The February issue of W is out and I’m a little conflicted about one of their photo spreads in the issue. The photography by Steven Klein, begins on page 206, and features varying stages of nudity.

Okay, so nudity isn’t really something new but designer Stefano Gabbana in high heels and navy Dolce & Gabbana underwear? Domenico Dolce, the other half of the famous design team, appears on the following page wearing dark boots or socks and nothing else. Other nudes in provocative poses appear on subsequent pages along with more of Gabbana and Dolce.

Photographer Juergen Teller steps into the ring with the odd and abstract beginning on page 238, photographing models in various state of undress in designs by top designers Giorgio Armani, Versace, Donna Karan, Louis Vuitton and others. The stylings, by Camilla Nickerson, are too outrageous to appear in public but that may not stop headline-hungry celebrities.

On the plus side, Hollywood star Nicole Kidman is featured on this month’s cover along with co-star Daniel Craig. What a beauty she is! And he’s not so bad himself.

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Hello Pal,
 
I need of your assistance. My name is Sgt. Jarvis Reeves Jr. I am a military attache with the Engineering unit here in Ba’qubah Iraq for the United States, we have about $14 Million dollars that we want to move out of the country.
 
My partners and I need a good partner someone we can trust to actualize this venture.The money is from oil proceeds and legal. But we are moving it through diplomatic means to your house directly or a safe and secured location of your choice using diplomatic courier services.
 
But can we trust you? Once the funds get to you, you take your 30% out and keep our own 70%. Your own part of  this deal is to find a safe place where the funds can be sent to. Our own part is sending it to you.
 
If you are interested I will furnish you with more details. Awaiting your urgent response.
 
Your Buddy.
Sgt Jarvis Reeves
 
God Bless America!!!!!!

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This week in Orlando, parents were unable to control their 3-year-old daughter and were removed from a flight home. The flight attendants asked the parents to get the child seated and belted so the plane could take off. After a 15 minute flight delay while the child climbed around and refused to be still, the family was removed from the plane.

I’m glad to see an airline actually taking a stance when children can’t be controlled. This incident reminds me of a five hour “red-eye” flight during which a young girl screamed at the top of her lungs for all but the last 15 or so minutes of the flight.

The flight, which began at midnight, should have been a “sleeping” flight. Unfortunately, the out of control child, who also spent most of the time jumping up and down in her seat, made sleep impossible. The parents wouldn’t stop her, the flight attendants couldn’t stop her, and the passengers just wished something awful would happen to her.

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I’ve been offline for the past four days enjoying some R&R time with my husband. Other than a couple thousand emails to go through, it seems as though I haven’t been “away.”

It’s not easy to stick to a diet when traveling. From airline food with no redeeming nutritional value, to incredible meals of every kind, calorie counting is virtually impossible. That’s when “tomorrow” becomes a word I say to myself with every delicious bite.

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Supposedly this year is going to be the hottest on record. We haven’t had enough resources to deal with the power drain during past heat waves. If temperatures do go as high as projected, I don’t look forward to the blackouts and brownouts we’ll experience. It’ll really focus on just how dependent we are on electricity. And how miserable it can be when the lights go out.

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A few months ago I signed up for free subscriptions to several magazines. It was a bonus through one of my credit cards. Along with Bazaar, Vanity Fair, and W, I put a check in the block next to Stuff. I hadn’t seen the magazine, there was no description as to what kind of “stuff” was inside, so I didn’t really know what to expect.

Okay, if you’re a guy, you want to read Stuff. It’s a guy’s magazine full of really great looking women but not the raunchy stuff you’ll find in Penthouse type magazines. These women are hot and they wear a little bit of clothing to keep some mystery.

There are also some good, fairly short, articles, (isn’t that what people who read Playboy say?) on a variety of subjects focused primarily toward males. The February issue has an interview with Jesse James of West Coast Choppers who says he is “the weirdo on the corner who builds bikes.” The issue also dishes some dirt about cheap celebrities and takes a look at a few extremely pricey high-tech gadgets such as the $100,000 robotic hand.

I was also surprised to read about Fabio’s expansive and expensive (”a million or two”) home theater. Who would have thought his dream is to own seven-foot-tall Krell speakers?

Know where there’s a $161 sandwich? The info is on page 16 of this month’s issue.

I doubt I’m the only woman who thinks Stuff is pretty interesting reading.

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Hello My Friend,

Do accept my sincere apologies if my mail does not meet your personal Ethics.

I introduce myself as Mr Fredrick Kutai a staff in the accounts management Section of awell-known Bank here in the Nigeria.

One of our accounts with holding balance of 13,500,000 (Thriteen million five hundred Thousand United State Dollars) has been dormant and last operated in the past 3 years.

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According to a newspaper report, the man who won the nearly $315 million Powerball on Christmas 2002, and took a lump sum of $113 million after taxes, is apparently broke.

Money in that quantity should buy happiness but it seems to have brought Jack Whittaker nothing but bad luck. His granddaughter died of a drug overdose. He was arrested on drunk driving charges. He has been sued for bouncing checks at casinos in Atlantic City. His vehicles have been burglarized. His business has been burglarized.

And, then, last September, Whittaker says “a team of crooks” “got all my money” when they cashed checks at twelve City National Bank branches. The bank is investigating.

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