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Why do men ghost? |
this guy has been chatting with me on and off for weeks now and he expressed interest in meeting when he was done exams, but now that they're done he's going back home for the break which means that we won't be meeting. anyways i sent him a message asking if he was still interested in meeting (not said like that, but m... |
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What Guys Said 2 |
• Either he got a better offer, is legit busy, or you said/did something that completely put him off. |
• which is weird cuz i honestly odnt know what i could've done. lol. i rarely texted him and if i did he always responded. |
• First off it's not just men that do this. |
Secondly, Did you just say "I haven't heard from him since last night"? |
That's not ghosting. -_- |
• no lol. |
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• He doesn't always have to respond immediately, he could be busy lol |
It's not ghosting until they go by weeks of no talking. |
• true. lmao. like i said, I'm just impatient to know his response lol. so every hour feels like days |
What Girls Said 1 |
• Because they are too chicken to tell you that they aren't interested anymore. |
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Friday, August 19, 2005 |
Judge Mathis - Case # 3 |
Reimbursement for Custody - The Plaintiff was suing the Defendant who was her son's ex-girlfriend for reimbursement of money that she paid out to support her grand daughter when the State took away the Defendant's children because she was an alcoholic/drug addict. Fast forward to finding out that the grandchild is no r... |
This was actually pretty funny because the Defendant could barely put a sentence together (which was sad) but she said some pretty funny things (unintentionally). Her new boyfriend, uhm er Fiancé, politely raised his hand when he wanted to speak to the judge (apparently he's done that many times in the past.) |
Ruling: The judge ruled in favor of the Plaintiff and she was all she was asking for. |
Memorable Line: Defendant "Your honor, all of my boyfriends, uhm I mean Fiancé's" |
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"When I first saw Geoff play as a sophomore in high school, I sensed something extra about the way he plays the game. He is what I consider a warrior. He looks for ways to help the team in any fashion he can." |
- Mac Petty, Wabash head coach |
Winter 1998 |
Speaking of Sports: Soldier of Misfortune |
by Michael Molde, Sports Information Director |
It's hard to beat a person who never gives up," baseball legend Babe Ruth once said. |
Wabash senior Geoff Faerber '98 (pronounced FAY-ber) exemplifies Ruth's statement. A 6-foot, 6-inch forward on the basketball team, Faerber has dealt with an unusual amount of adversity caused by four injuries over the past four years. But he has never walked away from the game, which makes it tough to find a more dete... |
"When I first saw Geoff play as a sophomore in high school, I sensed something extra about the way he plays the game," says Wabash head coach Mac Petty. "He is what I consider a warrior. He looks for ways to help the team in any fashion he can." |
Faerber has good basketball bloodlines. His father, George, was a three-year starter for the basketball squad at Purdue University and earned First Team Academic All-Big Ten honors in 1970 and 1971. George owns Purdue's second-best career field goal percentage, still holds the school record for most rebounds in one gam... |
Like father, like son. Geoff was a four-year basketball letterman and two-time team captain at Cathedral High School in Indianapolis. There, he was named the team's most valuable player as a senior after averaging 9.7 points and 9.3 rebounds per game. He earned all-city and all-sectional honors twice before choosing to... |
Faerber didn't miss a game during his high school career. But in the spring of his senior year, he suffered his first physical setback when he tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee during a pickup hoops game. |
After working to get the knee back to full strength, Faerber made an impact as a freshman at Wabash and earned an immediate spot in the Little Giants' starting lineup. He was leading the team in rebounding, assists, free throw percentage, and field goal percentage through 13 games. But a broken foot brought his rookie ... |
"It was really a freak accident," said Faerber. "I had developed a stress fracture, which was bound to go at any time, but I tripped going down the steps after a game and that was that." |
As a sophomore, he started 21 of 24 contests in what has been his only full season. Faerber led the squad with 5.6 rebounds per game and added 11.2 points per game, third best on the team. Most importantly, though, he improved both offensively and defensively, and asserted himself as one of the Indiana Collegiate Athle... |
"During my sophomore year, I built confidence, but I don't think I reached my full potential as a player," said Faerber. "Heading into my junior year, I was feeling like I was finally getting back to the level that I am capable of playing." |
Faerber opened his junior year with 18 points and eight rebounds in a win versus powerhouse Calvin and recorded a double-double in the fourth game of the year against Millikin. It was looking to be an outstanding season, but once again, the ACL in his right knee gave out, this time against Kalamazoo in the ninth game o... |
Prior to the injury, he had been performing up to expectations. In fact, just a few possessions before it happened, he had taken the ball near the top of the key, driven to the basket, and dunked over some Hornet players. I was the sports information director at Kalamazoo at the time and assistant coach Rob Passage lat... |
So it was back to square one for the hard-luck hoopster. At that point, it would have been very easy for Faerber to have given up, but the Little Giants were having their best season in more than a decade and he wanted to contribute to that success. He returned to appear in the final three contests of the season, which... |
This season has brought more frustration. After starting the first two games of the season, Geoff began to experience pain in his back. The explanation was a slipped disk, a possible career-ending setback. This time, Faerber actually considered ending his playing days. |
"The doctor said he couldn't really give me any hope and that it was sort of up in the air," said Faerber. "This injury was much different than the others. It didn't feel like I'd be able to come back." |
So he talked it over with his parents, Pam and George, who were surprised that he was thinking of giving up the sport. It took a few days, but Faerber finally decided that it wasn't just the playing that he would miss. |
"There's so much more involved with being part of a team than just playing the game," he added. "Plus, I didn't want my last game to be a four-point, two-rebound game." |
The frustrating thing with his back was the fact that he was extremely limited in the activities he could do to help it heal without causing more damage. So he did what he could, riding an exercise bike and doing stretches, while watching and listening carefully to what was happening in practice. |
Without much fanfare, Faerber returned to the lineup at Hanover College in the 16th game of the 1997-98 season, scoring four points and pulling down three rebounds in nine minutes of action. Ironically, it was Hanover that had vigorously recruited Faerber, making it sweeter for Little Giant fans when he made his return... |
"I was very nervous, but it felt awesome to be back on the court," said Faerber. "I had just been cleared to play that week and I didn't expect to get in the game, let alone be on the court for nine minutes. But it made me feel functional again. It made me feel more like a part of the team." |
The following Wednesday, Faerber was rewarded for his fourth comeback when he received a heartfelt standing ovation from a large Chadwick Court crowd as he entered the game against arch-rival DePauw. |
What Babe Ruth uttered so many years ago sure is true. It's hard to beat someone who never gives up. It's hard to beat someone with heart and desire. |
That's why it's so damn hard to beat Geoff Faerber. |
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Do Your Leaders Give Feedback The Right Way? |
You may have seen it or even been the recipient of it, but sometimes leaders can cause incredible havoc when they give critical feedback especially when done in a demeaning and damaging way. |
And when this comes from a leader, somehow their position and the perceived emotional and societal weight of that negative performance review comes down with even greater force. |
I also think it is important to separate out feedback from giving recognition. |
Recognition is any thought, word or deed towards making some feel appreciated and valued for who they are as well as recognized for the things they do. |
The whole intent behind recognition is to value people and their work. |
Feedback contrasts with recognition in that its core purpose is to help people improve performance rather than simply acknowledge it. |
Consider the following 5 points on how leaders and managers can improve their own feedback giving to people. |
1. Feedback should always be a positive experience. Unfortunately, we tend to cringe whenever we hear someone say they want to give us some feedback on something we did. When we understand that the intent of feedback is to be developmental in nature then surely we would want to make this the most positive experience po... |
Giving guidance for people to grow and develop from can become a very rewarding experience for both giver and receiver. It becomes both a mentoring and tutoring opportunity. |
2. Leaders do not have all the answers. We can so easily reject or deny feedback we don’t agree with. That is why feedback should be an experiential dialog and not a dump of personal opinions on someone of how you think something should be done in only one way. Feedback is a two way process where you need to ask the in... |
As a leader don’t be afraid to ask for feedback yourself. Think about asking your employees what are three things you are doing well. Then be open to asking them what are three things you can improve upon and then be prepared to act on those recommendations. |
3. Learn to ask great questions. In more of a coaching framework it is a powerful skill to use good questions. Some managers argue what if the individual can’t see the problem or error then you have to point out things to them. Not so. You can ask deeper questions on why they did the task the way they did. |
You might question how customers or colleagues might perceive their actions. And when all else fails describe what you saw or felt and ask for their feedback on your perceptions. The key is for them to actively learn from the feedback process versus just being told how to improve which is so passive. |
4. Feedback only flourishes with positive relationships. Working with someone to improve on your personal work performance requires trust between both parties. That is why it is essential to have a positive relationship between leaders and their direct reports. |
Social science research shows leaders of high performing teams use positive and affirmative expressions and words of appreciation 5 times more than low performing teams. In contrast, the leaders in low performing teams use an average of 3 times more negative and critical comments in their feedback. |
5. Focus on the future and not the past. I love Marshall Goldsmith’s work on lifting performance using a revision of the term feedback to what he coined as “feedforward”. Feedback is a lagging indicator of what happened yesterday. Feedforward is to present suggestions for improving the future of an identified behavior ... |
Goldsmith’s recommendation is to be future focused on how to help people with their future work performance by expressing things in a feedforward manner. His premise is that you can change the future but you can’t change the past. Feedforward is also independent of the need for expertise or experience from the person g... |
All of a sudden looking at feedback this way is sounding pretty good. As Ken Blanchard once said, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” |
Question: What is the most meaningful feedback you have ever received? |
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Thursday, June 7, 2012 |
"Como la Luna encantada" - an example from Mr. Jose Luis Mejia Spanish 10 Class |
Dear friends and colleagues, |
As part of the end of the year work in the Spanish 4 class (10th grade), we devoted one week to a 1:1 project. We were exploring the possibilities of the MAC in a Spanish class environment. |
The task was to "give your own perspective of a poem written in Spanish using your laptops". Because was easy to have the author near in order to clarify any doubt and to work with a corpus that they were able to handle, I gave them a non-published (yet) book of poems for children that I has been working on. The stud... |
Out of all the videos my students voted, this was the winner. The producers are Vidya Giri (she is leaving next year to ISB) and Sanjana Canumalla. |
In this case they did all the work using their MACs (Illustrator, Garage Band, etc.), all the illustration was digital made and the sound (my voice and the music that they played) was record directly into the machines. |
As far as I observed, it was a joyful way to learn Languages and to explore the possibilities of the 1:1 program. |
Hope you enjoy the video. |
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Internal Docs List Crimes Tied To ATF Gun Operation |
The number of crimes connected to a disastrous federal experiment that allowed Mexican drug traffickers to obtain U.S.-sold weapons is significantly higher than previously disclosed, according to internal government documents obtained by Judicial Watch. |
Known as Fast and Furious, the failed program was run by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and allowed guns from the U.S. to be smuggled into Mexico so they could eventually be traced to drug cartels. Instead, federal law enforcement officers lost track of hundreds of weapons which are belie... |
In the past few months several media reports have linked the lost guns to violence on both sides of the border while high-ranking officials in the Obama Administration, including Attorney General Eric Holder, insist they knew nothing about the reckless operation. |
Among the first reports to surface; that Fast and Furious weapons were used to murder a U.S. Border Patrol agent (Brian Terry) in Peck Canyon Arizona in mid December. The guns—assault weapons known as AK-47s—were traced through their serial numbers to a Glendale, Arizona dealer that led to a Phoenix man the feds repeat... |
But details like these have surfaced slowly as the administration scrambles to decide what version of facts it chooses to give Americans. What’s certain is that federal agents lost track of high-powered rifles and other guns, which have been recovered in violent crimes, both in the U.S. and Mexico. A few days ago, the ... |
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