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We've seen Leah Messer deal with her fair share of struggles on Teen Mom 2, but nowadays girlfriend is living the American dream! This Southern belle has worked extremely hard to give her twin daughters a good life, and between her salary from MTV and her husband Jeremy Calvert's salary as a pipe liner, she's raking in the big bucks.
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To the Christians who are excited for Obama, can you explain the basis for your excitement?
How about there's more to a president than religion... Ever wonder why the bible belt is always republican? Because they vote on a religious basis.
Your comments on the "take from the rich, give to the poor" fears is legitimate... however, you must understand that the drug addicsts/alcoholics, and inherently lazy people that will get more money are such a small number when looking at it in the bigger picture. What his upper-income tax hikes will do is provide more money for discretionary spending for things such as education, affordable healthcare, and yes, some will go to welfare. But, as you suggested, welfare does help a lot of people. Unfortunately, all we hear about is how welfare is abused.
Listen, I worked at a grocery store in a sketchy area for a year. I saw people come through with the EBT/Food Stamp cards, dressed in brand new clothes, wearing jewelry, and buying Steak, shrimp, lobster, etc. HOWEVER, if we were to regulate their food purchases we WOULD become a socialist society. It's their choice what to buy- is it unfair? yes, but it's reality. On the other hand, I saw way more people come through the line loading up a cart full of cheap Spaghetti and Potatoes.
Negativity is induced by a magnification of the abuse of the system by a minority of the users; in reality it is corrupt but it DOES help a lot of people.
... and that rant was just about FOOD STAMPS! Education needs a lot of work, as does healthcare.
I think we will see a lot of good be done, and socialism come none-the-closer to this great capitalist country.
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I was a student at Manhattan Review and I just wanted to let you guys know – I finally took the GMAT today and got a 720. I could've done better on the Math but I found it to be more difficult than I expected. I had to blindly guess on the last 3-4 questions. Made it up in Verbal though!
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One of the most frustrating tasks of the Fantasy playoffs is making key roster decisions. Those decisions can become even more troubling when you have an injured player that is eating up a spot on your roster. In most leagues you can't place a player on the injured reserve list unless his NHL team has done so. The problem is at this time of the year is teams don't always place their players on IR. They seem to only do so if and when they need the roster spot. Take the Detroit Red Wings, for example. Pavel Datsyuk hasn't played since Feb. 27 yet the Wings still have him on the active roster. No one wants to release Datsyuk for fear that he will come back for the final two playoff weeks and light the lamp consistently for the team you're playing against. The problem is you have to get there first. Once the playoffs begin you should be worrying about winning this week. You can solve next week's problems, next week. Easier said than done, but it's something you can use to justify a decision.
Ryan Kesler and Daniel Sedin returned to the Canucks lineup Sunday. Should they automatically be started? In Kesler's case the answer is yes, as he was the Canucks best player for most of the season and could be again. Sedin, however, is a much tougher decision. He hasn't scored since Dec. 30 and has been a Fantasy enigma for most of the season. I would think long and hard before green-lighting him. If you have another forward on your team who has been productive I wouldn't take him out of the lineup. You don't want to lose in the playoffs because you started a player who may have more name value than Fantasy production at this point.
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Bobby Ryan (hip) won't play in the early going this week. This may not be a terrible thing, as he has been in a scoring slump, with only one goal in March. Perhaps this injury will do you a favor and force you to find another winger who is actually putting the puck in the net.
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When it comes to setting your lineup and everything else is equal, I tend to dance with the ones who got me there. I'd rather lose with players I trusted then have to wonder later why I tried to be cute.
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The co-creator and director of the original "Twin Peaks" reveals on social media that he will not be directing the upcoming Showtime series.
A new Change.org petition asks Apple to add redheads to its emoji diversification update. How else will we be able to chat about Harry Potter's best friend Ron Weasley?
HBO has announced that the entirety of the new season of "Game of Thrones" will get a simultaneous broadcast, matching the US air time on networks all across the world.
The ringleaders behind the ARG that started nearly 10 years ago with Junko Junsui step out from behind the curtain to tell CNET their story.
After Target and Kmart in Australia decide to stop stocking the game, fans of Grand Theft Auto demand that the Bible is also banned as it is misogynistic.
After pressure from an online petition, Target Australia agrees to stop selling Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto V.
The famous Push Button, Receive Bacon meme has been brought to life by a team of hackers who repurposed an old laser printer.


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2013 Featured Chefs!
Captain Applejack with Homemade Orange Blossom Grenadine & Citrus
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A native of Richmond, Mattias Hägglund blends modern day mixology with classic technique as Bartender. While Mattias began his bartending career at Richmond favorites like Penny Lane and Bistro 27, his style was truly cultivated when asked to compose and manage the beverage program for Chef Scott Anderson at elements in Princeton, NJ. During his time there, Mattias was cited with multiple mentions in the New York Times, and his cocktail recipes have been included in numerous publications, including Art Culinaire, multiple editions of Gary Regan's Annual Manual for Bartenders, and Teresa Politano's Celebrity Chef's of New Jersey; as well as a feature on CNN's Eatocracy. He has also made numerous guest appearances at top cocktail locations, such as The Franklin in Philadelphia and Compose in New York City. In 2011 he was recruited by Chef Jason Alley of Comfort to return to his roots and bring a contemporary bar scene to Richmond. Recently, Mattias was listed in Style Weekly's "Best of" edition as one of Richmond's premier mixologists, and was featured on the Back Story program as an expert on the history of cocktails and mixology. When not at Heritage, he can most likely be found in Church Hill walking Julep, the water-loving golden retriever puppy.
Joseph Harris has been in the food and beverage industry for 30 plus years. He began his career at 17 years old as a dishwasher, bus boy and part time line cook at TGI Fridays. After several other jobs aroundRichmond, Joe was hired as the 1st Sous of the Richmond Convention Center under Swanson Corporation. He then moved on to the Tea House at Lewis Ginter Park and he was then transferred over to the Bull and Bear Club where he has been for 17 years. Here at the Bull and Bear Club he has been Sous Chef and trained under Michaell Grayson as well as Michael Hall. Joe Harris has been the Head Chef at the Bull and Bear Club for over two years now.
Saison's jam is inventive Southern food: Chef Adam Hall, inspired by both his upbringing in rural Virginia and travels around Central America, has created an inspired menu of re-imagined Southern favorites with flecks of spice and flavor from down by the equator. Saison co-founder Jay Bayer grew up on a farm in rural Virginia and fell in love with the land; he and Hall share a passion for Southern food, Central American culture, and naturally, craft beer.
James Beard nominee Lee Gregory, chef and co-owner, worked under chef Dale Reitzer at Acacia in Richmond, Virginia, for five years before moving to Six Burner (Richmond), Mockingbird in Staunton, and Blue Light Grill in Charlottesville. He returned to RVA in 2011 to open The Roosevelt. The Roosevelt opened in Richmond, Virginia in July 2011, to public and critical acclaim. The Roosevelt was named 2012 Restaurant of the Year by STYLE Magazine, Best New Restaurant in the Region by Richmond magazine and awarded the Elby as the city's Best New Restaurant.
Michael McGhee is a President's List graduate of the New England Culinary Institute and has over 20 years of experience in the hospitality and restaurant industry. His experience includes corporate chef positions with Restaurants America, Ri Ra Irish Pubs and Golden Bear Club services. He owned restaurants in five countries and worked in New York City under the four star chef, Daniel Boulud. Chef McGhee has appeared on numerous television cooking shows representing his unique take on local and sustainable food products and how they can be used in classic cuisine. Chef McGhee is on the board of the American Diabetes Association. As a diabetic, he works to create an understanding that good food can be healthy.
Chef Walter Bundy of Lemaire Restaurant at the iconic Jefferson Hotel is known for his commitment to creating upscale Southern cuisine, featuring ingredients from local purveyors and his urban garden and bee hives. He has cooked in the kitchens of The Blue Point Restaurant on the Outer Banks of North Carolina, Mark Miller's Coyote Café in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Thomas Keller's legendary French Laundry in Napa Valley, CA. A native of Richmond, Bundy has been Executive Chef of Lemaire since 2001 and has made appearances at the James Beard House, on Food Network's Food Nation with Bobby Flay and on Cooking Channel's Road Trip with G. Garvin.
DeAndre Wilson was born in Chicago. After growing up in Nashville and finishing school, he moved back to Chicago. At just 19, he began working at the renowned restaurant, Blackbird, where he accepted a full time job as a line cook. Four years later, he'd developed a strong epicurean spinal cord and set out to work in some of the finest restaurants in Chicago (Marcus Samuelson's C-House, Four Seasons Chicago, Four Seasons Palm Beach, and Sixteen Trump Hotel Chicago). In November of 2012, he decided to take his humble ambitions southeast, to the burgeoning food scene of Richmond, Virginia, where he continues to hone his skills as Sous Chef leading a promising new team at Rappahannock Restaurant.
Owen Lane has lived in Richmond since 2003 and hails from boulder colorado by way of Erie Pennsylvania. He has held nearly every Back of House position, from dishwasher on up. His resume includes: Pizza Hut when they used to serve beer (remember that?), Erie PA; The med, Boulder CO; Boulder Broker inn, boulder CO; The Iron Horse, Ashland VA; Bacchus, Richmond VA. Executive Chef positions include, Helens, Richmond VA; The Track, Richmond VA; Stronghill Dining Co, Richmond VA. He loves dogs, beer, bourbon, all foods, music, traveling, wine and the mountains, not necessarily in that order.
Born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, Harrison Keevil was surrounded by women who passed along their love and talent for cooking to him at an early age. After a brief stint at The Culinary Edge, a San Francisco-based restaurant consulting firm, Harrison embarked on a one-month stage program at Heston Blumenthal's three-Michelin starred Fat Duck in London. After four years of being away from his family and friends in Virginia, Harrison returned home and accepted a job as a line cook at The Clifton Inn, working under Chef Dean Maupin, whom he considers his mentor. It was there that he met his future wife, Jennifer Pendleton, who worked as his expeditor at the restaurant. It wasn't until early 2010 that Harrison decided to open the charming 60-seat restaurant with Jennifer as co-owner and front-of house manager. Cooking a menu that changes almost nightly, Harrison's New American cuisine is inspired solely by what's new and fresh at the markets.
Tim Gearhart was trained in pastry at The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park and has cobbled together a culinary career that has taken him from the Gulf War in Kuwait to a dude ranch in Wyoming to a castle in southern England with stops in fine-dining restaurants along the way. Tim started Gearharts in 2001 and lives with his family in Crozet, Virginia.
Michael McGhee is a President's List graduate of the New England Culinary Institute and has over 20 years of experience in the hospitality and restaurant industry. His experience includes corporate chef positions with Restaurants America, Ri Ra Irish Pubs and Golden Bear Club services. He owned restaurants in five countries and worked in New York City under the four star chef, Daniel Boulud. Chef McGhee has appeared on numerous television cooking shows representing his unique take on local and sustainable food products and how they can be used in classic cuisine. Chef McGhee is on the board of the American Diabetes Association. As a diabetic, he works to create an understanding that good food can be healthy.


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Posted: September 28, 2012|
A lot of people are taking the opportunity presented by high precious metal prices to sell off some of their old jewellery.
But a local lady took things to a whole new level when she walked into a recent Thursday morning discovery session at Brigg with three pieces with a combined value of around £15,000.
The pieces she brought in were an art deco brooch, a necklace – and a tiara.
The lady is a specialist who deals in jewellery and, after discussion about valuations, she has entered the three pieces into the Autumn Fine Art and Antiques Auction that will be taking place on October 9.
It might seem odd that traders would sell via auction but there are times when the marketing power of the auction house is useful in reaching the maximum number of potential buyers. Even with a website, there is no way that a dealer can match the range of our databases combined with the various specialist services that we plug into such as the-saleroom.com, invaluable.com, i-bidder.com and the rest.
The market for pieces of jewellery valued at multiple-thousands of pounds is national and international, so the news about the sale of the pieces has to travel widely. Hence the lady's decision to enter them into the autumn sale.
The oldest is the art deco brooch that dates from the 1920s and has no fewer than 157 diamonds. The circular central stone weighs in at over a carat. That is flanked by stones cut in the baguette style, which is said to accentuate a diamond's lustre, whiteness and clarity but downplay its fire. Baguettes were all the rage during the art deco period.
It is an impressive brooch and, thanks to all the deco period dramas on television at the moment, the style is very much in fashion. The pre-sale estimate will be £4,000 to £5,000 but it could do even better than that.
The necklace has even more diamonds: It is 18 carat white gold and has 199 diamonds. Each flower has seven stones – and there are others dotted around the place. A very pretty thing, it is expected to go for £4,000 to £5,000.
Perhaps the most challenging piece, in terms of marketing, is the tiara, pictured. It is 18 carat yellow gold, set with approximately 6.5 carats of diamonds. It was made abroad and imported into this country in 1991, at which point it was assayed at the Sheffield office.
It was last sold at auction in Surrey in 2008, making the front cover of a jewellery sale catalogue, at which point it had a pre-sale estimate of £7,500 to £9,000. We think that's a bit over the top but it should make £4,000 to £6,000.
Nice as it is, the piece is challenging simply because the demand for tiaras is not what it once was. It might appeal to a bride for her wedding day, great for the wife of anyone being moved up into the peerage of course, and just the thing for any girl with a school prom in the offing.
The three pieces are the star lots in a terrific jewellery section in that auction. As I mentioned, gold and silver prices are very high at the moment and a lot of people are selling off old, unused, unwanted or damaged jewellery.
Run-of-the-mill pieces are likely to be snapped up at scrap value and sent off to the melting pot but the beauty of selling at auction, rather than through any other outlet, is that there is always the possibility that things, even damaged items, will appeal to collectors or jewellery wearers, in which case prices can soar way over the bullion value of the precious metal.
The catalogue for the Autumn Fine Art & Antiques Auction and details of the viewing sessions will be on the saleroom website www.cjmasset.com next week. The auction is exclusively online, the first of our major antiques sales to be handled in this way.
Meanwhile, the team will be staging the weekly antiques valuation clinics at the Angel Suite in Brigg next Thursday morning and at the auction centre on Dunlop Way, Scunthorpe next Friday morning.


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Israel's President Shimon Peres, Israeli Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Naftali Bennet,Colombia's Minister of Trade Sergio Diazgranados and Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos, June 10, 2013, in Jerusalem. (AFP PHOTO/LIOR MIZRAHI-POOL)
JERUSALEM: Iran is working round the clock to enlarge its nuclear infrastructure with the eventual aim of developing an industry capable of building up to 30 bombs a year, an Israeli minister charged on Monday.
Speaking to reporters in Jerusalem, Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said Tehran was "very close" to crossing the red line laid out by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last year.
But he said it was biding its time and building uranium-enrichment facilities before making the final push for weapons-grade material.
"The Iranians are getting very close now to the red line... They have close to 200 kilos -- 190 kilos (418 pounds) -- of 20 percent enriched uranium," Steinitz said.
"Once they have 250 kilos, this is enough to make the final rush to 90 percent," the level of enrichment required for a nuclear warhead, he said in a presentation to the Foreign Press Association.
"It is a matter of weeks or maybe two months to jump from 20 percent to 90 percent with so many centrifuges," he said.
"What they are doing now -- instead of crossing the red line, they are widening and enlarging their capacity by putting in more centrifuges, faster centrifuges."
Iran's aim, he charged, was to build a nuclear arsenal, not just a single bomb.
"Many people are saying it's a question of the Iranian bomb - whether they will have it or not. No. We are speaking about an Iranian arsenal."
Tehran's big fear was that a Western military strike could wipe out their nuclear facilities "within a few hours," he said.
"The Iranians feel very vulnerable, especially from American air operations. This is their main concern -- that if the West, if NATO, if America decide to attack them, a few hours of accurate air raids might destroy their nuclear facilities."
Israel and many Western governments suspect Iran is using its civilian nuclear programme as cover for developing a weapons capability, a charge denied by Tehran.
But the Jewish state, the Middle East's sole, if undeclared, nuclear power, has refused to rule out a pre-emptive military strike to prevent it.
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by Ross Douthat posted at Ladies Against Feminism and The National Review - Feminist Pioneers Out to Destroy Your Daughters [R]ecent generations of women have been ill served by feminism's embrace of the sexual revolution. Feminists posited that women and men were identical in their sexuality, and that only an absurd double standard had required men to treat women respectfully. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Women All Want Strings Attached?
Quoting Quiverfull: Heartbreaking Quotes From "To Train Up A Child"
by Debi and Michael Pearl from "To Train Up A Child" as quoted at the site Why Not Train A ChildPage 9 At five months, she was too unknowing to be punished for disobedience. But for her own good (and our peace of mind), we attempted to train her not to climb the stairs by coordinating the voice command of "No" with little spats on her bare legs. The switch was a twelve-once long, one-eighth-inch diameter sprig from a … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Created to be Joyfully Submissive?
by Becky Stelzer from Ladies Against Feminism and Answers in Genesis - Inferior or Equal? Modern extreme feminism places women in authority over men, while traditional Darwinian evolution places women far below men. And since the Bible directs that a wife be in submission to her husband, even Christians may wonder, "Is the woman inferior or equal?" … [Read more...]
Dude, Seriously? – Answering Kevin Swanson
by Calulu cross posted from her blog True Love Doesn't RapeRecently Kevin Swanson, radio babbler and righteous rabblerouser against all things not homeschooling fundamentalist Biblical patriarchy has been making more of an ass out of himself than usual. It's not merely due to the fact that he has a new book to flog about and promote by calling everyone that doesn't agree with him an 'Apostate', a title that is also a big part of the title of his new book. Oh no, Kevin seems to be off the internet deep end this week. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Happy Breeders Day?
by Mark Driscoll Mars Hill Church in The Washington Post - Who's afraid of pregnant women? On October 28, San Diego Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers' wife, Tiffany, gave birth to their child—a girl. While I extend my sincerest congratulations to the Rivers family, I probably wouldn't have even known about the event except for one key detail: baby Rivers is the family's seventh child. … [Read more...]
CTBHHM: Surrendering Your Autonomy to Another
by Libby Anne cross posted from her blog Love Joy FeminismCreated To Be His Help Meet, pp. 136—37Sometimes Debi misinterprets Bible passages, and badly. More often, though, she simply adds things, brazenly, and without even offering any of her twisted scriptures to back them up. This wouldn't be such a problem except that evangelicals and fundamentalists make a big deal of adhering to the Bible and the Bible alone, condemning mainline Christians for adding to the Bible. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: God Not Welcome in Public School?
by Nancy Campbell of Above Rubies - The Key of Knowledge God is the God of knowledge (1 Samuel 2:3; Proverbs 9:10; Isaiah 11:2; Colossians 2:3). Are our children taught knowledge from God's point of view in our public schools? No.God has the key of knowledge (Luke 11:52). Do our public school teachers use the key of God's knowledge to lead the students into His ways? No. They take away the key of knowledge and instead teach man's ways and ideas. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Apostates Lack Love?
by Kevin Swanson at Generations With Vision - Troll Spews, Silly Women and Sons of Belial on the Internet Too many of these folks love the world of lust and flesh and they hate their brothers (or don't love them very much, anyway). Technically, it's supposed to be the other way around. The Bible wants us loving our brothers, hating the world of lust and flesh, and hating the lust and flesh stuff that corrupts the brother. It's the third part of this that's the hardest to track down. And yes, you can get too picky with your brother. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Who Decides the Definition of "Apostate"?
by Kevin Swanson of Generations With Vision - Homeschool Apostates and Kathryn Joyce's Sins And, yes, yes. We can see that faithlessness tends to be generational and builds on itself from generation to generation.I make no bones about it. We're in the minority. The masses are moving towards apostasy. The millennial generation is far more likely to be pro-homosexual, pro-evolution, and pro-socialist than the previous generation. (Reference: http://www.pewforum.org/2010/02/17/religion-among-the-millennials/). … [Read more...]
Accountability and Failure and More Accountability
by Lana Hope cross posted from her blog Wide Open GroundMy early years of my childhood were filled with a lot of rules. My family started homeschooling in the early 90s when I was 6. My first two years homeschooling were really fun. We did a ton of field trips and park days, and I still had my trolls. Lord knows I loved my trolls. … [Read more...]


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Collier jail officials step up efforts to identify veterans; Diversion program possible
Naples Jail Center officials have started asking inmates about their military service to see if there's a local need for a diversion program.
About 185 self-reported veterans have been booked into the Naples Jail Center since June, when employees began collecting the data, according to the Collier County Sheriff's Office. At one point last month there were 24 self-reported veterans in custody, accounting for roughly 2 percent of the total jail population.
Jail Cmdr. Kevin McGowan said inmates originally were asked about their service during their medical and mental health evaluations, but many felt uncomfortable admitting they were a veteran.
"What we found is the veterans don't really want to say anything to the mental health professionals and were more forthcoming to the deputies at the time of booking," he said. Incoming inmates now are asked about prior military service as they are booked in to the jail, giving staff a more accurate count.
Jail leadership has been working toward arranging so-called "boutique courts" that address the needs of certain populations. Certain Collier County inmates already have the opportunity to avoid jail time by successfully completing drug court, mental health court or domestic violence court, Judge Eugene Turner said, although some participate as part of a plea deal or conviction. Inmates typically would be given that option during their arraignments, he said.
All inmates currently have access to medical and mental health services, but a veterans court would allow them to get services more tailored to problems like post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), traumatic brain injury (TBI) and substance abuse.
Some veterans are already being served in the so-called "black ops court," a specialized docket within the mental health court overseen by Judge Janeice Martin.
Martin said veterans in mental health court see her weekly to work on individualized tracks and have been meeting monthly with a justice outreach coordinator from the Department of Veterans Affairs. There are typically a half-dozen veterans in the program at any given time, which is not quite enough to justify a separate court as of now, she said.
"Our numbers don't support that yet," she said, adding that the need could grow in coming years as Iraq- and Afghanistan-era veterans readjust to civilian life. "We wanted to give those veterans individual treatment and also group them as a unit without having to get another judge. We stretched our current resources to kind of sweep these guys in with the rest."
Turner said budget constraints are a concern because of the cost of adding extra dockets and staffing clerks and bailiffs.
"If we do this, we have to do it correctly, and we have to do it completely," he said. "We've got to be able to concretely say, 'Here is the benefit.'"
About 9 percent of U.S. veterans reported being arrested upon their return home, mostly for nonviolent crimes, according to a national survey of more than 1,300 Iraq- and Afghanistan-era veterans released earlier this month. Those with PTSD or TBI were more likely to be arrested than other veterans.
The study, published in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, said veterans make up about 10 percent of the U.S. jail population, a figure that is likely a low estimate because the data is self-reported.
McGowan said more information needs to be collected from inmates before deciding if the jail will proceed with a veterans court.
"We've just gotten into rolling up our sleeves and getting into that work," he said.
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About the Omega Drivers and this Site
The purpose of the Omega Drivers is to provide gamers with an alternate set of drivers, ones that have more options and features than the original sets. The drivers contain optimizations, extra features (like OC capabilities), more resolutions and internal tweaks that can give them the edge in a gaming environment over the normal drivers, which are often tailored for synthetic benchmarks. All Omega driver sets are tested (unless noted) by myself in my own PC or in an alternate PC (in the case of the ATI drivers) to ensure maximum compatibility and reliability.
I do this hobby in my spare time, since I have a personal life and a day work, so don't expect me to be up-to-date with everybody or everything, that means, don't send me E-Mail with questions like "When is the next set going to be released?" or "Are your drivers faster than "insert company here" drivers?", cause they will NOT be answered. When new official drivers are released by a company, expect an Omega release based on them, but don't expect a release date to be given, they will be ready when they are ready...
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CPU COOLING: CoolIt Freezone Elite & Tuniq TX-2
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VIDEO: GeForce GTX 285 @ 720 Core, 1651 Shaders, 2800 RAM
MONITOR: Samsung LN46A550 46" LCD HDTV @ 1920x1080x60
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Selling your home: Identifying comparable homes in your neighborhood
Conducting a professional appraisal of your home is the best way to locate comparable homes in your neighborhood, but there are other, less costly methods.
Selling your home can be a very difficult process. One of the preliminary considerations in selling your home is what price you should ask. Evaluating the prices of comparable homes in your neighborhood may sometimes solve this problem. Investigating the prices of homes, which are comparable to yours, that have recently been sold in your neighborhood can provide you an approximate value of your own home and give you a starting point in setting a sales price.
There are several methods by which you can discover prices of comparable homes in your neighborhood. The first and probably most reliable method is by hiring a professional home appraiser to conduct an appraisal of your home and property. Professional appraisers typically evaluate your home and similar homes in the same geographic area and provide you with a report stating the price of your house and comparing its features with other houses that have recently sold in the area. The appraisal will usually consist of property measurements, approximate age and square footage of your house, survey information, details about the internal and external features of your home (floors, fences, decks and porches, garages, swimming pools, etc.), and will assess a value for each of the features. The appraisal report lists the features of your home in a comparison chart with several other homes in the area. The chart also lists the sales prices of the comparable homes and reports an approximate value for your home.
Appraisal reports are very useful tools, and are very often required before a house is sold because many financial institutions will not lend a buyer more than the appraisal value of the property. Consulting a professional appraisal service is probably the best method to find the value of your home in relation to the value of other comparable homes in your neighborhood. It is also probably the most expensive as professional appraisals typically cost between $300 and $500.
Retrieving tax information on houses you think might be comparable in your neighborhood is another method that may be used to identify a starting selling price. This information can be found in your local tax assessor's office. The tax assessor's office in most courthouses keeps records concerning all of the properties within the jurisdiction. These records provide information concerning the property boundaries, dates of previous sales and sales prices, and the current value assessed to the property for tax purposes. The assessed value of the home is not necessarily the actual value of the property, but is simply the value the government has placed on the house and land. The assessed value is used to compute the amount of property taxes that the homeowner must pay every year.
Assessed values do not always reflect the actual value of the property, but can typically give a good starting point in determining the value of your home. The assessed value is often a percentage of the actual retail value of the home, but these percentages can fluctuate from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. If you know the approximate percentage of property value assessed for taxes in your jurisdiction, then these records can help indicate the value of comparable homes in your area. Suppose there is a home that has similar size, age, and property features of your own home in your neighborhood, if you know that property is usually assessed at 80% of the market value for tax purposes in your area and find that the similar home is assessed at $160,000, then you can probably assume that your home and the comparable home should have a market value of about $200,000. Tax records are considered public information and should be provided to you on request. There may be a small fee for the retrieval and reproduction of the documents, but this method is much cheaper than conducting a professional appraisal.
Another useful method for identifying comparable homes in your neighborhood is to simply look around at the houses that are for sale near you. Many houses on the real estate market contain information tubes that will outline the features of the home and list the price being asked for the home. Gathering these information sheets from homes in your area can be a useful tool in determining which houses are comparable to your own and the prices for which they are selling. Even if you do not find a home that is comparable to your own, this may assist you in setting a price ceiling or floor for your asking price. If you have a two bedroom house on one acre of land and you find that the owners of three bedroom house on 3 acres of land are asking $200,000 for their house, then you probably should not ask that price for your own house. You should also consider other features of the properties such as physical appearance, age, and geographic location when using this method, as a two-bedroom house on one acre that is in a new subdivision might sell for more than a three-bedroom house on three acres that is next to the local landfill.
You might also consult a professional real estate agent to help find comparable homes in you area before selling your own home. Some real estate agents might be willing to assist you in conducting this investigation when you express your desires to them. Most real estate agents will be eager to show you houses in your area if you tell them that you are looking for a new home. By looking for a new home with a real estate agent, you can look inside of the homes in your area that are for sale to see how they compare to your own home. Using your own visual inspection of the homes and their sales price can often provide you with a logical starting point for setting the price on the home you are wishing to sell.


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Cashier Window
All State agencies (with a few exceptions) are required by state statute to deposit all revenues with the State Treasury. The Treasury's cashier window accepts all checks and cash deposits from state agencies and makes payments to state agencies as required to fulfill the agency's mission. The cashier's office also provides information on cash receipts and disbursements to individual agencies, and works closely with the state's banking services provider to ensure that the state's cash flows are reconciled on a daily basis.
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The Nasty Bits: Blood
I haven't written about blood in this column only because, like lungs from last week, it is so difficult to track down fresh poultry blood or find a restaurant that knows how to handle it. (Which is to say, to not handle it very much at all: There is nothing worse than overcooked blood; it becomes leathery and its delicate, intangible flavor dries up as well.) Prepared properly, congealed blood really is one of my favorite flavors. More


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The Sanctuary on Kiawah Island is getting its first dose of competition this weekend after nearly a decade as the sole hotel on the upscale island.
The Andell Inn, a new 100-room boutique hotel in the Freshfields Village retail center, opens Sunday.
Owner Donald Semmler is a former executive with Marriott Hotels, and he oversaw a third of the company's locations in the United States. The Andell Inn is his first independent project, which cost about $15 million and is in the town of Kiawah.
A franchise of Marriott, the hotel will operate behind the Residence Inn label, although guests probably won't realize it's part of a corporate brand. The signage, marketing materials and guest accessories will all be branded with the Andell Inn logo, Semmler said.
That's perhaps to emphasize the hotel's focus on the local community. The establishment is named after the Andell family, who owned Seabrook Island in the late 19th century.
And like many other boutique hotels, there's an obvious focus on local art. The walls are festooned with works by Robert Lange Studios, Dog and Horse Fine Art, and several other local art galleries.
Although it has many markings of an independent boutique operation, Semmler chose to stay with a corporate flag for his first project because Marriott provides a vast international customer base, he said.
The Andell Inn is perhaps one example of how corporate flags are cozying up to unconventional lodging concepts.
The hotel is essentially a hybrid of an upscale boutique and extended-stay lodging. The design is luxurious with unique details- such as porch-style swings instead of couches in the lobby. But its rooms include living spaces and kitchenettes, which is typical of more value-oriented hotels such as Hilton's Homewood Suites.
"This is sort of a pilot," Semmler said. "My candid feeling is if it's successful, why not move forward with this model?"
An online search Friday found that rates for the property start around $250 a night for an early April weekend.
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Having a US iTunes or Appstore account is most people's expectation, especially the high end gamers and app users, as USA itunes store has some advanced features such as more games, more apps available than in any other country.
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Open iTunes Store on your System and Logout of your Account, if any ! Clear cookies on your browser to make it more easier.
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'Real Housewives' NeNe Leakes couldn't care less about the 'Free Sweetie' campaign
"The Real Housewives of Atlanta" has made people stars for all kinds of reasons. But what if your notoriety comes from people thinking you're being treated like a slave? That's the case with Sweetie Hughes, who NeNe Leakes called a slave for the way that her boss, cast mate Kim Zolciak, treats her.
"At the end of the day, I said what I thought," NeNe tells Zap2it. "I thought that Kim was treating her like a slave. That, again, is my opinion and I'm free to have that. And when I start stating facts, that's when everybody has to get worried."
Late last month, a "Free Sweetie" campaign was started by Atlanta radio deejay Rickey Smiley after NeNe called in and talked about why she called Sweetie a slave. Apparently, that campaign has been ruining Sweetie's life. Yes, ruining!
"They're doing it for Black History Month, and it offends me," Sweetie told Life & Style in late-February. "They have pastors calling into the radio station and praying for me. They've taken it too far. NeNe's jealous that she's not as close to Kim as I am. I've known Kim for 11 years, since I was a kid. Kim's a great friend to me. NeNe's traumatizing my life. She's bringing hell to it."
"I never want to speak to NeNe again," says Kim. "My assistant Sweetie is so upset about the whole thing, she's beside herself. NeNe has problems."
NeNe still says that she has no plans to forgive or ever speak to Kim again after their big tour bus blow out. And she could care less about the "Free Sweetie" campaign, because it has nothing to do with her.
"As far as Kim and Sweetie are concerned, to me they are old news," she says. "This disagreement happened with us in June of 2010. It's just that the viewers are just seeing it. I've moved on. I'm in a different place in my life today. Sweetie is nonexistent."
Watch part of our chat on the "Free Sweetie" campaign below:
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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is concerned and disgusted by the decision of Tsogo Sun to award an unsecured loan of R200 Million to its five executive directors on an interest-free basis with no fixed repayment date.
The article published by Business Day on Wednesday July 16 2014 titled "Tsogo awards five directors R200m interest-free loan to buy shares" even questioned why the majority of employees were sidelined or overlooked.
As the NUM, we do not think it was necessary for Tsogo Sun to empower the five rich individuals. We believe that Tsogo Sun should have empowered its 9,492 employees. If R100m of the R200m was shared across 9,492 employees, each worker would get at least about R10, 500 worth of shares.
This empowerment of the few individuals is an insult to the ordinary employees of the company.
The lowest paid workers continue to earn poverty wages and Tsogo Sun does not see it necessary to empower these exploited, hard working and vulnerable workers.
The NUM is calling on the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union (SACCAWU) and the Food and Allied Workers Union (FAWU to take the fight to Tsogo Sun and make sure that this empowerment of the few rich individuals does not happen.


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I took a break from it before I went insane from frustration, but I would really love to get Genesis working in PP12. The problem? Even after re-installing 64-bit DSON (to C:\Program Files\Smith Micro\Poser Pro 2012\) after the recent update and making sure my C++ was up to date, I'm still getting this error. The funny thing is, I'm trying to run 64-bit DSON in 64-bit PP12 on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine with C++ 2010. It's 64-bit all the way, so it shouldn't even be LOOKING for a Win32 program! Plus, the message displays twice, which is especially odd.
I thought about deleting older C++ versions, but a quick Google search revealed that that may make other programs stop working. I'm going to resume experimenting and see if I can figure anything out. Meanwhile, is anyone else still having this problem? If you are, what have you tried so far? Any assistance will be immensely appreciated!


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Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
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Re: Pop music too loud and all sounds the same
What worries me is the apparent dearth of artists in their teens/twenties who may look like they are capable of taking up the mantle of filling the larger venues of the world once their forebears are too old or too dead to carry on.
I mean, if you look at all the big gigs in the UK this year that were either festivals or part of some national event (e.g. Royal Jubilee/Olympics etc) - the vast majority of acts and certainly all of the headliners are artists that have been around forever:
Jubilee Concert -
Tom Jones,
Elton John,
Stevie Wonder, headlined by
Paul McCartney.
Download festival (Donnington) - Headliners: The Prodigy, Metallica, Black Sabbath.
Olympics - Mike Oldfield and Sir Macca again.
Reading & Leeds festival - Headliners: The Cure and Foo Fighters.
Also Sonisphere (Knebworth), which was cancelled but had scheduled headliners Kiss, Queen [i.e. Roger and Brian with some kid from American Idol or something], and Faith no More.
Now, this is all well and good but let's be honest most of these acts are past their best (in some cases considerably so) and I for one would very much welcome an act that is under 30 that is capable of putting on a decent rock/pop show of some magnitude. Let's not forget that John Bonham was 22 years old when Led Zeppelin first played Madison Square Garden and a mere 25 when they played that record-breaking gig in Tampa to around 60,000 people. I can't think of any drummer [certainly from the UK] that young who is regularly playing to such numbers these days. Dominic Howard of Muse and Will Champion of Coldplay are both 34 but there aren't any rock bands younger than them (that I know of) who can command the kind of audiences that they do.
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WASHINGTON — Catholic University says the addition of more than 700 solar panels over more than 70 parking spaces gives it the largest solar power installation in the Washington area.
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Kurios Energy, a California solar power solutions provider for the Central Valley and Bay Area in California, announced today it is releasing a new guide to help consumers easily make the transition to solar power.
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General Shale's commitment to preserving history is exemplified by its corporate sponsorship of one of America's great natural history museums.
Located in Gray, Tennessee, the East Tennessee State University and General Shale Natural History Museum introduces visitors from around the world to the 5-million year old Gray Fossil Site. Workers uncovered one of North America's greatest archeological finds of prehistoric animals during a road project in 2000. The museum offers tours of active fossil digs, interactive exhibits involving a variety of animals and educational programs for all ages.
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Has the youngest known planet been spotted?
A team reports finding what may be a planet only a few thousand years old, but others say it may instead be a 'failed star'
This false-colour image is a map of the radio emission from the region around the star HL Tau (centre). The candidate protoplanet (marked 'b') lies about 65 astronomical units (AU) from the star - for comparison, Pluto lies about 50 AU from the Sun (Image: VLA/Pie Town antenna)


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Judgment and Decision MakingThis is the journal of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making (SJDM) and the European Association for Decision Making (EADM). It is open access, published on the World Wide Web, at least every two months. We have no publication charges so far.
Submitted articles should be original1 and relevant to the tradition of research in the field represented by SJDM and EADM. Relevant articles deal with normative, descriptive, and/or prescriptive analyses of human judgments and decisions. These include, but are not limited to: experimental studies of judgments of hypothetical scenarios; experimental economic approaches to individual and group behavior; use of physiological methods to understand human judgments and decisions; discussion of normative models such as utility theory; and applications of relevant theory to medicine, law, consumer behavior, business, public choice, and public economics.2
We publish short articles, attempted replications of surprising results, adversarial collaborations, informative replies to articles we have published, meta-analyses, new empirical contributions, and theoretical articles. We do not publish literature reviews unless they feature a theoretical contribution or represent a special point of view.
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Submitted articles will be examined by the Editor and possibly by an Associate Editor before they are sent for review. Usually the review will involve one Consulting Editor and another reviewer. This process is designed to insure speedy rejection when rejection seems warranted. Authors may remove their names if they wish, and reviewers may reveal theirs.
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Robin Hogarth, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
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Becky Schaller, a native of Forest Hill who has coached at Harford Gymnastics Club for the last 12 years, has been named as the Assistant Gymnastics Coach at Towson University. The announcement came Tuesday by Towson Head Coach Vicki Chliszczyk.
Schaller replaces Jim Hayes, who resigned.
"We are very excited to have Becky join our staff," said Coach Chliszczyk. "She assisted us last season as a volunteer coach and she did a great job. She made a lot of contributions despite her busy schedule and built a great rapport with our gymnasts. So, when we had an opening on our staff, Becky was a natural choice.


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WordPress 2.9 introduces a new feature which allows you to Trash a post instead of actually deleting it. Here is how you can disable the trash functionality or limit the number of days a post is retained in the Trash queue.Read More
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> The WRT54g with enhanced firmware can do full blown QoS. The default firmware
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That sounds cool. But, uh... isn't that this one?
(From early last month...)
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Linksys sets the HTTP username to nothing and password to 'admin'
on all of its devices by default."
Was that ever dealt with? :^)
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The laparoscopic gastric banding artificially reduces the capacity of the stomach and helps to decrease your appetite. The system's silicone band is placed around the upper part of the stomach to create a small stomach pouch, which can hold only a small amount of food. The lower, larger part of the stomach is below the band. These two parts are connected by a small outlet created by the band. Food will pass through the outlet from the upper stomach pouch to the lower part more slowly, and you will feel full longer.
What are the advantages of the laparoscopic adjustable gastric band?
During the laparoscopic gastric band procedure there is no division or suturing of the intestinal tract, which eliminates potential sources for suture-line leak or breakdown. Other advantages:
How is the laparoscopic gastric banding performed?
In the laparoscopic gastric band, a silicone ring is implanted around the top part of the stomach. The diameter of the band outlet is adjustable to meet your individual needs, which can change as you lose weight. The band is connected by tubing to a reservoir, which is placed well under the skin during surgery. After the operation, the surgeon can control the amount of saline in the band by entering the reservoir with a fine needle through the skin. The purpose is to limit the amount of food ingested at any give time (restrictive operation), without altering the normal absorption of vitamins and minerals.
How is a laparoscopic procedure performed?
Just like for the Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, the adjustable gastric banding is implanted using laparoscopic (minimally invasive) surgery through several small incisions. As in the laparoscopic gastric bypass, harmless gas, camera (laparoscope) and instruments are used.
Who is a good candidate for this procedure?
Indications for usage of laparoscopic gastric banding are the same as for other operations for overweight patients. You must be prepared to make substantial changes in your eating habits and lifestyle, and to continue being monitored by the specialist treating you.
Why come to the University of Maryland Medical Center?
The UM Center for Weight Management and Wellness is led by our bariatric surgeons, Dr. Mark Kligman (director of the UM Center for Weight Management and Wellness) and Dr. Emanuele Lo Menzo. Both are experts in minimally invasive weight loss surgical procedures. Between them, they have performed more than 700 weight loss procedures with an outstanding success rate and an extremely low complication rate.
At the University of Maryland Center for Weight Management & Wellness, patients benefit from our multidisciplinary approach to weight loss. We are strong believers that the surgery is just the beginning of the process, and that lifestyle changes are really required for long-term successful weight maintenance. Our experts are committed to ensuring that patients receive the tools they need to achieve and maintain weight loss.
If you would like to make an appointment or talk to someone about our services, please call 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 or 410-328-8940 (physicians).
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