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Show me the dollar

Parity with US dollar.... is it time to celebrate for an australian? Some financial experts consider this a historic moment and urges the average australian to live it to the full. For a commoner it sounds good at the outset as a strong aussie dollar means we are well off than before. Its a good time for overseas travel and better still if you are catching the flight to USA, best of times to go on an online spending spree and well a good time for a migrant to send money overseas. Experts say the reasons to smile ends there while reasons to press the panic button are numerous. 'Competitive devaluation' thats a sample of the financial terms thats being thrown around in the media to explain the current scenario. In short one thing is clear the fall of US dollar is a staged one with US authorities using artificial means to alter the playing field that's world market. Either way I am gonna celebrate the moment as I fall into the category of middle class working group. I ...

Attitude and creativity

"Creativity is all about attitude." This quote is from an article that I read last night. Creativity was always about last minute panic for me. When I am to do something that requires so called creativity all I do is wait for that last minute. Each time panic turns up at the right time if not earlier but creativity...... very rarely. I am not complaining as for the author of panic definition - Mr Calvin - not even panic came at the last minute. In common vocabulary creativity is a word associated with special deeds such as painting, writing poetry, sculpting, film making, dancing etc. Let’s break this up. Listed here are activities that individuals do. Painters paint, dancers dance and they are creative….at times. How about others? Cleaners clean, drivers drive, call centre employees make and take calls. Individuals and activities? Yes they are too. Can they be creative? YES they sure can be. A lot of popular singers sing in an uncreative way. Many an artists ar...