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Published: Wednesday, July 10, 2013, 12:36?a.m.
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After starring in football and baseball at Plum High School, John Wojciechowski has parlayed his life's experiences into a NFL player personnel career that has served three classic franchises: the Steelers, the Cowboys and the Packers.
Wojciechowski is in his 17th NFL season as a scout and player development aide.
On Nov. 14, he will join seven others in this year's Plum Sports Hall of Fame induction class.
The ninth annual banquet will be at Edgewood Country Club at 7 p.m.
Wojciechowski, a 1992 Plum graduate, was named first-team, all-conference in football and baseball. He was a three-year captain and a football All-American at Duquesne University where he held the school record for career sacks as a defensive end.
Wojciechowski also was a three-year starter in baseball with the Dukes. He is an area scout for the Packers.
There are plenty of other people with Pittsburgh ties in Green Bay.
Head coach Mike McCarthy grew up in the Greenfield section of Pittsburgh and attended the former Bishop Boyle High School in Homestead; offensive coordinator Tommy Clements was one of the most celebrated area athletes in the early '70s at Canevin Catholic High School (now Bishop Canevin); defensive coordinator Dom Capers held the same position with the Steelers; outside linebackers coach Kevin Greene and secondary coach Darren Perry played for the Steelers; and running backs coach Alex Van Pelt started four years at quarterback for Pitt.
Also set for induction is Lou Klauss, who was Plum's wrestling coach for 11 seasons and helped found the community's junior wrestling program.
He also coached Plum to WPIAL team golf titles in 1968-69.
John Ratesic will be inducted as a coach and an administrator. He was the school's assistant principal for 20 years and principal for five years and helped create the Hall of Fame. Ratesic was also a well-liked, long-time WPIAL football steering committee member.
Here are the other inductees:
? Steve Marsalese (1981). After lettering in football, basketball, volleyball and track, he was a member of the school's 1981 PIAA championship volleyball team. He was an all-state honorable mention selection in football in 1980.
? Jeff Schmeck (1976). An all-state honorable mention pick at center from Plum's first WPIAL football playoff team in 1975, he also held the school record in the shot put, since broken, at 55 feet, 9 inches.
? Erica Van Tassel Carter (1994). A three-time WPIAL champion in swimming, Van Tassel Carter qualified for 12 PIAA championship events during her career. She earned a swimming scholarship to Penn State and was a four-time academic all-American.
? Monica Zalevsky Williams (1984). As a letterwinner in volleyball, basketball and track, Zalevsky Williams was a member of the school's volleyball team that defeated North Allegheny for the 1984 PIAA title. She later excelled in volleyball and basketball at Carnegie Mellon University.
? Paul Shish (1966). A posthumous inductee, Shish participated in football, basketball, baseball and track. He was all-WPIAL in football and the Plum Athlete of the Year for the 1965-66 academic year. He earned a football scholarship to Clemson and played four years for the Tigers.
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BEIJING (AP) ? A new study links heavy air pollution from coal burning to shorter lives in northern China. Researchers estimate that the half-billion people alive there in the 1990s will live an average of 5? years less than their southern counterparts because they breathed dirtier air.
China itself made the comparison possible: for decades, a now-discontinued government policy provided free coal for heating, but only in the colder north. Researchers found significant differences in both particle pollution of the air and life expectancy in the two regions, and said the results could be used to extrapolate the effects of such pollution on lifespans elsewhere in the world.
The study by researchers from China, Israel and the United States was published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
While previous studies have found that pollution affects human health, "the deeper and ultimately more important question is the impact on life expectancy," said one of the authors, Michael Greenstone, a professor of environmental economics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
"This study provides a unique setting to answer the life expectancy question because the (heating) policy dramatically alters pollution concentrations for people who appear to be of otherwise identical health," Greenstone said in an email. "Further, due to the low rates of migration in China in this period, we can know people's exposure over long time periods," he said.
The policy gave free coal for fuel boilers to heat homes and offices to cities north of the Huai River, which divides China into north and south. It was in effect for much of the 1950-1980 period of central planning, and, though discontinued after 1980, it has left a legacy in the north of heavy coal burning, which releases particulate pollutants into the air that can harm human health. Researchers found no other government policies that treated China's north differently from the south.
The researchers collected data for 90 cities, from 1981 to 2000, on the annual daily average concentration of total suspended particulates. In China, those are considered to be particles that are 100 micrometers or less in diameter, emitted from sources including power stations, construction sites and vehicles.
The researchers estimated the impact on life expectancies using mortality data from 1991-2000. They found that in the north, the concentration of particulates was 184 micrograms per cubic meter ? or 55 percent ? higher than in the south, and life expectancies were 5.5 years lower on average across all age ranges.
The researchers said the difference in life expectancies was almost entirely due to an increased incidence of deaths classified as cardiorespiratory ? those from causes that have previously been linked to air quality, including heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and respiratory illnesses.
Total suspended particulates include fine particulate matter called PM2.5 ? particles with diameters of no more than 2.5 micrometers. PM2.5 is of especially great health concern because it can penetrate deep into the lungs, but the researchers lacked the data to analyze those tiny particles separately.
The authors said their research can be used to estimate the effect of total suspended particulates on other countries and time periods. Their analysis suggests that every additional 100 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter in the atmosphere lowers life expectancy at birth by about three years.
The study also noted that there was a large difference in particulate matter between the north and south, but not in other forms of air pollution such as sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxide.
Francesca Dominici, a professor of biostatistics at Harvard School of Public Health who has researched the health effects of fine particulate matter in the U.S., said the study was "fascinating."
China's different treatment of north and south allowed researchers to get pollution data that would be impossible in a scientific setting.
Dominici said the quasi-experimental approach was a good approximation of a randomized experiment, "especially in this situation where a randomized experiment is not possible."
She said she wasn't surprised by the findings, given China's high levels of pollution.
"In the U.S. I think it's pretty much been accepted that even small changes in PM2.5, much, much, much smaller than what they are observing in China, are affecting life expectancy," said Dominici, who was not involved in the study.
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AP researcher Yu Bing contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/study-air-pollution-cut-northern-china-lifespans-195345711.html
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The search begins for young persons working in the creative sectors. The young entrepreuners?who are able to demonstrate business success in the classic terms of business growth (profit, market share, employees) and/or in terms of his or her reputation (creativity, quality and aesthetic) amongst peers.
According to the Assistant Country Director, the British Council in Nigeria, Ojoma Ochai ?We are excited to partner with The Future Awards Africa to identify spectacular young entrepreneurs in these sectors as part of our support for creativity and enterprise. We are particularly heartened that TFAA has sustained its integrity and capacity to highlight the brightest and best young people over the past eight years. With the incredible energy of its team and excellent board of judges, we echo the endorsement by the World Bank of the awards as The Noble Prize for Young Africans?.
Nominees should be young, working in the media, have?entrepreneurial and leadership abilities, posses the potential to change their sector, market awareness and have understanding. This category will be judged by the British Council alongside members of The Future Awards Africa team.
The winner gets a trip to the United Kingdom to participate in a programme with valuable networking and idea exchange with their international and UK peers in the media sector, some of whom are themselves winners of the same award in their own countries.
The nominations open today and close on Thursday 25th July 2013 at 8:30AM.
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By Alistair Barr and Dhanya Skariachan
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Barnes & Noble Inc
Chairman and founder Leonard Riggio, the largest shareholder of Barnes & Noble, said the company is reviewing its strategic plan and announced a series of executive changes.
The new appointments suggest Riggio may be stepping up efforts to re-organize the company by separating the Nook business from the chain of hundreds of Barnes & Noble physical stores.
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Signs that Barnes & Noble had come to a turning point with Nook came in the latest quarter, when it reported dismal results, led by a 34 percent drop in Nook sales. It also said it would stop making Nook tablets, marking the end of a costly attempt to compete with Amazon , Apple and Google
The operator of the largest chain of bookstores in the United States, has been hit hard by Amazon, which has won market share by selling physical books more cheaply online. Amazon, the world's largest Internet retailer, inflicted more damage when its Kindle e-reader became a hit and e-book sales took off about five years ago.
Borders, another big bookstore chain, went bust in 2011. But Barnes & Noble survived to challenge Amazon in the e-book market. Lynch became CEO about three years ago and led the development of the Nook e-book store, e-readers and tablets.
"Lynch was highly instrumental in making Nook a centerpiece in Barnes & Noble's broader operational strategy," Alan Rifkin, an analyst at Barclays, wrote in a note to investors on Monday.
"With this announcement, Barnes & Noble is, in our view, signaling that it is attempting to reduce its dependence upon the Nook."
The company did not name a new CEO but Chief Financial Officer Michael Huseby was named chief executive of the Nook Media unit and president of the parent company. Max Roberts, CEO of the company's education business, will report to Huseby. Huseby and Mitchell Klipper, CEO of the retail stores, will report to Riggio.
Shares in the Barnes & Noble fell 2.6 percent to $17.20 in after-market trading on Monday.
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Last year, Microsoft acquired 17 percent of Nook in a deal that valued the unit at $1.7 billion. In December, British publisher Pearson bought a 5 percent stake in the business, valuing it at $1.8 billion.
Barnes & Noble shares surged more than 20 percent in May after technology website TechCrunch reported that Microsoft was considering an offer to buy the tablet and e-book parts of the Nook business. The stock has since given up those gains.
Meanwhile, Riggio said earlier this year that he wanted to buy Barnes & Noble's chain of nearly 700 namesake bookstores from the parent company.
"The next step is Chairman Leonard Riggio deciding if he's going to bid to buy the retail division and from that they'll then decide what to do with the Nook," Maxim Group analyst John Tinker said.
"Do they close it down? Do they reintegrate it back in the company? What happens to minority investors, Microsoft and Pearson? It all can be driven by the Chairman," he added.
Barnes & Noble spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating declined to comment on Riggio's plans.
The company is looking for a partner to make Nook color tablets under a "co-branding" agreement. It will continue to make black and white Nook e-readers and will still sell the tablets in its stores, she said.
(Additional reporting by Arpita Mukherjee in Bangalore; Editing by Carol Bishopric, Leslie Gevirtz and Edwina Gibbs)
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Lets play 20 questions and then some?.
I've been randomly researching stuff and have never been in a relationship, so leaves me wondering and asking questions and i would love to get some decent answers please
1)what do men really think of women in their presence (do they find them obnoxious, overbearing, sweet, funny etc.)
2)do most men actually know when women are doing the most, and do they find them annoying when they do?
3)how do men feel about the average women now and days
4) what are some of men?s general opinion of most women period
5) how do men truly feel about their relationships (use it for sex, don't like their significant other, cheats on them, feel like they settled
6) how do you know they girl you have is the right one, do you regret losing some one..not having the courage to step up
7) are some men angry at some women and their choices in men (are women more superficial then men?)
8)have you ever met the perfect girl (not physically) or describe your perfect girl (non physical)
9) Do most men find women more annoying now that there is facebook, twitter, and texting or is it easier to be in a relationship. How does social media annoy men, do you feel women uses this as a venting exercise unhealthily, what are some secrets spilled? Profile pics, updates, tweets?
10) do men think women make themselves to available and too accessible for sex making them value them less?
11) do some men find that picking up women is almost too easy?, do men think sometimes their relationship is too convenient and their girlfriend let them get away with too much bull**** and is up their asses about too many superficial things? Example: don?t feel like putting the effort in your relationship anymore, but still use her for sex and even more put off that she doesn?t notice it or just coping and in denial, but complain when you don?t buy her nice things or impress her friends more often. Replacing conversation with material items
12) Have you ever lost respect from having sex with a woman who has not had multiple partners, but didn?t think she would give it up so easily.
13) Think women are too clingy and divulge too much of their lives in you, but want you to do all the heavy lifting also. in other words too much pressure from women to ?be a man? pay all the bills, work all the time, spend all your time with her also.
14) do men sometimes consider sex pointless and empty, want more from wife?s or girlfriends but they don?t understand it themselves
15) Why do men feel relationship are too complicated?
16) do women over complicate relationships?
17) would you go celibate for the loved one you have now? Or are you out soon as the sex is
18) are men looking for women that will make them a better man?
19) do men believe in true love?
20) does being cheated on change your view of women as a whole?
I know this is long and pointless but PLEASE vent your frustrations and your true feelings I am so very interested, and I?m not judging just never get to ask these types of questions usually
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