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Mistakes have grown to be even more costly today. In 1983 the General Accounting Office, the investigative arm of Congress discovered that the armed services and the Defense logistics Agency, which handles supplies for the Military, had been hiding billions of dollars in costly errors. They had said parts not available for tanks, ships, missiles, and aircraft when they were available. Causing millions of dollars on purchases of unneeded items. Fraud and criminal activity was ruled out. The whole fiasco was called shocking and declared, “it clearly strikes at the management of the defense supply system.”

The educational system gets it’s share of blame. They can’t get their facts or figures right either. The New York Board of Education erred in counting the number of disabled students and stood to lose $30 million in funds for 1982-83 school year. They had relied on the number of disabled students enrolled the year before. The mistake was never corrected and when asked why, a member on the Mayor’s board said, ” Because the Board of Education can’t count.” This is how errors cause waste, effecting citizens and frustrating taxpayers.

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This happens all the time to each and every one of us. I have been thinking about my past and have realized that I could have done better. The biggest thing that bugs me is related to relationships. There is this girl at my school that I used to like last year. I mean I was in love. I would do anything to make her happy and I just know it was hurting me. It ended once summer came and we stopped talking to each other. I began to fade away from this infatuation and towards my own self again. I realized how terrible the year had been for me. I was not doing things in the good of me, but rather in the good of her. Sure, I did fine and got through it, but I felt like I could have done something different each and every day. She used me to help her with homework and with everything. I did not want to go back to it, but eventually summer was coming to an end and I began to think again. The year was not that bad at all, I enjoyed talking to her all the time. I still could not go back to liking her again though. It was too hard on me because I was unable to gain my true goal.

Now, it is a new year and I don’t feel the same about her as I did the year before. The hard part is, she now likes me and realized how hard she was on me. I am unsure what I think about her anymore. I feel happy when she is around, but when she isn’t I don’t have feelings towards her. I believe I should give her a chance, but I do not want to be hurt any more than I have been.

What I am getting at is, though times may be tough you need to follow your heart, not your mind. I believe in my mind that I should stay away and not get hurt, but my heart tells me to give her the chance, but do not go too deep into it until I’m comfortable. Be yourself and don’t change for them. I will fight for her to make her feel needed, but I will not give up my dreams of doing what I want to do.

In my business, I made a serious mistake or a blunder if you please. I made an association with the wrong person which infuriates my other business partners. When I realized my mistake, I repented and acknowledge my sinfulness. As the days passed, as I made an evaluation on the events that happened, I learned that God allowed it to happen for me to know who are real and who are not.

The blessings of making mistakes can be a lot but here’s the most important. I have come to know that those who walk away are not real friends. I learned that a friend is someone who knows me well, inside and out, including my weaknesses, but still like me. I am grateful that there are still some who stayed. As one author had said, “Real friends are those people who came into our lives and stayed.”

Therefore, when you made a mistake, be remorseful, repent, but don’t just stop. Realize and ask God the lesson why it happened. I’m sure, as the sun rises, that you’ll find at least one important life’s lesson. Learn from it and move on. Use that mistake as a stepping stone to become stronger than you were yesterday. Never use it as a stumblingblock in achieving your purpose – your dream in life.

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They polled nearly 2.5 million American voters over an extended period by telephone. Four days before the election they stated the winner would be Kansas Republican Alfred M. Landon with the startling number of 370 electoral votes. The magazine clearly showed there is always room for human error. Whether voters changed their minds or whether they had kept mum about who they would vote for, nobody knew.

Surprise, surprise, election day saw Franklin D. Roosevelt run over Landon like a raging tornado. It was the largest landslide in any American election. Roosevelt won 523 electoral votes. Landon had 8. Many middle class Americans at the time had no phones, so mostly rich citizens were polled. They would as a matter of course voted republican.

In 1936 the country were still in the big depression, people were desperate, without jobs and hobo camps all over the country. Many of you  remember “The Grapes of Wrath” People were homeless, broke and looking for relief. The only way out of the depression was to get a Democrat into office. They did it by going to the polls and casting their vote. Within a year with their reputation on the skids, the Literary Digest folded.

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In many cases though, and quite typically, the rate of unintended pregnancy despite condom use stands at about 15%, because errors in usage are all too common, including the glaring mistake of putting one on part-way through the act, or taking it off too soon.

Add to these errors that of not leaving space at the tip for semen to collect, besides that common failure to look for damage before use, and it is not hard to see why breakage or leakage is far more prevalent than it should be, Sexual Health journal researchers reported on Feb. 17th.

Professor Richard Crosby- University of Kentucky – co-authored the recent study, with Stephanie Sanders- Indiana University Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. With colleagues, they studied 16 years worth of condom error research, back through 1995.

Over 50 studies from 14 countries, western nations like the UK and USA predominating, which involved diverse groups, from married people,  sex workers, college students and more to give the broadest range of condom usage. Between 17 to 51.1% of those questioned donned condoms partway through, which rendered fluid-exchange prevention void.

Between 2 and 24.8% put the condom on too late, and results also showed that multiple mistakes were made in the way that people put condoms on. 25% said they unrolled the sheath first, as opposed to the correct method of unrolling over the penis. Between 25 to 50% failed to leave room at the tip of to collect ejaculate. 75% of men and, amazingly, 82% of women failed to check for damage before use.

Up to half had experienced a condom break, 13 to 19% having experienced  one leak, both of which problems can be exacerbated by incorrect use, including employing the wrong kind of lubricant – oil-based lubricants will degrade latex condoms –  or storing the rubbers incorrectly.

If more care were actually taken when electing the safe sex route, instead of the frantic fumbling that so often proves ineffectual, then society would be all the better for it. Think about that the next time that passion overwhelms you. Whether you like it or not, babies are a life-time commitment, and if parenthood does not figure in your plans, then you know what you have to do.  

Most people have a relationship problem. Even when they are mentally ill and they have other psychological problems, they also have a relationship problem.  

My example is about love, because love is the most important matter of your life. Love is so important that it is a big danger for your mental stability. This is why the unconscious mind is very generous with you. You have trustful information about the person you love, or clear guidance about how to find your perfect match if you have no relationship. This is a dangerous problem too.

The unconscious guidance helps you calm down and understand the truth.

You will perceive that you can trust the unconscious mind because the unconscious messages have a protective character. Thus, you’ll feel supported and relieved for having precious guidance in your own dreams.

You’ll learn everything you need to know about the special person. You will also predict the future and understand how to correct your mistakes before making them (again) and ruining your own life. This way, you’ll have the chance to change your destiny and avoid bad consequences.

The unconscious mind shows you how the future will be unfolded if you’ll follow the wise guidance you have in your dreams, and also how the future will be for you if you’ll disobey the unconscious guidance.

First of all the unconscious mind shows you your good destiny (if you’ll be obedient). Then, it shows you your bad destiny (if you’ll be disobedient). This order is not always respected in all dreams. You may have first of all negative dream scenes in a dream, showing you your bad destiny in the beginning, and your positive destiny only in the end. Dreams comparing different future results are very common.

You have to be obedient in order to be cured and in order to achieve your goals. If you keep making the same mistakes, you cannot be cured.

For example, if the unconscious mind will show you in a dream that the real reason why your husband told you that he needs some time to think and remain alone is the fact that he is cheating on you, you must be very careful and respect the unconscious guidance.

The unconscious mind will tell you to stay alone and never bother your husband again. It will tell you also not to answer his phone calls or email messages.

Your husband must feel that he completely lost you in order to miss you, and understand how much he really loves you. He must also understand that if he loves you and he wants to live with you, he must respect your relationship.

If you’ll be immature and disobedient, you will face the tragic consequences of your mistakes. You have to obey the guidance of your wise doctor instead of doing silly things that will cause more problems.  

If you are an obedient student and patient, your progress will be visible after a few days of dream therapy. The unconscious mind changes your life into practice, besides helping you transform your personality.

Your husband will regret having betrayed you and desperately desire to be with you.

If you’ll be silly and easily accept meeting him before he will really regret having betrayed you, he will never be loyal and respect your relationship. Of course you miss your husband, but this doesn’t mean that you should believe in his lies. You have to bear your separation during a certain period of time and precisely follow the unconscious guidance if you want to see the positive results you desire.

If you want to solve all the problems of your life in a short period of time, you must be obedient and patient. Each dream will help you calm down and understand what to do. When you are impatient you pay for your impatience with more suffering, and you delay even more in order to finally solve your problems.  

You’ll save time and pain if you’ll be patient, and if you’ll do only what will surely help you solve your problems, instead of making costly mistakes. The unconscious plan may take some time if you have a difficult problem, but this plan is perfect.

If you’ll obey the guidance you have, you will surely triumph in the end. This is guaranteed because the unconscious mind is God’s mind. The unconscious mind doesn’t make tests (like ignorant human beings). You have clear guidance about how to achieve your goals. You only have to obey the directions you have in order to see the results you desire.

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.

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     I don’t know what it was that people didn’t like about me, but whatever it was, it surely wasn’t that I was a mean person. I’ve always tried to be as kind and as fair to everyone as much as possible. Perhaps that was one of the problems. People are cold, and some see kindness as weakness. Something they can use and take advantage of. This is a thought, but I find that for me at least, the friends (and I use that term loosely) I used to have, were nothing more than distractions. Taking my focus away from school work and on their bullshit agendas. I used to have “best friends” that inevitably dropped me like I was just some extra wight they didn’t need. Bums me the fuck out, but we all move on.

     As for the present, my grades currently suck and the friends I’ve managed to scrap are pretty fucked up and unreliable. There are maybe one or two of them who “seem” like they are really there for me. So for the time being, I will take that at face value. In conclusion, I would recommend to anyone younger than me in a similar situation; you have the ability to change your situation whether you realize it or not. So act now and don’t wait. For me the only ones I can count on are my family. 

There is a tragic awfulness to the sight of something as magnificent as a whale being washed up dead on a beach, and local residents will go to extraordinary lengths to get rid of the decaying and putrid smelling flesh. Such carcasses would be put to use in olden times, but not so these days.

Varying enormously in size, dead whales are by no means easy to dispose of. Burying them through using large excavators is one option, though machinery capable of doing the job is likely to sink itself into a sandy beach, so a preferred option for  disposal of the corpses is using explosives.

Blowing up dead whales is not uncommon, and mostly works very well, though there are occasional mishaps, like that which took place, in 1970 in Florence, Oregon with a 15metre long sperm whale carcass. Decided to have been too big to bury, the locals opted instead for the explosive route, but in an awesome misjudgement employed 20 full cases of dynamite!

The blast was so powerful that, huge chunks of blubber were hurled skyward,  one 300lb lump chunk landing on the roof  of an Oldsmobile 88 and trashing it, the exploding whale story keeping many a bar-fly occupied for months afterward, even though the reality had been anything but funny.

Taiwan was the location, on a beach in 2004, on January 26,where another beached whale blew up explosively, this time because decomposition gases exploded from the decaying corpse. Fifty men had manoeuvred the huge body onto a flat-bed truck to transport it, over a gruelling 13 hours.

It was driven slowly through the local town of Tainan, where a 600-strong crowd, enjoying snack foods, were ignoring the chilly weather to see what was going on. In the centre of town, those gases finally caused the bursting of the  whale corpse, splattering blood and whale guts over everything around it.

Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, locals experienced the same thing, but on a local beach, the blubber reportedly hanging off nearby trees for weeks afterwards. In 2001, a humpback, beached near South African Port Elizabeth, and Southern White, beached by Cape Town in 2005 both got blown up to dispose of the bodies.

It is not at all uncommon for whales to beach, or for those living nearby to want to dispose of the bodies as efficiently as humanly possible, but such sad sights are a tragic reminder of the delicacy of oceanic eco-systems and the vulnerability of wildlife, and blowing up these tragic remains is nothing whatever to be amused about.

In this post, I will try to answer the most basic issues about a first date, and I’ll also suggest some more free resources you could use.

Where to Take a Girl on First Date?

Tough question, right? It seems that everyone you ask will have a different answer – and sometime the answers will even be the opposite.

Let’s begin with where not to take her: some men might think that on a first date, they need to impress a girl. While impressing isn’t always that bad, it’s definitely wrong to try to impress her financially.

Because unless you want a girl who will suck all your savings – there is no reason to make a girl like you for your money!

Taking her on an expensive dinner? No. Picking her up in your (rented, probably) Limousine? No.

You shouldn’t spend a lot of money on a date. If it’s a first date, this means you hardly even know the girl – so why spend hundreds of dollars on her?

My favorite place for a first date should be a quiet bar. A bar is actually a great place because it provides you will good music and various topics to talk about (ie, other people in the bar can be great topic conversations).

Plus, the environment of is less formal, so your date won’t look like a job interview. And the alcohol is always a bonus, as it gets you comfortable and relaxed.

A café can be also good, but less recommended. However, some conservative women will not like the idea of a bar date, so a café is the proper solution for them.

Good First Date Topics

So many first dates turn into a job interview very quickly.

“Where do you live?”, “What did you study in college?”, “Where do you work?” – these are terrible boring question!

The first thing you should try to avoid is using too many questions. Asking questions is not the only way to develop a conversation, so you should make sure you diversify your conversations.

Use statements, opinions, stories (very important), jokes and humor – and make your interaction far more interesting.

Another important thing is not to make a first date too serious. You can’t decide if the girl is going to be your wife, or even your next girlfriend, based on a first date.

Instead, make it funny for you both, and see if there is a connection and chemistry between you both.

Talk about hobbies, interests, fun things, dreams, about love. These are exciting topics, especially for women.

Women usually get pretty boring and weird dates. So be different, make her enjoy it, and your chances for a second date will skyrocket (of course, if you like the girl too. Never continue to another date if you don’t want her too.

Kissing On First Dates

Some women might consider a kiss is inappropriate and “too early” for a first date. But for many others (according to my experience, it’s the majority), getting a kiss on a first date is going to be a great bonus and upgrade.

Before even thinking about kissing, you should make sure that you like each other and feel some basic attraction (no attraction = no kissing).

Regarding kissing, the mistake most men make is to learn from Hollywood movies, and attempt to kiss the girl at the very end.

Now, odds are that this attempt will be pretty awkward and uncomfortable for both of you, and eventually you will give up kissing.

Instead, kiss the girl in the middle of the date. The perfect moment for a first date kiss, is during the middle of the date, when you’re having a great conversation.

Not too early, because you need to be comfortable with each other first, but after a bout 40-60 minutes, it is a great time for a kiss.