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They are working hard making it so when not praying.
One of the main differences between hatsmoude and New Year's Resolutions; the former you ask for it from outside, and the latter you do it yourself.
"Don't just pray, make it so."
An interesting sentiment, given the difference between "Good luck," and "頑張って."
New Year prayer is routine job every year. It seems that most of people think to get jinx if they don't.
Let the Japanese economy shine from this year. The good times of the economy is not very far.
Prosperity is very simple. You get it by making more money than you spend.
It's got nothing to do with God, belief or prayer.
Reminds me of the first time I visited Tokyo many years ago. All I saw in Shinjuku in the morning was a sea of black suits.
Statistical studies with control groups?
Maybe with CEOs of public stock companies, so stock prices could be used to test outcomes?
At least once praying for the wellbeing, not the fleeting wealth, would be fine. Just once.
seeking good luck and prosperous businesses.
With Abe at the helm? Fat chance. Unless they are praying to become politicians..
Jeff Landry, a Wal-Mart employee in Sapulpa, Okla., said he is joining the Black Friday protest to fight back against retaliation. He said his hours were cut after he complained to managers about his schedule.
The stage has been set for a battle between a group of Wal-Mart (WMT) workers and the retailer on Black Friday.
The union-backed group OUR Walmart expects thousands of workers to participate in the protest planned this week. The employees will ask the country's largest employer to end what they call retaliation against speaking out for better pay, fair schedules and affordable health care.
Such retaliation can include shuffling around their shifts, cutting hours and moving them around departments.
Wal-Mart says that the protesters make up just a handful of its 1.3 million workforce.
In an effort to stop them, Wal-Mart filed a complaint last week with the National Labor Relations Board, claiming that the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and its subsidiary known as OURWalmart unlawfully organized picket lines and other demonstrations in the past six months. The retailer said the actions have disrupted business, and that workers' ongoing actions violate the National Labor Relations Act, which prohibits picketing for any period over 30 days without filing a petition to form a union.
Representatives of the federal agency are currently holding talks at Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, about the complaint. Nancy Cleeland, a spokeswoman for the agency, said in an email that a decision from the agency is not expected before Thursday.
Courts won't be open that day to grant an injunction because of the Thanksgiving holiday, meaning that no action will be taken in time to block the planned Black Friday walkout.
Cleeland said there are currently about 20 charges filed against Wal-Mart stores by individual employees and OUR Walmart alleging a number of illegal acts. She wouldn't say what the specific charges are.
OUR Walmart, which gets financial backing and other support from the UFCW, says that it is specifically protesting against the company's retaliation against its employees and doesn't have specific demands tied to the Black Friday walkout.
However, in 2011, the group asked the retailer to pay workers a minimum wage of $13 per hour and to make more full-time jobs available for its part-time employees who want them. It also asked the retailer to provide affordable health care, predictable hours and to recognize freedom of speech and association.
Wal-Mart would not say what percentage of its workers are part-time, or how much they are paid on average. Tovar said that a majority of its employees are full-time workers, who get an average hourly wage of $12.40, about $5 above the federal minimum wage.
Jeff Landry, an employee in Sapulpa, Okla., plans to join the protest. He works from 4 to 9 p.m. after attending school all day. When he was scheduled for a shift during class, Landry complained. He says his managers responded by cutting his hours from 40 to below 30 a week.
This meant that Landry was no longer eligible for health care, since Wal-Mart requires workers to work an average of 30 hours per week to get benefits.
"They tried all these tactics to get rid of me," he said.
Landry has his job despite joining a walkout last month, when a protest that started at a Wal-Mart in Los Angeles spread to stores in 12 other cities.
Wal-Mart spokesman David Tovar said Wal-Mart has a policy that prohibits retaliation of any kind, and investigates every allegation.
Labor law experts say that if true, the employees' claims would violate terms of the National Labor Rights Act, which protects workers against that kind of retaliation.
Angela Cornell, director of the labor law clinic at Cornell Law School, said that Wal-Mart's complaint might not work because labor laws that prohibit picketing over 30 days applies only to protesters trying to form a union or gain collective bargaining rights, not employees who are protesting against retaliation.
According to William Gould IV, who was chairman of the NLRB under President Clinton and is now a law professor at Stanford University, the law protects employees protesting employment conditions. He also said that it would be unusual for the federal agency to conclude an investigation of this size within a matter of days, or in time for Black Friday.
Both Gould and Cornell agree it is likely that the retailer is using the complaint as a way to deter workers from taking part in the walk offs.
"It appears to me that the main motivation is...to make some employees decide not to participate, even though their activities are protected," Cornell said.
Slow economic growth still the main drag for the common currency.
EUR/USD to advance within range next week, Fed decision awaited for direction.
The EUR/USD pair seesawed between gains and losses throughout the week, finishing it up around the 1.1400 level. For a sixth consecutive week, the pair has been unable to find a certain direction, trapped between a more dovish Fed and slowing growth and political turmoil in the EU. The optimism triggered by speculation about a China-US trade deal sent it up to 1.1418 while fading hopes weren't enough to boost the greenback, which suffered from a mixture of soft employment data, a shrinking yield curve and more dovish comments from Fed officials.
Slowing growth in the EU was confirmed this week by the final versions of the Markit PMI, as the Manufacturing index for the whole EU printed to 51.8, up from the initial estimate of 51.6 but down from 52.0 in October, its lowest level since August 2016. Also, the EU final Markit Composite PMI for November reported at 52.7, better than the initial estimate of 52.4, but below October's reading of 53.1, hitting its lowest since September 2016. More worrisome, the official document indicated that it was in Germany where the euro area’s growth slowdown was centered, with the latest data showing the weakest expansion there in nearly four years.
In the US, the Nonfarm Payroll report fell short of market's expectations, as the economy added just 155K new jobs in November, although the unemployment rate remained steady at 3.7%, while wages grew by 3.1% YoY, offsetting the poor headline.
A shrinking yield curve could be worrisome, but the US is still two steps ahead of the EU, both in monetary policy and economic growth. That said, is only a matter of time the market gets a new balance in the "close to neutral" era.
With the year-end around the corner, however, and with Brexit grabbing most of the attention, I would not expect definitions anytime soon. Best chance is with the Fed's next meeting that will take place in a couple of weeks. In the days ahead, the most relevant releases will be US inflation and preliminary Markit estimates of EU growth for December.
The pair is trading at around 1.1380, that means barely 50 pips higher when compared to the previous Friday's close, trapped within a symmetrical triangle at the end of a bearish movement, usually a sign of consolidation ahead of another directional move in the dominant trend. A break below 1.1250 should be quite discouraging for bulls and open doors for a steeper decline.
Technically, the weekly chart shows that the pair keeps holding above a mild bearish 200 SMA, while below the shorter ones, with the 20 SMA extending its decline below the 100 SMA over 200 pips above the current level. Technical indicators in the mentioned chart continue lacking directional strength in negative territory, indicating that bulls remain uninterested.
In the daily chart, the pair settled below bearish 100 and 200 DMA and barely above a flat 20 DMA, having seesawed around this last all through the week. The Momentum indicator heads lower below its 100 level while the RSI indicator barely advances around 51, this last, falling short of supporting an upcoming bullish move.
Beyond the figure, there are two strong static resistances levels, the first at around 1.1425 and the second at 1.1460 that the pair needs to clear for bulls to consider jumping in firmly and push the pair close to 1.1500. Below the 1.1300 figure, the mentioned 1.1250 level comes in the way of the yearly low at 1.1215. With a break below this last opening doors for a test of the 1.1120/60 price zone.
The FXStreet Forecast Poll offers a mixed picture, with bulls dominating the weekly perspective, up to 47% from 39% previously, and with the average target upgraded to 1.1396. Bears are a majority in the monthly perspective but don't seem too confident as the average target increase to 1.1408. For the quarterly perspective, bulls take back over.
The Overview chart paints a quite interesting picture. The moving average has turned flat in the weekly and monthly views, with most targets accumulating near the current price. The 3-month view shows a wide spread of possible targets, although most of them accumulate around 1.1500, while the moving average has a modest downward slope, somehow indicating caution ahead of more definitions. Still, there are more chances of a break below 1.10 than of a run beyond 1.20 heading into 2019.
Concordia University's downtown campus is seen on Nov. 14, 2017, in Montreal.
Concordia University is defending the way it investigates sexual misconduct allegations against its faculty after a former student accused the school of mishandling her complaint.
University spokeswoman Fiona Downey said Thursday that the Education Department assured the school it was properly following a 2017 law governing how postsecondary institutions handle such complaints.
But Ibi Kaslik, a novelist and University of Toronto instructor, accused Concordia of not treating her complaint properly and keeping her largely in the dark as it investigated a teacher in the English department. She says the teacher was sexually inappropriate toward her when she was his student at the school in the 1990s.
Ms. Kaslik said she discovered the teacher was exonerated by the university after a journalist contacted her on Tuesday. She told The Canadian Press she was “merely solicited for information and then denied participation in any kind of justice” during Concordia’s investigation into its faculty member. “It’s absurd and not justice at all,” she said.
Ms. Kaslik filed a complaint with Concordia in January, 2018, around the same time the university’s English department had been rocked by a series of sexual misconduct accusations against faculty members. One of the complainants last year was award-winning Montreal author Heather O’Neill, who said she was harassed during her time in the department in the late 1990s.
Following the allegations last January, Concordia reassigned classes belonging to two teachers and removed their books from the school’s library display. Concordia president Alan Shepard said last January he would launch a series of measures following the allegations, including a universitywide assessment “of our current environment.” Ms. Kaslik’s 2018 complaint targeted a third teacher, who is still listed as a faculty member.
Ms. Kaslik said she heard nothing from the school for about a year before deciding to contact the university. “I waited until after the one-year anniversary of filing my complaint, and I wrote a very strong letter to the dean, the head of the English department, the head of human resources,” she said.
One week later, in January 2019, Ms. Kaslik heard from an employee of the human resources department who told her “action had been taken” in the file but offered few details. The CBC reported Wednesday that the lawyer representing the teacher said his client had been “completely exonerated” by the university in September, 2018.
Ms. Kaslik said she and others who filed complaints last year have been “revictimized” by Concordia “through this so called process.” She said the instructor she complained about should be fired.
Ms. Downey said Concordia cannot comment on individual cases for privacy reasons and because it would be a violation of provincial law.
“What I can tell you – and we’ve been very public about this – is that coercion, abuse of power, sexual misconduct and sexual violence are unacceptable behaviours, and Concordia will not tolerate these behaviours from staff or faculty,” she said in a statement to The Canadian Press.
Repeated attempts to contact the spokesperson for Education Minister Jean-François Roberge were unsuccessful.
The European Space Agency's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) is scheduled to launch atop a Vega rocket on Feb. 11, 2015, from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. This IXV mission will test cutting-edge technology.
The IXV mission launches on a Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, into a semi-equatorial path, then lands in the Pacific Ocean for recovery by ship, followed by post-flight analysis. The main flight phases consist of ascent, separation, ballistic, reentry, descent and splashdown.
A Vega VV04 rocket carrying ESA's experimental spaceplane, IXV, lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, on Feb. 11, 2015.
The European Space Agency's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) launched to space atop a Vega launcher on its 100 minute test at 8:40 a.m. EST (1340 GMT) on Feb. 11, 2015.
The Vega launcher burns bright, taking the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) to space for its test on Feb. 11, 2015.
The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) sits atop a Vega launcher before launch on Feb. 11, 2015.
An artist's rendering shows the stages of flight for Europe's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV). Image released June 23, 2014.
The IXV mission launches on a Vega rocket from Kourou, French Guiana, into a semi-equatorial path, then lands in the Pacific Ocean for recovery by ship and post-flight analysis. The main flight phases consist of: ascent, separation, ballistic, reentry, descent and splashdown. Image released Feb. 3, 2015.
The telecom giant will upgrade its Internet backbone with Cisco routers and connect Internet hubs in 25 U.S cities to the upgraded network.
NEW YORK (Reuters)-Top phone company AT&T Inc will buy core routers from Cisco Systems Inc to upgrade its Internet backbone network, helping to ease fears that slower economic growth will hurt network equipment sales.
The companies did not reveal the price or size of the order for Ciscos CRS-1 core routers, which direct massive amounts of Internet traffic for service providers, but AT&T said on Monday it plans to connect Internet hubs in 25 major U.S. cities with the upgraded network in the coming months.
The announcement comes amid concern about weaker spending by U.S. companies after Cisco reported a fall in orders from banks and automakers last quarter.
Investors have also pointed to competition from smaller rival Juniper Networks Inc, which recently launched a new core router called the T1600 to rival the CRS-1.
Lehman Brothers analyst Inder Singh said news of the order, as well as an announcement that Cisco now has 100 customers for its high-end video conference system called TelePresence, showed the company was benefiting from a strategy of broadening revenue sources.
"Overall, these announcements support our belief that Ciscos diversified strength, led by carrier, commercial, emerging markets and advanced technology, could offset potentially slower spending by U.S. companies," he said.
While Cisco is the worlds biggest manufacturer of routers, it has recently been expanding into a wider array of products including software and video. It has also been broadening its geographic reach, investing heavily in China and India.
The CRS-1 sells for $500,000 to more than $1 million, depending on the configuration. Most buyers are large phone and cable service providers such as Comcast Corp, Deutsche Telekom AG and Sprint Nextel Corp.
Cisco shares rose 1.3 percent, or 36 cents, to $27.81 in early-afternoon trade. Juniper shares rose 2.6 percent, or 80 cents, to $31.70.
AT&T said the network upgrade was in response to growing Internet traffic as more consumers use the Web to make phone calls and to watch online videos, activities requiring higher connection speeds. The new network will also be used to deliver AT&Ts advanced Web and video service, called U-verse.
"As the demand for Internet and IP-based applications continues to explode, IP traffic on the AT&T network has doubled throughout the past two years, and we fully expect this substantial growth to continue in the future," said John Stankey, AT&Ts group president of telecoms operations.
AT&T said it chose the CRS-1 after comparing it with similar equipment from other vendors. The upgrade helps to quadruple the speed of the backbone network to 40 gigabits per second.
Analysts forecasts on Internet traffic growth vary, but Cisco expects Internet protocol (IP), or Web-based, traffic to nearly double every two years through 2011.
Cisco says Web-based video, including webcam traffic and advanced video services like U-verse, is expected to lead the traffic growth, supporting demand for its network equipment.
Kelly Ahuja, vice president and general manager of Ciscos core routing business unit, said one key advantage of the CRS-1 over competing products is its ability to gradually expand without disrupting the network.
"One of the things we talk about with the CRS-1 is the unprecedented scalability. The system is designed to scale in capacity ... you dont need to rip it out for a very long time," he said.
Analysts said the CRS-1 was likely replacing routers by Avici Systems Inc. Avici announced in April that it was discontinuing its core router development.
Lehmans Singh said Avici typically generated between $30 million and $50 million a year in revenue, with a majority coming from AT&T.
Māori Party co-leaders Te Ururoa Flavell and Marama Fox say the latest anti-Māori rhetoric from New Zealand First is nothing short of a cheap political stunt.
“You can tell there’s an election around the corner as Winston Peters has again come out swinging and as usual it is Māori he has in his sights,” says Mr Flavell.
“It should come as no surprise that Hobson’s Pledge are supporting this. Their influence, which is so backward-looking it belongs in the 19th Century, is all over this policy,” says Ms Fox.
“New Zealand First’s divisive approach to politics does nothing to foster unity – it is regressive. We prefer to look forward, to embrace opportunities and improve the outcomes for our people and the country as a whole,” says Mr Flavell.
“Māori can stand up to this attack on them by ensuring they’re enrolled on the Māori roll for September’s election to make their voice heard in Parliament and to make meaningful change in the lives of our people,” says Ms Fox.
Although Facebook's Graph Search isn't available to most users yet, once it rolls out more broadly, there won't be any escaping it.
Graph Search is an overhaul of Facebook's existing search box. It lets people type in naturally-phrased queries such as “Restaurants my friends like” and “Photos of people from college,” and see personalized results.
Mark Zuckerberg introduces Graph Search.
Graph Search respects the user's existing privacy settings. So, for example, if only your friends can see your photos, no one else will be able to see those photos in their own searches. In other words, Graph Search isn't showing any information that people otherwise wouldn't be able to see.
Still, the addition of a powerful search tool could bring to the surface information that was once buried. As Gizmodo pointed out, someone could use Graph Search to find a list of single female friends of friends, who live in the same city, and who have similar interests. A user might have second thoughts about sharing those types of details now that they're so easy to aggregate. Also, users may not remember all the things they've “Liked” in the past, and some of those things could be pretty unsavory.
The removal of search opt-out isn't too surprising, given Facebook's history of announcing new features that are enabled by default and are tricky to cover up. A privacy settlement with the Federal Trade Commission now requires the company to get express consent for any changes that “override their privacy preferences,” but Graph Search may not run afoul of that settlement. After all, Facebook isn't changing what's public and what's private. It's just making information easier to find for people who already have permission to see it.