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9/19/25 - Could NYC Be In Our Future?
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While it's not confirmed as of yet, but we may see our radio program add yet another reputable affiliate to our monthly list, and it may be in fact, a radio station that spawned the heart of progressive rock radio in the 1970's & 1980's with luminaries such as the late great legendary Allison Steele...who was at the helm of that audio magic that in a strange way as of late, brought us together to what we are now. And while we can't say it is 100% for sure that it will be a definite broadcast, things are looking 'very' up and we very well may be broadcasting at the legendary 102.7FM WNEW in the up and coming months. Stay tuned and big props to Tom Palmieri & Ann Rinaldi of http://progstock.com
7/11/25 - Upcoming Patreon!
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As Tom has spoken about in our recent broadcasts, the gagliarchives Radio Program is launching its very own Patreon account for our audience. For those that may not know, what this new gagliarchives Patreon will offer, is a limited edition membership in two forms; first being a basic subscription that gets you access to any radio program in the given year that that member signs up for.
5/17/25 - North 13th Studios Needs A Facelift
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As many of you can notice as of late, we just are not chugging out the new program's as much as we used to. Although 2025 has been a bit more positive with its new program occurrences as opposed to 2024 in just the first few months of this year alone. One of the main reasons why, or at least 40% of the reason is that the radio program on the equipment side needs a major upgrade and facelift. Many of you long time listeners have made some great suggestions over the last few months including doing things such as "fund raisers" or "Pledge Drives" or go on certain money raising websites to stop the 'technical' bleeding that has been going on behind closed doors here at North 13th Studios for the better part of four years. And while it's not that shows can't be produced here, it's coming to be painfully obvious that our microphones are sorely outdated, our boards we used became virtually useless not long after starting to use them. And what is even more painful, the tech issues with our equipment is something we have seen many times on the 'do it yourself' YouTube videos that shows that sadly, we are not alone. And while we have had some solutions, it seems that one thing cancels out another. More or less, it's a technical game of 'whack-a-mole'. One of the most frustrating incidents as an a perfect example, was that time when Apple OS switched to High Sierra some time ago, this new upgrade rendered our thousand dollar Pro Tools software virtually useless. This was a big kick in the gut. It's not all terrible, our central system, or the 'nerve center' computer of the studio is very powerful and we use many aspects of Adobe for our weekly production. But our other pieces of equipment such as our HD Camera's, computer & production microphones are severely outdated and have had more tech issues in the last year than the previous ten before it. You may have heard us talk recently about the status of last year's GPRN Top 100 Of 2024 that was originally to air in February of this year. The external drive that had all the production pieces for the three part series had an unfortunate surge that rendered nearly 70% of our work corrupt and/or destroyed. W
hile
were able to recover at least half of that work, it's frustrating that
we have to not wait on this issue but keep moving forward. Hence why
it has not aired yet in 2025. And I KNOW that many of you love the Top
100 like I do broadcasting it. Now we have had delays in the Top 100
over the years and who could forget the year 2016 when the Top 100
didn't even air. The problem now is that.....well....we need an
upgrade. Digitizing our huge reel to reel/cassette archive is
something that must be do to preserve the integrity and ensure that
those radio programs get properly documented to secure the work of our
three decade plus history. This is not just for the weekly radio
programs, but for ALL of our interview guests we have had since 1992.
This includes the wonderful band performances we have had in-studio
including the live recordings that quite frankly, no one has. When you
are an independent radio
program, these bits and pieces start to add up. Especially when it all
comes out of our pockets. We have never made a dollar off this radio
program since its inception in 1991 nor have we ever asked for our
loyal listeners to pay up to listen & enjoy. We even launched our
new 24 hour radio station just recently to give you access to our
program's archive live every hour, every day, seven days a week, 365
days a year. But even this can be pricey. Even the space to archive
the decades of our radio programs will need assistance. Now many of
you that are extremely close to the program such as colleagues, bands
& artists, PR contacts, have made some great
suggestions and ides such as crowd funding options for the radio show
that I never even knew existed. Or the several donation websites on
social media. What we would love to hear from you, our dedicated
listeners is, what would YOU suggest?
There is no doubt we need to raise money for the program for the first
time in thirty plus years to keep it more consistent and of course
thriving. What ever suggestions you may have, PLEASE forward to us at gagliarchives@comcast.net
or Direct Message us on our social media platforms on X,
formerly known as Twitter, or our Facebook page at http://facebook.com/gagliarchives.
We also want to bring video content BACK to the program as we had
streamed live on both TWITCH
and on our Facebook page's post show wrap up from the years of
2014-2018 which was a huge draw to our audience to our upswing in
weekly listeners. But what is most important to us, is having
everything saved forever for you to enjoy. I mean, let's face it. No
one lives forever, but if there is one thing I can leave behind years
after I move on to the next level, is this weekly progressive rock
radio program you know and love as the gagliarchives.
Again, please send your suggestions and we will take it from there.
Also tune in as well to hear us read your email suggestions about it
in the future.
4/20/24 - Upcoming Guests
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Once again, we have to thank all of you for your requests and suggestions for possible guests to join us down the road in 2025! Some of you have sent and/or posted for artists such as the great Ed Palermo of The Ed Palermo Big Band, Chicago fusion band Sons Of Ra, New York City based progressive rock band Edensong, Peter Nicholls of I.Q., Markus Reuter, and so many others. We have taken note and you can expect to see not only artists you have requested above, but some big surprises as well.
10/13/24 - Upcoming Discus Music Record Label Spotlight
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Nothing has been more exciting over the last few years than getting some true quality music from a record label that nearly 100% qualifies for our 4th Set Space Out like the Discus Music label does. Martin Archer and company have been putting together wonderful recording sessions and releases from this excellent label for now thirty years! Founded in 1994 by Martin Archer and Mick Beck, this label originally served as the CD imprint for their numerous and diverse projects. In recent years, it has expanded
to feature works from a broad spectrum of artists. The label's only
limitation is the creativity of its musicians, offering a wide array
of sounds that range from electronic rock and free jazz to extended
song forms, improvised music, and other releases that defy easy
classification. To be serviced for radio promos by a label like this
and the great respect that they have had for our program for the last
decade plus is the kind of thing that makes you want to keep pumping
out new programs. Discus Music has been that label for us. We have
decided to feature a in-depth spotlight on Discus Music in the up and
coming weeks that will hopefully include and in-depth interview with
founder Martin Archer! Visit their regular website to see their list
of fantastic releases from their catalog at https://discus-music.org
and also see them on BANDCAMP as well at https://discusmusic.bandcamp.com
and on Facebook by visiting https://www.facebook.com/discusmusic
and keep your ears tuned in, in the upcoming weeks of new programming!
7/24/24 - The Music Of Nexpo
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It's not everyday that you find a particular kind of instrumental track or theme that makes us jump up and say, THAT'S TOTALLY gagliarchives FLAVORED! But just recently, we found just that. What is now part of our backing talk track music and in our introduction on Saturday night and all of its replays, is the music of the excellent YouTube channel known as Nexpo. We have to give a special thanks to Ryan Cantu of the excellent and personal favorite YouTube channel Nexpo. Writers and channel reviewers of Ryan Cantu's work describe his successful, long-standing channel Nexpo as an analytical YouTube channel specializing in video essays that delve into internet mysteries, horror websites, and
urban
legends within the gaming community. But in fact, it's more than that.
His channels, both Nexpo and Nexpo Nightmares, goes where no channels
go in its extensive and thoughtful production, its in-depth topics,
and its amazing visuals. His channel includes video topics such as
obscure lost media, the Lake City Quiet Pills mystery, mysteries of
online video games, obscure stories from Reddit, the vanishing of
David Lewis, the crash of Flight 123, the internet mystery of
Paranoia.com and many, many others. Just imagine if you will, if
David Lynch made investigative videos covering conspiracies, stories
of intrigue, and even at certain points, seriously intimidating
topics. Ryan does a wonderful job with ambiance of his channel and one
thing that keeps me locked in is the amazing theme music to his
channel that has many different versions and styles. We enjoyed it so
much in fact, we reached out to Ryan to see if we could incorporate
this music into our program which he politely obliged. Some of you who
listen to us religiously on a weekly basis, asked that we have Ryan
Cantu on for this year's upcoming All Hallows' Eve Radio program. Ryan
has stated he is up for a visit to the Saturday night progressive rock
outpost in October, and it is something that you and I cannot wait to
air! We thank Ryan so much for allowing us to incorporate the haunting
music of Nexpo into our radio program.
7/20/24 - Upcoming Guests
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We've also got some great guests who have reached out to be on our program and we have read your email requests for guests as well! We'll be chatting with the band Isobar, along with Sheuh-Li Ong, The Muffins drummer Paul Sears; Beijing, China based band Ou; Rick Henry of our excellent radio affiliate House Of Prog Radio; And many, many more!
7/01/23 - Welcome Our Newest Program Affiliate!
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As far back as we can remember, even going back to the FM radio days, many of you have asked on a near weekly basis, is there any way that people can listen to the program whenever they want and/or download the program. While in some instances that could have been arranged, it became a difficult concept with licensing, the R.I.A.A., BMI and ASCAP. Without being on an actual radio station or station(s), to have programs be available for download is next to impossible. Even during our Twitch days at http://twitch.tv/gagliarchives, we could not upload that week's radio/video program with 60% of the program being silenced due to again, licensing issues. While it was fine when broadcast live, to do it in a pre-record/post record fashion, would come with so many problems. And that is not fair to you, our audience. So what we did just recently after sam
pling
& testing the various products, we found one that works
beautifully for us. That is our newest, 24 hour radio station at http://radioking.com.
Radioking's mission statement is simple and right to the point.
"To allow everyone to make their voice heard by offering a simple
and powerful tool that makes radio easy and accessible to
everyone." Well said, right? Well now you can listen to the
gagliarchives 24 hours a day, seven days a week, at our new
Gagliarchives Radio station by visiting https://play.radioking.com/radio/gagliarchives-radio.
For fans of our former weekly radio program at the now defunct RCBC
Radio called The Analogue Tapes Series, our new home at https://play.radioking.com/radio/gagliarchives-radio
includes both the old, rare flashback programs from over the last
thirty plus years mixed with sections of our most recent programs,
just as you would hear it on a 24 hour radio station! Do you have
requests for material and/or flashback moments from the archives?
Email us at gagliarchives@comcast.net
with your requests and we will add it to our schedule! Those that
submit their ideas will also win a digital prize package from North
13th Studios as well! Stay tuned for more updates on our weekly radio
program airing on both House Of Prog
Radio & Aural Moon!!
5/20/23 - Listener Poll Update
Well...you asked, and we answered! Visit the online poll located here. Every week, our radio program gets countless emails from our incredible audience from all four corners of the globe. Our correspondence ranges from:
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The weekly 'Ask Us Anything' spotlight emails (My favorite)
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Listeners curiosity about certain eras of the radio program (We all love this one)
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Production questions & broadcast equipment detail and/or software opinions
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Well known & obscure album requests (especially out of print albums)
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New album suggestions/requests
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Top five or more 'favorite new releases' audience lists (Tom's favorite)
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Vinyl vaults suggestions
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Vintage radio program requests from the archives (Grace's favorite)
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Interviewee requests for North 13th Studios
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Thematic program suggestions
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Progressive rock trivia
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Flashback stories of your own that may include our show (Jack's Favorite)
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More storytelling requests from Tom's radio show history (Fan's favorite for example, the strangest/scariest moments located at https://youtube.com/gagliarchives )
Over the last five years
alone, we have gotten so many great ideas from you, our amazing audience
& supporters. During the pandemic alone, the amount of emails/messages
was mind boggling. We can't lie, it was overwhelming. Myself, along with
the rest of the staffers virtually, had to come up with an organized
system on how to categorize the correspondence because some of the topics
were so amazingly cool and one of a kind, we started compiling them for
Tom & Jack to choose from. But your fearless leader & host decided
to let YOU decide on what the next thematic program should be about in
this first half of 2023's broadcast schedule.
Here are just some of the ideas we have taken from our audience with Tom's blessing with more polls to come in the up and coming weeks. Vote now for some of these possible program ideas. And in the meantime, don't hesitate to keep your amazing emails of requests coming in! Including your current top lists, thematic program suggestions for the future, and general music requests! YOU KEEP US GOING WITH THESE EMAILS!! Keep up the great work! It's these items that keep our weekly program production motivated in a really big way. Here are your voting choices:
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A Monthly Weekly Top 20 Radio Show: Once a month like you would hear on mainstream radio
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Thematic Special Edition: A Look At Progressive Rock In South America
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Thematic Special Edition: A GPRN Top 100 of a listener picked year from before the programs existence. (I.E. the 1970's, 1980's)
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The 'Ask Us Anything' Show: A program of just music/radio show correspondence from our listeners that we have compiled over the years. Some of you requested for us to also post it on our https://youtube.com/gagliarchives as well
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Thematic Special Edition: - A Look Back On All The GPRN's #2 albums in The Top 100
So visit the online poll located here or email us directly with your choices or even additions for future voting at gagliarchives at comcast dot net and we WILL respond back. Remember as always that our regular 'Ask Us Anything' emails/letters that are read during our first set of the program is an INSTANT prize winner. If we choose your email, be sure to then send us your physical address or if you choose a download, we can send that as well! Check out our QR code as well above!
2/19/23 - RCBC Radio Is No More....
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recently we learned that the remaining ashes of what was 88.9FM WBZC as it
evolved into internet radio only RCBC Radio, is no longer in existence.
The RCBC Radio stream went dead at the beginning of 2023 almost five years
to its creation. This comes literally five years after the original, and
stunning shut down of our beloved 88.9FM/95.1FM/100.7FM WBZC in Pemberton,
New Jersey.
No press release, no phone calls, no documented end chapter for what was
the remaining white dwarf star core of the one time red g
iant
that was Z889. I was sad to see it fade into obscurity as we all know your
loyal weekly host, holds the radio station's legacy & memories very
close to the core of what is the gagliarchives Radio Program.
So we bid a fond farewell to the very young, and now defunct RCBC Radio channel that only seemed to be created after the thousands upon thousands feigned their outrage that a beloved FM radio station after 23 years of service went silent with no forewarning or discussion to try to save the beloved south Jersey broadcasting icon. Tom recently said something that stuck in our crew's mind. Z889FM is now officially dead.
And while Jason Varga worked his tail off in keeping the new beacon lit, he could only have done so much. They were tying our hands more and more as the early months of this 'radio evolution' of what was the Z. But much like our beloved radio station, they have now silenced RCBC Radio. While I was never there to do production work or program editing, it was quite prevalent on the face of your Saturday night progressive rock radio warrior that an era had truly to come to an end. The sting of that is on top of the pain of seeing the one time Pemberton location of where Z889 once stood turn into an abandoned, decrepit and almost haunting shell of how it once stood.
As Tom recently said after a quiet pause on the topic "....there are, and will be ghosts there for years to come. That place was an existential 'home' for me. I dream of it at least two to three times a week. The one time jewel of a small two year college that its equipment alone would have had one thinking that Temple University moved to the Pine Barrens. Farewell, old friend."
02/18/23 - Our New Podcast Sites & Our New Affiliates..............
We are proud to announce the launching of our new Podcast partner in Spreaker. Spreaker is a division of iHeart Radio and it truly makes getting out your product in a seamless way. Whether you are producing your passion project or growing a podcast business, they make it your one-stop show for podcast hosting, creation, distribution, and monetization. We are so proud to finally quell the requests from an endless list of loyal listeners over the years, wanting to hear the program at their request. Well now you can through so many different outlets. Just following our broadcast weekend, you'll be able to tune in at your leisure. Here are the current sources you can check out our programs:
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JioSaavn - For our growing audience in India!
02/15/23 - The Future Guest List Builds Take III.......................... Our upcoming guests to join us in our virtual North 13 Studios in 2023 will continue to grow and have already started with a bang!
Check out some of the formulations & ideas brewing below coming from the halls of Asylum & North 13th Studios.....
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Coming relatively soon on gagliarchives, a most anticipated guest who isn't in a progressive rock band or project or supergroup! Well, not yet at least. It's a concept that your host Tom has wanted to do for quite some time while formulating a 'thematic' style he creates a few times a year to just take a break from the bustle of the normal chronological history formula where the show mixes anniversaries, birthday salutes & new world premiere releases. 2020 & 2021's
forced isolation & having only those
you love & the south Jersey star packed night sky, sparked the
idea of a true astronomy styled musical program in a conceptual show
form where Tom & Jack spotlight genre pieces that celebrate the
outer heavens and the outer reaches of science, and even science
fiction. For this program, Tom will feature albums like Tangerine
Dream's Alpha Centauri, Lancaster
& Lumley's Marscape, Rick Wakeman & The English Rock
Ensemble's recent release that was also a former #1 in the WEEKLYTOP20
last year, The Red Planet and so much more. But Tom also wanted
to have a particular guest join the thematic program as well. Tom had
explained over the course of the past year intermittently on the show
for his heavy interest on his favorite futurist, author, science
fiction writer, and true astronomy deep thinking analyst he can't get
enough of, in the great John Michael Godier. John is also the host of
the wonderful interview/debate program on You Tube titled Event
Horizon. Tom reveres John's work and his most favorite which Tom
will surely touch on, John's Top Ten lists. Tom was to interview John
in the early spring, but as we all know, Tom sadly lost his father,
legendary Philadelphia jazz guitarist, Sonny Troy. Tom has dropped to
me that he is in the works of getting back on the concept, so for
those that have emailed and asked, especially loyal listeners Karan,
Dave, Prashanth, and Ricky who requested the concept as far back as
2004, regardless it will be happening soon! Tom repeat
edly has praised
John Michael Godier's story telling, descriptiveness, and his amazing
ability to make an astronomy novice want
to expand their horizons and learn more. I asked Tom what questions he
would be asking John, Tom briefly dropped some of his possible
questions such as John's take on Oumuamua: an interstellar
rock? Or an alien planetary probe? Along with other topics such as the dimming of
Betelgeuse, Pacific ocean UFO anomalies, John's take on New Horizons,
Juno, and the future of planet Venus and if the Soviets accidentally
discovered life 50 years ago. Don't miss this show I can see Tom is
fired up to finally serve to the true astronomy nuts who love the
gagliarchives radio program. While our regular program never
goes a week without a mid-show astronomical event calendar we know as The
Stargazer's Handbook provided by the great people at Sky
& Telescope Magazine. This weekly astronomy forecast is at the
start of the program's third set.
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Martin Kvam of Karisma Records
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Our first Post-Rock focus show w/staffer Sean Mickle
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Ray Weston of Echolyn
Feel free to let us know who you'd like to see visit Tom North 13th Studios!
12/30/22 - Post Rock anyone?.........................................................
We
have just confirmed with North 13th Studios staffer Sean Mickle to
produce yet another first on the gagliarchives. A thematic genre
spotlight program on the genre of Post-Rock. Sean's a big post rock fan, and Tom
recently pointed out his fondness for Explosions In The Sky, Minus The
Bear, and many other instrumental projects. Tom was over heard telling
Sean, you should put together a mock Playlist and tell me why a
post-rock show would be attractive to our audience. Crazy but true,
and no doubt Sean
is making magic. 
12/19/22 - The Return Of Progressive Rock Weekly........... 2023 will see the return of our news program Progressive Rock Weekly. Progressive Rock Weekly, a weekly news update originally part of the radio program from 1997-2001 which will now transform into a weekly video program that will broadcasted once a week on both our gagliarchivesTWITCH & YouTube channels. This near 1/2 hour weekly program will keep you informed of the latest breaking news, album releases, and buzzing stories in the world of progressive rock, progressive metal, and all outlying styles & sub-genres. Don't miss this new addition to the radio program coming very soon!
11/17/21
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'20-'21 Virtual North 13th Studio visits.......
2021 will see the
immediate broadcasts UNCUT of all of our ZOOM virtual North Thirteenth
Studios guests and launched on both our Twitch & YouTube channels.
Visit both in the meantime at http://youtube.com/gagliarchives
and http://twitch.tv/gagliarchives
10/20/21 - The Analogue Tapes Series Is Still On Hiatus....
While our spin-off radio program has been on hiatus, the return of The Analogue Tapes Series: Volumes XII to XVI are in the works including flashback in-studio interviews & performances from 2000 in Quarkspace, Echolyn, Ken Golden of The Laser's Edge and his co-produced radio program blockbusters Program 627 - Progmetal Night & the demanded sequel in the late summer in Program 652 - PROGMETAL NIGHT II: Night Of The Gods. Those are just to name a few. Keep visiting this page to see upcoming schedules on The Analogue Tapes Series. Also, a big thanks to Jason Varga of Endless Boundaries Radio who has been co-producing & letting the new RCBC Radio air these lost but not forgotten gems of tape reels!
As mentioned recently, we have unearthed stacks of our stat-books that documented our pre-digital history that included original structures to our WEEKLYTOP20, The Lost Satellite charts, The GPRN's Top 100, and so much more. Most recently we finally have released the long awaited GPRN Top 100's from the years: 1995; 1996; 1997; and with 1998 in its final processes. Also added to the website are the earliest of our tabulations previously compiled. These early radio program logs helped explain the breakdown of our first four and a half years of when we were originally The Lost Satellite before we evolved into the Gagliarchives. You can now see those yearly charts from the pre-GPRN Top 100 era with The Lost Satellite Top 10 of 1991; The Lost Satellite Top 20 of 1992; The Lost Satellite Top 30 of 1993; and The Lost Satellite Top 40 of 1994. And it doesn't stop there. We will soon have The GlobalProgressive Rock Network's Top 100's table page readjustments for the Top 100's of; 1999; 2000; 2006; 2010; 2015; and 2016) Just bear with us as we finally rectify these issues and as always.....
