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If so what has been the progress is it noticible


This powerful tool can stop a vote on a bill as long as members are willing to talk.
Choose one answer.
a.
filibuster

b.
cloture

c.
initiative

d.
discharge petition

e.
extended session


I have been married a short time and it seems to me like sex and intimacy are completely non-existant for me and my husband and I dont know how to fix it. The reasons behind it may vary and may not be a I think. Its easy to say just seduce your husband or get over it but its not quite so easily done. The circumstances are........before I was with my husband I was completely innocent, I'd never been sexually involved with anyone. My husband and I were sexually active before we married. He had vast experience and is older than me and for a number of years had been using internet sex, porn, random sex as a release but saw it as nothing more than sex.......I believe for my husband there is not an emotional connection during sex because for so long sex has just been about busting a nut. I dont believe he can differentiate between loving sex and sex for sex's sake. He has mentioned before there's some things you just dont do with your wife which I think is rubbish if there's anyone you should be doing it with it's your wife!!. As a married woman theres so many things I haven't experienced that I wish I had, so many times I wish I could just say *&!% it and take the initiative but I dont. I have never spent a day in bed with my husband or woke up naked with him or been kissed properly for no reason or had any type of romance. By romance I dont mean things or flowers or any of that stuff because things like that dont fuss me terribly but it'd be nice to be complimented or feel loved or get suprised anything really....it doesn't happen. I believe I am to blame as well when we met I hadn't been with anyone and had no experience, that does not mean I am a prude, I am open to just about anything but I think because of my history he just doesn't bring anything up, I was initially shy just because it was a new situation for me and maybe that shyness turned him off me. We also have a small child who requires a lot of attention and care often I'm tired although I always make an effort to spend at least some time with my husband every day, but I dont think he see's me past the diapers and milk and crying :-). Sex and intimacy has been lacking in our relationship for so long now that it almost feels useless bringing it up and I miss it I really do. I dont know how to change things around because to be honest I have no experience of anything like this. I dont know if my husband just isn't attracted to me or is out of love with me. Something I keep thinking is when our relationship began my husband done some dishonest things that we have since worked through............it did hurt me a lot though and shattered my confidence, I believe he feels guilty for treating me like that and as a result stays with me through guilt and obligation because he is a good person and doesn't like to see people wronged, he knows how hurt I was and how much I love him and I believe he just doesn't want to hurt me and now we have our daughter he wants to be there for her and be a father, I just dont feel that any of these reasons are enough to stay in a loveless, sexless marriage. I dont know that things can be changed but I took my vows seriously and I love my husband so I would like to try before it gets too late............where do I start?? any ideas?? I have spoken to him about the intimacy and he always says he loves me and our family but things remain the same. I just want a normal healthy relationship, I love my husband and want to be intimate with him.....at some point every day I want to be close to my husband, I want to fall asleep in his arms (preferably after sex!), I want to wake up next to him, I want to kiss him and have a great sex life........but we dont............advice?
sunshine- while I hardly think 2 questions constitutes every other day I do see the point about denial but I did take my vows seriously and it is difficult to make decisions on something so important sometimes different opinions help and I do take all of them onboard.


I need to write comments on these words in a Professional and Positive way!

1. Communication
2. Customer Service
3: Problem Solving
4. Quality of work
5.Initiative/Creativity
6. Technical skills

PLEASE! help me.


How come if I take a little bit more initiative in my relationship with my boyfriend, he says "You scared me with that" Like I'm pretty conservative and pretty shy, but I've gotten comfortable with my boyfriend so I've been willing to show affection more freely. Umm lemme pick a simple example. We made out and I stuck my tongue in his mouth. Usually he does that but I did it and he gave me the "You scared me with that one" answer. Because I'd never done that before. After that he teased me a bunch by doing anything but let me kiss him.

So is that statement good or bad? I'm confused...


Hi

I'm desperate. I was wondering if anyone knew where they sold TV and movie patches in Toronto, Ontario. I'm specifically looking for a few Dharma Initiative patches. I can only find places to order them from the US but I need one ASAP. Any help immediately would be much appreciated.

Thanks!


My guess: eco means ecology. initiatives means taking action. So does eco-initiatives means taking environmental action?


I am doing some research on my grad thesis about human interactions. I am writing a section on intimate boy and girl relationships, since boys are generalized to make the interaction with girls my research is on how girls are now taking initiative in interaction. So what do guys prefer? So example. Guy is looking at girl from across room and they make eye contact and smile, what happens next, do girls take the initiative or guys?





So the Democrats like Obama and Frank were all getting HUGE donations from Fannie and Freddie...Jimmy Carter started the GSE programs, Bill Clinton forced the fed to secure the sub primes and the Democrat Congress under Pelosi.Reid refused to reign them in under the advice of then president Bush and also Mccain.

Barney Franks boyfriend is a lobbyist for Fannie Mae.

But for some reason, most Americans blame Bush...how can this even be remotely logical?

Are Americans really THAT stupid?


The news media have covered the relationship in the past, but there have been no mentions since 2005, according to Nexis and despite the collapse of Fannie Mae. The July 3, 1998, Reliable Source column in The Washington Post reported Frank, who is openly gay, had a relationship with Herb Moses, an executive for the now-government controlled Fannie Mae. The column revealed the two had split up at the time but also said Frank was referring to Moses as his “spouse.” Another Washington Post report said Frank called Moses his “lover” and that the two were “still friends” after the breakup.



Frank was and remains a stalwart defender of Fannie Mae, which is now under FBI investigation along with its sister organization Freddie Mac, American International Group Inc. (NYSE:AIG) and Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) – all recently participants in government bailouts. But Frank has derailed efforts to regulate the institution, as well as denying it posed any financial risk. Frank’s office has been unresponsive to efforts by the Business & Media Institute to comment on these potential conflicts of interest.



While the relationship reportedly ended 10 years ago, Frank was serving on the House Banking Committee the entire 10 years they were together. The committee is the primary House body which along with the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) has jurisdiction over the government-sponsored enterprises.



He has served on the committee since becoming a congressman in 1981 and became the ranking Democrat on the committee in 2003. He became chairman of the committee, now called the House Financial Services Committee, in 2007.



Moses was the assistant director for product initiatives at Fannie Mae and had been at the forefront of relaxing lending restrictions at the company for rural customers, according to the Feb. 23, 1998, issue of National Mortgage News (NMN).



“Herb Moses, who helped develop many of Fannie Mae’s affordable housing and home improvement lending programs, has left the mortgage industry,” Darryl Hicks wrote for NMN. “Mr. Moses - whose last day was Feb. 13 - spent the past seven years at Fannie Mae, most recently as director of housing initiatives. Over the course of time, he played an instrumental role in developing the company’s Title One and 203(k) home improvement lending programs.”



Hicks explained in his story how Moses orchestrated a collaborative effort between Fannie Mae and the Department of Agriculture.

“The Dartmouth grad also played a crucial role in brokering a relationship between Fannie Mae and the Department of Agriculture,” Hicks wrote. “This led to the creation of Fannie Mae’s rural housing program where the secondary marketing agency agreed to purchase small farm loans insured through the department.”



While Moses served at Fannie Mae and was Frank’s partner, Frank was actively working to support GSEs, according to several news outlets.



In 1991, Frank and former Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., lobbied for Fannie to soften rules on multi-family home mortgages although those dwellings showed a default rate twice that of single-family homes, according to the Nov. 22, 1991, Boston Globe.



BusinessWeek reported in its Nov. 14, 1994, issue that Fannie Mae called on Frank to exert his influence against a Housing & Urban Development proposal that would force the GSE to focus on minority and low-income buyers and police bias by lenders regardless of their location. Fannie Mae opposed HUD on the issue because it claimed doing so would “ignore the urban middle class.”



Moses left Fannie in 1998 to start his own pottery business. National Mortgage News called Moses a “mortgage guru” and said he developed “many of Fannie Mae's affordable housing and home improvement lending programs. Moses ended his relationship with Frank just months after he left Fannie.



Even after the relationship ended, however, Frank was a staunch defender of Fannie Mae even as other experts suggested there were serious problems building in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.



According to an article by Kathleen Day in the Oct. 8, 2003, Washington Post, Frank opposed giving the Bush administration the right to approve or disapprove business activities that “could pose risk to the taxpayers.” He told the Post he worried the Treasury Department “would sacrifice activities that are


The initiative being that people between the ages of 17 and 21 must either be undergoing some form of education, or employed in some capacity. If they do not fall into one of these categories, they will not receive the govt benefits they currently are entitled to.
What are your thoughts?
Comrade otto, there are no judgements on any comments made on my question. It is simply a question to get people thinking. Thank you to everybody answering today!
Sorry, just another addition here. Low income/no income students are given education by way of Austudy and HECS here in Australia. Granted it wont get you into a high profile private school, however it does get you an education with which you can do with what you choose. Also the initiative offers financial support to those who choose to further their education.
I'm not portraying a for or against stance here, just clarifying a few more facts.


I posted this question before and liberal extremists in Yahoo Answers deleted it as "rant", though the real reason is silencing free speech.

What is a racist anymore? Racist is a term used and abused so often today that it is nearly used as much as "like" is amongst American youth. The hypocrisy is unbelievable!

For instance:
If a white man says the N word, he's a horrible racist. If a black man says the N word, he's cool?

If white and black candidates apply for the same job, the black candidate has to be awarded the job because it would be "racist" to hire the white candidate.

Illegal Mexicans say that it is "racial profiling" to enforce the most fundamental immigration laws. They also believe that they DESERVE freebies just because they have darker skin.

Blacks where I lived would have their bills and food paid for by Welfare just because they were too inept and lethargic to work for their living. Meanwhile, white families that are REALLY in need are being denied FOOD STAMPS!

It is called "racist" to oppose the unConstitutional policies of Barack Obama, yet it was "patriotic" to oppose the EXACT SAME unConstitutional policies of George Bush.

SO, is there really any of that anti-black racism left?? Or is it all is going the other way?

P.S.
And for those who are ignorant, I am a Southerner because I believe in what the South truly stood for, FREEDOM and equality. If you don't have the initiative to investigate that and you still want to vent hate at me, you can get stuffed.
:) surprise surprise, I got another hate answer.

Thank you to those who were mature and composed in their responses.


Each veteran will get a $100 bonus for each month they served, up to $1000.


This will authorize the state to borrow $200 mill.


Ohio's in a $7 billion deficit.

How can the state continue spending money it doesn't have?


I wholeheartedly agree that the vets deserve this bonus,
but are you willing to bankrupt the state for it?



When the state is suffering a deficit of 7 billion..........we shouldn't be spending money on "bonuses."

$500-$1000 isn't going to make or break veteran's retirement.

$200 million.....is a much bigger threat to breaking the state government.


Your thoughts on this?


Please read and answer for my sanity


Dear Johnny,

First of all by you just admitting to all this without rationalizations, excuses or divorce talk has already helped my anger toward you. Thank you. That doesn't mean it's all gone and it doesn't mean I'm ready to jump into anything with you.

I don't have any desire to start over with you yet John. It's taken a toll on me and my emotions big time. I waited and waited for all this shit. I told you I was unhappy and things continued. I told you the only way to save us was for me to get my space and time and be down here while I get my shit together and you get your shit together. That never happened. Us breaking up was inevitable with the past we had.

Yes we had great times, yes we have amazing chemistry, passion and love but John, all that gets buried when anger takes over.

I'm angry at a lot of things.
The past
The lies
The fights
The finances
The irresponsibility
The lack of communication
The lack of understanding me and my needs
The criticism of my life and my choices
The choices you made
And the fact you did take me for granted.

I can't promise anything of our future, to do so would be unfair to both you and me. I need to figure out what I want in life and the things I have been struggleing with for years. I'm not perfect, never claimed to be but I feel like there were way to many issues and I deserved better.

As far as me dating other people, I have zero interest John. I hope you know what I felt for you was sincere and I meant every word but every promise you broke, every day I waited for things to change and every lie/deception you got caught in chipped away at that. Then you would apologize, cry, tell me things would change and I would believe you and trust you and do it ALL OVER AGAIN. This time I can't. I suggest that with your masshealth you see a shrink. See it for yourself and everything you have gone through and are going through. It's free, one hour a week does wonders. It will also show me you are attempting to better yourself and by you bettering yourself WITHOUT me pushing or helping is a HUGE element. I want to be taken care of, I deserve it and I will get it. You can only take care of someone if you take care of yourself first.

I have missed you and I will miss you. I am proud of you for taking initiative and getting things together. When we meet for dinner and you tell me things that are going on I can promise by then I will leave the past behind us but I can't promise anything else.

Please be safe, stay strong and know that this girl wouldn't be emailing you if she didn't care about you or us.

Love


The Northwest Airlines pilots who overshot their Minneapolis destination by 150 miles have prompted the Transportation Department to expand its distracted driving initiative to include "distracted flying.I believe those pilots were having a sex party 10 thousand mile up .What say you ?


My class is going on a school trip on monday. This year, they are doing individual trips(i.e freshmen,sophs,juniors, nd seniors go on trips alone)

I'm not the type to take initiative, so do I ask the girl to hang with me during the whole trip? can I please have some suggestions, me and this girl have been talking for a long time now and I think its time to officially start dating.

What to do?


Where can I find out about this Initiave, Must be Scholarly sources please. Thank You
Sorry I should have added more details to begin with, I need this information for an essay that I have due Thursday. Im not really concerned because it doesnt affect me, Im in college.
Whoahh, calm down. This question was taken in a different direction that I intended it to.
This has nothing to do with what our President has or hasn't done. I know it is barely his first year in office and we need to give him time, but that is not what this question was intended for.
When I stated that it didn't concern me (affect me), its because it doesn't since his proposal is just for K-12.

I am simply asking if anyone knows of any database or something where I can find any scholarly sources regarding this proposal. I have searched for days and have only found 3 & need 7 for an essay I must write for school. I will greatly appreciate it if anyone gives me some good scholarly websites or databases they may now of. Thank You.


You've been assigned by your boss to be the project leader on a major new company initiative. One of the members of your group clearly is not happy with your leadership (in fact, he wanted to be assigned project leader) and has loudly and consistently voiced his objections to many of your decisions. At the last meeting, he directly attacked your credibility by saying "You have no idea what you're talking about. You haven't done your homework. Your actions will make a mess of this entire project." The project is almost finished. You only have two more weeks of meetings. How do you handle this situation? Do you just go on with your work and ignore the bluster and insulting comments, since the project is about over (nonconfrontational style)? Do you assertively seek to put a stop to the comments (controlling style)? Or do you try to have a heart to heart conversation and seek a positive resolution to the tension (cooperative style)?

What would you do?


I have to do some research (homework) on ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) and I need some information on a matter where it has become involved on its own initiative.


I am a 17 year old girl. I weigh 140pounds, and my height is 5feet & 6.5inches. Recently I have gained 10 pounds due to extreme changes in my life. My body has been readjusting for the past two months after I finally stopped taking medication for my ADHD. I have took the initiative to exercise at least 3 times a week. For my exercise, I go to 1 hour long Kung fu / fitness sessions. We do lots of cardio, mixed with muscle building. I take a one day break after each session so my body can heal. At this moment, every single muscle in my body feels bruised when I touch, or move them. Does this mean I did a good work out yesterday? If I continue like this, do you think I will lose weight?


I've had the game Blue Dragon for a while, but I've never really had the initiative to play it until now. I've been getting really involved in it and going through it pretty fast. After countless hours I finally got to disc three. I go to insert it into my disc trey and to my demise there's a dime sized hole in it like I've never seen before! The hole is real precise too, almost like a laser cut straight through it (there are no burn marks though, if any would be created by such an action).

How could this have happened? I've never inserted disc three into my Xbox 360, let alone played the game before until now. I also take really good care of my game discs so I know I didn't cause this (wouldn't even know how to without a laser). I also bought it brand new, it wasn't used.

Also, what can I do about this? I don't really want to have to re-buy the game, but I've had it sitting around for so long that I doubt any warranty I had remains.

Man I am infuriated right now... I hope someone can enlighten me in some way on this situation. Thanks in advance!
I've also searched around for the, may I say, missing piece to the game disc, but my luck has been consistent through the course of this event.
for any moron in here, IT'S NOT THE HOLE IN THE MIDDLE. Hence me playing games for years I think I would know that. The game is UNREADABLE, the hole in the middle wouldn't cause this now would it? Think before posting kid.
I can also provide a picture to anyone who believes I am fabricating this whole story.


This guy and I started talking online a lot. We would stay up until 3am sometimes chatting and webcamming, and we talked on avg probably around 5 hours EVERY day. although he never told me he liked me, he would say things like "i like your smile", "you should put your hair down because i like it that way", "come visit me and cook me a homemade meal" etc, and he was always eager to hang out, making me promise to watch scary movies with him etc. We would call each other and leave each other voicemails almost daily also. So, I started liking him and i thought he was being quite obvious that he liked me also. However, one day he brought up the subject of how we seem to do things normal friends wouldn't do. He then said that he liked me, but maybe we should just try to be normal friends. He then went on to say that we should stop webcamming/calling each other in order to be normal friends. This was definitely not what I was expecting...why did he lead me on so much? I tried to ask him why he just wanted to be friends if he liked me, but didn't really get much out of him except that he wanted to "preserve our friendship". All this time, he was the one taking initiative and leading me on..I wasn't even the initiator! And now he does this to me..and when I asked him why he led me on, he said he didn't realize it. All this is making me so confused. What is the proper response to this?


Culture and arts exchange for Global Peace


I am trying to make a Dharma Initiative (LOST tv show) costume for Halloween but I can't find plain khaki and navy coveralls. :(


i just posted this a few mins back and got practically no responce, so i just cut and paste the exact same thing to re ask.

ok whenever i mention this:

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send him to you. John 16:7

"I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear" John 16:12

"But when he, the Spirit of Truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own initiative, but whatever he hears, he will speak..." John.16:13

"He shall glorify me." John 16:14

"He shall take mine and shall disclose it to you." Jn.16:14

"He will teach you all things." John 14:26

"He will bring to your remembrance all that I said to you." Jn.14:26

"He will bear witness of me" John 15:26

to christians they say its the holy ghost and not Muhammad or any other person.

but if you read carefully you will see that jesus (pbuh) says "It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come to you" so basically jesus is saying he MUST GO AWAY for the comforter to come.

but if we see here:
"When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy ghost." john 16:7
it says here clearly that jesus (pbuh) is telling his people to receive the holy ghost, while he is still ALIVE, but the comforter on the other hand can not arrive until jesus GOES AWAY.

i can add to that....elizabeth had the holy ghost before jesus was born, john the baptist (pbuh) had the holy ghost from his mothers womb and jesus (pbuh) used the help of the holy ghost to do all the great things he did.
and all this happened before jesus WENT AWAY.

so in my opinion the comforter/Spirit of Truth is Muhammad (pbuh)

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everybody is just saying "he is not muhammed he is the holy ghost" but like i put forward my evidence, i want you to now prove me wrong. explain to me why what i said was not true.
just saying its not true does not make it not true.


ok whenever i mention this:

Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come to you; but if I depart, I will send him to you. John 16:7

"I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear" John 16:12

"But when he, the Spirit of Truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own initiative, but whatever he hears, he will speak..." John.16:13

"He shall glorify me." John 16:14

"He shall take mine and shall disclose it to you." Jn.16:14

"He will teach you all things." John 14:26

"He will bring to your remembrance all that I said to you." Jn.14:26

"He will bear witness of me" John 15:26

to christians they say its the holy ghost and not Muhammad or any other person.

but if you read carefully you will see that jesus (pbuh) says "It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come to you" so basically jesus is saying he MUST GO AWAY for the comforter to come.

but if we see here:
"When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, Receive the Holy ghost." john 16:7
it says here clearly that jesus (pbuh) is telling his people to receive the holy ghost, while he is still ALIVE, but the comforter on the other hand can not arrive until jesus GOES AWAY.

i can add to that....elizabeth had the holy ghost before jesus was born, john the baptist (pbuh) had the holy ghost from his mothers womb and jesus (pbuh) used the help of the holy ghost to do all the great things he did.
and all this happened before jesus WENT AWAY.

so in my opinion the comforter/Spirit of Truth is Muhammad (pbuh)
everybody is just saying "he is not muhammed he is the holy ghost" but like i put forward my evidence, i want you to now prove me wrong. explain to me why what i said was not true.
just saying its not true does not make it not true.


There's this guy who works in a shop that I visit on behalf of my Dad sometimes, I've been going there for like 7 years now and I've always liked the guy who works there. I only go like once a year but I always see this guy when I go.
I kind of think he likes the look of me too as he'll always smile and make small talk with me, He's never mentioned having a girlfriend during our chats. I've always had a boyfriend before but am recently single and I was wondering if I should take the initiative and give this guy my number. Worst case scenario he doesn't get in touch and I'll either have to just get my Dad to go to the shop or find somewhere else that sells the things we need, but how should I do it, and should I do it at all? Guys/girls opinions?


LSAT 165
LSDAS UGPA 3.28
Career Goal/Public Service Oriented PS

Political Science/Philosophy Double Major
UC Santa Barbara
20 hr/wk throughout 4 yrs there
2 internships: one w/ Judge for summer (LOR1); other for 6 months in D.C. working in International Licensing
Volunteer work: not a lot, but did a trip to Mexican orphanage in Ensenada (so vanilla it hurts at this point, i know), and worked for the organization that is trying to turn the wasteland of the old El Toro Air Force Base into a large park and nature preserve.

Financially independent since graduation, although I don't think that will really show on FASFA or anything

Current: 1 yr off between UG and LS; working full time during the week as Legal Assistant at low wage and continue to deliver pizzas on the weekends and at night. Figure this might show initiative to work in industry, even if i'm at the bottom of the totem pole and have to work second job to pay the bills

I know everyone says softs don't matter unless you are some sort of hero, but at least i think i have a decent list



Applying for the Hell of it:
UC Berkeley
UCLA
Texas

Reaches:
Colorado
Emory
Fordham
Minnesota
William & Mary
UCONN
UC Irvine (probably couldn't say 'no' to the scholarship if I got in)
Maryland

Decent/Good Shot:
UC Hastings (reach?)
UC Davis (reach?)
Indiana- Bloomington
Illinois
Iowa
Lewis & Clark
Tulane
Wake Forest
Loyola Marymoun

Safer Choices:
Chapman
Pepperdine
University of San Francisco
University of San Diego

I feel like i'm being at least pretty realistic in this line up. But if i'm not, let me know.

I would also love to hear:

Shot at any of my reaches?

Do i have as good of a shot as I think i do at the middle section of schools?

Anyone think I can get some $$ from any of the safer schools?

Thanks, and I much appreciate any feedback


For my PSC 349 class, I have to write a research paper that is backed up with data from SPSS. I came up with the following research question:

What effect to ballot initiatives have on voter turnout?

My professor OK'd the question, but he told me to come see him to discuss how I would set up my research design, because that will affect how I state my hypotheses. I went to his office hours, but he was talking so fast and was in a rush. He told me that I need to control for affluence, and that I should have the states and the number of ballot initiatives in my data set (because I'll have to come up with my own -- there isn't one readily available in SPSS). I'm still confused about how I should set it up, though, and my professor has cancelled all of his office hours this week due to a family emergency.

For part I of the paper, I have to conduct a Literature Review on the subject. I'm in the process of doing that now, and that's coming along fine. I just need help formulating my research design and how I should actually state my hypotheses. Does anyone have any ideas? From the preliminary Lit Review research I've done this far, I plan to state that an increased number of ballot initiatives increases voter turnout. The only problem is that I need two hypotheses, or two causes (independent variables) for my topic (dependent variable).

Here are some of the instructions I received from my professor:
For the first part of the assignment which is described in this handout, your tasks are to develop a research question,
discuss the concept that is part of your research question and two others that explain your concept, discuss the
existing political science literature on this topic and then develop hypotheses that explain the relationships between
your concepts.
...
Finally, you need to identify two explanatory concepts you think might be causes of the concept in which you are
interested. For each of these concepts, discuss briefly why you think they explain your dependent concept. These
explanations should suggest two hypotheses. Please explicitly state your hypotheses at the end of this discussion,
using the template from class. Again, keep in mind you will be required to test these hypotheses for the second part
of the assignment so look in the datasets to see what data are available to you. In your paper for Part I, identify the
dataset you plan to use and the three specific variables that you will include in your model. Please be sure that you
are picking two explanatory concepts (independent variables) for the concept you seek to explain (dependent
variable).
In sum, the first part of your research assignment should include:
• Your research question, a description of why you are interested in this topic and why it is an important
question.
• A literature review of at least 5 scholarly articles that examine your dependent variable.
• A description of the relationships between your dependent variable and two other concepts that you think
might help explain variation in that variable.
• Two hypotheses formally stating the relationships between your variables.
• The dataset you plan to use and the three specific variables you will use for your model.

can someone please help me formulate my research design given this criteria? I'd go to my professor, but as I've said, his office hours are cancelled this week (and likely next week) due to a family emergency. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!!


When my boyfriend and I started dating and I somewhat put the moves on him first since he was 5 years younger and oh so shy. There were some bumps in the road at first, with girls trying to break us up, my best friends betraying me because I was going out with her best friend, my boyfriend and such. I said I love you first, and maybe a week later he said he loved me back. At first he said he didn't love me because he thought it was too soon and wanted to be sure. It was three months into the relationship. I have my own place, and so the 7 months that we have been together he has been staying with me, now we are moving out and he has nothing to offer into us moving in together except don't worry, I'll help you. Help me, what about me helping him. I opened up a savings account under our name and I put the majority of the money in there. I am the one who has more money to save buy furniture and he really has nothing to contribute except driving me around since I don't have a car. He is young, he is 23 and I am 27, is that a too big of a gap. I feel like I am taking the lead in the relationship and that does not make me feel sexy or special. He has no idea what he is doing and has a shit paying job, but that he loves, and goes to school part time. I already graduated. I love him so much but I feel like he's 5 steps behind me. I want someone to help me move forward not feel backward. I feel like I have been taking the initiative throughout the whole relationship. And when I try to explain this to him he cries and says he will soon get a good job and take care of me and he loves me so much and he knows he can't do it now but he wants to be able to provide for me and be the man that I want him to be. I am so sad because I love him so much and I know he loves me so much, and I just don't feel special. T.O.R.N>/....


as it always seems to be me that initiates when we see eachother, or any communication at all via text or phone. Honestly things are really lovely between us and i don't doubt her feelings. I'm just feeling a little bit resentful or at least put off by having to make all the moves, when it would feel really nice if she was to be like 'fancy doing something tonight', or sending a text saying 'hey, how are you'. She always responds to me and has never once turned me down when asking her out...just be nice if she took the initiative so that i would feel that it's not all my doing. Any women out there have any idea why this situation exists? Would love to understand better. Thanks for reading.


everything happen? especially when it comes to dating and relationships, boyfriend/girlfriend, etc.? why does the guy always have to be the one to take the first initiative when it comes to dating and relationships?
why does the guy always have to do the pursuing and chasing, make the first move, start a conversation, ask the girl out, etc.?
why has it always been that way?


So.. recently I started seeing a guy, really accidentally. They live in the same graduate apartment complex as I do, and it just started with an invitation to watch a movie. After that, we just ended up hanging out alot and spending time together - our time together was intense and we would stay up talking in bed for hours until dawn. We also didn't have sex; he suffered a strange episode in March he hasn't revealed to me yet, and I've waited and been patient for him. At one point, I asked him if we were daitng and his response was anything but clear. He said he liked me, felt that we had something more intimate than anything he'd experienced in a long time, but that he wouldn't call it dating, per se. It was still a riddle. On the other hand, he stated he enjoyed spending every moment with me. He just didn't want a label -- they complicated things. He also hasn't introduced me to his friends, because he doesn't to formalise it. He doesn't want a cage. Nonetheless, he says he doesn't want to fuck it up and lose me... and that this fear may be making him compromise to compensate. What's strange is that.. he said if I felt that was too wishy-washy and I wanted something else, we should talk - not to end things but to work it out. This I did - I called him and I told him my worries, that I didn't want to wait indefinitely for a commitment. He reassured me that he wasn't a person incapable of commitment, and that e felt like an "asshole" for not introducing me to his friends but that he's in an environment where not everyone would be ok with his being gay. I'm not so sure how to interpret this... seeing as he has gone out to gay bars plenty of times. Surely some of his friends wouldn't mind.

In the end, I find that I'm always the one to call.. set up times to hang out.. that I'm constantly having to solicit his attention. If he likes me as much as he says he does and he doesn't want to fuck it up and lose me, I don't understand his behavior. I just would wish he initiated a bit more, gave me a call, didn't have me arrange everything. He's a musician, so he's a bit flakey and a self-described carpe diem person by nature. I don't know how much his .. nature.. and how much is his feelings.. and how much is me.

I kinda want to know how to navigate this, and if I can, reasonbly and not in a needy way, get him to understand that.... a.) I want him to show some initiative.. I want him to be proactive in getting to see me since I often feel like if I don't call, he won't... b.) I want him to start slowly introducing me to his friends - I told him it's ok for now, but not forever; and c.) that well.. when you're "dating" someone.. it's somewhat incumbent upon you to give them a call at least once a week or so.. or when they call, to ask about when they're free next. The past two phone conversations I had were brief and 'just checking-in convo's" I made, but... he never asked me when I was available. I had to ask him later online when he would be free.
I should note that he said in our conversation.. he didn't want to "bring it into the real world" i.e.: make it real for aforementioned reasons. He enjoys the escapism he feels with me, he says. My fear is that... this can't sustain itself on just that. At some point, for this to go anywhere, he has to integrate into his life. Currently, he's going to a halloween party on Saturday night. I haven't gotten an invitation... I'm thinking I will give him a month to see if he can show any signs of progressing....


so this is not from over night. we've been dating for about a year now and it's not the first time I'm complaining about it. when we make love it's very "standardized", there is little variation. you guys might say "take initiative and show him better". the thing is, he knows better. he's been with women even way older then him before and i heared from his friends how exciting he's had it. why doesnt he do it with me? i am a little shy in terms of moaning very loudly and stuff like that, but still. he says he is totally satisfied with the way things are. I hate being the one always complaining abt stuff, esp when it comes to this.

i think (and i've told him that) i would be waaaaaay more turned on if he initiates sex for once. it's always me coming over to his place or telling him to come over to mine. i can't remember the last time (if there was one) when he called me up and said "come over right now", or when i was at his place, many times it happened that we didnt do nothing. and i would get very frustrated. If I let initiative up to him, I would slowly become a virgin again. LOL.

how can i get him to want me more? do you think that me complaining openly about my dissatisfaction will hurt our relationship? I don't know what to do anymore, pls help...


First of all by you just admitting to all this without rationalizations, excuses or divorce talk has already helped my anger toward you. Thank you. That doesn't mean it's all gone and it doesn't mean I'm ready to jump into anything with you.

I don't have any desire to start over with you yet John. It's taken a toll on me and my emotions big time. I waited and waited for all this shit. I told you I was unhappy and things continued. I told you the only way to save us was for me to get my space and time and be down here while I get my shit together and you get your shit together. That never happened. Us breaking up was inevitable with the past we had.

Yes we had great times, yes we have amazing chemistry, passion and love but John, all that gets buried when anger takes over.

I'm angry at a lot of things.
The past
The lies
The fights
The finances
The irresponsibility
The lack of communication
The lack of understanding me and my needs
The criticism of my life and my choices
The choices you made
And the fact you did take me for granted.

I can't promise anything of our future, to do so would be unfair to both you and me. I need to figure out what I want in life and the things I have been struggleing with for years. I'm not perfect, never claimed to be but I feel like there were way to many issues and I deserved better.

As far as me dating other people, I have zero interest John. I hope you know what I felt for you was sincere and I meant every word but every promise you broke, every day I waited for things to change and every lie/deception you got caught in chipped away at that. Then you would apologize, cry, tell me things would change and I would believe you and trust you and do it ALL OVER AGAIN. This time I can't. I suggest that with your masshealth you see a shrink. See it for yourself and everything you have gone through and are going through. It's free, one hour a week does wonders. It will also show me you are attempting to better yourself and by you bettering yourself WITHOUT me pushing or helping is a HUGE element. I want to be taken care of, I deserve it and I will get it. You can only take care of someone if you take care of yourself first.

I have missed you and I will miss you. I am proud of you for taking initiative and getting things together. When we meet for dinner and you tell me things that are going on I can promise by then I will leave the past behind us but I can't promise anything else.

Please be safe, stay strong and know that this girl wouldn't be emailing you if she didn't care about you or us.
she wrote this a month ago,I miss you terribly Johnny, I miss the way you smile and laugh, the way you look at me, the way you scrickle me and the way you annoyingly scratch the back of my head to give me split ends. I miss the way you joke and the way you roll up your retarded sleeves to your shirts. I miss the way you slurp hot coffee but stopped for my sake . I miss the way you say bless you proud of yourself that you remembered. I miss the way you get road rage.. ok fine.. I don’t miss that! Ha ha.. I miss the way your lips rest on each other when you sleep peacefully. I miss the way you wake me up by holding me and squeezing me unknowingly. I miss the way you shutter when you take cold showers and I miss your touch, smile and face. I miss you going down, rubbing me and making love to me. I miss you period.



This is hard for me too, I don’t want anyone but you and I love you more than anything I thought possible. I’m in Dunkin Donuts now, thinking of you and all th


If she's shy and maybe even nervous around you but always VERY nice to you and suddenly takes initiative, appears more confident, and starts to talk to you more?

If you were more of a quiet girl and you liked her, how would you respond? If you didn't like her, how would you respond?


Here's the question: Should people on welfare have to pay back the money a little at a time when they get a real job? Shouldn't it be just a loan.I know a few that used welfare for 5 plus years. Now are working making good money, I just think they should pay it back into the fund. I think if they knew they were going to have to pay it back, then they wouldn't take atvantage of it.

... and here's my answer that got deleted because it is "Hate Speech & Violence": Either that or we could kill them. The disadvantaged are extremely inconvenient and expensive, and in this economic climate, we probably can no longer afford such a luxury. Surley, killing the disadvantaged would dramatically ease tax burdens and that would undoubtedly stimulate the economy and create new jobs. Forcing humans into idle deprivation then making them pay back the expense of their minimal survival sounds nowhere near punitive enough to me and if we are truly serious about productivity then we will kill the unproductive to stimulate proper self-initiative.

... and these are my follow up questions:
1) Isn't parody an obvious form of criticism of that which it imitates and therefore something other than the thing it imitates, such as 'hate speech & violence'?
2) Why would any self-respecting conservative indulging in stereotypical latently violent hatred of the unfortunate and vulnerable object to hate & violence anyway? Isn't my response precisely the kind of reinforcing encouragement the latently violent and hateful conservative seeks with such a question?
3) Who is so literal that they fail to recognize such obvious parody?


The incident happened when Randy Orton hit Cena with a microphone and started Vince McMahon ordered Cena to be cleaned up immediately after seeing the blood. WWE’s John Laurinaitis along with trainers rushed to ringside to clean him up, as WWE currently has a very strict “no blood” policy as part of their TV-PG programming initiative.

I saw this on a website.

There's a no blood policy?

What do you think?


I think Wonder Woman is real cool. I saw the animated film and I liked it a lot. Those Amazons didn't take any mess from anybody! They sure knew how to stand up for themselves physically and emotionally. I think in some ways this character really should show the courage that lots of women display on a daily basis as far as tackling the stuff they have to deal with including parenting and employment and just getting through each day. I wasn't turned off by the character at all. If anything it was very interesting to me in a lot of ways. The part when she beat up those thugs in the alley was awesome! It just showed Diana is not one to be messed with. She is more than capable of handling herself. Still, I think the courage and the initiative of the character to tackle issues head on will probably be more memorable to some people than the physical strength because not everyone has the conditioning to lift a car or a couch, but everyone has the capability to show courage and compassion for others and respect for themselves and stand up for themselves when things go wrong. I don't think the cartoon diminished men socially at all, rather it helped them to have a different appreciation for females as people and human beings and I think encouraged getting to understand people personally and hearing what they have to say rather than making assumptions.


Hold your breath for the latest 'government scheme'.

Are seven year olds capable of grasping the ideas?

At 14 I was barely aware of 'careers', 'jobs' and 'professions'. But apparently the powers that be think it is a worth-wile initiative.

Can seven year olds be successfully guided into careers they may or may not pursue 9-14 years later on in life? Or is it a constructive introduction to the working world?
Palindromic - my concern I suppose is the fact that kids are already overburdened with exams - should we really be giving 'careers advice'? As someone else says, the basics of the working environment might be helpful, but not 'guidance'.


Would a federal government initiative that provides voters with lower income taxes and grocery coupons get the American public to vote more in non-presidential elections?
(In addition to local politicians talking to the people more often?)
I need at least 10 people to answer this question!!! If you disagree, offer a better voter initiative, please.





Is it good or bad for students? Why? And are they already active?


i have been dating this gy for a few months now. Its still casual.I noticed that he really doesn't take initiative, like he asks me before he does alot of things. For ex. The last time i was at his house when i got ready to leave he asked me if he could get a peck or something, and i gave him a kiss. It was our first kiss. If i go over his house he always ask what i wanna do. One time i was at his house and he asked what i wanna do and i said lets see a movie and he asked like twice, if i was sure i wanted to see the movie, even after he already ordered the tickets online.and even when he wants to see me he wants to make sure i really want to come. He told me he liked aggressive women. Is it just that he wants me to be happy or what? He told me on our first date that he would do whatever i want


Ok i already know this is going to be long so bear with me people, please it's important.
Ok so I guess i "used" to have this best friend Chase, we got into fights and didn't talk for a while. then we would talk and then we wouldn't. it just went like taht all throughout high school. (were juniors now) and now all of a sudden this year he just completely ignores me and never comes around. i heard from two of my friends that its because I change friends constantly and that I don't care about anyone unless they're my friend now. which isn't true. i've had friends all throughout middle school, heck elementary school! and I admit I have lost 2 special friends and some not sooo special friendships recently. (the first because she started being a bitch to me, the second because of guy issues, she hated the guy i was with, i broke up with him, things never got better) anyways Idk I'm just kinda really angry at him for letting me out in the cold and having my two friends tell me and him not have the guts to tell me. Yes I admit at the begining of the year I was caught up and didn't talk to him much because I was making new friendships wih three other people. But I still stayed where I was, I'm still friends with the people I was friends with last year, except for him and my three new ones.

UGH i'm just confused wether or not I should talk to him since it's been nearly 3 monthes since school started and he doesn't care about me anymore. He deleted me off his myspace and facebook. and I just don't wanna persue something that's a lost cause.
Everyone at my table is blaming me for him not around anymore. Is it my fault? But see another problem is that he's ignoring a friend of mine and he was the one that brought her to the table last year, and she's at least taking the initiative to talk to him, but he's not even really responding to her... should she talk to him too?

so many questions.
is us loosing the friendship because of me?
should I talk to him?
what should I do?