Thursday, October 21, 2010

Degree attestation process for foreign country employment in Pakistan

Following are the steps which I followed for degree attestation for employment, I hope this may help you
 1. Fillout HEC degree attestation form by following the steps mentioned at http://das.hec. gov.pk/
2. Print the HEC degree attestation form and go to FedEx head office at Shara-e-Faisal (near Lal Kothi)
3. You'll need to submit your original copies of Matriculation marks sheet and Intermediate marks sheet (or equivalent certificates) alongwith FAST final marks sheet and degree. FedEx doesn't accept documents after 2:00 pm!
4. FedEx will take approx. one week to get attested your degree from HEC.
5. After having attested your degree from HEC, you will need to attest it from Minitry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA).
6. To have attested your degree from MOFA, take original copy of your degree attested from HEC and go to UPS (United Parcel Service) at Tariq Road.
7. UPS will take one week to gets your degree attested from MOFA. Alternatively, you can go yourself to MOFA which is located near FTC at Shara-e-Faisal and get attested your degree in one day!
8. After having attested your degree from HEC and MOFA, you'll need to have attested it from the embassy of the country where you are going to work. Check with the embassy which courier service they entertain for degree attestation. I think UPS can get your degree attested from almost all embassies in Pakistan.
9. Now you are done with getting attested your degree from Pakistan.
10. After reaching in the foreign country, you will need to have your degree attested from MOFA of that country. This is last stamp you'll have on your degree. After that, you'll be eligible for the work permit. Congrats!!!

Saturday, October 16, 2010

VIZ Anchor

Viz Anchor is the latest Vizrt application targeted at the presenter in the studio. The application runs natively on Apple’s iPad and allows users to control newsroom playlists including video and graphics directly from the handheld device. With Viz Anchor the presenter can for example start and stop animations on a Viz Video Wall without interrupting the flow of the presentation.


Controlling graphics from the palm of your hand
Our latest control application, Viz Anchor, empowers your on-air talents to do what they do best: present content in a compelling way that is not troubled by technical restrictions. Viz Anchor is a new iPad application that integrates seamlessly with existing Vizrt workflows. It provides a subset of the functionality of Vizrt’s other control applications, such as Viz Content Pilot and Viz Trio, and makes it available on the iPad. This enables the presenter to have an updated version of the playlist available in the palm of his hand.
This way, video clips and graphics scenes can be controlled from anywhere in the studio without the need for a dedicated PC or awkward queries to the control room. The result is a more dynamic presentation with a smooth and organic flow.
Being an iPad application, Viz Anchor features an intuitive interface that takes advantage of the iPad’s capabilities such as support for video preview on the device, and an intuitive touch-based interface. Through the device’s wireless connection, changes in the playlist can easily be pushed to the Viz Anchor. This guarantees that the presenter always has all the elements of the latest playlist available at his fingertips.
Viz Anchor is targeted at broadcasters that want to empower their on-air talents and enable them to directly control graphics and video in the studio. But Viz Anchor’s capabilities go far beyond remotely controlling the playlist. With the Viz Anchor’s support for video and graphics playback on the iPad itself it is now possible to integrate the device in the presentation and make it an integral part of the show.

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Pakistan Captain

Clean up your act, ICC tells PCB

Taking note of the continuing decline in the governance of cricket in Pakistan, the ICC has given the PCB a hard rap on the knuckles and decided to monitor closely the running of the game in Pakistan. After a two-day board meeting at the ICC's HQ in Dubai - the first since the spot-fixing scandal that rocked the world of cricket - the message of the world governing body to one of its leading members was clear: sort out the administration of the game or face the consequences, potentially in the form of sanctions.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Australia's unfortunate dozen, and India's favourite venue


A few key stats from the Mohali Test, which India won by one wicket to retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Jinxed by a wicket
India's stunning come-from-behind win in Mohali means they finally have a one-wicket win in Tests, a feat that all other top Test-playing sides have achieved. England are the only ones to have done it three times, all of them before 1925. For Australia, on the other hand, it's the fifth occasion they've been at the wrong end of a one-wicket verdict, which is quite surprising considering there have only been 12 such results in the history of Test cricket. Two of those heartbreakers came in the 1900s - at The Oval in 1902 and in Melbourne in 1908 - but the other three have all come after 1990 - in Karachi in 1994, Barbados in 1999 and here in Mohali.
Teams winning and losing by one wicket
TeamNo. of one-wkt winsNo. of one-wicket losses
England31
Pakistan21
West Indies22
South Africa12
Australia15
New Zealand10
Sri Lanka10
India10
Bangladesh01
That also makes Ricky Ponting the 12th player to have twice suffered one-wicket defeats in Tests: there were five who were in both teams in the losses in the 1900s, while six - Michael Slater, the Waugh brothers, Ian Healy, Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath - featured in the defeats in 1994 and 1999.
And another proof of how exciting Test cricket has become since 2000 lies in the number of such one-wicket verdicts: there have been four during this period. In comparison, there were two in the 1990s, one in the 1980s, and none in the 1960s and '70s.
Second-innings superstar
For the second time in successive tough run-chases, Laxman remained standing till the end. In fact, his run of scores in the second innings over the last year-and-a-half has been stunning. It reads thus: 124 not out, 61, 51 not, 69 not out, 69, 103 not out, and 73 not out. No wonder, then, that he is one of only eight batsmen in Test history to score more than 2500 second-innings runs at a 50-plus average.
Best batting averages in second innings (Qual: 2500 runs)
BatsmanInningsRunsAverage100s/ 50s
Jacques Kallis97408658.378/ 26
Garry Sobers67292355.158/ 15
Allan Border111437154.6311/ 24
Kumar Sangakkara61289453.599/ 12
Matthew Hayden81347251.8211/ 13
Sunil Gavaskar90396351.4611/ 22
Geoff Boycott85331951.069/ 17
VVS Laxman74287750.475/ 17
India's fortress
Mohali remains India's favourite venue, but only just. Coming into this match they'd won three times and lost once; a loss would have brought down the win-loss ratio to 1.50, but the narrow win ensures that Mohali is the venue with the best win-loss ratio for India, among grounds where they've played at least ten Tests. The sobering thought for India, though, is that the venue for the second Test, Bangalore, is the ground where they've been at their worst. That's something Australia can heart from, after a defeat that will rankle for a while.
India's win-loss ratios at home venues
VenueTestsW/ L/ DW/L ratio
Mohali104/ 1/ 54.00
Brabourne, Mumbai185/ 2/ 112.50
Kanpur216/ 3/ 122.00
Chennai3012/ 6/ 112.00
Delhi3010/ 6/ 141.67
Ahmedabad103/ 2/ 51.50
Mumbai219/ 6/ 61.50
Kolkata369/ 8/ 191.12
Bangalore184/ 6/ 80.67