NEW DELHI, October 10 (Compass Direct News) – After police in the eastern state of Orissa confirmed this week that Maoists killed Hindu nationalist leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati, a Hindu extremist group circulated allegedly forged documents in an attempt to implicate a local church in the Aug. 23 murder.

The Hindu Jagaran Samukhya (Society for Revival of Hinduism or HJS) circulated documents saying the plan to kill Saraswati in Kandhamal district was made at a meeting at Bethikala Church on May 25 attended by 17 people following a briefing and command from religious leaders, the Press Trust of India news agency reported yesterday.

Local Christian leaders responded by saying they will file defamation charges.

“We will file both civil and criminal defamation cases against the person who made such allegations,” Father Joseph Kalathil from the Catholic Archbishop House in Bhubaneswar and the Rev. Fr. Prafulla Ku Sabhapati, president of the Bethikala Parish Council of Kandhamal, said in a statement. “Not only our signatures were forged, the contents of the documents were also fabricated.”

On Oct. 6 Orissa state police confirmed that Maoists killed Saraswati, a day after the chief of the Orissa unit of the banned Communist Party of India-Maoist, Sabyasachi Panda, told NDTV 24X7 news that his organization was behind the murder.

The Maoists killed Saraswati because he was a key leader of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council or VHP), Panda told the channel. The VHP, he said, used non-tribal traders’ money to build VHP’s youth wing, Bajrang Dal, and ran a campaign against Christians, falsely accusing them of forced conversions and killing cows, considered holy by Hindus.

“This forced us to attack him,” Panda said. “We left two letters claiming responsibility for the murders. But the [Chief Minister Naveen] Patnaik government suppressed those letters. It is a BJP [Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party] government; they will support the VHP. The state government made it look like Christian groups were responsible for the attack. The Christian community in Orissa does not have any Maoist organization supporting them here.”

There were also reports, however, of the Orissa police having arrested three tribal Christians in connection with Saraswati’s murder. The Indian Express reported that the three had confessed their involvement.

A representative of the Christian Legal Association told Compass that according to sources, the police had tortured the three Christians to pressure them to confess a crime they did not commit.

After the assassination of Saraswati, Hindu extremist groups blamed local Christians and began attacks on them, their houses and their churches. The worst violence against Christians in modern India erupted in spite of the Orissa police and media stating on the day of the murder that suspected Maoists killed Saraswati.

According to the All India Christian Council, more than 60 people have been killed, more than 18,000 injured and around 4,500 houses and churches destroyed in the “retributive” violence. Two Christian women, including a nun, were also gang-raped. The violence, which later spread to at least 14 districts of Orissa, has left more than 50,000 people homeless.

Attacks Continue

Orissa’s Kandhamal district remained tense even 48 days after the violence began.

Yesterday about 15 houses were burned down by a mob in the Lansaripalli village in Kantamal Block of neighboring Boudh district, The Hindu reported. The attackers came from the Gochhapada area of Kandhamal district.

“Thursday’s was the third incident in Boudh district,” added the daily. “More than 100 houses were burnt down in two separate attacks in the past few days.”

On Wednesday (Oct. 8), a mob burned and looted at least 25 houses belonging to Christians in the Balligada village under Daringbadi police station in Kandhamal’s Nuagam Block, Father Ajay Singh of the Catholic Archdiocese of Bhubaneswar told Compass.

On Tuesday (Oct. 7), over five houses were torched in Jalespanga area under Phiringia police jurisdiction in Kandhamal. Another house was burned in the Sujeli village of G. Udayagiri Block the same day.

The Hindu also said the more than 16,000 Christians living in various relief camps were not returning to their villages, fearing attacks on them if they refused to convert to Hinduism.

Fr. Singh from the Bhubaneswar Archdiocese told Compass that over 12,000 Christians from various relief camps had moved out of Kandhamal to other districts and states, as they feared more attacks.

Supporting Violence

The president of the VHP, Ashok Singhal, told Zee News channel on Sunday (Oct. 5), “What Hindu organizations including the VHP, the Bajrang Dal and the RSS [Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, India’s chief Hindu nationalist group] are doing in Orissa is all legal and is the reaction of the murder of VHP leader Saraswati, who was like Jesus Christ to us.”

In an interview with The Week magazine (Oct. 5), Singhal said that Hindu youth are “ready to die and, if necessary, to kill. [Their] patience is ebbing.”

Singhal added that a “Hindu uprising” had begun, “and the political parties will have to rethink and reinvent themselves, for their own existence. If there is no arrangement for Hindus’ security, they’ll do it on their own. The Hindus will not die. If that self-defence is militancy, so be it … the Hindu never went around the world for suzerainty or to convert ... now they are here, undermining us. That causes anger. In fact many want to fight back this harvesting of Hindus.”

In addition, a leader of the Bajrang Dal in the southern state of Karnataka admitted to supporting recent attacks on churches while speaking to The Week magazine. “We supported those who attacked the churches, as it is a justified fight,” Bajrang Dal convenor Mahendra Kumar said.

The violence in Orissa spread to several other states, including Karnataka, where around 20 churches were destroyed and 20 Christians were attacked in the recent weeks.

As many political parties and rights groups have demanded a ban on the Bajrang Dal for attacking Christians and churches in Orissa and other states, the federal government ruled by the United Progressive Alliance has mandated the National Integration Council to give its recommendations, reported the Times of India today.

The Bajrang Dal, however, warned that any such move would have “grave consequences” for the government politically, saying there was “no legal ground” for such an action.

There are 897,861 Christians in Orissa, which has a population of 36.8 million.  

Report from Compass Direct News

I keep telling myself that at the end of this pack I will quit.  Well last night that choice was taken away from me.  I do not ever smoke in front or around Tooters so after she was in bed asleep I went out the side door for my nighttime smoke.  While I was sitting there thinking that this tastes gross tonight, I heard the most pitiful crying coming from inside.  Quickly I put out my smoke and ran into the house hoping Tooters was not vomiting again.  She had the stomach flu last night and I don’t know that I could take another night of changing bed sheets from projectile vomiting and wondering what the hell she ate to make it day-glo orange. 

When I was racing through the door I almost knocked her down because she was standing in the middle of the floor in front of the door crying.  I swept her up and took her to the rocking chair and asked her what was wrong.  It took a few minutes but she finally calmed down enough to tell me what was making her cry.

“You’re going to die and leave me!!!!!” and with that the tears started to flow again. 

I just looked at her trying to figure out what she was talking about and I asked her to repeat that and explain it to me.  After a few more minutes of heart wrenching sobs she explained to me that my lungs were turning black and they are going to shrivel up like raisins.  She also told me no one can breathe with raisins in their chest so I had to quit smoking right now. 

That clinched it for me.  I put her back in bed found my old box of patches, put one on, and threw out the last couple of cigarettes that I had.  So here I sit this morning a very tense bundle of nerves and very irritable.  My boss sat here this morning talking to me and for some reason it was like listening to nails on a chalkboard, I mean I could just picture myself knocking him out of his chair.  This is bad because usually I am so easy going.  I was going to save my patches for just at night but I am thinking now I might need to pick up some more for daytime.  I would hate for the headlines tomorrow to read, “Employee Decapitates Boss For Cigarette”

So wish me luck everyone on quitting.  I also want to apologize to my friends and family in advance for any comments or fits that might occur in the next few days.  I promise to keep the claws and fangs under control as much as possible. 

"Well, you sort of always feel it, but it becomes a good type of hurt."

Great. Except he's kind of right. Within the past month I feel like I've gotten drastically better, and each time, I'm tense about different things. Today, I'm worried about my slot - hoping I don't get the check slot (when the bartenders pass out the checks) - but thinking about how I'll deal with it if I do.

On the other hand, I'm much more comfortable with my material today. Hopefully I'll have a video to review after tonight.

Time to go prep. Catch you guys later.

Fear is potent and powerful largely because it makes you lose perspective. Whatever terrifying situation you're facing is terrifying because it feels like you can't do anything about it. It's your worst nightmare!

One way to handle this is to be reasonable, analyze the situation, and find solutions.

Uh, right. Like that's so easy.

You have to loosen up before you can think about finding solutions, because the best solutions don't come from a tense and panicked mind. Fear-based solutions are band-aids, not real fixes. So even though this might sound really irresponsible, you're going to sit down and make fun of your own worst-case scenario.

Describe the situation to yourself. Then come up with one way that your situation could be a lot worse. Then come up with another way and another way and another, until you start laughing.

(One of the best examples of this tactic is in Bridget Jones's Diary, when she not only imagines herself a single spinster for the rest of her life, she also imagines herself dying alone. And even worse than that, she's eaten by wild dogs, too. It can always get worse. And funnier!)

She knew what to do as he moved to her.

Present would be: She knows what to do as he moves to her. (or toward her, all depends on writing style)

I composed a list of tense changes that I caught as I was editing a piece of my work. Please feel free to add to it, letting me know if you find anything I miss. A good way to make sure you find all the tense words is to highlight them.

Made- make(s)

Felt - feel(s)

Came - come(s)

Began - begin(s)

Held - hold(s)

Lost - lose

Would - will

Said - say

Couldn't - can't

Gave - give(s)

Went - goes

Meant - means

Did - does

Found - find(s)

Thought - think(ing, s)

Fell - fall

Were - are (Were you right? - Are you right?)

Knew - know

Left - leave(s)

Could - can

Had - have / has

Was - is

Ed - ing (This is word endings. Needed - needing)

Stood - stand (Thanks to Leela)

List to be continued. Anything to add please do so by comment or email me and I'll add it. 

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This study reports on a comparison of the use and knowledge of tense-marking morphemes in English by first language (L1), second language (L2), and specific language impairment (SLI) children. The objective of our research was to ascertain whether the L2 children's tense acquisition patterns were similar or dissimilar to those of the L1 and SLI groups, and whether they would fit an (extended) optional infinitive profile, or an L2-based profile, for example, the missing surface inflection hypothesis. Results showed that the L2 children had a unique profile compared with their monolingual peers, which was better characterized by the missing surface inflection hypothesis. At the same time, results reinforce the assumption underlying the (extended) optional infinitive profile that internal constraints on the acquisition of tense could be a component of L1 development, with and without SLI.

Not taking any medication is perhaps the best medication for panic attack. The fact of the matter is that the root cause of panic attacks is fear for which no medication is effective; in fact, relaxation can easily be considered as the best medication for panic attack because it helps the patient overcome their fear and so, prevents a panic attack. Read Further Best Medication For Panic Attack

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Quotations then.  This seems straight forward.  We should blend the quotes into our sentences, instead of simply saying, Elizabeth says .... or the he said such and such and she said in reply ....  We are to make them as part of the structure of the sentence.

"Sir William feels his knighthood ‘a little to strongly’ and recently moved away from town to ‘think with pleasure of his own importance'."  This example is one I produced myself and is in general a good example, however, I discovered also that we are reduce the amount of words quoted, so to make this sentence equally as good but free more words up for other things I might have written, "Sir William feels his knighthood 'strongly' and moved away from town to think at leisure about his own 'importance'.

Also, we are to write in the present tense, although the novel was written some 200 years ago we should write in the present tense because we are reading it now.  I hadn't thought about not doing this.

I chose Elizabeth!

NEW DELHI, September 16 (Compass Direct News) – A policeman was killed today, the body of another victim of Hindu extremist violence was discovered and more houses and churches burned in Orissa state’s Kandhamal district even as anti-Christian violence spread to at least five more states across India over the weekend.

Christians and churches were targeted in Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Jharkhand as fallout from violence in Orissa that began following the assassination of a Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council or VHP) leader, Laxmanananda Saraswati, and four of his disciples in Kandhamal district on August 23.

A mob of around 500 rioters today killed a policeman and burned down a police station in Orissa’s Kandhamal district, where Hindu extremists launched a spate of attacks three weeks ago blaming local Christians of killing Saraswati and his disciples. Maoists have claimed responsibility for the murders of the Hindu leaders.

“A large number of attackers armed with country-made guns and crude weapons gunned down a constable and set ablaze the police station at Gochapada early this morning,” Director General of Police Gopal Nanda told The Indian Express. Gochapada is 36 kilometers (22 miles) from Phulbani, the district headquarters of Kandhamal.

Police sources told the daily that the mob was demanding release of a man held by security personnel, but local residents felt the attack came in retaliation for police firing into a crowd in Kurtamgarh in Tumudibandh area, killing at least one person, on Saturday (Sept. 13).

Murder in Orissa

While the body of another person was found and at least 14 houses were burned on Sunday night (Sept. 14), a church and several houses were set ablaze on the previous day.

The Statesman newspaper reported that at least nine houses of Makabali village and five in Sanakbali village were torched in the Gunjibadi area. Authorities found the body of Purander Naik, who had fled to a relief camp where mainly Christians had taken refuge, in his village of Nilungia.

“The decomposed body of Naik was found by police near the Ratingia dam yesterday,” the newspaper reported yesterday. “Naik was at the G. Udayagiri relief camp for over 10 days but had left for his village to see the condition of his house and poultry. His family was at the relief camp. Apparently he was killed during his visit to the village.”

The Press Trust of India reported that while nine houses were torched in Toposi village, another house was burned in Dibadi village under the Raikia police station in Kandhamal.

The Rev. Ashis Parida of the Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) reported that more than 2,000 Hindu extremists set fire to a church belonging to the Church of North India (CNI) denomination and several houses of Christians in Kurtamgarh village on Saturday afternoon (Sept. 13). Kurtamgarh is about seven kilometers (four miles) from the ashram (religious center) of Hindu leader Saraswati.

Compass received reports that a Hindu extremist mob on Friday (Sept. 12) burned one church and a mission hostel in Mangapanga, Tumulibandh; three churches in Mundabali, Badipankha; and one church in Baringia in Phulbani. An estimated 40 houses were also destroyed on the same day by the intolerant Hindus.

The next afternoon a large Hindu extremist mob descended on Kurtamgarh, burning several houses and the CNI Church. Sources said the extremists were targeting the village headman of the area, a Christian whose house they destroyed.

A local source said that “while the mob was attacking the Christian homes and churches, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) forces took notice of it and fired in the air to disperse the crowd. To their surprise the mob retaliated with gunfire aimed at the CRPF, which wounded two soldiers of the CRPF, one of whom was reported to be quite serious and had to be taken to Behrampur for his medical treatment.”

The CRPF forces retaliated with gunfire of their own, killing one person and injuring about 12. Early reports suggested that two people had died in the CRPF firing, but only one body was said to be recovered by the CRPF after the incident.

Krishan Kumar, district collector of Kandhamal, told media that on that day, “At least 400-500 people, some of them carrying firearms, attacked a man’s home and set it on fire at Kurtamgarh village.”

While the state government says 24 people, mainly Christian, have died in the Orissa violence, the All India Christian Council (AICC) maintained that 45 Christians were confirmed dead and five more were still missing.

According to the AICC, 14 districts of Orissa witnessed violence with Kandhamal as the epicenter. It reported at least 50,000 people from 300 villages have been affected by the violence, with hundreds still hiding in forests, and 4,000 houses and 115 churches burned or destroyed.

Death in Relief Camps

At least 20,000 people are in the 14 relief camps set up by the state government in Kandhamal. Two elderly persons and two children are known to have died in three of the relief camps.

The Statesman reported that while two ailing men, 75-year-old Sua Naik from Budrungia village and 66-year-old Kasipatra Naik from Tatamaha village, died at the Raikia relief camp, two children, one from the Phulbani camp and the other from G. Udayagiri camp, died during the week.

One of the children was reportedly a 10-year-old girl who had been hiding in the forest since the violence began who died from disease attained by being constantly on the run. The name of the girl was not known, but she was said to be from Kotgarh.

The Statesman also reported that the chief secretary of Orissa state, Ajit Tripathy, held a review meeting yesterday to discuss health and sanitation measures at the relief camps.

Orissa is ruled by a coalition of a regional party, Biju Janata Dal, and the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Attacks in Karnataka

Attacks were reported also from the southern state of Karnataka, where Hindu extremists ratcheted up hostilities after the state education ministry served show-cause notices to over 2,000 Christian schools in the state for staying shut on Aug. 29 to protest the violence against Christians in Orissa.

On Sunday (Sept. 14), Hindu extremists attacked several churches in Karnataka’s district of Dakshina Kannada, in Udupi and Chikmagalur, on the pretext that Christians were engaging in “forcible” conversions of Hindus to Christianity.

In Dakshina Kannada district, suspected extremists from the Bajrang Dal, VHP’s youth wing, attacked the Adoration Monastery near the Milagres Church on Falnir Road in Mangalore region.

“The 10-member group barged into the prayer hall and damaged the tabernacle, where the holy Eucharist is kept,” reported the Times of India. “They damaged windowpanes, furniture as well as the crucifix. Police said the same group attempted to vandalize another prayer hall in Kankanady, but were driven back.”

The daily added that Christians later gathered in large numbers in front of the Milagres Hall to protest the attacks, which resulted in a day-long stand off between the protestors, who reportedly hurled stones at the police, with officers using batons in return. Several vehicles were damaged in the tussle.

In Udupi district, three churches of the New Life Fellowship were attacked by suspected Bajrang Dal extremists while Sunday prayers were in progress, reported the daily. At least 15 Hindu extremists entered its prayer hall, attacking worshippers and ransacking the hall during the worship service. A music system and projector were damaged.

In Shiroor area, Hindu extremists attacked another prayer hall of the New Life Fellowship, burning a vehicle and striking some members of the congregation, including the pastor.

The daily reported another attack on a church in Mudur, near Kollur, resulted in damaged materials. It added that police prevented yet another such attack in prayer halls of the New Life Fellowship in Kaup and Karkala areas.

In Chikmagalur district, extremists attacked three churches and the house of a new convert. “In one incident, 15 activists came in a vehicle and barged into Harvest India church in Makkikoppa near Jayapura in Koppa Taluka [Block] in the morning and assaulted a parishioner and the Protestant pastor,” the daily reported. “They broke the window panes and the plastic chairs.”

On Sunday night (Sept. 14), a mob attacked a prayer hall in the Padavu Pre-University College on the Mangalore-Udupi Road.

Yesterday morning, Hindu extremists attacked a shop in Kalladka village and the St. Ann’s Friary Grotto near Canara College, about 25 kilometers (almost 16 miles) from Mangalore, in two separate incidents. A Christian prayer hall in Chickballapur district, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Bangalore, also was attacked.

Some Christians reportedly retaliated by targeting policemen in different parts of Dakshina Kannada district. At least four policemen were injured, with one reportedly stabbed yesterday.

According to Indo-Asian News Service (IANS), police arrested about 100 people, almost all Christians, for staging allegedly violent protests.

Hindu extremists also attacked churches in Belthangady, Moodabidri, Koloor, Kodaikal, Hemanagatta, Kadur and Puttur, Kundapur and Balehanoor. All together 18 churches and prayer halls in and around Mangalore and in Udipi and Chikmaglur districts were attacked on Sunday (Sept. 14).

Police reportedly had arrested seven Bajrang Dal members by Sunday night. Schools and shops remained shut in Mangalore yesterday in protest, and vehicles were kept off the roads. Christians continued to protest, and in some places police had to fire tear gas shells to maintain order. A curfew was imposed in Mangalore as well.

But that did not stop Hindu extremists from throwing stones at a church in Mangalore yesterday morning, in spite of an order the previous day banning assembly of more than five people for three days. Chief Minister B.S. Yeddyurappa stoked fires by stating, “There is no room for forcible conversion in democracy. No one should indulge in it.”

Asked what action he was going to take against the Bajrang Dal during a press conference yesterday evening, the chief minister said only, “Whoever was involved in this act will be arrested very soon.”

But he was quick to blame church groups, saying “No one has the right to insult any other religion. As we know some community called ‘New Life’ is converting people, we have asked the bishop to support us in this regard. But as per the bishop, New Life is not under his control and the bishop is not the in charge of this community.”

There was little to suggest the involvement of New Life Fellowship churches in forced conversion. NDTV 24X7, a national television news channel reported that “so far there seems to be little evidence that New Life is carrying out forcible conversions.”

A team from the National Commission for Minorities (NCM) will reportedly make an on-the-spot assessment of attacks on churches and prayer halls in different parts of Karnataka and submit its report to the federal government. Members will visit churches damaged in attacks in Dakshina Kannada, Udupi and Chikmagalur districts, as well as Mangalore.

Bajrang Dal representatives unabashedly admitted to the violence that was carried out on Sunday (Sept. 14), telling NDTV 24X7 that they are targeting evangelical groups in and around Mangalore.

Violence in Other States

In the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, Bajrang Dal extremists on Sunday (Sept. 14) attacked two pastors in Kanpur district, accusing them of beating their supporters, reported IANS.

Govindnagar police station inspector N.K. Singh told IANS that the pastor of the New India Church of God, Jitendra Singh, approached officers late Sunday night and submitted a written complaint against Ram Babu Bajpai, a local leader of the Bajrang Dal.

Pastor Singh said Bajpai, along with a large number of his supporters, attacked him in the church compound in the presence of his wife, Helena Singh, and fellow pastor Anil Gilbert.

Both sides filed complaints

According to the complaint by the Hindu extremists, “The Bajrang Dal has alleged that the church was involved in converting Hindus to Christianity by offering them money, and the pastors attacked them when its activists opposed the practice,” IANS added.

In the north-central state of Madhya Pradesh, at 1:30 p.m. today five unidentified people carrying air guns shot a guard of the Caramel Convent in Banduha village (under the Ghatia police station) in Ujjain district, Madhya Pradesh state. Father Anand Muttungal of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Madhya Pradesh state reported that Amar Singh’s injuries were not fatal.

Fr. Muttungal said that the culprits asked Singh to call the nuns, and when he told them they were away the assailants beat and shot him.

Hindu extremists in Madhya Pradesh also burned the 80-year-old Masihi Mandir church of the CNI denomination in Chhawni (Cantonment) area of Indore city at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday (Sept. 13), reported EFI.

“The fire was spotted by a few onlookers, who managed to extinguish it quickly,” EFI reported. “The doors, windows and other wooden material were burned.”

In the southern state of Kerala, on Sunday night (Sept. 14) Hindu extremists attacked the Jaya Mata Convent School, a Christian kindergarten that doubled as a church in Kottakkani area in Kasargode district under the Catholic diocese of Teleicherry, reported the Times of India.

The Hindu extremists launched the attack to protest conversions

“On Monday morning, we saw the glass panes of a box containing the figure of Mother Mary, as well as window panes of the school, smashed,” Vicar Antony Punnoor told the daily. “It seemed someone had hurled stones.”

The Kerala state interior minister, Kodiyeri Balakrishnan, told the daily that the incident would be investigated.

“Cops would also examine if the attack had any link with such incidents in Karnataka,” he reportedly said. “No one will be allowed to create communal riots in the state.”

In the western state of Jharkhand, Hindu villagers attacked Christians of a Believers’ Church and pressured them to “reconvert” to Hinduism in Talatad village (under Patratu police station) in Hazaribagh district on Sunday (Sept. 14), reported the Christian Legal Association.

Pastor Cyril Tamgaria and 18 others were worshiping in the house of Badhi Oraon when Hindu extremists surrounded the house. They beat them, took them forcibly to a temple in a nearby jungle and asked them to “return” to their old faith. Local Christians reported the incident to police, however, and officers freed the Christians.

The Rev. Dr. Babu Joseph, spokesperson of the Catholic Church in India, said in a statement that the Christian community in India has been conducting itself in a peaceful manner throughout the ordeals, and “even under extreme provocation it has exercised restraint.”

“It is not to be construed as weakness,” he said, “but a preferred option based on sound principles of civilized living.”

Joseph added that the community continued to render its services to all sectors of society without discrimination.

“Nevertheless, baseless allegations of fraudulent conversion have long been hurled at it by certain vested interests whose chief agenda seems to be social polarization on the lines of religious beliefs,” he said. “We, as responsible citizens of India, will not succumb to their divisive tactics, but continue to work, in the spirit of Christ our master, for the unity, integrity and progress of the nation.”

Women’s Group Pans Official Assessment of Orissa

Dismissing claims by government officials, the National Federation of Indian Women (NFIW) reported that their findings from a visit to Orissa’s Kandhamal district last week did match statements made by the central and state governments before the Supreme Court.

Annie Raja, general secretary of the NFIW, told media that the team she led to the riot-torn district Sept. 9-12 concluded that a judicial inquiry was inadequate to uncover abuses.

The NFIW demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe into the killing of Laxmanananda Saraswati and subsequent riots in Kandhamal district. The organization’s report notes that the situation in the district was tense and a sense of security was absent among the Christian minority community.

Calling conditions in the relief camps “pathetic,” with about 20,000 people living with inadequate medical facilities, Raja reportedly said that camps with more than 700 children and around 30 pregnant women did not have a pediatrician or a gynecologist.

The NFIW demanded that civil society organizations and women’s organizations be allowed to participate in relief and rehabilitation operations.

Orissa officials have asked the central government to allow the state to retain central and paramilitary forces until the end of October in light of approaching festivals.

Home Secretary T.K. Mishra has described the situation in Kandhamal as “satisfactory” and requested the recall of the Border Security Force, as “they did not fit into the situation” in Orissa. He added, however, that the state needed Central Reserve Police Force and Rapid Action Force personnel to deal with any rioting. He also acknowledged that sporadic violence was taking place in some villages of the Kandhamal district.

Report from Compass Direct News

"For three days I have listened to speakers at the Elder Planning Issues Conference of the Canadian Initiative for Elder Planning Studies.
At their Las Vegas meeting, they've talked about reaching the affluent boomer, the essential "family meeting" on end-of-life and inheritance issues, even how to negotiate eldercare decisions.
But missing from the agenda – and the issue I decided to address as closing speaker – is the changing lifestyle of the typical caregiver.
The typical caregiver is still a woman – a wife, a daughter, a daughter-in-law, even a good friend.
Just 20 years ago, she was primarily a homemaker. She did most of her caregiving there, in her own home.
We bought a house once with a downstairs "great room" created by tearing out a first floor bedroom used to house the wife's late mother during her declining years. Grandma was part of the family. Only an uncaring family would send her away to a "home."
Today's elders have a new style of aging. Most still want to stay at home but there is increasing acceptance of assisted living and retirement home lifestyles that bring elders together and give them group support and peer friendship.
And with the population of fraill, aged people in need of daily care set to rise nearly 40 percent in the next decade – according to a recent Wall Street Journal report by Sue Shellenbarger – expect to see even more outside the home care.
Why? Blame the woman's movement. Blame California's budget stalemate that already means low-income family members who provide elder care will no longer be paid even a small stipend for their services.
I could say it's "throw the elders out with the bathwater" unless they have the bucks to take care of themselves. Or unless their adult children have sufficient dollars to pay for grandma's care and grandchildren's college costs at the same time.
The bleak truth is the attention financial planners pay to those that have the bucks often masks the lack of caring for those who don't.
At the same time, all taxpayers need to be concerned that in uncertain economic times like these, low income and middle class seniors and their caregivers may discover society offers little or no financial support for life basics.
But let's pretend times are good. Let's imagine that all the elders have a bucket of bucks in 401ks and other accounts, more than enough money to grow old in style.
That still does not consider who is going to provide that care.
Shellenbarger points out child care problems get more attention in the workplace but the emergencies that beset the aged – a fall, a stroke, the errant behavior of dementia – "tend to be more disruptive, forcing working caregivers to drop everything and rush to the scene."
What do we have in place to help these caregivers perform a balancing act between workplace and home? Not much.
Shellenbarger talks about women who make a habit of working long hours and finishing projects promptly so they are ready when a family caregiving crisis occurs. She talks about working with the boss about a time-off plan, if necessary. She suggests putting together a list of elder emergency contacts, from insurance plans to physicians.
The full impact of working caregivers has yet to impact families and communities, says Marilyn Ditty, executive director of South County Senior Services and author of "The Daughter Trap."
"Today women still trim their career objectives to their caregiving requirements," she says, pointing to a friend who quit her job for five years to provide fulltime care for her parents. This commitment, Ditty notes, "set her back in terms of her career and her ability to keep up with pay raises recieved by others in her age bracket."sexy
Elder caregiving is not a sexy issue. You won't hear it debated by presidential candidates.
Yet caring for elders – beyond paying medical bills – will weigh heavily on families as 70 million boomers shift into their sixties.
Financial planners don't want adult children to think about their parents' money as theirs. They want the subject of inheritance to be a pleasant experience – a cheerful family meeting, perhaps, or a joyful bequeathal to the next generation. But before anyone talks about who gets the money, someone has to step up and take care of the elder's daily needs.
Today's savvy working women aren't going to be caught in the daughter trap. Caught between inheritance and job security, sandwiched between parents and children, the adult daughter is going to end up making decisions that work for her.
That may be too bad for Mom."

Maybe it was American guys, or just the ones I was exposed to in college, but, as I mentioned in my last post, I've never been on that traditional ideal of a date, where the guy asks if he can buy you a meal, then you decide where to meet, and he actually does, and pays.

There were a few notable flops, the top three being:

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3.) The guy who was so clueless that when I finally told him I was attracted to him, stared at me for several minutes in tense, but very sexy silence.  He then said we should get dinner sometime, and said he'd "facebook me."  

He did, and after a few flirtatious banter emails, he promptly became very introverted.  In a moment off frustration and poor judgement, I called him out on it at a China-themed party that summer, and he gave me a speech about recently being separated from his girlfriend and maybe not being ready for anything.  

I bought this reasoning, and respected it greatly, because the only downfall with my attraction to this particular guy was the fact that he always seemed so desperate to be in a serious relationship, none of which ever lasted long, but he seemed to need the constant companionship ... which is just kind of ... pathetic.

Turns out, he really just wanted to date my 19-year-old friend, who is vapid as all hell, but has a rockin' body, and that prospect was suddenly looking very hopeful, as she'd finally realized she had some competition.

Regardless of the fact that I think he was her TA in one of her classes, they were in a "serious relationship" the next week.  

2.) Australian Guy I  met at the end-of-the-year party, junior year.  Super hot, had some really sexy tattoos, and spent the whole evening chatting me up against a barricade on a torch-lit patio.  My friend Johnny, who was to be my ride home, found an excuse to have to leave a little early so Australian Guy would offer to take me (Johnny was always a great facilitator of my romantic misadventures, and I of his).  

Australian Guy and his friends hung out with me on the patio, having a grand time for a few more hours.  Notable moments include the secluded interlude with AG where he said, "I really want to kiss you right now." and I laughed and told him that he should've just done it, and now he didn't get to because he'd basically asked permission, and the part where I chastised his roommate for being in relationships if he only wanted random hookups.  One of other roommates said, "You should listen to her; she's on top!"

I said, "Not yet," and took a sip of my wine.  This made AG fall off a chair, and Johnny spit all of his beer out.

They drove me home, and Australian Guy walked me to my door (which was a little too cutsie for me, but it was sweet), and his friends drove away, which made me laugh a lot, and really seemed to embarrass AG.  He came in, and I showed him the film project I was currently working on, and somehow, we ended up making plans to go to the zoo on Tuesday, as I'd never been to one before.  He even had a specific zoo picked out.

I gave him my number, and saw him out, and just never heard from the guy again.

1.) I met an actor from one of the thesis projects at the party I hosted after our screenings this year, at my house.  He spent several hours chatting me up, toying with the hem of my skirt, and occasionally just gazing at me.

He attempted to outlast my drunk friend to be last-at-the-party, but caved in just after sunrise.  

We started to chat online pretty frequently, and, at graduation, I invited him to a graduation party full of people he wouldn't know, but he came anyway.  The party was a bit of a flop.

It came down to only being me, the hostess, and this Actor, who impressively stayed on with me.  At one point, I fell into the hot tub.  He got in with me, fully clothed, then, bundled in the hostess's pajamas and blankets, we curled onto a couch and watched Encino Man together, waiting for our clothes to dry.

He drove me to my car, which was parked pretty far away, and we made plans to spend a day in the Universal Theme parks together, the next week, as he worked there and had free access, and I'd never done the roller coasters.

A few days prior I began to worry, as I hadn't heard from him.  On the day of, I got irritated and sent him an email asking what was up.  Turns out he'd had car trouble that week and had "forgotten."

He forgot we had a date. 

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So, all that aside, it looks like I may finally have a date, actually set, with PhD guy!

Last night, I texted him, jumping the gun a little because I've been having a rough past couple of days, asking him if he'd had any inspiration regarding our plans for Saturday.

Clearly, I'd thrown off his groove a little, and he texted me back letting me know that he had still been intending to call me tomorrow, but no worries.  "Well," he said, "I'm afraid my ignorance of what's around your area is quite strong, so, how about I take you to lunch somewhere?  Sorry, it's not very imaginative, but you reckon you'd be up for that? x"

"Of course," I wrote back, flooded with relief that he still seemed intent on taking me out.  "You can still call me tomorrow to work out the specifics, you know.  I'm just a bit antsy because Molly decided to completely redo my schedule, and I'm blowing 'useless night off' steam, text-message style."

"Ah, I see.  Yeah, that sucks.  Maybe you should do something to her other shoulder?  Sure thing.  I'll still call you tomorrow.  Is around 4 possible?  Are you really busy?"

Charmed, I responded, "I may be busying myself with finding a new job, but I'll try to schedule a break in my mirth-filled determination around 4, yes."

"Righto, chicken.  Have a good one, and good luck with finding somewhere good to work!  Have I said good too many times?  It's a good word ..."

Contented that he'd, for some reason, called me chicken - which seems like a term of endearment, so I'm okay with it, and had actually scheduled a time for the phone call, I drifted off to sleep.  

He actually rang me around 3:30 today to work out plans.  He seemed a little nervous and laughed at all my jokes.  We made plans to meet around 1 on Saturday at the nearest tube station to me and walk until we find food.  

Turns out he's already back at university, and is going to drive into London, so obviously, he actually is interested here.  I'm very excited, and it really helps, because my week to this point has not been exceptionally great.

So, all of you out there, cross your fingers for me!  please.

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So, this guy has been very inspiring for me during the last couple of years (I even got two of their amazing products, the MacBook and the iPhone Classic, and made me an absolut fan for this brand), mostly because his rare way of thinking and for bringing to the world such a nice user experience and wisdom, in different areas, to simple people like me (even though it seems to be flawling among the edges at this time, anyhow most people say Apple is back as it never was).

It very rare because, just like einstein, they say he only uses the same clothes everyday: A long neck, long sleeve black t-shirt, a simple pair of blue-jeans and his white with blue stripes New Balance sneakers. And for the summer? you may ask, rumor has that he has been seen on campus with a beige caki pants and plain black t-shirt. And that hes actually not a too nice boss, but it seems to bring the best out of people buy keep on pushing further.

One thing thats really amazing, is that, usually in business schools they tell you how important is in companies that the vision of whos created it predominates over the whole thing right?, well in this particular companie probably you coudl tell for the best example! Apple is nothing without steve jobs, even bloomberg had him killed and reborn last week on a obituary they wrote by mistke and told how important the mans vision was in his companie and that there wasn't too many people who could seem to fill his spot (also at the stock market if you figure what would happend if he goes away with apple stocks).

Anyhow I envy of him his way of simple-brilliant-thinking and have learned a lot (either that or become an apple zombie, I'm just a messenger) from him and from the brand.

Here you can see an speech that I think all people should see.

C-ya next week.
Bests

Andrew.

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My dad's drinking has become signicantly worse in the past few months, he drinks mainly because he stresses about money. Food, fuel, and other prices have risen, so they constantly clash about money. Plus, he drinks more. There has been absolutly 0 amount of affection between them the last couple months. Even that is unusual.

I don't like the look of this.