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Twins, Perkins Agree to Contract Extension
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The Twins announced this morning that left-handed relief pitcher Glen Perkins had agreed to and signed a three year contract extension worth $10.3 million. The contract includes an option for 2016.
In January, Perkins and the Twins avoided arbitration by agreeing to a $1.55 million contract for 2012. We do not yet have the breakdown for his annual salaries going forward, but an average annual salary of $3.43 million puts him in line with other top young bullpen arms.
The contract essentially buys out his final year of arbitration and two years of free agency, with an option for a third year. The Minnesota native and former Minnesota Gopher will continue to pitch in key roles for the Twins through at least the 2015 season.
Remember just one year ago today, most Twins fans would have been happy if the Twins had just released Perkins rather than offer him arbitration. However, the Twins insisted that his move to the bullpen would be fruitful, that the ball was 'really coming out of his hand well.'
Perkins responded very well, posting an ERA of 2.48 and a WHIP of 1.23. In 61.2 innings, he walked 21 and struck out 65.
The Twins haven't had the best of luck with long-term deals of late, but this one makes a lot of sense.
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Last Fall semester faculty attended a webinar on creating a climate of ethics. The theme was how some colleges have assessed their campus's challenges about student academic dishonesty and then tailored a campus wide program to curb cheating.
The webinar was very informative and in the discussion afterward, the participants wanted to keep this topic current to bring it to a campus discussion to create a plan for how we can address our challenges at UTB/TSC.
At the Academic Senate meeting on Jan. 22, Provost Arbise stated that the processes and procedures for action on academic dishonesty is the responsibility of faculty. When he was at Arizona they had conducted a year long investigation of how to handle cases. Click here to read their procedure.
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In the last decade, the number of cheating cases considered by Stanford University's judicial board has more than doubled, to 123 from 52, The San Jose Mercury News reported. Stanford officials attributed the increase both to more cheating and more reporting by faculty members. University analysis found that although computer science students make up 6.5 percent of Stanford's students, they accounted for 23 percent of violations of the university's honors code. click here to read the story.
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Action Car Rental, one of Manhattans leading luxury independent car rental providers, announced this morning that they would be adding to their already impressive fleet of exotic car rentals with the purchase of a 2014 Land Rover Evoque. The vehicle, which was purchased thanks to high customer demand, will be available for hire in July.
Its been a big year here at Action, explained Action Car Rental CEO, Harry Hollander. Not only have we had to increase our vehicle fleet due to demand, we've also had to double our driving staff due to increased business. Staff drivers are responsible for helping ensure that the right vehicles are at the right locations when customers arrive. Whenever we need to add more drivers to our team, its definitely a sign that reservations are up and business is good.
As one of the largest independent car rental agencies in New York City, Action prides itself on offering a fleet of exceptional, hard-to-find vehicles. With both foreign and domestic models available for booking, including the Nissan Murano Convertible, Mercedes Sprinter 15-passenger Van and the Mini Cooper S Roadster Convertible, the company has quickly become the preferred rental agency for many local residents and visiting tourists.
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Apple Releases iTunes 8.0.1... Bug Fixes!
Continuing the (very welcome) trend of rapid, bug-fix (including the nasty HD overwrite Dieter wrote about a while back!) and stability themed product updates, Apple has released its first minor bump to iTunes 8 (see our feature overview), the aptly numbered 8.0.1. The list of changes, voluminous by Apple's standards, include (via Macrumors):
Head on over to Apple Software Update to get the latest -- and hopefully greatest version for your iPhone. Then come back here and let us know how it's working for you, and... er.. whether it breaks anything else...
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It seems snappier! I like it!
I hope it doesn't effect JB iPhone's.
to the person above. I am sure it will lol
It's cool Apple did that. It would be equally cool if the iPhone blog became the first site in history not confusing ITS with IT'S. If I, a Hungarian, have been able to learn the difference, surely you guys can, too. So, rather than writing what you have up there, how about a rapid bug fix to the sentence in the form of:
Apple has released its first minor bump to iTunes 8.
It's much cooler this way, ain't it?
Enjoy both bug fixes!
The quickest spelling bug fix in iPhone history! Thanks!
What's not mentioned is that it also fixes that annoying BSOD with Vista issue that I occasionally got. It was just in time as well as I was about to go through the whole uninstall/re-download iTunes so thanks, Apple.
No it still doesn't fix all the BSOD issues with Vista.
Err okay?
I have used old and newer versions of itunes in both 32 bit and 64 bit versions of vista and haven't had a single problem.
You may want to change your motherboard if the onboard sound is outdated/or just buy a new sound card.
no worries to speanza, you shouldn't have any problems with JB itouches of iphones in this version of itunes. i've JB every firmware version of itouch/iphone on almost every type of itunes and there won't be any problem wwith this version. i just jailbroke an iphone with this version of itunes this morning, and no problems. but if ever in the future there is a problem with JB products and itunes, the dev team wil fix it.
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The Iowa Senate has approved legislation that would give preference to Iowa businesses when the state is purchasing certain supplies and services.
Lawmakers passed the measure 34-16 Tuesday with bipartisan support. It would give Iowa-based businesses a second chance to match the lowest bid by an out-of-state business for goods and services that cost the state under $500,000.
Bill sponsor Sen. Liz Mathis, a Democrat from Des Moines, says the measure levels the playing field.
Iowa law already says state departments must give preference to Iowa businesses during a competitive bidding process. But Mathis says her bill is more precise and fair.
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The South Barrington Park District and the Hoffman Estates Animal Hospital will make a difference this week by collecting pet food for Young at Heart Pet Rescue in honor of Make a Difference Day.
The fourth Saturday in October, this year Oct. 27, marks a national day of volunteering. Originally created by USA Weekend Magazine, the holiday brings millions of community members around the country together to perform works of service.
Hoffman Estates Animal Hospital and the South Barrington Park District are collaborating to serve Young at Heart Pet Rescue, a rescue mission dedicated to re-homing senior dogs and cats.
"Young at Heart is passionate about educating people about this very special group of pets that most families don't consider when adopting. Choosing them to benefit from the food drive just seemed like the right thing to do." said Martie Wartalski, Practice Manager at Hoffman Estates Animal Hospital.
Young at Heart focuses their efforts primarily on care and education regarding senior pets. The food drive benefits the senior pet foster parents that work with Young at Heart
Baskets have been set up to collect unopened canned pet food at the South Barrington Park District, the South Barrington Club, and the animal hospital. Donations will be accepted at these three locations. Once the cans have been collected the senior pet foster parents will be able to use the donations to help feed their foster animals.
"Supporting an organization dedicated to the care of these senior pets is very rewarding," said Dr. House, owner of Hoffman Estates Animal Hospital.
Senior pets hold a special place in the hearts of the staff at Hoffman Estates Animal Hospital.
"We've been doing our Senior Pet Work Up for over ten years and it's a very special part of what we offer for our patients," said Wartalski.
Senior status is given to pets eight years old and up. Once pets reach that age, Dr. House notes, it is important they make regular trips to the veterinarian. Senior pets are more prone to illness. Early detection is key in preventing illnesses from claiming the lives of senior pets.
Young at Heart provides medical care to neglected or abused senior pets, rehabilitates hard-to-adopt senior pets, and educates the public on the benefits of owning an older animal.
"Senior pets are loving animals that have special bonds with their owners. Often times they are overlooked at adoption agencies because of their old age, but sometimes a mellow and loyal pet is the best kind a family could adopt," Dr. House said.
Through work such as Young at Heart's, countless of loving animals have been placed in loving homes.
" After hearing about Young at Heart, we felt that collecting food donations to help the foster parents would be the best way that we could help. We were excited to partner with the South Barrington Park District and the South Barrington Club in this effort," said Wartalski.


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The legacy of beloved Meridian dance instructor Mary Alpha Johnson Donnelly continues through two of her proudest achievements.
In 1987, Donnelly, former director and owner of Alpha School of Dance, published "The Magical Kingdom of Dance," a 215 page dance encyclopedia that she also illustrated with characters named after specific ballet moves. Donnelly also created and illustrated the accompanying Alphamat, a fun, interactive way for young ballerinas to learn classic ballet moves.
The book, which has undergone several printings, has been updated – a new cover, pink pages and several other improvements – and is now being relaunched with Donnelly's daughter, Tonie Johnson Bense, at the helm.
"She wanted to do all of this and she was so excited about the relaunch," said Bense, who owns a dance studio in Panama City, Fla.
"An article about Johnson and the book was published in a national dance magazine in June and she wouldn't let go of it for two months; she kept it on her bed," Bense said of her mother, who died earlier this month.
"This was her lifelong work and her lifelong dream. When I was in elementary school, she was working on this every day," she said.
Bense will be in Meridian Friday for a book signing at Embellish Marketplace on North Hills Street.
Although only several thousand copies of "The Magical Kingdom of Dance," were originally printed, the book – as well as the mat – has enjoyed a nationwide following; both teaching tools are used by dancers and studios all over the country.
"I was at a show in Atlanta for the United Dance Merchants a couple of weeks ago and there were people who stopped by the booth and were like, 'I have your mother's book and I use it every day at my studio; I'm so excited to see this,'" Bense said. "Some have never seen the Alphamat, because she hasn't had those reproduced in a long time. So when they see the mat, they really get excited about it all."
Bense said Donnelly knew about the Embellish book signing prior to her death, as well as an article about her published in the November/December issue of Mississippi Magazine.
"She was really excited about all of it – the book signing, articles and everything involved with relaunching the book," Bense said.
In addition to book signings and promotions for "The Magical Kingdom of Dance" and Alphamat, Bense will teach three classes at the 2013 DanceLife Teacher Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz., in which she will use both the dance encyclopedia and dance mat.
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What: Book signing of the relaunching of "The Magical Kingdom of Dance," by Meridian dance instructor the late Mary Alpha Johnson Donnelly. Donnelly's daughter, Tonie Johnson Bense of Panama City, Fla., will conduct the signing.
When: Friday, from 1-4 p.m.
Where: Embellish Marketplace, 2626 North Hills St.
Information: The book retails for $49.95 and accompanying Alphamat for $60; a discount will be applied when purchased together.


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Rural Mountain Districts Protest School Funding Plan
Mar 28th @ 6:47 am in News by Scott Staley
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WESTERN SAN JUANS – Representatives from a so-called "gang of 20" Colorado school districts including Ouray, Ridgway, Norwood and Telluride traveled en masse to Denver Tuesday to testify about how a new plan for funding Colorado's schools would hurt their districts.
By Wednesday afternoon, they were cautiously optimistic that their efforts to force through key amendments to the proposed new education finance legislation known as Senate Bill 213 had been successful.
The amendments, including a provision to maintain the current rate of state funding for districts which otherwise faced hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars of annual cuts that would have had to be backfilled with local tax hikes, came on the heels of an exhausting day of testimony before the Senate Education Committee.
Telluride School Board President Cheryl Miller described a scenario with large school districts from the Front Range monopolizing control of the floor for hours upon hours, while those who had traveled from more distant corners of the state were forced to wait until late at night to tell lawmakers how devastating the proposed Senate Bill 213 would be for their districts.
One of the most dramatic moments of the day came when the committee chair, Sen. Evie Hudak, attempted to close the session without giving the 17 remaining rural superintendents in the room a chance to speak.
Ridgway Superintendent Cheryl Gomez would have none of it, Miller said, and insisted that she and her colleagues had the right to make their voices heard.
"The look on the chair person's face was priceless," Miller said. "People were high-fiving Cheryl for standing up like that."
SB 213 is the brainchild of Sen. Michael Johnston, a Democrat from Denver. The plan proposes to take the state's dysfunctional 20-year-old public education funding formula and update it so that poor, at-risk districts have enough money to cover their needs, while directing more money across the board to cover programming for special education, at-risk students, English language learners and full-day kindergarten.
But in doing so, the original bill created a "Robin Hood scenario" that hit school districts with higher property valuations hardest, if they didn't raise local taxes by the year 2020.
After a five-year "hold harmless period," Johnston's bill as originally written called for those districts to dramatically increase local taxes to maintain full per-pupil funding. The Norwood School District, for example, would have had to raise its taxes by a full 18 mills to maintain current funding levels.
Ultimately, the legislation hinges on voter approval of statewide tax increases of over $1 billion a year.
Johnston and cosponsors of SB213, including Rollie Heath of Boulder, have described the bill as uniformly benefitting school districts across Colorado. But the numbers tell a different tale for certain districts.
"For our district in Telluride, we were going to be losing money," Miller said. "Everyone kept saying no-one will get left behind with this new plan, and that just wasn't true."
Under the proposed legislation, as originally written, Telluride School District would have lost almost $1 million a year; Norwood would have lost $886,000; Ridgway would have lost $425,000 and Ouray would have lost $277,000 annually if they did not succeed in raising local property taxes by 2020. Durango School District 9-R and schools in Rifle would have had the most to lose – facing annual shortfalls of more than $12 million.
These and other mostly rural mountain districts, which jokingly referred to themselves as "the biggest losers," gathered together as a coalition late last week after learning that Johnston's bill was headed for a hearing in the Senate Education Committee Tuesday.
As a result of Tuesday's deliberations, the bill has since been amended to protect the "biggest losers" from the funding cuts with a "hold harmless in perpetuity" provision that promises the state will continue to backfill funds which districts would otherwise lose under the new formula.
"Sen. Johnston is really trying hard to fix the issues, but the devil is in the details," Williams said.
Some of those details were hashed out during a mad rush of breakfast meetings on Wednesday morning, with the amended bill set for a vote in the Senate Education Committee sometime Wednesday afternoon (after press time).
As the dust settles from this week's hearing, Miller emphasized, "This is really just the beginning. After the Senate hearings, it will go to the Senate floor, then to the House and the process will start all over again. Then, the two different bills will have to go to reconciliation. So there is still a long way to go."
Ultimately, regardless of what the final legislation looks like, it will be up to the voters of Colorado whether they want to feed the beast that has been created with a billion-dollar statewide tax hike.
If the whole thing sounds like a civics lesson, it has been just that for Miller and her rural colleagues. "It's the first time I've been this involved," she said. "I always knew the process was complex and hip-deep with special interests, but to see that maybe we could make a difference was fascinating to me."
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The Press Democrat will receive the James Madison Award from the Society of Professional Journalists' Northern California chapter for its coverage of the Sonoma County pension system.
The award was created to honor journalists, public officials and private citizens who have fought for public access to government meetings and records and promoted the public's right to know.
The group also will honor the Associated Press for its yearlong investigation of vote-switching in the state Assembly and the Sacramento Bee, for uncovering $54 million in secret assets in the state parks system.
The Press Democrat was honored for conducting an in-depth data analysis that revealed why pension costs had risen 400 percent in a decade in Sonoma County.
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SPRING BRANCH – As the list of teachers accused of having inappropriate relationships with students continues to grow, some worry school districts may be ignoring a federal law intended to help parents report sexual harassment.
That includes the type of complaint a Spring Branch mother made after learning her son was involved in a relationship with his eighth-grade teacher at Memorial Middle School.
"Sometime I wake up in the morning and I just go around and say, 'Why is this happening to us?" this mom told the KHOU 11 News I-Team. We're not using her name to protect her son's identity.
She says she was the picture of an involved parent.
She volunteered with the school's PTA and even moved her office into the family's home to make sure she'd be there when her two boys came from class every afternoon.
"It couldn't happen," she lamented.
But it did.
Investigators said her 15-year-old son became the sexual target of his teacher, Kathryn Murray.
The teen's mother felt betrayed.
"He's supposed to be a child," the mother said. "I don't know if he'll get over it, or if he will not. We don't know."
So who can a parent go to if they believe their child is being sexually harassed, or worse?
One option is the school's Title IX Coordinator.
It's a person specially trained to deal with sexual harassment complaints.
Federal law requires that every school have one and let students and staff know how to get in touch with the coordinator.
But the KHOU 11 News I-Team found getting that simple information may be a real struggle for a student or parent in distress.
We 'tested' more than 300 school principals, spread across 26 Houston-area school districts. We set up a private email mailbox, like any individual parent might have, then we sent the schools emails asking for contact information for each school's Title IX coordinator adding, "I understand this is the person who handles sexual harassment complaints."
Our email inbox soon filled up with some troubling answers.
"I think it's a serious problem," said Randy Burton, a former prosecutor who also founded the advocacy group "Justice for Children."
Burton reviewed the responses we received.
The KHOU 11 News I-Team asked him whether or not those responses could be barriers to a parent trying to report their child has been sexually abused.
"That's my fear," said Burton. "That's what it appears to me."
For example, several principals told us, "We do not have a Title IX coordinator."
Others seemed defensive, writing "What is this regarding?" or "I am not sure who you are looking for."
In fact, only 61 schools provided us the information that we asked for.
A number of others didn't even bother to respond to our request.
Take the Houston Independent School District.
Forty-five percent of the 112 principals we contacted there did not answer our email.
Jason Spencer, spokesman for the district, explained the principals' reasoning.
"They chose not to respond because they were concerned it might be spam or that it might be potentially a virus," Spencer said.
But even when we did get a response from HISD schools, in nearly every case, we didn't get the Title IX coordinator.
Instead, we were told the school principal would handle the situation.
"We trust our principals to be able to be a front line in handling these kinds of investigations," explained Spencer.
But Burton said that's a bad idea.
He points to the recent case of former HISD school security guard Devin Delarosa who's charged with fondling a student.
After Delarosa's April arrest Harris County prosecutors said other students, dating back two years complained to their principal that they were groped by Delarosa too.
But those accusations were never passed on to the school district, or to police.
"Their rule one is protecting the children in their charge," Burton said of principals. "To think that they would have any conflict that would interfere with that overarching goal is an outrage."
HISD says the principal in that case broke policy, and added that based on the responses we received there could be changes coming to the district.
"We'll go back and we'll look at the training we do for our principals and the information we're putting out," Spencer said, "To make sure that we're dotting our 'i's and crossing our 't's because this is a significant issue."
A significant issue that the Spring Branch mother warns could devastate any family.
"Fifteen months ago it was me," she said. "Tomorrow it can be another parent, and what do you do about it?"
Another interesting response to our email came from Katy ISD.
Nine of the 12 principals we wrote to told us they handled any Title IX complaints, including one who said "If you have a sexual harassment concern it must come to me directly."
At first, a Katy ISD spokesman told us that principal was correct.
But when we showed the spokesman the district's written policy, the spokesman changed his story, admitting students and parents are allowed to report sexual harassment to the district's Title IX coordinator.
That spokesman declined our repeated request for an on-camera interview.
Title IX compliance is handled by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights.
A spokesman for the department told the KHOU 11 News I-Team that between October 1, 2008 and September 30, 2012, the Office of Civil Rights conducted 17 compliance reviews involving K-12 school districts.
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8:16 p.m. Men's hockey score is in: A five goal second period propelled Western to an 8-1 victory over New York City. Western outshot NYC 64-10.
8:00 p.m. Women's hockey update. They defeated New York City 7-0 in their second game of the day. Victoria Salmon had two goals and three assists. Heather Rinow (Lancaster) also had two goals. They are now 3-0.
Still waiting on results from the men's game.
7:25 p.m. Some rowing results are in. The Western women dominated again, winning gold in quad and four w/ coxswain.
Quad: Corinne Kazmiercczak (Tonawanda), Audrey hope Sheils (Rochester), Erica Rayter (Rochester), Charlotte Lane (Buffalo)
Four w/ coxswain: Olympia Gioulekas (Buffalo), Amanda Truesdell (Williamsville), Rachel Hirschbeck (Kenmore), Emily Glasgow (Kenmore), Kaitlyn Koscielniack (Lancaster)
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Women's Scholastic Track
200m- Ashley Fields (Amherst) takes the gold and Kala Allen (East Amherst) finishes with silver.
100m high hurdles- Kailyn Arcury (Williamsville) wins the gold. Arcury also took silver in long jump.
2000m steeplechase- Elisa Frazier (Williamsville) takes the silver.
Men's Scholastic Track
Triple Jump- Byron Jones Jr. (Niagara Falls) wins the silver medal.
3,000m Steeplechase- Chad Maloy (Boston) wins silver and Nicholas Orlowski (Lancaster) takes the bronze.
High Jump- Brandon Joyce (Niagara Falls) wins the gold.
6:36 p.m. Back at the media center. The scholastic men's volleyball team looked dominant in their victory over Adirondack. The only miscue was when a player served the ball straight into the back of his teammate's head. I'm working on getting some track results up. Check out the paper tomorrow for full track coverage. Mary Jo Monnin was at UB Stadium all day catching the track action.
5:15 p.m. Off to cover volleyball. I will be back to post more results soon.
4:52 p.m. Western scholastic wrestling grabbed plenty of medals this morning. Here are some results for Greco Roman wrestling:
98 lb. Aaron Paddock (Warsaw) gold
106 lb. Rocco Russo (Lake View) silver, Eric Harley (Rochester) bronze
123 lb. Tom Page (Hamburg) gold
165 lb. Tyler Bruce (North Tonawanda) gold
192 lb. Jose Aguilera (Sodus) silver
220 lb. Spencer Biondo (Williamsville) silver
275 lb. Michael Pryce (Sodus) gold
4:32 p.m. Shooting: Kirsten Guidie (Alden) took home the bronze in the air rifle team match in the scholastic division.
4:24 p.m. Here are some lacrosse results from this afternoon.
Men's Lacrosse: A six goal third quarter propelled Central over Western 12-4. Nick Doktor (Rochester) had a goal and an assist for Western.
Women's Lacrosse: After going down 9-7 at the end of the first half, Western came back to defeat Central 14-11.
4:18 p.m. Women's ice hockey defeated Central 5-2 after going up 3-0 in the first period. Victoria Salmon (Batavia) had two goals. They take on New York City later today.
4:14p.m. In men's gymnastics, Jonathan Zirna (East Amherst) won gold in the All Around Individual in the scholastic division. Nathaniel Roberson (Williamsville) took the bronze.
3:39 p.m. Western has had success in the pool in the scholastic division, both in swimming and diving. They took home a plethora of medals in swimming yesterday, and there are more finals later today. Here are some diving results from this morning:
Women's Diving: Rachel Eckert (Rochester) handily won the gold medal in the 3m final with a score of 427.60.
Men's Diving: Dhrub Tyagi (Fairport) took gold in the 1m final today after sitting with a comfortable lead following voluntary dives yesterday.
3:30 p.m. In the scholastic division, women's basketball rebounded from a blowout loss yesterday with a 62-43 win over New York City this morning . Carly Dalton (Jamestown) led the team with 13 points.
3:15 p.m. After some weather and traffic delays, I have made it to the media center at UB. Once I get settled in, I will start getting results out. It's a bit windy, but the rain has finally stopped. I saw girls heading over to field hockey as I drove in.
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I have the paranoia and suspicion of someone with BPD...
I am going to mention that to my psychologist during one of my sessions...
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What good could come of determining if there is a diagnosis? Perhpas these are just personality characteristics....I can't determine where to draw the line when it comes to this.
An actual evaluation with a mental health professional can lead to recommendations about whether or not he might benefit from some type of treatment, whether that were medications, psychotherapy, or both. Personality disorders don't spring up overnight...they typically are evident by adolescence. Also, in the setting of unusual stress, like job loss, anyone might be expected not to be at their best in terms of personality characteristics and structure, or resiliency and the capacity to adapt to stress. Also, if his "blow ups" are placing unusual stress on your relationship with him, or his relationships with others, clarifying whether that comes from his coping style (psychotherapy may be useful) versus something else for which medication may be useful would be some potential benefit of a consultation.
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Do these diagnoses change over time?
I have taken the MMPI many times during hospitalzations. I think I got an atypical personality disorder a couple of times, and a bpd once or twice too.
I was classified a rapid cycler bipolar early on when I was hospitalized, and meds seem to only work for short periods of time. Could this be because therapy for the bpd or the atypical was not really addressed. The solution is always very quickly the meds, but other longer term costly solutions get overlooked.
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Mike Lange during a Q&A session with fans at RBC Center in Raleigh, December 2011.
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Mike Lange (born March 3, 1948, in Sacramento, California) is the radio play-by-play broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Penguins. In 2001, he received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for his outstanding work as an NHL broadcaster.
A native of Sacramento, California, Lange joined the Penguins as a radio announcer in 1974 after spending time as a commentator for the San Diego Gulls and Phoenix Roadrunners of the Western Hockey League. He left the Penguins after just one season, because the team was in bankruptcy and he had no guarantee of a job. Lange called Washington Diplomats soccer games, then returned to the Penguins for the 1976–77 season, where he became the central figure of the team's broadcast presence.
From 1975 until 2006, Lange served as the lead play-by-play announcer for the Penguins' hockey radio and television network, never missing a broadcast. On June 29, 2006, citing a desire to go in a new direction, Fox Sports Pittsburgh (now Root Sports) did not exercise the option year on Lange's contract. He was replaced by Paul Steigerwald, who had previously done the radio broadcasts, in a move that was, arguably, extremely unpopular with fans.[1] On taking Lange's spot Steigerwald said, "I'm not going to try to replace him. I think he's irreplaceable."[2]
On August 4, 2006, Lange signed a contract to work on Penguins' radio broadcasts. He continues to work the radio broadcasts, alongside former Penguin Phil Bourque, with the 2012-2013 season representing his 36th consecutive year that Lange has announced Penguins hockey.
During the mid-1980s, Lange also broadcast several NHL games for ESPN.
Lange and then-colleague Steigerwald appeared together as themselves in the 1995 movie Sudden Death, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. In the film, Lange used many of his trademark expressions in his play-by-play commentary.
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Like fellow Pittsburgh sports announcers, the late Steelers announcer Myron Cope and the late Pirates announcer Bob Prince, Lange uses a repertoire of distinctive colorful expressions, sometimes called "Lange-isms" by his fans. While some are familiar phrases from pop culture, most are cryptic expressions of Lange's making.
KDKA-AM radio talk show host Fred Honsberger used to play a personalized clip of Lange saying, "Ladies and Gentlemen, the Honz has just left the building!" at the end of his radio show.
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- ^ "FSN Pittsburgh Doesn't Renew Announcer Lange's Contract", ThePittsburghChannel.com, posted June 29, 2006, accessed June 29, 2006.
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Over the past year, CEO Ron Johnson has tried to attract higher-end clients with a store-within-a-store strategy and to smooth results by dumping chaotic discounting. Barron's warned readers to expect some bumps ("Penney Wise? Not Exactly," Jan. 23, 2012). The problems were even bigger than we expected. Confused customers fled to rivals like Target TGT +0.44% Target Corp. U.S.: NYSE $61.37 +0.27 +0.44% July 30, 2014 11:31 am Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1.05M P/E Ratio 20.58 Market Cap $38.72 Billion Dividend Yield 3.39% Rev. per Employee $199,290 07/29/14 Investor Keeps Pressing for Pe... 07/28/14 Battle for Poor Shoppers Fuels... 07/23/14 Discount Stores Combat Social ... More quote details and news » (TGT) and Macy's M +1.53% Macy's Inc. U.S.: NYSE $58.48 +0.88 +1.53% July 30, 2014 11:31 am Volume (Delayed 15m) : 696,130 P/E Ratio 14.51 Market Cap $20.76 Billion Dividend Yield 2.14% Rev. per Employee $161,293 07/25/14 Why Retailers Became a Top Tar... 07/23/14 Macy's Workers Win Labor Rulin... 07/22/14 Beacon Technology Could Pose S... More quote details and news » (M). In the year ended Feb. 2, same-store sales fell by a whopping 25%. Penney lost $985 million, or $4.49 a share. The shares have plunged nearly 60%, to $15, since our story ran.
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Johnson began with the backing of Penney's two largest shareholders: Pershing Square Capital Management and Vornado Realty Trust, which owned a third of the stock and held board seats. Last week, Vornado sold 40% of its stake and is likely to sell the rest. Johnson has already restored discounting, but Penney has cut 19,000 jobs, or 14% of the total, since the start of 2012.
The board is said to be giving Johnson's plan another year to work, and seems stuck with it in the way that passengers are stuck on a train hurtling toward a collision. "It's hard to see how a new leader can right the ship, given the massive changes being implemented, especially the 'store-in-a-store' concept, which is behind schedule," says David Berman, a hedge-fund manager and retailing expert who has derided Penney's overhaul since day one.
The stock market now values Penney at $3.3 billion, down from almost $8 billion last year. It is hard to see why it might be worth more, given the lack of buyers for a retailer with a national footprint and ongoing asset sales by rivals like Sears Holdings SHLD +0.91% Sears Holdings Corp. U.S.: Nasdaq $39.00 +0.35 +0.91% July 30, 2014 11:31 am Volume (Delayed 15m) : 143,505 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap $4.11 Billion Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee $143,032 06/12/14 Stocks to Watch: Lululemon, Re... 06/12/14 Lands' End Profit Rises on Hig... 05/23/14 Morning Links: Fear Has Vanish... More quote details and news » (SHLD).
Penney owns 426 of its 1,100 stores and has cheap leases on the rest, but Vornado's willingness to cut and run calls their value into question.
That, in turn, is creating concerns about liquidity. Penney has $930 million in cash and a $1.85 billion credit line. If same-store sales fall another 10% in the first quarter, Penney will burn through $400 million in cash, says J.P. Morgan. Hedge-fund investor Berman foresees "vendor panic over a steadily worse balance sheet."
Rick Snyder, an analyst at Maxim Group, thinks Penney's real estate is worth roughly $50 per square foot. That would not be enough to cover Penney's $2.9 billion of debt. Snyder's price target on the stock is $10, about a third lower than it fetched last week.
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Have you heard? U.S. manufacturing is back
The Boston Consulting Group has confirmed when the total cost of manufacturing is calculated, the U.S. is as attractive a place for manufacturing as anywhere in the world.
A study last month by the Boston Consulting Group quantified what I've been suggesting for the last several years: When the total cost of manufacturing is calculated, the U.S. is as attractive a place for manufacturing as anywhere in the world.
Which begs a simple question: Why isn't that the biggest news story of the year?
For almost a decade, we've heard about how low wages and an indifference to manufacturing have sucked jobs out of the U.S.—to Mexico, to Asia, to anywhere that U.S. manufacturers could dump jobs in exchange for lower wages. And a certain part of this is true—many short-sighted companies chased the low wages, figuring that if you can make it there for one-tenth of the labor costs, profits would follow. And manufacturers, like all other businesses, were chasing profits in the middle of the last decade.
The global recession changed the game, not just for the developed countries, but also for those emerging markets that were ramping up massive infrastructure improvement projects to become a global economic power. Those countries saw their growth slowed by the recession, and those infrastructure improvements slowed as well.
And then back in the U.S., a change began to take place. Manufacturing got leaner, and Leaner. We got smarter about our resource utilization. We stopped wasting energy and began to manage every aspect of our plants more closely. We made the tough choices in rebalancing our manufacturing operations around the country to take advantage of wage differences. The explosion of manufacturing in the Southeast, especially for the auto industry, is the best-known example, but certainly not the only one.
While that was going on, the global middle class began to emerge. Wages in China have tripled in the past decade, and while on a dollar-for-dollar basis they are still nowhere near the U.S. levels, that wage advantage has gone away. As energy prices continued to spike, that spike was felt everywhere, and the cost of returning goods from the point of manufacturing to the point of use continued to rise, further cutting into the cost of manufacturing.
We saw this taking place, yet the common perception still was—and is—that the U.S. is leaking manufacturing jobs. The reality is that the world is balancing itself. The mad rush to chase wages is slowing, and actually reversing itself. Outdated ideas such as, oh, quality and safety and attention to detail are starting to matter, to both manufacturers and consumers unwilling to waste any more time or money.
The Boston Consulting Group report notes that the jobs coming back are not the commodity-based products for which quality and price are not crucial. Transportation goods, electrical equipment/appliances, furniture, plastics and rubber products, machinery, fabricated metal products, and computers/electronics. "Together, these seven industry groups could add $100 billion in output to the U.S. economy and lower the U.S. non-oil trade deficit by 20% to 35%," the report stated.
The report also noted that some of the jobs may be headed to Mexico, which has a wage advantage over the U.S. But "America's experience in these tipping-point sectors and its much larger pool of skilled workers, as well as logistical and security concerns, will make the U.S. a better option for many companies," said report co-author Justin Rose.
We've seen the results of these changes with the inrush of manufacturing plants in the auto sector. The latest company headed this way is Audi, which is looking at the shuttered Saturn plant in Tennessee and other locations in the Mid-South for a new U.S. facility. Having visited the Audi mother ship last year in Germany, I can tell you that they have an exemplary idea of how to effectively manufacture an automobile. Marry that with the skills of the American auto worker, and you have the potential for another crowning manufacturing gem in the U.S.
For most of the last six years, I've argued that we need to do a better job of improving our own manufacturing processes. Many companies are following that advice, and the results are starting to show. The world is taking a fresh look at American manufacturing, and they like what they see.
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Here is the remarkable true story of the real Count of Monte Cristo a stunning feat of historical sleuthing that brings to life the forgotten hero who inspired such classics as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers.
The real-life protagonist of The Black Count, General Alex Dumas, is a man almost unknown today yet with a story that is strikingly familiar, because his son, the novelist Alexandre Dumas, used it to create some of the best loved heroes of literature.
Yet, hidden behind these swashbuckling adventures was an even more incredible secret: the real hero was the son of a black slave -- who rose higher in the white world than any man of his race would before our own time.
Born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), Alex Dumas was briefly sold into bondage but made his way to Paris where he was schooled as a sword-fighting member of the French aristocracy. Enlisting as a private, he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution, in an audacious campaign across Europe and the Middle East until he met an implacable enemy he could not defeat.
The Black Count is simultaneously a riveting adventure story, a lushly textured evocation of 18th-century France, and a window into the modern world's first multi-racial society. But it is also a heartbreaking story of the enduring bonds of love between a father and son.
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Alexandre Antoine Davy de la Pailleteriefather of the future Alex Dumaswas born on February 26, 1714, in the Norman province of Caux, a region of rolling dairy farms that hung above great chalk cliffs on the northwest coast of France. A scrawled scrap of paper from the time states that he was baptized "without ceremony, at home, because of the peril of death," suggesting he was too sickly to risk bringing in to the local church. He was the firstborn son of an old family that possessed a castle, a scarcity of cash, and an abundance of conniving members, though Antoine would one day outdo them all.
The boy survived, but the following year his sovereign, King Louis XIV, the Sun King, died after seventy-two years on the throne. As he lay dying, the old king counseled his heir, his five-year-old great-grandson: "I loved war too much, do not imitate me in this, nor in my excessive spending habits." The five-year-old presumably nodded earnestly. His reign, as ...
Tom Reiss's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, The Black Count, recounts the life and times of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas (1762-1806), father of author Alexander Dumas and the inspiration behind the younger Dumas' novel The Count of Monte Cristo.
Reiss's subject is a compelling one; Dumas was born in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) to a black African slave woman and her white aristocratic owner. He rose from this humble origin - primarily on his own merits - to become the highest ranking person of color of all time in a continental European army (to this day). His swash-buckling exploits almost defy belief, rivaling those of the protagonists created by his son. But although this man was clearly larger-than-life, Reiss's exquisitely detailed research leaves no doubt that his reputation as a hero was deserved.
In addition to informing his readers about Dumas' life, the author covers quite a lot of history. The book contains fascinating information about slavery and racism in France; the pre-Revolution aristocratic system; the French Revolution itself; and the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, including his Egyptian campaign.
I generally avoid non-fiction books and dislike biographies in particular, feeling that they're too dry for my tastes. This one is a huge exception though, and is in fact my favorite book of the year. It may seem trite to say a book reads like a novel, but, well, this one does. I never once thought it dragged or that I didn't care about the material being presented, and I was always eager to return to it after having to put it down. Dumas was an intriguing character who lived during a rapidly changing period in history, and Reiss's prose vividly conveys both the man and the time. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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TRAVERSE CITY — Call it a prelude to this weekend's Northwest Conference-Lake Michigan Conference Crossover Challenge.
Senior Liza Erickson scored 10 points Wednesday night to lead St. Francis to a 43-36 win over Glen Lake in the championship game of the Katie Heintz Tip-Off Tournament.
"It's always a big deal," Erickson, the tournament MVP, said. "We love honoring Katie. It wouldn't be what it is if we didn't win it for her."
Erickson, who usually wears No. 32, wore jersey No. 44 in the final — the number Heintz wore as a Gladiator. Heintz died in 2005 after a nearly year-long battle with leukemia.
"This is something the girls really wanted to win," St. Francis coach Mike Knudsen said. "The whole Katie Heintz experience is important to the girls. They were very happy to pull this out."
The Gladiators scored the first 11 points of the third quarter to take the lead for good, this after the two teams went into the break deadlocked at 18.
"We decided to go to a full-court press and the girls really responded," Knudsen said. "I think we might have surprised them a little with it. It just happened to work out for us tonight."
Glen Lake regrouped, though, and closed the lead to two, 35-33, with 2:31 remaining. But that's the closest the Lakers would get.
Glen Lake coach Jason Bradford said lack of execution hurt his team at critical times.
"We struggled. We seemed very hesitant offensively," he said. "We were just trying to find a rhythm. We'd get close, get close, then have a turnover here, a turnover there. That really hurt. If a couple things here and there go our way, it could have been a different game."
Freshman Anne Lyman banked in two critical 3-pointers in the fourth quarter to keep the Gladiators in control. Her first came after the Lakers closed to within three, 29-26. Her second came with 2:10 left and pushed the cushion from two to five, 38-33.
"She stepped up, which was good to see," Knudsen said.
Lyman finished with eight points — all in the fourth quarter.
"She hit those (3-pointers) in key moments when we were coming back," Bradford said. "That hurt."
Scotlyn Brengman and Jordan Peplinski scored 13 points each for the Lakers. Both were named to the all-tournament team.
The all-tournament team also included St. Francis center Bridget Bussell, Bear Lake's Emileigh Ferguson and Lake Leelanau St. Mary's Hannah Weber.
Ferguson scored 30 points to lead Bear Lake to a 68-18 win over St. Mary in the consolation game. Briann Bowling chipped in 11. Weber and Lindsey Boone led the Eagles with six points.
St. Francis captured the JV tournament with a 39-33 win over Glen Lake. Suzanne Britten netted 13 for the Gladiators. Glen Lake's Breanna Flores tallied a game-high 17.
Bear Lake won the consolation game 51-32 over St. Mary as Katelynn Millard netted 13 and Alycia Peterson 10. Abbie Thon's 19 topped the Eagles.
St. Francis and Glen Lake compete in the Crossover Challenge this weekend. The Gladiators take on Kingsley on Friday night while the Lakers face East Jordan Saturday evening. All games are at Kingsley.


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As the Commission for Africa report comments, major increases in aid investments are necessary to build dcs' capacity to trade, particularly in infrastructure and communications. Efforts to date to support developing countries have been made on a best-endeavour basis, and in a constrained environment for aid resources, trade-related issues have justifiably had to compete with priority sectors such as health and education. But assistance is also needed to address the impacts of preference erosion, loss of tariff revenue, social costs, and to provide support to efforts to undertake trade facilitation efforts and meet standards.