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Idle hands are the devil's workshop.

"Thick" implies length, which is not a unit of measurement for liquid.

Zinc can be said to increase the volume of the seminal fluids, concomitant to an increase in viscosity.

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@CountAchee:

And exactly what benefits can one see from the increased zing intake?

Table 1 provides evidence of the impact of zinc on seminal viscosity and on semen quality. Hypoviscosity (the degree to which a fluid resists flow under an applied force) was detected in 3.6% of the semen samples and was associated with low concentrations of zinc as a seminal vesicle biochemical marker. Those results strongly suggest impaired secretory activity of the seminal vesicles when they were zinc-depleted.

As you can see from the chart, hyperviscosity was detected in 28.9% of the samples with significant levels of zinc as a biochemical marker of the seminal vesicles (when compared to the same sample tested with inorganic phosphorus and fructose), suggesting that both glands had been affected by zinc depletion. Since hyperviscosity has usually been associated with abnormal liquefaction (the process of turning into a liquid), non-dialysis of fructose and the retention of inorganic phosphorus in the semen coagulum must be one of the causes of the lower concentrations of zinc detected in the samples I mentioned above (the 3.6% sample detection).

The conclusion of the study this data is from was that zinc seemed to be an important factor for the control of proteolytic breakdown of coagulumproteins, a long and detailed process which I won't explain here as it goes beyond the bounds of your question. Needless to say, low levels of zinc in hyperviscous semen is a good indication that zinc might play a direct role in the process of semen visco-elasticity.

If ejaculation were to be compared to an automobile, then the mineral zinc would be analagous to engine oil and gasoline. There isn't one step in the ejaculation process which doesnt include the use of it.

Since zinc is removed from the prostate gland whenever you ejaculate, and you might not be getting enough in your diet to start with, you should make sure you're always getting plenty of it. Traditional doctors in the past have suggested red meat for supplementing lost zinc, but that can be harmful in other ways.

One example to replenish zinc (beyond food) is one 220mg zinc sulfate capsule taken every day.

Bishops Open ‘Religious Liberty’ Drive
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN of The New York Times
November 14, 2011

BALTIMORE — The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops opened a new front in their fight against abortion and same-sex marriage on Monday, recasting their opposition as a struggle for “religious liberty” against a government and a culture that are infringing on the church’s rights. The bishops have expressed increasing exasperation as more states have legalized same-sex marriage, and the Justice Department has refused to go to bat for the Defense of Marriage Act, legislation that established the definition of marriage as between a man and a woman.

“We see in our culture a drive to neuter religion,” Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the bishops conference, said in a news conference Monday at the bishops’ annual meeting in Baltimore. He added that “well-financed, well-oiled sectors” were trying “to push religion back into the sacristy.” Archbishop Dolan also came prepared to answer questions about the sexual-abuse scandal at Penn State University, which has reminded so many observers of the Catholic Church’s own abuse scandal. He said that the accusations against a former university football coach were a reminder that sexual abuse is a universal problem that affects most institutions.

“Every time that once again takes over the headlines we once again bow our heads in shame,” the archbishop said. “We know what you’re going through, and you can count on our prayers.” The bishops are struggling to reclaim the role they played in the 1980s and into the ’90s as a nationally recognized voice on the moral dimension of public policy issues like economic inequality, workers’ rights, immigration and nuclear weapons proliferation. Since then, however, they have reordered their priorities, with abortion and homosexuality eclipsing poverty and economic injustice. But as the sexual-abuse scandal largely overshadowed their agenda in the last decade, their pronouncements on politics and morality have been met with indifference even by many of their own flock. The bishops issue guidelines for Catholic voters every election season, a document known as “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” which is distributed in many parishes. But the bishops were informed at their meeting on Monday that a recent study commissioned by Fordham University in New York found that only 16 percent of Catholics had heard of the document, and only 3 percent had read it.

Nevertheless, the bishops remain a forceful political lobby, powerful enough to nearly derail the president’s health care overhaul two years ago over their concerns about financing for abortion. Last week, the White House, cognizant of the bishops’ increasing ire, invited Archbishop Dolan to a private meeting with President Obama, their second. Archbishop Dolan said they talked about the religious liberty issue, among others. “I found the president of the United States to be very open to the sensitivities of the Catholic community,” Archbishop Dolan said in the news conference. “I left there feeling a bit more at peace about this issue than when I entered.”

But in an impassioned address to the prelates, Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., the chairman of the bishops’ newly established committee on religious liberty, said the church would urge priests and laypeople to take up the religious liberty cause. Bishop Lori said that in states like Illinois and Massachusetts, and in the District of Columbia, Catholic agencies that received state financing had been forced to stop offering adoption and foster care services because those states required them to help same-sex couples to adopt, just as they helped heterosexual couples. Bishop Lori said in his speech, “The services which the Catholic Church and other denominations provide are more crucial than ever, but it is becoming more and more difficult for us to deliver these services in a manner that respects the very faith that impels us to provide them.” The bishops have also been lobbying the Department of Health and Human Services to expand the religious exemption to the mandate in Mr. Obama’s health care overhaul that requires private insurers to pay for contraception. The exemption, as currently written, would still require Catholic hospitals and universities to cover birth control for most of their employees — which the church says is a violation of its religious freedom.

Some liberal Catholic commentators have criticized the bishops’ priorities, saying they are playing into the culture wars. John Gehring, Catholic outreach coordinator with Faith in Public Life, a liberal religious advocacy group in Washington, said, “The bishops speak in hushed tones when it comes to poverty and economic justice issues, and use a big megaphone when it comes to abortion and religious liberty issues.”

Ugandan Court: 30 Years for Killer of Gay Activist
November 10, 2011

MUKONO, Uganda (AP) — A Ugandan court has sentenced a man to 30 years in prison for killing a gay rights activist. A high court judge on Thursday handed down the sentence to 22-year-old Sidney Nsubuga Enoch, who admitted that he bludgeoned David Kato to death with a hammer in January. Kato's slaying came only months after his picture was published in an anti-gay newspaper next to the words "Hang Them." Enoch said he was provoked by sexual advances that Kato made toward him.

Gay rights activists have blamed an increase in homophobia in Uganda on evangelical preachers. In May, the Ugandan parliament adjourned without discussing a controversial bill that proposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts.

From THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

@scoyng:

Well I asked my Doc about the HPV vaccine today. …..I had to have a prescription written, filled at a private pharmacy, vaccine brought back into the clinic and then administered.❞

This is great news, I'm glad it worked out for you. That you were able to request a medication, purchase it, and then have it administered all within twenty-four hours is living testament to the benefits gained by those with access to such a thing, a resource that others may only dream of.

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You might want to ask your doctor about Byetta. It's really gone under the radar as far as a weight loss drug, but its effects are substantially better than anorectics.

Because there is no general test for men or women to check their overall "HPV status," nor is there any approved HPV test to find HPV on the genitals or in the mouth or throat, it is reasonably best to be vaccinated before any first sexual contact that may possibly expose one to HPV (because, as I said, it is impossible for anyone who's had sex to prove that they do not have HPV). For that reason, the current recommended ages for the vaccine in males are 9 through 26 years (the ages of the only ones likely not to have HPV). The more knowledge that is accumulated about these things as time goes on may change that age distinction in the future.

I can think of only one reason why people would want to get married in a church ― because thats how people have always been doing it. If I were to guess at a purely non-dynamic reason, that would take the cake. The new liberties gained by Gay society should be taken advantage of by thinking outside of the box and choosing other locations, which are more deserving.

Getting married in a church, the symbolic center and originator of hatred and discrimination against Gay society, is a bit like a Gamblers Anonymous group having their chapter meetings at Caeser's Palace. If it's a question of environment ― churches are almost always of lavish surroundings, and this may be an influence in their choice of location ― they are not the only game in town, certainly not in a country like the United Kingdom, where every other building impresses with its old world style and charm (at least to an American like myself).

Gay marriage is a marvelously beautiful and unconventional thing. The location of the ceremony should be as well.

"The doctrine of the double motion of the earth about its axis and about the sun is false, comes from the Devil, and is evil…entirely contrary to Holy Scripture."

―Pope Paul V ca.1616

Ahh using for wrinkles? Well then its a good thing you switched to tretinoin. All the studies Ive seen on anti-aging have used that. It increases the anchoring fibrils in the epidermal layer, and improves the collagen underlying the basal lamina.  Apparently theres an increase in Langerhans cells, go figure lol…. The improvements keep coming at 10 months and beyond, although most of the dramatic changes occur in the first 6–10 months, not much after. (not that it stops working, it just stays at the same level looks-wise and doesnt get any better.)

Take a look at the differences in a scope @ x40 mag:

Beginning is letter A.  6 months later, B.  At 12 months C and 48 months is D.
Note the thickness and compact hyperkeratosis… by the time you get to letter D its a thin, tight line whereas A was like a wet sponge full of air.

Anyways good luck with that and dont forget -- ALWAYS WEAR SUNSCREEN !!

The choices:

1. With time, gay people will get more and more rights everywhere in the world.
2. Gay rights will improve in most countries, but there will be a few places where gay rights will be denied.
3. Nothing will change. Countries that respect gay rights will always do it, while countries that don't will never change their views.
4. In the future the number of places that respect gay rights will be much smaller than the number of places that deny gay rights.
5. The "Gay Rights" movement is just a thing of the moment. As some people become more open minded, the majority of people will become more violent towards gay people and will deny their rights.

Choice # 5 is identical to choice # 4.  Choice # 1 appears to be just another way of describing choice # 2.  And choice # 3, which admits of a world where nothing changes ― is a counterfactual.

@MrMazda:

What is the advantage of MKV files over a more traditional format such as AVI…?

When you say "advantages" it is difficult to answer in a specific way as to what those advantages are, because this word is subjective ― what one person considers as an advantage may not be so for another, and vice versa. The only clear way to explain the differences is to look at the developments of both formats and to draw your own conclusions.

The avi container introduced by Microsoft in the early 90s was designed as a "flexible" audio/video container format for the compression needs of those days. Avi is only one part of a framework called 'Video For Windows' (VfW) offering programmers not only a container but also a complete set of API (application programming interface) commands to be able to program their own video and audio codecs using either the VfW or an ASM (asynchronous communication mechanism). Unfortunately this VfW framework cannot support many of the more advanced features that modern audio and video compression formats offer, such as variable bitrate audio encoding (VBR), or variable framerate video encoding (VFR). Although avi was extended with an additional standard called 'Open DML AVI' in the mid/late 90s, overcoming most of its limitations like the 2 GB file size limit, there is still no way for avi to support modern compression formats.

For an organism to survive in the wild it must be able to adapt. The same is true for computer programs. They must be flexible enough, or they will be replaced by ones that are more flexible. Adaptability is the key. Mkv overcomes avi's limitations and supports all known audio and video compression formats by design. Since this adds more functionality to the container format without interrupting compatibility with older softwares and files, mkv is a much more "flexible" framework than avi, capable of coping with any future standards ― until it too, will be replaced by something even more flexible, and so on, and so forth ― for such is the logic of evolution. This difference is the only reason for its existence.

@leatherbear:

William Branon, chairman of the J Edgar Hoover Foundation, is reported to have written in a letter to Eastwood: "It would be a grave injustice and monumental distortion to proceed with such a depiction, based on a completely unfounded and spurious assertion."

How awful of them to slander Hoover — a man who was able to advance his own bureaucratic, political and moralistic agenda through indirect blackmail, bugging, warrantless wiretapping, black-bag jobs, evasions of Attorney General directives, lying, self-serving manipulation of formal authorizations, CO-INTEL-PRO, surveillance of domestic radicals, subversion of civil rights movements, and harrassment of their leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. — a man that Hoover once described as "a disgusting tomcat with obsessive, degenerate sexual urges who could well qualify for the top alley cat prize."

How can Eastwood get away with this unfair and mean spirited portrayal of a man who was obviously a pillar of the law-enforcement community?

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Your question got me thinking…. why would a company manufacter a drug for which another drug was already on the market treating people? Why re-invent the wheel?

Looking at the two medications, theyre both equally effective over the long run.

The only thing that stands out is that adapalene seems to start working a little bit quicker than tretinoin. But what about those side effects, and you said theyre bad…

Just look at the tretinoin patients…theyre getting hammered!!

Looking at that second chart I'm able to answer my question...why make the drug? Well remember in the first chart that the adapalene patients get a slightly faster response than the tretinoin patients? Thats a big deal in a patient group who, because theyre young, are prone to stop anything which does not appear to be working quickly.

So in other words, adapalene has all the benefit, but half the pain, of its older, harsher brother-drug tretinoin.

@scoyng:

Frankly the Differen wasn't strong enough and I think I may have too strong of a Retin A.

The problem is that for you, in your mind, youre equating "strength" with how harsh the stuff feels. Youre thinking, because one doesnt hurt as much as the other one, it must be because its not as effective. But as the first chart clearly shows, the difference in effect over the long run is statistically insignificant.

Besides the contested "Gay / coming out" keywords from the RockNRolla entry on IMDB, some of the other "keywords":

"tied to chair"    "tattoo"    "fur coat"    "scar"

"finger gun"    "tennis court"    "friendship"    "golf club"

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It's plain to see that any perusal one may attempt within IMDB stands a good chance of revealing nothing more than an esoteric grouping of bizarre-ontological categories offering no practical use whatsoever.

Any film-specific context derived from that as a source should be met with severe skepticism. Might I suggest WorldCat as a source for any non-porn nature film/movie type questions re: context, as they often include plot summaries and a database to rival IMDB in scope.