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As kids grow older, they believe that they know everything and start to fight with authority figures. The youthful spirit erupts into a raging phase of going against any rules that were placed. They test the limits until they or someone is badly injured.

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A strict dress code introduced by a Staten Island public high school principal has led to the detention of 200 kids - and a rebellion among some students and parents.

The students - 90 percent of them girls - were detained by the fashion police in the last two weeks because they wore tank tops or short-shorts to beat the heat at their un-air-conditioned school.

Tottenville HS junior Ashley Silberberg wore a T-shirt that bared 2 inches of midriff on Sept. 5, the second day of school, when the mercury topped 87 degrees.

She and 100 other stunned offenders were promptly hauled to the dean's office and then the auditorium, while their parents were called to drop off "appropriate" clothing.

If parents were working or unreachable, kids were forced to change into school-logo gym shorts and a T-shirt. The next day, 100 more kids were similarly punished
at the academically well-regarded, 4,000-student school.

"I was, like, flipping out, cursing mad, and I said, like, 'You know I'm not gonna wear this!' " Silberberg said of her gym clothes. "I took it off as soon as I walked out."

The new, no-nonsense policy, dubbed "Dress for Success" on Pages 32 and 33 of the student handbook, is a "local decision" made "at the discretion of the principal," said a city Department of Education spokeswoman.

For new Principal Joseph Scarmato, who did not return calls, dressing for success means 15 staffers scouring the arriving student body every morning for exposed skin.

The code doesn't just cover tank tops and short-shorts, but miniskirts, leggings, skinny jeans, headbands, halter tops, sweats, hats, hoodies, sunglasses and more.

Last week, the principal began meeting with parents about dress-code enforcement, said DOE officials, adding that parents signed off on the handbook before the new school year began.

District 31 Superintendent Aimee Horowitz, who oversees Tottenville, said in a statement to The Post that skimpy clothing is banned because it "creates a distraction, is dangerous or interferes with the learning and teaching process."

Some parents are outraged and say the policy has backfired.

"These students are rebelling to the point of basically wearing undergarments," said father of three Vincent Candelieri, 59, who is considering a class-action lawsuit against the school. "Scarmato is a total control freak."

Defiant junior Rebecca Brunetta, 17, says she's been in violation of the new dress code every day.

"[The monitor] pulled me [aside] and he said, 'Go to the dean's office,' and I said, 'I left my sweater upstairs - my bad,' " she told The Post. "So he tells me, 'You have to go to the dean's office.' "

Some parents support the new dress code.

"The girls wear these little booty shorts that you can see the crease of their buttocks," said mom Sasha German, 34. "They look like they're training to work in strip clubs."

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School's strict dress code nets 200 detentions and a rebellion

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A strict dress code introduced by a Staten Island public high school principal has led to the detention of 200 kids - and a rebellion among some students and parents. The students - 90 percent of them girls - were detained by the fashion police in the last two weeks because they wore tank tops or short-shorts to beat the heat at their un-air-conditioned school.

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We - as human beings - are destined to fight, to create wars. It's how we create power and claim nations. It's an inevitable fate of human nature.

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Mahatma Gandhi was a very famous independent. He focused his career on freeing India from the unjust caste system that ruled the land since ancient times. He started off as an individual who wanted to do good, but ended as a martyr, believeing in the equality in humanity.

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Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck were lovers who seduced over four women and murdered them. The two unattractive people met in the Lonely Heart Club, where lonely people meet to see new people. They fell in love and preceded to rob and murder various women. They were then killed via electric chair in Sing Sing.

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The Lonely Hearts Killers, Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York. The strange couple had schemed to seduce, rob and murder women who placed personal ads in newspapers. Beck and Fernandez boasted to killing as many as seventeen women in this manner, but evidence suggests that there may have been only four victims.

Martha Beck was an extremely overweight, and by all reports, unattractive woman when she joined a lonely hearts club advertised in a romance magazine. Her first letter came from Ray Fernandez in Brooklyn. After World War II, he suffered a serious head injury in an accident that left him bald and with serious headaches. He became a petty criminal andwore a cheap black toupee to cover up his baldness. He convinced himself that he had a power over women that could turn them into his sexual slaves.

In 1946, Fernandez found his first mark in a lonely hearts club. He dated the older woman until he had gainedenough of her trustto loot her bank account.The next year, he took the latest in a line of victims to Spain, where she turned up dead in a hotel room. Fernandez responded to Beck's note with the intention of conning her,but after a brief affair, Fernandez and Beck apparently fell in love. When he confessed his original idea, Beck liked his scheme so much that she decided to join him.

Over the next two years, Beck posed as Fernandez's sister as he seduced older women before stealing from them. By 1949, they had murdered one victim and killed another accidentally with an overdose of sleeping pills. The end came when Fernandez hooked up with a younger woman in Michigan. The woman was a bit suspicious of the "brother and sister," and although she allowed them to move into her home, wouldn't marry Fernandez immediately and provide him access to her funds. When the jealous Beck got tired of waiting, the pair killed the woman and her two-year-old daughter and buried them in the basement.

Police officers, challenged by Fernandez himself, searched the home and found the makeshift grave. Beck and Fernandez confessed readily in the belief that their lives were safe in the non-capital punishment state of Michigan. But they didn't count on being extradited to New York, where the electric chair was an option. At the last minute they attempted an insanity defense, butwere unable toconvince the jury.

Their depraved story was the subject of a particularly sordid 1969 movie The Honeymoon Killers.

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The Lonely Hearts Killers are executed - Mar 08, 1951 - HISTORY.com

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The Lonely Hearts Killers, Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York. The strange couple had schemed to seduce, rob and murder women who placed personal ads in newspapers.

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A family gives biorth to a baby girl with a an extremely rare genetic abnormality called Trisomy 18. Despite her odds, her parents loved her unconditionately and fought for her to live.

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On January 9, 2012, little Nora Rose, then only 25 weeks old, changed the lives of her family forever.

On that day, Nora's family found out that she had an extra 18 th chromosome. Through prenatal tests, she was diagnosed with a fatal chromosomal abnormality - Trisomy 18. Her parents were confronted with a devastating situation they never though they'd have to face:

Although we were given the option to induce preterm labor and "just get this over with", we have realized that there is just NO easy way out of this. We will allow our baby to remain safe, warm and loved inside of me until God decides his or her time with us is up. Our baby is not in any pain and is oblivious to the sea of painful emotions that have been churning in the hearts of so many since we received the news. For what ever reason, God chose US to be the parents of this little person. As sad as I am at the prospect of parting with this tiny baby, I know and trust that God has a plan.

Nora's mom was faced with a decision, and with God holding her hand, she chose to carry her little one, and allow God's plan unfold. She started a blog, I Will Carry You, and has recorded her family's journey since Nora's diagnosis. I stumbled upon the blog just after Nora's birth, and I have been reading the beautiful daily updates ever since.

Nora was born on April 18, and she has since defied the odds. She was able to go home at only two days old, and she has been surrounded by love every day of her life with her parents and two siblings.

Like any journey, 3-month-old Nora's has had its ups and downs. Her family has been through so much this year, and through it all, they have put their faith in God, and his plan for their lives.Head over to Nora's family's blog to show some love to this incredible little girl (and her family) who has already touched countless lives.

We never know how our lives will turn out - only God does. Through choosing life for their Nora, Nora's life has touched and changed the lives of countless others in such a short time. Her family is a moving example of unconditional love, and trust in God. Follow her blog to stay up-to-day on precious little Nora!

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I will carry you: a story of unconditional love | Live Action News

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On January 9, 2012, little Nora Rose, then only 25 weeks old, changed the lives of her family forever. On that day, Nora's family found out that she had an extra 18 th chromosome. Through prenatal tests, she was diagnosed with a fatal chromosomal abnormality - Trisomy 18.