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[afrorich] 01/9/2009 22:17

a very good read

[afrorich] 01/9/2009 16:14

deployment-deals-in-europe-and-middle-east-2275.html

after an email to Rick wadsworth

our email below was forwarded to me. For competitive reasons we don't disclose dollar amounts of contracts – never have. Unfortunately, our customers also typically require that we don't identify them – one of their concerns is based on the potential security threats if folks know what equipment is installed in their networks. So, I really don't have much more information to share. If you wish to discuss further, please feel free to call me.

[afrorich] 01/9/2009 15:21

RNS Number : 2658Y Sandvine Corporation 01 September 2009

Attention: Technology Editors


SANDVINE WINS FOUR NEW SERVICE PROVIDER CUSTOMERS IN EMEA REGION


Waterloo, Canada; September 1, 2009 - Sandvine, (TSX:SVC; AIM:SAND) a leading provider of intelligent broadband network solutions for cable, DSL, FTTx, fixed wireless and mobile operators, today announced four new service providers customers, all from the company's Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) sales region.

Sandvine has won initial deployments at:


a Tier-1 European DSL and wireless service provider, with over one million broadband subscribers;

a major cable provider in Europe offering triple-play services, with over one million broadband subscribers;

two wireless operators in the Middle East, one of which represents Sandvine's second win through its reseller
relationship with a global wireless network equipment vendor.

"Competition amongst service providers in EMEA, particularly in Europe, is extremely intense. As service providers look for an edge, they are increasingly turning to policy control solutions like Sandvine's to improve network operations and enhance the subscriber experience," said Tom Donnelly, Sandvine co-founder, EVP marketing and sales.

Sandvine's Policy Traffic Switch (PTS) hardware and related software allow service providers to create intelligent broadband networks through network policy control. Sandvine's solutions help service understand network traffic, plan future network capacity and deploy network policies to manage congestion, create new personalized services, mitigate malicious traffic and enhance customer service.

For more information on Sandvine's platform, products and applications, visit us at Broadband World Forum in Paris, France, booth ¿433.

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[grupo guitarlumber] 25/7/2009 08:28

Wall 'could stop desert spread'
By Jonathan Fildes
Technology reporter, BBC News, Oxford

A plan to build a 6,000km-long wall across the Sahara Desert to stop the spread of the desert has been outlined.

The barrier - formed by solidifying sand dunes - would stretch from Mauritania in the west of Africa to Djibouti in the east.

The plan was put forward by architect Magnus Larsson at the TED Global conference in Oxford.

A 2007 UN study described desertification as "the greatest environmental challenge of our times".

"The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand," said Mr Larsson, who describes himself as a dune architect.

The sand would be stabilised by flooding it with bacteria that can set it like concrete in a matter of hours.

North African nations have promoted the idea of planting trees to form a Great Green Belt to prevent the spread of the sand.

A similar proposal - known as the Green Wall of China - has also been proposed to stop the spread of the Gobi Desert.

Ballooning idea

In 2007, the UN issued a report that said that one third of the Earth's population - about two billion people - are potential victims of desertification.

" The idea is to stop the desert using the desert itself "
Magnus Larsson
It is concerned that the slow creep of the sands will displace people and put new strains on natural resources and societies.

Problem areas include the former Soviet republics in central Asia, China and sub-Saharan Africa.

"It affects about 140 countries," Mr Larsson told BBC News.

Mr Larsson showed pictures of a village called Gidan-Kara in Nigeria which had had to be moved because of the creep of the dunes. He said it was one of many examples.

The architect's proposed wall across the desert would be a complement to, rather than a replacement, of the Great Green Belt proposal.

"It would provide physical support for the trees," he said.

Crucially, he said, it would leave a barrier even if the trees were removed.

"People are so poor in these countries and these regions that they chop them down for firewood."

The wall would effectively be made by "freezing" the shifting sand dunes, turning them into sandstone.

"The idea is to stop the desert using the desert itself," he said.

The sand grains would be bound together using a bacterium called Bacillus pasteurii commonly found in wetlands.

"It is a microorganism which chemically produces calcite - a kind of natural cement."

Mr Larsson got the idea for using the bacteria from a team at the University of California Davis, which had been investigating its use for solidifying the ground in earthquake prone areas.

Mr Larsson envisages injecting the dunes with the bacteria on a massive scale or using a barrage of giant bacteria-filled balloons.

"We allow the dune to wash over this structure then we would pop the balloon," he told BBC News.

The scheme would also have advantages for nearby populations, he said. For example, it could be excavated he said to provide shade, shelter or as a structure to collect water.

However, Mr Larsson admitted that the scheme faced numerous practical problems.

"There are many details left to explore in this story: political, practical, ethical, financial. My design is fraught with many challenges," he said.

"However, it's a beginning, it's a vision; if nothing else I would like this scheme to initiate a discussion," he added.

TED Global is a conference dedicated to "ideas worth spreading". It runs from the 21 to 24 July in Oxford, UK.

Story from BBC NEWS:


Published: 2009/07/24 12:03:27 GMT

[sandbank] 30/6/2009 08:50

Taken from another BB(John Turnbull):

SIMON DIXON - BENEDIX TRAINING - former Marketmaker.
MANIPULATION BY MARKET MAKERS
[Dixon seems an ordinary 26-yr old, without any attempt at "persona", which many of the speakers portray. I've never heard a MM speak before. (I've suggested that one speak to MI.) He seemed to me to just talk straight and his couple of speeches were enough to justify the whole awkward trip to IX. .... He is also a broker, fsa-regulated and an ifa, mentor, independent trader and works in corporate finance. ] ....
Do not mix investing with trading. Do not mix fundamentals with technicals. Be one or the other and do not mix or you will be confused. ...
By all means invest in AIM, but do not daytrade AIM nor use TA on it, as it is manipulated by MMs.
Note that MMs can manipulate ONLY WHERE THERE IS LOW VOLUME but they cannot do so where there is large volume, or else they risk being caught on the wrong side of the market. Typically they may have a big institutional buy order to fill, where there are few shares available for purchase, so they try to manipulate prices down in order to fill it at the expense of smaller players. The impetus here is to fill the order at the best price in order to generate repeat business from that institution. (The institution, of course, unlike the rest of us, pays no spread!) ...
MMs are very crafty and familiarise themselves in detail with what is being taught in books and seminars, particularly on TA. ...
The low volume on AIM is particular favourable to MM manipulation. AIM should therefore be for investing, not for trading.

A typical MM day starts at 7am reading the tips in the press and subscription services. One person does this and briefs the rest. Investors Chronicle does not carry as much weight as it used to, but EK is known to have a very large following. These tips are the focus for the day, as many people try to stag these tips. At 8am MMs attempt to suck in buyers by gapping up the stock and creating a false trend. They then attempt to take out the stops which those buyers (and any preceding buyers) have set.
At 9am attention turns to institutional orders from the "Sales Trader." The MM seeks to manipulate prices during the morning to find stock to fill those orders, typically by creating false trends.
At noon there is the "Lunchtime boredom". It goes quiet, as judged by the ringing of the phone. Those in the office try to move their dead stocks, to try to create a trend so TA-based traders get sucked in. At this time, even one small buyer of £1,000 shares can send the market wild.
The main MMs are out at liquid lunch, schmoozing brokers to put business their way.
At 2pm they return in spirited mood and move prices aggressively, culminating in a rush at 4pm to outdo each other to fill the remainder of the institutional orders. As market closes, the price returns to an equilibrium price.
At 5pm the institutional orders are placed on a time&sales screen and on L2 you can see what they have done, GSCO, LEHM, etc. Follow these players and do not go against them. If you are going to go against anyone, go against the retail trader

[sandbank] 12/6/2009 08:47

According to Elder,(if I emember correctly I am due a re-read) you should not put more than 6% of your equity into one stock and should have stops so that you cannot lose more than 2% max.

[sandbank] 09/6/2009 14:45

COMMENTS BY CHART TRADER

Using the twin 20 dma as a filter u would be long of the following NT's shares

ALN,AIE,BARC,CAR,CHW,DGO,FENR,GFRM,HDY,HOIL,TIG,NBPO,OFF,OPTS,PFC,PRV,SDL,XPP.

Not a buy recommendation, just an example of a filter, a purchase of say OFF when the MA crossed would have been a good trade but maybe not a buy at this time.
Watch to see if SWG crosses. Of course using filters may make u late to some trades but may keep u out of bad trades, just something to consider for newbies who are still refining their trading style.

Only buy stocks that are acting stronger than the parent index and never buy stocks because they look cheap on the assumption that they will have to recover one day

[sandbank] 16/2/2009 07:43

SMARM every trade needs a target and a stop. The target should always be at least twice the stop, preferably three times. You then scale the size of the trade to ensure the stop, if taken out, does not lose you more than 1-2% of your portfolio. Keep to those rules and your losing trades will become your best friends.

[sandbank] 10/2/2009 08:24

two guys on 18th hole of a golf course. One about to tee of when he suddenly puts down club and bows head. the second says 'what are you doing?'

The first nods to a funeral passing by on a road beside the course.

'So,' says the second man, 'its a funeral, so what?'

The first man looks at him seriously and says, 'you cant live with a women for 35 years and not show some respect!'

[traderx2u] 17/1/2009 14:00

Here is someone being honest, there are probably many people globally in this same unfortunate situation.


OLIVERCROMWELL - 17 Jan'09 - 01:55 - 6343 of 6351

i looked at myself today for the first time in a long time and i failed to recognise the person looking back at me. since mid 2007 i have lost precisely £182K in pure cash and every single pound lost to 'the market' is etched into my face. I look physically different from those heady days when in one single day I made a paper profit of exactly £50K. Now i can't even make £500 in a week. At one point I had precisely £250K in equity during mid 2007.

Now my capital is gone. My time is up. It is time to leave the market to those who understand it.

Lesson: There is a time to be in the markets and there's a time to take your cash off the table and enjoy it. I failed to understand the latter and am now suffering the consequences of such idiocy.

Good luck in your investments

[traderx2u] 16/1/2009 20:24

Can everyone do this please? It will only take 30 seconds.They send back an instant reply saying

"Thank you for speaking out against the violence in Gazza. We'll make your voice count."

Text the word 'ceasefire' to 81819
Guardian/Save the Children running petition on Gaza. It is free to text.

[sandbank] 27/12/2008 07:57

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[sandbank] 26/10/2008 10:33

STOPPING THE CLOCK:

...Yes it's a fiddly job - and we're all having to do it; turn the clocks back to good old GMT.....but most of us should, at least, have managed to get that annual bonus of an extra hour's sleep.

But - just instead of an hour's extra kip - what if we all slept in for - say - a whole day, or even a week? ........Sure the sun would still rise, the birds would still sing, the rain would still come and go, the cat would still be complaining his breakfast was late - but there'd be no recession.

Imagine it - a whole week with no crashing share prices, banking crisis, no credit crunch, no Gordon Brown.

....The recession, and the stock market, and shares, and money itself for that matter are, when you come to think about it, purely products of the human brain. They;re just abstractions, They really ARE "virtual reality" ...And if there weren't any humans awake to think them up - they wouldn't exist..

So maybe when we wind the clocks back we oughtn't to stop at just going back one measly hour..... Knowing what we know now, maybe it should be a full week - or a year ...or 2003 ......or, better still, 1997.

...As for me, I think I'll just nip down to TNT's cafe for a cuppa (hope he's open on at 11.00 on Sundays) .

[pillion] 18/10/2008 22:47

HALIFAX have announced today that, due to the current shares collapse and the poor financial outlook, they are to withdraw from funding their annoying TV adverts..

Howard Brown* will be resuming normal duties with immediate affect, picking cotton whilst singing 'dayo' and............

Thomas Yau* will be put behind a chippy counter in Leeds.


That's one good thing we've had from the Credit Crunch!


*names haven't been changed to protect the innocent!

[sandbank] 18/10/2008 22:38

In this current climate, the market is more focussed on company debt. WMH has a nett debt of a whopping £1.4 billion and their market cap is now under £600 million. That's why they are being punished

[sandbank] 14/10/2008 22:40

DOCTOR AT SEA
Couldn't help but notice that at weigh-in this morning I'm a couple of pounds overweight - unless than damned cat had his paw on the bathroom scales.(Wouldn't be the first time)
........Hmmm - clearly it's time to nip along to my local GP and suggest he helps me do something about it by giving overweight people in Humberside ..a free quarter of a million pound yacht.



Nice to know our National Insurance contributions are being put to such good use.

[sandbank] 29/8/2008 07:37

ow what? Technically, the global market drop since November qualifies as a bear market - down over 20%. I don't see a meaningful difference between down 19% and down 22% - but technically, this qualifies.

And yet, I've wrongly remained upbeat throughout. Since my long career began, I've anticipated the last three bear markets: 1987, 1990, and the long bear beginning in 2000. (My bear market calls are documented in my Forbes columns - 5 October 1987, 14 May 1999, and 6 March 2000.) This is the first I've missed. That doesn't lessen my disappointment.

Still, I remain confused. In over 36 years of investing professionally, I've never seen anything like this. Crashes, bears, bulls, corrections, and bubbles? Sure. Irrational euphoria? Definitely. I saw that easily in 2000. Yet this - folk are persistently, irrationally morose - is new to me. Investors, market pros, and journalists - all doggedly dour and dire.

The bull market didn't peak until last November and by then folks were already pessimistic. For most of 2007 and ever since the same old scare stories replay endlessly. Mortgages, financial meltdown, housing, autos. Over and over again. Not normal. Usually,
a sensational story causes a stir, then quickly loses power to sink shares. It gets replaced by the next and different sensational story. In investing, old news is no news. Yet, today it's basically the same stories as 19 months ago, recycled. There's little new!

Fact is, the world's in better shape than imagined and that's likely to continue. Folk think we're in recession. We're not! UK Q2 GDP just got revised down slightly to flat, but the UK is just 5% of the world economy. In America, recession has been long heralded, yet GDP growth actually accelerated the last two quarters - Q2 was a far better-than-expected 1.9% - and with inventories down far more than expected. Not blistering, but not recessionary. But even the US is too small - just 26% - what matters most is the world, and the world continues to grow. IMF projects 2008 world growth to be 4.1% this year, thanks to brisk emerging markets growth.

Slower global growth

We are in slower global growth mode. We have big pockets of strength and ones of weakness - everyone just fixates on the negatives, ignores the positives. Outside Financials, global earnings have beaten expectations. Stocks remain exceedingly cheap compared to bonds - even more so globally than in America or Britain - no-one notices! Globally, cash-based mergers continue near record pace - wouldn't happen in a real credit crisis. Cash-based transactions reduce stock supply. Add an IPO dearth, and stock supply is constricted globally. (Econ 101: Constricted supply leads to higher prices eventually.) Large firms are awash in cash. Consumers keep spending, despite headlines proclaiming their death. There are weak areas - always are - but these real positives are simply ignored.

Folk will bicker with me (always do) - but I still see this as a long, big correction. Technically, I'm wrong. Doesn't much matter - all that matters is what you do now. Volatility-weary folk want to bail on shares. Wrong move. Too late! Of the 10 bear markets since World War II, six dropped less than 30%. We're almost there! This is no replay of 2000-2002, 1973-1974, or 1968-1970. Those also had big global recessions - today, the world continues to grow. This is the recession-less bear.

Seems likely we're most of the way through - whether you think this is a massive correction or a smaller bear. When either ends, the initial share surge is fast and furious. Get out now, you risk missing it. You'll be whipsawed - in for the decline and out for the reward. Think you feel bad now? You'll feel much worse then. Patience pays. And so should these market-leading shares in the next 12 to 24 months:

Anglo American (AAL), an international, UK-listed mining giant run by the able Cynthia Carroll has 40% of the world's platinum market. It also produces iron ore, nonferrous base metals like nickel and zinc, industrial minerals like lime and also coal and diamonds. Unless there's a big, global recession, the firm will earn more than $2.60 a share this year, and the share, at 10 times that sum, is a rare, cheap, quality buy.

Oil's fallen lately, but I believe long-term, energy prices should trend up. Italy's giant Eni, is well positioned with massive reserves and broad diversification within the energy field. At less than eight times 2008 earnings and with a 6% dividend yield, this share allows investors to be patient.

Dutch firm CNH Global (CNH), listed in New York, makes farm equipment like tractors, balers and combines, as well as light-construction equipment like forklifts, backhoes and mini-excavators. In the latter category, strength overseas more than makes up for US housing weakness. CNH's brands include Case, New Holland, Kobelco and Steyr. It's cheap at 50% of annual revenue and nine times my estimate of 2008 earnings, which will be up.

Ken Fisher is founder and CEO of Fisher Investments.

[sandbank] 25/8/2008 09:07

smarm - 24 Aug'08 - 19:33 - 46163 of 46166

henry - yep, over the weekend I saw a TV commerical about non-eu migrant workers. Beats me.

I'm out of touch but I believe Advertising spend in UK is up to about £8bn p.a. In the old days P&G & Unilever always topped the spend league but I gather that the COI (Central Office of Information), responsible for Gov spend, now tops the bill. But, given the top 10 advertisers used to account for 10% of the total spend(and I assume that hasn't changed much), even in top slot COI doesn't account for that bigger percentage of the whole.

If they pulled the budget the agencies (they have a large rosta) would suffer but so would the press, radio and TV companies. We have to worry more about the media companies than the agencies because many agencies on the rosta aren't listed in UK or aren't listed at all. We should worry about ITV, BSB, Johnson Press etc...

One question is why the COI doesn't give their business to UK companies....and it would be a very good question. DDB Media, Leo Burnett, Y&R and Publicis all feature on the rosta....all non-uk (and there are more). Beats me.