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We join with you in celebrating the 42nd anniversary of Earth Day this Saturday. All around the world, we remind ourselves about the importance of conserving our planet?s environment and resources. We all can do our part from simple tasks like turning off lights, recycling, and using energy efficient building materials. All of us at Iron Crafters work hard to bring you such energy efficient products such as our replacement windows, storm and entry doors, awnings, and more.

Our vinyl replacement windows reduce energy consumption, are virtually maintenance free and add to the value of your home. These energy efficient vinyl replacement windows are constructed of superior materials and components that withstand the harshest weather and ultraviolet light to provide long-lasting good looks. These windows are backed by our Limited Lifetime Warranty. Don?t worry if you have non-standard window shapes and sizes. We can custom build vinyl replacement windows to meet your specific needs. All of our 300 Series Double Hung, Sliders and Picture Windows qualify for ENERGY STAR and federal Tax Credit. All of our 200 and 100 Series Double Hung, Casement Windows, Sliders and Picture Windows qualify for ENERGY STAR and federal Tax Credit as long as you upgrade to Low-E glass with Argon or Krypton gas. We also carry energy efficient aluminum replacement windows.

Our storm doors excel in beauty, durability, security and energy efficiency. They are made 20% thicker aluminum than consumer-grade storm doors that are sold through the ?big box? home improvement retailers. Your Iron Crafters storm door is customized for you: the color, the style of glass, type of screen, the functionality. We offer a Lifetime Limited Transferable Warranty on our storm doors.

Iron Crafters is committed to providing a superior quality entry door that will add beauty to your home. The majority of our doors meet or exceed Energy Star criteria. When you let Iron Crafters install one of these energy efficient entry doors for you, you could save money on your heating and cooling costs. Our entry doors are made from the highest quality materials and are backed by a lifetime limited transferable warranty.

Our products are not just limited to doors and windows. We also can provide you with a custom fabricated awnings. These sturdily constructed awnings will help provide shade over your doors and windows which could result in savings on your utility bills!

When you think about your next home improvement project, think about the energy efficient materials you can get from Iron Crafters. Contact us today for your free, no obligation quote.

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Madea's Witness Protection Trailer: Tyler Perry Returns

Fresh off his most acclaimed film in Good Deeds, actor-director Tyler Perry and his iconic creation Madea return in his latest project, Madea’s Witness Protection.

The story actually does not follow Madea into Witness Protection, but rather Wall Street banker (Eugene Levy) whose family moves into Madea's neighborhood.

The trailer below gives us a quick glimpse of this new character sitting beside Tyler Perry's on a plane. Madea’s Witness Protection lands in theaters June 29.

Madea's Witness Protection Trailer

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GSA grilled over 'appalling' spending

LIVE VIDEO ? Congress investigates the spending practices of the General Services Administration (GSA) following a $823,000 conference at a Las Vegas resort.

By Becky Bratu, msnbc.com

At a congressional oversight hearing Tuesday, Rep. Jeff Denham, R-Calif., ?said he was prepared to systematically pull apart the General Services Administration to the point where "we will make it a question to the American public whether the GSA is needed at all."

?I'm here to tell you the buck stops here,? said Denham, who heads the House Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management. "Where crimes have been committed, people will go to jail."

The hearing focused on the GSA's use of taxpayer money in the wake of recent revelations of lavish spending for a Las Vegas conference in 2010 that cost $823,000. It was the second day of hearings in the matter.

Ex-GSA head apologizes for $823,000 Las Vegas spending spree

Rep. John L. Mica, chair of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said that while the GSA's wasteful spending in Las Vegas is "appalling," it is only the tip of the iceberg.?

?The Republican?congressman from Florida?added that he and Denham have been discussing whether the GSA's culture of squandering can be purged or whether the agency -- "our government's landlord" -- should be replaced.

The GSA, which?manages federal properties, is also being investigated for how resources were spent on other outings and conferences, including trips to Hawaii, Atlanta, Ga., and Napa, Calif., and an intern conference in Palm Springs, Calif., attended by 150 people.?

In his opening statement, Bob Peck, former head of the agency's public building department, said the Las Vegas conference was an "aberration," and most conferences he attended were not lavish. He said he paid for some food out of his pocket in Las Vegas.

Peck also offered a personal apology and said he would not shirk responsibility.

Martha Johnson, who resigned this month as head of the GSA, apologized Monday in a different oversight hearing for the way the money was spent. Five other officials were placed on administrative leave after GSA Inspector General Brian Miller reported that lavish spending was an accepted part of the agency's culture.

The official at the center of the scandal, Region 9 Public Building Regional Commissioner Jeffrey Neely, was not present at the Tuesday hearing.

"Mr. Neely is not with us today. ... We had requested that he be with us," Mica said, noting his absence.?"I guess the only way we'll get to see him is in a video in the hot tub" -- referring to a widely circulated photo showing the former GSA official relaxing in his hotel room during the Las Vegas conference.?

"This guy set up a fiefdom," subcommittee member Timothy Walz, D-Minn., later added.

On Monday, Neely?repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent during a hearing by the?House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

In a memo included in the inspector general's report, Neely ? who hosted a $2,700 party at the conference ? allegedly wrote, "I know I'm bad ... but why not enjoy it while we can? It ain't gonna last forever."

Miller told the subcommittee the daily spending allowance per person in Las Vegas was $71 for meals, with $12 intended for breakfast. The report revealed that more than $40 per person was spent on breakfast, the subcommittee said. Employees got around spending limits by staging "fake awards," for which costly foods were purchased, Miller said. These awards were a "running joke" in the agency, he added.

?We smelled a rat and we asked for data," Mica said, adding that the subcommittee's previous attempts to investigate the GSA were delayed and "got stonewalled time and time again."

The subcommittee commended current GSA deputy administrator Susan Brita, who had asked Miller to investigate the 2010 conference.

"It could have been swept under the table had it not been for one person," Mica said.

In an email to Peck last year, Brita said conference expenses for a clown suit, bicycles used for a team-building exercise, and a mind-reader, among other things, were not justifiable.

Brita told the subcommittee it is not clear whether the excessive spending culture spread to the entire agency beyond Region 9.

?The culture of an organization is where it all starts," Walz said. "That is the piece that needs to be changed."

The GSA is made up of 11 regions.

?I think we?d be very na?ve not to see this in other regions,? Walz said.

The hearing revealed a lack of oversight for Neely, who also served as acting regional administrator. His only direct supervisor was Peck.

More than three hours into the hearing, Denham said investigations will continue into what he called a ?culture of fraud, waste corruption, cover-ups.?

NBC News' Stacey Klein and msnbc.com's M. Alex Johnson contributed to this report.

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'Rock Of Ages' Spotlights A Tom Cruise You've Never Seen

'He's a guy who loves challenges,' enthuses director Adam Shankman, as part of MTV News' Summer Movie Preview Week.
By Amy Wilkinson

Tom Cruise in "Rock of Ages"
Photo: Warner Bros

This summer, the city — and the cinema — will be built on rock and roll when "Rock of Ages" packs its ax, journeying from Broadway to a theater near you.

Set in Los Angeles and featuring the biggest jams of the '80s, the movie musical follows busboy/ aspiring rocker Drew Boley (played by Diego Boneta) as he falls for new-in-town Sherrie Christian (played by Julianne Hough) and lands a gig opening for rock legend Stacee Jaxx (Tom Cruise). All the while, greater forces are at work trying to convert the drug- and sex-fueled Sunset Strip into a safer, gentler piece of prime real estate, much to the chagrin of the bandannaed masses.

In anticipation of opening night (June 15), MTV News caught up with director Adam Shankman ("Hairspray") to chat about Tom Cruise's crazy work ethic, '80s nostalgia and the perils of working with a baboon.

MTV News: Movie musicals are nothing new for you. What is it about translating a work from stage to screen that is so compelling?

Adam Shankman: It's a matter of, I guess, finding a story you enjoy telling and a medium you enjoy. I grew up doing musical theater, so it's something that's in my bones, and I love it. I feel it's always informed a lot of the way I think and the way I approach material. It's just sort of a natural thing for me to be doing, given my history with music and dance and all that. All I ever wanted to be in my life was a chorus boy, so how things turned out couldn't be a bigger surprise to me.

MTV: What was it specifically about "Rock of Ages" that drew you in?

Shankman: I thought, "Holy moly!" Here's an opportunity to make a musical truly for straight men. I mean, straight guys walk into the theater and they know every word of the music. So it's a completely different experience from girls having to drag their boyfriends to boys dragging their girlfriends.

MTV: There's been a lot of '80s nostalgia in pop culture lately. Is that an era you're particularly nostalgic for?

Shankman: I mean, that was my time. I graduated high school in '82. My dad's office was on Sunset. I saw my first concert at the Roxy. I was choreographing music videos in '87 when, it happens, I actually choreographed a video for someone whose music is in the movie. It was, you know, the last time I remember everything being kind of innocent. Everything kind of shifted then, suddenly fun became drug addiction and crazy, casual sex became AIDS. It was the end of all of that.

MTV: Diego Boneta, who plays Drew, is a fairly under-the-radar talent right now. How did he land the role?

Shankman: His audition just sort of stopped me in my tracks. I saw it on my casting website. I've seen hundreds and hundreds of guys on there, and his stopped me because there was no acting — he just was that guy. And he also sang so great. In the best casting moments, you're looking at somebody and saying, "How much do I have to do with this person to get them there?" I just looked at him and he just dropped into it very easily and naturally. And then, of course, there's that face.

MTV: One of the film's many familiar faces is Tom Cruise, though I have a feeling this is a Tom Cruise we've never seen before.

Shankman: We have definitely never seen him do this before. A lot of the joy in this for him was just the adventure of trying something that was so foreign. I think part of the reason that he said yes to doing it was that he was so stunned that he was asked, and he thought, "Oh my god, of all the millions of things I've done in my career, nothing has ever been like this." He's a guy who loves challenges.

MTV: We did see him sing in "Top Gun."

Shankman: Not like this.

MTV: For fans of the original, how closely does the film hem to the Broadway musical?

Shankman: It's pretty close. I mean, I changed who the villains are. They were Europeans in the play, and I wanted them to be more L.A.-based so it had more of a local resonance. The character Lonnie, the Russell Brand character, isn't the narrator. I didn't think the movie should have a narrator. But in terms of spirit, the boy-meets-girl and what happens to the boy and girl is very close.

MTV: Is there a favorite musical number for you?

Shankman: I never cease to be in awe of "Pour Some Sugar on Me" because it was Tom on his first day of shooting, and he spent the day performing it for a giant crowd, and Def Leppard showed up on set and were there. That was an incredibly crazy, magical day.

MTV: Conversely, there's always a scene or two that give a director pause. Any particularly difficult moments for you on the set?

Shankman: Well, I have one of those that turned into one of the best scenes in the movie. There's a giant protest outside of the Bourbon, where Catherine Zeta-Jones and all the anti-Bourbon moms and all the rockers are fighting and they do a mash-up of "We Built This City" and "We're Not Going to Take It." Then, you know, we had the baboon there and the baboon got loose, and it was a nightmare and nobody could move because it was going to eat your face off. And then we were standing there for 20 minutes stuck on the street. Bizarre, bizarre day. On top of which, it was just really daunting because there was a lot going on. We had Sebastian Bach and Debbie Gibson and all these rockers there from that period. It was insane.

Check out everything we've got on "Rock of Ages."

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Maria Menounos & Derek Hough?s DWTS Kiss (Video)

DWTS is getting hot hot hot thanks to a steamy kiss between Maria Menounos & Derek Hough on last night?s show. Does the intimate moment mean anything or was it all for the judges?   While performing a very sexy Samba on Dancing With The Stars Maria and Derek took things to the next level with a kiss that has some people calling the dancing duo sellouts and some wondering if there isn?t something more going on between these two. The judges didn?t seem to care why there was a kiss in the routine or what it means, they gave Hough and Menounos a fantastic score of 27. I tell you what if the lip lock was just a stunt to impress then well it clearly worked on the judges but did it work on the voting fans? I guess we will find out tonight won?t we? I watched the show and I have to say there very well could be something else going on with these two besides their desire to take home the mirror ball trophy. I mean they basically had a little make out session on the dance floor and I don?t care what kind of stunt [...]

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Droid RAZR and Droid RAZR MAXX software updates finally ready to roll out

Being a Droid RAZR or Droid RAZR MAXX owner has certainly had its ups and downs for the past little while. A bunch of false starts for software updates have occurred, but now it looks like Motorola and Verizon have managed to get things squared away for the better.

If you check out the Verizon support pages you'll find information for the 6.12.181 software update readily available for viewing, which means the actual updates could roll out pretty much anytime now.

No, it's not Ice Cream Sandwich, but we're sure you'll agree some updates are better than no updates at all. The change log is the same for both devices, so jump on past the break to get a detailed list

Source: Verizon

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