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Curve Fitting
practice problem 1
In this experiment, simple pendulums of different lengths were constructed and their periods measured. This data set looks linear, but is it really? What effect does length have on the period of a simple pendulum?
Answer it.
practice problem 2
Snow rarely gets a chance to melt in Antarctica, even in the summer when the sun never sets. In the interior of the continent, the temperature of the air hasn't been above the freezing point of water in any significant way for the last 900,000 years. The snow that falls there accumulates and accumulates and accumulates until it compresses into rock solid ice — up to 4.5 km thick in some regions. Since the snow that falls is originally fluffy with air, the ice that eventually forms still holds remnants of this air — very, very old air. By examining the isotopic composition of the gases in carefully extracted cores of this ice we can learn things about the past climatic conditions on earth. By extension we might also predict some things about the climate of the future.
- Age of air (years before present)
- Temperature anomaly with respect to the mean recent time value (℃)
- Carbon dioxide concentration (ppm)
- Dust concentration (ppm)
- Construct a set of overlapping time series graphs for CO2 concentration and temperature anomaly.
- Construct a scatter plot of temperature anomaly vs. CO2 concentration.
- How are atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and temperature anomaly related?
- What temperature anomaly might one expect given current atmospheric CO2 levels?
- Dust
- Construct a set of overlapping time series graphs for dust and temperature anomaly.
- Construct a scatter plot of temperature anomaly vs. dust concentration.
- How are atmospheric dust concentration and temperature anomaly related?
- What global average temperature anomaly might one expect from exceptionally high levels of atmospheric dust?
- Here are the overlapping time series graphs. The data show a definite correlation. The two quantities go up and down in near synchrony.
- Here's the scatter plot of the two time-varying quantities plotted against one another. The data forms a dense cloud that is roughly oval shaped. The best fit line slices nicely through the data.
- Temperature varies linearly with atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration. Low CO2 levels go with a cooler climate and high CO2 levels go with a warmer climate.
- What does our linear regression analysis predict given current carbon dioxide levels of about 400 ppm?
y = mx + b y = (0.0908 ℃/ppm)(400 ppm) − 25.23 ℃ y = +11 ℃
The current consensus among working climate scientists is that the globe will warm +5 ℃ on average over the course of the Twenty-first Century. The increase is expected to be smaller than average near the equator and greater than average near the poles. Since the Vostok ice cores were collected in Antarctica, our prediction of approximately +10 ℃ is right in line with those made by more sophisticated means.
Correlation is not causation, however. Graphs like those used in this problem cannot tell us whether carbon dioxide affects temperature, temperature affects carbon dioxide, or some third factor is affecting both. We need a theoretical model that describes which way the cause and effect work. That model is described in more detail in the section of this book that deals with heat transfer by radiation.
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. Its role in atmospheric thermodynamics is much like the glass in a greenhouse. It is transparent to visible light, but not to infrared. Visible light easily punches through the atmosphere. It is absorbed by the ground and then reradiated as infrared. The infrared is partly blocked by the atmosphere and has a hard time escaping out into space. This little delay keeps the Earth comfortably warm. Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and other gases have been shown to play a significant role in this process. They all interact with infrared radiation. These properties have been measured in tabletop laboratory experiments that had no direct connection to climatology.
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have increased steadily over the past 100 to 150 years. This is due to the burning of coal, petroleum, and natural gas as well as deforestation and other changes in land use associated with the Industrial Revolution. During this same time period, average global temperatures have been generally increasing and there is no reason to believe that this trend will quit anytime soon. Climate models all show that as long as CO2 concentrations stay somewhere around their turn of the Twenty-first Century levels, global temperatures will continue to increase for the next 100 years. This conclusion is based on solid scientific reasoning and is regarded by nearly all climate scientists as valid. The scientific questions that remain unanswered are: how can we increase the precision and reliability of our global climate predictions and what effect will the inevitable changes have on life as we know it? The question of what is to be done about this is is a political, not scientific, question.
- Dust
- Here are the overlapping time series graphs. The correlation with temperature is not as evident for dust as it was for CO2 since the changes are in the opposite direction. High levels of dust seem to correlate with low temperatures.
- The relation between dust and temperature becomes more evident when graphed as a scatter plot. It appears that temperature decreases with increasing dust, but this decrease levels off after a while. The relationship appears to have a horizontal asymptote like an exponential approach function.
- Atmospheric dust correlates to a negative temperature anomaly that exponentially approaches a minimum value.
- As dust concentration increases, the exponential term of our curve fitting function approaches zero leaving the constant term to stand by itself. This is the limit or asymptote of our curve fit.
y = ae−bx − c ymin = − c = −7.6 ℃
So what is going on here? Does dust cause temperatures to drop or do low temperatures make the dust fly? The answer to this question is not so simple. Here we have a real problem of determining causation.
Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, and the other greenhouse gases absorb and reradiate infrared radiation because the natural vibrational frequencies of these molecules lie in the infrared part of the electromagnetic spectrum. They don't vibrate at visible light frequencies, which is why they are all transparent to the light that we see with our eyes.
Dust particles are large compared to molecules. They are also larger than a wavelength of infrared or visible light. Because of this, they are essentially obstacles to infrared and visible light waves. When the sky is full of dust, light has a hard time making it down to the ground. The dust particles scatter a great deal of solar energy back into space and the Earth is a little bit cooler as a result. Large volcanoes can spread so much dust into the atmosphere that they sometimes have a measurable effect on climate. The 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines caused a globally averaged temperature anomaly of −0.3 ℃ that lasted two years.
Well actually, that last statement isn't quite right. Mount Pinatubo did spread a lot of ash around the globe (resulting in fantastic sunsets), but the primary mechanism by which it cooled the Earth was through the injection of sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere. When SO2 gets together with H2O the result is an aerosol of H2SO4 — sulfuric acid. Aerosols have a greater cooling effect on climate than dust. (They are also notoriously hard to describe in climate models.)
Now let's examine the reverse causation. A cool climate is a dry one. When temperatures are low, water has a hard time evaporating. Less water vapor means less rain. Less rain means more dust. Maybe dust levels are high when the climate is cool is because a cool climate leads to more dust. If that's the case, then the last part of this problem may not be a question that can be answered with this data set.
If dust causes cooling, then the coldest dust could ever make the Earth would be around −8 ℃ lower than it is now. If cooling causes dust, then all we can say is that there has never been a temperature anomaly lower than −8 ℃ in the last 400,000 years and every time the Earth has gotten this cold it's been very dusty.
practice problem 3
An Internet search engine was queried for pizzerias in the area centered on Brooklyn College. The name, phone number, and address were recorded for the first six hits. How is the building number of a pizzeria in Brooklyn affected by the last four digits of its phone number?
Answer it.


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But Smith doesn't have executives from Toyota Motor Company head office in Japan breathing down his neck about the $3800 cost penalty the company incurs on each car produced at its Australian plant over those produced in Japan or the United States.
Toyota Australia's president,
The odds on it winning that battle lengthened on Wednesday when General Motors, citing excessive costs of production, said its Holden factories would cease making cars in Australia in 2017, a year after Ford Australia pulls out. Toyota Australia immediately put its manufacturing under review, saying the departure of its rivals could weaken the Australian supply chain to the point where it is unable to keep making cars.
The survival of large swathes of the Australian automotive manufacturing industry, which employed 45,000 workers before Holden's decision, now depends on Toyota achieving its cost-cutting goals and winning the right to build the next generation Camry and Aurion. Some high quality component suppliers will survive because they have broken into global supply chains, established offshore production or found a niche which doesn't depend on Holden, Ford and Toyota.
Others have successfully diversified from automotive into other areas. But most lack the management, manufacturing and financial skills to make the leap. They have been sustained by a sea of subsidies and tarriffs worth more than $15 billion over the past 12 years alone, that have kept the car makers going without having to be globally competitive. If Toyota goes, they will go too; many may go even if Toyota stays.
Continuing the crusade
If the crisis in the industry is forcing Dave Smith to rethink the union's strategy, he gives no outward sign. The boss of the vehicle builders' unit of the AMWU continued the crusade against Toyota's cost-cutting campaign on Thursday and won an injunction in the Federal Court against it putting the plan to a vote of workers on Friday.
Federal Court judge Mordecai Bromberg said the cost-cutting plan breached a "no extra claims" clause in its enterprise deal. He said that if the company wanted to put the plan to a vote, it would first have to ask them to vote out the "no extra claims" clause. If they did so, it could then put the cost-cutting plan to a vote.
The two-step process would take until early next year. Yasuda says the clock is already ticking on the decision about which Toyota plants around the world build the next generation Camry and Aurion. It is due to be made sometime next year.
Smith struck a defiant tone when asked if the union's action might be counterproductive in the circumstances.
"It's very serious times for the industry. You can not walk away from that fact. But I still maintain that in order to be able to sit down and work through the issues in a constructive manner the parties need to sit down as equals," he says.
Labour costs and outdated work practices are not the only issues that bedevil the local industry. The small and fragmented domestic market has never sustained competitive mass production, despite 65 years of protection and subsidies. The soaring Aussie dollar and the rapid development of high-quality car manufacturing in low-cost locations like Thailand have made life much more difficult. Management has avoided tough decisions on labour costs and practices, preferring to milk the subsidies and the good times and seek more handouts in the bad times. The Abbott government has now called time on that racket in a decision that could mark a turning point in the long-hibernating national conversation about economic reform.
"What we are seeing is the inexorable and inevitable restructuring of the Australian economy as economies worldwide become increasingly globalised," says
"We have been turning our back on this for far too long at great cost to the Australian taxpayer and the Australian economy. The great reforms of the Hawke-Keating governments and the Howard-Costello governments were all designed to address the increasing globalisation of our economy and the inevitable changes that are going to be required," Samuel tells AFR Weekend.
The path for innovation
Global car makers have invested billions in Australian operations and helped to nurture a culture of design, engineering and innovation. Their local operations are world leaders in designing large rear-wheel drive cars. Other industries have benefited from this culture.
Yet a manufacturing culture based on conformity to global car makers' plans can also have its downside. It limits the innovative options of the very engineers and designers it nurtures. The car makers designated Australia as a place to design and make large, rear-wheel drive cars. When Australian consumers preferences switched to SUVs for families and smaller cars for runabouts, the car makers were slow to respond, Ford cancelled plans to produce the Focus here. Holden built the Cruze, with 25 to 30 per cent local content but admits in its submission that the make has been a "price-taker" in the intensely competitive small car segment rather than a "profit-driver". In other words, the small car is really just taking up slack on Holden's assembly line created by the slump in Commodore sales.
"This is in many ways a very conservative industry," Craig Milne, executive director of the Productivity Council, a consulting firm, told the commission.
Milne said the car industry's minimum ideal production runs had fallen from 700,000 when he was a student to 200,000 now, still far above the largest Australian production run – Toyota's 91,000 Camrys. Holden and Ford's runs are much smaller.
"Really it would seem to me that the path for innovation in the industry is to bring those numbers down, to have a good look at how you make motor cars, to innovate around those things. I'm not sure the large firms have really much of an interest in doing that because the current arrangements suit them. You have this international division of labour, that this country makes one product and another makes another. It suits their business models quite well."
What to do about it is another problem. Milne has a vision – probably unrealistic – of an Australian-owned car maker, possibly having purchased Ford's assets, modest, focused on a niche market and "in charge of its destiny". Mark Albert, a director of component maker MTM and two-wheel drive recreational vehicle group Tomcar Australia, reckons we already have one. MTM makes Tomcars in Australia, but the production numbers are tiny, currently in the hundreds with a goal of getting to 5000. The reality is that for car manufacturing of any scale, Toyota is the last "original equipment" manufacturer left standing. Holden said that $2000 of its $3750 cost penalty for building cars in Australia rather than Asian plants was labour, and about $1500 was the penalty for local supplies, which also includes labour. Australian manufacturing labour rates are the highest in the Pacific Rim. Holden said in its submission it cost four times as much to build a car here as in Asia, and about twice what it cost in Europe.
"The reality is if they don't get any joy out of the labour component I don't think they see a way they are going to be able to save $3800 in costs from other areas," says Jim Sarantinos, an industry expert and partner at corporate advisory firm Ferrier Hodgson.
"I think the labour component is the essential one as far as Toyota is concerned."
Insufficient savings
The AMWU's Smith points out the practices Toyota is trying to eliminate will only save $16½ million a year, according to the affidavit of shop steward Carmelo Joseph Marmara. A Toyota spokeswoman says the company needed that sum to cover two pay rises totalling 5½ per cent still being paid next year. The lion's share of the labour savings come from many small steps such as eliminating redundant processes, defects, waste and inefficiencies to reduce overtime.
Many of the things Toyota wants – the shorter Christmas lockdown, fewer sickies, lower rates for new temps and freedom to use them – were agreed by Holden. But the union doesn't like how Toyota went about it.
"The last time I saw employees this upset was in 1996," says Marmara in his affidavit. That was a three-week strike. In 2011 the workers struck for five days and banned overtime over the enterprise deal that tripped Toyota up in court this week.
Australian labour relations is often viewed as a battle for control of the workplace. Smith made a revealing remark this week: "It is simply the company taking the opportunity to grab back control over its workforce" – and then attempted to correct himself.
Organised labour is not necessarily incompatible with efficient, high-quality manufacturing, says Paul Gollan, professor of business at Macquarie University. But the old conflict model of workplace relations is, because it limits the ability of workers to build their skills and drive the development of a quality culture. "We need to start anew. We need to develop a new workplace culture that builds upon the capacity we have in the workforce," Gollan says.
The car industry has lifted its game significantly in the past two decades. But the rest of the world has lifted its game higher. "The last Labor government had a huge industry transformation program but it didn't really transform anything," says Roy Green, dean of business at Sydney's University of Technology.
The Abbott government's handling of Holden's departure has been far from elegant. Even so, Graeme Samuel praised the government for standing firm after a decade in which Labor and coalition governments tried to hold back the tide of change.
"We are now seeing evidence not only of the inexorability of that occurring but also that the current government has got a clear understanding of what is occurring in the global economy and a clear understanding of what is necessary to restructure the Australian economy.
"Importantly, it has shown that it's got the courage of its convictions and is prepared to withstand pressures from locally and overseas to carry on the practices of the past. One hopes this will set a model for the future."
The Australian Financial Review

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The Sun kept setting -- setting -- still
No Hue of Afternoon --
Upon the Village I perceived
From House to House 'twas Noon --
The Dusk kept dropping -- dropping -- still
No Dew upon the Grass --
But only on my Forehead stopped --
And wandered in my Face --
My Feet kept drowsing -- drowsing -- still
My fingers were awake --
Yet why so little sound -- Myself
Unto my Seeming -- make?
How well I knew the Light before --
I could see it now --
'Tis Dying -- I am doing -- but
I'm not afraid to know --
Poet: Emily Dickinson
Poem: 692.
The Sun kept setting -- setting -- still
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Year: Published/Written in 1955
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These puzzles were sent in by a visitor to Omniglot from Taiwan. The first appears on a mosquito coil and looks a bit like Tibetan or one of the other Brahmi-derived scripts.
These characters were spotted in Lugang (鹿港).
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Having a celebrity parent is rarely easy. When that parent is famous for answering an ad from a strange man to spend a year as his "wife" on an uninhabited desert island and for the film that portrayed the stormy relationship – in all its nakedness – on the big screen, it is perhaps more than usually tricky. If that parent is also your only parent and has never lost her enthusiasm for islands, isolation, adventure and self-revelation, there is bound to be an impact. Robin Irvine knows – he is the son of "Castaway" Lucy Irvine.
Lucy, you may remember, hit the headlines in the 1980s with her bestselling memoir and the film Castaway starring Amanda Donohoe as Lucy and Oliver Reed as Gerald Kingsland, the man with whom she spent the infamous year on the tiny tropical atoll of Tuin, just a mile long, in the Torres strait between New Guinea and northern Australia. She and Gerald turned out to be wildly incompatible and the island no paradise. They might well have died without the timely intervention of neighbouring islanders. Lucy, however, never regretted her year on the island – and it has informed her, and her children's, lives ever since.
Robin, now 22, has read the book, he says, and seen the film – at school in an end-of-term chemistry lesson. "It was a bit odd, me and my classmates watching 'my mum' naked. Oliver Reed appalled me, but I enjoyed it as a film … There were bits in the book that could have disturbed me, but they never did."
After her tropical sojourn, Lucy bought an isolated cottage in Scotland called Inchreoch, meaning Heather Island, advertised as "generous for one, no neighbours". Quite quickly, though, she found herself the single mother of three boys: the oldest (now 24 and a professional diver) the result of a one-night stand on a book publicity tour to South Africa, the younger two, of whom Robin is the older, of a longer, but ultimately unsuccessful, relationship in Scotland.
Between the birth of her first child and Robin's arrival, Lucy wrote Runaway, a prequel to Castaway in which she set out to explain the life that led to her accepting the desert island challenge. It begins with her aged 12 running away from her nice London school and middle-class parents: her magnetically attractive, self-centred father and cheated-on, unhappy mother, as well as her fading, anorexic older sister. Lucy is headstrong, which her father admires, and refuses any formal education from the age of 13. By 15, despite all the usual warnings, she is drifting and hitching alone around Europe. Rape at knife-point on a rural side-road outside Athens leads circuitously to a return to England, mental breakdowns, summers working in her father's Scottish hotel, a criminal conviction, a night as a prostitute and a job with the Inland Revenue before "that ad".
Has Robin read Runaway? "I know what my mother went through in those years, so I probably have … but reading it is one thing, connecting it to my mum – to the person bringing me up – is another." So what was his upbringing like? Isolated, certainly, at least to start with. Lucy wrote in an outhouse while the boys played together – there were no other children for miles. "We were a single-parent family with a Lucy Irvine twist," says Robin. "She is eccentric. She occasionally came to school events, but they stressed her out. I've told her myself: 'You're socially inept, Mum.' She knows. She's comfortable with that.
"You might think that a woman like her would be cavalier about our upbringing, but she wasn't. She thought a lot about it and was very keen on education." There was no television in the house, instead Lucy plied her sons with books, gave them general knowledge quizzes and saw that they listened to musical classics. Lucy later sold the house to pay school fees (and moved from one rented place to another, which she hated), although the money ran out when Robin was 14 and the two younger boys were pulled from their boarding schools ("I didn't mind much. My brother minded more"). There was also a road-trip through West Africa and the Scottish wilderness.
The boys roamed for miles, as well as working hard around the home. "Mum had a regime," says Robin, who by age nine was in charge of the logs for the stove, cleaning out the fires and taking tea to his mother at appointed times while she wrote. They all carried water from the stream when the house water supply gave out as it frequently did. When Lucy seriously damaged her back mending the wood-burning stove and had open-spine surgery, the boys took on even more, cycling a 14km round-trip to the nearest shop.
Before she had fully recovered, though, Lucy was planning the next adventure. "That's Mum," says Robin. "She took us for a little camping trip not far from where we lived. I think she was testing us a bit. It was quite hard. Walking a Highland path with the moor on one side and the forest on the other, she popped this image into our heads of tropical fish and beaches and palm trees – desert island stuff – and it was quite appealing." So began Robin and his brothers' own castaway year on Pigeon Island, a remote five-acre atoll in the Solomon Islands.
Diana Hepworth, a long-time British resident of Pigeon Island, had read Castaway and written to Lucy suggesting she come and spend a year on Pigeon Island with her boys and write the Hepworth family story. Diana had brought up her own children in the tiny community, and her son had married an islander. Lucy put the idea to the boys – and they were keen to go.
The final leg of the six-day journey might have put them off islands for life. A storm brewed up and waves were breaking hard over their open boat. Lucy later wrote (in her memoir Faraway) of 10-year-old Robin (called Joe in the book) "sodden … dead white … bailing automatically" while his younger brother "screamed and screamed". Actually, says Robin, he was more fatalistic than frightened: "I was planning exactly what to do if the boat capsized. I'd worked out which bit to hang on to. Mum still had a bad back. I didn't look to her for protection."
The boys quickly became island kids. Robin kayaked 30-40 minutes alone across the sea to trade for fruit on a neighbouring island, and they would canoe-surf five to a kayak, losing the passengers one by one into the waves. "When I think about it now, some of what we did was ridiculously dangerous," says Robin thoughtfully. Where was their mother? "Oh, nowhere to be seen," he says casually, "but she knew we were looked after. The islanders were like extended family."
"Things did go horribly wrong at times," he admits. "My little brother nearly took his thumb off – it was literally hanging – chopping open a coconut with a machete nearly as long as him … He learned from it though." Robin pauses before adding, "That sounds really terrible from a 21st-century mothering point of view, doesn't it?" But he doesn't think it was wrong: "Definitely not. Things go wrong very infrequently. If you take away the risk, you also take away a huge learning environment. If things go wrong 0.5 per cent of the time, 99.5 per cent of the time people are learning.
"God knows how I'd bring up my own kids," he says, "but I will probably never have any. I don't see myself with children." He didn't really know his own father until two years ago. "I remember the night he left – I was perhaps five – but I don't remember it being traumatic."
He doesn't know what happened between his parents – this is one of the few things he does not discuss with his mother. Two years ago, however, Robin got a birthday card with "love from Dad" written inside. "There was a little piece of paper stuck on the back. I prized it off and there was a phone number." Robin rang it. At the time he had been offered a place at Cambridge to study Chinese but was having second thoughts. "I thought I wanted a father who would give me direction. In fact, he just listened, and I sighed with relief." Robin now visits his father regularly, which also gives him a home in Scotland since his mother moved.
A couple of years ago, on the day her youngest son finished school, Lucy upped sticks and moved to a remote crumbling mud-brick house in Bulgaria. "It is bucolic," says Robin, "great for reading. No distractions." When he visits, he and his mother sit and talk, he says, their relationship now not so much mother and son as close friends.
Robin turned down the Cambridge place but three years later reapplied to study archaeology and anthropology and is now in his first year. In between he worked, travelled extensively – including riding through the desert in Mongolia – and created new a "family".
Most of his work was for Cumbrian Heavy Horses, Britain's only specialist heavy-horse-riding establishment. Robin has always loved animals ("animals are my children"), and he has become an integral part of the organisation and of the family that runs it. He now regards the owners, Annie Rose and Tim Ancrum, as his "pseudo-family". Tim is the father figure he lacked as a child, he says: "He came on the scene before my dad reappeared and sort of picked up where my dad left off. Tim's a practical man's man. Almost my only memory of my father is of him teaching me to wield an axe. Tim took it from there … and Annie really looks after me.
"I also have my Turkish mum," he says. He stays with her in Istanbul on his way to Bulgaria, "and I'm working on one in Cambridge." What they all have in common, he says, is that they are "open-house people". "Mum is not an open-house person. She likes the idea, but she needs her privacy. The one thing she didn't teach me was how to talk to people."
Robin is, in fact, highly articulate and has (like his mother) a disarming honesty about the workings of his own mind and emotions. His unusually varied and independent life has left him with extraordinary confidence in some areas – he is happy to take off alone to any part of the globe for instance – but perhaps also uncertain about how he fits into the social world. He has been partially deaf from birth and has a hearing aid in each ear. "I always felt I had to prove it didn't matter – prove myself."
This summer he is off to the Gobi desert to ride and join some anthropological field work, to Korea to dive and to Astana to visit a Kazakh he met in China … Oh, and to Istanbul, the Lake District and Bulgaria to see his three mothers.
What about after graduation? He grins: "Mum has given me some very bad ideas – I see she's made a life out of doing stupid things and writing about it. So why can't I?" Something tells me that – if his luck holds – we may be hearing more from Robin Irvine.
Read Robin's diary at cam.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/profiles


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The Way Things Work
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Without a doubt, Restorathon, our radio stations equivalent to a sharathon or pledge drive, is the most important event of the year for Gospel 90.3 FM and Gospel903.com. In that three-day time period, the station will endeavor to restore the annual budget so that they may continue to broadcast the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ locally and around the world. The cause and need is great, but our God is greater! Please tune in and pray for Restorathon 2010, this February 25th – 27th. We encourage you to visit our radio stations website if you are not already familiar with it; while there you can learn more about Restorathon 2010.
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- 1 1/2 mile from Hollywood Beach
- 6 miles from Downtown Fort Lauderdale
- 25 minutes drive to South Beach
- 15 minutes drive to Haulover Beach where clothing is optional, the only Nude Beach in South Florida
- All the units are nicely furnished with clean towels available daily
- Kitchens are equipped with pots and pans
- Free bikes available daily.
- Why rent just a room when I am offering you the entire apartment for the same price as most offer just one room :)
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Trevlig lägenhet och värdpar. Hjälpsamma när man hade frågor. Rent och fräscht. Nära till restauranger och mataffär. Inte allt för långt till stranden. Trafiken utanför kan upplevas störande, dock tyckte vi den var mer sövande.
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Were four of us in the apartment. It was all great.
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We enjoyed the spacious 2 bedroom apartment. The Master bedroom was en suite; Jon and Mary helpfully provided us with a cot for our 5 month old baby. There was ample parking and it seemed to be a very handy location for driving to The Everglades, Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Palm Beach. There is a 2nd bathroom. My parents found the air con ducts in the 2nd bedroom a little noisy overnight. We fully self catered and there were plenty of eat out options nearby and the supermarket was 5 minutes drive away. Very sociable hosts. Would stay again.
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Stove Top Pork Pot Roast
Recipe by TXOLDHAM
This is how my mother-in-law taught me how to cook a pork roast when I was a new bride - 1959! I have updated it a little. At that time, I didn't know how to boil an egg.
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You made our Sunday dinner very special with your delicious recipe. I added the 6 small potatoes, 2 onions, 4 carrots, and 1 pound of mushrooms (sliced with an egg slicer) for the last hour of cooking. Instead of stove top cooking I baked it in the oven at 350 degrees Fahrenheit, checking it for liquid occasionally. A perfect one-pot meal. I served it with a green salad and my apple crisp recipe #80681 for dessert. Thanks for posting.
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- 4 1⁄2-5 lbs pork roast
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- salt and pepper
- 6 garlic cloves, chopped
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 1⁄2 cup water
- 1 teaspoon thyme
- 1 teaspoon sage
- 1 cup dry red wine
- 2 tablespoons flour, and enough water to make a paste to thicken the gravy
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- Rub the roast all over with thyme, sage and salt and pepper.
- Heat a heavy dutch oven over medium-high heat. Add oil to pan and brown the roast on all sides. Remove roast and saute the onion and garlic. Put the roast back in the pan and add water and reduce heat to medium or medium-low. Cover and simmer until done - about 2 hours. Turn the meat occasionally as water evaporates and then add a little more water.
- To make gravy, remove roast and add the wine and 1/2 cup water to pan. Bring to boil and scrape up brown bits on the bottom of the pan. Bring to a boil until reduces a bit and then add the flour-water paste and whisk in slowly to avoid lumps till reaches the desired thickness. Taste for seasoning.
- If desired, cook 6 small potatoes, 2 medium onions, quartered, 4 medium carrots, peeled and cut into 3 inch pieces and 1 pound button mushrooms in with roast. Add the last hour of cooking.


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Hello Robert,
This is the second time I've written in with a question, if that's okay.
This is more of an emergency than last time and has already been going on for a couple of weeks. My ceiling was dripping so I cut open the wet area and saw that water was coming from some PVC pipe. I thought it was a water line but it only dripped when the air conditioning was running, so it must be the condensation line, right? If so, where do I go from here? Thank you again,
Lee H.
Hi Lee,
From what you are telling me, it sounds like the condensation line. There are different reasons that these lines leak, but generally it is due to lint on the A coil. Some families tend to leave their doors and windows open and don't change their filters often enough. The lint then builds up, bypasses the filter and lands on the A coil, on top of the air handler.
When the dirty coil then condensates, the lint and dust drops into the pan, which goes into the line and causes obstructions. This lint gets wet then dries, builds up some more, gets wet, dries, etc. This process eventually creates a blockage. Once this happens, you come in with an air hose and blow out the lines. Sometimes, an electrician's fish tape will work. If solidified hard enough, you have to chase the line, open drywall, cut it out and replace.
It could also be the pan that shifted under the air handler.
Or it could be the PVC couplings were not glued. I can't tell you how many times I've seen PVC just pushed together.
The key to it all is to make sure you keep the air filters clean. Change it out every three months. You're looking at $3.00, which is money well spent. This is nothing compared to what it's going to cost you to make the repairs or the possible damage to the unit. Also, once the A coil gets dirty, it's no longer running efficiently. It's not cooling the way it is designed, using excess electricity and is working twice as hard to keep your home cool.
Besides changing the filters regularly, have your AC guy come out and check the furnace every year. Make sure the flames are burning blue and not orange which is indicative of a sufficient amount of air to the furnace. Have him check to see if there is water sitting in the pan. If so, this is a tell-tale sign there is a problem. The pan should be tilted to the outlet of the primary line and with the exception of a little bit of water on the bottom, there should never be any standing water.
The primary line is tied into the closest lav, sink, to the air handler. Any condensation discharges out to the drain line. There is also a secondary line which is usually on the outside of the house. If ever you see the water coming out of the secondary line, you know that the primary is plugged and needs to be addressed immediately.
Submit your questions to: email@example.com
Robert Lamoureux of IMS Construction, Valencia, CA, has 25 years experience as a commercial General, Electrical and Plumbing contractor. The opinions expressed in "Your Home Improvements" are not to replace the recommendations made by a qualified contractor after a thorough visual inspection has been conducted.


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Beyonce at 'Bowl'
NEW YORK (AP) -- All the single ladies -- and fellas -- will have a chance to join Beyonce on the field at the Super Bowl.
Pepsi announced that fans will introduce the Grammy-winning diva when she takes the stage Feb. 3 at New Orleans' Mercedes-Benz Superdome.
Photo contest details are at www.pepsi.com/halftime . The contest ends Jan. 19, but Jan. 11 is the cutoff date for those interested in introducing Beyonce.
Kanye and Kim
expecting a child
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) -- A kid for Kimye: Kanye West and Kim Kardashian are expecting their first child.
The rapper announced at a concert Sunday night that his girlfriend is pregnant. He told the crowd of more than 5,000 at Revel Resort's Ovation Hall in song form: "Now you having my baby."
The crowd roared. And so did people on the Internet. The news instantly went viral on Twitter and Facebook, with thousands posting and commenting on the couple.
Most of the Kardashian clan also tweeted about the news, including Kim's sisters and mother. Kourtney Kardashian wrote: "Another angel to welcome to our family. Overwhelmed with excitement!"
West, 35, also told concertgoers to congratulate his "baby mom" and that this was the "most amazing thing."
Kardashian married NBA player Kris Humphries in August 2011 and their divorce is not finalized.
Comedian arrested
on several charges
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Katt Williams, the comedian who has repeatedly found himself on the wrong side of the law, is out on bail after being arrested in Los Angeles on suspicion of child endangerment and possession of a stolen gun.
Police Officer Norma Eisenman says Williams was taken into custody Friday after the LA County Department of Children and Family Services did a welfare check at his home. Authorities found more than one firearm, one of which had been reported stolen.
Marilyn Monroe
FBI files found
LOS ANGELES -- FBI files on Marilyn Monroe that could not be located earlier this year have been found and re-issued, revealing the names of some of the movie star's communist-leaning friends who drew concern from government officials and her own entourage.
The records, which previously had been heavily redacted, do not contain any new information about Monroe's death 50 years ago. Letters and news clippings included in the files show the bureau was aware of theories the actress had been killed, but they do not show that any effort was undertaken to investigate the claims. Los Angeles authorities concluded Monroe's death was a probable suicide.
Recently obtained by The Associated Press through the Freedom of Information Act, the updated FBI files do show the extent the agency was monitoring Monroe for ties to communism in the years before her death in August 1962.
The records reveal that some in Monroe's inner circle were concerned about her association with Frederick Vanderbilt Field, who was disinherited from his wealthy family over his leftist views.
A trip to Mexico earlier that year to shop for furniture brought Monroe in contact with Field, who was living in the country with his wife in self-imposed exile. Informants reported to the FBI that a "mutual infatuation" had developed between Field and Monroe, which caused concern among some in her inner circle, including her therapist, the files state.
"This situation caused considerable dismay among Miss Monroe's entourage and also among the (American Communist Group in Mexico)," the file states. It includes references to an interior decorator who worked with Monroe's analyst reporting her connection to Field to the doctor.
Field's autobiography devotes an entire chapter to Monroe's Mexico trip, "An Indian Summer Interlude." He mentions that he and his wife accompanied Monroe on shopping trips and meals and he only mentions politics once in a passage on their dinnertime conversations.
"She talked mostly about herself and some of the people who had been or still were important to her," Field wrote in "From Right to Left." ''She told us about her strong feelings for civil rights, for black equality, as well as her admiration for what was being done in China, her anger at red-baiting and McCarthyism and her hatred of (FBI director) J. Edgar Hoover."
Under Hoover's watch, the FBI kept tabs on the political and social lives of many celebrities, including Frank Sinatra, Charlie Chaplin and Monroe's ex-husband Arthur Miller. The bureau has also been involved in numerous investigations about crimes against celebrities, including threats against Elizabeth Taylor, an extortion case involving Clark Gable and more recently, trying to solve who killed rapper Notorious B.I.G.
The AP had sought the removal of redactions from Monroe's FBI files earlier this year as part of a series of stories on the 50th anniversary of Monroe's death. The FBI had reported that it had transferred the files to a National Archives facility in Maryland, but archivists said the documents had not been received. A few months after requesting details on the transfer, the FBI released an updated version of the files that eliminate dozens of redactions.
For years, the files have intrigued investigators, biographers and those who don't believe Monroe's death at her Los Angeles area home was a suicide.
A 1982 investigation by the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office found no evidence of foul play after reviewing all available investigative records, but noted that the FBI files were "heavily censored."
That characterization intrigued the man who performed Monroe's autopsy, Dr. Thomas Noguchi. While the DA investigation concluded he conducted a thorough autopsy, Noguchi has conceded that no one will likely ever know all the details of Monroe's death. The FBI files and confidential interviews conducted with the actress' friends that have never been made public might help, he wrote in his 1983 memoir "Coroner."
"On the basis of my own involvement in the case, beginning with the autopsy, I would call Monroe's suicide 'very probable,'" Noguchi wrote. "But I also believe that until the complete FBI files are made public and the notes and interviews of the suicide panel released, controversy will continue to swirl around her death."
Monroe's file begins in 1955 and mostly focuses on her travels and associations, searching for signs of leftist views and possible ties to communism. One entry, which previously had been almost completely redacted, concerned intelligence that Monroe and other entertainers sought visas to visit Russia that year.
The file continues up until the months before her death, and also includes several news stories and references to Norman Mailer's biography of the actress, which focused on questions about whether Monroe was killed by the government.
For all the focus on Monroe's closeness to suspected communists, the bureau never found any proof she was a member of the party.
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You consider yourself an Android maniac? Then you should know which the first handset to run the OS is – of course, that's the venerable G1. Truth be told, the G1 was never quite a success, but now that other devices have managed to attract a lot of interest to the platform, HTC has given the G line a second chance with the all-new T-Mobile G2. And this time the guys have come up with a real winner, considering the G2's next-generation Snapdragon chipset, large touchscreen, Flash Player 10.1 support and most importantly – HSPA+ compatibility for some lightning-fast data transfers. T-Mobile G2 is really a dream come true for all Android maniacs.
Samsung Vibrant
Well, of course we won't overlook T-Mobile's Galaxy S variant – the Samsung Vibrant, especially when it's one of the carrier's most impressive offerings. The Vibrant is an incredibly thin Android smartphone, which, however, is very feature-rich, as it packs a great 4" Super AMOLED screen with ultra-saturated colors and enormously high contrast levels. In addition, it performs magnificently in all benchmarks, so it would be a perfect gift for the geek in the family.
RIM BlackBerry Curve 3G
Now here's a well-balanced smartphone that's both appealing and inexpensive - the BlackBerry Curve 3G! A handset that relies on a tried and true stylish design scheme, the Curve 3G is naturally packing 3G connectivity, along with compatibility with RIM's latest BlackBerry OS 6 software. Not to mention the keyboard, which is suitable for most intense texting.
LG Optimus T
If a budget-cautious smartphone is what you seek, then there could hardly be a better deal than the LG Optimus T and its free on-contract price. Sure, you won't get a 4.3" screen, but the Optimus T's 3.2" one, coupled with the pretty decent performance of Froyo and more than 100,000 apps is still an offer that's clearly worth your while.
LG dLite
Of course, you don't have to pick up a smartphone if you simply need a decent phone. For those occasions, the LG dLite is very suitable, even more so when we know that it ups the ante a bit with its stylish hidden external display and social networking capabilities through the Social Buzz app. 2MP camera and GPS are also included to supplement the dLite with a complete set of basics.
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Integrating good design into your life doesn't mean replacing your La-Z-Boy with an Eames chair or swapping an old treasured lamp for filament lightbulbs. It's about making thoughtful decisions for your space and your routine: considering which books to pile (or, you know, arrange neatly) on your coffee table and choosing desktop supplies that speak to you (we're suckers for an elegant, ergonomic stapler). Tap into your personal tastes, take a few risks, and when in doubt, remember: Simplify, simplify, simplify.
Once you've unpacked the May box, be sure to check in with this month's "Good Form" issue on The Guide. You'll find plenty of DIY home hacks and tiny (but game-changing) design tweaks for your living space.
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Through the end of December, Pizza Hut Singapore is offering this aptly named Double Sensation Pizza that offers two rings of crust – the first of which is filled with melted mozzarella, parmesan, and cheddar cheeses, while the second features chicken sausage with bits of cheese. In addition, the pizza comes with smoked chicken and zucchini on a pepper Alfredo sauce as well as turkey ham, bell peppers and mushrooms on a salsa sauce. And to top it all off, a single cherry is placed in the center.
A regular-size 10″ pizza is offered for $26.50 SG ($21.75 US) while a large 13″ pizza will set you back $33.50 SG ($27.49 US). The Double Sensation is also offered as part of two Christmas meals at various price points.
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Tymon leaves his new home and his beloved Samiha to complete his Grafting studies with the famous Oracle of Nur. But Tymon and fellow traveller Jedda find that locating the Oracle in a corrupt and lawless city run by pirates and slave-drivers is no easy matter.
Samiha's fate has been predicted by Grafters down the ages. When she is captured in Cherk Harbour and charged with grand heresy, there seems to be no way out...but Tymon does not believe in fate and is desperate to save her lift. As chaos hums through the Tree, survival revolves on the fate of just one.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The away team will be playing at home, at least if the crowd counts.
One of the Canadians will be playing in the American city where he was born. The American goaltender is a teammate of the Canadian captain.
A handful of Americans have Canadian parents.
Yes, it kinda gets confusing and a little blurred when Team Canada and Team USA cross sticks, but it never gets boring.
"It's huge," grinned big Canadian forward Quinton Howden, a son of Oakbank. "It's one of the biggest rivalries in all of hockey. So there's going to be a lot of people watching it, a lot of people ready for it. It's a game that we've wanted for a long time."
The scene is set: After a 4-1 victory over Switzerland on Sunday, Team Canada will "host" the Americans in the World Junior Hockey Championship semifinal tonight in Buffalo (6:30 p.m., TSN) where a full house of 18,000 will be primed for a rematch of last year's gold-medal final in Saskatoon.
Of course, it was a heartbreaker in Saskatchewan, where the Yanks ended Canada's five-year gold streak with a 6-5 victory in overtime. As they say in Saskatoon, it was a beauty.
No less drama awaits in Buffalo, where the favoured Americans -- with eight returning players from last year -- were touted to repeat. Sticking to the script, Team USA swept through the preliminary round undefeated to advance to the semifinal.
The Canadians, however, had a detour to the quarter-final with the Swiss courtesy of a 6-5 overtime shootout loss to Sweden on New Year's Eve. Mission accomplished.
All along, Canada-U.S. was the dream final in 2011. A semifinal will have to do.
But Team Canada captain Ryan Ellis, a teammate of U.S. goaltender Jack Campbell with the OHL's Windsor Spitfires, didn't seem put off with an earlier showdown.
"No, not at all," said Ellis, one of four returning Canadian players from Saskatoon. "We knew we were going to see them some time this tournament. Whether it's the finals, the semis, or even the round-robin we just want to play them. It's a good rivalry."
It's also becoming THE rivalry in Canadian hockey. The Olympics. The world championships. The world juniors.
The programs are too similar. The players are too familiar. The styles are almost identical.
Sure, it's always a treat to face the Russians, and dust off old memories of 1972. And a juicy rematch with the Swedes in Buffalo could still happen.
But the U.S of A? That's the gold-medal standard now.
"Oh, it's going to be an amazing game," said Team Canada's Marcus Foligno, who was born right here on the shores of Lake Erie, the son of former Sabre Mike Foligno. "The U.S. has a good team, we know that. But I think revenge is a little bit in our mind, too. It's going to be a pretty crazy game, that's for sure.
"It's going to feel like a gold-medal game. Every game is now. It's single knockout."
It's also a second chance for some Canadians more than others. Winnipeg's Cody Eakin was a final cut from Team Canada last year, watching the loss to the Yanks on television like millions of others. On Monday, Eakin will be donning the Maple Leaf in one of the biggest games of his young career.
"Obviously, I wanted to be there (last year)," Eakin confessed. "You're watching on TV going, 'Geez, I wish I could be there.' It was a bitter feeling in my stomach. But at the same time, it hurt to lose, especially in overtime. Hopefully, we can go out there and make the guys from last year proud. It's going to be a battle."
Asked what the atmosphere might be like at HSBC Arena, which will once again be crammed with lunatic Canucks decked in red and white, Eakin smiled and replied: "Pretty insane."
Well, Eakin got the insane part right. But pretty?
Beauty will be in the eye of the team that advances to Wednesday's gold-medal final. The best the loser can do is bronze.
Canada versus Team USA. The sooner the better.
"This is the one we marked down on our calendar," gushed Team Canada's Ryan Johansen, whose eyes lit up just at the thought. "You can tell the fans really want to see it because they were chanting, 'We want the USA!' (at the end of the Canada-Swiss game) To hear that is really exciting. I'm already fired up to play them. It's going to be a rough sleep tonight."
Canada 4 Switzerland 1
After surrendering another early goal -- an unsettling trend at this world juniors -- Team Canada eventually solved Swiss goaltender Benjamin Conz en route to a 4-1 victory in Sunday's quarter-final.
Just 69 seconds into the game, Switzerland took a 1-0 lead on a goal by Anti Pestoni, whose harmless shot eluded Canadian goaltender Mark Visentin. Visentin had started ahead of teammate Olivier Roy, who was wobbly in a 6-5 shootout loss to Sweden on Friday.
But Ryan Johansen, Casey Cizakas, Louis Leblanc and Zack Kassian, into a empty net, replied for the Canadians, who pelted Conz with 50 shots.
"They were relentless, and that's a tough team to play against when they don't stop," Team Canada captain Ryan Ellis said, of the Swiss. "There was no quit in them, but it was nice to get the win."


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The hit vocal competition show The Voice returned to NBC this season with the strongest singers from across the country. And the chair-spinning celebrity coaches/ judges, Cee Lo Green, Blake Shelton, Adam Levine, and Christina Aguilera have been as entertaining as the contestants, as they offer advice and encouragement for their teams of singers. That's what makes the show a huge success for the Peacock network.
Now, as the season finale (May 8) draws near, Cee Lo and Blake, along with host-producer Carson Daly, and executive producer Mark Burnett, sat down to talk about the wild ride the show has been.
A lot was said about Blake barely making up his mind about his choice to advance in the competition as credits rolled last week. "It was one of those tough situations," he said, "Erin [Willet] had the better performance. RaeLynn is a country artist and I felt maybe I could help her a little bit more. But in the sing-off she just got out-sang. There was a lot of pressure on me to choose." Carson kept prodding Blake with "I need a name. I need a name," seconds before the end. "Live shows create that kind of real exciting drama that everybody's talking about," Carson said.
Cee Lo loves the show's format and revealed that he judges his team of singers on "what is possible. Some contestants show they have this infinite possibility about them. I like the optimistic approach of the show, providing possibilities. That's my philosophy in being part of the show. So I hope that the contestants share the same winning, positive, optimistic attitude."
When Blake and Cee Lo were asked how they'd do on the show if they competed, Blake jumped in to praise his rapping new friend. "I think that Cee Lo would thrive on a show like this because he's so versatile, a triple threat, so he'd dominate. I'm a one trick pony," the country superstar said modestly, before Cee Lo defended his good old buddy saying "Blake can sing anything."
Sometimes the coaches have clashed as their teams battle against each other. Carson noted an example of when Blake and Christina had words with each other and were "really going at it. But it's like fighting with your family. At the end of the day you're still family and you support each other."
Producer Burnett is proud of the talent he has assembled and said, "All of the coaches are amazing world-class singers, at the top of their game. That's why they are on The Voice. And these guys have nothing to prove, they're all superstars." He explained that it's that "authentic chemistry" between them that create the dynamics that make the show work. "You can tell. The camera catches an authenticity in people's faces. The hardest part for the show is juggling their tour schedules with taping schedules. It's a nightmare for a producer."
Celebrity Apprentice, Survivor, Shark Tank, and Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?, are among the highly successful shows produced by Mark Burnett. But The Voice is special to him because he explained, "I really wanted to work on a hit music show. I love music. Who would have thought two years ago saying we'd all be working on the number one show on Mondays and Tuesdays on NBC? You'd think we were high. That's a fact. It's something great. We're number one, with cool music, and we all get along."
During a past interview with Burnett, he told me the key to a successful reality show is "making shows that involve storytelling. There isn't much difference between my storytelling and a major feature film. We involve emotions. And with some of my other shows we have heroes and villains. I try to make every episode like I'm making a hundred million dollar film. That's the effort I make. I owe that to the viewers."
The next couple of live performance shows leading up to the grand finale for The Voice should get very emotional. The final phase of the competition will have the top artist from each team perform, and viewers will vote for the winner. The grand prize is a recording contract and a chance at a dream coming true.


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I didn't want to wait to publish So You Want to Own a Gun until I had a über-fancy cover, and so pushed it out "naked" to Amazon.com last week, where it has sold/been borrowed better than I expected. Last night I was going through some photos I had, and finally decided on one that […]Read the rest of this entry »
"So You Want to Own a Gun" is doing well. I hope it fills the need.
I put So You Want to Own A Gun together in hopes of filling what I saw as a gap in shooting publications. There are plenty of books about advanced techniques and specialized training. There are relatively few geared toward providing simple instructions for people who aren't yet shooters, but who would like to be. […]Read the rest of this entry »
Free e-book for Amazon Prime members: So you want to own a gun
I've got a 23-page e-book on Amazon right now that is free for Amazon Prime subscribers ($0.99 for those without Prime membership), entitled So You Want to Own a Gun. It's a compilation of PJ Media posts I wrote earlier this year, published in a e-book format. It's meant as a quick-read guide to help […]Read the rest of this entry »


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It's official: Delaware State Treasurer Chip Flowers is no longer a candidate in the upcoming primary.
Flowers officially withdrew his candidacy for re-election on Thursday afternoon, nearly two weeks after he held a tearful press conference announcing his exit from the primary.
The embattled treasurer faced controversy stemming from interactions with Erika Benner, his former deputy treasurer.
"This decision was based on the need to put my family ahead of constantly battling deceptions, falsehoods and lies by my opponents that not only threatened my family and livelihood, but have also prevented our state from moving forward," Flowers said in a statement.
Flowers submitted withdrawal paperwork to the Office of the State Election Commissioner that went into effect Thursday.
Within an hour of Flowers's exit, the Executive Committee of the Delaware Democratic Party announced their endorsement of Sean Barney, Flowers' prospective rival in the Democratic primary.
"The Delaware Democratic Party is behind Sean Barney fully," Chairman John Daniello said in a release. "He will serve responsibly and honorably in the Treasurer's office and our focus is getting him elected in November."
Theo Gregory, president of Wilmington's City Council and former Flowers supporter, signed off on the party's decision.
"I believe Sean Barney is the best candidate for the job," Gregory said. "The State Treasurer has the potential to positively impact the direction of the State. Sean sees the potential the office has to serve all Delawareans, and has the genuine desire to benefit Delaware through his service."
Election Commissioner Elaine Manlove, who voiced exasperation earlier this week over delays in Flowers' formal withdrawal from the primary, said election workers should be able to take Flowers' name off the voting machines in Kent and Sussex Counties before the Sept. 9 primary.
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What Was Matt Lauer Wearing To Prepare For '50 Shades' Movie Premiere? [VIDEO]
OMG! What in the world is Matt Lauer wearing? To prepare for the highly anticipated movie première of '50 Shades of Grey,' Lauer dons bondage gear complete with whip and handcuffs. I know the lades are excited for this steamy film, but Lauer takes the news to a whole new level.