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Stop ad war on Kerry, urges Bush
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United States President George W Bush said today John Kerry should be proud of his war service and called for ads attacking Kerry's record in Vietnam to be stopped.
But Bush stopped short of condemning a group that calls itself Swift Boat Veterans for Truth or its specific accusations that the Democratic presidential candidate lied about his war record in Vietnam.
The issue has dominated the neck-and-neck race for the November 2 election in recent days as both candidates try to portray themselves as the best man to lead the United States in its war against global terrorism.
In calling for a halt to all attack ads by groups funded by unregulated soft money, Bush said for the first time: "That means that (Swift Boat) ad and every other ad."
The White House had earlier refused to call specifically for the Swift Boat ads to be withdrawn.
Asked if he believed Kerry, who was decorated for bravery but later became a prominent opponent of the Vietnam war, had lied about his service, Bush said, "I think Senator Kerry served admirably, and he ought to be proud of his record."
The Kerry campaign said Bush did not go far enough.
"The moment of truth came and went and the president still could not bring himself to do the right thing," said Kerry's vice presidential running mate, Senator John Edwards of North Carolina.
"George Bush needs to take responsibility and demand that the ad come off the air."
Bush spoke to reporters at his ranch in Crawford, Texas after meeting Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and other other aides.
He has been under pressure from Arizona Senator John McCain, a prominent Republican Vietnam veteran and newfound ally on the campaign trail, to specifically condemn the Swift Boat ads.
Kerry has launched his own commercials urging the president to denounce the Swift Boat's ads. Kerry has called the ads inaccurate and accused the group of being a front for the Bush campaign. On Friday he asked the Federal Election Commission to force the ads to be withdrawn.
But the Swift Boat group said it plans to launch a new commercial tomorrow in three key states, which features one veteran, Ken Cordier, who was on a Bush campaign committee until last week.
"It was John Kerry who decided to make his military service the centrepiece of his presidential campaign and Swift Boat Veterans for Truth will continue to take its message directly to the American people," said Roy Hoffmann, the group's founder.
Federal election rules bar organisations that take unrestricted donations from coordinating their activities with campaigns or political parties.
Kerry today telephoned former senator Bob Dole after the Republican, a disabled World War II veteran himself, publicly questioned the severity of Kerry's injuries in Vietnam and suggested not all those attacking Kerry's war record could be liars.
A Kerry aide refused to comment on the substance of the call. But Dole told CNN: "He said he was disappointed. And I said, 'John, I didn't mean to offend you'."
Referring to the unregulated soft money ads, Bush said he thought "we'd gotten rid of that" when he signed campaign finance legislation into law.
The Bush campaign says groups favouring the Democrats have spent $63.5 million on ads attacking Bush over the last 12 months.
Kerry has condemned one of the ads attacking Bush.
Bush spent the Vietnam war in the United States serving in the Texas Air National Guard. Some Democrats have accused him of going absent without leave from the guard, citing gaps in his attendance record.

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A Peck of Pretty Peppers
Stommel and Griesbach have developed pepper cultivars with a variety of different traits. One has spreading, black foliage and colorful, upright peppers with a spicy flavor. Another is exceptionally tall, growing as high as three feet. A third has black foliage and orange, pumpkin-shaped fruit.
So how do they do it? Step one, Stommel says, is to identify which traits, or characteristics, you want. Do you want the plant to be big or small? What size, color and shape do you want the leaves to be? What do you want the fruit to look like? Creating a new plant is similar to making a recipe. You might know you want to make cookies, but before you start to bake, you need to decide what kind of cookies you want to eat. Then you decide what ingredients you'll need.
Peppers are members of the Capsicum genus, which includes plant types with a lot of variety, so breeders have a lot of options when they decide what kind of pepper they want.
"Only your imagination is limiting," Griesbach says.


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Looking for some advice , I am working on a 49 Chevy truck 3100 with a 77 Camaro front end, a 350,vette bellhousing and a S10 T5 5 speed trans. What slave and master cylinder should I use ? Looks like were going to use a pedal swing assy. from a 77 Camaro .Thank You for any help you can Share , Chuck
I put a T5 in my 48 Chevy Pickup behind a 292 six and used a 72 Mustang master cylinder (disc front - drum rear) for the brakes and a Wilwood master cylinder, I believe a 3/4 inch bore, for the clutch. I also used a McCleod hydraulic throwout bearing. I used a pedal assembly out of a late 80's Firebird and modified the assembly to give me more clearance from the firewall (needed more pedal travel) and also added a brace up to the bottom of the dash. It all works fine.
That helps me alot. I have the skills and tools I just dont have the extra time and money to do it over and over . Do you know how much of a spacer you had to add ? Thank You Chuck


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Coast Highway Bliss & Occasional Orange Barrel Blues
Another beautiful day and a breakfast at Boudins. We load up the car, check our maps, turn on Greta ... and we're off - to find out way to the Golden Gate Bridge and Hiway 1 North. Amazingly easy leaving the city and we were soon in Marin County passing by our 1st homes in Mill Valley and Larkspur. Not too much looks the same. Someone told us Marin is the richest county in the USA. Passing on up into the hills of Petaluma and across the hills to come out at Bodega Bay. The coast north of San Francisco is completely different than the southern coastline. Up here it's more high cliffs & wind swept tops. South the mountains simply plunge into the water...the road is high above the pacific but you can see the road for miles. The northern coast twists and turns on itself and every corner is a surprise.
Ft Ross was closed so we drove on.
Stopped for lunch in Mendicinio - it's a beautiful artist colony and because it's off the beaten path - it stays under the radar for winter tourist. The building are mostly 19th century, built by the New Englanders.
Eventually we decided to head inland and try to make a little time. Spent the night in Willits. Had amazingly good fresh red snapper fish & chips.
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Get familiar with Minnesota's history, the Minnesota Historical Society and the Minnesota History Center while you enrich the experience of individuals visiting the museum.
In a high energy environment, school programs greeters work with children, teachers and chaperones to give them a positive field trip experience. They greet and direct groups, and provide orientations to the History Center field trip experience.
Current opening September to June, weekly on Tuesdays, 8:45am-1pm. A 3-hour training session is provided in advance. Additional training will be provided during your first few shifts.
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Take a Stroll Through Miami's Wynwood
Five years ago, Wynwood was an industrial side of town that went dark after the daytime workers went home. Then the local Primary Flight art project and developer Tony Goldman moved in with his Wynwood Walls program, which encourages street artists to fill the area with murals.
Galleries and restaurants soon followed, and today the neighborhood is bursting with creativity. The best way to experience that bustle is during the monthly Art Walk. Here are our favorite spots that make Wynwood a must-visit.
This Latin and Asian street-food spot features a cocktail list created by former Soho Beach House mixologist Chris Hudnall. Try his Ring of Fire ($11) with Ketel One and fresh lychees. 2751 North Miami Avenue; bloomwynwood.com or 305/576-5443
Wynwood Kitchen & Bar
Diners line up for Venezuelan chef Miguel Aguilar's small plates of shredded chicken empanadas ($9) and baby octopus skewers ($10). 2550 NW. Second Avenue; wynwoodkitchenandbar.com or 305/722-8959
Plant the Future
This garden boutique offers unique planters, terrariums, orchids, and more. 2511 NW. Second Avenue; plantthefuture.com
Gallery Diet & Robert Fontaine Gallery
With more than 70 art galleries in a 10-block area, it's hard to know where to begin. But two great starting points are Nina Johnson-Milewski's Gallery Diet (174 NW. 23rd Street; gallerydiet.com) and the Robert Fontaine Gallery (2349 NW. Second Avenue; robertfontainegallery.com or 305/397-8530).
Panther Coffee
Beans are roasted in house. Take your joe with a ChunBun: cake topped with bacon ($3). 2390 NW. Second Avenue; panthercoffee.com


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"Simulating an Asymmetrically Saturated Nonlinearity Using an LNLNL Cascade", 133rd Audio Engineering Society Convention, San Francisco, CA, USA, 10/2012. Abstract
"Simulation of Recruiting Hearing Impairment Using a Tree-Structured Allpass-Complementary ERB-Band Filter Bank", IEEE Workshop on Appl. Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, Demo Session, New Paltz, NY, pp. [TD1-8], oct, 2007.
"A Sine Generation Algorithm for VLSI Applications", Proc. 1985 Int. Computer Music Conf., Vancouver: Computer Music Association, 1985.
"Skeleton: the Decayed Remnants of Time. An Investigation of Memory Through Sound.", Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 2009. Abstract
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"Source Separation of Polyphonic Music with Interactive User-Feedback on a Piano-Roll Display", International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Curitiba, 11/2013. Abstract
"Stanford Laptop Orchestra (SLOrk)", International Computer Music Conference, Montreal, 08/2009. Abstract
"Surviving on Planet CCRMA, two years later and still alive", International Computer Music Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 09/2005. Abstract
"The Switched Convolution Reverberator", 127th Audio Engineering Society Convention , New York, NY, USA, 10/2009. Abstract
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"Two Turntables and a Mobile Phone", International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression, Oslo, Norway, 05/2011. Abstract
"User-Guided Variable-Rate Time-Stretching Via Stiffness Control", 15th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, York, United Kingdom, 09/2012. Abstract
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"Wave Digital Filter Adaptors for Arbitrary Topologies and Multiport Linear Elements", International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-15), Trondheim, Norway, November/2015. Abstract
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""Separation by Humming": User Guided Sound Extraction from Monophonic Mixtures", IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), 2009. Abstract
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Engaging Jewish Teenage Boys: A Call to Action
Moving Traditions, November 1, 2010
The Jewish community is losing boys who drop out of Jewish life after bar mitzvah in unacceptably large numbers. Jewish institutions are struggling to keep teenage boys engaged. Left unaddressed, the trend threatens to undermine the Jewish future and leave a generation of boys ignorant of the wisdom, core values, community, and spiritual nourishment Judaism provides. This report draws on knowledge distilled from three years of research, focus groups with Jewish boys, and program development, and grows out of the success of Moving Traditions' work with adolescent girls. It contains seven lessons and seven principles, supported by a marketing toolkit, a program curriculum sample, appendices describing the research, and a list of resources. Together they provide Jewish educators with the research, concepts, and resources needed to understand and meet the unique needs of Jewish boys. Moving Traditions calls on Jewish communal leaders and educators to join us in partnership to reverse the exodus of teenage boys from Jewish life through a connected set of actions which are described in this report.
Topic: Youth Engagement, Stereotypes, Programming, Curriculum, Gender, Youth, Jewish Identification, Communications/Marketing, Boys, Marketing/Communications, Identity Formation
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Volunteers restore equal access park in Idaho Falls
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho - The Idaho Falls equal access playground near Tautphaus Park looks completely different than it did only a month ago.
Local News 8 & KIDK Eyewitness News first told you about the deteriorating conditions at the only area playground for kids of all physical abilities and now, the community has restored it to its former glory.
Broken latches on the swings and cracks in the slide were putting the lives of the hundreds of kids who visit the playground in danger.
Concerned volunteers worked all day pumping new life into the park.
"All of the vandalism and the slides falling apart, we decided we needed to do something about it," said Reva Nickelson, a volunteer.
It's hard to forget the images of broken equipment and graffiti covering the equal access park but today, volunteers painted a new picture.
"A lot of people don't like the graffiti, just like myself and the crew that was here today," said Nickelson. "We had 80 or more people here today and more coming later this afternoon and even more coming tomorrow."
Nickelson spear headed the clean-up project. She said sometimes, even the most simple task can make all the difference.
"Here, there was a lot of garbage on the rubber but as you can see, it's all cleaned up now," said Nickelson.
The mural in the park was covered in graffiti. Luckily, the original artist came from Utah to re-paint it.
The musical instruments were also replaced.
"Unfortunately, a lot of these mallets had been stolen and taken off," said Nickelson. "Welch Engineering ordered some new ones and installed them today so kids can play the instruments. This is all wheelchair accessible in this area."
Volunteers also took out the rubber pit in the corner of the playground, where they're hoping to put up a new shelter and even more instruments for the kids.
Work at the park isn't done just yet; one of the slides and the climbing wall are still pretty damaged.
The good news is both parts were under warranty. The city ordered replacements which just arrived, and they'll hopefully be installed soon.
Nickelson said the playground clean up was truly a communit yeffort.
Apart from the volunteers, many local businesses donated money, equipment, and labor to help restore the park.


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Wine Barrel Stave Serving Tray
Wine Barrel Stave Serving Tray
$ 79.00
This beautiful serving tray is made from oak wine barrel staves from California's Napa Valley. The handle is made from the barrel ring. Felt pads have been applied to the bottom of the tray so that the wood doesn't scratch your table.
The tray measures approximately 15 1/4" long x 7 1/4" wide and is stained in an American Chestnut color. The serving part of the tray (the inside of the barrel) has been sanded to a smooth finish and coated with several coats of food-grade mineral oil.
Because each tray is unique, the dimensions could vary from 1/4" to 1/2" in both length and width.


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The City of Brandon has taken the first major step in its attempt to secure government funding for its airport redevelopment plan.
Scott Hildebrand confirmed yesterday that the city's application for the New Building Canada Fund was submitted and received by the province. The application and business case was also sent to Brandon-Souris Conservative MP Larry Maguire and his staff.
"We've submitted the initial review document … which from my perspective is our application," Hildebrand said. "It will require the premier and the provincial government to raise this as a priority to the federal government in order to make this happen."
The city has been waiting anxiously to submit its application to the federal government's $14-billion New Building Canada Fund. There is $1 billion set aside in the Small Communities Fund for local projects in communities with fewer than 100,000 residents. The application period opened March 31.
"We had to wait until Building Canada to come out in order to understand the criteria," Hildebrand said. "Now in the last number of weeks, we had to wait for the application process and the connection between the federal government and the provincial government which is now in place, so now both of those pieces are there and we are ready to go."
In March, when Premier Greg Selinger was in Brandon, he committed verbally to the project.
"We believe the airport upgrade … is one of the projects we could fund together under the (New) Building Canada Fund," Selinger previously told the Sun. "We're very positive about that project. If (Brandon-Souris Conservative MP) Larry Maguire and the federal government wants to do it, we'll partner with them on it and get it done."
Also in March, Maguire took Peter Braid, the parliamentary secretary for infrastructure and communities, on a tour of Brandon Municipal Airport.
"It is a huge opportunity so we need to make sure we get the airport expanded as well," Maguire said at the time.
The Brandon Sun contacted Maguire in Ottawa yesterday. He said he was glad to see the City of Brandon making progress on this proposal.
"I've been through the whole constituency and the people in each community have indicated — as well as the City of Brandon, the Chamber of Commerce … the oil industry, agricultural industry — very clearly that the expansion of the airport in Brandon is going to be a huge economic benefit to our whole region."
The city is pleased to have the support of both the premier and the local MP.
"I think two of the three hurdles are complete. The next one will be simply executing the plan," Hildebrand said.
The city doesn't want to get stalled in the middle of provincial and federal discussion, especially since the support has been made known.
"The commitment from the premier was that he would support this, so now we need the follow-through in order to get this on the federal radar to get this done," he said.
The city released detailed plans of the airport redevelopment in March.
The major $8.8-million overhaul would see the airport terminal building expanded to three times its current size, in order to better accommodate daily air service currently provided by WestJet, and potentially attract service growth.
"Modernizing our current airport is really our goal," Hildebrand said. "I think the expansion of the airport is important to our current operation … but it's also important for future growth… and I think we just need to have a facility that's modern and up-to-date, hoping it'll draw additional growth, additional routes in all directions."
Included in the plans are a dedicated check-in area, spacious boarding lounge, additional space for security screening, separate arrivals area, new baggage carousel and improved network connectivity via fibre optic installation.
Hildebrand hopes work could begin as early as this fall, if funding is approved in time. The construction is expected to take 12 to 18 months to complete.
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By tyler charles
February 20, 2012
Like other believers she knew growing up, Maria Kearn* planned to save sex for marriage. She made it through high school with her virginity intact, but when she was 20 she started having sex with her college boyfriend.
"It seemed everyone in my life, older and younger, had ʻdone it,' "Kearn says. "In fact, I waited longer than most people I knew and longer than both of my sisters, even though we were all Christians and came from a good home."
Kearn continued to have sex with her college boyfriend for years as they maintained an on-again/off -again relationship. "I was so hooked on him that it took me too long to finally break up with him," Kearn says. "The straw that broke the camel's back was that I came down with HPV, highlighting the fact that even though I was only with him, he [had been with] other people."
Stories like this aren't often heard in church, but that doesn't mean they aren't common. In fact, a recent study reveals that 88 percent of unmarried young adults (ages 18-29) are having sex. The same study, conducted by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy, reveals the number doesn't drop much among Christians. Of those surveyed who self-identify as "evangelical," 80 percent say they have had sex.
Eighty percent.
So much for true love waits.
Whatever Happened to Abstinence?
Apparently, the concept still exists even if few are following it.
Dr. Jenell Williams Paris, an anthropologist and the author of The End of Sexual Identity: Why Sex Is Too Important to Define Who We Are, says the high rates of premarital sex are a call to the Church to live in reality.
"We need to talk to people as they really live in the world they really live in," Paris says. "If rates of premarital sex are really that high, but we continue to talk as if the vast majority of people are virgins when they get married, we're out of touch. We need to address reality."
And the reality is the numbers aren't going down. Of those 80 percent of Christians in the 18-29 age range who have had sex before marriage, 64 percent have done so within the last year and 42 percent are in a current sexual relationship.
In addition to having premarital sex, an alarming number of unmarried Christians are getting pregnant. Among unmarried evangelical women between the ages of 18 and 29, 30 percent have experienced a pregnancy (a number that's actually 1 percent higher than among those who don't claim to be evangelical).
According to the Guttmacher Institute, nearly half of all pregnancies in America are unintended. And of those, 40 percent end in abortion. More than 1 million abortions occur in the United States each year. But perhaps the most disturbing statistic for the Church: 65 percent of the women obtaining abortions identify themselves as either Protestant or Catholic (37 percent Protestant and 28 percent Catholic). That's 650,000 abortions obtained by Christians every year.
The pregnancy stats are shocking to many—and the abortion stats horrifying— but the root problem is the willingness to have sex before marriage. Without sex, pregnancies and abortions don't happen.
If abstinence messages were actually working—and this generation of Christians was genuinely committed to saving sex for marriage—then the other issues would dwindle considerably.
If this generation wants to reverse the trend and reduce the number of Christians having premarital sex, the first step is trying to figure out why so few are waiting.
Why Waiting Is So Hard
The media's marketing of sex, the cultural endorsement of the "do what feels good" mentality, the prevalence of pornography and the widespread misunderstanding of sex that prompts people to chase after love and acceptance in unhealthy physical relationships are all factors that make it difficult to practice chastity. The reality is chastity is not the norm. And such a discipline is certainly not easy.
God's picture of sex and marriage is certainly a beautiful one, but it's also … old. Biblical times were a lot different than current times. Is such a picture still relevant?
Scot McKnight, author of One.Life and professor in religious studies at North Park University in Chicago, is aware of the difficulties facing unmarried Christians and the shifts in the "reality" of living chastely.
"Sociologically speaking, the one big difference—and it's monstrous— between the biblical teaching and our culture is the arranged marriages of very young people. If you get married when you're 13, you don't have 15 years of temptation."
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the average age for first marriages for both men and women has been increasing for the last 45 years. In 1965, the average man first married at age 22.8; the average woman, 20.6. In 2010, the average age was 28.1 for men and 26.1 for women.
Abstinence messages have often been geared toward teenagers, but as the average marrying age creeps closer to 30, the time period when Christians are called to be chaste can easily extend a decade beyond their high school graduation—or much longer. So what does abstinence look like as Christians "grow up" and enter the real world but are still single?
"It's absolutely not realistic," McKnight continues. "But it's also not realistic not to do a lot of things, and that doesn't mean the Bible doesn't tell us the ideal and design of God is to not have premarital sex."
As young Christians mature into their 20s, it's natural for them to reevaluate their beliefs as they strive to figure out how faith fits into their expanding worldview. If they determine they can drink responsibly and watch movies and listen to music with a discerning spirit, is it possible the "don't do it because it's wrong" message gets tossed aside along with all those other "legalistic" messages of youth? That they start to believe they can also have sex "with discernment"?
"We have to recognize that people are not married during the years when their hormones are hardest to control," McKnight says. "So we're dealing with a very serious issue that needs to be treated from a variety of angles and not simply the moral angle that it's wrong outside of marriage."
McKnight also wonders if part of the problem is a devaluing of marriage. If young Christians no longer deem marriage a worthwhile endeavor—or see it as a temporary thing (proven to them by the brevity of their parents' marriages and the prevalence of divorce in Western culture), then sex within marriage certainly loses some of its profundity—and sacredness.
"I think churches need to value marriage so highly that they teach the meaning of love and marriage on a regular basis," McKnight says. "The Church needs to encourage and prepare people for marriage, but they need to do this without offending people who choose to remain single and people who are single who don't want to be single. I don't think the reason to get married earlier is to avoid temptation for sex or to avoid abortions, but simply because it's a good thing. If we valued marriage higher, I think we would have more people getting married earlier."
It's Possible (No, Really)
If the statistics are correct and 80 percent of unmarried evangelicals between the ages of 18-29 have already had sex, then what does this mean for the majority of Christians in their 20s? If chastity is understood as "one strike and you're out," what hope is there for the large percentage of Christians who have essentially "failed" by having sex outside of marriage?
"I absolutely think we should encourage ʻrenewed abstinence,'" says Joanna Hyatt, the director of Reality Check (Los Angeles), a sexual and relational health education program that promotes sexual integrity. "You cannot talk about sex within the Christian community without also [mentioning] God's grace. If we're serious about people growing in their faith, we have to help them see this issue will stand in the way of their relationship with God, but it doesn't have to keep them from God.
"Renewed abstinence is a way to make a stand, to commit again to living a life of purity in body, heart and mind. There may be consequences you'll have to deal with from past decisions, but those decisions do not define who you will be going forward or the nature of your relationships."
In spite of the discouraging statistics, Hyatt knows it's possible to wait for marriage.
"Having lived through it myself, I can actually say it can be done, but it will take work," Hyatt says. "[Abstinence] is incredibly difficult—and it's a decision you have to proactively make every day. For couples in serious relationships, it means not letting down your guard, remembering that temptation gets stronger and being smart about how you handle your relationship. No one, and I mean no one, is exempt from sexual temptation once they're in a relationship, which is why it is so important to have clear physical boundaries, to have accountability with people you'll actually be honest with and to regularly remind yourselves why it is you've chosen to wait."
Giving the Abstinence Message a Makeover
Everyone knows we live in a hyper-sexualized society where sex is constantly available—online if not in person—but the idea of chastity has become even more complicated by a shifting definition of what sex is.
"I've heard people say oral sex is sex, but it doesn't breach virginity," Paris says. "Even the terms seem to be shifting. And that's not just people trying to get away with sin. I think it's [the result of] honest questioning: What does my sexuality mean? What exactly is sex? And as a Christian, what is holiness? Where is that line?"
But when the focus is on "the line," it becomes easy to lose sight of what it means to be abstinent, to be chaste, to "wait." Abstinence shouldn't be about what's OK to do or how far it's possible to go without sinning, but rather it should be about honoring God in all things.
Even though most Christians believe abstinence is the right thing, something needs to change for believers to truly live out their faith and pursue holiness in every area of life—including one's sexuality.
This article is adapted from one that appeared in the September/October 2011 issue of RELEVANT magazine. Subscribe to RELEVANT magazine here. You can also check out a lengthy conversation about this article on CNN.
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"If this generation wants to reverse the trend and reduce the number of Christians having premarital sex..."
Don't the numbers indicate that this generation DOESN'T want to reverse the trend?
As one of the non-sexed, I find this so depressing. I know that ironically the non-virgins can feel super isolated... maybe we are all more painfully aware of those that are different from us than those who are the same.
I'm 32, male, and female interest isn't at all foreign to me. I think of the image of two virgins having sex and waking up the next morning to begin their new life together is simply beautiful. Really, what can be better than that? Contrast it with the guilt or secrecy or just the lack of special-ness in getting drunk and going too far, or losing your virginity in your dorm room, and it feels like we've just forgotten what to hope for.
"It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased." -CS Lewis
I wish I didn't feel so alone in this. I really don't know who around me is having sex and who isn't - it's awfully hard to think that the lovely female I just ran into at church may have been thrusting and moaning with some other guy last weekend. Sorry for the image. Ugh. (Of course it could well be that she wasn't, and hasn't.) I don't say it to be hurtful, but to express my own hurt - I wish we could lose it with each other instead of all that grief and baggage. I still hope I might meet someone who is great for me, and who happens to be a virgin.
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It is so hard to get married these days. We get no help from community or our families as the older generations did. We're left to fend for ourselves so it's catch as catch can. I'm in my early forties and have never married nor had sex but it has been EXTREMELY hard. And I can't say I have been completely pure...not in my mind anyway. Very good article!
I love this article and I found it very encouraging!
I feel as a 21 y.o. its really hard to stay pure, I am and I will be but we need to admit sometimes, we make mistakes, think we are strong, and if it wasnt for God I would never been able to stop and stop treating our kids like idiots. God made us sexu
sexual, which is why sex happens.
I once heard that a famous preacher had confessed that, "The main reason I decided to marry my wife wasn't because she could sing or play the piano or because she could teach a Sunday school class." The reason he ultimately decided to marry his wife was because, "She was a good kisser."
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Alexandra Potter was born in Yorkshire, England. She is the author of two previous novels in the United States, Calling Romeo and Do You Come Here Often? She has also written for UK magazines including Elle, More!, OK!, and Vogue. When she's not hard at work on her next novel, or traveling between New York, Los Angeles and England, she's watching the BBC Edition of "Pride and Prejudice" and spending time with her own personal Mr. Darcy.


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So with my new P9, I went to the range a couple nights ago and put 200 rounds of PMC through, and had one FTF at around #30 or so, but not a gliche otherwise.
1. My question is how many rounds are sufficient for the break in? I read 200 in the Kahr manual, but should I put another couple hundred through?
2. What is a good hollowpoint for carry?
3. are there any 'fluff and buff' points that I should do, or is a break in sufficient?
4. One thing that's a little annoying is the slide pin that is very hard to get out when breaking down the gun. should I try putting a polish on the shaft of that piece?
Thanks!! Love the gun, by the way
OP, be sure to put a couple of boxes of the ammo you intend to use for defense through your new P9, just to make sure it's 100% reliable with it. Most of your well-known hollowpoint ammo will do the job on impact - just make sure your particular gun likes it. I prefer Cor-Bon 115-gr. +p JHP.
As for the takedown pin, mine was a little stiff at first, but it's loosened up enough to the point that I can line up the little ticks and simply push out the pin with my finger - no problem at all. As a proud owner of a P9, I think you've made an excellent choice, and I wish you good luck, and happy shooting with it! I hope you never have to use it in self-defense.
When compared to the Walther that I also considered, the P9 feels very comfortable in my hand. That Walther's handle is very long, front to back, and felt kinda goofy to me. Besides that, the Kahr is far sexier, and that's half the fun- looking at them!
I put about 250 rounds through mine, but it functioned perfectly after the first 100 or so. I carry Hornady 124 gr. +P hydroshoks. There are lots of great self defense rounds out there. just make sure that the round functions 100% in your pistol. One round that I like, that you don't hear much about anymore is the +P Winchester Silvertip. It's an oldie but a goodie and very reasonably priced. As far as fluff and buff is concerned there isn't much. Clean it well when you first get it and keep it lubed. I use Militec on the moving parts and lithium grease everywhere metal scrapes on metal, slide rails, barrel and so on. I also clean my weapons every time I fire them. It amazes me that someone will spend $800+ on a weapon, buy expensive self defense ammo at $30 bucks for a box of 20 and then put a dirty weapon in a holster and carry it on the street where their life might depend on it. Is your life worth so little that you can't spend 15 minutes cleaning your weapon when you fire it. Don't worry about the take down lever/ slide stop. Most of them are pretty tight at first and then loosen up with use. KAHR pistols are great enjoy yours.
Sorry about my mistake in my previous post. I carry 124 gr +P Hornady XTPs, Federal hydroshoks are what I carry in my .45. Sorry for the confusion ( it is 1:00 in the morning)
WINCHESTER 124 GRAIN SXT +P, do you want a double tap in the chest with a pair of these bad boys?
Top Glock, what do those run a box and where did ya get 'em?
thats a cool looking spent slug! How do they shoot? Propably kinda a stupid question, but i've never shot a hollowpoint, only lots of FMJ
Hollow's are usually more acurate, this one is spot on. The recoil with the +p is noticably more snappy, but unless your a 6 week old infant it shouldn't matter. they were designed not only to deliver the standard mushrooming effect into the corpse, but also deliver the additional lacerating damage from the 6 talons into the death hole (SXT= Supreme Expansion Talon= aka "Black Talons"= aka "Cop Killers") I think they're the best LOL BTW my extreme lingo is for comic relief people


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SEFFNER — Noah Johnson rushed for two touchdowns and Trevor Laurent returned an onside kick for a touchdown as Armwood defeated Venice 31-19 in Friday's Class 6A region quarterfinals.
Armwood (11-0) will host Jefferson (10-1) in the second round.
Coach Sean Callahan said Venice was going to be a tough first-round draw, and the Indians proved him right when they went into halftime with a 10-7 lead.
"I felt like Venice was a district-champion quality opponent," Callahan said. "And the type of opponent we haven't seen on the schedule since we played Jefferson earlier in the season."
Armwood's defense was strong for the most part and keyed in on Venice's 1,800-yard rusher, Terry Polk, holding him to just 87 yards on 11 carries, most of which came on a 59-yard touchdown run in the first quarter.
Trailing 10-7 in the third, Armwood's offense came alive with Laurent making an impressive catch and run for 29 yards on a third and 9, and scoring two plays later from 5 yards out to give the Hawks a 14-10 lead.
After Venice forced Armwood to punt on its next drive, Sterling Hofrichter's punt bounced off the helmet of Venice receiver Nathan Lamp. Armwood recovered the live ball at the Venice 3 and Johnson scored on the next play.
After both teams traded field goals, Venice took to the air as quarterback Dom Marino drove the Indians 80 yards on four completions, with a 25-yarder to Tyler McKenzie providing the touchdown that pulled the Indians to 24-19.
On the expected onside kick it appeared Venice did a good job of execution but Laurent darted out of a pile of players and ran 53 yards to the end zone to close out the scoring.
"Trevor is a special player and the fact is we can never get him the ball enough," Callahan added. "And that goes for most of the playmakers on this offense. All of them do great things with the football."
Johnson rushed for 117 yards on 15 carries and threw for 121 yards. Marino threw for 262 yards and a touchdown.


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Another good place to stand is right at the back of the audience, preferably on some raised platform. At larger gigs there will usually be a sound and lighting control platform positioned directly in front of the stage towards the back of the audience area. This is another excellent place from which to take photos, but make sure you obtain permission first, and always stand where they tell you to. An stressed-out sound engineer is a lot more dangerous than a concert security guard, so if they tell you to move don't argue.
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|10th December 2011, 01:36 PM
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In terms of pure audio performance the iPod Touch 3G and 4G still rule supreme of everything I've tested but they won't play FLAC to my knowledge (unless the clever guys at Rockbox have figured out a way to jailbreak them...).
You could transcode FLAC to ALAC and there might even be a way to seamlessly do that on the fly (just drag-and-drop FLAC tracks to the iTouch) in MediaMonkey. I know MediaMonkey will do ultra-high quality LAME MP3 transcoding on the fly from FLAC to an iTouch as I do it all the time.
Not to start a debate, but you can use Foobar's blind ABX add-on and compare the highest quality LAME MP3 settings to the original FLAC files and I bet you won't be able to tell them apart. And with MP3 you can fit much more music on the iPod.
That said, the iPod Touch 4G is getting a bit "old" by Apple standards and I suspect the 5G can't be that far away. It might be worth waiting for to see if it has Apple's rumored 24 bit support.
And, if you don't have an iPhone or iPod Touch, they're good for lots of other things including acting as a wireless smart remote for a lot of audio gear--or playing Angry Birds
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That's all good to hear. I do have the Sansa Fuze with an appropriate LOD cable as well as the regular mini to mini cable if the headphone out is desired. I don't have their clip model. The Fuze attracted me because of the use of the mini SD memory cards that could be added on.
My daughter has the 4G iPod which I could test with. However, her genres of music are about 180 degrees different from mine and I'm not sure if she'd appreciate me importing some of my music through her iTunes conduit. Still worth a try though, even if I had to listen to some Black Eye Peas on her player.
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My headphones started "clicking" while I was using the O2 on battery power. (My source was running but no music was playing, just the clicking). I shut down, swapped in some cheap headphones and the clicking was still there. When I plugged the adapter in, the clicking was gone, so I assume I had low batteries. Reading through the documentation, I don't think this is expected behaviour when the battery is low. Is there anything I can do about it? Is it an significant problem/risk if I intend to use it plugged into the AC adapter almost all of the time?
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@HaroldHill, yes, that's been discussed a dozen or two pages back and I also updated the O2 Details article in several places last month. It only seems to happen with certain brands of batteries and not others (including any of mine). The amp is shutting off as it should, the battery voltage rises up (from the lack of the amp drawing power) more than expected, and it turns itself right back on. The cycle apparently can repeat fairly rapidly.
Lowering R25 to around 1.5M ohm and lowering R9 to around 33K should help solve the problem but nobody has reported back conclusively one way or the other yet. Most do not seem to be concerned enough to make the change. Either way the amp is reminding you to shut it off and charge the batteries.
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Thanks, RocketScientist. I found it, as you said, on the details page.
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Can somebody during the assembly make photos of it. Something along a step by step tutorial, this would be one of my first projects this big, and it would be ressuring to have such a tutorial.
I think timpert wanted to do something like that? Remember the more the marrier and make it simple
|11th December 2011, 10:24 AM
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i got mine playing but problem when i use battery only
It wont play :-( only when the power jack is plugged in. when its not plugged in and i turn it on the right battery meassure 0 voltage.
I have tryed with other battery but still the same
Problem solved. The resistor at the power jack input touched the jack input
Now its working great
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|11th December 2011, 10:33 AM
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Others can say what they want, do what they do, hate all they want. All that I have to say is that it's very infrequent in my searches and travels that I come across a product where I can say that I've finally found what I've been looking for or my ears were desiring to hear. To me, that's been an expensive process of buying, then selling off what I didn't like.
Nothing beats the smell of solder vapors in the morning.
|11th December 2011, 01:03 PM
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@illijatg, you can click on most of my blog photos (the O2 Summary article has the most) for larger versions. I don't have any of the group buy PCBs and most of my prototypes have some differences. The photo below is the latest revision I have and is nearly identical to the boards that have been sold.
@wuffer, glad you found the problem. That's a good argument for using cheap batteries for testing.
@210 & T2T, Indeed something like the O2 will always have at least a few detractors. Indeed, some have attempted to spread damaging misinformation.
I have no problems with valid opinions. If someone says the O2 is too large for their pocket or they prefer the distortion other amps inflict on the listener, that's fine. But when they claim the O2 is a badly flawed design, overheats, or doesn't sound as good as other amps that measure well, it's useful to challenge their claims. Depending on where they live, for example, it may be entirely possible to arrange a blind listening test against a much more expensive and well respected amp.
Hopefully as more people build or purchase O2s, and like what they hear, the positive word will spread. Now that Epiphany is a Head-Fi sponsor and advertising their assembled O2, perhaps some of the heavy bias against the O2 by the admins and moderators there will change.
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We bought a few of these sets a couple of months ago. They're a little flimsy but if you have an older-ish child, that shouldn't be much of a problem. You can't just jam these together. It takes a little finesse. If you break/bend one though, you've got a lot of replacements.
Each set is big enough to make a little igloo/castle/blob big enough for 2-ish small children. We bought one for each of the nieces/nephews so that when they get together, they can make a mega fort.
This + ingenuity + a sheet = hours of fun.
Almost tricked me woot. Quick stop by amazon shows that poles dont stay in connectors and fall apart easily.
Was very excited at first though, would be very cool if it wasnt junk.
One review at Amazon, where it's priced at $49. Briefly: you need more than one, and kids the right size can't really build the forts by themselves.
Oops! Another seller at Amazon has it for $32, and 31 reviews: http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Kids-Fort/dp/B009RUYPQ4/ref=pd_sim_sbs_misc_1
Best Buy has it for $25:
I have one of these and my kids love it. They are 8 and 10. It does take some adult help to get the poles in, and a little practice for the kids to figure out how to make stable structures. I wish I had money to buy these, because I paid $30 for mine at barnes and noble.
"Nonadecahedron" connectors?!! That would be a 19-faced polyhedron! As a connoisseur of regular and semi-regular polyhedra, I feel compelled to offer my nerdly correction here to this alleged "cool fact" listed amongst the other specs.
The true "cool fact" is that each of these connectors is a Small Rhombicuboctahedron, which is a 24-faced Archimedean solid (a semi-regular polyhedron) consisting of 18 square faces and 8 triangular faces. Apparently for the toy connectors in question, only the square faces have holes for the rods, making 18 holes in total.
You should show the finished "castle" with a child in the picture. It appears to be bigger than it actually is. Each square is only 15" x 15". Rather small for a "door". Will be passing this up.
judygreunke wrote:You should show the finished "castle" with a child in the picture. It appears to be bigger than it actually is. Each square is only 15" x 15". Rather small for a "door". Will be passing this up.
There's a photo of the box on the sales page that shows a child in it.
I wonder how big a fort you could build with 3 sets.
I had been thinking of something exactly like this as plant supports. There are no good ones on the market, i.e. easily configurable to the height and width of the plant. So, whoever manufactures these, please think about making these with gardeners in mind. All you would have to do is vary the lengths of the poles. And make them green.
I am buying a set just for the round doohickies - I can buy dowels for the different lengths.
How many two and three dimensional shapes could you make with these?


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Where: Jacksonville, FL
When: 3:30 p.m., CBS
Last meeting: Florida 49, Georgia 10, Oct. 30, 2008
Georgia: The Bulldogs finally mustered some production on the ground in their last outing against Vanderbilt, but that came mostly in the second half against a worn-down defense. Georgia still ranks 103rd nationally in rushing offense, and the task gets tougher this week. Quarterback Joe Cox makes his first start in a UGA-Florida game, but he was responsible for the Bulldogs' only touchdown a year ago.
Florida: The Gators' offense is known for big plays, tons of speed and blowout wins. So far this year, that hasn't happened. Quarterback Tim Tebow has just three TDs and four INTs in SEC play, while Florida ranks 80th nationally in passing offense. Still, Florida has three running backs averaging at least 6.9 yards per carry, and Tebow is just one rushing touchdown away from breaking Herschel Walker's SEC record.
EDGE: Florida
Georgia: The defense had its best performance of the season two weeks ago at Vanderbilt, and Florida's struggles with the deep ball could provide a reprieve for Georgia's beleaguered secondary. Justin Houston has been a key cog in jumpstarting the Bulldogs' pass rush, and Rennie Curran remains a star at linebacker. The Bulldogs will have revenge on their minds after allowing 49 points to the Gators a year ago.
Florida: The Gators' defense may not be just the best defense in the country this year, but the unit has a chance to be one of the best in SEC history. Playing essentially the same lineup for the third straight year, Florida is in the top 12 nationally in pass defense, run defense, total defense and scoring defense. This week, they'll also get back several injured starters, including All-SEC linebacker Brandon Spikes.
EDGE: Florida
Special teams:
Georgia: Kicker Blair Walsh has been suburb this season, leading the SEC in touchbacks and connecting on all but one of his field-goal attempts, including three of more than 50 yards. Brandon Boykin has two 100-yard kick returns for touchdowns, punter Drew Butler leads the nation in punting average. Even punt return man Prince Miller looked sharp two weeks ago, picking up 95 yards on two returns.
Florida: The Gators are solid throughout on special teams, ranking third in the SEC in kickoff return defense, second in kickoff returns and kicker Caleb Sturgis has connected on 13-of-16 field goals. The real highlight, however, is Florida's punting, where the Gators have yet to allow a single return yard all season.
EDGE: Georgia
Georgia: Mark Richt has had more success against Florida than his two predecessors, but he is still just 2-6 in his career against Georgia's archrival. This season, he enters the game amid much criticism of his staff with the Bulldogs unranked and the odds stacked against him. Despite the lack of victories, however, Georgia has played Florida close in all but one game under Richt, and only once in the past eight meetings have the Gators topped their season average in total yards against the Bulldogs.
Florida: Georgia celebrated on the field in 2007, and Urban Meyer used the slight as the springboard to a national championship season in 2008, his second in three years. He has his Gators atop the polls yet again and, despite a couple of close calls, has led his team to 17 straight wins. Moreover, he's not letting his team get comfortable, as the Gators are once again talking up the celebration and in search of even more retribution.
EDGE: Florida
Key matchups
Offense: A.J. Green vs. Joe Haden
Green is clearly Georgia's best offensive weapon, and with the ground game struggling, he'll be expected to make at least a few plays to jumpstart the Bulldogs' offense. That won't be an easy task this week, however, as Green gets matched up against All-SEC corner Haden. The Gators will occasionally roll a safety over to double Green, but there will be plenty of one-on-one matchups between the two throughout the game.
Defense: Georgia's linebackers vs. Aaron Hernandez
Tight ends have pestered Georgia's defense all season, with the Bulldogs allowing opposing tight ends to pick up, on average, more than three times the yardage they do against other teams. That's a problem against Hernandez, who is Florida's leading receiver and one of QB Tim Tebow's only reliable targets in the passing game. The Bulldogs get linebackers Marcus Dowtin and Akeem Dent back from injury for this game, however, which will help their cause.
Prediction: Florida 27, Georgia 17


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Did you know that the square dance is the official folk dance of Texas? And you call yourself a Texan. … Well, now's your chance to show your cultural pride in this state/nation we call home and head out to the Trinity River Audubon center this weekend and take part in something spectacularly as big as Texas. Curators Leila Grothe and Cynthia Mulcahy are taking dance and culture as an art form to the next level with Square Dance: A Community Project. Funded by an Ideal Fund Grant and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, this free-for-all square dance event will bring the whole community together for an evening of fun, food and do-si-dos, featuring music from the Quebe Sisters Band and old school dance calling by licensed caller Wayne Shoemaker. Historic photos of Dallas square dancing on loan from the Dallas Public Library and Dallas City Hall will be projected onto the side of the Antoine Predock-designed Audubon building. Dancers square off from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. Saturday at Trinity River Audubon Center, 6500 S. Loop 12. The event is free. Call 214-502-4352 or visit cargocollective.com/squaredance2011.
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Clayton Ruebensaal: The Importance Of Internet Anonymity
There's a growing undercurrent of anti-social media resistance among young internet users. The Ritz Carlton marketing exec explains why.
Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook for guys like Sam. A well-heeled, well-educated 28- year-old New York financier. Single and social, he has friends from prep school, from university, and from his club in Darien. He captains his boat "Silver" down the Long Island Sound into the city for all sorts of adventures. But Sam isn't poking friends or tweeting his every move. He closed his Facebook account and has retreated from social media.
He says he's on the social sidelines because he doesn't want everyone to know everything about him. That's a powerful position to take considering that everyone he knows is on Twitter and Facebook. This is a young Republican conformist, not a rabble rouser looking to be contrarian. But with 250 million photos being uploaded to Facebook every day, Sam will be seem from all angles, and talked about from all angles. That's more exposure than he's comfortable with.
What does that say?
There's a budding undercurrent of anti-social media out there among a small group of core target audience for Facebook messaging, posting videos, tweeting, pinning, and sina weibo-ing. They're marketing guys, designers, politicos and I-bankers in New York City, L.A. and Beijing. The common thing they say on the subject is that they don't want their lives to be so "out there" for everyone to see. They want to control what people know about them and when they get to know it. Admittedly, the behavior of this small group doesn't imply the imminent downfall social media.
But I believe there is an important lesson for brands in this micro-trend. For all the positives of social media, there are some negatives. The idea of not wanting to be out there for everyone to see demonstrates a very interesting insight: social media has made the world such a transparent place that all the mystery is gone. Mystery is interesting, and mystery can become extinct very quickly in the social space.
The value of mystery is that it makes people wonder and it makes them want to know more. Mystery is the grey area between stranger and friend that makes you continue to pay attention. I know everything, positive and negative, about orange juice and I choose not to drink it because it's too high in calories. No mystery, case closed.
However, Budapest is mysterious to me. I don't know much about it; I've never been there. When I talk to people who've visited I pounce with question after question. I'm genuinely interested because I don't hear or read about it every day. I travel a lot but I still long to discover something new in the world.
I feel the same way about Louis Vuitton. I know a bit about their history and their manufacturing process. I've purchased their products. I find myself choosing Louis Vuitton over their competitors because I find them more interesting. They surprise me. I look forward to what they'll do next because they've captivated and delighted me in the past. From Marc Jacobs' artistry to Murikami's brand videos, it is a brand that's always thoughtful and unexpected. The brand has an air of mystery; not knowing what they will do next is a big part of what makes Louis Vuitton so attractive. Their ability to surprise and delight. And from a marketer's perspective I see them as masters of mystery. They slowly give consumers a little bit less than the full picture, every time.
Hollywood has been the ultimate master of this concept. From James Dean to Steve McQueen to Tim Riggins in Friday Night Lights, Hollywood has always understood the financial value of leaving audiences wanting more. Gretta Garbo understood this when she retired at 34, leaving audiences begging for more. Begging. You can see the allure wane with leading men and women who expose too much of their private lives and don't retain their mystique. How much less interesting is Mel Gibson now that we have heard his rants? Did it enhance Russell Crow's image after we learned how badly he treats hotel staff? No, it's too much information.
The right balance between TMI and mystery is difficult to achieve. Fans and movie audiences will read and listen to almost anything about celebrities. But once we've seen and read so much about anything, it's overkill. Like eating too much of one snack, you move on for good sometimes because the taste is overly familiar. We can almost become disgusted. See Kardashian, Kim.
With every brand director pushing for more and more social media exposure, I think there's a useful lesson in this. Keep your audience wanting more, especially in social media where it's free and easy to publish everything you want to say. Instead of adding one more thing, delete one more thing before pressing "tweet" so that you keep a bit of mystery around what you'll say next.
Social media is powerful and wonderful in so many ways. Still, it's important to value mystery. You can only pull the curtain back all the way once.
Clayton F. Ruebensaal III VP of Global Marketing The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company. You can follow Clayton on Twitter @claytonIII where he tweets about marketing and luxury travel. And ever so rarely, a personal detail or two.


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Margaret Hodge's claim came in a letter of complaint to the BBC about a probe into child abuse in Islington, north London, where she was council leader.
Demetrious Panton said he was "shocked" and was looking at his legal options.
Mrs Hodge said the letter was never meant to be published, and expressed regrets for events in Islington.
Mrs Hodge was the leader of Islington Council in the 1980s, when it emerged that children in the council's care had been abused in the past.
She has been accused of failing to act, despite receiving warnings - an allegation she denies.
The letter was read out on Radio 4's Today programme, and now Mr Panton wants to take legal action against the minister.
"I am not extremely disturbed. I have never been extremely disturbed," said the 35-year-old philosophy graduate, whose job now includes advising the Office of the Deputy
Prime Minister.
"I am shocked and horrified that I've been labelled as such.
"I now wish to find out what options are available to me through the judicial process."
Resign calls
Mrs Hodge insists she has learned lessons from the scandals in Islington.
She also expressed regret for events there, describing what had happened to Mr Panton as "dreadful".
But opposition politicians called for Mrs Hodge to resign over her comments about him.
"She won't make a statement to the House of Commons. The only honourable course is for her to resign her position."
Tony Blair's official spokesman insisted Mrs Hodge was the right person to be minister for children, and that she "has the full confidence of the prime minister".
But her opponents said someone in her position should not be trying to discredit someone who was abused as a child.


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The house is located in the Roman countryside and enjoys an excellent panoramic position. It stands opposite a valley where stands the Monte Soracte that at nightfall viewer also becomes beautiful sunsets.
The land of the property is approximately 10,000 square meters and behind the house extends an oak wood that frames an olive grove together with numerous fruit trees throughout the seasons offer excellent genuine products.
At guests' disposal:
The outdoor area of the property is approximately 10,000 square meters used by olive and fruit trees.
It has a portico of 150 square meters where there is also a barbecue and a short walk from the villa is the swimming pool (mts 5x10 depth.1/2.20) with Roman steps, surrounded by olive trees and rocks.
From the pool you can enjoy a great unique views, especially at sunset.
Fiano Romano and Capena at 5 km;
Rome at 30 km.
The property offers ample parking that can 'hold up to 6-8 cars.
Ten minutes away are the ruins of Lucus Feroniae, interesting Etruscan archaeological site, also two comfortable and close to the highways easily connect Casale St. Francis of Rome.
About 45 min.si located Viterbo, a city of the Popes and by the charming medieval villages of its territory, including the original Calcata, immersed in the regional park Treja Valley, which is about twenty-five minutes far from the property, also famous for its local restaurants; then again the Reatino and green sabina full of interesting villages such as the beautiful Farfa Abbey and with its distinctive markets in 20-25 minutes; very close to the nature reserve of the Tiber Valley, a beautiful explosion of vegetation.
In Sabina St. Francis of Assisi built hermitages 4: that of Greccio, the Sanctuary of Fonte Colombo, the Forest Sanctuary and Convent of Poggio Bustone, Sabina is also renowned for its food and wine, in fact the wine of Sabina, obtained from grape varieties Sangiovese and Montepulciano, is famous since Roman times.
300 sqm
Ground floor: living / dining room with a large stone fireplace, sofa, TV and table for 10 people; kitchen (stove, fridge and freezer as well as a dishwasher); bathroom with shower.
Exit to the veranda with table and chairs and garden.
First floor: 3 double bedrooms and 1 double bedroom with toilette en suite, bathroom with bathtube.
Air conditioning in all bedrooms.
Qualité des pièces d eau médiocres ( cuisine et sdb)
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Nice and quite house, well located near Rome and many turistic spots. There were some disagreements: Defected AC, washing machine and toilets. Wifi didn't work all the time. The equipment was minimal but beds very comfortable.
Seems to be nearby paradise...
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ES4: Shivering Isles - Interview @ Killer Betties
Killer Betties is the next site to have an interview on Shivering Isles, with Bruce Nesmith providing the answers this time around:
There are 10 new creatures in Shivering Isles. How many of these are completely new creations and how many came from past Elder Scrolls games? Which new creatures can you currently tell us about and how they exist and battle against the player within this world?
It depends on how we define creatures. Golden Saints and Dark Seducers are from past Elder Scrolls games, but they're actually NPCs in the expansion, so the player can interact with them outside of combat. For actual creatures, there are a couple that have been pulled from past games, such as the Flesh Atronach and the Hunger.
Another fun new creature is the Scalon. They're these large, hulking creatures that live mostly near water. They're strong, but they're sneaky. Some of them have a bad habit of turning invisible when they detect the player, then leaping a good distance to attack. It's fun to watch players jump in their chairs when they are attacked.
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SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: RPG
Platform: PC
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Crispy Fried Chicken Livers
2 large eggs
1/2 cup coconut milk
3/4 cup water
1 pound chicken livers, cleaned and cut in half
1 1/2 cups tapioca flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher or sea salt
2 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper
2 teaspoons poultry seasoning
2 cups tallow or other fat suitable for frying
Whisk the eggs, coconut milk and water together in a large mixing bowl. Drop the livers in the egg/milk mixture; cover loosely and allow to sit for about half an hour.
In a large, shallow dish, stir together the tapioca flour, baking soda, salt, pepper and poultry seasoning. Drain the egg/milk mixture from the chicken livers, and dredge them in the seasoned tapioca flour.
Heat the tallow in a heavy skillet - preferably cast iron - over high heat until it reaches 350 F. Reduce the heat to medium.
Fry the chicken livers, in batches if necessary, for 6 to 7 minutes, carefully turning once halfway through - cover the skillet with a splatter screen, because the fat will splash and splatter.
Remove the livers to paper towels and drain briefly. Serve with barbecue sauce, hot sauce or salsa if desired.
Nutrition (per serving): 452 calories, 33.4g total fat, 442.4mg cholesterol, 1269.4mg sodium, 307.2mg potassium, 16.4g carbohydrates, <1g fiber, <1g sugar, 20.4g protein
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