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Secret Daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young, Judy Lewis, Dies at 76 Published December 01, 2011

NORRISTOWN, Pa. – A memorial will be held Saturday for Judy Lewis, the daughter of Clark Gable and Loretta Young, who died at the age of 76.
Lewis passed away on Nov. 25 at a retirement community in Gladwyne, Pa., eight miles (13km) south of Montgomery County seat Norristown, after a battle with cancer, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported Wednesday.
The actress, writer and psychotherapist spent the first 19 months of her life hidden away, sometimes in orphanages, because of Young's reluctance to acknowledge her own child.

Lewis revealed in her 1994 memoir "Uncommon Knowledge" that she was conceived in 1935 when Young, 22, and the married Gable, 34, were shooting "The Call of the Wild."
Young, who was unmarried at the time, concealed her pregnancy and subsequently the birth. Nineteen months after Lewis was born, Young brought her home and told the public that she had adopted a child.
In 1940, Young married Thomas Lewis, and Judy Lewis took his surname -- but she was never formally adopted by her stepfather.
"It was very difficult for me as a little girl not to be accepted ... by my mother, who to this day will not publicly acknowledge that I am her biological child," Lewis said in 1994.
According to an authorized biography published after Young's death in 2000, she confirmed that Lewis was her daughter with Gable.
Lewis met Gable, who died in 1960, once when she was a teenager but she did not learn he was her father for several years after that meeting.
According to the Los Angeles Times, her parenthood was an open secret in Hollywood but Lewis' classmates and friends had been instructed not to tell her.
Two weeks before her wedding to Joseph Tinney, Lewis developed cold feet and wanted to pull out because she did not know who she was.
Lewis said her fiance told her, "Judy, don't worry about it. I know everything about you. You're Clark Gable's daughter," leaving her gobsmacked. The marriage to Tinney ended in 1972 and he died in 1999, the Inquirer reported.
Following a confrontation, Young confirmed that Gable was her father but begged Lewis not to tell anyone.
"I had to write this book," Lewis told the Times when her biography was released. "I don't think anyone knows what it's like not to be acknowledged by your own parents."
After graduating high school in Los Angeles, Lewis made her way to New York to pursue an acting career, the Inquirer said. She appeared on Broadway as well as in daytime soaps such "General Hospital."
From the eighties, she worked as a counselor after studying for degrees in clinical psychology.
Lewis -- who lived in Palm Springs, Calif., Gladwyne, Pa., and Longport, N.J., throughout the years -- is survived by her partner Steve Rowland, her daughter, son-in-law, two grandsons, and three half-brothers, including John Clark Gable.
A service will be held for Lewis at Gladwyne's St. John Vianney Church at 11:30am local time Saturday.


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Penn State Bought Adult .XXX Domain Names to Block Usage Prior to Sex Abuse Scandal Published November 30, 2011 |

Penn State University -- now wracked by the sex-abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky -- purchased several .XXX domains roughly two months before news of the ongoing child sex-abuse scandal surfaced.

A FoxNews.com investigation found that Penn State was not alone, as fellow Big 10 Conference member Ohio State University also purchased a total of 19 domains, including buckeyeblitz.xxx and goldpants.xxx.

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In September, Penn State spokesman Jeffrey Hermann said the university purchased four .xxx domains -- Penn State, PSU, Nittany Lions and The Pennsylvania State University -- or the most popular of its federally registered trademarks.

"The cost was $200 per trademark, but this purchase should also prevent someone from buying a domain that includes our trademark along with other words," Hermann wrote FoxNews.com in an email. "Our purchase of nittanylion.xxx is intended to prevent someone from purchasing a url such as nittanyliongirls."

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which regulates Internet naming, approved the .xxx domain for pornographic websites in March. It allowed colleges and other organizations to purchase the domains before the general public is allowed to do so on Dec. 6.

Each domain listing lasts 10 years.

Rick Van Brimmer, director of trademark and licensing services at Ohio State University, said the school started its process in August and submitted 19 domains to ICANN. Other domain names included theshoe.xxx and scarletandgray.xxx, Brimmer told FoxNews.com.

In early November, former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky was charged with allegedly abusing eight boys throughout a 15-year period. A ninth victim -- who is not among those identified in a grand jury report released last month -- said Wednesday that he was sexually abused more than 100 times after meeting Sandusky through The Second Mile charity he founded in 1977, according to a civil lawsuit that also names the university and the charity as defendants.

Sandusky, the former one-time heir apparent to former Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, has since acknowledged showering with young boys but denied molesting them.

The growing sex-abuse scandal has rocked Penn State, resulting in the departures of school President Graham Spanier and Paterno. Athletic Director Tim Curley has also been placed on administrative leave, and Vice President Gary Schultz has stepped down.

Schultz and Curley have been charged with lying to the grand jury and failure to report to police. Both have maintained their innocence.

Vybz Kartel In Jamaican Prison Break?

11:30, Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Dancehall star Vybz Kartel has reportedly broken out of prison in his native Jamaica after holding an officer at gunpoint.

Kartel, real name Adidja Palmer, allegedly started a riot at the Horizon Adult Remand Centre, where he was being held whilst under investigation over his possible involvement in up to seven murders.

It is reported that Kartel and several other prisoners managed to take control of the prison shortly after 1am local time this morning (30/11/11), taking clothes and keys from guards before escaping in a prison maintenance pickup truck at approximately 1.45am.

One police officer is thought to have died of a heart attack during the escape with at least twelve others injured, including two who were shot with guns apparently smuggled into the prison ahead of the raid.

The Force Commissioner of Jamaica's Criminal Investigations Branch has confirmed that Kartel, who has previously worked with the likes of Eminem, Jay-Z and Akon, is on the run and that he and the other escapees are now on the island's most wanted list.

At 12.20pm GMT today (30/11/11), a tweet purporting to be from Kartel's Twitter account hit the micro-blogging site, cryptically just saying "Ahoee'.

It has yet to be confirmed whether the tweet was genuinely sent by Kartel, or whether his account has been hacked.

As HIV epidemic grows, Florida city grapples with fear and denial By Madison Park, CNN updated 11:28 AM EST, Tue November 29, 2011

Editor's note: This week, CNN Health's team is taking a close look at the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Southeast with a series leading up to World AIDS Day on December 1. Learn more about the problem and our upcoming stories here.
Jacksonville, Florida (CNN) -- When the topic of HIV/AIDS enters a conversation, Earl Thompson hears that it's "just what gays get."
"It's not a gay disease," said Thompson. "It's a human disease."
When a person gets a disease like cancer, support pours in, said Thompson, a slender 27-year-old with a boyish face. Family and friends fund raise and make sure their loved one gets proper care. But that's not the case with HIV.
"It's like hush-hush," said Thompson, a Jacksonville native, who learned before his birthday in April that he has HIV. "You feel unlovable. You feel tainted. They're going to point a finger at me and be judging me.
"Just from the community, I know they don't talk about it. Jacksonville has many years before we're close to Miami, Orlando or Tampa. If something goes wrong, you don't talk about it."
It's a problem all across the Bible Belt. The Southeast is disproportionately struck with higher HIV/AIDS rates than much of the rest of the country.

Earl Thompson said HIV/AIDS is kept "hush-hush."
Dealing with the epidemic in the South "is extremely challenging, because the stigma and discrimination is worse," said Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "There is less discourse around prevention, sexual health, comprehensive sex education in schools or having strong, community-based advocacy activities."
Pastor fights HIV stigma in rural town
Jacksonville has the fifth-highest number of AIDS diagnoses among U.S. cities, according to CDC statistics from 2008.
The state says this could have been a statistical aberration because surveillance methods and HIV/AIDS reporting laws changed in Florida in 2007, causing fluctuations in the data.
But local HIV advocates in northeast Florida say the problem is a real one, not just a statistical blip.
"Here in Jacksonville, we're kind of the buckle in the Bible belt," said Donna Fuchs, executive director of Northeast Florida AIDS Network. "HIV carries a huge stigma in our city."
Fuchs said the organization had trouble finding office space in 2000. One property owner refused to rent to the group, saying he didn't want people with AIDS in his buildings.
Today, the office sits on a quiet, tree-lined street with a simple sign that reads: NFAN. A red ribbon, the ubiquitous sign for HIV/AIDS, usually adorns the logo for the organization. But not here.
"Clients didn't want a red ribbon on the door," said Fuchs. "We had to take it down."

Donna Fuchs had trouble finding an office that would rent out to the HIV/AIDS group.
Four blocks away, there is another HIV organization -- one named for NBA star Magic Johnson, who revealed in 1991 that he is HIV-positive.
When that clinic opened a decade ago, the ribbon-cutting ceremony was held inside the lobby. Organizers moved the event indoors because people feared being seen and associated with the disease.
Today, that one-story clinic tucked behind a towering magnolia tree no longer bears Johnson's name.
"The only way we can get people to come through the front door is to create a fictitious name." said Todd Reese, associate director of Health Care Center operations at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation. "No one walks into any building or floor that has any association with HIV."
Although visible HIV signs may be scrubbed from public view, the epidemic has worsened.
HIV cases in Duval County, which mostly consists of Jacksonville, increased by 33% in the first half of 2011. This year, the county Health Department reports an increase in new cases.
"It's really not acceptable," said Dr. Bob Harmon, the county's Health Department director. "This disease is ruining lives, and it's still killing people, especially low-income people who don't get tested enough and who don't get treated early."
Several HIV/AIDS advocates in Jacksonville criticized sex education in schools that emphasized abstinence. The mentality is that HIV/AIDS is not an issue here, several advocates said.
"Denial is the biggest problem," said Reese.
And those who reveal their HIV status struggle to find acceptance.
Thompson observed that some people who knew about his HIV status avoided physical contact with him. In social settings, they watched their drinks to make sure their glasses didn't get mixed up.
"Sometimes you feel like a pin cushion, like you're never going to find acceptance," Thompson said. "You feel like you're going to be looked at as a disease, not as a person."
No one walks into any building or floor that has any association with HIV.
Todd Reese, associate director of Health Care Center operations at the AIDS Healthcare Foundation
What perpetuates the epidemic is a social issue, Reese said.
In Florida, the HIV/AIDS focus has historically been placed in southern part of the state. Some of the earliest HIV cases were found in Miami and in the Haitian immigrant population in South Florida. Miami still struggles with new HIV/AIDS cases; often, it has the highest AIDS rates in the country.
"You can go to Miami and you can put up a billboard, you can talk about condoms, AIDS and sex," Reese said. "You can't do that in Jacksonville. People will be offended. They don't want to talk about it or see it. They don't want to see billboards about it."
And Jacksonville is no small town: It has about 821,000 residents.
It's a different population, said Harmon.

Wade Price said the virus has been ignored.
"In north Florida, our population profile is more like Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi than it is central and south Florida. That generally means higher rates of poverty, lower rates of completing high school and college, and higher percentage of African-American population."
Duval County has a high percentage of African-Americans, and in Jacksonville, 71% of the total HIV cases are African-Americans.
Wade Price, 46, is a black gay man, proud father of three and grandfather of three.
He keeps a half-dozen orange prescription bottles of anti-HIV medications on his nightstand next to his red leather-bound Bible. The pages of his well-worn Bible are patchworks of green and orange highlights. He reads scriptures every night and attends a Baptist church twice a week.
Because his faith is crucial, Price decided to tell the head minister of his church how he struggled with being gay. He wanted to have prayer meetings with ministers and start a church support group.
Price told the minister: "I'm not the only one. Lots of people are keeping quiet, living double lives."
The minister rebuffed him, saying, "Wow, it's times like this, I don't like being a minister."
"That's one aspect of black churches," Price said. "They want to turn blind eyes to it. ... I'm fighting this battle on my own."
Price left that church and found another one last month that is more accepting.
"We pretend it's not happening," Price said. "The virus is being spread. You want to pretend like sex isn't happening. They say, 'Condoms, oh, no! That's not for God!' What's not for God is living with ignorance."
The social climate in northern Florida tends to be more conservative, said Harmon.

Veronica Hicks said things are changing and that more people are paying attention to HIV/AIDS in her community.
"There may be a reluctance to talk about this in the family, in the church, in other social settings and to perhaps ignore it," he said.
But there are signs of change. Churches in the community have started to talk about the HIV/AIDS epidemic, said Veronica Hicks, 50.
Hicks has never felt the need to hide her AIDS diagnosis and told her fellow church members and her pastor.
"They embrace me with it," she said. And Hicks is starting an HIV/AIDS testing and awareness ministry for her church in Jacksonville.
While stigma persists in the community, it's getting better, she said.
She reported seeing growing HIV support groups, increasing turnout at community HIV/AIDS events and a recent line of people waiting to get tested at a mobile clinic.
"It shows me that people are willing to become more educated because HIV is prevalent and relevant."

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