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Close to my hotel and recommended as consistent in service and food. I would concur. It was good, not great. Drinks were good, not great. Service was good, not great. But if you are looking for a good meal at a good price, it would be worth a try.
Food really bad. Service terrible. I had to get my own plate from the kitchen. Waiter couldn't remember anything we asked for.
Four of us went to brunch for my birthday recently. Luis our server was AWESOME. He made great recommendations and was very attentive. The food was good the mimosas were outstanding. If you're in the area stop by!
Overall the food was good, only that the French Toast were undercooked.
3$ mimosas at brunch! Can't beat that! Service was awesome. Looking forward to trying more of the menu.
I went to Barley Mac with my boyfriend for our anniversary. We had Hector as our server and he was awesome! Super attentive and friendly. The food was amazing and came out so quick! It was nice and quiet and everyone that worked there was extremely nice. Loved it and would recommend to anyone!
Staff were very friendly and helpful and Sunday brunch was well done. Would definitely go for brunch again
We've been looking for a good place for Sunday brunch and Barley Mac is great for a wonderful and not over the top expensive brunch. It's an upscale neighborhood place. $3 Mimosas!! We'll return.
Great food and service! The atmosphere was pleasent and the restaurant was clean. Will come back!
Place was nice, good place to meet colleagues. My meal was kind of bland though. That was a surprise.
Wanted to like the restaurant. A few glimpses why not...
1. Waiter stood talking with another colleague about non work issues (within earshot) while holding our drink order. Drinks were already slow.
2. Six dirty plates and glasses remained on the table while the waiter ignored them. We finally asked another waiter to take care of them.
3. One appetizer that was highly recommended was greasy and not fully cooked.
4. Main courses were fine.
1 entree forgotten. Came 1/2 hour late. Foreign body found in Crab Cake. Reordered drinks did not arrive.
Manager did comp meals.
Picked this restaurant because of the good ratings; however, I wasn't too impressed with our visit; I ordered a hamburger medium rare, and it was under cooked; my friend ordered a mock-tail (without alcohol) and they put alcohol in it. When the bill came, they charged for the alcohol and then argued about taking it off the receipt. On the positive side, the brussel sprouts were good. I can't give a high rating for the food because of the inconsistency of the overall meal. The service was not good given the lack of detail and lack of customer service. Given its overall rating however, I will most likely not go back.
Yes, the food and atmosphere is great. We just had a nervous new waiter and he was not as attentive as maybe he should have been. A little slower service than normal.
The food was good, a bit pricey but good. But the waitstaff were so incredibly unprofessional. There was no hostess to seat us, which would have been fine had it been handled properly, which it wasn't. We had an early reservation, so seating us should have been handled easily and professionally. Two or three different people approached us, but it still seemed clumsy. Then our waitress, although she really tried hard, was barely audible, and was obviously not trained properly. But add to that that all the other staff were congregating around where I guess the food came out talking, slouching, playing rock, paper scissors. I've never seen anything like it. Clearly there wasn't anyone in charge.
We came here with another couple this week. The cocktails (I tried both the Boulevardier -- which reminded me of a sweeter old fashioned -- and the Old Fashioned) are great. We also had the Mac and Cheese and Croquettes which were also very good.
The Croquettes are a must - they are balls of sweet dough (think donut holes but not as sweet, and a little harder) with parmesan cheese on top that wade in a sweet sauce. Accompanying the Croquettes are small slabs of melted cheese and a type of pork that reminded me of mortadella. We were instructed, and subsequently rewarded, to cut the Croquettes in half and make a sort of slider with the melted provolone and pork. It was amazing.
The server was very attentive and friendly. Will definitely come back.
Great brunch items
Damn the food was good and price was relatively cheap (spoken as a New Yorker). Definitely have the truffle Mac & Cheese.
We ended up staying for over 3 1/2 hours. I know that is a long time, but there were plenty of tables available. The server stopped refilling coffee or water after about two hours. I left a very generous tip even so.
Barley Mac was really tasty and had great ambiance. The staff was friendly and there is a good variety of options on the menu. The waiters were knowledgeable about the menu and everything came out pretty quickly!
I don't often leave negative reviews, but my fired chicken sandwich was really unfortunate. Rock hard and tasteless other than the oil. The fries were also limp and flavorless. Patio seating is the only redeeming quality here.
The wait staff was friendly, the food was good & everything was delivered on a reasonable timeline!
The food was tasty, however, my mac & cheese was cold (or at best lukewarm), as was my Mexican Street Corn. My colleague ordered the truffle fries and they were also cold. If the food had been warm/hot, I would have increased my rating greatly.
As for value, I am visiting the area so can't compare very well to other restaurants in the area, but I thought $12 for 2 small street corn cobs was pretty pricey.
Enjoyed our brunch at Barley Mac - really delish crab cake benedict - and I was very happy they were able to hard cook my eggs as I like them. Only negative was my 2nd cup of coffee tasted really strange/very watery so I didn't drink it -but I didn't have to pay for it either so that was appropriate. I also love their octopus dish at dinner and they have really tasty fish tacos and great pizza.
Great meal and service!
Service was great, and the restaurant is clean and inviting. The value for what you get doesn't seem quite there, however. I had the french dip sandwich and while tasty, it should be half the price due to the overall size and amount of meat included. Lots of places overcharge for sandwiches so it's not too out of the ordinary unfortunately but it's enough that I won't be coming back for lunch. I would come back for dinner, though
Took a couple new hires to the restaurant on a Monday, and while the food was good, the service was a bit slow. Not to the fault of our server who was excellent, but the lack of staff that was staffed that day slowed our service.
It was a lovely day to have brunch outside. The food was excellent. The service was very slow, and the waiter failed to turn in one of our meals so we were finished before our friend. It was also difficult to get refills on drinks and water. The inside of the establishment was not busy so it seems strange to me that of the 5 tables outside that we had such an issue. You never know if it is the waiter or the kitchen. The food, I will have to say, swayed my vote.
My husband and I shared for small plates. They were all wonderful.
We love Barley Mac. Consistently delicious food with a menu that they update thoughtfully, and the servers are best in class. Easy going but very professional, they connect with their diners, and they provide excellent service. We love bringing friends and family from out of town to BMac, as we lovingly call it. I also love how kid-friendly and dog-friendly they are!! I highly recommend this restaurant, and we will always keep Barley Mac on our circuit of restaurants we frequent. A+!
Food was very bland. Service was ok. Wouldn't recommend for brunch.
Noisy at times, but great metro accessible location.
Chicken was bad, very dry and flavorless
A bit pricey for what you get, and too many bacon forward dishes, but overall not bad at all. Nice sized portions and a very large outdoor section made for a very pleasant evening.
Menu is all over the place. Inside was too loud - clearly challenging even for the staff. Short ribs were generous, juicy and tasty. Tomatoes in Caprese salad could have been riper. Rice in poke bowl seemed to have been pre formed.
Entertained my grown nephew here and we agreed that the next time he visited we would come back. The food was great, the noise (at lunch) was fine, we had bourbon, our waiter was great, I don't know what might have been better. (I had the Barley Burger and he had the Au Jus)
Service was fast, food was good
Attentive staff, nice decor, quality food, and easy access from the metro. We had the calamari as an appetizer and fig and prosciutto pizza for our main and both were good. The fig pizza nicely balanced the sweet of the fig with the salt of the prosciutto and the tart of the balsamic.
Average food at average place. Nothing stood out good or bad.
I enjoyed their happy hour with a couple of friends. It's a terrific deal and the service was excellent. This was my first time sitting outside at Barley Mac. Typically we have a full dinner inside and, though the dinner selection is first rate, it's typically very noisy. It's a totally different feel outside and I really enjoyed that. Also, I've always found the staff at their host stand to be first rate, whether in person or over the phone.


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A collision between a tug and tow and a small (24') private fishing boat claimed the lives of two men the other day. I believe it happened Friday or Saturday. Photo above is a stock, public domain picture from dieselduck.net with no connection to the story, nonetheless relevant in that it helps demonstrate who's the big dog in a match-up between certain vessels at sea.
Two men survived the accident. They were plucked from the Atlantic and airlifted to an area hospital.
New York waters have seen their share of tragic collisions between commercial vessels and small recreational power and sail boats. In the majority of situations the cause of the incident can be traced to operator error on the part of the master of the recreational boat.
The area off Coney Island is particular heavy with commercial coastal traffic as many tugs with oil barges in tow transit the area.
Meanwhile, it was a year ago to the date the Coast Guard released the following report on another fatal collision off Roanoke Pt. Shoals in Long Island Sound, approximately 80 miles to the east. In this case, the photo is relevant.
This situation is probably a little different than the first in that the 92' yacht was most likely professionally crewed. This doesn't necessarily make the master of the yacht more knowledgeable or experienced than the master of the small recreational fishing boat, but if you had to choose one skill set over the other I think it would be safe to choose the master of the yacht's.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.--A woman is dead and two men were rescued following an early morning collision between a 600-foot freighter and a 92-foot sailboat five miles north of Roanoke Point Shoals in Long Island Sound, 4:00 this morning. Roanoke Point Shoals is located north of Riverhead, N.Y., along Long Island's North Shore.
A Coast Guard rescue boat from Station New Haven recovered two of the three-person sailboat crew and transferred them to local EMS. The woman was pronounced dead at Yale New Haven Hospital. A man was being treated for mild hypothermia. The third crewman, the sailboat captain, was rescued by the freighter's small boat and was transported by the Coast Guard rescue boat to shore. He is reportedly in good physical condition.
The 600-foot coal carrier BARKALD was transiting outbound to Halifax, Nova Scotia, from Bridgeport, Conn., and a 92-foot sailing vessel was transiting inbound to Greenwich, Conn., when the collision occurred. Coast Guard Sector Long Island Sound received the initial call at 4:04 a.m. and immediately launched a rescue boat from Station New Haven. The Coast Guard rescue crew arrived on scene at 4:29 a.m. Seas were reported at two-to-three feet.
The Coast Guard Captain of the Port for Long Island Sound ordered the Marshall Islands-flagged BARKALD to a New Haven anchorage area pending the start of an investigation. As is standard for all marine incidents, the Coast Guard ordered drug and alcohol screening of the BARKALD's crew.
The sailing vessel sank with 600 gallons of diesel onboard. The Coast Guard is monitoring for potential pollution from this incident.
If anything, the collisions show the cost of complacency and over confidence, regardless of who is finally determined to be at fault, if any fault is found. Sometimes, circumstances conspire against mariners in insidious ways.


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POLICE believe they know the identity of the hit-and-run driver who left a 71-year-old woman to die in an horrific accident.
But the family of Jean Hajnrych have been told there is not enough evidence to bring him to justice.
After an inquest in Manchester Mrs Hajnrych's son said he was "very unhappy" with the police investigation.
John Hajnrych, a headteacher at a special school said: "I'm going to see my solicitor with a view to taking this matter further."
And coroner Leonard Gorodkin said: "It does seem remarkable that there is such a lot of evidence but not sufficiently clear to be able to take somebody to court."
Recording a verdict that Mrs Hajnrych was unlawfully killed, he added: "It's for the Crown Prosecution Service to consider and I'm not saying they are wrong, but from the facts it does seem a little strange."
The court heard how in December 2002 Mrs Hajnrych's car was hit by a stolen Ford Fiesta that went through a red light in Rochdale Road, Moston, on the wrong side of the road.
The driver and his passenger fled and Mrs Hajnrych, of Kenyon Lane, Moston, died an hour later in hospital.
Her husband, Jan, 78, was in the front passenger seat, but he didn't see anything.
"All I heard was a terrific bang and Jean crying out in pain," he said.
Months later, following the arrest of the passenger, two witnesses identified the suspected driver.
The man was arrested twice but police were unable to confirm he was in the car at the time of the incident.
Detective Constable Anthony Weatherley said the level of identification had not been sufficient and the CPS ruled it was "extremely unlikely" a prosecution would reach trial.
He said: "We have exhausted all lines of inquiry to try and compile a case and £10,000 was spent on forensic examination of the stolen car."
The passenger pleaded guilty at the city's crown court to aggravated taking, and was jailed for two-and-a-half years.


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To Live and Die in Frankfurt
When we could run away to Paradise,
But I am held in some invisible vise,
And I can't get away.
To live and die in LA.
- Wang Chung,"To Live & Die in LA", 1985
The Partnerin came home from work last night after midnight. She started yesterday at 7 a.m., and she started today at 7 a.m. She is a better man than me. She may or may not hate her job, but she's not about to quit it without knowing what's over the horizon.
I wondered why I had Wang Chung on the MP3 player. This was the soundtrack to a somewhat cynical movie from the '80s. I didn't like the movie at the time. It was really out of place for the go-go Reagan years. The soundtrack was a gift from one of my Air Force buddies, who was slowly sinking into the abyss of depression that would end his career. He really connected with the film and its "everything, everybody is bogus" undertone.
Don't get me wrong, the sountrack is solid - the film would have been lost without it. But why is it on my MP3 player now?
My old boss, who retired and thus narrowed my own career choices here, told me he didn't think I was the type who could simply sit around. He was right. I seem to find plenty of things to do. I've certainly let blogging take a bit of my day lately. I finally got serious about learning German after having lived here for several years. I've baked a lot of bread. And I've finally gotten around to really seeing a lot more of Europe, which is why I took the gig here in the first place.
I don't know if I really miss working. I think I might miss some of the validation that comes from having a career and being regarded as a serious and competent professional, a subject matter expert. I might miss contributing to something larger. I might even miss the paycheck.
The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference. I've always loved working, but now I'm not even sure I miss the money. Cause for worry?
I apologized to the Partnerin last night for taking another call from a recruiter in London, for not finding something in Germany. Then she told me to not get too mad at her for pointing out that I have had more good prospects in the past six months than some people get in a lifetime and that I should be grateful for that. How could I ever get mad at her for that?
The sun is shining today. Time to put some new music on the MP3 player and go take a bike ride.


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- Kelly Hysong had four hits and hit her team-leading third home run of the season in the game against Butler
- After falling behind 9-0, Cleveland State rallied to bring the tying run to the plate against Butler
- Hanna Griffin had two hits and drove in a run versus Butler
- Mackenzie Tucker had a hit, scored twice and drove in two runs versus Butler
- Alicia Major worked 4.0 scoreless innings against Butler
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. -- Kelly Hysong homered and had four hits and Mackenzie Tucker drove in two runs, but Cleveland State dropped the final two games of the Hilltopper Classic on Monday at the Western Kentucky Softball Complex. The Vikings fell to Butler 9-6 and then concluded tournament play with an 8-0 loss to Western Kentucky.
The Vikings, who dropped to 1-7 on the season, put together a stirring comeback against Butler in the opening game of the day.
Butler erupted for nine runs in the first two innings, cut Cleveland State began its comeback in the bottom of the fourth inning.
With one out, Bailee Gray reached on an error but was erased at second base on a fielder's choice. With two outs and Tucker on second base, Hysong blasted her third home run of the season getting CSU on the scoreboard and cutting the lead to 9-2.
Hanna Griffin began the CSU sixth with an infield single, but pinch-runner Abby Tolstyka was out at second on a fielder's choice grounder by Tucker. Hysong singled up the middle advancing Tucker to second base and Aly Packish delivered an RBI single to centerfield to bring the Vikings to within 9-3.
Down by six runs entering the seventh inning, Cleveland State would bring the tying run to the plate before falling just short.
Riley Ries and Alyssa Rose began the inning with back-to-back singles and the Vikings loaded the bases when the Bulldogs were unable to record an out on a fielder's choice grounder by Alicia Major.
Griffin roped a single to left that scored Ries to trim the margin to 9-4 and one batter later Tucker delivered a two-run single that plated both Rose and Major and brought the Vikings to within 9-6. Butler was able to escape any further damage by inducing a double-play ball to end the threat.
Major worked the final 4.0 innings and allowed just three hits and no runs while striking out two batters.
Hysong finished with four hits to lead CSU, while Griffin had two hits and an RBI. Tucker had a hit and a pair of RBIs and Packish, Sydney Bajusz, Rose and Sarah Boccieri also had hits for the Vikings.
In the Vikings second game of the day against Western Kentucky, the Hilltoppers rode the pitching of Shelby Nunn to the win. She worked 6.0 innings and allowed just one hit and struck out four batters.
Ries picked up the Vikings lone hit in the second game, while Major worked 2.1 innings and allowed just one earned run.
Cleveland State will return to action on March 1-3 at the Liberty Spring Classic. The Vikings are scheduled to face Sacred Heart, Quinnipiac, Liberty, Robert Morris and Rutgers in the three-day tournament.


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R&B singer Monica is ready to expand her family tree, confirming rumors and speculation suggesting she is pregnant with her third child and first with NBA star Shannon Brown.
Both Monica and Brown hopped onto Twitter over the weekend to end the speculation once and for all.
R&B veteran Monica is celebrating Mother's Day with big news. According to the "New Life" singer, a new baby is on the way! Monica broke the news via social media Saturday night, showing off her baby bump just before an event in Chattanooga, TN. She also confirmed that she is five months along. "5 months & counting LOL. #Excited," Monica shared on Twitter. Monica's husband and athlete, Shannon Brown, also shared the news with his fans, calling the pregnancy a blessing. "Hallelujah!!! Thank God!!! Thank you Jesus!!! I'm so Blessed!!!," wrote Brown. This will be Monica and Shannon's first child together. (Singersroom)
Her oldest son is seven-years-old and stems from a past relationship with hip-hop artist Rocko.
While there were more than enough signs that she was pregnant, it wasn't enough to seal the deal… until now, of course. This will be the "Love All Over Me" singer's third child in addition to her adorable 5-year-old Romelo and spunky 7-year-old Lil Rocko. Shannon also has a son from a previous relationship, but both celebs are excited to be expecting their first child together. (Popular Critic)
Although the 32-year-old has yet to spill out any more details, rumors suggest their baby could arrive this September.
Anonymous sources claim that the baby is due in September but that the gender of the child has not been announced. With Monica revealing her own baby bump it's obvious that this year is certainly the year of the babies! In addition to Monica, actress Halle Berry is also sporting her second baby bump as well as Jessica Simpson, pregnant reality star Kim Kardashian, and of course we are even expecting a royal baby soon from Kate Middleton. (Popular Critic)
Last month, Rocko talked about his brief relationship with the R&B singer and wished her nothing but the best with Brown.
"[Me and Monica,] we had two little boys. Shout-out to Mo. She's married. We tried it, you know, but it didn't work out the way we wanted it to in the beginning. In the beginning, we were thinking it was meant to be forever, but in life, when people grow up and try to do different things, sometimes people grow apart and when I met her, I wasn't doing music. I started doing music — it's time-consuming. A lot of things you love, you have to sacrifice. It's a grind. I think with her and I, we just kind of grew apart. She wanted to be married and — I was married to the grind, married to the hustle. I have nothing but the upmost respect for her. I have nothing but the upmost respect for her husband. He's a cool cat." (Hot 97)


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The importance of your brand in contract manufacturing
3 August 2017
To truly stand out from the crowd, a contract manufacturer needs to build the sort of brand customers want to identify and associate with. And that involves going back to their roots and rediscovering why they're in business.
A contract manufacturer is essentially a service business. Its value is in offering its services to business customers that buy into its consistent delivery of products on time, within budget and to the appropriate level of quality.
But does this offer much differentiation?
Many manufacturers satisfy all these conditions, essentially rendering manufacturing a commodity. As a result, manufacturers engage in price-based competition, placing immense pressure on a sector already operating on very tight margins. This tends to play into the hands of a few large competitors with deep pockets and healthy volumes.
So, what makes some companies, and their products or services, more desirable than others is not simplywhatthey make orhowthey make their products – as in most cases there is just so much similarity out there.
Instead, what makes customers buy from a brand is that brand's reason for doing (or making) what it does. In short, according to business success guru Simon Sinek, the customer buys into the brand's 'WHY'. Find out more at www.startwithwhy.com.
Why they do it
A good manufacturer goes out of its way to deliver consistently high-quality product on time and within budget, seeking innovative solutions to ensure it meets agreed service levels, while also communicating regularly with its customers on progress and timeously alerting customers of any problems standing in the way of delivering their service.
A great manufacturer knows why they are in business. It is so that their customers can focus on meeting their business objectives without worrying about the product build, logistics and manufacturing.
A strong manufacturing partnership allows customers to put all their efforts and focus on understanding and servicing their markets, enhancing their products, developing new ones, and most importantly, on selling their products so that a 'river' of demand continues to flow through the manufacturing service business to its customer and on to the end customer, nourishing all the hands it passes through.
Rediscovering your purpose
For many, their purpose may have been lost or forgotten, and as a result needs to be re-activated or reviewed to achieve sustainability and growth. To get started on this journey of rediscovery, manufacturers need to go back to their roots.
There was an initial need which they believed they could satisfy, and that is WHY the business was started. Once that reason became clear and was agreed, all other actions, services and products were aligned to get the business going and keep it going.
Perhaps your reason for being in business was no more than loosely connected with your products or services. Don't let it stop you – it can nevertheless sit very well with customers.
In a country where unemployment is rife, manufacturing that makes a difference to citizens' lives and our national competitiveness can drive significant brand value.
Through skills upliftment and job creation programmes it can uplift a largely unskilled labour force and play an anchoring role in the community and greater society.
On a purely economic level, a manufacturing sector that discovers its social 'why', and operates effectively, can strengthen the country's manufacturing value proposition, justifying government support for the industry and ultimately encourage 'people' to think twice before they import.
Do your customers see your vision?
Successful companies share their vision with the world, and back it up with delivery, to attract customers. The ability to share and continually enforce the reason why you and your staff do what you do through action, rather than what or how you do it, engages customers, gains their buy-in and in so doing, over time, fuels their desire to be a part of that vision.
Whether your vision is to bring good design to business, like Invision, or to turn customers into high-performance businesses like Accenture, your customers want to see evidence of it, so corporate communications must re-enforce it, performance must demonstrate it, and staff must live it.
Ultimately, manufacturers must engage and create visibility for themselves, share their 'WHY', and prove their commitment to it, in order to be successful. Say it loud, say it proud and walk the talk. Customers will follow, because they want to.


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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp shares fell more than 4 percent to a six-week low on Friday, dragging down much of the tech sector, as investors fretted about the strength of the company's core Windows franchise and the broader threat to personal computers from tablets.
Shares in PC-focused companies such as Intel Corp, IBM, Hewlett-Packard Co and Dell Inc also fell in a lower market, in the face of decelerating PC sales.
"There's so many other more appealing growth opportunities out there," said Channing Smith, a co-manager at Capital Advisors Growth Fund, which sold its Microsoft holdings last summer. "Our focus is growth in mobile Internet. Frankly, Microsoft is not a major player there."
Although Windows 7 sales are still strong — it has now sold more than 300 million licenses for its new operating system since launch in October 2009 — a shortfall in sales against analysts' expectations in the last quarter has prompted fears that consumers' limited buying strength will be directed to smartphones and tablets.
Those markets, led by Apple Inc's iPad and devices running Google Inc's Android system, are growing at a faster pace than PC sales and look set to eat away at Microsoft's key market.
"Tablet demand is likely to weigh on consumer Windows sales, as we expect the iPad version 2 and new Android devices in the coming months," said Wells Fargo Securities analyst Jason Maynard in a research note on Friday.
Microsoft has tended to downplay the importance of tablets, but Chief Financial Officer acknowledged that their popularity has started to affect PC sales, especially as a replacement for netbooks — small PCs mostly running Windows. Netbook sales peaked last year.
"What we've seen is, over the course of this year in the consumer space, some of that (netbook) volume being replaced with newer devices like ultra-portables and tablets," Klein said in a conference call with analysts on Thursday. "Largely, these are second devices, not primary devices. And that's caused a little bit of a drag on the consumer side."
Even though Microsoft beat earnings and sales forecasts, investors were cool on its quarterly numbers because of a shortfall in Windows sales and signs that spending by both business and consumers is not as strong as some had hoped.
"Deferred revenue is where you go to look for the business demand and it wasn't there," said Jane Snorek, technology analyst at First American Funds. "That's very strange considering a lot of companies like IBM, SAP and Oracle had very nice budget flushes. I think that was a shock."
Microsoft's deferral of unearned revenue in the quarter — a measure of the strength of the business in its pipeline — fell 1.3 percent to $6.8 billion. Overall, Microsoft's unearned revenue fell 9.5 percent to $13.4 billion.
J.P. Morgan said concerns regarding tablets will "hang over Microsoft like a dark cloud" and wondered "if the slew of new Android tablets expected to flood the market in the June quarter will make recently reduced PC unit shipments too optimistic."
FBR was skeptical about a strong enterprise PC refresh cycle and expected tablets to impact Microsoft's core desktop franchise.
BofA Merrill differed, saying that while the threat from Apple and concerns on Microsoft's long-term growth are valid, the company's enterprise business can drive growth through upgrade and refresh cycles.
"Despite the recent bounce in (Microsoft) stock, the market discounts almost zero terminal growth, which is unwarranted," it added.
Microsoft executives remained upbeat and dismissed concerns about tablets.
Jean-Philippe Courtois, president of Microsoft International, told Reuters that "devices are going to go and come" and that the company was making progress in developing products in the tablet arena.
Despite rising about 13 percent over the past six weeks up to Thursday's close, Microsoft shares are still down 7 percent over the past year, compared with a 21 percent rise in the Nasdaq. The shares are now trading at about 11 times expected earnings for the next 12 months, a 40 percent discount to the 10-year median of 18.5, according to Thomson Reuters StarMine data.
Shares in Microsoft were down $1.17, or 4.1 percent, at $27.70 in late afternoon trade on Nasdaq. The stock hit a session low of $27.45, its lowest since mid-December.
Reporting by Liana B. Baker in New York, Bill Rigby in Seattle and Jennifer Robin Raj in Bangalore; Editing by John Wallace, Phil Berlowitz, Gary Hill


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This new feature allows you to override the discount value at the class level, to assign varying class fees sharing the same discount name. This option may be especially useful for funded programs like Smart & Skilled. For example, a number of courses and classes can share the discount 'First Qualification rate' but each class can have it's own discounted price. Double click on the discount in the class budget tab to edit it.
In addition to discounts running for a set date period, discounts can now be set to be valid as an offset from the class start date. The offset can allow the discount to run prior to the start date, or after the start date. This will allow the creation of both early bird style pricing and discounts for in-term enrolments.
Prior learning data imported into onCourse now has its own view in the contact education tab. These records can be double clicked to edit, and new records can be added manually. All prior learning data added manually or via import will also be collected and exported in whole of college date range AVETMISS reporting.
A new OLGR data export file was added to the contact window for customers delivering
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Two new management reports added to the class window - Enrolment Income by Account
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shows only a total for each income account, without the class by class data
Make it easier to send links to specific portal pages like this
restrictedPortalURL("class" + ${cc.willowId}, 7) which creates a link to the class page
with an expiry of 7 days. This is particularly helpful for survey invites.
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Renamed the enrolment tab in the contact window to education to reflect the addition
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Learn the fundamentals of architecting applications on AWS with this introduction to advanced networking and access management
About This Video
Due to the rapid adaptation of the cloud platform, the need for cloud certification has also increased. This course is your one stop solution, getting you from zero to certified. The main focus of this video is on getting you Amazon Certified and building highly reliable and scalable applications on AWS.
This course starts with a quick introduction to AWS and the prerequisites. Next, the video dives deep into topics such as Amazon S3, EC2, VPC, and more to get you prepared with core Amazon services. Moving forward, this tutorial teaches you how to design and deploy highly scalable and optimized workloads. Finally, we cover security and troubleshooting concepts along with AWS architecture best practices.
By the end of this video, you will be prepared to pass the Amazon CSA exam and will be capable of building secure and reliable applications.
What you will learn
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This video is for IT professionals and Solutions Architects looking to clear the AWS Certified Solution Architect – Associate 2017 exam. Developers looking to build scalable applications on AWS will also find this book useful. No prior AWS experience is needed.
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Colibri Ltd. is a technology consultancy company founded in 2015 by James Cross and Ingrid Funie. The company works to help their clients navigate the rapidly changing and complex world of emerging technologies, with deep expertise in areas such as Big Data, Data Science, Machine Learning, and Cloud Computing.
Over the past few years, they have worked with some of the world's largest and most prestigious companies, including a tier 1 investment bank, a leading management consultancy group, and one of the world's most popular soft drinks companies, helping each of them to better make sense of their data and process it in more intelligent ways.
The company lives by their moto: Data -> Intelligence -> Action.
Our author, RalucaBolovan is a DevOps Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and AWS Certified Developer.
She graduated with a first class honours MEng degree in Computing (Software Engineering) from Imperial College London. She worked in Investment Banking for three years with technologies such as Python, Java, and Spring. She then moved into the FinTech industry and has written microservices running on Docker on AWS.
Raluca has several years of experience architecting and implementing new solutions on the AWS platform. She has built, among others, a serverless ETL and data warehousing solution using AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Redshift, and S3 as the principal components.
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An iOS app for roommates that allows for the tracking of house chores and expenses. Winner of Popular Vote and runner-up for Best Use of Standard Library at nwHacks 2019.
A watchOS app for checking the prices of various cryptocurrencies. Available on the App Store.
A podcasting application made with the UBC Launch Pad iOS team.
A poll-focused social network for the web that allows users to participate in various public opinion polls. Built at Vancouver Startup Week Hackathon 2016.
A Google Chrome extension for instant link sharing which enables users to more easily share links while browsing the web. Built at nwHacks 2016.
An Android app sends out a text message to the contacts you select once you arrive at a chosen destination. Built at Hack Arizona 2016.
A task exchange mobile (iOS and Android) platform.
Final project for CPSC 210 (Software Construction), completed using Java. Parses TfL (Transport for London) JSONs to find nearest station, arrival times, etc.
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Nation's growth at crossroads
As the nation's commodity price forecaster told farmers that 2011-12 will be as good as it gets for farm incomes, Mr Evans, the first last year to tip that the Reserve Bank would have to cut interest rates, said the Reserve will deliver two more rate cuts in 2012 as job losses mount.
Speaking at the Outlook conference of the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), he predicted that Australia would grow just 3 per cent in 2012, with unemployment rising to 5.75 per cent.
Mining investment would be ''spectacular'' but 40 per cent of it would go on imports. Household spending would be held back by the ''very unnerving'' combination of ''world-class'' household debt and falls in the value of the real estate assets supporting it.
''We need lower interest rates to arrest that disturbing trend,'' Mr Evans said. ''That would help with the labour market. I don't think Australia needs the highest rates in the Western world.''
Unveiling ABARES' annual forecasts, executive director Paul Morris said farmers are now enjoying ''the most positive incomes for about 30 years'' and should use their time at the top of the hill to plan for tougher days ahead.
Mr Morris urged farmers to focus production on ''the highest-value markets, the middle-income countries to our north''. They want to eat more meat, fruit and vegetables, he said, which implies that farms should move away from cereals back to sheep and cattle.
The conference heard sharply different short-term forecasts for the world economy, although similar concerns for the medium to long term. Mr Evans predicted China's growth would slow to 7.5 per cent this year, bringing world growth down to 2.8 per cent - apart from 2009, its weakest year since the ''tech wreck'' of 2001.
But chief economist of J.P. Morgan in New York Bruce Kasman said the world economy is lifting already, with the US likely to grow at 2.5 per cent to 3 per cent, and China growing at 9 per cent by mid-year.
But he warned that this was under threat from the ''unsustainable'' budget cuts demanded in Europe and from the political impasse in the US over deficit cuts.
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These baskets are called "keben"in Balinese and are traditionally used to make offerings to the Gods.
With their bright, warm colors and cute shapes, these bamboo fiber baskets can be used to decorate your living room or store small items.
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A 26-week Treatment Randomized, Double-blind, Double Dummy, Parallel-group Study to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of QVA149 (Indacaterol / Glycopyrronium Bromide) Compared to Fluticasone/Salmeterol in Patients With Moderate to Severe COPD
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Phase of Trial: Phase III
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- Drugs Glycopyrrolate/indacaterol (Primary) ; Salmeterol/fluticasone propionate
- Indications Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Focus Registrational; Therapeutic Use
- Acronyms LANTERN
- Sponsors Novartis
- 10 Sep 2014 Results presented in a late-breaking abstract at the 24th Annual Congress of the European Respiratory Society (ERS).
- 07 Sep 2014 Results published in the Media Release.
- 22 May 2014 Status changed from active, no longer recruiting to completed as reported by ClinicalTrials.gov.
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The village doesn't appear on any map. A few squat adobe houses scattered up a switchback dirt track, terraces of vegetables and fruit trees rising from the dry river bed, a small fountain where the locals fill their water containers, and that's about it. Smells are of straw and tagine spices. Berber women in hijabs and wide-brimmed hats herd goats on the higher slopes. Contact with the outside world comes twice a week, when the cousins cram into a rusty van and jolt down from north Morocco's Rif mountains to sell barrels of plums and potatoes in the nearest town.
They're all cousins here. The village patriarch they call el jefe (the boss) is usually seen riding his donkey around the mountainside in djellaba and trilby, chain-smoking and roaring greetings in the Berber tongue, Tamazight. El jefe has 15 children, and they now have families of their own, all needing new houses as the old are outgrown.
I am supposedly here to help build one of these houses. Unfortunately, the intended construction site is on a 15-degree slope that needs to be levelled by hand before foundations can be laid. Omar, project visionary, insists this will take two days, and continues to insist this throughout my two-week stay. With Workaway (the volunteer site I'd organised my trip through), you have to learn to be adjustable.
Further factors slow progress. First, as it is Ramadan, digging must be done at night. Second, Omar's interest in building is far surpassed by his interest in music and revolution. And with such a limited population, his diggers, musicians and revolutionaries must all be drawn from the pool of cousins. Multitasking is required.
As the call to prayer fades into the evening's chorus of crickets, we sit under the emerging stars in the courtyard of el jefe's house, breaking the daily fast with figs, harira soup and honey-soaked chebbakiya pastries. Omar lights a pipe and begins his favourite lecture on Abd el-Krim – 1920s guerrilla leader and president of the short-lived Rif republic. The Berbers, Omar insists, will rise up once again, this time against domination by the Moroccan state. The cousins mutter in Tamazight. Are they discussing revolution?
"No," Omar admits, "mostly vegetable prices and women."
As the moon rises, we troop down to the construction site. The cousins set to pickaxing the mountainside and carting away wheelbarrows of earth. We rotate jobs between digging and playing music.
Omar distributes instruments. The cousins' enthusiasm makes up for their utter lack of musical ability. To an off-beat cacophony of percussion and the tuneless shrill of a recorder, we start to dance. Spades are dropped. As night wears on, a fire is stoked to grill sardines, or a freshly killed chicken. One night, Fuhad catches a wild hedgehog. A song is improvised, the only words of which I understand are inci (hedgehog) and tagine.
It may not be revolutionary, but Omar is thrilled.
"I think they're getting better!" he exclaims. "And in two days the ground will be flat…"
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"Every small death of an idol is another tiny resurrection of our identity in Christ" ~ Jennifer Dukes Lee 'Love Idol'
life and faith
Love Idol ~ a review
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Sometimes you grasp a book in your hands and sense it was written just for you ~ heart to heart.
You'll find yourself wanting to add numerous memory jogging highlights and underlining to what feels more like a private journal than anything else.
C.S Lewis said, "Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another:"What! You too? I thought that no one but myself.." Right from the start the author feels like a good friend, so frequent are the 'You too?' moments within it.
Jennifer Dukes Lee's warm, engaging prose, intimate sharing, open vulnerability and heartfelt message also invite trust and reassuring confidence.
Here is a woman who is still a 'work in progress' and willing to admit it. She eagerly desires for others to join her in seeking to identify and demolish their own love idols.
So what is a 'love idol' Primarily, whatever rules our hearts is at risk of "becoming our lord" when "instead of resting in the love and approval of an unseen God, we chase after the temporary pleasures of human validation"
People-approval issues are so widespread that it begs the question:How on earth do we overcome them? Insightful, God-inspired suggestions (based on her own tried and tested application) are heavily strewn throughout this book.
We are encouraged to see ourselves as already pre-approved. Together, as co-pilgrims, we can learn how to surrender "our need for human approval in exchange for a godly approval that is already bought and paid for."
Whether you are in the first flush of youth or the hot flush of mid-life, male or female, this book is relevant for all.
These issues can plague our lives and cause enormous stress and strain until we have awareness and insight into their devastating consequences and find the means to address them.
We don't have to live lives plagued and tormented, held captive to the fluctuating opinions of others or wearied and discouraged by our low self-esteem.
There is hope at hand.
There is grace to help.
There is freedom to be gained.
We can discover our true identity in Christ.
Are you ready?
I will continue sharing my journey in the overcoming of love idols over at poetryjoy.com. You can check out my progress there.
There is a growing, supportive Facebook community to help you along the way.
Jennifer's site has plenty of information about her own journey and shared stories of how others are walking this pathway.
You can order the book on Amazon by clicking here.
And I am offering a free copy of 'Love Idol' to a person selected at random from those who leave a comment below. Do join in the conversation below to be in with a chance to win a copy for yourself or for a friend. You won't regret it!


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You need a radio for your motorcyle or off-road vehicle but the typical mobile just won't do the job. It's too bulky and heavy to attach to your ATV or balance on your bike, and it simply won't fit in such a small space. You need a two way transceiver that is reliable, rugged, and capable of instant on-air communications, yet small and light enough to fit your fun machine. You need the TYT TH-8600, the Dual Band Mini Mobile Two Way Radio from TYT.
The TH-8600 is a powerful dual band, dual display and dual standby transceiver with 20 watts of power on 430-440MHz UHF and up to 25 watts on 144-146MHz VHF frequencies. It has 200 programmable channels and four programmable function keys so you can maximize flexibility and minimize distraction while you operate RX/TX at the wheel.
The TH-8600 features CTCSS and DSC encode/decode, DTMF encoding/decoding, priority channel scanning, and dual band reception. It also features 2Tone/5Tone decoding and encoding, remote kill/stun/activate and a 1750Hz burst tone.
Let's not forget the color LCD display, because the TH-8600 has one. Best of all, this mini-mobile is IP54 dust and waterproof, which means it's not only rugged enough to go off-road, but it can withstand rain and splashes! A hand mic is included, and it's also made to be waterproof.
With all these options, one thing is clear. The TYT TH-8600 was made for QUAD and motorcycle action. It's perfect for almost any compact on or off-road vehicle. Now you can get it for yours.
The TYT TH-8600 comes with hand microphone, mobile mounting bracket, mobile power cord, an owner's manual and a two year warranty from FreeBytes.
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PC Programmable (Requires Optional Cable)
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Welcome to my first post of 2014! New year, new ideas… new things are planned for this blog this year that I'm working on. Not only for the blog but also for myself. Let's hope it all will work out and you all will be the first the know! I've have entered 2014 with an all black outfit…why do I…View Post


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Linda Hammock is a Licensed Professional Counselor and Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist.
By working in the recovery field for 20 years, Linda has gained a unique level of insight into the recovery process.
Serenity4U initially grew out of her extensive professional and personal search for adolescent resources. The lack of both awareness and treatment programs specific to youth substance abuse became painfully evident. To fill that gap, she started Serenity4U to help youth and their families recover from the impact of substance abuse.
Since then, it has grown, simply by word of mouth, and she offers services to anyone impacted by this disorder. Her treatment approach is based on her commitment to truly treat this as a family problem. Her unique understanding and compassion for both addicts and the people who love them positions her to support the whole family in their healing process regardless of where they are in their journey.


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Olive oil extraction is the process of extracting the oil present in the olive drupes for food use. The oil is produced in the mesocarp cells, and stored in a particular type of vacuole called a lipo vacuole, i.e. every cell contains a tiny olive oil droplet. Olive oil extraction is the process of separating the oil from the other fruit contents (vegetative extract liquid and solid material). It is possible to attain this separation by physical means alone, i.e. oil and water do not mix, so they are relatively easy to separate.
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Olive Oil nutrition and health effects
Olive oil contains a wide variety of valuable antioxidants that are not found in other oils. Hydroxytyrosol is thought to be the main antioxidant compound in olives, and believed to play a significant role in the many health benefits attributed to olive oil. Epidemiological studies suggest that olive oil has a protective effect against certain malignant tumours in the breast, prostate, endometrium and digestive tract. Research has revealed that the type rather than the quantity of fat seems to have more implications for cancer incidence.
Olive Oil General Information
Olive oil is an oil obtained from the olive (Olea europaea; family Oleaceae), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin. It is commonly used in cooking, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and soaps and as a fuel for traditional oil lamps. Olive oil is used throughout the world, but especially in the Mediterranean countries. The olive tree is native to the Mediterranean basin; wild olives were collected by Neolithic peoples as early as the 8th millennium BC.


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A PIPE BOMB rocked New York's Port Authority bus terminal in midtown Manhattan injuring several people this morning.
The device was let off a by a suspected ISIS-inspired terrorist, named as 27-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant, Akayed Ullah – he had been in the U.S. for seven years.
The suspect strapped the device to his body using velcro before detonating it as he walked through the Port Authority Bus Terminal at 7.20am this morning.
Former New York Police commissioner Bill Bratton has told MSNBC that the suspect was inspired by ISIS, a detail officials have yet to confirm.
Police have said the suspect suffered burns and wounds to his body after the bomb detonated.
Describing the device FBI spokesman John Miller said: "The device is based on a pipe bomb, it was fixed on his person and was a combination of Velcro and zip ties"
The man, who had reportedly been in the US for seven years and recently living in Brooklyn, is now in hospital under police custody.


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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- The University of Virginia Cancer Center wants to hear from the people it serves to help identify and overcome barriers to getting cancer care.
The center is getting ready to collect opinion from people in 94 localities where it serves some 80 percent of its patients.
According to a release, UVA wants to put particular emphasis on reaching people who are often under-represented in surveys, including rural residents, low-income residents, minorities, and people between the ages of 25 and 45.
"The goal of this assessment is to better understand the needs of residents in the Commonwealth, so the UVA Cancer Center can provide targeted and expert cancer prevention, cancer-risk reduction and quality services to cancer survivors," said Wendy Cohn, PhD, the associate director for Community Outreach and Engagement at the center. "This will benefit our patients, families and residents of the Commonwealth because we will be able to provide programs and services that are uniquely tailored to patients. We will be better able to respond to the needs and preferences of our patients by providing timely and evidence-based programs to those who need them."
The release says the research team will be asking about topics such as barriers to care, residents' use of technology, cancer screening and prevention behaviors, and attitudes toward genetic testing and medical research.
The survey will involve phone calls and mailings, but it also aims to reach others by launching a social media campaign on Facebook and Instagram.
The UVA Cancer Center's leaders want to get feedback from at least 2,000 people that they can then use to improve how the center serves patients and come up with solutions to problems that prevent people from getting the best care.
The release says these results could lead to new medical interventions, or inform policy changes to improve public health, increase cancer prevention efforts and enhance cancer care.
This survey is being conducted thanks to an initiative from the National Cancer Institute. It should begin in the coming weeks.


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The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects a number of rights and freedoms, including freedom of expression and the right to equality. It forms part of our Constitution – the highest law in all of Canada – and is one of our country's greatest accomplishments.
In 2019, the Charter turns 37. Follow us on Twitter @JusticeCanadaEN and on Facebook @JusticeCanadaEn as all throughout April, we take a trip down memory lane through 1982, highlighting key moments leading up to the signing of the Charter. Tell us how you will be celebrating the Charter!
Learn about the Charter
The Charter's history, how it has shaped Canada, and how it protects your rights
Examples of Charter-related cases
Examples of cases that had an impact on Canadian society
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The Charter is available in HTML and can also be downloaded in PDF or Braille Ready Format.
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A list of the rights and freedoms laid out in the Charter
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A Statement identifies potential effects that a bill may have on rights and freedoms
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"Principles guiding the Attorney General of Canada in Charter litigation", which sets out 6 principles that guide litigation strategy in Charter challenges.
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Wax coatings can protect your car's finish for months, but normal driving and washing can diminish that elusive ''sparkle.'' Use Pinnacle Crystal Mist after washing or anytime to bring back that just-waxed shimmer.
Crystal Mist is a blend of super-refined, Brazilian Ivory Carnauba, conditioning oils, and crystalline polymers. Simply spray and wipe to remove harmful, wax-eroding contaminants and restore the depth and clarity of a just-detailed finish. Crystal Mist extends the life of wax coatings. This is not a quick-shine silicone spray.
Every time you use Crystal Mist, you apply a micro-fine layer of protection. Used once a week, Crystal Mist can extend the life of initial carnauba wax coatings to six months or more! We paid particular attention to making Crystal Mist apply evenly and streak-free. Even black and red cars in climates of high heat and humidity buff off easily without cloudy patches or streaks. Most cars can be misted and buffed in 5 to10 minutes. When you're done, it will look like you spent all day detailing your car! (We won't tell!)
Just Spray and Wipe to restore a just-detailed finish! Usage
Tip: Crystal Mist buffs off easily with microfibre towels and the shine is spectacular. Directions for Best Results: As with all wax, be sure to use in a shaded area and on a cool surface. Shake before using. Spray a light mist on clean surface and wipe away using a clean microfibre towel. Spray and wipe a door or guard at a time.
A second misting can be applied after 2 hours for an extra deep gloss. 473ml


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Tivat – The privatization of the MTRZ "Sava Kovacevic" from Tivat, which was sold to the Canadian billionaire Peter Mank, which Government of Montenegro marks as one of the most important ones in the newer history of Montenegro, reveals another its controversial dimension which confirms why Mank is one of the most successful businessmen in the world.
Along with the 280.000 m2 of the land well equipped with the infrastructure in the most beautiful part of the Tivat coast, and about 90.000 m2 of buildings in the Arsenal, Canadian businessmen in the 'Montenegrin deal of the decade", for 3,26 millions of euros, got extra technical equipment of the value of 5.476.975 euros. That is how much is the estimated value of totally 174 items from the list of the real estate of the Arsenal, in which "Vijesti" has some insight, is, and which the new owner will keep. The equipment which is sufficient for the functioning of a very respectable ship repair capacity, with which Mank does not want to deal with, because he will turn MTRZ into an exclusive nautical – tourist center and a marine for mega yachts, opens the question for what will the skilful Canadian businessman use it for.
The new owner of the Arsenal will keep both floating docks – the big one with the capacity of 12.000 tones and the small one with the capacity of 3.500 tones, a synchronic – lift of the capacity of 900 tones, both tugboats, four fuel and oil caring vehicles, a range of various lathe operator machines, drilling machines, plane machines, grinding machines, circulars, milling machines, cranes of various capacities, pumps, compressors, electrical aggregates, diesel – electrical machine, tanks for petroleum, oil, and compresses gas, machines for hand production of tinplates, baskets for transport of men and cargo, ultrasonic machines for measurement of the thickness of the tinplates, X-ray machine for the control of heats, port – a – flux machine for magnetic examination, several dynamo meters and micro meters, a fire preventing vehicle and fire fighting equipment.
Those familiar with this problem prompt two possible options – the first one, in which Mank according to the already examined receipt in Tivat, for a relatively low price will buy a smaller part of the stock shares of the Adriatic shipbuilding industry Bijela, for which initially he showed interest, and then use the equipment from the Arsenal to manage to come, with the additional capitalization, into the possession of the majority of stock shares of Bijela. The second option is that Mank will simply sell the equipment from the Arsenal, and take care with it one of the contracted obligations towards the Montenegrin side – the payment of 5 millions of euros on a special transit account as an additional way of guarantee to the Municipality of Tivat.
I don't know and I really wouldn't speculate why the buyer decided to keep this property of Arsenal. The way in which the tender for privatization of the MTRZ was conceived did not even predict the possibility that we as buyers can keep anything from the assets, so actually in the total estimated value Mank has made us a concession by leaving about 40% of the technical equipment of the Arsenal to the state of Montenegro – said for "Vijesti" the Mayor of Tivat and the member of the tender commission Dragan Kankaras, reminding that the initiative for leaving out of the assets from the arrangement of the sales of the Arsenal to Mank, came from Tivat in an already progressed stadium of negotiations "because of which the 40% of the equipment is a positive shift".
Kankaras here should be really trusted on his words – the way in which Government in the fall last year outlined the tender for privatization of the MTRZ was actually outlined for Mank and his business idea which in May 2005 he displayed at the meeting with the former Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic. So, in the end the Canadian's off shore firm "PM Securities" was the only one which has sent the offer on the tender which explicitly foresaw the turning of the Tivat ship building industry into a marine. "PM Securities" which did not have anyone to compete with, was strengthen by the Mank's undisputable reputation in the west business world. With the promise of the investments worthy of hundreds of millions of euros, after that, in negotiations, he was practically the one who dictated the conditions to the seller, the Government, which wanted to bring such a strong and renowned investor from the west.
– I don't have a comment. Mank according to tender could have bought literally everything in the Arsenal except us, the employees, and he did not have to disown himself of all those 1.500 nomenclature items, that is, all those 40% of the assets which remained in the possession of our enterprise, and to the Government as a seller. Why he has chosen what he has chosen I really don't know – said for "Vijesti" the president of the union of the Arsenal, Dragan Miljanic. The union, else, during the sales of the Arsenal asked from the Government not the accept the price bellow 80 millions of euros, in which they were unanimously supported by the Municipal Parliament Tivat, but the Tender commission whose chairman was the former minister of interior arrangement, Boro Vucinic, in the end of negotiations did not even come close to this figure.
The fact that for 3, 26 millions of euros Mank got the real estates and 5, 5 millions of equipment of the Arsenal, is not the only controversy of this business. Hurrying to conclude this business, Government has defined that it won't sell to the Canadians the land on which Arsenal lies, but instead they will give it under the lease with the concession of three times thirty years even though there is no any legal base for that. The law which is in effect, and which is concerned with the sea welfare of Montenegro, namely, does not know at all the term concession, and the entire complex of the Arsenal, otherwise, lies in the zone of the sea welfare. One of the obligations which Government has to fulfill until the closure of the signed contract with Mank in the spring next year is to record themselves, that is the state of Montenegro, in the real estate cadastre. That actually means that the Government during the several month negotiations and conclusion of the contracts about the privatization of Arsenal, was not at all formally legal the owner of the Tivat military ship building industry.


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It is extremely common for investors today, even those with professional financial advisers, to follow a version of buy-and-hold indexing portfolios with standard ETF or mutual fund products.
Invest 60 percent (or more) of your money in diversified equities and 40 percent (or less) in bonds to achieve a target return with a reasonable amount of risk. Re-balance annually. Hold for life. These types of portfolios have provided investors with 8-10 percent annual returns averaged over the past decades.
Many investors use period backtesting to justify further spins on this basic model. Go all U.S. stocks, allocate an outsized portion to small-cap value stocks or emerging market stocks. Use equal weight indices instead of cap-weighted indices. Or pursue other niche equity factors to try eek out small extra returns.
With most of the focus on the equity side, bonds are often overlooked. Generally investors will choose a broad bond fund, which includes Treasury bonds and investment grade corporate bonds. Others choose just Treasury bonds. Again, there are minor adjustments to this standard: adding international bonds, tilting to long-duration Treasury bonds, and so on.
Much of this standard, run-of-the-mill advice is based on lengthy backtests. While investors quote long-term returns of 8-10 percent annually, very few years actually would have seen those return figures.
The chart below shows what investors believe the returns look like in this type of investing model. An (almost) straight line up and to the right—nothing wrong with that.
The danger of looking at long-term logarithmic charts is that the true experience of the investor is cloaked by the big picture view. Hindsight returns over long periods of time are great, but real investors live in the moment. They panic when their portfolios lose money and get overconfident when things are going well.
Instead of steadily higher returns as the long-term chart above suggests, investors experience many drawdowns in the 5-10 percent range and several that are much deeper still. Being an investor, including a buy-and-hold indexer means being in some level of drawdown much of the time.
Here is the same 60/40 portfolio plotting the drawdowns during this time period.
The drawdowns of a 60/40 portfolio are severe enough to shake the confidence of most investors. The intensity only increases when investors slide up to 80 or 90 percent equities for better returns.
The Danger of Overlooking Bonds
Many investors have a profound misunderstanding of bonds in their portfolio. Quality bonds are easily dismissed as a drag on returns, a portfolio afterthought, or even old fashioned. (I admit I had some of the same reservations about bonds for a time.)
However, I've come to view bonds differently in the past few years. The way I see it, money invested in bonds is the money you have; money invested in stocks is the money you are willing to lose in order to obtain potentially large returns.
With this logic, bonds should be the core of a portfolio for most investors, not an afterthought. The more bonds an investor has in their portfolio the better they will sleep, the more stable their portfolio will be, and the more cash access they have available for daily spending without sacrificing the return drivers in their portfolio. Further, it is reckless to risk potentially catastrophic losses with high percentages of your money.
We quickly see that the standard 60/40 (or more aggressive) portfolio falls short of adequate stability. With a small portfolio allocation in bonds, it can be difficult to take money out of the bond side for daily expenses without adding too much risk into the portfolio. If we take money from the stock side, we are effectively cutting down the money tree.
For example, lets say an investor has a $1 million portfolio and needs $50,000 to buy a new car. If they only hold 10 percent bonds, they are effectively taking away half of their safe stuff. With 20 percent bonds, it would be a quarter. That could significantly reduce the stable portfolios of the portfolio and the ability to re-balance into stocks.
Bonds are likely to provide a moderate return over inflation over time. No one gets rich investing in quality bonds. Stocks can return 50 percent or more in a single year, but we know that even diversified stocks are prone to frequent drawdowns of 30 percent or higher. Major markets around the world, including the United States, have seen drawdowns exceeding 80 percent in equities.
To achieve a safe, stable portfolio that supports larger withdrawals, we need a lot of bonds. To achieve wealth building returns we need stocks.
The solution to this problem is a Leveraged Barbell Portfolio. With this approach, an investor can allocate the vast majority of their portfolio to quality bonds. A comparatively small amount of money can be allocated to highly leveraged stocks to achieve high overall portfolio returns.
Building a Barbell Portfolio Around Bonds
For the large bond holding, I believe the best option is to use short-term bonds. Shorter duration bond products are the least likely to lose value due to inflation or interest rate increases. Remember, the bond portion of the portfolio is for stability and moderate income.
There are a number of ways to properly access leveraged exposure to stocks for this style of portfolio. For most investors, the easy option is by purchasing highly liquid leveraged ETFs. There are a number of triple leveraged ETFs listed on U.S. exchanges. Some popular options are UPRO and SPXL (Large Caps), TNA and URTY (Small Caps), TQQQ (NASDAQ), and EDC (Emerging Markets).
Another option is buying deep in-the-money call options on the largest standard ETFs. To get the necessary exposure with call options, an investor could choose LEAPS options on SPY (Large Caps), IWM (Small Caps), EFA (International Developed), EEM (Emerging Markets), or QQQ (NASDAQ).
It is important to only use leveraged ETFs or call options to utilize leverage for this strategy. With both of these instruments it is impossible to lose more money than you allocate to equities. A call option might become worthless and a leveraged ETF might become worth nearly nothing, but they won't go into negative value. You can only lose what you put into the instrument.
This is unlike using margin to buy ETFs or buying indices with futures contracts. With margin and futures you can lose more than you allocate to the equities because your bond allocation will be used to secure the margin. A stop-loss would help, but will not have the same effect or ease of management.
Comparing Returns to a Bond-Based Portfolio
The chart above showed the returns of a standard 60/40 portfolio since 1950. (For data purposes I used T-bills instead of bonds in all charts.) An investor using triple leveraged ETFs would only need to have 12.5 percent of their portfolio in leveraged stocks to achieve similar annual returns to a 60/40 portfolio over the past seven decades.
Here's the comparison chart.
On the surface, both charts look very similar. Two nice lines traveling steadily up and to the right. However, with a tiny 12.5 percent allocation to risky assets, the leveraged barbell portfolio has a much different characteristic in drawdowns.
In nearly all of the drawdown periods, the Leveraged Barbell Portfolio experienced drawdowns that are approximately half the severity of the standard 60/40 portfolio. Many were less than half.
Only in the 1987 crash, which saw a massive one-day fall that most affects a daily leveraged product, did the Leveraged Barbell Portfolio experience a drawdown that is comparable to the standard 60/40 portfolio. Still, the portfolio never lost more than the amount of risk assets it held at the peak before the crash.
A Leveraged Barbell Portfolio can provide superior risk-adjusted returns. With more than 80 percent of the portfolio in quality bonds at any given time, the portfolio spins off interest income and provides easy access to large amounts of cash without distorting the risk profile or taking away from potential returns.
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BASRA, Iraq — I walked, ran and crawled into central Basra on Thursday, constantly dropping to the ground because of gun battles between Mahdi Army militiamen and the Iraqi Army and the police.
The rest of my stay in the city went like this: On Friday evening, the hotel I had somehow found open was showered with bullets, smashing glass on several floors and knocking pieces out of the stone facade. The next morning, Iraqi Interior Ministry forces in a part of the city they supposedly controlled were ambushed with heavy weapons at a hotel 50 yards from mine. On Sunday morning, after I had hired someone to drive me out of the city, an Iraqi soldier fired at our tires but missed. We did not stop.
Iraqi forces started their assault on the Shiite militias in Basra on Tuesday. Whatever the initial goal of the operation, by the time I arrived in Basra it was a patchwork of neighborhoods that were either deserted or overrun by Mahdi fighters. There were scattered Iraqi Army and police checkpoints, but no place seemed to be truly under government control.
Early last week, when the assault started, I happened to be in Diwaniya, another southern city, as part of my work as a reporter and translator for The New York Times.
Calling on my experience as a captain in the Iraqi Army before the 2003 invasion and essentially a war correspondent since then, I headed to Basra to see if I could make my way into the city and see what was happening there.Continue reading the main story
Traveling anywhere was difficult because of the violence that the Basra fighting had caused all over the Shiite south and the curfews that the government had imposed. Somehow I made it to Nasiriya, about 100 miles northwest of Basra, and persuaded a taxi driver with a GMC truck to take me to Basra.
The driver knew the road well. He took the old highway south; he knew that a checkpoint at a small town along the way would not let anyone through. So he turned off the road and drove several miles through the open desert to another road, and continued south.
That is when we started to see terrible signs of the conflict in Basra. I counted about 20 civilian cars coming north with coffins strapped to their roofs, heading to bury their dead in the Shiite cemetery in the holy city of Najaf. My driver and I were unsure about the road ahead, so we flagged down a family driving in the opposite direction. As we did so, a woman in the passenger seat began frantically waving a piece of white cloth — a white flag — out her window.
It turned out that she was terrified that we might be members of the Mahdi Army, who she said had put bombs and snipers all along the road where the family had just passed. Once we calmed her down, she suggested another way.
Before we drove off, my driver had an important thought, asking the woman: "Could you give us your flag? You left the city, and you don't need it anymore."
She kept her flag but gave us another piece of white sheet. We used it often. At one point, we passed a huge plume of smoke at a place where a major oil pipeline had been bombed. We drove slowly into what looked like a deserted city, and at a certain point my driver refused to go any farther. I said fine and got out, but before I left he had one request: could he have the white flag?
I tore it down the middle and gave him half.
Somehow I found another driver to take me within a couple miles of the city center, which I had been told government forces controlled. When that driver would go no farther, I had to walk, but by then I saw trucks filled with Mahdi Army members speeding through the streets wearing black masks and carrying AK-47s and rocket-propelled grenades.
Gun battles broke out unpredictably, so I ran or walked when it was quiet, then dropped down and sought cover when I could hear shooting. After 45 minutes or so, I came upon the Rumaila Hotel in a central neighborhood called Ashar. Amazingly, it was open, with six or seven guests inside and a couple of employees. I was so exhausted I didn't think twice, just checked in.
The next day I moved around as much as I could. The common observation was this: There was nowhere the Mahdi either did not control or could not strike at will.
I am not sure what gunfight poured bullets onto the hotel on Friday. I just heard the gunfire and the windows shattering; as far as I know, no one in the hotel was hurt.
On Saturday I was talking with a colleague on my cellphone when a gun battle started right outside the hotel. It was so loud I couldn't hear the voice on the other end of the line anymore. I dived into a corner of my room and waited for it to end.
A while after the shooting stopped, some other residents of the hotel and I went outside. The street was littered with the shells of heavy machine guns where the Mahdi Army had fired toward another hotel, the Meerbad, where Ministry of Interior officials were staying, perhaps 50 yards away. We could see their pickup trucks, now full of bullet holes, in the parking lot of the hotel.
I decided to leave Basra. I took the white flag with me.Continue reading the main story


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