CONSIDER THIS IN YOUR THOUGHT

Consider this

# After Fred Astaire's first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933 said, ''Cant act! Slightly bald! Can dance a little!'' Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his Beverly Hills home.

# An expert said of Vince Lombardi: '' He possesses minimal football knowledge. Lack motivation.''

# Socrates was called, ''An immoral corrupter of youth.''

# Albert Einstein did not speak until he was four years old and didn't read until he was seven. His teacher described him as ''mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in his foolish dreams.'' He was expelled and refused admittance to the Zurich Polytechnic School.

# Thomas Edison's teacher said he was too stupid to learn anything.

# Henry Ford failed and went broke five tmes before he finally succeeded.

# Winston Churchill failed sixth grade. He did not become Prime Minister of England until he was 62, and then only after a lifetime of defeats and setbacks. His greatest contribution came when he was a ''senior citizen.''

( source: Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield & Mark Victor hansen)

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Major causes of Failure in life that holding us back

Some of the Major causes of Failure in life that holding us back

Life's greatest tragedy when men and women who earnestly try, and fail. The Tragedy lies in the overwhelmingly large majority of people who fail, as compared to the few who succeed. Here are some Causes from the Books of Think and grow rich..

1.LACK OF SELF- DISCIPLINE. Discipline comes through self- control. This means that one must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must control yourself. Self- mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle.If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

2.LACK OF WELL- DEFINED PURPOSE IN LIFE. There is no hope of success for the person who is so indifferent as not to want to get ahead in life, and who is not willing to pay the price.

3.ILL HEALTH. No person may enjoying outstanding success without good health. Many of the causes of ill health are subject to mastery and control. These, in the main are:

a.Overeating of foods not conductive of health

b.Wrong habits of thought; giving expression to negatives.

c.Lack of proper physical exercise.

d.An inadequate supply of fresh air, due to improper breathing.

4.PROCRASTINATION. This is one the most common causes of failure. '' Old Man procrastination'' stands within the shadow of every human being, waiting his opportunity to spoil one's chances of success. Most of us go through life as failures, because we are waiting for the ''time to be right'' to start doing something worthwhile. Do not wait. The time will be'' just right'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

5.OVER- CAUTION. The person who takes no chances, generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing. Over- caution is as bad as under- caution. Both are extremes to be guarded against. Life itself is filled with the element of chance.

These are just the basic causes of failure. Napoleon Hill in his think and grow rich book mentioned about Thirty Major causes of failure.

( source: Think and grow Rich by Napoleon Hill)

UK general election voting begins

Millions of people across the UK have started casting their votes in the general election.

Polling stations up and down the country opened at 0700 BST and people will be able to cast their ballots until 2200 BST.
More than 44 million people are registered to vote. The first declarations are expected at 2300 BST.
As well as picking MPs for Westminster, voters will elect councillors in 164 local authorities across England.
Voting in the general election will take place in 649 constituencies, with nearly 4,150 candidates standing for election across the country.
Polling in one constituency - Thirsk and Malton - has been delayed until 27 May because of the death of one of the candidates during the campaign.

ELECTION 2010 ON THE BBC
•Results live on BBC One from 2155 BST
•Also on BBC HD and BBC News Channel
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The vast majority of constituencies will conduct their counts overnight, with about 20 not due to begin the process until after 0900 GMT on Friday.

Among the council elections taking place, voters will choose representatives in 32 London boroughs, 36 metropolitan authorities and 20 unitary authorities.
In these elections, a total of 15,785 candidates are contesting 4,222 seats.

Voting will also take place to choose mayors in Hackney, Newham, Lewisham and Watford.
UK Independence Party Euro-MP Nigel Farage has been involved in a light plane crash near Brackley, Northants.
Mr Farage, who is standing in the general election in Buckingham, suffered non life-threatening injuries when the aircraft came down just after 0800 BST.
He was taken to hospital in Banbury, Oxfordshire, while the pilot has been sent to the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford.

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The Rules For Being Human

1. You will receive a body.

You may like It or hate is, but it will be yours for the entire period of this time around.

2. You will learn lessons.

You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called Life. Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. you may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3. There are no mistake, only lessons.

Growth is a process of trial and error: Experimentation. The ''failed'' experiment that ultimately ''works''.

4. A lesson is repeated until learned.

A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end.

There is no part of life that does not contains its lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6.''There'' is no better than ''here''

When your ''there'' has become a ''here'' you will simply obtain another ''there'' that will again look better than ''here''.

7. Others are merely mirrors of you.

You cannot love or hate something about person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you.

You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie inside you.

The answers to Life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.

10. YOU WILL FORGET ALL THIS...

( Cherie Carter - Scott )

Billionaire Buffett defends Goldman

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has defended Goldman Sachs, saying faulty government regulations were to blame for most of the economic turmoil of the past few years, not investment banks.

Mr Buffet and and Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway's top two executives, met reporters in Nebraska, a day after taking questions before a crowd of about 37,000 at the company's annual meeting.
Mr Buffett has been one of Goldman's biggest supporters since the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filed its civil lawsuit against the bank last month.
Berkshire holds five billion dollars (£3.3bn) in preferred shares of Goldman, and Mr Buffett said he had no plans to sell them because they remained a very good investment and were paying 10% interest a year.


Goldman shares have fallen 22% since the SEC filed its suit on April 16, closing Friday at 145.20 dollars (£95.50). Berkshire holds warrants that would let it buy the stock at a discount price of 115 dollars (£75.60) per share.
The US government claims Goldman misled investors about a deal called Abacus, involving complex mortgage-related investments that later plunged in value. Mr Buffett said he had studied the charges against the investment bank and had "no problem with the Abacus transaction".
The SEC says Goldman misled investors by failing to disclose important information about the Abacus deal. Goldman allegedly did not tell investors that one of its clients, hedge fund Paulson, was betting against the securities.
Mr Buffett said ACA, the bond insurer involved in the Abacus deal with Goldman, was responsible for assessing the transaction's risks and that it should not have mattered that Paulson was betting against ACA's interests.
Mr Buffett, meanwhile, said the US economy was improving with manufacturing businesses showing the biggest gains, but said housing had yet to improve significantly because of the number of unsold homes on the market.
He said several of Berkshire's roughly-80 companies had started employing workers, so he was confident the unemployment rate, now at 9.7%, would improve.
( source: Press Association)

Huge Greece bail-out deal agreed

Eurozone members and the IMF have agreed a 110bn-euro (£95bn; $146.2bn) three-year bail-out package to rescue Greece's embattled economy.

In return for the loans, Greece will make major austerity cuts which Prime Minister George Papandreou said involved "great sacrifices".
The EU will provide 80bn euros in funding and the rest will come from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The deal is designed to prevent Greece from defaulting on its massive debt.
However, it must first be approved by some parliaments in the 15 other eurozone countries.


Luxembourg's Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, said up to 30bn euros would be disbursed to Greece in the first year. The first loan tranche will be released before 19 May - the date of Greece's next debt repayment, he said.
The leaders of the 16-nation Eurogroup will hold a summit in Brussels on Friday to "draw initial conclusions from the Greek crisis", he added.


Shoring up confidence


HEWITT ON EUROPE
Gavin Hewitt BBC Europe editor This was a day the European Union never imagined - that what could turn out to be the largest bail-out ever would be needed by a country using the euro.
Rescuing Greece remains very unpopular, especially in Germany, but German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it was the only way to ensure the stability of the single currency.
What persuaded eurozone countries and the IMF to lend Greece such a large sum was the fear that if Greece defaulted other countries like Portugal or even Spain could follow. Plenty of doubts remain, however.


The Greek economy will shrink by 4% this year and today's cuts could deepen the recession.
What the plan does do is to buy time and shelter Greece from the fierce winds of the markets.


The IMF is expected to approve its portion of the loan this week, IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said.

In return for the financial support, the Greek government has unveiled a fresh round of sweeping efficiencies, including further tax rises and deeper cuts in pensions and public service pay.


The Eurogroup is trying to speed up rescue efforts for Greece amid fears its debt crisis could undermine other debt-laden states that use the single currency. Anxiety about contagion has focused on Portugal, Spain and the Republic of Ireland.
Germany has been the most reluctant to bail out Greece, but its Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle said there was a "good chance" of getting German parliamentary agreement by Friday.
Yet he said Greece had to implement its new austerity programme "quickly" and "to the letter".


'Evident' anger

The Greek economy is still deep in recession and on Sunday the government forecast that GDP would fall by 4% in 2010.
The country's national debt - currently at about 115% of GDP - would rise to 149% by 2013 before falling, it added.
“ It is not going to be easy on Greek citizens, despite the efforts that have been made and will continue to be made to protect the weakest in society ”
George Papaconstantinou Greek Finance Minister


Mr Papandreou told a televised cabinet meeting that active and retired public sector workers would bear the brunt of the new wave of budget cuts.

"With our decision today our citizens will have to make great sacrifices," he said, describing public anger at the new wave of cutbacks as "evident".
"Our national red line is to avoid bankruptcy," Mr Papandreou said, adding that "no-one could have imagined" the size of the debt that the previous government, which left office last year, had left behind.


The austerity plan aims to achieve fresh budget cuts of 30bn euros over three years - with the goal of cutting Greece's public deficit to less than 3% of GDP by 2014. It currently stands at 13.6%.
Measures include:
•Scrapping bonus payments for public sector workers
•Capping annual holiday bonuses and axing them for higher earners
•Banning increases in public sector salaries and pensions for at least three years
•Increasing VAT from 21% to 23%
•Raising taxes on fuel, alcohol and tobacco taxes by 10%
•Taxing illegal construction

Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said Greece had been called on to make a "basic choice between collapse or salvation".
"It is not going to be easy on Greek citizens, despite the efforts that have been made and will continue to be made to protect the weakest in society."
New emergency legislation authorising the cuts and tax rises is now being drafted and is due to be put before parliament for approval by the end of the week.
However unions have vowed to fight the round of austerity measures. The third nationwide general strike in as many months is scheduled for Wednesday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Greece's austerity plans were "very ambitious" and would spur other troubled eurozone members to do all they could to avoid the same fate.
"These countries can see that the path taken by Greece with the IMF is not an easy one. As a result they will do all they can to avoid this themselves," Mrs Merkel told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

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JAIPUR FINEST QUALITY INDIAN CUISINE..

The JAIPUR restaurant is one of the biggest purpose built Indian restaurant in Europe, probably in the whole world. This Stunning looking restaurant serving up Indian food at Milton Keynes for more than 20 years.  If we look back the history of Jaipur is an Indian city, known as Pink city was founded in 1727 by Maharajah Jai Singh II, a Kachhwaha Rajput, who ruled from 1699-1744. And initially his capital was Amber, which lies at a distance of 11kms from Jaipur.

The Jaipur restaurant is one of the extra- ordinary  Indian Cuisine. It has achieve so many awards for food and excellent service. Most recently Amardeep Singh Anand, executive chef at the Jaipur, won the coveted Healthy heart Award at the national finals of the South Asian Chefs Competition 2009.

Founder Mr Mohammad Ahad is proud of the Jaipur's reputation. The location of this Restaurant 599 Grafton gate east . Central Milton Keynes MK9 1AT.

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