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RAMSEY, NJ--(Marketwired - July 14, 2014) - Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. (Konica Minolta) today announces that M&M Sales Company has been honored with a 2014 Pro-Tech Service Award, an award given to those Konica Minolta dealerships that demonstrate the highest commitment to customer support and satisfaction. M&M Sales will also receive special recognition for its longstanding excellence, as this marks the 25th consecutive year that the Urbandale, Iowa, dealership has earned this award.
"As part of our commitment to assuring the highest performance standards across our organization, we find it important to recognize those dealerships that are focused on delivering excellent service," says James Ingrassia, vice president, solutions support division, Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. "The Pro-Tech Service Award represents Konica Minolta's gold standard for service competency and proficiency."
M&M Sales, which has achieved the award each year since the program's inception 25 years ago, is dedicated to delivering professional, reliable service and maximum performance for Konica Minolta's award-winning lines of digital imaging products. To attain the Pro-Tech standard, each element of M&M Sales' operation was evaluated and measured, including its management skills, inventory control systems, technical expertise, dispatch systems and customer satisfaction ratings.
"We are very excited to have earned this achievement for 25 consecutive years," says Tom Minor, President of M&M Sales. "The receipt of this award marks our ongoing commitment to offering the best business practices in our marketplace and provides our customers with another great reason to count on Konica Minolta and M&M for all of their office solution needs."
Konica Minolta's Pro-Tech program requires that the Authorized Dealer's Service Department meet strict requirements to ensure they are providing the best customer and product support for their Konica Minolta devices in the field. These requirements include: maintaining proper technical and product training for their service technicians, utilizing the latest Konica Minolta service programs, and working within the guidelines of Konica Minolta policies and procedures. Additionally, Pro-Tech dealers must allow random inspections of their Konica Minolta products at customer locations as verification that products are well maintained and that their customers are satisfied with the level of service and product support that the dealer is providing.
About Konica Minolta
Konica Minolta Business Solutions U.S.A., Inc. is a leader in information management focused on enterprise content, technology optimization and cloud services. Our solutions help organizations improve their speed to market, manage technology costs, and facilitate the sharing of information to increase productivity. Clients trust Konica Minolta to help them envision how they can achieve their goals and deliver innovative solutions to give shape to their ideas. Konica Minolta has won numerous awards and recognition including being recognized as the #1 Brand for Customer Loyalty in the MFP Office Copier Market by Brand Keys for six consecutive years, and "A3 MFP Line of the Year" award winner from Buyers Laboratory LLC for an unprecedented four consecutive years. In 2012, Konica Minolta received "Document Imaging Solutions Line of the Year" recognition from BLI. Konica Minolta, Inc. has also been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for two years in a row. For more information, please visit www.CountOnKonicaMinolta.com and follow Konica Minolta on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter.
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people was friendly and respectful
Some of the staff are very helpful. The General Manager comes across as if you were inconveniencing her.
i have rented from this location a few times. this was the best customer service experience i have had here in quite a while. nicely done!
quick in and out, it was great!
My truck was ready when I arrived. Customer service was great and I was able to upgrate to a larger truck with a moments notice. Thank you
Didn't seem to have my reservation at first (confirmation said Coon Rapids, but I was directed to pick up the truck at Blaine).Truck did not appear to have had even basic cleaning - cup holders obviously had spills in them, truck smelled of smoke and body odor.Purchased frame protectors/covers for corners that were useless because they didn't stick.When I called to ask for a refund, was told I would need to come in with product and receipt.I rented a truck to move...I'm not in the area any longer.I consider that poor customer service.Did really like the reservation process and the person who helped with that (determining size of truck I would need).Also hired Moving Help via the UHaul website and that worked very well.
My husband and I needed a small trailer to move our college age daughter 5 miles in the Minneapolis area. I booked my reservation through uhaul.com when I arrived at this location I did not feel welcome as a customer here, I have rented UHaul trailers many times and this is the only place I had to have the rental trailer examined before and after rental. marking and x on the rental agreement where there was damage to prove I didn't damage the trailer. The customer service agent attached the trailer and chain to our vehicle and then we we returned the trailer examined the chain to see that we didn't damage it. You hooked it up! I was unhappy with my experience with this location and will not rent from them again. Also I rented an 4 x 8 trailer but was given a 5 x 8 trailer as you can not rent a 4 x 8 trailer for a day? This was never communicated to me during my reservation but upon picking up the trailer. Fortunately I did not have to pay the additional fee.
I wish they would have told me about any hidden fee's before we go there to move all our things in storage. We needed a copy of our homeowner's policy, but because we didn't bring that we had to purchase theirs. It would have also been nice if they told us we needed to purchase their lock. Even though it wasn't much of an over charge it was disappointing we didn't know before hand. I also needed the storage for 4 extra days so they had to charge me for another month. That was never explained to me when I called and booked. This should be pro rated.
Explain insurance and check in/out process more thoroughly.
Overall the experience was good. Despite the negative reviews online I was concerned about the experience but was pleasantly surprised. Just a note that the cart and blanket bag in the back need to be removable so that valuable space is not wasted. Also there was a lot of pet hair in the cab that the previous user must have left and that should have been cleaned out prior to the next rental, but all and all I was satisfied.
Excellent staff. Want to buy a 5X9 ramp trailer when one is available. Mike Adkins 320 496 3712
Don't change a thing.
I have used this location in the past. The experience has always been very good.
Personnel need to be more personable and courteous.
Excellent customer service.
The guy who checked us back in seemed lazy. He took the trailer and just said that they had my credit card on file. I didn't want to get charged for any damages since I returned the trailer cleaner than when I received it. I also had to return a dolly and 12 unused boxes. The employee did not help with carrying either inside and seemed to give me the bum's rush. A little more polite, thorough and attentive service would have been nice.
My checking account is now negative by over $200 because I was charged for an extra day that I shouldn't have been charged. Thanks! Now I can't feed my children or put gas in my tank to get to work to make the money that I need to put back into my checking account.
Lucy was very helpful in getting us in and out quickly.
The girl that works behind the counter not the girl with the tattoos needs to be a little nicer to people she's very short and crabby
Lucy does a great job
I first called the Blaine Minnesota store to rent a trailer and was not happy with the woman telling me that the rental would be $160 for two days when your web site says $18.95 per day. Further I told her that I would be taking it about 250 miles and retuning it to the Blaine store to which she told me I would have to return it to a store that was 65 miles further than my destination, . After stating that I don't understand the price for the two day and Why I could not return it to the Blaine location or a location on my way home she told me that she did have a trailer of that size available (5x9). I hung up and called the Foley Minnesota location.
The Woman at the Foley store gave me a price of $115.00 for THREE days and set up a drop off at a location in Grand Rapids Minnesota, a city on my way home ... but that I would have to get the trailer at the Blaine store. I explained that I felt like I was getting a runaround, pointing out that the blaine store told me they had not trailer that size available from the blaine store and did not want to go there but she said it was the only store with a trailer that size available so I agreed.
When I got to the Blaine store they had 3 (5x9) trailers!!!!! and again tried to charge me more until Argued that I was given a cheaper price and as they went through the pages on the computer found they I was indeed given a cheaper price.
To top it off, when I dropped the trailer off in Grand Rapids we where told that we can drop them off any location ... as long as we had a minimum of 150lbs on the trailer while traveling.
Happy with the Foley store, Happy with the Grand Rapids store ... very much not happy with the Blaine store, I feel like I was getting price gouged and was very much lied to about not having a trailer on site. I will make it clear to my friends and family to avoid the Blaine location if possible!
If you look at the online reviews there are several people stating their dissatisfaction with this location.
I will say that the gentelman that did help us at the Blaine store was very nice and helpful.
The trailer i rented was the worst trailer i have ever rented from you guys usually they are pretty nice and tow real nice but the one i had was very rusty and DID NOT tow very well behind my truck very bouncey and shakey never had that before usually the trailers tow real nice and smooth
The truck ran really ruff as if it brought it's own bumps in the road.I think my fillings shook loose.
Jim was very helpful
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Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT and TomDispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from the US to East Asia. Born in Brazil, he's been a foreign correspondent since 1985, and has lived in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Washington, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Even before 9/11 he specialized in covering the arc from the Middle East to Central and East Asia, with an emphasis on Big Power geopolitics and energy wars. He is the author of 'Globalistan' (Nimble Books, 2007), 'Red Zone Blues' (Nimble Books, 2007), 'Obama does Globalistan' (Nimble Books, 2009) and a contributing editor for a number of other books, including the upcoming 'Crossroads of Leadership: Globalization and the New American Century in the Obama Presidency' (Routledge). When not on the road, he alternates between Sao Paulo, New York, London, Bangkok and Hong Kong.
Why? Because the CIA said so. Because Hillary 'We came, we saw, he died' Clinton said so. Because crazy Samantha 'R2P' Power said so – thundering at the UN, everything duly printed by the neo-con infested Washington Post.
Because Anglo-American corporate media – from CNN to Fox (who tried to buy Time Warner, which owns CNN) – said so. Because the President of the United States (POTUS) said so. And mostly because Kiev had vociferously said so in the first place.
Right off the bat they were all lined up – the invariably hysterical reams of 'experts' of the 'US intelligence community' literally foaming at their palatial mouths at 'evil' Russia and 'evil' Putin; intel 'experts' who could not identify a convoy of gleaming white Toyotas crossing the Iraqi desert to take Mosul. And yet they have already sentenced; they don't need to look any further, instantly solving the MH17 riddle.
It doesn't matter that President Putin has stressed the MH17 tragedy must be investigated objectively. And 'objectively' certainly does not mean that fictional 'international community' notion construed by Washington – the usual congregation of pliable vassals/patsies.
And what about Carlos?
A simple search reveals that MH17 was in fact diverted 200km north from the usual flight path taken by Malaysian Airlines in the previous days – and plunged right in the middle of a war zone. Why? What sort of communication had MH17 received from the Kiev air control tower?
Kiev has been mute about it. Yet the answer would be simple, had Kiev released the Air Traffic Control recording of the tower talking to flight MH17; Malaysia did it after flight MH370 disappeared forever.
It won't happen; SBU security confiscated it. So much for getting an undoctored explanation as to why MH17 was off its path, and what the pilots saw and said before the explosion.
The Russian Defense Ministry, for its part, has confirmed that a Kiev-controlled Buk anti-aircraft missile battery was operational near the MH17's crash. Kiev has deployed several batteries of Buk surface-to-air missile systems with at least 27 launchers; these are all perfectly capable of bringing down jets flying at 33,000 ft.
Radiation from a battery's Kupol radar, deployed as part of a Buk-M1 battery near Styla [a village some 30km south of Donetsk] was detected by the Russian military. According to the ministry, the radar could be providing tracking information to another battery which was at a firing distance from MH17's flight path.
The tracking radar range on the Buk system is a maximum of 50 miles (80km). MH17 was flying at 500mph. So assuming the 'rebels' had an operational Buk and did it, they would have had not more than five minutes to scan all the skies above, all possible altitudes, and then lock on. By then they would have known that a cargo plane could not possibly be flying that high.
For evidence supporting the possibility of a false flag, check here.
And then there's the curiouser and curiouser story of Carlos, the Spanish air traffic controller working at Kiev's tower, who was following MH17 in real time. For some Carlos is legit - not a cipher; for others, he's never even worked in Ukraine. Anyway he tweeted like mad. His account – not accidentally – has been shut down and he has disappeared. His friends are now desperately looking for him. I managed to read all his tweets in Spanish when the account was still online. And now copies and an English translation are available.
These are some of his crucial tweets:
"The B777 was escorted by 2 Ukrainian fighter jets minutes before disappearing from radar (5.48pm)"
"If the Kiev authorities want to admit the truth 2 fighter jets were flying very close a few minutes before the incident but did not shoot down the airliner (5.54)"
"As soon as the Malaysia Airlines B777 disappeared the Kiev military authority informed us of the shooting down. How did they know? (6.00)"
"Everything has been recorded on radar. For those that don't believe it, it was taken down by Kiev; we know that here (in traffic control) and the military air traffic control know it too (7.14)"
"The Ministry of the Interior did know that there were fighter aircraft in the area, but the Ministry of Defense didn't. (7.15)"
"The military confirm that it was Ukraine, but it is not known where the order came from. (7.31)"
Carlos's assessment (a partial compilation of his tweets is collected here: the missile was fired by the Ukraine military under orders of the Ministry of Interior - NOT the Ministry of Defense. Security matters at the Ministry of the Interior happen to be under Andrey Paruby, who was closely working alongside US neo-cons and Banderastan neo-Nazis on Maidan.
Assuming Carlos is legit, the assessment makes sense. The Ukrainian military are divided between Chocolate king [President Petro] Poroshenko – who would like a détente with Russia essentially to advance his shady business interests - and St. Yulia Tymoshenko, who's on the record advocating genocide of ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine. US neo-cons and US "military advisers" on the ground are proverbially hedging their bets, supporting both the Poroshenko and Tymoshenko factions.
So who profits?
The key question remains, of course, cui bono? Only the terminally brain dead believe shooting a passenger jet benefits the federalists in eastern Ukraine, not to mention the Kremlin.
As for Kiev, they'd have the means, the motive and the window of opportunity to pull it off – especially after Kiev's militias have been effectively routed, and were in retreat, in the Donbass. And this after Kiev remained dead set on attacking and bombing the population of eastern Ukraine even from above. No wonder the federalists had to defend themselves.
And then there's the suspicious timing. The MH17 tragedy happened two days after the BRICS announced an antidote to the IMF and the World Bank, bypassing the US dollar. And just as Israel 'cautiously' advances its new invasion/slow-motion-ethnic-cleansing of Gaza. Malaysia, by the way, is the seat of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission, which has found Israel guilty of crimes against humanity.
Washington, of course, does profit. What the Empire of Chaos gets in this case is a ceasefire (so the disorganized, battered Kiev militias may be resupplied); the branding of eastern Ukrainians as de facto 'terrorists' (as Kiev, Dick Cheney-style, always wanted); and unlimited mud thrown over Russia and Putin in particular until Kingdom Come. Not bad for a few minutes' work. As for NATO, that's Christmas in July.
From now on, it all depends on Russian intelligence. They have been surveilling/tracking everything that happens in Ukraine 24/7. In the next 72 hours, after poring over a lot of tracking data, using telemetry, radar and satellite tracking, they will know which type of missile was launched, from where, and even produce communications from the battery that launched it. And they will have access to forensic evidence.
Unlike Washington – who already knows everything, with no evidence whatsoever (remember 9/11?) – Moscow will take its time to know the basic journalistic facts of what, where, and who, and engage on proving the truth and/or disproving Washington's spin.
The historical record shows Washington simply won't release data if it points to a missile coming from its Kiev vassals. The data may even point to a bomb planted on MH17, or mechanical failure – although that's unlikely. If this was a terrible mistake by the Novorossiya rebels, Moscow will have to reluctantly admit it. If Kiev did it, the revelation will be instantaneous. Anyway we already know the hysterical Western response, no matter what; Russia is to blame.
Putin is more than correct when he stressed this tragedy would not have happened if Poroshenko had agreed to extend a ceasefire, as Merkel, Hollande and Putin tried to convince him to do in late June. At a minimum, Kiev is already guilty because they are responsible for safe passage of flights in the airspace they – theoretically – control.
But all that is already forgotten in the fog of war, tragedy and hype. As for Washington's hysterical claims of credibility, I leave you with just one number: Iran Air 655.
The statements, views and opinions expressed in this column are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of RT.


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- monkeysama
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- on 11/15/10 at 8:15pm
Saw this interesting article. I don't personally know all that much about ETFs, but I was wondering what you guys thought.
From the Financial Times:
Kauffman: ETFs are the problem, not HFT
Posted by Izabella Kaminska on Nov 08 21:00.
Finally, a report that dares to outline the previously-taboo: Exchange-Traded Funds may pose a greater systemic threat to markets than high-frequency, or algorithmic, trading.
Writing for the Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City-based private and nonpartisan foundation, authors Harold Bradley and Robert E. Litan lay the case out in a 86-page report on Monday. Both these guys have testified to the US Congress on things like market structure and financial crises, so they're well worth listening to.
At issue, they say, is the price discovery process itself:
We show here that ETFs are radically changing the markets, to the point where they, and not the trading of the underlying securities, are effectively setting the prices of stocks of smaller capitalization companies, or the potential new growth companies of the future. In the process, ETFs that once were an important low-cost way for investors to assemble diversified stock holdings are now undermining the traditional price discovery role of exchanges and, in turn, discouraging new companies from wanting to be listed on US exchanges.
That is not all. The proliferation of ETFs also poses unquantifiable but very real systemic risks of the kind that were manifested very briefly during the 'Flash Crash' of May 6, 2010. Absent the ETF-related reforms we outline below in this summary, and in more detail in the text, we believe that other flash crashes of small capitalization company "melt ups," potentially much mroe severe than the one on May 6, are a virtual certainty.
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- monkeysama
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- on 11/15/10 at 8:24pm
And there seems to be evidence that ETFs are leading to fewer tech startups:
- Frieds
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- on 11/15/10 at 8:57pm
No. Not in the least bit. ETF trading had an effect on the flash crash, but they were not the fault. That's like blaming Waddell and Reed because they had 75,000 ES contracts trade during the crash.
The issues with ETFs are related to 1) Correlation and 2) Hedging which create a systematic risk to the system when you add in HFT and Algo trading.
The first problem is easy, as most ETFs take a basket of stocks and trade them in a long only fashion for the most part, and hedge themselves with basic options to create a bit of downside protection via covered writing. The problem here, however, is that in additions to ETFs taking concentrated positions, you have large funds who enter these positions as well or use large ETF holdings to create a position in a given space, thus the the correlation in movement increases outright because these stocks start trading closer and closer to each other (meaning that if there's a sell off in Apple, there will be a sell off in Cisco).
The second problem comes down to Hedging, particularly with the levered ETFs. By employing derivatives and rebalancing positions at the end of the day to reflect any key changes due to the market conditions, you can gain significant leverage to magnify the upside and downside, however, when a shift to the market happens where there is a significant upside or downside movement, like what happened on May 6th, the fund managers begin the rebalancing process and trade accordingly with E-Minis, Options and other derivatives to keep balance in the position, added further strain in the markets.
That's the problem with innovation, as no one has any idea what needs to be done to appropriately fix any of the problems. ETFs are not necessarily a problem, but are affected, like everyone and everything else by systematic shocks to the market. It's the way of the world.
- monkeysama
- (King Kong, 1,632 )
- on 11/15/10 at 9:04pm
I get the feeling that the ETFs are having a similar problem as tranching and MBS had. They're supposed to reflect an underlying security and offer all sorts of risk benefits from pooling, but instead just create more confusion in the market by adding disinformation. For example, the articles I linked to said that one of the problems was that because of the way ETFs are structured that instead of ETF moving with the stocks they represent, heavy bidding in ETFs can cause the stock prices themselves to follow the ETF price. From there swings in the ETF price can sway the markets and add tons of volatility.
Also, just want to give a shout out to Frieds. Great Post! +1
- blastoise
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- on 11/15/10 at 9:08pm
good post monkeysama
- Frieds
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- on 11/15/10 at 9:24pm
I really am torn about whether it's a tranching issue or not because you definitely see it when you play in the levered and short space because of the inherent reliance on derivatives, but not so much in the nonlevered area. You are definitely right about ETFs figuring into price movement, however the thing no one mentions is the biggest ETF of them all, the SPY.
That one security is surprisingly telling when you discuss ETFs. It's an unlevered fund that trades according to the index itself, supposedly, in all 500 stocks. To bring light to what you said and how influential and ETF can be, the SPY tells that tale. Watch the trading for the SPY and graph it verse the VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price - For those that don't know, VWAP is a Moving Average Price that is used to reflect the price and size of trading across the entire day as a weighted average of the equity instead of just by the price of a security. It's a surprisingly good way to see the divergence in an equity and an interesting arb opportunity as well if you are willing to try and bet of the divergence between VWAP and the actual pricing). It tells two very distinct tales and really illustrates how you can shift the market with trading an ETF, as it doesn't take much to move the market higher despite not having a similar VWAP tracking behind it.
Oh, and thanks for the SB. If you wanna discuss, hit me up via PM. I'm always up for good discussion.
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Yo momma so high frequency she caused the flash crash.
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SB for you Squirtz. Best old school yo mamma joke I've heard in ages~
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I thought it was
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While Australian retailers are expecting to share in $14.8 billion in post-Christmas sales, Queensland University of Technology business lecturer Gary Mortimer is tipping sales will be down on previous years.
"My personal projection will be that Boxing Day sales post Christmas will be softer than last year," he said.
"Generally, because the strong price cutting and discounting in the lead up to Christmas."
Dr Mortimer said the risk of constantly driving bigger discounts was sensitising customers to expect discounts.
He also pointed out the increase in online shopping and the impact on the traditional, in-store form of Christmas shopping.
"The growth rate of online shopping this year is about 25% and while a majority of that were Australian products in the domestic market, it still has an impact on in-store, bricks and mortar sales," he said.
But online options still won't keep some hardcore bargain-hunters away with many expected to line-up outside department stores early on Boxing Day morning.
The Australian Retailers' Association predicts Queensland will see $3 billion in post-christmas sales, NSW $4.5 billion and Victoria $3.7 billion.
ARA executive director Russell Zimmerman said of the $14.8 billion in total sales $6.8 billion would be spent on non-food sale items as price-sensitive consumers hunted down bargains but monitored their spending carefully.
National Retail Association executive director Trevor Evans said retailers had reported an initially slow Christmas period, which had picked-up over the past fortnight.
He said online shopping was unlikely to diminish Boxing Day sales.
"Online shopping options are unlikely to diminish enthusiasm for Boxing Day sales, because there will be heavy discounting in this year's sales and obviously there is no delay in receiving the items in the Boxing Day sales," he said.
Myer expects 13 million people to walk into their stores across Australia over the stock take sale period from December 27 to January 27.
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