Maingear announces Nomad 15 gaming laptop: small in size, big on specs

Maingear announces Nomad 15 gaming laptop: small in size, big on specs

Power and portability is a tricky balancing act, and if you’re in the market for a gaming laptop that satisfies both, Maingear’s Nomad 15 might be the one. Apart from the 15.5-inch 1,920 x 1,080 anti-glare screen, pretty much every other bit of hardware is customizable on the Windows 7 notebook. You’ll have the choice of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 670M, 670MX, 675MX or 680M for the GPU, up to an Intel i7-3840QM quad-core beast running at 3.8GHz, and a maximum of 32GB RAM. Which optical drive it comes with is also your decision, and for storage, up to dual 256GB SSDs or dual 750GB HDDs are supported. A wireless card is optional, with Ethernet joining the stock ports, including HDMI, DVI-I and S/PDIF outs, two USB 2.0′s, three USB 3.0′s and a lone Fire Wire. The important part comes after you’ve finished selecting the guts — picking the right color finish to match your style. It might not be delivered as quickly as Maingear’s other similar sized lappy, but the Nomad 15 certainly packs a heavier punch. Unfortunately, the price is pretty weighty as well: a solid $1,549 for the most basic model.

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Don’t get cocky, Dems: GOP looks just like you did two decades ago

You?re looking at a political party that has lost the popular vote in five of the last six elections; whose one winning presidential candidate achieved the White House thanks to a fluke; and whose prospects for the future seem doomed by demography and geography.

No, it?s not today?s Republican Party you?re looking at?it?s the Democratic Party after the 1988 elections. And the past (nearly) quarter-century is an object lesson in the peril of long-term assumptions about the nature and direction of our political path.

Consider where the Democrats found themselves that November. They had just lost their third straight presidential election, and not to the formidable Ronald Reagan, but to George Herbert Walker Bush, a WASP aristocrat prone to sitting down at a diner and asking for ?a splash of coffee.? They?d lost by more than seven points in the popular vote, and by a 416-111 margin in the Electoral College, winning only 10 states.

The most enduring element of their geographic base had vanished. The once-solid Democratic South was now solidly Republican and, for the second straight election, their candidate had not won a single state in the region.

But that was only the start of the wretched geographic picture. Four of the six New England states had gone Republican, and the plains and the Mountain West were all in the GOP?s camp. Most daunting, three big states?New Jersey, Illinois and California, with 87 combined electoral votes?had gone Republican for the sixth consecutive election. The weakness of Democratic nominee Michael Dukakis could not explain away a recent political fact: The Republican Party appeared to have ?an electoral lock? on the White House.

What had happened to the Democrats? What changed? And why is this relevant to Republican woes today?

First, crucial segments of the Democratic base?the white working class and small-town-rural voters, driven away by fierce internal rifts over race, war, crime and culture?had fled.? What Republicans appear to have lost now is a more amorphous group of voters: the middle. It must have shocked GOP veterans to see from the exit polls that among self-described ?moderates,? Barack Obama?the ?collectivist-socialist-big-government? candidate?won by some 15 points.? (The Republican dilemma here is magnified by the much-analyzed fact that the Party has managed to ignore the increasing presence of voting groups from Hispanics to the young to single women to the religiously unaffiliated.)

So how did Democrats work themselves out of their trough and pick that electoral lock? One big answer was Bill Clinton, who in his 1992 campaign staged a frontal challenge to Democratic orthodoxies. The American people, he said, trust us with neither their safety nor their money. He took on issues from welfare to free trade to the hot-button question of crime, often appearing in front of a ?wall of blue? of police officers. He embraced the death penalty, and said of abortion that it should be ?safe, legal and rare.? It was not always attractive?he went back to Arkansas to preside over the execution of a mentally challenged convict?but he did manage to alter voters? ideas of what Democrats stood for.

In this sense, Mitt Romney campaigned as the ?anti-Clinton.? Not once did he say to the base of his party, You?re wrong about this issue; here?s why. No doubt he and his campaign concluded that he could not win the nomination with a direct challenge. My strong hunch is that a GOP candidate in 2016 will have to do just that if he or she is to have a chance in November.

A second answer is that Republicans, like Democrats before them, are bleeding from self-inflicted wounds. Just as Democrats in the ?70s and ?80s competed with each other in primaries in staking out positions to gratify the party?s liberal-left base, Republican candidates in the primaries lunged for positions?from immigration to social issues?guaranteed to alienate them from the middle.

And here is a crucial parallel to what Democrats had to learn in the late 1980?s: If voters believe you do not respect their values, they will not care much about your programs. Back then, the problem for Democrats was a sense that they had contempt for traditional values. Today, the problem for Republicans is that when people hear Rush Limbaugh call a young woman a ?slut? or watch Sheriff Joe Arpaio wage a campaign against Hispanics, they think they?re hearing the voice of the Republican rank and file.

There?s one more lesson to be learned from this tale of two wounded political parties: Do not assume that the current state of the Republican Party is any guide to the future.

Few in 1988 would have suggested that Democrats would come to a commanding position in the Electoral College. And some of the more sweeping conclusions about the terminal stage of the Republicans seem overwrought. For one thing, President Obama is about to embark on a second term, which, as my colleague Walter Shapiro has noted, have often proven perilous. (Though I would not have guessed that peril, in the form of the Petraeus story, would have come quite so soon).

Second, the GOP may demonstrate that it has learned its lessons, either through the people it nominates or in the policies it follows on Capitol Hill. (Immigration reform is now an odds-on favorite to actually happen, and Sen. Marco Rubio is more than likely to be the party?s point man on the issue.)

Third, sooner or later some leading figure in the Republican Party will have to begin talking back to the Rush Limbaugh-Sean Hannity-Dick Morris-Grover Norquist Axis of Drivel that has made the GOP so unattractive to so many who might well embrace its policy agenda. In this past campaign, the people who might have taken on that job?Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels among others?chose to stay on the sidelines. They will do so again at great cost to their party, and the country

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/don%E2%80%99t-get-cocky–democrats–the-post-romney-gop-looks-just-like-you-did-two-decades-ago-13564462.html

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‘Fiscal cliff’ uncertainty keeps Wall Street subdued

NEW YORK (Reuters) – U.S. stocks were little changed in a lightly traded session on Monday, with investors limiting bets ahead of what could be a drawn-out battle over the “fiscal cliff.”

Volume was light, with the U.S. bond market and government offices closed for the Veterans Day holiday. Trading was also affected by problems on the NYSE Euronext. The Big Board suspended trading in more than 200 stocks due to problems with a trade-matching engine, though the stocks in question were still active on other exchanges.

Major averages vacillated between modest gains and losses throughout the session.

Worry about the fiscal cliff – a series of budget cuts and tax hikes that will start to go into effect in the new year – has investors cautious because of the potential for harm to U.S. economic growth.

Barclays cut its year-end target for the S&P 500 to 1,325 from 1,395, saying “there is little basis to believe a grand compromise is in the offing.”

Though most consider it unlikely that some deal will not be reached, analysts fear going over the cliff could push the economy back into recession. There are also concerns that a protracted debate could hurt business and investment sentiment.

“The concern is there may be an impasse every bit as bad as what we had in August 2011,” Brian Gendreau, market strategist with Cetera Financial Group in Gainesville, Florida, said, referring to the last-minute agreement policymakers reached on raising the U.S. debt ceiling.

Last year’s political logjam bruised consumer attitudes and led to a downgrade of U.S. debt.

Still, some recent comments from politicians suggest a compromise might be more likely this time, Gendreau said.

NYSE first alerted traders it was having problems with one of its cash equity matching engines at 9:38 a.m. and said it would not publish quotes on a total of 216 stocks, including CVS Caremark Corp and Lazard Ltd.

Nasdaq OMX Group, BATS Global Markets, and Direct Edge exchanges stopped sending orders to the NYSE, and investors wishing to trade in those shares did so on these exchanges rather than the NYSE. The NYSE said trading in those issues would return to normal on Tuesday.

The S&P index hovered around its 200-day moving average after last week closing below the level for the first time in five months. An extended run under it could signal further losses ahead.

The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 0.23 point to 12,815.16. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index added 0.15 point, or 0.01 percent, to 1,380.00. The Nasdaq Composite Index was off 0.62 point, or 0.02 percent, to 2,904.25.

The S&P 500 is still up about 10 percent for 2012, though recent months have eroded those gains. The Nasdaq has fallen for five straight weeks.

Merger activity bolstered the price of specific stocks. Precision Castparts Corp offered to buy Titanium Metals Corp for $2.9 billion, while Leucadia National Corp agreed to buy investment bank Jefferies Group for $3.6 billion.

Shares of Titanium surged 42.6 percent to $16.50, while Jefferies climbed 14 percent to $16.27. Precision rose 4.7 percent to $179.46. In contrast, Leucadia fell 3 percent to $21.14.

The S&P 500 dropped more than 2 percent last week, the worst week for the benchmark index since June. The drop was partly propelled by concerns about whether there will be a timely solution to avoid the fiscal cliff.

Gilead Sciences supported the Nasdaq after the company reported over the weekend a 100 percent cure rate using a combination of drugs in a small number of patients with the most common and hardest to treat form of hepatitis C. Gilead was up 13.7 percent at $73.93.

Also in the biotech sector, Celgene Corp rose 5.8 percent to $75.66 after a late-stage clinical trial showed its drug Abraxane improved survival in patients with pancreatic cancer.

(Editing by Kenneth Barry)

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fiscal-cliff-uncertainty-keeps-wall-street-subdued-213853815–finance.html

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NRL clubs must respect rugby league fans | The Roar

Adam Blair in action during the NRL round 24, Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs v Wests Tigers (AAP Image/Action Photographics, Robb Cox)

We are told the ARLC is poised to announce its new CEO, and if that?s the case, I offer a suggestion for the incoming boss for his first day on the job.

Put on your size 10 or 12 shoes and visit each of the league?s media managers, giving each a meaningful kick in the backside as a prompt to keep their collective minds on the job.

Over the past two weeks I have heard that media members, particularly from newspapers, were denied access to pre-season training runs of the Tigers, Panthers and Roosters.

In my mind, that is incredibly hard to believe at a time when there is little or no tangible pressure on the clubs, many of whom are currently welcoming new player recruits while all are supposedly accelerating their membership drives for 2013.

Here are some questions that demand answers from those who slammed the gates shut in front of the pen and notebook brigade:

How could any no-go zone possibly effect the clubs who have had their end of season vacations and are now back at work?

Wouldn?t the clubs? many and varied sponsors welcome a little off season publicity to keep their companies/products in the eye of the league-loving public?

Didn?t the league community learn anything from the fiasco that followed Canterbury?s PR disaster in the wake of the grand final?

Would new chum soccer and AFL clubs, the Wanderers and Giants, shun any media attention or would they roll out a red carpet of welcome to those willing to devote some time and column space to their club, their players and their endeavours?

To be fair, I did a little digging on the subject and learned that a couple of media managers were away on holidays when the media men came knocking.

But really that?s not good enough for a professional, mainstream sport that should have stand-ins available when the athletes are back on the training paddock.

I wonder if our rugby league clubs have become a tad complacent with their recent windfall from headquarters thanks to the television deal.

I also wonder if these same clubs are only willing to do what is necessary to do just enough to keep their heads above water, ignoring the big picture that maximum exposure means more dollars for the kitty.

Perhaps the clubs have decided that newspapers are no longer an important source of promotion, relying on social media such as Twitter, Facebook and their own websites to deliver their news and information.

All who read The Roar are aware there is an ongoing ?battle? between all sports for the hearts, minds and support of fans around the nation.

Media bans or media shutouts do not achieve anything, especially for a code such as League in the month of November.

I cannot speak for you, but there are a number of new coaches saddling up at clubs and even at this time of year, I?d like to know more about how they see the job ahead, and how they are assessing their player stocks.

If, for example, Trent Robinson walked down your street today would you be able to recognise him? Who is he, some might be asking.

He?s the new Roosters coach but his media staffers apparently want him to be the code?s best kept secret.

Source: http://www.theroar.com.au/2012/11/13/memo-nrl-clubs-dont-bite-the-fans-that-feed-you/

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Veteran’s day: ‘WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY’ Debuts At Museum Of Fine Arts Houston

  • Henri Huet, French (1927-1971), The body of an American paratrooper killed in action in the jungle near the Cambodian border is raised up to an evacuation helicopter, Vietnam, 1966, gelatin silver print (printed 2004), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase. (c) Associated Press

  • Philip Jones Griffiths, Welsh (1936?2008), Called ?Little Tiger? for killing two ?Vietcong women cadre??his mother and teacher, it was rumored. Vietnam, 1968, gelatin silver print. The Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation, courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery. ? Philip Jones Griffiths / Magnum Photos

  • Dmitri Baltermants, Russian (born Poland, 1912-1990), Attack-Eastern Front WWII. 1941, gelatin silver print (printed 1960), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Michael Poulos in honor of Mary Kay Poulos at “One Great Night in November, 1997.” (c) Russian Photo Association, Razumberg Emil Anasovich

  • Susan Meiselas, American (born 1948), Muchachos Await Counter Attack by the National Guard. Matagalpa, Nicaragua, 1978. Chromogenic print (printed 2006), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, museum purchase with funds provided by Photo Forum 2006. ? Susan Meiselas / Magnum Photos

  • Cecil Beaton, English (1904-1980), A Royal Navy sailor on board HMS Alcantara uses a portable sewing machine to repair a signal flag during a voyage to Sierra Leone, March 1942, gelatin silver print (printed 2012), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation. (c) The Imperial War Museums (neg#CBM1049)

  • Warrant Photographer Jess W. January USCGR, American, USCG Cutter Spencer destroys Nazi sub, April 17, 1943, gelatin silver print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Mike Bollinger, Pat Burke, Jason Fertitta, Dan Gilbane, Matt Landrith, Michael McConnell, Michael Mithoff, Kolja Rockov, Tony Sanchez, and Barry Schneider in honor of “One Great Night in November, 2007.”

  • Joe Rosenthal, American (1911-2006), Over the Top-American Troops Move onto the Beach at Iwo Jima, February 19, 1945, gelatin silver print with applied ink (printed February 23, 1945), the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Richard S. and Dodie Otey Jackson in honor of Ira J. Jackson, M.D., and his service in the Pacific Theater during World War II. (c) Associated Press

  • W. Eugene Smith, American (1918-1978), Dying Infant Found by American Soldiers in Saipan, June 1944, gelatin silver print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Will Michels in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker. (c) Estate of W. Eugene Smith / Black Star

  • Joe Rosenthal, American (1911-2006), Old Glory Goes Up on Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima, February 23, 1945, gelatin silver print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of the Kevin and Lesley Lilly Family, The Manfred Heiting Collection. (c) Associated Press

  • Arkady Shaikhet, Russian (1898-1959), Partisan Girl, 1942, gelatin silver print, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, gift of Marion Mundy. (c) Arkady Shaikhet Estate, Moscow

  • Josiah Barnes, Australian (1858-1921), Embarkation of HMAT Ajana, Melbourne, July 8, 1916, gelatin silver print from original glass half-plate negative (printed 2012), on loan from the Australian War Memorial (AWM PB0084).

  • Micha Bar-Am, Israeli (born Germany, 1930), The return from Entebbe, Ben-Gurion Airport, Israel, from the series Promised Land, 1976, inkjet print, courtesty of the artist and Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York. ? Micha Bar-Am / Magnum Photos

  • Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/happy-veterans-day-warpho_n_2103622.html

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    Across US, Veterans Day commemorations under way

    Crowds wave to Navy Capt. Jim Minta as he participates in the 31st annual Veterans Day Parade in downtown Atlanta, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/David Tulis)

    Crowds wave to Navy Capt. Jim Minta as he participates in the 31st annual Veterans Day Parade in downtown Atlanta, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/David Tulis)

    Chihuahas Duke, right, and Daisy, prepare to ride aboard their owner’s Harley-Davidson motorcycle to start the annual Veterans Day Parade through downtown Atlanta, Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. (AP Photo/David Tulis)

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    Boy Scout Michael Demanche, of Mashpee, Mass., salutes the flag during a ceremony held at the National Cemetery in Bourne, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 10, 2012. Following the ceremony, Demanche joined hundreds of volunteers in placing thousands of American flags at the graves of deceased veterans in advance of Veterans Day. (AP Photo/Gretchen Ertl)

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    Saturday marked the first of what will be three days of Veterans Day commemorations across the United States.

    The holiday falls on a Sunday, and the federal observance is on Monday. It’s the first such day honoring the men and women who served in uniform since the last U.S. troops left Iraq in December 2011.

    It’s also a chance to thank those who stormed the beaches during World War II ? a population that is rapidly shrinking with most of those former troops now in their 80s and 90s.

    ___

    At the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, a steady stream of visitors arrived Saturday morning as the names of the 58,000 people on the wall were being read over a loudspeaker.

    Some visitors took pictures, others made rubbings of names, and some left mementos: a leather jacket, a flag made out of construction paper, pictures of young soldiers and even several snow globes with an American eagle inside.

    Alfred A. Atwood, 65, of Chattanooga, Tenn., was visiting the wall for the first time.

    “I’ve just never been able to do it,” Atwood said of visiting the memorial, which was completed in 1982.

    Atwood, who later became a police detective, said he knows a number of people on the wall, but the one name he wanted to find Saturday was his friend Ronald L. Wright. The two had grown up together, and when Atwood decided to join the Marines at 18 there was no stopping Wright, Atwood said.

    Wright died in 1968 when he stepped on a land mine, Atwood said, and Wright’s mother always blamed him for her son’s death. He’s never been able to bring himself to visit his friend’s grave, he said.

    On Saturday he found Wright’s name on panel 44E, row 60, and he ran his fingers over it, shaking his head.

    “I’m still in the blocking stage. I want to go somewhere and sit down and think a minute,” he said after seeing Wright’s name. “All I can see when I was touching and reading his name was his mother’s face telling me I got her son killed.”

    ___

    A half-dozen women of various ages knitted intently near a pile of hand-made scarves while frail, silver-haired men sat waiting for a chance to tell their war stories Saturday as tourists and veterans filed into the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.

    The museum planned a series of events to celebrate the Veterans Day weekend.

    The knitters had gathered to commemorate 1940s homefront efforts to supply World War II troops with warm socks and sweaters.

    Nearby, Tom Blakey, 92, of New Orleans sat behind a small table with two grainy black and white photos of his younger self, one standing at ease in uniform in 1942, the other aboard a motorcycle in 1944. Also on the table were pictures of a bridge on the Merderet River in Normandy ? a bridge that he and fellow members of the Army’s 82nd Airborne fought to secure as the D-Day invasion unfolded in 1944.

    Blakey pointed with gnarled fingers at a map of the landing site and said holding the bridge was key to keeping German forces away from Utah and Omaha beaches.

    “If we’d a let them get to Utah and Omaha, the men on those beaches would have been in bad shape,” he said.

    Blakey regularly takes part in oral history programs at the museum, an opportunity he relishes.

    “What the hell else would I do with my life at this time?” he said.

    ___

    At the National Cemetery in Bourne, Mass., on Cape Cod, about 1,000 people including Cub Scouts and Gold Star Mothers gathered on a crisp fall day for a short ceremony.

    They then spread out to plant 56,000 flags amid the cemetery’s flat gravestones, transforming the green landscape into a sea of fluttering red, white and blue.

    Until last year, the cemetery did not permit flags or flag holders on graves. That changed under pressure from Paul Monti of Raynham, Mass., whose son, Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti, was killed by Taliban fighters while trying to save a fellow soldier in 2006 in Afghanistan. He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor and is buried at the Bourne cemetery.

    Paul Monti led a brief ceremony Saturday where the pledge of allegiance was recited, Miss Massachusetts sang the national anthem and a dedication was read.

    ___

    In the Mojave Desert in California, veterans plan to resurrect a war memorial cross that was part of a 13-year legal battle over the separation of church and state.

    The Sunday ceremony on Sunrise Rock follows a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union that argued the cross was unconstitutional because it was in the Mojave National Preserve.

    The Supreme Court intervened in 2010 and directed a court to consider a land swap, leading to a settlement that transferred Sunrise Rock to veterans groups in exchange for five acres of privately owned land.

    Henry Sandoz, who cared for the original cross as part of a promise to a dying World War I veteran, will re-dedicate a new, 7-foot steel cross on the same hilltop.

    ___

    Thousands of spectators are expected to line Fifth Avenue for New York City’s Veterans Day Parade on Sunday.

    Former Mayor Ed Koch is the grand marshal for the parade, which will run for 30 blocks, starting at 26th Street.

    Also marching will be the Navajo Code Talkers, who transmitted coded messages during WWII, and other veteran groups.

    Some participants in the parade are collecting coat donations for Superstorm Sandy victims.

    The theme is “United we Stand” and the parade marks the 200th anniversary of The War of 1812.

    The parade begins at 11:15 a.m. after a wreath-laying ceremony at the Eternal Light Monument at 24th Street. Bleachers and a reviewing stand are located at Fifth Avenue and 41st Street.

    ___

    A few hundred people attended a Veterans Day parade Saturday in downtown Atlanta.

    Roger Ware, 68, walked down the sidewalk wearing his old Air Force flight suit and a patch that read, “Viet Cong Hunting Club.” He was in the service nearly 24 years, including two tours in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972 as a crewman on a C-130 gunship. He said the military is more respected now than when he returned home from Vietnam. Ware said the Sept. 11 terror attacks probably changed how the country views its armed forces.

    “It just wasn’t a good time and right now we’re kind of riding on the tails of the troops who served in the Middle East,” he said.

    Farther down the road, veterans Ronald McLendon, 73, of Kennesaw, and Randy Bergman, 59, of Cartersville, were working as parade marshals. Bergman said when he returned from Vietnam, he was spit on by protesters in San Francisco. He was in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and was deployed to Vietnam from 1967 to 1968.

    He described the parade as a chance to receive a public thank you.

    “You’ve got to remember that today everyone in the military is strictly volunteer,” McLendon said. “So there’s a lot of guys getting out there, getting shot in Iraq and Afghanistan that volunteered to be in the military.”

    Squads of high school ROTC students marched in uniforms, chanting as they went along the street.

    Bergman said he would reluctantly support sending young soldiers to fight if it was necessary for national defense. He was unsure how and whether the U.S. should ends its military involvement in Afghanistan.

    “How many lives have we already put over there? And are we going to pull out and say, ‘We lost.’ I look back to Vietnam and see the same thing,” he said.

    ___

    Gresko reported from Washington. McGill reported from New Orleans. Associated Press writer Ray Henry in Atlanta and freelance photojournalist Gretchen Ertl in Bourne, Mass., contributed to this report.

    Associated Press

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    NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 28: Singer/TV personality Tamar Braxton atends the American Heart Association’s 2012 New York City Go Red for Women luncheon at the Hilton New York on February 28, 2012 in New York City. (Photo by Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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    HOLLYWOOD, CA – FEBRUARY 09: Singer Tamar Braxton arrives at the (Belvedere) RED Pre-Grammys Party with Mary J Blige held at Avalon on February 9, 2012 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images For (Belvedere) RED)

  • WE tv’s “Family Affair” 2012 Winter TCA Event

    PASADENA, CA – JANUARY 13: TV personality Tamar Braxton arrives at WE tv’s ‘Family Affair’ 2012 Winter TCA event at Langham Hotel on January 13, 2012 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images)

  • WE tv’s “Family Affair” 2012 Winter TCA Event

    PASADENA, CA – JANUARY 13: (L-R) TV personalities Trina Braxton, Towanda Braxton, Evelyn Braxton, Tamar Braxton and Traci Braxton arrive at WE tv’s ‘Family Affair’ 2012 Winter TCA event at Langham Hotel on January 13, 2012 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Angela Weiss/Getty Images)

  • Soul Train Awards 2011 – Arrivals

    ATLANTA, GA – NOVEMBER 17: Tamar Braxton attends the Soul Train Awards 2011 at The Fox Theatre on November 17, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

  • Soul Train Awards 2011 – Show

    ATLANTA, GA – NOVEMBER 17: Tamar Braxton performs at the 2011 Soul Train Awards at The Fox Theatre on November 17, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

  • Soul Train Awards 2011 – Show

    ATLANTA, GA – NOVEMBER 17: Tamar Braxton performs at the 2011 Soul Train Awards at The Fox Theatre on November 17, 2011 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo by Rick Diamond/Getty Images)

  • Give Back Hollywood Foundation’s Benefit For The VH1 Save The Music Foundation

    LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 26: Singer Tamar Braxton and President & Founder of Give Back Hollywood Todd Michael Krim attends the Give Back Hollywood Foundation’s benefit for VH1 Save the Music Foundation on August 26, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

  • Give Back Hollywood Foundation’s Benefit For The VH1 Save The Music Foundation

    LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 26: Singer Tamar Braxton and actress Vanessa Simmons attend the Give Back Hollywood Foundation’s benefit for VH1 Save the Music Foundation on August 26, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

  • Give Back Hollywood Foundation’s Benefit For The VH1 Save The Music Foundation

    LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 26: Singer Tamar Braxton attends the Give Back Hollywood Foundation’s benefit for VH1 Save the Music Foundation on August 26, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

  • Give Back Hollywood Foundation’s Benefit For The VH1 Save The Music Foundation

    LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 26: Singer Tamar Braxton attends the Give Back Hollywood Foundation’s benefit for VH1 Save the Music Foundation on August 26, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

  • Give Back Hollywood Foundation’s Benefit For The VH1 Save The Music Foundation

    LOS ANGELES, CA – AUGUST 26: Singer Tamar Braxton attends the Give Back Hollywood Foundation’s benefit for VH1 Save the Music Foundation on August 26, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images)

  • WE tv Celebrates The New Series “Braxton Family Values” – Inside

    WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – APRIL 06: Tamar Braxton, Evelyn Braxton, Toni Braxton and Traci Braxton attend the WE tv’s new series ‘Braxton Family Values’ celebration at The London Hotel on April 6, 2011 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images For WE tv)

  • Premiere Of Focus Films Feature “Something New” – Arrivals

    HOLLYWOOD – JANUARY 24: Singer Toni Braxton (R) and sister Tamar attend the premiere of Focus Features’ romantic comedy ‘Something New’ at the Cinerama Dome on January 24, 2006 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Vince Bucci/Getty Images)

  • WE tv Celebrates The New Series “Braxton Family Values” – Red Carpet

    WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – APRIL 06: (L-R) Singer Toni Braxton, Tamar Braxton, Evelyn Braxton, Traci Braxton, Towanda Braxton and Trina Braxton arrive at the celebration for the new WE tv series ‘Braxton Family Values’ at The London Hotel on April 6, 2011 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images For WE tv)

  • Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/11/couple-of-the-year-countdown-tamar-braxton–vince-herbert_n_2113669.html

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    Frustrated residents protest outside New York utility

    NEW YORK (AP) — Even as the lights came on for many who lost power in New York and New Jersey during the superstorm and a later nor’easter, hundreds of residents protested Saturday outside a Long Island utility, frustrated by its slow response to outages.

    Power restoration has been slower there than in other areas hit by Superstorm Sandy, sparking criticism of the Long Island Power Authority. Some of the 130,000 blacked out homes and businesses the utility serves may not have power restored until the end of Tuesday, according to LIPA.

    In the rest of the region hardest hit by the storm, most service was expected to be restored by the end of the weekend, though that doesn’t include tens of thousands of homes too damaged to juice up.

    “We are sitting in a cold house. No one comes by,” said John Mangin of Levittown, N.Y. “There should be criminal charges against the CEO and the executive board of LIPA for failure to do their jobs.”

    He was among about 300 people staging a rally in front of LIPA’s office in Hicksville, N.Y. Not all were without power, but some who have power said they were there to protest LIPA’s lack of communication.

    LIPA Chief Operating Officer Michael Hervey said the utility was aware that customers haven’t gotten the information they’ve needed from it, partly because of an outdated information technology system it’s in the process of updating.

    “I certainly feel the frustration of customers whose power remains out. Our hearts go out to them,” Hervey said.

    But he said workers are repairing unprecedented storm damage as fast as they can. About 6,400 linemen and 3,700 tree trimmers are at work, compared with 200 linemen on a normal day.

    In Suffolk County, where about 28,000 customers remain without power, County Executive Steven Bellone announced he was cutting ties with LIPA and would deal directly with substation coordinators.

    Hervey said he would not comment on that directly, but added that an ad hoc takeover of the system would lead to anarchy.

    “The utility is the best suited to restore power and manage that,” he said. “We can’t have people step in and take over.”

    New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has called for an investigation of the region’s utilities, criticizing them as unprepared and badly managed. On Friday, two congressmen from Long Island called for the federal government to help LIPA restore electricity.

    “It’s a totally disorganized effort, and LIPA unfortunately seems to have lost control of the situation and that’s why you see so many people becoming so angry,” Rep. Peter King said Saturday.

    In New York City and neighboring suburban Westchester County, utility Con Edison said about 11,400 customers remained powerless, down from a peak of more than 1 million. The number of remaining outages doesn’t include about 30,000 Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island homes and businesses that the utility says are too damaged to receive power for now.

    In New Jersey, fewer than 85,000 customers were without power Saturday, most along the coast. That was down from 2.7 million at the height of the storm. Most were expected to have power by the end of the weekend.

    Source: http://news.yahoo.com/frustrated-residents-protest-outside-ny-202316998.html

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    Top GOP lawmaker: ‘Obamacare is law of the land’

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