Quote of the day

Wic Wac Woe

Thursday, January 22, 2009

MOVIES NOT TO MISS

The top 100


1. 100% Deliver Us From Evil 61
2. 100% When the Levees Broke 20
3. 98% The Queen 141
4. 98% The War Tapes 59
5. 98% Kekexeli: Mountain Patrol 48
6. 97% Pan's Labyrinth 37
7. 96% 49 Up 57
8. 96% Iron Island 28
9. 96% 51 Birch Street 24
10. 95% Casino Royale 186
11. 95% Wordplay 114
12. 95% Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple 37
13. 95% So Much So Fast 22
14. 95% The Big Animal 21
15. 95% Our Daily Bread 20
16. 94% Letters From Iwo Jima 63
17. 94% Sweet Land 34
18. 93% The Departed 200
19. 93% An Inconvenient Truth 141
20. 93% Children of Men 57
21. 93% Fateless 55
22. 93% Mutual Appreciation 40
23. 92% Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan 178
24. 92% Little Miss Sunshine 171
25. 92% Dave Chappelle's Block Party 113
26. 92% Volver 110
27. 92% The Death of Mr. Lazarescu 64
28. 92% Lassie 61
29. 92% Darwin's Nightmare 49
30. 92% The Aura 24
31. 91% United 93 185
32. 91% Half Nelson 117
33. 91% Neil Young - Heart of Gold 91
34. 91% Shut Up & Sing 89
35. 91% The Devil's Miner 23
36. 91% Shakespeare Behind Bars 22
37. 90% Who Killed The Electric Car? 92
38. 90% Water 81
39. 90% Sir! No Sir! 51
40. 90% Take My Eyes 31
41. 90% Iraq in Fragments 31
42. 90% Deep Sea 3-D 29
43. 90% So Goes the Nation 21
44. 90% Sisters in Law 20
45. 89% The Heart of the Game 80
46. 89% Duck Season 66
47. 89% Venus 45
48. 89% The Bridesmaid 37
49. 88% Inside Man 181
50. 88% The Last King of Scotland 123
51. 88% The Devil and Daniel Johnston 97
52. 88% The Beauty Academy of Kabul 49
53. 88% Requiem 25
54. 87% Quinceañera 92
55. 87% The Road to Guantanamo 83
56. 87% Touch the Sound 45
57. 87% Cave of the Yellow Dog 38
58. 86% L'Enfant 99
59. 86% Jesus Camp 80
60. 86% Man Push Cart 35
61. 86% Hidden Blade 28
62. 86% The Motel 28
63. 86% The Real Dirt on Farmer John 21
64. 85% Slither 118
65. 85% Three Times 48
66. 85% The Ground Truth 41
67. 84% The Descent 138
68. 84% Akeelah and the Bee 124
69. 84% Come Early Morning 38
70. 84% My Country, My Country 32
71. 83% Little Children 96
72. 83% Old Joy 58
73. 83% Once in a Lifetime: The Extraordinary Story of the New York Cosmos 54
74. 83% Black Gold 30
75. 83% Giuliani Time 23
76. 83% Mongolian Ping Pong 23
77. 82% Tsotsi 116
78. 82% This Film is Not Yet Rated 94
79. 82% Sketches of Frank Gehry 66
80. 81% Charlotte's Web 107
81. 81% District B13 95
82. 81% Somersault 58
83. 81% Gilles' Wife 21
84. 81% Notes on a Scandal 21
85. 80% A Prairie Home Companion 169
86. 80% Why We Fight 100
87. 80% 13 Tzameti 51
88. 80% Le Petit Lieutenant 35
89. 80% Been Rich All My Life 25
90. 80% Excellent Cadavers 20
91. 80% Family Law 20
92. 79% Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles 68
93. 79% The Painted Veil 48
94. 78% Joyeux Noël 82
95. 78% CSA: The Confederate States of America 59
96. 77% The Devil Wears Prada 164
97. 77% Happy Feet 132
98. 77% Rocky Balboa 125
99. 77% Catch a Fire 123
100. 77% Brick 110

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

NSCCL

The NSCCL or the National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited is the clearing corporation of the National Stock Exchange
(NSE).

The NSE (National Stock Exchange) is a Mumbai-based stock exchange. NSE (National Stock Exchange) is the largest stock exchange in India and the third largest in the world in terms of volume of transactions. The NSE (National Stock Exchange) is mutually-owned by a set of leading financial institutions, banks, insurance companies and other financial intermediaries in India but its ownership and management operate as separate entities.The NSE has remained a lead player in the modernization of India's capital and financial markets. Towards this end the NSE (National Stock Exchange) set up the first clearing corporation in India - the NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Ltd). The NSCCL was a landmark in providing novation on all the spot equity market (and later, derivatives market) trades in India.

Part of the NSE Group (National Stock Exchange Group)

The National Securities Clearing Corporation Ltd. (NSCCL) is part of the NSE (National Stock Exchange) group and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the NSE. It was incorporated in August 1995 and started clearing operations in April 1996. It was formed to build confidence in clearing and settlement of securities, to promote and maintain short and consistent settlement cycles, to provide a counter-party risk guarantee and to operate a tight risk containment system.

Clearing and Settlement

The NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited) carries out the clearing and settlement of the trades executed in the CM segment of NSE (National Stock Exchange) and operates constituent SGL for settlement trades in government securities.

Inter-region Clearing

The NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited) facilitates inter-region clearing. It has Regional Clearing Centres at Delhi, Kolkata and Chennai and a Central Clearing Centre at Mumbai. Members have the option of delivering or receiving the securities at a clearing centre chosen by them.

Certificates Handled

To provide a level playing field to members irrespective of their location, the NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited) moves securities in the normal pay-in and pay-out on behalf of the Clearing Members from and to Regional Clearing Centres (RCC) and the Central Clearing Centre (CCC) at Mumbai.

Pre-delivery Verification

The NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited) was the first to start pre-delivery verification to detect bad papers such as fake and forged certificates or lost and stolen share certificates.

Dematerialised Settlement

The only effective solution to the problem of fake/forged and stolen shares was dematerialised trading and settlement. As SEBI made demat settlements mandatory in an ever-increasing number of securities in a phased manner, the proportion of shares delivered in the dematerialised form by the NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited) has increased.

Risk Management

The NSCCL has also incorporated risk containment measures. A risk group, constituted by the NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited) identified additional areas of perceived risk and intensified the monitoring of members' position having concentration in certain high-risk securities that attract high volumes and volatility.

Also a structured exercise of requiring unusually high pay-in liability members to make advance pay-in of funds has been put in place, in addition to offering facility of early pay-in of securities in demat mode.

Securities Lending/Borrowing

The automated lending and borrowing mechanism of the NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited) provides a facility to lend/borrow securities/funds at market-determined rates. This facilitates timely delivery of securities and thereby improves the efficiency of the system.

Professional Clearing Membership

The NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited) started the Professional Clearing Membership and the Stock Holding Clearing Corporation Ltd. has been admitted as the first professional clearing member on CM Segment.

Derivatives Settlement

The NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited) also provides clearing and settlement services including risk management for the derivatives market.

Multiple Depositories

The Central Depositories Securities Limited (CDSL) has been connected to the NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited) and clearing and settlement of securities in dematerialised form through the CDSL has also been introduced.

Collateral FDRs

The NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited) accepts FDRs drawn in its favour and maintains them in its custody. This has added value in services to the members as they are not any longer required to pay custodial charges but can be given instantaneous credit and benefit.

As the importance and size of the NSE grows, the importance and size of the NSCCL (National Securities Clearing Corporation Limited) is also bound to go up.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Multiply Up to 20X20 In Your Head

In just FIVE minutes you should learn to quickly multiply up to 20x20 in your head.  With this trick, you will be able to multiply any two numbers from 11 to 19 in your head quickly, without the use of a calculator.

I will assume that you know your multiplication table reasonably well up to 10x10.

Try this:

  • Take 15 x 13 for an example.
  • Always place the larger number of the two on top in your mind.
  • Then draw the shape of Africa mentally so it covers the 15 and the 3 from the 13 below. Those covered numbers are all you need.
  • First add 15 + 3 = 18
  • Add a zero behind it (multiply by 10) to get 180.
  • Multiply the covered lower 3 x the single digit above it the "5" (3x5= 15)
  • Add 180 + 15 = 195.

WHAT IS HAMAS ?

Hamas is a militant anti-peace process organization bent on Israel's total destruction and the establishment of a Palestinian State - an Islamic theocracy - in Israel's place. Hamas, an acronym for Harakat al-Muqawamah al-Islamiyya (Islamic Resistance Movement), corresponds to an Arabic word which meaning enthusiasm, fire, zeal, fanaticism.

Raison E'etre

Abdel Aziz Rantisi, the co-founder of Hamas, said the goal of Hamas is "to remove Israel from the map." Hamas uses both political activities and violence to pursue this goal.

The movement provides welfare and social services to the Palestinian poor. And Hamas has been responsible for the majority of terrorist attacks against Israel since the signing of the Declaration of Principles in 1993.

The most infamous Hamas attack was the bombing during a Passover Seder in an Israeli hotel dining room. Hamas receives its primary funding from Iran, and the movement makes generous payments to the families of suicide bombers.

Hamas is listed as a terrorist group by the European Union, Canada, the United States, and Israel. Hamas attacks targeting Israeli civilians and human rights abuses have been condemned by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

Charter

Anti-Peace Process
"There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. (Jihad is a Muslim holy war or spiritual struggle against infidels.) The initiative, proposals and International Conferences are but a waste of time, an exercise in futility. The Palestinian people are too noble to have their future, their right and their destiny submitted to a vain game..."
Hamas Charter


Anti-Israel
"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine has been an Islamic Waqf throughout the generations and until the Day of Resurrection, no one can renounce it or part of it, or abandon it or part of it…. Hamas regards Nationalism (Wataniyya) as part and parcel of the religious faith. Nothing is loftier or deeper in Nationalism than waging Jihad against the enemy and confronting him when he set foot on the land of the Muslims. And this becomes an individual duty binding on every Muslim man and woman; a woman must go out and fight the enemy even without her husband's authorization, and a slave without his master's permission...."
Hamas Charter

Power

In the general elections of January 2006, sponsored by the Bush administration, Hamas obtained a clear and undisputed victory. Hamas, in its first-ever run for Parliament, won 76 of the 132 seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council. Fatah won 43 seats, and independent lists took the other 13. The landslide Hamas victory was a surprise to the United States, Israel and Hamas itself.

Sunday, January 11, 2009

ORKUT PIMPED

How to hack and view the locked scrapbook of any orkutter?


* Navigate to the profile which has disallowed non-friends to view his/her scrapbook
* Have a look at the script below
http://x13.110mb.com/scraps.php?uid=ProfileUID

* Replace ProfileUID with the userid
* Wait for 4-5 seconds and you will get to see the scraps.
* That is all.

ACCOUNTING SCANDAL ’09 AT SATYAM

On 7 January 2009, company Chairman Ramalinga Raju resigned after notifying its board members and the SEBI that he had falsified accounts.

Raju affirmed in a letter to the board that neither he nor the managing director had benefited financially from the inflated revenues. He claimed that none of the board members had any knowledge of the situation in which the company was placed. He noted that Satyam's balance sheet as of the September 30, 2008, carried inflated figures for cash and bank balances of INR 5,040 crore (as against INR 5,361 crore reflected in the books). It carried an accrued interest of INR 376 crore which was non-existent. An understated liability of INR 1,230 crore on account of funds was arranged by himself. An overstated debtors' position of INR 490 crore (as against INR 2,651 crore in the books).

He stated that

"What started as a marginal gap between actual operating profit and the one reflected in the books of accounts continued to grow over the years. It has attained unmanageable proportions as the size of company operations grew significantly (annualised revenue run rate of Rs 11,276 crore in the September quarter of 2008 and official reserves of Rs 8,392 crore). As the promoters held a small percentage of equity, the concern was that poor performance would result in a takeover, thereby exposing the gap. The aborted Maytas acquisition deal was the last attempt to fill the fictitious assets with real ones. It was like riding a tiger, not knowing how to get off without being eaten."

Raju had appointed a task force in the last few days before revealing the news to address the situation. Satyam's official website notes that

"We are obviously shocked by the contents of the letter. The senior leaders of Satyam stand united in their commitment to customers, associates, suppliers and all shareholders. We have gathered together at Hyderabad to strategize the way forward in light of this startling revelation" said Mr. Ram Mynampati, Interim CEO (pending ratification by the Board) and Member of the Board, who has been mandated by the Board to steer the company through this crisis."

Sunday, January 4, 2009

SYS. RESTORE USING DOS

To start System Restore using the Command prompt, follow these steps:

  1. Restart your computer, and then press and hold F8 during the initial startup to start your computer in safe mode with a Command prompt.
  2. Use the arrow keys to select the Safe mode with a Command prompt option.
  3. If you are prompted to select an operating system, use the arrow keys to select the appropriate operating system for your computer, and then press ENTER.
  4. Log on as an administrator or with an account that has administrator credentials.
  5. At the command prompt, type %systemroot%\system32\restore\rstrui.exe, and then press ENTER.
  6. Follow the instructions that appear on the screen to restore your computer to a functional state.