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After over a decade of silence, Jim Painter's Midwest Championship Wrestling is about to resurrect and breathe new life into its old stomping grounds.
The once-adored promotion has been laying dormant for nearly 12 years as its promoter, workers and fans looked back with fond memories remembering what used to be.
Well, come February 21, all of that will come to an end.
"I'm really excited," said Painter, who is better known to wrestling fans as Big Jim Lancaster. "The business has changed so much over the years."
Painter wasn't satisfied with just looking back at years upon years of memories. So instead, he pulled out his old bag of tricks and has donned the familiar role of promoter, hoping to once again make MCW a powerful force in professional wrestling.
MCW will make its highly-anticipated return to the McBroom Gym in St. Marys, Ohio on February 21st with an 8 p.m. bell time.
The event will not only mark the return of MCW, but it will also be the return of former MCW youngster and current WWE star Al Snow to one of the very first arenas he ever worked in over 20 years ago.
Snow will step inside the ring, returning with "Head" - his most popular gimmick, to square off against Bad Brian Beech. Beech is one of the top-rated independent wrestlers currently seeking entry into the WWE.
"I'm real excited about coming back and getting to wrestle," said Snow during an appearance at St. Marys Memorial High School to publicize the return. "(The St. Marys fans) were always fun to work in front of. There are a lot of memories and good times for everyone."
Speaking of those memories, a special ceremony will be held prior to the event where Snow will be among the first competitors honoured for their work, heart, dedication and character. Snow, among others, will be inducted into the Midwest Championship Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Along with Snow are 15 other deserving inductees who will be named to the MCW Hall of Fame. The hall of famers to be inducted are Jim Lancaster, The Flying Tigers (Larry Wilson & Carl Ben Patrick), The Kansas City Outlaws (Psycho Sam Cody and Roughhouse Roger Ruffin), Rick Lancaster, Mickey Doyle, Flying Fred Curry, Luis Martinez, Sgt. Bobby Golden, The Patriot (Greg Lake, not to be confused with Del Wilkes, of WCW and the WWE), female grappler Lisa Crockett, and referee Rick Johnson.
Posthumous awards will also be presented in honour of Bobo Brazil and Mighty Igor, whose wrestling careers are widely known and respected.
Here's a run-down of the honorees:
Lancaster held the Midwest Heavyweight Title for eight years prior to his retirement. During his reign, several promotions in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan recognized the respected title as their championship. Lancaster defended the title for these organizations against their top stars many times.
Painter says looking at the list of "legends" is remarkable and allows you to look at the progression of the business.
"You see guys who were young like Snow and then you look at Bobo, Igor, Curry and Martinez. These are the same guys I looked up to. First I was a fan, then I put them over and then they worked for me. They were icons."
And then there's Snow, himself. Snow has become the pride and joy of MCW. He was one of the promotion's - and Painter's - first students and has made his trainer and old friends very proud.
"Al was a natural from the word go," said Painter. "He was a leader in the ring and in the dressing room. And he knew he wanted to be a wrestler from the start. He definitely had the drive and natural ability. It's funny; he couldn't play baseball and wasn't good at normal sports, but he loved wrestling. He was fascinated about it... it drove him. And he wasn't going to stop until he got it."
The same passion Al showed for the business is the very same characteristic that has made MCW a memorable part of pro wrestling history that Painter can't let go of.
He hopes his former peers, and new workers alike, will carry on the MCW tradition and ensure that the promotion continues long after Saturday's return show.
"It's been so long, I'm afraid to look past this one," said Painter, who has been a freelance writer and Christian testimonial speaker over the last number of years. "But I'm hoping we can keep doing it. We don't have a lot of big stars, but once (the fans) see our shows, they're not gonna go home disappointed."
And why fix what's not broken? The same belief of entertaining fans and dedication is exactly what helped MCW create a name for itself during it's decade of existence.
Painter opened MCW in 1981 from his home in Jackson Center, promoting matches in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
He admits the success of Vince McMahon and the WWE played a large role in the subsequent success of MCW and its wide popularity.
"We got caught up in the wash and picked up the gravy."
Painter started his promotion as a caring citizen looking to hold a fundraiser. His promotion would raise funds for local facilities and groups through ticket sales and in exchange, competed in entertaining exhibitions that quickly became very 'over' with the local fans. Painter also enjoyed passing on his knowledge to those who loved the business as much as he did.
"MCW gave guys an opportunity to work in a business that very few get to be in. It gave them the opportunity to do what I did. And I'm very thankful for that."
Painter said he wants MCW to be remembered for the little things fans may have never noticed or given much thought.
"Our guys would sign autographs until everyone who wanted one had them... even if we had to delay the show. It may sound minor, but we were always about more than just what happened inside the ring. Wrestling is big and whether we're big or not, we're not going to send these kids away from the shows without something in their hands. It was more than just money. It was always more than money."
Painter also said he wants fans and wrestlers alike to remember MCW as the promotion that always gave fans a good show.
"We're a show they can go to and hear no vulgarity, see no beer cans or some guy giving the finger. We're a show somebody can take their kids to and have a decent time without being offended."
And for those who compete in MCW, they're part of a tradition and history that is about to be revisited.
Whether MCW has one show left in the tank, or is about to catch its second wind, Painter and his promotion have established themselves as a memorable piece of wrestling history. A history that will be relived this Saturday.
Aside from Snow's MCW return, other bouts include a match for the Tri-State Tag Team Championship as The Young Lions - Jay Donaldson and Ryan Stone, will defend their titles against Dead Sexy Matt Parks and Too Bad Chad Allegra.
In a women's match, top female performer Sin-D, along with her manager Austin Meddler, will takes on Peaches, a newcomer from Georgia. A single match also pits The American Eagle against Christopher Michael Lotus.
Tickets are $13 for ringside seats and $10 general admission in advance at all St. Marys city schools and Albert Sporting Goods. All tickets are $13 the night of the show.
Jason Smith is a young journalist at Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario. He's from Thamesville, Ontario and has grown up fascinated with the world of pro wrestling. Smith is very happy to be a part of SLAM! Wrestling and enjoys writing about the sport he admires. He can be emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Q One CHP officer asked another officer how he was able to determine the drunk drivers on southbound Interstate 680 between I-580 and the Sunol Grade. He said, "Easy, they are the ones driving straight in lane number one. The sober drivers are the ones swerving around all the potholes in the road."
Harinder Grewal
A Today is a day where humor is needed, as it's all about roads in desperate need of paving and pothole filling.
Q Do you know when Caltrans is going to address the multiple mine fields on Interstate 680 between Fremont and Pleasanton, which has to be the worst stretch in the Bay Area? The No. 3 lane between Bernal and 84 is literally turning into dust. Some of the patches (most of which are only a couple of years old) are disintegrating to the point where you have to straddle the breakdown lane to avoid bottoming out.
Larry Silvey
A I hate when that happens. There are plans to replace the broken concrete next summer southbound. And in 2017, the state will pave the northbound side from 237 to 84.
Q We recently traveled in our motor home west on Interstate 580/Interstate 205 over the Altamont Pass and what a mess all the lanes are. We drove in the right-hand lane and watched people in other lanes dodging potholes as well. Are they ever going to repave these lanes? … The far right lane is so bad that you cannot use it without causing serious damage to your tires and suspension. … The condition on both sides is absolutely horrid, with potholes at least 6 feet long and 3 feet wide.
Bev and Mel Nelson, Brian Christian, Barrett Middleton and so many other pothole dodgers
A There is a major rehab project scheduled to start in two years on I-580. It will include the ramps from San Joaquin County to North Flynn Road eastbound and from San Joaquin County to Greenville Road westbound.
The state will also do some small paving jobs this summer near Grantline Road and Stonecut.
Q Interstate 80 from Albany north has huge gaping cracks and holes. A miserable ride. … Does Caltrans plan to repave I-80 between Cummings Skyway and the Hercules exit? The two inside lanes are in need of repair. … As someone who has traveled I-80 and suffered tire damage from too many potholes to mention, I was curious about repaving plans. The stretch from Albany to the Maze has been repaved in both directions and is a pleasure to drive. When can we expect the stretch from the Contra Costa County line to the Carquinez Bridge to be repaved?
Arian Sarris, Richard Ray, R. Coombs and more
A Concrete slab repairs aren't scheduled until 2019 on this stretch of I-80, but the state has sealed some cracks and will keep a watch on the area.
Q I noticed that 680 through the Concord/Pleasant Hill area has been getting the much needed road grinding. Will this also be done on Highway 242? It needs it as well.
H. Loer
A No. There is nothing planned in the near future.
Q Are there plans to repair Chabot Road in the Rockridge neighborhood of Oakland? It is filled with potholes that are difficult for cars and especially bicycles. There has been a lot of construction in and around the road over the years (Chabot Elementary, Seneca Center, and most recently work on cross street Golden Gate Avenue). But the road has never been repaved in several years, and attempts at patching are few and far between.
Ann Kring
A Good news for drivers and bicyclists. Oakland will repave Chabot this fall. The project includes replacing the sidewalk damaged by trees, curbs and gutters, and upgrades to 30 ramps to comply with requirements for the disabled, plus installation of "sharrows" — used in lanes shared by bicyclists and motorists when there is not enough room for a bike lane.
Q Trimble Road in San Jose is disintegrating between Montague Expressway and Junction Avenue.
Jeanne C.
San Jose
A Yes it is, and Trimble has been on the city's radar for some time. But there are four different sanitary sewer projects that will dig up various sections of Trimble over the next 18 months, so the city has decided to delay any resurfacing of Trimble until sewer work is completed.
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June 2019
Apple Business Manager can now be used on iPad.
February 2019
- The MDM Servers section is now located in the Settings tab.
- You can now configure Default Device Assignment in Settings > Device Management Settings and in Settings > MDM Servers.
September 2018
tvOS apps are now available in Apps and Books.
May 2018
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Supreme Court Upholds Ban on Partial-birth Abortion
(April 18, 2007)
Text of the Court's decision (PDF
Priests for Life Press
The State's
Interest in Life by Fr. Frank Pavone
Comments by President Bush
Listen to Abortionist Martin Haskell
explain the partial-birth abortion procedure to other abortionists during a
presentation at the 16th Annual Meeting of the National Abortion Federation
Conference in 1992 in San Diego: [Listen].
Listen to a partial-birth abortion in progress
as Martin Haskell narrates: [Listen].
Partial-Birth Abortion Trial
Abortion Cases heard by the Supreme Court
President Bush signed the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban into
law on November 5, 2003. Because pro-abortion forces do not have the support of
the public on this issue, they have again gone to the courts, seeking to strike
down the law.
Federal Courts in the 2nd, 8th, and 9th Circuits ruled the
ban unconstitutional. Now, the Supreme Court has agreed to consider the case,
and is reviewing the decisions of the 8th and 9th Circuit courts. Oral arguments
will be heard on Wednesday, November 8.
In the federal courts, testimony from practicing
abortionists has been taken regarding the details of the procedure. Such
testimony, beyond its legal value, has tremendous educational value. Below are
the latest transcripts out of the courtrooms in New York, Nebraska, and
California. Please use this information in your newsletters, letters to the
editor, pro-life presentations, and personal efforts to educate your friends and
neighbors about the horror of abortion.
New York: Day 1
Day 2
Day 3 Day 4
Day 5
Day 6 Day 7
Day 8
Day 9
Day 10 Day 11
Day 12 Day 13
Day 14 Day 15
Day 16
Closing Arguments
Nebraska: Day 1
Day 2
Day 3 Day 4
Day 5
Day 6 Day 7
Day 8 Judgment
California: Day 1
Day 2
Day 3 Day 4
Day 5
Day 6 Day 7
Day 8 Day 9
Day 10 Day 11
CA Judgment CA Order
Highlights compiled by Cathy Ruse, Director of
Planning and Information, Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops (2004)


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October's Very Own and Canada Goose have done it again. Using the classic Chilliwack goose down jacket as a starting point.They have fused luxury and functionality to create the ultimate parka.
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The Koch Brothers Exposed
"The Kochtopus" is what some call Charles and David Koch's widespread, many-tentacled funding effort to shrink the federal government. Their efforts to suppress voters, dismantle public schools, and get rid of the Environmental Protection Agency and Social Security are systematically revealed in The Koch Brothers Exposed, a low-budget but sharply focused series by new media company Brave New Films.
The 13 short films illustrate how the lives of struggling Americans are worsened by the Kochs' drive for profit and political power. One film, for example, connects an epidemic of cancer in a neighborhood of Crosset, Ark., to the channel of steaming, black goo floating into town from the Koch Industries-owned Georgia Pacific plant.
The Kochs lobby by giving millions to nonprofits that use the money—frequently via pseudo-grassroots organizations with innocuous names—to benefit the overarching Koch political agenda. Here's how it works: According to one film in the series, Koch Industries gave $28.4 million to think tanks that advocated raising the Social Security retirement age. That's not a popular policy with older voters, but the Kochs also gave more than $1 million to the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a group working to pass laws that require voters to have state-issued photo identification. Critics say that would make voting more difficult for the elderly, students, and minorities.
Although the Kochs have doled out millions to politicians, think tanks, and anyone else who could help them undo American democracy over the past 10 years, they were relatively unknown until recently. Jane Mayer clarified their role as funders of the Tea Party in an August 2010 New Yorker article. They got more coverage during the Wisconsin protests when it became clear that Gov. Scott Walker was enacting the Koch/ALEC agenda.
Koch Brothers Exposed takes this reporting to a new level, bridging the gaps between investigative journalism, documentary, and activism. These short (two to 12 minute) films, designed for viral circulation through Facebook and other social media, are in an open-ended format that the filmmakers can update as necessary. Judging from the series so far, ongoing reports like these are an effective way of showing just how much influence the super-rich can have on our democracy.
Interested? Check out other film picks.
Zeitgeist Films, 2010, 84 minutes.
Bicycling around the city with his camera, 80-something Bill Cunningham balances between worlds—snapping street style by day, elite soirees by night, producing photos that celebrate street kids, drag queens, and heiresses equally.
"Those who seek beauty will find it," he says. Touching and exhilarating.
Amy Hardie, 2009, 72 minutes.
Filmmaker Amy Hardie's perfect life with her family in the Scottish countryside is disturbed by dreams that seem prophetic—or are they? She investigates, through psychotherapy, art, neuroscience, and shamanism. A gorgeous autobiographical meditation on life, death, love, and dreams.


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In his visit to Moscow this week, Vice President Joseph Biden said that expanded trade and commerce is the "next frontier" in the Obama administration's two-year-old attempt to reset relations with Russia. He's pointing in the right direction, but don't expect a smooth ride.
On the trade front, it is quite possible that Russia will make a giant leap this year. It may well be allowed to join the World Trade Organization (WTO), the global body that sets the rules for its 153-member countries. Russia is the last significant economy to remain outside the group.
Its entry could be blocked if even one member state objects. Only Georgia, which Russia temporarily invaded in 2008, might exercise its veto. It has before. Even so, both of these former Soviet states and territorial rivals are negotiating over a possible agreement to pave the way for Russia's accession.
For its part, the Obama administration strongly backs Russia's entry this year. The two countries are mostly done with the required bilateral agreement (so far, it totals at least 850 pages). But even if Russia crosses the WTO threshold, the United States may not be able to take advantage of a lowering of trade barriers with Russia.
That's because of a 1974 law passed by Congress, known as the Jackson-Vanick amendment. The law denied the then-Soviet Union "most favored nation" trading status in order to push the Kremlin into allowing more Jewish immigration. The Obama administration is urging Congress to repeal the law and grant Russia normal trade ties.
The cold-war circumstances of Jackson-Vanick no longer exist, but some lawmakers – Democrats and Republicans – view the law as leverage to press for a variety of changes in Russia, be they in its relations with Georgia, on human rights, or on economic reforms. That became quite clear when US Trade Representative Ron Kirk testified before the Senate this week.
Senators from both parties questioned him on Russia's readiness to abide by international trade rules. They pointed to China, which joined the WTO in 2001, as still a flagrant abuser of trade standards – a manipulator of its currency and a thief of foreign intellectual property. Why would Russia – unpredictable, far from democratic, and often unfriendly – act any differently?
True, Moscow has a long list of wrongs in foreign policy and governance, and in the way it manages its state-heavy economy. Mr. Biden didn't shirk from publicly pointing them out in a speech at Moscow State University on Thursday. He repeated Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's phrase of "a country of legal nihilism."
But bringing Russia into the WTO and restoring normal trade relations with that country should not be viewed as rewarding bad behavior. Rather, it's a way to support and encourage better behavior – more transparency and predictability. The WTO is a rules-based system that, while sometimes flouted and slow, provides a framework for trade and a process for redress.
Changes required by WTO membership would lead to greater business competition as more imports came into Russia. The World Bank estimates Russia could boost economic growth by 11 percent over the long term if it joined the WTO. That growth would help build up Russia's middle class. Even leading political opposition figures in Russia support Moscow joining.
Membership also provides a means of recourse to trade wrongs. "We absolutely share many of your [anxieties] about Russia coming into the WTO," Ambassador Kirk told senators this week. "But the reality is unless we get them into a rules-based environment, our ability to seek redress on many of these concerns are limited because they're outside of the WTO."
As for China's mixed record, many economists believe that on balance, the world is better off with Beijing in the WTO. Membership has helped China's economy grow. China is now the biggest export market for Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan; US exports to China have grown substantially. Consumers worldwide enjoy inexpensive, made-in-China products.
And, while China still abuses intellectual property rights, progress is slowly being made. In recent years, the US has pushed harder for copyright enforcement, taking cases to the WTO and winning several of them. The Chinese are "begrudgingly" beginning to understand that living by the rules will help them attract more of the innovative businesses they want, Kirk said.
The Russian economy is not nearly the size of China's, nor is Russia a key export market for America (it ranks 37th). But in this time of stubborn unemployment, the US needs every market it can find. And a more vigorous market economy, one that is rules-based and transparent, might renew Russian democracy.
With Russia and trade, it's helpful to take the long view: Better in than out of the WTO, and better that the US participates in Russian economic growth by restoring normal trade relations with that country.


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Applied Psychometry
SAGE, Aug 9, 2010 - Psychology - 362 pages
Applied Psychometry is a core textbook on the theory and practice of psychometry for undergraduate, post-graduate, and research students of Behavioural and Social Sciences. It is designed to help students in their study of the following papers:
- B.A. Programme Psychology (Core): Psychological Assessment.
- B.A. Honours Psychology (Core): Research Method and Psychological Testing.
- M.A. Psychology: Research Methodology.
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Guthrie gives 'Pinafore' a modern twist
You wonder what Gilbert and Sullivan might say if they were alive to see the new production of "H.M.S. Pinafore" currently playing at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.
The British operetta premiered in 1878, but the Guthrie's interpretation of Arthur Sullivan's score has a distinctly modern flavor.
"[Sullivan] was admittedly writing for an an 1878 audience. So his arrangements were up to date for that time period," music director Andrew Cooke explained. "We said, 'let's try something for a 2011 audience.'"
Cooke stayed faithful to the original melodies, but his new arrangements borrow inspiration from disco, jazz and especially rock opera.
A straight-laced number like "Things are seldom what they seem" becomes a lush tango. "My gallant crew, good morning" gets a rock beat and a Jerry Lee Lewis keyboard part.
Purists have protested. Cooke said during one performance a woman got out of her seat five minutes into the show, went over to a Guthrie staffer and demanded he "put on the real music."
Cooke says he's gotten plenty of compliments, too. He argues the updated arrangements help modern audiences appreciate the humor in W.S. Gilbert's libretto.
"If anything, having a little comedic play with the music underlines and highlights some of those jokes," Cooke said. "It gives the actors a chance to also bring things in that are a bit more contemporary than staying tied to a 19th century point of view."
"H.M.S. Pinafore" plays through August 28 on the Guthrie's Wurtele Thrust Stage.
A recording of the production will air on public television stations around the country on Oct. 14. The broadcast will be part of the PBS Arts Fall Festival, featuring performances from around the country.


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Inside Occupy Wall Street's Nearly Last Night
Editor's note: On October 14, the month-old citizen occupation of New York City's financial district faced its first major threat of eviction. Olivia Rosane sends this report of what it was like to be in Zuccotti Park during the tense night and morning reprieve.
There was a brightness in the pre-dawn air as thousands of us gathered in Liberty Plaza, (or Zuccotti Park, in its owners' language) to prevent the group that had camped there since September 17th as part of the Occupy Wall Street protest from being evicted.
On Monday, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg stated that demonstrators could remain in the park indefinitely, but late on Wednesday night he had stopped by the encampment to announce that Brookfield Financial Properties, the owners of Zuccotti Park, wanted the area cleared for cleaning at 7 a.m. on Friday, October 14. After the cleaning, protesters would be allowed back into the park—but without their tarps, sleeping bags, or personal belongings. That same night, a rather pointed notice appeared on the wall next to Brookfield's contact information designating the park for "passive recreation" and prohibiting, among other things, "lying down on the ground, or lying down on benches, sitting areas or walkways when it unreasonably interferes with the use of benches, sitting areas, or walkways to others." It was clearly an attempt to end the occupation.
Occupiers responded with a community effort to make the park so clean as to render the "cleaning" excuse for eviction baseless. Jordan McCarthy, a 22-year-old from New Hampshire on the occupation's sanitation committee, explained how the group had made an effort to consolidate everyone's belongings into labeled bins and bags; how they had received, just that day, most of their impressive supply of brooms, dustbins, buckets, and soap. (They only used the biodegradable donations.) Scores of volunteers continued to mop and sweep into the early hours of Friday morning.
I stayed awake through the rainy night, keeping vigil with other occupiers and talking about what Occupy Wall Street had come to mean to them.
Barak Wouk, a junior at Columbia University who had come downtown for the night, told me he was picky about which protests he attended. This one made the cut, he explained, because it was an antidote to the "lack of discussion about economic injustice" by either political party. "This has kind of forced the issue front and center," he said.
Ursula Romero, a young woman from New Jersey currently paying her way through community college with a job in retail, discussed how much the occupation had achieved. She had been there on its first day; she thought, at the time, that those who criticized it as directionless and disorganized had a point. But now, "it's its own little community here," she said.
That sense of community only grew as more and more people began heading to the park to resist the eviction. By 6 a.m., the park was filled shoulder-to-shoulder with thousands of supporters chanting, "This is what democracy looks like," and, "The people united will never be defeated."
The General Assembly, the consensus-based decision making process used by the occupiers, began a special session. First, there was an announcement of the global day of action planned for Saturday, October 15, proof that the movement looked beyond Zuccotti Park.
Then, a representative from the Direct Action committee explained a plan to allow the sanitation crew to clean a third of the park at a time, while protesters continued to occupy the other two-thirds—at the risk of arrest. He sought solidarity from those who had not been trained in specific actions: they could link arms around the park, or remain in the park themselves. Those not willing to risk arrest could picket on the sidewalk across the street.
The crowd was using the people's mic, the now-famous process by which the whole group (prohibited from using megaphones or other amplification) repeats what one speaker is saying so that everyone can hear. In large groups, the people's mic often doesn't carry all the way to the edges due to side conversations, but that morning the crowd was so silent with focus that the speakers' words made it to everyone, even if it took four or five group repetitions to reach the edges.
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Then breaking news was announced. As the sky lightened from black to purple, the crowd began to pass the news that the city had received word early in the morning that Brookfield Financial Properties would postpone the cleaning. The announcement was repeated throughout the square over and over until the repetitions dissolved into cheers.
The mood was euphoric. All the adrenaline of preparing for a fight released into shouts of victory.
But there was a troubling undercurrent to the triumph. I heard a number of people worry that the city or the property owners had chosen not to act when the occupiers were strong and united, preferring to wait for a moment when protesters were unprepared or sleeping.
I left that morning feeling that Occupy Wall Street had proven that it had created something worth defending—no small feat in a country where protest has followed the basic pattern: get a permit, make your complaint, go home. But if it is to grow, the Occupy Wall Street movement does need to think about how it can effectively challenge the injustices occurring outside of the community it has created and maintained.
Saturday's international day of action was a good start, spawning demonstrations in some 900 cities worldwide and drawing large crowds to New York's Time's Square and Washington Square Park. As I joined the thousands gathered in Washington Square Park for a General Assembly Saturday night, I found myself agreeing with Columbia Professor Gayatri Spivak as she addressed the group through the people's mic, explaining that she felt the ultimate goal of the protests was to separate politics from money. "Don't let just survival, especially as winter is coming, be enough of a victory," she said.
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In 1973, when Barry Singer was a fifteen-year-old student at New York's Yeshiva University High School for Boys, the vice principal, Rabbi George Finkelstein, stopped him in a stairwell. Claiming he wanted to check his tzitzit—the strings attached to Singer's prayer shawl—Finkelstein, Singer says, pushed the boy over the third-floor banister, in full view of his classmates, and reached down his pants. "If he's not wearing tzitzit," Finkelstein told the surrounding children, "he's going over the stairs!"
"He played it as a joke, but I was completely at his mercy," Singer recalled. For the rest of his time at Yeshiva, Singer would often wear his tzitzit on the outside of his shirt—though this was regarded as rebellious—for fear that Finkelstein might find an excuse to assault him again.
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About fifteen years ago, my roommate and I developed a classification system for TV and movies. Each title was slotted into one of four categories: Good-Good; Bad-Good; Good-Bad; Bad-Bad. The first qualifier was qualitative, while the second represented a high-low binary, the title's aspiration toward capital-A Art or lack thereof.
Some taxonomies were inarguable. The O.C., a Fox series about California rich kids and their beautiful swimming pools, was delightfully Good-Bad. Paul Haggis's heavy-handed morality play, Crash, which won the Oscar for Best Picture, was gallingly Bad-Good. The films of Francois Truffaut, Good-Good; the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, Bad-Bad.
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I spent thirty-eight years in prison and have been a free man for just under two. After killing a man named Thomas Allen Fellowes in a drunken, drugged-up fistfight in 1980, when I was nineteen years old, I was sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. Former California governor Jerry Brown commuted my sentence and I was released in 2017, five days before Christmas. The law in California, like in most states, grants the governor the right to alter sentences. After many years of advocating for the reformation of the prison system into one that encourages rehabilitation, I had my life restored to me.
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29 U.S. Code § 2832 - Local workforce investment boards
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(a) Establishment
There shall be established in each local area of a State, and certified by the Governor of the State, a local workforce investment board, to set policy for the portion of the statewide workforce investment system within the local area (referred to in this chapter as a "local workforce investment system").
(b) Membership
(1) State criteria
The Governor of the State, in partnership with the State board, shall establish criteria for use by chief elected officials in the local areas for appointment of members of the local boards in such local areas in accordance with the requirements of paragraph (2).
(2) Composition
Such criteria shall require, at a minimum, that the membership of each local board—
(A) shall include—
(i) representatives of business in the local area, who—
(I) are owners of businesses, chief executives or operating officers of businesses, and other business executives or employers with optimum policymaking or hiring authority;
(II) represent businesses with employment opportunities that reflect the employment opportunities of the local area; and
(ii) representatives of local educational entities, including representatives of local educational agencies, local school boards, entities providing adult education and literacy activities, and postsecondary educational institutions (including representatives of community colleges, where such entities exist), selected from among individuals nominated by regional or local educational agencies, institutions, or organizations representing such local educational entities;
(iii) representatives of labor organizations (for a local area in which employees are represented by labor organizations), nominated by local labor federations, or (for a local area in which no employees are represented by such organizations), other representatives of employees;
(iv) representatives of community-based organizations (including organizations representing individuals with disabilities and veterans, for a local area in which such organizations are present);
(v) representatives of economic development agencies, including private sector economic development entities; and
(3) Authority of board members
Members of the board that represent organizations, agencies, or other entities shall be individuals with optimum policymaking authority within the organizations, agencies, or entities.
(4) Majority
A majority of the members of the local board shall be representatives described in paragraph (2)(A)(i).
(c) Appointment and certification of board
(1) Appointment of board members and assignment of responsibilities
(A) In general
The chief elected official in a local area is authorized to appoint the members of the local board for such area, in accordance with the State criteria established under subsection (b) of this section.
(B) Multiple units of local government in area
(i) In general In a case in which a local area includes more than 1 unit of general local government, the chief elected officials of such units may execute an agreement that specifies the respective roles of the individual chief elected officials—
(I) in the appointment of the members of the local board from the individuals nominated or recommended to be such members in accordance with the criteria established under subsection (b) of this section; and
(C) Concentrated employment programs
In the case of a local area designated in accordance with section 2831 (a)(2)(B) of this title, the governing body of the concentrated employment program involved shall act in consultation with the chief elected official in the local area to appoint members of the local board, in accordance with the State criteria established under subsection (b) of this section, and to carry out any other responsibility relating to workforce investment activities assigned to such official under this Act.
(2) Certification
(A) In general
The Governor shall, once every 2 years, certify 1 local board for each local area in the State.
(B) Criteria
Such certification shall be based on criteria established under subsection (b) of this section and, for a second or subsequent certification, the extent to which the local board has ensured that workforce investment activities carried out in the local area have enabled the local area to meet the local performance measures.
(3) Decertification
(A) Fraud, abuse, failure to carry out functions
Notwithstanding paragraph (2), the Governor may decertify a local board, at any time after providing notice and an opportunity for comment, for—
(B) Nonperformance
(C) Plan
If the Governor decertifies a local board for a local area under subparagraph (A) or (B), the Governor may require that a new local board be appointed and certified for the local area pursuant to a reorganization plan developed by the Governor, in consultation with the chief elected official in the local area, and in accordance with the criteria established under subsection (b) of this section.
(4) Single State area
Notwithstanding subsection (b) of this section and paragraphs (1) and (2), if a State described in section 2831 (b) of this title indicates in the State plan that the State will be treated as a local area for purposes of the application of this chapter, the Governor may designate the State board to carry out any of the functions described in subsection (d) of this section.
(d) Functions of local board
The functions of the local board shall include the following:
(1) Local plan
Consistent with section 2833 of this title, each local board, in partnership with the chief elected official for the local area involved, shall develop and submit a local plan to the Governor.
(2) Selection of operators and providers
(A) Selection of one-stop operators
Consistent with section 2841 (d) of this title, the local board, with the agreement of the chief elected official—
(i) shall designate or certify one-stop operators as described in section 2841 (d)(2)(A) of this title; and
(B) Selection of youth providers
Consistent with section 2843 of this title, the local board shall identify eligible providers of youth activities in the local area by awarding grants or contracts on a competitive basis, based on the recommendations of the youth council.
(C) Identification of eligible providers of training services
(D) Identification of eligible providers of intensive services
(3) Budget and administration
(A) Budget
The local board shall develop a budget for the purpose of carrying out the duties of the local board under this section, subject to the approval of the chief elected official.
(B) Administration
(i) Grant recipient
(I) In general The chief elected official in a local area shall serve as the local grant recipient for, and shall be liable for any misuse of, the grant funds allocated to the local area under sections 2853 and 2863 of this title, unless the chief elected official reaches an agreement with the Governor for the Governor to act as the local grant recipient and bear such liability.
(II) Designation In order to assist in the administration of the grant funds, the chief elected official or the Governor, where the Governor serves as the local grant recipient for a local area, may designate an entity to serve as a local grant subrecipient for such funds or as a local fiscal agent. Such designation shall not relieve the chief elected official or the Governor of the liability for any misuse of grant funds as described in subclause (I).
(III) Disbursal The local grant recipient or an entity designated under subclause (II) shall disburse such funds for workforce investment activities at the direction of the local board, pursuant to the requirements of this chapter, if the direction does not violate a provision of this Act. The local grant recipient or entity designated under subclause (II) shall disburse the funds immediately on receiving such direction from the local board.
(4) Program oversight
The local board, in partnership with the chief elected official, shall conduct oversight with respect to local programs of youth activities authorized under section 2854 of this title, local employment and training activities authorized under section 2864 of this title, and the one-stop delivery system in the local area.
(5) Negotiation of local performance measures
(6) Employment statistics system
(7) Employer linkages
The local board shall coordinate the workforce investment activities authorized under this subchapter and carried out in the local area with economic development strategies and develop other employer linkages with such activities.
(8) Connecting, brokering, and coaching
The local board shall promote the participation of private sector employers in the statewide workforce investment system and ensure the effective provision, through the system, of connecting, brokering, and coaching activities, through intermediaries such as the one-stop operator in the local area or through other organizations, to assist such employers in meeting hiring needs.
(e) Sunshine provision
The local board shall make available to the public, on a regular basis through open meetings, information regarding the activities of the local board, including information regarding the local plan prior to submission of the plan, and regarding membership, the designation and certification of one-stop operators, and the award of grants or contracts to eligible providers of youth activities, and on request, minutes of formal meetings of the local board.
(f) Limitations
(1) Training services
(A) In general
(B) Waivers of training prohibition
The Governor of the State in which a local board is located may, pursuant to a request from the local board, grant a written waiver of the prohibition set forth in subparagraph (A) (relating to the provision of training services) for a program of training services, if the local board—
(i) submits to the Governor a proposed request for the waiver that includes—
(I) satisfactory evidence that there is an insufficient number of eligible providers of such a program of training services to meet local demand in the local area;
(II) information demonstrating that the board meets the requirements for an eligible provider of training services under section 2842 of this title; and
(ii) makes the proposed request available to eligible providers of training services and other interested members of the public for a public comment period of not less than 30 days; and
(C) Duration
A waiver granted to a local board under subparagraph (B) shall apply for a period of not to exceed 1 year. The waiver may be renewed for additional periods of not to exceed 1 year, pursuant to requests from the local board, if the board meets the requirements of subparagraph (B) in making the requests.
(2) Core services; intensive services; designation or certification as one-stop operators
A local board may provide core services described in section 2864 (d)(2) of this title or intensive services described in section 2864 (d)(3) of this title through a one-stop delivery system described in section 2864 (c) of this title or be designated or certified as a one-stop operator only with the agreement of the chief elected official and the Governor.
(g) Conflict of interest
A member of a local board may not—
(1) vote on a matter under consideration by the local board—
(A) regarding the provision of services by such member (or by an entity that such member represents); or
(h) Youth council
(1) Establishment
There shall be established, as a subgroup within each local board, a youth council appointed by the local board, in cooperation with the chief elected official for the local area.
(2) Membership
The membership of each youth council—
(A) shall include—
(i) members of the local board described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of subsection (b)(2) of this section with special interest or expertise in youth policy;
(ii) representatives of youth service agencies, including juvenile justice and local law enforcement agencies;
(v) individuals, including former participants, and representatives of organizations, that have experience relating to youth activities; and
(3) Relationship to local board
Members of the youth council who are not members of the local board described in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of subsection (b)(2) of this section shall be voting members of the youth council and nonvoting members of the board.
(4) Duties
The duties of the youth council include—
(A) developing the portions of the local plan relating to eligible youth, as determined by the chairperson of the local board;
(B) subject to the approval of the local board and consistent with section 2843 of this title—
(i) recommending eligible providers of youth activities, to be awarded grants or contracts on a competitive basis by the local board to carry out the youth activities; and
(C) coordinating youth activities authorized under section 2854 of this title in the local area; and
(i) Alternative entity
(1) In general
For purposes of complying with subsections (a), (b), and (c) of this section, and paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (h) of this section, a State may use any local entity (including a local council, regional workforce development board, or similar entity) that—
(A) is established to serve the local area (or the service delivery area that most closely corresponds to the local area);
(i) is established pursuant to section 1512 of this title, as in effect on December 31, 1997; or
(D) includes—
(I) representatives of labor organizations (for a local area in which employees are represented by labor organizations), nominated by local labor federations; or
Source(Pub. L. 105–220, title I, § 117,Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 954; Pub. L. 105–277, div. A, § 101(f) [title VIII, § 401(4)], Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–337, 2681–411.)
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This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (a), (c)(4), and (d)(3)(B)(i)(III), was in the original "this title" meaning title I of Pub. L. 105–220, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 939, which enacted this chapter, repealed sections 1501 to 1505, 1511 to 1583, 1592 to 1735, 1737 to 1791h, 1792 to 1792b, 2301 to 2314 of this title, section 211 of former Title 40, Appendix, Public Buildings, Property, and Works, sections 11421, 11441 to 11447, 11449, 11450, 11461 to 11466, 11471, and 11472 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare, and sections 42101 to 42106 of Title 49, Transportation, enacted provisions set out as notes under sections 1501, 2301, and 2940 of this title and section 11421 of Title 42, and repealed provisions set out as notes under sections 801 and 2301 of this title and section 1255a of Title 8, Aliens and Nationality. For complete classification of title I to the Code, see Tables.
This Act, referred to in subsecs. (c)(1)(C), (d)(3)(B)(i)(III), (iii), (f)(3), and (i)(2), is Pub. L. 105–220, Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 936, known as the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 9201 of Title 20, Education, and Tables.
Section 1512 of this title, referred to in subsec. (i)(1)(C)(i), was repealed by Pub. L. 105–220, title I, § 199(b)(2),Aug. 7, 1998, 112 Stat. 1059, effective July 1, 2000.
1998—Subsec. (f)(1)(D). Pub. L. 105–277, § 101(f) [title VIII, § 401(4)(A)], substituted "if the Governor" for "if the State".
Subsec. (i)(1)(D)(ii)(II). Pub. L. 105–277, § 101(f) [title VIII, § 401(4)(B)], added subcl. (II) and struck out former subcl. (II) which read as follows: "(for a local area in which no employees are represented by such organizations), other representatives of employees in the local area."
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November 5th is an important date for those that celebrate Guy Fawkes Day, but it's also a significant one for Back To The Future fans. It was on this day in 1955 that Marty McFly, with the assistance of Doc Brown and his amazingly modified DeLorean, landed back in time and began an adventure that had him meeting younger versions of his parents and accidentally threatening his own existence. Fortunately this day isn't being "celebrated" with an announcement of a remake or sequel, but instead we have the latest video from the folks at Improv Everywhere, who have used Back To The Future as inspiration for their latest stunt.
Of course, this is far from the first example of fan love for Back To The Future that we've seen. Have you ever watched "Great Scott" - which tells the entire story as a Broadway musical?
How about this fan-sponsored restoration of the famous DeLorean time machine?
And what about this couple who made their engagement photos Back To The Future themed?
Sadly, we are still a couple years away from the real Back To The Future celebration. October 21, 2015 is the date that Marty, Doc, and his girlfriend Jennifer actually went into the future in the first sequel, and as a result introduced us to some of cinema's greatest futuristic inventions. Self-tying laces! Hoverboards! Dehydrated pizza! Holofilms! It's somewhat hard to believe that all of those things will be available to us in less than two years... but Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale wouldn't have lied to us, right?


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SkyFire leverages an unusual server-side rendering technique to accelerate page loading and provide a more complete web experience. The browser relays all page requests to the company's remote servers, which use Firefox's Gecko engine to prerender web content. The prerendered content is then transmitted back down to the browser which displays it on the screen and overlays invisible trigger areas over interactive page elements. The end result is that pages in SkyFire are rendered exactly the same way that they are rendered when using Firefox on the desktop. This approach also reduces network overhead in many cases because the browser only has to load a visual representation of the part of the page that is being viewed by the user.
The SkyFire feature set falls roughly between that of Opera Mobile and Opera Mini. Much like Opera Mobile 9.5, SkyFire loads a full page view and allows the user to zoom in on specific areas to see the page content in greater detail. SkyFire also has a (somewhat buggy) "smartfit" option that will automatically wrap text so that it fits within the screen width when the user is zoomed in.
SkyFire lacks some of Opera Mobile's most valuable features, however, such as support for tabbed browsing. It also doesn't locally store history or bookmarks or provide native interfaces for managing them. Bookmarks are stored on the company's servers and displayed as links in a page when the user selects the "Bookmarks" item from the main menu.
Ars displayed in full-page mode
Ars displayed at a high zoom level
SkyFire's smartfit text feature
Rendering bugs encountered with smartfit enabled
The pros and cons of server-side rendering
SkyFire's server-side rendering technique manages to offload virtually all of the work to the company's servers, which aren't subject to the same resource and bandwidth constraints as 3G mobile devices. In theory, this approach should provide a browsing experience that can't be paralleled by native browsers that load and render content on the device itself; in practice, this technique just isn't ready yet. The prerendered content generally seems blurry or dithered when it is displayed, like a jpeg image that has been resized and compressed. This problem would be easy to overlook if it only affected the images on web pages but, unfortunately, it also makes the text difficult to read in some places.
Page scrolling performance is also negatively impacted by SkyFire's approach. More prerendered content has to be pulled down from SkyFire's servers and drawn on the screen practically every time the user scrolls. This loading step doesn't take long when the page is zoomed out, but it's really bad when the browser is zoomed in far enough to read text. While reading an article with SkyFire, I often found myself waiting impatiently for it to finish rendering as I scrolled down. This was particularly frustrating, because I'm accustomed to Opera Mobile 9.5, which lets me fly down a page with flick-scrolling.
The poor text readability and slow scrolling in SkyFire are deal-breakers for me, but there are a few areas where the browser really shines. The most notable feature is excellent support for rich media. SkyFire has seamless support for all browser plugins that are supported by Firefox on the desktop, including Flash, Silverlight, Quicktime, and others. With SkyFire, these plugins run entirely on the server and don't have to be installed by the user on the actual device.
Video playback in Flash is impressively smooth and very functional. I tested video playback by watching an episode of Death Note at Hulu and I also tried out YouTube and a few other video sites. These all worked better than I expected. It's important to note that SkyFire supports full desktop Flash and not mobile derivatives like Flash Lite. As far as I know, that's unprecedented in a Windows Mobile browser.
SkyFire also fares well with heavy JavaScript-intensive web sites that use a lot of Ajax and dynamic loading. I conducted extensive testing with both NetVibes and Google Maps. These sites work and render just like they would on the desktop, but there is some display lag when the pages change in response to interaction, much like the lag that I experienced during scrolling on regular pages.
Watching anime on Hulu with SkyFire
Using Netvibes on SkyFire
SkyFire roadmap
I checked in with Robert Oberhofer, SkyFire's senior director of product management. We discussed the browser's limitations and he provided insight into the future roadmap and some of the steps that the company will take to provide users with a better browsing experience.
Oberhofer pointed out that the project is still at an early stage of development and said that ongoing effort will result in further improvements. In particular, he believes that there is still a lot of room for performance optimizations that will address the problems I encountered with scrolling.
"What you notice in scrolling behavior is the compromise between loading the necessary information for rendering the visible elements of the page and available CPU power and network speed," he wrote in an e-mail. "We have many ways to improve the felt performance, it is just a matter of [having] resources to put them into place (we are a comparatively small company). Click overlays and correctly identifying clicks (vs. scrolls and tap'n'holds etc) falls into a similar bucket. It is a matter of fine tuning the experience and we are motivated to get it right."
Oberhofer says that "tabbed browsing is a highly requested feature" that is "definitely on [the] roadmap and will come 'soon'." Another big feature on the long-term roadmap is moving from Gecko 1.8 to Gecko 1.9. I suspect that the new version of Gecko, which is used in Firefox 3 and is built on top of the Cairo vector graphics library, will be more conducive to SkyFire's prerendering approach.
Oberhofer also explained why he thinks that a prerendering solution is a more effective long-term solution than using a native port of Firefox that runs entirely on the device itself (as Mozilla is doing with Fennec).
"As you can imagine, we gain a big advantage in using the big pipes in our data center to the Internet. HTML/HTTP is a very chatty in nature. This is less of an issue for landline internet connections (low latency), however [it] is especially felt for mobile networks where latency is still measured in hundreds of milliseconds," he wrote. "Add this up and you very quickly realize that a page such as CNN.com with 120 GET requests (just checked with Firebug) will never be experienced at any speed over mobile networks without some server assistance—even given infinite bandwidth and client processing power."
Another point in favor of server-side prerendering, he said, is that the latest emerging browser plugins can be used and deployed immediately. For instance, he notes that SkyFire had support for the latest version of Silverlight when NBC launched its Silverlight-based Olympics web site.
Bringing rich web content to resource-constrained mobile devices has always been an enormous challenge. Compromises are required to shoehorn the vastness of the web into a device with a small screen and limited bandwidth. The rapid evolution of mobile technology has reduced some of the barriers, but it's still not an easy problem to solve. Even Apple's WebKit-based mobile browser, which represented a major breakthrough in handheld web surfing, doesn't deliver Flash video content, for instance.
The creators of SkyFire believe that they have a better approach, and despite the weaknesses of the current beta release, they are convinced that they can provide a truly desktop-like mobile browsing experience.
"We are still in beta, and we have to walk before we run," Oberhofer told me. "I personally find it very exciting to work on this—this is the third time in my career that I work on bringing the internet to the mobile phone (started with WAP in 1998). I think this time we are getting it right."
Although SkyFire has a long way to go before we can determine if Oberhofer really has it right, the concept deserves attention. SkyFire is relatively strong considering the short amount of time that it has been under development, but it can't really compete with Opera Mobile 9.5 on Windows Mobile devices yet. SkyFire has a decisive advantage for users who want to watch Flash video, but for practically everything else, it's still more of a proof-of-concept than a fully-functional web browser. We will be sure to give it a second look when it exits beta.


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Throughout her career, Maya Lin (b. 1959) has created a remarkable body of work that balances large-scale site-specific installations, intimate studio artworks, architectural projects, and memorials. She created Groundswell in response to the unique architecture of the Wexner Center in 1992–93, as the recipient of the second Wexner Center Artist Residency Award in visual arts. The work was installed in the spring of 1993 and formally dedicated on October 17, 1993, in conjunction with the opening of Maya Lin: Public / Private, an exhibition that presented Lin's studio objects for the first time, showing them in conjunction with photographs and models documenting her large-scale public projects.
Groundswell occupies three separate sites on three different levels of the Wexner Center, filling what Lin saw as "residual spaces" in the building's design. Its landscape of glass shows her interest in such diverse sources as Japanese gardens and the prehistoric mounds found throughout Ohio. Lin has said of Groundswell that "the piece is a conscious effort on my part to combine my Eastern and Western cultural heritage—namely, mixing my affinity for the southeastern Ohio terrain and its regional burial mounds with my love for the raked-sand gardens of Japan." As Sarah J. Rogers, Wexner Center director of exhibitions at the time of Lin's residency, remarked in her essay for the Maya Lin: Public / Private catalogue, "Lin's interpretation of these forms reflects her own forthright vision." In nature, a "ground swell" is a major undulation or shift of the ocean or the earth's surface caused by seismic activity or a powerful storm. "Lin's Groundswell is similarly aggressive in its fluid interruption of these previously vacant spaces," noted Rogers.
Lin has also commented that Groundswell relates to both her studio artworks and her public projects, enabling her to "bring my private studio sculptures into the public domain." Its material, shattered tempered glass, is something she had previously used in her artworks, finding it "incredibly seductive, very beautiful" but with a kind edginess as a commonplace and even potentially "dangerous" substance. The glass came from recycled glass doors (clear) and recycled car windows (green), mixed together to create a color that suggests water.
To mark the twentieth anniversary of Groundswell's original installation, the Wexner Center and Lin worked together to restore the work and recover the original glistening qualities of the glass. Notes Wexner Center Director Sherri Geldin, "From the moment Maya Lin completed Groundswell it became an inextricable part of the Wexner Center, ingeniously filling and transforming the concrete voids of Peter Eisenman's design. And while the Wex does not have a collection, this work has become a permanent part of our institutional identity and landscape. We are so grateful to Maya for working with us to restore the piece to its original splendor, and for returning here to reinstall the work on its 20th anniversary."
Lin was particularly interested in having the original recycled glass be used again instead of replaced as much as possible. In January 2013, all of the glass was removed and then sifted utilizing a modified grain separator and cleaned with an eco-friendly detergent. The restored glass, augmented by a small amount of recycled, tumbled clear plate glass, is being reinstalled by Lin in early April.
Groundswell was made possible through the Wexner Center Artist Residency Award program.
The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Maya Lin grew up in Athens, Ohio, where her parents served on the faculty at Ohio University. She graduated from Yale University, receiving a BA in 1981 and an MA in 1986, and has maintained a professional studio in New York City since then.
Originally a project for an undergraduate class, Lin's visionary design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, catapulted her to international attention in 1981. Her recent environmental artworks include Storm King Wavefield, Where the Land Meets the Sea, and Eleven Minute Line. Architectural projects encompass institutional and private commissions and range from a chapel and library for the Children's Defense Fund at Haley Farm in Clinton, TN, to the Sculpture Center's space in Long Island City to Aveda's headquarters in downtown Manhattan. A Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, AL, and the Women's Table at Yale University are among her other memorials. Lin's current endeavors include an earthwork in New Zealand; a medical research center in Cambridge, MA; a park in Newport, RI; the Confluence Project, a multisite installation spanning the Columbia River system in the Pacific Northwest; What is Missing?, a global, interactive multisite artwork intended to raise awareness about the crises of biodiversity and habitat loss (described by Lin as her last memorial); and exhibitions in New York and London in spring 2013.
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, a documentary film about Lin and her work, won the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1995. Her book Boundaries, about her work and creative processes, was published by Simon & Schuster in 2006 and is in its fifth printing. Among her many honors, Lin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Women's Hall of Fame. She received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama in 2009.
Quotations come from May Lin: Public / Private (Columbus, OH: Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, 1994) and Maya Lin, Boundaries (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006).


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How To: Use a Leaf Blower
Fall is full of football, hot apple cider, and pumpkin pies. And leaves. For some, lots and lots of leaves. A leaf blower can make quicker work of this autumn chore than the traditional rake. But it's worth brushing up on a few tips from the experts before getting started.
A leaf blower is most effective for gathering the bulk of a lawn's leaves into large piles, to be removed with a tarp or by hand. Don't expect to blow every last leaf off your lawn with a leaf blower. That will drive you crazy. Try hard not to be too fussy. You can follow up with a leaf rake at the end to get the stragglers.
The vacuum mode of a leaf blower is best reserved for smaller and less accessible jobs, where a leaf rake would be difficult to use. Use it for leaves that have been trapped around rocks, at the bases of fences, or in the tight spots around your house. It's also handy for getting leaves off your deck, or for removing small amounts of dirt and grass clippings from your drive.
Wind – If you can, remove your leaves on a day when the wind is blowing in the direction you want them to go, or on a day that is still. You'll find that doing otherwise is seriously counter-productive.
Wet – Bottom line, dry leaves are easier to remove with a blower than wet leaves. Test the moisture of a leaf pile by directing your blower at its base. If it barely budges, it might be best to do another chore instead and come back the next day.
• Plan where you want your leaves to ultimately land. Position a tarp in the designated spot, so you can haul the leaves to your compost heap when you're finished. If you're blowing them directly into a wooded area or compost pile, do it in sections. Collect your leaves into your designated spot and then separate 6' sections of leaves at a time, blowing them to their final resting place.
• Work in one direction only. That will help prevent you from blowing leaves into an area you've already worked through.
• Hold the blower at your side and point the front end at the ground at a shallow angle. Use a smooth back-and-forth motion as you walk slowly with the leaf blower in front of you.
Remember to wear eye and ear protection when blowing leaves. Small sticks, leaves, and other debris can easily get blown into eyes, and leaf blowers generate between 70 and 75 decibels, which is not only considered annoyingly loud by some, but can damage hearing after prolonged exposure. With a little practice, a leaf blower can get you to that post-leaf-removal celebratory beer quicker than a rake.
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Some progress reportedly was made in the budget imbroglio when White House chief of staff Panetta and met with congressional Republicans. White House spokesman Mike McCurry said they had agreed on a work plan involving chief negotiators for the White House and Congress. More talks were expected later in the day, but they would not include the issue of a temporary spending bill, he said.
In a 51 to 45 vote, the Senate decided to take President Clinton to court for refusing to turn over disputed Whitewater notes. But the threat could fizzle as the White House works to eliminate roadblocks to releasing the notes.
The House voted 319 to 100 to override Clinton's veto of a bill limiting securities-fraud lawsuits. If the Senate follow suit with an override, the bill becomes law. Clinton has vetoed 10 bills since taking office, including four in the past week.
What does Senate majority leader Bob Dole want for Christmas? He wants to lead a congressional delegation of five or six senators to the Balkans to visit US troops on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. But tangled budget negotiations are threatening to hold up the trip. Clinton had wanted to spend Christmas with the troops as well, but was advised against it by military commanders, McCurry said. "Frankly, we would get in the way" of the deployment, he explained.
The House was expected to take action on a welfare reform bill that would replace the federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children program with block grants to the states. The bill would trim food stamp benefits and curb aid to immigrants, disabled children, drug addicts, and alcoholics. An experimental change in the federal school lunch program is also included.
An Army inquiry discovered about 15 soldiers at Fort Bragg have loose ties to skinhead groups, the local news station WTVD said. Military officials have not released results of their investigation into racist and extremists activity at the base. The inquiry was prompted by the arrest of three white soldiers in the slaying of a black couple.
A man who died after his 1994 arrest in Philadelphia was repeatedly struck in the head by police, and six officers lied about the beating under oath, the Police Advisory Commission reportedly concluded. The Philadelphia Inquirer said an overwhelming majority of the 15-member panel supported the finding and recommended disciplinary action against the six officers.
Louis Farrakhan's $4.2 billion libel suit against The New York Post was dismissed by a judge who said the Nation of Islam leader offered no proof of malice on the newspaper's part.
The debt-ridden Samuel Goldwyn Company has agreed to sell its film and television library to a PolyGram subsidiary in an attempt to rebuild Goldwyn's movie production and distribution arm. PolyGram Filmed Entertainment will pay Goldwyn $62 million for 850 movies, including "The Madness of King George," and 740 TV shows, ranging from "Flipper" to "American Gladiators."
Two alleged members of a paramilitary group were ordered held without bail in Los Angeles on charges they plotted to overthrow the Cuban government. An arsenal stashed in a warehouse included: assault rifles, grenades, 14,000 rounds of ammunition, and gas masks.
Legislation to dismantle the Interstate Commerce Commission is moving through Congress despite a presidential veto threat. Clinton in principle has backed the elimination of the ICC as part of long-term plans to balance the budget. But yesterday the administration said he would veto it.
You have the right to remain silent, but if you do, police in Los Angeles and Santa Monica will press you to talk anyway, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California charges in a lawsuit. The departments try to circumvent protections afforded under the US Supreme Court's 1966 Miranda ruling, the suit contends.
NATO peacekeeping troops began dismantling checkpoints that once made free passage impossible in Bosnia. Meanwhile, a German seaman, accidently killed during military exercises in the Adriatic Sea, became NATO's first casualty in the Bosnian mission. And some foreign Islamic fighters who helped Bosnian Muslims during the Balkan war are refusing to leave, a Bosnian official said.
An American Airlines plane, carrying 164 people, crashed near Cali, Colombia. Four people reportedly survived. Most of the passengers aboard the Boeing 757-200 jetliner, which took off from Miami, were reportedly Colombians - traveling to see their families for the holidays. The cause of the crash is unknown. And in Egypt, 60 people were reported killed in a train accident near Cairo.
A powerful car bomb exploded in a busy marketplace in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing at least 20 people and wounding as many as 100 others, police officials said. No one took responsibility for the blast, but police and the Interior Ministry blamed Afghanistan.
Palestinian policemen arrived in Bethlehem to take over the military headquarters from Israel. They were expected to formally take control of the historic city to Palestinians. And, after four days of talks, PLO leaders failed to get a clear-cut pledge from Hamas to halt attacks on Israelis and participate in Palestinian elections.
Russia's pro-reform forces must unite or risk losing democratic gains said Yegor Gaidar, a former prime minister and prominent reformist. Gaidar's warning followed a strong showing by the Communists in last week's parliamentary elections. And in Gudermes, Chechnya, Russian troops freed 150 military officers trapped in a military office by rebel fighters.
Prince Norodom Sirivudh left Cambodia for exile in France. Sirivudh, half-brother of Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk, earlier agreed to go into exile rather than face trial on charges of plotting to assassinate Co-Prime Minister Hun Sen and overthrow the government - accusations the prince denies. The charges were a pretext to silence a potential rival, critics say.
The UN is phasing out its food program in North Korea by mid-January because of a lack of funds, the UN said. Last summer, floods destroyed the harvest, and famine is reportedly affecting 500,000 people. The WFP needs $8.8 million to cover the operation.
Former South Korean presidents Chun Doo Hwan and Roh Tae Woo were formally indicted for their roles in a 1979 coup. Chun was charged with mutiny for masterminding the coup. Roh was charged with playing a "key role." Both were also charged with murder and attempted murder for attacks on superior officers. They face the death penalty if convicted.
Poland's two parties in the ruling coalition government clashed over what to do about allegations by government sources that Prime Minister Jozef Oleksy spied for Russia. Meanwhile, Russia's Foreign Ministry denounced the allegations.
The Chernobyl nuclear power station will be shut down by 2000. Ukraine and the Group of Seven industrial countries signed an unbinding agreement in Canada. The deal involves $2.3 billion in aid to close the power plant and develop Ukraine's energy sector.
Argentina may pardon leaders of a failed 1990 coup, and also Marxist guerrillas who attacked an Army barracks in 1989, President Carlos Menem said.
There's no point in temporarily opening the government up until we get the job done."
- GOP Rep. John Shadegg, balking on reopening partly closed Cabinet agencies while discussions on balancing the federal budget are under way.
A fossilized dinosaur found incubating its eggs has offered scientists the most graphic evidence yet of how dinosaurs may have been the precursors of the modern bird. The spectacular specimen, found buried under sand in Mongolia, is crouching on a nest of at least 15 eggs.
The shrimp is shucked, the pheasant plucked in hopes Yosemite's annual Bracebridge feast will be held Christmas weekend, even though the federal budget impasse has closed the park down. Plans for an eight-course meal at the Ahwahnee Hotel continue. Being prepared: 800 pounds of tenderloin, 5,000 pieces of shrimp, and Black Sea caviar.
Top 10 Role Models
Below are the National League of Junior Cotillions' picks for people with the best manners in 1995. The most ill-mannered person? Baseball team owner Art Modell for abandoning his hometown and moving the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore.
Actor Christopher Reeve for composure during adversity.
Assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for pursuit of peace amid conflict.
"Good Morning America" cohost Joan Lunden for treating guests courteously.
Former Education Department head William Bennett for his "Book of Virtues" message.
Capt. Scott O'Grady for living up to the definition of hero after his plane went down in Bosnia.
Secretary of State Warren Christopher for poise under pressure.
Gen. Colin Powell for putting family above politics.
Tennis player Monica Seles for her perseverance and optimism.
Baseball's Cal Ripken Jr. for accepting success with humility.
TV newscaster Jane Pauley for respect and politeness.
- The National League of Junior Cotillions/Associated Press


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