Billa @ No.11 in UK Box Office

Billa @ No.11 in UK Box Office   After Sivaji, Billa is the only tamil movie to take place in Top 15 in UK Box Office. The following are the details:  Rank Title Country of Origin Weekend Gross Distributor % change on last week Weeks on release Number of cinemas Site average Total Gross to date 1 The Golden Compass UK/USA £3,002,951 Entertainment -59 2 509 £5,900 £12,207,106 2 Enchanted USA £2,547,975 Disney   1 471 £5,410 £2,547,975 3 Bee Movie USA £2,281,393 Paramount   1 435 £5,245 £2,281,393 4 Fred Claus USA/UK £720,444 Warner Bros. -45 3 422 £1,707 £5,032,677 5 Mr Magorium's Wonder Emporium USA £459,734 Icon   1 342 £1,344 £459,734 6 We Own the Night USA £441,416 Universal   1 264 £1,672 £441,416 7 Hitman Fra/USA £288,273 20th Century Fox -54 3 308 £936 £2,993,026 8 American Gangster USA £221,466 Universal -56 5 232 £955 £9,047,199 9 Beowulf USA £109,220 Warner Bros. -68 5 170 £642 £6,886,709 10 The Assassination of Jesse James USA £57,652 Warner Bros. -53 3 56 £1,030 £541,370 11 Billa Ind £51,287 Ayngaran   1 10 £5,129 £51,287 12 The Darjeeling Limited USA £50,701 20th Century Fox -54 4 48 £1,056 £1,323,698 13 Nightmare Before Christmas 3-D USA £39,615 Disney 936 9 39 £1,016 £196,727 14 Aaja Nachle Ind £32,197 Yash Raj -61 3 27 £1,192 £390,894 15 Stardust UK/USA £29,689 Paramount -83 9 158 £188 £14,765,659   Total   £10,334,013       3,491 £2,960 £59,166,870

Here is a letter written by a HR executive to his love

Here is a letter written by a HR executive to his love:

Dearest Ms Juliet,

I am very happy to inform you that I have fallen in Love with you since the 14th of October (Sunday). With reference to the meeting held between us on the 13th of Oct. at 1500 hrs, I would like to present myself as a prospective lover.

Our love affair would be on probation for a period of three months and depending on compatibility, would be made permanent. Of course, upon completion of probation, there will be continuous on the job training and performance appraisal schemes leading up to promotion from lover to spouse.

The expenses incurred for coffee and entertainment would initially be shared equally between us. Later, based on your performance, I might take up a larger share of the expenses.

However I am broadminded enough to be taken care of, on your expense account.

I request you to kindly respond within 30 days of receiving this letter, failing which, this offer would be cancelled without further notice and I shall be considering someone else. I would be happy, if you could forward this letter to your sister, if you do not wish to take up this offer.

Thanking you in anticipation,

Yours sincerely,
Romeo

Is your office spying on your online activities

Office spies are everywhere -- even online -- so it's best to be careful with your Internet activities at work.

Organisations are getting very peculiar about their employees' efficiency. So if you're rejoicing about the fact that you've got free Internet access at the office and are thinking of catching up with your friends on Orkut or Facebook, think twice. There might be spy software installed on the network and screenshots from your computer could well be reaching your boss every 10 minutes.

Varun Lamba*, working with an MNC in Bangalore says, "I hardly get any time to catch up with old pals as my company has blocked all social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook." He's a bit upset about not being able to connect with friends, but is also glad that his efficiency has improved because more time is available for work.

A Japanese company's resource centre in Pune has been successful in enhancing the productivity of its trainees by regularly giving them feedback on their Internet usage in their first month on the job. The company uses softwares like 'Sonic Wall' to monitor the usage and instant feedback is given to employees who get caught surfing a bit too much. After two such warnings, serious action is taken by the company.

• Also read: 10 handy and FREE internet downloads

Ria Ghosh*, who worked as a software engineer with a leading MNC was fired following two warnings from the management regarding her chat records, which were scanned for use of offensive language. She feels, "Had I paid heed to those warnings, I wouldn't have ended up unemployed". A strong indication regarding the consequences of such actions should be given by a company to all its employees to avoid such cases.

Another IT services provider in Noida has blocked pornographic and social networking sites. However, there are other ways to access these blocked webpages -- for instance, you can access Orkut etc via  www.meebo.com and www.kproxy.com, even if Orkut is blocked by your company. However, if these sites are also blocked, there is no other way left to access the websites in question.

Big Brother could be watching you in any of the following ways:

~ By installing software like 'Sonic Wall', 'Guardian Monitor' etc that help block/ monitor web usage.
~ By using tracking software and cookies. For example, emails sent and received can be tracked, including chat conversations, keystrokes and websites visited.
~ By tracking application usage. For example, 'Yahoo Tracker' is an add-on for Yahoo Messenger, which tracks the online-offline activities of users in the last 24 hours.
~ By installing spy software that can send screen shots of your computer to another computer every 10 minutes and can record chats, words in emails and website URLs.

The drawbacks

No doubt these measures help companies earn more productive hours and maintain ethics among employees, besides controlling spread of malicious programmes and viruses. However, there is a dark side to all of this: 

~ Complete alienation from chatting or social networking while spending more than 10 hours a day in the office impacts employee morale. There is no chance left to maintain a balance between their work and personal lives.
~ Due to misuse by some employees, other innocent employees get indirectly penalised.
~ If there is any such policy in place, organisations should ensure that all their employees are made aware of it. Prevention is always better than cure. In case you get caught red-handed, the effects could range from nothing to your tenure being instantly terminated -- it all depends upon organisational policies.

• Internet threats: Phishing, pharming and porn

Avoid being a victim:

~ Never send any email or message from the office that contains vulgar or abusive language.
~ Plan your work so that you don't indulge in too much chatting or 'net surfing.
~ Read all the company policies carefully when you join and ask the network/ system administration team if you have any doubts regarding Internet use.
~ Take permission before downloading and installing any stand-alone application from a website.

Some key considerations for companies:

~ Maintain a balance between security and privacy; any such evidence can be used against the company for legal purposes.
~ Clearly state company policy to your employees.
~ Give regular feedback to employees regarding Internet usage or access to prohibited websites.
~ Secure employee feedback on such policies, to check if they are impacting work and morale at the office.

Happy surfing!

*Names changed and company identities withheld to protect privacy.

Has surfing the Internet at work ever gotten you into trouble? Does your organisation have strict policies regarding web access? Do you think a ban on accessing social networking portals and online messenger services from the workplace is justified?

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Half Man and Half Tree

An Indonesian fisherman who feared that he would be killed by tree-like
growths covering his body has been given hope of recovery by an American
doctor - and Vitamin A.



Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty "roots" began growing
out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident.



The welts spread across his body unchecked and soon he was left unable
to carry out everyday household tasks.



Sacked from his job and deserted by his wife, Dede has been raising his
two children - now in their late teens - in poverty, resigned to the
fact that local doctors had no cure for his condition.



To make ends meet he even joined a local "freak show", parading in front
of a paying audience alongside victims of other peculiar diseases.



Although supported by his extended family, he was often a target of
abuse and ridicule in his rural fishing village.



But now an American dermatology expert who flew out to Dede's home
village south of the capital Jakarta claims to have identified his
condition, and proposed a treatment that could transform his life.



After testing samples of the lesions and Dede's blood, Dr Anthony
Gaspari of the University of Maryland concluded that his affliction is
caused by the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV), a fairly common infection
that usually causes small warts to develop on sufferers.



Dede's problem is that he has a rare genetic fault that impedes his
immune system, meaning his body is unable to contain the warts.



The virus was therefore able to "hijack the cellular machinery of his
skin cells", ordering them to produce massive amounts of the substance
that caused the tree-like growths known as "cutaneous horns" on his
hands and feet.



Dede's counts of a key type of white blood cell are so low that Dr
Gaspari initially suspected he may have the Aids virus.



But tests showed he did not, and it became clear that Dede's immune
condition was something far rarer and more mysterious.



Warts aside, he had enjoyed remarkable good health throughout his life -
which would not be expected of someone with a suppressed immune system -
and neither his parents nor his siblings have shown signs of developing
lesions.



"The likelihood of having his deficiency is less than one in a million,"
Dr Gaspari told the Telegraph.



Dr Gaspari, who became involved in the case through a Discovery Channel
documentary, believes that Dede's condition can be largely cleared up by
a daily doses of a synthetic form of Vitamin A, which has been shown to
arrest the growth of warts in severe cases of HPV.



"He won't have a perfectly normal body but the warts should reduce in
size to the point where he could use his hands," Dr Gaspari said.



"Over the course of three to six months the warts should be come smaller
and fewer in number. He will be living a more normal life."



The most resilient warts could then be frozen off and the growths on his
hands and feet surgically removed.



Dr Gaspari hopes to get the necessary drugs free of charge from
pharmaceutical firms. They would then be administered by Indonesian
doctors under his supervision.



Still intrigued by the origins of Dede's peculiar immune condition, the
doctor would like to fly him to the United States for further
examination, but fears the financial and bureaucratic barriers would
prove too difficult to overcome.



"I would like to bring him to the US to run tests on where his immune
condition has come from, but I would need funding and to get him a visa
as well as someone to cover the costs of the tests," he said.



"I've never seen anything like this in my entire career."



*   "Half Man Half Tree", part of the "My Shocking Story" series, will
be
shown on the Discovery Channel at 9pm on Nov 15.



If you are not weak hearted, you can see DEDE's pictures on the site:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/12/wtree112
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Top 21 things an Indian does after returning from abroad.

Top 21 things an Indian does after returning from abroad:   21. Tries to use credit card in road side hotel. 20. Drinks and carries mineral water and always speaks of health conscious.   19. Sprays deo such so that he doesn't need to take bath.           18. Sneezes and says 'Excuse me'.   17. Says Hey instead of Hi Says Yogurt instead of Curd Says Cab instead of Taxi Says Candy instead of Chocolate Says Cookie instead of Biscuit Says **Free Way** instead of Highway Says got to go instead of Have to go Says O instead of Zero (for 704, says    Seven Oh! Four instead of Seven Zero Four)   16. Doesn't forget to crib about air pollution. Keeps on complaining about it every time he steps out.   15. Says all the distances in Miles (Not in Kilo Meters), and counts in Millions. (Not in Lakhs)   14. Tries to figure all the prices in Dollars as far as possible (but deep down the heart multiplies by 45 times).   13. Tries to see the % of fat on the cover of a milk packet.     12. When need to say Z (zed), never says Z (Zed), repeats Zee several times, if the other person unable to get, then says X, Y, Zee.     11. Writes date as MM/DD/YYYY, on watching traditional DD/MM/YYYY, says & Oh! British Style!!!!   10. Makes fun of Indian Standard Time and **Indian Road** Conditions.   9. Even after 2 months, complaints about Jet Lag.   8. Avoids eating more spicy (hot) stuff.   7. Tries to drink Diet Coke instead of **Normal** Coke.   6. Tries to complain about any thing in **India** as if he is experiencing it for the first time.     5. Pronounces schedule as skejule and module as mojule.   4. Looks suspiciously towards Hotel/Dhaba food.     3. From the luggage bag, does not remove the stickers of Airways by which he traveled back to **India**, even after 4 months of arrival.     2. Takes the cabin luggage bag to short visits in India, tries to roll the bag on Indian Roads.   Ultimate one   1. Tries to begin conversation with; In US ....or When was in US...   HOW MANY OF THESE DID YOU DO IN???????

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