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Monday, March 5, 2012

Waiting for a thaw

Kenyan student hopes for warmer temperatures in Canada, while praying cooler heads will prevail in her war-torn homeland

Imagine waking up in the small, rural home you share with your aunt. You get up and vote in the election everyone has been so hopeful about, the election that will bring much-anticipated change in your country. Then you hop on a bus and take the long, bumpy drive to the plane that will take you to another country for a year. But as you arrive at the airport, you sense the mood of your country has changed to one of anxiety. There are no election results yet and the delay cannot be explained.

You climb on the plane and fly halfway around the world, far from …

Study Findings from University of Kagoshima Broaden Understanding of Japan and Agricultural Research.

According to recent research from Kagoshima, Japan, "The anthelmintic effects of Japanese bead-tree (Melia azedarach var. subtripinnata) leaves and fruits on gastrointestinal nematodes and coccidia in goats were investigated. Fecal samples were taken from three naturally nematode-infected goats and their EPG (eggs per gram) count was analyzed."

"Another fecal sample was cultured at 25 degrees C for 10 days with water extracts of M. azedarach leaves and fruits separately, and the larvae of the nematodes were counted. The water extracts of leaves and fruits significantly depressed the development of larvae compared to control (water) (P < 0.05). Oral administration of three …

His vision endured; Blake overcomes blindness, has dream job as crew chief.(Sports)

Byline: PETE IORIZZO Staff Writer {FACTBOX} HHRA Drag Racing When: Concludes today; gates open at 8 a.m. Where: Lebanon Valley Dragway Cost: $15, or $5 for children age 11 and younger More information: http://www.dragway.com

WEST LEBANON - Everything changed the day Jay Blake stepped into his garage and found his toolbox. He opened it, reached inside and ran his finger along the curves of a wrench. A combo wrench, he thought. He replaced the wrench and pulled out one of the box's drawers. He grabbed a thumbnail-sized part. A distributor module, he knew right away. His smile grew.

"I can do this," he thought. Piece by piece, Blake rifled through his collection of tools, then felt the underbelly of his car. His mental map of an automobile, crafted through a lifetime of tinkering, never steered him off course. An accident robbed his senses of sight, taste and smell, but that night in his garage, Blake refused to …

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Market Maker Surveillance Report. CMCSA, NOK, GE, NWSA, ALU, QQQ, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Monday, July 11th 2011.

RDATE:12072011

BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Monday. Since October 2008 market makers are now required to be on the bid as much as they are on the offer and for like amounts of stock. This Fair Market Making Requirement is designed to prevent market makers from manipulating stock prices. On Monday there were 3916 companies with "abnormal" market making, 1557 companies with positive Friction Factors and 5452 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bearish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices dropped. COMCAST CORP-CLASS A (NASDAQ:CMCSA), NOKIA CORP-SPON ADR (NYSE:NOK), GENERAL ELECTRIC CO (NYSE:GE), NEWS CORP-CL A (NASDAQ:NWSA), ALCATEL-LUCENT-SPONSORED ADR (NYSE:ALU), (NASDAQ:QQQ). To access Friction Factor, Naked Short Data and SqueezeTrigger Prices on all stocks please visit http://www.buyins.net .

Market Maker Friction Factor is shown in the chart below:

Symbol Change Percent Buy Volume Buy %% Sell Volume Sell %% Net Volume Friction

CMCSA $-0.480 -1.88% 11,949,042 58.69% 8,333,025 40.93% 3,616,017 Abnormal

NOK $-0.240 -3.86% 11,926,688 40.39% 9,622,708 32.59% 2,303,980 Abnormal

GE $-0.350 -1.84% 14,238,543 30.98% 11,502,485 25.03% 2,736,058 Abnormal

NWSA $-1.190 -7.10% 48,494,092 54.32% 40,326,707 45.17% 8,167,385 Abnormal

ALU $-0.310 -5.27% 8,564,974 39.14% 5,840,899 26.69% 2,724,075 Abnormal

QQQ $-1.070 -1.81% 27,602,805 53.04% 23,710,771 45.56% 3,892,034 Abnormal

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Monday and their stock prices dropped. The Friction Factor displays how many more shares of buying than selling are required to move a stock higher by one cent or how many more shares of selling than buying moves a stock lower by 1 cent.

For example, the chart above shows CMCSA with 3,616,017 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.48000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more buying than selling should cause prices to rise.

COMCAST CORP-CLASS A (NASDAQ:CMCSA) - Comcast Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, provides consumer entertainment, information, and communication products and services to the residential and commercial customers in the United States. The company operates in two segments, Cable and Programming. The Cable segment manages and operates cable systems, including video, high-speed Internet, and phone services, as well as regional sports and news networks. Its video services include analog, digital, on demand, and high-definition television and/or digital video recorders. This segments high-speed Internet service consists of an interactive portal, Comcast.net, which provides multiple email addresses and online storage, as well as various proprietary content, and value-added features and enhancements. Its phone services include voice over Internet protocol digital phone service that provides local and domestic long-distance calling with various features, such as voice mail, caller ID, and call waiting services. The Programming segment operates national programming networks consisting of E!, The Golf Channel, VERSUS, G4, and Style. The company also develops and operates Internet businesses focused on entertainment, information, and communication, including Comcast.net, Fancast, thePlatform, Fandango, Plaxo, and DailyCandy; and owns two professional sports teams and a multipurpose arena, as well as provides facilities management services, including food services, for sporting events, concerts, and other events. As of December 31, 2009, Comcast Corporation served approximately 23.6 million video customers, 15.9 million high-speed Internet customers, and 7.6 million phone customers, as well as approximately 50.6 million homes in 39 states and the District of Columbia. The company was founded in 1969 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

NOKIA CORP-SPON ADR (NYSE:NOK) - Nokia Corporation manufactures and sells mobile devices, and provides Internet and digital mapping and navigation services worldwide. Its Devices & Services segment develops and manages a portfolio of mobile devices; and services comprising applications and content. It also offers Internet services focusing on navigation, applications and games, music, and mail, as well as on the tools that enable developers to create applications under the Ovi brand name. The companys NAVTEQ segment provides various digital map information and related location-based content and services to mobile device and handset manufacturers, automobile manufacturers and dealers, navigation systems manufacturers, software developers, Internet portals, parcel and overnight delivery services companies, and governmental and quasi-governmental entities. Its map database enables its customers to offer advanced driver assistance systems, dynamic navigation, route planning, location-based services, and geographic information-based products and services to consumer and commercial users. Its Nokia Siemens Networks segment provides mobile and fixed network solutions and related services to operators and service providers. This segment offers various business solutions, such as consulting and systems integration; service management, and charging and billing software; and subscriber database management. It also provides managed services, including network planning, optimization, and network operations; software and hardware maintenance, proactive, and multi-vendor care, as well as competence development services; and project management, turnkey implementations, and energy efficient sites. In addition, this segment offers fixed and mobile network infrastructure comprising Flexi multiradio base stations, packet core products, optical transport systems, and broadband access equipment, as well as network solutions. Nokia Corporation was founded in 1865 and is based in Espoo, Finland.

GENERAL ELECTRIC CO (NYSE:GE) - General Electric Company (GE) operates as a technology, media, and financial services company worldwide. Its Energy Infrastructure segment produces gas, steam, and aero derivative turbines; generators; combined cycle systems; and renewable energy solutions, as well as provides water treatment services and equipment. This segment also sells surface and subsea drilling and production systems, floating production platform equipment, compressors, turbines, turboexpanders, and high pressure reactors to oil and gas companies. The companys Technology Infrastructure segment manufactures jet engines, turboprop and turbo shaft engines, and its replacement parts for use in military and commercial aircraft, as well as provides repair and maintenance services. This segment also produces healthcare products, including diagnostic imaging systems; offers transportation products and maintenance services; provides enterprise solutions using sensors for temperature, pressure, moisture, gas and flow rate, as well as non-destructive testing inspection equipment. GEs NBC Universal segment engages in the production and distribution of films and television programs; operation of television stations and cable/satellite television networks, as well as theme parks. The companys Capital Finance segment offers commercial lending and leasing products to manufacturers, distributors, and end-users of equipment and capital assets; consumer financial services to consumers and retailers; capital and investment solutions for real estate; commercial finance to the energy and water industries; and commercial aircraft leasing and finance, and fleet and financing solutions. Its Consumer & Industrial segment produces various home appliances, lighting products, and electrical equipment and control products, as well as provides related services. The company has a joint venture with Shenhua International Limited. The company was founded in 1892 and is based in Fairfield, Connecticut.

NEWS CORP-CL A (NASDAQ:NWSA) - News Corporation operates as a diversified media company worldwide. Its Cable Network Programming segment engages in producing and licensing programming distributed through cable television systems and direct broadcast satellite operators primarily in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and Asia. The companys Filmed Entertainment segment produces and acquires live-action and animated motion pictures for distribution and licensing in various formats in entertainment media, as well as produces and licenses television programming worldwide. Its Television segment broadcasts network programming and operates 27 broadcast television stations in the United States. The companys Direct Broadcast Satellite Television segment distributes programming services via satellite and broadband directly to subscribers in Italy. Its Publishing segment involves in the publication of 4 national newspapers in the United Kingdom; approximately 146 newspapers in Australia; and a metropolitan newspaper and a national newspaper in the United States, as well as in the provision of information services. This segment also publishes English language books worldwide; and publishes free-standing inserts and offers in-store marketing products and services in the United States and Canada. The companys Other segment provides display advertising in outdoor locations, primarily in the Russian Federation and eastern Europe. News Corporation was founded in 1922 and is based in New York, New York.

ALCATEL-LUCENT-SPONSORED ADR (NYSE:ALU) - Alcatel-Lucent offers products, solutions, and transformation services that enable service providers, enterprises, governments, and strategic industries to deliver voice, data, and video communication services to end-users worldwide. It engages in the development and sale of software and related services to manage customer interactions. The company offers a software suite that connects customers with the resources to fulfill customer requests and meet customer care goals. It also provides software and related services, which support service provider business priorities in the areas of application innovation, enhanced communications, digital media, real-time rating and charging, and subscriber data management, as well as offers tools for providers to enable consumers set up and manage their mobile devices and services at-home. In addition, the company offers voice telephony and data networking solutions; and end-to-end communications networks and individual network elements, as well as designs and sells a suite of radio frequency products, such as cable, antenna, tower systems, and their related electronic components. Further, the company designs, integrates, manages, and maintains networks. Alcatel-Lucent is headquartered in Paris, France.

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Friction Factor -- market maker surveillance system tracking Level II market makers in all stocks to determine Price Friction and compliance with new "Fair Market Making Requirements"

RegSHO Naked Shorts -- tracks EVERY failure to deliver in all US stocks and tracks all Threshold Security Lists daily for which stocks have naked shorts that are not in compliance with Regulation SHO

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SqueezeTrigger -- 29 billion cell database tracks EVERY short sale (not just total short interest) in all US stocks and calculates volume weighted price that a short squeeze will begin in each stock.

Earnings Edge -- predicts probability, price move and length of move before and after all US stock earnings reports.

Seasonality -- predicts probability, price move and length of move based on exact time of year for all US stocks.

Group Trader -- tracks sector rotation and stock correlation to its sector and predicts future moves in ALL sectors and industry groups.

Pattern Scan -- automates tracking of every technical pattern and predicts time and size of move in all stocks.

GATS (Global Automated Trading System) -- tracks all known trading strategies and qualifies and quantifies which are working best in real time.

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Market Maker Surveillance Report. MU, CSCO, INTC, RIMM, CHRS, AXAS, Bearishly Biased Price Friction For Friday, June 17th 2011.(Report)

RDATE:18062011

BUYINS.NET / www.buyins.net, announced today its proprietary Market Maker Friction Factor Report for Friday. Since October 2008 market makers are now required to be on the bid as much as they are on the offer and for like amounts of stock. This Fair Market Making Requirement is designed to prevent market makers from manipulating stock prices. On Friday there were 4571 companies with "abnormal" market making, 3456 companies with positive Friction Factors and 2893 companies with negative Friction Factors. Here is a list of the top companies with Abnormal Price Friction (bearish bias) in their stock prices. This means that there was more buying than selling in the stocks and their stock prices dropped. MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU), CISCO SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:CSCO), INTEL CORP (NASDAQ:INTC), RESEARCH IN MOTION (NASDAQ:RIMM), CHARMING SHOPPES (NASDAQ:CHRS), ABRAXAS PETROLEUM CORP (NASDAQ:AXAS). To access Friction Factor, Naked Short Data and SqueezeTrigger Prices on all stocks please visit http://www.buyins.net .

Market Maker Friction Factor is shown in the chart below:

Symbol Change Percent Buy Volume Buy %% Sell Volume Sell %% Net Volume Friction

MU $-0.030 -0.45% 27,546,034 60.40% 18,060,389 39.60% 9,485,645 Abnormal

CSCO $-0.080 -0.53% 54,415,530 65.89% 39,468,882 47.79% 14,946,648 Abnormal

INTC $-0.250 -1.17% 82,925,167 82.41% 27,852,526 27.68% 55,072,641 Abnormal

RIMM $-7.530 -21.31% 63,805,286 56.59% 50,686,797 44.95% 13,118,489 Abnormal

CHRS $-0.010 -0.24% 13,192,395 86.04% 2,138,082 13.94% 11,054,313 Abnormal

AXAS $-0.120 -3.48% 11,361,620 86.48% 1,775,633 13.52% 9,585,987 Abnormal

Analysis of the Friction Factor chart above shows that each of the six stocks mentioned above had more buying than selling on Friday and their stock prices dropped. The Friction Factor displays how many more shares of buying than selling are required to move a stock higher by one cent or how many more shares of selling than buying moves a stock lower by 1 cent.

For example, the chart above shows MU with 9,485,645 greater shares of buying than selling (NetVol) and the stock price was down $-0.03000. This means the Market Makers were trading the stock in a way inconsistent with normal supply and demand (Economics 101); more buying than selling should cause prices to rise.

MICRON TECHNOLOGY INC (NASDAQ:MU) - Micron Technology, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, engages in the manufacture and marketing of semiconductor devices worldwide. Its products include dynamic random access memory (DRAM) products that provide data storage and retrieval, which include DDR2 and DDR3; and other specialty DRAM memory products, including DDR, SDRAM, DDR and DDR2 mobile low power DRAM, pseudo-static RAM, and reduced latency DRAM. The company also offers NAND flash memory products, which are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor devices that retain content when power is turned off. In addition, it provides NOR flash memory products that are electrically re-writeable and non-volatile semiconductor memory devices; phase change memory products; and image sensor products. Micron Technologys products are used in a range of electronic applications, including personal computers, workstations, network servers, mobile phones, flash memory cards, USB storage devices, digital still cameras, MP3/4 players, and in automotive applications. It sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and retailers through internal sales force, independent sales representatives, and distributors, as well as through a Web-based customer direct sales channel. The company was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Boise, Idaho.

CISCO SYSTEMS INC (NASDAQ:CSCO) - Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet protocol (IP)-based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry worldwide. It offers routers that interconnect public and private IP networks for mobile, data, voice, and video applications; switching products, which offer connectivity to end users, workstations, IP phones, access points, and servers; application networking services; and home networking products, such as adapters, gateways, modems, and home network management software products. The company also provides security products comprising span firewall, intrusion prevention, remote access, virtual private network, unified client, Web, and email security products; storage area networking products that deliver connectivity between servers and storage systems; unified communication products to integrate voice, video, data, and mobile applications on fixed and mobile networks; video systems, including digital set-top boxes and digital media products; and wireless systems. In addition, it offers optical networking products, cable access and flip video products, service provider VoIP services, Cisco TelePresence systems, Cisco Unified Computing Systems, physical security and video surveillances, digital media systems, and building systems. Further, the company provides technical support services; and responsive, preventive, and consultative support services for its technologies. Cisco Systems, Inc. has strategic alliances with Accenture Ltd; AT&T Inc.; Cap Gemini S.A.; EMC Corporation; Fujitsu Limited; Intel Corporation; International Business Machines Corporation; Italtel SpA; Johnson Controls Inc.; Microsoft Corporation; Nokia Corporation; Nokia Siemens Networks; Oracle Corporation; SAP AG; Sprint Nextel Corporation; Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.; VMware, Inc.; BMC Software Inc.; and Wipro Limited. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.

INTEL CORP (NASDAQ:INTC) - Intel Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of integrated circuits for computing and communications industries worldwide. It offers microprocessor products used in notebooks, netbooks, desktops, servers, workstations, storage products, embedded applications, communications products, consumer electronics devices, and handhelds. The company also provides system on chip products that integrate its core processing functionalities with other system components, such as graphics, audio, and video, onto a single chip. In addition, it offers chipset products that send data between the microprocessor and input, display, and storage devices, including keyboard, mouse, monitor, hard drive, and CD, DVD, or Blu-ray drives; motherboards designed for desktop, server, and workstation platforms, and that has connectors for attaching devices to the bus; and wired and wireless connectivity products consisting of network adapters and embedded wireless cards used to translate and transmit data across networks. Further, the company provides NAND flash memory products primarily used in portable memory storage devices, digital camera memory cards, and solid-state drives; software products comprising operating systems, middleware, and tools used to develop, run, and manage various enterprise, consumer, embedded, and handheld devices; and software development tools that enable the creation of applications. Additionally, it develops computing platforms, which are integrated hardware and software computing technologies designed to offer an optimized solution. The company sells its products principally to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, PC components and other products users, and other manufacturers of industrial and communications equipment. It has a strategic alliance with Scientific Conservation Inc. Intel Corporation was founded in 1968 and is based in Santa Clara, California.

RESEARCH IN MOTION (NASDAQ:RIMM) - Research In Motion Limited (RIM) designs, manufactures, and markets wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. The company, through the development of integrated hardware, software, and services, provides platforms and solutions for seamless access to time-sensitive information, including email, phone, short messaging service, and Internet and Intranet-based applications and browsing. Its products and services principally comprise the BlackBerry wireless platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld product line, software development tools, and other software and hardware. The companys BlackBerry smartphones use wireless, push-based technology that delivers data to mobile users business and consumer applications. Its BlackBerry smartphone portfolio includes BlackBerry Bold series, the BlackBerry Torch, BlackBerry Curve series, the BlackBerry Style, BlackBerry Storm series, the BlackBerry Tour, BlackBerry Pearl series, and the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. The companys BlackBerry enterprise solutions comprise BlackBerry enterprise server, BlackBerry enterprise server express, BlackBerry mobile voice system, and hosted BlackBerry services. Its technology also enables third party developers and manufacturers to enhance their products and services through software development kits, wireless connectivity to data, and third-party support programs. In addition, the company offers BlackBerry technical support services, non-warranty repairs, and nonrecurring engineering services. Further, it provides BlackBerry App World that offers BlackBerry smartphone users an electronic catalogue that aids in the discovery and download/purchase of applications directly from their BlackBerry smartphone. The company markets and sells its BlackBerry wireless solutions primarily through global wireless communications carriers, and third party distribution channels. Research In Motion Limited was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Waterloo, Canada.

CHARMING SHOPPES (NASDAQ:CHRS) - Charming Shoppes, Inc. operates as a specialty apparel retailer primarily for women in the United States. The company operates retail stores and related e-commerce Web sites under the LANE BRYANT, LANE BRYANT OUTLET, FASHION BUG, and CATHERINES PLUS SIZES names. Its retail stores offer plus-size, misses, sportswear, dresses, coats, and intimate apparel, as well as accessories and casual footwear. The company also sells food and specialty gifts through its FIGIS catalog and related e-commerce Web site. As of January 30, 2010, it operated 2,121 retail stores. The company was founded in 1940 and is headquartered in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.

ABRAXAS PETROLEUM CORP (NASDAQ:AXAS) - Abraxas Petroleum Corporation, an independent energy company, engages in the acquisition, development, exploration, and production of oil and gas primarily in the Rocky Mountain, Mid-Continent, Permian Basin, and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. The company was founded in 1977 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.

About BUYINS.NET

REGULATORY & COMPLIANCE NEWS

Friction Factor -- market maker surveillance system tracking Level II market makers in all stocks to determine Price Friction and compliance with new "Fair Market Making Requirements"

RegSHO Naked Shorts -- tracks EVERY failure to deliver in all US stocks and tracks all Threshold Security Lists daily for which stocks have naked shorts that are not in compliance with Regulation SHO

INVESTMENTS & TRADING

SqueezeTrigger -- 29 billion cell database tracks EVERY short sale (not just total short interest) in all US stocks and calculates volume weighted price that a short squeeze will begin in each stock.

Earnings Edge -- predicts probability, price move and length of move before and after all US stock earnings reports.

Seasonality -- predicts probability, price move and length of move based on exact time of year for all US stocks.

Group Trader -- tracks sector rotation and stock correlation to its sector and predicts future moves in ALL sectors and industry groups.

Pattern Scan -- automates tracking of every technical pattern and predicts time and size of move in all stocks.

GATS (Global Automated Trading System) -- tracks all known trading strategies and qualifies and quantifies which are working best in real time.

DISCLAIMER:

Contact:

BUYINS.NET

Thomas Ronk

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Global Crossing to Participate in World IPv6 Day, Supplies Numerous Avenues for Customer Interaction.

Company Provides IPv6 Assistance via Social Media Platforms

FLORHAM PARK, N.J., June 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- As a leading global networking provider that has been delivering IPv6 for more than a decade and as part of its participation in World IPv6 Day, Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) is broadening its technical support for customers and visitors testing their ability to connect that day to the company's IPv6-enabled website.

Global Crossing, which turned up the IPv6 capability on its website on May 31 in preparation for the industry-wide event on June 8, has been delivering IPv6 over its global, MPLS-based Tier 1 backbone in a dual-stack configuration for more than half a decade. Drawing on its longstanding IPv6 expertise and desire to help any user who experiences difficulties that day with the Global Crossing website, the company will provide real-time assistance and advice via its corporate Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/GlobalCrossingLtd) and has established a special hashtag on its Twitter page (#IPv6Day >>) to communicate with users for the day. Users also may email Global Crossing at webmaster@globalcrossing.com; discuss issues with Global Crossing IPv6 experts via ipv6@globalcrossing.com or post a comment to the company's IPv6 blog at http://blogs.globalcrossing.com/?q=blogs/dsiegel.

Existing customers also can reach a company representative via Global Crossing's award-winning uCommand(TM) customer portal.

"We felt it was important to participate in World IPv6 Day because IPv6-only networking is imminent and it's imperative that users begin planning now," said Anthony Christie, chief technology and information officer for Global Crossing. "By providing multiple ways to communicate with us that day, we're underscoring our commitment not only to integrate new technologies into current network environments but to consistently enhance our overall customer experience."

To make the transition easier, Christie advises businesses to choose a network provider that operates a dual-stack network. A dual-stack network has the ability to route IPv6 and IPv4 side by side on the network, so that a wide area network or Internet connection behaves as an IPv4 and IPv6 path simultaneously. Global Crossing does this for its customers because it allows them to test a fully functioning IPv6 implementation without turning off any of their old IPv4 setup. This also allows the customer to retain access to the parts of the Internet that have not yet transitioned to IPv6.

"If your equipment is not IPv6-capable today, make a minimal investment to get some IPv6-capable equipment," added Dave Siegel, vice president of IP services product management, who spearheaded Global Crossing's World IPv6 Day team. "Come up with an addressing plan, architecture and design. Test with a dual-stack network provider to make sure your setup meets your specifications. Note that migration to IPv6 could take a few months or years, depending on how aggressive your migration plan is, the types of network features you need and the hardware you need to replace. You have time to make the switch from IPv4 to IPv6, but don't put your organization in jeopardy by delaying further."

To learn more about Global Crossing's IPv6 capabilities visit http://www.globalcrossing.com/ipkc/ipkc_ipv6.aspx .

World IPv6 Day is a networking event being conducted by the Internet Society (ISOC) on June 8. Global Crossing will be among several service providers who will offer their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour "test flight." The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry -- Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies -- to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out, and to help accelerate the momentum of IPv6 deployment.

An Internet Protocol (IP) address is a long series of numbers that identifies a computer on the Internet. Recent news has raised concerns because all of the current IP addresses -- IP version 4 or IPv4 -- have been deployed. That means 4.3 billion possible 32-bit IPv4 addresses have been allocated. IPv6 is the next version of Internet Protocol. IPv6 are 128-bit numbers and will provide 340 trillion trillion trillion Internet addresses for future use.

ISOC is a nonprofit organization founded in 1992 to provide leadership in Internet related standards, education and policy. It also provides leadership in addressing issues that confront the future of the Internet; acts as the "organizational home" for the groups responsible for Internet infrastructure standards, such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Architecture Board (IAB); acts as a global clearinghouse for Internet information and education, and facilitates and coordinates Internet-related initiatives around the world.

ABOUT GLOBAL CROSSING

Global Crossing (NASDAQ: GLBC) is a leading global IP, Ethernet, data center and video solutions provider with the world's first integrated global IP-based network. The company offers a full range of data, voice, collaboration, broadcast and media services delivered with superior customer service.

Global Crossing provides services to enterprises (including approximately 40 percent of the Fortune 500); government departments and agencies; and 700 carriers, mobile operators and ISPs. It delivers converged IP services to more than 700 cities in more than 70 countries, and has 17 world-class data centers in major business centers around the globe.

Please visit www.globalcrossing.com for more information about Global Crossing.

Website Access to Company Information

Global Crossing maintains a corporate website at www.globalcrossing.com, and you can find additional information about the company through the Investors pages on that website at http://investors.globalcrossing.com. Global Crossing utilizes its website as a channel of distribution of important information about the company. Global Crossing routinely posts financial and other important information regarding the company and its business, financial condition and operations on the Investors web pages.

Visitors to the Investors web pages can view and print copies of Global Crossing's SEC filings, including periodic and current reports on Forms 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, and in respect of GCUK's Forms 20-F and 6-K, as soon as reasonably practicable after those filings are made with the SEC. Copies of the charters for each of the standing committees of Global Crossing's Board of Directors, its Corporate Governance Guidelines, Ethics Policy, press releases and analysts presentations are all available through the Investors web pages.

Please note that the information contained on any of Global Crossing's websites is not incorporated by reference in, or considered to be a part of, any document unless expressly incorporated by reference therein.

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Confessions of a technophobe.

Hi. My name is Henry, and I don't own a cell phone.

This reactionary stance is getting harder and harder to maintain, so I feel compelled to examine my motives. They're not simple. They're a mixture of principle and personal psychology. It's not just age. I'm pushing 60, but there are people much older than I who are more tech-savvy.

It's not because I'm a loser. Really. I'm an important person doing good things for the cause of sustainability. Maybe I should get with the program. This is the electronic information age. It's how we have to work--phoning and driving and flying and laptopping. This modus operandi is a short-term, high-carbon investment in a low-carbon future.

When are we going to get down to the real thing?

The personal

In part, it's fear of my own incompetence. I'm not a practical or mechanical person. Technophobia isn't so much fear of technology as fear of myself. Anyway, buying and mastering all this electronic gear feels like an imposition on me. I didn't ask for all this. I was doing fine without it.

I can see the advantages of cell phones, but I hate the way people use them. After all these years I still find it strange to see people walking down the street talking to themselves. Some can't go three minutes without checking their cell or Blackberry. Is something wrong with me or them?

I'm tired of being constantly subjected to conversations, not to mention the occasional screaming argument on the bus or train. Cell phones have certainly increased the amount of talk in the world. I don't think that's a good thing. Maybe it's the main reason people seem too busy for the political action and self-transformation that need to be done. Similarly, the internet encourages people to live in an unreal world, gaming while the planet burns.

Is it really more distracting to hear half a conversation than to overhear two people chatting with each other? An experiment by psychologists at Cornell University found that hearing a "halfalogue" (one side of a dialogue) impaired the cognitive function of subjects performing tasks on the computer, while hearing a whole conversation did not. Halfalogues were never normal before, so we notice them; or maybe we just want to hear the whole story.

The principle of the thing

The paperless office--we all know that's a myth. Modern electronics are supposed to be part of the sustainability revolution. But this is big business, and big business--the kind that aims at exponential growth compounding year after year--is not sustainable. There are billions, maybe tens of billions, of cell phones, PDAs, desktop computers, laptops--the whole panoply. This sector of the economy is the fastest growing consumer of fossil-fueled electricity. A lot of materials go into making those gadgets. A lot of pollution comes out.

These devices have some pretty exotic inputs. Their capacitors are made using tantalum, which is found in the mineral coltan. A lot of coltan comes from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The militias in eastern Congo finance themselves with the mining, smuggling and extortion of coltan. The Congolese army, unable to defeat them, settles for a cut of the profits. Coltan is a blood mineral.

Rare earths have been in the news lately. The rare earths are a set of 17 elements used in electronics, electric car batteries and wind turbines. They're concentrated in a handful of countries. For the time being, China has cornered the market on available supplies and is threatening to cut its export quotas. This has the makings of a trade war, and maybe even a war if competing countries get desperate enough down the road.

Electronic devices obsolesce fast and have to be thrown out or recycled. Old computers are sent to Asia, where unprotected workers rip into the innards and are exposed to toxic components like lead.

Someone remind me how this differs from the capitalist exploitation of old.

What are we waiting for?

Activists enthuse about the organizing and communication capabilities of the new technology. How much better off we are than in the days of the rotary dial telephone, snail mail and the mimeograph machine!

It's an arms race, and our corporate opposition still has the big bucks. We're running just trying to stay in place.

Malcolm Gladwell said, "The revolution will not be tweeted." He may want to revise that after the events in Tunisia and Egypt. What remains to be seen is how those peoples will replace their old regimes starting from such an amorphous beginning.

I don't know what revolution Gladwell meant, but I know the one I mean. It's the one that leads to a world where we're not stealing resources from future generations.

I say "we" advisedly. We may not have much choice in the matter, but we're all complicit. The corporate globalized growth economy hides its dirty work, but it gets exposed. We know it's there behind the facade of advertizing. Still, we take the conveniences and sometimes very real benefits it offers, goods and services that would have been the envy of kings, queens and tycoons less than a century ago. We're (I'm) reluctant to give them up. They bind us with chains more comfortable than self-reliance. A lot of lip service gets paid to this revolution some of us are now calling for. It's an odd sort of revolution. As the British journalist George Monbiot put it, "We must riot for austerity."

Downsize, localize, power down.

In that world we may not be maxed out on our credit cards, we may not be manically "excited" about everything, but if we get it right and avoid another dark age, if we adjust our expectations to reality, we can be satisfied and even happy.

Oil is getting harder to find and more expensive. This trend will accelerate. Before long the era of mechanized agriculture will be over. What machines can no longer do for us we'll have to do for ourselves--grow our own food. Need a job? Try farming.

There's the real phobia we face--low-technophobia.

Henry Robertson is an environmental lawyer and activist in St. Louis. He drafted this essay in longhand