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Alright folks, it's time for an update; the scoop, this dish, the latest happenings. A little FYI, if you will. Forgive me; my coffee is stronger than normal this morning.
Since we met last, progression on the program has been both productive and sluggish.
Productive in that meetings are set, conversations have been had, and a "plan of action" has been made so that strategic and tactical steps can be taken.
In the same way, it seems as though little has been accomplished because those all important meetings are not scheduled until later this month to the availability of personnel who have extensive traveling schedules. Unfortunately, patience is not a virtue I possess.
The conversations, though, have provided the encouragement and affirmation I have needed. Let's start with the most exciting one.
Compassion Experience Director Scott Barnes has hopped on board with Curtis Fletcher and myself and has been a great help in making contact with field countries. I have met with him on a number of occasions to discuss potential countries that would be open to the idea of our program.
About a week ago, he e-mailed a director in a country of interest to ask them to prayerfully consider coming on board with us and accepting the invitation to be the pilot country for the program. Scott said we would hear from them in a couple of weeks.
A few days later, we received a phone call from the country director saying that he loved the idea and wanted to be a part of it. He's all in. I don't know how else to say it, but this is kind of a big deal.
Then there is the other conversation . . . the one about me.
Curtis, Chris and I had a meeting in my office (and by office I mean cube) to discuss where I belong and to whom I belong. Because Chris has his plate full with "web stuff," and the web component of this program is only a small fraction of the program's overall reach, there is only so much guidance and assistance that he can continue to give with regards to this program.
This means that that the program is more technically a "project," which now places the program — as well as myself — under Curtis's supervision. This is good news. Let me explain why.
In terms of finding a potential, more permanent home here at Compassion, there isn't an open position within the web team. While I love this team dearly, continuing in it would not be conducive to running the program.
However, coming under the supervision and department of Curtis would allow me to continue working on the project as well as a few other items that my skills may be better suited for.
In addition, Curtis is looking to hire about four new positions over the course of the next several months. Optimistically, should the program be successful after the test and is made a yearly event, a full-time position would be needed to maintain it.
Enter your's truly.
None of this is a guarantee. I'm well aware of that. But what makes it such a blessing is that I am wanted here. Chris, Curtis, and others want to see me stay here; they want the project to be successful, and they are advocating for me to be a part of it. That is a priceless feeling.
Working closely with Curtis has been a tremendous honor. He is brilliant without being arrogant and has taken ownership and control of the project without being domineering. There are still elements that are intimidating to me, his rank being one of them.
But he has been more than a superior. He has been a wonderful teacher. He has taken time out of his schedule, which is normally booked, to get to know me, challenge me, and encourage me. He is a great listener, and a kind counselor. Best of all is his sense of humor, which has impeccable timing.
Knowing him has been an honor in and of itself. Working with him is a privilege. I'm looking forward to the months to come.
I'll keep you posted.
On a side note, I have recently created my own personal blog and would love for you to visit! I would like to get to know you and would enjoy the opportunity to read your blogs as well.


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Just Got My First Professional Photo Credit
Last week I started a new feature on my blog where I spent more than a few evenings/mornings browsing through the stacks and piles of funny, intense and often critical photos taken by those who hit the photo pits of a MLB stadium every night/day.
These collected photos included those same groups of MLB players we all gaze upon every day either in person, or through our television screens. Some of the photos show human moments both in error and in surreal action before, during or after an MLB game. Some of the photos bordered on the comical while other showed visual evidence of something amazing happening in front of the telephoto lens.
On May 28th I took my usual spot down in the photo pit in front of the stage for the Rays/Hess Express Saturday Night Concert Series. I was really excited to see punk skater girl Avril Lavigne mix it up that night, and wanted to get a few specials shots of her sporting her trademark green streaks in her hair, and her neon green motocross boots.
Photographers for the Rays/Hess Express Saturday Concert Series only get a 3-song chance of getting that special photo, or action that might some day grace a major magazine, or a local publication. I had no idea that night one of my photos would eventually have a special spot for eternity on the Web.
I always try and upload all my Rays concert photos to my Flickr Photostream so that a larger audience can see more of the photos that did not make the cut on the blog post. Usually I get the usual comments and suggestions, trying to hone my craft a little more with every shoot. Little did I know this one concert set would produce my first photo credit as an amateur photographer.
When I first got the email asking for me if I was the original photographer and asking for me to give my consent to Wikipedia to use one of my Avril Lavigne concert shots for Avril Lavigne's Wikipedia page, I was floored. I had a blog post of a late September 2010 Rays concert featuring Adam Lambert included on his International website, but my photo did not get a credit.
Here was a huge Internet factoid machine asking little old Renegade for his approval to use one of my photos. How could I say no. More or less, how could I not go screaming out into the night with excitement. Originally the photo graced the "Goodbye Lullaby" segment of the web page, but has now been elevated to the main stats box located on the top right of the web page.
The three biggest things in my life are baseball, music and writing right now. Photography is a new toy in which I am learning on the fly. For this to happen truly took my breath away. It has changed me a bit in that maybe I will partake in a few photo classes, get more versed in this art form that can visually tell a story without words.
I take my photos nightly hoping someone finds something they like within them. I do not do it for money like those who submit their work to Getty Images or other syndicated services, I take these photos for the pure sake of bringing that image to life without muttering a single word.
I might be a bit over dramatic and over zealous at this moment because these kind of things have not happened in a long time. Recognition from outside the MLBlogs World have been few and far between, and sometimes a pat on the back can re-energize you to push beyond the next limit with gusto. Right now I could take on Goliath, and possible get a unique photo in the process.
This is my first photo credit. My first introduction into an arena I have only dipped my toes into before. I am not diving in headfirst, just going to wade in a bit and enjoy this small bit of chance luck and visual acceptance. All with the help of a special punk rock Princess jamming on her black and white lacquered Telecaster guitar with the green hair streaming .
You always remember your first………. This first might just last a lifetime.

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The state champion Pottstown YMCA Seahawks swim team no longer has a head coach, thanks to the unexplained dismissal of Kathy Cook from that position.
Now, the team has no coaches after 10 assistants, several of them parents of team members, resigned in protest last week.
It's difficult to know what the management of the Philadelphia-based Freedom Valley YMCA was hoping to accomplish with the firing of Cook as coach. But if it was the demise of the excellent YMCA swim program, it looks like they got their wish.
The action has alienated a good portion of the swimming community in the Pottstown area, and for good reason. Just three months ago, Cook coached the Seahawks to their first-ever state title at the 2014 YMCA Pennsylvania State Swimming Championships at Penn State University.
Cook was named YMCA National Coach of the Year one week later at the YMCA Indoor Nationals in Greensboro, N.C. She was fired on June 11.
Neither Pottstown YMCA Executive Director Dan Albert nor John Flynn, president and CEO of the Philadelphia Freedom Valley YMCA, has commented other than to say the decision is a personnel matter and therefore confidential.
Cook is also not commenting, but those involved with the swim team say it was obvious from the time Philadelphia management took over that they wanted Cook out. Assistant coaches say management overloaded the coach with administrative and other duties without the support or training to handle them.
As for the state championship and other accomplishments, the top management appeared uninterested, assistant coaches and parents say.
Cook, a former Pottstown YMCA swim standout and three-time YMCA state champion, had been coaching full-time at the Pottstown YMCA since 1999.
Those who Cook has coached and influenced over the years are vocal and adamant in their anger at her dismissal and their support. The Mercury has received a number of letters to the editor complaining about her dismissal and praising her as an asset to the YMCA and to the youth of the area.
The evidence here all points to a Philadelphia-based organization that failed to see the local treasure in the Pottstown Seahawks swim program. Cook has coached young athletes in more than YMCA competition; many of her swimmers have achieved PIAA success as well. Several of those swimmers have gone on to collegiate swimming careers and Olympic trials.
Why fire a coach with proven success, who is respected by both parents and youth and whose accomplishments can be a marketing approach to attract families with young swimmers to the Pottstown Y? What can be gained by alienating loyal YMCA members?
These are questions that only the management of Freedom Valley YMCA can answer. We doubt they have the answers, and we doubt they're courageous enough to admit the error and bring back Cook. That would be the right thing to do for Pottstown and for the future of the local YMCA.


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Discussion in 'Acoustic Guitars' started by DarrenJ1973, Mar 16, 2013.
I have left the forum after only 10 days it is a unfriendly place, all pics have been removed.
Welcome and congrats on the new guitar!
I'm glad you worked through the initial disappointment and are liking the guitar.
Welcome to the forum.
Welcome and congrats on the new guitar.
Welcome! Enjoy it!
Nice pick - after an 18-month wait, I just got the Custom w/electronics. Very nice guitars - they were the hit of Experience when they were introduced.
Thanks everyone, now i have sorted the initial problem, I'm really enjoying it spent about 4 hours with it yesterday and it sounds fantastic, I've just found the "introduce yourself" thread so i'll introduce myself properly over there.
I went for this version primarily cos of my budget, even though I have sold all my electric gear I am out of work so the proceeds from that huge sacrifice are taking care of businesss otherwise I could of bought a USA Angelus...
Having the preamp is not a huge problem for me as I'm not performing at the moment. And I can always fit a after market system or put a mic in front of the sound hole (there's nothing wrong with the PRS system just I was not able to pay out the extra £200 for it)
Very cool. Congrats and Welcome!
Thanks Jester
Had a acoustic Jam tonight with my best mate whos is also my next door neighbour, in all the youtube vids we are shown with the SE Angelus we only hear the guitar on it's own, my mate played rhythm and I took the lead, not only does it sound great when both guitars are doing verse and chorus but it really cuts through for solos
My mate was playing a Tanglewood that I sold him a few years ago and I got about 13 years ago, that in itself is a nice sounding acoustic for the price it was way back then, but the SE ran circles around it with every note both loud a clear enough to make me an more importantly the songs sound awesome. we were mainly jamming 80s acoustic rock (GNR - Lies genre). Going to do it again at the weekend might video it might not, just doing it for a laugh.
A nice way to start. I'd love to have one of the Customs. Welcome to the forum.
Very nice!
Thanks guys,
I'm really enjoying the standard and if I could of budgeted for the extra £100 for the custom I would of gone for that too...I'm convinced that the premium is because the word "custom" is used
Pretty sure the premium is in the rosewood back & sides and ebony fingerboard & bridge...
Congrats on the guitar and glad to hear it's grown on you. My curiosity is piqued, what turned you off initially about the guitar?
Thanks Jon
It was basically the element of breaking a 53 guage string with minutes of opening the case which made me assume that there was something wrong with the guitar and that I couldn't get it to tune up properly.
A change of strings to a more reputable brand has now made the guitar sound awesome, also I was compelled to buy it untried online as my local PRS dealers didn't stock them. And I normally use one store for guitars that I have been using for too many years to count so if i bought from them i would of known it was going to be perfect but alas the store i bought it from was the 1st time I used them so naturally was nervous.
Thanks Bob, I used daddario on electrics before and i've never liked their tone, I always end up going back to Ernie Ball
Now the guitar is starting to open up and settle it's sounding amazing and using the spider capos' with it is really amazing.


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The bill would create new statewide standards for teaching abstinence and safe sex. Parents would be required to opt out, instead of the current requirement that they approve participation for their children.
The bill passed the Senate Monday on a 20-15 party-line vote. The Senate made a few changes to the bill, including a requirement that sex-ed programs must stress the importance of abstinence.
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BERLIN — After flooding from a "1,000-year storm" event Saturday prompted several concerned residents to ask for more help with stormwater issues in town, the Berlin Mayor and Council held firm to its decision to avoid "patchwork" fixes and instead concentrate on establishing a stormwater utility in the near future.
Though Berlin has had stormwater issues for decades the matter has come to the forefront in recent years. Last year, the University of Maryland (UMD) Environmental Finance Center began a free stormwater study of the town in an effort to determine Berlin's weaknesses and possible solutions to those flaws. With results expected this fall, Mayor Gee Williams advised a room full of concerned residents Monday to be patient.
Though he admitted that last weekend's storm was devastating, with reports that it was a "1,000 year storm" with findings of over 13 inches of rainfall in several areas, Williams emphasized the fact that such an extreme amount of water was far from typical in the area.
"I hope it's not something we're going to have to expect in the immediate future," he said.
Many residents, however, were understandably on edge after experiencing property damage from flooding.
"We need some additional help," said Ron Facello, president of the Berlin Home Owners Association.
Facello told the council that he was aware of and happy with the stormwater study being conducted by UMD, but that his community has been suffering for some time without perceived results.
"We have almost always had flood or near flood events during rainfall," he said.
Resident Andrea Gilberston was considerably more critical of the town, calling the current stormwater situation "inexcusable."
"We had trees, we had railroad ties, we had everything floating down into our parking lot," she said.
Gilbertson added that she and others in her area were "terrorized" by the threat of future flooding and asked that the town do more to help.
"I think we should not be the only ones shouldering this right now … I expected a little bit more help than that," she said.
Several other residents agreed with Facello and Gilbertson, with a recurring concern being a fear that the intensity and frequency of storms is ever increasing.
"I think we can be grateful it wasn't a 5,000-year flood event," said resident Randy Walter. "Otherwise, we would have needed an arc."
Walter suggested that, due to numerous accounts of flood damage and the need for cleanup, town leadership reached out to state or federal authorities in an attempt to get a state of emergency called for Berlin.
Williams promised the administration would look into the possibility and "it never hurts to ask."
As devastating as the storm was for many, Williams pointed out that the town was lucky in that no injuries were reported despite the flash flooding.
"No one was harmed in this very serious event," he noted.
Councilwoman Lisa Hall agreed, calling Berlin "very fortunate" to avoid injuries.
With results from the UMD survey imminent, Williams reiterated the need for patience in combating the stormwater problem on a town-wide scale. He cautioned against a reliance on "patchwork" efforts that have been employed in the past and instead advocated the need for a stormwater utility. Though the utility would likely mean a few more dollars on resident's bills every month, Williams was adamant that it would be money well spent if it helps regulate stormwater and flooding.
However, he did admit that no foreseeable steps that he knows of could have completely stopped issues caused by last weekend's "freak of nature" storm.
"I don't want to pretend that we can eliminate and prevent flooding from a 1,000 year storm," said Williams, adding that he does believe it can be mitigated in the future.
As for less other, lesser storm events, Williams was confident that they can be further controlled and managed in terms of stormwater impact.
But even with the town expecting advances in the next few years in stormwater management, Williams advised all residents to do as much as they personally can to deal with the issue.
"I also ask you to take a look at your own personal property," he said.
With cleanup still an ongoing effort for many parts of town, Williams pointed out the storm at least proves that Berlin can abide in the face of unusual events.
"At least we know we can weather the storm," he remarked.
The town will be having a special curbside pickup event to help with the after effects of the storm on Wednesday, Sept. 5. Items must be curbside by 6 a.m. and should be placed in a container weighing no more than 100 pounds. Hazardous waste, yard waste, construction materials, propane tanks, paint and tires will not be collected. For more information call 410-641-4001


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Officer-related shooting in Port Arthur
An officer responding to a family disturbance shot and killed a suspect who was brandishing a knife and reportedly threatened officers at a residence in the 3800 block of 29th Street on Friday, Nov. 1.
According to a news release from PAPD, upon their arrival at the residence on 29th Street, Officers Donald Suarez and Kacey Frank encountered Rosa Elvira Flores-Lopez, a 50-year-old Port Arthur residence with history of mental illness and minor assault charges, who was armed with a knife. Officers report they repeatedly ordered the suspect to drop the knife, but she refused to comply. Even after officers deployed a Taser, the suspect raised and extended the knife toward them threateningly, the release stated. Officer Frank then reportedly fired at the suspect, striking her in the arm holding the knife and penetrating her chest. She died at the scene.
The incident is being investigated by the Port Arthur Police Department criminal investigation division, internal affairs and the Jefferson County District Attorney's Office. Justice of the Peace Mark DeRouen ordered an autopsy. Police are taking statements from members of the household and neighbors. Both officers have been placed on administrative leave pending investigation per department policy.


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Cliff Lee and Progressive Field were both winners on Wednesday; although after the game one went out and celebrated, and the other spent the night covered with a tarp. Cleveland's stadium took the top spot in the Sports Illustrated fan survey for best Major League ballpark, and inspired by his home yard's impressive win — or perhaps just hopped up on caffeine — Lee went out and won his fifth straight start, 8-3 over the Mariners. Poor Seattle; their stadium only finished sixth.
Lee (5-0) ran his consecutive scoreless innings streak to 27 before Wladimir Balentien's three-run homer in the seventh. That raised his ERA from 0.28 to 0.96, still lowest in the majors. Franklin Gutierrez had a run-scoring single in the fourth and a two-run single in the fifth for the Indians, still two games below .500 in the Central.
• At Wrigley Field (15th Place). Mark Cuban watched the Cubs exceed Brandon Bass' playoff scoring average as Chicago unleashed hell on the Brewers, 19-5. It was the Cubs' 17th April win, a club record. Geovany Soto had two three-run homers for Chicago.
• At Yankee Stadium (20th Place). Placido Polanco — one of the Three Tenors, if I'm not mistaken — had two homers to lead the Tigers to a 6-2 win over the reeling Yankees, who played their first game with Alex Rodriguez on the disabled list. Gary Sheffield had two hits for Detroit, which has won seven of nine but is still below .500 (13-15).
• At Shea Stadium (28th Place). Tom Gorzelanny allowed one hit over five innings for the win, then sent his bobblehead doll to talk with reporters after the game as the Pirates beat the Mets 13-1. Pittsburgh scored nine unearned runs, and ex-Met Xavier Nady was 3-for-3 with three RBI.
• Bad News Braves. Mike Hampton, who was supposed by be back for a May 10 start with Atlanta, won't be coming back any time soon. And the Braves need him, dammit.


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In writing his play "Almost, Maine," John Cariani knew he didn't want any lobsters, galoshes or characters saying "ayuh."
Like the persevering people of the state he grew up in, the play's popularity grew slowly, steadily. Despite a short-lived off-Broadway run in 2006, the play has become the most popular work in schools and community groups, surpassing such well-known titles "Our Town," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "You Can't Take It With You" and "Arsenic and Old Lace." It has received almost 1,500 amateur productions and 70 professional ones, including runs at Geva Theatre in Rochester, N.Y., Syracuse Stage and Florida Repertory Theatre.
The play, directed by Amy Saltz, runs at Hartford's TheaterWorks Jan. 25 to March 3. The official opening is Feb. 1.
The romantic fable centers on the residents of a small, remote, mythical town in far northern Maine, close to the Canadian border. It presents 19 characters — played in Hartford by four actors — on a cold, winter night and follows their interrelated stories of love, loss and yearning, with a touch of magic realism. (The aurora borealis plays a significant role.) "There's a sense of real wonder about [the Northern Lights]. It makes you very aware that there's at lot more at work than just you and all the things you do."
Cariani, 43, was born in Brockton, Mass. and moved to Presque Isle, Maine, when he was 8. It's a remote town of 9,000 in Northern Maine, about an eight-hour drive from Boston.
"It was a really neat place growing up," he says. "It's truly republican, which means be responsible with your money and don't pay attention to people's private rights.
"It explains why you're reserved. When you open up for a hug you let cold air in and I think that's why New Englanders is a little less open in that way."
He describes people of northern Maine as "independent thinkers. In general, they're practical, self-reliant, self-sufficient and restrained. When things go bad, there's not a lot of hysteria. What really sets them apart is that they listen when people talk. Really listen.
"They don't really notice recessions or boom times because things are always kind of difficult, economically, so things are always kind of OK. There's a quiet resignation that pervades — and it isn't a negative thing."
Writing What He Knew
There's a resignation about Cariani, too, though not-so-quiet in his cheerful exuberance. He left Maine after high school — where he performed in plays and musicals — to attend Amherst College in Massachusetts, majoring in history. After a stint as an acting intern at StageWest, the former theater in Springfield, Mass., he headed to New York to pursue an acting career.
Finding a shortage of audition material, Cariani started writing his own short pieces.
In the late '90s he started to develop them at NBC's comedy venue, Performance Space NBC where director Gabriel Barre (off-Broadway's "Summer of '42, numerous shows at Goodspeed Musicals) saw them performed by Cariani. Barre encouraged the writer to pull the scenes together into a work which turned out to be "Almost, Maine."
"As a character actor you never get to fall in love and you never get to win," he says. "You're always helping someone else win or get the girl or whatever. 'Almost, Maine' is a play so that not-hot people can fall in love on stage."
While developing the play, Cariani continued acting in TV guest spots, commercials and the stage gigs. In 2004, he was cast as Motel the Tailor in the 2004 revival of "Fiddler on the Roof," for which he received a Tony Award nomination. His first significant film was in 2001's retelling of "MacBeth" in "Scotland, PA" with Christopher Walken, followed by roles on TV's Onion News Network, "Numb3rs," "Homeland," and as forensic expert Julian Beck in TV's "Law & Order." He is in the upcoming film "Sleeping with the Fishes" that features Steven Strait, Ana Ortiz and Priscilla Lopez.
Starting In Maine
"Almost, Maine" had its world premiere, appropriately enough, at Portland's Stage Company in 2004. In 2006 it opened off-Broadway and closed after a month.
It lost its off-Broadway costs, reportedly $800,000, and even with all the subsequent productions has only recouped a small part of the original investment. It needs more professional productions and perhaps a movie sale to fully recoup. (Cariani says there is interest in making the play an indie film.)
"It's been a tough slog,' says Jack Thomas, the show's original producer who lives in New Haven. "It was a high-risk venture to begin with in New York because it's so ballsy in its uncynical writing. It's so human and heartwarming. I always thought we'd do better nationally."
Thomas says schools were attracted to the work for many reasons, not the least of which was because there aren't many contemporary plays with so large a cast of characters. "There's also no bad language or nudity," says Thomas, who also produced the off-Broadway hit "Freud's Last Session." "It is also not a middle-aged marital drama so it speaks meaningfully to young audiences.
"I wish more [professional] theaters would look at this," Thomas says, but acknowledges that since so many smaller theaters in big-city markets have already done the show, major theaters will produce the play, despite its box office successes. "It still needs a breakthrough production."
In the meantime, "Almost, Maine" plays around the world, with productions in such diverse places as South Korea, Australia, Germany, Ireland, Mexico and Dubai.
Cariani, who now lives in New York City, continues to act and write. In 2010, his "Last Gas," also set in northern Maine, premiered in Portland. "Whereas 'Almost, Maine' is a love letter to northern Maine," he says. " 'Last Gas' is a more realistic view." A New York production is in the works.
"Love/Sick," which he describes as a companion piece to "Almost, Maine," is his latest play which will begin performances in March at Portland Stage. "Love/Sick" is a series of 10 short plays, all set "in an alternate suburban reality." "If 'Almost, Maine' is a slightly hopeful look at love," he says, "this is a slightly sour one, or at least realistic one."
Cariani says he winces at things that are corny and sentimental. To prevent a too-sweet take, he provided instructions in the published script cautioning that "cute will kill this play. 'Almost, Maine' is inherently pretty sweet. There is no need to sentimentalize the material. Just…let it be what it is — a play about real people who are really, truly, honestly dealing with the toughest thing there is to deal with in life: love."
Cariani quotes F. Scott Fitzgerald in "This Side of Paradise": "The sentimental person thinks things will last; the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't."
"Almost, Maine," Cariani says, is for the romantics.
ALMOST, MAINE plays TheaterWorks, 233 Pearl St., Hartford through March 3. Performances are Tuesdays through Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. and selected weekend matinees at 2:30 p.m. A free matinee for college students and faculty will be held Saturday, Feb. 9 at 2:30 p.m. Tickets are $50 to $63. Seniors on Saturday matinees pay $35. College age student rush with ID is $17, subject to availability. Pay what you can performance will be Jan. 30. Information: 860-527-7838 and www.theaterworkshartford.org.
Read Frank's blog on theater, the arts and entertainment at http://www.courant.com/curtain. And be the first to know by following Frank on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/ShowRiz.


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Confessions first. I came to this book from two angles. I read and loved Bathurst's The Lighthouse Stevensons so I was desperate to get her take on things two-wheeled. On the other hand, I wondered if I was the reader she was aiming for after 30 years pedaling, although, hitting page five, it became clear I qualify on the same grounds as Bathurst herself, who wanted to write something for 'the sort of cyclist who liked cycling, and reading, and stories, and had long ago given up any desire to experiment with exogenous EPO.'
There is much to like here, a lip-smacking amount. First up, at her best, Bathurst is a cracking writer, with just what I had hoped I'd find: takes on bits of cycling I didn't know about, perfectly described, and refreshing visits to areas that are so familiar I need to be reminded of them again. The chapter on frame-building which opens the book is a marvelous description of a world that is slowly disappearing. Getting under the skin of Charly Wegelius, a super-domestique who will never get the recognition he deserves, is a task that needed doing.
Graeme Obree is eternally fascinating, although Bathurst was unlucky that his coming out came took late for her, due to the curse of hardback deadlines. The story of the cycling Atherton family had to be told, because like Wegelius, they deserve to be heard and recognized for their achievements. Similarly, the story of how cycling helped emancipate women is worth writing again, and again; Holland is always worth a visit as the place where riding a bike actually feels normal. And then there's the pure wacko stuff: the bloke in India who raced a train, the lady who watercycled to France in the 1920s.
So much to like, but then again, there's stuff that grates. No track cycling because 'it's out of people's reach'. Hmmm. And why go to the Tour of Flanders and Tour de France yet not even venture near amateur racing? Similarly, if you are looking at cycling and women, women's bike racing has boomed in the UK since the emergence of Nicole Cooke, Vicky Pendleton et al. but you wouldn't know it on reading Bathurst. Stylistically, the random use of the verbatim interview sticks out when set against the quality of writing that Bathurst produces. There is a place for giving full vent to the every word of taxi drivers and cycle couriers and this doesn't feel like it.
Finally I'd take issue with Bathurst's statements that bike racing 'has nothing at all to do with simplicity or joy' and that 'if it's fun, you're doing it wrong.' Great to read but unfortunately not true. I've spoken to enough bike racers over the years, at every level, and watched enough pros at play as well as playing at a lesser level myself, to know for sure that there is all-consuming pleasure amidst the pain, sheer straightforwardness amongst the myriad ramifications of any race. It's not mere masochism: at its best, racing is up there with sex in the simplicity and joy stakes.
But maybe I'm supposed to feel a bit of resentment here and there, a bit of grumpiness among the enjoyment. Bathurst makes it clear from the off that she's not going to please everyone. That's because, as she recognizes, we all have our unique visions of our sport, pastime or obsession. There's going to be stuff here I don't like, that you don't like: that's inevitable when you get someone's personal take on something you love. But the good here by far outweighs the glitches and the book is probably worth the cover price for one joyous sentence alone: 'at its best, what a bike gives you is love, and souplesse.'
Hear hear.
William Fotheringham is a cycling journalist and the author of a number of well known cycling books his latest, Cyclopedia, is available at all good book shops
If you're the sort of cyclist who likes cycling, and reading, and stories this is for you
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It will certainly bear re-reading
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20th Century Fox executives announced plans for a Prometheus sequel a couple months after Ridley Scott's polarizing Alien spinoff/prequel opened in theaters - before then Scott and co-writer Damon Lindelof had spoken openly about where the followup will go story-wise - but progress has slowed in the time since then, what with Lindelof passing to focus his "single-minded" creativity on a separate project (rather than heading back to the Alien-verse right away).
Noomi Rapace (who played Elizabeth Shaw in Prometheus) recently confirmed that she had met with Scott about the followup, saying the filmmaker and a currently-anonymous writer (writers?) are hard at work putting the story together. If a hot-and-fresh rumor is to be believed, then this particular endeavor is proving to be much more difficult than anticipated.
Here is the word straight from the lion's mouth (in this case, Bloody Disgusting):
Sources close to the sequel have told Bloody Disgusting that the studio and Scott are literally "freaking out" over how to continue the story of Elizabeth Shaw (Noomi Rapace), and are taking pitches from basically anyone who can crack the story*. While a sequel is nearly inevitable, it definitely puts it in flux, and in a state of jeopardy.
*We expect everyone surrounding the project to deny this story. That's standard procedure. Don't believe 'em.
Two weeks ago, reports emerged about the relentlessly busy Scott mobilizing pre-production on the Moses flick Exodus, so that filming can get underway before this year draws to a close. The filmmaker is known for juggling multiple projects at once - case in point: he's not finished with post-production on The Counselor just yet - but it sounds as though he's taking steps to keep busy, rather than waiting to see if the Prometheus sequel comes together in the near future.
However, just because the next Prometheus installment is taking longer to cook than expected, that doesn't mean Fox and Scott are in full-blown panic mode. Lindelof voiced similar doubts, when /Film asked him on Twitter about what his take on the situation is:
@germainlussier I don't believe Ridley Scott has ever freaked out in his life.
— Damon Lindelof (@DamonLindelof) March 27, 2013
Thereafter, Lindelof sent /Film a direct response, addressing the claim in the aforementioned BD report about him skipping on the Prometheus followup being part of the problem - as he played an important role in re-spinning Jon Spaihts' Alien: Engineers prequel script to serve as the basis for a new movie trilogy (and has now left Fox and Scott "in the dust" to continue the story on their own).
Here is an excerpt from Lindelof's statement:
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Take the Offensive: Unlock Your Siloed Content
Are you one of the many organizations with content in a variety of silos? You probably are – and you're not alone - most organizations today are also siloed. It's clear that this siloed approach creates a huge challenge for companies in meeting stringent compliance regulations. Sound familiar? Now, imagine if your Teams had the ability to search and action content as though it resided in one location – with easy access and usability. Get the picture?
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Uma nova geração de leis e regulamentos surgiu nos últimos anos com o objetivo de proteger dados e informações de usuários na internet. Na Europa a GDPR, no Brasil a LGPD e nos Estados Unidos (Califórnia), até agora, o CCPA.
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Everyone is struggling to keep up with new technology and they know that automation is the key to staying current. 80% of the respondents from a recent EMA Research survey say they agree or strongly agree that their need for and use of automation is growing rapidly. In addition, 78% of the respondents agree or strongly agree that automation is viewed as a strategy in their organization. Even so, more than half of those surveyed are considering a move to a different workload automation (WLA) platform.
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Las leyes de Protección de Datos requieren ajustes en los sistemas, procesos y cultura organizacional de las empresas. El cumplimiento se basa en una comprensión completa de cómo se identifican y clasifican los datos personales, la transparencia de uso y la velocidad de respuesta a las solicitudes de cumplimiento de los derechos de los clientes.
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The Six Components of Digital Transformation
Sep 19 2019
61 mins
Rob Perry, Jim Schmidt, Jarein Vlasveld - ASG Technologies & Brad Steinmeyer - Zia Consulting
Digital transformation is vital for success in the information economy. Businesses must enhance their ability to change—and change quickly. While 81% of organizations know that digital transformation is important, many are unsure where to begin or how to advance their digital transformation journey*…and if transformation isn't done right, it's going to be a waste of valuable time and money!
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Understanding your data is the first step to advancing data maturity.
- Do you know what critical factors to look for to ensure a healthy data environment?
- Are you able to find the data you need quickly and do you know where it came from?
- Do you trust the data and insights coming from your analytical environments?
- Can you disrupt the marketplace, succeed in the digital world and modernize with your current portfolio of data?
Success with data depends on a mature set of processes built on a solid foundation. Without that maturity, decision making is delayed, data-related compliance is at risk and digital transformation is difficult.
ASG & North Highland have partnered to deliver an automated data x-ray, assessment and treatment plan for customers needing to diagnose their current data state, identify their desired future state and map out a path to get to healthy data maturity.
Join this webinar to learn how ASG & North Highland can prescribe a foundational data-fit program that will elevate and activate your business to:
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ASG Technologies recently launched ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator™, allowing enterprises to gain competitive advantage by automating end-to-end value generating processes across all technology stacks and software packages with less effort, more visibility, and higher success rates.
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Insurance companies face the competing requirements of improving profitability while delivering world-class customer service. They are trying to manage growing amounts of information from a wide range of sources—both traditional and social. Additionally, they are forced to comply with ever-increasing regulations while providing critical information to the business. So, how do you differentiate yourself in today's highly commoditized insurance markets?
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Join ASG and Nationwide to hear how ASG's Intelligent Data Catalog makes data easier to find and understand with curated datasets and how Data Specialists and Business Leaders can collaborate to increase data value and data stakeholder productivity.
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42 mins
Greg Wilson, ASG & Kevin Dowd, ASG
Does your agency keep their content in a variety of silos? If so, you are not alone; most agencies today are siloed. Yet, the siloed approach creates a huge challenge for agencies in meeting stringent compliance regulations. ASG Technologies can help solve this by teaching your teams how to better utilize silos.
Watch this webinar to discover how you can gather and understand your content across various silos to ensure you are on the 'offensive' with compliance regulations.
During this session, we discuss:
- New ways to identify, classify, and dispose of records
- How you can federate, migrate, and manage records in one place
- Why it is critical to have a records management solution with repository of records that are auditable and defendable
- How well-managed records can be used to assess the impact of programs, improve business processes, and share knowledge across the Government
- Why some of the largest institutions have taken an 'offensive approach' to manage static and streamed content in order to comply with laws and regulations
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Jun 19 2019
57 mins
Rob Perry, ASG; Jamal Ellis, North Highland & Sanjay Saxena, Northern Trust
Digital transformation is a requirement to succeed in today's information economy. As business leaders begin to acknowledge this necessity, they seek to navigate a successful path to digitisation, but they must start with a foundation of data understanding, maturity and trust – a crucial prerequisite for the digital transformation adventure.
This webinar will consider the essential elements of digital transformation, how to implement them, and best practices for advancing your digital transformation journey. It will also consider technologies, competencies and techniques – such as data intelligence, data lineage and governance – that will help you pave the way to success.
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50 mins
Jeff Cherrington, VP, Product Management, Systems, ASG Technologies
Critical business processes span stacks & require orchestration to meet goals
Are you facing challenges with your multi-stack environment? Discover how you can streamline and improve the management of your multi-stack processes – from mainframe to cloud - by combining orchestration across all the necessary stacks and operating from a unified view and control panel.
ASG Technologies recently launched ASG-Enterprise Orchestrator™ allowing enterprises to gain the competitive advantage with automated end-to-end business processes across all technology stacks and software packages.
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May 28 2019
28 mins
Alain Bueno, Sales Specialist, Data Intelligence, ASG Technologies
A l'ère du digital, la stratégie des entreprises est intrinsèquement liée aux données. Pourtant, les volumes, la diversité et la vélocité des données en constante augmentation constituent un défi permanent en matière de stratégies de gestion des données. Les entreprises doivent faire face à un double défi : satisfaire les besoins opérationnels (de type défensif) et répondre aux enjeux stratégiques (de type offensif). Lors de ce webinar, vous découvrirez l'état de l'art de la gestion des données et l'impact des tendances clés sur les offres ASG Data Intelligence.
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May 23 2019
39 mins
Jim Maguire, ASG & Eric Howse, Zia Consulting
Organizations continue to struggle with manual invoice processing, exception handling and data validation. The majority of invoices are still processed as "paper," regardless of whether they arrive as printed or electronic versions such as PDFs or Word documents. Yet studies have shown that companies with automated invoice processing spend up to four times less per invoice.
Whether it's the paper cost or people cost, missed supplier discounts or late payment penalties, the savings can be significant for companies of all sizes. So, what does a best-in-practice solution really include?
Watch this webinar to learn how to:
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Combining Artificial Intelligence and Data Intelligence for Compliance Success
May 22 2019
59 mins
Sue Habas, ASG; Jon Kaufman; Trestle Group & Thomas Gustinis, Trestle Group
As you modernize and fast track Data Management for more accurate and efficient compliance, is there a role for Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Where can AI streamline your compliance efforts? Can you embed business rules and policies into your data strategy using a more automated method?
Join ASG and Trestle Group to hear how the combination of Data Intelligence (DI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) reduces risk and frees resources for new data driven opportunities. Learn how Trestle Group supports their clients with AI integrations into their Enterprise Data Management programs.
You will walk away with a deeper knowledge of how to:
- Build the essential Data Management foundation for continued compliance
- Use Artificial Intelligence to manage and improve compliance accuracy and efficiency
- Bring together AI and DI to explore new business opportunities
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Cloud First? Maybe Not: Why a Hybrid Cloud Approach Offers Greater Versatility
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59 mins
Randolph Kahn, Kahn Consulting Inc.; Greg Wilson, ASG & Jarein Vlasveld, ASG
Cloud-based systems and applications are popular across companies in all industries. However, despite the intense interest in the cloud, many businesses have yet to make the leap to this platform. In fact, many companies that have adopted the cloud are far from completely operational on it. Does this sound like your organization?
If so, you're not alone. According to AIIM research, over 35% of respondents said they were moving "more to the cloud," while 46% said, "more towards a hybrid of cloud and on-premises." This is because, despite its compelling capabilities, the cloud is not always the best option for some processes and some organizations.
Watch this ondemand webinar, featuring ASG's Greg Wilson and Jarein Vlasveld as we discuss these scenarios, and show you how a hybrid approach to the cloud leverages the best of both worlds. By allowing workloads and data to move between private repositories and public clouds flexibly, organizations have greater versatility and more options for content deployment and use.
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Take the Offensive: Unlock Your Siloed Content
Apr 25 2019
43 mins
Tom DiRusso, ASG & Steve Studer, Zia Consulting
Are you one of the many organizations with content in a variety of silos? You probably are – and you're not alone - most organizations today are also siloed. It's clear that this siloed approach creates a huge challenge for companies in meeting stringent compliance regulations. Sound familiar? Now, imagine if your Teams had the ability to search and action content as though it resided in one location – with easy access and usability. Get the picture?
Join ASG & Zia to discover how you can gather and understand your content across various silos to ensure you are on the 'Offensive' with compliance regulations.
During this session, we'll discuss:
- Why some of the largest financial institutions have taken an 'Offensive Approach' to managing static and streaming content to comply with laws and regulations
- How you can federate, migrate and manage records in one place
- New ways to identify, classify and dispose of records
- Why it's critical to have a records management solution that has a repository of records that is auditable and defendable
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Apr 4 2019
58 mins
Brendan English, ASG; Greg Wilson, ASG & Jarein Vlasveld, ASG
As content is typically stored across a wide-range of disparate repositories, many organizations struggle to consolidate a comprehensive, single view of their content. This lack of visibility is making it increasingly difficult for businesses to realize the value of their content (structured and unstructured) and comply with the increasing number of regulations and governance policies.
Regulations and governance requirements are expanding the need for records management to improve privacy management. The new automated information governance capabilities of Mobius support the need to create records of all types of content and to meet privacy requirements of new regulations such as the GDPR and the CCPA.
Solving these complex challenges, while securing data, is a topic ASG Technologies understands well.
Join us as we discuss how we help customers:
• Enable businesses to meet rapidly changing needs with low-code / no-code workflow tools
• Realize the benefits of the cloud with the flexibility to adopt at the pace of business
• Manage records management requirements – reducing risk & improving privacy management
• Create a single view of content with federation across repositories
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A Framework for Data Privacy Survival
Mar 28 2019
58 mins
Ian Rowlands, Director, Product Marketing, Data Intelligence, ASG Technologies & Kevin Moos, President, Primitive Logic
Are you protecting your Customer Data in compliance with the latest privacy regulations?
Watch ASG and Primitive Logic discuss hear how an integrated framework for Customer privacy can enable you to reduce data management and privacy costs.
Learn how your peers are succeeding with data privacy management and how it is enhancing their business. You will get recommendations on how decision-makers like you, can foster ethical data stewardship to strengthen Customer trust.
You will walk away with deeper knowledge of:
• The factors and trends that are shaping consumer privacy protection
• The business and operational benefits of applying an integrated approach to protecting Customer data
• The cost-benefits of establishing a comprehensive data privacy framework
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5 Key Considerations for Your Hybrid Cloud Content Management Strategy
Mar 21 2019
29 mins
Kevin Bender, ASG & Brad Steinmeyer, Zia Consulting
As companies strive to make the Cloud a coherent part of their overall IT infrastructure, we often hear customers asking, "Are we taking the best approach to get the most from our Content?" Navigating the best path for your organization is more varied and compelling than 'just moving content to the Cloud'.
Blending traditional and modern IT models can offer cost savings as well as the agility you need to compete in the digital world. Watch this webinar to hear ASG and Zia Consulting discuss best practices developed while helping organizations construct and implement successful cloud strategies:
• How Cloud migration can enhance IT agility and business competitiveness
• What Consolidation vs. Migration really means
• How Efficiency and Security can and should 'work together'
• How to measure immediate gains that align with your long-term vision
• Why the Cloud is important as you drive digital transformation
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Take the Offensive: Unlock Your Siloed Content
Tom DiRusso, ASG & Steve Studer, Zia Consulting
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Summer is for lake swimming and beer drinking. And JEFF the Brotherhood agrees, at least according to the band's newest video for the song "Sixpack."
The track comes off the two-piece Nashville group's upcoming album, Hypnotic Kings, which drops July 17. If you asked me what float trips back home were like, I would probably just show you this clip. In the thick of July, we'd travel down to the Guadalupe River and pack dingy canoes with styrofoam coolers and travel down the river until we were burned to a crisp and full of brews. Except in my version of the story there was less male nudity. [PitchforkTV]


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Brazil coach Jose Guimaraes:"I don't like so much this match. I think we played a bad match today. We made many mistakes. We have to prepare against Italy. We won this match but I'm not happy. I asked for a time-out at 11-10, because I didn't like the concentration of my team at that moment. I think Fabiola did a better job (as setter) than Dani, this is the reason (for substitution)."
Brazil captain Fabiana:"We had a lot of misses. We know we should not make mistakes during this tournament but we are still doing it. Even after the substitutes came in, we were still making them."
Brazil player Jaqueline:"Each day we are becoming better. Now we have to think about the Italy match because it's a hard match tomorrow maybe to decide the next round. Our performance has been different depending on the day. We are a team that can do better. I need to raise my own level to help the team as well."
Puerto Rico coach Carlos Cardona:"I believe that today's game was much better than yesterday's, because I know it was very bad. We tried to improve everything we did. But we still could lose 3-0 to a great Brazilian team. There is a big difference in the level. We had some mistakes in our services, and we made about 30 errors. We were not doing so well, and they were doing better than what we were doing, especially at the net in zone four."
Puerto Rico captain Vilmarie Mojica:"We played better than the last game. We're still making unnecessary mistakes and we have to improve our skills."


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Nooneyouknow wrote:I've got such a huge back log, I'll almost certainly wait for a Steam Origin sale this time around.
Kaz wrote:It looks alright but I'm not installing Origin for it.
oh wow omg... totally forgot it's Origin...
while we're at it, Steam just opened beta for streaming ala Twitch. Since even the consoles feature that now, it was good thinking they'd address that too. And I recently had someone show me Steam in TV-"console" mode. was neat. I still wonder how their new-fangled controller and certified box thing is gonna turn out.


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Bandcamp Embraces Pirate Googlers, Turns Them Into Customers
from the it's-not-so-hard-to-compete dept
A common complaint from the legacy movie and music industries is that when people Google things like "watch movies online," unauthorized sources rank higher than legitimate ones (for some crazy reason, it seems like people prefer comprehensive libraries of unrestricted links over stale selections of geoblocked videos). Moreover, they complain about autocomplete terms like "torrent," completely missing the fact that those are caused by people searching that exact thing, not the other way around.
So it's great to see the people at Bandcamp doing the exact opposite and celebrating the prevalence of those dirty pirate keywords. They looked at their own analytics and noticed a lot of sales being generated by search terms that would send your average RIAA lobbyist running to Congress:
For example, just this morning someone paid $10 for an album after Googling "lelia broussard torrent." A bit later, a fan plunked down $17 after searching for "murder by death, skeletons in the closet, mediafire." Then a $15 sale came in from the search "maimouna youssef the blooming hulkshare." Then a fan made a $12 purchase after clicking a link on music torrent tracker What.CD. Then someone spent $10 after following a link on The Pirate Bay, next to the plea "They sell their album as a download on their website. You can even choose your format (mp3, ogg, flac, etc). Cmon, support this awesome band!"
That last part is another example of how Mike described Louis CK's recent experiment: be polite, be awesome and be human. CK's video was also available on the Pirate Bay, and as someone here pointed out, it spurred several users to comment with links and encourage people to buy, while others offered explanations for their decision to use the torrent. Though there can be no doubt that in both cases some "hardcore" pirates just didn't give a damn, there are far more people who just want to be polite, awesome and human and support the artists who do the same.
Bandcamp recognizes that people who search for torrents and file locker links are, at the core, just fans looking to get some new music. By focusing on serving those fans, they don't need to worry about illegitimate sources -- after all, in most cases they already provide a superior option:
We see these sales as proof that Bandcamp can effectively compete with filesharing and other free distribution platforms by a) giving fans a clear, easy way to directly support the artist, and b) offering them a better user experience. Our favorite recent example of this was an $8 sale that started with the search "milosh flac -torrent." So here was a fan looking for a Milosh record, wanted a high quality flac, but didn't want to have to sift through a bunch of torrent sites. And that led them right to Bandcamp, and right to putting money in the artist's pocket. Beautiful.
Beautiful indeed. When you tear down walls instead of constantly building new ones you can actually turn search terms like "torrent" to your advantage, rather than resorting to SEO-by-lawsuit. Bandcamp is yet more proof that you can "compete with free," if you give people an attractive alternative.
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An honors reading group is a wonderful way to bring people together to discuss great books and intriguing ideas. Students can earn honors credit (0-1 credit) for having a group. Four such discussion groups can count for one of the required honors courses students need to graduate with All-College Honors (students can take the course for 0 credit if a credit would entail an overload fee for the term).
Ideally, groups should contain 4-8 members. Group members should select readings with a goal of spending somewhere between 12-15 hours in actual discussion during the semester. Readings should be meaningful, the kind of readings that can inspire good, serious thinking about important matters.
Once students have the members of the group and the readings, they must find a professor willing to serve as the moderator of the group by sharing in these readings and discussions. At this point, one member of the group should send an e-mail to Emily Esch detailing (1) the book or books to be read, (2) the professor who has agreed to serve as the moderator, (3) the names of the students involved, (4) whether each student has chosen 1 or 0 credits, and (5) how many Honors credits each student in the group has completed by that point. The deadline for getting this information via e-mail to Emily Esch will be end of September (Fall term) or February 15th (Spring term). Students will be signed up for either Honors 270 "Directed Reading" (if most of the people have completed 12-15 Honors credits) or Honors 370 "Directed Reading" (if most have more than 15 Honors credits).
The Honors Option
Honors Option Application Form
The ideal Honors Option is based on a desire to do some independent work in a Non-Honors course. The point is not merely to get Honors credit; the real point is to provide for a meaningful academic experience that goes above and beyond the standard course requirements. The Honors Option application form must indicate that the student has the approval of the supervising faculty member, and it must be returned via e-mail to the Honors Director by the date specified. Both the student and the professor will receive word of this approval or rejection within two weeks of the established deadline for submission. Ordinarily, students can count only one Honors Option toward the required number of Honors courses to complete the program.
General Guidelines for Honors Option Credit
- For courses in the Humanities and Social Sciences, there should be at least 15 pages of graded written work in addition to the written work assigned for the course. The form of this writing will depend on the course, but it should require significant secondary readings and student research beyond the standard assignments for the course.
- For courses in the Sciences, the Honors Option proposal should include a significant laboratory or research inquiry that goes beyond the normal scope of the course. In most cases, the results of the inquiry should be written in appropriate science reporting format.
- For courses in the Fine Arts, the Honors Option proposal should include either written work as above, or a substantial piece of artistic expression that goes beyond the normal requirements of the course.
At the completion of the semester, the Honors Director will forward a request for evaluation for Honors Option credit to the instructor. The instructor will grant or reject Honors Option credit for the submitted work. No grades are given for the Honors Option work. The work done (or not done) for Honors Option credit will not affect the regular course grade.
Honors Thesis
The Honors Thesis involves close work with a faculty advisor from the student's major department in conducting research and writing a thesis or executing a creative project. Ideally, the student completes most of the thesis in the fall of the senior year. By early March the student submits a final draft of written work to the departmental defense committee. A public defense is held in April of the senior year. Students receiving a grade of A or H are eligible for departmental distinction within their major. Prerequisite for the thesis is HONR 396 (Thesis Proposal) for 0 or 1 credit taken during the Spring term of the student's junior year.


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Now that all that election nonsense has been settled, this week's issue of Bloomberg Businessweek "reports on the road ahead" for President Obama — which, judging from the cover, involves aging 25 years over the course of the next four. Obviously Barack's going to get a few more gray hairs (the past four years have taken their toll, understandably, not that we give a shit), but this is a tad extreme — thought I admit it makes for a pretty compelling magazine cover.
As a special bonus "ack," the magazine's website also revealed the cover they'd prepared in case of a Romney victory. Thankfully that one will never, ever hit the newsstands.


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On 16 March 2017, the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) of Finland issued a ruling on the tax treatment of carried interest in a private equity structure. The SAC ruled that carried interest is taxed as income of the limited liability company, rather than income of the shareholders.
The case decided by SAC concerns a typical private equity structure in Finland. Under the structure in question, Finnish investment professionals are shareholders in a Finnish limited liability company, which in turn acts as the general partner in a Finnish limited partnership, together with a number of limited partners. The profit of the partnership was agreed to be distributed as 20% carried interest to the general partner after the limited partners' share of 8% hurdle interest. The issue at stake in the SAC was whether the carried interest is taxable in the hands of the Finnish investment professionals, or as income of the limited liability company (i.e. the general partner in the limited partnership).
The tax treatment of carried interest has been subject to an ongoing debate in Finland. Finnish tax authorities issued a study in April 2016 based on which they concluded that carried interest is primarily taxed as income of the investment professionals. Central Tax Board issued a ruling in November 2016 based on which carried interest is taxed as income of the general partner (i.e. the limited liability company in this case). The SAC decision upheld the ruling of the Central Tax Board.
The Finnish case concerns tax treatment of carried interest in a private equity structure that is very widely used in the Nordic countries. Although the SAC decision provides strong arguments against taxation at the level of the investment professionals, this ruling is unlikely to end debates about appropriate tax treatment in all cases. Many private equity structures are complex and the associated tax treatment in Finland for carried interest require careful considerations, as tax authorities are unlikely to stop their attempts to tax carried interest simply because of this case.
Taxation of carried interest in private equity structures is not just a Finnish issue. This is also a contentious topic of discussions between taxpayers and the tax authorities in Sweden. In the last few years, the administrative courts in Sweden have decided hundreds of cases on the taxation of carried interest. A major decision is pending from the Swedish Administrative Court of Appeal. New Swedish rules governing closely held companies have also been released for consultation and are due to be in place from 2018.


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