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For many of us creative folks, especially the artists and makers amongst us, the summer months are a time to rejuvenate and regroup before the busy fall and winter season hits. One area that many of us would like to improve in is our ability to connect and collaborate with others. Whether you are looking for a fellow maker to help you develop a new product, or are on the search for blogs and bloggers (Well, hello there!) who are willing to promote and celebrate your work, connecting with other creatives is something that many of us strive for.
Really, collaborating is a worthy endeavor and can be the lifeblood of a vibrant, creative life. I know for myself, some of my best ideas are born from collaborating with the other incredibly creative people I've met. However, in order to really connect with others, there is a skill that we must have: we must have the ability and the desire to communicate. That leads me to this weeks #IAMTHELABchat. Let's talk about, well, talking.
Perhaps you've noticed that online conversation has changed considerably over the past few years. It's really happened quite rapidly, this change in the way we communicate through conversation. Remember when the coffee house started to really take off? When Starbucks started popping up like weeds all over the place, many of us saw them as a place to gather. Were you one of those people who'd meet a group of friends at your coffee house of choice and just spend hours chatting, like you haven't seen each other in years? I know I was guilty of that. I'd start feeling guilty after my volcano-hot cup of herbal tea (me and coffee DO NOT get along) finally turned into a tepid cup of undrinkable blah, forcing me to head back to the counter to pick up something else so I didn't feel like the space-hogging freeloader that I was becoming.
The point is, we used to sit and talk. Flash forward just a few years and, with the advent of easily accessible WIFI and smartphones, what's happened to that habit of communal conversation? For many of us, it just plain disappeared. Doesn't it seem that we are so much more busy than we used to be? Offline discourse has now turned into an endless smartphone feedback loop. We've tweeted and texted our way to a kind of snack-sized conversation mode. Certainly, if it's changed the way we speak offline, it most definitely has changed the way we communicate online. I think this can be clearly seen is blog commenting. I'm amazed at just how little commenting takes place in the creative blogosphere. Perhaps you've noticed that as well.
I want to be very specific with this one, because not all commenting on the web has dried up. In fact, some of the sites I frequent (a few tech and news blogs/sites come to mind) have a lot of commenters and it's not necessarily a good thing. The amount of vitriol and foulness that can be found on some sites is so beyond civil that it boggles my mind. There are also some great hashtag chats on Twitter that get great participation, like the #OMHG chat on Thursdays, of which I highly recommend. On the other hand, there also doesn't seem to be a shortage in conversation on some of the major shelter blogs. Many of them have been in existence since the dawn of the blog universe, and I applaud these hard working folk for their perseverance and their ability to foster conversation. However, there are a lot of blogs that have the same level of amazing and consistent content that get little, if any, commenters. This has been an ongoing conversation amongst some of us for awhile now and I've been really puzzled as to why.
One reason may be the rise of Pinterest and other image driven social media platforms. Is it possible that we're becoming so used to looking at all the pretty pictures that we forget that there is usually a story behind them? Granted, some bloggers have chosen to not have a commenting feature. One example that comes to mind is Amy Beth Cupp Dragoo. Her ABCD Design blog is a joy to behold and Amy Beth made a decision some time ago to defer her commenting and conversation to her social media accounts. I love that this has worked for her. I think though, that for most of us who blog, we definitely want to have comments on our blog posts.
For many creatives, the ideas we present are often open invitations for our readers to express themselves. For me personally, I know for a fact that the artists I feature are looking to see how my audience responds to what they've created. The thing is, I know that most of my readers love what they see on the LAB. I know this from the social media chatter, the clicks out to the featured artists' shops and the page views. But, oh how I wished that you folks would leave a comment on the posts! It's such a great way to let a fellow artist know that you appreciate what they've presented to the world. I've spoken to so many bloggers in the creative/shelter/craft universe who say the same thing. What really seems to be the problem? Why is it that most blogs have very little in the way of comments?
Another reason could be that we've slowly become accustomed to thinking and speaking in sound bites, hashtags and 140 character texts and tweets. However, some of the best thoughts take longer than a text and tweet to express and blogs create a wonderful forum for us to express them. Perhaps we are also afraid that what we'll say won't sound intelligent, or that it's not worthwhile. Well, I'm here to tell you: commenting matters and your words, when heartfelt and honest, make a ripple in the creative waters that does indeed count. Now, let me just put this out there: the irony isn't lost on me that my #IAMTHELABchat is Twitter-based. But my real goal, and the reason why I wrote this diatribe, is to have creative people come here to express themselves about this topic so that I and everyone else who visits this post can see the dialog, express an opinion and maybe even have their own opinion on the subject confirmed, reinforced or, lo and behold, changed. Tweets and Facebook posts last about as long as a breath mint, but post comments linger. With all this said, here are some tips for leaving great comments whereever you go on the web:
- Keep it positive. Remember, your comment is a reflection of you and it has never hurt to aim for the positive.
- Keep criticism constructive. If you have an opposing view, always try to be kind. I've found that the best way to offer constructive criticism is to do it in the form of a question. For instance, some might say, "I think the whole 'We should comment' thing is crazy. If you're confident about what you're doing, you don't really need validation." OK, that might be true and sound non-judgy in our heads, but wouldn't it be better to not assume? Perhaps saying something like, "Is it possible that some of us use commenting to get validation for what we've created? Shouldn't that come from within?" See the difference? Those are two great questions that can open dialogue and perhaps give others a chance to express their thoughts, keeping the conversation rolling along. Who knows, we might even discover that, GASP!, we may have our own mind expanded and walk away with a new viewpoint.
- Keep it short and sweet if you feel like that's all you can do. It's OK to just say, "Thanks for sharing!" or "I love that ring!" Exclamation marks are like hugs to a blogger, so add two if you really mean it….just kidding.
No he's not.
- Keep commenting. Building the habit of commenting can help us to sharpen our communication skills and give us the chance to leave something positive and thoughtful behind. Even if you don't do it on a blog post and like to focus your commenting on social media, we can still elevate the art of conversation by making it a habit to converse.
Well, what do you think? (Like you didn't see that question coming!) Any tips, ideas or suggestions? Leave a comment below and I'll do my best to converse and I welcome anyone else to do so as well. And of course, you can share your thoughts, as I will be doing, on Twitter with #IAMTHELABchat. Let's talk.


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Aerosol particles influence atmospheric chemistry, climate, and human health
They are tiny and very finely dispersed and play important roles for our climate and health. We are talking about aerosol particles, airborne droplets and solid particles on the micro- or nanometer scale. These stem from a variety of natural and anthropogenic sources: the incomplete combustion of fossil fuels, forest fires, volcanic eruptions, dispersion of dust and sea salt, in addition to biological materials such as pieces of plants, microorganisms, or pollen.
The most noticeable examples of aerosols are clouds, which consist of water droplets or ice crystals with diameters on the order of 10 µm and are formed by condensation of water vapor onto smaller particles.
"Concentration, composition, and size distribution of atmospheric aerosol particles are highly variable at different locations and times," explains Ulrich Pöschl of the Max Planck Institute of Chemistry in Mainz in a review article in Angewandte Chemie. "The precise determination of their chemical composition is a demanding analytical challenge. Aside from several main components, there are hundreds of trace constituents and numerous chemical reactions to take into account."
It is undisputed that aerosols have a strong influence on climate and health. The interactions and relationships are so complex, however, that it is unclear to which extent different effects and feedback loops have a strengthening or calming influence. For example, an intensification of photosynthesis and biomass production caused by the increase in atmospheric CO2 content and global warming can lead to an increase in biogenic aerosol particles. These act as nuclei for the condensation of clouds, and an increase in clouds has a cooling effect (negative feedback). On the other hand, higher temperatures can be stressful for plants, causing photosynthesis and aerosol formation to decrease. This may lead to a reduction of cloud cover and increase global warming (positive feedback).
"Very little is known about the relations between air quality and allergies," says Pöschl. The most prominent group of airborne allergens are proteins, which constitute up to about 5 % of urban air particulate matter. In air polluted by nitrogen oxides and ozone (summer smog), proteins such as the birch pollen allergen are easily nitrated, and chemically modified proteins can strengthen physiological immune reactions. Thus the inhalation of nitrated protein aerosols appears likely to promote allergies. "If such relations are not sufficiently explored," says Pöschl, "there is a danger that new environmental protection laws and technologies have undesirable side effects and cause more harm than good. For example, some exhaust systems for diesel vehicles remove soot particles but release more nitrogen oxides."
Source: Angewandte Chemie
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Construction continues on Madison Avenue water main
Traffic along Madison Avenue in Winslow continues to face delays as construction crews work to fix a troublesome water main along one of the city's major routes to downtown.
"There's an old water main and it's undersized," said Chris Hammer of Bainbridge Island's public works department. "We're putting in a new 12-inch water main south of the roundabout (on High School Road) down to the Wallace Way intersection."
The pipe segment being replaced is 6 inches in diameter and is made of asbestos and concrete. It lays between two newer segments of pipe that are 12 inches in diameter.
The new pipe will be 12 inches to match the connecting segments of the water line, and will be comprised of ductile iron.
While the pipe is in the process of being replaced, water customers will experience some interruptions, Hammer said.
"The worst case will be for a couple of hours, and (customers) will be notified in advance," Hammer said.
Madison Avenue, which is one of a handful of main arteries through Winslow, will be converted into a single lane at select portions between the roundabout on High School Road and Wallace Way until July 15.
Hammer is optimistic, however, that the work can be done before the construction deadline.
"We are hoping that most of the water main work will be done by the end of the month," he said. "Of course, the street will be available for the July 4 parade."
Hammer noted that the core work consists of excavating and replacing the old pipeline, which is the work that will stall traffic.
Once that is finished, the road will be opened back up to two lanes before final paving is completed.
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Summer Arts Intensive premieres with musical "Pippin"
The lights are set to go up on the first-annual Summer Arts Intensive and their production of the Tony Award-winning musical, "Pippin," by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson. Presented in collaboration between the West Fargo High School Theatre Department and West Fargo Public Schools, "Pippin" explodes onto the Cheney Middle School stage for four performances - July 28 and 29 at 7:30 p.m., and July 30 at 2:30 and 7:30 p.m.
"Pippin" is an electrifying, tongue-in-cheek fairy tale that dazzles audiences with a kaleidoscope of sights and sounds. In this anachronistic adventure, Prince Pippin, son of King Charlemagne the Great, embarks upon a quest for true personal fulfillment while seeking his own corner of the sky. He relishes the glories of the battlefield, savors the temptations of the flesh, embroils himself in political intrigues and grapples with the commonness of domesticated living. Nothing seems to satisfy him - or so he thinks - and for the first time Pippin is faced with the choice of selfishness vs. selflessness as he discovers what really is important in one's life.
Featuring an energetic pop-influenced score by multi-award-winning composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz ("Godspell," "Wicked," and the animated films "Pocahontas," "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "The Prince Of Egypt"), "Pippin" bursts with one show-stopping number after another including: "Magic to Do," "Morning Glow" and "Corner of the Sky."
The Summer Arts Intensive production puts center stage a talented cast of 12 area high school students who hand-selected "Pippin" as the performance opportunity to challenge and showcase their personal and artistic talents.
The company is under the direction of a team of accomplished teachers and professionals including Vocal Director, Tony Peterson, Choreographer, Carrie Hubbard and Director, Adam Pankow.
Tickets will be available at the door on performance nights or by calling the Summer Arts Intensive Box Office at 701-499-1834 from 1 to 4 p.m. Seats are priced $15 for adults, $13 for seniors and $10 for students.


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Everyone has an opinion as to why the Detroit Pistons have struggled lately. Viewpoints range from the addition of Allen Iverson and the subtraction of Chauncey Billups to the team management of rookie head coach Michael Curry. However, Pistons insider A. Sherrod Blakely tells Bill Simonson on The Huge Show that it's simply just a case of talent.
"I just don't think Detroit, from top to bottom, is as talented as they've been relative to the Eastern Conference in previous years," says Blakely.
Even with their recent struggles, he sees no reason to panic, predicting that Detroit will still make the post-season.
"They would have to have a rash of injuries and even then I still think they'd be good enough to make it," he says. "Just looking at the East as a conference, I would imagine that the 8th seed team will probably have about 40 wins, and I feel pretty confident that they'll surpass that total."
While Blakely believes they are good enough to make the playoffs, he says, right now, they look like a team that is unlikely to survive the first round.
Listen to the entire interview to hear Blakely discuss the possibility of the Pistons making a move before the trade deadline and how Michael Curry is doing as a first-year coach.


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Saturday, August 10, 2013
Maryhill Museum of Art's sculpture garden is the idyllic setting for the Maryhill Arts Festival, taking place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18, and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 17. Admission to the festival is free.
The festival features artists displaying and selling art in a variety of media, including painting, jewelry, woodworking, pottery, glass, recycled materials and more. Live music, food vendors, and hands-on art activities for families are also on tap.
The younger set can explore their creativity under the Maryhill Art Tent, which offers free, drop-in art activities from 1 to 4 p.m. daily.
Music on Saturday, Aug. 17, will include jazz from Mike Stillman and Friends as well as The Dalles based guitarist Jeff Carrell. On Sunday, Aug. 18, the acoustic duo of Chad and Megan Moody and their refreshing take on folk music, and Northwest folksinger Laddie Ray Melvin take to the stage.
This year the Maryhill Arts Festival also coincides with the museum's Free Counties Weekend (Aug. 17-18) for residents of the Columbia River Gorge. Residents of Hood River, Jefferson, Wasco, Sherman, and Gillam counties in Oregon and residents of Benton, Franklin, Klickitat, Skamania, Walla Walla, and Columbia counties in Washington need only show their ID (with current address) to receive free admission to the museum.
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Small forward Stanley Johnson of Mater Dei High in Southern California has cut his list to just 10 schools. The four star from the Class of 2014 listed 10 schools on his witter account saying, "My top are: UNLV Oregon Sdsu Nc state Kentucky Arizona Louisville USC Syracuse Ucla".
Johnson is the 6th rated small forward in his class according to Scout.com. At 6' 6", he'd likely fill the spot EJ Singler will vacate this year when he graduates. Johnson recently had a 25 point, 21 rebound, 5 assist night. He's a tremendous player.
Right now it feels like the Ducks are just 2-3 high level guys away on the recruiting front. Freshmen though. They've been able to fill with guys like Devoe Joseph and and now Arsalan Kazemi, but what they need are freshmen like Jordan Bell, Artis and Damyan Dotson. The idea of seeing Johnson on the court with Artis, Dotson and Bell for the next 2-3 years is pretty exciting.
Like I said, Oregon and Coach Altman are about...2-3 really good players from being a top 25 team for years to come. Johnson would be one of those guys.


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Examining our roots, nurturing healing shoots …
Recently, SA Jewry has been grappling anew with how the community – collectively and individually – experienced apartheid and its aftermath. This was the theme of the recent Cape Council conference of the SA Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) on October 29 and 30, entitled "TransformNation: Confronting our History, Embracing our Responsibility."
The conference rattled some skeletons out of the communal closet, with the speakers –including Claudia Braude, Judge Dennis Davis and Professor Deborah Posel – calling on the communal leadership to shake out even more, and avoid complicity in contemporary SA's problems. As parents regularly tell their children, picking scabs is unhygienic, impolite and disgusting. It's usually best to let wounds heal naturally, over time. But it's also important to acknowledge and confront what caused the wound in the first place, to allow regeneration and new growth.
These issues were brought into sharp focus for me when I joined the staff of the SAJBD in July. The SAJBD's Human Rights Award was to be posthumously presented to Arthur Goldreich, who passed away in Israel in May. Two of his four sons, Paul and Amos Goldreich, were travelling from London to accept the award on his behalf, and I was asked to help arrange a suitable venue for them to talk about their father and the anti-apartheid Struggle.
I immediately suggested Liliesleaf, the property where Arthur and his family lived in the early 1960s and which served as the clandestine headquarters of Umkhonto we Sizwe, armed wing of the by then banned African National Congress.
All of the White activists seized in the police raid on this place in July 1963 were of Jewish origin, as indeed were a high proportion of whites involved in other aspects of the Struggle.
Perhaps naively, I thought that this task would be simple – pick the venue, secure the speakers, send out the invitations and hold the event. However, the invitation elicited mixed reactions. Some were enthusiastic about attending, others politely declined, saying they were away, many did not reply at all, and some gave their reasons for not wanting to attend.
The last had to do with the way that Jewish Struggle activists were supposedly treated by the Board and other Jewish organisations and individuals before 1994, and how these relations had developed (or not) since then.
Cosatu even called for those invited to boycott the event, because the Board had the audacity to host it, and because of the Jewish community's support for Israel. I was struck by a feeling of people talking past each other, or not talking at all, of communal fractures and fissures, of unfinished business.
Yes indeed, there are unresolved issues and strong opinions on all sides on what should or should not have been done during the apartheid era.
In the context of a minority community reeling from the effects of the Holocaust and the threat and reality of pre-war antisemitism in South Africa, choices taken by individuals and institutions are probably understandable, if not, with hindsight, always excusable.
But efforts to bridge the divide are being made. The Board of 2011 is different from the Board of 1941, 1961 or 1981.
Since 1990, its leadership has genuinely sought to lead the Jewish community in being an active, identifying part of our emerging democratic, non-racial society. At Liliesleaf Zev Krengel, then SAJBD national chairman, unequivocally apologized for the Board's failure to have at least rendered humanitarian assistance to Jewish Struggle activists, as well as their families, who had been persecuted by the State.
Another former Board Chairman, Mervyn Smith, acknowledged faults, misjudgments and silences during the apartheid years. And before that, the late Chief Rabbi Cyril Harris gave evocative testimony on these issues at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in the mid-1990s.
Among several Jews active in the Struggle, the hurt about how they and their families were treated – by both the apartheid government and the Jewish establishment – still burns. As the new book Jewish Memories of Mandela demonstrates, many white people in the struggle had Jewish roots. Some denied any specific "Jewish" motivation for their actions, like the late Harold Wolpe; others, like the late Advocate Issy Maisels, were proudly Jewish and reached the highest levels of communal leadership.
All of these voices and positions are legitimate. All are part of history, and all need to be aired.
While for some, this conversation is insufficient or rings hollow, others yell "enough, already!" Activist Rhoda Kadalie decried the continual guilt trips in a testy letter to the South African Jewish Report recently, "I read with irritation Prof Deborah Posel's comments, 17 years after apartheid, that Jews should acknowledge, publicly and symbolically, that they too were beneficiaries of apartheid … it's time to move on, and that is what I as a black person desire."
In our complex country, things are seldom black and white. I hope that in future conversations, Jewish South Africans can confront yesterday, understand today, but focus on tomorrow.
This article first appeared in the Sunday Independent on 4 December 2011


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First-Year Writing
All final grades are submitted through the university's web system, via FASS ("Faculty and Advisor Services"). During the semester faculty are contacted through their MSU mail account email to set up and confirm student rosters and faculty identification and PIN. Be sure to respond to these email notices and follow through on them. Grades can be submitted on the web anytime over several days, though the close date is hard and firm. If you do not submit your grades on time, people get very upset. Keep in mind that the deadline is often at 9 am, which is unexpected and easy to miss.
Final Grading Policy
- Grades will be fair and consistent.
- Grading will be in accordance with criteria and distribution detailed in the syllabus. Students may not agree with the grades given, but they should be able to understand how each individual grade, as well as the final grade, is determined.
- When evaluating student work on the letter system, faculty should take the following into account.
- A is for excellent work.
- B is for very good work.
- C is for adequate or average work.
- D is for below average, inadequate work.
- F is for unacceptable work, i.e., work that is not at the college level.
- Faculty should also consult (and suggest their students consult) MSU's custom edition Hacker Handbook (MSU-9) and the program's grading Criteria for benchmarks and detailed descriptions of A, B, C, D, and F papers.
- Distribution systems for determining grades (i.e., x percent for essays, y percent for portfolio, z percent for homework, etc) need to be designed with a sense of caution for grade inflation. New faculty can find themselves with students who are regularly receiving C's on papers suddenly earning Bs if they are not careful in their distribution systems.
- First-Year Writing courses are indicator courses. Students and future professors need to be able to review these grades and have them be reasonably accurate indicators of students' writing abilities. Now, of course, every student who achieves a B in a 105 class may not choose to continue that level of performance in later courses, but you may find this imagined audience helpful to you as you fight off the pressure to raise grades. Students, quite reasonably, believe that the grade received is an indicator of their writing abilities and probable future success in writing. When fall 105 instructors become spring 106 instructors, they little like hearing from C or D performing students that they "always received B's in 105." So we need to work together to consistently and fairly assess students' abilities as writers.
- While there can be extraordinary sections—very weak ones and very strong ones—in general, most First-Year Writing sections are comprised of the full-range of students who are admitted to Montclair State University. Therefore, you can expect that your final grades will reflect this range, with close to an equal number of students earning final grades of C or B, and many, many fewer receiving A's, D's or F's. If most of your students are heading for a B or B-, you probably need to revise your criteria—it's unlikely that most of your students are truly above average as that would more or less defeat the meaning of average. B is not average; it is very good.
Description of A, B, C, D, and F Final Grades
Overall Guidelines:
To some extent, your class GPAs will vary from semester to semester, class to class. That said, in general most students will receive B and C grades, with outliers receiving A's and D's—in other words, many more B's and C's than A's and D's. The proportion of F grades is mostly dependent on how many students make private decisions to drop out (without actually withdraw) by not meeting expectations. That can really vary, but is typically easy for instructors to assess.
- A. Students whose essays are consistently strong in all of the areas identifed by the Program criteria should receive A's. A's are reserved for those students who write quite well, and whose work is genuinely impressive to us as readers, not simply as teacher-readers. These students have demonstrated themselves to be excellent writers.
- B. Students whose essays are consistently strong in most criteria areas and adequate in all criteria areas should receive B's. These students have demonstrated themselves to be good or very good writers.
- C. Students whose essays are acceptable—moderately developed and reasonably organized, and generally make a point, if not a particularly compelling one, should receive C's. These students have demonstrated themselves to be fair writers.
- D. Students whose essays may succeed in one or two areas, but which are not successful in two or more areas, should receive D's. For example, a D writer may write in a lively and clear style—nice paragraphs or sentences, perhaps—but seldom is the point carried through from beginning to end. Or, a D writer may have a basic point and have a few great moments of insight, but is significantly confusing in his syntax, grammar, or style, so much so that a reader is in fact unclear about the meaning of some sentences. Or, a D writer may write minimally, dashing off a quick, brief draft that isn't particularly wrong, but reads like an in-class paper written by a high school student. These students have demonstrated themselves to be weak writers. A D grade tells a student that s/he is not writing up to university expectations. (Recall that a 2.0 GPA is required to retain good standing.)
- F. A F grade is often a result of failure to complete work or expectations, but an F can is be earned by a student whose essays do not meet minimum standards on most of the criteria. If at the end of a semester you read a student's work and you say to yourself, "There's no way this student is writing like a college student and I'd be embarrassed to say he passed my class," that student is a candidate for an earned F.
Note: These are descriptions of final grade attributes. For guidelines on grading specific papers and benchmark papers, please see Student Writing Assessment (grading criteria can be also found in the prefatory pages of A Writer's Reference).
Grades of IN (Incomplete)
Incomplete grades should be given out rarely. Incomplete grades should be given out, at student request, in situations where a student is doing passing work and then, because of some unexpected event (a death, an illness, a catastrophe, etc.) is unable to do work for a period of a few weeks. The purpose of the Incomplete is to allow students to do the reading and writing that they were unable to do during their incapacity.
First-Year Writing faculty may not give grades of incomplete without permission from the First-Year Writing Director. This is simply because we have such high turnover that we have had problems with Incomplete grades being given out by instructors who we can no longer be reached after the semester is over. If a faculty member has a case that warrants an Incomplete, contact the First-Year Writing Director. If the director agrees to the Incomplete, the faculty member will also need to do the following:
- Complete an Incomplete contract specifying exactly what needs to be done. (Available in the English Department office.)
- Have this form signed off on by the faculty member, the student, and the First-Year Writing Director.
- Write a brief memo detailing the grade-to-date (grades on all completed work as well as grades for anything else that is specified in the syllabus, i.e., participation) and the percentage weight of the work that is still to be completed; submit it with the contract. The accompanying memo should provide enough information on the student's grade to date to allow the director to assign a final grade if, by chance, the part-time faculty member were to become unavailable.
Policy on Withdrawal Grades
The provost has published a revised policy on withdrawal grades. Essentially students can withdraw without discussion with you up until the 9th week of classes. After that, students appeal not to the instructor but to the Dean of Students' Office.
Policy on Change of Grade Requests
Increasingly, students are pressuring instructors to submit a change of grade if the grade earned will cause them hardship. In general, grades should not be
changed once they are submitted and such changes are discouraged. Outside circumstances such as loss of scholarship, loss of financial aid, academic probation, or parental displeasure, although potentially heartbreaking, are not valid reasons for granting a change of grade. Instructor error such as miscalculation of the grade is a valid reason. In all other situations, use your discretion and good judgment. Change of grade forms are available only through the English Department office.


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White Sox tickets have been in a rut the last few years with the White Sox pegging along at 70 to 90 wins a season. That's not a bad performance but it does mean that the club has reached some kind of threshold. And what does an MLB team do when it's trying to break through to another level? Well, the first thing you do is to evaluate your roster and try and keep the guys who have been producing. For the White Sox, that meant re-signing 1st baseman Paul Konerko.
This is a guy who's been productive for Chicago, with 89 runs himself and another 111 RBi's. Konerko is a player who can be depended on to not only suit up for a game but play a meaningful role when he's in the lineup. His performance netted him a 5th place finish in AL MVP voting, an indication of his value to the White Sox.
But White Sox ticket holders should quickly realize the value of the second move, which was the signing of Adam Dunn. A lefty, Dun is a major addition to the batting power of the White Sox roster, having averaged 40 home runs and 100+ RBI's in the last seven years in the MLB. It may be that Dunn and Korenko will help push White Sox tickets past the Minnesota twins in the AL Central.


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MUSKEGON, MI – U.S. District Court Judge Janet Neff on Thursday signed a three-way agreement between the operator of the coal-fired S.S. Badger, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice.
Related: EPA agreement outlines rules for the S.S. Badger to keep sailing
The Badger -- the last coal-fired ship operating on the Great Lakes -- is operated by Lake Michigan Carferry between Ludington and Manitowoc, Wis. The agreement allows the Badger to keep sailing, but sets a schedule for the Badger to quit dumping coal ash into Lake Michigan, with fines for non-compliance.
"It is not the Court's function to determine whether this is the best possible settlement that could have been obtained, but only whether it is fair, adequate, reasonable, and consistent with the public interest," Neff wrote in an Oct. 10 order approving the consent decree.
Neff approved the document as amended earlier by the EPA in response to public comments.
The proposed consent decree was revised to double stipulated penalties for non-compliance with the deadline for ceasing coal ash discharges, to limit the mercury and coal ash content of coal used by the S.S. Badger during the 2014 sailing season and to require LMC to report information on the quantity of coal ash discharged by the S.S. Badger.
The original proposed consent decree also required Lake Michigan Carferry to pay a $25,000 civil penalty for violating mercury water quality standards in 2012.
A spokeswoman for the EPA wasn't available for comment due to the federal government shutdown.
MLive Muskegon Chronicle also has a call into Lake Michigan Carferry seeking comment.
On a website for the Badger, Lake Michigan Carferry wrote that it was "pleased" with the signing.
"LMC is looking forword to providing fun and reliable cross-lake transportation service aboard the SS Badger for many years to come!" according to the website.
The agreement is a substantial development in a controversy that has simmered for years. Environmental groups and Lake Michigan Carferry disagreed on the effect of dumping coal ash into Lake Michigan.


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A recent four-day "blitz" by state police targeting trucks using Route 90 in Aurora proved very successful, and members of a Finger Lakes grassroots group wants the state to keep up the pressure on trucking companies.
"It's going to take care of the problem for a little while," state police Sgt. Jeffrey Stahl told members of the Upstate Safety Task Force when the group met Thursday in Aurora.
Stahl is part of the commercial traffic enforcement division for Troop E in Canandaigua.
"We tend to move around," he said. "They don't know where we're going to be, and that makes a big difference."
To report problems
State police Sgt. Jeffrey Stahl said people should call the Troop E commercial traffic enforcement division directly to report concerns about truck traffic. The division's direct number is 585-398-4150.
Stahl said that by the last day of the traffic detail, troopers had no trucks to stop.
He even said just having troopers from the commercial division visible in the area could go a long way to keeping the big trucks off the road as drivers alert other drivers by radio. He said the traffic division, which has 10 troopers to cover a 10-county area, will continue the stepped-up inspections.
Stahl said residents should contact his division directly at 585-398-4150 to report problems with truck traffic. The division won't respond to specific complaints but will use the information from callers to determine traffic patterns and to decide where enforcement details are needed.
"It doesn't make sense for us to come out here and sit here at 2 o'clock in the afternoon for a week and we get nothing when the trucks are coming at 6," Stahl said.
The local task force has been pressuring the state for decades to control long-haul trucks – many carrying garbage from the New York City area – cutting through the Finger Lakes to reach the private Seneca Meadows landfill in Seneca Falls.
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KALAMAZOO, MI -- Two girls huddled together for a quick picture, one girl
nervously mimed tears running down her face and another person's cap fell off in the few moments before Kalamazoo Central students walked across the graduation stage. Parents
assumed their role of paparazzi using every form of cell phone, tablet and
digital camera to capture the moment.
Brandon Parker turned to smile at his family cheering him on as he approached the line.
"Go B!" Ed Parker, his grandpa said.
More than 2,000 family, friends and teachers filled Wings Stadium to celebrate the graduation of Kalamazoo Central High School's Class of 2013 Thursday at Wings Stadium.
The 171st group of graduates had 63 students of 299 graduating with a GPA of 3.5 or higher. The class will leave behind four second place finishes at the state mock trial tournament and two boys basketball state championships. Principal Lisa VanLoo reminded the graduates that they took part in another history-making event.
"When you were freshman, the president of the United States gave the commencement speech," VanLoo said. "To all others after you, this will be but legend but to you, you have this experience as part of your legacy at Kalamazoo Central High School."
Now, the graduates must use their legacy from high school and apply it to their future.
"We're expecting some pretty fancy stuff," VanLoo said.
Nearly the entire class raised their hands when Kalamazoo Public Schools Superintendent Michael Rice asked if they were using The Kalamazoo Promise scholarship after graduation.
"There's only one place in the country that pays for your college because you graduated from high school: Kalamazoo," he said. "But free is not free for you. You have to pay for it with your hard work."
Valedictorian Jane Fisher said that high school graduation is a second chance to wipe the slate clean.
"At this point, we don't have anything to lose," Fisher said. "We have the time to change things if we want to. We have the opportunity to reinvent ourselves."
In the stands, Ed and Brenda Parker watched Brandon inch closer to the stage.
"Shoot, I might tear up," Ed said.
Their grandson, Brandon, is going to Western Michigan University in the fall to study sports medicine. He's also a walk-on for the Broncos football team. Parker served as a captain of K-Central's football team and won defensive MVP this year. However, he said the position came with obstacles.
"In football it's hard to get good grades when you have to practice every day," he said.
He said his success in football and in school meant a lot to his mother.
"I'm a big factor in my mom's future," he said.
His mom, Shannon Parker, never graduated high school, she said. Brandon is her oldest son of four children.
"He wants to take care of me," she said. "He's just
determined to make his life so much better."
"He's just good at everything," he said. "He's one of those grandkids you can be proud of."


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Alejandro Bedoya is enjoying the best season of his young professional career, and the year just got even better after he agreed to terms with Scottish champions Glasgow Rangers on Thursday.
The 24-year-old midfielder is coming off an impressive performance at the CONCACAF Gold Cup for the US men's national team and was in the middle of a strong season with Swedish club Orebro. It remains unclear what the terms of the transfer are, and the move is contingent on Bedoya securing a work permit.
A New Jersey-born, Florida-raised product of Boston College, Bedoya bypassed MLS and went straight to Europe in 2009, thriving with the club from his first season, establishing himself as a regular starter for the club that fellow Boston College alum Charlie Davies once called home.
The transfer is a good one for Bedoya, who is a fast but physical and aggressive midfielder. He should cope well with the rough-and-tumble defending in Scotland that has been known to give newcomers trouble.
To have the chance to play Champions League soccer in his third year as a professional is a major step for Bedoya, and the step up in class should help him maintain and potentially build on the place he's earned in the Us national team pecking order.
A versatile winger capable of playing on either wing and as an attacking midfielder, Bedoya should battle for playing time on a Rangers squad that shed several players from its most recent Scottish championship-winning side.
One player still on Rangers is Bedoya's US teammate, Maurice Edu, who teamed with Bedoya on this summer's US Gold Cup squad. Originally left off the US Gold Cup roster, Bedoya replaced the injured Benny Feilhaber and thrived as a substitute before earning a starting role later in the tournament. He was widely-regarded as one of the key bright spots on a US team that reached the Gold Cup final before losing to Mexico.


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Operation Blue star
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'Will take action against perpetrators of Golden temple clashes'
Sri Akal Takht member Giani Gurbachan Singh said that many people were injured in the clashes in the Golden Temple. Some anti-social forces sparked the violence. "We will investigate the case and take strict action against the perpetrators," he added. Earlier in the day, clashes broke out within the Golden Temple premises between two groups on the 30th anniversary of Operation Blue Star.June 6, 2014, 6:16 pm explore: India
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Before Hurricane Sandy hits the Allentown/Reading areas, the Miller-Keystone Blood Center is asking for donors to come in this weekend.
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According to Miller-Keystone, platelets only have a useable lifespan of five days, which makes the need for an ongoing supply all the more critical to support the medical needs of premature infants, cancer patients, trauma and burn victims, and many more hospital patients.
If you are in good health, 17 years of age or older, and weigh a minimum of 110 pounds, you are most likely eligible to donate blood.
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The following recipe was published in the January newsletter of the Otisco Lake Rod and Gun Club.
1 ½ lbs yellow perch fillets, cut into 3-inch pieces
2 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, thinly sliced
1 large can whole tomatoes
1 large yellow pepper, minced
3 jalapenos, seeded and minced
2 tbsp minced garlic
½ tsp fresh ginger, grated
½ tsp black pepper
¼ tsp salt
¼ cup V8 juice
Heat the olive oil in a large skillet. Saute the onion, tomatoes, bell pepper, jalapeno pepper and
garlic until limp.
Stir in the ginger, pepper, and salt and saute for 3 minutes. Add the V8 juice and cook for 10
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Add the fish to the skillet. If there is not enough sauce, add just a little water or white wine. Cover and simmer for 8 - 12 minutes.
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Squeezed into a tiny white patio chair, literally rubbing elbows with a coterie of Grammy-winning musicians on the opening day of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, Mitch Landrieu was savoring his last days as Louisiana's lieutenant governor.
Less than two weeks before being sworn in as mayor of New Orleans, he had some weighty decisions ahead of him: an administration to assemble, a police chief to appoint, an opening agenda to set.
But for the moment, Landrieu was in the company of Irma Thomas, Terence Blanchard and Terrance Simien, hosting a roundtable discussion on one of his favorite causes: the local music industry.
With the musical luminaries seated around him in a tight semicircle, Landrieu expertly steered the conversation from the food vendors at the festival to the reasons why New Orleans jazz practitioners sometimes have to move elsewhere to make a living.
It was classic Mitch, as the mayor-elect articulated serious points, revealed flashes of his own biography and often just listened to what others had to say.
Young people need to know that music is a viable career option, one panelist said, prompting Landrieu to interject: "You mean instead of your daddy saying, 'I heard you sing, and you'd better have a second career?'" he said, drawing laughter at what was clearly a personal reference.
The nuts and bolts of politics
The young aspiring actor Mitch Landrieu did heed his famous father's advice, tamping down his creative ambitions and enrolling in law school as the first step down a path that would intersect not with the bright lights of the stage but with the even more glaring spotlight of politics. To hear his supporters talk, his inauguration on Monday, brought about by an overwhelming victory after two failed tries at the office, has a whiff of destiny -- and not just because his father Moon was once mayor.
An upbringing steeped in the nuts and bolts of politics certainly gave the younger Landrieu a head start when, at 27, he took over the legislative seat vacated by his older sister, Mary, now a U.S. senator. But more than the Landrieu family's A-list connections, friends, relatives and colleagues say, it is Mitch Landrieu's natural leanings -- his affinity for people, his instinct for finding common ground, his idealistic hunger for big-picture solutions -- that form the foundation of his political rise and his newfound status as a beacon of hope for many New Orleanians.
Those inborn talents have been well-nurtured. The oratorical skills Landrieu developed as a leading man in Jesuit High School theatrical productions still serve him well more than 30 years later. Playing street ball with black and white boys in a racially mixed Broadmoor neighborhood endowed him with an ease in dealing with skeptical African-American constituents. And the politician who once was always up for a 7 a.m. tennis match at City Park with his father will need every ounce of his formidable work ethic to attack the city's post-Katrina problems while remaining a devoted family man and making it to Mass every Sunday.
Though he has on occasion been accused of being heavy-handed, Landrieu's supporters view him as a consensus-builder who can close the gaps between black and white, haves and have-nots.
"Instead of singing on Broadway, I'm going to be mayor of New Orleans. But if 'Les Miz' comes through and I'm offered the role of Jean Valjean, I'm out of here," Landrieu, 49, joked in an interview. "Everybody's going to say, 'Where's Mitch?'"
The middle child of nine
Almost any substantial conversation about Mitch Landrieu circles back to the modest house on South Prieur Street where he grew up, the fifth of Moon and Verna Landrieu's nine children.
"Everything about this family goes back directly to Moon and Verna and the way they were raised," said Norma Jane Sabiston, a longtime family friend who worked as Mary Landrieu's chief of staff and is planning the mayor-elect's inauguration.
As the smack-dab-in-the-middle child, Mitch Landrieu did not have an obvious place when the occasion called for the oldest or the youngest to group together, his younger brother Martin recalled. Perhaps because of this, No. 5 developed an independent streak, as well as a penchant for adding extra flourishes.
"He wasn't a show-off, but he was a hot dog. When he'd do a layup in basketball, it wasn't a normal layup. He'd go behind his back, under his legs, over the head for a layup. We always laughed at that," said Martin Landrieu, a lawyer and civic activist.
Broadmoor in the 1960s and 1970s was a multiracial Mayberry, according to the Landrieus and others, with children playing football and kick-the-can in the streets and mothers on front porches keeping a watchful eye.
State Sen. Ann Duplessis lived two doors down from the Landrieus and played Barbies with Mitch's younger sister, Madeleine, now a Civil Court judge. Duplessis recalls fleeing from the Landrieus' overly friendly Great Dane, Stretch, and cadging rides to school in Moon Landrieu's limousine by walking slowly until the mayor overtook her.
Residents remember the neighborhood as colorblind, at a time when the gains made by civil rights activists were just starting to take hold in the South. Duplessis' mother, an African-American teacher, was entitled to scold Madeleine if she misbehaved, just as the mayor's wife was free to reprimand a neighbor child, Duplessis said. When Duplessis' father, a cab driver, was shot in a robbery, the Landrieus brought food to the house and visited him in the hospital before he died of his injuries.
"Those experiences we had growing up, you talk about 'one voice, one city,'" Duplessis said, referring to a Landrieu slogan. "You can live in a community that is safe and that is protective and that is productive. We can live like that and it doesn't have to matter how much money you have, what color you are, how much influence you have. I never knew there was influence right next door to me."
In an interview with PBS' Tavis Smiley last week, Landrieu echoed Duplessis' thoughts: "There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a white mayor," he said."I've never seen New Orleans as a black city."
Landrieu refers often to his childhood on NORD playgrounds, invoking a down-to-earth, "I'm just a New Orleans boy" vibe his friends say is genuine.
Yet the Landrieus were hardly an ordinary family. After serving as mayor from 1970 to 1978, Moon Landrieu was Housing and Urban Development secretary to President Jimmy Carter. He was later elected a state appeals court judge. Carter and Democratic operative Vernon Jordan are among the political heavyweights who have sat down for a meal at the long dining table in the Prieur Street house, where Moon and Verna still live.
Family vacations were structured around national mayors conferences, Martin Landrieu recalled. If the conference was in Milwaukee, they traveled to Milwaukee, and the young Landrieus got to know the children of other mayors.
Moon Landrieu said that while he did not actively encourage his children to go into politics, he is not surprised that a few of them gravitated toward what has become the family business.
"It's not unusual, if you have a doctor family, or a restaurant family like the Brennans, or a football family -- the Mannings -- or a family of musicians, like the Marsalises, to become interested in what the conversation is, what the activity is among friends and parents," Moon Landrieu said. "But I did not push any one individual child."
'He wanted to be the absolute best'
Even as a teenager, Mitch Landrieu never slept late, his parents and brother recall. He kept up with his schoolwork and played a variety of sports, but much of his energy, from the ninth grade on, was focused on the theater. Then possessed of a head of curly blond hair, his starring roles in high school included Don Quixote in "Man of La Mancha" and Jesus in "Jesus Christ Superstar."
An oft-told family yarn has the young Mitch refusing to take no for an answer when his mother said she could not afford singing lessons for him.
"We got the bill the next month. He had to do it, he had to have them," Verna Landrieu said.
Sonny Borey was Landrieu's drama teacher at Jesuit and has remained friendly with the family.
"Mitch was a great kid to get along with. Everybody loved him. He was very determined in what he did. He wanted to be the absolute best," Borey said. "Over the years, a number of students stand out in my mind, and Mitch is way out there."
Mitch Landrieu majored in political science and theater at The Catholic University of America in Washington. After college, Landrieu made his way as a professional actor, appearing at the Beverly Dinner Playhouse and other local venues.
One day, his father watched him audition for a part and was struck by the capriciousness of the business, prompting the words of advice recently recounted by the son. So Mitch Landrieu went to Loyola Law School, where he met his future wife, Cheryl, on the first day.
The couple went on to have five children, bookended by the oldest, Gracie, who is graduating from Georgetown University this spring and returning to New Orleans as a Teach For America fellow, and Will, the youngest, a fourth-grader at Lusher Charter School.
Despite his career switch, Mitch Landrieu would not escape the sting of rejection and the arbitrariness of bad timing. He finished a distant third when he ran for mayor the first time in 1994, and his loss to Ray Nagin in a 2006 runoff was a particularly bitter blow. Last fall, he hesitated long enough before jumping into the race that his late entry as the immediate front-runner threw the field into disarray.
With Nagin's popularity in the tank and the city still struggling with seemingly intractable issues almost five years after Hurricane Katrina, many voters preferred a well-connected career politician from a well-known family to his relatively untested opponents. Mitch Landrieu's time to be mayor of New Orleans had finally come.
Sean Reilly, a close friend who served with Landrieu in the Legislature, recounted a dinner with Landrieu shortly after the election. "He was genuinely happy in a way I hadn't seen for a few years," Reilly said. "He was born and raised for this moment. The city is very, very lucky to have him."
A consensus-builder
Early in Mitch Landrieu's legislative career, when he was still in his 20s, colleagues called him "Half Moon" and teasingly asked if he consulted his father and sister before every vote. But Landrieu quickly forged his own way with a group of reform-minded legislators, the so-called Young Turks, who launched their agenda by tackling the state's enormous fiscal problems.
Continuing his father's record of championing African-American causes, Landrieu was a leading spokesman in the opposition to the agenda of former Ku Klux Klan member and state representative David Duke. A 2003 bill that reshaped the state's juvenile justice system is among the lasting achievements of his nearly two decades in Baton Rouge.
Two former Young Turks, Kip Holden of Baton Rouge and Randy Roach of Lake Charles, are also mayors of their respective cities and remain close to Landrieu.
"On the floor, making a speech, he's very skillful and masterful. He knows the subject matter thoroughly," Holden said of Landrieu the legislator. "He can kind of blunt the opposition because he knows both sides. He tends to anticipate and counter their position."
Landrieu's ability to create coalitions and make constituents feel included in the process, honed through years in the Legislature, has been evident since he was elected mayor three months ago with 66 percent of the vote, including a majority of the African-American vote. He appointed 17 task forces to make recommendations on issues ranging from education to criminal justice, closing many meetings with a point-by-point summation of everything that was said by the citizens who came to the microphone.
At the final task force meeting, he took obvious pleasure in the commonalities that could unite such divergent personalities as Councilwoman Jackie Clarkson and the community activist Dyan French Cole behind the cause of improving the city's Recreation Department.
"Mitch is a people person. He has great interpersonal skills. He has a way of making people feel comfortable in any setting," said Doug Thornton, the Superdome executive who is co-chairman of Landrieu's transition team. "He's a very good listener. He's a quick study in terms of things that matter. He has a unique ability to cut to the real salient points of an issue and a tremendous knowledge of how government works."
But Landrieu's reputation for bringing warring factions together was marred by a high-profile controversy two years ago, when as lieutenant governor he sought to give himself, instead of an appointed board, the authority to choose the state museum's executive director. The change was eventually approved by the Legislature, but Landrieu was lambasted for what his critics saw as a naked power grab. As the dispute dragged on, the then-museum director, whom Landrieu planned to replace as soon as he achieved sole authority, resigned to take a position in San Diego.
In his six years as lieutenant governor, Landrieu is credited with expanding the office's role as promoter of the state's rich musical, culinary and architectural heritage, injecting a passion that stemmed in part from his own experiences as a struggling actor.
Maria Mercedes Tio, a former Landrieu press secretary, said the lieutenant governor drove himself and his staff to work long hours with an almost evangelical sense of mission, making the financial well-being of the "back of the house" -- the line cooks, the small-scale craftsmen -- a special cause. Aides were required to hand him talking points before meetings -- but he rarely read them because he already knew the issues cold, she said.
"He was a taskmaster. He expected it right the first time," Tio said. "He's a funny guy. He'd stop by and talk to people in their offices. He'd see how you were doing, lean against the door jamb and shoot the breeze -- 'What's happening with you, what you working on, what you doing?'"
Landrieu's go-the-extra-mile ethos extends beyond the workplace. On a pilgrimage to Medjugorje, a holy site in the Balkans, with his wife and mother, he insisted on taking things to another level, making the hike up the mountain in his bare feet, his brother Martin said.
The mayor-elect has recently taken up running, rising at 5 a.m. several mornings a week to pound out a few miles in Audubon Park. In characteristic over-achiever mode, he wants to run a marathon before he turns 50 -- though with his birthday looming in August and a demanding new job to assume, he admits the goal is looking increasingly unlikely.
'He's just a natural'
Everyone who knows Mitch Landrieu seems to have a Katrina story about him -- the lieutenant governor arriving in a boat with supplies, or negotiating with Essence Festival organizers to make sure the event stayed in New Orleans. Another line of stories involves the multitudes of people from all walks of life that he can identify by name.
"Mitch is a natural. He's just a natural, and I don't use the word 'politician' in a disparaging way," said Roach, the Lake Charles mayor. "He has a natural love for people, and he has a natural care and concern about people and bettering life for other people. That's why I think he's going to do a great job as mayor."
For Craig Varoga, who managed Landrieu's 1994 mayoral campaign, the defining Mitch moment came in the Houston Astrodome shortly after Katrina. As the two men walked among the least fortunate of New Orleans -- those who ended up in public evacuation facilities because they had nowhere else to go -- Landrieu reached out to the hundreds of people he recognized from home.
"These were people whose houses were destroyed, and he knew many by name. He held some of their faces in their hands. He hugged them when they were crying, and he promised he was going to help all of them and do everything he could to help the city," said Varoga, a political consultant in Houston and Washington.
For all his skill in gripping and grinning and for all his hard-driving ambition, those who know Mitch Landrieu say he is first and foremost a family man -- a presence at his children's schools who makes more soccer games than he misses. He adheres so firmly to his Catholic faith that he found time for an early Mass one recent Sunday before an all-day slate of meetings with federal officials.
"Some politicians, they hang out at a particular restaurant at a particular time of day. They might have a group of people they particularly hang out with. I've never seen that in Mitch," said Bill Rouselle, a political consultant who typically supports African-American candidates but worked on Landrieu's last campaign. "I have a grandson who goes to Lusher. My wife picks up my grandson from school, and oftentimes she'll run into Mitch picking up his kids."
On the eve of Mitch Landrieu's first day at City Hall, when he will be faced with a daunting murder rate, a police department in disarray and large areas of the city yet to rebound from Katrina, the father's words to the son tend to be simple and to the point. The two rarely hash out the finer points of governing -- the mayor-elect has plenty of advisers for that.
Landrieu repeats one piece of fatherly advice that neatly sums up the challenge of being the mayor of New Orleans: "On May 3, you own every pothole in the city," Moon Landrieu told his son.
Cindy Chang can be reached at email@example.com or 504.826.3386.


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In the wake of the recent comments by communications minister Ed Vaizey and a letter to him by many tech giants, Berkett was asked last week whether the company's views had changed - and in essence he said they hadn't.
Asked of his view, Berkett said to BBC Radio 4's Media Show:
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I think we need to come back to the position and say how do we go about funding the internet in the UK? And we do it by having a highly, highly competitive market where our prices for the internet are something like half the prices in the US.
Therefore restricting potential investment by the internet service providers by putting a regime such as net neutrality in place I think is the wrong thing.
Having said that, whatever you do in this space must be completely transparent."
A Virgin Media spokesman said today that there was a "fundamental difference" between technical traffic management and discriminating between content based on who had produced that content. "There are no plans to do the latter," he said.Virgin recently implemented a system of traffic shaping the (largely pirated content heavy) main P2P networks as well as News traffic, which appears to have resulted in an overall increase in throughput speeds received by their customers.


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Regardless of the reviews, Pistons fans took to Twitter, Facebook and Instagram Friday and Saturday to give their take on Bobby Brown's halftime show at The Palace of Auburn Hills.
Brown's performance at the Pistons-Orlando Magic game came on the same day he reportedly plead not guilty in a California court to a DUI charge.
The DUI charge is reportedly Brown's second this year.
Brown told Mlive Detroit before the show that fans could expect "the best of Bobby."
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DECATUR, Alabama -- Decatur police had to break up a fight in which they say two women cut each other with a box cutter.
Police say an officer was responding to a trespassing call at an apartment at 8th Avenue and Moulton Street shortly before 1 p.m. Wednesday. The officer said a car containing one of the suspects, Jessica McDonald, pulled up in front of the apartment. The officer said the other suspect, Alexis Bolding, walked past him to confront McDonald over an issue between them.
Police say the argument turned into a physical fight, at which point McDonald began swinging a box cutter at Bolding and cut her arm multiple times. Police say Bolding was able to get hold of the box cutter and cut McDonald's arm with it. Police were finally able to stop the fight after that. Both women were treated at separate hospitals and released.
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FANWOOD — A 62-year-old man from East Orange, Guy Ceide, was arrested on Feb. 27 at 8:04 p.m. on a warrant out of Clifton, police said.
An officer stopped the vehicle Ceide was driving in the 70 block of Martine Avenue for a violation, then a check of the driver showed the active warrant, police said. Ceide was arrested, processed and released by the Clifton Municipal Court, police said.
In a separate incident, a 26-year-old man from Jersey City, Tyron Gardner, was arrested on March 3 at 9:45 a.m. on warrants out of Warren Township, Irvington and Watchung, police said.
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'Breakfast of Champions' is April 30
The Breakfast of Champions, the Mercer Island Schools Foundation annual communitywide fundraising event, will be held next Tuesday, April 30, at Mercer Island High School at 7:30 a.m.
The breakfast is an annual Island tradition and celebration. It is a celebration of exceptional students, outstanding teachers and innovative educational programs. It's a celebration of the direct and meaningful impact that community support can have on the quality of education for all students. It is also a celebration of an Island that collectively demonstrates our commitment to our children and their future each year.
Providing an excellent education for all Mercer Island students is a shared community goal. Islanders, regardless of the age of our children or even grandchildren, usually count "our high quality schools" as a significant motivator that drew us here.
We are fortunate that Islanders also consistently support public education. For 31 years, the nonprofit Mercer Island Schools Foundation has supported the Mercer Island School District (MISD) with financial donations from generous MI community members. Under the leadership of Executive Director Penny Yantis, over the past several years, the foundation has significantly increased its fundraising commitments in response to major cuts in state education funding.
Consistent with past years, all gifts this spring will be designated to the 'Bridge the Gap' Campaign. The fundraising goal is ambitious — $1.2 million — and is needed to allow the school district to keep 20 teachers in classrooms and maintain the lowest possible class size.
Bridge the Gap is a joint MISD/PTA/Foundation initiative that started in 2009 when multiyear, multimillion dollar cuts to MISD's state education funding resulted in district budgets that were so squeezed that the alternative was to lose a significant number of teachers.
Thankfully, our community has since rallied each year to support students and teachers at an unprecedented level. In an era when there is division at the federal, state and sometimes even local level, this is an annual demonstration that investing in our students' education unites us.
The entire Mercer Island community is invited to the Breakfast of Champions celebration of our schools. Whether you have or had students in the district, live or work on the Island, you are welcome. Join the foundation board, your neighbors, and education, community and business leaders at this special event.
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CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Hub status matters. How much? Well, that depends on whether you've got it.
Just ask Mark Leahy, the general manager of the Cleveland Convention Center. In 2002, he oversaw the opening of a new convention center in Pittsburgh. Two years later, bankrupt US Airways pulled back from its Pittsburgh hub -- a move that kicked off a decade of flight cuts and airline-job losses in that city.
The convention pitch for Pittsburgh changed. Driving distance became more important. Non-stop flights? A smaller part of the package.
That's likely to happen in Cleveland now, as United Airlines yanks away the city's hub status and prepares to slash flights in April, May and June.
"This is a setback, absolutely," Leahy said Monday. "Is it the end of the world? No, it isn't. Every community is going to get a punch in the nose now and then. You get up and get back going."
For meeting planners and the people who book conventions, the number of daily in-bound flights matters. For cities trying to attract major events, a hub airport airport sweetens the package. But on the convention circuit, plenty of Cleveland's competitors -- Columbus, Indianapolis and, yes, Pittsburgh -- aren't gateway cities for a major airline.
Leahy, who stepped into management at the convention center late last year, said he expects to emphasize driving convenience and to spend less time highlighting the airlines in conversations with potential clients. Based on his experience in Pittsburgh, he hopes that budget carriers will move in to fill gaps as United backs off.
While slashing peak daily flights from 199 to 72, United plans to maintain non-stop travel between Cleveland and roughly 20 cities. Leahy said he's relieved to see major markets and business destinations on the list, though he's puzzled about the airline's decision to eliminate non-stop flights to Philadelphia.
"I would have liked to have kept that," he said, pointing to medical companies and other businesses that now will be a seven-hour drive or a connection away.
Leahy works for SMG, a major convention-center operator based in suburban Philadelphia. Though the company runs facilities in hub cities including Chicago, many SMG properties are located in smaller markets without such robust daily flight schedules.
"I was in Savannah, which was very, very successful," Leahy said of his previous convention-center management gigs, "and people there joke that when you die, you still have to go through Atlanta to get to heaven or hell."
So how much does hub status matter?
"If you don't have a hub, you downplay the importance of them," Leahy said. "If you have one, you play it up, certainly."


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Music on the Green returns to Snoqualmie's Salish Lodge
Salish Lodge & Spa, in partnership with the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, announces the return of Music on The Green summer concert series, featuring performances by five local musicians on select dates in July and August. Shows are held on the Centennial Green, and include a gourmet picnic.
• Thursday, July 10 – Seattle singer-songwriter Shelby Earl
• Thursday, July 24 – Sera Cahoone, combining classic country-western and modern indie rock.
• Thursday, July 31 – Tim Wilson of Seattle-based Ivan & Alyosha will perform his mix of folk-pop, indie and rock
• Thursday, August 7 – The Horde and the Harem
• Thursday, August 14 – Kris Orlowski
Tickets are $125 per pair and include access to the concert, a signature Salish Lodge & Spa blanket, gourmet picnic tote with a bottle of wine and Salish fare for two, access to the beverage garden featuring Northwest wines and local microbrews available for purchase, complimentary parking and 25 percent off in The Attic from 6 to 10 p.m. for pre- and post-concert libations. Concert guests who wish to stay overnight at Salish Lodge will also receive 20 percent off the best available rate.
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Lupianez, Francisco Gallego (1988) Total paracompactness and Banach spaces. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 103 (1). pp. 210-214. ISSN 0002-9939
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Spring Training is never short of storylines.
The winter is always too long, and writers, analysts and fans are always ready to explode with the buildup of stories from the offseason.
New arrivals, position battles and coaching adjustments dominate the sports pages, and the 2013 Toronto Blue Jays have certainly made their share of headlines this offseason.
In fact, they are the most intriguing team in Major League Baseball. General Manager Alex Anthopoulos shocked every baseball person in North America when he traded for half the Miami Marlins, signed steroid offender Melky Cabrera and added R.A. Dickey.
The Blue Jays head into 2013 with a new shortstop, a new left fielder, a new second baseman and three new starting pitchers. No other team will be so dramatically different in terms of roster turnover.
That has made February and March a particularly fun time for Blue Jays fans.
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MEMBERTOU — Cape Breton First Nation communities are partnering with the Paq'tnkek First Nation to purse new economic opportunities and to help train Paq'tnkek residents for employment opportunities.
Paq'tnkek, also known as Afton, is located about halfway between the Canso Causeway and Antigonish.
Owen Fitzgerald, executive director of the Unama'ki Benefits Office, says the group was approached by Paq'tnkek leaders who suggested the partnership, as the Paq'tnkek is currently planning significant commercial developments.
According to Paq'tnkek officials, as part of the affiliation, they hope to tap into Unama'ki's expertise in economic development and training.
The First Nation community also wants to become part of a new partnership that Unama'ki has with the NewPage paper mill in Port Hawkesbury.
"Our objective is to move towards sustainability and establish partnerships with industry to get our people employed," said Rose Julian, economic development officer with Paq'tnkek. "We like the Unama'ki economic development model and the success of the Unama'ki Economic Benefits Office."
Staff of the Unama'ki Economic Benefits Office met with Paq'tnkek officials last week at the Strait campus of the Nova Scotia Community College. The plan is for Paq'tnkek's chief to become a member of the board of directors for the Unama'ki training program.
Fitzgerald said while the Unama'ki office serves to train local aboriginals to fill industry needs, this union will broaden the definition of local by welcoming their mainland neighbours.
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A line of strong thunderstorms rolled through Lacombe on Monday afternoon, knocking down trees and some power lines. "An inch or two of rain" fell on the area, said Gavin Phillips of the National Weather Service office in Slidell. Combined with the two inches on Sunday and a brief storm that pushed through Saturday afternoon, the ground was saturated. That, and not extreme winds, caused several trees in the area to fall, Phillips said.
At Henry Mayfield Elementary School, which is located between Lacombe and Slidell, electrical lines fell in front of the school during the bad weather Monday. The school building avoided damage in the storm but was without power for a short time, according to school system spokeswoman Meredith Mendez.