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What do you do if you’ve got a low population? It’s a tough question, making the country more attractive to people that may like to move there is a start, improving the economy is another way forward, how about declaring a “Sex Day” ?

That’s how the Ulyanovsk region in Russia have played the game, National Sex Day has been held annually for the last 3 years and has contributed to a 4.5% increase in births in the last year!

The governor Sergei Morozov has instructed couples to take the day off to have sex, if their baby is born exactly nine months today on Russia’s national day on the 12th June they will be eligible to win prizes (including cars and TVs)! Last years winner one an SUV!

“If there’s a good, healthy atmosphere at home within the family, if the husband and wife both love each other and their child, they will be in good spirits… So there’ll be a healthy atmosphere throughout the country,” Mr Morozov told the Associated Press news agency.

The problem in Russia is caused by it’s health care system, along with failing births and emigration – and could mean Russia loses 40 million people by the middle of the century.

The President, Vladimir Putin has also introduced a scheme to encourage more children, women who have a second or third child are eligible to receive $9,000 which can be used to pay for education or home purchases.

A few Questions
I sent this story to a friend who came up with a string of possibilities on how you might govern such a competition!

• Do you have to be a couple?
• Do you have to register to have today off with your boss and admit you are taking part in “National Sex Day
• If the above is true, are premature or late babies born on the 12th June eligible
• Do sales of Curry, Herbal Teas (and other such old wives tales about bringing upon the birth of your child) go up on the 11th June?

All important details – does anyone know the answer?

Yep, they’ve got another one – I’ve finally seen them in the UK (having worked with and drunk with several of them for sometime I had to go all the way to the south of france to see them last summer!!!!!), and had a good night.

So it’s the Liden Arms in Swindon on 11th February 2007 from 8pm onwards.

Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair . . get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping . . . they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.