Executive Summary We design and deliver the systems, software and services that drive next-generation communications networks. Backed by Bell Labs research and development, we use our strengths in mobility, optical, access, data and voice networking technologies, as well as services, to create new revenue-generating opportunities for our customers, while enabling them to quickly deploy and better manage their networks. Our customer base includes communications service providers, governments and enterprises worldwide. We have three segments organized around the products and services we sell. The reportable segments are Integrated Network Solutions (“INS”), Mobility Solutions (“Mobility”) and Lucent Worldwide Services (“Services”). INS provides a broad range of software and wireline equipment related to voice networking (primarily consisting of switching products, which we sometimes refer to as convergence solutions, and voice messaging products), data and network management (primarily consisting of access and related data networking equipment and operating support software) and optical networking. Mobility provides software and wireless equipment to support radio access and core networks. Services provides deployment, maintenance, professional and managed services in support of both our product offerings as well as multi-vendor networks. Beginning in fiscal 2001, the global telecommunications market deteriorated, resulting from a decrease in the competitive local exchange carrier market and a significant reduction in capital spending by established service providers.This trend intensified during fiscal 2002 and continued into fiscal 2003. Reasons for the market deterioration included general economic slowdown, network overcapacity, customer bankruptcies, network build-out delays and limited availability of capital. We believe that the market for telecommunications equipment has stabilized and is starting to grow in certain areas. The growing demands of enterprises and consumers for additional services tailored to their needs is creating the need for a new convergence of networks, technologies and applications. Required 1. Using the Consolidated Balance Sheets for Lucent Technologies for September 30, 2004 and 2003, prepare a common-size balance sheet. 2. Evaluate the asset, debt, and equity structure of Lucent Technologies, as well as trends and changes found on the common-size balance sheet. 3. What concerns would investors and creditors have based on only this information? 4. What additional financial and nonfinancial information would investors and creditors need to make investing and lending decisions for Lucent Technologies? LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS (in Millions, Except per Share Amounts) September 30, September 30, 2004 2003 Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 3,379 $ 3,821 Marketable securities 858 686 Receivables 1,359 1,511 Inventories 822 632 Other current assets 1,813 1,213 Total current assets 8,231 7,863 Marketable securities 636 — Property, plant, and equipment, net 1,376 1,593 Prepaid pension costs 5,358 4,659 Goodwill and other acquired intangibles, net 434 188 Other assets 928 1,608 Total assets $ 16,963 $ 15,911 Liabilities Accounts payable $ 872 $ 1,072 Payroll and benefit-related liabilities 1,232 1,080 Debt maturing within one year 1 389 Other current liabilities 2,361 2,393 Total current liabilities 4,466 4,934 Postretirement and postemployment benefit liabilities 4,881 4,669 Pension liabilities 1,874 2,494 Long-term debt 4,837 4,439 Liability to subsidiary trust issuing preferred securities 1,152 1,152 Other liabilities 1,132 1,594 Total liabilities 18,342 19,282 Commitments and contingencies 8.00% redeemable convertible preferred stock — 868 Shareowners’ Deficit Preferred stock—par value .00 per share; authorized shares: 250; issued and outstanding: none — — Common stock—par value $.01 per share;Authorized shares: 10,000; 4,396 issued and 4,395 outstanding shares as of September 30, 2004,and 4,170 issued and 4,169 outstanding shares as of September 30, 2003 44 42 Additional paid-in capital 23,005 22,252 Accumulated deficit (20,793) (22,795) Accumulated other comprehensive loss (3,635) (3,738) Total shareowners’ deficit (1,379) (4,239) Total liabilities, redeemable convertible preferred stock and shareowners’ deficit $ 16,963 $ 15911

I need to completely backup my hard drive, system files and everything. All of the backup programs I have found don’t have an option to backup *everything* on the hard drive. Just data files and the such. Are there any programs that will back up everything without excluding even one file on my hard drive?
Oh yeah, it would be great if it is a free program too.

8 years ago my mother did not pay a bill for a catalog and left the country never to be seen again by me or anyone else, about a year after this happened I went to live in Spain from Liverpool with my auntie. I returned to the UK 4 months ago and moved to Bristol and have moved into a new apartment. The other day I received a letter in my mothers name, being curious I opened it to find a bill from a debt collection agency IKANO for 500 pound. What I need to know is, Why are they sending this letter to my address and is it legal what they have done?

Just bought a new home which one do you suggest

Military contractors that set up utilities, prepare food or make bulletproof vests are getting a big boost from the conflict. Here’s who’s getting the most money.

In a few weeks, Gen. David Petraeus and the Bush administration will report to Congress on the progress of the U.S. military’s troop surge in Iraq.

But some of the war’s winners are already clear: military contractors who supply everything from bodyguards to bombs, clean socks to ready-to-eat meals. "For the companies involved, this has been a real gravy train," says William Hartung, who tracks defense spending for the New America Foundation.

The White House has proposed military spending of 7 billion in 2008. Adjusted for inflation, that would be the highest level since World War II — topping even expenditures during Vietnam and the Reagan years, calculates Hartung. The current request for Iraq-related spending for 2008 is 6 billion, which would raise total Iraq war spending to 7 billion.

Who’s getting all that money? Sometimes it can be difficult to tell. "There isn’t good visibility on where the money goes," says Steven Kosiak of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. But you can get a snapshot of who’s been getting a good chunk of the Iraq-related spending in two ways.

The first step is to scour a vast database of more than 0 billion in annual government contracts, more than 70% of which are from the Department of Defense. It’s called the Federal Procurement Data System. I turned to a private contractor of my own, Eagle Eye, for some (free) expert assistance in navigating the database. Eagle Eye mined the database for all Iraq-related contracts from 2003 through 2006 (the most recent year for which numbers are available). That catches everything from spending on base maintenance and bulletproof vests to ammo and combat boots. We tallied the numbers to find the top 10 companies out of thousands of contractors.

The second step is to look at the Pentagon’s own budget to see which companies are building the major weapons systems that support the war in Iraq.

The Top 10
It’s no surprise that KBR Inc. (KBR, news, msgs), a division of Halliburton (HAL, news, msgs) during the years we examined, tops the first list, compiled by Eagle Eye, with .2 billion in Iraq-related war revenue for 2003-2006. KBR is one of the largest construction and energy field-service companies in the world. It has a long history of collaborating with the U.S. government on war-related construction.

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In Iraq, KBR has been working on base construction and maintenance, oil-field repairs, infrastructure projects and logistics support. KBR got about a fifth of its revenue from the Iraq war in 2006, according to our calculations.

"We are proud to serve the troops," says a KBR spokeswoman. "We are providing the troops with essential services and the comforts of home that allow them to stay focused on the dangerous and important missions they face daily."

But why does a private-equity shop called Veritas Capital Fund take the No. 2 slot? That’s easy. It specializes in investing in defense and aerospace companies. So Veritas owns a portfolio of companies — and has a stake in others — that pull down big Iraq-related contracts.

DynCorp International (DCP, news, msgs), which Veritas bought in 2005 and spun out last year, offers security services and police training, as well as logistical services. Veritas’ McNeil Technologies provides interpreter and translation services to the military and U.S. government agencies in Iraq. Another of its companies, Wornick, supplies military rations.

It’s also no big surprise that U.S.-based companies like Washington Group International (WNG, news, msgs), Fluor (FLR, news, msgs), Perini (PCR, news, msgs) and Parsons are on our top 10 list. They’ve landed many of the contracts to restore, repair and maintain oil fields, power plants, schools, public water systems and military bases. But the award of contracts to build the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad to First Kuwaiti General Trading & Contracting left many analysts scratching their heads.

Environmental Chemical does munitions disposal, while International American Products sets up systems that deliver electricity to military camps. L3 Communications (LLL, news, msgs) offers security screening services, linguists, training and law-enforcement services, and some equipment replacement.
Two companies that have seen their revenue shoot up the most in the ongoing military buildup — largely because of Iraq-related spending — are Armor Holdings and Renco, according to Hartung’s calculations. They don’t make our list because their overall defense-related revenue is too small. But they have done phenomenally well.

Armor Holdings, which sells vehicle and personnel armor, saw defense-related revenue shoot up 2,747% between 2001 and 2006, to 4.9 million. Armor is now a division of BAE Systems (BAESY, news, msgs).

Renco, which makes the extra-wide all-terrain vehicle known as the Humvee, saw Defense Department revenue rise 1,260% over the same period, to .9 billion.

Misspent funds
Not all of the Iraq-war money is well spent. "Because of the urgency of the war, a lot of these contracts have been subject to less scrutiny," says Hartung. Another problem is that the war has been funded outside of the regular defense budget process. Instead, it gets funded through "emergency" spending bills called supplementals, which offer much less detail and get less scrutiny on Capitol Hill.

Hartung believes we’ve only seen the tip of the iceberg in allegations of fraud and corruption related to Iraq war spending. "Congress is starting to look into it, but it has not yet gotten down to specific questions," says Hartung.

While all of these companies have benefited from the Bush administration’s defense spending ramp-up since the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, not all are equally exposed to the Iraq war effort, says defense sector analyst Paul Nisbet of JSA Research.

In addition to ships and Gulfstream planes, General Dynamics (GD, news, msgs) makes ground vehicles and ammunition, so it generates a fair amount of revenue directly from Iraq war spending. But Lockheed Martin (LMT, news, msgs), which is working on next-generation military aircraft and also makes military electronics and satellites, has little direct exposure to the war, says Nisbet. Neither does Northrop Grumman (NOC, news, msgs), which makes ships designed to last three decades or more.

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Of all the companies on my second list, KBR saw some of the biggest revenue gains from the Iraq war. It was No. 37 on the Defense Department’s top-100 list of military contractors in 2002. By 2006, KBR had climbed to No. 6.
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I am a mother of two (a two-year-old son and a three-month-old daughter) with a husband who is gone all day to school and work. Daddy doesn’t get home until after 8:00pm, so it’s usually around 11:00pm before the kids get tucked into bed (which is pretty much my job) and of course a while later before they actually go to sleep. We are currently living in a one-bedroom apartment, so the kids don’t really put themselves to sleep…I sit with my son and brush through his hair with my fingers or rub his back, and rock or nurse my baby girl to sleep. Due to the fact that my husband gets so tired during the day, he usually falls asleep before the kids. And since we share a room with the kids, even when he is awake when I get to lay down we don’t have an opportunity to discuss the day. I very rarely fall asleep quickly due to my busy mind, but most days I sleep through the alarm and end up getting woke up when one of the kids wakes up (I do wake up if my son needs me or the baby cries).
Very seldom do I see my husband in the morning. How can I get into a better sleep patturn?

i’ve heard of the immobiliser, remote start and the usual siren. what else is available?

I am conducting a study based on physical activity of a population using pedometers.

What would be a good promotional item to remind people to put on their pedometers every morning?

Ideas so far have included window stickers, mirror stickers, customized water bottles, an alarm clock that says "put on your pedometer!"

Any ideas? or thoughts on which of these would help you to remember the most?

i bought a hoodie and the cashier forgot to remove the security sensor. The store is too far to go back and i want to kno if i can remove the sensor myself somehow without damaging the merchandise. Thank you.

True or False? Explain: Data suggest that the real rates of returns on stocks are more risky than the real
rates of returns on 3-month treasury bills (government securities). This implies that the latter is a
superior asset for an average investor to hold.

Where you live, when people see it, they feel welcome? Or they say, "don’t go near THAT place!"

Mine says "Go Away!" after we got broke into, we put an alarm system, bars on windows, motion detectors outside all doors, and 8 cameras! Now the thieves (teen boys) try a new tactic; they knock on our door with a clipboard in their hand. We have a pa system so we do not have to actually open the door, but when we see them standing there (on the monitor), we don’t even bother to answer the door!

Amazingly, when we were installing the cameras, one teenager boy parked across the street from our home, angry, watching us install the cameras. The police said that they would be back! These THEVES feel they had the "right" go to back in a month later and steal what we replaced, again! WHAT NERVE!

Go Away! And we mean it!!

am traveling again and am trying to protect my self from geting my camera stolen by cops how can i avoid this?
in the past years i had severl stolen from me

is there anny type of lowjack/club/tracking device/password protect?

annything that would me it worthless to them to take?

This installed with another download and I haven’t even used it. Tried to uninstall it but it pops up every few days and I have to restart my computer to get it to stop.

…..also, which one would slow my computer down more?