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Earlier this year, KISSFAQ's Tim McPhate conducted a comprehensive interview with producer/engineer RON NEVISON in celebration of the 25th anniversary of KISS' Crazy Nights album. Never-before-heard audio from the interview courtesy of the interview's official trailer is available below:
Acting as a companion piece to their respective fully transcribed interviews, KISSFAQ interview trailers cull audio from the Interview Series archive, offering fans tasty excerpts of the discussion. An excerpt from the transcript is available below:
After recording was completed on Crazy Nights, the band thought they had hit a home run. "Everybody was really excited," recalls Nevison.
While Crazy Nights would ultimately yield platinum-plus sales, the hit single to catapult the album to multi-platinum status in the United States eluded KISS. The aforementioned 'Reason To Live' only managed No. 64 position on the Billboard Hot 100. Fan opinions of Crazy Nights varied across the board, with detractors criticizing Nevison's polished, keyboard-friendly mix. Even Stanley put on a pair of hindsight headphones. "I think it's a bit plastic-sounding," he once remarked. "The material, and what it could have been, was better than what it turned out to be."
When peppered with questions on Crazy Nights a quarter century later, Nevison stands by the album and offers no apologies. Nor should he. The fact is that Crazy Nights cracked the Top 20 in five countries, hitting No. 4 in the UK, KISS' highest-charting album there ever. The title track matched the album's performance, climbing to No. 4 on the UK singles chart.
As far as Nevison is concerned, he delivered exactly what was asked of him. And the only thing that got in the way of that home run, multi-platinum album was … KISS.
KF: Getting into the album, what was the process of going through the material and deciding what would be recorded or worked on during the sessions?
RN: "Gene just gave me everything. (laughs) He loaded me up with 20, I don't know, 25 songs. And Paul was much more discerning in terms of what he let me hear. Gene just let me hear everything. And I told him what I liked and what I didn't like. There were some odd songs – there was one song I remember called 'I'm Going To Put A Log In Your Fire Place' (laughs). And Paul, to my recollection, wanted to make a different kind of album. You know, with the success that BON JOVI was having in writing with Desmond Child and other bands – I had taken OZZY down that road with his first hit single in years, if ever, 'Shot In The Dark', in 1986. And of course, HEART. I was actually very pleased with the material on Crazy Nights. And I took some heat after that album because of the keyboards."
KF: Ron, you touched on one of my questions. In 1987 rock acts such as HEART, POISON, DEF LEPPARD, BON JOVI…
RN: "They saw what they were doing with 'Livin' On A Prayer' and all that. And I wanted to get KISS that same level of – you know, instead of selling 500,000 to 700,000 records, which is respectable, especially these days – I wanted it to be bigger than that. I was impressed with the stuff that Paul brought in. You know, Gene's stuff was Gene's stuff. Gene wrote rock stuff, but not commercial really, but KISS fans love Gene's songs."
KF: In terms of the album's sonics, I think you've admitted, in hindsight, that you would have mixed the synthesizers down a bit and that it might be too "slick" or "soft" sounding.
RN: "I wasn't that happy with the final mix. But I wasn't that unhappy with it. I have to tell you, Tim, I'm not happy with any mix that I've done. I think I could have made it a bit more powerful sounding."
KF: Some of the album's detractors have commented that the sonics are too similar to HEART's 1985 self-titled album and OZZY's "The Ultimate Sin" album.
RN: "There you go. That's the type of album I make. That's what I do."
KF: Exactly. In that sense, you delivered. KISS wanted Ron Nevison. They wanted that sound at the time and you gave it to them.
RN: "Yep. I have to say that I think as time goes on it will be more accepted and more liked because it has great songs. I think, song-wise, it really stands out as one of the best KISS albums ever, song-wise."
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MICHAEL GOES TO BUSINESS SCHOOL WITH RYAN-- Ryan (B.J. Novak) invites Michael (Golden Globe winner Steve Carell) to be a guest speaker at his business school . Meanwhile, Dwight battles a bat that gets loose in the office while Pam (Jenna Fischer) invites co-workers to her first art show. Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Melora Hardin, Leslie David Baker, Brian Baumgartner, Kate Flannery, Angela Kinsey, Oscar Nunez, Phyllis Smith, Paul Lieberstein, and Mindy Kaling also star.

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Casey Stoner won a fairytale sixth successive Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix on Sunday as Spaniard Jorge Lorenzo clinched the MotoGP world championship.
In his farewell home MotoGP before retiring from the sport, Australian Stoner continued his domination of the Phillip Island event he has made his own since he first won on the track in 2007.
Yamaha rider Lorenzo finished second to secure the world title, with Briton Cal Crutchlow third.
The only other man who could beat Lorenzo for the world championship - Honda rider Dani Pedrosa - crashed out on lap two of the 27-lap race while leading.
Lorenzo has an unassailable lead in the points standings with just one more race remaining this season.
It is Lorenzo's second world title after he won in 2010.
Starting from pole, Honda rider Stoner was beaten off the start line by both Lorenzo and Pedrosa, with Pedrosa taking the lead from his fellow Spaniard late on the opening lap.
But Pedrosa slid out of control while taking a corner less than a minute later.
He returned his Repsol Honda to the pits, and retired from the race.
For Stoner, it was a remarkable result in front of a record Phillip Island MotoGP attendance of more than 53,000.
Once he inherited the lead from the fallen Pedrosa, Stoner built his lead on every lap - Lorenzo perhaps content to do what he needed to in order to wrap up the title.
Stoner eventually beat Lorenzo by more than nine seconds.
Stoner had been dominant all weekend at Phillip Island, having lapped a second quicker than his rivals for most of the practice and qualifying sessions.
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A bunch of 28 new gameplay screenshots straight from the game!
These look really good, you can see an obvious graphical progression.
Details are awesome, was hoping they'd show some animals but at least the scans mentioned it.
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Last year, Alex gave us a thorough look at the hidden Karazhan Crypts area, with its massive pile of bones where hundreds of people were thrown down a well, and humans drowned by chaining them upside-down underwater. The crypts were never meant to be explored by players, but WoW has had plenty of other terrifying secrets through the years that are just waiting for us to discover them.
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Above the leatherworking shop in Goldshire, something is amiss. If you venture there, you will sometimes discover six children, arrayed in a strange pattern. They stand there, silently facing each other. The light music of Elwynn changes to an ominous low rumble or a creepy hum. Every so often you will hear ghostly noises, or even the voice of C'thun himself. Outside of the house, two tiny children's skulls are hidden in the grass.
They have been called the "creepy children," the "demon children," and the "evil children." They also run around Elwynn to Stormwind and back, always in formation. Sometimes they will stop and stare at each other again, or all look in one direction for no apparent reason. Presumably this is just to creep us out even more.


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Are we talking just a thin crust, or are we talking "gypsum quarry" size formations?
The reason I ask, is gypsum contains absurd quantities of chemically bound water. If mars has a higher calcium ion concentration than earth does, and had liquid oceans at one time, it is possible that with the carbon dioxide rich atmosphere and lack of techtonic plate movement that a sizable quantity of the ocean turned into "concrete" rather than drying up.
This would mean that much of the light elements (hydrogen, etc) might have escaped being blown off the atmosphere.
This is exciting news for science fiction writers that like to dream about terraforming. Creating techtonic activity would create the geomagnetic dynamo the planet needs, and as a consequence of the subduction and volcanism, huge quantities of water vapor would be expelled as a volcanic gas.
About all the planet would need would be ammonia, for the missing nitrogen. (Doesn't titan have an ammonia atmosphere? Wink, nudge.)
This does not mean the planet would go from lifeless desert to habitable overnight, as the gasses relased would be inhospitable to oxygen dependant life like us, but certain algae species like chlorella can survive in 100% C02 atmospheric concentrations as long as there is sunlight and water. Chlorella is well researched, fully genomically sequenced, and already has engineered varieties. A strain intended to rapidly convert the atmosphere to something a bit less toxic would actually be fairly plausible.
Creating techtonic activity would create the geomagnetic dynamo the planet needs
I'll get right on that and let you know when I'm done so we can move to the next phase.
If you want to get all touchy feely in your story, this would be a good constructive use of the earth's nuclear arsenal.
Plate techtonics is at least partially powered by radiological decay.
Well, the difficulties of boring large holes down the center of Mars to set off the nukes (doesn't do any good to nuke the surface) do present some problems.
And the fact that Mars simply isn't massive enough to maintain that heat anyway. Any terraforming project would be short-term as Mars would rapidly cool off and lose it's magnetic shield again.
Seems to me Mars needs to bulk up. Using spacecraft to redirect large asteroids into Mars using the gravity tractor method seems like a viable way to bulk it u
Just took the time to put in in decimal, just for fun.
In decimal notation that's as follows.
Mars + all of the Asteroid belt = 645,050,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
Earth = 5,973,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg
So, as you can see, Mars would still be an order of magnitude smaller than Earth, but MUCH larger than it's current size if we were to bombard it with the contents of the asteroid belt, thus adding to it's mass.
Titan is larger than earth's moon.
Mars is smaller than the Earth.
Smashing titan into mars would probably be a bad thing. (A very, very bad thing. That is, unless you like the idea of scattering huge chunks of rock into space. See for instance, the collision simulation for the hypothesis of earth's moon's formation.)
Better, would be to go ahead and nudge the moon out of saturns orbit, have it fall into the inner solar system, sweep a wide orbit of the sun, then fall into orbit around mars.
Best to use a trans ecliptic orbit, so that the falling body doesn't adversely effect other inner planet systems.
Once in martian orbit, titan's gravity would cause intense mantle heating of the red planet. It is likely that titan's atmosphere would freeze and snow out after being dislodged from saturn's orbit, due to the lack of tidal heating while it transits. Mars' tidal forces would be miniscule compared to saturn's, though being in the habitable zone might be enough to heat titan enough to reconstitute the atmosphere. Unknown.
It is concievable that with both bodies in the habitable zone, that both bodies could be actively terraformed.
Titan is presumed to have a silicate core, and not an iron nickle one like mars and earth. This means that it wouldn't disrupt the new martian magnetosphere. (Like our moon doesn't.)
Mars is more massive than titan, and if the atmosphere reconstitutes, mars might just rip it off titan.
Titan's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen. That would definitely not be frozen at Mars' distance from the sun. It extends a long way out though, so if you put Titan in a reasonably close orbit of Mars it would probably transfer. And there's lots of it.
Moving the planet might be tricky though. Especially if you don't want to lose the atmosphere.
If you have the capability to move a planet out of orbit and in the direction you want it to go, given the distance you should be able to fine tune the impact velocity using gravity wells and orbit corrections to somewhere just above zero, and then just wait for Titan to uh, melt, on to Mars over a period of centuries.
About all the planet would need would be ammonia, for the missing nitrogen. (Doesn't titan have an ammonia atmosphere? Wink, nudge.)
You're right. There is a sci-fi novel in that: The domestic house apes of planet Earth fling Titan into Mars. Alien microbes from Titan thrive and mutate on Mars, becoming toxic to hoo-mahns. "Oh, Jordy Verrill, you lunkhead!"
Are we talking just a thin crust, or are we talking "gypsum quarry" size formations?
FTA: The gypsum vein — which scientists spotted last month and nicknamed "Homestake" — is approximately the width of a human thumb and about 16 to 20 inches long.
Also FTA: there are large dunes of gypsum sand in the north polar region. Possibly there are large pans of the stuff, as the sand had to come from somewhere.
runaway climate, oceans evaporate, a couple of million years later some beings from Europe may wonder, was there ever life on this desert planet? And a next round of silliness starts again.
Beings from Europe? Don't be ridiculous.
Beings from Europe? Don't be ridiculous.
Duh! Educate yourself about Jupiter's moons or watch Space Odysee 2001 -> Arthur C. Clarke, he was right on
Maybe if you knew what the name actually was you would get the joke too?
Educate yourself about Jupiter's moons
Not sure about the GP but when I went to school Europe was a continent and Europa was a Jovian moon. OTOH, geopolitical maps have changed quite a bit since the 1960's, so maybe France is obiting Jupiter now.
English makes the distinction, a lot of other countries don't. Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany at least "europa" is both the continent and the Jovian moon. Took me a long time to get used to writing Europe...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/europa-water-jupiter-moon-photo-video_n_1099463.html [huffingtonpost.com]
Now I know who will be the first to industrialize Mars.
Dan Halen Sheet Rock International?
...but there are a couple of moons with surfaces covered in water ice RIGHT NOW which have liquid water below the surface, so it's hard for me to get excited.
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Germany's defeat in World War I produced fertile ground for a Nationalistic movement.
Germany's defeat in World War I produced fertile ground for a Nationalistic movement.
Hatred of the Jews was codified into law.
Even German science was twisted against the Jews.
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Hitler's insatiable appetite swallows up most of Europe.
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The Nazi decision to brutally exterminate every single Jew.
Cattle cars stuffed with human cargo became rolling death wagons.
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Framingham police responding to reports of teenagers tossing eggs at a house last month got quite a surprise when they tracked down the suspects.
A department spokesman tells The MetroWest Daily News the three people who egged the house in the early morning hours of Dec. 11 were fellow law enforcement officers, serving with the Newton police. They were off duty at the time.
They told Framingham police that the egging incident was "a prank, a joke between friends."
The homeowner, a Newton police sergeant and their superior officer, said he would handle the matter internally.
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Washington, D.C. - This year the American Society of Landscape Architects presented the LaGasse Medal to landscape architect John Reynolds, FASLA, and citizen activist Sylvia McLaughlin. The LaGasse Medal is presented to a landscape architect and a non-landscape architect who, through professional practice or utilization of landscape architecture, have made notable contributions to the management of natural resources, the management of public lands, or the management of other lands in the public interest. Previous recipients include Gerald Patten, Morris Udall, and Ian McHarg.
For over 40 years, John Reynolds has served the U. S. National Park Service (NPS) as landscape architect, regional director, and as deputy director of the entire National Park Service. His innovation, skills, and dedicated service earned him the Department of the Interior's first and second highest awards, the Distinguished and Meritorious Service Awards. Reynolds's many accomplishments include: the removal of intrusive development in Yosemite Valley; relocating commercial service facilities from the Giant Forest redwood grove in Sequoia National Park; and protecting the sensitive cave systems in Oregon Caves Monument while providing for growth in visitor use.
His support of environmental and conservation issues within his agency has enhanced the reputation and influenced the direction of the NPS.
A truly dedicated public servant in whatever capacity he serves, Reynolds is noted for his patience, his integrity, and his ability to balance public needs and the management of environmentally sensitive lands.
Forty years ago the San Francisco Bay had been reduced from 680 square miles to 430 square miles, and less than 20 feet of its 260 miles of shoreline was accessible to the public. While 70 percent of bay waters remained, without taking action, the so-called "reclamation" of the bay through filling would have rendered it a deep water ship channel in less than a century.
This man-made disaster did not occur because three women intervened before it was too late. In 1960, through the work of Catherine Kerr, Esther Gulick, and Sylvia McLaughlin, the Save San Franciso Bay Foundation was formed.
The efforts of these women and the citizen's association they created was rewarded. By 1969, the foundation was 17,000 strong--strong enough to persuade the state legislature to pass laws preserving and protecting the invaluable natural resource that is the San Francisco Bay.
Because they seldom held office, this generation of powerful, persuasive, and politically active women is too easily overlooked. Although this is one of many honors Mrs. McLaughlin has received over the years, the American Society of Landscape Architects is proud to award the non-landscape architect LaGasse Medal to Sylvia C. McLaughlin.
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The beta test for Tribes: Ascend will come on Friday, November 4 according to Hi-Rez Studios head Todd Harris. The team had been aiming for September, but Harris says the beta was pushed back due to alpha feedback and the addition of a character progression feature.
The beta is set to include four multiplayer maps, two game modes, three vehicles, and 12 playable classes. Once the full game launches, it will be free-to-play and supported by microtransactions, similar to Team Fortress 2.
The news was revealed in a Cyberlink interview (via Eurogamer). Harris lists disc jump strength and chasing flat-cappers, along with overall game speed, as points of alpha feedback that needed tweaking. He also reveals that they're still choosing beta testers, so don't worry if you haven't received a key yet.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is expressing regret after he threatened to punch out a reporter who asked about problems in the government's wild horse program at a campaign event.
His press office said Tuesday that Salazar regrets the exchange on Nov. 6 while on a Colorado tour in support of President Barack Obama's re-election.
A reporter for The Gazette of Colorado Springs, Dave Philipps, asked Salazar about the wild horse program and a horse slaughter proponent who has bought hundreds of the protected animals. Salazar answered but after the interview accused Phillips of setting him up and said he would "punch you out" if it happened again.
Click here to listen to the audio.
The Gazette says it held the audio in hopes of getting an interview with Salazar but horse advocates publicized it first.


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XML Component Dictionary capabilities are provided in conjunction with the CAM Editor toolset. These dictionaries accelerate the development of consistent XML information exchanges using standard sets of dictionary components.
The quick tutorials are aimed at showing the 'how to' of the basic
capabilities to jump start use of XML dictionaries with the CAM Editor.
Also included are tips and functions relating to use of NIEM exchange development, IEPD and EIEM techniques. This
includes generating XSD schema, reuse scores, wantlist, and cross reference
spreadsheets along with models and UML.
The collection of dictionary tutorials videos run for a total of approximately 20 minutes. Each video can be reviewed individually also.
Learn how to use the dictionary functions to create dictionaries by
harvesting data model components from existing XSD schema, SQL database
table schema, or simple Excel / Open Office spreadsheets with tables of
components listed.
videos should be viewed in conjunction with reviewing the overall
concepts and techniques described in the companion video on the CAM Editor and Dictionaries overview.
The approach is aligned with OASIS and Core Components Technical
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file system, or local network, or collaboratively on the web or cloud
deployment, or can be shared and managed securely using the Oracle
Enterprise Repository (OER) tool.
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use the analyse dictionary tool to determine duplicate components,
conflicting component definitions, missing component descriptions and so
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Sony will be changing user accounts on the day most likely to make everyone think it's an elaborate prank. Joystiq reports that on April 1, your Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEA) account, including the funds in your wallet, will be transferred to Sony Network Entertainment America (SNEA).
The new arm of the company will be handling online services from now on, so you'll need to agree to a new Terms of Service and User Agreement. You can opt out, in which case SNEA will return any existing funds in your account and, presumably, cut you off from the PlayStation Network. The new ToS agreement can be viewed at Qriocity, implying that Sony is making good on its promises to tie the music and movie service more directly to the PlayStation brand.
The network change comes as Sony prepares to roll out the NGP. Sony seems to be positioning the device to compete with the runaway success of the iPhone, so bringing all of the network activities under one umbrella would be a sensible move in that direction. Even if, you know, it involves Qriocity.


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Nobody ever wants to ruin a good surprise. So, its hard to blame Anthony Chickillo when he says he doesn't "want to be THAT GUY!" either.
The Hurricanes' top recruit in the 2011 football class has been a busy worker bee for coach Al Golden since reaffirming his commitment over a weekend visit. His goal: recruit more monsters to Miami.
"I've be calling guys, texting them, sending them messages on Facebook," said Chickillo, the MVP of the Under Armour All-American Game.
"Recruiting is a tough job. I want to build a good class. My goal is to bring a sixth national championship team to Miami. I'm telling you there are going to be a couple surprises, guys who have committed but will announce later. I just don't want to spoil it for them."
Chickillo said he's spent a lot of time talking to quarterback targets Jake Rudock of St. Thomas Aquinas (who informed UM coaches he will stick with Iowa late Monday night) and Palm Beach Dwyer's Jacoby Brissett. "I have a feeling we're going to get one of those guys," Chickillo said. "I've talked to Jacoby a few times."
Others Chickillo said he feels UM has a real shot at: Booker T. Washington defensive tackle Elkino Watson, Junipero Serra (Calif.) safety Marqise Lee and Las Vegas Bishop Gorman defensive lineman Jalen Grimble.
UM, which has 12 players who have publicly said they're committed to the Canes, is likely to land Los Angeles Harbor City Community College's Byron Moore, whose friend from California (a fellow visitor to UM this weekend) told InsideTheU on Sunday he has picked the Canes over Tennessee. Moore hasn't come out and said it himself yet -- so don't officially count him as a commitment yet.
So, who could other potential silent commitments be? I guess we'll find out a week from Wednesday.
> Chickillo, by the way, said he is planning to have his National Signing Day event down here in South Florida, possibly at the Titanic restaurant near UM.
> As for Grimble, a 6-3, 255-pound five-star linemen and USC commitment, his visit to UM this weekend wasn't only a surprise to UM fans -- but his high school coach, too. Bishop Gorman coach Tony Sanchez said he "had no idea Miami was bringing him down."
"I talked to him today a little bit about the whole situation," Sanchez said. "Their coaches haven't contacted me at all. It seems like things with USC have changed a bit with him. Miami definitely has a shot. I don't believe he's going to visit USC this coming week. For me, his trip to Miami speaks for itself. But you'll have to ask him what he's going to do. I don't want to speak for him."
Sanchez said Grimble will probably make his final announcement on National Signing Day. Grimble's cousin, Xavier, was a freshman tight end at USC last season. He was the No. 1 high school tight end in the country last year according to Rivals. He didn't catch a pass this past season.
Could he eventually end up heading to UM, too? That's just pure speculation right now. UM national recruiting coordinator Brennan Carroll, however, did recruit Xavier Grimble to USC before being let-go by Lane Kiffin.
Sanchez said Jalen Grimble had a basketball game Monday night. He couldn't be reached for comment.
> Orlando Lake Nona quarterback Kevin Sousa will likely make his announcement by the wekend according to his position coach Anthony Paradiso. But first he will host the offensive coordinators from South Florida, Wake Forest and UM. Paradiso said UM offensive coordinator Jedd Fisch told him he would visit either Tuesday or Wednesday. Wake Forest's coaches come in on Wednesday.
"Kevin is going to ask a lot of questions, like how they can help him and get him better," Paradiso said. "I think his mind is made up about what he likes about certain schools. Every school has a little bit of something of what he wants in his future and what his goals are. He's excited about Coach Fisch and what he said.
"Ultimately, I know Miami would like to bring in two quarterbacks. They're goal is to take two. If they can get a real quality one or a transfer, they'll do that. The two kids they told me they've offered were Brissett and Sousa."
> South Broward running back Kevin Grooms didn't end up taking his official visit to Virginia Tech this past weekend according to coach Allen Held. Hokies coaches came down and tried to make a push for him to follow through, but Held said Grooms is fully committed to UM.
"Unless he did it without me knowing, I'm 99 percent sure he was here this weekend," Held said.
> Don't forget to watch former Canes Colin McCarthy, Allen Bailey, DeMarcus Van Dyke and Leonard Hankerson at the Senior Bowl this week.
> When the Hurricanes face Georgia Tech over the next four years, they can expect to face an angry and hungry Nick Menocal. The former Canes' commitment, who switched to Georgia Tech over the weekend, expressed his frustrations to ESPN about UM's new coaching staff.
"After coach Shannon got fired I was still very solid," Menocal told ESPN. "But last week I received a call from Coach [Micheal] Barrow and he told me that after re-evaluating my film they didn't think I would be a fit on the defensive side of the ball."
Menocal, a 6-2, 235-pound outside linebacker from Miami Belen, said that the Hurricanes wanted to honor his scholarship offer and move him to the offensive side of the ball, most likely as a fullback. At that point, though, Menocal began to reassess his standing with the program.
"I told them how I felt, I didn't feel like I was wanted to be honest," Menocal said. "None of the coaches ever came to my school or my house to speak to me.
"I went to Miami on an unofficial visit about the first weekend coach [Al] Golden was there and met with him, but there wasn't any real communication after that. No phone calls or anything, they pretty much abandoned me."


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Baby wins photo contest
An area toddler will be featured on a North Carolina travel magazine cover after she was selected among hundreds of other children to win a photo contest.
The photograph Matt and Alicia Anderson snapped of their then 8-month-old daughter, Ava, will appear on the 2011 cover of Beach Times magazine after an online contest, where Facebook users voted for their favorite vacation photograph among eight finalists.
Matt and Alicia, who are Catawba County natives, took Ava, now 17 months old, to Oak Island beach last summer for her first trip to the seashore. They snapped a photo of Ava dressed in a floppy pink hat and black sunglasses, so they could always remember her first beach vacation. Little did they know they'll have a magazine cover to remember the trip, too.
Ava won the Facebook photo contest, with more than 659 "likes" on her picture. She edged out second place winner Chase, who also scored more than 500 votes. Voting came down to the wire. Ava and Chase each had about the same amount of votes Sunday night, when the contest was set to end Monday.
"I was really thinking we might get second," said Alicia, who is a kindergarten teacher at Balls Creek Elementary School.
But Ava's fans continued voting for her. Alicia and Matt sent messages to their friends when the contest started to encourage them to log on to Oak Island Accommodation's Facebook page and vote for Ava.
"Go Ava!" someone posted on the Oak Island Facebook page. "Cutest baby ever!"
Ava's friends and family also posted on the page regularly, encouraging everyone to vote for the cute little girl in the pink hat and glasses.
"Hoping Ava wins!" one Facebook user commented. "She is so cute!"
The comments and votes worked. The Anderson family got a call Monday at 5 p.m. to learn Ava won.
They will also receive a free two-night stay at Oak Island beach during the off-season from October through March. For the Anderson's, the upcoming beach trip couldn't come at a better time.
Ava is expecting the arrival of a little brother this summer, so a fall trip to the beach will be the perfect time for her new family of four to get away together, Alicia said.
Of course, Ava doesn't really understand that she's a soon-to-be cover girl, which is why Alicia and Matt are documenting every step of the process for her to remember one day when she's older.
"We showed her the picture and asked her who it is," Alicia said. "She says, 'A-ya,' which is how she says her name. We've saved everything for her to cherish."


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Two men lost their wallets when they were robbed at gunpoint while sitting on the porch of their Pontiac apartment early Friday morning.
Two men approached the pair of men, ages 23 and 20, sitting on the porch in the 10 block of Brierwood Lane at around 1:40 a.m. One man pulled a silver handgun and demanded the wallets of both victims, according to the Oakland County Sheriff's Office.
One victim resisted and was thrown to the ground. The suspects took both victims' wallets and ran off. An investigation is ongoing.
— Staff writer Dave Phillips


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Maine student named scholar
BRUNSWICK, Maine (AP) -- A 21-year-old woman from Maine who hopes to become both an anthropologist and a physician was one of 32 American college students named Sunday as prestigious Rhodes Scholars.
Margaret Hayden of Brunswick is a senior at Stanford University in California, where she majors in human biology. She begins her two-year program at Oxford University in England next October, studying medical anthropology.
Hayden grew up in Brunswick and graduated from Brunswick High School in 2009.
Mass. pastor charged with OUI
EAST LONGMEADOW (AP) -- A Roman Catholic pastor in Massachusetts who once suggested that the pope resign because of the church's handling of the clergy-abuse crisis is facing a drunken driving charge after a three-car accident.
The Republican of Springfield reports the Rev. James Scahill, 65, of St. Michael's Parish in East Longmeadow is expected to appear in Palmer District Court within the next few days.
Scahill was charged with operating under the influence after a minor accident in East Longmeadow on Friday afternoon. No one was injured.
NH hunter spared when backpack hit
PELHAM, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire hunter escaped serious injury when buckshot fired by another hunter struck his backpack.
Police say Russell Raymond, 27, of Derry, was hunting in a wooded area of Pelham on Friday afternoon when a 50-year-old hunter fired his 20-gauge shotgun, striking a backpack that Raymond was wearing.
WMUR-TV reported that Raymond suffered minor injuries and was able to walk out of the woods after calling 911.
He was treated at Parkland Medical Center in Derry and released.
Parade where vets killed used route for 3 years
MIDLAND, Texas (AP) -- Organizers of a parade in West Texas in which four U.S. military veterans were killed when a train plowed into a truck had been using the same route for three years, investigators said Sunday.
National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Mark Rosekind also announced that oilfield services company Smith Industries was the owner of the truck that served as a float during Thursday's parade in Midland.
Rosekind said the company was cooperating with investigators, who expect to interview the driver on Monday. The NTSB declined to release the driver's name.
According to its website, Midland-based Smith Industries sells and manufactures oilfield service equipment. The website says the company provides steel and fiberglass tanks, separators, ladders, walkways and other equipment. The company has been in operation since 2000.
Rick B. Smith, Smith Industries' CEO and president, did not immediately respond to phone calls or emails seeking comment Sunday.


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2016 Virginia Council of Social Studies Friend of Education Award Winner
Evil does not need your help, just your indifference.
- Hanns Loewenbach 1915-2012
The mission of the Holocaust Commission of the United Jewish Federation of Tidewater is to foster an understanding of the uniqueness and magnitude of the Holocaust, while inspiring students, teachers, and our community to champion human dignity in our constantly changing world.
Make a Donation to the Holocaust Commission
Personal Stories of Survival During the Holocaust
For over thirty years, local survivors from the Holocaust Commission's Speakers' Bureau shared their stories with thousands of students throughout Tidewater. Read their biographies and the Personal Stories of other local survivors, liberators, and Righteous Gentiles.
What We Carry
What We Carry is a multimedia program that continues to share the messages of the last four Speakers' Bureau survivors, and will soon share the stories of another local survivor, liberator and Righteous Gentile. Using raw interview footage and archival footage, the Holocaust Commission initially created four short films, each one based on a Speakers' Bureau survivor's experiences and reflections. The commission brings them to schools, military commands and community groups as part of a docent-led presentation including a vintage suitcase full of replicas of the photos, artifacts, and memorabilia the four retained from their Holocaust experiences. The new films premiered in May 2016, and the stories should be available for presentation by Fall 2017.
Elie Wiesel Competitions
The Elie Wiesel Writing and Visual Arts competitions are open to middle and high school students annually, with cash prizes for winners and incentives for teachers.
White Rose and Red Rose
The White Rose Project and Red Rose Campaign honor martyred German teen activists Hans and Sophie Scholl, founders of The White Rose, the only group that publicly protested Nazi ideology and practices.
Your gift to the White Rose project purchases books and other educational materials for local schools to help educators teach students about the Holocaust.
Your gift to the Red Rose Campaign ($250 and above) helps fund larger projects, and provides vital funding for all of our educational programs. Thank you for considering a donation.
Teacher Awards
Awards for excellence in Holocaust education are offered by the Holocaust Commission to honor teachers in the area's public and private schools who have demonstrated excellence in Holocaust education. Learn More.
Yom Hashoah
For the commemoration of the Day of the Holocaust, the commission sponsors an annual Yom Hashoah program that celebrates the power of the human spirit and the enduring faith of those who witnessed and survived the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel Competition and Teacher Award winners are honored at this event.
Through the Eyes of a Friend
Through the Eyes of a Friend is a dramatic presentation that offers students in Tidewater public and private schools the opportunity to learn about the Holocaust through Anne Frank showing her world from a unique perspective.
Educators' Conferences
Biennial educators' conferences bring nationally recognized speakers, authors, and child advocates to the Tidewater area, to give teachers and school counselors continuing education for themselves, and practical tools to use in their schools.
Holocaust Resources on the Web
The Holocaust Commission has compiled a list of credible website links for students, teachers, and those seeking a greater understanding of the history and impact of the Holocaust.
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Good Is Good: Do Teen Boys Want Love, Not Sex?
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Amy T. Schalet is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the author of Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex. She has an interesting op-ed in The New York Times that begins:
"WHY are boys behaving more "like girls" in terms of when they lose their virginity? In contrast to longstanding cultural tropes, there is reason to believe that teenage boys are becoming more careful and more romantic about their first sexual experiences."
Historically boys have reported loosing their virginity far earlier than girls. Self reporting has always been suspect because boys are pressured to prove that they are "studs" and girls to deny that they are "sluts," a double whammy for both genders that does plenty to distort an already very confusing teenage sexual landscape. I admit that there were times as a young man that I did not tell the truth with regard to my sex life.
And I'm sure I am not alone.
If you pay attention to popular media on the topic of teenage sexuality, you could easily come to the conclusion that this issue has gotten worse not better. The "hook-up" culture castes men in the role of sexual beast with no capacity or desire for emotional intimacy and young women as the powerless victims who must get their sexual needs met in one-off encounters with no strings attached despite their deep seated desire for romance of a more enduring variety. That, at least, is the popular story told about kids these days.
According to Professor Schalet nothing could be further from the truth when you actually look at the data.
"The proportion of all American adolescents in their mid-teens claiming sexual experience has decreased, and for boys the decline has been especially steep, according to the National Survey of Family Growth by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today, though more than half of unmarried 18- and 19-year-olds have had sexual intercourse, fewer than 30 percent of 15- to 17-year-old boys and girls have, down from 50 percent of boys and 37 percent of girls in 1988. And there are virtually no gender differences in the timing of sexual initiation."
Sexual education certainly has a role. Boys are a lot more aware than they used to be about the perils of unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease. But there is something deeper going on here. Something that cuts to the very core of the male psyche and the misconception that we are, from our very birth, nothing more than phallic symbols with no brian…and no heart.
"In a large-scale survey and interviews, reported in the American Sociological Review in 2006, the sociologist Peggy Giordano and her colleagues found teenage boys to be just as emotionally invested in their romantic relationships as girls.
The American boys I interviewed, having grown up in a culture that often assumes males are only out to get sex, were no less likely than Dutch boys to value relationships and love. In fact, they often used strong, almost hyper-romantic language to talk about love. The boy whose condom broke told me the most important thing to him was being in love with his girlfriend and "giving her everything I can."
Such romanticism has largely flown under the radar of American popular culture. Yet, the most recent research by the family growth survey, conducted between 2006 and 2010, indicates that relationships matter to boys more often than we think. Four of 10 males between 15 and 19 who had not had sex said the main reason was that they hadn't met the right person or that they were in a relationship but waiting for the right time; an additional 3 of 10 cited religion and morality."
I have a teenage daughter. Without naming names or embarrassing her, she has had a devoted boyfriend for the last two years. I have seen the texts. The kid puts my attempts at romance to shame when I was his age.
But my instincts even as a young man were very much the same as his. Sure I was intoxicated by the female form. That is hardwired into the reproductive instinct in us as animals. But we are not animals. Even us males. We are human beings with souls that cry out to be nourished by poetry and lingering dinner dates and the look in the eye of our beloved. The idea that sex for sex sake is the goal–especially to prove your "studliness"–is a losing argument hammered into us as men with no grounding in actual experience.
It seems like our boys may just be setting themselves free of the need to prove anything, to lie about their sex lives, or try to give up their virginity as part of some sick scorecard. Maybe, just maybe, our boys are a lot more sensitive than we are giving them credit.
For more of Tom's works, as well as other pieces on related topics, go to The Good Men Project Magazine online, here.
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North Carolina State University
David C. Dorman, DVM, Ph.D., is a professor of toxicology in the Department of Molecular Biosciences of North Carolina State University. The primary objective of his research is to provide a refined understanding of chemically induced neurotoxicity in laboratory animals that will lead to improved assessment of potential neurotoxicity in humans. Dr. Dorman's research interests include neurotoxicology, nasal toxicology, pharmacokinetics, and cognition and olfactory in military working dogs. He served as a member of the National Research Council Committee on Animal Models for Testing Interventions Against Aerosolized Bioterrorism Agents, as member and chair of two Committees on Emergency and Continuous Exposure Guidance Levels for Selected Submarine Contaminants and the Committee to evaluate Potential Health Risks from Recurrent Lead Exposure to DOD Firing Range Personnel, and as a member of the Committee to Review EPA?s Draft IRIS Assessment of Formaldehyde. He received his DVM from Colorado State University. He completed a combined Ph.D. and residency program in toxicology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is a diplomate of the American Board of Veterinary Toxicology and the American Board of Toxicology.
Dr. Adelina Voutchkova
The George Washington University
Dr. Adelina Voutchkova is an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at George Washington University. Dr. Voutchkova has substantial experience in the areas of molecular design, toxicology and green chemistry. Her work aims at developing rational guidelines for the design of industrial chemicals that are acutely and chronically safe to a variety of aquatic families of species, including fish, crustaceans and algae. Specific projects include the development of product design guidelines for chronic mammalian toxicity and the utilization of spectroscopic data to inform safer molecular design, with specific interests in minimizing skin sensitization from personal care products. Dr. Voutchkova earned her B.A. from Middlebury College and Ph.D. from Yale University in 2008.
Dr. Ivan Rusyn
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Ivan Rusyn, M.D., Ph.D., is Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering in the Gillings School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He directs the Laboratory of Environmental Genomics and the Carolina Center for Computational Toxicology. He also is a member of the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, Center for Environmental Health and Susceptibility, Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies, and the Carolina Center for Genome Sciences. Dr. Rusyn served on several working groups convened by the National Research Council and the WHO/IARC. Dr. Rusyn's laboratory has an active research portfolio funded by the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. EPA with a focus on the mechanisms of action of environmental toxicants and the genetic determinants of the susceptibility to toxicant-induced injury. The Rusyn laboratory applies molecular, biochemical, genetic and genomic approaches to understanding the mechanisms of environmental agent-related disease. His studies on health effects of environmental agents resulted in more than 135 peer-reviewed publications. Dr. Rusyn received his M.D. (with honors) from Ukrainian State Medical University in Kiev and his Ph.D. in Toxicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He also trained at the University of Dusseldorf in Germany and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Dr. Jerome J. Cura
The Science Collaborative
Dr. Cura is an ecological risk assessor, and a Licensed Site Professional in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is an expert in the area of ecological risk analysis. He has conducted ecological risk analyses in various freshwater systems, in marine and estuarine habitats, and in terrestrial environments. He has developed guidance for conducting risk assessments at dredging sites for the United States Army Corps of Engineers and he chaired the International Navigation Association?s (PIANC) workgroup that developed international guidance. Dr. Cura?s experience includes conducting assessments at CERCLA and RCRA sites (industrial and government facilities), providing technical advice on the design and execution of human health and ecological risk assessments, and providing expert testimony for law firms. Industry and Government organizations frequently invite him to lead or participate in environmental conferences or symposia. Dr. Cura works as a member of The Science Collaborative, a resource network of senior environmental scientists from the consulting industry and academia. He was a founding partner of Cura Environmental and Menzie-Cura & Associates, Inc. Dr. Cura has published over 30 peer-reviewed book chapters, technical papers, journal articles, and conference proceedings in the areas of risk assessment, environmental decision making, marine ecology, and dredged material disposal evaluation methods. He is a frequent contributor to Scientific Symposia. Dr. Cura is currently an adjunct faculty member at Cape Cod Community College where he teaches a course in Fundamentals of Oceanography. Dr. Cura received his B.A. in Biology from the College of the Holy Cross in 1971, M.S. in Biology from Northeastern University in 1974 and Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Maine in 1981.
Dr. Peter Beak
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Dr. Beak has made fundamental contributions to organic chemistry that have provided unifying concepts and opened new areas of investigation. His work has clarified the effect of molecular environment on structure-stability relationships, provided new reactions that are widely used for chemical synthesis, and identified novel reactive intermediates. His current research involves the determination of reaction trajectories in atom-transfer reactions and investigations of asymmetric reactions. He has held editorships, lectureships, and leadership positions in professional organizations. He has received a number of awards, lectured around the world, and served as research advisor for more than 100 graduate and postdoctoral students who are making significant independent contributions to their fields. Dr. Beak is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Beak received his B.A. from Harvard University in 1957 and his Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1961 and then joined the faculty at Illinois. Professor Beak's research interests are in synthetic, structural, and mechanistic organic chemistry, new reaction processes, synthetic methodology, and reactive intermediates.
Dr. Kathleen A. Shelton
DuPont Haskell Global Centers for Health and Environmental
Kathleen Shelton, Ph.D., is Director of DuPont Haskell Global Centers for Health and Environmental Sciences. She is responsible for leading the organization and assuring Haskell?s engagement in health and environmental science issues across DuPont. Haskell provides toxicological services to all businesses and functions across DuPont. Dr. Shelton is also Director of Central Research and Development, Enabling Technologies, and is responsible for leading the organizations that provide analytical, computational, and pilot scale services across DuPont. Dr. Shelton has worked at DuPont in various capacities since 1993. Recently, she was detailed to Geneva, Switzerland, where she led European advocacy efforts related to REACH (registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction of chemical substances) implementation and chemicals management, including participation in the Product Stewardship Programme Council of the European Chemical Industry Association (CEFIC) and the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM, part of the United Nations Environmental Programs). Dr. Shelton has a B.S. in Biology from the University of Notre Dame, and a Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology from Hahnemann University (no
Dr. Anne Fairbrother
Exponent, Inc.
Anne Fairbrother, Ph.D., has more than 30 years of experience in ecotoxicology, wildlife toxicology, contaminated site assessment, and regulatory science. She has conducted small and large-area (>100 sq. mile) risk assessments at contaminated sites in tropical, desert, and mountain ecosystems, determining risk thresholds for plants and wildlife. She provided consultation on future development of mine pit lakes, assessed the risk to livestock from use of wastewater on irrigated pasture during mine closure operations, and conducted several assessments of risk to terrestrial and aquatic organisms from mercury. She also assessed risks to wildlife at sites contaminated with organic chemicals, including DDT, PCBs, dioxins, and petroleum hydrocarbons in Delaware, Texas, Oregon, Washington, and California. Dr. Fairbrother has supported industry groups and government agencies in compiling and reviewing literature and industry reports in support of U.S., Canadian, and European regulatory processes for pesticide and chemical risk management. She has testified in front of boards of review and science advisory boards, and prepared expert testimony on environmental risks of pollutants for legal cases within the U.S. Dr. Fairbrother has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters that reflect her expertise in wildlife toxicology, immunotoxicology, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and ecological risk assessment. She serves on numerous scientific boards, expert panels, and editorial boards in support of scientific and regulatory issues. A veterinarian and certified wildlife biologist, Dr. Fairbrother served as President of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, American Association of Wildlife Veterinarians, and Wildlife Disease Association (WDA). She is the recipient of the WDA Distinguished Service Award (2002), and a gold medal for Commendable Service from EPA. Dr. Fairbrother holds an adjunct professorship at Oregon State University, Department of Environmental, and Molecular Toxicology.
Martin H. Wolf
Seventh Generation Inc.
Martin Wolf is Director, Product Sustainability & Authenticity for Seventh Generation Inc. In this capacity, Mr. Wolf is responsible for assuring the sustainable design of products at Seventh Generation Inc., a manufacturer and distributor of ecological household and personal care products. He has over 40 years of experience in industrial and environmental chemistry, initially performing environmental fate and metabolism studies for agricultural chemicals and later studying the occurrence of hazardous chemicals in the environment, conducting life cycle studies of industrial processes, and designing more sustainable household cleaning products. In addition to his work for Seventh Generation, he serves as Chair of the Sustainability Committee, and has served as the Chair of the Strategic Advisory Committee (2009-2011), as Vice Chair of the Sustainability Committee (2010-2012), and as Vice Chair of the Asthma Task Group, of the American Cleaning Institute (formerly the Soap & Detergent Association). Mr. Wolf received a 2010 EPA Environmental Merit Award for his work. He holds a master's degree in Chemistry from Yeshiva University and a bachelor?s in Chemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Dr. Nigel Greene
Pfizer Inc.
Nigel Greene, Ph.D., is an Associate Research Fellow with Pfizer Global Research Company specializing in compound safety prediction. His specific duties include establishing and managing a group of Ph.D. level scientists using computational modeling and analysis to help predict the safety profile of early discovery programs and aid in chemical series and compound selection prior to first in vivo studies using chemical properties and in vitro assay profiles. Dr. Greene?s other activities include the mining of internal and public databases of gene expression data to explore biological mechanisms of toxicity and aid in the development of new in vitro assays for safety profiling by conducting in vitro experiments to try to confirm the computational hypotheses derived from these transcriptional databases. Dr. Nigel Greene holds a Ph.D. in Organometallic Chemistry; his thesis entitled ?Organophosphorus Transition Metal Chemistry? was received from the University of Leeds (1994) and a B.S. in Chemistry and Computational Science from the University of Leeds (1991).
Mr. Gregory M. Paoli
Risk Sciences International
Greg Paoli, M.A.Sc., serves as Principal Risk Scientist and Chief Operating Officer at Risk Sciences International, a consulting firm specializing in risk assessment, management and communication in the field of public health, safety and risk-based decision-support. Mr. Paoli has experience in diverse risk domains including toxicological, microbiological, and nutritional hazards, air and water quality, adaptation to climate change, safety of engineering devices, as well as emergency planning and response for natural and man-made disasters. He specializes in risk assessment methods, the development of risk-based decision-support tools and comparative risk assessment. Mr. Paoli has served on a number of expert committees devoted to the risk sciences. He was a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Improving Risk Analysis Approaches Used by the USEPA, that issued the 2009 report, Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment. He serves on an NRC Standing Committee on the use of public health data at the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service, and has served on several expert committees convened by the World Health Organization. He serves on the Standards Council of Canada Technical Committee on Risk Management and served on advisory committees of the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy. Mr. Paoli completed a term as Councilor of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) and is a member of the Editorial Board of Risk Analysis. Recently, Mr. Paoli was awarded the Sigma Xi - SRA Distinguished Lecturer Award. Greg holds a B.A.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a M.A.Sc. in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Julia B. Quint
California Department of Public Health [Retired]
Julia Quint, Ph.D., is retired from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), where she was Research Scientist and Chief of the Hazard Evaluation System and Information Service (HESIS), an occupational health program. She has a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Southern California. Throughout her career as a public health scientist, Julia has initiated, developed, and contributed to projects, programs, and policies that are focused on protecting workers, communities, and the environment from toxic chemicals, and on promoting the development and use of safer alternatives to toxic chemicals. She has served on a number of scientific advisory committees, including committees of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) on tetrachloroethylene, health impact assessment, and review of the Department of Labor?s Site Exposure Matrix Database, the Cal/OSHA Health Expert Advisory Committee, and the Cal/EPA?s Green Ribbon Science Panel. She currently serves on the Scientific Guidance Panel of the California Biomonitoring Program, the CDC/NIOSH World Trade Center Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment?s From Advancing Science to Ensuring Protection Advisory Group, the National Healthy Nail Salon Alliance Research Advisory Committee, and the CDPH Environmental Health Tracking Advisory Group. Dr. Quint has authored many peer-reviewed scientific articles and reports, and is the recipient of several awards for her work in public health.
Dr. Carol J. Henry
The George Washington University
Carol J. Henry, PhD, is a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Environmental and Occupational Health and an advisor and consultant to public and private organizations, focusing on issues in toxicology, public and environmental health, risk assessment and risk management, research management strategies, and green chemistry and engineering technology and sustainable practices. She was previously Vice President of Industry Performance Programs at the American Chemistry Council; Director of the Health and Environmental Sciences Department of the American Petroleum Institute; Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science and Risk Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy; and Director of the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) at the California Environmental Protection Agency. She is a diplomat of the American Board of Toxicology, certified in general toxicology. She was chair of the Federal Advisory Committee for the National Children?s Study from 2010-2012. She is a member of the Joint Committee on the ANSI NSF Green Chemistry Institute Greener Chemical Products and Processes Standard Initiative, the Environmental Health Perspectives Editorial Board, and the National Research Council?s Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology. She is an elected Councilor for the American Chemical Society (ACS) and serves on the ACS Committee for Environmental Improvement. Dr. Henry received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Minnesota and doctorate in microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Eric J. Beckman
University of Pittsburgh
Dr. Eric Beckman is the George M. Bevier Professor of Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering. He is also a co-director of the Mascaro Sustainability Initiative, a center of engineering that focuses on the design of sustainable communities. The two main research areas for Dr. Beckman are the use of carbon dioxide as either a solvent or raw material and polymer chemistry and processing. Recent work has focused on emulsion and dispersion polymerization on CO2, copolymerization of CO2 and cyclic ethers to form polycarbonates, generation of hydrogen peroxide in CO2 and the extraction of heavy metals using CO2 technology among other related studies. Dr. Beckman received his B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1980. After a period of employment with both Monsanto Plastics and Resins and the Union Carbide Corporation, Dr. Beckman went on to earn a Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry and processing from the University of Massachusetts in 1988. As a postdoctoral student, Dr. Beckman held a research appointment at Battelle?s Pacific Northwest Laboratory.
Ms. Helen Holder
Hewlett-Packard Company
Helen Holder, M.S., is a Master Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where she leads the Global Environmental Materials (GEM) team. In her current role, she evaluates and qualifies materials for use in HP products, including plastics and additives, solders, fluxes, printed circuit board surface finishes, and other electronic materials. In this role, she has introduced environmental and human health criteria into technical specifications to complement traditional performance, cost, safety, and reliability requirements in materials selection. Ms. Holder started her career at HP in 1993, and has worked in a variety of manufacturing, materials, and procurement roles within the company. She received her Bachelor of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her Master?s degree from the University of California at Berkeley, where she was an HP Resident Fellow.
Dr. James E. Hutchison
University of Oregon
James E. (Jim) Hutchison, Ph.D., joined the faculty at the University of Oregon (UO) in the fall of 1994. He now holds the Lokey-Harrington Chair in Chemistry. His research interests are in green chemistry, materials chemistry, and nanoscience. He led the development of the UO's nation-leading curriculum in "green" (environmentally benign) organic chemistry, launched the university?s pioneering center in greener nanoscience and is a member of the Governing Board of the ACS Green Chemistry Institute. He is a member of the leadership team for the Oregon Nanoscience and Microtechnologies Institute (ONAMI) and founded, and now directs, the ONAMI?s Safer Nanomaterials and Nanomanufacturing Initiative (SNNI). He is the author of more than 100 refereed publications, three book chapters and a textbook ("Green Organic Chemistry: Strategies, Tools, and Laboratory Experiments"). Dr. Hutchison received a B.S. from the University of Oregon in 1986, a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from Stanford University in 1991 and completed postdoctoral studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1992-1994.
Dr. Joel A. Tickner
University of Massachusetts
Joel A. Tickner, Sc.D., is an associate professor in the Department of Community Health and Sustainability of the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He is interested in the development of innovative scientific methods and policies to implement a precautionary and preventive approach to decision-making under uncertainty while advancing assessment and adoption of safer substitutes to chemicals and products of concern. His teaching and research interests include regulatory science and policy, risk assessment, pollution prevention, cleaner production, and environmental health. Dr. Tickner has served on several advisory boards and as an expert reviewer, most recently for the California Green Chemistry Initiative, the US Environmental Protection Agency National Pollution Prevention and Toxics Advisory Committee, and the First National Precautionary Principle Conference Advisory Committee. He is the recipient of several honors and awards, including the University of Massachusetts President?s Award for Public Service, the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable Champion Award, and the North American Hazardous Waste Managers Policy Leader Award. Dr. Tickner earned an ScD in cleaner production and pollution prevention from the Univer


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By Israel Lagares on July 22nd, 2009
Band Assisted Chin Ups and Bodyweight Row Challenges
About a month ago I called out Muata, from Mr. Low Body Fat, to a fitness challenge. Initially it was supposed to be that I had to perform one full chin up by a certain date. That's when I set up to work on my chins ups and pull ups. For the life of me I could not pull myself up. At 300+ lbs (mostly fat), it's pretty much impossible for anyone to this. There are those few exceptions that can do it but they mainly have massive amounts of muscle that comprise their 300 lb frames. I am not a strongman, I'm just a normal fat guy.


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Release Notes: The type analysis tool Dialyzer has been optimized to be generally faster. It will also now run in parallel on SMP machines. The SSL application now has experimental support for the TLS 1.1 and 1.2 standards. Various smaller optimizations have been made to the Erlang VM. The Erlang/OTP test runner ts has been extended to allow cross compilation of test suites. Compiler warnings now cover illegal sizes for segments and literal tuple funs. SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, and SHA512 have been added to the crypto module. Assorted bugfixes have been made.
Release Notes: This release added scheduler_wall_time statistics and an LDAP client application. The ssh implementation was changed to use the public_key application for all public key handling. Console buffers are now flushed on exit. DTrace support was incorporated.
Release Notes: Line number and filename information are now included in exception backtraces. The driver interface has been changed to enable 64-bit aware drivers. This release adds support for 64-bit Windows. CommonTest hooks are now in a final supported version. There is a new GUI tool in the observer application which integrates pman, etop, appmon, and tv into one tool. The Erlang distribution can now be run over the new SSL implementation.
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Success marks the Guyana Mini-Volleyball Festival
Berbice, Guyana, November 14, 2013 – A mini-volleyball festival was recently organised by the Berbice Volleyball Association (BVA) in Guyana for children aged 9 to 13.
The festival was held in Port Mourant and conducted by BVA treasurer, Godwyn Allicock, who was ably assisted by national U19 players, Vashti Pooran, Darshnie Pooran and Devendra Motiepersaud.
The participants, who came from schools in the local area, received instruction on the history of volleyball, the role of the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) and the aim of mini-volleyball festivals. They were also given an overview of the work of the Berbice Volleyball Association and the Guyana Volleyball Federation and introduced to basic volleyball drills with an emphasis on the 'overhead finger pass'.
With the weather on their side, the participants had the opportunity to put into practice what they had learnt on the courts and at the conclusion of the festival, students and teachers all expressed their joy and satisfaction in being involved in the event. They further said they are willing to learn more and plan to organise practice sessions after school so that teachers and students can hone their skills to participate in friendly competition among themselves.
The festival coordinator Godwyn Allicock said he was happy and overwhelmed with the level of interest and enthusiasm displayed by the students and their teachers. He also expressed his thanks to the Regional Education Officer, all the head teachers of the invited schools, the teachers that accompanied the students, the Rose Hall Town Interim Town Council, the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports club, the Port Mourant Training Centre, the Presidents of the BVA and the GVF, the Ministry of Education Allied Arts Department and the FIVB. He also promised that the BVA would continue to monitor the game in local schools.
All participating schools received two children's volleyballs and an FIVB Development Net.
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NAPERVILLE - Yielding four unearned runs, Glenbard North was denied a series sweep Wednesday by a 5-1 Naperville North victory in the Panthers' DVC finale.
Glenbard North fell to 17-11 on the spring and wrapped up league play with a 14-7 mark.
The home team plated three first innings runs and never trailed. The Panthers closed to within 3-1 in the top of the sixth but the Huskies responded with a pair of runs in their half of the frame.
Glenbard North had defeated Naperville North on both Monday and Tuesday.


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Submission + - iPads on College Campuses? Maybe Next Year (foxnews.com)
Velcroman1 writes: Slashdotters have read extensively about the iPad pilot programs at colleges and universities: Australian schools are iPad crazy, we read yesterday, and thanks to the iPad's success, 2011 will be the year of the tablet. But on college campuses almost half a year after the iPad's launch, it's a whole different story — at least so far this year. FoxNews.com reports that high-profile schools like Duke and Stanford are far more cautious about the device than has previously been reported. "It definitely facilitates studying and recall because you don't get bogged down by all the paper," noted first-year Stanford med student Ryan Flynn. But it's still a work in progress. "The iPad isn't the best input device. Some people have gone back to paper and pencil."


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