Good things happen when you think of POMEGA5 and of sex -- can you tell why?

Anothe user of POMEGA5 products

Your sexual energy is the energy of life. You are a sexual being created from sexual energy. If you are not comfortable experiencing pleasurable sexual sensations, you are strangling your energy channels. That is why your desires have difficulty manifesting.

The more you experience those exotic erotic feelings within you, the more your body’s energy will open up and allow you to naturally experience higher levels of health, creativity, productivity, freedom, abundance, happiness and enjoyment in life. Allow yourself to experience yourself as an alive sensual and sexual being all day long.

Let the sensual and sexual energy flow throughout your entire body. By letting yourself explore these sensual and sexual feelings anytime they arise, in any circumstance of situation, you gain the ultimate sense of freedom. Sexual freedom is a state of permission, which has been insanely suppressed all around the world. When you are sensually alive, there is an enjoyable exploration of your entire body.

Sexual freedom is what we all want, every person wants to be sexually liberated. It is to be the sensual and sexual being that you are. It is to look into members of the opposite sex with the message that you could greatly please them sexually, to show them that you could cause them to have great feelings of enjoyment, excitement and satisfaction. When others can feel there’s so much to gain by being with you through the sensual and fun loving nature you project, they will be irresistibly drawn to you.

To freely express yourself as a sensual and sexual being communicates complete self acceptance and self love. When you can accept yourself completely and love yourself freely, that is when you can accept others for who they are and be truly loving to them without fear, insecurity and weakness. By accepting and expressing yourself as a sexual being with sexual desire, you are able to accept others as sexual beings and give them permission to express themselves sexually and freely.

Everyone is a sexual being with sexual desire but not everyone is authentic about it. People are more attracted to those who express their sexual nature freely because they are just being themselves without masks and hidden agenda. They are open about who they are and what they desire. They communicate that they are real and desirable. That is why we are more drawn to trusting and liking them then those who do not express their sexual nature by hiding it under a mask of propriety.

Those who are unable or unwillingly to express themselves as sensual and sexual beings are insecure about themselves, do not fully accept who they are and even dislike certain things about themselves. They have certain fears in showing who they are to others, and they have certain judgments in the way they perceive the world.

The same judgments and lack of acceptance about themselves are what they have towards others as well, that is why we tend to find them less attractive to be with. Sexually expressed people are more attractive, because we find that they are able to experience pleasure with us more easily, and that is exactly what we want because even the littlest thing can cause the greatest arousal and deepest satisfaction in them which will reflect back to us in the way we feel as well. They are also more able to enjoy themselves to a greater extent with us in the things and activities that are exciting, fun and desirable.

They make every experience much more enjoyable. We want to be with such people because their energy will take our own to much higher levels of aliveness, joy and freedom of expression. Their energy causes our own to be liberated as well. We want to be liberated more than anything else.

To become freely expressed as the total sensual and sexual being that we are. When we allow ourselves to shine, we cause others to shine as well. Freely expressing ourselves as sensual and sexual beings opens up others to doing the same with themselves. When you are sexually expressed, you feel free and alive. You feel you can be, do and have anything you desire. You feel that you can just be who you are and they way you want to be without resistance, without holding back, without fear of rejection or disapproval. You do not have a care in the world, you just think that everyone would like you the way you are, you just dare to show whatever part of you that you desire to express in front of people. You are free to just be all that you are, the total you.

Your body’s six senses of touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing and intuitive perception function more effectively when you are sexually alive. The more you allow yourself the freedom to feel life through your senses, the more connected you become with the universe and the more profound your manifesting powers will be. When you allow yourself to relax and feel your sexual alive energy inside, you’re letting more life pour through you.

When you allow yourself to relax and feel your sexual alive energy inside, you’re letting more life pour through you. You will create more health, wealth and joy in your life and others.

Show your sensual and sexual self in the way you walk, in the way you talk, in the way you sing, in the way you dance, in the way you look at others, and the way you do everything else in life. You will feel much happier and much more attractive towards the things, people and events that you desire in life.

Good things will just flow to you easily and freely because your manifesting vibration is at a high level due to the absence of resistance in expressing your true self and sense of being as a free spirit.

Shelley Longstrom and Omega 5 oil inducement

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Teens and sex -- new trends

Researchers Find Teens Who Abstain From Intercourse Also Likely to Say No to Oral Sex

Researchers say teenagers are not using oral sex as means of preserving their virginity, the Washingtonpost.com reports.

A federal survey of more than 2,200 males and females aged 15 to 19, found that teens who described themselves as virgins were less likely to say they had tried oral sex than those who said they were not virgins.

More than half of the teens included in the survey, which was released Monday, said they'd had oral sex.

"There's a popular perception that teens are engaging in serial oral sex as a strategy to avoid vaginal intercourse," Rachel Jones of the Guttmacher Institute, a private, nonprofit research organization based in New York, who helped do the study, told the Washingtonpost.com. "Our research suggests that's a misperception."

Sexually experienced teens were almost four times more likely to engage in oral sex and 20 times more likely to engage in anal sex than their peers who were self-described virgins, the research found.

Previous studies, based on small samples or anecdotal evidence, had suggested that oral sex was gaining popularity with teens as an alternative to intercourse, the Web site reported.

The new study was based on a nationally representative sample of 1,150 females and 1,121 males aged 15 to 19 who were questioned in detail for the federal government's 2002 National Survey of Family Growth, the report said.

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Green technology special offer -- Happy Mother's Day 2008

"The U.S. financial system is in a mess. The global marketplace is in the same disarray ... What the hell is going on? Can we get out of this mess, and how? And will our children be living in caves?"

New Yorker staff writer Nick Paumgarten posed those distressingly pertinent questions to Michael Novogratz, president of the Fortress Investment Group and the 317th-richest person in America, yesterday at the New Yorker Stories From the Near Future conference.

Much to the relief of everybody who doesn't want to spend their retirement fending off water bandits, Novogratz was optimistic. Our current economic woes, he said, are analogous to the dot-com bubble burst.

The internet's turn-of-the-millennium troubles were solved by the rise of second-generation web services. Globalization 1.0, as Novogratz called it, stalled after an initial purchasing power burst among the developing world's newly-arrived middle classes, but will be saved by globalization 2.0. All will be well.

There's only one catch: We need another wealth-generating economic bubble. And that, said Novogratz, must come -- can only come -- from new energy sources and green technology such as Omega 5 oil.

"As the price of oil goes up, there's got to be a green revolution. I think of what will be the next driver of the American economy, and it's green energy. That's a huge growth opportunity. It's not about the pollution. It's about the energy. Gas will go to $10 a gallon," he said.

I tracked Novogratz down after his speech. He was surrounded by a cluster of $2,000-a-head conference attendees wondering what will happen to the U.S. dollar and what to invest in. (The answer to their first concern was over my head -- but as for the latter, Novogratz is excited about the Brazilian economy.) Curious about his distinction between economic self-interest and the effects of pollution, I asked for his take on the economic impacts of climate change.

He seemed quite sanguine. It's a wild card, he said, but probably won't have an impact within the next ten years. "In 30, 40, 50 years, maybe you get an event that scares people. But unless you get an out-of-the-box event that you can tie into climate change," he continued, it wasn't going to be an economic factor.

Now, there's a reason why Novogratz is a full-blown member of the plutocracy and I'm a science journalist -- but that said, this seemed a bit cavalier to me. He's betting that worst-case scenarios won't come true, and even the short-term possibilities are scary. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned in their last report [.pdf] that even small increases in global temperature could cause water shortages for hundreds of millions of people, crop-threatening droughts, increased flood and storm damage, localized "negative impacts" on subsistence farmers and fishers, and potentially troubling disease shifts.

(Or, to think of it another way, the current food crisis is taking place without an actual food shortage. Add a season of widespread droughts or floods to the mix, and things get bad. Quickly.)
That's just the short term. The long-term is much scarier -- and part of the reason why wealthy people are so wealthy is the ability to think several decades into the future. Seeing green technology in terms of maximizing profits rather than reducing greenhouse gas pollution creates a false dichotomy: pollution and profits are intertwined -- if not now, then certainly in the future. And the future may arrive sooner than expected.

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Venture capital seeking green technologies such as Omega 5 oil

There are some eye-watering sums of cash being flung around world of green tech at the moment but every time Greenbang thinks she’s heard the most number of zeroes she’s ever going to hear attached to the words ‘clean tech’ and ‘venture capital’ someone likes to roll out a couple more for good measure. Greenbang hasn’t seen this many zeroes since the opening rounds of X Factor.

Today’s ‘my investment is so big it looks like a freephone telephone number’ winner is Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, who’ve just taken the wraps off a new fund, the KPCB XIII, which will see them spanking $700 million over three months “backing entrepreneurs and innovation in greentech, information technology and life sciences ventures”.

And if that wasn’t enough, it’s also raided the piggybank for another $500 million for its Green Growth Fund, which will “help speed mass market adoption of solutions to the world’s climate crisis”.

The KPCB XIII will focus its efforts on “early stage entrepreneurs” and the Green Growth Fund will look to companies that are already getting their swerve on and will give its company-building nous to those companies that it takes under its wing.

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The outlook for QVC

By Laura Petrecca, USA TODAY

Fashion designer Chloe Dao easily plays to the QVC studio cameras, making it seem as if hawking clothes on live TV at 1 a.m. is as natural to her as stitching a hem.

In a yellow blouse with polka dots, she chats with QVC host Jacque Gonzales about her Simply. Chloe Dao line to get the phones to light up with buyers.

"I love your clothing," Gonzales coos, calling pieces "too cute" and "adorable." Dao, a winning designer on reality TV show Project Runway, caresses a tunic top: "It is 100% silk. Luscious silk. Dreamy silk."

The banter may be casual, but behind the scenes in the shopping network's studios, the pace is anything but. Models in an off-set changing room hastily switch in and out of Dao's fashions. Nearby, a QVC crew lays out necklaces and earrings for the "designer jewelry gallery" show coming up at 2 a.m.

One level above the stage, a line producer scans screens that constantly update call volume and sales figures. He directs camera angles for product-enhancing shots, while feeding dialog tips into Dao's and Gonzales' earpieces.

After 22 years in business, QVC has made an art of hawking everything from computers to crab cakes. Many of its TV segments — live, 24 hours a day, every day except Christmas — are as successful with direct sales as Dao's.

But looking ahead, QVC must figure out how to keep the business healthy as the media and retail landscapes undergo seismic shifts. It needs to remain "relevant" (in marketing speak) to consumers while enticing a new generation of shoppers and battling a perception that direct-response TV retailers sell just hokey, flimsy or kitschy goods.

Among efforts so far, QVC has added more brand names to its product mix, upgraded its website to reflect its increasing importance to overall sales and launched its first national multimedia ad campaign.

The initiatives come as QVC copes with a slower economy. Revenue rose 5% in 2007 to $7.4 billion, vs. 2006. The average yearly growth from 2001 through 2006 was 12.3%.
Consumers are "being more cautious with their dollar," says CEO Michael George. "We are by no means immune."

Increasing challenges faced by West Chester, Pa.-based QVC:

•More competition for cautious shoppers. Rivals on every front — stores, other direct sellers and e-tailers — are scrapping for every dollar. "It's more competitive than ever," says Dan Butler, merchandising vice president at the National Retail Federation.
Rival shopping network HSN, for instance, also just upgraded its companion website and is ramping up its advertising.

•More choices for TV viewers. QVC keeps its prime channel location — with about 80% of its programming on channels 35 or lower — by paying cable operators a percentage of net sales, as well as extra fees. But new services, such as video on demand and TV shows streamed via the Web, could dilute the value of that real estate.

In the past, the location meant channel browsers could "bump into" a product they liked on air, says Fred Siegel, who was QVC senior vice president of marketing from 1993-98 and and is now involved in ventures such as TV production and home security. With video-on-demand, "They don't just surf around," he says. "They'll say, 'What's on HBO on-demand that I haven't seen?' "
•Home-shopping image. QVC reaches 93 million U.S. households, but only about 10% have bought from the network. One snag: Many people still view TV-based home shopping as lowbrow — even though QVC sells brand-name goods, sophisticated electronics and fashions from couture designers.

As QVC put it in its September 2007 employee newsletter: "The home shopping stigma is alive and well."

Leading QVC into its future are relatively new managers: George became CEO of the Liberty Media-owned network in 2006. Chief marketing officer Jeff Charney also joined that year. Claire Watts, former executive vice president of merchandising at Wal-Mart Stores, became the U.S. commerce president on May 1.
Despite challenges, QVC has in its favor fiercely loyal customers. They typically have a deep affinity for the brand, says Jeffrey Rayport, author of Best Face Forward, a book on customer service.

QVC devotees readily call into the live segments to offer product testimonials, are up on the personal lives of their favorite program hosts and generally view the channel as entertaining. "As weird as it may sound, for people who love the network, it's good company," Rayport says.
Pretty picky in host selection

QVC works hard to build that loyalty.

It is extremely selective when choosing those chatty hosts. Last year, it screened more than 3,000 applicants and chose three. New hosts are trained for at least six months before getting their own on-air slot.

Meanwhile, vendors, such as designer Dao, must go to "Guest Excellence" class to learn how to best pitch their wares. They are schooled in QVC's "backyard-fence" style, which means conversing with viewers the way they'd chat with a friendly neighbor.

Every product gets a rigorous review before being shown on TV. In selecting the goods, QVC staff "look for a product that is complex enough — or interesting enough — that the host can talk about it on air," Rayport says.

QVC also counsels vendors on how to make products audience-appropriate. For instance, Dao says that she was coached not to show too much skin when creating her line. Designs also have to fit — and flatter — sizes from extra small to 3X. "It's a learning process," says Dao. "But I'm open (to it.) I just want to create great clothes for everyone."

The representatives at QVC's four U.S. call centers, which handled more than 181 million calls last year, also get extensive training on how to keep customers happy.

Yet, QVC has barely tapped its potential: 95% of revenue comes from repeat customers. Of 93 million U.S. homes reached, a core 1.8 million account for 10 or more sales a year. Another 7.3 million buy at least one item a year.

While George wants to bring in new customers, he says his main goal initially is more sales from the customer base.

Rayport says QVC needs to make new buyers a priority, particularly new ones under age 30 to replace aging customers. QVC won't give details on the average age of its mainly female audience, but independent research firm BIGresearch pegs it at 54.

"As your core customer base ages, you need to refresh the franchise," Rayport says. Though, he adds, "how to do that without losing the audience that is sustaining you now — and for the foreseeable future — is a very tough problem."

With that problem in mind, QVC is avoiding wholesale changes to chase new buyers in favor of gradual, well-researched shifts in merchandising and marketing.

"We can't take a walk on the wild side with our customers," says marketing chief Charney.
Among QVC's endeavors:
•Expand and upgrade the product mix. QVC has bulked up on brand names.
Its jewelry selection now has more prestigious brands such as Tacori — which has created rings for stars such as Grey's Anatomy's Ellen Pompeo — and less generic gold and silver.

•Be more entertaining. QVC is getting out of the studio more often to broadcast from remote locations. It has sold hair care products from an upscale Manhattan hair salon, Yankee memorabilia from the team's famed stadium and National Football League merchandise from pro football stadiums.


It's also airing live musical acts. On April 28, American Idol alumnus Clay Aiken performed songs from his new album On My Way Here. That day, QVC received more than 15,000 orders for the $19.38 CD — which also came with a five-track bonus CD/DVD.


LeAnn Rimes, the Goo Goo Dolls and Elton John also have performed.


•Amp up the marketing. Last fall, QVC launched a TV, print and outdoor ad campaign with the theme "iQdoU?"


The company says it's insider lingo for "I shop QVC, do you?" Ads showed such products as computers, cosmetics and cake. They also featured celebrity vendors such as Whoopi Goldberg (who has a bedding line) and Heidi Klum (who has a jewelry line).
The goal is to make QVC and QVC.com destinations for shoppers, says Doug Rose, vice president for merchandising brand development.
What does my friend say?


Even as QVC courts musical stars and spends millions on ads, one of its biggest sales drivers remains word-of-mouth recommendations, says Rose.


That's how Kathy Sklar became a customer. The Bethesda, Md.-resident didn't think she'd be "remotely interested" in QVC's wares until a friend turned her on to the channel.
She's now purchased a camera, kitchen goods, jewelry — even outdoor lights.
Sometimes, she says, she watches QVC and thinks, "I had no idea that I needed this (item) — or that it even existed."
But if something catches her eye, she doesn't hesitate.
"I've come to believe in QVC," she says, "I'll say, 'What the heck, I'll try it.' "

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POMEGA5 is a development stage company

CPAs who serve as advisors for start-up companies face many challenges. A major responsibility for CPAs is deciding how to value stock issued by development-stage firms. Start-up costs should be capitalized, and these costs should not be amortized for more than 40 years. Accountants should use Generally Accepted Accounting Principles when accounting for revenues. Auditors must be careful not to place too high a value on start-up companies. Related-party transactions should be disclosed, and research and development costs should be expensed in the period in which they occurred. Auditors can help improve the quality of financial reports by clarifying the definition of significant revenues and providing information about the organization's development stage and any uncertainties.

Entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well in this country. Technological advances have led to the birth of new and exciting industries. With this activity has come the opportunity for CPAs to provide accounting, audit, and management advisory services to start-up ventures. There is also increased risk because a CPA's reports are often used to raise capital, and start-up ventures often have a considerable chance of failure.

In 1975, SFAS 7, "Accounting and Reporting by Development Stage Enterprises," was issued to clarify and standardize reporting practices of development stage companies. Several publications on this topic appeared shortly thereafter. However, the literature has been sparse since then.

THE NATURE OF A DEVELOPMENT STAGE ENTERPRISE

SFAS 7 defines a development stage enterprise as a company that:

* Devotes substantially all its efforts to establishing a new business and has not begun planned principal operations; or
* Has begun operations, but has not generated significant revenue.
A development stage enterprise devotes most of its efforts to financial planning; raising capital; exploring for natural resources; developing natural resources; research and development; establishing sources of supply; acquiring property, plant, equipment, or other operating assets, such as mineral rights; recruiting and training personnel; developing markets; and starting up production.

A company that is e xpanding or developing a new product line would not qualify as a development stage company because it is not devoting most of its efforts to establishing the business. However, a subsidiary of an established firm could be so considered if it issues separate financial statements. The consolidated financial statements would follow reporting practices of an established enterprise.

Before SFAS 7, many development stage companies capitalized their start-up losses and amortized the cumulative losses against revenues of later periods. SFAS 7 acknowledges that development stage companies are involved in different activities than other enterprises, but requires that they issue the same basic financial statements as an established operating enterprise following GAAP; see Exhibit 1 for additional requirements. SFAS 7 does not change industry standards that are considered GAAP. In certain industries, such as oil and gas, sttart-up costs related to exploration and drilling are capitalized. There is little written in accounting literature on start-up costs, and the FASB has not addressed the issue. One Board member saw the need to dissent on the matter of start-up costs.

Investor and creditor needs are different for a development stage company. While its statements reporting cumulative information give an investor a summary of activity to date, users also need information about future prospects. In addition, while GAAP provide guidance on non-cash asset valuation and reporting of current and potential obligations, these transactions usually are more prevalent, material, and harder for the development stage company to value.

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We’ve got nothing but sympathy for Ashley Dupre - after all, who hasn’t performed sexual acts on a high-ranking politician for cash these days?

And if a scandal about you being a massive whore with a slightly gross-looking New York governor isn’t bad enough, the inevitable follow-up story about the way you took your clothes off for a teen-exploiting series of softcore videos is just utterly degrading.

That’s why we’re fully behind Ashley Alexandra’s decision to sue Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis for $10 million because he quickly released a 2003 video of her flashing her breasts in the wake of the scandal as a money-making enterprise. She’s completely correct - if she didn’t chase Joe Francis for cash, then what kind of filthy prostitute would Ashley Dupre be? A shit one, that’s what.

Britain’s Got Talent, American Idol, that rubbishy Graham Norton thing about Oliver Twist - all those contestants are deluding themselves. All they want is fame, and they’re going about it the wrong way. Statistically, the chances of you winning X Factor are minuscule - you stand a much better chance of becoming famous if you fuck a politician for cash, everyone knows that.

Ashley Dupre knows that, anyway. Every since she was uncovered as the prostitute at the centre of the Eliot Spitzer scandal, she’s been everywhere. Her face has been in newspapers constantly, the songs on her MySpace page have been thoroughly analysed - play them backwards and we’re told you hear “$500 for straight sex, or $1,000 to put it up my bumhole” - she’s been approached to appear in porn magazines and even Donald Trump’s got his eye on her.
So if Ashley Dupre plays her cards right, she might become the most successful prostitute since those women who Jack The Ripper stabbed to death. Especially if that $10 million lawsuit against Girls Gone Wild founder Joe Francis comes off.

You see, back in 2003, Ashley Dupre was filmed by Girls Gone Wild dancing around and flashing her breasts a lot. Nothing wrong with that, you might think - even sleazy overlords of morally-suspect softcore porn empires have to put dinner on their tables - but now Ashley Dupre says that she was filmed when she was just 17. And everyone knows that 17-year-olds don’t know anything about contracts. Especially, as the New York Post reports, when they’re blasted off their minds on booze:

Ashley Alexandra Dupre filed a lawsuit Monday in Miami federal court claiming she never gave “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis permission to use her name and likeness to advertise the videos. Dupre contends she was 17 and not old enough to sign a contract when the videos were taken in 2003 in Miami Beach. People.com said the lawsuit is for $10 million, and alleges that reps from the nudey video empire plied her with alcohol before getting to flash her breasts when she was only 17.

But who knows what the outcome of this lawsuit will be. Maybe Ashley Dupre will win, maybe the judge will rule in favour of Girls Gone Wild and maybe, just maybe, we’ll get to write an article about something other than underage nudity sometime soon. That way it wouldn’t take as long to scrub the shame from our skin at the end of the day. Some days we think we’ll never get clean.