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People think the ones responsible for the future of the country are the government and the president, and he should be the one to find solutions for the problems, he says. |
Omar Sultuane, a demonstrator, said people just wanted stability. |
No one cares about Renamo and Frelimo, they just want peace again, they want free access to the roads, he said. |
Children should be taught myths and legends as "models for a way of life", author says. |
Tales of Thor could show "brute strength is no match for subtle trickery," while the Arthurian legends reveal the importance of having a dream. |
Saying many of the myths would be "far too wild, far too scandalous and in some cases far too filthy to be taught in schools," Crossley-Holland advocated a "careful selection" of age-appropriate works. |
I find it wonderful that in America, myth and folklore already has a part in education, he said. |
I have been advocating it as a plan for twenty years. |
He added authors and teachers being "overtly didactic" is a "total switch-off" for children, with messages being "subliminated" in enjoyable stories. |
Crossley-Holland, who has translated Beowulf from Anglo-Saxon as well as writing the Penguin Book of Norse Myths and British Folk Tales, said: "You may well have intentions but you do better to keep them well out of sight." |
Perhaps the big difference between an adult author writing for an adult and an adult author writing for a child is the necessity for some sense of hope. |
Not that everything has to be simplified or come to a happy ending, but that there is an innate sense of good and evil. |
And that must be subliminated; revealed through a story rather than stated. |
The old basis of showing not telling. |
Samvaad Associate, Ghumaarvi: the head constable, Om Prakash, retired after serving the Police Department for 32 years in Ghumaarvi. |
To celebrate the occasion the employees and officers of the Police Department organised a farewell party. |
Om Prakash is a resident of Bhapral village in Bhapral gram panchayat. |
He served very well throughout his entire tenure. |
Ben Greenman: The Tenth Anniversary of the New York Comedy Festival: The New Yorker |
One could argue that New York City is the birthplace of standup comedy in America: nearly a hundred years ago, the vaudevillian Frank Fay, who served as the master of ceremonies at the Palace Theatre, on Broadway, started telling jokes directly to the crowd, in a conversational manner. |
Fay's innovation has been extended through the years, most recently by the New York Comedy Festival. |
Created and overseen by Caroline Hirsch, the founder of the standup institution Carolines, the festival celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, with more than sixty shows at small clubs and large theatres. |
Most of these headliners appeared at Carolines, and went on to greater success, to the point where they're too big to play a club, Hirsch said. |
We built this festival as a way of continuing to work with them. |
This year's event includes appearances by Wanda Sykes, Kathy Griffin, and Bill Maher, as well as "Stand Up for Heroes," an annual music-and-comedy benefit for military veterans, at Madison Square Garden, featuring, among others, Bruce Springsteen, Jon Stewart, Roger Waters, and Bill Cosby. |
As the festival has expanded, so has the world of comedy. |
Several of the comedians participating in this year's festival came up through nontraditional channels, such as shows on smaller networks, like Comedy Central, FX, and Spike. |
Nick Kroll rose to prominence on a deep-cable sitcom (FXX's gleefully raunchy fantasy-football-themed "The League") and now has his own Comedy Central sketch show. |
Jenny Slate has been a cast member on both "Saturday Night Live" and "Parks and Recreation," though she is best known for her viral video series "Marcel the Shell with Shoes On." |
Both Kroll and Slate, as well as other young comedians with distinctive voices (the surreally pessimistic Anthony Jeselnik, the wry, racially focussed W. Kamau Bell), are products of the decentralized world of American comedy. |
One of the festival's biggest draws will be an interview: David Steinberg talking to Larry David. |
Steinberg started as a standup comedian but has become an accomplished television and film director, as well as an unofficial comedy historian. |
From 2005 to 2007, he hosted a show on TV Land called "Sit Down Comedy with David Steinberg." |
The meeting takes place at Town Hall, in the center of Manhattan. |
The city is definitely in the comedy DNA of all of Larry's work, Steinberg said. |
He was telling me that, when he's here, sometimes he'll walk down an alley between two buildings and think to himself, Hey, if I lose all my money, maybe I'll live here. |
Oil extends drop toward $96 a barrel |
The price of oil continued to fall on Friday as concerns over high supplies offset a report showing China's power-hungry manufacturing sector is strengthening. |
Benchmark U.S. crude for December delivery was down 14 cents at $96.24 a barrel by late morning in Europe in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. |
The contract fell 39 cents on Thursday, leaving it down 5.8 percent for the month of October. |
Ample supplies of crude have weighed on the price in recent weeks. |
The Energy Department said Wednesday that U.S. supplies increased 4.1 million barrels last week. |
Over five weeks, supplies have risen by more than 25 million barrels. |
But a suggestion of stronger demand came Friday from two reports on Chinese manufacturing that showed an uptick in activity. |
That suggests China's economic recovery could continue to strengthen after growth rebounded to 7.8 percent in the third quarter from a two-decade low in the previous quarter. |
Brent crude, a benchmark for international crude also used by U.S. refineries, fell 26 cents to $108.58 a barrel on the ICE exchange in London. |
Court blocks ruling on NYPD stop-and-frisk policy |
A federal appeals court on Thursday blocked a judge's order requiring changes to the New York Police Department's stop-and-frisk program and removed the judge from the case. |
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the decisions of Judge Shira Scheindlin will be stayed pending the outcome of an appeal by the city. |
The judge had ruled in August the city violated the Constitution in the way it carried out its program of stopping and questioning people. |
The city appealed her findings and her remedial orders, including a decision to assign a monitor to help the police department changes its policy and training program associated with it. |
The appeals court heard arguments Tuesday on the requested stay. |
The appeals court said the judge needed to be removed from the case because she ran afoul of the code of conduct for U.S. judges by compromising the necessity for a judge to avoid the appearance of partiality in part because of a series of media interviews and public statements responding publicly to criticism of the court. |
The judge had ruled that police officers violated the civil rights of tens of thousands of people by wrongly targeting black and Hispanic men with its stop-and-frisk program. |
She appointed an outside monitor to oversee major changes, including reforms in policies, training and supervision, and she ordered a pilot program to test body-worn cameras in some precincts where most stops occur. |
In August, New York City agreed to end the practice of storing the names and addresses of people whose cases are dismissed after a police stop. |
An oral argument on the city's appeal is scheduled for sometime after March 14, 2014. |
The stop-and-frisk tactic has been criticized by a number of civil rights advocates. |
Stop-and-frisk has been around for decades in some form, but recorded stops increased dramatically under the administration of independent Mayor Michael Bloomberg to an all-time high in 2011 of 684,330, mostly of black and Hispanic men. |
A lawsuit was filed in 2004 by four men, all minorities, and became a class action case. |
Supporters of changes to the NYPD's stop-and-frisk program say the changes will end unfair practices, will mold a more trusted and effective police force and can affect how other police departments use the policy. |
Opponents say the changes would lower police morale but not crime, waste money and not solve a broader problem of a police force under pressure after shrinking by thousands of officers during the last decade. |
The judge noted she wasn't putting an end to the stop-and-frisk practice, which is constitutional, but was reforming the way the NYPD implemented its stops. |
Huge numbers of participants from Godda, Pakuf, Jamshedpur, Dhanbad, Hazaribagh and Chatara districts took part in the training. |
All the participants were trained in many disciplines over a period of seven days, including pitching tents and erecting flag poles. |
Training is being provided with the co-operation of Dr. Ashutosh Kumar Roy and Isha Ghosh. |
All the participant helped to spread a sense of unity by taking part in nondenominational prayer sessions. |
The Camp Chief and Commissioner of State Training, Vipin Kumar, is offering special assistance. |
Coulson used phone hacking to verify tip |
Former News of the World editor Andy Coulson allegedly used "phone hacking, surveillance and confrontation" in an attempt to confirm a bogus tip about an affair involving then-home secretary Charles Clarke. |
Prosecutor Andrew Edis QC told the Old Bailey that the News of the World heard a false rumour in May 2005 that Clarke was seeing his "attractive special adviser," Hannah Pawlby. |
The newspaper tasked private investigator Glenn Mulcaire with hacking Pawlby's voicemails and "door-stepped" her, but Coulson also called and left her voicemails, the court heard. |
The prosecution suggests that Mr Coulson, who is now the editor of the NotW, he is not the man who stands outside people's houses hoping to catch them out, he is the man who likes to put the story to people to see what they will say, Mr Edis said. |
He said the NotW used three ways to investigate stories: phone hacking, surveillance, and confrontation. |
The editor is personally involved in the third. |
Obviously he knows about the second, surveillance, he must do. |
What about the first? |
Does he know about phone hacking? |
He says he doesn't, we say "Oh yes, he did". |
Rumours about an affair involving Clarke were first picked up by the NotW's features desk when a source who was sexually interested in Ms Pawlby was told: "Don't bother wasting your time, she's with Charles." |
A tape of voicemails taken from her phone on at least three occasions was seized from Mulcaire's home in August 2006. |
Investigators also found entries on the private investigator's computer which had Ms Pawlby and her sister as "Projects." |
During the period she was being investigated, Ms Pawlby's grandparents received anonymous calls asking for information about her, Mr Edis said. |
Meanwhile, former chief reporter Neville Thurlbeck and former reporter James Weatherup oversaw surveillance of Ms Pawlby's movements. |
Leaving her a voicemail on June 18 2005, Coulson told her: "I've got a story that we're planning to run tomorrow that I really would like to speak to Charles about." |
Mr Edis said Coulson's involvement in the story followed the same pattern as with other important men, such as former home secretary David Blunkett. |
The jury heard on Thursday that Coulson confronted Mr Blunkett over an affair with a married woman while he was himself seeing co-defendant Rebekah Brooks, who was married at the time. |
Coulson and Brooks deny conspiring with others to hack phones between October 3 2000 and August 9 2006. |
Mulcaire, Thurlbeck and Weatherup have admitted phone hacking. |
NSA revelations boost corporate paranoia about state surveillance |
On a mild day in late August a German police helicopter buzzed low over the US consulate in Frankfurt, the financial capital of Germany. |
On the instruction of the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), Germany's domestic intelligence agency, its mission was to photograph the rooftop of the US outpost, which is located less than 5km from the European Central Bank and Bundesbank. |
German media say the BfV hoped to identify the presence of listening antennas and the action prompted an exchange between the US and the German foreign ministry in Berlin. |
James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence, insisted again in September that the US does not use foreign intelligence capabilities "to steal the trade secrets of foreign companies on behalf of US companies to enhance their international competitiveness or increase their bottom line." |
But ever since Edward Snowden, the contractor turned whistleblower, began releasing his treasure trove of US surveillance secrets, European governments and business leaders are no longer sure whether to take the director at his word. |
Reports that the US National Security Agency spied on Brazilian oil company Petrobras and gained access to data held by US cloud providers including Google and Yahoo have ratcheted corporate paranoia about state surveillance to new highs. |
The final straw came when it was revealed that Chancellor Angela Merkel's phone had been bugged, possibly for about a decade. |
If Europe's most powerful person can be targeted, then surely business leaders are also potential targets. |
Snowden has made transparent the intensive collaboration between US intelligence services and companies. |
I think it's conceivable that these data are used for mutual benefit. |