When people make signs for the road they design them to be a genuine warning to the unsuspecting traveller. One can only wonder what you would do if you saw either them. The question is, did a cow actually fall off the cliff. If it landed on a vehicle, what became of the occupants of the car, or the cow? On the second one, does the crazy woman only apply to those using caravans or tents? Does anyone have any knowledge of these areas and the cause of these delightful signs?

While bush fires, (many deliberately lit) and high temperatures have ravaged the southern part of Australia, with over 175 deaths reported so far, heroes and good samartians abound. From dedicated fire fighters to neighbours simply giving each other a hand.

There are also small incidents that can bring a smile in the midst of the tears of sorrow and frustration. As a group of cyclists out for an early morning ride, stopped for a water break they were approached by a lone Koala. Thinking it was just being friendly they first took only photos of the animal. Its persistent behaviour, as it tugged at their legs, finally alerted them to the fact that the Koala could smell their water bottles.

Koalas normally get their water requirements from the gum leaves they devour, but with the extreme and extended high temperatures, the Koala population has become badly dehydrated and desperate for any source of water they can find.

Once the cylists realized what the Koala needed, it was a simple matter to be a Good Samaritan to an animal in desperate straits. When things get real tough, it is a case of all hands on deck, to do whatever you can in your little corner of the world.

We have heard of those who have learned to paint with their feet, but Jessica Cox, with no arms, is an absolute inspirations. She has achieved more in her short lifetime, than a lot of people achieve with two hands and feet in an entire lifetime. For Jessica, the words ‘Can’t and Impossible’ do not exist in her dictionary.

Twenty-five year old, Jessica, from Tucson, Arizona, was born, with a mysterious bilateral congenital limb deficiency, that left her without arms. Refusing to use any prosthetic devices, Jessica set out to achieve whatever her heart desired.

In October 10, 2008 Jessica became the first pilot without arms, to be awarded a license to fly a light-sport aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet. Jessica also has two black belts in Tae Kwan-Do, a college degree in psychology and pursues a thriving career as a motivational speaker. Jessica can drive a car, put on her own makeup, brush her long black hair and types 25 words per minute . All these things without the assistance of any special devices. Right from birth, Jessica learned to make her feet become her hands.

Jessica’s bright smile stops one from noticing any defect.  “I highly encourage people with disabilities to consider flying,” Jessica says. “It helps reverse the stereotype that people with disabilities are hampered. It turns them from feeling they are powerless, into the belief that they are capable of setting high goals and achieving them.”

Able Flight training company, in North Carolina, specializes in helping people with disabilities to learn to fly. Jessica won an Able Flight scholarship and was able to obtain her license free of charge.

Without a doubt, Jessica will always make the most of those once in a lifetime Blue Moon Opportunities that change lives. Jessica won’t lie down to the circumstances around her but will take life by the horns and twist it her way.

Many would like to rename Wall Street, in lower Manhattan, New York City, NewYork, as Fall Street. Fall, as in Humpty Dumpty took a great fall. All the king’s horses and all the kings men couldn’t put Humpty together again.

The original Wall Street in the 1640’s, was made up of basic picket and plank fencing  and formed the northern boundary of the New Amsterdam settlement. In the 1650’s it was fortified into a 12-foot timber and earth wall and used as a barricade against the attack from North American tribes, New England colonists, as well as the British.

Many believe the name Wall Street, referred to the people (the Dutch Walloons) who lived behind the wall, while others like to think of it as reference to the protective structure, the wall itself.

As early as the 18th century traders and speculators gathered informally underneath a buttonwood tree on the street and by 1792 the origin of the New York Stock Exchange was formed through the Buttonwood Agreement.

The first presidential inauguration of George Washington took place on the Street in 1789.
In 1929 the Street was a scene of total despair, when crowds of men gathered together after the Great Crash, which ushered in the Great Depression. The financial structure today, still bears the stamp of what was forged in the Great Depression.

As Wall Street evolved as a world financial centre over the decades, it has outright resisted government oversight and regulation. The term "Wall Street" has come to refer to big business interests, against those of small business and the working middle class interests. Entry into the neighbourhood by middle class entrepreneurs has been almost impossible.

The NY Federal Reserve’s president is the only regional Bank president with a permanent vote and is traditionally selected as Street’s vice chairman. The bank on Wall Street, has a gold vault 80 feet (25 m) beneath the street. This depository is the largest in the world, larger even than Fort Knox. It was this vault that was the focal point of the film Die Hard Revenge.

For a quarter of a century finance has basked in its own golden age, leading to financial globalization. Modern finance has improved countless lives, but over the past year, Wall Street has evolved into ‘Fall Street’.

Financial services are in ruins right around the globe. Britain has had its first bank-run since Prime Minister Disraeli was in office. America continues its stumbling rescues. Promises of financial prosperity have ended in financial hardship, apart from those who still cream it off the Street.

President Barak Obama harshly criticized the $18 billion paid out in bonuses to the Street’s top executives and employers, calling it shameful. He later announced a cap of $500,000 for any further compensation to top executives, in response to a public outcry over Wall Street excess.

One can only guess at what kind of phoenix will rise from the ashes of Fall Street in the coming year.

A lot of people have dreams of becoming a millionaire, as is seen by the popular television show, ‘Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?’. However, for most people they allow the ‘system’ to trap them into thinking they do not have the ability to succeed. They do not have ‘what it takes.’ This couldn’t be further from the truth.

Microsoft was advertising for cleaners. An unemployed man felt he could apply for the position.
The manager of Microsoft arranged for the man to take an aptitude test.

After the test, the manager told the man, “You will be employed as a cleaner at a minimum wage of $5.00 an hour. Let me have your e-mail address, so I can send you a form to complete and tell you where to report for work.”

The man protested that he had neither a computer nor an e-mail address.

The Microsoft manager replied, “That means that you are virtually nonexistent and can therefore hardly expect to find employment at Microsoft.”

Stunned, the man left, not knowing what to do. He only had $10 in his wallet. Suddenly, seeing a Blue Moon Opportunity, the unemployed man made up his mind to buy 25 lb of lush red tomatoes from the market. In less than two hours he had sold all the tomatoes one by one, and scored a profit of 100%.

Several more times that day the repeated the process, ending up with almost $100.00 before going to sleep that night. He was convinced he could quite easily make a good living selling tomatoes. Every day he rose real early and would go to bed very late, as he continued the process day in day out. He quickly multiplied his profit.

After a short time he acquired a cart to transport several dozen boxes of tomatoes, only to have to trade it in again so that he could buy a pickup truck to support his expanding business. By the end of the second year, he owned a fleet of pickup trucks and managed a staff of a hundred former unemployed people, all selling tomatoes. Planning for the future of his wife and children, he decided to buy some life insurance.

After consulting an insurance broker, he picked an insurance plan to fit his new circumstances. At the end of the telephone conversation, the adviser asked him for his e-mail address in order to send
the final documents electronically.

The man replied that he had no e-mail. The stunned insurance broker spluttered, “What, you don’t have e-mail? How on earth have you managed to amass such wealth without the Internet, e-mail and e-commerce? Just imagine where you would be now, if you had been connected to the Internet from the
very start!”

“Well,” replied the tomato millionaire, “I would be a cleaner at Microsoft!”

There are five lessons to this story:

1.The Internet, e-mail and e-commerce do not need to rule your life if you have the spirit of an entrepreneur.

2.If you don’t have e-mail, but work hard, you could still become a millionaire.

3.Since you got this story via the Internet, you’re probably closer to becoming a cleaner than you are to becoming a millionaire.

4.If you do have a computer and e-mail, you have already been taken to the cleaners by Microsoft.

5.If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and aspire to become a millionaire, never give up. Look for that once in a lifetime Blue Moon Opportunity. Think outside the norm. Don’t listen to the negative people around you. There is always a way if you have the will.

It was Sydney Myer’s great entrepreneurial drive that resulted in the successful Australian wide chain of Myer Stores. His family were refugees from Moscow in the late 1900’s.

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Most of us are familiar with having to pass through a metal detector to make sure no one is carrying a gun, or other lethal weapon, before going in to listen to a controversial speaker. Carry bags may even be confiscated to make sure you are not carrying any rotten tomatoes, eggs or fruit. The time has come though, when you will see rows upon rows of shoes lined up at the doorway, like outside a mosque, if the shoe-throwing fettish gets any further out of hand. Either people will begin carrying an extra shoe, or you will also see many one-shoed people hobbling home after a public meeting. Shoe shops will do a roaring trade either way.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, while speaking at Cambridge University in England, was called a dictator, as an over enthusiastic protester flung his shoe at the visitor. “How can the university prostitute itself with this dictator?” was yelled from the back of the crowd. The police arrested the shoe-thrower on suspicion of a public order offence.

Mr Wen described the incident as ‘despicable’. China decried the event as deplorable.

This follows the incident of the irate Iraqi journalist who threw a shoe at United States President George W. Bush. Mr Bush later joked about the incident, while the journalist is facing a charge of aggression against a foreign head of state. If convicted he faces up to 15 years imprisonment.

A group of around 100 protesters assembled outside the White House on the last day of President Bush’s administration, armed with mountains of shoes. “Don’t hit me,” grinned one of the officers behind the White House fence, as shoes rained down around him. Thousands joined the protesters and stopped to pick up a shoe and throw it over the fence. “It’s not that we hate Bush, we just hate what he has done to the country,” one protester said. Many felt it was a great way to get the Bush era out of their system. It took a small truck to haul all the shoes away.

However, shoetime really began with Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev when in 1956 he pounded the podium with his shoe, declaring that the US economy would bury capitalism.

Krushchev followed this with another outburst at the United Nations when he got angry with the Philippine delegation calling them simply a stooge of the US.

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‘Never say die’ may have been around for a while, but has an even more vital message to deliver to a world suffering financial crises. It was Bill Clinton who raised the only positive voice at the recent World Economic Forum.

The one bright and shining star, in the midst of this year’s doom and gloom at the World Economic Forum, was the ‘on-the-side’ diplomat, the former president, Bill Clinton. He was only in Davos, Switzerland, for little more than 24 hours, yet he left a very distinctive and positive mark. The official spokesperson for the White House, was presidential aide Valerie Jarret, who was a very unimposing presence.

When world leaders gathered together for the annual WEF, pointed fingers were long and voices sharp, as they singled America out as the cause of the global financial crisis. Both the Russian and Chinese leaders declared America’s guilt with great great delight, at every possible opportunity. However, in eagerly laying the blame on the United States of America, they forgot that with one finger pointing accusingly forward, there were three other fingers pointing back at themselves. No one, in the current global financial mess can say they are innocent bystanders.

Clinton’s charismatic figure rose like a superstar, from the first moments of his special plenary session with Klaus Schwab, the originator of WEF, to his public pep talks and the string of private talks with foreign dignitaries. Clinton firmly accepted the role of the United States in the current financial chaos, referring to the cutting words flung by the Chinese prime minister Wen Jiabao.  Clinton insisted that, “China must continue subsidizing the United States budget and trade deficit in order to preserve its own vital export industries.” He constantly urged everyone to, “Give people confidence by showing confidence. Don’t give up. This is still a good time to be alive”.

Clinton went on to point out that, “Global interdependence is more important than anything else in the world today. We cannot escape each other. Divorce is not an option.” Every nation must take its share of the blame.

Clinton’s private meetings also included a 90 minute discussion with the Russian Premier and former prime minister, Vladimir Putin, behind closed doors. Neither would make any comment on the content of their talk.

WEF is a group of prestigious leaders, who have been meeting annually since 1971. Their goal to globalize the world, economically, socially and politically. These elite leaders have found their financial worth and moral credibility decreased in the light of the worldwide economic catastrophe.

The highlights on the home page of the World Economic Forum website, declared China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, as saying, “China’s economy is showing signs of early recovery, late last December, even though they are only small signs.”

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Sweltering under scorching winds and record temperatures, which have killed at least 32 people from heat-related conditions, Australians brave the worst heat wave in 70 years.  Railway lines buckle, arson lit bushfires rage across tens of thousands of acres of bushland and more than half a million homes have lost power for days, as the state’s power supply collapsed, under the increased use of air-conditioning.

The prime minister, Kevin Rudd, urged residents to check on their neighbours in the extreme heat, after having carried a collapsed woman from a church.

In Maude, a wild koala decided he had had enough of the searing hot winds and high temperatures. He crawled into the shade in a corner underneath the house, in northern Victoria. The quick thinking family filled a bowl of water for the obviously stressed animal.

Koalas normally get their water requirements from the leaves of the gum tree, but the north west winds have made life impossible for the Australian favourite. Not only did the koala eagerly drink the water, he grabbed the opportunity to climb right into the bowl, in order to rehydrate and gain temporary relief from the soaring temperatures.

Well done residents of Maude. A great example of helping a friend in need.

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While the 2008 British drama film ‘Slumdog Millionaire‘, directed by Danny Boyle, has raced on to rake in millions of dollars, the two Hindi-speaking, slum, 7 year-old child stars of the film, live in a state that is worse than before they became filmstars. Azharuddin’s illegal family hut was demolished by local authorities and Azharuddin now lives underneath a plastic tarp.

A British Telegraph report said Rubina was paid between $716 and $1000, while Azharuddin received $2,400. These figures are disputed by Fox Searchlight, which distributed the film, Boyle and Colson. All the money Azharuddin was paid has been spent on medicine for his father who suffers from tuberlocus.

The studio says they have set up trust funds for both children and paid for their elementary and secondary education. It also supplies a monthly stipend for books and food. However, the parents say they are disillusioned as the success of the film had not improved the lot of the families. A World Bank report last year stated that 77% of India’s population lives on less than $2 a day.

Christian Colson, producer, says, “The two children stars, Rubina Ali and Azharuddin Ismail had been paid three times the amount of an annual adult salary  in their slum, for one month’s work. Also a substantial lump sum would be paid to the children once they reached 18 and completed their studies.”

‘Slumdog Millionaire‘ recently won four Golden Globes and has been nominated for 10 Oscars. According to Box Office Mojo it has raked in $85 million worldwide so far.

The film centres on a Mumbai teenager who grew up in the slums, becomes a contestant on the Indian version of “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?” He is arrested under suspicion of cheating, and while being interrogated, events from his life history are shown which explain why he knows the answers.

Mr Boyle now says, “The profits from the film will be ploughed back into the Mumbai slums where it was made. It is our chance to pour something back into an extraordinary city that helped us produce an extraordinary film.”

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Voted the Happiest Country on Earth in 2006, Vanuatu has a crisis in the far north of its tropical islands. Parents and their live coconut crabs are left stranded as the only airline servicing the Torres Island area, refuse to carry the live crabs.

Villagers have been traveling to the airfield for the once-a-week flight, for the past month, with their cargo of live coconut crabs, anxiously meeting the plane each time it lands.  They are told repeatedly there is no space available for the crabs to be air lifted to Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu.

“The villagers urgently need the crabs to be sold so they have the cash to pay their school fees,” Michael Rahurou told us. “Each time the villagers make the unsuccessful journey and the airline agent sends the villagers home again, some more crabs die and have to be replaced.”  The villagers have the money to pay for the freight, but the airline is adamant in its refusal to help the local people.

The real tragedy is these crabs are highly prized by the tourist-serving restaurants in Vila. In some areas of Vanuatu islands, these valuable crabs are on the endangered list, but not in the Torres Islands area.

A spokesman for Air Vanuatu said: “We cannot carry the live coconut crabs as they are not in a suitable container to be freighted. Coconut crabs have the ability to nip off a finger, so it is important the crabs are securely tied and packaged.”

When coconut crabs are secured for sale, by the villagers, they are tightly trussed up by coconut palm leaf strips. It would be virtually impossible to believe that a coconut crab would be able to free itself from its bindings. The crabs are then securely packaged into a traditional woven coconut leaf basket.

This is not a new problem. Several years ago the villagers raised the same complaint with Air Vanuatu. As the domestic side of the airline is known to be the most lucrative part of their entire operation, surely Air Vanuatu would be capable of supplying a suitable container to the villagers, to transport their live coconut crabs. Containers could be purchased for under $Au20 each (retail) and could be recycled. After all airlines supply containers for other things like transporting food, or pets etc on international trips.

In Vanuatu there is no free education and when parents have no ability to raise the funds for the school fees, children go uneducated. These parents subsist on less than $1 per day.

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