Obama wishes to unarm America’s nukes by at least 80% and yet, you will not hear any of that in the media, why, anything Obama, in the news, is usually censored or overseen by Media Matters.  FOX news has been called the devil by the left, and as a people, we should really look at who is calling who a devil, and wonder why.  The devil comes to us in many forms to trick, and confuse. 

I remember when I wrote the book, “White House Mafia?, it was blocked by many angels, so I simply changed the name, and let it speak for itself.  Now, America’s Glitch slips past those who would love to see it stopped but by now, those who oppose are ready seeking to see it put down again. 

Like many progressive radio programs, news pundits, and other venues, that failed or are weak in the ratings, Media Matters longs for the short term.  Already they are under fire for scripting many of the Obama news coverage, and may get de-funded if found they are in bed with the White House.  Time will tell.  Media Matters?  I think not.  You can tell your people how to spin the news, but it will be a cold day when you stop a man from thinking.  Come and get me M and M.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, 

but in rising up every time we fail.

: o ) Ralph Waldo Emerson

First off it is hard to believe that the great voice of Whitney Houston is gone.  Such power in her voice to inspire, to life our spirits and enthrone us with love in our hears. She will be missed.  She is in the heavens now.  May her angelic voice sing.

Today is also Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.  A president who is found on our penny and on our Five dollar bill. So glad he was our president at that time in our history. So much could be so very different,  he over came so much hardship of his own to make a difference. This video link will attest.  Click here about the many failures of Lincoln.

Never gave up and he never gave in.  As a country we are better for it.

There will be many times in life that we fail.  A failure is nothing more than an education on how not to do that task.  We learn and we try again.   Thats how we should look at failure not at the mess it may have made but at the power we learn by cleaning it up.

The best people who we admire the most have failed. Some for a brief instant almost gave up, some were told to give up.  I have shared this video before but once again it feels right to do so again. Click here about famous failures who never gave in.

Amazing stories, but truth be told they fought through comments and what people said and kept moving forward because what they believed in. They believed in themselves.

Believe in yourself.

Believe in the power of a sincere smile.

Believe in the power of prayer, faith and hope.

Believe and succeed.  : ) Smiles to you this day and everyday.

(NEW) Weekly Affirmation for this week.

My foundations in built upon faith and love. Faith in my abilities and love for the self.  I am a product of perfection and created for giving.  I will not bow to others and words that tear down instead I will replace with words of love and smiles of courage and belief.   I will overcome all obstacles through education, through planning and through failure.   Yes failure happens but it is not what happens to us through failure it is what happens to our spirit when we overcome failure.  Every time I breathe I am successful and growing in life.  I am loved, I am grateful and I am designed to be successful in everything that I put my best efforts towards.  Today I begin and continue my dreams.

Enjoy your week, share a smile, share in some laughter and dream big and love always : ) Smiles to you this day and everyday

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On this day in history

1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.

1593 – Japanese invasion of Korea: Approximately 3,000 Joseon defenders led by general Kwon Yul successfully repel more than 30,000 Japanese forces in the Siege of Haengju

1689 – The Convention Parliament declares that the flight to France in 1688 by James II, the last Roman Catholic British monarch, constitutes an abdication.

1733 – Englishman James Oglethorpe founds Georgia, the 13th colony of the Thirteen Colonies, and its first city at Savannah (known as Georgia Day).

1816 – The Teatro di San Carlo, the oldest working opera house in Europe, is destroyed by fire.

1818 – Bernardo O’Higgins formally approved the Chilean Declaration of Independence near Concepción, Chile.

1825 – The Creek cede the last of their lands in Georgia to the United States government by the Treaty of Indian Springs, and migrate west.

1855 – Michigan State University is established.

1894 – Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into Paris’s Cafe Terminus, killing one and wounding 20.

1909 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.

1909 – New Zealand’s worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SS Penguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbor.

1914 – In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.

1934 – The Austrian Civil War begins.

1935 – USS Macon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.

1946 – World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.

1946 – African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the Civil Rights Movement and partially inspires Orson Welles’ film Touch of Evil.

1947 – A meteor creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.

1961 – U.S.S.R. launches Venera 1 towards Venus.

1974 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1970, is exiled from the Soviet Union.

1990 – Carmen Lawrence becomes the first female Premier in Australian history when she becomes Premier of Western Australia.

1994 – Four men break into the National Gallery of Norway and steal Edward Munch’s iconic painting The Scream.

1999 – President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.

2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the “saddle” region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.

2002 – The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He dies four years later before its conclusion.

2002 – An Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.

2004 – The city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.

2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.

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My daily recipe for today.  Hope you enjoy : )  From allrecipes.com

Layered Chicken and Black Bean Enchilada Casserole

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Miserable Failure (Photo credit: dannysullivan)

failure. (Photo credit: Ludovico Sinz [Cane Rosso (busy!)])

Find – The resource to change failure to success. You might not have the skill or knowledge to adequately address the challenge you are addressing. Understand those factors that compose your problem. Know that the answer is out there waiting for you to obtain.

Another – You might be on the right path but wrong course to your goal and objective. Relook at your plan be it written or mental. There is usually more than one way to get from point A to point B.  Try not to limit your solution set be willing to take alternative methods into consideration.

Incentive – You have done a good job reward yourself. Realize the milestone on your way to the problem completion. Depending on how complex the problem it may be necessary to address the issue in smaller steps. Keep an incentive in mind after completion of each job or task.

Learn – This could be a motivation to obtain the accomplishment learn from your mistake. It might assist you when you faced with a similar problem. The only hard problem is the one you have not found the solution.

Utilize – Understand your abilities and skills utilize them to tackle those difficult challenges.

Renew – Your knowledge and continue your quest to understand how to resolve problem. Think outside the desired solution.

Evolve – It is a process like many things are. Be better and evolve into change and the development new skills.

Image by Danny Sullivan on Flickr via CrunchBase

You need a miracle.

Therefore, you must believe in miracles. This is the first rule you have to obey if you want to have the courage to go ahead and triumph. This is very difficult because you cannot believe in anything.

However, I can prove to the world that miracles happen because I found salvation from despair when I was totally lost, depressed, and always angry. I was saved by a miracle.

This is why I’m telling you that you must believe in miracles. Your faith won’t be based on your imagination.

The unconscious mind that produces your dreams is God’s mind. God exists, and He is as saintly and as wise as described by all religions. He helps us in all ways when we obey His guidance in the dream messages. Carl Jung discovered this truth, but he acted like a scientist, and not like a sinner. I, who was a terrible sinner, could easily understand that I was receiving divine grace without deserving it. Thus, I had a religious attitude.

This story looks like a fairy tale, but there is also a tragic part in it, which proves that it is not an invention. There is always something bad in our reality when we discover the truth. This is why we never doubt that there is something bad behind the scenes, or that something bad could happen in the future. However, we are always afraid to trust someone. We cannot believe that we will find something good in the dark future ahead.

The divine unconscious mind is very generous and sends us precious messages in dreams because we are basically demons. We need guidance in order to eliminate all the evilness, the absurdity, the indifference, and the cruelty we have inherited into the biggest part of our brain.

In other words, we are immensely helped in all ways when we learn the dream language and we understand the unconscious guidance in dreams. However, we receive this generous help because we are too far from balance and we cannot find peace without guidance. This is the tragic part of the story.

Dreams are mysterious because the unconscious mind must hide the information it sends to our conscience from our anti-conscience, which is the primitive side of our conscience that didn’t evolve like our human side. We have to study the dream language in order to understand the meaning of dreams.

The anti-conscience will be able to understand the meaning of our dreams when our human conscience will understand their meaning by studying the dream language. However, the anti-conscience won’t be able to distort the meaning of the dream messages because it will learn this meaning after our human conscience does.

On the other hand, the anti-conscience is idiotic. Its intelligence cannot be compared to the intelligence of our human conscience. Our conscience can study and learn many things, while the anti-conscience refuses studying and learning whatever. It is a self-destructive animal.

Therefore, the reason why our dreams are so confusing is the necessity to hide the unconscious messages from our anti-conscience, which would distort their meaning if it could learn it before our conscience would understand these messages and follow the unconscious guidance.

You only have to learn the dream logic and the meaning of the most important dream symbols in order to understand how the dream images are connected. The dream images follow the unconscious logic.

Thus, miracles can happen because God exists and He helps us in all ways by sending us precious guidance in dreams.

You will be immensely helped by following the unconscious guidance, and successfully solve all problems. This guarantee is given to you thanks to my work, after continuing Jung’s research, and discovering the unconscious sanctity.

The unconscious mind will show you how to achieve your goals by giving you many clues, like a good teacher. You have to participate of your psychotherapy and put all the clues together, making your conclusions.

In the end, you’ll become a doctor too. You’ll understand all the process of your psychotherapy and how someone can be cure through dream translation. The unconscious mind gives you many lessons and explanations in dreams.

The unconscious messages will help you believe in salvation because you will see how your problems can be solved. You will feel that you have the privilege to understand many things about yourself and about the world thanks to the unconscious guidance.

The second rule you must respect in order to have the courage to go ahead after facing failure is the fact that you have to accept failure as if it was not the end of the world. Of course, a failure is the end of the world for you. However, the truth is that the world will keep working even after your big failure. The sun will shine again. The birds will sing with all their energy, as if nothing bad had happened to you.

A failure is not the end of the world, even though it seems to be a tragic end. Each failure is another lesson and another step in your journey.

The third rule is related to the second one. You must always stand up after falling, and keep walking. If you’ll keep walking, someday you’ll arrive.

The unconscious mind will help you arrive faster, and without making useless attempts. You will be guided.

You will surely find the courage you need to go ahead and triumph thanks to dream translation. Now that I transformed Carl Jung’s complicated and time consuming method of dream interpretation into a fast method of instant translation, you are able to immediately understand the unconscious guidance, and immediately solve your problems.

Christina Sponias continued Carl Jung’s research into the human psyche, discovering the cure for all mental illnesses, and simplifying the scientific method of dream interpretation that teaches you how to accurately translate the meaning of your dreams, so that you can find health, wisdom and happiness.

Learn more at:

http://www.scientificdreaminterpretation.com

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Motivation is a very important topic; we can bring a positive and meaningful change in our life by understanding it fully. Let’s examine what is Motivation? What is its importance in our lives? What is the relation of motivation with success? Which factors are essential for elevating motivation and what are the factors that reduce or kill motivation?

In simple words, motivation is a name of “energy” or “power” that enables a person following his targets with full heart and soul. In the presence of Motivation the journey of a person keeps on moving ahead automatically and a person completes the most difficult tasks happily and easily. Will power and motivation are the essential ingredients for success.

It is the same power that pushes a worshipper leaving his warm bed in the severe cold for worshipping, convinces any soldier performing his duty in unfavorable conditions in a desert. It is a strange power that uplifts a person for converting impossible tasks into possible ones and it its absence the easiest task seems impossible.

In respect of motivation different experts have put their ideas in front of the world, all are important in their places, but the idea that received the most popularity was presented by American Professor Abraham Mosley in 1943. In this Article we will examine his idea thoroughly/in detail, understanding which we will be able getting the answer of the question, “What are those factors that affect motivation?”

The Abraham Mosley’s idea about Motivation cleared on the world that there are five types of human necessities in life, which on step by step completion elevates motivation in human and in case of non completion of these requirements, motivation starts declining. It must be cared much that the order of these requirements are very important because their order is set as per their importance. The human needs according to Professor Abraham Mosley are:

1- Physiological Needs

Physical needs are the foremost needs of human life, without which it is not possible keeping alive. These needs include food, shelter and cloth. With the civilization progress there are many other needs in the modern age that can be included in the category of physical needs as per our standards of living.

2- Security Needs

After fulfilling the physical needs, security needs are important. Who is not aware of the importance of security needs? A person cannot focus in the presence of insecure feelings and remained overwhelmed in variety of doubts. Possible fears about future keep him worried all the time.

Every person feels the necessity that his life and wealth would have no fears at all. He should have security in wealth and social affairs. The better condition of law and order, justice in the country, reliable punishment and reward system, conduct of merit in the society, arrangement of safety from accidents and health fulfills the human security needs.

3. Love and Belonging Needs

After fulfilling the health and security needs love and belonging needs are important. We all know that human is a social animal. He possesses the natural desire of giving and receiving love. Due to this need he makes friends, grows family and searches his life partner, all these things help him creating emotional bonding with others. These relations can both be sexual or non-sexual. It is also in his instinct that he wants to be a part of group whether religious, political or social.

Doing all this fulfills his requirement of love and relation. If his requirement of love is not fulfilled fully he feels himself lonely and the extreme feeling of loneliness can create depression in him. The most important aspect of this need is that in case of non-fulfillment, a person may also lose interest in the fulfillment of physical and security needs. You might have seen many people who leave eating food, leave there houses and sometimes leave their lives as well, in case they fail in getting love or face separation from their loving personality,

4. Esteem Needs

Every person has a natural need that he must be respected. He desires that other people admire his qualities and abilities present in his personality, he receives acceptance everywhere and he must be seen as respectable. In order to fulfilling this need people associate themselves with different activities and hobbies which creates a sense of contribution in him and the need of self-esteem fulfills.

If this need is not fulfilled to a considerable extent, his self-esteem gets affected and in some cases he can become a victim of inferiority complex. The more the people have low self esteem, the more they need admiration and respect from others. Such people are more inclined getting popularity and dignity, because in this way they get more respect and honor from people.

The interesting thing in this respect is that the people with low self-esteem do not get satisfaction even by the getting respect and honor externally rather the improvement process starts only when they recover their self-esteem internally. The depression cases are more critical. Such people cannot show any extraordinary performances due to their mental condition, and hence, neither considered deserving of any respect or admiration nor succeed internally recovering their low self-esteem.

5. Self Actualizing Needs

Among Abraham Mosley’s idea of needs this is the last one. The relation of this need is with the desire that if someone is using his full potential or not. It is the name of the desire by which a person wants to achieve every possible thing in life. This is an exemplary situation.

It can also be described as the growth process has not stopped in a person but is still going on with the time. The needs of self actualizing can be different in different people. Some people satisfy their desire of self actualizing by putting their energies in painting, photography, poetry and inventions.

Understanding the above mentioned details you would have guessed that these cover almost every aspect of our needs in life. There is no easy or short way keeping you motivated all the time but it is worth taking care of all these necessities in an orderly way as stated above.

Only financial stability and progress is not a guarantee of happy life but a human personality is a combination of variety of needs and every need has its own importance. All these requirements are entire reality and demand their fulfillment. Ignoring any one of these can only create a long term complexities in any one.

We often indulge in a mistake of using all of our energies, abilities and time for fulfilling any one of the above mentioned needs, while ignoring other needs of our personality. As a result, in due course of time, our motivation starts declining and ultimately we come across a mental condition where we feel lack of motivation.

The only way of dealing this situation is that we shall examine our life style and priorities carefully and evaluate the following:

To what extent can we fulfill these needs?

Where are we making mistake?

What important aspects of our life demand our attention and time?

After fulfilling all these requirements considerably, a person becomes capable of passing a complete, fulfilled, happy and satisfied life and develops an unlimited providence of energy that enables him achieving any target in life without much difficulty.

Muhammad Irfan Zafar

Content Writer

  Example: My Dream. My Motive. My dream is to be a well known Performing Artist. Motive: Your hobby is not an career until you get paid for it. I wanna make money for something I love to do. In your one life don’t waste time being unhappy at a job. Don’t watch your life go down the drain. I love to sing and perform, that’s what is going to make me the best. MOTIVE…

  So a hobby is something you like to do, so what if you got paid for something you like to do? I call these kind of goals, dreams. Cause if I have the power to go up inside my head and image myself doing this, I just created a dream. Your hobby is something you do for free, until you actually start to get paid, and that makes it a job or career. So how much more would you do it if you were paid for it? Hmmmm???? Think about that one. ALL THE TIME!!!

   Now, psychologically, we put a weight on our minds with the word “Dream.” It sounds way more bigger then it actually is. Imagine me telling you: “I want you to help me lift my “757 Jumbo Jet,” 2″ inches off the ground. I know my jet is 60 lbs., but you don’t know it’s a model jet inside my apartment. See how the description of what I needed help with seemed bigger then we could lift, until I told you it was a model jet. This is the same way we look at the word “Dream.” Also keep in mind, that this is a sub-conscious decision to look at the word negatively. It’s not a conscious decision. The weight of the word “Dream” directly impacts our effort mentally and physically. And effort is the only way you can get results from anything. “Ohhh, he’s following his dream.” “Ohhh, he’s living his childhood dream.” Look at the definition of dream again. It’s not that hard to create a dream and live it. The point: Don’t over think the term, “Follow Your “Dreams!”

   What is your motive? You know my motive. I have to create a living for my family and myself. My hobby is singing, and I love to do it. Not only do I sing, but I’m above average. It’s my opinion, that life is too short to be stuck at a job, not having control over your schedule or your life. Plus, what’s the chances of you hating your job? I want to be happy, and travel the world.  We only have one life to live. So my motive is to create a living doing what I love. Singing….. Following my dream, accomplishing my dream, and have fun doing it is my goal or intention.

   So find out what your motive is, and really bring your motive to the light. “Huh, bring my motive to the light?” Yes, understand your purpose for wanting this dream. Your motive is what makes you stay up late when your tired. Your motive push you to make the necessary sacrifices.

Example: Your car represents your dream, and your motive represents your gasoline. Your Jet represents your dream, and your jet fuel represents your motive. Don’t allow yourself to forget why your following your dream. Cause if your car runs out of gas, or your jet is low on fuel, or if you forget why your following a dream can you imagine the circumstances or the consequences. Forgetting your motive or not having one is similar to the example of running out of the key elements in this example. (Fuel, Gas, Motive, Drive, Effort, Passion, Determination) Don’t ever run out or Don’t ever forget the cause. Stay around positive influences!

  Do not listen to people that don’t agree with what you believe in, it’s up to you to prove it to yourself. Everyone has their own theory or opinion. It’s okay to listen, but be careful because it can create doubts, sub-consciously. Just as the word “Dream” use to carry weight, peoples opinion could cause you to lack the confidence you need to push through the rough times. I’m going to be honest, it’s not going to be easy. Hey, life ain’t easy, why would accomplishing your goals or dreams be easy? Also visa versa, support from positive people, role models, and/or mentors is just as influencing. Get good people in your corner, get rid of people that means you no good. Your peace and success is at stake. Including family, sorry sometimes family members tend to have bad motives.

   Next, your life dreams, cannot be a dream, if you have not dreamed it yet. Tongue twister, right? Read it again if necessary. Remember the definition of dream? If you haven’t dreamed your dream yet, this is simple to fix. Creating dreams is fun & simple. 

Example: My dream is to be a famous singer. I watch movies such as, The Five Heartbeats, The Movie RAY, and many others. I go on YouTube and watch famous singers in concert. I also watch a lot of the interviews with performing artist to learn from them. I listen to there experiences, and there stories. I learn pitfalls to avoid, and this is why interviews exist. Remember when I mentioned peoples influences, and role models? You can create those positive influences, and role models through these interviews. You don’t have to have them as a mentor, and you don’t have to know them to get the power of influence working at your advantage. Just continue to learn and study everything that has involvement with your dream. I daydream some of those concerts I seen on youtube and image myself in their shoes, like a glimpse. I build my images of the lifestyle in my daydreams, through their videos, and put exactly how I want my reality to be when I accomplish my dream.  Before I go to sleep, I’m living that lifestyle in my head, so I cannot wait to go to sleep at night cause before I fall asleep, I’m imaging me before a show, things I’m going to do during my show. I can see what outfit I have on, everything. I live this in my head every chance I get, I call it brainwashing, or programming myself. It’s fun imaging my huge screaming crowd.

 ”You have to dream it, to believe it. You have to believe to achieve it. “

   Basically I’m painting my own image of what it’s going to be like. Sometimes when I fall asleep, my sub-conscious mind take the dream to new heights. I focus my mind on my dream and what I want in my dream. I sit and daydream it as much as I can, because I’m that person in my head. So when I am famous it won’t be nothing new to me, because I can tell that artist, “Hey, you know I lived this life through you?” So when I get on stage in front of thousands for the first time, it won’t be the first time. Many artist are not worried or afraid the first time and we know why now.

   Understand this, you don’t have to really dream the dream sub-consciously. If you do, and when you do, that’s good, but you don’t try to create that it’ll just happens. But you do want to create & live the dream in your dream for a while before it can come to reality. Remember, whatever you focus on expands.

   Last but not least, chasing dreams… Chasing dreams is, in some cases, a sacrifice. Cause you still have to create a living, but you have got to have a plan. What is a plan exactly? Scheme or method of action or arrangement, developed in advance… A plan is a step-by-step process to achieve a scheme, goal or intention. Step-by-step means you cannot go to step 5 without completing steps 1-4 in chronological order. If you start now, you will have about 300 steps, so a way to eliminate that is to know the different types of goals or plans. Short Term, Mid Term, and of course Long Term… This process will reduce the amount of steps you’ll have to take. After planning properly, you’ll physically know exactly how to achieve the attended goal and you’ll know how much time it will take. You also should know the advantages and the disadvantages, plus the pitfalls to avoid.

   “I’m so confident you will achieve your dream in life now. Why?”

Recap:

1.)You clearly know what a dream is, and how to create one.

2.)The word “Dream” alone no longer impacts you negatively. Also the word “Dream” no longer attach mental and physical failure to your effort to accomplish your dream.

3.)You understand the importance of “Motive” and how it directly effects your effort to get results.

4.)You know “The Power of Influence.” By friends, family, role models, mentors, etc….

5.)You know how to daydream and live the lifestyle or dream in your head first, to make it a reality, along with your efforts.

6.)Plus you know exactly how to plan your way to success, and the motto is: “You failing to plan is planning to fail.”

   And personally, I feel your 400 times more confident to succeed at accomplishing your dream, because you have understanding and control. So you will be successful if you want to be…. Remember have fun… Subscribe to my profile for more articles with similar information. Also support my singing career and add me on facebook.  Search:   Rodric Dennis King  

The plan began to erode almost at once. Schools were forced to dumb down their standards to ensure their schools abide by NCLB’s rigid rules. Eight months after the law was in place, the Department of Education released it’s first report of failing shcools, nearly 9,000 schools were named, and they were not just inner city schools. There were failures at suburban schools where high grade majorities had masked the low achievment of minorities.

States were on the defensive. They were embarrassed and angry. They were creative. Utah and Ohio removed the more difficult questions on the statewide exams and refined how schools were judged to be failing. Failing schools dropped from 760 to 200. Other states followed suit. More than 20 states banded together, urging Congress to exempt them from the law. In addition to forcing states to release annual scores, the National Assessment of Education is often called the nation’s report card, testing samples of fourth and eighth graders every two years to compare students progress in states that have different standards.

There is no consquence for not learning and the students know it, says superintendant John Dale. If students fail the reading or math test, the school might not let them play in the band, but they wont be held back a year or forced to attend summer school. The worst thing is when students have questions and interests and the teacher has to say, “We don’t have time to talk about that.” There is little time for students to pursue any special interests or electives.

NCLB was supposed to find schools that were truely failing their students. The government would direct more resources to help the schools turn around, or shut them down. Neither happened and now even people who wrote the law thinks the law needs to be replaced. It has hurt rather than helped students. Deficiencies have been known from the beginning. The law decreed that 100% of students must be proficient in reading and math by 2014 but did nothing to help schools reach that goal. NCLB is a law that everyone knows isn’t working, but it lingers, neglected where it will stay, at least until after this year’s election.

Ruby Hawk’s articles:

http://socyberty.com/education/punishment-at-school-30-years-ago/

http://socyberty.com/activism/the-coal-industry-said-what/

http://socyberty.com/politics/baptist-and-bootleggers-make-strange-bedfellows/

http://socyberty.com/people/charles-and-emma-darwin-the-marriage-of-science-and-religion/

http://socyberty.com/history/president-roosevelts-tree-army/

This place I was in, my comfort zone, became extremely lonely.  I was safe from failure, but I had no fulfillment in my life.  Every day was the same as the one before.  I was stuck in a rut, a routine that I hated, but I stayed there because I knew what to expect from it and that gave me comfort.  At that point in my life it was better to stay in that comfort zone and be miserable than to risk the heartache of failure.  I can’t do this.  I can’t do that. I can’t….I can’t….I can’t.  This became a huge part of my vocabulary and of my life.

I convinced myself that I couldn’t do things without even trying to do them.  I made excuse after excuse until I experienced the one thing I was trying to avoid…FAILURE.  I felt like a failure.  I felt that I didn’t have anything to show for my life.  I had done absolutely nothing.  I decided right then that I would rather try something and fail rather than never trying at all.

Once I made that realization I made another one.  I realized that I truly loved myself.  I have a chronic, debilitating illness-so what!  I knew I had to stop letting my illness define who I was and who I was going to be.  It was time to put my big girl panties on and walk out into the world and start chasing those dreams I had let go of.

So that’s exactly what I’m doing.  I’m a writer and that’s who I’m meant to be and this illness isn’t going to take that away from me.  It may lessen my ability to do the things I’ve always done, but I will still do them.  I will never let Fibromyalgia or anything else ever steal my dignity again.  This is exactly who I’m supposed to be and I’m perfectly happy just being me.

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do.–Helen Keller

A recent newspaper heading though caught least attention of its readers, is utterly shame full and bitterly disgusting ‘’ India ranked 2nd last in global test conducted by PISA’’. Students from our country have been top rankers in GMAT, SAT and other tests at international forum since last few years. From Canada to Switzerland you may find company head honchos are Indians . A good no. of scientists, a fair no. of world famous surgeons and a large fraction of IT professionals are either Indians or connected to sectors headed by glossy Indians. But just below the majestic statistical data there lies the black truth. The hard truth to which we elite people have turned our faces and pretend to be in safer side.

With around 26000 govt. schools, India has the lowest literacy rate worsened by a 26:1 student teacher ratio. We spent merely 2.1 % of our GDP in overall education compared to 9.0 % of China. Damn lies are the statistics of 2011 census which mentions 74. 04% of Indian population is literate. Just enrolling in a school for  mid day meal or an uniform doesn’t define the percentage of literacy. I have been knowing teachers from govt. schools who are frustrated enough, managing loads of books, notebooks, uniforms, pencils and others in school premises or office rooms as there is no proper storage facility. They feel more like store keepers rather than teachers as they are accountable and punishable for any damage occurred to these govt. free aides. What could be more embarrassing for a country claiming to be the next super power, where the apex court has to order the central govt. to facilitate our next generation with at least separate sanitation for girls and boys. Another world dwells in this country whose residents score 10 percentile in CAT and make headlines of our so called massively powerful  media, while more than 80% of 8th grade from govt. schools score less than 2nd grade international standard in mathematics. In reading we finished bottom last . 

 we don’t have public libraries in any of our big/small cities, towns/ villages. dust, termite and mice savor the flavor of old , ragged books in public libraries. Even in so called premier public schools only one library period is assigned during a whole week and even that is substituted by a class to cover unfinished syllabus. Reading habit has never been nurtured nor promoted.  Free teaching programs or campaigns are hardly organized by these money monster public schools for govt. schools. Owning a public school and looting cash from prestige seeking parents in the name of education and evading tax as service sector entrepreneurs is the best way to become milliner by one night besides politics . There runs two paradoxical education systems in India since independence and nothing new in that. Contrary to this ailing and failing approach towards elementary education, our media is flashing only creamy achievers every day.     

 It’s always better to be optimist than to create fuss sitting in an air conditioned room. We could do our best by uploading free materials on elementary math and few basic operations, elementary grammar. Let’s hope for the best. Let this country awake and perform before there would be nothing to even claim.     

THINGS TO DO FOR REDUCING STRESS

1. Lean to face the exam, despite the fear of a possible failure.
2. Create a time-table to organise your time.
3. Do your exam revision with your friends and test your skills and knowledge with them by asking questions.
4. Organise your study environment appropriately without any kind of disturbances.
5. Try relaxation exercises. This will improve your focus.
6. Make sure that you rest and sleep well and avoid up all night.
7. Identify your strong points and work on your weekness.

 So now get ready, study and score and always remember that failure is the stepping stone of success. Best of luck.