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A U.S. congressman said Malawi should not be receiving American aid after it allowed Sudanese President Omar al Bashir to visit the country last week.
President Bashir attended the meeting of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, or COMESA. Despite his being indicted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes and genocide charges related to the Darfur, Malawi refused to arrest him.
Republican Frank Wolf of Virginia called on the Obama administration to take immediate action against the Malawi government.
"It's depressing," he said, "Bashir is a known war criminal, indicted by the International Criminal Court, responsible for the deaths of thousands, probably hundreds of thousands.
Wolf also accused the Sudanese leader of being involved in "ethnic cleansing" along the border with south Sudan. Rights groups have accused Khartoum of atrocities in Southern Kordofan State.
"For Malawi, which is also a signer of the International Criminal Court, to invite him in and then for us to give Malawi foreign aid, it's crazy to think that we would support a country that is supporting a country that is involved in genocide and a president who's been indicted," he said.
Wolf has sent letters to President Obama, Secretary of State Clinton and the Millennium Challenge Account board.
"We're asking that the Millennium Challenge (Account) grant be pulled back and canceled, totally canceled, and all foreign aid be ceased. Here we're going to give American taxpayer dollars in these tight economic times to a country that has welcomed Bashir and that's inappropriate," Wolf said.
He said President Obama and Secretary Clinton have the authority to take such action. Wolf said the administration was silent on the issue of Bashir's visit.
"This is a real test for the administration, a real test for the State Department," he said.
Wolf said several former Yugoslavia officials that were indicted under international law have been arrested and tried, adding the U.S. targeted those war criminals. He asked why this is happening in Europe and not Africa.
"In Africa, Bashir gets to travel. The Chinese gave him a red carpet several months ago," he said.
If U.S. aid is not cut to Malawi, Wolfe said he would "try to zero them out." Asked how he would try to "zero them out," he replied, "Any way I can, anyway I can."


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- Board of Directors
- Gregory, G. (Chair), Fisheries Consultant, St. John's, NL
- Abrahams, Dr. M., Faculty of Science, Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Bonnell, C., School of Fisheries, Marine Institute
- Butler, R., Cooke Aquaculture, St. George, NB
- Chidley, G., Harvester, Renews, NL
- Lewis, D., Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, St. John's, NL
- Linstead, G., Labrador Fishermen's Union Shrimp Co. Ltd., Lance au Loup, NL
- McGuinness, P., Fisheries Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON
- Miller, A., Open Ocean Systems, Saint John, NB
- Penney, C. , Clearwater Seafood Ltd., Bedford, NS
- Pryor M., Newfoundland Aquaculture Industry Association, St. John's, NL
- Stewart, S., Confederation Cove Mussell Co., Borden-Carlton, PE
- Sullivan, B., Ocean Choice PEI, Souris, PE
- Thompson, G., Fundy North Fishermen's Association, Dipper Harbour, NB
- Verge, R., Canadian Centre for Fisheries Innovation, St. John's, NL
- Whyatt, S., Harvester, St. John's, NL
Management and Administrative Staff
- Managing Director
- Verge, R., B.Eng. NTSC, M.B.A. York, P.Eng., CA, CMC
- Executive Assistant
- Horan, C., B.A. Memorial
- Industrial Liaison Officer
- MacNeil, S., B.Sc. Memorial, Adv. Dip Marine Institute
- Industrial Liaison Officer
- Chapman, A., B.Comm., Memorial
- Secretarial Officer
- Brophy, A.
Located at the Fisheries and Marine Institute, the Canadian Centre for Fisheries Innovation is owned by Memorial University of Newfoundland. The Centre provides scientific research and technology services to the fishing industry. Working closely with the faculty and staff of the region's universities and technical institutes, the Centre provides expert assistance in the areas of aquaculture, harvesting and processing, with the aim of enhancing the industry's productivity and profitability. CCFI's activities also include resource conservation research, equipment development and marine biotechnology. The Centre's services are available to anyone in the fishery or aquaculture industry who wishes to overcome obstacles or meet opportunities through science and technology.
CCFI is an organization structured to meet the needs of the industry quickly and efficiently. The Industrial Liaison Officers collaborate directly with clients to develop and execute industrially relevant research and development projects.
The organization works with industry clients to identify needs. It then collaborates with scientific and technical faculty and staff to devise solutions to meet those needs. CCFI works to ensure that the initiatives are organized, on time and directed to address the specific needs of the industry clients. The Centre also funds these projects, when required.
The Centre's research and development undertakings cover all areas of importance to the fishery and aquaculture industry:
Environmentally Sustainable Harvesting
Energy Efficiency
Utilization of Fish Wastes
Resource Assessment and Surveys
Improved and More Efficient Fishing Platforms
Human Resource/Technology Applications
Alternative Fish and Shellfish Species for Aquaculture
Efficiency and Profitability in Aquaculture
Resolving Environmental Issues in Aquaculture
With strong representation from industry, the Board of Directors oversees the direction and mandate of the Centre to ensure that its work is always relevant to the needs of the fishery.


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By NICK PERUFFO
EWING � It was homecoming Saturday afternoon in Ewing, but unfortunately for the Blue Devils, the effort on the field didn�t match the halftime pageantry.
Ewing dropped an extremely disappointing game 20-10 to the New Egypt Warriors on Parkway Avenue. After falling behind two scores early, the Blue Devils battled back, only to be outmuscled in the fourth quarter during the game�s deciding drive.
�It was homecoming, senior day, and we didn�t work hard,� coach Drew Bresler said. �We didn�t make plays, and that�s the bottom line. We have to make plays and we didn�t.�
The Warriors set a physical tone early, going 59 yards on 14 plays�13 of which were runs�on their first drive of the game. That series was capped off by a two-yard touchdown dive from senior Kevin Mason, which gave New Egypt a quick 7-0 lead.
On the first play of Ewing�s ensuing drive, Chris Ramlal fumbled the ball on a carry to the left side. The ball was recovered by New Egypt�s Joah-relle Smith, who went 14 yards the other way for the Warriors second score of the game. With 3:11 left in the first quarter, it looked like New Egypt was poised to run away with the contest.
�We have to work hard to get out of our own way,� Bresler said. �We have to stop making mental mistakes.�
Eary in the second quarter, tailback Anthony Tucker-Bartley had broken a 38-yard screen pass down to the one yard line, but the play was called back by an illegal procedure penalty.
�We don�t line up properly on a screen, and instead of it being first and goal from the one-yard line, we don�t make the play,� Bresler said.
Ewing scored it�s only touchdown with 5:19 left before the half, when senior quarterback Nigiem Williams hit receiver Kani Tye for a 10-yard touchdown pass.
The Blue Devil defense played better in the middle portion of the game, recording four consecutive stops in the second and third quarters.
�Our defense worked hard and really helped us out,� Williams said. �As an offense, we need to make plays.�
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, Ewing kicker Justin Dempsey hit a 29-yard field goal, bringing his team to within four at 14-10.
Ewing, however, couldn�t get a stop when it mattered most. The Warriors proceeded to drive 45 yards on 16 plays, setting up another goal line touchdown dive from Mason with just 49 seconds left in the game.
�We need that stop on the last series, and they drove down the field and scored a touchdown,� Bresler said.
Tailback Mike DeAnni led the way for the Warriors with 103 yards on 20 carries. Mason had 56 yards and two touchdowns on 22 attempts. Rashad Outlaw had 80 yards on 15 touches for the Blue Devils. Williams was 10 for 15 for 98 yards and the score.
Perhaps the only silver lining for Ewing is the fact that they still have football games left to play. They travel to Robbinsville next Friday night.
�We�re going to keep fighting, no matter what,� Williams said. �Nobody here is going to quit.�
NE � Kevin Mason 2-yard run (Pritchard kick)
NE � Joah-relle Smith 14-yard fumble return (Pritchard kick)
E � Tye 10 yards from Williams (Dempsey kick)
E � Justin Dempsey 29-yard field goal
NE � Mason 1-yard run (kick blocked)
1st downs 11 11
Rush. Yards 47-149 24-68
Passing 3-4-0 13-18-0
Pass. Yards 19 132
Penalty Yards 1-5 5-32
Fumble-lost 2-0 2-1
Punts-avg. 3-39 4-42
Sacks 3 0
Rushing: Mason 22-56 2TDS, DeAnni 20-103, Shane Gallant 4-(-)12, Pat Bunce 1-2
Passing: Gallant 3-4-0, 19 yards
Receiving: Bunce 1-14, DeAnni 2-5
Sacks: Kurt Frimel (2)
Rushing: Williams 4-(-)16, Outlaw 15-80, Ramlal 2-5, Dahquah�n Edwars-Chew 1-(-)7, Vandy Hall 1-5
Passing: Williams 10-15-0, 98 yards, TD. Hall 3-3, 34 yards.
Receiving: Sha�vorn Cooper 5-41, Ramlal 4-40, Tye 3-27, TD, Tucker-Bartley 1-13


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Cassandra - Silenced!March 14th, 2006 , by admin
Gordon had a cold all last week, and by Saturday I had it, too. Not a bad one, just a tickle in my throat and a bit of drainage. Not a big deal. Then we went to his sister's birthday party Saturday night and my voice left before I did.
It still hasn't come back. I could croak some on Sunday, and squeak a tiny bit yesterday. Today? Nothing. I'm on complete and total voice rest for at least the next 24 hours. Up until today I was trying to talk, and then figured I'm just straining and irritating things more.
So this morning I went to Starbucks to get something hot to drink and typed into my PDA: "Hi! I've lost my voice. Could I please get a venti soy no-foam chai?" The barista took pity on me and gave it to me for free and she said that even though I lost my voice I still looked good! I mimed to her that I feel fine now, just have no voice.
I'm doing what I can to get rid of this, but I think time will be the biggest help. Grr. At least I can text message people if I need to!


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The blue of the water and the white of the sands are the among the best things on the island.
When I snorkel - it is my own pulsating breath that remind me Im in a new world now. Just a few inches below the water, my eye begins to search - darting between slippery grey rocks and the white of the sands for aquatic life.
I see big bodied beings in brilliant flashes of color. I see motion - now rapid now placid. I see the calm serenity with which the living devours another
Wandered all over the forests in eastern Oahu.We were searching and removing exotic plants that could potentially overrrun the native vegetation. It was a tidy bunch of eight nature enthusiasts.
There were ridges and gulches. Loved it in the dark mysterious gloom of the forests. Loved it when the group would break out in the open sunlight - on a ridgetop with a thick - REALLY thick like knee deep mat of ferns.Loved it most when crawling through the undergrowth - thickened even more
Friday night yeah - before I forget
Tossed in assigments and jiggy danced all the way to the bar - with the hottest hunk in my dorm
I could see he was bein checked out by the women as we entered - and of course I was kinda feelin silly
Not for long
Couple pitchers and evreyone was err..
"gay" and happy -an unruly happy crowd of students hurraying over the end of the semester
Somewhere there in between forgotten conversation and
You stopped and looked back in me
And I stopped as well
made us both come closer
When you cupped my face in your hands
And we both breathed in a single breath
Something in the breeze rustled magically through us
When you burned me with your lips
Somewhere between the heat of ice and the cold of fire
We made you and me become US
My head fell on your shoulders brushing your cheeks
Damned egoist that I am I never wanted to admit that I did want him to knock on my door. Of course I had wanted conversation. Hours and hours of it.
And so- when he did knock,I was surprised that I felt my hands go a bit damp. And cold. In anticipation.
The rest of me tingled as I opened the door. Of course!
Hi,I think I had said. I forget the rest. But I remember I just kept staring.
Again fat- head that I am, I usually put on this


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Time: November 7, 2012 from 5:30pm to 7pm
Location: Active Trans HQ
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City/Town: Chicago
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Active Transportation Alliance is producing a new edition of its acclaimed Chicagoland Bike Map. Our map is produced using a variety of data, most notably first-hand volunteer reporting. Therefore, we need lots of volunteers to take part in the street study and verify the routes in Chicagoland that are best suited for cycling. Sign up to volunteer using our registration site.
Volunteer trainings will be held between October 29 and November 7. Each volunteer will be assigned a specific geographic area to evaluate, and responses are due no later than November 26. We'll try to match you with your area of choice, but some travel may be required. Have questions? E-mail email@example.com or call 312.427.3325.
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Article says that the rate of global population increase is declining and at the current rate the total world population will peak at between 9 Billion and 10 Billion around the year 2070. At that point the global population will plateau (according to the UN) or begin to decline (according to the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis).
Which of the following is likely to occur? You may choose more than one.
A. The global economy will stagnate.
B. There will be many new job openings caused by more deaths than births; unemployment will drop to near zero and the economy will boom, thus proving anti-immigrant economics correct.
C. The decline in the number of people spewing carbon into the atmosphere and using natural resources will reverse global warming and heal the planet.
D. The Keynesians will react to global economic stagnation by cutting down trillions of trees (thus offsetting C) to print quadrillions of dollars.
E. Cyborg Bill Gates and the other population control freaks will party like it's 1999.
F. China will institute a mandatory 5 child policy.
G. Farmers will be left producing a surplus of food for a population that no longer exists; Big agra will lobby the government to prop up food prices by buying up the surplus and destroying it.
Unfortunately, as an economic trend or investment thesis, this can only be described as glacial.
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The $19.9-million project is part of the Piedmont Improvement Program, a series of projects to improve the rail corridor between Raleigh and Charlotte for freight and passenger trains.
The construction of a second track will allow trains to pass each other more easily, which will in turn improve travel times for trains along the Raleigh to Charlotte corridor. Closing and upgrading crossings will help better separate vehicle and train traffic, improving safety.
The estimated project completion date is November 16, 2016.


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Continental Race King Tire - 26in $64.95
Traction matters.
The Continental Race King 26-inch Tire just may be the most-perfectly speed-optimized tire in Continental's lineup. Perhaps that's why its captivated the hearts and minds of everyone from cross country racers to endurance specialists.
Part of the secret of the Race King's success lies in its remarkable tread. The rolled shoulder profile and diamond-head arrow center tread pattern is primarily designed for superb power transfer, while also maintaining a very low profile. And as a result, it rolls exceptionally fast. Continental also incorporated transitional knobs from the center to the shoulder of the tire. This way, when you're making quick weight transfers, from cornering to straight-ahead power and back again, the tire remains stable and secure beneath you. The shoulder knobs are low-profile, like the rest of the tread. And along the outer edge, the pattern is doubled with a ramped leading edge followed by a block tread — the ramps roll quickly, but the block bites into the dirt for increased traction.
Not only do the Race King tires shed mud like nobody's business, but they also deliver bomb-proof performance on the nastiest, longest marathon rides. Continental included its ProTection technology with these tires, so you're able to enjoy the benefit of the smooth, yet gripp'y, treads. Even better, this also creates an enhanced level of puncture protection (hence the name). Continental also added an additional layer that encircles the tire in order to guard against punctures. And unlike puncture-resistant troughs in other brands' tires, this protection reaches wall-to-wall in order to resist damage all of the way around.
Continental has been careful to ensure that the added layer doesn't harden the feel and reduce the level of dampening comfort that it naturally provides. One reason that this is possible is because Continental heavily relies on its proprietary Black Chili rubber compound to help the tire be all things to all conditions. It's succeeded in making the tires grippier, tougher, and lighter on their treads. Essentially, the Continental engineers in Germany refined their synthetic rubbers with nano-sized carbon particles that create a compound that reacts to surface objects more quickly, improving grip. These particles also form a tight bond to improve compound strength, which lengthens tread life and reduces the chances that lugs will rip and tear. Compared to Continental's earlier-generation tire compound, Black Chili tires provide around 26% less rolling-resistance and 30% more grip, all while managing to improve tread life by 5%.
The Race King Protection is tubeless-ready and Continental recommends the use of its RevoSealant to protect against the odd mini puncture.The Continental Race King 26-inch Tire is available with 2.2-inch width, and it has an ideal inflation level of between 50 and 65 PSI.
- Fast-rolling low-profile lugs
- Round cross-section
- Continental Protection
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I had a lot of trouble seating them tubeless. Eventually i got it but it wouldn't hold pressure for more than a day or two. Ive run a lot of other tubeless tires so i was surprised. The tire its self also doesn't say tubeless like other conti tubeless tires I've run and had no issues with. Still a good fast tire.
Can I run these with tubes?! Or does it only works with tubeless ready system?
YES, it could. both with tube or tubeless.
can i run these with tubes?
Rides great
Threw one of these on my XC bike which was long over due for some new rubber. Felt great riding around the few times I have been able to get out on it.
I can't say much for the durability as I have only used it a few times so far but it is some quality rubber.
Stoked on the 2.4 version
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Loved this tire so much on the front that I but the same one on the back. Makes my 26" feel closer to a 27.5 with more grip around corners. These actually work pretty well on hard pack and scree if the tire pressure is lowered a bit.


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April is the best time to hear the various sounds of Wilson's Snipe (Gallinago delicata) in south-eastern Wisconsin, the most distinctive being the "winnowing" produced by air passing through specialized tail feathers as the birds perform flight displays.
produced by airflow over outstretched outer rectrices of spread tail, modulated by beating of wing. –
Birds of North America Online
Another category of Snipe sounds are the "Jick" and "Chipper" calls:
Wilson's Snipe Jick Call
Here is a description of the equivalent call from the closely related Common Snipe (Gallinago gallinago)
On the nesting grounds, males deliver their display songs from conspicuous perches as loud "TIKa, TIKa, TIKa" or "kit, kit, kit, kit, kit…" notes.
(see this blog post for additional examples http://pjdeye.blogspot.com/2009/05/shorebird-calls-iii-woodcock-and-snipe.html)
The "scaipe" call is commonly heard when snipe are flushed. They shoot up from the marsh or wet meadow and fly in a zig-zag pattern, usually uttering several of these calls. Here is an example of a bird recorded in exactly this type of situation as I was walking at the edge of a marsh:
Wilson's Snipe scaipe call


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What say you? I say absolutely.
What say you? I say absolutely.
Yep. He can be my CF for the next 5-6 years.
We went 6/51 on Bruce, what do you think..............6/40-45 on Stubbs?
I think so. He'll be arbitration eligible after next season, so this offseason it might be worth giving a look.
Worst-case scenario, you do it after next year and avoid arb. But historically, you get a more favorable discount if you do it the year prior.
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
Now is the time to lock him down. He can stay here for a long, long time.
Yes! He's really going to improve and be a star. Mark it down. I'd go 5/30.
"You only have to bat a thousand in two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4-for-5."
-Beano Cook
What's the hurry? I'd wait till after next season.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
Maybe through his arb years, but as an older prospect his status as an elite defender in CF should decline post arb, and he's unlikely to improve as a hitter (ie. he's reached his potential).
Believe me, I have been as big a Stubbs supporter as anyone, but he would ideally be a trade candidate before free agency hits just because I don't think he's a long term great bet to be worth the substantial contract required.
I guess it depends on everyone's definition of long term, though. I would be fine with the Reds buying out his arbitration years and ok with including 1 year of F.A. (although it could get more costly). I don't think it makes sense to sign him to a real long term deal, like 6+ years. You could possibly be overpaying by then.
'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
-Snoop on his retirement
Your Mom is happy.
Just some perspective as I think Stubbs is sometimes over shadowed.
In 2010, he had a WAR of 3.4.
The 3 OF ranked directly above him were BJ Upton, Corey Hart, and Andrew McCutchon.
The 3 OF ranked directly below him were Justin Upton, Hunter Pence, and Ben Zobrist.
In 2011, he is on pace for a WAR of 4.7.
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It looks to me like he's improving as a hitter. Really solidifying things with an opposite field and up the middle approach much of the time. Great stolen base % so far too. I've been surprised at how well he's settled into the leadoff spot.
If he can maintain consistency, he's an all star CF. And, to be honest, to me he looks like a better all around player than Bruce right now. Let the year play out, and then see what kind of multiyear deal makes sense.
"Baseball is a very, very complex business. It's more of a people business than most businesses." - Bob Castellini
"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference." ~Tommy Lasorda
Stubbs is terrific.
I just wish Dusty would play Freddie Lewis more in left field. And I'd prefer Lewis as a leadoff guy.
Lewis, Phillips, Votto, Rolen, Bruce, Stubbs, Catcher, Janish works for me.
Drew is a very good clutch hitter and hitting him fifth or sixth would allow him to knock in more runs.
In any event, by all means they should sign him for a few years. He is a real talent.
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Editorial: Why did Navy Yard shooter have security clearance?
Aaron Alexis, who slaughtered 12 people at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, was a mentally ill man with a grudge against the Navy. Yet he walked right into the guarded facility because he had a government security clearance.
If ever there was a situation in which "profiling" could have saved lives, this was it. Yet the government agency providing mental health treatment for Alexis, the Veterans Administration, apparently did not notify the Navy.
Why? The question is one both the Pentagon and Congress should be asking.
After the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood, Texas, one might have expected the armed forces to be more vigilant regarding threats inside its ranks. There, Army Major Nidal Hasan, a troubled man who had publicly expressed his enmity toward the U.S. military, was not impeded in any way as he planned his deadly rampage.
Alexis, formerly a Navy reservist, believed the service had discriminated against him. He had a history of violent behavior. He was "hearing voices" and had sought treatment, which began in August. Yet he retained his security clearance while working for a contractor at the Navy Yard.
Would VA officials have tipped off the Navy eventually? Or did no one connect any of the dots?
Simply labeling anyone with a mental health problem as a security risk would not be appropriate. But, again, Alexis' profile was one of a potentially dangerous man. Thirteen lives, including his own, might have been saved had more decisive action been taken in his case. Learning why that did not happen will have ramifications far beyond keeping military installations safe.


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ORLANDO, Fla. — Jamal Crawford tried to play, even shooting the basketball with his non-shooting left hand before the Clippers played the Orlando Magic on Wednesday night.
But the pain in his right shoulder was too intense, so Crawford was forced to sit this one out.
"I couldn't lift the ball over my head so I just started shooting left-handed," said Crawford. "At that point, I knew that I couldn't play. I'm banged up, man, but I'll be all right."
After the game, Crawford said his shoulder started feeling better and was hopeful that he could play against the Miami Heat on Friday.
Still, Crawford is listed as day to day.
Crawford suffered his shoulder injury during the Toronto Raptors game on Friday night, the same night he broke his nose. He played in the next two games because the Clippers had others who were injured.


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A Fast Raptor Codes Decoding Strategy for Real-Time Communication Systems
We propose an efficient algorithm for Raptor decoding, which reduces the computational complexity of the most time-consuming steps in systematic decoding. Our proposed algorithm includes two aspects: First, to handle the decoding failure of the Raptor decoding, we propose a scheme, which is called the No-Wrapup Failure Handling scheme. It can resume the decoding process from where it fails after receiving a pre-defined number of additional encoded symbols, and thus avoids the repetition of time-consuming steps in the decoding process. Second, in order to reduce the time of finding the row with the minimum degree in the precode, we propose a Fast Min-Degree Seeking (FMDS) scheme. FMDS automatically maintains and updates the row degrees of the precode when converting the precode into an identity matrix through Gaussian elimination and Belief-propagation. Experimental results show that, compared to other Raptor decoding schemes, the proposed scheme achieves a much shorter decoding time, and can greatly speed up the data recovery in real-time applications.
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Wikipedia's article on "purr" claims that all cats DO purr, but their link is to an article on cheetahs. Anyone else?
Sure, I am known to purr on occasion.
They obviously have never seen our cats. Stress reducers? I don't think so.
In other news, people who keep lions or tigers are unlikely to die of heart attacks, because their pets can sense who in the herd is weak and sick.
Of course! The sole purpose of the human race is to keep cats fed! Any cat will tell you that.I am certain that if my cat was scaled up to large dog size I would be eaten within 24 hours.
Anyone who owns a cat has had the groggy middle of the night lights-off walk to the kitchen to get a drink, only to step on their cat's tail and get that nice shot of a adrenaline pumping through their arteries. Maybe it strengthens their heart, or trains their reactions to not get so damned surprised by things that their heart could stop.
Then again if things like this happen often enough to have effect, maybe they just shouldn't have a cat
Problem with these medical studies is that your average med school student avoids "hard" classes like the plague because they'll reduce his/her sterling GPA. Those include, notably, any math class beyond calculus (like upper level stats) and your real Physical Chemistry classes, for instance. As a result you get these clowns putting out research like this, the "cell phones cause cancer" thing, etc.
Correlation does not mean causation.
Yet in TFA's case, there were also these statements:
So after RTFA, there is ample cause to believe that the statistics were analyzed within the context of a hypothesis that the reporter did not explicitly state.
Finding a strong correlation that must exist if the hypothesis is true generally increases confidence in the hypothesis.
Why wasn't the hypothesis reported in the story? More than likely, because it was framed as a null hypothesis [wikipedia.org], and those can be hard to dummy down to the general public's limited understanding of the scientific method— at least within the framework of articles like TFA. These are written to report newsworthy events, not to teach high school science.
I bet all the money in my pocket (admittedly not a lot) that this finding is a result of an overzealous data analysis.
The basic idea behind using statistical methods to test hypotheses is to compute the chance that the resulting data is oriented the way is is by coincidence. If this chance is exceedingly small, the variance in the data can't be explained by coincidence and must be due to some systematic effect. Depending on the type of research, probabilities between 5% and
The AKC believes that the term guardian may in fact reduce the legal status and value of dogs as property and thereby restrict the rights of owners,
I would also point out that ownership of animals is not legally the same as ownership of inanimate objects. If I want to smash my TV with a hammer, I'm perfectly entitled to do so; cruelty to animals is a crime. In fact, I have a legal obligation to provide food, water, sanitation, and shelter to my pets. So the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (where I live) has already discarded the notion that animals are "nothing more than property". That is, they're legally considered property, but not on the same lev
Besides, as one of the posters to my journal already noted, cats age people like people age wine and cheese.
Let's get this straight. Cats only condescendingly permits us to live in the same house with them. They own us. You die less from heart attacks because it's cheaper for them to keep you alive than to find another pet human.
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.


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Prime Minister Julia Gillard has strongly condemned the rioters who took part in a violent protest over an anti-Islamist video as ''extremists''.
''What we saw in Sydney on the weekend wasn't multiculturalism but extremism,'' she said last night in a speech to the Australian Multicultural Council.
Saturday's protest in Sydney, one of many worldwide, was sparked by the film Innocence of Muslims, which was produced in the United States and portrays the prophet Muhammad as a fraud, womaniser, homosexual and madman.
Ms Gillard previously described the film as repulsive and condemned the violence.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has called for the visa of British Muslim leader Taji Mustafa to be revoked to prevent him speaking at the Hizb ut-Tahrir's annual conference at Bankstown in Sydney.
Mr Abbott said this week the group had regularly been on the record calling for the destruction of Israel and some of its leaders had called for violence against Australian troops in Afghanistan.
However, Parliament was told the organisation was not a proscribed terrorist organisation.
Ms Gillard said last night multiculturalism was not just the ability to maintain diverse backgrounds and cultures.
''It is the meeting place of rights and responsibilities where the right to maintain one's customs, language and religion is balanced by an equal responsibility to learn English, find work, respect our culture and heritage, and accept women as full equals,'' she said.
''Where there is non-negotiable respect for our foundational values of democracy and the rule of law, and any differences we hold are expressed peacefully.
''Where old hatreds are left behind, and we find shared identity on the common ground of mateship and the Aussie spirit of a fair go.
''True multiculturalism'' had a very different face [to the riots], the Prime Minister said.
It was the face of ''a new migrant studying hard in an English language class, working two jobs to put their kids through school or lining up to vote for the very first time. ''True multiculturalism includes, not divides, it adds more than it takes. In the end, multiculturalism amounts to a civic virtue since it provides us with a way to share the public space, a common ground of inclusion and belonging for all who are willing to 'toil with hearts and hands'.''
''And because it always summons us toward a better future, multiculturalism is an expression of progressive patriotism in which all Australians, old and new, can find meaning.''
Also addressing the council, migrant businessman Frank Lowy said the response to the protests in Sydney proved Australia's multicultural society was both strong and mature.


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How can we lower the sales tax, no less eliminate it?
There's not much happening at the State House these days in the annual hiatus period between the end of the legislative session in July and the start of the new session come January, except for one notable activity: the study commission that's holding hearings on reform/repeal of the state sales tax. In meetings held to date, the commission has heard from a number of state officials, tax experts and economists on the potential impact and feasibility of eliminating the tax or at least lowering it to be more competitive.
This group is led by Warren Democrat Representative Jan Malik, an advocate for getting rid of the sales tax altogether. Malik has a personal business interest in vanquishing the sales tax: he owns a liquor store by the state line and has experienced loss of sales from customers who are attracted to go over the border to Massachusetts, which currently does not apply the sales tax to alcohol.
Though his bill to kill the sales tax did not pass in the last legislative session (probably because the world is not about to end, which is the only way we could do that), he did have success in getting legislation passed to eliminate the sales tax on wine and spirits, effective this month, but not on beer, which one would imagine represents the highest volume of sales for any retail outlet. However, lowering or even eliminating the sales tax on anything within state borders is a good thing. And he got a commission to actually look at the question in all its ramifications.
The Ocean State's sales tax at 7 percent is one of the highest in the nation, exceeded only by California's 7.5 percent. It is also the second largest revenue stream for the state after the personal income tax, and it brought in almost $900 million through the end of the last fiscal year.
Retail sales over the Thanksgiving weekend and extending into Cyber Monday will deliver a substantial revenue boost to the state, if shoppers open their wallets this year. But every day, across every retail hour, the sales tax bells rings constantly, with every purchase, small and large, that every individual in the state makes on a vast variety of items.
The sales tax is the most pervasive and regressive tax of all because it does not distinguish between the purchase of any item subject to the tax, whether it's made by a millionaire or someone unemployed, whether it's a hot takeout meal or a hot sports car. Everyone who makes a retail purchase of just about any kind, save for protected items like everyday clothes and groceries, pays the tax at the same rate.
With Rhode Island now recognized to be the tax hell that Massachusetts no longer is, focus on taxes in general and the sales tax in particular have become a matter of concern to state lawmakers, policy advisors and the public, because our reputation for high taxes, as well as poor strategic management of the state's economy, now define our state. Everyone recognizes that something must be done to steer Rhode Island into more stable and prosperous waters before we head over the waterfall.
The big question is how we can do that as we face even larger indebtedness (the deficit for fiscal 2014-15 is currently estimated at $140 million), plus impacting reversals in fortune in the 38 Studios implosion and the prospect of significant revenue losses when the slot parlor and casinos in Massachusetts get up and running. How do you lower a tax like the sales tax, never mind eliminate it, in the face of such a daunting fiscal future?
Governor Chafee, over two years ago, attempted to lower the sales tax while extending its overall reach. That is one attempt at reforming the tax but, as events proved, not an easy one to accomplish, because even with a lower overall tax rate the negative impact on those newly affected by the tax extension prompted a major pushback. And with good reason.
Chaffee wanted to tax manufacturers, those of us who remain here, even as we already struggle under the state's heavy tax environment. (The added tax burden on Taco, we estimated, was going to amount to a million more dollars a year.) With the business community up in arms about the prospect of an even higher sales tax burden, the legislature elected to extend the sales tax to just a few minor things, and even these were opposed and retracted for the most part. Before the wine and spirits tweak to the sales tax, the tax ha been extended to sales of high price clothes and footwear, considered to be "luxury" items. No one seems to have complained much about that.
Experts testifying before the sales tax commission have painted a rosy picture of the Ocean State's future economy with no sales tax at all in place. Despite acknowledging giving up a significant portion in state revenue each and every year, these voices claim elimination of the sales tax would create jobs, boost incomes and spending power, and vault Rhode Island into the top tier of business-friendly states. Too bad it's not that easy.
While these are most laudable and necessary objectives for Rhode Island, how do we stand still and hold our breath in the meantime? The central problem we face is the size of our government(s). As they are presently structured, our state and local governments need every dime they can take in. Our pension reform is in question and massive healthcare obligations are forthcoming. The only way we can afford to significantly change our tax climate is to overhaul how government operates in our city-state, which is a major task that only a landmark constitutional convention can achieve.
There's more to come on the promise of a constitutional convention in future columns.
Don't bother wasting too much time-yours or anyone else's. A projected deficit of $140 million in the next State budget year(7/1/14-6/30/15). Significant reduction in state revenues is this smallest problem. The problem would be CASH FLOW; RI wouldn't have the necessary funding to operate. The turnaround time to obtain whatever benefit the State budget would receive through increased jobs, additional sales & income tax revenue would take too long.
Here's a thought- propose a 1/2% sales tax reduction effective 1/1/15(to 6.5 %) & an additional 1/2 % sales tax reduction effective 7/1/15(to 6 %); permanently extend the sales tax exclusion on wine & spirits(and add beer, etc.); the State could manage/study the affect these reductions would have on the overall State budget with a minimal effect on CURRENT state revenue receipts.
mark: Sorry, but as long as you feed the pig, the pig will never do with less. A fundamental question for which I've never, ever, received an answer: What specific government services do RI taxpayers receive as a function of paying a sales and income tax, that New Hampshire taxpayers Do Not receive as a function of paying No sales or income tax?


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Jackson, Miss. Mississippi's attorney general is warning consumers to be aware of a con-artist, wanted by authorities, who has a clever employment scam going in the state.
According to Attorney general Jim Hood, the con, who identified himself as Brandon Williams with "Wipe Out Windows", actually filed job orders with WIN Job Centers in Vicksburg, Greenwood and Forest.
Williams claimed to be needing general laborers to work at $12.50 per hour. The Greenwood agency referred 29 applicants to Williams, while Vicksburg referred 10 and Forest referred three. An additional 16 people were referred to Williams by the WIN center applicants.
The A.G. says Williams contacted the applicants after 5 p.m. Aug. 23 and told them they had the job and just needed to pay a fee of $61.95 by 6 p.m. Aug. 25 to cover the expense of a shirt and a Transportation Industry Card.
Williams then told the applicants to show up at the WIN job center Monday morning ready to report to work. In total, 40 people paid the requested "fee" to Williams for a total of $2,478. Some of these applicants also provided their Social Security numbers to Williams.
"The Mississippi Department of Employment Security immediately reported this issue to us and is working to provide our office with information that will hopefully lead us to this con," said Hood. "These type of scammers almost always choose to prey on the vulnerable, in this case, folks needing a job."
Hood warns Mississippians to never, ever let their guard down and offers the following tips:
· Never feel pressured to pay an "up front fee" by a certain deadline. Most legitimate companies will not use such pressure tactics and will certainly understand your need to verify facts.
· Do not give out your personal information over the phone.
· Do not be afraid to ask questions of anyone claiming to make you a job offer without ever meeting you in person.
Anyone with information about this scammer or who thinks they may have fallen victim to this scam is encouraged to call the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division at 1-800-281-4418.


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A Pop-Culture History of Men and Shorts
- Kempt Staff
The prospect of celebrating summer's inaugural weekend might have you toying with the idea of spending the entire three days in a pair of shorts (especially if you plan on being poolside the whole time).
But going pantsless is a deceptively tricky move—wrought with pitfalls and misconceptions.
More often than not, they're considered a necessary evil. Tom Ford famously said that a man should never wear them. Inevitably, someone will rib you with that moldy chestnut about never taking a man in shorts seriously. But in the right hands—er, on the right gams—they can be serviceable, arguably even stylish. It's been done before, to varying degrees of success.
So, as menswear anthropologists, in our quest to find out how we got into this pantsless existential crisis, we present to you:
A pop-culture history of men and shorts.»


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The Spain U21 international, who helped his country to European U21 Championship success on Tuesday, has admitted to receiving offers from Manchester City and Real Madrid.
Two European heavyweights are ready to slug it out for Isco's signature, but they will also need to reach an agreement with his current employers for a transfer to be pushed through.
Malaga appreciate that talks are inevitable, but have made it clear that they will hold out for the best possible price.
Isco has a clause in his contract which requires interested parties to put €35million (£30m) on the table before discussions can begin, and vice-president Moayad Shatat says that fee will have to be matched if one of Spain's brightest young stars is to be on the move this summer.
"He's a magnificent player, very important to us and if the offers do not match what we are looking for then we will not sell the player," Shatat told reporters at the unveiling of new Malaga coach Bernd Schuster.
"We will only sell for the right price, and that price has been set.
"We have no need to sell if the price is not right."
Source: Manchester City MAD
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Good, when I play a RPG I play as if I where the character.
What ever i want at the time usually. but major decisions i always choose good on the first play through good.
Totally depends on the game. Bioshock in particular and Star Wars Force Unleased
I always play good.
Just like in real life, I like doing the right thing in video games.
i likes to ruins s***
I think you need to be like a level 5 member to vote.
I mix it up. It feels more natural and realistic. Also, it makes the outcome more unpredictable, and therefore more fun.
good first, then in new game plus I go bad
I always play the good guy. Rarely do I play a bad role on the first few playthrough
I'm always good for a first playthrough and bad on the second. Doing a more neutral playthrough always sounds interesting, but everyone always throws in benefits for being either all one or the other.
I like to be good :)
Bad it is usually more fun and powerful
Generally I will play as more of a 'good' character. However, depending on the situation I'm in, I will mix it up and throw in a bit of evil. I think it makes for a good experience if you don't go for too much of either.


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Rep. Jeff Harris, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for attorney general, has unveiled a proposal to stop the spread of CAFOS across the landscape of Missouri. His campaign issued this news release today:
State Rep. Jeff Harris, Democratic candidate for Missouri Attorney General unveiled his plan to give rural communities greater power to limit the development of concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFO) near their properties. Harris is the only Democratic candidate in the race for Attorney General with a plan for helping rural communities deal with the growing CAFO problem.
"Missourians don't believe that bureaucrats in Jefferson City should decide whether a CAFO can move in next door their homes," said Harris. "Our rural communities need an Attorney General who will give a greater voice to the people, instead of fighting to give Jefferson City more power. My plan will give people, who are forced to live with the smell, pollution and waste caused by a nearby CAFO, a powerful voice in the licensing process."
Earlier this session, Representative Harris filed a bill to allow local residents to use the initiative petition process to put approval of a proposed CAFO to a public vote. Current law only requires notification of those living within 4,500 feet of the proposed site and doesn't require the Department of Natural Resources to take local opposition into account when reviewing a permit application.
"This issue affects the health of our citizens and the health of our rural communities." said Harris. "CAFOs can lead to increased illness in those who live nearby, especially children. Additionally, CAFOs ruin the property values of those who find themselves living next to one. Missouri must give local residents the power to decide where these corporate livestock factories are going to be allowed."
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, a moderate size CAFO can produce as much solid waste as 16,000 people. Pollution becomes a problem when these lagoons leak into water sources or when dispersed waste runs off of fields into neighboring property. Of the 105,000 farms in Missouri, 99.5 percent don't fall under CAFO regulations. Harris said the current CAFO licensing process fails to protect Missouri's rural residents. At present, a CAFO with 17,499 hogs is allowed within 3,000 feet of a neighboring family's home.


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(WMC-TV) - Residents and family members living in the Belmont community in northwest Fayette County said it looks like a war zone after an EF-1 tornado ripped through the small community, tearing up an animal shelter, a historic cemetery, and an old church.
Many people in the area are now in clean up mode.
"My parents were married in this church, my mother grew up in this church and I don't know what's going to happen," said resident Ridley Clifton referring to the Belmont church that was blown 20 feet off its foundation.
The inside of the church remains intact. Family members said there are thousands of dollars worth of damage to the Belmont church and cemetery.
94-year-old Paul Rogers grew up in the Belmont community.
"I was in the war, and it looks like a war zone or worse than a war zone," he said.
Rogers said the church was established in 1848. It closed years ago.
The Belmont Cemetery Association Storm Damage Fund has been set up at the First Citizens National Bank in Oakland.
Copyright 2013 WMC-TV. All rights reserved.


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Is there a conspiration to smother Hot Topics under a deluge of vapid threads ? Who ? Why ?
Is there a conspiration to smother Hot Topics under a deluge of vapid threads ? Who ? Why ?
Magna Veritas
Don't kill Hot Topics.
Hot Topics = Fun Topics
I must admit to not having noticed that the subject matter was much different from usual.
Some banal, some slightly amusing and some downright ridiculous. But then when I come to Hot Topics my mind is slightly in sleep mode so I don't require deep intellectual and thought provoking threads to help me pass a quiet 30 mins.
Nope sandwich receipes are fine with me.
If you think a thread subject is too vacuous then ignore it. It will disappear
If it hangs around then it is either important to some or has been highjacked and made interesting
Oakpope, these things run in cycles. We're in a giddy one now. We'll move on.
Meanwhile, listen to LeicsDom ^^^.
Actually what I wanted to say was that the thread title in itself means nothing as it can be as vacuous as it wants.
It is the replies that make it worthwhile or not. Your favourite colour becomes interesting if people explain why or tell stories relating to their particular choice.
^ tru dat! I'm here for gifs though
Kill it ? Hot Topics has been dead for a few weeks now.
I think what they're getting at, is that they miss the trolls, sockpuppets, their backup singers, and those who just like to stir up shit and/or talk out their ass.
They miss the conflicts.
And they're either too lazy to pick a fight on their own, or they have run out of folks who will bother with their nonsense.
Noooooo... What we're getting at is HT used to be a place with edgy, ADULT conversations/topics, with intelligence and insight.
Now it's all 8yo mentality topics and answers and animated gifs because the posters can't seem to string together more then 4 consecutive words to get their point across.
Actually this thread is non-debatable. If you're dissatisfied with how JUB becoming...then contribute yourself. JUB is not the site but the people. So, contribute whether you want to make a thread or simply being a replier.
My favorite colors are purple & blue
CupidBoy is quite correct in the statements he makes here.
Let me repeat myself in saying that the thread title is a slighty misleading criteria for judging a forum. It is the quality of the replies that makes it interesting.
^ oh the irony.
I personally haven't seen any particular difference in the type of threads we get now and threads that we supposedly used to get.
Two more for the list. Never fear - they'll be gone soon enough.
Hot Topics is a general discussion forum. Why can't it be also fun and lighthearted? As long as it is not violating JUB's Code of Conducts, let people post whatever they want. Live and let live. Respect freedom of speech.
If you don't like topics being posted here, why don't you post something edgy and interesting for the masses on a frequent basis instead of complaining? Lead by example and contribute!
Don't be a helpless victim. If you don't contribute by creating "interesting" threads frequently in Hot Topics, YOU can only blame yourself.
Not kill it but maybe add a little meat to it.
I drank a cup of coffee for breakfast.
Implore Navigaytion to return. That will enliven the Forum and give the mods something to do.
I am having lunch with a friend this afternoon.
I am going to take my meds now & then grab a quick morning shower & make myself smell all perfumey
I've always wondered why frontal nudity is not allowed in Hot Topics. What's more hot than a cock (suckie, suckie)?
$hit I skipped my meds last night & now my day is all fucked up plus I have assginments I need to look after. Today sucks. Sucks, sucks, sucks, & sucks.
I'm sure this guy wants to...Who wants to kill Hot Topics ?
I've never tasted nutella.
do they make purple Nutella..?
Author of Lost in a Dream. If you want to make me smile, read it and tell me what you think.
So I did a "Yahoo" search for the acronym of tbaft.
Out of 7,930 results, this came up 4th, forth, as in FOUR:
Re: People who annoy you
No shit!
And I still haven't discovered wft tbaft means.
I see you and CupidBoy using it all the time, and I'm now publicly apologizing that this Mod appears to be "out of the loop."
I'm sure there's a .gif for that.
Now back On Topic:
Darling, if there were, the Mods would shut down CE&P and force those topics back into Hot Topics where they use to be.Originally Posted by oakpope
And we can all sit back and watch that kind of "drama" unfold here in this sub-forum, and watch the chairs fly.
These past few weeks in Hot Topics is like watching a Reality Show of Mean Girls, except they all arrived riding the "short bus."
Favorite comment quote read on Youtube: "My Laptop fell off the back of the boat, and now I have a Dell Rolling in the Deep."
Hey I love the Food Threads. Reminds me of Christopher123.
Someone should start posting half naked pics (not frontal nude allowed)
^Another kicking English grammar post
Imagine the characters of 'Heathers' as riding the "short bus."
Better now?A teenage girl and her outcast boyfriend resort to murder as revenge against their high school's popular crowd.
Favorite comment quote read on Youtube: "My Laptop fell off the back of the boat, and now I have a Dell Rolling in the Deep."
Favorite comment quote read on Youtube: "My Laptop fell off the back of the boat, and now I have a Dell Rolling in the Deep."
I wasn't aware that everyone who posts in Hot Topics wore their age on their sleeves when they post here.
So either your under the age of 25 and feel like you're being picked on, OR your over the age of 25 and feel like you're being picked on.
Never pegged CupidBoy as being "ageist."
Favorite comment quote read on Youtube: "My Laptop fell off the back of the boat, and now I have a Dell Rolling in the Deep."
i just answered to "what sandwich did u have today"
if that's a "Hot Topic" perhaps it should be killed
Let me spill this scolding hot lipton while I still have a fresh pot and be done with this bullshit once and for all.
For the past many few months bfizzle, cupid, bender, stoowii, and I have been subliminally, overtly, covertly, and privately bullied, targeted, and talked down to because of the way we post.
I took a break from this forum after the re-haul because I didn't like the design. I came back early 2012 around the same time that Cupid joined, BFizzle had been here for awhile too slaying with his Lindsay Avi. I started using gifs around that time, made friends on the forum, and we all had a gay time together.
Then this happened: "Gifs are slowing down my computer, stop posting them" "You all can't string sentences together so you use gifs instead"
I didn't really mind this. In fact, I did change my posting habits and focused on posting gifs in my own threads.
Then people thought it wise to jump into my threads, and tell me how to post. Now that, ladies and gheighs, was very irritating.
Then, out of no where, things escalated, to name calling, attacks, and even taking things offsite.
All I have ever done is try and share hot stories, interesting tidbits, and shocking articles with my fellow jubbers. You can go to my account and click recent threads to find the receipts.
Since then, it has only gone downhill. Two posters (Who are some that left recently) use to be pleasant towards me and friendly. All of a sudden they changed and started attacking me, saying rude things, calling me names.
When I came back to this forum I did not complain about posters, I did not ask posters to change, I decided what I liked, what I loved, and shared it with the forum.
The whole basis of this OP is about everyone else doing the work. You have an idea of how this forum should be? Post a damn thread and show us. I did not wait for people to post gifs and be shady I did it myself.
Now what I won't deal with is anyone acting like none of this happened and playing stupid.
I rolled with all the punches thrown on this site, you don't get to tell me I didn't.
And even more important is who posted what!
Did you get a hateful response, or were you politely ignored because of your lack of imaginative use of .gif files?
You didn't use any in your post did you?
Poor thang.
Favorite comment quote read on Youtube: "My Laptop fell off the back of the boat, and now I have a Dell Rolling in the Deep."
Also, can we please get Knucklehead back.


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fxopt is a plugin for GCC that converts floating-point functions to fixed-point arithmetic, primarily for implementation in embedded, real-time systems without floating-point hardware. The conversion is performed in GCC's "middle-end", after the source code has been converted to GCC's intermediate representation but before any target-specific optimizations are done. Several optimization options are available to improve the accuracy of the fixed-point arithmetic, including affine range estimation, rounding, and double-precision multiplications. Fixed-point code produced by fxopt can be significantly more accurate than typical fixed-point implementations with comparable execution time and code size. In many cases the fixed-point code produced by fxopt provides accuracy comparable to single-precision floating-point arithmetic with a factor of 10 faster execution.
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ftracer is a simple user space implementation of a Linux kernel style function tracer. It allows you to trace every call in instrumented user applications. It is useful for debugging and performance analysis due to its fine grained time stamp. This allows you to do control flow oriented debugging without any special instrumentation. So if the program does something unexpected, it's easily possible to look at the function calls before that, and use that to deduce the cause of the problem. ftracer relies on gcc generating a call on top of every function call. The tracing slows every function call down (about 3x). The tracing is per thread and does not create a global bottleneck. It supports a dump function in C, directly callable by the program or on exit, and a gdb function to dump from gdb.
YAGAC is a library that when linked to your C program, allows you to conveniently track or trash memory leaks within your application while it is still running. You can have multiple garbage collectors according the code part you are in. It tracks memory assigned by your code only, and does not monitor third part libraries. Tracking can be activated by updating a debug flag without restarting your application. It is intended for use with daemon-type programs.
iPDC is a Phasor Data Concentrator that collects data from PMUs and PDC/iPDC that are compliant with the IEEEC37.118 Synchrophasors standard. iPDC does time alignment and combines the received data into frames as per IEEEC37.118 and can send to other iPDCs and applications. It can also archive received data in a MySQL database on the local/remote machine. It includes a PMU Simulator, which is also IEEEC37.118 compliant. A friendly graphical user interface allows a user to add or remove new devices (PMU/iPDC) and send command frames to the devices from which the data is being received.
A partition or disk cloning tool similar to Symantec Ghost.
The most POSIX compliant and fastest known implementation of a tar archiver.


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Wolfmother Stream Surprise Album 'New Crown,' Unveil 'Heavy Weight' Video
If Beyonce can release a surprise album, why not Wolfmother? After splitting the band up last year to go solo, frontman Andrew Stockdale decided to go back to using the Wolfmother name and released their third album 'New Crown' via Bandcamp. You can stream the entire album below.


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"You must live life as long as you are still strong. Never look at your life as something insignificant. -Natsu Dragneel, from Fairy Tail
having these guys in class would be funy as heck lol
live life to the fullest because you are not guarantied a tomorrow
When one of the bandits point the gun to Shanks' head Shanks says: "Risk your life on it. With that pistol you will risk your life. *pointing to the gun* this isn't a child's game." Immediately afterwards the fay guy in Shanks crew shoots the bandit in the head making all of the other bandits shocked!
Hehe im so lame c:
*clannad afterstory-Sanae Furukawa*nagisa when 2 men are duling for there lives you have to stand back and respect that
live life to the fullest because you are not guarantied a tomorrow
Kirito-While I live, I won't let my party member die.
Gurren Lagann Spoilers
live life to the fullest because you are not guarantied a tomorrow
I'm gonna pump you full of holes! - Aria - Aria the Scarlet Ammo
My friends are my power! - ven and sora
My raison d'être:
If you can't tell, I'm a laboratory research scientist. When I have a bad day, when nothing is going right, I listen to this speech and remember why I am alive.
"And for the sake of argument, let's say she is trying to kill me. I don't necessarily think that necessarily means that she isn't in love with me!" -Claire Stanfield, Baccano!
well, long animes tend to have a lot of good quotes, so prepare your eyes who totally do not want to read this *Buhahahahahaha*
Ulquiorra Cifer: Hearts, you say? You Humans are always so quick to speak of such things. As though you carry your hearts in the very palms of your hands. But this eye of mine perceives all. There is nothing that it overlooks. If this eye cannot see a thing, then it does not exist. That is the assumption under which I have always fought. What is this "heart"? If I tear open that chest of yours, will I see it there? If I smash open that skull of yours, will I see it there?
sosuke aizen: The Sōsuke Aizen you knew...never existed to begin with.
Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez: You are a Shinigami and I am a Hollow! Whichever side losses will be annihilated. That's how it's always been for thousands of years. Do you need any other reason to fight? Come on. The one who remains standing will return alive. That's all it comes down to!
Ichigo Kurosaki: All right. Let's do this Chad. You keep doing your thing and don't fight for yourself, but fight for me. And I will fight for you. If you put your life on the line to protect something, then I'll put my life on the line to protect it too
Ohhh, I could go on with bleach, and then with KWMS, and then with skip beat, and then with... *starts talking so fast nobody can understand it*
roger drunk from egg nog on american dad christmas special- thers a flying hocker watching you hug. go away hocker
live life to the fullest because you are not guarantied a tomorrow
Ulquiorra: Trash XD
"You're not special."
"You're like a blood splatter on the concrete, just like everyone else." <- That, I forgot what he truly said. D:
"I LOVE Humans!"
- All from Izaya Orihara in Durarara!!!
"I hate violence!"
"I won't take any crap from douchebags like you."
- All from Shizuo Heiwajima (Also from the same anime)
"Now listen here honey, the only holes you should be worrying about is the one between your legs in which 9 months from now my kids should be popping out from" -desert punk
"IZZZZZAAAAAYYYYYAAAAAA!!!!!!!" -durarara shizuo
"An undine's job is to portray the beauty of neo Venetia, she is the water Lilly that dances on the ripples of this planet" -aria the animation (can't remember if this was the full quote)
You find life unfair? Try being and egg. You only get laid once, you only get eaten once, it takes four minutes to get hard, but only two to get soft, you share a box with eleven other guys, but what's worse was the only chick to sit on you is your mom!
*nagisa* anpan.do you like this school?i must say i love it very very much but soon everything changes well it does aventryley*tomoya*a girl i dont know. she isnt talking to me she must be talking to somone in her hear*nagisa*fun things happy things thel all thel all eventraly chang you know but can you still love this place?*tomoys*just go finde all you have to do is finde more fun and happy things its not so hard. lets go. and so we begin the long long uper climb
live life to the fullest because you are not guarantied a tomorrow
"Kiss my shiny metal a$$!"
Hmmm... Been a while
Black Butler, " You see, I am just merely one hell of a butler"
"People die if they are killed'
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Summer is Here! Central Library will close at 6 pm on Thursdays and will be closed Sundays until September. Enjoy!
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This coming Saturday, February 7 is our big winter book sale. If you like bargains, you will not want to miss this sale! It begins at 9:00 and concludes at 3:30. Books are 10 cents each or $2.00 for a bagful. The sale will be held on the third floor of Central Library in the Van Deusen Room. You may buy a bag from us to fill or you are invited to bring your own bags and we will stamp your hand to indicate that you have paid.
You will find lots of fiction and nonfiction, both adult and children's books, in hard cover and paperback. Come and stock up on some great books to see you through the rest of the winter. Feel free to call the store if you have any questions.
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SANFORD — Sanford Institution for Savings helped Santa's Cause this holiday season.
The bank fulfilled a request from a local 10-year-old girl named Pearl, who asked for a gift related to New Zealand, a country she finds fascinating. Pearl was recently diagnosed with leukemia; while her prognosis is hopeful, it is nonetheless a difficult time for her and her family.
Santa's Cause formed in Sanford in 2005 with the mission of helping families in the area that do not have funds to put presents underneath their Christmas tree. More than 120 partners in the community donate to the organization's efforts.
"The first year, we had 19 toys that we gave to the schools," said Robin Donarumo, the founder and president of Santa's Cause. "The second year, we reached out to the community and SIS was the first to respond."
The organization distributed more than 2,000 gifts to 400 needy children in the community, Donarumo said.
Of young Pearl, Linda Nadeau, of SIS, said, "I was happy to take on the challenge of tracking down this obscure request for such a sweet young lady."
To learn more about Santa's Cause, call 459-4024 or visit online at www.santascauseinc.com.


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Did you know that for many years, in all Amish churches, it had been a tradition to pass crackers and cookies midway during the church service? The mother of the house where church was being held, in an effort to abate restlessness in young children, passed a plate of snacks. In some churches the snacks were passed only on the women's side of the church because the women cared for the younger children. In other Amish churches, cookies and crackers were passed across the isle to the men's side for children up to about 5 years of age. My husband, Paul, here at the Millersburg, Ohio Barn Inn Bed and Breakfast, recalls from his childhood, that when children got older, at about 5 or 6 years of age, they considered it too juvenile to take a cookie; and to yield to the temptation may have resulted in snickers by their peers. According to my father-in-law, Emanuel Coblentz, in Hartville, Ohio, the West Old Order church continued this practice until about 1955. Today Old and New Order Amish Churches in Holmes County, Ohio provide, for children, upon entrance, small baggies with pretzels and cracker snacks.
My mother in law tells me that our very strict Amish relatives in Berne, Indiana, to this day continue to pass crackers and cookies in their church services. My mother, from Geauga County, Ohio, said that their "gmay" (church) cookies usually had one raisin pressed into the middle. This Amish "gmay" cookie recipe, originally my great aunt's, for generations, was served at many Amish services in Fredericksburg, Ohio.
Amish Church Cookies
1 cup white sugar
2 cups brown sugar
1 1/2 cups shortening
4 eggs
1 1/4 cups cream or evaporated milk
1 tsp. vanilla
2 tsp. baking powder
Pinch salt
Approx. 5 cups flour (don't make dough too stiff)
Raisins for garnish
Cream together sugars, shortening, and eggs; add vanilla. Add baking powder and salt to flour. Add cream or milk alternately with the flour to the butter mixture and blend for a soft dough. Chill the dough for a few hours. When rolling out, put plenty of flour on the counter, roll out dough and sprinkle white sugar over the top and roll the sugar in very lightly. If desired, press a raisin in the center and bake about 10 minutes at 350 degrees. This makes about 5 1/2 dozen 4" cookies. These are some of my favorite cookies.
I thank my cousin, Katie, for this recipe. Katie is the "Marble Lady" who sells the book, Born Amish, a delightful recollection of Amish life as seen through the eyes of an Amish child. She also sells traditional amish children's toys and brain teasers.
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(Mods, if this is oin the wrong place, I apologise! Please move it as needed)Hi all!My cousin, his wife, and their 5 month old baby will be visiting me in Scotland for a couple of weeks from the US. I haven't seen my cousin for close to 15 years (we were close as teenagers) and have never met his wife. This cousin is the only one from that side of the family that has kept up some sort of contact with me through the years, so I really want to make a good impression. They'll be staying with us in a guest bedroom downstairs, and I want them to feel comfortable and as 'at home' as possible. When you visit someone, what kinds of things do you really appreciate? As a host/ess, what are your favourite things to do to make your guests feel special? Also, share any good/bad experiences you've had with guests or when you were a guest and what you would've done to make it better Thanks!
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The City of Reinbeck Park Board is exploring the possibility of creating Reinbeck's first off-leash dog park. The Park Board is charged with improving and enhancing the lives of our citizens by providing attractive park and recreation facilities for the people who live and work in our community. Current estimates indicate that approximately 40% of Iowa households own one dog or more, and it is believed that those figures are consistent with dog ownership in Reinbeck. The City of Reinbeck and surrounding towns currently have no designated area for people to play with and exercise their dog in a safe off-leash setting. As a result, the Park Board has noticed that dog owners often take their dogs to Reinbeck's fenced-in baseball and softball fields and allow their dogs to run in these facilities. There is clearly a need for the City of Reinbeck, and surrounding towns, to provide a place for dog enthusiasts to exercise and play with their canine pets. The plot of land designated by the Reinbeck Park Board as the future site of the proposed dog park is the wooded area located west of the Elmwood Park tennis courts.
Studies have shown that dog parks add many benefits to a community: dog parks encourage responsible pet ownership along with the enforcement of dog-control laws; dog parks give dogs a safe place to exercise and play, and exercise customarily reduces barking and other problem behaviors. In addition, dog parks are often more for people than for dogs. They foster community relationships by allowing residents to socialize with each other while their pets play. It is a truly multigenerational park activity and provides senior citizens and disabled community members with an accessible place to exercise their pets. The residents of Parkview Manor and Westview Estates would have easy, wheelchair accessible access, to enjoy watching the activities within the dog park. Dog parks also provide outdoor exercise opportunities for the majority of park users who do not otherwise participate in organized sports. Relatively low construction costs and low maintenance costs also yield the greatest amount of recreation opportunities for the investment, and there is a low user cost.
There are many citizens of Grundy County who drive all the way to Waterloo/Cedar Falls to take their dogs to the off-leash dog parks in Black Hawk County. The success of the Waterloo and Cedar Falls dog parks leads us to believe that a similar project within the City of Reinbeck would be an extremely popular facility which would be attractive to the citizens of Reinbeck as well as to several other towns within a thirty mile radius of Reinbeck. The Park Board encourages interested persons to complete an online Dog Park Survey. Please e-mail the Park Board to request a link to the survey. If you would like to make a donation to the Dog Park fund, please direct donations to the Park Board at City Hall, with a note that the funds are to be directed toward the Dog Park project. If you have additional questions or concerns, please contact the Reinbeck Park Board at: email@example.com.


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Posted by Zach on 2015-07-02
Came yesterday with two friends and a sleeping toddler in a stroller. Was happily surprised at how accommodating the staff were to the stroller, giving us perhaps the only table at which a stroller wouldn't be away. It was very difficult to get out, thoug
Posted by Sand- on 2013-12-17
Nothing pretensious here! Basic good food with a Polish influence, informal dining room. The service is poor so just keep that in mind when you go and you will enjoy. It hasn't kept me away for the 20 years I have frequented.
Posted by Mark on 2013-08-21
I can always count on a good meal when I go to Teresa's. Outside seating is a plus on a nice day and afterwards you can stroll [literally] down the block to the promenade for some breathtaking views of the city. Some of the best Polish food I've had in NY
Posted by Anonymous on 2012-10-18
The food was good. The pancakes are really good as was the home fries. The prices are good. The service was Ok. I felt the waitress was friendly but not the most attentive. If called, she was quick to come over. No follow up was made on us other than w
Posted by anonymous on 2012-06-11
I have lived in Brooklyn Heights my entire life, and Teresa's is a mainstay. Lazanki, blintzes, fried pierogi (the meat especially are sublime), potato pancakes, cold borscht in summer with dill, garlic, and a whole boiled egg...all delicious. I find th
Posted by Lewis on 2012-04-06
I have been dining at Teresa for more than 7 years. Excellent food and peaceful atmosphere. I just can't stand for service anymore. It was just ok, then now it's getting worse. I had hard time of getting server attention since I step in there. No greeting
Posted by Steve on 2012-03-22
Had a lovely lunch today at Teresa's with a colleague. His first "Polish Food" experience. All was great, sat outside, great service and value.
Posted by Jason on 2012-01-17
Awesome food. Must try the pierogis and potato pancakes


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STERLING – Twelve students sit in the front of Sterling High School's cafeteria – three tables with four students at each. They're members of the varsity scholastic bowl teams from Rock Falls, Sterling and Newman high schools.
Most wear uniforms, some wear glasses, all are clearly excited.
At 7:11, the 38th annual scholastic bowl sponsored by the Rock Falls Optimist Club officially begins.
Rock Falls is the first to get points on the board after a question about excommunication, and then three 10-minute rounds follow, a series of questions and answers volleyed back and forth between students and moderator. The questions were sealed in a packet until the evening begins.
This year, Tim Propheter is the event's chair.
"These kids are the best and the brightest of our community," he says. "They're our next leaders."
At the end of round one, Rock Falls leads with 100 points, followed by Newman with 90 and Sterling with 50.
There are about 40 people in the audience – friends, family, Optimists and fellow team members; nearly every one visibly straining to not blurt out the answers to the questions before the players do.
Questions cover practically every topic. The students are asked to define "beefcake," solve equations, name historical periods and events from the life of Jesus. A question about the kama sutra, answered correctly and without hesitation by Rock Falls Captain Blake Shipman, is met with more than a few giggles.
After the second round, Newman is up 140 to Rock Falls' 110 and Sterling's 70.
Another round and it's a tie score: Rock Falls and Newman both with 180 points.
This calls for a tiebreaker. The audience applauds as Sterling team members take their seats. Four questions follow, after which Newman is pronounced the winner, beating Rock Falls by 10 points.
As it happens, Newman's coach is Ann Propheter. She's been coaching Newman's team for 13 years. If her last name sounds relatively familiar, that's because she shares it with the man chairing tonight's event. He's her husband.
"We've got a little nepotism going on tonight," she says with a laugh.
This is the second year in a row that Newman is taking home the Optimists' trophy, and team captains junior Elliott Frankfother, 16, and senior Nate Edison, 17, are pretty excited.
"But this one was slightly closer than the one last year," Frankfother says.


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Get the Pro Evolution Soccer 2013 v1.04 Patch off WP (14mb)
Pro Evolution Soccer 2013, which is endorsed by renowned soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo, continues to maintain the skill and grace of top level soccer that fans of the sport and the video game desire and expect. This will be the most faithful recreation of modern day soccer, with players modeled to match the running motions, the abilities and playing styles, and the flicks and turns of their real-life counterparts.
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Man found fatally stabbed in NW Houston shopping center
Published 8:59 pm, Sunday, August 25, 2013
Police are working to identify a man found dead Sunday with apparent stab wounds to the face and chest.
About 5:30 a.m., a worker at a strip shopping center in northwest Houston discovered the body in the alleyway at 1821 Bingle near Long Point, according to Houston Police Department Spokesperson Jodi Silva.
Because the man's identity is unknown, pending an autopsy, Silva said they have no suspects at this time.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact HPD homicide detectives at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.


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This is an unusual cabinet card. It shows a boy fully decked out to show his support for the impending war with Spain.
The boy proudly wears a "uniform" modeled after the US Navy uniform of the period. Additionally, he has a small metal badge depicting an Armed Uncle Sam marching to the fight. Finally, the boy wears a badge that has a US Flag drop ribbon and a round medallion-- I am not sure exactly what the badge, but surely something Patriotic.
Interestingly, the back is dated as April 11, 1898. This is the exact day that President Mckinley went to Congress to ask for authority in sending US troops to Cuba!
Photographed by "Smith, Zanesville, O(hio)".
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Excerpt: "One of the New York Giants' top priorities this offseason is to come to a contractual agreement with wide receiver Victor Cruz, who is slated to become a Restricted Free Agent (RFA) in March. And although the two sides have periodically attempted to work on finalizing a new deal, they are no closer now than they were during the season when negotiations were initially tabled.
While appearing on SiriusXM NFL Radio on Thursday morning, Cruz revealed that there has been no progress, and that he and his agent are patiently waiting for the Giants to return with a counter-offer.
"We're just waiting for them to come back to us," Cruz said. "I'm not getting antsy at all … I know they have to come around at some point." Read more...
Cruz wants big raise - Mara says no $$$$$ any time soon
Since the cap is tighter than a nun's privates , we are in trouble.
Cruz also not ruling out a hold out wants 10mil per.
(i think he earned a big contract playing for below 400k for 2 seasons. )


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There was never much doubt that if the Supreme Court ever got a chance to decide the constitutionality of the health care reform law that it would be in for rough sledding from the court's five conservatives. The half week of court questioning on the law more than bore out that dire prediction. From the tone and temper of the four conservatives biting questions about the law, and the already well known opposition to the law of the fifth judge, Clarence Thomas, who did not break his several years of silence by asking one question or making one comment, barring an epiphany from one of the conservatives the law is almost certain to go. The winners will be the conservatives that have waged relentless war against the law from the instant it were proposed. They claimed that it was too costly, too overburdening on businesses, too unpopular with a majority of Americans. Their biggest gripe, which is the one that the court will latch onto to strike down the law, is that it was a gross infringement on individual liberty. It allegedly whipsawed Americans into buying insurance.
These arguments are less important than how the judicial torpedoing of the law will hurt millions of poor, working class Americans that desperately need health care, but couldn't get affordable care before the law was passed, and are just as unlikely to get affordable care after it's struck down. It's no mystery who among those millions will be hurt the most.
A report by the Commonwealth Fund found that blacks and Hispanics made up nearly half of the estimated 50 million Americans with absolutely no access to affordable or health care. The even starker reality is that the number of blacks without a prayer of obtaining health care at any price has always been wildly disproportionate to that of whites — even poor whites. It has steadily gotten worse over the years. The great fear of the GOP health care reform opponents and the health care industry lobby which includes private insurers, pharmaceuticals and major medical practitioners was that they'd have to treat millions of uninsured, unprofitable, largely unhealthy blacks. That would be a direct threat to their massive profits. This was the prime reason they waged fierce war against passage of the law
There is some hope that the court's smack down of the law will ignite a firestorm of protest, and that firestorm will prod Congressional Democrats and the Obama administration to go back to the drawing board and reintroduce a retooled version of the health care reform law. That's a possibility. But it won't happen in the middle of a tough presidential election year campaign, with the public deeply divided on whether the law was ever a good thing or not, and with a House still solidly in the sway of the rabid opponents of Obama's health care reform proposals. For those who are the most needy when it comes to getting affordable health care the decision to dump the law no matter how that decision is framed by the court will be a colossal disaster.


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Monday, May 23, 2011
Disclaimer Underground Comedy presents Joe Zimmerman at The Magnetic Field on June 7, 2011
Disclaimer Underground Comedy is proud to host Asheville's own Joe Zimmerman, a fan favorite around the Southeast who's quickly making a name for himself around the country with his likeable demeanor and sharp, original material.
Joe Zimmerman will perform at The Magnetic Field (in Asheville's River Arts District) on Tuesday, June 7, at 8 p.m. Tickets will be available at the door for $7.
Named Charlotte's "Comedian of the Year" by Creative Loafing in 2006, Joe has rapidly become known at the national level for his likable stage demeanor and original material.
In 2007 he was named "Stand-Out Stand-Up" at the Laugh Your Asheville Off Comedy festival, and in 2009 he was nominated by Rooftop Comedy for the Golden Shingle Award — given to the most outstanding rising stars in the country. In the same year, Punchline Magazine wrote that he was one of the top comics to emerge from the NC Comedy Arts Festival.
In 2009 he formed a tour with the Beards of Comedy, who recorded their debut CD "Comedy for People," which is played regularly on Sirius-XM radio, and available on iTunes. In 2011, Joe placed first in the prelims & quarterfinals of the Laughing Skull Festival, and advanced to the semi-finals.
Opening for Joe Zimmerman will be Laugh Your Asheville Off founder and beloved former Ashevillian Greg Brown. Known for his likable demeanor and impeccable sense of timing, Greg has been creating rapport with audiences everywhere, rapidly developing his own fan base. He has appeared with some of the largest comedic performers in the country including Todd Barry, Bert Kreischer, Alonzo Bodden and many more.
Joining them on the show will be Cary Goff, Tom Scheve (editor of Asheville Disclaimer), Pat Hinson and host Art Sturtevant.
The following week (Tuesday, June 14), Disclaimer Underground Comedy presents Atlanta's Mia Jackson. Mia has appeared on Oxygen's "Girls Behaving Badly" and TLC's "Wild Weddings." She was also a writer on BET/Centric's relaunch of the Soul Train Awards in 2009. In addition to playing comedy clubs around the country, Mia has become a crowd favorite at events such as Laughing Skull Festival, the Punchline Comedy Contest and Laugh Your Asheville Off.
Joining Mia on stage will be fellow Atlanta comedian Jamille Harley, Michael Robinette, Justin Blackburn and host Allie Steinhoff.
The Magnetic Field is located in the Glen Rock Depot, at 372 Depot Street, in the River Arts District of Asheville, NC. The Magnetic Field has a full bar and dining menu with indoor/outdoor café seating, and features a separate 64-seat jewel-box theatre.
For more information, please visit "Disclaimer Underground Comedy" on Facebook or call 828.301.9301 for more details.
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