Ever since Cher’s daughter Chastity Bono — now Chaz Bono — announced she was beginning the process of becoming a man – many have wondered what exactly a sex change involves.
In order to get that answer, FOXNews.com talked to Dr. Marci Bowers, an internationally renowned surgeon who performs more than 200 gender-related surgeries a year at her clinic in Trinidad, Colo.
“There’s no one way to transition,” Bowers told FOXNews.com. “But generally a patient receives some type of psychological counseling in the beginning. Once they have therapy, they will then undergo a combination of hormone treatments — usually in conjunction with living in their desired gender role full-time for a year.”
Bono, 40, reportedly began taking hormones and living as a man shortly after his birthday in March, which means he still has a long road filled with many decisions ahead of him.
The fact is – female-to-male transition is not cut and dry. There are many options out there, according to Bowers.
“The one procedure that female-to-males usually do is the chest procedure or mastectomy,” she said. “It’s a surgery where their breasts are removed or modified in a way that gives them a male contour.”
Bowers estimates that the vast majority — around 90 percent — of female-to-male patients opt to get the chest surgery.
“And then some of the other surgeries they may choose may be a hysterectomy, and that might be more along the lines of like 50-to-50,” Bowers said. “And then even less commonly, genital surgery of some form is done.”
One procedure is phalloplasty, which involves the creation of a “sizable but largely non-functional” phallus, Bowers said.
“Some people also choose to have testicles implanted. Some choose to remove a part of the vagina, called a vaginectomy and then close the opening. But we’re seeing some people retain those parts and even use them for sexual gratification.”
The bottom-line, Bowers said, is that it’s all about personal choice.
“Like anything, there’s diversity in choices and in how people choose to express their gender,” she said. “So again, this is a choice. Some people want the vagina gone… they want testicles and they want a penis.”
In addition to phalloplasty, there’s an alternative procedure called a metoidioplasty.
“That’s where the clitoris is released and it grows in response to testosterone,” she said. “In essence, it becomes a small penis.”
Pluses and Minuses of Surgery
“I think the difficulty is in some of the surgical aspects,” Bowers said. “Each surgery has its drawbacks – but the surgery from female to male just isn’t perfect.”
On the other hand, Bowers said, female-to-male candidates are more socially acceptable at an early stage because they blend into society at a much quicker pace.
“Testosterone is enormously powerful,” she said. “Patients get chest hair, they get facial hair, they get male pattern hair recession and even balding in some cases. So socially they fit in immediately as men. Their voice drops… sometimes their feet grow… and they’re very much men in a short amount of time – a shockingly short amount of time.”
One message Bowers wants to get out is that the sex-change process goes far beyond surgery.
“Sometimes what people get hung up on is that it’s all about the surgery. And the fact is it’s really all about their gender role and how society perceives them. In fact, it’s estimated that 80 percent of transgender persons never undergo surgery.”
At her practice in Colorado, Bowers said she only sees the “crème de la crème” of people who can actually afford to go under the knife.
“It’s very expensive surgery that is not generally covered by insurance,” she said. “Some surgeries are very simple and can cost as little as $4,000. But I’ve heard of people spending anywhere from $80,000 to $100,000 for all sorts of surgical procedures. It’s highly variable.”
Bowers said she doesn’t think there is such a thing as a perfect candidate for surgery.
“Who are we to judge who is a perfect candidate?” she said. "I think if you feel it in your heart and soul and you feel it’s something you have to do…. then you have to do it.”
The Story of Dr. Marci Bowers
Bowers is not only a leading expert in the field of genital reassignment surgery -- or gender-confirming surgery, as she likes to call it -- but she was also a patient at one time.
“I had a very typical story,” she said. “I felt differently from a very early age and I largely hid things from my parents. I grew up in a small southern Wisconsin town in a very, very traditional family. My parents weren’t really aware until I was literally on the doorstep of transitioning.”
That was in 1996, when Dr. Mark Bowers was an accomplished obstetrician-gynecologist with a career spanning 20 years. He had been married for 11 years — a union that produced three children.
“Well, it was a bumpy road working through those details because it’s just a very awkward, inherently embarrassing disclosure to make,” she said. “It certainly took a lot of — I guess I’d call it careful negotiation.”
To this day, Bowers is still legally married and spends as much time as possible with her two daughters and son, who live in Seattle, Wash.
“We just have an interesting family and its sort of what I’d call it a 21st century family because it certainly is non-traditional,” she said. “But I think the lesson for any family is if you respect each other, find a way to love each other, you can really transcend things like this.”
Her Life in “The Sex Change Capital of the World”
After an extensive career in Washington, Bowers moved to Trinidad, Colo. — known as the sex change capital of the world — in 2003 to work side-by-side with renowned sexual reassignment surgeon Dr. Stanley Biber. Over a 30-year career, Biber, who died in 2006, performed more than 5,000 sex-change operations.
“I had actually been down there to visit him in 2000 because there were some people in Seattle who had worked for him,” Bowers said. “And they just said they had this amazing practice and I got the chance to meet with him and he said “we’re really looking for a surgeon and we’re hoping to recruit someone or have someone come,” and his idea was that I’d do obstetrics and then gradually take over the surgery division.”
Six months after she started working with Biber, Bowers did her first solo surgery, and she hasn’t looked back since. During her time in Trinidad, Bowers has performed more than 550 male-to-female surgeries and does an average of 220 gender-related surgeries every year.
“It just keeps unfolding and it’s been interesting the entire way,” she said. “I certainly don’t have any complaints. I’ve had an interesting life and it keeps getting more interesting, it seems.”
Although Bowers’ main focus is on gender reassignment surgeries, she is also working on several other projects to improve the health of people from all corners of the globe.
“We are the first center in North America actually that’s going be doing female genital mutilation reversal. We’ve now done two sets of patients from Africa — so that’s kind of the latest and greatest thing we’re up to,” she said.
Megan McCain really wants the Republican party to accept the GLBT community. I'm a Republican and a lesbian, why? Because I do believe in the freedom of this country, small government and fiscal responsibility.
I also feel, the Democratic party doesn't accept the GLBT community, as well. Think about, if the democratic party cared so much for our rights, we would have them by now.
Maine is Democratic and they are voting against gay marriage, so it takes a person not a party to stand up for rights.
Megan McCain is on a mission to accept the GLBT community into the Republican party. Little does she knows, they are already there.
Investigators in New York City raided circulation offices at some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a union corruption probe, a law enforcement official said.
Police officers working with the Manhattan district attorney's office searched circulation offices of The New York Times in Queens, the New York Post and the Daily News in Manhattan, and El Diario in Brooklyn, the official said, speaking to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Investigators were seeking paperwork related to the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union, which packages and delivers newspapers across the region.
Calls to the union's headquarters were not answered Tuesday. The news deliverers' parent union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, referred inquiries to the local union.
The New York Times issued a statement saying that the office of an employee at its plant in Queens' College Point area had been searched but that its news side was not part of the investigation.
Rosana Rosado, publisher of El Diario-La Prensa, also said that the Spanish-language newspaper is not a subject of the investigation and that the search warrant was seeking information into allegations of corruption at the union.
Bob Leonard of Dan Klores Communications, speaking for the Daily News, declined to comment on the raid. A call to the Post was not returned.
The 1,600-member union wields considerable power over news companies that rely on their drivers to deliver hundreds of thousands of papers each day, and allegations of connections to organized crime are not new.
District Attorney Robert Morgenthau charged that the union was under mob control more than a decade ago, after an investigation that also involved a 1992 search of the Post and Daily News offices.
The probe led to criminal charges against union members including then-President Douglas LaChance, who authorities accused of being an associate of the Luchese crime family. He was acquitted in 1995 of strong-arming the Post into switching delivery companies.
The
New Face of Psychotic, Twisted, Gory,
Experimental Crafted Horror
Phoenix,
AZ (November 11,
2009)
- Aliya
Leigh,
is a hot sexy lesbian republican scriptwriter,blogger,
podcaster, voice over actress and author; who speaks her mind about
anything. Her
message comes from world events, her heart and life. She will make
you laugh, cry and be in shock. From titles like, “Drink Urine and
Lose Weight”, “We
Need Abortion”, and “Gay McCain”. With
a new film script, she
is the psychotic demented horror writer with a score to settle.
Aliya
Leigh is announcing her first major film script, called “I Love
You”. "I Love You", Brenda Lopez was raised by a mother who sold her to men, but found love when she met Alex. Zack tells his brother Alex his feelings towards Brenda; which starts a psychotic, twisted, graphic, gory experimental game of the mind and physical strength.
Will Brenda and Zack survive?
“People have described the script, as a bad acid trip without the acid,” Aliya Leigh says.
In
addition to writing horror scripts, she is looking to workfor
a film or television production companyor
studio, as a writer or editor, and looking for voice over work.
The
film script, “I Love You”, is ready to be sold to production
companies and studios.
About
Aliya Leigh
Aliya
Leigh is the host of a podcast called, “Lesbian Life”,
(http://aliyaleighlive.libsyn.com).
Since February 2008 to today, her listeners has grown from 500 to
40,000 downloads a day. With the success of “Lesbian Life”, she
started a weekly show based on fairy tales characters with attitude,
teenage problems and
lack of
common
sense called “Wonderland” (http://wonderland.podbean.com).
In “Wonderland”, she perform all the voices for the show, from
simple minded Alice to Deville the Prince of Darkness to Strawberry
Shortcake the Muslim. She is a contributing writer for Carpe Diem
Fashion Magazine. She has written books and treatments for
television. She also produces and workson
indie films around Arizona.
Aliya
Leigh performs community service around her community and a Trustee
on the National Writer’s Union board. She make appearances at
literary award shows, speaks at seminars about copyrighting and other
topics which plagues the writing world, and acts
as a fundraiser for causes.
In
her spare time, she plays video games, hang out with friends, travels
and plays
her violin. She is a member of Log Cabin (Republican group in the
LGBT community), ASCAP, National Writer’s Union and an
active
member of her church.
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Some of the most innovative, interesting, and, well, strange tech has nothing to do with computing monoliths like Google or Microsoft. And it's just around the corner.
Here's our list of the tech trends, products, and innovations that are available today — or coming online shortly — and how they'll affect your life next year.
1. You'll attend an online funeral Sites such as Otrib.com and Tributes.com let you leave a memorial to loved ones who have passed on. But some people are holding the funeral itself online, using webcasting services at sites such as Funeralrecording.com and Funeralone.com. This lets anyone attend, from anywhere.
Why the trend is important: Webcasting a funeral might sound morbid, but it means more people can share in the life of someone without the expense of travel.
2. You'll start life-casting
Given the confluence of ubiquitous cell phone use, high-speed 3G service, and a growing desire to connect with people in more tangible ways, life-casting has finally arrived. Services such as Qik.com let you stream a live video from your cell to the world without the usual video hiccups and complex setup.
Why the trend is important: YouTube videos are static. They capture a fleeting moment, but not as it happens in real-time. Life-casting is the true expression of our own self-worth (ahem).
3. Your body will control video games
Microsoft is championing a new Xbox controller: you. The technology, called Project Natal, lets you perform dance movies or kick a ball, while a camera tracks your movements using infrared and shows the results on screen. A microphone can also capture voice commands. Meanwhile, Sony has announced the PlayStation Motion Controller, a wand that helps accomplish the same you-as-the-controller goal.
Why the trend is important: It's about time someone invented a better way to shoot bad guys than the same joysticks and gamepads we've used for the last few decades.
4. You'll leave your tape measure at home
A new service called GeoEstimator uses satellites and aerial photographs to make roof measurements that are just as accurate as making the measurements in person. The service can help contractors, insurance companies, and estimators avoid crawling up on roofs.
Why the trend is important: Virtual measurements save time, sure, but they also pave the way for the further integration of satellite data in our lives, such as determining exact property boundaries.
5. You'll (finally) use a content aggregator
You probably already know about Digg.com and other services that help you find interesting stories and pictures. And plenty of sites — such as YouTube.com — let you share goofy videos. Toobla.com is different: It's an aggregator for videos, photos, documents and Web sites, so you can not only store videos and photos but share them online. It's also more visual than a storage service such as Box.net.
Why the trend is important: We're all inundated with too many digital files, and Toobla does a good job of making the storage more interesting and accessible for your friends and family members.
6. You'll burn your business cards
Salespeople hand them out at trade shows and they might help you win a free lunch. That's right: business cards just won't die. Several iPhone apps – such as Beezcard and SnapDat – allow you to share contact details, but not everyone has an iPhone. A Swiss company has made the PokenZoo, a cute, inexpensive device you touch to another Poken to swap contacts.
Why the trend is important: Saves paper, but also finally alleviates business workers from having to carry these annoying cards around whether they go.
7. You'll chat with faceless minions
One new trend regurgitates an age-old concept: On sites such as Omegle.com, you can chat with complete strangers. AOL has provided this capability for eons (isn't that what chat boards are all about?), but Omegle.com puts a random spin on it, pairing you safely and anonymously with an arbitrary total stranger. You can chat with some dude in Norway or Japan in less than 5 seconds.
Why the trend is important: Other than the fun factor, Omegle indicates the final piece in the globalization puzzle.
8. Your gadgets will have gadgets
Cell-phone boosters have become popular in the past few years, purporting to improve coverage and signal quality. Most have added, oh, one bar at most. The zBoost ONE (www.wi-ex.com) can boost your connection up three bars. The device is so innovative, it won a Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) award recently.
Why the trend is important: People in rural areas and deep within office complexes often can't participate in the mobile revolution. A booster makes high-speed access viable for everyone.
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Gay activists were frustrated that Obama, who insists he staunchly supports their overall civil rights agenda, didn't speak out forcefully in defense of Maine's marriage law before Tuesday's referendum.
SAN FRANCISCO - Stunned and angry, national gay rights leaders Wednesday blamed scare-mongering ads — and President Barack Obama's lack of engagement — for a bitter election setback in Maine that could alter the dynamics for both sides in the gay-marriage debate.
Conservatives, in contrast, celebrated Maine voters' rejection of a law that would have allowed gay couples to wed, depicting it as a warning shot that should deter politicians in other states from pushing for same-sex marriage.
"Every time the citizens have voted on marriage, they have always sided with natural marriage," said Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based Christian legal group. "Maine dramatically illustrates the will of the people, and politicians should wake up and listen."
Gay activists were frustrated that Obama, who insists he staunchly supports their overall civil rights agenda, didn't speak out forcefully in defense of Maine's marriage law before Tuesday's referendum. The law was repealed in a vote of 53 percent to 47 percent.
"President Obama missed an opportunity to state his position against these discriminatory attacks with the clarity and moral imperative that would have helped in this close fight," said Evan Wolfson of the national advocacy group Freedom to Marry. "The anti-gay forces are throwing millions of dollars into various unsubtle ads aimed at scaring people, so subtle statements from the White House are not enough."
The White House, asked about the criticism, had no immediate comment.
The marriage debate is simmering in at least a half-dozen states where a same-sex marriage bill is pending or where a court ruling or existing law is being eyed by conservatives for possible challenge.
Had Maine's law been upheld by voters, it would have become the sixth state to legalize gay marriage — and the first to affirm it by popular vote. In Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Iowa, gay marriage resulted from court decisions or legislation.
California is sure to be a major battleground over the next several years. Last year, conservatives succeeded in winning public approval of Proposition 8, which overturned a state court ruling allowing gay marriage. Gay rights groups want to take the issue back to the voters but are divided on a timetable.
In the aftermath of the Maine vote, some California activists appealed to their supporters for money to help them put a measure on the 2010 ballot. Other activist leaders want to wait until 2012.
"It's never too early to go back to right a fundamental wrong," said Chaz Lowe of Yes! on Equality, who favors shooting for 2010. "A lot of people are angry, a lot of people are upset. It at least has the potential to be a mobilization for the grass roots."
Some California activists said the outcome in Maine strengthened their belief that it will fall to the U.S. Supreme Court — not the voters — to make gay marriage legal. A federal lawsuit challenging Prop. 8 is scheduled to go to trial in January, the first step in a legal journey that is expected to reach the high court in a few years.
"The results in Maine underscore exactly why we are challenging California's same-sex marriage ban," said Chad Griffin, president of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, the Los Angeles group spearheading the lawsuit. "The U.S. Constitution guarantees equal rights to every American, and when those rights are violated, it is the role of our courts to protect us, regardless of what the polls say."
The situation elsewhere:
_ In New Jersey, the election Tuesday of Republican Chris Christie as governor puts extra pressure on gay rights supporters to win passage of a pending same-sex marriage bill before the legislative session ends in January. Christie says he would veto such a bill, while lame-duck Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, says he would sign it.
_ In Iowa, where the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage last April, conservatives have no quick way to overturn the ruling. Their only option would be to amend the state constitution through a ballot measure — in 2014 at the earliest — and that effort would need approval from a legislature whose current Democratic leaders don't even want to debate the issue.
_ In New Hampshire, conservatives have filed legislation to repeal the state's new gay-marriage law and amend the constitution to ban such unions. Kevin Smith, executive director of the conservative Cornerstone Policy Research, said he doubts the measures will pass, but hopes the vote in Maine will give gay-marriage opponents ammunition for the 2010 elections.
"It gives us more fodder to go back to people and say, 'Look, they aren't letting you vote on it,'" Smith said.
_ In Washington, D.C., conservatives are trying to force a popular vote on a bill headed toward City Council approval that would legalize gay marriage. Michael Crawford, one of the leaders of the local pro-gay marriage campaign, said the result in Maine increased his determination to avoid a ballot measure.
"The same cabal of anti-gay groups who stripped away marriage equality from our families in California and Maine now have their sights on D.C.," he said.
Crawford was among numerous gay rights leaders complaining about the campaign tactics of the groups that opposed same-sex marriage in Maine and California.
In both states, California-based political strategist Frank Schubert oversaw an advertising campaign warning that "homosexual marriage" would be taught in public schools.
The campaign to defend gay marriage countered that Maine's state curriculum guidelines contain no reference to marriage, and the state's Democratic attorney general, Janet Mills, issued an opinion backing that up. But the ads continued.
"It is infuriating to see that the same fear-mongering ads that were used to pass Prop. 8 a year ago have triumphed again at the expense of so many," said Joe Solmonese of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national gay rights group.
Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, came away with a different message.
"Over and over again, the American people have affirmed marriage at the ballot box and turned aside the demands of a movement that remains largely driven by Hollywood, some extreme activists and a few activist judges," he said. "We hope the message sent by Maine's voters will be heard in Washington and state capitals around the nation."
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Despite the collective outings of Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John, Rosie
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-- especially in the small towns of the Deep South. Focusing on the
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Spirit Journeys: Mystics & Muses
Friday & Saturday: December 11 & 12, 2009, 7:30 pm Faith Lutheran Church 801 E. Camelback, Phoenix
Sunday, December 13, 2009, 4:00pm Church of the Epiphany 2222 S. Price Road, Tempe
Join
us as we honor and celebrate the winter holidays of Chanukah,
Christmas, Kwanzaa and Winter Solstice. Our Spirit Journeys, both as a
society and individuals, often contain a dual nature: the more serious
spiritual element circumscribed in mystery and expressed through a
mystical nature, and the lighter side of the holidays, found in the
creative "imp.” Along with a performance of pieces from Benjamin
Brittain's Ceremony of Carols, we will also bring you an
arrangement of Silver Bells and a piece entitled Deck the Halls in 7/8,
which is a rhythmic version of the holiday classic.
**Faith Lutheran does not have accessible bathroom.
Exquisite Journey: Fierce Beauty
Friday & Saturday, March 12 & 13, 2010, 7:30 pm Faith Lutheran Church 801 E. Camelback, Phoenix
The
March concert is presented in honor of Women"s History Month and will
examine the journey of fear, chaos and even joy that comes with a life
threatening illness. Our desire is to present the intensity and
fierceness that the human spirit displays during these times. The
centerpiece of the concert will be Diane Benjamin’s Where I Live: A Breast Cancer Oratorio.
This sublime work brings together strings, percussion, choir, soloist
and narrator in a stunning musical/spoken word offering that leads us
through the uncertain journey of illness and recovery. The second half
of the concert offers music that will be a celebration of the
determination and resiliency of the human spirit. Plan now to be part
of this very moving event.
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Passionate Journeys: Passionate Kisses!
Friday & Saturday, June 11 & 12, 2010, 7:30 pm Faith Lutheran Church 801 E. Camelback, Phoenix
We
will close our season with our traditional concert about love and
relationships. With music that covers a multitude of genres, we will
present songs of love and relationships and the often ensuing chaos
each one brings. We
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Hello. This is Aliya Leigh. I, Aliya Leigh, is no longer with Empire Talent and Model Agency. We decided to part ways.
Empire Talent and Model Agency, I think, is fine for modeling because I do not have the knowledge on how they treat their models.
Me, personally, the agency does not have the resources and time for scriptwriters and authors. The owner of the agency told me, herself, she does not have the time to represent writers.
The owner is planning to be a producer of scripts and will require a producer fee first before shopping the script; which I do not agree with; which also made my decision simple.
I wish the agency love, happiness, harmony, peace, light and fortune.
Currently, I'm in the market to belong to an agency, who's trustworthy, honest, career-driven, hungry to make the next deal and willing work with a client to create more revenue.
My film script "I Love You", will be given to the highest bidder.
"I Love You", is about a sick, psychotic, twisted, suspenseful holiday love story thriller;
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When mild retarded Zack falls in love with his brother Alex's
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A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.
Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.
"There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage," Bardwell said. "I think those children suffer and I won't help put them through it."
If he did an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said.
"I try to treat everyone equally," he said.
Bardwell estimates that he has refused to marry about four couples during his career, all in the past 2 1/2 years.
Beth Humphrey, 30, and 32-year-old Terence McKay, both of Hammond, say they will consult the U.S. Justice Department about filing a discrimination complaint.
Humphrey, an account manager for a marketing firm, said she and McKay, a welder, just returned to Louisiana. She plans to enroll in the University of New Orleans to pursue a masters degree in minority politics.
"That was one thing that made this so unbelievable," she said. "It's not something you expect in this day and age."
Humphrey said she called Bardwell on Oct. 6 to inquire about getting a marriage license signed. She says Bardwell's wife told her that Bardwell will not sign marriage licenses for interracial couples. Bardwell suggested the couple go to another justice of the peace in the parish who agreed to marry them.
"We are looking forward to having children," Humphrey said. "And all our friends and co-workers have been very supportive. Except for this, we're typical happy newlyweds."
"It is really astonishing and disappointing to see this come up in 2009," said American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana attorney Katie Schwartzmann. "The Supreme Court ruled as far back as 1963 that the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry."
The ACLU sent a letter to the Louisiana Judiciary Committee, which oversees the state justices of the peace, asking them to investigate Bardwell and recommending "the most severe sanctions available, because such blatant bigotry poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the administration of justice."
"He knew he was breaking the law, but continued to do it," Schwartzmann said.
According to the clerk of court's office, application for a marriage license must be made three days before the ceremony because there is a 72-hour waiting period. The applicants are asked if they have previously been married. If so, they must show how the marriage ended, such as divorce.
Other than that, all they need is a birth certificate and Social Security card.
The license fee is $35, and the license must be signed by a Louisiana minister, justice of the peace or judge. The original is returned to the clerk's office.
"I've been a justice of the peace for 34 years and I don't think I've mistreated anybody," Bardwell said. "I've made some mistakes, but you have too. I didn't tell this couple they couldn't get married. I just told them I wouldn't do it."
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Forget Sarah Palin. The maverick female of the Republican Party is Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe.
The 62-year-old, moderate Maine lawmaker announced Tuesday she will vote for a Democratic health care bill, breaking with her party and giving a major boost to President Barack Obama's goal of expanding coverage.
"When history calls, history calls," Snowe told her colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee, several hours into the debate.
Snowe had kept virtually all of Washington guessing how she would vote. She had not even let Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in on her secret.
Then she captured all of Washington's attention.
"The status quo approach has produced one glaring common denominator, that is that we have a problem that is growing worse not better," she said in explaining her support for the bill.
While she described the legislation as flawed, she said it bolsters what works in the nation's health care system as well as trying to rein in the rising costs of health care.
Democrats, aware that Snowe could be the only Republican in Congress to vote for their health care overhaul, have spent months addressing her concerns about making it affordable and how to pay for it. Obama has sought her vote in phone calls and meetings.
Snowe made clear to her Democratic colleagues that her support could be a one-shot deal.
"My vote today is my vote today. It does not forecast my vote tomorrow," she said.
With her support, however, Democrats might have the 60th vote required to overcome Republican objections to the bill. Snowe's support would mean that the final version of the bill could _ technically _ be called bipartisan, a key tenet of Obama's agenda.
Snowe has broken with her party on several occasions.
Earlier this year, she was one of three Republicans who crossed party lines to vote for Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus bill. Before that, she defied then-President George W. Bush and voted for legislation he eventually vetoed _ but that later passed under Obama _ providing health care to millions of children.
Snowe also was one of the "Gang of 14" Democratic and Republican senators who resolved a standoff over judicial nominations.
In Maine, former Gov. Angus King, a political independent, compared Snowe's decision to the late Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's "Declaration of Conscience" speech in which she called for the nation _ and her own party _ to reject McCarthyism.
"This is a vote of conscience and a vote of concern for her constituents and concern for the country. And I think it took plenty of courage. I don't think it's possible for any of us to fully appreciate the pressure she's under and has been under to vote with her Republican colleagues," King said. "The fact that she was willing to split with them, I think, is a real testament to her integrity."
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Associated Press writer David Sharp in Portland, Maine contributed to this report.
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PHOENIX - State employees in Arizona can take advantage of domestic-partner benefits for the next 12 months even though the Legislature's last budget took them away.
The Department of Administration says the benefit will be available until October 2010, because cutting it before then might put the state in violation of contract laws.
The benefit was to be cut off when the state's insurance plan began Oct. 1, but the budget won't take effect until nearly two months into the contract period.
An opinion by the Attorney General's Office concluded the benefit's elimination during this fiscal year would conflict with employees' expectations.
The administration of former Gov. Janet Napolitano created the benefit through a policy change and won its approval from a board.
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NEW YORK — New York City police say a 49-year-old gay man leaving a corner deli near his home was beaten by two men in an apparent hate crime.
Jack Price remains in a medically induced coma. He is in serious but stable condition.
Police say the two suspects taunted Price and yelled anti-gay slurs while he was in the store early Friday. They attacked him outside, not far from his home in the middle-class Queens neighborhood of College Point.
Twenty-six-year-old Daniel Aleman was arrested Sunday and charged with assault and aggravated assault as a hate crime. The name of his attorney was not on record.
A second suspect is being sought. The police department's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
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Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been
honoring men and women from all corners of the globe
for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine,
literature, and for work in peace.
The foundations for the prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel
wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment
of the Nobel Prize. But who was Alfred Nobel? Articles, photographs,
a slide show and poetry written by Nobel himself are presented here
to give a glimpse of a man whose varied interests are reflected in
the prize he established. Meet Alfred Nobel - scientist, inventor,
entrepreneur, author and pacifist.
Qualified Nominators
The right to submit proposals for the
Nobel Peace Prize shall, by statute, be enjoyed by:
1.
Members of national
assemblies and governments of states;
2.
Members of international
courts;
3.
University rectors;
professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and
theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign
policy institutes;
4.
Persons who have been
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
5.
Board members of
organizations who have been awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize;
6.
Active and former members
of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of
the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first
meeting of the Committee after February 1) and
7.
Former advisers appointed
by the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
The Nobel Peace Prize may also be awarded
to institutions and associations.
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1 and 1o Youth Services is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving and assisting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (lgbt) youth. We provide youth with a tools to improve self-esteem and acceptance of who they are,
The youth we work with range in age from 14 to 22. We create a safe space, mentally and physically, for youth of all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Our weekly discussion groups cover a wide range of social, educational, health, and community issues. Youth with particular needs have the option to speak with peers or volunteers one-on-one, in a supervised setting. We offer resources for healthy living and making healthy choices, as well as social networking opportunities appropriate for developing leadership skills and having fun.
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HCG
is an acronym for the hormone Human Chorio Gonadotropin, which is found
in both men and women, though pregnant women have the highest levels of
HCG in their bodies. HCG injections or supplements are typically given
to women who need help ovulating and to men who want to increase their
sperm count. A daily HCG injection is also one component of the
controversial HCG diet plan.
The HCG hormone can be made synthetically or extracted from a
pregnant woman's urine and then processed for use by other humans. The
HCG diet shots are said to benefit both men and women similarly, though
experts don't recommend that women get the injections if they are
already pregnant or nursing, and thus already have elevated HCG levels.
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Advocates
of the HCG diet believe that, by adhering to the diet plan and taking
daily injections of HCG, participants can successfully reach their
targeted weight. They say that dieters following the HCG diet should
expect to lose somewhere between a half pound and 3 pounds (.23 to 1.36
kilograms) each day on the low-calorie, high-fiber plan [source: HCG Diet Info].
The diet has its fair share of believers. After all, any eating plan
that consists of a mere 500 calories will most likely result in weight
loss. But, at the same time, some people have found that the injections
made no difference [source: Sylvester]. And the drug lacks substantial research, so exposing your body to such a restrictive diet may not be in your best interests.
To know if the HCG diet is right for you, be sure to read about
the specifics of the plan and the possible dangers. Check out the next
page for information on the day-to-day dieting plan.
HCG Diet Plan
Long Time Coming
HCG diet ideas have been around since the early 1950s, which is when
Dr. ATW Simeons presented the diet plan to the public [source: HCG Weight Loss].
Shifting
into the HCG diet is likely to be quite a lifestyle change.
Participants are required to cut their caloric intake to roughly 500
calories and take a daily injection of HCG hormones. More water,
vegetables and fiber in the daily meal plan is said to accelerate the
weight loss [source: HCG Weight Loss].
There is no established exercise regimen, and the duration of the diet
is up to the individual, as the plan dictates that the rules be
followed until the target goal is reached.
The original HCG diet plan is quite restrictive and particular. For
breakfast, you can have only tea or coffee without sugar. The diet puts
a one-tablespoon limit on how much milk you can consume each day, so if
you require milk with your coffee and tea, you'll want to keep this in
mind. For lunch and dinner, you can cook 100 grams (.22 pounds) of lean
meat or seafood and pair it with one vegetable from this list of 13:
asparagus, beet greens, cabbage, celery, chard, chicory, cucumbers,
fennel, green salad, onions, red radishes, spinach and tomatoes. For
lunch and dinner, you can eat one toast cracker and an orange, apple,
half a grapefruit or strawberries [source: Goldsmith].
Advocates of the HCG Diet say that combining the extremely
low-calorie diet with the HCG hormone injections will lead to immediate
weight loss without the common side effects of many restrictive diets,
such as hunger pains, headaches and nausea. They believe that because
the HCG injections burn fat, the hormone provides the body with
necessary energy while reducing hunger and keeping the body out of
starvation mode [source: Derma Health Institute].
Read the next page to explore the other component of this diet, the HGC hormone injections.
HCG Diet Injections
Don't Try to Dodge the HCG Shots
The diet plan that is recommended for those who are entering the HCG
diet is quite strict. It limits you to 500 calories per day, which is
far below the recommended daily value. Proponents of the HCG diet
suggest that this kind of low-calorie diet is not safe unless combined
with the HCG injections. Don't attempt a 500-calorie diet plan without
the injections and certainly not without talking to your doctor first
[source: Brennan].
The HCG diet's success rests on its namesake -- the HCG hormone.
Before starting, it's in your best interest to understand how the
hormone is administered and what it does. Administration is usually
through two methods -- either an oral supplement or a liquid injection.
An injection for weight loss contains somewhere between 125 IU and 200
IU [source: HCG Weight Loss].
The best places for HCG injections are just beneath the skin or
straight into a muscle. For your safety and comfort, you may want to
ask your doctor to demonstrate the correct injection technique before
trying it on yourself [source: Drugs].
You also need to understand what the hypothalamus
is. This gland is responsible for regulating your body's fat storage
and metabolism. The HCG shots are said to command your hypothalamus to
release fat from storage, which triggers your body to combine that fat
and your 500 calories as energy. Then the shots should help your body
get rid of excess fat by burning it daily [source: HCG Diet Info].
After dedicating yourself to the daily 500-calorie diet and the HCG
injections, advocates say you'll have better eating habits for the rest
of your life. Once you've achieved your target weight, it's a good idea
to leave the drastic diet but maintain a sustainable, healthy lifestyle
[source: HCG Diet Info].
After all, you can't count on your body to maintain your goal weight if
you immediately fall back into your old eating habits.
Click to the next page to find out what dangers exist if you decide to go on the HCG diet.
HCG Diet Dangers
Take Caution before Taking HCG
Before using HCG injections for dieting purposes, be sure to check with
your doctor and review your medical history. Certain health conditions,
such as early puberty or any cancer that affects hormone levels, will
likely mean your body isn't fit for HCG. In these cases, professionals
will likely advise you to skip the injections [source: Drugs].
The
FDA has approved HCG injections for use in fertility issues, but not in
dieting. There haven't been enough comprehensive studies to test and
ensure its capabilities. While advocates claim that lower doses of the
hormone are used for dieting, the scientific and medical communities
still lack substantial evidence that the HCG shots are safe over an
extended period of time [source: Goldsmith].
There are a few dangers that come with injecting HCG into your body.
First of all, you want to make sure the medication hasn't gone bad,
either by changing color or accumulating particles. As with any
injected medication, the potential for blood clots exists. Some women
who have injected HCG have experienced a serious condition called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome
(OHSS). OHSS can be deadly, so you should take note of symptoms like
pelvic pain and stomach, arm or leg swelling. Other less serious side
effects might be headaches and depression. Young boys taking HCG might
experience premature puberty [source: Drugs]. Pregnant or nursing women could cause harm to their babies if the hormone is passed on [source: HCG Diet Info].
And although advocates claim that HCG keeps the body functioning
properly, a diet of 500 calories is below virtually any healthy amount
recommended by most doctors. Weight loss is almost guaranteed when
you're eating so much less than the recommended daily allowance, but
you may risk your health. And although the HCG is supposed to help with
side effects, in one study the HCG injections showed no different
feelings or results than a placebo injection [source: Sylvester].
The HCG diet has the potential for incredible results, but not
without the risk of significant side effects. As with any diet, you
should always talk to your doctor before implementing any significant
change. To learn more, visit the links on the following page.
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President Obama will speak to a gathering of gay rights activists this weekend, a day before thousands of people are expected to march on Washington in a demonstration calling for greater legal protections for gays, lesbians and transgendered Americans.
Many gay rights activists have become increasingly vocal about their frustration over what they see as tepid support from Mr. Obama. While the president has professed support for overturning the ban on gays in the military and called the law that precludes federal recognition of same-sex marriages discriminatory, he has not engaged on gay rights issues as actively as some had hoped.
The Justice Department is defending the federal marriage law, known as Defense of Marriage Act, much to the dismay of many gay rights advocates. And Mr. Obama has been noncommittal about when he will move to end the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy. In June, he acknowledged their irritations at the slow pace of change at a gathering of about 250 gay rights leaders who had been invited to the White House.
While it remains to be seen what Mr. Obama’s appearance at the dinner will do to his standing in the eyes of gay rights activists, his speech may mollify some of their concerns.
His appearance will mark only the second time a sitting president has spoken to the Human Rights Campaign. The first time was in 1997 when Bill Clinton spoke to the group. That was the first time a sitting president had ever addressed a gay rights organization.
A person with knowledge of Mr. Obama’s plans confirmed his appearance at the dinner. But this person spoke on the condition of anonymity because a formal announcement is expected later today.
The White House had no comment. A spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment.
Mr. Obama’s speech will coincide with the National Equality March, which is taking place on Sunday and is expected to draw thousands of gay rights supporters to the National Mall.
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What to keep that special? It takes work, believe me.
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Went to the Rainbow fest and people asked me about Pussy Care. So here it is!!!!
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Support the GLBT family. I am having problems. Soon I will be hiring staff and I am still STRESS.
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Yes, I am on http://www.match.com. Dating is so hard to do.
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Yesterday, I realized, people don't know what respect means and how to apply it to their lives.
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Sorry about the blog. Something came up. Talk later about it and it deals with ABUSE!
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To have a great relationship, both parties need to:
1) RESPECT! 2) NO ABUSE!!! 3) NO CHEATING!
This is important to remember and to understand, but sooo hard to do!
See,
we as humans are not happy all the time, we have emotions. So we can be angry,
sad, depress, happy or sexual. If you follow me on twitter, you have
witness all of my emotions.
To me, when my partner follows
the three rules, I feel safe and secure to be around them. I know there
will be no judging, hitting, abuse and no STDs.
What does respect means (from http://www.m-w.com):
A relation or reference to a particular thing or situation <remarks having respect to an earlier plan> 2 : an act of giving particular attention : consideration 3 a : high or special regard : esteem b : the quality or state of being esteemed c plural : expressions of respect or deference <paid our respects> 4 : particular, detail <a good plan in some respects>
So,
respect is having a high regard for your partner or date. When both
parties have respect for one another, then you have open communcation,
trust, love, honor and security. Everyone from the big hairy guy,
little guy, fairy, drag queen, drag king, butch, femme, straight women,
straight men, trans and bi's want to be respected and secure.
It takes both parties to respect each other; which can build or destroy a relationship.
For
example, the girl who I was speaking to told me, "The best good looking
black girls are in Altana, Georgia." Now, she's try to dating me and
she told me that. How would you feel, if a person YOU were dating or
YOUR partner told you this statement?
You'll feel hurt because now you see they don't see as good looking as the girls in Altana, Georgia.
Another
example, my ex-love Sharon told me, "I love working out at the
Scottsdale gym because I see good looking women." Again, she didn't see
me in high regard.
After Sharon, I told myself, the next time
I fall in love with person, they need to respect me. I won't take
anything less. Another example, my sugra momma, always told me, "Hi,
beautiful. You're so beautiful." See, that's respect and I respect her
the same way, but we saw the future in different eyes, but this is
proof, you can have respect in a relationship, even if, it's a booty
call.
So, please respect yourself and your date or partner because it does wonders in the bedroom.
Also
with respect, if your partner goes to a strip club, you don't have to
worry. If your partner goes on a long trip, you don't have to worry.
If your partner, see a person who looks good, you don't have to worry.
Respect, will always allow you to keep a sound mind and a joyful heart.
Tomorrow, I'll talk about NO ABUSE!!!!!
I
did speak to the girl today, it didn't end good. See, I got two free
passes to see "Fame". "Fame" (the series), impacted a big part of my
life because it went into detail about living life for a dream, so I
wanted to go. I asked the girl to if she wanted to go, but she was
busy. Ok, no problem. So I took my cousin. Her husband is a Army
Officer, who's station in Iraq.
Today, I spoke to the girl
and she was upset with me because she couldn't go. I had to tell her,
it wasn't a big deal and I took someone else and I didn't have time to
tell her, it was my cousin.
The confusing part is, we are NOT
together. I have tried to see her and do activities with her, but she
wants to be with her friends. I don't care, if she wants to hang out
with her friends; I just want to know her more. So, I put in the
effort to arrange dates, but no show. What else, can a girl do?
I did text her because, seriously, I don't think she was mad at me, she was mad at something else.
If she doesn't want to talk me, fine. I just want her to find the right partner for her because no one should ever be alone.
I may go the Mercury game tomorrow night. If you see me, say "Hi".
Love you guys and remember, respect yourself and others.
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Most of our straight friends and family, wished they never heard those words. But, it happens.
I was at the home office today, because I was sick. You know when you walk to your kitchen from your bedroom and you don't know how you got there?
I was watching the Tara Banks show and they're going to have show tomorrow about how to cure gay people. But, do we need to be cured? Why are we gay? And is something wrong with us?
These are good questions and they have great answers. Gay people were born gay. I can prove it. My father's sister and my first cousins are gay, plus my mother admitted she thought about being gay when she was younger. So, there's a gay gene. But, unfortunately, people who are not part of the GLBT community look down on us, if we were freaks of the year; which is not cool.
I knew I was gay for a long time and I didn't want to admitted because of family and religion, but when I came clean to myself, then I became a whole people.
It's funny, when you're in the closet, you feel so confined as if you're in a prison cell. When you except yourself as you are, then you feel a release of mind, body and soul.
One thing, I can't stand is people putting God into hating something or someone. If God talked to us on earth, we will be shocked to hear, "I love everyone." It's Godlike to tell someone, "God Hates YOU!!!", when you're not being Godlike yourself?
The bottom line is, YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT YOURSELF.
Without accepting yourself as whatever you are, you're not doing yourself justice.
When I was at the end of grade and Jr.High, I didn't love myself. I tried to kill myself several times because I knew I was different and God didn't want me to be different. I figure, if I ended my life, I will no longer embarrass my family. But, acceptance helped me to heal and love myself. Unfortunately, society had brain damaged us to think a certain way, instead of thinking for ourselves.
If you are gay and you don't want have relationship with the same sex, that's fine, but accept the fact, you are gay. Some people refuse to have sex or a relationship with the same sex because of religion and/or family. There's a lot of people doing this and they are STILL HAPPY.
For me, you know where I stand. I love being with a person of my own sex.
I wish the world was different, but everyone has opinions. Opinions is what makes this country great, but we need to respect each other for their differences; which makes life great.
People may hate, love and just deal with us, but the main thing is to respect each other with love and understanding. It sounds simple, but it's difficult to do, when our own egos get in the way.
When I first met Nitara, the film director, she was married to a man and had a son. When I first shook her hand, I knew she was gay. She was so deep into the closet, she was like those old clothes you saved, but couldn't wear in years. She looked confined and so confused, like a lost child in a mega mall. I felt sorry for her and her husband. And yes, I did speak to the husband, but never told him, "Your wife is gay."
A year later, I saw her at a gay club. She's out of the closet and so happy. Her creativity is much stronger then ever, she is more open and less stress. Because she accepted herself, she became a whole person.
But, sadly some decides they need to kill themselves to be happy. It's not true. If you believe killing yourself is the answer, please get help.
Remember, "God loves everyone and you are special to him or her because YOU are a gift from God."
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This is the oldest riddle in life. When something is in front of us, we do want it. But, when we can't have it, we want it more.
Why?
I don't know, but it's true. I remember when I first met Kathleen. It was at the Older Lesbian Single party. She was cute and there was something about her. You know when you have a feeling about someone who you can't understand. That's Kathleen, she's a mystery. She has curly long red hair, tan skin and acts like she is high society, but down to earth. Meeting her, you wouldn't think she was a published wealth lesbian author. She's kind and wonderful, but takes control. I love her to death, but remember I said, when we can't have it we want it more.
Kathleen was head over heels in lust (not love) for a woman name W. I knew W very well. W was my ex-love, Sharon good friend. The true was, I hated W for a while. I couldn't stand her. My ex-love told me, she was in love with W and I was her last choice, since W had a girlfriend. Through, I ex-love, W gave her some crazy advice about my relationship with Sharon.
So, think about this, Katleen wants to go out with W and I can't stand W. How can I be around W, since I can't stand her. Looking at her made me sick, but I was hurting too.
Lesbians are known for talking, just like the women on The View. We talk about each other and other people, but we are still family.
W found out how I felt about her. She talked to me and found out, Sharon lied. It just goes to show, you need to go to the source of the information instead of the hear say.
Anyway, Kathleen wanted W in the worst way, but W was dating K. K is a wonderful person with life and crazy mixed in. She reminds me of a person who would go to a Buddhism temple to chant, search for the meaning of life, start a company and go to party. I can see her having business meetings at The Cash, while conducting important business. W is more structured and I can totally understand.
So, Kathleen wanted her, but couldn't have her; which made W more desirable. Me and W, we're good friends. Sharon is history.
Anyway, it's happening to me. All this time, the girl didn't want to see me and bring me anywhere, but since she had to leave for business, I'm on her mind. Crazy.
Why do we torture ourselves this way? I don't get it, but we still do it. Why can't we desire the thing want in the moment, until it's gone. It just proves we need to live in the moment and desire the things we have. I know I have a problem with regret. When I have something, I wonder if there is something better on the other side. I have learned to stop it and just be happy with what you got. Because you will be search for the next high and never be content for the important things of life.
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Today was crazy. Busy, busy, busy. I hope my agent got me a job or several. I have to take my pictures. Nude pics this time. Ok, what happen today. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy.
The girl called me several times today, but I couldn't get to the phone. This morning, I was coughing and sneezing. She called me in the morning. She called me in the afternoon, but I didn't have my phone on me. I had to go to the post office a second time to renew my passport. The first time, I mailed it, it didn't get to passport office because an employee mis weighed the package. Then I need to deposit some checks and because I didn't take the card out of the ATM in time, the machine ate me card. Ok, so I had a crazy day. Ok. So what.
Anyway, I got voicemail messages from the girl. It was insane. It was like she was forcing me to call her or else. I was in shocked. The only person that told me that was Sharon, ex love. But, we were together.
With this girl, I never had sex with her or even kissed her. All we did was talk and hug. That's it!!!!
So, I called her back and told her that I didn't listen to the messages.
Well, the bottom line is that she is gone. She had to go out of town today. I wanted to see me before she left; which is amazing.
So, when I want to see her, she's always with her friends. But, if she wants to see me, I have to drop everything to see her. Hell no. Please.
Women are so much drama to point that it doesn't make sense that God made lesbians, but he/she did.
I still think of God being a dude.
But, today, something did happen. I felt appreciated. I have a straight big wig boss. He knows, I'm gay. He has a bitch of a girlfriend. If she was gay, she would get a big dike butch. She's so mean, I think of Blair from Gossip Girl or the BITCH from Melrose place. One look from her eyes, will make the biggest baddest Butch cry like a little scared child.
My boss told me, I help him alot. That makes me feel good. I wanted to said something witty, but I left it alone. Sometimes, you should say, "Thank you" and walk away. That's what I did.
Knowing that people do care about your work, makes you feel so happy.
I try to treat my employees with happiness and love. I love each and everyone of them. I didn't even sleep with any of them. Ha Ha.
Life is crazy and we need to live it crazy. Take a drive, see a movie by yourself, hug a friend, love yourself and smile. Life is so short, why waste it on stupidity.
My friend Nitara is a film director. Very good. She has a girlfriend now. I heard she is HOT!!!!. My friend Jackie saw her. Jackie description her - I though she was talking about the goddess Venus. I can't wait to meet her.
Tomorrow, I canceled my violin lesson and I'm getting ready for the Mercury game. Playoff baby.
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How to break up with a person? That's a good question?
Amy broke up with me because she that her month was over. She told me that I was speaking to her through my blog. I have to admit, that was a great break up line.
As humans, we all suffer through a break up, more so than others. It's crazy, we spend so much time with a person and then we don't see them anymore.
But, with Amy, we dated and now we are good friends. Crazy. Right.
In the Lesbian World, breakups can be so dramatic and emotional. It can be liken to a depress lesbian on the edge of a cliff wanting to jump off into an abyss of darkness.
Tomorrow, I was planning to spend time with the girl, but I don't want too. After we met, things went down hill. The only thing, I can think of, is that my car was dirty inside. But, anyway I know we are not good together.
Almost every woman wants a excellent leader in their lives, like me. I don't want to take the lead. I don't have the energy or will too. I want a good lead to lead me through life, but not a mother.
One woman older who I was with was more like my mother then someone to date. She would treat me like a child. Who wants to be treat like child, when you own a house?
But, breakup is a part of life. Here are my breakup line; which I have use:
1) I want to get marry and have children. (My favorite, Said it) 2) I'm moving out of Arizona. (Said it) 3) It's the end of the world and I need to get right with God. (My favorite, Said it) 4) My cat doesn't like you. (Never used this one) 5) I'm so busy, I don't have time to pee.(Said it) 6) I go insane during PMS. (Never used this one) 7) You can find someone better than me. (My favorite, Said it) 8) I'm the hoe of Phoenix, I have done almost everyone here at the club.(My favorite Said it,) 9) I'm needing. (Never used this one) 10) My job is writing about my life and you. (My favorite, Said it) 11) I travel alot . (My favorite, Said it) 12) I love porn Japanese cartoons. (Amine) (My favorite, Said it) 13) I'm cheap. (My favorite, Said it) 14) I'm into threesomes. (My favorite, Said it) 15) (pointing at a woman) I couldn't date her, so I'm stuck with you. (A friend said this to her date.) 16) It's not you. It's me. (My favorite, Said it) 17) I don't want to hold you down because I want you to succeed in life. 18) I'm into choking.(My favorite, Said it) 19) I don't like dating out of my race. (A white girl told this to me after we had sex) 20) I'm shallow. I need someone like me. (Never used this one) 21) I'm a Republican. TEAM MCCAIN. (My favorite) 22) I see dead people.(Never used this one) 23) You are going to cheat on me anyway.(One ex said this to me) 24) I shouldn't have to work during sex. 25) You live too far. (Said it) 26) I'm into animal sex. (Never used this one) 27) I'm a good digger. (Never used this one) 28) People live inside of me. (Never used this one) 29) You don't like organic food, so I can't be with you. (A girl said this to me) 30) My wife told me to stop cheating on her. (Never used this one) 31) I believe Glenn Beck is the Christ.(Never used this one) 32) I believe, stalking my girlfriend is the same of loving my girlfriend. (Never used this one) 33) I'm not gay anymore. I love having sex with men. (One ex said this to me) 34) You're just with me because you feel sorry for me. (Never used this one) 35) I know, we just met last week. I believe, we have a strong connection. I want you to move in with me, today. (Never used this one)
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I want to hear your story.
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I spoke to my editor today, Rheah today. She's such a good friend and a wonderful editor. Love you to pieces.
Now, I twittered about this; What is a relationship killer?
Twitter is mess-up right now, so I can't give you answers from other people, but let me tell you this.
I spoke to the girl this morning, but let me set it up.
I woke up this morning, tried. My cat, Sheba, was jumping all over me as if I was a bouncing castle. I rolled out of bed, alone. No, no, no booty call last night. I didn't even play with myself. By the way, I brought this pleasure-enhancing tingling lubricant. It doesn't work, just burns as if I have a bad STD. Thank god for toys. Anyway, I got up and got dress. Wet my hair and put it up.
When I am out and about, I just wear whatever, but at functions, I look good because I have more time to get dress.
Well, I called the girl who I am seeing. Here are some relationships killers:
1) I need to go to Atlanta, GA because they have some good looking black females there.
2) I may go to The Cash one day
3) (After talking about my birthday party at The Cash), "My birthday party, I was so trash. It lasted for a week."
So, after the phone call, I did some work, went the gym and thought. I called Rheah and she gave me some good advice.
One thing is, I can have sex with anyone and proved it. But, this girl is not worth my time, unfortunately, I already gave her a playoff ticket to the Mercury game. BUMMER.
I have to find the girl for me. Kathleen always finds the girl for her and she is a pro. That's why I love her as a friend of course. To me, it seems she is more emotionally attached to her novels then to a girl.
I used to be that, but the word "relationship" got into my world. It seems that I lost myself and who I am.
It's funny. I love to have sex, have money, have respect for myself even though it seems that I don't.
I have to get my body ready for my photo shoot soon because I want to do some nude shots.
I broke it off with the Latina. God bless her and I hope she always follow her dreams.
PEACE OUT.
BTW, if you want to a song track on my blog go to: http://limelinx.com/ and email your track to aliyaleigh@gmail.com. The subject line: PLAY MY DAMN TRACK.
You will get full credit and people will be able to contact you.
Peace, Love and Harmony. I will be more positive in the future.
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The Latina, who's moving to Florida. I let her go. We were txting back and forth about this. But, I had to let her go, even though I don't want too. She needs to pursit her dreams and I will just be in the way.
But, stay tuned for more drama in the AZ!
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This morning, I talked with the girl who I'm talking too; which I felt sad about. But, I'm going to write about it. Because this is one big mistake people make if they want to get close or have sex with a person. My booty call thing is coming out and the relationship person, in dying inside.
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Women and weight is like a marriage made in hell. Women will spend money or do anything in order to lose weight that they need to lose or lose weight they don't have.
Why is weight so important? I don't know. And when you lose the weight, do you began to love yourself?
Today, I was sitting at my desk in front of a big sandwich, cookies and salad. I felt so hot and bothered by it, like it was a beautiful sexy half naked woman begging me to have sex with her in the worst way. Now, granted I have not had sex in a month, so I'm going through withdrawals.
My mouth began to water, my lips wanted to touch the sweet roasted beef and my tongue wanted to taste the juices. I stared at the sandwich as if it was a desired object for my own sexual desires.
I ate sandwich, I ate four large chocolate chips cookies and the salad. After eating over my full, I wanted to throw up. I thought about it, but I didn't; which is a win for me.
Since the sixth grade, all of jr. high school and the beginning of high school, I was bulimic. Meaning, I would eat and then throw up. I always had a tooth brush and tooth paste with me because after you throw up, you have to brush your teeth. See, your stomach has acid and you throw up the food and the acid. If the acid stays on your teeth, it can erode the enamel.
My point was, if you are thin, you look good and people with love you. That was my crazy thinking.
I can remember back in jr. high, a black teacher told the class; "Black girls don't have eating disorders." So, in my mind, I didn't have a eating disorder. When I think back, I did.
In society, it seems we as people always have to live to a standard that someone put into motion. But, who? I don't know, but it seems fashion decides how you should look and feel. The celebrities, also decides the standard of how we should live. But, did you know, celebrities have problems in their own lives. So, why should we follow after people who have problems with reality?
Celebrities and fashion models are paid to look good because that's their job. If you are a teacher, you need to prepare a lesson plan and practice how to teach the plan in front of your class. The same goes for celebrities and fashion models. If you really saw them for real, some of them are butt ugly.
So, if you are skinny and wear all the high class fashion, will you love yourself even more? NO! You have to love yourself for yourself, not for other people. I have to learned that.
In grade school and jr. high school, I can teased alot, plus I had to deal with my own demons. Believe it or not, my nickname was "Monkey" and I was ugly. I was like the ugly girl in the class, who you don't want to be friends with. During lunch time, if the school had banana day, I will get all the bananas. Down to this day, I can't eat bananas or anything with bananas in it. Bananas make me sick.
I had to learn to love myself and I'm still learning, everyday. It doesn't matter how heavy you are, thin you are, your friends, your clothes or status in life. It's matter on your insides and how you treat people.
For example, I go to The Cash; which is voted the best Lesbian Club in the valley; there are some celebrities are regulars there. For example, one of the Biggest Losers winners. As I understand, she was 300 pounds, now she's thin. She has a line of protein drinks and other merchandising. To me, it seems she is so stuck up, it's not even funny. I said hello to her once and she answered back, but it was because she was someone. To me, she just won a contest and that's why she gets notice. So what? I don't care, who you are just be friendly for once. She has to remember that she is a lesbian, and the crazy church leaders and others believe that she's going to hell, regardless of her fame.
Losing weight doesn't make you happy because I know. I lost alot weight without throwing up and I still have problems with myself, but my have friends to make me snap out of it. When you love yourself, almost everyone loves you.
But, what makes me love myself even more. Taking my clothes off in front of people and going to a nudist resort. Around, Lesbians have seen me in the nude, so what. I feel this way, if I am in the nude in front of people, they see me as I am. If I feel comfortable around people naked, I'll feel more comfortable around people with clothes on. Plus, being nice to people helps out alot, too. One thing two, is going to the gym. The gym helps me to focus on myself and helps me to be sexy. It makes me happy and wonderful inside. It's like my drug. Be a bitch, you be alone, plain and simple. Plus, be yourself. Not everyone is going to love you, if that was the case; we will be robots. I know, I had to learn to love life and don't care about people or my family. I know, it's hard but you have force yourself.
On Sunday, I was taking home my script editor named Rheah from The Cash. She talked about her weight because she's full figure. She wants to lose weight, but can't stand people trying to help her lose weight. She's trying out this Hoodia Gum to control her cravings for sugar. One thing for sure, she gets more sex then me.
So, just loving yourself makes you the center of attention. I still learning to love myself fully. I love my life sometimes, but it can also be a pain in the neck.
It goes to show, everyone has problems even if your admit it or not. But, try not lose yourself in it. Just scream as loud as you can, cry, laugh and get the pain out of your system. Yeah, those same feelings may come back because you are human. Scream, cry, laugh and live another day.
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When your new love meet your friends, this in the most critical time in a new relationship. It telling your new love, you want to graduate to the next level in your relationship because your circle of friends is so important to you. Why? Because you can you let loose with them without judgment.
In a new relationship, we tend to put on an academy award winning performance for your new love because of our need to impress. We need to say and do the right things in the relationship that we tend to create a character, who is the opposite of our real self. It's like you are confined in a small box and you locked it. For example, I was watching South Park and people were exploding because they didn't want to break wind in their date, so the mayor made farting fashionable; even though farting is a normal human function. We just tend not let your new love see the best of us and hid the worst of us.
So when should the new love meet your friends? I don't know. To me, it's an important step because that's when the worlds unite into one world. It's like saying, "I am so serious about this person that she/he is the most important person in my life". It's like co-living with the new love because the new love is weaving deeper into your life. They are now invited to see the true you around your friends and to see what you and your friends are all about.
So date tend to judge the person who you are dating based on friends because they believe, "Birds of a feather flock together." So when you let the new love meet your friends, it should not be taken lightly.
The girl, who I'm dating now was planning to meet my friends at The Cash on Saturday night. Seriously, I didn't want her meet them because I'm not ready to have the two worlds unite. I feel when she meets my friends, she is part of my life and I'm force to commit to a person who I'm not sure about.
See, let me explain. If I let the new girl meet my friends, then they become her friends; she's in my circle of friends. She will know all my secrets, desires and see my wild side up close. Plus, if we break up, I still have to see her because she's in my circle of friends.
Now, do you see how important the meeting of friends is. It's an important step in a relationship, so don't take it lightly. If he or she likes your friends, who you nothing to worry about because your are full stream ahead into a long term relationship.
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Hello everyone.How are you doing today?I’m so so.Why?Because today in Sept 11. You may or may not know this, but I am a proud New Yorker.I grew up in Rosedale, NY (Queens) and was raised there.
In High School, I did a year of internship at Smith Barney as a computer programmer.The building was located in downtown Manhattan; which was a few blocks from the Twins Towers.
Sometimes, I had to run errands at the Twins Towers a lot, but I didn’t care.It was cool being out of the office. In the Twins Towers, you had the New York and New Jersey train systems, an underground mall and offices.So I did window shopping in the Twin Towers and I got to see my friends.
In my circle of friends, it was a honor working in the Twin Towers because it meant you were making good money and had a steady job.It was just cool saying, “I work in the World Trade Center” aka “I wok in the World Trade Centa” (in New York language).
Before I left New York City to move to a backward country place called Arizona,I was offered a job at ILX in the World Trade Center.I didn’t take it and moved to Arizona.Now, thinking back, I could have died on Sept 11, 2001.13 of my friends died on that day, my uncle was buried alive but found and my brother had to see a therapist because he saw the planes go into the buildings and the damage it caused.
But, as New Yorkers do, we survive, but it’s hard to forget.I never went to my friends memorials because how can someone died like that, it only happens in the movies.But, it did happen.
From a New Yorker point of view, New York has changed.There is more security in the streets.You have to ask a cop if you can take a picture of a landmark. When I go to ground zero, there is dead silence.New York has become a military country, within the US.It’s sad.
When I went back to NYC after Sept 11, I had to get used to the new New York City and now when I visit, I got used to the security which is sad and heart breaking because I miss my old New York and the mindset.I miss the rudeness, busy life, running to work,no security cameras following you and no metal detectors and searches before you go into the Empire State Building.
When I was young and before Sept 11, I would watch New York City getting blown up and damaged in the movies and on TV because I knew it will never happen in real life.But it did.
The movie Cloverfield, will be a movie I will never forget and should get award for giving us a reality check.Before Cloverfield, I could watch New York getting destroy and laughing about because who would think New York City would suffer a terrorist attack and when Sept 11 made us change our thinking.With Cloverfield, it made me enjoy seeing New York City getting damage on the big screen.Crazy monsters like Godzilla destroying New York, that’s funny and not real.
Sept 11, made me change myself.It told me, breathing air and living is not a right, but a privilege you should not take likely. Live life and enjoy it.Hug your friends and be open about your feelings.Tell your friends, lovers, families and spouses how much they mean to you in your life because you made not see them again.
For example, I was a bride’s maid in a wedding, in New York City.The bride was a real bitch.After the $30,000 wedding in Garden City, she piss off the whole wedding party. One of the bride’s maids, named Vicki was a good friend who used to take me to parties and functions.I was a geek at the time and she was the popular girl.She helped me to become popular, like all those teenage movies.
After the reception, I told her goodbye and she needs to visit me in Arizona.She said, “I will, because I need to see the Grand Canyon.”She never called me because she died in the World Trade Center; two months later.The bride never got the chance to say, “I’m so sorry, I was a bitch.”Now, the bride has a son, divorce and living with her mother.I never spoke to the bride again after the wedding because I don’t need craziness in my life.
For Vicki, she left behind a husband and young 1 year old child. Now, her husband moved to the South, got remarried and the child is doing well.
So, we need this day to reflect on our lives and thank God that you are blessed. Sometimes I forget, but I have Sept 11 and my friends to remind me.
So, be determine to live life to the fullest and enjoy it because tomorrow you may day.I want to die with a smile on my face because I know I have done everything to that point in my life and enjoyed it.
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Day after day, it seems to me we follow the same ritual. We get up, go to work, go home, party, spend time with family or a lover and then we die. Some of us have children and some don't. But, in all we still follow the same MO with our lives.
On my facebook, I saw pictures of a boy I went to school with. Now, he is a man with a girlfriend. He works and it seems he has a child. When I look back on my childhood, I never that about working, owning a house, owning a car, having a girlfriend or anything of that sort because I was kid. Now, with time passing by, I'm now an adult.
But, what makes you into an adult? Family, kids, age, career or other. I don't know. I still feel like a kid with responsibilities.
It's just so funny to see people you went to school with and now they have families and responsibilities of their own, as if we are now becoming our parents.
We have to worry about a mortgage, bills, work and other things, instead of finding the new Metallica cd, getting a computer, the latest video game, doing good in school and does he or she likes me.
Back in the 80's and 90's, life for a kid was so simple and innocent. Now, a child have to go through so much drama just to get out of the bed in the morning.
What happen to the simple times? Will they return? I don't think so. I don't have any kids, but I would like one. My parents think differently since I'm gay. But, I would love to have a child, a wife and a happy home. But, when I think of my life as a kid, I ask myself "Where have the time gone? How did I get here?"
It's so funny. And that's life. Live life without any regrets. And just be happy. You only live once so live it right.
Looking at people who I went to High School with, is amazing to see because we are now adults and have our own lives. We may have done things differently, but we are still striving to live the best way we can.
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The Latina date texted me today. She wanted to know if I was busy tomorrow. I have not answered her yet. Why? Well, I like her and told her, but the response was, "I'm moving, but I like you too."
To me, it was like she was moving next week or so, but she's still here. Why? I don't know.
I want love without the BS, you know. With a booty call, I can kiss a girl and I know not to trust her, even though it's ok to do her. The reason for my thinking is, when it's a booty, you are not thinking about commitment, speaking to the person again or anything else. You don't care about the future only the moment for the real raw sexual escape journey you will have with that person.
You are so wrapped up in the moment, you don't care about that person. You only care about your needs being met.
After you are done, when you move on without any feelings.
When you are in a relationship or just dating that person. You want to get to know them. See what makes them be who they are and planning a future with them. In a relationship, feelings and emotions are involve; which makes the sex much better.
In a relationship, you must put your guard down. I know this is hard because I have trouble with this too. I hate letting person into my little world because I don't want to get hurt anymore. I just breakdown because when I allow people into my little world of Aliya Leigh, it means that I can trust you and I understand you. As I tell people,"I can't trust my own mother, so it will be hard to trust you."
Trust is so important in a relationship. When you can't trust that person you are with, you have to use that extra energy to out think them, meaning you always have to see where they are coming from and what they are truly thinking.
I already over think too much, so I hate to think with the girl who I am with. When you are with someone, they are suppose to make you feel safe and comfort, not trying to second guess a person.
I just want to feel safe in a person's arms, give them sweet kisses and F*&k hard.
Just thinking about it makes wet. Kissing, touching, fondling, whispering sweet nothings in my lover's ear and just feeling alive, like a new born baby.
I don't know what to tell her, but I have to tell her soon.
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Hi. This holiday weekend, I drove to Utah. It was a six hour trip. I drove from Phoenix to the edge of Northern Arizona. It was an amazing drive. I got to see the Navajo Indians and the landscape of this great state. But, I also got to think about my life.
Since I have been dating and relying on my girlfriends to take me out or to arrange a date, I have lost myself.
Before, the series of dating so many people, I would do everything I wanted to do, but I still had friends to talk too. I used to take road trips all the time by myself to think and to clear my mind.
So, on this road trip, I got to clear my mind and understand where I am headed.
I have lost myself. People have been making so many decisions for me and all I do is said "yes".
I love my life and the people who are in it, but I lost myself in the mix and what I am all about.
I remember when I was young, my family wanted me to act a certain way. I was never myself. When I moved to Arizona, I saw freedom to express myself, but then it got lost.
It's true, people just loose themselves and then they wake up and see a strange life that they lived. It's crazy but true.
We need to take control of ourselves and figure out what we want to do with it.
I have been searching and searching for the next big thing in life and forgot about what I want in life.
Slowly, I am coming back to my senses and loving it. I'm talking to this girl over the phone. She seems to be cool but I don't know. I am just going live and see where life takes me.
I have some control over my life and I'm so happy. Sometimes, it good to take a road trip by yourself to think and to clear your mind because you never know who you will meet and what thoughts will pop into your mind.
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I can't believe this. I'm in another car accident. WTF? I don't get it. But, anyway. I was suppose to go out on a date yesterday. It was your normal movie date.
I wanted to see Public Enemy with Johnny Depp. I love that man. He can be my child's father all I need is the sperm. But, the girl could not go on the date, she had to work late. Totally understand, but got me to think about my life.
Since I have been dating, I lost myself. What do I mean? Before, I was seriously dating, I used to do things on my own without anyone. Monday, I went home and relaxed. Tuesday's was always movie night, when I treat myself to a movie and dinner. The rest of the week, I would go to the gym or do anything I want.
Since, I have been dating, I got into the habit of asking first and then do. If the date or girlfriend was not able to make it, then what should I do?
Yesterday, I went to the movie without her. I enjoyed myself. I didn't think about anything or any person. It was me, only me.
I forgot how to have fun by yourself. Just you, thinking about life, love and you as a person. I was at the movies, writing in my book, dreaming about have Johnny Depp's child and my future.
I don't know what the future holds for me. I don't care about relationships or being alone. I have friends and I'm working. I'm happy.
My friends are all in this relationship crap. As I was talking to friend, I was ok being the hoe of Phoenix. Just having sex with different women. The game does get tried, so you relax and then start again.
Being the hoe, I didn't have to deal with emotions, feelings or anything like that. Just be safe and happy.
I'm going to cancel my membership with www.match.com and just go with www.tangowire.com.
I just want to be happy and alive. I just got a poster with the help of God. The poster is New York City with the Twins. I remember always going into the Twin Towers. Before moving to Arizona, I was supposed to work for ILX in the Twin Towers, but I moved to Cowboy Country instead.
I was suppose to died in Twins, I don't know. My friends did and I do get sad about that. But, it taught me to live life to the fullest and be happy. Just to live life.
How
do you want the date to end, is the real question. Now, the date
depends on you, not your friends, family or a magazine because they
are not you. I can't stand how people judge me about be
dating. For example, some people just want the booty call, while
others are looking for that special someone. So, before you go the
first date with someone new, you need to ask yourself, "How do I
want the date to end?”
You
can end the date in different ways, for example, “the hook up”,
“just friends”, “no way”, “booty call”
and “you're so special, I like you”.
The
hook up date, is my favorite and specialty date. It has my name
all over it. So, what is “the hook up” date? It's a date where
you just want to have sex after a dinner or any type of function. The
mistake people have with “the hook up”, is that after the hook
up, you have a relationship; which is not true. Sometimes, the hook
up doesn't turn into a long lasting relationship. On a hook up date,
you prepare yourself and your body, meaning you know you look hot and
you feel hot to the point that everyone will stare at you and wish
you were with them. During the date, you feel the mood. Think with
your gut not your head. If the date is going well, then you have
nothing to worry about, just be yourself. When you start making out
in the car, you know it's on. Now, at this point you can control the
situation. You can just make out or go all the way, but you need to
remember, you may not have a second date and to always have
protection.
The
just friends date, is OK. I had a few myself. It's a date you or
the other person want to establish a date, but at the end you become
friends. Again, you need to trust your gut and to give hints to see
what direction the date is going. When you became friends it's cool
because more friends and more people to talk too, plus sometimes
friends become lovers. So, if the date turns into friends, don't
worry about it. There are millions of fish in the sea.
The
no way date, is easy to spot. During the date, if the person you
are with or you yourself starts talking on the phone with a friend or
texting, then this is a no way date, meaning that basically you are
just wasting time and money on something you don't care about. When
it is a no way date, just end it. You can be the ass or let the other
person be the ass. For example, I was on a date and the person was
just texting friends while we were eating. When you know, it's a no
way date, just end it and throw away the number because wasting time
is not good. Now, if you just want the date to be a booty call, then
talk about it and if each party agrees to the terms; during sex DON'T
TALK, JUST DO.
The
booty call date is easy. If each party agrees to the terms then
just have fun. Just be safe and stick with the terms. With a booty
call, don't let feelings get into the way because it's just physical
relationship. When emotions get involve, talk to the other person and
let the relationship go, if you can't handle it anymore. It's better
to leave then to stay in a relationship and the other party doesn't
feel the same way.
The
you're so special date is the best. So I save the best for last.
It's a date when the two parties feel a connection to point they can
say, “I want you”, meaning you two belong with each other.
Sometimes the relationship will blossom in the moment you meet or at
the end of the date. Remember to trust your gut. You will know, when
the right person comes along. Romance novels ideas come from real
life relationships, so your love story will happen, just be patience
and keep your options open.
Dating
is dating. How you act on the date is your business, not your friends
or a magazine. I hate it when people base your lives for a romance
novels, movies and their own friends. Novels and movies are loosely
based on real life. Your friends may seem happy when you see them,
but you don't know the drama in their house. So base your love life
on yourself and gut. Remember, cause and effect. What you cause has
an effect, so whatever you put out into the universes will come back
to you.
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Mass. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Dies After a Yearlong Battle With Cancer
Edward M. Kennedy, one of the most powerful and influential senators in
American history and one of three brothers whose political triumphs and
personal tragedies captivated the nation for decades, died at 77.
I told the girl who I was out with on Sunday, how I felt about her. You should always be upfront with someone, so nothing is not guessing game. The answer may be favorable or not, but you have to take that chance.
I did. I don't know if she feels the same way, but I told her.
After September 11, when the Twins went down, I learned, to live in the moment and just tell that special someone how you are feeling at that time.
Why because you may never see that person again.
For example, I was a brides maid in a wedding with some other friends. The bride was bitch and after the wedding, we never talked to her again. Before the wedding, the bride was able to piss everyone. One brides maid, worked in the twins towers and died in Sept 11th attacks. She was on the floor where the plane made contact with the building.
The bride never told anyone how sorry she acted and then it was too late for the sorry.
Always tell your friends how you feel about them and also the person you love, in the moment you are thinking about it.
Life is short, so live it with value, happiness and love. Never take time for granted.
Hello everyone. The script is almost ready for the agent. Tomorrow is d day. I am sorry, I have not written on the blog or have done a podcast. I felt I needed to take some time for myself. I do blog on twitter: @Lesbianlife, so check me out.
Anyway, as you may know, I am in the dating again. This time, I'm on www.match.com.
The funny thing about dating (and I don't care if you are straight or gay); but when we are dating, we are still looking for this next best thing, even though, it's not there.
As humans, it's natural to always be looking and not being satisfied with what you have in front of you.
I met this girl on match.com; well she found me. She emailed me and I gave her my number because I don't like txting. We had a first date and yes, I was a dork, but we hit it off. We went on a date today. It was cool.
But, that's not the end of it.
Another girl called me from match.com. Now, I really like the first girl, but again, as humans we are never satisfied. I spoke to second girl and she is a doctor. My parents always wanted me to married a doctor. But, the problem is, she is fem like me.
For straight people, what I am about to tell you will be weird. "Women with Women can't be in a serious relationship." For Lesbians, you understand what I am saying.
For straight people, Female type, like the girly girl type is a woman, in the Lesbian world. I am fem and proud to be fem. I love wear skirts, dresses, heels and make-up. Butches or Fe-Butches are not like that. They are more manly and they mostly take the lead in the relationship.
The doctor seems so nice and she can be a good friend, but I can't see a future with her because Fems don't take the lead. I need to be lead.
At that moment, I realizes that people search and search for that one person to love, but not realizes that the person God give them is right under their nose.
We are always searching for the most perfect mate in our lives. We search for the image in our minds and try to find that one person. But, sadly, when can't find that on person, we tend to settle for anything; which is wrong and sad.
When we get settle for a person who we don't care about, we hurt ourselves and the person we are with.
We need to date blind. I'm not talking about wearing blindfold and taking out your eyeballs, but date blind.
Don't worry about status and how they look because at the mostly crazy times of your life that person may save you from the drama and pain.
I went on a date with a girl. She was cool. I wasn't dress perfect. I had a Foo Fighters t-shirt, hat, jeans and sneakers. She didn't like the way I looked. She didn't want me and I was ok with that. But, the point is, she could have gain friend, but since she's high and mighty, she will never know.
We need to judge people from the inside not the outside. Another example is, my ex-love was so hot, Latina hot.I loved her so much and I still do, but inside she is ugly.
The bottom line is, we tend to look and look and look, when the person is right standing next to you. Don't settle and be real. Reality is not a fairy tale.
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The sugar mama likes this new girl who lives in London. Believe it or not, they talk everyday. The phone bills must be high. So, I talked to the sugar mama at the gym, today. ON THE PHONE! We talked about the new London girl. Believe me, I'm happy for her. We had our fun, but I want something solid and real, you know. I want a steady relationship with someone who will love me and I can love them. Plus, someone who acts young but it practical and understand responsibilities. It is so hard to find someone like that. But, I'm on eharmony and match.com to find the one woman for me.
But, while talking to the sugar mama, I asked her, "You need to get something special to impress her." She said, "I don't need to impress anyone." See that is THE FIRST MISTAKE.
Smart people, (I will tell you why I said smart people) what to be special. They want to be treated like princess, like they are important in life. Like they matter in your life. When someone believes they are important to you, they will do anything for you. That is caring, not love but caring. Meaning that you care for that person. Love is a deeper meaning and should not be taken lightly.
So, listen to the person and understand them, like why they like this or that. Feel their emotion about objects, places or songs. Sometimes the cheapest gifts are the most valuable.
For example, I love this Hello Kitty pencil sharper. It's a star shape and green with glitter. It cost around 1.00, but that sharper followed me from Jr.High, High School, College and my jobs. It was my computer programmer sharper.
When I program in any computer language I know, like C, SQL, Perl, Java and JavaScript (I'm old school), I have to write out code with a pencil and paper before I typed it on the computer. That sharper helped me through my tough times of debugging code.
See how something so meaningless, means the world to someone else.
So remember that.
Oh, remember the smart people comment. My ex is Jewish and she was having a bad week, so in the Jewish religion, if you get a Kosher pray box for a person; it gives them good luck. Now, she told me this several times.
Now, it was during passover and Jewish people are not suppose to work. I search for a Jewish temple and found someone who were willing to talk to me during the passover. Hard as hell. I found someone, I had to pay them extra, plus the pray box that needed to be bless by a Rabbi on passover, then the pray paper in the pray box need to be bless and Kosher by a Rabbi. It was a four day process and I work several jobs.
I give it her and she like it, but I was not a diamond ring. Now, we only dated for 6 months, I'm NOT buying her a diamond ring. But, after we broke up and I don't care about her, the pray box has given her luck. Good things do happen.
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I worked today and I just zoned out the drama of the office. Sometimes you have to do it and you will go crazy.
In the office, it like High School all over again. You have the popular people, the geeks, the weirdos, the ones who think they are important but not and the teacher's pets.
I don't get it. I loved High School. I had so much fun. In High School, I wrote for the school paper, two friends and I started a Zine which lasted a semester and I was part of several clubs. But, it was High School.
Now, I'm not saying the proper job is working in a office, but after High School you have responsibilities as a grown adult. With this thought in mind, you grow up.
After High School and College, I knew I had to grow up, so I needed to move away from New York. Moving to Arizona, forced me to grow up and I am so happy for it. If I had to, I would do it all again.
I was forced to pay rent, get my own job instead of calling in a favor, my furniture and make new friends.
It taught me, so much of myself and who I really am as person. I learned about my weakness and my strengths. I learned who Aliya Leigh is.
Remember, don't take people and your situation for granted. There is reason for everything in life, you can beat it or let it suck the life out of you. Everyone in life will help you learn a lesson in life, you just go with the flow and file it in your brain.
Like today, I spoke to one of my cousins. His mother's husband killed her. Before she die, she was known to be a mentally strong person because of all she had to go through.
For example, she was from Denmark, you know, white with blond hair and blue eyes. She married into my family and had two sons who both look black. The first marriage didn't last and she had to move to Florida with two young black boys, crazy picture, huh. She got married a second time, but it didn't last. She and the boys move to Denmark to be with her family. She had to work full-time and teach her children Danish and the Danish way of life. She move back to America with two teenage boys and got married again, but this time the husband killed her.
I still think about her and all she dealt with in life, which I use as an example guiding me in my life. She was strong so I have to be stronger. She was beautiful so I have to be more beautiful. She was determined so I have to be more determined. She made mistakes so I don't make her mistakes.
Life is funny. It teaches, helps, loves, understands and make sure we have fun.
So, when you are around your friends and just people, see how you can learn a positive thing for them because life is about learning, until that last moment of life you smile because you did everything in life you wanted to do with no regrets.
A Florida man told authorities his cat was responsible for more than 1,000 images of alleged child pornography found on his home computer, the Martin County Sheriff's Department reports.
Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach is charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography. He told investigators he was downloading music and his cat jumped on the keyboard after he had left the room. When he returned, he found "strange things" on his computer, according to the sheriff's report.
Griffin, 48, is being held on $250,000 bond. A neighbor is taking care of the cat — who has not been charged.
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So watch you cats around the computer because they are so super smart and have fingers
I love my life. I try to look at my life as if I was a third person. They women I have been with, women I loved and lost and my job. I look at it and say, " I live a pretty good life."
Everyone's life has its ups and downs, I don't care how famous or rich or poor or alone you are. It's life.
As beings, we create our own life. So, go out there in the world and create. Because we only have one life, so make the best out of it.
NEW YORK — DEVLEOPING: A hacker attack shut down Twitter on Thursday morning, and Facebook also said it was "looking into" possible site problems.
Twitter said in its status blog Thursday that it was "defending against a denial-of-service attack," in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.
For users of the fast-growing messaging service, the outage means no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down.
also seemed to be experiencing problems, at least intermittently. Facebook spokeswoman Brandee Barker said the company was looking into it and would have an update "as soon as possible."
The Twitter outage began at about 9 a.m. EDT, said Ken Godskind, chief strategy officer at Web performance monitoring company AlertSite. The site still had access problems late morning.
The American Psychological Association declared Wednesday that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or other treatments.
In a resolution adopted by the APA's governing council, and in an accompanying report, the association issued its most comprehensive repudiation of "reparative therapy" — a concept espoused by a small but persistent group of therapists, often allied with religious conservatives, who maintain gays can change.
No solid evidence exists that such change is likely, says the resolution, adopted by a 125-4 vote. The APA said some research suggests that efforts to produce change could be harmful, inducing depression and suicidal tendencies.
Instead of seeking such change, the APA urged therapists to consider multiple options — that could range from celibacy to switching churches — for helping clients live spiritually rewarding lives in instances where their sexual orientation and religious faith conflict.
The APA had criticized reparative therapy in the past, but a six-member task force added weight to this position by examining 83 studies on sexual orientation change conducted since 1960. Its report was endorsed by the APA's governing council in Toronto, where the 150,000-member association's annual meeting is being held this weekend.
The report breaks new ground in its detailed and nuanced assessment of how therapists should deal with gay clients struggling to remain loyal to a religious faith that disapproves of homosexuality.
Judith Glassgold, a Highland Park, New Jersey, psychologist who chaired the task force, said she hoped the document could help calm the polarized debate between religious conservatives who believe in the possibility of changing sexual orientation and the many mental health professionals who reject that option.
"Both sides have to educate themselves better," Glassgold said in an interview. "The religious psychotherapists have to open up their eyes to the potential positive aspects of being gay or lesbian. Secular therapists have to recognize that some people will choose their faith over their sexuality."
In dealing with gay clients from conservative faiths, says the report, therapists should be "very cautious" about suggesting treatments aimed at altering their same-sex attractions.
"Practitioners can assist clients through therapies that do not attempt to change sexual orientation, but rather involve acceptance, support and identity exploration and development without imposing a specific identity outcome," the report says.
"We have to challenge people to be creative," said Glassgold.
She suggested that devout clients could focus on overarching aspects of religion such as hope and forgiveness to transcend negative beliefs about homosexuality, and either remain part of their original faith within its limits — for example, by embracing celibacy — or find a faith that welcomes gays.
"There's no evidence to say that change therapies work, but these vulnerable people are tempted to try them, and when they don't work, they feel doubly terrified," Glassgold said. "You should be honest with people and say, 'This is not likely to change your sexual orientation, but we can help explore what options you have."'
One of the largest organizations promoting the possibility of changing sexual orientation is Exodus International, a network of ministries whose core message is "Freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ."
Its president, Alan Chambers, describes himself as someone who "overcame unwanted same-sex attraction." He and other evangelicals met with APA representatives after the task force formed in 2007, and he expressed satisfaction with parts of the report that emerged.
"It's a positive step — simply respecting someone's faith is a huge leap in the right direction," Chambers said. "But I'd go further. Don't deny the possibility that someone's feelings might change."
An evangelical psychologist, Mark Yarhouse of Regent University, praised the APA report for urging a creative approach to gay clients' religious beliefs but — like Chambers — disagreed with its skepticism about changing sexual orientation.
Yarhouse and a colleague, Professor Stanton Jones of Wheaton College, will be releasing findings at the APA meeting Friday from their six-year study of people who went through Exodus programs. More than half of 61 subjects either converted to heterosexuality or "disidentified" with homosexuality while embracing chastity, their study said.
To Jones and Yarhouse, their findings prove change is possible for some people, and on average the attempt to change will not be harmful.
The APA task force took as a starting point the belief that homosexuality is a normal variant of human sexuality, not a disorder, and that it nonetheless remains stigmatized in ways that can have negative consequences.
The report said the subgroup of gays interested in changing their sexual orientation has evolved over the decades and now is comprised mostly of well-educated white men whose religion is an important part of their lives and who participate in conservative faiths that frown on homosexuality.
"Religious faith and psychology do not have to be seen as being opposed to each other," the report says, endorsing approaches "that integrate concepts from the psychology of religion and the modern psychology of sexual orientation."
Perry Halkitis, a New York University psychologist who chairs the APA committee dealing with gay and lesbian issues, praised the report for its balance.
"Anyone who makes decisions based on good science will be satisfied," he said. "As a clinician, you have to deal with the whole person, and for some people, faith is a very important aspect of who they are."
The report also addressed the issue of whether adolescents should be subjected to therapy aimed at altering their sexual orientation. Any such approach should "maximize self-determination" and be undertaken only with the youth's consent, the report said.
Wayne Besen, a gay-rights activist who has sought to discredit the so-called "ex-gay" movement, welcomed the APA findings.
"Ex-gay therapy is a profound travesty that has led to pointless tragedies, and we are pleased that the APA has addressed this psychological scourge," Besen said.
In celebration of "National Coming Out Day," in 1000 words or less, Phoenix Pride wants to know your coming OUT story.
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Hi. Two weekends ago, I went to a religious thing down in Tucson, Arizona. I did it for my parents, so we can have something to talk about. I stay at the religious thing from Saturday to Sunday. Just goes to show you, I love my parents.
I saw so old friends and met new ones. But, one thing, I learned from the whole thing was REGRETS.
If you listen to my podcasts, you would know, I'm a once a month girl. I date a girl for only a month. I didn't know why, until I thought about it. I have a problem with commitments. My friends know about this bad problem I have.
My ex-love who was hot and juicy was the only one that made me commit and I have happy about it. She just went crazy and started hating Blacks and Hispanics. "Hello, I'm BLACK".
I thought about it, I was happy to be with her and to be part of her life, but I was thinking about the future too much instead of think about today. That was the key.
My ex-love mess-up me and I had to deal with it. So, now, when I date a woman, I think about when she's going to leave me, she's so old and I may have to change her Depends, or maybe I can find someone better. Than I also feel, I couldn't have came out of the closet.
Now, I was thinking about this during the religious thing. When we broke for lunch, I walked to Subway. I met a guy who talked to me about the bible and life. I told him, I could not join the religion because of my lifestyle. He thought, I was into drugs and crime, you know. The bad things people go to jail for and find God. I told him, "I'm a lesbian". He was shocked.
One thing I CANT STAND IS WHEN I STRAIGHT PERSON SAYS "You choose to be gay."
WTF? I didn't choose this and then regret enter into my mind. I thought about it. I told him, "This is who I am. And as God is my witness, I am NOT going back into the closet."
I spent too many good years in the closet. Now, I'm more free then before. I'm so happy.
I'm whole and I don't have any regrets about it. I am who I am. But, I need to slow down. I know it. I'm going to make commitments. My profile is on Match.com.
Remember, my sugar mama, she went to Europe and found the love of her life in London, after three weeks. I'm so happy for her. She will be going back to London soon to see the woman. I'm happy for her, but I don't think it's going to last. My opinion. But opinions are like aholes, everyone has one.
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PHOENIX - A Liberian diplomat arrived in Phoenix Wednesday to
meet with everyone involved in the alleged rape of an 8-year-old
Liberian refugee girl.
Edwin Sele touched down at Sky Harbor Airport hours after two
of the four suspects in the case, also Liberian refugees, appeared in
Maricopa County Juvenile Court. Judges said it was up to attorneys
whether the suspects could meet with Sele.
Sele said he wanted to meet with the Liberian community in Phoenix, and also the victim and the suspects.
"I'm a father, I'm a grandfather, I wouldn't want this to happen
to my child, and Liberians don't think that way," Sele said, refuting
reports that rape is condoned in Liberia and the victim often is
blamed.
The young rape suspects, in handcuffs and shackles, went before
separate judges, who ordered them kept in custody while the crime is
investigated further.
One of the boys slouched in his oversized chair and was
expressionless for most of the hearing. But, he began crying when Judge
Aimee Anderson told him she was proud of his accomplishments while he
was in custody and that she realized it was tough for him to be
detained. The boy's age is uncertain because of paperwork
discrepancies; he is either 9 or 10 years old.
A 9-year-old boy charged in the case appeared before another judge.
The two judges left prosecutors the option of changing sexual assault charges against the boys to sexual conduct with a minor.
The boys will return to court Aug. 18 for a mental competency hearing.
The court proceedings revealed the two boys are cousins and that
their parents have returned to Africa. Other family members were in
court, but decided not to speak to reporters and were escorted out by
security personnel. One of the uncles drove toward reporters with horn
blaring and stopped just short of the pack to pick up family members.
A third suspect, 14 years old, has been charged as an adult,
and prosecutors moved this week to have a fourth suspect, 13 years old,
also tried as an adult.
The father of the alleged victim said Tuesday that he knew
nothing about the ambassador's visit and that he had no opinion about
trying the suspects as adults.
"I have nothing to say," he told News/Talk 92-3 KTAR.
Martha Riveria, who lived next door to the 13-year-old suspect, did have a comment.
"I'm so proud justice is served. She's a little girl and she
deserves to be protected and if parents are not there to do it, justice
is doing what needs to be done."
Riveria said the 13-year-old should be tried as an adult.
"At age 13, you already know what you're doing, what is wrong and what is right."
Riveria said the suspect's family moved out of the complex last weekend.
The rape was not reported for a week and officials said cultural
differences caused the victim's family to blame her instead of her
attackers.
Sele said the Liberian government does not condone rape, as some media reports have said.
"We think this is a special, isolated case," he said, adding,
"We are very concerned about the well-being of the 8-year-old girl, who
only is a baby."
The suspects all are Liberian refugees, like the victim.
Police said the four boys lured the girl to an empty
storage shed July 16 with the promise of chewing gum, then restrained her and took turns raping her.
The suspects were arrested July 21.
The 14-year-old faces charges of kidnapping, sexual assault,
attempted sexual conduct with a minor and four counts of sexual conduct
with a minor. His arraignment is scheduled for Aug. 10.
The case ignited an international outcry after Phoenix police
reported the girl's parents said they were ashamed of her and didn't
want her back, which led Child Protective Services to take custody of
her.
The family's pastor says the father's statements were all a
misunderstanding resulting from a language barrier and that the family desperately wants her back.
(Copyright 2008 Bonneville International Corporation. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed. AP contributed to this report.)
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TUESDAY UPDATE.... Multiple sources tell me the toxicology report on Michael Jackson is complete and that the Coroner's Office has submitted it's report to the LAPD.
I am told the report was finished very recently and most of the tests were conducted at the Coroner's Office and samples were for the most part not sent to outside labs. The Coroner's Office is not holding a press conference as they had originally planned, but is waiting for direction from the LAPD.
That doesn't mean they won't release cause of death, but the Coroner's Office doesn't want to jeopardize the investigation and is waiting for LAPD guidance.
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: One of our sources has told me for a couple of days that he does believe the release of the toxicology report will come next week. Having said that, anything can happen, so we remain prepared to cover the release when it is anounced. This all comes as we also prepare for the court battle coming Monday over custody of the Jackson children and control of his will. I have just been e-mailed this statement from the Special Administrators listed in the 2002 Jackson will, who are preparing for that courtroom battle on Monday. Since being appointed by the Probate Court as Special Administrators of the Estate of Michael Jackson, John Branca and John McClain, who were specifically designated by Michael Jackson in his will to be executors of his Estate, have been focused on preserving Michael's legacy and carrying out his wishes. According to two of my sources from different offices involved in this search.....They insist, this is NOT a raid. A raid "is when we go in with guns, knock down doors and arrest people." He continues, "This is serving a search warrant as part of an intense ongoing investigation."
The Special Administrators have and will continue to provide timely information to Mrs. Jackson's counsel regarding potential business opportunities for the Estate. Any inference that we have not been forthcoming in providing information to Katherine Jackson's attorneys is not accurate.
There is one agreement being requested by Mrs. Jackson's attorneys where the other party to the contract has agreed to provide the document to Mrs. Jackson and her attorneys but requested that the terms be kept confidential and not be shared with third parties. Mrs. Jackson's lawyers have refused that offer.
Based on comments made on The Today Show by one of Mrs. Jackson's attorneys it appears that they want to rewrite Michael's will to make Mrs. Jackson "Guardian of the Estate" and have her appointed as an Executor and Trustee of Michael Jackson's Estate.
In his will Michael was very specific that his mother act as the Guardian of his children and that Mr. Branca and Mr. McClain be the Executors of his Will and Trustees of his Trust.
FROM TUESDAY:
The reason why the raid is taking place in Las Vegas today and not last week is due to complications with obtaining a search warrant on Dr. Murray's home. As one tells me "Justice is sometimes slow and there is a strict protocol and method we have to follow. This is not a totalitarian state and we have to absolutely respect the right of someone being investigated like Dr. Murray."
6 Agencies are taking part (state, Fed and local). This is very similar to last weeks search warrant in Houston. It is under seal, initiated by Las Vegas Police and led by LAPD. The investigators are looking for documents and records. They are building a very detailed case and much of this stuff can't easily be destroyed without obvious.
The DEA is taking part in this investigation NOT due to a possible manslaughter investigation. They are strictly looking at Doctor Murray and his connection to the drugs involved in this case and possibly others.
Remember, last week we reported there might be more searches of locations connected to Dr. Murray.
I am also told: Investigators DO NOT feel that Dr. Murray is a flight risk. As of right now, they don't expect to arrest him any time soon, but that could always change on short notice. They suggest this investigation closely resembles the Anna Nicole investigation, which took months to wrap up.
I am also told, "prosecuting a person in a case like this is extremely difficult and some prosecutors would argue almost impossible. It is so hard to prove."
Multiple sources tell me the toxicology report on Michael Jackson is complete and that the Coroner's Office has submitted it's report to the LAPD. I am told the report was finished very recently and most of the tests were conducted at the Coroner's Office and samples were for the most part not sent to outside labs. The Coroner's Office is not holding a press conference as they had originally planned, but is waiting for direction from the LAPD. That doesn't mean they won't release cause of death, but the Coroner's Office doesn't want to jeopardize the investigation and is waiting for LAPD guidance.
Multiple sources tell me the toxicology report on Michael Jackson is complete and that the Coroner's Office has submitted it's report to the LAPD. I am told the report was finished very recently and most of the tests were conducted at the Coroner's Office and samples were for the most part not sent to outside labs. The Coroner's Office is not holding a press conference as they had originally planned, but is waiting for direction from the LAPD. That doesn't mean they won't release cause of death, but the Coroner's Office doesn't want to jeopardize the investigation and is waiting for LAPD guidance.
And the Oscar for biggest ne'er-do-well brat child of a legendary acting family goes to — Cameron Douglas.
The son of Academy Award winner Michael Douglas has been arrested once again — this time in the Big Apple for getting in the middle of a deal to sell an eye-popping pile of crystal meth, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
The 30-year-old sometime-actor/sometime-DJ was busted on July 28 at the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District by a DEA task force, the sources said.
He had been staying at the hotel for some time in a room rented by his father, and when authorities barged in, they found the place a mess and Cameron Douglas "very strung out," according to the sources.
An informant had told the investigators that Douglas — grandson of Kirk Douglas — was the middleman in a deal to move a half-pound of crystal meth from California to New York to sell.
New Sherlock Holmes Film to Explore Homoerotic Relationship Between Lead Characters
Guy Ritchie's plan to put a gay spin on the relationship of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in his new movie about the detective and his sidekick could backfire.
Robert Downey Jr., who plays Holmes, has revealed the crimebuster will sleep with and have sweaty grappling scenes with Watson, played by Jude Law, in "Sherlock Holmes," due out Christmas Day.
"We're two men who happen to be roommates, wrestle a lot and share a bed. It's bad-ass," Downey told Britain's News of the World. Added much-in-the-news Law: "Guy wanted to make this about the relationship between Watson and Holmes. They're both mean and complicated."
But Michael Medved, a former Post movie critic, says Downey and Law must be joking. "There's not a seething, bubbling hunger to see straight stars impersonating homosexuals," Medved told us. "I think they're just trying to generate controversy . . . They know that making Holmes and Watson homosexual will take away two-thirds of their box office. Who is going to want to see Downey Jr. and Law make out? I don't think it would be appealing to women. Straight men don't want to see it."
Roger Johnson, editor of the Sherlock Holmes Journal, observed that in Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories, "Watson is something of a ladies' man, but a faithful husband to his wife. And Holmes is essentially asexual, with no erotic interest in women or men."
This weekend was crazy. My brother called me and said that the world is ending and Obama banned religion. When he called me, I was half sleep. He kept talking on and on about how the world is ending and I need to listen to the news more often. I just blew it off. He talked to my mother the same day and made her cry. So, of course, I talked to her today.
My mother and I talked for three hours about being gay. She mention that being gay is a choice. But, I could hear in voice that she also leaned to the gay life, but lives straight. She loves my father too much. She's straight, but it's funny that she thought about being gay.
My mom accepts me, but wish I was straight. She doesn't want me to practice being gay. But, you don't have to have sex to be gay.
It's like when a black man will do anything to be white. It can't happen. The same way, a true gay person tries to be straight.
This weekend, I when to a straight swinger party because I bi girl was telling me about it. I never been to one, so I decided to check it out. I felt so out of place. I was the only Lesbian and guys wanted to have sex with me. I felt so uncomfortable and so uneasy, I just watched and looked. I when home to sleep. It also made me see, I want a long-term relationship, instead playing the field. I did fool around with one girl, but it I didn't have sex with her. It was crazy and weird. It just proves that GLBT people don't choose, but they are.
Talking to my mother and understanding her point of view, I love her. She loves to be Queen Bitch, but she's making efforts to understand my feelings and thoughts about my life.
For the first time, she told me that God loves me and that means alot from her. My mom will not be joining PFLAG anytime soon.
I still have not been on a date yet, but still looking.
I went out drinking with some co-workers and friends. My friends were the lesbian and her partner and a gay guy who I work with. My friend the lesbian has been with her partner for 20 years. Wow. That's a long time, but it can happen.
I want to date, but I am so afraid because I don't want to get hurt again. See, if you date random women, you can't get hurt because you don't feel anything, just sex. You don't care about them and they don't care about you. So, it is perfect.
But, I do want that special person in my life, but I'm a just guard my heart. I hate to feel this way, but it is so true. I am looking for that person who can break down my walls and make me whole.
My last true love did a number on me, but I feel sorry for her. I just want her to tell me, "I am truly sorry. I wish, I could make things better and I learned for my mistakes."
That's all I want for her. Also, I want her to feel great about herself. She is so beautiful, sexy and hot. Thinking about her, make me wet, but when she opens her mouth, I just want to throw up.
I just pray, she will love herself and know that she is a wonderful and loving person when she wants to be. That is why, I feel in love with her because she had a good heart, but for some reason her heart turned into a big black ice cube.
So, I am going to fight my fear like a butch woman and find the woman for me, who love me for me. I am looking for friend who I can tell anything too. I'm looking for comfort and love. Because I will love her the same.
Hi, Guys. What's up with you? I'm ok. I decided to join a dating service. The site is www.compatible.com. It's suppose to be the Eharmony for the gays. Well, I will be on there.
I need to have steady girlfriend. The chasing after different girls is getting old. It one girl after the next. The same old same old. You meet, have sex and they leave. Maybe you will talk a few times or you don't, I never cared. I would talk about them anyway.
With some girls, the sex is exciting, dull, down right boring, weird and sick. I have done it all and had my fill.
Now, I'm ready to settle down and have a family. But, I need to find the right girl first. I know she is out there, but where?
You may not get very many opportunities to get it on for extended periods of time with a lover, but when you do get the chance you don’t want to lose out by not knowing how to keep up your side of the bargain.
There are several ways to keep yourself in good form should the occasion arise. Enduring a sex marathon can take a few hours or longer if the situation demands it. It could go all night.
However, even the most virile and energetic must rest and rejuvenate. It’s a good idea to be well-fed (but not too well) with food that releases energy slowly (such as grains and low GI carbohydrates) and be well hydrated — sweating and exercise uses your body’s stores of water quickly.
Here are some tips on enduring a sex marathon.
Don’t Orgasm
You can do this by choosing positions that provide less stimulation — because everyone is different, only you will know what these are for you. In saying this, most positions that enter from behind provide lots of stimulation. Change positions if you feel like you’re losing the power of your drive and erection or getting too close to orgasm. Keeping yourself near orgasm can be risky (you might release by mistake), but it ensures you will stay hard, and the passion won’t abate too much during your sex marathon. Bear in mind that having an orgasm isn’t the end of the session and you can take a rest before you continue. This is a good time to experiment with positions that you may not have tried with your partner.
If you do happen to need a rest while enduring a sex marathon or you do orgasm, you can easily shift the focus off of you and onto her. This can include cuddling, fondling, massage, general touching, and kissing. A rest doesn’t have to be totally sexual in nature, and it’s just as nice to make love for hours as it is to just touch each other in nice ways — or invent new ways of lovin’. There are many ways to be intimate. Just don’t fall asleep!
Don’t Drink Too Much
Alcohol is known to be a relaxant and can be a wonderful addition to the time you share with your lover. In saying that, after two or more drinks, alcohol lowers a man’s ability to achieve and maintain erections, and can trigger an inability to orgasm for a long time (which may sound good, but it can weaken your erection so much that it’s no fun). Alcohol also has sedative effects — it could cause you to fall asleep easily. Drinking can also encourage unsafe behavior (such as not using condoms). Enduring a sex marathon will not be helped by drinking too much alcohol.
Sex is a broad term and is used for just about anything that tickles your fancy — it doesn’t just include intercourse or oral sex. While enduring a sex marathon, you can introduce sex toys like vibrators, beads or sex paraphernalia such as whips, ropes and blindfolds. Food is also a great diversion and pleasure; ice cream, chocolate sauce or whipped cream are great. Choose flavors you both like. Get creative — you can draw out the process for quite some time with some very lusty teasing using these objects. Don’t stick to the same old; use your imagination.
Keep Lube Handy
Sex play for hours is taxing on the body’s resources. This is understandable, but you do need to be aware of the potential pitfalls of sex play for long periods. One of the main problems could be dryness, so keep some good quality lubricant handy, one that tastes nice and is non-greasy. If you’re unsure of what kind to buy, do your homework and purchase a couple of different types (silicone-based, water-based) as well as different brands to find one that you both like. And don’t scrimp on lube! Enduring a sex marathon requires a lot of moisture. If you are using condoms, lube is going to be essential to help prevent breakage and to stop the friction heat and dryness that can occur.A glass of water nearby is also going to be useful, not only to rehydrate but to moisten your mouth.
Go, Go Gadget
Remember — enduring a sex marathon takes a little time and lots of patience. However, in the end, you and your lover will be satisfyingly happy (and probably a bit worn out too) and more knowledgeable for future sessions.
Emergency grants from the National Endowment for the Arts may be going to help fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night "pervert" revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco.
Talk about a stimulus package.
The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night "pervert" revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco.
The NEA was given $80 million of the government's $787 billion economic stimulus bill to spread around to needy artists nationwide, and most of the money is being spent to help preserve jobs in museums, orchestras, theaters and dance troupes that have been hit hard by the recession.
But some of the NEA's grants are spicing up more than the economy. A few of their more risque choices have some taxpayer advocates hot under the collar, including a $50,000 infusion for the Frameline film house, which recently screened Thundercrack, "the world's only underground kinky art porno horror film, complete with four men, three women and a gorilla."
"When you spend so much money in a short amount of time ... you're going to have nonsense like this, and that's why the stimulus should never have been done in the first place," said David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste.
Click here for a full list of all of the NEA's Recovery Act grants.
Williams said such support for the arts is a luxury at a time when the president and Congress have been telling the public to make sacrifices to manage the recession.
"When taxpayers see this, they realize that's just a bunch of hot air," he told FOXNews.com.
Some members of Congress raised alarms as the stimulus bill was being drafted and approved, but President Obama, while admitting there were problems with the $787 billion legislation, stressed the need for immediate action to resuscitate the economy.
"We can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary," Obama said at the time.
But he presumably didn't intend to have stimulus money help fund the weekly production of "Perverts Put Out" at San Francisco's CounterPULSE, whose "long-running pansexual performance series" invites guests to "join your fellow pervs for some explicit, twisted fun."
CounterPULSE received a $25,000 grant in the "Dance" category; a staffer there said they were pleased to receive the grant, "which over the next year will be used to preserve jobs at our small non-profit."
Similarly, the director of Frameline, the gay and lesbian film house, told FOXNews.com in an e-mail that their $50,000 grant was not to support any program in particular.
"The grant is not intended for a specific program; it's to be used for the preservation of jobs at our media arts nonprofit organization over the next year during the economic downturn," wrote K.C. Price, who listed four other NEA grants his organization has received.
An NEA spokeswoman defended the agency's choices and said its grants would help "preserve jobs in danger of going away or that had gone away because of the economic downturn."
"Our review process is very comprehensive -- we take great care with applicants and with grantees," said NEA spokeswoman Victoria Hutter. "It's a thorough, rigorous process that they all go through, and we're proud of the projects that we've been able to support."
Though the process was sped up, the NEA's 109 panelist reviewers handled the compressed schedule by giving their $50 million in direct grants only to individuals and groups that have received funding in the past and have already passed muster. An additional $30 million was given to state agencies to parcel out to local artists during this year.
One project that has received past NEA funding and stands to get an additional boost from a $25,000 stimulus grant is "The Symmetry Project," a dance piece by choreographer Jess Curtis.
The show depicts "the sharing of a central axis, [as] spine, mouth, genitals, face, and anus reveal their interconnectedness and centrality in embodied experience," according to a description offered on Curtis' Web site.
In the flesh -- and there's a lot of it -- it amounts to two people writhing naked on the floor, a government-funded tango in the altogether.
Curtis said that diminished support from regular funders like San Francisco Grants for the Arts "would mean lots less work and less ability to organize ... to get the work out in front of people." He said the NEA funding will help keep his art afloat.
"I think art is an incredibly important part of our culture and our life and ... that it's very much appropriate that our government should be supporting it," he told FOXNews.com.
San Francisco's economy is driven by the arts, which provided nearly 30,000 jobs in the city last year, according to Luis R. Cancel, director of cultural affairs for the San Francisco Arts Council.
"The city's non-profit arts and cultural sector generates $1.03 billion in local economic activity annually and, therefore, it will play a critical role in our recovery," Cancel said in a statement.
"With these stimulus funds San Francisco arts organizations will be able to weather the storm and continue to provide jobs and to generate revenue while enriching people's lives through innovative, high quality programming."
Williams, the taxpayer advocate, allowed that the $100,000 granted to the three groups "isn't going to make or break the country financially," but he said arts institutions should try to raise money by raising ticket prices -- not by taxing individuals.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, he said. "These sorts of programs really do need to be funded by the patrons that go to the performances -- not by the federal government."
With her jet-black hair, thick red lips, sexy attitude and uncensored mouth its hard not to think of Megan Fox as the emerging Angelina Jolie, but the 23-year-old "Transformers" starlet has had enough with constantly being compared to the actress/activist.
"I think its cause she has tattoos really, I think a lack of creativity on the media's part," Fox said. "I am a brunette with tattoos, I curse and I have made mention of sex before. I joked about it which people find outrageous so they want to constantly compare that to her. You know Shia is the new Tom Hanks, Rhianna is the new Beyonce. Everybody is the new somebody although none of us are any of those people so you just walk around with it you live with it."
However Fox isn't the only one quick to diss the comparison, Jolie"s own father Jon Voight agrees that the two really aren't alike.
Megan is herself and Angelina is herself. No one is comparable; everyone in the world is unique," Voight told Tarts at the recent "Transformers" premiere in Los Angeles. "That"s the great thing about it, but of course they’re two very beautiful women."
But it turns out that "Jennifer’s Body" writer Diablo Cody may have played a prominent role in contributing to Fox’s self-proclaimed filthy mouth.
"She (Cody) has told me some of the dirtiest jokes I’ve ever heard in my entire life," Fox told Tarts over the weekend at the Comic Con Festival in San Diego.
But how did the world’s hottest woman feel about being mutated into a zombie for the role?
"Going through hours of zombie makeup wasn’t necessarily hard it was just so bizarre because I’m so used to being glamorized on a Michael Bay set to the point where you don’t feel beautiful anymore because you’re like a mannequin," she added. "So being made into a zombie was really bizarre and some of the prosthetics were very laborious but it was so interesting."
A veteran sports reporter for New Hampshire's largest newspaper was charged Wednesday with running a prostitution ring in two states and Canada that employed women who "auditioned" for the job by having sex with him.
Longtime New Hampshire Union Leader sports writer Kevin Provencher, 50, is accused of advertising his prostitution ring's services on Craigslist and other Web sites.
He rented hotel rooms in Andover, Mass., and in New Hampshire — where the women would have sex for money, prosecutors said.
Provencher allegedly met the women at a Manchester hotel to "audition" them, the Union Leader said. He is accused of giving one woman lingerie, having sex with her and then telling her she was hired, the newspaper reported, citing court documents.
Provencher, a sports reporter at the Union Leader for more than two decades, was arrested at his Manchester home early Wednesday and was taken to Massachusetts, where he was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail during his arraignment in Lawrence District Court.
He pleaded not guilty to two counts of deriving support from prostitution.
The ring may have operated in Canada, prosecutors said. They call Provencher its ringleader.
Essex Assistant District Attorney Michelle Defeo told the Union Leader that Provencher performed background checks on prospective customers to make sure they weren't police officers, then would rent hotel rooms and provide the women with contact information for the clients.
At the end of the day, the women would give Provencher half the money they earned or would deposit it an account he set up, Defeo said.
Police, who said they believe the operation started about a year ago, began investigating after management at the Spring Hill Suites hotel in Andover became suspicious and called authorities.
Police said they set up a sting operation at the hotel on June 11 and saw men entering and leaving a room. Defeo said law enforcement authorities "could clearly hear activities consistent with sexual intercourse," the Union Leader reported.
Provencher has been suspended from the newspaper, where he has been its primary motor sports reporter since 1990. He also has been the Union Leader's beat reporter covering the Manchester Monarchs since the American Hockey League franchise's 2001 inception.
The newspaper's management issued a statement calling Provencher "a valued employee for many years."
"He is innocent until proven guilty," it said. "However, given the nature and seriousness of the charges, he is suspended until further notice."
Provencher's lawyer, Jessica Thrall, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Wednesday.
A flea-bitten dog rescued from a squalid Melbourne, Australia, backyard is to be reunited with her ecstatic owner nine years after she disappeared.
And 17-year-old Chloe Rushby, who was only eight when her furry friend disappeared, can't wait to have Muffy back in her arms.
Chloe and her family screamed with joy when the RSPCA called to say Muffy was alive - much older, very scruffy and 1,250 miles away in Melbourne.
"It would be fair to say that they were extremely elated and extremely excited by the call," RSPCA inspector Gail Coulter, who found an emaciated Muffy after an anonymous tip, told The Daily Telegraph.
"They were initially shocked and confused, but when we mentioned the name Muffy - which is part of the microchip information - and gave them a description of her, they knew it was their pet lost so many years ago."
The woman who made the 911 call that launched America into a national debate on race said Wednesday that she was unfairly called a "racist" after she reported a possible break-in at the Cambridge, Mass., home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.
A clearly distressed Lucia Whalen addressed reporters at a press conference in an effort to clear her name after the city released the 911 tape. It revealed that Whalen did not identify either of the men she thought she saw trying to break into Gates' home as black, even though an initial police report said she did.
"When I was called racist and I was a target of scorn and ridicule because of the things I never said, the criticisms hurt me as a person, but it also hurt the community of Cambridge," Whalen said.
"Now that the tapes are out, I hope people can see that I tried to be careful and honest with my words," she said. "It never occurred to me that the way that I reported what I saw be analyzed by an entire nation."
Whalen said repeatedly in the July 16 call that she didn't have a good vantage point and could not see what the two men trying to get into the home looked like.
When pressed by a dispatcher on whether the men were white, black or Hispanic, Whalen said one of them might have been Hispanic.
The two men Whalen saw trying to force their way into the home turned out to be Gates, who lives there, and his driver. Gates was arrested by Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley for disorderly conduct, but charges were later dropped.
Whalen's attorney, Wendy Murphy, seized the opportunity Wednesday to criticize President Obama's invitation to host both Gates and Crowley for a beer summit at the White House.
"The three highly trained guys who reacted badly are getting together for a beer," she said. "But the one person whose actions have been exemplary will be at work tomorrow in Cambridge."
"I don't know -- maybe it's a guy thing. She doesn't like beer anyway," she said.
Murphy said the incident spiraled into a media sensation because of the "overreaction of three men" -- which Murphy said included the response from the president.
"I'm proud to introduce you to the one person who didn’t overreact," she said.
Obama said during a press conference last week that the Cambridge police had "acted stupidly" when they arrested Gate, his friend, after he showed them identification verifying his residence. But the president later said he chose his words badly when he reacted to Gates' arest.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that Obama will drink Bud Light, Gates will drink Red Stripe, and Crowley will drink Blue Moon when the three men meet for a drink at the White House on Thursday.
The president had reportedly phoned Crowley, who suggested the three men sit down for a beer. The president said he liked the idea, and Gates concurred when Obama phoned him next.
No. 3 at Justice Department Approved Black Panther Reversal
The No. 3 official in the Obama Justice Department was consulted and ultimately approved a decision in May to reverse course and drop a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party, according to The Washington Times.
The third-ranking official at the Obama Justice Department approved a decision in May to drop a civil complaint that accused three New Black Panther Party members of intimidating voters on Election Day last year, The Washington Times reports.
The newspaper reported that Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli was consulted on the matter before approving a decision in May to reverse course and drop the complaint.
The decision was made despite the fact that Justice lawyers in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division had pursued the complaint for five months and had recommended sanctions against the party and three of its members for their actions in Philadelphia in November. The government had already won a default judgment against them in federal court.
The Washington Times, citing records and interviews, reported that these lawyers were told by their bosses in late April to seek a delay even though they were in the final stages of their work.
The delay reportedly was ordered by then-acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King after meeting with Perrelli and discussing the case.
The Justice Department, however, disputed the allegations in the article, saying it distorted the decision-making process.
"There's nothing new here," a Justice official told FOX News. "Heavier innuendo, but no new facts. They're distorting the decision-making process, relying on Perrelli as Assistant Attorney General that oversees the civil rights division, (therefore) he made the call. Not true. Top career (officials) in the civil rights division made the decision."
New York City is buying one-way plane tickets for homeless families to leave the city.
It's part of a program by Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration to keep the homeless out of the expensive shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family.
More than 550 families have left the city since 2007. All it takes is for a relative to agree to take them in.
The city employs a travel agency for domestic travel and the Department of Homeless Services handles international travel.
City officials say there are no limits on where a family can be sent and families can reject the offer.
Families have been sent to 24 states and five continents, mostly to Puerto Rico, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
City officials say none of the relocated families have returned to city shelters.
NEW YORK (AP) - HBO scored highest among 15 networks for its representation of gay characters last season, according to a report released Monday.
In its third annual Network Responsibility Index, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation found that of HBO's 14 original prime-time series, 10 included content reflecting the lives of gay, bisexual and transgender people. That totaled 42 percent of the network's programming hours, in series such as "True Blood," "Entourage" and "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency."
By contrast, on NBC and CBS only 8 percent and 5 percent, respectively, of prime-time hours included them, the report said.
For the report, GLAAD reviewed all prime-time programming, totaling 4,901 hours, for inclusion of such characters or issues on the five major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW) from June 1, 2008, to May 31, 2009. The study also examined all original prime-time programming, 1,213 hours, on 10 prominent cable networks. The programming included dramas, comedies, unscripted fare and newsmagazines.
Cable's Showtime ranked second, with 26 percent of its programming hours featuring gay characters or themes. Series included "The L Word," "Weeds" and "The United States of Tara," a new comedy about a family whose teenage son is gay.
ABC got the highest ranking of the five broadcast networks, with 24 percent. It was the second year in a row that ABC led the broadcasters.
Among ABC series, the report cited newlyweds Kevin and Scotty on "Brothers & Sisters," the engagement of Andrew to Dr. Alex Cominis on "Desperate Housewives" and bisexual Dr. Callie Torres on "Grey's Anatomy."
The CW logged 20 percent, and the Fox network 11 percent, the report said.
Among the sampling of cable networks evaluated, TNT showed the largest growth, jumping to 19 percent last season from 1 percent the year before. This was largely thanks to its new drama series, "Raising the Bar," which features gay law clerk Charlie Sagansky as a regular character, GLAAD said.
"Television shows that weave our stories into the fabric of the series present richer, more diverse representations," said Rashad Robinson, GLAAD's senior director of media programs.
In September, GLAAD will release its annual report evaluating gay, bisexual and transgender inclusion, and other diversity, among scripted characters scheduled to appear during the 2009-10 season. Monday's report said TV characters in general are predominantly white, regardless of sexual orientation.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Penn State University is now the nation's No. 1 party school. Arizona State University ranks No. 20.
The school known partly for its football tailgate weekends and fraternity and sorority scene snatched the title away from the University of Florida in the 2009 Princeton Review survey of 122,000 students nationwide. Florida, last year's winner, finished second in the annual survey released Monday.
It's the first time Penn State has finished first in the dubious category. The school has been on the list the last seven years and ranked third in 2008. The listing covers Penn State's main University Park campus in State College.
``These rankings are not more than popularity contests,'' said university spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz. She noted that groups on the social networking site Facebook have urged members to make Penn State the top party school.
``It's a badge of honor at this point. Nationwide, kids want to pump their schools in these surveys,'' Mountz said. ``It's not connected to reality.''
The rankings were part of the Princeton Review's ``The Best 371 Colleges'' annual guide. On average, there were 325 respondents to the survey per school, which Mountz said amounted to less than 1 percent of the University Park campus' enrollment of 43,000 students.
Penn State also finished first in the categories ``lots of beer'' and students who pack the stadium. Beaver Stadium is one of the country's largest sports facility, seating more than 107,000 for football games.
After Penn State and Florida, the top five institutions on the party schools list were the University of Mississippi, the University of Georgia, and Ohio University-Athens.
Guide author Robert Franek said every school in the survey offered ``great academics.''
But the guide does not rank schools academically, Franek said in a statement, because the goal is to ``help students find and get into the best school for them ... It's all about fit.''
The annual rankings also list the country's ``Stone-Cold Sober Schools.'' Brigham Young University in Utah topped that list for the 12th straight year.
The Princeton Review is a New York company known for its test preparation courses, educational services and books and is not affiliated with Princeton University.
The nation's top party schools, according to Princeton Review's 2009 survey of 122,000 students:
1. Penn State University, State College, Pa. 2. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 3. University of Mississippi, University, Miss. 4. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. 5. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 6. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va. 7. University of Texas, Austin, Texas 8. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 9. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla. 10. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif. 11. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 12. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 13. Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. 14. Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. 15. DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind. 16. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. 17. Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. 18. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D. 19. Tulane University, New Orleans, La. 20. Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.
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Candy Spelling -- the mother famously at war with her daughter -- has taken the bold step of communicating with Tori Spelling through TMZ ... and her opening line isn't gonna get her a lot of invites. Here's the open letter in all its glory:
EXCLUSIVE TO: TMZ.COM TO: MIDDLE-AGED REALITY SHOW STARS (LIKE MY DAUGHTER) FROM: CANDY SPELLING
I Know many middle-aged people have issues about their parents and their upbringing. I did. My memories didn't match all those of my mother, and, funny thing, it's the same way with my daughter.
Life has consequences. What you say is on the record. Other people have feelings.
have a vested interest in this subject. My daughter, Tori's, two-part season finale revolves around my granddaughter's first birthday party and how she has made what seems like an agonizing decision to invite me.
Cue music. Cue sideways glances. Cue Lights.
I did get an invitation just in time for the RSVP deadline. I'm sure its delivery will be on next week's episode with some comment about my house or driveway or street or something they won't like. I wonder if that will be spread out over one part or two. Sigh.
A big party wasn't how I envisioned meeting my granddaughter for the first time; but, hey, this is Hollywood, and my grandchildren have become reality show props, too. At the time I emailed "yes," I didn't realize I was being set up for a two-parter, even though it was clear I was being invited to be part of a segment for my daughter's reality show.
Spoiler alert. Don't read this if you plan to sit through an hour of people looking at their watches and saying "she's late." I decided my first meeting with my granddaughter should be on home video, not primetime cable; so I emailed that I would not be attending.
Back to other reality stars. My husband taught me that the plots have to be fresh and updated. The same old whining gets tired after a while. Enough complaining about what may or may not have happened during first grade or YMCA camp, or what vegetable you were forced to endure, especially when you are privileged enough to be on TV and get paid for it.
For all the reality show personalities, please remember that real life doesn't get edited to make things better or worse or get better ratings. You're responsible for what you do. Life isn't just a show. And your families can't just be props. Make your own season finale without creating conflicts you will regret later.
DALLAS — Police said they found a 3 1/2-week-old infant stabbed and decapitated in a Texas home on Sunday and his mother "screaming that she killed her baby" after the devil told her to do it.
The mother, Otty Sanchez, 33, of San Antonio, was taken to a local hospital in critical condition with self-inflicted stab wounds to her chest and stomach, said San Antonio police spokesman Joe Rios.
Investigators took a sword, a machete and a kitchen knife from the home.
Officers also found two children unharmed at the home, though it wasn't immediately clear where they were taken.
Sanchez will be charged with capital murder, Rios said. A spokeswoman at University Hospital in San Antonio said she couldn't release information on Sanchez's condition, but Sgt. Wes McCourt said her wounds didn't appear to be life threatening.
Rios said that when police arrived, Sanchez was sitting on the couch "screaming that she killed her baby." Police said the baby was Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez.
"She mentioned that someone or something told her to do it, she was hearing voices. So that leads us to believe that she was experiencing some type of mental crisis," Rios said. "The baby had obviously been decapitated."
McCourt said she told investigators that the devil told her to kill her son.
FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — A South Florida town manager who married a porn star last year was fired at an emergency meeting after the mayor and council members learned about it.
Fort Myers Beach town council voted 5-0 to fire Scott Janke "without cause" after Mayor Larry Kiker called the Tuesday night meeting.
Kiker told the News-Press of Fort Myers he learned that afternoon that Janke's wife is an adult film star, and the elected officials took the action a few hours later.
"We did everything we could not to judge," Kiker told the paper. "It's not about him and her. It's about the town."
Adult Industry News recently reported that Janke's wife, Anabela Mota Janke, goes by the stage name Jazella Moore.
Kiker said a clause in Janke's contract permitted the council to fire him with a majority vote. He said he considers the Jankes friends.
"Our heads are held high," Janke told The Associated Press. "We have nothing to be embarrassed about. We've done nothing wrong."
Janke said the mayor called him before the meeting, but didn't invite him to attend. He said Kiker called after the meeting to tell him the outcome, and Janke said he hasn't heard from him or any council member since. Janke will get a severance package worth six months salary, which comes to about $50,000, plus health benefits.
Janke said he and his wife were married in October and are taking care of their three teenage children. He wouldn't comment on any possible legal action against the town.
Kiker acknowledged that Janke had violated no rules or laws and added that he had done a good job for the island town that had about 6,500 people, according to the 2000 Census. But the mayor was concerned whether Janke could remain effective.
"We had to decide what was in the best interest of the town," Kiker told the News-Press. "We have a lot of major projects in front of us, and we needed to make sure that we move forward."
Kiker did not immediately return a call Wednesday from the AP.
Councilman Tom Babcock, responding to residents' questions, said at a council meeting Wednesday that Janke was fired because his wife's profession brought an inaccurate image to Fort Myers Beach, according to the News-Press.
"When you become a public figure you are held to a different level of scrutiny and ethics," Babcock said.
Janke said it's too early to think about what's next in his career.
"A termination on a resume does not look good, no matter what the reason," Janke said.
Janke began working for Fort Myers Beach in March 2008. He has also worked for the City of Marathon in the Keys and had worked for various local governments throughout Alaska since 1989.
A young Muslim woman has been warned by police that her life is in danger after a male friend lost his tongue in an alleged assault using acid in an apparent “honor attack."
The Danish Asian man is in a serious but stable condition in the hospital after an incident in Leytonstone, East London, three weeks ago. Sulphuric acid is said to have been thrown in his face and he was stabbed twice in the back.
The 24-year-old, being treated in a specialist unit in Essex, is now blind, his tongue has been destroyed and he suffered burns over 90 percent of his body.
The woman, who claims the relationship is an innocent friendship, and the man live in the Asian community of East London, where their relationship is said to have upset her family for bringing dishonor on them.
Scotland Yard have issued what is known as an “Osman warning” — telling the woman that there is a threat to her life.
A police source told The Times that she had not been moved into a safe house but police were in daily contact with her.
Detectives believe that the man and woman were not in a sexual relationship but were just friends.
Two men, aged 19 and 25, are due to appear before Waltham Forest Magistrates Thursday, charged with the attempted murder of the 24-year-old man on July 2. Both men are said to be related to the woman, one is understood to be her brother.
Five men have been arrested and bailed “pending further inquiries” by police.
At the time of the attack a police source said: “It looks like this gang set out to deliberately target this man. They were dressed in masks and gloves so none of the acid would get on them.”
PHOENIX - The ostracizing of a young rape victim by her Liberian immigrant family sent shock waves through the community.
African studies Professor Femi Babarinde from the Thunderbird School of Global Management said it is normal to feel shame because of a rape in the family in the Liberian culture.
An 8-year-old Phoenix girl was lured into a shed and raped by four boys ranging in age from 9 to 14 years old.
Child Protective Services has taken custody of the girl after police said her parents blamed her for the assault.
"[CPS] did take custody of the victim, primarily because, as you can see what I wrote, that the parents felt they had been shamed or embarrassed by their child and that's not acceptable," said Phoenix Police Sgt. Andy Hill.
"There is something that negative that happens. It is identified with that individual and not just that individual, but the family and the extended family."
However, he said the family needs to adapt now that they're out of Africa. "They've got to understand that in this society, a criminal behavior like that is treated very seriously and that the child needs to be loved and helped to overcome the psychological damage that has been caused, not to talk of the physical aspects."
Babarinde said the parents are likely afraid the girl is now viewed as damaged and won't be able to find a good husband. And, while he does believe the girl should be allowed to return home, he strongly suggests the parents get counseling or education so they can understand and help their daughter.
Rape wasn't illegal in Liberia until 2006, and KTAR's Tony Femino, host of "Voice to America," said it's still common. "It's going to take some time. It's going to be an adjustment. And from what I understand is that in a country like Liberia, making rape illegal for the first time just in the last couple of years is going to take some getting used to."
He said sexually assaulted women are usually thrown out of the family because the relatives become known relatives of a girl who is not a virgin, and these victims end up living in poverty or refugee camps.
Femino said it will take awhile for people from cultures like the victim's, Liberia and other countries in the region and around the world, to view rape differently. In those countries, some young women "have their genitals mutilated. This is part of something that they do when they are young. It is part of this mindset that it is done for the sake of purity."
Barbarinde said during the war in Liberia rapes were common "during which time there were lots of reported cases of young girls being defiled and becoming victims." He said the parents of the victim may be in shock because such a horrific act happened in the place they came to in order to get away from such dangers.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A man has sued a local Claim Jumper restaurant claiming he ordered French onion soup and bit into a condom instead of melted cheese. Zdenek Philip Hodousek filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court seeking unspecified damages over fears he may have contracted a disease.
Hodousek's attorney Eric Traut said his client wants to have restaurant employees' DNA tested to find a match to the condom.
A public relations firm representing Claim Jumper said no one can prove the so-called "foreign object" Hodousek took from the restaurant is the item that was submitted to a lab for testing.
The firm said an internal probe revealed no employee wrongdoing.
WASHINGTON -- A white police sergeant who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Thursday he's disappointed President Obama said officers acted "stupidly" without knowing all the facts.
Sgt. James Crowley responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last week to investigate a report of a burglary and demanded Gates show him identification. Police say Gates at first refused and accused the officer of racism.
Gates was charged with disorderly conduct. The charge was dropped Tuesday, and Gates has since demanded an apology from Crowley.
Obama was asked about the arrest of Gates, who is his friend, at the end of a nationally televised news conference on health care Wednesday night.
"I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And number three -- what I think we know separate and apart from this incident -- is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."
In radio interviews Thursday morning, Crowley maintained he had done nothing wrong in arresting Gates.
"I support the president to a point, yes, I think it's disappointing that he waded into what should be a local issue and something that plays out here," Crowley told WEEI. "As he himself said ... he doesn't know all the facts."
Crowley did not immediately respond to messages left by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Gates has said he was "outraged" by the arrest. He said the white officer walked into his home without his permission and only arrested him as the professor followed him to the porch, repeatedly demanding the sergeant's name and badge number because he was unhappy over his treatment.
"This isn't about me; this is about the vulnerability of black men in America," Gates said.
He said the incident made him realize how vulnerable poor people and minorities are "to capricious forces like a rogue policeman, and this man clearly was a rogue policeman."
Crowley, 42, said he won't apologize. And his union has expressed "full and unqualified" support for him.
Fellow officers, black and white, say he is well-liked and respected on the force. Crowley was a campus police officer at Brandeis University in July 1993 when he administered CPR trying to save the life of former Boston Celtics player Reggie Lewis. Lewis, who was black, collapsed and died during an off-season workout.
Gates' supporters maintain his arrest was a case of racial profiling. Officers were called to the home by a woman who said she saw "two black males with backpacks" trying to break in the front door. Gates has said he arrived home from an overseas trip and the door was jammed.
The president said federal officials need to continue working with local law enforcement "to improve policing techniques so that we're eliminating potential bias."
"What I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately," Obama said. "That's just a fact."
Gov. Deval Patrick, who is black, said he was troubled and upset over the incident. Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons, who also is black, has said she spoke with Gates and apologized on behalf of the city, and a statement from the city called the July 16 incident "regrettable and unfortunate."
The mayor refused Thursday to comment on the president's remarks.
Police supporters charge that Gates, director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, was responsible for his own arrest by overreacting.
Black students and professors at Harvard have complained for years about racial profiling by Cambridge and campus police. Harvard commissioned an independent committee last year to examine the university's race relations after campus police confronted a young black man who was using tools to remove a bike lock. The man worked at Harvard and owned the bike.
Richard Weinblatt, director of the Institute for Public Safety at Central Ohio Technical College, said the police sergeant was responsible for defusing the situation once he realized Gates was the lawful occupant. It is not against the law to yell at police, especially in a home, as long as that behavior does not affect an investigation, he said.
"That is part of being a police officer in a democratic society," Weinblatt said. "The point is that the police sergeant needs to be the bigger person, take the higher road, be more professional."
Eddie Cibrian is now free to be with rumored mistress LeAnn Rimes as his fed-up wife Brandi Glanville has left him. In an interview with Us magazine, the former model said she and Cibrian, 36, have “decided to take some time apart. “I want to do what is best for our children. Eddie and LeAnn deserve each other,” Glanville said, noting that the final straw came when Cibrian and his famous country-singer mistress were spotted out together last week, according to Us.
Just four months ago, the same magazine busted Cibrian and Rimes out together on a romantic date, cozying up to one another and even kissing over the table. According to the report, Rimes and husband Dean Sheremet’s friend Jeff Berger has been facilitating meetings between the singer and Cibrian for weeks, even giving them use of his rental home in Los Angeles. Berger denied enabling the affair.
The recipient of the world's first complete double arm transplant scratched his head and back and beamed at his doctors Wednesday, saying he was on the path to independence a year after the pioneering operation.
Farmer Karl Merk, who lost his arms just below the shoulder in a 2002 combine harvester accident, demonstrated the progress he has made by scratching the back of his head with his right hand and squeezing rubber discs at a press conference near his home in southern Germany.
In July 2008 he underwent a 15-hour surgery at the Munich University Clinic by a team of 40 doctors, nurses and anesthesiologists.
His doctors originally thought it would take up to two years before the nerves in his arm would regrow sufficiently to permit movement, but the 55-year-old has made more progress than expected through an intensive program of physiotherapy and electric stimulation.
"My biggest dream is just that my fingers will keep improving, that I can pick things up and just be self-reliant again," he told reporters.
Wearing a black short-sleeved shirt that clearly showed where the arms were connected, Merk demonstrated how he can wave them without the aid of the numerous braces and bandages he needed after surgery.
Merk and his doctors said they hope his story will serve as an inspiration for others who might need such a surgery, but have hesitated to go forward.
"I would have this operation again in an instant," Merk said.
The Church of England unveils a two-in-one wedding and baptism liturgy today as it seeks to make peace with families “living in sin.”
The “hatch-and-match” service allows couples to baptise their children after the wedding ceremony. Parents can even get baptised themselves.
The aim is to encourage cohabiting parents to marry as the Church tries to become more relevant to the way people live their lives, but critics said that it appeared to sanction having children out of wedlock. One bishop described the idea as “nutty”. The liturgy, costing £272, is being sent out to dioceses and parish clergy today.
The move comes after research commissioned by the archbishops of Canterbury and York found that increasing numbers of couples marrying in church already had children. The latest figures on births and marriages show that about 44 per cent of children are born to unmarried women.
Stephen Parkinson, of the Anglo-Catholic group Forward in Faith, said: “The proper place for a baptism is not during a wedding but during the Sunday morning act of worship so the congregation can welcome a new Christian. It is a shame that what should be a bride’s day now stands to be hijacked by screaming kids.”
David Phillips, general secretary of the evangelical Church Society, said: “Putting these services together seems unwise. The proper place for sex is within marriage. That should be what people are taught when seeking baptism. If this is going to confuse the teaching of the Church, it does not seem a good way forward.”
However, the Bishop of Winchester, the Right Rev Michael Scott-Joynt — an evangelical and the Church’s spokesman on marriage — said: “I suspect a lot of clergy have done services like this already. This will help clergy who might not otherwise feel competent when asked to do this.”
*The email addresses are fictitious, and purely coincidental from the author’s perspective
Date: 12th of Never
To angela@eemail.com
From: dreamdiva@yuhoo.com
Subject: Hello, lover!
Hi Angela!
It has been awhile since we last emailed, and have been thinking about you, and how is life going for you. While writing and flexing my muscles, I was thinking about what our brief affair was like, what I learned from it-- and wrote it like this (I hope you enjoy it)
A Parable of the Desert
There was the desert near the city of Algomorodo in New Mexico. It is early spring and the rainy season is late (by approximately four weeks). There are the usual things that are in the desert such as small grasses, cacti, rocks, snakes and creatures that skitter across the ground, under the shade of small trees, and others that crave the noonday sun. The temperature of the ground itself with its rugged, sandy and grainy texture was cool to the touch underneath the surface by a few inches. Forget about walking barefoot in it. All sun and hardly any rain. The sky has large white puffy clouds like cotton balls, but larger, lighter and the rays shine through it , passing through the azure traffic; the thunderclouds still have not come.
The ground began to wonder why, even the creatures did not seem to mind – since it’s routine not to get some rain from time to time. Nonetheless, it was spring, and there was supposed to be rain. It sighed and naturally looking upwards , though disappointed. The clouds still drift and float lightly and gaily as if there were not a care in the world “ Where is it? Why has it been so long…? The ground asked as a salamander happened by.
“Aren’t you used to it already? You know the routine; when the rain doesn’t come, you wait: just like everyone and everything else, nothing is hurried.”
“I am just going to die, okay? I need rain.”
“No my friendly patch of ground you are not going to die, just be a bit dryer than usual—which would not help you any better when you’re whining about it, just be patient.” The salamander snapped then toddled away. This conversation went on for a few more weeks, then all of the sudden the big, tall and gray thunderclouds came brought rain as a downpour which drenched the trees, desert creatures and the very ground. Everyone was relieved.
“Finally.” the patch of ground sighed.
“Be careful, the lizard warned. This will happen again if you aren’t watchful."
And the meaning of the parable? From you, the passion was hot and unpretentious, drenching me suddenly I was this dry-assed desert parched due to the drought of my pent-up desires waiting for the right time, place and person to satiate me that monsoon was you, who had not come in weeks, but decided to drop in.
The air surrounding that was dry, cracked but the Creatures represented hope, patience and optimism In spite of some doubt if I was ever to vent my frustration, allowing you to go into the very recesses of soul.
Hoping for more and yet wanting more at the same Time, just like that patch of earth that was wanting Our commonness in aloneness was there; the validating energy consumed us. With other ground to refresh You went on, and I, was left hanging. It was quite amusing How I look at this because there was no more to give or get.
Your kisses were like soft grapes bursting its juices on my Full lips; a reward for the soft but obvious flirtations back and forth sneaking touches and even planting a quick kiss on your mons Full of drink, giddy and quite aroused, we kissed gingerly and passionately on the dance floor of the club, and did not care who saw or who talked about it afterwards. All that mattered was that your invitation was answered, shared a slice of pizza that brought it to an accelerated frenzy of wanting you between my legs... In each other’s arms embracing, wanting to taste you, the ale and spiked lemonade we drank. It was there to drown the ache of our loneliness. Racing to your place so that neither our passion nor drunkenness ebb, my shirt is removed with bra still intact in its clasps and my breathing anxiously accentuates my heaving chest and heavy breasts; the roundness of my body aches to be relieved, and my cunt wets even more as I strip off the rest of my clothes.
Tasting each other in the presence of your only love– in a photo nestled in the headboard with other pictures that looked like your parents had not crossed my mind then until you broke the news two weeks later, of an upcoming visit from your girlfriend across the seas. Although obvious, why you failed to admit to this? I thought in the depths of my fantasies that you would be the one, at least.
The reason why the first question was left unanswered, “where’s your girlfriend?”
For a whole month my body remembered every kiss, lick, caress, finger and fist stroke about you, regardless of your open relationship. My body did not care because it was made love to and fucked well, almost too well in quite awhile. I was infatuated with you, but could not have you. This was something I finally shared with you one night out with friends getting drunk, and you were headed back to The Queen’s Land in a few weeks.
Crying on your now tear-stained shoulder, not being able to bear the pain of you leaving my infatuated soul was something I did not want to face. Perhaps you understood me, but that has not changed that part of your life. As long as you and yours were happy, that was it. As long as I left a place for you in my heart, it was fine. No jealousy there. But I wondered, was there a part of me in your heart?
To this day, I have not forgotten you, in spite of – and missed the brief time we spent together. …Just so you know.
Take care, DreamDiva P.S. Do not let your girlfriend see it!
PHOENIX - Four boys ages 9 to 14 are in custody after Phoenix
police say they lured an 8-year-old girl to an empty storage shed, held
her down and sexually assaulted her.
Sgt. Andy Hill said Wednesday the boys face kidnapping and sexual assault charges.
"This is probably one of the worst crimes we've come across for many, many years in the city of Phoenix," Hill said.
Police allege the boys - ages 9, 10, 13 and 14 - lured the girl
to the shed July 16 under the pretense of offering her chewing gum.
They then restrained and sexually assaulted her over the course of
10-15 minutes, police said.
"She was in fact restrained by some suspects while one was
committing one of the crimes, and they took turns. So, it was a brutal
offense," Hill said.
Officers responding to an emergency call found the girl partially clothed and the suspects running from the scene.
Police say the girl and all but one of the boys live in the
same Phoenix apartment complex and one of the suspects is believed to
be her cousin.
The boys are being held in juvenile corrections, but the
14-year-old will be charged as an adult. Investigators said he appears
to have been the ring leader.
It was unknown Wednesday whether the 14-year-old had an attorney.
Authorities said the boys were interviewed by investigators with consent from family and admitted involvement in the crime.
"I mean, these little boys, the 9- and 10-year-old, they're very
young looking. I mean, these are young children," said Hill. "The 13-
and 14-year-old, you know, they look a little older, but these are
children."
Child Protective Services has taken custody of the girl after police said her parents blamed her for the assault.
"[CPS] did take custody of the victim, primarily because, as you
can see what I wrote, that the parents felt they had been shamed or
embarrassed by their child and that's not acceptable," Hill said.
The victim's family told News/Talk 92.3 KTAR reporter Jennifer Parks
the girl didn't listen to them on the night of the attack, and that she
wanted to go to a party. They said they're not mad at the boys, but
they just want their daughter back.
"She's not listening," said the victim's older sister. "I told
her to get inside but she not listen to me and she went out. She went
out, she said she was very emphatic. So I don't know who to blame. I
don't know, she or the boys, I don't know who to blame."
PHOENIX - Phoenix police have arrested four boys ages 9 to 14 in the sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl last week.
"It's probably one of the worst crimes that we've come across in many, many years in the city of Phoenix," said Sgt. Andrew Hill.
Authorities said Wednesday that the boys face charges of kidnapping and sexual assault.
Police allege the boys lured the girl to an empty storage shed on July 16 and restrained her as they sexually assaulted her.
Police said all four boys are being held in a juvenile corrections center.
Child Protective Services has taken custody of the girl after police say her parents blamed the assault on her.
"[CPS] did take custody of the victim, primarily because, as you can see what I wrote, that the parents felt they had been shamed or embarrassed by their child and that's not acceptable," Hill said.
Police said the boys and the girl are all children of West African refugees.
They said the girl and all but one of the boys live in the same Phoenix apartment complex.
The four boys admitted involvement in the attack, according to police.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida woman has been sentenced to
14 months of house arrest for leaving two grandchildren alone in a
parked car while she went to play the slots.
A Broward County judge also gave the 54-year-old woman three years' probation Monday.
Authorities say the woman left the children in a car parked outside
a Hallandale Beach casino in August 2008. The windows were down, but
the air-conditioning was off.
A witness saw the 2-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy in the car and told the casino's security.
The prosecutor tells the South Florida Sun Sentinel that the woman
had pleaded guilty to charges including felony child abuse and
misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
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http://www.sunsentinel.com
(Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
EXCLUSIVE: The investigative team heading the probe into Michael Jackson’s death conducted interviews with physicians and personnel at medical facilities in Las Vegas on Monday, a law enforcement source close to the investigation told FOXNews.com.
Lead investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery and Homicide Division, along with several field agents from the Los Angeles Drug Enforcement Administration office, took a day trip to Las Vegas to follow up on leads indicating that at least one drug believed to have contributed to Jackson’s sudden death on June 25 originated in Las Vegas. Sources could not tell FOXNews.com what drug was the focus of the probe, who was questioned or which medical practices were visited, but Jackson’s personal physician Conrad Murray runs a cardiology practice in Las Vegas.
Murray is believed to currently be staying at his family's home in Texas. It is unclear if he was part of Monday's investigation, but it was reported that the doctor canceled his third interview with LAPD last week. A spokeswoman for Murray's legal team has denied those reports.
Police questioned Murray twice shortly after Jackson's death, which is being treated as a homicide.
The law enforcement source told FOXNews.com that investigators are using the results of preliminary toxicology reports, which have not yet been released to the public, to track down the sources of the drugs found in high concentrations in Jackson’s system.
Investigators have also been tracking down all drugs recovered from Jackson’s rented Holmby Hills mansion in the days following the death of the King of Pop.
The investigative team received assistance from members of local enforcement and spent the day conducting interviews at medical facilities, the source said. The team was expected to return to Los Angeles by Tuesday morning.
FOXNews.com has also learned that the Medical Board of California has started proceedings that could strip Murray of his license to practice medicine.
The Medical Board of California has informed Murray that he is the subject of a malpractice investigation, a law enforcement official told FOXNews.com.
Murray is licensed to practice in California, Texas and Nevada.
The Texas Medical Board and the State of Nevada Board of Medical Examiners are assisting in the California investigation.
Miranda Sevcik, a spokeswoman for Murray’s legal team, said, "We have no information on any investigation by the state medical board."
She says Murray continues to cooperate with police.
RENO, Nev. — A woman is accusing Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of raping her last summer in his penthouse hotel room at Lake Tahoe.
The woman worked at Harrah's hotel-casino at the time and says the attack happened when the Super Bowl-winning quarterback was in Tahoe playing in a celebrity golf tournament. She also alleges in the civil suit that Harrah's officials refused to investigate her complaint and went to great lengths to cover up the incident.
Roethlisberger's lawyer David Cornwell denies the claim and says the quarterback will be "fully exonerated."
The lawsuit filed in Reno on Friday seeks at least $390,000 in damages. It says she has been in and out of hospitals for treatment of depression since the episode.
It was not immediately clear if the woman went to enforcement with her complaints.
Kim Kardashian says she is shocked at some of the harsh comments she gets regarding her interracial relationship. The reality television star, who is mixed with Armenian, Scottish and Dutch, is dating African American NFL player Reggie Bush.
“I don’t understand it because I was raised to not see color,” Kardashian told FOX411 at the Three O Bubble Vodka Launch party in New York City earlier this month. “But you’re still faced with it.”
Read on to find out where Kim was told she “didn’t belong.”
Recently, the couple decided to embark on a charity trip to Africa to tour diamond mines with Russell Simmon’s Global Grind organization, which Kim said earned her criticism from a few critics who felt she “didn’t belong.”
“All the comments were, ‘How dare she go to Africa,’ and it’s just like, you know what, I can’t believe that charity work is being judged, and I can’t believe people would even comment on that and I think it’s really disgusting,” she said.
But the critics aren’t getting the star down, nor does it affect her relationship in any way.
“At the end of the day, you just have to brush them off, you have no choice,” She told FOX411. “I hope by the time Reggie and I have kids, things will be different.”
Mischa Barton was submitted involuntarily to a California mental health facility last week, and she’s still there. According to insiders, friends and associates have been trying to get Mischa into some sort of treatment for months, including party pal Lindsay Lohan.
The two club regulars often partied together into the early morning hours. But last year, Lindsay walked away from the friendship after a messy Mischa pushed Lindsay over the edge. Sources close to Lohan tell Fox 411 that the two girls haven’t spoken for months, but Lindsay would help Mischa if she asked for help to get through this latest fiasco.
“Lindsay and Mischa used to go out all the time together in Los Angeles. They were like kindred spirits when it came to clubbing and letting loose,” says the insider. “ They have many mutual friends, but everything shifted for Lindsay last year at a party. Mischa was completely out of control, and Lindsay sat Mischa down then to make it clear that she needed help. Lindsay was desperate for Mischa to clean herself up and offered a treatment facility and a therapist to help Mischa. Mischa completely ignored Lindsay, and that was the end.”
Several people close to the “OC” actress tell FOX411 she’s been on a downward spiral for years. “No one close to her is surprised,” says one pal. “Alcohol was like the gateway to other things for Mischa. Nobody has been able to stop her until now. Hopefully this psychiatric hold will force her to seek real help.”
Mischa’s latest stylist deserted her as well, says the insider, warning that ”Mischa must get help or she will be all alone. She can’t continue down the path of the last two years or so. It’s destructive and it will end her career for good.”
Amid the custody crisis surrounding Michael Jackson’s children, Pop Tarts has been told that their grandmother and temporary guardian Katherine Jackson has been taking the three children to the Kingdom of Jehovah's Witnesses to help them deal with the death of their famous father.
“They need this stability and to bond with God at a time like this,” said longtime Jackson friend and biographer Stacy Brown. “I think this is one of the main reasons Michael named his mom as guardian, he knew that proper Bible training was best for them. But the Church doesn’t force anyone to be baptized, when they (the kids) are mature enough they will make that decision.”
However this isn’t the first time the children have attended a mass of this kind. According to Brown, they accompanied MJ to the church back in 2005.
“They were really attentive and really involved with the whole learning process,” he said. “They seemed to really enjoy it.”
Michael stopped being a Jehovah's Witness 1985 but reportedly resumed attending the Church’s meetings throughout his child molestation trial. Katherine and the eldest child Rebbie are the only two remaining Jehovah's Witnesses in the family. Speaking of which, we’re told that Katherine had “no control” and was less-than-impressed with the recent memorial service that took place in MJ’s honor at the Los Angeles Staples Center.
“Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in interfaith services and Katherine’s wishes should have been respected on her day or mourning,” added Brown. “She was there but she wasn’t happy about it. Of course she would have wanted to do something for the fans, but not a public
On the note of public spectacles, a source close to the Jackson family said that it was disgusting and devastating that the footage of Michael Jackson’s explosive 1984 Pepsi commercial was released last week in the wake of his death.
“Michael’s deal was that he owned all footage from the incident, he never ever wanted anybody to see that, he would have been so humiliated and upset,” said our source. “So whoever leaked it had to be someone with access to his belongings …”
It seems as far as far can be from the perfect match, but hey opposites do attract -- so could it be that crazy actress Bai Ling and music legend Lionel Richie have something going on?
The unlikely duo was spotted on what appeared to be a romantic date last Thursday at Whist at Viceroy Santa Monica. According to an eye witness, Ling and Richie kept a low-profile and laughed and flirted throughout their meal.
The actress (who tells people she hails “from the moon” and has a habit of crashing Hollywood parties and dirty dancing for hours by herself) was most recently linked to Mickey Rourke with whom she put on quite the PDA with at the Chateau Marmont earlier this year.
Jenn Brown has made her mark as the only female reporter on Showtime’s “Inside the NFL” and when it comes to the recent Tony Romo/Jessica Simpson split she believes it is for the best.
“I think that he was doing a little bit better when she wasn't around. I don't think it's good to mix celebrities, if you've got two people with competing schedules where someone if off on tour and someone is competing, it just doesn't make a lot of time,” Brown told Tarts at last week’s ESPY Awards in Los Angeles. “I'm sure a lot of the football fans are happy she (Jessica)is gone.”
But on the other hand Laurie Phillips, wife of Dallas Cowboys Head Coach Wade Phillips, thinks the pop princess has been unfairly targeted as Tony’s bad-luck charm.
“She’s not to blame (for his decreased performance), absolutely not at all,” Phillips said.
President Obama's "science czar," Paul Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, "compulsory sterilization," and the creation of a "Planetary Regime" that would oversee human population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet -- controversial ideas his critics say should have been brought up in his Senate confirmation hearings.
Holdren, who has degrees from MIT and Stanford and headed a science policy program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government for the past 13 years, won the unanimous approval of the Senate as the president's chief science adviser.
He was confirmed with little fanfare on March 19 as director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, a 50-person directorate that advises the president on scientific affairs, focusing on energy independence and global warming.
But many of Holdren's radical ideas on population control were not brought up at his confirmation hearings; it appears that the senators who scrutinized him had no knowledge of the contents of a textbook he co-authored in 1977, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," a copy of which was obtained by FOXNews.com.
The 1,000-page course book, which was co-written with environmental activists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, discusses and in one passage seems to advocate totalitarian measures to curb population growth, which it says could cause an environmental catastrophe.
The three authors summarize their guiding principle in a single sentence: "To provide a high quality of life for all, there must be fewer people."
As first reported by FrontPage Magazine, Holdren and his co-authors spend a portion of the book discussing possible government programs that could be used to lower birth rates.
Those plans include forcing single women to abort their babies or put them up for adoption; implanting sterilizing capsules in people when they reach puberty; and spiking water reserves and staple foods with a chemical that would make people sterile.
To help achieve those goals, they formulate a "world government scheme" they call the Planetary Regime, which would administer the world's resources and human growth, and they discuss the development of an "armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force" to which nations would surrender part of their sovereignty.
Holdren's office issued a statement to FOXNews.com denying that the ecologist has ever backed any of the measures discussed in his book, and suggested reading more recent works authored solely by Holdren for a view to his beliefs.
"Dr. Holdren has stated flatly that he does not now support and has never supported compulsory abortions, compulsory sterilization, or other coercive approaches to limiting population growth," the statement said.
"Straining to conclude otherwise from passages treating controversies of the day in a three-author, 30-year-old textbook is a mistake."
But the textbook itself appears to contradict that claim.
Holdren and the Ehrlichs offer ideas for "coercive," "involuntary fertility control," including "a program of sterilizing women after their second or third child," which doctors would be expected to do right after a woman gives birth.
"Unfortunately," they write, "such a program therefore is not practical for most less developed countries," where doctors are not often present when a woman is in labor.
While Holdren and his co-authors don't openly endorse such measures on other topics, in this case they announce their disappointment -- "unfortunately" -- that women in the third world cannot be sterilized against their will, a procedure the International Criminal Court considers a crime against humanity.
"It's very problematic that he said these things," said Ben Lieberman, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Lieberman faulted Holdren for using government as a solution to every problem and advocating heavy-handed and invasive laws.
But other members of the scientific community said accusations against Holdren are wholly misplaced.
"John Holdren has been one of the most well-respected and prominent scientific voices urging the federal government to address global warming," wrote Kevin Knobloch, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, in a statement.
Holdren's co-authors, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, said in a statement that they were "shocked at the serious mischaracterization of our views and those of John Holdren," caused by what they called misreadings of the book.
"We were not then, never have been, and are not now 'advocates' of the Draconian measures for population limitation described -- but not recommended" in the book, they wrote.
Still, William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, faulted the Senate for not screening Holdren more strenuously during his hearings before confirming his nomination by unanimous consent both in committee and in the full Senate.
Despite "the litany of apocalyptic warnings that turned out to be incorrect, no one was willing to stick his neck out" and vote no, Yeatman said.
Some of Holdren's views on population came under fire during the otherwise quiet confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, where Sen. David Vitter, R-La., asked him to revisit his past statements about environmental catastrophes that have never come to pass.
"I was and continue to be very critical of Dr. Holdren's positions -- specifically his countless doomsday science publications and predictions that have been near universally wrong," Vitter told FOXNews.com.
"I wish that the Commerce Committee had taken more time to evaluate his record during his nomination hearing, but like with everything else in this new Washington environment, the Democratic majority and the White House were pushing to speed his nomination along," Vitter said.
Vitter grilled Holdren during the hearing, asking him to clear up his 1986 prediction that global warming was going to kill about 1 billion people by 2020.
"You would still say," Vitter asked, "that 1 billion people lost by 2020 is still a possibility?"
"It is a possibility, and one we should work energetically to avoid," Holdren replied.
Sen. John Kerry, a leading Democrat on the committee, said the renewed scrutiny was essentially a Republican smear on Holdren's good record. Kerry told FOXNews.com that senators already had "ample opportunity" to question Holdren, who "made clear that he does not and never has supported coercive approaches, end of story.
"The Commerce Committee and the Senate then unanimously concluded what I have long known -- that John Holdren is a leading voice in the scientific community and we are fortunate to have him lead the fight to restore the foundation of science to government and policymaking that has been lacking for almost a decade."
Holdren has confronted a number of challenges during his four-decade scientific career, including nuclear arms reduction, and was part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics," as the Nobel Committee said.
Now his greatest focus is global warming, which he said in a recent interview poses a threat akin to being "in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog."
Holdren told the Associated Press in April that the U.S. will consider all options to veer away from that cliff, including an experimental scheme to shoot pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays and cool the earth, a last resort he hoped could be averted.
"Dr. Holdren is working day and night for the Obama Administration and the American people, helping to develop science and technology policies to make the country stronger, more secure, and more energy independent, and to make Americans healthier and better educated," his office told FOXNews.com.
Four months after Holdren's confirmation, his critics are keeping a wary eye on his work in the White House, where they assert that he has the president's ear on scientific issues.
"It is interesting that this 30-year-old book is finally coming to light," said Lieberman, of the Heritage Foundation.
"The people who are concerned about Holdren, quite frankly we didn't do enough homework."
(Washington)
Judy Rickard took an early retirement and a reduced pension so she
could be assured of more time with her partner, a British citizen whose
stays in the U.S. are limited to six months.
Rickard, 61, would have preferred to keep working at San Jose State
University and sponsor her partner, Karin Bogliolo, for residency in
the United States, just as heterosexual couples can. But U.S. law does
not allow for that.
"If you're going to have a system that"s designed to keep families
together, it should focus on keeping families together,” Rickard said.
That could soon change, as more than 100 lawmakers in the House and
about 20 in the Senate have signed onto bills that would add the United
States to the 19 countries that already recognize same-sex couples for
immigration purposes.
Gay rights groups are encouraged that President Barack Obama has
signaled that he would like to include couples like Rickard and
Bogliolo in the bills.
"In many ways, the stars are aligning to move this forward as part
of a comprehensive bill,” said Steve Ralls, communications director for
the advocacy group Immigration Equality. “That's an opportunity we
didn"t have years ago.”
The provisions concerning same-sex couples are part of legislation
that would increase the number of visas provided to family members of
people already in the United States legally.
The long-standing fight over the country’s estimated 36,000 same sex
couples of two nationalities is a small but emotional part of the
debate over immigration reform. But including same-sex couples in the
mix could make it harder to pass an immigration overhaul.
A key ally in past immigration fights, the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops, said it would not support a measure that has a
same-sex provision.
Writing to Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., the organization said the
provision would “erode the institution of marriage and family by
according marriage-like immigration benefits to same sex relationships.”
Other groups say that it is often difficult to verify the validity
of same-sex relationships if one of the partners comes from a country
that does not recognize or document same-sex unions.
Honda, lead author of the “Reuniting Families Act,” credited
Rickard, one of his constituents, for bringing the issue to his
attention. Honda said his Japanese heritage contributed to his taking a
closer look at protecting same-sex couples through an overhaul of the
nation’s immigration law.
Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps during the fallout
from Pearl Harbor and redefined as persons of enemy alien ancestry,
Honda said.
“The lack of political leadership played a big part in what happened
to us,” Honda said. “And that’s true in almost every civil rights case.”
Another California resident, Shirley Tan, testified before the
Senate Judiciary Committee last month in favor of a comparable bill.
Tan has been in California since arriving on a visitor’s visa in
1989. She applied for asylum in 1995 because she was afraid of a cousin
in the Philippines who had killed her mother and sister and critically
wounded her.
She was unaware the petition had been denied until federal agents
took her away in handcuffs at the end of January. Democratic Sen.
Dianne Feinstein of California has since sponsored a bill that allows
Tan to stay in the U.S. until the current session of Congress ends in
late 2010.
“I have a partner who is a U.S. citizen, and two beautiful children
who are also U.S. citizens, but not one of them can petition for me to
remain in the United States with them,” Tan said.
The NAACP and the American Bar Association also spoke in favor of
including “permanent partners” as part of an immigration bill, saying
that current law amounts to discrimination.
Permanent partner is defined in proposed legislation as an
individual 18 or older who is “in a committed, intimate relationship
with another individual 18 or older in which both individuals intend a
lifelong commitment.”
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said he doubted the legislation would
pass this Congress. He said it amounts to a redefinition of marriage
and would give people more opportunities to come into the United States
fraudulently.
“It seems we would be creating a special preference and benefit for
a category of immigrants based on a relationship that’s not recognized
by federal law and overwhelmingly by most states,” Sessions said.
Rickard said she may reluctantly move to Great Britain or another
country when her partner’s current travel visa expires in November.
Bogliolo, however, said she would prefer to live in the U.S. for her
partner’s sake.
“Judy has elderly parents and family here and she’s also lived here
all her life whereas I’ve lived in many different countries,” Bogliolo
said. “I think Judy would find it very difficult after a whole life in
San Jose to move over to Europe, so I decided if at all possible that I
would move over here.”
(Kingston,
Jamaica) Even now, about three years after a near-fatal gay bashing,
Sherman gets jittery at dusk. On bad days, his blood quickens, his eyes
dart, and he seeks refuge indoors.
A group of men kicked him and slashed him with knives for being a
"batty boy” - a slang term for gay men - after he left a party before
dawn in October 2006. They sliced his throat, torso, and back, hissed
anti-gay epithets, and left him for dead on a Kingston corner.
"It gets like five, six o'clock, my heart begins to race. I just
need to go home, I start to get nervous,” said the 36-year-old outside
the secret office of Jamaica"s sole gay rights group. Like many other
gays, Sherman won't give his full name for fear of retribution.
Despite the easygoing image propagated by tourist boards, gays and
their advocates agree that Jamaica is by far the most hostile island
toward homosexuals in the already conservative Caribbean. They say
gays, especially those in poor communities, suffer frequent abuse. But
they have little recourse because of rampant anti-gay stigma and a
sodomy law banning sex between men in Jamaica and 10 other former
British colonies in the Caribbean.
It is impossible to say just how common gay bashing attacks like the
one against Sherman are in Jamaica - their tormentors are sometimes the
police themselves. But many homosexuals in Jamaica say homophobia is
pervasive across the sun-soaked island, from the pulpit to the floor of
the Parliament.
Hostility toward gays has reached such a level that four months ago,
gay advocates in New York City launched a short-lived boycott against
Jamaica at the site of the Stonewall Inn, where demonstrations launched
the gay-rights movement in 1969. In its 2008 report, the U.S. State
Department also notes that gays have faced death and arson threats, and
are hesitant to report incidents against them because of fear.
For gays, the reality of this enduring hostility is loneliness and fear, and sometimes even murder.
Andrew, a 36-year-old volunteer for an AIDS education program, said
he was driven from the island after his ex-lover was killed for being
gay - which police said was just a robbery gone wrong. He moved to the
U.K. for several years, but returned to Jamaica in 2008 for personal
reasons he declined to disclose.
“I"m living in fear on a day-to-day basis,” he said softly during a
recent interview in Kingston. “In the community where my ex-lover was
killed, people will say to me when I’m passing on the street, they will
make remarks like 'boom-boom-boom’ or 'batty boy fi dead.’ I don’t feel
free walking on the streets.”
Many in this highly Christian nation perceive homosexuality as a
sin, and insist violence against gays is blown out of proportion by gay
activists. Some say Jamaica tolerates homosexuality as long as it is
not advertised - a tropical version of former President Bill Clinton’s
“don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. military.
Jamaica’s most prominent evangelical pastor, Bishop Herro Blair,
said he sympathizes with those who face intolerance, but that
homosexuals themselves are actually behind most of the attacks reported
against them.
“Among themselves, homosexuals are extremely jealous,” said Blair
during a recent interview. “But some of them do cause a reaction by
their own behaviors, for, in many people’s opinions, homosexuality is
distasteful.”
Other church leaders have accused gays of flaunting their behavior
to “recruit” youngsters, or called for them to undergo “redemptive
work” to break free of their sexual orientation.
Perhaps playing to anti-gay constituents, politicians routinely rail
against homosexuals. During a parliamentary session in February,
lawmaker Ernest Smith of the ruling Jamaica Labor Party stressed that
gays were “brazen,” “abusive,” and “violent,” and expressed anxiety
that the police force was “overrun by homosexuals.”
A few weeks later, Prime Minister Bruce Golding described gay
advocates as “perhaps the most organized lobby in the world” and vowed
to keep Jamaica’s “buggery law” - punishable by 10 years - on the
books. During a BBC interview last year, Golding vowed to never allow
gays in his Cabinet.
The dread of homosexuality is so all-encompassing that many Jamaican
men refuse to get digital rectal examinations for prostate cancer, even
those whose disease is advanced, said Dr. Trevor Tulloch of St. Andrews
Hospital.
“Because it is a homophobic society, there’s such a fear of the
sexual implications of having the exam that men won’t seek out help,”
said Tulloch, adding Jamaica has a soaring rate of prostate cancer
because men won’t be screened.
The anti-gay sentiment on this island of 2.8 million has perhaps
become best known through Jamaican “dancehall,” a rap-reggae music
hybrid that often has raunchy, violent themes. Some reggae rappers,
including Bounty Killer and Elephant Man, depend on gay-bashing songs
to rouse concert-goers.
“It stirs up the crowd to a degree that many performers feel they
have to come up with an anti-gay song to incite the audience,” said
Barry Chevannes, a professor of social anthropology at the University
of the West Indies.
Brooklyn-based writer Staceyann Chin, a lesbian who fled her
Caribbean homeland for New York more than a decade ago, stressed that
violence in Jamaica is high - there were 1,611 killings last year,
about 10 times more than the U.S. rate relative to population - but
that it is “extraordinarily” high against gays.
“The macho ideal is celebrated, praised in Jamaica, while
homosexuality is paralleled with pedophilia, rapists,” Chin said.
“Markers that other people perceive as gay - they walk a certain way,
wear tight pants, or are overly friendly with a male friend - make them
targets. It’s a little pressure cooker waiting to pop.”
In 1996, when she was 20, Chin came out as lesbian on the Kingston
UWI campus. She said she was ostracized by her peers, and one day was
herded into a campus bathroom by a group of male students, who ripped
off her clothes and sexually assaulted her.
“They told me what God wanted from me, that God made women to enjoy
sex with men,” recalled Chin, a poet, performer and lecturer who closes
her just-published memoir “The Other Side of Paradise” with her searing
account of the attack.
Even in New York City, anti-gay Jamaican bigots sent her hate-filled
e-mails after a 2007 appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s TV talk show to
discuss homosexuality.
Chin said she doesn’t know if she would have the courage to come out now as a lesbian in Jamaica.
“The tensions are higher now. People are feeling very much that they have to declare camps,” she said.
Jamaican nationalism has always been tied in deeply with bugbears
about masculinity, making for a “potent brew” where those who violate
accepted standards of manliness are easy targets, said Scott Long of
Human Rights Watch.
Long, head of a gay rights program at the New York-based group,
pointed out that most other English-speaking islands in the region have
tiny populations, where gays don’t come out and visible activism is
limited.
“(But) what stands out about Jamaica is how absolutely,
head-in-the-sand unwilling the authorities have been for years to
acknowledge or address homophobic violence,” he said. “Most notably,
three successive governments have completely, utterly, publicly refused
even to talk about changing the buggery law - which expressly consigns
gay people to second-class citizens and paints targets on their backs.”
Prominent Jamaican political activist Yvonne McCalla Sobers noted
that social standing still protects gay islanders, especially in
Kingston, where a quest for privacy and the fear of crime has driven
many to live behind gated walls with key pad entry systems, 24-hour
security and closed-circuit television monitoring. People with power
and money who are not obviously gay are often protected, she said.
“My thought is there are far more men having sex with men in this country than you would ever think is happening,” Sobers said.
Many gays from poorer areas in Jamaica say they congregate in
private to find safety and companionship. Once a month, they have
underground church services at revolving locations across the island.
Sherman, meanwhile, is simply trying to move on with his life. But
he said he will always remember how, after his attack, patrolmen
roughly lifted his bloodied body out of their squad car when a man
admonished them for aiding a “batty boy.” A woman shamed them into
driving him to a hospital; they stuffed him in the car’s trunk.
“Being gay in Jamaica, it’s like, don’t tell anybody. Just keep it to yourself,” he said evenly, with a half smile.
Report: Iranian Militias Marry, Rape Virgin Prisoners Before Executions
Monday , July 20, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran —
Members of Iran's feared Basij militia forcibly marry female virgin prisoners the night before scheduled executions, raping their new "wives" and making it religiously acceptable to execute them, a self-professed member of the paramilitary group said.
The anonymous militiaman told the Jerusalem Post that at age 18 he was "given the 'honor' to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death."
In the Islamic Republic of Iran it is illegal to execute a woman if she is a virgin, the former guard told the newspaper. So the government arranges "wedding" ceremonies to be conducted the night before executions, and prisoners are forced to have sexual intercourse with a guard.
Raped by her new "husband," a female prisoner is now fit to be put to death.
"I regret that, even though the marriages were legal," said the militiaman, who told the Jerusalem Post he had just been released from prison himself after freeing two teenagers rounded up during post-election protests.
Some of the prisoners in his care were drugged with sleeping pills to make them docile, as the girls in their custody always fought back, he said, fearing the night of the rape more deeply than their executions the following day.
"I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over," he told the paper. "I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her."
We now have
the secrets to optimal sex. It doesn’t involve Viagra, sex toys, rock
hard erections, having the perfect body, or a particular position,
technique or novelty.
That’s right — you don’t have to shake up your routine, buy another
vibrating gadget, lose weight, pop a pill, or master Kama Sutra-style
sexual gymnastics for spectacular sex.
Knowing what constitutes super sex is the first step in realizing
it. It turns out we may have a lot to learn from our elders when it
comes to the most satisfying sex. Those who have been “doing it” for a
quarter century or more hold the eight keys to realizing memorable,
fulfilling, amazing sex.
Recent research in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
found that the best sex comes with relationships as they become more
mature. Participants, namely married couples over the age 60, reported
the following components as significantly contributing to rock star sex:
1. Being present, focused and embodied.
Reported more than any other factor is the need for lovers to be
completely absorbed in the moment, feeling completely merged in one
another.
2. Connection, alignment and being in sync. The depth of connection is critical to the experience, with lovers becoming one and synchronous as their energies align.
3. Deep sexual and erotic intimacy. With
intimacy the foundation of the relationship, the components of intimacy
lend themselves to optimal sex. These include caring, deep mutual
respect, admiration, and true acceptance of one another.
4. Extraordinary communication and heightened empathy.
Lovers realizing optimal sex are able to read their partner’s bodily
responses, truly feeling them. They also listen in both verbal and
non-verbal ways, picking up on little things and being sensitive in
every way.
5. Authenticity, being genuine and uninhibited, transparency.
Participants reported the ability to become emotionally naked, share
freely, and feel unselfconscious with their lover as critical to having
better sex.
6. Vulnerability and surrender. Lovers
have a willingness to expose themselves, to truly be seen. In putting
themselves in another’s hands, they relinquish themselves, ultimately
penetrating each other’s souls.
7. Bliss, transformation and healing. Optimal sex is an exalted, soulful, timeless state of awe and ecstasy.
8. Exploration, interpersonal risk-taking and fun.
Sex is an adventure, with lovers becoming explorers as lovemaking
becomes one of discovery. Such is complemented by unleashing one’s
sense of humor and laughter.
So what does all of this mean?
— Despite reaching climax, you could still be having lousy sex. You can, on the other hand, have exceptional sex without orgasm.
— Sexual ecstasy is not about physiological functioning or technical
talent. It’s about feeling fully alive and in the moment — mind, body,
and soul.
— Sex gets better with sexual experience and knowing your partner,
with the most desirable sex coming from within and, yes, even with age.
— You can still have optimal sex despite being elderly, chronically ill or disabled.
— Optimal sex is how you define it, with your mind set and intent important in becoming sexually gratified.
Researchers further noted that better sex comes with slower, less
goal-oriented lovemaking, sex that isn’t all about “achieving” orgasm.
Contrary to popular messages in the media, you can be mechanically
skilled and sexually functioning, but not necessarily having super sex.
While we’ve been told that “optimal” sex involves reaching a state
of sexual perfection, it’s actually a sexual experience different from
your average, positive sexual liaison. Yet the unrealistic expectations
we’ve been spoon-fed around factors like technique are trumping many
lovers’ efforts.
If you buy into magazine headlines and articles promising quick
fixes and maximum results, you will ultimately feel anxiety, shame,
guilt, and insecurity in being unable to have the type of stellar sex
you are “supposed” to be having.
As the study’s researchers wrote, those with fulfilling sex lives
“have learned to ignore conventional performance expectations in order
to listen to and take responsibility for their own hearts’ desires.” If
you want satisfying sex, make sure that “those” includes you.
Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright is a sex educator, relationship expert, columnist and founder ofSexuality Source Inc. She is the author of several books including, "Touch Me There! A Hands-On Guide to Your Orgasmic Hot Spots."
'Burn Notice' Star Jeffrey Donovan Arrested, Suspected of DUI
Monday , July 20, 2009
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. —
Miami Beach police say they arrested "Burn Notice" star Jeffrey Donovan on suspicion of drunken driving.
The arrest report says an officer pulled Donovan over on July 12
after noticing that he swerved his car to avoid hitting the police car
from behind. When the officer approached Donovan, he reported that the
actor's eyes appeared bloodshot and watery.
The actor of the popular USA Network series was arrested after
failing a field sobriety test. The arrest report says Donovan refused
to take a breathalyzer test.
The 41-year-old actor, who worked alongside actress Angelina Jolie
in the 2008 film, "Changeling," was released several hours later on
$1,000 bail.
His publicist declined to comment, and a phone message left with a network spokeswoman was not immediately returned.
NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama on Thursday traced his historic rise to power to the vigor and valor of black civil rights leaders, telling a prominent black organization that their sacrifice "began the journey that has led me here." America's first black president bluntly warned, though, that racial barriers persist.
"Make no mistake: The pain of discrimination is still felt in America," the president said in honoring the organization's 100th convention.
Rousing up his audience, Obama offered his most direct speech on race since winning the White House, a mix of personal reflection and policy promotion. He worked on it for about two weeks and revised it until shortly before he spoke, his aides said, underscoring the importance of his message and his audience.
"No one has written your destiny for you," he said to "all the other Barack Obamas out there" who could one day grow up to be president. "Your destiny is in your hands, and don't you forget that. That's what we have to teach all of our children! No excuses! No excuses!"
Obama told parents to take a more active role, students to aspire beyond basketball stars and rappers, and residents to pay better attention to their schools.
"I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers," Obama said. "I want them aspiring to be a Supreme Court justice. I want them aspiring to be president of the United States."
With that line, Obama drove the hotel ballroom audience to its feet.
To bolster his arguments, Obama cited his own biography, growing up with a single mother.
"I know what can happen to a child who doesn't have that chance," Obama said. "But I also know what can happen to a child who does. I was raised by a single mom. I don't come from a lot of wealth. I got into my share of trouble as a child. My life could easily have taken a turn for the worse. When I drive through Harlem or I drive through the South Side of Chicago, when I see young men on the corners, I say, 'There but for the grace of God go I."'
Despite the racial progress exemplified by his own election, Obama said African-Americans must overcome a disproportionate share of struggles, including being more likely to suffer from many diseases and having a higher proportion of children end up in jail.
Implicit in his appearance: He is seeking the backing of the powerful National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its members for his ambitious domestic agenda.
Painting himself as the beneficiary of the NAACP's work, Obama cited historical black figures from W.E.B. DuBois to Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr. to Emmet Till, to explain how the path to the presidency was cleared by visionaries.
"These are some of the barriers of our time," Obama said. "They're very different from the barriers faced by earlier generations. They're very different from the ones faced when fire hoses and dogs were being turned on young marchers," Obama said. "But what's required to overcome today's barriers is the same as what was needed then. The same commitment. The same sense of urgency."
Obama's remarks, steeped in his personal biography as the son of a white mother from Kansas and black father from Kenya, challenged the audience -- those in the room and those beyond -- to take greater responsibility for their own future.
Throughout his comments, Obama sought a balance, contending that the government must foster equality but individuals must take charge of their own lives.
The key to success, Obama said, is improving education for all. Citing school segregation and the fight that was waged both on school steps and in courthouses, he said the condition of schools is an American problem, not an African-American one.
"There's a reason Thurgood Marshall took up the cause of Linda Brown. There's a reason the Little Rock Nine defied a governor and a mob," Obama said. "It's because there is no stronger weapon against inequality and no better path to opportunity than an education that can unlock a child's God-given potential."
Unlocking that potential, though, means both acknowledging the challenges facing black youth and then finding a solution to problems that are the legacy of decades of institutionalized discrimination.
"We have to say to our children, `Yes, if you're African-American, the odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are higher. Yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that somebody in a wealthy suburb does not have to face," Obama said, returning to his tough-love message familiar from his two-year presidential campaign.
"But that's not a reason to get bad grades, that's not a reason to cut class, that's not a reason to give up on your education and drop out of school," he said. "No one has written your destiny for you. Your destiny is in your hands."
NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous described Obama's speech as "pitch-perfect," praising him for talking about the racial disparities that still exist in areas like education and in incarceration.
"This evening is an affirmation of all the work that we've done for a century," Jealous said. "It's also an affirmation of all the work that we're doing right now."
Obama expanded his message of equal rights beyond the black communities. He said many Americans still face discrimination and suggested that the NAACP -- in search of a mission for its second century -- might embrace a broader mandate in coming years.
Today, Obama said, it is not prejudice or discrimination that presents the greatest obstacles for blacks, but rather structural inequities-- in areas such as education and health care. Still, though, he said discrimination persists -- and not just for blacks -- and he chided those who may contend otherwise.
A 9-year-old girl was considered too young to answer the office phone at evangelist Tony Alamo's compound, but old enough for frequent sex with the ministry leader, she alleged at his federal trial on child-sex charges.
The woman, now 18, testified that she dodged security cameras and roving guards to escape the compound in 2006. Her testimony left jurors red-eyed and shaking their heads Thursday.
She is set to return to the witness stand Friday to be cross-examined by Alamo's defense team.
Alamo, 74, is named in a 10-count indictment alleging he took young girls across state lines for sex. His lawyers say the girls were moved so they could do legitimate ministry work, and claim the government has targeted him. He has pleaded not guilty.
Defense lawyers have largely left the sex and underage marriage claims unchallenged, though they have questioned witnesses' memories and whether they had been coached by authorities.
The teenage witness said Alamo "married" her when she was 8, and groped her after their wedding. She said he began having sex with her when she was a 9-year-old third-grader. He also took explicit photographs of her that year with an instant camera and, upon looking at them, called her a "whore." She said she didn't understand, but Alamo told her it was a good thing.
She said at one point she asked the minister why he had selected her.
"He said, `Because you were cute,"' she said on the witness stand. "It wasn't God's will that he married me. It's just because he thought I was cute."
The Associated Press isn't naming the woman because it generally does not identify those who say they were victims of sex crimes.
The woman described two trips to her parents' home in Oklahoma that ended when Alamo summoned her back to his Arkansas compound for sex. Those trips are mentioned in the indictment.
The woman told jurors she did some filing for the ministry early on, but that she wasn't allowed to answer the phone.
"I was too young," she said.
Her testimony came after another former underage bride said she "married" Alamo at age 14 through hurried whispers during visiting hours at a federal prison where he was serving time for tax evasion. Alamo's other wives served as lookouts.
"We would lean in really close to each other so the camera wouldn't see," she said, crying.
A Florida woman who testified against Alamo on Wednesday said she was "married" to him at age 15 and raised objections to Alamo taking an 8-year-old as a bride. A woman from Texas told jurors the minister made light of taking a young girl on the road as a wife and sex partner.
"It was flaunting that he could get away with this," she said.
If convicted, Alamo faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each of the 10 counts against him. He is being held without bond.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police stepped up security at major New York hotels on Friday after bombs ripped through two luxury hotels in Jakarta, killing eight people in the Indonesian capital, authorities said.
"There's no information of a similar threat to New York, but it's our standard practice now to take such precautions," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement.
New York -- home to Wall Street, the Broadway theater district and other attractions that draw millions of tourists and businesspeople every year -- has been highly attuned to security threats since the September 11 attacks in 2001 that killed 2,749 people at the World Trade Center site.
Police spokesman Paul Browne said extra squad cars and officers had surrounded large hotels in New York within half an hour of the Jakarta bombings.
Suicide bombers struck at the JW Marriott hotel and the nearby Ritz-Carlton in Jakarta. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the bombings were the act of a terrorist group bent on damaging the country.
(Reporting by Christine Kearney; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and John O'Callaghan)
Mischa Barton — the formerly willowy star of "The O.C." — was taken away by police and hospitalized under California's involuntary psychiatric-hold law just hours before she was due to fly to New York for the premiere of her movie, "Homecoming."
Cops took her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was hospitalized under Section 5150 of the California Welfare & Institutions Code, which allows authorities to hold a person for up to 72 hours if they present a danger to themselves or to others.
Barton, 23, looked bloated and almost unrecognizable at a public appearance last week, which her reps blamed on the removal of a wisdom tooth.
The once-scary-skinny starlet was arrested for DUI and marijuana possession in LA after driving in two lanes during a break from the movie's location work in Pittsburgh last year. She later checked into rehab.
Page Six reported that Barton would attend the premiere after we'd been assured by publicist R. Couri Hay that producers "Bingo [Gubelmann] and Austin [Stark] are hand-holding her from 4:30 to the premiere and through to the after-party at Pink Elephant, as she realizes the film is important to her."
Stark said, "She was really professional and worked hard. It's a shame she can't come out and promote the movie. She did a great job."
Barton's publicist told People, "Police were involved due to Ms. Barton's celebrity status to safely transfer her to medical treatment as per doctor's orders." The rep said Barton was now "OK" and "resting."
The Episcopal Church, casting aside warnings about further alienating conservatives within its ranks, on Tuesday lifted a de facto ban on the ordination of gay bishops and is continuing to weigh a measure that would sanction blessings for same-sex couples.
Bishops, clergy and lay leaders voted overwhelmingly at the denomination's General Convention in Anaheim to open "any ordained ministry" to gays and lesbians.
The liberalized policy represents a reversal from guidelines adopted by the church at its last convention in 2006 that effectively prohibited the consecration of bishops whose "manner of life" would strain relations with the 77-million member Anglican Communion. The Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch of the communion.
The new approach is likely to deepen theological fissures that led some traditionalist Episcopal congregations and dioceses last month to form a rival church. And it is almost certain to trigger a backlash among conservative Anglican leaders who have urged the U.S. church to refrain from relaxing ordination and marriage standards.
But progressives in the 2.1-million member denomination said the move toward inclusion reflects the reality of a church that is home to many partnered gays and lesbians who belong to parishes that encourage their involvement and already bless their unions.
"Being an Episcopalian means you can disagree and still worship together," said the Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles. "We're going to leave the door open for all those who disagree with us to find a place here and peace here."
Tensions have been mounting since 2003, when a partnered gay priest, V. Gene Robinson, was consecrated as bishop of New Hampshire. Several conservative Anglican leaders, especially in Africa, cut ties to the U.S. church after his election.
The spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, had expressed apprehension during a brief visit to the conference last week about decisions "that could push us further apart."
On Tuesday, an elated Robinson celebrated the lopsided vote in the church's two legislative bodies -- the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies, composed of clergy and laity.
"I'm simply delighted at the possibility that another diocese will recognize the gifts of a gay or lesbian clergy person," he said. "I long for the day when someone who shares my experience as an openly gay bishop joins me in the House of Bishops. It has been lonely."
But a bishop who left the church last year predicted that the decisions made in Anaheim would increase strains with disaffected conservatives.
"Clearly the activists have done a good job promoting their agenda," said the Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, a founding bishop of the newly formed Anglican Church in North America, which hopes to gain recognition from the Anglican Communion as a rival province to the Episcopal Church.
"The generosity shown by the rest of the communion has been astonishing and has been thrown back in their face," Minns said. "There will have to be a renegotiation of how the Episcopal Church fits into the family."
The measure to consecrate gay bishops won the support of more than two-thirds of the denomination's two legislative houses. The church's presiding bishop, the Most. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, also supported it.
The resolution seeks to reassure Anglican leaders about the U.S. church's loyalty, saying that the convention reaffirms its "abiding commitment" and financial support for the communion.
But the measure also affirms that "God has called" gays and lesbians in partnered relationships to "any ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church," adding that the call "is a mystery which the church attempts to discern for all people."
Church leaders said the new policy does not repeal the 3-year-old moratorium but instead calls for Episcopal officials to abide by church canons, which prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Debate on a separate measure concerning blessings for same-sex unions is expected today in the House of Bishops, which postponed a vote Tuesday after members asked for more time to discuss the issue.
The measure would allow bishops to "provide generous pastoral response" to gay and lesbian couples, but it would not require those who object to deliver the blessings. Several bishops and lay leaders said they expected a compromise that would permit blessings.
The Rev. Susan Russell, president of Integrity USA, a group that represents gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in the church, said the Anaheim convention would send a message to the global communion that the church is "committed to both honesty and unity."
But Russell acknowledged the potential for continued conflict.
"There are absolutely challenges," she said. "There is no attempting to skirt the fact that what we are doing is stepping beyond where many in the communion would prefer we go."
A Spanish woman believed to have become the world's oldest new mother when she gave birth at age 66 has died, leaving behind twin toddlers, newspapers reported Tuesday.
Maria del Carmen Bousada, who reportedly died Saturday at age 69, gave birth in December 2006 as a single mother after getting in vitro fertilization treatment.
She told an interviewer she lied to a California fertility about her age, and maintained that because her mother had lived to be 101, she had a good chance of living long enough to raise a child.
Bousada's death was reported by the newspaper El Mundo and Diario de Cadiz. Cadiz is the southern province where Bousada lived her whole life.
Diario de Cadiz quoted her brother, Ricardo Bousada, as confirming her death but refusing to disclose the cause. The newspaper said she had been diagnosed with a tumor shortly after giving.
There was no word on who would raise the children, named Pau and Christian. Bousada had once said she would look for a younger man to help her raise them.
In January 2007, she told the British tabloid News of the World that she sold her house to raise $59,000 to pay for the in vitro fertilization.
"I think everyone should become a mother at the right time for them," Bousada said in a video of the interview provided to Associated Press Television News.
"Often circumstances put you between a rock and a hard place, and maybe things shouldn't have been done in the way they were done, but that was the only way to achieve the thing I had always dreamed of, and I did it," she said.
The retired department store employee said she told the Pacific Fertility in Los Angeles that she was 55 -- the clinic's cut-off for treating single women. She said the clinic did not ask her for identification.
Bousada lived with her mother most of her life in Cadiz. She hatched her plan to have children after her mother died in 2005, she said, initially keeping her plan secret from her family. When she finally told them she was two months pregnant, they thought she was joking.
"Yes, I am old of course, but if I live as long as my mom did, imagine, I could even have grandchildren," she said in the video.
In Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), the United States Supreme Court held, in a unanimous 8-0 decision (Justice Kennedy took no part in the consideration or decision of the case), that the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee prohibits awarding damages to public figures to compensate for emotional distress intentionally inflicted upon them.
Thus, Hustler magazine's parody of Jerry Falwell was deemed to be within the law, leading to a reversal of the jury verdict in favor of Falwell, who had previously been awarded $150,000 in damages by a lower court.
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PHOENIX - A day after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill putting
restrictions on abortions, Planned Parenthood is taking action.
The new bill requires women to wait 24 hours before getting an
abortion, puts tougher parental controls on teens wanting to end
pregnancy and gives the ability for health care providers to deny
emergency contraception on religious or moral grounds.
Carol Bafaloukos, with Planned Parenthood, says they're fighting back.
"We're still strategizing with our Planned Parenthood Federation
of America," Bafaloukos told KTAR. "But, we are very dedicated to
assisting women."
She went on to say this bill is frustrating and puts up barriers for women.
"It really takes us backwards," Bafaloukos said. "Women are
confronted with very difficult decisions very often and to further put
up barriers for them to make their own decisions is very frustrating."
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Woman Found in Home With Bodies of 4 Kids Faces Murder Charges
Thursday , January 10, 2008
Fox News
WASHINGTON —
A woman found in her
home with the decomposing bodies of four girls faces murder charges,
and authorities believe she is their mother, officials said Thursday.
Banita Jacks, 33, was expected to appear Thursday in D.C. Superior Court, where the charges will be presented, prosecutors said.
"We are working on the assumption that these are her four children," police Chief Cathy Lanier said at a news conference.
The bodies of the girls — ages 5, 6, 11 and 17 — were found
Wednesday when deputy U.S. marshals served an eviction notice at the
apartment. Medical examiner Dr. Marie-Lydie Pierre-Louis said the
bodies were likely there more than 15 days, "based on the insects that
were found there."
Jacks, who faces four counts of felony murder, could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.
"I don't think anyone in the city can remember a case involving this
many young people who have died in such a tragic way," Mayor Adrian M.
Fenty said.
How the girls died remained under investigation, but Pierre-Louis
said it appeared the oldest child might have been stabbed in the
abdomen. The other three children might have been poisoned or
asphyxiated, she said. The medical examiner's office was trying to
identify the girls using dental records or DNA.
Lloyd Nolan Jr., an attorney listed at the courthouse for Jacks, did
not immediately return a telephone call from The Associated Press
seeking comment.
The home where the bodies were found is in one of the city's
poorest, most violent neighborhoods. The block is lined by virtually
identical apartment houses near Bolling Air Force Base. About one-third
of the city's homicides last year occurred in the area, according to
preliminary police statistics.
City officials were scrambling to understand how four children could
have been dead for at least two weeks without anyone knowing.
The mayor said Thursday that officials were working to determine what other contacts city agencies had with the family.
"We are going to investigate every single contact that this family
has had with the government, with people who are paid to look out for
the welfare of children, and we will come back with a full report,"
Fenty said.
Mindy Good, a spokeswoman for the D.C. Child and Family Services
agency, said Wednesday that the agency had received one report about a
family at that address in April through the city's child abuse and
neglect reporting hot line.
"We made several attempts to make contact with these people. We were
unable to have any face-to-face contact with them," Good said. "On the
last attempt (in early May), it appeared they were no longer living at
the address."
Good said investigators later found a new address for the family in
Maryland and alerted county authorities there of the report on the
family. She would not say where the family was believed to be living.
Nona Richardson, a spokeswoman for the D.C. Public Charter School
Board, said Jacks' three younger daughters attended the Meridian Public
Charter School consistently until March 2, 2007.
When they stopped showing up, Richardson said the school immediately
tried to contact the mother by mail and telephone. Officials finally
went to the woman's home and the woman told a school official that she
wanted to withdraw the children and home-school them. They were
withdrawn on March 15, 2007.
None of the children thought to be living in the home was enrolled
in the public school system, said D.C. schools spokeswoman Mafara
Hobson. One child at that address had attended Stuart-Hobson Elementary
School but withdrew in 2006 as a fifth-grader, she said.
Fenty said Thursday that besides at least one contact with child
welfare officials, the family had at least one brush with D.C. police.
According to court records, Jacks was charged in January 2007 with
driving an unregistered vehicle. In February, she paid a $175 fine and
the case was dismissed.
Larry Jones, who lives next door, said a woman and two or three
children lived at the home but he had not seen them since the summer.
He said the children appeared healthy at the time.
Jones added that in recent months he has noticed a "strange odor"
coming through his vent. "We thought it was probably dead mice in the
vent or something," he said.
Resident Rowand Simpkins said her neighbors tend to keep to themselves and that she never saw the woman or children.
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A man was kidnapped, force-fed beer and then abandoned on a Utah roadside in a possible case of mistaken identity, police say.
The victim — whose name and age were not available — was found by a passer-by walking across Legacy Highway near Centerville at about 9 a.m. Saturday, the Deseret News reported.
The man said he had been kidnapped roughly three hours earlier, according to Salt Lake Police Sgt. Dennis McGowan.
The victim, who was not seriously injured, told police he parked his car near his home when two Spanish-speaking men dragged him out into the driveway, the newspaper reported.
He was then allegedly thrown into their red pickup truck, where he claims the men pulled a bag over his head, bound his hands and feet with a wire coat hanger and put a gun to his stomach.
"They told him this was their area and that he can't sell drugs here," McGowan told the Deseret News.
McGowan told the paper the kidnappers force-fed the man two cans of beer prior to throwing him out of the truck, probably in an attempt to pass him off as a drunk who concocted the abduction story.
Two empty beer cans and a mangled wire hanger found on the side of the highway seemed to confirm the victim's account, McGowan told the Deseret News.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama had just started a spirited defense of his economic stimulus plan on Monday when one of his teleprompter screens came loose, crashed to the floor and shattered into pieces.
The gadget's fall surprised Obama, who uses a teleprompter during most speeches and even brief remarks. The glass plate displaying his speech hit the floor in the auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a massive building within the White House compound.
"Oh, goodness," Obama said. "Sorry about that, guys."
The audience -- administration officials, mayors and urban policy experts -- laughed as Obama went back to his text. To finish his 11-minute remarks calling for a new policy toward the nation's cities and metropolitan areas, he used notes and the remaining teleprompter screen.
Obama has been criticized for relying too heavily on his teleprompter for routine remarks and the device has become jokingly known as "TOTUS."
Vice President Joe Biden recently suffered a similar mishap while delivering a speech in Colorado Springs, when a gust of wind blew one of the teleprompters he was using over.
Biden was acknowledging the thin air of the Colorado Mountains that United States Air Force cadets have to adapt and train in, when a loud crash was heard. He quickly ad-libbed that the air was not only thin but windy as well. His next remarks explained the noise.
"What am I gonna tell the President when I tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?" Biden said to audience laughter.
Luckily for Biden, one teleprompter was still standing and the mishap was near the end of his remarks.
It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie.
A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.
Robotic Technology Inc.'s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that's right, "EATR" — "can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable," reads the company's Web site.
That "biomass" and "other organically-based energy sources" wouldn't necessarily be limited to plant material — animal and human corpses contain plenty of energy, and they'd be plentiful in a war zone.
EATR will be powered by the Waste Heat Engine developed by Cyclone Power Technology of Pompano Beach, Fla., which uses an "external combustion chamber" burning up fuel to heat up water in a closed loop, generating electricity.
The advantages to the military are that the robot would be extremely flexible in fuel sources and could roam on its own for months, even years, without having to be refueled or serviced.
Upon the EATR platform, the Pentagon could build all sorts of things — a transport, an ambulance, a communications center, even a mobile gunship.
In press materials, Robotic Technology presents EATR as an essentially benign artificial creature that fills its belly through "foraging," despite the obvious military purpose.
A billboard proclaiming that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican has stirred a religious and political hornets' nest in Houston, where a church leader is trying to draw black voters into the Republican Party.
The jumbo-sized roadside ad made its contentious claim for about a week -- until a local black activist charged that the sign unjustly politicized King's legacy and was hurting his community by telling a "blatant lie."
"Martin Luther King may have very well believed in some of the Christian principles of the Republican Party, but Dr. Martin Luther King was not a Republican or a Democrat," said Quanell X, who heads the New Black Panther Party in Houston.
"Dr. King was bigger than a political party -- he was a humanitarian, and so to attach him exclusively to any party is to devalue his humanitarian global status," he said. "We were insulted ... by the billboard because it was a blatant lie."
King held great sway over black voters and carefully courted both Republicans and Democrats. He never officially endorsed a party or candidate.
But the founder of RagingRepublicans.org, the black conservative group that sponsored the sign, told FOXNews.com that the sign was designed to get blacks to rethink their political affiliation -- about 95 percent of blacks voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential elections -- and that this is just the beginning. He said a radio campaign that focuses on "the destructive nature of liberalism" is forthcoming.
"We think it's imperative that [the GOP] try and attract more people from the communities of color to vote their values -- to vote conservative," said Claver Kamau-Imani, who heads the Corinthian Christian Empowerment Church, a small house church in Houston.
What's more, he said, the sign is accurate.
Kimau-Imani told FOXNews.com that King's niece, the Rev. Alveda King, has long argued that her uncle was a Republican, though he acknowledged there was no documentation or voting record to prove it.
Those claims enraged Quanell X, who held a press conference late last week to rally against the sign and ended up in a shouting match over the legacy of the murdered civil rights icon.
The billboard, which Kamau-Imani says cost $3,000 to display for a month, came down shortly after Friday's press conference -- about 20 days ahead of schedule, a move Kamau-Imani attributed to the "spineless" response of the billboard company, SignAd.
"The simple fact is that the leader of the Black Panther Party here in Houston called a news conference and they spooked," he said.
Representatives for SignAd did not return requests for comment.
Quanell X told FOXNews.com he was pleased that he had succeeded in getting the billboard removed. He added that King would never have embraced the present-day GOP, which he said had "racist elements."
"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would not be with the party of Newt Gingrich, he would not be with the party of Sarah Palin, he would not be with the party of Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage or Sean Hannity," he said.
Representatives for the King family did not return requests for comment.
What went little noticed in the fray was the subtext on the billboard, which said that the Raging Republicans are committed to "leading America's 2nd emancipation."
Kamau-Imani told FOXNews.com that black voters feel that "your blackness, your street cred is tied up with whether you are a Democrat or not" -- a notion he said amounted to a kind of mental slavery that keeps blacks from speaking freely.
The president of the Houston branch of the NAACP said that the civil rights group does not wade into partisan politics, but seemed pleased that the sign had come down.
"The community has prevailed," said Carol Galloway, president of the organization's Houston branch.
Despite losing some of his investment in the billboard, Kimau-Imani told FOXNews.com he was happy with the effect of the sign.
"The billboard was simply something to get a conversation started, to make people think about their political affiliations," he said. "It appears we have achieved our goal."
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"I believe MLK was part of the GOP because the GOP was the first political party to let blacks vote. Without the GOP, Obama would have never become President of the USA. I wish Black can stop the BS and look ahead toward the future."
Dallas Police Scale Back Security for Home of Former President George W. Bush
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Dallas has scaled back some of the police protection it was providing at the home of former President George W. Bush — a cut some said was due to financial constraints.
The city has been struggling with a $190 million budget deficit.
Dallas-Fort Worth television station KTVT reports the three tactical officers assigned to rotating eight-hour shifts will no longer be on the street outside the former president's north Dallas home. The city would save about $300,000 a year with the change.
Officials said in early January that the cost of providing crowd and traffic control at Bush's new home could reach $1 million a year, the Dallas Morning News reported.
"We just had to cut it," the newspaper quoted one unnamed police official as saying. "We're about to layoff people."
But Police Chief David Kunkle told the Morning News that the department's decision on how to deploy police for security issues doesn't depend on the budget.
"From the time the president got here, we"ve been working with the Secret Service to determine what level of protection was appropriate," he said. "We always knew we would change and adapt."
A Secret Service statement said Dallas police will still be visible part of the former president's security.
Police officials told the Dallas Morning News that if the Secret Service needs their help, Dallas will supply additional police presence as needed.
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BOSTON (Reuters) - Massachusetts' attorney general filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against the U.S. government that seeks federal marriage benefits for about 16,000 gay and lesbian couples who have legally wed in Massachusetts.
The state is challenging the constitutionality of the federal 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, saying the law denies "essential rights and protections" to same-sex couples who have married since Massachusetts became the first state in the nation to legalize gay weddings in 2004.
The federal law interferes with the state's "sovereign authority to define and regulate marriage," according to the suit filed in federal court in Boston. It calls the law "overreaching and discriminatory."
The suit is the latest skirmish over gay marriage in the U.S. federal court system after handful of political filmmakers led by a Democratic consultant crafted a gay rights challenge in May that they hope will reach the U.S. Supreme Court.
It also follows a separate lawsuit filed by a group of married gay couples in Massachusetts in March that also challenged the same portion of the Defense of Marriage Act that defines marriage as a legal union between a man and a woman.
Although Massachusetts and five other U.S. states have authorized gay marriage, same-sex couples who are legally married in those states cannot access the federal protections and programs granted to straight married couples.
The Defense of Marriage Act, or DOMA, denies gay and lesbian couples access to more than 1,000 federal programs and legal protections, gay rights advocates say.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley, who filed the suit, cited several benefits denied gay couples, including federal income tax credits, employment and retirement benefits, health insurance coverage, and Social Security payments.
"We view all married persons equally," Coakley told a news conference.
Before 1996, states had the right to define marital status under state sovereignty, the suit said. Massachusetts wants the right to "define marriage within its own boundaries," it added, noting that this would not affect other states.
"In enacting DOMA, Congress overstepped its authority, undermined states' efforts to recognize marriages between same-sex couples, and codified an animus toward gay and lesbian people," the state's 32-page complaint said.
Forty-two U.S. states have laws explicitly prohibiting such marriages, including 29 with constitutional amendments restricting marriage to one man and one woman, according to the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocacy group.
A lesbian couple who were harassed by colleagues over their sexuality have won £22,000 in compensation.
Beth Moules and Sharleen Amos, who both worked as saleswomen at
Soundwell-based firm Aquatech Rainsoft, told an employment tribunal in
Bristol they had been ridiculed and humiliated by comments from
colleagues over their relationship.
Yesterday, they were awarded more than £22,000.
Moules won £7,142.30 for unfair dismissal, while Amos was awarded
£5,000 for unfair dismissal in line with an out-of-court settlement.
Each woman also won £5,000 for hurt feelings for discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation.
They alleged that one colleague, Peter Thoburn, had told staff they had
performed a threesome with sales manager Stephen Rosenthal, adding he
was "the meat sandwich between them".
It was also claimed that Mr Thoburn had said to another colleague: "I
don't know how they can do it … it's disgusting, I don't agree with it."
The tribunal heard that the couple's boss, Stephen Baker-Joy, had told
them to stop complaining because "lesbians had never and would never
suffer in the way that Jews had".
Days after they complained, Amos was fired and Moules resigned, claiming constructive dismissal. They have since split up.
A law allowing the recognition of gay marriages performed in other states came into effect in Washington DC on Tuesday.
It means that same-sex couples in the district who married in the
handful of US states which do allow the practice can now receive more
than 200 rights, benefits, and obligations associated with marriage
under DC law.
The law came into effect at 12.01am today, when a 30-day Congressional review ended.
It will recognise gay marriages that are conducted within Iowa,
Vermont, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Gay marriages have been banned
in California following the voter initiated Proposition 8 during the
Presidential election.
However, as with states in which gay marriage is legal, couples will
not be able to enjoy many of the 1,100 federal rights and benefits
given to straight married couples, due to the Defence of Marriage Act
(DOMA).
Enacted in 1996, DOMA allows states to reject gay marriages performed
in other states and bars gay couples from accessing federal benefits.
In June, President Barack Obama signed a memorandum to extend federal
benefits for partners to same-sex couples but critics have said the
move will not be permanent, won't include healthcare and will not be
applied to those serving in the military.
Ever since Cher’s daughter Chastity Bono — now Chaz Bono — announced she was beginning the process of becoming a man – many have wondered what exactly a sex change involves.
In order to get that answer, FOXNews.com talked to Dr. Marci Bowers, an internationally renowned surgeon who performs more than 200 gender-related surgeries a year at her clinic in Trinidad, Colo.
“There’s no one way to transition,” Bowers told FOXNews.com. “But generally a patient receives some type of psychological counseling in the beginning. Once they have therapy, they will then undergo a combination of hormone treatments — usually in conjunction with living in their desired gender role full-time for a year.”
Bono, 40, reportedly began taking hormones and living as a man shortly after his birthday in March, which means he still has a long road filled with many decisions ahead of him.
The fact is – female-to-male transition is not cut and dry. There are many options out there, according to Bowers.
“The one procedure that female-to-males usually do is the chest procedure or mastectomy,” she said. “It’s a surgery where their breasts are removed or modified in a way that gives them a male contour.”
Bowers estimates that the vast majority — around 90 percent — of female-to-male patients opt to get the chest surgery.
“And then some of the other surgeries they may choose may be a hysterectomy, and that might be more along the lines of like 50-to-50,” Bowers said. “And then even less commonly, genital surgery of some form is done.”
One procedure is phalloplasty, which involves the creation of a “sizable but largely non-functional” phallus, Bowers said.
“Some people also choose to have testicles implanted. Some choose to remove a part of the vagina, called a vaginectomy and then close the opening. But we’re seeing some people retain those parts and even use them for sexual gratification.”
The bottom-line, Bowers said, is that it’s all about personal choice.
“Like anything, there’s diversity in choices and in how people choose to express their gender,” she said. “So again, this is a choice. Some people want the vagina gone… they want testicles and they want a penis.”
In addition to phalloplasty, there’s an alternative procedure called a metoidioplasty.
“That’s where the clitoris is released and it grows in response to testosterone,” she said. “In essence, it becomes a small penis.”
Pluses and Minuses of Surgery
“I think the difficulty is in some of the surgical aspects,” Bowers said. “Each surgery has its drawbacks – but the surgery from female to male just isn’t perfect.”
On the other hand, Bowers said, female-to-male candidates are more socially acceptable at an early stage because they blend into society at a much quicker pace.
“Testosterone is enormously powerful,” she said. “Patients get chest hair, they get facial hair, they get male pattern hair recession and even balding in some cases. So socially they fit in immediately as men. Their voice drops… sometimes their feet grow… and they’re very much men in a short amount of time – a shockingly short amount of time.”
One message Bowers wants to get out is that the sex-change process goes far beyond surgery.
“Sometimes what people get hung up on is that it’s all about the surgery. And the fact is it’s really all about their gender role and how society perceives them. In fact, it’s estimated that 80 percent of transgender persons never undergo surgery.”
At her practice in Colorado, Bowers said she only sees the “crème de la crème” of people who can actually afford to go under the knife.
“It’s very expensive surgery that is not generally covered by insurance,” she said. “Some surgeries are very simple and can cost as little as $4,000. But I’ve heard of people spending anywhere from $80,000 to $100,000 for all sorts of surgical procedures. It’s highly variable.”
Bowers said she doesn’t think there is such a thing as a perfect candidate for surgery.
“Who are we to judge who is a perfect candidate?” she said. "I think if you feel it in your heart and soul and you feel it’s something you have to do…. then you have to do it.”
The Story of Dr. Marci Bowers
Bowers is not only a leading expert in the field of genital reassignment surgery -- or gender-confirming surgery, as she likes to call it -- but she was also a patient at one time.
“I had a very typical story,” she said. “I felt differently from a very early age and I largely hid things from my parents. I grew up in a small southern Wisconsin town in a very, very traditional family. My parents weren’t really aware until I was literally on the doorstep of transitioning.”
That was in 1996, when Dr. Mark Bowers was an accomplished obstetrician-gynecologist with a career spanning 20 years. He had been married for 11 years — a union that produced three children.
“Well, it was a bumpy road working through those details because it’s just a very awkward, inherently embarrassing disclosure to make,” she said. “It certainly took a lot of — I guess I’d call it careful negotiation.”
To this day, Bowers is still legally married and spends as much time as possible with her two daughters and son, who live in Seattle, Wash.
“We just have an interesting family and its sort of what I’d call it a 21st century family because it certainly is non-traditional,” she said. “But I think the lesson for any family is if you respect each other, find a way to love each other, you can really transcend things like this.”
Her Life in “The Sex Change Capital of the World”
After an extensive career in Washington, Bowers moved to Trinidad, Colo. — known as the sex change capital of the world — in 2003 to work side-by-side with renowned sexual reassignment surgeon Dr. Stanley Biber. Over a 30-year career, Biber, who died in 2006, performed more than 5,000 sex-change operations.
“I had actually been down there to visit him in 2000 because there were some people in Seattle who had worked for him,” Bowers said. “And they just said they had this amazing practice and I got the chance to meet with him and he said “we’re really looking for a surgeon and we’re hoping to recruit someone or have someone come,” and his idea was that I’d do obstetrics and then gradually take over the surgery division.”
Six months after she started working with Biber, Bowers did her first solo surgery, and she hasn’t looked back since. During her time in Trinidad, Bowers has performed more than 550 male-to-female surgeries and does an average of 220 gender-related surgeries every year.
“It just keeps unfolding and it’s been interesting the entire way,” she said. “I certainly don’t have any complaints. I’ve had an interesting life and it keeps getting more interesting, it seems.”
Although Bowers’ main focus is on gender reassignment surgeries, she is also working on several other projects to improve the health of people from all corners of the globe.
“We are the first center in North America actually that’s going be doing female genital mutilation reversal. We’ve now done two sets of patients from Africa — so that’s kind of the latest and greatest thing we’re up to,” she said.
Megan McCain really wants the Republican party to accept the GLBT community. I'm a Republican and a lesbian, why? Because I do believe in the freedom of this country, small government and fiscal responsibility.
I also feel, the Democratic party doesn't accept the GLBT community, as well. Think about, if the democratic party cared so much for our rights, we would have them by now.
Maine is Democratic and they are voting against gay marriage, so it takes a person not a party to stand up for rights.
Megan McCain is on a mission to accept the GLBT community into the Republican party. Little does she knows, they are already there.
Investigators in New York City raided circulation offices at some of the nation's largest newspapers Tuesday as part of a union corruption probe, a law enforcement official said.
Police officers working with the Manhattan district attorney's office searched circulation offices of The New York Times in Queens, the New York Post and the Daily News in Manhattan, and El Diario in Brooklyn, the official said, speaking to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.
Investigators were seeking paperwork related to the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers Union, which packages and delivers newspapers across the region.
Calls to the union's headquarters were not answered Tuesday. The news deliverers' parent union, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, referred inquiries to the local union.
The New York Times issued a statement saying that the office of an employee at its plant in Queens' College Point area had been searched but that its news side was not part of the investigation.
Rosana Rosado, publisher of El Diario-La Prensa, also said that the Spanish-language newspaper is not a subject of the investigation and that the search warrant was seeking information into allegations of corruption at the union.
Bob Leonard of Dan Klores Communications, speaking for the Daily News, declined to comment on the raid. A call to the Post was not returned.
The 1,600-member union wields considerable power over news companies that rely on their drivers to deliver hundreds of thousands of papers each day, and allegations of connections to organized crime are not new.
District Attorney Robert Morgenthau charged that the union was under mob control more than a decade ago, after an investigation that also involved a 1992 search of the Post and Daily News offices.
The probe led to criminal charges against union members including then-President Douglas LaChance, who authorities accused of being an associate of the Luchese crime family. He was acquitted in 1995 of strong-arming the Post into switching delivery companies.
The
New Face of Psychotic, Twisted, Gory,
Experimental Crafted Horror
Phoenix,
AZ (November 11,
2009)
- Aliya
Leigh,
is a hot sexy lesbian republican scriptwriter,blogger,
podcaster, voice over actress and author; who speaks her mind about
anything. Her
message comes from world events, her heart and life. She will make
you laugh, cry and be in shock. From titles like, “Drink Urine and
Lose Weight”, “We
Need Abortion”, and “Gay McCain”. With
a new film script, she
is the psychotic demented horror writer with a score to settle.
Aliya
Leigh is announcing her first major film script, called “I Love
You”. "I Love You", Brenda Lopez was raised by a mother who sold her to men, but found love when she met Alex. Zack tells his brother Alex his feelings towards Brenda; which starts a psychotic, twisted, graphic, gory experimental game of the mind and physical strength.
Will Brenda and Zack survive?
“People have described the script, as a bad acid trip without the acid,” Aliya Leigh says.
In
addition to writing horror scripts, she is looking to workfor
a film or television production companyor
studio, as a writer or editor, and looking for voice over work.
The
film script, “I Love You”, is ready to be sold to production
companies and studios.
About
Aliya Leigh
Aliya
Leigh is the host of a podcast called, “Lesbian Life”,
(http://aliyaleighlive.libsyn.com).
Since February 2008 to today, her listeners has grown from 500 to
40,000 downloads a day. With the success of “Lesbian Life”, she
started a weekly show based on fairy tales characters with attitude,
teenage problems and
lack of
common
sense called “Wonderland” (http://wonderland.podbean.com).
In “Wonderland”, she perform all the voices for the show, from
simple minded Alice to Deville the Prince of Darkness to Strawberry
Shortcake the Muslim. She is a contributing writer for Carpe Diem
Fashion Magazine. She has written books and treatments for
television. She also produces and workson
indie films around Arizona.
Aliya
Leigh performs community service around her community and a Trustee
on the National Writer’s Union board. She make appearances at
literary award shows, speaks at seminars about copyrighting and other
topics which plagues the writing world, and acts
as a fundraiser for causes.
In
her spare time, she plays video games, hang out with friends, travels
and plays
her violin. She is a member of Log Cabin (Republican group in the
LGBT community), ASCAP, National Writer’s Union and an
active
member of her church.
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Some of the most innovative, interesting, and, well, strange tech has nothing to do with computing monoliths like Google or Microsoft. And it's just around the corner.
Here's our list of the tech trends, products, and innovations that are available today — or coming online shortly — and how they'll affect your life next year.
1. You'll attend an online funeral Sites such as Otrib.com and Tributes.com let you leave a memorial to loved ones who have passed on. But some people are holding the funeral itself online, using webcasting services at sites such as Funeralrecording.com and Funeralone.com. This lets anyone attend, from anywhere.
Why the trend is important: Webcasting a funeral might sound morbid, but it means more people can share in the life of someone without the expense of travel.
2. You'll start life-casting
Given the confluence of ubiquitous cell phone use, high-speed 3G service, and a growing desire to connect with people in more tangible ways, life-casting has finally arrived. Services such as Qik.com let you stream a live video from your cell to the world without the usual video hiccups and complex setup.
Why the trend is important: YouTube videos are static. They capture a fleeting moment, but not as it happens in real-time. Life-casting is the true expression of our own self-worth (ahem).
3. Your body will control video games
Microsoft is championing a new Xbox controller: you. The technology, called Project Natal, lets you perform dance movies or kick a ball, while a camera tracks your movements using infrared and shows the results on screen. A microphone can also capture voice commands. Meanwhile, Sony has announced the PlayStation Motion Controller, a wand that helps accomplish the same you-as-the-controller goal.
Why the trend is important: It's about time someone invented a better way to shoot bad guys than the same joysticks and gamepads we've used for the last few decades.
4. You'll leave your tape measure at home
A new service called GeoEstimator uses satellites and aerial photographs to make roof measurements that are just as accurate as making the measurements in person. The service can help contractors, insurance companies, and estimators avoid crawling up on roofs.
Why the trend is important: Virtual measurements save time, sure, but they also pave the way for the further integration of satellite data in our lives, such as determining exact property boundaries.
5. You'll (finally) use a content aggregator
You probably already know about Digg.com and other services that help you find interesting stories and pictures. And plenty of sites — such as YouTube.com — let you share goofy videos. Toobla.com is different: It's an aggregator for videos, photos, documents and Web sites, so you can not only store videos and photos but share them online. It's also more visual than a storage service such as Box.net.
Why the trend is important: We're all inundated with too many digital files, and Toobla does a good job of making the storage more interesting and accessible for your friends and family members.
6. You'll burn your business cards
Salespeople hand them out at trade shows and they might help you win a free lunch. That's right: business cards just won't die. Several iPhone apps – such as Beezcard and SnapDat – allow you to share contact details, but not everyone has an iPhone. A Swiss company has made the PokenZoo, a cute, inexpensive device you touch to another Poken to swap contacts.
Why the trend is important: Saves paper, but also finally alleviates business workers from having to carry these annoying cards around whether they go.
7. You'll chat with faceless minions
One new trend regurgitates an age-old concept: On sites such as Omegle.com, you can chat with complete strangers. AOL has provided this capability for eons (isn't that what chat boards are all about?), but Omegle.com puts a random spin on it, pairing you safely and anonymously with an arbitrary total stranger. You can chat with some dude in Norway or Japan in less than 5 seconds.
Why the trend is important: Other than the fun factor, Omegle indicates the final piece in the globalization puzzle.
8. Your gadgets will have gadgets
Cell-phone boosters have become popular in the past few years, purporting to improve coverage and signal quality. Most have added, oh, one bar at most. The zBoost ONE (www.wi-ex.com) can boost your connection up three bars. The device is so innovative, it won a Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) award recently.
Why the trend is important: People in rural areas and deep within office complexes often can't participate in the mobile revolution. A booster makes high-speed access viable for everyone.
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Gay activists were frustrated that Obama, who insists he staunchly supports their overall civil rights agenda, didn't speak out forcefully in defense of Maine's marriage law before Tuesday's referendum.
SAN FRANCISCO - Stunned and angry, national gay rights leaders Wednesday blamed scare-mongering ads — and President Barack Obama's lack of engagement — for a bitter election setback in Maine that could alter the dynamics for both sides in the gay-marriage debate.
Conservatives, in contrast, celebrated Maine voters' rejection of a law that would have allowed gay couples to wed, depicting it as a warning shot that should deter politicians in other states from pushing for same-sex marriage.
"Every time the citizens have voted on marriage, they have always sided with natural marriage," said Mathew Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based Christian legal group. "Maine dramatically illustrates the will of the people, and politicians should wake up and listen."
Gay activists were frustrated that Obama, who insists he staunchly supports their overall civil rights agenda, didn't speak out forcefully in defense of Maine's marriage law before Tuesday's referendum. The law was repealed in a vote of 53 percent to 47 percent.
"President Obama missed an opportunity to state his position against these discriminatory attacks with the clarity and moral imperative that would have helped in this close fight," said Evan Wolfson of the national advocacy group Freedom to Marry. "The anti-gay forces are throwing millions of dollars into various unsubtle ads aimed at scaring people, so subtle statements from the White House are not enough."
The White House, asked about the criticism, had no immediate comment.
The marriage debate is simmering in at least a half-dozen states where a same-sex marriage bill is pending or where a court ruling or existing law is being eyed by conservatives for possible challenge.
Had Maine's law been upheld by voters, it would have become the sixth state to legalize gay marriage — and the first to affirm it by popular vote. In Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Iowa, gay marriage resulted from court decisions or legislation.
California is sure to be a major battleground over the next several years. Last year, conservatives succeeded in winning public approval of Proposition 8, which overturned a state court ruling allowing gay marriage. Gay rights groups want to take the issue back to the voters but are divided on a timetable.
In the aftermath of the Maine vote, some California activists appealed to their supporters for money to help them put a measure on the 2010 ballot. Other activist leaders want to wait until 2012.
"It's never too early to go back to right a fundamental wrong," said Chaz Lowe of Yes! on Equality, who favors shooting for 2010. "A lot of people are angry, a lot of people are upset. It at least has the potential to be a mobilization for the grass roots."
Some California activists said the outcome in Maine strengthened their belief that it will fall to the U.S. Supreme Court — not the voters — to make gay marriage legal. A federal lawsuit challenging Prop. 8 is scheduled to go to trial in January, the first step in a legal journey that is expected to reach the high court in a few years.
"The results in Maine underscore exactly why we are challenging California's same-sex marriage ban," said Chad Griffin, president of the American Foundation for Equal Rights, the Los Angeles group spearheading the lawsuit. "The U.S. Constitution guarantees equal rights to every American, and when those rights are violated, it is the role of our courts to protect us, regardless of what the polls say."
The situation elsewhere:
_ In New Jersey, the election Tuesday of Republican Chris Christie as governor puts extra pressure on gay rights supporters to win passage of a pending same-sex marriage bill before the legislative session ends in January. Christie says he would veto such a bill, while lame-duck Gov. Jon Corzine, a Democrat, says he would sign it.
_ In Iowa, where the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage last April, conservatives have no quick way to overturn the ruling. Their only option would be to amend the state constitution through a ballot measure — in 2014 at the earliest — and that effort would need approval from a legislature whose current Democratic leaders don't even want to debate the issue.
_ In New Hampshire, conservatives have filed legislation to repeal the state's new gay-marriage law and amend the constitution to ban such unions. Kevin Smith, executive director of the conservative Cornerstone Policy Research, said he doubts the measures will pass, but hopes the vote in Maine will give gay-marriage opponents ammunition for the 2010 elections.
"It gives us more fodder to go back to people and say, 'Look, they aren't letting you vote on it,'" Smith said.
_ In Washington, D.C., conservatives are trying to force a popular vote on a bill headed toward City Council approval that would legalize gay marriage. Michael Crawford, one of the leaders of the local pro-gay marriage campaign, said the result in Maine increased his determination to avoid a ballot measure.
"The same cabal of anti-gay groups who stripped away marriage equality from our families in California and Maine now have their sights on D.C.," he said.
Crawford was among numerous gay rights leaders complaining about the campaign tactics of the groups that opposed same-sex marriage in Maine and California.
In both states, California-based political strategist Frank Schubert oversaw an advertising campaign warning that "homosexual marriage" would be taught in public schools.
The campaign to defend gay marriage countered that Maine's state curriculum guidelines contain no reference to marriage, and the state's Democratic attorney general, Janet Mills, issued an opinion backing that up. But the ads continued.
"It is infuriating to see that the same fear-mongering ads that were used to pass Prop. 8 a year ago have triumphed again at the expense of so many," said Joe Solmonese of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national gay rights group.
Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, came away with a different message.
"Over and over again, the American people have affirmed marriage at the ballot box and turned aside the demands of a movement that remains largely driven by Hollywood, some extreme activists and a few activist judges," he said. "We hope the message sent by Maine's voters will be heard in Washington and state capitals around the nation."
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Despite the collective outings of Ellen DeGeneres, Elton John, Rosie
O'Donnell and Olympic diver Greg Louganis, homophobia is alive and well
-- especially in the small towns of the Deep South. Focusing on the
day-to-day struggles of two Mississippi gay bars and the grateful
patrons who often travel hundreds of miles to find them, filmmaker Malcolm Ingram reveals a surprisingly close community that treats its residents like family members.
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Spirit Journeys: Mystics & Muses
Friday & Saturday: December 11 & 12, 2009, 7:30 pm Faith Lutheran Church 801 E. Camelback, Phoenix
Sunday, December 13, 2009, 4:00pm Church of the Epiphany 2222 S. Price Road, Tempe
Join
us as we honor and celebrate the winter holidays of Chanukah,
Christmas, Kwanzaa and Winter Solstice. Our Spirit Journeys, both as a
society and individuals, often contain a dual nature: the more serious
spiritual element circumscribed in mystery and expressed through a
mystical nature, and the lighter side of the holidays, found in the
creative "imp.” Along with a performance of pieces from Benjamin
Brittain's Ceremony of Carols, we will also bring you an
arrangement of Silver Bells and a piece entitled Deck the Halls in 7/8,
which is a rhythmic version of the holiday classic.
**Faith Lutheran does not have accessible bathroom.
Exquisite Journey: Fierce Beauty
Friday & Saturday, March 12 & 13, 2010, 7:30 pm Faith Lutheran Church 801 E. Camelback, Phoenix
The
March concert is presented in honor of Women"s History Month and will
examine the journey of fear, chaos and even joy that comes with a life
threatening illness. Our desire is to present the intensity and
fierceness that the human spirit displays during these times. The
centerpiece of the concert will be Diane Benjamin’s Where I Live: A Breast Cancer Oratorio.
This sublime work brings together strings, percussion, choir, soloist
and narrator in a stunning musical/spoken word offering that leads us
through the uncertain journey of illness and recovery. The second half
of the concert offers music that will be a celebration of the
determination and resiliency of the human spirit. Plan now to be part
of this very moving event.
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Passionate Journeys: Passionate Kisses!
Friday & Saturday, June 11 & 12, 2010, 7:30 pm Faith Lutheran Church 801 E. Camelback, Phoenix
We
will close our season with our traditional concert about love and
relationships. With music that covers a multitude of genres, we will
present songs of love and relationships and the often ensuing chaos
each one brings. We
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Hello. This is Aliya Leigh. I, Aliya Leigh, is no longer with Empire Talent and Model Agency. We decided to part ways.
Empire Talent and Model Agency, I think, is fine for modeling because I do not have the knowledge on how they treat their models.
Me, personally, the agency does not have the resources and time for scriptwriters and authors. The owner of the agency told me, herself, she does not have the time to represent writers.
The owner is planning to be a producer of scripts and will require a producer fee first before shopping the script; which I do not agree with; which also made my decision simple.
I wish the agency love, happiness, harmony, peace, light and fortune.
Currently, I'm in the market to belong to an agency, who's trustworthy, honest, career-driven, hungry to make the next deal and willing work with a client to create more revenue.
My film script "I Love You", will be given to the highest bidder.
"I Love You", is about a sick, psychotic, twisted, suspenseful holiday love story thriller;
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When mild retarded Zack falls in love with his brother Alex's
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My email is aliyaleigh@gmail.com and my number is 520-405-2724
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A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.
Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.
"There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage," Bardwell said. "I think those children suffer and I won't help put them through it."
If he did an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said.
"I try to treat everyone equally," he said.
Bardwell estimates that he has refused to marry about four couples during his career, all in the past 2 1/2 years.
Beth Humphrey, 30, and 32-year-old Terence McKay, both of Hammond, say they will consult the U.S. Justice Department about filing a discrimination complaint.
Humphrey, an account manager for a marketing firm, said she and McKay, a welder, just returned to Louisiana. She plans to enroll in the University of New Orleans to pursue a masters degree in minority politics.
"That was one thing that made this so unbelievable," she said. "It's not something you expect in this day and age."
Humphrey said she called Bardwell on Oct. 6 to inquire about getting a marriage license signed. She says Bardwell's wife told her that Bardwell will not sign marriage licenses for interracial couples. Bardwell suggested the couple go to another justice of the peace in the parish who agreed to marry them.
"We are looking forward to having children," Humphrey said. "And all our friends and co-workers have been very supportive. Except for this, we're typical happy newlyweds."
"It is really astonishing and disappointing to see this come up in 2009," said American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana attorney Katie Schwartzmann. "The Supreme Court ruled as far back as 1963 that the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry."
The ACLU sent a letter to the Louisiana Judiciary Committee, which oversees the state justices of the peace, asking them to investigate Bardwell and recommending "the most severe sanctions available, because such blatant bigotry poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the administration of justice."
"He knew he was breaking the law, but continued to do it," Schwartzmann said.
According to the clerk of court's office, application for a marriage license must be made three days before the ceremony because there is a 72-hour waiting period. The applicants are asked if they have previously been married. If so, they must show how the marriage ended, such as divorce.
Other than that, all they need is a birth certificate and Social Security card.
The license fee is $35, and the license must be signed by a Louisiana minister, justice of the peace or judge. The original is returned to the clerk's office.
"I've been a justice of the peace for 34 years and I don't think I've mistreated anybody," Bardwell said. "I've made some mistakes, but you have too. I didn't tell this couple they couldn't get married. I just told them I wouldn't do it."
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Forget Sarah Palin. The maverick female of the Republican Party is Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe.
The 62-year-old, moderate Maine lawmaker announced Tuesday she will vote for a Democratic health care bill, breaking with her party and giving a major boost to President Barack Obama's goal of expanding coverage.
"When history calls, history calls," Snowe told her colleagues on the Senate Finance Committee, several hours into the debate.
Snowe had kept virtually all of Washington guessing how she would vote. She had not even let Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., in on her secret.
Then she captured all of Washington's attention.
"The status quo approach has produced one glaring common denominator, that is that we have a problem that is growing worse not better," she said in explaining her support for the bill.
While she described the legislation as flawed, she said it bolsters what works in the nation's health care system as well as trying to rein in the rising costs of health care.
Democrats, aware that Snowe could be the only Republican in Congress to vote for their health care overhaul, have spent months addressing her concerns about making it affordable and how to pay for it. Obama has sought her vote in phone calls and meetings.
Snowe made clear to her Democratic colleagues that her support could be a one-shot deal.
"My vote today is my vote today. It does not forecast my vote tomorrow," she said.
With her support, however, Democrats might have the 60th vote required to overcome Republican objections to the bill. Snowe's support would mean that the final version of the bill could _ technically _ be called bipartisan, a key tenet of Obama's agenda.
Snowe has broken with her party on several occasions.
Earlier this year, she was one of three Republicans who crossed party lines to vote for Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus bill. Before that, she defied then-President George W. Bush and voted for legislation he eventually vetoed _ but that later passed under Obama _ providing health care to millions of children.
Snowe also was one of the "Gang of 14" Democratic and Republican senators who resolved a standoff over judicial nominations.
In Maine, former Gov. Angus King, a political independent, compared Snowe's decision to the late Republican Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's "Declaration of Conscience" speech in which she called for the nation _ and her own party _ to reject McCarthyism.
"This is a vote of conscience and a vote of concern for her constituents and concern for the country. And I think it took plenty of courage. I don't think it's possible for any of us to fully appreciate the pressure she's under and has been under to vote with her Republican colleagues," King said. "The fact that she was willing to split with them, I think, is a real testament to her integrity."
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Associated Press writer David Sharp in Portland, Maine contributed to this report.
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PHOENIX - State employees in Arizona can take advantage of domestic-partner benefits for the next 12 months even though the Legislature's last budget took them away.
The Department of Administration says the benefit will be available until October 2010, because cutting it before then might put the state in violation of contract laws.
The benefit was to be cut off when the state's insurance plan began Oct. 1, but the budget won't take effect until nearly two months into the contract period.
An opinion by the Attorney General's Office concluded the benefit's elimination during this fiscal year would conflict with employees' expectations.
The administration of former Gov. Janet Napolitano created the benefit through a policy change and won its approval from a board.
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NEW YORK — New York City police say a 49-year-old gay man leaving a corner deli near his home was beaten by two men in an apparent hate crime.
Jack Price remains in a medically induced coma. He is in serious but stable condition.
Police say the two suspects taunted Price and yelled anti-gay slurs while he was in the store early Friday. They attacked him outside, not far from his home in the middle-class Queens neighborhood of College Point.
Twenty-six-year-old Daniel Aleman was arrested Sunday and charged with assault and aggravated assault as a hate crime. The name of his attorney was not on record.
A second suspect is being sought. The police department's Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating.
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Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been
honoring men and women from all corners of the globe
for outstanding achievements in physics, chemistry, medicine,
literature, and for work in peace.
The foundations for the prize were laid in 1895 when Alfred Nobel
wrote his last will, leaving much of his wealth to the establishment
of the Nobel Prize. But who was Alfred Nobel? Articles, photographs,
a slide show and poetry written by Nobel himself are presented here
to give a glimpse of a man whose varied interests are reflected in
the prize he established. Meet Alfred Nobel - scientist, inventor,
entrepreneur, author and pacifist.
Qualified Nominators
The right to submit proposals for the
Nobel Peace Prize shall, by statute, be enjoyed by:
1.
Members of national
assemblies and governments of states;
2.
Members of international
courts;
3.
University rectors;
professors of social sciences, history, philosophy, law and
theology; directors of peace research institutes and foreign
policy institutes;
4.
Persons who have been
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize;
5.
Board members of
organizations who have been awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize;
6.
Active and former members
of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (proposals by members of
the Committee to be submitted no later than at the first
meeting of the Committee after February 1) and
7.
Former advisers appointed
by the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
The Nobel Peace Prize may also be awarded
to institutions and associations.
Source: http://nobelprize.org
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1 and 1o Youth Services is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving and assisting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (lgbt) youth. We provide youth with a tools to improve self-esteem and acceptance of who they are,
The youth we work with range in age from 14 to 22. We create a safe space, mentally and physically, for youth of all socio-economic and cultural backgrounds. Our weekly discussion groups cover a wide range of social, educational, health, and community issues. Youth with particular needs have the option to speak with peers or volunteers one-on-one, in a supervised setting. We offer resources for healthy living and making healthy choices, as well as social networking opportunities appropriate for developing leadership skills and having fun.
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HCG
is an acronym for the hormone Human Chorio Gonadotropin, which is found
in both men and women, though pregnant women have the highest levels of
HCG in their bodies. HCG injections or supplements are typically given
to women who need help ovulating and to men who want to increase their
sperm count. A daily HCG injection is also one component of the
controversial HCG diet plan.
The HCG hormone can be made synthetically or extracted from a
pregnant woman's urine and then processed for use by other humans. The
HCG diet shots are said to benefit both men and women similarly, though
experts don't recommend that women get the injections if they are
already pregnant or nursing, and thus already have elevated HCG levels.
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Advocates
of the HCG diet believe that, by adhering to the diet plan and taking
daily injections of HCG, participants can successfully reach their
targeted weight. They say that dieters following the HCG diet should
expect to lose somewhere between a half pound and 3 pounds (.23 to 1.36
kilograms) each day on the low-calorie, high-fiber plan [source: HCG Diet Info].
The diet has its fair share of believers. After all, any eating plan
that consists of a mere 500 calories will most likely result in weight
loss. But, at the same time, some people have found that the injections
made no difference [source: Sylvester]. And the drug lacks substantial research, so exposing your body to such a restrictive diet may not be in your best interests.
To know if the HCG diet is right for you, be sure to read about
the specifics of the plan and the possible dangers. Check out the next
page for information on the day-to-day dieting plan.
HCG Diet Plan
Long Time Coming
HCG diet ideas have been around since the early 1950s, which is when
Dr. ATW Simeons presented the diet plan to the public [source: HCG Weight Loss].
Shifting
into the HCG diet is likely to be quite a lifestyle change.
Participants are required to cut their caloric intake to roughly 500
calories and take a daily injection of HCG hormones. More water,
vegetables and fiber in the daily meal plan is said to accelerate the
weight loss [source: HCG Weight Loss].
There is no established exercise regimen, and the duration of the diet
is up to the individual, as the plan dictates that the rules be
followed until the target goal is reached.
The original HCG diet plan is quite restrictive and particular. For
breakfast, you can have only tea or coffee without sugar. The diet puts
a one-tablespoon limit on how much milk you can consume each day, so if
you require milk with your coffee and tea, you'll want to keep this in
mind. For lunch and dinner, you can cook 100 grams (.22 pounds) of lean
meat or seafood and pair it with one vegetable from this list of 13:
asparagus, beet greens, cabbage, celery, chard, chicory, cucumbers,
fennel, green salad, onions, red radishes, spinach and tomatoes. For
lunch and dinner, you can eat one toast cracker and an orange, apple,
half a grapefruit or strawberries [source: Goldsmith].
Advocates of the HCG Diet say that combining the extremely
low-calorie diet with the HCG hormone injections will lead to immediate
weight loss without the common side effects of many restrictive diets,
such as hunger pains, headaches and nausea. They believe that because
the HCG injections burn fat, the hormone provides the body with
necessary energy while reducing hunger and keeping the body out of
starvation mode [source: Derma Health Institute].
Read the next page to explore the other component of this diet, the HGC hormone injections.
HCG Diet Injections
Don't Try to Dodge the HCG Shots
The diet plan that is recommended for those who are entering the HCG
diet is quite strict. It limits you to 500 calories per day, which is
far below the recommended daily value. Proponents of the HCG diet
suggest that this kind of low-calorie diet is not safe unless combined
with the HCG injections. Don't attempt a 500-calorie diet plan without
the injections and certainly not without talking to your doctor first
[source: Brennan].
The HCG diet's success rests on its namesake -- the HCG hormone.
Before starting, it's in your best interest to understand how the
hormone is administered and what it does. Administration is usually
through two methods -- either an oral supplement or a liquid injection.
An injection for weight loss contains somewhere between 125 IU and 200
IU [source: HCG Weight Loss].
The best places for HCG injections are just beneath the skin or
straight into a muscle. For your safety and comfort, you may want to
ask your doctor to demonstrate the correct injection technique before
trying it on yourself [source: Drugs].
You also need to understand what the hypothalamus
is. This gland is responsible for regulating your body's fat storage
and metabolism. The HCG shots are said to command your hypothalamus to
release fat from storage, which triggers your body to combine that fat
and your 500 calories as energy. Then the shots should help your body
get rid of excess fat by burning it daily [source: HCG Diet Info].
After dedicating yourself to the daily 500-calorie diet and the HCG
injections, advocates say you'll have better eating habits for the rest
of your life. Once you've achieved your target weight, it's a good idea
to leave the drastic diet but maintain a sustainable, healthy lifestyle
[source: HCG Diet Info].
After all, you can't count on your body to maintain your goal weight if
you immediately fall back into your old eating habits.
Click to the next page to find out what dangers exist if you decide to go on the HCG diet.
HCG Diet Dangers
Take Caution before Taking HCG
Before using HCG injections for dieting purposes, be sure to check with
your doctor and review your medical history. Certain health conditions,
such as early puberty or any cancer that affects hormone levels, will
likely mean your body isn't fit for HCG. In these cases, professionals
will likely advise you to skip the injections [source: Drugs].
The
FDA has approved HCG injections for use in fertility issues, but not in
dieting. There haven't been enough comprehensive studies to test and
ensure its capabilities. While advocates claim that lower doses of the
hormone are used for dieting, the scientific and medical communities
still lack substantial evidence that the HCG shots are safe over an
extended period of time [source: Goldsmith].
There are a few dangers that come with injecting HCG into your body.
First of all, you want to make sure the medication hasn't gone bad,
either by changing color or accumulating particles. As with any
injected medication, the potential for blood clots exists. Some women
who have injected HCG have experienced a serious condition called ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome
(OHSS). OHSS can be deadly, so you should take note of symptoms like
pelvic pain and stomach, arm or leg swelling. Other less serious side
effects might be headaches and depression. Young boys taking HCG might
experience premature puberty [source: Drugs]. Pregnant or nursing women could cause harm to their babies if the hormone is passed on [source: HCG Diet Info].
And although advocates claim that HCG keeps the body functioning
properly, a diet of 500 calories is below virtually any healthy amount
recommended by most doctors. Weight loss is almost guaranteed when
you're eating so much less than the recommended daily allowance, but
you may risk your health. And although the HCG is supposed to help with
side effects, in one study the HCG injections showed no different
feelings or results than a placebo injection [source: Sylvester].
The HCG diet has the potential for incredible results, but not
without the risk of significant side effects. As with any diet, you
should always talk to your doctor before implementing any significant
change. To learn more, visit the links on the following page.
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President Obama will speak to a gathering of gay rights activists this weekend, a day before thousands of people are expected to march on Washington in a demonstration calling for greater legal protections for gays, lesbians and transgendered Americans.
Many gay rights activists have become increasingly vocal about their frustration over what they see as tepid support from Mr. Obama. While the president has professed support for overturning the ban on gays in the military and called the law that precludes federal recognition of same-sex marriages discriminatory, he has not engaged on gay rights issues as actively as some had hoped.
The Justice Department is defending the federal marriage law, known as Defense of Marriage Act, much to the dismay of many gay rights advocates. And Mr. Obama has been noncommittal about when he will move to end the “don’t ask don’t tell” policy. In June, he acknowledged their irritations at the slow pace of change at a gathering of about 250 gay rights leaders who had been invited to the White House.
While it remains to be seen what Mr. Obama’s appearance at the dinner will do to his standing in the eyes of gay rights activists, his speech may mollify some of their concerns.
His appearance will mark only the second time a sitting president has spoken to the Human Rights Campaign. The first time was in 1997 when Bill Clinton spoke to the group. That was the first time a sitting president had ever addressed a gay rights organization.
A person with knowledge of Mr. Obama’s plans confirmed his appearance at the dinner. But this person spoke on the condition of anonymity because a formal announcement is expected later today.
The White House had no comment. A spokesman for the Human Rights Campaign did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment.
Mr. Obama’s speech will coincide with the National Equality March, which is taking place on Sunday and is expected to draw thousands of gay rights supporters to the National Mall.
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Yesterday, I realized, people don't know what respect means and how to apply it to their lives.
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Sorry about the blog. Something came up. Talk later about it and it deals with ABUSE!
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To have a great relationship, both parties need to:
1) RESPECT! 2) NO ABUSE!!! 3) NO CHEATING!
This is important to remember and to understand, but sooo hard to do!
See,
we as humans are not happy all the time, we have emotions. So we can be angry,
sad, depress, happy or sexual. If you follow me on twitter, you have
witness all of my emotions.
To me, when my partner follows
the three rules, I feel safe and secure to be around them. I know there
will be no judging, hitting, abuse and no STDs.
What does respect means (from http://www.m-w.com):
A relation or reference to a particular thing or situation <remarks having respect to an earlier plan> 2 : an act of giving particular attention : consideration 3 a : high or special regard : esteem b : the quality or state of being esteemed c plural : expressions of respect or deference <paid our respects> 4 : particular, detail <a good plan in some respects>
So,
respect is having a high regard for your partner or date. When both
parties have respect for one another, then you have open communcation,
trust, love, honor and security. Everyone from the big hairy guy,
little guy, fairy, drag queen, drag king, butch, femme, straight women,
straight men, trans and bi's want to be respected and secure.
It takes both parties to respect each other; which can build or destroy a relationship.
For
example, the girl who I was speaking to told me, "The best good looking
black girls are in Altana, Georgia." Now, she's try to dating me and
she told me that. How would you feel, if a person YOU were dating or
YOUR partner told you this statement?
You'll feel hurt because now you see they don't see as good looking as the girls in Altana, Georgia.
Another
example, my ex-love Sharon told me, "I love working out at the
Scottsdale gym because I see good looking women." Again, she didn't see
me in high regard.
After Sharon, I told myself, the next time
I fall in love with person, they need to respect me. I won't take
anything less. Another example, my sugra momma, always told me, "Hi,
beautiful. You're so beautiful." See, that's respect and I respect her
the same way, but we saw the future in different eyes, but this is
proof, you can have respect in a relationship, even if, it's a booty
call.
So, please respect yourself and your date or partner because it does wonders in the bedroom.
Also
with respect, if your partner goes to a strip club, you don't have to
worry. If your partner goes on a long trip, you don't have to worry.
If your partner, see a person who looks good, you don't have to worry.
Respect, will always allow you to keep a sound mind and a joyful heart.
Tomorrow, I'll talk about NO ABUSE!!!!!
I
did speak to the girl today, it didn't end good. See, I got two free
passes to see "Fame". "Fame" (the series), impacted a big part of my
life because it went into detail about living life for a dream, so I
wanted to go. I asked the girl to if she wanted to go, but she was
busy. Ok, no problem. So I took my cousin. Her husband is a Army
Officer, who's station in Iraq.
Today, I spoke to the girl
and she was upset with me because she couldn't go. I had to tell her,
it wasn't a big deal and I took someone else and I didn't have time to
tell her, it was my cousin.
The confusing part is, we are NOT
together. I have tried to see her and do activities with her, but she
wants to be with her friends. I don't care, if she wants to hang out
with her friends; I just want to know her more. So, I put in the
effort to arrange dates, but no show. What else, can a girl do?
I did text her because, seriously, I don't think she was mad at me, she was mad at something else.
If she doesn't want to talk me, fine. I just want her to find the right partner for her because no one should ever be alone.
I may go the Mercury game tomorrow night. If you see me, say "Hi".
Love you guys and remember, respect yourself and others.
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Most of our straight friends and family, wished they never heard those words. But, it happens.
I was at the home office today, because I was sick. You know when you walk to your kitchen from your bedroom and you don't know how you got there?
I was watching the Tara Banks show and they're going to have show tomorrow about how to cure gay people. But, do we need to be cured? Why are we gay? And is something wrong with us?
These are good questions and they have great answers. Gay people were born gay. I can prove it. My father's sister and my first cousins are gay, plus my mother admitted she thought about being gay when she was younger. So, there's a gay gene. But, unfortunately, people who are not part of the GLBT community look down on us, if we were freaks of the year; which is not cool.
I knew I was gay for a long time and I didn't want to admitted because of family and religion, but when I came clean to myself, then I became a whole people.
It's funny, when you're in the closet, you feel so confined as if you're in a prison cell. When you except yourself as you are, then you feel a release of mind, body and soul.
One thing, I can't stand is people putting God into hating something or someone. If God talked to us on earth, we will be shocked to hear, "I love everyone." It's Godlike to tell someone, "God Hates YOU!!!", when you're not being Godlike yourself?
The bottom line is, YOU HAVE TO ACCEPT YOURSELF.
Without accepting yourself as whatever you are, you're not doing yourself justice.
When I was at the end of grade and Jr.High, I didn't love myself. I tried to kill myself several times because I knew I was different and God didn't want me to be different. I figure, if I ended my life, I will no longer embarrass my family. But, acceptance helped me to heal and love myself. Unfortunately, society had brain damaged us to think a certain way, instead of thinking for ourselves.
If you are gay and you don't want have relationship with the same sex, that's fine, but accept the fact, you are gay. Some people refuse to have sex or a relationship with the same sex because of religion and/or family. There's a lot of people doing this and they are STILL HAPPY.
For me, you know where I stand. I love being with a person of my own sex.
I wish the world was different, but everyone has opinions. Opinions is what makes this country great, but we need to respect each other for their differences; which makes life great.
People may hate, love and just deal with us, but the main thing is to respect each other with love and understanding. It sounds simple, but it's difficult to do, when our own egos get in the way.
When I first met Nitara, the film director, she was married to a man and had a son. When I first shook her hand, I knew she was gay. She was so deep into the closet, she was like those old clothes you saved, but couldn't wear in years. She looked confined and so confused, like a lost child in a mega mall. I felt sorry for her and her husband. And yes, I did speak to the husband, but never told him, "Your wife is gay."
A year later, I saw her at a gay club. She's out of the closet and so happy. Her creativity is much stronger then ever, she is more open and less stress. Because she accepted herself, she became a whole person.
But, sadly some decides they need to kill themselves to be happy. It's not true. If you believe killing yourself is the answer, please get help.
Remember, "God loves everyone and you are special to him or her because YOU are a gift from God."
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This is the oldest riddle in life. When something is in front of us, we do want it. But, when we can't have it, we want it more.
Why?
I don't know, but it's true. I remember when I first met Kathleen. It was at the Older Lesbian Single party. She was cute and there was something about her. You know when you have a feeling about someone who you can't understand. That's Kathleen, she's a mystery. She has curly long red hair, tan skin and acts like she is high society, but down to earth. Meeting her, you wouldn't think she was a published wealth lesbian author. She's kind and wonderful, but takes control. I love her to death, but remember I said, when we can't have it we want it more.
Kathleen was head over heels in lust (not love) for a woman name W. I knew W very well. W was my ex-love, Sharon good friend. The true was, I hated W for a while. I couldn't stand her. My ex-love told me, she was in love with W and I was her last choice, since W had a girlfriend. Through, I ex-love, W gave her some crazy advice about my relationship with Sharon.
So, think about this, Katleen wants to go out with W and I can't stand W. How can I be around W, since I can't stand her. Looking at her made me sick, but I was hurting too.
Lesbians are known for talking, just like the women on The View. We talk about each other and other people, but we are still family.
W found out how I felt about her. She talked to me and found out, Sharon lied. It just goes to show, you need to go to the source of the information instead of the hear say.
Anyway, Kathleen wanted W in the worst way, but W was dating K. K is a wonderful person with life and crazy mixed in. She reminds me of a person who would go to a Buddhism temple to chant, search for the meaning of life, start a company and go to party. I can see her having business meetings at The Cash, while conducting important business. W is more structured and I can totally understand.
So, Kathleen wanted her, but couldn't have her; which made W more desirable. Me and W, we're good friends. Sharon is history.
Anyway, it's happening to me. All this time, the girl didn't want to see me and bring me anywhere, but since she had to leave for business, I'm on her mind. Crazy.
Why do we torture ourselves this way? I don't get it, but we still do it. Why can't we desire the thing want in the moment, until it's gone. It just proves we need to live in the moment and desire the things we have. I know I have a problem with regret. When I have something, I wonder if there is something better on the other side. I have learned to stop it and just be happy with what you got. Because you will be search for the next high and never be content for the important things of life.
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Today was crazy. Busy, busy, busy. I hope my agent got me a job or several. I have to take my pictures. Nude pics this time. Ok, what happen today. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy.
The girl called me several times today, but I couldn't get to the phone. This morning, I was coughing and sneezing. She called me in the morning. She called me in the afternoon, but I didn't have my phone on me. I had to go to the post office a second time to renew my passport. The first time, I mailed it, it didn't get to passport office because an employee mis weighed the package. Then I need to deposit some checks and because I didn't take the card out of the ATM in time, the machine ate me card. Ok, so I had a crazy day. Ok. So what.
Anyway, I got voicemail messages from the girl. It was insane. It was like she was forcing me to call her or else. I was in shocked. The only person that told me that was Sharon, ex love. But, we were together.
With this girl, I never had sex with her or even kissed her. All we did was talk and hug. That's it!!!!
So, I called her back and told her that I didn't listen to the messages.
Well, the bottom line is that she is gone. She had to go out of town today. I wanted to see me before she left; which is amazing.
So, when I want to see her, she's always with her friends. But, if she wants to see me, I have to drop everything to see her. Hell no. Please.
Women are so much drama to point that it doesn't make sense that God made lesbians, but he/she did.
I still think of God being a dude.
But, today, something did happen. I felt appreciated. I have a straight big wig boss. He knows, I'm gay. He has a bitch of a girlfriend. If she was gay, she would get a big dike butch. She's so mean, I think of Blair from Gossip Girl or the BITCH from Melrose place. One look from her eyes, will make the biggest baddest Butch cry like a little scared child.
My boss told me, I help him alot. That makes me feel good. I wanted to said something witty, but I left it alone. Sometimes, you should say, "Thank you" and walk away. That's what I did.
Knowing that people do care about your work, makes you feel so happy.
I try to treat my employees with happiness and love. I love each and everyone of them. I didn't even sleep with any of them. Ha Ha.
Life is crazy and we need to live it crazy. Take a drive, see a movie by yourself, hug a friend, love yourself and smile. Life is so short, why waste it on stupidity.
My friend Nitara is a film director. Very good. She has a girlfriend now. I heard she is HOT!!!!. My friend Jackie saw her. Jackie description her - I though she was talking about the goddess Venus. I can't wait to meet her.
Tomorrow, I canceled my violin lesson and I'm getting ready for the Mercury game. Playoff baby.
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How to break up with a person? That's a good question?
Amy broke up with me because she that her month was over. She told me that I was speaking to her through my blog. I have to admit, that was a great break up line.
As humans, we all suffer through a break up, more so than others. It's crazy, we spend so much time with a person and then we don't see them anymore.
But, with Amy, we dated and now we are good friends. Crazy. Right.
In the Lesbian World, breakups can be so dramatic and emotional. It can be liken to a depress lesbian on the edge of a cliff wanting to jump off into an abyss of darkness.
Tomorrow, I was planning to spend time with the girl, but I don't want too. After we met, things went down hill. The only thing, I can think of, is that my car was dirty inside. But, anyway I know we are not good together.
Almost every woman wants a excellent leader in their lives, like me. I don't want to take the lead. I don't have the energy or will too. I want a good lead to lead me through life, but not a mother.
One woman older who I was with was more like my mother then someone to date. She would treat me like a child. Who wants to be treat like child, when you own a house?
But, breakup is a part of life. Here are my breakup line; which I have use:
1) I want to get marry and have children. (My favorite, Said it) 2) I'm moving out of Arizona. (Said it) 3) It's the end of the world and I need to get right with God. (My favorite, Said it) 4) My cat doesn't like you. (Never used this one) 5) I'm so busy, I don't have time to pee.(Said it) 6) I go insane during PMS. (Never used this one) 7) You can find someone better than me. (My favorite, Said it) 8) I'm the hoe of Phoenix, I have done almost everyone here at the club.(My favorite Said it,) 9) I'm needing. (Never used this one) 10) My job is writing about my life and you. (My favorite, Said it) 11) I travel alot . (My favorite, Said it) 12) I love porn Japanese cartoons. (Amine) (My favorite, Said it) 13) I'm cheap. (My favorite, Said it) 14) I'm into threesomes. (My favorite, Said it) 15) (pointing at a woman) I couldn't date her, so I'm stuck with you. (A friend said this to her date.) 16) It's not you. It's me. (My favorite, Said it) 17) I don't want to hold you down because I want you to succeed in life. 18) I'm into choking.(My favorite, Said it) 19) I don't like dating out of my race. (A white girl told this to me after we had sex) 20) I'm shallow. I need someone like me. (Never used this one) 21) I'm a Republican. TEAM MCCAIN. (My favorite) 22) I see dead people.(Never used this one) 23) You are going to cheat on me anyway.(One ex said this to me) 24) I shouldn't have to work during sex. 25) You live too far. (Said it) 26) I'm into animal sex. (Never used this one) 27) I'm a good digger. (Never used this one) 28) People live inside of me. (Never used this one) 29) You don't like organic food, so I can't be with you. (A girl said this to me) 30) My wife told me to stop cheating on her. (Never used this one) 31) I believe Glenn Beck is the Christ.(Never used this one) 32) I believe, stalking my girlfriend is the same of loving my girlfriend. (Never used this one) 33) I'm not gay anymore. I love having sex with men. (One ex said this to me) 34) You're just with me because you feel sorry for me. (Never used this one) 35) I know, we just met last week. I believe, we have a strong connection. I want you to move in with me, today. (Never used this one)
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I want to hear your story.
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I spoke to my editor today, Rheah today. She's such a good friend and a wonderful editor. Love you to pieces.
Now, I twittered about this; What is a relationship killer?
Twitter is mess-up right now, so I can't give you answers from other people, but let me tell you this.
I spoke to the girl this morning, but let me set it up.
I woke up this morning, tried. My cat, Sheba, was jumping all over me as if I was a bouncing castle. I rolled out of bed, alone. No, no, no booty call last night. I didn't even play with myself. By the way, I brought this pleasure-enhancing tingling lubricant. It doesn't work, just burns as if I have a bad STD. Thank god for toys. Anyway, I got up and got dress. Wet my hair and put it up.
When I am out and about, I just wear whatever, but at functions, I look good because I have more time to get dress.
Well, I called the girl who I am seeing. Here are some relationships killers:
1) I need to go to Atlanta, GA because they have some good looking black females there.
2) I may go to The Cash one day
3) (After talking about my birthday party at The Cash), "My birthday party, I was so trash. It lasted for a week."
So, after the phone call, I did some work, went the gym and thought. I called Rheah and she gave me some good advice.
One thing is, I can have sex with anyone and proved it. But, this girl is not worth my time, unfortunately, I already gave her a playoff ticket to the Mercury game. BUMMER.
I have to find the girl for me. Kathleen always finds the girl for her and she is a pro. That's why I love her as a friend of course. To me, it seems she is more emotionally attached to her novels then to a girl.
I used to be that, but the word "relationship" got into my world. It seems that I lost myself and who I am.
It's funny. I love to have sex, have money, have respect for myself even though it seems that I don't.
I have to get my body ready for my photo shoot soon because I want to do some nude shots.
I broke it off with the Latina. God bless her and I hope she always follow her dreams.
PEACE OUT.
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Peace, Love and Harmony. I will be more positive in the future.
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The Latina, who's moving to Florida. I let her go. We were txting back and forth about this. But, I had to let her go, even though I don't want too. She needs to pursit her dreams and I will just be in the way.
But, stay tuned for more drama in the AZ!
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This morning, I talked with the girl who I'm talking too; which I felt sad about. But, I'm going to write about it. Because this is one big mistake people make if they want to get close or have sex with a person. My booty call thing is coming out and the relationship person, in dying inside.
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Women and weight is like a marriage made in hell. Women will spend money or do anything in order to lose weight that they need to lose or lose weight they don't have.
Why is weight so important? I don't know. And when you lose the weight, do you began to love yourself?
Today, I was sitting at my desk in front of a big sandwich, cookies and salad. I felt so hot and bothered by it, like it was a beautiful sexy half naked woman begging me to have sex with her in the worst way. Now, granted I have not had sex in a month, so I'm going through withdrawals.
My mouth began to water, my lips wanted to touch the sweet roasted beef and my tongue wanted to taste the juices. I stared at the sandwich as if it was a desired object for my own sexual desires.
I ate sandwich, I ate four large chocolate chips cookies and the salad. After eating over my full, I wanted to throw up. I thought about it, but I didn't; which is a win for me.
Since the sixth grade, all of jr. high school and the beginning of high school, I was bulimic. Meaning, I would eat and then throw up. I always had a tooth brush and tooth paste with me because after you throw up, you have to brush your teeth. See, your stomach has acid and you throw up the food and the acid. If the acid stays on your teeth, it can erode the enamel.
My point was, if you are thin, you look good and people with love you. That was my crazy thinking.
I can remember back in jr. high, a black teacher told the class; "Black girls don't have eating disorders." So, in my mind, I didn't have a eating disorder. When I think back, I did.
In society, it seems we as people always have to live to a standard that someone put into motion. But, who? I don't know, but it seems fashion decides how you should look and feel. The celebrities, also decides the standard of how we should live. But, did you know, celebrities have problems in their own lives. So, why should we follow after people who have problems with reality?
Celebrities and fashion models are paid to look good because that's their job. If you are a teacher, you need to prepare a lesson plan and practice how to teach the plan in front of your class. The same goes for celebrities and fashion models. If you really saw them for real, some of them are butt ugly.
So, if you are skinny and wear all the high class fashion, will you love yourself even more? NO! You have to love yourself for yourself, not for other people. I have to learned that.
In grade school and jr. high school, I can teased alot, plus I had to deal with my own demons. Believe it or not, my nickname was "Monkey" and I was ugly. I was like the ugly girl in the class, who you don't want to be friends with. During lunch time, if the school had banana day, I will get all the bananas. Down to this day, I can't eat bananas or anything with bananas in it. Bananas make me sick.
I had to learn to love myself and I'm still learning, everyday. It doesn't matter how heavy you are, thin you are, your friends, your clothes or status in life. It's matter on your insides and how you treat people.
For example, I go to The Cash; which is voted the best Lesbian Club in the valley; there are some celebrities are regulars there. For example, one of the Biggest Losers winners. As I understand, she was 300 pounds, now she's thin. She has a line of protein drinks and other merchandising. To me, it seems she is so stuck up, it's not even funny. I said hello to her once and she answered back, but it was because she was someone. To me, she just won a contest and that's why she gets notice. So what? I don't care, who you are just be friendly for once. She has to remember that she is a lesbian, and the crazy church leaders and others believe that she's going to hell, regardless of her fame.
Losing weight doesn't make you happy because I know. I lost alot weight without throwing up and I still have problems with myself, but my have friends to make me snap out of it. When you love yourself, almost everyone loves you.
But, what makes me love myself even more. Taking my clothes off in front of people and going to a nudist resort. Around, Lesbians have seen me in the nude, so what. I feel this way, if I am in the nude in front of people, they see me as I am. If I feel comfortable around people naked, I'll feel more comfortable around people with clothes on. Plus, being nice to people helps out alot, too. One thing two, is going to the gym. The gym helps me to focus on myself and helps me to be sexy. It makes me happy and wonderful inside. It's like my drug. Be a bitch, you be alone, plain and simple. Plus, be yourself. Not everyone is going to love you, if that was the case; we will be robots. I know, I had to learn to love life and don't care about people or my family. I know, it's hard but you have force yourself.
On Sunday, I was taking home my script editor named Rheah from The Cash. She talked about her weight because she's full figure. She wants to lose weight, but can't stand people trying to help her lose weight. She's trying out this Hoodia Gum to control her cravings for sugar. One thing for sure, she gets more sex then me.
So, just loving yourself makes you the center of attention. I still learning to love myself fully. I love my life sometimes, but it can also be a pain in the neck.
It goes to show, everyone has problems even if your admit it or not. But, try not lose yourself in it. Just scream as loud as you can, cry, laugh and get the pain out of your system. Yeah, those same feelings may come back because you are human. Scream, cry, laugh and live another day.
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When your new love meet your friends, this in the most critical time in a new relationship. It telling your new love, you want to graduate to the next level in your relationship because your circle of friends is so important to you. Why? Because you can you let loose with them without judgment.
In a new relationship, we tend to put on an academy award winning performance for your new love because of our need to impress. We need to say and do the right things in the relationship that we tend to create a character, who is the opposite of our real self. It's like you are confined in a small box and you locked it. For example, I was watching South Park and people were exploding because they didn't want to break wind in their date, so the mayor made farting fashionable; even though farting is a normal human function. We just tend not let your new love see the best of us and hid the worst of us.
So when should the new love meet your friends? I don't know. To me, it's an important step because that's when the worlds unite into one world. It's like saying, "I am so serious about this person that she/he is the most important person in my life". It's like co-living with the new love because the new love is weaving deeper into your life. They are now invited to see the true you around your friends and to see what you and your friends are all about.
So date tend to judge the person who you are dating based on friends because they believe, "Birds of a feather flock together." So when you let the new love meet your friends, it should not be taken lightly.
The girl, who I'm dating now was planning to meet my friends at The Cash on Saturday night. Seriously, I didn't want her meet them because I'm not ready to have the two worlds unite. I feel when she meets my friends, she is part of my life and I'm force to commit to a person who I'm not sure about.
See, let me explain. If I let the new girl meet my friends, then they become her friends; she's in my circle of friends. She will know all my secrets, desires and see my wild side up close. Plus, if we break up, I still have to see her because she's in my circle of friends.
Now, do you see how important the meeting of friends is. It's an important step in a relationship, so don't take it lightly. If he or she likes your friends, who you nothing to worry about because your are full stream ahead into a long term relationship.
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Hello everyone.How are you doing today?I’m so so.Why?Because today in Sept 11. You may or may not know this, but I am a proud New Yorker.I grew up in Rosedale, NY (Queens) and was raised there.
In High School, I did a year of internship at Smith Barney as a computer programmer.The building was located in downtown Manhattan; which was a few blocks from the Twins Towers.
Sometimes, I had to run errands at the Twins Towers a lot, but I didn’t care.It was cool being out of the office. In the Twins Towers, you had the New York and New Jersey train systems, an underground mall and offices.So I did window shopping in the Twin Towers and I got to see my friends.
In my circle of friends, it was a honor working in the Twin Towers because it meant you were making good money and had a steady job.It was just cool saying, “I work in the World Trade Center” aka “I wok in the World Trade Centa” (in New York language).
Before I left New York City to move to a backward country place called Arizona,I was offered a job at ILX in the World Trade Center.I didn’t take it and moved to Arizona.Now, thinking back, I could have died on Sept 11, 2001.13 of my friends died on that day, my uncle was buried alive but found and my brother had to see a therapist because he saw the planes go into the buildings and the damage it caused.
But, as New Yorkers do, we survive, but it’s hard to forget.I never went to my friends memorials because how can someone died like that, it only happens in the movies.But, it did happen.
From a New Yorker point of view, New York has changed.There is more security in the streets.You have to ask a cop if you can take a picture of a landmark. When I go to ground zero, there is dead silence.New York has become a military country, within the US.It’s sad.
When I went back to NYC after Sept 11, I had to get used to the new New York City and now when I visit, I got used to the security which is sad and heart breaking because I miss my old New York and the mindset.I miss the rudeness, busy life, running to work,no security cameras following you and no metal detectors and searches before you go into the Empire State Building.
When I was young and before Sept 11, I would watch New York City getting blown up and damaged in the movies and on TV because I knew it will never happen in real life.But it did.
The movie Cloverfield, will be a movie I will never forget and should get award for giving us a reality check.Before Cloverfield, I could watch New York getting destroy and laughing about because who would think New York City would suffer a terrorist attack and when Sept 11 made us change our thinking.With Cloverfield, it made me enjoy seeing New York City getting damage on the big screen.Crazy monsters like Godzilla destroying New York, that’s funny and not real.
Sept 11, made me change myself.It told me, breathing air and living is not a right, but a privilege you should not take likely. Live life and enjoy it.Hug your friends and be open about your feelings.Tell your friends, lovers, families and spouses how much they mean to you in your life because you made not see them again.
For example, I was a bride’s maid in a wedding, in New York City.The bride was a real bitch.After the $30,000 wedding in Garden City, she piss off the whole wedding party. One of the bride’s maids, named Vicki was a good friend who used to take me to parties and functions.I was a geek at the time and she was the popular girl.She helped me to become popular, like all those teenage movies.
After the reception, I told her goodbye and she needs to visit me in Arizona.She said, “I will, because I need to see the Grand Canyon.”She never called me because she died in the World Trade Center; two months later.The bride never got the chance to say, “I’m so sorry, I was a bitch.”Now, the bride has a son, divorce and living with her mother.I never spoke to the bride again after the wedding because I don’t need craziness in my life.
For Vicki, she left behind a husband and young 1 year old child. Now, her husband moved to the South, got remarried and the child is doing well.
So, we need this day to reflect on our lives and thank God that you are blessed. Sometimes I forget, but I have Sept 11 and my friends to remind me.
So, be determine to live life to the fullest and enjoy it because tomorrow you may day.I want to die with a smile on my face because I know I have done everything to that point in my life and enjoyed it.
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Day after day, it seems to me we follow the same ritual. We get up, go to work, go home, party, spend time with family or a lover and then we die. Some of us have children and some don't. But, in all we still follow the same MO with our lives.
On my facebook, I saw pictures of a boy I went to school with. Now, he is a man with a girlfriend. He works and it seems he has a child. When I look back on my childhood, I never that about working, owning a house, owning a car, having a girlfriend or anything of that sort because I was kid. Now, with time passing by, I'm now an adult.
But, what makes you into an adult? Family, kids, age, career or other. I don't know. I still feel like a kid with responsibilities.
It's just so funny to see people you went to school with and now they have families and responsibilities of their own, as if we are now becoming our parents.
We have to worry about a mortgage, bills, work and other things, instead of finding the new Metallica cd, getting a computer, the latest video game, doing good in school and does he or she likes me.
Back in the 80's and 90's, life for a kid was so simple and innocent. Now, a child have to go through so much drama just to get out of the bed in the morning.
What happen to the simple times? Will they return? I don't think so. I don't have any kids, but I would like one. My parents think differently since I'm gay. But, I would love to have a child, a wife and a happy home. But, when I think of my life as a kid, I ask myself "Where have the time gone? How did I get here?"
It's so funny. And that's life. Live life without any regrets. And just be happy. You only live once so live it right.
Looking at people who I went to High School with, is amazing to see because we are now adults and have our own lives. We may have done things differently, but we are still striving to live the best way we can.
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The Latina date texted me today. She wanted to know if I was busy tomorrow. I have not answered her yet. Why? Well, I like her and told her, but the response was, "I'm moving, but I like you too."
To me, it was like she was moving next week or so, but she's still here. Why? I don't know.
I want love without the BS, you know. With a booty call, I can kiss a girl and I know not to trust her, even though it's ok to do her. The reason for my thinking is, when it's a booty, you are not thinking about commitment, speaking to the person again or anything else. You don't care about the future only the moment for the real raw sexual escape journey you will have with that person.
You are so wrapped up in the moment, you don't care about that person. You only care about your needs being met.
After you are done, when you move on without any feelings.
When you are in a relationship or just dating that person. You want to get to know them. See what makes them be who they are and planning a future with them. In a relationship, feelings and emotions are involve; which makes the sex much better.
In a relationship, you must put your guard down. I know this is hard because I have trouble with this too. I hate letting person into my little world because I don't want to get hurt anymore. I just breakdown because when I allow people into my little world of Aliya Leigh, it means that I can trust you and I understand you. As I tell people,"I can't trust my own mother, so it will be hard to trust you."
Trust is so important in a relationship. When you can't trust that person you are with, you have to use that extra energy to out think them, meaning you always have to see where they are coming from and what they are truly thinking.
I already over think too much, so I hate to think with the girl who I am with. When you are with someone, they are suppose to make you feel safe and comfort, not trying to second guess a person.
I just want to feel safe in a person's arms, give them sweet kisses and F*&k hard.
Just thinking about it makes wet. Kissing, touching, fondling, whispering sweet nothings in my lover's ear and just feeling alive, like a new born baby.
I don't know what to tell her, but I have to tell her soon.
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Hi. This holiday weekend, I drove to Utah. It was a six hour trip. I drove from Phoenix to the edge of Northern Arizona. It was an amazing drive. I got to see the Navajo Indians and the landscape of this great state. But, I also got to think about my life.
Since I have been dating and relying on my girlfriends to take me out or to arrange a date, I have lost myself.
Before, the series of dating so many people, I would do everything I wanted to do, but I still had friends to talk too. I used to take road trips all the time by myself to think and to clear my mind.
So, on this road trip, I got to clear my mind and understand where I am headed.
I have lost myself. People have been making so many decisions for me and all I do is said "yes".
I love my life and the people who are in it, but I lost myself in the mix and what I am all about.
I remember when I was young, my family wanted me to act a certain way. I was never myself. When I moved to Arizona, I saw freedom to express myself, but then it got lost.
It's true, people just loose themselves and then they wake up and see a strange life that they lived. It's crazy but true.
We need to take control of ourselves and figure out what we want to do with it.
I have been searching and searching for the next big thing in life and forgot about what I want in life.
Slowly, I am coming back to my senses and loving it. I'm talking to this girl over the phone. She seems to be cool but I don't know. I am just going live and see where life takes me.
I have some control over my life and I'm so happy. Sometimes, it good to take a road trip by yourself to think and to clear your mind because you never know who you will meet and what thoughts will pop into your mind.
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I can't believe this. I'm in another car accident. WTF? I don't get it. But, anyway. I was suppose to go out on a date yesterday. It was your normal movie date.
I wanted to see Public Enemy with Johnny Depp. I love that man. He can be my child's father all I need is the sperm. But, the girl could not go on the date, she had to work late. Totally understand, but got me to think about my life.
Since I have been dating, I lost myself. What do I mean? Before, I was seriously dating, I used to do things on my own without anyone. Monday, I went home and relaxed. Tuesday's was always movie night, when I treat myself to a movie and dinner. The rest of the week, I would go to the gym or do anything I want.
Since, I have been dating, I got into the habit of asking first and then do. If the date or girlfriend was not able to make it, then what should I do?
Yesterday, I went to the movie without her. I enjoyed myself. I didn't think about anything or any person. It was me, only me.
I forgot how to have fun by yourself. Just you, thinking about life, love and you as a person. I was at the movies, writing in my book, dreaming about have Johnny Depp's child and my future.
I don't know what the future holds for me. I don't care about relationships or being alone. I have friends and I'm working. I'm happy.
My friends are all in this relationship crap. As I was talking to friend, I was ok being the hoe of Phoenix. Just having sex with different women. The game does get tried, so you relax and then start again.
Being the hoe, I didn't have to deal with emotions, feelings or anything like that. Just be safe and happy.
I'm going to cancel my membership with www.match.com and just go with www.tangowire.com.
I just want to be happy and alive. I just got a poster with the help of God. The poster is New York City with the Twins. I remember always going into the Twin Towers. Before moving to Arizona, I was supposed to work for ILX in the Twin Towers, but I moved to Cowboy Country instead.
I was suppose to died in Twins, I don't know. My friends did and I do get sad about that. But, it taught me to live life to the fullest and be happy. Just to live life.
How
do you want the date to end, is the real question. Now, the date
depends on you, not your friends, family or a magazine because they
are not you. I can't stand how people judge me about be
dating. For example, some people just want the booty call, while
others are looking for that special someone. So, before you go the
first date with someone new, you need to ask yourself, "How do I
want the date to end?”
You
can end the date in different ways, for example, “the hook up”,
“just friends”, “no way”, “booty call”
and “you're so special, I like you”.
The
hook up date, is my favorite and specialty date. It has my name
all over it. So, what is “the hook up” date? It's a date where
you just want to have sex after a dinner or any type of function. The
mistake people have with “the hook up”, is that after the hook
up, you have a relationship; which is not true. Sometimes, the hook
up doesn't turn into a long lasting relationship. On a hook up date,
you prepare yourself and your body, meaning you know you look hot and
you feel hot to the point that everyone will stare at you and wish
you were with them. During the date, you feel the mood. Think with
your gut not your head. If the date is going well, then you have
nothing to worry about, just be yourself. When you start making out
in the car, you know it's on. Now, at this point you can control the
situation. You can just make out or go all the way, but you need to
remember, you may not have a second date and to always have
protection.
The
just friends date, is OK. I had a few myself. It's a date you or
the other person want to establish a date, but at the end you become
friends. Again, you need to trust your gut and to give hints to see
what direction the date is going. When you became friends it's cool
because more friends and more people to talk too, plus sometimes
friends become lovers. So, if the date turns into friends, don't
worry about it. There are millions of fish in the sea.
The
no way date, is easy to spot. During the date, if the person you
are with or you yourself starts talking on the phone with a friend or
texting, then this is a no way date, meaning that basically you are
just wasting time and money on something you don't care about. When
it is a no way date, just end it. You can be the ass or let the other
person be the ass. For example, I was on a date and the person was
just texting friends while we were eating. When you know, it's a no
way date, just end it and throw away the number because wasting time
is not good. Now, if you just want the date to be a booty call, then
talk about it and if each party agrees to the terms; during sex DON'T
TALK, JUST DO.
The
booty call date is easy. If each party agrees to the terms then
just have fun. Just be safe and stick with the terms. With a booty
call, don't let feelings get into the way because it's just physical
relationship. When emotions get involve, talk to the other person and
let the relationship go, if you can't handle it anymore. It's better
to leave then to stay in a relationship and the other party doesn't
feel the same way.
The
you're so special date is the best. So I save the best for last.
It's a date when the two parties feel a connection to point they can
say, “I want you”, meaning you two belong with each other.
Sometimes the relationship will blossom in the moment you meet or at
the end of the date. Remember to trust your gut. You will know, when
the right person comes along. Romance novels ideas come from real
life relationships, so your love story will happen, just be patience
and keep your options open.
Dating
is dating. How you act on the date is your business, not your friends
or a magazine. I hate it when people base your lives for a romance
novels, movies and their own friends. Novels and movies are loosely
based on real life. Your friends may seem happy when you see them,
but you don't know the drama in their house. So base your love life
on yourself and gut. Remember, cause and effect. What you cause has
an effect, so whatever you put out into the universes will come back
to you.
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Mass. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy Dies After a Yearlong Battle With Cancer
Edward M. Kennedy, one of the most powerful and influential senators in
American history and one of three brothers whose political triumphs and
personal tragedies captivated the nation for decades, died at 77.
I told the girl who I was out with on Sunday, how I felt about her. You should always be upfront with someone, so nothing is not guessing game. The answer may be favorable or not, but you have to take that chance.
I did. I don't know if she feels the same way, but I told her.
After September 11, when the Twins went down, I learned, to live in the moment and just tell that special someone how you are feeling at that time.
Why because you may never see that person again.
For example, I was a brides maid in a wedding with some other friends. The bride was bitch and after the wedding, we never talked to her again. Before the wedding, the bride was able to piss everyone. One brides maid, worked in the twins towers and died in Sept 11th attacks. She was on the floor where the plane made contact with the building.
The bride never told anyone how sorry she acted and then it was too late for the sorry.
Always tell your friends how you feel about them and also the person you love, in the moment you are thinking about it.
Life is short, so live it with value, happiness and love. Never take time for granted.
Hello everyone. The script is almost ready for the agent. Tomorrow is d day. I am sorry, I have not written on the blog or have done a podcast. I felt I needed to take some time for myself. I do blog on twitter: @Lesbianlife, so check me out.
Anyway, as you may know, I am in the dating again. This time, I'm on www.match.com.
The funny thing about dating (and I don't care if you are straight or gay); but when we are dating, we are still looking for this next best thing, even though, it's not there.
As humans, it's natural to always be looking and not being satisfied with what you have in front of you.
I met this girl on match.com; well she found me. She emailed me and I gave her my number because I don't like txting. We had a first date and yes, I was a dork, but we hit it off. We went on a date today. It was cool.
But, that's not the end of it.
Another girl called me from match.com. Now, I really like the first girl, but again, as humans we are never satisfied. I spoke to second girl and she is a doctor. My parents always wanted me to married a doctor. But, the problem is, she is fem like me.
For straight people, what I am about to tell you will be weird. "Women with Women can't be in a serious relationship." For Lesbians, you understand what I am saying.
For straight people, Female type, like the girly girl type is a woman, in the Lesbian world. I am fem and proud to be fem. I love wear skirts, dresses, heels and make-up. Butches or Fe-Butches are not like that. They are more manly and they mostly take the lead in the relationship.
The doctor seems so nice and she can be a good friend, but I can't see a future with her because Fems don't take the lead. I need to be lead.
At that moment, I realizes that people search and search for that one person to love, but not realizes that the person God give them is right under their nose.
We are always searching for the most perfect mate in our lives. We search for the image in our minds and try to find that one person. But, sadly, when can't find that on person, we tend to settle for anything; which is wrong and sad.
When we get settle for a person who we don't care about, we hurt ourselves and the person we are with.
We need to date blind. I'm not talking about wearing blindfold and taking out your eyeballs, but date blind.
Don't worry about status and how they look because at the mostly crazy times of your life that person may save you from the drama and pain.
I went on a date with a girl. She was cool. I wasn't dress perfect. I had a Foo Fighters t-shirt, hat, jeans and sneakers. She didn't like the way I looked. She didn't want me and I was ok with that. But, the point is, she could have gain friend, but since she's high and mighty, she will never know.
We need to judge people from the inside not the outside. Another example is, my ex-love was so hot, Latina hot.I loved her so much and I still do, but inside she is ugly.
The bottom line is, we tend to look and look and look, when the person is right standing next to you. Don't settle and be real. Reality is not a fairy tale.
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The sugar mama likes this new girl who lives in London. Believe it or not, they talk everyday. The phone bills must be high. So, I talked to the sugar mama at the gym, today. ON THE PHONE! We talked about the new London girl. Believe me, I'm happy for her. We had our fun, but I want something solid and real, you know. I want a steady relationship with someone who will love me and I can love them. Plus, someone who acts young but it practical and understand responsibilities. It is so hard to find someone like that. But, I'm on eharmony and match.com to find the one woman for me.
But, while talking to the sugar mama, I asked her, "You need to get something special to impress her." She said, "I don't need to impress anyone." See that is THE FIRST MISTAKE.
Smart people, (I will tell you why I said smart people) what to be special. They want to be treated like princess, like they are important in life. Like they matter in your life. When someone believes they are important to you, they will do anything for you. That is caring, not love but caring. Meaning that you care for that person. Love is a deeper meaning and should not be taken lightly.
So, listen to the person and understand them, like why they like this or that. Feel their emotion about objects, places or songs. Sometimes the cheapest gifts are the most valuable.
For example, I love this Hello Kitty pencil sharper. It's a star shape and green with glitter. It cost around 1.00, but that sharper followed me from Jr.High, High School, College and my jobs. It was my computer programmer sharper.
When I program in any computer language I know, like C, SQL, Perl, Java and JavaScript (I'm old school), I have to write out code with a pencil and paper before I typed it on the computer. That sharper helped me through my tough times of debugging code.
See how something so meaningless, means the world to someone else.
So remember that.
Oh, remember the smart people comment. My ex is Jewish and she was having a bad week, so in the Jewish religion, if you get a Kosher pray box for a person; it gives them good luck. Now, she told me this several times.
Now, it was during passover and Jewish people are not suppose to work. I search for a Jewish temple and found someone who were willing to talk to me during the passover. Hard as hell. I found someone, I had to pay them extra, plus the pray box that needed to be bless by a Rabbi on passover, then the pray paper in the pray box need to be bless and Kosher by a Rabbi. It was a four day process and I work several jobs.
I give it her and she like it, but I was not a diamond ring. Now, we only dated for 6 months, I'm NOT buying her a diamond ring. But, after we broke up and I don't care about her, the pray box has given her luck. Good things do happen.
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I worked today and I just zoned out the drama of the office. Sometimes you have to do it and you will go crazy.
In the office, it like High School all over again. You have the popular people, the geeks, the weirdos, the ones who think they are important but not and the teacher's pets.
I don't get it. I loved High School. I had so much fun. In High School, I wrote for the school paper, two friends and I started a Zine which lasted a semester and I was part of several clubs. But, it was High School.
Now, I'm not saying the proper job is working in a office, but after High School you have responsibilities as a grown adult. With this thought in mind, you grow up.
After High School and College, I knew I had to grow up, so I needed to move away from New York. Moving to Arizona, forced me to grow up and I am so happy for it. If I had to, I would do it all again.
I was forced to pay rent, get my own job instead of calling in a favor, my furniture and make new friends.
It taught me, so much of myself and who I really am as person. I learned about my weakness and my strengths. I learned who Aliya Leigh is.
Remember, don't take people and your situation for granted. There is reason for everything in life, you can beat it or let it suck the life out of you. Everyone in life will help you learn a lesson in life, you just go with the flow and file it in your brain.
Like today, I spoke to one of my cousins. His mother's husband killed her. Before she die, she was known to be a mentally strong person because of all she had to go through.
For example, she was from Denmark, you know, white with blond hair and blue eyes. She married into my family and had two sons who both look black. The first marriage didn't last and she had to move to Florida with two young black boys, crazy picture, huh. She got married a second time, but it didn't last. She and the boys move to Denmark to be with her family. She had to work full-time and teach her children Danish and the Danish way of life. She move back to America with two teenage boys and got married again, but this time the husband killed her.
I still think about her and all she dealt with in life, which I use as an example guiding me in my life. She was strong so I have to be stronger. She was beautiful so I have to be more beautiful. She was determined so I have to be more determined. She made mistakes so I don't make her mistakes.
Life is funny. It teaches, helps, loves, understands and make sure we have fun.
So, when you are around your friends and just people, see how you can learn a positive thing for them because life is about learning, until that last moment of life you smile because you did everything in life you wanted to do with no regrets.
A Florida man told authorities his cat was responsible for more than 1,000 images of alleged child pornography found on his home computer, the Martin County Sheriff's Department reports.
Keith Griffin of Jensen Beach is charged with 10 counts of possession of child pornography. He told investigators he was downloading music and his cat jumped on the keyboard after he had left the room. When he returned, he found "strange things" on his computer, according to the sheriff's report.
Griffin, 48, is being held on $250,000 bond. A neighbor is taking care of the cat — who has not been charged.
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So watch you cats around the computer because they are so super smart and have fingers
I love my life. I try to look at my life as if I was a third person. They women I have been with, women I loved and lost and my job. I look at it and say, " I live a pretty good life."
Everyone's life has its ups and downs, I don't care how famous or rich or poor or alone you are. It's life.
As beings, we create our own life. So, go out there in the world and create. Because we only have one life, so make the best out of it.
NEW YORK — DEVLEOPING: A hacker attack shut down Twitter on Thursday morning, and Facebook also said it was "looking into" possible site problems.
Twitter said in its status blog Thursday that it was "defending against a denial-of-service attack," in which hackers command scores of computers to a single site at the same time, preventing legitimate traffic from getting through.
For users of the fast-growing messaging service, the outage means no tweeting about lunch plans, the weather or the fact that Twitter is down.
also seemed to be experiencing problems, at least intermittently. Facebook spokeswoman Brandee Barker said the company was looking into it and would have an update "as soon as possible."
The Twitter outage began at about 9 a.m. EDT, said Ken Godskind, chief strategy officer at Web performance monitoring company AlertSite. The site still had access problems late morning.
The American Psychological Association declared Wednesday that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or other treatments.
In a resolution adopted by the APA's governing council, and in an accompanying report, the association issued its most comprehensive repudiation of "reparative therapy" — a concept espoused by a small but persistent group of therapists, often allied with religious conservatives, who maintain gays can change.
No solid evidence exists that such change is likely, says the resolution, adopted by a 125-4 vote. The APA said some research suggests that efforts to produce change could be harmful, inducing depression and suicidal tendencies.
Instead of seeking such change, the APA urged therapists to consider multiple options — that could range from celibacy to switching churches — for helping clients live spiritually rewarding lives in instances where their sexual orientation and religious faith conflict.
The APA had criticized reparative therapy in the past, but a six-member task force added weight to this position by examining 83 studies on sexual orientation change conducted since 1960. Its report was endorsed by the APA's governing council in Toronto, where the 150,000-member association's annual meeting is being held this weekend.
The report breaks new ground in its detailed and nuanced assessment of how therapists should deal with gay clients struggling to remain loyal to a religious faith that disapproves of homosexuality.
Judith Glassgold, a Highland Park, New Jersey, psychologist who chaired the task force, said she hoped the document could help calm the polarized debate between religious conservatives who believe in the possibility of changing sexual orientation and the many mental health professionals who reject that option.
"Both sides have to educate themselves better," Glassgold said in an interview. "The religious psychotherapists have to open up their eyes to the potential positive aspects of being gay or lesbian. Secular therapists have to recognize that some people will choose their faith over their sexuality."
In dealing with gay clients from conservative faiths, says the report, therapists should be "very cautious" about suggesting treatments aimed at altering their same-sex attractions.
"Practitioners can assist clients through therapies that do not attempt to change sexual orientation, but rather involve acceptance, support and identity exploration and development without imposing a specific identity outcome," the report says.
"We have to challenge people to be creative," said Glassgold.
She suggested that devout clients could focus on overarching aspects of religion such as hope and forgiveness to transcend negative beliefs about homosexuality, and either remain part of their original faith within its limits — for example, by embracing celibacy — or find a faith that welcomes gays.
"There's no evidence to say that change therapies work, but these vulnerable people are tempted to try them, and when they don't work, they feel doubly terrified," Glassgold said. "You should be honest with people and say, 'This is not likely to change your sexual orientation, but we can help explore what options you have."'
One of the largest organizations promoting the possibility of changing sexual orientation is Exodus International, a network of ministries whose core message is "Freedom from homosexuality through the power of Jesus Christ."
Its president, Alan Chambers, describes himself as someone who "overcame unwanted same-sex attraction." He and other evangelicals met with APA representatives after the task force formed in 2007, and he expressed satisfaction with parts of the report that emerged.
"It's a positive step — simply respecting someone's faith is a huge leap in the right direction," Chambers said. "But I'd go further. Don't deny the possibility that someone's feelings might change."
An evangelical psychologist, Mark Yarhouse of Regent University, praised the APA report for urging a creative approach to gay clients' religious beliefs but — like Chambers — disagreed with its skepticism about changing sexual orientation.
Yarhouse and a colleague, Professor Stanton Jones of Wheaton College, will be releasing findings at the APA meeting Friday from their six-year study of people who went through Exodus programs. More than half of 61 subjects either converted to heterosexuality or "disidentified" with homosexuality while embracing chastity, their study said.
To Jones and Yarhouse, their findings prove change is possible for some people, and on average the attempt to change will not be harmful.
The APA task force took as a starting point the belief that homosexuality is a normal variant of human sexuality, not a disorder, and that it nonetheless remains stigmatized in ways that can have negative consequences.
The report said the subgroup of gays interested in changing their sexual orientation has evolved over the decades and now is comprised mostly of well-educated white men whose religion is an important part of their lives and who participate in conservative faiths that frown on homosexuality.
"Religious faith and psychology do not have to be seen as being opposed to each other," the report says, endorsing approaches "that integrate concepts from the psychology of religion and the modern psychology of sexual orientation."
Perry Halkitis, a New York University psychologist who chairs the APA committee dealing with gay and lesbian issues, praised the report for its balance.
"Anyone who makes decisions based on good science will be satisfied," he said. "As a clinician, you have to deal with the whole person, and for some people, faith is a very important aspect of who they are."
The report also addressed the issue of whether adolescents should be subjected to therapy aimed at altering their sexual orientation. Any such approach should "maximize self-determination" and be undertaken only with the youth's consent, the report said.
Wayne Besen, a gay-rights activist who has sought to discredit the so-called "ex-gay" movement, welcomed the APA findings.
"Ex-gay therapy is a profound travesty that has led to pointless tragedies, and we are pleased that the APA has addressed this psychological scourge," Besen said.
In celebration of "National Coming Out Day," in 1000 words or less, Phoenix Pride wants to know your coming OUT story.
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Hi. Two weekends ago, I went to a religious thing down in Tucson, Arizona. I did it for my parents, so we can have something to talk about. I stay at the religious thing from Saturday to Sunday. Just goes to show you, I love my parents.
I saw so old friends and met new ones. But, one thing, I learned from the whole thing was REGRETS.
If you listen to my podcasts, you would know, I'm a once a month girl. I date a girl for only a month. I didn't know why, until I thought about it. I have a problem with commitments. My friends know about this bad problem I have.
My ex-love who was hot and juicy was the only one that made me commit and I have happy about it. She just went crazy and started hating Blacks and Hispanics. "Hello, I'm BLACK".
I thought about it, I was happy to be with her and to be part of her life, but I was thinking about the future too much instead of think about today. That was the key.
My ex-love mess-up me and I had to deal with it. So, now, when I date a woman, I think about when she's going to leave me, she's so old and I may have to change her Depends, or maybe I can find someone better. Than I also feel, I couldn't have came out of the closet.
Now, I was thinking about this during the religious thing. When we broke for lunch, I walked to Subway. I met a guy who talked to me about the bible and life. I told him, I could not join the religion because of my lifestyle. He thought, I was into drugs and crime, you know. The bad things people go to jail for and find God. I told him, "I'm a lesbian". He was shocked.
One thing I CANT STAND IS WHEN I STRAIGHT PERSON SAYS "You choose to be gay."
WTF? I didn't choose this and then regret enter into my mind. I thought about it. I told him, "This is who I am. And as God is my witness, I am NOT going back into the closet."
I spent too many good years in the closet. Now, I'm more free then before. I'm so happy.
I'm whole and I don't have any regrets about it. I am who I am. But, I need to slow down. I know it. I'm going to make commitments. My profile is on Match.com.
Remember, my sugar mama, she went to Europe and found the love of her life in London, after three weeks. I'm so happy for her. She will be going back to London soon to see the woman. I'm happy for her, but I don't think it's going to last. My opinion. But opinions are like aholes, everyone has one.
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PHOENIX - A Liberian diplomat arrived in Phoenix Wednesday to
meet with everyone involved in the alleged rape of an 8-year-old
Liberian refugee girl.
Edwin Sele touched down at Sky Harbor Airport hours after two
of the four suspects in the case, also Liberian refugees, appeared in
Maricopa County Juvenile Court. Judges said it was up to attorneys
whether the suspects could meet with Sele.
Sele said he wanted to meet with the Liberian community in Phoenix, and also the victim and the suspects.
"I'm a father, I'm a grandfather, I wouldn't want this to happen
to my child, and Liberians don't think that way," Sele said, refuting
reports that rape is condoned in Liberia and the victim often is
blamed.
The young rape suspects, in handcuffs and shackles, went before
separate judges, who ordered them kept in custody while the crime is
investigated further.
One of the boys slouched in his oversized chair and was
expressionless for most of the hearing. But, he began crying when Judge
Aimee Anderson told him she was proud of his accomplishments while he
was in custody and that she realized it was tough for him to be
detained. The boy's age is uncertain because of paperwork
discrepancies; he is either 9 or 10 years old.
A 9-year-old boy charged in the case appeared before another judge.
The two judges left prosecutors the option of changing sexual assault charges against the boys to sexual conduct with a minor.
The boys will return to court Aug. 18 for a mental competency hearing.
The court proceedings revealed the two boys are cousins and that
their parents have returned to Africa. Other family members were in
court, but decided not to speak to reporters and were escorted out by
security personnel. One of the uncles drove toward reporters with horn
blaring and stopped just short of the pack to pick up family members.
A third suspect, 14 years old, has been charged as an adult,
and prosecutors moved this week to have a fourth suspect, 13 years old,
also tried as an adult.
The father of the alleged victim said Tuesday that he knew
nothing about the ambassador's visit and that he had no opinion about
trying the suspects as adults.
"I have nothing to say," he told News/Talk 92-3 KTAR.
Martha Riveria, who lived next door to the 13-year-old suspect, did have a comment.
"I'm so proud justice is served. She's a little girl and she
deserves to be protected and if parents are not there to do it, justice
is doing what needs to be done."
Riveria said the 13-year-old should be tried as an adult.
"At age 13, you already know what you're doing, what is wrong and what is right."
Riveria said the suspect's family moved out of the complex last weekend.
The rape was not reported for a week and officials said cultural
differences caused the victim's family to blame her instead of her
attackers.
Sele said the Liberian government does not condone rape, as some media reports have said.
"We think this is a special, isolated case," he said, adding,
"We are very concerned about the well-being of the 8-year-old girl, who
only is a baby."
The suspects all are Liberian refugees, like the victim.
Police said the four boys lured the girl to an empty
storage shed July 16 with the promise of chewing gum, then restrained her and took turns raping her.
The suspects were arrested July 21.
The 14-year-old faces charges of kidnapping, sexual assault,
attempted sexual conduct with a minor and four counts of sexual conduct
with a minor. His arraignment is scheduled for Aug. 10.
The case ignited an international outcry after Phoenix police
reported the girl's parents said they were ashamed of her and didn't
want her back, which led Child Protective Services to take custody of
her.
The family's pastor says the father's statements were all a
misunderstanding resulting from a language barrier and that the family desperately wants her back.
(Copyright 2008 Bonneville International Corporation. All rights
reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or
redistributed. AP contributed to this report.)
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TUESDAY UPDATE.... Multiple sources tell me the toxicology report on Michael Jackson is complete and that the Coroner's Office has submitted it's report to the LAPD.
I am told the report was finished very recently and most of the tests were conducted at the Coroner's Office and samples were for the most part not sent to outside labs. The Coroner's Office is not holding a press conference as they had originally planned, but is waiting for direction from the LAPD.
That doesn't mean they won't release cause of death, but the Coroner's Office doesn't want to jeopardize the investigation and is waiting for LAPD guidance.
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: One of our sources has told me for a couple of days that he does believe the release of the toxicology report will come next week. Having said that, anything can happen, so we remain prepared to cover the release when it is anounced. This all comes as we also prepare for the court battle coming Monday over custody of the Jackson children and control of his will. I have just been e-mailed this statement from the Special Administrators listed in the 2002 Jackson will, who are preparing for that courtroom battle on Monday. Since being appointed by the Probate Court as Special Administrators of the Estate of Michael Jackson, John Branca and John McClain, who were specifically designated by Michael Jackson in his will to be executors of his Estate, have been focused on preserving Michael's legacy and carrying out his wishes. According to two of my sources from different offices involved in this search.....They insist, this is NOT a raid. A raid "is when we go in with guns, knock down doors and arrest people." He continues, "This is serving a search warrant as part of an intense ongoing investigation."
The Special Administrators have and will continue to provide timely information to Mrs. Jackson's counsel regarding potential business opportunities for the Estate. Any inference that we have not been forthcoming in providing information to Katherine Jackson's attorneys is not accurate.
There is one agreement being requested by Mrs. Jackson's attorneys where the other party to the contract has agreed to provide the document to Mrs. Jackson and her attorneys but requested that the terms be kept confidential and not be shared with third parties. Mrs. Jackson's lawyers have refused that offer.
Based on comments made on The Today Show by one of Mrs. Jackson's attorneys it appears that they want to rewrite Michael's will to make Mrs. Jackson "Guardian of the Estate" and have her appointed as an Executor and Trustee of Michael Jackson's Estate.
In his will Michael was very specific that his mother act as the Guardian of his children and that Mr. Branca and Mr. McClain be the Executors of his Will and Trustees of his Trust.
FROM TUESDAY:
The reason why the raid is taking place in Las Vegas today and not last week is due to complications with obtaining a search warrant on Dr. Murray's home. As one tells me "Justice is sometimes slow and there is a strict protocol and method we have to follow. This is not a totalitarian state and we have to absolutely respect the right of someone being investigated like Dr. Murray."
6 Agencies are taking part (state, Fed and local). This is very similar to last weeks search warrant in Houston. It is under seal, initiated by Las Vegas Police and led by LAPD. The investigators are looking for documents and records. They are building a very detailed case and much of this stuff can't easily be destroyed without obvious.
The DEA is taking part in this investigation NOT due to a possible manslaughter investigation. They are strictly looking at Doctor Murray and his connection to the drugs involved in this case and possibly others.
Remember, last week we reported there might be more searches of locations connected to Dr. Murray.
I am also told: Investigators DO NOT feel that Dr. Murray is a flight risk. As of right now, they don't expect to arrest him any time soon, but that could always change on short notice. They suggest this investigation closely resembles the Anna Nicole investigation, which took months to wrap up.
I am also told, "prosecuting a person in a case like this is extremely difficult and some prosecutors would argue almost impossible. It is so hard to prove."
Multiple sources tell me the toxicology report on Michael Jackson is complete and that the Coroner's Office has submitted it's report to the LAPD. I am told the report was finished very recently and most of the tests were conducted at the Coroner's Office and samples were for the most part not sent to outside labs. The Coroner's Office is not holding a press conference as they had originally planned, but is waiting for direction from the LAPD. That doesn't mean they won't release cause of death, but the Coroner's Office doesn't want to jeopardize the investigation and is waiting for LAPD guidance.
Multiple sources tell me the toxicology report on Michael Jackson is complete and that the Coroner's Office has submitted it's report to the LAPD. I am told the report was finished very recently and most of the tests were conducted at the Coroner's Office and samples were for the most part not sent to outside labs. The Coroner's Office is not holding a press conference as they had originally planned, but is waiting for direction from the LAPD. That doesn't mean they won't release cause of death, but the Coroner's Office doesn't want to jeopardize the investigation and is waiting for LAPD guidance.
And the Oscar for biggest ne'er-do-well brat child of a legendary acting family goes to — Cameron Douglas.
The son of Academy Award winner Michael Douglas has been arrested once again — this time in the Big Apple for getting in the middle of a deal to sell an eye-popping pile of crystal meth, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
The 30-year-old sometime-actor/sometime-DJ was busted on July 28 at the Gansevoort Hotel in the Meatpacking District by a DEA task force, the sources said.
He had been staying at the hotel for some time in a room rented by his father, and when authorities barged in, they found the place a mess and Cameron Douglas "very strung out," according to the sources.
An informant had told the investigators that Douglas — grandson of Kirk Douglas — was the middleman in a deal to move a half-pound of crystal meth from California to New York to sell.
New Sherlock Holmes Film to Explore Homoerotic Relationship Between Lead Characters
Guy Ritchie's plan to put a gay spin on the relationship of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in his new movie about the detective and his sidekick could backfire.
Robert Downey Jr., who plays Holmes, has revealed the crimebuster will sleep with and have sweaty grappling scenes with Watson, played by Jude Law, in "Sherlock Holmes," due out Christmas Day.
"We're two men who happen to be roommates, wrestle a lot and share a bed. It's bad-ass," Downey told Britain's News of the World. Added much-in-the-news Law: "Guy wanted to make this about the relationship between Watson and Holmes. They're both mean and complicated."
But Michael Medved, a former Post movie critic, says Downey and Law must be joking. "There's not a seething, bubbling hunger to see straight stars impersonating homosexuals," Medved told us. "I think they're just trying to generate controversy . . . They know that making Holmes and Watson homosexual will take away two-thirds of their box office. Who is going to want to see Downey Jr. and Law make out? I don't think it would be appealing to women. Straight men don't want to see it."
Roger Johnson, editor of the Sherlock Holmes Journal, observed that in Arthur Conan Doyle's original stories, "Watson is something of a ladies' man, but a faithful husband to his wife. And Holmes is essentially asexual, with no erotic interest in women or men."
This weekend was crazy. My brother called me and said that the world is ending and Obama banned religion. When he called me, I was half sleep. He kept talking on and on about how the world is ending and I need to listen to the news more often. I just blew it off. He talked to my mother the same day and made her cry. So, of course, I talked to her today.
My mother and I talked for three hours about being gay. She mention that being gay is a choice. But, I could hear in voice that she also leaned to the gay life, but lives straight. She loves my father too much. She's straight, but it's funny that she thought about being gay.
My mom accepts me, but wish I was straight. She doesn't want me to practice being gay. But, you don't have to have sex to be gay.
It's like when a black man will do anything to be white. It can't happen. The same way, a true gay person tries to be straight.
This weekend, I when to a straight swinger party because I bi girl was telling me about it. I never been to one, so I decided to check it out. I felt so out of place. I was the only Lesbian and guys wanted to have sex with me. I felt so uncomfortable and so uneasy, I just watched and looked. I when home to sleep. It also made me see, I want a long-term relationship, instead playing the field. I did fool around with one girl, but it I didn't have sex with her. It was crazy and weird. It just proves that GLBT people don't choose, but they are.
Talking to my mother and understanding her point of view, I love her. She loves to be Queen Bitch, but she's making efforts to understand my feelings and thoughts about my life.
For the first time, she told me that God loves me and that means alot from her. My mom will not be joining PFLAG anytime soon.
I still have not been on a date yet, but still looking.
I went out drinking with some co-workers and friends. My friends were the lesbian and her partner and a gay guy who I work with. My friend the lesbian has been with her partner for 20 years. Wow. That's a long time, but it can happen.
I want to date, but I am so afraid because I don't want to get hurt again. See, if you date random women, you can't get hurt because you don't feel anything, just sex. You don't care about them and they don't care about you. So, it is perfect.
But, I do want that special person in my life, but I'm a just guard my heart. I hate to feel this way, but it is so true. I am looking for that person who can break down my walls and make me whole.
My last true love did a number on me, but I feel sorry for her. I just want her to tell me, "I am truly sorry. I wish, I could make things better and I learned for my mistakes."
That's all I want for her. Also, I want her to feel great about herself. She is so beautiful, sexy and hot. Thinking about her, make me wet, but when she opens her mouth, I just want to throw up.
I just pray, she will love herself and know that she is a wonderful and loving person when she wants to be. That is why, I feel in love with her because she had a good heart, but for some reason her heart turned into a big black ice cube.
So, I am going to fight my fear like a butch woman and find the woman for me, who love me for me. I am looking for friend who I can tell anything too. I'm looking for comfort and love. Because I will love her the same.
Hi, Guys. What's up with you? I'm ok. I decided to join a dating service. The site is www.compatible.com. It's suppose to be the Eharmony for the gays. Well, I will be on there.
I need to have steady girlfriend. The chasing after different girls is getting old. It one girl after the next. The same old same old. You meet, have sex and they leave. Maybe you will talk a few times or you don't, I never cared. I would talk about them anyway.
With some girls, the sex is exciting, dull, down right boring, weird and sick. I have done it all and had my fill.
Now, I'm ready to settle down and have a family. But, I need to find the right girl first. I know she is out there, but where?
You may not get very many opportunities to get it on for extended periods of time with a lover, but when you do get the chance you don’t want to lose out by not knowing how to keep up your side of the bargain.
There are several ways to keep yourself in good form should the occasion arise. Enduring a sex marathon can take a few hours or longer if the situation demands it. It could go all night.
However, even the most virile and energetic must rest and rejuvenate. It’s a good idea to be well-fed (but not too well) with food that releases energy slowly (such as grains and low GI carbohydrates) and be well hydrated — sweating and exercise uses your body’s stores of water quickly.
Here are some tips on enduring a sex marathon.
Don’t Orgasm
You can do this by choosing positions that provide less stimulation — because everyone is different, only you will know what these are for you. In saying this, most positions that enter from behind provide lots of stimulation. Change positions if you feel like you’re losing the power of your drive and erection or getting too close to orgasm. Keeping yourself near orgasm can be risky (you might release by mistake), but it ensures you will stay hard, and the passion won’t abate too much during your sex marathon. Bear in mind that having an orgasm isn’t the end of the session and you can take a rest before you continue. This is a good time to experiment with positions that you may not have tried with your partner.
If you do happen to need a rest while enduring a sex marathon or you do orgasm, you can easily shift the focus off of you and onto her. This can include cuddling, fondling, massage, general touching, and kissing. A rest doesn’t have to be totally sexual in nature, and it’s just as nice to make love for hours as it is to just touch each other in nice ways — or invent new ways of lovin’. There are many ways to be intimate. Just don’t fall asleep!
Don’t Drink Too Much
Alcohol is known to be a relaxant and can be a wonderful addition to the time you share with your lover. In saying that, after two or more drinks, alcohol lowers a man’s ability to achieve and maintain erections, and can trigger an inability to orgasm for a long time (which may sound good, but it can weaken your erection so much that it’s no fun). Alcohol also has sedative effects — it could cause you to fall asleep easily. Drinking can also encourage unsafe behavior (such as not using condoms). Enduring a sex marathon will not be helped by drinking too much alcohol.
Sex is a broad term and is used for just about anything that tickles your fancy — it doesn’t just include intercourse or oral sex. While enduring a sex marathon, you can introduce sex toys like vibrators, beads or sex paraphernalia such as whips, ropes and blindfolds. Food is also a great diversion and pleasure; ice cream, chocolate sauce or whipped cream are great. Choose flavors you both like. Get creative — you can draw out the process for quite some time with some very lusty teasing using these objects. Don’t stick to the same old; use your imagination.
Keep Lube Handy
Sex play for hours is taxing on the body’s resources. This is understandable, but you do need to be aware of the potential pitfalls of sex play for long periods. One of the main problems could be dryness, so keep some good quality lubricant handy, one that tastes nice and is non-greasy. If you’re unsure of what kind to buy, do your homework and purchase a couple of different types (silicone-based, water-based) as well as different brands to find one that you both like. And don’t scrimp on lube! Enduring a sex marathon requires a lot of moisture. If you are using condoms, lube is going to be essential to help prevent breakage and to stop the friction heat and dryness that can occur.A glass of water nearby is also going to be useful, not only to rehydrate but to moisten your mouth.
Go, Go Gadget
Remember — enduring a sex marathon takes a little time and lots of patience. However, in the end, you and your lover will be satisfyingly happy (and probably a bit worn out too) and more knowledgeable for future sessions.
Emergency grants from the National Endowment for the Arts may be going to help fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night "pervert" revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco.
Talk about a stimulus package.
The National Endowment for the Arts may be spending some of the money it received from the Recovery and Reinvestment Act to fund nude simulated-sex dances, Saturday night "pervert" revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco.
The NEA was given $80 million of the government's $787 billion economic stimulus bill to spread around to needy artists nationwide, and most of the money is being spent to help preserve jobs in museums, orchestras, theaters and dance troupes that have been hit hard by the recession.
But some of the NEA's grants are spicing up more than the economy. A few of their more risque choices have some taxpayer advocates hot under the collar, including a $50,000 infusion for the Frameline film house, which recently screened Thundercrack, "the world's only underground kinky art porno horror film, complete with four men, three women and a gorilla."
"When you spend so much money in a short amount of time ... you're going to have nonsense like this, and that's why the stimulus should never have been done in the first place," said David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste.
Click here for a full list of all of the NEA's Recovery Act grants.
Williams said such support for the arts is a luxury at a time when the president and Congress have been telling the public to make sacrifices to manage the recession.
"When taxpayers see this, they realize that's just a bunch of hot air," he told FOXNews.com.
Some members of Congress raised alarms as the stimulus bill was being drafted and approved, but President Obama, while admitting there were problems with the $787 billion legislation, stressed the need for immediate action to resuscitate the economy.
"We can't afford to make perfect the enemy of the absolutely necessary," Obama said at the time.
But he presumably didn't intend to have stimulus money help fund the weekly production of "Perverts Put Out" at San Francisco's CounterPULSE, whose "long-running pansexual performance series" invites guests to "join your fellow pervs for some explicit, twisted fun."
CounterPULSE received a $25,000 grant in the "Dance" category; a staffer there said they were pleased to receive the grant, "which over the next year will be used to preserve jobs at our small non-profit."
Similarly, the director of Frameline, the gay and lesbian film house, told FOXNews.com in an e-mail that their $50,000 grant was not to support any program in particular.
"The grant is not intended for a specific program; it's to be used for the preservation of jobs at our media arts nonprofit organization over the next year during the economic downturn," wrote K.C. Price, who listed four other NEA grants his organization has received.
An NEA spokeswoman defended the agency's choices and said its grants would help "preserve jobs in danger of going away or that had gone away because of the economic downturn."
"Our review process is very comprehensive -- we take great care with applicants and with grantees," said NEA spokeswoman Victoria Hutter. "It's a thorough, rigorous process that they all go through, and we're proud of the projects that we've been able to support."
Though the process was sped up, the NEA's 109 panelist reviewers handled the compressed schedule by giving their $50 million in direct grants only to individuals and groups that have received funding in the past and have already passed muster. An additional $30 million was given to state agencies to parcel out to local artists during this year.
One project that has received past NEA funding and stands to get an additional boost from a $25,000 stimulus grant is "The Symmetry Project," a dance piece by choreographer Jess Curtis.
The show depicts "the sharing of a central axis, [as] spine, mouth, genitals, face, and anus reveal their interconnectedness and centrality in embodied experience," according to a description offered on Curtis' Web site.
In the flesh -- and there's a lot of it -- it amounts to two people writhing naked on the floor, a government-funded tango in the altogether.
Curtis said that diminished support from regular funders like San Francisco Grants for the Arts "would mean lots less work and less ability to organize ... to get the work out in front of people." He said the NEA funding will help keep his art afloat.
"I think art is an incredibly important part of our culture and our life and ... that it's very much appropriate that our government should be supporting it," he told FOXNews.com.
San Francisco's economy is driven by the arts, which provided nearly 30,000 jobs in the city last year, according to Luis R. Cancel, director of cultural affairs for the San Francisco Arts Council.
"The city's non-profit arts and cultural sector generates $1.03 billion in local economic activity annually and, therefore, it will play a critical role in our recovery," Cancel said in a statement.
"With these stimulus funds San Francisco arts organizations will be able to weather the storm and continue to provide jobs and to generate revenue while enriching people's lives through innovative, high quality programming."
Williams, the taxpayer advocate, allowed that the $100,000 granted to the three groups "isn't going to make or break the country financially," but he said arts institutions should try to raise money by raising ticket prices -- not by taxing individuals.
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, he said. "These sorts of programs really do need to be funded by the patrons that go to the performances -- not by the federal government."
With her jet-black hair, thick red lips, sexy attitude and uncensored mouth its hard not to think of Megan Fox as the emerging Angelina Jolie, but the 23-year-old "Transformers" starlet has had enough with constantly being compared to the actress/activist.
"I think its cause she has tattoos really, I think a lack of creativity on the media's part," Fox said. "I am a brunette with tattoos, I curse and I have made mention of sex before. I joked about it which people find outrageous so they want to constantly compare that to her. You know Shia is the new Tom Hanks, Rhianna is the new Beyonce. Everybody is the new somebody although none of us are any of those people so you just walk around with it you live with it."
However Fox isn't the only one quick to diss the comparison, Jolie"s own father Jon Voight agrees that the two really aren't alike.
Megan is herself and Angelina is herself. No one is comparable; everyone in the world is unique," Voight told Tarts at the recent "Transformers" premiere in Los Angeles. "That"s the great thing about it, but of course they’re two very beautiful women."
But it turns out that "Jennifer’s Body" writer Diablo Cody may have played a prominent role in contributing to Fox’s self-proclaimed filthy mouth.
"She (Cody) has told me some of the dirtiest jokes I’ve ever heard in my entire life," Fox told Tarts over the weekend at the Comic Con Festival in San Diego.
But how did the world’s hottest woman feel about being mutated into a zombie for the role?
"Going through hours of zombie makeup wasn’t necessarily hard it was just so bizarre because I’m so used to being glamorized on a Michael Bay set to the point where you don’t feel beautiful anymore because you’re like a mannequin," she added. "So being made into a zombie was really bizarre and some of the prosthetics were very laborious but it was so interesting."
A veteran sports reporter for New Hampshire's largest newspaper was charged Wednesday with running a prostitution ring in two states and Canada that employed women who "auditioned" for the job by having sex with him.
Longtime New Hampshire Union Leader sports writer Kevin Provencher, 50, is accused of advertising his prostitution ring's services on Craigslist and other Web sites.
He rented hotel rooms in Andover, Mass., and in New Hampshire — where the women would have sex for money, prosecutors said.
Provencher allegedly met the women at a Manchester hotel to "audition" them, the Union Leader said. He is accused of giving one woman lingerie, having sex with her and then telling her she was hired, the newspaper reported, citing court documents.
Provencher, a sports reporter at the Union Leader for more than two decades, was arrested at his Manchester home early Wednesday and was taken to Massachusetts, where he was ordered held on $10,000 cash bail during his arraignment in Lawrence District Court.
He pleaded not guilty to two counts of deriving support from prostitution.
The ring may have operated in Canada, prosecutors said. They call Provencher its ringleader.
Essex Assistant District Attorney Michelle Defeo told the Union Leader that Provencher performed background checks on prospective customers to make sure they weren't police officers, then would rent hotel rooms and provide the women with contact information for the clients.
At the end of the day, the women would give Provencher half the money they earned or would deposit it an account he set up, Defeo said.
Police, who said they believe the operation started about a year ago, began investigating after management at the Spring Hill Suites hotel in Andover became suspicious and called authorities.
Police said they set up a sting operation at the hotel on June 11 and saw men entering and leaving a room. Defeo said law enforcement authorities "could clearly hear activities consistent with sexual intercourse," the Union Leader reported.
Provencher has been suspended from the newspaper, where he has been its primary motor sports reporter since 1990. He also has been the Union Leader's beat reporter covering the Manchester Monarchs since the American Hockey League franchise's 2001 inception.
The newspaper's management issued a statement calling Provencher "a valued employee for many years."
"He is innocent until proven guilty," it said. "However, given the nature and seriousness of the charges, he is suspended until further notice."
Provencher's lawyer, Jessica Thrall, did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Wednesday.
A flea-bitten dog rescued from a squalid Melbourne, Australia, backyard is to be reunited with her ecstatic owner nine years after she disappeared.
And 17-year-old Chloe Rushby, who was only eight when her furry friend disappeared, can't wait to have Muffy back in her arms.
Chloe and her family screamed with joy when the RSPCA called to say Muffy was alive - much older, very scruffy and 1,250 miles away in Melbourne.
"It would be fair to say that they were extremely elated and extremely excited by the call," RSPCA inspector Gail Coulter, who found an emaciated Muffy after an anonymous tip, told The Daily Telegraph.
"They were initially shocked and confused, but when we mentioned the name Muffy - which is part of the microchip information - and gave them a description of her, they knew it was their pet lost so many years ago."
The woman who made the 911 call that launched America into a national debate on race said Wednesday that she was unfairly called a "racist" after she reported a possible break-in at the Cambridge, Mass., home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr.
A clearly distressed Lucia Whalen addressed reporters at a press conference in an effort to clear her name after the city released the 911 tape. It revealed that Whalen did not identify either of the men she thought she saw trying to break into Gates' home as black, even though an initial police report said she did.
"When I was called racist and I was a target of scorn and ridicule because of the things I never said, the criticisms hurt me as a person, but it also hurt the community of Cambridge," Whalen said.
"Now that the tapes are out, I hope people can see that I tried to be careful and honest with my words," she said. "It never occurred to me that the way that I reported what I saw be analyzed by an entire nation."
Whalen said repeatedly in the July 16 call that she didn't have a good vantage point and could not see what the two men trying to get into the home looked like.
When pressed by a dispatcher on whether the men were white, black or Hispanic, Whalen said one of them might have been Hispanic.
The two men Whalen saw trying to force their way into the home turned out to be Gates, who lives there, and his driver. Gates was arrested by Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley for disorderly conduct, but charges were later dropped.
Whalen's attorney, Wendy Murphy, seized the opportunity Wednesday to criticize President Obama's invitation to host both Gates and Crowley for a beer summit at the White House.
"The three highly trained guys who reacted badly are getting together for a beer," she said. "But the one person whose actions have been exemplary will be at work tomorrow in Cambridge."
"I don't know -- maybe it's a guy thing. She doesn't like beer anyway," she said.
Murphy said the incident spiraled into a media sensation because of the "overreaction of three men" -- which Murphy said included the response from the president.
"I'm proud to introduce you to the one person who didn’t overreact," she said.
Obama said during a press conference last week that the Cambridge police had "acted stupidly" when they arrested Gate, his friend, after he showed them identification verifying his residence. But the president later said he chose his words badly when he reacted to Gates' arest.
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that Obama will drink Bud Light, Gates will drink Red Stripe, and Crowley will drink Blue Moon when the three men meet for a drink at the White House on Thursday.
The president had reportedly phoned Crowley, who suggested the three men sit down for a beer. The president said he liked the idea, and Gates concurred when Obama phoned him next.
No. 3 at Justice Department Approved Black Panther Reversal
The No. 3 official in the Obama Justice Department was consulted and ultimately approved a decision in May to reverse course and drop a civil complaint accusing three members of the New Black Panther Party, according to The Washington Times.
The third-ranking official at the Obama Justice Department approved a decision in May to drop a civil complaint that accused three New Black Panther Party members of intimidating voters on Election Day last year, The Washington Times reports.
The newspaper reported that Associate Attorney General Thomas J. Perrelli was consulted on the matter before approving a decision in May to reverse course and drop the complaint.
The decision was made despite the fact that Justice lawyers in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division had pursued the complaint for five months and had recommended sanctions against the party and three of its members for their actions in Philadelphia in November. The government had already won a default judgment against them in federal court.
The Washington Times, citing records and interviews, reported that these lawyers were told by their bosses in late April to seek a delay even though they were in the final stages of their work.
The delay reportedly was ordered by then-acting Assistant Attorney General Loretta King after meeting with Perrelli and discussing the case.
The Justice Department, however, disputed the allegations in the article, saying it distorted the decision-making process.
"There's nothing new here," a Justice official told FOX News. "Heavier innuendo, but no new facts. They're distorting the decision-making process, relying on Perrelli as Assistant Attorney General that oversees the civil rights division, (therefore) he made the call. Not true. Top career (officials) in the civil rights division made the decision."
New York City is buying one-way plane tickets for homeless families to leave the city.
It's part of a program by Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration to keep the homeless out of the expensive shelter system, which costs $36,000 a year per family.
More than 550 families have left the city since 2007. All it takes is for a relative to agree to take them in.
The city employs a travel agency for domestic travel and the Department of Homeless Services handles international travel.
City officials say there are no limits on where a family can be sent and families can reject the offer.
Families have been sent to 24 states and five continents, mostly to Puerto Rico, Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas.
City officials say none of the relocated families have returned to city shelters.
NEW YORK (AP) - HBO scored highest among 15 networks for its representation of gay characters last season, according to a report released Monday.
In its third annual Network Responsibility Index, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation found that of HBO's 14 original prime-time series, 10 included content reflecting the lives of gay, bisexual and transgender people. That totaled 42 percent of the network's programming hours, in series such as "True Blood," "Entourage" and "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency."
By contrast, on NBC and CBS only 8 percent and 5 percent, respectively, of prime-time hours included them, the report said.
For the report, GLAAD reviewed all prime-time programming, totaling 4,901 hours, for inclusion of such characters or issues on the five major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW) from June 1, 2008, to May 31, 2009. The study also examined all original prime-time programming, 1,213 hours, on 10 prominent cable networks. The programming included dramas, comedies, unscripted fare and newsmagazines.
Cable's Showtime ranked second, with 26 percent of its programming hours featuring gay characters or themes. Series included "The L Word," "Weeds" and "The United States of Tara," a new comedy about a family whose teenage son is gay.
ABC got the highest ranking of the five broadcast networks, with 24 percent. It was the second year in a row that ABC led the broadcasters.
Among ABC series, the report cited newlyweds Kevin and Scotty on "Brothers & Sisters," the engagement of Andrew to Dr. Alex Cominis on "Desperate Housewives" and bisexual Dr. Callie Torres on "Grey's Anatomy."
The CW logged 20 percent, and the Fox network 11 percent, the report said.
Among the sampling of cable networks evaluated, TNT showed the largest growth, jumping to 19 percent last season from 1 percent the year before. This was largely thanks to its new drama series, "Raising the Bar," which features gay law clerk Charlie Sagansky as a regular character, GLAAD said.
"Television shows that weave our stories into the fabric of the series present richer, more diverse representations," said Rashad Robinson, GLAAD's senior director of media programs.
In September, GLAAD will release its annual report evaluating gay, bisexual and transgender inclusion, and other diversity, among scripted characters scheduled to appear during the 2009-10 season. Monday's report said TV characters in general are predominantly white, regardless of sexual orientation.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Penn State University is now the nation's No. 1 party school. Arizona State University ranks No. 20.
The school known partly for its football tailgate weekends and fraternity and sorority scene snatched the title away from the University of Florida in the 2009 Princeton Review survey of 122,000 students nationwide. Florida, last year's winner, finished second in the annual survey released Monday.
It's the first time Penn State has finished first in the dubious category. The school has been on the list the last seven years and ranked third in 2008. The listing covers Penn State's main University Park campus in State College.
``These rankings are not more than popularity contests,'' said university spokeswoman Annemarie Mountz. She noted that groups on the social networking site Facebook have urged members to make Penn State the top party school.
``It's a badge of honor at this point. Nationwide, kids want to pump their schools in these surveys,'' Mountz said. ``It's not connected to reality.''
The rankings were part of the Princeton Review's ``The Best 371 Colleges'' annual guide. On average, there were 325 respondents to the survey per school, which Mountz said amounted to less than 1 percent of the University Park campus' enrollment of 43,000 students.
Penn State also finished first in the categories ``lots of beer'' and students who pack the stadium. Beaver Stadium is one of the country's largest sports facility, seating more than 107,000 for football games.
After Penn State and Florida, the top five institutions on the party schools list were the University of Mississippi, the University of Georgia, and Ohio University-Athens.
Guide author Robert Franek said every school in the survey offered ``great academics.''
But the guide does not rank schools academically, Franek said in a statement, because the goal is to ``help students find and get into the best school for them ... It's all about fit.''
The annual rankings also list the country's ``Stone-Cold Sober Schools.'' Brigham Young University in Utah topped that list for the 12th straight year.
The Princeton Review is a New York company known for its test preparation courses, educational services and books and is not affiliated with Princeton University.
The nation's top party schools, according to Princeton Review's 2009 survey of 122,000 students:
1. Penn State University, State College, Pa. 2. University of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. 3. University of Mississippi, University, Miss. 4. University of Georgia, Athens, Ga. 5. Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 6. West Virginia University, Morgantown, W.Va. 7. University of Texas, Austin, Texas 8. University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wis. 9. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla. 10. University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Calif. 11. University of Colorado, Boulder, Colo. 12. University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 13. Union College, Schenectady, N.Y. 14. Indiana University, Bloomington, Ind. 15. DePauw University, Greencastle, Ind. 16. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. 17. Sewanee: The University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. 18. University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, N.D. 19. Tulane University, New Orleans, La. 20. Arizona State University, Tempe, Ariz.
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Candy Spelling -- the mother famously at war with her daughter -- has taken the bold step of communicating with Tori Spelling through TMZ ... and her opening line isn't gonna get her a lot of invites. Here's the open letter in all its glory:
EXCLUSIVE TO: TMZ.COM TO: MIDDLE-AGED REALITY SHOW STARS (LIKE MY DAUGHTER) FROM: CANDY SPELLING
I Know many middle-aged people have issues about their parents and their upbringing. I did. My memories didn't match all those of my mother, and, funny thing, it's the same way with my daughter.
Life has consequences. What you say is on the record. Other people have feelings.
have a vested interest in this subject. My daughter, Tori's, two-part season finale revolves around my granddaughter's first birthday party and how she has made what seems like an agonizing decision to invite me.
Cue music. Cue sideways glances. Cue Lights.
I did get an invitation just in time for the RSVP deadline. I'm sure its delivery will be on next week's episode with some comment about my house or driveway or street or something they won't like. I wonder if that will be spread out over one part or two. Sigh.
A big party wasn't how I envisioned meeting my granddaughter for the first time; but, hey, this is Hollywood, and my grandchildren have become reality show props, too. At the time I emailed "yes," I didn't realize I was being set up for a two-parter, even though it was clear I was being invited to be part of a segment for my daughter's reality show.
Spoiler alert. Don't read this if you plan to sit through an hour of people looking at their watches and saying "she's late." I decided my first meeting with my granddaughter should be on home video, not primetime cable; so I emailed that I would not be attending.
Back to other reality stars. My husband taught me that the plots have to be fresh and updated. The same old whining gets tired after a while. Enough complaining about what may or may not have happened during first grade or YMCA camp, or what vegetable you were forced to endure, especially when you are privileged enough to be on TV and get paid for it.
For all the reality show personalities, please remember that real life doesn't get edited to make things better or worse or get better ratings. You're responsible for what you do. Life isn't just a show. And your families can't just be props. Make your own season finale without creating conflicts you will regret later.
DALLAS — Police said they found a 3 1/2-week-old infant stabbed and decapitated in a Texas home on Sunday and his mother "screaming that she killed her baby" after the devil told her to do it.
The mother, Otty Sanchez, 33, of San Antonio, was taken to a local hospital in critical condition with self-inflicted stab wounds to her chest and stomach, said San Antonio police spokesman Joe Rios.
Investigators took a sword, a machete and a kitchen knife from the home.
Officers also found two children unharmed at the home, though it wasn't immediately clear where they were taken.
Sanchez will be charged with capital murder, Rios said. A spokeswoman at University Hospital in San Antonio said she couldn't release information on Sanchez's condition, but Sgt. Wes McCourt said her wounds didn't appear to be life threatening.
Rios said that when police arrived, Sanchez was sitting on the couch "screaming that she killed her baby." Police said the baby was Scott Wesley Buchholtz-Sanchez.
"She mentioned that someone or something told her to do it, she was hearing voices. So that leads us to believe that she was experiencing some type of mental crisis," Rios said. "The baby had obviously been decapitated."
McCourt said she told investigators that the devil told her to kill her son.
FORT MYERS BEACH, Fla. — A South Florida town manager who married a porn star last year was fired at an emergency meeting after the mayor and council members learned about it.
Fort Myers Beach town council voted 5-0 to fire Scott Janke "without cause" after Mayor Larry Kiker called the Tuesday night meeting.
Kiker told the News-Press of Fort Myers he learned that afternoon that Janke's wife is an adult film star, and the elected officials took the action a few hours later.
"We did everything we could not to judge," Kiker told the paper. "It's not about him and her. It's about the town."
Adult Industry News recently reported that Janke's wife, Anabela Mota Janke, goes by the stage name Jazella Moore.
Kiker said a clause in Janke's contract permitted the council to fire him with a majority vote. He said he considers the Jankes friends.
"Our heads are held high," Janke told The Associated Press. "We have nothing to be embarrassed about. We've done nothing wrong."
Janke said the mayor called him before the meeting, but didn't invite him to attend. He said Kiker called after the meeting to tell him the outcome, and Janke said he hasn't heard from him or any council member since. Janke will get a severance package worth six months salary, which comes to about $50,000, plus health benefits.
Janke said he and his wife were married in October and are taking care of their three teenage children. He wouldn't comment on any possible legal action against the town.
Kiker acknowledged that Janke had violated no rules or laws and added that he had done a good job for the island town that had about 6,500 people, according to the 2000 Census. But the mayor was concerned whether Janke could remain effective.
"We had to decide what was in the best interest of the town," Kiker told the News-Press. "We have a lot of major projects in front of us, and we needed to make sure that we move forward."
Kiker did not immediately return a call Wednesday from the AP.
Councilman Tom Babcock, responding to residents' questions, said at a council meeting Wednesday that Janke was fired because his wife's profession brought an inaccurate image to Fort Myers Beach, according to the News-Press.
"When you become a public figure you are held to a different level of scrutiny and ethics," Babcock said.
Janke said it's too early to think about what's next in his career.
"A termination on a resume does not look good, no matter what the reason," Janke said.
Janke began working for Fort Myers Beach in March 2008. He has also worked for the City of Marathon in the Keys and had worked for various local governments throughout Alaska since 1989.
A young Muslim woman has been warned by police that her life is in danger after a male friend lost his tongue in an alleged assault using acid in an apparent “honor attack."
The Danish Asian man is in a serious but stable condition in the hospital after an incident in Leytonstone, East London, three weeks ago. Sulphuric acid is said to have been thrown in his face and he was stabbed twice in the back.
The 24-year-old, being treated in a specialist unit in Essex, is now blind, his tongue has been destroyed and he suffered burns over 90 percent of his body.
The woman, who claims the relationship is an innocent friendship, and the man live in the Asian community of East London, where their relationship is said to have upset her family for bringing dishonor on them.
Scotland Yard have issued what is known as an “Osman warning” — telling the woman that there is a threat to her life.
A police source told The Times that she had not been moved into a safe house but police were in daily contact with her.
Detectives believe that the man and woman were not in a sexual relationship but were just friends.
Two men, aged 19 and 25, are due to appear before Waltham Forest Magistrates Thursday, charged with the attempted murder of the 24-year-old man on July 2. Both men are said to be related to the woman, one is understood to be her brother.
Five men have been arrested and bailed “pending further inquiries” by police.
At the time of the attack a police source said: “It looks like this gang set out to deliberately target this man. They were dressed in masks and gloves so none of the acid would get on them.”
PHOENIX - The ostracizing of a young rape victim by her Liberian immigrant family sent shock waves through the community.
African studies Professor Femi Babarinde from the Thunderbird School of Global Management said it is normal to feel shame because of a rape in the family in the Liberian culture.
An 8-year-old Phoenix girl was lured into a shed and raped by four boys ranging in age from 9 to 14 years old.
Child Protective Services has taken custody of the girl after police said her parents blamed her for the assault.
"[CPS] did take custody of the victim, primarily because, as you can see what I wrote, that the parents felt they had been shamed or embarrassed by their child and that's not acceptable," said Phoenix Police Sgt. Andy Hill.
"There is something that negative that happens. It is identified with that individual and not just that individual, but the family and the extended family."
However, he said the family needs to adapt now that they're out of Africa. "They've got to understand that in this society, a criminal behavior like that is treated very seriously and that the child needs to be loved and helped to overcome the psychological damage that has been caused, not to talk of the physical aspects."
Babarinde said the parents are likely afraid the girl is now viewed as damaged and won't be able to find a good husband. And, while he does believe the girl should be allowed to return home, he strongly suggests the parents get counseling or education so they can understand and help their daughter.
Rape wasn't illegal in Liberia until 2006, and KTAR's Tony Femino, host of "Voice to America," said it's still common. "It's going to take some time. It's going to be an adjustment. And from what I understand is that in a country like Liberia, making rape illegal for the first time just in the last couple of years is going to take some getting used to."
He said sexually assaulted women are usually thrown out of the family because the relatives become known relatives of a girl who is not a virgin, and these victims end up living in poverty or refugee camps.
Femino said it will take awhile for people from cultures like the victim's, Liberia and other countries in the region and around the world, to view rape differently. In those countries, some young women "have their genitals mutilated. This is part of something that they do when they are young. It is part of this mindset that it is done for the sake of purity."
Barbarinde said during the war in Liberia rapes were common "during which time there were lots of reported cases of young girls being defiled and becoming victims." He said the parents of the victim may be in shock because such a horrific act happened in the place they came to in order to get away from such dangers.
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) - A man has sued a local Claim Jumper restaurant claiming he ordered French onion soup and bit into a condom instead of melted cheese. Zdenek Philip Hodousek filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Orange County Superior Court seeking unspecified damages over fears he may have contracted a disease.
Hodousek's attorney Eric Traut said his client wants to have restaurant employees' DNA tested to find a match to the condom.
A public relations firm representing Claim Jumper said no one can prove the so-called "foreign object" Hodousek took from the restaurant is the item that was submitted to a lab for testing.
The firm said an internal probe revealed no employee wrongdoing.
WASHINGTON -- A white police sergeant who arrested renowned black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Thursday he's disappointed President Obama said officers acted "stupidly" without knowing all the facts.
Sgt. James Crowley responded to Gates' home near Harvard University last week to investigate a report of a burglary and demanded Gates show him identification. Police say Gates at first refused and accused the officer of racism.
Gates was charged with disorderly conduct. The charge was dropped Tuesday, and Gates has since demanded an apology from Crowley.
Obama was asked about the arrest of Gates, who is his friend, at the end of a nationally televised news conference on health care Wednesday night.
"I think it's fair to say, number one, any of us would be pretty angry," Obama said. "Number two, that the Cambridge police acted stupidly in arresting somebody when there was already proof that they were in their own home. And number three -- what I think we know separate and apart from this incident -- is that there is a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately, and that's just a fact."
In radio interviews Thursday morning, Crowley maintained he had done nothing wrong in arresting Gates.
"I support the president to a point, yes, I think it's disappointing that he waded into what should be a local issue and something that plays out here," Crowley told WEEI. "As he himself said ... he doesn't know all the facts."
Crowley did not immediately respond to messages left by The Associated Press on Thursday.
Gates has said he was "outraged" by the arrest. He said the white officer walked into his home without his permission and only arrested him as the professor followed him to the porch, repeatedly demanding the sergeant's name and badge number because he was unhappy over his treatment.
"This isn't about me; this is about the vulnerability of black men in America," Gates said.
He said the incident made him realize how vulnerable poor people and minorities are "to capricious forces like a rogue policeman, and this man clearly was a rogue policeman."
Crowley, 42, said he won't apologize. And his union has expressed "full and unqualified" support for him.
Fellow officers, black and white, say he is well-liked and respected on the force. Crowley was a campus police officer at Brandeis University in July 1993 when he administered CPR trying to save the life of former Boston Celtics player Reggie Lewis. Lewis, who was black, collapsed and died during an off-season workout.
Gates' supporters maintain his arrest was a case of racial profiling. Officers were called to the home by a woman who said she saw "two black males with backpacks" trying to break in the front door. Gates has said he arrived home from an overseas trip and the door was jammed.
The president said federal officials need to continue working with local law enforcement "to improve policing techniques so that we're eliminating potential bias."
"What I think we know separate and apart from this incident is that there's a long history in this country of African-Americans and Latinos being stopped by law enforcement disproportionately," Obama said. "That's just a fact."
Gov. Deval Patrick, who is black, said he was troubled and upset over the incident. Cambridge Mayor Denise Simmons, who also is black, has said she spoke with Gates and apologized on behalf of the city, and a statement from the city called the July 16 incident "regrettable and unfortunate."
The mayor refused Thursday to comment on the president's remarks.
Police supporters charge that Gates, director of Harvard's W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, was responsible for his own arrest by overreacting.
Black students and professors at Harvard have complained for years about racial profiling by Cambridge and campus police. Harvard commissioned an independent committee last year to examine the university's race relations after campus police confronted a young black man who was using tools to remove a bike lock. The man worked at Harvard and owned the bike.
Richard Weinblatt, director of the Institute for Public Safety at Central Ohio Technical College, said the police sergeant was responsible for defusing the situation once he realized Gates was the lawful occupant. It is not against the law to yell at police, especially in a home, as long as that behavior does not affect an investigation, he said.
"That is part of being a police officer in a democratic society," Weinblatt said. "The point is that the police sergeant needs to be the bigger person, take the higher road, be more professional."
Eddie Cibrian is now free to be with rumored mistress LeAnn Rimes as his fed-up wife Brandi Glanville has left him. In an interview with Us magazine, the former model said she and Cibrian, 36, have “decided to take some time apart. “I want to do what is best for our children. Eddie and LeAnn deserve each other,” Glanville said, noting that the final straw came when Cibrian and his famous country-singer mistress were spotted out together last week, according to Us.
Just four months ago, the same magazine busted Cibrian and Rimes out together on a romantic date, cozying up to one another and even kissing over the table. According to the report, Rimes and husband Dean Sheremet’s friend Jeff Berger has been facilitating meetings between the singer and Cibrian for weeks, even giving them use of his rental home in Los Angeles. Berger denied enabling the affair.
The recipient of the world's first complete double arm transplant scratched his head and back and beamed at his doctors Wednesday, saying he was on the path to independence a year after the pioneering operation.
Farmer Karl Merk, who lost his arms just below the shoulder in a 2002 combine harvester accident, demonstrated the progress he has made by scratching the back of his head with his right hand and squeezing rubber discs at a press conference near his home in southern Germany.
In July 2008 he underwent a 15-hour surgery at the Munich University Clinic by a team of 40 doctors, nurses and anesthesiologists.
His doctors originally thought it would take up to two years before the nerves in his arm would regrow sufficiently to permit movement, but the 55-year-old has made more progress than expected through an intensive program of physiotherapy and electric stimulation.
"My biggest dream is just that my fingers will keep improving, that I can pick things up and just be self-reliant again," he told reporters.
Wearing a black short-sleeved shirt that clearly showed where the arms were connected, Merk demonstrated how he can wave them without the aid of the numerous braces and bandages he needed after surgery.
Merk and his doctors said they hope his story will serve as an inspiration for others who might need such a surgery, but have hesitated to go forward.
"I would have this operation again in an instant," Merk said.
The Church of England unveils a two-in-one wedding and baptism liturgy today as it seeks to make peace with families “living in sin.”
The “hatch-and-match” service allows couples to baptise their children after the wedding ceremony. Parents can even get baptised themselves.
The aim is to encourage cohabiting parents to marry as the Church tries to become more relevant to the way people live their lives, but critics said that it appeared to sanction having children out of wedlock. One bishop described the idea as “nutty”. The liturgy, costing £272, is being sent out to dioceses and parish clergy today.
The move comes after research commissioned by the archbishops of Canterbury and York found that increasing numbers of couples marrying in church already had children. The latest figures on births and marriages show that about 44 per cent of children are born to unmarried women.
Stephen Parkinson, of the Anglo-Catholic group Forward in Faith, said: “The proper place for a baptism is not during a wedding but during the Sunday morning act of worship so the congregation can welcome a new Christian. It is a shame that what should be a bride’s day now stands to be hijacked by screaming kids.”
David Phillips, general secretary of the evangelical Church Society, said: “Putting these services together seems unwise. The proper place for sex is within marriage. That should be what people are taught when seeking baptism. If this is going to confuse the teaching of the Church, it does not seem a good way forward.”
However, the Bishop of Winchester, the Right Rev Michael Scott-Joynt — an evangelical and the Church’s spokesman on marriage — said: “I suspect a lot of clergy have done services like this already. This will help clergy who might not otherwise feel competent when asked to do this.”
*The email addresses are fictitious, and purely coincidental from the author’s perspective
Date: 12th of Never
To angela@eemail.com
From: dreamdiva@yuhoo.com
Subject: Hello, lover!
Hi Angela!
It has been awhile since we last emailed, and have been thinking about you, and how is life going for you. While writing and flexing my muscles, I was thinking about what our brief affair was like, what I learned from it-- and wrote it like this (I hope you enjoy it)
A Parable of the Desert
There was the desert near the city of Algomorodo in New Mexico. It is early spring and the rainy season is late (by approximately four weeks). There are the usual things that are in the desert such as small grasses, cacti, rocks, snakes and creatures that skitter across the ground, under the shade of small trees, and others that crave the noonday sun. The temperature of the ground itself with its rugged, sandy and grainy texture was cool to the touch underneath the surface by a few inches. Forget about walking barefoot in it. All sun and hardly any rain. The sky has large white puffy clouds like cotton balls, but larger, lighter and the rays shine through it , passing through the azure traffic; the thunderclouds still have not come.
The ground began to wonder why, even the creatures did not seem to mind – since it’s routine not to get some rain from time to time. Nonetheless, it was spring, and there was supposed to be rain. It sighed and naturally looking upwards , though disappointed. The clouds still drift and float lightly and gaily as if there were not a care in the world “ Where is it? Why has it been so long…? The ground asked as a salamander happened by.
“Aren’t you used to it already? You know the routine; when the rain doesn’t come, you wait: just like everyone and everything else, nothing is hurried.”
“I am just going to die, okay? I need rain.”
“No my friendly patch of ground you are not going to die, just be a bit dryer than usual—which would not help you any better when you’re whining about it, just be patient.” The salamander snapped then toddled away. This conversation went on for a few more weeks, then all of the sudden the big, tall and gray thunderclouds came brought rain as a downpour which drenched the trees, desert creatures and the very ground. Everyone was relieved.
“Finally.” the patch of ground sighed.
“Be careful, the lizard warned. This will happen again if you aren’t watchful."
And the meaning of the parable? From you, the passion was hot and unpretentious, drenching me suddenly I was this dry-assed desert parched due to the drought of my pent-up desires waiting for the right time, place and person to satiate me that monsoon was you, who had not come in weeks, but decided to drop in.
The air surrounding that was dry, cracked but the Creatures represented hope, patience and optimism In spite of some doubt if I was ever to vent my frustration, allowing you to go into the very recesses of soul.
Hoping for more and yet wanting more at the same Time, just like that patch of earth that was wanting Our commonness in aloneness was there; the validating energy consumed us. With other ground to refresh You went on, and I, was left hanging. It was quite amusing How I look at this because there was no more to give or get.
Your kisses were like soft grapes bursting its juices on my Full lips; a reward for the soft but obvious flirtations back and forth sneaking touches and even planting a quick kiss on your mons Full of drink, giddy and quite aroused, we kissed gingerly and passionately on the dance floor of the club, and did not care who saw or who talked about it afterwards. All that mattered was that your invitation was answered, shared a slice of pizza that brought it to an accelerated frenzy of wanting you between my legs... In each other’s arms embracing, wanting to taste you, the ale and spiked lemonade we drank. It was there to drown the ache of our loneliness. Racing to your place so that neither our passion nor drunkenness ebb, my shirt is removed with bra still intact in its clasps and my breathing anxiously accentuates my heaving chest and heavy breasts; the roundness of my body aches to be relieved, and my cunt wets even more as I strip off the rest of my clothes.
Tasting each other in the presence of your only love– in a photo nestled in the headboard with other pictures that looked like your parents had not crossed my mind then until you broke the news two weeks later, of an upcoming visit from your girlfriend across the seas. Although obvious, why you failed to admit to this? I thought in the depths of my fantasies that you would be the one, at least.
The reason why the first question was left unanswered, “where’s your girlfriend?”
For a whole month my body remembered every kiss, lick, caress, finger and fist stroke about you, regardless of your open relationship. My body did not care because it was made love to and fucked well, almost too well in quite awhile. I was infatuated with you, but could not have you. This was something I finally shared with you one night out with friends getting drunk, and you were headed back to The Queen’s Land in a few weeks.
Crying on your now tear-stained shoulder, not being able to bear the pain of you leaving my infatuated soul was something I did not want to face. Perhaps you understood me, but that has not changed that part of your life. As long as you and yours were happy, that was it. As long as I left a place for you in my heart, it was fine. No jealousy there. But I wondered, was there a part of me in your heart?
To this day, I have not forgotten you, in spite of – and missed the brief time we spent together. …Just so you know.
Take care, DreamDiva P.S. Do not let your girlfriend see it!
PHOENIX - Four boys ages 9 to 14 are in custody after Phoenix
police say they lured an 8-year-old girl to an empty storage shed, held
her down and sexually assaulted her.
Sgt. Andy Hill said Wednesday the boys face kidnapping and sexual assault charges.
"This is probably one of the worst crimes we've come across for many, many years in the city of Phoenix," Hill said.
Police allege the boys - ages 9, 10, 13 and 14 - lured the girl
to the shed July 16 under the pretense of offering her chewing gum.
They then restrained and sexually assaulted her over the course of
10-15 minutes, police said.
"She was in fact restrained by some suspects while one was
committing one of the crimes, and they took turns. So, it was a brutal
offense," Hill said.
Officers responding to an emergency call found the girl partially clothed and the suspects running from the scene.
Police say the girl and all but one of the boys live in the
same Phoenix apartment complex and one of the suspects is believed to
be her cousin.
The boys are being held in juvenile corrections, but the
14-year-old will be charged as an adult. Investigators said he appears
to have been the ring leader.
It was unknown Wednesday whether the 14-year-old had an attorney.
Authorities said the boys were interviewed by investigators with consent from family and admitted involvement in the crime.
"I mean, these little boys, the 9- and 10-year-old, they're very
young looking. I mean, these are young children," said Hill. "The 13-
and 14-year-old, you know, they look a little older, but these are
children."
Child Protective Services has taken custody of the girl after police said her parents blamed her for the assault.
"[CPS] did take custody of the victim, primarily because, as you
can see what I wrote, that the parents felt they had been shamed or
embarrassed by their child and that's not acceptable," Hill said.
The victim's family told News/Talk 92.3 KTAR reporter Jennifer Parks
the girl didn't listen to them on the night of the attack, and that she
wanted to go to a party. They said they're not mad at the boys, but
they just want their daughter back.
"She's not listening," said the victim's older sister. "I told
her to get inside but she not listen to me and she went out. She went
out, she said she was very emphatic. So I don't know who to blame. I
don't know, she or the boys, I don't know who to blame."
PHOENIX - Phoenix police have arrested four boys ages 9 to 14 in the sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl last week.
"It's probably one of the worst crimes that we've come across in many, many years in the city of Phoenix," said Sgt. Andrew Hill.
Authorities said Wednesday that the boys face charges of kidnapping and sexual assault.
Police allege the boys lured the girl to an empty storage shed on July 16 and restrained her as they sexually assaulted her.
Police said all four boys are being held in a juvenile corrections center.
Child Protective Services has taken custody of the girl after police say her parents blamed the assault on her.
"[CPS] did take custody of the victim, primarily because, as you can see what I wrote, that the parents felt they had been shamed or embarrassed by their child and that's not acceptable," Hill said.
Police said the boys and the girl are all children of West African refugees.
They said the girl and all but one of the boys live in the same Phoenix apartment complex.
The four boys admitted involvement in the attack, according to police.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida woman has been sentenced to
14 months of house arrest for leaving two grandchildren alone in a
parked car while she went to play the slots.
A Broward County judge also gave the 54-year-old woman three years' probation Monday.
Authorities say the woman left the children in a car parked outside
a Hallandale Beach casino in August 2008. The windows were down, but
the air-conditioning was off.
A witness saw the 2-year-old girl and 14-year-old boy in the car and told the casino's security.
The prosecutor tells the South Florida Sun Sentinel that the woman
had pleaded guilty to charges including felony child abuse and
misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
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Information from: South Florida Sun Sentinel,
http://www.sunsentinel.com
(Copyright 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This
material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
EXCLUSIVE: The investigative team heading the probe into Michael Jackson’s death conducted interviews with physicians and personnel at medical facilities in Las Vegas on Monday, a law enforcement source close to the investigation told FOXNews.com.
Lead investigators from the Los Angeles Police Department’s Robbery and Homicide Division, along with several field agents from the Los Angeles Drug Enforcement Administration office, took a day trip to Las Vegas to follow up on leads indicating that at least one drug believed to have contributed to Jackson’s sudden death on June 25 originated in Las Vegas. Sources could not tell FOXNews.com what drug was the focus of the probe, who was questioned or which medical practices were visited, but Jackson’s personal physician Conrad Murray runs a cardiology practice in Las Vegas.
Murray is believed to currently be staying at his family's home in Texas. It is unclear if he was part of Monday's investigation, but it was reported that the doctor canceled his third interview with LAPD last week. A spokeswoman for Murray's legal team has denied those reports.
Police questioned Murray twice shortly after Jackson's death, which is being treated as a homicide.
The law enforcement source told FOXNews.com that investigators are using the results of preliminary toxicology reports, which have not yet been released to the public, to track down the sources of the drugs found in high concentrations in Jackson’s system.
Investigators have also been tracking down all drugs recovered from Jackson’s rented Holmby Hills mansion in the days following the death of the King of Pop.
The investigative team received assistance from members of local enforcement and spent the day conducting interviews at medical facilities, the source said. The team was expected to return to Los Angeles by Tuesday morning.
FOXNews.com has also learned that the Medical Board of California has started proceedings that could strip Murray of his license to practice medicine.
The Medical Board of California has informed Murray that he is the subject of a malpractice investigation, a law enforcement official told FOXNews.com.
Murray is licensed to practice in California, Texas and Nevada.
The Texas Medical Board and the State of Nevada Board of Medical Examiners are assisting in the California investigation.
Miranda Sevcik, a spokeswoman for Murray’s legal team, said, "We have no information on any investigation by the state medical board."
She says Murray continues to cooperate with police.
RENO, Nev. — A woman is accusing Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of raping her last summer in his penthouse hotel room at Lake Tahoe.
The woman worked at Harrah's hotel-casino at the time and says the attack happened when the Super Bowl-winning quarterback was in Tahoe playing in a celebrity golf tournament. She also alleges in the civil suit that Harrah's officials refused to investigate her complaint and went to great lengths to cover up the incident.
Roethlisberger's lawyer David Cornwell denies the claim and says the quarterback will be "fully exonerated."
The lawsuit filed in Reno on Friday seeks at least $390,000 in damages. It says she has been in and out of hospitals for treatment of depression since the episode.
It was not immediately clear if the woman went to enforcement with her complaints.
Kim Kardashian says she is shocked at some of the harsh comments she gets regarding her interracial relationship. The reality television star, who is mixed with Armenian, Scottish and Dutch, is dating African American NFL player Reggie Bush.
“I don’t understand it because I was raised to not see color,” Kardashian told FOX411 at the Three O Bubble Vodka Launch party in New York City earlier this month. “But you’re still faced with it.”
Read on to find out where Kim was told she “didn’t belong.”
Recently, the couple decided to embark on a charity trip to Africa to tour diamond mines with Russell Simmon’s Global Grind organization, which Kim said earned her criticism from a few critics who felt she “didn’t belong.”
“All the comments were, ‘How dare she go to Africa,’ and it’s just like, you know what, I can’t believe that charity work is being judged, and I can’t believe people would even comment on that and I think it’s really disgusting,” she said.
But the critics aren’t getting the star down, nor does it affect her relationship in any way.
“At the end of the day, you just have to brush them off, you have no choice,” She told FOX411. “I hope by the time Reggie and I have kids, things will be different.”
Mischa Barton was submitted involuntarily to a California mental health facility last week, and she’s still there. According to insiders, friends and associates have been trying to get Mischa into some sort of treatment for months, including party pal Lindsay Lohan.
The two club regulars often partied together into the early morning hours. But last year, Lindsay walked away from the friendship after a messy Mischa pushed Lindsay over the edge. Sources close to Lohan tell Fox 411 that the two girls haven’t spoken for months, but Lindsay would help Mischa if she asked for help to get through this latest fiasco.
“Lindsay and Mischa used to go out all the time together in Los Angeles. They were like kindred spirits when it came to clubbing and letting loose,” says the insider. “ They have many mutual friends, but everything shifted for Lindsay last year at a party. Mischa was completely out of control, and Lindsay sat Mischa down then to make it clear that she needed help. Lindsay was desperate for Mischa to clean herself up and offered a treatment facility and a therapist to help Mischa. Mischa completely ignored Lindsay, and that was the end.”
Several people close to the “OC” actress tell FOX411 she’s been on a downward spiral for years. “No one close to her is surprised,” says one pal. “Alcohol was like the gateway to other things for Mischa. Nobody has been able to stop her until now. Hopefully this psychiatric hold will force her to seek real help.”
Mischa’s latest stylist deserted her as well, says the insider, warning that ”Mischa must get help or she will be all alone. She can’t continue down the path of the last two years or so. It’s destructive and it will end her career for good.”
Amid the custody crisis surrounding Michael Jackson’s children, Pop Tarts has been told that their grandmother and temporary guardian Katherine Jackson has been taking the three children to the Kingdom of Jehovah's Witnesses to help them deal with the death of their famous father.
“They need this stability and to bond with God at a time like this,” said longtime Jackson friend and biographer Stacy Brown. “I think this is one of the main reasons Michael named his mom as guardian, he knew that proper Bible training was best for them. But the Church doesn’t force anyone to be baptized, when they (the kids) are mature enough they will make that decision.”
However this isn’t the first time the children have attended a mass of this kind. According to Brown, they accompanied MJ to the church back in 2005.
“They were really attentive and really involved with the whole learning process,” he said. “They seemed to really enjoy it.”
Michael stopped being a Jehovah's Witness 1985 but reportedly resumed attending the Church’s meetings throughout his child molestation trial. Katherine and the eldest child Rebbie are the only two remaining Jehovah's Witnesses in the family. Speaking of which, we’re told that Katherine had “no control” and was less-than-impressed with the recent memorial service that took place in MJ’s honor at the Los Angeles Staples Center.
“Jehovah's Witnesses do not believe in interfaith services and Katherine’s wishes should have been respected on her day or mourning,” added Brown. “She was there but she wasn’t happy about it. Of course she would have wanted to do something for the fans, but not a public
On the note of public spectacles, a source close to the Jackson family said that it was disgusting and devastating that the footage of Michael Jackson’s explosive 1984 Pepsi commercial was released last week in the wake of his death.
“Michael’s deal was that he owned all footage from the incident, he never ever wanted anybody to see that, he would have been so humiliated and upset,” said our source. “So whoever leaked it had to be someone with access to his belongings …”
It seems as far as far can be from the perfect match, but hey opposites do attract -- so could it be that crazy actress Bai Ling and music legend Lionel Richie have something going on?
The unlikely duo was spotted on what appeared to be a romantic date last Thursday at Whist at Viceroy Santa Monica. According to an eye witness, Ling and Richie kept a low-profile and laughed and flirted throughout their meal.
The actress (who tells people she hails “from the moon” and has a habit of crashing Hollywood parties and dirty dancing for hours by herself) was most recently linked to Mickey Rourke with whom she put on quite the PDA with at the Chateau Marmont earlier this year.
Jenn Brown has made her mark as the only female reporter on Showtime’s “Inside the NFL” and when it comes to the recent Tony Romo/Jessica Simpson split she believes it is for the best.
“I think that he was doing a little bit better when she wasn't around. I don't think it's good to mix celebrities, if you've got two people with competing schedules where someone if off on tour and someone is competing, it just doesn't make a lot of time,” Brown told Tarts at last week’s ESPY Awards in Los Angeles. “I'm sure a lot of the football fans are happy she (Jessica)is gone.”
But on the other hand Laurie Phillips, wife of Dallas Cowboys Head Coach Wade Phillips, thinks the pop princess has been unfairly targeted as Tony’s bad-luck charm.
“She’s not to blame (for his decreased performance), absolutely not at all,” Phillips said.
President Obama's "science czar," Paul Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, "compulsory sterilization," and the creation of a "Planetary Regime" that would oversee human population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet -- controversial ideas his critics say should have been brought up in his Senate confirmation hearings.
Holdren, who has degrees from MIT and Stanford and headed a science policy program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government for the past 13 years, won the unanimous approval of the Senate as the president's chief science adviser.
He was confirmed with little fanfare on March 19 as director of the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, a 50-person directorate that advises the president on scientific affairs, focusing on energy independence and global warming.
But many of Holdren's radical ideas on population control were not brought up at his confirmation hearings; it appears that the senators who scrutinized him had no knowledge of the contents of a textbook he co-authored in 1977, "Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment," a copy of which was obtained by FOXNews.com.
The 1,000-page course book, which was co-written with environmental activists Paul and Anne Ehrlich, discusses and in one passage seems to advocate totalitarian measures to curb population growth, which it says could cause an environmental catastrophe.
The three authors summarize their guiding principle in a single sentence: "To provide a high quality of life for all, there must be fewer people."
As first reported by FrontPage Magazine, Holdren and his co-authors spend a portion of the book discussing possible government programs that could be used to lower birth rates.
Those plans include forcing single women to abort their babies or put them up for adoption; implanting sterilizing capsules in people when they reach puberty; and spiking water reserves and staple foods with a chemical that would make people sterile.
To help achieve those goals, they formulate a "world government scheme" they call the Planetary Regime, which would administer the world's resources and human growth, and they discuss the development of an "armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force" to which nations would surrender part of their sovereignty.
Holdren's office issued a statement to FOXNews.com denying that the ecologist has ever backed any of the measures discussed in his book, and suggested reading more recent works authored solely by Holdren for a view to his beliefs.
"Dr. Holdren has stated flatly that he does not now support and has never supported compulsory abortions, compulsory sterilization, or other coercive approaches to limiting population growth," the statement said.
"Straining to conclude otherwise from passages treating controversies of the day in a three-author, 30-year-old textbook is a mistake."
But the textbook itself appears to contradict that claim.
Holdren and the Ehrlichs offer ideas for "coercive," "involuntary fertility control," including "a program of sterilizing women after their second or third child," which doctors would be expected to do right after a woman gives birth.
"Unfortunately," they write, "such a program therefore is not practical for most less developed countries," where doctors are not often present when a woman is in labor.
While Holdren and his co-authors don't openly endorse such measures on other topics, in this case they announce their disappointment -- "unfortunately" -- that women in the third world cannot be sterilized against their will, a procedure the International Criminal Court considers a crime against humanity.
"It's very problematic that he said these things," said Ben Lieberman, a senior policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation. Lieberman faulted Holdren for using government as a solution to every problem and advocating heavy-handed and invasive laws.
But other members of the scientific community said accusations against Holdren are wholly misplaced.
"John Holdren has been one of the most well-respected and prominent scientific voices urging the federal government to address global warming," wrote Kevin Knobloch, president of the Union of Concerned Scientists, in a statement.
Holdren's co-authors, Paul and Anne Ehrlich, said in a statement that they were "shocked at the serious mischaracterization of our views and those of John Holdren," caused by what they called misreadings of the book.
"We were not then, never have been, and are not now 'advocates' of the Draconian measures for population limitation described -- but not recommended" in the book, they wrote.
Still, William Yeatman, an energy policy analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, faulted the Senate for not screening Holdren more strenuously during his hearings before confirming his nomination by unanimous consent both in committee and in the full Senate.
Despite "the litany of apocalyptic warnings that turned out to be incorrect, no one was willing to stick his neck out" and vote no, Yeatman said.
Some of Holdren's views on population came under fire during the otherwise quiet confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, where Sen. David Vitter, R-La., asked him to revisit his past statements about environmental catastrophes that have never come to pass.
"I was and continue to be very critical of Dr. Holdren's positions -- specifically his countless doomsday science publications and predictions that have been near universally wrong," Vitter told FOXNews.com.
"I wish that the Commerce Committee had taken more time to evaluate his record during his nomination hearing, but like with everything else in this new Washington environment, the Democratic majority and the White House were pushing to speed his nomination along," Vitter said.
Vitter grilled Holdren during the hearing, asking him to clear up his 1986 prediction that global warming was going to kill about 1 billion people by 2020.
"You would still say," Vitter asked, "that 1 billion people lost by 2020 is still a possibility?"
"It is a possibility, and one we should work energetically to avoid," Holdren replied.
Sen. John Kerry, a leading Democrat on the committee, said the renewed scrutiny was essentially a Republican smear on Holdren's good record. Kerry told FOXNews.com that senators already had "ample opportunity" to question Holdren, who "made clear that he does not and never has supported coercive approaches, end of story.
"The Commerce Committee and the Senate then unanimously concluded what I have long known -- that John Holdren is a leading voice in the scientific community and we are fortunate to have him lead the fight to restore the foundation of science to government and policymaking that has been lacking for almost a decade."
Holdren has confronted a number of challenges during his four-decade scientific career, including nuclear arms reduction, and was part of a group that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics," as the Nobel Committee said.
Now his greatest focus is global warming, which he said in a recent interview poses a threat akin to being "in a car with bad brakes driving toward a cliff in the fog."
Holdren told the Associated Press in April that the U.S. will consider all options to veer away from that cliff, including an experimental scheme to shoot pollution particles into the upper atmosphere to reflect the sun's rays and cool the earth, a last resort he hoped could be averted.
"Dr. Holdren is working day and night for the Obama Administration and the American people, helping to develop science and technology policies to make the country stronger, more secure, and more energy independent, and to make Americans healthier and better educated," his office told FOXNews.com.
Four months after Holdren's confirmation, his critics are keeping a wary eye on his work in the White House, where they assert that he has the president's ear on scientific issues.
"It is interesting that this 30-year-old book is finally coming to light," said Lieberman, of the Heritage Foundation.
"The people who are concerned about Holdren, quite frankly we didn't do enough homework."
(Washington)
Judy Rickard took an early retirement and a reduced pension so she
could be assured of more time with her partner, a British citizen whose
stays in the U.S. are limited to six months.
Rickard, 61, would have preferred to keep working at San Jose State
University and sponsor her partner, Karin Bogliolo, for residency in
the United States, just as heterosexual couples can. But U.S. law does
not allow for that.
"If you're going to have a system that"s designed to keep families
together, it should focus on keeping families together,” Rickard said.
That could soon change, as more than 100 lawmakers in the House and
about 20 in the Senate have signed onto bills that would add the United
States to the 19 countries that already recognize same-sex couples for
immigration purposes.
Gay rights groups are encouraged that President Barack Obama has
signaled that he would like to include couples like Rickard and
Bogliolo in the bills.
"In many ways, the stars are aligning to move this forward as part
of a comprehensive bill,” said Steve Ralls, communications director for
the advocacy group Immigration Equality. “That's an opportunity we
didn"t have years ago.”
The provisions concerning same-sex couples are part of legislation
that would increase the number of visas provided to family members of
people already in the United States legally.
The long-standing fight over the country’s estimated 36,000 same sex
couples of two nationalities is a small but emotional part of the
debate over immigration reform. But including same-sex couples in the
mix could make it harder to pass an immigration overhaul.
A key ally in past immigration fights, the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops, said it would not support a measure that has a
same-sex provision.
Writing to Rep. Mike Honda, D-Calif., the organization said the
provision would “erode the institution of marriage and family by
according marriage-like immigration benefits to same sex relationships.”
Other groups say that it is often difficult to verify the validity
of same-sex relationships if one of the partners comes from a country
that does not recognize or document same-sex unions.
Honda, lead author of the “Reuniting Families Act,” credited
Rickard, one of his constituents, for bringing the issue to his
attention. Honda said his Japanese heritage contributed to his taking a
closer look at protecting same-sex couples through an overhaul of the
nation’s immigration law.
Japanese-Americans were sent to internment camps during the fallout
from Pearl Harbor and redefined as persons of enemy alien ancestry,
Honda said.
“The lack of political leadership played a big part in what happened
to us,” Honda said. “And that’s true in almost every civil rights case.”
Another California resident, Shirley Tan, testified before the
Senate Judiciary Committee last month in favor of a comparable bill.
Tan has been in California since arriving on a visitor’s visa in
1989. She applied for asylum in 1995 because she was afraid of a cousin
in the Philippines who had killed her mother and sister and critically
wounded her.
She was unaware the petition had been denied until federal agents
took her away in handcuffs at the end of January. Democratic Sen.
Dianne Feinstein of California has since sponsored a bill that allows
Tan to stay in the U.S. until the current session of Congress ends in
late 2010.
“I have a partner who is a U.S. citizen, and two beautiful children
who are also U.S. citizens, but not one of them can petition for me to
remain in the United States with them,” Tan said.
The NAACP and the American Bar Association also spoke in favor of
including “permanent partners” as part of an immigration bill, saying
that current law amounts to discrimination.
Permanent partner is defined in proposed legislation as an
individual 18 or older who is “in a committed, intimate relationship
with another individual 18 or older in which both individuals intend a
lifelong commitment.”
Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., said he doubted the legislation would
pass this Congress. He said it amounts to a redefinition of marriage
and would give people more opportunities to come into the United States
fraudulently.
“It seems we would be creating a special preference and benefit for
a category of immigrants based on a relationship that’s not recognized
by federal law and overwhelmingly by most states,” Sessions said.
Rickard said she may reluctantly move to Great Britain or another
country when her partner’s current travel visa expires in November.
Bogliolo, however, said she would prefer to live in the U.S. for her
partner’s sake.
“Judy has elderly parents and family here and she’s also lived here
all her life whereas I’ve lived in many different countries,” Bogliolo
said. “I think Judy would find it very difficult after a whole life in
San Jose to move over to Europe, so I decided if at all possible that I
would move over here.”
(Kingston,
Jamaica) Even now, about three years after a near-fatal gay bashing,
Sherman gets jittery at dusk. On bad days, his blood quickens, his eyes
dart, and he seeks refuge indoors.
A group of men kicked him and slashed him with knives for being a
"batty boy” - a slang term for gay men - after he left a party before
dawn in October 2006. They sliced his throat, torso, and back, hissed
anti-gay epithets, and left him for dead on a Kingston corner.
"It gets like five, six o'clock, my heart begins to race. I just
need to go home, I start to get nervous,” said the 36-year-old outside
the secret office of Jamaica"s sole gay rights group. Like many other
gays, Sherman won't give his full name for fear of retribution.
Despite the easygoing image propagated by tourist boards, gays and
their advocates agree that Jamaica is by far the most hostile island
toward homosexuals in the already conservative Caribbean. They say
gays, especially those in poor communities, suffer frequent abuse. But
they have little recourse because of rampant anti-gay stigma and a
sodomy law banning sex between men in Jamaica and 10 other former
British colonies in the Caribbean.
It is impossible to say just how common gay bashing attacks like the
one against Sherman are in Jamaica - their tormentors are sometimes the
police themselves. But many homosexuals in Jamaica say homophobia is
pervasive across the sun-soaked island, from the pulpit to the floor of
the Parliament.
Hostility toward gays has reached such a level that four months ago,
gay advocates in New York City launched a short-lived boycott against
Jamaica at the site of the Stonewall Inn, where demonstrations launched
the gay-rights movement in 1969. In its 2008 report, the U.S. State
Department also notes that gays have faced death and arson threats, and
are hesitant to report incidents against them because of fear.
For gays, the reality of this enduring hostility is loneliness and fear, and sometimes even murder.
Andrew, a 36-year-old volunteer for an AIDS education program, said
he was driven from the island after his ex-lover was killed for being
gay - which police said was just a robbery gone wrong. He moved to the
U.K. for several years, but returned to Jamaica in 2008 for personal
reasons he declined to disclose.
“I"m living in fear on a day-to-day basis,” he said softly during a
recent interview in Kingston. “In the community where my ex-lover was
killed, people will say to me when I’m passing on the street, they will
make remarks like 'boom-boom-boom’ or 'batty boy fi dead.’ I don’t feel
free walking on the streets.”
Many in this highly Christian nation perceive homosexuality as a
sin, and insist violence against gays is blown out of proportion by gay
activists. Some say Jamaica tolerates homosexuality as long as it is
not advertised - a tropical version of former President Bill Clinton’s
“don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for the U.S. military.
Jamaica’s most prominent evangelical pastor, Bishop Herro Blair,
said he sympathizes with those who face intolerance, but that
homosexuals themselves are actually behind most of the attacks reported
against them.
“Among themselves, homosexuals are extremely jealous,” said Blair
during a recent interview. “But some of them do cause a reaction by
their own behaviors, for, in many people’s opinions, homosexuality is
distasteful.”
Other church leaders have accused gays of flaunting their behavior
to “recruit” youngsters, or called for them to undergo “redemptive
work” to break free of their sexual orientation.
Perhaps playing to anti-gay constituents, politicians routinely rail
against homosexuals. During a parliamentary session in February,
lawmaker Ernest Smith of the ruling Jamaica Labor Party stressed that
gays were “brazen,” “abusive,” and “violent,” and expressed anxiety
that the police force was “overrun by homosexuals.”
A few weeks later, Prime Minister Bruce Golding described gay
advocates as “perhaps the most organized lobby in the world” and vowed
to keep Jamaica’s “buggery law” - punishable by 10 years - on the
books. During a BBC interview last year, Golding vowed to never allow
gays in his Cabinet.
The dread of homosexuality is so all-encompassing that many Jamaican
men refuse to get digital rectal examinations for prostate cancer, even
those whose disease is advanced, said Dr. Trevor Tulloch of St. Andrews
Hospital.
“Because it is a homophobic society, there’s such a fear of the
sexual implications of having the exam that men won’t seek out help,”
said Tulloch, adding Jamaica has a soaring rate of prostate cancer
because men won’t be screened.
The anti-gay sentiment on this island of 2.8 million has perhaps
become best known through Jamaican “dancehall,” a rap-reggae music
hybrid that often has raunchy, violent themes. Some reggae rappers,
including Bounty Killer and Elephant Man, depend on gay-bashing songs
to rouse concert-goers.
“It stirs up the crowd to a degree that many performers feel they
have to come up with an anti-gay song to incite the audience,” said
Barry Chevannes, a professor of social anthropology at the University
of the West Indies.
Brooklyn-based writer Staceyann Chin, a lesbian who fled her
Caribbean homeland for New York more than a decade ago, stressed that
violence in Jamaica is high - there were 1,611 killings last year,
about 10 times more than the U.S. rate relative to population - but
that it is “extraordinarily” high against gays.
“The macho ideal is celebrated, praised in Jamaica, while
homosexuality is paralleled with pedophilia, rapists,” Chin said.
“Markers that other people perceive as gay - they walk a certain way,
wear tight pants, or are overly friendly with a male friend - make them
targets. It’s a little pressure cooker waiting to pop.”
In 1996, when she was 20, Chin came out as lesbian on the Kingston
UWI campus. She said she was ostracized by her peers, and one day was
herded into a campus bathroom by a group of male students, who ripped
off her clothes and sexually assaulted her.
“They told me what God wanted from me, that God made women to enjoy
sex with men,” recalled Chin, a poet, performer and lecturer who closes
her just-published memoir “The Other Side of Paradise” with her searing
account of the attack.
Even in New York City, anti-gay Jamaican bigots sent her hate-filled
e-mails after a 2007 appearance on Oprah Winfrey’s TV talk show to
discuss homosexuality.
Chin said she doesn’t know if she would have the courage to come out now as a lesbian in Jamaica.
“The tensions are higher now. People are feeling very much that they have to declare camps,” she said.
Jamaican nationalism has always been tied in deeply with bugbears
about masculinity, making for a “potent brew” where those who violate
accepted standards of manliness are easy targets, said Scott Long of
Human Rights Watch.
Long, head of a gay rights program at the New York-based group,
pointed out that most other English-speaking islands in the region have
tiny populations, where gays don’t come out and visible activism is
limited.
“(But) what stands out about Jamaica is how absolutely,
head-in-the-sand unwilling the authorities have been for years to
acknowledge or address homophobic violence,” he said. “Most notably,
three successive governments have completely, utterly, publicly refused
even to talk about changing the buggery law - which expressly consigns
gay people to second-class citizens and paints targets on their backs.”
Prominent Jamaican political activist Yvonne McCalla Sobers noted
that social standing still protects gay islanders, especially in
Kingston, where a quest for privacy and the fear of crime has driven
many to live behind gated walls with key pad entry systems, 24-hour
security and closed-circuit television monitoring. People with power
and money who are not obviously gay are often protected, she said.
“My thought is there are far more men having sex with men in this country than you would ever think is happening,” Sobers said.
Many gays from poorer areas in Jamaica say they congregate in
private to find safety and companionship. Once a month, they have
underground church services at revolving locations across the island.
Sherman, meanwhile, is simply trying to move on with his life. But
he said he will always remember how, after his attack, patrolmen
roughly lifted his bloodied body out of their squad car when a man
admonished them for aiding a “batty boy.” A woman shamed them into
driving him to a hospital; they stuffed him in the car’s trunk.
“Being gay in Jamaica, it’s like, don’t tell anybody. Just keep it to yourself,” he said evenly, with a half smile.
Report: Iranian Militias Marry, Rape Virgin Prisoners Before Executions
Monday , July 20, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran —
Members of Iran's feared Basij militia forcibly marry female virgin prisoners the night before scheduled executions, raping their new "wives" and making it religiously acceptable to execute them, a self-professed member of the paramilitary group said.
The anonymous militiaman told the Jerusalem Post that at age 18 he was "given the 'honor' to temporarily marry young girls before they were sentenced to death."
In the Islamic Republic of Iran it is illegal to execute a woman if she is a virgin, the former guard told the newspaper. So the government arranges "wedding" ceremonies to be conducted the night before executions, and prisoners are forced to have sexual intercourse with a guard.
Raped by her new "husband," a female prisoner is now fit to be put to death.
"I regret that, even though the marriages were legal," said the militiaman, who told the Jerusalem Post he had just been released from prison himself after freeing two teenagers rounded up during post-election protests.
Some of the prisoners in his care were drugged with sleeping pills to make them docile, as the girls in their custody always fought back, he said, fearing the night of the rape more deeply than their executions the following day.
"I remember hearing them cry and scream after [the rape] was over," he told the paper. "I will never forget how this one girl clawed at her own face and neck with her finger nails afterwards. She had deep scratches all over her."
We now have
the secrets to optimal sex. It doesn’t involve Viagra, sex toys, rock
hard erections, having the perfect body, or a particular position,
technique or novelty.
That’s right — you don’t have to shake up your routine, buy another
vibrating gadget, lose weight, pop a pill, or master Kama Sutra-style
sexual gymnastics for spectacular sex.
Knowing what constitutes super sex is the first step in realizing
it. It turns out we may have a lot to learn from our elders when it
comes to the most satisfying sex. Those who have been “doing it” for a
quarter century or more hold the eight keys to realizing memorable,
fulfilling, amazing sex.
Recent research in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality
found that the best sex comes with relationships as they become more
mature. Participants, namely married couples over the age 60, reported
the following components as significantly contributing to rock star sex:
1. Being present, focused and embodied.
Reported more than any other factor is the need for lovers to be
completely absorbed in the moment, feeling completely merged in one
another.
2. Connection, alignment and being in sync. The depth of connection is critical to the experience, with lovers becoming one and synchronous as their energies align.
3. Deep sexual and erotic intimacy. With
intimacy the foundation of the relationship, the components of intimacy
lend themselves to optimal sex. These include caring, deep mutual
respect, admiration, and true acceptance of one another.
4. Extraordinary communication and heightened empathy.
Lovers realizing optimal sex are able to read their partner’s bodily
responses, truly feeling them. They also listen in both verbal and
non-verbal ways, picking up on little things and being sensitive in
every way.
5. Authenticity, being genuine and uninhibited, transparency.
Participants reported the ability to become emotionally naked, share
freely, and feel unselfconscious with their lover as critical to having
better sex.
6. Vulnerability and surrender. Lovers
have a willingness to expose themselves, to truly be seen. In putting
themselves in another’s hands, they relinquish themselves, ultimately
penetrating each other’s souls.
7. Bliss, transformation and healing. Optimal sex is an exalted, soulful, timeless state of awe and ecstasy.
8. Exploration, interpersonal risk-taking and fun.
Sex is an adventure, with lovers becoming explorers as lovemaking
becomes one of discovery. Such is complemented by unleashing one’s
sense of humor and laughter.
So what does all of this mean?
— Despite reaching climax, you could still be having lousy sex. You can, on the other hand, have exceptional sex without orgasm.
— Sexual ecstasy is not about physiological functioning or technical
talent. It’s about feeling fully alive and in the moment — mind, body,
and soul.
— Sex gets better with sexual experience and knowing your partner,
with the most desirable sex coming from within and, yes, even with age.
— You can still have optimal sex despite being elderly, chronically ill or disabled.
— Optimal sex is how you define it, with your mind set and intent important in becoming sexually gratified.
Researchers further noted that better sex comes with slower, less
goal-oriented lovemaking, sex that isn’t all about “achieving” orgasm.
Contrary to popular messages in the media, you can be mechanically
skilled and sexually functioning, but not necessarily having super sex.
While we’ve been told that “optimal” sex involves reaching a state
of sexual perfection, it’s actually a sexual experience different from
your average, positive sexual liaison. Yet the unrealistic expectations
we’ve been spoon-fed around factors like technique are trumping many
lovers’ efforts.
If you buy into magazine headlines and articles promising quick
fixes and maximum results, you will ultimately feel anxiety, shame,
guilt, and insecurity in being unable to have the type of stellar sex
you are “supposed” to be having.
As the study’s researchers wrote, those with fulfilling sex lives
“have learned to ignore conventional performance expectations in order
to listen to and take responsibility for their own hearts’ desires.” If
you want satisfying sex, make sure that “those” includes you.
Dr. Yvonne K. Fulbright is a sex educator, relationship expert, columnist and founder ofSexuality Source Inc. She is the author of several books including, "Touch Me There! A Hands-On Guide to Your Orgasmic Hot Spots."
'Burn Notice' Star Jeffrey Donovan Arrested, Suspected of DUI
Monday , July 20, 2009
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. —
Miami Beach police say they arrested "Burn Notice" star Jeffrey Donovan on suspicion of drunken driving.
The arrest report says an officer pulled Donovan over on July 12
after noticing that he swerved his car to avoid hitting the police car
from behind. When the officer approached Donovan, he reported that the
actor's eyes appeared bloodshot and watery.
The actor of the popular USA Network series was arrested after
failing a field sobriety test. The arrest report says Donovan refused
to take a breathalyzer test.
The 41-year-old actor, who worked alongside actress Angelina Jolie
in the 2008 film, "Changeling," was released several hours later on
$1,000 bail.
His publicist declined to comment, and a phone message left with a network spokeswoman was not immediately returned.
NEW YORK -- President Barack Obama on Thursday traced his historic rise to power to the vigor and valor of black civil rights leaders, telling a prominent black organization that their sacrifice "began the journey that has led me here." America's first black president bluntly warned, though, that racial barriers persist.
"Make no mistake: The pain of discrimination is still felt in America," the president said in honoring the organization's 100th convention.
Rousing up his audience, Obama offered his most direct speech on race since winning the White House, a mix of personal reflection and policy promotion. He worked on it for about two weeks and revised it until shortly before he spoke, his aides said, underscoring the importance of his message and his audience.
"No one has written your destiny for you," he said to "all the other Barack Obamas out there" who could one day grow up to be president. "Your destiny is in your hands, and don't you forget that. That's what we have to teach all of our children! No excuses! No excuses!"
Obama told parents to take a more active role, students to aspire beyond basketball stars and rappers, and residents to pay better attention to their schools.
"I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers," Obama said. "I want them aspiring to be a Supreme Court justice. I want them aspiring to be president of the United States."
With that line, Obama drove the hotel ballroom audience to its feet.
To bolster his arguments, Obama cited his own biography, growing up with a single mother.
"I know what can happen to a child who doesn't have that chance," Obama said. "But I also know what can happen to a child who does. I was raised by a single mom. I don't come from a lot of wealth. I got into my share of trouble as a child. My life could easily have taken a turn for the worse. When I drive through Harlem or I drive through the South Side of Chicago, when I see young men on the corners, I say, 'There but for the grace of God go I."'
Despite the racial progress exemplified by his own election, Obama said African-Americans must overcome a disproportionate share of struggles, including being more likely to suffer from many diseases and having a higher proportion of children end up in jail.
Implicit in his appearance: He is seeking the backing of the powerful National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its members for his ambitious domestic agenda.
Painting himself as the beneficiary of the NAACP's work, Obama cited historical black figures from W.E.B. DuBois to Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King Jr. to Emmet Till, to explain how the path to the presidency was cleared by visionaries.
"These are some of the barriers of our time," Obama said. "They're very different from the barriers faced by earlier generations. They're very different from the ones faced when fire hoses and dogs were being turned on young marchers," Obama said. "But what's required to overcome today's barriers is the same as what was needed then. The same commitment. The same sense of urgency."
Obama's remarks, steeped in his personal biography as the son of a white mother from Kansas and black father from Kenya, challenged the audience -- those in the room and those beyond -- to take greater responsibility for their own future.
Throughout his comments, Obama sought a balance, contending that the government must foster equality but individuals must take charge of their own lives.
The key to success, Obama said, is improving education for all. Citing school segregation and the fight that was waged both on school steps and in courthouses, he said the condition of schools is an American problem, not an African-American one.
"There's a reason Thurgood Marshall took up the cause of Linda Brown. There's a reason the Little Rock Nine defied a governor and a mob," Obama said. "It's because there is no stronger weapon against inequality and no better path to opportunity than an education that can unlock a child's God-given potential."
Unlocking that potential, though, means both acknowledging the challenges facing black youth and then finding a solution to problems that are the legacy of decades of institutionalized discrimination.
"We have to say to our children, `Yes, if you're African-American, the odds of growing up amid crime and gangs are higher. Yes, if you live in a poor neighborhood, you will face challenges that somebody in a wealthy suburb does not have to face," Obama said, returning to his tough-love message familiar from his two-year presidential campaign.
"But that's not a reason to get bad grades, that's not a reason to cut class, that's not a reason to give up on your education and drop out of school," he said. "No one has written your destiny for you. Your destiny is in your hands."
NAACP President Benjamin Todd Jealous described Obama's speech as "pitch-perfect," praising him for talking about the racial disparities that still exist in areas like education and in incarceration.
"This evening is an affirmation of all the work that we've done for a century," Jealous said. "It's also an affirmation of all the work that we're doing right now."
Obama expanded his message of equal rights beyond the black communities. He said many Americans still face discrimination and suggested that the NAACP -- in search of a mission for its second century -- might embrace a broader mandate in coming years.
Today, Obama said, it is not prejudice or discrimination that presents the greatest obstacles for blacks, but rather structural inequities-- in areas such as education and health care. Still, though, he said discrimination persists -- and not just for blacks -- and he chided those who may contend otherwise.
A 9-year-old girl was considered too young to answer the office phone at evangelist Tony Alamo's compound, but old enough for frequent sex with the ministry leader, she alleged at his federal trial on child-sex charges.
The woman, now 18, testified that she dodged security cameras and roving guards to escape the compound in 2006. Her testimony left jurors red-eyed and shaking their heads Thursday.
She is set to return to the witness stand Friday to be cross-examined by Alamo's defense team.
Alamo, 74, is named in a 10-count indictment alleging he took young girls across state lines for sex. His lawyers say the girls were moved so they could do legitimate ministry work, and claim the government has targeted him. He has pleaded not guilty.
Defense lawyers have largely left the sex and underage marriage claims unchallenged, though they have questioned witnesses' memories and whether they had been coached by authorities.
The teenage witness said Alamo "married" her when she was 8, and groped her after their wedding. She said he began having sex with her when she was a 9-year-old third-grader. He also took explicit photographs of her that year with an instant camera and, upon looking at them, called her a "whore." She said she didn't understand, but Alamo told her it was a good thing.
She said at one point she asked the minister why he had selected her.
"He said, `Because you were cute,"' she said on the witness stand. "It wasn't God's will that he married me. It's just because he thought I was cute."
The Associated Press isn't naming the woman because it generally does not identify those who say they were victims of sex crimes.
The woman described two trips to her parents' home in Oklahoma that ended when Alamo summoned her back to his Arkansas compound for sex. Those trips are mentioned in the indictment.
The woman told jurors she did some filing for the ministry early on, but that she wasn't allowed to answer the phone.
"I was too young," she said.
Her testimony came after another former underage bride said she "married" Alamo at age 14 through hurried whispers during visiting hours at a federal prison where he was serving time for tax evasion. Alamo's other wives served as lookouts.
"We would lean in really close to each other so the camera wouldn't see," she said, crying.
A Florida woman who testified against Alamo on Wednesday said she was "married" to him at age 15 and raised objections to Alamo taking an 8-year-old as a bride. A woman from Texas told jurors the minister made light of taking a young girl on the road as a wife and sex partner.
"It was flaunting that he could get away with this," she said.
If convicted, Alamo faces 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine on each of the 10 counts against him. He is being held without bond.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police stepped up security at major New York hotels on Friday after bombs ripped through two luxury hotels in Jakarta, killing eight people in the Indonesian capital, authorities said.
"There's no information of a similar threat to New York, but it's our standard practice now to take such precautions," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said in a statement.
New York -- home to Wall Street, the Broadway theater district and other attractions that draw millions of tourists and businesspeople every year -- has been highly attuned to security threats since the September 11 attacks in 2001 that killed 2,749 people at the World Trade Center site.
Police spokesman Paul Browne said extra squad cars and officers had surrounded large hotels in New York within half an hour of the Jakarta bombings.
Suicide bombers struck at the JW Marriott hotel and the nearby Ritz-Carlton in Jakarta. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the bombings were the act of a terrorist group bent on damaging the country.
(Reporting by Christine Kearney; Editing by Ellen Wulfhorst and John O'Callaghan)
Mischa Barton — the formerly willowy star of "The O.C." — was taken away by police and hospitalized under California's involuntary psychiatric-hold law just hours before she was due to fly to New York for the premiere of her movie, "Homecoming."
Cops took her to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where she was hospitalized under Section 5150 of the California Welfare & Institutions Code, which allows authorities to hold a person for up to 72 hours if they present a danger to themselves or to others.
Barton, 23, looked bloated and almost unrecognizable at a public appearance last week, which her reps blamed on the removal of a wisdom tooth.
The once-scary-skinny starlet was arrested for DUI and marijuana possession in LA after driving in two lanes during a break from the movie's location work in Pittsburgh last year. She later checked into rehab.
Page Six reported that Barton would attend the premiere after we'd been assured by publicist R. Couri Hay that producers "Bingo [Gubelmann] and Austin [Stark] are hand-holding her from 4:30 to the premiere and through to the after-party at Pink Elephant, as she realizes the film is important to her."
Stark said, "She was really professional and worked hard. It's a shame she can't come out and promote the movie. She did a great job."
Barton's publicist told People, "Police were involved due to Ms. Barton's celebrity status to safely transfer her to medical treatment as per doctor's orders." The rep said Barton was now "OK" and "resting."
The Episcopal Church, casting aside warnings about further alienating conservatives within its ranks, on Tuesday lifted a de facto ban on the ordination of gay bishops and is continuing to weigh a measure that would sanction blessings for same-sex couples.
Bishops, clergy and lay leaders voted overwhelmingly at the denomination's General Convention in Anaheim to open "any ordained ministry" to gays and lesbians.
The liberalized policy represents a reversal from guidelines adopted by the church at its last convention in 2006 that effectively prohibited the consecration of bishops whose "manner of life" would strain relations with the 77-million member Anglican Communion. The Episcopal Church is the U.S. branch of the communion.
The new approach is likely to deepen theological fissures that led some traditionalist Episcopal congregations and dioceses last month to form a rival church. And it is almost certain to trigger a backlash among conservative Anglican leaders who have urged the U.S. church to refrain from relaxing ordination and marriage standards.
But progressives in the 2.1-million member denomination said the move toward inclusion reflects the reality of a church that is home to many partnered gays and lesbians who belong to parishes that encourage their involvement and already bless their unions.
"Being an Episcopalian means you can disagree and still worship together," said the Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles. "We're going to leave the door open for all those who disagree with us to find a place here and peace here."
Tensions have been mounting since 2003, when a partnered gay priest, V. Gene Robinson, was consecrated as bishop of New Hampshire. Several conservative Anglican leaders, especially in Africa, cut ties to the U.S. church after his election.
The spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, had expressed apprehension during a brief visit to the conference last week about decisions "that could push us further apart."
On Tuesday, an elated Robinson celebrated the lopsided vote in the church's two legislative bodies -- the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies, composed of clergy and laity.
"I'm simply delighted at the possibility that another diocese will recognize the gifts of a gay or lesbian clergy person," he said. "I long for the day when someone who shares my experience as an openly gay bishop joins me in the House of Bishops. It has been lonely."
But a bishop who left the church last year predicted that the decisions made in Anaheim would increase strains with disaffected conservatives.
"Clearly the activists have done a good job promoting their agenda," said the Rt. Rev. Martyn Minns, a founding bishop of the newly formed Anglican Church in North America, which hopes to gain recognition from the Anglican Communion as a rival province to the Episcopal Church.
"The generosity shown by the rest of the communion has been astonishing and has been thrown back in their face," Minns said. "There will have to be a renegotiation of how the Episcopal Church fits into the family."
The measure to consecrate gay bishops won the support of more than two-thirds of the denomination's two legislative houses. The church's presiding bishop, the Most. Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, also supported it.
The resolution seeks to reassure Anglican leaders about the U.S. church's loyalty, saying that the convention reaffirms its "abiding commitment" and financial support for the communion.
But the measure also affirms that "God has called" gays and lesbians in partnered relationships to "any ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church," adding that the call "is a mystery which the church attempts to discern for all people."
Church leaders said the new policy does not repeal the 3-year-old moratorium but instead calls for Episcopal officials to abide by church canons, which prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Debate on a separate measure concerning blessings for same-sex unions is expected today in the House of Bishops, which postponed a vote Tuesday after members asked for more time to discuss the issue.
The measure would allow bishops to "provide generous pastoral response" to gay and lesbian couples, but it would not require those who object to deliver the blessings. Several bishops and lay leaders said they expected a compromise that would permit blessings.
The Rev. Susan Russell, president of Integrity USA, a group that represents gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people in the church, said the Anaheim convention would send a message to the global communion that the church is "committed to both honesty and unity."
But Russell acknowledged the potential for continued conflict.
"There are absolutely challenges," she said. "There is no attempting to skirt the fact that what we are doing is stepping beyond where many in the communion would prefer we go."
A Spanish woman believed to have become the world's oldest new mother when she gave birth at age 66 has died, leaving behind twin toddlers, newspapers reported Tuesday.
Maria del Carmen Bousada, who reportedly died Saturday at age 69, gave birth in December 2006 as a single mother after getting in vitro fertilization treatment.
She told an interviewer she lied to a California fertility about her age, and maintained that because her mother had lived to be 101, she had a good chance of living long enough to raise a child.
Bousada's death was reported by the newspaper El Mundo and Diario de Cadiz. Cadiz is the southern province where Bousada lived her whole life.
Diario de Cadiz quoted her brother, Ricardo Bousada, as confirming her death but refusing to disclose the cause. The newspaper said she had been diagnosed with a tumor shortly after giving.
There was no word on who would raise the children, named Pau and Christian. Bousada had once said she would look for a younger man to help her raise them.
In January 2007, she told the British tabloid News of the World that she sold her house to raise $59,000 to pay for the in vitro fertilization.
"I think everyone should become a mother at the right time for them," Bousada said in a video of the interview provided to Associated Press Television News.
"Often circumstances put you between a rock and a hard place, and maybe things shouldn't have been done in the way they were done, but that was the only way to achieve the thing I had always dreamed of, and I did it," she said.
The retired department store employee said she told the Pacific Fertility in Los Angeles that she was 55 -- the clinic's cut-off for treating single women. She said the clinic did not ask her for identification.
Bousada lived with her mother most of her life in Cadiz. She hatched her plan to have children after her mother died in 2005, she said, initially keeping her plan secret from her family. When she finally told them she was two months pregnant, they thought she was joking.
"Yes, I am old of course, but if I live as long as my mom did, imagine, I could even have grandchildren," she said in the video.
In Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), the United States Supreme Court held, in a unanimous 8-0 decision (Justice Kennedy took no part in the consideration or decision of the case), that the First Amendment's free-speech guarantee prohibits awarding damages to public figures to compensate for emotional distress intentionally inflicted upon them.
Thus, Hustler magazine's parody of Jerry Falwell was deemed to be within the law, leading to a reversal of the jury verdict in favor of Falwell, who had previously been awarded $150,000 in damages by a lower court.
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PHOENIX - A day after Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed a bill putting
restrictions on abortions, Planned Parenthood is taking action.
The new bill requires women to wait 24 hours before getting an
abortion, puts tougher parental controls on teens wanting to end
pregnancy and gives the ability for health care providers to deny
emergency contraception on religious or moral grounds.
Carol Bafaloukos, with Planned Parenthood, says they're fighting back.
"We're still strategizing with our Planned Parenthood Federation
of America," Bafaloukos told KTAR. "But, we are very dedicated to
assisting women."
She went on to say this bill is frustrating and puts up barriers for women.
"It really takes us backwards," Bafaloukos said. "Women are
confronted with very difficult decisions very often and to further put
up barriers for them to make their own decisions is very frustrating."
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Woman Found in Home With Bodies of 4 Kids Faces Murder Charges
Thursday , January 10, 2008
Fox News
WASHINGTON —
A woman found in her
home with the decomposing bodies of four girls faces murder charges,
and authorities believe she is their mother, officials said Thursday.
Banita Jacks, 33, was expected to appear Thursday in D.C. Superior Court, where the charges will be presented, prosecutors said.
"We are working on the assumption that these are her four children," police Chief Cathy Lanier said at a news conference.
The bodies of the girls — ages 5, 6, 11 and 17 — were found
Wednesday when deputy U.S. marshals served an eviction notice at the
apartment. Medical examiner Dr. Marie-Lydie Pierre-Louis said the
bodies were likely there more than 15 days, "based on the insects that
were found there."
Jacks, who faces four counts of felony murder, could receive a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted.
"I don't think anyone in the city can remember a case involving this
many young people who have died in such a tragic way," Mayor Adrian M.
Fenty said.
How the girls died remained under investigation, but Pierre-Louis
said it appeared the oldest child might have been stabbed in the
abdomen. The other three children might have been poisoned or
asphyxiated, she said. The medical examiner's office was trying to
identify the girls using dental records or DNA.
Lloyd Nolan Jr., an attorney listed at the courthouse for Jacks, did
not immediately return a telephone call from The Associated Press
seeking comment.
The home where the bodies were found is in one of the city's
poorest, most violent neighborhoods. The block is lined by virtually
identical apartment houses near Bolling Air Force Base. About one-third
of the city's homicides last year occurred in the area, according to
preliminary police statistics.
City officials were scrambling to understand how four children could
have been dead for at least two weeks without anyone knowing.
The mayor said Thursday that officials were working to determine what other contacts city agencies had with the family.
"We are going to investigate every single contact that this family
has had with the government, with people who are paid to look out for
the welfare of children, and we will come back with a full report,"
Fenty said.
Mindy Good, a spokeswoman for the D.C. Child and Family Services
agency, said Wednesday that the agency had received one report about a
family at that address in April through the city's child abuse and
neglect reporting hot line.
"We made several attempts to make contact with these people. We were
unable to have any face-to-face contact with them," Good said. "On the
last attempt (in early May), it appeared they were no longer living at
the address."
Good said investigators later found a new address for the family in
Maryland and alerted county authorities there of the report on the
family. She would not say where the family was believed to be living.
Nona Richardson, a spokeswoman for the D.C. Public Charter School
Board, said Jacks' three younger daughters attended the Meridian Public
Charter School consistently until March 2, 2007.
When they stopped showing up, Richardson said the school immediately
tried to contact the mother by mail and telephone. Officials finally
went to the woman's home and the woman told a school official that she
wanted to withdraw the children and home-school them. They were
withdrawn on March 15, 2007.
None of the children thought to be living in the home was enrolled
in the public school system, said D.C. schools spokeswoman Mafara
Hobson. One child at that address had attended Stuart-Hobson Elementary
School but withdrew in 2006 as a fifth-grader, she said.
Fenty said Thursday that besides at least one contact with child
welfare officials, the family had at least one brush with D.C. police.
According to court records, Jacks was charged in January 2007 with
driving an unregistered vehicle. In February, she paid a $175 fine and
the case was dismissed.
Larry Jones, who lives next door, said a woman and two or three
children lived at the home but he had not seen them since the summer.
He said the children appeared healthy at the time.
Jones added that in recent months he has noticed a "strange odor"
coming through his vent. "We thought it was probably dead mice in the
vent or something," he said.
Resident Rowand Simpkins said her neighbors tend to keep to themselves and that she never saw the woman or children.
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A man was kidnapped, force-fed beer and then abandoned on a Utah roadside in a possible case of mistaken identity, police say.
The victim — whose name and age were not available — was found by a passer-by walking across Legacy Highway near Centerville at about 9 a.m. Saturday, the Deseret News reported.
The man said he had been kidnapped roughly three hours earlier, according to Salt Lake Police Sgt. Dennis McGowan.
The victim, who was not seriously injured, told police he parked his car near his home when two Spanish-speaking men dragged him out into the driveway, the newspaper reported.
He was then allegedly thrown into their red pickup truck, where he claims the men pulled a bag over his head, bound his hands and feet with a wire coat hanger and put a gun to his stomach.
"They told him this was their area and that he can't sell drugs here," McGowan told the Deseret News.
McGowan told the paper the kidnappers force-fed the man two cans of beer prior to throwing him out of the truck, probably in an attempt to pass him off as a drunk who concocted the abduction story.
Two empty beer cans and a mangled wire hanger found on the side of the highway seemed to confirm the victim's account, McGowan told the Deseret News.
WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama had just started a spirited defense of his economic stimulus plan on Monday when one of his teleprompter screens came loose, crashed to the floor and shattered into pieces.
The gadget's fall surprised Obama, who uses a teleprompter during most speeches and even brief remarks. The glass plate displaying his speech hit the floor in the auditorium of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, a massive building within the White House compound.
"Oh, goodness," Obama said. "Sorry about that, guys."
The audience -- administration officials, mayors and urban policy experts -- laughed as Obama went back to his text. To finish his 11-minute remarks calling for a new policy toward the nation's cities and metropolitan areas, he used notes and the remaining teleprompter screen.
Obama has been criticized for relying too heavily on his teleprompter for routine remarks and the device has become jokingly known as "TOTUS."
Vice President Joe Biden recently suffered a similar mishap while delivering a speech in Colorado Springs, when a gust of wind blew one of the teleprompters he was using over.
Biden was acknowledging the thin air of the Colorado Mountains that United States Air Force cadets have to adapt and train in, when a loud crash was heard. He quickly ad-libbed that the air was not only thin but windy as well. His next remarks explained the noise.
"What am I gonna tell the President when I tell him his teleprompter is broken? What will he do then?" Biden said to audience laughter.
Luckily for Biden, one teleprompter was still standing and the mishap was near the end of his remarks.
It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie.
A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.
Robotic Technology Inc.'s Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that's right, "EATR" — "can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable," reads the company's Web site.
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