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If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

(Or, presumably a Woman, my daughter!)

This is a poem by Rudyard Kipling

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Can Things Get Any Better?

Share prices have soared in London, with the FTSE 100 index rising more than 400 points - its best performance since the index was created in 1984 - on hopes that the American government will ride to the rescue of distressed banks.

The mood was also lifted by a ban this side of the Atlantic on the practice of short selling.

The dramatic rally in the FTSE 100 index has added £95bn to the value of the UK's top 100 companies.

Wall Street shot up by more than 400 points last night as news emerged that the US Treasury and the country's central bank are trying to put together a government-sponsored firm - dubbed "bad bank" - which would take control of toxic financial assets and clean up the banking system.

Hopes that the move will stop the contagion which started with the collapse of Bear Stearns last year and reached a dramatic crescendo this week, pushed shares in London higher with the FTSE 100 index of the UK's top companies rising well over 400 points by late morning.

By 11am BST the index of leading shares stood at 5281.3, a rise of 401.3 points.

That is a rise of 8.22% and if the market were to close at these levels its would be the index's biggest rise since it was created by the Financial Times and London Stock Exchange in 1984. Before the FTSE 100 was created, the Financial Times tracked a smaller basket of shares called the FT 30.

It would beat the index's best one day performance to date, which was on October 21 1987 when it rose 7.89%, rallying after a two-day crash which had seen the index plunge 23%.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/sep/19/marketturmoil.stockmarkets

19th September 2008

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Good Career Advice

An American tourist was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked.
Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The tourist complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them.
The Mexican replied, "Only a little while."
The tourist then asked, "Why didn't you stay out longer and catch more fish?"
The Mexican said, "With this I have more than enough to support my family's needs."
The tourist then asked, "But what do you do with the rest of your time?"
The Mexican fisherman said, "I sleep late, fish a little, play with my children, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos, I have a full and busy life."
The tourist scoffed, " I can help you. You should spend more time fishing; and with the proceeds, buy a bigger boat: With the proceeds from the bigger boat you could buy several boats. Eventually you would have a fleet of fishing boats. Instead of selling your catch to a middleman you would sell directly to the processor; eventually opening your own cannery. You would control the product, processing and distribution. You could leave this small coastal fishing village and move to Mexico City, then Los Angeles and eventually New York where you could run your ever-expanding enterprise."
The Mexican fisherman asked, "But, how long will this all take?"
The tourist replied, "15 to 20 years."
"But what then?" asked the Mexican.
The tourist laughed and said, "That's the best part. When the time is right you would sell your company stock to the public and become very rich, you would make millions."
"Millions?...Then what?"
The American said, "Then you would retire. Move to a small coastal fishing village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play your guitar with your amigos."

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