Sexy, Youthful Aging

Most would do a double take on this picture. This is 69 year-old Dr. Jeffry Life, Chief Medical Officer of Cenegenics Medical Institute. His body looks like that of a 30 year-old.

For men, having a young wife ( or wives better) helps keep him youthful. So says the myth. It may be with this believe that a number of Malay men marry women many years younger following a divorce.

But Cenegenics Medical Institute has a proven prescription for youthful aging. Not only does the anti-aging regimen helps people stay young and healthy, but it also gives an increase in energy, muscle and libido.

What's in the regime? Human growth hormone six times a week,weekly testosterone injections, in addition to swallowing a handful of dietary supplements every day.

Now, in one of the largest and most careful studies so far of human growth hormone in healthy older people, researchers find that it can markedly transform older people's bodies. The effects were potent. Those who took the drug gained lean body mass, much of which is likely to be muscle, and lost fat as if they had been working out in a gym, lifting weights and doing aerobic exercise. Some men gained 10 pounds of lean body mass and lost an equivalent amount of fat. Yet the subjects, who ranged in age from their mid-60's to their late 80's, were sedentary and did not exercise or change their diets.

What for? Those on the prescription say makes them feel better, more energetic, clear-minded. They want to live long, healthy life, to be able to get out and be active and travel and see the world and be able to make a difference in other people's lives, then yes, to have as long an existence as possible.

It's good business! IMS Health, a company that tracks drug sales, prescriptions for growth hormone made by Genentech and Eli Lilly have more than tripled.

Source:
www.mindfully.org

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Jennifer Aniston Naked at 40

Maintaining good physique even in our forties and beyond isn't difficult. Actually doing the maintaining is the difficult part. While there are many books and mags that give us 101 Ways to maintain lean body and to stay healthy, the reality is that we don't need those 101 Ways prescriptions at all. Here's the ABCs of it all and of Jennifer Aniston's naked truth:

A. Sweat it out. Exercise regularly with intensity at least 3 times a week, each time for at least 60 minutes intense workout.

B. Eat well. Small portions of meals with less carbohydrates. Avoid the roti canai, fried noodles, fried rice, rendang, oil-loaded curries, etc.

C. Practice A and B consistently everyday.

Would we want to burden our loved ones at old age or when we suffer chronic disease associated with our eating habits and sedentary lifestyle? When we suffer, so do our loved ones.

Love your body first before you can say that you love somebody.

Women of Mass Influence - Sa Dingding

Unnervingly good-looking, she's China’s most in-demand musical property. Twelve months ago, she was hardly known. Then she recorded Alive, an album that mixes traditional Chinese melodies and Buddhist mantras with electronic instruments.

Sa Dingding, the new age chanteuse, is one global export that in many ways echoes the Beijing Olympic fantasy of "One World. One Dream."

Born in 1983, the daughter of a Mongolian mother and Han father, she grew up a nomad. She sings in Mandarin, Tibetan, Sanskrit, and the rare dialect of Lagu, while fusing chill-out beats and floaty instrumentation played on zither, horse head fiddle and bamboo flute.

In terms of popularity, can we compare her to Siti Nurhaliza? Not only is Sa Dingding hugely popular in China, she is also finding similar success elsewhere: Her first album sold 2 million copies in Southeast Asia, and she has appeared on MTV. Earlier this year she won a BBC Radio 3 World Music Award and performed at the Royal Albert Hall in London.

Source: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article3805225.ece

Women of Mass Influence - Cher Mi Wang

Cher Mi Wang is the dame behind the success of High Tech Computer Corporation (HTC). The daughter of one of the richest man in Taiwan, in 1997, she entered in a partnership with HT Cho and Peter Chou to form HTC.

She invested heavily in the company. The first success came in 2000 with orders from HP. HTC became the big hit in 2002, when the first Pocket PCs based on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile were developed. This attracted the attention of some big wireless providers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel, O2, Vodafone and Orange. HTC began producing units for the various carriers mentioned above and brands like Qtek, Dopod (division of HTC), Dell, Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, i-mate and Sharp.

HTC has brought innovative ideas to the industry. The popular Touch series, models are attractive and employ the finger friendly TouchFLO interface. On top of that, HTC is the creator of the first Android OS phone, the HTC Dream (T-Mobile G1). Today other major carriers are using HTC's smartphones.

Women of Mass Influence - Gina Bianchini

Gina Bianchini, Co-founder & CEO, Ning.

Bianchini's Ning is possibly the most exciting thing in social networking right now. Ning lets users create their own mini communities, complete with customizable layouts, profiles, blogs, videos, and ads, instead of simply encouraging people to join one ubernetwork such as Facebook, MySpace and the rest. It lets you build your own MySpace.

Just as blogs changed the Web by turning ordinary folks into pundits, Ning could do the same for community. The company estimates that, at this rate, by New Year's Eve 2010 it will host some 4 million social networks, with tens of millions of members, serving up billions of page views daily.

In terms of its influence on business, people are going to have a ton of experiments going on, and they should. Not every company is going to have their own social network. A lot of them will, though, and they can be used in all sorts of interesting ways, whether it's a large computer company we know of that is using [Ning] for an internal social network, or what ImSaturn is doing in having a direct two-way conversation with customers.

Do we have a Malaysian equivalent or better?

Read more in Fastcompany's Ning's Infinite Ambition.

Sexy Way to Build, Share Ideas

Sustainable entrepreneurship has evolved. There has been a wave of innovation that is providing new platforms and resources so that good ideas can be nurtured to fruition. Innovative resources that can provide support to this niche entrepreneur has become increasingly evident.

One such platform is Ideablob.com, an online community that allows entrepreneurs to share and grow their business ideas. In addition, each month a winning idea is awarded $10,000 based on votes from the rest of the rest of the ideablob.com community.

Women of Mass Influence - Irene Au

She's Google's User Experience Designer.

As Director of User Experience at Google, Irene Au is responsible for design and user research for Google’s software products worldwide. Her mission is to champion the strategic value of design at every level of the company.

Au is the former vice president of User Experience and Design at Yahoo!, and was an interaction designer at Netscape. She holds an M.S. in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.

See also, Malaysia's own planet-roaming user experience designer and recent breed of world citizen of free agents, http://www.ringae.com/.

Women of Mass Influence - Aimee Mullins

“If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. It’s much easier to stay in known mediocrity than blossom into unknown glory.” Aimee Mullins, athlete and artist.

Aimee Mullins’ legs were amputated at the age of one, yet with the help of advanced artificial limbs, she has set world records in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and the long jump at the Paralympics. Off the field, Mullins has a multifaceted career as an artist, actress, model and public speaker.

“I want to challenge people’s ideas of beauty and the myth that disabled people are less capable,” Mullins says on chickspeak.com. “I want to expose people to disability as something that they can’t pity or fear or closet, but something that they accept and maybe want to emulate.”

Women of Mass Influence - Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg - The elder in Facebook.

Facebook, the social networking giant, founded in a dorm room at Harvard University, is mostly young male software engineers working in a freewheeling culture.

Facebook recently hired Sandberg, former Google executive, to provide some adult supervision and help Silicon Valley's hottest startup to grow up - and make oodles of moola. If anyone can figure out how to capitalize on Web 2.0, it's has to be her. At Google, as vice-president of global online sales and operations, she oversaw huge growth in its international operations and managed its lucrative advertising business. As COO of Facebook, Sandberg will be a big influence on the expanding world of new media users as she scales Facebook operations and build its business model.

Change Can Happen

The full speech from Election Night in Grant Park, re-edited with multiple camera angles and shots of the spectacular crowd of over 200,000 supporters.

View here on youtube.

Sexy Society of Givers

The massive amount of donation collected for Obama's campaign makes me wonder how we could develop a society of givers. While US is world's largest donor of aid to the rest of the world, but in terms of per capita giving, Sweden and Norway are tops.

I'm reminded of a taxi drivers who take a whole week off, to ferry people for free to fundraising event in Genting Highland. When it comes to education, certain communities make the sacrifices and give generously to the cause. Schools built on donor money are evident in these communities.

On a trip to Mukah, I chance on a gentleman from Ganu Kito and we spoke of community building. What he said will ring forever in my mind. He said, unlike some communities that have money to give and to help their people, the natives have software. He meant that natives have educated people who possess valuable information and knowledge that can be exploited to develop their community. Giving software aid as assistance for human resource development and community building is indeed a better form of giving than giving money or hardware aid.

On the other hand, we have communities that are always expecting to receive. And the government willingly give hand-outs.

All Things Are Possible

Sexy New Gadget

The Xperia from Sony Ericsson. See the demo here.

Digg Found Zombie in Google

Software programmers would know these codes used by Google to protect itself from zombies.

Century-old, but sexier

Century-old and winner of 7 Pulitzer Prizes, switches its daily to entirely Web. The pressure of evolution is certainly squeezing newspapers as more of us get our news form the Internet.

This is one evolution to watch as the Web presents an entirely different playground for newspapers and journalists. We'll see the rise and fall of species. Already, many of us get great news content from sources like Beet.tv. And the way news are gathered and presented in Beet.tv is rather different from the normal staple. Journalism is redefined.

Miss Allocation

RM5 billion of EPF contributors' money is being pumped into Bursa Malaysia to bailout selected companies.

That's an injection of 1% of equity into Bursa Malaysia.

Did the gov't guarantee that the return rate would at least equal the EPF 5.8% dividend rate?

How easy the principle of accountability, transparency and good governance flies out the window at a time when UMNO election is hot.

What's the Integrity Institute doing about this?

Why aren't the star bloggers holding candlelight vigil outside EPF and MOF to save our savings? Oh, I forgot - our bloggers are trivia kings.

No Community is Best Served When Only The Elites Are In Control

J.J. Abrams is a model of what creativity is all about. If you look at who he is you can see why he was able to create his wonderful series Lost. He's passionate. He doesn't have limits. He demonstrates his level of depth as he talks about the jaws scene. What insight! He reminds of us to teach our children to be curious. He doesn't say it outright but he models it. He gets to do what most just wander around unsure of how to get there, which is to live his passion and get paid for it. The idea of the mystery box is a great metaphor. Watch it here on TED.COM.

Whiplashed By Vagina Monologues

The UN statistics say that 1 out of every 3 women will face some kind of abuse in their lifetime is staggering but true.

More likely, the world needs a type of Male Monologue, than a Vagina Monologue. Being a true man is not taking advantage of someone because you are bigger, stronger, or have more testosterone, it is treating others and yourself with respect. It is protecting and defending the weak, the disadvantaged. Negative actions by "weak men" destroy the lives of the the ones they hurt and will ultimately hurt themselves in the long run. Watch here on TED.COM

Light After Death - Gastric Juice As Flashlight Batteries

Nice idea about giving light to your loved ones after death. And lots of other very unique design ideas that open up our minds. Guaranteed worth viewing.

How To Stay Sexy with Zero Carbon Footprint

If only we would check our carbon footprint as often as we check our rear.  But going beyond just checking how they emit, Castello Monte Vibiano Vecchio olive oil farm, north of Rome, is attempting to create a pioneering carbon-neutral farm. A range of new technologies is being installed at the farm as part of an experiment to cut its CO2 emissions to zero over the course of the next year.

They include everything from electric farm vehicles to sun-reflecting paint on storage buildings. One of the key investments is in a unique solar powered battery re-charging centre, built by Cellstrom of Austria. Until now, electricity generated by the sun has generally had to be used immediately. It is one reason why opponents say solar power is limited. 

Depending on the amount of usage, the battery centre can store solar-sourced electricity for up to three days. They are working to extend that to 10 days and more, enabling the farm to continue operating through foggy days when the sun does not shine.

Cellstrom estimates the farm can save 4,500 litres of petrol every year and reduce CO2 emissions by 10 tons.

The farm owner believes they have no choice but to get agriculture to adapt to climate change, and that "it is our interest for the sake of our crops to be friendly to the planet."

So, agriculture is now doing its bit on climate change.

Source: BBC News

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Killing of the next generation

You may not know that chicken nuggets, sausages, and burgers that you get from the supermarkets are made of mainly chicken skin and chicken fat. That's why they taste sooo gooooood. Kids love them and we feed them often with these non-nutrient food, at home and mostly in school. Watch this video from start to finish. We really should be jailed for how we feed our children. You can download the video here.

Priceless, What Flooded KLIA on 30-Sep-2008

For all that Russia was, and for all I once knew of Russia, I would never expect Malaysians in droves, and let alone, my child, to be studying or living in Russia. Well, she is the generation of a globalized world - a global citizen. Citizens of one borderless world. Will the more advanced global citizens defeat those of us staying put in the confines of our hometown? How are we preparing the future generation for an even more borderless, globalized economy? Will parents, our family institutions and our education system build generations that can thrive in this new era? Will we leave generations of Malaysians that will fall to the more advanced societies?

Read Richard Florida's "Revenge of the Squelchers" or visit http://creativeclass.com/

Carsutra - Car Park Sex in no Dream City

This report in The Star, did not highlight a common feature of parking lots in Cyberjaya when it's after dark - CARSUTRA (watch video below). Check the parking lots of the SME buildings after office hours - it's a venue for wriggly bodies in the confines of parked cars.

Many have said it before too many times - at the rate things are going, Cyberjaya will lose out in more than one ways. The Cyberjaya City Command Center (CCC), if you knew what it was supposed to be, is now just one empty building rotting away. As the name suggests, it was to house the brain of the city, monitoring the smart sensors and cameras around the city, alerting whoever are supposed to be alerted and dispatching response teams to do the needful. But that's only a small portion of the big dream. Has anybody been held accountable for the millions in wasted taxpayers' money?

Observing the behaviours of the guys of Cyberview, it's not difficult to forsee the future of Cyberjaya. It's a common symptom of organizational dysfunction - the boss buys himself a brand new E-Class, parks right at the office entrance (what if there is emergency?), VIP themselves at events and functions by having VIP parking and VIP tables for themselves, and sit among themselves. You'd be lucky if they return your calls or apologize for missing a scheduled appointment. When you hold yourself high and mighty, and use your position and taxpayers money to indulge in self-glorification, you'll certainly fail the purpose that you are supposed to serve.

You can't even get the car parks right! Given that the car parks have other useful purposes after office hours, Cyberview should take the opportunity (not to engage in voyeurism) to be the city for outsourcing sex. Think about it - Cyberjaya, the world's premier city for outsourced sex and sex shared services. Imagine how lucrative it would be - thriving call centers, sweaty body shops - all so unlike any other cities. Why not - Cyberjaya already has some of the infrastructures for that and the large population of foreign workers in Cyberjaya provides ready market.

To promote to the world and get instant impact with little cost, Cyberview can learn from British "media consultancy" ST16. ST16 won the International Gold Award for viral film at the New York Film Festival for its hit online short called Steamy Windows. The video has attracted 2.4 million views on YouTube in 6 months and another 65,000 on Kontraband. Why so many views? Watch this "Hot Girl Having Sex In A Car" video. Best backseat romp ever.

Cut The Cord to Stay Young and Sexy

Still having a fixed landline? That's equivalent to many wrinkle lines. Your age is showing.

While most Internet users still surf over landlines, traditional phone providers like TM aren't growing landline subscribers. The young, hip, cool people, mostly ages 18 - 34, have cellphones or 3G modems only. As cellphone makers and Google introduce even slickier iPhone rivalries, the Internet is in the pockets of the millions of young cellphone users.

Still asking your 8 year-old for help with your cellphone?

Inflated, Big Bust

The myth is busted! Subsidies, hand-outs, cash rebates for fuel, cash incentives for farmers and fishermen do not help the economy in the long term. We're heading for the big bust.

Most of those receiving these cash monies aren't paying income taxes that fuel the nation's growth. In KL city, many live in DBKL low cost flats subsidized by rate payers and still many will spend the money on the luxuries of Astro TV subscription and higher end cars. It's so frustrating to see tax payers money being spent on those who should not receive the subsidies. Drive by the flats in Sri Sabah Cheras, Desa Tun Razak, Bandar Tun Razak, to name a few. It's amazing to see there are more Astro dishes and expensive cars than there in the more upmarket apartments.

The big bust - Malaysia's inflation rate jumped to a 26-year high of 8.5 percent in August, driven by the escalating cost of food and fuel, according to official data released Wednesday. Thanks to more subsidies and cash hand-outs. And municipal council members can now have illicit sex with women from China.

The result was slightly higher than expected but the central Bank Negara would not raise interest rates to ensure growth.

With that kind of inflation, will the government increase the key interest rates? Or will it be maintained at 3.50 percent till the year-end to support growth?

The Department of Statistics revised downwards the inflation figure for July to 8.3 percent.

It said the cost of food and non-alcoholic drinks rose 11.7 percent in August compared to a year ago. The high inflation is already hurting consumers with many Malaysians cutting down on their food bill.

The August data showed escalating prices in most categories, including transport which jumped 21.8 percent, and restaurants and hotels which rose 6.5 percent.

Wholesome bust (pic) isn't such a bad thing even in times of inflated prices. We continue to delight in diligently pay taxes while others enjoy subsidies, Astro trivia and trash.


Source: Agence France-Presse - 9/24/2008 9:15 AM GMT

A Blow to Jobs, A Gloomy Outlook

Inflation fears among executives around the world have decreased sharply in the past six months, according to the latest McKinsey Global Survey on economic conditions.

Despite the ongoing financial turmoil and a notable lack of confidence in national economies, respondents indicate that many companies have some flexibility to cope: most of those seeking external funding have so far been able to find it, respondents who predict higher inflation are also likely to report that their companies will be able to raise prices, and a majority of all executives expect the productivity of their companies to increase.

However, almost 30 percent of respondents now expect their companies to shrink the size of their workforce in the next six months, up from 18 percent a year ago. (click on the exhibit). More than 60 percent of the respondents report that their companies have acted to become more energy efficient. Among the most widely used moves are two that can be made very quickly—using less energy to heat or cool corporate offices and reining in business travel.

A year ago, the executives’ fears about economies at the national level rose appreciably. Today, they worry still more: 78 percent say that economic conditions in their countries are worse than they were half a year ago (See exhibit), compared with 64 percent in June.

Source: Economic and hiring outlook, third quarter 2008: A McKinsey Global Survey

In Various Positions, Women Drive

In which ever positions women are laid, they can become dominant and drive better.

A McKinsey research shows that:
1) Companies that hire and retain more women not only are doing the right thing but can also gain a competitive edge.

2) There is a correlation between high numbers of female senior executives and stronger financial performance.

Click on the graphs to view McKinsey's findings or read more on the McKinsey Quarterly website.

Some companies have moved successfully to increase the hiring, retention, and promotion of female executives. Their initiatives have included efforts to ensure that HR policies aren’t inadvertently biased against women, to encourage mentoring and networking, to establish (and consistently monitor at a senior level) targets for diversity, and to find ways of creating a better work–life balance. Changes like these have a price, but there are business advantages to making them—above and beyond the branding benefit that might accrue to companies viewed as socially progressive.

Or should that read as "sexually progressive"? And "better work-life balance" includes better sex life in a sexually progressive workplace?

Mind-blowing Blow Job Of The Century

It's unlike seeing pantyless Britney Spears. On Monday, Sept. 15, Lehman Bros. filed the largest bankruptcy case in history. It's assets before filing for bankruptcy were at least USD639 billion. That's seven times the pre-filing assets of the second-largest bankruptcy since 1980. How many times of Malaysia's GDP is that?

Lehman Bros. collapse was soon followed by the once impregnable, 158 year-old American International Group (AIG). Through its insurance policies AIG touches far more consumers around the world. There goes all my insurance policies with AIA. AIG is in a much scarier situation than Lehman — the insurer has assets of USD1 trillion, more than 70 million customers and intimate back-and-forth dealings with many of the world's biggest and most important financial firms.

The iconic Merrill Lynch, known for with its famous bull logo in the Wall Street, suffering billions in losses in the last year due to fallout in the U.S. mortgage market proved too much for the 94-year old firm. Bank of America rescued it for USD50 billion.

Now the US Treasury is putting together a mother of all bailout plan of USD700 billion for the troubled institutions.

Even some of the smartest, savviest people in the financial world — like the folks running the U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve Board — find themselves reacting to rather than getting ahead of them. The top financial market analysts and writers like those of Time and Fortune magazines, with a combined 65 years of writing about business, say they have never seen anything like what's going on.

How did this financial tsunami come about? Should the tsunami hit Malaysia, which institutions would collapse first? How could such institutions that have endured for over a century, admired by many management gurus and students, and featured in books as built to last, finally suffer such devastating blow. Anyway, does anyone need to explain a mind-blowing blow job?

Offshoring Sexy No More

Is PIKOM representative of the industry? I associate PIKOM with PC Fairs, not the ICT industry. So I conclude that PIKOM represents only the PC retailers.

The Association of the Computer and Multimedia Industry of Malaysia (Pikom) is disappointed with Budget 2009 allocation for the country’s ICT segment. David Wong, PIKOM's Chairman said there are areas (within the ICT segment) that need to be seriously addressed, such as promoting (Malaysia as a regional centre) for outsourcing.

I thought that people don't talk about outsourcing any more. It's a period topic. In reality now, outsourcing isn't sexy any more. The wage inflation in this country has risen so much that it is no longer attractive to offshore.

The Real Minister of Education

Watch and listen to this transformative creativity of one man who is consumed by his passion and spellbinding eagerness to advocate for students and teachers. Here's what it takes to be the Minister of Education. (Don't be misled by the long intro. The video builds up to an awesomely inspiring presentation).

Free Access to Rear View on Sexy Environment

It may be rare to find absorbing websites on environment compared to anything sex-related. Environment and sex are two opposites. While sex is forbidden, sex is the most sought after, online or offline and all statistics confirm that. As free as there is access to environmental protection, it's almost as if environment is a forbidden topic - it's among the least accessed. Like me,some prefer to leave environment in the back - heck, there's nothing orgasmic about it.

So if you're like me, lets take a rear view for free at this Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research.

Over 1,300 peer reviewed titles owned and published by over 340 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies are now available in more than 100 low income countries.

Research is provided in a wide range of awesome disciplines that would ensure our enduring sexuality.

Now, to make environment-related topics hot, again we learn from marketeers, that sex sells - blend sex and environment. It's only natural.

Sexy Home In A Box

When a cyclone hit Myanmar in May this year, killing 130,000 people and leaving millions homeless, Rotary clubs were among first responders, delivering ShelterBoxes. Designed to help an extended family survive for a minimum of six months, the lightweight, weatherproof box contains items such as a 10-person tent, blankets, basic tools, water-purification tablets and containers, a multi-fuel or wood-burning stove, mosquito nets and other items tailored to the particular region in crisis.

ShelterBox, created by ex-Royal Navy search and rescue diver, Tom Henderson, with Helston-Lizard Rotary Club, has aided more than 600,000 victims of disasters of all scales worldwide since 2001. Read the story on CNN's special edition, CNN Heroes, where you can also get involved.

Dedicated to Newly Wed Datuk J

Wilder Sex As Deforestation Rise

These pictures show two common things about rainforests anywhere. For example, Brazil, Malaysia and Australia all have huge areas rainforests. These rainforests are all home to some of the world's beautiful babes. Huge tracks of rainforests in all 3 countries have been cleared for golf courses, agriculture, timber and hot pit girls.

Myth: Hot pit girls drive you wild. Truth: Burning rainforests drives many wild.

Some 3,088 square miles of Amazon's forest were destroyed between August 2007 and August 2008 — a 69 percent increase over the 1,861 square miles felled in the previous 12 months, according to the National Institute for Space Research, which monitors destruction of the Amazon.

This is the first such increase in three years — as rising demand for soy and cattle pushes farmers and ranchers to raze trees.

The Amazon rainforest is so vast and full of life that even its defenders don't know exactly what it is they are protecting. The rainforest, which encompasses an area nearly as large as the continental United States and stretches across nine countries, is considered the world's richest and most varied natural habitat, with several million species of insects, plants, birds and fish calling it home. It also plays an important role in regulating Earth's temperature as its dense vegetation absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen into the air.

According to Cláudio C. Maretti, Brazil-based director for conservation for the World Wildlife Fund, the wealth of biodiversity is so immense, ". . . we cannot even estimate the amount we don't know. Every new expedition you do to the Amazon, you might find one new species of fish. Every other, you might find some new bird or frog." Read more on CNN's special edition, Planet in Peril

But the Amazon has been under pressure from outside forces for decades. In the past 40 years, roughly 20 percent of the rainforest has been wiped out, according to Maretti. The threat to rainforests in South East Asia is also acute. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, from 2000 to 2005, Cambodia lost nearly 30 percent of its primary forests and Vietnam lost close to 55 percent.

What's uncommon about rainforests: In Sarawak, after milking the land, a large timber company, gives salt to the natives of the rainforest. Read more here . . .

Do something sexy here . . .

Here are 3 take-home lines from www.savetherainforest.org:

If you are thinking a year ahead, sow the seeds.
If you are thinking 10 years ahead, plant a tree.
If you are thinking 100 years ahead, educate the people.

Wonders of Sex on Ice With Grid Girls

Grid girls they say are hot. I've never seen them in action. Ice shelves they say are icy cold. Such oxy-moron statements. Hot sex with hot grid girls will melt the ice - that's the truth of the century. Why don't the morons doing the Merdeka Endurance Race take this simple truth instead of going round and round like goldfish in a fish tank, burning fuel for 12 hours and contributing to a warmer Earth causing ice shelves to melt.

(Picture: Large pieces of ice float off after separating from the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf July 29. That shelf has lost about eight square miles and the Serson shelf 47 square miles as the Markham Ice Shelf has separated and gone adrift. Source: Associated Press / MSNBC)

A huge chunk of ice shelf, more than 60 sq. km has broken away from Ellesmere Island in Canada's northern Arctic, another dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists said Wednesday.

The 4,500-year-old Markham Ice Shelf separated in early August and the 19-square-mile shelf is now adrift in the Arctic Ocean. This comes on the heels of unusual cracks in a northern Greenland glacier, rapid melting of a southern Greenland glacier, and a near record loss for Arctic sea ice this summer. And March this year a 160-square mile chunk of an Antarctic ice shelf disintegrated.

The loss of these ice shelves means that rare ecosystems that depend on them are on the brink of extinction, said Warwick Vincent, director of Laval University's Centre for Northern Studies and a researcher in the program ArcticNet.

It is the burning of oil and other fossil fuels that scientists say is the chief cause of manmade warming and melting ice.

We know it's you and me are the culprits.

Find out more . . .

Erotic Stimulants for Dead Zones

Sometimes some guys who think they are smarter can tell us to screw ourselves. Here's how we do just that. "If we screw up the energy flow within our systems we could end up with no crabs, no shrimp, no fish. That is where these dead zones are heading unless we stop their growth," said Robert Diaz,co-author of the research in the journal Science. So we screw ourselves.

Like a chronic disease wasting a body, ocean "dead zones" with too little oxygen for marine life are spreading around the globe. The experts counted 405 dead zones in 2007 — a third more than their 1995 survey. The problem is growing to a magnittude that is starting to affect the resources that we pull out from the sea to feed ourselves.

Fertilizers, fuel, sewage blamed
Pollution-fed algae, which deprive other living marine life of oxygen, is the cause of most of the world's dead zones. Scientists mainly blame fertilizer and other farm runoff, sewage and fossil-fuel burning. Areas where there are prawn culture ponds and salmon farming cages have become hypoxic, too.

Rivers in South America that were once thought to be too large to have the same problems as the Mississippi River, now have their estuaries and coastal areas suffering the same malady.

This is a global problem and it has severe consequences for ecosystems. The trend could lead to global food problem. Now that's stimulating.

Towering Reach of Breast Cancer

“It is estimated that one in 19 women here are at risk of getting breast cancer in their lifetime. Even men are susceptible, although in small numbers.", said Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Dr Ng Yen Yen. Compare this to 1 in 8 women in the US.

The exact cause of breast cancer has not been established but clinical data has clearly shown a number of risk factors, which may be responsible for it:

Age: High incidence in the age group above 50 years and very low below 25 years. The disease is more aggressive in younger patients.

Menstrual cycle: Common in the ladies who have a longer menstrual life, i.e. the onset of menarche is earlier and cessation of menstruation is late.

Marital and maternal status: More common in spinsters, or if married then have not given birth to children, or if given birth then have not breast fed their offspring.

A positive history of breast cancer in mother, sisters, and daughters increases the risk.

Smoking and alcohol intake are supposed to increase the risk.

Women with a past history of having breast cancer on one side are at a greater risk to develop cancer on the opposite side also, about 1 per cent per year and the lifetime risk is 10 per cent.

Obesity and higher intake of saturated fatty acids have been also linked .

A woman who exercises atleast four hours per week reduces her risk of breast cancer. Exercise pumps up the immune system and cuts the oestrogen (female hormone) level.

Radiation to chest: Exposure of breast to radiation that may happen during radiotherapy for any cancer disease located either inside the chest or on the chest wall, may make the person more vulnerable to the development of breast cancer. This may happen 10 or 12 years after the exposure.

Oral Contraceptives: Women below the age of 35 years, who have been using oral contraceptive pills for more than 10 years, are at an increased risk of developing breast cancer.

Hormone-Replacement Therapy: It has been shown that continuous or sequential uses of combined oestrogen plus progestin hormone therapy (CHT) after the cessation of menstruation cycle are linked with an increased risk of breast cancer. The researchers also found that the women who have been using only oestrogen therapy as hormone replacement therapy (i.e. not combining with progestin) for 25 years or longer had no significant increase in the risk of breast cancer.

The readers are cautioned that these facts have been derived from the statistical analysis of the factors seen in the breast-cancer patients; they should not be taken as causative or predisposing factors. In the present era when breast cancer has become such a common disease, it is advisable to follow the guidelines.

This post is a tribute to the Avon Walk Around The World for Breast Cancer and the Pride Foundation.

Article abstracted from the Spectrum column of The Tribune by Dr S.M. Bose.

Best Chicken Rice in Kuala Terengganu

The name Batu Buruk (literally, means ugly rock) may not sound appealing. When in Kuala Terengganu, it is a place not to be missed. It's a one-stop local food haven or haven for local food.

Discover food varieties you can't get anywhere else in the country. Savour the crispy crusted fried seafood - crunchy on the outside, juicy on the inside. Seafood may be limited in variety, but surely fresh from the sea. The Hainanese chicken rice stall in Batu Buruk beach is one of a kind - generous serving of tasty roasted chicken with a choice of 2 vegetables. Probably the best chicken rice you can find in Kuala Terengganu.

I don't have the word "sex" in the title of this post because it's post number 70.

Is There Sex in Redang Island?

There were all the reasons for me to be in Redang Island this weekend - the nice weather, the beautiful island itself, the lovely people at Merang jetty who would crowd the island, and of course, the wonderful people of Trustgate. I've been there a few times and have done the common things people do - open water diving, snorkelling, fishing, eating, lazing, and all, except for one thing. I couldn't figure out that one reason, but I have a feeling that it's gotta there and it has to be something orgasmic. Swim with a mermaid? Get attacked by a shark or a school of barracudas? How an attack by a swarm of bikini-clad sweet young things? Sex on a jet ski round the island? Reef ball planting? Chance on a bikini-clad Miss Universe (as in the picture)? Found an ancient treasure chest in a scuba diving trip?

Yet, I'm certain the Trustgate people would not find that orgasmic thing. It would only come to life because I'm there.

Check out useful information on Redang Island here.

Sex and Snakes - Very Amusing

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Sex and Adult Movies in Malaysia

The script is still unwritten. I got a great book from Amazon.com on how to write winning movie script. The book has a case study on one of my favorite movie, The Usual Suspect. Sadly, there's nothing about how to write orgasmic sex movie script. Would anyone need a "How To" for that?

This guy makes things so real - they almost come to life. The pic is taken from bodohland.wordpress.com. It's got amazing ideas for hit Malaysian sex movies. Now, the script will be written.