?
Things just got personal
The former Starbucks executive said her decision to step down after more than five years at Lululemon was a "personal" one. Unfortunately, investors took the news personally as well, sending the stock lower by nearly 15% ahead of the bell on Tuesday. Perhaps most frustrating is the fact that this news caught investors off guard during what was otherwise an upbeat earnings announcement.
Of course, this isn't Lululemon's first transparency setback. Just three months ago, the retailer was forced to pull more than 17% of its signature luon pants from store shelves because the bottoms were sheer to the point of being see-through. The company also ran into quality-control issues a year earlier when colors on certain garments would bleed when washed.
I mention this because it would be easy to assume that Day's exit was somehow related to the recent bout of recalls. However, Lululemon's chief product officer, Sheree Waterson, already fell on that sword.
Whatever the truth may be, the reality is that finding a replacement for Christine Day won't be easy. At $1.37 billion, Lululemon's annual revenue is now five times what it was before she took the helm. Not to mention, during her tenure Lululemon stock has grown in value from about $30 to where the stock trades today at around $82 a share.
Here to-Day, gone tomorrow
Lululemon's board has enlisted an executive search committee to hunt for Day's replacement. While Day said she would remain with the company until a successor is found, those are big shoes to fill and finding a new CEO isn't something that happens overnight.
The sooner the board is able to name a new CEO, the better -- particularly as the company prepares to expand into new markets overseas. In addition to new retail locations in London, Berlin, and Singapore, Lululemon plans to open at least three stores in China by the end of 2013. For now, Lululemon's international growth plans are on track. However, new leadership at the company puts a lot of uncertainty going forward.
Lululemon has the potential to grow its sales by 10 times if it can penetrate its other markets like it has in Canada, but the competitive landscape is starting to increase. Can Lululemon fight off larger retailers and ultimately deliver huge profits for savvy investors? The Motley Fool answers these questions and more in its most in-depth Lululemon research available. Thousands have already claimed their own premium ticker coverage; gain instant access to your own by clicking here now.
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My Testimony
Before I start with what I learned on the trip in the coming weeks, I want to share my own testimony.
I had to write my testimony of salvation when … Read more
Before I start with what I learned on the trip in the coming weeks, I want to share my own testimony.
I had to write my testimony of salvation when … Read more
In the last few posts, I have been discussing prepositions grouped according by case: dative, accusative, either, and genitive.
This post shall focus on German temporal prepositions. That is, prepositions … Read more
der Anwendungsfall – use case
A use case is used to capture the requirements of a system. It describes one way a particular actor interacts with the system to achieve … Read more
We have talked about accusative prepositions, dative prepositions, and even two-way prepositions.
Are there genitive prepositions?
Yes, there are also prepositions that take the genitive.
However, like the genitive case … Read more
die Geldliebe – love of money, covetousness
Hebräer 13,5 Der Wandel sei ohne Geldliebe; begnüget euch mit dem, was vorhanden ist, denn er hat gesagt: "Ich will dich nicht versäumen, … Read more
IPA: [kohɛˈzi̯oːn]
die Kohäsion (pl. -en) – cohesion
Last week, we talked about coupling, which describes the relationship between different classes.
Cohesion, in contrast, focuses on a single class or … Read more
die Kraft – strength, power
IPA: [kʁaft]
Meaning: Capability, ability to work; (physical or mental) strength[1]
Etymology: From Middle High German and Old High German kraft, … Read more
IPA: [ˈkʰɔplʊŋ]
die Kopplung (pl. -en) – coupling
Coupling describes the relationship between two (or more) classes or modules in a system.
Classes that have low coupling (or loose coupling, … Read more
die Wahrheit – truth
IPA: [ˈvaːɐ̯haɪ̯t]
Meaning: Truthfulness; the agreement of a statement with the matter on which it is made; correctness[1]
Etymology: Nominalisation from wahr. … Read more
die Mehrfachvererbung (pl. -en) – multiple inheritance
Multiple inheritance is when one class inherits from two or more classes. (You could have a chain of classes inheriting from one … Read more


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I'm not ready…but here it comes.
I have many beautiful girlfriends. I'm writing about one in particular this morning…a person who has been like a sister to me for over 40 years. She's an accomplished woman who has moved full tilt into life at all stages and we who adore her have always noted among other things, how fabulous she continues to look. Fit, trim, lithe…the works.
I'll ramble here for a bit and eventually work my way to the thought I'm trying to pull into focus.
I know our experiences in the isolation of this quarantine chapter in all our lives are varying greatly. I have pals who've been stretched more than thin trying to be all things to all people working full time from home whilst continuing to raise their young children in a world of no playdates, schools, nor camps. Still others have been handling the stresses of keeping safe whilst being out in the workforce. Some of us fortunate enough to be able to shelter at home have taken on new projects. I've started, however haltingly, to play the piano again. Be grateful you're not under my roof to hear the struggle. I've managed a couple of paintings…not that they're good but I've enjoyed the process. Both of these I might add have proven somewhat antidotal to the heartache and madness we're all witnessing. I've tackled house projects…upholstered, spackled, painted, etc. Believe me you would not want me to come anywhere near your house projects. In the fixing up department the success rate on home administered hair cuts, I've noticed kindness of social media posts, have varied enormously.
The mention of all this is a preamble to not being prepared for the update my beautiful girlfriend sent out this morning. A photo of herself gorgeous as ever but with her long brown tresses shorn to a chic close crop and gray. Gray? Wait! If she's gray then I am too. If she's gray then she's embracing her age, means she does not have endless years ahead to lead the charge as she has always done. Means that perhaps she has some aches and pains, that she's entering a chapter when the horizon is not necessarily more life but you know that other thing. Death. There I said it. Not that death itself is scary…that feels more like a new beginning to me…but to cross that threshold means to say good by to all of this, to the-infinite possibilities of life, that time is up, that the story is written, the chapters done. It means that the time for building has passed.
This begs the question "What about the chapters I thought I'd have?" If she is gray then the time for those dreams has passed and it is time instead to begin to look back and accept the brutal fact that I missed the boat on many fronts…not, mercifully on all but totally, tragically on some. If she is gray I will have to make my peace, deal with the left undone-ness of life and come to terms with the fact that there are things I will never attain in this life time, that I screwed up, got unlucky, lived a life in some ways I intended and in other ways absolutely did not. It means that some losses will go unredeemed, full stop. Life's gains will not be castles so much as buoys I got to hang onto on the stormy sea of the story of my life.
But if you embrace the gray…what are the gifts? Does it mean that you've earned the privilege of finally giving yourself permission to say out loud how you really feel at times and to not continue to pour energies into those you should not? Is the letting go of dreams, whatever they may be, a grace note? A shelter from the exhaustion of longing? A blessing of forgiveness for others as well as for yourself? Does it mean to step off the gerbil wheel and exist in the contentment of now? If so, then maybe I am ready after all.
Bring on the gray. Metaphorically anyway…in the meanwhile I'm not quite as brave as my beautiful girlfriend has been so for now anyway, Amazon…one more box of Clairol please.


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David Cameron promises Sri Lanka 'tough message' on alleged war crimes
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David Cameron has promised to send a "tough message" to Sri Lanka's government over alleged war crimes after it warned him not to question ministers at the Commonwealth summit.
The UK prime minister, who has rejected calls to boycott the meeting in Colombo, said there had to be "proper inquiries" into events in 2009.
But Sri Lanka's government said he had no right to bring up the subject, as he had not been invited on that basis.
The conference begins on Friday.
The Prince of Wales, who celebrated his 65th birthday on Thursday, is representing the Queen at the biennial event.
Mr Cameron's attendance follows trade talks in New Delhi with his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, who is among those avoiding the event.
Mr Singh is joined by the prime ministers of Canada and Mauritius, who are staying away in protest over allegations that the regime of Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaska carried out war crimes at the end of a civil war with Tamil separatists four years ago.
The UN estimates that 40,000 civilians were killed in the last five months of the 26-year conflict, but the Sri Lankan authorities deny responsibility.
In an interview with the BBC's Nick Robinson, Mr Cameron said: "There are legitimate accusations of war crimes that need to be properly investigated.
"That is actually what the Sri Lankan government, in its own lessons learned and reconciliation exercise, found - there were more questions to be answered. But it hasn't effectively answered them. They need to be answered.
"We should be clear, this was an appalling civil war, a civil war in which obviously the Tamil Tigers, using suicide bombs and child soldiers, did some appalling things as well.
"But the end of the war, and this particular set of events where civilians seem to have been targeted - that needs to be properly investigated."
'Independent state'
Tamil representatives and Labour, the British opposition party, urged Mr Cameron to join the boycott, but he argued he could achieve more by using his attendance to "shine a spotlight" on "some of the human rights issues".
But the Sri Lankans reacted angrily to that suggestion.
"The invitation to Prime Minister David Cameron was not based on that," minister of mass media and communications Keheliya Rambukwella told the BBC.
"We are a sovereign nation. You think someone can just make a demand from Sri Lanka?
"We are not a colony. We are an independent state."
Asked about the comments, Mr Cameron maintained he was right to raise questions, adding: "That's exactly what I'll be doing."
Although he said he wanted to deliver a "tough message" to the Sri Lankan government, he pledged not to be "completely uncompromising".
Mr Cameron explained: "There are some positive steps that have been taken in Sri Lanka: the fact that they had elections to a northern provincial council; the fact that there is a process of reconciliation, it's just not going as far as we would like it to go.
"So on the ledger, there are some things on the positive side, but there are too many things on the negative side. Now that's a frank conversation I think we should be able to have."
British media in Sri Lanka who have been asking questions about the government's human rights record have struggled to get answers.
A Channel 4 documentary team was forced to give up on reaching the north of the south Asian state after being stopped by pro-government demonstrators.
'Deep concerns'
A BBC cameraman was physically restrained by security officials at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting as he and correspondent James Robbins were attempting to film Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at a media event before the formal opening.
Labour leader Ed Miliband said: "My party has been clear that in our view we believe that this lamentable human rights situation meant that the British prime minister - like the Canadian and Indian prime ministers - should not attend the summit."
But Mr Cameron, having decided to attend, must now "insist on the full implementation of the recommendations of Sri Lanka's own Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission", Mr Miliband argued, in an article for the Tamil Guardian.
He also urged the UK prime minister to "seek urgent assurances from the Sri Lankan authorities" that they will respect the Commonwealth's values on human rights as they respond to any protests that may take place during the forthcoming summit.
Labour's shadow foreign secretary Douglas Alexander was blunter, telling the BBC: "The prime minister has blundered, and blundered badly, in his decision to attend the summit."
Mr Cameron, who arrived in Delhi on Wednesday en route to the summit, has met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The UK PM has hailed "extraordinary progress" on trade and investment since his first visit in 2010, and pledged to "cement Britain as India's partner of choice".
He is also seeking to reassure Indian nationals about his drive to cut immigration to the UK.


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The planetary emergency
by John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark Capitalism today is caught in a seemingly endless crisis, with economic stagnation and upheaval circling the globe.1 But while the world has been fixated on the economic problem, global environmental conditions have been rapidly worsening, confronting humanity with its ultimate crisis: one of long-term survival. The common source of both of these crises resides in the process of capital accumulation. Likewise the common solution is to be sought in a "revolutionary reconstitution of society at large," going beyond the regime of capital.2 It is still possible for humanity to avert what economist Robert … Continue reading The planetary emergency


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33 - The Triangle
Every triangle has three sides and three angles. It is the fundamental geometrical Code 33 object. The letter T often stands in as a triangle (T is for Triangle), and a lower case version may be used that has one side of the cross member lopped off to present the figure with three points. Every equilateral triangle features three 60 degree angles, transforming to 666.
33 - In Disguise, Lurking
Sometimes the 3s are simply lurking in a scene, innocently appearing in the flourishes of stylish script, in decorative or structural elements or in the lines of faces and other natural objects. Sometimes they appear in a context where we overlook them because we identify them as something else, which is a form of misdirection. They may appear on a licence plate or taxi cab or as a street address.
Sometimes they appear in the guise of a single three that has depth and subtle hints of separation into two.
33 - Mirrored and Assembled
One of the stealth Code 33 embeddings involves the number 8, as an assembled pair of mirrored 3s. Not ever 8 is a pair of 3s, but some are, and these always appear with supporting elements in the context. They are often a little wide, like this one branding 8Star Motorsports. The 8star-angel is the 33 sodomite god Horus. The colors are associated with Halloween or Samhain.
Sodomy orange. The main car being campaigned is #3. When viewed from most angles, two of the car numbers can be seen. 33. One of the brand's promotional images includes a kind of serpentine eye of Horus, derived from the team car's lines but modified. Another presents the pyramid, several actually, in a grid of up and down pointing triangles as sex magick pairings. Every one of those-triangles has three sides and three angles. Code 33.
Watch this Occult signaling pet food commercial and pay special attention to how the 8 is drawn at the 50 second mark. Purina One. They are leveraging Code 33 in the rendering.
In this example, the theme of sodomy is obvious because the HRC is overtly promoting homosexuality. The attending copy directs us to the pair of 3s hidden in their clever logo. Be on the right side. OK.
33 - In Letters that Resemble 3
Another class involves the exploitation of letters that resemble the 3 when they are rotated; the upper case E, the m or M and w or W. Pairing these as EE, MM, WW is common, and more common yet are mixed pairings.
Samsung's Media Hub branding takes a single letter m and adds the reflection to mirror it. Notice how there's a letter H formed in the negative space. H for Hub? I'm thinking, Horus!
Rob Skiba shouldn't be branding with graven images, but the outcome here is certainly fitting for his theme, the seed that is the Nephilim.
The graphics designers behind the Eve Odyssey game brand know how to clue us in to the E as 3 transformation. The doubled E is repeated (FREE) for support, even though the instance in the redundant layer is not emphasized. The Odyssey makes allusion to ancient Greece and the gods of Code 33 through the literary classic, "Homer's Odyssey."
William Penn, for whom Pennsylvania was named, was claimed to be a Mason, according to the Texas Grand Lodge Magazine. There are lodges named after him in PA (William Penn-Harmony Lodge No. 52) and in Terre Haute, IN (William Penn Lodge #727). The cigars named after him were branded with a Code 33 signaling abbreviation, Wm.
The General Cigar Company certainly understood the value of esoteric symbols, giving it a spin that looks like it has the Masonic touch, as you can see in this cigar box label. The designer of the title for Masonic World Magazine was clearly on the same page.
A fresh update on the classic is the award winning label for Miracle Whip. Rainbow-like Royal Blue arch. Squared circle bread. Do we really want to put that in our mouths?
A couple weeks ago, the MuchMusic Video Awards (MMVA or MMVAs) were presented in Toronto by the Canadian music video channel MuchMusic. What passed for entertainment included a boy band from Melbourne that took the opportunity to enhance their building reputation for male stripper antics. They are demonstrating how they get the MM Code 33 thing, and how the V and A are the sex magick pairing. I have described how the M is often used as a graphic picture of the male backside. We get it.
In 2008, the event logo featured the black sun anus next to the signaling wide 8 concealing a pair of mirrored 3s for plenty of redundancy. In 2012, their rainbow light's point source implies a third column to balance the three rows, placed down towards the numbers to lead us in the count toward the 3. Three rows and three columns, Code 33. This year's logo lines up and stylizes the 3 so we get a clue about what's up with the pair of Ms. Third eye rainbow light illumination. In 2007, well, that is a bit much.
Markets Wiki has the suggestive engagement of the mw Code 33 graphic to add spice to the stark design of the financial sector investment site.
Entertainment Weekly content already has plenty of spice, so their branding keeps it simple, adding the simple EW for a solid Code 33.
More to follow, Lord willing.


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Below is a rough English translation made using Google. The Portuguese original can be found here: http://www.publico.pt/j1752052
Ammar Abdulhamid is a Syrian dissident living far away from Damascus since 2005. He says that no one anticipated how violent a response the Assad regime will employ against his opponents, and explains that "the first mistake was thinking that Bashar would not be allowed to go this far."
The dissident and human rights activist Ammar Abdulhamid has not been in Damascus, his city, since 2005 when he had to flee the regime of Bashar al-Assad. But that does not prevent him from having strong feelings for the revolution for which he has helped open the door.
At 47 years of age, he knows well that Syria will not rise from the ashes in a day or a year. That's why he wants to look after children, to teach kids of all refugees. He wants the United States or any international organization to finance a major project to give a chance to the Syrians of the future – there are over a million refugee children. But for now, he and his wife Khawla, who together have initiated several projects in the past 14 years, will focus on training activists who come from Syria to attend their workshops in Gaziantep, a city in southern Turkey where this conversation took place in October.
What kind of training do you offer Syrian activists these days?
We focus mainly on providing them with tools and skills that can help them with peacebuilding, mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution, with focus on the local level, because national level processes are beyond our control at this stage. There have been some successes in our efforts, and the program has gone well so far. The problem is that developments on the national and international scene often scuttle our efforts. Every decision or lack of decision by world leaders, especially President Barack Obama, has undermined any progress we have made so far.
But your hope is that they are going to survive and to have an effect beyond the current phase, and it's that that makes your efforts worth it?
I hope so, I hope so. I always remind myself of what we did before because that helps me stay motivated and able to believe. When we used to say, long ago, that a revolution is coming, people laughed: "What? Syrians revolting? Impossible." But some of the people we trained, and some of the things we said, are at last having an impact, even if on a small scale, even if our overall contribution was no more than 1%. One day, we Syrians, we will find a way to re-glue the pieces back together. Not in a year or two, national are not rebuilt in this way, it's probably going to take a generation. But at least now more and more people are beginning to understand this.
This has been my message since the beginning of the revolution: don't rush things, don't hurry, don't think that victory will come quickly. Actually, I wanted a different date for the revolution. The geopolitical conditions did not help, and the opposition was not prepared, that was the problem. Syrians were ready [for the revolution] for a while, but the opposition was not. If we had been more patient, if we had developed a strategy for the long term, we could have anticipated what might happen.
Nobody anticipated the level of violence the regime was willing to unleash. Our first mistake was thinking that Bashar [Al-Assad] would be allowed to go this far." After what happened in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syrians were hopeful and they believed that President Obama would not let a dictator kill his people, killing the dreams of democracy and a better future. Also, I knew that opposition politicians had many problems, but I still did not expect them to be so hopeless, so sectarian, so fanatical.
Why did it happen?
Identity problems, ideology, too many egos, inability to seek better understanding, to build… There is resistance to everybody who knows how to build [institutions], who can plan for the future. That is why our strategy [at Thawra] is to develop roots, build something new, we look to the next generation and work from there.
It is as if the opposition is unable to produce good leaders, and if these leaders emerge, they soon quit.
Indeed, and in part this is really normal. Revolutions do not necessarily bring out the best [in us], on the contrary, they often bring out the worst. I blogged about his years ago, and my son helped me put together and publish my posts in a little book. It's ridiculous to see how much of the issues I debated years ago are now playing out in the battlefield. Anyway, my point is that while revolutions might bring about the worst in us, they don't just happen: they happen when they are necessary to destroy the social and political deadlock, and this is critical. And so, this revolution is necessary, for all the deaths involved. The future cannot happen without it.
Now, we have ideologues on both sides, some are described as leftists, but in fact they are all fascists. But it's a religious fascism, and this war has become a religious waged using religious codes. It's becoming a war that pits Sunnis against Shiites. Even those who present themselves as secularists, as defenders of secularism and modern ideologies are not what they claim to be. Secularism is a thin veneer, but minds and hearts are immersed with something that happened 1,400 years ago. The extremists, the suicidal, Al-Qaeda members, whatever you want to call them, the problem is all too visible now, and the current problem is much bigger than Syria.
The rest of the world says so. But have you already figured out what that means?
It's very strange really. Over 200,000 are dead, chemical weapons have been used, hundreds of thousands are in prison, millions are refugees, and yet, the thing that grasped global attention is an idiot who bit into a man's heart. Yes, the thing is sensational, but it's an act of madness by an idiot surrounded by deaths. Is what he has done any different from Bashar al-Assad is doing? I think that Bashar too is busy consuming the hearts of his enemies, but he does it like Hannibal Lecter [character in the movie The Silence of the Lambs], he is a refined cannibal that takes the trouble to cook the heart before eating it.
Did you expect the regime's propaganda to be as effective as it proved to be?
It is an impressive propaganda machine because it is not Syrian. It is Russian and Iranian, and it's fascist. Now, we realize what we are dealing with.
Do you believe the recent theory that the chemical attacks were orchestrated by some in the regime in order to force the fall of Assad and save the regime, as happened with Egypt, and pave the way for negotiations and the Geneva conference?
No, I don't believe so. The Russians and Iranians still need Bashar, he may not be smart, but he plays an important role, and serves their interests well. When they no longer need him, they will drop him, but that moment hasn't arrived yet.
The revolution still exists in parallel with this war. Something was done well.
Yes, and perhaps we have contributed to this in some way. [years ago], we had a television show that advocated democratic values. If geopolitical conditions and the opposition's lack of preparedness are very troublesome, this does not mean that there are no Syrians who have launched valid projects and who are doing remarkable work. The revolution happened because even when people like me were forced to leave the country, many remained, and many in the regime's own support base joined in and made the revolution unstoppable. We expected Damascus or Hama to be first to rise up, we did not expect Deraa [the southern city where the first large outbreak in March 2011 and which used to be a regime stronghold].
What do you wish you could do now?
I want to help launch a major educational effort, a major project for teaching refugees. There is a place for this project in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. It must be an independent project funded by the United States or the UN, but we have to make sure that it could reach all refugee children and provide an open quality non-sectarian educational environment.
We have to reach consensus on the need for these programs, then, teach, teach, teach. If we lose all these children things will be even more difficult, and not only in Syria, the consequences will be felt in all the countries where refugees are currently located and all the countries to where they will eventually go, like Europe. But if we could accomplish this, then things will be better. We will not give up. This is not an option.


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Short sellers are struggling. Their massive bet against Elon Musk isn't helping.
NEW YORK - Mark Spiegel begins some mornings contemplating Tesla's fate from the bathroom of his high-rise apartment, where two computer screens are perched near the bathtub for instant updates on his Twitter feed and stock prices.
The hedge fund manager spends much of his day at his dining room table, where he fires off tweets explaining his high-stakes bet that Tesla, a darling of Silicon Valley and a $60 billion behemoth, will eventually fail, sending its stock price tumbling.
So far, the bet has been mostly a loser, but Spiegel isn't ready to relent. "I just don't want it to kill me in the short term," he says as his eyes toggle between computer screens and a Pomeranian pleading for attention around his ankles.
Spiegel's small hedge fund, Stanphyl Capital, is part of one of Wall Street's most aggressive bets against a single company in history. The $10 billion wager has set up a marathon battle between one of Silicon Valley's most outspoken leaders, Tesla chief executive Elon Musk, and some of Wall Street's most notorious doomsayers.
It comes as many short sellers are struggling. The number of hedge funds focused on betting against companies has fallen by more than half as U.S. markets started a record upswing nearly a decade ago. Since 2013, short-seller campaigns against a company's stock have lost an average of about 0.5 percent, according to Activist Insight Shorts, a data provider.
For those betting against Tesla, the fight has been particularly tough. Musk wields his 23 million Twitter followers against his critics with rapid-fire tweets and commands a loyal group of believers that can frustrate his critics.
"These people are much more concerned about profits than what's best for our children," Ross Gerber, a Los Angeles investor who backs Tesla, said of short sellers. "Morally speaking, you can short Snapchat all you want. Go short Facebook. Tesla's whole purpose is to create an electric infrastructure so we can address the issue of climate change."
The fight has already claimed one casualty. Infamous short seller Andrew Left, who has been a vocal critic of Musk and Tesla for years, relented last month and switched from attacking the company to praising it. "It's not worth the brain damage. Nobody can change the narrative on this thing," he said in an interview before announcing his decision.
But Spiegel, 57, and many others are still not ready to back down. "I am very patient," he said.
Short sellers are not new to criticism. They operate by borrowing shares in a company and then selling them in the hope of buying the same number of shares later at a lower price. If the stock's price falls, they make money by pocketing the difference; if it rises, they lose.
But this wager on gloom has often unnerved chief executives who view their stock price as a daily report card and are fearful that short sellers are manipulating the market for profit. The growing use of computer algorithms that scan Twitter and other social media sites to make trading decisions is exacerbating the problem, some critics say. If short sellers spread false or negative information about them online, it can unfairly shift the momentum of their stock, they say.
Nasdaq has called for new rules requiring short sellers to disclose more information about the positions they hold against companies to even the playing field. "Investors with short positions can pursue strategies designed to invisibly drive down share prices . . . intending to profit from the uncertainty created," Nasdaq said in a package of proposals to revitalize the capital markets.
Pressure on short investors is also building abroad. Earlier this year, securities regulators in Canada sought an emergency order to stop longtime short seller Marc Cohodes, known as the "scourge of Wall Street," from trading and allegedly providing misleading information about a Calgary-based company. In June, Cohodes accused the firm of illegally dumping toxic substances. Cohodes made "misrepresentations" that he knew would affect the company's stock price, the Alberta Securities Commission argued.
"They tried to shut me up," said Cohodes of the regulator's petition, which was ultimately denied. "I would argue that shorts make the world a better place. Most people like to talk about things going up. But there are people who cheat. And that is the role of the shorts."
Short sellers worry that they are being unfairly hammered and that efforts to push new regulations could hand the companies they target an unfair advantage. Their critics are ignoring the good they do, including identifying potentially fraudulent companies such as Enron, which they say helps mom and pop investors.
Fahmi Quadir, founder and chief investment officer at Safkhet Capital, has been heralded as one of the first short sellers to target Valeant Pharmaceuticals. After reaching more than $250 a share, the company's stock price tumbled amid accusations of a massive fraud.
"In a sense, it's much harder now," Quadir said. "Investors care less about the overall fundamentals even if these companies are engaged in potentially fraudulent activities."
Quadir said that she disclosed her bet against Tesla to show solidarity with other short investors. "I need to support the value short sellers play in the market," she said. "Short sellers are like our first line of defense. They will be asking the questions that others won't be to get to the truth."
Musk has not always hated them. In a January 2012 tweet, the billionaire said that while "they cause me grief, I would defend the rights of shorts to exist."
But his grudging support has since turned to apparent disdain. "The last several years have taught me that they [short sellers] are reasonably maligned," he said in an October tweet. "What they do should be illegal." His office did not return calls asking for an explanation of Musk's change of heart.
Musk has even turned against BlackRock, the global investment firm with more than $6 trillion in assets, which acts as an intermediary for short sellers borrowing stocks. "Index managers like BlackRock pocket . . . excessive profit from short lending," he said in October. BlackRock says it is helping investors.
Musk has attracted some formidable opponents, including Jim Chanos, who bet against energy giant Enron before its collapse, and Steve Eisman, who made millions betting against the housing market before the global financial crisis. Both have said they are shorting Tesla's stock.
Their arguments against Tesla range from competitive - that it will eventually be eclipsed by more-experienced carmakers - to allegations that the company is exaggerating its production figures. Some are skeptical that the company will be able to pay off or refinance more than $1 billion in bond payments coming due over the next year.
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn recently compared Tesla to Lehman Brothers, which his firm, Greenlight Capital, bet against before its 2008 collapse. "Like Lehman, we think the deception is about to catch up to TSLA," Greenlight said in a quarterly investor letter. "Elon Musk's erratic behavior suggests that he sees it the same way."
The battle reached a peak in August when Musk tweeted that he had funding "secured" to take Tesla private, sending the company's stock price soaring. Two weeks later, Musk backed away from the plan and in October reached a $20 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which alleged that he had lied to investors about the probability of such a deal. (A week later, Musk taunted the agency as the "Shortseller Enrichment Commission.")
Short sellers saw Musk's tweet about taking Tesla private as a maneuver aimed at harming them, noting that the chief executive had warned online that they should prepare for a big burn. The company's stock price would eventually fall again, but not before they had been forced to cover steep losses. Left, the short seller, sued, claiming Musk had "artificially manipulated" Tesla's stock price with the tweet in order to "burn" short sellers."
Spiegel, meanwhile, is still convinced that Tesla will eventually run out of steam. His $8 million, seven-year-old hedge fund is down about 15 percent so far this year, mostly because of the bet against Tesla. The fund has other investments that have worked out better, including positive bets on a telecommunications company and in the agriculture sector. A wager that U.S. stocks will drop overall has also recently been profitable.
"We're actually making really good money today because the market is tanking and we're in that short," he said a day in October when the Standard & Poor's 500 fell nearly 2 percent.
But whenever Tesla's stock price moves too high, as it did after Musk's tweet about taking the company private, Spiegel must adjust. "You wind up essentially getting whipsawed many times," he said. "We have realized a lot of losses there."
He spends hours every day retweeting Tesla's skeptics and critics. On Election Day, he retweeted a picture of Musk with an "I Voted" sticker altered to say "I'm a fraud." When Tesla recently reported better-than-expected quarterly profits, he remained skeptical. "It's all downhill from here," Spiegel said.
It may take longer before he is proved right, Spiegel says. But in the meantime, he remains hopeful for the worse. "Part of my job is to make sure it doesn't crush me before it collapses," he says.


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Lin Batten is a Research Assistant in the Law Group of Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. In her capacity as RA, her responsibilities have included support and proofreading of forthcoming articles, research on grant proposals, marketing and administrative support. She has moreover contributed and shaped a novel English-taught course 'Agri-Environmental Law and Policy' focussing on EU legislation.
Lin obtained her BA in Liberal Arts and Sciences (cum laude) from Amsterdam University College in 2016 majoring in Environmental Governance, International Relations and Public Health. Thereafter, she graduated in 2017 in the MSc Food Security from the University of Edinburgh (cum laude). During her graduation she was awarded "The Best Dissertation of 2016 - 2017 in MSc Food Security" for her research "Shake the Hand that Feeds You - Innovation towards a Regional Food Economy in the Mid-South Delta Region" .
From June 2018 until December 2019, Lin gained workexperience as project manager and journalist at the Dutch multi-media company Foodlog, which provides both an online platform as well as conference platform to enable discussions on food, health, and agriculture. As project coordinator, Lin's role concerned both the substantive as well as the organisational aspects of the two conferences 'Agriculture without Chemistry - How?' and 'Food Safety and Integrity' with both over 100 participants consisting of senior managers and expert professionals in the Agtech and Food sector. This included the program development and contents delivery, marketing and design, fundraising, website management via Wordpress and events facilitation.
As a journalist, her role focused on interviews or writing short articles particularly regarding food systems analyses, food waste, animal welfare, alternatives to chemical pesticide use, gene technology, certification schemes as well as various other subjects, such as the Dutch mussel production system and lifestyle coaching.
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by Nancy Laythorpe
It all started with a simple phone call to my friend Sara: "Do you want to join the Running Room?" I had a lot of free time on my hands and Sara had just had her son William. We thought it would be a good way to spend some time together. We didn't know what was in store for us.
We completed the Learn to Run training program and thought, "That was all right, let's try the 10K program." Now, we are both people who "used to run in high school," but who were we kidding: high school wasn't exactly last year! Anyway, we went into it with open hearts and figured it would be do-able.
We walked in on Tuesday night and recognized a few people from around the store, but then "she" came into the middle of the little circle: Irene. Talk about energy! This lady was old enough to be my mom, yet she had more going for her than anybody I knew. She was so excited to meet everyone and it made all of us excited to meet her. We went through the whole introduction and then headed out for our run. I think Sara and I giggled about her the whole time. Irene encouraged us all the way through the 10K clinic, and then without hesitation we followed her to the half marathon program. (Actually, she told us to sign up.)
As time went on, it became clear that we had made a friend – a very special friend. Irene was more than a clinic instructor. At times, she was a second mom. She made the sun shine for you on days you didn't see it, and she never stopped believing in you. She would give up a day running for her own training in a heartbeat to run with you instead. When Sara was five months pregnant, Irene ran a half marathon with her. Somehow, even hill training was great when you were with Irene.
It was a sad day when we learned that Irene had been diagnosed with breast cancer. Sometimes you wonder how it could happen to someone like her. But, she looked at it in the face and said, "Boy, did you choose the wrong body to hit." She had her tough days, like anyone would, but she never dwelled on it.
In an effort to make her feel as great as she had always made us feel, we held the first annual "It's All About Irene" run. This was inspired by her famous catch phrase, as every night she would remind us that we were all there because of her and that "It's all about Irene, people." We raised some money to donate to the hospital where she was getting her treatments and all her friends and family were in attendance. The sun was shining and it couldn't have been a nicer day.
Irene toughed it out for as long as she could, but she couldn't overcome the cancer. Everyone at the Running Room lost a very special friend. It's hard to sum her up in a couple of paragraphs – I've only lightly touched on what kind of person she will always be to us. When I'm out there in the pouring rain or blowing snow, I know it's because she told me that means I'm a real runner. I think the most important thing that I want to let everyone know is even though her memorial run is called "It's All About Irene," it was actually always about us. She will forever be a legend and she will forever be missed.


text: What do you get when you combine acid tongued social satire, unnerving physical comedy, borderline horror/stalker elements, endless pop culture references and an abrasive yet pitiful protagonist from your worst nightmare? Ben Stiller's The Cable Guy, that's what you get. And yes, before the hands go up, I do consider Jim Carrey's lonely, disturbed TV repairman Chip to be the protagonist of the film, mainly because he's eternally more interesting than Matthew Broderick's bland, lifeless performance as the poor average joe who becomes victim to his 'friendly' courtship. Chip is one part neglected child, two parts borderline psychotic with a dash of manic obsessiveness and a pinch of terrifying delusional behaviour. Doesn't quite sound like a comedy, does it? It almost isn't. Stiller's vision is so pitch black that it takes a few well timed sympathetic beats from Carrey, infused with his googly charm, to make it work. It's mostly a walk on the scary side though. Broderick has the misfortune of having Chip show up to look at the television, and the guy takes an immediate, unsettling shine to him, going to great and terrible lengths to solidify an unrequited bromance that is a complete one sided fabrication. Stalking, interfering, framing him for god knows what, roughing up a smarmy gent (Owen Wilson is hilarious) who horns in on his girl (Leslie Mann) are but a few of the life shattering misdeeds that Chip carries out, all under the pretense of the buddy system. He's essentially Frankenstein's monster that has grown up from a child left to his own devices, fuelled by a lonliness which has long since pickled into something sad and destructive, both to himself and others around him. Carrey plays him like a champ, never cheaping out or holding back, always willing to go there and show us the extreme degrees on the temperature of the human personality. Damn, I make it sound so dark, don't I? It is, but at the end of the day we're talking about a comedy starring Jim Carrey and directed by Ben Stiller, so there's still the inherent comedic vibe that both of them bring, just drenched in tar this time around. Call it character study, stalker drama, a lifetime movie gone horribly awry or anything in between, whatever it is, it's some stroke of demented genius and holds up well today. Watch for Jack Black, Ben Stiller, Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, Joel Murray, David Cross, Kathy Griffin, Charles Napier, Bob Odenkirk, Kyle Gass and a pisser of a cameo from Eric Roberts as himself in a facepalming television melodrama.


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For those of you who are in job-search mode, you may have felt the ups and downs of a roller-coaster ride with many stalled-out days and weeks waiting for interviews.
In the past few days I've been hired by two employers making my job count three: I have three employers, and recently quit an independent contractor job which makes my having had four employers total, in less than two weeks.
Job dissatisfaction is common as many on LinkedIn either want a new job or are in the job market. LinkedIn is where I keep in contact with others like me who have been unemployed or underemployed and it sure makes for an unstable lifestyle.
But thanks to the Lord Jesus Christ, I have work that will carry me for the next four months through February next year, enough income to keep the bills and rent paid.
We must put our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ – He knows the way for our lives.
As one of Dr. Charles Stanley's life principles to live by states:
God assumes full responsibility for our needs when we obey him.
If we check the bible on this we find some scripture about this. Here are samples I have found:
And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 4:19
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him. – Hebrews 11:6
The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he thwarts the craving of the wicked. – Proverbs 10:3
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? – Romans 8:32
I hope for those of you who are currently in the job hunt; don't give up and ask Jesus Christ for the way. Rely on him and he will provide your needs.


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How to countdown to an event
You can use the countdown feature to visually count number of days until a future event. ?Kids enjoy?using?this feature when waiting for a highly anticipated event like a birthday, vacation or special occasion. Note: You can not countdown to events that are more than 60 days in the future.
Open Countdown MenuOpen the calendar containing the event you want to countdown to by selecting it from the app's main screen. Tap the countdown icon ("1 2 3") near the top right to open the sharing menu.
Select an eventFrom the countdown menu, select the desired event and the countdown will begin. You can pause or stop an in progress downtown using the buttons that appear at the bottom.


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Alex Musayev
Full stack web developer
- Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
- GitHub: github.com/dreikanter
- LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alexmusayev
- Languages: Fluent English and native Russian
About me
I have 15 years of experience in software development, including 5 years working remotely. Love to build robust and convenient tools helping my clients to save time, reduce business costs and transform complex to simple.
As a remote developer, I value transparent communication and workflows. I can work independently or join a team. I have experience in leading a small development team as well.
Skills and technologies
- Primary languages: Ruby (Rails, dry-rb, Minitest, Sidekiq), JavaScript (React, Redux)
- Web: HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Webpack, BEM, countless front-end frameworks and libs
- DB and NoSQL: PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Redis, ElasticSearch
- Preferred version control system: Git
- Code analyzers: Rubocop, Reek, ESLint, Standard JS, stylelint
- Server infrastructure: Linux, Ansible, AWS, Logstash, nginx
- APIs: Google Maps, GitHub, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Jira, GitHub, Dropbox, PayPal, Stripe, Braintree, geocoding services, OAuth, etc
- Past experience: Python (♡ PEP 20), C#/.NET, C/C++, Microsoft SQL Server, PL/SQL
- Willing to learn and try TypeScript and Go on production
2015–2019: Full stack developer, architect at PassionDig Inc
Responsibilities: System design and features development for web applications. Customer requirements analysis, specs drafting and implementation planning. Interviewing and onboarding new developers, maintaining common dev environment and conventions, code reviews.
Achievements: I've built an MVP version for an in-person educational service from scratch. Implemented geo-location search engine with flexible ranking logic. Created domain-specific web analytics backend for marketing team. Integrated third-party services, including Google Maps, Stripe, PayPal, Twitter, Facebook, helpdesk software with single sign-on capability, etc. Automated provisioning and deployment workflows. Created UI style guide based on custom reusable React component. Improved Rails application performance. Significantly reduced AWS operational costs for a SAAS infrastructure.
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, UI component libraries, AWS infrastructure, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Sidekiq, Ansible for server provisioning and deployment automation. Social media and payment service APIs.
2014–2017: Full stack developer at UpWork
Participated in multiple projects as a full-stack web developer. My responsibilities included features development and performance optimization for Rails apps, payment services and social API integration, system automation, etc. Got 5 stars rating rating with 100% job success.
Ruby, Ruby on Rails, client-side vanilla JavaScript, HTML5 APIs, CSS3, SASS, PostgreSQL, MySQL.
2013–2015: Architect at Softin.co
Built an application licensing API. Prototyped a project management web service. Performed UX design and art direction for a mobile game project.
Ruby, Ruby on Rails.
2012–2013: Senior software developer at Luxoft (Hewlett Packard)
Participated in WebInspect project development, an OWASP based web app vulnerability scanner. New features implementation, UI i18n, technical documentation, interviewing and onboarding new developers.
C#/.NET, WinForms (MVVM), WPF, Microsoft SQL Server.
2008–2011: Software developer at Lanit-Tercom (R&D)
Enterprise software development, deployment and support. Requirements analysis, tasks decomposition and estimation, specifications drafting, project documentation. UI prototyping, IA design.
.NET/C#, WinForms, WPF, PL/SQL, Java, Flex, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Office integration.
2006–2009: Software developer at SZMA LLC (R&D)
Distributed software development, testing, deployment, and support. Desktop apps and web services for financial data collection and analysis. Middleware for Matlab integration with Metaquotes MetaTrader trading platform. Requirements analysis, specification drafting, and project documentation.
.NET/C#, Matlab, MQL (Metatrader), MySQL, PHP, Python.
2004–2008: Postgraduate student, professor assistant at St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Research in the field of mathematical modeling, scientific conferences participation. Experimental software development (Java, C#).
Learning course development for third-year university students at Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping: lecturing and running workshops on C/C++ programming and general software development, conducting examinations.
2003–2007: Software developer at 7+11 Company Ltd.
Distributed software development for enterprise automation and monitoring systems. Data aggregation and visualization. Embedded software development. Requirements analysis, technical documentation.
C, C#, MySQL, HTML, CSS
Personal projects
Most of my personal projects are open source. There are tools for system automation, text processing, web content management, Google Chrome extensions, etc. Here are some examples:
- Freefeed Feeder — an automated content publishing service built for FreeFeed social network. In production since 2017.
- boodka — a sugar-free budget calculator. An experimental project, inspired by YNAB lacking multi-currency support.
- public-static — a static website builder I've been using for my blog.
- wp2md — Wordpress data exporting tool for markdown-based static site builders.
- Ruby Bookmarks — a collection of essential bookmarks related to Ruby programming language. I created it after I've just started learning Ruby, but soon it became quite popular. There is also Sublime Bookmarks, based on the same concept.
Master Degree in Computer Science, St. Petersburg State University of Airspace Instrumentation (SUAI) Department of Automatic Control Systems. Specialty: Automatic Control and Information Processing Systems (2004).
Postgraduate education, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPIIRAS). Specialty: Mathematical and Software Support of Computers, Complex Systems, and Networks (2008).
Training courses and certificates
- oDesk tests: Ruby, Ruby on Rails.
- Smarterer.com: Python, Ruby, Ruby on Rails (master level).
- Brainbench certificates: С, HTML.
- Careerlab certificate: High-Level Architecture Design with UML.
- Artyom Gorbunov's Educational Center certificate: User Experience design and Information Visualization.
- System Analysis School certificate for software requirements development course.
- Multiple Luxoft certificates on system analysis and software architecture.
- Some of my articles at Hacker Noon: hackernoon.com/@dreikanter
- StackOverflow profile: stackoverflow.com/users/177194/
- Have space suit — will travel


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This book really surprised me as to how good it was. It is a captivating story with non stop action and a kick ass character. I thought is was very well written and easy to follow. I hated to put this book down for a second but unfortunately life got in the way a couple of times but when I picked up where I left off I would be totally emerged in this story immediately.
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ANKARA, Oct 20 (Reuters) – A Turkish teacher who has been on hunger strike for months to protest about losing her job in the government's purge since a failed coup attempt last year, has been released from jail pending her trial on terrorism-related charges.
Defence lawyers said primary school teacher Semih Ozakca, 28, was released, but another detainee, literature professor Nuriye Gulmen, 35, who has also survived for seven months on water, herbal tea and sugar and salt solutions, was remanded in custody.
The Ankara court released Ozakca on condition that she wears an ankle monitor. Gulmen, who has been hospitalized due to her worsening health, was ordered to remain in custody until the trial, which resumes on Nov. 17.
The pair began their hunger strike before being jailed. A court ordered their detention pending trial after ruling that their protest was being conducted on behalf of an outlawed far-left group, DHKP-C. Both deny any links to the group.
The teachers said their hunger strike aimed to highlight the plight of some 150,000 state employees – including academics, civil servants, judges and soldiers – suspended or sacked since the abortive coup in July 2016.
Turkish authorities blame the coup attempt on U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and his supporters. Gulen denies involvement.
Human rights groups and the European Union have said President Tayyip Erdogan is using the crackdown to stifle dissent in Turkey, something he denies. (Reporting by Ece Toksabay; Editing by Robin Pomeroy)
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If you're like the crew here at Team Rockwood, you love watching the Olympics. In fact, some of you might have even done like we have in the past and actually made a competition out of who could watch the most Olympic coverage on TV. For that, you are truly a sicko, but you're our kind of sicko. It's for you that this site was created.
A particularly disturbing trend of the last several Olympic games has been for the broadcasting network to shun actual event coverage to instead run "Up Close and Personal" vignettes on the athletes themselves. Now, while we don't have anything personal against said athletes, quite frankly, we'd rather see them competing than see what they had for breakfast or what their psychological motivation was for tossing that javelin.
So, in an attempt to stir viewer outrage and insure that even if this stupid practice happens this year, it won't happen in the future, we at Team Rockwood will be making the ultimate sacrifice for you, our viewers, by forcing ourselves to watch all of NBC's prime time Olympic coverage and documenting the amount of air time devoted to the following three categories of our choosing:
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