By Conan Nolan and Frava Burgess, NBCLosAngeles.com
LOS ANGELES — It?s called the “rubber room” — a popular name for a reassignment center many say is emblematic of what is wrong with public education.
The rubber room is where teachers accused of everything from drug abuse to sexual harassment are sent to do nothing, but still collect a salary, benefits and accrue time toward pensions.
“Several of the people I know in rubber rooms have been there two years, some people as long as five years,” said Leonard Isenberg, a disciplined Los Angeles Unified School District teacher. “You don?t just sit there. You can?t do anything. Think of Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo, with a paycheck.”
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The LAUSD has 161 teachers assigned to various offices throughout the district. It?s a policy LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy is trying to change ? as in the case with former Miramonte Elementary School teacher and accused child molester, Mark Berndt.
“Traditionally what the district has done is to say we put you in an office, we pay you, and we wait for all the stuff to happen,” Deasy said. “I am not acting that way.”
There are plenty of teachers who support efforts to get rid of reassignment centers, but for different reasons.
Leonard Isenberg, who taught in the district for 25 years, said he ended up in one after repeatedly complaining that his school, Central Continuation High School, was graduating students with second-grade reading levels.
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He said that angered the principal, and that led to accusations of him yelling at students and watching pornography in class.
Isenberg used his time in the rubber room to create a web site, perdaily.com, which looks critically at the district, reassignment centers and its discipline procedure.
He was ultimately fired by the district, but still has an appeal hearing later this year. Isenberg said the district?s procedures make teachers guilty until proven innocent and fearful of false accusations.
“The students know they can get teachers in trouble by just saying anything,” Isenberg said.
Retired teacher and California Teachers Empowerment Network president Larry Sand said rubber rooms are necessary and are not going away anytime soon.
“There?s arbitration and hearings and all sorts of things that have to take place before a teacher would actually lose his job,” Sand said. “If he?s not in the classroom, they have to put him somewhere.”
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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Reuters – Al Jazeera-English and Sara Ganim, the reporter who broke open the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal at Penn State, were among the winners of George Polk Awards in Journalism, announced Sunday by Long Island University.
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Trading System Where You Invest in stocks for the 2-4 Year Moves!
Invest in Stocks Like a Venture Capitalist And Make HUGE Money!
True wealth is created by investing in growth stocks:
Here?s a novel idea in today?s rush, rush age. When people are obsessed with day trading, micro management, forex, technical analysis, options, swing trading, news channels, Squawk boxes. Instead of micro managing your stock trading to death and scrapping for small bits of chump change INVEST in stocks with the hope of holding onto young, fast growing companies for the most explosive 2-4 years growth.
With most people thinking the money is in intra day micro moves, the art of finding growth stocks with the potential to make 500%, 1,000%,5,000%+ moves have almost been forgotten.
Let?s just play a simply ?dream? game for a WHILE. Say you somehow found a stock like HANS in 2004 and bought at 500 shares at $15. You then went on a 2 year tour of the world and forgot all about it. Never even once did you think ?how is that stock doing?? You never once over-laid any technical indicators, or summoned the help of the chat room Gurus to tell you where the stock is going and when to bail out.
When the stock doubled, tripled and more you didn?t panic and sell simply because you didn?t even know about it. You peacefully and blissfully went out and lived your life and let the stock do what it wanted.
So on your return you decide to look back in on the price and can?t believe your eyes?THE STOCK is at $200 and to make it even better is split a few times on the way. So in real money terms it is now worth $400. Low and behold your initial $7,500 is now worth (500 X $400) or (1,000 X $200) = $200,000. You feel like you won the lottery and phone your broker to cash out! Your broker pats you on the back and tells you are his most successful stock ?trader.? Why don;?t you write a book about it and make even more money. TV shows await..LOL
But do you see what I am getting at? Stocks do this. Not very often but on enough occasion to make it worthwhile. Remember this?.?you only need to get rich once? OK in the above example it would have been better had the investor invested >$50,000 initially, to cash out with $1,33M but that comes with time. Instead of day trading,swing trading or jumping al lover the place losing money the big money is made from the BIG moves! Got it?
Go and look at stocks like TASR that went from $2 to $330
NTRI $5 $75+
CROX $10 $140
TIE $10 to $350 It split so many times on the way 4 times I remember?)
HANS $5 $400
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But you aren?t putting your-self in the position to invest in these explosive little gems of trades how can you possibly EVER snag one?
Now, I have not uncovered any Holy Grail. I want to make that clear. Yes I snagged stocks like NTRI,CROX,HANS,TASR for massive gains but for every success there were 5+ failures. It?s a fact you will lose on more trades than you make. And hitting those huge winners only happens from time to time. I had plenty of stocks where I only made 50%+ that 50% profit isn?t great but my whole success is built on those 20+ ?baggers? that unfold over a few years.
There is no magic ?Holy Grail Secret? here only a system I have developed over the years that puts me in the position to snag these fantastic moves.
It?s a complete course with skype coaching sessions to make sure you understand it fully! With examples and the trading rules. No padding needed nor wanted. Your biggest danger in making big money from stocks is your-self. People can?t grasp what it really takes to sit with winners for years if needed. To sit out big draw-downs and flat periods. You want action. So your broker and gurus gives it you. But in truth to make big money you need to find stocks with the potential to make 20+ times your money and hold on through the corrections along the way.
In short you need to stop trading and start investing like the Venture Capitalists do. They will invest in dozens, hundreds of high risk start ups with the ?hope? 5% go onto make 1,000+ times their money back. Let?s face it you only needed to ever find one company like Google, Facebook, Ebay, etc when it started out, invest some money and you would have made millions. OK those opportunities aren?t open to us but this is the next best thing.
Invest For The Huge Moves in Stocks
A little bit about why and how
- The scan you need to run, where to run it and why these numbers. Prices, volume and more
- You then need to go to this site and check these ?fundamentals?. The stock either passes or it?s scrapped.
- How to enter with how much
- How to Exit
That?s it. A complete system. How to find and trade these stocks.
The scan is very ?tight? By tight I mean it isn?t going to throw stocks at you every day. Nor should you want it to. These stocks, whilst appearing from time to time aren?t going to present them-selves ever week/month. It goes in cycles. 2003-2005 I was getting 1 or 2 of these every month. That?s where we nailed moves like HANS, TASR, TIE etc. Then 2007+ onwards it really dried up. It?s cyclical. From 2009 we got back into great moves in LULU, DECK and a couple of others.
I just want you to remember one point. You only need to get rich once. Everyone dream of winning the lotto. But it isn?t going to happen. Everyone dreams of buying a $7 stock and watching it soar to $300+ Well that does happen. And it will happen IF you have the discipline to find and invest in these stocks. Have you ever in your life gained over 1,000% form an initial investment? Would you like to know how it feels?
Email me to order and chat.
markcrisp07@gmail.com
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Q) So how many billions are you worth?
ANS: none. I started with just $20,000 investing in the 90?s and developed this method during the bear market of 2001 2002. My first huge winner was TASR. I also nailed HANS (MNST) and TIE for huge moves. I have capped my account trading way at a level where I never added to my initial investment.
Q) How often do these huge move come along?
ANS: Not very often. It?s a fact. Stocks like TASR, HANS, TIE probably come along every 2-3 years. But if you aren?t ?fishing in the right river with the right bait? you?ll never catch one.
Q) How accurate is the system?
ANS: What do you mean by accuracy? How often do I snag a 20+ return on initial investment? Not often at all. About 1 in 10 trades. The rest are either smaller winners 50% to 100% or small losers to flat. BUT that ONE huge winner (20,30,40+ times your money) will dwarf all the others. Get away form % winning trades. It?;s complete B*S* pushed by vendors who like to feed false promises to newbies.
Q) What kind of % returns can we achieve?
ANS: You have to get away from trying to make XX% per annum. The markets are simply not like this. In fact the more you think like this the more you will lose. In 2004,05,06 I made over 70% in each year. There were quite a number (TASR,TZOO,HANS,TIE,NTRI,CROX) of superb stocks to invest in. Then in 2006/07 I had two losing to flat years. I was down -13% and flat. Then 2009/10/11 I am back up in the +40% returns. This is how it goes. You will have 2 or 3 really good years followed by 1 or 2 flat to small losing years. And this is why I would never advise anyone to trade full-time. When you try to force the market to give you steady yearly gains you?ll lose money. Live for those 70%+ years. Learn to sit on the sidelines, protecting your earned money during the corrections/bear markets.? The stocks them-selves will simply show you when to be in and when to be on the sidelines.
Q) How long do we hold stocks for?
ANS: Hopefully 3+ years. You cannot hope to make 30,40+ times your money in the space of a few weeks. These plays take years to unfold. You?ll have to hold through big corrections and flat periods. The big money isn?t made from micro management and day trading. It?;s from making investments that can make you 40+ times your money over a few years! If you believe that great. If you are still convinced the path to riches is short term swing or even day trading..Good luck!
Q) Do you time or predict the stock market?
ANS: Absolutely NOT, NEVER, Why? Why bother even trying to predict? The whole predicting industry is a complete joke. May as well go and get your palm read. Throw it all away. Yes markets are cyclical. Yes they boom and crash. Simply accept that and ride it.
Q) What exactly do we get here?
ANS: My system rules. With many examples. A DVD with some trades and I?ll go through the system. 2 one on one skype chats to make sure you have the system understood. Email contact. I?ll also email you the stocks that have made it onto my buy list after performing all auto and manual scans. The system and DVD are posted to your address. Do not expect a 100+ page ringed binder as well. It?s quite a simple set of specific rules with examples. This isn?t entertainment. This system took me 3 years to perfect from 2001 to 2003. The pay off IF you apply it at times can be staggering.?? Email me if interested.
Can I chat about investing in young fast growing companies a little as opposed to short term trading?
Look at a little gem like NFLX. These fast growing, game changing stocks can offer you returns like nothing else IF you ride them for all they are worth! There?s no point in jumping out with small profits if you leave major profits behind.
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See about 1995 the world changed. Whether you knew about it at the time or not business changed for-ever. How? The Internet. It levelled the playing field.? Look at NFLX again. What caused this move? NFLX beat an old time stalwart stock Blockbuster by adapting faster to a changing demand.
NetFlix ? Forced Blockbuster to abandon its cash cow ? movie rental late fees ? to try to stay competitive while NetFlix completely changed the movie rental model on them. NetFlix is now approaching 4 million subscribers and the ?dark years? of late fees are now only a horror story.
Companies like TASR, small fast, dynamic product adapted quicker to a changing demand and their stock price went up thousands of %. ? Small is better nowadays. Things change too fast for the old, huge companies to adapt. Now, you do not have to be aware of this. (my system rules take care of all this) but Mutual funds and investing in ?Blue Chip? stocks is finished now. The big money is made by investing in smaller, game changing companies who experience MASSIVE growth!
What you?re seeing more and more of are David and Goliath match-ups where David is kicking Goliath?s proverbial ass in a pretty big way. Big companies aren?t geared toward addressing rapidly changing market opportunities ? start-ups are. The next generation of start-ups has learned that it?s their speed that is keeping them ahead, not their size. And it?s the same in stock investing. Simply grab onto these young companies coat tails and go along for the ride with them.
? So instead of trying to create better ?trading systems? switch them off and think ?where, how is the true wealth created?? Would you rather be a great ?day trade? or have the common sense to buy into a TASR, NFLX, GOOG, EBAY, HANS,TIE at the start of their moves and simply held on for a few years?
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Contact me if interested.
markcrisp07@gmail.com
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Source: http://www.stressfreetrading.com/2012/02/21/invest-in-stocks-that-can-make-30-times-your-money-back/
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Wal-Mart Stores Inc won over shoppers during the holiday season, with its Walmart U.S. division posting a 1.5 percent rise in sales at stores open at least a year.
The world’s largest retailer earned $1.51 per share from continuing operations. It had forecast fourth-quarter earnings of $1.42 to $1.48 per share from continuing operations.
Wal-Mart expects same-store sales at the Walmart chain in the United States to be flat to up 2 percent, compared with a 1.8 percent drop a year earlier. Analysts on average had expected a rise of 1.8 percent, according to Thomson Reuters data.
Wal-Mart shares were down in premarket trading from Friday’s close of $62.48.
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Roky Erickson and the Aliens ?Five Symbols? (Cherry Red Records)
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Released 20th February 2012
Re-issue of the lost 1980 CBS album from former 13th Floor Elevators? main man which was hailed in MOJO magazine as ?a buried treasure? hence the name of the label which has been set up as a joint partnership between MOJO and Cherry Red Records.
Roky Erickson is sadly best known for his fragile mental state often dismissed as an acid casualty, and to this day often only ventures out to play live in an effort to raise funds for his ongoing healthcare ? Back in the late 60?s Erickson and his band were responsible for some ground breaking psychedelic rock, the band strongly advocated the liberal use of mind altering substances, in particular LSD and mescaline. Erickson paid a heavy price for ?expanding his mind? ? he was confined to a mental hospital and subjected to electro shock therapy. Erickson became a target of the US Police, and in 1968 when aged just 22yrs he was arrested for the possession of a single joint, which at the time could have resulted in a 10yr jail term. Always thinking (!) Erickson pleaded not guilty on the grounds on insanity ? the judge took him at his word and confined him in Austin State Mental Hospital. Erickson duly escaped, to be subsequently held at the more brutal Rusk State Hospital until 1972. When Erickson finally saw the light of day he was a greatly changed man though he expressed a desire to return to music. A failed 13th Floor Elevators reunion ensued after which Erickson concentrated on creating his own heavier sound than previously evidenced, to do this Erickson assembled a pot porri of musicians including previous Moby Grape drummer John Oxendine, who despite playing with Erickson didn?t want to be associated by name so assumed the pseudonym Fuzzy Furiso for the recording ? This album contains some of the tracks created.
Album opener ?Two-Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)? certainly sets the tone for the lyrical themes that were to follow ?winds quiet in the night/her body just blows messiah/sickening sweet sight left or right/all is right does not please my appetite? ? musically, you need to remind yourself that this recording is now over 30yrs old; I was expecting something so much more ?out there? ? what you actually get is an accomplished hard rock album with some very engaging melodies..
?I Walked With A Zombie? forms the only lyric for the track of the same name ? Erickson has a truly individual timbre, his voice hollers atop some swirly guitar and a progressive beat, ?Don?t Shake Me Lucifer? demonstrates Erickson?s blues roots; a real chugging booze soaked sing-a-long. Erickson was clearly obsessed with sci-fi, horror imagery; he sings of Satan, zombies, demonic forces and vampires and offers an insight into the `scrambled brain? of this rock genius? who continues to experience a bizarre and often brilliant solo career. ?Night Of The Vampire? comes across as the soundtrack to a million slasher B-movies, the scene where the beautiful yet helpless Fay Wray type is due for sacrifice, the snarled up guitar solos accompanying the ascending sacrificial knife. Apparently the recording session was hampered by Erickson?s fragile condition, the vocals are allegedly pieced together from various recording sessions; that is not apparent here ? Overall this is an excellent snap-shot, it captures Erickson?s ability to craft a song, what ever demons were confronting him, and how he chose to express his thoughts as a result of cannot distract that he clearly retained the ability to escape into his music and for that we should all be thankful.
?The Wind And More? and ?Bloody Hammer? were left off the original album ? bizarre as they are possibly the strongest material on offer here, both are hard rocking heavy numbers that would easily give same period AC-DC a run for their money
Upon its initial release the album sold very few copies, CBS flew Erickson over to the UK to help push the album ? the trip was not a success with NME writer Nick Kent interviewing Roky, summing up the experience as being witness to a man barely capable of ?articulating more than two syllables in five minutes?.
Erickson has announced a short US and Australian tour (March 2012) and has been confirmed as appearing at Metallica?s Orion Festival over the weekend of the 23rd/24th June 2012 as such this is a timely release, and provides an opportunity to actually listen to the music that Erickson created; forget the headline grabbing tales of madness, look a little deeper ? you will enjoy what you discover.
The album features the original ten tracks plus two additional Erickson originals from the period, and is packaged with extensive sleeve notes.
Track listing:
1. Two-Headed Dog (Red Temple Prayer)
2. I Think Of Demons
3. I Walked With A Zombie
4. Don?t Shake Me Lucifer
5. Night Of The Vampire
6. White Faces
7. Cold Night For Alligators
8. Creature With The Atom Brain
9. Mine Mine Mind
10. Stand For The Fire Demon
11. The Wind And More
12. Bloody Hammer
Source: http://louderthanwar.com/featured/roky-erickson-the-aliens-five-symbols-album-review
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One of the most fascinating aspects of art is that two artists can use the same exact materials and create vastly different works. Last week, I posted an interview with Heather Knight, an artist who creates abstract porcelain tiles inspired by nature?s patterns and textures. Today, I introduce Kate MacDowell, another artist working in unglazed porcelain whose work is also inspired by what she sees in nature. Whereas Knight?s abstractions of nature create a comfortable distance from which we can lose ourselves in the beauty of the repetitive patterns she creates, Kate MacDowell?s sculptures blend the hyper-real with the surreal, pulling us in with exquisite detail and then shocking us with an unexpected and uncomfortable reality. I was initially drawn to interview MacDowell because of the striking anatomical nature of her work; I had not expected to discover her deep regard for the environment and conservation efforts.
“Casualty” by Kate MacDowell, 2009
Ok, rapidfire: How long have you been creating art professionally? What type of work do you do? What?s your background?
I?ve been a sculpting full-time for about five years. I work in hand-built porcelain clay, and my work often explores our problematic relationship with the natural environment. I started studying ceramics in evening classes at the local art school and community college shortly after returning from living and traveling overseas in India and Europe. I have a Masters in Teaching English Literature, and in the past have produced websites for high-tech companies, taught high school English, and worked at a meditation retreat center in India.
Your work reveals an intimate familiarity with anatomy. Do you have formal medical or biological training?
No, though I have taken a class in figure sculpting that focused on human anatomy. I study scientific drawings, especially of skeletal systems, and both professional and snapshot photographs of the animals I?m sculpting. Sometimes I?ll watch online youtube videos of animals to see how they move and get a sense of their posture at rest.
What inspires you as an artist?
Conceptually, environmental case studies based on online reading about threatened species and environmental impacts such as climate change. Visually, people?s snapshots of road-kill up on the web, contemporary artwork I come across online, and baroque marble sculpture. I also create pieces spurred on by my own feelings of solastalgia. This word, coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht, describes the palpable sense of dislocation and loss that people feel when they perceive changes to their local environment as harmful?it?s a form of psychic or existential distress caused by environmental change.
“Serpentine” by Kate MacDowell, 2009
How and why do you incorporate science or the natural world into your art?
I find the complexity of natural forms both inside and out beautiful and interesting, and I think biodiversity loss and climate change is a multifaceted tragedy worth exploring this way. Visuals can communicate so much, yet still be open to multiple and contradictory interpretations. So even though my starting point might be the introduction of the myxomatosis virus to control pest rabbits, or pollution in lakes affecting the sexual organs of alligators, the viewer might create a completely different narrative to explain the images.
In your experience, is realism treated with disdain in the art world? Why do you think this is? Does the surreal nature of your work allow you to transcend this attitude?
Not necessarily. It seems to be that narrative realism is perhaps more looked down upon, though, and is embraced more by the underground art/pop surrealist/new contemporary movement than mainstream contemporary art ? but there are plenty of exceptions to this. I think that both the unusual material, surrealism, and dark subject matter of my work makes it different from a lot of mainstream realist animal sculpture and I?m sure that has helped with some galleries, buyers and media coverage.
If you could travel in time to any point in the universe?s history ? forward or back ? where would you go and what would you see/do?
Well, assuming I could take modern medicine with me and choose my gender for maximum freedom of movement, or even better yet be Emerson?s transparent eyeball, hmm? I think seeing the Pleistocene megafauna in the Americas or Asia would have been incredible, but I would be worried about getting eaten. I also think pre-Colombian North America would have been amazing to experience and document, or even the American West prior to the first railroads. I would have liked to see passenger pigeons cover the sky.
“Entangled” by Kate MacDowell, 2010
Any practical tips for aspiring artists on how to make a living doing art?
First, figure out what your niche is artistically; experiment until you find what you really feel passionate about making before looking for the market that will embrace it. The diversity of the market and the ways you can be visually creative are really pretty infinite right now with the breakdown between categories such as fine art/fashion/industrial design/film and TV. During your growth time create each piece to the best of your ability, both thematically and technically, even if it means slower production of work and fewer pieces to sell or show initially. Trying for quality helped me grow faster than trying for quantity. Try to find a consistent routine for making work (place, time, other people around you), that supports you over time and gets you through the rough spots. Get great photos of your work and have them online.
To what extent do you use social media to promote your work?
I spend a lot more time on social media for fun than for promoting my own work, although I know a lot of artists in the pop surrealism/new contemporary field who are very heavily connected to their buyers and fans through social media and keep up an ongoing dialogue. I do have a website which I edit and keep up to date myself, and I post images of every piece I finish on it in a form that?s easy for bloggers and tumblrs to borrow. I spread info through Twitter, Facebook and e-mail blasts myself, but after that I mostly let social media do its own thing and spread the photos I have out there ? once you get picked up by design blogs and they start tweeting it becomes an infinitely perpetuating cycle. It?s been very good for me for the most part and brought me to the attention of international buyers, galleries, and print and online media. The key, as I mentioned earlier, is to have great, eye-catching photos, and of course make work that people are interested in looking at and discussing.
“Quiet as a mouse” by Kate MacDowell, 2011
If you were conducting this interview, what question would you ask and what would your answer be!?
Hmm, I can?t really think of anything pressing, but some people ask what my dream art assignment would be:
If I had funding, a large warehouse or gallery space, and a crew of volunteers and artist collaborators I would create an installation of the by-catch of a deep-sea trawler. Basically I?d like to create a pile of life-sized dead sea-life out of fired porcelain or white clay, the approximate volume of a school bus, with here and there a brightly colored orange roughy visible, the actual intended ?catch? which is not discarded.
Sounds incredible and worthwhile. Any donors willing to commission it?!
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goo Ranking took a look at a subject close to my heart, what are the characteristics of coworkers who are difficult to work with.
Demographics
Between the 17th and 18th of January 2012 1,048 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 61.6% of the sample were female, 12.3% in their teens, 15.6% in their twenties, 27.9% in their thirties, 25.8% in their forties, 9.5% in their fifties, and 8.9% in their sixties. Note that the score in the results refers to the relative number of votes for each option, not a percentage of the total sample.
I?d say the main problem I see with my colleagues is an unwillingness to challenge the status quo, or even to just suggest different ways of doing things. One recent case that comes to mind was that I was moving on to a new project, and I asked what other people in similar environments were using for source code control, and the answer I got back was ?nothing?. After banging my head on the desk for a few minutes, I decided to go with git, which I taught myself in two minutes.
Naturally, I have none of the characteristics from the list below.
Ranking result
Q: What are the characteristics of colleagues who are difficult to work with? (Sample size=1,048)
Rank ? Score 1 Violent mood swings 100 2 Doen?t admit their own mistakes 99.4 3 Always criticising 98.9 4 Always changing their viewpoint 89.5 5 Doesn?t inform me when things are not right 82.7 6 Poor time management 75.8 7 Often late for work 70.6 8 Doesn?t do things by deadlines 65.9 9 Pessimistic 57.5 10 Always talks idealistically 50.9 11 Procrastinates 44.7 12 Drones on and on 42.1 13 Has no opinions of their own 38.5 14= Indecisive 35.5 14= Poor at schedule management 35.5 16 Poor at explaining things 35.0 17 Rude to those below them 28.4 18 No conculsions in their email 21.2 19 Not proficient with computers 20.1 20 No self-confidence 16.3
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