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Nagaland guv to hold addl charge of Assam New DeLhi, December 6 (pti): Nagaland Governor Padmanabha Balakrishna Acharya will hold additional charge as the governor of Assam after incumbent JB Patnaik completes his tenure on December 10. “The President of India has been pleased to appoint Acharya, Governor of Nagaland, to discharge the functions of the Governor of Assam in addition to his own duties until regular arrangements for the office are made...” the press secretary to President Pranab Mukherjee said today in a statement here.

‘Raid was carried out with ulterior motives’ NPF Alongtaki condemns

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climate change costs to poor will increase

Lima, December 6 (ap): The cost to poor countries of adjusting to ever-hotter temperatures will be two or even three times higher than previously thought, the U.N.’s environment agency said — and that assumes a bestcase scenario in which greenhouse gas emissions are dramatically reduced. “If you don’t cut emissions, we’re just going to have to ask for more money because the damage is going to be worse,” Ronald Jumeau of the Seychelles said at U.N. climate talks. The report was bound to sharpen disputes in Lima over who pays the bills for the impacts of global warming, whose primary cause is the burning of coal, oil and gas but which also includes deforestation. It has long been the thorniest issue at the U.N. negotiations, now in their 20th round. Rich countries have pledged to help the developing world convert to clean energy and adapt to shifts in global weather that are already adversely affecting crops, human health and economies. But poor countries say they’re not seeing enough cash. Projecting the annual costs that poor countries will face by 2050 just to adapt, the United Nations Environment Program report deemed the previous estimate of $70 billion to

India in grip of fever, culprit climate change, says experts

In this Oct. 22, 2014 photo, waste pickers look for recyclable items at a landfill on the outskirts of New Delhi, India. India says it is taking bold steps against climate change with plans for a five-fold increase in renewable energy capacity. However, Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said the country won’t act to curb carbon emissions because it first must pursue economic growth to eradicate poverty. (AP Photo)

$100 billion “a significant underestimate.” It had been based on 2010 World Bank numbers. The report says new studies indicate the costs will likely be “two to three times higher,” possibly even as high as $500 billion. But that’s only if global warming stays below 2 degrees Celsius (3.2 degrees Fahrenheit) compared to pre-industrial times, the limit set in the U.N. talks. Scientists say that would require cuts in greenhouse gas emissions that the world is nowhere near on track to accomplish. “The report provides a powerful reminder that the potential cost of inaction carries a

real price tag,” UNEP director Achim Steiner said in a statement. Climate change impacts, including rising sea levels, shifts in rainfall patterns and more intense heat waves, affect all countries but the latter aren’t well equipped to cope. They need help to protect their shorelines, crops, and freshwater resources from rising seas, droughts and floods. “We know what needs to be done. We just need the dollars or euros,” said Jumeau, who is also spokesman for small island states. There is concern in Latin America that gains against poverty in the past two de-

Grand finale of Hornbill rock today, featuring Vinnie Moore

Kohima, December 6 (mexN): On Sunday, December 7, some of the best bands from around the subcontinent will fight it out for the Rs. One Million (10 Lakh) prize – if they pass the approval of legendary guitarist Vinnie Moore (UFO, ex-Alice Cooper), Sanjay Divecha (Danny Boyle, AR Rahman), Thejove Medeo (former Tedium, Tribal Instinct), and Wati Imchen (former Squadron). The four masters are the judges who decide which band gets to stand on podium on December 7. The highlights of the grand finale will also be a blistering guitar set by Vinnie Moore, informed a press release from the organizers, NPC & Sky Entertainment, today. The former Alice Cooper and UFO

moKoKchuNg, December 6 (mexN): The 30 Alongtaki NPF has condemned what it termed the “arbitrary raid” carried out at the official and private residences of Nagaland Agriculture minister, Dr. Benjongliba Aier, at Kohima by the ‘State Vigilance and Anti Corruption deptt’ on the “wee hours” of December 5. This was stated in a press release from the 30 Alongtaki NPF president, Monglu Jamir, and its general secretary, N Bendang Longchar. “The raid was carried out with obvious ulterior motives of certain vested interest, in full defiance of established decorum and procedure,” it noted. While condemning “such high-handed act,” the NPF Alongtaki has pledged its “unstinted supagartaLa, Decemport” to the minister. ber 6 (iaNS): Union Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju said Saturday India’s northeast region would be made a “trading Dimapur, December and commercial hub of 6 (mexN): The public and Southeast Asia”. commuters of the State heli“Over 98 percent of copter (services) have been northeastern states’ boundinformed that the operation aries are international of the State Helicopter may boundaries. Based on this be “delayed or cancelled” scope, the northeast region w.e.f December 8 till 11, as would be made a trading per a letter received from and commercial hub of M/S Thumby Aviation Pvt Southeast Asia,” he said afLtd citing that the Indian Air ter inaugurating the cargo of the integrated Force is going to carry out its complex checkpost in Agartala along exercise on the given dates. the Bangladesh border. While informing this in a Rijiju said: “The Look press release, NST general East Policy was launched manger Senti Pongener has in 1991. But northeastern expressed regret for the in- states were not considered conveniences to be caused. that way it should be looked

guitar hero has been going around Kohima, Kisama and heritage sites the past few days, since his landing in Nagaland. Fans can avail tickets priced at Rs. 50 per head on the grand finale and get to watch Vinnie Moore in action, besides other bands fighting for the title. The

competition will begin from 6:00pm at the Indira Gandhi Stadium in Kohima on Sunday. On December 9, the Bon Jovi tribute band, Bon Giovi, will play live at the IG Stadium in Kohima. Tickets to the performance are available and can be bought from the venue itself. Mumbai’s Koniac Net will open for the international group. Tickets are priced at Rs. 200, Rs. 400, and Rs. 2,000 (admits two, seating). The organizers have expressed ‘profound gratefulness’ to fans and the Media for making the festival memorable and exciting so far. They have expressed hope that they will continue to show support, especially to music and the celebration of life.

cades will be reversed due to climate change. A World Bank study this year found two degrees of warming would cause crop yields in Brazil to drop by 30-70 percent for soy and 50 percent for wheat. Rich countries have pledged to provide $100 billion by 2020 to help developing reduce their emissions and adapt to climate change. They are not on track to deliver. Their governments provided about $25 billion in adaptation money to developing countries in 2012-2013, the UNEP report said. The talks’ host country, Peru, is one of the most vul-

nerable to climate change. Already, it faces diminished highland water supplies from melting glaciers and global warming has also hurt the fishing industry. The U.N.’s World Food Program says 3 million Peruvians — or one in 10 — are highly vulnerable to food insecurity and natural disaster risks. Yet, like most developing nations, what it spends on adapting to climate change, including highlands reservoirs and irrigation projects, will have to compete with other urgent needs, such as improving education, public health and public transport.

KoLKata, December 6 (iaNS): Branding climate change as earth being in the grip of “fever”, leading Indian experts here apprised students of its reality and called for better “climate literacy.” At the “Public-Experts Interaction Event” on climate change in India, well-known educator V. Rajamani explained the gravity of the situation to students of top universities and colleges of the city. “Earth is in the grip of fever, India has fever and then culprit is climate change. “Most of us have improper understanding of climate change and it is real. Climate change is real, not just in other countries but it is happening in our own backyard,” he said. The lecture was organized by Indian National Science Academy (INSA) and West Bengal Academy of Science and Technology with support from the Indian Institute of Chemical Biology here. Rajamani is conducting similar workshops across the country. Through statistics pooled from the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Intergovernmental Panel

on Climate Change, Rajamani showed eager students how temperature has being varying across the ages. Simplifying the data, G.C. Debnath, director of the Regional Meteorological Centre here, said: “IMD has seen that the minimum temperature (night time temperature) is increasing in a faster way than the maximum day time temperature. “This is also causing major problems.” In addition, the experts shed light on some of the other indicators of climate change including increase in intensity of cyclones, more instances of large floods as well as on causes such as greenhouse gases, emissions and deforestation. “Why should you be concerned? There are floods in areas where flood history is not common; there are droughts in places where rainfall was good earlier; all these anomalies are in front of you. “Students should know what is happening, be climate literate and accept the facts so that they can help fight the battle in the future,” said Rajamani, a fellow of INSA.

Narendra Modi to meet CMs on reshaping Planning Commission New DeLhi, December 6 (iaNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to meet chief ministers of all states on Sunday to hear their views on the restructuring of the Planning Commission. “Detailed consultations have been held with experts and economists and within the Planning Commission itself on its restructuring,” Modi had said Friday in his first intervention during question hour in the Lok Sabha. “We are just taking forward this process of giving shape to a new body,” he added. The prime minister made his intervention on a question listed by Vin-

cent H. Pala (Congress) and Saugata Roy (Trinamool Congress), both of whom were absent as they had boycotted proceedings over the continuation of Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti in the union council of ministers. Indeed, it was the first time since his maiden Independence Day address to the nation that Modi has spoken on the need to reshape the Planning Commission. Planning Minister Rao Inderjit Singh said last week that the commission will continue to perform its mandate till a new organisation replaces it. Earlier, Modi had said in his Independence Day address that times had

changed since the Planning Commission was created and a new institution would be set up “in a short span of time.” The prime minister had also invited ideas from the people on how to replace the 64-yearold institution with a body that can best serve India’s governance needs in the 21st century. Being a former chief minister who had to himself knock on the doors of the commission for money, Modi said the importance of federalism in India was increasing and institutions must address this reality. The commission was set up to deliver on the Directive Principles of State Policy

of the Constitution, which calls for people’s welfare by securing and protecting a social order with justice and equity. Formed by a resolution of the Government of India March 15, 1950, the commission started presenting the Five Year Plans from 1951 -- disrupted a few times by the India-Pakistan war. Currently, the panel is overseeing the 12th such plan, 2012-17. Meanwhile, several states have complained that the plan panel, which more or less approves their annual plans, misuses its discretionary powers, even taking biased politically motivated decisions.

north east to be made trading and Nearly 2 crores worth narcotics destroyed commercial hub of southeast Asia

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into. Hence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced to make ‘Look-East Policy’, into an “Act East Policy.” The union minister said a Japanese delegation met him in New Delhi Friday and he told them that the central government wants massive investment in the northeastern region to tap its vast resources and and scope. The eight northeastern states - Assam, Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Manipur, Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim - shares 5,437 km international boundaries with China, Myanmar, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Nepal. Built at a cost of Rs.74 crore, India’s second international-standard multipurpose ICP in Agartala

and the first along the Bangladesh border was inaugurated by former union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde Nov 17 last year. The first international standard ICP was inaugurated in Attari in Punjab along the Pakistan border by then union home minister P. Chidambaram in April 2012. Rijiju said the central government in its last budget allocated Rs.53,000 crore for the all round development of the northeast region. Appealing to the underground militants to come to the mainstream of the country, Rijiju said establishing peace in Manipur was a challenge for his government. “Except some areas of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh, most parts of the

northeastern region are peaceful areas. If the militants of the different outfits, come to the mainstream of the country, we would economically rehabilitate them and would provided government jobs,” he added. He said with the appointment of central government’s new interlocutor R.N. Ravi (who is also the chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee), the peace talks with National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) is going on in a positive direction. “Talks with one faction of ULFA (United Liberation Front of Asom) are also progressing positively and another faction of the group is outside India,” the minister added.

Some of the seized drugs - opium, cocaine and brown sugar- before being put to flames at the Directorate of Excise and Prohibition, Dimapur on December 6.

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The Excise and Prohibition department put to flames over a crore worth of banned and restricted drugs. The contrabands were confiscated over a one-year period from July 2013 to November 2014. An assortment of pharmaceutical and

banned drugs like heroin and cocaine were among the destroyed contrabands. According to a report of the Superintendent of Excise (Narcotic Cell), Dimapur, a total of 98,332 pills of spasmo proxyvon and nitrosun, 3,965 bottles of codeinebased cough syrup, 668 ½ kg of ganja, 4 kg of opium, 5 grams of brown sugar, 15 grams of heroin and 150 grams of cocaine were destroyed. The street value of the drugs is estimated to be Rs. 1,90,28,300. Commissioner of Excise, Maongwati Aier, said that Nagaland’s geographical location has made the State vulnerable to drug trafficking. Situated between the infamous ‘Golden Crescent’ and the ‘Golden Triangle’, Aier said that it acts as a transit point for the flow of banned drugs. “Young people between the age group of 15 -25 are the most affected… These people need to be protected.” To make enforcement more effective, Aier said that the department in collaboration with the Narcotics Control Bureau, Delhi has conducted training for Excise personnel. State Excise personnel have benefitted as a result, he said, while adding that a third such training is scheduled this month.

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2 LocaL Tourists fly in straight from Governor PB Acharya Thailand for Hornbill festival visit morungs at Kisama Dimapur

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he Governor of Nagaland PB Acharya and his wife, Kavita Acharya visited morungs at Kisama on December 6 encouraging and supporting the participants and boosted their spirit. The Governor said that he was impressed to see the unity amongst all the tribals having a great festival and commented that it was really a great festival for National integration as well as the rich culture of Nagaland. PB Acharya suggested that Hornbill Festival of Nagaland has to spread out to more and more home tour-

From left to Right: Ababe Ezung, Tom PotTist (Thailand) and Mike Wilson (US), Eduardo Angelo Loigorri (UK), Harleet Wilson (US) and Mhonchan Humtsoe

KOHIMA, DECEMBER 6 (MExN): A group of pilot friends made it to Nagaland as the first tourist (non-VIP) to fly in straight from Thailand for the hornbill festival. They flew in with their small Piper PA46-350P private four-seater aircraft. According to a press release, Eduadro Loi Gorri (UK) and Mike Wilson (US) Tom PotTist (Thailand) all are license pilot from their respective countries. A few years back Ababe Ezung and late

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Neil Nawaporn (Thailand) made plans for the first hornbill fly in where 8 small aircraft had register but could not happen as Neil died in a plane crash in Thailand that year but we are happy that one could make it this year , we hope more plane will join next year . Asked how they came to know the Hornbill Festival of Nagaland, Eduardro quipped “when this year in February there was an air show in Singapore,

I met Ababe Ezung, who told me that there use to be Hornbill festival in December every year in Nagaland. Therefore, I got in touch with Ababe over the phone and internet. Now I am here for the festival”. He also thanked Ababe Ezung for all the necessary logistic help to reach Kohima, Nagaland. Tom Pottist is a professionally photographer and was one of the judge in the Hipfest Photo competition, 2104.

ists “Without understanding North-East nobody will be complete Indian”, he maintained. The Governor informed that he made a personal appeal to the people of Delhi, Maharashtra, Pune, Bangalore, Mangalore, Hyderabad and Nasik to be part of the great Hornbill festival, where many came to witness it. “Those who missed it they are the loosers,” he commented. The Governor who had a sumptuous lunch at Zeliang morung prepared by Tourism department said that the food was extremely wonderful. He also enjoyed the local drink in the Zeliang and Angami

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morungs and found it extremely tasty and said there was no alcohol content. The humble and down to earth Governor joined the dancing troupes at the Zeliang morung beating the traditional drum. He also sat by the fire with the dancing troupe and interacted with them. Besides the Governor’s guest from Maharashtra and Gujarat, Minister Forest, Nicky Kire, Parliamentary Secretary, Tourism, E.E Panteang, Commissioner & Secretary, Himato Zhimomi also accompanied the Governor during his visit to the An exhibit at Floral Galleria organized by horticulture different morungs. department as part of Hornbill Festival of Nagaland at (DIPR News) Kisama. (Morung Photo)

he Governor of friction thereby making it Nagaland Padmaeasier to climb the poles. nabha BalakhrishAll the winners were also na Acharya along given cash prize of Rs. 1200 with his wife wintnessed each as incentives.The time the Greased Bamboo Pole duration alloted to the parclimbing demonstration ticipants was 30 minutes. held at the main arena of Parliamentary SecNaga Hornbill Heritage, retary for Sericulture, Kisama on December 6. Pukhayi who was the spe17 year old, Khekuto cial guest on this competiSumi hailing from Chetion gave away the prizes to kiye villiage made several the winners. attempts to climb the pole Excited after witnessing using sand to smear the the game two tourists, Goruf bamboo pole and finally from Bombay and Veerbhreached the top in 21.6 minalra Swamiji Ankeli Math utes and finally emerged as Raichur, Karnataka volunthe winner from amongst tarily gave Rs. 1000 each to 17 participants including the 1st position holder. Garo tribe and pocketed Khekuto Sumi hailing from Chekiye village wins the Greased Bamboo Pole competition held The judges included Rs.10000. Muziveyi from at the main arena of Naga Hornbill Heritage, Kisama on December 6. (DIPR Photo) Nagaland Hockey coach, Chakhesang community the 3rd position was awardOne participant from bamboo pole greased with Anthony Angami and Nodten (Indigenous Game), Kuki Cultural bagged the 2nd prize reed to Wakho Konyak from each tribe vied in this tra- pork fat during which the al Officer, YRS Megolhu Troupe Inbung (Kuki)-Lomlam (Folk cording 23.57 minutes and Mon (26.07 minutes) and ditional sport where they boys has the discreation Angami and Vizovol. Dance), Khiamniungan Cultural Club was awarded Rs. 7000 and pocketed Rs 5000. (DIPR News) are to climb a 15 feet tall to splash sand for creating Tuensang(Khiamniungan)-Eiu Phong (Jungle cleaning), Meluri Cultural Troupe (Pochury)-A-he. In the afternoon session, Aosungkum Cultural Club Mokokchung (Ao)-Tenem Sungjok (Hornbill Dance), Changun Cultural Society Tuensang (Chang)-Ritualistic Spell for construction of village morung, KOHIMA, DECEMBER 6 (MExN): The Kohima Garo Historical & Cultural Society DimaDistrict Congress Committee (KDCC) will be organpur (Garo)-Re'su Sota (Games), Dzulhami ising a pre-Christmas-cum-get together at “Dzülaki” Village Cultural Troupe (Chakhesang)from 9 am on December 13. The programme will be Dzulha Village founding folk song, Mbauhosted by Medokul Sophie, Ex. MLA and PCC mempungwa Village Cultural Troupe (Zeliang)ber. In this connection, a press note from KDCC presiFolk Dance, Phelungre Women Society, dent, Prasielie Peinyu requested all the PCC Members, Kiphire Town (Sangtam)-Spinning of CotDCC Office Bearers, Frontal Chief and ACCC Office ton, Phiro Cultural Club, Wokha Town Bearers to attend the programme positively. The of(Lotha)-Esu Shru (folk Dance), Longsoh fice bearers and frontal chief are further requested to Wotzo Cultural Troupe (Konyak)-Kham assemble at KDCC office at 7.30 am on December 13. A delegation of the Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, Industry & Agriculture visiting Pongpei Pu (Beating of Logdrum) partici- Dimul, Dimapur accompanied by DCCI President, Hokivi Chishi. The delegation also visited pated in the cultural programme. Bamboo Resource Center and Honey Mission. The MACCIA delegation was earlier wel(DIPR News) comed at Chumukedima check post by DCCI. (Morung Photo)

Cultural show continues with great zeal at Kisama

n the sixth day of the Hornbill Festival 2014, the cultural programme organised by the Art & Culture department on the theme “Culturally yours” was held at Naga Heritage village, Kisama on December 6. In the morining cultural session Dr. Neikiesalie Nicky Kire graced the occasion as the cultural host while in the afternoon session, His Excellency the Governor of Nagaland, P.B Acharya was the guest of honour. Various cultural troupes participated in the programme were Tuophema Village Cultural Troupe (Angami)-Folk Dance, Chekiye Women Cultural Group Dimapur (Sumi)-Hade Le (Folksong of Husking paddy), Saramati Rekbiangpong Dancing Club Salomi Village (Yimchungrii)The Morung (Khiang Yam), Dimasa Cultural Troupe Dimapur (Kachari)-Kram Jang Mai Duba (Folk Dance), Bhunmnyu Cultural Troupe (Phom)-Folk Song, Terogvunyu Youth Dengme Cultural Troupe (Rengrna)-Teme Tenyu Ke-

KOHIMA, DECEMBER 6 (MExN): The 53rd general session of Lozaphuhü Students’ Union has been scheduled from January 5 to 6, 2015 at Lozaphuhü Village Community Hall under the theme, “Education for Sustainable Development”. Kuzholuzo (Azo) Nienu, minister for PWD (R & B) will grace the session as chief guest. Vechiso Chakhesang, Deputy Director, Treasuries and Accounts will be the session speaker. Nusazo Rhakho, Rtd. Head Teacher, Government High School will also exhort the gathering. The Union informed all the bonafide members to attend and participate during the Union Assembly. The LSU further informed that the Union would conducting Quiz and Debate competition. The topic for the Debate is, “Introduction of non detention and removal of corporal punishment enhances a child’s future”. The LSU has solicited all the Ex-Presidents and Executives, leaders of various organizations, Government officers, teachers, elders, seniors, well wishers and denizens of LSU to the Conference.

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KDCC Pre-Christmas get-together

PNBA Pentennial fellowship

Training on Ebola held at Zunheboto

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Elizabeth Ngully, Additional Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur inaugurates the State Level Exhibition under Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme (PMEGP) on December 6. Organised by Khadi & Village Industries Commission (KVIC), Ministry of MSME, GOI, the exhibition is held at Super Market Complex, near Hotel Saramati, Dimapur. The Exhibition is organised with a holistic view of exposing entrepreneurs engaged in rural industries and with wider objectives of encouraging the local prospective entrepreneurs for their self-employment, economic self-reliance and build up a strong rural community spirit. Various PMEGP/REGP units from NE stated are participating in the Exhibition, which will remain open till December 12. (Photo by Caisii Mao)

ZuNHEBOtO, DECEMBER 6 (MExN): A one day Ebola training was held at the chamber of CMO Office Zunheboto. Dr. G.Hokishe Sema, Chief Medical Officer, was the main resource person. In his power point presentation he mentioned about overview of Ebola virus disease, case definition, clinical features and laboratory diagnosis. He also emphasized about the early surveillance of action: purpose of contact tracing and element of contact tracing. He also elaborated about the IDSP surveillance to be alert for contact tracing. He also encouraged for community engagement as it is the key to successfully contain outbreak. Demonstration was also done for use of personal protective equipments. The training was attended by DPO (RCH & UIP), SMO's, MO I/C's, DPM and DM (IDSP). This was stated in a release issued by Shekho Sophie, District Media Officer, CMO- Zunheboto.

238 Home Guard volunteers pass out DIMApuR, DECEMBER 6 (MExN): Trained with the art of handling weapon, traffic control and crowd management, static guard duty, civil defence and disaster management techniques etc, a total of 238 Home Guard volunteers passed out on Saturday at Central Training Institute, Toluvi, Dimapur. Speaking as the chief guest, Parliamentary Secretary for Civil Defence & Home Guards, Er. Picto Shohe lauded the role of Civil Defence & Home Guard volunteers who have exhibited their best efforts in meeting the call of duty. He informed that the

state Cabinet has approved the Service Rules forthe Department to govern the services of the employees both gazetted and non-gazetted. Er. Picto also talked about the initiatives taken for enhancing techniques to improve, equip and urge the Government of India and Nagaland to meet calamities besides the enhancing salary and creation of border wing. “All the matters in this regard are already processed to the government,” the Parliamentary Secretary added. Earlier, Director General CD&HG, Lungriading IPS reviewed the parade before the arrival of the chief guest.

Parliamentary Secretary, Er. Picto Shohe presents certificate to one of the Home Guard volunteers at Toluvi on Saturday. (Morung Photo)

KOHIMA, DECEMBER 6 (MExN): The Poumai Naga Baptist Association (PNBA) Pentennial fellowship with the theme “Amazing grace” will be held from December 12 to 14 at Shomai Baptist Church. Dr. Paul Rains, church planter and evangelist; Humphry Joseph, a South African journalist and chairperson missions board Assembly of God association Western Cape and South Africa; Rev. D Simon Ponniah, general secretary and CEO of the largest indigenous mission FMPB in India; and Rev. Dr. Wungnaoting Konghar, general secretary MBC would be the speakers of the fellowship. The highlight of the fellowship will includes gospel services , song competition , special music from Africa band, farewell to outgoing PNBA staff and installation of incoming PNBA staff.

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Seminar cum workshop for NE folk gurus DIMApuR, DECEMBER 6 (MExN): Indigenous Cultural Society Nagaland in collaboration with Centre for Cultural Resources and Training (CCRT) is organizing seminar cum workshop for gurus and teachers of the scholarship holders in the fields of folk dances, folk music, folk songs and folk theatre etc for the states of NE Region (including Sikkim) at Mt Tabor Retreat House Jotsoma, Kohima from December 9 to 13. ICSN Director Dr. Hesheto Y Chishi has informed in a press release that this workshop cum seminar aims to enable gurus to share knowledge of their creative educational skills with others and bring a uniformity in imparting the training of the scholarship holders in the field by enhancing their teaching skills and developing a curriculum for each art form.

Tobu SDPDB meeting MON, DECEMBER 6 (DIpR): The SDPDB meeting Tobu for the month of December 2014 will be held at ADC’s conference hall on 9th December 2014 at 11 am. The ADC and Vice Chairman of SDPDB Tobu has requested all the Heads of Department to attend the meeting without fail.

Yimpang AG Church golden jubilee DIMApuR, DECEMBER 6 (MExN): The Yimpang Assembly of God Church Golden Jubilee Celebration will be held on December 13 and 14. The Church board and members of Yimpang Assembly of God Church have invited all the church members and those married to people of cross–cultures/ other villages and living in various places in Nagaland, India and around the world to come and participate in the event. The speakers include Rev. Moses Murry, General Superintendent, AGEI, Rev. T. Nzio Ezung, District Superintendent, NDC-AGEI, Rev. Dr. T. N. Lotha, Presbyter, C3 AOGC Dimapur, Rev. Solomon H. Wasker, Pastor, NAOGC Mumbai and Rev. Mervyn.

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Guwahati, December 6 (iaNS): Shahnur Alom, a Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militant who is a key accused in the Oct 2 blast in West Bengal’s Burdwan district, has been arrested in Assam, police said here Saturday. He was arrested by Assam Police’s Special Operation Unit from Nalbari district late Friday. Alom, one of the main operatives of the JMB in Assam, had been absconding from his house in Barpeta district’s

Chatla village since October this year. The accidental blast took place at a house in Burdwan’s Khagragarh area, killing two JMB militants and injuring another. Assam Director General of Police (DGP) Khagen Sarma said: “Alom was taking shelter in Meghalaya and areas along the India-Bangladesh border in Assam. But finally, he came to Nalbari with an intention to take shelter among his relatives.” “Alom was a trained cadre of the JMB and he

was involved directly with the Burdwan blast. We have records of him visiting Burdwan and meeting some of the top leaders. Alom is a good motivator and that is why his arrest was important to us,” he told the media. “Assam Police had missed Alom closely several times during its operation,” Sarma said, adding that police were on the lookout for about five other top JMB cadres. Last month, police arrested Alom’s wife Sujina Begum and their minor son

from Guwahati. The DGP also said the JMB has been eyeing Assam and West Bengal to spread its base after being banned in Bangladesh. While it has established its base in West Bengal to some extent, in Assam it has not been able to spread much. “Some of the top leaders of the Jihadi group have come to Assam and married local girls and settled in West Bengal,” he said. Besides, the police chief said the JMB has a presence in some lower

and central Assam districts and in Barak Valley. Sarma said Assam Police have kept certain areas under surveillance and are monitoring the activities of some youths for their alleged links with the Jihadi group. “We have also received names of some women members of the group. There are about five women members of the JMB and they have taken part mainly in motivational training of the group,” he said. Assam Police have

termed the arrest of Alom as a big catch as they hope to get vital details about the Jihadi organisations operating in the state, including their cadre strength, financial transactions and other details. The National Investigation Agency, which is probing the Burdwan case, had announced a bounty of Rs.5 lakh on Alom and raided his home at Chatala village at least three times. Assam Police has so far arrested nine people for their alleged links with the JMB.

Pay 5 lakh each to Malom 'Land swap pact with Bangladesh victims’ kin: HC to Centre to help check illegal immigration'

imPhal, December 6 (tNN): The Manipur high court on Friday directed the Centre to pay Rs 5 lakh each as compensation to the families of the 10 people who were gunned down by the Assam Rifles at Malom village in Imphal West on November 2, 2000. Advocate S Lakhikanta, who appeared on behalf of the petitioners, told TOI that the 10 were mowed down at three different spots, including a bus stand at Malom along the ImphalAizawl highway, in the evening of November 2, 2000. The AR had argued that the victims were killed in an exchange of fire with underground cadres following a bomb attack on the force. The landmark verdict was delivered after the HC, headed by chief justice LK Mohapatra and justice Kh Nobin Singh, went through a trial court’s report on the incident, Lakhikanta added. Acting on an earlier ruling of the HC, the district and sessions’ judge, Manipur East, conducted an inquiry to establish the facts

and circumstances leading to the incident. The trial court had concluded that the 10 civilians were killed by AR troops and not in any exchange of fire . “It is obvious that there was no cross firing between the insurgents and 8 AR personnel on November 2, 2000, at Malom, Boroi Makhong and Chingphu,” the sessions court maintained.

HC on Friday pronounced it asking the respondents, including Union of India, ministry of home affairs represented by its secretary, director general of Assam Rifles, commandant of 8 AR and the state government to pay the amount to the petitioners within four months. The families of the 10 victims — including two brothers, a national child-bravery awardee and a 60-year-old woman — filed a petition in September 2002, alleging that personnel belonging to 8 AR fired indiscriminately killing 10 civilians. The massacre had prompted civil activist Irom Sharmila Chanu to embark on her lone campaign against the controversial Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA). The ‘Iron Lady of Manipur’ began her fast a couple of days after the bloodbath. On the 14th anniversary of the infamous incident, people of Malom including the victims’ kin paid floral tribute to their souls at a memorial park at the village.

“It is obvious that there was no cross firing between the insurgents and 8 AR personnel on November 2, 2000, at Malom, Boroi Makhong and Chingphu” Thus, the 10 innocent civilians were killed by 8 AR personnel ‘in utter disregard for human values,’ said the trial court. After keeping its verdict reserved on Tuesday, the

New Delhi, December 6 (Pti): Three BJP MPs from Assam today defended the central government’s decision to go ahead with a land boundary agreement with Bangladesh saying the pact will help check illegal immigration from across the border. Ramen Deka, Kamakhya Prasad Tasa and R P Sharma said West Bengal, Tripura and Meghalaya have already given their nod to the agreement and when it comes into force, it would help seal the IndoBangla border in Assam completely and stop illegal movement of people. “While Bangladesh will

the next three years,” Director General of Civil Defence & Home Guards Kulbir Krishan said at the sideline of an official function held here today. The Civil Defence Act was amended in 2011, with the aim to make disaster management as one of the important task of the Civil Defence. Earlier, Shillong in East Khasi Hills, Tura, West Garo Hills and Jowai, now West Jaintia Hills were among the 250 odd towns in India which were designat-

ed as Civil Defence towns. “Civil defence was only in these three towns while the rest of the state didn’t have any such set up at all,” Krishan said. With the recent creation of new districts, the state now has 11 districts under its jurisdiction, the Director General said, “But when the proposal was sent at that time, there were only seven districts in the state.” According to him, these seven districts has been designated as most ‘disas-

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Assam. The BJP MPs also said NDA government will soon unveil a new targetoriented industrial policy to attract investment to the Northeast. Deka said the North East Industrial and Investment Promotion Policy (NEIIPP) 2007 expired in September 2014 and hence the new policy will come hopefully by March 2015. Tasa said a delegation of BJP MPs from Assam yesterday met Commerce and Industry Minister Nirmala Sitharaman who said she would soon visit Guwahati to have detailed discussions with MPs from the region.

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ShilloNG, December 6 (Pti):A powerful IED exploded at a road in Meghalaya’s South Garo Hills district injuring five policemen, who were travelling through a remote village from the area, police said on Friday. The IED went off at Rongrakgre village, 10 kms away from Chokpot, seriously injuring all the five occupants of a gypsy vehicle last evening, they said. Injured Havildar B Baitha and constable K Sangma

Rs 10.43 crore sanctioned for Civil Defence in Meghalaya ShilloNG, December 6 (Pti): The state government has sanctioned Rs 10.43 crores for setting up the ‘designated’ Civil Defence establishments in seven districts of Meghalaya to provide rescue and relief in areas identified as prone to disaster and natural calamities. “We have received funds of Rs 10.43 crores for developing the required infrastructures for the setting up of the designated civil defence establishments in the seven districts within

get 268 acres of land Assam in return will get 231 acres. The people who reside in the areas which will go to Bangladesh have said that they are Bangladeshi nationals and want to stay with that country. So, we are not going to lose anything,” Tasa said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had at a meeting in Guwahati on Sunday said India would soon formalise the land boundary agreement with Bangladesh that will ensure exchange of enclaves between the two countries. Modi’s announcement was opposed by several social, political and students organisations and staged protests across

ter prone’ because they are prone to disaster primarily earthquake, floods and landslides. He said since there are already three designated towns, they will be covering the other districts as well.

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have been shifted to Guwahati for treatment, district SP Lakador Syiem told PTI. The three others were shifted to Tura Civil Hospital for treatment. The incident comes a day after suspected banned Garo National Liberation Army (GNLA) militants attacked the residence of East Garo Hills district Addl SP indiscriminately firing and hurling bombs at the entrance. At the time of yesterday’s incident, about 10 policemen of the 3rd battalion

were traveling in two vehicles to supply food stock and returning towards Sibbari. Preliminary investigation by police indicates that the militants may have used a remote detonator to trigger the blast. An intensive search has been launched, the SP said. Armed personnel also known as ‘road opening’ parties patrolled several sections of the Chokpot road to check militant activity including IEDs earlier in the day.

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New Delhi, December 6 (iaNS): Aiming to strengthen people-to-people contact between India and Bangladesh, the central government Saturday said it plans to introduce regular passenger bus service to Dhaka from Assam’s Guwahati via Meghalaya’s Shillong. This will be in addition to two passenger bus services to Dhaka, already operating from Kolkata in West Bengal and Agartala in Tripura. “Government plans to introduce regular passenger bus services to Dhaka from Guwahati in Assam via Shillong in Meghalaya,” an official statement said here. To study and finalise the routes and start the new bus services, a joint technical survey/trial run is being organised Dec 10-11 from Guwahati to Dhaka, it said. Negotiations with Bangladesh for starting the bus services has been underway for the past several months. The proposed bus service, which covers approximately 500 km, will take the Guwahati-Shillong-Dawki (Meghalaya)/Tamabil (Bangladesh)-Sylhet-Dhaka route. The trial run/route survey will be carried out jointly by delegations from both the countries to assess route conditions and other technical parameters. The trial run will conclude at Dhaka Dec 12 and delegations are expected to submit their report on details and feasibility of starting of the regular bus services. The official Indian delegation for the trial run will have representatives from the finance, home and external affairs ministries, besides officials of the Assam and Meghalaya governments.

‘Tourism to be used as a tool to contain extremism’ New Delhi, December 6 (Pib): Indian Union Culture and Tourism Minister Dr. Mahesh Sharma has said that promoting Tourism will be an effective tool to contain extremism in the country. In a statement issued here today the Minister referred to the announcement made by the Prime Minister in the closing ceremony of Sangai Tourism festival in Imphal yesterday and said that Tourism Ministry will make special efforts to promote North Eastern States as a major tourism destination of the country. The Minister said “North East has a great potential to be developed as an important tourist destination due to its varied flora and fauna. Tourism can make significant contribution to the economic development of the region.” The Minister said he will soon visit the North East to discuss various tourism related issues with the concerned States.

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Narendra Modi’s visit – a delicate meaning to Nagas H

he Nagas of Nagaland roused with the biggest Naga festival, the premier hornbill festival,accorded the most impressive reception to the Prime Ministerin an unprecedented way; the splendour of the reception ceremony was accentuated with the prior, a day ahead, proclamation of former Chief Minister Nephiu Rio, who termed it as a historic visit. The Prime Minister, made to dress up in Naga traditional attire and flanked by cultural troupes, elegantly inaugurated the festival, and then rewarded the Nagas by delivering his speech in English that made the audience more comfortable. This is something Modi himself rarely does and this was the only occasion where he chose to speak in English during his three days whirlwind tour in north east. It has been reported that it created a lot of confusion among the audience in Imphal, Manipur when he addressed the public in Hindi without a translator. With this unusual gesture the prime minister scored the first point over the Nagas. But his speech evaded the crucial questions that impinged on the hearts and mind of Nagas from all walks of life and neither the contents of the speech took a note to the hungrily anticipated monetary packages of politicians and their cohorts. At first, the known visionary Prime Minister did not subscribe to the old, but unfertile, perception and conventional practice of our politicians who gambled fate and existence of our people and land with money from centre only, forgoing the wisdom and vision of making the state resourceful and self-reliant by dint of resource mobilisation and development; his pragmatic concept of development in the regionmake Nagaland a “natural economic zone” ,four revolutions formula referring to four colours of Indian flag, make integrated and collective development of the

whole North East by developing priority sectors such as tourism, energy, sports, tapping of English language resource in developing IT sector etc., were stressed upon; his speech lucidly pointed out that this region should be streamlined not to remain burden to national exchequer but to contribute to national wealth. This new challenge thrown to us by the Prime Minister must be an eyeopener and calls for a renewed serious thinking on the part of Nagas. Our ageold mode of living like parasites on currency notes flowing from Delhi needs to be seriously questioned. Do we see any development in the last sixty years or more? Will we keep on allowing us to be held ransom by our elected representatives who are a far cry from envisioning and conceptualising development processes for self-sufficiency and self-reliance? Do we elect them to beg money for us from Delhi and fill their pockets in their competitive pursuit of becoming themselves filthy rich? Secondly, the Prime Minister did not mince even a single word about the on-going Naga political problems to the disappointment of many who eagerly expected, whether favourable or the otherwise, a bit about the views of the new government in Delhi led by the P.M. Rather, the previous day in Imphal, the P.M talked assertively aboutnational integration, more cohesion from east to west of Indian nation into one family, in which he advocated specifically the role of North East people that includes Nagaland too. He promised the youths of this region an inclusive growth which he adroitly“substantiated”. On the other hand, a big question arises- what about the fate of Naga national movement, the longest freedom struggle in the history of mankind, a war in which nearly one lakh Nagas martyred, one of the bloodiest wars, ever

fought for freedom, in the world. After more than four decades of devastations and sufferings inflicted to Nagas in the war, the Naga movement gained momentum into a new and peaceful phase towards political processes, striving for an honourable solution to both India and Naga through peaceful diplomatic means and dialogue with India, a new hope and also a sigh of relief from protracted miseries. More than 70 rounds of talks have been held since 1997 though the Naga insurgency dated from 1954, longest-lived insurgency in the world today. The hard earned achievement of present Naga leadership and Naga political groups-18 years peace process with India during which several negotiations were held in third neutral country such as Amsterdam, Paris, Thailand etc. in the level of the country’s premiers Prime Ministers, Home Ministers may still be a far cry to its mission for Sovereign Nagaland, but we cannot disagree to the fact that these achievements are landmark and the movement is put in the right track. The previous Indian governments gave cognizance to legalise the term Indo-Naga peace talk as a political talk between two separate entities. Nagas’ unique history, its history for freedom struggle and legitimate right for becoming sovereign land is recognised in many UN forums andalso is on the point of getting solidarity frommany credible international institutions. India acknowledged Nagas unique history from the year 2002. It can never be seen in parallel with insurgency problems or any kind of disturbances in North East or any other States of India. But in Prime Minister’s talk, it was simply ignored as though the matter was nonentity. His appeal to Nagas was not different than to people of other states of North-East in urging them to join mainstream India, to be a part and parcel, and added asset of India.

Ironically, this time the P.M received such anenormous welcome from Nagas where even Nehru’s visit was completely boycotted for the sake of freedom.It will be unwise to think that the P.M might not be aware of the progress of previous talks marked by India’s conceptualisation of the ‘Supra State Body’ for Nagas beyond territorial limits, the speculated negotiation for federal relationship with India, greater autonomy within the dominion of India etc. The Prime Minister who is known for his intellect and political acumen cannot simply be shut-out from the gravity of the situation unless he came with an ideological conviction to spearhead a U-turn in India’s policy towards Naga political movement. A personality, a Hindu nationalist, from the Sangh Parivar, a protagonist of Hindutva ideology committed to making one India, is hard to be imagined to have a concurrence with the dynamics of Naga nation building politics. Their vision for India i.e. one nation one culture under the banner of“integral humanism” is diametrically opposite to regionalism, sectarianism, provincialism etc. This reality cannot be denied at all. Given the new political feature in the Centre and with the conspicuous reality in the message of the Prime Minister, a crucial question arises- is our spirit, integrity and enthusiasm for an independent Naga nation fading? Are we tacitly inclining towards the way the P.M. had shown to us? Are we disillusioned due to stretched suffering, and imminent uphill task that Naga has yet to go through before reaching the political solution? What strategy can Naga re-invent to overcome all these emerging challenges provided our resolve for self-determination is still enduring? What makes us so excited to welcome the prime minister? Nsungbemo Ezung Research Scholar NEHU Shillong

ere comes our Hornbill Festival, the festival of all festivals! There is a strong adrenaline rush everywhere. The energy of excitement is soaring to heights as we hear the incoming of our most loved artists, bands and personalities into our land. It is a week of cultural extravaganza. Those who attend for the first time would generally be ‘Super’ excited about the whole package. How about those who attend annually? Is it getting better every year? How would a tourist feel after attending Hornbill Festival? Would they love to visit us again or make this trip as their last? There are always two sides of a coin, sometimes the other side is too overpowering we have to learn and balance it. A lot of questions and aspirations of having the most fun out of this event is literally spoiled because of few reasons here. The truth cannot be denied. 1. Hornbill Festival can be viewed as an international event. No doubt, tourists, both national and international make great effort to come and attend here. Are we really showcasing the best of our culture to the whole world? Are we being honest to them when we flung the rates of the products being

Hornbill Woes… sold? What kind of business is this? It was shocking to see the soaring prices of so many products in the different stalls. I was personally shocked to know the price of Zutho (Rice beer). It was a staggering amount of Rs 100 for a small mineral bottle worth Rs.10 (500 ml). Regardless of what the item is, we must be honest with the products we are dealing with. We have missed to inculcate the ingredients of honesty and integrity here. With great quality comes great price and I doubt we are compromising on both. I felt unjustified on the part of everyone. We have all become victims of a big chain of market which is blooming with unregistered market price. Are we robbing our tourist or are we also robbing our people? 2. The taxi drivers’ best time of prosperity has just begun. It was amazing to see the unity of our local taxi drivers. They surely know how to fix and raise their taxi rates in unison. They surely charge double the amount of the normal rate. I was agitated to hear from a Naga friend who shared her cousin’s recent experience with me. Her cousin came from Mumbai along with her tourist friends and they were charged Rs. 5000 from Dimapur airport to the Taxi

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he fight against corruption today in India, if not the world, is seeing the light of day as never before, and Nagaland too, as small as she may be, is not an exception. Hence maintaining momentum of the fight against corruption is a given and a must. But the tragedy is overdoing it, without taking a step back and giving it a good look. Our, this fight against corruption must never become a doubleedged sword. Coming out openly to the Prime Minister against granting any financial packages to the

state by some concerned citizens and intellectuals is a very clear reflection of short sightedness and an abuse of the privilege of the freedom of speech and expression. It opens a window of great opportunity to the forces inimical to the unity and future of the Nagas as a people. Such expressions provides base and light to hitherto unsurfaced ambitions to exploit without taking into consideration the risks the innocent public are or will be subjected to, by transforming overnight, our land and race as a hotbed of political experiment.

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stand! After much bargaining the driver realized that he can’t fool a local so he tied his rates down and charged a lesser amount instead. It is sad to know that our own fellow brothers can shamelessly trick our own people. 3. The entrance fee at the main gate is a big turn off. Why should we pay for our own cultural event? A charge done to tourist is an exception but charges taken from the local public is not okay. Festivals are a period of time set aside for feasting and celebration. Do we need to pay for celebrating the values of our culture? Or is this festival a show to generate revenue and profits? 4. The road from Dimapur to Kohima is an ‘utterly smooth’ affair. How much do we the citizens of Nagaland long to travel in such roads? Alas! This is not an achievement. It is mockery again. It is a mock session of how roads are temporarily good in Nagaland. In fact it has never been good. How many weeks will that artificially mortared road last? Development in Nagaland is V.I.P-visit-oriented? The roads which can take a century to build can be done instantly if a V.V.I.P (Very Very Important Person) visits Nagaland. Our leaders are experts in play-

ing such games and in giving quick lip services. Ashamed! As I attend this year’s Hornbill Festival, there is less pride, lesser satisfaction and more of shame as a ‘soil-son’ of this land. It is not easy to manage an international event like this one. In fact the programs and events are rolling hard and doing great! I salute the State Tourism and Art & Culture Department for being the forerunner. It’s a beautiful opportunity to display and gel together with the world in celebrating this event. Let us talk about the overpriced food and items that are displayed for sale. It becomes an exclusive and expensive affair where only the well-todo can enjoy and have fun. When we make things too exclusive, we create a wall for the common man. Yes, Hornbill Festival is the biggest festival of all, but does it occupy enough space in our hearts? Has it touched the heart of the common man in a special way? Has it benefited the people in progressing towards a better society? Irony overflows everywhere because there is an incongruity between what is expected and what actually occurs. So this is Hornbill… Festival of all Festivals? Allan Aley

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Experiments, as the very name suggests are experiments, and as such never guaranteed or safe. Strong safety nettings is a must in experiments. No question of overlapping should arise as regards to the truth of accountability. The people have the right to demand and get it, but never to that extent where the means to meet the end results in disfiguring ourselves. Just for being on different side of the political fence does not mean that, the freedom of expression should be abused to that extent where all our leaders, on wholesale scale, are led to the slaughter house for the sick mental state of some. Under Neiphu Rio’s stewardship, there has been corruption. Elected individual public leaders and their henchmen with selfstyled rank and figures have made a mockery of the wise saying, “making hay while the sun shines” according to their own interpretations and have forced the party leadership and original partymen and women to swallow and forget what cannot be swallowed and forgotten. The people of Nagaland and the Government must distinguish between the sane and the insane. Yes, there is always atleast a tiny kernel of truth in what a critic says, but destructive criticism in the sheepcoat of constructive criticism must not be encouraged. A solid mandated Government as that of the NPF should not be cowering as it is today. Show some teeth, chaff off the husk, take a step back and open up your chest to see where the brush went wrong. Stop crying over spilt milk, and start thinking and doing what needs to be done. Look at the positives. Having been there and then for solid ten years and even before, you know where the gaps and leaks are. Give back to the state that knowledge, that knowledge of what should not be done in running a government and plug up the leaks. Give where it is due and let things, events and time take care of its own and stop whinnying and start governing. We have seen and heard Prime Minister Narendra Damodar Modi, and we have no fear of him now. All his intentions are good, and we will pay him back accordingly. But seriously, is Prime Minister

N.Modi really what we are thinking of him to be? Is he a run of the mill politician, churned out by fate or the RSS, or a statesman, or a statesman in the making! Is he a sheep in a wolf’s clothing or a wolf in a sheep’s clothing? Is he the jailor or the prisioner? Just the other day, while campaigning in Delhi, one of his minister made a proud public statement that except for them all others in the running are “bu….ds”. If this statement does not raise heckles what will? The justified commotion and hungama raised by all the ‘b……s’ in the house baying for the minister’s resignation forced Prime Minister Modi to force his minister to apologize with that usual unintended or misquoted stuff. When the dust refused to settle, PM Modi was left wandering out aloud as to why it should be so when his Sadhvi of a minister has already apologized. Going by this rule, our leaders here in Nagaland can clean, rinse and wipe it all home whatever is left, and a sorry of an apology the next day for that effort will more than suffice, and remain all the more moral. NTC is so very right in opposing and coming out strongly against the move of the Government of Nagaland to built a memorial Hall in memory of Rani Gaidinliu at Kohima at the cost of the state exchequer, which totals to a tune of more than Rs nine crores. All this at this time, when the proposal in itself is controversial even in the best of times. No doubt, Rani Gaidinliu is one face of the Nagas which is recognized by many within and outside. She has been a figure to content with when absolutely most of the Nagas were animists and head hunting. She stood up against all odds, and to honor her is an obligation which needs to be fulfilled. Will it not be much better if we honor our past leaders and personalities by naming the existing public utilities to their name and thereby also oblige ourselves to compulsorily maintaining those utilities named after our leaders. Yours truly sees no reason why this proposal is not a bad option. Maybe a stretch of road, or an existing library, or a hospital, or a learning institute, or an upcoming learning or healing institute, or a or a… Benito.Z.Swu

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Sunday 7 December 2014

Dimapur police arrest three Governor greets the armed forces

Dimapur, December 6 (mexN): Dimapur police on December 6 arrested three persons identified as Niki Angami (35), SS Tatar of NSCN(IM), Asangi Lonsagri (33), SS Rajapeyu, NSCN(IM), and Aseba Sangtam (35), SS Leacy, NSCN(IM) at around 3:30 pm. A press release from Addl. Superintendent of Police/PRO, Dimapur informed that the three were intercepted while they were moving around in a suspicious manner during a surveillance carried out by the police in and around District Civil hospital here to check movements of “extortionist and anti-social elements.” The police recovered two country made .22 pis-

BIrThDAy GrEETINGS

Dear, Bendangmongba...

Kohima, December 6 (mexN): Governor of Nagaland, PB Acharya, has extended greetings to members of the Armed Forces on the occasion of the Armed Forces Day which is being observed from December 7. “On the occasion of the Armed Forces Day, which is being observed throughout the Country from 7 December 2014 (Sunday) onwards, I

The three accused in police custody.

tols with magazine and two live rounds ammunition of .22 pistol from their possession. They also had in their possession an envelope with Rs. 50,000/- written on it, which contained

newspaper clippings used for the purpose of cheating others, the release said. A case has been registered in this connection and investigation is on, it was informed.

KMC warns illegal sale of oil & gas Kohima, December 6 (mexN): The Kohima Municipal Council (KMC) has informed all concerned that selling of unauthorized petrol, diesel, oil lubricants etc., SK Oil and LPG cylinders is strictly prohibited within its jurisdiction. In a press release, KMC administrator, Kovi Meyase cautioned that such activities are not only illegal, but pose genuine threat to the lives and properties of the citizens. He warned that defaulters will be penalized as deemed necessary.

Norms and conditions relaxed for Vinnie Moore master class

extend my warm greetings and best wishes to all the members of Armed Forces, Ex-servicemen and their families. “I especially like to congratulate the Armed Forces personnel deployed in the State of Nagaland for their exceptional contribution to the peace and security of the people and the unity and integrity of the Nation. “On this occasion, I appeal to all citizens to con-

tribute generously towards the Armed Forces Flag Day Fund, which will go a long way in supplementing the effort of the Governments for welfare of war widows, disabled soldiers and the exservicemen and serving soldiers-who have been safeguarding the Nation from external aggression and Aid to Civil Authority to include natural calamities and disaster,” stated his message.

Dimapur

MEx FILE Meeting of Senior Graduate Teachers

Kohima, December 6 (mexN): The Senior Graduate Teachers who were regularized on January 16, 2004 are now in promotion zone, a press release from Secretary Temjenyapang and Convenor Kekuolhouthie stated. However, it added, many of the teachers concerned are going to miss promotion opportunity due to “presence of anomalies in the seniority list.” In this connection, a meeting has been convened on December 10 at CANSSEA Office, Kohima at 11:00 am to discuses matter relating to streamlining of the Graduate Teachers’ seniority list. It is mandatory for all the GTs whose service seniority had been counted from January 16, 2004 to attend the meeting, the release informed. For further details, call 9436650749/ Home Minister, Y. Patton 9436215297/ 9436814444. will be the chief guest. District Vigilance and Monitoring Committee Dimapur, December 6 (mexN): The Dimapur members for Rural DeGovernment College (DGC) administration, faculty, velopment was also anstaff and students bade farewell to T Amenla Longnounced. Earlier, during the re- kumer, HoD of Education department on December view of the last meeting, 6 at a function organized by the Dimapur Govt. Colthe chairman informed lege Teachers Association (DGCTA) and the college the board that examina- authority in the college Seminar Hall. The programme tion centres at Peren Town was chaired by Dr. Maongsangba; speeches were givfor both HSLC & HSSLC en by LT Yepthomi, Kuholi Chishi (Principal), Louis have already been ap- Humtsoe (VP) and Khrieo Rutsa. Suzzana Yaden preproved by the government. sented special song. T Amenla Longkumer served in New member, DEO Peren, Nagaland College of Teachers Education for ten years, Irangnimbe was intro- after which, she was transferred to DGC and served with dedication and commitment for twenty five years duced to the members. The meeting ended with till superannuation on November 30, stated a press restrong message from that lease received here. DC to all the officers that regularity of attendance in the offices will be checked. Dimapur, December 6 (Dipr): The monthly District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) meeting of Dimapur district was held on December 5 at the conference hall of Deputy Commissioner, Dimapur. The meeting was chaired by Deputy Commissioner and Vice Chairman, DPDB, Wezope Kenye. The Labour and Excise department gave a departmental presentation. The board discussed about widening and black topping of road from Army headquarters Rangapahar to Sangtamtilla village; the project was approved to be sent to the higher authority. It also discussed about reconstruction of committee for naming of roads. The DC and Vice Chairman, DPDB asked the department of Art & Culture for PowerPoint presentation in the next DPDB meeting.

Peren District Disaster Management Plan pereN, December 6 (Dipr): The Peren District Disaster Management Plan (DDMP) was formally released at the District Planning & Development Board (DPDB) meeting on December 6 by Peter Lichamo, Deputy Commissioner & Vice Chairman DPDB, Peren. The DC informed that the plan was prepared on the past experiences and events to deal with various events of any natural or man-made disaster, such as, risk assessment vulnerability analysis, preparedness and mitigation response and recovery among others. He requested the District Level Offi-

Dimapur, December 6 (mexN): HIllspraise Music Society (HMS) has informed that it has relaxed certain norms and conditions initially set for participants attending Vinnie Moore’s master class in Dimapur on December 8. The interactive session with the guitar master will take place at the IMC Hall, Supply colony at 3:00 pm. HMS, in a press release, informed that taking into consideration the emotional attachment guitar enthusiasts have with the instrument, the organisers have de-

cers to remain alert to any emergency that may arise. ADC (Hqr.) Dr. Kadambari Bhagat, IAS, who is the Nodal Officer of DDMP, said that a copy will be submitted to NSDMA in the event of any suggestion to improve the Plan; the same will be circulated as annexure to the copies distributed to the Head of Offices. The DC also notified that attendance of all the officers and staff in the district is compulsory during the inauguration of the DC’s Office on December 11 at the new site. He also informed about the inauguration of ADC Headquarter Tening on December 13, where

DGC bid farewell

Dimapur DPDB meeting held

cided to allow participants to bring their personal guitars to the class. Further, it would be a great opportunity for fans and guitarists alike to witness in living colour the master in action up close and personal, the release stated. It further informed that This very special day people who are yet to regmay God richly bless ister for the class can do so you, with good health at the venue. For further and long life. May all queries and information visit www.facebook.com/ you dreams and wishes hillspraisemusicsociety . come true. God bless The organizers can be conyou... tacted at hillspraisemusic- The Dimapur Male Voice, a group of music enthusiasts, presenting their rendition at With love and prayers, on society@gmail.com or at the Annual Musical Night-2014 organized by Borlengri Lotha Baptist Church Karbi Anyou oya Mary, odi Tosa maNGKoLemba, December 6 (Dipr): The and Samuel. 9612612084, 9612170131. glong on Saturday evening. (Morung Photo) monthly meeting of Mangkolemba Sub Division Planning Development Board (SDPDB) was held on December 5 at the customary court. ADC, Mangkolemba, Limawabang chaired and addressed the house. The meeting decided that the administrapFuTSero, Decem- Chakhesang Baptist Church tion would hold a joint meeting with the coal minber 6 (mexN): The deep Council and other digni- ing union and PWD officials for road maintenance tube well constructed by taries. Rev. S. Losou, Vice at Mangkolemba. The ADC further urged the people y my conviction I 6-13 August 2014. Only goal is cultural imposition Gandhi. The then Union the Department of Geology Principal of Baptist Theo- to maintain the main water source of the village area said the god of Mr. AIDMK ministry in Tamil of Hindu culture on the rest Home Minister Sardar Pa- and Mining, Government logical College Pfütsero, and cautioned that anyone found misusing will be tel then ordered for ban of of Nagaland, at Mini Tour- pronounced the invocation punished. He also informed all the government ofModi, the Prime Nadu objected that not of Indian citizens.’ With the above agenda, the organisation which is ist Lodge, Pfütsero, which prayer, which was followed ficials and staff to attend Republic Day and IndepenMinister of India is dead, only Sanskrit alone is imnever risen and will nev- portant to people of India the worst is the persecu- now called ‘cultural public is managed by the Chakhe- by a short presentation on dence Day without fail. To mark the forthcoming Reer ever be. The Bible says, but all other languages too tion of Christians by Hin- organisation’ ‘to keep the sang Women Welfare Soci- technical data of the well public Day, the house decided to help the old aged ety, was commissioned on by Geologist YRL Patton. there is only One living are important. Despite, the du fundamentalists in In- spirit of patriotism alive.’ people at Mangkolemba. Further, the meeting finalIn the sight of both God December 2 by the Direc- The vote of thanks and fi- ized work distribution and programme schedule for God Jehovah, besides Him Ministry went ahead. The dia under the aegis of RSS, there is none. I believe in Indian Council of Histori- VHP, Bajrang Dal, etc. as and man, I confessed that I tor of Geology and Mining nal blessings was spoken the Republic Day celebration. this declaration. Yes, idols cal Research, supposed to noted by Nagaland Chris- am the most wretched sin- SK Kenye in the presence by Rev. Dr. Vezopa Tetseo, and images are crafted af- continue with rationality, tian leaders in their letter ner of all. I used to imagine of the Executive Secretary, Executive Secretary, CBCC. ter gods and goddesses by is now headed by Prof. Y. to PM Modi during his visit always, supposing if my acman, and whoever wor- Sudershan Rao and under to Nagaland. The highlights cumulated sins are put on ships those idols including whose leadership, the Hin- of the letter was succinctly the scale for weighing in PM Modi worship man- dus are claiming to be the published in local papers comparison with others’, superior race backed by PM on 4.12.14 and I am not re- definitely mine would be made images. What Nagaland BJP has Modi. Warning: Although quired to repeat. It is left to the heaviest. I never con- Dimapur, December solved that Superintendent bank authority concerned also resolved that followsaid that I have ‘hurt the sen- Minister Irani remains dis- those who defend the said sidered those Naga Chris- 6 (mexN): For the safety of Police (SP), Dimapur will will shoulder the whole re- ing ATM booths will remain open 24X7, i.e., booths at timent of Hindu communi- creet about the revision, agenda to refute or justify. tians who joined BJP to be and security of the ATM provide security personnel sponsibility, it added. Further, it was decid- train station, CRPF camp, ty’ is understood, it must be the HRD Ministry seems to Only the latest instance of nominal Christians not to booths in Dimapur district, on getting requisition letter true. I did not question the be contemplating to revise persecution of Catholic speak of inferior Nagas. In the district administration from the bank concerned ed that all bank manag- NAP camp Chumukedima, ‘doctrine’ of PM Modi why the curriculum of Schools School authorities in Bastar matters of faith in Jesus and and police held an emergen- for loading cash in the ers concerned will verify, Dhobinala SBI, Rangapahar he worships Hindu gods or with, possibly, the theme of area in Chattisgarh by VHP patriotism, I am the least as cy meeting on December 3. ATM booths, which will be inspect their ATM booths cantonment, ARTC , Referral A press release from mandatory. Any lapses in and submit secured status Hospital. The rest of the ATM goddesses. It is not my mo- Hindu mythology next year. members who forced to put I speak without sarcasm. booths under Dimapur disAdmittedly, I have not Deputy Commissioner, Di- not adhering to the resolu- report to SP, Dimapur. tive to hurt anybody’s senti- If so, it will have immense up Hindu goddess Sarastion and in case of any unTo cater to the needs of trict are to remain open from mapur, Wezope Kenye inment but it is indeed my as- impact on our malleable wati’s picture in Catholic done anything worth reSchools is how Hindu cul- cording in my life for my formed that the meeting re- fortunate happening, the the customers, the meeting 6:00 am to 7:00 pm sharp. sertion, within the ambit of younger generation. Let me quote what the ture incursion is inflicted Saviour Jesus Christ. Withthe fundamental rights, that out an iota of cognizable what God Jehovah whom I Naga historian Kaka D. Ira- on other minorities. In India, BJP is the par- contribution towards hubelieve is Superior to Hin- lu gave a brief write up on du gods. I also out rightly Hindu nationalism which ty that always plays two manity for the sake of His rejected the claim of the appeared on 29.10.2014 games simultaneously. name, how would I dehima, called upon the pig Union Minister of State for in local media. ‘According One is politics and the oth- serve to be called ‘Chris- Kohima, December farmers to work towards 6 (mexN): All India CoorFood Processing Industiries to Hindutva writers such er is religion. BJP promotes tian fundamentalist’? If enhancing profit by reSmti. Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti as Savarkar and Golvalkar, Hinduism through poli- this is the genuine inten- dinated Research Project ducing the animal feed on Pig (AICRP-Pig), De(BJP MP from Fatehpur, other minority groups like tics and promotes politics tion of Nagaland BJP to cost. Prof. M. Aleminla Ao, partment of Animal ProUP) that the .....’the Chris- Christians and Muslims through religion as read by confer the nomenclature Dean SASRD, lauded the duction and Management tians in India are children of are all foreigners in India’s me over the years. This is upon me, I am pleased. sincerity, hard work of the (APM), Nagaland UniverRam’ as appeared in media Hindustan. Golvalkar in the reality of how BJP is difI am here neither to enteam working under the sity, School of Agricultural on 2.12.14. That was inten- his book ‘We or Our Na- ferent from other political courage anyone nor to disAICRP-Pig. tional distortion of histori- tionhood Defined’ wrote parties. This is the reason courage any aspirant from Sciences and Rural DevelMeanwhile, “Ze-u opment (SASRD), Medzical facts with the motive to (quote )‘The foreign races why other political parties joining BJP. It is the constituSHG” from Medziphema hoodwink the minorities. I in Hindustan must either called themselves secular. tional liberty of any person phema campus on Friday Village shared their group The Nagaland BJP has to join or not to join. Do not organized awareness proam not from Hindus’ Ram’s adopt the Hindu culture activities in piggery farmgramme on prevention and race but from Mongoloid and language, must learn the liberty to praise and take it to be a cue, but as for ing which they started to respect and hold in rev- defend RSS which is the me, I may not like to have the control of pig diseases cum race of East Asia. through technical inputs wild fodder preservation in Why I have to assert and erence the Hindu religion, most potent hierarchical experience from ‘within’ at from the institute. the farm premises. defend my race and my faith must entertain no ideas but cornerstone, of all, of BJP. the moment for the princiProf. N.S. Jamir, Pro. 36 participants from is because of the intensive those of glorification of the I suppose RSS is the regu- pal reason that I cannot morVice Chancellor, Prof. M. piggery Self Help Groups of psychological, linguistic Hindu race and culture..... lar launching pad which ally support a political party Aleminla Ao, Dean SASRD, and educational invasions or may stay in the country propels most of the promi- decorated with communal Medziphema (two groups), and participants at the one-day awareness pro- Dr. K. Kire Dy. Director on the religious minorities, wholly subordinated to the nent BJP leaders. Being not credentials. Secondly, at the Sirhima and Rüzaphema Officials gramme on pig diseases and fodder preservation. (Fodder) of Veterinary & Villages (one group each) particularly Christians in Hindu nation, claiming a historical student during moment I prefer remainChairing the program, control, feeds and feeding Animal Husbandry KoIndia, by Hindus under the nothing, deserving no priv- college days, I have less gut ing united with those per- attended the programme. Prof NS Jamir, Pro. Vice the In-Charge of AICRP- management, artificial in- hima and Prof. Nizamuprotection of BJP Govt. in ileges, far less any prefer- to have duel on history. Yet, secuted fellow Christians in Chancellor, NU-SASRD Pig, Dr. M Catherine Rut- semination in pigs draw- din, Asst. Prof. Dept. of Delhi. The Human Resourc- ential treatment-not even RSS was once a banned or- the great country, India, as es Development(HRD) citizen rights.’ (unquote). ganisation. In his zeal for long as I can though far lees encouraged the farmers to sa congratulated all the ing resources from De- Livestock Production & Ministry headed by Smriti Source: ‘India: The Grand Hinduism and filled with a crusader for Christ Jesus. make use of all the avail- farmers for the steady partments of Veterinary Management SASRD, preIrani ordered all the Schools Experiment’ by Vishal the spirit of RSS, Nathuram Regret to decline your kind able opportunities like the progress in livestock rear- & Animal Husbandry, sented one Grass Cutter fodder seeds, richly growing, especially piggery. Indian Councils of Agri- to each group leader, after with CBSE course to ob- Mangalwadi page 285). Godse assassinated the fa- invitation. Z. Lohe ing herbs and forages, She stated that the AICRP- cultural Research Centre- the demonstration to repserve Sanskrit Week from Then Kaka added ‘their ther of the Nation Mahatma medicines and vaccines Pig Nagaland Centre and Jharnapani and NEPED- licate the model in the villages for better feed manand the service of the tech- the staff are in touch with Kohima. The Morung Express is introducing “Public Space” as part of our intention to provide deliberate space for the nical manpower both from the four Piggery Self Help Dr. K Kire, Dy. Direc- agement and enhance opinions of the people to be expressed and heard through this newspaper. Nonetheless, The Morung Express the Agriculture and the Vet- Groups round the year for tor (Fodder) of Veterinary pork production in the vilpoints out that the opinions expressed in the contents published in the “Public Space” do not reflect the views and position of the newspaper or the editor. erinary departments. disease prevention and & Animal Husbandry, Ko- lage backyard piggery.

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Being an 'Elephant Mom' in the Time of the Tiger Mother S

Which is the hardest year of parenting?

Priyanka Sharma-Sindhar

still remember the first time someone spoke to me about grit. It wasn’t when I lost my dad and saw my mother fall apart. It wasn’t when my mother died, and I felt like I was falling apart. It wasn’t when people who I believed would invest in my business didn’t. It wasn’t when the great recession hit our advertisers and my business had to stop publishing a magazine. It was when I was thinking of pulling my 3-year-old out of a preschool in which she clearly wasn’t thriving. She was anxious, frozen, a shadow of the child she used to be before she started there. But it was a co-op preschool, meaning I couldn’t just turn around and leave. When you sign up to join a co-op, you also sign up to work various jobs around the school and to commit to being an active part of a larger community. In other words, I had to talk to the other parents at the co-op about my decision. One of them cautioned me: "What about grit?" she said. For a minute, I was taken aback. Was she talking about me or my 3-year-old? She wasn’t talking about me. It shouldn’t have shocked my system. I’ve often felt like a misfit around parents when they talk about how kids have it too easy these days or how important it is to inculcate a sense of independence in them as early as possible. This is the story of my struggle to allow myself to be the kind of parent I want to be. I grew up in India, but moved to the U.S. in my 20s and became a mother here in my 30s. I had never felt like an outsider, ever— until I had a child. I read a lot of books so that I would be the best mom I could be. And I suddenly found myself wondering, did the Indian parents I saw in my parents’ generation—and many in mine—get it wrong? My father was a big believer in the importance of a child’s first five years. I often heard him tell people how he couldn’t scold me until I was five. He reprimanded his younger brother for raising his voice at his kids before they turned five. Raised voices or not, we didn’t have any concept of time-outs anywhere around us. I can’t recall a time when I cried and a grown up didn’t come to console or hold me. They always did. I slept with my mother until I was five. My father would tease me and say I was my mother’s tail, but neither of them did anything to get me to sleep alone or in a different room with my siblings. My parents weren’t the only ones with this kind of approach. The phrase I would hear in almost every home we visited during my childhood was some version of'Let the

It's okay for parents to nurture, protect, and encourage their children, especially when they're very young.

kids enjoy themselves.' They have the rest of their lives to be grown up.And the social fabric of our world supported them. We would go to the fanciest of restaurants with our parents and run around and play tag. No one would stop us—not the managers, not the other diners. It was normal. Soon enough, the servers would join in. It was lovely. I’m not suggesting for a moment that my parents and their friends necessarily had it right. Some of them produced kids who were happy, some of them didn’t; some of them raised CEOs, some of them raised stay-at-home moms. I’m just saying that it’sokay to be an elephant mom, an elephant dad—an elephant parent. If you’re wondering what 'elephant parent' means, it’s the kind of parent who does the exact opposite of what the tiger mom, the ultra-strict disciplinarian, does. Here’s a short video clip that shows how real elephants parent. And that’s what I’m writing about here—parents who believe that they need to nurture, protect, and encourage their children, especially when they’re still impressionable and very, very young. My elephant mom was a doctor with infinite patience. I failed a Hindi test when I was in fifth or sixth grade, and I remember going to her, teary-eyed, with my results— and hearing her tell me that it didn’t matter. There were many more tests ahead. As I sobbed in her lap, she stroked my hair, hugged me, and told me there would be another test, and I could pass that one. (I did get the annual proficiency prize for Hindi a year later at the same school.) My grandparents were doting parents, too. On both sides, the families lost everything in the partition of India. They had to flee to India from what is now Pakistan. My naana (mother’s father), originally a doctor from a wealthy family, began saving every rupee to educate his girls. He stopped going to the movies, his favorite past time. Both he and his wife stopped buying new clothes and began stitching them at home instead. My father knew grit. He came to Punjab in India on a train with bullets flying around him—and people dying in front of his eyes. (Riots accompanied the 1947 partition that divided India and Pakistan.) After his father died suddenly, he looked after his mother and brought up his four siblings in India. He and my mother paid for them to study in school and college and fund-

ed their weddings. Yet, my father never talked to me about grit. If anything, my parents protected me from pain; perhaps they knew that life would eventually have some pain in store for me, sooner or later. They learned how to raise their kids from their parents. And I learned how to raise my kid from them. But my husband, who is also Indian, and I are raising our daughter thousands of miles away from where we were grew up. There aren’t any families of Indian origin at my daughter’s preschool or even in our immediate neighborhood. "Our way" isn’t a way that everyone around us understands. As a baby, we wouldn’t let her cry to sleep. It wasn’t a judgment on those who followed the sleep expertMarc Weissbluth’s advice. It was and is a cultural belief. Even now, our four-year-old will often ask us to put her shoes on, and feed her, much to the consternation of many fellow parents. But we do it because it connects us to our uncles and aunts who would have said she has the rest of her life to do it herself. To make sense of the world where I was raising my child, I went to meet Angela Jernigan, who runsParent Connect East Bay in Berkeley. She helps people find and build a support structure in their parenting journey. "We don’t have the village anymore," she said. "It’s very hard for parents to be connected (to their kids), to give their kids the experience of being felt and heard." For that to happen, parents need to feel connected and supported themselves, which in our fragmented world can be hard to do, she explained. Jernigan has heard words like grit and resilience thrown around in her own child’s elementary school. "I explain that us having adult-like standards for children is the wrong way to build resilience. Parents have to be nurturing to build a core of strength with children," she said. Nurturing. Vulnerable. Empathetic. That’s how parents need to be, she suggests, when kids are having a "big feeling" (in other words, a meltdown). I heard something similar in a TED talk by Brené Brown, a research professor at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work, who studies the human connection. "You can’t selectively numb those hard feelings," Brown said. She was referring to emotions like guilt, vulnerability, and shame—emotions kids and adults feel. In an uncertain world, Brown said, we like

to make things certain. "We perfect, most dangerously, our children." And why we do that probably warrants an entirely different discussion about our cultural fears and insecurities. Have we failed as parents if our kids aren’t the most wellbehaved, toughest, and smartest kids in the neighborhood? Jernigan’s clients are more often than not people who are trying to be the perfect parents, raising perfect kids. Literature, discussions and forums about parenting abound. As we look for the best ways to raise our kids, we gravitate toward what makes sense to us. After meeting Jernigan, I couldn’t help but think that if there were so many parents flocking to her group to learn how to better connect with their kids, maybe many of the differences I’d noticed weren’t as fundamental and deep-rooted as I’d believed. Perhaps parents, regardless of where they’re from, have more in common than not. The mom who spoke to me about grit also, on a separate occasion, spoke to me about wanting a slow separation from her child. Studies and facts indicate that, regardless of what parents might say about being tough with their kids, they are spending more time and money on them than previous generations have done. A 2012 study by sociologists Sabino Kornrich and Frank Furstenberg that was published in Demography found that parentsspent more on their children’s education and care than on consumer goods from 1972 to 2007. Studies out of the University of California at San Diego show that college-educated parents in the U.S. have dramatically increased the time they spend with their kids over the past twenty years. The best parent you can be is the one that you want to be. There is no perfect parent, just as there is no perfect kid. So what does any of this mean? I suspect that, even though it’s the tiger mom who makes the bestseller list, and everyone’s petrified of looking too soft, maybe everyone around me is a little softer than they think they need to be. I’ve realized that the best parent you can be is the one that you want to be; and there is no perfect parent, just as there is no perfect kid. The journey that started at my child’s first preschool ended well. I knew I had found the right preschool when a matterof-fact educator named Janet Bronson, who helps run a small preschool in Berkeley, said to me during a school tour: "What I want to do is make sure that a kid feels emotionally safe here, not just physically safe." And then a teacher named Nyisha Galvez said, "Teach me some words in Hindi so that I can make her feel comfortable and at-home." My daughter had found her habitat. And perhaps I had, too.

The honor of parenting Parenting matters: Play with a purpose a special-needs child

Kendall Rayburn

aving a child with special needs is not easy. There are always people with no formal training like friends and family members trying to diagnose your child with some kind of condition or trying to give you advice on what help they think your child needs. People like this — for lack of better words — annoy the crap out of me. You'll usually run into these kinds of people: 1) People who "know someone" with something that they think your child also has. Because, you know — there obviously aren't an array of delays out there. Everyone has the same thing. 2) People who think that if your child can't perform a certain task, they must not be smart. You wouldn't believe the number of people who told us Wyatt had autism, that he wasn't getting the help he needs, that he wasn't making improvements. Or people who told us there must be something else wrong with Levi, because his foot was clubbed, that there had to be something else wrong too. Sometimes it's hard to ignore these things and focus on the plan that you have laid out ahead of you. And yeah, it's always good to get opinions — when they're wanted. But it's just hard. It's hard when you're trying to do your best for your child and others are knocking you down for the very things you're working so hard to do! It's so important to have a good team behind you. We are beyond blessed when it comes to this. Wyatt's teachers are some of the most amazing, genuine, hard-working people that I've ever met. This isn't just a job for these women; it's a huge part of their lives. Each week when they come to our home or we see them at school they pour themselves into each child — helping and encouraging them the whole way. It takes a very special person to work with little ones, especially little ones with special needs. And that's exactly what these ladies are — special. Having an awesome team and a plan was key for everything that we've done with Wyatt and Levi so far (Levi's team is amazing too!). It's important to get everyone in your child's life on the same page so they know what the plan is, what they can do to help, etc. This has helped a lot for us!

Today is actually a very happy time for us. Levi's doctor thinks his foot looks amazing and that he is healing up beautifully. And today I had a meeting with one of Wyatt's teachers to discuss his future and to go over the progress he has made this year. A year ago he was evaluated in several different categories and throughout the school year his teachers have been marking his progress. I was shocked to see how much Wyatt has changed from when he first began with his program one year ago. For one year Wyatt has had school once a week (I go with him) for a little over an hour where he works with teachers and his classmates, he also has had one home visit per week where a teacher would come to work with him in his own environment. So, this is two days a week of help. He also has additional things like field trips that we take him to when we can. Some of his scores when compared to last year have nearly doubled! Yeah, DOUBLED. This lets us know that we are doing the right thing, that we have the right team of people around us, and that there is improvement being made! It's amazing the difference that one year can make. And when September hits, Wyatt will be starting a special education preschool program! He'll go four days a week for a few hours a day. A small part of me is so nervous for this change, but the other 99 percent of me is excited because I just can't wait to see how much he learns. A year ago Wyatt wouldn't look people in the eye, he barely spoke, and he didn't enjoy the company of strangers. Now he will look you directly in the eye; he is able to communicate small things with me; and he helps do small things around the house, like put the clothes from the washer into the dryer, put his milk away and close the fridge, brush his teeth, and more. Levi is rolling over, almost sitting up on his own, and meeting all of the requirements for his age! A year ago I was discouraged and wasn't sure if Wyatt would ever do these things, and I wasn't sure what Levi's future would be like. But now, I know. Just goes to show that YOU know what is best for YOUR child. Not anyone else. Trust in yourself. Trust in your child. Consult experts, and if needed, consult again. You CAN do this!

Cynthia Martin

t isn’t Buffalo, but it is a lot colder and wetter than most parents want to send their child out to play. One the other hand, just having your child or you sit in front of a screen for too many waking hours can get a bit tedious. This is a time of year that you need to be creative. What ideas do you have that will keep your child occupied and that are not just a waste of time? Let’s take this from the littlest to the biggest. When you have toddlers, you still need to be creative. This is the time to bring out the paper and crayons as one activity. It doesn’t have to be a coloring book but just a blank piece of paper. Have her draw a picture to give Grandma and Grandpa for Christmas. You are encouraging her creative skills. Don’t direct what she is doing. Let her figure it out. I am impressed with a mom who works with me and brings her toddler with her. She has a bag of goodies for 4-year-old Maia which Maia gets into right away. It has paper, a puzzle, a doll, several books and a couple of treats. Maia also knows where some toys are at the office and she heads there within a few minutes. Maia knows how to take care of herself. You could even say Maia has the beginning skills of what is known as executive function. Executive function is the skill that allows individuals to be involved in goal-directed or problem-solving behaviors. People who have good executive functioning skills understand how to set goals and identify problems, develop a plan, have the ability to execute the plan and evaluate or monitor their progress toward the plan. We need our children to develop good executive functioning and it all begins in play and begins with a child Maia’s age. Early ages By the time your child is in kindergarten and the early grades of school, you want to have some good ideas of what they can do during their spare time in the winter. Hopefully, your child has some creative ideas of his own but you can help. Help him make a fort with a blanket over a table. Get him started making frozen juice popsicles. Bring out any blocks you have and see what he can build. What kind of skills does he have in writing a note to Grandma and Grandpa for the holidays? See what he comes up with on his own before you step in. Have him learn organizational skills by learning to sort sil-

verware, separate small and large drinking glasses and also to set the table. Later elementary children can do many creative things in the house. Bring out the board games. They probably would prefer something on the computer but see what new interactive skills she uses when she plays board games with a friend. These games teach people skills. How to win and how to lose and how to be a good sport are all people skills. The food your child can cook at this age is far more creative than what younger children can make. Let her pick out a recipe and make the surprise treat.

Older ones In middle school, you have new challenges. Encourage him to clean out his backpack. He may even be surprised at what he finds. Have him write a story to include in your holiday mailing to relatives. Let him choose the topic. This is an age where you have to figure out where you back off even more. That never means that you shouldn’t be involved. You should. You just need to pick your times. When you suggest that he should clean out his closet, you aren’t likely to have an enthusiastic response. But when he learns to put the socks in one drawer and his underwear in a separate drawer you are teaching him organizational skills. At the same time, this is a great winter activity. Along with cleaning out closets during this time of year and keeping your child busy, include some things you need to have done. Do you need to clean out a cabinet? Ask for help. Do you need to polish furniture or silverware? Ask for help. Does the cat’s box need changing? Do the leaves need to be picked up off of the front porch? Do you need some things organized in the garage? Ask for help. This is teaching him helping skills which are an asset for anyone to have. You probably may not get an eager response but maybe this is an activity that you may want to encourage to help your child earn some money for the holidays. Giving gifts when you are a teen usually takes some money. That is a good way to help your teen out while encouraging him to be a help to you. Teens need to learn about handling money. This encourages him to build his financial skills. We all need to learn about that skill. Cynthia Martin is the founder of the First Teacher program and director of Parenting Matters Foundation, which publishes newsletters for parents, caregivers and grandparents.

Aisha Sultan

ome will argue that it’s the very first year of life. It’s hazing that brings new parents to their knees: shock therapy for the 18 years ahead. That’s when parenting is most demanding, some say — in those around-the-clock, blurry days and nights. But, there’s a reason the next year is called the “Terrible Twos” — a time of meltdowns, the oft-repeated ‘No!’ and highspeed chases, always potentially damaging to body and property. If you escape the horribleness of Twos, the Threes will get you, someone always chimes in. So, when does it get easier? And which is the most difficult age to raise a child, truly? As the mother of a newly minted 12-yearold girl, I keep hearing the words of an older colleague haunting my difficult days: Little people, little problems. Big people, big problems, he liked to say. Curses. He may have been right. The longest year may vary by gender and temperament. But a fair number of parents of daughters have warned me a special kind of torment happens around the ages of 12 to 14. It was the sage Nora Ephron who advised getting a dog when your children hit their teens. “When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you,” she wrote. Clinical social worker Debbie Granick, who has a practice in Clayton, Missouri, has two daughters, ages 12 and 14, and a 16-year-old son. If anyone is walking through the fire, she is. “The worst year is the one you are least prepared for, when their behaviour is most not what you had in mind,” Granick said. “It’s when you are put in the position of having to be a person you least like.” That person might be when you are sleep-deprived and angry at a colicky infant. Or it might be when you resist the impulse to slap a 12-year-old talking back to you, she said. “It’s when they hit on your vulnerabilities,” Granick said. “Those years are difficult for everybody.” It’s typically when parents most often turn into a version of themselves they like to keep hidden from the world. If you look at it through the lens of child development, however, biological and social reasons explain why certain years have a reputation for trying the patience of parents. In the early years, when toddlers make the discovery that they are different and distinct people from you, they want to maximize that by testing every limit, Granick said. The period from about age 5 to 10 could be considered the golden age of childhood, she said, with a certain level of smoothness in routines. But in early adolescence, a combination of hormonal changes, a more intense awareness of peers and less security in oneself throws that period into an abyss of frustration and power struggles. You can’t hold it against a baby when he cries all day. As much as it wears down your psyche and emotional reserves, intellectually you know it’s not the child’s fault. Even with defiant, crazy toddlers, you realize they are just learning socially appropriate behaviour. But by those later tween and teen years, you begin to hope the previous decade of parenting has made some sort of impression. This may be why these stormy years may feel like the most dispiriting epoch of parenting: You start to question where you might have gone wrong to end up with a child who barely tolerates your presence. “You went right!” Granick says. “It is their developmental role to challenge everything you’ve taught them. You have raised a developmentally appropriate child, and you should look at some of the ways in which they are difficult as signs of success.” Even if it’s considered “developmentally appropriate,” it hurts when someone you love speaks to you disrespectfully and willfully ignores what you’ve asked them to do. When a child’s behaviour takes swings of intolerableness, it affects the parent, as well. When a child begins to withdraw or shut you out, you wonder how long it may last. Most of us can likely remember feeling terribly aggrieved by our parents during some phase of our childhood. And every parent of an adult child I’ve spoken to says that eventually by the grace of that relentless passage of time, teenagers come back around. Isn’t there a way to bypass the worst of it? What can you do to shorten the later-stage Terribles so they don’t last two, three, four or more years? Granick suggests bearing in mind that when children are least lovable, it’s precisely when they need the most love. Don’t feel compelled to explain or respond to the content of their arguments, she said. But respond to the feeling they are trying to express. “You don’t have to correct the feeling,” she said. You can revisit an episode later, outside the heat of the moment, to try to discuss a problem from another perspective. But, “you don’t have to correct everything,” she said. It was the same approach we used when they hit the Twos and Threes: Pick your battles. Would you swap a defiant, crazy toddler for a defiant, hormonal teenager? Chances are the toddler is cuddlier; but then again, a teenager is potty trained.

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Invitations of Wisdom and Folly (Proverbs 9:1-18) Selie Visa

Introduction: Proverbs chapter 9 forms the conclusion of the lengthy nine-chapter introduction to the book. Both Wisdom and Folly will make their final appeals; and both appeal to the simpletons, those who need to live by wisdom but who are most easily influenced by folly. Wisdom offers life with no mention of pleasure; Folly offers pleasure with no mention of death. There is more to life than just hanging around trying to get used to it, or just trying to push it in the right direction. God has something to say about life. He has given us His word, the Bible. The Bible is a book that has much to say about life and about how we should live it. Proverbs 9 breaks life down to its simplest truths and gives us some of the facts of life. Proverbs 9:1-18: Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn out its seven pillars. She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table. She has sent out her maids, and she calls from the highest point of the city. “Let all who are simple come in here!” she says to those who lack judgment. “Come, eat my food and drink the wine I have mixed. Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of understanding. “Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult; whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse. Do not rebuke a mocker or he will hate you; rebuke a wise man and he will love you. Instruct a wise man and he will be wiser still; teach a righteous man and he will add to his learning. “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. For through me your days will be many, and years will be added to your life. If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mock-

Accepting the invitation of Wisdom: Wisdom has prepared a house and held up by seven pillars. This speaks of spaciousness and stability. The “seven pillars” is part of the imagery of the house but may have cosmic references. The phrase has given rise to expressions like “the seven pillars of wisdom” or “the house that wisdom builds.” Since seven is a sacred or ominous concept, the point is that wisdom produces a perfect world. Wisdom has prepared a sumptuous banquet in this house and sends out her maids (servants) to call people to come and eat. The figures of meat and wine represent the good teaching of wisdom that will be palatable and profitable. Wisdom spreads her table for those who enter her house. She strengthens them, she satisfies them, and she sustains them. She gives them all they need for now and for the future. The same is true for the person who chooses the way of God over the way of the world. God spreads His feast for us as we pass through this life and He promises us that we have a home with Him in His heaven forever. The house of wisdom is away from the path of normal human activity. She seeks them where they live and invites them to come to her place for a better life. What is “wisdom”? Wisdom is not intelligence! It is the best use of knowledge. A life of wisdom is a life that lives out the truths of the Word of God. The mockers are those who will not live by wise and moral teachings and are not content to let others do so without their cynical

in hell, for that house is a gateway to hell. Many eat on earth what they digest in hell. The point is that the life of folly is a lifestyle Accepting the invitation of Folly: The rival “woman Folly” presses her of undisciplined, immoral, riotous living appeal for the naive to come and eat from and runs counter to God’s plan of life and her provision. Her character is described inevitably leads to death. as loud, undisciplined, and without knowledge. “Loud” suggests riotous and portrays The narrow and the wide gate: her as foolish and simplistic. To these trouJesus warns people to avoid this broad bling qualities is added ignorance, which way and follow the straight and narrow path of righteous, wise living. means moral ignorance. “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is Folly also has a house. She is the counterpart of the personification of wisdom. But the gate and broad is the road that leads to deher house is built where the fools are already struction, and many enter through it. But small living. This implies that men may enter the is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, house of folly with little or no change in their and only a few find it (Matthew 7:13 &14). The general picture here is clear enough: lives. To get to wisdom, they have to put forth effort, to get to folly, they can continue as there are two gates, two roads, two crowds, they are, where they are. Folly promises the two destinations. The “narrow” gate is clearfool a good time, this is the enticement to evil. ly restrictive and does not permit entrance This is why there are more people who live to what Jesus prohibits. The “wide” gate lives of sin than there are those who live lives seems far more inviting. The broad road is of righteousness! They do what comes natu- spacious and accommodates the crowd and rally and they gravitate toward evil. their baggage; the other road is “narrow” Folly’s position is prominent in the city and restricting, because it is the way of perstreets. She often imitates wisdom, so that secution and opposition. But the two roads are not ends in themonly the cautious and discerning are able to make the right choice. Her invitation, like- selves. The narrow road leads to life, i.e., to wise, is to the passersby or the unwary. the consummated kingdom; but the broad Folly’s invitation impersonates wis- road leads to eternal death. The pathway of the foolish is grounded in dom’s. Folly’s competing voice is louder and more appealing to those who lack judg- human understanding. It is the choice that rement. Folly also invites people to eat. Sto- quires no choice! It is merely man doing that len water is now offered to passersby. The which he does by nature. The path of wisdom “water” is only sweeter because it is stolen, is the one grounded in heavenly understandmuch as food that is unjustly gained seems ing. A person chooses wisdom because he has more delicious. come to understand some important truths. He has come to an understanding of the PerThe consequence is death: son, Position and Power of God. Do you go your own way and do your The contrast with Wisdom’s banquet continues, but now the consequence for own things? Or do you think about what Folly’s guests is startling. The naive who en- God wants from your life? Those are the two ter her banquet hall do not know that the extremes! Life consists of only two choices. dead (often translated “shades”) are there. When the calls of life are issued, the ultiThis word refers to the dead who lead a mate choice lies with the individual. In the shadowy existence in Sheol (NT word Ha- end, your eternal destiny will rest upon the des). Those ensnared by folly are as good as choice you make concerning Jesus Christ. through life.

er, you alone will suffer.” The woman Folly is loud; she is undisciplined and without knowledge. She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city, calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way. “Let all who are simple come in here!” she says to those who lack judgment. “Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!” But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.

Selie Visa

mocking. Anyone who tries to rebuke and correct a mocker is asking for trouble; insult, abuse, and hatred are second nature to this cynical heckler. The wicked man or the fool is “un-teachable”. He will not listen to reason. He will not listen to the Lord. Trying to show him his waywardness only creates an enemy! The wise person will love the one trying to correct him. This the profitable response to corrective teaching. The theme of the fear of the Lord is brought here, because this is the foundation of all wisdom and all righteousness. In the final analysis those who fear the Lord, add to their learning, and receive discipline will look forward to a long and productive life. Wisdom rewards the wise, but mockery suffers alone. Wisdom brings its own reward; it is sufficiently satisfying to be worth pursuing. Conversely, if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer. The words we speak will haunt us

Be thankful in the tough times Christian Giving Rick Warren

hen the Apostle Paul says, “Always be full of joy in the Lord,” he doesn’t say to only be joyful in good times. Even when times are tough, the Bible teaches we can be joyful if we follow these simple strategies: 1. Don’t worry about anything. Worrying doesn’t change anything. It’s stewing without doing. There are no such things as born-worriers. Worry is a learned response. You learned it from your parents. You learned it from your peers. You learned it from experience. That’s good news: The fact that worry is learned means it can also be unlearned. How do you unlearn it? Jesus says in Matthew 6:34, “Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own” (NIV). He’s saying don’t open your umbrella until it starts raining. Live one day at a time. 2. Pray about everything. Instead of worrying, use your time for praying. If you prayed as much as you

worried, you’d have a lot less to worry about. Is God interested in car payments? Yes. He’s interested in every detail of your life. That means you can take any problem you face to God. 3. Thank God in all things. When you pray, pray with thanksgiving. The healthiest human emotion is not love but gratitude. It actually increases your immunities. It makes you more resistant to stress and less susceptible to illness. People who are grateful are happy. But people who are ungrate-

ful are miserable because nothing makes them happy. They’re never satisfied. It’s never good enough. So if you cultivate the attitude of gratitude, of being thankful in everything, it reduces stress in your life. 4. Think about the right things. If you want to reduce the level of stress in your life, you must change the way you think, because the way you think determines how you feel. And the way you feel determines how you act. The Bible teaches that, if you

want to change your life, you need to change what you’re thinking about. This involves a deliberate, conscious choice where you choose to think about the right things. We need to choose to think on the positive and on God’s Word. What is the result of not worrying, praying about everything, giving thanks, and focusing on the right things? Paul says we will then “experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus” (Philippians 4:7 NLT). • What do you worry about? Talk to God about your worries and honestly tell him why you worry. • If you prayed as much as you worried, how do you think your life would change? • God says he has your best interest at heart. Thank him in all things, even if you cannot understand what God is up to in your life. • What do you think about most? What do you think God wants you to think about? • Are these two things in alignment? If not, then why?

The most important “worship war” of all Jamie Brown

he worship wars were a battle between organs and guitars. Choirs and praise bands. Robes and blue jeans. Hymnal versus projector. Traditional versus contemporary. Old versus new. They were mainly about style. The genre of the music, the instrumentation, the attire of the pastors, the vehicle for musical notation (or lack thereof), the authorship date of the songs. And now, by and large, those wars have subsided and a delicate peace has settled in. Churches either went full throttle in one direction, and left any detractors in the smoke (and those detractors found a different church), or they went the “blended” route and offer multiple service styles in multiple venues in order to appease the factions and prevent them from killing each other. A small amount of churches survived the worship wars with their worship ethos in tact. Good for them. Now we are at a worship crossroads. This conversation isn’t so much about style. It transcends style. This is about substance. It’s more about the “And so?” and less about the “And how?” It’s more about the heart of the leaders and less about the preferences of the worshippers. This is about a fundamental distinction between two models of worship leading (irrespective of the style of music). The first model views the congregation’s engagement as integral. The second model views the congregation’s engagement as incidental. The first model I call “congre-

gationalism” and the second model I call “performancism.” Congregationalism: a model of worship leading that views the engagement of the congregation as integral to the success of a worship service. Performancism: a model of worship leading that views the engagement of the congregation as incidental to the success of a worship service. Engagement: the congregation’s active participation, in unity and with comprehension, throughout the majority of a worship service. Gone are the days when the argument could be made that organs equaled bored congregations and guitars equaled revival. That argument has been destroyed over the last two decades as the embrace of “contemporary” expressions oftentimes resulted in drastically diminished congregational engagement in worship. And vice versa, gone are the days when the argument could be made that contemporary worship meant death and destruction and drivel, and traditional worship meant the preservation of all things beautiful and holy. That argument has been destroyed as we witness not only the maturity of so many contemporary expressions, but also the withering decline of churches and denominations whose traditional liturgy and instrumentation have been unable to mask its internal rot. It’s possible to have the most traditional of traditional churches, with organs and choirs and smells and bells and hymnals and robes and kneelers, and have a congregation wholeheartedly engaged in worship of Jesus Christ. And in this stylistic vein, it’s also

possible to have congregations who sit in their seats and watch the professionals do their completely inaccessible thing, which, while impressive, does not call forth any response from the congregation other than, perhaps, an “ah that was nice.” And conversely, it’s possible to have the most contemporary of contemporary churches (so contemporary they don’t even use the traditional word “contemporary” anymore), with guitars, drums, screens, top-notch equipment, lights, loops, effects, video and coffee bars, and have a congregation drawn in to see and savor the glory of Jesus Christ, singing their hearts out. And with this same style repeated down to the very last v-neck shirt, you can have congregations who are literally left in the dark, watching a performance, being sung at, and resigning themselves to a passive role as a passive observer of something that’s designed to look and sound dynamic. I’ve lost count of the amount of times I’ve had a conversation with someone, usually a total non-musician, who has lived in the middle of this tension at their church (or former church) for a long period of time. They can’t put their finger on what’s so difficult for them about the worship leading model at their church, and when I begin to explain my theory to them, their eyes begin to light up as I appear to be verbalizing what they’ve experienced internally. Their stylistic preferences are all over the map—but in their heart, they’re weary and leery of performancism. Style isn’t the issue anymore. It’s substance now. The “how” (i.e., what

instrumentation will we use) has given way to the “so” (i.e., what is the end result of what we’re doing?) The worship leading model of congregationalism says the “so” is: so that people will be engaged (actively). The worship leading model of performancism says the “so” is: so that people will have an experience (passively). Congregationalism is specific when it comes to the desired goal during the music: the congregation singing along with one another. Facilitating their singing is the worship leader’s number one priority. Performancism is vague: the congregation is there to experience the experience, and if they happen to be able to sing along, then that’s great. But if they can’t sing along, then at least they had an experience. This is the crossroads where we find ourselves. It’s not about style anymore, though issues of style certainly flare up in many places with a good deal of noise. This conversation transcends style and begs a simple question: Is the congregation’s engagement in worship integral or incidental? The answer to that simple question will determine a church’s trajectory for the next several decades, and perhaps longer. I pray that a fresh commitment to congregational worship will sweep across the worldwide church, overturning performancism and drawing the Bride of Christ into increasing unity in the years to come. Jamie Brown has served as the Associate Director of Worship and Music at The Falls Church Anglican for the last ten years.

Liba Hopeson

t was a day of euphoria and excitement for a young boy as his parents bought new expensive clothes for him. Though he was thrilled and elated to see his attires, he refrained from wearing them, as he wished to keep for few days and wait for Christmas. However, he was impatient to stay silent, thus with his unbridled desire, he went around calling his friends to show to them his gorgeous and lovely dresses. His friends were excited to see his dresses. After some time, they went to garden, and then, abruptly, his attires were stolen by a boy. Nobody noticed it. Startlingly, the boy took it to a secret place and burnt them mercilessly. It was done out of sheer jealousy. Thereafter, the parents reprimanded their son for being so cheerful and sloppy. Like this boy who lost his authentic and attractive dresses as a result of his intense craving to show to his friends, you lose the blessing of God often because you are so interested in letting people know how much you have given and what you have given. It is a temptation for you. The more you try to refrain from uttering words, the more you want to speak out. This is so because your heart is not right with God and you do not know the real meaning of giving. Some would used the phrase, ‘I share this for the Glory of God’, and speak much for their glory. Indeed, it’s not wrong to share our experiences for the glorification of God, but those who really speak for the glory of God don’t expound the reasons, but people simply see and understand it. In a way, it is an act of covering one’s sin by using the name of holy God. Our fervor to use the name of God is like a thirsty soul after a tiring work under the blazing sun. It is hard to abstain, it is like a disease. The root cause is a heart bereft of purity. When you give tithe, you don’t have to think that you are giving, but consider that God is taking what is His. For God has claimed that it belongs to Him. It is like an assignment God has given us to bring to the house of God so that we will not be lazy, but learn obedience from it. Giving apart from tithe can only be considered giving. You should remember that if you give with a competitive mind, there is no chance of facing interview or viva, even though you got highest in the written exams. The standard of human measurement of giving is called eye-to-eye and for God it is called heart-to-heart. Many people still do not learn from the story of the widow in the Bible who put two mites and Jesus declared she gave more than all the others. Yet, by knowing that story if you argue and say that you can give less and give little even if you can give much, you commit more sins. There has been mounting comments that there are too many organizations or groups raising money. Nowadays many people complain that there have been too many fund drives. These kinds of remarks are made after they have given in cash or kind for various purposes. They assist people by declining blessings. It is true that people do so many things and raise funds, yet bear the loss by murmuring consciously or unconsciously. Let us be little logical here. Giving is a good thing, but it is better not to give, than to give and murmur. It’s a loss for you. The fact is that God doesn’t want you to hear your murmurings; it disturbs Him. In fact we receive blessings when we give, but only when we give cheerfully and faithfully. But after you give, if you murmur, you speak off the blessings you are supposed to receive. So, it’s a loss for those who complain after giving. For they displease God, moreover, they miss the blessing of God. If you refuse some people as you are not in a position to give, God will understand you. Thus, it is better to refuse a person and stay calm than to take it and murmur. Nonetheless, you would argue that people often compel you. If you are not in a position to refuse, then take it or help willingly and receive blessings. What I want to point out here is that, fund drives or seeking help will never cease, so if you cannot refuse because you are compelled, don’t let the blessings fall, and more importantly, don’t commit sin after helping someone. Christian giving is not only giving money or things. It also includes giving our time. Giving our time is extremely significant in our lives. In this topsy-turvy world, where we we’re more caught up in the cut-throat competition and surging individualism, we seem to have less or no time for one another today. When we give our time, we develop our friendship, and obviously, our relationship grows. Many people, though they work diligently, do not realize that they do not receive the blessings of God because, they do not give time for His people. Giving our time to people for God is similar to giving money and wealth. We should not forget that God wants us to encourage and build up one another. Lastly, one very important aspect of Christian giving is our talents and gifts. We should always remember that a thing which belongs to somebody is not your thing. You may develop your talents, but it is through the love of God you are able. Don’t boast thinking that what you can do, others cannot do. What you can do, I cannot do, what I can do, you cannot do, that’s my understanding of talent. Comments such as, it is very easy, he should know, why can’t she do this, why is he very weak in this, so on and so forth are often made by us. I do. If you remember that God uses people in different ways, then the gifts and talents that you seem to be insignificant will become significant and good. Give your money, wealth, time, gifts and talents, without expecting to receive anything back, and you will receive more and more. Then, you will be able to give more and more without expecting to receive, and you will receive more and more and more. God bless!

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Sunday 7 December 2014

The Morung Express

Terror strikes in Kashmir attack on democracy: Modi Ranchi, DecembeR 6 (ianS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi Saturday described the terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir as a “shameful act on the democratic process” in the state, which is witnessing a healthy turnout in assembly polls. Addressing a poll rally in Hazaribagh district, Modi also asked the Jharkhand electorate to vote for development in the state. “The terrorists did a shameful act by attacking the democratic process in Kashmir. Our brave security person-

nel gave a befitting reply to them,” Modi said. Twenty-one people, including eight soldiers, were killed in a string of attacks across Kashmir Friday. The attacks came in the midst of assembly polls in the state. The third phase will take place Dec 9. The first two phases saw a turnout of around 70 percent. “An army officer from Jharkhand was also killed. I pay my tributes to the security personnel killed in terrorist attack,” said Modi. Lt. Col. Sanklap Shukla, a resident of Ranchi, was killed in

the attack. He is survived by an eight-year-old daughter and a four-year-old son. Modi also appealed to the people of Jharkhand to vote for development. The state too is in the midst of fivephase polls, the third phase of which will be held Dec 9. “Enough politics has been done in the name of caste and creed. The time has come to vote for development,” Modi said. “Only development will take the state forward...,” he said. “Jharkhand is living under darkness despite the fact that state produces coal.

God graced the state with forest and mines... and it has the potential to emerge as an economic power,” Modi said. He said the state will be able to generate Rs.20 lakh crore from coal in coming years under a new coal policy. Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Yashwant Sinha was also present in the rally. He shared the dais with his son Jayant Sinha who is Hazaribagh MP and a minister in Modi cabinet. Votes count will take place in both Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand Dec 23.

Pakistan frustrated over high Kashmir voter turnout: Naidu

Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard at a temporary checkpoint in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir on December 6. Security was beefed up the day after militants in the disputed territory of Kashmir attacked an Indian army camp, triggering a fierce gunbattle that left 11 Indian soldiers and six suspected assailants dead, officials said. (AP Photo)

hyDeRabaD, DecembeR 6 (ianS): Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu Saturday said the terror attacks in Jammu and Kashmir were a desperate attempt by Pakistan to disrupt peace as it is frustrated by a high voter turn out in the state. Addressing a news conference here, Naidu said that Pakistan is aiding, abetting, funding and training terrorists. “It is a known secret for the entire world. They have been doing it continuously. They now want to derail the

election process because people in Jammu and Kashmir have defied the diktats of Pakistan supported organisations and separatist forces and overwhelmingly voted,” the minister, who comes from Andhra Pradesh, said. The senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader also said that the 72 percent voter turnout is a record in the present situation and that too in winter. He said the entire country should speak in one voice and condemn

the terrorists and their masters in Pakistan. He decried attempts by some people to see politics even in these attacks. A communist leader was saying on a television channel that the attacks have to be seen in the backdrop of elections and efforts to polarise voters, Naidu added. A total of 21 people -eight soldiers, three policemen, two civilians apart from eight militants -were killed in four attacks in Kashmir Friday, days

before Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a campaign stop in Srinagar. On the BJP’s likely performance in the ongoing five-phase Jammu and Kashmir elections, Naidu said the party stands a good chance. “We will improve our strength like anything. You are seeing a lot of Muslim women campaigning and standing as candidates of the BJP in the valley. Things are changing. People are seeing only development and Modi,” he said.

Irani emphasises need to develop Shutdown and protests mark Babri demolition anniversary skills in higher education new Delhi, DecembeR 6 (ianS): Emphasing on the need to develop skills in higher education, Human Resource Development Minister Smriti Irani Saturday exhorted states and union territories to adopt the credit framework for skills and education and the choice based credit system in universities. These, she said, would “give choices to students and also provide respectability to skill programmes”. The credit framework,

launched on National Education Day Nov 11, will allow vertical and lateral mobility within the vocational education system and between the current education systems. The minister was speaking at the inauguration of the workshop on skills in higher education organized by the ministry’s department of higher education here. About the ministry’s newly launched Know Your College portal -- developed for helping a prospective

student make informed choices with regard to the selection of an appropriate college for pursuing higher education by providing the necessary information - Irani said that “some 2,00,000 hours of lectures have been uploaded for students for various courses and disciplines”. Highlighting the purpose of the workshop, Minister of State for HRD Upendra Kushwaha said that it intended to “link today’s youth with employability”.

‘Congress working under outside pressure in parliament’ hyDeRabaD, DecembeR 6 (ianS): Parliamentary Affairs Minister M. Venkaiah Naidu Saturday alleged that the Congress party is working under outside pressure in parliament and termed its attitude “irresponsible” and “immature” to protest against his colleague Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti’s controversial remarks. He told reporters here that some Congress leaders from outside were pressurising the party MPs as they stalled the parliament after smooth proceedings on the first day when the issue was discussed and closed. “What is the external force influencing the speaker, ask the Congress party,” Naidu quipped when asked to elaborate on what he means by external pressure. “By outside, I don’t mean America, China or Italy,” the minister hastened to add. Naidu took strong objection and condemned the Congress’s allegation that the speaker is working under pressure. “They are insulting the institution and defying the constitution. It is an assault on the constitution and the parliamentary system,” he said. He said the manner in

which the Congress is behaving in the parliament shows that it is unable to digest its defeat in the elections. The minister said the Congress itself is not clear what it wants as it continues to stall the parliament even after the central government disowned and condemned the remarks and the concerned minister has also apologised. “They wanted the prime minister to speak on the issue parliament but even after he disapproved the remarks and called upon everybody to maintain standards and desist from using such language, the Congress is not satisfied.” Naidu also found fault with the Congress for targeting “a newly elected woman MP who comes from poor section of the society”. He pointed out that she made the remarks while addressing a public meeting but the government did not agree because “we have values”. Naidu said the government needs no lessons from the Congress on how to run the parliament or how to conduct the public discourse because the same party and its government “degraded, devalued and demolished” institutions and standards and

values in public life. He said the Congress never regretted the statements made by its leaders. He recalled how Congress president Sonia Gandhi termed Prime Minister Narender Modi “merchant of death” and how the other Congress leaders went on to call him tea seller, monkey, donkey and even dog. Naidu alleged that the Congress by raking up such issues like the minister’s remarks wants to create communal tension in the country and divert the attention of people from development. “They are trying to accuse and defame Narendra Modi saying since Modi came communal tensions have increased. I challenge the Congress and its friends let there be a debate on this,” he said. Communal situation has improved many times after the new government came, he said, adding that the home ministry has released the figures. Naidu advised the Congress to introspect as it is not only losing its credibility but also the numbers. He pointed out how the Congress finished fourth in Maharashtra and third in Haryana. He forecast a similar situation in Jharkhand.

Class 5 school girl moves court against teacher for humiliating her new Delhi, DecembeR 6 (ianS): A Class 5 girl has moved the Delhi High Court against her teacher for slapping and humiliating her in front of her entire class after she came to school with two pony tails, a lawyer said Saturday. Pooja, an economically weaker section (EWS) student, was beaten up Nov 21 by her teacher Dolly of Mayo International School in Patparganj in east Delhi for a frivolous reason, said a petition filed by advo-

cate Ashok Agarwal. The petition said the teacher also humiliated her in front of the entire class for the “amusingly absurd reason” that she came to school with two pony tails. When her mother raised objections, the girl was suspended from school sine die, the advocate said. Despite persistent requests and persuasion, the school has refused to revoke the suspension, he said. “The action of suspend-

ing the petitioner-student on the part of the school is absolutely illegal, grossly illogical and violation of the provisions of the Right of Children to Free and Compulsory Education Act (RTE), 2009,” the advocate said in the petition and sought action against the school. The petition which said the act was discriminatory against the EWS student - is likely to come up for hearing Monday in the high court.

hyDeRabaD, DecembeR 6 (ianS): A shutdown, protests and meetings marked the 22nd anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid, which passed off peacefully Saturday in Hyderabad and other parts of Telangana and neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. A shutdown was observed in parts of Hyderabad on a call given by some Muslim groups to demand reconstruction of the demolished mosque at its original site in Ayodhya. Shops, business establishments and educational institutions were closed and vehicles were off the roads in the old city and other Muslim-majority areas as police stepped up security to prevent any untoward incident.

The usual hustle bustle around historic Charminar was missing while the roads in the centuries-old markets wore a deserted look. Shops downed the shutters in response to the shutdown call given by the Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (MIM), Majlis Bachao Tehreek (MBT) and other groups. Police arrested few youngsters, who tried to take out a rally defying the ban orders in Moghalpura near Charminar. The youth were raising slogans in support of their demand for reconstruction of the mosque. Over 5,000 policemen and personnel from paramilitary forces were deployed in different parts of the city. Special security measures were taken near his-

toric Makkah Masjid. A tight vigil was maintained across the old city as the attempts to take out rallies by some organisations and also celebration of Vijay Diwas by some others led to violence in the past. A police officer said the afternoon prayers at Makkah Masjid passed off peacefully. The situation was peaceful. Police have banned rallies, meetings, rallies, processions and dharnas in the limits of both Hyderabad and Cyerabad police commissionerates to maintain peace and harmony. Hyderabad Police Commissioner M. Mahender Reddy said the orders were issued in view of reliable information that certain groups are trying to create disturbances affect-

ing public peace and order and inciting communal animosity between different communities. Like in the past, Wahdat-e-Islami, Darsgah Jihad-o-Shadat and some other organisations were allowed to stage a sit-in at Indira Park located outside the communally sensitive old city. The protestors were carrying placards with slogans “Justice delayed is justice denied’ and “Rebuild Babri Masjid”. Black flags were hoisted at many places in the old city as Muslim groups have called for observing a black day. Some groups held meeting at mosques and function halls to mark the day and to seek reconstruction of the mosque. A delegation of MBT

leaders led by its president Khayam Khan met Governor E.S.L. Narasimhan at Raj Bhavan and submitted a memorandum. Later talking to reporters, Khan said justice can be done to Indian Muslims only with the reconstruction of the demolished mosque. A shutdown was observed in Nampally, Mehdipatnam, Asif Nagar, Toli Chowki, Golconda and other areas of the city. Muslims also participated in the shutdown in Nalgonda, Mahabubnagar, Nizamabad, Adilabad, Karimnagar, Warangal and other towns in Telangana and also in parts of neighboring Andhra Pradesh. Police had sounded the alert across the state in view of the shutdown call.

Kerala liquor policy pragmatic, Rape accused cannot be convicted sans practical: Congress

ThiRuvananThapuRam, DecembeR 6 (ianS): Describing himself as the least autocratic, state Congress president V.M. Sudheeran who was criticised by his own party leaders for his adamant stand on Kerala’s new liquor policy, Saturday described it as pragmatic and practical. “The Congress party is such where opinions are given publicly, but when it comes to the new liquor policy of Kerala, it passed muster at various levels. It (policy) is a pragmatic and practical,” Sudheeran told reporters here. He was speaking on the sidelines of winding up his statewide month-long yatra, which will end Tuesday with a meeting here

in the presence of Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi. The liquor policy which was announced in August, following a tough stand taken by Sudheeran, aims to achieve prohibition in a phased manner by October 2023. “The liquor policy that is in place now has undergone an evolution since K. Karunakaran was in office. I am not an autocratic person. This policy was the need of the hour...It (liquor) has become a social menace and we wanted to end it,” he said. The policy includes closing down of all bars in the state barring the five star hotels. It was being questioned by the Kerala bar owners association. The Kerala High Court has

been hearing the case. Earlier this, Chief Minister Oommen Chandy told the Kerala assembly that though the fundamental rules in the policy would not be changed, certain corrections would be made with regards to the tourism sector and the rehabilitation of about 7,000 employees of the bars. Sudheeran came under attack from his party colleagues, state Excise Minister K. Babu and senior Congress leader Vakkom Purushothaman, who went public by describing Sudheeran’s stand as impractical. “An image is not one that is created by self, instead it has to be thrust upon by people,” Sudheeran said.

quality evidence: Court

new Delhi, DecembeR 6 (ianS): No rape accused can be convicted if the witnesses do not support the prosecution case or give quality evidence, a court here said Saturday while acquitting a man in a sexual assault case. Additional Sessions Judge Nivedita Anil Sharma observed that there is a public outrage and a hue and cry is being raised all around saying the courts are not convicting the rape accused. “However, no man, accused of rape, can be convicted if the witnesses do not support the prosecution case or give quality evidence or where the prosecutrix (alleged victim) is hostile,” she said. “It should not be ignored that the court has to confine itself to the ambit of law and the contents of the file as well as the testimonies of the witnesses and is not to be swayed by emotions or reporting in the media.” The court’s opinion came while acquitting Ajayveer Singh, the man accused of charges related to rape, outraging a woman’s modesty and others due to lack of evidence. The court observed that the prosecution’s case is neither reliable nor believable and the prosecution has failed to establish charges of rape, threat, and outraging the modesty of a woman. The prosecution had alleged that Singh, a cousin brother of victim’s husband, raped her at knife point on the midnight of May 24, 2013.

Settlements by Lok Adalats are win-win situation: Justice Dave

new Delhi, DecembeR 6 (ianS): Out-ofcourt settlements of disputes through Lok Adalats is not just inexpensive and expeditious, it’s a win-win situation for the contesting parties as there are no winners or losers, Justice Anil. R. Dave of the Supreme Court said Saturday. He was inaugurating the second national Lok Adalat that commenced simultaneously across the country starting from the Supreme Court, 24 high courts, districts courts and courts at the taluka level. Justice Dave said that for the success of Lok Adalats, the contesting parties should not only be large hearted to accommodate

each other but must also keep in check their egos. Justice Dave is chairman of Supreme Court Legal Service Society. He said the amicable settlement of disputes between the contesting parties helps the society at large as after the settlement the parties nurture no grouse against each other and are ready to work together again. Justice Dave wondered about the role of third party in the settlement of dispute between husband and wife. All that is needed is a catalyst like Lok Adalat to make them sit across the table and settle their differences in the spirit of accommodation, he said. He

said that in the court he has seen husband and wife who are in dispute do not even look at each other and their disapproval of each other is written on their faces. Similarly, disputes involving business partners, when resolved mutually through Lok Adalats leaves a scope that such people can once again come together for a new venture and all this helps the society, he said. Justice Dave, who was witness to the first ever Lok Adalat held in the country in March 14, 1982 in Una city of Junagarh district of Gujarat, said that Lok Adalats are the magnified version of Gram Panchay-

ats that India traditionally had for the settlement of disputes by village elders. He said that the Lok Adalat in its present form are tribute to Justice V. R. Krishna Iyer, and Justice P.N. Bhawati and Justice Thakkar who were present at the first Lok Adalat. He said that the Una Lok Adalat saw the settlement of 95 percent of more than 600 cases taken by it then. He said that a judge can’t pronounce a please all verdict, as there will be a winner and a loser in a court verdict. He said that litigations are time consuming, expensive and retaliatory. Justice Dave said that settlement of large number of cases by

Lok Adalats reduces the burden of cases and judges get more time to deal with other cases. Asha Menon, secretary, NALSA, said that compared to the first national Lok Adalat held early this year, the ambit of second Lok Adalat has been enlarged to include revenue cases and hoped that a large number of them listed Saturday would be resolved. Menon sought to clarify that Lok Adalats were not a substitute for regular court but a forum for settling cases that can be settled amicably and need not remain pending. The second national Lok Adalat is expected to settle 50 lakh cases.

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China arrests former security chief

In this November 14, Zhou Yongkang, the then Chinese Communist Party Politburo Standing Committee member in charge of security, raises his hand to show approval for a work report during the closing ceremony for the 18th Communist Party Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China. China's official Xinhua News Agency says the country's former security chief, Zhou Yongkang, has been expelled from the Communist Party. Xinhua said the decision was made on December 5, at a meeting of the Political Bureau of the party's Central Committee. (AP File Photo)

BEIJING, DEcEmBEr 6 (AP): Chinese authorities arrested the once-feared ex-security chief Zhou Yongkang and launched a criminal investigation Saturday on charges ranging from adultery and bribery to leaking state secrets, after expelling him from the Communist Party overnight. The developments, announced shortly after midnight, pave the way for a trial of the most senior figure so far to be ensnared in President Xi Jinping’s anticorruption crackdown and appear to seal the downfall of a formerly powerful politician once considered a

potent rival for Xi. The square-jawed, granite-faced Zhou, 72, is the highest-level official to be prosecuted since the 1981 treason trial of Mao Zedong’s wife and other members of the “Gang of Four” who persecuted political opponents during the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution. Although the case against Zhou has been touted by state media as another example of the party’s determination to fight corruption regardless of one’s rank, some analysts say it is part of factional politics in the ruling party’s uppermost echelon.

“The fundamental issue remains the power struggle,” Beijing-based historian and independent political observer Zhang Lifan said. The announcement past midnight on a weekend is a sign that the party leadership wants to downplay its impact, Zhang said. An allegation that Zhou leaked state secrets may give authorities a reason to close the trial and keep dirty politics under the wraps, he added. Li Cheng, director of the John L. Thornton China Center at Washingtonbased think-tank Brookings, said the prosecution

against Zhou was a genuine effort by Beijing to root out corruption to rebuild the party’s image. Zhou had been under the party’s internal investigation for “severe disciplinary violations” — a phrase is usually used to describe corruption — since last December, a year after he retired as a Standing Committee member of the party’s Politburo. Investigations were made public in July. “He abused his power to help relatives, mistresses and friends make huge profits from operating businesses, resulting in serious losses of state-owned assets,” the official Xinhua News Agency said. The party’s Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said in a statement posted online that the decision to expel Zhou was made Friday at a meeting of the 25-member Politburo. Shortly after the expulsion was made public early Saturday, prosecutors announced Zhou’s formal arrest and opened a criminal case against him, the party said. The investigation had found that Zhou had “seriously violated the Party’s political, organizational and confidentiality discipline,” Xinhua said. “Zhou leaked the Party’s and country’s secrets,” the Xinhua report went on to say, without revealing what he might have leaked, or to whom. “He seriously violated self-disciplinary regulations and accepted a large amount of money and properties personally and through his family. Zhou committed adultery with a number of women

and traded his power for sex and money.” Any trial would be expected to have a foregone conclusion with Zhou’s conviction, because the outcomes of such highprofile trials are widely believed to be negotiated among top leaders ahead of time. Li of Brookings said Zhou would either get life imprisonment or a suspended death sentence. A line in the official report that investigators discovered other, unspecified crimes indicates Beijing could be negotiating for Zhou’s cooperation during the trial, Li said. Former members of the powerful Politburo Standing Committee had long been considered off-limits for prosecution in an unwritten rule aimed at preserving party unity. But Xi vowed to go after both lowand high-level officials in his campaign to purge the party of corruption and other wrongdoing that have undermined its legitimacy in the public eye. “What Zhou did completely deviated from the Party’s nature and mission, and seriously violated Party discipline. His behaviors badly undermined the reputation of the Party, significantly damaged the cause of the Party and the people, and have yielded serious consequences,” the report said. Zhou was once perceived as untouchable, with expansive patronage networks covering the sprawling southwestern province of Sichuan where he was once party boss and controlled the state oil sec-

tor, police and courts. More significantly, as China’s security chief, he oversaw the country’s domestic spy agencies, a position that afforded him access to information on other high-ranking politicians who might pose a threat to him. Zhou was born the son of an eel fisherman in a little-known eastern village, the eldest of three boys and the only one to attend university, from which he graduated as an engineer, according to financial news magazine Caixin. He spent the early part of his career in the oil sector, rising through the ranks over several decades to become the general manager of China National Petroleum Corp., one of the world’s biggest energy companies, in 1996. He then served as party chief of Sichuan province between 1999 and 2002, and became a Politburo Standing Committee member and the national security chief in 2007. Critics have said policies and practices introduced by Zhou, including indiscriminate crackdowns and harsh measures to preserve social stability have trampled on laws and sabotaged China’s fledgling legal system. But it is almost certain Zhou will not be held accountable for such offenses. “I believe authorities may want to put less political emphasis on Zhou’s case and want to handle it as a criminal case,” said Hong Daode, professor of criminal justice at China University of Political Science and Law.

Obama nominates Ashton Carter for Pentagon chief

President Barack Obama speaks as Ashton Carter, his nominee for defense secretary, listens during the announcement on December 5, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo)

WASHINGTON, DEcEmBEr 6 (rEUTErS): President Barack Obama on Friday nominated veteran defense expert Ashton Carter as his defense secre-

tary, a job that will require him to tackle messy wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan and try to fend off potentially damaging budget cuts.

In Carter, Obama chose a policy expert who has worked for 11 defense secretaries. The 60-year-old Carter pronounced himself ready to give Obama honest, strategic advice once he clears U.S. Senate confirmation, which should move quickly early next year. He replaces Chuck Hagel, who had privately expressed frustration with the administration’s strategy on Iraq and Syria and with his lack of influence over the policy, which was driven by the White House. Hagel did not attend the White House nominating ceremony, which is customary for departing Cabinet members. He is-

sued a statement praising the choice of Carter as his successor. White House spokesman Josh Earnest said the president did not feel snubbed, although he said Obama wanted Hagel to be there. “That was a decision that Secretary Hagel made and certainly it’s a decision that’s respected by everybody here at the White House,” he said. Officials have said Hagel, who resigned under pressure, had not always spoken up at meetings and seemed out of his depth on the Middle East. In remarks at the nomination ceremony, Carter told Obama: “I pledge to you my most candid strategic advice.”

Apart from helping formulate and implement the military campaign against Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria and wind down the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, Carter’s big task will be averting acrossthe-board budget cuts due in 2016. “His biggest problem coming in will be how to persuade Congress to remove the threat of sequestration in 2016,” Frank Kendall, the Pentagon chief arms buyer, said at a luncheon. He expected Carter, who if confirmed will be Obama’s fourth defense secretary, to support ongoing reforms of the way the Pentagon buys weap-

ons, and a drive to invest in technologies to ensure continued military superiority. Republican Senator John McCain, who will oversee Carter’s confirmation hearing as chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee from January, called him “a highly competent, experienced, hardworking and committed public servant.” But McCain, who has complained of Obama’s “micromanaging” of security policy, said: “He will likely have limited influence over the tight circle around the president who apparently control the entire strategic decision-making process.”

Typhoon’s effects felt in Philippines; 600K flee mANILA, DEcEmBEr 6 (AP): Powerful Typhoon Hagupit started lashing the eastern Philippines late Saturday, knocking down trees and causing power outages hours before it was expected to make landfall in a region still haunted by a monster storm last year, with 600,000 people fleeing to safety. Although it was unlikely to reach the unprecedented strength of Typhoon Haiyan, Hagupit was packing winds strong enough to cause major damage to an area still reeling from the devastating November 2013 storm, which left more than 7,300 people dead or missing. “There are many trees that have toppled, some of them on the highway,” police Senior Inspector Alex Robin said by phone late Saturday from Dolores, the first coastal town expected to be hit by Hagupit. “We are totally in the dark here. The only light comes from flashlights.” Hagupit — Filipino for “smash” or “lash” — was expected to slam into the central Philippine province of Eastern Samar, where Dolores is located, then hammer parts of a region that was devastated by Haiyan’s tsunami-like storm surges and ferocious winds. Hagupit weakened slightly on Saturday, but remained dangerously pow-

erful and erratic. Robin said about 600 families had hunkered down in the three-story municipal hall, one of many emergency shelters in Dolores. “Everyone here is just looking for a place to sleep,” he said. “All the windows are closed, but it is still cool because of the wind and the rain.” Eastern Samar province Rep. Ben Evardone said electricity also was knocked out early Saturday in Borongan city, about 70 kilometers (43 miles) south of Dolores, where the government has set up a command center for rescue and relief operations headed by Interior Secretary Mar Roxas. Evardone said the strong winds also felled trees and ripped off roofing sheets. “You can hear the whistling of the wind,” he said. “Everybody is in fear because of what happened during (Haiyan),” Evardone said. “We can already feel the wrath of the typhoon. Everybody is praying.” Big waves have pushed seawater over concrete walls along a boulevard, flooding it, Evardone said. “We’re on red alert, so the entire armed forces is being mobilized for this typhoon,” Gen. Gregorio Pio Catapang, head of the Philippines’ 120,000-strong

military, told a news conference earlier Saturday after discussing last-minute preparations. Army troops deployed to supermarkets and major roads in provinces in the typhoon’s path to prevent looting and chaos and clear debris, all of which slowed the government’s response last year, Catapang said. Although it’s unlikely to reach Haiyan’s unprecedented strength, forecasters said Hagupit’s maximum sustained winds of 175 kilometers (109 miles) per hour and gusts of 210 kph (130 mph) were strong enough to set off deadly storm surges and landslides and cause heavy damage to communities and agriculture. With a whirling band of rain clouds spanning 600 kilometers (373 miles), Hagupit has gained speed and was moving westward at 16 kph (10 mph), according to forecasters. In the central city of Tacloban, where Haiyan’s storm surges killed thousands of people and leveled villages, news of the approaching typhoon rekindled painful memories. Many residents fled to storm shelters, a sports stadium and churches even before authorities urged them to evacuate. “I’m scared,” said Haiyan survivor Jojo Moro. “I’m praying to God not to

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UN diplomats to debate North Korea rights

UNITED NATIONS, DEcEmBEr 6 (AP): Twothirds of the United Nations Security Council on Friday requested that North Korea’s human rights situation be placed on the council agenda for debate— the first step toward a possible referral to the International Criminal Court. The letter, submitted Friday morning to the current council president, says North Korea’s human rights violations “threaten to have a destabilizing impact on the region.” The U.N.’s most powerful body rarely considers a country’s human rights situation alone, and the letter is a strong statement that the signers see the issue as one affecting international peace and security. The letter, which was shown to The Associated Press, is signed by 10 of the 15 council members, including the United States. North Korea’s allies China and Russia did not sign. Placing this issue on the council’s agenda is the latest step in growing international pressure this year on North Korea over an issue it has long disdained. A U.N. commission of inquiry report early this year detailed widespread human rights abuses in the impoverished but nuclear-armed country and warned that leader Kim Jong Un could be held accountable. And last month, the General Assembly’s human rights committee approved a resolution calling on the Security Council to refer North Korea’s human rights situation to the ICC. “We are opposed to the agenda discussion in the U.N. Security Council,” a North Korean diplomat told the AP, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly. Japanese Ambassador Motohide Yoshikawa, whose country co-sponsored the recent resolution, told the AP that putting the issue on the council’s agenda is the first step toward an ICC referral. “It’s very much welcome,” he said. Even though permanent council member China is likely to use its veto power against an ICC referral, regular Security Council debate of North Korea’s human rights will elevate the issue. The letter requests “consideration of this agenda item as early as possible in December.” Council members have hurried to make this request before end of the year, when five of the current members are replaced.m Australia, one of the countries whose term on the council is due to expire, has energetically pursued getting this issue onto the council’s agenda before it leaves its council seat. The other countries signing the letter are Chile, France, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, South Korea, Rwanda, Britain and the United States. Longtime observers of the issue cheered. “The growing international concern - including that expressed by the U.N. General Assembly - around the commission of inquiry’s shocking findings has propelled the council to discuss the human rights situation in North Korea, a development that is long overdue,” said Param-Preet Singh, a senior counsel for Human Rights Watch.

Myanmar should investigate girl’s killing YANGON, DEcEmBEr 6 (rEUTErS): Myanmar’s government should investigate the military’s alleged killing of a 14-year-old girl whose father is being prosecuted for making “false charges” after filing a complaint about the attack, rights groups said Saturday. The girl, Ja Seng Ing, was shot by soldiers in September 2012 in her village in Kachin state, according to a 42-page report based on witness testimonies collected by a coalition of rights groups. Myanmar’s military has been battling the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), an ethnic guerilla group in the northern state bordering China, since a ceasefire agreement broke down in 2011. “Eyewitnesses allege that Myanmar army soldiers shot her at close range during a period of indiscriminate gunfire,” said a report by the Ja Seng Ing Truth Finding Committee, which also conducted a “physical investigation of the alleged crime scene”. The military has no spokesman and does not talk to journalists. Myanmar government spokesman Ye Htut did not respond to emailed questions and his office did not answer phone calls requesting comment. The army said Ja Seng Ing was killed by a mine detonated by the KIA, contradicting villagers who said soldiers opened fire on her and her friends at close range, the report said. Her father, Brang Shawng, wrote to President Thein Sein and the Human Rights Commission requesting an investigation. Subsequently, the military took him to court for making “false charges”, which carries a sentence of up to two years in prison. Bangkok-based Fortify Rights has documented abuses perpetrated by the military against civilians including killings and torture, said the rights group’s executive director Matthew Smith, who urged the military to drop the charges against Brang Shawng and end impunity for soldiers. The KIA’s second-in-command, General Gun Maw, accused the military of lying about the case of Ja Seng Ing. “That’s why the Kachin community doesn’t trust the Burmese military,” he told Reuters using alternative name for Myanmar. The latest round of peace talks between guerrilla groups and the semi-civilian government that took over in 2011 after nearly 50 years of military rule ended on Sept. 27 without agreement. Most of the rebel groups have been battling for greater autonomy under a federal system but the military has long stressed the need for a strong, centralised government, as set down in a 2008 military-drafted constitution.

Promising compound that kills rapidly malaria parasite A woman and his baby watch strong waves from Typhoon Hagupit hit Atimonan, Quezon province, eastern Philippines on December 6. Haunted by Typhoon Haiyan's massive devastation last year, more than 600,000 people fled Philippine villages and the military went on full alert Saturday to brace for a powerful storm only hours away from the country's eastern coast. (AP Photo)

let another disaster strike us again. We haven’t recovered from the first.” The 42-year-old businessman, who lost his wife, daughter and mother last year in Tacloban, said he stocked up on sardines, instant noodles, eggs and water. More than 600,000 people have been moved to safety, including in Tacloban. A U.N. humanitarian agency spokesman, Denis McClean, said in Geneva that it was one of the largest peacetime evacuations in Philippine history.

It also was reminiscent of the evacuation of 1 million people along India’s coastline before Cyclone Phailin hit in October 2013. Nearly 100 domestic flights have been canceled and inter-island ferry services suspended, stranding thousands of people. “We’ve not heard of villagers resisting to be evacuated,” regional disasterresponse director Blanche Gobenciong said. “Their trauma is still so fresh.” Disaster preparations widened after two agencies

tracking the typhoon closely — the U.S. military’s Joint Typhoon Warning Center in Hawaii and the Philippine weather agency — predicted different directions for Hagupit. Gobenciong said the unpredictable path made it harder to ascertain which areas would be hit, but added that everybody “should prepare for the worst.” “We have a zero-casualty target,” she said. “Just one loss of life will really sadden us all and make us wonder what went wrong.”

NEW YOrk, DEcEmBEr 6 (IANS): A team of researchers has discovered that an anti-malarial compound tricks the immune system into rapidly destroying red blood cells infected with the malaria parasite without harming healthy cells. The compound named (+)-SJ733 was developed from a molecule identified in previous research from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital that helped to jumpstart worldwide anti-malarial drug development efforts. In this study, researchers determined that (+)-SJ733 uses a novel mechanism to kill the deadliest Plasmodium falciparum parasite by recruiting the immune system to eliminate malaria-infected red blood cells. In a mouse model of malaria, a single dose of (+)SJ733 killed 80 percent of malaria parasites within 24 hours. After 48 hours, the parasite was undetectable. “Our goal is to develop an affordable, fast-acting combination therapy that cures malaria with a single dose,” said corresponding author R. Kiplin Guy, chair of the St. Jude’s department of chemical biology and therapeutics. The results indicate that SJ733 and other compounds that act in a similar fashion are highly-attractive additions to the global malaria eradication campaign, “which would mean so much for the world’s children”, he added. The study has appeared online in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

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IPTL: Sania 'super excited' about playing mixed doubles with Federer

New Delhi, December 6 (PTi): Sania Mirza's dream of playing alongside Roger Federer will be realised when the two team up for the mixed doubles in the third leg of the International Premier Tennis League (IPTL) beginning here Saturday. "Well what do I say. It will be a huge honour to share the court with Roger. Really looking forward to performing in front of the home fans," said Sania, who is representing table leaders Indian Aces in the four-team competition. Sania and Federer are scheduled to play mixed doubles on Sunday and Monday. Besides Roger and compatriot Rohan Bopanna, Pete Sampras will be Sania's another famed teammate. Asked who she would choose between Federer and Sampras for the mixed doubles, Sania said: "Well that is one hell of an option. I will take whoever you give me. I don't choose in this scenario". Sania and Bopanna are the lone Indians competing in the IPTL. In such a scenario, do they feel the event will benefit Indian tennis besides being an exhibition involving global icons like Federer and Sampras? "Most definitely it will benefit Indian tennis. This kind of a players' line up has never been seen before

in the country. It can do a lot to motivate the youngsters. There is a lot of difference when you watch it live and when you watch the game on on TV," said Sania. Bopanna added: "Speaking for myself on the subject, I think IPTL will do a lot of good. Being a doubles players, my matches are not shown on TV. All my friends tell me they only get to read about them in the newspapers. Now we are coming live and all these young kids can watch us play, seeing us they can be inspired to pick up the sport. "It is a great format and we have got some great camaraderie going on. I think overall tennis is the winner here," said Bopanna. An expected question asked to the players was on their experience of playing in an all new time restricted format. "It is fun. It can be part of the next season's preparation. Off season can be tiring otherwise. We normally spend lot of time with our team. Events like these outside your country is a good way to prepare," said world number five Ana Ivanovic, who was sitting alongside Sania. Sania, on her part, was all praise for the tournament. "It has been amazing so far. Initially there were a few changes we needed to get used to. We all came thinking it is going to be a

bit relaxed but like everyone is saying we are giving everything we have. It is a lot fun at the same time," said the Hyderabadi. "As tennis players we don't get to play team events very often. With IPTL we have struck have great friendships as well. Ivanovic added: "I have not played team events before and when I heard about this concept, I wanted to be a part of it. Like Sania said we hardly get to play team format. Earlier a lots of talks were going whether it (IPTL) will go ahead or not. I am happy it came through and we are enjoying a lot," said Ivanovic, who is also part of the Indian Aces. IPTL CEO Morgan Menahem was also present at the interaction. Asked about ATP chief Chris Kermode's 'glorified exhibition' remark on the IPTL, Menahem came up with a stern reply. "ATP has been criticising us for some time now. I will give you one example to explain my point. Tennis Australia are organising an exhibition match between Lleyton Hewitt and Roger Federer and they are following the new format. Therefore, it is the right direction for tennis. ATP, WTA, ITF should consider this IPTL format seriously. It is about brining more excitement and fans to the game," said Menahem.

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Spurs end Grizzlies long home winning streak memPhis, December 6 (aP): San Antonio ended Memphis' long home-court winning streak while extending their own dominance of the Grizzlies, winning 107-101 on Friday in a clash of rivals from the tightly-contested NBA Southwest Division. The top four teams in the division are separated by just one game, with all have a winning percentage above .700. Dallas dropped to the bottom of that grouping of four after losing at home against Phoenix, while other key results saw LeBron James lead Cleveland to victory at Toronto, and Washington maintain its sole leadership of the Southeast Division by comfortably beating Denver. Memphis had won its previous 22 regular-season home games, but never led against a San Antonio team that shot 14 of 25 from 3-point range. Manu Ginobili scored 17 points, and Tim Duncan had a tripledouble with 14 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists as the Spurs beat Memphis for the ninth-straight time. Marc Gasol led Memphis with 28 points and 12 rebounds as the Grizzlies dropped into a tie with Houston for the Southwest lead. Phoenix's Goran Dragic had 28 points and a season-high 13 assists to lead the Suns to a 118-106 win at Dallas, ending the Mavericks' run of five consecutive wins. Markieff Morris scored 22 for the Suns, who ran out to an 18-point lead in the first quarter and held on after the hosts pulled within five in the fourth. Monta Ellis scored 33 points for the Mavericks, who had no answer to a Phoenix team that shot 56 percent for the game and an impressive 70 percent in the first quarter en route to a 69 points in the first half. Cleveland won its sixth straight, with LeBron James contributing 24 points and a season-best 13 assists to

San Antonio Spurs guard Manu Ginobili (20) shoots against Memphis Grizzlies center Marc Gasol (33) in the second half of an NBA basketball game Friday, December 5, in Memphis, Tenn. The Spurs beat the Grizzlies 107-101. (AP Photo)

lead the Cavaliers to a 10591 win at Toronto. Kevin Love added 15 points and 13 rebounds for Cleveland, which moved within half a game of Central Division leader Chicago. Amir Johnson scored a season-high 27 points for the Raptors, who at least maintained their six-game lead in the Atlantic Division. Washington racked up its biggest score and biggest win for the year, defeating Denver 119-89, with Kris Humphries scoring 20 points. Rasual Butler and Kevin Seraphin each had 16 for the Wizards, who had six players in double figures and

posted their fourth-straight victory. Wilson Chandler's 20 points led the Nuggets, who had their equal lowest score of the season. Atlanta's DeMarre Carroll scored 16 of his 18 points in the first half to set up the Hawks' 98-75 win at Brooklyn. Paul Millsap had 17 points for the Hawks, who eased up after leading by 32 points, and notched a fifth straight victory. Brook Lopez had 20 points for the Nets. Milwaukee's Kendall Marshall came off the bench and scored a season-high 20 points, including three big 3-pointers in the fourth quarter which

Indians focused on Test as skipper MS Dhoni arrives

aDelaiDe, December 6 (aFP): India`s players say they are focused on next week`s opening Test as MS Dhoni`s arrival in Australia Saturday raised hopes he may lead his team against the home side at the Adelaide Oval. The tourists, like the Australians, are coming to terms with the tragic death of Test batsman Phillip Hughes, which plunged the cricket world into mourning. The Indians are preparing for Tuesday`s Test after a couple of two-day games against a Cricket Australia XI, while the Australian squad only begun training on Friday following the funeral of Hughes on Wednesday. The rescheduling of the Test series has opened the door for Dhoni to lead the Indians in

the series opener in Adelaide. Dhoni would have missed the originally scheduled first Test in Brisbane, slated to start last Thursday, because of a longstanding wrist injury. Dhoni flew into Adelaide on Saturday and will train with his team-mates on Sunday, an Indian team spokesman said, though he added that any decision on whether Dhoni would play in Adelaide was yet to be made. The death of Phillip Hughes after he was struck in the head by a bouncer in a domestic game late last month, forced a rejigging of the Test series, with Adelaide now hosting the opener. "We are professional cricketers, we have to move on," Indian paceman Ishant Sharma told reporters in Adelaide on Saturday.

"What has happened is really bad and everyone was really shocked ... but we are professional cricketers and need to look forward to what is coming next for us and that is what we will do." His team-mate Rohit Sharma said the first Test would be welcomed by a mourning cricket world. "It was a very sad incident but cricket has to go on, the game will go on," he told reporters. "Mentally, everyone is focused to do well. When you go out on the park, the only thing is about how to perform and give your best. "That incident of Phil Hughes will definitely be in everyone`s minds, but when it comes to this game we`ll all be focused on how to do well and get the best result."

shored up a 109-85 win against Miami. Khris Middleton had 14 points for the Bucks, who got 60 points from their bench players, as against 18 by Miami's reserves. Dwyane Wade's 28 points led the Heat, which has lost three straight. Houston escaped with a 114-112 win at Minnesota, with James Harden having 38 points before fouling out and Nick Johnson scoring the winner on a driving layup with 0.8 seconds to go. Sacramento's Carl Landry made the gamewinning basket with 0.8 seconds left to give the kings a 102-101 overtime win over

Indiana, ending a four-game skid. Orlando condemned Utah to its eighth-straight loss, beating the Jazz 98-93, with Tobias Harris scoring 22 points for the Magic. Boston's Tyler Zeller had season highs of 24 points and 14 rebounds to lead the Celtics over the Los Angeles Lakers 113-96. Charlotte ended a 10game losing slump by beating the equally hapless New York Knicks 103-102, with Kemba Walker driving for a winning layup as time expired. Oklahoma City's Russell Westbrook had 27 points in the Thunder's 10391 win over Philadelphia.

Kiphire Volley tourney concludes KiPhire, December 6 (mexN): The 5th Kiphire District Volleyball Tournament organized by the Kiphire District Volleyball Association under the theme â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fostering unity through sportsâ&#x20AC;? was held from December 3 to 5 at Public Ground Kiphire with Hobbs S Thonger and Rothrongki Sangtam, Inspector Asst. Labour Commission as Chief Guest and Guest of Honour respectively. A press release from Ariba Sangtam, Media and Publicity Secretary, KDVA informed that the chief guest in his message encouraged youngsters to join hands and build a better society. At the closing function, the guest of

honour exhorted players to maintain their healthy saying most of the Naga youths misused their talents by using unhealthy substances and intoxicants which hampers their career. Altogether 8 teams took part in the tournament. Kipongya Ward of Kiphire and Renewable Club emerged as champions and runners-up respectively. The Best team was awarded to Sporting Club of Seyochung. Best Spiker, Best Setter and Upcoming Young Player of the Tournament were awarded to Thsadongpi of Renewable Club, Rikhum of Kipongya ward and Akum of Zongtsa Club respectively.

Equal pay for women many Great Hornbill Adventure Trail flagged off World Cups away: FIFA

oTTawa, December 6 (reuTers): Women should not expect to be paid the same as men for many World Cups to come, said FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke on Friday, adding that any comparisons between the two tournaments was not worth debating. Valcke, who will conduct the 2015 women's World Cup draw on Saturday, noted that women will see prize money jump from the $10 million at the last World Cup in Germany to $15 million next year in Canada but it will be a long, long time before there will be the same type of pay parity that women enjoy at the tennis grand slams. "The comparison between the prize money of the men's World Cup in Brazil to the women's World Cup in Canada,

that's not even a question I will answer because it is nonsense," Valcke said at a news conference "We played 30th (men's) World Cup in 2014 and we are playing the seventh women's World Cup so things can grow step-by-step. "We are still another 23 World Cups before potentially women should receive the same amount as men. "The World Cup pays for all the 20 World Cups FIFA organises, the under-17, under-20 men and women, club football, beach soccer all is financed by the men's World Cup which brings directly $4.5 billion to FIFA." The women's game continues to grow in popularity with next year's finals featuring 24 nations, up from 16 in 2011, for the June 5 to July 6 at six venues across Canada. The Canadian Soccer Association said it expects

attendance to come in a close to 1.5 million. Still women's soccer has been a tough sell. When Valcke took over as FIFA's television rights and marketing director in 2003, one of his first projects was to see what appetite there was women's soccer as a standalone product. The results were not encouraging. "I went to various companies around the world trying to sell women's football on its own out of the men's events," said Valcke. "And I failed. "There was not a single company that said I am interested to just buy women's football. "Most of the partners said, OK we are ready to support women's football, we are ready to do more than what we are doing but what we wish to receive is the men's football because that is where we want to put our money."

Kohima, December 6 (mexN): The Great Hornbill Adventure Trail was flagged off today at Peraciezie junction, Kohima by Dr. Neikesalie Nicky Kire, Minister for Forest, Environment and Wildlife. The five day long Adventure Trail which is being managed by the Nagaland Adventure Club, will pass through the Territories of four tribes of Nagaland.

Altogether 24 participants have registered themselves for the event, wherein they will be guided by the NAC to various villages where they wil compete in various indigenous games and other competitions. Day 1 of the Trail will see the participants holding for the night at Ighanumi Village, where they will take part in the various indigenous games showcased by the host Vil-

lage. The Trail which is being organised with an aim to spread the wings of the Hornbill festival to the different districts of the State and not just confining the festivity to Kohima is an aim to promote the vibrant culture and natural beauty of Nagaland. After a night's hold at Ighanumi village the Trail will proceed to Tesophenyu Village on Day 2. Speaking on the event,

Himato Zhimomi, Commissioner & Secretary, Tourism Department, highlighted the purpose of organising the Trail and the aim of the Great Hornbill Adventure Trail as an attempt to showcase the beauty and culture of Nagaland, while educating and enlightening the participants of the cultures and places of the different tribes of Nagaland. He also further stated that the Trail

would be documented and made available for global viewing too. Flagging off the Trail, Chief Guest Dr. Nicky Kire stressed on the importance in letting people know the various cultures of the different Naga tribes. Opining that this Trail would help the participants both the local and the tourists in understanding and learning the cultures of the places they visited he also stressed on the need and importance of learning the cultures of the different tribes by all Nagas, mentioning how many within the state itself were ignorant about the cultures of the various tribes of the State. The flagoff function was chaired by Vincent Belho. President NAC, Thejakielie Zuyie also spoke On the occasion while Jonathan Mesen, Asso. Pastor Power Comm ,UBC Kohima invoked God's blessing for the event.

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‘This can be only God!’ Backstreet Boys James Basnet talks about IMEA Awards 2014 and more

Documentary to be released on January 30

documentary on famous American vocal group Backstreet Boys, titled ‘Show ‘Em What You’re Made of’ is set to release on January 30 next year. The independent film distribution company Gravitas Ventures has acquired the North American theatrical, VOD and DVD rights for the documentary, reported Variety. The film is directed by Stephen Kijak and it stars the original group members Nick carter, Howie Dorough,

ames Basnet is a song writer/worship leader. He released his first album titled Brand New Day in 2013. He was nominated in the IMEA Awards 2014 (International Music and Entertainment Association) in three categories, Christian/Gospel male artist of the year, Christian/Gospel album of the year and Christian/Gospel song of the year. The awards ceremony was held in Ashland, Kentucky, USA in October 2014. He won in two categories, for the Christian/Gospel male artist of the year and Christian/Gospel song of the year for the song Brand New Day. He also recently won the Akademia Music awards (Los Angeles) for best song Christian World Beat.

This is an interview with the artist on winning the IMEA awards Your feelings after winning the awards?

Any tours in the offing?

It feels great! It is amazing what God can do with just In the second week of December, I have a concert in one album. Going to USA representing NE India and Bhutan border. Next year, I will be with my band, leading bringing home two awards is just a dream come true. and teaching about worship across the United States of America with BNCA of Georgia. I am also releasing my original Christmas song with video on the 6th of DeCould you relate your experience at the first cember and I am giving it for free to all my well wishers.

IMEA Awards?

It was a first, walking on the red carpet and getting in- How would you describe music and its terviewed. Then presenting and also winning the IMEA Awards. The performances were amazing and it was just role in your life? Music has always been a very important part of my a humbling experience to stand among such talented and life, a source of strength in hard times. I have been leading accomplished artists from all over the world. worship for half of my life and that is exactly what I want to spend the rest of my life doing.

How would you describe this success?

The best way to put it is, ‘This can be only God!’ There are so many gifted artists out there but how I got to the Any messages to your well-wishers Thank you so much for voting, for praying and standIMEA, God only knows. All I know is that I have given and will give all for Jesus and may His name be glorified ing with me, believing for the best. I am really blessed by all the love and support that I have been receiving so far. through this success. Please continue to pray for me and my family. You all are a great blessing in my life. My Christmas gift to all of IMEA Awards in two categories from such you is my Christmas single so please download it for free, your first album, and what next? and share it with all you friends. Download the song from Next I am working on my second album and God will- my website www.sushanjamesbasnet.com and watch the ing, work with an international producer who has pro- video on YouTube, type James Basnet, The Saviour is born. duced for great respected Christian artists like Michael For updates on my upcoming events, you can check out my W. Smith, Ron Kenoly, Israel Houghton and many more. FB page, www.facebook.com/sushanjamesbasnet

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I was a professional gambler: Tilda Swinton

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ctress Tilda Swinton says she used to be a professional gambler and used to win a lot of money betting on horses. The 54-year-old ‹Grand Budapest Hotel› star says she made a lot of money from betting on horses before she found fame, reported Contactmusic. When I lived in London, there were a couple of years when I didn›t really earn money doing anything else. I mean, I did other things, like I made work, and I was working with Derek Jarman at the time, but the way I made money was putting money on horses,» Swinton said. «My grandfather had an old gardener called Bert Matheson, and he taught me how to pick winners, and it kind of works! It›s very strange. I mean, it doesn›t always work, of course. It›s got something to do with the form, and there›s a certain amount of knowledge about particular horses, but it really is not that. It›s to do with, um, just looking at the horses in the ring and asking whether they›re gonna win or not! Basically, I mean,» she added.

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Brian Littrell, AJ Mclean and Kevin Richardson. «From 1992 to 2002, we were the biggest band in the world. No one thought it was going to be as big as it was. Then it just stopped. And what do you do when you are a full grown man in a boy band?» Littrell said. It is produced by the band members along with Mia Bays. Backstreet Boys, which has sold 130 million records worldwide and, released its eight studio album ‹In a World Like This› last year on July 30.

Aaron Carter Rihanna Threatened By Jeweler denies obsession Rihanna’s patriotic Veteran’s Day post lands her in hot water with jewellers

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ihanna has been ordered to delete a patriotic photograph posted on her Instagram and Twitter feeds to celebrate Veterans’ Day after a jewellery company claimed she stole it, it has been reported. The R&B star uploaded the image of an glistening diamond necklace hovering above a rendition of the Stars and Stripes in the shape of a ‘V’. She, or a member of her publicity team, then superimposed an image of herself beside it and removed the hashtag of the jewellery company which created the original picture. In the original, the hashtag #coronetdiamonds appears in the bottom right hand corner of the image. But now Coronet Diamonds has issued a cease and iladesist notice to the singer, demanding that she take it H h it he is down and apologize, TMZ.com reported. ‹So we found w d out Coronet has sent Rihanna a cease and desist letter,› sse gesting 2003. e s b reported TMZ. ‹They›ll settle for an apology on Rihanna›s ot o for sug split in n social media platforms ... an apology that makes it clear s ’ s e r Coronet created the image.› ts h t critic g thei s i s Rihanna has more than 14 million followers on Insr in ack a llowin e t tagram and 38.3 million followers on Twitter. Veterans r Ca d hit b her fo Day is an official United States holiday that honors n o people who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Aar uff an g after It is a federal holiday that is observed on November ry Dl pinin 11. Rihanna’s representatives did not respond when stil approached by MailOnline for comment. he 26-year-old star, who dated the ‘Chasing the Sun’ hitmaker, 27, when she was 13, hit back at critics for suggesting he is still pining after her because he posted a photograph of himself watching an old episode of her Disney series, ‹Lizzie McGuire,› in which he kissed her, on Instagram this week. He wrote on Twitter: ‹›It›s not my fault that @DisneyChannel was playing my episode of ‹Lizzie McGuire› while I had some time to watch TV the other night. ‹›All of these jokes aren›t funny anymore. Let it go because it›s starting to creep ME outnow.›› The former couple dated for two years until 2003 and Hilary, who has a two-year-old son, Luca, with estranged husband MIKE COMRIE, recently admitted she felt ‹›uncomfortable›› when Aaron declared his love for her in March. Speaking about him in October, she said: ‹›It›s...ugh! I don›t know. I don›t know what to say about it! ‹›It [our relationship] was so many years ago. I literally haven›t seen him ... so, it›s uncomfortable.›› The ‹Crush On You› hitmaker called Hilary the love of his life shortly after she announced her separation from Mike in January. He tweeted at the time: ‹›I›ll spend the rest of my life trying to better myself to get back to her. I don›t care what ANY of you think. ‹›Don›t be that stupid douche that loses the love of your life forever... Like me...›

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Shocking Celebrity Revelations Lady Gaga

n a shocking revelation, pop star Lady Gaga told radio show host Howard Stern that she was raped as a 19-yearold by a music producer who was 20 years older. Initially numb to the shock, the singer says it was at least four or five years before the ordeal really hit her. Gaga even wrote a song called Swine about rape and demoralisation, but never went on to confront the rapist. She told Stern that she saw him in a store once, and was too paralysed by fear. Since then, she has gone through a lot of mental, physical and emotional therapy to heal and music has helped wonderfully.

Shia LaBeouf

he actor revealed last week that he was raped by a woman in a gallery earlier this year. He said the incident happened at an event in Los Angeles where he sat silently in a gallery for five days with a paper bag on his head. According to LaBeouf, one woman whipped his legs for 10 minutes and then stripped his clothing and proceeded to rape him.

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British actress Joan Collins shared in a new documentary her memory of being raped by her then fiancé Maxwell Reed at 17. Out of shame and guilt, Collins continued her relationship with Reed and eventually agreed to marry him.

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n October, pop star Kesha accused music producer Dr Luke of sexual assault and battery in a lawsuit. The singer alleged that he was abusive to her from the time she signed on with him at the age of 18.

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Newcastle end Chelsea's unbeaten run

NEWCASTLE, DECEmbEr 6 (AP): Premier League leader Chelsea slipped to its first defeat of the season by losing 2-1 at Newcastle on Saturday, with substitute Papiss Cisse scoring both of the home side's goals in the second half. Cisse scored in the 57th and 78th minutes before Newcastle had defender Steven Taylor sent off in the 81st for a second yellow card. Substitute Didier Drogba reduced the deficit two minutes later by heading in Cesc Fabregas' free kick but relentless pressure from Chelsea failed to deliver an equalizer. The loss ended Chelsea's 23-match unbeaten run in all competitions stretching back to April. Jose Mourinho's team hadn't lost in 21 games this season. Chelsea was looking to set a new club record of 24 matches unbeaten by avoiding defeat at Newcastle but was sunk at a ground where it has now lost in three straight seasons. Mourinho hasn't won in five trips to St. James' Park. In a dramatic finish, Newcastle had 21-year-old goalkeeper Jak Alnwick — who came on as a halftime substitute for his competitive debut following an injury to Rob Elliot — to thank for preserving its lead, saving superbly from Diego Costa and Filipe Luis in a nerve-wracking six minutes of injury time. "I was a little bit nervous but it was slightly easier coming on at halftime because I didn't have time to think about it too much," said Alnwick, who is Newcastle's third-choice keeper after the injured Tim Krul and Elliot. "It was a great experience for me." Cisse put Newcastle ahead just four minutes after coming on by tapping in from close range after Chelsea defender Gary Cahill failed to clear a cross from Sammy Ameobi. The Senegal striker then doubled the lead by slotting home from just inside the area after Moussa Sissoko stumbled when through on goal and managed to poke the ball across to Cisse. Eden Hazard had struck a shot against the post at the other end barely a minute earlier Taylor was dismissed for a studs-up tackle on substitute Andre Schuerrle, and Drogba scored almost immediately by getting in front of Alnwick to glance in Fabregas' cross.

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Dos Santos strike keeps Delhi Dynamos in hunt for ISL semis

PuNE, DECEmbEr 6 (PTI): Brazilian winger Gustavo dos Santos' magical left-foot kept Delhi Dynamos in contention for a semi-final berth as they defeated Pune City FC by a solitary goal in the 13th round encounter of the Indian Super League. Dos Santos, who scored his fifth goal in the tournament, broke the deadlock in the 88th minute to take Dynamos to 17 points and up to the fourth position in the league table. A win in their last away encounter against Chennayin FC will be enough to take Dynamos to the knockout stages while Pune at 16 points and in sixth place

will now have to win their last game and look forward towards favourable results. Dos Santos, who probably has been only second to countryman Elano Blumer in terms of exhibiting brilliant individual skills weaved past a couple of defenders before slotting it from a narrow angle beating Pune FC custodian Arindam Bhattacharya. What makes his goal special was the move initiated from the right flank and Dos Santos again did all the spadework with his left-foot. Alessandro del Piero got some 22 minutes of match time but didn't look like bothering the Pune defence.

Pune should have got the equalizer in the dying moments when their Nigerian striker Dudu Omagbemi had a free header from a cross essayed by Saidou Panandetiguiri. But Dudu failed to direct his nod with Kristof Van Hout at his mercy. The closest that Dudu came to scoring was in the 77th minute when a misdirected header from Jermaine Penant left Dudu with an opportunity to score from a sniffing distance but his shot went booming over the horizontal. Even Greek World Cup Kostas Katsouranis was guilty of not able to head home a perfect cross from Korean Park.

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Newcastle United's goalkeeper Jak Alnwick, left, vies for the ball with Chelsea's Diego Costa, right, during their English Premier League soccer match at St James' Park, Newcastle, England, Saturday, December 6. (AP Photo)

Germany beat India in Hockey Champions Trophy

NEW DELHI, DECEmbEr 6 (AGENCIES): India started their FIH Champions Trophy campaign on a losing note after Germany scored in dying minutes to beat the hosts 1-0 in Pool B match in Bhubaneswar on Saturday. Florian Fuchs scored in the 60th minute for the Olympic champions in a game that saw both the teams missing out on several scoring opportunities.

In the day’s other games, England earned a surprise 3-1 victory over five-time defending champion Australia while Belgium defeated Pakistan 2-1 in another pool A match. In the Pool B match, Netherlands outplayed Argentina by 3-0 goals. Samuel Ward struck two goals while Alastair Brogdon was the other scorer for England, which earned its first ever win

over Australia in the tournament. Penalty-corner specialist Chris Ciriello found the mark for Australia, which has been forced to try out new combinations due to a spate of injuries and a few retirements. Both teams played with black bands on their arms in memory of Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes, who died last week after being hit by a bouncer in a domestic game.

Belgium, which is considered the dark horse as it has the most experienced side in this tournament, made a strong start getting goals through Tanguy Cosyns and Thomas Briels. Captain Muhammad Imran converted a penalty stroke for Pakistan. Netherlands playing against Argentina launched a series of attacks right from the start and got five penalty cor-

ners in the first quarter, converting one through Mink van der Weerden in the 12th minute. In the second half, the Dutch increased lead when Robbert Kemperman converted a beautiful pass from Sander Baart with a reverse stick strike. With 11 minutes to go for the final whistle, Diede van Puffelen scored the third goal securing a deserved 3-0 victory.

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