The pastor of a small church was having trouble with diminishing collections, so one Sunday he announced,
“Now, before we pass the collection plate, I want to request that the person who stole the chickens from Brother Smith’s henhouse please refrain from giving. The Lord doesn’t want money from a thief!”
Then the collection was passed and, for the first time in months, everyone gave!
March 26, 2008
Collection Box
March 25, 2008
Poor Service.
This is a nice way to tell the hotel management how bad is their service.
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March 24, 2008
Visiting Cards
I have seen this a lot of time. You make a new acquaintance, talk for a couple of minutes and then want to exchange contacts. But then you will realize that the other person is not carrying his/her visiting cards. Its not the other person does not wish to exchange the number, because he/she does take down my number and give me a missed call…. but they (esp the girls) simply never ever felt the need to carry heir business cards…. Is it because i am outdated and in today’s world they r no longer relevant?
I prefer business card because:
1) A typical phone book can carry only 100-200 contacts, and just based on a 5 minute conversation i would not like to throw somebody out just to make space for you.
2) Exchanging emails r always tricky. You need to search around for a piece of paper and then a pen… it takes a lot of time and trouble. Won’t it be simple if you just pass on the rectangular piece of paper called visiting card where it is already printed.
3) If you do not wish to pass on your mobile/personal number, then its much more convenient to just pass on your visiting card where only your office desk number is listed (no more annoying sms) then to bluntly refuse divulging that info.
4) It looks much more professional and best part is that your employer will print it for free and makes sure you always have an ample supply of them.
5) If you are an entrepreneur, then it is a nice way to pass on a little advertisement and let your acquaintance at least know the name of your venture.
March 23, 2008
WordWeb
It is a very small, simple to use Dictionary which I have been using for more than 4 years.
You will have to download a small binary and the program will go and sit in your system tray.
Whenever while surfing/reading documents you come across a new word, all you have to do is select the word and click on the icon. A simple box will pop out and will give the meaning of the word.
BTW for the environmentally conscious, Morgan Stanley has printed a nice green book which is worth a peep.
March 21, 2008
marriage confusion.
A young man in love with two women could not decide which to marry. Finally, he asked his buddy for help. “One is a great poet, but the other makes the world’s best pancakes.”
“Oh, I see,” his buddy responded, “You’re trying to decide whether to marry for batter or verse!”
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Here is how i get my monitor screen cleaned.
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A male fly was buzzing around, searching for good-looking females when he spied a real cutie sitting on some cow manure. He dove down rapidly and then hovered before her.
“Pardon me,” he asked, “is this stool taken?”
March 20, 2008
Classification of scrips in group ‘A’
It has been decided to adopt the following eligibility criteria for inclusion of scrips in group ‘A’:
1. Company must have been listed for minimum period of 3 months.
Exceptions:
a. The Company can be directly listed in group ‘A’ provided the market capitalisation of a company being listed, based on its issue price, is higher than the average market capitalisation of 100th company in the existing group ‘A’ as per the ranking based on preceding 3 months data.
b. Any company permitted to be traded in F&O segment from date of its listing shall be directly listed in group ‘A’.
c. Companies listed subsequent to any corporate action involving merger/ demerger/ capital restructuring etc.
2. Companies traded for minimum 98% of the trading days in past 3 months shall be considered eligible.
3. Companies with minimum non-promoter holding of 10% as per the shareholding pattern of most recent quarter shall be considered eligible. The criteria of minimum 10% non-promoter holding shall not be applicable to public sector undertakings (PSUs).
4. The weightage of 75% and 25% shall be given to ranking on three monthly average market capitalisation and traded turnover respectively to arrive at the final ranks.
5. The list derived, based on final rank shall be screened for compliance and investigation. Based on this screening, the list of top 200 companies shall constitute group ‘A’.
6. The group re-classification shall be reviewed twice in a year i.e. February and August.
7. On inclusion of any new Company in group ‘A’ based on criteria 1(a) or 1(b) detailed above, the last company in the existing group ‘A’, based on its final rank calculated on data preceding three months shall be excluded.
8. All companies not included in group ‘A’, ‘S’ or ‘Z’ shall constitute group ‘B’. The division of group ‘B’ into group ‘B1’ and ‘B2’ is being discontinued.
9. In addition to these groups, scrips may be classified in group ‘T’ and ‘TS’ as part of the surveillance measures.
The revised list of ‘A’ group companies shall be announced through a separate circular on February 18, 2008 and it shall come into effect from March 3, 2008.
Sourced From: MoneyControl
