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Global financial crisis breeds money-savvy Generation Z
True nature of spending may understood only if spending pattern of age group 22-25. is studied;they spend more than they earn and they go into depression mode immediately if they do not have sufficient cash on hand or a credit card or for that matter if they can not recharge their cell phones.Their ability to face the vicissitudes of life, especially finance, is very minimal and they need toughness to handle crises of life which they lack now, because of higher wages and easy recognition.
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AFTER the spend-like-there’s-no-tomorrow Generation Y, the economic crisis is breeding a new generation of financially savvy kids, a Queensland banker says.

Unlike spendthrift Gen Ys, the next generation has watched and learnt as their parents coped with the economic downturn, according to Suncorp’s general manager of banking Terry Wasmund.

“The general population has tightened their belts up over the last couple of years and there’s some anecdotal evidence that that attitude is being passed on to the children,” he said.

“We’re seeing them be a bit more wise about savings.”

With more children opening their own savings accounts, Mr Wasmund said it appeared the global financial crisis had delivered one positive outcome – teaching children the value of money.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26290048-5016679,00.html#submit-feedback
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4 Nov 2009
Pregnancy,Anti Biotics and Birth Defects.
Antibiotics are to be used sparingly under the guidance of a Doctor.Anti biotic is prescribed based on the severity of infection and weight of the patient.If consumed more, the bacteria will become immune to te particular antibiotic;then dosage has to be increased or drug may have to be changed.Better to be careful.
Side effects of Anti Biotics.
Side effects range from slight headache to a major allergic reaction. One of the more common side effects is diarrhea, which results from the antibiotic disrupting the balance of intestinal flora, the “good bacteria” that dwell inside the human digestive system. Other side effects can result from interaction between the antibiotic and other drugs, such as elevated risk of tendon damage from administration of a quinolone antibiotic with a systemic corticosteroid.

Antibiotic misuse
Common forms of antibiotic misuse include taking an inappropriate antibiotic, in particular the use of antibacterials for viral infections like the common cold, and failure to take the entire prescribed course of the antibiotic, usually because the patient feels better before the infecting organism is completely eradicated. In addition to treatment failure, these practices can result in antibiotic resistance.

In the United States, a vast quantity of antibiotics is routinely included as low doses in the diet of healthy farm animals, as this practice has been proved to make animals grow faster. Opponents of this practice, however, point out the likelihood that it also leads to antibiotic resistance, frequently in bacteria that are known to also infect humans, although there has been little or no evidence as yet of such transfer of antibiotic resistance actually occurring.
http://www.bio-medicine.org/biology-definition/Antibiotic/

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Some of the antibiotics used to treat urinary tract infections during pregnancy may increase the risk of several birth defects if a woman uses them early in pregnancy, a new study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine shows.

Researchers found an increased risk for two classes of antibiotics: sulfonamide (example: Bactrim) and nitrofurantoins (example: Macrobid). But the antibiotics pregnant women are most likely to be prescribed, the penicillins and erythromycins, appeared to be safe.

“Most of the commonly used antibiotics do not seem to be associated with most of the birth defects we studied,” study co-author Dr. Krista S. Crider, of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, told Reuters Health. “This should be helpful for pregnant women and their health care provider as they’re trying to make decisions on treatment of infections during pregnancy.”
http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSTRE5A153120091103?feedType=nl&feedName=ushealth1100
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3 Nov 2009
The 10 Weirdest, Grossest Ingredients in Processed Food
Self explanatory..Read the article.
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Everyone now knows that processed and fast foods are not the bastions of nutrition, but that shouldn’t make these ingredients found inside them any less revolting. This list sends a clear message: when a packaged food contains more than five ingredients and includes some that are difficult to pronounce, stay away. Make a b-line straight to the organics aisle and go for vegan meals or vegetarian recipes instead.

1. Fertilizer in Subway Sandwich Rolls
While chemical fertilizers inevitably make it into our produce in trace amounts, you would not expect it to be a common food additive. However, ammonium sulfate can be found inside many brands of bread, including Subway’s. The chemical provides nitrogen for the yeast, creating a more consistent product.

2. Beaver Anal Glands in Raspberry Candy
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/143560/the_10_weirdest%2C_grossest_ingredients_in_processed_food/
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3 Nov 2009
6 Marriage Myths Shattered: How Barack and Michelle Shun Fairy Tale Romance
Please read on.Really a good one.
Marriage is a social institution as well as an emotional necessity for individual.Feelings like love, though true ,are transitory and are related one’s mental make up at a given point of time and also the expectation level of the individual.This keeps on varying.
The feeling of love is a Natural urge impelled by the process of propagating the species.Instincts express them selves as desire,;desire mulled over and reimposed becomes emotion;This varies according to person’s age and cultural back ground.Hence the feeling of Love and expression of Love differs from age group to age group and from one cultural back ground to another.
Determinig factors in Love are age and cultural back ground.
Another factor is the acceptability level of one to another in terms being comfortable with another.Here the core issue is self comfort and not Altruism as glorified by Literarture the world over.There need be no guilt feeling about being selfish as it is the way nature has meant us to be, for only then species will grow.My father used to say’I show affection to you;but you will show affection to your child more than to me,for it is Natural’.I agree.
So feelings of Love are true in so far us they exist and give us satisfaction.That does not mean people need to go around all the time’I love you’-It is pure humbug and every one knows it, but still want hearing it for it makes them happy. and by making your spouse happy , you are also happy.
Essentially, as has been said in the article, living for other,total compatibilty etc are 100% unadulterated lies.
Fact is we get the feeling of love, get married, for the better or worse and should march on.Divorce is no solution for you can still grumble and again divorce and there is no end.Happiness is a state of mind.Do not analyse too much on Relationships;if you do , you shall know it is empty.May be cynical, but true.
Love for others with out any expectation also gives us joy which can not be expected of any other relationship.As far as I know this is a mystery.I have stopped analysing.
I am 60 , married for 32 years with grand children ,would not know whether I am happy or unhappy .All I can say I am comfortable,I do not know what my wife thinks of.
As a tail piece,I have also loved and lost ,even at this age it pains me and I can not understand why, knowing well it is not rational.
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How much romance did early American farmers expect? After they’d milked the cows and tilled the fields and put the kids to bed, did they hope to exchange a few pleasant words from time to time, have sex once in a while, and occasionally stay up to watch the embers fade to black before falling asleep? Did they expect much more than a colleague with benefits?

Or did they believe, that “Love is a magical journey,” and that getting married meant they were “about to embark on a wonderful voyage,” as Disney promises on its wedding site.

Did they expect that love would fulfill their every need, that they would never again be lonely, that if they found someone who was compatible that their every dream would come true, effort-free?
http://www.alternet.org/story/143639/6_marriage_myths_shattered%3A_how_barack_and_michelle_shun_fairy_tale_romance?page=1
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1 Nov 2009
Chronicle of a Death We Can’t Accept -NYT
To day, respecting the dead has become a formality and the services for the dead have become inane, with people hardly feeling for the event.May be this has to do with too much materialism,refusing to think about Death,for it reminds us of our mortality.When social values have been eroded,love and affection for parents, children and spouse has become a social contract; when inwardly we have become weak sans our pretensions of owning everything, this is the result.Remember, to day somebody,to morrrow it can be any body.
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AT a funeral directors’ convention recently, I wandered around an exhibition floor crowded with the usual accouterments of the trade — coffins, catafalques, cemetery tents, cremation furnaces and the like. Scattered among these traditional goods were also many new baubles and gewgaws of the funeral business — coffins emblazoned with sports logos; cremation urns in the shape of bowling pins, golf bags and motorcycle gas tanks; “virtual cemeteries” with video clips and eerie recorded messages from the dead; pendants, bracelets, lamps and table sculptures into which ashes of the deceased can be swirled and molded.

It is hard to know what to make of this wild blossoming of unconventional mortuary merchandise. Perhaps it is the creative expression of a society grown weary of the extravagant hearse-and-limousine funerals of the past and ready to experiment with less costly and more personal ways to memorialize the dead. Some funeral directors seem to think so and are responding like dazed Blockbuster managers outmaneuvered in a Netflix age, scrambling to stay afloat in the wake of new technology and cultural improvisation.

But there is another, more accurate way to understand current funeral fashions. They illustrate the sad truth that, as a society, Americans are no longer sure what to do with our dead.

Rituals of death rest on the basic need, recognized by all societies, to remove the bodies of the dead from among the living. A corpse must be taken fairly quickly from here, the place of death, to somewhere else. But no healthy society has ever treated this as a perfunctory task, a matter of mere disposal. Indeed, from the beginning, humans have used poetry, song and prayer to describe the journey of the dead from “here” to “there” in symbolic, even sacred, terms. The dead are not simply being carted to the pit, the fire or the river; they are traveling toward the next world or the Mystery or the Great Beyond or heaven or the communion of the saints.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/opinion/01long.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
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1 Nov 2009