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Thursday, January 3, 2013

Jennifer Lopez Reveals Where She Keeps That Daring Versace Dress From the 2000 Grammys

 
J.Lo at 2000 Grammys.It’s been 13 years since Jennifer Lopez made jaws drop when she stepped onto the red carpet at the 2000 Grammys in that low-cut Versace gown with the up-to-there slit – and yet it’s still unforgettable. But the piece of pop culture history is not on display in a museum somewhere. "I have that at home," she reveals in the February issue of Harper’s Bazaar. "The other day, my housekeeper put it on a mannequin in my spa, where I get my hair and makeup done. She sent me a picture. She was like, 'You like this dress?' Um, yeah, but I don't know if I like it out in the house!"
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Although daring dresses like that one aren’t really J.Lo’s style anymore, she still holds on to some of her past tastes, which she combines with her more mature fashion sense to create a current style all her own. The 43-year-old explains that her former “boyish, hip-hoppy sensibility: big hoops, sneakers, tank tops, and my big curly hair” was given a “sexy element to it” over time, and now, “all of these things mixed together … that’s my style.”
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 Lopez on Harper's Bazaar.Her look may have matured, but Lopez has maintained her youthful playfulness. The actress-singer describes herself as having a mental age of “16 to 18. That's when I became the person that I am. Even though I didn't realize the whole journey I would go on, I still feel all that youthfulness."
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And that comes in handy with her boyfriend of a year, Casper Smart, who is 18 years younger than the star. “He's fantastic; he's like my best friend,” Lopez gushes of her 25-year-old boyfriend, who is playing with her 4-year-old twins, Max and Emme, during the interview. “I can tell him everything, when I'm feeling down, when I'm feeling good. He gives moral support, endless love, and support."
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J.Lo shimmers in Bazaar.And her sunny side.
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But he’s not the only one. As Lopez has been traveling the globe on her world tour, she has been joined by her mother Guadalupe, a former teacher who has been tutoring her children on the road. And she certainly can use all the help she can get. Max and Emme “are open, happy, curious, smart, loving, affectionate,” she proudly tells the magazine. “They're" and then she stops short as her daughter tumbles over the couch  "rambunctious."

Claim Check: Lint Lizard

Lint Lizard
The claim. “It’s like a magic wand!” says the website for Lint Lizard, a clear, flexible tube designed to suck up dryer lint, which can cause a fire if too much accumulates. You thread one end of the tube through the dryer’s lint-trap opening and attach the other end to your vacuum cleaner. Lint Lizard cost us $10.99 plus shipping. The check. In one dryer, we collected and weighed the lint removed by each of three methods we tried in succession. First we took apart ductwork and removed lint by reaching into nooks and crannies with our hands. Then we used a vacuum cleaner and crevice tool. Then we used the Lint Lizard. In a second dryer, we simply compared the amount of lint collected by a vacuum cleaner plus crevice tool with the haul collected by Lint Lizard.
Bottom line. It’s almost like a magic wand! Our reaching hands removed 8 grams of lint; a vacuum cleaner and crevice tool managed to suck up another 4 grams. And the Lint Lizard? Another 15 grams. In the second dryer, a crevice tool and vacuum cleaner removed just 0.3 grams of lint, after which Lint Lizard gulped 52 grams.
Drawbacks: The Lizard’s sharply angled tip and curved hose made it miss a bit of lint in some nooks and on some surfaces, and it may not fit into very narrow openings in some dryers. Its sharp tip could also harm plastic ductwork (but it’s best to have metal dryer ducts).

New Congress will take fresh crack at old problems

President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R) addresses a Joint Session of Congress. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The new 113th U.S. Congress, which convenes on Thursday, is set to take a fresh crack at a number of old, and highly contentious, issues, such as gun control, immigration, the record debt, tax reform and the farm bill.
Here's a look:
GUN CONTROL
President Barack Obama vows to crack down on gun violence in the wake of the school massacre last month in Newtown, Connecticut, the latest in a series of shooting rampages over the past decade.
According to a USA Today/Gallup Poll, 58 percent of Americans now back tougher gun laws, but 51 percent oppose Obama's call to outlaw so-called assault weapons.
A sharply divided Congress is awaiting a broad review of gun violence headed by Vice President Joe Biden.
A statue of the United States first President, George Washington, is seen under the Capitol dome in Washington January 2, 2013. REUTERS/Gary Cameron
IMMIGRATION
Hispanic voters last year helped Obama win a second term and Democrats to increase their clout in Congress.
Republicans took notice and want to win Hispanic support in the 2014 elections. One step toward that goal would be for Republicans to become more open to immigration reform.
The big question is how far Republicans would go to provide a path toward citizenship for illegal immigrants, estimated to number up to 12 million in the United States.
SEQUESTRATION
The White House and Congress managed to cut a deal on the "fiscal cliff" by agreeing to a two-month delay to sequestration - automatic spending cuts that were set to take effect on January 1.
Obama and lawmakers now have until March 1 to reach agreement on about $85 billion in spending reductions. If they do not, they will see across-the-board ones kick in, about evenly split between military and domestic programs.
DEBT LIMIT
Obama and Congress likely have until the end of February to raise the U.S. debt limit, now at $16.4 trillion.
Failure to do so would result in an unprecedented U.S. default, a move likely to rattle financial markets worldwide.
Obama says he will refuse to allow the debt limit to become a political bargaining tool again.
But Republicans do not seem be willing to raise it without extracting major spending cuts, mostly from government programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
FARM BILL
Congress gave itself a new deadline, September 30, to complete an overdue five-year, $500 billion farm bill that withered in election-year acrimony in 2012.
The House version proposed the deepest cuts in a generation for food stamps for the poor. But fiscal conservatives want more cuts in food stamps as well as farm subsidies.
The bills produced last year by the House and Senate agriculture committees would have cut between $23 billion and $35 billion. They will dig deeper in the months ahead.
It will be the first time Congress began work on a farm bill in one session and had to refile it in the new session.
HURRICANE SANDY RELIEF
Under pressure from fellow Republicans inside and outside of Congress, including New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the Republican-led House is expected to move quickly in coming weeks to approve a long-delayed relief package for victims of superstorm Sandy in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
SENATE FILIBUSTER
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is fed up with Republican procedural roadblocks commonly known as filibusters.
So Reid, to the outrage of Republicans, vows to try to change the rules - unless both sides enter some sort of an agreement to make the chamber work more efficiently.
VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
Obama's fellow Democrats will take another crack at trying to renew the 1994 Violence Against Women Act, which was championed nearly two decades ago by Biden, then a senator.
The measure is designed to combat domestic abuse, but became a legislative vehicle in Congress last year for Democrats and Republicans to jockey for political position.

Sandy Hook students resume classes for first time since school shooting

A bus carrying Sandy Hook students arrives at Chalk Hill School.
MONROE, Conn.—Sandy Hook Elementary School students, many accompanied by their parents, resumed classes at a retrofitted school here on a bitterly cold Thursday morning. Their return comes less than a month after a gunman opened fire at their school in Newtown, killing 20 children and six adults, including Principal Dawn Hochsprung, in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.
Buses began arriving around 8:30 a.m. at Chalk Hill School, seven miles from their former building in Sandy Hook. The snowy roads leading to the school were lined with balloons, green and white ribbons—the school's colors—and signs welcoming the kids. "Work Hard," one sign affixed to a tree read. "Get Smart. Have Fun," read another.
About a dozen police cruisers were parked at the entrance to the school, and officers braved the 13-degree temperatures to direct school traffic. But Monroe Police Lt. Keith White had told reporters on Wednesday that uniformed police presence inside would be toned down to allow a sense of normalcy.
Volunteers spent several weeks moving furniture from Sandy Hook School to the new facility, as school officials tried to completely recreate classrooms in an effort to make students as comfortable as possible—right down, they said, to the way crayons were left on their desks.
"Re-establishing routines following any disaster has been found to promote resiliency while also reducing the negative effects of a tragedy like that which occurred in our school," Newtown Schools Superintendent Janet Robinson wrote in a letter to parents. "We all find safety and predictability in our routines, and children are no different."

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Robinson also announced on Wednesday that Chalk Hill would be renamed Sandy Hook Elementary.
At a press conference, she said that “the students coming in completes the circle. That's what's missing right now—getting our students back."
She added that grief counselors would be available for students and parents, but that the goal would be "to get back to teaching and learning.
"We will obviously take time out from the academics for any conversations that need to take place, and there will be a lot of support there," she said. "All in all, we want the kids to reconnect with their friends and classroom teachers, and I think that's going to be the healthiest thing."
Parents had been encouraged to attend school with their children on Thursday, though not ride with them on buses.
A sign welcoming Sandy Hook students underneath one pointing to Chalk Hill School. (Dylan Stableford)
"I want to reassure you that we understand many parents may need to be near their children on their first day(s) of school and you will be welcome," interim Principal Donna Page had written in her own letter to parents. "That being said, we encourage students to take the bus to school in order to help them return to familiar routines as soon as possible. Parents choosing to join their children may come to school after our 9:07 a.m. opening and will be welcome in the classroom or the auditorium throughout the day."
A note on the school's website warns that parking for parents "may pose some challenges" and that shuttle buses are being provided from an overflow lot at a nearby church.
To "ensure a safe and secure environment," Page continued, "we ask that no more than one adult family member accompany his/her child."
New security systems were installed at Chalk Hill in the wake of the shooting. Earlier this week, Newtown Councilman Steve Vavrek said the school would be "the safest in America"—a phrase that was repeated by Monroe police and school officials on Wednesday, when students and parents were invited to tour the new school.
Other public schools in Newtown reopened within a week of the shootings, but Sandy Hook Elementary has remained closed since Dec. 14, when 20-year-old gunman Adam Lanza shot his way into the school and opened fire before turning a gun on himself. Lanza also killed his mother in their Newtown home before going on the rampage. The school, police officials say, remains a crime scene.
"I want parents and families enduring the loss of their precious children to know their loved ones are foremost in our hearts and minds as we move forward," Page also wrote. "We recognize your needs are paramount in our preparations and planning. Your strength and compassion has been and will continue to be an inspiration to me and countless others as we work to honor the memory of your precious children and our beloved staff."

Imran and Anushka promote 'Matru ki Bijlee Ka Mandola'

Imran Khan and Anushka Sharma have gone all out to promote their forthcoming film, 'Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola'.
Imran was even seen making tattoos for his ardent female fans. What else did they do? Check photos
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