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One place to enjoy the local spirit ... Ku De Ta in Bali. Photo: Getty Images

Pastry chef Will Goldfarb is living every stressed-out urbanite's dream.

After several successful years in New York running a dessert-centric restaurant with a cult following, he picked up and moved to the tropical paradise of Bali and is now executive pastry chef at Ku De Ta, a restaurant and beach club with a cult following.

"[Bali's] local drinking culture is very sophisticated these days," Goldfarb says, adding that there's lots of fresh young talent working hard behind the bar to impress the international clientele.

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The iconic tipple here is a spirit called arak. "The ultimate local beverage would probably be... an Arak Madu with honey and lime," notes Goldfarb.

(Not to be confused with arrack, an anise-flavoured spirit popular in some Middle Eastern countries, Bali's arak is distilled either from coconut palm sap or a mix of black glutinous rice and coconut milk.)

Although inexpensive, arak can be found at bars catering to locals and budget-minded tourists, Bali's more upscale restaurants and cocktail lounges tend to promote pricier rum and vodka drinks, mixed with tropical fruit such as mango and passionfruit, and Asian-inspired flavourings like ginger and lemongrass.

Fiery arak is usually available for the asking, though. (Stick to reputable bars though - homemade arak has been linked to poisonings of tourists and locals)

Batavia Arrack, distilled from molasses on the Indonesian island of Java, also may be found at some resort hotels; some historical-minded mixologists consider this an indispensable ingredient for punches.

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February 29, 2012, 1:41 AM EST

By Max Abelson

Feb. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Andrew Schiff was sitting in a traffic jam in California this month after giving a speech at an investment conference about gold. He turned off the satellite radio, got out of the car and screamed a profanity.

Im not Zen at all, and when Im freaking out about the situation, where Im stuck like a rat in a trap on a highway with no way to get out, its very hard, Schiff, director of marketing for broker-dealer Euro Pacific Capital Inc., said in an interview.

Schiff, 46, is facing another kind of jam this year: Paid a lower bonus, he said the $350,000 he earns, enough to put him in the countrys top 1 percent by income, doesnt cover his familys private-school tuition, a Kent, Connecticut, summer rental and the upgrade they would like from their 1,200-square- foot Brooklyn duplex.

I feel stuck, Schiff said. The New York that I wanted to have is still just beyond my reach.

The smaller bonus checks that hit accounts across the financial-services industry this month are making it difficult to maintain the lifestyles that Wall Street workers expect, according to interviews with bankers and their accountants, therapists, advisers and headhunters.

People who dont have money dont understand the stress, said Alan Dlugash, a partner at accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York who specializes in financial planning for the wealthy. Could you imagine what its like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?

Bonus Caps

Facing a slump in revenue from investment banking and trading, Wall Street firms have trimmed 2011 discretionary pay. At Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Barclays Capital, the cuts were at least 25 percent. Morgan Stanley capped cash bonuses at $125,000, and Deutsche Bank AG increased the percentage of deferred pay.

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SMX West is approaching fast, and one of the sessions that caught my eye was the Enterprise SEO Challenges & Solutions. The panel is loaded with speakers with deep experience in enterprise SEO. I decided to reach out to the panelists and get a preview of their presentations, so I asked each of them some questions in advance of the show.

Eric Enge:Can you tells us how Ebay deals with the challenges of producing content on a large scale?

Jordan Koene: The cool thing about eBay is that we have millions of pages making the management of these pages complex.

However, many of the pages on eBay are not directly controlled by the company, rather they are controlled by our community of sellers. This is often a challenge and requires education and support from eBay to our community of sellers.

One of the solutions we created are pages which aggregate our sellers items into what we call a product page, such as this one for the Nikon D90 123 MP Digital SLR Camera (Black Body Only).

If you scroll down the page a bit, you will see lots of great content such as this product description (only a portion is shown):

Or, these user reviews (only a subset are shown):

These types of pages benefit the sellers by creating a larger marketplace that can compete more effectively for keywords that can bring them potential buyers.

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A recently concluded market research by private research company Internet Marketing Services has indicated that the future of Nokia N9 Canada continues to be bleak in this part of the world. The report also suggests that thousands of consumers here may have to wait much longer than anticipated earlier for the launch of the most popular Smartphone in the market.

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The findings of research conducted by Internet Marketing Services suggest that the delay in the launch of Nokia N9 Canada could be a part of Nokia's marketing strategy. Their report reveals that Nokia might have postponed the release of N9 to promote their first ever Windows Phone 7 in this country. It may be recalled that major Smartphone markets like Canada and the United States were left out of the list of the companies where the phone released last year. Surprisingly, these are the countries that witnessed the release of the Windows Phone from Nokia. The report suggested that Nokia may have chosen these countries for the launch of the WP 7 device because there is a great demand for iPhones and Androids in these markets.

The non availability of Nokia N9 Canada has resulted in serious disappointment for most of the phone users in Canada. It must be mentioned here that Nokia N9 has received huge applause in most of the countries where it has been launched. The revolutionary Mee Go operating system and a plethora of fabulous features have resulted in runaway success for this Smartphone. Only future would say if the gadget crazy Canadian would ever be able to enjoy the features of this advanced Smartphone.

About Internet Marketing Services: Internet Marketing Services is a private market research company that conducts market research on various topics. The company is based out of Ontario.

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As a celebration of success over the last 12 years AM Communications will launch a new service for business owners who want to know and learn more about internet marketing through a modular course. The series of short courses aimed at small business owners and start up internet marketers will be introduced through a sister company SEC1 Search Engine Competition 1, Step by step internet marketing.

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A new full time graphic designer and a software programmer specialising in mobile and app development were taken on at the end of 2011.

The changes have been necessary so that we can continue to grow as an internet services business providing predominately website design and internet marketing services direct to our clients.

New businesses are much more aware that the internet is no longer a fleeting fancy compared to older businesses. New businesses see opportunities to win new business 24/7 through their website but just need to know how to market efficiently.

Because businesses have woken up to the fact that their business can grow inline with a strong internet presence they are prepared to invest more time into the right internet marketing and that doesn't mean just having a good website design.

A good combination of internet marketing with the use of additional social networking platforms can transform a business' fortunes in a relatively short period of time.

As a celebration of success over the last 12 years AM Communications will launch a new service for business owners who want to know more about internet marketing but pay less.

A series of short courses aimed at small business owners and start up internet marketers will be introduced through a sister company SEC1 Search Engine Competition 1.

The course will take subscribers through the fundamental basics to the core principles of how to succeed with their internet business, businesses competing on the search engines for the same keywords has become a very sophisticated profession but still presented as an industry operating with smoke and mirrors.

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