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How to write a minor character
There is no truly minor character in Toy Story in terms of impact
Most novels or screenplays contain at least one minor character. This is a character who serves the plot in some important way, but who does not warrant the time and space required to develop him into a major player.
One of the pitfalls of crafting minor characters is that they can easily slip into stereotype or cliche, possibly because writers tend to create such characters more out of necessity than passion. Yet, such pitfalls are easily avoided.
Aks yourself the following questions:
1. What is the function of the character in the scene you intend to write?
2. Can this function be performed by an existing character?
In deciding this, consider whether this is truly a secondary character, or a bit-part player. Bit-part players occupy brief moments in a story and need not be extensively fleshed out. What is this character's relationship to the plot? Is it simply to convey new information, or is the character emotionally linked to the protagonist or antagonist? If emotionally linked, he/she/it is a minor character, rather than a bit-player.
3. What is your minor character's background — upbringing, education, occupation? Her background will influence her style of dress, body type, body language, dialect, speech idiosyncrasies, hobbies, unexpected interests. The latter are markers which, in the absence of deep interaction and complexity, grant a minor character uniqueness at a glance.
The Minor character in Toy story
In the film, Toy Story, the Dinosaur and Mr. Potato Head are minor characters who are uniquely differentiated through their speech, appearance, and psychological make-up. The Dinosaur is timid and nervous, while Mr. Potato Head is irreverent, bold, and sure of himself. They are as different from each other as Woody is from Buzz Lightyear. They are a wonderful illustration of coulorful and interesting characters made so through broad strokes.
Create interesting minor characters by infusing each with physical and psychological traits that manifest in unique dialogue and behavioural patterns.
This entry was posted in On Character and tagged amwriting, Ian1, Minor character, minor characters, novel, novelist, screenplay, screenwriter, writer, writetip on November 26, 2017 by Stavros Halvatzis.
Dramatic Irony in Stories
Dramatic Irony in Moulin Rouge
Dramatic irony typically occurs when the reader or audience, and at least one of the characters in a story are made privy to important information that the protagonist is unaware of, or presumes the opposite of what is known to be true.
Create dramatic Irony in your story by doing the following:
1. Show the reader or audience the kind of misunderstanding or deception that is being perpetrated. This could be intended or unintended.
2. Place the protagonist in that situation without revealing to her the information necessary for her to know she is being deceived.
3. Play the scene out, step by step, allowing the reader or audience to observe the protagonist suffering the consequences of events and actions, whilst thinking the situation to be precisely the opposite of what is actually happening.
Use dramatic irony to heighten the emotion in a scene or scene sequence.
In Moulin Rouge, Satin pretends not to love Christian. She does this to force him to leave her and so save his life, since Maharaja, the owner of the establishment, who wants her for himself, will kill him if he stays. Christian believes her and this causes him immense pain. The dramatic irony of these actions generates heightened emotion in the audience which perceives Satin's motive as a selfless show of love.
Dramatic irony occurs when the audience as well as one or more character is made aware of the true nature of a situation while the protagonist is not. The effect on the reader and audience is to heighten emotion.
This entry was posted in Story Design and tagged amwriting, Dramatic Irony, Ian1, novel, screenplay, screenwriter, writer, writetip on November 19, 2017 by Stavros Halvatzis.
The Hero's Journey in Stories
The hero's journey in The Matrix
THE hero's journey can be viewed as a composite of two sorts of paths through the story world.
The one is an outer journey that contains the physical events that play out in this world. The other is an inner journey that motivates the hero's actions.
Think of the inner journey as the path that takes the hero to a state of higher knowledge and self-awareness. Only when he has achieved this state will his outer actions be of sufficient quality to defeat the antagonist in the external world.
Defining the hero's journey in The Matrix
In The Matrix, Neo's love interest, Trinity, and his relationship with his friends, provide some of the most important reasons he embarks on his outer journey.
His goal is to defeat the antagonistic forces that keep humanity slumbering in a virtual world. That is his outer journey.
But in order to complete his outer journey successfully he has to undertake an inner journey that will culminate in the realisation that he is the only one capable of defeating agent Smith and the machines. This march to self awareness is a prerequisite for wielding the power he needs to achieve success.
His friendship with Morpheus and his crew, and his love for Trinity, therefore, are spurs to Neo's outer journey.
Often, the inner and outer journeys intersect in one powerful scene. In The Matrix, Neo dies at the hands of agent Smith only to be brought back to life through Trinity's love, symbolised by a kiss.
The inner journey provides the explanation for the hero's actions that comprise his outer journey.
This entry was posted in Story Design and tagged amwriting, Hero's journey, Ian1, novel, novelist, screenplay, screenwriter, writetip on November 12, 2017 by Stavros Halvatzis.
Writing a strong story ending
Unforgiven has a strong story ending
A strong story ending is essential to the success of your tale and is the result of deliberate planning from the very start of your manuscript.
Here are five suggestions for writing such an ending:
1. Play up the reputation of the protagonist, and even more so, the antagonist
Stories are about the protagonist and antagonist involved in a life and death struggle of some sort. Enhancing the reputation of these two essential characters ups the stakes and leads to a more engaging and tense ending.
In Unforgiven, William Munny, the protagonist, is described by the opening titles as "a known thief, murderer, a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition." Later he is described by the Kid as being "the same one that shot Charley Pepper up in Lake County? You're the one who killed William Harvey and robbed that train in Missouri." Likewise, the antagonist, Sheriff Bill Daggett, is described by a deputy as being utterly fearless. He is seen beating English Bob, a hardened murderer, within an inch of his life. His toughness and cruelty enhances his reputation as a feared antagonist.
A truly memorable story ending is as surprising as it is inevitable. Foreshadowing it, therefore, has to be subtly crafted so as not to show its hand.
2. Cast doubt about the outcome of the final confrontation
The more we doubt the ability of the protagonist to achieve his goal by defeating the antagonist, the more we root for his success, and the more we fear for his failure. When we first meet William Munny we find him slipping and falling amongst the pigs in the pen. The Kid says of him: "You don't look like no rootin' tootin' cold blooded assassin." And later, it takes Munny four shots to get the first cowboy. Compared with Little Bill's ruthless skills, this makes us fear for his survival against the Sheriff.
3. Shift direction
Introducing twists which thwart our expectations, causes us to worry about the outcome. Little Bill beats up William Munny at the saloon, and Munny spends three days hovering near death. The Kid remarks that Munny is useless. Munny hardly appears as a man who can fulfill his contract and succeed in standing up to Little Bill.
4. Increase the suspense around the final confrontation
When Munny is told that Ned Logan has been beaten to death by Little Bill, he knows that he has to go back and revenge his death. He knows that this might result in his own death. He tells The Kid "Here, take this money and give my half and Ned's half to my kids." Munny's doubts about the outcome of the confrontation increases our suspense even more.
5. Have the final confrontation play out in the antagonist's stronghold
Facing the antagonist in his own lair weakens the protagonist's ability to prevail. Munny faces Little Bill in the saloon, surrounded by Little Bill's deputies and henchmen. This stacks the deck against Munny and makes it unlikely that he will survive the confrontation.
A powerful ending increases the tension in the story by making the likelihood of the protagonist prevailing over the antagonist seem unlikely.
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Архангельская волость — волость в составе Егорьевского уезда Рязанской губернии, с 1919 года Спас-Клепиковского района (c 1921 по 1924 гг. Спас-Клепиковского уезда) Рязанской губернии, существовавшая в 1861—1929 годах.

История
Архангельская волость была образована в 1861 году в ходе крестьянской реформы. Административным центром волости было село Архангельское. Здесь располагалось Волостное правление, начальная школа, Архангельская и Сретенская церкви. В 1919 году волость передана из Егорьевского уезда во вновь образованный Спас-Клепиковский район.  В ходе реформы административно-территориального деления СССР в 1929 году Архангельская волость была упразднена. Большая часть селений вошла в Коробовский район Московской области, оставшаяся часть (деревни Дрошино, Ивановская, Князево, Тюрьвищи, Ханино и село Ялмонт) были оставлены в составе Спас-Клепиковского района.

В настоящее время территория Архангельской волости находится в составе сельского поселения Пышлицкого Шатурского района Московской области и Ненашкинского сельского поселения Клепиковского района Рязанской области.

Состав
На 1885 год в состав Архангельской волости входило 2 села и 21 деревня.

Землевладение
Население составляли 34 сельские общины — все бывшие помещичьи крестьяне. Все общины, кроме одной, имели общинную форму землевладения. 13 общин делили землю по ревизским душам, остальные по работникам или по тяглам. Луга в 19 общинах делились одновременно с пашней или в определённые сроки, в остальных общинах — ежегодно. Дровяной лес в основном делился ежегодно, а строевой, по мере надобности.

Многие общины арендовали вненадельную, преимущественно луговую землю. Домохозяева, имевшие арендную землю, составляли около 35% всего числа домохозяев волости.

Сельское хозяйство
Земля в волости была посредственная, почва в большинстве общин супесчаная или песчаная. Хороших лугов было мало, в основном болотистые. Лес больше дровяной, но и его не хватало, а в 6 общинах его вовсе не было. В общинах, бывших графини Орловой, имелся строевой лес в общем нераздельном пользовании. Крестьяне волости сажали рожь, овёс, гречиху и картофель. В некоторых общинах овса не сеяли. Топили из собственных лесов, но в некоторых общинах дрова покупали.

Местные и отхожие промыслы
Основным местным промыслом почти по всей волости было вязанье рыболовных сетей. Этим занимались преимущественно женщины и дети. В 10 общинах была развита рыбная ловля. В 1885 году имелось 78 плотников, 5 синильщиков, 3 портных, 2 кузнеца, 4 печника, 2 стекольщика, 3 сапожника и пр. В волости 9 человек занимались торговлей. В одной общине женщины заготавливали кору.

Отхожие промыслы были значительны. В 1885 году на заработки уходили 1113 мужчин и 2 женщины. Большинство из них были плотники — 1044 человека. Таким образом, если присоединить к ним 78 человек, не уходящих на заработки, то плотники составляли около 65% всего мужского населения в возрасте от 18 до 60 лет. Из остальных промысловых 43 печника, 3 мастеровых, 10 торговцев и 13 приказчиков. На заработки уходили в основном в Москву, а также в Воронежскую, Саратовскую, Тамбовскую и Тульскую губернии.

Инфраструктура
В 1885 году в волости имелось 12 мельниц, 4 синильки, 3 рушалки, 3 маслобойни, 3 кузницы, 1 мануфактурная и 5 мелочных лавок, 2 трактира, 2 ренсковых погреба и 4 питейных заведения. Школы имелись в сёлах Архангельском и Ялмонт, а также в деревнях Маврино и Филисово. Кроме того в одной общине детей учил сын местного крестьянина.

Храмы
 Церковь Михаила Архангела в селе Архангельском
 Церковь Николая Чудотворца в селе Ялмонт

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In what comes as a welcome relief for Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) and its investors, the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided to drop its inquiry into the bank's alleged misrepresentation of facts while selling mortgage-backed securities worth around $60 billion.  The SEC had announced the investigation early this year, and had also involved the federal court in procuring requisite information from the bank in March.
In an action to foreclose a mortgage, the defendant Dale Hansen appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County (Taylor, J.), dated September 15, 2011, which denied his motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint insofar as asserted against him.
In 2007, the U.S. began to experience its worse housing and foreclosure crisis since the Great Depression. The economic crisis we are currently experiencing had its origin in an economic bubble; a distortion in the economy that occurs whenever a major commodity or service (in this case housing) becomes such an object of speculation that its perceived value inflates far beyond its actual value.
The pile-on for Lorraine Brown continues. When we last left this story, Brown, the former President of fraudulent document processor DocX, pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of wire and mail fraud, and agreed to face a sentence of up to five years in prison. The state of Missouri also reached a plea agreement with Brown on document forgery and perjury charges, which carry a 2-3 year sentence that will probably get served concurrently.
On November 19th, the core of the Obama "Justice" Department's "49 State Settlement," of the millions of fraud claims by the suing mortgagees against the mega-banks who were trying to foreclose on robo-signed and other dubious mortgages, was finally announced, and it basically gave the mega-banks what they wanted: all of the money they could possibly get out of those mortgagees, and with future U.S. taxpayers furthermore absorbing the resulting losses, in the form of taxpayers needing to pay off the federal debt for the massive bailouts of Wall Street and its "counter-parties," losses which were being absorbed by Timothy Geithner's U.S. Treasury, and by Ben Bernanke's U.S. Federal Reserve.
The defendant herein, did knowingly and willfully combine, conspire, confederate and agree with others to commit certain offenses, to execute and attempt to execute a scheme and artifice to defraud, and to obtain money and property by means of material false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises, by utilizing the United States mail and private and commercial interstate carriers, for the purpose of executing such scheme and artifice, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 134.
More than 7,000 New York homeowners have had underwater mortgages adjusted since state attorneys general, including New York's Eric Schneiderman, and several major U.S. banks announced a deal last spring in which the banks agreed to provide relief to homeowners affected by the mortgage crisis, a report issued Monday by settlement monitor Joseph Smith Jr. found.
On Thursday the Multnomah County Commission voted unanimously to sue the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS) to recover fees that the County has lost for recording documents of transactions involving trust deeds, due to MERS handling such transactions without recording them.
WASHINGTON — Mortgage bankers and Realtors warn that it could become even harder for borrowers to qualify for a home loan early next year as the industry faces a collision of new rules.
Four years ago, when the housing market bubble burst, and I became involved in securitized mortgage loan defense (not simply foreclosure defense), I learned our judicial system was like a sleeping giant – it was going to take courts time to wake up and understand the brand-new world of loan securitization, and how that world fit within long-standing principles of law.
The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that JP Morgan will merely pay a fine for transgressions that occurred at Bear Stearns prior to the large money-center bank's life-saving takeover of the former Wall Street broker.
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) does not intend to charge any JPMorgan Chase & Co executives in two investigations relating to the allegedly fraudulent sale of mortgage-backed securities, the Wall Street Journal reported.
A Greenbrae attorney involved in what court officials called a bogus predatory lending lawsuit scheme and foreclosure rescue scam faces disbarment after a decision by a State Bar Court hearing judge this week.
JPMorgan Chase has reached an agreement in principle with the SEC to resolve claims related to mortgage-backed securities by the investment bank and Bear Stearns, which JPMorgan acquired in 2008, according to a filing with the SEC.
JPMorgan Chase filed quite a remarkable quarterly report with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday, crammed with far more details about its exposure to litigation and mortgage repurchase demands than the earnings report the bank issued in mid-October.


ENGLISH MYTHS AND TRADITIONS. Illustrated from Drawings by Michael Ayrton.
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POPOL VUH. The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya. English Version by Delia Goetz and Sylvanus G. Morley from the Translation of Adrian Recinos.
La Saga des Nibelungen dans les Eddas et dans le Nord scandinave. Traduction précédée d'une étude sur la formation des épopées nationales par E. de Laveleye.
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Q: thie laravel install homestead,vagrant up fail After installing homestead, I found that I could not start by vagrant up.
my ip address segment is 192.168.10.0
Error Message:
The specified host network collides with a non-hostonly network!
This will cause your specified IP to be inaccessible. Please change
the IP or name of your host only network so that it no longer matches that of
a bridged or non-hostonly network.
Bridged Network Address: '192.168.10.0'
Host-only Network 'Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller': '192.168.10.0'

A: IP should be '192.168.10.10'

A: This means that the IP address 192.168.10.10 which homestead tries to use by default is already in use on your network. Open the Homestead.yaml file in the Homestead directory (usually ~/Homestead or C:/Users/<you>/Homestead) and change ip to another 192.168 address e.g. 192.168.99.99.
Make sure to change the IP address in your hosts file to this IP too if you use that.

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The serving area interface or service area interface (SAI) is an outdoor enclosure or metal box that allows access to telecommunications wiring.

Alternate names
Access point (AP)
Cabinet (cab)
B-box (breakout box)
Cross box
Cross-connect box
Jumper wire interface (JWI)
Outside plant interface (OPI)
Pedestal (ped)
Primary cross-connection point (PCP) (UK)
Secondary cross-connection point (SCP) (UK)
Telecom cabinet

Function
The SAI provides the termination of individual twisted pairs of a telephony local loop for onward connection back to the nearest telephone exchange (US: "central office" (CO)) or remote switch, or first to transmission equipment such as a subscriber loop carrier multiplexer and then to the exchange main distribution frame (MDF).

In the United Kingdom, the components from the PCP onwards to the customer are known as "D-side" (distribution side), and from the PCP back to the MDF as the "E-side" (exchange side).  In the United States, the connection back to the MDF is known as the F2 (secondary distribution cable) and/or the F1 (main feeder cable) pairs.

SAIs are used in suburban and low-density urban areas, serving some of the same purposes that manholes do in high-density urban areas.  Besides a cross connect point, they sometimes contain a DSLAM or more rarely a remote concentrator or both.

See also
Demarcation point
Enclosure (electrical)
Fiber to the telecom enclosure
Sub-loop unbundling

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Local loop
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H A R Y A N A E D I T I O N
Youth's Killing
Irate residents block road
Rohtak, April 1
To seek immediate arrest of the killers of a youth in the district yesterday, the residents of Titoli village, blocked the National Highway (NH) 71 connecting Rohtak with Jind for nearly six hours today. This led to a heavy traffic jam on the highway for several hours.
A view of the blockade staged against the murder of a youth on the NH-71 near Titoli village on Wednesday. A Tribune photograph
Varun Gandhi's Detention
Gramin sena men burn Mayawati's effigy
Karnal, April 1
Enraged over detention of Varun Gandhi, BJP candidate from Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency, under the National Security Act (NSA), the activists of the Gramin Yuva Sena today burnt the effigy of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati at Committee Chowk, charging her with hatching a conspiracy against their leader.
Gramin Yuva Sena activists burn an effigy of UP Chief Minister Mayawati in Karnal on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Ravi Kumar
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Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) supremo Kuldeep Bishnoi's message in this Lok Sabha election under a new banner is loud and clear. It says "Vote for our party, vote for change" and it rings a bell. Literally. The party will reach out to its voters this election season with the recorded message that will ring on all landlines and mobiles across the state, courtsey a New York-based company, which has been roped in for the same.
Places earmarked to display hoardings
Kaithal, April 1
District Election Officer Amneet P Kumar said here today that the places had been earmarked where the political parties and all those contesting the Lok Sabha polls could display their hoardings banners and posters. For Urban areas, the EO or the Secretary, municipal councillor, municipal committees and for rural areas, the BDPO had been authorised to grant necessary permission for this purpose .
NCP to contest four seats
In an apparent retaliation against "big brother attitude" of Congress, the Haryana unit of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) today announced to contest four Lok Sabha seats in the state.
MDU exams rescheduled
The Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) here has announced re-scheduling of certain university examinations in view of the impending Lok Sabha Elections in April and May next.
Put things in order, HPSC directed
The Punjab and Haryana High Court is obviously displeased with the way the public service commission imposed a "carelessly drafted question paper" on candidates taking preliminary examinations for the judicial branch of the Haryana Public Service Commission (HSPC).
New ATM Norms
HDFC account holders bear the brunt
Hisar, April 1
On a day when the ATMs were to be thrown open to customers of any bank, the account holders of HDFC Bank had to bear the brunt of having their daily cash withdrawal limited to just Rs 5,000.
Sarita Suicide Case
Five police officials summoned
Ambala, April 1
The CBI court of Ambala has issued summon to five police officials of Rohtak for April 7 in Sarita suicide case. The CBI had filed a chargesheet in this regard in the court of Special Magistrate Abdul Mazid on Tuesday.
Fee Hike
Tension between parents, pvt schools continues
Tension prevailing between parents and private schools administration doesn't seem to be ending. Although it was decided in the meeting, organised on the directions of Deputy Commissioner Deepti Umashankar on March 30 that no school will force the parents to pay the hiked fees for next one month, it was also decided that the school management would show their balance sheet to the parents-teachers association and try to convince the parents about the reasons behind the fee hike.
The Millennium Parents Association convenes a meeting at Rishi Public School, Sector 31, Gurgaon, on Wednesday. Tribune photo:
Rajesh Kumar Yadav
Anil Khosla is Air Officer Commanding
Air Commodore Anil Khosla VM took over as the Air Officer Commanding (AOC), Air Force Station, Ambala, today in a ceremonial parade held at the Ambala airbase. The outgoing AOC, Air Commodore Rahul Dhar SC VM has moved to Army War College, Mhow.
Fake RC-making gang busted
Three held, sent to 5-day remand
The CIA wing of the district police has busted an inter-state gang of criminals and arrested three of its members, who were allegedly involved in preparing fake registration certificates to facilitate the sale of stolen vehicles.
Pvt bus operators call off strike
The private bus services on various routes all over the district which came to a halt following a strike yesterday resumed their service today following the redressal of their grievances. The meeting was attended by bus operators, Haryana Roadways officials , RTA and other officials and was chaired by DC Amneet P Kumar here today.
Bus service to ensure pedestrians' safety
As a special initiative to ensure safety of pedestrians attempting to cross the Delhi-Gurgaon expressway between Udyog Vihar to IFFCO Chowk stretch, DSC Limited, the concessionaire of the expressway, has announced to launch a bus ferry service. The service will help pedestrians to comfortably cross the expressway between this stretch.
Liquor vendor shot dead
Jind, April 1
Virender (26), a liquor vendor, was shot dead allegedly by some unidentified persons near Manoharpur village around midnight last night. The culprits fled away soon after the incident that took place a few kilometres from the district headquarters. The police have booked cases, which include a former liquor contractor.
Three booked for dowry
Rewari, April 1
The police has booked Jyoti Devi's husband Rohtash, mother-in-law Batto Devi and sister-in-law Shakuntala Devi, all residents of Bawal, on charges of harassment for dowry and criminal intimidation.
Bijendra Ahlawat
A local Congress leader lifted the blockade following an assurance. The youth, who was shot dead allegedly last evening, has been identified as Jagbir Singh, who was killed by some assailants in the village located about 12 km from here at about 7.30. According to eyewitnesses, the assailants than fled away on a motorcycle.
However, hundreds of residents, including women and children, came out on the highway and staged a blockade to pressurise the police administration to act swiftly to arrest the culprits. The protesters started dharna on the road and erected barricades leading to disruption of traffic on the NH-71 in this morning.
While several of the vehicles had to be diverted on some local routes, hundreds of commuters got stranded in the jam that resulted due to blockade, said a police official. Demanding proper security arrangements in the village and immediate arrest of the accused, the residents announced to continue their protest till the police took any concrete action. While senior police and district officials tried to intervene on the matter and assured of a positive action, the protesters, it is reported, agreed at last to a request made by a local politician of the ruling party who assured that the accused would be arrested soon.
Bhanu P Lohumi
Yuva sena president Rajesh Arya alleged that Varun had been falsely booked under the NSA and that it was a well thought of plan to defame him and ruin his political career.
The arrest of the terrorist, who was planning to kill Varun Gandhi was an indication that some people were not happy with his rise in politics and were trying to create problems for him, he added.
Lashing out at Mayawati, Arya said it appeared that there was no rule of law in the state and utter chaos and anarchy was prevailing. Moreover, even in the past an attempt was made to create tension when Mayawati uttered strong words against a specific section of people at a public meeting in Haryana, hurting the religious sentiments of the people but she was not booked under the NSA.
Expressing their solidarity with Varun, the sena activists vowed to continue their agitation till the NSA invoked against Varun was revoked.
Varun Gandhi was arrested and later booked under the stringent NSA by the Uttar Pradesh government for "inciting violence" prior to his arrest on Saturday.
Yoginder Gupta
The commission had yesterday told the government to pay pension at the old rates.
The pension was revised during the last Budget session of the Assembly held in February and it was to be paid with effect from March 1. The actual disbursal would have been in April.
Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda is believed to have directed Chief Secretary Dharam Vir to personally meet officials of the commission and convince them how the decision to revise the pension was not a violation of the model code of conduct.
Sources say Dharam Vir will meet the commission officials tomorrow in Delhi.
Though it is not yet known on what grounds the government would ask the commission to review its decision, it is believed that the Chief Secretary would inform the commission that the decision to revise the pension was duly approved by the Assembly much before the code came into effect. Therefore, it is unjustified and cruel to make the beneficiaries, most of whom are destitute and needy, wait for over two months to get the benefit of the revised pension.
Meanwhile, national spokesman of the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) Sampat Singh has welcomed the decision of the commission saying that it had exposed the "crude attempt" of Hooda to hoodwink the state people.
He said the commission had taken this decision, as there was no budgetary provision. If the government had been sincere in revising the pension, it should have made proper fiscal arrangements.
Sampat Singh said the Hooda government had played with the sentiments of those sections of society that needed utmost care and sensitivity.
State BJP media in charge said the commission had taken the right decision by stopping the ruling party from taking undue electoral advantage at the cost of the state exchequer.
Satpal Kaushik of the Haryana Janhit Congress also alleged that the government was never sincere in revising the pension. It was only befooling the beneficiaries.
Sunit Dhawan
They are supposed to follow the instructions of the Central Election Commission, simultaneously facing diverse challenges owing to diverse ground realities.
For instance, as per the EC's instructions, videography of many poll-related activities has to be carried out during the elections.
However, the rates cited by the commission for the purpose (Rs 400 per day) are quite old and the electoral officials are finding it difficult to get videography done at these rates.
Given the range and extent of the poll-related activities supposed to be videographed, the availability of the desired number of video cameras and professionals is also becoming a headache for the officials concerned.
As per the EC's directions, the poll process at the sensitive and hypersensitive booths, besides the filing of nominations by candidates and electoral canvassing by star campaigners have to be videographed. Besides, the entire videographed content has to be preserved in the form of CDs for future reference as and when required.
Though the district electoral officials chose to remain tightlipped over the issue, but according to sources, they are in the process of getting the prevailing rates assessed and approved by the authorities concerned.
Taking advantage of the situation, some "self-styled" leaders of videographers have started quoting exorbitant prices to make matter worse for the poll managers. This, coupled with the attempts to maintain monopolistic tendencies in the trade, is compounding the problem.
Haryana Janhit Congress (BL) supremo Kuldeep Bishnoi's message in this Lok Sabha election under a new banner is loud and clear. It says "Vote for our party, vote for change" and it rings a bell. Literally.
The party will reach out to its voters this election season with the recorded message that will ring on all landlines and mobiles across the state, courtsey a New York-based company, which has been roped in for the same.
Unveiling this and begining his media campaign at a press conference, here today, Bishnoi said the message would also make provision for a feedback from the voter.
"The voter can voice his complaint on the completion of the recorded message. All these complaints will come to me in 48 hours and we will see how these can be addressed. This will help the party have a data bank of existing problems when we come to power," he said.
For publicity in the electronic media, the party has also prepared short clippings, which explore themes of water and power shortage, police brutality while a few others are in the pipeline. These end with Bishnoi urging people to vote for change.
"We have tied up with regional and national channels to air these during primetime. The calls, made by a New York-based company, will go to landline and mobile phone subscribers all over the state. We will appeal to even the Chief Minister, MPs, MLAs and Opposition leaders to vote for us and even register their problems with us," Bishnoi explained.
On his father, former Chief Minister Bhajan Lal, contesting election, he said the decision of contesting and choice of seat had been left to the former. "He is the tallest leader in the state. The party will decide my candidature and my seat along with candidates for all the remaining seven seats. Also, we are in the process of finalising a rally for the Third Front in Hisar after April 11. We are hopeful that UP Chief Minister Mayawati will also address the rally," Bishnoi added. The party has already announced candidates for three seats.
She also informed that the election will be held through the electronic voting machines and all those concerned with election duty were being imparted training about the use of these machines.
Giving details about the functioning of EVMs Kumar said that each EVM could register 3,840 votes and in case any attempt was made to over power any polling booth and caste the votes forcibly, the voting machine could be switched off by the presiding officer and the votes caste forcibly would not be registered by the EVM.
The NCP has been pressing the Congress to have broad alliance among the UPA allies and leave seats for the NCP in other states also.
The Maharshi Dayanand University (MDU) here has announced re-scheduling of certain university examinations in view of the impending Lok Sabha Elections in April and May next. According to the Controller of Examinations (CoE), the examinations of the MA/MSc/MCom. and other PG Courses (under the annual system), earlier scheduled from May 1,will now commence from May 20. Further, BE/B/Tech/MBA/MCA/BBA, etc. semester system examinations scheduled from May 10 will now be held from May 14.
Saurabh Malik
Justice Ajay Tewari has also asked the commission to devise in house mechanism to prevent out of syllabus question papers.
In the petitions, Gourav Jain and others had claimed 84 questions were set out of the prescribed syllabus. Some questions were palpably wrong as they had no correct answers, or had more than two correct answers.
Justice Tewari ruled: "It is indeed regrettable that a premier constitutional authority like the public service commission would let such a carelessly drafted question paper be inflicted on the examinees for a premier service of the state.
"In the circumstances, the commission is directed to devise some in house mechanism to ensure that wherever a syllabus is prescribed, the questions should be prescribed strictly from within its four corners. It is also the duty of the commission to make certain that there are no questions which are either demonstrably wrong or tricky."
Justice Tewari also referred to four questions in particular and observed: "Counsel for the respondent-commission was not in a position to deny that these questions were palpably wrong, that is to say none of them could have a correct answer or that they were such for which there could be two or more equally correct answers".
Quoting the apex court and other judgements, Justice Tewari said: "Faced with the situation the question which arises is as to what is the relief which can be granted. No doubt these four questions could have impacted not only the petitioners or the selected candidates alone but others also.
However, there have been various judgements wherein courts have restricted the relief only to such persons who have approached the court by a particular date."
HDFC Bank account holders, a large number of them having salary accounts with this bank, were unable to withdraw more than Rs 5,000 from the ATMs. Consequently, they were unable to pay their monthly bills today. Almost all customers have a daily ceiling of Rs 15,000.
However, when they entered this amount for withdrawal, they were directed to reduce the amount. Thinking that the ATM might be short of cash, most customers withdrew Rs 5,000 and returned later to check if the machines had enough cash.
However, the ATM displayed the message that the daily cash withdrawal limit had been reached.
Harried customers rushed to ATMs of other banks, but there also they received the message that their bank had restricted the daily limit and no more cash could be withdrawn.
When customers tried to contact the local branch manager, the telephones remained unanswered.
Incidentally, under instructions of the Reserve Bank of India, customers could avail the benefit of withdrawing cash from the ATM of any bank free of cost from today.
But some banks perhaps chose to play a practical prank on All Fools' Day.
The CBI court of Ambala has issued summon to five police officials of Rohtak for April 7 in Sarita suicide case.
The CBI had filed a chargesheet in this regard in the court of Special Magistrate Abdul Mazid on Tuesday. The CBI in its 55-page chargesheet has allegedly held responsible the then DSP of Rohtak Dheeraj Setia, inspector Pawan Kumar, head constable Ramphal, constable Balraj and Seelak Ram for suicide of Sarita. The CBI has attached a list of 85 witnesses, including the husband of the deceased and 89 documents in support of its allegations with the chargesheet. The CBI in the chargesheet had pointed out the police officials for exhibiting inaction in this matter.
Sarita, a resident of Rohtak, had committed suicide in front of the police headquarters at Panchkula on June 9 last year when she did not get justice from the Rohtak police.
She had alleged that two police officials of CIA staff, Rohtak, had raped her, when she had gone to meet her husband, who was kept in the CIA staff in a theft case.
The CBI has already booked the two police officials Balraj and Seelak Ram on the charge of rape. A separate chargesheet has already been filed in this case in the CBI court and the proceeding is continuing in the court of special Judge AK Verma.
Tension prevailing between parents and private schools administration doesn't seem to be ending. Although it was decided in the meeting, organised on the directions of Deputy Commissioner Deepti Umashankar on March 30 that no school will force the parents to pay the hiked fees for next one month, it was also decided that the school management would show their balance sheet to the parents-teachers association and try to convince the parents about the reasons behind the fee hike. But parents are still annoyed, as they will have to pay the revised fees from next month. About 200 parents met the principal of Rishi Public School here today to sought out the matter of fees hike in the private schools. He has called them upon on April 4.
The parents association has been protesting past few days against the fee hike in the name of implementation of sixth pay commission's recommendations in private schools.
Ikender, an employee in an MNC, whose two kids are studying at Rishi Public School, told The Tribune, "None of the parents want the fees to be increased. The sixth pay commission is implemented for government sectors and not private. If the fees has to be increase the government should also give us the arrears and if they can't do the same, they have no right to put more burden on our back as they are already doing."
Even few of the parents are planning to take their kids out of the school due to increase in fees.
Radha, a housewife whose two children are studying in the same school said, "We will be carrying out a march to get the public out of their homes as it is not just our fight but its everyone's struggle." She says that people actually don't want to come out on the streets but they will try that they get the result after the protest. Nav Kaur, another parent said, "The school is increasing the fees but their standard of education is going down. One of my children was not doing well in school but when I kept him a tutor on principal's recommendation he improved."
An alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Air Commodore Anil Khosla VM was commissioned in the fighter stream of the Indian Air Force on December 1979. He has flown over 4,000 hours on various types of fighter aircraft of the Indian Air Force. He is a qualified Fighter Strike Leader and a qualified as instructor with tenure as Directing Staff at Tactics and Combat Development Establishment and Flying Instructor School. He is also an alumnus of National Defence College, Army War College and Defence Services Staff College.
In his 30 years of service career, the Air Commodore has held numerous important staff and field appointments.
During the preliminary interrogation, the arrested accused had confessed that their gang was involved in preparing fake RC's of vehicles stolen from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan, UP and Chandigarh .
The accused were produced in the court of CJM Ajay Parasher here today who sent them on a 5-day police remand to procure the arrest of three remaining accused and for further interrogation.
Giving details S.P.Sultan Singh said the CIA party led by Inspector Karta Ram on a tip off about the arrival of some criminals in an Alto car laid a naka at kaithal-Jind road drain and began checking of vehicles .
The police party stopped an Alto car carrying three youths and during search found fake RC's, some signed and unsigned registration forms with seals, stamp pads, other documents and implements used in breaking car locks.
When inquired, the youths disclosed their identity as Suresh Kumar, resident of Kothkalan, Ashok Kumar of Maandikhurd in Alewa and Sanjay of sudkan Kalan.
The police arrested the youth and booked them under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 472 and 120 -B of the IPC.
Dalbir Singh, president, Haryana Co-op Transport Society, said during this meeting all their major demands were conceded by the administration.
They were assured that they would not face any victimisation at the hands of the RTA Secretary and Haryana Roadways officials. They would be permitted to operate buses from old-bus stand. A committee headed by SDM Hawa Singh was constituted to examine their other grievances .
Following the amicable solution of their problems they called off the strike Dalbir Singh added.
Yesterday the private bus operators stopped bus services on all routes following dispute over the challan of some private buses by the RTA Secretary. They had organised a huge procession and parked their buses on the road from new bus stand to camp office of the Deputy Commissioner .
This strike had paralysed bus service on rural routes causing inconvenience to the passengers.
The two low-floor buses will continuously ply in a circular path from Udyog Vihar to IFFCO Chowk and each bus will be able to ferry 50-60 passengers at a time. The bus service is available for pedestrians from 6 am to 11 pm and will be free. Sachin Sharma, vice president-operations, DSC Ltd said, "The launch of the bus ferry service marks yet another initiative of the company for the safety of pedestrians crossing the expressway".
Virender (26), a liquor vendor, was shot dead allegedly by some unidentified persons near Manoharpur village around midnight last night. The culprits fled away soon after the incident that took place a few kilometres from the district headquarters. The police have booked cases, which include a former liquor contractor. This is the third murder case in the district in the past three months. The earlier two cases have reportedly been untraced so far.
Virender, who had managed to get liquor vend allotted in his name, could not see the light of the first day of his contract period.
As per reports, the victim had reached Manoharpur village around 12.10 am, where he had been allotted liquor vend for the financial period of 2009-2010. He asked the outgoing contractor to hand over vend to him as the former's time period had been over by midnight. He was accompanied by some of his friends. But while the outgoing contractor denied it to do at that time he asked him to come next day after 7 am. This, however, erupted in a verbal dual and after some heated exchanges and a brawl, one of the persons from the side of the previous contractor pulled out a revolver and fired at Virender and his friends. Virender succumbed to his injuries while being shifted to PGIMS, Rohtak, around 1.10 am.
A case under Sections 498-A, 406, 323, 506, 34 of the IPC has been registered against them on a directive of the court of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, who has issued it on a petition earlier filed by Jyoti daughter of Durga Prasad, a resident of the Gol Chakra locality here.
Jyoti, who got married to Rohtash on May 27, 2004, alleged that she was subjected to cruel treatment for dowry by her in-laws, following which she recently approached the CJM's court for relief and justice.

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