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re: How would law enforcement look without qualified immunity?
Posted by Golfer on 6/20/20 at 11:10 am
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Small percentage. Tell me how many cops get to choose? 0%
Huh? An Emergency Room doctor gets to pick who comes through the door?
News to me...
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re: Gravy pissed - new EBR School Board Super selected - not who you thought would win
Posted by Golfer on 6/20/20 at 11:09 am
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This line of thinking is why public schools are so bad.
Why should someone spending time as a teacher have any bearing on their ability to be an effective administrator? It’s a completely different set of job requirements.
And the state qualifications to be a teacher are ridiculous - especially at the high school level.
I understand this perspective. And in theory, it should work. It actually does work in the private sector...but even in those cases, it takes the right leader in the right framework to garner that respect.
Education is historically tenure-based and believes that you can learn and lead more effectively knowing what it's like to be a teacher.
re: How would law enforcement look without qualified immunity?
Posted by Golfer on 6/20/20 at 11:04 am
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Right, because cops get to choose their customers and they are often trustworthy and respectable people worth doing business with.
ED Physicians/Staff? Clinical Therapists, etc?
They aren't choosing their clients on their first trip into the facility.
re: How would law enforcement look without qualified immunity?
Posted by Golfer on 6/20/20 at 10:26 am
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It is about people not filing suit because they don’t like the way the officer resolved a neighbor dispute or a barking dog call.
They can still file suit, no?
I'd imagine the private sector (insurance companies) handle this better than state/local government self-insured funds.
re: Gravy pissed - new EBR School Board Super selected - not who you thought would win
Posted by Golfer on 6/20/20 at 12:16 am
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This is an incredible story, if true. Do you have any supporting evidence available?
Appears to be accurate per: LINK
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Out-of-State Superintendent (OSS) - Standard, five-year, renewable certificate; renewal of OSS certificate requires candidate successfully meet the standards of effectiveness for at least three years during the five-year initial or renewal period
Eligibility requirements:
A. employed by a Louisiana public school system to serve as a superintendent or an assistant superintendent;
B. a valid teaching certificate from another state with authorization to serve as a school superintendent;
C. amaster'sdegreefromaregionallyaccreditedinstitutionofhighereducation;
D. five years of successful administrative or management experience in education at the level of assistant principal or above. The assistant principal experience would be limited to a maximum of two years of experience in that position; and
E. five years of successful teaching experience in a properly certified field.
According to her LinkedIn this would not be met.
re: Why did LSU cave on the library renaming so quickly?
Posted by Golfer on 6/19/20 at 8:02 pm
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However, this one is a no brainer.
What’s interesting is that the vocal minority wants to “have a conversation” and “welcome people who might have been -ist”. All while “addressing systemic racism”. Which is fine.
Except in this case Middleton did exactly what these people wanted. He had a conversation and realized integration was vital and important to Louisiana’s future. He changed from his bigoted past.
So much for forgiveness and welcoming people to “the conversation”, I suppose.
re: Louisiana COVID-19 - June 19, 2020 Update: 48,515 cases - 2,972 deaths - 590,909 tested
Posted by Golfer on 6/19/20 at 12:41 pm
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None of this means there is some kind of ridiculous secret conspiracy. It just means that trying to issue daily reports isn’t always a neat process.
It just points to the incompetence of our State Government. It isn't difficult to update the data based on testing date and then reflect the changes in Tableau.
re: LSU Board votes to remove Troy Middleton's name from campus library..
Posted by Golfer on 6/19/20 at 12:39 pm
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They tried but there simply is no historical tradition of strong financial support by alumni. They were swimming upstream
You realize LSU's largest fundraising years and alumni participation rates have been in 2018 and 2019, right?
You're trying to connect some dots related to the downsizing that just aren't there. I'll leave it at that.
re: Louisiana COVID-19 - June 19, 2020 Update: 48,515 cases - 2,972 deaths - 590,909 tested
Posted by Golfer on 6/19/20 at 12:34 pm
I'm just going to continue with the rolling averages as posted since I haven't changed the data in the past when there's been "dump days" from old batches, either...
re: LSU Board votes to remove Troy Middleton's name from campus library..
Posted by Golfer on 6/19/20 at 12:20 pm
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LSU announced it publicly in March 2019
But the effort began in 2016...
Correct. The effort/back-end began then. Strategic Plan wasn't launched until Fall 2017, priority implementation and funding mechanisms weren't put in place until 2018.
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LSU is subject to a policy that does not allow them to announce the campaign until at least half of the fund has been raised.
That isn't a policy. It's just a general rule of thumb in campaigns. But LSU launched at about 38% to goal.
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LSU had $750M in commitments In 2016 and struggled to bring that number up to $900M By March 2020
Link?
re: LSU Board votes to remove Troy Middleton's name from campus library..
Posted by Golfer on 6/19/20 at 12:09 pm
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But why does it piss you off? Why get so fired up about this? It’s an ugly building slated for demolition...why get angry that it will spend its last 2 years of existence with a different name?....
To me this was a low hanging fruit
It's the appearance that LSU is simply caving to the what's in vogue right now and didn't want to be labeled "racist" by the cancel-culture media.
re: LSU Board votes to remove Troy Middleton's name from campus library..
Posted by Golfer on 6/19/20 at 12:04 pm
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Seems like that whole campaign was poorly run. It was launched at the height of dissatisfaction with Alleva and Alexander.
It launched ~15 months ago and is still going on :lol:. Alleva was gone 14 months ago and Alexander was a public candidate for new jobs about 10 months ago.
re: LSU Board votes to remove Troy Middleton's name from campus library..
Posted by Golfer on 6/19/20 at 11:48 am
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Insiders know better
The move to layoff the staff was because of the failure to raise the funds for a $1.5B capital campaign. The Foundation CEO was replaced as well
Not accurate, FWIW.
Pre-COVID they were actually ahead of target on the $1.5B goal.
re: Jetblue Adding 30 New Routes: Big Focus on Florida, Newark (EWR), and Philly (PHL)
Posted by Golfer on 6/18/20 at 3:27 pm
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So what's interesting is I'm hearing these routes are all going away on Nov 1, essentially operating from July 1- Oct 31 and then poof. Testing the market?
Probably a bit of both. Seasonal travel, banking on pent up demand, etc.
re: Foosackly’s is better than Canes
Posted by Golfer on 6/18/20 at 3:14 pm
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It is couple miles down the street from South Alabama. I don't know if they were going for the college crowd like the one at LSU, because if they were they could have easily put it much closer. There are quite a few places it could have gone within walking distance of south.
The original is/was at University and Airport, right? In the same outparcel at the Smoothie King...which makes sense given the family's interests in that franchise.
In 2000, South was almost entirely a commuter campus. Still is, but not to the same extent as 20 years ago. Wasn't trying to imply Foo's distance to USA was similar to Canes to LSU.
re: Foosackly’s is better than Canes
Posted by Golfer on 6/18/20 at 2:42 pm
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The guy was at LSU with plans to open up a place in BR, but Graves beat him to the punch by less than a year so he went to Mobile.
The guy (or his wife) is from Mobile, went to LSU, and liked the original Canes (Highland Rd.) concept and replicated it down the street from South Alabama.
re: Seat Relocations for Football
Posted by Golfer on 6/18/20 at 2:38 pm
My assumption is they're holding off as long as possible in the event things change for the upcoming season (dates, opponents, capacity, etc.)
re: Louisiana COVID 19 - Looking like no update today from DHH
Posted by Golfer on 6/18/20 at 12:13 pm
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Case numbers mean dick without context.
Correct. FL had 8.8% positive with new individuals tested. Not perfect, but not alarming.
FL is also reporting in those 3200 cases ~659 positives of already known positive individuals. Meaning they are hospitalized, or under medical treatment/quarantine and being retested.
LINK
re: Louisiana COVID 19 - Looking like no update today from DHH
Posted by Golfer on 6/18/20 at 12:07 pm
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3200 (record) in FL, over 4000 in CA
% positive?
re: Louisiana COVID 19 - Looking like no update today from DHH
Posted by Golfer on 6/18/20 at 12:05 pm
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"LDH is reviewing all data and will not be updating its dashboard today."
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