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Andreas Klein is Juror of International Piano Competition in October 2015
The Louisiana International Piano Competition in Alexandria, LA, hosts a bi-annual piano competition for young artists between ages 19-35. Andreas Klein was invited among the 5 judges to elect first, second and third prize from a group of pianists, coming from the USA, China, Canada, Italy, Russia and other states. The week long competition was evolving from solo repertoire performed in the first round and semifinals, culminating in three performers in the finals performing piano concerti with the Rapides Symphony under the conductor Joshua Zona.
Fall 2015 Concerts...
Andreas Klein performed Bach Concerto in D minor and in A major under the conductor John Dodson at the Lexington Bach Festival in Michigan. He also presented recitals with works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy, and Liszt in Virginia, Oklahoma and Nebraska.
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Andreas Klein produced two new videos on his "Before the concert" series, where he illustrates the aspects of the Bach Partita II and gives a brief introduction on Beethoven Piano Sonata Op. 13. Watch the new videos at the
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He performed Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor with the MostArts Festival Orchestra conducted by Yuval Zaliouk and was chair of the Young Pianist Competition jury.
Schumann Piano Concerto A minor
Pianist Andreas Klein discusses the poetic and romantic style of this piano concerto which challenges orchestra and soloist to perform this work like chamber music.
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Very educational, good humor without egocentric; Klein shared his knowledge in a day dedicated to the works of Beethoven."
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Andreas Klein returns to Adelphi University
Pianist Andreas Klein performed Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto with the Adelphi Symphony Orchestra under the direction of its music director, Christopher Lyndon-Gee, on April 13th. The performance was recorded for a video production supervised by the pianist and shall be watched on YouTube once it is released.
New Videos published
Andreas Klein produced a few new videos exploring the various repertoire and discussing the challenges for pianists. See videos under "Projects" or on his YouTube channel.


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Grant Park, established in 1883, is the oldest park in Atlanta. This large green space contains Zoo Atlanta and the Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum. The Cyclorama contains a panoramic painting that was commissioned in 1885 and completed the following year. Visitors are taken on a journey in the rotating stadium to get a 360-degree view of the painting, the largest oil painting in the world. Grant Park also contains playgrounds, picnic areas, historical structures, and natural areas.
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Local University: SEO Knowledge in One Day!
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I've been lucky enough to attend two of the Local University Seminars in the past couple of years and you can find info on them as I wrote posts on same here and here…
Suffice it to say, that these are the "best and brightest" of the LOCAL SEO experts around and if you take the time to attend and listen and digest, you'll come away with much more knowledge than you brought to the event too!
And yes I do know that this is a register & pay for a membership site – but the overall arc of the knowledge you'd receive is without question the best in LOCAL search by far!
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SMB: Local SEO Shortcuts!
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Love this site – whitespark.ca - love the owner Darren and if anyone here in Canuckland has a better tool than his Citation one – hold up your hand?
Thought not…this is a great Edmonton based SEO firm and when I read the blog posting below, I knew it deserved a reprint for our own thousands of monthly readers.
Written by a staffer there called Mikel Zaremba, it's a quick read to see that he's captured the best 7 day list of shortcuts to get your own site up and ranking for Local search – it really is a great post so here it is in it's entirety…
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LOCAL SEO: A Checklist for On-Page Factors!
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It's always a surprise when I get a new LOCAL SEO Campaign client and do a competitors analysis for their channel – and when I say surprised what I mean is that it's really a set of on-page factors that must be done – and they're not! That is, while the new client may not know what to do it's the lack of just about anyone in their city and channel too, that always makes me shake my head with a "doh!"
Let's say you run a legal firm in your city. You have (like any professional does) certain "areas of expertise" like perhaps "personal injury" or "trademarks and patents" – which ones you choose to specialize on is of course up to you but when it comes to Google et al, what you want to do is to let them know – yup, you're the leader in that type of legal area in your city.
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Promote your Local Business with Photos in Google!
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We online types know, that Google has been working hard to improve the way people discover local businesses and to do that they've added some pretty cool features that any SMB can take advantage of to promote their business.
One area that is still pretty new and we'd like to feature here is the ability for any business to showcase their actual bricks & mortar venues from the street and right into their front door!
To do that today, I'm going to be using a great local #HamOnt example, our own McMaster Innovation Park and show you what they've recently done to showcase their own beautiful premises!
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BubBye Zagat Restaurant Reviews:Hello Stars!
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Okay, you may not have heard of the Zagat review system for restaurants in the US (learn more here) and the fact that this firm was bought by Google back in the fall of 2011 to be used it was stated "to aid it's local search rankings" and that seemed to hold some promise for the veracity of same.
What I thought back then (blog link here) was that as Zagat had some real authority in the restaurant review world, that when Google bought same, it could only work well for those rankings and at the same time spin away from Yelp et al and the plethora of phony reviews.
At least that's how it looked to me…at the time – but as I've learned….things change muchly in the Canadian SEO world, eh!
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Fabulous Friday SEO Infographics: Mihm's Best!
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Yup, it's only Thursday evening and I'm tired of watching amateur cooks face off over hamburgers on the Food Channel and with Friday being a full day down at our Innovation Factory for Mentor Committee intakes and meetings and then Cafe iF – I'm going to miss the chance to add a new post here to our blog. So….here's our Fabulous Friday Infographic….and boy do we have a real winner to lead off with!
David Mihm, noted SEO practitioner from the Pacific NorthWest, is one of my own SEO personal role models. This man knows SEO. Period. And as he also runs the 30+ of us who help him with his Annual Local Search Ranking Factors Survey, he knows Google Maps/Places too. And then there's the getListed.org online research group that he founded and runs – and did I mention the whole #localUniveristy group too? Okay, you get my drift…if there's a guy to emulate, David would be dang close to the top of that list, eh!
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Google Places/Maps: Breaking SEO News….
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Well, I suppose it had to happen…that Google would decide to "clean-up" it's Places/Maps pages and so far, this new change is somewhat disturbing to those of us in the SEO channel. We're the ones who work hard at the fulfillment of all of the various factors that are needed to move a client's site up and up in the rankings for Google Places/Maps so that if someone looks for say "lawyers in Hamilton" — the client site comes up nice and high in the left hand sidebar with a link to the full client page.
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SMBs: Owning your Own Web Equity!
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Mike Blumenthal is one hell of an SEO practitioner, and he's just released a terrific new infographic on a topic that's near and dear to all of us SEO types, entitled "Web Equity: Owning your Local Web Presence!"
And what a solid piece of well researched and informative knowledge this is, eh! Credit Mike offers, is due, and this graphic was originally inspired Mike writes, by a Lisa Barone blog post titled 11 Reasons Your SMB Still Needs A Web Site and refined with the help of David Mihm, Mary Bowling and Matt McGee.
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Canadian SEO & Google HotPot: Lessons Learned, eh!
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Okay, by now you may have already learned that Google has just three days ago, added the Google HotPot social input to their web results "big leagues!!!"
News? Yes? Does that help searchers? You be the judge! For me the jury is stilll out, eh! And here's my backstory on my testing so far….
I know that many of you do not even know what Google HotPot is — and the basic definition from Google on launch day back in November is as follows…
"a local recommendation engine powered by you and your friends. With Hotpot, we're making local search results for places on Google more personal, relevant and trustworthy…"
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Poll: On What We SEO Types Want to call Google PlaceSearch?
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Okay, so Google just "blended" their algo — moving away from a seperate Places (Maps) algo and their Web Results ones and have combined same.
And the official Google name that they've chosen to use is "Google PlaceSearch" but like many SEO types, I hate that name!
And not only me it appears as many other SEO practitioners have made comments too, using their own name for this new combined serp results page…and I thought that as it's Friday, I'd post a quick poll to see what we SEO types wanna call same!
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BIG NEWS: Google BLEND is HERE!
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I've been banging away at the "new" Google BLEND search engine results pages now for 6 days….and I'm pretty well amazed, eh!
What's that you say? A change to the way Google reports it's findings for your search terms? And what does that mean for us SEO practitioners and our client rosters?
Not much, at least for our client roster, it appears — at least so far IMHO! But let's get into this whole big change shall we?
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GetListed Local University: Denver
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It's not often that I let our readers know about "other" online spots unless they are absolutely at the TOP of their craft….hence my blog piece today about the next GetListed Local University dates in Denver, CO!
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Online Maps Review Credibility: What do you see?
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Okay, let me start by saying right up front, I don't know if this shows to you what I think it shows to me. And that is that when reviews are published online in Google Maps and are available to be seen by one and all, that they are actually "true", credible and rightous. Or are they? You tell me…and here's the points to ponder on this for all us Canuck SMBs, eh! And a big "tip-O-the-hat" to Miriam for the finding and blogging on this late last week that got me thinking about our canuck google maps and what I'd find too, eh!
First, go to maps.google.ca and use "Leggat Pontiac Buick" as a search term…to open up a link to a local GM car dealership website, located a few miles away from where I live and one that yes, I've used for service to my own car in the past. Always had pretty good service and pricing too, I believe….but that's for another blog posting.
Of course, you will need to be using the 'un-logged' in google settings to get the same default serp results that others get, ie you need to turn off your own settings for this….and once you have clicked, then you will see the same report that I do as shown here below….
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Google Places:SMBs can now Respond to Reviews!
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Yup, just announced yesterday, Google now allows a SMB biz owner to respond to reviews from customers or clients in the Google Places milieu! Which of course is great news, sort of….for one and all, eh!
First the official notice on this is found here at the Google LatLong blog and you should make sure that you read same.
Next, that article has links to here, the Google Places Help area, where they show you exactly how Google thinks you should respond to reviews on your Places pages….using these simple items —
- • Be nice!
• Don't get personal!
• Feedback is important!
They go on there, to point out a couple of other items like offering up Ground Rules for your postings and Example Responses too, to show the not-so-social SMB owner that a rant here is not good for business!
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#LocalU Conference a Cleveland Success, eh!
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Well, I'm back from a two day quick trip to Cleveland and attending the #LocalU SEO Conference there offered up by David Mihm's leadership over at getlisted.org! And what a trip it was, both the first-time drive to Cleveland on I-90 and the Conference itself.
You have to remember, that unless you do attend Conferences or Seminars in person, your whole on-line friendships will never ever be as "big" as they can be — hence the chance to attend this Google Places/LOCAL Conference was high on our list to meet online friends in person! And we met a superb bunch of SEO types at the Conference itself as well as later over happy hour too!
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SEO for Local Business Essentials!
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If you are a local Canadian business, there are a few business essentials you'll want to take care of for the online world:
- Website
- Google Maps profile
- Active social media
Let's talk a bit about each of these for your local business.
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In a private dining room at the Beverly Hills restaurant Spago, four dozen financiers gathered in April for a dinner put on by one of their own: Leon Black, head of private equity giant Apollo Global Management LLC.
As the group dined on Hong Kong-style loup de mer and filet mignon prepared with an Armagnac-peppercorn emulsion, Michael Milken, who worked with Black at junk-bond firm Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. in the 1980s, praised him for using his deep knowledge of finance to survive the credit crisis, according to people who were there.
Black spent most of the last decade buying companies with billions of dollars in debt and selling them at a profit, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its August issue. The credit crisis hit as Black made several marquee deals. He bought Harrah's Entertainment Inc., the world's biggest casino operator, in a $30.7 billion takeover in January 2008, just as strapped, middle-class gamblers were shying away from the tables.
Black also bought Realogy Corp., the biggest broker of residential real estate, in April 2007, in the midst of the worst downturn in home sales since the Great Depression. By November 2008, both companies were on the verge of defaulting on the billions of dollars Apollo had borrowed to buy them.
That's when Black went to work, tapping decades of experience in managing the finances of struggling companies and making use of loan covenants that gave him maximum flexibility. He did swaps, offering bondholders new notes in exchange for twice the amount of old ones.
'Tough Stuff'
With the old debt trading for little more than a dime on the dollar, many investors were eager to make the trade, and Black cut his debt by half in some cases.
"They do the tough stuff, but sometimes the tough stuff is what you do to keep the company alive," says Paul Schaye, founder of Chestnut Hill Partners, a New York-based company that helps private-equity investors find companies to buy. "That's their skill set. It's not always a friendly handshake."
The tough line with bondholders helped Apollo return a profit for equity investors and keep Black's reputation intact. In the 20 years since it was founded, the firm's private-equity funds have invested $29.3 billion and increased that amount to $46.8 billion, including distributions.
Two funds started since 2005, the beginning of a buyout boom that went bust in 2007, have invested $15.3 billion and were up $2.2 billion, or 14 percent, as of Dec. 31.
Black, 58, a bear-sized New York native with a mop of gray hair, has been involved in contentious transactions ever since he started Apollo 20 years ago. Since the market crash, he's had to fend off a series of lawsuits.
Icahn Sues
Huntsman Corp., a Salt Lake City-based chemical maker, sued Black and others for $3 billion in June 2008 after Apollo backed out of a deal to buy the company. Financier Carl Icahn, a Drexel client in the 1980s, sued Apollo in November 2008 over Black's attempt to swap old Realogy bonds for new.
Investors are making new demands, too. In April, Joseph Dear, chief investment officer of the California Public Employees' Retirement System, won a cut in the fees that Apollo charges to manage state pension fund money.
Calpers is a part owner of Apollo. It invested $600 million in the privately held firm in July 2007. The investment is a loser so far. Calpers marked the value of the stake down to $124.6 million after the credit crunch.
Investors who have grown leery of private-equity managers say that in the boom years, Black and others like him cared more about the size of deals than they did about the quality.
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"They are fabulous marketing people who, at one time, were excellent investors," says Harold Bradley, CIO of the $1.7 billion Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri. Bradley, an investor in Apollo funds, says, "Private-equity firms became money raisers and asset gatherers, and the state pensions walked right into their arms."
Black founded Apollo in 1990, along with Drexel alums Marc Rowan and Joshua Harris, as an investor in distressed debt and beaten-up companies. He created his image as a master of leveraged buyouts when his $3.4 billion Apollo Investment Fund V achieved an average annual rate of return of 78 percent for the three years ended in 2004, attracting more money from Calpers, an Apollo investor since 1995, and from the pension plans of the states of New York and South Carolina. He now oversees $54 billion.
Black's most troubled investments were made with money from his $10.8 billion Fund VI -- augmented with billions of dollars in loans and bonds sold to investors.
Buying Low
Fund VI, which included Harrah's and Realogy, ultimately recovered not because of its equity investments but because Black bought debt in companies Apollo owned when credit markets slumped. He profited when they rebounded last year.
The fund's $919 million investment in Realogy was marked at $74 million at the end of last year, according to a letter sent to investors in March. Even so, Fund VI was up 7.6 percent on money the fund invested from the time it made its first investment in July 2006 to Dec. 31. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index fell 12 percent in that period.
"The world is off the edge of a precipice," Black said at the annual Milken Institute Global Conference in Los Angeles in April, the occasion for the dinner. "What a difference a year makes."
Black, a Shakespeare lover who endows a professorship on the playwright at his alma mater, Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, may find that his winter of discontent isn't quite over. Business remains tough for Apollo and the rest of the private-equity industry.
Deals Scarce
Buyout firms announced just 484 deals worldwide in 2009, less than a third of the 1,610 they announced in 2007, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The total value of those deals tumbled 94 percent to $29.3 billion from $493.8 billion in 2007.
The biggest private-equity deal announced in 2010 as of mid-June was Silver Lake and Warburg Pincus LLC's takeover of Interactive Data Corp., a provider of financial market data, for $3.4 billion. That was a trifle compared with the 2007 record- setting deal in which New York-based KKR & Co. and TPG Capital of Fort Worth, Texas, bought TXU Corp., Texas's largest electric supplier, for $43.2 billion.
Some of the debt that funded such deals fell to pennies on the dollar in 2008 and 2009 as a wave of bankruptcies and near defaults hit many indebted companies.
Apollo and others offered deals to desperate investors in which they would swap their old bonds that were maturing soon for new ones with extended due dates, according to regulatory filings describing the swaps. They demanded a discount, too. An investor with $10 million of old bonds, for example, might be offered just $5 million of new ones.
Desperate Swaps
If the old bonds were trading at 20 cents on the dollar and the company faced default, swapping $1 of old bonds for 50 cents of new ones seemed to some investors like the better of two bad choices, unless they thought the bonds would rebound one day, an outcome that was difficult to see from the depths of the credit crisis.
Private-equity managers took advantage of covenants -- protections for investors written into bond agreements -- that allowed them to substitute new debt for old. In exchange for the liberal covenants, the buyers of the original debt got a higher yield. The new debt, though, often leapfrogged the old in the line for collecting proceeds from the sale of collateral -- whether factories, hotels or inventory -- should the companies fail.
'Bad Covenants'
Apollo was the most aggressive swapper of all, says Adam Cohen, founder of New York-based Covenant Review LLC, a firm that reviews such protection and charges for its reports.
"Apollo takes first place for bad covenants and willingness to use them," Cohen says. "We look at it in amazement, with grudging admiration." Cohen says he wrote plenty of bond covenants as a lawyer at Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins LLP.
Apollo had no comment on Cohen's statement.
One Apollo-controlled company threatened by the 2008 crisis was Realogy, owner of real estate brands Century 21 and Coldwell Banker. Apollo bought the company in April 2007 for $8.75 billion, using $6.3 billion of debt. The company reported a loss of $1.9 billion in 2008 as sales of previously owned homes in the U.S. dropped 13 percent to 4.9 million units, according to the National Association of Realtors.
In November 2008, Realogy said in a regulatory filing that it was at risk of violating terms of its bank loans and offered to swap $1.1 billion of its bonds at a range of 36 cents to 50 cents on the dollar, looking to cut its debt by about $600 million.
Fraudulent Transfer
Icahn, a takeover artist who has made runs at Texaco Inc. and Time Warner Inc. during his 40 years in finance, wasn't buying it. He owned a batch of Realogy bonds that were up for swap and sued Apollo in Delaware Chancery Court on Nov. 26, 2008, calling the swap a fraudulent transfer of assets because owners of the new bonds would be ahead in line for payment in the event Realogy went bankrupt.
Three weeks later, Judge Stephen Lamb ruled that the swap violated debt contracts. Realogy canceled the exchange.
Black then found another way to save Realogy from violating its debt agreements. He used a provision in the debt agreement that allowed the company to "add back" savings from cost cuts it made, most of which weren't fully realized. The move added at least $100 million to the company's earnings from the third quarter of 2008 to the fourth quarter of 2009, barely keeping the ratio of debt to earnings from breaching the levels that lenders require, according to a person familiar with the company.
Fee Cut
Just when Black was busy trying to save his companies, Calpers in January 2009 hired Dear, executive director of the Washington State Investment Board, as CIO. Dear has been a critic of the fees in private equity -- usually 1.5 percent of assets under management plus 20 percent of any gains.
The $210 billion pension fund has committed $4.2 billion to Apollo since 1995. In April, Black agreed to cut fees paid by Calpers by $125 million over five years.
The cuts apply only to accounts created specifically for Calpers, according to a letter Apollo sent to investors. About half of the pension fund's money is invested in Apollo funds open to all investors, in which fees will remain the same. Calpers paid Apollo a total of $38.6 million in fees in 2009.
Apollo's rich returns to Calpers took a dip during the credit crisis. Apollo VII, the firm's newest fund, bought portfolios of bank loans and other debt securities from banks including Citigroup Inc. in early 2008 for 87 cents on the dollar, according to a letter that Apollo sent to investors.
Prices of such securities tanked to as little as 55 cents by March 2009, forcing Apollo to post $707 million to its brokers in a margin call, according to an Apollo letter to investors, before prices rebounded.
Some investors bailed, selling stakes in the fund for as little as 20 cents on the dollar in early 2009, according to a person familiar with the transaction. Since then, the fund has made a comeback and was up 29 percent as of Dec. 31.
Apollo's dealings with Calpers have also been roiled by the buyout firm's payments to Alfred Villalobos, a member of the pension fund's board from 1992 to 1995. After leaving, Villalobos started working as a placement agent, representing investment firms eager to manage Calpers money.
Apollo paid Villalobos at least $38 million for work on eight deals from 2005 through 2008, according to a complaint filed against Villalobos by California Attorney General Jerry Brown on May 5.
Agent Fatigue
Placement agents such as Villalobos have seen their credibility challenged. New York-based Quadrangle Group LLC, the private equity firm co-founded by Steven Rattner, agreed in April to pay $12 million to settle investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the New York state attorney general's office.
The agencies were investigating $1.1 million in payments that Quadrangle made to Hank Morris, a former political consultant, in return for help getting investments from the New York pension system.
Quadrangle neither admitted nor denied guilt.
Rattner in February 2009 joined the administration of President Barack Obama to manage its investment in U.S. auto companies and wasn't a party to the settlement. He has denied wrongdoing.
(Until this year, Quadrangle handled the finances of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who is the majority owner of Bloomberg LP, parent of Bloomberg News.)
$13.2 Million in 2007
Villalobos was paid $13.2 million by Apollo in 2007 for securing the $600 million, 10 percent investment by Calpers in Apollo's private management company, according to disclosure documents from Apollo that Calpers released.
Brown alleges that Villalobos defrauded Calpers by not disclosing the fees he was paid by Apollo and other investment firms and broke California law by failing to disclose gifts he gave to Calpers executives. Villalobos, through his lawyers, has denied the allegations.
Brown's complaint says, among other things, that in May 2007, Villalobos took Leon Shahinian, the Calpers investment officer in charge of private equity, to New York from California in a rented private jet -- price: $53,000 -- to attend a fundraiser in honor of Black at the Museum of Modern Art. Shahinian sat at a table with guests of Black's wife, Debra Ressler Black, a producer of such Broadway plays as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The History Boys.
The Lap of Luxury
Villalobos and Shahinian shared a two-bedroom suite at the Mandarin Oriental hotel that cost $9,552.90 for two nights, says Brown, who is the Democratic candidate for governor of California. Apollo reimbursed Villalobos at least $63,000 for their trip, according to the suit.
Apollo paid Shahinian's expenses because he attended a meeting with Apollo executives while he was in New York, according to people familiar with the matter.
Two weeks later, Villalobos faxed Shahinian a term sheet for the equity investment in Apollo, Brown says. Six weeks after that, on July 13, Calpers agreed to buy the $600 million stake.
"We will continue to cooperate fully with all regulatory agencies investigating this matter," Apollo spokesman Charles V. Zehren told Bloomberg News on May 6. "We believe that we, at all times, have handled our placement-agent relationships in an appropriate manner."
A Family Affair
Debra Black has family ties to Calpers. Two of her brothers, Richard and Antony Ressler, also manage the pension fund's money, and both hired Villalobos to help win the investments, according to disclosure forms released by Calpers.
Richard's Los Angeles real estate company, CIM Group LP, hired Villalobos in 1998. CIM paid Villalobos $9.6 million for his work, according to disclosure forms made public by Calpers.
Antony's firm, Ares Management LLC, an Apollo spinoff in Los Angeles, paid Villalobos $1 million in five installments, starting in 2002, after Villalobos helped land a $100 million investment.
Debra Black and her brothers declined to comment.
Calpers bought its 2007 stake in Apollo just as Black made a star-crossed deal. The day before, Apollo had announced an agreement to buy Huntsman for $6.5 billion in cash and $4 billion in assumed debt, planning to merge it with Hexion Specialty Chemicals Inc., a Columbus, Ohio, company that Apollo owned.
Apollo backed out of the deal 11 months later, on June 18, 2008, after the slowing economy cut Huntsman's earnings. Huntsman sued Apollo and Black five days later, saying Black had worked secretly to scuttle the purchase so that Apollo could pay a lower price. Apollo denied the charges.
A 3-Day Meeting
Huntsman Chairman Jon Huntsman and Black met for three days in December 2008 and reached a settlement under which Apollo paid Huntsman Corp. $750 million in cash and bought $250 million of the company's bonds.
The settlement with Huntsman was simple compared with the elaborate bond swaps that Black used to salvage other deals. The most important rescue was of Las Vegas-based Harrah's. Apollo bought the company with TPG in January 2008.
Harrah's, which has 52 resorts worldwide, reported a $47.8 million loss in the fourth quarter of 2007. The losses swelled in 2008 as payments loomed on its $24.5 billion of debt.
In July 2008, Covenant Review's Cohen wrote a four-page report saying that Black might offer bondholders a swap. Harrah's did so in November of that year, announcing an offer to trade old bonds for new ones that matured as many as five years later. Taking the deal meant that some bondholders would get less than 50 cents on the dollar for their paper, according to the swap offer.
Old Notes for New
Bondholders could have refused, yet many took it. Harrah's debt was selling at 20 cents on the dollar in secondary markets, and the company had reported four quarters of losses. In December 2008, Harrah's swapped old notes with a face value of $2.2 billion for new ones worth $1.06 billion.
Cohen published a report on the swap on Nov. 19, 2008, in which he predicted another one. That came in April 2009. Harrah's this time swapped notes with a face value of $5.5 billion for new debt valued at $3.6 billion -- roughly a 33 percent haircut. When the two exchanges were done, Harrah's had cut its debt total by $3 billion, according to regulatory filings.
Harrah's CEO Gary Loveman, a former professor at Harvard Business School, says the exchanges were fair.
"You could either hold the security you had until maturity or you could trade them for a different security -- your call," Loveman said in a December interview. "A lot of people traded, but not all did. I think everyone is much happier today than they were back in the dark days of the crisis."
Drexel Shop
Black and a group of other former Drexel executives formed Apollo in 1990, after the firm went out of business and Milken went to prison for securities fraud.
Apollo's first big deal left a pile of lawsuits. Apollo bought high-yield debt owned by Los Angeles-based Executive Life Insurance Co. When the junk-bond market crashed, Executive Life became insolvent. Black and Apollo raised money from Paris-based bank Credit Lyonnais SA and bought the portfolio for 50 cents on the dollar, according to Apollo.
The deal ended up in the courtroom in 1998, when a whistle-blower claimed that what was left of Executive Life's insurance unit -- not the junk bonds -- was secretly controlled by Credit Lyonnais. The bank was owned by the French government at the time, and it was a violation of California law for an insurance company doing business there to be foreign owned. Lyonnais was later purchased by Credit Agricole SA.
$770 Million Fine
France paid $770 million in fines when the case was settled in 2004. By that time, Apollo was no longer part of the litigation.
Apollo prospered in the boom years of 2003 through 2007, as low interest rates and a big appetite for risk among bond investors helped buyout firms do huge deals. Apollo announced 21 takeovers in 2007 worth a total of $23 billion. They ranged from Noranda Aluminum Inc. of Toronto to Oceania Cruises Inc. of Miami.
Then the credit crisis hit, and Black had to fall back on his abilities as an investor in distressed debt. He bought bonds of companies in Apollo's portfolio as they tumbled. As of Dec. 31, Black's $10 billion Fund VI, the one that originally purchased Harrah's and Realogy, had paid $1.6 billion for debt issued by Apollo companies, according to a March letter to investors.
Those bonds doubled in value to $2.8 billion, driving Fund VI's rebound and helping Black eke out a small gain.
Black's next move: He has registered for a $50 million initial public offering in Apollo Global Management. For all the drama of the past three years, Black will likely find investors who, like Milken, admire the Apollo founder's survival skills.
-- With assistance from Beth Jinks and Jason Kelly in New York. Editors: Michael Serrill, Vince Bielski.


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Our careers advisors are working members who have been trained to the national Matrix standard for delivering information, advice and guidance and they are fully accredited. You can now contact them directly to book an individual advice session.
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Julie has been working in theatre and television as a trained dancer and actor for many years. She has broad experience of working in the creative industries and her career has spanned many roles including teaching in higher education; specialising in Theatre in Prisons; assisting casting directors for television and theatre; directing and producing newly written performance material and as a freelance drama tutor.
Based in the North West, Julie continues to work as a successful actress in TV and Film, recent credits include guest lead Linda Ball in Doctors, June Baxter in Emmerdale, and the award winning short film Life on the Line, and feature film Whoops! Julie has worked at the leading theatres in the region including the West Yorkshire Playhouse and in a Royal Command Performance to raise funds to save the Grand Theatre Blackpool.
Over the past five years Julie has developed and facilitated 'Acting on Camera' workshops with leading casting directors and is producing short films with groups of young people in the community. Julie also provides training through her theatre school EXIT 25; other areas of expertise include delivering advice on, 'How to set up and run your own Theatre School,' 'Fund Raising for Arts projects' and how to diversify your skills to survive in the ever increasing competitive acting industry.
Julie became one of Equity's Careers Advisors in 2005 and continues to regularly deliver advice and guidance to individuals and often represents Equity at leading industry events like Perform, Surviving Actors and Edinburgh Fringe, where actors and performers can get some on-the-spot advice to include anything from starting out, training, getting in front of the right people, coming back in to the industry after a break or writing/revamping your CV.
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Readiness of our children to succeed in school depends on the adults who are with the children each day. With this big picture in mind, key United Way partners and volunteers stakeholders have identified and implemented five initiatives.
- Parents as Teachers- Nationally proven program of home visits by Family Services of Greater Houston trained Kindergarten readiness specialists who coach caregiver (parent, grandparent, other,) provide the necessary skills to parents to stimulate their children's readiness to learn before they enter school. They also conduct monthly parent-and-tot group meetings, reaching more than 100 children at any given time.
- Quality Improvement for Early Childhood Centers- At five early childhood centers serving more than 650 children, Collaborative for Children mentors and coaches directors, develops and trains teachers, implements classroom action plans, provides curriculum ressources, and more- all to help the directors and teachers be more successful with children.
- Professional Development Opportunities- Boosted by collaboration with United Way and other partners including Lee College, the Baytown Early Educators, a group of directors and teachers dedicated to sharing best practices and training, has seen its membership nearly triple within the last several years. In addition, Lee College restarted its early childhood education instructional program. Dozens of early childhood professionals are being supoorted in their studies to earn the Child Development Associate (CDA) credential. Collaborative for Children, as part of its quality improvement work, conducts training meetings open to all early childhood centers.
- Parent Workshops- Skilled volunteers with early childhood education background present evening workshops to caregivers. In small groups, these volunteers demonstrate to parents how to use the contents of take-home kits full of tools, tips and toys for effective early childhood development. Since 2013, more than 350 adults have been reached. The workshops are conducted in both English and Spanish.
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Saitis barbipes (Simon, 1868)
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The Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011
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Blagoev G., Deltshev C.D., Lazarov S. (2002) The Spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria: Internet - http://cl.bas.bg/bulgarianspiders/, Sofia,: on line
Blick et al. (2004) Checklist of the spiders of Central Europe [- remaining Authors: Bosmans R., Buchar J., Gajdoa P., Hänggi A., Helsdingen P. Van , Rulicka V., Starega W., Thaler K.]: Internet: on line
Flanczewska E. (1981) Remarks on Salticidae (Aranei) of Bulgaria: Annales zoologici, Warszawa: 221, illustrations 98-99
Fuhn I. E., Gherasim V. (1995) Familia Salticidae. Fauna Romaniei, Arachnida: Acad. Roman., Bucuresti: 107, illustrations 47A-F
Hansen H. (1986) Die Salticidae der coll. Canestrini (Arachnida: Araneae): Boll. Soc. veneziana Stor. nat.: 112, illustrations 21
Kulczynski W. (1905a) Araneae nonnullae in insulis Maderianis collectae a Rev. E. Schmitz: Bulletin international de l'Académie des sciences de Cracovie (sci. mathématiques et naturelles), Kraków: 544, illustrations t 14, f 15-16
Logunov D.V. (2004b) Notes on the collection of Salticidae (Araneae) from the Museum of Natural History 'Enrico Gaffi' in Bergamo, Italy: Revista Iberica de Aracnologia, Zaragoza: 274, illustrations 5-6
Metzner H. (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands: Andrias, Karlsruhe: 57-58, 176, illustrations 22a-o, map 24
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For me the worst bits from this week were the military radio transmissions (ok I guess this didn't start just this week, but, seriously, that shit's not encrypted?) and the whole Junior/Angie/Linda sequence.
Let me get this straight... Forrest goes all "She tastes like cigarettes sorry for ruining your New Year's party Lt. Dan", which alerts him to the fact that Barbie is around... or that something is up.. because...?
Then he chases her, radios Linda when he sees Barbie... and then despite the fact that Angie is gone with Julia before Linda makes it there, and Junior is crumpled in a heap not saying anything, she reports to Big Jim that Angie got away with Julia, which she totally didn't see. I mean the camera even goes out of the way to show that the ambulance is totally out of sight right before the police car comes into view. I mean maybe he radioed offscreen that someone had taken Julia... seems like a stretch... I mean he goes to chase Angie and what...? Radios Linda that Angie pulled the wool over his eyes and that Julia is missing? That still doesn't mesh with her line to Big Jim since Angie didn't have Julia when Junior radioed her to begin with.
Also, didn't Linda steal Phil's car because someone siphoned her gas or something? And then ditched Phil and told him to fuck off because he's not a cop. Because all of a sudden he's her new police sidekick and they're rocking a police cruiser.
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Mitch Needelman walks out of the Brevard County Jail with his attorney, Doug Beam, on Thursday afternoon after being arrested on bribery and tampering charges. / Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY
The high-tech company implicated in a political scandal that resulted in the arrest a prominent former elected official and the company�s top executive is a business based on �smoke and mirrors,� according to its former chief operating officer.
But, last May, local and state officials trumpeted the decision by BlueWare to relocate to Melbourne from Cadillac, Mich.
�BlueWare's choice to move to Florida is a testament to the strength of our business climate and the result of a common vision for economic growth by local, regional, business and government partners,� Gov. Rick Scott said in the news release announcing the move. �Today�s announcement is a great win for the Space Coast, as well as for the entire state.�
One big draw for the company was an $8.52 million contract to scan millions of court documents so they could be accessed online.
That contract is at the heart of a scandal that saw former Brevard County Clerk of Courts Mitch Needelman arrested Thursday and charged with bribery, bid tampering and official misconduct. BlueWare Chief Executive Officer Rose Harr was arrested Friday on charges of bribery and bid tampering.
Besides the court contract, the company also was approved for financial incentives from the state, county and Melbourne for adding jobs here. The incentives were valued at nearly $1.8 million.
BlueWare said last year that it expected to hire 190 employees with an average wage of $69,000 over the next four years.
Economic development officials say they simply advised BlueWare about the economic benefits available to the company if it decided to move here and helped it navigate through the bureaucracy necessary to be eligible for them. That�s what they do for all companies expressing an interest in relocating to Florida, they said.
The same officials said BlueWare never received any tax dollars, since it didn�t meet its incentive goals.
Following last week�s arrests, it would seem the company faces a steep challenge to ever do so.
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Court documents obtained by FLORIDA TODAY show that former BlueWare Chief Operating Officer Robert Baldwin told investigators the company �had no core business, and the success of the company hinged on a digital-scanning contract� with the Brevard County Clerk of Courts Office.
BlueWare�s contract with the clerk�s office � signed in June 2012 � was at the heart of a yearlong investigation by the State Attorney�s Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. The probe led to the arrests of Needelman and Harr. Also arrested was William �Matt� Dupree, a former business partner of Needelman.
Authorities allege that the three participated in a bribery and bid-tampering scheme in which Needelman unfairly steered the contract to BlueWare in exchange for illegal donations to his campaign fund.
The contract called for BlueWare to scan decades worth of courts documents so they could be accessed online.
The FDLE said about 75 percent of the records were eligible for destruction and didn�t need to be scanned in the first place.
Investigators also said the company lacked the expertise to fulfill the contract.
According to the court documents, Baldwin told investigators BlueWare �had no experience handling or scanning massive amounts of documents.�
The document-scanning contract was one of several major issues in the 2012 Republican primary between Needelman and current Clerk of Courts Scott Ellis. Ellis won the primary, then the general election against a write-in candidate, and took office in January.
In October � after losing the primary, but before leaving office � Needelman entered into a loan agreement with Hewlett-Packard Financial Services for $5.69 million, with BlueWare receiving the loan money, even though the Clerk of Courts Office was obligated to repay the loan, FDLE said.
Ellis ended the project after taking office. He said the work was less than 1 percent complete at the time.
Ellis filed suit in Brevard County Circuit Court against two of Harr�s companies, seeking a refund of money the Clerk of Courts Office paid those companies when Needelman was in charge.
Ellis has refused to make payments on the loan, saying Needelman had no authority to take out the loan. Hewlett-Packard is suing Ellis� office in federal court to get its money.
�When she (Harr) got that money from Hewlett-Packard, she hit the jackpot,� Ellis said.
Ellis said he believes the staff at BlueWare is dwindling, especially with the arrest of Harr, and allegations from some current and former employees that the company is behind on paying people.
�It would be one thing if the paychecks were current,� Ellis said. �At some point, you can�t work for free.�
The parking lot at BlueWare�s Melbourne office building contained nine vehicles on Friday afternoon, and the front door was locked. Employees did not respond to a buzzer and a knock on the door by a FLORIDA TODAY reporter, and an employee outside the office taking a smoking break said she would not comment and would not get anyone else to do so.
Mark Horwitz, an Orlando-based attorney for Harr, could not be reached for comment Friday.
Incentives issue
As of April, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement also was investigating the agreement between the state and BlueWare to relocate its headquarters from Michigan to Melbourne and expand here.
The status of that investigation and its connection to Needelman�s arrest was not immediately clear.
Ellis said he requested information from state economic agencies and the Economic Development Commission of Florida�s Space Coast about BlueWare and the incentives process, but was turned down.
�The state would not tell us, and the EDC would not tell us,� Ellis said. �They have all sandbagged the information. The EDC locked up the whole file. It�s ridiculous. There is absolutely no reason for them to lock down the file on us.�
Ellis also questions the efforts of the Economic Development Commission to attract BlueWare to Melbourne.
�They either deliberately buried their head in the sand, or they�re in on the deal,� Ellis said.
The Economic Development Commission, a frequent target of criticisms by Ellis and some others, released a statement on Friday concerning BlueWare.
While not addressing Ellis� statements about the EDC directly, Lynda Weatherman, the organization�s president and chief executive officer, released a written statement saying its dealings with BlueWare were not out of the ordinary for any company looking to relocate to the Space Coast and create jobs.
�The EDC�s role in the BlueWare project centered on best-practices economic development activities,� Weatherman�s statement read. �This was a competitive project � Michigan was willing to offer up to $3 million in incentives to keep the company � and it took more than a year of work, including highlighting our skilled work force and strategic East Coast location. Once the project was secured, our interaction with the company concluded.�
The statement added that, �like the rest of the community, we were saddened to see the alleged inappropriate procedures that transpired by those who will now face justice. On the other hand, the part of this process that performed exactly as it should involved the benchmarks and protocols associated with incentives. Though state and local incentives were approved for BlueWare, because the company failed to achieve the performance-based requirements that accompanied these and all incentives, it did not receive a single dollar of incentive funding from the local community.�
That�s similar to a statement issued by Enterprise Florida, the state�s economic development agency. Enterprise Florida said BlueWare was approved for an incentive of $550,000 through its �Quick Action Closing Fund� and $760,000 through its �Qualified Target Industry Tax Refund� program. However, that funding was dependent on certain thresholds BlueWare had to make, which it never did.
That means the company didn�t receive any state incentives, said Sean Helton, an Enterprise Florida spokesman.
The Brevard County Commission in March 2012 approved $242,650 in matching funds for the state incentives, but no money changed hands, since the state incentives were never paid, according to County Manager Howard Tipton.
County Commission Chairman Andy Anderson said he has asked to see if the commission can take action to disqualify BlueWare from the county�s incentive program, in light of last week�s developments.
Tipton said he will consult with county legal staff on the best approach for that.
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A Hunt Above is a ministry to children who have been diagnosed with life threatening illnesses and handicap children who have a DREAM WISH to hunt or fish. A Hunt Above's goal is to help everyone share in the joy of fulfilling a special child's dream.
To provide a FREE DREAM HUNT or FISHING TRIP to children who have been diagnosed with life threatening illnesses and handicap children. To protect and provide the rights of all Americans so they can enjoy our wonderful outdoors. To promote the biblical truth that God is the Creator and Savior of the world. To bring an awareness of our personal accountability to God. To share one's faith in Christ with others and also share the common joy and experience of hunting and fishing with these special children and their families. To foster faith, fun and fellowship among hunters and fishermen in Mississippi and all of America.
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The Korean Wave
Korean Popular Culture in Global Context
Edited by Yasue Kuwahara
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The rise in popularity of South Korean entertainment and culture, known as the Korean Wave, began and has been promoted as an official policy of the Korean government to revive the country's economy. As such, popular culture products such as K-pop and K-drama are tailored to appeal to the widest possible audience beyond national and regional boundaries. This study of the appeal of Korean popular culture examines cultural production and consumption, hybrid culture, the West versus. Asia, global race consciousness, and changing views of masculinity and femininity, among other topics.