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LAFAYETTE — The Lafayette Parish School Board voted Wednesday not to discuss a potential federal lawsuit that Cajundome director Greg Davis threatens to file unless the board drops its investigation of Superintendent Pat Cooper.
The suit, if filed, would ask a judge to disqualify two board members from voting on Cooper's termination. The suit also would ask the judge to address budgeting concerns.
The board members, who did not discuss in public the merits of the potential case, adjourned the meeting after deciding not to go into executive session on the matter.
Following the meeting, Davis' attorney, Gary McGoffin, said he plans to move forward with his client's lawsuit and could file it within the week.
"They had an opportunity to discuss it and they chose not to," McGoffin said.
Davis put the board on notice earlier this week that he'd file a lawsuit asking the court to disqualify two board members, Mark Allen Babineaux and Tehmi Chassion, from voting on any termination proceedings against Cooper, claiming they are biased against the superintendent.
The timing of Davis' lawsuit threat comes two months after an attorney began an investigation of Cooper at the board's request, a first step to a possible termination proceeding.
Davis was not at Wednesday's meeting due to a planned vacation. Prior to the board meeting, Chassion scoffed at the bias claim, asking if his vote in support of Cooper as superintendent in late 2011 was a sign of bias against all the other candidates.
"I don't put much stake in desperate attempts to try and take away responsibility delegated to us in our elected position," Chassion said.
He also questioned the intentions of Davis — and McGoffin — both of whom Chassion said supported charter schools in the district. Three new charter schools will open next week to about 1,800 students. McGoffin is the attorney for the Lafayette Charter Foundation board, which oversees two of the three new charter schools.
On Wednesday, the board with a 4-5 vote defeated a motion to meet behind closed doors to discuss Davis' threat of litigation, with board members Greg Awbrey, Kermit Bouillion, Mark Cockerham and Shelton Cobb voting in favor of the discussion. After the vote, the board agreed to adjourn, shutting down any other attempt for other action.
Davis' potential lawsuit also could ask the court to force the district to comply with a state law that would require the board to roll forward with 50 percent of its budget from last year for its failure to adopt a budget before the end of the fiscal year on June 30.
The School Board faced its steepest shortfall yet — a record $23.5 million — as it began its review of the 2014-15 spending plan in May. The board met more than a dozen times since then and opted to review the budget to identify cuts rather than accept at least 10 balanced budgets proposed by Cooper.
Last week, the board balanced the budget with about $20 million in cuts, including some purchases of instructional materials and textbooks. As a compromise, the board set aside $2.5 million from its rainy day account to cover textbook costs.
The board will meet next week to again discuss the budget, board president Hunter Beasley said. A date for that meeting has not yet been announced, although it could be as early as Tuesday.
Earlier in the meeting, the board took no action on supervisors' request for more funding for new textbooks and other instructional materials — even though students will be arriving at schools Tuesday.
Teacher Kimberly Domangue, urging the board to order English language arts materials, said teachers are stressed because they're without the appropriate materials.
Instructional supervisors asked for nearly $3.1 million in instructional materials for the upcoming school year. The request was on the board's agenda as an introduction item and not up for a vote, though the board has the power to advance a vote with a simple majority of five votes among the nine members.
The list of requested materials exceeds the $2.5 million the board set aside last week to cover those expenses.
"We're in a situation where our materials are old and are standards are elevated," Karen Williams, the district's director of academics, told the board.
Williams noted the board previously approved new materials for math and science and for English language arts in grades six through 12.
An area where the new materials are most needed is in kindergarten through fifth grade, "which in my opinion is the most critical time to reach students in reading and math," Williams said.
Board member Rae Trahan questioned some of the textbook options and the fact that the supervisors' wish list exceeds the allocated $2.5 million.
Williams said the materials were selected based on research of their success. "We would never set (schools) up for failure," she said.
Trahan said she'd prefer to delay a decision on the purchase and assumed staff would bring their plans on how to spend the $2.5 million in a separate budget meeting.
"I want to see them justify the purchase of things with statistics and information … or balance it to the $2.5 (million)," Trahan said. "It's the overage that causes the question."
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It feels like a writing exercise: Define the Canadian literary scene without using the words "Canadian" or "literary." Keep in mind, as you write, that definitions are passé.
Recently, two publications – one online, edited by a 42-year-old man; one in print, edited by a 25-year-old woman – arrived in Toronto. Both publications are well-designed and feel several kinds of new. Both solicit contributions from home and native landers, with few exceptions, and yet neither have that insignificance-in-a-sprawling-landscape quality associated with CanLit. Neither is boring, either.
Hazlitt Magazine is a new, Internet-only "home for writers" funded by Random House Canada and edited by Christopher Frey and his associate, Alexandra Molotkow, 26. Molotkow left the Walrus for Hazlitt: It's a short walk, but a long metaphor. The Walrus is a not-for-profit institution. Hazlitt, looked at cynically, is big-budget advertorial for a publishing house, the kind of brandlessly brand-building magazine that fashion brands have been making for years.
The Walrus has a reputation for upholding Canada's old guard, although that's not wholly deserved. So far, Hazlitt's roster of regular contributors is strikingly young: 11 out of 26 are under 30, that arbitrary age at which society stops being politely surprised by your success (disclosure time: I'm one of them). The Walrus seems perennially concerned with what it means to be Canadian, while Hazlitt, says Frey, seeks to be un-parochial and not recognizably Canuck. It must be working, because in the first few days, traffic to the website was roughly three-quarters American.
Above all – and by the way, these two publications aren't suddenly direct competitors, just a good contrast – the Walrus is literary. Hazlitt is "writer-centric." That's its tagline for the trend away from the story, toward its teller, that you register half-consciously every time a byline is bigger than the headline. On one side of the Internet – say, Buzzfeed – you have "content," farmed en masse by bot-like editors. "Content" is what, allegedly, readers find interesting. On the other side – á la The Atlantic online, or Hazlitt – you have "voices," the highly tweetable columnists you read no matter their subject. (Some of the most successful sites, like the feudal-systemic HuffPo with its unpaid bloggers and marquee columnists, have it both ways.)
Little Brother, a five-by-eight, Toronto-based mag edited by Emily Keeler and launched this month, began as a Tumblr and will now be quarterly in print. It too is Internet-sensible and anti-institutional: "I don't want it to be called a journal," says Keeler, who also Tumblrs for The Millions, edits at Joyland, and contributes to other sites, including Hazlitt. "A journal is a dead thing." As for literary, she tells me: "I think something is literary if the writing is really good. But now literary is a fluid thing, without a set definition, so it's not the best description [of Little Brother ]."
Literary once denoted the value, intent, and even content of a written work. Now it mostly connotes taste. What's "literary" is not always "best," but usually suggests a higher form of artfulness in writing. In the collapse of high and low, it loses meaning, becoming a diffused, vague suggestion of class and classism (kind of like, sorry, "hipster").
"With a writer-centric, not strictly literary magazine," says Frey, "you have licence to write about anything: low culture, high culture, and both together. Literary is high culture, but the culture today is a mix of high and low." In a separate conversation with Molotkow, she adds that literary is more the manner of dealing with a subject than the subject matter itself: "You can take a literary approach to a 'low' subject, and the writing doesn't need to be dry or inaccessible."
In Little Brother, there's a great example of this: a clever, riveting essay by Toronto's Cian Cruise on Fellini's La Dolce Vita and the '90s Japanese anime show Evangelion. It's not that the former is high culture and the latter is low culture, as an old person might suspect, but that both are both. Also great is that, while the essay isn't personal, the first person is used casually, just enough to show where the writer stands in relation to the subject. Many readers seem to think the first person is narcissistic, but it's more glass than mirror. If we're going to trust journalism, it has to be transparent, and if writers are going to be successful in the time of new media, they have to be visible in everything they do.
So what's the new "literary?" Personality, I think. Not that personality is new: think of Truman Capote, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion. But in an economy that's the most saturated, the most precarious, and the least compensated it's ever been, a writer's "voice," or personality, or what used to be a personality and is now a "personal brand," is more important than ever.
"There are a lot of writers out there," says Molotkow, "and some very short attention spans, mine included. It's more important to be interesting: to have a discernible taste and a recognizable sensibility." These things manifest in a writer's not only published, but also Tweeted, Instagrammed, and Facebook-statused work. Writers (and suuure, bloggers) are followed across platforms with more interest and fandom than the publications for which they write: I'll read anything Teju Cole says, or Cat Marnell, or Sheila Heti, anywhere they say it, even on a bathroom wall. (Actually, the more I think about it, the more I only trust writers, never institutions. I subscribe to the New York Times and read it with permanent skepticism, but I believe in, for example, David Carr.)
Personality doesn't substitute for a good story or good sentences, but it is slowly usurping the notion of "literary," becoming more valuable than status, identity, or tradition. This is good news for a country where most of us a) prefer humblebragging about not being American to having bonafide pride in place, and b) hold a grudge against our lit tradition that dates back to Grade 11 English with Ms. Robertomeyer. We, as writers, but also as readers, can quit bemoaning Canada's lack of high-cultural history, because that's decreasingly relevant. Instead, writers everywhere live by an Internet-borne ability to intertextualize: to reference Proust and Pinterest in a breath, to treat gchats and graffiti and The New Yorker pullquotes with equal gravitas, to be as real about Twitter as we they are about writing for Toronto Life (kidding! Twitter's realer). The subtext is "this matters because I care."
Frey and Molotkow say that there's more young literary talent now than there's ever been in Toronto, and in Canada. Keeler says there may just be more opportunities for young people to get published, and points out that as personal and sometimes cultural writing has become devalued, older people can't afford to do it as much.
I hold both views: More opportunities (if not more rewards) mean more competition and better writers with louder, more original voices. In Canada, moot tradition and no fixed identities make writer's individualities both paramount and more possible. I don't think it's coincidence that Sheila Heti, right here, wrote How Should a Person Be? the most original-feeling book I've read in my life. It's surprising, but shouldn't be, that Americans found it so too. And with Hazlitt, Little Brother and more forging a literary un-tradition, we have all the reasons to heed voices from the nearest room.Report Typo/Error
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Man critical after being shot through his front door near 41st and Navajo
Early this morning, a man opened the door of his Denver home and was greeted in the most unpleasant way imaginable -- by a bullet to the chest.
At this writing, the man is said to be in critical condition but is expected to survive. Here's what we know thus far.
At 2:09 a.m., the Denver Police Department tweeted the following:
#BREAKING:#DPD is at the 4600 BLK of Navajo St on a shooting 1 Vict Xported in critical expected to survive. No suspect info. at this time.
— Denver Police Dept. (@DenverPolice) June 24, 2014
According to 9News, reporting from the site of the shooting, the address included in the DPD tweet isn't quite right. The actual location is on Navajo between 40th and 41st -- an area captured in the following interactive graphic. If you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map."
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What happened? A DPD rep tells the station police arrived at a home along this stretch around 1 a.m.
The shooting victim was still able to communicate when the cops got there. He's quoted as saying a guy knocked at the door moments earlier. After the resident answered, the man is said to have asked for someone he didn't know.
And then he opened fire.
The bullet struck the victim in the upper chest. He was transported to Denver Health and rushed into surgery in critical condition -- but doctors are hopeful he'll survive.
No specific description has been released at this point, and neither has a suspect been named or caught. Cops searched the surrounding neighborhood but didn't find anyone -- meaning that the mystery of this late-night call is still a considerable distance from being solved.
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Heroes Con 2013 Pre-Con Commission List Open!on April 8, 2013 at 1:35 pm
Hi everyone! I'm opening my schedule up for a limited number of pre-con commissions for delivery at Heroes Con 2013 (June 7-9). I'm guessing only 3-4, but if I can get them all finished early I will open up more slots. These are full commissions, NOT con sketches, and will all be completed in warm and cool grey COPIC markers, with no background. I'm going to make a change from what I've offered in the past and give everyone two options:
11×14 $150, or 9×12 $100
If you're interested just drop me a message and we'll work out all of the details.
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1. Simple Skin (for RMC 18.104.22.168 only)
*** Note: An updated version of the Simple Skin now ships with RMC 126.96.36.199. This version of the skin is provided for those customers still on RMC 18.104.22.168.***
The Simple Skin is a customized version of the standard Compact Skin that comes with Rational Method Composer. When selected during publishing, the Simple Skin generates web pages with a very simple look and feel. Much visual distraction is removed: dividers, unnecessary section headers, and collapsible sections. For a detailed comparison of the Simple Skin to the Compact Skin, see this Microsoft PowerPoint presentation:
To install this skin, download the "simple.zip" file from the link below, and follow the instructions for "How to install a skin" below.
Details of how this skin differs from the Compact Skin are described in the enclosed readme.rtf file.
2. Dutch Skins (for RMC 184.108.40.206)
Dutch is not one of the languages supported via the "-nl" parameter (see Rational Method Composer command line options ). However, you can create a Dutch website if you populate method elements with Dutch text and publish using a Dutch skin.
To install Dutch skins, download the "Dutch_Skins.zip" file from the link below, and follow the instructions for "How to install a skin" below.
Note: Some generated tree nodes under "Practice" elements are not translated (nodes named Work Products, Tasks, Roles, and Guidance that group elements associated with the practice element). The workaround is to associate one or more custom categories to the practice, and use these to group work products, tasks, roles and guidance. Each custom category can have a Dutch name.
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Download and extract the zip file that contains the skin.
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In the News
State Department: Keystone XL Would Have Little Impact on Climate
Juliet Eilperin & Steven Mufson, Washington Post, 1 March 2013
California's Green Jobs Bust
Conn Carroll, Washington Examiner, 28 February 2013
Green Movement Has Turned into a Death Cult
Dennis Prager, Investors Business Daily, 27 February 2013
The Green Energy Religion Is Based on a False Premise
Bill Frezza, Beaufort Observer, 27 February 2013
Keystone XL: A No-Brainer
Rep. Fred Upton, National Journal, 27 February 2013
Dominion Virginia's 'Green' Solar Program: Bad Economics for a Misplaced Cause
Charles Battig, Master Resource, 27 February 2013
Is Presumed EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy Trustworthy?
Anthony Ward, GlobalWarming.org, 26 February 2013
What Climate Consensus?
Peter Glover, Energy Tribune, 26 February 2013
We Should Defund the IPCC
Larry Bell, Forbes, 24 February 2013
News You Can Use
Carbon Tax Costs
According to a study published this week by the National Association of Manufacturers, a $20 per ton carbon tax would reduce household consumption by $340 in 2033, in addition to lowering employment by 2,520,000 job-equivalents. For more on advocates of a carbon tax, including AEI and Exxon Mobil, see Inside the Beltway.
Inside the Beltway
Myron Ebell
Sequester Begins With Devastating Spending Cuts
The automatic reductions of $85 billion in federal spending, known as the Sequester, which were agreed to by President Obama, Senate Democrats and House Republicans when the Budget Control Act was passed and signed into law in 2011, started going into effect today, March 1. As President Obama has warned over the past several weeks, the consequences of cutting federal spending by 2.2 percent already are calamitous. Bloomberg News reported that the Bureau of Labor Statistics was going to have to discontinue its survey of green jobs.
Here's what Bracken Hendricks, a senior fellow at the ironically named Center for American Progress and the author of a book on green energy told Bloomberg: "It's a huge loss. This means the U.S. will be flying blind on the growth of a very, very important sector in the U.S. economy."
It may be the White House agrees with my CEI colleague John Berlau, who told Bloomberg that he was glad to see the green jobs survey go. That's because President Obama promised in the 2008 campaign his policies would create 5 million new green jobs within a decade. The White House later claimed $90 billion in stimulus funding had created 225,000 green jobs (at $400,000 per job). So the president may be happy not to have be reminded by the BLS's survey of how far he is from keeping his promise.
For a Carbon Tax: ExxonMobil, AEI, Brookings and RFF
Against: NAM
It was a busy week for promoting and opposing a carbon tax. Two studies on the economic effects of a carbon tax that draw opposite conclusions were released by the National Association of Manufacturers and the Brookings Institution. Kevin Hassett, Ph.D., director of economic policy studies at the "pro-business" American Enterprise Institute, continued his advocacy of a carbon tax at a Resources for the Future forum. And most interestingly, former EPA Administrator William K. Reilly, said at a conference that, "The strongest advocate on our task force for a carbon tax was ExxonMobil. I had previously thought that was a public relations thing — I didn't think they were quite interested in it."
The National Association of Manufacturers released a study by NERA Consulting on the Economic Outcomes of a Carbon Tax. The NAM study concludes that a tax starting at $20 per ton of carbon dioxide emitted and increasing by 4 percent per year would have a range of negative effects that would ripple through the economy. In particular: "The negative impact of a carbon tax on total manufacturing output would be significant, with output from energy-intensive manufacturing sectors dropping as much as 15 percent and output from non-energy-intensive manufacturing sectors dropping as much as 7.7 percent."
The NAM study also argues that: "A carbon tax would have a net negative effect on consumption, investment and jobs, resulting in lower federal revenues from taxes on capital and labor. Factoring in lost revenue from reduced economic activity, the net revenue from a carbon tax available for deficit/debt reduction and lower tax rates is relatively small."
The Brookings Institution released a study by Adele C. Morris on The Many Benefits of a Carbon Tax. The Brookings study proposes a tax starting at $16 per ton of carbon dioxide emitted and increasing by 4 percent per year to reduce the deficit and to lower the corporate income tax rate from 35 percent to 28 percent. The study proposes 15 percent of the revenues from a carbon tax go to benefits for poor people who would be hurt most by higher energy prices. Morris also argues in the study a carbon tax would make at least some EPA regulations of greenhouse gas emissions redundant and unnecessary.
The details of a carbon tax were discussed on Feb. 27 at a Resources for the Future seminar on Comprehensive Tax Reform and Climate Policy. A video of the seminar can be viewed here. Participants included Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute, Billy Pizer of Duke University, Joe Aldy of Harvard University, Larry Goulder of Stanford University, Rob Williams of the University of Maryland, and Ian Parry of the International Monetary Fund. Aldy worked as an adviser on climate policy in the Obama White House. Pizer worked in the Treasury Department during the George W. Bush (when Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, was Treasury Secretary) and Obama Administrations to devise a model carbon tax.
William K. Reilly was one of the speakers at the Climate Leadership Conference this week. The conference was hosted by the Climate Registry, the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions and the Association of Climate Change Officers. It was sponsored by a long list of companies and organizations, including Bloomberg BNA News. The "headline sponsor" was the Environmental Protection Agency.
Erica Martinson filed several short reports for Politico Pro, which is available to paid subscribers only. In one of Politico Pro's e-mails to subscribers dated 2/28/13 12:01 PM EST Martinson wrote:
Oil companies are expecting — and sometimes advocating for — a carbon tax, former EPA Administrator William Reilly said today. Two companies, ConocoPhillips and Shell, "have a virtual tax they append to their [internal rate of return] calculations when making new capital expenditures," he said. "It's $25 a ton for Conoco; $75 a ton for Shell. So Congress may not be acting, but companies are anticipating somebody will someday," Reilly said.
The George H.W. Bush-era EPA leader recently participated on an energy policy task force and found ExxonMobil's position interesting, he said. "The strongest advocate on our task force for a carbon tax was ExxonMobil. I had previously thought that was a public relations thing — I didn't think they were quite interested in it," he said.
The task force Reilly refers to is the Bipartisan Policy Center's Strategic Energy Policy Initiative, which released its report at a press conference on Feb. 27. Reilly was one of four speakers at the press conference, along with his three fellow co-chairmen: former Sens. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Trent Lott, R-Miss., and Gen. James Jones, former National Security Adviser to President Obama. Other members of the task force include William Colton, vice president of ExxonMobil, and Ralph Cavanaugh of the Natural Resources Defense Council. The task force's 50 incoherent energy policy recommendations can be read here.
In other carbon tax news, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, asked Treasury Secretary nominee Jacob Lew during his confirmation hearing about the Obama Administration's position on a carbon tax. Lew responded, "The administration has not proposed a carbon tax, nor is it planning to do so." The Senate confirmed Lew by a vote of 71 to 26 this week. Senator David Vitter (R-La.), ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, followed up on Lew's statement by sending a letter to President Obama asking him whether he opposes the carbon tax bill introduced by Senators Bernie Sanders (Independent Socialist-Vt.) and Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.).
Across the States
William Yeatman
Maryland Legislature Poised To Pass Empty Offshore Wind Bill
By a 7-4 vote, the Maryland Senate Finance Committee passed SB 275, the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act of 2013. The legislation, which was proposed by Governor Martin O'Malley, was approved by the House last week, and it is expected to soon win passage in the full Senate.
The bill would cap the amount that Maryland ratepayers would pay for offshore wind at about 13 cents per kilowatt hour. To date, the cheapest proposed offshore wind project, off the Massachusetts coast, is priced at 20 cents per kilowatt hour. Simply put, the price ceiling established by Maryland's offshore wind legislation is almost 40 percent less than the price floor established by the market. As a result, it is highly unlikely that the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Act will lead to wind turbines off Maryland's coast.
Around the World
Anthony Ward
EU Financial Transaction Tax to Fund Climate Change
The European Union's Commission has proposed a financial transaction tax (FTT) on bonds and stockholdings, and is considering using the tax revenues generated to combat climate change. The tax is currently being supported by 11 members of the EU. Andris Piebalgs, the EU's Commissioner on Development, said he "wants member countries to really take [the idea of using tax revenue for climate change] seriously."
The FTT proposal coincides with European Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard's visit to Washington D.C. Hedegaard is the EU's top climate change official and has been an outspoken opponent of the Keystone XL pipeline. At a press conference on Thursday, The Hill reports that Hedegaard told reporters that rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline would "be an extremely strong signal from the Obama administration." She went on to characterize the pipeline as a harmful investment that would not "pay off in the world we are living in."
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When the latter was carried off by Zeus, Cadmus was sent by Agenor in quest of her, with orders not to come back emty-handed. The search was in vain, and the oracle at Delphi told Cadmus to give up and instead follow a certain cow he'd meet, and build a city where it lay down. He found the cow in Phocis, followed her to Boeotia, and there built the city of Thebes. Intending to sacrifice the cow to Athena, he sent some men to the well of Ares close by for water, but they were killed by the dragon, son of Ares, who guarded it. Cadmus then slew the dragon, and sowed the creature's teeth in the ground. From these immediately sprang up armed men who set upon and slew each other until only five were left; these survivors became the progenitors of the Theban families.
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The average amount of sleep for a US citizen in 1910 was hours. By 1997, the average amount of sleep had dropped to hours
An explanation of the first two lines by the composer"Functions that hamper and gifts that requite
Must by their nature in women unite.
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Northward the lust and the yearning conspire
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This poem was contrived by a 24 year-old male after 231 hours of sleep deprivation (interspersed with 5.25 hours of accidental sleep). The poem was directed at two of the women who assisted in the observations of the man during the deprivation period.
The rim is composed of a woven acrostic of the two names. The first couplet sets the general theme, that women and possession are not an unmixed blessing, that the fact that as women they must require things of men that set the men from the progressive work they as men set themselves, that moreover the women might be finer things if the racial needs that lurk in their smiles and frowns, supplenesses and awkwardnesses did not compel them, their own insight lacking, to demands of this sort. The hampering and the functions thus are on several levels of operation, and poetry, to the proper reader conveys much of this, more besides, and epitomizes the fact in addition. (Katz & Landis, 1935, p. 314)
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Final Fantasy XI Paladin Guide
Do you stand for truth and justice for all of Vana'diel? Do you want to protect your fellow players? Do you want to be a Paladin? Then you have come to the right place! Paladins are the tank of FFXI and as such require a lot of skill to play properly. With this guide you will not only learn the necessary information required to get the most out of this job but also in depth party options as well as a whole lot more.
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Pivotal 'Supernatural' Character Will Appear More Sparsely In Seventh Season
"Supernatural" fans, we hope absence makes the heart grow fonder.
After earning big buzz from the time he entered season four as the Winchesterbrothers' favorite angel Castiel, Misha Collins won't be a regular performer next season, according to TVLine today.
Castiel had just made a huge villainous turn, opening the gates of Purgatory within himself and becoming an all-powerful god that feeds on the power of souls and has a real with-me-or-against-me chip on his shoulder.
The show's creators say it's all in lock-step with the way they approach every character, except Sam and Dean Winchester. However, the evolution of Cas will get a deeper exploration in the season to come, as well as his move's impact on Heaven itself. It is confirmed that Collins will be there for the seventh-season opener.
"When it comes to 'Supernatural,' our philosophy is that everyone moves in and out and weaves in and out of the story, obviously with the exception of Sam and Dean," said executive producer Sera Gamble. "We love Misha. We love and adore the character of Castiel. His character developed to this extent and went in this unexpected direction because we were so inspired by him.
"[In Season 6], we consciously kept some of this angel civil war off camera because we are interested in what happens on Earth," she explains. "We are interested in what happens in the purview of the boys. We feel that in terms of what we can accomplish, the scope of the show, our storyline is best accomplished where the Impala can go."


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Darwin unleashed a new kind of science, if I may call it that; his theories have been taken up, expanded, proven to be true, adjusted, refashioned, etc, over time to the kind of science we have today. Intelligent Design folks, led by people like Michael Behe, contend Darwinian science is lacking and, in fact, they [Read More…]
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Let's Get Legal: Gary Wills on the Right to Bear Arms
This is from a 1995 NYReview of Books piece by Garry Wills. In American law, the right to bear arms, originally about the military, has been extended and expanded to the right of every citizen to own, use and even publicly display a gun. There are other possible (though less plausible) reasons for the omissions—e.g., [Read More…]
Yet Another on Gun Laws
This social scientist, Patrick Egan, documents improvement on violence and gun laws … Which proves that, though perhaps the worst in the civilized world, we're doing better. Is that good enough? But as pundits and politicians react, they would do well to keep in mind two fundamental trends about violence and guns in America that [Read More…]
One More on Gun Laws: It's Not Over
James Fallows: Unless something is done, the American fascination with violence and the easy availability of guns — as a "right" — will generate more mass murders. Like everyone, and I'd say especially like every parent, I am of course saddened and horrified by the latest mass shooting-murder. My sympathies to all. And of course [Read More…]
Yet More on Gun Laws
Here is a chart of assault deaths in the USA, by Kieran Healy: Instead of saying derogatory things about the South, look at the second graph — how we stack up against the rest of the world! America is the most violent country in the world — Do Christians want to change that national story? [Read more…]
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James Martin, S.J.: Of course, violent people use guns in violence. We can't prevent people from being violent – apart from a miracle of God's grace – but we can prevent said violent people from having access to guns. Christians should be leading the way toward the revision of gun laws in the USA. Do [Read More…]
Gun Laws, None Dare Call it Time
Sandy Levinson, at Balkinization: Some of this blog's readers will know that I am against our gun laws — we are a violent society and our violence is magnified by the 2d Amendment's right to bear arms, a right taken far too liberally in our culture. The issue for me, however, is not simply repealing [Read More…]
How Can You Be a Christian? (RJS)
In a post last Thursday I referred to a book by Alister McGrath, Doubting: Growing Through the Uncertainties of Faith. At one point in this book he makes the following observation: It is very common for Christians to find themselves isolated at work or ridiculed for their faith. They are conscious of the fact that [Read More…]
Our Yes
Yesterday I posted about Mike Glenn's fine book The Gospel of Yes, and today I turn to another pastor, Dave Workman, and his book could have been subtitled: Our Yes to God's Yes. If God says Yes to us in Christ, we say Yes back to God by loving others. So Dave's book is called [Read More…]
Summer Fun for Kids — at what price?
From USA Today: How about you? How much do you spend? Is this become a pressure to conform to what other families are doing? Americans are expected to spend more than $600 per child, on average, to keep their kids entertained this summer, according to the results of the latest American Express Spending and Savings tracker. [Read More…]


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Countable and Uncountable Nouns Definition
In the English language there are two types of a noun: countable and uncountable.
The countable nouns are those nouns that can exist both separately and in group or, in other words, those which you can count, like:
- a book, a dog
- an american, an apple
- a girlfriend
Singular nouns must be preceded by the indefinite article "a" (before words beginning with a consonant) - e.g. a book or "an" (before words beginning with a vowel) - e.g. an American.
If a noun is plural we don't use any indefinite articles.
- books, dogs
- americans, apples
- girlfriends
- I like eating apples
Both in plurals and singulars definite article"the" may appear.
- Do you remember the restaurant I told you about yesterday?
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Every two years since Goldman Sachs bought a 45 per cent stake in the venerable stockbroker JBWere, the stakeholders would meet to discuss their marriage. The 2003 alliance agreement gave Goldman Sachs a buy-out option; it was only a matter of time before Wall Street took what it wanted.
During the latest review, which began last September, it became abundantly clear to those on both sides of the table that the agreement – the glue that held the joint venture together – was creating too many sticky issues.
These posed a threat to Goldman's lofty ambitions to expand its securities and lending businesses in what had become an ultra-competitive local market.
Bizarre and clunky restraints peppered the agreement. For example, Australian-based traders needed to call colleagues in Hong Kong to price Australian dollars, because that is where the Aussie-dollar trading book was domiciled. Even more annoyingly, Goldman's Australian staff couldn't talk to global clients.
Such constraints coincided with booming global demand for Australian currency and credit, and related derivative activity, propelled by central banks diversifying from US-dollar treasuries and euros, and by corporate clients viewing the Aussie as a proxy for Chinese growth.
Removing such obstacles seemed obvious. But allowing Goldman's US office to move to full control was not without risks for the local partnership, given its collegiate culture, autonomy and remuneration structures.
The partnership was paid all-cash compensation, which had assisted the retention of quality bankers. This had helped Goldman blossom in the merger and acquisition advisory ranks, where it and UBS consistently vied for top spot on the league tables.
As the negotiations continued, it became clear to Goldmans's local leaders that the Australian ranks wanted more support from head office. They feared the local operation would be pigeon-holed as a boutique and would fail to capitalise on emerging opportunities, especially those appearing in the fixed income, currency and commodities (FICC) space, where competitors Deutsche Bank, Barclays Capital and JPMorgan were gaining the upper hand.
Many partners were also fretting about the potential for massive capital expenditure on technology, estimated internally to have been around $200 million over three years, in order to gain access to Goldman's global systems which would facilitate trading in multiple markets and allow local operations to tap into the global systems for measuring risk.
Co-chief executive officer of Goldman in Australia,
Expanding local FICC capability is a play towards Goldman's core strength: the bank's global revenues are dominated by FICC. Rothery says that trading illiquid credits in debt, commodity and interest rate markets requires a bank to assume big risks and be prepared to put its balance sheet to use to facilitate business.
"FICC involves much more risk taking, warehousing type culture, and that's one of the reasons it drove the buy-out," he says. "We didn't have the balance sheet to make those markets locally."
Goldman had been prepared to show its $US1 trillion ($933 billion) global balance sheet to the local partners, but forced the Australian business to carry the risk of credit events, another legacy issue of the alliance agreement.
The takeover, which took effect on Friday, will see the Aussie-dollar trading book brought onshore, allowing local traders to see two-way trading flows. Rothery says this is another critical factor for market-making activities.
"By seeing a lot more liquidity, you are actually able to offer better prices," he says. "You will actually get people dealing into Sydney."
Freeing up local staff to market Australian products to the bank's global clientele will help develop specialisation in Sydney.
Rothery points to Deutsche Bank's success at establishing Sydney as the global centre for Aussie-dollar execution as something worthy of emulation.
He adds that US head office was also keen to put the Australian talent pool to use in Asia.
"I think there's a view within Goldman that Aussies have a lot to add in the global system."
Rothery says the move to cash and scrip compensation is "actually not that big a shift" for the former partners, who had been paid all-cash but had also been forced to buy equity in the firm, sapping bonuses.
With Goldman in New York engaged in a cost-cutting drive in the face of weak market conditions, Rothery seems relaxed about the potential for the local operations to be dictated to. He points to recent recognition from head office that Goldman's long-term relevance in each of the jurisdictions in which it operates is a function of its recognition of local exigencies.
"That is a real change in mind-set for Goldman," Rothery says. "We are going local in China, local in Japan, local in Korea. And in Australia, we are going local as well.
"There is much more of an acceptance that if you are going to be local, then you have to run the local businesses for local market conditions.
"So you have local management, and you have local autonomy."
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- Stories: 0
- Foreclosure: No
- Lot Area: 0.85
- County: Manistee
- Style: Single Family
- Baths: 6 (Full: 5 3/4: 0 1/2: 1 Other: 0)
- Parking Type Description: Detached 2 cars
- Total Square Footage: 4,600 ($201.96 per sq. foot)
- Lot Size: 260 x 316
- School District: Onekama
- Year Built: 1924
- Status: Active
- New Construction: No
- Above Ground Sq. Feet: 4,600
- Estimated Annual Taxes: $8,293
- Subdivision: O80 - Manistee Brown Filer Stronach
Access Feat: Accessibility Features No
Additional Items All Window Treatments, Ceiling Fans, Garage Door Opener, Wood Floor
Air Conditioning Central
Appliances Dishwasher, Dryer, Microwave, Range, Refrigerator, Washer
Basement No
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Exterior Features Deck(s), Gazebo, Porch(es)
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His great-grandfather was the Cato of "Carthago delenda est," the driver of the third carthaginian war.
For a moment the dust was too thick; then it seemed to clear away, and the carthaginian army burst into view.
The suffetes were the supreme executive officers of the carthaginian commonwealth.
The carthaginian senate seems to have been much more numerous than the Roman.
The name of the carthaginian general on this occasion was Hasdrubal.
The small amount of invention needed to counteract the corvus was not apparently within the compass of the carthaginian rulers.
The elephants of the carthaginian army were of this species.
But, in spite of this agreement, Saguntum was besieged eight years later, by a carthaginian army under Hannibal.
This, however, was because the foreigners had missed advantages of carthaginian standards.
The carthaginian fleet, consisting of 350 ships, met them near Ecnomus, on the southern coast of Sicily.
ancient city of North Africa, from Phoenician quart khadash "new town." Related: Carthaginian.
An ancient city in north Africa, established by traders from Phoenicia. Carthage was a commercial and political rival of Rome for much of the third and second centuries b.c. The Carthaginian general Hannibal attempted to capture Rome by moving an army from Spain through the Alps, but he was prevented and finally defeated in his own country. At the end of the Punic Wars, the Romans destroyed Carthage, as the senator Cato had long urged. The character Dido, lover of Aeneas in the Aeneid, was a queen of Carthage.


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About MeMy name is Akasha Lovely, pleasure to make your acquaintance!
I'm a tattooed and pierced college student in my early 20s looking to make a name for myself in the modeling world. It has always been a dream of mine to model and according to society's view of things I am considered to be plus-size. To be perfectly honest, I am happy with who I am and what I look like. I have no unrealistic expectations of myself so if you are looking for that "perfect beach body" or someone with cosmetic augmentations - I'm not that woman. I appreciate, embrace, and accentuate my curves and I would love to work with someone who is on the same page.
I have done a few shoots with friends and some head-shots for my acting portfolio. Some styles I am interested in shooting are Rockabilly, Pin-up, and Gothic/Dark but I am always open to work with anyone who has a creative and adventurous mind. I don't mind taking provocative or suggestive photos, but please do not contact me about nude or erotic shoots - there is a huge and quite drastic difference between pornography and art.
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My hair color is currently red and black (though naturally blonde).
I have 2 piercings on the right side of my lip. (I usually wear one hoop and one stud but I am open to changing them out or not wearing them at all depending on the shoot).
I have my left eyebrow pierced. (I usually wear a spiked post, but am open to changing it out or omitting it also).
My ears are both pierced twice. (The second holes are gauged to a 4).
My right tragus is pierced. (I usually wear a hoop in that).
I have a quarter sleeve on the outer side of my right bicep that is half black and grey-scale and half color.
I have a nautical star and the words "live love learn one step at a time" above my chest, below my shoulder (right front side).
I have the math equation "LOVE > _____" on the back of my left arm (above the elbow).
I have a small red heart with a black outline on my left hand between my thumb and index finger.
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I have seven stars (just black outlines) going down my left ribcage starting at my armpit.
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Another Reason to Hate the News
Here is a headline in today's news:
"3-mile-wide asteroid to buzz planet Earth tonight".
As soon as I read that, I was like "Whoa, It's going to buzz us? How close is this thing going to get"?
Then I thought let's see what they mean by the word "BUZZ"According to this one "foxy" publication. Buzz = 4.3 MILLION MILES away!!!!!
Are you kidding me? I should have known better. But to their credit, their headline grabbed my attention.
Curses you damn media!!!! (Yeah i know, I'm part of it too)
Oh and by the way. If you have a NASA-like telescope you can see the asteroid "buzz" us in the early morning hours of December 12th, 2012.


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Alan Wake is a psychological action thriller, a unique new take in the world of gaming. The game is set in an idyllic all-American small town and its surroundings in the state of Washington. Alan Wake, the game's protagonist, is a bestselling horror writer, who writesA PC and Xbox 360 release is still planned for Alan Wake, but no date has even been hinted at.
a novel about his darkest nightmares. In the game, those nightmares come true. As with
Remedy's previous games, story and atmosphere are fundamental elements.
|this game still tickles me, but im sick of waiting for it :S


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This month's Social Media London event was "How to boost your social media influence" with Andrew Grill, CEO of Kred the open standard for measurable influence, based in London.
Background information:
The meetup started with a brief introduction about Andrew, his Australian background, his presence on the web (he's been working online and blogging since 1994) and Kred, the company he works for as a CEO.
Andrew then gave the audience some hands-on practice on Kred, influence and how it works in real life – he set up a special Kred leaderboard for the event and anyone tweeting using the Social Media London hashtag (#smlondon) with a mention in the tweet will be given 'outreach points' and the person (or people) mentioned will be given 'influence points'.
To start the event, Andrew touched on the main topic of the meetup – influence.
What is influence?
As a social media keynote speaker, Andrew has spoken to a multitude of events and meetups, and the constant question he often gets is "what do you do with influence once you've found it?". The challenge is not increasing your influence score – whether it's Klout, Kred or any other influence measurement facility. Andrew then shared a few experiences of the outcomes of using his social media influence – he was able to change his relationship with brands because brands knew who he was, he was able to get goodies and benefits from brands who wanted him to advertise their products and becoming their 'advocate'.
So, how can you find the right people who can talk about your brand?
Nowadays brands are gradually moving away from paying 'evangelists' money to talk about them, while they prefer to look for the unsigned bloggers instead. One way they do so is by finding people with a high social media influence score. However, such scores are not always reliable. In fact, more often than not, they're just numbers.
Don't take your score number at face value – it might be high in the wrong area.
For an influence score to have a meaning, it needs to provide a context, a description of how the score works and how it's calculated. just the fact that someone has a high score does not mean that they're the right person for your brand – their high score might be in health, hospitality, technology or dog-walking, which might not necessarily be your area of interest.
Kred takes a different approach – it provides context to such scores. Since November 2008 to right now, Kred has acquired 100 billion tweets in its database and analyses those tweets and each interaction (going back to a maximum of 1,000 days) to score you in your main areas, to connect you with people with a similar or higher score.
Anyone with a public Twitter profile can check their Kred score and see what tweets are increasing (or lowering) your score. This helps users gain insight on how they're gaining influence.
I know my influence score, now what do I do?
Once you know what you're influential in and once you know what you're doing to make yourself influential, keep doing it.
Here are a few tips to help you improve your social media influence:
- Find what you're influential in, find what you're known for.
- Give people recommendations.
- Focus on your main area(s) of interest.
- Offer something of value.
- Don't underestimate the power of social media.
- Keep being authentic.
- Be interesting.
- Be useful.
To conclude, Andrew gave the audience a chance to ask some questions. Here are the questions and answers in a nutshell.
Q. How do you know if a brand is giving you an authentic incentive and not just a "bribe"?
A. You don't always get something in return from a brand that asks you to review their product. Unfortunately, unlike with journalism, there's no code of ethos when it comes to social media, and there's no set of rules either. So, the best thing to do is – be honest, open and transparent to the brand; check what the brand is about and ask yourself: is there any correlation with your main areas of interest and theirs?
Q. How does Kred work for smaller businesses?
A. Kred works very well for smaller business – it looks at the whole 'Twitter universe' and it measures your influence and the influence of people and communities that share the same interests as your business/company. This is great for businesses with limited budget for instance, since Kred is a free service.
Q. How can individuals boost their score to get on the radar for recruiters, clients or customers?
A. If you have a point of view, an opinion, and you can articulate that in a tweet and talk about it, you will be found. Additionally, there are so many things you can do to get noticed, but one of the most important things is being proactive – have you looked for potential employers, clients and customers on Twitter? When was the last time you checked who has viewed your profile on LinkedIn? If you want to appear more influential or more visible, there are several simple things you can do to get noticed. However, once you get noticed you need to have something to say, and Twitter allows you to do that and amplify your voice.
My Views
This was definitely a timely meetup for me. I've used Klout for quite some time and I've always wondered what my score meant. Klout thinks I'm influential in technology and social media, and I'm glad that it's showing that. However, it also thinks that I'm influential in Starbucks – I might enjoy the odd Starbucks coffee every now and then but that doesn't really make influential in that area.
So, I signed up for Kred after the meetup and used it for a while. I've used it for a few days and I have to say – I quite like it. I personally don't find it as intuitive as Klout, but it has definitely given me more insight on what I'm influential about and who else is influential in my areas of interest, or 'communities'.


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'The Bachelor' Women Pose with Brad Womack for Sports Illustrated (VIDEO)
On the drama-filled reality series, the ladies were woken from their beauty sleep and then given the news they'd be modeling for a photo shoot. The tired-eyed women were shocked when greeted by the editor of the photo shoot:
Are you ready to feel sexy? You're about to grace the pages of the legendary Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition.
After the shock blew over, the ladies got excited as they were dolled up in hair and make-up and suited in red-hot bikinis. They hit the beach just in time to catch the sunset in Anguilla as the competition to quickly began!
There was no holding back for any of the three ladies selected. Ashley Hebert and Chantal O'Brien went for the topless look as Michelle Money stood by judging. As her turn came around, she aggressively made out with Brad Womack.
The other two ladies only lasted so long before abruptly walking off. Brad knew then he was in some "hot water."
Check out the rest of the tension and sexy shoot below.
Don't forget to pick up your copy of the magazine today and watch next weeks episode Monday night on ABC.
If you got the chance to pose for Sports Illustrated, what would your reaction be? Let us know in the comments below.


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A Mustering Near Glenorchy
I had flown over with Choppy to spend the night with our families in the Greenstone area, across the lake from Glenorchy. It's pretty deserted over there. After we woke up, we took the chopper up for an amazing flight then landed near these horses. They were being moved from one ranch to another, so we followed them along and took photos all the way! Awesome!- Trey RatcliffClick here to read the rest of this post at the Stuck in Customs blog.
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August 2012 VSTH Meeting Speakers
Speakers' Biographies
Amy Valderrama, PhD, RN
Epidemiologist, Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Amy Valderrama, PhD, RN, is an epidemiologist in the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Valderrama joined CDC in 2006 as an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer. She serves as a commissioned officer in the US Public Health Service. Her work at CDC has included various topics related to heart disease and stroke, hypertension, rehabilitation, cardiac arrest, and emergency medical services.
Dr. Valderrama graduated from West Virginia University with a bachelor's degree in nursing. She obtained her master's degree in nursing from Emory University and is a licensed acute care nurse practitioner. She graduated from Emory University in 2006 with a doctor of philosophy degree in nursing.
Christopher Tashjian, MD, FAAFP
President, River Falls, Ellsworth, and Spring Valley medical clinics
Christopher Tashjian, MD, FAAFP, has a passion for practicing quality care at an affordable price. Recently Dr. Tashjian's clinic was recognized for outstanding care by the Buyer Healthcare Action Group. In 2009, his clinic improved its "ideally controlled" diabetic population from 27% to 47%, ranking this practice in the top 5% of all clinics in America; and one year after implementing an electronic medical record (EMR) system, the clinic's ideally controlled diabetic population rose to 53%. The national average is less than 15%. These outcomes are extraordinary for a family practice clinic in rural western Wisconsin. Dr. Tashjian feels implementing a fully functioning EMR in 2010 (i.e., Cerner Ambulatory Application Service Provider) provides the information necessary to provide the best quality care to the patients he serves.
Dr. Tashjian is board certified by the American Academy of Family Practice and is currently chief of medicine for the River Falls Area Hospital, a regional facility of Allina Hospitals. Special medical interests include EMR, public health, emergency medicine, quality care and measurement, and physician leadership.
Dr. Tashjian is thought of as a leader and is extremely active in setting policy for the medical community. He serves on the Board of Directors of HealthPartners, Inc. where he is co-chair of the Medical Board of Governors and chair of the Health Transformation Committee. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Midwest Medical Insurance Company, Wisconsin Emergency Medical Services Physician Advisory Committee, and Western Wisconsin Medical Associates.
He earned his doctor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, while simultaneously attending the business school working toward a master of business administration degree. He most recently graduated from the Physician Leadership College at St. Thomas University.
Dr. Tashjian and his family reside in River Falls, Wisconsin. His hobbies include computers, kayaking, and bicycling, as well as volunteering for Boy Scouts of America and Rotary Club.
Joy Brooks, MHA
Director, Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Division, Bureau of Community Health and Chronic Disease Prevention, South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control
Joy Brooks, MHA, is the director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control's (DHEC) Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Division, Bureau of Community Health and Chronic Disease Prevention. Brooks provides leadership for statewide initiatives to address the burden of cardiovascular disease in South Carolina. Initiatives within the pre-hospital/emergency medical services, primary care settings, hospitals, worksites, and targeted community settings are strategically focused on strengthening the chain of survival for heart disease and stroke. Initiatives are specifically aimed at addressing the ABCS of heart disease and stroke prevention: aspirin therapy, blood pressure control, cholesterol control, and smoking cessation.
Prior to this position, she served as the health systems coordinator for DHEC's Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Division for three years. Brooks formerly served as the patient relations manager for Palmetto Health Richland for over 10 years where she managed various accreditation processes and quality improvement initiatives, as well as complaint and risk management.
Brooks holds a master of health administration degree received from Adams and Washington University and an undergraduate degree in psychology from Columbia College.
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