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Statue of Liberty 's renovated crown to reopen this weekend

Posted: October 26, 2012 at 9:30 pm

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The crown of the Statue of Liberty will reopen to the public on Sunday - the 126th anniversary of its dedication - after a year-long renovation to make the New York landmark safer and more accessible to people in wheelchairs.

The $30 million renovation of the statue, which towers over Liberty Island in New York Harbor, improved fire alarms, sprinkler systems and exit routes to bring Lady Liberty in line with New York City safety codes, the National Park Service said.

There are also more stairs than ever before, with a daunting 393 steps to the crown, where there were previously 354 slightly steeper steps. Wheelchair accessible elevators inside the pedestal bring visitors to just below Lady Liberty's sandals.

The statue is 151 feet from base to torch. It sits atop the 89-foot (27-meter) tall stone pedestal, which sits on a 65-foot (20-meter) tall foundation in the shape of a star.

There is no wheelchair access inside the body of the statue.

A new air-conditioning system will cool the interior of the copper-clad monument, which previously could get up to 20 degrees hotter than outdoors at the height of summer. And the bathrooms have been upgraded for the first time since the 1980s.

Visitors in wheelchairs, who could view the statue only from the ground before, can now ascend to the top of statue's pedestal and see inside the structure.

About 3.5 million people visit Liberty Island every year, although most do not go inside the statue, park officials say. With the improvements, an additional 26,000 will be able to ascend to the crown each year.

The statue, a gift from France to the United States, was dedicated in 1886 and declared a national monument in 1924. In 2009, the crown was reopened to the public for the first time since the attacks of September 11, 2001.

(Editing by Barbara Goldberg and Todd Eastham)

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Tila Tequila Unleashes Insane Rant About “ Illuminati Evil F*cks”

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Yesterday was Tila Tequilas 31st birthday, and to celebrate, the former MTV reality star and current crazy person unleashed an insane rant about the illuminati in a blog post to her official website, titled DEAR ILLUMINATI EVIL FUCKS: I HAVE A MESSAGE FOR YOU!

Freedom Fighters & Truth Seekers Abroad,

Please excuse my extremely explicit letter to THE OTHERS as I have had enough so I just wanted to tell you guys before you read further so please dont get offended. I dont usually talk this way but again, this is a letter for THE OTHERS so please go ahead and stop reading at this point because my letter to them is NOT pretty. Love you! Now let me get back to my letter to those pricks because I know they are reading this now! Their time is running out. Im sick of their bullshit and fucking with humanitys lives as if we are just a bunch of disposable toys to them! Time for a REVOLUTION and also time for my HOLY GRAIL website to finally launch soon! FUck them! Yes, you, THE OTHERS and you KNOW we, the people, are going to win this time. We are all sick and tired of your shit. You want a War? Ok lets get ready for one, but only if YOU yourself participate and not act like a bunch of old, ugly, rich, evil COWARDS hiding while you send out our young, beautiful boys here in AMERICA and TRAIN THEM TO BE MURDERERS TRICKING THEM INTO THINKING THEY ARE FIGHTING FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND WHEN REALLY YOU ASSHOLES LIED TO EVERYONE! I DECLARE A WAR BUT NO SOLDIERS, JUST ME, THE PEOPLE, AND ALL OF YOU SO CALLED ILLUMINATI, ELITIST COWARDS! I HAVE ALL YOUR SECRETS, I AM MUCH WISER THAN I WAS BACK THEN WHEN YOU FUCKED ME OVER SO BAD I THOUGHT I WAS GOING TO JUST DIE FROM ALL THE PAIN YOU ORCHESTRATED AND INFLICTED UPON MY SOUL! MY TILA ARMY AND THE WORLD AT LARGE HAS YOU WAAAAAAAAY OUT NUMBERED!!

AND BELIEVE ME, ALTHOUGH THE MASSES DONT KNOW THAT SUPER HUMANS REALLY DO EXIST, WELL I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW WE DO SO WE DONT NEED WEAPONS TO DESTROY YOU! GO ON.. SHOULD I TELL THEM ABOUT THE SUPER HUMANS THAT EXIST AND ALL OF THOSE EXPERIMENTS YOU DO ON THEM TO USE THEIR POWERS FOR YOUR OWN BENEFIT? SHOULD I TELL THEM THAT IS WHY SO MANY MISSING CHILDREN POP UP EACH YEAR BECAUSE YOU SADISTIC FUCKS WERE THE ONES BEHIND IT??! AGAIN, THERE ARE STILL PLENTY OF US OUT HERE WITH SUPER POWERS AND I WILL GATHER THEM ALL TOGETHER AND YOU EVIL PRICKS ARE ALL GOING DOWN!!!

UNLESS YOU STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND FIX ALL THE WRONG YOU DID TO MANKIND, FIX THE EARTH THAT YOU RUINED, THEN I AM SURE THERE WILL NOT BE ANYMORE FRICTIONS AND HATRED BETWEEN US GOOD GUYS AND YOU EVIL PRICKS! SO WHAT IF YOU ARE ALIEN HYBRID? THAT DOESNT MEAN YOU OWN US! YOU KNOW DAMN WELL THERE ARE ABOUT AT LEAST 100 DIFFERENT TYPES OF ALIEN HYBRIDS ON PLANET EARTH RIGHT NOW AND WE ARE ALL WAKING UP HONEY! PREPARE FOR WAR. I HAVE OFFICIALLY DECLARED IT.

AGAIN, I TELL YOU IN ADVANCE I HAVE NO WEAPONS, I AM NO TERRORIST, I LOVE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, AND THE ONY WEAPON I HAVE TO GO TO WAR WITH YOU FUCKS ARE MY NATURAL SUPER HUMAN ABILITIES AS WELL.

TIME IS RUNNING OUT AND I DONT CARE ANYMORE WHAT YOU DO TO TRY TO MAKE ME LOOK CRAZY! I AM TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW THAT WE BOTH KNOW THAT YOU AND I HAVE BEEN ON THIS PLANET FOR A VERY LONG TIME! AND YES I AM WELL AWARE THAT THIS LETTER MAY MAKE ME SEEM BIZARRE BUT AT THIS POINT I DONT EVEN CARE ANYMORE! THIS IS ABOUT YOU, NOT THEM!

SHALL I GO INTO TELLING THE PEOPLE HOW YOU KEPT WATCHING ME MY ENTIRE LIFE EVEN BEFORE I WAS BORN? AND INDEED YOU SENT THOSE 3 MAN MADE GREYS TO TRY TO SCARE ME AND PLOT SOME TYPE OF ARTIFICIAL ABDUCTION! HA! VERY CLEVER HUNNY BUT I DIDNT FALL FOR THAT SHIT, AS BELIEVABLE AS THEY WERE AND EVEN ALMOST GOT ME FLYING BACKWARDS INTO THE YELLOW BLAST THAT KEPT PULLING ME UP AND AWAY TRYING SOOOOO HARD TO STEAL MY SOUL! AS A MATTER OF FACT, YOU DID IT WHILE COURTENAY WAS RIGHT THERE!!!!!!!!!!! SHE KNOWS WHAT YOU DID THAT NIGHT.

BUT YOU AND I BOTH KNOW, YOU KNOWWWW THAT I HAVE MY PEOPLE ALSO WATCHING OVER YOU! AS LONG AS I AM ALIVE, AS LONG AS GOD IS IN MY HEART, AS LONG AS MY KIND CONTINUES TO PROTECT ME, THEN YOU CANNOT DO SHIT TO ME!

AS FOR EVERYONE ELSE I SINCERELY APOLOGIZE FOR MY CURSING AS YOU GUYS KNOW I AM NEVER THIS WAY NOR DO I SPEAK THIS WAY TO ANYONE ONLY WHEN SOMETHING TRAUMATIC HAPPENS SO PLEASE FORGIVE ME IF I HAVE OFFENDED ANY OF YOU WITH SO MANY F-BOMBS!!! BUT THIS LETTER IS FOR THE OTHERS. I DONT USUALLY AGREE WITH SUCH LANGUAGE BUT THOSE PRICKS DONT DESERVE MY RESPECT!!!

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Worldwide Illuminati Network Supporting Witchcraft and Pagan Lifestyles To Debut on Halloween

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

A new worldwide network that will support new age, witchcraft, spiritual, pagan and other alternative lifestyles and feature a 24-hour online television and radio network plus Internet on demand services will debut October 31, said co-founders Steve McManus and Elizabeth Sturino.

People interested in these lifestyles havent had a centralized location where they can find the latest information, McManus said. With the Illuminati Network, they will not only be able to find such items as their favorite occult radio personalities, but they will also be able to find information on all alternative lifestyle events and issues. The network will also have childrens programming for parents who want to educate their children about their lifestyle.

Sturino added that the network will also be able to shed light on many inaccuracies and misconceptions.

There are many modern witches, but they do not fly around on brooms, she said. There is a very progressive community of people who practice witchcraft who have never been able to fight misconceptions with a single voice.

Currently, people involved in these lifestyles must do time consuming searches to find programming and information. Key alternative lifestyle media personalities typically drive large market share and have fiercely loyal customer bases but are difficult to locate.

Just like the consumers, advertisers who want to reach occultists have difficulty reaching this fragmented market, he said.

In addition, the network plans on being an active player in the media landscape, providing reporters, editors and producers with a comprehensive list of occult experts and spokespersons who will weigh in on controversial issues in a timely manner. The cofounders believe the Illuminati Network will become the hub of the occult universe worldwide, and will ultimately start to change how the general public views it.

We are tired of the misconceptions surrounding these lifestyles in the media, but those misconceptions have never been consistently challenged by people who are competent and informed, Sturino said. That will now change.

The Illuminati Network LLC is a registered corporation based in Delaware. To view a preview and framework of the site, go to http://www.the-illuminati-network.com. Content will be added gradually over the next year. For media interviews or information on advertising, call 1-866-501-7746. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheIlluminatiNetwork, Twitter: https://twitter.com/tin_net

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Maryland defends state gun law

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RICHMOND Attorneys for the state of Maryland argued Wednesday in federal court that a law requiring residents to provide a good and substantial reason for seeking handgun permits is a reasonable restriction that promotes safety without violating the Second Amendment.

The U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments Wednesday from the state and from gun-rights advocates on opposite sides of a U.S. District Court decision that struck down the law as unconstitutional.

State attorneys argued the requirement is no different from many common restrictions placed on permit applicants, while their opponents contended that the state is unlawfully forcing residents to explain why they want to exercise a fundamental right.

Were certainly not asking the court to tell Maryland how to regulate handguns, said Alan Gura, a prominent gun-rights attorney representing the plaintiff in the case. All were saying is that they proceed with the understanding that there is an issue of fundamental rights here.

The three-judge panel peppered the attorneys with questions during Wednesdays proceedings, which lasted about 45 minutes.

Many of their questions centered on how Marylands law compares to restrictions on handgun permits in other states, and whether previous court cases establish or deny a right to carry handguns outside ones home.

Maryland Assistant Attorney General Matthew Fader argued that the states restriction is no less legitimate than other widely accepted regulations on the Second Amendment, such as outlawing gun possession in certain public places or denying permits to people with histories of violence.

What the plaintiffs want is not the right to carry for self-defense, but to carry for no reason at all, said Mr. Fader, who criticized the lower courts decision as an activist ruling delivered in broad political consensus against gun control.

After court adjourned, State Police Secretary Col. Marcus L. Brown said that he considers the law to be a crucial safety measure that has helped to reduce gun violence.

Our number-one responsibility is fighting crime, he said. And if the state feels this is the way to do it, then Maryland State Police supports the law.

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Court upholds ban on handgun sales to people under 21

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(Reuters) - The United States may ban federally licensed firearms dealers from selling handguns to people under age 21, an appeals court ruled on Thursday, in a defeat for the National Rifle Association.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Houston rejected the NRA's argument that 18- to 20-year-olds had a right to buy the guns under the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, as well as the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.

A unanimous three-judge panel said Congress, in a law dating from 1968, adopted the sales ban to help curb violent crime. It also said that the nation's founders and 19th-century courts and commentators believed that disarming specific groups did not trample on the right to bear arms.

"Congress was focused on a particular problem: young persons under 21, who are immature and prone to violence, easily accessing handguns," mainly from licensed dealers, Judge Edward Prado wrote for the panel.

"The present ban appears consistent with a longstanding tradition of age- and safety-based restrictions on the ability to access arms," he added.

Thursday's decision upheld a September 2011 ruling by District Judge Sam Cummings in Lubbock, Texas.

The case had been brought a year earlier by the NRA, firearms dealers and individuals against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which is part of the Department of Justice.

NRA DISAPPOINTED

The 5th Circuit said it was the first federal appeals court to address the ban since the Supreme Court in 2008 announced a broad Second Amendment right for individuals to keep and bear arms, in the case District of Columbia v. Heller.

"We are disappointed," said David Thompson, managing partner at Cooper & Kirk in Washington, who represents the NRA. "The ruling is inconsistent with the Supreme Court's opinion in Heller, and we are considering all of our appellate options."

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Filings: Pro-charter amendment campaign swamps opposition in fundraising

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Groups backing the charter schools constitutional amendment have again pulled in far more money than amendment opponents, the most recent campaign filing statements show.

Families for Better Public Schools, which supports the amendment, raised $1.28 million during the filing period that ends 15 days before the election. Families haul was 70 times more than the $18,164 the main opposition group, Vote Smart! No to State-Controlled Schools, raised during the same period.

A second amendment supporter, Georgia Public School Families for Amendment One, raised $55,000. Despite the groups name, all of its money came from a single donation made by PublicSchoolOptions.org of Arlington, Va.

Indeed, most of the money that has gone to amendment supporters came from outside Georgia. Families for Better Public Schools filing, for example, shows that 71 percent of the money raised during this filing period came from outside sources.

As she did earlier in the campaign, Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton of Arkansas contributed another $350,000. J.C. Huizenga of Grand Rapids, Mich., gave $250,000. Students First of Sacramento, Calif., also gave $250,000.

Wow, said Jane Langley, campaign manager for the Vote Smart opposition group. This gives new meaning to families. Those out-of-state corporations, more than two out of every three contributions, must badly want to change permanently our constitution.

Many traditional public school officials superintendents, board members and teachers have opposed the amendment, arguing that it would lead to the creation of more charter schools that would sap money from traditional public schools. Supporters argue that passing the amendment would protect from legal challenge the states ability to authorize charter schools, which are public schools that are granted flexibility as they pursue specific education goals spelled out in their charter.

Traditional education officials and those tied to school systems dotted the Vote Smart contribution list.

Jeanne Sis Henry, executive director of the Georgia School Boards Association, gave $3,000. Victoria Sweeney, an attorney who represents the Gwinnett County Public School District, donated $1,000.

Families for Better Public Schools collected $250,000 from Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus and $100,000 from Richard Gaby, chief executive officer of Peter Island Resort and Spa. Real estate developer Tom Cousins gave $20,000.

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