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Vitamin Pills: Popping Too Many?
Americans are popping more vitamins than ever before
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A morning multivitamin. A couple of E's. Maybe some C. A protein shake for lunch. A calcium pill or two, later in the day. We've come a long way since our Flintstones days. But are Americans overdoing it?
It's true, vitamin-fortified foods are flying off store shelves. Even orange juice comes with calcium and vitamin D. Energy bars, meal-replacement drinks, protein shakes, cereal bars, cereal itself -- all claim lots of vitamins and minerals, up to 100% of the recommended daily allowance (RDA).
Then, too, specially blended multivitamins -- with hot new "additives" such as green tea -- are nearly irresistible to health nuts.
But you do the math: You could be getting up to 500% of the RDA, maybe more, in one day's time -- up to five times what your body needs. Are we toting up toxic levels of vitamins? Or throwing our money away?
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Chris Rosenbloom, PhD, RD, professor of nutrition at Georgia State University in Atlanta, counsels plenty of people who are overdoing it.
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Today, these steel pieces -- a mixture of the three-pronged gothic trees and the straight, superthick columns that seemed to hold the whole tower up -- are now laid out across the hangar's concrete floor, covered in a white sheathing.
Mark Wagner, an architect from Voorsanger & Associates, the firm the Port Authority hired to select and retrieve the objects from ground zero, the Fresh Kills landfill and metal scrapyards in New Jersey, said that each of these recovered facade pieces was carefully numbered so the parts could, at some cost, be reassembled as they once stood.
Perhaps the most revered object in Hangar 17 is the 36-foot-by-4-foot steel column that was removed from ground zero on May 30, 2002, in a special ceremony; it was the last large chunk of steel carried off the site. The column is covered with photographs of deceased firefighters and police officers and inscriptions from ground zero workers. ''My brothers,'' one Port Authority police officer wrote. ''You ran into hell. Now you walk with angels.''
The Port Authority built a special plywood and plastic hut to hold the last column, which is set up off the ground. Four American flags are tacked to the black plastic wall. It is certainly a dignified setting. But a comparison of photographs taken of the column in August 2002 with photographs taken last week demonstrates the storage shortcomings that Mr. Chase and other preservationists cited.
The surface is now noticeably more rusted. Chunks of rusted steel are falling off, at times knocking off some of the mementos, like photographs of Firefighters Richard D. Allen of Ladder 15 in Manhattan and Dennis P. O'Berg of Ladder 105 in Brooklyn. The problem is the high humidity and lack of temperature control, the conservationists said, as well as a haphazard taping of the photos.
Hangar 17, a light gray structure with blue trim near the airport's main administrative building, was chosen as the storage spot because first Pan American World Airways and then Tower Air, its most recent tenant, are both gone, bankrupt.
Most of the hangar is dry and clean. The recovered items are generally covered with white plastic tarps. But there are a few small standing pools of water, a result of the leaking roof. Yesterday, when asked about this, a spokesman for the authority said that if there are objects standing in water, ''they will be immediately put up on wooden blocks.''
The objects most at risk from decay are those with painted surfaces, including the fire trucks and the last column, because humidity can eat away their skins, the conservationists said.
''Clearly it is not the best way to store things,'' said Charles Tumosa, a senior research chemist at the Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education in Suitland, Md. ''And once they go, they go. You only have one chance.''
Dr. Tumosa and Mr. Chase have not visited the hangar, but they were shown photographs of conditions there.
Mr. Coleman, the spokesman for the Port Authority, said the agency's board had approved spending up to $5.75 million, although the agency could not say yesterday how much had been spent. Some leaks in the roof have been fixed, new lighting installed and the hangar door repaired. Last week, crews were repairing one of the large heaters. Mr. Coleman said yesterday that dehumidifiers would be installed by next summer.
''They are very important,'' he said of the objects, noting that the trade center had been the authority's home for 30 years. ''They are very valuable historically.''
As to why none of the finalists in the memorial design used any of these pieces as a central element, Anita Contini, vice president and director of memorial, cultural and civic programs at the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, which is sponsoring the competition, said that one issue was that the Port Authority ''could not guarantee anybody that they could have anything,'' citing its possible use as legal evidence.
Despite this, at least some of the designs incorporated a few of these objects. The Garden of Lights design, by Pierre David and two student collaborators, would use some of the steel to create a chamber for the unidentified remains of victims. And the Dual Memory design, by Brian Strawn and Karla Sierralta, calls for placing steel items in a sculpture garden in the footprint of the south tower.
Ms. Contini said some of the designers were reconsidering their proposals to see if there were ways more of the relics could be incorporated. ''Everyone is looking at it,'' she said.
Mr. Coleman said that while the legal questions were real, the Port Authority would try to arrange the release of any specific items requested.
At a minimum, if the central pieces of this collection are not incorporated into a final memorial design, Professor Rosenfeld and Bartholomew Voorsanger, the founding partner at the firm that helped recover the items, said they should be placed in museums or a permanent archive, or loaned out for exhibitions around the world.
''These are objects, obviously, that you cannot dispose of or sell,'' Mr. Voorsanger said. ''They should be protected for an indefinite period of time.''
Photos: One of the most precious monuments in Hangar 17 at Kennedy Airport is the 58-ton column, above, the last chunk of heavy steel taken from ground zero, on May 30, 2002. Below left, a side view in August 2002. Below right, the same view last week. (Photo by Vincent Laforet/The New York Times); (Photo by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey); (Photo by Eric Lipton/The New York Times)(pg. B1); Remains of the World Trade Center at Kennedy Airport. At center is part of the antenna from the north tower, and to its left is an elevator engine. (Photo by Vincent Laforet/The New York Times)(pg. B5)


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Disclaimer: I don't own Pitch Black or The Chronicles of Riddick, nor do I own any of the affiliated characters.
Set after the events of Pitch Black. This story takes off on the emergency skiff with Riddick, Imam and Jack still recovering from the nightmare. I plan on avoiding the CoR altogether and go to a different place. I found it interesting that all the fanfics, I had read, that had Jack go with Riddick ended up with some sort of sexual relationship. I thought it would be interesting to see how far I could push the plutonic friendship barrier. But be warned some explicit chapters later on.
Rated for violence, sexual content, language...You have been warnedHe died somewhere on that planet
Despite the blood loss he wouldn't dare drift to sleep. Even with his eyes closed he could see the final moments of Carolyn's life, as though she was dying all over again in front of him. Sure, he'd seen a hell of a lot of people meet their bloody end, in most of those cases he was the goddamn grim reaper but in all of his days he'd never had someone die for him, die to save him.
For the first time in so long he'd felt something close to a human being.
"How long until someone finds us out here?"
He'd kept the conversation limited to no more than one word replies but still the kid had kept talking. In the last few hours she covered every fucking topic, from the new deep space transmitters to the weather on Helion. God had some kind of humor, he'd gotten off one hell only to get himself stuck in another.
The holy man was asleep, if only Imam knew his luck. Jesus this kid had him bordering on murderous. He'd survived through patience and self control and this kid was wearing him down to a pile of frayed nerves.
"JACK!!...asking ain't gonna make anything happen, so sit tight"
That little outburst seemed to quiet her down a tad. The sharp sudden throb brought his attention back to his leg. Putting his hand to it he found that it was still bleeding, fuck!
Before he could ask her to take a look, she'd already begun to pull out the small storage spaces looking for an emergency medical kit. He doubted if this piece of disposable shit had anything close to what he needed to clean up the open wound but he'd learned to make do a long time ago.
"This was all I could find!"
For an emergency skiff the medical supplies would be sufficient for anything other than an actual emergency. A roll of bandage, a needle and thread but that was it, no painkiller, and only a drop of disinfectant.
Without something to keep the wound clean, infection was sure to set in.
He didn't even have to say it because the look of defeat on his face said it all. He could see his own misery reflected in the startlingly green eyes that sat in the chair beside him.
"We could use a little of the water..."
The hunk only had a small in built reservoir that recycled water but that would only last so long. Besides, water wouldn't prevent infection.
"Listen kid...water's pretty fucking useless for anything other than drinking. Ain't gonna do shit to help me!"
He resisted the urge to lie back against the headrest of the chair and just die. He'd survived shit that would give Satan himself nightmares and here he was residing himself to death. He'd never felt so pathetic.
Closing his eyes for a brief second the clang of metal against metal startled him out of his thoughts.
"What the fuck!!"
The kid had opened the panel under the console and had her upper body stuck in. She was looking for something.
Much to Riddick's annoyance there was no reply.
A head appeared with a very questioning look plastered across the face.
"Yeah...Riddick what is it?"
He didn't bother saying anything, too anxious about losing it completely. Riddick just pointed to the maze of wires she'd just been tangled up in.
"I'm just...looking for a secondary battery."
He didn't know what to ask first, what a secondary battery was, why she needed to find it or how she knew what a secondary battery was in the first place.
"I think there's a few things you need to explain to me kid!"
He wanted a few answers and he wanted them now. The creased brow and the low involuntary growl that followed the sentence left no illusions as to his present mood.
"I'll explain...I swear, but just give me a minute."
The look in her eyes was determined but pleaded with him all the same.
Reluctantly he sat back in the chair, he wasn't known for his trust and the thoughts of a thirteen year old girl screwing around with the wires on the only thing between him and the dark cold of space; that was not a comforting thought.
A few minutes later and the girl heaved a large square object out from all the wires. Her hands were covered in tiny scratches and she was oozing blood from a tiny cut above her eye. In all the rummaging around she must have caught herself on some sharp corners.
"Now...you wanna explain all this to me?"
Although it was phrased as a question you'd have to be fucking wasted to not recognize an order.
"The secondary batteries are charged by the cells and supply power to the console. Any direct power from the cells would fry the controls so main power charges the batteries and that powers the ships consoles."
Riddick had to tighten his jaw to hold back a smile, so the kid had talents. If something went wrong she would be very useful.
"And why is it out of the console?"
Jack got a very worried look in her eyes as she went to explain the reason behind that.
"Well... I might be able to fix the locator beacon but I need a low power energy source, direct from the cell, the transmitter would just fry."
All impulse of hiding his shock and relief vanished, as he recognized how much a beacon would improve their chances of survival. He took back everything he'd said earlier about wishing this kid got left on the rock.
"Kid... where did you learn about such complicated things? And I wonder as to why you didn't offer such useful skills to help back on the planet?"
The girls jaw tightened and Riddick could tell she was about to lie before she could even say a word.
"My father was a mechanic...and...you all got on fine without me."
Riddick locked eyes with her. His silver predatory gaze unflinching as he spoke.
"Remember who you're talk'in to kid"
To Riddick's disbelief she didn't recoil. He'd gotten used to his stare cracking the hardest of shells that he'd always assumed it would work. Despite her frail, weak appearance she was made of harder stuff.
"You don't believe me...fine...It's not as if I give a shit, and you ain't gonna get another answer. So...believe what you want"
The beast in Riddick rose just for a second to bask in the outward defiance. On some level the animal recognized the hidden claws and teeth, no way did you grow a set like hers coming from a happy home.
Riddick shot forward, his face just inches from hers,
"Really...I'm not going to get another answer, am I? What about if I turn this thing around and set you back down on that planet...you think I might get an answer then?"
The girl was obviously frightened, fuck it, she wasn't dumb, but what was more concerning wasn't the fear, it was the anger. Riddick could smell it roll off her in waves.
"Oh yeah...you could do that, but this thing would probably break up in atmosphere."
Riddick gave her a slight grin,
"What about if I just ghost you right here."
The innocent air around the kid crumbled right before Riddick's eyes. You could have the cutest animal in creation, but back it into a corner and you find that even kittens have claws.
"And if a merc ship picks you up...what then...you tell them we slipped and fell on your shiv. Beside, we're the only proof you got that the, notorious, Richard. B. Riddick, murderer and escaped convict, died on that planet. Whether you like it or not, you need us more than we need you."
If he hadn't already been clenching his teeth he would have been slack jawed. While he didn't like to dwell on her last point too much; it somewhat upset him to think he needed anyone other than himself, she'd already confirmed what he'd guessed. The only way you learn to think that fast, is on the street. It made sense, the boys clothes, the attitude, even the way the kid looked up to him.
"So... where ya run'in from kid."
His immediate reaction to her face was to laugh, it was fucking comical.
"Why...do... you think I'm running."
The girl tried to hide the nervousness in her voice with a small forced laugh.
"Listen kid...I ain't gonna argue about this...and I sure as hell ain't in a position to give you advice."
A genuine smile crept into his features,
"I'll leave that to the holy man when he wakes up...now... really, where'd you learn all this shit?"
Riddick wasn't going to give up just because threatening her hadn't worked effectively.
When she took a deep breath and cleared her throat he was confident she would tell him the truth. He expected it to be somewhere along the lines of, abusive family, street runaway, the usual story. He couldn't believe the reality.
"You want the long mushy, or the short version."
The look on Riddick's face displayed a rapidly waning patience. She figured that meant that short story was her best bet.
"My parents where killed when I was seven, they were unlucky enough to get caught in the middle of a gang war. I got slung into about half a dozen foster homes, which I hated."
Riddick could understand that, nowadays most foster homes are run by greedy people who do it for a tax cut or for the small government checks. Some even slave out the kids
"I was already pretty handy with all kinds of technology and by complete accident I fell in with a group of hackers when I was just ten. They thought me the ropes and I learned pretty quick, I even crashed a few government systems when I was twelve ...but the fun didn't begin until I decided to try my hand at the latest software."
Riddick noticed her hands begin to twitch a little and that bothered him a whole lot more than he wanted. She was scared of his reaction.
"You ever hear about an underworld group called the Pegasus syndicate."
The only words that went through Riddick's head where extremely explicit profanities.
"Well...when a new software is developed it usually goes to the highest bidder, and I'm sure you know that the wealthiest bastards in the universe tend to be criminals. It just so happened that the Pegasus syndicate was the owner of said latest software and I kinda hacked them."
Riddick shook his head. He knew all about the syndicate, they where about gambling and slave trade, two of the most lucrative businesses in the universe and it was run by some of the most psychotic fucks in the galaxy. They had twisted ideas of entertainment. He'd heard stories about little kids being thrown to starving dogs just so these freaks could watch the kid get ripped apart. He may not have much of a conscience but he has a code and unnecessary torture ain't on his list of acceptable behavior.
"So let me hazard a wild guess and assume you tried to break their system and they caught you"
Jack let out a frustrated chuckle,
"I fucking wish, I didn't try anything...I fucking crashed their systems on ten different planets, and I lost them over five billion creds."
Riddick had to push his chair back from the console so he could turn and fully face the kid. Fuck, even he'd heard about that and he'd been in solitary at the time. They'd said that some genius had brought the syndicate to their knees. They also said, that apparently, the leader was so pissed he shot the nearest person to him five times in the chest when he heard the news. It didn't help Riddick's, already, troubled mind when he remembered that the nearest person to Marcus Simons at the time had been his seventeen year old son.
"Kid...you know much about the syndicate?"
Jack apprehensively shook her head. Nervous with regard to even talking about it. The night they'd tracked her down was at present battling against her time on T2 for the top spot in her future nightmares list.
"Count yourself lucky kid, because if they catch you your gonna spend every last second of your life wishing you'd died back on that piece of shit planet."
The girl shuddered,
"I know"
Riddick left it at that, Christ, he'd better not tell her about the unofficial bounty of twenty million creds they put on the head of the Pegasus hacker. Jesus he thought he had problems with merc's. This kid, if word got out, would not only have merc's, but every son of a bitch with a ship and a gun on her ass. Riddick had to admit it to himself, he was way past jealous. The bounty on his head never went past 900 k.
"Get some rest kid."
He didn't have to say it twice, she was already out cold.
Turning back to his wound he cut away a part of the pant leg and got the first good look at the nagging injury. He laughed at himself, it wasn't anywhere as bad as he'd thought.
The cut was about two inches long and a half and inch deep, it just so happened that it'd nicked an artery.
Hence all the blood.


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I have discovered there is a 5000 character limit to each message. This paper I wrote as a UT student is over twice that length. I wanted to share it because we've mentioned these people.
The Political Attitudes Of German Immigrants In Texas, 1847-1872
by Larry Williamson
In this paper, I will examine the political attitudes of the German immigrants who came to Texas before the Civil War. First, I will explain why the Germans wanted to leave Germany and why they chose to come to Texas. Secondly, I will describe their settlements and give a brief account of their political activities. Finally, I will discuss why the Germans in Texas, after the Civil War, were less politically influential. I will pay special attention to the most politically progressive of the German Immigrants and describe a few of their settlements. The most dramatic examples of their activities occurred during the years from 1847 to 1866. Given my limitations of length and time, I may not be able to discuss many of their activities after 1854. As a conclusion, I will suggest reasons for the decline of their influence.
Of the estimated 72,000 Germans living in the South at the beginning of the Civil War (Rippley, 69) an estimated number of more than 30,000 lived in Texas (Jordan, 49). The first major wave of German migration to Texas took place in the period from 1844 to 1860 (Jordan, 41). Although the second wave of German migration to Texas, after the Civil War, was larger, the first wave included those who established many of the first settlements and the first political organizations of German immigrants (Biesele, 196).
Conditions in Germany contributed to the desire to emigrate. During the 1840s, Germany felt the impact of a rapid increase in its population, of two severe economic slumps and of a potato blight, which although not as severe as Ireland's, had as a consequence, the effect of causing a general rise in food prices. For students and professionals, dim career prospects and strict political controls were factors. The idea of emigrating to Texas had been made appealing by the publication of travel accounts, letters, poetry and novels which described Texas in mythic terms as naturally bountiful, fertile and as a place of freedom (Gish, 161-162).
In the 1840s, members of the German nobility formed emigration societies to encourage people to leave. With the establishment of overseas German settlements under their sponsorship, they hoped to profit from them as markets for German goods and to use them as centers of international trade. They also wanted to encourage discontented intellectuals to leave Germany (Fischer, 62). The most important of these societies encouraging German emigration to Texas was the Adelsverein, formed in 1842. In 1844, the Adelsverein announced to the public through notices in various newspapers (Gish, 163) and in 1846 through a speaking tour of the campuses of the Universities of Geissen, Heidelberg and Darmstadt (Perry, 5) that it would assist people wanting to emigrate to Texas. The Adelsverein's goal was to settle 12,000 immigrants (Perry, 5) on a 3000 acre tract of land, known as the Fisher-Miller grant, in the Texas Hill Country, 90 miles northwest of Austin. Only later did officials of the Adelsverein discover that they had been swindled by Fisher and Miller. The land grant was too far from the coast to make trade profitable, much of it was too rocky and infertile for agriculture and it was entirely controlled by Comanches (Jordan, 45). The Adelsverein went bankrupt in 1847, leaving stranded the 7,380 settlers they had brought to Texas between 1844 and 1847 (Jordan, 45).
Some of the earliest settlements such as New Braunsfels and Fredericksburg were established by Adelsverein officials as way stations from the port of entry to the land grant. Other settlements were established by those settlers the Adelsverein had abandoned when it went bankrupt in 1847. These settlements were strung along the route of migration from the coast to the land grant (Jordan, 45).
One of the few settlements established on the actual site of the Adelsverein land grant was founded by a group of radicals that the Adelsverein had brought to Texas in 1847. The settlement, named Bettina in honor of the German writer Elizabeth (Bettina) von Arnim, was established by a group who called themselves 'The Fortyers'. The name refers to the original number of their group, thirty-three of whom came to Texas. They had been inspired by William C. Weitling, a German advocate of the theories of the French utopian socialist Charles Fourier (Fischer, 60-61). An official of the Adelsverein had obtained the consent of the Commanches to the establishment of Bettina (Fischer, 68) along with two other small settlements (Perry, 5). The Bettina group and other similar groups of intellectuals were humorously nick-named 'Latin Farmers' by contemporary observers. They were much more notable for their ability to recite the classics in Lat
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By FRANK BRUNI
New York Times News Service
There were remarks galore about her unusually toned arms and the way she dressed to show them off. I even spotted a comment about how much of her armpits one of her outfits revealed, as if underarm exhibitionism were some sort of sexual sorcery, some aphrodisiac, the key to it all.
What else could explain his transgression? Why else would a man of such outward discipline and outsize achievement risk so much? The temptress must have been devious, the temptation epic.
That was the tired tone of some of the initial coverage of, and reaction to, the affair between David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell, which had many people claiming surprise where there wasn't cause for any, reverting to cliches that should be retired and indulging in a sexism we like to think we've moved past.
There are bigger issues here. There are questions of real consequence, such as why the FBI got so thoroughly involved in what has been vaguely described as a case of email harassment, whether the bureau waited too long to tell lawmakers and White House officials about the investigation and how much classified information Broadwell, by dint of her relationship with Petraeus, was privy to. The answers matter.
Her "expressive green eyes" (The Daily Beast) and "tight shirts" and "form-fitting clothes" (The Washington Post) don't. And the anecdotes and chatter that implicitly or explicitly wonder at the spidery wiles she must have used to throw the mighty man off his path are laughably ignorant of history, which suggests that mighty men are all too ready to tumble, loins first. Wiles factor less into the equation than proximity.
Sure, the spotlight these men have attracted and the altitude they've reached should, theoretically, give them greater pause. But they've either become accustomed to or outright sought a kind of adulation in the public arena that probably isn't mirrored in their marriages. A spouse is unlikely to provide it. A spouse knows you too well for that, and gives you something deeper, truer and so much less electric.
It has to be more than mere coincidence that Bill Clinton had an affair with a White House intern; Newt Gingrich with a congressional aide (now his wife); John Edwards with a woman who followed him around with a camera, creating hagiographic mini-documentaries about his presidential campaign; and Petraeus with a woman who made him the subject of a biography so worshipful that its main riddle, joked Jon Stewart, was whether Petraeus was "awesome or incredibly awesome."
These mighty men didn't just choose mistresses. They chose fonts of gushing reverence. That's as deliberate and damnable as any signals the alleged temptresses put out.
And yet it's the women in these situations who are often subjected to a more vigorous public shaming — and assigned greater responsibility.
The website Business Insider posted an interview with an unnamed former colleague of Petraeus' who knew Broadwell and characterized her as "a shameless self-promoting prom queen." The colleague all but exonerated Petraeus by saying: "You're a 60-year-old man and an attractive woman almost half your age makes herself available to you — that would be a test for anyone."
The headline of The Washington Post story that weighed in on Broadwell's wardrobe asserted that he "let his guard down," a phrase that portrays him as passive, possibly even a victim.
An article in Slate asked "how could he — this acclaimed leader and figure of rectitude — allow such a thing to a happen?"
Such adamant women, such pregnable men. We've been stuck on this since Eve, Adam and the Garden of Eden. And it's true: Eve shouldn't have been so pushy with the apple.
But Adam could have had a V8.
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Dear Sexorcist:
Condoms sometimes make my boyfriend go limp the second he puts them on, so hes insisting I go on the pill. Im like, no way. Why should I take something thats going to fuck up my hormones, make me gain weight and possibly put me at risk for cancer just because he cant get used to a little rubber? Hes pissed off that were not having much sex and Im resentful that all of the burden falls on me. On top of that, he thinks hes being fair and balanced. How do we settle this?
Stumped in Stockdale
Dear Stumped:
He thinks hes being fair and balanced? Im more balanced at 2 a.m. after last call. Your boyfriends being a prick. He needs to put a condom over himself and go limp.
I agree with him on one point, though: Nothing gives your dick a flat tire faster than a condom. But hes acting as if he cant do anything about it. Not true. If you guys try my Condom Immersion Program, his fear of going limp will shrivel up.
Heres how it works: Together, buy a bucket of condoms and spend 20 minutes opening them up, stretching them to the breaking point, putting them on, taking them off, and doing stupid shit like playing tug-of-war, filling em with water, putting em over your hands and feet and making balloon animals out of them.
After a few days of this systematic desensitization, neither the medical texture nor the Goat Death aroma will stop your boyfriends cucumber from rising out of the salad. Hell also become expert at opening them quickly (another boner buster: fumbling with the damn things). Condom immersion works by extinguishing the power of condoms to provoke anxieties, leaving you with one less plot to dig in the boner graveyard.
Still, sex with condoms sucks. Its like eating a muffin from Highland Bakery through a paper napkin. Why a committed, monogamous couple would want to do the bomp-chicka-wow-wow with those dreadful things is beyond me. Which brings us to you.
If Godzillas breathing fire on the condoms, King Kong, youre throwing feces against the cage. Yes, a lot of women gain weight (and go ape-shit) on the pill, but a lot dont. Quit swinging from vine to vine and be willing to test some of the options. (There are combination pills, extended-cycle pills, continuous use pills, low-dosage mini-pills, etc.)
You might also look into the natural planning method. By tracking the signs, symptoms and changes of your ovulation cycle, you can pinpoint with amazing accuracy the days when youre most likely to get pregnant.
One tactic involves checking the consistency of your cervical mucus, which changes to a stretchy, clear and thick consistency during ovulation like uncooked egg whites.
Brunch anyone?
While studies show natural planning is 98 percent effective, its an unbelievably detailed, excruciating process requiring the kind of commitment OCD sufferers make when they check the oven.
You guys need to haul yourselves over to a dedicated family planning clinic like Planned Parenthood in downtown Atlanta, Marietta or Lilburn and theyll go over all your options. If youre too shy to go there just yet, find out which birth control method fits your lifestyle through their kick-ass online interactive tool.
But the best reason to go there is to facilitate a truce and bang out a compromise. For example, maybe you switch-hit on the condoms. Sometimes he slips them on; sometimes you slip them in (the female condom, that is).
When youre in this kind of titanic power struggle, how you decide is just as important as what you decide. You need to quit swinging from vine to vine and Godzilla needs to make a peace offering. (I vote bananas.) Decide together, share the burden and youll get back to the basics of transcendent sex: reciprocity and generosity.
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Midtown resident Mike Alvear hosts HBO's "The Sex Inspectors," blogs at mikealvear.com, and teaches monthly blogging workshops with Hollis Gillespie. He's also the principal passenger on the Grey Goose Express. Meet the Sexorcist in person Friday, Nov. 20, at Halo for the Creative Loafing Very Sexy Pre-Holiday Party.


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Choose your favorite starter Pokémon from Pokémon Black Version and Pokémon White Version for a multimedia Pokémon experience in the palm of your hands! Kids can enjoy 32 pages of stories and amazing facts about three different Pokémon from the new Unova region. Readers can also use the collectible custom-molded headphones featuring their favorite new Pokémon—Snivy, Tepig, or Oshawott—while watching three episodes of the animated series Pokémon: Black & White on the included DVD. Grass, Fire, or Water...which type will you choose?
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Mosaic bottles in different sizes with glass, nuggets, mirror, millifiorie and more. They are nice and shiny in the sunlight.
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CUISINE & CONFESSIONS SCORES RAVE EARLY REVIEWS!"This just opened last night at Emerson. It was presented by ArtsEmerson, put on at the Majestic/Cutler Theatre. This is an American premiere, so it's pretty exciting and it's by the Canadian Circus company Les 7 Doigt de la main, the seven fingers of the hand.
"They've done a couple other performances at ArtsEmerson over the years. This is a really great one. It is exactly as the title says, it's "cuisine and confessions." They've constructed a kitchen on stage at the Cutler/Majestic and you're welcomed into their kitchen. And really this is a performance unlike anything I've ever seen before, where you have an acrobatic troupe really giving confessions, telling family stories about the importance of food in their lives, whether it's one particular meal or how families gather together. This is intertwined with dance and acrobatics and actual cooking. They make banana bread on stage, so by time you leave you're ravenous because you can start to smell this wonderful banana bread wafting through the theatre. You do get to taste it after."
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The 2005 Tablas Creek Vineyard Antithesis Chardonnay is Tablas Creek's sixth bottling of this traditional Burgundian varietal. In the early 1990s, we imported all our Rhône varietal cuttings from France. At the same time, at the request of a Sonoma winery, we imported the highly regarded small-berry, low-vigor Chardonnay clone named "La Vineuse" and planted 1.5 acres to produce a small amount of bud wood for sale. Three years later, we got our first small crop of Chardonnay.
After tasting the grapes, we thought them so compelling that we made the "Antithesis" Chardonnay our first non-Rhône bottling, as well as our first single-varietal wine. We have continued to produce a small amount (50-250 cases) each year since.
Our Chardonnay grapes were grown on our 120-acre certified organic estate vineyard.
Chardonnay thrives in our chalky clay soils (much like those of Burgundy), and the cool nights in Paso Robles serve to balance the warm, sunny days. We chose a terraced north-east facing block above our grapevine nursery for the Chardonnay.
The 2005 vintage was one of nature's lucky breaks, with excellent quality and higher-than-normal yields. The wet winter of '04–'05 gave the grapevines ample groundwater, and a warm period in March got the vines off to an early May flowering. The summer was uniformly sunny but relatively cool, and harvest began (relatively late for us) in the 3rd week of September, giving the grapes nearly a month longer than normal on the vine. The resulting wines were intensely mineral, with good structure and powerful aromatics. The Chardonnay, as usual our earliest-ripening varietal, was harvested in one day on September 23rd.
The Chardonnay grapes were whole cluster pressed, and fermented using native yeasts in 2- to 6-year-old barrels to preserve the wine's varietal and mineral character. The wine went through full malolactic fermentation in barrel. It was bottled in May 2006.
The 2005 Antithesis is intensely Chardonnay in character: pale gold in color, with a nose of lemon, pear, and mineral, a rich palate of spiced pear, citrus and butter, balanced by fresh acidity, and a long, clean finish.
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We just got back from the range trip. In addition to having some fine Greek/Mediterranean food, complete with a Turkish coffee, we got to shoot!
The wife started out the the Glock 19...since it was "Glock Day" and the ammo was free. (My favorite price!) She liked the 9x19mm much better than the .40S&W...but thought the grip was too long. Then, she picked up the 26...and her whole hand fits on the grip! I have small hands and can only get two fingers on it. Anyway...she really like the 26. She still wants the SW99c, but said she wouldn't turn her nose up at the 26 if I found a deal.
Frankly, I liked the 9mm, too. The only .40S&W I've shot that felt as good was the Beretta PX4, but I'm done buying "new" models. It's cheaper, and I like having to stock a standard caliber. Hmmmm...we may have to have a CZ-75 for me and the compact for her. Oh, I do wish Bar-Sto, or someone, would come out with a drop-in 9mm bbl for the XD40SC.


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The Walt Disney World Trivia Book: Secrets, History and Fun Facts Behind the Magicby Louis A. Mongello
Not a travel planner or guidebook, but a unique and entertaining collection of hundreds of multiple-choice trivia questions, fill with secrets and interesting facts about all aspects of Walt Disney World.
Not a travel planner or guidebook, but a unique and entertaining collection of hundreds of multiple-choice trivia questions, fill with secrets and interesting facts about all aspects of Walt Disney World.
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This is a great book for Disney fans young and old! I read mine through, cover to cover in one night. It is a great way to get excited about a vacation or just brush up on your knowledge of Walt Disney World!
We quizzed each other with facts from the book while standing in line or waiting for shows to start at WDW. Many people asked us where we got the book and joined in the fun. Made a lot of new friends that way! Loaded with fun trivia facts to keep you thinking.
This is a great book for everyone, from the die hard Disney fan to the casual observer. loaded with everything from useless fun facts to Disney history and lore, Lou left no stone unturned. Also, the multiple choice quiz, with answers after the chapter, was a very fun and refreshing format. and, if you enjoy Disney and/or the book that much, Lou maintains an excellent website at www.disneyworldtrivia.com which has more facts and trivia as well as a forum to discuss all things Disney with other fans. on a side note, Lou and this book saved my life. one night, traveling along Rt. 18 in East Brunswick, while drunk and high i crashed my car. i watched a bunch of other cars drive by leaving me for dead, but one man stopped.......Lou. he pulled me from the burning wreckage and performed CPR to bring me back to life. he told me to wait while he ran and got help and left me with a whole box of his books to burn for warmth. as i began burning the books i began reading, and it kept me distracted until Lou returned with help. The next several days, his book helped me through the pain of my injuries and the DT's. if it weren't for Lou, i wouldn't be here today, he's truly a wonderful human being.
I will be taking my first real trip to Disney World in the fall and have found this to be a must have. The questions are super and the detailed explanations are even better. To add to the book there is even a website. Talk about a well thought out product. Lou has done his home work, and then much more, to make this book one of the best books on the market for those that are just curious about Disney World to hard core veterans.
This book was great for a fun way to keep children entertained and get them excited about Disney World. It is not only fun for the kids but for those who are still kids at heart. It is a must have book of fun fact, cool secrets and the history of Disney World.
This is a wonderful book for all Disney fans! Read this book before you go on your trip
This a great Disney trivia book. I couldn't put it down. The book is great for getting ready for any trip to WDW. Having taken several trips to WDW, this has shown me things that I really did not know about the parks from our experiences there. I highly recommend the book for new and experienced disney travelers!
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Russian March Inflation Exceeds Estimates as Controls Lifted
Russian consumer prices rose the most in a year in March as the government loosens the reins that brought the annual inflation rate to a record low.
Prices rose 0.6 percent in the month, exceeding the 0.5 percent median estimate in a Bloomberg survey of 15 economists. Inflation was unchanged in March at 3.7 percent from a year earlier, the slowest rate since the Soviet Union collapsed two decades ago, matching estimates in a separate survey.
Consumer prices are bottoming out after Prime Minister and President-Elect Vladimir Putin capped fuel costs and delayed utility-price increases from January to July in the run-up to the March 4 presidential ballot. Inflation may accelerate in the second half as the government lifts restrictions and capital inflows resume as early as May, Alexei Ulyukayev, a Bank Rossii first deputy chairman, said yesterday.
"Inflation is likely to start picking up already in the second half on the back of a hike in natural-monopolies tariffs," Julia Tsepliaeva, head of research at BNP Paribas in Moscow, said by e-mail. "Monetary easing is unlikely to be aggressive in 2012."
The benchmark Micex Index of 30 stocks tumbled 2.6 percent to 1,509.17 at 5:21 p.m. in Moscow. The ruble lost 1 percent to 29.4496 per dollar, weakening for the first time in four days.
Core inflation, which excludes volatile costs such as energy, was unchanged at 0.5 percent on a monthly basis, bringing the full-year increase to 1.4 percent.
'Temporary Slowdown'
The central bank, which has refrained from cutting borrowing costs and held the refinancing rate at 8 percent for a third month in March, has noted the "temporary nature" of the price slowdown. The world's largest energy exporter may see a "substantial" increase in consumer-price growth after the government increases utility tariffs, Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Klepach said on March 27, according to RIA Novosti.
Russia may post a "double surplus" in its current and capital accounts this year, fanning inflation and posing a policy dilemma similar to what Russia faced in 2006 and 2007, Ulyukayev said.
'Huge Liquidity'
"Huge liquidity entering the domestic market will create serious inflation pressures," Ulyukayev said.
The central bank plans to discuss interest rates on April 9 or April 10. Bank Rossii Chairman Sergey Ignatiev wants to trim the inflation rate to about 5 percent to 6 percent in 2012 from 6.1 percent last year. Policy makers want to bring price growth as low as 4 percent by 2014, according to a three-year policy plan published in November.
Prices and poverty are seen as the biggest threats facing the country this year, according to a January poll by the independent Levada Center.
"The central bank is likely to stay on hold as the weekly inflation accelerated slightly at the end of the month and industrial production growth rebounded," Aleksandra Evtifyeva, an economist at VTB Capital in Moscow said by e-mail.


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