Exploring Kittery, Maine — Beyond Outlet Shopping

Nestled between historic Portsmouth, N.H., and York, Maine is Maine’s oldest town of Kittery (settled 1623) which for most folks from “away” as Mainers call visitors, is nothing but a two-mile stretch of brand name outlets. But for the year-round residents of this nearly 10,000 populated town, Kittery is a gem of historic sites, cozy cafés, art galleries, gift shops, performance centers, ethnic restaurants and “gourmet mile” spotted with organic offerings — the side of town many tourists are not privy to. Not to mention a tight community of creative, socially and politically conscious residents from all over the country who choose to call Kittery home.

Inquisitive travelers to Kittery can wonder beyond the bargain traps of the Outlets, and veer off to the less traveled Haley Road squeezed between Yummies Candy & Nuts and Dunkin Donut shops. As the road snakes through Kittery’s farmlands now bearing modern homes savoring their Americana look, it winds down at the juncture of Pepperell Road where Kittery Point offers magnificent harbor views playing hide and seek in between homes that closely hug the narrowing road. Stop by the oldest family owned market (Frisbee’s Market) now transformed into Enoteca convenience store perfect for quick sandwiches, coffee, wine tastings and more. Behind the shop Cajun Lobster offers ocean view dining where you can sit back and enjoy the water views spotted with high-end sailboats.

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Meandering beyond, you’ll see the entry gates to Fort McClary historic U.S. military defensive fortification that sits at the mouth of the Piscataqua River (Open: Memorial Day to Columbus Day). With breathtaking open harbor views spotted with rocking sailboats, the 19th century fort offers a 1844 blockhouse, now a museum, where you can climb up to imagine how soldiers lived and kept watch for the enemy ships from window slits. Looking across the water, the blinking conical (1830 constructed) Whaleback lighthouse guards the mouth of the Piscataqua River and Portsmouth harbor.

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Follow Pepperell Road beyond Ft. McClary for a scenic harbor view drive that bends around the majestic, New England style Lady Pepperell House (Built: 1760-1765 for the widow of Sir William Pepperell). As the road continues through a row of homes, over a small bridge with more views of the harbor and the Kittery/Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, onto Rt. 236 you can bear left, pass Traip Academy high school and enter the town’s “downtown” Foreside area for a surprising plethora of restaurants, galleries, quaint Cafés, ice-cream stops, juicery, local brewery, a butcher shop, an international market and more.

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Hop across to Kittery’s “gourmet mile” on Route 1 for a selection of organic markets, and scrumptious artisanal bread, baked goods, good eats at Beach Pea Bakery, or grab a take-out home meal from Terra Cotta Pasta Co. Satisfy your sweet tooth with a taste and aroma of Byrne and Carlson Chocolatier’s European flare and seasonal chocolate treats — my favorite is their fish shaped chocolate wrapped in pastel colors during Easter season. Continuing on Route 1, stop at The Fabulous Find for a bit of consignment shopping with a flare.

And you can plan a perfect evening in downtown Kittery starting with dinner at one of the restaurants — Locos (Mexican), Tulsi (Indian), Anju (Korean noodle shop) Anneke Jans and many others. After or before dinner catch a play, a movie, or a performance at the Dance Hall — from international jazz festivals, to African drumming, to one-act plays to tap dancing and more — or at Kittery Community Center’s Star Theatre.

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Top off your evening with ice cream or Gelato at Stella’s Sweet Café and savor your Kittery memories that well extend the typical tourist trips to the Outlets.

[Photos by Anais DerSimonian]

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House Votes To Lift Ban On Capitol Hill Sledding

WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) – The House of Representatives has voted to lift a ban on sledding on the U.S. Capitol grounds, freeing the area for one of Washington’s winter delights, the District of Columbia’s congresswoman said.

The legislation passed by the House of Representative urges the U.S. Capitol Police not to enforce the law, which has prohibited sledding for security reasons since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

“Today the commonsense non-enforcement of the sledding ban on Capitol Hill, the way it has been for many years, is assured,” Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton said in a statement late on Tuesday.

The provision is not yet scheduled for a vote in the U.S. Senate.

In February, Norton made the request to U.S. Capitol Police following news reports that officers, citing security issues, shooed away would-be sledders after a snowfall in the U.S. capital. Norton called the ban “Scrooge-like.”

Dozens of people staged a “sled-in” on Capitol Hill in March during a late-winter snowstorm, ignoring the police ban. (Reporting by John Clarke; Editing by Sandra Maler)

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Diddy Says African American Communities Are 'Committing Genocide On Ourselves'

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been vocal about the #BlackLivesMatter movement in the past , taking the nation’s justice system to task for non-indictments in the deaths of unarmed black men.

In reaction to the recent death of New York rapper, Combs implored the community to look within.

Following the fatal drive-by shooting of New York rapper Lionel “Chinx Drugz” Pickens on early Sunday morning (no suspects have been arrested, as the shooting is still under investigation), Diddy posted a message to 4.6 million followers. In it, the 45-year-old declares that in some instances, African Americans should take more accountability in ending the violence related to death of black men and women in America.

For the last couple of months we have experienced a lot of injustice and wrongdoings to a community. But there is a flip side. Yes #BLACKLIVESMATTER ! But no one will respect us if we as a people don’t have any respect for our own black lives. We are committing genocide on ourselves. We are always looking for scapegoats . We as a people hurt ourselves more than anyone has ever hurt us. That makes no sense. We as a people including myself have to take accountability and do whatever we can do individually or together to stop the madness and realize that we are KINGS and QUEENS AND Must love ourselves and each other. I know I’m rambling a little bit. #BLACKLIVESMATTER SO AS A PEOPLE LETS PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH.!!! MAY GOD BLESS US ALL! Ii LOVE YOU!!!!!!

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“We are committing genocide on ourselves. We are always looking for scapegoats,” he wrote on the social media platform. “We as a people hurt ourselves more than anyone has ever hurt us. That makes no sense. We as a people including myself have to take accountability and do whatever we can do individually or together to stop the madness and realize that we are kings and queens and must love ourselves and each other.”

Combs’ has also spoken out on the grand jury decision in the Eric Garner case, and the aftermath in Baltimore following the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray. He referenced these events, and their impact on the community, earlier this month during an interview with The Associated Press.

“The black community are the forgotten ones — just like people are in poverty all over this country, but especially the black community,” he said. “So you have a lot of built-up frustration especially in the kids that see their future is bleak and they are being forgotten. People need to pay attention to that…”

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Mushroom Hunter Finds Decades-Old Message Near Riverbank

IONIA, Mich. (AP) — It isn’t quite a message in a bottle, but an Ohio man says he found a 21-year-old message secreted in a camera film case that had traveled some 40 miles down the Grand River in western Michigan.

Terry Smith tells WILX-TV (http://bit.ly/1R2M15X ) that he found the case with the messages inside on Monday while hunting for mushrooms in Ionia, Michigan. According to Smith, the case contained three pieces of paper written by two 12-year-old girls in Lansing in 1994.

“It’s in pretty good condition really. I mean, it was water stained, it was damp and when I took it out of the bottle. But, it’s in really good condition for being 21 years old,” Smith said.

Two of the documents show drawings of the girls, while the third is a letter to the finder of the film case.

Leah Sedelmaier, one of the authors of the note, was contacted by Smith and WILX. Although she doesn’t remember putting together the note, she’s said she’s shocked someone found it.

“We used to play in this creek that’s back here in the neighborhood; and, we used to make rafts and have races with them. I totally believe we would’ve done something like that,” Sedelmaier said.

Sedelmaier said she has since reconnected with her co-author and childhood friend to try and piece together their memories from that day.

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Rail Safety Fact Check: Fires, Spills Up Despite Industry Claims

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The following story was reported by Isaiah Thompson of the New England Center for Investigative Reporting and published here in collaboration with The Huffington Post. NECIR trains the next generation of journalists in investigative reporting with summer high school workshops in Boston. Click here to learn more and apply today.

Despite the terrible derailment of an Amtrak train last week and a spate of other fiery accidents involving trains carrying flammable crude oil — five so far this year — railroad industry and government officials have taken pains to reassure the public of rail transportation safety.

Railroad safety in 2014, as the Association of American Railroads has boasted in web “advertorials” and statements to news organizations, was “the safest year on record for the railroad industry.”

But it’s a claim that, under scrutiny, doesn’t completely hold up to the numbers.

A review of federal reports and railroad safety data by the New England Center for Investigative Reporting suggests that while rail remains much safer than it was in recent decades, at least some indicators of safety have gotten worse, not better, over the past few years:

  • Accidents involving fires have at least doubled in the past year.
  • Hazardous materials releases have increased two years in a row.
  • Projections buried in government reports indicate that the same agencies issuing new safety rules themselves expect derailments to more than double over the next few years.

NECIR’s findings come amid a media relations push by the railroad industry in the wake of increased concerns over recent accidents as well as new rules issued this May by the federal Department of Transportation release of new rules regulating the tank cars carrying crude and ethanol, and other flammable liquids transported by rail.

Those tank cars, so-called DOT-111s, have been known for decades to be prone to puncturing, and have been involved in at least 17 serious accidents and explosions since 2013, including the July, 2013 derailment of a train carrying crude that killed 47 people in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec.

READ MORE FROM NECIR: New rules for ‘oil trains’ fall short of recommendations

Experts on the railroad industry asked to comment on NECIR’s findings said they weren’t surprised that the number of hazardous releases, fires, and major accidents is rising, but cautioned that those findings don’t mean the rate of such incidents has increased.

Flammable liquids traffic “has increased from nominal numbers to significant numbers in just two years,” says Allan Zarembski, a research professor and director of the University of Delaware’s Railroad Engineering and Safety Program. “If you increase traffic, even if the safety rates are going down, the number of accidents might go up.”

That seems to be the case now: While accident rates might not be increasing, the sudden rise in the transport of crude oil and ethanol — from 30,000 carloads in 2004 to 800,000 in 2014, thanks to an oil boom in the Bakken Shale region of North Dakota — has also lead to a rise in the number of fires, hazardous releases, and major derailments involving those substances.

That traffic is only expected to increase in coming years.

Fires, hazardous releases and monetary damage increase

Railroad safety in general has, indeed, steadily gotten better over the past few decades.

But even a “safe” year means hundreds of accidents and dozens of derailments. The railroad industry’s self-declared safest year on record — 2014 — included: 1,755 accidents; 1,241 derailments; 145 collisions; and dozens of fires. Most of those accidents are small, and relatively harmless.

An NECIR analysis of data collected by the Federal Railroad Administration, however, found that the number of more serious kinds of accidents — fires, explosions, hazardous releases, and accidents causing damage — has actually increased in recent years.

Accidents involving fire or “violent rupture” have doubled in three years. In 2011, railroads reported 23 such accidents. Last year, by contrast, saw 47 such accidents.

READ MORE: Gov’t data sharpens focus on crude-oil train routes

In a written statement to NECIR, American Association of Railroads spokesman Ed Greenberg emphasized that most of these incidents were small fires that caused little damage and were quickly extinguished. He also noted that even if the number of such accidents is rising, that’s because of increased traffic of crude — the rates themselves are not rising.

Even so, more accidents are more accidents, and Greenberg said the AAR had called for stricter “thermal protection” for tank cars –- manufactured and usually supplied by the rail shipping industry -– than the federal government itself has asked for.

Accidents involving hazardous materials releases — which includes everything from a leak the size of a teaspoon to major spills — have increased two years in a row. Whereas 2012 represented one of the lowest years for hazardous releases since 2006, the number of such incidents had begun to climb again, rising by about 8 percent to 714 by 2014.

AAR spokesman Greenberg noted that hazmat incidents rose as a result of increased traffic of hazardous materials in general, and that the number of hazmat incidents in 2014 was still lower than in most years prior.

Major accidents on the rise, expected to continue that way

Most of the accidents, derailments, and hazardous materials releases that occur in a given year are relatively small incidents. But the number of major accidents, those involving big fires or spills, is also on the rise — and, according to the U.S. Department of Transportation’s own analysis, expected to continue to grow.

An NECIR count of incidents of major spills and fires shows a stark increase in such incidents, like the April 30, 2014 derailment of a train in Lynchburg, Virginia which spilled 300,000 gallons of crude into the James River orthe Feb. 16 derailment of a crude train in West Virginia that resulted in 19 cars catching fire.

Records show one major accident per year for the years 2006 through 2009, none in 2010, and two each year in 2011 and 2012, all involving ethanol.

In 2013, by contrast, there were six major accidents, including the Lac-Mégantic disaster, all involving crude, five involving crude in 2014, and five so far this year involving major derailments of trains carrying flammable liquids resulting in fires.

That category doesn’t include the Amtrak disaster — but Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, who recently hired a special consultant on the dangers of crude-by-oil in Pennsylvania, noted the proximity of the Amtrak derailment to oil trains, calling it “an additional cause of concern.

What’s more, buried 300 pages into an “impact analysis” of the new rules as proposed by PHMSA, is “Table EB3: Predicted Crude and Ethanol Derailments,” which foresees derailments more than doubling in the next five years.

The one thing that everyone agrees on is the fact that more traffic of flammable liquids will inevitably result in more accidents involving them. And that’s where the new federal regulations governing tank cars come in.

The rules should make tank cars less prone in accidents. But they also allow the older, less-safe tank cars to remain in service for years to come.

Last week, a coalition of environmental groups, including Earthjustice, the
Sierra Club, and the Waterkeeper Alliance filed a challenge against the Department of Transportation’s new rule in a federal appeals court.

“It doesn’t make sense for an agency to admit that there are sub-standard cars and then let them remain on the rails for up to 10 years,” says Kristen Boyles, an attorney for Earthjustice.

“We don’t do that when we regulate other products.”

Isaiah Thompson is a reporter at the New England Center for Investigative Reporting, an independent, nonprofit news center based at Boston University and WGBH News. Read more of his reporting on crude and ethanol trains here. Isaiah can be reached at isaiah_thompson@wgbh.org and on Twitter at @isaiah_thompson.

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This Ambitious Student Is Ready To Pursue Her Doctorate — And She's Only 16

Age has never been an obstacle for 16-year-old Thessalonika Arzu-Embry. After all, she’s already got her master’s degree.

The North Chicago-area teen started homeschool at age 4, the Daily Herald reports. She began making an impact on others soon after.

“Since I was 6 years old, I was an inspirational speaker at an organization called Tabitha House Community Service, a transitional housing for people who were displaced due to various situations such as natural disasters, abuse and violence,” she said in an email to The Huffington Post.

At 11, she graduated high school and then earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology in 2013. She completed classes online as she was traveling for church events and leadership conferences. Now armed with her master’s, Thessalonika hopes to help businesses learn how to prepare for upcoming trends and changes.

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She isn’t finished there, though. The teen plans on focusing on aviation psychology for her doctoral studies, a decision inspired by her father who is a private pilot and military veteran. He is now a manager at O’Hare International Airport. “I grew up around airplanes,” she said. “We took flights all the time.”

What exactly can Thessalonika do with aviation psychology? Her goal is to use it to determine whether pilots are dealing with issues that could have fatal consequences once the plane takes off — a topic that has been in the news lately. For her, it’s a mix of two of her interests: business and psychology.

In her free time (yes, she actually has it), Thessalonika enjoys playing tennis, swimming and being active in her youth group at church. She also has three self-published books out, which are available on her site. “Jump the Education Barrier” was written to help students finish college, and “In the Future” aims to help business owners with trends. Her third book, “The Genius Race,” has a wider appeal. Thessalonika said it’s designed to help people “be geniuses in various areas of life.”

We think she’d certainly have some tips about that.

H/T Daily Herald

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Mad Mike Huckabee: Gay Marriage Fury Road

In the future, Christian civilization will collapse. Bands of militant homosexuals, dressed in leather and face paint, will roam the cultural wastelands, gay marrying anyone and anything in their path. Only one man stands between them and the total destruction of traditional marriage–Mad Mike Huckabee!

But first he has to tie the knot himself.

MAD MIKE HUCKABEE (played by Tom Hardy): That’s where you come in.

IMPERATOR FURIOSA (played by Charlize Theron): That’s where I come in what? Take off that damn face mask–I can’t understand a word you’re saying. Who do you think you are–Bane in The Dark Knight Rises?

MAD MIKE (removing the face mask): There, that’s better. Like I was saying, that’s where you come in. If we get married in a big public ceremony, it will revive interest in the traditional institution. I know this great little pizzeria in Indiana that will cater. Pepperoni for everyone!

FURIOSA: Yes, but why me?

MAD MIKE: You’re a woman, aren’t you?

FURIOSA: So?

MAD MIKE (winking): I don’t want to get graphic, but I have a tallywacker and you have a vavajay.

FURIOSA: So?

MAD MIKE: That’s the way God intended it to be! One man and one woman–just like it says in the Bible. I’m willing to overlook your crew-cut, prosthetic arm, and general lack of femininity.

FURIOSA: Gee, thanks. Actually, they practiced polygamy in the Old Testament. King David had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines.

MAD MIKE: Those were Jews, not Christians. You know how licentious they are. Talk to Mad Mel Gibson.

FURIOSA: Mormons practiced polygamy until the end of the nineteenth century. Some still do, in secret.

MAD MIKE: Mormons aren’t Christians either. Ask Mad Mitt Romney about that. And I thought you were against polygamy. You killed SPOILER ALERT Immortan Joe and liberated his five wives, didn’t you?

FURIOSA: My point is the definition of marriage has changed based on the needs of society. People used to get married at twelve or thirteen until they raised the age of consent.

MAD MIKE: It’s still sixteen in Arkansas, one of the lowest in the country–a fact I’m very proud of.

FURIOSA: Caucasians and African-Americans used to not be allowed to intermarry. The last anti-miscegenation law was repealed in 1967.

MAD MIKE: Obama was the product of race mixing. Need I say more?

FURIOSA: Catholic priests were allowed to marry until the twelfth century.

MAD MIKE: Again, not Christians. Those were Catholics. Talk to Mad Rick Santorum. Anyway, marriage was always between men and women, regardless of age, race, or number of individuals involved.

FURIOSA: Not true. The ancient Greeks had a form of gay marriage, and they invented democracy.

MAD MIKE: Democracy is overrated. Have you seen the Republican presidential candidates this primary season?

FURIOSA: You’ve got a point. Okay, Native Americans had Two-Spirit people.

MAD MIKE: You know what happened to the Native Americans. You want to run a casino in the desert and sell cigarettes, be my guest.

FURIOSA: Actually, a casino in the desert wouldn’t be such a bad idea. Maybe I can start my own Las Vegas.

MAD MIKE: You’ve been hanging out with Eve Ensler and her Vulvalini too much. Next you’ll be telling me women aren’t chattel. Speaking of Vulvalini, let’s discuss personal grooming. Does the carpet match the drapes?

FURIOSA: What?

MAD MIKE: Do you shave or wax?

FURIOSA: Neither. Although I’m thinking of getting a Brazilian to protest Jeb Bush.

Furiosa starts to climb back in her War Rig.

MAD MIKE: Hey, I thought all you female action/adventure heroines secretly suffered from baby hunger. Didn’t you see Avengers: Age of Ultron?

FURIOSA: I’m not the Black Widow and you’re certainly not the Hulk. He’s much larger…in every single way.

MAD MIKE: Now you’ve done it! You’ve insulted my manhood! You’re so mean!

Mad Mike starts crying,

FURIOSA: Stop! I can’t stand to see a grown man cry. Okay, I’ll do it–I’ll marry you.

MAD MIKE (slyly): You will?

FURIOSA: Yes.

Mad Mike immediately turns off the waterworks.

MAD MIKE: Terrific! Once we’re married, I’ll be head of the household, and you’ll be my submissive helpmate, just the way God intended it to be. Then we’ll go forth, be fruitful, and multiply. I want a big family–ten or twelve kids at least. Maybe we can even beat the Duggars’ record! Well, what do you say?

Furiosa hits him in the lug nuts with a tire iron. The last vestige of Christianity collapses. Oh, what day! What a lovely day!

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To Fix Baltimore, Start By Empowering Disadvantaged Youth: Experts

A recent Brookings Institution blog post presented a snapshot of Baltimore’s economic and racial inequality, illuminating the social realities that fueled the unrest following the police-induced death of Freddie Gray. Here’s Alan Berube and Brad McDearman:

While criminal justice policy and police-community relationships are arguably at the core of the present debate, the economic and social context in which those actions took shape matters greatly too.

Berube and McDearman go on to explain that Baltimore is, by national standards, a relatively affluent metro area. It’s got plenty of jobs, and they pay well. But the fruits of its prosperity are disproportionately borne by the rich and the white.

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Tender Is the New Strong for Boys

Like most parents, I loved the Kate Parker photo essay featuring her vibrant and strong daughters. But as the mother of three boys, it made me ponder the role of gender and our perceptions of strength and beauty. What if boys were pictured being less-than-manly? Would people applaud the images in the same way they applaud photos of young girls being strong, confident, boisterous and full of life?

If you peek past the sports, the wrestling and the wild testosterone, my boys are not your average little men. They do not always behave how society expects them to behave. One of my 13-year-old twins still sleeps with his baby blanket — how would that go over in most households? In fact, during a recent hospital stay, his first words on waking from surgery were, “Where’s my blanky?” Not typical teenage boy stuff. = Just be careful how you breach the subject with him, or you’ll end up on the business end of a Chinese burn and a sore arm!

We manage a healthy balance of free expression in our home, but society has some catching up to do. While girls are often praised for being “as good as any boy,” and showered with “girl power” cheers, boys are steered well clear of their gentler sides. I’ve heard boys told to “man up” many times. Ever hear a weeping girl told to “woman up”? When my boys want to cry and act “girly,” I do not stop them.

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For them, and for me as a parent, it’s not about celebrating a masculine side or a feminine side. For us, it’s just about celebrating who we are. Sometimes that means skinned knees and fresh-dug worms, and sometimes it means snuggling up against a baby bunny, posing in a headband made from seaweed, rolling up a t-shirt so it looks like a bikini top and striking a model-like pose.

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Sometimes it means sitting in a café sipping milkshakes or reclining on a trampoline to read a book. Or hanging out in bookstores, softly and quiet as mice. (Unavoidable with a mother who’s an author). Sometimes it means being in the kitchen, a floral apron tied around jeans, where the simple act of cracking an egg can bring simple joy. Sometimes it means crying, just because you feel like it.

So, my message to all the boy moms in the world is while girls are given the freedom these days to be strong, think about giving your boys the freedom to be tender and soft. They might surprise you.

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LJ Charleston is a Sydney-based journalist and author of The Mommy Mafia: the urban dictionary of mothers. She has three sons. She will love them until the Statue of Liberty sits down.

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HBO Go Finally Comes to Fire TV For Comcast Subscribers

Last year, Amazon’s excellent Fire TV got access to HBO Go, the crown jewel of VOD services. Or it did, assuming your cable provider was anything but Comcast. If you had Comcast, you were inexplicably screwed. No longer!

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