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The only thing worse than being bullied is being bullied by an empty threat. That's what the A's and Major League Baseball just did to Oakland.
With approval of his new Coliseum lease in limbo, A's co-owner Lew Wolff ran to commissioner Bud Selig for permission to talk tough. Wolff came back and threatened to leave — immediately — if the lease agreement wasn't approved by the Oakland-Alameda County Joint Powers Authority.
So the JPA approved it by a 6-2 vote. Got stuck up with a water gun.
All eight members of the JPA should have called Wolff's bluff and voted down the lease agreement. They should've told Lew Wolff goodbye in a hundred ways.
Aloha. Peace out. Hasta la vista. You still here? One person should've calmly opened the door while another jingled keys.
The 10-year lease still isn't official. The Oakland City Council still needs to vote on it. And those folks should vote it down on principle. If the A's want to come back to the negotiating table and work out a deal that is beneficial to the city — trusting that Oakland politicians know what's beneficial is another matter — fine. If they don't?
Kick rocks.
To be sure, I want the A's in Oakland. The lease isn't terrible, though all the risk is on the county. And the lease includes a promise from the A's to get serious about building a ballpark in Oakland. And the language even allows for the Raiders' hoped-for construction, which means the lease agreement keeps the door open to both the A's and the Raiders staying in Oakland.
But getting played like this is so unlike Oakland — I'm talking about the people, not the politicians. There is no way a sports team should wield this kind of power over a city. Those days need to be done, and are pretty much done with any city purporting to be major. But the A's, who operate as if they don't have the money to wheel and deal like modern-day owners, definitely don't get to call the shots.
Municipalities across this land are closing up the coffers to sports teams. And owners are seeing the trend and privately financing what they want. The Clippers just sold for $2 billion. Think Steve Ballmer, the new owner in waiting, is holding up Los Angeles for $5 million in parking taxes?
The threat of the A's leaving is so stale anyway. Where are they going? To San Jose, a move Major League Baseball has worked to prevent? To AT&T Park for sharing with a Giants franchise that wants to keep the A's out of its territory? If the A's can make it happen, do it.
What other options are there? An out-of-state move isn't immediate. Perhaps Canada has the only ready-to-go venue befitting an MLB franchise.
Where you going, chief? Some makeshift stadium in Small Town, America, isn't beneficial. Do the A's really want to go play in Modesto?
It's probably equally unrealistic to expect these politicians to muster a united front, to refuse to be bossed around by an outgoing commissioner and a frugal owner. But at some point, they need to take a stand for the city and the citizens of the county.
This stranglehold sports teams have on Oakland is the biggest stumbling block to Oakland keeping those teams. The desperation local politicians show to keep teams is counterproductive because it allows for stunts like this.
If the A's and Major League Baseball are going to fake a strong-arm on a lease agreement, why wouldn't they do the same for funding on new ballpark?
Where is the investment from the team, or from MLB, on this lease? The A's agreed to buy a new scoreboard. Whoop-EE. They agreed to spring for the Maybelline to put on the pig.
For years now, the A's have been trying to leave but can't. They haven't shown any commitment to making this a mutually beneficial relationship, putting every nickel they can on the county's tab. And they refuse to sell because they are making Dr. Dre money by maintaining a low payroll and drawing from MLB's revenue-sharing plan.
Certainly, the A's belong in Oakland. They are part of the city's history and identity. The residents are passionate about the team. And yes, having a major league baseball team brings jobs to the city. But leveling the Coliseum and turning it into an office park would bring jobs, too.
The days of Oakland having to kowtow to sports franchises need to end. The reality is, this area offers more to the franchise than the franchise offers to the area. This is a top market with a passionate fan base. Land in Oakland is cheaper than in other top-flight markets, so you get the metropolitan benefits at a discount rate.
If the A's leave and find greener grass, and someone willing to kick in, tip your cap and move on. But as long as it takes nothing more than an empty threat to make the city jump, the Samsonite will be kept at the ready.
That's why the City Council should reject the lease. It might be the only way to ensure a fair shake moving forward. The tables need to be turned .
The A's and other sports teams should be trying to show Oakland what they can bring to the table. That should be just as much part of the conversation as what is being done for the team.
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Now here's Lisa Grace...
Books Optioned for Movie Deal: What You Should Know that No One Tells You
I put up my first eBook for sale on May 23, 2011 on Amazon alone. I was new to the self publishing game after having had several "send me the full manuscript" requests.
What I learned from this?
What this taught me is I had mastered the art of writing the query letter.
Unfortunately, my book(s) contain(s) several no-nos for the religious YA market (like kissing, and mild lust, strictly first base stuff), but not near enough sex for teen YA paranormals.
What I learned from this?
There's no market place it fits into easily. Take stuff out, or put stuff in.
I'm writing for twelve-year-olds on up; I'm not comfortable putting "more in" as I saw when I volunteered a Crisis Pregnancy Center, what "more" blossoms into for that age group. Birth control is equal to amnesia for a large percentage of teens. Since when have you read a paranormal where they take a pill every morning or the guy slips a condom on? Just doesn't happen in fantasies, and these kids are trying to live their fantasy.
That's the practical side of why I won't "put it in" not to mention there's a whole moral side of me opposed to kids and S-x.
You can pick up a free eBook copy of Angel in the Shadows, Book 1 from Amazon or in all formats from Smashwords.
Anyway, my eBook did a funny thing back in July and August 2011, it hit #1 in teen horror (just in the Amazon eBook Kindle store and just in my sub genre) and stayed there for almost seven weeks, then stayed in the top ten. About this time, Daniel Radcliffe (AKA Harry Potter) was starring in a horror film of a 1981 book called The Woman in Black. I looked at my best seller list and saw my book had been bumped to #2 by this oldie but goodie.
That week I received two messages from two separate movie producers about whether I'd be interested in optioning my book for a movie. They obviously had been trolling the Amazon best seller lists, since my book would have been unknown outside that arena.
The first one I passed on. I had the feeling they wanted to tie it up and try to resell it. They were a small group and had only done short films up to this point, no full length features.
The second one, I felt really wanted to make a movie. He'd read it and thought it was the perfect vehicle for his next film, his next film. He had one already fully funded and in production, plus a track record in Hollywood with big name directors, producers, and studios. He is well respected in his industry.
What I learned from this?
You need to have a successful book in its genre, and the producers must have read and be passionate about your book.
Sometimes a smaller player optioning your book is better than a large studio. A large studio may option ten vampire books, and only make one of them. It ties up their potential competitors and gives them the advantage that if the first is a hit, they have others they can churn out in the same genre.
Signing with a smaller group, you are their next project. You're in the cue.
The Deal
I do have the first two books in my series optioned with first right of refusal on the third by Motion Picture Pro Studios. The option has been exercised and the project is currently in development.
I did sign a confidentiality agreement so I can't talk the specifics of my deal, but I can talk about what you should consider. There is a dearth of information about signing an option.
Hire an entertainment lawyer who has signed several book to movie deals. I privately PM'd a bunch of authors I'd known who had done deals, and a couple of names kept coming up as good to work with. I went with the one I felt most comfortable with, Elaine P. English, PLLC.
Some of the language in the contract meant exactly the opposite of what I assumed, so don't ASSume. Because lawyers charge by the hour read through your contract several times, then write a short explanation or summation of what you think every paragraph means.
What I learned?
Do not be afraid to appear stupid. Contracts are written in Wonderland and you are Alice. Do not small talk with your lawyer, you will be charged for it in six minute increments.
Make sure you keep the rights to your characters, for past, current, and future works.
Consider all forms of media (even those that don't exist yet) and who explicitly owns what rights.
If there is something you want, ask. The worst they can do is say, "It's a deal breaker."
Contracts do not get signed overnight. (Well, maybe some do.) Mine took months of back and forth.
Lawyers take vacations (both sides), producers take vacations, holidays come up, and life still happens, so be prepared for a wait.
There is nothing "normal" in an option. Suzanne Collins was paid $200K for the first novel (with escalations on the back end if it was a hit). Most authors agree get as much as you can upfront because the movie may never get made. But, if it does get made, if you can negotiate to get back end, that can pay off, too. Many authors make more optioning their books year after year even if it never gets made into a movie.
It was very hard to find people willing to talk about the process, either because the options were in themselves a money maker that never evolved into a movie, or because of the confidentiality agreements signed.
What I've learned once I'd signed
My option has been "exercised" and the project is now in development. All kinds of exciting things are happening behind the scenes that I can't talk about. So:
Let go. Yes, it's your baby, but you've put it up for adoption, so kiss it goodbye. Doesn't mean you don't love it anymore, but unless they gave you any rights other than your name on the big screen, your opinion doesn't matter, unless they ask, and even then who's asking? The director, actors, costumers, set designers, sound designers are all going to add their artistic input.
If you are writing a series, get the screen writers information as to where it's going, so they can write the best script possible (foreshadowing and all that.). If you're lucky, they'll consult you.
Write new stuff. Most projects take quite awhile. Years. My only regret is I haven't written more, but that can be remedied.
Most producers and studios now consult research firms before optioning books like: http://www.the-numbers.com/ or those mentioned in this NY Times article.
Just because an author has gotten a book(s) optioned, doesn't mean they can help you get yours optioned; they can't. The producer was passionate about that specific project. They have people throwing books at them all the time, and a referral unless it's from a trusted friend (and even then) will mean nothing. Besides, if I could, I'd have all my books optioned.
Lisa Grace is the author of the young adult Angel Series: Angel in the Shadows, Book 1; Angel in the Storm, Book 2; Angel in the Ice, Book 3 and The 15th Star (A Lisa Grace History Mystery) among other works. She's also a co-host of the web TV show Indie Author Chat. The author can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or followed on twitter at @lisagracebooks
Joe sez: In my limited experience, if there's a group out to screw writers more than the Big 5, it's Hollywood.
I've signed a bunch of options, with nothing to come of them but middling money. I've had producers announce they were making a film out of one of my books without me agreeing to the terms. I've had shopping agreements (which is like a pre-option, where someone shops the book around but doesn't want to pay a lot, if any, money.)
My advice comes down to this:
1. Consider the length of the term (the shorter the better) and make sure you can get out of it if nothing is moving forward.
2. Make sure an option for a single title doesn't include a whole series, and pay close attention to what characters in the work are included.
3. Lisa's advice of "Let it go" is spot-on. I'd take it a step further and say, "Take the money and forget it."
4. Never take back end points on net, because no movie ever makes a profit on paper. Take it on gross. Hollywood accounting is notorious for a reason.
Again, my experience here is limited, but I'm very happy being in control of my career. Someone else making a movie or TV show based on your writing is having someone else in control.
I have several close friends with movie and TV deals, and they're involved with the projects to varying degrees. I can't see myself ever doing that. I don't want to write the screenplay. I don't want to consult. I'll take the money, and a ticket to the premiere, and that's all I want.
It's a real ego trip when someone is interested enough in your book to potentially film it. Like Lisa said, when you get an offer, get an entertainment lawyer to look at the contract and explain it to you. Don't be so tempted by the thought of your name on the screen to take onerous terms, and get as much money as you can. If the offer is serious, you should be seriously paid.
I've finally gotten my life to the point where I don't need hope to get by. So I'm not going to allow myself to get caught up in the glitter and drama of Hollywood, only to have my hopes dashed over and over. I'll option any of my IPs for the right price, but then I want to be 100% hands-off.
I'm reminded of an anecdote where Elmore Leonard, during an interview, was asked what he thought about Hollywood ruining one of his books.
"The book is not ruined," Dutch said. "It's right there, on the shelf."
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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Behind senior Leah Meffert's record setting performance, the Tennessee Tech Golden Eagles swept the Eastern Illinois Panthers. Tech won by the scores of 25-16, 25-18 and 26-24.
"We came out with a lot of energy today," head coach John Blair said. "The girls came in with a sense of urgency and knew that a spot in the OVC Tournament was at stake."
The Golden Eagles opened the first set hot as they built a 17-10 lead. Tech would not look back as it took the set 25-16. Meffert and sophomore Kelsey Gray added five kills each.
The second set began much like the first with Tech controlling the pace holding a 15-10 lead. The Golden Eagles outscored the Panthers 10-8 the rest of the way to take the set 25-18.
The second set also saw Meffert become the all-time leader in kills at Tech when she tallied her eighth kill of the match. She currently has 1,670 career kills.
"One of my goals coming into Tech was to for me to make a name for myself," Meffert said. "I knew coming into the match that I would probably get the record, but I was more nervous about winning the match so we could get into the OVC Tournament."
The third set was a back and fourth contest as both teams were tied at 17. EIU was able to take a four-point lead at 23-19, but the Golden Eagles answered right back with a 5-1 run to tie it at 24. A Panther attack error and a Tech ace iced the match for the Golden Eagles.
Meffert paced the Golden Eagle offense with 15 kills, while hitting .353. Senior Melanie Culp added 33 assists, while freshman Allison May posted 11 digs.
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Author Notes: These potatoes have evolved.
Dubbed "World Famous Potatoes" by my daughter (as in, "will you be bringing the world famous potatoes to Hannah's house?"), their initial incarnation was granted me by my former hairdresser. John, of Greek Orthodox extraction, and I used to compare our Easter and Passover menus as I was deftly shorn and styled. He taught me the secrets of Avgolimono soup, though I have yet to take that plunge. The idea for this recipe came from him. I'm not even sure whether his instructions called for initial boiling or roasting; the Yukon Golds were my first alteration. I only remember the lemon and onions, and the directive to "use more salt than you think you'll need", intoned with an air of quiet authority. I went home and roasted, with good results. Over time, minor errors stacked up and made what to me was an even better potato: a wedge, accidentally flipped upside down, produced a crisper crust. I lost track of time and overcooked them. Some recipes are more about guidelines than about measurements. This is one of those recipes. You can make more or less to suit your taste, you can use more or less onions. But they should be pretty tangy with lemon juice and salt, which rounds out the flavor. —creamtea
Food52 Review: This is one of those "you gotta have faith" dishes -- yes, the potatoes will eventually turn mahogany; yes, contact with the hot potatoes will cook the onions just enough so that they lose their rawness but retain a nice bite; yes, you won't regret using a generous handful of salt. Be sure to allow yourself several hours' cooking time, throw in whatever fresh herbs you have on hand, and don't hesitate to pull the potatoes before they're truly mahogany if dinnertime is fast approaching and you're satisfied with their heft and flavor. - Kukharka —mitschlag
Serves: variable; 5 lbs. of potatoes serves 8 -12
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 hrs 10 min
pounds small to medium Yukon Gold potatoes
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tablespoons Juice from about 1 to 1 1/2 lemons, strained
onions (up to 2, depending on size), diced small (1 very large, 2 to 3 smallish onions, regular or sweet vidalia-type
pinch Sea salt, more to taste
- Preheat the oven to 375° F. Wash the potatoes and cut into wedges from pole to pole (cut in half and half again, but do not peel)
- Pour a generous swirl of oil into each of several roasting pans. Tilt to coat the bottoms thoroughly with the oil. You will need a goodly amount because they tend to stick. I use 2 pans plus a heavy 12-inch cast iron skillet for 5 pounds of potatoes. The skillet cooks fastest and makes the very best brown crust.
- One by one, put the potato quarters cut side down in the pans. Rotate each wedge around its pole so all sides are coated with the oil (or rub onto all sides). End with the cut sides down-important. Place them in neat rows; you can fit a few more by angling each row of wedges first one way, then the other, herringbone-style.
- Place the pans in the oven and roast. Do not turn the wedges nor shake the pan. Leave them alone. Roasting time is dependent on your pans. You want a really good deep brown color on the cut edges that are in contact with the pan, at least for many of the wedges. Don't just stop at tan. (Okay, several will be tan; some should go mahogany). Start checking after an hour, according to your oven. This may take awhile.
- While the potatoes are roasting, dice the onions.
- As soon as you take the potatoes out of the oven, blanket them with the onions, the juice and a good amount of salt, scrape them from the bottom of the pan and toss everything together. This may have to occur in stages as each pan finishes cooking. If you use cast iron, you may want to remove the potatoes to a large bowl first to avoid getting acid on the pan. The retained heat of the potatoes will start to cook the onions. Taste for seasoning. Turn into a serving bowl. Serve hot, warm, or at room temperature. Still good the next day.
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Last month I became executive director of an organization which I believe is positioned to affect measurable, positive change. Since its founding just a two years ago, Campaign for Vermont has grown from an idea into a productive, effective organization.
I'm appreciative of the incredible work that has been done thus far by Bruce Lisman, Tom Pelham and Mary Alice Mckenzie. They have achieved some major milestones; not the least of which was attracting a diverse group of individuals that span geographic, political and ideological realms.
In its brief history, Campaign for Vermont has affected change in a real way. There is now a vibrant and persistent discussion statewide around the need for ethics standards in Montpelier. The legislature is acting on education system reform. And the depth of our partner network continues to grow daily.
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Our critics have claimed Campaign for Vermont is a conservative campaign. They have attempted to undercut the momentum by attacking the motives of our founder. Yet, in a state government thoroughly dominated by one party, nearly any constructive criticism will be met by partisan resistance. I know enough of our legislators to say they are by and large a respectable and honest group of people.
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Hydrogen, the lightest element, can easily dissolve and migrate within metals to make these otherwise ductile materials brittle and substantially more prone to failures.
Since the phenomenon was discovered in 1875, hydrogen embrittlement has been a persistent problem for the design of structural materials in various industries, from battleships to aircraft and nuclear reactors. Despite decades of research, experts have yet to fully understand the physics underlying the problem or to develop a rigorous model for predicting when, where and how hydrogen embrittlement will occur. As a result, industrial designers must still resort to a trial- and-error approach.
Now, Jun Song, an Assistant Professor in Materials Engineering at McGill University, and Prof. William Curtin, Director of the Institute of Mechanical Engineering at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland, have shown that the answer to hydrogen embrittlement may be rooted in how hydrogen modifies material behaviours at the nanoscale. In their study, published in Nature Materials, Song and Curtin present a new model that can accurately predict the occurrence of hydrogen embrittlement.
Under normal conditions, metals can undergo substantial plastic deformation when subjected to forces. This plasticity stems from the ability of nano- and micro-sized cracks to generate "dislocations" within the metal – movements of atoms that serve to relieve stress in the material.
"Dislocations can be viewed as vehicles to carry plastic deformation, while the nano- and micro-sized cracks can be viewed as hubs to dispatch those vehicles," Song explains. "The desirable properties of metals, such as ductility and toughness, rely on the hubs functioning well. Unfortunately those hubs also attract hydrogen atoms. The way hydrogen atoms embrittle metals is by causing a kind of traffic jam: they crowd around the hub and block all possible routes for vehicle dispatch. This eventually leads to the material breaking down."
State-of-the-art computer simulations were performed by Song to reveal explicitly how hydrogen atoms move within metals and how they interact with metal atoms. This simulation was followed by rigorous kinetic analysis, to link the nanoscale details with macroscopic experimental conditions.
This model has been applied to predict embrittlement thresholds in a variety of ferritic iron-based steels and produced excellent agreements with experiments. The findings provide a framework for interpreting experiments and designing next-generation embrittlement-resistant structural materials.
Here's a citation for the paper and a link,
"Atomic mechanism and prediction of hydrogen embrittlement in iron" by Jun Song & W. A. Curtin in Nature Materials (2012) doi:10.1038/nmat3479 (advance online publication Nov.11, 2012)
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Twelve years after his death on tax day 2000, Edward Gorey — writer, illustrator, Victorian aesthete born half a century too late — has earned an adjective all his own: "Goreyesque."
The word is used, increasingly, to refer to anything that manages to be amusingly lugubrious, in an arch sort of way. In recent years, Gorey's eccentric shadow has only lengthened across pop culture, his influence apparent in Tim Burton's gothic whimsies; the Lemony Snicket books by Daniel Handler; the emergence of the Gorey tattoo as a hipster fad; crowds thronging to the traveling exhibition of his work, "Elegant Enigmas"; and the resurrection of out-of-print Gorey tales
Three Gorey titles have just landed on bookstore shelves. From Pomegranate Press comes "Thoughtful Alphabets: The Just Dessert & the Deadly Blotter" (64 pp., $14.95), previously published only in obscure, limited editions, and "The Osbick Bird" (32 pp., $12.95), a Gorey classic unavailable for four decades, except in poor quality in "Gorey's Amphigorey Too" anthology, but now restored to a clarity so sharp-nibbed it almost hurts the eye.
Bloomsbury is also in on the act with "Saint Melissa the Mottled" (48 pp., $12), an unpublished story that Gorey never got around to illustrating, supplemented here with images from the Gorey archive, some never before published.
Although it was his sets for the 1977 Broadway play "Dracula" and the animated introduction to the public-television series "Mystery!" that put him on the pop map, Gorey was really a maker of miniatures. He did his best work in his hundred-odd little picture books, nearly all of which consisted of whimsically perverse send-ups of Victorian primers, cautionary tales and "penny-dreadful" true-crime gazettes, often told in deader-than-deadpan verse. "Victorian novels all scrunched up," he called them.
Gorey drew his illustrations in pen and ink, at the size they were reproduced (4 by 5 inches, usually), his fastidious crosshatching and stippling verging on the obsessive.
In his letters to Peter Neumeyer, a university professor with whom he collaborated on three children's books, Gorey offered a mini-manifesto, "E. Gorey's Great Simple Theory About Art." Gorey being Gorey, his artistic credo could fit on the head of a pin. Simply put, it's "the theory ... that anything that is art ... is presumably about some certain thing, but is really always about something else, and it's no good having one without the other, because if you just have the something it is boring and if you just have the something else it's irritating."
Gorey believed devoutly in the mutability and the inscrutability of things, and in the deceptiveness of appearances. He was convinced that what isn't said speaks more eloquently than what is.
"Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak," he told an interviewer. "Ideally, if anything were any good, it would be indescribable." Which is why Henry James drove him up a wall: "The longer he goes on, the more he explains, until there is nothing left."
The three titles just published are presumably about some certain thing but are really always about something else. Consider "The Osbick Bird": It's a sweetly melancholy surrealist fable about Edwardian eccentric Emblus Fingby's odd (but fond) friendship with the even odder bird of the title. Gorey, an only child and lifelong solitary, was famously an odd bird himself — tall, long-legged and gawky like the bird in the book, with the luxurious beard of a Victorian literatus and a sense of style that ran to fur coats and tennis shoes.
Inevitably described as "flamboyant," he was often suspected of being a closeted gay, but when pointedly asked if he was, replied, "I'm neither one thing nor the other particularly."
It's hard not to read the story as a daydream, at once wistful and resigned, about What Might Have Been, had he had a partner. Then again, this is a man who believed "[w]hat is, is, and what might have been could never have existed." Fingby dies, "the bird alone/ was left to sit upon his stone/ but after several months, one day/ it changed its mind and flew away." Actress Julie Harris, a friend of Gorey's, read "The Osbick Bird" at his memorial service in 2000.
Each of the two stories that make up "Thoughtful Alphabets" is just 26 words long, each word beginning with the successive letter in the alphabet. "The Deadly Blotter" is absurdist Agatha Christie (Gorey read and reread Christie devotedly), a mystery in which "extenuation yields zero." "The Just Dessert" is a series of angst-stricken scenes about nothing, exactly, illustrated in a naive style reminiscent of the woodcuts in colonial primers; captions such as "Frequent Ghastly Happenings Imply Jeopardy/ Keep Laughing Mechanically" sound like lines from a Puritan sermon based on "Waiting for Godot."
"Saint Melissa the Mottled" is a kind of gothic hagiography about a nefarious nun noted for Miracles of Destruction rather than good works. Given to dark designs involving blowgun darts and library paste, Melissa graduates to "supernatural triflings" such as the withering of the "cricket-mad" Duke of Dimgreen's arm and a sea gull attack on two young girls, who are saved from a Hitchcockian fate by none other than Melissa — an act of orchestrated heroism that earns her the post of governess in the Dimgreen household, Wormwarp Hall. In death, she becomes the patron saint of ruinous randomness.
Gorey was born into an Irish Catholic family, briefly attended Catholic school and had an aunt who was a nun. He lost his religion early on and was, for the rest of his life, an agnostic, a fatalist, an existentialist sympathist and more often than not a Taoist, depending on what mood you caught him in. A subtle anti-clerical strain runs through his work: cocaine-addled curates beat children to death, nuns are possessed by demons, unfortunate things happen to vicars.
In that light, "Melissa" looks like a tongue-in-cheek meditation on the absurdity of any religion that insists that events, no matter how seemingly pointless or painful, are part of God's plan. It's tempting to read Melissa's "piebald skin" (hence her nickname) as a metaphor for Gorey's Taoist-absurdist view of life as always one thing and simultaneously another, defying binaries.
"Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time," Gorey once observed. "At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring."
It's the "screaming monotony" of Melissa's everyday life at Wormwood Hall that drives her to her "machinations, temptations" and Dadaist wonderworks.
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Over the last two years, Kid Ink has seen his stock rise by landing two albums on Billboard magazine's Top 200 Albums chart and establishing himself on Top 40 radio. As someone who has dealt with the stigma that comes with making a more accessible brand of Hip Hop, he has also found a bit of a kindred spirit.
"I just did a remix with a great young artist named Kid Ink," offered LL Cool J during a February appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show. "It was me, Kid Ink, Chris Brown and Tyga. They remind me of me when I first started, so I was happy to get on the record and do something… That was a lot of fun."
That's high praise coming from someone whose self-proclaimed title of Rap's "Greatest of All Time" has both statistical and critical merit. While only time will tell if the moves Ink has made with DJ Ill Will can produce a level of results anywhere near comparable to those of LL, Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin, it's hard to knock the foundation laid by the two representatives of Tha Alumni Music group. That foundation was only solidified earlier this year, when Ink's album, My Own Lane (his first under the comfy confines of the RCA umbrella) enjoyed an eight-week run on the charts after debuting at the #3 spot. Prior to heading over to Dubai to presumably further promote his album, Kid Ink reflected on his journey and shared his initial reaction when LL Cool J hopped on the remix to his single, "Main Chick."
Kid Ink On His Songwriting Process & L.A. Tattoo Culture
HipHopDX: You've been pretty adamant about getting into different markets. How do you balance that with still maintaining your original audience?
Kid Ink: It's all about making sure the content is key. I just do music and have fun, and then you can kind of separate the records that are for you and aren't for you just by being real with yourself. It's about knowing the type of music and the type of audience that you're speaking to as far as how left it's going to be when they hear it. You don't want them saying, "Yo, that's not really what he's about." If you separate yourself from the music sometimes, you get a feel for what's good and what's for other people, or mixtape stuff versus album stuff. It's just the ear that I feel like I have.
DX: Does having to make singles interfere with that ear in any kind of way?
Kid Ink: It's about not having the pressure and letting the records just kind of fall into place. When I focus too much and go, "Oh, I'm trying to make a single," you kind of force your thought process. It forces the kind of beat you're picking. At the end of the day, singles aren't even supposed to sound the same. I think when you get a hit record, you know the next one has to sound completely different or you're just riding the wave of that same record. And then it's not gonna last that long either.
DX: Let's take it back to "All The Way Tatted Up," since people talk about your ink a lot. You start out by saying, "I'm addicted to the pain," which is not really the typical reason people state for getting a lot of ink work.
Kid Ink: [Laughs] Yeah, I feel like when I was younger I definitely used to get more ink addicted. I think it's not being addicted to the pain when it's happening, but more so when you're not getting tatted you kind of itch for that initial feeling. It's weird. It's kind of like a thrill to certain people where you're itching to have something new—not just in your mind but actually on your body. You're kind of feeling deprived.
DX: How much does visual art inspire that or how you craft your music?
Kid Ink: I started getting tatted before the music, so it's kind of two separate cultures, but at the same time it's an art form. The art of me getting tatted is about showing and proving things and having a different image. But I'm still acting a different way than people expect when they're looking at the image and expect a certain thing based on the tattoos. That happens here and especially overseas—when people aren't used to seeing a bunch of tattoos from head to toe. They kind of feel a different way about your persona.
I think it gives me the hunger to want to show and prove and do as much as I can with no limitations or setbacks. It's the same way with music; I try not to have any setbacks or limitations with the music I do just because I'm a Hip Hop artist.
DX: How much has the perception of Los Angeles tattoo culture changed—especially with your generation?
Kid Ink: You definitely see it more and more now, where even a model may have a bunch of tattoos. People aren't really afraid to show it more, but I think it's still a growing thing. People are still getting used to it, and it's still a shocker to some people. That happens more with the older market. A small network of people are getting into offices, fully tatted and fighting that perception. They understand the culture, but then there's still those old heads in the bigger businesses who still don't get it completely. I don't feel like you can still walk into a record label and really present yourself with a bunch of tattoos on your face… Maybe after you've proven yourself as an artist, but I don't think you can automatically walk into an office full of tattoos. You have to have already established yourself in some type of entertainment world first.
Kid Ink Revisits Early Production Work With Diddy & Nipsey Hussle
DX: True. Well speaking of expectations, listeners expect something pretty specific when they hear the name "Sade." When you produced the "Sade" record for Diddy Dirty Money, how did you approach that while still showcasing your vision?
Kid Ink: Well that was kind of me working under another producer who was working under Diddy at that time. That was a beat I made top to bottom, and he added something to the bridge near the end. So I remember making it, and they told me Diddy was vibing to it and having fun with that record. It got passed around through the label and to different artists, and it landed on the Dirty Money situation. They kind of picked it up more with the titling and putting the record together.
DX: And you also worked with Nipsey pretty early?
Kid Ink: Yeah, ["Bullets Ain't Got no Name"] was kind of the record that got him buzzing in the streets, which led to the Sony deal. After he got his deal, they invited both of us out there to work on his album. I think I just took a separation from really wanting to handle a lot of paperwork and the things they wanted me to sign. As far as working on the album and signing to Sony and everything, I felt it was a little early for me to sign. So I just kind of separated and continued to do my thing independently.
DX: Even though you didn't sign, what did you pick up as far as seeing what went on behind the scenes with labels at that time?
Kid Ink: It was dope, because before making that decision, I was able to go to a bunch of different studio sessions and meet different producers. From that situation, I ended up having a session with Nipsey [Hussle], which landed me into the session with the producer who was working for Diddy. That's how I got that placement, and that's what started the whole thing with me being an artist too. So it's always an opportunity to open doors based or earlier situations. And that was the first record I got to hear on the radio too, so it was dope.
How Social Media Keeps Kid Ink In Touch With His Core Fans
DX: Do you remember where you were the first time the song got played?
Kid Ink: I think I was actually outside of my house, and somebody drove by playing it [laughs]. So that was a crazy situation.
DX: Nice. You recently reached 500,000 followers on Twitter and gave away a song. How integral has the Internet has been to your success?
Kid Ink: It's been super important for different reasons. When there are down times, and I feel like I need to get some music out, I can get some music out to the fans to keep the momentum going without having to worry about putting together a big promo package. I can just hit my core fans, because I know what kind of music they want. At the same time, I can test new songs too. I can get feedback and see what kind of direction I want to go in. That way we can really put some money behind something and take it to the next level. It's a great way to test your craft.
DX: Just out of curiosity, how do you pick who you want to interact with when you have half a million people following you?
Kid Ink: It's really like a random thing, man. You just have those moments where there's downtime on the road. I may be looking at [direct messages] or mentions from weeks and weeks ago. I'll reply to stuff weeks later, when they thought it was probably never gonna get a reply because it was a month ago. But you c8an just hashtag them on Instagram or go back and like a bunch of stuff. I'll comment and answer some questions when I have some free time, and the fans really feel it.
DX: Even with your core group of fans, you mentioned how sometimes people overlook your verses because they're expecting the big hook. What are you learning as you progress as a songwriter?
Kid Ink: I feel like I've been learning a lot of different things because people pay so much attention to a hook or how radio-friendly a record is. Sometimes people will go, "Oh, that's why it's hot." So I'm learning how to make the verses as catchy as the hooks, because sometimes there are songs where you don't know the hook, but you'll remember a line from one of the verses. Recently, I've learned a little bit more about how that can make the whole song. So I'm finding those moments that can be bigger in the verses than just the hooks.
DX: What's been your biggest challenge in that regard?
Kid Ink: Besides that, just separating myself and still having that lyrical content there and making records that will catch your ear and be radio friendly. I've really been finding that lyrical side, even if it comes at the cost of making records without hooks. I'm working with beats that don't necessarily have a bouncy melody. I'm getting used to going in on things where, even if it doesn't have a beat that you can vibe and dance to, it's not a downer moment. I have to do more opening up to get on those records and be a little more relatable aside from things that are just up. Sometimes you gotta show some of the down moments.
DX: Kind of like "No Miracles?"
Kid Ink: Right, exactly. Those are the struggle records where I really have to focus, work and understand how to produce those a little better.
Kid Ink Says He Called His Mom After LL Cool J Remixed "Main Chick"
DX: Well, this isn't a struggle record, but what was your reaction when DJ Whoo Kid got LL Cool J to remix "Main Chick?"
Kid Ink: Oh man, that was crazy. I felt like that was one of those moments where it was dope just coming from a legend, but I also had to hit up my mom and excite her and all the LL Cool J fans that know the movement. I thought it was dope, especially because he was just on the The Arsenio Hall Show, and he shouted out the remix and how he was grateful to be a part of it. I thought it was a dope look.
DX: He's definitely mentioned you as someone he's looking out for. Have you guys had a chance to talk?
Kid Ink: Nah, I haven't got a chance to reach out because I've been moving around so much. I don't even know what area he stays in, but I'm pretty sure he stays out here. I gotta figure out where he's located and try to link up with him soon. If I'm touring, I'd love to bring him out and do something big.
DX: Speaking of legends, you've quoted Notorious B.I.G. on songs like "Never Change" and "Crazy (Loco)." What was the first B.I.G. song you heard?
Kid Ink: Yeah, the first one I ever heard was "Big Poppa," when I saw that video. But the first Biggie song I really loved was "Juicy," because it was more of a relatable record. It's still something I relate to now. It's a timeless record.
DX: You did three songs with Chris Brown, two with Pharrell and you mentioned how "Sade" was a collaboration of sorts. For those that don't know, how does the collaborative process work?
Kid Ink: It takes a lot, man—especially with the Pharrell situation. We got into the studio, finished a record together and then he sent me another record that I finished. I was also sent another record through e-mail that I ended up finishing. But to get the records completely finished, we need to get back in the studio. He's a producer who really wants it to be 100%. It's hard sometimes to get back in the studio with somebody like Pharrell, and so much happened last year with my touring schedule. I had three tours last year. Getting people in the same city at the same time is hard, and then last minute stuff like booking gets in the way because you don't want to mess up people's money. Sometimes it will take a longer process when you don't want to deal with each other through e-mails; you really want to get something across or have the artist do something specific that doesn't work long distance. Sometimes you can't really feel the vibe.
But then there are people like 2 Chainz, and I feel like whenever I send 2 Chainz an idea, he'll send it right back in 24 hours. With someone like that, I feel a little confident in him being hungry and wanting to give me his best—especially with the time frame. But with some artists, when you send them a record that they don't understand—they don't know how to give you their best. They don't understand the record. So I always try to worry about the feature after I have the record done. Then I can go, "Okay, this person will fit perfectly here. I know they'll understand it," and that comes from understanding their music. That works out better than just sending something that they're gonna write their worst 12 [bars] to, because it just wasn't a beat they were vibing with.
DX: From a business perspective, you initiated contact with DJ Ill Will, then enjoyed success independently prior to signing with RCA. What's been the biggest business lesson you've learned?
Kid Ink: There are a lot of new things happening right now. We ended up releasing an independent album before we could sign the deal, and we kind of signed that out of our deal. So they had nothing to do with that album, and we still generate our own income and buzz off that album. We eat off that 100%, and that's something lovely. I'm glad we got that done before the deal.
But I'm learning this new process with the "Show Me" single. It's been out for 15 weeks and is still growing higher than it's been for the first five weeks. I'm used to coming from the game where independently, you only get about six weeks tops for any record. You get that first three weeks to get the record hype, and then you get another three weeks for it to last until you feel like you need something new out. It's just a different process to learn and figure out how it's going, but I'm still trying to be the creative guy and leave that bigger business up to them.
DX: Got it. Last question: you had a lot of people you looked up to and emulated before you broke through. What's it like to have the opportunity to work next to them now?
Kid Ink: Man, it's crazy at first. You have to separate being a fan, get to work and show and prove. When I got in the studio with Pharrell, I was watching him make beats, and everyone was so in awe. Then it was a silent moment, and he was like, "Yo, what's going on? Y'all not vibing with this? Why's everybody so quiet? I need some talk…have some conversation." We were just in the moment though, because a lot of people don't get to see these things. You don't just normally get to see Pharrell making beats with Timbaland there vibing out. I was just in the studio, and somebody told me Timbaland was upstairs. I had a moment like, "Oh, Timbaland's upstairs. I'ma just go stand in the corner and watch." But I had to jump out of that and say, "I'm not just gonna stand and just watch. I need to get to work and show why I'm just as much of an artist and producer as they are." You have to just shake up out of that.
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A transgender student has lost his bid to become homecoming king at Hopkins High School.
Jae Bates and his friend, Kaylee Grunseth, were running for homecoming king and queen. Kaylee created a Facebook page to get the school behind the couple.
But another couple received more votes from the student body Friday.
Bates was born female, but last year he started to make the transition to become a man. He changed his name, takes special hormones and plans to have surgery in March.
Bates tells KARE-TV — http://kare11.tv/19GQy7z — that over the past couple of years, he's been able to find out who he is, "and the high school is so accepting of that."
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The PGA Tour is just outside Philadelphia this week for the AT&T National at the beautiful Aronimink Golf Club. Justin Rose picked up his second career Tour win at Aronimink in 2010 and returns as the defending champion.
Before the tournament gets started on Thursday morning, we caught up with Aronimink PGA Head Professional Jeff Kiddie for a little Q&A.
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PGA.com: Thanks for joining us, Jeff. The world got a good look at Aronimink during last year's AT&T National and it's a beautiful venue with the old-time feel. What separates Aronimink from other courses on the PGA Tour schedule?
Kiddie: There aren't that many regular tour stops that play courses as old as ours. Like a lot of other courses from the era of 'the golden age of design,' the greens at Aronimink are pretty severe. In the early 1900s, greens weren't played at the speeds that they are today so they created interest with the shapes and undulations. So with the modern technology and agronomic practices we have really fast greens with great shapes and contours. Nick Faldo raved about our greens during the television broadcasts last year and I would agree with him that our green complexes are what separates Aronimink from most other courses on the PGA Tour. Donald Ross designed many great courses, but I would argue that there may not be a better set of 18 greens in all of the courses that he did.
PGA.com: Justin Rose is your reigning champion. He really had a breakout season on Tour last year and a win at your place was his second in three starts. There have been enormous expectations placed on Rose since that incredible run he had as a teenager at Royal Birkdale. What was it like to see him win for a second time at your course?
Kiddie: It's always great to see somebody that showed so much promise as a teenager prove that it wasn't just a fluke. He is such a consistent player and seems like he is on the verge of being another one of the younger superstars on the PGA Tour. It's also great for us that he plays full-time in the United States. Many of these great, young Europeans only play a handful of events in the States.
PGA.com: Tournament host Tiger Woods isn't able to play this week as he continues to recover from injury. However, he will still be in town to take care of his hosting duties. What does that mean to the event?
Kiddie: Obviously the spectators would rather be watching him out on the course and I'm sure he'd much rather be playing. However, it proves how much this event means to him and to his foundation. It is great that he is participating in the opening ceremonies and several other of the tournament activities and it's nice that the kids that are here to see him still get to see him. Hopefully he'll be back in action soon.
PGA.com: What's one aspect of your job that people might be surprised to hear?
Kiddie: Some people might be surprised to hear that our professional staff is responsible for the merchandise operation for the tournament. From product selection to the final sale, we handle it all. This is our second year of doing this and I think we learned a few things last year to improve upon this year, but it is still a big responsibility.
PGA.com: Is there one particular thing you enjoy most about being the host professional for a PGA Tour event? If so, what is it?
Kiddie: The thing I enjoy most about being the host professional is seeing how much people enjoy seeing our course and facility. It's fun listening them get to the eighth hole, which is a very challenging par 3, and hearing them talk about how great the hole looks. For the vast majority of the spectators it is their first time being on the property and hopefully they have a terrific experience and have fond memories of being at Aronimink.
It's also fun for my staff and me to see how the best players in the world play our course. It's great to talk to them to see what they like about the course and what about it really challenges them.


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By Damian Lang
As I write this article, it is Election Day in the U.S.A! Stuck on Chicago's O'Hare Airport runway, I am pondering the outcome of the election tonight. All elections are important, but this one seems to be more so. I feel like I spent the first 25 years of my working career trying to figure out how to get into business, and I have spent the last few years trying to stay in business and, at least, keep the shirt on my back.
Now, it could get even worse if the pro-business candidate doesn't win, and they raise taxes. Anyone investing in the stock market knows that you don't take a chance investing $100 in a company to see if that company can make its business model work, when, if it does, you get to save $60 or $80 of the profit. Risking our money in a construction business (when the average construction company only earns 1 percent to 5 percent net profit) to keep 60 percent of those earnings is no different. All who know me know how positive minded I am, but there is just no way I can find a positive note in this one. We have to be idiots to do it!
I am sure I will get some slack from my critics for writing how I truly feel in this article, but I believe it is a scary time for our country right now. We have one guy running for President who has been Santa Claus with tax payer money. Those that have gotten the free stuff tend to like ole Santa, so it is obvious how they will vote. To borrow a line from Ohio Gov. John Kasich, "When you get more people riding in the wagon than you have pulling the wagon, the country has major problems."
I chose to go through the often-delayed, heavily congested O'Hare to get home, so I could watch the election unfold alongside my state's local congressman, state representative, and a couple hopeful county commissioners. Seeing in person the reaction the candidates will have to their win or loss will be worth the travel efforts.
I can't imagine all of my choice candidates winning tonight, so, like all business owners, I will be dealt a hand with the election results. It is up to my companies and me as to how we play our cards based on that outcome. If the pro-business candidates win, we will plan for expansion in areas we see opportunity. If the opposite occurs, then we ride out the storm by only investing in sure bets, or none at all.
Regardless of the outcome of the election, one thing is for sure: We will all have to deal with the leaders who are chosen and move on. Once we find out what the politicians are going to do regarding policies, regulations and taxes, we must adjust our business model accordingly. Will the Congress let the tax cuts expire? Will Obamacare be re-vamped? Will there be more money in the near future to build infrastructure like more schools, public works buildings, etc., that may end up creating more work for the construction market? I doubt it, but there's just too much unknown at this point. In the meantime, we all still have decisions to make, and our decisions shape the futures of our companies.
As I write, I am still trying to get home from Chicago O'Hare. One thing is for sure: As I told my office staff, I will be late for work tomorrow, due to celebrating the victory (hopefully by the candidate I am pulling for) for President of the United States. And, if he does not win, I will still be in late as the results will most likely leave me feeling sick. I hope you all voted today for a better tomorrow.
About the Author
Damian Lang is a mason contractor in southeast Ohio and inventor of many labor saving masonry systems and products. Lang has served as the Marketing Committee Chairman for the Mason Contractors Association of America. He is also author of the book Rewarding and Challenging Employees for Profits in Masonry. To network with Damian on contractor tips or tips you have and would like published, contact him at email@example.com or 740-749-3512.


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Official Statement on Airing of Columbine Videotape, Oct. 12, 1999
SOCORRO, N.M., Oct. 12, 1999 - New Mexico Tech's first concern is for the victims of the Columbine tragedy and their families, and the prevention of future tragedies of this kind.
New Mexico Tech has developed a pilot course for school administrators and staff and emergency first responders such as fire and police personnel, to assist them in preventing and responding to violence and threats in schools. This effort grew out of a course Tech has been conducting as part of the National Domestic Preparedness Consortium for Emergency First Responders in response to terrorist acts in general. As part of this pilot project, various training materials have been assembled, with the assistance of numerous professional emergency management organizations, consortium members, and the National Sheriffs' Association. Included in these training materials is a short video clip from a surveillance camera in the cafeteria of Columbine High School. This clip was used in a recent pilot training session given at Albuquerque Academy to local law enforcement and school personnel. There was no intention to distribute the material to the media and general public. This material has not been released publicly out of respect for the feelings of the victims and their families. A decision as to its use in the final training program will be made in consultation with the appropriate authorities.
The Consortium consists of New Mexico Tech, the National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center at College Station, Texas; the Nevada Test Site; Louisiana State University; and the U. S. Justice Department at Fort McClellan, Ala.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – The Dartmouth Big Green and Penn Quakers fell to the Bulldogs of the Yale women's swimming and diving team in Kiphuth Pool on Saturday. Yale beat Penn 179-121, while Yale trounced Dartmouth 193-107. This margin of victory over the Big Green replaces last week's 187-113 victory over Cornell as Yale's largest of the season thus far. The Bulldogs protected every last yard of their home pool, winning 12 out of 16 events including both diving events. The Bulldogs are now 5-0 in dual meets.
Early in the day the diving duo of Rachel Rosenberg and Paige Meneses put the Bulldogs on the board with yet another one-two finish in the one-meter event. Rosenberg won with a score of 269.15, followed by Meneses with 263.80. Freshman Christina Brasco was not far behind in fourth place with 243.00 points.
The first swimming win of the day came for the Bulldogs in the 200-yard medley relay. The Yale 'A' flight of Cynthia Tsay, Athena Liao, Hayes Hyde and Joan Weaver touched in 1:46.48 to Penn's 1:48.64 and Dartmouth's 1:49.60. Weaver then took third in the next event, the 1000-yard freestyle, touching in 10:19.39. Abigail Nunn took fourth (10:23.43) and Courtney Randolph took sixth place (10:25.51) for Yale.
Dartmouth and Penn found some success in the next two events. Dartmouth won the 200 free, with Molly Albrecht coming in second (1:53.17). Penn then won the 100 backstroke, with Cynthia Tsay also coming in second (58.40). The tides quickly turned, however, and Yale was back on top in the 100 breaststroke. In the event's second heat Athena Liao was in a close second place going into the 50-yard turn. Liao pushed out in front of Penn in lane three to come home in 32.94, the next fastest second 50-yard split being Penn's 35.28. Liao won in a time of 1:04.13.
In the 200 fly Hayes Hyde was out quick, touching the wall first at the 50 and again at the 100. At 150 yards into the race Hyde had over a one second lead, but pressure was again coming from Penn in lane three. Hyde clocked in at 2:04.07, a mere 0.04 seconds faster than Penn's Melissa Paratto. Ileana Lucos took fourth place (2:08.04). Before breaking for diving Erica Kao took fifth (24.81) in a very quick 50-yard freestyle. Only 0.51 seconds separated fifth-place Kao from the winning time. The 50 free would be the last event of the day that Yale did not win.
After a solid second-place finish in the one-meter diving event, Paige Meneses showed she has some real chops in the three-meter as well. Teammate Rachel Rosenberg took second place with 253.05 points. Meneses, however, was far and away with 278.30 points, owing much of her first place finish to median scores of seven on her first dive, back one-and-a-half with three-half twists, and her last dive, inward one-and-a-half pike.
The remaining swimming events went all to the Bulldogs. Cynthia Tsay narrowly edged out teammate Ileana Lucos to win the 100 freestyle in 52.50 to Lucos' 52.63. In the 200 backstroke Molly Albrecht was neck and neck with Penn in lane three at the halfway point of the race, but consistent 31-second splits in the last 100 yards won out as Albrecht touched in 2:03.30 to win the event.
Athena Liao then had a big win in the 200-yard breaststroke. After the first 50 yards Liao had a 0.81 second lead, and it only grew from there. With 50 yards to go it had widened to nearly four seconds and in the end Liao finished in 2:17.13, a remarkable five seconds faster than Penn's second place swimmer (2:22.14). Chelsea Dunlap and Courtney Randolph took fourth and sixth place.
In the 500 freestyle Joan Weaver and Molly Albrecht had over a half second lead on the field after 50 yards. Albrecht stepped out front after the first 150 yards but regardless both Weaver and Albrecht still had about a length on Dartmouth in third position. With 150 yards to go Weaver moved into first position and had a three second lead on Dartmouth coming into the final 50 yards. Weaver touched first in 4:59.90, while Albrecht took second with a time of 5:01.74. Abby Nunn finished fourth in the event (5:06.67).
Hayes Hyde kept things going in the 100 fly. Hyde touched first at the half, and coming down the homestretch she was almost a length up. In the end Hyde finished in 57.08, well ahead of second-place Dartmouth (58.14). Athena Liao then won the 200 IM, her third individual win of the day. Liao had over half a second lead after the butterfly leg. Penn gained some ground going into the breaststroke, but Liao sealed the deal on the freestyle leg, winning in a time of 2:08.39.
In the last event of the day, the 400 freestyle relay, there was very little separation coming into the first turn. The 'A' teams of Yale, Penn and Dartmouth quickly stepped out, and in the third leg the Yale team of Joan Weaver, Hayes Hyde, Ileana Lucos and Cynthia Tsay jumped into first position. With 150 yards to go Lucos had put the Bulldogs almost a second ahead. On the final lap Tsay had a two second lead. Yale won in a time of 3:31.02, next to Penn's time of 3:32.90. Dartmouth clocked in at 3:33.95.
Next weekend the Bulldogs hit the road and will swim against the blue and gold of the Naval Academy. The meet will take place at 12:00 p.m. in Annapolis at Navy's Lejeune Hall.
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An independent panel of educators is recommending a new statewide evaluation system for Michigan public school teachers and administrators that would include announced and unannounced classroom observations.
LANSING, Mich. (AP) ? An independent panel of educators is recommending a new statewide evaluation system for Michigan public school teachers and administrators that would include announced and unannounced classroom observations.
The recommendations have been submitted to Gov. Rick Snyder, some state legislators and state Education officials, according to the Michigan Council for Educator Effectiveness.
Hearings could begin this summer if approved by the Legislature, and schools would be required to have the evaluation system in place by the start of the 2015 academic year.
Teachers would be evaluated on their teaching practices and student academic growth based on standardized tests. School administrators, including district superintendents, principals and assistant principals, would be evaluated on their ability to evaluate teachers, progress they make on school improvement plans, attendance rates and other areas.
The evaluations would give three rating levels: "professional," ''provisional" or "ineffective." Ineffective ratings for two consecutive years could result in dismissal.
Teachers would get better and consistent feedback about their classroom work under the system, according to the council.
"Every child in Michigan deserves skillful teachers, not just some of the time but each and every year," said Deborah Loewenberg Ball, the council's chairwoman. "And every teacher deserves the opportunity to develop and continue to refine his or her professional skill ? to receive targeted feedback and professional learning opportunities to improve instruction. We believe a fair, transparent and rigorous teacher evaluation system can help transform the culture of the teaching profession and benefit the state's 1.5 million schoolchildren."
One of the goals is to identify weak or underperforming educators and to give them a chance to improve their skills, Ball added.
The council's recommendations are "oriented to student learning and instructional improvement, not building a system that is punitive," she said.
Unlike states such as Colorado and Indiana, Michigan would not tie teacher compensation to evaluations under the recommendations. Ball said there is insufficient evidence to support pay-for-performance programs at this time.
Earlier this year, a Michigan House committee considered a Republican-sponsored bill that would make teacher job performance the primary factor in determining pay.
The council was created in 2011 and the evaluation system is part of changes to the teacher tenure system passed by the Legislature.
Parts of the new tenure law were opposed by teachers unions at the time. Representatives' from the state's major teachers unions weren't available to comment about the proposed teacher evaluation changes because they were embargoed for release to the public until after midnight.
More than 800 teacher evaluation systems currently are in place at the state's roughly 850 school districts and charter schools.


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Today in Dubai, an 11-day meeting begins that may result in an Internet-regulation proposal standstill.
The U.N. conference will be centered on updating telecommunications codes, including global communications cooperation, but concerns are growing within a U.S. delegation that plans to oppose U.N. proposals which may impose further controls on Internet commerce and communication.
However, the 123-member strong U.S. group joins envoys from tech firms including Google and Microsoft, who express concern that potential security oversights could also be exploited by nations -- including Russia and China -- to justify the next step on the Internet control slippery slope. This, in turn, could result in Web site blocking and increased Internet monitoring powers.
A message on Google's home page relays this worry, stating "Love the free and open Internet? Tell the world's governments to keep it that way," complete with a link to Google's Free and Open Internet campaign. The page includes the Twitter hashtag #freeandopen, a link to an "Add your voice" section -- which has over 1 million sign-ups at the time of writing -- and the mission statement:
"A free and open world depends on a free and open Internet. Governments alone, working behind closed doors, should not direct its future. The billions of people around the globe who use the Internet should have a voice."
Google vice president Vint Cerf, regarded as a father of the Internet, drove home the point in a Google blog post titled "Keep the Internet free and open":
[S]tarting in a few hours, a closed-door meeting of the world's governments is taking place in Dubai, and regulation of the Internet is on the agenda. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is convening a conference from December 3-14 to revise a decades-old treaty, in which only governments have a vote. Some proposals could allow governments to justify the censorship of legitimate speech, or even cut off Internet access in their countries.
The AP reports that the U.N.'s ITU has tried to soothe these worries, saying that the "primary goal" of the meeting will be centered on cybersecurity and expanding the Internet in developing countries, rather than imposing new sets of rules and regulations on Internet content.
The news agency says that over 900 new regulation changes have been proposed by 193 nations, covering topics including the Internet as a general concept, payment structures, fixed communications and mobile roaming charges.
For a change to be adopted, there has to be broad agreement between U.N. states, but the group is rendered powerless in forcing individual nations to change their Internet policies -- examples including prevention of the "Great firewall of China" and recent blackouts in Arab states. Last week, Syria was taken offline for several days, although the state denies that it was responsible, instead blaming "terrorists" for cutting a cable.
This story originally appeared at ZDNet's Between the Lines under the headline "UN conference overwhelmed by Internet regulations battle."
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The Wilpotha Kantha Ithurum Parishramaya (Women's Saving Effort-Wilpotha), an NGO from Wilpotha in Puttalam was one of the recipients of a small grants scheme, implemented by IUCN Sri Lanka under the Community Conservation Support Fund (CCSF) financed by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Sri Lanka.
The main objective of the grant given to them was to restore a small village tank, Kahatakulama wewa in Galkulama, construct an anicut across the stream Lune ela, and restore a pond for bathing for the village community in Kadjuwatte village in the Kammandhaluwa Grama Niladhari Division of the Pallama Divisional Secretariat (DS) division. They started work in June 2007.
A new community-based organization, Dilena Tharu ("sparkling stars") comprising 32 members was established for implementation of project activities and the Chief Priest of the BuddhistTemple, Sri Subadraramaya, in Galkulama; played an important role by providing guidance and supervision throughout the project.
Restoration of the tank was of immense benefit to the community. It provided irrigation water to cultivate 23 ha of hitherto uncultivated paddy lands which brought additional income to 60 families. Erosion of the tank bund and the reservation was controlled by planting 2000 forest plants. As an additional income generation activity 40 sustainable home gardens were established. Additionally, 25 women were provided assistance on the production of bags and other handicrafts using reeds from the tank area. A wattle and daub village shop was build in close proximity to Kahatakulama wewa to sell the produce from home gardens, local sweet meats and handicraft turned out by the members of the CBO. A recreation area for children was also established near the village shop.
At a simple ceremony held on 19 November 2008 attended by the Country Representative of IUCN, the Chief Priest of Sri Subadraramaya, project staff and the Divisional Secretary of Pallama DS division the restored tank together with other infrastructure was handed over to the community.