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In conjunction with the release of its Fall 2017 titles the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press will host the 2017 UL Press Book Showcase. |
The Festival of Words, an annual celebration of the spoken and written word, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year on Friday and Saturday in Grand Coteau. |
This year includes nationally recognized authors Darrell Bourque, Allison Joseph and Patricia Smith along with workshops on creative writing, a community stage for open mics, “Drive-by Poetry” in grocery stores, boutiques and restaurants and many more opportunities for people to interact with featured authors. |
The Friday night event takes place at Chicory’s Café in Grand Coteau featuring a poetry performance by Bourque, Joseph and Smith. On Saturday, Drive-by Poetry performers will recite poems in Grand Coteau and Sunset businesses while creative writing workshops, an open mic and a blackpot cook-off happens at the Thensted ... |
For more information, check out festivalofwords.org or contact Patrice Melnick at (337) 254-9695 or festivalwords@gmail.com. |
In conjunction with the release of its Fall 2017 titles the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press will host the 2017 UL Press Book Showcase beginning at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the UL Alumni Center, 600 E. St. Mary Blvd. on the UL campus. |
All the titles published by UL Press during 2017 will be available for purchase at the event and several authors will be available to sign copies of their books, including former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer; musician Zachary Richard; artists Emma Fick, Denise Gallagher, Paul Schexnayder and Dennis Paul Williams; photog... |
This event is open to the public and there will be live music and refreshments. For more information or to purchase books, visit www.ulpress.org. |
Also by UL Press is Denise Gallagher whimsical children’s book, “A Tip Tap Tale,” featuring a dog named BouZou who takes readers along a musical romp through Louisiana. Gallagher will be signing books at a book release party beginning at 2 p.m. today at Dat Dog, 210 Jefferson St. in downtown Lafayette. |
The Friends of the Lafayette Parish Library host a night with an author every fall and the next Author Dinner features Dianne Dempsey-Legnon Thursday at the Petroleum Club of Lafayette. Dempsey-Legnon will speak about her two books, “Belair Cove: A Novel of Life, Love, and Loss in a Prairie Cajun Village” and the tribu... |
Cost is $25. For reservations and information, call Bobbie at (337) 984-8661 or visit the Friends on Facebook at www.facebook.com/LafayetteFriends. |
Dr. William Robinson, professor of history at Southeastern, presents a discussion of Frankenstein from Mary Shelley to Mel Brooks at 7 p.m. Monday at the South Regional Library of Lafayette. |
Award-winning children’s book author Leslie Helakoski, originally of South Louisiana, will visit at 1 p.m. Saturday at the South Regional Library in Lafayette. She is the author and sometimes illustrator of 11 pictures books including “Doggone Feet!”, a best math choice by Scholastic Magazine. Two books, “Ready or Not,... |
The Livingston Parish Book Festival presents its annual book festival to celebrate books, promote literacy and music from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Main Branch in Livingston. The festival will include music and activities for kids, a Makers Tent and local food vendors. Local authors will be on hand at the Autho... |
For more information, visit mylpl.info/bookfestival. |
Ed Branley will discuss his new book, “Krauss, The New Orleans Value Store,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the East Bank Regional Library, Metairie. Also at the library is Richard Campanella discussing his new book “Cityscapes of New Orleans” at 7 p.m. Thursday and Whitney Stewart, author of “Feldpost, The War Letters of Friedr... |
Louisiana Poet Laureate Jack B. Bedell will be host to “A Celebration of Literature and Art” writing retreat Nov. 4-5 at Greenwood Plantation in St. Francisville. The workshop is limited to 12 participants. For more details and to register for the event visit https://clawritersretreat.bpt.me. |
On Monday, Microsoft's recently announced Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 officially became available for purchase. Both products represent important moves for the company. The Surface Book is Microsoft's first Surface laptop. And the timing of the Surface Pro 4 aligns with Apple's upcoming launch of its ... |
Microsoft Surface Book. Image source: Microsoft. |
The launch "[I]t's one of the best computers you can buy right now," said The Next Web after reviewing the Surface Book. But as The Next Web accurately notes, what's impressive about the product is that even though the device is clearly an excellent laptop, it also happens to be a tablet. Most reviews share s... |
The Surface Book is available on the company's Web storefront and at other retailers including Amazon and Best Buy. Initially, the device is only available in Canada and the United States, but the company will roll the product out to more markets in the future. |
Supply for the Surface Book is likely constrained, as the website currently says the product will take four to five weeks to ship. |
Microsoft's Surface Pro 4 -- a formidable upgrade from its predecessor -- is also now available on Microsoft's website and other retailers. It starts at $899. |
Notable success Microsoft's Surface product has been a surprising catalyst for the company's hardware business. While year-over-year revenue for the segment was down during the company's just-reported fiscal first quarter of 2016, this was only because of the timing of Microsoft's planned launch of ... |
Surface sales more than doubled during Microsoft's fiscal fourth quarter of 2015 and the company expects the growth to continue during the holiday quarter. |
A key step to compete with Apple in enterprise The Surface Pro and Microsoft's new Surface Book are clearly aimed to compete with Apple's iPad Pro. Even more, the products seem positioned to compete with Apple's mobile products in enterprise -- an arena Microsoft obviously would enjoy having a more promi... |
Apple has made its intentions very clear in the enterprise segment: the company wants to dominate mobile sales. Ahead of Apple's iPad Pro launch, the Cupertino-based company solidified a partnership with Cisco in an aim to optimize iOS products for Cisco clients. This partnership followed a similar strategic arran... |
Highlighting Apple's success in mobile enterprise sales and services, nearly all the Fortune 500 companies are currently deploying iOS in their businesses. |
Microsoft's desire to take a chunk of Apple's share in this market is already evident. |
"Surface continues to gain ground with businesses and schools, creating opportunities for our rapidly growing partner channel, which includes Accenture, Dell and HP," the company said during its most recent earnings call. "Both the number and size of deals in our commercial segment for Surface have increased double dig... |
Microsoft Surface Pro 4. Image source: Microsoft. |
Sure, Microsoft's new Surface Book may be a laptop, but that doesn't mean the product isn't aimed at competing with Apple's mobile dominance in enterprise just as much as the Surface Pro 4 is. With a detachable touch display, the Surface Book could prove to be a powerful mobile enterprise product. |
Given Apple's huge customer base and the company's recently announced iPad Pro, Apple shareholders certainly shouldn't fear Microsoft's new Surface products or the company's small but important early success in the mobile enterprise segment. For Microsoft, however, this could provide upside for... |
The article Microsoft Corporation Begins Sales of Surface Book and Surface Pro 4 originally appeared on Fool.com. |
Daniel Sparks owns shares of Apple. The Motley Fool owns shares of and recommends Amazon.com and Apple. The Motley Fool owns shares of Microsoft. The Motley Fool recommends Cisco Systems. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. We Fools may not all hold the same opinions, but we all believe that co... |
The crashes at the 11-foot-8-inch bridge were funny at first. Then, when the city of Durham, North Carolina, added several warning lights and signs, the crashes became sad. Now they’re so sad, they’ve looped right back around into being hilarious again. |
This particular crash happened last weekend. Not only did the driver of this truck peel the top of their haul off like a tuna can, they did it while running a red light. Brilliant. If the driver had slowed down, they might have seen the multiple signs warning them that the truck was too tall. |
Jürgen Henn has been documenting the crashes since 2008, when he set up a camera to point down at the low bridge from his office. Since then, he’s recorded over 100 crashes in the same spot. His website, dedicated to the problematic overhang, shows proof that the bridge has been a pain point for truckers passing throug... |
So be cautious when you’re driving through Durham. There’s a bridge on the loose and it’s hungry. |
It started out as a typical stump speech before a small group of Dearborn Heights Democrats last week. |
"I'm a Democrat running for governor because I, like everyone in this room, know that we can do better," said Bill Cobbs, 64, a retired businessman from Farmington Hills. |
Like thousands of political pitches from thousands of candidates, he ran through his upbringing in Detroit, his family life and his ideas on everything from environmental concerns, taxes and revenue sharing to Michigan cities. |
But then something extraordinary happened. |
Sharon Korhonen walked into the room at the Canfield Community Center in Dearborn Heights and Cobbs abruptly stopped speaking and took a deep breath. |
"I want to introduce the second most important lady in my life who just walked into the room. Sharon is responsible for me standing here and talking to you today. In 2011, she gave me the greatest gift that I ever had in my life. She gave me life. Her son, Ronnie, I carry his heart," Cobbs said, tapping his chest. "If ... |
So a political meeting featuring a man hoping to become Michigan's next governor became a story of survival, generosity and a young man who helped save 17 people. |
Ronnie Korhonen was a big bear of a guy, 6-foot-2 and 250 pounds — a football player, usually a lineman, in the Mustang league as a kid at Edsel Ford High School in Dearborn and at Adrian College. His mother said he loved to laugh and play jokes on people and was a "happy young man." |
But one day in May 2011, at the age of 32, he came home from work as a deputy with the Wayne County Sheriff's Department, working at the county jail, complaining of a headache that just wouldn't go away. |
"He never got sick and had never been to the hospital other than getting his knee scoped once," Sharon Korhonen said. "But this time, his eyes started getting glassy and it all happened within a matter of weeks." |
Korhonen took Ronnie to the emergency room, where they found he had an inoperable brain tumor. She still doesn't know what caused it, but within two weeks, he was gone. |
Donating Ronnie's organs was never a question for Korhonen. A friend's daughter needed a kidney and both Ronnie and her other son Alex had already started going through testing to see whether they would be a match. |
"The boys didn’t hesitate," Korhonen said. "They wanted to step up to the plate and Ronnie was already in the process when all this happened." |
So Ronnie's lungs went to two different people, his eyes gave another person sight, his kidneys went to two people. |
"And I heard they needed long and short bones too," she said. "I just donated whatever they needed to give someone else a chance." |
And Ronnie's heart went to Bill Cobbs. |
Nationally, 116,000 people are waiting for organ transplants, including 3,225 people in Michigan as of April 1, according to Gift of Life Michigan. That includes 151 Michiganders waiting for a heart. |
In 2017, 309 Michigan donors contributed to 876 organ transplants and 4.7 million Michigan adults were signed up to be organ donors. |
For Cobbs, who was diagnosed in 2001 with cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle that makes it difficult for the heart to pump blood to the rest of the body, medications kept him functioning until 2010 when he developed a virus that left him weak, unable to climb stairs and back at the hospital. |
"When you get cardiomyopathy, it's a death sentence unless you're fortunate enough to get a heart transplant," Cobbs said. "For a long time, I did OK, then I took a precipitous turn." |
His cardiologist, Dr. John Nicklas with Michigan Medicine at the University of Michigan, said Cobbs lived and continued to work with the heart disease "until he was in end stage heart failure." |
So he got a Left Ventricular Assist Device or LVAD, a mechanical device implanted under the skin to help the heart pump, while he waited for a heart transplant. He also got an Internal Cardio Defibrillator, which acts as both a pacemaker to monitor and stimulate the heart to beat or gives it a shock to get it beating a... |
"I was at John Hopkins (Hospital) when the first devices were being tested," Nicklas said. "One of the patients, I remember, said it felt like she was being kicked by a mule. (Cobbs) was certainly aware of his shocks when they happened." |
So while he waited for an available heart, Cobbs decided to retire from his job heading up a Danish software company and live whatever life he had left. His family decided they were going to celebrate his father's 99th birthday early that May day in 2011, just in case either one of them didn't make the actual birthday ... |
"The day of the party came and went and by 8:30 most of the guests had left. I was exhausted, so I got into bed with all my clothes on and at 2 a.m., the phone rang, and it was the U-M calling to say they had a heart," Cobbs recalled. "I’m in shock and I pick up the phone and call my dad to tell him we’re getting ready... |
" 'I got my birthday wish,' my dad said. And that lifted all the fear and concern off my shoulders." |
Seven days after the successful transplant, Cobbs was itching to show his gratitude to the person who had given him a second shot at life. So he wrote a letter, gave it to the Gift of Life organization, which forwarded it to Korhonen. |
"I wrote a letter the same week because it was that emotional for me," Cobbs said. "But a year went by and I didn’t hear anything." |
Korhonen wasn't quite emotionally ready for a meeting. |
"If you want to talk to them, you have to sign a release form and I just wasn’t ready, but after about 18 months, I decided it was time," she said. "I took my other son, sister and brother-in-law and we met him. And we’ve been friends ever since." |
After that first meeting, Korhonen decided that she wanted Cobbs to meet the rest of Ronnie's family and friends at an annual barbecue she hosts every September to honor her son's memory on his birthday. |
"There were a ton of people there and everybody wanted to come and listen to my heart," Cobbs said, noting that no one had a stethoscope. "They would just put their head to my chest and I knew that my family had just expanded significantly. Since then, Sharon has been a part of my life. She calls me consistently to mak... |
Korhonen isn't sure whether Cobbs has picked up any of Ronnie's persona because she didn't know him before the transplant, but she knows that he laughs a lot, just like her son. |
"I lost something precious, but if he is providing life for somebody else, I'm happy," Korhonen said. "Ronnie enjoyed life, he loved life and he's making Mr. Cobbs happy." |
For Cobbs, he feels Ronnie's presence every day. |
"When you get an organ transplant, you get a part of the person you got it from. I definitely became a more compassionate person. It changed the way I looked at the world," he said. "I feel a very strong connection to Ronnie and the family, period. I can’t begin to tell you the difference that it made in my life. I got... |
And for a political novice who is a long shot in the governor's race, he got a new purpose in life. The transplant was a principal motivation for his decision to seek elective office. |
"When I first decided I was going to run for governor, people kept saying, 'Why are doing that, you’re crazy.' It’s hard for me to explain, but when you’ve been given something that most people never get, the opportunity to share your life and your experiences really means something. And if you don’t do that, shame on ... |
"When Ronnie passed, he was only 32 years old. And for me to not be trying to make sure that his sacrifice meant something would be such a terrible waste." |
He got the all clear from Dr. Nicklas, who said that once Cobbs survived the first year without rejecting the heart, his chances for long-term survival get better with each passing year and his prognosis is good enough to run and serve as governor, should he win. |
"He's been lucky. He's gone through a lot and done very well," he said. |
So on a brisk April evening, Korhonen came to watch Cobbs sell his gubernatorial campaign to her neighbors in Dearborn Heights. |
"I'm kind of excited that I know someone who is running," she said. "If he wins, I guess I'll have to make an appointment to see him. But if that's what he wants, I'm happy for him. I like what he stands for and I'll vote for him." |
YouTube has greenlit digital studio Portal A’s feature-length documentary State of Pride, which looks at the significance of Pride 50 years after the historic Stonewall Riots that kicked off the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. |
Directed by Academy Award-winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, the YouTube Original feature doc was filmed over multiple-months, covering the entirety of the Pride calendar in the United States. The film features intimate interviews led by activist Raymond Braun, who travels between major cities and rur... |
Epstein and Friedman have worked on high-profile LGBTQ+ projects in the past, including the Oscar-winning Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt and the Emmy Award-winning The Celluloid Closet. |
“The film features powerful conversations with inspiring individuals as they open up about Pride and how it has changed over the past 50 years,” said Susanne Daniels, global head of original content at YouTube, in a press release. |
State of Pride was developed by Portal A, with executive producers Nate Houghteling, Kai Hasson, and Zach Blume for Portal A, Epstein and Friedman for Telling Pictures, and Raymond Braun. |
The film is slated to debut on YouTube as a YouTube Original in June 2019. |
He was the superstar nobody knew, a marvelously gifted athlete who was, in the game's best tradition, exceedingly modest. For decades he skated in the shadow of Gordie Howe, who was known as "Mr. Hockey" to most everyone, but "The Big Guy" or "Power" to his teammates. |
Alex Delvecchio's nickname was considerably less glorious. His Detroit Red Wings teammates called him "Fats." |
But Delvecchio was a player's player, and all who took the ice with or against him knew his true value. |
"When you think of the Red Wings, you think of Howe," Hall of Fame center Phil Esposito, then of the Boston Bruins, told Sport magazine in 1971. "But Alex is the most underrated player in the game today -- underrated by everyone but the players." |
"You got to be sure to take the body when you check him," said another Hall of Famer and Bruins great, defenseman Bobby Orr. "You can't play the puck on him because he's so quick and smart with the puck, he'll go right around you." |
Bruins goalie Eddie Johnston called Delvecchio "a deceptive shooter, maybe the most deceptive in the league. He doesn't take a big windup, just sort of slaps at it, but he gets an awful lot on it." |
"He's like a magician with the puck," former New York Rangers goalie Ed Giacomin said in a TV interview. "He is so good that you think you have direction on him, for some reason he's able to change it in flow. And how he does it, I'll never understand it." |
Delvecchio was "a great artist, that's what he was," Howe told author Ted Kulfan. "I had no idea how much of one until I played with him. Ted Lindsay and I would sit on the bench when Alex was just a rookie and talk about what a good player he could become." |
How good did he become? Delvecchio's achievements are somewhat staggering. |
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