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As the bombs were falling on Baghdad a year ago, retired engineer Ghazwan al-Mukhtar told Democracy Now! "UK/USA means to me United to Kill Us All." On the first anniversary of "Shock and Awe", Ghazwan joins us from Baghdad for a look back at a year under US occupation. [includes transcript]
- Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar, a retired Iraqi engineer speaking from Baghdad.
AMY GOODMAN: We now go to a man familiar to Democracy Now! listeners. He was on the show a year ago from Baghdad when he said U.K.-U.S.A., means 'united to kill us all'. He is a retired engineer who lives with his family in Baghdad. Can you describe the situation in Iraq, one year after the invasion began?
GHAZWAN AL-MUKHTAR: Well, I mean, the invasion is nothing more than an extension of this sanctions–exempt it's worse. The medical system has collapsed; so has the water supply and the sewage system even deteriorated more. The security situation is atrocious. You cannot drive outside your house safely at night. The bombing is happening. Almost every day we hear a bomb. In fact, we hear more bombs than it is reported on the news media. Now that the telephone system — we are without a telephone system for now a year. I still don't have a telephone line. The land lines have been damaged totally. The health system just collapsed. So, it is even worse than what it was a year ago. And there is no prospect of improvement within the foreseeable month or next few months or a year, even, because the attempt — no attempt has been visible on the reconstruction of all those facilities. So, I would say a year after the invasion, life is miserable in Baghdad. It was much more — it is a lot worse than it was in 2003.
AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar, a retired Iraqi engineer, talking to us from Baghdad. The attitude to U.S. soldiers?
GHAZWAN AL-MUKHTAR: Well, the attitude to U.S. soldiers are becoming more hostile because the U.S. soldiers are misbehaving and mishandling the people. They are shooting more people. But yesterday they killed a photographer and a journalist for Al-Arabiyah Newspaper according to the eye-witness reports and I have seen on television. Unjustifiably and without, you know — it is actually a cold-blood murder of those two journalists. So, that's bound to increase the resistance against the U.S. invasion. I was told today that the other part of Baghdad, which used to be called Saddam City, a dominantly Shiite area in Baghdad, there is a demonstration against the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
AMY GOODMAN: And finally, in terms —
GHAZWAN AL-MUKHTAR: And —
AMY GOODMAN: Go ahead, Ghazwan.
GHAZWAN AL-MUKHTAR: So, things are — are not improving. They are deteriorating and deteriorating rapidly. I was just traveling on the Amman to Baghdad road two nights ago and we had to stop for two hours because it was dark and we were chased by a pickup truck which the driver. It was some people trying to hijack the car on the road. So, when we stopped about 60 kilometers or 70 kilometers from the Iraqi border inside Iraq. We stopped. We couldn't travel because it was too dangerous. We found more than 300 cars parked at a coffee shop and we have to wait until about 5:30 in the morning so we can go on a convoy together.
AMY GOODMAN: Finally, you are an —
GHAZWAN AL-MUKHTAR: But —
AMY GOODMAN: You are an engineer. In terms of reconstruction, what has happened?
GHAZWAN AL-MUKHTAR: Visibly, nothing. There painted few schools and they cleaned some of the rubble off of the buildings that have been bombed. Let me give you an example, which uses a telephone exchange which serves my area. In 1991, that building was totally demolished with all the equipment destroyed. With the engineers of Iraq managed to clear the rubble, redesign the building, building it and having it operational in three to four months. Now with a year after the occupation — by the way, we did that despite the sanctions and we didn't have Bechtels or Halliburtons and all those highly-paid advisers. We did it in three months. Now a year after the invasion they haven't rebuilt the building. They just rerouted the cables, put a container on the floor on the ground and they are trying to fix the telephone system. I still don't have a telephone after three years. After a year. I'm talking to you by a mobile phone that may or may not work. I have a backup system and another system just in case things don't work out.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, Ghazwan Al-Mukhtar, I want to thank you for being with us. Retired engineer speaking to us from Baghdad on this first anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.


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In-store offerings like easy returns and exchanges, better customer service and instant gratification trump the online shopping experience for many shoppers, according to market research firm TrendSource.
In a March 2017 survey of internet users in North America, respondents who made electronics, fashion or home improvement purchases overwhelmingly thought that customer service and returns/exchanges were superior at physical stores.
But online shopping also had advantages, according to the survey. A majority of respondents said that product availability, as well as product variety and selection, were superior on digital platforms when compared with physical store locations.
For example, nearly three-quarters of fashion and electronics shoppers thought the availability of products was better online than in-store.
Price was one area where shoppers were more evenly divided between digital and in-store shopping, but that also depended on the product category.
More than six in 10 said electronics prices were better online, while fashion shoppers were almost evenly split between digital and brick-and-mortar purchasing channels.

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Case Study: Web Design for Source CommunicationsFebruary 25th, 2016 by Meghan
Source Communications needed a new web design with improved functionality, better content and mobile optimization. Their goal was to increase sales interaction via online forms and phone calls. FiG analyzed Source Communications' existing website and mapped out a digital marketing strategy that would increase traffic and sales leads.
Business Challenge: Focus & Clarity
Source Communications started as a cable assembly and wiring company in 1987. Since then, they expanded into designing, installing and maintaining security systems and designing and manufacturing custom retail checkout product lines. Straddling so many capabilities made it challenging for Source Communications to effectively message their value proposition to all their intended audiences. Their website had to convey their core business offerings and let visitors know where to find what they needed quickly.
Solution: Web Design & Development
The old website had broad "Products" and "Services" categories for cabling and wiring. They also had a separate site for security services. Their site was also not optimized for mobile devices:
In the new design, we merged the two websites and streamlined their navigation bar into three core areas: Cabling, Security, and Product Lines. We also created large homepage banners directly linking to each category for easier navigation. These simple changes brought their capabilities under one umbrella and helped focus their brand:
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Solution: Digital Marketing & Content Strategy
The new website design made it easier for Source Communications to post client updates, announcements, and manage social media. FiG then rewrote site content for clarity and flow. We added keyword analysis, and goal and event tracking which allowed us to analyze and improve user interactions.
The Results: Increased Traffic & Page Views
The combined efforts resulted in increased traffic, page views, session duration, and sales conversions from the previous year. The most notable achievement was our ability to lengthen the time spent on our client's website from 47 seconds to 2:26 minutes. This resulted in a 100% sales conversion through their contact submission form–outstanding for any digital strategy!
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From American Thinker.Com May 08, 2011 Ahmadinejad associates arrested for being 'magicians' In a culture filled with anger, mistrust and hatred, one doesn't actually have to go beyond one's borders to find suitable targets for those primitive emotions. It seems that Iran's dinky, malevolent President has gotten himself way over on the wrong side of the nation's actual supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The UK Guardian Continue Reading
Guess What: Sanctions on Iran Achieve (Almost) Nothing
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The Middle East Score So Far This Year: Iran and Brotherhood, 8; Hamas, 6, U.S., -11
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Iranian Video Promotes Islamic Mahdi To Return Soon
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More secret executions in Iran
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New Video by Iranian Government that Twelfth Imam is Coming Soon
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The case of the missing Iranian nuclear threat in new NIE
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Assalam o Alaikum Wa Rahmatullah Wa barakatuhu
No body should Infer from our stand in the subsequent posting (that will deal the deobandi barelvi issue) that I am against the great personalities of past and present not respecting them.
(either deobandi/ Barelvi/ from any other self created group.)
No it is obligatory for muslim to love the waliallhs and their hatred has an announcement of war from Allah Taala. (This is article of a hadith). Please forgive me for any slip of pen.
But I donot believe in glorification/ too much defending because of two reason.
- If they have done well/were righteous so any criticism/proof/jealousy will not do any harm to them as Allah decision is absolutely free from any influence and error of judgment and he will be glorified and will have eternal success. The only loss will be the person disrespecting him.
- If the fact is contrary whatever be the defence and glorification it is not going to help him anyway in Akhrat.
Just clear the facts (that you have confirmed from ground) in defence and put forward to others if they accept it is good, if they reject leave the matter for Allah.Who is the final judge.
And we are posting these massages as these issues have become most common source of spreading jealousy and hatred among muslim groups.)
Rather we are part of a weak movement for a very strong cause that is ittehad ummat
(If not absolute ittehad atleast decreasing the hatred and jealousy between different groups).
- When we started our first station is Deobandi Barelvi dispute.
(Now we have started some work on the next station that is broader one and in English,urdu and others and knowledgable people who want to do something positive for ummat . Please contact me through personal massage on firstname.lastname@example.com
(With this sentence I do not mean OTHERS ARE DOING NEGATIVE. Please forgive me for any slip of pen. If any muslim become dishearten with our mission/approach.we consider it our failure)
We are coming up a book in urdu "Barelvi deobandi ikhtalaf haqaiq aur masle ke hal ki koshish." (BD dispute,ground reality and a problem solving approach).
Its soft copy is ready and it is under process of review from Deoband and Barelvi ulemas. (And in some cases it became known that some of those who have even written books on this issue have not checked from original sources. Rather relird on the book of other critique.)
- It has a approach of problem solving rather argument and counterarguement. We have dealt in depth on all issue including, Aqeeda and writing of Akabir of Deoband and Barelvi, in a rational manne, but respectable mannerr.
(Rational I mean to say if Person A is complaining and showing his injured eye that B has removed his one eye Still we went to B to see and at times found that actually A has removed both eyes of B)
- We have not stopped at SCANED PAGES. Rather we got the whole book and confirmed the truth.
3.For confirming the truth we went to original sources not to the sources of opponent/criticizing party.
(E.g if someone wanted to know about Islam he should go to quran and Hadith,and Islamic sites, if he goes to JEWS websites what he will get. If you have to confirm something about Sufism and you go to Extreme Salafi brother/website what you are going to get.That is not the correct way of knowing things).
We are very weak but want to start a thinking in ummat to follow quranic principle and Ahadith and way of sahaba and aslaf in the matter of difference of opinion/criticizing other/doing nahi anil munkar of all stages including blaming someone Bidati/mushrik/grave worshipper/kafir/ kufr of association.
We are not claiming that we will solve/help anyway solving the issue but two things we are claiming (Based on our observation)
1. The ration between reality and misprojection/accusation is 5 : 95 in all cases from both side.
2. If the general public will come to know the reality 90% will shed off the Badgumani and hatred. The shading of of badgumani and hatred will range from 50 to 100 % but in any case not less than 50%. (When I will complete my posting you can try it)
All are requested for dua for decreasing hatred and jealousy between muslims even those who are not agreeing to some of my points.Seeking Allah forgiveness and mercy.


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When I first saw the anti-Israel advert my reaction was to wonder whether the Jewish Chronicle would also consider running adverts asking for money to fund Hamas.... then I remembered they already actually did this in 2014.
Most interestingly Daphne Anson's article includes information from one of the people involved in the advert revealing that they had first tried to place the advert in the Jewish News, but they refused to take it 'on political grounds'. The Jewish Chronicle, on the other hand, was more than happy to host the advert. At least on this occasion the Jewish Chronicle got money for hosting the advert. The 'Hamas' ad in 2014 was placed courtesy of the Jewish Chronicle owners for free.
And, incidentally, the three groups named as being behind the advert are: Jews for Justice for Palestinians, Independent Jewish Voices, and Jewish Socialists. All reject Israel as a Jewish State.
*The flawed survey: http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/oy-uk-jews-has-yachad-got-bias-for-you/
See also:
- Daphne Anson: Roll of Shame
- Jewish Chronicle publishes appeal for money to Hamas
- JC published already discredited anti-Israel story
- JC relies on Islamic Jihad for its 'news'
- The increasingly unhinged JC


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American readers of this blog will have noted that the rush to build utility-scale solar facilities is not confined to the desert Southwest, but has become a global phenomenon, as exemplified by the Spanish experience. As Abengoa and BrightSource have proven these facilities can be constructed in the developed world, there has been an emerging interest in pushing for them in the developing world, as well.
The Trans-Mediterranean Vision
Enter: DESERTEC. A wild-eyed, and possibly insane, dream of well-meaning industrialists from Germany, it proposed to finance a series of utility-scale solar and wind facilities across the Maghreb, and in particular the northern reaches of the Sahara. They would then construct sub-Mediterranean power connections to EU countries, providing them with "cheap", "abundant", "renewable" energy. Take a look at the map below.
It was madness. Conceived in 2009, when it appeared that the economic crisis might be behind us, it had a proposed price tag of €400 billion. One more time, that's FOUR HUNDRED BILLION EUROS (about $550 billion at 2009 exchange rates). While that's a staggering amount of money in any context, imagine it in terms of European economies: it's equivalent to the entire GDP of Belgium. Incidentally, it's about the same amount as Europe spent on oil imports in 2012.
Initially this project it was conceived by the Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation, which emerged as a joint venture by the Club of Rome (a high-profile European think-tank that has inspired truly insane Illuminati comparisons) and Prince Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. They then incorporated into the non-profit DESERTEC Foundation, which functions as both a think-tank and clearing-house, bringing together renewable energy research arms of Maghreb governments, such as Morocco's CDER (Centre de Développement des Energies Renouvelables, possibly now defunct based on the ancient website), and University researchers from around Europe.
Realizing that a non-profit alone couldn't push through a project this big, the DESERTEC Foundation then participated in the forming of Dii (which ostensibly stands for the DESERTEC Industrial Initiative, though they rarely come out and say it), a limited liability German corporation which was to promote the project more directly through investment. The companies involved in Dii are a veritable Who's Who of European finance and energy, both private and public, including Deutsche Bank, Abengoa, First Solar, Terna (the Italian energy giant), the Spanish Red Eléctrica (which operates the national grid); hell even oil companies like Royal Dutch Shell got in on the action.
However, as the financial crisis persisted, investing in hyper-sized energy projects began to seem like a suspect idea. Last year, the German tech giants Bosch and Siemens, who both have been instrumental in many solar projects both in Europe and the U.S., withdrew from Dii.
The other shoe finally dropped last week, when, in rather dramatic fashion, the DESERTEC Foundation withdrew from Dii altogether, citing "communication issues" (hat tip to Chris Clarke). DESERTEC co-founder Thiemo Gropp cited Dii's abandonment of the trans-Mediterranean transmisison element as the primary reason. As to the loss of the huge corporate backing for DESERTEC, Gropp said that, "They are big names but they have produced small results." Pretty tough words to be hurling at some of biggest names in renewable energy in Europe. Dii predictably has fought back, essentially calling DESERTEC irrelevant. But there is some validity to what Gropp says, as Dii has slowly backed down from the initial DESERTEC vision, as the economic situation has grown more and more perilous. (I'll have more on the dissolution of DESERTEC in a different post)
Morocco Goes It Alone (with a little help from their friends…)
European political wrangling aside, there is still a market for clean energy in developing countries, particularly with financial incentives such as Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) available. That link goes to a pretty thorough explanation of CDM, but the basic principle, established in the Kyoto Protocol, is that rich countries can invest in "clean development" projects in poor countries, and earn tradable carbon credits which can be applied to carbon markets. Since Europe has a functional carbon credit trading market, European governments and countries were quick to move in the face of DESERTEC intransigence.
MASEN, the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy, was more than happy to facilitate. Thus was born the Ouarzazate CSP Project, a 500MW parabolic trough solar plant to be constructed just outside the desert city of Ouarzazate, Morocco. The project is funded by a dizzying array of entities, including the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the EU itself, the European Investment Bank (the EU's central bank), the German government, and the French government. The project is owned by ACWA Power, a Saudi water and energy conglomerate backed by Saudi government money. It will be executed by Acciona and SENER, two Spanish civil engineering firms which have been heavily involved in European utility-scale solar and wind projects, as well as Grupo TSK, a Spanish photovoltaic developer.
Not intending to be flip, it's a bit surprising that Morocco actually has a fairly rigorous set of environmental review laws in place. That, combined with money flowing from the World Bank and African Development Bank, and relatively strict CDM regulations, mean that the Ouarzazate plant has had a relatively thorough environmental review process. The complete set of documents can be viewed here, but I'll spare you the trouble, and review the particulars of the Ouarzazate CSP facility in the next post in this series. You can also check out the Ouarzazate CDM certification here.
It should be noted that the CDM has drawn lots of fire, for enabling rich countries to continue polluting, while getting carbon credits on the cheap. While Germany is funding this 500MW worth of solar in Morocco, with a total price tag of $2.65 billion, it is also adding a whopping 5,300MW of new coal-fired power plants in 2013. After Fukushima, a reactionary German public decided they weren't in favor of nuclear power after all, and decided to close all 17 nuclear reactors in the nation, which represented 22.4% of demand at the time. While German deployment of solar, particularly on rooftops, is admirable, it's just not a very sunny place. And since DESERTEC's ambitious plans for shipping solar energy across the Mediterranean appear to be twisting in the wind, countries like Germany apparently have little choice but to add more dirty coal to their energy mix.
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LONDON, Sept 9 (Reuters) - Britain's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has begun studying competition in the trillion-pound cash savings market to see if customers are getting a fair deal.
At the start of the new financial year in April, people are bombarded with advertisements from Britain's major banks, encouraging them to put cash into accounts with favourable tax treatments.
The FCA, launched in April with a strong focus on stopping consumers being ripped off after a string of mis-selling scandals, said it was looking at the effects of so-called "teaser" or introductory interest rates to new customers.
Some savers leave their money in the account even after the teaser rate has expired and the FCA will look at how often customers switch accounts.
"In looking at cash savings, we will examine an area that affects most people and see if there is action we need to take. This is exactly the sort of area I want the FCA to be operating in," FCA Chief Executive Martin Wheatley said in a statement.
The announcement comes as Wheatley prepares to answer questions on Tuesday from members of Britain's parliament, who are likely to ask what is being done to protect consumers.
"We know that switching rates are low for financial services products and savings accounts are no exception. Even when people do switch their accounts, they are twice as likely to go with their existing provider than move to the offering of a competitor," Wheatley said.
The watchdog will consider studying annuities, products that offered retired people an income, once a review of the sector is finished by the end of the year. The FCA will also review early next year the way competition works between financial services firms to ensure customers get a better deal.


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NetBSD is a stable, multi-user, freely redistributable UNIX-like operating system. It is distributed with source code and runs on a large number of hardware platforms.
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NetBSD is a free multi-platform operating system, with a focus on portability.
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Why he uses NetBSD, advantages and disadvantages of the OS vs. other OS's, and a number of useful how-to's on NetBSD.
DistroWatch.com: NetBSD
Release dates and package comparison tables for multiple NetBSD releases.
Google Groups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.announce
Discussion group.
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A journal of Jeremy Reed's experiences with NetBSD.
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List of NetBSD developers, who are members of the NetBSD Foundation and have CVS commit privileges.
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Pkgsrc-wip (work in progress) is a project to get more people actively involved with creating packages for pkgsrc, a portable packaging system coming from NetBSD.
Benchmark Comparison of NetBSD 2.0 and FreeBSD 5.3
This paper by Gregory McGarry presents a suite of benchmarks and results for comparing the performance of these operating systems. The benchmarks target core operating system functionality, server scalability and thread implementation. (January 03, 2005)
Interview with Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems
Vice President of firm. Main business is embedded market, markets NetBSD as an embedded OS, and sells boxed release. Says how it is better than VXWorks, Linux, QNX, Windows CE. Short article with forum comments. [OSNews.com] (April 03, 2003)
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East African Muslim girls convenance basketball in their new uniforms in Minneapolis. All-embracing basketball competitions could acquire players cutting religious headgear including hijabs and yarmulkes soon. Leaders of basketball¿s administering physique ¿issued a mandate¿ at their contempo affair for its rs gold amphitheatre rules lath to arise avant-garde with a angle for headgear to be exhausted carefully by athletes in competition, with the ambition of acknowledging the change at its affair in May. FIBA arise the adaptation beforehand this week. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)
I am a Muslim, and I anticipate anybody should acquire the adapted (to abrasion headgear)," said Nuggets avant-garde Kenneth Faried, who aswell alive the letter and won a gold badge with the U.S. in the 2014 Basketball Apple Cup. "Jewish — hey, if you're Gothic, whatever your adoration is Muslim.
Christian, Catholic, it doesn't matter. You should be able to abutment your adoration and abrasion whatever is allotment of your religion."The aphorism banning religious headgear was allowable 20 years ago and wasn't meant as a ban adjoin any religion, and stood afterwards complaint until RS 2007 Gold recently. Some groups acquire interpreted the accoutrement of the rules on uniforms as a ban adjoin the accord of players of assertive faiths.
According to FIBA, headgear was banned for assurance affidavit in case it fell off and anyone would blooper on it or become entangled.Other sports acquire already airy such regulations.The All-embracing Football Affiliation Board, soccer's administering body, in 2012 accustomed headscarves for changeable Muslim players, abandoning a ban that had been activated ashamed 2007.


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How the CUP parser generator explains conflicts.
I found the abstract of [Isradisaikul, Myers, Finding Counterexamples from Parsing Conflicts, 2015] quite exciting. After reading the paper, I think it delivers what the title and the abstract promise: better errors for parser generators. If you ever worked with a LR parser generator, then you know that sometimes it reports shift/reduce or reduce/reduce conflicts. The error usually points to a couple of grammar rules and says 'here is the problem'. I never feel like I understand what exactly the problem is until I have an example of what could go wrong. So, once I see the warning/error from the parser generator, I try to come up with examples. Well, according to this paper, the CUP parser generator gives you examples. How cool is that?
Still, I'm not completely enthusiastic about the paper. I think the algorithm could be better described. For example, I would have preferred to see pseudocode. I realize that it is not easy to add pseudocode, and I realize that the pseudocode could be too large to be useful. But. I think that adding pseudocode would've forced the presentation to be more precise, which is a good thing. I think that striving for small pseudocode would've forced isolating the core idea, which is a good thing. The heuristics that embellish the core idea could remain in prose, as they are now.
Now let's get technical, a bit. Recall that the ambiguity problem is in P for NFAs (nondeterministic finite automata), and undecidable for CFGs (context free grammars).
The ambiguity problem for NFAs asks whether there are two runs that accept the same word. To solve it, we explore pairs $(q_1,q_2)$ of states that can be reached by the same word. For pairs with $q_1=q_2$ we also care whether they were reached through distinct runs. Formally, we define a graph that has a transition $(q_1,q_2,b) \to (q'_1,q'_2,b')$ when the NFA has transitions $t_1 = \bigl(q_1 \stackrel{\ell}{\to} q'_1\bigr)$ and $t_2 = \bigl(q_2 \stackrel{\ell}{\to} q'_2\bigr)$ for some letter $\ell$ and $b'=b \lor (t_1 \ne t_2)$. The third component is a boolean that keeps track of whether the runs have diverged. We then ask if there is a path $(q,q,0) \leadsto (q',q',1)$ with $q$ initial and $q'$ final. We answer this question with BFS (breadth first search). If the NFA has $m$ transitions and $n$ states, then the graph we defined has $\le 2m^2$ edges and $2n^2$ vertices. Thus, the BFS takes $O(m^2+n^2)$ time. This, by the way, you can find in [Even, On Information Lossless Automata of Finite Order, 1965].
(I have posted this previously as a problem on my blog and on SPOJ. I believe my reference solution for SPOJ is slightly different from what I describe above, but I'm too lazy to check.)
The paper by Isradisaikul and Myers essentially uses the same trick, of running two copies of the machine in parallel. Except in their case, the machine is not an NFA but an LALR parser. If you wonder how could the problem be undecidable, the answer is simple: a LALR parser has an infinite number of configurations, because of the stack. Now, I should say that many other papers are based on the same trick of running two copies in parallel. What Isradisaikul and Myers do is that they exploit a bit the structure of a LALR parser to squeeze some efficiency.
One thing they do is that they distinguish nonunifying from unifying counterexamples. In the terminology from above, a nonunifying counterexample is a word that corresponds to a path $(q,q,0) \leadsto ({\cdot},{\cdot},1)$ with $q$ initial; a unifying counterexample is a word that corresponds to a path $(q,q,0) \leadsto (q',q',1)$ with $q$ initial and $q'$ final. The idea is that in some cases you can find where the paths diverge (the conflict) but it's difficult to find the continuation that gives two different parse trees. In fact, they give up after some timeout. (Another way to describe the difference is to say that a unifying counterexample remains a counterexample even for a GLR parser.)
There are other optimizations they propose. But, frankly, I didn't parse those carefully. So, if you want to add better error messages to your favorite parser generator, then you'll have to read the paper yourself, not just this post. :)


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I love make pies or quiches but adore the Galette. It's like a pie but I think is better and easier than pie. The crust is buttery and flaky but is own pretty and simple, rustic way.
And the best of all you can fill with other vegetables, meats or cheeses and you will love!
I adapted this recipe from Simple Bites
1 1/4 cup whole wheat flour or all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
8 tablespoon unsalted butter cut into small pieces
1/4 cup plain greek yogurt
1/4 cup ice cold water
2 teaspoons lemon juice
3/4 cup ricotta cheese (or goat cheese)
1/2 cup grated parmesan
1/4 cup grated mozarella
1 tablespoon more 1 tablespoon vegetal oil
1 garlic clove minced
400 grams asparagus washed and trimmed
o 1 tin asparagus
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon water
to prepare crust
Combine whole wheat flour and salt in a bowl of food processor (or by hand) Pulse to combine and add butter and pulse until mixture resembles coarse meal.
Transfer mixture to a large bowl .
In a small bowl whisk yogurt, water and lemon juice.
Mix with flour mix and use your hand to form dough into a ball.
Wrap in plastic and store in fridge for 20 minutes.
Whisk oil with garlic clove in a bowl. In other bowl combine the cheese and ricotta and stir with one teaspoon of oil mixture.
Refrigerate until is ready for use.
To assemble galette preheat oven to 180°c (380 °F)
Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and set aside.
On a well floured surface roll the chilled dough and make a circle trimming edges until smooth.
Transfer dough to lined baking sheet.
Leave a border about 5 cm (2 inch) and spread the cheese mixture evenly over dough.
Arrangue asparagus over the cheese cream the drizzle remaining oil over the top.
Fold over the edges of dough pleating to make it fit.
Whisk together egg yolk and water.
Brush over the crust and bake for 30 minutes or until cream cheese is puffed and asparagus is tender and crust is golde brown.
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Galette de espárragos, queso y ricotta


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UKIPT Brighton: Day 2, level 19, 20 & 21 updates (blinds 6,000-12,000, ante 1,000)
3.30am: Play is done for the day
That's the end of level 21 and the end of play for the night. A full wrap of the day's play and chip counts are on the way. -- NW
3.20am: Cooler on the last hand of the night
Players sometimes get it in a little light on the last hand of the night but two genuine premium hands collided in a hand here in Brighton.
Jeff Duvall made it 27,000 to play, David Rudling-Smith three-bet to 74,000 from the small blind, before Alex Ferguson made it 164,000 from the big blind. Back on Duvall he moved all-in for around 500,000 and Ferguson called. On their backs:
Duvall: A♥A♠
Ferguson: A♣A♦
The flop was 6♣7♣5♣ giving Ferguson a free roll but the turn and river were both blanks and they chopped the pot. -- NW
3.15am: Michael Kossov eliminated in 12th place (£2,900)
Alex Ferguson made it 24,000 to go and was flat called by Jaroslav Horak, Jeff Duvall and Michael Kossov, the latter was in the big blind and only had about 10 big blinds to start the hand.
As the dealer was preparing to spread the flop Kossov said: "Any part of it will do dealer," as the J♦3♥[10c] hit the table Kossov said: "That'll do dealer," and moved all-in, Ferguson quickly folded, Horak made the call and Duvall got out the way.
"Jack-nine any good?" said Kossov flipping J♠9♦ but it was behind Horak's A♥J♥ and it stayed that way on the 6♥ turn and 3♣ river. -- NW
3.10am: Four more hands
The clock has been halted and the two tables will play four more hands. -- RD
3am: Spencer Lawrence eliminated in 13th place (£2,900)
The impending final table hasn't slowed the action at all but Spencer Lawrence just got desperately unlucky to bust in 13th place.
Jaroslav Horak opened to 27,000 with A♦[10s], Lawrence three-bet to 100,000 with pocket jacks, Horak 4-bet to 246,000, Lawrence five-bet all-in to 570,000 total and Horak called it off.
The flop was 5♠9♥3♥ safe enough for Lawrence's pocket pair. The turn though was the A♠ giving Horak the lead and the Q♦ completed the board, eliminating Lawrence and giving Horak a stack of around 1,250,000 and the chip lead. -- NW
2.53am: Mohammed Ibrahim eliminated in 14th place (£2,350)
The action was started by Chris O'Donnell who raised to 26,000, next to act Neil Barron announced all-in and it folded to Mohammed Ibrahim in the big blind who asked for a count. The shove was for 371,000, Ibrahim had about 200,000 total and after getting the count announced that he too was all-in, O'Donnell swiftly folded.
Barron: A♥K♥
Ibrahim: [10d][10c]
The flop was 6♥2♥5♦ giving Barron a flush draw as well as the overs. The turn was the 3♠ giving Barron even more outs and one of them - the J♥ - duly arrived on the river. "Never in doubt Neil," shouted his rail.
Thirteen players remain and there's 20 minutes of play left, looks like we'll be just shy of reaching the final table tonight. -- NW
2.43am: Blame it on the sheet
"If you blog this, blame it on the sheet," said Mohammed Ibrahim.
Richard Hasancebi had led 40,000 into the 6♥4♠5♦ flop and Ibrahim had raised to 115,000. Hasancebi looked at the flop again and moved all-in for 447,000. Ibrahim had a decision on his hands. He got the stacks counted out and saw that he would be left with 150,000 if he lost and then consulted the payout sheet. The money up top persuaded him to gamble, "I call."
Hasancebi: 6♠7♦
Ibrahim: J♠7♠
Ibrahim didn't like seeing the seven in Hasancebi's hand, as it left with with just three clean outs. He didn't catch them and Hasancebi chipped up to 950,000. -- RD
2.41am: Scott Elsden eliminated in 15th place (£2,350)
Pre-flop David Rudling-Smith raised to 27,000 and both blinds called. On the flop o f J♠[J]6♠ Scott Elsden and Rudi Johnsen both checked to Ruddling-Smith who bet 35,000, both players made the call.
The turn was the [10h] it checked round and the 8♠ completed the board. At this point Elsden led for 100,000, Johnsen set him all-in, Ruddling-Smith got out the way and Elsden called all-in. Johnsen rolled over pocket eights for a rivered full house whilst Elsden showed pocket sixes for an underfull. After than hand Johnsen is now up to 800,000. -- NW
In other news Michael Kossov has moved to table two and Chris O'Donnell is now seated at table one. -- NW
2.29am: Chip counts from table two
Seat one: Rudi Johnsen - 400,000
Seat two: Spencer Lawrence - 570,000
Seat four: David Rudling-Smith - 540,000
Seat five: Alex Ferguson - 1,100,000
Seat six: Jaroslav Horak - 750,000
Seat seven: Jeff Duvall - 500,000
Seat eight: Scott Elsden - 320,000
2.24am: Chip counts from table one
Below is the seat draw and chip counts from table one:
Seat One: Michael Kossov, United Kingdom, 340,000
Seat Two: Richard Hasancebi, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, 330,000
Seat Three: Mohammed Ibrahim, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier, 540,000
Seat Five: Sinem Melin, United Kingdom, 850,000
Seat Six: Andrew Miles, United Kingdom, 460,000
Seat Seven: Christopher O'Donnell, United Kingdom, 570,000
Seat Eight: David Trigg, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, 800,000
Seat Nine: Neil Barron, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, 480,000
2.22am: Back from the break
Players are now back in their seats. -- NW
LEVEL UP: BLINDS 6,000-12,000, ante 1,000
2.06am: Break time
Players are now on a 15 minute break
2.06am: Lawlor spun out
Richie Lawlor's comeback has been cut short by Jeff Duvall. Lawlor's pocket tens failed to beat Duvall's A♣K♣ and he's been sent to the rail in 16th. Duvall up to 450,000.
Break time, one last level to play. -- RD
12.37am: Lawlor spinning it up
Richie Lawlor was down to just a few big blinds and he's managed to spin that up to 210,000. His last double up was with A♠T♠ against Alex Ferguson's A♣5♦. - RD
2.05am: Richie Lawlor trebles up
From early position Richie Lawlor moved in for 40,000, Rudi Johnsen then flat called before David Ruddling-Smith put in a small raise, forcing Johnsen out. On their backs:
Lawlor: J♥T♠
Ruddling-Smith: K♣4♣
The board ran 2♠6♠3♣5♠9♠ and Lawlor fist-pumped the river as he tripled up. He finished 28th in Newcastle and is making another deep run here. -- NW
2am: Beaumont out in 17th (£2,350)
Lynne Beaumont's three-bet shove with K♠Q♦ would have been a nice one in many situations but unfortunately she made that move into the pocket aces of Andrew Miles. She caught a queen on the turn but couldn't catch the river to suck out. Miles now up to 500,000. -- RD
1.55am: Clocking up the miles
After Dave Trigg had made it 26,500 to go from middle position Richard Hasancebi three-bet to 53,000 from the button and then Sinem Melin cold four-bet to 200,500 from the big blind.
Back on Trigg he began to tank and talk saying: "It might be a £70,000 flip," all three players were deep stacked with between 880,000 and 630,000. "I think this might be a 1,500,000 chip flip," said Trigg. He clearly was taking his time over a difficult decision and eventually Andy Miles decided to call the clock. As the seconds ticked down Trigg said: "I'll get you later," before folding his hand with about four seconds left, Hasancebi meanwhile took about four seconds total to muck his. -- NW
1.46am: Chip counts from table two
Seat one: Rudi Johnsen - 500,000
Seat two: Spencer Lawrence - 700,000
Seat three: Chris O'Donnell - 350,000
Seat four: David Rudling-Smith - 540,000
Seat five: Alex Ferguson - 1,000,000
Seat six: Richie Lawlor - 40,000
Seat seven: Jaroslav Horak - 780,000
Seat eight: Jeff Duvall - 270,000
Seat nine: Scott Elsden - 320,000
Elsden just doubled through Richie Lawlor in a flip. The Irishman looked pretty gutted, he's down to fumes. -- RD
1.40am: Chip counts from table one
Below is the seat draw and chip counts from table one:
Seat One: Michael Kossov, United Kingdom, 290,000
Seat Two: Richard Hasancebi, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, 630,000
Seat Three: Mohammed Ibrahim, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier, 530,000
Seat Four: Empty
Seat Five: Sinem Melin, United Kingdom, 960,000
Seat Six: Andrew Miles, United Kingdom, 290,000
Seat Seven: Lynne Beaumont, United Kingdom, 380,000
Seat Eight: David Trigg, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, 770,000
Seat Nine: Neil Barron, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, 450,000
1.30am: Parvis Tafreshi eliminated in 18th place (£1,850)
I only saw the action on the turn but with the board reading 4♦9♠3♥A♥ and around 180,000 in the pot, Parvis Tafreshi moved all-in for about 160,000 over the top of a bet from Richard Hasancebi, the latter snap called and showed A♥A♣, Tafreshi was way behind although not drawing dead with pocket fives.
The river was low but it was the 6♦ and Tafreshi is the first player out since the players combined to two tables. -- NW
1.25am: Horvak holds to bust Shaw
Jaroslav Horak just won a chunky flip to knock out Mike Shaw, pocket tens to ace-queen. Horak kept muttering hold under his breath, it seemed to work.
A few hands later Spencer Lawrence pushed Antonino Milioti out the tournament with pocket tens rivering a set to beat Milioti's ace-king. Both Horak and Lawrence up to around 700,000. -- RD
1.20am: Two more exits
Two all-in and calls occurred at the same time, both saw the shortstack eliminated.
Hand One: Patrick Thompson shoved 150,000 from the small blind with 9♥3♥ only for David Trigg to wake up with A♠A♥. The board of A♣2♥8♦8♠4♥ ensuring there was no Faraz Jaka style suck out, Trigg is up to 800,000.
Hand two: Pre-flop Daren Lury moved all-in for his last 130,000 with A♠J♣ and one spot to his left Alex Ferguson woke up with A♥K♦ and held. The latter is the first to break the million chip mark, he has 1,100,000. -- NW
1.14am: Chip counts from table two
Going clockwise from seat one: Rudi Johnsen (610,000), Spencer Lawrence (490,000), Chris O'Donnell (250,000), David Rudling-Smith (530,000), Mike Shaw (235,000), Jaroslav Horak (630,000) and Jeff Duvall (340,000).
Ruddling-Smith in particular has been up and down like a yo-yo today. -- NW
1.09am: Just when I thought I was out...
Fabio Esposito was up out of his chair and ready to leave the tournament. He had just lost all but 20,000 of his stack in a 250,000 pot to Andrew Miles after his ace-king had lost out pre-flop to king queen.
The Italian tossed his last 20,000 in from the button and was looked up by two players, including Miles, and promptly trebled through with Q♥3♥. Esposito has just six big blinds with 60,000. -- RD
1.00am: More for Ferguson
With the elimination of Mark Smith, chip leader Alex Ferguson has been moved to table three in the name of balancing. He's to the direct right of fellow big stack Sinem Melin but he wasted little time in getting into the action.
He min-raised with A♦K♦ and then called when Tom Hall shoved his last 12 big blinds in with [10s][10c]. A board of A♣J♥2♥4♠6♣ bounced Hall from the tournament and Ferguson said: "I'm running good." He's up to 930,000. -- NW
12.55am: Smith eliminated by Melin
I didn't see the action but Daren Lury told me that Mark Smith had jammed the river of a [A][Q][5][5][X] board and Sinem Melin, who had Smith covered had called with [A][Q]. Smith, who started the hand with 180,000 didn't show his hand though the table speculated that he must've had [A][K]. After that hand Melin is up to 760,000. - NW
12.50am: More gone
Just 25 remain and it looks like Mark Smith may be on his way out too.
26th: Alex Zeligman, United Kingdom, PokerStars players, £1,400
27th: Ross Mcmahon, United Kingdom, PokerStars qualifier, £1,400
28th: Dom Coleman, United Kingdom, PokerStars qualifier, £1,200
29th: Tom Drew, United Kingdom, £1,200
30th: Casper Kyhl, Denmark, PokerStars qualifier, £1,200
Just three tables remain as we play through the ninth one-hour level of the day. -- RD
12.45am: Beware the Barron
A huge pot was just shipped in the direction of Neil Barron. I joined the action to see a flop of 2♥J♠4♥, Parvis Tafreshi had led for 42,000, Barron had moved all-in for 230,000 and Mohammed Ibrahim had moved all-in over the top covering both players.
The action was now on Tafreshi who had about 200,000 back, eventually he passed what he said was A♥[10h] and it was time for the reveal:
Barron: J♣J♥
Ibrahim: 2♣2♥
It was a set over set cooler, the 3♥ turn would've given the pot to Tafreshi had he stayed in as the Q♦ completed the board. After that hand Barron has around 550,000 whilst Ibrahim slips to 220,000. -- NW
12.37am: Smith cracks Zeligman
Mark Smith called a short stack shove from Alex Zeligman with pocket eights and flopped a set to crack Zeligman's pocket jacks. Smith up to 300,000, Zeligman out. -- RD
12.35am: Trigg takes another scalp
The chip stack of David Trigg continues to trend upwards... from the small blind Ross Mcmahon made it 18,000 from a stack of 190,000 and Trigg defended from the big. The flop was 7♥6♠Q♣ and Mcmahon led, Trigg set him in and Mcmahon made the call.
Trigg: Q♠7♠
Mcmahon: A♦A♠
Turn: 5♠
River: K♠
Even though he didn't need it Trigg rivered a spade to flush Mcmahon out of the tournament. There are 25 players left. -- NW
12.30pm: Coleman doesn't pass mustard
After a raise to 18,000 from Patrick Thompson and a flat call from David Rudling-Smith, Dominc Coleman moved all-in for 77,500 total. After Thompson had folded Rudling-Smith made a quick call:
Rudling-Smith: K♦J♦
Coleman: Q♣J♦
The flop of [10c]9♠[10d] was about as good as it could get for Coleman without him actually connecting. But the 2♠ turn and 2♥ river kept Rudling-Smith in the lead and he's now up to 500,000. -- NW
12.20am: Snippets of action
- David Rudling-Smith is up to 400,000 after four flushing the nut flush.
- Michael Kossov wins perhaps the minimum against Neil Barron with flopped trips in a battle of the blinds. Barron holds A♥K♦ on a 9♠9♥4♠A♠7♥ board, Kossov holds 9♣5♦ and just calls Barron's 28,000 lead on the river.
- Rudi Johnsen limps. That is news in of itself, it's the first time I've seen him do that. -- RD
12.15am: Chip counts
Click right here to get the current chip counts of all 28 remaining players, below for your delectation are the current top five:
Alex Ferguson, United Kingdom, PokerStars Qualifier, 800000
Rudi Johnsen, Norway, PokerStars Qualifier, 680000
David Trigg, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, 605000
Jaroslav Horak, Czech Republic, PokerStars Qualifier, 540000
Richard Hasancebi, United Kingdom, PokerStars Player, 525000
Play will continue until we reach the final table (eight players) or until the end of level 21. It'll be close. -- NW
12am: Big money on the horizon
One of these last few players will be winning £71,000 tomorrow and claiming the UKIPT Brighton title. Let's get back into it. -- RD
PokerStars Blog reporting team in Brighton (and their randomly generated superhero name): Rick Dacey (The Super-Intelligent Albino) and Nick Wright (The Charismatic Worm). Photos by Mickey May (The Radioactive Squirrel).


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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) - Sellers chipped away at Internet and chip stocks, pushing the Nasdaq into the minus column Tuesday, while the Dow Industrials managed a slim advance as buyers nibbled on defensive areas of the market.
The Nasdaq closed at its lowest level since October 27.
"The stock market is focusing on the economy and earnings and the picture is getting gloomier and gloomier," remarked Hugh Johnson, chief investment officer at First Albany. "The market is signaling that you now have to take the possibility of a hard landing seriously."
So-called safe-haven sectors again captured the best buying interest, with consumer, gold, drug and healthcare issues leading on the upside. And biotech stocks saw a modest recovery following Monday's rout while retail, brokerage and utility issues slipped.
The Dow Jones Industrials Average DJIA, +1.74% gained 31.85 points, or 0.3 percent, to 10,494.50. The blue-chip barometer's frontrunners included Boeing, Caterpillar, Intel, Philip Morris and Exxon Mobil.
The Nasdaq Composite $COMPQ lost 4.19 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,871.45 while the Nasdaq 100 Index shed 5.88 points, or 0.2 percent, to 2,786.53.
"The techs won't rally until the market is done beating up the large-cap darlings," observed John Zaro, managing member at Bourgeon Capital Management.
"The entire tech group is being re-evaluated. The multiples are changing as year-over-year revenue growth slows," Zaro continued. "Any whiff of caution among these high-beta companies sends investors running for the hills. The slowing economy has become a bigger and bigger issue for the market."
Limiting further losses in the Nasdaq were respectable gains in the index's big-cap leaders: Intel put on 3.6 percent, Cisco Systems gained 4.8 percent, Sun Micro jumped 4.3 percent, JDS Uniphase added 2.8 percent and Qualcomm jumped 3.4 percent.
The Standard & Poor's 500 Index SPX, +1.09% rose 0.4 percent while the Russell 2000 Index RUT, +1.56% of small-capitalization stocks declined 0.7 percent.
Volume checked in at 1.12 billion on the NYSE and at 1.74 billion on the Nasdaq Stock Market. Market breadth was negative, with decliners outnumbering advancers by 15 to 14 on the NYSE and by 25 to 14 on the Nasdaq.
The election stalemate continued as markets awaited the decision of the Florida Supreme Court on whether the latest manual tallies should be the deciding factor in who's elected president. See full story.
"There is a good chance the election mess in Florida will not be over by Thanksgiving. The odds of an explosive rally once election uncertainty settles down are very high and rising [but] we are concerned about what sort of follow-through any rally would have," commented William Rhodes of The Williams Capital Group.
Zaro said he believes a post-election rally would be viewed as just another opportunity to lighten up on shares.
For Rhodes, equities currently face five problems: a narrowing market, with fewer stocks rising from day to day; a declining price-to-earnings ratio for the S&P 500 with investors now paying less for earnings growth; decelerating earnings growth; decelerating revenues; and cost-cutting, which could be the theme to 2001.
Sector movers
Internet issues declined for the fifth straight session with some bellwether stocks witnessing heady losses. Merrill Lynch's Henry Blodget said that though he still believes in the long-term growth of online advertising, he doesn't expect the online ad market to bottom until the first quarter.
Yahoo YHOO fell 14.7 percent to $41.69. Morgan Stanley Dean Witter's influential Mary Meeker said she believes her revenue estimates for Yahoo are conservative enough in the difficult Internet market but "handicaps" a miss at 30 percent. But she said dislocations would be temporary.
"We continue to believe that Yahoo has all the right stuff to be one of the great growth stocks of our day," Meeker said of Yahoo.
Meanwhile, Blodget said Yahoo is currently facing the toughest challenge of its young life, its "first harsh winter." The Merrill analyst said he believes Yahoo's first-quarter numbers are at risk. But if the company makes it through this period, he added, the stock could go back to $200 by the end of 2001.
Among other Net stocks struggling Tuesday: America Online fell 8.7 percent, Amazon slipped 6 percent, Inktomi was down 14 percent and EBay shaved 8.5 percent after falling 20 percent Monday on the heels of a Lehman Brothers downgrade.
Chip stocks sputtered right from the start of trading as LSI Logic LSI, +0.18% plummeted 20.2 percent to $22.94, taking the Philly Semiconductor Index SOX, +0.53% down 4.7 percent. LSI Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President Douglas Norby left his positions, with Bryon Look named to both posts. Merrill Lynch downgraded the stock. Also taking a hit were shares of Xilinx XLNX, +1.52% off 10 percent, and Vitesse Semiconductor VTSS off 5.7 percent. See related story.
In the optical equipment arena, Nortel Networks NT which was among the few winners Monday with its 3.5 percent advance, put on $2.94, or 8.3 percent, to $38.19. Ahead of its annual investors conference Tuesday, Nortel said it was very confident in its previously stated guidance. The company said it expects to grow significantly faster than the market, with anticipated growth in revenue and earnings-per-share from operations in the 30 to 35 percent range. Nortel still expects first-quarter EPS from operations to come in at 16 cents a share. First Call also pegs first-quarter EPS at 16 cents.
Lucent Technologies LU fell $3.38, or 16 percent, to $17.56 after revealing Tuesday that problems with certain sales will cause it to lower earnings-per-share by 2 cents for the quarter and the year. Merrill Lynch cut the stock to a "long-term accumulate" rating from a "long-term buy." See full story. Both Nortel and Lucent are components of Merrill Lynch's Broadband Holdrs BDH which added 0.5 percent.
Agilent Technolgies A, +1.66% was among Tuesday's winners, swelling $4, or 9 percent, to $48.63. The company registered after the close Monday a fourth-quarter profit from operations of 69 cents a share versus the First Call estimate of 53 cents. Further, Agilent said it's still comfortable with guidance of at least 20 percent growth in net revenue. And for the first quarter of 2001, Agilent sees EPS of about 45 cents, in line with the First Call estimate. Salomon Smith Barney upped the stock to an "outperform" from "neutral."
Oracle ORCL, +0.47% -- which saw a 14-percent plunge on Monday and represented one of the biggest drags on the Nasdaq -- lost another 3.5 percent to $23.88 Tuesday. The drop weighed on the Goldman Sachs Software Index $GSO which fell 2.8 percent.
In rating actions, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter downgraded the entertainment industry to "neutral" from "overweight." MSDW lowered prices targets for Walt Disney DIS, +1.74% Viacom VIA, -0.83% and News Corp. NWS, +1.89% and downgraded the stocks to an "outperform" from a "strong buy," indicating that broadcast and cable network advertising is soft. Dow-component Disney lost 1.7 percent, News Corp shed 2.1 percent while Viacom added 1.8 percent. Viacom, through its CBS subsidiary, is a significant investor in CBSMarketWatch.com. See full story.
See After Hours for post-market trading activity.
Treasury action
Over in the Treasury bond market, issues turned mixed, with buyers emerging in the long end of the yield curve.
The 10-year Treasury note inched up 2/32 to yield TNX, +0.34% 5.665 percent while the 30-year government bond added 9/32 to yield TYX, -0.33% 5.74 percent. See Bond Report.
On the economic docket, the release of the September trade numbers revealed a record $34.26 billion deficit, much more than the $30.6 billion deficit expected by economists. Demand for imported goods and services was heavy across many broad categories. See full story.
No economic numbers are set for release on Wednesday. View Economic Preview, economic calendar and forecasts and historical economic data.
In the currency arena, the dollar extended Monday's gains against the yen, rising 0.3 percent to 110.18. The greenback cleared the 110 mark for the first time since mid-May on Monday. Euro/dollar slipped 0.9 percent to 0.8432.


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My brother and I had a movie bonding this weekend at Shangri-la Plaza which we really enjoyed and kept us all night debating. The movie that buzzed the world -- almost got every positive reviews, kept on trending topics in Twitterverse for a long time and yeah, everyone else seems to be talking about it.
Its no other than Christopher Nolan's Inception starring Leonardo Di Caprio.
Well, I have to join everyone who have said everything good about it. Actually, I think I have no more words to say because they already did. This mind-boggling sci-fi thriller is surely a must-see film. I would have to agree with internet giant, Yahoo! that Inception is the best film of the year to-date.


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Today's the day! It's Giving Tuesday! Join donors across the country in giving to make our communities stronger. Your gift to Centerstone helps us deliver care that changes people's lives. You can make a life-saving difference to children, adults and families in our community at giving.centerstone.org.
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First of November and that means: time for a new challenge at Country View Challenges!
This month my dear team mate Rachel wants to see "stars".
I made a card for it.
For my background I used DecoArt media fluid acrylics Titanium White, Cobalt Teal Hue, Prussian Blue Hue, Paynes Grey and Carbon Black. I dropped them in a row and took my brayer and rolled the paint on my paper to create a ombre effect.
Then I put some Ecoline watercolor in magenta to the upper part, mixed it a bit with Titanium White to create a kind of cloudy galaxy. Then I sprinkled watered down white Gesso on top and glued down some of the small chipboard stars.
I wrote the sentiment with a white acrylic marker and surrounded the letters with a black marker.
Last I added a little glimmer by highlighting the stars and parts of the letters with ice stickles. Last but not least I randomly rubbed DecoArt media fluid acrylics Interference Turquoise to create more interest and that´s it!
Now I hope you find time to join in our challenge!
Thank you for your visit!


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Thresher sharks stun prey with tail slaps
A paper in the journal PLoS ONE about the hunting strategies of pelagic thresher sharks (Alopias pelagicus) has shown that the animals do use their tales to stun prey. The behavior was investigated at Pescador Island in the Philippines over 5 months in 2010, using a video camera to record the predation. (Image from Shutterstock)


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Last October, I attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in Houston, Texas. It was such a fun opportunity. I networked with representatives from some of the world's top tech companies, attended seminars, and, best of all, met other girls in engineering.
I think Grace Hopper is one of the best places for women to network and search for internships. It is so empowering to be in a large venue with hundreds of females wanting to be great computer scientists.
This year, it will be held in Orlando. To help you earn a scholarship or travel grant to attend, I am sharing five programs that have scholarship applications still open. They are due soon, though, so start applying now!
I highly recommend any girls entering Viterbi in the fall apply for these scholarships. Even though you will miss a week of school, professors encourage girls to attend the conference, so they are super understanding and will work with you to make up any schoolwork you miss.
Here are the programs and the links to their applications:
Google Travel Grant
Accenture Grace Hopper Scholarship
Disney Grace Hopper "Behind the Magic" Scholarship
Yext Grace Hopper Scholarship
CRA-W Grace Hopper Celebration Research Scholars Program
Grace Hopper is a life-changing opportunity, so I recommend you try to attend sometime in the future, even if it's not this year.
Happy application season!Meet Natalie


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It is unbelievable how quickly this year has passed. I cannot say it was good for me, since I had so many complications on every field, but even so it made me figure out my priorities and what I need to do at this point. I`m very close to fulfilling my dream, and I`ll have to work really hard to make it come true. Even so I`m ready for the new challenges in 2013, and I have never been more worked up to do something in my life. What are your New Year`s resolutions? Have a great week!
The Begining Of A New Chapter
Thursday, January 3, 2013
It is unbelievable how quickly this year has passed. I cannot say it was good for me, since I had so many complications on every field, but even so it made me figure out my priorities and what I need to do at this point. I`m very close to fulfilling my dream, and I`ll have to work really hard to make it come true. Even so I`m ready for the new challenges in 2013, and I have never been more worked up to do something in my life. What are your New Year`s resolutions? Have a great week!
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عزيزى العميل انت من محبى التنقل باستمرار بالتالى انت بحاجة ماسة وضروية الى الاستعانة بالمختصين في نقل العفش خاصة ارخص شركة نقل اثاث بالرياض لان الاستعانة باى من عمالة الشوارع الغير مدربة والتي لا تمتلك خبرة كافية في نقل العفش او الحفاظ علية وليس هذا فقط فقد يؤدى الاستعانة بعمالة الشوارع الى حدوث حالة فقدان وتكسير للاثاث بالتالى التاثير الضار عليك عزيزى العميل
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Sankirtana Poverty and Wealthy Temples
Big bucks for temple building projects, while the sankirtana devotees are struggling to raise funds for preaching projects. This is a widespread problem in ISKCON today. Unfortunately we are witnessing the separation of the mission from the temple.
Gone are the days when the sankirtana devotees controlled temple finances. Gone are the days when temple authorities truly cared about spreading Krishna consciousness. Instead the focus is on creating expensive temples for the Hindu community. The Hindus are happy to fund these big projects, but Srila Prabhupada was dead against this.
"So at the beginning Brahmananda was mixing only with those Indians, and they were giving profusely money, and there were so many plans for temple and deities. In this way he was neglecting to do the real work which was preaching to the black Africans. No one Hindu who is rich and living in foreign place is very much interested to become devotee, it is show only, sentiment or custom. So I wanted that he should preach to the Africans and convert them to become devotees, that should be his real business, nevermind wasting time with so many nonsense Indians. And as soon as he did as I instructed, immediately he has got some black devotees, and he has removed himself from the entanglement of the Hindus, and he is making good progress spreading Krsna Consciousness amongst the native citizens. And there black devotees are making advancement and they are also going out to preach themselves to other places in Africa." (Srila Prabhupada Letter)
The disparity in wealth is obscene. ISKCON is suffering from the corporate mentality that shows indifference to nonprofit missionary activities. This is in violation of the following ISKCON law.
126.96.36.199.3.2 Book Distribution and Preaching
1. GBC Zonal Secretaries and all Temple Presidents shall ensure that their respective zones and temples will distribute books on sankirtana on a regular basis, making a sincere attempt to implement Srila Prabhupāda's formula that fifty percent (50%) of our income be used for book distribution and fifty percent (50%) be used for the temple expenses. The Temple Presidents should give a minimum of twenty five percent (25 %) of income for book distribution.
Fifty percent of income for book distribution? It is not even 1% now in many places! We are about saving souls, not bricks and mortar! The sankirtana mission has lost its dignity to the point that sankirtana devotees are a fringe element, forgotten about. They have to maintain themselves AND raise funds to spread the mission without receiving any support from the temples.
The Hindus don't know any better, they will give endlessly for temple construction. But the GBC and temple authorities should know better. By all means milk the Hindu cash cow, but give the money to the sankirtana mission! Will the GBC ever follow the principles laid down by Srila Prabhupada?