Many Women are Prostitutes for One Reason They enjoy SEX.
So you can earn money and if you're Attractive about $500/Hour.
You can do ONLY the Guys you want to do.
To me its a WIN-WIN situation but only for the attractive women but a Lose-Lose situatation for the unattractive gals that are now in a (Lose-Win/Win-Lose) situation whatever that means.
The answer is your all CUNTs that withhold stuff from us Guys.
My #1 Celebrity Birthday Person for November 18th is A Tie between a Woman(actress) and a Man(astronaut):
Here's one for you: She appears nude 'live in person' in the play 'The Graduate' appearing in different places around the country and today (2004) is 62 years of age. Not to many 62 year old gals that you'd like to see nude. Linda Evans (I) (70) 1942 Born: Hartford, Connecticut / Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m) Birth name: Linda Evanstad (Norwegian origin) Attended Hollywood High School with Stefanie Powers. Spouses: Stan Herman (1976 - 1981) (divorced) John Derek (1968 - 1974) (divorced) As you know John Derek's other wife was BO '10'. Dated Yanni [1989 - January 1998] Owner of Linda Evans Fitness Centers (15 locations) 1st TV appearance at age 15 in "Bachelor Father" (1957) as Liz McGavin (1 episode, 1960). Bachelor Father starred John Forsythe as Bentley Gregg (157 episodes, 1957-1962) & actress Noreen Corcoran as Kelly Gregg (157 episodes, 1957-1962). * John Forsythe born 29 January 1918, Penn's Grove, New Jersey, USA - (Age 90 in 2008). ** Noreen Corcoran born 20 October 1943, Quincy, Massachusetts, USA (Age 65 in 2008). Movie debut at age 21 in ‘Twilight of Honor’ (1963) as Alice Clinton. "Dynasty" (1981) as Krystle Carrington / 3 characters not shown (201 episodes, 1981-1989). 2008: Latest movie role at age 38 in ‘Tom Horn’ (1980) as Glendolene Kimmel. She was one of the guests at Prince Charles' and Camilla Parker-Bowles' wedding. Measurments: 34-24-34 (self-described 1968), (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine). Linda Evans (1942) born exact same day as actress Susan Sullivan (see below). & Alan Shepard (Would have been 89) 1923 - Died age 74 Born 18 November 1923 - Derry, New Hampshire Date of death 22 July 1998 - Monterey, California. (leukemia) Birth name: Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. He was a member of the seven man Mercury astronaut program, and was the first American, and the second man in space. He was also a member of the Apollo program and landed on the moon. Spouse: Louise Brewer (3 March 1945 - 22 July 1998) (his death) 2 children Made the historic first U.S. space flight on May 5, 1961. Was the first man to hit a golf ball on the moon. A movie was made about the original Mercury 7 Astronauts it was called 'Right Stuff, The' (1983) Directed by Philip Kaufman. Actors who played the Mercury 7: Scott Glenn ----- Capt. Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr., Mercury Astronaut, Ed Harris ------- Maj. John Herschel Glenn Jr., Mercury Astronaut, Dennis Quaid ---- Capt. Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr., aka 'Gordo', 'Hot Dog', Mercury Astronaut, Fred Ward ------- Capt. Virgil Ivan 'Gus' Grissom, Mercury Astronaut, Scott Paulin ---- Capt. Donald Kent 'Deke' Slayton, Mercury Astronaut, Charles Frank --- Lt. Cmdr. Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Mercury Astronaut, Lance Henriksen - Lt. Cmdr. Walter Martin Schirra Jr., Mercury Astronaut. I added Alan Shepard to #1 on what would have been his 88th Birthday - 11/18/2011.
David Ortiz (IV) (37) 1975 - Born: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic / Height: 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) - Weight: 230 - Birth Name: David Américo Ortiz Arias / Nickname: Big Papi
1995: November 18, 1995 @ 12:00 PM #19/21 Michigan @ Penn State #12/14 Beaver Stadium • University Park, PA ABC L 27–17 - 96,677 (Baltimore Bob & Ron) Ronald Moyer was Baltimore Bob’s step-son from 4/1/1995 to divorce in July 2000. Ronald Moyer born in Monroe, Michigan on 5/21/1984 (Rat) was a big Michigan fan.
2009: 11/18/2009: The Final Jeopardy Question on ‘Jeopardy’ (1984-2009 & beyond) with Alex Trebek born 22 July 1940, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada (69 in 2009). Art History: “In Mr & Mrs Andrews A Double Portrait By This British Painter It’s The Young Woman That Wears Blue.“
2012: 11/18/2012: 2 tickets for Philadelphia Eagles vs Washington Redskins at Fedex Field. Section 417 – Row 4 – Seats 8-9.
My #1 Celebrity Birthday Person for November 17th is Lorne Michaels (68) 1944 Born: Toronto, Ontario, Canada / Birth name: Lorne Michael Lipowitz Attended University of Toronto. Spouses: Susan Forristal (1984 - 1987) (divorced) 1 child Rosie Schuster (? - ?) (divorced) Alice Barry (? - ?) Was part of the famous 'UC Follies' comedy troup in Toronto. His 2nd wife Rosie Shuster is the daughter of 'Frank Shuster' from comedy troupe ‘Wayne & Shuster’ (1968) writer for ‘Rowan and Martin Laugh-In’ show. Received an Honorary Doctorate from Ryerson University for his contribution to the television industry. Awarded the 2004 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor (given by the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts). 'Saturday Night Live' (1975) TV Series (executive producer) (1975-1980, 1985-) (producer) (1975-1980, 1985-) ... aka "NBC's Saturday Night" (1975) (USA: original title) ... aka 'SNL 25' (2000) (USA: new title) ... aka 'SNL' (1975) ... aka "Saturday Night Live '80" (1980) (USA: new title). He received a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (June 25, 2003). Also celebrating their 1944 Birthday today are: Actor Danny DeVito (1944) and MLB Pitcher Tom Seaver (1944)
Nick Markakis (29) 1983 - Born: Glen Cove, New York / Height: 6' 1" - Birth Name: Nicholas William Markakis / Bats: Left & Throws: Left - Nick was born the month after the Orioles beat the Phillies in the 1983 World Series. - Major League Baseball right fielder currently with the American League's Baltimore Orioles. - Born on Long Island, New York, but he later moved to Woodstock, Georgia with his family. - Nick's family includes his parents, Dennis and Mary Lou; his brother Dennis, - his brother Michael, also an alumnus of Young Harris College; - and his brother Greg. Markakis is half-Greek and half-German. - Draft: Markakis was originally drafted in 2001 by the Cincinnati Reds, - from Woodstock High School in Woodstock, Georgia - but decided to attend Young Harris College instead. - The Reds drafted him again in 2002, but he did not sign then either. - He was the Orioles' first-round draft pick, and the seventh player picked overall in 2003. - MLB debut (age 22): April 3, 2006 for the Baltimore Orioles. - Markakis and his wife, Christina, had their first child on March 11, 2009. - A baby boy, Taylor Jason Markakis, weighed in at 7 pounds, 1 ounce. - Christina gave birth to the couple's second child, Tucker Edward, - weighing in at 7 pounds, 1 ounce, on May 27, 2010. - Baltimore Bob notes "Both kids weighed exactly the same - What are the odds ?". - The couple lives year-round in Monkton, Maryland, - where Markakis purchased a home during the 2008 season. - Charity work: He has decided to donate 75,000 dollars per season towards the funds. - His other outreach activities involve 'Going to Bat Against Breast Cancer', - Prostate Cancer Foundation, and the Home Run Challenge. Nick was - also presented the Roberto Clemente Award on September 2, 2009. - Right Side Foundation: The Right Side Foundation was started by Nick - and his wife Christina on May 28, 2009. - The foundation was created to help distressed children, - whether they are disadvantaged, sick, lonely, or grieving throughout Maryland. - “Christina and I have adopted Maryland as our new home and believe that - establishing our Foundation is the most effective way to formalize our charitable - efforts and have the greatest impact on children in Maryland,” stated Nick. - 2010: By hitting his 40th double of the season Tuesday 8/31/2010 in the O's win over - the Red Sox, Nick Markakis joined Hall-of-Famers Tris Speaker, Joe Medwick and Harry - Heilmann as only the 4th player in MLB history with four straight seasons with 40 doubles. - * Harry Edwin Heilmann (August 3, 1894 – July 9, 1951), nicknamed “Slug,” - * was a major league baseball player who played seventeen seasons with - * the Detroit Tigers (1914, 1916-1929) and Cincinnati Reds (1930, 1932). - * He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1952. - Baltimore Bob added Nick on Thursday September 2nd 2010. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Markakis
Rachel McAdams (34) 1978 -- Born: London, Ontario, Canada / Height: 5' 5" (1.65 m) -- Birth Name: Rachel Anne McAdams / Nickname: Rach -- Has naturally blond hair which Baltimore Bob loves. -- Born in the same hospital as The Notebook (2004) co-star -- Ryan Gosling in St. Joseph's Hospital, London, Ontario. -- Her father, Lance, is a truck driver and her mother, Sandy, is a nurse. -- She has a younger sister, Kayleen McAdams, and a younger brother, Daniel. -- Attended Original Kids Theatre Company in London, Ontario. -- Was considered for the role of Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale (2006), -- before the role was given to Eva Green. -- Was Jon Favreau's first choice to play Pepper Potts in Iron Man (2008), -- but she turned the role down. Gwyneth Paltrow was subsequently cast instead. -- Iron Man is Baltimore Bob's favorite MARVEL Hero. -- The following Celebrity actress Leslie Bibb (1974-) is in the Iron Man movie. -- Movie debut at age 24 in 'My Name Is Tanino' (2002) as Sally Garfield. -- At age 27 in 'Wedding Crashers' (2005) as Claire Cleary. -- 2009: Latest movie role at age 31 in "The Time Traveler's Wife" as Clare Abshire. -- The Time Traveler's Wife is a Baltimore Bob Top 50 All Time movie. -- At age 35 in ‘About Time’ (2013 post-production) as Mary. -- Plot: A man (Domhnall Gleeson) travels back in time to find the love of his life -- (Rachel McAdams) in this romantic comedy from writer/director Richard Curtis (Love Actually). -- She was voted the #101 on FHS's list of Sexiest Women in the World (2005). -- Ranked #17 on Maxim's hot list 2006. -- Baltimore Bob added Rachel on Tuesday October 5th 2010.
1963: 11/17/1963: Dallas Cowboys franchise(s) first victory over the PHILADELPHIA Eagles: 1963: Week 10 on Sunday November 17 1963 Dallas (27-20) vs Philadelphia Eagles. This was the 6th meeting between Dallas and Philadelphia with Philly winning the first 5. Major event that happened a few days later the Assassination of President JFK on 11/22/1963.
A company that creates medical-marijuana dispensing machines says its stock is getting way too high.
Medbox MDBX -92.68% shares surged 3,000% this week -- from roughly $4 Monday to $215 Thursday -- before falling to $100 after executives sought to dampen investor enthusiasm.
In a news release today, the company said that the stock’s rocket launch, which sent its market cap skyrocketing from $45 million at the start of the week to a staggering $2.3 billion, was ignited by a MarketWatch story Tuesday on how to invest in legalized marijuana (see How to invest in legalized marijuana .) (That’s about double the market capitalization of retailer Jos. A. Bank Clothiers.) The stock, which fell around 50% in early trading Friday, still hovers at $100. “We believe an appropriate trading range is between $5 and $10 but, alas, the market will do what it will do,” says Medbox founder Vincent Mehdizadeh.
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At the height of trading this week, $600,000 to $700,000 worth of purchases were made, an unusually high volume for a company of this size. “It was astonishing,” Mehdizadeh says. “We couldn’t really understand why that was happening other than that there was a high demand for stock with limited supply.” It was “thin volume,” but Mehdizadeh says he doesn’t know whether it was one hedge fund or several big buyers.
The company says it’s also investigating ways to minimize any potential shareholder losses. Medbox is in discussions with its attorneys to see if it can reward early investors with company-owned shares should the price they bought at in recent days fall significantly. “We don’t want those investors to have sour feelings about what happened,” Mehdizadeh says. “Obviously day traders are having a field day lately trading our stock.”
PERSONAL FINANCE • The 4 retirement problems Obama must solve • Who is really picking up the tab for Sandy? • 7 office gadgets headed for the graveyard • Coffee prices fall, but not at Starbucks • Why college savers should fear the fiscal cliff • Which colleges help grads snare top salaries? But it’s very risky to invest in drugs prohibited at a federal level, experts say. Nearly 500 of the estimated 3,000 dispensaries nationwide have closed or were shut down by the federal government in the past year, according to StickGuide.com, an online directory for medical marijuana dispensaries. Currently, Medbox has 130 dispensers in the field and is due to install 40 more next month, and says it’s looking at the broader pharmaceutical market.
While the rush investors got from the company’s wild surge this week may be matched in coming years, the Hollywood, Calif.-based company says it is confident in its future prospects. Medbox reported a third-quarter revenue of $1.3 million, up from $850,000 in the second quarter. Medbox forecasts revenue of $24 million by the end of the fiscal year 2014 and $48 million by the end of fiscal 2016. It expects earnings before interest, depreciation and amortization to remain at a “healthy” $10.2 million and $22.1 million during those periods. “Real companies don’t need hype,” Mehdizadeh says.
“We feel within 10 years we could legitimately have share prices hit $215 again,” Mehdizadeh says. Currently, there are around one million shares available for trade and, this time next year, he says there will be another one to two million shares trading. Although the company focuses primarily on medical marijuana, he says the temperature-controlled dispensing machines could also be used in prisons and 24-hour drug stores for a larger range of drugs.
IN THE WORLD Someone needs to PUT AN END to this Practice of Giving Billions of Foreign Aid to others in the World I say FUCK Those People and everyone should say the same. Americans this Thanksgiving and Chrismas will be going without FOOD and other necessary stuff. The Faggots in American GOV should be paying for this. And By Faggot I mean CRAP people (no relation to Sex) I'm a LifeTime AARP member (cost was $75 in 2000) I got this recent Email:
Dear ROBERT, Do you know where you'll be eating your Thanksgiving dinner? While many of us are sitting down at the Thanksgiving table next Thursday, millions of seniors are at risk of not getting dinner at all – on this holiday or in the days that follow. Across the country, there are nearly 9 million older Americans who wake up each morning without knowing if they’ll have enough to eat. Your gift can help change that. When you support AARP Foundation, you help give struggling older adults the assistance they deserve and ease their concern about where their next meal will come from – on Thanksgiving or any day. ROBERT, will you join us today? Make a tax-deductible donation by November 22 to help meet our $50,000 goal to prevent senior hunger.
Your gift to AARP Foundation today will have a direct impact on our work to help struggling seniors across the country:
$8 can help a hungry senior stay full for a day.
$16 can help an older adult get nutritious food for a weekend.
$24 can help an older American stay full for three days.
$56 can help a senior secure food for a whole week.
When it comes to connecting older adults with community resources, improving the quality of food at food banks, and more, every dollar makes a difference.
The NDP is falling, the Liberal Party is surging and somewhere Stephen Harper is grinning.
That is the narrative, at least, of a new Ipsos Reid poll conducted for Postmedia News and Global Television.
According to the survey released late Thursday, if an election were held tomorrow, 34 per cent of us would vote for the Conservatives, 30 per cent would vote for the NDP, and 26 per cent would for the federal Liberals.
What's most intriguing about this poll, however, is the trend lines. Since June, the NDP have dropped eight points while the Liberals have gained eight.
I can't friggin stand the Liberals here. I'd rather the Conservatives and NDP in Sync. "Keeping each other in check."
I think the 'be all to end all' was when Dalton McStimpy was in power and he promised all his shit...and no sooner when he was brought into power, the fucker re-nigged on ALL 250 f'n promises he made before his election. I'm soooooooo glad he's gone...you have no idea.
BUT...I fear they did their toll already. McGimpy stepped down. Bout fuckin time.
Iceland is the greatest place on earth. They protested peacefully, arrested bankers and politicians, forgave debt - including mortgage debt, and are using almost completely renewable energy. Plus, they don't build where there are fairies and are the offspring of Vikings.
COUNTRIES WITH 100% RENEWABLE ENERGY
Cahora Basso, Mozambique Which countries have the highest percentage of renewable energy – care to guess? I suspect that names like Germany, Denmark or Spain might spring to mind. They’re certainly making good progress, but they’ve got nothing on the world’s renewable energy leaders. There are countries in the world powered entirely by renewable energy, and some that are even net exporters of green electricity.
These pioneers are overlooked for a variety of reasons. For one thing, they’re out of the way places. Agencies tracking the progress of renewable energy often focus on the OECD countries or the G20 and forget to look elsewhere (like this). Sometimes they have patchy data and are omitted from research.
Most often its a matter of categorisation – what is and what isn’t considered renewable energy. Hydroelectric and geothermal electricity generation are frequently listed separately from solar, wind and tidal energy, even though they are technically renewable too. There are various reasons for this. A large dam might be clean energy, but disastrous for the environment in other ways. If it runs off melting ice, a dam could be renewable but not actually sustainable in practice in the long term.
Others simply leave hydro and geothermal out because they’re older technologies, and including them in renewable energy statistics might make people complacent about their percentages. This categorisation issue is actually quite a problem. US States each decide independently whether they will count hydropower as renewable or not, which rather confuses national energy targets.
Still, taking that broader perspective, here are some forgotten pioneers of the renewable energy world:
Iceland – Built as it is on a volcano, Iceland has tapped the earth’s natural warmth to supply 85% of the country’s housing with heat. Between geothermal and hydropower, the electricity supply is 100% renewable energy. Iceland has so much geothermal capacity that their ambassador to Britain is in discussions about whether or not they could build an interconnector into the UK grid. Lesotho – The small mountainous African country of Lesotho also has practically 100% renewable electricity, thanks to the Lesotho Highlands Water Project. The network of dams exports water into South Africa, providing almost all of Lesotho’s power along the way. The project has its controversies, including serious corruption. Albania – with large scale hydroelectric facilities, Albania used to be a net exporter of electricity. Unfortunately droughts have seriously reduced the capacity of its dams, and along with widespread corruption and the stealing of electricity, there are now power shortages. Nevertheless, the country runs on around 85% renewable electricity. Paraguay – Itaipu dam, one of the world’s largest, provides 90% of Paraguay’s electricity and 19% of Brazil’s. It cost $20 billion, took 30 years to build, and displaces 67.5 million tonnes of CO2 a year. Bhutan – Another small mountainous country that can boast electricity as one of its major exports, Bhutan wires 75% of its power to India. Mozambique – Mozambique’s energy infrastructure tells a sad story, with the ambitious Cahora Bassa dam completed just in time for the outbreak of civil war. Underused throughout the 80s, it came back online recently and now exports electricity into South Africa and Zimbabwe. Norway – Britain’s top three sources of electricity are gas, coal and nuclear. Norway’s are hydroelectric, geothermal and wind, but they’re an interesting case. Norway’s renewable energy sector has developed to serve the export market rather than domestic consumption. If you look at Norway’s generating capacity it would be around 98% renewable, but if you look at the country’s consumption, that falls to 24% because most of the clean energy Guarantees of Origin have been sold to neighbouring countries. I could also mention Costa Rica, Laos, Colombia, Malawi, Nepal, Belize, and a dozen others. Many African countries, with small domestic consumption, have renewable energy percentages to shame the G20. I don’t mention these examples because I necessarily recommend their approach or endorse the projects concerned. Some of them are controversial, others have been badly managed or are rife with corruption. Besides, not everyone has a big river they can dam, or mountain regions that can support hydropower systems.
I mention them because I keep reading news articles mentioning the world leaders in renewable energy, and naming Germany, Denmark and Spain. And I keep hearing people dismissing ‘renewable energy’ as unworkable, and then only talking about onshore wind and solar PV.
POLITICS and HISTORY Bishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize Los Angeles host the Olympic Games Indian Prime Minister, Indira Ghandi is assassinated The UK and China agree that Hong Kong will revert to China in 1997 Brunei becomes an Independent Sultanate and the 159th U.N. member
MUSIC Careless Whisper by Wham Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood Like a Virgin by Madonna Original Sin by INXS
TV and at the MOVIES Amadeus became a foolhardy, farting, genius We all rang the Ghostbusters Gremlins got into everything The Killing Fields shook the world to the atrocities suffered in Cambodia Police Academy started it's epic movie serial Night Court had us watching Bull Miami Vice got those groovy pastel suits emptying off the shelves
People who died in 1984 Richard Burton (b.1925) British actor Yuri Andropov (b.1914) General Secretary of the U.S.S.R Marvin Gaye (b.1939) American Soul Singer Johnny Weismuller (b.1904) actor, famous for his portrayal of 'Tarzan' Count Basie (b.1904) American Jazz pianist and bandleader Sam Peckinpah (b.1925) American film director James Mason (b.1909) English actor Irwin Shaw (b.1913) American screenwriter and novelist Jackie Coogan (b.1914) American actor Ethel Merman (b.1909) American popular singer
I graduated from high school with a Bronze Award...Whooptee do lololol
For more than 200 years, this book concealed the arcane rituals of an ancient order. But cracking the code only deepened the mystery. Image courtesy: Uppsala University
The master wears an amulet with a blue eye in the center. Before him, a candidate kneels in the candlelit room, surrounded by microscopes and surgical implements. The year is roughly 1746. The initiation has begun. The master places a piece of paper in front of the candidate and orders him to put on a pair of eyeglasses. “Read,” the master commands. The candidate squints, but it’s an impossible task. The page is blank. The candidate is told not to panic; there is hope for his vision to improve. The master wipes the candidate’s eyes with a cloth and orders preparation for the surgery to commence. He selects a pair of tweezers from the table. The other members in attendance raise their candles. The master starts plucking hairs from the candidate’s eyebrow. This is a ritualistic procedure; no flesh is cut. But these are “symbolic actions out of which none are without meaning,” the master assures the candidate. The candidate places his hand on the master’s amulet. Try reading again, the master says, replacing the first page with another. This page is filled with handwritten text. Congratulations, brother, the members say. Now you can see. For more than 260 years, the contents of that page—and the details of this ritual—remained a secret. They were hidden in a coded manuscript, one of thousands produced by secret societies in the 18th and 19th centuries. At the peak of their power, these clandestine organizations, most notably the Freemasons, had hundreds of thousands of adherents, from colonial New York to imperial St. Petersburg. Dismissed today as fodder for conspiracy theorists and History Channel specials, they once served an important purpose: Their lodges were safe houses where freethinkers could explore everything from the laws of physics to the rights of man to the nature of God, all hidden from the oppressive, authoritarian eyes of church and state. But largely because they were so secretive, little is known about most of these organizations. Membership in all but the biggest died out over a century ago, and many of their encrypted texts have remained uncracked, dismissed by historians as impenetrable novelties. It was actually an accident that brought to light the symbolic “sight-restoring” ritual. The decoding effort started as a sort of game between two friends that eventually engulfed a team of experts in disciplines ranging from machine translation to intellectual history. Its significance goes far beyond the contents of a single cipher. Hidden within coded manuscripts like these is a secret history of how esoteric, often radical notions of science, politics, and religion spread underground. At least that’s what experts believe. The only way to know for sure is to break the codes. In this case, as it happens, the cracking began in a restaurant in Germany.
Ortega was born to a impoverished railway worker and had to drop out of school at 13 to work. He began as a delivery boy for a clothing shop and worked his way up to become a salesperson. While working retail Ortega had the idea to sell inexpensive versions of quilted bathrobes, claiming it was unfair that only wealthy woman could afford to dress well. He used this as the founding principle behind the rest of his retail ventures and built his empire on top of it.
Ortega's rapid gain corresponds with a general rise in retail stocks. Cheap supplies and increasing demand for moderately priced clothing have made it a good year for retailers. Nine out of the world's 25 richest people made their fortunes in retail, according to the Bloomberg Index.
It's a loaded question that so reeks of patriarchal double standards we'd almost rather not go there, but since today our good friend Science seems to have come up with at least part of the answer, it seems best to go ahead and just answer the question.
A new study published Tuesday in the Journal of Neuroscience has revealed that the hormone oxytocin may play a role in maintaining monogamous relationships, reports the Los Angeles Times.
How? Well this is one of those rare cases where the design of the experiment is nearly as interesting as the finding, so listen up.
A team of researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany rounded up 57 heterosexual men, about half of whom were single and half of whom were in monogamous relationships. They gave some of the men a nasal spray of oxytocin and the others a placebo, and then had an attractive female researcher who they had never met walk towards them. They were instructed to tell the woman to stop walking when there was a socially "ideal" distance between them.
Predictably, the single guys let the woman get nice and close — about 20 to 24 inches away. This was true whether they received the oxytocin spray or not. Disappointingly, the men in relationships who received the placebo spray also let the woman get about 20 to 24 inches away.
It was only the men in relationships who received the oxytocin that opted to put a greater distance — 28 to 30 inches — between themselves and the attractive woman. (Read more)
Not surprisingly, Oxytocin is also used to induce labor in pregnancy.
The hormone your body makes during labour is called oxytocin. It is made in a small area of the brain and released into the blood stream via the pituitary gland. How your body actually starts labour is still not known, in spite of many years of research. We know many of the hormonal changes that happen, but the actual trigger remains elusive.
Oxytocin has been produced in the laboratory and the synthetic drug is used to start the uterus contracting. Unfortunately, it is not well absorbed in the stomach and needs to be given by a drip. This route of administration also means that the concentration of oxytocin can be increased or decreased should your contractions be too intense or not strong enough.
The campaigners founded the Rolling Jubilee project to buy-up distressed loans, where repayments are in arrears, for pennies in the pound and then cancel them free of charge to "liberate debtors at random". That debt will include large amounts of student loans and oustanding medical bills owed by people struggling to meet repayments.
Individuals or companies can buy debt from lenders at knock-down prices if it the borrower is in default or behind with payments and are then free to do with it as they see fit, including cancelling it free of charge.
Campaigners estimate that 77pc of American households are in debt and that 62pc of all bankrupcies in the country are caused by large medical bills, which can be virtually impossible to pay for those without insurance. An estimated one in seven people in the US is currently being pursued by a debt collector.
As a test run the group spent $500 on distressed debt, buying $14,000 worth of outstanding loans and pardoning the debtors. They also consulted lawyers on the legality of doing this on a large scale.
Yesterday they launched a fundraising campaign with a variety show and telethon in New York and have already raised $269,913 (£170,206) - enough to buy over $5m worth of debt and write it off.
Strike Debt, a campaign group behind the project, said that it had no way of targetting which person's debt they were buying: "Anonymous accounts get bundled together by other firms and sold as a whole. We have no input into whose debt is included.
"We hope to buy as much debt as we can and, more fundamentally, to get people asking why it is that debt can be so cheap to everyone except the debtor. Remember: you are not a loan, and you are not alone."
THE FREEDOM ROAD: In "Road to Freedom" David Icke gives a keynote lecture reveals many secrets where hidden by those who govern us and manipulate. Among other things, talks about the Freemasons and the Illuminati and its relationship with many of the U.S. Presidents.
En "Camino a la Libertad" David Icke nos ofrece una magistral conferencia donde desvela numerosos secretos ocultos por aquellos que nos gobiernan y manipulan. Entre otras cosas, nos habla sobre la masonería y los iluminatis y su relación con muchos de los presidentes de EE.UU.
Special music for relaxation, meditation and healing.
Special music for relaxation, meditation and healing. Are frequencies that affect the balance and harmony of the body, restoring energy patterns. Among other tunes are Ahu Saglam, Arnica Montana and music with dolphins and whales.
Música especial para relajarse, meditar y sanar. Son frecuencias que inciden en el equilibrio y la armonía del cuerpo, restableciendo los patrones energéticos. Entre otras, se encuentran melodías de Ahu Saglam, Arnica Montana y música con delfines y ballenas.
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