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The leadoff batter is arguably the most important offensive weapon on a baseball team. His job is to get on base—it doesn't have to be pretty. He could make it to first with a bloop single, get walked, bunt his way on or make a mad dash for first after the catcher drops the third strike. His success is measured not by the number of home runs he hits or even his batting average but by his 'on-base percentage.' If he gets on four times out of every 10, he's doing very well. (Ted Williams holds the record for career on-base percentage at .482.)
The more powerful hitters follow the leadoff batter in the lineup. The slugger, typically slotted in the fourth spot, has the task of swinging for the fences and driving home the players who got on base in front of him. A slugger's chances of hitting a home run are much lower than the on-base hitter's of getting to first. If a slugger hits one home run every 11 times at bat, he's doing extremely well.
Knowing one's role is essential to success. Sluggers shouldn't try to bunt their way on base, and the greatest sin of a leadoff hitter is to go down swinging for the fences. As with baseball, I've noticed that business owners can be divided into 'on-base hitters' and 'sluggers.' Knowing which you are is critical to happiness and success.
'On-base hitters' are the business owners who have a series of successful business start-ups. Like the on-base hitter, they would prefer small, regular successes over less frequent but larger wins.
Rene Lacerte is an on-base hitter. His latest business, bill.com, is a software platform he created after exiting PayCycle, an online payroll business he co-founded. He started PayCycle from scratch with his partner, Martin Gates. Once the business got going, he recruited Jim Heeger to run it. Jim is a proven manager, having held big posts at Adobe and Intuit. One of the things I admire most about Rene is that he knows he's an on-base guy and has no illusions of being able to swing for the fences by running a larger business. He'd rather get on base with a number of start-ups than run one business for his entire career. My bet is bill.com will be followed closely by another start-up.
Fred Smith, the founder of FedEx, is a home run hitter. He's owned one business in his professional life and has had the patience, stick-to-itiveness and talent to grow it into a Fortune 500 company.
Both Lacerte and Smith are successful entrepreneurs who have built valuable companies, but one is an on-base hitter and the other a slugger. Interestingly, I don't think Lacerte would be happy running FedEx. He'd probably be bored and get bogged down in the complexity. Likewise, I'm not sure Smith could cope with the uncertainty and ambiguity of Lacerte's life as a perpetual starter-upper.
I think one of the most important determinations a business owner can make is whether he or she is a slugger or an on-base hitter. The on-base hitter can focus on starting and exiting lots of smaller businesses in a career and not harbor second thoughts when heading for the exit. In contrast, the slugger would be best served by making a single business their life's work.
Tomorrow, I'll tell you about a quick personality test that can determine whether you're best suited to start lots of smaller businesses or to strive to build one big one. (Read Part 2 and Part 3.)
John Warrillow is the author of Built to Sell: Turn Your Business into One You Can Sell. He has started and exited four companies. Most recently John transformed Warrillow & Co. from a boutique consultancy into a recurring revenue model subscription business, which was acquired by The Corporate Executive Board. In 2008 he was recognized by BtoB Magazine's 'Who's Who' list as one of America's most influential business-to-business marketers.


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Fry French Fries with Only One Spoon of Oil
What if I told you that you could make the perfect French fries with only a spoonful of any oil? You'd probably tell me that I was crazy and that I should stop dreaming. Well, it's time to wake up, because the folks at Tefal have actually come up with a device that allows you to do just that. The ActiFry will allow you to prepare genuine fries with just one spoonful of oil! The patented technology circulates hot air around the fries, while the mixing paddle disperses the oil. The technique results in fries that are crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. Personally I think it sounds too good to be true, but you know I'd give it a try. Well maybe if it wasn't for the $300 price tag...
What do you think? Would you give it a try?
To check out a video of the ActiFry in action,

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Number 480, August 10, 2008
"And that's why we like guns."
Attribute to The Libertarian Enterprise
Right from the beginning, let me state that this article has little in the way of answers, but a whole lot in the way of questions.
The Libertarian Enterprise has run for more than a decade, and the Libertarian Party is more than three-and-a-half decades old. While people will argue about the effects of all these years of activism, one thing is evidentwe haven't reversed the tide of fascism, not even for a day.
I believe that the combined efforts of all of the good men, women and children have not gone to waste, as the failures of the Brady Campaign over the past several years will show, but I am not aware of a single victim disarmament law on the federal level that has been whole-heartedly and completely repealed. Speech is more dangerous than ever. Not even B.J. Clinton could as openly and impudently crush dissent by admitting to extra-judicial imprisonment coupled with abuse in secret torture centers. Every single time you speak on a telephone, you invite government agents into your home, and every website you visit can be documented and double-checked. Government has swollen like a cancer, and a good portion of the American population (probably all of the people reading this!) now finds itself on "watch-lists."
So to start my questionswhat do we do, and what have we been doing wrong?
I am an outspoken and unabashed fan of L. Neil Smith's writings and ideas, and I feel strongly about the strategy he outlined when promoting Bill of Rights Enforcement. But, as always, the skeptic in me asks (rather loudly), "Will this work?"
The Bill of Rights has been codified as law for just about two-hundred-and-seventeen years. For two-hundred-and-sixteen years, we've been ignoring it. Why would that change now?
The syndicate now ignoring the Bill of Rights will not tolerate any attempt from within to force compliance. They have as many ways to terminate dissent as we have dissenters, up to and including assassination. Who would run for office with that sword of Damocles looming over their head?
The people, too, may not support it. The majority support gun control, and you'd be pressed to find a single person willing to back the right of the Stormfront and Ku Klux Klowns to spew their venom (before the point of condoning violence). Believe it or not, there are groups which style themselves "anti-fascists" who start violent confrontations at racist rallies! They are anti-fascists only so far as they are fascists from the other side.
So, we find ourselves facing tremendous problems, and yet I come to you with a message of hope. To borrow a term from the fascists, liberty needs a "five-year plan." I ask every reader to come to my brand-new forum, found at http://libertyplan.freeforums.org/index.php, and contribute specific ideas. We must set a long-term, five-year target, with annual milestones, and we must establish a step-by-step framework, specific in its methods and goals. Constant reassessment and revision, coupled with the tireless effort our group is famous for, could bring us greater success than even the greatest optimists among us can imagine.
Through fundraisers, multimedia, membership drives, and the dozens of other methods that led to the Ron Paul Revolution's great success, we can access the liberty culture and continue its growth. There are many organizations working towards that important goal, and their success is tied with our own. But in addition, we must begin to start putting our resources towards making the change we want to see. We must repeal the laws. We must impeach the liars. We must legalize the Bill of Rights.
As a bitter analogy, the Twin Towers took seven years to build. They stood for twenty-eight. The criminals felled them in about ten seconds. So, too, can we turn the tables on them and destroy their ivory towers in less time than we suspect.
But we have to start now.
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Everyone knows the story about the two old men in a retirement home. The first one complains that, "the food here is poison." His friend agrees with him then adds, "and the portions are so small."
We have been getting this story the last several years in assessments of the labor market. The economy remains far below full employment by every measure. The employment to population ratio is still more than 4 percentage points below its pre-recession level. We are almost 9 million jobs below trend levels. In addition, many have pointed out that a disproportionate number of the jobs that have been created have been low-paying jobs in sectors like hotels and restaurants.
Some analysts have picked up on the latter point to argue there has been a fundamental change in the economy. They claim we are moving to an economy that produces high-paying jobs for highly skilled people (e.g. doctors, lawyers, financial engineers) and bad jobs for everyone else. I have beaten up on this one elsewhere. (The trick for doctors and lawyers is protectionism not skills.)
However there is no dispute that bad jobs seem to be growing rapidly as a share of employment at present. The question is why. An alternative explanation to the "it just happens" view is that the weak economy itself is responsible for the proliferation of bad jobs. In other words, because the economy is not generating decent jobs in any reasonable number, workers are forced to take bad jobs. In that story the proliferation of bad jobs is the direct result of a weak economy.
I did a very crude test of this story. I regressed the rise in the share of hotel and restuarant employment from 2007 to the first half of 2013, across states, against their unemployment rate in July of 2013. Here's the picture.
While far from conclusive, this looks like pretty good support for the bad labor markets lead to bad jobs story. (For regression fans, the coefficient of the unemployment rate variable was 0.0013 with a t-statistic of 4.65, which is significant at the 1 percent level.) There are of course other reasons than the lack of good jobs that could cause the share of restaurant employment to grow more in states with high unemployment.
For example, if we believe that the rate of growth of restaurant employment is more or less fixed, then states with weak overall job growth would see a rising share of restaurant work. But the substatantial variation in the growth rate of restuarant employment across states would make this story less credible.
Anyhow, I wouldn't claim this simple test seals the case, but it strongly suggest that the story of bad jobs is the story of weak labor markets. In this story the food is poison because the portions are small.


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A bad storm came through the neighborhood and had an effect on a lot of the houses that were in the area. Some people had their roof torn off, while others had their windows cracked or broken. On my home, the windows were fine for the most part, except for the plantation shutters. Somehow they were ruined and I had to get new ones to replace them. I looked around on the Internet to find some good deals from some companies, and was able to find a website that had one of the best deals for shutters online. I contacted them and asked them if they could come within the week to put some shutters on my windows.…
Treating Your Dog Like Family
There are many people today who have pets that they think of as their own flesh and blood and one of their own family members. Pets are more than just a pet; they are a companion, a best friend and a family member. There are many people who love their pets enough to treat them as they would treat any other human being. Animals should be treated with respect and courtesy, just like we do for another human being. Animals feel physical pain, emotional pain and experience emotions just like humans. There is no reason at all that animals should be treated any differently. The only difference is they cannot communicate the same way that humans do. That doesn't mean we cannot show them the respect they deserve. Dogs need their own space just as humans do, a place they can call their own home.
According to ASPCA.org, about 44 percent of households in the United States own a dog in their home. It's estimated that there are about 78 million dog owners in the United States alone. Many people have also adopted dogs in order to help care for them. There are many dogs that end up going to the shelter every year due to abuse or abandonment from human beings. Animals have gone through a lot of distress by not being able to have independence. Human beings willingly take these animals and decide whether or not they are going to make them their pet or not. No animal truly has a say-so in what is going to be decided of their fate. It is humans who has the advantage. Due to this issue, it is important that people do what they can do treat their dogs equally and provide a home they can call their own.
There are many things that humans can do for their pets to make their pets happy and feel comfortable at their homes. One of them is making sure that pets are truly happy in their environment. According to Moderndogmagazine.com, dogs have the same hormone oxytocin that humans do, which is responsible for emotional states such as feeling love and affection for others. There has been studies that dogs feel what humans can feel in the emotional states. Therefore, giving your dog their own space in their own home will help to make your pet more comfortable and happy in their environment. There are many quality dog kennels available on the market that you can have specially customized, just for you dog. Your dog will have their own space to run in and out of, run inside if they get cold, and just a comfortable place they can freely roam and call their own.
Take the time to help your dog reach ultimate happiness and comfortability by thinking about what is best for them. What all pets want is freedom and independence, just as humans do. Give your dog a place that they can feel proud of.
What is sustainable flooring?
Being environmentally aware is becoming more and more important on both a national and local level. As a nation we have mostly mastered recycling, take heed of Fair Trade labels and look for energy efficiency household items when we can.
In this article we take a look at how choosing the right flooring with the environment in mind is a good choice for both your interior design and the planet.
Laminate flooring
Laminate flooring is both sustainable and stylish. Made up of leftovers, like woodchip and sawdust, from timber yards, this makes laminate flooring very sustainable, meaning it helps to ensure such leftover materials don't go to waste.
Engineered flooring
This flooring is made up of a top layer of hardwood with a softwood layer, combining the benefits of real hardwood with slower growing trees.
Stone floors
Although the mining, cutting and transportation of stone makes it not the most eco-friendly of products, it is natural and well lasting. Such longevity makes it environmentally conscious.
Rubber floors
Rubber floors are a good choice for bathrooms – have a look at https://www.woodfloorwarehouse.co.uk/engineered-flooring.html, as they are waterproof and durable. Rubber from old tyres is recyclable and is well used in gyms and playgrounds.
Natural flooring
There are so many natural floor coverings to choose from, including jute, sisal, coir and seagrass. Made from natural fibres they are stylish at the same time as being durable with great staying power. They come in a whole host of weaving patterns and grades with woven carpets benefitting from an underlay, adding extra comfort and support. Many new styles are impressively made from 80 percent recycled rubber and felt with the packaging also 100 percent recyclable.
Hardwood floors
A hardwood floor can match virtually any style in any home, including rustic, modern, classic and contemporary. It's worth remembering, though, that the hardwood should be responsibly sourced. Look for FSC certifications, a worldwide organisation that ensures forestry products are sustainable at every level.
The real beauty of hardwood floors is that they can be cared for and renovated over a long period of time. Hardwood floors can also be stained, resulting in a change of ambience in the room and, importantly and sustainably, not requiring a whole re-flooring project, which offsets the ecological cost of the creation of new wooden planks.…
Check Washing machine price, compare and then make a proper choice
It is a typical Indian consumer tendency that whenever we are buying a product – big or small, cheap or expensive – we automatically look at the price and then try our hand at bargaining if we are meeting the seller face to face or browse through various online channels and websites if we are shopping online. At least with 90% of us this is the case. Even if we have done our research previously and have budgeted accordingly for the purchase, still one last attempt before the final deal is something that we all love doing. Same is the case with washing machine price.
We know we want a particular model from a particular brand or we are at least sure of the model type –whether fully automatic washing machineor thesemi automatic washing machine – but before making the final payment we tend to find out more about price deals, discounts, cash backs, freebies, exchange offers, return policies, refund policies and other such other varied deals. In a huge economy like India there are several sellers of washing machines. From the leading brands to the local one, one gets a wide range of choice at varied washing machine price points to buy the machine. If money is not a major issue, then it is better to go with the branded ones and for those who have budgetary constraint, going in for a locally made machine with a warranty of 6 months to one year is good enough.
While wanting to bring home the best washing machine in India, one has a choice between:
- The fully automatic machine and the semi-automatic one – in the case of the former, the machine is programmed such that it can handle all functions from washing to cleaning to drying without any human intervention. Only the laundry has to be loaded into the machine and the machine switched on. In the latter case, however, there is need of manual monitoring. Loading the laundry, switching on the washer in the first half and then transferring washed clothes to the dryer – all this has to be done by man.
- There is also a choice between front loading and top loading – both these types are available in the fully automatic range but the semi automatic range has only the top loading types. The front loading machine is more efficient vis-à-vis the top loader though the space required by the former is more as compared to the latter. Maintenance pertaining to the front loader is time-taking and complex whereas for the top loader maintenance is an easier task. Another important feature is that removing the clothes from the top loading machine is simpler compared to the front loading one.
Check different models of washing machine online for more information on features and technicalities. On the price chart, the semi automatic models are the cheapest and most affordable. The washing machine prices for the top loading fully automatic machines are medium priced whereas the …
Tips in Improving Your Home Interior
Inside the society these days, you can find a lot of houses designed with amazing interior layouts and decorations. Everywhere on earth includes its unique sort of personality and trend. So every individual has its own, own fantasy house far too. For the explanation, folks carry on bettering their dwelling interior design to become upgraded for the most recent style tendencies in the city. Household interior may be high priced based on your preference and price range. Make sure you may think of a few essential considerations if you intend to advance your house interior along with your decorations.
You'll find various characters in most places on earth. They personality contributes to distinct preferences as soon as it regards designs and style considering dwelling decorating and interior reflects types characteristics and nature. Like a homeowner, then you also are going to feel far more comfortable and safe if the spot was created depending on your will. Getting comfortable in your home could be your most significant item which the house could present. Resting peacefully and comfortably won't ever take the position in a household maybe perhaps not medicated nicely with love and attention. Consistently assess the access distance when accomplishing a few developments. Just lately, property colors and wall decor will be increasingly being utilized more frequently than You'll find several different sorts of colors like the typical, modern, etc., You'll find many dwelling accents out there on the marketplace which is sure to match into an own wall coloration. You may discover different selling price in most thing for those who are going to do retail store jumping.
In preparation advancement of one's home interior design, always recognize the arrangement of one's dwelling o its going to likely be less painful that you observe the place which is feasible to alter that an advancement. Select layouts and fashions which can be appropriate for this topic of one's home. Make sure everything will match with one another in your home. Usually, do not damage your own formerly made central planning. The appropriate manner of bettering an interior will likely continually Bring beauty and enhancement for your property. You may decide on particular notions which were devised on thoughts, or you may consult with internet websites with distinct interior enhancements notions. This can enable you to expand your alternatives and picking out for that who exactly is perfect for the cherished residence.
Think entirely until you may expend your own money. Household interior advancement isn't just an easy endeavor to-do especially when it will involve a few builders, architects and contractors. Understand that your financial plan all of the moment. Never transcend to this allocated price range you put. If you're uncertain of one's actions, don't hesitate to consult your family members and good friends who experienced dwelling internal progress. Searching with all the assistance of one's builder would be an optimal/optimally option way too. Never spend the potential of accomplishing shifting any such thing from our inner of your maybe…
How to Pack Your Belongings Efficiently?
We have all been there. Spin around for hours and waste time putting smaller boxes in bigger boxes, bigger boxes in bigger boxes, and so on. with a collection of cardboard salvaged from the local supermarket.
So Here Are Some Good Tips for Packing Well.
Packing smartly means efficiently and packing efficiently will save you a lot of time during the move but also when moving in.
So think about it. You should pick up your boxes a month or two months before you start packing your stuff. And take a lot of boxes. Indeed, it is better to have more than not enough.
Then try to assign your items via a simple list. So when you start packing your stuff, you'll know exactly where things are going.
Buy the Necessary Accessories for Your Move
Buy big markers but not markers of all colours, blacks will suffice. Buy bubble wrap, several rolls of scotch tape and a pair of sharp scissors and collect old newspapers (beware the ink can be left on fine porcelain).
If you have kept them, use the original packaging for small electronics. Otherwise, the bubble wrap will do the trick as well as to protect your dishes, your valuables and the picture frames of your mother-in-law! You can also use towels and blankets to further protect very fragile items.
Make lists
Make a list of each item you put in boxes and attach these lists on top of the boxes. Put "now" on the boxes you need when you arrive at your new address.
Make sure these boxes are taken last by the movers for easy access.
The furniture removalists in Sydney will be your best friends from the moment they take your business to the moment they bring your belongings to your new home. That's why it's best to organise everything before they arrive.
Smart packaging is simply preparing your boxes. It is, really tedious, but it will be of great help to you.…
How Can I Use Hexagon Tiles?
As you probably know by now, geometric shapes are super trendy in interior design. Tiles are one of the examples where geometric designs are very successful. Specifically, hexagon tiles are one of the latest trends when it comes to geometric tiles. Whether you are doing a makeover or you a moving to a new house, hexagon tiles are an excellent way to make a statement. If you are wondering how you could use hexagon tiles, Tile Monkey are here to give you some ideas.
Fluidity For Walls and Floors
One of the possibilities you have when it comes to hexagon tiles is to use them on walls and floors. This works especially well for bathrooms. Hexagon tiles help to make the room look longer, so by using them on walls and floors you ensure continuity and fluidity in the design. As a result, if you do this in a small bathroom you will make it look larger. If you want to accentuate this further, you should go for light glossy tiles as they will help to bounce the light. Another possibility is to combine bold hexagon tiles with more neutrally coloured tiles for a stand out effect.
What about creating a focal point and therefore balancing sobriety and keeping it simple? You can do that by creating a feature wall made of hexagon tiles to create a distraction from the small size of your bathroom. Instead, you will focus all your attention on the beautiful tiles. This also will accentuate the colour you have chosen for this unique wall. This also helps keep a room simple because by creating the feature wall you don't need to add much more to the bathroom. Why not try it in your kitchen too?
Combining Shapes
As we have previously mentioned, geometric tiles are a must. So a great idea is to mix hexagonal tiles with other shapes. See for example your bathroom wall tiles; what about using square tiles and then adding some hexagonal tiles? This add uniqueness and at the same time keeps it simple. You can also create patterns thanks to the combination, for example a zigzag shape. This has to be done with precaution though, as too much pattern will make the room look busy and chaotic.
Mix and Match of Materials
Why not try combining hexagonal tiles with wood? If done well, mixing different textures can make your place look stunning while also creating a statement. This concept is perfect if you like the rustic look. You can do it in the dining room, for example, by adding some hexagonal tiles on the floor, or though the incorporation of a backsplash in the kitchen. Combining textures like this can be a great way to create contrast between old and new, or vintage and contemporary.
So there you have it – some easy ways to use hexagon tiles and make your house look gorgeous!…
How to Prepare for Spring Cleaning
People who live in condos in Ottawa know how cold the winter can be in the Canadian capital. But eventually spring rears its pretty head, and that signals the time for spring cleaning.
Here are some tips to remember:
Organize Your Home
Even before spring arrives, you have to do some organizing so that the task won't overwhelm you. You'll find it much easier to begin your spring cleaning if everything in your home is habitually placed in its proper place. You can't just place your stuff wherever you want. Each item should have its own place. This may mean that you need to upgrade your storage solutions.
At least by the time spring arrives you won't be dealing with a messy home anymore.
Prepare Your Cleaning Supplies
It can be disheartening to finally find the determination to begin your spring cleaning, only to discover that you don't have all the needed cleaning supplies. While it's still winter, you can go online and find deals for rubber gloves, frags, sponges, and cleaning solutions. Check that your mop and vacuum cleaner are in top working conditions.
Not everything that's in your condo needs to stay. You may have items—probably lots of them—that will need to be thrown out or given away. You can start with your closet, and then check all your storage compartments for items you don't need.
Starting with your closet is always a good idea. You probably have clothes that you haven't touched in a year or more. Other items here may no longer fit you. They may even be out of fashion already. You can then either sell these items, or give them away to friends and charity organizations.
During the winter, you can place these clothes that you plan to get rid of in a bag separate from your closet. That gives you a few days to get used to not having these items. At least when you miss some of them terribly, you can still put them back in your closet.
The same goes for other items in your unit. Just separate what you may have to get rid of in the spring. When you find that you don't miss them, you can get rid of them more easily come spring cleaning time.
Set a Date
You can't just start your spring cleaning whenever you want. If you're like most people, there's a great temptation to keep putting it off. And eventually, it won't get done at all.
So you should be serious and set a date over the weekend when you need to begin and do the work. Mark the days on your calendar, and even set the time to start. By setting a schedule, you're more like to stick with the plan.
In fact, you can set a schedule with an app so you don't forget because of the alarm. Some apps can let you schedule 5-minute breaks after every half hour or so, which can help you from getting too tired. …
Decorating Trends for Luxury Residences for 2018
Interior design is like fashion and art; it's ruled by current trends. Of course, if you ownluxury residences you have the right to decorate your home as you see fit. However, you may want to invest in proper interior decorating if you wish to make a good impression on guests. It's even more important if you're planning to sell your property in the near future.
So what's "in" these days? If you want to ride the leading edge of home decorating style, consider the following trends:
Numerous experts agree that this is perhaps the most prevalent trend for 2018. The use of bronze, copper, and other finishes is a familiar sight in many luxury homes and condos today.
Its popularity is due to how metallic colors can easily catch the eye, and it harkens back to earlier eras when such metals were much in vogue. Part of the reason for how many affluent people are drawn to this trend is that it's because it can be challenging to use different metals to end up with a delicate balance. When you succeed, you demonstrate your inherent good taste.
It's best that you don't overdo things with metallic finishes, as these work best when they're subtle and understated. You can go with metal lamps and vases, along with bronze or brass door handles. Just go with a little bit of metal here and there.
Geometric Patterns
Like metals, you really don't want to go overboard with geometric patterns either. But these patterns are great, simply because there's an overwhelmingly wide range of geometric patterns to choose from. It's a great way to showcase your real personality.
So, if you want you can go with subtle and simply use several classy patterned cushions to increase the elegance of a room somewhat. Or you can use black and white patterns in a more dramatic way to express your bold personality.
Going with Greenery
In today's world there's a lot of concern over the environment, and many modern city dwellers bewail the lack of natural items in the home. That's especially true for condo's which can sometimes look overly sterile if you're not careful.
Now if you have a home with a yard then you can perhaps start a nice garden for yourself. You can put some chairs and tables there and have some outdoor space to relax in.
But even in a penthouse apartment you can bring to your place the tranquility that a garden offers. You can always start with a few plants with lots of leaves in a few spots, so that your condo unit doesn't look too industrial and artificial.
Natural Colors
Even if you're not a fan of plants and natural greenery, you can opt for natural colors to enjoy a similar outdoor vibe. You can use natural colors on your walls, and in fact, there's now a color called "Greenery" (a sort of yellow-green mix) that was hailed as the color of the …
6 Ways to Save Energy During Spring
The weather is getting warmer; it's time to pull out the grill, call the pool cleaner back, and get those gardening tools out of the basement. It's spring! But spring also means it's time to look at how you can save the most energy and the most money.
Many Ways to Save
A lot of people can tolerate cold weather better than hot weather, which means, as the weather gets warmer and warmer, it will become increasingly difficult to fight the impulse to turn on the air conditioning and leave it on for hours. Fortunately, there are several things you can do to help keep your home cool without running up your energy bill.
- Take it easy on the thermostat:
- Set the temperature as high as you can while still being comfortable. The smaller the difference between the indoor and outdoor temperatures, the lower your bill will be.
- Keep the house warmer than usual when you are away, cool when you get home. Set "Away" and "Home" temperatures easily with a programmable thermostat.
- Keep in mind: Your house will not cool any faster if you set the thermostat to a colder temperature than usual. In fact, this will likely result in unnecessary expense and excessive strain on the cooling system.
- Prevent heat from getting in through the windows by installing window coverings such as blinds (interior and/or exterior), awnings, high-reflective films, draperies, shades, insulated panels, and shutters.
- If you live in an area where it cools off at night, turn of your air conditioning and open your windows while you sleep. When you wake up, shut the windows and blinds to keep the cool air in, unless there's still a cool breeze. You can still get some good cool air into the house in the early morning before the sun starts hitting your house/yard.
- By using your ceiling fans in combination with air conditioning, you can actually set the thermostat four degrees higher but remember that fans cool people, not rooms. If you leave a room, turn off the fan.
- Turn on your bathroom fan when taking a shower or bath to remove the humidity and heat.
- Your water heater uses 18 percent of your home's energy-use. Turn the temperature down to 120 degrees F.
- Using the oven on hot days will make the house warmer and subsequently more difficult to cool. Stick to the stove, microwave, or grill outside.
- Minimize using a computer or TV, running the dishwasher, or using hot devices like hair dryers.
- Install efficient lighting that doesn't release much heat.
- Seal cracks to keep warm out from leaking into the house.
- Add weatherstripping or caulk to seal leaky windows and doors.


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I was 16 years old when I got pregnant. I'm 32
now but I still think about it from time to time. I was afraid to tell
my parents, and I hid my pregnancy from them four to five months. I figured if
I had the baby secretly they wouldn't never know. No one knew I was pregnant not
even my best friend. I tried to tell her but I don't think she took me serious,
so I kept it to myself. The young man whom I was pregnant by was the
only one who knew and he wanted me to have the child, but I knew that would be
a big disappointment to my parents. My parents didn't attend college they both
were working class people and of course they wanted the best for me. They wanted
me to attend college and find a great job and when I'm ready then start my own
family. One day I was laying in bed trying to put this pregnancy in
denial. I really tried to figure out if I was pregnant or was it in my head (maybe
it was a bad case of gas or something). But, one day I was laying in bed when
I felt the baby move. I freaked out. Then I realized I needed to go to the doctor.
The next morning my mother was getting ready to go shopping with my
aunts, she usually meet them downtown on Saturday morning. I heard her get ready
and I came out of my room standing there with my robe on. In the state of Michigan
you needed your parent to be with you if you were a minor to accompany you to
see a doctor. I asked my mother could she take me to see a doctor, she looked
strangely at me and she agreed to take me Monday morning. Monday morning
we go to the doctor's office and wait to be called. The moment of truth, I'll
know if I'm really pregnant or if it's really a bad case of gas. (I hope it's
gas). The doctor asked me to undress and put on this hospital gown. She then touch
my stomach and listen to my stomach with her instrument. Well, she said your pregnant.
I freaked. I screamed at her and called her a liar. She tried to calm me down
and explained that it's ok, but I didn't want to hear it. She left the room while
I got dressed. I wanted to be out of the clinic before she arrived back. I wanted
to tell my mother a lie, that nothing was wrong, it's just gas, but the doctor
caught me and asked to speak to my mother in the waiting room. She took me to
her office that was right next door to the examine room I just left from. We all
sat down, she asked me do you want to tell your mother or do you want me to tell
your mom. I just cried, so she told my mother I was pregnant. My mother
didn't look or sound surprised at all, the only thing my mother said was "you
know I figured that, because of her eating habits and her stomach was getting
larger." The doctor told my mother I was 22 weeks pregnant. I think 5 months.
I interrupted and said I wanted a abortion. My mother looked at me and was very
calm, she didn't yell or showed any sign of anger. She asked me if I get an abortion
- she don't want me to blame her for it. She then asked me are you sure this is
what you want, because there is no turning back. I said yes I'm sure, and the
doctor made the arrangements and I went to the hospital to have the abortion.
I was the youngest on the floor. Women from all nationalities were there
having abortions (the same kind of course, I forgot what they called it) much
older than me. The nurses on the floor were very nice and they even had a counselor
who helped all the ladies to understand the procedure that was going to occur
through the night. She was a kind women. She used a cane to get around she took
special interest in me; I don't know why but I'm was grateful. She visited my
room often she asked me what was my plans for the future, sat with me. She very
helpful and gentle with me and I really needed that. I had to deliver
the baby as if I was 9 months. The baby was born dead. I delivered that next morning
around 5 am. (They had to injected me with something that induce my labor and
to kill the baby). The injection took place 30 minutes after arriving to the hospital.
I mean it was an experience I will never forget. I went through the whole labor
pain and delivery. When it was time to have the baby they wouldn't allow me to
look at the baby, I want to see although I know the baby was dead I just wanted
to see. They kept turning my head away and every time I wanted to turn my head
in the direction of the dead Infant they would force my head the opposite direction.
My parents and I never talked about it or brought it up again. No one
knew, it was like a family taboo. My parents didn't react the way I expected,
they were like a best friend, surprising. Since that experience I never
been pregnant again or even close. When I'm ready maybe, but not until then. I
don't regret for one day having this abortion. I 'm glad it was available for
me to have especially at 5 months pregnant.
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Oh dear, running a little late today...much like the rest of the week really.
I haven't even done the food shop yet! Have been feeding the family morsels from the pantry.
I knew I was scraping the bottom of the barrel last night when I served up rice.
with soy sauce
sadly, the kids were delighted.
So...composing an on-line order as I type.
Here is this weeks menu, beginning today, rather than Tuesday.
The kids and DH loved the sausage casserole from last week so it features again. It's a win win kinda dish because I can throw in as many veges as will fit, selectively give acceptable vegetables to all the kidletts, avoid the sausage myself and eat the rest. Win.
Thursday - Conveniently pizza with family!
Friday - Sausage & Vegetable Casserole
Saturday - Easy-Peasy Black Bean Burgers courtesy of our very own Emily Levenson
Sunday - Home made pizza
Monday - Everyday Red Lentil Dahl
...off to finish the shopping, will check back later with costings.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
The Ethanol Scam
I've said — over and over — that ethanol is nothing but a giant scam to enrich a few people at the expense of the planet and the rest of us. Ethanol is not environmentally friendly, and it won't replace oil (nothing can replace oil). Those who need more convincing can check out this article.


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2 Year Fixed Term Contract / Secondment
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MIAMI — Stephen Southerland, the only surviving son of the courageous, cancer- stalked Southerland family, collapsed Tuesday on a Miami baseball field. The medical diagnosis Wednesday: brain tumor.
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Welcome to the British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society Website. The BMFMS aims to provide a forum where issues of relevance to Obstetricians and other professionals involved in pregnancy care are discussed.
In particular, the Society seeks to:
The ultimate goal is to encourage improved standards of pregnancy care. The BMFMS provides a Maternal and Fetal Medicine input to a variety of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) committees and has been involved in the development of the new ATSMs.
The Society makes representation to other Colleges and other national bodies/organisations when appropriate.
If you would like to apply to become a member of the BMFMS or renew your application if you do not pay by standing order please fill out the membership form and send to the Society Coordinator details below.
For any enquiry regarding the society, please contact our Society Coordinator:
27 Sussex Place
Regent's Park
email: firstname.lastname@example.com
The BMFMS aims to improve the standard of pregnancy care by dissemination knowledge, promoting and funding research, contributing to the development and implementation of high quality training, and providing a forum where issues relevant to pregnancy care are discussed.
The ultimate goal is to encourage improved standards of pregnancy care. The BMFMS provides a Maternal and Fetal Medicine input to relevant Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) committees and provides advice on Maternal and Fetal Medicine training to the RCOG. The BMFMS also makes representation to other Colleges and other national bodies/organisations when appropriate.
The Society also aims to develop links to other similar societies based in different geographical locations.
BMFMS is a registered charity in England and Wales (No 1145101)
Dear BMFMS member,
This is just a short note to introduce myself. I did plan to wait a little while before sending this but as it took precisely 35 minutes for me to get my first email as President with a request for help I thought I would take the opportunity now.
I'm just back from Amsterdam where we have just held arguably our most successful conference to date and I hope that all who attended enjoyed it as much as I did. To all those involved in its planning, preparation and delivery I would extend a huge thank you. We should also recognise the contribution from the speakers, poster presenters and delegates, without your work and dedication to high quality research and clinical care we would have no conference to attend and the questions, debate and discussion would have been neither informative nor entertaining.
As an early plug can I ask you all to "save the date" for next year's conference which will be in Brighton on 19th - 20th April 2018 at the Hilton Brighton Metropole. There will be more detail to follow but I know the pressure can be on to book early so this is an early heads-up.
I expect the next 3 years to be a challenging time for maternity and obstetric services of all shapes and sizes. Our society is increasingly asked for its opinion and view on matters both clinical and organisational and so please feel free to get involved and watch the web site for opportunities to help and support the society with some of the work we will have to complete. You may be interested in joining the Committee and there will be several opportunities to do this over the next 12 months as we have new elections for officers and speciality representatives, but we will also be looking for the support of other individuals who may be ideally placed to respond to questions for the society in their specialist areas.
Finally it would be remiss of me not to thank Tim Overton the outgoing President for the great job he has done for the past 3 years. The challenge for each President is to try to leave the Society in a healthier position than they inherited it in. Tim has certainly done this and can be proud of the societies achievements over the past 3 years which have culminated in the fantastic conference we have just held in Amsterdam.
I'm sure you will all join me in thanking him on behalf of the society for his considerable time, effort and commitment in the role.
So thanks for voting me in, I'm looking forward to the challenge and see you all in Brighton !!
Best wishes,
The Society
The Society shall be known as the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society.
Hereafter in the document it will be referred to as "The Society".
The Society aims to provide a forum where issues of relevance to Obstetricians and other professionals involved in maternity care are discussed. In particular, the Society seeks to
• Disseminate knowledge
• Promote research and audit
• Establish good quality training programmes
• Encourage development of clinical guidelines.
The ultimate goal is to encourage improved standards of maternity care.
The Society will provide a Maternal and Fetal Medicine input to the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) including advice on training in obstetrics and special interest / subspecialty training in Maternal and Fetal Medicine. The Society will also make representation to other Colleges and national bodies when appropriate, including providing relevant stakeholder feedback on relevant national documents and guidance.
The Society will develop links to other relevant professional societies with the aim of disseminating knowledge and improving standards of care for pregnant women.
Membership is open to any professional involved in maternity care. There will be no limit to the size of membership. To become a member, a completed application form must be submitted to the Society's Coordinator, along with the appropriate annual subscription fee. Subscription rates are set by the Society and revised periodically. Concessionary membership rates will be available for midwives and non-clinicians. Continued membership involves the payment of the annual subscription fee. Membership will be terminated if there is failure to pay the annual subscription. The Committee has the right to terminate membership under exceptional circumstances.
Society Officers and Committee structure
Roles of Officers
The President will:
• Be the principal spokesperson for the Society
• Be the named stakeholder when the Society registers involvement in discussions with other Societies or national bodies
• Chair the Committee meetings
• Chair the Annual General Meeting
• Be responsible for the accuracy of the minutes of meetings.
The Secretary will:
• Be responsible for coordinating the activities of the Committee
• Be responsible for the production of the minutes of the Committee and Annual General Meetings
• Collaborate closely with the appointed Conference Organiser
• Act as deputy to the President in terms of representing the Society at relevant meetings.
The Treasurer will:
• Be responsible for the Society's finances and producing an annual audit of accounts at the Annual General Meetings.
• Advise the Committee about financial issues eg when subscription rates need to be raised
• Advise about the registration fee or any surcharge necessary for Annual Meetings of the Society, to ensure that these Meetings do not run at a financial loss and generate some income for the Society
The Committee will comprise of 23 members, drawn wherever possible from England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.
Appointment of Committee Members
1. Notification of vacancies or new appointments to the committee will be circulated to Society members (by email or web posting).
2. Candidates, with their agreement, must be nominated by 2 Society members (by postal or e-mail return of signed nomination paper)
3. A voting paper with details of candidates will be circulated (by email or web posting).
4. Votes will be registered by return of a signed ballot paper to the BMFMS office or by web based voting.
5. Members can only vote once for each vacancy advertised.
The Society's Officers and Committee members will be elected by the membership of the Society for a term of three years. The President may not be re-elected, but other Officers and Committee members may be re-elected once for a second three-year term. A willing person can serve a third term, if no other candidates come forward for election. The Committee reserves the right to allow flexibility in the timing of appointments, to ensure continuity within the Committees. It is anticipated that no more than four committee members will change in one year.
Committee Membership:
• President
• Honorary Secretary
• Treasurer
• Scientific representative
• Trainee representative x2
• District General Hospital representative x2
• Abstract Co-ordinator
• Prize Co-ordinator
• Maternal Medicine representative x 2
• Labour & Delivery representative x 2
• Pregnancy Outcome representative x 2
• Fetal Medicine representative x2
• Education and Training representative
In addition, there may be up to four ex officio members:
• The outgoing President
• Representative of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM)
• Representative of the British Association of Perinatal Medicine (BAPM)
• Website co-ordinator
• Technology co-ordinator
The outgoing President will be an ex-officio member for a period of one year only, to allow a smooth transition period. Ex-officio members representing the RCM and BAPM will be elected by their respective organisations for a period of three years but may be re-elected once for a second three-year term. The appointment of other ex-officio members is at the discretion of the Committee. Such appointments will usually be for a period of three years.
In addition to the above a representative of the Conference Organiser may be invited to attend Committee Meetings where appropriate.
12 out of 23 members, with at least 2 officers, would be quorate.
The Committee will meet at least twice during the year, as necessary to fulfil its functions. The functions of the Committee will be as follows:
• Development of Maternal and Fetal Medicine special interest and subspecialty training
• Identification / provision of BMFMS representatives for RCOG and other relevant national committees
• Organisation of the Annual Meeting of the Society
• Organisation of joint meetings with other Societies /Groups.
Working Groups
The Executive Committee may draw up small Working Groups, usually chaired by a Committee Member, where an issue is identified needing consultation and discussion. Members of these Groups will be co-opted from the Society's wider membership. These Groups will report to the Committee and their continued existence will be reviewed on an annual basis.
Society Coordinator
The Society will employ a Coordinator whose functions will be:
• Keeping a full and up-to-date membership list
• Collecting the annual subscriptions
• Deal with the day to day financial matters pertaining to the Society
• Keeping a permanent record of the Minutes of all Society Meetings
• Keeping on file copies of all correspondence relevant to the Society, including Committee minutes.
• Communicating with the Society's members via mail, website posting or email when there are items of news to be disseminated from the Officers or Committees, or where the members' views need to be canvassed about a subject.
• In liaison with the Website Coordinator, maintaining an up-to-date Society website, in liaison with any persons or company employed for that purpose
The Society Coordinator will usually be present at Committee meetings.
Conference Organisers
The Committee will appoint Conference Organisers to deal with the practical arrangements of their Annual Meeting (selecting conference venues, negotiating rates of hire, identifying suitable accommodation, publicity, registration, trade exhibitions etc). The Committee will review contracts periodically.
The Conference Organisers will participate in parts of Committee meetings relevant to Conference Organisation and take minutes accordingly.
Change in Constitution
1. Any change in the Constitution must be proposed at least two months in advance of the Annual General Meeting to the Committee and have a "seconder" who must also be a Member of the Society.
2. The decision on the proposal will be on the basis of a straight majority vote of those attending the Annual General Meeting.
3. These amendments to the Constitution were agreed by vote at the AGM in April 2016.
Prepared by David James
Emeritus Professor of Fetomatermal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham
In the early 1990's obstetricians were becoming less involved in the management of normal ('low risk') pregnancies where the majority, if not all, care was provided by midwives in the community. In contrast there were many developments in screening, diagnosis and management in problem ('at risk') pregnancies that obstetricians had to assimilate into their practice.
With this background in 1994, a questionnaire survey was undertaken of all Members and Fellows of the RCOG to explore the support for a new Society which would provide a forum where the above issues of relevance to obstetricians and related health professionals could be discussed. The survey had an 80% response rate and over 90% of the responders supported the concept. Thus, the British Maternal and Fetal Medicine Society was born.
First meeting
The planning for the inaugural meeting took place via a series of meetings in my office in the Queen's Medical Centre during 1995 and early 1996. The first organising committee comprised people whom I knew and whom I could persuade to get involved. They were Bryan Beattie (Cardiff), John Grant (Belshill), Ian Greer (Glasgow), Mary Pillai and Peter Soothill (Bristol), Steve Robson (Newcastle), Charles Rodeck and Phil Steer (London), David Taylor (Leicester), Steve Walkinshaw (Liverpool) and myself. One of the wisest parts of the planning was to appoint Bell Howe Conferences as the Conference Organiser. Diana Bell in particular was very helpful in guiding us and she was a loyal supporter of the Society in its early days including taking the Minutes at meetings both of the Organising Committee and the Annual General Meeting of the Society itself.
The first meeting took place at Warwick University on 18-19th April1996. There were approximately 250 delegates and our first Keynote Speakers were Prof Surla Eik Nes, Dr Neil Marlow, Prof Ingemar Ingemarsson and Prof Baha Sibai. The meeting was a huge success and there was massive support for the Society and the annual meetings to continue. Positive features included:
Second meeting
With the endorsement of the delegates at the Inaugural meeting, we planned a second meeting for 1997. The organising Committee made a number of changes on the basis of suggestions from the 1996 delegates.
The second meeting of BMFMS took place on 20th and 21st March 1997, again at Warwick University. The attendance was even better than 1996 with nearly 300 delegates. Once more we were able to attract keynote speakers with an international reputation and the second meeting was even more successful with the Society growing its reputation.
The main issues at the AGM were discussions about a Constitution for the Society and the election of Officers. Subsequent to the voting Martin Whittle was elected to be President and Rupert Fawdry was Treasurer. I was elected as the Society's Secretary. A constitution was developed and annual conferences became the norm.
Society Officers over the years
Martin Whittle
|Tim Overton
David James
Rupert Fawdry
Subsequent meetings and Conference Organisers
Conference Organisers : Bell Howe Conferences
|Conference Venue
Conference Organisers : Hampton Medical Conferences
|Conference Venue
The initial overall aim of the Society was to provide an annual forum where professionals interested in management of problem pregnancies could meet, 'network' and learn about the latest clinical and scientific developments.
However, within 2-3 years of its foundation it became clear that the Society wanted to become more involved nationally whilst continuing to work with the RCOG. This led to various important developments in the areas of education and training and formal links with the RCOG such as representation on RCOG Committees; joint meeting organisation; the establishment of our own Office at the College.
There have been successful joint annual meetings with other groups and societies. For several years the Macdonald UK Obstetric Medicine Society held its annual meeting the day preceding BMFMS in order to maximise attendance. More recently we have had combined Perinatal Medicine Meetings in 2008, 2011 and 2014 which have been organised in conjunction with the Neonatal Nurse Association, British Association of Perinatal Medicine and the Neonatal Nurses Society.
In summary, the Society has come a long way and looks set to continue and prosper in the future. The care of high risk pregnancies is in safe hands!
27 Sussex Place, Regent's Park
London, NW1 4RG


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SAP UI5 - Create an empty UI5 Web IDE project
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SAP UI5 - Create an empty UI5 Web IDE project
5 min.
Start working with the Web IDE editor, and create a new empty UI5 Web IDE project
You will learn
- How to create a new, empty, SAP Web IDE project
Web IDE If you don't have the Web IDE open, follow these steps: Enable and open the SAP Cloud Platform Web IDE
Go to your SAP Web IDE.
If you don't have the Web IDE open (or bookmarked), go to the Enable and open the Web IDE instructions and then come back after it is open.
Select File –> New –> Project From Template…
Select the box called SAPUI5 Application, then click Next.
(Leave the Available Versions box on SAPUI5 Innovation).
Fill in the form as follows:
Project Name
Name Space (leave this field blank) Enable native mobile device functionality (unselected)
Click Finish
Your project should now look like this. (Click a folder icon to expand the contents.)
Here is some information on the UI5 folder structure.
Next Steps
- This tutorial is part of a series. The next tutorial is part 2: Set Up the DataSource in the local application


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Hello Friends,
Welcome to Day 1 of the September Release sneak peeks, visit The Alley Way Stamps blog to check out more peeks.
Today, I´m featuring one the new stamp sets that will be released. This set is called "Its my Party".
This set has so many cute images to play with to make perfect birthday cards.
closer view
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McCain Loses It and Flees After 9/11 Truth QuestionsWed Jul 18, 2007 19:01
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Subject: McCain Loses It and Flees After 9/11 Truth Questions
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:46:41 -0500
From: Aaron Dykes firstname.lastname@example.com
McCAIN LOSES IT AND FLEES AFTER 9/11 TRUTH QUESTIONS FOLLOW CAMPAIGN
Senator Refuses Requests for a New Investigation, Claims "Additional
About 9/11 and Leaves Event Irritated and Angry
Aaron Dykes / JonesReport.com | July 18, 2007
Republican presidential candidate John McCain was literally
overwhelmed by reporters from WeAreChange.org and Infowars.com
seeking 9/11 truth during a campaign stop.
McCain, who wrote the forward to Popular Mechanics' Debunking 9/11
Myths, repeatedly told reporters, "I do not support a new
investigation" and stated that he believes the "9/11 Commission did a
good job."
But other reporters continued to hammer the complicit senator with
further questions and demands for a new 9/11 investigation. Seemingly
frustrated that he could not simply brush off 9/11 truthers, McCain
retreated to his SUV where he entertained questions from the
mainstream media only.
Staff members attempted to take away a bullhorn and remove
alternative media from the site, but backed off at warnings not to
assault the reporters or stifle the first amendment.
Reporters cited hundreds of witnesses, including police officers,
firefighters and former janitor William Rodriguez, who all reported
hearing bombs go off in the lower levels of the WTC towers-- accounts
that contradict the basic findings of the 9/11 Commission.
McCain flatly told reporters that he did not support a new
investigation and claimed to have "additional information," stating
that he did not believe there was a cover-up.
If such settling "additional information" indeed exists, John McCain
has an obligation to share it-- though the mere fact that he has
withheld information about 9/11 from the public seems to directly
point to a cover-up.
Reporters also asked McCain about links with Ed Failor of Iowans for
Tax Relief who hosted the recent televised forum for Republican
presidential candidates and expressly left out Congressman Ron Paul.
John McCain admitted that Ed Failor was a paid staff member working
for his campaign.
McCain wrote in Debunking 9/11 Myths, "Blaming some conspiracy within
our government for the horrific attacks of September 11 mars the
memories of all those lost on that day."
Yet when reporters emphasized the fact that it is family members of
9/11 victims who want a new investigation, McCain merely walks away.
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Democratic revolution and the Arab Spring: addressing the myth of permanent revolution in Egypt
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- Published on Wednesday, 17 December 2014
- Written by Sam Charles Hamad
A recent article by the Revolutionary Left Current (RLC), a Trotskyite microsect with some members in Syria and abroad, entitled 'The revolutionary left processes caught in the grip of reactionary forces', strongly articulates some of the problems with the general take of traditional leftist forces to the 'Arab revolutions'. Moreover, it starkly displays why the theory of 'permanent revolution', which was a genuine attempt by Trotsky in particular historic circumstances to establish a sociology of revolution, is now wielded as a dogmatic filter through which reality is squeezed – a mode of mere self-justification rooted in the mentality and posturing of the sect.
The actualities and material realities of the 'Arab revolutions' therefore play second fiddle to what is now, by any standard, an anachronistic dogma. If the left is to keep itself relevant as any kind of meaningfully 'internationalist' force, which is a big if, it has to engage with reality and the world as it is, as opposed to how it wants it to be. The dominant trends of the left when it comes to relating to the so-called 'Arab spring' have been either reactionary campism, wherein revolutionary forces and movements are subordinated to invariably vacuous 'geopolitical' stratagems rooted in the simplistic, binary worldview of Stalinism, or in the aforementioned sectish obsessions with 'permanent revolution', wherein revolutionary forces and movements are discarded, ignored and ultimately subordinated to dogmatic self-vindication.
For the purposes of brevity, I will only deal with the part of the article that deals with Egypt, but the authors' erroneous take on the situation in Egypt, and the underlying 'theoretical' mechanics behind such error, applies to their take on all of the Arab revolutions. Moreover, I'll also use this article to make general observations about the way these leftist forces have reacted to and interacted with the Arab revolutions. It should also be noted that this isn't some mere theoretical quarrel – the authors of this article, the RLC, following their Revolutionary Socialist (RS) comrades in Egypt, were one of the loudest supporters of the counterrevolutionary Tamarod movement and the June 30 protests that led to the overthrow of the Egyptian democracy and the murderously brutal mass repression that is now being inflicted mostly on supporters of the democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi, but also on any dissenting forces, regardless of ideology.
This is important because it's precisely these errors that led both RLC and their comrades, for all their pontificating about 'reactionaries' and their mass denunciations of 'counterrevolutionaries', to uncritically and enthusiastically support the counterrevolutionary forces in Egypt – right up to and indeed after the bodies started dropping. Indeed, as late as July 17, 2013, the RLC, once again mirroring their comrades in the RS, were calling the events of July 3 'a people's revolution'. Moreover, while they briefly acknowledging and condemning the, erm, 'murders committed against [the Muslim Brotherhood] by the army', they were still massively optimistic about the overthrowing of democracy by a movement supported by every counterrevolutionary force in the country, from the former members and political remnants of Mubarak's National Democratic Party (NDP) to high level members of the security forces. They even signed the piece off with 'Viva the permanent revolution'. Oddly enough, they don't mention any of this in the current article.
To put it as starkly as possible: in the eyes of the authors of this article, the democratic election of Morsi and his transitional government equated to a counterrevolution, while the overthrow of democracy by the most reactionary force in the country equated to a 'revolution'. This isn't merely topsy-turvy; it's political insanity. So, while they have the barefaced audacity to say that the Muslim Brotherhood have not 'made a deep self-criticism of its period in power', which they classify as 'authoritarian' and 'counterrevolutionary', which I can only assume is how they characterise winning democratic elections and attempting to balance transitional democratic governance against a fundamentally anti-democratic 'deep state', they themselves have clearly not reflected at all on the folly that led to them supporting the actual counterrevolution.
As I mentioned before, the folly in question is mainly shaped by an adherence to the dogma of 'permanent revolution', but this is itself absorbed by the wider cliquishness, itself shaped by elitism, which afflicts the liberal and left forces that have been active in and around the Arab revolutions. The fundamental contradiction for these forces in Egypt was that while they were the ones who were media savvy, who had blogs and maintained websites, and who had a good relationship with certain sections of the regional and western media networks, this is pretty much all they had. Their participation in the January 25 revolution was mostly defined by all of this, but they had absolutely no social base whatsoever.
So, when this context is combined with their adherence to 'permanent revolution', which states that no revolution can be 'complete' or even a genuine revolution unless it is 'socialist', the reasons why these forces supported the counterrevolution should become a bit clearer. Nowhere in any of their output is the corresponding notion of democracy, and the notion of the Arab revolutions as national democratic revolutions against 'secular' tyrannies, taken as anything other than a mechanism of counterrevolution.
In Tunisia, the successful creation of a multi-party democratic system and the subsequent elections in which the Tunisian people participated freely, is treated as some sort of counterrevolutionary side show to these great movements of reaction, whether it's the Islamists of Ennadha or the former regime forces of Nidaa Tounis, the two largest democratic forces in the country. It's perfectly true that from a socialist perspective neither of these forces is particularly progressive, but then these are the forces that the Tunisian people, the people who overthrew Ben Ali, have chosen, namely because the revolution against Ben Ali was a national democratic 'bourgeois' one and not a socialist one. It's one thing to make arguments against these forces from the left, but to term them as 'counterrevolutionary' somewhat misses the point.
The dimensions of this error in Tunisia are such that they can merely be dismissed as an inanity, but in Egypt, the error of selectively dismissing non-socialist forces, in particular, the democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi and the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP - the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood) as 'counterrevolutionary', led these forces to enthusiastically support counterrevolution as 'revolution', while, to be crude about it, providing a small amount of 'left cover' to these mass counterrevolutionary forces. Indeed, one might go as far to say that these forces, overlapping with reactionary liberals and nationalists, as they did with the organisation known as Tamarod, came to see the post-January 25 democracy itself as 'counterrevolutionary'; hence these later accusations that the parliamentary elections of 2011-2012, of which the FJP won by a landslide, and the subsequent victory of Morsi against the counterrevolutionary candidacy of Ahmed Shafik in the presidential election of 2012, were 'fake' and 'unrepresentative', which was the raison d'etre of the entire Tamarod campaign.
It's here that the aforementioned elitism and cliquishness comes into play more decisively. The fact that the forces that the authors of this article see as being genuinely 'revolutionary' were extremely marginal was made flesh by the institution of a democratic system in the post-January 25 period. When for the first time millions of Egyptians cast their votes in these elections, these left forces gained absolutely no electoral representation, mainly because they themselves represent no one on the national level. The millions of Egyptians who voted and participated in the democratic elections did not appear out of nowhere – they were the ones who also participated in and supported the revolution against Mubarak. Indeed, they were the solid base of the revolution. The problem was that while the focus was on 'The Square', these media savvy and connected Cairene activists, with all their rhetoric, could hold forth, but when it came to the actualities of what was a national democratic revolution, they literally melted away into irrelevance. Given the chance, the Egyptian people overwhelmingly voted for what was the leading force, in terms of numbers, of the democratic revolution, which was the FJP.
These leftist forces gained absolutely no electoral representation in the parliamentary elections – the main opposition to the FJP was the Salafist Hizb al-Nour, the pro-military national liberals of Al-Wafd and the various different political parties that had been formed out of Mubarak's National Democratic Party. After this, the 'deep state', having now to balance the maintenance of its own interests with a genuinely revolutionary democratic awakening, plunged it support into the counterrevolutionary candidacy of Ahmed Shafik in the presidential elections. Despite this, Mohamed Morsi of the FJP won a narrow but massively significant victory over Shafik in yet another victory for the democratic revolution over those forces that wanted to curtail and counter it.
It's in the year that followed Morsi's victory that the authors of this article have to portray the alleged rule of the Muslim Brotherhood as being 'counterrevolutionary' and 'authoritarian'; indeed, the slogan was at the time that Morsi was no different than Mubarak or was merely a stooge of or collaborator with the military (others went further, of course, saying that Morsi was worse than Mubarak). Holding these positions necessarily entails a rather striking piece of cognitive dissonance – one must believe that Morsi was simultaneously the same as or no different to Mubarak, basically no threat to the ruling order, yet also worthy of the entire 'deep state', including every pro-Mubarak force in the country, from the security forces to the judiciary, mobilising against to overthrow. Of course, the easiest way to observe the difference between Morsi and a truly authoritarian and counterrevolutionary era is to just compare the one year of Morsi's democratic rule, with the freedoms that this allowed, with the gravity and the brutality of the situation now after July 3 and under Al-Sisi, with even the most basic rights won during January 25 completely annihilated.
I'm not making the case that Morsi, in terms of his overall policy, represented a radical break from the politics of Mubarak, but the fact that he was a democratically elected leader who could have been removed democratically, was a genuine radical break from Mubarak, one that was, by its very existence, antagonistic to all the forces that Mubarak represented. However, in order for the authors and their comrades to fully justify their support for the counterrevolution, they had to make the case that Morsi and the 'Muslim Brotherhood' were somehow counterrevolutionary. On a brief side note, I put quotation marks around the name Muslim Brotherhood only because the Muslim Brotherhood were never in power. The government formed by Morsi headed by the non-politically aligned Prime Minister Hesham Qandil was, as a transitional government, mostly comprised of centrist technocrats who were neither members of the Muslim Brotherhood or the FJP. Moreover, Morsi never had majority control over any of the state apparatuses. Saying 'the Muslim Brotherhood', in all its sinister glory, was 'in power' is at the very worst a lazy overstatement and, as we have seen, at the very worst, an attempt at fearmongering.
But does the claim that Mohamed Morsi was counterrevolutionary really stand up? This once again depends on what you mean by 'revolutionary' in the first place, but given that the only observable dynamic of the revolution and counterrevolution in Egypt was between democratic and anti-democratic forces and not socialists and capitalists, then Morsi certainly wasn't a counterrevolutionary of any conceivable kind. If we also remember that not one serious force in the country was calling for or capable of overthrowing the Armed Forces, then we also can't blame Mohamed Morsi for the crime of being a civil democratic president working within the confines of the Egyptian state with the Armed Forces as a veritably praetorian ruling class, one that as an institution enjoys wide popularity among the public. Any elected force, socialist or not, would have had to reckon with the military upon what was within the limits of possibility. The different forms of antagonism that existed between Morsi and the Armed Forces are there for all to see, most notably his constant battles with the Supreme Constitutional Court, which worked on behalf of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.
In reality, Morsi became a bête noire for all different kinds of forces in Egypt, while the anti-democratic opposition became a blank screen upon which the authors of this article and their comrades projected their own ideological obsessions and their own delusional and cliquish demands. So, June 30 and Tamarod became an uprising 'of the working and popular classes' against Morsi's alleged 'neoliberalism', despite the fact that the main forces behind and supporting Tamarod were more neoliberal than the FJP, with the added dimension of being anti-democratic. For liberal feminists, the June 30 movement became about women's rights (or what Trotksyites call a 'social revolution'), despite the fact that the same forces that unleashed the rapists and sexual terrorists of the government-sponsored baltagiya (literally: hatchet men) on protesters were among the crowds that overthrew Morsi. For street vendors in Cairo, the movement became about how Morsi was responsible for the drying up of tourists, despite the fact that Morsi couldn't control the security situation due to the dissent of the 'deep state'. In truth, the major political forces behind Tamarod and June 30 comprised a constellation of anti-democratic actors, from within and without the state, with different motivations, but all united behind the overthrow of Morsi. The fact is that despite Morsi being socially conservative and basically supporting economic liberalism, it was the left that collapsed into the anti-democratic counterrevolutionary movement against him.
The forces that mobilised behind the Shafik campaign at first wanted to use democracy to stamp out democracy, but due to democratic awakening could not do so, so they then sought to plunge their resources into ensuring that all opposition to Morsi was contained within an anti-democratic vehicle that could be used to mobilise popular opposition to subvert democracy. Instead of the opposition to Morsi organising on a democratic basis, they began to, in conjunction with the mobilisation of the 'deep state', chip away at the already fragile foundations of the post-January 25 Egyptian democracy, but this time it would take the form of the revolution itself, i.e. it would use civil disobedience and it would occupy Tahrir Square, in order to institute what amounted to a counterrevolution.
This is the point that the authors of this article and their Egyptian comrades in the RS began to converge with the counterrevolutionary forces through the Tamarod movement, which despite being directly aided by the security forces, was at least on the surface of things a 'grassroots' organisation that united 'youth activists' behind a campaign to gather signatures to force Mohamed Morsi to step down as president. It's in this context that the authors of the RLC blog and their comrades can with a straight face indicate that Morsi's election didn't count and wasn't actually real democracy, scalding those who called the military coup a coup at the time as having a 'lack of understanding' of the 'deep uprising to pursue the objectives of the revolution' behind the security forces-aided Tamarod campaign to gather signatures to overthrow a democratically elected president. So, while the authors of the blog and their comrades discarded the Egyptian democracy, in which tens of millions of Egyptians participated, they then uncritically supported the Tamarod campaign, which subverted formal democracy by declaring, without any plausible verification, to have gained 22 million signatures calling for the military to remove Morsi or for Morsi to stand down.
At the risk of repetition, let's just take a moment here to understand the mechanics of this according to the authors of the RLC blog: formal democracy, which yields victories for the FJP and reveals the left-liberal Cairene elites to have zero national support, is considered by the latter forces and their comrades, such as the authors of the blog, to be wholly 'meaningless'. However, the Tamarod campaign, supported openly by counterrevolutionaries from Ahmed Shafik to the security forces, which claims without any credible evidence to have gained 22 million signatures calling for the democratic process to be subverted, and which holds joint press conferences in Cairo with the authors of the blog's friends in the 'Revolutionary Socialists' and 'April 6 Youth Movement' etc., is somehow to be taken as legitimate?
There was nothing analytical or even principled about this - the combination of this dogmatic and stupefying adherence to ''permanent revolution' and the wider dynamic of elitism and cliquishness meant that groups were being swayed and pulled by all different kinds of reactionary and counterrevolutionary forces. This is why even days and months after the coup (which they refused to call a coup), they were still so enthusiastic about the counterrevolution, disseminating the bizarre idea that the July 3 coup was 'anti-imperialist' and that the major forces involved in the June 30 movement, which included Neo-Nasserists and opportunistic anti-MB liberals, to political forces formerly aligned with Mubarak's NDP and members of the security forces, were somehow ambivalent or wary of the military.
Indeed, RS even issued a statement incoherently declaring those who correctly called the events of July 3 a military coup as being part of a 'conspiracy' between 'the Brotherhood' and 'America'. Such was the extent to which they had been caught up in the hysterical ultranationalist conspiratorial surge of the June 30 movement, a group like the RS clearly failed to notice, or more likely simply didn't care about because it didn't fit the narrative, that the US itself had supported the overthrow of Morsi and, like the RS, had refused to call what occurred a coup. Due to their dismissal of the formal democratic system that had been won by the January 25 uprising and their selective designation of pro-democratic non-socialist forces, such as the FJP, as 'counter-revolutionary', plus the subsequent necessary pretence that the non-socialist Tamarod movement was connected to the working classes and progressive, the authors of this blog and their comrades ended up as one small but influential (especially in the west among socialists) component of what was a wholly counterrevolutionary movement. Even if some of the forces contained within the movement had genuine grievances against the Morsi government, the fact that they sought to join with the most reactionary anti-democratic forces in the country to overthrow a democratically elected leader renders their action as counterrevolutionary by definition.
The fact that these groups, including the authors, have sought to write their support for the counterrevolution in Egypt out of their own history is evident of the fact that they clearly have no will to self-reflect or engage with reality as it occurs. Instead of an engagement with any of the forces that comprise the democratic national revolutions across the Arab world, the authors of this blog continue on with sloganeering, denunciations and analysis based less on material reality and more on attempting to fit reality around a preconceived, ossified and anachronistic dogma. It's in this dismal spirit that these forces continue to ignore those pro-democracy forces in Egypt, instead casually and ignorantly dismissing them all as the 'Muslim Brotherhood', dismissing them without any justification as being 'sectarian', just because, as with the post-January 25 democracy, the forces that they support are marginal and irrelevant. Indeed, it seems to have never dawned on the authors of this blog that the it's precisely because the forces that march under the banner of R4BIA, formed out of supporters of Mohamed Morsi, are bearing the brunt of the brutal, murderous repression of the Al-Sisi regime precisely because they were and are the main proponents and practitioners of democracy in Egypt.
While the authors of the RLC blog condemn the repression of what they term as the Muslim Brotherhood by the Al-Sisi regime, in the final paragraph they declare, without a hint of irony, that 'given the clashes and collaboration with the forces of reaction', which is how they now term the Al-Sisi regime's blood-soaked abolishment of democracy and its smashing of the main forces in support of democracy, the popular basis of which they uncritically supported and cheered on, that they have to 'build and organise a popular alternative for the original objectives of the revolutions'. The fact that just over a year ago this group used the exact same language to describe the character and trajectory of the reactionary Tamarod movement should tell you that they are not even capable of discerning counterrevolution from revolution, let alone anything else. Those who support internationalism will be supporting not Islamism, but rather those forces that are struggling to establish democracy against those forces that have every interest in snuffing it out.


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Movie plot staples are proof that Hollywood learned a long time ago about the modern-day morality issues that pastors address weekly from the pulpit. Consider these: unwavering faith in the face of overwhelming adversity; uncompromising commitment to do what is right, even when the wrong path is more lucrative; and unshakable devotion to a true love, despite temptation.
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A mysterious character on the brink of death, carries a weapon that could change the course of human history. Persecuted and desperate escapes to meet his mentor, will be in this last meeting that he will understand the importance of his mission, and for the first time will hear of a superior power ... The Force.
Thanks Randall!!
A very cool little sci-fi thriller that does a lot with very little and shows just how inventive filmmakers can get despite micro or no-budgets.
Great twist on a well known franchise!
Thanks Anthony!!! a big hug from Chile!!
I just wanted to congratulate you on becoming a finalist in the 2012 International Film Skillet contest! Good luck!
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in our Galaxy".
it was it says in the blue title from the beginning, :P
The film got English Subtitles.


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