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What's a little old $9 million apartment to Judge Judy, who according to International Business Times earns $123,000 a day?
At age 70, this is one woman who won't have to worry about her retirement. Instead, she and husband Jerry (also a judge) can enjoy traveling between their other homes: the penthouse in Naples, Florida and their 9-bedroom mansion in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The judge couple bought this co-op apartment at the Sherry Netherland on New York City's Fifth Avenue a little over three years ago for $6.75 million. They chose well with the large corner living-dining room facing west and south overlooking the Avenue and Central Park.
The 2-bedroom, 2½ baths are in a split configuration giving total privacy when entertaining overnight guests. The master has a bathroom with window and there are two large walk-in closets - with rumors saying that hers is the size of a New York studio apartment. Kitchen and bathrooms have been updated and the laundry room is just off the kitchen. The paneled den adjoining the living room is perfect for either a family retreat or can alternately be used as a formal dining room.
An unusual bonus that comes with this apartment is the 10th floor room that can be used either as an office or for storage. Another bonus is that the Sherry has full hotel services including daily maid service, concierge, gym, doorman, elevator operators, beauty salon and barber shop - wonderful conveniences for any judge on the go.
Her Honor is asking cool $9 million. Proceeds should cover enough fuel for their private jet to do a little shopping at Galeries Lafayette in Paris for a day or two.


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Last week, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights sent a letter to every state department of education and public school system, stating that the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that students with disabilities aren't being given equal opportunity to participate in athletics in public schools.
TUSCALOOSA | LaPatrick Stokes ran full speed down the court, his metallic gold basketball uniform making him look like a golden blur.
He skidded to a halt at the 3-point line as an opposing player leaped in front of him, grasping for the basketball in Stokes' hands.
"Come on, Spinner!" students in the bleachers of Oak Hill School's gym yelled. "Come on!"
Stokes, the captain of Oak Hill's three-time state championship-winning Special Olympics basketball team, dipped and swayed his torso, evading the STARS Academy player — an alternative school program housed at Oak Hill — while looking for an open teammate. Finding none, he jumped and shot a 3-pointer.
The ball swooshed through the net, without touching the rim.
The gym erupted in applause.
"I like basketball a lot," Stokes, 19, said after the game. "I put a lot of work into it. I like playing in the championships the most.
"I think every school should offer sports to every student. If I couldn't play sports, it'd hurt a lot. It's my favorite thing in life right now."
Oak Hill has offered a full range of sports options to its special needs student population for decades through the Special Olympics. But those same sports opportunities aren't offered in the same capacity to special needs students at other schools.
That soon may change.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights sent a letter to every state department of education and public school system, stating that the U.S. Government Accountability Office found that students with disabilities aren't being given equal opportunity to participate in athletics in public schools.
Seth Galanter, acting assistant secretary for the Office of Civil Rights and author of the letter, said students with disabilities have the legal right to play sports and that public school systems must provide them with opportunities.
"Participation in extracurricular athletics can be a critical part of a student's overall educational experience," Galanter said in a news release. "Schools must ensure equal access to that rewarding experience for students with disabilities, and the Office for Civil Rights encourages school districts to work with their community and athletic associations to develop broad and increased athletic opportunities for students with disabilities."
The letter states that disabled students must be given opportunities to play sports with non-disabled students and make "reasonable modifications" to sports programs that allow disabled students an equal opportunity to play.
However, that doesn't mean that every disabled student who wants to play sports should automatically make the team, Galanter said. Schools can still require that students demonstrate a certain level of skill and ability needed to play the sport. The selection process or criteria just can't be discriminatory.
The letter also states that providing "unnecessarily separate or different services" for disabled students counts as discriminatory. But if students have severe disabilities that don't allow them to play on existing sports teams even when modifications are made to accommodate them, schools systems should create alternative sports opportunities for those students.
'Long overdue'
LaMonica Herron-McCoy, executive director of United Cerebral Palsy of West Alabama, said the move is long overdue.
"Over the years, I've heard people say they'd like to be involved in sports," Herron-McCoy said. "Those opportunities have not existed for students with disabilities here. I think this being implemented is way past due.
"Anything that people without disabilities can do, people with disabilities deserve the same opportunities," she said. "I think the programs should be as normal as possible. If there needs to be modifications made to existing programs, they need to make them. I think it's well worth it because they are citizens."
Malissa Valdes-Hubert, public information manager for the Alabama Department of Education, said school systems in Alabama are already supposed to provide students with disabilities equal opportunity for non-academic and extracurricular activities, according to the Alabama Administrative Code, which outlines the policies and procedures that all Alabama school systems must follow.
She said the state department will comply with the letter, but they need to know what other agencies such as the Alabama High School Athletic Association, are going to do first before they develop a plan.
"The Alabama State Department of Education believes that all children, including children with disabilities, must have an equal opportunity to participate in non-academic and extracurricular activities and we will continue to work with education agencies to ensure this happens at the local school level," Valdes-Hubert said.
"We do not have much more to offer at this point," she said.
Officials in the Tuscaloosa city and county school systems said individual schools in their systems already provide sports opportunities for students with special needs. They also said they're going to follow the state department's lead and will not create a plan to implement any changes on how they operate until they get further guidance.
"I think our high schools and schools now try to work with any child who wants to participate," said Tuscaloosa County Schools Deputy Superintendent Walter Davie. "They try to give the best access they can and make it open to students with disabilities. We certainly will review this information and see what the guidance from the state becomes."
Mike Daria, assistant superintendent of general administration for the Tuscaloosa City School System, said he thinks the system does a good job in providing opportunities for athletes with disabilities, but they will use this opportunity to examine their policies when they get guidance from the state department of education.
"We want to make sure we're interpreting it the same way that others in the state are and otherwise," Daria said. "We're confident that our current programs are offering a well-rounded school experience for all students."
As of Feb. 6, about 15 percent of the county school system's 17,608 total students were identified as non-gifted special education students, according to school officials. About 14 percent of the city school system's 10,369 total students are identified as non-gifted special education students.
Linda Harper, principal at Oak Hill, which is a school that has a 100 percent special needs population outside of the alternative school program also housed there, said providing sports opportunities for the school's students has been easy. But she said that it would be a challenging task for schools that don't specialize in serving a special needs population.
"Complying with this for us will hardly be a change," Harper said. "I think it's going to really impact the larger schools. But I would like to see that change happen because a lot of students leave Oak Hill and they're not able to participate in certain sports. We had a young man return from his home school to Oak Hill because there wasn't an emphasis on Special Olympics.
"It's going to take some effort on the schools part, but it's doable," she said.
Nancy Rhodes, a member of the Alabama Council for Developmental Disabilities and mother of an 18-year-old Hillcrest High School student with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome — a severe form of epilepsy — said she has concerns that the Alabama Department of Education and the local school systems won't correctly interpret the Office of Civil Rights' letter.
"I believe the school systems are going to interpret the letter to say as long as students can keep up, they can participate," Rhodes said. "I think that's totally wrong. I think that every child, no matter what, should have the right to participate in as many physical activities as possible in school."
Rhodes said special education students are suffering unnecessarily as a direct result of not being allowed to participate in organized sports.
"Typically, schools tell us that our children cannot participate and as a result they become sedentary and overweight," she said. "That's what happened to my son. He's become sedentary and is having behavior issues because he needs to burn that energy off. He's cognitively a 2-year-old, but physically you wouldn't know that anything's wrong with him. He can run and is very athletic. He loves basketball. Derrick is not going to be able to hold a desk job, but he can do physical things. Schools need to tap into that."
"I think this is great that the U.S. Department of Education is doing this, but I'm wondering why it took them so long to get to this?" she said. "Where were their rights before? No child should be denied rights. In fact, the children who are a struggling should be given more of an opportunity."
Reach Jamon Smith at email@example.com or 205-722-0204.


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Huskers Compete at Big Ten Championships
The Nebraska cross country team competed at the Big Ten Championships Sunday morning in West Lafayette, Ind. The men's team finished 11th out of 11 teams, while the women's team finished 11th out of 12 teams. Even with the results, Head Coach Dave Harris was proud of the team's effort in the conference championships.
"The accomplishment of the day was the women's team beat a team. They really—I thought ran pretty well." Harris said, "I thought that we competed really well, we had Anna (Peer) out in front as our number one runner ad she did a good job today. All in all, I think our women did a pretty good job today."
As Harris noted, Peer, a freshman, was one of the more bright spots for the Nebraska cross country team. Anna finished 50th overall, running a time of 22:16.8 (6k), leading the slightly inexperienced group of Husker women's runners.
Also performing at a high level for the Huskers was senior Isabel Andrade. Andrade, a California native, placed 58th overall with a time of 22:26.0.
On the men's side, freshman Joe Harter led the youthful group of Husker men's runners, placing 62nd overall with a time of 25:37.1 (8k). Harter just beat out senior Jarren Heng, who finished 65th with a time of 25:40.6.
The Nebraska cross country team will be back in action Friday Nov. 15, at the NCAA Midwest Regional in Ames, Iowa. Races begin at 11 a.m. (central) Check back here at Huskers.com for updates throughout the week.


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Questions about Huma Abedin By Andrew C. McCarthy July 21, 2012 4:00 A.M.
Der Spiegel pointed out the obvious: A certain role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the transition process [to democracy] in Egypt seems acceptable to the Obama White House. It was early February 2011, the moment when the uprising that would oust Hosni Mubarak was bubbling over in Tahrir Square. The prominent German newsmagazine figured, who better to ask about the Muslim Brotherhood than the American political establishments resident foreign-policy genius, John McCain?
So, the reporter asked him, does Obamas tolerance of the Muslim Brotherhood concern you?
Senator Maverick shot back without hesitation: It concerns me so much that I am unalterably opposed to it. I think it would be a mistake of historic proportions.
Senator McCain elaborated that he was deeply, deeply concerned that this whole movement [toward democracy] could be hijacked by radical Islamic extremists. And what, he was specifically asked, is your assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood? McCain pulled no punches:
I think they are a radical group that, first of all, supports sharia law; that in itself is anti-democratic at least as far as women are concerned. They have been involved with other terrorist organizations and I believe that they should be specifically excluded from any transition government.
In fact, so apprehensive was he over the Brotherhood and its sharia agenda that McCain was quick to brand Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel laureate, as a Brotherhood tool. Many of us watching developments at the time noted the apparent collusion between ElBaradei and the Brothers. McCain went farther: Oh yeah, I think its very clear that the scenario is very likely he could be their front man.
Senator Straight Talk reasoned that since ElBaradei appeared to be on the same page as the Brotherhood, and was being hailed as a potential Mubarak successor despite having no following nor political influence in Egypt, we should assume that he must be in cahoots with the Brotherhood. It did not matter that ElBaradei was a renowned international figure and an important leftist ally of President Obamas. So pernicious was the threat posed by the Brotherhood that, in McCains considered opinion, you just had to assume the worst.
The Spiegel interview was classic McCain; the senator is never at a loss for bloviation. His professed anxiety, only a year ago, over the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as his blithe willingness to assume that ElBaradei must be an Islamist coconspirator, are worth remembering today. For the sage has suddenly decided that the Brothers unapologetic Islamic supremacists who say outright that they are on a grand jihad to destroy America and the West are a pretty swell lot, after all. Instead, McCain reserves his signature shoot first, think later ire for the target he has always preferred: conservatives.
The Arizonan took to the Senate floor this week to lambaste five conservative members of the House who, unlike McCain, are actually serious about addressing threats the Brotherhood poses to American interests. McCains bipartisan Islamic democracy promoters seem content to keep burning through taxpayer trillions until the Brotherhood is finally running every government in the Middle East. To the contrary, the House conservatives Michele Bachmann (Minn.), Louie Gohmert (Texas), Trent Franks (Ariz.), Tom Rooney (Fla.), and Lynn Westmorland (Ga.) have concluded that the Brotherhood needs to be regarded as the serious anti-American business that it is.
Toward that end, the quintet is justifiably concerned that the Brotherhoods sharia agenda the one to which McCain used to be unalterably opposed is being abetted not just by some Nobel-toting Egyptian progressive, but by officials in highly sensitive positions inside the United States government.
One official about whom they raise questions is Huma Abedin, deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Ms. Abedin has been an aide since she interned at the White House in 1996 and was assigned to the thenfirst ladys staff. The family tie for which she is best known is her husband, Anthony Weiner, the New York Democrat who resigned from Congress in disgrace last year. But it is Ms. Abedins parents and brother who have drawn the attention of the five House GOP members. They all have connections to the Muslim Brotherhood the organization itself or prominent members thereof.
For pointing this out and merely asking the State Departments inspector general to look into it and report back to Congress which is part of the IGs duties under the statute that created his position McCain & Co. (i.e., his fans in the left-wing media and his admirers in the Republican establishment) are screaming smear and McCarthyism. McCains antipathy toward conservatives (except during election years) is an old story. And it is no secret that he has long been smitten by Mrs. Clinton, whose transnational-progressive leanings mirror his own.
The Maverick is also a man about town towns like Tripoli. Back in 2009, you may recall, he was an honored guest in the compound of Libyas dictator, Moammar Qaddafi celebrating the former master terrorist as an important American ally against jihadist terror, helping to grease the wheels so the Obama administration could increase American aid that would bolster Qaddafis military. Yet in the blink of an eye, it seemed, McCain would later be railing that Qaddafi was a died-in-the-wool terrorist monster whose military had to be smashed by the United States in an undeclared, unauthorized, unprovoked war, if necessary so Libyans could be free to elect the Muslim Brotherhood and other assorted Islamic supremacists to their new Parliament.
But the point is that McCain gets around. And when he does, the State Department is often his escort. Between his globetrotting and his case of Hillary hauteur, the senator has gotten friendly over the years with Ms. Abedin, who is said to be smart, able, and quite charming. Ever the Maverick chivalrous to a fault . . . at least when the damsel in distress is an exotic, progressive sharia-democracy devotee rather than a conservative national-security worrywart from Minnesota. McCain has leapt to Ms. Abedins defense against these vicious House troglodytes.
The senators tirade featured his trademark indignation, incoherence, and infatuation with immigrant success stories. (Ms. Abedin was born in Michigan, but no reason to let that get in the way of what is best about America.) McCain blasted Representative Bachmann and the others, falsely accusing them of doing to his friend Huma what he had actually done to ElBaradei, namely, implicating her as part of a nefarious conspiracy.
To the contrary, the House members have drawn no such conclusions. Instead, they have pointed out the State Departments dramatic, Brotherhood-friendly policy shifts during Ms. Abedins tenure as a top adviser to the State Departments boss. They have asked completely consistent with national-security guidelines, to which Ill come shortly that an investigation into those policy shifts be undertaken.
That investigation would include an inquiry into whether Ms. Abedins family ties render her unsuitable for a position that involves access to classified information about the Brotherhood. The shrieks aside, this is not remotely unreasonable, nor is it an inquisition into Ms. Abedins decency and rectitude. When I was a prosecutor, the Justice Department would not have let me take a case that involved friends of my family. Its not that they didnt trust me; its that government is supposed to avoid the appearance of impropriety legitimacy hinges on the publics belief that actions are taken on merit, not burdened by palpable conflicts of interest.
Regarding Ms. Abedins family ties, McCain rebukes his House colleagues for alleging that three members of Humas family are connected to Muslim Brotherhood operatives and/or organizations. These sinister accusations, he insisted, rest solely on a few unspecified and unsubstantiated associations of members of Humas family.
Now, Im perfectly willing to believe that McCain may not know what the words unspecified and unsubstantiated mean. That, however, would not excuse his use of them in this context. The ties of Ms. Abedines father, mother, and brother to the Muslim Brotherhood are both specific and substantiated.
Ms. Abedins father, the late Syed Z. Abedin, was an Indian-born Islamic academic who founded the Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs in Saudi Arabia. That institute was backed by the Muslim World League. As the Hudson Institutes Zeyno Baran relates, the MWL was started by the Saudi government in 1962 with Brotherhood members in key leadership positions. It has served as the principal vehicle for the propagation of Islamic supremacism by the Saudis and the Brotherhood. That ideology fuels the Islamic extremism that, only a year ago, had McCain so worried that he thought allowing the Brotherhood into the Egyptian-government mix would be a mistake of historic proportions.
McCains frivolous retort is that Professor Abedin died 20 years ago. That would be a great point if someone were accusing Ms. Abedin of being in her fathers institute or the MWL. It is irrelevant when the question is whether it is reasonable to infer Islamist sympathies from her parents allegiances not to make conclusive judgments about her, mind you, but to draw an inference that would merit deeper inquiry. That is standard fare in government background checks. Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaedas emir, has been out of the Brotherhood for more than 30 years. Does that mean the Brotherhood is now irrelevant to his ideological outlook, or to the sympathies of his close associates?
As it happens, the same MWL that supported Abedin pères institute also helped the Brotherhood establish the Muslim Students Association. The MSA is the foundation of the Brotherhoods American infrastructure, the gateway through which young Muslims join the Brotherhood after being steeped in the supremacist writings of Brotherhood theorists Hassan al-Banna (who founded the Brotherhood in the 1920s) and Sayyid Qutb (the animating influence of such jihadist eminences as Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden, and the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman).
Speaking of which, it was through the MSA that Egypts new president, Mohammed Morsi, joined the Muslim Brotherhood. He was studying engineering in California at the time, the early Eighties. By her own account, Morsis wife, Nagla Ali Mahmoud, also joined. She became a leading member of a cognate outfit known as the Muslim Sisterhood. And it is here that we get to Huma Abedins mother, the Pakistani-born academic Dr. Saleha Abedin.
Dr. Abedin, too, has been a member of the Muslim Sisterhood, which is essentially nothing more than the female version of the Brotherhood, according to Walid Shoebat, a former Brotherhood member who has renounced the organization. The Brotherhood is not only the font of Sunni supremacist ideology, it spearheads the international support network for Hamas, the terrorist organization that openly proclaims itself as the Brotherhoods Palestinian branch.
According to one report, Dr. Abedin has on occasion represented herself as a delegate of the MWL. Moreover, as William Jacobson documents at Legal Insurrection, Dr. Abedin has led the International Islamic Committee for Woman and Child (IICWC), an Islamist organization that hews to the positions of Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Brotherhoods leading sharia jurist. Like Brotherhood entities, the IICWC defends such practices as female genital mutilation and child marriage, which find support in Islamic law and scripture.
Sheikh Qaradawi, of course, is the Brotherhood eminence who promises that Islam will conquer Europe, we will conquer America. He is a vigorous supporter of Hamas, and his fatwas lionize suicide terrorism including the killing of Americans in Iraq. It is Qaradawi who brings us to Huma Abedins brother, Dr. Hassan Abedin. He has been a fellow at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies in Great Britain. Contemporaneously, Sheikh Qaradawi was a member of the Oxford Centers board of trustees. So was Omar Naseef, onetime secretary-general of the MWL as well as the founder of the Rabita Trust an Islamic charity notorious for funding jihadists and for having an al-Qaeda founder (Wael Hamza Julaidan) as one of its chief executives.
These connections are not contrived or weightless like when the Left wanted to keep Samuel Alito off the Supreme Court because, 40 years ago, he was a member of Concerned Alumni of Princeton. Of course, knowing members of an organization whose goals include conquest of the West and destruction of Israel is not a crime. Nor is it a crime to have close relatives who are either members of, or associated with members of, such an organization. Again, however, no one is accusing Huma Abedin of a crime.
The five House conservatives, instead, are asking questions that adults responsible for national security should feel obliged to ask: In light of Ms. Abedins family history, is she someone who ought to have a security clearance, particularly one that would give her access to top-secret information about the Brotherhood? Is she, furthermore, someone who may be sympathetic to aspects of the Brotherhoods agenda, such that Americans ought to be concerned that she is helping shape American foreign policy?
Now, Senator McCain is no stranger to smear. No need to confirm that with Mr. ElBaradei; weve watched for years as he has slandered, for example, critics of his advocacy for illegal aliens as nativists seeking to reprise Jim Crow laws. Nevertheless, since McCain purports to be a tireless guardian of our security, one would think hed appreciate the distinction between a smear, on the one hand, and a routine application of security-clearance standards, on the other.
The State Department is particularly wary when it comes to the category of foreign influence yes, it is a significant enough concern to warrant its own extensive category in background investigations. No criminal behavior need be shown to deny a security clearance; access to classified information is not a right, and reasonable fear of divided loyalties is more than sufficient for a clearance to be denied.
The guidelines probe ties to foreign countries and organizations because hostile elements could target United States citizens to obtain protected information or could be associated with a risk of terrorism note: The Brotherhood checks both these boxes. Thus, when someone is proposed for a sensitive position, it is necessary to consider conditions that could raise a security concern and may be disqualifying. These, the State Department tells us, include contact with a foreign family member, business or professional associate, friend or other person who is a citizen or resident in a foreign country if that contact creates a heightened risk of foreign exploitation, inducement, pressure, or coercion.
Furthermore, in light of the Brotherhoods well-known abhorrence of the United States, it is also pertinent that States guidelines raise alarms if a person seeking access to classified information has an association or sympathy with people who seek to overthrow our government, or even with people who just seek to prevent Americans from exercising their constitutional rights. The Brotherhood does not just aim to upend our system; it would restrict our rights, such as free expression, to the extent they contradict sharia.
In his diatribe, McCain speciously asserted that the GOP conservatives had failed to cite an action, a decision, or a public position that Huma has taken while at the State Department that showed she was either promoting anti-American activities within our government or having a direct impact on harmful policies. Of course, to assess a persons fitness for a sensitive position, background investigators are not restricted to asking whether someone has committed some transgression. Their main job is to find out whether there are circumstances and competing allegiances that could tempt someone to take positions or actions that could harm the United States. That is why, for example, we have hearings before we confirm federal judges we dont just hand them a gavel and hope for the best.
In addition, as McCain knows, Ms. Abedin is an adviser, not a policymaker. She gives advice to the secretary of state. Unless you were in the room with the two of them, youd never be able to demonstrate what direct impact the adviser was having. Again, thats why people are supposed to be vetted before they get these sensitive positions and before they get access to the nations secrets.
Since Mrs. Clinton has been secretary of state, with Ms. Abedin as one of her top advisers, the State Department has strongly supported abandoning the federal governments prior policy against dealing with the Muslim Brotherhood. State, furthermore, has embraced a number of Muslim Brotherhood positions that undermine both American constitutional rights and our alliance with Israel. To name just a few manifestations of this policy sea change:
The State Department has an emissary in Egypt who trains operatives of the Brotherhood and other Islamist organizations in democracy procedures.
The State Department announced that the Obama administration would be satisfied with the election of a Muslim Brotherhooddominated government in Egypt.
Secretary Clinton personally intervened to reverse a Bush-administration ruling that barred Tariq Ramadan, grandson of the Brotherhoods founder and son of one of its most influential early leaders, from entering the United States.
The State Department has collaborated with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, a bloc of governments heavily influenced by the Brotherhood, in seeking to restrict American free-speech rights in deference to sharia proscriptions against negative criticism of Islam.
The State Department has excluded Israel, the worlds leading target of terrorism, from its Global Counterterrorism Forum, a group that brings the United States together with several Islamist governments, prominently including its co-chair, Turkey which now finances Hamas and avidly supports the flotillas that seek to break Israels blockade of Hamas. At the forums kickoff, Secretary Clinton decried various terrorist attacks and groups; but she did not mention Hamas or attacks against Israel in transparent deference to the Islamist governments, which echo the Brotherhoods position that Hamas is not a terrorist organization and that attacks against Israel are not terrorism.
The State Department and the Obama administration waived congressional restrictions in order to transfer $1.5 billion dollars in aid to Egypt after the Muslim Brotherhoods victory in the parliamentary elections.
The State Department and the Obama administration waived congressional restrictions in order to transfer millions of dollars in aid to the Palestinian territories notwithstanding that Gaza is ruled by the terrorist organization Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhoods Palestinian branch.
The State Department and the administration recently hosted a contingent from Egypts newly elected parliament that included not only Muslim Brotherhood members but a member of the Islamic Group (Gamaat al Islamia), which is formally designated as a foreign terrorist organization so that providing it with material support is a serious federal crime. The State Department has refused to provide Americans with information about the process by which it issued a visa to a member of a designated terrorist organization, about how the members of the Egyptian delegation were selected, or about what security procedures were followed before the delegation was allowed to enter our country.
On a just-completed trip to Egypt, Secretary Clinton pressured General Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, head of the military junta currently governing the country, to surrender power to the newly elected parliament, which is dominated by the Muslim Brotherhood, and the newly elected president, Mohamed Morsi, who is a top Brotherhood official. She also visited with Morsi; immediately after his victory, Morsi proclaimed that his top priorities included pressuring the United States to release the Blind Sheikh. Quite apart from the Brotherhoods self-proclaimed grand jihad to destroy the United States, which the Justice Department proved in federal court during the 20078 Holy Land Foundation prosecution, the Brotherhoods supreme guide, Mohammed Badie, publicly called for jihad against the United States in an October 2010 speech. After it became clear the Brotherhood would win the parliamentary election, Badie said the victory was a stepping stone to the establishment of a just Islamic caliphate.
This is not an exhaustive account of Obama-administration coziness with the Muslim Brotherhood. It is just some of the lowlights.
Senator McCain is an incorrigible vacillator. It is to be expected that he has evolved from last years claimed opposition to the Brotherhood to a new position, more aligned with that of his friend Secretary Clinton and the Obama administration. Some of us, however, really are unalterably opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood. The five House conservatives are asking questions to which the State Departments own guidelines, to say nothing of common sense, demand answers. Answers not just about Huma Abedin but, far more significantly, about the governments policy toward virulently anti-American Islamists. Americans deserve nothing less even if the usual GOP spaghetti spines would prefer to give them nothing, period.
Andrew C. McCarthy is the author, most recently, of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America.
McCain is corrupt. I still think he threw the election to Obama.
There is video posted on McCain sniveling and simpering to Qadaffi just 2 years ago
McCain needs to be retired by the good people of Arzona. the old war horse is demented, not that he was ever a man of true character in his younger days. Even his fellow POW's didn't respect him but they're too honorable to say so and why
Possibly Hillary needed cover for her beard in advance of Chelsea's $2million wedding
Ironically Bubba officiated the Weiner wedding ceremony and gave the blushing bride away. Maybe Weiner tweeted him and Hillary some pictures from the honeymmon
I read in the NYPost that Huma is in Wash DC or on the road with Hilly 80% of the time.
So Weenie is a stay-at-home dad.
What are the odds he's banging the nanny?
I hope the people who supported John McCain are choking on it!
Is this old fool going to live forever??
Do ya think this might have some influence over McPuke?
John McCain armed the KLA, Politika
John McCain armed Kosovo Islamic terrorists
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Yep. Is this the same "You have nothing to fear from an Obama Presidency, Ma'am" McCain that we all know and love?
"Weve known since the Charles Keating days McCain is dishonest and for sale."
That didn't stop a lot of Freepers from calling anyone who opposed the old fool a 'racist', did it?
And BTW, Sarah Palin STILL thinks he's the greatest!
See post 27
The guidelines probe ties to foreign countries and organizations because hostile elements could target United States citizens to obtain protected information or could be associated with a risk of terrorism note: The Brotherhood checks both these boxes. Thus, when someone is proposed for a sensitive position, it is necessary to consider conditions that could raise a security concern and may be disqualifying. These, the State Department tells us, include contact with a foreign family member, business or professional associate, friend or other person who is a citizen or resident in a foreign country if that contact creates a heightened risk of foreign exploitation, inducement, pressure, or coercion.
This introspection and inquiry as to how so many in this Adminsitration could qualify for even a "Confidential" clearance--much less, Top Secret, with other even higher "Special Access" Designation--has been vexing to say the least.
Many moons ago (like back in the goold old days, the late 60 's) when conducting Background Security Clearance Investigation for the USAF Office of Special Investigations if the applicant listed (or we developed leads indicating) relationships/relatives etc. to any Communist Country/Group, etc. a BIG RED (no pun intended) FLAG went up and though these Airmen/Civilian Contractors often were granted clearances, they were put through the wringer before that happened.d
NOW, with us at WAR (ok, with "them" Islamic Jihadists at war against us) with a force of evil who want to destroy us, it appears that Political Correctness trumps National Security and a wilfull disregard/blindness? toward anyone who is associated therewith has nothing to worry about.
I'm convinced that this has to do with the fact that so many are clueless (or naive) as to what Islam really is and see it as but another "religion" much the same as ALL others; thus nuttin' too worry about!
Did I say 'amazing'? Perhaps; just confounding. To truth actually; just depressing.
(And then there is McCain; and insufferable Repubs, et al. All to clear; why we are the losers.)
The Imam laughed; seeing how easy it would be; to take America. Never did they imagine. . .
FYI, that is not Huma Abedin, that is Tom Cruises' gf. I would love to be Tom for just one night. lol.
I think they (MB) have a double barreled shotgun pointed to our heads. One barrel is the threat of financial collapse by making a run on stocks and dollars, the other is the threat of cities and ghettos exploding in fire and chaos.
The first barrel was pointed at our heads in September 2008. We backed down from that, now the second barrel is in place too.
We knew in 2008 Huma was Hillary's Saudi agent of influence, that her family was Muslim Brotherhood.
We'd seen Bill and Hillary entertaining Arafat more than any other person--had they not shown their sympathies.
When Zero said "My Muslim Faith" and "57 States" he was flipping us off, not faux pas-ing.
He's used CIA and NATO to remove secular regimes and replace them with Islamist ones in Operation Arab Spring--
--yet he and Hillary had no problem with turning a blind eye to Ahmadinejad's murderous repression in 2009.
Zero's first speech was to assure his Muslim sponsors America was no longer a Christian nation.
Jesse Jackson said Zionists would no longer be in the driver's seat.
And NR is only now getting it?
McCain is the Manchurian Candidate, broken by the Commies and used by them.
And we are surprised how
Zero's mommy wasn't SAD and his daddy wasn't BHO
His daddy died a Sunni martyr hating America
His mommy has familial ties to Arab supremicists
The enemy is in the gates
It's because McCain sold out the missing POWS in Vietnam. Him and Kerry went on a 'government controlled/conducted' tour to look for POW's. Then, they came back, signed a document stating that there were no POW's left in prisons, and somehow John Kerry's brother was allowed to be the real estate dealer for a bunch of Vietnamese property (as soon as the ink was dry).
McCain and the POW Cover-up (How McCain left U.S. POWs and MIAs to rot in hell)
Bachmann and the other signers of the letter are actually ignoring the treason or aiding the MB? Or are you using ridiculous hyperbole?
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Heroin-related overdose deaths more than doubled in 2013 over 2012 in Boulder County, according to death statistics, and both police and treatment professionals are braced for 2014 to be worse.
According to the Boulder County Coroner's Office, 14 people died of heroin overdoses in Boulder County through November. Data for the rest of the year is still pending. Six people died of heroin overdoses in both 2011 and 2012. The spike in deaths point to a surge in use of the drug that can quickly claim the lives of users.
"Every heroin addict I have talked to has started their addiction with pills," said Longmont Special Enforcement Unit Sgt. Sean Harper.
The SEU investigates drug crimes in Longmont, often working with the Boulder County Drug Task Force, state officials, and federal agents on broad drug ring investigations. Heroin commerce so far hasn't risen to organized rings in Longmont, Harper said, with most local users making regular -- even daily -- trips to Denver to buy the highly addictive opiate. Investigators believe most of the heroin locally is coming into the U.S. from Honduras and Mexico.
"It is dirty," Harper said. "It is just a really dirty, nasty drug. Some of these people are dying with the needle in their arm. This is how fast it happens."
In a state focused on the legalization of marijuana, Harper and treatment professionals said heroin has been making a comeback in the past two years. In that time, users addicted to prescription medications like Vicodin and other opiate painkillers have turned to street drugs as the pills became reformulated to discourage a high, more carefully prescribed and increasingly expensive.
Widd Medford, intensive services program manager at Boulder County's Addiction Recovery Center, and Carol Helwig, communicable disease control coordinator for Boulder County Public Health, said the face of heroin addition might surprise many. Addicts are getting younger and are more affluent than the general public might expect, primarily because they are trying the drug after using the prescription drugs.
Medford said some get addicted young because they were injured in high school or college-level sports and doctors prescribed the pills for pain.
"Once the pain is gone there is still that euphoric effect that heroin and painkillers can have on the brain," he said.
The ARC has tracked a notable increase in admissions to its heroin detoxification program. From July 1, 2010, until June 31, 2011, less than 2 percent of total admissions were related to heroin. From July 2012 through Dec. 31, 2012, in half the time, admits jumped up to 6.5 percent.
The ARC has a program that provides recovering addicts with Suboxone, a drug that helps addicts fight the need for heroin, that started in April 2011. From the opening of the program until September 2013, 35 people were treated through the program, but Medford said demand is exceeding the capacity of the program. In fiscal year 2012, 41 people inquired about the program, in 2013, 69 people inquired, and from July through December 2013, 78 people sought admission.
Helwig monitors the county's needle exchange program, which seeks to help addicts by providing clean needles to help reduce the risks of abscesses and the transmission of blood-borne diseases that can be shared through used needles. She said the mean age of participants has dropped from 42.6 years old in 2008 to 30.2 years old in 2013. The demand for the needles also has increased notably in the past four years. In 2010, the program had 149 participants and in 2013 that spiked to 452 users.
One of those users, now 22, found his way to the Suboxone program at its inception because he had been seeking clean needles through the health department.
The man, who asked to remain anonymous because heroin possession and use is criminal and because of the ongoing social stigma, has been clean for a year and a half. He moved from Boulder County to Fort Collins to take himself out of the environment where he developed an addiction to heroin so bad that he was shooting the drug into his arms up to 10 times a day. Like so many others, he started by using prescription pills, something he and his friends did for fun as teenagers.
"I was a rich kid with too much money," he said.
Heroin, at that time, wasn't even on his radar.
"I didn't even really know about it," he said. "It was something that homeless people used; it was a really nasty drug that I didn't know about."
He and his friends used Vicodin and OxyContin, which he started using at age 15. Over the course of three years, that habit developed into a heroin addiction that he took great pains to hide. His parents, he said, still don't know about it.
"I just wore long-sleeved shirts and I used makeup to cover it up," he said of track marks, although Harper noted that some users inject in more subtle places -- like between toes -- to cover their use. "Nobody had a clue other than my friends I was using with."
Even a friend overdosing in his home when he was 19 barely slowed him down.
"His face just turned blue. He was on the couch and he just stopped breathing," he said. "It was really scary."
He said it was the scariest moment of his life.
"I took some water and splashed it on his face," he said Friday, recounting his experience. "I put him on the ground and called 911."
His friend was not breathing and he performed CPR as dispatchers guided him through it for about 10 minutes until paramedics arrived, pushed him aside, and used a drug called naloxone hydrochloride, which inhibits the body's opiate receptors and allows respiration to resume.
His friend lived.
In 2011, he heard of the Suboxone program.
"I was like, 'Please, please, please get me in right now. I am so sick and tired of this lifestyle,'" he said, noting that the program hadn't launched yet. "I tried to get in that day because I wanted to get in so bad. I kept calling them and telling them, 'Please, get back to me. I want to get clean.'"
The detoxification was two days of excruciating pain, he recalled. He said it was a miracle he did not walk out.
"Heroin is like, it feels like the best thing in the whole world. It is, in my opinion, it is something no human should be able to experience because it feels that good," he said.
Withdrawal is the exact opposite, he said.
Heroin is so lethal, Harper said, because purity levels on the street can vary wildly.
"You don't know the potency of what you are going to get," she said.
In November, the ARC launched a new program to provide reversal kits to addicts who agree to attend a short training session. The kits include intramuscular needles and naloxone hydrochloride that can be used to help save fellow users who overdose. As of Monday, 25 users had been trained and the kits had been used on the streets twice to reverse heroin overdoses.
Helwig said both reversals were from overdoses caused by the same batch of heroin.
She added that the kits include lower doses of the drug that paramedics use, which means that it doesn't immediately send the person receiving the dose into withdrawal.
"They don't get dope sick instantly," she said.
Medford said he and others in the treatment sector are bracing for more and more clients in 2014 as prescription pill addicts continue to make the jump to street heroin.
"What gives me inspiration is people do recover," he said. "People do get well."
The man who moved to Fort Collins is now married and works to keep his heroin addiction a secret so the stigma doesn't sabotage other parts of his life.
"I definitely thought I was special and I wasn't going to get addicted," he said.
His friends in Boulder County, he said, still are addicted.
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cryer's is amazing!! lol I couldnt stop laughing
cryer's is amazing!! lol I couldnt stop laughing
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By far Cryer's is the best, it captures the feeling of the typical Mag owner nicely, being the ugly duckling
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Tom's buff...
Where are yall getting your movie posters? So far I've used Google Image Search and http://www.cdcovers.cc/
Anyone else wanna share resources? It's for a greater good!
Respect that.
I get mine at allposters.com.
War movies really work for Tom...
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Wow! These are all great!
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Romeo... bah! He's a pathetic fool who was lamely obsessed with the impressionable Juliet.
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Tom..the 70's called,and they want their suit back..
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I know I'm not eligible for the contest but I couldn't resist joining in the fun.
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cryer's is amazing!! lol I couldnt stop laughingI think this, too...Originally posted by Evil Bob
By far Cryer's is the best, it captures the feeling of the typical Mag owner nicely, being the ugly duckling
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Allposters.com has a HUGE selection! How about some Vin Diesel??
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not a movie poster, but something from the past
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I know Lord of the rings has been used, but I used this picture because I remember hearing somewhere that TK was going to play Sauron in the 2 towers scenario....
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It's a new season for the SJA Saints girls basketball team with the emphasis on the word new.
Adam Schroeder is the Saints first year coach and for the first game of the year against the Jackson County Central (JCC) Huskies, the Saints started two seniors and three sophomores.
It's a new season for the SJA Saints girls basketball team with the emphasis on the word new.
Adam Schroeder is the Saints first year coach and for the first game of the year against the Jackson County Central (JCC) Huskies, the Saints started two seniors and three sophomores.
The older, bigger, more experienced Huskies cashed in on the Saints youth and beat SJA 67-31.
The biggest loss for the Saints may have happened last week in a practice just before Thanksgiving.
Senior guard Devon Flohrs injured her knee in a scrimmage and was not available to play. She had an MRI on Tuesday and the results were not going to be known for a couple of days.
Coach Schroeder called Devon one of his best players and she would have been one of the starting guards.
She was one of the returning players with a great deal of experience and had played well in clutch situations last year, so her loss is going to have an impact on the season.
Schroeder was hopeful he could get his senior guard back sometime this year. We'll have to wait for the outcome of the MRI.
But this team was enthusiastic and ready to play Tuesday night. The starting lineup included seniors Aryn Eckstrom and Emily Hurley. The two seniors bring varsity game experience to the starting lineup.
The three sophomores starting were Brenda Cervantes, Elizabeth Reckow and Allison Brandts.
Players coming off the bench were senior Michaela Nordby and a group of sophomores and freshmen. The team has no juniors.
The Saints got off to a slow start. The Huskies opened up a 15-5 lead with less than five minutes gone in the game.
JCC employed a full court pressure defense most of the night and it proved difficult for the young Saints to overcome. For the night SJA had 39 turnovers.
It's going to take time, but the Saints are athletic, so the young ballhandlers will gain experience in dealing with the press. However, until they master breaking a press, they are likely to see a lot of it this year.
The Saints didn't reach ten points until Emily Bottem knocked in a pair of free throws more than two thirds the way through the first half.
With five and a half to go the Saints were down 27-11 and went on a bit of a run. They scored nine points in the last five plus minutes, which nearly equaled their scoring in the first 13 minutes.
A player that stood out in this mini-run was sophomore Brenda Cervantes. She has no hesitation slashing between defenders on her way to the basket. She scored several contested layups during the game.
Cervantes had seven points for the night and Hurley led the Saints with eight points.
Even though the Saints were making a run, that didn't stop JCC from scoring and the Saints trailed at halftime 40-20. Julia Beckius barely missed a full court three point shot as time expired.
It was more of the same in the second half as JCC clamped down on defense and the Huskies kept the scoring up. The Saints scored only 11 points in the second half.
Schroeder kept rotating in young playersgiving them game experience.
Three freshmen scored for the varsity. Allison Brandts scored four points, Beckius had three and Aubrey Eckstrom had a pair.
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More facilities improvements are planned at Rolla High School, and February will be a time to get the figures together.
School officials will seek bids on an expansion project for the school cafeteria with the goal of making that happen during the summer.
They'll also ask contractors to bid on the installation of synthetic turf and several other enhancements at Lions Memorial Stadium. No construction timeline has been released on this project.
Two phases of the cafeteria renovation project are planned. Assistant Superintendent Kelly Hinshaw earlier this month presented the Rolla Board of Education with the goals for those two time periods.
For the summer of 2013, the plan is to "Update and expand the cafeteria facility to serve students more efficiently while addressing supervision and safety concerns."
For the first phase, the 2013 phase, bid documents are set to be issued on Feb. 14
A prebid meeting with contractors will be held at 9 a.m. Feb. 28 at the high school, and the bids are due at 2 p.m. March 12.
The board will consider those bids at the March 14 meeting.
Construction would begin at the end of May after the semester ends and would be completed Aug. 1.
That will be followed up in the summer of 2014 with this plan: "Upgrade the kitchen equipment, loading dock, and improve work space for food preparation."
No timeline has been released for next year's phase.
For the Lions Memorial Stadium project, the finalized bid documents will be released to contractors Feb. 4.
Projected date to review those bids is Feb. 25.
Those bids could be accepted or rejected within 60 days of the bid opening.
The board would decide whether to go ahead with the project or hold off once the financial information is available.
Consultants assisting in this process are: Archer Elgin Surveying and Anderson & Associates, both of Rolla, and ATG Sports, St. Louis.
"The base bid would include all items required for installation of synthetic turf on the main field at Lions Memorial Stadium," Hinshaw said.
Alternate bids would include "at a minimum" the following items:
Center logo
End zone letters
Sideline logos
Carpet weight upgrade
Flexible goal post
North end zone netting
Retaining wall and bleacher relocation
Additional seating
Turf practice area.
The "Turf by 12" campaign has raised several thousands of dollars in pledges for the synthetic turf project, although not the entire amount.
The school board at an earlier meeting voted to seek bids on the turf project to have a firmer figure on what such a project would cost.


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Paul Vitagliano Reclaims Gay Childhoods With Book & Blog
In January of 2011, Paul Vitagliano created a place online called (borngaybornthisway.blogspot.com) for "those gay adults (of all genders) to submit childhood pictures and stories (roughly ages 2 to 12), reflecting the memories and early beginnings of their innate LGBTQ selves.
"See how nurture allows what nature endows," writes Vitagliano on his blog's homepage. "And it's their nature, their truth!"
The popularity of his blog led him to create "Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay," a book with which Vitagliano presents over 100 of these photos and accompanying thoughts on self-awareness and ultimate self-acceptance.
The stories and photos represent a cross-section of people from the United States, several foreign countries and even a few prominent members of the LGBT community such as Michael Musto, Andy Bell and Barney Frank and others. As he said of his book during our interview, "It's another tool or another way to break down misconceptions, flat-out lies about our community and the negativity. We should not be judged on our sexuality. We should be judged on our deeds and our actions, just like straight people."
Innovative concept
EDGE: Your book has an innovative concept, but I was curious as to its age-appropriateness. If you were asked to put an age-appropriate tag on 'Born This Way,' what would you recommend?
Paul Vitagliano: That's hard. Probably age seven and up. While this is a book for adults, I'm so hoping that it gets into the hands of kids. Those are the moments especially before puberty that most of the confusion, the worrying and the not knowing... and though I hate to say it, the dread of once you figure out that 'I'm different' or 'What does that mean? Why am I not like other kids?' So, the book can reach them and show them that other people had those feelings too and they made it through.
EDGE: Right. I think one of the most important facets of the book is for someone who is in their teens and discovering the feelings you mention and realizing that they are not alone.
Paul Vitagliano: This is an important message that I want people to realize is that our identity at a young age is really not about sexuality per say, it's not about the knowledge of sex. It's about this innate attraction and connection we have to the same gender. There is nothing explicit in the book. We purposely made it about cognizance of self-awareness.
I actually hope that younger kids will actually be able to read it themselves or have it read to them by parents or teachers. The thing is it needs to be normalized. It shouldn't be thought of as 'Oh, we're reading this taboo subject that is not really the 'norm.'' It is the norm. We need to not treat homosexuality and gay people as the secret or the 'hush-hush' topic. This is everyday life. I hope that little-by-little, it knocks those perceptions down.
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EDGE: The book is a great tool for parents who possibly have a gay or lesbian child and the fact that the parents might have to deal with the child being bullied or simply being different, or even a parent's acceptance of having a gay child.
Paul Vitagliano: That's right. In my introduction, the last thing I say is that my message is for parents. You need to realize that your child could be straight or they could be gay. It's a fact and it is okay.
EDGE: The book is also entertaining as the photos are really just kids being 'kids.' For those who have 'been there' or older gays and lesbians who have found that core of self-acceptance within themselves, it also strikes an important message.
Paul Vitagliano: What I want to add to that is there is a 'cut-off' point for the age of the person in the photo because what you see... for example, 'the cover boy in the plaid jumpsuit is three-years-old' is that we don't censor ourselves, the younger we are. That's when our true nature shows through. One other person in the book said, 'Children don't censor themselves. And you might as well not try because your photos are going to capture it anyway.'
EDGE: A gay adult might say of that plaid jumpsuit, 'Oh boy, he's working it!'
Paul Vitagliano: And 'working it' means I'm just me. You know what I mean? Yes, there are some silly-ass photos and some of them are stereotypes but there also are bunches that are school photos or don't really say anything per se in a pose. Photos do capture our essence and even in a school photo sometimes... it's all there.
EDGE: What was some of the feedback you received after initially starting the blog?
Paul Vitagliano: I would say and this was almost immediately that about 80 percent of the blind e-mails I got were from parents. The subject was either 'I have straight kids but I'm teaching them to be accepting and tolerant of all people' or 'I have a seven-year-old boy and he loves the color 'pink' and he doesn't play sports, he's sensitive and I'm not sure what this means. What do I do?'
I was playing Dr. Phil for a while but I was really glad to do it. Again, this is how things change. What I told all these parents was to accept their child exactly as they are and give them unconditional love and to ask their child, 'What makes you happy?' Just to support those things and not to treat it as a freak-out moment or negative moment and to just treat it as a fact.
Talking to parents
EDGE: That's phenomenal. As well as being a cute or entertaining book, there is also depth to it, if you look a little further, to helping parents or children. The fact that parents are contacting you is an excellent thing.
Paul Vitagliano: Yeah and I'm really floored by a lot of e-mails I got of how younger parents of today look at this as opposed to say, my parents or an older generation. It's that we're really getting to that place where it's just another fact. It's not a bad fact... it's just a fact. The future is the acceptance of this.
EDGE: The dialogue on your blog and the book open a 'window' for everyone.
Paul Vitagliano: The blog really took on a much larger purpose and had a much deeper impact. Instead of 'This is really silly and fun' it went to 'I just feel really connected to this.' I'm not going to brag but I knew it was a great idea. Let's put it that way. To catch the way that it did and to get the support for the book, that support really was there from the very beginning. The blog is up to almost 3.9 million hits. All these people are finding it and taking the time to read it. I also am grateful to Quirk Books for publishing 'Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay.' They saw something in it and really believed in it. That's really important to me.
"Born This Way: Real Stories of Growing Up Gay" by Paul Vitagliano is available at amazon.com and borngaybornthisway.blogspot.com


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Edith M. Tether, age 86, of Lake Wenonah, Tafton, died Sunday, March 10, 2013, at Sylvia House at Hospice of Marion Co., Ocala, FL. She had wintered in Florida for many years.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 52 years, Russell A. Tether, in 1999.
Born January 26, 1927, in Port Jervis, NY, she was the daughter of the late Frederick and Julia A. (Nehus) Schuler. She was a graduate of Hawley High School.
She is survived by three daughters: Tiffany Michaels of Sparta, NJ, Sylvia Tether of Riva, MD, and Robin Smyth of Hawley, PA ; one son: Jay Tether of King Of Prussia, PA; ten grandchildren; eleven great grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
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The son of two Greenwich Village artists, De Niro dropped out of school at age 16 to study at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting. After working in a few Off-Off-Broadway plays, he appeared in his first film, Brian De Palma's The Wedding Party (1963, released 1969). During the next four years he appeared in several minor films, the most notable being The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971). It was not until his performance in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) that he was widely recognized as an excellent actor. Mean Streets (1973) marked De Niro's first association with director Martin Scorsese, with whom he would do some of his most celebrated work. Director Francis Ford Coppola, whose massively popular The Godfather (1972) had won the best picture Oscar, was so impressed by De Niro in Mean Streets that he offered the actor the part of young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II (1974), forgoing even a screen test. De Niro's brilliant take on the part that was created by Marlon Brando in the first Godfather film earned him a best supporting actor Oscar and made him an international star.
Following The Godfather, Part II, De Niro worked with some of the cinema's most noted directors in such films as Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900 (1976), Elia Kazan's The Last Tycoon (1976), and Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter (1978), the last one receiving the Oscar for best picture. But it was his films with Scorsese for which De Niro acquired a reputation for masterfully portraying extremely dark and unappealing figures. He received an Oscar nomination for his role as the isolated and violent Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver (1976) and won the best actor Oscar for his portrayal of boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980). Known for his intense role preparation, De Niro spent weeks driving a taxi in New York City before filming Taxi Driver, and he gained more than 50 pounds (about 23 kg) to portray La Motta. By the end of the 1970s, he was widely considered one of the best actors of his generation.
In the 1980s he appeared in a series of box office failures that have nevertheless become cult favourites. Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1983), which offered a desolate look at the hazards of celebrity, won critical praise but little public interest, whereas Sergio Leone's epic Once upon a Time in America (1984) suffered from postproduction studio interference, as did Terry Gilliam's futuristic satire Brazil (1985). De Niro also performed in more conventional films during that era, including True Confessions (1981), Falling in Love (1984), The Mission (1986), and De Palma's The Untouchables (1987). He revealed a talent for comedy in Midnight Run (1988) and won some of the best notices of his career for his depiction of a catatonic patient in Awakenings (1990). GoodFellas (1990) reunited De Niro with Scorsese for a brutal look at organized crime. Most critics agreed that Scorsese and De Niro had returned to form, but two further collaborations, Cape Fear (1991) and Casino (1995), were met with mixed reviews.
De Niro later appeared in Michael Mann's crime thriller Heat (1995), which pitted him against actor Al Pacino. He continued to explore his comedic side in such films as the satirical Wag the Dog (1997); Analyze This (1999) and its sequel, Analyze That (2002); and Meet the Parents (2000) and its sequels, Meet the Fockers (2004) and Little Fockers (2010). In 2008 De Niro reteamed with Pacino in the police drama Righteous Kill, and the following year he starred in Everybody's Fine, portraying a widower who discovers various truths about his adult children. He later took supporting roles in the thrillers Machete (2010) and Limitless (2011), the action drama Killer Elite (2011), and the ensemble romantic comedy New Year's Eve (2011). In the drama Being Flynn (2012), De Niro starred as an alcoholic, homeless writer reconnecting with his estranged son.
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By Emily Royalty
PEPPERELL -- After 16 years of serving in local government, Selectman Joseph Sergi will be hanging up his political saddle. Sergi announced at the Board of Selectmen meeting Monday night that he would not be running for re-election. Sergi has been serving as selectman since 2007.
"I've enjoyed my time here and I hope I've contributed to making Pepperell a better place," said Sergi. "It's been a truly difficult four years for Pepperell but I think I'm leaving it in good hands with (Town Administrator) John (Moak), Peggy (Mazzola) and my fellow selectmen."
After moving to town in 1997, Sergi ran for and got elected to the Planning Board.
Since then, he said, "I haven't looked back."
Annual town election is April 22.
In addition to the Planning Board and the Board of Selectmen, Sergi has also served on the Land Use Committee, the Charter Committee and the Mill Committee. Sergi said he felt that with other events in his life, he felt he could no longer dedicate the same level of time and focus that he has to the position in the past.
In addition to thanking his supporters, he extended the most thanks to his wife Patty and daughters Olivia and Katie, "For understanding and for all those missed dinners and family events," he said. "I lost the majority vote at home but they might regret that having me around a little bit more.
Selectman Michael Green addressed Sergi, saying that although the two haven't always agreed, he's appreciated the candor and feedback that Sergi has provided him.
"The town's going to lose a very good leader," said Green. "To me, having come from the outside, you've been, I think, a good mentor in navigating me through some of the politics and things like that and I appreciate it."
"We most certainly had a lot of fun, didn't we?" Sergi responded.
In other business, the board voted to accept the Staffing for Adequate Fire & Emergency Response grant totaling $138,012 that they had been awarded through FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security. The grant will go toward funding a full-time firefighter and paramedic position for two years, with wages and benefits at no cost to the town. The only costs the town will incur will be from equipment provided to the employee. The Board of Fire Engineers appeared before selectmen for the motion.
Firefighter Milt Blood said his only concern was the long-term benefits.
"What are we going to gain long-term if this is only two years?" he asked. "Is there a way now to start with the Finance Committee to start looking for ways we could possibly take this on at the end of two years?"
Sergi said it would be premature to begin those discussions now.
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By Lisa Redmond
LOWELL -- The last of three men, including one on the Mass. Most Wanted list, was arraigned on armed-robbery charges after being accused of faking a pizza delivery on New Year's Day to ambush and rob the pizza-delivery man of $50, credit cards and a cellphone.
After being arrested Wednesday on a Superior Court warrant, William Demont, 27, of Lowell, pleaded not guilty Wednesday afternoon to one count of armed robbery. Demont was released on personal recognizance under home confinement wearing a GPS monitoring device, on the condition that he continue taking his medications and that he continue with mental-health and substance-abuse counseling.
Co-defendants Xavier Serrano and David Purtell were arraigned at an earlier date, both pleading not guilty to armed robbery. Serrano, who was on the Mass Most Wanted list for the armed robbery of a Tedeschi's convenience store in Lowell, was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail, while Purtell's bail was set a $5,000 cash bail.
Prosecutors allege that on Jan. 1, Mill City Pizza received an order to be delivered to 5 Dalton St., second floor. When the delivery man arrived, he saw three males sitting on the front steps. The delivery person went to the rear of the building and started to climb the stairs when the three men appeared.
When the delivery person asked the three men if they had placed the order, one of the men held a knife to his face and the men told him, "money, money.
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Serrano allegedly told police he and Demont threatened the victim with knives, while Purtell used a syringe with liquid in it.
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Freddie Prinze Jr. ripped Kiefer Sutherland last weekend at Comic-Con, saying the "24" actor made him want to quit acting.
I thought he did quit acting.
Prinze told ABC News he was so unhappy filming "24" in 2010 that he almost quit. "I did 24. It was terrible. I hated every moment of it," Prinze said. "Kiefer was the most unprofessional dude in the world. That's not me talking trash; I'd say it to his face. I think everyone that's worked with him has said that."
"I just wanted to quit the business after that. So, I just sort of stopped."
But ... he apparently didn't say this to Sutherland's face. Which sort of undermines the claim he would.
Not that there's anything wrong with that since, you know, Kiefer Sutherland seems to get just a tad unhinged now and then.
After Prinze was on "24," he worked with another notoriously hotheaded TV star. "I went and worked for Vince McMahon at the WWE for Christ's sake and it was a crazier job than working with Kiefer.," he said. "But, at least he was cool and tall," Prinze said. "I didn't have to take my shoes off to do scenes with him, which they made me do. Just put the guy on an apple box or don't hire me next time. You know I'm 6 feet and he's (Sutherland) 5-foot-4."
"Cool and tall?"
I think it's becoming clear why Freddie Prinze Jr. doesn't get much work anymore.
No response from Sutherland's people so far.
Tony Hicks provides celebrity commentary for the Bay Area News Group. Contact him at Facebook.com/BayAreaNewsGroup.TonyHicks or Twitter.com/thicks67.