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Infamous CEO Sex Scandals
Filed under: Celebs & Money, Sex Sells
Garden variety affairs of the type going on all around us never make the headlines. But when a newsworthy individual, a CEO for example, decides to cheat, it's a lapse in judgement that lets an entire company down, and on occasion sends the share value down as well).
Here is a collection of some of the most egregious scandals to emerge in recent years. Few Canadian CEOs made our list, but we'd wager there are some that just haven't emerged yet.
Here is a collection of some of the most egregious scandals to emerge in recent years. Few Canadian CEOs made our list, but we'd wager there are some that just haven't emerged yet.
Top 10 Sexiest Hotels in the World
Filed under: Fashion & Trends, Sex Sells , Travel
So you want to surprise your special someone with a romantic getaway but you're struggling to come up with something new. You've already done the fancy hotel with rose petals, champagne and chocolates and you've been to a tropical beach. Thankfully, there is an alternative: the sexy hotel.
Now before you get the wrong idea, these hotels are anything but trashy. They are elegant, fun-filled theme rooms that are sure to create the romantic atmosphere you're seeking without dredging up the same old tricks (not that there's anything wrong with flowers, chocolates and champagne ... it's just that they can be predictable.)
The Luxury Travel Bible has just released its Top 10 Sexiest hotels, all guaranteed to please. If only for a night, get your credit card ready to live a lifestyle fit for James Bond, Hugh Hefner or Austin Powers.
Now before you get the wrong idea, these hotels are anything but trashy. They are elegant, fun-filled theme rooms that are sure to create the romantic atmosphere you're seeking without dredging up the same old tricks (not that there's anything wrong with flowers, chocolates and champagne ... it's just that they can be predictable.)
The Luxury Travel Bible has just released its Top 10 Sexiest hotels, all guaranteed to please. If only for a night, get your credit card ready to live a lifestyle fit for James Bond, Hugh Hefner or Austin Powers.
Stories of the Week: Toronto Sex Show, Professional Sports & Valentine's Day
Filed under: Sex Sells , Weird & Wonderful, Holidays, Small Business
Everyday readers from across the country add their thoughts and opinions to new, amazing stories. Discussions are created and debates rage on in the space below posts and we, at WalletPop want to highlight the most popular stories of the week.
Thrills and Chills at Sex Show
Sex really does sell.
Our story about Toronto's annual Everything to Do With Sex Show had many of you clicking this week.
The event is held each year in downtown Toronto and features interesting vendors, experts and seminars.
We put together a list of the sexiest products our blogger Aaron Broverman found on the showroom floor.
Thrills and Chills at Sex ShowSex really does sell.
Our story about Toronto's annual Everything to Do With Sex Show had many of you clicking this week.
The event is held each year in downtown Toronto and features interesting vendors, experts and seminars.
We put together a list of the sexiest products our blogger Aaron Broverman found on the showroom floor.
Cheap Thrills: The Best of the 'Everything to Do With Sex' Show
Filed under: Sex Sells , Holidays
I had always heard that what went on at Toronto's Everything to Do with Sex Show was the stuff of legend.It was there that convention goers saw the latest and greatest innovations in getting off and learned the newest techniques in love making. I was under the impression that the trade show was the Canadian equivalent of the world famous Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas.
When I finally made the trip last November, I was surprised that there was nothing there I hadn't seen before. Much of what was available on the showroom floor were the same sex toys, bondage gear and guide books that you can find in any neighbourhood sex shop. Still, maybe that's a good thing.
One person's blasé is another person's bow chicka wow wow and with Valentine's Day coming up, most would rather keep their hands and arms inside the vehicle at all times anyway. With that in mind, we've put together a list of the sexiest products I found for small money on the showroom floor at the Everything to Do with Sex Show.
Favourite Links: Avoid Gift Pitfalls, Dealing with Nasty Prospective Tenants, Making Opportunities & More
Filed under: Investing, Sex Sells , Real Estate, Holidays
Avoiding Gifting PitfallsThis week we're letting Financial Highway do the heaving lifting for us: they've put together a list of great links that range from frugal gifts and ideas for gifts for your kids' teachers to a list of gifts you should never buy your kids, ever.
How To Deal With Nasty Prospective Tenants
Whether you rent a basement suite, are renting your house out during a long absence, or have a rental property, you'll want to read Landord Rescue's nine rules for prospective tenants and how to deal with a tenant deal that turns nasty when you ask for a deposit.
In Dating, When Should You Reveal You Have a Large Debt?
My boyfriend thinks I worry too much about debt. He says that in this day and age, everyone has to carry debt to survive. He is, in many ways, more responsible about money than I am: he never misses a bill payment, while I do, when life gets busy. I've always been able to catch up the next month. Yes, I know the impact this has on my credit score.
Yet taking out a loan for a car or a motorcycle gives me cold sweats and he considers it the cost of living and doing business. He's 15 years my junior and I'm starting to wonder if this is a generational thing. My parents never owed a cent to anyone except to the bank for their mortgage and, in an emergency, to the appliance department at Sears. I am my parents' daughter. I resisted taking out student loans throughout CEGEP and my first year of university, choosing instead to work full time at night while carrying a full class load. I often dozed off during morning classes. When I realized I couldn't continue to do that, I took out a student loan with huge misgivings. How would I ever pay back that much money? It ended up taking 10 years.
School Now Routinely Causes Huge Debt
And school has gotten even more expensive. University degrees, in particular, increasingly create debt loads that would make people at the peak of their earning power nervous. Almost every student starts out his or her working life with a massive student debt.
Canadians Love Their Internet Best
Filed under: Sex Sells , Technology
The survey illuminates how integral the internet has become in our daily lives, considering that 30 per cent of us say that our jobs would be impossible without the web, 56 per cent of us manage our banking online, 44 per cent of us pay our bills and 33 per cent of Canadians check their email soon after they wake up each morning.
The study which looks at the differences of how men and women use the world wide web, was further examined by Yahoo! Web life editor Heather Cabot, who answered five questions about the gender divide and the different uses and views of the web:
What was the most surprising difference between men and women using the internet?
More Canadian women than men set boundaries about when they use the web and where. One third of the women surveyed ban online activities at mealtimes and in bed. We also found that women make it a priority to manage the personal information available about themselves online (54% of women compared to 47% of men). While close to half of the men and women polled use online bill pay (45%), more Canadian men than women use the web to manage their monitor their portfolios and stock prices, use financial calculators and check their credit ratings.
The percentages between men and women are pretty close when it comes to morning rituals and the internet - was this surprising?
Not really. It would have been interesting to see more specifically what they are doing when they go online. Yahoo! Canada only asked about email and social networking. The survey showed that men are more likely to check email as soon as they wake up (38% told us they do) compared to women (29%). For social media, it's about the same.
Pinup Perfection: Classic Beauty Inside and Out
Filed under: Employment & Careers, Entrepreneurship, Fashion & Trends, Sex Sells
Shimona Henry never really thought of photography as anything more than a hobby. She certainly didn't see herself following in her mother Eve's footsteps and looking through the lens professionally. But, after graduating from Vancouver Film School's Make-Up Artistry for Film and Television course in 2006, this curvaceous platinum blond realized that her hometown of White Rock, B.C. (a little beach community suburb of the big city) was sorely lacking in va-va-va voom:"I was looking at a lot of portfolios of people's photography and saw the same body type in every shot and for me, being a plus-size woman looking at all of these portfolios, I wouldn't feel comfortable going to any of those studios because there's no one that looks like me in any of their work." It soon dawned on her that she could do something about that by reminding people of a time when men craved curves and the likes of Mae West, Marilyn Monroe, Bettie Page and Jayne Mansfield adorned locker doors everywhere.
With that, Pinup Perfection was born. Fusing her talent for retro-glam make-up with her familial calling of photography, Henry went about creating a fun and playful environment where all women could feel sexy and free to be who they are. "I'm about being inclusive to everyone because I'd also heard horror stories about women seeing photographers and leaving unhappy," she says. It is in that spirit, her studio carries a strict 'No Boyfriends During The Shoot' policy. They can pick-up, drop-off and tour the grounds ahead of time, but Henry feels it's important her subjects don't feel self-conscious in any way.
Women have responded to this in droves. So much so that the 24-year-old has had to scale back her day job as a special education teaching assistant and she's gotten tons of local media attention from the likes on the Vancouver Sun, Vancouver Courier, Peace Arch News and the Surrey Now. You can add AOL's Walletpop to that mix, as we sat down with the newly-minted entrepreneur to chronicle her success, struggle and difficulty finding a balance between her work and social life, as she begins to make it on her own.
More Sex, More Income?
Filed under: Health, Sex Sells
I work at home and thanks to regular deadlines and meetings, my day is scheduled just like my colleagues who work in a traditional workplace. But I admit, I sometimes procrastinate and switch on the television as distraction, easily sucked in by daytime programming, such as Dr. Oz.His program last week was a discussion regarding how health and lifespan are affected by stressful behaviours. For example, if a spouse snores, the partner will lose on average an hour of sleep a night, and shorten his or her life by four years while if a spouse constantly nags, the recipient can have their lifespan shortened by eight years. Both of these behaviours contribute to stress, and can affect workplace productivity.
According to a Health Canada report, the annual cost of depression and distress at work is $14.4 billion, with $8.1 billion in lost productivity.
An article in Maclean's in 2007 spoke of the effects of lost productivity as presenteeism, in which stressed-out workers show up to work but make little difference in their job. Stress has become the unfortunate explanation for many health problems, and there's one possible solution.
Psssst... Tempted by 'Sin Stocks'?
Filed under: Investing, Sex Sells
Like many investors, I had to stop looking at my investment statements for a few months last year. The only part of my portfolio that didn't take a pretty big hit was the part in cash. My dream of riding a motorcycle around the world in retirement started to fade and was replaced by a nightmare vision of riding the bus to work every day at age 85.When I finally got up enough nerve to examine whether I needed to move a few things or just grit my teeth and weather the bad spell, it was hard to resist selling off the investments that were drowning in red ink for ones that weren't. And particularly tempting (pun intended) possible acquisitions were the ones that never seem to take a dive, regardless of economic climate: the ones we call "sin" stocks. Read on for a few examples:
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