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My husband is returning from an 8 month long deployment in just a couple days, and I am jumping out of my skin excited to have my best friend back home with us.
I realized that since I started blogging about 8 months ago, my blog has been a majority of DIY tutorials and home décor inspired posts. I have done a few posts about visitors, family, trips and what I called "Jackson's Corner" where I shared about the joys of being a mom and what J has been up too. However, I've never told "my" story, and I haven't written about my husband a lot as he has been gone since I created PB&Jstories. With his return just hours away I wanted to get personal with you all, let you in a bit and let you get to know the Pamela & Billy of PB&Jstories.
Where it began
I met Billy the summer after my Freshman year of college when I moved back from Iowa to Minnesota. My group of best girl friends had known him for years and years, and somehow our paths had never crossed until that summer. I had been "warned" about Billy before I met him, "you will have a Billy phase" "you're guaranteed to have at least a crush on him". He was easy to love and be comfortable with, but this I all didn't know yet. We first met at a friend's bonfire one summer night and it was just a small group of us hanging out. If I remember correctly, I was coming by after a double shift at work and wasn't up for a night of being out so I knew I was just stopping by.
So we met.
We chatted and laughed.
And I thought to myself I see what they meant.
I called it an early night and as I was leaving Billy screamed out to me "I LOVE YOU" … that's his claim to fame to this date, stating that some part knew of him we'd end up together.
We got each other's numbers from our friends and started talking the next couple of nights, but it was all innocent. I would stop over at his house after work for short visits and we'd talk online too. My ladies were right about him. He was fun, laid back, comfortable and easy to be around. We quickly became close friends and spent almost every weekend together. Our little group of 6 friends were pretty inseparable for that summer and months afterwards.
Distance makes the heart grow fonder
Then unexpectedly Billy told me he was moving back to Arizona for a while. We still weren't officially dating at that time, or even really considered an "item". But I knew I thought of him as more than just a best friend, he was someone I truly cared about. But, life was life and we said our "see ya laters" and he went back to Arizona and I was still up in Minnesota. We kept in contact on a daily basis, but dated other people and that was that for about several months.
After keeping in close contact with that distance my "Billy phase"continued to grow in my heart. I knew he was someone special, but things were simple with us and I knew I couldn't push anything because at that time, bottom line was we were best friends and I was happy to have him in my life as that. Then the wonderful day came and he moved back to Minnesota.
We went from hanging out every weekend, to spending every day together. I was in college at the University of Minnesota, and he would spend days at a time at our apartment. Know those times you look back on your life and feel you were carefree and barely had any responsibilities? Those were my days. Besides going to class, I spent almost every moment with Billy. He'd go to the library while I studied with me, he helped me work on my videography projects, and he was there ready to make us dinner or go do whatever we wanted at any given time. Before we knew it Billy had unofficially moved in with us, and yet – we still weren't officially a couple.
We truly did spend two years being best friends and learning every little detail about one another first. We spent almost every moment with one another, we would fight, we would go out and have fun, we would just sit around watching TV, we just did as best friends did.
I was ready to be more than just best friends for quite some time before we took that leap. I was waiting on Billy, for him to say he was ready to not just be best friends, but to officially be dating. He however, took his time before he was ready.
Looking back on it, boy that one is lucky I kept waiting
Making the leap
Everyone knew by this point that "Billy & Pam" wasn't just a phase. We had something special, every one could see it, we both knew it too, I think we just were a bit nervous to make that leap from best friends to a serious relationship.
Then a special weekend came.
I went down to Iowa State for my best friend's birthday celebration and an OAR concert that was playing on Campus. Her and I have been huge fans of OAR for quite some time and were super excited to be going. After the super amazing concert, we headed back to her apartment when she declared that she was going to go back and wait by their tour buses to meet them. As best friend's do I said "oh hells yeah" and we ran back to wait to see if we could even catch a glimpse of the band. Lucky for us we were the only two girls waiting there and luck on our side when the band came through we actually got to talking with them for a bit! Typical "we love you guys, amazing concert oh my god can we get your pictures!?" They kindly humored us and posed for pictures and then continued to chat with us and offered to give us front row tickets and back stage passes for the next nights concert back up in Minneapolis. We eagerly accepted and started making our plans to make the drive back up to Minneapolis the next morning for their concert.
So the very next night I'm bouncing off the walls excited getting ready for the concert again and to hang out with OAR after the concert back stage. Billy was at my apartment while I was getting ready and said he'd just stay there so I could come back after the show and we could hang out too.
Fast forward a few hours and I come back after an amazing concert and all on cloud 9 from my "night of celebrities" and returned home to hang out with my best friend Billy.
About as soon as I walked in the door he sat me down and said he had something to ask me.
After a very sweet question I squealed of happiness as Billy and I were officially official.
He said that night his reason being was he knew I was going to always do great things in life and meet amazing people and do incredible things and he wanted to be sure he was apart of it each and every step of the way. Essentially he was nervous he'd lose me to some big hot shot celebrity, ya know, because I'm cool like that.
The rest is history up until our next exciting several months of engagement and baby J but that's for another time and another post.
Now that you know a little more about the infamous "Willamela" team
William + Pamela = Willamela {perfection right?!}
I hope you all will be right along the side of me as I get to finally welcome home my best friend that's been gone for the last 8 months!!!!
I will be doing another post including our next "back story" of all the juicy details or our engagement, wedding & first baby.
Have you done a personal post that lets your readers in and get to know you on a personal level?? I'd love it if you'd leave a comment and share so we can all get to know one another a little better!


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The week in review
Amazing alloy: Local researchers say in an early July release that their new non-magnetic alloy– three times stronger than steel– could make taller buildings, broader bridges, and hardier hulls for ships– all thanks to UVA scientists Joseph Poon, Vijayabarathi Ponnambalam, and Gary Shiflet.
Biggest water surprise: Despite the amazingly dry summer of 2002, the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority's consultant says we don't need any new reservoirs. However, we might want to tap into the James River or raise the dam at Ragged Mountain Reservoir, according to WINA radio.
Worst hit for Clark Elementary: Its failing No Child Left Behind grade means 36 students– 12 percent of its population– may opt for other schools this fall.
Biggest alleged drug conspiracy: Eight men from the Westside Crew, aka "PJC" or "Project Crud," are charged in U.S. District Court July 21, including gang leader Louis Antonio "Trinio" Bryant, and his uncle, Charlottesville parks and rec employee John C. Bryant, Liesel Nowak reports in the Daily Progress.
Worst guitar theft: Tom Daly of the band Fountainhead awakes at 5am July 20 to find two men in his bedroom stealing his guitar, Reed Williams reports in the Progress. William Jonathan Wood is arrested when he walks back by Daly's apartment after fleeing police, and Beau Adam Moneymaker is arrested at his home July 21. Daly's roommate, Brett Jordan, apprehended after chasing the thieves, is arrested but then released.
Worst Cinderella story: A teen car thief in a '91 Ford Tempo leads city police Lt. Gary Pleasants on a low-speed chase July 20 before blowing out both front tires of the city schools-owned vehicle in the Amtrak parking lot. According to a story by Liz Nelson in the Progress, the youth flees on foot– literally– when he loses a size 9 1/2 black athletic shoe. Police are looking for a one-shoed perp.
Steepest hike: The median sales price for houses sold in the first six months was about $30,000 higher than the year before, according to figures release by the Charlottesville Area Association of Realtors.
Earthiest-tasting water: Residents in Forest Lakes, Ednam Forest, and Glenmore complain about moldy-tasting water. The Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority says the water is safe and the taste is from algae and tiny fungi growing in the reservoirs.
Weirdest false credentials charges: For claiming to be a certified mammography equipment inspector for almost 15 years, Perry M. Beale gets slapped with 38 federal counts July 22.
Bestseller: The 9/11 Commission report.
Hardest line: UVA Football Coach Al Groh announces that incoming freshman defensive back Ahmad Bradshaw has been benched after allegedly possessing alcohol on the Corner and then allegedly obstructing justice by putting up a struggle during his arrest, according to NBC29. (Any role that getting outrun by police officers may have played in ousting this would-be Cav athlete was not addressed by Groh.)
Latest high-profile gigs for Governor Mark Warner: As chairman of the National Governors Association and speaker at the Democratic National Convention.
Biggest Scottsville benefactors: Patricia Kluge– although admittedly unfamiliar with the genre– and husband Bill Moses host a bluegrass festival at their Albemarle Farm estate July 24 to raise money for Scottsville.
Biggest Skyline Drive benefactors: The Nature Conservancy buys 703-acre Hightop Mountain in Greene County, thanks to $3 million from an anonymous donor, according to the Progress.
Best peddler: Lance Armstrong goes into the history books July 25 as the only six-time winner of the Tour de France.

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Bisons stop streak in win
The Buffalo Bisons finally got rid of that losing streak they have been dueling with the past six days. The Herd snapped their six-game losing skid when they defeated the Columbus Clippers 5-4 tonight at Huntington Park.
The Bisons jumped out to an early lead thanks to Lucas Duda. Following Jorge Padilla and Mike Jacobs drawing walks from Clippers starting pitcher Eric Berger, Duda sent his 12th homer to center field to give the Herd an early 3-0 lead. Duda who had three RBI in tonight's game now has 35 on the year.
The speedy Clippers used a combination of small-ball and the long-ball to chip away at the Bisons lead. Columbus got one run back in the first by way of a Jordan Brown sacrifice fly that was able to score Ezequiel Carrera.
Jared Goedert then hit his 17th home run of the year when he blasted a solo shot to left field off of Bisons starter Bobby Livingston to make the game 3-2.
Livingston's outing today was short lived as he only tossed four innings while giving up five hits and three runs.
The Clippers would get another run to tie the game at three in the fourth. That tie was short-lived as the Herd put another run on the board in the fifth. After Lucas Duda reached base on a fielding error by Goedert allowing Jesus Feliciano to score, the Bisons regained the lead at 4-3.
Columbus would once again battle back to tie the game in what proved to be a back and forth contest. Jose Costanza and Carrera would reach base on back-to-back bunt singles in the sixth to start the inning. With Josh Rodriguez batting Costanza broke for third and due to a throwing error from catcher Michael Barrett he was able to score to once again knot the game up at four.
The Herd would finally take the lead for good in the seventh playing a little small-ball of their own. Feliciano was able to get his 16th double of the year to lead off the inning to put the go-ahead run in scoring position with no outs. Luis Hernandez then did his job by getting Feliciano over to third on a sacrifice bunt. Padilla then drove Feliciano home from a sacrifice fly to right for his 15th RBI of the year.
Chad Cordero, Brian Bruney and Ryota Igarashi combined to throw three scoreless innings out of the pen to secure the win for the Herd and finally put that losing streak to rest. When the Clippers threatened by getting a lead-off single in the ninth, Igarashi made a diving catch on a pop up bunt from Rodriguez and was able to get the double play by getting the runner out at first. For Igarashi it was his first save of the year as the Herd improved to 52-51 to get back over the .500 mark. The Herd will continue their series with the Clippers tomorrow at 7:05 p.m.
BISONS NOTES: Bisons slugger Mike Hessman got the call up to the majors when the Mets selected his contract yesterday. Hessman got to see some action in the Mets 8-2 win over the St. Louis Cardinals. In the eighth inning Hessman got the opportunity to pinch hit and popped up to the third baseman in his only at-bat of the evening.


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In what may be a precursor towards moving the entire country onto an internal version of the Web, Iran has blocked access to Gmail and the secure version of Google Search.
"Due to the repeated demands of the people, Google and Gmail will be filtered throughout the country until further notice," Abdolsamad Khoramabadi, a deputy minister charged with Internet regulation, told the FARS News Agency on Sunday (Sept. 23). Khorambadi said the decision was a response to growing outrage over the " Innocence of Muslims " video, which has incited violent, anti-American demonstrations in several Middle Eastern and African countries.
Some Iranians received the news in the form of Khoramabadi's quote in a text message.
Critics paint the government's move as an effort to block access to competing ideologies and tools that can be used for populist organization, but the government insists it's not. Instead, Minister of Communication and Information Technology, Reza Taqipour, said the move would prevent other countries from compromising Iran's state secrets.
Although ordinary Iranians have access to the World Wide Web, it's anything but unfettered. Narrow filters, wholesale blockades of sites like YouTube and the routine shuttering and censorship of social sites like Facebook and Twitter provide a crippled experience that has come under attack from democratic and human rights advocates in the past. Iran has always maintained that these policies are not aimed at censorship, but meant to "protect" citizens from offensive material.
Mahmood Tajali Mehr, an Iranian telecommunications expert in Germany, told the BBC that Iranians routinely bypass government firewalls with VPNs (virtual private networks) to access blocked Western sites. "Every schoolchild knows how to bypass restrictions by using VPNs, it's very common in Iran."
The unsecure version of Google Search without the secure "https" prefix is still available in the Islamic Republic; but the lack of security eliminates any guarantee of privacy.
Iran routinely censors and blocks Internet material as it suits the government's needs. Google's services were cut off earlier this year amid a national election, for example.
If Iranians are truly to be cut off from the Internet that the rest of the world uses, it will undoubtedly choke the flow of information and lead to a less-free society; however, the recent Stuxnet and Flame attacks that breached government computers and wreaked havoc on a nuclear facility give some credence to Khoramabadi's statement. Government computers are already on the internal network, however, which could have already mitigated the security problem without invoking policies that dramatically curb access to news and communications.
The Iranian public will reportedly be completely switched over by early next year, but one lawmaker told the Iranian Students News Agency that this won't completely seal off the country.
"Cutting access to the Internet is not possible at all, because it would amount to imposing sanctions on ourselves, which would not be logical," Mohammad Soleimani said. Naturally, external Internet access would be preserved for the upper echelons of government power so his statement hardly clarifies what the new Internet rules for the average Iranian will be.
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Gynecomastia is an enlargement of the breasts in men. This condition is not the same as having a fatty breast area from obesity. The breast tissue is firm in men with gynecomastia.
This may occur in up to one-third of men. More than half of boys will develop some degree of breast enlargement during puberty. This is normal and usually goes away by age 18.
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All men produce male and female hormones. Normally, men produce much more male hormones than female hormones. Gynecomastia is caused by an imbalance in the female and male hormones. The hormone imbalance can be caused by:
- Adolescent puberty changes
- Aging, especially in association with low testosterone levels
- Certain genetic disorders causing low levels of testosterone
- Certain medications, such as digoxin, spironolactone, cimetidine, and many others
- Anabolic steroids used to enhance athletic performance in sports
Risk Factors
Gynecomastia is more common in adolescents or in men over age 50.
Factors that may increase your risk of gynecomastia include:
- Obesity
- Excess alcohol consumption leading to liver cirrhosis
- Chronic liver or kidney disease
- Presence of a condition or medication that decreases androgen or estrogen production
- Family history
- Marijuana use
- Hyperthyroidism —overactive thyroid gland
- Tumors of the testicles, lung, stomach, liver, kidney, or pituitary gland
Symptoms of gynecomastia include:
- Enlargement of the breasts with firm tissue, usually starts on one side and go on to affect both breasts
- Tenderness
You will be asked about your symptoms and medical history. A physical exam will be done. Your doctor will focus on your weight, breast exam, testicular exam, and any other signs of a hormone problem. You may be referred to a doctor who specializes in hormone disorders.
Other tests may be done if you have prolonged or large gynecomastia.
Your body's fluids and tissues may be tested. This can be done with:
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- Biopsy
Images may be taken of your chest. This can be done with:
Treatment for gynecomastia is rarely needed. However, it is important to find and treat the underlying cause of the gynecomastia. If a medication is causing gynecomastia, you will be asked to stop taking it or to switch medication. If a tumor is causing the problem, your doctor will make a treatment plan for the tumor.
Medications may be used if needed to treat the gynecomastia. However, they can produce unwanted side effects. Surgery may also be used to remove breast tissue.
Some gynecomastia may be prevented by avoiding known risk factors. This includes avoiding:
- Excessive alcohol consumption
- Steroids
- Marijuana
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Gynecomastia. Family Doctor—American Academy of Family Physicians website. Available at: http://familydoctor.org/familydoctor/en/diseases-conditions/gynecomastia.html. Updated January 18, 2018. Accessed March 20, 2018.
Gynecomastia. EBSCO DynaMed Plus website. Available at: http://www.dynamed.com/topics/dmp~AN~T116259/Gynecomastia . Updated June 15, 2017. Accessed March 20, 2018.
Johnson RE, Kermott CA, et al. Gynecomastia: evaluation and current treatment options. Ther Clin Risk Manag. 2011;7:145-148.
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Open Source Access Control
The Vuvuzela project was originally meant to recreate our member welcome noise: whenever a member would strike their RFID badge, a sound of their choice would play.
It then grew into a larger effort to create an access control solution for Freeside that would have the following characteristics:
- Centralized management of groups and access rights
- Platform for easily programming actions not limited to sounds on RFID swipe
- Secure access control nodes (very difficult to hack)
System Overview
So far, we've assembled a prototype system that works like this:
- The central server MySQL database puts our members into groups, like IT-Staff or Members
- A central server daemon generates access control lists (ACLs) from tables in a MySQL database
- These ACLs are pulled from the central server by each node, using rsync over SSH
- Each ACL is specific to a node and relay pair, and is just a table in a SQLite file
- A node is a Raspberry Pi, with an RFID reader fed into its GPIO, and a relay shield to operate up to four locks
- Logging is sent back to the server via the SQLite file, and aggregated
For example, we could attach two door locks to one node: the server room door on relay 0, and the front door on relay 1. The node named "joker" would pull down the ACLs for joker-0.db and joker-1.db from the server's /srv directory. joker-0.db has a table called "access" which is just a list of acceptable 8-character token IDs, which correspond to the RFID token IDs that are assigned to each member in the "IT-Staff" group. Likewise, joker-1.db just has the token IDs for each member of "Members" group. So, any Freeside member can get in the front door, but only IT staff can get into the server room.
In addition, we could send notification emails to the head of IT every time the server room was accessed.
If you're interested in helping out with this project, contact Alan about participating, or follow the project at:
Some other related material:
Future Work
- Group management via LDAP and not MySQL tables
- Implement web API for managing user information
- Design plug-in system for playing sounds, email, etc.
- Manufacture integrated RFID reader and relay shield for Raspberry Pi


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An eyewitness recorded cellphone video of a Santa Ana police officer shoot and kill an unarmed 22-year-old homeless man at a shopping center earlier this week.
The witness, who wished to remain unidentified, was standing in the parking lot of the Harbor Place Shopping Center on South Harbor Boulevard around 3 p.m. Tuesday when he said he filmed a confrontation in front of Jugo's La Tropicana between an officer, later identified as a 13-year veteran, and victim Hans Kevin Arellano.
"She exited her patrol car, gun drawn, and asked the gentlemen to get on the ground. The gentlemen didn't get on the ground, he was still inside the restaurant. She asked again. The man then exited the restaurant, and as he was exiting the restaurant, he said, 'What are you gonna do, b—-?' About a second later, she shot him in the chest," he said.


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Raj waits in an alley to meet his girlfriend Mina, a dancer in a local Bollywood production, who he has been secretly dating. She sneaks outside on a break from the show, but is nearly killed when a runaway truck narrowly misses her. A distraught Raj goes to the police station, where he confesses to not only hurting Mina, but all of the women he has loved. He claims he's cursed.
Shawn and Gus take the case, thinking it will be an easy one since there is no such thing as curses. Along with Raj, they go to the theater where Raj tells them all that has befallen his ex-girlfriends. After each incident he breaks up with them for their protection. He tried to stay single, but he met Mina and fell in love. Lassiter and Juliet are at the crime scene, and tell them that the truck driver swears he put the safety blocks around the tires but that he has been written up for violations before. To the cops, this looks like an accident. Shawn and Gus go into the theater and talk to Raj's brother Jay, the choreographer of the show. He's very busy, since he's just changed the routine, but he stops to tell them that he doesn't believe his brother is cursed. However, he knows Raj believes in it and in Shawn. So Jay asks Shawn to talk sense into Raj, so he can have some normalcy when he gets married next month.
Shawn and Gus take Raj to Henry's for a "ceremony" to remove the curse. All they have to do is convince Raj the curse has been lifted, and their work is done. When the ceremony is over, Raj rushes to the theater, free to be with Mina. As a thank you, he invites Shawn and Gus to that night's performance, where Shawn notices the trap door in the stage has been tampered with - and Mina is dancing right over it. He rushes to the stage just in time to catch her as she falls. Raj thinks he's still cursed but Shawn and Juliet examine the trap door and find the screws were replaced with plastic ones. It was sabotaged by someone who knew only Mina would be dancing right over it.
Shawn and Gus go to Raj's house where he's having dinner with his grandmother, Rani, Jay and Jay's fiancé Sita. Sita offers to postpone the wedding, but Rani assures her everything will work out. Shawn and Gus learn Rani didn't like any of Raj's girlfriends. Back at the police station, Juliet reviews a tape of the incident, which leads Lassiter to show up at Raj's house and arrest Jay. Jay was the one who changed the choreography and Juliet found a rental agreement for the truck in his apartment.
At the police station, Raj comforts Sita as Shawn and Gus arrive. They tell him someone is clearly behind this but if that's true, Raj counters, how do they explain what happened to his past girlfriends? Shawn and Gus then question the women and realize that they were targeted just as things got serious with Raj. So they form a plan to lure the attacker out using Juliet as bait. She poses as a lost love of Raj's, who he's reconnected with. At the Holy festival, Raj announces they are engaged. The plan works as Juliet is held at knifepoint by the true culprit - Sita. After she was engaged to Jay, she fell in love with Raj. Since leaving Jay for Raj wasn't an option - Raj would never betray Jay - she did everything she could to delay the wedding and then sabotaged all of Raj's relationships. Juliet is able to turn the tables on Sita, and then adds assaulting a police officer to the charges as she takes her away in handcuffs.


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The Senate is likely to assume an even more conservative tenor come January as a crop of insurgent-minded Republicans replace some of the GOP's old guard in the upper chamber.
A transformation within the Republican Party that was first set in motion during the 2010 midterm elections appears set to continue in the Senate, following in the path blazed in the House during this term of Congress.
"The goal is not only getting the Republican majority, but getting a conservative majority -- a majority of the Republican majority," said Brendan Steinhauser, the director of state and federal campaigns for FreedomWorks, a group that's worked to elect Tea Party candidates the last two cycles. "In a lot of ways, we're just getting started."
Top Talkers: Texas Tea Party politician Ted Cruz won the GOP nomination for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Kay Bailey Hutchinson in a recent runoff race. The Morning Joe panel – including Donny Deutsch, the Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart, the New York Times' Gail Collins, Time's Mark Halperin, and the Huffington Post's Sam Stein – discusses Cruz's win and what it may mean for Tea Party conservatives.
While the Senate could flip to Republican control as a product of this fall's election, the chamber is even more likely to lurch rightward thanks to the ideological profile of its incoming measures.
The Senate's more than likely to count conservatives like Texas' Ted Cruz – the former state solicitor general who beat the establishment-backed Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst in the Lone Star State's Senate primary on Tuesday – among its members come next January.
Cruz would replace retiring Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, a relative moderate who's spent 19 years in the Senate.
"Change happens faster in the House because you change over every two years," said Grover Norquist, the president of the fiscally conservative Americans for Tax Reform. "From a Reagan perspective, it just takes longer for the Senate to shift than in the House. "
Joining Cruz could be two other Republicans who may very well be elected this fall: Nebraska's Deb Fischer and Indiana's Richard Mourdock, who both beat establishment-backed candidates in their primaries earlier this year.
In the case of Mourdock, he beat veteran Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar in a Republican primary by emphasizing Lugar's loosening ties to Indiana as much as the need for greater conservative fealty.
Texas Tea Party politician Ted Cruz won the GOP nomination for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican Kay Bailey Hutchinson in a recent runoff race, and Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., joins Morning Joe to discuss Cruz's win and discuss the Tea Party Republicans. "Last Word" host Lawrence O'Donnell helps co-host.
"To me, the highlight of politics, frankly, is to inflict my opinion on someone else from the microphone or in front of a camera, to win them over to my point of view," Mourdock described his approach to politics on MSNBC's "Daily Rundown" after winning his primary. "If I am fortunate enough to become a United States senator, we're going to be involved with the national argument…"
Additional primaries that haven't yet been held could put more conservative insurgents in a position to take seats in the Senate.
"Part of what you're getting is an argument for electing guys who will go in and bust up the furniture and push hard," Norquist said. "I think that means behavior modification for sitting senators on the Republican side, who will go, 'You mean that can happen to me?'"
Businessman John Brunner is battling against Rep. Todd Akin and former state Treasurer Sarah Steelman for the Republican Senate nomination in Missouri. The winner will face off against Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill, who trailed each of her potential Republican opponents in a Mason-Dixon poll released over the weekend.
Or take, for example, the three-way primary fight in Wisconsin, where newcomer Eric Hovde and former Rep. Mark Neumann are locked in a competitive challenge to former three-term Gov. Tommy Thompson.
Even upstart conservative challenger Will Cardon has made the Arizona Senate primary unpleasant for Rep. Jeff Flake, who's long been celebrated on the right for his commitment to fiscal conservatism and has the backing of FreedomWorks and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, among other heavyweights.
In essence, the Senate Republican Conference could be refashioned as a more conservative version of its current self, a transformation that stalled in 2010 after some of the less polished conservative primary victors – like Nevada's Sharron Angle, Colorado's Ken Buck or Delaware's Christine O'Donnell – fizzled in their general election campaigns.
Still, Republicans sent enough conservative darlings – Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania, Marco Rubio of Florida and Mike Lee of Utah, among others – to Washington in 2010 who could combine with insurgent-minded Republicans still yet to be elected this fall. Their numbers growing, these GOP senators are poised to add a harder edge to the GOP's conservatism in the Senate.
Jim Manley, a former longtime aide to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and the late Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., suggested that these Republican newcomers could make the Senate even more unwieldy to manage.
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington July 31 following a political strategy session.
Republicans are optimistic that they'll win control of the Senate in this fall's election, which could propel Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., into the role of majority leader. But McConnell would soon encounter dueling obligations: the conservatives in his party demanding ideological purity and the need to assemble the 60 votes necessary – probably by winning over Democrats – to pass most anything in the Senate.
"I am very impressed with Ted Cruz and will do everything I can to help elect him in November," McConnell said through a spokesman about the new face of the Senate GOP. "I look forward to working with anyone who is committed to reversing the Obama administration's irresponsible spending, over-regulation and assaults on individual liberty, and I expect the Republican conference will be strongly united in all these efforts next year."
"His caucus which is dominated by hardline conservatives could become even increasingly so after the elections in November. That means a somewhat unmanageable Senate GOP caucus could become even more so," Manley said. "We all saw how difficult Speaker Boehner found dealing with those Tea Party types."
It's likely that these tensions would quickly come to loggerheads, too, given the pressing issues lawmakers will have to tackle almost immediately after the new Congress convenes in January.
Barring some deal either before the election or in the lame-duck Congress – both unlikely propositions – the new Congress will have to reckon quickly with the effects of automatic cuts to defense spending and automatic tax rate increases set to take place on Jan. 1.
Taken together, these complicated and intertwined elements of the so-called "fiscal cliff" practically demand the kind of concessions and compromises that lawmakers have found so elusive for the past year and a half.
"Leaving aside the lame duck, we can agree that under that scenario the kickoff to the new Congress could be very ugly, given all the pressing demands the new Congress may be forced to address," Manley said. "It would make an already unprecedented situation that much more difficult."
If that would seem to invite cooler heads to prevail, don't expect groups like FreedomWorks to drop their quest to change the face of the Republican Party in Congress.
"We're going to make big inroads this year, but we're looking ahead," Steinhauser said. "In 2014 we're already thinking about Lindsey Graham being replaced in South Carolina and Lamar Alexander in Tennessee."


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October 31, 1908: He woke up with a start when Boomer let out a howl. "Darn," he thought, "I must have fallen asleep." He looked around and saw the sun starting to set. He scratched his chin wondering what would have made him sleep the day away like that. As he sat, bewildered, he noticed his fishing pole, next to him, hadn't been used at all. Just then, Boomer sprang to the other side of the boat and let out another long howl. "What is with you, dog?" he snapped, but Boomer didn't stop. Boomer started clawing at the wood on the side of the boat. Confused by these strange actions, the man peered over the edge of the boat.
In the water, just below the surface, was a woman's face staring up at him. Her beauty startled him. So enthralled was he, that it took longer than it should have for him to realize that she seemed in no distress being under water. The soothing sound of the rippling water had lulled him into a false sense of contentment. As he reached down to the woman, hoping to help her out, the water sprang up and surrounded him pulling him into a pool of darkness. He was gone before he had any thought of saving himself. Boomer sat at the edge of the boat growling at the water demon that had emerged from the deep. The hypnotic face in the water grinned knowing her secret was still safe.
"I'll take it!" the man exclaimed to the Land Agent. He turned and removed his bowler hat to hide the smile that wanted to escape. He had just made a corker of a deal for the cabin at the lake. He knew he would be happy here—living with nature and so close to the fishing. He had heard the lake whispering his name the first time he saw it. Yep, there was something about the lake that kept calling him back….
Author's Note: The skeleton of the story was taken from Ghost Stories 5 and rewritten.
October 31, 1963: Death of John R. Baylis. "John Robert Baylis (1885–1963) was an American chemist and sanitary engineer. His career extended from about 1905 to 1963 and he is best known for his work in applied research to improve drinking water purification.
Baylis was born in rural Mississippi (Eastabuchie, Jones County) but lived most of his adult life in northern U.S. states. He attended Mississippi State College where he received his bachelor of science degree in 1905. He also received training as a railroad engineer and as a construction engineer for water and sewage plants.
Baylis's first professional assignment (about 1905) was as manager of the Jackson, MI water works. In 1917 he was hired as a bacteriologist at the Montebello Filter Plant in Baltimore, MD. His tenure there was only nine years and when he left he was the principal sanitary chemist with the department. During his employment at Baltimore he developed a pH meter based on a tungsten wire. The Baltimore water treatment plant was one of the first to use pH for process control. About 1927, he moved his family to Chicago where he was put in charge of water purification research for the city. His job title was chemist, but he developed many of the advances in water treatment during the 1930s and 1940s. These advances included:
- Preventing corrosion of pipes
- Filter bed cleaning with a fixed-grid surface wash system
- Developing activated silica as a coagulant aid
- Invention of a low-level turbidimeter
- Initiation of lime use for pH adjustment
- Pioneering the development of high rate filtration (2 to 5 gallons per minute/square foot)
- Building an experimental treatment facility to study water purification methods
- Understanding the causes and cures of taste and odor problems in drinking water
In 1938, Baylis was put in charge of the design of the South District Filtration Plant, which was completed in 1943. He was in charge of the operation of the plant and was named engineer of water purification in 1942, which he held until his death.
In 1935, he wrote a book entitled Elimination of Taste and Odor in Water. The work became a classic in the field of sanitary engineering and paved the way for others to control taste and odor problems. The book goes into some detail on how and where to feed powdered activated carbon (PAC) for taste and odor control.
Perhaps his greatest achievement was the development of PAC. Up until Baylis's work, activated carbon was only available in granular form which was used in a filtration mode. PAC could be formed into a slurry and fed like any other chemical into the treatment process. He received a U.S. patent for PAC as well as for other water treatment advances.
Baylis was one of the first sanitary engineers to raise concerns about open finished water reservoirs. On November 3, 1938, he testified at a public service commission hearing in Milwaukee. He called the open Kilburn park reservoir a "source of danger" to the health of the city. Baylis said that "…the reservoir should be roofed to prevent pollution from birds, insects, rodents, small animals, dirt, soot, leaves and other debris which he said was in the open water." It would take many decades before his concerns were codified into a USEPA regulation that deals specifically with this danger to human health.


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Ever since meeting Sarah Palin—and especially now that conservative freakazoid Michele Bachmann is considering running in 2012—Fox News has taken a sudden interest in defending women from sexist, degrading remarks, developing a recent obsession with the comments Bill Maher has made about the two women. So is Fox News our knight in shining armor, saving us from the big comedians of the world? Hardly, as evidenced by this reel of comments made about women by their very own on-air personalities. It would seem that it's only "sexism" when unflattering remarks are made about conservative women. Also, it's not "sexism" if the remarks are actually compliments, like when referring to a congresswoman as "hot."
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Mary Granville Pendarves Delany (1700-1788) was the witty, beautiful, and talented daughter of a minor branch of a powerful family. Married off at seventeen to a sixty-one-year-old drunken squire to improve the family fortunes, then widowed by twenty-five, she would spurn many suitors over the next twenty years, including the charismatic Lord Baltimore, but she also refused to retire to a quiet, pensioned existence. She cultivated a wide circle of friends, including Handel and Jonathan Swift. And she painted, she stitched, she observed, as she swirled in the outskirts of the Georgian court. In mid-life, she finally found love, and married again.
Upon her second husband's death twenty-three years later, she arose from her grief, picked up a pair of scissors and, at the age of seventy-two, created a new art form, mixed-media collage. Over the next decade, Mrs. Delany created an astonishing 985 botanically correct, breathtaking cut-paper flowers, now housed in the British Museum and referred to as the Flora Delanica.
Delicately, Molly Peacock has woven parallels in her own life around the story of Mrs. Delany's and, in doing so, has made this biography into a profound and beautiful examination of the nature of creativity and art.
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The reality TV "Sister Wives" family is off the hook on bigamy charges in Utah, The Associated Press reported.
"The criminal case against the Browns is closed and no charges will be filed against them for bigamy unless new evidence is discovered which would comport with the office's new policy," Utah County attorney Jeff Buhman wrote Thursday in federal court filings, according to AP.
The Utah authorities had started investigating charges of bigamy against Kody Brown and his four wives -- Meri, Janelle, Christine and Robyn -- before the show premiered on TLC in 2010, according to AP.
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Brown, 44 moved his wives and their 17 children to Las Vegas when the investigation began and sued Utah County, the state governor and attorney general, according to People magazine.
He argued that the state's bigamy statute violates his family's constitutional rights to due process, equal protection, free exercise of religion, free speech and freedom of association, AP reported.
A federal judge dropped the state lawsuits, but permitted it to continue against the county.
On Thursday, Buhman wrote that his county adopted the state's policy and would not pursue bigamy cases unless there was proof of a victim or fraud, according to court papers.
"I want to express our great relief for the Brown family that this long-standing threat has been finally lifted," said the family's attorney Jonathan Turley in a statement, AP reported. "The family has spent years being publicly denounced as felons by prosecutors and had to move to Nevada to protect their family and children."
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) Steve Nash will start for the Los Angeles Lakers against the Golden State Warriors after missing 24 games because of a small fracture in his lower left leg.
Lakers coach Mike D'Antoni said before the game Saturday night that Nash will have no minutes limit. The 38-year-old was injured in the second game of the season, the former Phoenix star's first with the Lakers. Los Angeles is 12-14 so far this season.
Nash, a two-time NBA MVP, averaged 4.5 points and four assists in 25 minutes during his two games - both losses - for the Lakers. Los Angeles has won three in a row over Washington, Philadelphia and Charlotte.
Nash's return comes ahead of the more difficult matchups against the surprising Warriors (18-9) and New York Knicks (19-7) on Christmas day.
D'Antoni also said Darius Morris will start at shooting guard and Metta World Peace will come off the bench.


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|Apr 11, 2006
Nanopatches instead of syringes
|(Nanowerk News) People who fear needles may one day have no need to fear the doctor, with the help of a funding injection for The University of Queensland's Professor Mark Kendall.
|Professor Kendall today won a three year Queensland Government Smart State Senior Fellowship, gaining $300,000 to research how nanotechnology may replace syringes in administering therapeutics.
|His work could eventually replace needles with tiny `nano patches` on the skin.
|"There is an explosion of designer drugs requiring precise delivery to specific locations in the skin and we are producing new delivery methods that are practical and needle-free," Professor Kendall said.
|"We are targeting immunologically sensitive cells to produce improved immune responses in the treatment of major diseases such as HIV, malaria and allergies.
|"This has enormous potential, including for the delivery of cheap and more effective vaccinations in the developing world."
|The grant boosts funding for Professor Kendall`s project by $540,000 over three years, as Queensland biotech firm Coridon intends to commit $240,000 in cash and kind as the industry co-sponsor.
|Professor Kendall is a UQ graduate who recently returned from the University of Oxford, where he achieved excellent commercial success with a bioballistic gene gun. He was the Associate Director of the PowderJect Centre for Gene and Drug Delivery at Oxford.
|He is jointly appointed to UQ`s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN), Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research and Faculty of Health Sciences.
|AIBN Director Professor Peter Gray congratulated Professor Kendall on his new fellowship and welcomed him to the AIBN. He said the fit between Professor Kendall`s work and the aims of the AIBN made him a valuable addition.
|"Mark has been recognised for his outstanding work in this area, most notably being awarded a Younger Engineer of Britain prize in 2004, with one of his technologies winning the Best Medical Innovation 2005 awarded by Popular Science Magazine," Professor Gray said.
|"In his eight years of work in this field he has authored over 80 journal articles and conference papers, as well as being listed as an inventor on seven patents.
|"His multi-disciplinary research spans biomedical engineering diagnostics dermatology and vaccinology and he has already established an important collaboration with Australian of the Year Professor Ian Frazer at UQ`s Centre of Immunology and Cancer Research, as well as substantial links to the University's Faculty of Health Sciences.
|"We expect more collaborations to develop as Mark`s research programs expand."
|UQ's Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor David Siddle said he was excited by Professor Kendall's Smart State Fellowship.
|"Our efforts in nanotechnology are positioned at the interface between biology and nanotechnology and Professor Kendall's work fits precisely in this space," he said.
|Professor Siddle also noted the importance of growing collaboration between the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology and Professor Ian Frazer's Centre for Immunology and Cancer Research.
|Professor Kendall has an Honours (Class I) degree in mechanical engineering and a PhD in hypervelocity aerodynamics, both from The University of Queensland.
|The Deputy Premier, Treasurer and Minister for State Development, Trade and Innovation, Anna Bligh, announced Professor Kendall`s three year fellowship today at BIO 2006 in Chicago, USA.
|Source: University of Queensland
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Help students analyze characters by noting the ways in which defining moments shape personalities. In this lesson, students chart the evolution of Lord of the Flies' Jack and Ralph in order to gain perspective on how life on the island affects them. Students will chart changes, note the direction of their characters, support their conclusions with textual evidence, and present their findings. The strategies that students learn in this lesson will be applicable to future novels, making it a great one for improving overall critical reading. As a post-lesson assessment, teachers can also use the essay reflection directions and rubric.
- Character Evolution Organizer: Students use this organizer to find and support defining moments from the novel.
- Character Evolution Chart Grading Rubric: This rubric is used to guide and assess students' charts created defining importatnt moments from the novel.
Before students graph their characters defining moments, they must find appropriate quotes in the book that demonstrate these moments. Morache (1987) explains, Junior high students can be introduced to the idea of backing one's statements with evidence through a character analysis activity (p. 61). While Lord of the Flies is often a novel read in high school, high school students can also benefit from practicing this important analysis skill. Like Moraches activity, this character evolution lesson similarly encourages subjective response to literature yet requires that opinions be validated (p. 63).
By charting moments that are supported with quotes and written explanation, students are free to draw their own conclusions but must ground their thinking in evidence. This type of analysis is crucial in sound critical reading/thinking, and practicing it in this lesson will help students interpret future novels, as well.
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UPDATE: The Sgt Bill Genaust USMC Story
The following is from an e-mail sent by Frank Clynes on 3 July 2007
The GyG website mentioned is...
The Man We left Behind
Considering the present search on Iwo Jima for the remains of Sgt Genaust, etc., this will serve as an update to "The Man We Left Behind" (above).
My thanks, Well Done!, and a hearty Semper Fidelis to both Mr. Clynes and Mr. Bolus, without whom the events we are now witnessing regarding the Bill Genaust story likely would not have occurred.
Dick Gaines
In 1999 I wrote a short article about Sgt. Bill Genaust for a Marine Corps website called "Gunny G's Globe and Anchor". It's sponsored by Dick Gaines, then of Rochester, NY, a retired Marine . His blog is read by millions of Marines all over the world. My article was called, "The Man we Left Behind."
In the book "Immortal Images" by Tedd Thomey, I learned that Genaust had shot the historic motion picture footage of the flag raising on Mt. Suribacci, alongside AP photographer Joe Rosenthal, and had never received due recognition for his work from the USMC. In 1945 there was no television, so people got their news from the newsreels in their local theaters. This is where I first saw the famous flag raising, shot on 16mm color film.
Genaust had been recommended for the Navy Cross by his commanding officer, Lt. Col. Donald Dickson for his earlier actions on Saipan, but had never received it. It had been reduced to Bronze Star, by some rear echelon general back in Quantico who had never heard a shot fired in anger. Col. Dickson later went on to become the editor of Marine Magazine and Leatherneck.
When I read Thomey's book, I recalled videotaping a gun battle on Babcock St. in Providence in 1984, for which I won the NPPA national spot news award. But this paled in comparison to what Sgt. Bill Genaust had to face every day of his life in the Pacific theater.
My typical mornings were spent in city hall, capturing the wit and wisdom of Buddy Cianci's weekly press conferences. I was determined to do what I could to get Bill Genaust his well deserved recognition and hopefully have his remains returned to his homeland. I personally would like to see him laid to rest next to the famous Flag Raising statue in Arlington National Cemetery, which was inspired by his 16mm film.
I had received a pledge of support from Senator John Chafee, who himself had fought on Guadacanal as a young Marine. I had often filmed him as governor, secretary of the Navy in Wasington and later as senator. One morning while getting background materiel from the Newport war college library, I learned from the librarian that Chafee had just died. That pretty much stalled the process, as I had been stonewalled by the brass hats at Quantico.
Bob Bolus of Scranton Pa. read my article on "Gunny G's Globe and Anchor" and contacted me. He was actually an army veteran, but was inspired by Genaust's story. He pledged to bring Bill Genaust back, if he had to go to Iwo Jima and do it himself. And that's exactly what he did.
Bob, owner of a salvage company, spent thousands of dollars to travel to Iwo Jima. He located the hill where Bill Genaust was killed, and believes that he located the location of the cave Bill had entered to save another Marine. Genaust was shot by the Japanese inside that cave, and the opening was hit with a flame thrower and sealed.
The expedition presently working on Iwo Jima Island is the direct result of Bob Bolus's lobbying efforts. He also has pledges of support a US Senator to get the Navy Cross awarded posthumously. A niece of Genaust living in Minn. has been asked for a DNA sample to match with any remains they may find.
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Mrs. Butler, director of the warehouse asked me to help her draw attention to its plight. I contacted Bob Kerr, who lives in Fall River. He wrote a column about it and ran some artwork. This lit a fire under the city fathers, who raised sufficient money to have it bronzed and erected along the waterfront.
But that crusade isn't finished. When last I saw the monument, the sign in front of it credited the wrong sculptor. Felix DeWeldon created it, but it erroneously credited the most recent artisan who assembled it, as the sculptor. I hope by this writing, it has been credited properly.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The Patriots were a 49-19 winner over the Jets on Thursday night.
The Patriots turned four Jets turnovers into touchdowns to take a 35-3 lead at halftime and led 42-12 early in the fourth quarter.
Quarterback Tom Brady threw for three touchdown passes and had a scoring run. New England turned four New York turnovers into touchdowns as they piled up 35 points in the second quarter to break the game open.
Brady opened the scoring with a 3-yard touchdown pass to Wes Welker on the first play of the second quarter, and the Jets made it easy for the Patriots after that.
Shonn Greene's fumble gave the ball back to the Patriots, and Brady needed only one play, an 83-yard pass to Shane Vereen to put New England up 14-0.
Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez fumbled on New York's next possession, and Steve Gregory scooped up the loose ball for a 32-yard return and a 21-0 lead.
And the Jets gave them one more.
Joe McKnight fumbled the ensuing kickoff and Julian Edelman ran it in from 22 yards, New England's third touchdown in a 52-second span.
Brady hit Edelman with 56-yard scoring pass with 3:08 left as the Patriots widened the lead to 35-0, and Jets fans started chanting for Tim Tebow to replace Sanchez.
The Jets finally scored on Nick Folk's 32-yard field goal with 3 seconds remaining.
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The Jets did wind up with two points on the exchange when Patriots running back Stevan Ridley was called for a chop block in the end zone, giving the Jets a safety that reduced the Patriots lead to 35-5.
The safety gave the Jets possession of the ball, and they converted for their first touchdown with 4:41 left in the quarter. New York needed only four plays to cover 71 yards with Bilal Powell running in from 4 yards.
In the fourth, Brady sneaked in from the 1 to give New England a 42-12 lead.
The Patriots played without star tight end Rob Gronkowski. He's expected to miss at least a month because of a broken left forearm.
New England activated tight end Aaron Hernandez. He missed the last three games because of an ankle injury.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick became the eighth NFL coach to reach 200 wins.
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Google will have to turn over some of the data requested by the Department of Justice, according to a ruling just handed down by US District Judge James Ware. The DoJ had subpoenaed search records from a one-week period covering 1 million random web addresses in an attempt to make its case for reviving the Child Online Protection Act, which was struck down in 2004. Google fought back, leading to today's ruling.
US District Judge James Ware ruled that Google will need to hand over a portion of the requested data to the DoJ, but has not yet specified the full scope of his ruling. However, he indicated that he had significant reservations about requiring the search engine to comply with all of the terms of the subpoena due to the "perception by the public that this is subject to government scrutiny."
Indeed, the entire case has brought the issue of how much privacy (here's a hint: very little) Internet users can expect to have. Google is not alone in keeping track of users' queries and identifying information such as IP addresses and whether the searcher was signed into her Google account, to name a couple. The ACLU had filed a brief supporting Google, citing possible violations of privacy.
For its part, Google wanted to keep the information confidential because it claimed that its release would disclose some of Google's trade secrets and "proprietary systems." In addition, the company said that the government had failed to demonstrate that the data would lead to admissible evidence and that the subpoena imposed an expensive and unwarranted burden without sufficient justification. It's also likely that the company wants to demonstrate that it was committed to keeping data about its users out of the hands of the government during a time when it has come under scrutiny for its dealings with the People's Republic of China.
Originally, the DoJ requested a month's worth of search records, but later narrowed the timeframe down to a week. In addition, it has promised to compensate Google for the costs of compliance. By examining the data from Google and other search engines (which apparently complied fully with the subpoena's they received), the government hopes to demonstrate the ease with which filtering software designed to keep minors from viewing pornography and other content online can be circumvented.
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The need to keep together the announcing of the Christian message and the struggle for social justice was highlighted by a representative from India speaking at an international church conference in Edinburgh on 3 June.
Bishop Geevarghese Mor Coorilos, from India, voiced a "growing concern that the prophetic voice [of the church] has been gradually diminishing in ecumenical circles including the World Council of Churches (WCC)". Coorilos is the moderator of the WCC's Commission on World Mission and Evangelism.
Speaking at the 2-6 June Edinburgh 2010 Conference on world Christianity, Coorilos said that the "false dichotomy between evangelical and ecumenical strands [of Christianity] is irrelevant".
However, he warned that "attempts at widening the ecumenical umbrella" should not dilute the "prophetic dimensions of mission".
The Edinburgh 2010 international gathering commemorates the hundredth anniversary of the landmark 1910 World Mission Conference which took place in the same city and is widely considered the symbolic starting point of the modern ecumenical movement. Some 300 delegates from over 60 countries and virtually all Christian traditions are attending the event.
"I sense an obvious lack of courage and commitment on the part of the global church to address issues of global justice – social, economic and ecological justice – and religious pluralism", said Coorilos. He was responding to a keynote speech delivered by Professor Dana Robert, from the Boston University School of Theology in the USA.
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Giving some examples of issues that Christian "mission as contestation" needs to address, Coorilos mentioned "the continuing aggression of the State of Israel to the people and land of Palestine", and the "islands and peoples that are going to simply disappear due to climate change".
In seeking a renewed understanding of Christian mission for the world in the 21st century, "Edinburgh 2010 is yet another opportunity to discover anew the grace and power of God for us, the Church and for the whole created order", Coorilos concluded.
The Edinburgh 2010 conference has gathered with the theme "Witnessing to Christ today" and is being hosted by the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh.
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The wide spectrum of churches, denominations and mission traditions united around the Edinburgh 2010 project makes it one of the most representative of the diversity of world Christianity today. This spectrum includes Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran, Reformed, Methodist, Baptist, Seventh Day Adventist, Roman Catholic, Evangelical, Pentecostal and Independent traditions.
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Adam Horvath is charged with vehicular manslaughter, a misdemeanor that carries a penalty of up to 90 days in jail and a suspended license for up to three years.
Prosecutors said Collin Barton was walking on the side of Wooster Pike when he was struck by a vehicle operated by Horvath early on March 18.
Barton's body was discovered in a wooded area in the 8600 block of Wooster Pike two days later after an intensive search.
Prosecutors said Horvath had fallen asleep and driven off the right side of the roadway. Barton was walking on the unpaved berm when he was struck, officers said.
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
New York style coffee/crumb cake
Yaaaaaay! I ripped this recipe out of a magazine and have been looking at it for a few months. I finally made it, and am so glad I did. Back in high school, I used to go to this deli and get sandwiches and coffee cake, and this is pretty close to the coffee cake that I used to love. Hooray! The cake is soft and moist and buttery, and the crumb top is sweet and crunchy and slightly cinnamon-ny.
New York style coffee/crumb cake
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Crumb topping
8 T melted unsalted butter, still warm
1/3 c white sugar
1/3 c brown sugar, packed
3/4 t cinnamon
a pinch of salt
1 3/4 c rice flour mix
1/4 t xanthan gum
Mix together butter, sugars, cinnamon and salt together, then stir in the flour and xanthan gum. Set aside to cool and harden a bit.
1 1/4 c rice flour mix
1/4 t xanthan gum
1/2 c white sugar
1/4 t baking soda
1/4 t salt
6 T softened butter, cut into slices
1/3 c greek yogurt
1 whole egg plus 1 yolk
2 t vanilla
Preheat oven to 325. Line an 8x8 pan with foil and spray with cooking spray. Whisk the flour, xanthan gum, sugar, baking soda, and salt together in the bowl of a mixer. Add the butter, one slice at a time until mostly incorporated. Add in the yogurt, eggs, and vanilla and beat on medium-high until batter is light and fluffy. Scrape into the pan, and smooth the top with a spatula. Break up the crumb mixture with a fork, leaving as many pieces that are about the size of a dime as you can. Spread the crumb mixture over the top of the cake, and bake for 40-45 minutes on the shelf on the top third of the oven. Cool on a wire rack. Makes about 9 servings.
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Oh YUM! Looks like you nailed that one, picture perfect coffee cake!ReplyDelete
This looks divine! Although, I confess that my favorite part of the crumb cake is the crumb, not the cake. I wonder if it would hold together if I doubled the crumb part. What would you call that? Texas Style New York Style Crumb Cake?!ReplyDelete
My favourite part of coffee cake is that since "coffee" is in its name, it means it's okay to eat it for breakfast ; )ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:21 AM
MMMMMMMM,...What a divine & stylish looking cake!!ReplyDelete
It looks just beautiful!!! :)
I love the variety of your recipes, so I nominated you for a blog award - Versatile Blogger Award!ReplyDelete
Oh this looks amazing...perfect recipe for my Spring Break week. Thanks!ReplyDelete
I have piles of recipes ripped out of magazines to try later and convert to GFree. What a lovely looking cake, I love that crumb topping!ReplyDelete
This sounds amazing!! Thank you so much for sharing. I am also dairy free, so this is perfect with a butter substitute.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9:31 PM
My cake batter is far from light & fluffy. It's like a thick ball of dough... I think next time I will try to mix the ingredients a little differently... for example - cream the butter & sugar together, then incorporate the eggs, then the yogurt & then add the dry ingredients which have been mixed together. I'll see if it comes out better that way next time. I have no clue what could be wrong, I followed the recipe to a T.ReplyDelete
Also, the recipe makes a lot of crumbs. I recall someone asking about doubling the crumb part. I will let you know how they held up once it's out of the oven.
- Anonymous10:55 PM
This came out tasty. It was more like a pound cake but still could tell it was a crumb cake. :) It definitely reminded me or the entenmann's coffee cakes we used to have. The crumbs were good & it made a very good amount :)ReplyDelete
Next time I am also going to try to swirl the crumbs into the cake as well. Yum Yum. PS ~ I added one tsp of Vanilla extract & one tsp of Almond extract. It was very tasty :) THANK YOU FOR THIS RECIPE 8-)
My batter was very thick, not at all "light and fluffy" and turned out really dense. And my crumbs did not work at all! I did everything as it said to, but still it didn't work. Next time I would suggest more moisture. My mom really liked it though.ReplyDelete