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Dr. Bevan joined KGS as Vice President for Research and Development from dNovus RDI in December 2008. At KGS, he develops and supervises research and development of products and services for external sponsors and internal research programs, provides technical marketing support to KGS business units and provides technical solutions to KGS and Kforce. Dr. Bevan has over 30 years experience in the conduct and management of research and development projects for DOD, the Intelligence Community and Homeland Security/Defense. He is an expert in systems engineering, human factors engineering and biopsychology. While at dNovus, Dr. Bevan developed and managed research and development projects with AFRL, SOCOM, AFOSR, MDA and USA-RDECOM. He also provided technical marketing support to dNovus Business Units. Prior to dNovus, Dr. Bevan was the Associate Laboratory Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Electro-optics, Environment and Materials Laboratory and was elected as a GTRI Fellow and Member of the Georgia Tech Faculty Senate. While at Georgia Tech, Tom conducted homeland security research and development projects for the US Marine Corps and lead the GT Homeland Security Initiative. He also taught Biopsychology in the Georgia Tech School of Psychology. Dr. Bevan served in various capacities at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) during his 18 year tenure, starting as a program manager and leader of a 35-person technical section and culminating with a position of the Director of Customer Relations. ERIM was a spin-off of the University of Michigan which developed many of the modern remote sensing technologies. Tom conducted research and development projects for NRO, USAF-FTD, USAF (U2-R, B-2, B-1, ATARS), DARPA (Discoverer II) and USAID. While with ERIM, he was the founder and first President of the Ukrainian Land and Resource Management Institute which is a joint US-Ukrainian remote sensing center. Before joining ERIM, Dr. Bevan was a program manager for Science Applications International Corporation where he conducted research and development for DARPA (Assault Breaker), CIA (SAFE-ADDIS), ONR and the US Coast Guard. Dr. Bevan completed US Army ROTC as a Distinguished Military Graduate and served on active duty in the US Army Medical Service Corps at Edgewood Arsenal, MD where he conducted research on the effects of chemical and pharmacological agents. Tom holds a doctorate in Experimental Psychology from Princeton University with specialty in Biopsychology and a bachelor degree in Psychology from Dartmouth College.

Robert (Bob) Bansberg is an award winning sommelier and wine educator at the four star restaurant Ambria and faculty member at the School of Culinary Arts at Kendall College in Chicago. Since 1992, Bansberg has taught a Wine and Beverage Management Class at Kendall College's School of the Culinary Arts and for five years has hosted the The Wine Series, a wine appreciation and food-pairing course for the community. Since 2000, he has lectured at the Alliance Francais and The Calphalon Culinary also based in Chicago. He is an active board member of the "Toast to Humanity" charity and has donated his time to the National Charity "Share our Strength". In 2004, Bansberg was one of five nominated for "Best Sommelier" in the Jean Banchet Awards for Culinary Excellence. In their July 2000 issue, Food & Wine magazine Bansberg selected in a national poll of their readership as "The Best Sommelier in Chicago", Chicago Magazine also listed Bansberg as the cities best in their August 2000 issue. In 1999, Bansberg was nominated for the highly coveted James Beard Award. He has won regional French sommelier competitions. He is a senior wine judge at the Beverage Testing Institute and has judged for the National Restaurant Association's Wine Classic, and has served on numerous panels for the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Sun-Times. He has written for Wine & Spirits and The Wine Enthusiast, and has lectured at the Midwest International Wine Exposition as well as Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. He has been writing wine tasting notes for Sante Magazine in 2004. Bansberg is a graduate of Northwestern University and studied in the Neurophysiology Graduate Program at the University of Illinois Medical Center. He resides in Evanston with his wife and their two children. He continues to be a leader and educator in his community. A gifted and gracious man in many respects, he is truly the "Sommelier's Sommelier."

Brad Dennison was named Vice President of Content/News Operations in January 2007. He was formerly Vice President of News with Birmingham, Ala.-based Community Newspaper Holdings Inc., from 2004 to 2006. Mr. Dennison has held various management positions with metro newspapers, including The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The Daily Southtown on Chicago's South Side and the Chicago Sun-Times, where he was a lead developer for one of the first 18- to 34-year-old tabloids in the country. Earlier in his career, he served as a reporter, city editor and managing editor for community newspapers in the Midwest and South. Mr. Dennison has won numerous professional awards, including two national honors, and is a speaker and supporter of the Associated Press Managing Editors Association groundbreaking NewsTrain program.

Cathleen Falsani , author of The God Factor and Sin Boldly, is an award-winning religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. She attended Wheaton College and holds masters degrees in journalism and theology. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and fellow journalist, Maurice Possley.

Cindy Pearlman: Ashton Kutcher needs a lot more than 140 characters to tell you about love. Hollywood's reigning Twitter king -- married to Demi Moore since September 2005 -- is explaining why he isn't feeling the four-year itch. "You can't ever relax in a relationship. The work should never stop," says the 31-year-old native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Dave Hoekstra: The sound of today?s music world has been stilled. Les Paul has died. The visionary guitar player and inventor died Thursday from complications of pneumonia at White Plains Hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He was 94 years old. He was surrounded by family and loved ones at the time of death, just as he was during his amazing life.

David Dailey, a 23-year-old photography hobbyist who moved to Chicago a year ago, takes photos to stay connected. But he says it's more difficult now that he no longer sees his college friends every day. "I've definitely lost touch with many people back home in Alabama due to the 'business of life' these days," said Dailey, who felt culture shock moving here after growing up in a town of 5,000 and enjoying close-knit fraternity life at the University of Alabama.

David "Rocky" Flint has been Director of IT and Director of Marketing and everything in-between for large and small companies. His nearly 20 years of experience have given him insight into the future of technology and its impact on businesses, individuals and society; translating brick & mortar workflows into new digital frontiers for companies; and infusing the human element back into technology. Noted for his humorous yet accurate forecasts on high tech trends having dramatic impacts on business, markets and customers; David helps organizations adapt, grow, and compete in what is becoming more of a global and digital economy and shows how to meet these challenges head on. David is a guest writer for several publications; The Chicago Sun-Times, Cold Fusion Advisor Magazine, Inform, and others. Since 1998, David has also taught business technology college courses in the Chicago area. * Favorite TV Shows: Smallville & "House" * Stupid Human Trick: Double Jointed Left Thumb - still wondering how it could be useful to mankind * Favorite Cereal: Life

A leading conservative strategist on issues from American foreign policy to how Washington works, Ed Feulner has served as president of The Heritage Foundation since 1977. He sits on the boards of Regis University and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, where he is chairman. He is also treasurer and past president of the Mont Pelerin Society, a prestigious worldwide group of experts and policymakers dedicated to the ideas of freedom and free enterprise. Feulner was a member of the congressional commission on international financial institutions, a consultant to President Reagan on domestic policy issues, and, earlier in his career, director of the House Republican Study Committee. He holds a bachelor's degree from Regis University, and MBA from the Wharton School, and a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh.

In the end, Elvira Arellano asked for it. I'll grant you that. By making a run for Los Angeles, Arellano left federal immigration officials little choice but to grab her and deport her to Mexico -- bringing an end to her yearlong act of defiance since taking sanctuary in a Division Street church.

Before coming to the Sun-Times, Ms. Cepeda was a columnist writing about national and local politics and social issues for weekly and daily newspapers and magazines across the country. She joined the staff of the Chicago Sun-Times in 2006 where she focuses on issues affecting the Hispanic community. In addition to being a journalist, Ms. Cepeda is a musician, singer, dancer and an artist. She lives with her family and two tan Chihuahuas in a suburb of Chicago.

Florence Scala, the civic conscience of Chicago?s Little Italy, died at dawn Tuesday on Taylor Street in the second-floor apartment above what was once her immigrant father?s tailor shop. The cause of death was colon cancer. She was 88.

Hedy Weiss has been Theater and Dance Critic of the Chicago Sun-Times since 1984, reporting on local, national and international productions, as well as a wide range of other subjects. Since 2002, she also has served as Theater and Dance Critic for "Chicago Tonight," the nightly news magazine on WTTW-Channel 11, Chicago's PBS station, and she is a frequent contributor to programs on WBEZ, the Chicago public radio station. A Contributing Editor to Dance Magazine, Weiss' work also has appeared in the London Observer, the Boston Globe, the Lincoln Center Playbill and many other publications. She has twice served on the Pulitzer Prize panel for Drama. Born in New York, Weiss graduated from Hunter College with a degree in English literature and art history, and early on pursued a career as a dancer and choreographer, with professional training at the Metropolitan Opera and Joffrey Ballet Schools. She moved to Chicago in 1980 and worked for four years as an assistant professor at the Theatre School of DePaul University before turning to full-time journalism.

He brings his artful eye from years of creative work and his steady hand from years of photography. After receiving his Journalism degree from the University of Illinois, he went on to become a staff photographer at the Chicago Sun Times and the Suburban Chicago Newspapers. Later, Jesse moved to Sonoma to accept a founding position at The Sun and El Sol de Sonoma as the Photo Editor/Graphic Designer. Jesse now works in 30proof Media's Sonoma Valley office and serves as the Art Director for Sonoma Magazine.

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the year the Beatles arrived in America, Jim DeRogatis began voicing his opinions about rock n roll shortly thereafter. He is the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, and together with Greg Kot, he co-hosts Sound Opinions, the world's only rock 'n' roll talk show, originating from Chicago Public Radio and syndicated nationally via American Public Media. DeRogatis is the author of several books: Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips (Broadway Books, 2006); Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock (Hal Leonard, 2003); Milk It! Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the '90s ( Da Capo, 2003), and Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic (Broadway Books, 2000). Together with his wife, Carmel Carrillo-DeRogatis, he also edited an anthology entitled Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics (Barricade Books, 2004), and he has written for numerous magazines, including Spin, Guitar World, Modern Drummer, Penthouse, and GQ, in addition to serving as an assistant editor at Request and, briefly, Rolling Stone. DeRogatis jokes that he is not a musician, but he is a drummer, and he has nevertheless done time in numerous indie-rock bands dating to the early 80s, including Airlines, Speed the Plough (visit its Web site), the Love Pushers, the Mandrakes, the Wahinis, and the Ex-Lion Tamers, though current band, Vortis, is by far his favorite. In his spare time, he is an avid history buff, a military modeler, and a member of the Military Miniature Society of Illinois. His next book, Sheperd Paine: The Life and Work of a Master Modeler and Military Historian, is due in the Spring of 2008 from Schiffer Books. He lives on the North Side of Chicago with his wife, Carmel, and near his daughter.

Bringing 27 years of publishing, production, and management experience to Campus Publishers, John's professional publishing background is quite extensive. Not only has he worked for major market newspapers such as the Chicago Sun-Times and Chicago Tribune, he also had an 11-year tenure with Crain Communications in New York. At Crain, John held management positions as National Advertising Director and Director of Custom Publishing for Advertising Age magazine. Most recently, John held the title of Publisher and Managing Director of Creativity Magazine. After purchasing Campus Publisher in 1999, John has lead his team have repositioned the company from a telephone directory publisher, to the a leading national magazine publisher for the University market. Campus Publisher custom publishes official University Visitors Guide Magazines for many Universities across the country.

Karl Rove, the presidential adviser dubbed "George Bush's brain," has announced he will resign at the end of this month. Hold the applause. This master of back alley political tactics has been the architect of the worst administration in America's history. His very successes were catastrophic for the country.

Lewis Lazare has written the Media Mix column for the Chicago Sun-Times for the past five and a half years. He previously was a staff writer at the Chicago Reader, an alternative weekly newspaper where he created and wrote a column called Culture Club that covered the business of the arts in Chicago. Lazare also was an associate editor at Crain's Chicago Business, one of the first of the nation's city business newspapers. At Crain's, he covered the media and entertainment industries and wrote a column on advertising. He got his start in business reporting as a Chicago correspondent and critic for Variety, the trade newspaper famously known as the bible of show biz. Lazare graduated from Dartmouth College and received a master of science degree in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Donovan has worked at the Chicago Sun-Times since 2004. Her work experience includes stints at the storied City News Bureau of Chicago, The Cincinnati Enquirer, and St. Paul (Minnesota) Pioneer Press.

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the year the Beatles arrived in America, Jim DeRogatis began voicing his opinions about rock n roll shortly thereafter. He is the pop music critic at the The Chicago Sun-Times, and his work has also appeared in magazines such as Spin, Guitar World, Modern Drummer, Penthouse, and GQ. In the past, he has worked as an assistant editor at Request magazine in Minneapolis and, briefly, as the deputy music editor at Rolling Stone. Together with Greg Kot Siskel to his Ebert for the past seven years DeRogatis co-hosts Sound Opinions, the world's only rock 'n' roll talk show, on Chicago Public Radio every Saturday at 7 p.m.. He is also the author of several books, including Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock from Hal Leonard (a completely revised and expanded edition of Kaleidoscope Eyes: Psychedelic Rock from the'60s to the '90s, first published in the summer of 1996 by the now-defunct Carol Publishing/Citadel Underground); Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic, first published in the spring of 2000 by Broadway Books, and Milk It! Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the '90s, an anthology of his writings on the alternative era published by Da Capo in October 2003. Together with his wife, Carmel Carrillo-DeRogatis, he edited an anthology entitled Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics, published in 2004 by Barricade Books. His latest effort, Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips, was published by Broadway Books in March 2006. DeRogatis jokes that he is a drummer, not a musician, but he has nevertheless done time in a procession of indie rock bands dating to the early 80s. These include Airlines (click here for a free download), Speed the Plough, the Love Pushers, the Mandrakes, the Wahinis, and the Ex-Lion Tamers, among others, but his current band, VORTIS, is by far the most exciting that he has ever been associated with. Its debut album, Take the System Down, was released by Thick Records on July 4, 2002. A second album, God Won't Bless America Again, dropped on July 4, 2003, and the group recently completed its third release, Warzone, due to be released soon. A pseudo-memoir about his adventures in these and other bands, tentatively titled The Best Thirty Minutes of My Life. is also in the works. In his spare time, he is an avid history buff, military modeler, and figure painter, and a member of the Military Miniature Society of Illinois. He lives on the North Side of Chicago with his wife, Carmel, near his daughter.

Maudlyne Ihejirika is an education reporter and assistant city editor with the Chicago Sun-Times. A veteran news journalist with more than 18 years experience in media, public relations and government, she holds a Master's degree in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and a Bachelor's in Journalism and Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. Ms. Ihejirika began her career at the Chicago Sun-Times in 1986, where she spent 11 years covering issues from politics to urban affairs, and was Weekend City Editor when she left the Sun-Times in 1997. An award-winning news reporter, she is the recipient of numerous citations for her hard-hitting urban affairs coverage. Ms. Ihejirika was responsible for launching the Season of Sharing Program for the Chicago Sun-Times Charity Trust in 1996, serving as its director in the program's first year. In 1997, she was hired away from the Chicago Sun-Times by then Illinois Governor Jim Edgar to serve as press secretary for his Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. As Gov. Edgar's spokesperson for that state agency, Ms. Ihejirika reported directly to the agency's Director and to the Office of the Governor, managing a multi-city staff of 12 that oversaw crisis management and public relations for the agency from its headquarters in Springfield and Chicago. In 2003, Ms. Ihejirika left public relations to return to her journalism roots and the Chicago Sun-Times, where she now covers the Chicago Public Schools and issues in education. Ms. Ihejirika is a native of Imo-State, Nigeria, her family emigrating here as refugees of the Nigerian-Biafran War in 1969.

Neil Steinberg is a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, where he has been on staff since 1987. He became a columnist there in 1995, and his column runs four days a week in the news section. His column also appeared regularly in the New York Daily News. Steinberg has written for a wide variety of publications, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Sports Illustrated, Details, Men's Journal, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Newsweek-Japan, Granta, Spy, National Lampoon and Chicago. He is the author of five books. The Times of London said his most recent book, "Hatless Jack" was "brilliantly-told." His sixth book will be published by Dutton in 2008. Steinberg lives in Northbrook with his wife and two sons.

Richard E. Bergan, after 30 years as a lineman for ComEd, and two knee replacements, is enjoying the fruits of his first start-from-scratch yard, including the visitors who stop and ask how he gets it to grow so thick and green. Technology gives Bergan an edge so that, retired at 66 and in his words, "Not a real yard person," he can mow the 15,000 square feet of lawn in 25 minutes on a John Deere riding mower.

Steve Huntley is a commentary columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a member of its editorial board. He served as editor of the editorial page of the Sun-Times from 1997 to 2007. Under his leadership, the Sun-Times editorial page staff was awarded Peter Lisagor Awards for exemplary journalism in 2004 and 1997 and the Sarah Brown Boyden award for editorials from the Chicago Journalists Association in 2006. Before joining the Sun-Times Editorial Board in 1997, Huntley was Assistant Managing Editor/Metro of the Sun-Times. Under his leadership, the Metro staff won Lisagor awards in 1996 for coverage of the Fox River Grove, Ill., school bus-train crash that killed seven children, in 1993 for coverage of the Chicago Loop flood and in 1992 for the "After the Shooting Stops" series on the impact of violent death on families and communities. Huntley previously was Night City Editor of the Sun-Times. He joined the newspaper in 1986. Huntley worked for seven years (1979-86) for U.S. News & World Report, heading up its Chicago bureau before transferring in 1982 to Washington, D.C., where he was an Associate Editor until promoted to Senior Editor in 1985. Huntley worked 13 years (1965-78) for United Press International as a writer and editor in bureaus in Chicago, Greensboro, N.C., Atlanta, Ga., and Columbia, S.C. He was promoted in 1977 to Executive Editor of UPI's National Broadcast Department.

Ted Pincus, Partner, founder of The Financial Relations Board, which he sold to True North Communications in 2000. FRB was the world's oldest and largest financial public relations agency. Under his guidance through 2001 FRB was accorded more professional awards for outstanding programs than any other in the history of the field. He is an educator, newspaper columnist, consultant and lecturer. He has won numerous awards from the public relations industry as well as from such financial publications as Financial World and Equities. Over his 44-year-career Pincus has been advisor on communications strategy to political candidates, the CEO's of more than 500 publicly held corporations, government agencies as well as a legion of such public personalities as Nelson Rockefeller, W. Clement Stone and Walter E. Heller. Over the past forty years his firm has been the leading crusader for more open corporate disclosure and originator of numerous concepts of Investor Relations strategy now in wide use.

Mr. Kisor, who became profoundly deaf from meningitis as a young child, is the book editor for the Chicago Sun-Times. He's also an internationally renowned author of several books, some of them related to living with a profound hearing loss.

Montgomery joined the tabloid-sized Chicago Sun-Times in 2001 as the deputy news editor and was a principal designer in the 2003 redesign of the newspaper. He is credited with the design of several of the paper's award-wining news investigations, including 'Clout On Wheels' - the Hired Trucks scandal that uncovered vast corruption in Mayor Daley's City Hall. He won a Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in 2003 and was nominated again in 2004 - both awards were for high-profile series about local people and their issues. While at the Sun-Times he also designed the Red Streak edition - a commuter youth tabloid paper that launched in October 2002. His Red Streak design portfolio was honored by the Society for News design in their annual design competition. His work as a visual editor and new project designer was profiled in the fourth edition of the journalism textbook Graphic Communications Today written by Theodore E. Conover and William E. Ryan.