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How to Save Yourself from Toxic People
Three Parts:Recognizing Toxic PeopleDealing With Toxic PeopleSaving Yourself
You're in the best of moods. Your day is going great. Suddenly, you feel sapped of energy and your spirits are down in the dumps. Why? You might have just encountered someone who has a bad attitude, one that's cast a spell over your mood. Learning to identify and avoid these types of toxic personalities can help you stay positive. Learn to take control of your own life.
Part 1 of 3: Recognizing Toxic People
1Recognize the basic traits of toxic people. We all have our down days. However, when it comes to toxic people, the blues can be constant. If someone is just plain negative more than a few days a week, you might be dealing with a toxic personality. Keep an eye out for the following toxic traits:
- Nervous energy
- Angry sadness
- Constant complaining
- Clinginess
- Criticism
- Negative or cynical worldview
2Pay more attention to the energy of the people around you. If you have a friendly outlook, sometimes it can be hard to recognize toxic people in your life. But learning to pick up on someone's energy can help you to identify negativity more easily.
- Have you ever walked into a store and been greeted by enthusiastic workers? It's a nice experience that makes you much more willing to return. Being around negative people is like walking into a store where the mood is sour, the assistants are barely able to mumble a hello. You pick up on it immediately.
- Pay attention to body language and tone of voice. Listen to the sounds made, more than what people actually say. You can hear it when someone is just going through the motions. How do people relate to you? What do they seem to be thinking when they speak?
3Watch for people who are regularly angry. Anger, shouting, and negative criticism is a major sign of a toxic personality. Angry people sometimes need a lot of help, but it's not your job to be their punching bag. Staying around a person like this will cause you to become angry too. Don't allow yourself to be caught up in that negativity.
- Anyone who raises their voice regularly is probably an angry person. People who have control over their emotions don't usually feel the need to shout.
- Watch out for the quiet simmering anger as well. Some people won't say much, but will use poor body language and bottle it up instead. These people may lash out at strange times, when anger doesn't seem called for.
4Watch out for people with a negative worldview. Do you know someone who finds the darkness in everything? Misery loves company, so people with this type of personality trait will often want to group together and compete about their own misery. They'll try to drag you in.
- People with very negative worldview will often be competitive about their misery, trying to outdo other people's sadness. These people often see the mistakes of others as major failures, and struggle to forgive.
- Watch out for people who constantly, even gleefully, talk about their failures and sadness. Anyone who criticizes the failures of others, or seems overly cynical might have this toxic personality.
5Watch out for people who constantly seek attention. Insecure people are unable to create their own sense of self-worth, and often cling on to others to get it. They want your attention and need to be at the center of everything. This constant need to be heard can wear you down.
- Watch Facebook and other social networking for signs of this personality. Humble-brags and obsessive posting might be a sign of this toxic personality.
- These kinds of people often "one-up" everyone around them, or always swing conversation back to something about them.
6Watch out for people who gossip. Instead of supporting others, gossips feed on envy. And gossip can be thrilling in some cases, making you feel close with your fellow gossipers, making it difficult to avoid. If you've ever gotten caught up in gossip, you're not alone.
- Gossipers constantly compare themselves to others, which is a good way to set yourself up for disappointment and failure. Don't worry about your neighbors, worry about your own backyard.
7Watch out for people who try to scare other people. For this person, everything is scary. This person's anxiety about the world can be contagious. Fear gives these people some sense of safety, and communicating that fear gives them a sense of purpose. It gives you a real downer.
- Watch out for "downers" who always find the darkness in everything. If you're trying to talk about your exciting vacation you've got coming up, this person will prattle on about the deadly diseases you can catch on airplanes, and the various dangers of travel.
Part 2 of 3: Dealing With Toxic People
1Take a look at the company you keep. Do the people in your life bring out the best in you? Or are you being a sponge for their negativity? Using the criteria discussed in the previous section, try to come up with a list of potentially toxic relationships in your life, and a specific and detailed plan for dealing with them. Consider all of the following relationships:
- Your partner
- Your exes
- Friends
- Family members
- Co-workers
- Neighbors
- Acquaintances
2Try accepting people for who they are. Toxic personalities are only toxic if they affect you negatively. You can be friends with angry people. You can be friends with negative people. It doesn't necessarily mean there's anything wrong with them. Accept people for who they are and what they are like, and don't let them affect you.
- Accept yourself for who you are, too. If you're a positive person, you may not be able to hang out with negative types. That doesn't make you less of a person. You just need to know what's healthy for you.
- Negative emotions have a time limit. They won't last, and they'll be over soon. You do not need to carry the ball of negativity with you beyond the encounter.
3Empathize. If people want to spread around their anxiety, turn their negative talk back. For example, if they insist that your new job is going to fail, ask them "Well, what if it doesn't?" Help them to see the possibilities rather than endless negatives.
- Don't try to change people. Remember that you can't change another person, only yourself, so don't bog yourself down with excuses about being responsible for them or feeling pity for them. You can only truly help a negative person when you're no longer influenced by them.[1]
4Learn to tune it out. If you don't like what someone is saying, stop paying attention to it. Tune in to the positive and constructive parts of the conversation, and start daydreaming when this person goes into negative territory.
- Be supportive and positive with your side of the conversation. If your friend won't stop talking about how, "Work is terrible and I hate everything," don't get sucked into it. Say, "At least there's lunch." Doing this creates a space between you. It may make the negativity less frequent, if you show that you're unwilling to talk about these topics in this way.
- Use a little signal to remind yourself to listen selectively. It might be pulling a piece of your hair, digging your thumbnail into your palm, flicking your wrist, or tapping your knee. Remind your body that negativity is coming your way, and you need to avoid it.
5Change the topic of conversation. If you don't like what someone is saying, change the topic of conversation. If you get negativity, just start talking about something else. Every time the person tries to steer the conversation negative, pull something else out to talk about. If your buddy wants to say "Work sucks and my boss is a jerk," then change it up. Say, "Yeah. At least football is good. What games did you watch on Sunday?"[2]
- If someone is looking to blame someone for a problem, stay calm. Focus on finding a solution to the problem and looking for the bright side, instead of getting sucked in.
- Stick to the facts with hot-tempered types. Point out what needs to be done to fix a problem. If they become more angry, remove yourself from them and allow them the space to calm down.
6Start minimizing your interactions with toxic people. If you're struggling to deal with the negativity that people bring into your life, it may be time to start limiting those interactions significantly. You can't change the way that people behave, but you can remove yourself from the equation.
- If you regularly initiate your interactions with this person, stop. If this person stops getting in touch, take it as a sign that your relationship wasn't valuable to them in the first place.
- If someone asks you if something is wrong, be honest with them. Say, "I have trouble dealing with your negativity. You're regularly very negative, and I don't like the way it makes me feel. I like you, but I think we need to see less of each other."
7End toxic relationships completely. If someone is really affecting your mental health and well-being with their negativity, end the relationship. Stop seeing the person, if they can't be positive around you.
- Don't try to use ultimatums if you're talking about someone's personality. Telling someone, "We can hang out, but only if you're not negative" would be like telling them you could only hang out if they were a different person. If it's not possible, come to terms with it. Be honest.
Part 3 of 3: Saving Yourself
1Think about your own needs and desires are. What is most important to you? What do you want out of your life? Know what your likes and dislikes are and develop some idea of where you would like to see yourself in the future. Listen to what other people have to say, but remind yourself that you're the ultimate decider. You're the president of the country that is your life.
- Write down your short and long-term plans on paper. Paste it on a wall where you can constantly remind yourself and stay focused. This will also help you when times get tough and you feel the gripping desire to fall back into older negative habits.[3]
2Make your own decisions. Lots of people go through life saying, "My parents wanted me to do X, so I did X", or "My spouse wanted to go to city X, so we went to city X." Do you want your life to be decided by someone else? Make a choice, for better or worse, and live with the consequences.
- Don't allow other people or their preferences to be an excuse for you. Saying, "I'd be happy if X were different" is just another way of saying, "I'm not in charge of my own life. It's true that sometimes you need to need to make compromises with the people close to you. But don't let compromise be your go-to.
3Surround yourself with like-minded people. Why would you hang out with people you don't like to be around? Surround yourself with people who help you develop a healthy body and mind. Find people who are optimistic, upbeat, and happy.[4]
- The more time spent with people of this nature, the happier and brighter you will feel. Their nourishing, healthy, and positive attitudes will help you to stay on an even keel.
- Consider making a big change in your life if necessary. Move to a new town, or switch jobs if you're surrounded by negative people at your old one. End that relationship and start a new one with someone who builds you up instead of dragging you down.
4Be positive wherever you go. Use the inspirational example of the more positive people in your life to guide yourself away from the toxic people. In turn, become more like the optimistic people by seeing the best in others and complimenting the good you see in people. Stay upbeat. Accept and give compliments with thankfulness, maintain eye contact with them, and smile.
5Make relaxation a priority in your life. If you constantly do battle with the negativity of others around you, you need to make a serious commitment to de-stressing. Find something that calms and centers you and to which you can retreat when you need to re-energize yourself. Some common techniques for de-stressing include:Ad
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- Find one thing a day to be grateful for.
- Spend as little time with negative people as possible. Even if it's just five minutes a day, that's five fewer positive and productive minutes for you.
- Don't worry if people think of you as antisocial if you want to stay away from certain people. You need to become the most important person in your own life. You know what's best for you.
- Use a small, lovely photo frame to post a simple note that says Be Thankful Always; place it in a prominent place where you pass it and see if often.
- Force yourself to analyze your relationships until it becomes a daily habit you cannot live without. You will discover that it causes negative encounters to move away from your thoughts and will replace these with more harmonious, happy, and productive thoughts.
- Make sure to take care of your basic social needs. Maintain appropriate boundaries so that this person's sickness doesn't invade your life and happiness.
- Sometimes people who have a mental illness or who are being hurt by a toxic person themselves will exhibit these traits. If they're being abusive to you, get away from them- no matter what, you don't deserve to be abused. However, if they're just downers or needy but not emotionally or otherwise abusive to you, consider being a source of support as when the problem resolves, this person will be non-toxic and perfectly lovely.
- Even if you decide to be a source of support, realize that you are not responsible for fixing them. You'd only be there to help through a tough time. This is also optional, only do this if you can handle it, if boundaries between you and this person are healthy, and they're in no way abusive to you
- Some disorders like Narcissistic, Antisocial, Borderline, and Histrionic Personality Disorders are disorders of personality. These four in particular are difficult for trained therapists to treat, and these four personalities tend to be toxic and are often abusive. Being a source of support in these situations, especially if the person refuses to seek help is not generally recommended.
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The Toledo Rockets football team is a college football program in Division I FBS, representing the University of Toledo. The Rockets compete in the Mid-American Conference. Toledo began playing football in 1917, although it did not field teams in 1931, and 1943-1945. Since the inception of the AP Poll in 1936 Toledo has finished in the Top 25 four times. Its highest finish came in 1970 when it ranked #12 after finishing 12–0–0. Its current head coach is Matt Campbell.
Toledo first fielded a football team in 1917, under the leadership of John Brandeberry. According to Toledo Rockets lore, the team began when a group of students purchased uniforms from a sporting goods store, then arranged a game against the University of Detroit in order to settle the debt. Brandeberry stepped in to coach the team, which promptly lost the game 145–0 (but settled the debt).[1]
For the first few years Toledo played without a nickname, but was dubbed the "Rockets" after two long touchdown runs in a 1923 loss to Carnegie Tech. That season also saw Toledo win its first conference title.[1]
From 1969 through 1971, Toledo won 35 consecutive games, which currently ranks as the fifth-longest winning streak in major college football. Under head coach Frank Lauterbur, the Rockets won 3 Mid-American Conference Championships and won each of their 3 appearances in the Tangerine Bowl during those years. Mel Long, a member of the team for all three years, was named to The AP All-America First Team after the 1971 season. Charles "Chuck" Ealey led the Rockets to all 35 victories as starting quarterback.
In 2008, The Rockets upset Michigan 13-10 in Ann Arbor. The Rockets are the first and currently the only MAC Team to ever beat Michigan.
In 2015, the Rockets upset #18 Ranked Arkansas in Little Rock, Toledo's first win vs an SEC team.
They have defeated 5 of 6 Top 25 Teams they have faced at the Glass Bowl, the most recent being a 29-23 victory over #21 Cincinnati on October 20, 2012.
Bowling Green rivalry (The Battle Of I-75)[edit]
Toledo and Bowling Green State University have a rivalry dating back to 1924, when BGSU challenged the participation of Toledo's captain, Gilbert Stick, after it was discovered that Stick also played for a local team in Genoa, Ohio. Conference rules did not prohibit such play, and BGSU's protest was overruled.[1] In 1950, Toledo's athletic director charged BGSU students a higher price for tickets at a basketball game than the general public, while rumors spread of a dog-napping attempt by BGSU against Toledo's mascot.[2] Another incident came in 1951, when a fight broke out after a hard hit by a BGSU player on fullback Mel Triplett. Don Greenwood, then Toledo's coach, participated, and resigned after the university failed to back him up. In Greenwood's view, the officials should have called a penalty for excessive roughness, and he had a duty to protect his players.[1]
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- John Brandeberry (1917)
- James Baxter (1918)
- Walt Hobt (1919-1920)
- James Dwyer (1923–1925)
- Boni Petcoff (1926-1929)
- Jim Nicholson (1930-1935)
- Clarence W. "Doc" Spears (1936-1942)
- Bill Orwig (1946-1947)
- J. Neil "Skip" Stahley (1948-1949)
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- Don Greenwood (1951)
- Clair Dunn (1951-1953)
- Forrest W. England (1954-1955)
- Jack Morton (1956)
- Harry Larche (1957-1959)
- Clive H. Rush (1960-1962)
- Frank Lauterbur (1963–1970)
- John Murphy (1971–1976)
- Chuck Stobart (1977–1981)
- Dan Simrell (1982–1989)
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- Gary Pinkel (1991–2000)
- Tom Amstutz (2001–2008)
- Tim Beckman (2009– December 2011)
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Toledo has won thirteen conference titles and five division titles. In addition, Toledo has appeared in 14 post-season bowl games since 1969, and has an 8–5 record overall.[3][4]
From 1946-1949, the Rockets played a posteseason game named the Glass Bowl that was played at their stadium. They were 3-1, losing the last game to the Cincinnati Bearcats.
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- ^ a b c d Rothman, Seymour (November 10, 1991). "An intimate, informal, and irreverent look at the early days of UT football". Toledo Blade. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
- ^ Rothman, Seymour (February 19, 1950). "TU-Bowling Green Rivalry Overheating Rapidly". Toledo Blade. Retrieved 2010-01-10.[dead link]
- ^ "Toledo In the Polls". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
- ^ "Toledo Composite Championship Listing". College Football Data Warehouse. Retrieved 2010-01-10.
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It took me two weeks to read this book and I normally finish most books in four to five days.
Really? I gobbled it up in about a day.
Yup. I kept having to put the book down to give me time to process and wrap my head around some of the things presented.
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The other thing that hurt the book in my mind (and something I didn't enjoy about the Temporal Cold War in
and so many episodes of
) is that it just makes time travel look
so easy
. I am, personally, very uncomfortable with that idea (for a wide variety of reasons that I shall not go into here). But these agents from different centuries and different timelines showing up and leaving at a whim just...frustrated me. Don't get me wrong though: I knew this kind of thing was going to happen in this book going in.
Interesting. And here I made such an effort to establish that time travel wasn't easy, at least not for people in the 24th century. That something like a slingshot maneuver was exceedingly dangerous and unlikely to succeed except by a fluke, and that nobody in the novelverse era had reliable time-travel technology yet.
It is true that future technology makes time travel more attainable, and makes it look easy. That's just following the lead of the screen canon. But the danger and complications resulting from that ease of time travel are pretty much the source of the driving crisis of the novel.
I suppose I wasn't quite clear in my statement above. I know that you were simply following and expanding on what was established in
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. That wasn't really a condemnation of
. But, that aspect did sour me on the book a bit because how easy it has become to time travel in the future, no matter where that was established.
I enjoy a good time-travel storyand
has had quite few ("Yesterday's Enterprise" and "City on the Edge of Forever" to name a few). But
seriously overdid it and, again, made it too easy (and I would argue that
The Voyage Home
also made it too easy). With as easy as it seems to have become in the future to travel in time, it almost makes it seem that time really has no meaning anymore. That disturbs me, especially when confronted with consequences that you've presented. Again, as I said before, it just frustrated me.
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TRAM (Transcriptome Mapper): database-driven creation and analysis of transcriptome maps from multiple sources
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2 Institute of Biology and Genetics, Marche Polytechnic University - Via Brecce Bianche, Monte D'Ago - 60131 - Ancona, Italy
3 Department of Biology, University of Padova - Via G. Colombo, 3 - 35131 - Padova, Italy
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BMC Genomics 2011, 12:121 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-12-121Published: 18 February 2011
Several tools have been developed to perform global gene expression profile data analysis, to search for specific chromosomal regions whose features meet defined criteria as well as to study neighbouring gene expression. However, most of these tools are tailored for a specific use in a particular context (e.g. they are species-specific, or limited to a particular data format) and they typically accept only gene lists as input.
TRAM (Transcriptome Mapper) is a new general tool that allows the simple generation and analysis of quantitative transcriptome maps, starting from any source listing gene expression values for a given gene set (e.g. expression microarrays), implemented as a relational database. It includes a parser able to assign univocal and updated gene symbols to gene identifiers from different data sources. Moreover, TRAM is able to perform intra-sample and inter-sample data normalization, including an original variant of quantile normalization (scaled quantile), useful to normalize data from platforms with highly different numbers of investigated genes. When in 'Map' mode, the software generates a quantitative representation of the transcriptome of a sample (or of a pool of samples) and identifies if segments of defined lengths are over/under-expressed compared to the desired threshold. When in 'Cluster' mode, the software searches for a set of over/under-expressed consecutive genes. Statistical significance for all results is calculated with respect to genes localized on the same chromosome or to all genome genes. Transcriptome maps, showing differential expression between two sample groups, relative to two different biological conditions, may be easily generated. We present the results of a biological model test, based on a meta-analysis comparison between a sample pool of human CD34+ hematopoietic progenitor cells and a sample pool of megakaryocytic cells. Biologically relevant chromosomal segments and gene clusters with differential expression during the differentiation toward megakaryocyte were identified.
TRAM is designed to create, and statistically analyze, quantitative transcriptome maps, based on gene expression data from multiple sources. The release includes FileMaker Pro database management runtime application and it is freely available at http://apollo11.isto.unibo.it/software/ webcite, along with preconfigured implementations for mapping of human, mouse and zebrafish transcriptomes.


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reply to post by TechUnique
Building down doesn't always work...
in my part of the world the first water table is only a few feet deep...
dig a hole deep enough for one of these shipping containers and 24 hours later the hole will be a pond...
not a bad idea... if where you live will allow..
Originally posted by Mianeye
Pretty cool, and cheap.
And if you can't get them up by knocking the door, knock the wall
Reminds me of this one, use what is allready there.
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I have unlocked the bootloader, installed TWRP (twrp-188.8.131.52-ghost-4.4), SuperSU, Xposed all that jazz. Phone ran wonderfully until I saw the 4.4.2 update zip.
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"People never realize what a majordifference spices can make on even simple dishes like grilled chicken or salmon," she says.
8. "When it comes to cooking in flavor, it's never about the oil," says Alexander. Many dieters believe that unless food is fried in oil, you don't get much flavor. But, she says, the real secret is pan-browning, which can happen without oil. The trick to getting restaurant-quality taste, she says, is to never overload your pan with food. "If you put too much in the pan, the moisture content causes the foods to steam and not pan-fry," she says. "By reducing the amount of food in the pan you get that tasty pan-seared browning, without the use of any oils."
9. Don't try to do too much exercise, too soon. You not only run the risk of injury, but you'll also get quickly discouraged. "Don't try to stare down 45 minutes of exercise," says Lyons. "Tell yourself it will be OK to quit after 10 minutes, because most of the time once you get going, you'll keep going."
10. Remember: Self-esteem feeds on self-esteem. Accomplishing a little something toward your weight loss goal every day will not only get you on the road to success, but help keep you there. "You are not just losing weight, you are changing your life and your lifestyle," says Alexander. "If you keep that in mind, you come to see that every change, no matter how small, comes together to make a huge difference in not only your weight, but your life," says Alexander.
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Here are some recipes from Alexander's TheBiggest Loser Cookbook.
Better Blueberry Pancakes
WebMD Weight Loss Clinic members: Journal one portion as 1 serving pancake + 1 serving fresh fruit
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Total Higher Education Enrollment Fell in 2011
October 17, 2012
The recent economic struggles appear to have begun to affect postsecondary attendance at American higher education institutions, especially two-year public (community) colleges. Data compiled from two new reports from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), "Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2011; Financial Statistics, Fiscal Year 2011; and Graduation Rates, Selected Cohorts, 2003-2008" and "Enrollment in Postsecondary Institutions, Fall 2010; Financial Statistics, Fiscal Year 2010; and Graduation Rates, Selected Cohorts, 2002-07" show that the total number of students enrolled at community colleges fell to 7.125 million in fall 2011 from 7.285 million in fall 2010, a 2.2 percent decrease. Enrollment at proprietary (private for-profit) institutions fell nearly 3 percent during the same period, from 2.43 million to 2.36 million. These decreases were partially offset by rising numbers of students who attended four-year public and private non-profit colleges and universities, which grew by 1.5 percent and 1.7 percent, respectively. Overall, total postsecondary enrollment at American colleges and universities fell from 21.588 million in fall 2010 to 21.554 million in fall 2011.
In addition to the decline in total enrollment, more of those attending college classes were doing so on a part-time basis. Total full-time enrollment fell 0.8 percent from 2010 to 2011, while part-time attendees increased 0.9 percent. As a result, the share of all students enrolled full-time declined from 62.7 percent in 2010 to 62.3 percent in 2011.
Enrollment Changes by Various Demographic Categories
Much of the overall decrease in total enrollment was due to a decline in the number of male students. The number of men attending postsecondary institutions fell 0.3 percent, while the number of women was essentially unchanged. Enrollments by race/ethnicity also varied widely, with the number of white, non-Hispanic students declining 1.4 percent; enrollments of African American, Latino/Hispanic, Asian American/Pacific Islander, and Native Americans collectively increased by 4.9 percent. Total enrollment of non-U.S. citizens grew nearly 5 percent, while enrollments of U.S. citizens and permanent residents fell roughly 0.3 percent.
Enrollments Fell Despite Increases in Funding for Student Financial Aid
Attendance at colleges and universities decreased in spite of increases in amounts of institutionally funded student financial aid provided by many higher education institutions. Total expenditures for student scholarships and fellowships by four-year public colleges and universities jumped from $9.4 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2010 to $10.1 billion in FY11, a 7.4 percent in inflation-adjusted value (2011 dollars). Institutional grants provided by community colleges jumped 14.1 percent, from $6.6 billion to $7.5 billion. Grants provided by four-year private non-profit institutions grew nearly 10 percent. Institutional grant aid was the fastest growing expenditure category for public and private non-profit colleges and universities. As grant spending by community colleges rose more than 14 percent, expenditures for student services fell roughly 1 percent and spending on academic instruction grew only 1 percent. At four-year public institutions, the 10 percent increase in institutional grant expenditures compares with a 0.6 percent increase in instructional dollars and a 1.1 percent increase in funds spent on research. Four-year private non-profit colleges and universities increase their amount spent on instruction increased by 1 percent, while spending on research increased about 4 percent. Total expenditures at both public and private four-year colleges and universities grew 1.4 percent.
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Doodad points out Jimmy Carter's latest hateful nonsense.
After which, volleyboy1, thinking he's brilliant, compares Ron Paul to same.
Okay volleyboy, let's compare Ron Paul and Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter votes for president:
1976 Primary - 6,971,770
1976 Presidential Election - 40,831,881
1980 Presidential Election -35,480,115
Ron Paul votes for president:
1988 - 431,750
2008 - 47,000-plus votes
2012 - Didn't even qualify for a speaking spot at the RNC, after falling short of delegates in Nebraska.
His 10% doesn't sound too impressive when faced with facts, does it?
Or are those facts too "right wing" for him?


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Well , it is beginning to feel alot like Christmas here on our little homestead. I wish you all wonderful greetings this Holiday sesaon! My decorations were all up on time this year..and we've had several get togethers with friends and family this past month. Its been a flurry of activity , but alot of fun!
My Son, Weston is home for a few weeks and both Chris and I are enjoying his company and his great since of humor! It will seem like he is home only a few weeks and he'll be back to school to finish up his last semester at Colgate . He'll be graduating this year, but he's hoping to continue on to grad school next fall. He is planning on continuing in plant biology .
We have been very lucky this year as far as the weather goes. It has been a fair weather fall and winter at least December has been quite nice as well. This weather is welcome as I was a bit behind on getting my gardens ready for winter and getting the areas around the house and barn all tidied up. The weather also cooperated when it came to us getting the house and the kennel and barn decorated for the holiday season. We are pretty reserved when we decorate ..some white lights little candles in each window and a few boughs and of course a wreath or four. Its something about pine boughs & greenery , that makes the little place look so festive .
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When the baseball players strike threatened to scuttle two seasons" wo!th of ball, the whole sordid battle between petulant millionaire infielders and petulant millionaire owners produced only one hero in the public consCiousness -- Peter Angelos, the owner of the BaltimorOrioles, the owner who refused to field a team of replacement players. "An Owner Who Won't Play Ball With the Other Boys" was the Newsweek headline. U.S. News & World Report waxed a bit more messianic: "Everyone wants to hear [Angelos's] answers to basebali's problems, as if the words of one honorable, outspoken man might wipe out decades of avarice and mismanagement."
Missing from these valentines, however, was any description of the shady political moves that facilitated Angelos's noble posture. Peter Angelos may have played hardball with the other owners, but he went to the plate with a corked bat.
Angelos is a profile-writer's dream, the workingclass kid made good, the son of Greek immigrants who never forgot his Baltimore roots. As a young man, he worked at the steel mill for a dollar an hour, and pulled the tap at his father's tavern. A local boy, he graduated from the University of Baltimore's law school in 1960. After losing a bid to become ma'or some seven years later, Angelos turned his copious energies to the law, building a practice that made him very, very rich.
Eric Fdten is an editorial writer for theasashigton Times.
The law offce of Peter Angelos was a modest affair to begin with; his main client was the local steelworkers union. It wasn't the sort of legal work that makes one wealthy; he handled mostly a mundane stream of workman's compensation.
Those cases alone were not where the money was, and so Angelos built a solid personal injury practice as well, litigating claims of medical malpractice and negligence, auto accident injuries and the like. By the 1980s, according to the IVashington Post, Angelos was taking home more than $ 1 million a year -- well short of the staggering riches needed to buy a major league baseball franchise. That wealth was not far off, however, thanks to a fortuitous convergence of Angelos's main lines of business. He combined his labor and personal injury experience to mine one of the richest shafts ever prospected by the plaintiff's bar: asbestos.
Angelos likes to claim that his union friends came to him and begged that he take on the asbestos companies. "I didn't want to do asbestos litigation because I knew it would be all onsuming," Angelos told the IVashington Post. " I just got sent the cases." True enough, Angelos was sent an abundance of clients. But it was neither a surprise nor an imposition: Angelos arranged for local unions to send their members through his asbestos litigation mill.
"Most of the asbestos lawyers are deeply associated with the unions," says Albert Parnell, who gives seminars for the Defense Research Institute on how to fight asbestos cases. "If you're not a union guy, you have to advertise." Angelos was able to solicit clients at union meetings and soon had offcials of the locals sending their members to his expanding number of law offices -- offces located next door to union halls. Adjacent to those offces were clinics Called Medical Resources Management, shops that catered almost exclu- sively to the pre-trial needs of Angelos's potential clients. According to one lawyer involved in the Baltimore asbestos cases, the exams performed by the doctors at MRM were largely paid for under union health plans. Indeed, the lawyer says that to receive the free examination, Baltimore union members signed forms authorizing the locals" business offces to hand their cases over to the unions" attorney -- Angelos.
But Angelos didn't just wait for Clients to show up at his door. A mobile medical van plastered with the MRM logo went on fishing expeditions at union halls outside of Baltimore, from Cumberland, Md., to Pennsylvania. Medical personnel were always accompanied by a lawyer from the law offces of Peter Angelos.


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When professionals become usurped by self-interest (greed or ego)
A profession is an occupation, vocation or career with specialized knowledge of a subject, field or science. Professional occupations
• usually require prolonged academic training and a formal qualification
• are often regulated by professional bodies that may set examinations of competence and enforce adherence to an ethical code of conduct.
Professions include doctors, nurses, lawyers, accountants, engineers, pharmacists, professors, priests, architects and teachers.
Professions tend to be autonomous
They have a high degree of control of their own affairs, the freedom to exercise professional judgment. Autonomy can embrace judgment, but also self-interest.
A blog developed to support the Trial Advocacy Program at the University of Washington School of Law inspired this post. The Dec. 7 entry 'NY Judge Rebukes Lawyers, Mourns Drop in Civility' relates the judge wrote "naked competition and singular economic focus of the marketplace have begun to infiltrate the practice of law …the practice of law is now frequently described as a business rather than a profession." http://trialadnotes.blogspot.com/2007/12/ny-judge-rebukes-lawyers-mourns-drop-in.html
In contrast, some law firms are trying to not hire and rid themselves of lawyers who are no asset to their profession. "…firms are increasingly identifying and addressing concerns involving those attorneys and staff members who, for example, are abusive to co-workers, engage in harmful office politics or act in open and uncompromising self-interest to the detriment of the firm or its employees. What's more, they're doing so regardless of how many hours the offenders bill or how much business they generate."
A column I linked to last week cited rude and uncollegial behavior in academe. The author doesn't explain why he thinks professors act in uncivil ways but he does mention self-interest at the closing.
Professionals lose respect
when their primary motives become the quest for money, fame or control rather than helping society. It is sad to see entire professions lose respect. The ones who can halt that disintegration of respect are those within the profession. They need to do that because self-interest actions end up demoralizing staff and ultimately the income of a firm or organization. It's really all about civility.


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New approach - As for Pocket Wall (Weirs Creek) - At end of Emus Foot (Jananginj Jawi) Track, turn right off the vehicle track (approx 200 metres down hill from gate after third 'speed' hump). Head diagonally left up towards the crag through open bush, crossing two creeks (second of which is normally running). At second creek, follow creek bed up to just below crags, then follow intermittent cairns up left to wall. Approximate walking time from gate at end of Emus Foot Track is 15 minutes
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From the school yard to the workplace, there's no charge more damning than "You're being unfair!" Born out of democracy and raised in open markets, fairness has become our de facto modern creed. The very symbol of American ethics--Lady Justice--wears a blindfold as she weighs the law on her impartial scale.
In this election season, politicians will be falling over themselves to assert their "fairness cred." And each side of the partisan debate will be using the word differently -conservatives will mean "meritocratic rewards" when they speak of fairness, and liberals will mean "equality."
But of course life isn't fair, no matter what your political lean, and we might be expecting too much from reality. In our zealous pursuit of fairness, we have banished our urges to like one person more than another, one thing over another, hiding them away as dirty secrets of our humanity.
Since social life isn't really fair, why go on pretending it is? Wouldn't we be better off with an ethics that acknowledges the stubborn facts of inequity, bias, and partiality? I think it would be wiser if we showed our unfair tendencies a little more kindness--indeed, if we favored favoritism.
Moreover, the cosmos itself doesn't seem much interested in fairness. Nature, after all, is "red in tooth and claw" as Tennyson suggested and Darwin confirmed. Does the predator-prey rulebook seem fair? Wildebeest get to eat grass, for example, but practically everything else on the Serengeti (e.g., hyena, lion, cheetah, crocodile, leopard) get to eat them.
Not only is biology a grudging miser when it comes to adaptive powers (e.g., I'm slow, can't fly, and lack claws and fangs), but it also created a highly unfair sexual division of labor. My son was born, after his mother pushed heroically for 24 hours, while I (and most other men) went to the nearby ice machine to fetch her ice chips to chew on. By what stretch of the imagination does that look fair?
So, in hopes that we become more clear-eyed about reality, here are 9 ways that life is undeniably unfair (and notice that a couple of them are actually quite positive).
Stephen T. Asma is the author of Against Fairness [University of Chicago Press, $22.50].
You rarely (almost never) marry the love of your life. Someone else gets the girl (or guy) of your dreams. We never seem to get what we deserve, and we rarely deserve what we get. On top of this unfair truth comes the almost mean-spirited design of romance that makes the most dangerous and exciting qualities for sexual attraction the exact worst qualities for long-term parenting partnerships.
Being beautiful (or being "hot") tilts everything in your favor, and you didn't earn that kind of advantage (unless, of course, you bought your face from a plastic surgeon). Everyone knows that the genetic lottery is unfair, and everyone officially espouses the don't-judge-a-book-by-its-cover ethic, but let's get real. Looking for parity in the aesthetic realm is a pipe-dream.
Here's a positive one -a great one, in fact. Your best friend doesn't treat you "fairly," and thank God. She doesn't see you as equal with others, but above them. And she isn't devoted to you because you are excellent -because you merit such special treatment, with your genius, or talent, or greatness. No, she goes to the wall for you even when you're wrong, or dumb, or unqualified.
No matter how smart you are, there are so many people smarter than you. I can't seem to do the Rubik's cube no matter how much time you give me, but I just watched a kid on YouTube do it in 9 seconds. My only consolation for the daily humiliation of being outclassed in brain-power, is that uber-smartness can be more of a curse than a blessing. Of course, that's yet another unfair fact of life: really stupid people seem to acquire wealth and power with relative ease because they don't have the impediment of conscience or second-guessing reflection.
The more ethical or moral you are, the more likely you are to shoot yourself in the foot when it comes to "closing" on the one-night-stand. Annoying things like "consideration for others," "kindness" and "respect" derail your prospects for Dionysian orgies. This hardly seems fair. In fact, it's so transcendently disappointing that we've invented the ultimate party -the afterlife --just to redress the unfairness.
Television makes people famous when they have no skills, talent, or manners. The rise of reality television has only rendered a long-standing injustice more obvious. In previous eras, you had to be excellent at something in order to merit the wealth, honor and accolades of celebrity. Don't get me wrong, many of today's athletes and musicians are indeed highly accomplished, but a whole other species of celebrity has attained god-like status simply because the camera has been turned on them. As a college professor, I ask my students if they know who Snooky is. Everyone knows. Then, I ask them to name an important living scientist. What follows is long uncomfortable silence, and then one kid will tentatively offer, "Well, there's that one guy in the wheelchair, right?"
Many people think this is negative because they confuse nepotism with corruption. But I think nepotism is positive. Favoritism is to corruption what chocolate is to obesity. The former can cause the latter, but in moderation it need not. Yes, it seems unfair when someone hires their friend or relative over a stranger, but haven't we all benefited tremendously from this same kind of preferential treatment? We try desperately to eliminate nepotism in our official culture, but we should be careful what we wish for.
Loud and overconfident people win out over shy people, even when shy people are right. In a fair and reasonable world, truth would be compelling in some obvious way. It's not. Usually the humble and correct person is passed over for the charismatic, brash dolt. Political debates are only the most obvious example, wherein excellent policy suggestions go ignored when louder and more authoritative claims ride roughshod over them. And while we're on the subject, is it really fair that taller people seem more convincing than their shorter rivals?
Here's a very positive case of unfairness. You can be a complete schmuck, but your family is loyal to you. Love trumps fairness every time. It says: I don't care if other people are more deserving than you, you're mine and that's why I privilege you and give you more than anyone else. My "favorites" (in this case, family) are not the best or most accomplished at this or that. They are not virtuoso human beings. It's my sheer affection for them, and my history with them, that raises their status above other people. In this crucial case, both the liberal idea of fairness as "equality" and the conservative idea of fairness as "merit" are thrown out the window.


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During the past two weeks, three military officers have publicly called on Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to resign. Whether they represent significant discontent in the armed forces or a personal alliance with the increasingly vocal upper-class opposition to Chavez is unclear. Few analysts, however, see any likelihood of a military takeover.
At a forum on freedom of expression Feb. 7, Air Force Col. Pedro Soto called for Chavez's resignation, accusing the president of using the armed forces for political ends. He claimed his opinion was shared by most military officers. The 1999 Constitution gave the military the right to vote and removed limits on expressing political opinions.
The government accused Soto of aiding news-media owners at the press forum to stage a "show" to coincide with an Organization of American States (OAS) inspection of press freedoms in Venezuela.
Soto became an instant hero for Chavez opponents who have had trouble finding a leader who offers any viable challenge to the president. During an anti-Chavez protest the following day, police reportedly tried to detain Soto but were stopped by the crowd.
"We are here to tell the president that freedom of expression is one of the most important things...and no one is going to take it away from us," Soto said at the rally. "The president cannot think we elected him to be the owner of Venezuela."
During the demonstration, a second dissident, National Guard Capt. Pedro Flores, joined Soto. He accused the president of endangering the country's democratic system through corruption and through attacks on the Catholic Church, the media, and "the rule of law."
Armed forces chief Gen. Lucas Rincon said Soto was frustrated because he had been bypassed for promotion to general. Soto has acknowledged he was denied a promotion, but attributed it to his close links with Chavez's enemy, ex- President Carlos Andres Perez (1974-1979, 1989-1993). Perez has called for Chavez's ouster. Those links could also help explain Soto's sudden decision to wage a public campaign against Chavez.
Vice President Diosdado Cabello said Soto and Flores, plus another unnamed officer, had met with a television station director before Soto demanded the president's resignation. Cabello noted the extensive coverage of Soto as he demanded Chavez's resignation, was met by police, and then led thousands of protesters in the streets.
The government said Soto's freedom to stage his protest shows that freedom of expression exists fully in Venezuela.
Meanwhile, OAS press-freedom inspector Santiago Canton said earlier harassment of reporters by Chavez supporters endangered press freedoms, but he also said Chavez's use of a law requiring broadcasters to run his speeches was tolerable as long as it was "reasonable."
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Chavez said on Feb. 9 that the government knew opposition media and politicians were planning to have a military officer criticize the government on national television. "Only we didn't know who it would be," Chavez told Chilean television.
Chavez accused the media of "spreading a false picture" of growing discontent in Venezuela. "There is no serious opposition, they do not have leadership, they do not have an alternative project," the president said.
The armed forces command demanded that Soto and Flores turn themselves in by Feb. 11 to face unspecified "consequences."
OAS secretary-general Cesar Gaviria called on the two to obey. "President Hugo Chavez was elected democratically, and thus it is unacceptable for an officer of the armed forces to seek to disregard the rule of law," said Gaviria in Bogota.
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The government line is that patients love the idea of electronic health data. "In my personal experience of providing care with an electronic health record I never found a patient who wasn't either intrigued or supportive of the use of an electronic health system, says David Blumenthal, MD, HHS' national coordinator for health information technology.
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I don't want to shorthen the discussion to PAC vs Pong,
it would be great if you could bring bigger picture.
Also the names of the fighters Pong beat are not recognizable
because they are not as famous as Morales/Barrera or Marquez.
Beside these 3 you probably will have trouble to recognize PAC competition as well.
There is much less big names in lower weight class than in th middle - 130 and up.
ledwaba was a name fighter when pac beat him.
the philippines' advantage is that they have pac a fighter who'll be at the top5 p4p in almost everyone's rankings of course except boxrec. the thais have no one to rally around. filipino boxing should thank pac and his efforts. he single handedly gave life to the up and coming philippines vs mexico rivalry which gave chances to the other filipino fighters. you think gerry would have gotten a shot at de leon or gonzales if it wasn't for pac? hell no
but thailand has no one now. pong was their man but then he was defeated so at this point in time, the boxing world, IMO cares about the filipino boxers more than thais. i'm not in taking anything away from the thais, they are a great bunch. as we saw in last year's foty, they also have tremendous will. but they don't have enough matches on american tv and ppv. ask the casual boxing fans what they remember about thailand and boxing and they might say de leon ktfo of the thai dude in their rematch
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