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The EUR/USD is continuing its consolidation around the highly psychological 1.50 mark after Germany's Consumer Climate number came in weak as anticipated. Despite the miss, the EUR/USD is showing little reaction since today's data reading could be just a bump in the road to improvement and doesn't confirm a material slowdown. Psychologically, the Euro is getting a bit of support today after a Chinese official released a statement implying that it would be in the country's best interest to diversify more of its reserves away from Dollars towards the Euro and Yen. While the official did reiterate the Dollar's prevalence as the global monetary standard, his comments nonetheless support China's waning confidence in the Greenback. However, the Yen is actually weakening this morning, and it remains to be seen whether this news will have a noticeable impact on the Dollar.
Today's session will be light on the data front, meaning prevailing near-term trends may play through. Although the EU will be releasing its M3 Money Supply number tomorrow, investors will likely be paying closer attention to British and U.S. data points. Britain sent a shock through the FX markets last week after printing a Prelim GDP figure 6 basis points weaker than expected (-0.4% vs 0.2%E). Britain's GDP number rattled investor confidence. Therefore, investors will likely be paying close attention to tomorrow's CBI Realized Sales data. However, it's difficult to expect positive Realized Sales numbers tomorrow considering the last two Retail Sales releases have come in flat at 0% growth. On the other hand, outperformance of tomorrow's release could provide a bit of relief to investor anxiety and help buoy the Pound. As for the U.S., investors will receive CB Consumer Confidence along with some S&P HPI data. More strong U.S. data could drive the Dollar lower and help the EUR/USD create a little separation from 1.50.
Meanwhile, the Euro has regained its footing against the Pound, signified by Friday's solid pop in the EUR/GBP. Britain's surprisingly weak Prelim GDP figured has reignited speculation that the BoE will keep the liquidity window open. However, it will be interesting to see if the ECB reiterates its desire for a stronger Dollar this week. For the time being the EUR/USD continues to float around its highly psychological 1.50 level. We've highlighted the significance of 1.50 in our past commentaries, and it seems growing investor uncertainty in other risk currencies is preventing the EUR/USD from creating topside separation. However, the technicals and fundamentals are still working in favor of the Euro, and considering the lack of topside technicals all the EUR/USD may need is a little boost before taking off towards 1.55. On the other hand, any underperformance in U.S. Q3 earnings or econ data next week could undermine the EUR/USD's uptrend.
Technically speaking, the EUR/USD is right around where we left it last week. Our makeshift 3rd tier downtrend line and 1.50 continue to serve as the only foreseeable topside barriers separating the currency pair from accelerated upward movements. As for the downside, the EUR/USD has several uptrend lines serving as technical cushions along with 10/22, 10/20, and 10/19 lows. Therefore, while the EUR/USD has seemingly hit at wall at 1.50, near-term technical supports appear to outweigh resistances, normally a positive sign.
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Resistances: 1.5052, 1.5086, 1.5127, 1.5146, 1.5183
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Wife number three was from Mozambique and committed suicide. There are conflicting reports about a fifth marriage in January but that's not counting the "fiancées", a modest three to date. I'm not sure how many children Zuma has (the figure cited most often is 18) but he hasn't struggled with the disadvantages of Fernando Lugo, 57, the former Roman Catholic bishop who gave up holy orders last year to become president of Paraguay.
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Part 3: Reality Checks
Series: Growth Of A Soul
Stuart Briscoe
Matthew 14:13-36; John 6:25-69
Regular check ups are a great idea. Most people agree in principle, but don't always get around to having them. Jesus made sure that Peter had regular reality checks.
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Mark 8:27-38
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A work-to-rule protest by security screeners at Toronto's Pearson International Airport has wreaked havoc with flight schedules.
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, which oversees passenger security checks, is placing the responsibility on staff at Garda World Security Corp. for disruptions at the country's largest airport.
Angry passengers have reported lineups of one to four hours. Unionized workers at Garda, which has the contract to do screening for CATSA, staged a work-to-rule protest Friday, marking the third consecutive day of slowing down processing by staring at X-ray monitors and further stalling by using metal-detector wands on every passenger and inspecting each carry-on bag.
"Garda is now looking at their legal options. They have contacted the Canada Industrial Relations Board," CATSA spokesman Mathieu Larocque said in an interview, adding that Garda's lawyers want the CIRB to enforce its Thursday ruling that was supposed to compel the Canadian Airport Union Workers to halt the job action.
The protest is over Garda's plans to implement a new bidding process for work shifts, said Mr. Larocque, who noted that preclearance checkpoints add to the wait times.
The failure to resolve the labour dispute by about 1,500 Garda staff at Pearson has sent ripples across Canada's airport system, resulting in widespread flight delays and some cancellations just as the busy Thanksgiving weekend travel period gets under way
"Rather than running away from its responsibilities and finding others to blame, CATSA should immediately get involved and find a solution before even more Thanksgivings are ruined," said Duncan Dee, Air Canada's chief operating officer. "It's outrageous that CATSA is trying to blame others."
Mr. Larocque said it's unfair to single out CATSA. "We are very much involved and we support Garda and its legal actions. We also support Garda at the checkpoints to mitigate the impact on passengers," he said.
WestJet Airlines Ltd. spokesman Robert Palmer said the Calgary-based company, like other carriers at Pearson, has watched passengers endure long waits.
"To this point, delays have been somewhat varied, with longer lines on the transborder side than on the domestic side," he said in a statement. "WestJet guests are advised to check the status of their flight before leaving for the airport, and arrive earlier than normal in the event they experience delays due to long screening lines."
Scott Armstrong, a spokesman for the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, said Pearson officials are disappointed by the work slowdown.
"People have been waiting a very long time to get through security screening," he said. "Garda and CATSA got an injunction on Thursday, but unfortunately, there are still slowdowns."
Garda said it hoped the screening process would "return to normal" as early as Friday night, aided by managers. "Garda is doing everything it can to mitigate the effects of the work slowdown at Pearson airport. Our managers are on the line assisting with the screening process to ensure passengers are screened as efficiently as possible and working relentlessly to improve the current situation," the company said.
Federal Labour Minister Lisa Raitt said late Friday that she has appointed a mediator to help resolve the impasse.
"I expect the union and its membership to implement the decision issued by the Canada Industrial Relations Board on Oct. 6, 2011, and to cease and desist from participating in any further unlawful strike activities, and to resume service levels at Pearson International Airport," Ms. Raitt said in a statement.
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London: New Zealand won a dramatic last-ball victory to beat England by one wicket in the fourth one-day international at The Oval here Wednesday to take an unbeatable 2-1 lead in the five-match series.
With two needed off the final ball, last man Mark Gillespie hit Luke Wright to extra-cover.
But Graeme Swann's throw to the bowler's end wasn't backed up by several England fielders and this allowed New Zealand the winning second on the over-throw as they reached their target of 246.
Kyle Mills was 25 not out off just 27 balls.
The match threatened to be overshadowed by controversy when New Zealand, closing in on victory, saw Grant Elliott run out after what appeared an accidental shoulder charge by England quick bowler Ryan Sidebottom, who'd veered off a straight course in an attempt to regather the ball.
With Elliott flat on the ground, Ian Bell threw to Kevin Pietersen at the bowler's end and Elliott was run out with New Zealand 220 for eight.
Although England captain Paul Collingwood could have withdrawn the appeal and there is also provision within the laws for the umpires to call dead ball in the event of a serious injury, Elliott was ruled run out.
It was the second flashpoint of this series following last week's washout at Edgbaston, which saw the match finish one over short of a result being declared with New Zealand in sight of victory.
Elliott's exit was followed by the run out of Tim Southee was run out and they needed 12 runs off the last 12 balls.
But Mills hoisted Collingwood for six to leave New Zealand needing six off nine balls and that became three off the last over, bowled by Wright.
Mills took a single off the first ball. Gillespie couldn't do anything with the next four before making decisive contact with the last.
It had looked as if veteran all-rounder Scott Styris, dropped three times on his way to 69, was going to see New Zealand home.
But when he the man-of-the-match was run out, going for a needless second, the game was back in the balance.
That England, who suffered a top order collapse, made as many as 245 owed much to Owais Shah's 63. Together with Ravi Bopara (58) he put on 75 for the fifth wicket.
Teenage pace bowler Southee was the pick of New Zealand's attack with three for 47 in 10 overs.
Both innings followed a similar pattern with England declining to 101 for four and New Zealand slumping to 106 for four.
But the experienced duo of Styris and fellow all-rounder Jacob Oram (38), playing his first match of the series following a hamstring injury, swung the match back the Black Caps' way with a stand of 67.
New Zealand should have been 24 for three when Styris, on nought, was dropped by second slip Shah, at second slip off fast bowler James Anderson.
The all-rounder was missed again, in quick succession, on 27 and 28.
Collingwood dropped a difficult diving catch at backward point before paceman Stuart Broad floored a caught and bowled chance.
Styris's cover driven boundary off Anderson, saw him to a 60-ball fifty.But his luck ran out after he failed to beat Swann's throw to Collingwood.
Shah, who made a rapid 49 in England's 114-run win in the first match of this series, again showed his class with a 63 ball fifty. But England, as they had done during last weekend's defeat at Bristol, lost after losing Kevin Pietersen cheaply.
This time he fell for nought, toe-ending a pull off Gillespie to Southee at mid-on.
The series concludes at Lord's on Saturday.


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ASSIA Helps Telcos Meet Exploding Bandwidth Demand With High-Speed DSLASSIA DSL Expresse 2.7 Equips Telcos With Powerful Multi-Tenancy Features That Prepare for Vectoring in Unbundled Environments, Advanced Diagnostics and Industry-First Real-Time Line Optimization That Allows Service Providers to Slash Costs and Improve Re (May 08, 2012)
REDWOOD CITY, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 05/08/12 -- ASSIA, Inc., the leading provider of high-performance software tools for dynamic spectrum management (DSM) of digital subscriber line (DSL) networks, today released ASSIA DSL Expresse® 2.7, a new version of its award-winning product for optimizing the performance of DSL networks. ASSIA DSL Expresse 2.7 is a major first step toward enabling incumbent and competitive local exchange carriers/local loop unbundlers to offer and manage high-speed 100 megabits per second (Mbps) vectored very-high-bit-rate digital subscriber line (VDSL) services. With advanced diagnostics tools and industry-first, real-time line optimization, ASSIA empowers DSL service providers to lower their capital and operating expenses, increase revenue, and deliver new multimedia content to the broadband-enabled home.
Vectored VDSL, the next generation of DSL, delivers speeds of 100 Mbps, and deployments will accelerate in late 2012 and 2013. Such high speeds will help DSL maintain its lead worldwide in fixed-access broadband services. Furthermore, such increased broadband capacity will help DSL networks play a vital role in offloading network traffic from overloaded cellular networks via DSL-connected Wi-Fi access points.
ASSIA DSL Expresse 2.7 is the first product to offer advanced network management software for multi-tenant environments. The multi-tenant architecture facilitates carrier unbundling by enabling multiple service providers' simultaneous use of the same software instance to optimize their lines' interplay and performance.
Improved multi-tenancy features offer several key advantages: improved economies of scale in highly compartmentalized Internet service providers (ISP), as seen particularly in China and other regions in Asia; accelerated ISP VDSL deployment through coordination of co-existing copper pairs' management in preparation for vectoring; the ability to share infrastructure costs among ISPs looking to introduce new services; and the ability to add a regulatory "super-user" to monitor the quality and performance of the network.
ASSIA DSL Expresse 2.7 also includes new features that establish it as the leading multi-platform diagnostics and optimization software for DSL network management:
- Real-time line optimization, which significantly improves customer satisfaction and reduces service calls and repair costs
- Support for single-ended loop test (SELT) for enhanced diagnostics, cost savings, and service delivery, such as the ability to pinpoint faults and direct dispatches to their exact location
- Time-variable trend detection for lines that experience sporadic, random problems, which often can be repaired inexpensively, rather than sending a dispatch or losing a customer because of unstable, hard-to-diagnose, line performance
"The new features in ASSIA DSL Expresse 2.7 address many of the challenges that I've heard operators are having with VDSL deployments, such as microfilter detection and diagnostic accuracy," said Jeff Heynen, directing analyst, broadband access and video, at research firm Infonetics. "Clearly, ASSIA is paying attention and has designed the latest version of its powerful, vendor-neutral DSL Expresse solution to help make VDSL rollouts cheaper, smoother, and faster. Real-time optimization, improved diagnostics, and multi-tenancy support all add up to faster broadband over copper and reduced time to revenue for operators."
"ASSIA continues to respond to operators' needs as they adjust their existing infrastructure to meet consumer demand for high-speed broadband," said Dr. John Cioffi, ASSIA CEO and chairman. "The innovative diagnostics and optimization included in DSL Expresse 2.7 allow these service providers to enhance the broadband consumer's experience while reducing costs. ASSIA recognizes that multi-tenant technology is critical for service providers to offer next-generation vectored VDSL for high-bandwidth multimedia content, as well as emerging applications, such as offloading traffic from cellular networks, and these new tools pave the way for rapid deployment."
ASSIA DSL Expresse 2.7 is available immediately. For more information, contact ASSIA at +1-650-654-3400 or http://www.assia-inc.com/about-assia/contact-assia/.
About ASSIA, Inc.
ASSIA Inc. develops high-performance software tools that dramatically improve the speed and reach of DSL networks. Using Dynamic Spectrum Management (DSM), these platform-agnostic tools enable DSL service providers to manage lines in real time and to lower capital and operating expenses, increase revenue, and deliver new multimedia content to the broadband-enabled home. ASSIA has more than 60 million lines under contract with top-tier service providers worldwide and is backed by strategic investors, including AT&T, Mingly China Growth Fund, SFR Development, Sandalwood Partners, Sofinnova Partners, Stanford University, Swisscom Ventures, T-Ventures, and Telefonica. For more information, visit www.assia-inc.com.
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I have been working at The Blue Book Network® (Contractors Register) full-time
There is a great 401K match, decent yet crazy expensive benefits, and great people to work with.
Micro management runs rampant as does the culture of passing the buck- you can point out areas of opportunity at every turn and yet nothing will ever be done about it, it's always business as usual. The salary is paltry and not enough to live on which is why you see either very young people who took one of the few jobs offered to them in the toughest economy since the 20's or you see older folks who have a pension to live off of and are doing this to make extra money or to keep themselves busy. You'll find this place will never be a career, it's a stepping stone to bigger and better or it's a second "job", which is a shame because this could be a great place to spend many years at if only you were paid enough to eat. And it's not like the company is bleeding money at all, they're constantly sending people here, offering competitions there, buying useless new equipment for departments. If only they invested that money in their people and trusted those people to drive the company forward they wouldn't have all of the open positions that they do.
Advice to Management
Knock off the kitschy business of promoting us as an "open door, everyone is valued" company and start getting your hands dirty. Spend the money to fix the products so they do exactly what they say they will every single time you use them, pay your employees enough to live and not just scrape by or have to work multiple jobs, and train your staff the way they should be trained. You have a great concept that's being poorly executed in recent years, and it shows. Stop accepting mediocre and hold the decisions you make to the same standards you want to hold your employees to.
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I have been working at The Blue Book Network® (Contractors Register) full-time (More than 8 years)
Great 401k. Former owner cared about people. The majority of the people who work there are saddened to see the culture of this, once great place to work, deteriorate so quickly and will honestly admit it out of earshot of current management.
AMAZING! I am seeing this sudden influx, (look at the dates), of great reviews which coincides with upper management becoming aware of this website and mandating that sales people write reviews stating what they like about their job, (forget painting the entire picture, let's just talk about the perceived good stuff...) Coincidence? I think not. Just an example of the lack of integrity prevailant in the current management culture.
Long term, highly successful sales professionals are exiting so fast they had to triple the recruitment bonus! Why are they leaving? Because of inadequate compensation and the fact that the culture of this company has turned 180 degrees in the past couple of years. Distrust, micro-management, fear and intimidation are the components of the current culture.
You will be frustrated by the lack of communication, product rollouts without proper testing and antiquated operations methods. A tremendous amount of non-selling activity is required and there is absolutely NO ACCOUNTABILITY FROM UPPER MANAGEMENT OR THE OPERATIONS SIDE while sales has quickly become the red headed step child that has been put under the microscope.
Other frustrations include an inaccurate data base, a huge amount of salesperson incurred expenses that seem to increase each year as you are supplied with less and less from corporate (you provide the computer, internet, cell phone, vehicle, most gas & maintenance, and all printing) and are meagerly compensated for these expenses. In addition to this, you will experience a healthy percentage of product failure in the field for no apparent reason and will not receive any credible explanations.
Vacation time is eroding and being replaced with mandated poorly performed training. I swear, if our presentations and demonstrations were as poortly planned and executed as the ones we have had to suffer through the past couple of years we deserved to be fired!
Advice to Management
While your vision is appreciated, the ability to communicate and implement is sorely lacking.
LISTEN to the people you have entrusted to represent this company to the industry, THE SALES FORCE. Perhaps you have become too insulated by people who are afraid to tell you about the real problems that the field is experiencing because it will reflect poorly on certain operational departments.
Be ready to challenge each other - talk about REAL PROBLEMS that are impacting this comany's success like product failures in the field and with the internal sos and bb-bid systems. Figure out what the solutions are. (Hint - counting hashmarks on itinerarys aint fixin nothin)
Leading by being great at certain things is not enough. MOTIVATION & INSPIRATION ARE SECOND NATURE TO MOST GREAT LEADERS. Honesty and integrity can go a long way. Get some real help learning how to manage sales people. Take some AMA courses and learn about different personality types... an artist cannot be graded scientifically anymore than a square peg can be forced into a round hole.
True sales professionals are insulted by micro-management because it reflects distrust. They do not appreciate being forced to do non-selling activities. Let them do what they do best, sell, not DATA ENTRY. Most want to be graded and compensated based on results not activity. It seems to me the company was much more successful when sales was managed that way a few years ago.
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I worked at The Blue Book Network® (Contractors Register) full-time (More than 8 years)
The 401K was good, medical went downhill starting in 2013, but still is decent. There is not enough money to overcome the negatives.
ALL THE NEGATIVE REVIEWS ARE CORRECT. End of January the VP found out about Glassdoor; he had the Managers bully the employees into writing reviews about how great it was to work for The Blue Book. Do we dare tell the truth??? NO, we still needed our jobs until we got out. In an email dated January 31, 2013 the President attached a letter stating that if we get a new hire to sign on and stay 6 months, we will get a $6,000 referral bonus! There is the motive to refer new prospective hires! Who does that? Desperate companies that treat people like dirt and need new bodies. Everyone who has not left is looking for a place to go. They just can not tell you. Your'e happiest day will be the day you leave, I know mine was! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.
Advice to Management
Stop the false advertising about how great you are. All the positive reviews you put on here starting the end of January just show how manipulative you are. The business is going down, competition is everywhere doing a better job. You have lost all your best people; so learn from that and get back to basics; but you will never listen.


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