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New financial regs approved, so I don't look a total prat
I laid my cards on the table, put myself on the line, laid my body on the tracks, and generally risked ridicule.
After a lot of Untold readers had previously written in and said that the new UEFA regs on financial doping would hit the dust, they went through unmolested.
UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations, submitted to the committee now enters the football rule book.
Michel Platini said: "The philosophy is that you cannot spend more money than you generate."
The chairman of the European Club Association, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, said: "This really is a huge achievement. On behalf of the European Club Association, I would like to thank UEFA and especially Michel Platini for his initiative that goes, I believe, in the right direction."
The full UEFA Club Licensing and Financial Fair Play Regulations, edition 2010, will be published in June. Clubs will be assessed on a risk basis, taking into account debts and salary levels, as well as the following main pillars:
• Break-even requirement – clubs must not spend more than they generate over a period of time
• No overdues payable during the season – towards other clubs, employees and/or social/tax authorities
• Provision of future financial information – to ensure clubs can meet their future obligations.
So that's that. But actually UEFA went on and talked some more…
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The UEFA Executive Committee also agreed to propose to FIFA a further two years of experimentation with two extra additional assistant referees, and that the trails take place in
the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League as of the play-offs (the last qualifying round before the group stage),
the UEFA Europa League as from the group stage,
the UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying phase and final tournament,
the 2010 UEFA Super Cup
And just in case you thought it was all getting nice and simple, try this one…
"For the UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying competition, the 51 participating teams have been drawn into six groups of six teams and three groups of five teams. The nine group winners and the best runner-up will qualify directly for the final tournament. The additional four sides that will participate in the finals will be determined by play-off games between the eight remaining runners-up."
Other decisions taken by UEFA
• The final-round match schedule for the UEFA European Under-21 Championship, 2009-11 competition, was amended to start on Saturday 11 June 2011, instead of Sunday 12 June, allowing for an additional rest day between matchdays 2 and 3
• The UEFA European Under-21 Championship, 2009-11 competition, play-off and final draw procedures, to take place this year on 10 September in Herning and on 9 November in Aalborg, Denmark, respectively
• Regulations of the UEFA European Under-19 Championship, 2010/11 competition
• Regulations of the UEFA European Women's Under-19 Championship, 2010/11 competition
• Regulations of the UEFA European Futsal Championship, 2011/12 competition
The announcement of the host association of UEFA EURO 2016 to be made at 13.00CET on Friday. (Yawn)
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22 comments to New financial regs approved, so I don't look a total prat
Man U has just come out and announced that they pass the new financial rules….is that total malarkey just to keep fans from further revolt over at united or do they know something i dont, such as loopholes in the fine print???
I found an interesting article comparing Arsenal to Barcelona, finances remain a mystery to me however it was pretty clear to see something interesting happening =)
http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2010/05/how-can-barcelona-afford-cesc-fabregas.html
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Does this now mean that clubs like Barcelona, Real Madrid, ManU(re)and co' can no longer borrow from the banks to fund their spending then?
Fedda
Would be interesting to see how much/little the extra ref's have contributed and what major decisions the ref missed. Although it must be difficult to collect such data
Some good news I would say.
How could you look like a total prat Tony? Mmmmm You didn't look like a prat when I met you last time. 😉
John L, I think MU are talkint the truth for the moment. As they don't have to be ready today yet I think. They have a bit of time, but not that much and it will be hard work to get them in order in the next year
bruno dante
I dont know, I'm sure there are many loopholes in the whole thing which will allow barcelona and real madrid to overspend.
It wont really have any effect on us or top clubs who are our closest rivals.
Its more to stop situations like portsmouth happening.
our board can keep on saving the pound notes while others around us strengthen their sides and win titles and doubles and european cups.
What sanctions will actually happen if clubs do not meet the standards and when will they take effect. I hope this does actually work as it's long overdue, but with clubs like Chelsea losing 50 mil every year before player transfers I can't imagine it being enforced properly if the sanctions were to be for instance expulsions from tournaments
bruno, I would recomend you to read the swissramble side. The link is above
so we make made around 5 times the pre tax profit of barcelona.
but have less than half of the ambition when recruiting players…
I hope gazidis sorts out our sponsorship deals as he seems to do little else that directly affects our failing on field team that conceded more goals this year than last, and did worse in the champions league and fa cup.
Fem Dee
Congrats Lord Tony.
Let the records read that u've been shouting this from the roof top for at least 1year.
Let the date, May 27, 2010, be recorded as the day a new order was created in European football. A new order that Wenger anticipated by 3 or more years.
Let us see how many trophies the head start will garner for us in the near future.
Tony — I admit it, I was wrong. (And I'm very happy that I was wrong!).
AW was right all along.
Tony — One criticism that I've noticed among the many articles on this, is that these rules merely lock the gate to smaller clubs trying to get bigger, and that the only reason Roman A. supported the rules was because he was already able to secure Chelsea's place among the elite through huge amounts of spending.
I can see the logic in this, but if spending on youth academies and new stadia is NOT counted as unsustainable debt, then these arguments are pretty silly, right (i.e. rich benefactor X and spend 100 million pounds on a world-class academy…)? Or is it that the rich clubs now have such a huge financial advantage that with these new rules, it's impossible for others to catch-up?
Finally, Tottenham's finances continue to perplex me. How is it that they are, like Arsenal, one of the paragons of financial fair play?
DarkPrince
🙂 as i have said before, there's plenty of time for clubs to change their policies. And they will get around this regulation.
Tim. New stadium and upgraded youth academy is an investment for the club long term, where the clubs are allowed to have a couple years with losses. Spurs have their accounts in Virgin Islands or something so they can basically say anything they want. (Wonder how UEFA will get access to these accounts).
They really dont mean much though, with regards to the big clubs that matter. Scousers don't. Perhaps the Chavs, when their squad begins to fossillize. That aside, how sad is it to see Barca being pretty much everything a fair amount of us want our club to be (bar greedy board stuffing cash, and incredible pricing, but including super summer signings), as thats most of what I garnered from that report. The debt is not exactly phenomenal, the interest payments are pretty low so they could drag it out, and with their academy, they'll have players to sell on for years. If anything, it confirms that they could actually buy El Capitan if they truly want to!
The Swiss Rambler
Although Tottenham's last annual accounts (up to 30 June 1999) reported a £33m pre-tax profit, this was entirely due to the stonking £57m profit they made when selling Berbatov to United, Keane to Liverpool and three players to Sunderland. Without these sales, they would have made a loss.
In fact, their most recent published accounts (for the six months up to 31 December 2009) showed a pre-tax loss of £8m. You would be forgiven for not noticing this, as the club's press release for those accounts opted to instead highlight profit from operations (before player trading, amortisation and interest), which was a positive £5m. Well, it would be if you excluded £20m amortisation and £3m net interest (compensated to some extent by £9m profit from player sales).
My guess is that the next set of annual accounts from Spurs could also show a loss, as: (a) the amortisation increases to reflect their player purchases; (b) the profit from player sales is much less than the prior year.
I examined this in painful detail in my blog, where I also take issue with how Tottenham describe their debt:
http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2010/03/are-tottenhams-results-too-good-to-be.html
@ Swiss and Fedda — Thank you guys.
So Tottenham's accounting is utter B.S. then. If so, why aren't they criticized in the press? I mean, the pundits take pains to point out Man U's sale of C. Ronaldo as misleading…Could 'Arry's free ride w/ the press have anything to do with it?
It also seems like the argument about closing the door on the up-and-comers is B.S., too. A rich benefactor could easily buy, say, Stoke, and pour all his dough into a new stadium and youth academy to make his club grow…a 60,000 seater and lots of up-and-comers would do nicely for any club. It'll just take time…The only thing UEFA is doing is making sure there's no sudden get-rich quick scheme like Man City's…then my question is: why are the press making it seem like this rule will harm small clubs? Killing off the little guy is not the issue at all!
@Swiss — I really appreciate the clarity of your writing and diligence of your investigative work. Very impressive.
So how much debt are Trash. United and Luckypool carrying and how much interest should they be paying back and exactly how much are they paying back,figures please ,not twaddle ?
So how will the Red Knights of old Trafford re-finace their ballooning debt once they have taking over from the Glazer,s who
didn,t authorise the old loud mouth to spend big money on Berbatov,Cristiano Ronaldo ,Rooney and pay such exorbitant weekly wages ,facts please not bulls- ?
@ Samuel — Please stop your insults or leave this blog. What's covered here is hardly "twaddle" or "bullshit".
If you want facts and figures, the best I've seen have been covered by the Swiss Rambler on his page…the links are above.
goonergerry
The Swiss Rambler's article is interesting- because it strongly supports much of what Tony has been arguing for some time about the solid self sustaining underpinning of the current Arsenal regime. I have no argument with that at all.
However it also supports a concern that I have had for some time that Arsenal's salary structure has been geared up to Arsenal being a feeder club- i.e. paying more young players high salaries than competitors, having relatively fewer players at the top end on high salaries and having a lower salary to turnover ratio than all major competitors (46%). The swiss Rambler also states "What fans possibly don't appreciate is how important profit on player sales has been to Arsenal's overall profit (£23m in the last annual accounts – excluding the sales of Adebayor and Toure to Manchester City)." He also argues that this position could be tweaked- i.e. trimming the number of young players we provide high salaries to, and marginally increasing our salary to turnover ratio-without destabilising the financial soundness which has already been established- a position I wholeheartedly agree with.
I also question why more is not made of the issue of raising commercial revenues-by for example buying one or 2 major stars. Al I ever hear is "we cannot afford the salaries of the likes of Buffon or Ribery" and those plus the transfer fee are prohibitive"- yes but what about the revenues from such as shirt sales?- backed by marketing strategies across China, India and Japan and the far East where there is massive untapped potential for raising commercial club revenue- but we need some more stars- and we need some evidence that the solid financial underpinning will lead to more than comfortable survival in a harsh financial climate, but also to success on the field.
Rhys Jaggar
I'd be interested in hearing how you feel about French clubs being able to get the French state to pay for all their stadia to be upgraded for free courtesy of Euro 2016?
Seeing as how all the English clubs must pay for it off their own bats?
Is that financial fair play?
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Stanton jacked six home runs in the first round of Monday's long ball competition. One homer nearly left Target Field altogether, landing only a few rows from the top in the third deck in left field. The ball traveled an estimated 422 feet, although the projected distance was 510 feet.
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Peter Müller (politician)
Title: Peter Müller (politician)
Subject: Franz-Josef Röder, Reinhold Maier, Kurt Sieveking, Kurt Biedenkopf, Lothar Späth
Minister-President of the Saarland
5 September 1999 – 10 August 2011
Reinhard Klimmt
(1955-09-25) September 25, 1955
Illingen, Saar Protectorate
University of Saarbrücken
Peter Aloysius Müller (born 25 September 1955 in Illingen, Saar Protectorate) is a German politician belonging to the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). From 1999 to 2011, he has held the position of Premier (Ministerpräsident) of the state of Saarland, serving as President of the Upper House of Germany's federal parliament, the Bundesrat from 1 November 2008 to 1 November 2009.[1] In December 2011, Müller was elected as judge of German Bundesverfassungsgericht.
1 Education and Career
2 Political party
3 Saarland Legislative Assembly
4 Public Offices
5 Awards and Distinctions
After sitting the Abitur (German final exams) in 1974 at the Realgymnasium in Lebach, Müller studied jurisprudence and politics in the Bonn and Saarbrücken. He sat for the two required State Examinations in Law, the first in 1983, and the second in 1986. From then until 1994, he served as a judge at the district court of Saarbrücken, as well as a research fellow for Saarland University.
Müller is a member of the CDU. Since 1995, he has been the chairman of the CDU in Saarland. He is also a part of the CDU's informal internal party, the "Jungen Wilden" (Young Turks), as well as being a member of the "Andenpakt" (Andes Pact). On 17 August 2005 the then Chancellor-candidate Angela Merkel chose Müller to be a member of her shadow cabinet as a prospective minister of economics and trade.
Saarland Legislative Assembly
Since 1990, Müller has been a Member of the Legislative Assembly (Landtag) of Saarland. From 1994 through 1999, he was the Leader of the CDU in the Assembly, hence also serving as Leader of the Opposition.
With the Federal Election of 2005, he obtained a federal party ticket in Saarland. However, on 26 November 2005 he decided not to take up his post as a Member of Parliament (Bundestag). He was succeeded by Hermann Scharf.
Public Offices
After the CDU received 45.5% of the votes, a narrow majority government, he became Premier of Saarland. On 3 September 2004 the CDU was able to expand upon its advantage in the parliament elections. In 2009, he formed a so-called Jamaica coalition with the liberal FDP and the Greens before leaving office in 2011, supposedly to accept an appointment to the Federal Constitutional Court.
In 2003 Peter Müller was given the Premier of the Year (Ministerpräsident des Jahres) Award in Berlin for the years 2000 to 2002 for his article "Initiative Neue Soziale Marktwirtschaft" (New Social Free Market Initiative), which was published in the economic magazine WirtschaftsWoche.
Peter Müller and his wife Astrid have three children.
^ "Präsidenten des Bundesrates seit 1949".
Based on the German article from March 1, 2006
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Live-Blogging "The Wiggles"
Wiggles Drama! Three Members — GASP! — Wiggling Out of Popular Children's Band for Good
Toddlers & Tiaras Recap: OMG, IT'S EDEN WOOD!
Toddlers & Tiaras Recap: "I Prayed and Prayed and Prayed That God Would Give Me a Miss America…"
Toddlers & Tiaras Recap: "If She Wins Nothing, I Wouldn't Even Understand It. I Would Think, OMG, These Judges Just Gone Crazy."
Ed. note: This is the author's first time watching "The Wiggles." Due to some seemingly acid trip-induced dance routines featured in the program that will haunt you in your dreams, viewer discretion — and a strong drink — are advised.
8:31 a.m. — Whoa. Clearly, good drugs were involved in the making of this opening.
:31 — I suspect these men have some lonely Friday nights at home with their cats.
:32 — Why did the show just randomly slip into Spanish dialogue? I'm confused enough, as it is.
:32 — This kid is about to kill his agent.
:36 — The princess kind of dances like I do after a few margaritas. Which is to say, not well.
:36 — Yeah, we get it. She lived in a "big, high tower… big, high tower… big, high tower." Even the baby in my belly thinks it's time for you to move on.
:37 — The princess slept for a hundred years? Color me jealous. I'd be happy with a hundred seconds these days.
:38 — Is it just me, or does the "gallant prince" look like Screech from "Saved by the Bell?" They sure don't make gallant princes like they used to.
:39 — The prince wakes the princess with a kiss… on her hand. After a hundred years of being asleep, I'm sure she was hoping for more action than that.
:41 — I really don't think we should be assaulting young children's ears with accordion music.
:42 — Okay, who wants to tell Dorothy the Dinosaur that the 1780s called, and they want their hat back? (*FINGER TO NOSE* Not it!)
:42 — Dorothy talks about "who has the biggest feet." Somewhere, Paris Hilton's ears are ringing.
:44 — All the dudes line up to see who has the biggest feet. You know what they say about big feet… I call dibs on the winner.
:45 — … It's this guy? Um, never mind.
:45 — Poor Jeff has the smallest feet. He really shouldn't mention that on his Match.com profile.
:48 — Anthony asks us what he's wearing. A question we've all been asking ourselves.
:49 — Murray says he thinks Anthony is wearing ballet slippers — when he's clearly wearing farmer's boots. Murray isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, is he? (What's that? Murray was joking? Oh, hush.)
:50 — Anthony goes to plant some corn — which, as we all know, is an important ingredient in many tasty vodkas. I knew Disney was full of lushes!
:52 — It's "time to say good-bye." Until my kid is born, of course, and I'm forced to watch this show — I'm just estimating here — ten billion and four times. Yay for me. Really. Yay.
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MOSCOW | US embassy urges Russia to allow visit to jailed US investor
MOSCOW (AP) — The United States Embassy in Moscow has called on Russian authorities to allow its staff to visit a U.S. investment fund manager who has been jailed pending a fraud investigation.
Michael Calvey, founder and senior partner at the Baring Vostok equity firm, was detained last week and jailed for two months pending the investigation into suspected embezzlement. The arrest of a respected investment manager who has worked in Russia for 25 years has sent shockwaves through the Russian business community.
The U.S. Embassy said in a statement on Thursday that its staff has still not been able to visit Calvey seven days after he was detained despite multiple requests. Four days is the typical limit.
"We have expressed our strong concern about this delay through diplomatic channels," the embassy said in a statement. "We insist on access now."
The case against Calvey and five other people springs from a business dispute among shareholders of Russia's Vostochny Bank.
Russian businessman Sherzod Yusupov, who made the complaint which sparked the investigation, has alleged fellow shareholder Baring Vostok had overvalued shares in another company which were transferred to cover a debt and misrepresented restrictions on those shares.
Calvey's lawyer told the RIA Novosti state news agency on Thursday that his client had been formally charged with fraud and that he was researching his legal position before giving testimony.
In a state-of-the-nation address Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin complained businesses were often put under unnecessary pressure by Russian law enforcement, but didn't mention the Baring Vostok case. Honest businesses, Putin said, should not "constantly feel the risk" they could be pursued through the courts.
"We have no doubt that the investigation will determine the truth," Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, adding that he believed the investment climate won't suffer. "Russia has been committed to creating a maximally favorable climate for foreign investors."
Calvey and Baring Vostok have attracted influential supporters including Russia's business ombudsman, Boris Titov, who wrote to Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika asking him to look at whether the decision to place Calvey and other suspects in custody conformed to the law.
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Q: Does code inside `isDev()` if blocks gets deleted after a prod build ? (Tree shaking) I want to put some big debugging code inside a isDev() if block like:
if(isDev()) {
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My question is, is that code shipped to the build production? and If yes. Is there a good way to add code that does not ship to production without manually remove it?

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Psychologist Carl Pickhardt offers insight from his thirty years of experience counseling caregivers on how to navigate the adolescent development process, from eight to eighteen. For most parents, the onset of puberty brings an unexpected, even unwelcome change in their child's behavior, which can cause bewilderment, confusion, and sadness. Dr. Pickhardt's comforting and knowledgeable voice points out that not only can growth change many beloved characteristics of their child, but it can also alter dynamics in the relationship. Parents, teachers, and caretakers, will find comfort with effective practices to help kids achieve responsible independence from the end of childhood through young adulthood and beyond.
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Pakistani youth's most celebrated mobile brand realme is going to debut the year 2020 with its most affordable smartphone lineup this month. February is arguably the most exciting month for smartphone launches. The upcoming device is also going to be the first handset from realme to run on its own Realme UI that is based on ColorOS 7 running Android 10 operating system out-of-the-box bringing a fresh coat of paint and some nice upgrades over its predecessor.
The upcoming smartphone series is expected to bolster the company's position in the entry level smartphone market that is rapidly catching up in Pakistan. 2020 is going to be much bigger for realme, and the company will launch a bunch of new smartphones and IOT products. Going forward, realme Pakistan aims to bring such devices in the market which will transform the company as the most preferred tech lifestyle brand of the youth in country.
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Since its entry into the Pakistani market 12 months ago, realme, has already launched 9 products across different price segments from premium flagships to trendy mid-rangers, all designed particularly for the youth. They are also gearing up for the launch of their latest additions in the classic realme series in the coming months. realme is proving it has planned an even steeper growth trajectory than its parent company through a targeted focus on the youth.
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The Zorach Family papers measure 4.4 linear feet and consist of materials relating to the lives and careers of sculptor and painter William Zorach, his wife painter and weaver Marguerite, and their children, painter and multi-media artist Dahlov Ipcar and collector and art dealer Tessim Zorach. The bulk of the papers consists of letters to Tessim regarding his parent's artwork. Additional materials include scattered letters to William Zorach; writings and notes by William, Marguerite, and Tessim; a sketchbook and drawings by William; prints by Marguerite; Marguerite's scrapbook; printed materials; and photographs of the Zorach family and of William Zorach in his studio and at work.
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The Zorach Family papers measure 4.4 linear feet and consist of materials relating to the lives and careers of sculptor and painter William Zorach, his wife painter and weaver Marguerite, and their children, painter and multi-media artist Dahlov Ipcar and collector and art dealer Tessim Zorach. The bulk of the papers consists of letters to Tessim regarding his parent's artwork. Additional materials include scattered letters to William Zorach; writings and notes by William, Marguerite, and Tessim; a sketchbook and drawings by William; prints by Marguerite; Marguerite's scrapbook; printed materials; and photographs of the Zorach family and of William Zorach in his studio and at work. The majority of correspondence is between Tessim Zorach and various museums and galleries concerning exhibitions and donations of his parents' works of art. There are scattered letters to William Zorach among the correspondence. Business records consist of materials relating to the Collection of the Zorach Children, including lists of works of art by the Zorach's, a file relating to an exhibition of Zorach artwork at the Brooklyn Museum, and photographs of works of art considered for donation. Writings and Notes include a typescript of an article written by Marguerite Zorach, writings by William Zorach, a typescript of Young Poems by William and Marguerite, as well as articles written by others about the Zorachs. Artwork by Marguerite Zorach includes two prints and a tracing. Also found is one sketchbook, and additional drawings by William Zorach. There is one unsigned lithograph. The majority of exhibition announcements, catalogs, and clippings concern William and Marguerite Zorach although there are two announcements for Dahlov Ipcar. There is one scrapbook of clippings about Marguerite. The papers include photographs of Marguerite and William Zorach, their parents, baby photos of Tessim and Dahlov, family pictures of the Zorachs, and of Marguerite and William in their studios. There are several folders of William Zorach working in his studios and additional photos of him carving a relief sculpture and a sculpture for the Southwest Bank. Most of these photographs contain detailed annotations written by William Zorach about the work. There is one folder of photographs of William in France in 1910-1911, including one of Zorach in Roi Partridge's studio. There is one photograph of Zorach taken by Ansel Adams in Yosemite, a photo of Zorach working by Arnold Newman, and several taken by Imogen Cunnigham. Other photographs are of works of art, most of which depict William's works. Artifacts include Marguerite's batik tools and approximately fifty commercially made printing blocks.
The collection is arranged into 9 series: Series 1: Biographical Information, circa 1907-1969 (Box 1, 6; 3 folders) Series 2: Correspondence, 1922-1982 (Box 1-2; 1.75 linear feet) Series 3: Business Records, 1967-1971, circa 1960s-1970s (Box 2-3; 0.3 linear feet) Series 4: Writings and Notes, circa 1930s-1973, 1987 (Box 3; 8 folders) Series 5: Artworks, 1900-circa 1920s (Box 3, 6; 12 folders) Series 6: Scrapbooks, 1922-1953 (Box 3; 1 folder) Series 7: Printed Material, 1912-1982 (Box 3; 0.25 linear feet) Series 8: Photographs, 1908-1966 (Box 3-5; 1.0 linear feet) Series 9: Artifacts, circa 1910s, circa 1950s (Box 4; 0.5 linear feet)
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William Zorach (1887-1966) was a modernist painter and sculptor working primarily in New York city, along with his wife Marguerite (1887-1968) who worked as a fauvist painter, printmaker, and textile artist. Their children were painter Dahlov Ipcar (1917-) and art collector Tessim Zorach (1915-1995.) Born in Lithuania, William Zorach immigrated to the United States where his family settled in Cleveland, Ohio. An early interest in art led to a printmaking apprenticeship. He then moved to New York City and enrolled in the National Academy of Design where he studied painting and drawing. In 1910, Zorach traveled to Paris to study and where he met his wife Marguerite Thompson at the La Palette art school. Marguerite grew up in Fresno, California and studied art at Stanford University. Both artists were heavily influenced by the fauvist and cubist art movements. Returning to America, Marguerite and William married and both continued to create and experiment with varied media. Their paintings were featured in the 1913 New York City Armory Show and they are credited with being among the first artists to introduce European modernist styles to American modernism. The Zorachs were very close both as a couple and as working active artists. In the 1920s, Marguerite began to experiment with textiles and created large, fine art tapestries and hooked rugs. Also, she used batik dying techniques on fabrics. William also expanded his genre by creating direct sculpture in 1918, which would become his primary medium. In 1915, William and Marguerite started a family with their son, Tessim. Two years later, their daughter Dahlov was born. The Zorachs divided the year and lived in New York City, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. In 1923, the family bought a farm on Georgetown Island, Maine where they lived, worked, and entertained friends. Dahlov and Tessim were exposed to art from an early age. Dahlov showed artistic promise as a child and her parents supported her creativity by allowing her to express herself without formal training. Dahlov pursued painting and later became an illustrator for children's books. Additionally, she wrote fantasy novels and short stories. Dahlov married Adolf Ipcar in 1936. Like the rest of his family, Tessim Zorach developed an interest of art and along with his wife Peggy, he amassed a large private collection of ancient to modern art. William and Marguerite continued to sculpt and paint until their deaths in 1966 and 1968, respectively. Together, Dahlov and Tessim established the Collection of the Zorach Children which coordinated donations of their parents' art to many museums throughout the United States and the world. The artwork of both artists is found in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Delaware Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Farnsworth Art Museum, Portland Museum of Art, National Gallery of Art, National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Philips Collection, and educational institutions such as Colby College, University of Vermont, Williams College, Bowdoin College, and the University of Virginia. In addition William has works associated with many public buildings, among them: Radio City Music Hall, New York City Municipal Court, the U.S. Post Office in Washington D.C. as well as Farleigh Dickinson University.
The Archives of American Art holds the Dahlov Ipcar papers, 1906-1997. Also found is one oral history interview with William Zorach conducted by by John D. Morse on April 2, 1959 and an oral history interview with Dahlov Ipcar conducted by Robert F. Brown on November 13, 1979. The bulk of William Zorach's papers are held by the Library of Congress.
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The Archives of American Art also holds material lent for microfilming on reels NY59-1-NY59-4 and NY59-19. Loaned materials were returned to the lender and are now held by the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division. This material is not described in the collection container inventory or finding aid.
William Zorach lent papers for microfilming to the Archives of American Art in 1959. Tessim Zorach donated materials between 1976-1987.
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Coming from a music family, David's exposure to music was natural, and at the age of 6, he started taking piano lessons. After graduating from the London College of Music at the age of 20, there was always a desire to apply his music knowledge into something more contemporary.
Having been involved in different music projects with other local and foreign musicians, David started to experiment different music styles including rock, blues, reggae and jazz.
X-Factor participant both in Spain and in Malta, David launched his debut single as a sole artist - I'm Gonna Be Your Lover a mix of reggae with tints of jazz, blues and swing. A live acoustic version of the song was performed and transmitted on Spanish National TV Station La2 de TVE during the tv show Dfiesta, aired in December 2018.
David's second single Gone, is a classic rock ballad speaking about an old love now gone. More music followed in 2018. His latest single Viaje al Paraiso is a song in the Spanish language which speaks about the parallel life of a musician and a migrant. This song was recorded in Madrid and produced by Fran Rivera, formerly guitarist of Italo-Spanish sensation Miguel Bose.
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Now that we've set up our website, it's time to decide what content to put on it—this is Part 2 of our three-part tutorial series on creating a website for your small business. In this post, we'll be addressing our site's structure and content. If you haven't read Part 1, click on the following link and take a few moments to read it before beginning Part 2: How to Create a Website for Your Small Business (a three-part tutorial series).
Now, I'll work on consolidating this information onto three pages on my simple small business site: a welcome page (which will be my home page), a menu page that describes my products, and a third page to advertise this tutorial series on our parent blog, a8cdesignvoice.wordpress.com.
I've outlined some notes on what text and images I'd like to appear on each of my three site pages, so it'll be easy for me to add pages and content to my site. You can do this offline with pen and paper or in a text document on your computer so you can copy and paste the text you'll use on your site.
Since I don't have my own photography for my business, I'll search some stock photography websites for high quality imagery of fruits and vegetables. One stock photography site I like in particular is Unsplash.
For my third page, "Make your own website", which advertises this tutorial series on creating a website on WordPress.com, I'll include an image of a WordPress.com ad that I created a few months ago for our marketing materials which showcases a website across three different devices—a laptop, tablet, and mobile phone.
It's important to choose a website theme that is responsive—this means it can adapt the content—both text and images—to whatever screen size you are viewing the website on. According to SCORE, 93.3% of small and medium business websites are not mobile-friendly, yet 4 out of 5 people use their smartphone to shop and 96% of people research a product or service on their phone. If 73% of mobile searches trigger follow-up sharing, calls, sales or store visits, it's clear that opportunities are lost by not having a mobile-friendly site. You can check out all our responsive themes on our Themes Showcase.
Although this theme looks great and seems really functional, it doesn't fit what I'm looking for—I'd like a simpler layout that's more image-driven. There's also placeholder content here that I don't need to have on my site, so I'll be removing that all. But I can worry about that later.
The first thing is like to change is the theme design. I'll click on "Theme" in the sidebar and look for a theme that fits more what I'm looking for.
These results are looking great to me, and I really like the look and feel of Aperitive on the far right in the top row of results.
To activate this theme, I'll click on the three dots icon, for "more" options, and click on "Activate".
Because I have the Premium plan already purchased, this theme is free for me to use and further customize the CSS. If I had a Free plan, I'd have to pay $69 to use this theme and I would not be able to customize the CSS at all. With Premium plans, all premium themes are available for free, so I can switch one premium theme for another if I want to at any point in time—this will be helpful if I ever want to update the look and feel of my business.
This particular theme, Aperitive, is made by Themes Kingdom, a small business that specializes in creating WordPress themes that are used both on WordPress.com and by self-hosted WordPress websites. WordPress.com websites are all hosted by Automattic, the parent company of WordPress.com and other products such as Jetpack, WooCommerce, and WordPress.com VIP. WordPress.com offers our customers themes beyond the stock ones created by ourselves (Automattic)—this gives third-party theme creator small businesses an opportunity to profit from our curated theme marketplace and our customers more variety in selecting from many different theme designs.
When I preview my site with the Aperitive theme applied, I can see that there is a lot of placeholder content already in place. This is useful, but I already know that I'd like to remove this placeholder content and start adding in my own content. I'll start with the Site Title. To do that, I'll click on "My Sites" in the top left and then click on the small "Customize" button next to the Themes menu item.
To change the Site Title, I'll click on "Site Identity" and change the placeholder content to my business name and site tagline.
I have the option to upload a logo, but since I don't have one, I'll skip that step for now. I also don't have a Site Icon (also known as a favicon), so I'll skip that as well. For the Footer credit, I'd like the WordPress.com branding to be less conspicuous, so I'll set it to the WordPress.com logo.
Going back to my Customizer menu, I'll skip "Colors & Backgrounds", "Fonts", and "Header Image", because I like the way things look so far and I don't want a header image. If I want to change anything later, I can easily do that from this menu.
I'll repeat this for all the pages I want to get rid of, and I'll also rename the homepage to "welcome".
Next, I'll edit the Social Menu to remove the social media channels I don't need on my site. Each menu item shows up on my site as social media icons.
We'll leave the Twitter and Instagram links in place to edit in Part 3 of this tutorial series. For now, we'll just focus on getting our main content onto the site.
Next, we'll go back to the Customizer menu and move on to the next item, "Content Options". Here, I'll leave the blog display as it is and uncheck the boxes under both "Author Bio" and "Post Details", since I don't need to display that information on my site right now. I can always change my mind later if I decide to show this information on my blog posts.
Next, I'll take a peek at the CSS view, but I won't be making any customizations just yet—that's saved for Part 3 of this tutorial series. But off the top of my head, I already know I'd like to increase the width of the element that holds my site title so that my business name doesn't need to be broken up onto two lines.
Going back to my Customizer menu, I'll also skip "Widgets" for now, since I know I want to add Twitter and Instagram widgets to display small feeds for these accounts, but that's also saved for Part 3.
Next, let's take a look at "Homepage Settings" in the Customizer menu. Here, my theme already defaults "Your homepage displays" to "A static page", and the Homepage to "home", which I've renamed to be "welcome". I haven't yet set up a blog, but when I do, I can change the "Posts page" to be whatever page I set as my blog page.
The last item I'll check on in my Customizer menu is "Theme Options". Here, I can edit my blog layout to be one column (the default setting) or two columns.
If I look at the Aperitive theme page and scroll down to the section, "Two-column layout", I can see what that option looks like. I don't need that layout right now, so I'll leave the settings be.
Even though I've removed several placeholder sample pages from my website's "Primary Menu", they still exist as live pages, so I'll need to delete them. To do this, I'll click on the three dots icon, for "more" options, and click on "Trash". Trashed pages can be restored from the "Trashed" tab on the "Site Pages" page.
Then, I'll click on the three dots icon next to the page "Home" and click "Edit". Here, I'll change the page title and slug to read "welcome" instead of "Home". In the text editor area, I'll copy and paste in my text blurb about my business, contact and hours of operation information, and a Google Maps snippet that embeds a small interactive map of my business.
To get the code for the map, you'll need to toggle over to Embed Map, select the size map you'd like, and then copy and paste the code into your WordPress.com page editor window. This code is automatically converted into a WordPress.com shortcode, so you just need to paste it wherever you'd like the map to appear and then update the page.
Clicking "Set Featured Image" here will take me to my media library, where I will see several images free for me to use by default. To upload my images, I'll click the top left "Add New" button.
Once it uploads, the image will remain selected with a blue checkmark in the bottom right corner of the thumbnail preview of the image, and I'll click the blue "Set Featured Image" button to place it on my page.
Once I'm done with all the edits to my page, I'll click the blue "Publish" button on the upper right corner of my editor view, and I'm done. I can now click on "Close" in the upper left corner, and I'll be taken back to my list of Site Pages.
Now that I'm done editing the home page, I'll now want to add two new pages, "juice menu" and "make your own website", by clicking the small "Add" button next to Site Pages in the left menu.
I'll follow the same steps here to add my new pages as I did before with editing my home page: I'll add a title, text content in the editor, and upload a featured image. I'll also uncheck "Show sharing buttons" and "Show Like Button" from the "Sharing section on the right side menu.
On each page, once I'm done with all my edits, I'll hit the blue "Publish" button in the upper right corner.
Things are looking good, and all my content is in place. We're almost done with our website!
Congratulations on making it through Part 2 of this tutorial series! You're well on your way to creating a new website for your small business. Stay tuned for Part Three: Customization & Sharing, where we'll connect our social media accounts to be featured in a sidebar with two widgets—the Instagram and Twitter widgets—and also talk about setting up a blog, scheduling posts, and connecting blog posts to social media accounts.
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Tony was selected by Arnold Pinnix as a major talent discovery. He represents the true spirit of the new artists of today, where hard-work ethic and ambition spell success in an ever changing ecommerce society.
What's good, people? My name is Antonio L. Patrick.
really making me step up my game to achieve the goal I have set forth for myself.
I was born September 3rd 1982 and raised in High Point, NC, also known as "High Peeze." I graduated from Southwest Guilford High School, and attended North Carolina Central University.
My new game is host of In The Hood Of Things; a new internet industry talent showcase helping artist to step up their game and win.
All intereted artists should submit videos, demos, picture, and song-lists to be considered for publishing as a BMI artist.
All registered artist will be showcased in our New Artist catalogue which will link to their websites, blogs, and myspace pages for A&R consideration by major record labels.


That's right, folks — bright and early tomorrow morning, romance enthusiasts will be queuing up in Boonsboro, MD for the WRW MEGA BOOK SIGNING at Turn the Page Bookstore.
Sixteen authors will be signing, including yours truly!
The event runs from 11:30am to 2pm.
The store opens at 10am.
There will be copies of Enchanted on hand.
All books signed at the event must be purchased at Turn the Page. There is no limit to the number purchased, but no "books from home" are allowed at the signing.
I know that Turn the Page won't have ordered my entire backlist, so in the event that you DO happen to bring "books from home," just please don't bring them into the store and cause a ruckus. I'll try to hang out a little bit afterwards and sign what I can for you.
I do need to make it back to the WRW retreat by 5pm…but I'll do what I can!
This entry was written by Princess Alethea and posted on April 26, 2012 at 8:19 pm and filed under appearances, Books, Enchanted, Location. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post.
I so look forward to reading 'Enchanted', and it was such a delight to meet you at TTP! Heck, I even preordered the ebook… just 'cause.


Our post 6 Easy, Cheap and Healthy Hostel Meals is one of our most popular posts of all time, so our contributor Laura is giving you 6 MORE super-simple recipes for when you're traveling around, are on a budget, and have got a hostel kitchen at your disposal. And if you're looking for more ways to save money on food, check out our post on how to save while traveling.
This delectable delight is similar to your basic omelette, but with a hearty twist. If you're needing to add some balance to your diet, substitute the potatoes with your veggies of choice, such as peppers. At that point though, you're just back to your regular omelette, which is great too.
This extremely simple dish can also be super healthy. Plus, if you're looking for something a bit more substantial, the chicken can easily be combined into a wrap, sandwich, pasta, or rice dish. It's not hard to find fresh or frozen chicken breasts in a ton of different regions around the world. If you don't have the resources or are looking for a quick, simple meal, boiling chicken is a great way to go.
1. Dice up the chicken into bite-size pieces and drop them into a bowl of simmering water (if the water's boiling too high, the chicken will be tough).
2. Cut up your lettuce and veggies for a wrap/salad or prepare your pasta/rice dish.
3. When the chicken is cooked all of the way through (for small pieces like this it shouldn't take too long), take it out of the water and put it into a bowl to season.
4. Add whatever spices or seasoning suits your fancy. Simple spices such as salt, pepper, basil and garlic are always winning combinations, but so are things that include different flavors like ginger, cumin, or chili peppers. If salad dressings like ranch, Italian, or ceasar are around, those are also scrumptious!
5. Mix the freshly cooked chicken with your veggies and drop it into a salad, roll it all up in a tortilla, smush it in between two pieces of bread, or mix it in with your pasta/rice.
This is a healthy dish that will make great leftovers for the morning, to pack for lunch to sustain you on your hike the next day, or for whatever it is you do.
*Hostel cooking tip – Make the quest to find ingredients an adventure. Change the veggies you use based on what's in season in the city you're in and make it a chance to interact with the locals.
Here's a dish that is often thought to be tricky, but an easy chili can be as simple as you want to make it. IF you want to add meat, pretty much any kind will do– beef, chicken, pork. The longer it stews, the more flavorful it can be, but it can also be quick and simple as well. Plus, you can make it as spicy as you want. This is paired great with things like rice or pasta. Most of the other ingredients are pretty flexible.
1. Sautee your veggies in a pan and mix in the meat.
2. Cook it all up with the tomato sauce. Add extra spices and chili seasoning to taste.
3. Mix with some sort of pasta or rice, depending on what's available.
4. As with almost all things, this will only improve with cheese added to the top.
I really can't stress the benefits of sandwiches enough. They're clearly cheap, extremely easy, and guaranteed great to pack on the go. Not to mention, it's a great way to try the local breads, cheeses, and meats. All the ingredients store well in the fridge and are great to grab on the run. You can collect the ingredients all day while you're moseying through town.
This is a dish that's easy-peasy lemon squeezy (get it), but one that makes you look way more culinary inclined than you may actually be. It's a yummy one!
While tuna's not for everyone, some people really dig it. If you're feeling like a little taste of the sea, this casserole is about as easy as it comes.
What meals do you like to make when you're traveling? Do you try to stay healthy when cooking in a hostel? Let us know in the comments!
I second the well-honed wrist flip on the tortilla. That is HARD to perfect!


Most businesses are either thinking they need to "move" to the cloud or simply unsure of the options and how to do it.
Don't have your head in the Clouds – Have your data there!
There are literally thousands of options to move your business applications and processes to the cloud and generally speaking a hybrid approach that is based on quality, price and ease of use for your employees and business is the best approach.
We like to take the time to see what components are best suited to move into the cloud – weather it be to our private cloud offering (AllITCloud) or a public cloud solution such as Microsoft Azure or Amazons' AWS. We believe that some businesses will greatly improve flexibility and improve costs by moving some or all applications to a cloud environment and for others a traditional 'on premise' server solution is still best due to certain applications and security requirements.
ALLITCloud is our private data cloud solution that allows your business to take advantage of having your files and services hosted in a secure data facility but with the benefits of added security and cost savings.
Located in Sydney and Melbourne in our private Data Centres (DC) as well as in Global Switch in Sydney, our solution allows you to take full advantage of moving your current programs & files off-site; minimising capital expenditure and allowing you the flexibility to scale if and when required for a fixed monthly fee rather than a large single capex spend. We take care of all security and backups and ongoing maintenance.
Moving to Office 365 for email and cloud file storage is often the first step for many businesses to a cloud-based solution. Microsoft's offering is a robust and cost-effective solution for email and file collaboration.
Every migration is different, and we recommend a thorough plan before migrating. Our migrations have included small businesses right through to large ASX 200 companies. We have been able to minimise downtime and allow users to stay connected to their email throughout the migration with little downtime to each user.
We deliver these projects within an agreed time frame, at your convenience and with agreed fix pricing.
All IT have completed a variety of medium to large migrations from on premise file servers to complex SharePoint & OneDrive strictures. These migrations require careful planning with the client to ensure file structures and particularly permissions are set correctly.
File collaboration has become a key feature of online file storage like SharePoint and allows users to work on the same Microsoft documents at the same time all whilst keeping changes in the one file.
A virtual desktop solution takes your traditional desktop interface and moves it to the Cloud.
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from semaphore import Semaphore
from apetools.baseclass import BaseClass

class Barrier(BaseClass):
    """
    A Barrier prevents threads from getting to the critical point at the same time.

    This implements the pre-loaded turnstile from 'Little Book of Semaphores'
    """
    def __init__(self, n):
        """
        :param:

         - `n`: The number of threads
        """
        super(Barrier, self).__init__()
        self.n = n
        self.count = 0
        self.mutex = Semaphore(1)
        self.turnstile_1 = Semaphore(0)
        self.turnstile_2 = Semaphore(0)
        return

    def critical_point(self):
        """
        This will stop at the block to the critical point.
        """
        self.mutex.wait()
        self.count += 1
        if self.count == self.n:
            self.logger.debug("Releasing the critical point.")
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Welcome! Delighting in Your Company by Blair McDowell comes out on February 4. On February 5 there are a plethora of new books which include Mending Fences by Suzanne Woods Fisher, The Sky Above Us by Sarah Sundin, The Forgiving Jar by Wanda E. Brunstetter, Corned Beef and Casualties by Lynn Cahoon, A Faithful Gathering by Leslie Gould and A Rebel at Pennington's by Rachel Brimble (I will feature on February 6). These are just a few of the new books coming out.
What Doesn't Kill Her by Christina Dodd takes us to Willamette Valley in Oregon where the Di Luca Winery is located. Kellen Adams (aka Cecilia Adams) is adjusting to living at the Di Luca Winery with Max Di Luca, their seven year old daughter, Rae and Max's mother, Verona. Kellen lost a year of her life while in a coma from a gunshot wound and she then disappeared upon awakening. She is now the mother the precocious Rae and no clue how to relate to her. Kellen misses working and Max finds her a job that will give her time away to think about the future. Nils Brooks hires Kellen along with Richart Movers to transport a mummy head into the Olympic mountains to a reclusive man for authentication. Kellen can tell something is off as soon as they pick up the artifact. Her suspicions are soon confirmed, and Kellen finds herself in the mountains without a vehicle or a phone. However, Kellen does find a stowaway. Rae decided to join Kellen on the trip so they can bond. Thankfully, she did leave a note behind (of sorts) for Max and Verona. Kellen must get the artifact along with Rae and herself up the mountain to the Restorer (as the man is called) without being killed by the armed men following her. Come along for Kellen's adventure in What Doesn't Kill Her.
What Doesn't Kill Her is a well-written and engaging romantic suspense novel. It is fast-paced with plenty of action. While What Doesn't Kill Her can be read alone, but I highly recommend reading Dead Girl Running first (first book in Cape Charade series). The summary just does not do Kellen's situation justice. Rae is the highlight of What Doesn't Kill Her. She is an active, intelligent and sassy little girl. Her witty dialogue will have you chuckling along with her obsession for pink, purple, heroes and her princess dolls (the poor dolls). Rae has just found her mommy and she has no intention of a lack of bonding get in the way. These parents are going to have their hands full with the spunky and mischievous Rae. Kellen should have known not to take a job from Nils Brooks. He deserves everything Rae, Max and Kellen dish out. I started reading What Doesn't Kill Her and just kept going until I reached the end. The book is character driven with plenty of action. Christina Dodd created developed characters that suit the story. I can understand why Kellen hid under the bushes to avoid Rae at times as well as the large Di Luca clan. There is a funny scene where an event is planned under the same bushes. Avid mystery readers will be able to pinpoint the evildoer, but I loved the chase. I like that when bad things happen it is not described in gory detail. There is foul language sprinkled throughout the book (just letting you know). I do want to warn readers that we are left with a cliffhanger at the end of What Doesn't Kill Her (and we must wait until October). I am giving What Doesn't Kill Her 5 out of 5 stars (I loved it). I enjoyed the suspense, action, intrigue, humor, mystery and romance in this thrilling adventure. Not many writers can create a book that makes a reader feel a range of emotions. I cannot wait to read Stranger She Knows when it releases on October 8. Buckle in for another exciting adventure with Kellen and her sidekick, Rae in What Doesn't Kill Her.
Thank you for visiting today. I am showcasing Murder, She Meowed by Liz Mugavero tomorrow as part of the Great Escapes Virtual Book Tour. I hope you will stop by (there might be a giveaway). May you have a rapturous day. Take care and Happy Reading!


A startlingly effective drone runs through the new collaboration between Galician artist Xoán-Xil López and the trio Haarvöl (Fernando José Pereira, João Faria, and Rui Manuel Vieira) on the three stilling pieces on Unwritten Rules of a Ceaseless Journey. In 2019 to date, this is by far, my favorite record. It's a bit breathtaking and hard to write about as I listen. The track The Pulsating Waves (Reality) calls for more of a lateral experience since the mediating tones are as sublime as subliminal. These works touch on three nearly intangible states of mind: utopia, reality and trauma – in that order. The first two really find a perfect balance even while referencing impossible texts such as The Utopian Function of Art and Literature (1964), and making references to "cataclysms of industry, rampant misery, naked exploitation, the ecological apocalypse". Oh, such is the everyday.
As Don't Look Back, Run (Trauma) opens somewhere in the darkened orchestral corners, the setting sort of falls to the depths of the soundstage as if falling away into space. The bare bones percussion is uniquely minimal and the waveform is set back, drifting moderately. About one-third through you hear what sounds like strings calling out, wavering a bit as if sending an encoded distress signal. López has taken this amalgamated tale to a secret place while upending the tension with the harmonics of Haarvöl. While a rotor seems to be at play the bereft refrain continues through until nearly the end, and after fading from earshot the listener is left with something pressurized that seems to be sinking away into some sort of watery depths. You can easily imagine bodies (dancers) undulating into darkness.


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Interview with . . . Aree and the Pure Heart
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Aree and the Pure Heart is not the first band that has reminded me of the soundtrack for the movie "Eddie and the Cruisers." However, Aree and the Pure Heart is more punk rock mixed with a Tom Waits attitude. I will still be listening to them in 20 years. Longer than that if I become immortal.
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Where was your first show as a fan? As a performer?
My first show was in 1995. I went to see a band called Squad Five-O at a church in Savannah, Ga. I saw Less than Jake at a bar on St. Simons Island shortly after. I played my first show in 1996 on a sidewalk for the grand opening of a music store where I grew up. I was 14 years old. We played some originals and Operation Ivy and Suicide Machines. it ruled. You can find my first band's demo at 57shifty.bandcamp.com
Have you ever met anyone with a pure heart – aside from children?
Yes, definitely. I think there are many saints among us. I also worked next to a special needs classroom for many years, and there were plenty of pure hearts in there!!!
Who does the best drunken street light poetry?
Probably Paul Westerberg or Bukowski? I actually haven't drank alcohol in years. I think that I wrote that description as a sort of stream of consciousness homage to just being enamored with the love of life.
Do you think the internet helps or hurts musicians/bands?
A little of both. I think that any technological innovation is a double-edged sword, but it seems that the good tends to outweigh the bad. Two things I've learned from releasing music in a post internet era. 1. you can really reach an international audience very quickly 2. there are still a lot of people out there who are true music lovers. probably a lot more than one would expect.
What do you love about your hometown?
I grew up on the coast of Southeast Georgia in a town called Brunswick. When I was growing up it was dirt roads and playing in the woods. It is a really beautiful place, and I probably love the simplicity of it most. Hot as hell, though…and if you don't know about gnats…then count yourself blessed. haha
How many $50 bottles of wine have you really broken?
hahaha. The answer is zero. In addition to being a teacher, I work part-time at Trader Joe's. One day I was in the wine section, and I was looking at these expensive bottles of wine, and the only thing I could think of was how great it would be to just smash them all to pieces. That turned into the first song on the record.
What would you do if you were immortal?
Defend myself against the evil corporations that will try to brand me or put me in a lab to make some pill from my blood. Also, learn as much as I can and hopefully reach some sort of level purity and holiness.
What do you want people to know about Aree and the Pure Heart?
I am just very amazed to see people from around the world enjoying the music. Thank you to everyone that listens. I am very grateful.
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Played in 11 games ... Tied for the Harvard lead with two goals ... Paced the Crimson with 27 shots ... Scored the game-winning goal in 83rd minute against Northeastern (Sept. 4) ... Netted a goal against Rhode Island (Sept. 11).
NSCAA All-Northeast Region second team ... Honored on All-Ivy League second team ... Started all 15 games he appeared in ... Led Harvard with five goals and 11 points ... Ranked fifth in the Ivy League in goals ... Had a team-high 38 shots ... Tabbed to ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District second team ... Named to Lobo Classic All-Tournament Team ... Netted the game-winning goal in the 80th minute in 2-1 win against No. 13 Stanford (Sept. 4) ... Tallied a goal in victory at Massachusetts (Sept. 6) ... Scored game-tying goal in 90th minute in 1-1 tie at Stony Brook (Sept. 24) ... Assisted on a tally against Providence (Sept. 29) ... Netted a score at Dartmouth (Oct. 30) ... Scored a goal in 2-1 victory at No. 18 Penn (Nov. 13).
Played in all 19 games, starting 15 ... Selected to Soccer America All-Freshman second team ... Tabbed to College Soccer News All-Freshman second team ... Named to NSCAA All-Northeast Region third team ... Honored as Ivy League Rookie of the Year ... Earned All-Ivy League second team honors ... Ranked fifth in the Ancient Eight and second on the Crimson with 18 points and six goals ... Named as one of the "100 Freshmen to Keep and Eye On" for 2009 by College Soccer News ... Scored first collegiate goal in win over Stony Brook (Sept. 4) ... Had an assist in victory at Boston College (Sept. 7) ... Named Ivy League Co-Rookie of the Week (Sept. 14) after scoring a goal and handing out two assists in two games ... Had an assist on game-winning goal against No. 14 Boston University (Sept. 11) ... Netted a tally and earned an assist for three-point effort against Army (Sept. 13) ... Tallied the game-winning goal at Fairfield (Sept. 19) ... Scored the game winner for second straight game at New Hampshire (Sept. 23) ... Netted the golden goal in double overtime in 1-0 victory at Yale (Oct. 3) ... Named Ivy League Rookie of the Week and COOP Student-Athlete of the Week Oct. 5 ... Assisted on game-winning goal in 1-0 victory over Brown (Oct. 17) ... Scored an unassisted goal at Columbia in 79th minute and later assisted on game-winning tally in overtime (Nov. 7) ... Tabbed Ivy League Rookie of the Week and named to Top Drawer Soccer National Team of the Week Nov. 9 ... Assisted on a goal in win over Monmouth in NCAA second round (Nov. 22).
Helped Columbus Crew Juniors win 2010 Super-20 Finals by scoring four goals in tournament.
Starting forward on the varsity soccer team eighth through 12th grade ... Soccer co-captain senior year ... Was nation's sixth leading scorer with 44 goals in 2008, leading team to state championship ... Gatorade New York State Player of the Year 2008-09 ... NSCAA All-American in 2008 ... ESPN Rise All-American 2008-09 ... USSF U-18 Northeast Conference Starting XI in 2008 ... NSCAA All-Region 2007-08 ... NSCAA first-team All-State 2007-08 ... Journal News Athlete of the Season for all fall sports as well as soccer in fall 2008 ... New York State Championship tournament MVP in 2008 ... Section I Player of the Year 2007-08 ... All-Section 2006-08 ... Conference 4 Central League MVP 2007-08 ... All-League 2004-08 ... Mt. Markham Optimist Tournament Offensive MVP 2007-08 ... New York State leading goal scorer in 2007 and 2008 ... Starting point guard on the basketball team freshman and sophomore years ... AP Scholar With Distinction ... Honor roll each quarter in high school ... Con Edison Westchester Scholastic Athlete of the Week Nov. 5, 2008 ... Class president 2007-08 ... President of High School Athletic Council 2008-09 ... Sports editor of the school newspaper, The Mirror ... Meals on Wheels volunteer.
Father, David '77, was a member of the varsity basketball team ... Mother, Christine Duffy '77, and brother, Joshua '07, both went to Harvard ... Uncle, Brad, played basketball and graduated in 1973 from Wesleyan.


Excelsior Airlines Flight 184, from New York City to Rome, landed at 1:33am after a nearly nine hour flight on November 20th 2015, six months ago with 472 souls on board. It landed but did not pull into its assigned disembarking area. The tower, already on alert because of the radio silence, sent out a ramp trunk and security crew to find out what was going on. When they entered the plane, finding it empty of crew and passengers. I, myself, have been tracking this story since it happened, both for my work as a reporter for the New York Daily Bulletin, but also because this did affect me somewhat personally. My brother-in-law, the husband of my wife's sister, was a passenger on Flight 184.
This became international news and launched an international multi-agency investigation. This report is to convey what is known about this mystery, what is public information there is and what little has been put together in the last six months, and the new piece of evidence that had just been discovered.
The aircrew consisted of Captain Miranda Brown, First Officer James L Thompson, as well as 7 cabin crew members, In-Flight Service Manager Gail Cooper, and Flight Attendants Simone Singh, Maria de la Cruz, Maxine Wright, Jonas Smith, Morgan Black, and Talia Johnson. None of the crew had less than two years of experience in the air. There was an American Federal Air Marshal (FAM) on board, Thomas Anders Broden, who had been a FAM for ten years, and a Police Officer in Los Angeles, California, for fifteen years before that. The number of crew and passengers is important as the flight was also carrying a pair of HRs, or human remains. When the cargo was catalogued, these two bodies, Angelica Napoli (3/7/1971-10/13/2015) and Benjamin Francis D'Arnold (2/7/1948-10/15/2015) were still there.
There was no signs of discord on the plane itself, and the In Cabin Video Recording System (ICVRS), for as long as it was recording, found nothing out of the usual. At timestamp 08:02:12, 6:42pm eastern time, the ICVRS stopped working, going to static.
While this is not completely unusual, according to the black box, the plane was switched to autopilot a minute before this. The cockpit voice recorder (CVR) did not record the voices of the pilot or co-pilot after that time, only picking up the sounds of things moving around in the cockpit and the plane shaking when it hit turbulence. Telemetry from the flight data recorder (FDR) puts Flight 184 over Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea at 6:42pm.
After nearly six months of investigations by American and Italian law enforcement agencies, as well as EUROPOL and the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) found no explanation as to where the 472 people went, or how they got off the plane. What was discovered were the many details, often sordid, of the lives of the the victims.
Captain Miranda Brown was apparently having an affair behind her wife's back with flight attendant Maxine Wright, often arranging for them to be on the same flight crews to continue the affair far from prying eyes.
Passenger 7B, a Daniel Volodin, was a minor actor in a Russian crime organization in Brooklyn, New York, and passenger 16E, Jessica Kerrian Blaine, had suitcases that had empty pouches hidden in their seams, probably to try to smuggle things back into the United States.
Of course, none of those things had any bearing on the mystery, and many of the victim's families came together to form the group "Remembering the 472", putting out press briefings about the good things some of the victims were doing that the media forgot to mention. For example, Passengers 15B-E were the Gala family, on their way for their yearly visit to the Vatican and Passenger 3C was Dr. Heather Jane with Doctors Without Borders, on her way to her fifth trip in as many years to helping people in third world nations get the medical care they so desperately require.
The transcripts of the CVR, FDR, ICVRS information, as well as the flight plan and passenger manifest has been released online. It has been poured over by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agencies, as well as their European Union and Italian counterparts, and a hundred civilian groups and conspiracy theorists. There are, at the time of this report, no fewer than 1,700 websites online proclaiming to know the truth of Excelsior Flight 184. Everything from alien abduction, holy or unholy intervention, to testing of ultra top-secret military weaponry; nothing at this point is too outlandish of an explanation of what happened to the people of that flight.
Public pressure eased in December of 2015, as the 24 hour news cycle had picked up on something else terrible happening in a different part of the world. There haven't been any real updates since January, until this week. A Dr. Nathan Roth II, a professor of audio engineering out of University of California Berkeley. He took the audio file from the CVR and the audio track of the ICVRS and synced them together. After applying an algorithm that he himself designed, he was able to pull away all of the static, and finding that there was a similar sound wave on both. It would appear that only the video was disabled in the ICVRS recording. The sound is both in a tone too high pitched for human ears to pick up, but when lowered, the results are rather disturbing. A link to that recording will be at the bottom of this report on the New York Daily Bulletin website. The sound can only be described by this reporter as an eerie and feminine voice reading the names of people on the flight manifest, starting with the crew then the passengers in order of seat number.
Other sources has confirmed that this voice is on both the CVR and ICVRS recording. No one can explain whose voice it is, why it is there, or where it's coming from, but it's a new lead in this otherwise stagnant case. I can't say if we'll ever get the answers of what happened to the passengers and crew of Excelsior Flight 184. I have listened to that audio no fewer than eleven times, shivering when the name of my brother-in-law, Passenger 9E, Martin C. Ester, is read off by the chilling voice.
Four hundred seventy-two souls left JFK airport on November 20th of last year at 10:48am eastern time on Excelsior Air Flight 184, New York (JFK) to Rome (FCO). It landed at 1:33am, nearly nine hours later, central european time via autopilot with 0 souls on board. This event has impacted the lives of so many, beyond the victims and their families.
Excelsior Airlines had a steep drop in passengership after the event, both in canceled tickets and lower new purchases, leading to significant revenue losses and loss in stock value. The Remember the 472 group filed a class action lawsuit against the company, citing that under their watch so many people vanished, making them liable. It didn't go anywhere in the courts, but it further dragged the company through the mud, and was the leading reason why Excelsior's CEO, Pieter Samuelson, stepped down two months after the event. The company is still, effectively, rudderless as the board has yet to find a replacement, going through two different interim executives since. Sources that would like to remain nameless inside the company say that there have recently been talks of downsizing through all of this, another possible terrible result of this tragedy.
This reporter is still looking into this mystery, and will report again the next time anything is found out about this strange case. If you have any information, or would like to review past reports on Excelsior Flight 184, please do visit the New York Daily Bulletin's website.


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Gottlieb: Thank you for allowing me to connect
I retired as editor of The Record two days ago after four years on the job and wanted to thank you, our readers.
Gottlieb: Thank you for allowing me to connect I retired as editor of The Record two days ago after four years on the job and wanted to thank you, our readers. Check out this story on northjersey.com: https://njersy.co/2CFl0Zx
North Jersey Record Published 12:00 a.m. ET Jan. 31, 2016 | Updated 1:58 p.m. ET Sept. 10, 2018
Marty Gottlieb(Photo: Carmine Galasso/Staff Photographer)
I retired as editor of The Record two days ago after four years on the job and wanted to thank you, our readers, for your devotion to a newspaper and a news organization that have become more special than ever as tumultuous change sweeps through the world of journalism.
I've worked as a reporter and editor for 45 years and have never encountered a more loyal reader base. That means a lot to me and all my colleagues at The Record.
As a young reporter, it was all I could do to focus on gathering the facts and wrestling them into some cohesive package. As an assignment editor, I tried to dream up good ideas and, when the stories were delivered, to help define their essences, make them come alive, plug their holes, and draw out their substantive and emotional currents.
As The Record's editor, with all that heavy lifting being handled capably by the paper's staff, I found myself thinking outward more and more to you, to how our readers would receive our work. Would they really be interested in a proposed story? Did a finished product answer all the questions likely to be on their minds? Would readers approaching a story cold understand the issues or terms we left unexplained? Had we met them on their own ground and engaged them intellectually and emotionally?
It's not by accident that that short phrase from E.M. Forster lingers: "Only connect."
Journalistically, there's nothing better than when we do. At The Record, when we've recognized that we haven't, we've tried to learn and work harder.
I came back after nearly 40 years away, having started out here as a community reporter covering River Edge, New Milford and Oradell. Before returning, I approached The Record again in the same way you do — as a reader.
At the time, I was working as the global editions editor of The New York Times, running the International Herald Tribune from New York with frequent trips to the IHT headquarters in Paris and its Asia base in Hong Kong.
Exciting and fulfilling, yes, but after four years, the job had become exhausting as well. I was ready for a change. I began to look at northjersey.com and, for a couple of weeks in late 2011, I walked across Eighth Avenue from The Times building and bought The Record at the Port Authority Bus Terminal.
I felt I knew it like the back of my hand.
The town reporting that I had done for most of my tenure, which included an active stint in Fort Lee and Edgewater, was still there in spades. And, as in days of old, there was plenty more, only the plenty more had grown in quantity and quality. Day after day, a reporter named Scott Fallon was unraveling a shocking case of underground chromium contamination in Garfield. A columnist named Charles Stile was regularly writing the best State House column I had seen anywhere.
As the industry was mourning the diminution of one of its staples, the big-city, streetwise columnist exemplified by Jimmy Breslin and Mike Royko, I was reading a streetwise suburban columnist who belongs in their company, Mike Kelly.
It didn't take long to realize that there were plenty of reporters who owned their beats. Among the examples were Joan Verdon — retail, Lindy Washburn and Mary Jo Layton — health care.
I began to tick off the names behind stunning photographs: Chris Pedota, Carmine Galasso, Tyson Trish and more.
On the editorial page, there was a smart guy named Doblin. In the Better Living section there were more smart people named Rohan and Beckerman, and — smart, too — a guy who made me laugh named Ervolino. In Sports, I knew that the paper had one of the country's premier baseball columnists in Bob Klapisch, but it was football season, and as the Giants were marching improbably toward a Super Bowl championship, another columnist was keeping pace with a big heart, a sharp mind and a markedly elegant touch: Tara Sullivan.
Through it all I saw the hand of expert editors, for sure, but, even rarer, that of a great ownership family, the Borgs, who had sustained the paper long after many other newspaper dynasties had faded. Mac Borg, the Young Turk publisher of my earlier tenure, was now the family patriarch. I knew of his unflagging devotion and fearlessness. The pleasure of getting to know his son, Stephen, the publisher, and his daughter, Jennifer, the general counsel, would come later. They became friends as they built on the family tradition of quality journalism.
I was all in if they would have me, which, happily, they did.
I found a staff more talented and committed than I could have hoped for. Behind every byline that you recognize are armies of superb desk editors, copy editors, page designers and graphic artists. In a day of journalistic retrenchment, this was a staff backed by an ownership that believed in the power of journalism to expose and right wrongs, to treat the streets and communities of its readers with true commitment, to capture the interests and passions of readers' lives large and small, and to engage them in debate.
They were producing what amounted to a printed and digital town square, open to everyone and every aspect of life in an era of division and segmentation.
As I write, memories of dozens of stories, photos, headlines and layouts flood my mind — all memorable, all powerful, all as good as it gets in their particular genres. I wish I could cite every one of them. As a representation of so much good work and a grand achievement on its own, there is the running story that most defined this era of The Record — that of the politically motivated lane closures at the George Washington Bridge. The story continues more than two years on, and it represents the news organization at its finest.
The fact that the closing of two lanes of traffic had tied the area in knots for five mornings was broken by our longtime Road Warrior columnist, John Cichowski, with tips about extravagantly long jams coming in not only from his readers, but from our publisher, whose neighbor had been caught repeatedly in the standstills. Johnny's call for comment to the Port Authority was the first indication its executive director had that anything was amiss, and he put an end to the mess the next day.
An email sent from a Port press officer to various agency officials at 12:19 p.m. on Sept. 16 shows how the story began to build. He said that a Wall Street Journal reporter had called and "said that some Wall Street Journal editors commute to work via the GWB and through the tollbooths in question and became stuck in traffic last week. They initially were unsure of what was going on until they read John Cichowski's stories in the Bergen Record." The reporter said he had questions about what "was referenced in Cichowski's stories and what prompted the closing of the tollbooths."
Martin Gottlieb in The Record's newsroom on Oct. 17, 1972. (Photo: Record File Photo)
Several news organizations produced fine pieces as the bridge scandal exploded over the next two years, but none approached the coverage in The Record, which drove the story through a remarkable number of major scoops.
This was primarily the work of our Port Authority reporter Shawn Boburg and his hands-on editor, Dan Sforza. Shawn took the story into Christie's office by revealing the famous email in which the governor's deputy chief of staff, Bridget Anne Kelly, wrote, "Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee." He would follow that with more than a dozen other dazzling news breaks that uncovered the misappropriation of hundreds of millions of toll dollars, forced resignations, launched investigations and led to the wholesale overhaul of the agency's leadership. His last great scoop caught the petty arrogance within an agency run amok: a federal investigation into what had come to be known as "the chairman's flight" — a money-losing, half-used route between Newark and Columbia, S.C., that United Airlines put in place at the behest of David Samson, the Port Authority's former chairman, who happened to have a South Carolina home. Three days after Samson's resignation, United dumped the flight.
I have never witnessed as remarkable a succession of reporting breakthroughs. No hyperbole here: It reminded me of the legendary work of Woodward and Bernstein in two ways — in the continual string of eye-popping revelations that kept a big story from dying, and in the way a spine of great reporting energized an entire newsroom, as Watergate had the Washington Post's. Dozens of reporters, columnists, editorial writers, copy editors, assignment editors, photographers, graphic artists (cartoonist included), page designers and headline writers entered the fray. "Stuck in a Jam," news editor Gary Miller's headline on the Bridget Anne Kelly bombshell and its effect on the governor, stands as a classic. So does "The GWB Files," our still-running, encyclopedic and beautifully accessible digital narrative on the scandal.
As readers, you responded to this with hundreds of letters and online comments. You also responded most hearteningly to the groundbreaking and early coverage of the heroin epidemic in North Jersey by Rebecca O'Brien, a reporting line first suggested by John Molinelli, the former Bergen County prosecutor, for which Rebecca and Tom Mashberg were named Pulitzer Prize finalists. You wrote notes of thanks when our carriers somehow wound up on your doorstep with a copy of the paper during Superstorm Sandy and last week's snowstorm.
I remember many of these letters and emails. One, from a woman who lost a close relative to suicide several years ago, reflected on a very good article we had about what may have caused the suicide of a prominent Bergen resident. How will anyone ever really know? she wrote with a heavy sorrow. You can come up with possible factors, but, suicide notes notwithstanding, it's impossible to fathom the combination of factors that lead to such a sad conclusion.
We traded emails and spoke. We connected. I carry our conversation with me.
I'm happy to report that the state of the newsroom is sound. Deirdre Sykes, The Record's new editor, and Dan Sforza, its new managing editor, are Bergen born and bred and responsible for leading many of our finest efforts. I'm proud to count them as friends.
I'm thankful to all of you and thankful for a life in journalism.
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