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Water is the lifeblood of Florida's economy and essential to our health and quality of life. We must stand up and speak out for our waterways, or we risk losing them.
Join Senator Bob Graham, Commissioner Rebecca Bays, and concerned citizens of Citrus County at "Speak Up Homosassa Springs," a call to action to protect and restore the waters of Citrus County and all of Florida's treasured waterways. There will be no admission charge to Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park, one of Florida's most spectacular State Parks, which features a floating underwater observatory, manatees, wading birds, red wolves, a six month old Florida panther, as well as other wildlife and exhibits. Attendees will have the chance to learn and enjoy the beauty of natural Florida through discussions, nature activities, presentations and music from the Magic Bus Band.
Saturday, September 6th, 2014 at 10am - 4pm
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4150 S. Suncoast Blvd.
Homosassa, Florida 34446
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Speak Up Homosassa Springs in pdf
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Monday, August 11, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Florida Panther Kitten Yuma will move into Park's Panther Habitat on August 21
Guest article by Susan Strawbridge, Park Services Specialist
Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park will be highlighting the Florida Panther during the month of August. Early this year, the Wildlife Park started introducing monthly themes featuring special programs on the month's topic. Two programs are planned on the August's Florida Panther theme.
The first program will be presented by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission's wildlife biologist Mark Lotz on August 11, 2014, starting at 1:00 p.m. in the Education Center. The audience will hear Mark Lotz talk about his work as a wildlife biologist specializing in Florida Panthers. He started with the agency 20 years ago when the estimated number of Florida Panthers was between 30-50. Since that time Mark and the FWC panther team have worked with partners to increase the panther population to current levels. Mark's duties include the envious task of capturing adult panthers for on-going radio-telemetry studies and examining kittens (like Yuma) in the den when they are only a few days old.
Lotz is also on the front lines of resolving human-panther conflicts resulting from the successive recovery of the Florida Panther. Mark was one of three biologists recently recognized by the Florida Wildlife Federation for contributing greatly to the research, management and conservation of the panther population in Florida. Originally from Ohio, Mark graduated from the Ohio State University with a degree in wildlife management. Immediately following graduation, Mark worked for the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge for three seasons as a wild land firefighter before beginning his career with the FWC. Mark plans to give his talk on some basic panther biology and maybe focus more on kitten work tying it into Yuma. He will also talk about the state of the panther and what FWC does and the agency's role in panther conservation efforts.
Thursday, August 21, 2014, will be the day that Yuma, the endangered Florida Panther kitten, will be moving into his new home in the Wildlife Park's Panther exhibit. Yuma will then be seven months old and will weigh over 30 pounds. He will be released into the refurbished habitat at 10:00 a.m. on that day. The 80' by 120' exhibit has been re-planted with new sod and includes a rock-bordered pond.
In January, the approximately 7-day-old kitten was rescued in the Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge in Collier County by biologists with the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and the Conservancy of Southwest Florida. The 1-pound male kitten was found in a matted-down area of sawgrass and was non-responsive with a dangerously low body temperature. Biologists determined that the kitten was in very poor condition and would not survive without intervention. The decision was made to rescue him and bring him into captivity.
The kitten was immediately transported to the Animal Specialty Hospital in Naples where veterinarians and staff performed life-saving measures to treat him for dehydration, malnourishment, and to raise his body temperature. Once stabilized, he was transported to Lowry Park Zoo for further rehabilitation and vaccinations. While in their care, he continued to improve, gaining weight and strength.
On April 3, 2014, the Florida Panther kitten was moved to Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park where he will make his home. The kitten who was named Yuma, meaning "Son of the Chieftain," was kept for the first few weeks in the Felburn Wildlife Care Building so he could acclimate to a new environment and to the Wildlife Care staff. He was then moved to an outdoor enclosure with a night house behind the Panther Exhibit.
Both programs are included in regular park admission, which is $13 for adults (ages 13 and up) and $5 for children ages 6 through 12. Children age 5 and under are admitted free. Come to our programs, and you may enjoy an all-day visit to the Wildlife Park. Learn about our new Florida Panther kitten and see him at a distance, weather permitting.
In other news at the Park, The Education Center reopened in March after the first phase of restoration was completed on this historic building. The building was the original entrance to Nature's Giant Fish Bowl and was built in the 1940s. The roof was replaced, and brick work was added to the lower half off the interior walls to protect the building from water damage. The remaining interior walls were repainted. The Springs Time Line, a new educational exhibit, will soon be installed featuring a series of panels that will tell the story of the Park's first-magnitude spring and the Park through history.
The Wildlife Puppeteers will be presenting a puppet show on Saturday, August 9, 2014, starting at 1:00 pm. The puppet show is entitled "Whose Habitat is it Anyway?" starring Tori, a little girl, and her new friend Beary, a Florida Black Bear cub. They meet in Tori's backyard and learn about each other and how they can better get along and share the habitat.
As you can see, we have a lot planned for August and we encourage you to visit Ellie Schiller Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park to learn about the importance of the Endangered Florida Panther and all of Florida's wildlife. For more information on either event or to register for the Florida Panther program, please call Susan Strawbridge at (352) 628-5445, ext. 1002.
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Insatiable's Pimp March 7, 2014
I have to agree with Insatiable, I think most of the girls, especially in the vintage videos, have a mouth full of fake cum. When I get a blowjob I can't finish there, it's too sensitive or, I guess it's a fear of the teeth or something. But either way.
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6:40 whats her name
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We need more women like Insatiable in Florida... Nothing better than a woman who loves cum...
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6:40 name?
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Who's the girl starting at 6:35 ???
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i'd like to have any or all those guys fill my mouth with their hot cum.
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Oops I meant 5:33 only real cum shot,and I would've licked every drop:-P
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too many fakes.....
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name of the girl 5.13 - 5.31
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Distan November 17, 2010
Wonderful clips Love to see a cock shoot in the mouth this way. That's also how I like to get a blowjob from a woman - or a man, sometimes. Love to see the cum run down their chin
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anyone know the name of the girl at 3:07-3:50
A January 7, 2011
What's with old porn showing the guys face as he's about to go? Nothing ruins it more than a fucking dude's O face.
faget January 20, 2011
the last girl sure gets a mouth full lol
ass February 8, 2011
this sucks, retro sucks
Good Times February 2, 2011
Name of the girl in 5:13 - 5:31 is Goatse (not sure of her actuall name)
hkb February 2, 2011
K October 15, 2010
yeah, who the hell is that at the end? shes hot!
nem August 27, 2010
whos the chick in the last scene?
dodger June 18, 2010
That chic laying on top of the dude in second last scene is hot...she sux like a pro!!
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Yep and they're probably still sucking cock and swallowing cum.
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oldest porn escenes ever... still good.
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this must be said... Old time pornos were less hardcore and more sensual... I prefer them.
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J Porn February 3, 2012
Can someone list here the names of the original movies please?
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Pauline p December 11, 2011
Name of that chick ?
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Last one is great- Wonder if a Gal could take a Big Load from Peter North in their Mouth?
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The girl in the first scene was called Anita oder Colette in 80th-movies by Magma (Regie: Moli). I am still looking for old tapes with that great busty girl. She did anal in those early clips too, wich was not that usual as it is today.
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does somebody remember of Teresa Orlowski? and her good old school porn movies? I really miss them.
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The ids were shot over 20 years ago and these chicks probably have teen aged sons jacking off to mommy sucking a juicy load,,,so hot,keep it in the family
oral aficianado July 12, 2011
the lovely lady that licks up every drop is a treasure.
wtf? July 10, 2011
any of this not from a hundred years ago?
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Thats sum retro shit. Yesss
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these are the normal sized dicks we looking for
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Sophie is focused. Early this summer, she decreed we would maintain our backyard habitat / garden so we can truly enjoy it. And so we have.
CadMur Manor hasn't seen a better summer since we began our outdoor project, in 1999. The weeds aren't winning, and for our nurturing efforts, we have a multitude of happy butterflies, moths, hummingbirds, wrens, goldfinches, chipmunks, garter snakes, toads, field mice, garden spiders, caterpillars and scores of other species of birds, reptiles, mammals, insects and arachnids. The ubiquitous rabbits and deer are especially grateful for our generous helpings of salad -- we call it our hydrangea, phlox, iris and blackberry mix. (Why can't they learn to like bind weed?)
The idea of creating our wildlife oasis on our tiny 50-foot by 100-foot urban lot developed from my desire to reduce our lawn footprint to almost nothing. Why? Because lawns are evil, an unnecessary invention:
- They require harmful chemicals, fossil fuels and lots of water and labor just to make them look acceptable by most "community standards"; many a suburb has a handful of residents who overdo it to the ridiculous degree, trying to replicate a putting green in their front yard
- Lawns hold water only little better than pavement, and they contribute to overloading our storm sewers, causing overflows and forcing raw sewage to dump into our streams and lakes during heavy rain events
- Much of the fertilizers and pesticides we apply to lawns (usually in quantities that far exceed the need) simply get washed off during a rain event and carried to our local streams or sewer-shed, where they make their way into Lake Erie, from which most of us in Greater Cleveland draw our drinking water.
In our tiny oasis, we use virtually no pesticides and we go easy on the fertilizer. Rain water soaks into our permeable landscape rather than streaming toward the storm sewers or nearby Mill Creek. Many of our plants are drought-tolerant, so we water less than we would otherwise. And yes, it does take a fraction of the time to mow and trim the sparse lawn area.
Still, our garden doesn't take care of itself, much as I might wish. All that time I save not mowing is more than applied to cultivating and caring for the rest of the yard. We weed, thin, trim and mulch, spending at least as much time keeping it up as we do sitting in and enjoying it from one of our three outdoor "rooms" -- on the stone patio, under the gazebo or around the fire pit.
But we don't garden so we can sit on our butts. (Ask Sophie, the decreer.) As in life, we try hard not to focus on a final destination -- a peak moment where everything blooms at once in a weedless world where the sun shines just so and the birds sing as a chorus dedicated solely to our enjoyment. Even when we may experience a moment like that, then what? Is that our destination? What happens after that? And after that?
There is only one final destination for any person, so far as I know. Much better to attend to our journey and enjoy the ride, day to day, moment to moment and the moments within the moments. Gardening helps us do this. As we travel on our journey, we may choose to perform life-affirming acts, watering, planting, mulching, weeding and fertilizing where we can, when we can. The journey unfolds as we tend to our garden, not so much when we stop and watch.
Even as we toil and tend, there are other forces at work that are beyond our control, beyond our understanding. Only with those forces do our flowers bloom, does the rain fall or the sun shine, does gravity work and life flow. Those forces have their own rules, their own way, and they may not care much for our plans, one way or the other. How then do we work with or against nature and continue to enjoy our journey?
Our experience is that not everything grows as we want. Some plants wither. Others don't grow at all. Like troubles, new weeds pop up in new places, their seeds germinating tirelessly, without end. If we're dedicated, we continue tending while traveling on our journey, doing our part as best we can. We accept nature's verdicts, live with them, experience them as they occur.
As we become seasoned gardeners and live in harmony with nature, learn from it, take its cues, and become familiar with our capabilities as well as our limitations, we come to enjoy our journey, whether dripping with sweat while pulling weeds or sitting calmly on the patio in the early evening and imagining the call of a nearby screech owl and even closer chirping crickets, creating their symphony just for us. Because they do, if we let them.
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The general study of the relationships between motion, forces, and energy is called mechanics. It is a large field and its study is essential to the understanding of physics, which is why these chapters appear first. Mechanics can be divided into sub-disciplines by combining and recombining its different aspects. Three of these are given special names.
Motion is the action of changing location or position. The study of motion without regard to the forces or energies that may be involved is called kinematics. It is the simplest branch of mechanics. The branch of mechanics that deals with both motion and forces together is called dynamics and the study of forces in the absence of changes in motion or energy is called statics.
The term energy refers an abstract physical quantity that is not easily perceived by humans. It can exist in many forms simultaneously and only acquires meaning through calculation. A system possesses energy if it has the ability to do work. The energy of motion is called kinetic energy
Whenever a system is affected by an outside agent, its total energy changes. In general, a force is anything that causes a change (like a change in energy or motion or shape). When a force causes a change in the energy of a system, physicists say that work has been done. The mathematical statement that relates forces to changes in energy is called the work-energy theorem.
When the total of all the different forms of energy is determined, we find that it remains constant in systems that are isolated from their surroundings. This statement is known as the law of conservation of energy and is one of the really big concepts in all of physics, not just mechanics.
The first few chapters of this book are basically about these topics in this order…
There may be other schemes, but for purposes of this book there are basically three types of motion.
The chapters in the section of this book about mechanics are basically arranged in this order…
Are there additional types of motion? Well, it depends on whom you ask and when you ask them. All motion is basically translational to some extent; that is to say, you can't be moving unless you (or a part of you) moves from one place to another. There is possibly a fourth type of motion that goes nowhere in the long run (not intentionally, anyway) and yet does not require that the object ever return to a particular location.
Prior to the Renaissance, the most significant works in mechanics were those written in the Fourth Century BCE by the Greek philosopher Aristotle of Stagira (384–322 BCE) — these were Mechanics, On the Heavens, and The Nature or in Greek Μηχανικά (Mekhanika), Περί Ουρανού (Peri Uranu), and Φυσική Ακρόασις (Fysike Akroasis). Although the first section of every general physics textbook is about mechanics, Aristotle's Mechanics probably wasn't written by him and won't be discussed here. On the Heavens will be discussed later in this book.
The Nature is Aristotle's work that's most relevant to this book. That's because it's the origin of the word physics. The full name Φυσική Ακρόασις (Fysike Akroasis) translates literally to "Lesson on Nature" but "The Lesson on the Nature of Things" is probably more faithful. The Nature acquired great stature in the Western world and was identified almost reverently by academics as Τὰ Φυσικά (Ta Fysika) — The Physics. In this book Aristotle introduced the concepts of space, time, and motion as elements in a larger philosophy of the natural world. Consequently, a person who studied the nature of things was called a "natural philosopher" or "physicist" and the subject they studied was called "natural philosophy" or "physics". Incidentally, this is also the origin of the words "physician" (one who studies the nature of the human body) and "physique" (the nature or state of the human body).
Aristotle professed many things about the physical world and certainly was a great thinker for his time. Unfortunately his scientific statements are usually wrong — sometimes comically. The English philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) compiled a list of Aristotle's worst offenses in his 1943 essay An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish.
Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the winter, when the wind is in the north, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker then that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on.
Aristotle was a philosopher, not a scientist, He is sometimes credited as the inventor of logic. ("Invent" may be too strong a word here. Certainly without Aristotle, logic would have evolved differently.) And logic and reasoning are central to science, so it seems logical and reasonable to assume that Aristotle could have been one of the first scientists. Unfortunately, that's not the way it went. Russell said it best.
Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.
Science is different from other human activities. It doesn't matter what you reason yourself into logically (all swans are white), what you feel emotionally (dogs are better than cats), or what is accepted culturally (there ain't no room for sheep in cattle country). In the end, it all comes down to observation.
The statement "women have fewer teeth than men" is famous now, not because Aristotle said it, but because Russell said Aristotle said it. The original quote came from Aristotle's History of Animals, which I managed to find in both the original Greek and an English translation.
Ἔχουσι δὲ πλείους οἱ ἄρρενες τῶν θηλειῶν ὀδόντας καὶ ἐν ἀνθρώποις καὶ ἐπὶ προβάτων καὶ αἰγῶν καὶ ὑῶν· ἐπὶ δὲ τῶν ἄλλων οὐ τεθεώρηταί πω. Males have more teeth than females in the case of men, sheep, goats, and swine; in the case of other animals observations have not yet been made Aristotle, ca. 350 BCE
How astoundingly ironic.
This sorry state of affairs persisted in the Western world for roughly a millennium and half. It took an Italian from Pisa Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) to show the world how to see.


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The book tells the intriguing story of cabin era life including; "wooin' and marryin' and birthin' and buryin'." It also includes the actual original land history before and after the Battle of Shiloh, and, descriptions from a variety of sources for the battle events themselves, that took place near this surviving civilian cabin. The story goes on through reconstruction, ownership changes, a local 1880's memoir and the Shiloh National Military Park development, as described by newspaper transcriptions. On a more personal side, the book reveals the painful struggles of a family feud, diary transcriptions in 1901 by a local resident and another memoir by an early 1900's park resident in addition to more recent stories of "Hollywood" calling, archeology digs nearby and battle anniversary celebrations at the park. The book is a close up look at historic events surrounding a log cabin built by 1848, standing yet today in 2011…a true American relic.
Known as the Manse George Cabin in the park today, initially as the War Cabin, it was orginally built by the Lewis Wicker family and is the subject source of the books history.
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About Katy Perry
Katy Perry was born and raised by Christian pastor parents in Santa Barbara, Calif. After earning her GED during her freshman year of high school, Perry headed into the music business armed with experience gleaned from singing in the church choir.
Katy's choir performances caught the ear of some Nashville music executives who took her to Music City to work on her songwriting and guitar playing. After knocking out some demos, she signed to Red Hill Records. Her first release – under Katy Hudson, her birth name – was an eponymous gospel record in 2001. The label shuttered its doors the following year, leaving the record and artist in limbo.
Over the course of the next few years, two more projects also failed. One of which was produced by The Matrix for Columbia Records; the second by Glen Ballard for Island Def Jam Records. In 2007, Katy was signed to Capitol Music, her fourth label in only seven years. She also switched over to become Katy Perry and began polishing her image. Her first single, "Ur So Gay," was released on the Internet in November of that year and started building some momentum for the young artist when Madonna took notice and mentioned her on a morning radio show....read more


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The precise sequence of events that enable mammary tumorigenesis to convert transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) from a tumor suppressor to a tumor promoter remains incompletely understood. We show here that X-linked inhibitor of apoptosis protein (xIAP) is essential for the ability of TGF-beta to stimulate nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) in metastatic 4T1 breast cancer cells. Indeed whereas TGF-beta suppressed NF-kappaB activity in normal mammary epithelial cells, those engineered to overexpress xIAP demonstrated activation of NF-kappaB when stimulated with TGF-beta. Additionally up-regulated xIAP expression also potentiated the basal and TGF-beta-stimulated transcriptional activities of Smad2/3 and NF-kappaB. Mechanistically xIAP (i) interacted physically with the TGF-beta type I receptor, (ii) mediated the ubiquitination of TGF-beta-activated kinase 1 (TAK1), and (iii) facilitated the formation of complexes between TAK1-binding protein 1 (TAB1) and IkappaB kinase beta that enabled TGF-beta to activate p65/RelA and to induce the expression of prometastatic (i.e. cyclooxygenase-2 and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1) and prosurvival (i.e. survivin) genes. We further observed that inhibiting the E3 ubiquitin ligase function of xIAP or expressing a mutant ubiquitin protein (i.e. K63R-ubiquitin) was capable of blocking xIAP- and TGF-beta-mediated activation of NF-kappaB. Functionally xIAP deficiency dramatically reduced the coupling of TGF-beta to Smad2/3 in NMuMG cells as well as inhibited their expression of mesenchymal markers in response to TGF-beta. More importantly, xIAP deficiency also abrogated the formation of TAB1.IkappaB kinase beta complexes in 4T1 breast cancer cells, thereby diminishing their activation of NF-kappaB, their expression of prosurvival/metastatic genes, their invasion through synthetic basement membranes, and their growth in soft agar. Collectively our findings have defined a novel role for xIAP in mediating oncogenic signaling by TGF-beta in breast cancer cells.
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Sex…it's everyone's dirty little secret. Almost 90% of us will have issues in regards to sex at some point in our lives. Yet, we don't want to talk about it – especially with our partners. Why? Our culture doesn't approve. It has simply sucked all of the fun out of sex. When it's discussed it either seems sterile or dirty.
It's time we embrace the fun and the simplicity of when sex works and get over our self-critical ways. The research has shown that sex begets sex. But we all seem to get so caught up in just getting it in and getting it done, that no one is really present or enjoying it. Or we are all so orgasm driven that it becomes all about "performance". 12 Minute Sex Solution: A Realistic Guide to "Married' Sex, radically shifts how we view sexuality and what defines sex. Orgasms are great; but what happens when we remove orgasm as the goal? We allow ourselves to be more present, have more sex in the midst of our busy daily lives and bring the fun back to our sexual trysts. Whether you are 25 or 75 odds are you need to change how you think about sex. The first step towards that is committing to "getting it on" with our partners, just 4 times out of one week. It is the simplest of sex-periments.
There are 5 tenants of 12 Minute Sex Solution:
• 10 minutes per day of body to body 4 times over the course of 1 week.
• Quantity over quality – You heard that right guys.
• No performing to get to the "Big O". No more anxiety.
• Fooling around instead of foreplay. There's a broader definition of sex. Women will love that it isn't all about penetration.
• 2 minute talks. That's it. No flowery commitments, guttural chanting or technical jargon, just 2 minutes of sex talk 4 days out of 7.
The research shows that "married" sex usually happens a paltry 12-15 times per year for most couples. Polls have consistently shown that 60% of the population is unhappy with their sex lives at any given time. After all, the realities of every day life seem to conspire against us (kids, mortgages, work). There is simply not enough time in the day to devote to thick, clinical volumes diagnosing what's "wrong" or heavy, esoteric love-making manuals that require lots of new age mumbo-jumbo and journaling/worksheet activities. These options are just not realistic. Most couples just end up feeling beaten up and overwhelmed, reconfirming they will never be as sexually satisfied.
12 Minute Sex Solution, takes these issues to heart. This book makes working on your sex life bite-sized and manageable. The benefits end up seeming almost accidental because the five tenants the book is based on are simple and fun. Moreover, it is delivered in a voice that is fresh, irreverent and conversational.
12 Minute Sex Solution is the self-help sex book for people who hate to read self-help. It's brief, realistic and fun to read while actually offering a true solution to those who are stuck in a sexual slump. It's finally a book where both partners feel like they can get the sex they deserve.
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Graduation, whether from a school or university, hold special significance for the graduate and his near and dear ones. It marks the passage of time spent in doing hard work and the anticipation for the future success. It's a time for jubilations and parties! And what's a celebration party without a cake! There are many ways you can make the
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Use wafer paper to make a diploma. Brown edges either with paste color or airbrush spray. Next, hold carefully over steam and melt edges into a curl. Write on with Cake Decorating Pens 'Congratulations on this memorable day. You have made us proud'. Lay on cake.
You can use a School logo on wafer paper- enlarge logo at copy store. Lay wafer paper over image and trace lines with Cake Decorating Pens. Finish coloring in with the pens or if you have an airbrush, after tracing picture then spray water on your dry icing and lay traced logo in place. Spray in with airbrush colors.
Design the graduation cake with miniature grad statues, owl picks, #1sign, graduation candles, grad caps and paper diploma. The plastic Graduation Hats are a 2-piece Novelty item - Surprise the lucky grad with a gift inside!
Make edible diplomas-Roll up a pumpkin roll and ice as a diploma. Use Ready Rolled Fondant to make a diploma, etc.
Use a candy mold or a pantastic pan to add decorative graduation items, numbers to your cakes with chocolate, fondant, gum paste, sugar, mint dough, etc. Make now and keep in a cool place.
Make edible Graduation cap, here's a tip- Place a miniature peanut butter cup from size 5 mold, bottom up on a plate. Top with a small dollop of frosting or peanut butter, and then press on a (chocolate coating-covered) covered graham cracker. For a tassel, tightly roll up a small square of fruit leather. Cut fringe in one end and attach the other end to the center of the graham cracker with another dab of frosting or peanut butter.
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Monarchs have rough day at Garden City
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GARDEN CITY -- After watching his team lose 4-0 to cross-town rival Hays High School in the McPherson Tournament, Thomas More Prep-Marian boys' soccer coach Shawn Larson knew he had reason to be concerned about his Monarchs' road trip to face the Garden City Buffaloes.
His fears became well-founded on Tuesday when the Buffaloes manhandled the Monarchs, 10-2, at Buffalo Stadium.
"It's about what I expected," Lawson said in watching his team fall to 2-3 for the young season. "We've got kids from five or six other towns, six or seven from different countries and it's kind of like putting a puzzle together. We're still working on finding the pieces to the puzzle."
Playing at the stadium on the new Garden City campus, the teams were battling southerly wind blowing at a steady 25 to 30 mph with gusts up to 36.
"I knew if we didn't get a few goals in the first half (with trailing wind), we'd be in trouble," Lawson said.
Garden City took just 10 minutes into the game to get its offense into gear..
Diego Benitez provided the early scoring spark for the Buffs, getting a cross from Joel Sanchez in the 10th minute. Exactly four minutes later, in the 14th minute, Jose Alcantar got a rebound off a TMP defender and knocked the shot in to make it 2-0.
The Monarchs would cut the deficit in half when they scored on a penalty kick by Rodney Deus when one of the Garden players got called for a handball. That score came in the 22nd minute.
Not to be deterred, the TMP score seemed to ignite the Buffs as they quickly added two more goals before halftime.
Less than two minutes later, Benitez got his second goal on a direct kick in the 24th minute. Then sophomore forward Erik Barragan scored on a dribble up the left line and slid between two TMP defenders and knocked the ball in past a diving Monarch goalkeeper, Collan Lawson in the 26th minute.
That provided a 4-1 halftime margin for the home team.
The Buffs kept the pressure on at the outset of the second half as Sanchez took a long cross from Barragan to knock it in the far right side of the goal past Lawson to make it 5-1.
It would continue to be a scoring affair for the Buffs as they added goals by Joel Sanchez (45th and 48th minutes), Emilio Castillo (53rd minute), David Fuentes (73rd minute), Kevin Juardo (75th minute) and Ismael Hernandez (76th minute). The Monarchs lone goal of the second half came just 20 seconds after Juardo's goal when Tyler Reuschoff scored.
It is a Monarch team dominated by freshmen and sophomores for coach Lawson, who takes players each year from out of town and out of country and tries to blend them together.
"We've got some great individual players, and we've got some players who are just learning the game," Lawson said. "We knew after seeing Garden had beaten Hays (3-1) and we lost to Hays (4-0), that it would be a tough game for us. When we didn't get much of anything in the first half, I knew it would be a long game."
Despite the lopsided loss, Lawson said the team was improving.
"We had a lot of offsides, but I thought our backside play was better and the kids were not giving up," Lawson said.
TMP goalkeeper Collan Lawson had 10 saves for the Monarchs. They are on the road again on Thursday at Buhler for a 4 p.m. contest.


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Speaking of Mark Halperin, the Politico's Michael Calderone notes that while Time's Joe Klein seems to have been banned from the McCain press plane for being too critical ("We don't allow Daily Kos diarists on board either," a McCain spokesperson says), "other Time magazine staffers, including Washington bureau chief Jay Carney, " reporter Michael Scherer and Mark Halperin (the Page), have not had a problem with access."
Blogger Matthew Yglesias observes:
You might think that if Time were a real news organization, it would stand up for Klein and say that if the McCain/Palin campaign isn't going to let Klein on the plane, then they're not going to send some other journalists to give them kinder coverage. Instead, though, Time operates in conventional MSM style. If you get good access, your stories get good placement. So if, like Scherer and Halperin, you decline to tell the truth about McCain, you get access to McCain and your career benefits. If you do tell the truth about McCain, you lose access to McCain and your career suffers. Which is a great way to run a magazine if you donâ┚¬Ã¢"ž¢t care about informing your audience. Which, I guess, Time's owners and editors donâ┚¬Ã¢"ž¢t care about.


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Hi all, Let me try this again! The previous blog I wrote was accidentally deleted when we had some website issues. Seems all sorted now so here goes. Isn't it just crazy how time flies? Last week Ian and I spent three days working on the website and doing some serious HOPE planning. Ian has put in a huge amount of work on the site and I am very grateful – thanks Ian. The website is up and running. All the necessary info to get us started is there and the rest will follow as we make progress. We had […]
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Embellish fabric with a fun crystal dragonfly for a quilt, patchwork block or clothing. Everyone will appreciate this touch of sparkle, from Kandi Corp.
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- Prepare template for dragonfly motif by tracing outline of motif only (link below).
- Choose area on crazy patchwork for dragonfly motif; lightly transfer pattern using removable fabric marking pencil.
- Choose the correct size concave tip to fit the amethyst crystals for the applicator wand; screw into the wand.
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Why Express (EXPR) Stock Is Surging This Morning
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Shares of Express Inc. (EXPR - Get Report) are surging, up 26.94% to $17.20 in pre-market trade, as Sycamore Partners said it's interested in acquiring the troubled clothing retailer company, Bloomberg reports.
Sycamore now has a 9.9% stake in Express, and in a letter to the retailer's board said that it would like to conduct due diligence to determine a takeover price.
Though Express responded by adopting a poison-pill defense, Sycamore's interest sent the shares as high as $18 after hours. The stock had closed at $13.55 before the letter was disclosed, giving the Columbus, Ohio-based company a market value of $1.14 billion, Bloomberg said.
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- EXPR, with its decline in revenue, slightly underperformed the industry average of 2.0%. Since the same quarter one year prior, revenues slightly dropped by 9.6%. Weakness in the company's revenue seems to have hurt the bottom line, decreasing earnings per share.
- Despite any intermediate fluctuations, we have only bad news to report on this stock's performance over the last year: it has tumbled by 33.48%, worse than the S&P 500's performance. Consistent with the plunge in the stock price, the company's earnings per share are down 84.21% compared to the year-earlier quarter. Naturally, the overall market trend is bound to be a significant factor. However, in one sense, the stock's sharp decline last year is a positive for future investors, making it cheaper (in proportion to its earnings over the past year) than most other stocks in its industry. But due to other concerns, we feel the stock is still not a good buy right now.
- EXPRESS INC has experienced a steep decline in earnings per share in the most recent quarter in comparison to its performance from the same quarter a year ago. Earnings per share have declined over the last two years. We anticipate that this should continue in the coming year. During the past fiscal year, EXPRESS INC reported lower earnings of $1.38 versus $1.60 in the prior year. For the next year, the market is expecting a contraction of 39.9% in earnings ($0.83 versus $1.38).
- The gross profit margin for EXPRESS INC is currently lower than what is desirable, coming in at 34.05%. It has decreased from the same quarter the previous year. Along with this, the net profit margin of 1.10% trails that of the industry average.
- Net operating cash flow has significantly decreased to -$31.19 million or 681.73% when compared to the same quarter last year. In addition, when comparing to the industry average, the firm's growth rate is much lower.
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Today is International Women's Day.
My experiences with this day in the past seven years have been varied. In Ukraine, and all of the Former Soviet Union, the day is a public holiday to celebrate the fact that women do everything for their men and children in those countries. It is basically akin to Mother's Day.
When I came back to Australia, I was surprised to notice how politically charged the day can be (in a good way of course!) with many many feminist undertones. (DUH I hear you say. But after experiencing three years worth of it in the FSU, you'd be surprised as well).
I tell you, most people who get behind IWD in Australia would cringe at the fact that in the FSU it means that women receive flowers, get waited on hand and foot and basically rejoice in their femininity rather than their feminism.
And then, when I was working in the Northern Territory, I was lucky enough to be involved in the 100 years of International Women's Day celebrations. It provided me with a great insight to really understand how important the event is to both women and men in Australia. It was also wonderful to see more great Territory women being honoured, as they are year after year.
I'm not sure how the day will pan out in Timor-Leste. I'm guessing that most women here have no idea that today is International Women's Day, and with the withdrawal of the United Nations late last year, there will be even less of an emphasis. I'll be keeping my eyes peeled, and I'll report back in the case that I'm completely mistaken.
On another note, I have tentatively started a new blog project in collaboration with a couple of other International Women – Corinne and Carly. We're a little slow off the mark and it will always be a work in progress, but I don't want to rest on my laurels forever.
Wandering Women is the new blog, and I hope that it will be a collection place for all the stories of many women who I meet from around the world, sharing their experiences of wandering. I can't promise excitement, but bookmark it and visit occasionally ;)
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The Detroit Branch NAACP is excited to introduce the "Ask The Lawyer" program as a new service to its members and citizens of the city of Detroit. Once a month an attorney will be on site at the branch office to give advice and counsel on legal issues FREE of Charge!
Volunteers from some of the most prominent law firms in Detroit will participate, donating their time and resources to help the community. "Ask The Lawyer" will take place once a month for a full day. Citizens interested in using this service should visit the Detroit Branch NAACP office every 1st Wednesday of the month between the hours of 10:00am – 12:00pm and 1:00pm – 3:00pm. No appointments necessary. The scope of the free consultations will range from:
- Employment Issues
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- Probate, Conservatorship & Guardianship
- Drivers License Suspensions
- Social Security Disability & Medicare
- Bankruptcy & Debt Collections
- Divorce, Custody & Child Support
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Archive for May, 2012
The slow death of fast food
Posted by Nick Jacobs in EU on May 16, 2012
Another year, another dire health warning about fast food.
This time the sector is under fire from the influential American Institute of Medicine. The dangerous obesity epidemic engulfing America – and many other countries – cannot be put down to personal choice alone, the report states. Washington is advised to consider a tax on sugary drinks, and to ensure that healthy options – and not merely fast food – are available at shopping malls and sports facilities.
In short, it is the obesogenic environment that must change – and nothing characterises this environment more than fast food outlets and the cheap and abundant calories they offer.
How has fast food survived so long, and what future does it have, when McDonald's, Burger King and KFC are the public face of a public health crisis? Judging by the figures, the fast food industry is in much ruder health than its customers. Fast food sales remained steady in the US through the worst of the economic crisis, and actually increased in Britain, France and Japan, while whole swathes of the restaurant and retail sectors fell by the wayside.
But while individuals can still afford a Big Mac, the public purse can no longer afford to pay for the fallout. The costs of fighting diet-related diseases such as diabetes and heart disease are becoming untenable: obesity in the US – now afflicting 34% of people – is responsible for an additional $190 billion (€241 billion) per year in healthcare costs, according to Reuters. In this climate, all avenues for tackling overeating will be explored, and fast food will be subject to more scrutiny than ever.
However, recent evolutions in the sector demonstrate just how resilient and adaptable it has proved itself to be. For many years now, a combination of public opinion and regulatory pressure have forced the sector into an ongoing process of rebranding and reinvention. Offering salads and smoothies alongside burgers and coke is no longer an eccentric marketing ploy – it is effectively a prerequisite for chains that wish to stay in business. Burger King fell behind its competitors during the recession, but is bouncing back this year largely on the basis of revamping its menus to include new healthy options. There is, presumably, no healthy way to produce fried chicken – but KFC has nonetheless signposted its own commitment to de-stodgifying its output by bringing in the Kentucky Grilled Chicken range. McDonald's, through its McCafé experiment, has gone furthest and fastest in its bid to associate itself with Starbucks-style modern consumerism: quick but healthy, snack and beverage-driven, young professional.
From nutritional greenwashing to real change
Often these healthy branding offensives are the nutritional equivalent of 'green-washing'. McDonald's new UK kids' beverage, Fruitizz, contains twelve spoonfuls of sugar – and yet promotional campaigns highlight how it delivers one of the requisite 'five a day'. Subway, which now holds more franchises worldwide than McDonald's, goes to lengths to convince customers that it is a fresh sandwich company rather than a fast food outlet. Yet stacks of processed meat, melted cheese, abundant sauce, and the possibility for the sandwich to be 12 inches (30 centimetres!) long, make its offerings nutritionally akin to fast food.
Even when the healthy options are genuinely healthy, expanding and adapting the menu in the way McDonald's and Burger King have done is a relatively painless rebranding process: the core items remain as fatty, salty, sugary – and cheap – as ever, and continue to drive business.
Only rarely have the ingredients and preparation processes of these core items come under genuine scrutiny – and it is only then that the real change starts to happen.
Following a Jamie Oliver-led campaign, McDonald's, Burger King and Taco Bell recently declared that they would no longer use 'pink slime' – beef containing ammonium hydroxide-treated ground connective tissue – to fill out their burgers. Following a similar outcry in the early 2000s, the leading fast food chains moved to scale back or eradicate trans fats in their cooking oils. Meanwhile the Happy Meal, and similar offerings aimed squarely at children, have been revamped to reduce calories, add fruit and vegetable snacks, and generally pre-empt regulation to this effect – none of which would have occurred had the threat of regulation not been real.
Evolution or revolution?
None of this is enough to stem the negative health outcomes of what remains a food offering based around fried, processed items. But the gradual eradication of the most harmful ingredients and practices does go to show that slowly, surely, with the right mixture of political carrot and stick, and sustained consumer scrutiny, fast food can move towards detoxifying its brand – and the arteries of its customers.
Since the inception of McDonald's in 1940, fast food restaurants have undoubtedly played a role in democratising the experience of dining out. But healthier options are now available in the same price bracket. A shish kebab – freshly grilled chicken or lamb in pitta bread with ample fresh veg – will generally have a better nutritional profile than the pre-made, pre-frozen burgers that pass through the industrial-scale supply chains of major fast food retailers.
Will consumers eventually abandon the Big Mac in favour of healthier convenience food? Or will McDonald's and co ditch the Big Mac altogether in favour of wraps, salads, smoothies and coffee? What, then, will be their unique selling point?
Fast food will not reform itself out of existence, whatever the pressures brought to bear on it. But more likely is that it continues along its current path towards a slow death – in the form of gradually eradicating the corner-cutting, obesity-fuelling practices that define fast food as we know it.
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Is it more harmful for a person to have too few or too many chromosomes?
Answer: "More harmful" - what does this mean? Most chromosome abnormalities are so harmful that the embryo or fetus does not survive long enough to be born. Many many pregnancies end in miscarriage, and many of these are caused by chromosome abnormalities - either numerical differences (too many or too few) or structural differences (damaged chromosomes with missing or extra pieces, or pieces in the wrong order). Some of these miscarriages are so early that the woman may not even realize she has been pregnant.
a.. The perfect number of chromosomes for humans is 46. We have 46 chromosomes in almost all of our cells - that is, 22 pairs of autosomes, numbered 1 through 22, plus the two sex chromosomes, called X and Y. Normally, females contain two X chromosomes in their cells in addition to the 44 autosomes. We describe female chromosomes as 46,XX (46 including 2 X' s). The cells of a male contain an X chromosome and a Y chromosome plus 44 autosomes; we describe their chromosomes as 46,XY.
Can a person survive with too many or too few chromosomes? Since the chromosomes contain genes that are needed for our growth and development, it makes sense that we cannot grow and develop successfully if any chromosomes are missing.
Only in the case of the X chromosome is it possible for a person to survive with a missing chromosome, even though the X chromosome is a fairly large chromosome. Considering that a normal, healthy male can manage with only one X chromosome (and a Y, of course), it is not surprising that a woman with only one X chromosome may be able to survive at all.
A person with only one sex chromosome, an X, will be a female with Turner syndrome, perhaps the mildest of all the chromosome abnormalities. We describe her chromosomes as 45,X (meaning that each cell contains 45 chromosomes, including one X chromosome). Even with Turner syndrome, most pregnancies will not continue to term but will end in a miscarriage - only some will survive. The symptoms of Turner syndrome are quite significant for those who have to live with them.
A person with only one Y chromsome (45,Y) could not survive or be born alive. The X chromsome ahs important genes on it that would be completely missing in such a person.
As to why it is harmful to have an extra chromosome, this is harder to understand. If chromosomes are good, wouldn't additional chromosomes be even better? The answer is no, they would not. The genes on the chromosomes are needed in exactly the correct amount in order to work correctly. (As with medicine, you need the right dose!)
Many genes cause the cell to make proteins of various kinds, and these are needed in the correct amounts. Some genes function by instructing other genes to turn on and off at the right moment, and these instructions need to be precise, accurate and sensitive. Having an extra chromosome is like having a business with too many managers or a family with too many parents or a car with two drivers or a country with two presidents, perhaps giving contradictory instructions.
The smallest of all the chromosomes is chromosome 21. A person who has, not two but three copies of chromosome 21 has Down syndrome, a well-known form of mental retardation.
Are people ever found with other extra chromosomes besides chromosome 21? Hardly ever. Those babies who are born with extra copies of larger chromosomes may not survive for long; they have many different health problems and birth defects.
Once again, the exception is the sex chromosomes. It is possible for males to survive with two Y chromosomes (47, XYY instead of 46, XY). It is also possible to survive with an extra X chromosome - 47, XXX females (triple-X syndrome) and 47, XXY males (Klinefelter syndrome).
By doing research into chromosome differences and the symptoms they cause, we learn about how the genes and chromosomes function most of the time. A syndrome is a set of recognizable symptoms that tend to occur together. New research into the many genes on chromosome 21 is helping scientists to understand which symptoms of Down syndrome are caused by which extra genes. This type of research is also helped by studying people who having extra or missing pieces of chromosomes, as opposed to a whole chromosome being extra or missing. These patients help scientists to narrow down which genes on the chromosomes are responsible for which function in our bodies. It is fascinating!
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You may have heard that a large study that examined the effect of niacin to raise HDL cholesterol was stopped early. This study examined how niacin worked when used with statin medications for people who have a history of heart disease. The trial was stopped because no difference was seen between people who took prescription-strength niacin and people who took a placebo. The study also found there may be a small increase in the risk of stroke for people who take niacin to increase their HDL cholesterol level. More research is necessary to see how effective niacin might be compared with other heart disease medications. You shouldn't stop taking niacin unless you get your doctor's OK. Talk to your doctor if you're concerned about taking niacin.
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Previously known as GA101 or afutuzumab, obinutuzumab is a third generation, experimental, humanized antibody being investigated in a large clinical program, including studies comparing it with Rituxan for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL).
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Obinutuzumab is a glycoengineered, humanized, monoclonal antibody that selectively binds to the extracellular domain of the human CD20 antigen present on the B cell surface in various B cell malignancies. The Fc region carbohydrates of the antibody, enriched in bisected non-fucosylated glycosylation variants, contribute to its higher binding affinity for human FcγRIII receptors compared to non-glycoengineered antibodies, which is believed to result in enhanced antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) and caspase-independent apoptosis. In pre-clinical development, obinutuzumab has shown evidence of increased direct cell killing and ADCC.
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On January 30, 2013, Genentech/Roche announced positive results from Stage 1 of a Phase 3 trial in patients with previously untreated CLL that showed treatment with obinutuzumab plus chlorambucil significantly reduced the risk of disease worsening or death (progression-free survival or PFS) compared to treatment with chlorambucil alone. CLL patients treated with obinutuzumab and chlorambucil had a PFS of 23 months compared to 10.9 months for patients treated with chlorambucil only. Based on these data, Genentech/Roche filed for approval in US and EU for treatment of CLL in May 2013. Subsequently, FDA designated obinutuzumab as a breakthrough therapy for CLL and granted it priority review with a PDUFA date of December 20, 2013.
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Wannabe- I know you follow IE, when you crave something, do you eat it and then that's it, the craving is gone? Just to give you an example of how my mind works, if I'm craving cake, I will eat one cake (sara lee snacks for example), but having introduced that taste makes me crave more sugar, it makes me irritable too if I can't have it. Does that ever happen to you? This is part of the reason why I have to have restrictions with myself.
I know this is addressed to Wannabe but I thought I'd respond, too. When I eat something like candy I find that I will crave it more regularly but that the cravings don't have the same power over me like they used to. Right now I am craving chocolate covered marshmallow candy. I haven't eaten anything like that in years- maybe it's Easter that's evoking the feeling, it doesn't really matter. Anyway I just ate lunch about an hour ago and I still feel like I don't need any food- my hunger has been satisfied. So I acknowledge that the craving is present and I tell myself that when I'm hungry if I'd still like to have some of that candy then I can have some (or something similar, I've got a few different kinds of chocolate at home). When I get hungry again I'll imagine myself eating the chocolate candy- how do I feel? Most of the time even if I'm craving chocolate I will feel like I'd rather eat something else, like some chicken and salad. Sometimes my body really does want the candy so I eat it. It's amazing how little power cravings have when you know you can satisfy them at the next time when you are truly hungry. It doesn't make me go crazy from deprivation because I know I can have just enough to satisfy my craving without making me feel ill.
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"If 5% of your traffic is coming from mobile devices and not generating orders," he says, "apply your normal conversion rate and that will give you the size of the opportunity you have today if you build a viable mobile store."
OK, you don't have a mobile-optimized site, and 5% of your traffic is bouncing—bouncing to some other retailer that does have a mobile site that enables these shoppers to buy then and there. Let's be conservative. Say your average ticket is $100, the industry average according to Forrester Research Inc. Say your conversion rate is 3%, the industry average according to Forrester. And your monthly unique visitors tally is 500,000—a modest number among Internet Retailer Top 500 e-retailers. 5% (the percent of traffic coming from mobile devices) of 500,000 is 25,000. 3% (the conversion rate) of 25,000 is 750. 100 (the average order value) times 750 is 75,000.
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