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All good things come to an end. And so do your carpets at some point of your life! But with proper care and management, you can increase the longevity of your carpets.
Keep your carpet away from any harmful elements. Wash your carpet immediately if you drop food on it or if detergent based solvents start drying up on its surface. Soil and dust are the worst enemies of the carpet. Use doormats before entrances to prevent dirt from entering the carpet area. Always go for preventive measures to avoid finding solutions later.
If you have been lenient about dirt accumulation on your carpet, then worry not! Just turn on that vacuum cleaner and adjust it to the right setting and start vacuuming. The setting should not be too low or too high; find that perfect point where you can feel the tug of the vacuum. Next, be aggressive throughout the entire carpet and vacuum it at least twice. Doing this should address the dry cleaning needs of your carpet. A systematic carpet cleaning approach helps in maintaining a cleaner and healthier living space.
You can remove a stain completely by treating it immediately. The longer a stain reacts with the fabric of your carpet, the stronger it becomes. Use a spoon or a dull knife to slowly scrape the spilled food towards the centre of the stain. Press a clean cotton cloth on the stain to absorb the leftover stain particles. Now, use a damp towel to blot out the stain carefully. If the stain seems stronger, use plain club soda or a solution of water and vinegar as a stronger removal agent.
Portable steam cleaning equipment may be simpler to handle, but they have a low cleaning capacity. Go for truck-mounted equipment because they exhaust the dirty and humid air outside and their stronger suction leaves your carpets drier too. Professional hot water extraction is a very efficient way to clean synthetic carpets. This process costs you a bit, but it deeply and thoroughly cleans your carpets. Also, it is best to hire professional carpet cleaners once or twice a year for a thorough and carefree cleaning process.
If you have furniture adjusted close to the carpet, change their positions periodically. Furniture placement affects the patterns of walking around, causing dirt accumulation in specific areas. Also, shoes seriously harm a carpet's life. The hard surface of the shoes is responsible for wear and tear of the carpet's fabric. Walk barefoot on the carpet to reduce daily wear and tear of your carpet.
From the day you lay out your carpets, treat them carefully and responsibly. Prevent deterioration from the very beginning by providing both personal and professional deep clean carpet care . Let your warm fuzzy carpets live longer!


Tonsilloliths or tonsil stones form in the crevices of the tonsils, the small, soft tissue glands lying at both sides of the back of the throat. While these growths do not pose an immediate health risk, symptoms of tonsil stones can be unpleasant and uncomfortable and include bad breath and minor throat pain. Some people require minor surgery to safely remove stones that grow abnormally large.
1. What are Tonsil Stones?
Tonsil stones are tiny, pebble-like pieces of bacteria, dead cells, food particles, and mucous that collect in tiny crevices dotting the surface of the tonsils (tonsil crypts). More specifically, tonsil stones are composed of magnesium and calcium salts such as oxalates, ammonium radicals, and hydroxyapatites. The white or gray stones often remain undetected until a dentist discovers them during an examination.


The five-bedroom dwelling is currently listed at $45,000 per month.
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Venezuelans are facing a humanitarian crisis and Canada can play a positive role by working with its regional partners to provide support. No country should act unilaterally and we must all support a democratic Venezuela with free and fair elections.
Well, that was calculatedly vague and breathtakingly timid yet guaranteed to fire up nobody. If the NDP had a voice it would be screaming "I don't know who I am anymore!"
Sounds clear to me. He's not saying Maduro wasn't fairly elected and he's not recognizing this other Juan character.
For someone who hasn't even won a seat yet and only starting to get into his grove, it's actually a decent polar comment to the horrific liberals that must probably be the most painful they have ever made so far this mandate.
The Canadian left urgently needs to do something about the stinking putrefaction that is the NDP. How anyone can continue to support this reactionary abomination is beyond me.
Disgusting statement by Singh, telling Venezuela they need to have elections. He seriously needs to get lost, and his party needs to disassociate itself from such craven support for Trump and Trudeau and Freeland. I know, it won't happen. But it would be a heartening change if some NDP activists stood up to this toadyism.
I actually suspect it would have been better PR for Singh to not say anything at all. The conventional assumption is that Maduro is a dictator who is running Venezuela into the ground. For Singh to come out in full support of the Maduro government would result in non-stop criticism of the NDP for being friendly with dictators. Of course if Singh makes a statement asking Maduro to step aside, that will only alienate the party's left wing without gaining any new followers. All this on an issue that is really not on the radar for most people. That's not to say that this isn't an important issue, but sometimes it's better to say nothing and move on to other issues.
The NDP's come a long way, and all of it bad, since the days its official policy was withdrawl from NATO. That would probably be a vote-winner right now, but perish the thought.
I'd have thought, in 2019, the NDP would be keen to distinguish itself from the Liberals. Even court "controversy" like saying coup's are bad. It would get people's attention, and maybe suggest the difference between Singh and Trudeau runs deeper than tailors. But no.
Nothing on Trudeau's action? For or against? Not only is it a cop out, it's politically stupid.
Libya, Syria Ukraine, Israel and now Venezuela...the NDP like Canada itself will never oppose the fundamental interests of empire. We need a left party with a leadership and a constituency that does. The world is watching and waiting for progressive Canadians to stand up and be counted in the great battle to come. Not a shameful, servile, bourgeois, Blairite surrender con-job.
But what it means is that every other NDP MP could have done the same but didn't.
Some MPs are not living up to Jagmeet Singh own slogan "Courage"
Singh's typical wishy-washy say-nothing "statement" is terrible. Bravo Niki! Looking at the feedback on Twitter to both of their statements it's pretty clear what people think -- Singh's comments feed is strongly negative, while Ashton's is strongly positive.
But you can't build a credible left progressive political party around a single good tweet from one good MP unfortunately. If it was a party policy statement it would be a good start. It isn't. The NDP is not up to the present nor the future. Make something better.
But-but, Niki Ashton is an intersectioal feminist! That's BAD! Niki Ashton over-reacted to elbowgate! That's BAD! Niki Ashton says what's on her mind and people sometimes don't like it! That's BAD! We need someone likeable who everyone likes and will never ever say bad things about. Someone like Jagmeet Singh! Singh is our Messiah, he will lead the NDP to the Promised Land of Governing!
Yes. So glad to see Svend back with his political instincts in working order.
From a realpolitik position you are right, Singh should have kept quiet.
It was a political no-win trying to thread the needle with that gray-water statement. Keeping quiet would have been what more seasoned NDP neoLiberals would have done--then voted for any resolution in support of the coup government.
Much credit to Niki Ashton for speaking up against this latest in the VERY long unceasing list of of US-sponsored "regime change" operations against countries that impede US imperial/corporate strategies.
The Trudeau/Freeland government is true to form supporting the vile Trump/Bolton , current executioners of imperial policy.
"This is the kind of spineless, non-commital rhetoric which has so discredited the NDP..."
"The situation in Venezuela is a humanitarian crisis. Food shortages and financial turmoil has led to millions fleeing the country. People's lives and safety are at risk. The NDP condemns military action against protestors by the Maduro regime. As Amnesty International has said, protesting cannot be synonymous with death.
Canada should not simply follow the U.S.'s foreign policy, particularly given its history of self-interested interference in the region.
Canada should provide more assistance to tackle the humanitarian crisis. We must advocate for the United Nations to be involved, support the UN secretary-general, Antonio Guterres' calls for dialogue to avert a disaster and condemn any military foreign intervention and unilateral action.
The NDP will always stand up for human rights around the globe.
So he's putting his toe in the water.
Evidently his hand was forced by Niki and others, and by the reaction to his awful nothing-statement, to do some damage control.
The man is not fit to lead a party, especially not one purportedly of the left.
It seems popular to describe this solely in terms of Trump, Bolsonaro and Freeland, but in addition to a bunch of Venezuela's neighbours, evidently the EU is also on board. And generally speaking, they don't even like Trump, nevermind "toadying" to him. There's so much more to this than just "bad Imperialist U.S.!"
Canada should provide more assistance to tackle the humanitarian crisis.
One of the opposition's complaints is that even as people are dying from lack of food or medical supplies, Maduro refused to allow any humanitarian aid.
and condemn any military foreign intervention and unilateral action.
My conclusion as well. And thank goodness for the Niki Ashtons and Svend Robinsons. Don't know how long they'll last in this putrefying party, but if they can help turn things around, I'll happily acknowledge I was unduly pessimistic.
Exactly. If he wanted to lead on the issue of Venezuela, he should have led on it, learned what was happening, and come up with a statement reflective of that. The fact that 3 of his candidates (to this point) have publicly contradicted him and forced him to backpedal says a great deal. If he didn't feel confident, he could also have allowed one of his MPs or candidates who was knowledgeable to take the lead, and have that person speak to the issue. He didn't do either, so now we have another demonstration of Singh's incompetence.
And thank goodness for the Niki Ashtons and Svend Robinsons. Don't know how long they'll last in this putrefying party, but if they can help turn things around, I'll happily acknowledge I was unduly pessimistic.
Ashton will most likely be re-elected in the Fall. If Robinson is also elected it will be in the context of an overall crash in party support. The NDP Establishment will be so badly discredited by that point that if they try anything, Robinson and Ashton can turn around and say, "we won, you lost, enough said."
Some Ottawa pundits are speculating that if Jagmeet Singh is pushed out, Svend Robinson might be recruited to lead the NDP in the 2019 election.
Riddle me this: If Elected Venezuelan President Maduro is a dictator... What do you call Guaido who has simply declared themselves leader? And why are we standing w/Trump and Bolsonaro?
A fortunate right-leaning dictator with US support behind him?
Yeah thanks, montgomery. Maybe I should have been clearer. I posted that tweet to illustrate that there appear to be people of principle within the NDP in addition to Niki Ashton and Svend Robinson. Hopefully that trend is larger and deeper than would appear from the nauseating statements of the Leader.
I thought Jag's first comments weren't that bad. Had I known that everyone here was going to rip a piece off him, I wouldn't have made the comment so I'll have to admit I made an error.
Julia Sanchez has also spoken out against US and Canadian interference and the danger of (US or other) intervention.
Don't know which pundits you mean, but I don't have the feeling that the caucus and Federal Council are going to pick an interim leader with no seat, and who fared rather poorly in his last attempt to get one.
Anyway at this point I think Singh will win the by-election, and if so he's not stepping down as leader no matter how hard he's pushed.
Why not? Since 1995 the NDP membership has elected three leaders who didn't have a seat.
"Aristide was then president again from 1994 to 1996 and from 2001 to 2004. However, Aristide was ousted in the 2004 coup d'état after right-wing ex-army paramilitaries invaded the country from across the Dominican border. As he claimed, the United States helped orchestrate the coup against him. Aristide was later forced into exile in the Central African Republic and South Africa."
Again, I have no idea where our parties stood when the US, again under Bush Jr., faciliated a coup attempt against Hugo Chavez.
At least the CBC has so far avoided calling Maduro a "strongman" or "dictator" and figure "socialist" is enough of a dispariging adjective. So freaking pathetic.
"Has it become NDP policy to support US-backed coups in Latin America?"
The Canadian left needs to euthanize this execrable party of compradors and reaction which stands squarely in the way of history and a genuine Canadian mass movement of progressive change so urgently required. Stop collaborating! Start resisting!
I think this may be exposing inadequate communications within the party. If there had been enough consultation between the leader's office and the MPs then likely the party could ahve made the decision to either make no statement or to come up with a consensus. I say this without judgment on the actual issue as this is not only about the issue but also about a breakdown in communications.
Sadly, this is a reflection of a long-time problem within the NDP (and other parties) and that is the distance between the leader and the party. While the NDP survived this at times with electoral success, in the current context with low polls, an election coming and poor finances, this has to be fixed otherwise the party will pay dearly. This is not something you can paper over in the current weak state of the party.
You would think that Singh's judgment is really a problem here given that with Mulcair speaking out of turn, any competent leader would have taken the warning to be much closer to the MPs than he is - especially for a leader without a seat. Frankly, Mulcair is not just being a jerk - he is exposing a real problem within the NDP and a good quesiton about the leader's incompetence.
In as much as people hate Mulcair for what he is doing - it is possible that he is actually trying to sink the present leader as a favour to the party. Given this latest screwup and what it demonstrates about the connection between the leader and the caucus, I cannot rule out that Mulcair believes he is sincerely helping. It is possible that Mulcair sees a devastating loss. One that will be blamed on him and is doing all in his limited power to prevent it.
Things may not be so simple on the Mulcair question as one failed leader trying to bring down the party. It could be one failed leader now tring to warn the party about an even bigger failure coming. And he may be right. To say so is not to think he was not a failure or to want him back. It is one more example of seeing things in binary terms from extremes (the need to demonize Mulcair to maintain morale or whatever) is not the best reaction to the realization that the party may have made two leadership mistakes in a row.
I remain resistant to tearing down without a strong blueprint for a replacement. This is where we differ. I am probably not a lot more happy with the NDP than you are. Our difference is that I am skeptical about the potential of a non-parliamentary movement being bale to do all the heavy lifting and I am skeptical about the chances a new party can rise up without all the problems of the NDP. As of now I see the NDP as a carcass but one with a better chance of being revived than anything else and that the problems exposed in the NDP exist everywhere and that we may as well fight the fight there than burning it and fighting it elsewhere.
I suspect that one reason why many are so angry with NDPP's attacks on the party is that in reality many of us are not that far apart and that it really is less of a difference in how we are seeing things as a massive difference in judgment about what to do about it.
The reasons for not giving up on the NDP, may be less of a compliment or a presumption that it is better than what NDPP says it is than a judgment that it is better to renovate than blow up. To complete the analogy -- we all can see the same leaky roof.
It is just another failed party with no direction and no analysis on what is causing the real problems in the world and the role Canada is playing. Any party that accepts this imperial coup is not a party that believes in the people. Its just another party that thinks we need to feed the oiligarchy what ever it wants, all in the name of democracy.
Well Laverdiere won't be talking on behalf of the party after October.
I've seen the NDP bizarre, pathetic and irrelevant before, but never this much all at once. And given what the election likely has in store for it, may it be for the last time. I hope a handful of good people win their races, but otherwise, just RIP already, NDP.


European Journal of Mineralogy (2010) 22 (6): 895-896.
The following paper by Martin Okrusch and Hans-Ulrich Bambauer does not fit the strict template of a publication in the European Journal of Mineralogy. It is not a report on scientific results in the mineralogical sciences as normally demanded by the EJM. Rather, it reports on the conception as an idea in 1974, the birth in 1989 and the growth to maturity of the actual vehicle used to disseminate such information, namely the EJM itself. As such, it is a historical account and of necessity may reflect personal views. On the other hand, it is a fascinating narrative written by authors personally involved in making decisions for the future against a back-drop of the usual inertia of many rank-and-file members of national societies. In many ways, the EJM story mirrors the trials, tribulations and pitfalls experienced by Europe in drawing closer together in the post-war era. It was with the above background in mind that the members of the managing committee voted to include the following essay by Martin Okrusch and Hans-Ulrich Bambauer in a regular issue of the EJM.
The roots of the following paper can be traced back to a plenary lecture in Berlin, 2008, given by Martin Okrusch on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the German Mineralogical Society (DMG). As Okrusch and Bambauer point out in their introduction, this gives the paper a German point of view. Nonetheless, the problems and the resistance faced by decision-makers in the French, Italian and Spanish participating societies were probably quite similar, though seemingly most obvious in the French society. Councils and members had to be convinced that giving up a long-lived national society journal, embracing English as the lingua franca of modern science, accepting peer review procedures, attending to the financial requirements of a large international journal, etc., were all a good idea. As then-SFMC-president Jean Wyart pointed out in 1978 in his historical review article on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Société Française de Minéralogie et de Cristallographie, the Bulletin de Minéralogie was also founded in 1878. Its history thus went back even further than that of the American Mineralogist! One can well imagine the repercussions emanating from a decision to stop publishing the prestigious Bulletin and especially one of abandoning the French language. Most conspicuously, these decisions led to the resignation of a SFMC past-president and an associate editor of the Bulletin. As Okrusch and Bambauer point out, it was nevertheless the impetus provided in 1974 by two French mineralogists, namely SFMC president André Authier and SFMC general secretary Claude Lévy, who in close concert with Hans-Ulrich Bambauer got the ball rolling towards closer cooperation among European mineralogical societies and, 15 years later, the launching of the EJM. Authier and Lévy were most likely inspired by the creation of a true pan-European journal in physics in the early seventies.
As pointed out by Okrusch and Bambauer, the long years between 1974 and 1989 were characterized by a number of efforts to coordinate European mineralogical societies and their publications, notably via the Group of European Mineralogists (GEM) after 1979, an endeavour strongly promoted by Martine Lagache of the SFMC, and the European Mineralogical Union (EMU) after 1987. However, even in those early years it seems that the concept of a true common European mineralogical journal was a goal being actively pursued primarily by the French and German societies, mainly because the British society had little real interest in abandoning its own financially successful Mineralogical Magazine. On the other hand, a "merger" under the flag of Mineralogical Magazine was not what the other societies were striving for. In the end a European Journal of Mineralogy was born, because Giuseppe Rossi and Attilio Boriani led the Societá Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia into the fold, followed by the EMU as a representative for all other European societies in 1996. In 2004, under the guidance of Emilio Galán, the Sociedad Española de Mineralogía became a member of the EJM publication consortium. In contrast to the French and German societies, the acceptance of the new EJM and the discontinuation of their respective national mineralogical journals appear to have been far less problematic in Italy and Spain, despite the fact that the Rendiconti della Societá Italiana di Mineralogia e Petrologia went back to 1941. In Italy the standards of an international peer review journal attracted a new, strong community of authors, namely the mineralogically oriented crystallographers. In Spain as well, acceptance was wide-spread. New modern newsletters – Macla in Spain and Plinius in Italy – probably helped to soften the transition.
As indicated above, the following paper represents an exception in terms of the type of scientific contribution that the EJM endeavours to publish. Nevertheless, it is a captivating account of the development of mineralogy and of publication in mineralogy in Germany over the last 100 years. The interested reader may want to refer to Wyart (1978) for an analogous but "pre-EJM" essay from the French point of view. In these trying times when basic physics and chemistry are being minimized in the geosciences as a whole, it may be instructive to learn more about the evolutionary history of our field of science.


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Q: how to make a rectangle move in python gui I'm just starting making simple python GUIs. I was working on this one right here and when I run it the rectangle is static. Is there any fixes that would make the rectangle move 50 px horizontally every second? I've been working on trying to fix it but haven't had any success.
from tkinter import *
import time

rectMove = True

class rectMove():
    def __init__(self):
        root = Tk()
        frame = Frame(root, width=500, height=500)
        frame.grid()
        canvas = Canvas(frame, width=500, height=500)
        canvas.grid()
        firstX = 50
        firstY = 50
        secondX = 100
        secondY = 100
        rectangle = canvas.create_rectangle(firstX, firstY, secondX, secondY, fill="Black")
        while rectMove is True:
            rectangle.destroy()
            time.sleep(1)
            firstX += 50
            secondX += 50
            rectangle = canvas.create_rectangle(firstX, firstY, secondX, secondY, fill="Black")
        root.mainloop()

rectMove = rectMove()

A: Your first problem is that you have a global variable named rectMove and you also have a class named rectMove.  The class definition hides the global variable.  This line: while rectMove is True: means "loop if the variable rectMove is the boolean variable True", which is false since rectMove isn't the variable True, it's a class.  Therefore your loop doesn't execute at all.
What you probably want is something more like while True: but this simple change will expose other problems.
The first line in the loop, rectangle.destroy() raises an exception.  The function you probably want is canvas.delete(rectangle).  After you fix this and run the program, you won't see anything at all.  That's because the while loop is infinite.  Your program will just sit there forever.
Tk programs are event-driven.  To make a timing loop is not simple.  You need to use the function:
w.after(delay_ms, callback=None, *args)

Requests Tkinter to call function callback with arguments args after a delay of at least delay_ms milliseconds

These docs are from http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/tkinter/web/universal.html
Instead of writing a simple while loop you need to write a callback function that erases and redraws the rectangle, then calls w.after again to repeat the process.

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Google posted revenues of $27.5 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2017 (Q3 2017). Of this, advertising revenue accounted for $24 billion or 87.6%. And of the total ad revenue, revenues from Google sites contributed $19.7 billion or 82%, while revenues from network members' properties contributed $4.3 billion. Revenues from 'Other Bets' i.e., xyz, stood at $302 million.
Google's Traffic Acquisition Cost (TAC) for the quarter stood at $5.5 billion, up 31.56% from $4.18 billion for the corresponding quarter last year. TAC was 23% of Google's total ad revenue for the quarter, as compared to 21% in Q3 2016.
There was 47% year-on-year (YoY) increase in total paid clicks, and a 6% quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) increase. Paid clicks on Google sites increases 55% YoY and 7% QoQ, while on Google Network Members's properties paid clicks grew 10% YoY and 2% QoQ.
The total cost-per-click (CPC) decreased 18% YoY, but witnessed a marginal 1% increase QoQ. On Google sites, CPC dipped 21% YoY and had a similarly marginal 1% growth QoQ, while on Google Network Members' properties CPC declined 5% YoY and remained stagnant on QoQ basis.
Google's advertising revenues for the quarter stood at $24 billion, up 21.4% from ad revenues of $19.8 billion in the same quarter last year.
"The increase in the sites TAC rate year-over-year was driven by changes in partner agreements and the ongoing shift to mobile, which carries higher TAC because more mobile searches are channeled through paid access points," she added.
An interesting question was thrown at Alphabet Inc CEO Sundar Pichai during the call regarding TAC: why does Google pay TAC at all?
"We've been doing distribution deals for our search for well over a decade and I personally have been involved all the way from the toolbar in the Chrome days. So by now, first of all, we want to construct a win-win construct. So we always want to construct in which we do better when our partners to better. And so doing TAC well aligns us in that way and, historically, it has driven a lot of growth. And so it's a model we understand. We understand the key economics behind it. And so we are very thoughtful about how we drive it forward. So we are driving it forward in a way in which we know it's going to give strong both revenue and earnings growth," explained Pichai.
"In India last month, we launched Tez, a mobile payments and commerce app that already has more than 7.5 million users who have made more than 30 million transactions. I'm really excited about the potential this brings for India's mostly cash-based economy," said Pichai. More on this here and here.
Overall, revenues from the Asia-Pacific region witnessed a significant growth year-on-year (YoY). In Q3 2017, revenues from APAC stood at $4.2 billion, up 29.3% from $3.25 billion in Q3 2016.
"Our revenues are up significantly in the region, driven by great results we are driving for existing and new advertisers. That holds true across developed markets like Japan and emerging markets like the Philippines and Vietnam, all of which have seen the number of active advertisers grow by 25% or more in the past 12 months. And this growth is bringing tremendous benefits to our partners there. In the past three years, we have paid out more than $24 billion to our publisher, creator and app developer partners in Asia-Pacific," informed Pichai.
Google will continue to invest in new subscription-based monetization models for YouTube. "YouTube Red, our first foray into the subscription market, is on track to release over 40 original shows this year and YouTube TV, our live TV subscription service, continues to expand into new markets. It now covers two-thirds of U.S. households and is available in 15 metro areas," added Pichai. He also mentioned that currently, on average users spend 60 minutes on YouTube on mobile.
Alphabet Inc's total cost of revenues, including TAC, for the quarter stood at $11.1 billion, which was an increase of 28% YoY. Other costs of revenues stood at $5.6 billion, up 25% YoY, which was primarily because of Google-related expenses. "Specifically, costs associated with operating our data centers, including depreciation, content acquisition costs primarily for YouTube and hardware-related costs." Operating expenses were $8.8 billion, up 11% YoY.
Net Income: Alphabet Inc (formerly Google Inc) posted a net income of $6.7 billion.
Total Revenues: $27.8 billion, up 24% YoY from $22.5 billion.
Headcount: 78,101, up from 69,953 in Q3 2016.


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In 2005 he graduated MBA with Distinction from the University of Birmingham Business School and 2006 he was awarded the prestigious Samspon Gamgee Chair of Vascular Surgery, also at the University of Birmingham.
Having previously been Education Dean at the Medical School, Professor Bradbury has recently been appointed Head of Quality Assurance and Enhancement in the College of Medical and Dental Sciences at the University of Birmingham.
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Do you remember what happened when some pilgrims wanted to visit the Uhud Cave in Medina? Actually, this is not just the case in that location; it is the same thing with almost all what is left of the historic Islamic sites in Saudi Arabia. The Wahabbis don't believe in the importance of such sites, and therefore they either destroy them or build walls around them to prevent others from seeing them. By sticking to the Wahabbis' narrow interpretation of Islam, I think that our country is missing on some exceptional opportunities in religious tourism, and if SCT are serious about making tourism a real part of the national economy they should work very hard to change the current situation.
In a recent column, Abdul Aziz Al-Thukair suggests that the Ministry of Pilgrimage could arrange trips to Islamic sites, but I don't see this as the best solution. I think such trips should be arranged by tourism companies, and can be supervised by SCT, but it is certainly has nothing to do any other part of the government, especially not the Ministry of Pilgrimage, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, and the Religious Police. Tourism is a business, and these three entities clearly don't know business.
I think you are saudi, and you know what happening in the religious tourism business. When we talk about money, people become blind and they forgot the religion, the most important for them is money and nothing but money !
And what I heared is really amazing, there is trips organized for example in jeddah. I don't remember exactly the place but its "dawar", they told to people its something belong to a prophet sayedna Dawud AS … or i dunno who… and trips becomed organized to that place. I'll ask 4 mode details if u want, but I guess you know the place since ur frm jeddah.
Tourism is a business yes, but not religion. I think it's better to make the difference and handle it with lot of caution.
At the moment, they should keep what is left undestroyed although i don't think there is a lot now.
Most of the historical places have been removed so we stupid people don't worship stones like Jahilya .. can i call it historical fiction :) ?
Hi Ahmed. Great post. It is painful to know that our history is being systematically destroyed and the Islamic world is not doing much about it.
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I'm actually from the Eastern Province, but I live in Riyadh now.
Thanks. I've been following your blog for some time, and so far, I really like what you do. And sure, you can link to this post, you don't need my permission to do so.


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ClassPass is officially a unicorn worth $1 billion—here's what that means for the world beyond fitness
by Rachel Lapidos, January 9, 2020
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ClassPass broke open the boutique fitness industry in 2013 by allowing users to take an à la carte approach to studio classes. Seven years later, after testing a number of different business models and then adding a variety of offerings to its bookable services (spa treatments, digitally-streamed workouts, and even getaways), ClassPass has officially reached so-called "unicorn" status as a privately-owned startup worth a whopping $1 billion.
On Thursday, ClassPass announced its (impressive) new valuation after closing a $285 million investment round led by L Catterton (a firm involved with fitness companies Peloton, Equinox, and CorePower Yoga) and Apax Digital as well as existing investor Temasek. With the influx of cash, ClassPass is fully armed with the resources it needs to further expand globally.
"It's super validating, and we're really excited as we've been working on this for a while," Payal Kadakia, founder and executive chairman of ClassPass, tells Well+Good. "As a female and a woman of color, it's great to celebrate these moments, because it's important to know that anyone who has a dream can achieve things."
"As a female and a woman of color, it's great to celebrate these moments." —Payal Kadakia, founder and executive chairman of ClassPass
When it first launched, ClassPass allowed users to pay $99 for 10 boutique studio classes a month—which was groundbreaking at a time when the average fitness class charged about $25 per hour session—and then skyrocketed in popularity when, a few months later, it allowed users unlimited access to classes for under $100. Major updates (and price increases) in subsequent years only added to the company's cache of disruption as it expanded to dozens of countries and partnered with over 30,000 studios, gyms, and wellness providers, offered wellness treatments, wellness travel packages, and moved into the digital fitness realm with ClassPass Go.
Now, as a company with unicorn status, Kadakia says that ClassPass has three main goals. First up is geographic expansion. "In the past 18 months, we've gone from four countries to 28. We're going to continue this trend, heavily focused on Europe and South America," she says. The second is a corporate wellness program. "We really have become one of the most employer-friendly models that exists in the industry and we're really excited about that." And third is expansion into new supply, adding more experiences beyond boutique fitness. "We're seeing such great traction," says Kadakia, "so we're going to continue our investment in broadening that category."
For Kadakia, the company's financial backing is proof that the brand has done something right. "Our entire goal has always been to help motivate people to stay active and to discover new things," she says. "What we find more validating is the fact that we've booked over 100 million reservations on the platform. The big thing we celebrate is the impact on people's lives—the hours of people's lives that we've touched." Judging by what we've witnessed ClassPass achieve since its inception, it's sure to continue disrupting the wellness world one booking at a time.
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Can't Touch This! Russian Armata Tanks to Get New Active Protection System
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Russian armored units based on the Armata Universal Combat Platform will get new upgraded active protection systems by the end of the year.
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Tanks A Lot: Russia's Advanced Armata T-14 'Already in Serial Production'
The new ultraviolet (UV) detectors soon to be installed on T-14 Armata battle tanks and T-15 Armata heavy infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) can detect rockets and grenades approaching from any direction, thus drastically improving the vehicles' active protection systems' efficiency.
"The UV detectors have already been installed both on the T-14 tank and on the T-15 IFV and are currently undergoing tests as part of the Afganit active protection system. We intend to complete the project by the end of the year," a source in the Defense Ministry who is familiar with the issue told Izvestia newspaper.
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Nearly 2000 tanks and over 50 MLRS: Biden explains what aid western allies have given Ukraine
During the joint press conference of US President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy during the latter's first visit abroad since the Russian invasion of 24 February, Biden told about the aid that Ukraine's allies have provided.
With Russia's invasion the US supplied a steady stream of defensive weapons, as well as rallied allies and partners around the world to impose unprecedented sanctions and export controls on Russia, making it harder for the Kremlin to wage its brutal war.
More than 50 nations have committed:
nearly 2000 tanks and other armored vehicles,
more than 800 artillery systems,
more than 2 million rounds of artillery ammunition,
more than 50 advanced multiple-launch rocket systems,
anti-ship and air defense systems,
As well, the US provided billions of dollars in direct budgetary support to make sure the Ukrainian government can continue providing basic fundamental services like healthcare and education. This includes another 2 billion dollars in direct budget support that the World Bank distributed this week, Biden said.
In addition, according to the US President, the United States has accepted more than 221 thousand Ukrainians seeking asylum since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Russia, and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has announced the allocation of $374 million for humanitarian assistance to Ukrainians.
During the visit, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken officially announced a new $1.85 billion military aid package for Ukraine, which for the first time includes the transfer of the Patriot air defense system.
This brings the total US military assistance to Ukraine under the Biden administration to $21.9 billion.
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You, like me, may be wondering what will change in the parties' seat numbers when the final vote count (including the special votes1) is released on Saturday. Well, I've crunched the numbers, and…
Short answer: There are only two likely scenarios for how the preliminary seat allocations in Parliament will change after special votes are counted:
Golriz Ghahraman (Green) is in. Nicola Willis (National) is out.
Winston remains king/queenmaker. A Nat-NZF government would have 66/120 seats. A Lab-NZF-Green government would have 62/120.
Golriz Ghahraman (Green) and Angie Warren-Clark (Labour) are in. Nicola Willis and Maureen Pugh (both National) are out.
Warning: by reading any further you are entering into the spreadsheet dystopia that is Caleb Morgan Day's mind.
Long answer: On the basis of past election results since 19992, there are only two likely scenarios for how the preliminary seat allocations in Parliament will change after special votes are counted:
This is what will happen if the special vote results are like what they've been most MMP elections in NZ.
On this scenario, A Nat-NZF government would have 66/120 seats. A Lab-NZF-Green government would have 62/120.
This is what will happen if the special votes are like what they were like last election.
The spreadsheets to back this up:
Preliminary, final, and special vote %s for the four main surviving parties (plus "other"), 1999-2017:
The important figure is "% diff". This is how much better or worse a party does on special votes than it did on the preliminary count: ie its relative special vote performance.
What would happen if the special votes act like five "average" scenarios:3
The five "averages" are:
mean of past special vote performance (1999-2014),
median of past special vote performance (1999-2014),
each party having the same special vote performance as what they did in the election where they got the closest to their 2017 preliminary result (different elections for different parties),
each party having the same special vote performance as what they did in the 2005 election, which was arguably the most similar to the 2017 election, and
each party having the same special vote performance as what they did last election (2014).
What would happen if each party did as good as it's ever done before on special votes, and its rivals did as badly as they've ever done before:
Note that each of these still only produces the two basic scenarios of seat numbers.3
There are a few other technically-possible scenarios, but all would be surprising.
First, the spreadsheets!
What it would take for each of these scenarios to come true:
Figures in bold involve a party doing better or worse than it's ever done before. I've tried to approximate the most likely way for each scenario to actually happen.
Then, the text summary that doesn't really deserve the term "summary"! In order of likeliness (to my mind), here are the other technically possible scenarios:
Labour gain not one but two seats from National (Green also still gain their seat from National).
This is somewhat unlikely. This would require National to do 25% worse on specials than on normal votes. The worst they've ever done is 16.86% worse, so this would be a surprise, though National are trending downwards in their special vote performance. It would also require Labour to do 25% better on specials than on normal votes, and the best they've ever done is 14.16% better. This is more likely to happen, as Labour are trending upwards in their special vote performance, and they've probably taken some Green voters this time.
The status quo: nothing changes from preliminary results to final results.
This is unlikely. It would require the Greens to do only 15% better on specials than on normal votes. The worst they've ever done is 38.2% worse (in 2011). However, they didn't do that much better (43.37%) in 2005, which was arguably the most similar election to this one. It's also possible that the Greens' usual special vote effect will be largely swallowed up by Labour and TOP this time.
National retain all their seats, and the Greens gain their one from Labour instead of from National.
This is very unlikely. It would require National to do equally well on specials as on normal votes, and the best they've ever done is 2.23% worse, in 2002. Each election since then they've done at least 10% worse. This scenario also requires Labour to do as badly on special votes as they did in 1999, ie doing 4.87% worse on specials than on normal votes. Each year since then, Labour have done better on specials than on normal votes, and this has been trending upwards.
New Zealand First gain one seat from National (Green also still gain their seat from National).
This is very unlikely. It would require New Zealand First to do equally well on specials as on normal votes, and the best they've ever done is 1.71% worse, in 1999. Every other election, they've done at least 15% worse, and they're trending downwards in their special vote performance. Finally, to balance out the numbers, it requires "Other" to do 70% better on special votes than on normal votes. We can't rule this out because TOP are an unknown quantity, but TOP are less than half of the "Other" votes, so to push the overall "Other" figure up by this much, they'd have to do even better than the Greens' amazing 2002 special vote performance.
The Greens gain two seats from National (Labour don't gain any).
This is very unlikely. It would require the Greens to do 110% better on specials than on normal votes. Only once have they come remotely close to this (2002, when they did 85.52% better). All other elections they've done 38-55% better. This scenario also requires Labour to do as badly on special votes as they did in 1999. As discussed under #3, this is unlikely. Finally, to balance out the numbers, it requires "Other" to do 65% better on special votes than on normal votes. As discussed under #4, this would be amazing.
New Zealand First gain one seat from Labour (Green also still gain their seat from National).
This is extremely unlikely. It would require New Zealand First to do even better on specials than on normal votes, and as discussed under #4, even doing equally well is unlikely. It would require Labour to do even worse than they did in 1999, and as discussed under #3, it's unlikely they'll even do equally badly. Finally, to balance out the numbers, it requires the highest TOP/Other vote yet. As discussed under #4, this would be amazing.
You'll notice that on both the likely and the unlikely scenarios, NZ First always has the balance of power. (Unless the "teal deal"4 the media are frothing at the mouth over comes to pass. And it won't.)
By the way, here are some other scenarios which are so impossible that I haven't even bothered spreadsheeting them:
NZ First lose a seat.
Actually I did spreadsheet this one (see the comments section). This is extremely unlikely, because even on their worst precedented special vote performance, NZ First still get almost 7.5% of the effective party vote, and 9 is 7.5% of MPS. They'd have to do a LOT worse than ever before on special votes to be rounded to 6.67% of the party vote for 6.67% of MPs (8 MPs). And by "a LOT worse" I mean unrealistically worse (see the comment for the deets).
TOP cross the 5% threshold.
This would require TOP to more than double their party vote from the preliminary count to the final count. I.e. it would require them to get more votes from the 15% of special votes than from the 85% of normal votes.
ACT get a second seat.
This would require ACT to more than double their party vote from the preliminary count to the final count. I.e. it would require them to get more votes from the 15% of special votes than from the 85% of normal votes.
Any other parties make it into Parliament as a result of a change in an electorate vote result.
Howie Tamati and then Te Ururoa Flavell (both Māori party) are closest to achieving this, but they'd have to get at least 60-70% of the electorate special votes. Ain't gonna happen. Marama Fox (Māori party), Hone Harawira (Mana) and Raf Manji (independent) are even further away, no TOP candidates even came close to second place, and Damian Light (United Future)… well, it seems cruel to even link to his results.
Any other electorate seats change hands.
I can't be bothered crunching the numbers, but the closest seat was Ōhāriu and it's unlikely Brett Hudson (National) would win on specials as the specials tend to favour Labour and disfavour National. There aren't any seats where the Labour candidate is close enough to have a hope of knocking out the National candidate on specials. Winston Peters isn't close enough either. And even though Metiria Turei did the best of any Green electoral candidate, she wouldn't even catch up if she won every single electorate special vote 😦
Don't say I didn't warn you about that spreadsheet dystopia.
The Electoral Commission estimates that there will be about 384,072 special votes (about 15% of total votes). I've estimated that 90.77% of these will have a valid party vote, as was the case in 2014. (In 2005 it was 92.55%, in 2008 92.78%, and in 2011 92.26%. I couldn't find the figure for 1999 or 2002. The Commission hopes this number will be higher this time because they think they communicated better about the need to enrol in advance or enrol at the same time if placing an advanced vote. However, I chose the most conservative estimate.) This produces an estimate of 348,603 valid party votes from the special votes. ↑
I couldn't find 1996's preliminary results. ↑
You may notice that the totals under "% special" and "% final" don't actually add up to 100%. In practice, on most of these scenarios, at least one party's special vote performance (e.g. TOP, included as part of "Other") would have to be higher than what is listed for the scenarios to actually be possible. ↑
I'm pretty sure I came up with this phrase first. I'm not just a spreadsheet nerd, I'm also the kind of nerd who comes up with the kind of rhyming pun that journalists love! ↑
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The "teal deal" is not going to happen, and it's not the Greens' fault
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"National and the Greens should work together" sentiment seems to have reached an all-time high. This is not because the two parties have moved closer together in policy or philosophy. It's because after the election, this is the only way—short of a Nat-Lab grand coalition—to lock Winston Peters out of any role in government.1
I can't be bothered to list examples because I'm sure you've all seen or heard people calling for a blue-green government arrangement (or "teal deal" if you will). Perhaps you've even suggested it yourself.2
What I want to talk about is the suggestion that usually comes after "National and the Greens should work together". This is how former National PM Jim Bolger puts it:
"the Greens might be quietly reflecting on whether they, unique in the world of Green parties, should only link themselves to left-wing politics, whereas the environment is neither left wing or right wing, frankly. The environment is the environment; it's Mother Earth we're talking about."
The idea is that the Greens would be more effective in pushing environmental policy if they stuck to that, and got rid of their insistence on left-wing socio-economic policy. This way, it is suggested, they would have a better chance of being able to find room for compromise and cooperation with National. Other Green parties in countries like Germany have been willing to form coalition governments with right-wing parties.
The Greens' usual response is to give reasons why environmental justice and socio-economic justice (or environmental sustainability and socio-economic sustainability) are inextricably linked. Ever since they were the Values Party they've pushed both, and they don't intend to stop now.
Another response could be to say that New Zealand is not Germany. Germany has a democratic socialist party called The Left which pushes left-wing policy even if the centre-left parties (the Greens and the SDP) don't—even if they form grand coalitions with the centre-right. In New Zealand, the Alliance and Mana have disappeared as left voices in Parliament. Moreover, Labour kickstarted neo-liberalism and haven't really repented from it. Until Labour make a significant change from Clark/Blair-esque compromise to Corbyn-esque social democracy, the Greens are the only party significantly trying to push New Zealand in a leftward direction.
However, both of these responses to the challenge accept the terms of the challenge (like Labour accepted the terms of National's "dead cat" "fiscal hole" challenge). These responses accept the assumption that it's the Greens' left-wing socio-economic stance that blocks them from working with National, and that they'd be able to find common ground on the environment.
However, I don't think this is correct. Certainly the Greens' socio-economic stances—making welfare more of a livable UBI and less of a punitive control mechanism; raising tax on the rich and introducing it for property investors; returning the minimum wage to 2/3 of the average wage; reducing imprisonment—are all basically the opposite of what the Key-English government have done. However, I think Bill English is actually more likely to accept these policies than to accept Greens' environmental policies. If Bill could be convinced these socio-economic policies are good "social investment", he could get behind them. Of course, he won't. (This is largely because National's vision of "social investment" is so limited by a pathologically individualist mindset, and so tantamount to Minority Report in its instinct to control the risk factors rather than healing the determinants.) But it's not outside the realms of possibility.
The Greens' environmental policies, on the other hand, would require National to actually seriously challenge farm owners, drilling/mining companies, and other capitalists. Currently the costs of these capitalists' activities are largely falling on the environment, and therefore on the present and future public. The Greens want to stop these business activities destroying our shared home by preventing and internalising these external costs. They'll ban some unjustifiably polluting business activities, such as drilling or mining or exploring for more fossil fuels at a time when even burning the fossil fuels already dug up will make the Paris target impossible. They'll tax other business activities for their pollution—making those who produce the costs pay the costs, instead of externalising them. And they'll use the tax revenue to clean up the damage and to subsidise farmers and other businesses moving to more sustainable ways of doing business.
Do you really see National doing that? The party whose base is farm owners and other capitalists? The party that think climate change is only an issue for "elites", and that it's not a "pressing concern", and that we should adapt to climate change rather than mitigating it? The party who scaremongered on a small water tax for some big farms that are currently destroying the quality of Aotearoa's awa and wai?3
So how should the Greens respond to this "helpful suggestion" to the Greens—and this implicit congratulation of National for their supposed hypothetical willingness to "green up"?
Well, I wonder if they should make an offer to National this election: If you let us have our way with the environment, we'll give you confidence and supply to do everything else you want to do as the Government for the next three years. We'd pass a zero carbon act and introduce the Greens' policies for actually getting to zero carbon. We'd follow the Greens' ideas to clean up our rivers instead of pretending National and the "hard-working farmers"4 already have the issue under control. We'd build sustainable transport instead of roads, roads, and more roads.
And maybe we'd have to tax the rich at least a little more to pay for some of this—and/or take slightly longer to repay the Key-era debt. Bill's choice.
National would refuse this offer. And then maybe people would stop trying to make the teal deal happen. Or at least realise it's not Green stubbornness stopping it happening. It's National's near-total lack of concern for the environment.
Special votes are extremely unlikely to change the basic possibilities. ↑
Someone who can always be bothered finding, listing and summarising examples is my hero Bryce Edwards who has subsequently done one of his legendary political round-ups on the teal deal. ↑
These points I'm making are not new—here's basically the same point made three years ago on the No Right Turn blog. ↑
It was shrewd of National to portray criticism of National's record on rivers as criticism of farmers who are working hard to clean up rivers, because it's deeply ingrained in the NZ psyche to pretend we're really farmers at heart. We all lie about being the rural type. ↑
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After the election trauma: disappointment, anger, fear, hope
Election results: disappointment and anger
After the last election I wrote a blog entitled I was wrong. This time I was right, but I'm not happy about that, because what I was right about was basically that the polls would be pretty accurate.
I'm expecting special votes will be slightly favourable to the Greens and/or Labour at the expense of National, but it won't be enough to change the basic configurations and possibilities.
So the result is about what we could have expected from recent polls and past polling accuracy. But of course this is a big disappointment for me and everyone who leans to the left, especially because slightly-less-recent polls were more positive for Labour vs. National. Those polls got our hopes up that we would have government change.
The main thing I'm devastated about is the Māori party being driven out of government, and I mainly blame Labour for that. Two kaupapa Māori parties have been driven out of Parliament in the last two elections. Of course, this is partly because of their decisions to sit at tables with rich white men. But it's also partly because they've been taken out by their political opponents. I know that's politics (and Te Ururoa himself helped defeat Hone last election), but it's sad. The Māori party were an effective voice for Māori and for justice, and they held the major parties to account on Te Tiriti, which needs to happen. They were the best part of the National-led government and they would have been a good part of a Labour-led government.
Once again I'm angry at the undemocraticness of the 5% threshold for representation. The thousands of party votes TOP and Māori received mean those parties deserve a few seats between them: those party votes should be worth as much as party votes for the big parties. But the threshold (and their failure to qualify for the local-seat exemption) blocks those parties from getting those seats, because of the Electoral Commission's undemocratic fear of a "proliferation of small parties" with extremist views. And yet ACT survives again because they & National use the local vote to their advantage.
The incoming government: hopes and fears
We don't know yet what the government will look like, except that it will be some combination of just the four big parties (National has already cast David Seymour aside). While a Labour-NZ First-Green govt is technically possible, it would be a bit of a poisoned chalice for Labour and the Greens: firstly because a lot of people would (rightly or wrongly) consider this government illegitimate, and secondly because they'd have to work with Winston Peters. A National-Green government is also technically possible, but National would have to give some pretty enormous concessions for the Greens to decide the situation has changed and they're now willing to risk electoral suicide by working with National.
On the whole, I'd be extremely surprised if it doesn't turn out to be National-NZ First.1 We'll have to wait and see what a National-NZ First government will look like. We'll get some clues with coalition negotiations, and find out the rest over the next three long years.
They're both terrible parties, so their government could be doubly terrible. But my hope is that since they're terrible in different ways, they could somewhat cancel out each other's terribleness. E.g. National are too committed to globalisation (for the sake of capitalism) to go too far in appeasing Winnie's anti-immigrant sentiments. And NZ First are far more economically left-leaning than National,2 so they could hopefully stop National from going too far on neoliberalism. A bunch of things that were passed over the last nine years by National, ACT and Peter Dunne were opposed by NZ First. There is precedent for NZ First holding National to account on its extreme capitalism, such as in the 90s when the minimum wage was not increased during the whole term of the Bolger government until NZ First forced them to increase it in 1997. So I think there is some hope that this government will be not as bad as the government over the last three terms has been.
Secondly, there's some hope that private members' bills from the left will be taken over the line by NZ First. For example, it's possible that a zero carbon by 2050 law could be passed this term.
Thirdly, there's hope in the way the Overton window has shifted slightly leftward during this election campaign. Earlier on, it looked like it was shifting in a worrying immigrant-scapegoating direction, but the Greens repented of their immigration stance, Labour toned theirs down, National didn't join in,3 and NZ First somewhat fizzled. The political conversation became more about issues that matter: poverty, homelessness, housing unaffordability, and river water quality (sadly, climate change not enough).
And I think there is some hope that this government will do at least something on these issues. Under Key, National's line on these issues was basically "there's no issue", but under English it's more like "there is an issue and we've got it under control"—not a dramatic difference but an important one. And there are some signs National are starting to actually act on some of these issues. For example, they've done some encouraging Housing First experiments in Hamilton and Auckland and it would be great if they made this nationwide.4 And in Paddy Gower's debate, English famously committed to lifting 100,000 kids out of poverty (even if they have been conveniently vague on what poverty measure he's using). If this happens, great. If not, it's something to hold them to account for.5
My biggest fear is that NZ First will push National to revive its policy to abolish the Māori seats. It's still their policy to do to this eventually, but it's on hold because "now is not the right time" (translation: we have a government arrangement with the Māori party). Bill English has already said this won't happen, and I don't want to believe that he'd do it. He's seemed quite different to Don Brash on te Tiriti and te ao Māori (and on basic human decency), but Bill English has disappointed me quite a bit over the last few months.
Last but not least, I also have hope that there will be a strong Labour-Green government in three years time. Hopefully Labour has got its act together more by then and is more Corbynite than it is now.
Though Winnie will milk his technical queenmaker powers to gain maximum concessions out of National. ↑
I see NZ First as roughly 2/3 Trump and 1/3 Sanders. ↑
Not out of concern for immigrants so much as concern for immigrants' low-wage employers, in my opinion. ↑
Housing First is quite a radical reversal of the currently dominant mindset of having a bunch of conditions and sanctions in exchange for any welfare support. It gives an unconditional roof over the head first. Any state involvement in trying to change people's lives comes after this, and isn't a condition for having a roof over the head. And it works – it basically eliminates rough sleeping. ↑
However, a third option is probably more likely: they'll find a measure that allows them to say that they've met their target, even though the opposition and pretty much everyone else will say it hasn't happened. They'll continue to insist they're right next election, as they did with the 11 billion dollar hole this time. ↑
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If you support Labour, Green, TOP, Māori, or Mana: Party vote Green
I wrote this post on Facebook and it's got a bit of traction so I thought I'd put it here as well. (These thoughts aren't unique to me: other people are making similar points.)
Most people intending to vote Labour, Green, TOP, Māori, or Mana probably have a reasonably similar idea of what we want our government to look like: more action on social justice and the environment, for example.
This post is an appeal to all those people to party-vote Green as the best choice for the government and Parliament you want to see—for the next three years and beyond.
(By the way, I'm not a Green loyalist: In previous elections I've party-voted Internet Mana, Mana, Green, and United Future.)
Here are my reasons:
The Greens have the best and clearest policy on the biggest issues that matter the most: halting climate change and ending poverty (though TOP, Māori, and Mana probably have better policy in some areas). Labour are pinching Green policies left right and centre, which is a good thing. In government, the Greens would lead and hopefully Ardern would follow.
The Greens need us. Based on the polling info we have at the moment, I'd say it's at least 80% likely they'll get back in, but it's not certain—they need our votes. In contrast, Labour don't need our votes, Māori and Mana need electorate votes more than party votes (though Marama Fox needs party votes so the Māori party would be my second choice), and TOP won't get in, unless the polls are wrong to an unprecedented extent.
A vote for Green is a vote for an Ardern-led govt. But it's a vote for more Green people & influence as part of her coalition, rather than more Labour people & influence as part of her coalition (or more NZ First people & influence…). Looking at the party lists, numbers 7,8,9,10+ on the Green list would be more effective advocates for the kind of government we want to see than numbers 44,48,52,56 or whatever on Labour's.
Even if you prefer Labour to the Greens, do you prefer them 9x as much? They're currently projected to get 9x as many seats. When your favourite party is surging so much, why not help their junior partners out a bit?
If the Greens underperform their polling a bit, they could go below 5%, and thousands of votes for an Ardern-led govt would be wasted. Depending on other results, that could be the difference between a Labour-led government and a National-led government. If Labour underperform their polling a bit, it would certainly affect things, but it wouldn't have as significant an effect as the Greens missing out.
A Labour govt without the Greens (and preferably the Māori party) keeping them honest would disappoint most of us. Labour have a long history of disappointing the left. They've also achieved stuff for the left, but they do it when they're pushed from the left, not when they're pushed from the right. The exact same thing is true if you substitute the word "Māori" for "the left".
Most important for me: A vote for Green this year is a massive vote of support for Metiria Turei and for beneficiaries, i.e. the poor, i.e. Jesus. (And imagine if it went down in history that when a party stood up for the poor in that way they were driven out of Parliament. I'd rather it go down in history that they did take a hit because of benny-hatred and Jacindamania, but they survived, formed part of the government, and helped lead it to a more compassionate policy for the poor.)
PS: The images at the start are from the We Are Beneficiaries group on Facebook.
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RightsNOW is under development, but below is a sneak peek!
Things are currently under lock and key as we continue to develop RightsNOW, but check out our promo video below for a teaser, and some testimonials.
During the Global Legal Hackathon we were featured on the Legal Talk Network.


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The Q Collective
Exploring the spectrum of gender, sexuality, and romantic orientation
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Announcing the Creative Staff of Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Q Collective continues its first season with John Cameron Mitchell and Stephen Trask's groundbreaking, Obie-winning Off-Broadway musical HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH , in which the "internationally ignored song stylist" Hedwig Schmidt, herself, tells us her wild life story, as a fourth-wall smashing East German rock 'n' roll goddess who also happens to be the victim of a botched sex-change operation. This outrageous and unexpectedly powerful story is dazzlingly performed by Hedwig (née Hansel) in the form of a rock gig/stand-up comedy backed by the hard-rocking band The Angry Inch. It's a rocking ride, funny, touching, and ultimately inspiring to anyone who has felt life gave them an inch when they deserved a mile.
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH will be directed by Jordan Woods with assistance by Camille Fensterman, music direction by Holly Barber, costume design by Lauren Smith, and sound and lighting design by Jim Robert. Casey Richards joins as stage manager and Flynn Hayes as costume master.
HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH runs June 20-29 at the Monocle, 4510 Manchester Ave (63110), on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 8:00 PM, with an additional 10:30 PM performance on both Saturdays. General admission tickets are $20 in advance, $25 at the door. In addition, the Q Collective is excited to have 4 VIP packages available for each of the Friday and Saturday performances. The package includes 2 tickets, 2 drinks provided by the Monocle, a charcuterie plate, and some personal interaction with the internationally ignored song stylist herself, and all for $75. Tickets go on sale May 1 and can be purchased through Eventbrite.
hedwig and the angry inch	2019, creative staff
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Transluminate: Exploring Gender and Sexuality on the Stage | Gender and Sexuality in St. Louis | Washington University in St. Louis


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Rally against police power on November 24 at 2:00pm outside Surrey City Hall. Massive funding for police comes at the expense of social programs and resources, like community centres and youth programs, which could actually address some of the root causes of violence in our communities. By divesting from the police, we can invest in real community solutions.


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Engadget on Android 2.2 (Froyo) and Flash | The Small Wave.
we found that rediscovering Flash was much like reuniting with a high school friend; at first you've so much to catch up on, but then you realize how far you've grown apart. Adobe's pre-vetted list of Flash-enabled sites do a good job of showing off the technology, but we still can't help but think the interactive elements still have a lot of catching up to do. As for video, the stream is good quality but gets fairly choppy — especially when you check out something "not optimized for mobile viewing." Some of the HTML5 footage we've seen via the same device shows up in crisper detail and fluidity. Battery and heat are also of concern: the pre-release beta we have, according to Adobe, lacks hardware acceleration. Ergo, our beloved handset got piping hot after about 30 minutes of heavy video watching, and the battery indicator in the upper right had a sizable dent.
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