Month: April 2010

This bird’s got moves I will _never_ be able to do http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bt9xBuGWgw

This think tank uses uses a robust valuation method, Social Return on Investment, to quantify the social, environmental and economic impacts of six professions, looking at how each produces or destroys value for society. http://www.neweconomics.org/press-releases/hospital-cleaners-worth-more-society-city-bankers-says-new-nef-research

Amnesty International video on Human Rights http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_tCtvmAm4M

So day before yesterday Shianne verbally beat her father into agreeing that they would get a horse – at some stage. Shianne goes off to school as high as a kite, telling anyone who will or won’t listen about the fact that she will be getting a horse!
Last night Teal sits her down and tells her that they will need to have a farm to house the horse and it will be some time before that will happen etc. etc. etc. As you do.
Next day Shianne is inviting her classmates to stay on the farm they are to get. Gotta give the girl credit for putting it there. Wait. It gets better.
That night she has $1.75 in her purse. Teal asked her where that came from and turns out the little entrepreneur is collecting donations from her friends for horse and farm purchase! I told Teal we must teach her about ASIC regulations, issuing a prospectus, fraud, these little technicalities. But wait. It gets better still!
Teal learns that one of Shianne’s school friends is from America and proferred US coins towards the above mentioned country estate and equestrian activities. These were immediately identified as illegitimate and the girl told to get genuine currency from her father.
I think back to when I was six and golly gee gosh! I was a backwoods boy by comparison!