Ouch! Maggie Q Shows Off 'Nikita' Injuries (omg!)

In The CW's "Nikita," Maggie Q gets herself in and out of dangerous situations, and the actress has sustained a few bumps, bruises - and breaks - on set.

"I had a grate fall on my hand and then I fell down a ladder. It was awful," Maggie told Billy Bush and Kit Hoover on Friday's Access Hollywood Live , showing off her bruised fingers.

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Maggie recently got braces off of her first and middle finger, which were hurt recently.

"I broke these two fingers," she said, pointing to her swollen digits.

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The actress' ring finger, however, was spared, but she joked she's not close to having someone put a ring on it.

"I'm never gonna get proposed to," she laughed. "That guy has to be crazy."

Joking aside, the stunning beauty revealed she isn't a power player in the game of love.

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"I didn't really date much," she said, telling Billy and Kit her ex count is no more than the fingers on a hand. "I haven't had a lot of relationships."

"Nikita" airs on Fridays at 8 PM ET/PT on The CW.

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Prepare Yourself for the Winter Cold This Weekend [Weekendhacker]

Temperatures are dropping quickly, and before you know it you'll be wishing you had prepared for the winter tundra. This weekend, take some time to prepare yourself and your home so you can stay warm for the next few months.

Photo remixed from an original by Andrew Magill.

Keep Your Home Warm

As we start to inch closer to winter, it's a good idea to do a once-over on your house and make sure it's ready for the cold. Get your furnace ready, insulate those windows with some bubble wrap, and get a programmable thermostat to save on energy bills. Alternatively, if you have a small apartment or you only need to heat one room in the house, a good space heater will keep you warm while keeping those electric bills down.

When it does come time to get cozy, make sure you know how to build a killer fire. While you're at it, you can beef up your wood chopping skills (better to do it now than in below zero weather), or just make your own fireplace log out of newspaper. Keep those windows frost- and fog- free with a salt wash or some shaving cream, too. If your pipes freeze, you can defrost them with some salt water.

Lastly, while it isn't exactly warming up your home, make sure you've done everything you can to free your home of static electricity. It's going to be a much bigger problem once it gets dry out there.

Photo by Jon Olav Eikenes.

Keep Yourself Warm

Not only does it cost money to heat your house, but insulating yourself is actually more efficient than insulating your home. So, check out some of these unconventional tips on heating yourself in the house, including sleeping with a hot water bottle. You can also wear that ugly Christmas sweater your grandma gave you, or turn it into a pair of mittens instead. Basically, prepare your body for winter as much as your home?you'll not only stay warm and happy, but probably save some money in the process.

Photo by Vato Bob.

Brave the Cold Outdoors

Try as you might, you'll probably have to go outside at some point during the frozen months. In fact, you should: make sure you keep exercising in the winter. Wear appropriate clothing and prepare your bicycle if necessary, and use a plastic bag to keep your feet dry if boots aren't an option. Make sure you wear gloves, too. If you're annoyed by their lack of touch screen usability, grab a pair of touch screen-friendly gloves, or make your own for cheap (though thermal compound can do in a pinch as well). Lastly, drive safely, and if you get stuck in the snow, remember that your floor mats can help you get a bit more traction.

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Stay Healthy and Productive

Winter can be pretty draining, on both your physical and mental health, so keep yourself happy, healthy, and motivated in the winter. Make sure your immune system is in tip top shape, and if you do get sick, know when to stop exercising and start beating that cold into submission. Don't forget about your mental health, too?seasonal affective disorder can really bring you down in the winter, so start preparing now. And, last but not least, make sure you're prepared for power losses, internet outages, and other snowpocalypse-related emergencies. With enough foresight, this winter'll be a cakewalk.

Photo by Anna Gutermuth.

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Romney promises to "earn it" in New Hampshire (Reuters)

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) ? Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney flexed his campaign's organizational muscle in the key early voting state of New Hampshire on Saturday, unleashing hundreds of volunteers to knock on doors and make phone calls on his behalf.

Standing before a poster reading "Earn It," Romney said his campaign has already placed 200,000 phone calls in the state of 1.3 million people, and planned to call an additional 12,000 potential voters today.

Romney, former governor of neighboring Massachusetts, has held a wide lead in most polls of likely Republican voters in New Hampshire, which holds the first primary of the 2012 presidential contest on Jan 10.

But in a survey taken November 28, former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich pulled to within 10 percentage points of Romney following an important newspaper endorsement.

Gingrich has added advisers in New Hampshire recently, but his grass-roots apparatus there pales next to that of Romney, whose volunteers aimed to "knock on 5,000 doors ... and put together 10,000 yard signs" on Saturday alone.

Romney continued to draw contrasts with Gingrich, who has soared to the top of many national Republican polls.

Gingrich could benefit from the suspension of businessman Herman Cain's campaign on Saturday after weeks of allegations about sexual impropriety.

Romney, who has had an uneasy relationship with the conservative Tea Party that has been the core of Cain's support, made an appeal for the group's backing by highlighting his background in the private sector.

"Speaker Gingrich is a fine person but he's spent his life in Washington," said Romney. "That doesn't exactly line up with the Tea Partiers. I think when things are said and done I'll have good support from the Tea Party and hopefully the majority of their support."

Among those coming out to knock on doors for Romney was David Swett of Concord, who said he voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 but was backs the Republican, despite disagreeing with him on issues such as abortion.

"I've been a Democrat for 20 years but I think the country's in trouble," Swett said, praising Romney's leadership as Massachusetts governor and as head of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. "Gingrich is too far to the right."

(Reporting by Jason McLure; Editing by Ros Krasny and Eric Walsh)

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Video: Sergeant at Arms Livingwood retiring

>>> we learned this week that the man who says this every year is retiring.

>> mr. speaker, the president of the united states ! [ cheers and applause ]

>> that's our friend bill livingood , the house sergeant at arms . 33 years with the secret service and five seconds of air time every year. a popular figure on capitol hill with the very big job of keeping everyone there safe.

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Firm wants to turn Eiffel Tower into 'giant tree'

PARIS?? A French company wants to turn the Eiffel Tower into a heaving, breathing, botanical giant by draping its mass of metal struts and rivets under a mantle made of 600,000 plants.

The plan to transform one of the biggest tourist attractions in the world into a vast environmental curiosity as well is, for now, little more than the dream of an urban planning consultancy that would gain in fame if the dream became reality.

The idea, which has not so far been officially endorsed by Paris City Hall or the company that operates the Eiffel Tower, would transform the three-floor edifice of more than 300 yards into something akin to a very tall, and growing, Christmas tree.

Ginger, the consultancy promoting it, issued a statement on Wednesday to defend a project that it said would symbolize the reconciliation of nature and mankind as the world's population heads for 9 billion, 7 billion of whom would live in urban areas.

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Either way the project would amount to the most ambitious remake in the life of the tower built by Gustave Eiffel for a world fair in 1889.

The tower, which underwent a lesser revamp with the addition of 10,000 flickering light bulbs a decade ago, draws about 7 million visitors a year.

Clad in a new coat of living greenery, it could be expected to also provide a perch for many insects and birds, among them perhaps the not-so-welcome pigeons that irritate many city-dwellers.

"Should it not be the duty of engineers to imagine a new future where nature is brought back into the heart of the city," said a statement from Ginger.

For now at least, it still has to convince.

Following the leak in Le Figaro newspaper, the company that operates the tower, SETE, issued a statement saying neither it nor Paris City Hall were associated with the proposal as laid out in the newspaper.

According to Le Figaro newspaper, which leaked many of the technical aspects of the proposal, the idea would be to start work next year, connecting 12 tons of tubing to the tower's struts.

Thousands of hemp or sack-cloth bags that would carry soil and a large variety of plants would be added gradually, working from the bottom upwards in the same way as a plant grows, over the second half of 2012.

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Don't Toss That Turkey: Unilever Says Restaurants Need To Cut Waste

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A prep cook drops apple skins into a food scrap recycling container in San Francisco.

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A prep cook drops apple skins into a food scrap recycling container in San Francisco.

Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate that makes blockbuster food products like Hellmann's mayonnaise and Skippy peanut butter and supplies thousands of food-service companies in 74 countries, is a Fortune Global 500 company. If it decides it wants to do something about food waste, it could keep a lot of perfectly tasty morsels out of the garbage heap.

But up to now that hasn't been a big priority, though food waste has emerged as one of the central flaws in the global food system. That's according to the U.N. Environment Program, which found in 2009 that more than half the food produced today is either lost, wasted or discarded.

Much of that wasted food never reaches consumers (it happens at the farm), but food-service providers are still a big part of the problem: A single restaurant in the U.S. can produce approximately 25,000 to 75,000 pounds of food waste in a year, according to the Green Restaurant Association.

Unilever's Food Solutions division, which sells food to restaurants, hotels, chains and contract caterers, this month conducted a survey on what consumers around the world think about food waste. Some 4,000 diners in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, China, Russia, Poland, Brazil and Turkey were asked about their attitudes toward the food-service industry's disposal methods and sustainability practices.

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Most surprisingly, 80 percent of U.S. diners said they are concerned about the amount of food thrown away every day in restaurants and cafeterias. And nearly half of them said they would be willing to pay more for meals at establishments they knew were limiting food waste.

According to Kara Phillips, a Unilever channel marketing manager who sits on the company's sustainability council, these results were pretty surprising.

"We knew food waste was a big issue, but you never know how it will resonate with the everyday consumer," Phillips tells The Salt. "Half said they would pay more to support places that limit food waste. That's a really big deal; that's pretty profound."

This should prove as ample incentive for the company's new "United Against Waste" campaign, which wants to help the U.S. food-service industry cut waste. Phillips says that people working at the restaurants and cafeterias Unilever supplies need help figuring out how to best use stuff in the pantry. They'll also be encouraged to compost what isn't edible.

"If you're roasting turkey, how do you use the scraps ... that you might have thrown away?" says Phillips. "Maybe it can go into a soup or salad."

Of course, if you're a restaurant and you get good and making more with less, you might end up buying less food from Unilever. And so far the company doesn't have any concrete targets for how much waste it can actually prevent. But Phillips seems to think that a more efficient food supply chain won't hurt sales. "Ultimately, people are always going to be eating out," she says. "We just want to bring forth best practices."

To find out where Unilever's initiative fits into the bigger picture of food waste, we called up Jonathan Bloom, author of American Wasteland, a chronicle of food waste in the U.S. Bloom says:

"There aren't too many food companies that are even thinking about the topic of waste," says Bloom, "and there is real potential for reducing and donating edible and unsellable food to cut waste."

Source: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2011/11/28/142663686/food-giant-unilever-says-restaurants-need-to-cut-food-waste?ft=1&f=1007

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GOP first-termer challenges Obama detainee policy (AP)

WASHINGTON ? The face of Republican opposition to President Barack Obama's policy for handling suspected terrorists is a 43-year-old former prosecutor who has been in the Senate a mere 11 months.

New Hampshire Sen. Kelly Ayotte is at the forefront of the escalating fight over whether to treat captured suspects as prisoners of war or criminals. The administration says it is determined to build on its success in killing al-Qaida's Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki and frustrated by lawmakers' meddling. Republicans counter that Congress is filling a void created by Obama's failure to establish a consistent system on how to treat suspects.

"The administration doesn't have a detainee policy," Ayotte said in an interview. "It's ad hoc. ... There's a lack of clarity in the administration's positions."

In a strong message to the Obama administration, the Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected an effort to strip provisions dealing with terror suspects from a massive defense bill. The White House has threatened to veto the bill over several provisions, including one requiring military custody of a suspect deemed to be a member of al-Qaida or its affiliates and involved in plotting or committing attacks on the United States.

The vote was 61-37 against an amendment by Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., to delete the provisions and hold hearings with intelligence and military officials on the issue.

As the Senate pushes to complete a massive defense bill this week, the confrontation is testing the constitutional boundaries of executive and legislative authority as well as the mettle of a Democratic commander in chief in a politically charged environment.

Steadfast in defending the provisions are longtime members of the Senate Armed Services Committee and familiar players from past detainee debates ? the panel's chairman, Carl Levin, D-Mich.; its top Republican, Arizona's John McCain and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.

Joining that cadre is Ayotte, who served as New Hampshire's attorney general for five years and is married to Lt. Col. Joe Daley, a reservist fighter pilot who flew combat missions in Iraq.

"We don't want to tell a terrorist you have the right to remain silent," Ayotte said Tuesday during Senate debate. "That's the issue here."

Legal affairs and the ongoing war on terror are major elements of Ayotte's life, and she requested a seat on the Armed Services panel when she arrived in Washington in January. At hearing after hearing, she pressed senior Pentagon officials about what the United States does with captured suspected terrorists and why some 27 percent of detainees transferred back to their home countries return to the battlefield.

"The answers I got from the military and the Defense Department was very unsatisfying," Ayotte said.

In the spring, she spent a day at the Navy prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a facility she described as top rate with a state-of-the-art courtroom for military tribunals.

This fall, she has been outspoken in rejecting administration criticism of the detainee provisions, complaints from the White House, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and FBI Director Robert Mueller that the legislation is congressional micromanaging and would thwart ongoing terrorism investigations.

"She has a good understanding of the difference between fighting a crime and a war. And she's been very helpful in constructing a legal system that recognizes the difference between fighting a crime and a war," Graham said.

Ayotte has pushed even harder than some of her colleagues, offering an amendment to the defense bill to expand forms of interrogation of suspected terrorists detained by the United States.

Her measure would authorize new interrogation methods beyond those established in the Army Field Manual, which specifically prohibits torture and degrading treatment. Ayotte's proposal would allow for a classified section to the manual, which civil rights groups say could be used to sanction more aggressive techniques.

More than 30 civil rights groups say Ayotte's amendment to a defense bill would "dangerously roll back" restrictions on interrogation techniques that Congress overwhelmingly approved in 2005 by allowing interrogators to use new methods beyond those allowed in the Army Field Manual. They've warned it could reopen the door to methods they consider to be torture.

"Some of these amendments are solutions in search of problems, especially the amendment on interrogation," said Devon Chaffee, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. "No one in the military is asking for this amendment. Even the military and intelligence services believe they have what they need."

Ayotte says the criticism is unfounded and dismisses the suggestion that it would allow cruel and inhumane treatment as false.

Privately, Republicans and Democrats describe the freshman senator as studious and hard-working. A fiscal and social conservative, Ayotte narrowly won the GOP Senate nomination last year ? she got a boost when Sarah Palin called her "one tough Granite grizzly" ? and rode the Republican wave to Capitol Hill. She is the mother of two young children, 7-year-old Katherine and 5-year-old Jacob.

Unlike some in the GOP freshmen class, former House members Rob Portman, Roy Blunt and Pat Toomey, the Nashua-born Ayotte had no previous elective experience; attorney general is an appointed position.

"She was a real person before she was a U.S. senator," said Fergus Cullen, former chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party. "Not a lot of them are."

Cullen said that as attorney general, Ayotte was "always measured, never bombastic."

She recently endorsed Mitt Romney for president, a critical move in the state that holds the first primary. Romney was pressed on possible vice presidential choices, said providing names would be presumptuous and then added: "There probably are 15 names of people, including Kelly Ayotte."

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