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Patricia "Trish" Fitzgibbons Anderson '80, Elected 2006
Anderson holds a B.A. in English from Grinnell and an M.A. in Adlerian counseling and psychotherapy from the Adler Graduate School. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist in solo private practice, where she also offers family business consulting, mediation services, and postgraduate clinical supervision and mentoring. Anderson holds faculty appointments at Concordia University (St. Paul, Minn.) and Adler Graduate School (Richfield, Minn.). She worked in public relations for several years and as a freelance writer. Anderson also serves on the board of the Graywolf Press in Minneapolis. She is a past board member of the Minnesota Association of Marriage and Family Therapy and the Minnesota Women's Golf Association. Anderson was a member of the Grinnell Alumni Council from 1986–91, serving as president in 1990–91.
Robert F. Austin, Jr. '54, Elected 2003
After three years of service in the U.S. Air Force, Dr. Austin pursued a graduate degree in biology from Boston College and a doctor of medicine from Meharry Medical College. He completed his medical training with a pediatric residency at Upstate Medical Center, State University of New York, as well as with a fellowship in hematology from Tufts University, affiliated with Boston City Hospital. Following pediatric residency and fellowship in hematology, he established the pediatric hematology section at Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, N.Y. Austin is president of R.J. Austin Consultant, Development, and Training in Houston, and has more than 46 years of experience as a pediatrician. He is founder of Project Medical Home through Texas Children's Pediatric Associates and served for five years as director of the first center. He is also assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. He serves as the chairman of the advisory committee for the Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions. He is on the board of directors for the Collaborative for Children. He received an honorary degree from Grinnell in 1996.
David B. Braman '75, Elected 2006
Braman graduated from Grinnell College in 1975 with a B.A. in biology. He holds an M.B.A. from the University of Denver and is also a chartered financial analyst. He lives in San Francisco, where he is a retired founding senior partner at Pantheon Ventures Inc., a well-known global investment management company specializing in private equity fund investment. Before joining Pantheon, he was a manager at U.S. West Inc., where he developed and managed its private equity investment program. Braman is married to Charlotte Read '75.
Laura M. Ferguson '90, Elected 2003
A Grinnell native, Dr. Ferguson graduated from Grinnell College with a degree in studio art in 1990. In 1995, she received her M.D. from the University of Iowa College of Medicine. Ferguson joined her father, Dr. David Ferguson, in practice in Grinnell. She was president of the medical staff from 2001 to 2003 and sits on the State of Iowa Prenatal Advisory Panel.
Shelley Floyd '72, Elected in 2011
Floyd received an M.S. from the University of London and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. She is technical assistant to the chairman of Intel Corp. During her tenure at Intel, Floyd also worked in the office of the chief financial officer and as director of investor relations. Before joining Intel, she was an investment banker specializing in corporate finance for technology companies. She also was a member of the Grinnell College Board of Trustees from 1986 to 1994.
Harold "Hal" W. Fuson, Jr. '67, Elected 2004
Fuson earned an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University and a J.D. from Cleveland State University. He retired as executive vice president and chief operating officer of a California newspaper group after more than four decades as a journalist, teacher, and news executive. Fuson taught journalism at four colleges and provided legal advice to newspapers ranging from the Los Angeles Times to the Galesburg Register-Mail. Fuson is the recipient of a Grinnell Alumni Award and has served the College in a variety of volunteer capacities. His work in expanding and protecting First Amendment rights has been recognized nationally by the Media Law Resource Center and by state associations in California and Illinois. Fuson is immediate past chair of San Diego's Tony-winning Old Globe Theatre and serves as a director of Copley Press Inc., CNPA Services (a state newspaper association), the First Amendment Coalition, and the Center for the Image. He is married to Pam Crist Fuson '68.
Atul Gupta '88, Elected 2012
Gupta graduated from Grinnell College with a double major in physics and economics and a concentration in computer science. He worked as a research analyst identifying technology options to help Principal Financial Group (PFG), a $360 billion global financial services firm, gain a competitive advantage. He later served as director of international systems and was responsible for all overseas information technology operations of PFG, consisting of multiple companies located in nine countries. In 1991, Gupta founded Advanced Technologies Group to continue his interest in researching technology and identifying innovative ways to help organizations benefit from it. He was a founding member of the Technology Association of Iowa and has served as a board member of Iowa State University's Iowa Value Fund, which provides funding to projects that create innovative technology and generate high-tech jobs in Iowa. In 2009, he received the Iowa Governor's Volunteer of the Year Award.
I. Craig Henderson '63, Elected 2000
Dr. Henderson received a history degree from Grinnell and an M.D. from Columbia University in 1970. He is a nationally known expert on cancer, particularly breast cancer. While on the faculty of Harvard University, he built one of the country's first multidisciplinary breast clinics. In 1992, he established the Bay Area Breast Cancer Translational Research Program, funded by a National Cancer Institute Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant. For the World Health Organization, he chaired the Committee on Essential Drugs and was a member of the Expert Advisory Panel on Cancer. Other past roles include: CEO and chair, SEQUUS Pharmaceuticals; board member, ALZA Corp.; co-founder, Access Oncology Inc.; president, Keryx Biopharmaceuticals. Currently at the University of California-San Francisco, Henderson is an adjunct professor of medicine, sees patients, and participates in leading the SPORE program. A volunteer for several Grinnell alumni and career development programs, he received an alumni award in 1993 and an honorary Doctor of Science degree in 1994.
Susan Henken-Thielen '80
Serving as the 2014–15 Grinnell College Alumni Council president, Henken-Thielen is an ex-officio Trustee. She has served on the council since 2009 and as a Grinnell Regional Admission Support Program (GRASP) volunteer since graduating. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, earning a bachelor's with honors in psychology from Grinnell. She completed her M.B.A. at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, with concentrations in marketing, strategy, and industrial relations. She has led successful new initiatives in the education, health care, food industries, and medical device fields, including leadership roles with Pearson VUE, Cigna, and Novartis.
Henken-Thielen is an active volunteer for educational, environmental, and community organizations. She is board vice-president of Minnesota Lakes and Rivers Advocates.
Steve Holtze '68, Elected 2002
Holtze graduated from Grinnell in 1968 with a degree in physics and has a B.S. and M.S. in civil engineering, both from Columbia University. He is chairman and majority owner of Magnolia Hotel Co., a hotel development and management company with properties in historic buildings in downtown Denver, Dallas, Houston, and Omaha, Neb. He is a member of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honorary fraternity. He is married to Elizabeth Alexander Holtze '68.
Kihwan Kim '57, Elected 2003
Kim earned an M.A. in history from Yale University and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. He chairs the Seoul Financial Forum and is a distinguished visiting scholar at Korea Development Institute. After returning to the Republic of Korea in 1976, Kim was vice minister of trade and industry, chief economic policy coordinator and trade negotiator, and chief delegate to the North-South Inter-Korea Economic Talks. He has consulted at the World Bank and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and served as visiting faculty at the University of Tokyo and UC-Berkeley. Kim was a senior adviser at the law and management-consulting firm Kim and Chang. During Korea's 1997–98 financial crisis, he was Korea's ambassador-at-large for economic affairs. He has been chair and CEO of Media Valley Inc., a Korean information-technology initiative; an adviser to Goldman Sachs, Asia; and international chair of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council. In 2000, Kim received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Grinnell College.
Clinton D. "Clint" Korver '89, Elected 2001
Korver graduated from Grinnell with a B.A. with honors in mathematics. He also holds an M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University in management sciences and engineering. He is a partner and co-founder at Ulu Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm investing in early-stage information technology companies. He is also a Kauffman fellow, co-founder and co-president of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, and a venture partner at Crescendo Ventures. Prior to venture investing, Korver founded and led Outcome Software, Decision Street, The Decision Company, and Decision Quality International, all of which helped individuals or organizations make better decisions through software, consulting, or training. He regularly guest lectures at Stanford on entrepreneurship, decision-making, and ethics. He has taught ethical decision-making at both Stanford and Grinnell College and co-authored Ethics for the Real World (Harvard Business Press 2008).
Sylvia Kwan, Elected 2010
Kwan earned a B.S. in applied mathematics and computer science from Brown University and a Ph.D. in engineering-economic systems from Stanford University. She is a chartered financial analyst and is chief investment officer of SimplySmart Asset Management, a firm she co-founded in 2010 to provide individual investors with personalized global investment solutions. Prior to founding SimplySmart, she served as principal and chief investment officer for Structural Wealth and vice president of portfolio management at Financial Engines, where she oversaw the management of $14 billion in assets spanning more than 200,000 individual accounts. Her financial services experience also includes portfolio management positions at Charles Schwab Investment Management, where she was director of equity quantitative research, and at Boston Co., where she managed over $500 million in institutional fixed-income assets.
Tobi Klein Marcus '87, Elected 2014
A management consultant, Marcus focuses on nonprofit organizations and philanthropic advising. From 2007 to 2012, she held several leadership roles at the Community Foundation for Monterey County, the largest grant maker to nonprofits on California's central coast with more than $170 million in charitable assets. Previously, Marcus worked as a strategy consultant to a variety of nonprofit organizations. She also worked for Boston Consulting Group, an international strategic planning firm serving Fortune 500 clients.
Marcus has served in a number of leadership roles in the nonprofit community. She is currently a board member of United Way Monterey County. She holds a bachelor's with a major in sociology from Grinnell College. She earned her master's from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a doctorate in sociology from the University of Bristol.
Paul McCulley '79, Elected 2009; Inactive Status 2014
McCulley earned his M.B.A. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. He is chief economist at PIMCO, where he is a member of the investment committee, founding author of the research publication Global Central Bank Focus, as well as Macro Perspectives. A devout Keynesian and interpreter of the work of Hyman Minsky, McCulley coined the terms "Minsky moment" and "shadow banking system." At PIMCO, he appears regularly in the business media. He was also a member of the U.S. Treasury's Borrowing Advisory Committee (TBAC). McCulley spends a lot of time fishing and nurturing his family as a father. He also is an entrepreneur in angel investing opportunities and president of the Morgan le Fey Dreams Foundation, which he founded and endowed in 2006.
Susan Holden McCurry '71, Elected 2003
Holden McCurry graduated from Grinnell with a B.A. in psychology. From 1971 to 1975, she held several positions as director of preschools and day care centers while she continued her education in early childhood development and administration in San Diego. In 1978, she joined the family business, Holden's Foundation Seeds Inc., headquartered in Williamsburg, Iowa. Holden McCurry also served as chief financial officer for Hawaiian Research Ltd. in Molokai, Hawaii. Both companies specialized in seed research and development. She remained involved in the company until 1997, when Holden's Foundation Seeds was sold to Monsanto. Hawaiian Research Ltd. was also sold to Monsanto in 2000. Until 2002, she served as a consultant to Monsanto. Her current activities include serving as a board member for the Holden Family Foundation, Highland Ridge Retirement Community, and the University of Iowa Cancer Advocacy Board.
George Moose '66, Elected 2014
A career member of the U.S. Foreign Service, Moose attained the rank of career ambassador. He was U.S. ambassador to the Republic of Benin, 1983–1986, and to the Republic of Senegal, 1988–1991. From 1991 to 1992, he served as U.S. alternate representative to the United Nations Security Council. In 1993, he was appointed assistant secretary of state for African affairs, a position he occupied until 1997. From 1998 to 2001, he was U.S. permanent representative to the European office of the United Nations in Geneva.
Ambassador Moose is adjunct professor of practice at the Elliot School of International Affairs, George Washington University. He is vice chair of the U.S. Institute of Peace board of directors. Moose holds a bachelor's in American studies from Grinnell, which also awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree.
Karen E. Shaff, Elected 2007
Shaff is executive vice president, general counsel, and secretary for Principal Financial Group, where she is responsible for the law and government relations departments. Before joining Principal in 1982, Shaff was an associate with the law firm of Austin and Gaudineer in Des Moines, Iowa. She holds a law degree from Drake University Law School after obtaining her B.A. from Northwestern University in political science. She is a former board member and past president of the Association of Life Insurance Counsel; a member of the American, Iowa state, and Polk County Bar associations and the Association of Corporate Counsel; and a past member of the Iowa State Bar Association Committee on Professional Ethics and Conduct (1984–1989) and the Iowa State Bar Association board of governors (1989–1995). Shaff is a director of GuideOne Mutual Insurance Co. and Sargasso Mutual Insurance Co. She is also chair of the Animal Rescue League of Iowa's advisory council.
M. Anne Campbell Spence '66, Elected 2001
Spence earned a B.A. in biology from Grinnell in 1966. After earning a Ph.D. in human genetics from the University of Hawaii in 1969, she received the National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellowship at the University of North Carolina. She is professor emerita in the Department of Pediatrics, University of California-Irvine. Among her positions, she served as associate dean in the graduate division at University of California-Los Angeles and vice chancellor of academic programs at the UC-Irvine. An active teacher, her research in human genetics has focused on neurological and physical birth defects. She has been a member of the American Society of Human Genetics, the Genetics Society of America, and the Behavioral Genetics Association. In 1979, Spence received the Woman of Science Award at UCLA, and Grinnell awarded her an honorary degree in 1999. In 2001, she received the annual leadership award from the International Genetic Epidemiology Society.
Joel R. Spiegel '78, Elected 2007
Spiegel received a B.A. in biology from Grinnell. Before retiring, he was a vice president of Amazon.com, responsible for all of the company's website technology development. He launched Amazon.com's marketplace businesses. Prior to joining Amazon.com, he held a variety of management and software development positions at Microsoft, Apple Computer, Hewlett Packard, and VisiCorp. Joel spent a year as a VISTA volunteer working with the Northern Cheyenne Tribe in Lame Deer, Mont. He is a named inventor on over two dozen U.S. patents.
Barrett W. Thomas '97, Elected 2005
Thomas received a B.A. in mathematics/economics with honors from Grinnell and holds M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial and operations engineering from the University of Michigan. He is an associate professor with tenure in the Department of Management Sciences at the University of Iowa and holds as well as an appointment in the applied mathematics and computational sciences program. Until recently, Thomas was also faculty director of the Strategic Innovation Career Academy in the full-time M.B.A. program at the Tippie School of Management. His areas of expertise are process improvement, logistics, vehicle routing, dynamic programming, and heuristic search. Thomas was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa in 1997. He is active in his field as a speaker, researcher, and as an editor and referee for peer-reviewed journals.
Matthew E. Welch '96, Elected 2013
Welch is chief operating officer at the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB). He is responsible for growing the organization and extending its standards-setting work to professional education, training, and certification programs. Welch has focused his career on education enterprises, helping students, teachers, and schools to improve learning outcomes and scale up great programs. He has worked in several areas of education, including international education, K–12, test prep, and professional training. He has worked in nonprofit and for-profit sectors, for organizations and companies such as the Rotary Foundation, Kaplan Inc., Teachscape, Junyo Learning Analytics, and the Institute of International Education. Welch graduated from Grinnell in 1996 with honors for majors in Spanish and theatre. He earned an M.P.A. from Columbia University, where he studied business, education, and public policy. Welch has been an active volunteer for the College since graduation, working with admissions recruiting and career advising for current students. He served on the Alumni Council from 2007 to 2013 and was its president during the 2012–13 academic year.
Eric E. Whitaker '87, Elected 2008
Dr. Whitaker earned a master's of public health from Harvard in 1991 and a medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine in 1993. He completed his primary care and internal medicine residency at San Francisco General Hospital. In 2003, Dr. Whitaker became director of the Illinois State Department of Public Health. In 2007, he joined the University of Chicago Medical Center as its executive vice president for strategic alliances. His appointment at the University of Chicago included responsibility for community-based research to build a network of partnerships to broaden urban medical services. Prior to 2003, Whitaker was an attending physician in internal medicine at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital's collaborative research unit. In 1998, he helped found Project Brotherhood: a Black Men's Clinic, a weekly clinic for African-American men housed in Woodlawn Adult Health Center on Chicago's South Side. Whitaker also is an assistant professor at Rush Medical College's Department of Medicine and Preventive Medicine and maintains his clinical association with Project Brotherhood.
David White '90, Elected 1999
White is national executive director and chief negotiator of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artist (SAG-AFTRA). Prior to rejoining SAG-AFTRA, where he previously served as general counsel from 2002 to 2006, White was managing principal of Los Angeles-based Entertainment Strategies Group, providing consulting services to the entertainment industry. Before joining the executive ranks of SAG-AFTRA, White was a labor and employment attorney at O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
A Rhodes Scholar, White is a graduate of Grinnell College and Stanford Law School. He is board chair of the SAG-Producers Pension and Health Plans, a member and former chair of the Board of Trustees of Grinnell College, and a member and former vice chair of the Industry Advancement and Cooperative Fund. He is a trustee of the AFTRA Health and Retirement Funds and a board member of the Motion Picture and Television Fund, SAG Foundation, the Actors Fund, and Volunteers of America–Greater Los Angeles. Previously, he served as a Los Angeles area commissioner for urban planning and development. He has been a contributing writer for Los Angeles Lawyer, has been featured in various publications including Los Angeles Magazine, and has served as a commentator on national and industry publications and radio shows. He has received numerous awards throughout his career, including the John M. Langston Bar Association's Attorney of the Year award (2014) and the National Bar Association's Entertainment, Sports and Art Law Section Attorney of the Year (2010).
Connie Wimer, Elected 2014
A business leader, Wimer is owner and chair of Business Publications Corp. in Des Moines, Iowa. The company publishes 25 local and regional print and digital products and provides custom publishing and book publishing services. She attended Morningside College and serves on the institution's board and on the boards of other organizations in Iowa and around the country. Wimer's civic leadership includes service on many fundraising committees and her current work promoting gender equity. She formerly owned Iowa Title Co. She is also founder of Winefest Des Moines. Wimer has chaired the Des Moines Chamber of Commerce and the National Alliance of Area Business Publications and was inducted into Greater Des Moines Committee's Business Hall of Fame — the first woman to accomplish any of those feats. She also was inducted into the Iowa Women's Hall of Fame.
Henry T. Wingate '69, Elected 2000
Wingate graduated from Grinnell in 1969 with a B.A. in philosophy and received a law degree from Yale University in 1972. After serving with the offices of the U.S. attorney and district attorney in Mississippi, he became in 1985 the first African American appointed to Mississippi's federal bench. He continues to serve as federal judge for the Southern District of Mississippi. Earlier, he served in the U.S. Navy's Judge Advocate General's Corps and taught at Golden Gate University, Mississippi College School of Law, Mississippi Judicial College, and the University of Houston Law Center. He has won several national and local service awards and has been active in community affairs in Jackson, Miss. He received an honorary degree from Grinnell in 1986.


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Sweetest NCAA Memories #2: The Open Road Leads to the Final FourPosted by rtmsf on March 17th, 2009
RTC asked its legion of correspondents, charlatans, sycophants, toadies and other hangers-on to send us their very favorite March Madness memory, something that had a visceral effect on who they are as a person and college basketball fan today. Not surprisingly, many of the submissions were excellent and if you're not fired up reading them, then you need to head back over to PerezHilton for the rest of this month. We've chosen the sixteen best, and we'll be counting them down over the next two weeks as we approach the 2009 NCAA Tournament.
Roadtrippin' to the Alamo City (submitted by John Stevens)
It was also tournament time. Our favorite time of year. Feeling the wanderlust that an emerging springtime brings, my grad-school roommate and I decided that instead of watching our favorite event on TV as we'd done for most of the previous two weeks, we'd empty our bank accounts and take a road trip to one of the regionals — say, given the snow outside our window in mid-March, the one in St. Petersburg, Florida. Not exactly a tough sell. Turned out to be one of the best road trips I ever took.
Until the next week.
We got home from St. Pete and were going through several days of unopened mail when I noticed an envelope bearing the emblem of my college. Specifically, the Office of Billing and Financial Aid. 99 times out of 100, that means a bill. Not exactly something I wanted, having just blown a wad of cash to travel to an NCAA regional. It was about as welcome as a positive syphilis test.
But wait, what was this? Weeeeell, evidently some of the grant money awarded me many months ago never found its way to my account, so now that the mistake had been found, a check had been cut for me in the amount of $1500. My buddy and I had just spent the last half hour reminiscing on what a great road trip we'd just had, but still sad because we didn't know when our next one would be. When I opened that envelope and saw that check, I looked at my friend and told him, "Don't bother unpacking. We're going to the Final Four."
He said he couldn't part with the cash needed for such a trip, but I reminded him that I owed him a few hundred bucks from a previous debt and that we'd sort out the rest later. To his credit, it didn't take much persuading. The Final Four that year was in San Antonio, a city I'd heard too many great things about, so there was no way I was going to defy fate and pass up this opportunity. I'd never been to Texas, never even been anywhere near that part of the country. And it's one of my favorite things to do any time of the year, but as the weather gets warm, is there anything better than packing up a bag and a cooler and hitting the open road with a friend?
Three days later, we were doing exactly that. We bought tickets from a newspaper ad, left in the middle of the night, and drove for hours and hours. Nothing on the radio but people talking Final Four basketball. Constant analysis, endless interviews with coaches, former players, etc. The farther south we drove, the warmer it got. We started out wearing sweaters and jeans, and in a few hours we were in t-shirts, shorts and sunglasses. It was one of the ugliest drives I'd ever been a part of. It involved two dudes who reeked from being in a car too long. But in its own way, it was paradise.
We found living quarters (we thought we were going to be shacking as far away as Austin, but avoided that thanks to the generosity of my buddy's family) and went to find the epicenter of activity for the weekend. We found the San Antonio Riverwalk by following the noise of the crowd, the sounds of mariachis doing renditions of college fight songs, and, um, Dick Vitale's voice. Every once in a while as you walked this gorgeous underground pedestrian street along the banks of the San Antonio River, you'd see groups of tourists floating by on large rafts, looking back at the walkers who were looking at them. Sometimes the raft drifting by you would contain a school's cheerleading or dance team squad, or part of its band, or the CBS studio crew (if Bill Raftery's big smiling mug floating by on a raft doesn't bring a smile to your own face, you need to visit your local neurologist, because you are officially incapable of smiling), and so on. The biggest crowd response always happened when Dickie V would come floating by, waving and gesturing to the masses like a big kid. I mean, my God, he's been doing this for how many years? And there's not a doubt in my mind — he was still having as much fun as we were.
We made our way to the Fan Jam and just owned the two-on-two shootout for a while, calling ourselves The Shammgods — the insiders applauded the name, much respect — and scoring many notable (and even upset) victories, including a single-shot victory over a couple of prepsters from NYC and an absolute trouncing of two cocky 14-year olds from Tennessee. In our eighth — that's right, you heard me, eighth — game I hit a cold streak and a couple of local college kids got the better of us; I still relive this cold streak in my mind every so often and the blood still boils. We considered it an upset on the level of '85 Villanova, but at that point I think we were such big favorites in Vegas, it wasn't worth it any more. We met former College of Charleston coach John Kresse who actually took a few moments from strolling with his wife to talk hoops and take pictures with us. Near the ESPN set, we bumped into Steve Lavin who acted like he didn't see or hear about our exploits at the two-on-two shootout; both of those guys couldn't have been nicer. It wasn't just celebrity-sighting — when talking college basketball with them, they weren't celebrities any more, just regular guys talking about the thing they love the most.
We all know the games from that particular Final Four were fantastic, no matter for whom you were rooting – Kentucky, Utah, UNC or Stanford. There's simply no way to describe the atmosphere at a Final Four game. The best comparison I can think of is watching the end of a Pink Floyd concert when they're doing the last number (Run Like Hell) and there are pyrotechnics and lasers like you never imagined and the stage is basically on fire. Imagine that over three days of basketball. The fireworks are constantly taking place on the basketball floor, and the energy and emotion of the crowd is every bit as urgent and electric.
I had fallen in love with college basketball long before this road trip. Even though I never possessed the skill to play it at that level, the sport has been a favorite distraction of mine ever since I've had functioning neurons in my brain. But watching those games at the Alamodome and being part of the overall atmosphere of the Final Four that year… well, it was one of those few watershed times in a person's life, like when you hear a piece of music or meet a person you know from the first nanosecond will always be part of your existence. My friend and I drove the 20+ hours back to the humdrum rhythm of our everyday lives, and as I walked around my campus and worked at my job I saw people who probably once had similar watershed moments in their lives, but whose realities had become relegated to the process of just getting through the days, just surviving things — whatever those sticky, sinister things were. Those were the days when I looked back on my trip as I looked at these people, and I decided — I will never fall victim to those things. Whatever it entails, as often as I possibly can, I'll always go to be a part of that event. I will always have this in my life.

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Closing remarks presented in Donachy trial
A 12-member jury did not reach a verdict on Tuesday following nearly 5.5 hours of deliberation in the homicide trial of Lawrence Earl Donachy, 36, of St. Marys. Deliberations will continue this morning beginning at 9 a.m., where the jury will decide the fate of Donachy, who is charged with one count each of criminal homicide, rape, burglary, aggravated assault, criminal attempt at arson and unlawful restraint in the April 5-6, 1999 rape and murder of Irene Challingsworth, a 57-year-old St. Marys beautician.During the seventh day of the trial, the prosecution, led by Elk County District Attorney Bradley Kraus; and the defense, represented by attorneys George Daghir and Shawn McMahon, presented their closing arguments in the case. All evidence has been presented and all witnesses have testified.Elk County Court of Common Pleas President Judge Richard Masson explained to the jurors, all of Butler County, that it was their duty to consider all the evidence presented throughout the course of the trial and apply the law to the facts of the case, and if they encounter a discrepancy of facts between the opposing counsels it is their (the jury's) recollection that is important.Closing remarks provided the attorneys one final opportunity to directly address the jury. Unlike opening remarks, the defense was the first to present their arguments, followed by the prosecution. Masson said this order of placement is determined by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and is different in the eastern part of the state.Defense gives closing argumentsDaghir began by stating the jury will likely have sympathy for the family due to the horrific nature of the crime; however, as the judge of facts they must remain neutral and unbiased without having sympathy or emotion play into their decision.He emphasized that Donachy is presumed innocent unless found guilty and that jurors must find that the burden of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt, meaning they do not hesitate in making a major decision.Daghir posed a series of unanswered questions about the case to the jury, including why Challingsworth's body core temperature was never taken to aid in determining her approximate time of death; why police failed to fingerprint the stairway railing, bathroom facets, shower curtain and light switches; why the crime scene was closed but then the family was allowed in to clean her home and why police went to Challingsworth's boyfriend Tom Feldbauer's home to search his garbage after he cleaned her home; why no fingerprints were taken from the winning lottery ticket found at her residence; why former SMPD Officer John Lovett later returned to the scene to conduct a Luminol test; why her doors were open when she was fanatical about keeping her home locked; what her purse was doing submerged in the bathtub and how Donachy would know she had a winning lottery ticket; and why would Donachy walk to a pay phone at Uni-Mart where a marked police car was sitting in the parking lot if he had just allegedly murdered someone?Daghir noted that Judy Wendel, who discovered Challingsworth's body the morning of April 6, 1999, testified the crime scene was "chaos" upon her calling in the crime.Daghir then stated there was a lack of evidence and the facts have been twisted."I'm not going to solve this; neither is the Commonwealth," Daghir said.He emphasized there was no burglary, no forced entry and that it was clear there was no tampering to the doors and locks, as Challingsworth's two shotguns, jewelry and winning lottery ticket were not taken.According to Daghir, a common thread running through the case was that Lovett's pride and ego were "bruised" when he had to turn the case over to the Pennsylvania State Police, a case which the SMPD worked on from April 6, 1999 to July 19, 2002. Daghir encouraged the jury to request any evidence they wished to review again in making their decision.Daghir again emphasized what he said was the state's lack of evidence, which includes forensic pathologist Dr. Eric Vey, M.D., of the Erie County Coroner's Office, testifying that time of death was between 12-18 hours from the time the autopsy was performed, establishing a time of death around 11:30 p.m. on Monday, April 5. "This homicide occurred sometime on the night of Monday, April 5 between 10:30 p.m. and midnight," Daghir said, going on to explain that the time frame indicated that Donachy could not be accurately placed at the crime scene when Challingsworth's murder was determined to take place.He said a second piece of evidence regarding this consisted of former SMPD officer Bill Brem's observance of Donachy using the pay phone outside the S. Michael Street Uni-Mart on April 6, 1999. Daghir said Donachy was working the 3-11 p.m. shift at Advanced Heat Treating on Trout Run Road at that time. He said Brem testified he saw Donachy at the phone booth between 12:30-12:45 a.m., and Brem later testified he saw Donachy on April 5, 1999 between 11:20 p.m. to midnight. Daghir noted this would not have been enough time for Donachy to walk from the plant to his parents' home on Robin Road, where he was living in April 1999, and back into town, all while allegedly doing all the things done in Challingsworth's home."All the Commonwealth can prove is that Larry Donachy had sexual intercourse with Irene Challingsworth within 96 hours of her death," Daghir said.He referenced the 96 hours from testimony obtained by sexual assault forensic examiner Alexandra Schneider, who was entered as an expert witness by the defense. Schneider testified semen can be recovered up to 96 hours after intercourse, and Daghir said the presence of semen in Challingsworth's body did not necessarily mean she had been raped. Daghir said the prosecution needed someone to wrap up the case and called Denise Zuchowski, aka Denise Erickson, who he said changed her name after being released from federal prison. He emphasized Zuchowski never went to the police for seven years following the murder and that she testified as feeling "blindsided" during the March 25, 2008 interview in New Jersey she participated in with Lovett and Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Dave Ray. During this interview Zuchowski, testified that she thought she was in trouble with police and repeatedly stated she did not know what happened in reference to Challingsworth's murder, and knew nothing about a sexual assault or lottery ticket.Daghir said this contradicts Zuchowski's July 2008 interview with SMPD Officer Todd Caltagarone in St. Marys, where she provided a written statement with her signature stating she knew Challingsworth was bound and gagged, her doors were not locked, but Donachy knew where the key was and that Donachy and Craig Evans strangled and raped Challingsworth. She added that items including cash, a lottery ticket and a couch pillow were taken from her home. "You can't groom witnesses, what do you think they did with her?" Daghir asked "The problem was she fell apart. She was the clay they molded. They needed Denise."In concluding his closing remarks, Daghir asked the jury if they would base any major decisions about their life on information provided to them by Zuchowski. He said the Commonwealth has not sustained the burden of proof and asked that the jury find Donachy not guilty. Prosecution reasserts its case Next Kraus addressed the jury, thanking them for their participation and attentiveness. He said that Daghir referenced Zuchowski in closing and that the jury might think that she is on trial, but those remarks are a diversion to take the focus off Donachy, the real defendant. Kraus asked the jury to consider what motive Zuchowski had to testify; to tell everyone in 1999 that she was in a relationship with her boyfriend Shawn Steffan and having sex with Donachy, the couple's roommate, behind his back? Kraus asked who would face that and what motive a person would have in making those revelations, and indicated perhaps it was because Zuchowski heard from Donachy that he was involved in the crime and that over the past eight or nine years, she had been holding that information and it was becoming harder for her to do so.Kraus said Zuchowski was not there to get back at Donachy, as she testified that she had no animosity toward him."Perhaps the motive is truth," Kraus said.He added that what Daghir did not tell the jury was that one month before Zuchowski's New Jersey interview, police were collecting Donachy's DNA and asked why the state would be obtaining Donachy's DNA in February 2008 if they were so reliant on Zuchowski's testimony. Kraus emphasized that Zuchowski was not the only piece of evidence the prosecution had in the case, adding that Donachy could have known about Challingsworth's winning lottery ticket as she walked to the same Uni-Mart store on S. Michael Street just hours before Donachy was spotted using the store's pay phone outside. Kraus said that news about a winning lottery tickets travels fast in a small town like St. Marys. He said Challingsworth could have easily forgotten to lock her car and house doors as she scrambled inside to answer the Uni-Mart clerk's phone call regarding her lottery ticket, as she had just been returning from visiting her daughter Kelly Bauer at the time, something she told the clerk during their phone conversation.Pick up a copy of the Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 edition of The Ridgway Record for more.


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Originally removed from the AOSP due to a lack of binary support, the Verizon Galaxy Nexus was shuffled back into the AOSP fold shortly after Google I/O. Last night's release of Verizon Galaxy Nexus compatible binaries for Jelly Bean build JRO03H (the same build that WiFi only Xooms are running) is a good sign that an update is on its way.
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A new report has revealed that Australian Twitter users follow brands in order to keep up to date with new products, rather than score freebies or discounts.
ExactTarget's 2013 Executive Summary collates the results from surveying 8,276 consumers across Australia, Brazil, France, Germany and the UK, and looks at the motivations behind why and how users interact with brands online.
Reasons why consumers choose to following brands and businesses on Twitter differs per country, but findings show that Australian users are far more likely to have a 'genuine interest' in the brands they follow.
The number one reason why Australian consumers follow a brand or business on Twitter is to keep up to date with a company's products (45%), followed by an interest in receiving alerts related to development within the organisation (36%).
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In Germany, consumers wanted alerts relating to company development, French followers wanted to keep up to date with a company's products and services, yet in Brazil, almost 50% of users follow brands to receive discounts.
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In every country surveyed Twitter had a much smaller audience than Facebook, and because of this, some companies and brands tend to neglect the Twitter channel, some foregoing it completely.
In Australia, only 6% of online consumers follow brands on Twitter (compared to 55% on Facebook) so it can be easy to see why some brands may not be focusing their attention on this social media channel.
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In 2012, the NWAA travel soccer program started with humble beginnings, with three teams representing Niagara-Wheatfield. In 2013 the program grew to six travel teams and future growth is expected in 2014 with nine teams representing the area.
This past season in the Buffalo and Western New York Junior Soccer League four teams finished at the top of the tables, with the U10 girls Lady Falcons, U10 boys Wolves, U11 boys Thunderbirds, and U13 Storm all finishing second in 2013. The U10 boys Wolves and U11 Thunderbirds also capped the season by winning the league's Odenbach tournament and the U10 girls Lady Falcons taking second in that same tournament as well as the annual Wilson tournament.
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The impending release of a new documentary has dramatically revived media interest in the destruction of TWA Flight 800, the Paris-bound plane that blew up off the coast of Long Island in July 1996.
Although producers Tom Stalcup and Kristina Borjesson do not name names or point fingers, the video leads the viewer to believe that the U.S. Navy accidentally shot the plane down.
The video features a half-dozen truth tellers from within the investigation, and the news of it has inspired several more to step forward, including one who talked with WND about the disaster Friday.
Mack, not his real name, cautioned that his information was limited, but his insights had merit nonetheless. Mack was a crewmember on the sub, the USS Albuquerque.
This was one of three subs acknowledged by FBI spokesman James Kallstrom as being in the "immediate vicinity" of the crash site. The other two were the USS Trepang and the USS Wyoming.
Several days before the Flight 800 incident, Mack was involved in loading what he was told were "experimental missiles" aboard the sub. "This was not your normal load out," said Mack.
The sub was heading for the testing area off the coast of New Jersey and south of Long Island. Mack did not go on that cruise.
He was driving with his wife when the news first broke of Flight 800's demise. Before the government got hold of the narrative, there was considerable reporting about a missile or missiles.
"Do you think it was a terrorist?" his wife asked.
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"God, I hope so," said Mack. He explained that "his boat was out there." If it wasn't a terrorist, it was likely a Navy accident.
FAA radar had captured four unidentified tracks "consistent with the speed of a boat" within three to six miles of Flight 800's course at the time of its midair breakup.
The fact that three of the radar tracks disappeared right after TWA 800 crashed argues strongly that these were the submarines Kallstrom had identified, the Albuquerque among them, and that they submerged almost immediately.
One "surface vessel" less than three miles from the crash scene headed away from the area at 30 knots. In response to questions from a congressional subcommittee, the FBI's No. 2 man on the investigation, Lewis Schiliro, claimed that the "the FBI first noted the presence" of this ship in January 1997, an astonishing five months after the disaster.
Although the FBI was allegedly unable to identify this ship, Schiliro added the meaningless disclaimer that "based on our investigative efforts, we are confident it was not a military vessel."
According to the FBI, this surface vessel had a "speed between 25 and 35 knots, is believed to be at least 25-30 feet in length, approximately 2.9 nautical miles from the position of Flight 800 at the time of the initial explosion."
Radar, however, is unable to judge the length of the ship. That detail was added to suggest a pleasure craft and not a Navy ship whose length might be measured in the hundreds of feet.
In any case, the ship was fleeing the scene. When questioned, Kallstrom identified this vessel as "a helicopter."
By the time of its final press conference in November 1997, the FBI knew that all of the stories that the Navy had previously offered about the USS Normandy being the closest asset of consequence at 181 miles away were patently false.
At this juncture, all information about any aspect of the case from any source should have been considered suspect.
"We left no stone unturned," Kallstrom claimed when the FBI withdrew from the case. "In fact, we looked under every rock multiple times."
But Kallstrom never bothered to explain these numerous discrepancies or shifting stories. The crew of the sub were not in a position to add much clarity.
Even if they had been allowed to talk, as Mack explained, very few of his colleagues, if any, would have known exactly what happened that night. Later, when he inquired, he got no straight answers. He has been troubled by it ever since.
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Informing Green Markets: The Roles of Industry, NGOs and Government
June 17-19, 2010
Ann Arbor, Michigan
The desire to "Go Green" has swept across society over the last few years. Thousands of products now market themselves based in part on environmental attributes. But there is surprisingly little consensus on what it will take to really make green markets work. Many people worry that the current proliferation of ecolabels is generating consumer confusion, not making green purchasing easier. Research on nutritional labels suggests they have had little impact on American eating habits, and calls into question whether environmental labels can be effective. Environmental groups warn that many green claims are nothing more than greenwash. Can green markets work if buyers do not trust the information they are getting from sellers?
This workshop is designed to focus on the dynamic processes by which information in green markets emerges and evolves. It is designed to provoke a "deep dive" discussion into how green markets will develop in upcoming years, and the appropriate roles of government regulation, corporate environmenal claims, and external evaluations by NGOs. Among the questions to be explored:
The conference is designed to stimulate dialogue between the private sector, the public sector, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and academia. It will begin with lunch on Thursday, June 17, and conclude the afternoon of Saturday, June 19. Sessions on Thursday afternoon and Friday morning are geared more toward practitioner contributions, while those on Friday afternoon and Saturday are geared more towards helping academic researchers digest the practitioner contributions and shape the future research agenda.


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Many chefs have their first exposure to cooking at a young age. For Sean Brock, who was born and raised in rural Virginia, it was the experience of his family growing their own food that left a deep impression. "This was a coal-field town with no restaurants or stoplights," he explains. "You grew and cooked everything you ate, so I really saw food in its true form. You cook all day, and when you're not cooking, you're preserving. If you were eating, you were eating food from the garden or the basement–it's a way of life." These were the building blocks that Brock remembered as he began his career as a chef, inspiring a lifelong passion for exploring the roots of Southern food and recreating it by preserving and restoring heirloom ingredients.
Leaving Virginia to attend school, Brock landed at Johnson & Wales University in Charleston, SC. He began his professional career as chef tournant under Chef Robert Carter at the Mobil Four-Star/AAA Four-Diamond Peninsula Grill in Charleston. After two years at Peninsula Grill, Brock was executive sous chef under Chef Walter Bundy of Lemaire Restaurant at the AAA Five- Diamond Award/ Mobil Five-Star Jefferson Hotel in Richmond, VA. His success in Richmond led to his promotion within the Elite Hospitality Group in 2003 to executive chef at the AAA Five-Diamond Hermitage Hotel in Nashville, TN. Brock spent just under three years fine tuning his craft in Nashville before accepting a position as executive chef at McCrady's Restaurant.
Shortly after his return to Charleston, Brock began the development of a 2.5-acre farm on Wadmalaw Island. "While I was growing there, I began dabbling in resurrecting and growing crops that were at risk of extinction, such as those indigenous to this area pre-Civil War," he says. These experiments have led Brock to become a passionate advocate for seed preservation and he continues to grow a number of heirloom crops, including James Island Red Corn (aka "Jimmy Red"), from which he makes grits, Flint Corn, Benne Seed, Rice Peas, Sea Island Red Peas, and several varieties of Farro. Brock has worked closely with Dr. David Shields and Glenn Roberts of Anson Mills, studying 19th century Southern cookbooks–which Brock collects—to educate himself on Southern food history and discover new ways to resurrect antebellum cuisine. He also cares deeply about the way animals are treated before they become food on the table and sources heritage breeds of livestock for his restaurants. He has even raised his own herd of pigs.
In November 2010, Brock opened his second restaurant with the Neighborhood Dining Group. Husk, just down the street from McCrady's, is a celebration of Southern ingredients, only serving food that is indigenous to the South. "If it ain't Southern, it ain't walkin' in the door," Brock says. The emphasis at Husk is on the ingredients and the people who grow them, and a large chalkboard lists artisanal products currently provisioning the kitchen. Working with local purveyors and vendors has had a great impact on his cooking, and the menu changes twice daily based on what is the freshest that day. "Gone are the days of a chef sitting in the kitchen creating recipes and then picking up the phone to order food from wherever it needs to come from," he says. "At Husk, we might get three suckling pigs, three whole lambs, half a cow, and upwards of 450 pounds of fish, as well as mountains of vegetables. We only take it when it's ready, so it shows up and we have to start piecing the recipes together; it's like a puzzle every day."
Inspired by the restaurant's success in Charleston, Brock and the Neighborhood Dining Group opened a second location of Husk in Nashville in 2013. Located on Rutledge Hill in a complex of buildings dating back to the 1890's, Brock and his team reinterpret the bounty of the surrounding area, exploring an ingredient-driven cuisine that begins in the rediscovery of heirloom products and redefines what it means to cook and eat in Nashville.
Brock is also passionate about wood-fire cooking and a firm believer that "low and slow" imparts the most flavor—evident by his two smokers, barbecue pit and spit, and wood-burning oven at Husk, all fueled by an old fashioned burn barrel. At McCrady's, he cooks food in the dining room fireplaces, originally built for this purpose in the late 18th century. Because the main dining room was actually the kitchen in the 19th century, Brock believes cooking this way brings the historical building full circle. In the future, he sees his cuisine being geared more toward the fireplace–the smell and visual of a chef cooking on an open hearth changes the feel of the restaurant and inspires him a great deal.
Drawing from his early education, the chef also pickles, cans, and makes preserves from the produce that cannot be used immediately, saving it for a later date and for new creations. His favorite old southern preservation techniques include lactobacillus fermentation and making vinegar using his grandmother's 40 year old vinegar as the base. Brock pulls from his memory of ingredients and their flavor profiles to create the menus at McCrady's and Husk depending on what is delivered to the kitchen. It's a modern approach to cooking that comes from a pure appreciation of the food itself. The results are constantly changing offerings for diners that always surprise. "We emphasize the importance of the food from our local regions and constantly refine our cooking processes to best honor our relationships with the farmers, artisans and fishermen that provide us with their amazing products," he says.
In October 2014, Brock opened a third restaurant in Charleston, Minero, inspired by the flavors and culture of Mexico. At Minero, Brock features his version of the dishes he loves to eat in a casual, lively environment. A second Minero opened in October 2015 at Ponce City Market in Atlanta.
Brock's abilities have resulted in a number of awards and accolades, both locally and nationally. In 2008 and 2009 he was a finalist for the James Beard "Rising Star Chef" award and in 2010 he took home the James Beard award for "Best Chef Southeast". Most recently, he was a finalist for the James Beard "Outstanding Chef" award for 2013, 2014, and 2015. He appeared on "Iron Chef America" in December 2010, taking on Michael Symon in "Battle Pork Fat", and in September 2011 Bon Appétit magazine named Husk "Best New Restaurant in America". Later that year, Brock joined an exclusive group of chefs from around the world in Japan to take part in the prestigious Cook It Raw, an event he went on to host two years later in Charleston. In the fall of 2013, Brock hosted season two of Anthony Bourdain's "The Mind of a Chef" on PBS. In February 2014, GQ named Husk Nashville one of the 12 Most Outstanding Restaurants of the year. Esquire included Husk Nashville in its "Best New Restaurants in America" in October 2014. His first cookbook, Heritage (Artisan Books), was released in October 2014, and is a New York Times bestseller and recipient of the 2015 James Beard Foundation Book Award for "American Cooking". Brock divides his time between Charleston and Nashville.


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YAKIMA, Wash. | Federal and state officials say six underground tanks holding a brew of radioactive and toxic waste are leaking at the country's most contaminated nuclear site in south-central Washington, raising concerns about delays for emptying the aging tanks.
The leaking materials at Hanford Nuclear Reservation pose no immediate risk to public safety or the environment because it would take perhaps years for the chemicals to reach groundwater, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Friday.
But the news has renewed discussion over delays for emptying the tanks, which were installed decades ago and are long past their intended 20-year life span.
"None of these tanks would be acceptable for use today. They are all beyond their design life. None of them should be in service," said Tom Carpenter of Hanford Challenge, a Hanford watchdog group. "And yet, they're holding two-thirds of the nation's high-level nuclear waste."
Just last week, state officials announced that one of Hanford's 177 tanks was leaking 150 to 300 gallons a year, posing a risk to groundwater and rivers. So far, nearby monitoring wells haven't detected higher radioactivity levels.
Inslee then traveled to Washington, D.C., to discuss the problem with federal officials, learning in meetings Friday that six tanks are leaking.
The declining waste levels in the six tanks were missed because only a narrow band of measurements was evaluated, rather than a wider band that would have shown the levels changing over time, Inslee said.
"It's like if you're trying to determine if climate change is happening, only looking at the data for today," he said. "Perhaps human error, the protocol did not call for it. But that's not the most important thing at the moment. The important thing now is to find and address the leakers."
Department of Energy spokeswoman Lindsey Geisler said there was no immediate health risk and that federal officials would work with Washington state to address the matter.
Regardless, Sen. Ron Wyden, the new chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, will ask the Government Accountability Office to investigate Hanford's tank monitoring and maintenance program, said his spokesman, Tom Towslee.
The federal government built the Hanford facility at the height of World War II as part of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb.
Six Leaking Waste Tanks Are Hanford Nuclear Site's Latest Woe
YAKIMA, Wash. | Federal and state officials say six underground tanks holding a brew of radioactive and toxic waste are leaking at the country's most contaminated nuclear site in south-central Washington, raising concerns about delays for emptying the aging tanks.


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Action / Sci-fi
Director: Neill Blomkamp
Running time: 109 mins Released: 23rd August 2013
Website: itsbetterupthere.com
About Elysium
More grimy sci-fi from the director of District 9. In the year 2154, Earth has become so polluted that the planet's upper classes have moved to Elysium, a massive space station filled with swimming pools and hi-tech gadgets that orbits high above the disenfranchised and the unlucky. Max (Matt Damon) is an ex-thief who just wants to survive each shift at his risky factory job, hoping that he can save enough money to move to Elysium eventually. One day, having been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation he is asked to help a revolutionary group in exchange for receiving a metal exo-skeleton and the chance to live a bit longer. He plans to infiltrate Elysium while defence minister Delacourt (Jodie Foster) is determined to keep all the poor people out.


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American Atheists
A leading scientific journal concludes that increasingly, scientists have doubts about the existence of a deity or similar supernatural and religious claims. This finding questions the pop-culture view that science and religion are moving toward a consensus, and a shared view about the humanity and the universe. The study also touches on the changing character of the scientific enterprise in modern society...
Web Posted: July 25, 1998
study in today's edition of the prestigious science journal "Nature" reveals that members of the scientific community are "more likely than ever to reject God and immortality," discloses Britain's Daily Telegraph.
That claim is based on another study which repeats a historic survey first made in 1916 by Dr. James Leuba of Bryn Mawr University. It revealed that over eight decades ago, only about 40% of the scientists surveyed expressed belief in any supreme being. Leuba predicted that advances in education and technology would further erode faith in religious claims.
In 1997, Edward Larson of the University of Georgia decided to revisit Leuba's study and evaluate the prediction that religious belief was disappearing, at least in the scientific community. Author of the book "Summer for the God's" and a professor of science law and history, Larson said that Leuba's original survey raised "good questions."
"They provoke responses and give much more insight into how people think than the vague Gallup poll question, 'Do you believe in God?'" he told a writer from Research Reporter.
Larson closely followed Leuba's methodology, repeating the same questions and attempting to find a representative sample which met the original survey profile. "I had no idea how it would turn out," Larson said.
60% responded, a figure considered high for any surveys. Of those, 40% expressed belief in a deity, while nearly 45% did not. Larson's survey also discovered that physicists were less likely to have such faith, while mathematicians were significantly more likely to believe in a supreme being, as defined by Leuba.
The follow-up study reported in "Nature" reveals that the rate of belief is lower than eight decades ago. The latest survey involved 517 members of the National Academy of Sciences; half replied. When queried about belief in "personal god," only 7% responded in the affirmative, while 72.2% expressed "personal disbelief," and 20.8% expressed "doubt or agnosticism." Belief in the concept of human immortality, i.e. life after death declined from the 35.2% measured in 1914 to just 7.9%. 76.7% reject the "human immortality" tenet, compared with 25.4% in 1914, and 23.2% claimed "doubt or agnosticism" on the question, compared with 43.7% in Leuba's original measurement. Again, though, the highest rate of belief in a god was found among mathematicians (14.3%), while the lowest was found among those in the life sciences fields -- only 5.5%.
Dr. Larson, in commenting on his 1997 replication of the 1916 study, noted that as with Leuba's report, his revelations elicited wildly different accounts in the news media. "It's being spun in different ways," Larson observed. "The Christian Science Monitor ran an editorial exhorting the fact that scientists still do believe -- despite the fact that well less than half of the scientists in my survey believed in God -- while the Journal of Humanism ran a piece proclaiming that they do not."
"Is the glass half empty or half full?," Larson asked.
It would be difficult to interpret the figures reported in "Nature," though, as suggesting that belief within the scientific community is gaining popularity, or even holding its own. The "belief in a person god" category suggests a precipitous drop, from about 40% in Larson's survey to 7% in the "Nature" study.
While Leuba and his study were historic curiosities when Dr. Larson and co-researcher Larry Witham decided to revisit the findings, during its time the 1916 survey ignited considerable controversy. Paul Karr of Research Reporter noted that Leuba's findings "touched off an anti-evolutionary movement that would culminate in the historic Scopes trial where science and Darwinism faced off against Christianity and creationism for the mind and soul of the American schoolchild." Indeed, just nine years after the Leuba findings, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes (1900-1970) was in the middle of a legal controversy, accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act which forbade the teaching of evolution in the state's public schools. The trial drew worldwide publicity, and was soon dubbed the Monkey Trial due to popular misconceptions about evolutionary findings -- that "people came from monkeys."
Criminal attorney Clarence Darrow faced off against the prosecution's most illustrious witness, former U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, a populist known for his famous "Cross of Gold" oration. Darrow conceded "the facts of the case," that Scopes had indeed violated the Butler Act -- but he also argued for the scientific validity of evolution. Scopes was convicted and fined $100, but the state supreme court later overturned the verdict on technical grounds; meanwhile, the Butler Act remained on the books in Tennessee until 1967.
But William Jennings Bryan, the consummate politician, also was typical of the "amateur scientist" of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, but as described by Edward Davis in a review of "Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science (James Gilbert, University of Chicago Press, 1997), was also "representative of an older, less abstract, way of understanding scientific knowledge, a common sense Baconianism that eschewed speculative hypotheses (such as evolution) and saw both science and religion as ways of glorifying God."
The paradigm exemplified by Bryan -- the practical, "amateur scientist" who understood the scientific enterprise as a reaffirmation of the sacred -- may be even less represented today within the academic community than when John Scopes went to trial in Dayton, Tennessee nearly three-quarters-of-a-century ago. Evolution, a core tenet of modern life sciences such as biology, was not a major point of contention even among professional academicians then. It reflected the tension between the "common sense" position of the "amateur scientists" and the more rigorously trained professionals. Davis argues that "Bryan's 'greatest mistake' was to assume that this view of science was still operative among professional scientists in the 1920s. Because it was still part of the popular conception of science, however, his actions leading up to the Scopes trial 'revealed a fault line between popular and professional science.'"
Today, the fault line appears between the scientific community which increasingly doubts supernatural or religion-based explanations of how the universe operates, and the wider popular culture which is in the midst of both a fundamentalist revival, and a disturbing popularity of new age and related pseudo science beliefs. One example could be the recent article in Newsweek Magazine, which suggests a convergence of scientific opinion and more traditional religious doctrines. The agreement may exist more in the news rooms of popular magazines, than in the libraries, labs and observatories where scientists actually do their work.


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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norwegian oil company Statoil said Thursday it may have relied too heavily on Algerian military protection at its Ain Amenas gas facility, which was attacked by armed terrorist in January.
"There is reason to question the extent of their reliance on Algerian military protection," Statoil said In a report on the incident.
An al-Qaida-linked militant group stormed the facility, jointly run by BP, Statoil and the Algerian state company Sonatrach, on Jan 16. In the ensuing standoff with Algerian forces 40 workers were killed, along with 29 militants.
"Our assessment was that the Algerian forces had the capacity to withstand an attack," Statoil CEO Helge Lund said. "We as a company should have been closer to the security work locally in Algeria. That we have improved now."
Torgeir Hagen, who headed Statoil's investigation, said the assault was unprecedented.
Inner security at the site — including protective barriers, unarmed guards and access control — was the responsibility of the joint venture while the outer security was in the hands of the Algerian military units, according to the report.
Algerian troops couldn't "prevent the attackers" and security measures failed "to withstand or delay an attack of this scale, and relied on military protection working effectively," he told reporters at the company headquarters in Norway.
"We must remember that the responsibility for the killing of 40 innocent people alone lies with the terrorists," Statoil board chairman Svein Rennemo added.
Algeria has bristled at any criticism about how they handled the crisis. The storming of the site by commandos was portrayed as a great victory, and the nation's president praised the military for its performance in taking back the gas plant.
An investigation into the attack by the government in March faulted private security firms charged with the installation's protection and announced that henceforth the military would be responsible for protecting the energy sites in Algeria.
Security has since been boosted at all sites around the country.
Since the attack, Statoil has not had any of its employees at Algerian sites. The 88-page report didn't address the company's future in the north-African country.
In Britain, the incident is subject to a coroner's inquest assisted by a police investigation.
"BP co-operated with Statoil's investigation and will support all official investigations carried out by relevant authorities and review all outcomes to determine what can be learned for the future," the British company said.
"Because of the nature of the incident and the fact that the response was an Algerian military operation, there are many questions arising which BP is not in a position to answer, including how the terrorists were able to breach the military zone to attack the plant," BP added.
Associated Press writer Paul Schemm in Rabat, Morocco, contributed to this report.