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End Continuum – Not A Through Street
She closed the book, placed it on the table, and finally, decided to walk through the door. I was told her name was Melanie and she would be finishing my intake. "Your nose is a little crooked," she said with motherly concern. "I got into a fight with a guy in a wheel chair and lost," I told her as I stood and walked out. A year ago I was arguing down into "Parking Lot's" crack twisted face about the quantity of dope he just sold me. He throws a jab, breaks my nose, and I stumble backwards and fall over a fire hydrant. I was looking up at a sign that says, "End Continuum – Not a Through Street."
As I bolt out of gay rehab, there's an old black man squatting between two cars, with his pants down, struggling with paper towels to wipe himself. He pleads at me, "You got a dollar, a cigarette, the time?" I find Bullet on the corner by the Police Station. "Sup, OG, he says." He's in a black tuxedo jacket, blue jeans, and red basketball shoes. They let drug dealing happen here, its called containment.
We duck into the pawnshop where he slips the rock from his mouth into my hand for the $18 I'm holding at my side. Bullet sees a bulletproof vest for $600. The owner tells him its Kevlar - it won't stop everything. "Cops don't use armor piercing," Bullet says. "What the fuck do you need with a bulletproof vest," I ask.
"OG, look at me," Bullet says close and low, "I'm…a…drug-dealer."
The homeless people have stopped asking me for change. I must look really bad. It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from here. I almost walk into this Asian guy; he is barefoot and shirtless, blue jeans with a hint of black briefs. He has a vacuum cleaner upside-down on the sidewalk with a screwdriver in his hand. He looks up at me quizzically, and I kind of need a reason to be gawking at him. "I'm probably going to the Gay drug rehab", I blurt out. His eyes, thin, black, storm beautiful consider me for a moment. "I think that's a good choice for you," he says.
"Occupation?" Melanie asks me as gently as possible. "Recovering Gay White Crack Whore with HIV." "Sweetie, I can't put that," she says. "I'm an Unemployed Pearl Diver from Arizona." 90 days clean and Melanie calls me… "John." I had forgotten I had a name, a clean and sober name.


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Hello and Welcome to our website
In July 1949, A public meeting was decided to form a branch of the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association, based in North Canterbury.
Over the next 10 years that followed, membership and club assets increased quite significantly, and on the
17th July 1958, the branch became Incorporated under the Incorporated Societies Act.
Today, we are now a National Organisation of over 7,000 members, which is in being to promote and regulate the sport of big game hunting in New Zealand, There are over 50 branches spread from Northland to Southland, and our own branch is one of the four largest branches
with about 300 members.
We have monthly meetings on the last Monday evening of each month, at our new clubrooms located at
599 McLean's Island Road, starting at 7.30pm, In addition to our new clubrooms, we have our own Rifle Range, which has covered shooting stations and three ranges at 50, 100 and 200 metres respectively. We hold regular public open days, club days and shooting competitions.
We also have our own hunting Lodge in the Lewis Pass called "Palmer Lodge" which sleeps 21 and has an excellent
Firebox for warmth as well as kitchen and dining room facilities. The Lodge is a good base for hunting all of the
Lewis Pass area, including the Maruia / Rahu Saddle area.
During the year, there are numerous hunting trips organised for our members, who hunt for Deer, Tahr, Chamois, Goats, Wallaby's, Rabbits & Hares .. and occasionally members are able to get themselves a pig or two on some of these trips.
The hunting trips are an excellent way to get to know other members and maybe see some new country that you haven't been into before. Trips are graded depending on the season and difficulty of the country.
So there are trips to suit, whether you're just starting out or you're an experienced hunter.
If you're into trophy hunting, we have an annual Antler, Horn and Tusk competition.
You can also enter any of the categories of the National NZDA competitions through affiliation to the Branch.
As well as the hunting trips, the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association also has a Hunter National Training Programme called the "HUNTS Course". This nine week course, allows trainees to learn and gain many new skills which they need to be responsible, safe successful hunters.
It covers topics like: Ethics and Ecology, Equipment and Food, Travel and Navigation, Identifying game species,
Firearm safety and Marksmanship, Hunting techniques, Survival, First Aid, River crossing and Photography, and on completion of the training, Trainees go to the Rangitata area to shoot their first Tahr.
At the end of each monthly meeting we usually have a guest speaker, or an instructional night, a DVD evening or a demonstration of some sort to show how to skin and dress an animal through to what sort of gear to carry on a hunting trip. It varies from month to month.. but is of immense interest and is always worthwhile to attend.
"What is it that the Branch can offer me as a prospective member?"
The NZDA can help you get more out of your hunting and enhance your love of the outdoors.
You will meet new friends and may even find a permanent hunting companion.
Members receive a monthly newsletter and quarterly "New Zealand Hunting and Wildlife" magazine.
Membership to NZDA also provides $10,000,000 public liability insurance cover, including $1,000,000 cover for the Rural Fires Act.
In addition to all the benefits the local branch can offer, membership of the NZDA gives hunters a united voice to lobby regarding issues that challenge the future of our sport. .. such as firearms ownership, 1080 issues as well as the threat to our game herds and tranquillity from heli-hunting and commercial harvesting.
We also have an annual conference where all Branch Presidents, National Executive and other interested branch delegates attend to discuss matters relating to not only the NZDA .. but matters that pertain to other issues that directly relate to hunting or controversial matters like 1080 & heli-hunting etc.
So there's a brief look at some of the benefits of being an NZDA North Canterbury Branch Member. I hope you enjoy browsing our website and encourage you to come along to one of our Branch meetings and introduce yourself.


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Cheyenne Company Failed to Address Sexual Harassment, Later Fired Woman Who Complained, Federal Agency Charged
DENVER -A Cheyenne, Wyo., contracting company unlawfully retaliated against its only female electrician after she complained that she had been sexually harassed, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit filed yesterday.
According to the lawsuit, Jennifer Johnson complained to the owner and manager of Superior Electric and Communications, Inc. about being sexually harassed by her male supervisor at a company construction site. Shortly after she complained, she was fired because of her complaint, the EEOC charged.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits both sexual harassment and retaliation for complaining about it. The EEOC filed the lawsuit (EEOC v Superior Electric and Communication, Inc., Case No. 13-CV-182-F) in U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The suit seeks monetary damages, including back pay, compensation for emotional distress, and punitive damages. The EEOC also seeks injunctive relief prohibiting future retaliation, as well as Johnson's reinstatement.
"Employers have an obligation under federal law to prevent and stop sexual harassment and to take complaints about sexual harassment very seriously," said Mary Jo O'Neill, regional attorney for the EEOC's Phoenix District Office, whose jurisdiction includes the EEOC's Denver Field Office and the state of Wyoming. "And they should absolutely never compound the problem by retaliating against employees for complaining about it."
Retaliation complaints filed with the EEOC have risen dramatically in recent years, and now constitute more than 38% of the discrimination charges that the agency receives nationwide.
Denver Field Office Director Nancy Sienko added, "It is particularly important for employees to feel safe when they speak out against sexual harassment in a workplace. This is precisely the reason our laws prohibit retaliation, and it is why we continue to vigorously enforce people's rights to protest discrimination without fear of losing their jobs."
Superior Electric and Communications, Inc. subcontracts to provide electrical and communications installation and repairs for general contractors on a variety of construction projects.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination, including disability and retaliation discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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Teacher resources and professional development across the curriculum
Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum
Author: Russell
Work: "Aerogrammes"
In this lesson, Bobbi Ciriza Houtchens uses a cultural studies approach to immerse students in Asian American culture as they study Russell Leong's poem "Aerogrammes." During a class trip to Chinatown in Los Angeles, Leong shares his poetry and guides students as they have a Tai Chi lesson, eat in a Chinese restaurant, and work in groups to create Japanese renga poems describing their experience.
To prepare for the lesson, view The Expanding Canon video program 6, Part II. Online review the Session 6 theory overview, strategies, information about the authors and literature, resources, and the downloadable print guide. Read "Aerogrammes" -- available in the print guide.
Teachers will need the following supplies:
Standards for the English Language Arts
Day 1
1. Bobbi Ciriza Houtchens begins by reminding students that on the next day they are going to meet poet Russell Leong in the Chinatown section of Los Angeles. The class prepares by reading "Aerogrammes," a poem from Leong's book The Country of Dreams and Dust. As Houtchens reads, she guides students to make predictions and summarize by asking:
Day 2
1. Houtchens takes her students to Chinatown in Los Angeles to meet poet Russell Leong. She urges the students to be "sponges" - to absorb as much of the cultural experience as they can. (Teachers may want to show the segment from The Expanding Canon video program 6, Part II that features Leong and Houtchens's students.)
2. Leong discusses his experiences in various Chinese American neighborhoods and gives a brief history of Asian American immigration to California. He then introduces his martial arts instructor, Larry Antonio.
3. Antonio explains that Tai Chi, which means balance, is a martial art that deflects and neutralizes incoming forces.
4. Antonio demonstrates some Tai Chi moves; then leads the students in a series of Tai Chi exercises.
5. Leong explains that Tai Chi is similar to poetry because it combines form, function, feeling, and freedom.
6. Led by Leong, the students walk through Chinatown en route to a restaurant. He and Houtchens urge students to use their five senses to absorb the experience.
7. After lunch in a Chinese restaurant, Leong tells students about his trip to China. Then he reads "Aerogrammes" aloud.
8. Leong answers students' questions about his poetry.
9. Leong asks students to write down a line that describes one memory the students have of Chinatown. He instructs them to use their five senses when crafting their lines. Houtchens adds that students should be as specific and precise as possible. Leong and Houtchens divide the class into four groups to create Japanese renga poems. They ask that students share their poetic lines with members of their group, and then work together to put the lines in an order so that they become a poem.
10. The groups each present their poems to the rest of the class.
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One of the few things I remember from childhood, with any sort of depth, is the sense of absolute WONDERLUST that overtook me when Alice fell down that hole and into Wonderland. The White Rabbit had taken her somewhere beautiful and amazing and strange. It made me want, so badly, to join her. Which was, perhaps, one of the things that later developed my greatest joy and deepest sorrow.
It seems to me as if we are always, always yearning for something better, stranger, newer, more exciting. Or atleast, I am, and it drives everything I do. It is the reason I draw, the reason I write, the reason I walk down dark alleys in the middle of the night, staring up at the stars. That yearning, that deep rooted want for adventure sits in all of us. And if you say that it doesn't sit in your chest, whispering in your ear, then you are lying, my friend.
Embrace it. Love it. Nurture that sense of wonder and joy. Pretend that you are peterpan, and play tag with the wind. Tell yourself little stories while you do the dishes, and spend time chasing down the fleeting dreams that run away when the sun peeks into the world in the morning. Let that need drive your actions. Let it teach you that risk has reward.
Because not every falling star is an angel fallen from heaven for you to find. Not every garden-door leads to a secret that must be kept. Not every seed will grow into a great vine to climb. And not every new person you meet is a friend.
But what if they were? And what if you missed out on the one great adventure in your lifetime, because you played it safe, and didn't follow the White Rabbit's call? Sleeping in the Garden with Dinah all day does nothing for one's mind, nor one's soul. Listen to the call of wonderlust in your veins, and do something amazing, something wild, something strange today.
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Mitsubishi Aircraft has officially broken the Bombardier-Embraer duopoly for regional jets in the U.S. with its confirmation on Thursday of a firm order from SkyWest Airlines for 100 MRJ90s worth $4.2 billion at list prices. The contract calls for deliveries of the aircraft on firm order to start in 2017, while the first of another batch of 100 airplanes on which SkyWest holds options would start in 2021.
Mitsubishi and SkyWest announced an "agreement in principle" covering the larger of the pair of regional jets under development by the Japanese company during the Farnborough International airshow in July 2012, some five months after the program suffered a serious hit to its credibility with the announcement of a year-and-a-half-long program delay. By that time Mitsubishi had already signed a letter of intent with St. Louis-based Trans States Airlines in December 2010 calling for an eventual order for 50 MRJs. A further 18 months passed before the Japanese company could confirm any further significant commercial activity in North America.
"This is the market we've been targeting all along," Mitsubishi Aircraft vice president of sales Hank Iwasa told AIN. Restrictions in U.S. major airline union contracts that limit the size of airplanes that regional airlines may operate have long hindered the company's efforts to break into the U.S. market, but Iwasa expressed confidence that one or more of SkyWest's major airline partners would negotiate less restrictive scope clauses by the time the first MRJ gets delivered.
The MRJ90 holds 92 seats in a single-class configuration, but SkyWest could opt for a dual-class cabin that would likely hold closer to 80 seats, said Iwasa. U.S. scope clauses typically limit the size of regional jets to 76 seats.
The contract, which gives SkyWest the option to convert part of its order to positions on 76-seat MRJ70s, calls for delivery of all 100 airplanes over a three-year span, between 2017 and 2020. By that time, said Mitsubishi Aircraft CEO Hideo Egawa, the company expects the MRJ's production rate to reach "four or five" per month.
matt (not verified)
December 16, 2012 - 5:29pm
Just what we need, another RJ that passengers need a big "shoe horn" to stuff themselves into. Puts new meaning to the phrase "sit back, relax and enjoy the flight".
jor (not verified)
February 9, 2013 - 2:12pm
Yes its another RJ. But one of the premises of these newer RJ's is making them equal to wide-body aircraft as far as interior cabin experience is concerned. High ceilings, large overhead bins, roomy cabins, etc. The current regional jets ERJ/CRJ are basically a Phenom/Challenger private jet that they stretched out to fit 50+ seats, banking that passengers would prefer faster quieter jets than the turboprops that typically flew those routes. Now passengers complain about the tight quarters of these RJ's, so we have the MRJ, EMB170 and CRJ C series. This should be an improvement in passenger comfort for future fliers.


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Wouldn't it be cool if you could read the meta-data of Swf file in ColdFusion? The most common use case I can think of is to find the dimension of swf movie so that you can set the dimension for the same in object tag while you are embedding the flash movie in your page. And the good news is that you can do that currently in ColdFusion with just 2-3 lines of code!! All you need to do is to create a TagDecoder and decoder the header with it. Here is the complete code.
fis = createObject("java", "java.io.FileInputStream").init("C:\test.swf"); // Create the FileInputStream
decoder = createObject("java", "macromedia.swf.TagDecoder").init(fis); // create TagDecoder
header = decoder.decodeHeader(); // Decode the header.
rect = header.size;
Is Compressed : #header.compressed#

Frame Count : #header.framecount#

Frame rate : #header.rate#

Version : #header.version#

Height : #rect.getHeight()#

Width : #rect.getWidth()#");
The height and width value that you see here would be in twips which is defined as 1/20 of a point or 1/1440 inch. This means, for a 72 dpi screeen, you will have to divide it by 20 to get the height and width in pixels.


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World Brotherhood
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|World Brotherhood is a discontinued merit badge. It was first offered in 1952 as a replacement for the Citizenship merit badge along with Citizenship in the Nation and Citizenship in the Home. It was replaced in 1972 by Citizenship in the World.
Merit badge requirements
- 1. Do the following:
- (a)Tell how the Scout Movement began and point out on a map at least 30 countries which have Scouting.
- (b) Describe or demonstrate at least three ways in which Scouts or Explorers of most countries can recognize one another.
- 2. Do the following:
- (a) Tell briefly how modern transportation and communication have "shrunk" the world during the past 100 years and have made nations more dependent upon one another.
- (b) Tell how natural resources, commerce, and trade affect a nation's economy and relationship among nations.
- (c) Find and list at least eight different everyday articles that were imported or made from different material imported from other parts of the world. Identify the counties from which these come.
- 3. Do the following:
- (a) Describe the form and structure of government of one nation on each continent.
- (b) Review the story of at least three national heroes of other lands.
- 4. Tell the purpose and functions of at least two international organizations of which the United States is a member (such as the Postal Union, Organization of American States, International Red Cross, United Nations, the International Court of Justice).
- 5. Carry on a simple understandable conversation with another person in a modern foreign language for at least 5 minutes and translate at least 200 words of simple text in that language. (Note: A Boy Scout or Explorer is entitled to wear the Interpreter's badge for completing this requirement).
- 6. Prove by deed that you belong to a world brotherhood by doing TWO of the following four deeds:
- (a) Hike or camp with boys from another country.
- (b) Make friends with new arrivals from abroad.
- (c) Help organize and conduct a World Friendship Fund campaign in your unit.
- (d) Help an organization which promotes world brotherhood, such as foreign missions and the International Junior Red Cross.
| The official source for the information shown in this article or section is:
Boy Scout Requirements, 1969 Edition
World Brotherhood was first offered in 1952 as a replacement for the Citizenship merit badge along with Citizenship in the Nation and Citizenship in the Home. It was replaced in 1972 by Citizenship in the World.
From 1952 to 1968 the badge design was a globe. In 1969 until it was discontinued in 1972 the design was changed to be the scout sign on a blue background.


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Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers yesterday accused President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) of inaction on six death-row inmates' amnesty appeals and the Ministry of Justice of being hasty in carrying their executions last month.
The Dec. 21 executions became the primary focus of a review of the nation's implementation of the statutes in the UN's International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights yesterday in a special session of the legislature's Judiciary and Organic Laws and Statutes Committee.
The six inmates appealed to Ma for amnesty on March 29, 2010, DPP Legislator Tuan Yi-kang (段宜康) said during his interpellation of Minister of Justice Tseng Yung-fu (曾勇夫).
However, Ma has been sitting on the appeals and Tseng signed the execution orders unilaterally without receiving a final presidential directive — a violation of the covenant's stipulation that all governments avoid execution by all possible means, Tuan said.
"Ma's inaction is why the ministry even had the opportunity to carry out the executions and commit the violation," Tuan said.
Political scientist Mab Huang (黃默), a member of the Presidential Office's Human Rights Consultative Committee, said at the session that the executions "would be interpreted by most experts as a violation of the covenant."
In response, Tseng said his signing of the execution orders was in accordance with the law, adding that "if the president agreed to grant amnesty, he would have informed the ministry immediately after making the decision."
On the issue of abolishing of death penalty, Tseng said that while abolition was a "long-term goal" of the government, the ministry never said that the banning of capital punishment was a "set policy."
The minister said that the nine members on the ministry's Task Force for Research and Promotion on Abolition of the Death Penalty — who tendered their resignations after the executions — have agreed to stay on the panel.
A delegation of 10 international experts is scheduled to visit Taiwan and review the nation's implementation of the covenants from Feb. 25 to March 1, Tseng said.
DPP Legislator Hsiao Bi-khim (蕭美琴) criticized the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) for comments reportedly made by a ministry official that observations about the executions made by two experts who would be in the delegation were an "interference in domestic affairs."
"There has not been any democracy that I know of that would have labeled comments related to human rights as an 'interference in domestic affairs.' Perhaps China and North Korea," Hsiao said.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Simon Ko (柯森耀) also said he had never heard any democratic country make similar comments.
Other concerns raised by lawmakers included efforts to amend laws to adhere to the two covenants, as well as the failure to address the rights of Aborigines and foreign spouses as stipulated in the pacts.
Though the government pledged to amend laws to adhere to the covenants within two years, 72 of the 263 laws have not been amended almost three years after the covenants' ratification, Hsiao said.
MOFA has often cited national security issues to deny foreign spouses entry to Taiwan, she added.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) Legislator Sra Kacaw (鄭天財), who represents Aboriginal constituencies, said the government has not addressed Aborigines' rights to self-determination, property or natural resources.


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Spicy Recipes to Help You Cool Down
Get Hot to Cool Down: 6 Spicy Recipes to Help Beat the Heat
Get Hot to Cool Down: 6 Spicy Recipes to Help Beat the Heat
Ever wonder why cultures in intensely hot areas — think India, Southeast Asia, and South America — usually favor foods with a major kick to them? Well, as it turns out, spicy food can actually help cool your body down — so the next time you're dying of heat, sit down to a sizzling bowl of spicy goodness! Is your mind blown yet? We'll keep going. Eating spicy food also helps the body rev up metabolism and release oh-so-good-for-you endorphins. More reasons that you'll just have to try these six hotter-than-hot recipes and find out for yourself.


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Sheena Shaw
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Sheena Shaw's Biography :
Sheena was born in September 1985, in Naples, Italy. Her first job was in the Army, but fortunately for us, she switched jobs and became, like many of her A-model colleagues, a stripper. Her first appearance in an adult show was in 2011 and during the next year, we saw her in a whole lot of anal driven roles. With a whole lot attention on Bonnie during 2013 and 2014, she was nominated for several AVN and XRCO awards. Unfortunately, Sheena announced her retirement - it's a shame that we won't see her in the near future, but until then, we can turn to her ass-bundant amount of XXX films already produced.


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Laura Prepon dishes on Orange is the New Black and more!
Whether you love or hate her character Alex on Orange is the New Black, there is no denying our LOVE for Laura Prepon. The former 'That 70's Show' actress is everywhere at the moment promoting season 2 of OITNB. Laura's carefree style (and attitude) has made her one of our favorite actresses to watch. Whether she's dressed to the nines on the red carpet or dressed down for a trip out and about in L.A., Laura's style does not disappoint.
StyleList had a chance to catch up with Laura to find out more about this season of Orange is the New Black and of course, her enviable style.
StyleList (SL): What has been the best part about playing Alex on OITNB? What's been the most challenging part?
Laura Prepon (LP): Alex is one of my favorite characters I've ever played. She's so cool, she's such a badass, but you also see these extremely vulnerable sides to her. She's a very complex character to play, which is amazing for me.
The challenging stuff is also the vulnerable stuff, because it's uncomfortable for anybody to be exposed vulnerable especially someone like Alex Vause. So that can be difficult. But, I love those scenes because thats where you grow the most as an actress...when you are pushed into areas you wouldn't normally go.
SL: You've said your character will be returning for season 3 (we missed you), is there anything you can tell us about Alex next season?
LP: Thank you! I wish I could have done more of season 2. Yes, I am in every episode of season 3 and it's amazing. I can't say anything about it though...
SL: What did you do to prepare for your role as Alex on OITNB?
LP: It's great that there was a book to give some insight and I visited a prison. But, really when playing a role like Alex, I really tried to humanize her by connecting to who she is as a person and making her a real person that I and our audiences can relate to.
SL: What has it been like working with such an incredible ensemble cast?
LP: This cast is amazing. I've never worked with such a great group of talented actresses. It's been such a wonderful experience.
SL: If you were to see Alex outside of prison, what do you think she'd been seen wearing?
LP: She'd probably be wearing a perfectly faded rocker-T, black jeans, and motorcycle boots. Her hair would be long and awesome and she'd have funky jewelry, and of course her glasses.
SL: Describe Alex in three words.
LP: Bold, daring and a survivor
SL: You've had several different hair colors, do you have a favorite color?
LP: So far I'm loving the black hair. Everyone in my life says it suits me.
SL: Who would you say inspires your personal style?
LP: I'm not sure what inspires my personal style. I just never really wore dresses or skirts. I'm usually dressed like Alex. I prefer jeans, a T-shirt and boots. I like edginess to my clothes.
SL: What's the oldest item of clothing in your closet?
LP: I have old rocker T's from 70s show that I will never get rid of.
SL: What's the one beauty product you can't live without?
LP: My L'Oreal Paris Silkissime black eyeliner.
If you haven't watched Laura on Orange is the New Black or haven't caught up on this season yet , you've got to check it out for yourself on Netflix!


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Reading Between The Wrecks
Chocolates? Flowers? Cutesy stuffed animals?
This Valentine's day, give me something a little out-of-the-ordinary! Something a little daring! Something a little...um...
(Remember, the couple that leaves flaming bags of poo on doorsteps together, STAYS together.)
I'm getting kind of a mixed message here.
Ok, now it's less mixed.
Hang on. So you're saying you morph into a heart-chomping werewolf at night? Is that it?
And the call is coming from inside the house?
And you may need diapers?
But you still love me in your barbaric, wolfish way?
Aw. Well, I guess that IS kind of sweet...
Will you stop killing things while I'm trying to talk to you.
Well, I guess the only really important thing is that we understand one another, right?
That and house training, of course.
Thanks to Rebekah G., Meredith G., Carolyn, Brandy S., Chau, Laura E., Kerry M., Lynn B., Anne Q., & Anthony S. for reminding us to just stick with boxes of chocolates.
Unless we're werewolves.


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**Slow-Roasted Lamb – Served with brown rice and spinach
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Meet the New Abe Cabinet: A JRT Cheat Sheet of Key Players
Given the fast turnover of Japanese ministerial posts, JRT readers would be forgiven if their eyes glazed over at the slate of fresh faces tapped Wednesday to form the cabinet of newly installed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of the Liberal Democratic Party.
Here's a cheat sheet of the main players:
Taro Aso, 72
Position: Finance minister
Strength: Experience in high-profile cabinet positions, including a year as prime minister
Weakness: Prone to gaffes
A longtime ally of Mr. Abe, Mr. Aso will play a key role in crafting an emergency economic package expected to total around ¥10 trillion by January. Known as a proponent of fiscal stimulus, he rolled out a record ¥14 trillion ($164 billion) spending plan during his 2008-2009 tenure as prime minister.
One of the most colorful figures in Japanese politics, the former prime minister is an avid manga buff, known for stacking up comic books in the back seat of his chauffeured car. He once told the parliament how he had learned a lot about international affairs from one of his favorite comic series about a professional assassin.
While his outspoken ways have bought him fans, his off-the-cuff remarks had become such a liability to his Liberal Democratic Party that Mr. Aso had to reduce the number of public appearances during his last weeks in office as prime minister.
Akira Amari, 63
Position: Economy minister
Strength: Knowledge of Japanese industry, from his experience as trade minister and policy chief of his party
Weakness: Image as a strong proponent of nuclear energy
Mr. Amari will be in charge of formulating the new government's economic policy as the head of two bodies tasked with formulating growth strategies for both the economy as a whole and for specific industries, a role that Prime Minister Abe has described as the "control tower" for revitalizing the country's economy.
An expert on energy issues, Mr. Amari reached an agreement with China to jointly develop gas fields in the East China Sea in June 2008 as a trade minister. He is also known as a strong proponent of nuclear energy, defending Japan's reliance on nuclear plants, even after the March 2011 earthquake triggered the nation's worst nuclear crisis.
Before entering politics, Mr. Amari worked for Sony for two and a half years. He then became a secretary to his father, who was a politician, and eventually took over his seat in 1983.
Toshimitsu Motegi, 57
Position: Trade minister
Strength: Expertise in policy issues
Weakness: Limited experience as cabinet minister
Mr. Motegi will face multiple pressing challenges, including crafting a new energy strategy following the 2011 nuclear disaster and a strategy to create new overseas markets for Japanese products through free-trade negotiations.
After graduating from the prestigious University of Tokyo, Mr. Motegi earned a master's degree in public policy from Harvard. He has held a number of jobs including a position at trading firm Marubeni, working as a political beat reporter for a national daily, and working as a consultant at U.S. firm McKinsey & Co.
Fumio Kishida, 55
Position: Foreign minister
Strength: Familiar with the issue of relocation of U.S. bases on the southern island of Okinawa, an area of critical importance for managing Japan's relationship with the U.S.
Weakness: Relatively inexperienced otherwise
A third-generation politician from Hiroshima, Mr. Kishida is a distant relative of former Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa. Mr. Kishida worked for five years as a banker, then followed his father into politics in 1987, winning his first parliamentary seat in 1993.
Mr. Kishida first held a cabinet minister post during the last Abe administration in 2007, serving as the minister in charge of dealing with issues on the southern island of Okinawa. That experience could be key, since the U.S. and Japan are in the midst of drawn-out talks over what to do with American military bases there. Waffling over the relocation of the Futenma base helped bring down Democratic Party of Japan Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama in 2010, and has scarred U.S.-Japan relations since.
Yoshimasa Hayashi, 51
Position: Agriculture minister
Strengths: Knowledge of financial and defense issues
Weaknesses: Little experience with agricultural issues
Mr. Hayashi has worn many hats in his 17-year career as a lawmaker. He has held a wide-range of positions including those that dealt with fiscal reform and defense to foreign affairs. He served as defense minister in 2008 and as economy minister in 2009, but both were short stints lasting only two months.
Few, if any, parts of his stacked resume directly touches on the country's agriculture sector. But Mr. Hayashi brings experience in the touchiest area of his new post: debate over whether Japan should join the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement, which aims to create a U.S.-led free trade forum. Japan's farm lobby—a key support base for the LDP-- is staunchly against the TPP, but his former role as a senior member of the LDP's panel on TPP could put him in good position to convince the farmers should Mr. Abe decide to participate in the free trade pact.
Like several of his new cabinet colleagues, Mr. Hayashi was born into a strong political family. His father, Yoshiro Hayashi, was a former finance minister. After graduating from the elite University of Tokyo in 1984, Mr. Hayashi spent a few years trying out the private sector, joining trading firm Mitsui & Co.. He moved to the U.S. in the early 1990s where he briefly worked for two U.S. politicians and enrolled at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He took a break from his studies to serve as his father's aide for two years but eventually returned to finish his degree.
Nobuteru Ishihara, 55
Position: Minister in charge of nuclear reactors, environment minister
Strengths: One of Japan's well-known politicians
Weaknesses: Prone to gaffes
Granting cabinet membership to Mr. Ishihara, who lost to Mr. Abe in the LDP's leadership contest in September, is seen as a conciliatory move by the prime minister to unify internal party factions. But putting him in charge of the country's nuclear reactors is another blow to the anti-nuclear movement, which didn't fare well in this month's national elections. The message is: nuclear energy won't be going away anytime soon.
Like his more famous father, former Tokyo Gov. Shintaro Ishihara, the 55-year-old lawmaker is in favor of nuclear energy, an industry that flourished when the LDP last held power three years ago. The political TV journalist-turned-politician has underscored the need to restart nuclear reactors that have been deemed safe. He has criticized the Democratic Party of Japan's proposal to end the country's reliance on nuclear power by 2030. "Such changes aren't good. Setting a time for zero nuclear power is very irresponsible," he said on a TV program in September.
That same month, Mr. Ishihara ruffled feathers when he compared the site of the Fukushima nuclear accident to the building used by the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult to manufacture the chemicals used in the deadly 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. He has also came under fire for describing the strong public outcry against atomic energy as "mass hysteria."
Itsunori Onodera, 52
Position: Defense minister
Strengths: Foreign policy expertise
Weaknesses: Lack of experience in high-profile positions
Since graduating from Tokyo University of Fisheries in 1983, Mr. Onodera has spent his career shuffling back and forth between the world of academia and politics. In 2000, just three years after winning his first lower house seat, he abruptly left. Mr. Onodera had inadvertently violated a pesky election law when he distributed sets of incense sticks inscribed with his name to voters. Japan's election law prohibits candidates from giving donations to voters. He spent his time away from politics studying up on foreign policy, becoming a visiting research fellow at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
Mr. Onodera's political comeback has been centered on his foreign policy expertise, and that background will undoubtedly inform his role as defense minister. A pillar of Mr. Abe's nationalist agenda has been to reinterpret and rewrite the country's post-war pacifist constitution to grant the armed forces the right to come to the defense of allies. The newly inaugurated premier has also pledged a more bold approach to asserting Japan's claims over the territorial islands in separate disputes with China and South Korea.
A native of the chilly northeastern fishing region of Miyagi prefecture, and one of the worst hit by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Mr. Onodera started his academic track out in marine resources. He later switched gears to politics. In 1990, he enrolled in the elite Matsushita Institute of Government and Management, an institute attended by an increasingly influential band of rising political and business stars. A few years later he collected a degree in law and politics from the prestigious University of Tokyo and won his first seat in the lower house in 1997.
Hakubun Shimomura, 58
Position: Education minister
Strengths: Expert on education issues
Weaknesses: Image as an extreme nationalist
Mr. Shimomura will bring a hard conservative line to his new post. The 58-year-old lawmaker, appointed chairman of the LDP's revitalization of education this year, has in the past raised questions about the content of history textbooks used by Japanese school children. "The education of history should not deny the people's national consciousness. There were dark and bright moments in history, but I hope that history will give us wisdom on how to live our lives, teach us to appreciate what our ancestors have done for our country and to have pride in Japan," he wrote on his blog in May 2011. In the same entry he criticized textbook companies for "reinterpreting history from the eyes of those that were oppressed in the past" such as the Ainu people and Okinawa people. He has called for a revision of the textbook screening system.
These thoughts echo Mr. Abe's -- as well as the party's -- own strong feelings on the issue. In its campaign platform the LDP said it wants to give the government greater authority of the content of the school history textbooks concerning the perception of its wartime past. Mr. Shimomura's appointment hints at the party's resolve to push the policy. The LDP have described the materials in use now as rife with "ideologically prejudiced expressions based on self-torturing views of history." While Mr. Abe has taken steps in recent weeks to mend shaky ties with neighboring China and South Korea, moves to revise the textbooks on sensitive subjects about Japan's World War II aggression could threaten another flare up.
Mr. Shimomura also served in Mr. Abe's last administration as deputy chief cabinet secretary.


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The Diet Plan Of Costa Ricans And Just How It Keeps
Located between Panama and Nicaragua in Guatemala, Panama And Nicaragua , has a proud culinary heritage. Many scorn Panama And Nicaragua , food options for being full of fatty foods, however in actuality Costa Ricans are much more active than other cultures.
Costa Rican's, in your area known as Ticos, never eat excessively. Restricting their portions is an excellent method they stay so healthy. Also, lunch is an essential meal of the day. Actually, like many Latin nations, companies and schools close lower for a few hrs at lunch to ensure that employees and students will go home and also have a leisurely meal using their family. This enables both a powerful concentrate on family existence, but additionally on slowing lower meals. In The Usa, an average school lunch lasts only 20 minutes for the most part and work breaks are often an hour or so tops, a lot of must get your meals at their desk or machine. A Costa Rican's lifestyle is totally different.
Panama And Nicaragua , food frequently involves grain and beans, for example Gallo Pinto, a dish that means "Spotted Rooster". Gallo Pinto is really a dish which includes black beans in a three to 2 ratio to grain. Also added are onions, garlic clove, and salt. Meats are eaten sparingly, while beans give a high-content of fiber. Fiber might help combat the fatty foods. Panama And Nicaragua , diet rarely include dairy or cheese.
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As you travels with other regions, the options for Panama And Nicaragua , food also decrease and be classical using the beans and grain dishes. Beans and grain dishes are often offered alongside a carrot and cabbage or lettuce and tomato salad. Sometimes Arroz, (fried shrimp or chicken), are located on the table rather of beans and grain. The salads are usually bigger compared to part of beans and grain which helps the Ticos to remain fit.
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When the proposal for a book about the plight of the American housewife by a little-known journalist named Betty Friedan began circulating at the publishing house W. W. Norton in early 1959, not everyone was convinced that it was a world-changing blockbuster.
True, George Brockway, Norton's president (and a suburban father of six), was enthusiastic, writing on the official evaluation form, "Overstated at almost every point, yet entirely stimulating and provocative," to which two other employees added, "I'm for it!"
But in a two-page memo to Brockway, preserved in the Norton archives at Columbia University, another employee identified only as "L M" laid out a withering dissent.
Friedan's theories were "too obvious and feminine," L M wrote, her approach was "unscientific," her remarks on Freud were "snide," her depiction of suburban life was selectively self-serving, and her excoriating portrait of women's magazines was motivated by "guilt" over her own contributions to them.
Besides, L M concluded, "I got very tired of phrases like 'feminine mystique.' "
That phrase, of course, became famous when "The Feminine Mystique" was published, 50 years ago on Tuesday, to wide acclaim and huge sales, and it remains enduring shorthand for the suffocating vision of domestic goddess-hood Friedan is credited with helping demolish. But her book has been shadowed by its share of critics ever since, including many otherwise sympathetic scholars who have doggedly chipped away at its own mystique.
Friedan, who died in 2006, was not just the frustrated "housewife" of her official biography, they point out, but a former left-wing journalist and activist whose jeremiad appeared in a climate that was more primed to receive it than she might have admitted.
"The Feminine Mystique" tends to be hailed simply as "the book that started second-wave feminism," said Lisa M. Fine, a historian at Michigan State University and a co-editor of the first annotated scholarly edition, just published by Norton. "But it's a much more complicated text."
Indeed, some cracking its spine for the first time — as more than one commentator on the 50th anniversary has sheepishly confessed to doing — may be surprised at just how scholarly the book is. Friedan, who claimed she gave up a prestigious Ph.D. fellowship in psychology after a boyfriend said it would threaten their relationship, spent years in the New York Public Library, digging as deeply into the theories of Freud, Margaret Mead, A. H. Maslow and David Riesman as into the women's magazines she blasted for perpetuating the mythology of the "happy housewife."
Today that immersion in midcentury social science may make the book feel dated and more of a symbolic totem than a direct inspiration to current feminists. But to historians "The Feminine Mystique" remains a rich keyhole into the popular culture of the 1950s — even if, as scholars increasingly argue, that decade was far less monolithic in its stultifying conformism than Friedan's best seller suggested. In an influential 1993 paper on postwar popular culture, the historian Joanne Meyerowitz argued that mass-circulation magazines of the 1950s frequently profiled women with careers, although the articles emphasized the importance of maintaining a traditional feminine identity.
More recently, other scholars have pointed out that readers encountering "The Feminine Mystique" through the excerpts that appeared in women's magazines might not have heard an entirely empowering message. In "Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America" (2010), the historian Rebecca Jo Plant argued that to many readers, the book seemed less like a progressive rallying cry than a continuation of the housewife-bashing of books like Philip Wylie's 1942 best seller, "Generation of Vipers," which blamed over-involved mothers for all manner of social ills.
For all she got right, Ms. Plant wrote, "Friedan missed — indeed, she contributed to — the frustrations many women felt due to a cultural climate that constantly denigrated mothers and homemakers."
Still, few historians quarrel with the idea that the book galvanized women, including some who would hardly seem like natural political allies of a writer who (as the historian Daniel Horowitz revealed in his 1998 biography, to Friedan's displeasure) cut her teeth as a reporter for radical newspapers and had a file with the F.B.I.
Stephanie Coontz, a historian at Evergreen State College and the author of "A Strange Stirring," a 2011 study of the impact of "The Feminine Mystique," describes finding some surprising testimonials from readers preserved in the Friedan papers at Harvard.
"I found letters from Mormon women, Baptists — the kind of women who wouldn't agree with Friedan on lots of political issues, but knew they had been relegated to second-class citizenship," Ms. Coontz said in an interview.
Some women, however, may have been mobilized in directions that ran counter to Friedan's intentions. The historian Jessica Weiss, in a 2012 paper called "Fraud of Femininity" (a reference to the title of an excerpt from "The Feminine Mystique" published in McCall's), traced the book's impact on conservative women, who saw the embrace of domesticity not as a backward-looking defense of tradition but "a positive, proactive means of countering social disintegration" and national decline. (Ms. Weiss noted that nearly 90 percent of the women who wrote to McCall's in response to a second excerpt from the book were critical of Friedan.)
In a new round table in the journal Gender and Society, Ms. Coontz acknowledges that it is not known how many readers of "The Feminine Mystique" became politically active, or how many second-wave feminist leaders had even read the book. Indeed, Friedan was hardly without her critics in the movement, who blasted what they saw as her myopic focus on educated white women or her sometimes over-the-top language, whether she was comparing suburbia to "a comfortable concentration camp" or warning the National Organization for Women, which she help found in 1966, against an encroaching lesbian "menace."
Some scholars, however, have defended aspects of Friedan's work that sound most outlandish to contemporary ears. In an essay excerpted in the new Norton critical edition, Kirsten Fermaglich, a historian at Michigan State and the volume's co-editor, argued that Friedan was hardly the only Jewish thinker of the period to make use of extended Nazi metaphors while saying nothing about Jews. The historian Stanley Elkins, the psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton and the psychologist Stanley Milgram, she wrote, all used Nazi concentration camps, much as Friedan did, as a metaphor for mass society's destruction of the individual.
To some scholars, however, the epochal impact of Friedan's book derived less from its complex intellectual origins than from her simple rhetorical masterstrokes, starting with the phrase that Norton's "L M" was so irked by.
"Friedan's genius," Ms. Coontz said, "was to provide, with 'feminine mystique,' the first phrase you could use to explain that you thought there was something wrong, and that it was a lie."


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Many of the factors that led Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic presidential campaign to fall short are by now well-cataloged.
The New York senator based her initial message on inevitability, toughness, and experience when the public was clamoring for change. She underestimated the importance of small caucus states, barely competing in some, and allowed Barack Obama to rack up a lead in pledged delegates that proved impossible to overcome.She assumed she would have the nomination wrapped up on Feb. 5, Super Tuesday, and when she didn't, had to scramble to organize and raise more money. She got beaten by Senator Obama in Internet fundraising and organizing. And her husband, the former president, proved at crucial times to be a liability.
But with Senator Clinton prepared to suspend her campaign Saturday, gender does not belong on that list, analysts say. Certainly, she encountered sexism on the trail and in media coverage, and a quick cruise around the Web could have found some of the crudest examples of misogyny imaginable aimed at her. But being female did not cost her the nomination.
"No, it was a good thing," says Dianne Bystrom, director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics at Iowa State University. "I think she got support because she's a woman. I think Barack Obama is getting support because he's African-American. It's because people want something different. Both campaigns are historic, and the [simultaneous] timing is unfortunate."
A new CBS News poll shows most voters think that by making a serious run for the Democratic nomination, Clinton made it easier for other women to run for president. Sixty percent of men and 76 percent of women agree with that statement. Among Democrats, 75 percent agree; among Republicans, it's 63 percent.
Overall, 88 percent of voters agree with the statement "I am glad to see a woman as a serious contender for president." In 1984, when Geraldine Ferraro made history as the first female vice-presidential nominee for a major party, a CBS poll found only 62 percent of voters were "glad that a woman was nominated."
Earlier this year, Ms. Ferraro made headlines again when she suggested that Obama's race gave him an advantage, and in a column in The Boston Globe, she spoke of Democratic women's anger over how sexism hurt Clinton's candidacy.
Kathleen Hall Jamieson, director of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania, says key gender-related moments on the eve of the New Hampshire primary led women to rush to her side and handed her a narrow victory, saving her campaign.
"I think four moments put together signaled to women something was happening here that was unfair, and they rallied," says Ms. Jamieson.
One was when Clinton was asked about her likability in the ABC-TV debate. She quipped that the question had hurt her feelings, says Jamieson, while Obama "peevishly" called her "likable enough."
Another episode came at a Clinton event in Salem, N.H., when a young man yelled "Iron my shirt." Third was the moment at a New Hampshire diner, when Clinton teared up over a question about the rigors of the campaign. And fourth was a response by Democratic candidate John Edwards questioning Clinton's ability to hold up as commander in chief.
In the Iowa caucuses, where Clinton came in third, entrance polls showed 35 percent of women voters favored Obama, versus 30 percent for Clinton. Five days later in New Hampshire, which Clinton won by just 2 points, 46 percent of white women voted for her and 33 percent for Obama.
Still, Jamieson believes Clinton's campaign was hurt at other times by unequal media treatment. On Feb. 10, CBS's "60 Minutes" featured interviews with both Clinton and Obama. In the Clinton interview, Katie Couric asked soft questions – some of them inappropriately gender-specific, Jamieson says. One example: "Someone told me your nickname in school was Miss Frigidaire. Is that true?" Obama, in his interview with Scott Pelley, was asked about policy.
Examples of sexist language aimed at Clinton in the media during the campaign are legion. Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh asked: "Will Americans want to watch a woman get older before their eyes?" MSNBC host Chris Matthews had to apologize on-air for a comment he had made suggesting Clinton wouldn't be contending for the presidency if husband Bill hadn't "fooled around" with Monica Lewinsky. Another MSNBC reporter, David Shuster, was suspended temporarily after joking that the campaign was "pimping out" Clinton's daughter, Chelsea.
Bill Carrick, a Los Angeles-based Democratic strategist, says watching Clinton grapple with the gender issue reminds him of now-Sen. Dianne Feinstein's race for California governor in 1990.
"We always tried to make sure what we were telling the voters was not just a narrow definition of Dianne Feinstein, but a complete definition," he says. "She was a great leader, and a very empathetic person who worked on issues that impact average people."
In Clinton's case, he says, by the time she got to the Texas and Ohio primaries, she became a much stronger candidate, because her message focused on how she would stand up for people and solve healthcare and economic problems. But by then, she had come off an 11-contest losing streak, and Obama's lead in pledged delegates had proved insurmountable.
Clinton's vaunted strength among women voters, particularly older women, has by now flowered into a movement that rivals in some ways the movement that coalesced early around Obama.
Clinton may not have been able to summon Obama-sized numbers of people to her rallies, but polls show a fervency to her supporters' feeling that in some ways is stronger than Obama supporters'. Exit polls in the later Democratic primaries showed Clinton voters less willing to vote for Obama in November than vice versa.
Now that Clinton has lost the nomination, how her supporters behave will be crucial to Obama's prospects against Republican John McCain. And thus all eyes will be on Clinton Saturday when she suspends her race and expresses her support for Obama. Going forward, the question is, how hard will she work for Obama, and will her supporters follow her lead?


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Wrapping up my Verizon FiOS Test Drive
Friday, December 30, 2011
Back in September, I shared with you that I am a Verizon FiOS Test Drive Mom! I've had about 6 months to try out this service, and in this short amount of time, I've gotten HOOKED!
I've always been hooked on DVR so with FiOS, I still have the ability to record shows and watch them at a later date or time. This allows me to record my favorite soap (The Young and the Restless!) and shows I might miss.
Since I also have a smartphone (a Droid X), I was also able to download the My FiOS App to be able to access my DVR and more! This app has been a real help in my life! I can program my DVR to record shows when I am away from my home, watch TV and movies, and use my smartphone as a remote! How cool is that?! I can tell you - it's pretty darn cool!
Check out this video to learn more about this awesome app:
Being able to program shows from my phone came in handy during ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas. A friend of mine at work had printed out the schedule for a few of us at work and when I got my copy and saw a few movies I wanted to see, I immediately opened my My FiOS App on my phone and programmed my DVR!
The My FiOS App also allows me to access my account, view bills, usage, etc. That is also very convenient! I don't have a connected home, but if I did, I could have accessed any cameras I had on my network, as well as thermostats, lights, and locks. I'm also able to access my personal photos and On Demand.
My kids have utilized On Demand to watch episodes of shows they may have missed. We all have been spoiled by this test drive, and have utilized every feature we possibly could on FiOS!
I'm a huge fan of FiOS now and I hope to keep it for years to come! I mentioned the widgets previously and I still access them, especially the Facebook widget! The weather widget is another one that I love!
Do you have Verizon FiOS? How do you like it?
Disclaimer: "I wrote this review while participating in a Test Drive campaign by Mom Central on behalf of VerizonFiOS and received a free trial of the products and services necessary to facilitate my review."


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The McMillan Outdoorsman 7mm Rem Ultra Mag is a 28" barrel with a 1x10 twist rifle system. The Outdoorman Hunter Rifle comes with a McMillan Edge ultralight graphite stock with optional right or left hand configuration on all models. Receiver is a matte black finish with NP3 Bolt and black textured stock. Rifle includes premium scope bases and a hard case with wheels.
McMillan Rifles are custom built and may take 2-9 weeks to built depending on current production. Many are ready for immediate delivery. Please call 1-877-446-8370 or email for current delivery times.
The Outdoorsman is designed for hunting where distances are large and winds blow hard. The Outdoorsman is chambered in 30-378 Weatherby and 300 Remington Ultra Mag, arguably two of the finest ultra-long range cartridge designs optimizing velocity, power and flat trajectory. The stock uses McMillan's proprietary EDGE ultralight graphite technology to save weight without sacrificing strength. The match grade barrel is fluted to shave ounces, enhance balance and aid cooling. An integral muzzle brake is standard to tame recoil.
(1) McMillan Hunter fiberglass stock with monte carlo cheekpiece.
(2) McMillan G30 long action. Barrel threads and the chamber are cut to critical tolerances and fit by hand. The barrel axis is perfectly in line with the bolt axis. The bolt face and action face are perpendicular to the barrel axis. The action is pillar-bedded into the stock and the barrel is free-floated. All dimensions are held to competition benchrest standards.
(3) Recoil lugs are surface ground on both sides and pinned to the receiver to produce a perfectly square mating between the action face and the barrel shank.
(4) All barrels are premium-selected, hand-lapped, match-grade barrels from the finest barrel makers in the country. Barrels are stainless steel with a matte finish and a target crown.
(5) A machined one-piece aluminum hinged floorplate.
(6) A custom Jewell trigger is provided.
(7) Accessories are available, including scope, bipod, cleaning equipment and other options.
(8) Premium scope bases are included as standard.
Hard Case Included with all Outdoorsman Hunting Rifles:
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Action: McMillan G30 short or long action
Stock: McMillan Dynasty
McMillan EDGE ultralight graphite technology
Pillar glass bedding, free floated barrel
1"Pachmayr Decelerator
13.5" length of pull
1" Sling swivels
Barrel: Match grade stainless steel
Target crown
Floorplate: Machined one-piece aluminum hinged
Sights: Drilled and tapped for scope, premium bases included
Weight: 6 lbs. 10 oz. to 7 lbs.
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270 WSM 24" 1x10
7mm Rem Mag 24" 1x10
300 WSM 24" 1x12
300 Win Mag 24" 1x12
338 Win Mag 24" 1x10
Finish: Receiver matte black finish with NP3 bolt and black textured stock
Case: Travel case with rollers included
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BEIRUT - Mortar shells crashed into an outdoor cafe at Damascus University on Thursday, killing at least 10 students in the deadliest of a rising number of mortar attacks in the heart of the Syrian capital.
The strikes have escalated as rebels fighting to topple President Bashar Assad try to enter the city, terrifying civilians whose support the opposition needs to advance its cause.
It was unclear who fired the rounds. The government blamed "terrorists," its blanket term for those fighting Assad's regime. Anti-regime activists accused the regime of staging the attack to turn civilians against the rebels.
Mortar strikes on Damascus are relatively new in Syria's crisis, which began in March 2011 with protests calling for Assad's ouster, then evolved into a civil war. The U.N. says more than 70,000 have been killed in the conflict.
Since last month, mortar shells have hit previously safe parts of the capital with increasing frequency. The near-daily strikes have frightened residents, and many have begun to avoid open areas and put plastic on their windows to help block flying glass from an explosion or shrapnel.
Some shells appear aimed at government targets, such as one of Assad's palaces and the general command of the Syrian army. Others have hit near civilian targets, including the Sheraton Hotel and a soccer stadium, both on the city's west side. Mortar shells also have struck in areas to the east, like the Christian neighborhood of Bab Touma.
Thursday's strike was the deadliest yet.
State-run Al-Ikhbariya TV showed video of the university cafe where blood pooled on tiles, and plastic chairs, pens and eyeglasses littered the area. Later video showed people being treated in a hospital, including a woman with white bandages around her head and a man whose back was peppered with shrapnel wounds.
The dining facility belongs to the Faculty of Architecture in Damascus' central Baramkeh district.
State TV said 15 people were killed in the strike, but the official news agency, SANA, put the death toll at 10 and said dozens were wounded. It also reported three other mortar strikes nearby.
The opposition activist group, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, put the death toll at 13.
Similar mortar attacks Tuesday killed at least three people and wounded dozens. Six people were killed by mortar shells in different parts of the city March 11.
"No one anywhere in the world can imagine a more criminal act than this," SANA quoted Amer al-Mardini, the president of the university, as saying. He said he hoped the wounded would heal quickly and "resume their studies as soon as possible."
Anti-regime activists accused the regime of launching the attack to tarnish the opposition's image.
Elizabeth O'Bagy, who studies the Syrian rebels at the Institute for the Study of War, said it was not possible to determine who was behind the attack, but it appeared to fit the regime's pattern of escalation. In other aspects of the war, such as the use of airstrikes or Scud missiles, the regime has gone from trying to target rebels to more indiscriminate attacks on civilians, she said.
"Because of the fact that it does follow regime behavior, it is more likely to be a regime attack," she said, while acknowledging it could also have been a rebel misfire.
Rebels have established footholds in a number of Damascus suburbs but have only been able to push into limited areas in the south and northeast parts of the capital. The government has retained its grip of downtown Damascus, although the mortar strikes have deepened fear among many residents that they will soon see the violence that has damaged many other Syrian cities.
Thursday was not the first time Syria's universities have been targeted. On Jan. 15, twin blasts hit Aleppo University, killing more than 80 people. The opposition said the regime had bombed the university, while the government accused rebels of striking it with rockets.
Also Thursday, Ghassan Hitto, the newly elected prime minister of the main opposition bloc, said he was reviewing candidates for a planned rebel interim government. It will be a service-oriented administration with nine to 12 ministries and will be based inside Syria, Hitto said during a meeting with Syrian expats in Qatar.
In Washington, State Department spokesman Victoria Nuland said the head of the opposition Syrian National Coalition, Mouaz al-Khatib, has decided to continue serving until his six-month term ends in May. Al-Khatib resigned on March 24, citing frustration with the group and its level of international support. The Coalition rejected his resignation.
Syria's conflict threatens to destabilize neighboring countries, where more than 1 million refugees have fled to escape the violence.
In Jordan, on Syria's southern border, a riot broke out Thursday in a refugee camp after Jordanian authorities refused to let buses full of refugees return to Syria because of violence over the border. U.N. refugee liaison Ali Bibi said it was unclear how many refugees were involved in the melee at the Zaatari camp, but no one was injured.
To the north, Turkey denied reports that it was deporting hundreds of Syrian refugees for rioting on Wednesday in a camp in Akcakale after a fire killed a 7-year-old child. A camp official said local authorities identified 300 people involved in the uprising and prepared to deport them, but the government stopped them.
A Foreign Ministry official said 100 refugees asked to leave the camp and return to Syria on their own.
The U.N. refugee agency did not confirm the reports, but said it was concerned about possible deportations of refugees.
In Israel, on Syria's southeastern border, the military said it was beefing up medical teams along the border because of several cases of wounded Syrians crossing the frontier for medical care. Eleven Syrians have been treated in Israeli hospitals, including one who died from his wounds on Wednesday, a military official said. Others returned home after their conditions improved.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief reporters.


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What is the Door and Window Hardware?
Door and window hardware refers to a variety of metallic and non-metallic fittings installed in the doors and windows of buildings collectively, they play a supporting role in the opening and closing of the doors and windows. Their surface is generally plating or coating process, with the strong, durable, flexible, economic, and other aesthetic features. According to purpose, doors and windows hardware can be divided into building door lock, handle, spreaders, hinges, door closers, handles, latches, window hook, anti-hotlinking sensor device to open and close the door.
Influence of E-marketing on Door & Window Hardware Industry
In the emerging marketing methods, how much is the influence that network marketing for the door and window industry? Traditional storefront and internet marketing combination is the best marketing way, which is more and more consciousness of door hardware manufacturer. Many doors and windows net sales website rapidly rise, they crowd against more accurate, more professional and marketing ways are more diverse. Now, more and more doors and windows suppliers have felt the limitations and shortcomings of the traditional channels, and began to vigorously expand the network channels, trying to combine the two, and achiever complementary advantages. If in the past, the number of sells through network is some faddish, and now more and more windows and doors supplier feel that this is the only way for the long-term development of the doors and windows business.
Doors & Windows Hardware Network Marketing Advantage
Combination of network marketing and mobile marketing network marketing is very popular now, and it has a wide range of application, for it has high speed and low cost, companies are not subject to the absolute limit of their own scale, they have equal access to information and equal to show their strengths, the Internet door hardware wholesale has much more marketing advantage than traditional store wholesale. It can make a small business quickly expand brand awareness, so network e-marketing is the unique 'weapon' of the SME. And the real-time, interactive, personalized mobile media marketing, such as mobile phones, bus, subway screen marketing has become a new channel for the spread of different information content. It can be said that how fast the IT development is, how fast the pace of development of network marketing will be. Do network marketing is a long-term direction and strategy. Therefore, network marketing for the door and window industry is very essential.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks rebounded from their worst decline since November on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke defended the Fed's bond-buying stimulus and sales of new homes hit a 4 1/2-year high.
The S&P 500 had climbed 6 percent for the year and came within reach of all-time highs before the minutes from the Fed's January meeting were released last Wednesday. Since then, the benchmark S&P 500 has fallen 1 percent.
Bernanke, in testimony on Tuesday before the Senate Banking Committee, strongly defended the Fed's bond-buying stimulus program and quieted rumblings that the central bank may pull back from its stimulative policy measures, which were sparked by the release of the Fed minutes last week.
Bernanke's comments helped ease investors' concerns about a stalemate in Italy after a general election failed to give any party a parliamentary majority, posing the threat of prolonged instability and financial crisis in Europe, and sending the S&P 500 to its worst decline since November 7 in Monday's session.
Bernanke "certainly said everything the market needed to feel in order to get comfortable again," said Peter Kenny, managing director at Knight Capital in Jersey City, New Jersey.
"The fear is we were going to see a rollover, and the first shot over the bow was what we saw out of Italy yesterday with the elections," Kenny said. "When it came to U.S. markets, we saw some of that bleeding stop because our focus shifted from the Italian political circus to Ben Bernanke."
Gains in homebuilders and other consumer stocks, following strong economic data, lifted the S&P 500, and a 5.7 percent jump in Home Depot
Economic reports that showed strength in housing and consumer confidence also supported stocks. U.S. home prices rose more than expected in December, according to the S&P/Case-Shiller index. Consumer confidence rebounded in February, jumping more than expected, and new-home sales rose to their highest in 4-1/2 years in January.
However, the central bank chairman also urged lawmakers to avoid sharp spending cuts set to go into effect on Friday, which he warned could combine with earlier tax increases to create a "significant headwind" for the economic recovery.
The Dow Jones industrial average <.dji> gained 115.96 points, or 0.84 percent, to 13,900.13 at the close. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index <.spx> rose 9.09 points, or 0.61 percent, to 1,496.94. The Nasdaq Composite Index <.ixic> advanced 13.40 points, or 0.43 percent, to close at 3,129.65.
Despite the bounce, the S&P 500 was unable to move back above 1,500, a closely watched level that was technical support until recently, but could now serve as a resistance point.
The CBOE Volatility Index <.vix> or the VIX, a barometer of investor anxiety, dropped 11.2 percent, a day after surging 34 percent, its biggest percentage jump since August 18, 2011.
The uncertainty caused by the Italian elections continued to weigh on stocks in Europe. The FTSEurofirst-300 index of top European shares <.fteu3> closed down 1.4 percent. The benchmark Italian index <.ftmib> tumbled 4.9 percent.
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Volume was active with about 7.08 billion shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE MKT and Nasdaq, above the daily average of 6.48 billion.
Advancing stocks outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by a ratio of about 2 to 1, while on the Nasdaq, three stocks rose for every two that fell.
(Reporting by Chuck Mikolajczak; Editing by Jan Paschal; Editing by Jan Paschal)
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