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General Motors is now approaching its fifth year of existence since emerging as a new entity as a result of the 2009 auto bailouts which saw taxpayers fund a bankruptcy process to the tune of $50 billion. Much has been debated about the "success" of GM since the controversial government-orchestrated restructuring. While GM management recently announced a dividend in an attempt to ensure investors of financial stability, a more telling indicator of the likelihood of future profitability may be found through an analysis of how competitive the company's vehicles are.
It appears the time has finally come for the Obama Administration to end taxpayers' forced investment in General Motors. Reports continue to roll in that Treasury is expected to sell its remaining stake by year-end. Of course, the news will be trumpeted as a great success by those responsible for the heist that cost taxpayers (along with creditors and shareholders of old GM) billions of dollars.
For years the Obama Administration maintained that they had no significant involvement in the day to day operations at General Motors as the company was guided through a taxpayer-funded bankruptcy process. A report from the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP) now sheds light on the process and confirms that the Administration did, in fact, drive decisions at GM. One such decision saw GM provide taxpayer funds to "top-off" pensions for politically-favored UAW retirees at Delphi while non-union retirees lost the majority of their benefits. Treasury officials previously denied any involvement in the actions.
President Obama's former head of the Auto Task Force, Steven Rattner, helped orchestrate the auto bailouts that saw billions of taxpayer dollars spent to save General Motors and Chrysler in a rigged bankruptcy proceeding favorable to political allies (i.e., the UAW). Rattner is now calling for taxpayers to come to the rescue of Detroit as the city struggles to restructure through a bankruptcy process without federal handouts.
As the presidential election nears we continue to hear about what a great job the Obama Administration did "saving" General Motors. The claims are that millions of jobs were saved and Mitt Romney wanted to let Detroit go bankrupt. A review of the facts reveals that the auto bailout process that cost taxpayers billions of dollars is hardly anything to brag about.
When President Obama says he "saved" GM, what he means is that his administration guided a bankruptcy process for the company, funded with taxpayer dollars. The repeated statements by Obama that Romney would have let the company go bankrupt are deceptive. Let's be clear, GM DID go bankrupt.
The 2012 election campaigns have seen accusations thrown about that both President Obama and Governor Romney have been less than honest at times. After Obama was soundly trounced in the first debate, the defense for the President's poor performance (other than Al Gore's theory that it was the high altitude) was that Mitt Romney lied. While that unsubstantiated charge might make Governor Romney an accused liar, the facts surrounding the General Motors bankruptcy process reveal that those in the Obama Administration are proven liars.
It's time, once again, to clarify a major misrepresentation by General Motors and the media. That is the implication that the recently announced move to modify a portion of non-union pensions will result in an improvement of $26 billion to GM's pension shortfall. GM shares are down about 5% since the announcement, bringing into question the accuracy of the rosy projections.
I recently wrote about a boycott of General Motors' products that was contributing to the company losing market share. The Heritage Foundation now has come out with a report that analyzes the wealth redistribution which occurred during the Obama Administration orchestrated GM bankruptcy process. This redistribution saw money taken from US taxpayers and GM bondholders and given to the politically powerful UAW. The unethical behavior at Government Motors, which has been occurring both during and since the bankruptcy process, gives reason enough to those paying attention to eliminate GM vehicles from the many quality choices offered to new car shoppers.
The new General Motors will be turning three years old in early July. GM's rocky childhood has given evidence to what disadvantage small investors are at when it comes to making educated equity investment choices. Let's look at some of the lessons to be learned from one of history's largest busted IPOs (along with the recent Facebook debacle) and consider the current underreported risk factors.
Mitt Romney has been criticized for stating that the Chevy Volt is an idea whose time has not come. We have gotten to a stage in the election cycle where even the slightest of criticisms against the Volt leads to outcries of a right wing, "wrong-headed" conspiracy to hurt sales of the vehicle. What has not been reported is the fact that the Obama White House was the first to say that the car was not ready for prime time.


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How do I configure Debian to use available physical memory to speed up Samba connections?
I want to maximize the speed of the connections by using more of the available RAM that we have in our server (there's 4GB worth). What files would I need to edit, what directives would I need to add, etc.? How difficult would it be to implement something like this?
Linux will automatically manage and use the available memory for caches that speed up Samba (or any other I/O operation really). What you can do is tune swappiness and how the kernel will deal with those caches and buffers. You can read this for understanding/tuning swappiness and this about buffer invalidation and times.
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(In South Asia) the Indian gazelle, which occurs from Iran to central India.
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After a strong start to the decade, the thrash revival seems to be slowly fading back into the shadows. The bands are still going strong, and are still pumping out records, but they aren't resonating the way they did just a few short years ago. Much like the original wave of thrash, the music has become stagnant as the formulas have become entrenched, and there is little new being added to the mix. The first albums by these bands felt fresh because thrash had been missing for so long, but now that they're common, the shortcomings are easy to see.
The thrash revival that began some twelve to eighteen months ago has nearly grown stale. What we've seen is a stable of bands who understand the spirit of thrash, but ignore the most effective tenets of its execution. Speed speed speed is the diet of the day, with nary a thought given to pace and cadence and musical design.
You know who Steve 'Zetro' Souza is. He's the highly combustible, wildly entertaining and never stationary lead singer of Exodus. Wait, what? He's back in Exodus again? Sure is. They've got a new record out now and he wants you to know all about it and how we came to be here. But don't worry, he's not abandoning Hatriot, either. Read on as we discuss these topics, horror and the ineptitude of the Oakland Raiders.
When one thinks of Australian metal or rock, invariably AC/DC and Jet are the stereotype. Airbourne and some others are in there too, but everybody at this point knows exactly what's being talked about. So when Envenomed was reportedly a melodic thrash act from the continent down under, there was a certain amount of cynicism that was probably to be expected. Why break the stereotype now, it's been working so well?
Lost Society is one of those bands who comes along every handful of years and makes you sit up in your chair and say 'let's see what happens here.' The band's talent and clear understanding of thrash as we know it was so evident on their debut "Fast Loud Death" that they were practically on the verge of being anointed the Next Big Thing. So with mounting anticipation, the world awaits the forthcoming storm of the Finns' second effort, "Terror Hungry."
…and so the thrash revival rolls on. Next up in the batter's box is Hirax, the Southern California band originally formed in 1982 in the shadow of other SoCal acts like Metallica and Slayer. Through the ins and outs and machinations of a musical career, there have only been two constants in the extended history of Hirax – thrash and founding lead singer Katon W. De Pena. So what makes Hirax stand out? Well, they've got a thick and crunchy guitar sound, a badass attitude and a singer who looks a little like Tim Meadows. Let's get to work.
The common album cycle these days tends to run two or three years. A band composes a selection of music, rehearses it, perfects it, records it, masters it, markets it, releases it, tours on it. Probably twice. Wash, rinse, repeat.
I chuckle as announcements roll out for albums, and every band that was formed sometime in the 80's described itself as 'legendary'. It's simply impossible for all of them to be such, but more than that, it amuses me how much revisionism has occurred of what the time was really like. Bands that have reformed and claim status as kings of metal were utterly forgotten during their initial runs, which makes it a little hard for me to believe anything they claim for a legacy.
Whoa, what is this?
You ever seen the Robert Redford movie "Sneakers?" There's a scene where the character Whistler (played by one of the all-time great character actors David Strathairn,) figures out that the computer hardware his crew stole is the most powerful decryption tool ever created; that possessing it gave him complete access to every secure network in the United States. Whistler's reaction, accompanied by a symphonic crescendo, is "Whoa." That's how I feel about Warbringer's new album "Empires Collapse."
So here we are again. Steve Souza, singer, songwriter, band leader, legend, metalhead, sports fan, father and horror aficionado extraordinaire, is back with another record. Not content to rest on the laurels of Hatriot's recent debut "Heroes of Origin," the man known as Zetro is determined to take the nearly unprecedented step of releasing two records inside a calendar year. The always outspoken and never shy Souza sat down with me again to talk about the new record, the present stage of metal, the latest Slayer developments, the rumors surrounding Dublin Death Patrol, the quandary of Hatriot, the Oakland Raiders and as ever, horror. It was, as you might imagine, a long conversation. In an interviewing first for me, Zetro started the conversation off without prompting. Read on and enjoy!


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Catalysis of the reaction: a phospholipid + H2O = a lipid + phosphate.
Catalysis of the reaction: a 1,2-diacylglycerol 3-phosphate + H2O = a 1,2-diacyl-sn-glycerol + phosphate.
Any series of molecular signals generated as a consequence of an androgen binding to its receptor.
The orderly movement of a cell specialized to produce haploid gametes through the embryo from its site of production to the place where the gonads will form.
A series of molecular signals generated as a consequence of a intracellular steroid hormone receptor binding to one of its physiological ligands.
The chemical reactions and pathways involving lipids, compounds soluble in an organic solvent but not, or sparingly, in an aqueous solvent. Includes fatty acids; neutral fats, other fatty-acid esters, and soaps; long-chain (fatty) alcohols and waxes; sphingoids and other long-chain bases; glycolipids, phospholipids and sphingolipids; and carotenes, polyprenols, sterols, terpenes and other isoprenoids.
Any process that stops, prevents or reduces the rate or extent of cell proliferation.
The process of removing one or more phosphate groups from a phosphorylated lipid, any member of a group of substances soluble in lipid solvents but only sparingly soluble in aqueous solvents.
The chemical reactions and pathways involving phospholipids, any lipid containing phosphoric acid as a mono- or diester.
The series of molecular signals generated as a consequence of a G-protein coupled receptor binding to its physiological ligand, where the pathway proceeds with activation of protein kinase C (PKC). PKC is activated by second messengers including diacylglycerol (DAG).
Any process that modulates the frequency, rate or extent of the chemical reactions and pathways involving lipids.


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As part of ECR's 'Feeding Ireland's Future' initiative, Coca-Cola HBC Ireland once again hosted 40 jobseekers from across North Dublin for 'Skills for Work Week 2016'. Now in its third year, the initiative brings Irish companies in the retail, food and beverage industries together to offer pre-employment skills and training to young unemployed people between the ages of 18 - 24. During the week, employees at Coca-Cola HBC shared their knowledge and experience with the programme participants to help them to develop skills needed for a career in the food and drink industry or other sectors.
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Deep RiverRock has launched a new pack design across its 500ml range, introducing a bold 'ripple' effect across the front of the bottle and enhancing the impact of the logo with a higher placement of the label. The new, sleeker, bottle shape better reflects the modernised Deep RiverRock logo, which was refreshed in 2015 and the Still bottle is now 16% lighter, in the latest in a series of sustainability achievements by Coca-Cola HBC.
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Coca-Cola HBC Ireland and Northern Ireland has committed to a Prosperity Agreement with Environment Minister Mark H Durkan and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency (NIEA). As part of this agreement, we have committed to reducing our carbon emissions by up to 15% by 2019.
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Coca Cola Zero Belfast Bikes celebrates its first birthday following a successful year that saw the people of Belfast take Northern Ireland's flagship public bike scheme to their hearts. Since the initiative was launched on 27 April 2015, usage has grown steadily with more than 191,000 journeys undertaken by the scheme's almost 6,000 annual and casual users. The bikes have travelled estimated 174,000 km - a distance equal to four times the circumference of the Earth.
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CHAFFEE - Charles Paul Cunningham, 81, died April 10, 2002, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.
Born Nov. 8, 1920, in Chaffee, son of the late Charles Henry and Edith Lou Harrell Cunningham, he retired as the Chaffee city collector, after 34 years of service. A member of the first United Methodist Church in Chaffee, he was also a member of Masonic Lodge 615 and Chapter 418 Order of the Eastern Star, both in Chaffee, and the Valley of St. Louis Scottish Rite.
He was preceded in death by three brothers.
Survivors include: four nephews, Tom Cunningham of Chaffee, Steve Cunningham of Plano, Texas, and John Cunningham and Joe Cunningham of Germantown, Tenn.; two nieces, Linda Wessel of Chaffee and Charlene Kraft of Bartlett, Tenn.; and 13 great-nieces and nephews.
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Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday at the church with the Rev. Richard Combs and the Rev. Marty Blakey officiating.
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6/20-21/2014 at Sophia University (Jochi Daigaku), Tokyo, Japan.
Professor Stephen Miller and Professor Amanda Seaman present papers at the Asian Studies Japan Conference at Sophia University. View The Eighth Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ 2014) Program
KAKEHASHI PROJECT 4/24/2014 The Five College Japanese Programs have been awarded "the Kakehashi project" sponsored by the Foreign Ministry of Japan. This award makes it possible for 25 Five College students (including 1 or 2 chaperons) to visit Japan as a group from June 23rd until July 3rd and experience the culture by visiting many places and interacting with college students and other people in Japan. Transportation and other fees such as accommodations (except for personal expenses) are covered by the Foreign Ministry.
4/12/2014 The Fourth Annual Japanese Contest 第4回日本語コンテスト in Boston:
Yilun Chen received the 1st place in the Essay contest.
The title was トラディショナルクールからモダンクールへ (From Traditional to Modern Cool)
Hui Fan received the 2nd place at the intermediate level of the Speech Contest. The title was 扉 (The Door)
Eric Fishbach was one of the six final contestants at the advanced level of the Speech Contest.
Consul General, Akira Muto with Hui Fan (left) and Yilun Chen (right)
4/8 Tue. Sebastian Dobson will give a lecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on a "Singular Man" from Cape Cod who embarked on an arduous journey to Japan in the early 1860s, the tumultuous last years of the Tokugawa shogunate. John Wilson (1816-1868) was a trader and a photographer, whose impact on the birth of Japanese photography was enormous. Dobson will also discuss the transposition into other artistic forms that early photography inspired. This event is open to public. For the place and the time, please click on the below poster.
Sponsored by the Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with support from the Five College Lecture Fund.
4/7 Mon. Mr. Yoshikazu Kato will give a lecture on China-Japan relationship. It will take place on Monday, April 7, at 4:30, in Herter 231. Mr. Kato is a Japanese columnist who has spent many years in China. This event is open to public. For the place and the time, please click on the below poster.
4/5/2014 Sat. FIVE COLLEGE JAPANESE SPEECH CONTEST
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The Japanese language contest was held at the Consulate General of Japan in Boston. Ray Kim, Hyang Gi Lim and Serena Forrest participated in the Speech Contest. All three won the prize respectively.
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In the Essay Contest, two contestants from UMass Amherst won the prize.
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The Third Five College Japanese Speech Contest 2013
The contest was held on Saturday, April 6, 2013 at UMass Amherst. Nine contestants (Josha Espinosa, Shanru Liang, Cara Goulding, Jiayi Huang, Zachary Mansuetti, Nina Li, David Musto, Serena Forrest, Emily Porcher) from UMass participated in the contest from 1st-year to 4th-year levels.
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A Day No Pigs Would Die
by Robert Newton Peck
A Day No Pigs Would Die: We're Goin' to the Fair! Quiz
Think you've got your head wrapped around A Day No Pigs Would Die? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Rob goes to the fair with whom?
Mr. and Mrs. Tanner
Mr. and Mrs. Bascom
Aunt Matty
Aunt Carrie
Q. Where is the fair located?
Q. What does Mrs. Tanner tell Rob to watch out for in the restroom?
Overflowing toilets
Mr. Tanner's hearing aid—he's sure he dropped it in there somewhere!
A cow that's escaped from its pen
Q. What does Rob do at the fair that will probably make the judges remember him?
Sing the Star Spangled Banner at the opening ceremony
Ride Pinky around the ring
Ask them, "Are you the perverts I've heard about?"
Throw up on their shoes
Q. What prize does Pinky win at the fair?
A blue ribbon for "best-behaved pig"
A pink ribbon for "pinkest pig ever"
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Definition of roulette in English:
1 [mass noun] A gambling game in which a ball is dropped on to a revolving wheel with numbered compartments, the players betting on the number at which the ball comes to rest.
Example sentences
- The book does provide reasonable introductions to several casino games, such as roulette, craps, and baccarat.
- The site offers slots, roulette and animated card games including poker and blackjack.
- Players at the hotel's casino can choose from four gambling tables, three of them for card games and one for roulette.
2A tool or machine with a revolving toothed wheel, used in engraving or for making slit-shaped perforations between postage stamps.
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Roger sets up Murray rematch
Roger beat ninth-seeded Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina 6-3, 6-3 today to reach the Madrid Masters semifinals, where he will face Andy Murray in a rematch of the U.S. Open final.
Roger used an effective slice serve on the fast indoor surface and was never broken. "The slice goes nicely on this court, I felt good using it to counter Juan Martin's height," our star said. Roger also played serve-and-volley, chip and charge returns and clean passing shots against his 20-year-old opponent. Del Potro served 12 aces, including 11 in the first set, but couldn't trouble Roger. "He started serving great, many aces," Roger said. "That's what makes him the good player he is. I had the ability to stay calm and use my slice well here in Madrid where conditions are very quick."
Roger, who missed last week's Stockholm Open due to fatigue, said he felt happy with his physical condition. "I don't know what would have happened if I'd gone to Stockholm, but I'm playing well here," he said.
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Broker Note Briefing: Friday
The main European indexes finished the month of January with stellar gains and this optimism looks set to continue in the near term at least. Improvements in U.S. and European macro data have certainly helped set the mood–nonfarm payrolls are the next big data point on the agenda.
Meanwhile, the City's number crunchers keep churning out the daily broker notes. The earnings season has certainly provided much of the momentum here and has set the tone for today's top picks. We'll start with the banks.
Deutsche Bank has been upgraded by both JPMorgan Cazenove and Citigroup Friday, following the release of its fourth-quarter results. JPMorgan said that since October 2012, Deutsche Bank has underperformed the brokerage's global investment bank coverage by 14%, underperformed European banks by 7% and is up only 5% on an absolute basis.
It said the bank's capital improvement is on track. "Capital at risk curve balls remain but are being reduced," said JPMorgan. Similarly, Citigroup has noted the bank's underperformance versus European peers. With an underlying return on tangible equity of 10% to 12% over 2013 through 2015 and a number of contingency and regulatory risks easing, Citigroup thinks it's time for an upgrade.
Sticking with the banking sector BNP Paribas has been upgraded by Société Générale. It thinks that the stock's underperformance has been over-played and BNP Paribas now becomes the brokerage's top bank pick in France.
"Fundamentally, BNP Paribas's above-average solvency ratio enables it to deploy its capital to growing businesses, including CIB, the U.S. and Asia, which should ultimately drive stronger growth," said the brokerage.
SocGen also set its gaze on the world's biggest beer maker Anheuser-Busch InBev, downgrading its view on the company. This comes after the U.S. Department of Justice blocked ABInBev's acquisition of Grupo ModeloB on the grounds that the deal would be anti-competitive in the U.S.
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Editor's note: This is the tenth post in Fordham's 2016 Wonkathon. We've asked assorted education policy experts to answer this question: What are the "sleeper provisions" of ESSA that might encourage the further expansion of parental choice, at least if advocates seize the opportunity? Prior entries can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
There isn't much in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that explicitly addresses school choice. Still, there will likely be indirect effects from some ESSA policies. Specifically, I think there are two key areas where ESSA will have important implications for school choice. First, both the weighted student funding pilot program and the new requirement to report school-level expenditures will further solidify the idea that dollars should follow students, which will likely lead to increases in school choice funding levels. Second, the requirement for more diverse measures in state accountability systems aligns with school choice's focus on innovation and specialization. With academic success defined across a broader set of outcomes, the ability for choice schools to pursue broader academic outcomes will be less constrained.
School-level spending transparency and student-based budgeting
Under ESSA, states will be required to report expenditures at the school...
Editor's note: This is the ninth post in Fordham's 2016 Wonkathon. We've asked assorted education policy experts to answer this question: What are the "sleeper provisions" of ESSA that might encourage the further expansion of parental choice, at least if advocates seize the opportunity? Prior entries can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
ESSA provides states with the opportunity to incentivize school districts to expand parent choice. States now have the freedom to relax their NCLB-driven state laws while incentivizing local authorities to go about improving choice in their school systems.
ESSA replaced NCLB, but the law of the land leading up to reauthorization was shaped by the Obama administration's waiver program. The Department of Education used those waivers to compel states to pass a number of rather prescriptive laws, which tied the hands of districts in some policy areas. Perhaps the most onerous requirement was performance-based teacher evaluations, which—while well intentioned—were also highly constraining.
ESSA cleared the regulatory deck established by the waiver program, but by and large, the state laws that passed because of those waivers are still on the books. To unbind districts from those laws, states can now do one of three...
The following text is an excerpt from Aiming Higher Together: Strategizing Better Educational Outcomes for Boys and Young Men of Color, an Urban Institute report authored by Ronald F. Ferguson of Harvard University. The report proposes ways to improve the educational outcomes of boys and men of color by altering conditions in homes, schools, and communities to create "person-environment fits" that better foster achievement. Dr. Ferguson's strategies for accomplishing this span from birth to adulthood, and concern everything from preschool nurturing to respect outside of the classroom during the school years.
In the report, Dr. Ferguson splits these strategies into three sections, one of which he calls "disproportionality and bias."
Ferguson defines bias as the absence of neutrality. He distinguishes three types of neutrality: equal application of criteria (for example, the test scores and grades required to qualify for a particular placement is the same for students of different groups); equal quality of options (for example, the quality of instruction is the same in different tracks); and equal quality of access (in this case, the criteria are biased insofar as they do not treat equally qualified people equally). He uses these distinctions to put several issues in perspective, including tracking...
Editor's note: This is the eighth post in Fordham's 2016 Wonkathon. We've asked assorted education policy experts to answer this question: What are the "sleeper provisions" of ESSA that might encourage the further expansion of parental choice, at least if advocates seize the opportunity? Prior entries can be found here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
Regardless of exactly how they're funded, schools all over the United States face a basic problem. Many of those serving the most disadvantaged students tend to have the fewest resources.
In a nod to equity advocates, the new federal education law includes a modest attempt to entice school districts toward a solution: weighted funding. The Every Student Succeeds Act includes a pilot program that, in its first three years, would allow up to fifty districts to allocate funding to schools based on the characteristics of students they enroll. Schools would receive more funding for children who have special needs, speak a native language other than English, or come from a low-income families.
Many of the school finance reforms sought by choice advocates, such as true funding portability, didn't make it into the new statute. While the pilot program won't usher in a financing system in...
Editor's note: This was a submission to Fordham's 2016 Wonkathon. We asked assorted education policy experts to answer this question: What are the "sleeper provisions" of ESSA that might encourage the further expansion of parental choice, at least if advocates seize the opportunity? Of the eleven submissions, this was selected as the winner by a poll of our readers.
One of my biggest concerns about ESSA has been its lack of a meaningful "safety valve" for kids in failing schools. There is no getting around the fact that this version of ESEA does not spell out parent-directed education options the same way No Child Left Behind did, with its explicit provisions for supplemental educational services and school choice. When ESSA eliminated the "cascade of sanctions" for schools deemed "in need ofimprovement", explicit references to closing schools and reopening them as charters also disappeared. There are no requirements (let alone incentives) for choice and transportation.
What we learned from NCLB, though, is that unwanted mandates don't usually lead to much real access to seats in better schools. Washington can tell a district it must offer school choice regardless of capacity, but in the real world the absence of high-quality...
This study examines the impact of test-based accountability on teacher attendance and student achievement using data from North Carolina. Under the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), schools that failed to make "Adequate Yearly Progress" (AYP) toward universal proficiency in consecutive years faced a series of escalating sanctions. Thus, teachers at schools that failed one year had a strong incentive to boost achievement in the next, while those at other schools faced a weaker incentive.
Using a difference-in-differences approach that compares these groups, the author estimates that failing to make AYP in NCLB's first year led to a 10 percent decline in teacher absences in the following year (or roughly one less absence per teacher). He also estimates that an additional teacher absence reduces math achievement by about .002 standard deviations, implying that schools that failed to make AYP saw a similar boost in achievement because of improved teacher attendance. However, in a separate analysis, he shows that the threat of sanctions led to a .06 standard deviation improvement in math achievement in the following year, suggesting that improved teacher attendance accounted for just 3 percent of all accountability-driven achievement gains.
In addition to the general decline in teacher absences,...
In 2014, for the first time, the overall number of Latino, African American, and Asian students in public K–12 classrooms in America surpassed the number of non-Hispanic white students. To better understand what this "majority minority" student body might mean for public education going forward, the folks at the Leadership Conference Education Fund asked Latino and African American parents what they thought about America's K–12 system, as well as what sort of education they want for their children.
Researchers surveyed a nationally representative sample of eight hundred African American and Latino adults (parents, grandparents, etc.) actively involved in raising a school-aged child, also conducting focus groups in Chicago (Latinos) and Philadelphia (African Americans).
As with other such surveys, a large majority of parents rated their own children's schools as "excellent" or "good" at preparing students for success in the future. (It is interesting to note, however, that parents whose children attended schools that were mostly white were more likely to rate those schools positively.) Yet parents were also pessimistic about the quality of public schools writ large—especially for students of color. And they felt that funding, technology, and excellent teachers were inequitably distributed in favor of predominantly white and high-income schools.
The survey...
Over a million students nationally wait for seats to open up in already-full charter schools. Many more attend failing schools in neighborhoods that could benefit from the high-quality charter networks revolutionizing public education in places like Newark and New Orleans. In the face of a clear and persistent need for excellent charter schools, what stands in the way of their growth? This paper from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) attempts to answer this question by examining constraints on charter expansion.
Authors Jenn Hatfield and Ian Lindquist profile three of the nation's oldest and most successful networks: Uncommon Schools (forty-three schools in six northeast cities), Great Hearts Academies (twenty-seven schools in Phoenix and, recently, Texas), and Carpe Diem Learning (six schools scattered throughout Arizona, Indiana, Ohio, and Texas). They use in-depth interviews with teachers, principals, staff, and executives within each network to explore two sides of the same coin: What factors facilitated the growth of these networks, and conversely, what factors deterred them and likely still hinder others?
Specifically, they seek to identify the "bottlenecks" limiting each operator's expansion. All three networks experienced problems with authorizers and/or identified authorizer relationships as essential to manage well. For instance, Great Hearts' attempted Nashville expansion was blocked by the local...
Does keeping a child in a school that appears to be struggling mean that parents are happy with it? Should we consider resistance to school closures a sign of demand for those schools?
Those are two of the big questions raised for me in a fascinating debate between Jay Greene and Mike Petrilli about the role test scores should play in school closure.
It's true that parents often fight back when their children's schools are going to be closed. And why not? In most cases, they're losing their current option without being offered a replacement. They are told to go find a new school. Often, the alternatives are not much better than the old schools, and they may be a lot less convenient. It's not a trade. It's a one-sided loss—and a huge headache.
But we should be careful about assuming that just because their kids are still enrolled in a school, parents like that school. Enrollment is modest proxy for family satisfaction. Instead of asking parents if they want their children's schools to remain open, we should ask them whether they would choose to stay if they had other options. Then we should give them other options.
Here's something that...
The school choice tent is much bigger than it used to be. Politicians and policy wonks across the ideological spectrum have embraced the principle that parents should get to choose their children's schools and local districts should not have a monopoly on school supply.
But within this big tent, there are big arguments about the best way to promote school quality. Some want all schools to take the same tough tests and all low-performing schools (those that fail to show individual student growth over time) to be shut down (or, in a voucher system, to be kicked out of the program). Others want to let the market work to promote quality and resist policies that amount to second-guessing parents.
In the following debate, Jay Greene of the University of Arkansas's Department of Education Reform and Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute explore areas of agreement and disagreement around this issue of school choice and school quality. In particular, they address the question: Are math and reading test results strong enough indicators of school quality that regulators can rely on them to determine which schools should be closed and which should be expanded—even if parental demand is inconsistent with...


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The pages of history, those monuments to humankind's brief rule
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One of the complexities of the present challenge is that we are now called upon to accomplish two things simultaneously which are in contradiction with each other. On the one hand, we must wage and win the battle against the Bushite forces, taking away their power, discrediting them in the eyes of the public, driving the evil spirit they represent back into the recesses of the American cultural system. On the other hand, we must erase the deep and destructive imprint these forces have left on America, and an important part of that imprint is the pervasiveness of conflict and division in our social and political processes.
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Company -- who told a Vanity Fair reporter last week that George Bush
didn't know how to run a war that seemed like a good idea before they
handed it over to him. Meanwhile, just days before the
election, televangelist Republican cheerleader Ted Haggard gets nailed
for consorting with a male prostitute while on crystal meth -- taking
up the baton in the GOP relay-race of grifters and pervert-hypocrits,
Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Mark Foley, David
Safavian, et al -- and the mid-term vote begins to look a little gnarly
for the family values crowd.
Let's say the Democrats win control of at least one house of
congress and possibly two. Are they going to shut down the project in
Iraq? I doubt it. Badly as it has worked out, the alternative of
withdrawing the US military presence there may be worse. Anyway, we'd
still be sticking around the Middle East -- in Qatar and Kuwait and a
few other places -- and we'd have to stand on the sidelines and watch
Iran gobble up the substantial oil resources around the Tigris /
Euphrates delta region. What would be the remedy for that? Invade Iraq
all over again?
I confess, what bugs me about my Democrats is that they seem to
think we can just duck out of the contest for Middle East oil and keep
enjoying the happy motoring fiesta -- which, by the way, is not just
the way we live in this country but also the basis of our economy, when
you sweep aside all the bullshit. Contrary to what a lot of utopian
Democrats wish, it will never be prime-time for ethanol, bio-diesel,
hydrogen, or twenty other nominees as replacements for gasoline -- at
least not the way we run things now. Driving a Prius might induce
raptures of eco-moral superiority, but changing the zoning laws would
produce a better outcome -- and that's just too hard.
By Chris Floyd
The picture below
(from the New York Times) speaks most eloquently on the essence of the
Bush Regime's brutal, grubby Babylonian Conquest: fat mercenaries
guarding the construction of yet another prison.
The picture comes from a story on the "overhead costs" of reconstruction projects,
based on a report by the Special Inspector General for Iraq
Reconstruction, who found astonishing amounts of waste and cost
overruns by the crony contractors who came to feast on the carcass that
Bush killed for them. Two main points emerge from the report.
that the IG's catalogue of gouging, feather-bedding and other
profitable forms of war-profiteering is by no means complete, because
"the United States has not properly tracked how much such expenses have
taken from the $18.4 billion of taxpayer-financed reconstruction
approved by Congress two years ago." In fact, the IG's office was only
able to examine only $1.3 billion of the contracts.
In other words, as oft reported here (and here and here),
much of that money has simply disappeared -- into corporate coffers,
into copious baksheesh for the Bush-backed Iraqi government, into
kickbacks for Congressional vultures, and doubtless into slush funds
both for covert ops (including perhaps the Bushists' deliberate formenting of terrorism and arming of militias)
and domestic politics. We are most likely seeing the fruits of some of
this blood money wash up on American screens at this very moment, as
the GOP's last-ditch "Smear and Fear" campaign goes into hyperdrive.
If this were a dictatorship,
it would be a heck of a lot easier... just so long as I'm the dictator."
George Walker Bush,
Was this a really a joke? Back
in 2000 many thought so. But was George in jest? Maybe there was more
to that remark than bad taste. Maybe it was a private prank on the American
That was then, but this is
now: It's not a joke anymore. It's reality.
With the help of three posturing Senators and a spineless, corrupt Congress,
the Military Commissions
Act of 2006 has
been imposed upon the Republic. For those still in the dark, under this
law George W. Bush has the full power not only to decide who is a threat
but also to order his Praetorian Guard to haul the suspect away to whatever
end. Neither courts nor Congress nor citizenry have legal recourse or
protection from the wrath of Emperor George.
by Richard Kastelein
Ramsey Clark
was violently removed from the courtroom in Baghdad at the Trial. He
claims it was a political stunt by the Republican party due to the
upcoming midterm elections.
"These unjust
sentences issued today by the so-called "the Iraqi High Criminal
Court", which is directed by the American occupation, have come to result
of a systematic approach of this illegal court that made its conduct, marked
with showing disrespect to principles of justice and the basic rules of
international and Iraqi laws, which resulted in grave and continued violations
to the fundamental rules of criminal proceedings where judges were vested by
the occupation from among the enemies of President Saddam and his comrades," stated the press release.
"The proceedings of the
trial revealed also, that the panel chamber, which rendered the conviction, is
fully submissive to the will of the occupier and its subordinate government. Thus, the tried persons were deprived from the basic opportunity to defend themselves;
defense lawyers were assassinated, threatened, insulted, displaced out of their
country and dismissed from the courtroom."
by Mike Whitney
"The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim".
Gustave Le Bon - "The Crowd"
Gustave Le Bon - "The Crowd"
Most of us know David Brooks as the balding goofball on "The Jim Lehrer
News Hour" who shrugs his shoulders and giggles gleefully whenever he's
asked a question. He's actually a political pundit whose far-right
analysis of culture and politics appears regularly on the op-ed page of
the New York Times. Like fellow-traveler Tom Friedman, Brooks loves to
offer his sage advice to Muslims about how they can improve themselves
in the eyes of westerners and, thus, limit the relentless bombing and
massacres brought on by a belligerent American foreign policy.
"Bush lost more than a midterm election and a cantankerous defense secretary on Tuesday. He also abandoned any lingering chance of remaking U.S. foreign policy into a radical force for democratic change in the Middle East and elsewhere,"
... thus dumping his "new" and "greater" Middle East plans as well as regime change schemes for the region to the dust pins of history at a high cost for Arab and American lives and billions of wasted dollars of U.S. taxpayers.
Another part of the answer has a lot to do with the Arab hopes that a change in the U.S. administration may lead to ending the U.S.-British occupation of Iraq and to a more balanced policy vis-à-vis the Arab-Israeli conflict; but Washington gave Arabs no time even to hope.
by Chris Floyd
I am now writing a piece for Truthout.org on the wider ramifications of the Bush Administration's lunatic dumping of a nuclear weapons "cookbook" on the Internet and leaving it posted up
for months: a pearl beyond price for any government, militia, terrorist
group, religious cult or criminal mafia hoping to wield some of the
nuclear terror that has hitherto been the sole province of the world's
"most developed" nations.
As we all know, the reason for this data-dump was purely and solely partisan politics: the Bush Faction wanted their little bootlickers in the rightwing blogosphere to cherry-pick the raw data from millions of Saddam-era documents in hopes of finding
something that would goose a couple of news cycles here and there with
stories of "revelations" that "justify" one or more of the Bush
Regime's warmongering lies. They've been disappointed in this
propaganda gambit, however –
namely because there can be no data of WMD programs that didn't exist
(or links to al Qaeda that never were). However, there was plenty of
data on the almost-successful nuclear weapons program that Saddam had
built before 1991 – with a mighty assist from a former U.S. president named George Bush. It was this data that the gormless son of Saddam's former accomplice and benefactor released for all the world to see.
All of this is bad enough; however, late-breaking news in the UK today has given a truly disturbing new dimension to the possible uses of Bush's gift to nuclear proliferators: six Arab nations h ave formally announced that they are now launching nuclear programs of their own. The potential
dangers of this move in the powerderkeg of the Middle East are almost
unfathomable. My Truthout piece will have more on this, and how the
Bush nuke dump plays into it.
Below is a companion piece that I'd written to go
with an earlier column for Truthout dealing solely with the Bush dump.
The news today has superceded that original article, so I'm rewriting
furiously; however, the companion piece – providing some of the
long-range background to the situation – is still valid, so I'm putting
it up now.
Prelude to a Quagmire
The Bush Party were eager for their acolytes
to exhume damning nuggets from the history of Saddam's regime. But even
here their idiocy showed itself. For a truly thorough and objective
analysis of the rise and rule of the Iraqi roughneck would have indeed
unearthed damning revelations –about generations of American leadership
that helped create and sustain Saddam's brutal regime. This history
gives the lie to everything the Bush Faction has said about Iraq and
why we are there – yet it is virtually unknown to the general public
and is almost never mentioned by the mainstream media, except in brief
flashes, like shooting stars, that appear briefly then disappear into
the darkness.
by Mel Seesholtz, Ph.D.
"Let's vote on it." To most people
that sounds like the ideal way to solve any issue. But it can also be
one of the most dangerous.
In 1967 the U.S. Supreme Court struck
down laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Loving v. Virginia was a landmark civil rights decision. But a
1968 Gallup poll documented that 72 percent of Americans opposed interracial
marriage. Had America voted on the issue in 1968, civil rights would
undoubtedly have been defeated.
On November 7, 2006 Americans in several
states will vote on ballot initiatives concocted and promoted by the
leaders of the evangelical Christian Right and their Republican sycophants.
Increasingly, their incestuous relationship is being exposed at the same time their so-called
"values voters" are fading into history. The Christian Right
is slowly but surely dying, and for good reasons. But apparently they want to kill an independent
judiciary before they go.
Examples were provided in an October
17, 2006 article titled "Judicial Activism
Prompts Citizen Efforts to Restrain Judges"
Pete Winn, associate editor of Citizenlink.com, a propaganda organ for James Dobson's Focus on the Family theo-political empire:
South Dakota's Amendment
E is the most ambitious measure – it would allow residents to sue
judges over their decisions. Grand juries would be convened, and judges
would face removal from the bench if they were found guilty of an infraction.
South Dakota's Amendment
E is the most ambitious measure – it would allow residents to sue
judges over their decisions. Grand juries would be convened, and judges
would face removal from the bench if they were found guilty of an infraction.
Montana voters, meanwhile,
must decide if they want … the right to have recall elections if they
should become "dissatisfied" with a judge.
Montana voters, meanwhile,
must decide if they want … the right to have recall elections if they
should become "dissatisfied" with a judge.
About 2 weeks ago, 10 Soviet-era tanks clanked-along the main thoroughfare in downtown Bangkok and stopped in front of the Presidential Palace. Once the palace had been completely surrounded it was stormed by a contingent of fully-armed Thai regulars who secured the grounds while the Thai generals looked on impassively. General Sonthi Tinsulanond took control of the country, with the tacit approval of the King, and quickly repealed the constitution, dismissed the parliament, and forbid any public demonstrations of support for the former regime. In less than an hour, the government of Prime Minister Thanskin Shinawatra was toppled in a perfectly executed, bloodless coup.
Are we there yet?
Would it really be that dreadful if a similar drama unfolded in Washington DC?
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin
Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Benjamin Franklin
by Mike Whitney
This is a dark day for Americans and Iraqis alike.
Killing Saddam Hussein isn't justice; its vengeance. Only Bush believes the two are the same.
How are we supposed to feel now that we know that Saddam will be hanged for his crimes?
Elated? Energized? Jubilant?
Will it wash away the oceans of blood that Bush generated with his misguided and tragic war?
The administration clings to the foolish notion that killing Saddam will somehow justify their unprovoked invasion and slaughter of 650,000 Iraqis.
It won't.


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quote: I suggest you go ahead and look at China's recent approval of Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia. This was delayed due to concerns about patent litigation. The Chinese government found that the patents which Microsoft is pursuing with Android are vital to the functionality of the OS. That's the Chinese government saying that. Now to me, that doesn't seem like "bogus" patents.
quote: Google treats Microsoft and its services equally as poorly. Google has developed virtually 0 applications to access their services on Windows Phone or Windows 8. You only have to look back on the Windows Phone YouTube app debacle to see how Google purposely goes out of its way to create obstacles for Microsoft.
quote: Google are partially the reason that Microsoft's acquisition has not yet completed. Google and Samsung both asked China to limit the deal due to their "concerns" of becoming a victim of further patent litigation. Regardless of whether you agree with the premise of patents, Nokia have amassed thousands of patents due to decades of research and development, costing them billions. Why should other companies have free reign with Nokia's hard work?


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A pizza tree in your stomach would be a bad thing, how?
Notice that he didn't tell her there's no such thing as a pizza tree. They grow in bushes.
there you go. MAKE her eat processed meat.
Just because YOU choose to eat that junk, doesn't mean your daughter has to
Never ending power source!
I remember when we thought if we ate a seed something would grow in our bellies. So we were very careful. I wonder why adults have to tease kids like that, does it really make them feel so good to tell them lies and scare them?
My Mom used to make homemade Chef Boy-Ar-Dee pizza and I wouldn't touch it! I didn't think I'd like pizza. As I got older and tried it, I saw how dumb I'd been! But, I made up for it later. I could eat pizza everyday now! LOL
I wish someone would have told me that! It would keep me off pizza. When I was in first or second grade, our teacher told us that if we swallowed gum it would stay in our tummies and never go away. All of the gum would stick together until it filled up our whole stomachs. To this day, I still can't swallow gum.
You don't want to run the risk of the gum causing blockage in your intestines. That will hurt and surgery. No better not do it.
Little children like Ruthie will react like that. Best to calm them down, not strike them while telling them not to cry.
If only. I'd be planting pepperoni all over my yard, just waiting for the great pizza harvest to ensue!!
Apple seeds=cyanide, Pepperoni (except for the ONE uncured one I found) has nitrates which can cause all kinds of health issues. When I am done with my year as a vegan I will just use mushrooms with the spicyness of pepperoni added (and lowfat cheeses, except a little Reggiano).
Ruthie, what makes you think your dad either doesn't know better or is lying to you?
SOMEONE is asking for a spanking!
At least, that's what would have happened to me if I acted like Ruthie!
The spanking would likely be administered on the backside of the culprit who fed Ruthie that bullsh!t about apple trees and pizza trees growing in her gut.
Ruthie, what makes you think your dad either doesn't know better or is lying to you?
And what makes you think that Daddy is the one who fed her that malarkey? I suspect that Joe is the real source of the bullsh!t artistry, here.
Another Ruthie malapropism at creators.com.
Apple ceeds = hydrocyanide (aka B17), not quite the same thing. It is cyanide in a chemical box, that is safe until the box is opened by an enzyme – which is predominantly made in cancer cells. So while an overdose can kill you, small amounts are very good for you. Just like with the oil based vitamins (A,D,E).
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Issue No.05 - September/October (2005 vol.3)
pp: 61-65
David Naccache , Departement d'Informatique, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MSP.2005.122
The injection of an error can, in fact, cause the leakage of confidential information. Often, the only way to attack strong cryptographic implementations is to attack the infrastructure upon which they are built. This infrastructure is most often the underlying operating system or middleware, but attacks can also be mounted directly against the hardware upon which the cryptographic implementation is being run. This issue's Crypto Corner describes some of the methods used to induce faults in systems and explains how such faults can be exploited to reveal secret information.
fault tolerance, fault injection, error
David Naccache, "Finding Faults", IEEE Security & Privacy, vol.3, no. 5, pp. 61-65, September/October 2005, doi:10.1109/MSP.2005.122


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We began the Revive our Marriage series with prayer, then we worked on our attitude, our shoulder-to-shoulder friendship, and our appreciation. Now it's time to give our husbands some lovin' {*wink} if you know what I mean 🙂 !
(**I apologize in advance but I will be using an '*' when I write the word s*x because I've been told that my blog gets blocked by Christian filters when I don't use it. If you leave a comment with this word – could you use an asterick too? Thank you!!!)
A friend wrote on her facebook wall this week that she's been trying to be a Proverbs 31 woman for her husband and all this time he was hoping she'd be a Song of Songs woman! lol! If you are familiar with the Song of Solomon then you know that there is an ENTIRE book of the Bible written on the physical and emotional love of King Solomon and his wife. It's a {hot} read!
God created s*x as a pure expression of love between a man and his wife and the world has twisted and perverted it.
As John Piper says:
"The world should not have its nose or its cameras in our bedroom. S*x is not a spectator sport – in spite of the billion-dollar industry designed to make it one…it has an audience of three: husband, wife and God, who sees all." (This Momentary Marriage pg. 128)
Our culture has degraded the marriage bed. Purity is mocked and immorality glorified. The singers and actors applauded with Oscars, Emmys and other awards, flaunt their s*xuality and the consumers buy it hook, line and sinker!
But God says " Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the s*xually immoral." Hebrews 13:4
We must not take our cues on what s*x is – from the world but from God's word. Here is some of God's word says:
1. S*x creates oneness.
In Mark 10:8 and 9 Jesus says "and the two will become one flesh. So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate"
This is a serious text! What God has joined together, let NO ONE seperate. You are one with your husband. God has done this – yet our culture treats marriage casually. We applaud anyone in Hollywood who makes it to their 10 year anniversary because it's so unexpected! Our vows are our covenant – we are to hold fast to our husbands!
2. Do not deprive each other.
I Corinthians 7:5 says "Do not deprive each other except perhaps by mutual consent and for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control."
I made an entire video on this – and it's along the side bar (or click here to see it) – so I won't belabor this point except to say that this is mutual. Just as wives are not to deprive their husbands – husbands must not deprive their wives. Why? Because if you are not 'doin it' Satan will tempt you and your husband –and you will lack self-control to overcome the temptations.
3. Your husband is to be satisfied with you. Do You seek to satisfy him?
Proverbs 5:19 says "A loving doe, a graceful deer—may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be intoxicated with her love."
Isn't it interesting that no where in scripture wives are told to be satisfied with their husband's body. Men were created more visually oriented. This is why p*rn is more prevalent among men than women. And so when you want the light off while you are 'doin it' and he wants it on – just know, this is where the tension lies. He wants to SEE you! And I will admit that as I get older and my body changes, I prefer a dimly lit room to help me out a little. lol! But here is the key – if you are not 'doin it' how will he be satisfied? Help your husband out by making yourself available to him to meet his needs.
"Just as the devil will do everything he can to bring two people together s*xually before marriage, he does everything he can to keep them away from each other after marriage." ~ Dr. Emerson Eggerich (Love and Respect pg.250)
Statistically speaking – S*x and money cause the most marital problems. What Dr. Eggerich says is true – before marriage – the devil tempts couples to be s*xually active too soon – and after marriage he does everything he can to keep us away from each other. This is not an issue to turn a blind eye to. So what can we do?
In For Women Only Shaunti Feldhahn gives four ways to overcome the S*x Gap within marriage:
1. Choose to love him in the way he needs. For most men, s*x is a physical need AND an emotional need. It makes him feel loved, desired, counteracts stress, fears and loneliness.
2. Get involved and have fun. I must admit our most memorable and pleasurable moments were the times that I decided to plan ahead and have a little fun.
3. If you need it, get help. I know that there are women reading this who have encountered past abuse or are currently in a marriage that is completely unhealthy. I do not want this blog post to heap frustration or guilt on you in anyway. I know that you whole heartedly wish you could respond to your husband's needs. I want to say to you – that I am so sorry for the pain you are experiencing. I wish I could ((hug)) you through this computer and tell you – this post is not for you..right now. Right now you need to seek healing. Please get pastoral or professional help.
4. Make S*x a Priority. Talk to your husband. How does he think the two of you are doing in this department? Do you regularly say "no" to your husband? Now would be a good time to reconsider your priorities. What is zapping your time and energy? I know the answer because it's my answer too – the kids and your housework (and a certain little blog I write on lol!).
Our husband's must not come dead last on our 'to do' list. Purpose to say 'yes' to his advances. As you might have seen me say on The Racheal Ray Show – "I make love to my husband anytime he wants it." This is mostly true (I'm certainly not perfect) but I have purposed in my mind to say yes yes yes! I want to meet my husband's needs and as a result I feel amazingly blessed in our marriage.
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