20 August 2010

Security at ATM – Techical Hint

I have read this on in a email, but do not have authentic source to verify this claim. This hint is also being circulated on email for long time.

“WHEN A THIEF FORCES YOU TO TAKE MONEY FROM THE ATM, DO NOT ARGUE OR RESIST, YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW WHAT HE OR SHE MIGHT DO TO YOU.   WHAT YOU SHOULD DO IS TO PUNCH YOUR PIN IN THE REVERSE, i.e. IF YOUR PIN IS 1254, YOU PUNCH 4521.

THE MOMENT YOU PUNCH IN THE REVERSE, THE MONEY WILL COME OUT BUT WILL BE STUCK INTO THE MACHINE HALF WAY OUT AND IT WILL ALERT THE POLICE WITHOUT THE NOTICE OF THE THIEF.


EVERY ATM HAS IT; IT IS SPECIALLY MADE TO SIGNIFY DANGER AND HELP. NOT EVERYONE IS AWARE OF THIS. FORWARD THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND THOSE YOU CARE”

I guess by now all thief must be also knowing this. If you try this and succeed, be aware you will be shot by the thief.

18 August 2010

Online/ epayment of MVAT and CST in Maharashtra

State of Maharashtra has been in forefront in implementation of computerisation of the Sales-tax department as compared to other states. But it is a apathy that the steps taken by Maharashtra state are also too nascent a step towards the process of computerisation of the administration of sales-tax department. Maharashtra has been in forefront to introduce e-filing of MVAT and CST returns. It has introduced the process of making online application for obtaining declaration under Central Sales Tax. It has introduced e-application for registration. Dealers in the state can make online application for registration for their business. No doubt, even though the state government has taken all steps to smoothly implement its objective; of computerisation  of sales tax department administration, the department is still in the state of chaos. The staff of the department, tax-practitioners and public in general are confused what is going on in the department and what procedures are to be followed.

On 15th February, 2010, the state government has issued a notification amending MVAT Rules, 2005. It has inserted rule 45A providing of e-payment of MVAT. Commissioner can notify the period starting on or after which certain class or classes of dealers will have to pay MVAT taxes online through internet banking. i.e. make e-payments.

The payments are required to be made online in form MTR-6 (New e-form) and the payment is to be made through Public Sector Banks only.

On 26th May, 2010, Government has issued notification making all dealers who file monthly return, to mandatorily make e-payments of MVAT and CST taxes. All payments made by such dealer from 1st June, 2010 will have to be made through electronic payment mode.

Further on 28th July, 2010, Government made has again issued notification making all dealers who file quarterly return, to mandatorily make e-payment of MVAT and CST Taxes. All payments made by such dealer from 1st October, 2010 must be made by electronic/internet payment system

Class of DealersDate from which e payment is mandatory
Filing Monthly Returns1st June, 2010
Filing Quarterly Return1st October, 2010
Filing Half Yearly ReturnsDate not notified

Mode of making e-payment

There are two methods of making e payment


  • E-payment directly from Bank's website:

    The dealer can log to the website of the following banks and make e-payment through the link provided on banks website.


    Sr. No.
    Name Of The Bank

    1.
    State Bank of India

    2.
    State Bank of Hyderabad

    3.
    State Bank of Travancore

    4.
    State Bank of Indore

    5.
    State Bank of Mysore

    6.
    State Bank of Bikaner & Jaipur

    7.
    State Bank of Patiala

    8.
    IDBI Bank

    9.
    Corporation Bank

    10.
    Union Bank of India

    11.
    Bank of India

    12.
    Bank of Maharashtra

    13.
    Bank of Borada



  • Banks integrated with MSTD website


    • For making payment through MSTD integrated website the dealers has to download prerequisite software for MVAT website. However the same banks are also listed in the above mentioned first method. So the dealer may avoid making payment through second method

Sr. No. Name Of The Bank

1.
IDBI Bank

2.
Corporation Bank

3.
Union Bank of India

4.
Bank of Maharashtra


  • In case the dealers bank doesn't have an on line payment facility or does not have account in authorised bank, then the sales tax department has advised to make e-payment from the account of any other person who has an internet banking account with these authorised bank. The  challan for making such payment must clearly indicate your TIN number & name of the business of the dealer. (But natural). However this suggestion of departments seems to be highly impractical. The department must have first made arrangements with most banks before implementing the scheme of e-payments.

Other points

  • The dealer can also make e-payment of CST for the periods before 1-4-2005, but as MVAT is applicable from 1-4-2005, payment before 1-4-2005 on account of BST cannot be made for the period before 1-4-2005
  • On making payment of taxes through internet banking, a GRN(Government Reference Number) is generated on MVAT website. This is number correlated with bank scroll.
  • The dealer is required to make separate payment under MVAT and CST.
  • Payments can be make any time of the date, but payments made after 8 p.m. will be accounted on the next day. So when payment is made on last day, payments must be made before 8 p.m. or the payment may be treated as delayed payment and default. The dealer will be then unnecessarily penalised.

11 August 2010

SWEET POISON! A MUST READ! Do not use artificial sweeteners

I received this email from yahoo group. I am posting this on my blog to inform you about the effects of Sugar-free sweeteners on your health. Please share my concern with your friends and relatives and forward them this link for their reference.

SWEET POISON! A MUST READ!

In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick.

She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore.

It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.

By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick she just knew she was dying.

She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of.

She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd.

On March 19 I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS. I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my sister if she drank diet soda?

She told me that she did. As a matter of fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment. I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda!

I e-mailed her article my friend, a lawyer, had sent. My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk!

The muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but, she sure felt a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this article and would call me when she got home. Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed!

He is going to call all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners of any kind. In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet soda...and literally dying a slow and miserable death. When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a complete recovery. And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved her life.

If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!

I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on 'ASPARTAME,' marketed as 'Nutra Sweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.' In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.

I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis.. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is! Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas. In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly. This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibromyalgia. During a lecture, I said,

'If you are using ASPARTAME (Nutra Sweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, Cramps, Vertigo, Dizziness, Headaches, Tinnitus, Joint pain, Unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!'

People were jumping up during the lecture saying, 'I have some of these symptoms.. Is it reversible?' Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it!

This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence! Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight! These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve 'tissue specimens.'

Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body! Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the 'diet products' and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period. Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.

Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, Seizures, Depression, Manic depression, Panic attacks, Uncontrollable anger and rage.

Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well. Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behaviour when these chemicals have been removed from their diet. So called 'behaviour modification prescription drugs' (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed.

Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place! Most of these children were being 'poisoned' on a daily basis with the very foods that were 'better for them than sugar.'

It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy.

Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison.' Herein lies the problem:

There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included in 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning its use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and still nothing has been done.

The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED! There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a 'piece of the Aspartame pie.'

I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is. And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians? This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products.

Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants. The bill would also institute independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioural symptoms. The bill was killed. It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public.

Well, you're informed now!

YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW! __._,_.___

01 August 2010

Wonderful Mathametical Sequences

The Beauty of Mathematics and the Love of God! This is TOO cool!

Just the math part is good enough, the end is even better. 

I bet you will NOT be able to read it without sending it on to at least one other person!


Beauty of Mathematics! !!!!!!


1 x 8 + 1= 9
12 x 8 + 2= 98
123 x 8 + 3= 987
1234 x 8 + 4= 9876
12345 x 8 + 5= 98765
123456 x 8 + 6= 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7= 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8= 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9= 987654321
1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10=  1111111111  1111111111
9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888
Brilliant, isn't it?

And look at this symmetry:
1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111 = 12345678987654321