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The Economics of Indian Unrest
By Sir Basil Blackett
THE late Mr. Walter Leaf published more than one attractive and convincing volume devoted to proving that the siege of Troy by the Hellenes was directly due to trade rivalries, and there has been a school of historians during the last half-century or more which has interpreted not only recent history but almost every war in the world from the fall of Nineveh to the fall of Constantinople as economic phenomena. It would be strange if, viewed from such a standpoint, present political conditions in India could not be made to explain themselves as the outcome of economic discontent and maladjustment.
Many explanations are at hand to suggest a close association between post-war unrest in India and economic conditions. Slowly but remorselessly the west is penetrating deeper and deeper into India. The movie and the motor-car are gradually if almost imperceptibly changing Indian village life, and broadcasting by radio is bound to come soon and prove a powerful solvent. Hundreds of thousands of Indian peasants have returned to their villages up and down Hindustan and especially in the Punjab from war service with the army outside India, and have brought back with them incredible memories and vivid stories of life and manners in other countries. Their minds and desires, and those of their fellows, have been stirred by pictures of unbelievably well-tilled fields and well-filled stomachs in other lands. All this is making for unrest. Or at least it is hard for a westerner to believe that it is not. Again, there are all the fruits of the educational history of India under British rule. Only very recently have primary education and the education of girls begun to receive adequate attention, and the difficulties of finding teachers are enormous. The provision for secondary and university education is still out of proportion to what is being done and what can be done for primary schools. Year by year tens of thousands of young men are turned loose on to the market with matriculation qualifications or university degrees, often, indeed, in possession of the barest smattering of book learning, but in very many cases with real capacity and with sufficient preliminary instruction to fit them to take a useful part in industrial and commercial life. All of them compete for a very limited number of places in government service, or for private employment in the comparatively few cities of India. Their education has unfitted them for the agricultural pursuits which their fathers have followed for centuries; and they are certain to be married -- probably were already married long before they went to the university -- to Indian women who have been remorselessly shielded from contact with western ideas, and in most cases excluded altogether from any opportunity for education of any kind. The unrest which has been endemic in Bengal for the last three decades is undoubtedly to some extent an economic phenomenon, and this economic background is responsible for some of the bitterness which characterizes political unrest not only in Bengal but in India generally. For political unrest in India is largely middle-class in character. The unemployed Bhadralog, the middle-class youths of Bengal who have had some opportunity for education on western lines and can find no outlet for their energies in the economic life of their country, are a direct and potent cause in creating much political unrest. They crowd into the law-courts, but even the appetite for litigation in India is insufficient to provide a livelihood for the enormous crowd of budding lawyers.
Nevertheless it is difficult to be convinced that Indian unrest is in general economic in origin. First of all, what is really meant by unrest in India? During the last ten years it is possible to single out at least three manifestations of different kinds which merit the name of unrest. There is the non-coöperation movement, associated with the Khilafatist and Akhali Sikh agitations of the years 1919 to 1924. There is the Bengal revolutionary conspiracy movement, with ramifications in the United Provinces and elsewhere, covering much the same period. The so-called Bengal Ordinance, which marks the end of the peak period of this movement, was promulgated in 1924. Thirdly, there is the existing communist trouble, which began to assume its present proportions about eighteen months ago. All these are quite distinct types of unrest, springing from different causes and pursuing different objects.
Non-coöperation was Gandhi's answer to the events in the Punjab of 1919. It is true that it was the fruit of contact between two conflicting civilizations, and in Gandhi's mind, if not in those of most of his supporters, the ideal in view was the ideal of "Erewhon," the abolition of all machines and all western progress and a return to primitive village conditions. The movement attained its truest contact with economics in its call for the reestablishment of village handicrafts and industry which were and are being submerged by machine-made products, not only imported, but manufactured in the mills of Bombay, Anmedabad and other Indian cities. Nevertheless, the non-coöperation movement was definitely a racial and political movement of middle-class origin, owing some of its importance to the chance which associated it with the Khilafatist movement and the temporary coalescence of Hindu and Moslem anti-British feeling. It was not Gandhi's economics but his asceticism which caught the fancy of the masses, and his supposed invulnerability. His power over them disappeared in a moment with his arrest and imprisonment. Non-coöperation was not in any true sense an economic phenomenon.
The Khilafatist agitation was started as a purely political movement by professional agitators such as the Ali brothers, but it drew its strength solely from the slogan of "Religion in Danger." The Moslems of India were told that the British were aiming at the ruin of Turkey as a preliminary to the total destruction of Islam, and for a brief moment the Hindu-Moslem feud was subordinated in the mind of the Moslems to their dream of again establishing a Moslem Raj in India. As the fearful episodes of the Moplah outbreak showed, there was no real intention in the Moslem mind of accepting their Hindu allies as anything more than temporary equals. The movement had no economic significance.
The Akhali Sikh movement began as a genuinely religious movement among the Sikh peasantry to reform the management of the Sikh temples, but was quickly seized upon by urban political agitators and turned into an anti-British movement. There were possibly some economic factors which entered into the Akhali agitation and increased its momentum, such as the ill-adjustment between agricultural and industrial prices in the years immediately following the war, the recurrence of bad seasons and the general rise in the cost of living in India. Moreover it had its roots back in pre-war history, and was not unconnected with the story of the Sikhs in California, and the refusal of the United States and Canada to admit them as settlers and allow them a share in the material progress of the New World. But the movement itself was definitely religious in origin and political in direction, and not inspired by economic motives.
The origins of the Bengal revolutionary movement are somewhat more difficult to trace and define. It was to a large extent a revival of the pre-war agitation which had reached its period of maximum violence during the campaign against the partition of Bengal, announced during the late Lord Curzon's Vice-Royalty and eventually rescinded in 1912, simultaneously with the removal of the capital of India from Calcutta to Delhi. The object of the Bengal revolutionary movement was the expulsion of the British from India, and the replacement of the British Raj by a Hindu Raj, presumably in the main a government composed of Bengal Bhadralog. The movement appealed to the idealism of the young Bengali, and to the inspiration of the Nationalist ideal with its cry of "Bande Mataram" ("Hail, Mother"), a purely western ideal which nevertheless evoked a sincere response from the western-educated youth of Bengal. Unquestionably, however, the Bengal revolutionary movement drew a large part of its strength from the desire of its participants for a government of their own which would give them all the good jobs and means of patronage for their relatives and friends. Curiously enough, the political bias of the movement came rather from the United Provinces, as a reflex result of the extension into that quarter of an agitation which was primarily economic in origin. It is the unemployed propertyless Bengali youth who makes the Bengal revolutionary movement possible. It was not a movement which had its roots in the mass of the population. Indeed, it derived a large part of its funds from the proceeds of dacoities committed upon the houses of wealthy villagers, post offices, and so on, thus making itself an intolerable nuisance to the general public. There would be no impulse to revolution in Bengal if jobs in government service, or other suitable occupations other than agriculture, were freely available to Bengali matriculates. To this extent, therefore, it may be said that the Bengal revolutionary movement depended on economic factors, but they are factors applying only to a small and specialized class in Bengal, and not to the great mass of the population in India or even in the Presidency of Bengal.
Communism is an importation from outside India, and as a doctrine or theory of life is completely unintelligible to Indian thought. It contains, however, one feature, its cult of hatred against Britain as the arch-enemy of Bolshevism and the protagonist of the almost mystically conceived satanic bourgeoisie, which has made it possible for some of the extreme leaders of the spirit of revolt against the west to regard communism as an ally, in spite of themselves and of their utter aversion for all that it implies except this one feature. Moscow has not been slow to see the possibilities of advancing her own aims by playing upon the anti-European feelings of Asia as a whole. In China she seemed at first to have achieved a measure of success, and in so far as her object was to sow confusion and thereby damage the trading interests of the rest of the world, she did secure results. But when, after a previous failure in Java, Moscow found China turning upon Bolshevism and rending it, she not unnaturally advanced upon India with renewed hope and remarkable energy in organization; and for the moment she undoubtedly is having some success. There are political extremists in Hindu India who are ready to convince themselves that it is safe to encourage communism as one among other means for bringing about a Brahman Swaraj government. Their support is purely political in motive, and their whole conception of life with its rigid social system and its tyrannous attitude to the non-Brahman and the depressed classes makes it certain that they would be as swift to repudiate Bolshevism as China was, though they might not be so successful in repressing it if by any chance they reached the stage of dispensing with it as a weapon against the British Raj. Even as things are, the large majority of the Swarajists, themselves a small minority among the intelligentsia of India, have refused to toy with communism.
Yet communism has without question made considerable strides among the urban proletariat in India, and for the reason that the mass of Indian industrial labor is fertile ground for the communist seed to thrive in, owing to the miserable pay and standard of living among the Indian landless workers. The industrial workers are at present an entirely unnatural excrescence on Indian soil. Of the 318,000,000 people in India and Burma at the census of 1921, less than eight and a quarter million lived in cities with a population of 100,000 and upwards, of which there were only 35. India is still so overwhelmingly agricultural as to make it almost impossible for a western mind to comprehend what its economic conditions are. The urban workers, in Bombay for example, are almost exclusively composed of villagers recruited from upcountry, who drift back to their villages in vast numbers as soon as a strike takes place. They are unbelievably inefficient in their labor, and all but immune against any appeal based on the basic principles of western civilization, the appeal to enlightened self-interest, the belief that given reasonable opportunity to better himself and his conditions a man will willingly work harder and make an effort to improve his own efficiency.
Much has been done in the last three decades with a view to improving the conditions of the industrial workers. The jute mills in Calcutta very wisely used some of their exceptional earnings during the war for expenditure on better housing, better sanitation and medical care and better factory conditions for the operatives. The Tata Iron and Steel Works at Jamshedpar have at times strained their financial resources in accepting responsibility for the erection of dwellings for their employees and for the maintenance of the whole of the public utility resources of the municipality. The position has admittedly been more difficult at Bombay, where owing to inexperience the cotton mill owners and managers, in the main Indians, dissipated an undue proportion of their wartime profits in big dividends. Yet few employers of labor in India fail to recognize that their labor is not cheap, in spite of the low wages paid. The difficulty is that experience has proved that increased money wages, so far from increasing efficiency, lead at once to increased absenteeism. The wage-earner does not want to become a more efficient urban industrial worker. His one ambition is to become the owner of a small plot of land, from the produce of which he can supply himself and his family with the minimum quantity of food necessary for subsistence with the maximum amount of leisure and idleness for himself. Any material change in this attitude and in these conditions can come only very gradually. There is no lack of eagerness among the officials, European and Indian, and among the Indian politicians, to find a solution, and increasing attention and expenditure are being devoted to what are rather pathetically styled the "nation-building services," the medical and sanitary services, primary education, education for girls, services aiming at the improvement of agricultural methods and credit. But it is and must be a long and slow process. Some of the attempted remedies, such as the extension of industrial productivity, urgently necessary as it is in India to have a better balanced economy, if openings are to be found for skilled Indian engineers and in general for the unemployed Bhadralog, not only of Bengal but of India as a whole, tend to increase the problem by increasing the number of the industrial workers. It is not surprising that clever emissaries of Bolshevism should find the urban industrial workers of India ready to listen to incitements to destroy their employers and the whole system of capitalist production, and find a swift remedy for their sufferings in universal chaos.
The communist movement, then, whatever its original source, is a form of unrest which is clearly economic. Thus far, however, it has not extended much beyond the urban proletariat, but it is capable of appealing to the Indian peasant. If the strong hand of the British were withdrawn, the Indian ryot would murder his landlord as readily as the Russian peasant. It is significant that hitherto its leaders are being drawn not from among the Indian peoples but mainly from Britain. Moreover, it repels rather than attracts the majority even of the extreme elements among the political opposition to the present government of India. Its danger lies in the appeal which it seems to be making to the leaders of the "Youth Movement" in India, with idealists at its head such as that very remarkable leader, Jewahurilal Nehru, who is genuinely in sympathy with the downtrodden masses of India and quite impervious to argument based on the necessity of proceeding cautiously towards a goal not immediately realizable.
So far only incidental mention has been made of the main body of political agitation in India, which is probably what most people have in mind when they speak of Indian unrest. When Mr. Edwin Montagu was advocating the big constitutional reforms which eventually took shape in the Government of India Act of 1919, he publicly expressed the hope and desire by means of constitutional reforms to shake the Indian peasant out of his pathetic contentment with his lot. It was clearly his aim by giving constitutional powers to the Indian peoples in the form of Legislative Councils in the provinces and attached to the Central Government, with elected majorities and the beginning of responsibility, to create an economic basis for the political unrest which already existed and which was rightly expected to be increased by the reforms which he was inaugurating. It is one of the not very numerous evidences of successful results thus far attained after some years' experience of the reforms that the professional politicians have everywhere given lip-service to the demand for improved economic conditions and have in many cases sincerely advocated and worked for them. In the Indian States where there has been least economic progress there is no political unrest. Further, in various instances, notably in the work done for village uplift by Mr. F. L. Brayne in Gurgaon, proof has been forthcoming that, under sympathetic stimulus and advice, the Indian peasant will welcome efforts to improve his lot and will himself take a part in the necessary campaign, even to the extent of inviting extra taxation provided it is spent on local services whose beneficial effect he can see and appreciate.
In general, however, it has to be confessed that the professional politicians of India are largely innocent of genuine economic motives. They are in the main drawn from the urbanized middle classes, a large proportion of them being lawyers who have vainly struggled for employment in the overcrowded ranks of their profession. Most of them have far less knowledge of the economic conditions of the Indian masses than the District Officers, Indian and European, whose ceaseless work for the people of their District is one of the most admirable features of government in India, and is in constant danger of being hampered by the efforts which are being made under the Reforms to further self-government and representative institutions. The British District Officer and the army officer, who is in close contact with the family life of his sepoys, know far more of the mind of the masses of India than either the Indian politician or the average official, British or Indian, in the secretariats at headquarters. Inevitably, also, the politicians are to a large extent Indians who have been influenced by western thought and knowledge of the English language, and their vision of the future of India in too many cases ignores the 300,000,000 out of the 318,000,000 people in India who are outside the intelligentsia, who for the most part are unconscious of the existence of Legislative Councils and Assemblies, and who are aware of the Reforms only to the extent of uneasy wonder whether the Pax Britannica may not shortly end with the withdrawal of the British from India and the return of the era of disorder and insecurity which the age-old philosophy of the Indian masses regards as normal.
The Swarajist or Congress Party is in reality the right wing of the non-coöperation movement. It is the party of direct action as against Gandhi's policy of non-resisting inaction, a clear proof that it is under the influence of western, non-Indian ideas. It broke away from Gandhi's leadership at the end of 1922, with the professed object of destroying the reforms, not by passive non-coöperation, but by taking a place within the new Legislative Councils and undermining them from within. Its hope was that the British would thereby be induced or compelled to concede the larger demand for full self-government. This party is at bottom entirely opposed to Mr. Gandhi's ideal and remains in nominal accord with him only by a series of meaningless compromises. Westernized in education, though not perhaps in outlook, and divorced from the life of the masses, its aim is to secure the transfer of power and patronage from the present British Raj to a Raj controlled by the Brahmins and other caste Hindus, but supported by the British army and the troops drawn mainly from the martial peoples of Northern India. Gandhi's ideal was quite different -- the rejection of the west and a return to an idealized mediæval village life. There is nothing economic in the political unrest associated with the Swarajist opposition. The root cause is the clash of an alien western civilization with the Hindu social system, and the predominating motive is racial antagonism. It has been well said that of all the cultures with which Hindu civilization has been brought in contact, the western is the first which it has been unable to assimilate, and it is now suffering from an acute attack of indigestion.
The Swarajist Party is repudiated by all but a small fraction of the Moslems of India. Here comes in another and a secular cause of Indian unrest, the age-old feud between Hindu and Moslem, which dominates the whole political field. It has perhaps been intensified by the Reforms. The Moslem has been slow to take advantage of the opportunities for western education. With the prospect appearing on the horizon of a transfer of power to elected Indian representatives, he has waked up to the risk he runs of becoming the servant of a Hindu Raj, the inevitable sequel to the introduction of the idea of majority rule. The prospect of subjection to his former servants is unthinkable to the Moslem who regards himself as the descendant and heir of the Moguls and other Moslem overlords of India, and dreams always of the day when his glory will return. Economic causes are totally absent from this form of political unrest.
The conclusion must be that present day unrest in India is in the main the outcome of causes which have nothing to do with economic conditions. Racial antagonisms within India (India is a sub-continent far less homogeneous than Europe, with nothing but what Britain has created to make it a unity), the clash between east and west, the secular struggle of Hinduism as a social system to maintain itself against the threat of dissolution, religious hatreds bitter to a degree unknown in the west even at the height of the struggle between Roman Catholic and Protestant -- these are the mainsprings of Indian unrest. It is an article of faith with the ordinary Indian politician that India's poverty is due to western rapacity and the draining of wealth away from India. This belief is exactly contrary to the real truth. British capital and energy have added enormously to India's material wealth. Every penny of India's taxation is spent for India's benefit. But India is and will remain poor as long as she sets her face against all that makes for economic well-being. So far from the political unrest being due to economic causes, it will be a hopeful sign of real advance if and when it can truly be said that economic discontent has begun to make a serious contribution to the factors creating unrest in India.
This conclusion may seem a gloomy one for those who work and hope for the future well-being of India. The Hindu today, while resenting the acknowledged superior power of the west and anxious to wrest its secret from it, rejects the west and all that it offers in the way of material progress, which he declines to call progress. What was said of the urban industrial worker is to a large extent true of the whole of Hindu India. The westerner cannot rid himself of a fundamental misconception when he attempts to understand Indian problems. He knows that Sir William Bragg was right when he said that one simple cause has been continuously operative to create modern western civilization, "nothing more than the urgent wish of the individual to better his own condition." He knows that the motive of enlightened self-interest can be assumed and worked upon throughout the west. He cannot realize the almost complete absence of this motive in Hindu India. It is simply impossible to interpret political unrest in India in terms of economic striving after material well-being. The proverb about cutting off the nose to spite the face has no meaning there.
India is a land of curious contrasts. The vast majority of its peoples live so near to starvation that they can have scarcely a thought beyond the immediate problem of keeping alive. Yet few Indians will exert themselves beyond the point at which their minimum bodily needs receive satisfaction. At the other end of the scale, Hinduism has attained to heights of metaphysical thought not surpassed by any other civilization. Those of us who have come in contact with the higher ranges of Hindu philosophy are often uneasily conscious that there may be something very much amiss in the average western sense of values and its concentration upon material comfort. Yet until the masses of India begin to be aware of the possibilities of a standard of life and comfort immeasurably higher than that based upon their present indigence and their semi-starved frames, the least self-confident westerner cannot refuse to believe that his art of life is superior to that of Hinduism. In this belief he must continue patiently in the laborious and generally thankless task of trying to give to India the foundations, through education and medical and sanitary services, of those western ideals of material progress which have raised his own standards of life to their present levels. In doing this he will not be without hope that a re-invigorated India will in due course help herself and the world to reach a higher and truer sense of values than he possesses today.
SIR BASIL BLACKETT, Finance Member of the Executive Council of the Governor-General of India, 1922-28; now Chairman of Imperial and International Communications, Ltd., and a Director of the Bank of England
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by Talat Öztuzsuz Sep 28, 2015 12:00 am
The Mediterranean vacation spot of Antalya, which has the greatest number of five-star hotels in Turkey, is flourishing in the halal tourism sector that mainly appeals to Muslims. Halal tourism has come to the fore as Turkish people's vacationing spirit grows with economic development. Turkey's first hotel offering halal services opened in the Aegean resort town of Didim in 1996. The total number of beds in Antalya's halal hotels, which offer separate pool, spa, fitness center and beach services for men and women, exceeds 6,000. Attracting millions of tourists every year to its all-inclusive hotels, the seaside city also renders all-inclusive and alcohol-free services for Muslim vacationers.
The latest hotel of this kind is the Adin Beach Hotel, which opened in Antalya's popular resort of Alanya in May 2015. Selim Soylu, the general manager of Alaiye Hotels, which includes the 406-room Adin Beach Hotel, said halal tourism is a rising trend across the world, adding that the welfare and economic developments that Turkey has achieved over the past 10 years have turned taking a vacation from a luxury to a necessity. Soylu also said that the tourism sector has secured new investment channels to satisfy rising demand and that the hotel attracts a great number of foreign and local Muslim vacationers. According to Soylu, the hotel hosts a great number of foreign national Muslims from Russia, Kazakhstan and the U.K.
Underlining that Antalya is making rapid progress on its way to becoming the capital of halal tourism, Soylu said there are five facilities offering halal tourism services in Antalya and a new one will open soon. This progress is quite normal considering the number of Muslims in the world, Soylu said, adding that everyone should be able to have a holiday in line with their religious sensitivities.
He said the Adin Hotel offers separate facilities for men and women to eliminate problems faced by female Muslim vacationers, adding that the United Arab Emirates invited hotel owners to establish this kind of hotel in Abu Dhabi, as halal tourism continues to develop around the world.
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NH10 : Girl, Interrupted
Posted: March 14, 2015 by moifightclub in bollywood, film review, reviews
Tags: Anushka Sharma, Navdeep Singh, NH10, review
So i watched NH10 at the 2:50 show at PVR Phoenix mills yesterday. The hall was almost 60% full. I was extremely excited about Navdeep Singh's second directorial venture after Manorama Six Feet Under, so i armed myself with a large popcorn and coke, i munched my way through the national anthem and the anti tobacco campaign waiting with impatience and anticipation for the movie to begin.
A RED CENSOR CERTIFICATE set up the mood for what was to come.
Before everyone is up in arms about similarities with Eden Lake, the plot line is applied to a completely different context and therefore doesn't account as plagiarism because artists are allowed to steal because "its not about where things are taken from, but where things are taken to" (Jim Jarmusch said it so you can take it up with him), From utopia to dystopia, Navdeep takes us for a creepy drive through Haryana, the experience of which we are unlikely to forget for a long time to come. All the moments are familiar yet original and the result is a stylish, contemporary and brilliant piece of storytelling.
Navdeep creates a mature modern Indian heroine that one can relate with and look up to.
Anushka's look is fresh, dewy, her face does not look ducky and she has taken this role by the balls and performed the hell out of it. I have never been an Anushka fan per say, initially, put off by all her bubbly cockiness.
But i am a true blue convert now because she makes the rest of the lot of the leading ladies look childish, glossy and superfluous. With one bold stroke she has knocked Kangana down to number two in the list of brilliant mainstream female actors.
Anushka's portrayal of Meera was so nuanced and balanced, and her descent into darkness was so effortless and easy that it is truly laudable. She was vulnerable yet steely, sensitive yet power packed. She is a heroine you are rooting for from the word GO. In comparison, her husband's character makes me want to whack him a few times for being so silly and immature. I hated the villians, which means there were absolutely effective.
It is fantastic to see a film of this caliber coming from a "male director". Especially in the wake of all the high brow debates , Navdeep sets an example with this work.
Now the people who are stereotyping and generalizing all Indian men, can shut up. The film entirely dealt with the idea of male gaze and yet there was no male gaze in the showing of the film at any point. There was respect for every character from its creators which is rare to find in a Hindi film.
The starkness of the rural urban divide, and the multiple manifestations of patriarchy are handled in an almost video game kind of manner.
Things get progressively harder and harder for Meera's avatar, its almost like she takes on a virtual reality in the film, the banal is bizarre and things are just about hanging between real and surreal at all times. The moments are hellishly entertaining and suspenseful with just the right amount of comedy (mama-ji gets left behind!) which truly is a superb achievement in the Hindi film context.
I loved that there was minimal dialogue and great use of sound, all the information was relayed and never spoon fed and the images looked just right. Everything looked authentic and beautiful and dark- almost to a Hitchockian pitch.The added bonus was that the interval point came at the right time. The pace of the film was maintained with finesse through the second half and the film ended on the right pitch, without going into the "melodrama and maatam" over her husband's death that could have followed.The loose reference to republic day where the cross-dressers are performing (to a homophobic audience), which is also Meera's birthday in the story, and references to Ambedkar and the constitution, are interesting. Meera is a Salim Sinai kind of character. Everything revolves around her in a nationalistic kind of way, though i am glad that all this information is just there and wasn't pressed further. I didn't think it was a matter of convenience on the part of the director as some reviewers have put it, but cleverness, this is a great example of a pulp film, a true ode to anime and Amar Chitra Katha.
I was not a huge fan of the music, apparently it is a demand of the industry, but one could've totally done without it, or maybe something other than what was.
In the end, i was happy that she got to kill those bastards with relish, i am happy she mowed them with her own car and beat them with their own sticks. There was karmic retribution, tragedy, hope, albeit it was bleak and dark but real life is much worse. I was sucked into the zone, and i'm yet to shake it off.
My experience as an average film viewer was truly satisfying, and as a hopeful film maker, it was inspirational. The cast and crew deserve every accolade and more!
– Sakshi Bhatia


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The bow is a kind of ability, it is not inferior, not timid, it is clear in the evolution.
The life that says in the mouth, is oneself later life.
The idea of deep down, the reason can't get, the ambition of Fen launched what not to do.
When you have nothing to lose, it's time for you to begin to get.
Although the tender shoots, but it is not afraid of stress, dare to struggle, dare to stand out.
Youth is a beautiful thing; a youth is a crime.
With the ideal of paper, with diligence as pen, writing a magnificent youth.
No old oath, no promise, embarked on the journey back!
Life is like climbing, step by step.
Use the inner potential, and you are the lucky one.
Any restrictions, are from his heart began.
It is our duty to try to do it, and the result is usually a matter of God.
In the harbor of refuge, to find the spirited sail.
People value the opportunity, it is inevitable that the opportunity to dominate.
Success in this matter, he is the boss!
You can stick to your ideal, but you don't need to be stubborn.
It started work assignments all is worth to complete. A wise man always.
Life is rarely a few back, at this time not to fight when.
To see more of the world; not to please others.
Failure is the final test of perseverance.
No matter you don't know the world, the world will not let you.
The one who loves you always cares about you in the way you hate.
A pessimist dies, but an optimistic man never dies.
To use action to pray for God knows more than words.
Indulge in the hope of the people and for the no what two.
Can not fight fate, transport can be made, the fate, strong disobedience, those who seek life, made life wise.
Everyone has mistake, but only fools.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you have to move on.
Another inspirational words do not go to action is fart.
As long as the persistent efforts, unremitting struggle, there is no conquest of the things.
Things to think twice, but more importantly than think twice before.
After the awakening of nature, often in the face of reality.
Life is not the most important effort, not the struggle, but the choice.
One of the biggest bankruptcy is despair, the greatest asset is hope.
It was raining yesterday. Today, the wind is blowing. Tomorrow, the sun will come out.
Impossible things in the world, is to want to come out; the world's possible things, is done out of.
If you are in the wrong direction, stop is progress.
A little more distraction to pay attention to others, less a distraction to reflect on their own.
Birds love spring, because it is the value of life, it is the value of life.
If you ever sing the praises of the dawn, please embrace the night.
Only the first one can teach you how to be the first.
There is not a kind of destiny which cannot be conquered by contempt and struggle.
Tomorrow is the world's fastest increase in the value of a piece of land, because it is full of hope.
Confidence, perseverance, courage three have, the world did not do anything.
Any time to forgive yourself, will lead to the next greater error.
How does live up to myself in a disastrous state.
Remember, don't let up, don't count on it. Don't count on it. A man can stand on my feet!
We are doing our job to make every day a great and firm goal.
As long as enough to believe in themselves, there is no difficulty can be lasting.
That would be laughed out of the dream, can realize the value even if the fall will be very heroic posture.
The paper come Zhongjue shallow, and must know this to practice.
Success has not been rejected never long.
If the past is a dream, that is half awaken, real life.
If you find no shelter, then learn to break, in the face of all.
The upper end of the warriors are split the wind and waves; downstream, is a coward Everything is going smoothly..
Determination is the beginning of success.
I regard my suffering and frustration as the best teacher of my life.
Tenacious perseverance can conquer any one of the world's highest peak.
Dare to struggle of the people, the heart is not afraid of difficulties.
Although I have no book, no notes, no class, no review, but I have a heart don't want to fail the exam.


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Q: Android how to inflate ListView with two different items I am trying to inflate listView with two different layouts using ArrayAdapter.
I want to show some user posts. If it contains a picture use one layout if it does not use second.
I am doing so far
@Override
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    Post post = getItem(position);

    boolean noImg = post.mImgUrl1 == null && post.mImgUrl2 == null;

    if (convertView == null){

        if (noImg)
            convertView = LayoutInflater.from(getContext()).inflate(R.layout.post_item_no_img, parent ,false);
        else
            convertView = LayoutInflater.from(getContext()).inflate(R.layout.post_item, parent, false);
    }

    if (noImg == false) {
        mTitle = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv_titlePost);
        mText = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv_textPost);
        mImage = (ImageView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.iv_postimg);
    }

    else {
        mNoImgTitle = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv_noImgTitle);
        mNoImgText = (TextView) convertView.findViewById(R.id.tv_noImgText);
    }

    if (noImg) {
        mNoImgTitle.setText(post.mTitle);
        mNoImgText.setText(post.mText);

        if (post.mImgUrl1 != null)
            Glide.with(mImage.getContext()).load(post.mImgUrl1).into(mImage);

        else  Glide.with(mImage.getContext()).load(post.mImgUrl2).into(mImage);
    }
    else {
        mNoImgTitle.setText(post.mTitle);
        mNoImgText.setText(post.mText);
    }

    return convertView;
}

But i realized that textviews from second layout cannot be found by findViewById function. And it always returns a null-pointer.
What are my solutions ? Should i make only one Layout and somehow trick it using visibility ? Or there is a way ?

A: With BaseAdapter you can create more complex layouts. Try using it.
Here is the example of use for your situation:
Activity:
public class TestActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
    String[] data={"false","false","true","true","false","true"};
    ListView listViewTest=(ListView)findViewById(R.id.listViewTest);
    TestAdapter testAdapter=new TestAdapter(data);
    listViewTest.setAdapter(testAdapter);
}
}

Adapter:
public class TestAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
private String[] data;

TestAdapter(String data[]) {
    this.data = data;
}

@Override
public int getCount() {
    return data.length;
}

@Override
public Object getItem(int i) {
    return data[i];
}

@Override
public long getItemId(int i) {
    return i;
}

public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    if (data[position].equals("false")) {
        convertView = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.list_item_no_img, parent, false);
    } else if (data[position].equals("true")) {
        convertView = LayoutInflater.from(parent.getContext()).inflate(R.layout.list_item_img, parent, false);
    }
    return convertView;
}
}

Layouts:
activity_main
<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:orientation="vertical">
<ListView
    android:id="@+id/listViewTest"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent">
</ListView>

list_item_no_img
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/textViewTest"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:layout_centerInParent="true"
    android:textSize="32sp"
    android:text="Test"/>
</RelativeLayout>

list_item_img
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent">
<TextView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/textViewTest"
    android:gravity="center"
    android:layout_centerInParent="true"
    android:textSize="32sp"
    android:text="Test"/>
<ImageView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:src="@mipmap/ic_launcher"
    android:layout_marginStart="5dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="5dp"
    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
    android:layout_toRightOf="@+id/textViewTest"
    android:layout_toEndOf="@+id/textViewTest" />
</RelativeLayout>

Result:

A: There are a few different scenarios that you will see when getView() is called:

*

*convertView is null: In this case just create the layout that you need depending upon noImg;

*convertView is defined but is of the wrong type. In this case, you will need to discard the old view and create the one you need;

*convertView is defined but is of the correct type, in which case, we do nothing with it.
The following code is one approach to making sure that you are always working with the right layout and can find the ids that you expect. This code uses a tag in the inflated layout to identify the layout type that can be checked.
if (convertView == null || noImg != (boolean) convertView.getTag()) {
    // Either there is no view defined or it is the wrong type. Create
    // the type we need.
    if (noImg) {
        convertView = LayoutInflater.from(getContext()).inflate(R.layout.post_item_no_img, parent, false);
    } else {
        convertView = LayoutInflater.from(getContext()).inflate(R.layout.post_item, parent, false);
    }
    convertView.setTag(noImg);
}

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Have fun while riding horse in the forests of Nagarkot.
Plant a tree on a Buddha Peace Park on the memory of your loved one, on your anniversary, your birthday, your special day. We will Help you to buy the plant (Rs. 350 for each one) including the transport if you are not available to plant the tree. Once planted, it will be the responsibility of the Peace Park management to water and nurture it. If you want to personally want to plant it, we can help you to arrange the logistics in terms of escorting you to the nursery farm to buy the trees and arrange the transport.


I was running some errands with my pal Jeannette the other day in the the elegant Prati neighborhood.
We found a sunny spot at the ever expanding empire of Settembrini and tried yet another of Rome's hamburger offerings.
Despite there being no mustard to be found, this is another winner.


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Q: laravel mix Error: Failed to find '~leaflet/dist/leaflet.css' recientemente importé la librería leaftlet via npm i leaftlet
la incluí en resources/js/app.js haciendo require
require('leaflet/dist/leaflet.js');

y luego los estilos en resources/css/app.css haciendo import
@import '~leaflet/dist/leaflet.css';

todo bien hasta ahí, incluso el IDE detecta ambos archivos, los puedo abrir y ver, existen. pero a la hora de compilar usando npm run prod o npm run dev
obtengo el error
    ERROR in ./resources/css/app.css
Module build failed (from ./node_modules/mini-css-extract-plugin/dist/loader.js):
ModuleBuildError: Module build failed (from ./node_modules/postcss-loader/dist/cjs.js):
Error: Failed to find '~leaflet/dist/leaflet.css'
  in [
    /var/www/html/resources/css
  ]

si quito la importación de los estilos css, funciona todo de maravilla
qué podría ser el problema?


Another edition of our very popular Pysanky Egg workshop. This session is already filled by those on the waiting list for the first session.
Those attending will learn the step-by-step process involved in making the beautifully detailed Pysanky Easter eggs. Because of the materials used and the process, this workshop is limited to those 16 years of age and up.


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Jennifer Henry
+353 86 054 1719 jhenry@mhc.ie
Corporate Social Responsibility 2021
Jennifer is a Partner in our Healthcare & Medical team. Specialising in the defence of complex catastrophic injury cases, she is known for her ability to distil intricate and multi-layered claims into core and manageable matters.
Jennifer practices primarily in the defence of medical malpractice High Court actions.
She is a skilled litigator with extensive experience in handling high value medical negligence actions on an urgent and fast tracked basis.
In addition, Jennifer represents clients at inquests and before the Irish Medical Council. She has represented a number of major Irish hospitals on the instruction of the Clinical Indemnity Scheme of the State Claims Agency.
Prior to joining the firm, Jennifer worked for a well-known international law firm where she acted for two of the largest private medical indemnifiers.
Medico-Legal advice
Irish Medical Council and disciplinary hearings
Jennifer advises:
University College Cork, BCL
Trinity College Dublin, M. Litt – Master of Literature (Constitutional Law)
Member of Law Society of Ireland
Representative Matters
Representing the interests of a number of major Irish Hospitals to include the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Beaumont Hospital, St Vincent's University Hospital and Tallaght Hospital on the instruction of the Clinical Indemnity Scheme of the State Claims Agency
Acting for hospitals and medical practitioners in the defence of obstetric cases resulting in birth defects, to include cerebral palsy
Acting on behalf of Quest Diagnostics Inc, a US Fortune 500 company, in defence of a number of fast tracked professional negligence proceedings
Acting on behalf of a clinical laboratory in the defence of the fast tracked case of Morrissey & anor v. Health Service Executive & ors [2019] arising out of the State's cervical screening program. This case was ultimately appealed to the Supreme Court and is considered a landmark judgement in the area of cytology
A €15 million settlement in respect of a minor plaintiff who suffered a catastrophic birth injury and where period payment orders were considered but the minor plaintiffs parents sought full and final settlement
Assisting a HSE hospital in the highly sensitive management of a number of high profile Inquests and subsequent infant fatal injury claims
Representing the interests of a GP who was subject to a complaint to the Irish Medical Council following the death of a patient and in which case, the complaint was ultimately successfully struck out against the GP
Court of Appeal Orders Re-trial of Medical Negligence Action and Calls for Urgent Reform of Medical Negligence Claims
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New Healthcare & Medical Partner at Mason Hayes & Curran LLP
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Why does my game appear so small on the screen?
Although our games are functional across multiple devices, they may not always be optimized for every device. Because of this, some games may not appear on the entire screen. The games may only occupy a small portion in the middle of the screen. You can still play the game with full functionality, but unfortunately we cannot optimize games for certain devices.


This diabetes complication can be serious and lead to vision loss. Find out how to spot it early and slow its progression.
The link between diabetes and eye health might not seem obvious at first. But diabetes is a condition that damages blood vessels, including those that feed the eyes and support vision. In fact, the connection is so strong that about one in three adults with diabetes will develop diabetic retinopathy — diabetes-related damage to the retina that leads to vision loss, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Yet in its earliest stage, the disease often has no symptoms, so it's important to be proactive with diabetes care and eye health to help prevent or slow this complication.
The retina is a thin piece of tissue lining the back of the eye. Light comes through the lens of the eye and focuses images onto this tissue. The center of the retina, the macula, is responsible for detailed images. Diabetic retinopathy occurs when diabetes affects small blood vessels throughout the body, including those that supply blood to the eyes.
"In the earliest stages of diabetic retinopathy, changes are seen in the blood vessels in the eye," says Paul Bernstein, MD, PhD, an ophthalmologist and professor of ophthalmology at the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Blood vessels become weak, leak, or close up. Changes in blood flow can lead to swelling and trigger the growth of new blood vessels. Scarring, new growth, and bleeding in turn lead to tearing of the retina and swelling of the macula, a condition called macular edema.
There are two forms of diabetic retinopathy. In the early-stage form called non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy, the blood vessels begin to weaken and bleed, but people usually have few symptoms.
The second form is called proliferative diabetic retinopathy, which is the later stage of the disease. New blood vessels start to grow to accommodate the changing blood flow. Without adequate blood flow, the retina may tear or change shape, causing vision loss or blurred vision.
Risk factors for developing diabetic retinopathy include having uncontrolled high blood sugar, having a family member with diabetic retinopathy, having had diabetes for a long time, having high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels, being pregnant, and being Hispanic, Native American, or African American.
Controlling blood sugar helps prevent retinopathy. People with diabetes who are able to keep their A1C level — which measures your average blood sugar level over two to three months — under 7 have fewer retinal complications than those with less effective blood sugar control, according to research published in the journal Diabetes Care in January 2014.
"Diabetes is a major cause of blindness in adults, and improving blood sugar control lowers but doesn't remove the risk," says Daniel E. Hale, MD, an endocrinologist, professor of pediatrics, and division chief of pediatric endocrinology and diabetes at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio.
To help reduce the risk for eye complications, the American Diabetes Association recommends an annual dilated eye exam for people who have diabetes, regardless of whether they have symptoms or not. In a dilated exam, an eye doctor puts medicated drops in your eyes to dilate your pupils, allowing him or her to best see and examine your retina.
A diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy is based on results of a comprehensive eye exam. This includes a dilated eye exam and a visual acuity test that measures your ability to see letters, shapes, or numbers on an eye chart at set distances.
Injections. Medications, including steroids and anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF), help stop the growth of new blood vessels and may slow swelling and bleeding. These injections may somewhat restore lost vision and prevent bleeding in the eye, according to a review of research published in the November 2014 issue of the journal Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews.
Laser treatment. Called photocoagulation, this treatment may be used to stop bleeding and slow swelling. According to another report in the November 2014 issue of the Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews, this approach may slow progression of the disease and protect against vision loss over time.
Vitrectomy. This is a surgical procedure to remove blood or scar tissue from the eye. Research published in 2011 in the journal Cochrane Database of Systemic Reviews states that vitrectomy may protect vision in some people, particularly those who've had diabetes for less than 20 years.
Although treatments can't cure diabetic retinopathy, they can help slow its progression and protect your vision. The earlier you can begin to prevent or slow diabetes-related eye damage, the better you'll be able to help preserve your vision for life.


Sending insurance claims can be expensive and time-consuming. eClaims simplifies the process to save you time and money while getting your reimbursements back faster. eClaims allows you to submit claims electronically with a few clicks in your OMSVision software. Your claims are validated and sent to the largest list of payors in the industry. The entire process only takes a few minutes, but it reduces your rejected claims, improves your cash flow and saves your staff countless hours. eClaims is the only electronic claims submission process recommended for by OMSVision for OMSVision practices.


I first met Valdy in 1970 while I was 'switching' the CTV rock series 'Come Together' in Calgary. (He said he'd been asked to join the band SPRING at the time).
We next met in 1973 when my little family were moving to Winnipeg in a 1967 VW bus with flowers on it, and we broke down on the Trans-Canada Highway. Valdy stopped and helped us get on our way.
When I got to Winnipeg, the CTV series I was directing, 'The Canadian West', had the theme song performed and written by Valdy.
In 1981, while at CBC Vancouver, I directed and produced this doc with Valdy in Victoria and Saltspring Island.
The doc was shot on film, not video. The cameraman Gundar Lipsbergs and I, along with editor Paul Wong put it together. John Daley was the voice.
I seem to have connected with Valdemar Horsdal over those years.
He's kinda cool...NO...he's VERY cool!


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MUSIC IS ALL IN THE FAMILY
By SAM MCDONALD Daily Press
Bill Gurley, his daughter, Macon, and wife, Pam, formed folk trio
Walking on stage with your offspring has its benefits -- and its risks. Just ask Bill Gurley, a respected folk musician who makes music with his wife, Pam, and, more recently, his 27-year-old daughter, Macon.
"On stage, I always tell a few banjo jokes, because I know a lot of them," said Gurley, an accomplished guitarist, fiddler and banjo picker. "So at a show, I told one, then Macon gets on the microphone and said that I was the oldest banjo joke in the book -- got me good. She does ride me mercilessly. You know how daughters can be.
"It's sort of a sport with us."
All ribbing aside, Gurley said playing music professionally with his daughter has been a joy.
"It gives me a chance to show her off and be proud of her," he said. "From the very beginning, I was surprised at how comfortable she was on stage. She's very cool in front of crowds."
Macon, who plays upright bass and sings, has added depth and a new dimension to what for decades had been a husband-and-wife duo. The trio benefits from close-knit family harmonies. And while all three Gur
leys have much in common musically, Macon has brought new energy and perspective to the group.
Macon describes her role as part of a natural progression. "I just grew up hearing a lot of his songs," she said. "I learned by osmosis for years."
Around age 10, she was spending time at bluegrass festivals with her parents. "I learned all those songs without ever knowing it," she said. "Like 'Soldier's Joy' and 'Old Joe Clark,' they're all in my head. They're part of me. There's no learning to it."
But it was a long, winding road that led Macon back to string band music and her parents' home in Lancaster, on the Northern Neck.
As young child, she wanted nothing to do with her father's music.
"In elementary school, it was New Kids on the Block, Tiffany, Paula Abdul," she said. "I was pretty typical of kids my age." To her young ears, her father's music was country and, at that stage, country was not cool.
"Friends would ask what my parents did for a living. My mom was a nurse, so that was easy. For my father, I would say he's a teacher, because he taught music lessons. I would never say that he's a country musician."
A funny thing happened, though. Her appreciation for her parents' music deepened as she matured.
While attending college at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, Macon gravitated to folk and bluegrass music as a way to enjoy a taste of home. She attended bluegrass jam sessions in New York City, mostly as a spectator -- although she would occasionally sing a song or add in a harmony.
After finishing college with a degree in fashion design, she moved back to Virginia and taught a year at Virginia Commonwealth University. Wanderlust encouraged her to leave that job and relocate to Asheville, N.C., a mountain town with a thriving folk music community.
It proved to be a turning point.
"It was wonderful -- almost too much fun," Macon remembers. "I was working in a restaurant. There was so much good music, almost every night of the week."
Inspired, she planned to return to Lancaster and polish her own musical skills. "What really gave me the push was seeing so many people my age playing folk music. In Asheville, popular music is folk music. It's really hip to be a folk musician there."
Back home in Virginia, she took up bass as a way of rounding out her parents' group. She borrowed an upright model from one of her father's friends and gave it a try at a family jam session. "I walked in, took it out of the case and just started playing along," she said. "I thought, 'OK, this is a good sign.' "
Less than a week later, Macon accompanied her father at a gig in Williamsburg. "He paid me. So I can say I played my first paid gig six days after I picked up the bass," she said. Macon gradually worked her way into the group until last October, when she started playing with them full time.
These days, the Gurleys are working on a new album with Macon as part of the band. The album won't be a radical departure, but will feature a new twist, Macon promised. "It won't feel exactly like another Bill and Pam Gurley album."
She said her gig has deepened her appreciation for her father's hard work and talent.
"I have a new respect for the amount of work that goes into this -- the driving, the booking of gigs. And I think it's added a bit of coolness to my perspective of him," she said.
"Seeing firsthand all the praise he gets, the positive response. It's pretty cool to see."
Meanwhile, Macon's dad is bracing himself for another round of empty-nest syndrome.
"I don't know how long this will last," he said, explaining that he won't be surprised if Macon flies the coop to join a group of younger players.
"If Old Crow Medicine Show decided they needed a female bass player, she'd be gone," he said. "And I wouldn't blame her." *
NEWS TO USE
Here's where to catch a performance by Bill, Pam and Macon Gurley.
* June 23, 6 p.m. Yates House Gallery and Community Arts Center, Deltaville. $5. Call 804- 776-8505 or visit www.yateshousegallery.org
* July 7, 10 a.m. Yorktown Market Days, Riverwalk Landing at the Yorktown waterfront. Free. Call 890-3500.
* Aug. 25, 7:30 p.m. Live Off Five concert series, Williamsburg Unitarian Universalists Church, 3051 Ironbound Road. $10 donation, $5 for students. Call 220-6830.


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Ohio Voters Pass Gerrymandering Reform 75% to 25%
People get it, Ohioans do in droves – gerrymandering is a big part of the problem and its got to go. What Republicans have done to weaponize elections has poisoned the well for everyone and it's no longer okey dokey to allow politicians to pick the voters, we need reforms that take it out of the hands of the most interested parties. Think of that, it's been totally standard operating procedure throughout our history for legislators to decide who votes for (or against) them by designating who can vote and then designing the districts and who is in them.
With computers the science of redistricting became as pinpoint as laser surgery. As with most norms we took for granted, the abuse of such a system was just something we thought no honorable politician would do. Then came the modern Republican Party that, to paraphrase their hero Richard Nixon, said "well, if we do it it's not a crime, or even wrong."
The people who believe down to the bottom of their souls that the ends justify the means and that they're in a holy war against modernity, science, liberalism etc. sought to gain electoral advantage in order to push that advantage to the point of invulnerability. Then they could do whatever they want, period. Starting after the 2010 Republican census, legislators gerrymandered states so that even when 52% of Wisconsinites, Pennsylvanians or Michiganders voted for Democrats, 55% (or more) of the seats went to Republicans. Ohio is a 50-50 state (okay maybe 52-48) but Republicans have 75% of Congressional seats and a 2-1 advantage in the state legislature. All of that alarmed Democrats in 2016. In 2016! Six goddamn years too late. But you know, they're doing their best.
Advocates say their success in Ohio on Tuesday could be the start of a record-breaking year for redistricting reform, which could be on the ballot in five more states. And that raises the question: Are voters who are sick of Washington now turning their frustration to gerrymandering?
In Ohio, it certainly seems that way. By a 75-to-25 percent vote, Ohio voters approved a constitutional amendment designed to force state lawmakers to come up with a compromise congressional map in 2020 that doesn't just benefit the party in control, which is now the GOP.
This electoral action is in addition to the legal actions having been taken in several states leading to state court and Supreme Court cases that have so far been sensible in showing toxic gerrymandering the door. The Supreme Court will likely render a decision in June that could upend this sort of clearly politically motivated redistricting.
I don't care who you are, if you are fair minded and want our representatives to do have honest debates on the battlefield of ideas, this is a key part of electoral reform that would make our elections more competitive and our legislatures more representative.
Silver points out that an April Pew Research Center survey found that 61 percent of Americans say "significant changes" are needed in the "design and structure" of American government.
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On how unconventional publishing can work
Published January 24, 2018 by Laura Jones and Heather McDaid
Laura Jones and Heather McDaid reflect on the rise of their indie press 404 Ink since its launch last year and how they achieved it....
When 404 Ink launched in the summer of 2016, we didn't know what we would publish so much as how we would publish. We're loud on social media, use crowdfunding regularly and build communities around our books and authors. In January 2017 we had an idea; by December we were somehow award-winning, from business start-up awards, to the Saltire Society Emerging Publisher of the Year. We were even the first publisher to ever top The List Hot 100, an area usually reserved for the likes of Peter Capaldi and Ewan McGregor.
How? That's a question we ask ourselves frequently. But in our year and a bit of publishing as 404 Ink, there might be some lessons to offer.
We look for writers we love to work with as much as the book itself. It's our patented 'pub test': could we go on a night out with them? Chris McQueer, who submitted to Issue 1 of our magazine, is a prime example - he's hilarious and talented, and just a genuinely nice, hard-working guy. We also got involved with rock band Creeper at a perfect point between their debut album and touring runs and hit it off immediately. It means that while we can envisage where the books will fit and be marketed, we're also 100% behind everyone we take on.
A large success has been swift, reactionary action, mixed with luck. Our debut Nasty Women struck perfect timing to capture dismay around Trump, Brexit and the general right-wing renaissance, with our Kickstarter 369% funded, which had a knock-on effect of endorsements beyond our wildest dreams - Margaret Atwood, Shirley Manson and Ali Smith to name a few.
The campaign for Nasty Women was highly commended in FutureBook's Campaign of the Year Award for showing that you don't need money to make a marketing impact, and that's the biggest takeaway we can offer. It's a mantra we came to through necessity as two broke people trying to publish our way, but it's one we take forward. You can do a lot with socials, you can reach near enough anyone if you have the tenacity.
We look outside of our industry for inspiration. Our latest publication is Helen McClory's short story pamphlet on Jeff Goldblum, which was discovered and shared by the man himself only recently. There are no limits to the audiences books can reach if you're determined enough.
We're still learning a lot as publishers, but a part of the 404 success story is that we viewed our possibilities as endless, and no goal off-limits. Going from zero to multi-award winning in a year is a validation that being unconventional can work; now, it's not a time for complacency, but to show that it can be sustainable.
Laura Jones and Heather McDaid are the co-founders of publishing company 404 Ink.
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Let there be light: a modern home illuminating the future of environmentally friendly living
The front elevation blends seamlessly into the street - Credit: The Modern House
This East Finchley property is not just innovative, it's invisible. We take a nosey around the modern eco home.
The main living area is flooded with natural light - Credit: The Modern House
Leicester Road is like any many other streets in East Finchley. Just off the High Road, it is lined with semi-detached and terraced late-Victorian properties, some in red brick and others painted white, grey and pink. All seems very ordinary, so you'd be forgiven for not noticing one little property neatly slotted into the fabric about half way up the road.
This was the design of the creators from Openstudio Architects, founded by Jennifer Beningfield in 2006 and, until relatively recently, housed in Belsize Park. Turn around and walk back down Leicester Road one more time and you will notice that what used to be a somewhat dishevelled outbuilding wedged between the two adjacent properties, has been replaced by a narrow redbrick house, with two large windows fronting the façade. Although the property is undeniably a statement house, its exterior design is not obtrusive. "We wanted to do something contemporary but also something which is very sensitive to the street, so it completely disappears," Beningfield says. "You don't notice it."
The sleek kitchen features Corian worktops - Credit: The Modern House
The resulting five-bedroom, semi-detached property is quite different to the originally planned mock-Victorian structure first applied for. After a contemporary proposal was put in, the design was eventually won on appeal.
"When we went to the planning officer, he said, 'you're going to have a lot of trouble with the neighbours', but we didn't have trouble with the neighbours. The neighbours all really liked it," says Beningfield. In fact, they liked it so much so that they wrote letters of support for the proposals. Maybe it was the seamless transition, a minimalist blending into the rest of the street which garnered support.
Minimalism itself is a theme which has a double meaning for the property. Minimising the environmental footprint of the house was a key part of the brief from the client-led project, an electrical engineer who began the work in March 2011. Designed with the professional couple in mind, "we wanted a house on a restricted footprint in London," Beningfield explains, "that felt light and bright and generous, clean, joyous and calm, and that was contemporary but actually contextual as well."
The rear facade is clad in charcoal Cembonit and peppered with windows - Credit: The Modern House
As a result, the property was designed in accordance with passive sustainable principles to minimise energy requirements. It's a feat of sustainability, with eco-friendly features running throughout the house. The rear façade stands out, glazed to maximise the intake of light and warmth from the south. It is clad in charcoal Cembonit, a durable fibre cement. The elevation is also stepped so as not to impeach on the sunlight received by neighbouring gardens. Natural materials span the house, such as Basalt stone flooring, limestone tiles and solid oak floors and stairs.
Yet eco-friendly needn't mean backward, out-of-touch or devoid of mod cons. Underfloor heating warms the house, whilst clean-cut appliances and fittings are used throughout. The light, airy kitchen features a Corian worktop and integrated Miele and Bosch appliances, whilst the bathrooms host sanitary ware by Hansgrohe. The overall effect is one of smooth, sleek lines and raw natural elegance. "It makes the spaces seem much bigger, and it puts the emphasis on the light rather than fussy detailing."
Light is rather a running theme of the property, and allowing light to permeate into all areas of the house was paramount to the sustainability of the building. A skylight at the top of the stars introduces brightness right through to the core of the property whilst large, triple glazed windows feature heavily along the garden façade to collect the sunlight for thermal efficiency. "It's a wonderful thing to have lots of light in a house, but it's also a smart thing to do in terms of how you use sunlight as energy in a property," Beningfield explains.
So if sunlight is the perfect match for the fresh, natural feel of the open-plan home, what about when it gets dark? At night, the high-tech KNX integrated home automation system fosters a homely feel with controllable mood lighting, fitted where the walls meet the ceiling. The colour palette chosen allows the natural light to illuminate the house, with muted greys, light wood and clean, crisp white tones which will no doubt make the property feel radiant even on London's more gloomy days. The result is that open plan, clean and crisp interiors don't translate to a cold, hard atmosphere. There's a snugness about the place which makes it feel effortlessly cosy.
This is in no small part a consequence of the narrowness of the property, which only makes the amount of natural light permeating the walls more impressive. The architects built the top part of the house using a pre-fabricated system made off site and built using structural insulated panels. The effect is to provide thermal insulation with minimum wall thickness, so important given the lack of space. Having said that, there's still room to grow given that there's a garden to the rear of the property and the lower ground floor remains unfinished to allow for personal amendments.
For an invisible house that nobody would think twice to look at when passing by on the street, it's a remarkable property, both in design and execution. The recent RIBA Taylor Wimpey Project 2020 Open Design award won by Openstudio Architects is tantamount to the design skill and environmental innovation of the architects.
Leicester Road is marketed by The Modern House and is on the market at £1,495,000.


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