Healthy sex- Its good for you

Physical intimacy doesn’t just feel good…. Making love is good for you as shown by hundreds of major medical studies. These studies are suggesting that an active sexual life may lead to a longer life, better heart health, a healthier immune response, reduction in chronic pain symptoms, lower rates of depression and even protection against some cancers.

The key to many of these qualitative life-shifts from lovemaking is the release of oxytocin, which influences everything from regulation of body temperature to wound healing, pain-relief, and the development of emotional bonds.

Lovemaking is also an excellent form of aerobic exercise which tones the heart, can burn as much as 200 calories, and is equivalent to running for 30 minutes. Studies show that men who have sex twice per week have half as many heart attacks as men who have sex only once per month. In fact, a regular love life has been shown to extend one’s life by as much as ten years.

Frequent lovemaking also boosts levels of immunoglobulin, key immune cells that fight infection. These physical effects are matched by the powerful emotional healing of lovemaking. A strong sex life will calm anxiety, ease fears and break down inhibitions. Sexually active people are also significantly less vulnerable to depression and suicide. In addition, sexual activity dulls the chronic pain of migraines, arthritis and back pain.

So go on, have a little good clean love and report back on how much better you feel.

The Ten Commandments Of Startups

God doesn’t have much to say about small business—maybe He’s too busy watching where the Mail Streets and Wall Streets are heading? However, applying these ten commandments of startups could help entrepreneurs avoid certain financial death.

1. Thou Shalt Not Set Up Shop in a Bad Location

Bad locations are usually the most common reason for startup failure. In fact, some successful businesses are willing to relocate their once thriving store if there is a significant change in the local community.

2. Thou Shalt Not Create a Market That Doesn’t Exist

This could imply literally creating an untested, unproven market or choosing a marginal niche that is much too costly to compete in. When you decide to go niche just to avoid competition, you may as well just surrender to the Philistines.


3. Thou Shalt Not Make an Imitation of Anything Already Existing
   
   There’s a big difference between imitating a successful company or product and improving upon a successful company or product. Imitating will only get you so far—improving upon a successful product could make your company great.
   
   
4. Thou Shalt Not Hire a Poor Staff
   
   Your employees represent you and your company. Hire technically incompetent or personably awful workers and you will regret it.
   
   
5. Thou Shalt Not Dilly Dally Around
   
   One of the least discussed reasons for startup failure is slowness in launching. If you succeed at creating new interest in your service or product you must follow up that interest immediately or it will be lost as the months fly by.
   
   
6. Thou Shalt Not Abandon Thy Capital
   
   A lack of capital is usually counted as the most contributing cause to new business failures. Know that most successful startups require extra funding at some point; have you made those plans well in advance of the company opening?
   
   
7. Thou Shalt Not Be Wasteful
   
   Another common reason for business failure is due to excessive spending. While it’s true you can count most of these expenses as a tax deduction, it’s also true that you need to control these expenditures until you get out of the red.
   
   
8. Thou Shalt Not Be Distracted by Thy Neighbor’s Anything
   
   If you are distracted with everyday life or worse yet, working two or more jobs, then your startup may be a disaster waiting to happen. Most successful business owners have had to put all their efforts into the new business, putting secondary jobs and family drama on hold.
   
   
9. Thou Shalt Not Be Stubborn Like Pharaoh
   
   Remember Pharaoh of Egypt? (He looked sort of like Yul Brynner) Just remember that stubborn adherence to your own vision may not be the wisest move in business. If your company is to survive, it must adapt to the market around you. Following your vision through and dispensing with logic and the advice of others will make you a legend…in your own mind.
   
   
10. Thou Shalt Not Give Up Faith
    
    While you must remain adaptable to your surroundings, your personal perseverance is the most important quality. Without your efforts, the company will not survive no matter how brilliant the master plan. You are your company and owe it yourself to give 100%.
    

Slim Down With the Sex Diet

By Kim Droze

Dieting and deprivation have long gone hand in hand. It’s as if there’s an unwritten law that says you must first suffer…with a capital S. But put your dieting fears aside. Author Kerry McCloskey has discovered a more pleasurable, R-rated way to lose weight. And it’s as simple as taking your clothes off. Plus:Test your sex drive…

If you have a big appetite for food and an even bigger appetite for sex, we’ve got the weight-loss plan for you.

It’s The Ultimate Sex Diet (Berkley Trade, 2006) and it’ll give you a darn good reason to add some hanky panky to your diet regimen.

Don’t believe a menu of sensual foods and intimate intercourse for dessert can help you peel away the pounds?

Author Kerry McCloskey managed to shed 23 big ones following this “x-rated” approach to weight loss.

While other diet and fitness plans are defined by specialty foods or pricey exercise gear, the most important ingredient on The Ultimate Sex Diet is, well, sex.

A study conducted by Brown University revealed that people who dieted with a buddy lost twice as much weight as those individuals going solo.

And who better to help you take it all off – the weight that is – than your lover?

Diet-Appealing Sexual Healing
Experts have long touted the health benefits of sex.

Countless studies have shown that intercourse burns calories, reduces stress and boosts the immune system, among other things.

Now, McCloskey is taking it one step further by wrapping up healthy eating and everyone’s favorite physical activity in one titillating package. See related article: A Plateful of Pleasure)

The Ultimate Sex Diet starts like most others – with a two-week meal plan that emphasizes fresh fruits and vegetables, lean proteins, seafood, spices and herbs, whole grains, nuts, and more.

But here’s the twist: It also includes foods to spice things up in and out of the bedroom.

For starters, try the appetizing aphrodisiacs: Oysters, garlic or truffles followed by a libido-boosting theme dinner: Japanese finger food (sushi and edamame) and saucy Mexican gazpacho soup and fajitas.

“This is a balanced diet that stays away from refined sugars and flour,” McCloskey tells LifeScript.

“The plan is very healthy and it incorporates all of the essential nutrients that are important for a healthy lifestyle.”

But what would The Ultimate Sex Diet be without a whole lot of sex?

McCloskey encourages couples to engage in intercourse three to five times a week and double up on weekends. (See related article: Tap Into Tantra)

She also recommends doing 30 minutes of cardio together, at least three to four times a week – whether it’s walking, jogging, swimming, or some other sort of activity.

The benefits are two-fold, says McCloskey: You’re strengthening your body and your relationship.

Get Physical with These Four Sexercises
What makes The Ultimate Sex Diet completely unique are 14 sexy exercises created exclusively by McCloskey. The “sexercises” are new sexual positions that target arms, legs, stomach, back, and butt.

Traditional exercises with a sexy spin, they’re great floor play and foreplay. She suggests doing a few sexercises 20 to 30 minutes, three or four days a week, preferably as a precursor to the main event.

Here are McCloskey’s four personal favorites (done naked):

1. Crunchy Kiss

Lie on your back with knees bent and hands crossed in front of your chest. Have your partner get down on his knees and gently hold your ankles. Contract your ab muscles as you lift your torso to a sitting position. As you come up, lean forward and give your partner a full-mouthed, wet kiss. Lower yourself back down to the floor. Do two sets of 10 and then switch roles with your partner.

2. Bridging Your Differences
Sit facing your partner three to four feet apart. Bend your knees so they’re hip-width apart in front of you. Line the soles of your feet up with each other and clasp your hands together outside of your legs. Slowly raise and straighten your legs to form a bridge in the shape of an upside-down V. If the back of your legs are tight, bend your knees. Pull in your abdomen and hold for three seconds. Continue holding hands while returning your legs to the starting position. Repeat three times.

3. Love Squat
Stand facing your partner with legs shoulder-width apart. Hold each other’s hands in front of you, comfortably but firmly. While holding hands, bend at the legs and lower your butt until your thighs are nearly parallel to the floor. Don’t lower your butt below your knees.

Remain in the squat position for three seconds. While balancing each other, slowly straighten your legs to a standing position. Repeat five times.

4. Push Up Your Love Life

Lie on your back with knees bent and feet flat on the floor, hip-width apart. Keep your arms at your sides, palms facing down. Inhale and gently arch up your lower back and pelvis. Exhale and tighten your butt muscles. Draw your abdomen in and then press the small of your back and pelvis gently back down to the floor.

Repeat five times, rhythmically tightening and releasing the muscles to make a wave-like motion.

The Joys of Sex
When you follow The Ultimate Sex Diet, expect to increase your pleasure, improve your health and strengthen your relationship, McCloskey says. And relish in the fact that you’ll be exercising without the hard work.

Is there an easier way to have fun losing weight? We didn’t think so.

Want to learn more? Get your own copy of The Ultimate Sex Diet.

Rate Your Sex Drive
Is your sex drive running on fumes or is it revved up to go the distance? To answer this question, don't go by how often you're getting busy - it's really more of a measure of how interested or aroused you get. Find out where your libido rates on the sex-o-meter, and what you can do if you're running low on steam with this sex drive quiz.

Social networking = recruiters haven

Orkut, LinkedIn, Facebook and other similar popular social networking sites are fast doubling up as the modern day employment exchang>es with job seekers as well as companies and recruiters head hunting for talent.

The social networking sites, immensely popular with the netizens, especially the young, are having increasing number of 'communities' helping both job seekers and employers.

"Searching for the right person for a job is always a challenge," says Gauri Sarin of Approach Talent Solutions. "So, there is a rising trend among the companies and recruitment agencies to use social networking sites to look for the right person," she adds.

With 100 million Internet users in the country, E-recruitment is gaining ground as a preferred medium of hiring in India, according to Assocham. Especially for job seekers, the Internet has opened up the world of job searching, turning it into a 24-hour-a day market place. Internet is arguably the most immediate, convenient and comprehensive medium for employment seekers to research and prospect for jobs.

Upon a search for 'jobs', communities such as Orkut throw up about a 1,000 odd related communities such as 'IT jobs India walk-ins','Freshers','Retail Jobs in India', 'Walk in for Jobs', Job Sampark' etc.

Staffing services providers like Cloud 9 India, Pathway Recruitment Agency use such sites as a platform to hire and have links to their own websites.
Populated with thousands of members each of these communities have a huge database of job seekers and can reach them within seconds.

"Of all new services on the internet, social networking sites hold the most promise. The reason for this is that these community-driven sites have the ability to leverage their user base across other verticals," says R Sunder, President, Times Business Solutions.

He further adds," Most of the growth in the social networking space has happened in the last one year. It will continue to grow at an accelerated pace as more people gain high-speed Internet access. It has come down to mobile phones and with web 2.0 coming to market, the future seems to be limited only by the imagination."

Young people are making most of it. Says Neha Kapoor a fresh graduate from Kanpur, "I got a job in one of the best BPOs in Delhi thanks to a 'scrap'", a term used by Orkut to describe the messages that are posted on the Net.

B Sudhir, software engineer, 25, moderator of a community 'Walk in for Jobs' in Orkut says, "I started this community as an hobby, as I am Internet savvy and had gone through the grind of trying to find a job. I wanted to create a platform for freshers."

His community claims to have membership of over 30,000 members. Sudhir says, "Other than the recruitment agencies many corporate houses directly post their requirements on the site."

He also has a blog whose members receive job opening postings into their mail boxes. Although most of these services are free yet there are ways to monetise these communities by dividing the jobs into free and paid categories, in which the recruiter pays for some specific advertisements.

There are many networking sites other than Orkut such as Facebook, Myspace, Yaari and also very popular professional networking site like LinkedIn, Ecademy, Doostang, Xing, Plaxo, etc.

Watering Your Business

Once there was a man who had a vision to build his dream home.He made every preparation, consulted with the finest architects, and used the finest materials.The glory of his home was his garden.Not just any plant would do, he selected the finest specimen of each variety. His garden shouted “welcome!” to everyone who saw it. People came from all over to marvel at its beauty.

Not too long after he finished the garden the plants started to wither.The temperature turned hot and a dry wind blew steadily.“Hopefully, it will rain today,” the man said to himself. A week went by, and then two. The plants were brown and dying, “I have to do something!” the man cried out. At great expense he paid for a water truck to come in and he personally watered every plant for two straight days. The yard drank it up readily and the green returned almost immediately.

The garden was fine for a week, but the hot wind never stopped. Soon it was worse than before. The man had heard about another man whose garden was always green. “I will call him and see what he does,” the man thought to himself. He got on the phone and asked the man with the green garden how he did it. “I water my garden on a regular schedule, some plants every day, others once or twice a week,” the green gardener said. Before the green gardener could finish the man hung up and put together a plan to water his garden regularly. “This is going to be a lot of work,” he thought.

I know, I know, this story is painfully obvious, but don’t you see it played out every day in businesses all around you? Most businesses think they can drag a hose out in the yard and take care of the problem when needed. That’s why most businesses don’t experience steady, even growth throughout the year!

Are you regularly watering yourself and your people based on individual needs?

Sr.Manager and Canteen boy

A Senior Manager working in an MNC, as usual after lunch goes to the cafeteria for coffee.

He relaxes in canteen. He sees a canteen boy cleaning tables there.

To Kill time he decides to have fun with him.

He calls him.

Senior Manager - (Asks canteen boy) : How much do you earn?

Canteen boy smiles...

Senior Manager - what are your future plans?

Canteen boy keeps quiet...

Senior Manager - where do you see yourself 10 years down the line?

Canteen boy gives a cold stare.

Senior Manager - Jab mai Mumbai aaya tha tab mere paas bhi kuch nahi tha.... Aaj mere paas kya nahin hai... ???

naam hai..........,

shohrat hai.........,

paisa hai............

Izzat Hai.............,

tumhare paas kya hai??

Scroll down to find out his answer

Don't think that he answered like Shashi Kapoor of Deewar ki "Mere

paas Maa hain"


Canteen boy - Sa'ab mere paas bahut KAAM hai....

Senior Manager leaves the cafeteria silently...