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Meetings the patriots in deeds, not words
It was a privilege to have met patriots such as BS Pundir and Sher Singh Mewar; theirs was a quiet, understated patriotism, not a loud or hectoring onecolumns Updated: May 04, 2019, 16:47 IST
In the India we live in, all sorts of people are proclaiming their undying attachment to the motherland. Claims of rashtravad (nationalism), deshbhakti (patriotism), etc, are made loudly on social media, television, and, especially, at election rallies. The swiftest way to conclude — if not win — an argument is for one to insist that one loves Bharat Mata more, or more fully, than the person one is having the argument with.
I have spent much of my professional life writing about the men and women who built this country, men and women who never thought it fit or seemly to wear their deshbhakti on their sleeve. It was their deeds, not their words, that told us how deeply Indian they were. It has been a privilege to have researched the lives of — among others — Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel, BR Ambedkar, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, and Dr MA Ansari, and to learn of how they made this hierarchical and divided land into a democratic Republic
This column is also about my encounters with patriots, albeit those whom I met in the flesh rather than in the archives. This was in the early 1980s, when I was doing research in the Garhwal Himalaya on the origins of the Chipko Andolan. I did a bout of fieldwork in the Badyar valley, which had seen a major Chipko protest against the depredations of commercial forestry. I spoke to men and women who had taken part in this agitation, and wrote about what they did and said in my dissertation (which became my first book).
What I left out from my published work on Chipko, however, were two meetings with elderly Garhwalis. The first was with a former soldier named BS Pundir, who had won a Vir Chakra in the India-Pakistan war of 1947-48. We walked together from one village to another to attend a wedding. He limped as a consequence of his battle injuries, but I found it hard to keep up with him on those hill paths, even though he was 30 years older than me. His injury notwithstanding, Pundirji was entirely erect in body and soul, and I could see how much respect he commanded among his fellows, for what he had once done to safeguard his country's security, and for returning to live with them after retirement. I tried to get the Vir Chakra awardee to talk about his heroic past, but he shrugged off the questions and got me to talk about my own research instead.
The other encounter was perhaps even more moving. One morning, I was directed to the house of an old swatantra sainani, or freedom fighter, named Sher Singh Mewar. He was small and emaciated, his body racked by the continual coughing of a chronic asthmatic. This precluded him from talking at length, but he asked me to come back before I left for the plains. When I returned two days later, he handed over a handwritten manuscript entitled, Tehri Garhwal ka Krantikari Itihas: The Revolutionary History of the State of Tehri Garhwal.
This was an extraordinary document, 40 pages long, and suffused by a spirit of patriotism that age could not wither nor ill-health crush. An outsider's visit had sparked memories of a time when history happened; and he, Sher Singh Mewar, had helped make it happen. For he had been part of the great peasant upsurge of 1946-47 whereby the princely state of Tehri Garhwal became part of the Union of India. Beginning as a movement over land rights, this became a wide-ranging campaign against the Maharaja's rule itself. Its climax came with the capture of the capital of Tehri, and the proclamation of an azad panchayat, or autonomous council, there. The Maharaja, while driving back to his palace, was blocked at a bridge across the river Bhageerathi. Us taraf raja, is taraf praja, to use the words of Sher Singh Mewar. On one side of the river was the monarch; on the other side his masses and no longer loyal subjects. Seeing the writing on the wall, the King immediately signed up with the Indian Union.
The manuscript that Sher Singh Mewar handed over to me was a foot soldier's account of this non-violent transition from autocracy to democracy. Sher Singh had written here of the peasant upsurge and its leaders, of the help and encouragement they got from outside Tehri Garhwal, of the Maharaja's confusions and capitulations. Notably, he downplayed his own role. Sher Singh had, in his account, merely carried messages from one leader to another, from one valley to the next.
The soldier who kept out the invaders and the satyagrahi who helped bring down the King both wore their deshbhakti very lightly. Theirs was a quiet, understated patriotism, not a loud or hectoring one. They commanded an abiding respect among those who knew (or knew of) them; but without asking for (still less demanding) it.
In the early 1980s, when I met them, it was 35 years since BS Pundir and Sher Singh Mewar had each expressed, in deeds rather than words, their patriotism. It is now 35 later, yet memories of those meetings are still vivid in my mind. I can see Pundirji walk with his cane along a narrow mountain path, answering my questions with dignity and restraint, and see Sher Singh emerge coughing from his hut, the manuscript in his hands for me to take back. It was a privilege to have met those two patriots back then, and an obligation to write about them now, when the Tiranga (Tricolour) has been so rudely appropriated by men who know so little and care even less about what it took to make and defend our Republic.
Ramachandra Guha is the author of Gandhi: The Years That Changed The World
The views expressed are personal


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October 4, 2017
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October 10, 2017
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October 14, 2017
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It is not unexpected that people have grown to have all sorts of emotional attachment to the Nigerian state. For some these are real and genuine feelings of patriotism but for many others they have nothing but pure hatred for a country that has so mistreated and brutally murdered them in several genocidal orgies. To such ones Nigeria is not only a disappointment but a nightmare. Each of these groups has their reasons for feeling the way they do. So, whenever Nigeria's inevitable disintegration comes up for discussion people's reactions are always mixed depending on the side they are leaning. But with the passage of time and because of several obvious reasons and events, gradually most people are beginning to accept the fact that Nigeria as one unit is impossible and can never work. When Nigeria divides there is bound to be some consequences. Some of those consequences cannot be predicted ahead of time but many, such as what happens to Igbo/Biafra people's investments outside their Homeland is one that can be predicted. Here we will attempt to address that concern.
These apprehensions of most people as regards to what happens to Igbo/Biafrans' investments in places outside their Homeland but within Nigeria after Nigeria has broken up into the various nation states are quite real. The previous Biafra War and its Abandoned Property issue in especially Igwocha (Port Harcourt) inform much of this fear. It is on the overall a legitimate concern and cannot be ignored; especially when we look at it from the view point of Carl Marx's theory of economic determinism. Igbo opinion and political leaders must find a way to put the people's mind at rest on this. Material possessions are actually an important aspect of a people's being and we must take what happens to Igbo/Biafran's properties after Nigeria's break up very seriously. It is no doubt that Igbo's properties are scattered throughout the landscape of the present Nigeria. In some cases you find that the value of Igbo's investments comes right after those of the indigenous people in many Nigerian cities. In a number of cases such as in Abuja the value of Igbo's properties is said to be more than those of other people. Some conservative estimates have put Igbo/Biafrans' properties outside the Homeland values at several hundreds of billions of dollars. Nobody should pretend that such size of wealth should be ignored or abandoned at the toss of a coin.
Be that as important as it is, but we shall try to address the question with the Igbo truism of nduka aku (life [freedom, honor,] as being superior to material wealth). Just few years ago some northern Nigeria politicians went to Eze Ozobu and told him that the Igbo should support the North for the presidency instead of the Southsouth candidate. Ozobu asked them why and they said that the Southsouth people seized Igbo's properties after the Biafra War by declaring them abandoned by the owners. But Ozobu answered and said; yes our Southsouth brothers seized our properties but left us alive to start again. On the contrary, Ozobu said, you our northern neighbors killed us and disemboweled our pregnant women and even killed the unborn Igbo/Biafran babies in the stomach. Today, after 42 years and, looking at how the survived Igbo/Biafrans have fared it is not difficult to know who between the two has treated the Igbo better. Most importantly, what the story tells us is that no matter how big is Igbo's properties and wealth outside the Homeland it must never becloud them from thinking of and working for a permanent solution, in separation, to the incessant Islamic killings and lootings of Igbo, Biafra people. Putting it differently; when Igbo's life is not destroyed while their material possessions are taken away they will still replace those by many folds if they can have a homeland from where they can launch out and start again.
The need for a sovereign nation that defends the rights and dignity of the Igbo cannot be over emphasized. This is true when one considers the fact that in Igbo cosmology njepu or belief in world citizenship is a cardinal aspect of Igbo existence. The Igbo therefore must work hard at creating a buffer zone, home base, tactical defense headquarters, anything, from where they can call for support and reinforcement. Presently Nigeria is not doing that and will never one day serve that purpose for the Igbo. Yes, the dispossession of a people's material wealth is nothing to compare with the dispossession of their soul which is what one-Nigeria is doing to Igbo/Biafrans today. Rather than lose the Igbo, Biafra soul is it not better that they lose their properties in Lagos, Abuja and several other cities in Nigeria? Let Igbo have their lives and be well mobilized by the unique Igbo/Biafra democratic, political and intellectual leadership and they will have everything back in a few years.
That may not sound convincing enough for some people so we will like to remind us of the role of the international community in a matter like this. When Nigeria breaks up there will be interventions from other nations and there will be provisions for asset management. Let me illustrate with a very recent incident. My friend Ebrima Sonko who heads the Oxfam operations in Senegal, Mali, the Gambia and Guinea told me last week how the coupists in Mali looted Oxfam offices and took two of their vehicles. They made away with these things but returned them after a few days because a few phone calls were made and the European High Commission exerted pressures. Therefore, even in the midst of chaos, for those who know how to handle their businesses, the right strings can still be pulled for the right effects. It should also be remembered that other Nigerians equally have properties and investments within Igbo/Biafra Homeland. No matter the size, no one wants to lose what he has toiled to acquire. We should also bear in mind that international boundaries do not prevent a foreign citizen from owning properties in places other than their native homeland. Presently, Igbo/Biafrans own properties and investments in several other countries other than Nigeria and that does not make them to want to annex those countries into even a bigger one-Nigeria.
Therefore, Igbo leaders of thought must try hard to make their people understand that it does not matter if Nigeria disintegrates through peaceful or violent means, eventually the dust will settle and there will be repositioning and life will go on but never again with Igbo or Biafra as part of the one-Nigeria. Let the people know that the Igbo do not need to be citizens of the same country with the other Nigerians in order to do businesses in Abuja, Lagos or any other place for that matter. The whole thing still sounds difficult? Oh yes, what is Igbo's brain meant for; to handle difficult situations; to find solutions to the seemingly impossible puzzles of the endangered Igbo situations in the Nigerian state. Igbo intellectuals and leaders must crack the code that holds the secret of how to take Igbo out of the one-Nigeria. Igbo brain must find the courage to pursue radical conclusions without shirking from the hard work that must be done to attain the ideal.
Having lost to the one-Nigerian concept since its inception, 5 million of the choicest of their people, Nigeria's breakup is something the Igbo/Biafrans will have no regrets about. For the Igbo it will be good riddance of a really, really bad dream. It's not just the human lives and physical materials that they lost but equally as bad are the lost opportunities and stunted growth and development; those things that would have been. It's the generations after generations that never attempted or accomplished any big thing all because they had to wait for their neighbors who are unwilling to come along.
In closing let's go back to where we started from. In addition to all we have said we wish to say that the wealth of this world is limitless so long as any people can still find a way to think creatively and work hard at achieving the dreams of their thought. How long has it taken the Igbo/Biafrans to acquire the wealth in those places which some would want to choose above life, prestige and freedom? Let's say, give or take half a century. But the Igbo leadership of today should be thinking of and actually building a Homeland that will last for hundreds of years. Let all Igbo or Biafrans everywhere think more along this line. It is not a boast, but let Igbo and all Biafrans separate from Nigeria today, let them start all over and given the right mobilization, it will just be a matter of a few years and they would once again be on their way and this time on a better footing. Some people may have harbored the question and itching to ask if war will be needed to divide Nigeria. Here we will answer the question with one of the favorite official lines of Biafra Government in Exile, BGIE; "we neither make war nor peace with the Enemy".
Having said that, we would like to add one fact that is borne out of the antecedents of history; no one relinquishes power without a fight, and Nigeria's case may not be different. But which is more important, this slavery and indignity of unending genocides of one-Nigeria or freedom in a separate progressive, secure and prosperous independent sovereign nation? However, without minding how Biafrans get their freedom, it must be emphasized that the new nation must of necessity undergo a revolution following her national sovereign independence. It cannot be business as usual after separation. If Biafra's eventual freedom comes peacefully (of course it cannot be considered as such as no one has forgotten the 3.1 Igbo/Biafrans killed by Nigeria between 1966 and 1970) then it must be followed with a revolution of the kind that can only be equated to war.
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I come to my last post in this series: What does the Gospel say to the mentally ill? What does it say to all human beings about the mentally ill? What does their presence among us tell us about ourselves? How is mental illness related to "true humanity?"
As I have grown in my own understanding of the implications of Jesus, I have found myself taking a new and deeper look at human beings. You will note that I have categorized these posts as "Christian Humanism", which is how I describe my own theological position. I believe that the incarnation of Jesus reveals God; I believe that incarnation reveals God to us as a human person. This "two-sided" aspect of the incarnation is essential Christianity. In this revelation, we see and experience the truth about ourselves as well as the truth about God. This transforms human life in every dimension, for God meets us not only "descending" from grace, but "incarnationally" in human nature.
For the Christian, God is revealed in Jesus, and in the image of God in human beings. The revelation of God in scripture carries authority, but the revelation of God in humanity also carries truth. While one can be exegeted and outlined, the other is a real and powerful, constant reminder of the incarnated God we know in Jesus.
Jesus himself took the extraordinary step of identifying with human beings in their continuing brokenness:
34 Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.' 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?' 40 And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.' Matthew 25:34-40
This extraordinary passage of scripture is an incarnational revelation of Jesus in those persons whom Jesus was most known to identify with during his ministry. To read this passage in its eschatological setting is to hear quite a different kind of "Good News" than we typically hear in our American churches.
The irony of this passage is that those who are being addressed did not realize they were "with Jesus" when they were with the poor, the hungry and the imprisoned. The point of the parable is to remedy this. We are to take from this teaching a radical and reorienting sensitivity to the presence of Christ in the broken humanity that surrounds us.
Further, to insulate ourselves from such broken and hurting people is to insulate ourselves from the presence of Christ now, as well as the commendation of Jesus later. If the church is a continuation of Jesus' kingdom movement, then this encounter with such persons is a "trueness" to Jesus that is essential to authentic Jesus-life.
I say this to respond to what I see as the primary issue with mental illness and the Gospel: the dehumanization of the mentally ill.
Many years ago, I was part of a Baptist church where we had quite a controversy over a mother's request to baptize her son. He was 12- I believe- and had severe cerebral palsy. It seemed to me, at the time, utterly impossible to ascertain whether the young man understood enough of the Gospel to be baptized, and I opposed the baptism.
I've come to believe that was a mistake. Not because I am somehow more sure of the young man's profession of faith, but because I am quite sure that he belonged to Jesus, and was, in fact an incarnation of the presence of Jesus among us. His baptism was a recognition that he, too, was included in the community formed in and through the person of Jesus. If that baptism was an error, it was a good error, because it erred in seeing what Jesus taught in Matthew 25: in such persons, Christ is present, and where Jesus is present, there is the good news.
My struggle, I now realize, was at the place of seeing this boy not as a "victim" of cerebral palsy, but as a manifestation of Christ, humanly present in this young man. A sacrament of a broken and bent humanity; a humanity warped and ruined by the fall, but redeemed in the suffering and resurrection of Jesus.
So with mental illness. The good news is for the mentally ill, and the good news is the inclusion and the acceptance of mental illness as part of that humanity in which Jesus came to us. Mentally ill persons are made in God's image. They are fallen sinners. They are loved by God. They are saved by grace, through God's faithful promise and the gift of faith. They are called to follow Jesus Christ, to live, die and be resurrected in him.
In this, the mentally ill are exactly like ourselves. Their humanity is another way in which Christ is present to all of us who seek to know Christ and to serve him faithfully in our generation.
Christians desperately need to see the humanity of others as God sees it. We are on a trajectory from birth to death and beyond. We all have been dependent infants, innocent children, erring teenagers; we will all be mid-life adults, fearful seniors and re-infantized elderly. Many of us will know seasons of mental and emotional illness. Our lives will contain our share of human suffering. This is humanity in time, and destined for eternity. In Christ, it is humanity that will be raised, glorified and exalted to a new universe.
My mother sits near me. She is 82 and blind. She is frequently depressed and angry at what has happened to her. Her dependence on us has taken away much of her life as she valued it. The challenge of seeing my mother as a human person in whom Christ is present is sometimes hard. It is far easier to summarize her life as "a blind widow." But it is in such persons that Christ invites me to see both myself and my savior.
Mental illness does not present us with the challenge of providing or promising a cure. It is not our calling to "cure" anyone, though we are certainly commissioned to provide concrete kinds of care and help. It is our calling to live lives centered around Jesus; to worship and exalt him; to be signposts of his reality, his gospel.
My challenge to the church is to invite the mentally ill to Christ, and to find Christ in the mentally ill who are with us. I invite each one of us to consider that the lines between ourselves, the mentally ill and Jesus are largely irrelevant. When we see them, we see ourselves, and we come face to face with Jesus Christ.
I think of the many demon possessed persons whose lives were profoundly changed by Jesus. He did not act as if their humanity was lost, but was there to be restored. The compassion of Christ is in seeking those lost sheep at all, for these were persons whose communities had abandoned them or despaired of any hope for them. Yet Jesus travelled across the sea to restore one man's humanity; to leave him clothed and in his right mind. Such was the good news.
What if we must be more patient? What if our prayers do not restore the mentally ill to their rightness, with a good testimony and no shadows ever again? Is there any doubt what the Good News means in the interim between the brokenness of humanity and the resurrection? Is there any doubt what this means for the Christian community's own encounters with the mentally ill?
Thanks to all who have read this series. May God bless you this Christmas season.


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03/18/2014-Installing Pydio on your Thecus NAS transforms your device into a powerful file-sharing platform, creating a great alternative to Dropbox for those looking for greater data privacy.
But why would you choose to build a personal cloud instead of using standard public cloud services such as Dropbox or Amazon S3?
On the public cloud, your files are not under the control of your IT services and usage is restricted. The files are stored with unknown software, procedures, and possible security flaws. Additionally, with sensitive and personal data hosted on foreign soil, local laws are not necessarily respected. Access rights and system reporting regularly do not comply with more stringent security protocols. Freemium software as a service (SaaS) offerings, including cloud computing, are free for individuals, but costs quickly ramp up for businesses.
Pydio is an open source file sharing platform for enterprises. It features a simple and sleek web and mobile app, and hosting is securely located on your private server. As easy to use as other great consumer software, Pydio is designed to provide enterprise-grade security and control.
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The tradition is to serve lunch on a banana leaf
Even if it is always possible to ask for a spoon, it is a habit to eat with the right hand. Washing hands is mandatory before starting a meal. You can also wash your leaf with a little amount of water before being served, especially when the meal is taken on a banana leaf outside.
If you are invited, you'll be served by the house lady and you'll be able to eat as soon as you get served: in India, it is not necessary to wait for all the guests to be served before starting eating.
No left hand allowed !
In some parts of Africa and Middle-East, it is common to eat with three fingers only. In India, the meal is eaten with all the fingers (of the right hand).
When eating rice, just mix the gravy and the rice with your hand, then grab a little amount of the mixture in your fingers forming a cup and push the food with your thumb to put it in your mouth. You'll get used to it quickly!
This eating manner is very helpful to put aside what you cannot eat: cinnamon sticks, cloves or chicken and fish bones. During the meal, you can put your left arm in front of you, parallel to the table. You can use your left hand to drink water or to get refills.
To show you have finished your meal, you can fold the banana leaf. It can be very useful to remember to fold your leaf since an open leaf means you want to eat more. Beware, the way you fold it has a signification: fold the leaf toward you if you enjoyed the meal and the other way if you didn't. But the latter is seen as a very rude behavior.
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PDAP, a citizens' forum linking volunteers in the community and a group of prominent citizens
SEEDS, Delhi-based NGO
East Delhi municipality and Delhi State government
Local actors
Task force of community-based youth volunteers: 'disaster vigilantes'
Community action groups
Teachers and school students
Success factors
Mobilisation of volunteers as a resource to serve the community
Influential citizens leading PDPA, with access to decision makers
Vulnerability understood holistically, including daily threats to well-being, not just rare catastrophes and a development lens
As the world continues to urbanize, humanitarian action will increasingly unfold in cities. In Delhi, India's capital, the dramatic collapse of a building in the city's poor east in 2010 led to hundreds of casualties. It drove the creation of PDAP (Purvi Dilli Apada Prehari), a community-based group of 'disaster vigilantes.' PDAP is a task force of youth volunteers who work with their own agendas and their own resources to address threats to their communities. They are supported by a group of prominent citizens who engage and advocate with authorities, complementing the grassroots mobilisation. Deepa, a young volunteer in East Delhi with PDAP, explains why she became involved: "PDAP represents a platform where we can contribute to the community at large, understand their concerns and problems, and find local solutions." The issues that the community and PDAP struggle with go beyond the high impact events with which disaster risk management is typically concerned. Community members take a holistic view and as a result engage with issues such as solid waste management and sexual harassment as part of a broader focus on safety and security.
SEEDS (Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society) is an Indian NGO based in Delhi. It looks to the low income and migrant-dominated neighbourhoods of East Delhi to reimagine disaster preparedness for the 21st century from a local perspective. SEEDS has supported PDAP from the start. SEEDS emphasises that building resilience to disaster in urban neighbourhoods demands understanding how populations perceive threats. Underlying vulnerabilities in East Delhi include the high population density and – due to the poverty and marginality of resident populations – inadequate public services.
Everyday hazards that remain unaddressed result in an accumulation of risk. Urban populations constantly navigate hazards such as low hanging cables that can electrocute, house fires that can quickly spread uncontrollably to hundreds of homes, and sexual harassment and risk of assault for women. As such, a localised approach to resilience and disaster risk management must include not only the rare but large-scale events such as earthquake and flood that threaten East Delhi. They must also consider the daily threats that take lives and reduce quality of life. Parag Talankar from SEEDS explains that while SEEDS is a humanitarian organisation, one cannot separate humanitarian action from development: "We need to use a development lens. The development happening now is destructive not constructive. The goal should be not just to mainstream disaster risk reduction, but to build resilience, and that includes a range of developmentally linked interventions." As a result of this perspective, SEEDS' Urban Resilience Programme in East Delhi is both rooted in the daily lives of its residents and owned and driven by mobilised community members themselves. It is a community-based disaster risk management program. The program takes a 'whole of society' approach, engaging members of a citizens' forum – the PDAP as well as youth volunteers, community action groups, school students and their teachers.
The action
PDAP interventions include preparing risk assessment plans for neighbourhoods where youth map risks as they see them, training volunteers in search and rescue, and preparing evacuation plans for children. In schools, volunteers trained students to prepare for flood, earthquake and fire, and delivered road safety and sanitation training. To address the issue of poor building quality, masons were trained so they can ensure standards are maintained. Volunteers in communities identify issues and contact SEEDS for support. As a facilitator, SEEDS then builds the capacity to address the issue. In some neighbourhoods, volunteers monitor CCTV cameras. This increases safety, particularly for women. Deepa expands on this: "A major issue in the neighbourhood was eve teasing [sexual harassment of women]. We met with the authorities and volunteers who had experienced harassment presented their stories to the district administration. Change was driven by new instructions given to the police in the area, while PDAP volunteers presented street theatre to raise awareness of the issue. Before we had to face the boys who were harassing us and avoid any eye contact, now we are bold and can teach other young women."
Government is an essential partner. When government line departments work together with the community it ensures a convergence of efforts and more sustainable and effective service delivery. A 'citizen app' for smartphones makes authorities accountable, by enabling volunteers to photograph situations of concern and share them to provoke action. Examples include low hanging cables or garbage on the streets. This shows how PDAP links formal systems to informal approaches. Deepa explains: "Before, when approaching government officials about problems in the community we were asked for proof. Now the app provides the evidence that confirms the problem." PDAP plays a crucial role in bridging the governance gaps that emerge when the structuring of authorities is as complex as it is in Delhi. The Delhi state government and the municipality divide responsibilities for services in ways that make addressing the city's challenges more difficult. One example is how the state is responsible for secondary schools (through the District Magistrate's Office) and the East Delhi municipality for primary schools. As a result, any coherent engagement with school students must bring the two authorities together, and PDAP has added value in doing precisely this.
PDAP uses a substitutive approach, in which volunteers provide services that authorities are unable to provide. Examples include disaster preparedness and road safety training. It combines this with advocacy to drive change from the authorities. Advocacy exploits both the presence of mobilised community groups on the ground and the fact that the PDAP core group is well connected. As PDAP President Pavinder Mishra says, "The core group of PDAP are influential in the community and beyond and enjoy a good reputation. They are involved with various political parties and have their differences but have agreed to not exploit PDAP for any narrow agenda but to solve community problems." As a result, this group can access those who govern the city while avoiding the partisan political issues that often obstruct positive change. For example, the East Delhi Mayor has been cooperative, immediately acting when they raise an issue with him.
Using informal influence is counter to international humanitarian practice. However, PDAP has consciously chosen to remain informal and unregistered to avoid, as PDAP Chair Pawan Maini said, becoming "a monopoly of five people. Now it belongs to no-one and to the whole community, and people work for the community not for money." As a result, PDAP does not raise funds. Instead, it sees its role as a multiplier, using its connections to partner with others, including NGOs and the authorities. "We go to the people first, then seek answers from the authorities to get problems solved," said PDAP General Secretary, Nikita Chaturvedi.
Successes and challenges
The impact of PDAP action is clear in how informed and active citizens are using government resources for better service delivery, and youth are taking a lead in addressing daily hazards. The focus on schools seeks to make them safe urban spaces. These impacts increase the resilience of the community. They reflect an increase in the level of knowledge of community members, the extent of behaviour change and the degree of engagement of the community with risk management activities. Because of the way it works PDAP does not need external resources and can continue to raise awareness even without such support. "While PDAP was a baby of SEEDS it now has a life beyond SEEDS, and we remain partners," says Pawan Maini. "The challenge to its ability to drive change is the limit of 'people power'" – the extent to which a mobilised community can transform itself and those who govern it.
Partnership and participation
The partnership most crucial to the PDAP approach is that between government and citizens, acting to create new routes of accountability. Government and community resources are both used to implement community action plans for disaster risk reduction.
Participation concerns not only the community. PDAP also enables partnerships with local NGOs and the authorities who use the volunteer network for their activities. Community participation, where citizens engage with both their communities and those who govern them, is an outcome in itself and not just a tool.
SEEDS sees itself as a partner to communities, supporting then technically. It has no predefined agenda but shares ideas to create a joint plan. "We decide on what issues to address through consultation with the community. We live in the community, we are familiar with the issues. To address our issues we go to PDAP, they go to SEEDS, discuss and come up with a joint plan," says Nikita Chaturvedi.
Capacity and capacity building
Parag from SEEDS insists that the localisation agenda must be rooted in capacity building, and shares the lessons he has learned through the work with PDAP. "Workshop style capacity building is not a solution since this does not change behaviour," he says. "Rather, work is required at the micro-level to enable capacity to analyse and respond to risk, including the day-to-day. The capacity building of PDAP volunteers has empowered youth through critical risk reduction skills that enable them to take direct action on a range of neighbourhood safety issues." Training improves capacity, as does working with communities on issues they identify as important. In the process this creates an additional capacity building tool. As Deepa, the volunteer, said: "Now we – the volunteers – are a resource, not just for SEEDS. Thanks to our knowledge SEEDS and others can call on us to build capacity to reduce risks, in schools and in the community."
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Pakhee Kumar
Heritage Damage Assessment Demo
During my PhD, I collaborated with Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, and Carlos Castillo to develop a tool that can automatically classify images of cultural heritage sites posted on social media during disasters. A demo of this tool is available on: https://aidr-heritage.qcri.org/
Crowdsoucing to Rescue Cultural Heritage during Disasters: A Case of 1966 Florence Flood
This article was published in the International Journal for Disaster Risk Reduction. You can read the article on the journal website. You can also read the article here:
PhD Defense
I defended my PhD dissertation 'Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future: Cases and Tools for Cultural Heritage during Disasters' in December 2019. It was an exciting experience to present my research to the graduation committee which was composed of Iadh Ounis, Nicola Ferro, Raffaele Perego and EmanuelePellegrini. You can see my PhD […]


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A New Jersey mom who aims to be the world's heftiest woman enjoyed what was arguably the world's biggest Christmas dinner over the weekend.
43-year-old Donna Simpson, who currently weighs more than 600 pounds, sat for two straight hours and consumed nearly 30,000 calories worth of food, reports the UK's Daily Mail.
The massive feast consisted of two 25-pound turkeys, two maple-glazed hams, 15 pounds of potatoes, five loaves of bread, five pounds of herb stuffing, four pints of gravy, four pints of cranberry dressing, and 20 pounds of vegetables.
In total, the huge meal cost about $230 to prepare.
Simpson also had room for dessert as she consumed "salad" made of marshmallow, cream cheese, whipped cream and cookies.
The mother of two young children said that while she always eats as much as she wants, Christmas gives her cart blanche to "really go all out."
Simpson, whose stated goal is to reach 1,000 pounds, has drawn intense criticism for her intentional weight gain.
But Simpson insists she is healthy and says "people who feel guilty about eating are hilarious."
As an Internet personality, Simpson earns an income from her personal website, where people pay to watch her eat. She reportedly consumes nearly 12,000 calories a day, spending more than $600 a week on food.


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NanoAvionics Enters India's Space Market Through Partnership with Ananth Technologies19 Sep 2020, 14:04 UTC
VILNIUS, Lithuania (NanoAvionics PR) — NanoAvionics, a multinational nanosatellite mission integrator, has signed a partnership agreement with Ananth Technologies Ltd (ATL) which marks NanoAvionics' entry into India's growing NewSpace industry.
The agreement makes Ananth Technologies the official distributor of NanoAvionics' products and services in India, giving companies one stop access to cost-effective small, micro and nanosatellites including subsystems. The local access will save them time and cost for assembly, integration and test of at Ananth's facilities in Hyderabad and Bengaluru.
Customers will also have access to low-cost launch service, using ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV), and post launch operation services. In addition, this partnership between NanoAvionics and Ananth Technologies is going to foster relationships with Indian research institutions and suppliers.
"Our new partnership with Ananth Technologies opens new doors for NanoAvionics," NanoAvionics' CEO Vytenis J. Buzas said. "Ananth Tech is one of the most trusted names in the Indian aerospace sector. Their network, experience and world-class satellite manufacturing facilities will allow us to serve an emerging Indian NewSpace market more effectively. India's private space sector is a vibrant community of talented individuals having innovative ideas. I am sure that the recent Indian space policy changes, which just opened ...


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Angie's Garden Retreat, Qld
Accommodation Name - Angie's Garden Retreat
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Type of Accommodation - Self Contained Unit/Cottage
Details - Self catering holiday house just 280 meters from beach. Dogs allowed inside, just not on furniture. All you have to take with you is a dog bed and some food, everything else is supplied. Beautiful Bali Pavilion with outdoor kitchen makes very relaxing area to spend your time.
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Rap Beatbox Choir – your chance to take part.
The Rap Beatbox Choir needs rappers, beatboxers and singers to come together to perform 'We are the People', an original track made completely by the human voice. No instruments. 100% acapella. You can use the YouTube channel to interact with the track and add your voice to this unique piece of music. Taking part is easy: just watch the videos, select the part you want to perform, learn it and submit your video performance to the YouTube channel. If you can keep in tune and tempo you may be added... Read More


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Organization: Sustainable Agriculture Tool Lending Library
Project Coordinator: George O'Neal
Location: Timberlake, Person County, NC
The Sustainable Agriculture Tool Lending Library came to be through farmers George O'Neal (Lil' Farm) and Kelly Owensby (Transplanting Traditions Community Farm). Realizing how difficult it was for George, as a young farmer, to rent or buy equipment for his farm, they came up with the plan to start a cooperative with ten other farmers to buy farm tools together and share them.
The tool lending library uses a Google calendar to manage who gets which tool when. The group also collects yearly membership fees that go towards future tool buying, insurance, and maintenance of the tools, and different farmers are assigned to different positions (secretary, treasurer, etc) to help the group run smoothly and sustain itself long-term.
Learn more about how tremendously beneficial this project is, how easy it is to replicate, and how it makes for a stronger, more vibrant, and more successful farm community by listening to our podcast about the project from when it first got its start in 2011.
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If you are interested in this project and would like to support our documentation of it, please consider donating to the Growing Innovation Fund here.
Your support will allow us to conduct follow-up interviews with those involved with this project, as well as in-person visits to document the successes and challenges of the project. Thanks for your support!


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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A 31-year-old Florida woman has been sentenced in Nevada to six-to-15 years in prison for her role in a real estate investment scheme that prosecutors say bilked at least 11 investors.
Jessica Garcia, of Apopka, Florida, also was ordered Tuesday to pay a share of more than $750,000 in restitution to victims of the business known as Parcelnomics LLC or Investment Deals.
Garcia and co-defendant Jack Leal pleaded guilty in April 2017 to felony fraud charges.
Leal was sentenced in August 2017 to six-to-15 years in state prison.
Garcia's lawyer, Gabriel Grasso says her sentencing was postponed several times while she worked to make restitution to the victims. Grasso says he'd disappointed she didn't receive credit for those efforts.
But the attorney acknowledged that Garcia also failed to appear for sentencing in 2017 and was arrested several months later in Florida.
State Attorney General Aaron Ford says that from March 2015 to March 2016 Garcia and Leal falsely represented that properties their victims bought were clear of liens and other security interests.


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Senators Make Title II Pitch
Veteran net neutrality advocate Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), joined by 11 other like-minded Senate Democrats, is calling for the FCC to reclassify Internet Access Service—the transmission component separate from the content—as a Title II telecommunications service as it attempts to recraft open Internet rules thrown out by a federal court.
That came in a letter to FCC chairman Tom Wheeler Tuesday, the deadline for initial comment on Wheeler's proposal not to reclassify. Wheeler has said Title II is still on the table, but thinks he can restore anti-blocking and anti-unreasonable discrimination rules using other authority.
But the senators said they are concerned that approach could fundamentally alter the Internet by allowing "faster delivery times for websites, applications or services that pay for it," or the so-called fast and slow lanes that have become a hot-button issue.
"Broadband is a more advanced technology than phone service, but in the 21st century it performs the same essential function. Consumers and businesses cannot live without this vital connection to each other and to the world around them," they wrote. "Accordingly, it would be appropriate for the FCC to reclassify broadband to reflect the vital role the Internet plays in carrying our most important information and our greatest ideas."
Wheeler has pointed out that the court gave the FCC a path to sustainable rules via a commercially reasonable standard for accepting some types of discrimination—say, prioritizing health monitoring over game playing—on a case by case basis, as an alternative to the ban on unreasonable discrimination the court threw out. He has said repeatedly that did not mean fast or slow lanes, or paid priority that hurt competition, innovation or investment.
The senators were joined at a press conference Tuesday by representatives of Public Knowledge and Free Press, who are advocating for Title II.
The letter, reprinted below, was signed by senators Al Franken (D-Minn.), Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Jeff Merkley (D-Oreg.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Kristen Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.).
The Honorable Tom Wheeler
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th St. SW
Washington, DC 20554
Dear Chairman Wheeler:
An open Internet has become the world's most successful platform for innovation, job-creation and entrepreneurialism. An open Internet enables freedom of expression and the sharing of ideas around the world. An open Internet is driving economic growth throughout the United States.
Yet, the vitality and nondiscriminatory nature of this platform is at stake today. We must take steps to prevent broadband providers from creating Internet fast lanes for those who can pay, leaving others stuck in traffic. We need to prohibit paid prioritization, which would leave start-ups and small businesses to suffer in a new Internet slow lane, harming our economy and job growth. Our goal must be to protect the openness of the Internet for future generations.
At issue today is how the FCC should use its authority to keep the Internet open for business. We remain concerned that the Commission's recent notice of proposed rulemaking suggests approaches that could undermine the openness of the Internet. Because the item tentatively concludes that Internet service providers would be allowed to offer faster delivery times for websites, applications or services that pay for it, the Commission's proposal could fundamentally alter the Internet as we know it.
Instead, the Commission should take this opportunity to put truly effective open Internet rules on the books, and do so using whatever authority best stops these discriminatory practices. We believe that authority already resides in Title II. By reclassifying the transmission component of broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service, with appropriate forbearance, the FCC could prevent online discrimination.
Broadband is a more advanced technology than phone service, but in the 21st century it performs the same essential function. Consumers and businesses cannot live without this vital connection to each other and to the world around them. Accordingly, it would be appropriate for the FCC to reclassify broadband to reflect the vital role the Internet plays in carrying our most important information and our greatest ideas.
Thank you for your consideration and your work on this issue.
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Restaurant review - Sharrow Bay Country House, Ullswater
PUBLISHED: 12:00 13 September 2014
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Gastronomic history records that Sharrow Bay was the place where the sticky toffee pudding was invented.
And very nice it is too - lighter, subtler, less glutinous and swimming in a sauce less cloying than the belly-filling imitators to be found on every pub grub menu now.
But Francis Coulson's Famous and Original Icky Sticky Toffee Pudding is not the only star of the Sharrow Bay menu, with Colin Akrigg and Mark Teasdale - both billed as head chef - proving that too many cooks do not necessarily spoil the broth.
There is a £75-per-head dinner menu, and a £95-per-head tasting menu. We stuck with the cheaper option and began with seared scallops, roast asparagus, crispy pancetta and a lemon grass sauce, the bite and boldness of the pancetta elevating rather than overwhelming the scallops and subtle sauce. Across the table, dressed crab with scallop mousse came with a diaphanous pink grapefruit jelly and dressed leaves.
A fillet of grey mullet arrived atop a luscious risotto which was fine dining's answer to mushy peas. But the soup option was the real star - celeriac and pear whipped into a heavenly, creamy half-foam with blue cheese and walnut salsa. More please!
On to the mains, and a fillet of Scottish Angus beef came perfectly aged and perfectly medium-cooked. Equally impressive was a supporting cast of truffle and herb gnocchi, madeira sauce and a wild mushroom fricassée whose earthy flavours were a delight.
My fellow diner's best end of Herdwick lamb also came with intriguing accompaniments, including a blob of deep and intense-tasting black pudding and braised red cabbage so sweet and zingy that it was perhaps the best thing on the plate.
The kitchen's own bread impressed greatly - particularly a curry-flavoured roll - and the Sharrow Bay wine list is award-winningly good.
Our second night in the restaurant revealed some other stars of the menu. A starter of smoked duck salad with glazed poached pear, Cashel Blue cheese and walnut dressing was an inspired combination. A soufflé of stilton, spinach and roasted onion was feather-light. And that celeriac and pear soup was so good we just had to give it an encore.
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God consciousness is a plane of consciousness different from that experienced by "the natural man"the normal human. The "natural man"or ordinary state of beingis subject to the laws of the physical planelaws (so-called) of physical and other human needssuch as certain amounts and kinds of food, clothing, amusements, diversions. He is subject to various beliefs and theories of health: so-called laws of infection, contagion, age, climate, exercise, etc. The "natural man" is acquisitive, fearful, doubtful, hesitant in thought and deed, all based on fears concerning the self. The "natural man" is a sense of separation from the Godhead and "dies" as the son of God, or God-consciousness is realizedas oneness with God develops and unfolds. Somewhere in his experience, at some timebecause of the depth and degree of some needthe "natural man" is turned inward, to seek within himself for that which he outwardly requires. This inward turning becomes a search for God, a seeking for truth, and when earnestly and persistently followed, results (usually slowly) in the dawning in consciousness of the Veritiesthe activities and laws, substance and being, of the infinite Invisible.
Now the seeker begins to realize some measure of his union with God, of the unity or oneness of God and his own being, and eventually discerns that Spirit really is the essence, the very fiber of his being. The "natural man" is now "dying daily" to all the theories, beliefs and ideas associated with "man whose breath is in his nostrils"the human, limited, finite sense of man. Instead, the realization of divine Sonship is unfoldinga conscious awareness of Spirit and Its law and being. The Christ or Son of God is being new born again in the manger of human consciousness, and evolves by stages to the degree of manhood in Christto the full stature of Sonship or God-consciousness.
On this higher plane the "old man" no longer appears. Now one is aware in himself, and notes in others, that this "old man" is not and never was a real entity, but rather that a false concept of the Creative Principle and Its universe had been entertained and accepted as truth.
More and more the awareness of true Identity is manifest, and slowly, oh, so slowly truth dawns in consciousness and God is beheld as one's own being.
Now comes the understanding that "we do not live by bread alone" but more by the consciousness of Truth; that the stage of acquisition had been dropped since "I have meat ye know not" and "I am the bread of life." In this consciousness there is no selfhood for which to fear since God has been "seen" as the only Selfhoodself-sufficient and eternal.
It now becomes apparent that life is lived by grace as the gift of God and the sense of personal effort, human will and struggle falls away. "I have seen Thee face to face." Life now is lived by the law of God. Supply unfolds as required, with no anxious thought, from the infinite Source of being. The divine harmonies of human relationships are maintained by the beauties and activities of the Soul, unless one forgets himself and becomes temporarily a reformer of others and by so doing, brings on the enmity of the "natural man" in the world who desires not at all to be extinguished, at least until his own time is come.
If I am rich, I am poor indeed unless my wealth is in Him. If I am well, my body aches unless my health is in Him. There is no peace, no security, no joy, except these be found in Him "whom to know aright is life eternal." Yes, Life: joyous, peaceful, and serene.
When the call comes to you to leave your nets, you will understand that you are ready to leave behind the limited and limiting sense of existence, and that you are ready to drop your dependence on persons, things, and conditions of the world and to live wholly in God.
No longer will you so keenly love, hate or fear the conditions of "this world", the realm of effect, because you will perceive the true nature of God as: the Cause, Law and Source of your good. You will now understand that the Infinite Invisible is your rock, your fortress, your high tower and your sanctuary from every storm and strife of human belief. Even further than this, you will "see" thatonly the Invisible is power and, therefore, that no power for good or evil exists in the realm of effect, and your entire obedience and dependence will rest within and not without. When the Voice says, "I will make you fishers of men," you will understand so clearly that God is your being that men will follow after "Me." They too will seek and find Spirit as their life.
"Leaveyour nets and follow Me."
Joel S. Goldsmith
Originally published in the Science of Thought Review


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Italy's Antonella Confortola and Eritrea's Petro Mamu were the winners at the Grintovec Mountain Running race, the second stage of the Mountain Running World Cup 2016, in the Slovenian town of Kamnik on Sunday (24).
Confortola, one of Italy's leading mountain runners and cross-country skiers for the past two decades, was too strong for local favourite Lucija Krkoč and defending champion Karmen Klancnik. Antonella started the race with her own pace that the other women could simply not follow.
In the men's race, the top African contenders set off cautiously, knowing that the steeper parts of the course would come later on. On the 'saddle', about two-thirds into the race, the leading group of five athletes were still close together, but defending champion Nejc Kuhar was not among them.
Mamo, aware of how tough the course was, timed his run to perfection and went on to win comfortably in 1:22:30. Kenya's Francis Wangari finished second in 1:23:19 and Slovenia's Rok Bratina was the best local runner, finishing third in 1:23:56. Isaac Kosgei, the 2014 winner, finished fourth.
The next stage of the WMRA World Cup will be on 31 July in Telfes-Stubaitall, Austria.
Tomo Sarf (WMRA) for the IAAF
Leading results
1 Petro Mamu (ERI) 1:22:30
2 Francis Wangari (KEN) 1:23:19
3 Rok Bratina (SLO) 1:23:56
4 Isaac Kosgei (KEN) 1:26:01
5 Nejc Kuhar (SLO) 1:26:32
1 Antonella Confortola (ITA) 1:39:11
2 Lucija Krkoc (SLO) 1:42:27
3 Karmen Klancnik (SLO) 1:46:52
4 Jasmina Jelovsek (SLO) 1:52:57
5 Maja Marukic (SLO) 1:55:49


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Dance institute presents another original production: 'The Snow Maiden'
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February 9, 2015
UA's Dance Institute presented an original production titled "The Snow Maiden" at EJ Thomas Hall last weekend. More than 90 performers took the stage, all varying in age from first-graders to university students. A few of Akron's own, Christine Howe and Michael Baker, performed alongside Snow...


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When life comes at you a little too fast, CCFCU wants you to be prepared. Having a savings account especially for "rainy day" funds, or emergency funds, is always a great idea. We never know what can happen and there is no such thing as too prepared. Below are a few of great tips on starting and keeping up with your "rainy day" savings.
- Start Small: The best way to save for an emergency is BEFORE it happens – not while you are in it.
- A small fund is better than no fund.
- Start small by keeping $50 – $100 every paycheck to save.
- Save Securely: Reduce temptation – secure your money against your own temptation. If money is easily accessible, you may be tempted to spend it. Consider putting some distance between you and your emergency fund.
- Remember that emergency funds must be liquid not tied up in investments. In other words, you must be able to access your money quickly after a crisis occurs in your life.
- Keep Going: Some experts say that $1000 is sufficient emergency fund, while others suggest 3-6 months' worth of expenses.
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I am looking for the title of a movie and I've searched so thoroughly but to no avail. I've watched it recently (3-4 months back).
It's about a girl who discovers that her psychiatrist is actually a killer or something of the likes but before that she suspected her neighbour and broke into their house to find his dentures but they landed in a pile of newspapers and the neighbour woke up.
When the girl finally realises she can find proof she makes her mom stay in the room and distract the psychiatrist (who is an old man) and goes into the basement to look through documents, and true enough she finds documents of how the psychiatrist had interned at her house (which was a mental institute or a troubled youth centre?) and had gotten beaten up by some patients and he has come back for revenge (I'm not sure why).
When he finally stops the mother from talking he excuses himself to the toilet and he doesn't ask where but miraculously knows where it is and he gets confronted by the daughter and the mother when he comes out. The man in the wall has once cut off the power supply and managed to seriously injure the psychiatrist. The mother and daughter hide in the toilet while the psychiatrist looks for a saw (?) to cut open the door.
I also remember in one scene the daughter uses a cheese grater to rub against the psychiatrists face. And in the last scene the mother is getting choked by a telephone wire by the psychiatrist and the daughter was knocked out. But the man living in the walls taps her and she wakes up and he passes her a knife or a taser, I can't remember.
I'm so sorry this is in bits and pieces but it is what I remember. Also the man in the walls has crazy hair and is always watching TV. Thank you in advance!


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Cannabis is derived from the cannabis plant (cannabis sativa). The dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant are known as marijuana.
Cannabis is derived from the cannabis plant (cannabis sativa). The dried leaves and flowers of the cannabis plant are known as marijuana.
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Medical marijuana in the U.S. is controlled at the state level. Maine has allowed prescribing, and limited possession, of medical marijuana since 1999. Per federal law, cannabis is illegal as noted in the Controlled Substances Act, but the federal government has stated they will not actively prosecute patients and caregivers complying with state medical marijuana laws. Learn more
The caregiver model is patient-centered, as well as typically providing a higher quality of care. Traditionally, caregivers in Maine have been advocates for the rights of the patient. The caregiver approach is more consultative, personalized for the patient.
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Washington's decision to arm Syria's Sunni Muslim rebels has plunged America into the great Sunni-Shia conflict of the Islamic Middle East, entering a struggle that now dwarfs the Arab revolutions which overthrew dictatorships across the region.
For the first time, all of America's 'friends' in the region are Sunni Muslims and all of its enemies are Shiites. Breaking all President Barack Obama's rules of disengagement, the US is now fully engaged on the side of armed groups which include the most extreme Sunni Islamist movements in the Middle East.
The Independent on Sunday has learned that a military decision has been taken in Iran – even before last week's presidential election – to send a first contingent of 4,000 Iranian Revolutionary Guards to Syria to support President Bashar al-Assad's forces against the largely Sunni rebellion that has cost almost 100,000 lives in just over two years. Iran is now fully committed to preserving Assad's regime, according to pro-Iranian sources which have been deeply involved in the Islamic Republic's security, even to the extent of proposing to open up a new 'Syrian' front on the Golan Heights against Israel.
In years to come, historians will ask how America – after its defeat in Iraq and its humiliating withdrawal from Afghanistan scheduled for 2014 – could have so blithely aligned itself with one side in a titanic Islamic struggle stretching back to the seventh century death of the Prophet Mohamed. The profound effects of this great schism, between Sunnis who believe that the father of Mohamed's wife was the new caliph of the Muslim world and Shias who regard his son in law Ali as his rightful successor – a seventh century battle swamped in blood around the present-day Iraqi cities of Najaf and Kerbala – continue across the region to this day. A 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbott, compared this Muslim conflict to that between "Papists and Protestants".
America's alliance now includes the wealthiest states of the Arab Gulf, the vast Sunni territories between Egypt and Morocco, as well as Turkey and the fragile British-created monarchy in Jordan. King Abdullah of Jordan – flooded, like so many neighbouring nations, by hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees – may also now find himself at the fulcrum of the Syrian battle. Up to 3,000 American 'advisers' are now believed to be in Jordan, and the creation of a southern Syria 'no-fly zone' – opposed by Syrian-controlled anti-aircraft batteries – will turn a crisis into a 'hot' war. So much for America's 'friends'.
Its enemies include the Lebanese Hizballah, the Alawite Shiite regime in Damascus and, of course, Iran. And Iraq, a largely Shiite nation which America 'liberated' from Saddam Hussein's Sunni minority in the hope of balancing the Shiite power of Iran, has – against all US predictions – itself now largely fallen under Tehran's influence and power. Iraqi Shiites as well as Hizballah members, have both fought alongside Assad's forces.


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DayStar Technologies: Debt Reduction Agreement
KELOWNA, BC - DayStar Technologies, Inc., announced an agreement to exchange indebtedness for common stock which resulted in the Company increasing its net worth by approximately $3.9 million.
The transaction consisted of the exchange of approximately $3.9 million of indebtedness (including accrued interest) held by Peter A. Lacey, the Chairman of the Board for DSTI, for shares of common stock valued at $1.20 per share.
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Witch in the Moon Halloween Pinata
|Measures 16" high by 16" long by 6" deep and holds 2 lb of fillers (sold separately). A pinata is dressed in fringed-cut tissue paper and decorated with print cutouts. Original design features witch's hair and broom in fringe cut tissue paper. Use as a front door Halloween decoration, trick or treat candy holder, table centerpiece, haunted house photo prop and party game! Pinata comes with the cable tie to hang from and opening at the back for adding fillers.
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Another lady figure about 16 cm high. She also stands up on her own. Her arms need some work but I'll get there in the end.
This one is pretty. Are the leaf things provifing a counterbalance so that it stands properly?
No, it stands up on it's own without the leaves but I wanted to end the floating piece of glass in some way. Another time I might add more leaves and perhaps some tiny flowers. It should be possible given the thinness of the glass, making the flowers seperately and adding them via thin stalks to the wiggly thread of glass.