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A message for business owners: It's a worrisome world, mate. So what's the plan, Stan?

Talking up the market is not a strategy for survival. Realtors, bankers and financial services brokers have proved that much in the past year.

Flight Without Fear

Frontier Airlines HQ, Denver, Colorado 24 March 2008.

Art Prior - from The Muchas Preguntas! Agenda

24 October 2007

As always, I have questions - with the strong dollar tempting Aussies to travel overseas will those who have not journeyed far for a few years suffer culture shock? Will they be ready for the aggressive and sometimes hostile reception in foreign parts? Or the soft sneaky modus operandi of thieves masquerading as helpful guides? 

Worldwide travel in today's world of uncertainty presents a myriad of problems for the traveler. One of the greatest benefits to the traveler is having someone with practical experience upon whom you can rely to answer questions and placate fears and tension associated with travel in foreign countries.

by Andrew Thomas August 2007

The years after the 9/11 attacks have been marked by a commitment on the part of the TSA in the USA and other agencies around the world, seemingly to do everything possible to create new layers of aviation security. Dishearteningly many of those new layers have often been inefficient, expensive and insecure. However except for a few dissenting voices, most taxpayers, bureaucrats, passengers and industry insiders have accepted this strategy with barely the slightest hesitation.

The reported overnight graffiti attack on a commercial 35-seater Dash-8 airliner parked at Perth International Airport, as reported by the media on 30 May 2007 has surprisingly drawn little public comment and presumably no widely shared alarm at the implications. The most but still limited interest seems to have surfaced in brief weblog discussions involving a small number of aviation industry people. The offender or offenders allegedly compromised the perimeter fence and tagged the aircraft without detection.