USA Bailout Package - Just a joke

"Good morning, sir. Welcome to Bank Till of America. How can I help you?"

"I need some money."

"OK, for what purposes?"

"My family has gotten behind in our bills -- no mismanagement, you understand, but just some hard times. You see, my wife just got laid off, two of our three children had unexpected illnesses that weren't fully covered by our health insurance. Gas and food prices are escalating, and it's getting harder for us to make our mortgage payments. We're not extravagant, mind you, but we do need some help."

"So are you asking for a loan, sir?"

"We need a bailout, ma'am."

"I'm sorry, eh, as I look at your information, Mr. Cue -- Jonathan Cue, is it? -- but based on your resources, we're not able to give you a loan."

"Ma'am, I don't want a loan, I want a bailout."

"I'm sorry, sir, but I don't understand."

"A bailout. I want the same deal you gave to those people in the news, that

Fannie Mae woman, that Freddie Mac fellow, the Bear Stearns dude and the Notorious AIG."

"Sir, those are mortgage lending giants, banks and insurance companies, and the bailout given to them was essential to the American economy."

"I understand. And the bailout I want you to give me is essential to my family's economy."

"Sir, but without the assistance we give to them, the ramifications would be disastrous for Wall Street and the Fortune 500 companies."

"Ma'am, without the assistance I need you to give me, the ramifications would be disastrous to Main Street, Elm Street, Guadalupe Street as well as to the unfortunate millions I keep company with."

"I'm sorry, sir, we can't help you."

"But you helped them."

"That's different."

"Why?"

"Because you weren't irresponsible with billions of dollars and they were irresponsible with billions of dollars; therefore, we must give them billions of dollars more."

"Huh?"

"I know it makes no sense, but that's high finance for you."

"OK, ma'am, I was trying to be reasonable but since that won't work, I'm through asking for a bailout."

"Good."

"Just give me my money, no questions asked."

"Sir?"

"My money. The cash you're using to help Fannie, Freddie and all the other Capitalism Is Great When I'm Making Billions But Socialist Is Greater When I'm Losing Billions folk. That's my money, right?"

"Yes, but ..."

"I read where this $700 billion bailout is going to cost every American about $2,300. Is that right?"

"Yes, but ..."

"And about $6,000 per household, right?"

"Yes, but ..."

"And the national debt costs each American about $30,000 and each taxpayer about $67,000 right."

"Yes, but ..."

"Me and my wife are due $134,000 on the national debt, $6,000 on the bailout. Just give us $140,000 right now and we'll call it even."

"Sir, I'm sorry. That's just not possible."

"So you're not going to do for me what you did for Fannie Mae?"

"No, sir."

""What if my mother's name is Annie Mae?"

"No, sir."

"What if I sing the Bee Gees' 'Fanny Be Tender (With My Love)?' "

"No, sir."

"And you're not going to give me the same deal you gave Freddie Mac?"

"No, sir."

"What if I did a Bernie Mac impersonation? God bless his soul."

"No, sir."

"What if I hummed the theme song from Fred MacMurray's 'My Three Sons?' "

"No, sir."

"Well, will you do me one favor?"

"What's that sir?"

"Next time you use my money for a bailout or to raise the debt, money that I never saw and didn't know I had, could you at least let me hold it for a couple of hours?"

----- Cary Clack, columnist, San Antonio Express-News
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Wi-Fi Security

Wi-Fi household users the world over including those in the USA, Europe and Asia-Pacific are falling victim to hackers who piggyback on their network by misusing their internet account for crime and other illegal/unethical activities without the actual Wi-Fi owners knowledge or consent.

Are you using Wi-Fi for internet access from home or office? If so then surely you must be adequately secured by having proper password protection for your wireless network.

If you as a Wi-Fi user fail to use the password for accessing the internet then you are causing yourself to be vulnerable to all kinds of criminal activities by some unscrupulous person amongst those who are in your immediate vicinity by piggybacking on your wireless network without your knowledge.

It has been found from a survey that there are many amongst us who either do not wish to use a password each time they access the internet using their Wi-Fi system or do not have one that adequately secure them from attacks by hackers who love to piggy back on others.

A good number of Wi-Fi users are there who use others wireless network by piggybacking on them to download large files or adult content without the actual owners being aware of them.

By not using a proper password for your wireless network at home or while travelling could allow criminals with malafide intention to use your wireless network for some nefarious activities such as terrorism which could land you in serious trouble.

So to avoid swimming in the hot soup its better you remain well protected and do not take things for granted with the illusion of being in the confines of a closed room with not a soul to accompany you.

You might not know that your neighbor some 200 meters from where you are is actually snooping on you and could even steal your credit card password or that of your bank account during transaction.

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Tribute to 9/11 victims

9/11. The day simply rents shivers down the spine. What if we were there either of the locations. Seven years ago it was at New York and Pentagon, USA. A band of murderous hijackers took around 3000 innocent lives in a series of coordinated attacks. The days that followed those terrorist attacks saw Americans everywhere come together on a scale we hadn't seen since the days of World War II.

Yes, there was anger — real, legitimate, understandable anger at the scenes we had all seen play out on our TV screens. But there was also a sense of resolve that this nation — and its people — would not be beaten down by terrorism or by anything else. There was a true spirit of camaraderie, a sense that we were all in this together, all on the same side, from our own neighborhoods, throughout our local communities, and across the country.

We won't forget, either, the terrible images of dozens of people jumping to their deaths from the towers, to escape fire, explosions and collapsing walls. Neither will the courage of fire fighters on that day be forgotten. Today, remembering, we pray for all of the families who lost loved ones on 9/11, one of America's most tragic days. And, as American service men and women remain deployed around the world, we pray that U.S. defenses are better able now to deal with the threat of terrorism on the American soil.

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The Big Bang Theory testing machine starts

The world’s largest particle collider successfully completed its first major test by firing a beam of protons all the way around a 27-kilometer tunnel on Wednesday in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:36 am indicating that the protons had traveled the full length of the $3.8 billion Large Hadron Collider.

“There it is,” project leader Lyn Evans said when the beam completed its lap.

Champagne corks popped in labs as far away as Chicago, where contributing scientists watched the proceedings by satellite. Physicists around the world now have much greater power than ever before to smash the components of atoms together in attempts to see how they are made.

“Well done everybody,” said Robert Aymar, director-general of the European Organization for Nuclear Research, to cheers from the assembled scientists in the collider’s control room at the Swiss-French border.

The organization, known by its French acronym CERN, began firing the protons a type of subatomic particle around the tunnel in stages less than an hour earlier.

Now that the beam has been successfully tested in clockwise direction, CERN plans to send it counterclockwise. Eventually two beams will be fired in opposite directions with the aim of recreating conditions a split second after the big bang, which scientists theorize was the massive explosion that created the universe.

The start of the collider described as the biggest physics experiment in history comes over the objections of some skeptics who fear the collision of protons could eventually imperil the earth.

The skeptics theorized that a byproduct of the collisions could be micro black holes, subatomic versions of collapsed stars whose gravity is so strong they can suck in planets and other stars.

“It’s nonsense,” said James Gillies, chief spokesman for CERN, before Wednesday’s start.

CERN is backed by leading scientists like Britain’s Stephen Hawking in dismissing the fears and declaring the experiments to be absolutely safe.

Gillies said that the most dangerous thing that could happen would be if a beam at full power were to go out of control, and that would only damage the accelerator itself and burrow into the rock around the tunnel.

Nothing of the sort occurred Wednesday, though accelerator is still probably a year away from full power.

“On Wednesday we start small,” said Gillies. “A really good result would be to have the other beam going around, too, because once you’ve got a beam around once in both directions you know that there is no show-stopper.”

The project organized by the 20 European member nations of CERN has attracted researchers from 80 nations. Some 1,200 are from the United States, an observer country which contributed $531 million. Japan, another observer, also is a major contributor.

The collider is designed to push the proton beam close to the speed of light, whizzing 11,000 times a second around the tunnel.

Smaller colliders have been used for decades to study the makeup of the atom. Less than 100 years ago scientists thought protons and neutrons were the smallest components of an atom’s nucleus, but in stages since then experiments have shown they were made of still smaller quarks and gluons and that there were other forces and particles.

The CERN experiments could reveal more about “dark matter,” antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle the Higgs boson believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.

Some scientists have been waiting for 20 years to use the LHC.

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John McCain noses ahead of Barack Obama ?

John McCain has surged ahead of Barack Obama in opinion polls after a powerful boost from the Republican convention and his surprise choice of Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, as vice-presidential running mate.

Pollsters, however are divided over whether this is a decisive shift in the White House race or just a temporary boost provided by last week's successful Republican convention.

A USA Today/Gallup conducted on Friday, the last day of the convention, and over the weekend gave Mr McCain, who until very recently had been trailing narrowly in all polls, a staggering 10-point lead among likely voters.

Gallup's daily tracking poll put the Republican up by three, Rasmussen tracking had him up one while three other polls recorded a tie. Tracking polls, which take a new sample of voters each day and compile a picture of the three most recent days, are notoriously volatile.

"The burden is on Obama right now to show if he can be a credible agent for change," said John Zogby, whose Zogby International poll on Saturday gave Mr McCain a three-point advantage. "At this point, it looks as if Obama's more on the ropes than McCain."

But Mr Zogby cautioned that the McCain lead might turn out to be based on the enthusiasm generated by last week's Republican convention and therefore temporary. Most of the Monday polls reflected samples taken on Friday, the best possible day for Mr McCain because of televised coverage of his Thursday night speech, which was watched by nearly 40 million people.

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LHC - Large Hadron Collider

Tunnelling to the beginning of time

The Large Hadron Collider

The LHC (Large Hadron Collider) is an international project, in which the UK has a leading role. This site includes the latest news from the project, accessible explanations of how the LHC works, how it is funded, who works there and what benefits it brings us. You can access a wide range of resources for the public, journalists and teachers and students, there are also many links to other sources of information.

The LHC is asking some Big Questions about the universe we live in

How did our universe come to be the way it is?

The Universe started with a Big Bang – but we don’t fully understand how or why it developed the way it did. The LHC will let us see how matter behaved a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang. Researchers have some ideas of what to expect – but also expect the unexpected!

About the LHC

The LHC is an international research project based at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, where scientists, engineers and support staff from 111 nations are combining state-of-the-art science and engineering in one of the largest scientific experiments ever conducted.

The LHC is the latest and most powerful in a series of particle accelerators that, over the last 70 years, have allowed us to penetrate deeper and deeper into the heart of matter and further and further back in time. The next steps in the journey will bring new knowledge about the beginning of our Universe and how it works, as the LHC recreates, on a microscale, conditions that existed billionths of a second after the birth of our Universe.

What is the LHC?

The LHC is exactly what its name suggests - a large collider of hadrons. Strictly, LHC refers to the collider; a machine that deserves to be labelled ‘large’, it not only weighs more than 38,000 tonnes, but runs for 27km (16.5m) in a circular tunnel 100 metres beneath the Swiss/French border at Geneva.

However, the collider is only one of three essential parts of the LHC project. The other two are:

• the detectors, which sit in 4 huge chambers at points around the LHC tunnel and
• the GRID, which is a global network of computers and software essential to processing the data recorded by LHC’s detectors.

The LHC’s 27km loop in a sense encircles the globe, because the LHC project is supported by an enormous international community of scientists and engineers. Working in multinational teams, at CERN and around the world, they are building and testing LHC equipment and software, participating in experiments and analysing data. The UK has a major role in leading the project and has scientists and engineers working on all the main experiments.

What will the LHC do?

The LHC will allow scientists to probe deeper into the heart of matter and further back in time than has been possible using previous colliders.

Researchers think that the Universe originated in the Big Bang (an unimaginably violent explosion) and since then the Universe has been cooling down and becoming less energetic. Very early in the cooling process the matter and forces that make up our world ‘condensed’ out of this ball of energy.

The LHC will produce tiny patches of very high energy by colliding together atomic particles that are travelling at very high speed. The more energy produced in the collisions the further back we can look towards the very high energies that existed early in the evolution of the Universe. Collisions in the LHC will have up to 7x the energy of those produced in previous machines; recreating energies and conditions that existed billionths of a second after the start of the Big Bang.

The results from the LHC are not completely predictable as the experiments are testing ideas that are at the frontiers of our knowledge and understanding. Researchers expect to confirm predictions made on the basis of what we know from previous experiments and theories. However, part of the excitement of the LHC project is that it may uncover new facts about matter and the origins of the Universe.

One of the most interesting theories the LHC will test was put forward by the UK physicist Professor Peter Higgs and others. The different types of fundamental particle that make up matter have very different masses, while the particles that make up light (photons) have no mass at all. Peter’s theory is one explanation of why this is so and the LHC will allow us to test the theory. More of the Big Questions about the universe that the LHC may help us answer can be found here.

Latest News from the LHC

The 10th September 2008 is LHCstart up date .

Everything is now ready for the first injection of proton beams into the LHC on the 10th September 2008.

This major milestone in the LHC project will be covered live by international broadcasters. UK media organisations will be at CERN and at a simultaneous media event in London.

CERN will webcast the startup (the link is on the CERN "first beam" page).

BBC Radio 4 will devote a day of programming to the LHC, including covering first injection of beams live on the Today programme. See the BBC website for programming, background etc.

In the weeks preceeding the start up, this web page and the CERN and STFCwebsites will carry information on the plans for coverage of the event.

Press Release announcing start up date.

Dr Tara Shears talks about some of the scientific questions that the LHC project will help us answer, on the www.labreporter.com website.

You can try your hand at running the LHC and interpreting collisions on oursimulator at www.particledetectives.net.

Proton beams have already been injected into the first metres of the LHC, to test the injection process, but the first attempt to circulate beams all the way around the LHC will be on the official start up day. If everything proceeds according to plan the beam will circulate all the way around the 27 km long LHC. Over the following months the LHC scientists and engineers will commission the LHC, running beams at higher energy with the intention of beginning collisions, using relatively low energy (5TeV) beams, towards the end of 2008.

The extensive preparations for the start of LHC experiments have included exhaustive safety assessments, including the potential risk of creating new particles, black holes etc. The latest risk assessment is available here.

FAQs

I have heard that the LHC will recreate the Big Bang, does that mean it might create another Universe and if so what will happen to our Universe?

People sometimes refer to recreating the Big Bang, but this is misleading. What they actually mean is:

• recreating the conditions and energies that existed shortly after the start of the Big Bang, not the moment at which the Big Bang started,
• recreating conditions on a microscale, not on the same scale as the original Big Bang and,
• recreating energies that are continually being produced naturally (by high energy cosmic rays hitting the earth’s atmosphere) but at will and inside sophisticated detectors that track what is happening.

No Big Bang – so no possibility of creating a new Universe.

How much does the LHC cost and who pays?

The direct total LHC project cost is £2.6bn, made up of:

• the collider (£2.1bn),
• the detectors (£575m).

The total cost is shared mainly by CERN's 20 Member States, with significant contributions from the six observer nations.

UK’s direct contribution to the LHC is £34m per year, or less than the cost of a pint of beer per adult in the UK per year:

The UK pays £70m per year as our annual subscription to CERN.

The LHC project involves 111 nations in designing, building and testing equipment and software, participating in experiments and analysing data. The degree of involvement varies between countries, with some able to contribute more financial and human resource than others.

CERN stands for 'Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire' (or European Council for Nuclear Research); does that mean that CERN is studying nuclear power and nuclear weapons?

At the time that CERN was established (1952 – 1954) physics research was exploring the inside of the atom, hence the word ‘nuclear’ in its title. CERN has never been involved in research on nuclear power or nuclear weapons, but has done much to increase our understanding of the fundamental structure of the atom.

The title CERN is actually an historical remnant. It comes from the name of the council that was founded to establish a European organisation for world-class physics research. The Council was dissolved once the new organisation (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) was formed, but the name CERN remained.

Why is the LHC underground? Is it because it is doing secret experiments that scientists want to hide away?

The LHC has been built in a tunnel originally constructed for a previous collider (LEP – the Large Electron Positron collider). This was the most economic solution to building both LEP and the LHC. It was cheaper to build an underground tunnel than acquire the equivalent land above ground. Putting the machine underground also greatly reduces the environmental impact of the LHC and associated activities.

The rock surrounding the LHC is a natural shield that reduces the amount of natural radiation that reaches the LHC and this reduces interference with the detectors. Vice versa, radiation produced when the LHC is running is safely shielded by 50 – 100 metres of rock.

Can the work at CERN be used to build more deadly weapons?

Unlikely for two main reasons. Firstly, CERN and the scientists and engineers working there have no interest in weapons research. They are trying to understand how the world works, not how to destroy it.

Secondly, the high energy particle beams produced at the LHC require a huge machine (27km long, weighing more than 38,000 tonnes – half the weight of an aircraft carrier), consuming 120MW of power and needing 91 tonnes of supercold liquid helium). The beams themselves have a lot of energy (the equivalent of a Eurostar train travelling at top speed) but they can only be maintained in a vacuum, if released into the atmosphere they would immediately interact with atoms in the air and dissipate their energy in a very short distance.

Are the high energies produced by the LHC dangerous and what happens if something goes wrong?

The LHC does produce very high energies, but these energy levels are restricted to tiny volumes inside the detectors. Many high energy particles, from collisions, are produced every second, but the detectors are designed to track and stop all particles (except neutrinos) as capturing all the energy from collisions is essential to identifying what particles have been produced. Very little of the energy from collisions is able to escape from the detectors.

The main danger from these energy levels is to the LHC machine itself. The beam of particles has the energy of a Eurostar train travelling at full speed and should something happen to destabilise the particle beam there is a real danger that all of that energy will be deflected into the wall of the beam pipe and the magnets of the LHC, causing a great deal of damage. The LHC has several automatic safety systems in place that monitor all the critical parts of the LHC. Should anything unexpected happen (power or magnet failure for example) the beam is automatically ‘dumped’ by being squirted into a blind tunnel where its energy is safely dissipated. This all happens in milliseconds – the beam, which is travelling at 11,000 circuits of the LHC per second, will complete less than 3 circuits before the dump is complete.

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India and NSG - Will nuclear deal go through ?

India and the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) have been at loggerheads contemplating that India does not deserve to be upgraded along with the top select. The countries who are objecting to India clearance are small and themselves do not have nuclear capability but are hell bent on creating a hurdle. After all no one wants extra people to join a select club.

India as it seems does not have to worry much. The Big Boss, USA is the country to be effected if this clearance does not go through. So more or less USA shall be putting some pressure to get things going. Not that India will be at a loss. India has had a political scenario upheaval in context to the signing of the agreement with the USA on nuclear issues.

Let us hope the best comes out and the objections will all get flattered for the benefit of both the countries.

Post Scrip : 6th September - The deal is cleared !

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Google Chrome review from us

Google Chrome launch just suddenly is nothing to be amazed of. But the initial look and feel just gives the browser a standing ovation. When you start designing something late, you are far behind the crowd in terms of catching up with popularity from day one. But the added advantage is that you can work out the good points and avoid the bad instances the other had in this field. And that is what Google has cashed on. It already has a great name in the Search Engine business. And we must say they have done a remarkable job with this neat small browser. No apparent problems as such have been seen in general browsing. Do try it for a change !

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Why Google Chrome - the browser

"At Google, we spend much of our time working inside a browser. We search, chat, email and collaborate in a browser. And like all of you, in our spare time, we shop, bank, read news and keep in touch with friends - all using a browser. People are spending an increasing amount of time online, and they're doing things never imagined when the web first appeared about 15 years ago.

Since we spend so much time online, we began seriously thinking about what kind of browser could exist if you started from scratch and built on the best elements out there. We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build.

So today we're releasing the beta version of a new open source browser: Google Chrome.

On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn't the browser that matters. It's only a tool to run the important stuff - the pages, sites and applications that make up the web. Like the classic Google homepage, Google Chrome is clean and fast. It gets out of your way and gets you where you want to go.

Under the hood, we were able to build the foundation of a browser that runs today's complex web applications much better . By keeping each tab in an isolated "sandbox", we were able to prevent one tab from crashing another and provide improved protection from rogue sites. We improved speed and responsiveness across the board. We also built V8, a more powerful JavaScript engine, to power the next generation of web applications that aren't even possible in today's browsers.

This is just the beginning - Google Chrome is far from done. We've released this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We're hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and we'll continue to make it even faster and more robust.

We owe a great debt to many open source projects, and we're committed to continuing on their path. We've used components from Apple's WebKit and Mozilla's Firefox, among others - and in that spirit, we are making all of our code open source as well. We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive the web forward.

The web gets better with more options and innovation. Google Chrome is another option, and we hope it contributes to making the web even better.

But enough from us. The best test of Google Chrome is to try it yourself." -- google

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Parenting Tips

OLD THINKING	NEW THINKING	ANOTHER APPROACH
Old-timers are sure: TV, as well as new-fangled gaming and web-surfi ng are all poor pastimes that spoil the eyes, make children inactive and anti-social, and fi ll their heads with nonsense.	Modern educators have argued these can all be used as instruments of learning. So, they cannot be all that bad.	Nope, the idiot box does not make a good babysitter. Fixed TV time with parental supervision is essential.
Rated content (TV, movies, even music videos) is rated for a reason—we never watched an adult movie until we were nudging 25!	Today, so-called mature content is everywhere you can not escape it. So you can not really protect children. Probably, it is not even necessary to protect children from such content. But yes, we do worry when she is out late.	Parental guidance is just that guidance!
Granny says stuffing the tots with milk-cream makes for bonny babies. No milk, no health.	Go easy on milk-cream. All saturated fats are bad for the heart and indeed, for all blood vessels.	That is an easy one: be a middle-of-the-roader!
Clean up your plate and eat whatever you are given, your mother always insisted.	Your sister says, leave the child alone. She will eat if she is hungry. Your sister-in-law asks why fuss when it is easier to just offer the child her favourites and get her to eat something?	No need to battle over meals.
Free play is the only play. How can you structure it?	Organised and scheduled activities make the most of the short time available, making it quality time.	Mix the two.
There has to be home tutoring if the child is to stay ahead in a competitive world. How else is she to have an edge over other children? How else can she come first?	New educational methods teach your children more efficiently - best to leave it to the school.	Leave teaching fundamentals to the experts. Make your role the cheerleader's, offering support and encouragement.
Mobile phones are for the super-busy and/or super-rich! Why should children be given fancy gadgets?	These days, with both parents working, children do not even see them when they get home, let alone at the school gate. And with so many extra-curriculars and evenings out with friends, how are we to keep tabs if the child is not given a mobile phone?	Notwithstanding peer pressure (Everyone has a phone, Mama!), call the conservative line.
Children's birthdays should be celebrated at home, and parties with cakes, candles and a guest list restricted to a small group amongst your social circle.	The child yells, "But Mama, everyone has their party at McDonald's/Pizza Hut/nearest theme park/club!" And if you can't book one, you must hire a farmhouse and set up a disco. Outsourcing is easy!	You first examine your own response to peer pressure!
Spas and gyms are places for adults, certainly not for children, and preferably not for teens.	What is the harm in 12-year-olds going to beauty parlours? They grow up faster these days. And if they are riding BMX bicycles and skateboarding surely, they can gym at 14 too?	Ask why they need to, before you decide what they need.
Two new sets of clothes a year are quite sufficient.	Now, all international brands are easily available, so I want to give my child the best.	Live by the rules you would have them value.

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Tips to a Happier Lifestyle

Brush twice a day

Dress right for the weatherVisit the dentist regularly

Get plenty of rest

Make sure your hair is dry before going outside

Eat right

Get outside in the sun every once in a while

Always wear a seatbelt

Control your drinking of alcoholic beverages

Smile ! it will make you feel better

Don't over indulge yourself

Bathe regularly

Read to exercise the brain

Surround yourself with friends

Stay away from too much caffeine

Use the bathroom regularly

Get plenty of exercise

Have your eyes checked regularly

Eat plenty of vegetables

Believe that people will like you for who you are

Forgive and forget

Take plenty of vacations

Celebrate all special occasions

Pick up a hobby

Love your neighbour as yourself

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