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(my question was born from bill maher's remarks at the 4:20 mark)
I have found myself thinking, am I really an atheist or an agnostic?
I'm not as religiously or savvy as most atheists are. You all have your arguments, your references and keen intellect to fall back on. I try to learn as much as I can from people like this but I know that I will probably not amount to their level of expertise on the subject.
The thing is, (and I saw this recently on a youtube video) I chose to be an atheist in because I knew that there was no such thing as god, and that I believe all the stories of religion, as well as it's followers are deluded. The fact that they are so certain about their beliefs annoys me even more.
However, my own certainty is that god does not exist and I use the basic arguments in order to debunk their theories. So, does me having this certainty that makes sense to me, mirror the certainty of religious people and their beliefs?
Of course I will never accept any kind of religion as an answer, nor do I think our lives are dominated by any kind of sentient force.
To this I ask, can I really consider myself an atheist? A person who doesn't believe in religion or its doctrines and deities.
To my understanding an agnostic is a person who is not certain of these supernatural powers, but may disagree with religions. Is this it?
And lastly can we say FOR SURE, there is no god/deity/force/giant energy ball of life/ flying spaghetti monster, just by presenting a lack of evidence from opposing arguments?
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Atheism and agnosticism are two different ideas. Atheism means you do not believe in gods. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist is a good start.
Agnosticism refers more specifically to the inability to know if gods exist. An agnostic might believe it is not possible to know, or they may simply decide they do not personally have enough information to make such a judgement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnostic
As far as I am concerned, ultimate knowledge of anything is unlikely. All our information comes from five senses and a chemical brain. Beyond that, science isn't out to disprove gods. It's the religious who want to prove them and the burden of proof is on their end. They haven't managed to convince me.
When I went through my own crisis of faith, o so many years ago, a friend told me, "Agnostic's just a chicken shit way to say atheist."
I'm not sure I agree with that sentiment, but for over 25 years, the memory of that moment has spurred me to go the full monty when asked to choose.
The Russell's Teapot argument doesn't totally deny the possibility of a god's existence: it merely consigns it to probablistic background noise.
it merely consigns it to probablistic background noise.That is an absolutely awesome phrase I love it.
Freer than any fundie can stomach --
no matter your brand name for freedom of conscience
The US Constitution offers each citizen a radical freedom which millions of fundies in Ameristan would deny to all. Even should some god exist, no US law may deny a sovereign, individual right to reject any claim that it must be acknowledged, accepted, or worshiped.
The fundie televangelists' golddigger, the 1-thug of the Big-3 Monster Theisms, the deistic god-of-the-state referred to on US coins and bills are beneath belief. No officer of the state or religious institution can command otherwise.
• Language which presupposes a supernatural reality is fiction
Supernatural claims are not false; they are vacuous. There are no supernatural agents, locations, states, events, or communications which can be described or spoken about.
1. No supernatural agents: minds, souls, spirits, ghosts, godlings, gods, God (Allah, YHVH), cosmic soul, the absolute, pantheistic "nature";
2. No supernatural locations: hell, purgatory, heaven, buddha realms, moral world order, transcendental existence;
3. No supernatural states: the numinous, sin, grace, revelation, life after death, illumination, nirvana, buddha mind;
4. No supernatural events: mysterium tremendum, redemption, resurrection, rapture, mystical union, karma, or reincarnation;
5. No supernatural communications: prayer, sacrifice, visions, apports, theophany, mysticism, inner light.
There are altogether no supernatural phenomena, only supernatural interpretations of phenomena.
the anti_supernaturalist
I fully agree that agnosticism is not just a steeping stone towards atheism. That's just a weak, undecided position. There is nothing wrong with saying that you don't believe in gods. Some people are just afraid to identify as atheist, because it appears to be a very loaded term in the US and many people have no clue what it means.
We don't need to disprove god with absolutely certainty. That's logically impossible. But we can be reasonably sure that he doesn't exist. For me the probability is so low that he is effectively non-existent. Maybe if there were some small proof out there. Then I could say "Maybe, but I'm not convinced yet". Plenty of scientific examples for that. But there is NO proof AT ALL. So to hold out on the mere remote possibility that there may be proof is nonsensical.
"my own certainty is that god does not exist"
To my mind, that makes you an atheist.
"can we say FOR SURE, there is no god/deity/force/giant energy ball of life/ flying spaghetti monster, just by presenting a lack of evidence from opposing arguments"
There was a recent thread discussing "Philosophy Is Dead". Restating (and paraphrasing) my opinion, discussing the "FOR SURE" of such matters becomes a word game depending upon precise definitions of words and concepts for which precise definitions don't exist. In other words if you can get past such metaphysical problems as "do I really exist", then you can state "no God exists" as easily and confidently as you can state "I am".
I consider myself agnostic with my understanding tending towards atheism. I cannot prove that there are no gods but I consider it highly probable that there are no gods and my behavior reflects this understanding.
A good explanation of agnosticism http://atheism.about.com/od/aboutagnosticism/a/huxley.htm
As said, the two aren't mutually exclusive. "Gnosis" literally means "knowledge" in Greek. Atheism about belief. You can be both and the whole thing is a spectrum
This chart explains it nicely:
Rene this is the age old question. Penn Jillette tackles this with his usual annoying but intelligent self. The video is below and fast forward to 3:55 to hear his thoughts.
Strictly speaking, agnostics are also atheists. An atheist is a person who does not believe in gods. That's the word's fundamental meaning. An agnostic is a person who says he does not, or cannot, know whether gods exist. A person who says he does not know whether gods exist plainly does not believe in any gods.
Or, as Judith Hayes puts it in her essay, "A Freethought Easter In Orlando":"One cannot be an agnostic. Agnostic means 'not to know' and almost by definition all humans are agnostic about God in that no one can be sure whether a God of some sort really exists. I know I haven't a clue. But no thinking person can say that he does not know if he acknowledges a God. We all know if we believe in a God. In our heart of hearts, we either do believe or we do not believe. Either way, we know if we believe. There is no such thing as not knowing if we believe. This supposedly 'neutral' position about the existence of God, agnosticism, is no position at all. The sooner it is eliminated the better, for all of us freethinkers, atheists, unbelievers, nonbelievers, humanists, or whatever."
The quote is true, but your conclusion isn't.
You can acknowledge that you don't know, but believe anyways. That's very definition of faith: believing without evidence


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Russell named EIVA Offensive Player of the Week
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- After helping the Penn State men's volleyball team to an undefeated weekend at home, junior Aaron Russell (Ellicott City, Md.) has been named the EIVA Offensive Player of the Week. as announced by the league Tuesday (Jan. 21) afternoon. The award is Russell's fifth career EIVA weekly accolade.
In the season home opener against then-No. 14 IPFW, Russell registered his first double-double of the season, posting 12 kills and 10 digs in the victory. The next evening, Russell returned to the court to lead the Nittany Lions to a 3-1 comeback victory against Ball State. He led the offense with a season-high 21 kills, adding four digs and one block. Russell averaged 4.71 kills per set on the week, hitting higher than .425 in each match.
Russell and the rest of the Nittany Lions (3-2) will return to action Friday, Jan. 31st, hosting Mount Olive at 7 p.m. in Rec Hall (Main Gym). Penn State will close out the weekend at home with its EIVA opener against in-state foe Saint Francis Saturday, Feb. 1 at 8 p.m. in Rec Hall (South Gym).
To view the complete EIVA weekly release, please click here
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The B.A. in Missions, like all other Bible-related degree programs at OC, provides an acquaintance with the biblical text and the necessary auxiliary studies to allow special preparation for mission work.
An OC graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Missions will:
- Learn how to communicate biblical truths effectively to people from cultural backgrounds different from their own.
- Become more aware of and sensitive to cultural differences than they were when they arrived on campus so that they can serve people from different cultural backgrounds effectively with a reduced likelihood of offending those people.
- Experience how New Testament Christianity functions in different cultural contexts through campaigns, missions internships, and, in some cases, overseas studies opportunities.
- Be sufficiently grounded in the Scriptures to be able to teach the word of God competently and faithfully regardless of the cultural context.
- Gain sufficient competence in a modern language other than English so as to be able to communicate at least at a basic level with a native speaker of that language.
- Learn the importance of the church in God's plan of salvation for people of every nation, every tongue, and every tribe.
- Learn the importance of growing spiritually and receive instruction in how to go about pursuing spiritual growth throughout their lives.
Student must complete a minimum of 126 hours including the major, core, and minor if required. Elective hours may be needed to reach 126 hours.
61 hours, plus 6 additional hours in biblical languages required, no minor required
1. 17 hours core courses
- BIBL-2512 - Personal Evangelism
- BIBL-2713 - Introduction to Ministry
- BIBL-3013 - Hermeneutics
- BIBL-3203 - Biblical Exegesis
- BIBL-3823 - Counseling for Ministers
- BIBL-4753 - Seminar in Christian Ministry
2. 3 hours chosen from
- BIBL-3913 - Homiletics I: Preparation & Delivery of Religious Speeches
- BIBL-4213 - Teaching the Bible to Adolescents
3. 3 hours chosen from
- BIBL-3173 - Church History to 1517
- BIBL-3183 - Church History 1517 to Present
- BIBL-4713 - Restoration Movement
4. 13 hours required missions courses
- MISS-3013 - Mission Preparation
- MISS-3213 - Church Growth
- MISS-3613 - Cultural Anthropology
- MISS-4714 - Missions Practicum
5. 6 hours elective missions courses
6. 5 hours Old Testament textual courses
7. 5 hours New Testament textual courses
8. 9 additional hours textual Bible courses
9. 6 hours, Biblical languages
A student must take 6 hours of Greek or 6 hours of Hebrew in addition to the above requirements for the B.A. in Missions.
- GREK-1113 - Elementary Greek I
- GREK-1213 - Elementary Greek II
- HBRW-3113 - Elementary Hebrew I
- HBRW-3213 - Elementary Hebrew II (May also count as Old Testament textual)
Note: In addition to the 6 hours of Greek, Missions majors must fulfill the Bachelor of Arts language requirement with 6 hours of a modern foreign language.
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WASHINGTON — Stuart J. Ishimaru, a member of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) since 2003, announced that he will resign his position as Commissioner this month. Mr. Ishimaru was nominated by President George W. Bush and is currently serving his second term that expires July 1, 2012.
Mr. Ishimaru worked to reinvigorate the agency's emphasis on race discrimination issues. He also was instrumental in the Commission's adoption of groundbreaking guidance and "best practices" to help employers avoid engaging in gender and disability discrimination against workers who have caregiving responsibilities. In addition, Mr. Ishimaru spearheaded the first public Commission meeting in years to focus on age discrimination, examining the effect of the recent recession and of adverse Supreme Court decisions on the rights of older workers to secure equal employment opportunity. He served as Acting Chair from January 20, 2009 until April 7, 2010.
During his tenure as Acting Chairman, Mr. Ishimaru worked to rebuild the EEOC, which had become under-funded and under-staffed. He dedicated substantial agency resources to a multi-million dollar training effort—the largest the agency had conducted in at least a decade—to equip EEOC employees with essential skills and knowledge they need to investigate and litigate large and complex discrimination (systemic) cases to bring about positive change in entire companies and industries.
Among other achievements, Mr. Ishimaru was the first Administration official to testify before Congress in support of the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, which would prohibit employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. He also testified before the Senate in support of the Paycheck Fairness Act (an Act to reinvigorate and bolster the protections against gender-based wage discrimination provided by the Equal Pay Act of 1963).
EEOC Chair Jacqueline Berrien said: "I thank Commissioner Ishimaru for his outstanding service to this agency and to the nation. His accomplishments as a member of the Commission and Acting Chairman have been exceptional. He has been a tremendous colleague, and we will miss his fervent commitment to civil rights law enforcement and myriad contributions to the work of the Commission."
Mr. Ishimaru previously served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice between 1999 and 2001, where he served as a principal advisor to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights, advising on management, policy, and political issues involving the Civil Rights Division. He supervised the Division's attorneys in high-profile litigation, including employment discrimination cases, fair housing and fair lending cases, criminal police misconduct, hate crime and slavery prosecutions, and enforcement of the Americans with Disabilities Act. From 1994-1999, Mr. Ishimaru served as Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and provided advice on a broad range of issues.
In 1993, Mr. Ishimaru was appointed by President Clinton to be the Acting Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and from 1984-1993 he served on the professional staffs of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights and two House Armed Services Subcommittees of the U.S. Congress.
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A documentary produced and premiering at Hope College considers the cross-cultural dynamics of service projects geared toward developing nations.
"When the West Brings Civilization Back to Africa" will be featured at the college's Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland on Saturday, Oct. 18, at 6:30 p.m.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
Created by Dr. Ji Hoon Park, assistant professor of communication, with Hope senior Samantha Webbert of Holland, the film focuses on the college's ongoing service and research project involving the village of Nkuv in Cameroon. It explores how the project, which has focused on improving water quality and hygiene education in the remote and rural community, has had some unintended consequences, with some of the villagers feeling discouraged even as it has literally saved lives.
Park emphasizes that the documentary is not a criticism of the project or its goals. Since beginning during the 2005-06 school year, it has been overwhelmingly successful, cutting the death rate of young children due to waterborne disease from four to six per year to zero in the first year and every year since. "I definitely think that they are doing such a great job," he said.
However, even as he and Webbert, a communication major, accompanied the Hope team this past May to document the successes, they were also interested in observing the project's effect on the village in other ways. And thus while Webbert developed a documentary about the water quality and hygiene training that the college will make available at no cost for other programs to use in helping similar communities, Park focused on Webbert's experiences as a first-time visitor and her conversations with the villagers themselves.
They found that while the villagers appreciated the team's work and the difference it was making, some were also experiencing a sense of inferiority, becoming painfully aware of the resources and opportunities they lacked in comparison.
"People from America came to this village, and children no longer die. How can you not develop a sense of Western superiority?," Park said. "The people often say, 'No, I'm not happy because we don't have the things that you people have.'"
"We may accidentally teach them that they're poor," he said. "And that's the saddest part."
Park noted that the documentary doesn't offer a solution to the problem. Instead, he hopes that it helps build awareness among organizations that engage in service efforts concerning the broader effect that their visits to such communities can have.
"There are no easy solutions to these questions," he said. "At least we can be more aware of these cultural dynamics in a small village like Nkuv and help the community members develop strong self-esteem and self-confidence."
It's a lesson that's very much on the minds of the Hope team. Dr. Jeff Brown of the Hope engineering faculty has been a part of the project since it began, and has experience with service in Africa that includes time with the Peace Corps.
"This film identifies a number of critical issues related to development work," said Brown, who is an assistant professor of engineering. "Cultural awareness and cultural sensitivity have always been major priorities for our group, but the film does capture glimpses of underlying cross-cultural dynamics that have forced us to ask very difficult questions."
A panel discussion will follow the screening of the film. Participants will include Dr. Amanda Barton, assistant professor of nursing; Brown; Mary Crickmore, of the Christian Reformed World Relief Committee; Dr. Tamba M'bayo, assistant professor of history; Park; an international student from Kenya; and two students from the college's chapter of Engineers Without Borders. Webbert is off-campus participating in the college's New York Arts Semester this fall, holding an internship with NBC.
The Hope service initiative, which is partnered with the Life and Water Development Group of Cameroon, began during the 2005-06 school year as a service project for the college's then-new student chapter of Engineers Without Borders-USA (EWB-USA), with an emphasis on providing Nkuv with purified water through the construction of free-standing bio-sand filters. During the first year the effort expanded to include the college's department of nursing, which surveyed the villagers' health and began working with them to improve hygiene, sanitation and nutrition.
Starting in 2007, the college's department of education became involved in helping to develop instructional materials that the people of Nkuv can use to teach themselves and others the health and hygiene lessons needed to improve health. The engineering effort has since expanded to include developing a piping system to bring water closer to the village from a river that is up to an hour's hike away.
The team is also emphasizing providing training so that the villagers can help themselves and train other remote communities as well. The villagers now build their own filters based on an initial design developed by the Center for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST) in Canada.
The Hope team has so far made five trips to Cameroon--in March, May and December of 2006, and in May of 2007 and 2008.
The improvement in the villagers' health has been measurable. Barton noted that her team's initial survey of the population found that many of the children in Nkuv had some form of water-related disease, often manifested through diarrhea or even bloody diarrhea. The problem was so acute that experience had shown that four to six children under the age of five could be expected to die in any given six-month period. Within six months, the rate of diarrhea and bloody diarrhea in children had declined by more than 50 percent, and no children have died from diarrhea or dehydration since the college started the filter project.
The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St. The documentary runs 106 minutes.


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CNBC's 2012 Top States for Business study results are out and Texas is on top. In addition to its overall No. 1 ranking, Texas maintained the top spot in the infrastructure and transportation category for the second year in a row and the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) couldn't be more proud.
"Texas stands alone as the leader in economic development and job creation and providing the infrastructure for that activity is a daily undertaking for our team," said Texas Transportation Commission Chairman Ted Houghton. "We are moving forward with multiple mega projects across the state, including the I-35 corridor expansion and I-69 from south Texas to east Texas. Activities like these undoubtedly helped us surge to the top of the ranks."
"This recognition is a good testament that TxDOT has become more innovative in constructing our state infrastructure while continuing to address congestion, connectivity and safety needs," said Senator Tommy Williams, Chairman of the Senate Transportation and Homeland Security Committee. "As chairman, my goal is to look for methods to maintain and fund ongoing and future projects, especially as the state population continues to grow, and I am proud of what we've accomplished in Texas."
According to CNBC, Texas racked up an impressive 1,604 points out of a possible 2,500, with top-10 finishes in six of the 10 categories of competitiveness. Of the 325 total possible points for the Infrastructure and Transportation category, Texas scored 248.
"Texas is making the proper investment in infrastructure and being recognized as a national leader proves we are on the right track," said TxDOT Executive Director Phil Wilson. "Achieving this great honor, however, would not be possible without the hard work and commitment of all TxDOT employees statewide."
Access to all modes of transportation is key to getting products to market and people on the move. CNBC measured the vitality of each state's transportation system by the value of goods shipped by air, land and water. They also looked at the availability of air travel in each state, and the quality of the roads.
"Good transportation infrastructure is vital to achieving economic development in our state. It's nice to see our efforts are paying off here in Texas," said Representative Larry Phillips, Chair of the House Transportation Committee. "We will continue to work hard in the upcoming session to ensure good policy and funding is available to help TxDOT succeed."
"We continuously work with all of our partners to address transportation needs throughout the state--from highways to ports to rail to aviation," Wilson said. "Through the collaboration with local communities, we are able to deliver needed improvements now and provide the foundation for the future."
To read the full report or see the overall rankings of all states in each of the 10 categories, visit http://www.cnbc.com/id/46413845/.


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UK Student Charged For 'Grossly Offensive' Facebook Post
from the fighting-for-the-right-to-not-be-offended? deptJust in case anyone needed another reminder that Britain's "Free Speech" laws are more about what's not included than what is, a UK citizen has just been found guilty of "sending a grossly offensive communication," a crime under the Malicious Communications Act of 1988.
Azher Ahmed posted a message on his Facebook page in response to the news that six British soldiers had died in an Afghanistan IED attack. His message was as follows:
People gassin about the deaths of Soldiers! What about the innocent familys who have been brutally killed. The women who have been raped. The children who have been sliced up! Your enemy's were the Taliban not innocent harmful familys.Recognizing the fact that the UK does not have the same sort of free speech protection that the US does, it's still somewhat troubling that a Facebook post of this nature is considered a criminal act. The message is ugly and completely devoid of sensitivity (or logic), but is it so offensive as to be a criminal offense? The district court certainly believes it is.
All soldiers should DIE & go to HELL! THE LOWLIFE F****N SCUM! Gotta problem. Go cry at your soldiers grave and wish him hell because that's where he is going.
A lot of terminology was used by both parties in an attempt to draw the line between what's acceptable and what's arrestable. Ahmed felt the message was "distressing" but not "offensive." The judge said his remark was "derogatory, disrespectful and inflammatory."
The comment could certainly be considered all of the above, but pursuing cases like this in an effort to keep the public from being distressed or offended is an exercise in futility. There's no shortage of statements people find offensive, but the defining line is subjective. There's no true baseline for "offensive," and yet the judicial system somehow believes "offensiveness" can be objectively determined and enforced.
This puts the judicial system in the position of forming opinions on behalf of its citizens. Ahmed himself met with plenty of opposing opinion soon after posting his message. As his account of the event shows, the "court of public opinion" had already rendered a verdict.
Ahmed told the court he immediately started to receive critical comments on his page and realised the second half of his post was "unacceptable".When someone deletes a post because of negative comments, the system has already worked. This doesn't excuse the person writing the post, but in Ahmed's case, he'd already received plenty of feedback on the "wrongness" of his opinion, and acted on the feedback.
Ahmed told the court he was only trying to make the point that many other deaths in Afghanistan were being ignored. He said he had no idea it would cause so much upset and as soon as he realised what reaction it was having he deleted it.
Ahmed said: "I didn't intend to insult them at the time.Including the demonstrations at his court appearances, derogatory Facebook pages and threats being made against his employer as well as against an unrelated "Azhar," it seems almost redundant for a court to step in a render a verdict. The severe limits imposed on speech in an effort to protect people from "offensive messages" has had enough of a chilling effect that most UK-hosted articles dealing with this court case have their comments shut off. (Comments are available on this editorial at The Guardian, but the thread appears to be heavily moderated.)
"When I read back on it, that's when I realised I had actually insulted and upset a lot of people."
He said he replied with apologies to many people who commented on his page and when some told him they had lost relatives in Afghanistan he realised how serious it was.
"That's when I realised it was unacceptable for them to see something so upsetting and distressing, to write something like that," he added.
Enforcing a national "niceness" is an impossibility, but its unintended consequences include criminalizing the most basic human trait of all: stupidity. The general population already has very effective ways of dealing with those who are "stupid in public," especially those who are "stupid on the internet." Despite the fact that the law was conceived to deal with a digital age, at no point does it seem to have been crafted to deal with nuances like opinion, emotion or venue. It only encourages citizens to engage the legal system every time they've been offended.
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Chances of finding the black boxes containing data that would presumably clear up the mystery of flight MH370 are dropping with every passing day, US military officers said Sunday.
The plane disappeared earlier this month in the Indian Ocean.
US Navy Capt. Mark Matthews said that it will be practically impossible to locate the black boxes, the "beepers" on which have a battery life of 30-45 days, before the batteries die somewhere in the area of 319,000 square km where the plane is being sought.
"Everything depends on how effectively we're reducing the search area," Matthews, who participated in the search for Air France flight 447, which crashed in the Pacific Ocean in 2009, told the Sydney Morning Herald.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 left Kuala Lumpur March 8 at 12.41 am and was scheduled to land in Beijing roughly six hours later. But it disappeared from radar screens less than an hour after takeoff.
Flight MH370 - carrying 227 passengers, most of them Chinese, and a crew of 12 Malaysians - had enough fuel to fly for 7.5 hours.
On Sunday, the Australian vessel Ocean Shield, equipped with a black box detector and an unmanned submarine vehicle, set sail from the southwestern Australian city of Perth and is expected to arrive in the search zone in three days.
Twenty-four days have passed since the Boeing 777 belonging to Malaysian Airlines disappeared.
Meanwhile, Australian authorities confirmed that the objects recovered Saturday from the waters off their country's western coast do not belong to the vanished aircraft.
Also read:
Missing Malaysia Airlines flight Search Remains Futile but Continues
Australia Hopeful as More Items Pulled from Sea
Chinese Demand More Information on Missing Plane
Black Box Detector to join Malaysian Jet Search


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Transgender Sports Rules Governor Jerry Brown signed a contentious bill Monday that will allow California students to choose the restroom, locker room or sports team that best matches their gender identity. The bill was designed to promote the equality of transgender students but it is unclear how the new policy will affect non-transgender students, both in locker rooms and in head-to-head sports based on the biological abilities of sexes, not gender identity.
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News Network Former UC Davis police lieutenant John Pike filed a worker's compensation claim last month, saying he had sustained psychiatric injury after using pepper spray on Occupy UC Davis protestors in November 2011. His hearing was originally scheduled for today, but it has since been taken out of court. Reporter Cory Golden from The Davis Enterprise joins us for this week's News Network to explain the situation. Plus, The Sacramento Bee's reporter Ryan Lillis has more arena news. He'll give us the details on a significant donation to an anti-arena ballot measure that came from the law firm that represents the Maloofs.
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Prison Strike: An Insider's Perspective David Warren, a former volunteer prison chaplain, has spent time counseling some of California's most dangerous inmates in the Security Housing Unit. Today, he will relate his experiences behind the walls of California prisons and his views on the recent state prison hunger strike protesting the solitary confinement of inmates with gang affiliations.
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Jazz Soloist Chris Brubeck On the schedule for Lake Tahoe SummerFest this weekend is renowned jazz soloist Chris Brubeck. On Friday, he is slated to perform his "Concerto for Bass Trombone," while Sunday afternoon's family concert will include a piece with local flair: "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." He joins us today with SummerFest maestro Joel Revzen to preview the weekend's festivities.
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There is a well-established relationship between cycling power and speed. Power is proportional to retarding force multipled by speed, or equivalently, work done is proportional to retarding force multiplied by unit distance traveled. The retarding force consists of the following:
- a rolling resistance component, proportional to weight multiplied by a "rolling resistance coefficient", which depends primarily on the tires and their air pressure
- a wind resistance component, which is proportional to the square of the the relative wind speed, to the air mass density, to the cross-sectional area of the cyclist and bike, and to a drag coefficient which is affected by the aerodynamic efficiency of the rider and equipment
- inertial force, which is proportional to the rate of change of speed.
Anyway, what's lost in the model is the power associated with moving body parts around. With a bike, the body is relatively still, and while the legs are moving up and down, they're coupled, so one leg moving down while the other moves up allows the weight of the dropping leg push up on the rising leg, so in principal no work must be done by the muscles to sustain this motion. This is in part while cycling is so efficient.
Running is a different story. The legs are no longer coupled, so when I lift my foot at the rear end of my stride,my muscles need to actively work to make that happen. Even if my opposite foot is falling at the same time, the coupling between the two is likely fairly weak, so lifting and dropping the legs is going to take a toll. Similarly, each stride a runner's center of mass is moving up and down, much more so than with seated cycling. While a bouncing ball can move up and down a substantial number of times without external energy, humans don't bounce so well. So keeping that center of mass moving requires power from the muscles.
I'll post some equations next time...


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By CHELSEY PLETTS
The beach was dark. Naval guns had cleared enemy resistance the night before. The shoreline stood deserted — except for Joseph Steventon and his team.
After a rough 35-hour journey from Milne Bay to a beachhead in Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, Steventon and his men were dropped in enemy territory unescorted. Steventon was Executive and Technical Officer with the 989th Signal Service Company responsible for establishing communication lines between American forces.
He was only 25 years old.
The seven men set up their tents between the jungle and the sea. Coffee boiled as they checked equipment. Side arms rusted from heavy humidity. The beach was quiet, but silence, ambiguous during wartime, never lasted. A mile of thick jungle distanced the sounds of battle and the men settled in the brief quietude. Only to be roused abruptly by a jolt. The ground rumbled, deer bound from the jungle as an earthquake growled down the coast, propelling man and beast to the sand.
Even before troops combed through Indonesia on their way to the Philippines during World War II, Steventon and his company were two steps ahead of them. His position in the army did not involve blazing guns and flamboyant heroism. His was a job of invisibility and bravery in the name of communication. Forging into unknown territory with minimal equipment and the mission in mind, Steventon and his team set the basis for communication during the war.
Steventon was a talkative boy, and he understood the value of exchanging information even when he was young. His love of technology and communication took off at an early age, when he was fascinated by radios.
In 1930, at age 11, he shadowed his cousin Ace, an announcer and musician for the General Electric radio station WGY in New York. Ace took Steventon to work with him where he mingled with headliners of the day, like blind pianist Alec Templeton. And at 16, Steventon went into work for General Electric in Bridgeport, Conn., as a student engineer in their radio division.
Just four years later, the war in Europe flared up and Uncle Sam called reservists for duty. Steventon, with his Amateur Radio License, became a Morse code operator. He decided to enlist and get a good position before the draft started. In the morning he walked into the enlistment office, and by 1:30 p.m. he was in the Army and on a train bound to Fort Devens in Massachusetts for two weeks of recruitment training.
Army Intelligence chose him for extra duty as an undercover operative to copy messages from enemy submarines. The mission assisted the U.S. Marshalls in the capture of a portion of the spy ring of enemy subs off the Atlantic seaboard. Then, he left port on the "Sea Marlin" and sailed with his crew across the ocean alone, no escort, the first ship to do this since the war began.
Before his passion for radios took hold, Steventon loved music. The Steventons lived in a clapboard farmhouse on Mt. Cushman Road in Rochester. Steventon's father played the fife. Both father and son played the instruments while marching in town parades. Throughout his lifetime, Steventon stayed in touch with music. He called square dances and polka dances, played fiddle, accordion, trumpet, guitar and piano. Last year, Steventon could be seen playing keyboard at the Peavine Restaurant in Stockbridge on Thursdays. But, said his son Bruce, who lives in Rochester, it was mostly just a chance for him to socialize.
Steventon's wife Margaret was quiet, unlike Steventon. She often held a serious expression in photographs. Both slight in build, dark hair and standing around five feet six inches, the couple almost look alike, except for Steventon's Cheshire grin.
After the war, they moved into the Mt. Cushman Road farmhouse in Rochester. It was in poor condition, having been vacant for some years, and only one room was livable. They purchased some chickens, a calf and a tractor. The couple took their two young children to the sugarhouse where the oldest, Joan, played and the infant, Tom, nestled in a drawer of a bureau while they worked. They were busy from sun up to sun down and earned enough to pay the bills and feed their five children. Margaret kept up with the bookkeeping and stretched the budget enough so the family could gas up the car for weekend excursions, often times joining their neighbors, the Gees, for a picnic on Beebe Lake.
In 1969, Steventon was elected to the Legislature while working as a millwright on Saturdays, Sundays and most Mondays at Weyerhaeuser in Rochester. While on lunch break in Montpelier, Steventon played card games with fellow members of the house and liked to go out for fish fries. He took a job as an engineer in 1979 for Omya in Florence, Vermont, and did not retire from the Legislature until 1981. Steventon worked for Omya until he was 80.
Steventon's son Bruce said his father's busy schedule wasn't so much about work as it was about keeping in touch with people. Steventon passed away this spring at 89 years old, staying active in the community and visiting with people until the very end.
Bruce remembered a story Steventon told him about the war. While American soldiers lay asleep in their tents, Steventon saw Japanese soldiers sneak into their camp and steal food. Though they were the enemy, he understood that the emaciated men were desperate to survive, and so he let them take their fill of the rations and leave.
At the most basic level, Steventon understood the language of people and humanity. He was a communicator on every level; through music, radio, storytelling and chitchat, Steventon went to great lengths just to keep people connected.


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The Draw of the Bow
Heritage, training and technology come together for a memorable first bow hunt.
By Reid Wittliff
I grew up in Central Texas in the 1970s and '80s. Most of my childhood friends spent at least a couple of weekends each fall with their dads in a deer camp.
I didn't. For whatever reason, my dad was not into deer hunting.
Not that I didn't get my fair share (and maybe more) of time outdoors with my dad. He loved to fly fish, and I learned early. Even so, I always had the itch to hunt. Maybe it's in my genes. My grandmother and her father both regularly hunted deer. He was a Texas German named Emil Sachtleben. Born poor in Blanco County in 1881, he lived a tough, hardscrabble life.
The author's grandmother and stepgrandfather, with memories of past deer hunts on the wall.
One of his few recreational joys was deer hunting. He didn't hunt from a stand or near a feeder. He liked to roam the woods, find a tree and sit at its base to wait for a deer to walk by.
My grandmother loved to hunt, too. After my dad and uncle were grown, she hunted each fall on her ranch in the Texas Hill Country. She used a weathered .30-30 rifle with a cut-down stock that fit her small frame perfectly. Grandma never hunted in camo. She wore farmers' coveralls and a bright orange knit cap.
I have the antlers from her last buck hanging on a wall. The plaque bears her name, the date and "Age 89."
Grandma's last buck, taken at age 89.
Once, when I was about 12, my stepgrandfather "Pop" took me hunting on Grandma's ranch. I was nervous and excited. When a buck walked in front of the stand, I watched it through the scope.
"Go ahead, lower the boom on him," Pop said, and I pulled the trigger. The buck fell. Then he got up and ran. We spent the next two hours, one in pitch-blackness, searching for him.
We found him, but I ended up with a sour taste in my mouth from the fear of losing him. I didn't hunt deer again for 30 years.
Deer hunting came back into my life after Grandma passed away and I became the steward of her Hill Country ranch. There is no live water on the property, and that part of the Hill Country doesn't offer much in the way of bird hunting. But there are deer. A lot of deer.
When I took over at the ranch, I decided I should hunt them, because I needed to reduce their numbers, because I thought it might be fun and because I felt some pull to carry on where Grandma left off.
That first season, I hunted from an old wooden stand some lease hunters had scabbed together. I put up a feeder about 100 yards from the stand. I sat in the stand three or four times that fall and saw numerous does and a couple of good bucks. I decided to shoot only does because I knew we had too many. Twice I "lowered the boom." I made good shots and had easy recoveries.
That first year back in the stand, I found that I enjoyed the sitting, waiting and watching more than the actual shooting. I saw a lot of nature from the stand — birds, squirrels, an occasional armadillo or raccoon — and I watched as thunderstorms rumbled in the distance or as a burnt orange sun dipped past the horizon.
But I found something about shooting deer with a rifle lacking. When I went fly fishing on the coast, I knew a skilled presentation and deft line-stripping and hook-setting meant the difference between fish and no fish. Rifle hunting, in contrast, felt preordained. The deer did not have much of a chance.
After that first season, I wasn't sure I would continue to deer hunt for pleasure. I figured I would shoot a deer or two each year for venison and for population control, but I thought it would be more chore than recreation. Then I was introduced to bow hunting.
I have friends who are both fly fishermen and bow hunters. One buddy I've fished with for years had long been after me to try bow hunting. He finally got my attention one day when I was telling him about rifle hunting on the ranch.
"Really," he said, "you've got to try it with a bow. It's the fly fishing of hunting." Then he showed me his hunting bow.
Like fine fly rods, modern bows are things of beauty filled with technology. Crisscrossed strings wind around nautilus-shaped cams. Harmonic dampeners sit inside the bow's limbs to reduce noise and vibration. A peep sight is interwoven in the bow string and aligns with fiber-optic pins for aiming.
They are, in a word, cool.
I outfitted myself with a new bow and all the accoutrements. I then began the process of learning to shoot it.
I am not a golfer, but I imagine learning proper archery technique is akin to trying to master a golf swing. There is a proper stance, manner of nocking an arrow and technique for drawing the bow. Your bow-hand grip is critical. Counterintuitively, you must hold the bow loosely, with a relaxed hand and arm, to avoid torquing the bow and slinging the arrow off-target.
Your anchor point, the place where you rest your release hand on your face, is equally important. It has to rest in the exact same location for each shot to be consistent.
Modern bows are complex pieces of equipment.
Great archers learn to aim and release their arrows without consciously meaning to do so, a so-called surprise release. The whole process has a sort of yin/yang to it. Strength, relaxation, focused thought and a clear mind all play a part. There are times you think you will never get it and other times when it just seems easy. When you do get it, the sensation is not unlike casting a fly rod — smooth, graceful and quiet.
Shooting a bow is only half of bow hunting. The art of hunting is just as involved, if not more so. You must be close — for me, 30 yards — to the deer while remaining undetected to be successful. This is not easy. Deer have keen eyesight and a hyper-alert sense of smell. Many bow hunters opt to hunt from a tree stand because the height removes the hunter from the deer's line of sight and, hopefully, raises his scent above the deer.
Each day after work, I practiced with my bow. When the season approached, I purchased a metal ladder stand and set it up in a tree near a game trail and a little opening ringed with oaks.
One day, driving to this spot, I saw a thick-necked buck with a beautifully symmetrical and wide eight-point rack. He was unlike any buck I had seen on the ranch. I vowed to hunt for him during the upcoming season.
In Texas, like most places, there is a special archery season that opens a month before rifle season, typically around Oct. 1. I had other plans the first weekend in October, but was free the next weekend. This would be my first bow hunt.
Dressed head-to-foot in camo clothing, washed in a special soap to hide my scent, I walked quietly to my stand in the ring of oaks. I tied my bow and quiver to a rope and climbed up. I secured my harness and pulled up my bow. I put on my release, nocked an arrow and sat for a minute to get my bearings.
A productive bow hunt depends on a smooth, quiet and accurate shot. The hours of preparation and practice come down to the split-second of an arrow's release.
I was in the stand early in the evening and planned for a long wait.
To my surprise, about 15 minutes later, I heard steps approaching from the right. I slowly pulled my bow from where it was hanging and inched forward on the platform.
I heard another few steps, heavy steps. My palms were sweaty. I slowly cocked my head to the right and peered through the leaves. Another step. Then, I saw the top edge of an antler emerge.
I debated whether to draw my bow before the buck came into full view. I decided to do so. I extended my left arm, carefully and softly wrapped my left hand high on the bow handle, attached my release and slowly drew the string. I anchored on my face and rotated the bow to where I expected to see the deer emerge into the open.
A few seconds later, a tall-tined nine-point buck walked within view. He was perfectly broadside, big-shouldered and mature. He had a beautiful rack. I had never seen this deer before.
He was amazing.
I watched the buck through the peep sight and placed the pin just below mid-body, in line with the back of his front leg. I second-guessed my decision to try for only the symmetrical eight-point buck. And then, without consciously meaning to do so, I let down the bow and let out my breath as quietly as I could.
Within minutes, five or six does joined the nine-point buck at the feeder. I kept still and watched as the does fussed at one another. The buck ignored them. There were now six or seven deer within 15 or 20 yards of my perch. It was mesmerizing.
I heard steps again. This time they were coming from behind me, the downwind direction. I carefully got my bow ready.
The steps stopped, and the unseen deer stamped its hoof, then snorted. The does at the feeder snapped up their heads. The downwind deer angrily snorted again and sprinted away. The other deer instantly bolted, leaving only settling dust. It was about 6:30 p.m., and I was sure the hunt was over. I hung up my bow and planned to wait for the sun to set.
About 30 minutes later, I thought I heard a rustle to my left. I cocked my head and listened intently. I heard slow steps. My heart picked up its pace. I pulled up my facemask and reached for my bow. I heard steps, a pause, more steps. Then, just above a pile of cut cedar, I saw the nose and long, distinctive antlers of the symmetrical eight-point buck.
He stood staring straight ahead and still. I tried to maintain a steady breath. He took six more steps and stood broadside, right in my shooting lane. As slowly as I could, I drew the bow.
I forced myself to ignore his rack and focused on a spot just behind his shoulder. I anchored my release and told myself to relax.
I aimed the sight pin and gently released the arrow.
The arrow flew straight, and the shot felt smooth. The buck leapt and kicked his rear legs high in the air. He landed, wheeled back the way he had come and was gone.
I was dazed and just shy of hyperventilating. I hung up the bow and replayed the shot in my mind. I hoped it had been a good shot, but I couldn't be sure. Best to wait, I told myself. I checked my watch and committed to wait at least 30 minutes.
The author and his dog, Belle.
Those 30 minutes seemed like an eternity. At last, I climbed down from the stand. I found the arrow. I began searching the area near where the buck had stood for spots of blood but found none. I grew anxious, second-guessing my shot. My gut tightened, and I thought of the last time I had searched for a buck, 30 years before.
I slowly walked down the trail the buck had used to come to the feeder. I scanned the ground and leaves. I circled back and decided to drop down the slope behind the feeder. Nothing.
The sun had set and light was fading. I was worried. I turned left to make a third loop. Hunched over, I searched the ground. I stopped and glanced up.
There he was, head erect and his wide, symmetrical antlers wedged through a persimmon tree. The shot had been good. A wave of relief washed over me, and I went to him. He was beautiful.
As I sat there alone in the twilight looking at the buck, I felt no desire to whoop or pump my fist in the air. What I did feel was bone-deep satisfaction and humbleness.
Later, I had the buck mounted, and it hangs near the antlers of my grandmother's last deer. She would have shared in the joy of this hunt and in my becoming a bow hunter.
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SYCAMORE – About $18,000 stands in the way of establishing a life-size memorial of Wally Thurow in time for this year's Sycamore Pumpkin Festival.
The Wally Thurow Tribute Committee is a little less than 30 percent shy of its fundraising goal to erect a life-size bronze statue of Thurow, affectionately known as Mr. Pumpkin, who died in 2012. Thurow was the founder of the Sycamore Pumpkin Festival, which has been a citywide mainstay since 1962.
"It's one way to commemorate who Wally was and what the festival has become," committee Treasurer Denis Jagodzinski said.
Thurow unofficially started the celebration in 1956 when he displayed some decorated pumpkins in his front yard around Halloween. Through the efforts of Thurow and the Sycamore Lions Club, the Pumpkin Festival became official in 1962.
The annual fall festival serves as a fundraising event for dozens of nonprofits and includes a carnival, house walk and display of pumpkins. It concludes with a parade through downtown. Committee members believe the placement is fitting because the parade will pass by that corner every year.
"He'll basically be looking down the parade route," Jagodzinski said.
The committee's goal is to raise $65,000 to build the statue of Thurow as he is remembered, standing next to his trademark high-wheel bicycle in top hat. The city of Sycamore has endorsed the statue's permanent location at the northwest corner of Somonauk and Elm streets in Sycamore.
Committee members would like the statue to be in place in time for this year's festival and hope to hit the fundraising goal by Sept. 1.
Elizabeth-based artist David Seagraves, who created an 18-inch scale model of the statue and will mold the clay for the actual statue, said it will take about five months for it to be complete with bronze casting. He expects to start the clay mold in April. When it is finished, the statue will be a little less than six feet tall and weigh around 450 pounds.
The real statue also will be more detailed and true to Mr. Pumpkin than the small one.
"His bike will pretty much look like the one he had with a disc in the front tire that says Mr. Pumpkin," Seagraves said.


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LKA Announces Name Change to "LKA Gold Incorporated" and Other Corporate Developments
Company completes restructuring process to prepare for expansion of exploration program at its Golden Wonder mine.
Mar 15, 2013, 02:00 ET
GIG HARBOR, Wash., March 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- LKA International, Inc. (OTCQB: LKAID) announced today that it received final approval from FINRA to change the Company's name to "LKA Gold Incorporated" and to reverse spilt the Company's shares on a one-for-two basis. LKA's stock symbol will remain the same ("LKAI") but will carry the additional letter "D" for twenty business days to signify that the stock is trading after giving effect to the reverse split…"post split."
These recent actions are the culmination of a seven-month effort to enhance the Company's recognition within the gold mining industry and prepare for expanded exploration activities at its Golden Wonder mine in Lake City, CO.
According to LKA Chairman, Kye Abraham, "This has been a lengthy process but we believe that adding 'Gold' to our name, changing our share structure and cleaning the debt off our balance sheet puts us in a much better position to maximize shareholder value as we move forward with this exciting project."
Last October, the Company finalized a settlement with creditors to exchange 7,774,221 shares of the Company's common stock for approximately $1.6 million in outstanding debt and warrant obligations
About LKA & The Golden Wonder Mine
From 1998 through the second quarter of 2006, LKA's Golden Wonder mine, with a single mining crew, produced over 133,701 ounces of gold from ore with an average grade of 16.01 oz. (453.8 grams) per ton making it one the richest gold mines in North America. In 2009, LKA commenced an exploration program to re-establish reserves and return the mine to commercial production. Since then, LKA's has shipped bulk ore samples containing more than 2,942 ounces of gold resulting in net gold sales of $3.3 million. Average ore grades during this exploration program have exceeded 1.52 ounces (43 grams) per ton. Investors are cautioned that a commercially viable ore reserve has yet to be established and there can be no assurance that one will be.
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LKA's plans to resume/expand Golden Wonder production are subject to a number of conditions including, but not limited to, favorable geology, successful exploration efforts, favorable financing terms/availability, permits, gold prices, market conditions, etc. Mining and related activities are inherently high-risk endeavors and there can be no assurance that LKA will be successful. This press release contains certain forward-looking statements. Statements contained in this press release that are not purely historical are considered forward-looking. When used in this press release, the words "plan", "target", "anticipate," "believe," "estimate," "intend" and "expect" and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. Such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, the statements regarding LKA International, Inc.'s future plans for exploration and/or production, future expenses and costs, future liquidity and capital resources, and estimates of ore, ore grades and mineralized material. All forward-looking statements in this press release are based upon information available to LKA International, Inc. on the date of this press release and the Company assumes no obligation to update any such statements. Forward-looking statements involve a number of risks and uncertainties, and there can be no assurance that such statements will prove to be accurate. The Company's actual results could differ materially from those discussed in this press release. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Company Contact:
LKA Gold Incorporated
Kye Abraham, President
(253) 514-6661
Investor Contact:
Riverview Capital
Jonathan Barkman, President
(610) 390-2199
SOURCE LKA Gold Incorporated


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- Ohio State University officials are trying to get a handle on a tradition that has students plunging into a frigid campus lake on Ohio State-Michigan week.
In previous years, the university has just let it happen. This year, officials are trying to at least regulate it.
The Columbus Dispatch (http://bit.ly/181UNtl ) reports that temporary fencing is already up around Mirror Lake and OSU officials announced that only students who are issued special wrist bands will be allowed to take the plunge.
Students must pick up the wrist bands at the Ohio Union before it closes Tuesday. Alumni and other Buckeyes fans will be shut out.
OSU says the move is to protect students, who have expressed their outrage via social media.
The annual Mirror Lake jump began in 1990.
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Mildred A. "Mitzi" Blumenthal, a former substitute teacher and philanthropist, died Monday from anemia at Sunrise of Pikesville, an assisted-living facility. She was 96.
The former Mildred Alexander was born in Baltimore and raised on Loyola Southway in Lower Park Heights.
She was a 1933 graduate of Western High School and earned a bachelor's degree in 1937 from Goucher College, where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.
She worked as a forensic chemist for the federal government during World War II and for many years as a substitute teacher.
Mrs. Blumenthal was an accomplished artist who worked in oils and painted reproductions of such Impressionists as Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Cezanne, who were her favorites, family members said.
She was a lifelong Democrat and campaigned for presidential candidates Adlai Stevenson in 1952 and 1956, and John F. Kennedy in 1960. She maintained a lively interest in current events.
After her first marriage to Edward H. Prager ended in divorce, she married Sydney C. Blumenthal Jr., chief executive of Blumenthal-Kahn Electric Co. Inc., in 1974. He died in 1999.
The couple established and endowed the annual Sydney C. and Mitzi Blumenthal Lecture Series and Award for Contributions to Management in Technology at the Johns Hopkins University.
The couple's other charitable interests included the Baltimore Museum of Art, Sinai Hospital and Temple Oheb Shalom.
The longtime resident of Clark's Lane in Pikesville was a world traveler and a gourmet cook who enjoyed entertaining family and friends.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m Thursday at Sol Levinson & Bros., 8900 Reisterstown Road.
Mrs. Blumenthal is survived by her three sons, Gordon Prager of Pasadena, Wayne Prager of Borkop, Denmark, and Charles Prager of London; three grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.


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The Buffalo Beast has produced lists of "The 50 Most Loathsome Americans" almost every year this decade (see their lists for: 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) To recap, the most loathsome over the years, with…
Three entries: Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mel Gibson, Michael Jackson, Barack Obama, Bill O'Reilly, Sarah Palin
Four entries: Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, John McCain
Five entries: Ann Coulter, Joe Lieberman
Six entries: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney
Included every year thus far: "You"
I know this because I tried to put the info from the lists on Wikipedia last year, but they didn't like that :( But hey, neither did Orly Taitz ;)
Their 2011 list is
due any day now; HERE! In the mean time though, I thought I'd guess (total not guaranteed to equal 50) who might be on the list when it gets published, in alphabetical order:
Scott Adams
Roger Ailes
Casey Anthony
Levi Aron
Joe Arpaio
Any/all of these Bad Governors (Rick Scott (Florida), Paul LePage (Maine), Tom Corbett (Pennsylvania), Rick Perry (Texas) note: see also below, Jan Brewer (Arizona), John Kasich (Ohio), Rick Snyder (Michigan), Scott Walker (Wisconsin) )
David Barton
Glenn Beck
Rebecca Black
Michael Bloomberg
John Boehner
Harold Camping (I wasn't raptured because I'm a godless heathen; what's his excuse?)
Deryl Dedmon (and 'friends')
The Duggars (specifically the parents: their 19+2 kids didn't ask to be born)
John Freshwater
Reed Hastings (Netflix CEO)
Christopher Hitchens
Victoria Jackson (INSANE.)
Kim Kardashian
Amy Koch
Charles & David Koch
Steve Jobs
Rush Limbaugh
Jared Lee Loughner
Keith Mason (Personhood USA)
Grover Norquist (Americans for Tax Reform)
Barack Obama (even if only for signing the Patriot Act Reauthorization)
James O'Keefe
Bill O'Reilly
Sarah Palin
Pepper Spray Cops (Anthony Bologna & John Pike)
Phone hacking scandal participants (Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch, Les Hinton, et al)
Republicans running for President (Rick Santorum, Michele Bachmann, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Ron Paul, Jon Huntsman, Herman Cain, Tim Pawlenty)
Jerry Sandusky
Charlie Sheen (and Sheen-wannabe Ashton Kutcher ;)
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Tea Party
Tim Tebow
Donald Trump
Anthony Weiner
If you think I missed anyone who really deserves it, leave a comment!


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Julie had lost a bet with her girlfriends during their Sunday night poker game. Her friends had a dirty dare for her. They dared her to wear her butterfly clit vibrator under her clothes to work the next day.
At first she said no way, but her friends told her a bet was a bet and she better follow through with the dare. After a bit of nagging Julie finally agreed to the dare.
The next morning while she was showering, Julie wondered if the vibrator would show underneath her clothes. After she dried off, she pulled her blue butterfly vibrator out of her bedside table. She slid the straps up her legs, and placed the butterfly over her clit. It felt awkward walking around with it on, but she got used to it as she finished getting dressed.
Once at her office, Julie went to her cubicle and began work. It was long before her mind slowly drifted away from her work. She kept thinking about that vibrator resting on her clit. The more she thought about it, the more she got turned on. She tried to forget about, and not let herself get to distracted. Before she knew it Julie was so hot and bothered. The thought of using that vibrator in her office got the better of her.
Julie thought that the executive bathroom would be the best place to go. It was a private bathroom, with a sitting room and sofa. Plus it had a dead bolt, no interruptions. She pulled up her skirt and laid back on the sofa. She slowly slid her hand down to her vibrator and turned it on.
It always felt good when she used used her vibrator, but the thrill of using it at her office made her even more excited. Her pussy was wet with excitement. She tired hard not to moan, but the fear of getting caught turned her on more than ever. She moaned as the vibrator pulsated against her clit, and she started fingering herself. She knew she was going to cum. She started moaning louder and louder as she got closer to cumming. Before she knew it she was cumming all over herself.
She cleaned herself off, washed her hands, and smoothed out her dress. She unlocked the bathroom door, hoping that no one heard her moans, she looked around and didn't see anyone. So she left the bathroom and went back to her cubicle.
She started back on her work, and got quite a bit accomplished. Thrilled that she got away with her earlier trip to the bathroom, she thought that she would try it again that afternoon.
Later that afternoon, she slipped back to her private oasis. She knocked on the bathroom door, but no one answered. So she went in and locked the door behind her. She pulled her skirt up and laid back on the couch. Once again she turned on the vibrator and started fingering herself.
She was getting so wet, but all of a sudden she heard a sound coming from the stall area of the bathroom. Then she heard a voice, a man's voice. I've been waiting for you it said. She quickly turned off her vibrator.
A tall, muscled man stepped out from the stall. I heard you in her earlier, and I thought that you might come back.
Julie's cheeks got flushed. She was embarrassed that someone heard her earlier. She stammered some nonsense at the man. But all she could think about, was attractive the man was. She looked him over and realized that there was a bulge in his pants. She was sure his cock was hard.
The man walked over to her and turned on the vibrator. I would love to help get you off he said. Julie just nodded. He pulled off his pants and exposed his throbbing cock. Seeing it made her even more excited.
The man got down on his knees and spread Julies legs apart. He lowered his face down to her wet pussy, and stuck his lounge in her wet hole. She moaned with pleasure, she hoped that he was going to fuck her with his cock.
As if on cue, he started to climb on top of her. She reached down to turn off of her vibrator, but he pushed her hands away. Lets leave that there the man said. He took his huge cock and slowly slid it into her tight pussy.
His cock was so big that it hurt just a little bit, but it felt good. After a few strokes her pussy losend up, and he began slamming his cock into her fast and hard. She moaned louder and louder and he pounded her. The next thing she knew she was cumming all over the man's cock.
He took his cock out of her, and started teasing her with it. Rubbing it around her pussy lips. The vibrator was still going on her clit. The man loved watching her squirm. He his cock back into her dripping pussy.
He fucked her until she came again. The man kept fucking her pussy, she wanted to feel his cum shoot up inside her. She grabbed his ass and squeezed it, pulling him into her. The man started moaning and cumming inside her.
Once the man pulled out of her, he turned off her vibrator. My name is Mike, I am the new Vice President of this company. He pulled up his pants and left Julie sitting there stunned.
This is my first story so please send me any comments you may have.


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