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MS. IFILL: You want to know what really happened at the big health care summit, whether the economy is turning the corner, if your Toyota is safe? We'll answer your questions tonight on "Washington Week."
REP. JOE BARTON (R-TX): Never have so many members of the House and Senate behaved so well for so long before so many television cameras.
MS. IFILL: They did behave well, but they did not agree.
SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY): The solution to that is to put that on the shelf and to start over with a blank piece of paper.
SEN. MAX BAUCUS (D-MT): The gaps in my judgment are not that great.
MS. IFILL: Honest differences of opinion or rank partisanship.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ): Both of us during the campaign promised change in Washington.
PRES. BARACK OBAMA: Let me just make this point, John, because we're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.
SEN. MCCAIN: I'm reminded of that every day.
MS. IFILL: One almost certain casualty: bipartisanship. But is there room for cross party cooperation on another key issue?
MR. : The yeas are 70. The nays are 28.
MS. IFILL: The Senate passes a jobs bill. And one of the world's most powerful businessmen receives a congressional scolding.
REP. EDOLPHUS TOWNS (D-NY): If the Camry and the Prius were airplanes, they would be grounded.
MS. IFILL: Trouble at Toyota. Covering the week: Karen Tumulty of "Time" Magazine, John Dickerson of "Slate" Magazine and CBS News, Naftali Bendavid of the "Wall Street Journal," and David Shepardson of the "Detroit News."
ANNOUNCER: Award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens, live from our nation's capital, this is "Washington Week" with Gwen Ifill produced in association with "National Journal."
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ANNOUNCER: Once again, live from Washington, moderator Gwen Ifill.
MS. IFILL: Good evening. Well, it wasn't Yalta or Reykjavik or Dayton. It wasn't even the Beer Summit, but Thursday's health care summit did serve as a turning point of sorts for Democrats and Republicans. Assembled before the cameras around the table in what is essentially President Obama's guest house, Blair House, Republicans set out to make the case that the health care fix the president proposes would cost too much, do too little, and represents an unacceptable federal intrusion into private health care.
REP. ERIC CANTOR (R-VA): When you start to mandate that everyone in this country have insurance and you lay on top of that now the mandates that we all would like to see in a perfect world, there're consequences to that. We just can't afford this.
MS. IFILL: Democrats, including the president, who got the first and the last word, wanted to show that they were willing to be reasonable and bipartisan, but that their approach is the right now.
SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV): Our Republican friends oppose our legislation and that is your right. But also, it becomes your responsibility to propose ideas for making it better. So if you have a better plan for making health insurance more affordable, let's hear it. If you have a better plan for making health insurance companies more accountable, let's face it. Let's work on it.
MS. IFILL: The president tipped his hand in the end, signaling loud and clear that he is willing to force action on health care reform without Republican support.
PRES. OBAMA: We cannot have another yearlong debate about this. So the question that I'm going to ask myself and I ask all of you is, is there enough serious effort that in a month's time or a few weeks' time or six weeks' time we could actually resolve something. And if we can't, then I think we've got to go ahead and some make decisions, and then that's what elections are for.
MS. IFILL: Now that sounded like a gauntlet being thrown out. But at the heart of it, Karen, what is at the nub of this debate?
MS. TUMULTY: Well, the president did begin by saying, "let's talk about the things we agree and see if you can bridge the differences." But as theses six hours turned into seven hours, what became increasingly apparent is that while they can agree on some provisions of the bill, that the philosophical approaches between the two parties are so different, especially about what the role of government should be, versus what the role of free markets should be, that there is really no common ground here between the two.
And second of all, they are so at odds over whether this is even doable, whether it's affordable. And at one point, Lamar Alexander said basically, "this is just something that Washington is not even capable of doing."
MS. IFILL: And is it possible, John, that Washington is also just not capable of really finding that middle ground? Was it even a possibility, a fairy tale thought?
MR. DICKERSON: Well, it was a fairy tale thought, but it wasn't a real thought. And that the problem is because both sides came in with totally different views about how to proceed. So there were the philosophical differences that Karen talked about, but there're also these procedural differences. The president wanted to take the bill the Democrats had put together a majority bill – shave off the parts the Republicans don't like, maybe add in some things the Republicans do like. The Republicans were saying, "no, got to start fresh. And we'll start fresh." And if you can't agree on whether you're going to take the bus or the car, you can't reach your destination. And we saw the president get frustrated several times. He would try to build a little pile of sticks of bipartisanship, things they could agree on, and then some Republicans played and were involved in that, but others would come in and say, "no, got to start from scratch." And all of his little careful work would disappear.
MS. IFILL: I thought – I'm curious what everybody else thought – that it was actually more interesting and substantive than I even expected – maybe it's because my expectations are now historically so low for things like this in Washington. Was there substance there?
MS. TUMULTY: There was a lot of substance there, I thought. There were a lot of ideas, very specific ideas put on the table. They were all – if you've been listening to this debate, as those of us who've been paid to do it and have for the last year, none of these sounded like new ideas. But I think anyone who had heard the whole thing play out, they got a sense that neither of these parties are completely lacking in their own ideas.
MR. BENDAVID: So Karen, we've now had this daylong seminar, a lot of back and forth, people talking to each other, doesn't seem like they've agreed. So what's next? Where do we go from here?
MS. TUMULTY: Where we go from here is now – as Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, the House speaker and Senate majority leader, left the meeting, they both made it very, very clear. They are going to – they're all in on this. They are going to push through a large bill, at least do the best they can. So what we're going to see is the House attempting to pass the Senate bill, and then both houses using this procedure of reconciliation, where you only need 51 votes in the Senate to make some modification in that Senate bill that would really make it more acceptable to the House.
MS. IFILL: Which is where a lot of liberal Democrats have been pushing the Democrats in the Senate to do.
MR. DICKERSON: Right, they wanted them to go with reconciliation from the beginning. And the president didn't want to do that. But what essentially the reason they have to do reconciliation now is it's the spoonful of sugar for the House Democrats because since Scott Brown was elected, they can't pass a bill that represents the best of the House and the best of the Senate. Scott Brown –
MS. IFILL: Scott Brown, the Republican.
MR. DICKERSON: – was elected in the Senate.
MS. IFILL: From Massachusetts.
MR. DICKERSON: So they have to go pass the old Senate bill, as Karen was saying, but in the House they can't build a majority to pass that old Senate bill. So they have to get this other second bill, and that has to pass through reconciliation, the second bill that will have the fixes that will make health care palatable to the Democrats in the House. Republicans say, you can't pass a bill that affects 17 percent of the economy using this trick. But in fact, just as a technical matter, the bill that will actually pass – has already indeed passed, passed with 60 votes – the health care bill. What will pass through reconciliation is this second bill, this kind of fixer bill.
MR. SHEPARDSON: John, does this daylong summit – has it unified Democrats and how do they get the remaining votes to get this thing finally passed?
MR. DICKERSON: You hear two different stories. There were – when I talked to strategists involved in races in 2010, trying to get Democrats elected, they wanted the president to come out there and draw some bright lines with Republicans, do a little bit more of "show me your plan." We heard that clip from Harry Reid saying, you put up or shut up in fact with Republicans. The president didn't do that much. In fact he kind of bent over backwards to show he was accommodating, to show he was reaching out. John McCain was quite political, talked about how the president hadn't fulfilled the promises of the campaign. And although Obama got irritated, later in the day he agreed with McCain on something. And then another time, he praised McCain for being principled. So he wasn't in the heavily partisan mood some Democrats wanted him to be.
Instead, what he seems to have done that may unify Democrats is do everything possible to bend over backwards, so that they ultimately can say, look, we tried to meet Republicans half way. We did everything we could do. And they just weren't up for it.
MS. IFILL: But, Karen, at the same time, it also struck me that they were – if you're just watching – you're a virgin health care of watcher – and you could hear Lamar Alexander make one argument, for instance, about whether premiums go up or down and hear the president disagree with him and not have a clue who's right.
MS. TUMULTY: That's right. It was that – by the way, it was the first smack down of the whole summit. This is a question. Are my premiums going to go up or down? That's what people are wondering because they're seeing in the news that all these health insurance companies in these states are hiking premiums like crazy. So it was one of these things that if you parsed each of their sentences, you would realize they were talking about two different things. Lamar Alexander was saying the premiums in the individual market would go up, according to the Congressional Budget Office. That is true. The individual market is that 10 percent of Americans who don't get coverage at work, so they go out and buy policies on their own. What he didn't say is that most of those people would more than make up for that with the additional help they would get from the government in the form of subsidies. And for those of us who are fortunate enough to get health coverage at work, the Congressional Budget office says that those of us – the 80 percent of us, who do, our premiums are going to stay the same or go down.
MR. DICKERSON: And it just is a political matter, to piggyback on that to your point, Gwen. When people were watching, they see, "gosh, this is complicated." And everybody is acting in good faith. Let's maybe slow down. That's what the polls are saying and that's the Republican message. And so Democrats – back to your question about whether Democrats are unified – those who wanted to make Republicans look like kind of crazy obstructionists, these kinds of details suggest that, hey, there are legitimate differences. Republicans are trying to go slow. And maybe that's what we should do.
MR. BENDAVID: But the other thing that Obama did, actually not at the summit, but earlier in the week is he presented his own plan. And I'm just kind of wondering how important it is that finally the president comes out with his idea of what should be in the bill.
MS. IFILL: Which, by the way, was greeted by widespread suspicion by Republicans.
MS. TUMULTY: Yes, but I think that that, in the end, was a far more significant development than the summit in terms of actually getting this bill over the finish line in the House and the Senate because what the president did in his own bill was he took out all the things that have made this bill completely unacceptable to the House, starting with this tax on very expensive health care plans. He got rid of a lot of the special deals, Ben Nelson's so-called "Cornhusker Kickback" on Medicaid in Nebraska, a lot of the things that have made this bill a lot harder to swallow.
MS. IFILL: Public option, nowhere to be seen.
MS. TUMULTY: Public option, nowhere to be seen. And so this has made it a lot easier for Nancy Pelosi to go to her caucus, which does not trust the Senate on anything at the moment, and say, look, you guys have already voted for this thing once. If there's any political damage, it's been done. We've got to carry this through to the finish line and convince the American people that we, the Democrats, are capable of governing.
MR. DICKERSON: And going back to that reconciliation point, the reconciliation bill, the second bill will have all of those fixes you're talking about in it. That's the little vehicle for it.
One other thing that the Monday announcement did was it put the president's face on this bill. People hadn't liked this process when Congress has been in charge of it. And I was talking to a veteran aide on the Hill, who said, we've seen Professor Obama in the 7-hour – now, we're going to have to see President Obama. It now is totally his, this process, this bill. And he's now got to work it. He's got to help Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
MS. TUMULTY: It's true. Until this week, there was no such thing as an Obama health care plan.
MR. BENDAVID: But you wonder why he didn't do it earlier.
MS. TUMULTY: That's a very good question.
MR. DICKERSON: He didn't want to step on Congress' toes, let them have their prerogatives –
MS. IFILL: And that wasn't worth so much. Well, incrementalism is now the key, right? This is what he's also embracing a little bit, even though that big bill is a big bill.
MS. TUMULTY: But over and over again, yesterday, the president made the point that piecemeal reform just won't work. That you cannot get health – and this is, by the way, something most health care experts and economist will agree with that you really can't get cost down unless everybody is covered.
MS. IFILL: But politically this is something which is very appealing. Well, let's move on because incrementalism did work, at least partially later this week on the Hill. At the same time that the smell of stalemate was in the air over at Blair House, there was a modest measure of bipartisanship bond on view on Capitol Hill. It was a $15 billion job creation bill, incremental rather than sweeping. Was it a sign of things to come, Naftali?
MR. BENDAVID: Well, in some ways it was, but we shouldn't lose sight of how modest it was. First of all, you only had five Republicans out of 41 joining the Democrats on the key vote with that bill. And secondly, the bill was a modest one. Its key provision provided a payroll holiday. If a company hires somebody who's unemployed, they don't have to pay that person's Social Security taxes for the end of the year. And there're few other provisions would help construction bonds and stuff like that.
So this was not intended to be anything sweeping. On the other hand, it does present sort of a template, I think, for what the Democrats are going to do. They're going to perhaps present a series of modest bills that are very difficult for Republicans to oppose and so to dare them to stand up against it.
MS. IFILL: Now, this seems like a flip of what we saw in the health care bill in that the Republicans who didn't vote for this one were unhappy it wasn't bigger instead of unhappy that it was incremental. Why didn't – why wasn't it a slam dunk for everybody to vote for at a time of economic crisis?
MR. BENDAVID: Well, that's a very good question in that Republicans supported almost everything that was in the bill. They didn't vote against it because they didn't like it. What they were upset about is that there at one point was a bigger bill. Harry Reid decided to go with the smaller one. And some Republicans were upset that the bill had been narrowed down or slimmed down in that way.
MS. IFILL: And tax breaks and things like that were taken out of it.
MR. BENDAVID: Were taken out, things that they liked were taken out. That's right.
MR. DICKERSON: Naftali, one of the people who helped this bill pass was the new senator from Massachusetts. What do you make of his role in his?
MR. BENDAVID: That got a lot of people's attention. The first Republican from the whole Senate to stand up and say, I'm going to be with the Democrats on this, was Scott Brown. People have been wondering for a couple of weeks what kind of Republican is he going to be? Is he going to be somebody who adheres to the Republican Party line? Is he going to be somebody that the Democrats can work with? And I think what this showed was that he's going to join Susan Collins, Olympia Snowe, the very small number of Republicans that are willing to break ranks and work with the Democrats on some things. And I think that's one of the more important developments that we saw on the jobs bill actually.
MR. SHEPARDSON: Well how much trouble is this bill in the House? There's a lot of criticism over the fact that a billion dollars in road funds go – about 60 percent go to four states. Is that going to hold it up or will the Democrats hold their nose and vote for it?
MR. BENDAVID: That's one of the amazing things. So the Senate finally gets a bipartisan bill and it's running into trouble in the House among Democrats, not just for the reason you mentioned, but some liberal Democrats think it should be bigger. Some conservative Democrats think it should be paid for in a whole different way. So my hunch is that they're going to find a way to get it through, but it's sort of emblematic of the difficulties that Congress is having passing anything, that they finally get a good bill in the House, immediately runs into trouble in the Senate.
MS. TUMULTY: And is this bill actually going to create jobs and if so how soon?
MR. BENDAVID: You know, it's modest, like we're saying at the outset. I've heard people estimate 250,000 jobs, heard people say a little bit more, at least Democrats say a little bit more. But there's no question that what the Democrats have decided to go and do here is small ball, is something that they think they can pass, but rather than the sweeping approach they've taken to health care, I would say, and energy, they want to do this one step at a time.
MS. IFILL: Except that last night we saw on the Senate another of what you would think would be a slam dunk idea, which was to extend jobless benefits, which are about to expire this weekend, ran up against the wall.
MR. BENDAVID: There's a senator named Jim Bunning, from Kentucky, Republican senator. And he's a guy who –
MS. IFILL: A retiring.
MR. BENDAVID: – he's not running for reelection. He's also always at odds with his own party leadership. So this is a guy who flies solo, who does his own thing, who has a reputation sometimes for being a little bit eccentric. And he's holding up this bill because he's afraid it's going to add to the deficit. It's a very popular bill on both sides of the aisle to extend unemployment benefits and it's maybe one more illustration of the difficulties that the Senate has. It's complex rules, rules that require 60 votes for some things, that allow one senator to gum up the works in almost anything. Again, they'll probably get it passed next week, but not without a lot of difficulty, a lot of handwringing, not without making it a lot more complicated than it had to be.
MS. IFILL: I wonder how much of this has to do with crisis, whether there has to be an immediate crisis. We get such conflicting economic information every day. Today, we heard that house sales were down and earlier in the week we heard that overall there was some sort of glimmers of hope, and then we saw the market collapse yesterday. Is that what it is, is that there's nothing seems so pressing, so emergency that people have to get this stuff done?
MR. BENDAVID: You could think we are in a crisis. The financial system just about collapsed. The economy is struggling along in a terrible way. Everybody agrees that health care really needs to be worked on, but yet they can't seem to get it together. My sense is just that over the years the rules in the Senate have become more and more ossified. People have hardened in their political and partisan approaches to these things. Until we get to this point now, where I think people are really kind of shocked at how in the face of all these problems that everybody agrees we need action on. They don't seem able to get it done.
MR. SHEPARDSON: Given that unemployment is still 9.7 percent, shouldn't we expect more job bills down the road and what are the prospects? And what might those bills have in them?
MR. BENDAVID: I think that's exactly what the Democrats' strategy is, is to pass these things a little bit, one vote at a time. That'll help them. It'll help them politically over the next three or four months. Every few weeks, they pass another jobs bill. The next one is the one that we were just talking about that Senator Bunning is blocking that will extend unemployment insurance. It'll extend COBRA health benefits. And after that, they're talking about things like investing in infrastructure, like helping state and local governments. How many of these things get through, we'll have to see, but the Democrats love the idea of proposing these things every few weeks, sort of daring the Republicans to say no.
MS. IFILL: And just giving us something more to talk every few weeks. Well, as you can tell, Washington did not lack for political opera this week. Right at the top was Akio Toyoda's appearance before a House committee, where he sought to defend his family name and the eight million cars his company has been forced to recall. I asked Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood about it this week on the "NewsHour."
(Begin video segment.)
MS. IFILL: Based on what you now know, the thousands of documents which have surfaced the investigation we saw today, the testimony we've seen, do you believe that Toyota misled the public?
SEC. RAY LAHOOD: I think that they were safety-deaf. I think they should have been listening. I think Toyota, in Tokyo, should have been listening to their North American people that they hire, who are very good people, very professional people.
(End video segment.)
MS. IFILL: So David, how much – welcome to "Washington Week," David – how much should the government had known and how much did the government know about Toyota's problems?
MR. SHEPARDSON: Well, since 2004, there are eight separate investigations into some acceleration claims at Toyota and the only thing the government did was to force to recall 55,000 formats in 2007, very little, very inexpensive. In fact, Toyota bragged about the fact that they saved $100 million plus by only having to recall these 55,000 formats. Then we had this awful accident in August, 2009, the California highway patrol officer that killed four people. And suddenly they agree to now $2 billion fix to recall eight and a half million vehicles. I think it's clear the government – it was woefully understaffed, did not have the expertise it needed, and didn't do enough to push Toyota two or three years ago.
MS. IFILL: It was revealing to hear Ray LaHood saying, well, on my watch we've been doing it great. And then you ask him about somebody else's watch, he claims right out.
MR. DICKERSON: What's going to happen to Toyota now?
MR. SHEPARDSON: Well, this is just the beginning. We went through two – you said soap opera like hearings. We have another hearing next week in the Senate Commerce Committee, which will feature the two top safety officials from Japan coming over. We've got the federal grand jury in New York is investigating criminally to see if Toyota broke the law by not admitting to the problems earlier. The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating. NHTSA has requested hundreds of thousands of documents. They're deciding whether to recall the Toyota Corolla, one of the most popular vehicles in the United States. And there's going to be yet another round of hearings in these House committees, looking into the Bush administration's response and now a Toyota whistleblower turning who turned over documents.
MS. TUMULTY: And what are these hearings likely to produce, because isn't part of the problem that cars now are so full of this hi-tech stuff and the regulations were crafted so long ago?
MR. SHEPARDSON: The two problems they've solved so far, floor mats and sticky pedals, by inserting a little shim. The big question is the fact that our cars are very complex computers with millions of lines of code and we don't know if there's something in the programming that is causing some of these unintended acceleration cases. There are 2,600 complaints since 2000, alleging 34 deaths. And a lot of people believe it. "It wasn't my format. It wasn't the pedal, so it's got to be something else." Now, Toyota and NHTSA have looked at this issue for decades. They haven't found any evidence yet, but it's something they're going to – they both have bowed to take a new hard look at.
MR. BENDAVID: But it seems like a big question, particularly for Toyota, is when the public confidence returns, when they're sort of calm and they sort of accepted Toyota has done what it needs to do and go back to buy Toyota cars. When do you foresee that happening? How far away are we from that?
MR. SHEPARDSON: Well, think first where they were at the end of 2009. Toyota had – they surpassed General Motors as selling the most retailed vehicles in the United States and the world's largest automaker in a short period. Their reputation's just taken a calamitous hit. They've got a lot of oil buyers. It seemed that half the policymakers in this town own a Toyota Prius, certainly the head of the EPA and the head of NHTSA both own a Prius. So there are loyal customers who'll return, I think, if they're convinced that they've fixed the problem, they're going to be transparent, and they're not going hide anything.
MS. IFILL: Now, there's a backdrop here, which is that federal government now has a stake in a couple of domestic automakers. So there's some suspicion about whether they are being tougher on Toyota and whether Obama is "industry friendly" I think was a term that the Toyota executives raised. Do we know?
MR. SHEPARDSON: I don't think there's any evidence that because the government owns 60 percent of GM and 10 percent of Chrysler, that they would go after Toyota, one reason because I don't think it would work. the average Toyota buyer is probably not going to go buy a GM versus a Hyundai or a Honda. I think the domestic companies will get some marginal sales from Toyota's problems. But I don't think the answer to fixing GM is to destroy Toyota and the 170,000 jobs they have in the U.S. And I think the Obama administration just wouldn't try anything like that because it would –
MS. IFILL: Would backfire.
MR. SHEPARDSON: – on any number of levels.
MS. IFILL: Okay, well thank you, David, and once again, welcome.
MR. SHEPARDSON: Thanks, Gwen.
MS. IFILL: Thank you all very much. Opera indeed. We have to go now, but the conversation will continue online. Be sure to check out our "Washington Week" Webcast Extra, everything we didn't get to hear and it's good, plus your questions and our answers. You can find us at pbs.org/Washingtonweek, where you could also read my new blog, "Gwen's Take," and fire away with those comments. Keep up with daily developments on the PBS "NewsHour." And we'll see you around the table again next week on "Washington Week." Good night.
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Enjoy the burst of lemon flavor from these light and soft baked cookies. Lemon Burst cookies are made using a cake mix.
I had a nice response last week with the Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies we made.
One of my fabulous readers, Alicia of Home with the Hollands shared another cake mix cookies recipe with me in the comments. It's just as easy and involves a lemon cake mix and cool whip.
I'm a HUGE fan of lemon, and Heather wanted a special treat to take into work for a co-worker's birthday ……… easy and delicious was all I had time for.
Enjoy the burst of lemon flavor from these light and soft baked cookies.
- 1 box Lemon Cake Mix*
- 1- 8 oz container Cool Whip
- 1 egg
- 1/3 cup powdered sugar (for rolling)
- Preheat oven to 350°
- In medium bowl, beat cool whip, egg and cake mix until well blended. Dough will be thick and sticky.
- Drop by teaspoonfuls into a bowl of powdered sugar and roll to coat.
- Place on parchment lined cookie sheet and bake for 10- 12 minutes
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Seattle is creating 26 pieces of art that people will be able to skateboard on without fear of being hassled by the cops. Read about it here.
The Trials and Tribulations of Building a Skatepark in India
At this stage in skating's short but illustrious history, it's easy to assume that kids in every corner of the globe have become as enamored with it as we have in the West. The skate scene in Bangalore, India, however, is decidedly less robust than in Orange County. The streets are often dilapidated and the cops don't hesitate to chase kids away from good spots, which is unusual and unfortunate for a country that's new to skating.
Holy Stoked, a small collective based in Bangalore, is working to create a community of skaters in a country where many people have never even seen a skateboard. Parks are important to any young skate scene—especially in places without great street spots—so Holy Stoked cofounders Shake and Soms reached out to Levi's about teaming up to build a park in Bangalore. Lo and behold the jeans giant agreed to help.
The goal was to build a concrete park in two weeks, a prospect not unlike God creating the world in seven days. So pros Omar Salazar, Stefan Janoski, Chet Childress, and Al Partanen decided to fly out and lend a hand. European skaters Lennie Burmeister, Jan Kliewer, and Rob Smith showed up as well, and along with the German construction crew 2er and a slew of builders. They managed to put down, according to the press release, "20 tons of sand, three tons of cement, 2,000 meters of steal, and one palm tree" over the course of 16 days. You can watch the first of a three-part video series about the project below.
Skateboarder magazine's senior photographer Jonathan Mehring was there snapping photos during the first week of the undertaking and recently stopped by the VICE offices to tell us about it.
VICE: Can you give me a basic rundown of what you guys were doing in India?
Jonathan Mehring: Holy Stoked bought a lot of land in a decent neighborhood in Bangalore, and then Levi's bought all of the materials, gear, and equipment needed to make a skate park. They built the whole thing in just over two weeks and then had a party, an opening ceremony kind of thing. It was actually kind of funny—a local politician came and posed, pretending he was riding a skateboard.
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Hey remember when Snoop Dogg was awesome? I know you think it wasn't so long ago but the truth is about two years after "Doggystyle" came out he he started doing VH1 shows and turned into the safe rapper and killed my gangsta dreams. Anyway in 2006 he made an awful movie called "Hood of Horror" and apparently he wants to make a sequel. You broke my heart Snoop, you broke it in two.
All the world has troll fever and the only fix is the Norwegian flick "The Troll Hunter". Well good news! There's a new clip from the film and while it doesn't give much in the way of trolls it does feature one salty looking Norwegian. So that's still good! Just so I'm clear when I say "the world" I actually mean Mark from the Bloody Good Horror Podcast. The guy is obsessed with the freakin thing.
If it wasn't for the fact that "Attack The Block" was made by the Brits I would say it sounds mildly racist. And no I will not explain my reasoning for this. Well there's a new trailer for the teens vs. aliens sci-fi comedy romp for you people and I think it speaks for itself. 100% honest, I have no idea what the hell I'm talking about anymore.
Kate Beckinsale has been offered the role of Lori in the upcoming remake of "Total Recall". Lori of course was played by Sharon Stone in the original and for years I've been saying things like, "Hey that Kate Beckinsale, she's going to go places just like Sharon Stone did after she played Lori in the 1990 Arnold Schwarzenegger classic 'Total Recall'". I say that all the time... if you know me you know that.
Holy mother of god! An Alabama man is under arrest after he dug out his 72 year old Uncle's eyes with a spoon. Is this legible? I'm having trouble typing with all the vomit on my keyboard.
Here's a video of a baby penguin being tickled that's all over the tubes the past few days... He dug out his uncle's freakin eyes!
All signs are pointing to doom for ABC's "Happy Town" as the show has been yanked from its summer time slot, with plans to air the final two episodes on "some Saturday in July". It's pretty bad when they won't even give you a date for your finale.
In case you happened to miss it over the weekend, Snoop Dogg wrote a love song to Sookie Stackhouse, the lead character of HBO's "True Blood". Yah, that happened.
According to Elvira's "B" log, we can expect the return of Elvira's Movie Macabre later this year! Though there is no word yet on when or what station, she does make mention that the show will be nationally syndicated.
Late last week British actress Imogen Poots was cast as the female lead in the fast tracked "Fright Night" remake. I just wanted to be able to use the word 'Poots' in a news story.
An Australian millionaire swallowed rat poison to avoid going to jail after receiving a guilty verdict for sexually abusing his step-daughter since she was 11 years old. Thankfully, he was saved at a local hospital forcing him to face his sentencing for the crimes he committed.
When this Welshman went to trial for child pornography, they also found numerous accounts of extreme pornography on his computer as well. Said extreme pornography included videos of women having sex with numerous animals, including a dead squid.
1942 - A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, and fires 17 shells at nearby Fort Stevens. Nobody is injured. It is one of a handful of attacks by the Japanese during World War II against the U.S. mainland.
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UPDATE: Tucker defeats Miller Grove 28-13. Now updated with photos by Carie Cato.
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UTICA, Ind. (WHAS11) -- Greater Clark County Schools is participating in the FREE Summer Food Service Program, Monday through Friday, May 28 through July 19.
Breakfast will be served from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. and lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Free meals will be made available to ALL children 18 years of age and under and to persons over 18-years-old who are enrolled in a state approved educational program for the mentally and physically disabled.
Site locations will be closed July 4 and 5 in observance of Independence Day.
Site locations include:
Jeffersonville High School - 2315 Allison Lane, Jeffersonville
Maple Elementary - 428 Division Street, Jeffersonville
Parkwood Elementary - 748 Spicewood Drive, Clarksville
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#iPhone4 requests have ended due to overwhelming customer response. More launch details to come #shackiphonesThis doesn't mean you can't get an iPhone 4 on June 24th. It does mean you either have to stand-in line at a retailer such as Wal-mart on launch day or like white iPhones. For some unknown reason, the white iPhone 4 was not available for pre-order on Tuesday, and is still not at the time of this writing. If Apple allows pre-ordering for that devices, the floodgates (and server pressure) will be open again, at least for those who like white.
Via: Computerworld | News Archive | Tags: Apple, iPhone, ATT, iOS4
Rofl, yeah but the question is who did they sell them to actual account owners or people who auto stole there account via At&t IT department. From what I heard if you logged into At&t over the weekend and through Monday you ran about a 60% chance of being auto logged into someone Else's account at random. This gave out there address, CC info, account standing, and options for your new jacked phone. I also understand this could have been any At&t user across the united states (which was given to you), not just an iPhone user or upgrading client. If your an At&t user I would definitely be checking my account daily, oh and that's on top of the 140,000 iPad users as well as an unknown number of iPhone users whose information was stolen last week.
That who account thing is crazy. The only way to truely fix it is to dump all preorders made through when they shut it down Tuesday. I see some lawsuits happening since AT&T was basicly giving away CC numbers, names, and addresses. Talk about easy identity theft.
Hmm don't produce enough units for the launch so you create a frenzy to get the devices. isn't that Apple's MO?
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Victor Reyes J.D. '74 March 6, 1943 - Feb. 28, 2014 The Governor's office of the American Bar Association, Law Student Division, Ninth Circuit, has announced the appointment of Victor Reyes of Merced as deputy governor for the Ninth Circuit. Reyes graduated from Le Grand Union High School and is a former resident of Planada, California. He is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Joe C. Avila of Planada. He graduated from Merced College and then enlisted in the U.S. Marines attaining the rank of sergeant, after serving in Vietnam. Upon his return from military duty he attended and graduated from Stanislaus State College at Turlock. Reyes was the recipient of the Council on Legal Education Opportunity's scholarship and attended their pre-law institute at the Univeristy of California School of Law at Davis. At the termination of his summer intern with CLEO, Reyes accepted a three-year scholarship from the University of Santa Clara School of Law. Reyes was presented with the outstanding Community Service Award, "For exceptional service in advancing the best interest in the Law School Community," by the Student Bar Association at the University of Santa Clara. One of 15 students selected out of statewide law students for the position of law clerk with California Rural Legal Services, Reyes served as law clerk for the Madera Regional Office of CRLA. He was awarded placement as an intern law clerk with CRLA by the Law students Civil Rights and Research Council Scholarship. Upon returning to Santa Clara he was also informed that he is the recipient of another scholarship from the Mexican-American Legal Defense and Education Fund-San Francisco, to assist him with his legal education.
Robert Myles Tobin '70, J.D. '74, a resident of Los Gatos, passed away on June 7, 2014, surrounded by family and friends. Bob was born on Sept. 23, 1948, and raised in Marin County in the idyllic town of Fairfax, Calif. He attended Sir Francis Drake High School in San Anselmo, Calif. and was a star athlete. Bob participated in multiple sports, which resulted in scholarships to the University of Santa Clara, where he played on the power-house, nationally ranked Bronco basketball teams of 1967–70.
After graduation from college in 1970, he entered the U.S. Army Reserves, and was stationed in Ft. Ord, Calif. Upon his honorable discharge, he entered law school at the University of Santa Clara, and became a licensed California lawyer in June of 1975. Thereafter, Bob became a very successful trial lawyer, having enjoyed employment and partnership with the San Jose law firms of Hoge, Fenton, Jones, and Appel, and Rankin Oneal, before eventually going into solo practice.
On a personal level, Bob never met a stranger and his circle of friends was wide and varied from all walks of life. Bob had a big heart, was generous to a fault and would give anyone the shirt off his back. He exuded charm and with his tall good looks was a presence in any room. He had a sharp wit and keen sense of humor and laughed easily at life's many foibles and characters.
He embraced life and all it had to offer, having traveled worldwide and having lived abroad.
Bob is survived by his mother, Dorothy Paterson Tobin of San Rafael, Calif., his sister Catherine Tobin of Greenbrae, his sister Colleen Tobin Finney and brother-in-law Butch Finney of Novato, Calif., his brother Myles Stephen Tobin and his sister-in-law Sue Tobin of San Jose, Calif., a niece, and his best friend Jeannie Starcevich. He is preceded in death by his father, Myles Tobin, his beloved uncle, Fr. William Tobin, S.J., as well as his beloved dog Poppy.
John Gerald Duyn '74 departed this life into the arms of our Lord on Wed., April 30, 2014. John was born in 1952 to Carl Duyn and the late Donna Duyn of Carlton, Ore. John graduated from Jesuit High School in 1970 and received his Bachelor of Science in Commerce from Santa Clara University in 1974. John, the highly respected and successful CEO of Carlton Farms, grew the business over the last 40 years. Carlton Farms' high-end pork products are served in many of the finest restaurants and grocery stores in the Pacific Northwest. His never-ending dedication and commitment to excellence never overshadowed his devotion to his "family" of employees. His greatest satisfaction was being a "father"and friend to all. His generosity of time and talent was matched only by his kindness to give of his treasures to those less fortunate. His cherished Jesuit High School and the Trappist Abbey were among his favorite beneficiaries. John had the gift of charisma, and all those who were in his presence were captivated with his charm and easygoing spirit. John's never-ending selfless acts of kindness personified his inner beauty. He found great solace in the beauty of God's earth and enjoyed everything outdoors…golfing, hunting, fishing, skiing, walking, hiking, rafting… John was preceded in death by his mother, Donna Duyn (2010), and his beloved first wife, Susan Moore Duyn '74 (1981). He is survived by his loving wife and devoted partner of 32 years, Rita O'Hara Duyn. In remembrance of a man who made it his daily practice of warmly touching everyone's life, we invite you to do a random act of kindness in his memory.
James Edward McGhee Sr. '74, Sept. 2, 1952 to May 4, 2014. He was born in Arkansas but immigrated to California as a teen. A resident of San Jose, he attended James Lick HS and Santa Clara University. James was employed in various management positions with Alpha Beta Grocery chain and Xerox where he was a Regional Sales Manager; KGO TV, as a consultant in the Broadcast Engineering department, and in Remote set-up as a Camera Technician at sporting events. Subsequently he developed his own consultant company, becoming CEO of Integrated Management Services. He founded the African American Parent Coalition (empowering parents in the Eastside Union School Districts). He was appointed to the Grand Jury, and held membership in the NAACP as well as many other Social Action Organizations. He leaves behind his wife Alison (Little) McGhee '72, his sons Eric and James Jr., and his daughter Lisa. Also, his grandsons Khalil, Tiburcio, David, and great-granddaughter LeilaniRose join his sisters Regina, Edna, Jane, and Angela and a multitude of family and friends.
Daniel E. Dietsch '74, August 15, 2014, Age 62, of Homewood, Ill. He was 62.
Beloved husband of Thelma C. Dietsch nee Silvio. Dear father of Simon (Jeanne Robinson) Dietsch and Robin (Jadi Roberts) Dietsch. Cherished grandfather of Carlo, Fox and Evelyn Dietsch. Loving son of Sue and the late Richard Dietsch. Mr. Dietsch is an ordained deacon with the Archdiocese of Chicago serving St. Joseph Parish and a member of Marian Council # 3914 K. of C.


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Monday, September 24, 2007
A couple of things..
I made some 'meatloaf' based on the recipe from Cozy Inside.
I had real intentions of following the recipe, but of course, I didn't. Maybe one of these days I will. We loved the meatloaf. Half of it is in the freezer. We ate some for dinner and this sandwich was a great lunch. It's on my homemade spelt bread. I had some leftover mixture, so I turned it into veggie burgers. 6 in total. Talk about a bang for your buck!
I have several meals in the freezer for the week. Clean out your fridge enchiladas. I will force myself to take a pic of them when we eat! I also made a polenta pie with caramelized onions, cabbage, garlic and kidney beans and individual frozen pizzas that the kids can eat for snacks when they get home. The toaster oven will be perfect to re-heat them.
just a flower on the side of the road..
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Happy Birthday Andrew!!! Amazing amazing amazing that he is already 16. Makes me want to cry! Give him a hug from us.ReplyDelete
What a pretty flower!
Happy birthday to your son! He has good taste, what with blueberry cheesecake and all...ReplyDelete
I know what you mean- I can't possibly photograph all my food, and when I do photograph it, I can't possibly get around to blogging about it. I've had to learn to not feel so guilty about it... which is difficult! When did blogging take over my head??
mmm, that cheezecake looks divine - haha, that's funny that your son couldn't tell that it was vegan. just goes to show how delicious vegan treats really are :0DReplyDelete
oooh, the ribz look terrific as well; and so does that flower!! nature truly is worth every photo - flowers display such elegant, natural beauty.
I love that Andrew had no idea it was vegan. I plan on doing that this weekend for my Aunts birthday with a chocolate pudding recipe. They will have no idea. The cheesecake and meatloaf look super good and good job making veggie burgers out of some of the leftover!ReplyDelete
The cheesecake looks like a tasty birthday dessert!ReplyDelete
I often forget to take photographs too, no worries.
Yes, Cozy Inside is on my list to buy. I can't decide between downloading or actually purchasing it. I almost wish I could download a copy after I buy the book. The PDF search functionality is so useful, but I really love thumbing through books.
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Hope you saved a slice of that cheesecake for me. I think I gained 10 lbs just LOOKING at it. Double yum, No, wait--triple yum.ReplyDelete
Happy birthday to your son. I have my son's birthday party this weekend (but he's turning 14 -and wants pizza and chocolate cake).ReplyDelete
Your cheesecake is absolutely delish looking Melody! Now I've got cheesecake on my brain.
Happy B-Day to your son! Good call on blueberry cheesecake for dessert!ReplyDelete
What a lovely birthday cake--I'm glad he enjoyed the vegan version!ReplyDelete
What a beautiful photo, that flower...
Whoa. That cheesecake...ReplyDelete
Mmmm a vegan cheesecake. I gotta learn how to do that! The meat loaf looks amazing too!ReplyDelete
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Hard to believe we know but it is true, Kirk Brandon has now been leading SPEAR OF DESTINY for over 30 years.
2014 will see the release of the band's 13th studio album "31 (Thirty-One)" These brand new recordings will be released on Vinyl, CD and Digital via kirkbrandon.com, Code7 Distribution and The Orchard Digital Platform.
To coincide with the new album's release on September 15th an extensive UK tour will commence on September 18th and conclude October 19th.
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Cross country ski or snowshoe over white glistening meadows and along wooded trails; explore challenges for all skill levels. With 60 kilometers of trails, (40km groomed), the views vary from majestic mountains to the ice covered lake. Enjoy solitude and breathtaking natural beauty of the Green Mountains. Daily grooming to maintain a well manicured trail system with tracks and skating lanes. Our snowmaking covers a 1.5km loop ensuring optimal conditions, regardless of "mother nature." The Nordic Ski & Snowshoe Center offers lessons for all levels, equipment rentals, and snacks, home baked cookies and drinks. On weekends a menu of sandwiches & soups is offered. Dining options in the Lodge range from the casual Mountain Top Tavern to fireside dining in the Highlands Dining Room. While at the Resort enjoy a horse drawn sleigh ride, snowmobiling, ice skating and our old-fashioned sledding hill. Dining and activities are open to the public. Just a short drive from Killington. Please call in advance to reserve.
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"Jews Gripped the Key-Positions" - Adolf Hitler
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" A satanic power had taken over the whole country, who had been able to grip key-positions of our intellectual and spiritual life, but also of our political and economical life. From these key-postions they were able to monitor the whole nation" - Adolf Hitler
This is the same thing happening to us in the USA and the Jews are taking steps to prevent us from rising up the way Germans did in Germany.
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Introducing a whole NEW way to learn to climb at Metalmark!
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Julius Bernard Uehlein, 88, a co-founder of the United Steelworkers union, has died in a nursing home in Washington, D.C., of cardiopulmonary failure brought on by pneumonia.USW president Leo W. Gerard praised Uehlein's history with the union. "Uehlein played a critical role in the evolution of our union and a crucial role in the Pennsylvania labor movement when the state was at the very heart of the nation's industrial development," he said.....
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The University of Tulsa women make the Women's NCAA Tournament field for the second time in school history by winning the Conference USA Championship on Saturday at the BOK Center on Saturday. The will be the 16th-seed in the Spokane Regional and will face top-seeded Stanford.
"We were so surprised that our name came up first. It was kind of a shock, you see Stanford and then Tulsa. It's almost like you don't know how to react," said Tulsa Head Coach Matilda Mossman. "While we were hoping for a 15-seed, we were expecting a 16-seed, so it's not a surprise. Going to Palo Alto for the NCAA Tournament is a reward for our players for everything that they've worked for all year long. We've spent a lot of time in the gym, a lot of time in the weight room, and a lot of time in the training room, so we're going to enjoy this experience. We're going to go out, have a great work ethic, we're going to compete and play hard, but at the same time we're going to enjoy this reward that we've earned for our efforts this year.
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The majority of EMTs and paramedics work in metropolitan areas. Volunteer EMTs and paramedics are more common in small cities, towns, and rural areas. Paid EMTs and paramedics were employed in a number of industries.
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STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAU) -- The wait is almost over at SentryWorld in Stevens Point, and that means they're hiring. When the golf course and sports center shut down for renovations a year ago, they lost their previous workforce. New Manager Mike James says he's planning to have a larger team in place to serve their visitors. "When we're fully operational next year in 2015, we will double if not triple our workforce from full-time and part-time positions, seasonal positions."
James says the construction work is still underway, but he's hiring some people yet this year and even more next year. "We'll be hiring golf staff this year. We'll be hiring some for the cart barn area, the pro shop service area. We'll be hiring with a full hiring blitz on the restaurant this year. We anticipate opening the restaurant sometime this year, this fall."
Sentry Spokesperson Stephanie Smith says when SentryWorld sports complex reopens, they will definitely have more positions to fill than what was lost a year ago. "When the sports center facility closed last fall for construction, less than 25 jobs were eliminated. This spring as construction on the facility wraps up and we look to open the course for extremely limited play, we are looking to hire between 50, but probably closer to 75 employees."
James says the time to apply for positions is now, and there is a deadline. "Right now, we are encouraging those who are interested in working here at SentryWorld to visit sentry.com/careers, and we have an application online that you can fill out, and the deadline is July 12th.
SentryWorld is doing all of their hiring through their own website, and they are not utilizing outside websites or job recruitment offices to fill the positions, so he encourages interested applicants to go to their website very soon.
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Maurice Marinot was a pioneer of the art of glass, beginning his artistic career as a painter, one of the Fauves ('Wild Beasts') of French art whose bold use of pure colour earned them the nickname.
Marinot was to be equally bold when working with glass. He discovered glass in 1911 when visiting the glass works of Gabriel and Eugène Viard at Bar-sur-Seine.
He worked there until 1937, mastering the glassmaker's art and using only hand methods to create unique objects.
For Marinot glass was a muscular and expressive material. He rejected the label of decorative art, insisting that his work was as free as painting or sculpture.
His aim was 'to rediscover in its gleaming stillness that life of the human breath which will evoke living beauties.'
The objects in this display show the full range of Marinot's glassmaking skills. He blew and worked the hot glass, acid-etched and wheel-cut it when cold.
He encased coloured glass within clear glass like geological strata. Hot glass plunged into cold water created the effect of cracked ice. Carefully controlled bubbles suggest moving water.
'This material which is born in a struggle, in fire, in smoke, which in turn resists or obeys, which obeys when I force it while respecting its nature.' (Maurice Marinot)


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Unforgettable...Ireland v Australia...what a match!
All In the Names...At the 50th minute of the Japan v New Zealand clash, there was a 'Williams' a 'Webb' and an 'Ellis' on the field
Ill-Discipline...England are the only team to have received a yellow card in both their matches
Cracking Crowds...Great colour, vibrancy, excitement and support!
Lowlight...It would be good on a world stage to not have, 'booing the kicker,' associated with our great game; one which is built on sportsmanship and respect
Good Call...Russian players wore black armbands in honour of the Russian plane crash, NZ and Japan held a minute silence to remember the lives lost in the Tsunami and
Earthquake, and Wales wore black armbands in honour of the Mining tragedy
Unwritten World Cup Rule...If in doubt, always support the 'underdog.'
Finally...Roman Poite penalised crooked scrum feeds in the Samoa v Namibia match while (to a lesser extent), so too did Dave Pearson when the USA played Russia
Even Stevens...Pool C has seen 6 points scored three times (by Australia, Italy and Russia once), while Pool D has seen 49 points scored three times (Fiji twice, South Africa once)
Breaking A World Cup Hoodoo...Ireland recorded their first ever win over Australia at the World Cup and Wales secured their first World Cup victory over Samoa
Top Signs... "Don't Worry about your Shirt Sonny, Japan's (you're pants) on the Ground," "Thanks to my Wife for Letting me Come to NZ," "Georgia on my Mind," and "Save a Beaver, Eat a Frog,"
Great Britain...Week 2 saw the British nations lead the defence with (1) Scotland and (2) England having the best tackle success rates
No Score...Australia, Romania, Samoa and Georgia did not score in the second half of their games against Ireland, Argentina, Wales and England respectively
Extra Time...A total of 15minutes extra time was played in week 2 as teams refused to kick the ball into touch and instead looked for more try scoring opportunities after the 80th minute
Experience...Ireland v Australia was the Oldest v Youngest World Cup teams. Does that mean experience trumps youth?!
Records...Russia got their first ever World Cup point when getting a losing bonus point v USA, BOD and PUMA's Gordon D'Arcy became the most capped centre partnership in history v Australia and PUMA's Simon Shaw became England's oldest player to be capped at a World Cup.
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The latest revision of the Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind clients from Bitcoin.org, v0.5.3, includes bug fixes and support for changes to the Bitcoin protocol.
There was a security update to the Windows versions of the Bitcoin-QT client from Bitcoin.org. Windows users that have a previous 0.5.x release or are testing the upcoming 0.6.x developer release are encouraged to update immediately.
Mac and Linux versions are not affected, nor is the bitcoind command line client impacted. v0.4.x and prior are not impacted either.
See the forum post for more details.
- http://bitcoin.org/releases/2012/03/16/v0.5.3.1.html
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.5.3
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=69120.0
A new version of the Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind clients from Bitcoin.org, v0.6.0, includes a number of new features as well as significant performance improvements, bug fixes and support for a change to the Bitcoin protocol.
- http://bitcoin.org/releases/2012/03/30/v0.6.0.html
- http://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.6.0
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=74737
A new version of the Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind clients from Bitcoin.org, v0.6.3, includes a fix for a serious denial-of-service vulnerability and a performance enhancement for new installations.
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A significant new release of the Bitcoin-Qt and Bitcoind clients from Bitcoin.org, v0.8.0, is now available for download.
This v0.8 release includes a number of new features, performance improvements and bug fixes and is the first major feature release since the v0.7 release about five months ago. This release was designed to improve performance and to handle the increasing volume of transactions on the network.
A subset of the improvements, features and fixes includes:
With a huge increase in the amount of transaction activity the Bitcoin network is receiving, previous versions of the Bitcoin.org client had been taking an unacceptable amount of time to synchronize the blockchain. This release will reduce the amount of time to reach the synced status to a level that should be acceptable for those with even the least capable computing hardware.
The first time v0.8 is ran the program will migrate the blockchain data and reindex, a process that can take several hours on lower end computing hardware. Proper shutdown from a previous version before installing this release is required.
While it is recommended to back up the wallet.dat before performing this upgrade, the update will not overwrite an existing wallet or blockchain database.
When performing a new installation (versus upgrading from a previous release), a file called bootstrap.dat may obtained as a torrent and placed in the Bitcoin data directory to speed the installation process.
Alternatives to the Bitcoin.org client, now featured on the Bitcoin.org Clients page, have seen updates recently as well:
A review of various wallet options was recently updated by Bitcoin Magazine and is a good resource when choosing a wallet.
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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - An attorney for one of two 17-year-old boys accused of kidnapping and raping two teenage girls in a dark Rancho Penasquitos park told a jury Monday that police coerced a false confession from his client and prosecutors lacked evidence tying the defendant to the crime.
Deputy District Attorney Wendy Patrick countered that defendant Leonel Contreras told police and his family that he was involved in the brutal attack and that DNA and other evidence proved he was guilty.
Patrick said there wasn't anything police did to illicit a false confession from Contreras.
"There's nothing about it that indicates it was false," the prosecutor said in her closing rebuttal argument.
Contreras and co-defendant William Steven Rodriguez. also 17, are being prosecuted as adults on 21 counts, including rape, sodomy by force and kidnapping. A jury hearing the case against Rodriguez reached a verdict last week, but it won't be announced until the Contreras jury reaches a verdict.
Deliberations in the Contreras case will begin tomorrow.
In his closing argument, defense attorney Michael Begovich said the case had not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
"This is the highest standard of proof that we have," Begovich told the jury.
The attorney said testimony from a woman who was with Contreras the night of Sept. 3, 2011, proves he wasn't at the rape crime scene.
Begovich also said there was no DNA linking his client to the sexual assaults.
"My client wasn't there," Begovich said, suggesting that Rodriguez met up with some other Latino male after spending the day with Contreras.
Begovich said one of the alleged victims failed to identify Contreras as an attacker.
After a 3 1/2-hour interrogation, detectives "broke" Contreras and got him to admit to something he didn't do, Begovich told the jury.
But Patrick said everything the alleged victims said corroborates what Contreras told police in his confession.
She said Contreras couldn't be excluded as a contributor of DNA found on a Padre shirt worn by Rodriguez the night of the attack.
Jane Doe 2 said she and Jane Doe 1 were attacked after 8 p.m. as they sat under a tree during a walk from a family party on Spindletop Road.
The teen said the assailants took her and her friend up a slope and into a dark grassy area. She testified that she struggled with the man who held her -- who she identified as Contreras -- and bit him. He responded by putting a bandana in her mouth, and "said if I tried to scream he would hurt me," the girl testified.
Jane Doe 2 said Contreras raped and sexually assaulted her -- holding a knife to her neck -- then switched partners with Rodriguez, who committed the same sex acts against her. The witness said her attackers switched partners again and continued the sexual assault.
She said the sexual intercourse with both assailants was painful because she was a virgin.
Patrick said the defendants were staying at Rodriguez's aunt's house nearby when they attacked the girls.
After they were caught, Contreras told police that he and Rodriguez initially set out to rob someone, but changed their plans were they saw the girls, the prosecutor said.


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If you're a Gen-X teacher, perhaps you remember a childhood where you played with Weebles and Gumby.
Weebles had a weighted bottom so that, no matter how long you held their heads to the ground, they always popped back up to their original positions. Gumby, on the other hand, was flexible, adapting to any imaginary setting in which he was placed.
I've been thinking about 'Mastery Learning' as I read The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way and comb through back issues of Educational Leadership. I realise that I was a compliant student who learned to perform tasks but not master material. I engaged in Weeble Learning rather than Gumby Learning.
Weeble Learning
I grew up as a Weeble learner of mathematics. I memorised the multiplication tables. Having some strange, innate desire to please my teachers and parents, I practiced pages of arithmetic facts, pushing myself for better speed and mastery of tables and algorithms. If we played "Around the World" games whereby I could compete against others in speed and accuracy of maths facts, I rocked.
When I got to worded problems, I hunted for the numbers and for little word clues that helped me decide whether to add, subtract, multiply or divide. Geometry involved memorising a formula into which numbers would go that I would again add, subtract, multiply, or divide. In High School, I looked for every formula in the chapter and figured out which one would best fit the numerals in the paragraph.
I didn't realise that maths involved more than the four basic operations. Like a Weeble that can only tip and then return upright to the same position, maths problems could only be tackled with the four basic operations.
If my teachers had asked me about my strategies, I would have said 'Guess and Check'. I guessed which operation was the correct one and checked to see whether or not the teacher marked it wrong.
Gumby Learning
Had I been less of a Weeble and more of a Gumby, I would have realised that there were multiple ways to tackle a mathematical problem and prove (to myself!) that answers were correct.
Had I been a Gumby mathematician, I would have been able to think of addition flexibly. I'd have realised that addition sometimes involved putting a whole bunch of things into one pile and sometimes related to jumping distances, comparing bars on a graph, or measuring perimeter. Multiplication might have been columns and rows or groups of items. I would connect factors and multiples in order to determine divisibility.
In the December/January issue of Educational Leadership, Grant Wiggins proposed the following definition of Mastery:
[The] effective transfer of learning in authentic and worthy performance. Students have mastered a subject when they are fluent, even creative, in using their knowledge, skills, and understanding in key performance challenges and contexts at the heart of that subject.
Wiggins' definition aligned with Amanda Ripley's use of the word 'mastery' in The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way. Ripley's description of schools both in Finland and Poland was that "Schools existed to help students master complex academic material" [emphasis mine].
I have come to believe that rigour is the insistence that students be able to use both knowledge and skilils fluently, flexibly and creatively in the context of complex academic material.
Gumby mathematicians can solve 'standardised test-type' maths problems and open-ended maths problems because they have the flexibility to think beyond the basic four operations and beyond formulas. They mentally recognise that the difference between 1000 and 995 is 5 without having to write the numbers down and 'borrow'. They are not flustered when faced with problems such as this one (from Math Olympiads, December 2005):
They are motivated by authentic tasks such as those listed in Victoria Teacher Resources for Assessing Multiplicative Thinking.
So how is your maths teaching? Do your choices of instruction materials, methods and assessments develop Weeble mathematicians or Gumby mathematicians? What is your evidence?


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The ISGS Geological Records Unit provides copying for paper records of over 700,000 wells drilled in Illinois. Copies of items listed below can be ordered by calling 217-333-5109, by sending e-mail to: email@example.com or by faxing a request to 217/244-0802.
Wireline logs*
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- for wells more than 6,000 ft deep - $12.00
Single sheet scan or paper copy - $0.50
Faxed sheets and parts of logs; price per sheet - $1.50
(*Includes a copy of the well summary. If only well summary sheets are ordered, price per sheet is $.50)
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The ISGS Geological Records Unit is now offering scanned geophysical logs as tif files. The tif files can be delivered to you on CD, sent via e-mail (small file size), or retrieved by you over the Internet from the ISGS FTP server (office hours only; large file size).
Some programs available to assist in viewing the scanned logs are AutoCad, Rockwords, and Neuralog. BlueView is offered from for download from Schlumberger at http://www.slb.com/content/services/evaluation/software/blueview.asp
Charges for Logs as tif Files
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For previously scanned logs, $1.00 per log
For logs that need scanning, $5.00 per log
Discount: 10% when ordering entire county (not all counties have been scanned).
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