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Australopithecus garhi
Background of discovery
2.5 million years ago
Important fossil discoveries
The type specimen (BOU-VP-12/130) is a partial cranium discovered in 1997 in Bouri, Ethiopia. A second cranium, lower jaws and a partial skeleton have been found at nearby sites. These may represent the same species, however the discoverers point out that the skeletal remains need not belong to the same species as the skulls. This species was announced in 1999.
What the name means
The genus or group name Australopithecus is derived from the Latin word 'australo' meaning 'southern' and the Greek word 'pithecus' meaning 'ape'. The species name, garhi, means 'surprise' in the Afar language. This name was chosen because the scientists who discovered the skull were surprised by some of the features of the skull, in particular the enormous back teeth.
Middle Wash, Bouri, Ethiopia
Relationships with other species
More fossils are needed before it is possible to determine where this species fits on our family tree. Its similarity to A.afarensis suggests it evolved from this species. It may be a direct ancestor of modern humans, representing an evolutionary link between the Australopithecus and Homo, or it may belong on a side-branch.
Key physical features
- size about 450 cc, similar to other australopithecines
Body size and shape
- probably slightly larger than A.afarensis
Jaws and teeth
- very large canines, molars and premolars
- thick tooth enamel
- rectangular or U-shaped dental arcade
- diastema (gap between canines and incisors) often present in the upper jaw. This is a primitive feature.
- similar in appearance to A.afarenis but has more advanced features in the teeth
- prognathous or projecting lower face
- like many australopithecines, including some A.afarensis, it has a sagittal crest for anchoring large jaw muscles
- limb bones (although it is debated whether they belong to this species) are intermediate in proportion between A.afarensis and H.ergaster. Arm length was relatively long, but leg length was more humanlike compared to A.afarensis.
Environment and diet
A changing climate had thinned the forests that once dominated this region, and savannah grasslands were becoming widespread.
It most likely ate plant material and possibly some meat. If the antelope bones found at the site were butchered by this species, then they must have included significant amounts of meat and marrow in their diet.
The skeletal remains were found associated with antelope bones bearing cut marks, apparently from stone tools. Stone tools were not found at this site, but at the nearby, contemporaneous site Gona. These are the earliest dated stone tools that have been found, but may have been left by another species.


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WALTHAM, Mass.- Thanks to a barrage of 3-pointers and a season-high 24 points off the bench from senior guard Derek Retos (No. Attleboro, Mass./Brimmer and May School), the Brandeis University men's basketball team defeated the visiting Case Western Reserve Spartans 85-74 in a University Athletic Association (UAA) contest at Red Auerbach Arena. The Judges improve to 10-9 (2-6 UAA) while the Spartans fall to 12-7 (4-4 UAA).
Brandeis began their onslaught from beyond the arc early in the first half when they found themselves trailing 13-4 at the 14:29 mark. The Judges inched closer and cut the deficit to 15-13 when senior guard Ruben Kanya (Ottawa, Ontario/Bridgton Acad, Maine) drained a trey from the wing. After sophomore guard Colby Smith (No. Andover, Mass./No. Andover) knotted it up at 15-15 by recovering a loose ball in the middle of the lane and converting a lay-up, Brandeis nailed three consecutive shots from downtown to nearly blow the roof off the arena. First it was rookie forward Samuel Dowden (Andover, Mass./Andover) from the left corner, then it was Retos curling off a screen, and finally it was Dowden once more to complete the run and give the Judges a 24-15 advantage. Brandeis would stretch out the surge, capped off by two more 3-pointers from Retos that had the Judges leading 32-17 with 5:11 to go before halftime. Case would close the gap to 34-26 when sophomore guard Jimmy Holman (Ann Arbor, Mich./Pioneer) went 1-for-2 from the line but a buzzer-beating runner in the lane by Retos gave Brandeis a 36-26 lead at the break.
In the second half, the Judges' maintained their strong play as their lead ballooned to 16 on a Retos lay-up with 13:50 to play. While the Spartans trimmed the deficit all the way down to 60-55 on a jumper by junior forward Dane McLoughlin (Westerville, Ohio/St. Charles Prep.) with 8:06 on the clock, they were never able to get within one possession. Seven points from senior forward Alex Stoyle (Goffstown, N.H./Tilton School) after that basket and a combined 6-for-6 effort from Retos and Smith at the charity stripe helped Brandeis ice the game for the final 85-74 margin of victory.
The Judges shot a scorching 53.6% from the field including 8-for-14 (57.1%) from deep for the contest. Retos scored his 24 points on 8-for-10 from the field including 4-for-5 from beyond the arc and 4-for-4 from the free throw line. With those four trifectas, Retos now has 205 for his career and is five away from the all-time Brandeis record. Joining him in double-figures were two more reserves, junior forward Ishmael Kalilou (Windsor, Conn./Taft School) with 13 points and Stoyle with 11, all of his coming in the second half. The reserves outscored their Case counterparts 53-6. Senior center Youri Dascy (Fall River, Mass./St. Andrews School, R.I.)contributed 10 points in an efficient 17 minutes in the starting line-up. Smith racked up a career-high nine assists for the game while adding six rebounds, five points, and a steal. Senior guard Ben Bartoldus (Hillsborough, N.H./Proctor Acad.) led the squad with seven caroms.
Case featured all five starters with double-digit scoring. Seniors David Thompson (Plano, Texas/Plano Senior) and Tim Chung (Cypress, Calif./Los Alamitos) led the way with 17 points apiece including a game-high five trifectas for Chung. Junior guard Julien Person (Houston, Texas/Second Baptist) added 12 points while Holman and McLoughlin each contributed 11 points. McLoughlin pulled down a team-high seven rebounds while Holman led the squad with six assists. Person also nabbed a game-high three steals.
The Judges continue their UAA slate with a match-up against Carnegie Mellon at home on Sunday February 9th with a 12:00 p.m. start. The Spartans hit the road again for a UAA contest on Sunday February 9th versus NYU at 12:00 p.m.

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MARTIN, Tenn. -- After beating each of the top four seeds in the Ohio Valley Conference tournament, including top-seeded UT Martin to force the if-necessary game, the Tennessee Tech softball team ran out of magic as the Skyhawks took a 6-2 win Saturday afternoon to capture the title.
The Golden Eagles entered Saturday having to win three straight
games to win the OVC Championship. Following a 5-3 win over Murray
State, Tech was up to the task of handing UT Martin it's first loss
of the tournament, downing the Skyhawks, 3-1.
In the rematch, however, the regular season champs used a five-run fifth inning to key a 6-2 victory.
Freshman starter Taylor Ketchum (3-8) was crusing along with a 2-1 lead when she ran into trouble in the fifth as Erica Duke smacked a one-out solo home run to tie the game. Two infield singles set the table for Kayla Wade, whose triple to center scored both runners and made it a 4-2 UTM lead. Jenny Bain followed with a two-run home run to make it 6-2.
Claudia Harke came on in relief and got out of the inning. With one out in the sixth, Holly Thomas took over for Harke and threw 1.2 innings of perfect relief to give the Golden Eagles a chance.
But UTM's Chelsea Jones (28-8) didn't allow Tech to get anything going after the second inning. The OVC Pitcher of the Year, Jones struck out nine, didn't walk a batter and scattered six hits.
Tech took a 1-0 lead in the first on a single by Kendall Hooper that scored Melody Christian. Christian reached on a single through the right side, but that was changed to an error after she came in to score, making the run unearned.
The Skyhawks answered in the second as Kenzi Tate doubled to plate Be Williams to make it 1-1.
The Golden Eagles regained the lead in the bottom of the second as Chanelle Spalding beat out an infield single and moved to second on a sacrifice by Cassie Garrett. With two outs, Angi Sakamoto's single off Jones' glove allowed Spalding to score all the way from second base for a 2-1 lead.
From there, Jones slammed the door, allowing just two hits over
the final five innings and retiring 15 of the 17 batters she
Tech finished the year with a 27-32 record. UTM improved to 39-20 and will represent the OVC in the upcoming NCAA Tournament.
Thomas, Hooper and Brooke Basten were named to the all-tournament team:
Photo credit - Jim Hooper
Diane Gallagher, Eastern Kentucky
Melise Brown, Eastern Illinois
Abbey Stepp, Jacksonville State
Mandi Kellerman, Murray State
Shelby Kosmecki, Murray State
Holly Thomas, TennesseeTech
Kendall Hooper, Tennessee Tech
Brooke Basten, TennesseeTech
Jenny Bain, UT Martin
Kayla Wade, UT Martin
Becca Williams, UT Martin
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Fort Meade, MA —
The trial started at 9AM yesterday and contributor Jonn Lilyea was there live-blogging every worthwhile detail. Here's his rundown:
The defendants are Kahlid Sheik Mohammed, Walid Muhammad Sakith Mubarak Bin 'Attash, Ramzi Binai Shibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi. The lead prosecutors are General Mark Martins (DoD), Edward Ryan (DoJ) and Robert Swann (DoD).
There's another site here on Fort Meade for CCTV broadcast from Guantanamo for 9-11 victims' family members. The media doesn't have access to them (rightfully) until after the broadcast and then both groups are out of the control of DoD. There are also ten family members in Guantanamo watching the trial through one-way glass who were picked by lottery.
The way I plan to do this live blog is like the way I did Winter Soldier, continually update this post once the trial begins. All you have to do is hit F5 to refresh the post. That's so interested bloggers can just post this link for their readers.
The DoD PAO (Department of Defense Public Affairs Officer) promises us "high adventure" today, so stand by for the fun.
9:19am; the trial is delayed because not all of the detainees have arrived from their five-star accommodations yet. Their butlers probably didn't have their tuxes laid out yet, or their Belgian Waffles with whipped cream were cold and had to be reheated. I'm just speculating, of course.
9:24: Called to order. Apparently the defense (Navy JAG) for Ali Abdul Aziz Ali is trying to end his military career because he keeps interrupting the procedure by complaining that Ali wasn't properly served for this trial.
The judge, U.S. Army Col. James L. Pohl is the guy who appoints judges, but he couldn't find anyone willing to accept the job so he appointed himself.
9:39am; The discussion now is about the detainees' attire – one wasn't allowed to wear the head covering and a vest that his lawyers brought him, so that's the "high adventure" of this moment.
9:41; KSM's attorney advises the judge that KSM declines to answer when questioned by the judge because KSM is "concerned that proceedings aren't fair". So the judge asked KSM's attorney if KSM's ear phones were working, but the attorney didn't know. So, KSM took his ear phones out completely (for the record, they get a translation of the proceedings through the earphones)
9:53; the judge is trying to find out if all five of the defendants can hear the proceedings. Now he's talking to one of the counsels (an AF JAG) about how the defendant wont answer until the court removes his "uncomfortable" restraints. He's the only one in restraints because he wasn't complying with guards because he didn't want to go to court. The judge has said that he'll remove the restraints if the detainee will agree to comport himself civilly – of course, he's not answering, so he remains in restraints.
10:00; The restrained detainee (Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin Attash) has agreed to behave himself so they're removing his restraints and then he dropped down into prayer (without his headphones).
10:04am: Now they're discussing (KSM's attorney, David Nevin) is complaining that he can't use the word "torture" and somehow that's related to KSM not wanting to wear the earphones (yes, we're still discussing earphones).
10:12am: The prosecution recommends a concurrent translation be provided over loud speakers since the detainees won't wear their earphones. Apparently, KSM's attorney says that they're protesting the way they were all treated this morning.
10:14 am: So that was fast, we're getting a concurrent translation to Arabic. I guess the prosecution anticipated the problem. Good job, General.
10:21am: KSM's attorney is complaining that he can't "advocate for my client when I have to speak like a robot" about the concurrent translation. So I guess we can just have the trial in Arabic. Judge Pohl responds, and I'll roughly translate his answer to infantryman language; Tough shit, it doesn't matter.
10:28am: Now someone else is complaining that the judge said "it doesn't matter". But the judge hasn't even had the opportunity to get the detainees to name their lawyers, so yeah, it really doesn't matter if the lawyers have to talk funny. But, this woman
lawyer advocate lawyer for the detainees, [Editor Note: it's Cheryl Bormann]who is wearing a burka (or a hijab – it covers her whole body down to the floor except her face – so you tell me), says that the court should first address the "issues" of the detainees' treatment in recent months, which is apparently what the detainees are protesting this morning by not listening to the proceedings against them.
10:36am: The judge responds that until the detainees respond as to whether they even want to be represented or not, the lawyer have no right to advocate for their treatment.
10:38am: The judge asks the detainees if they understand their rights as to counsel, none are answering the judge, so he appoints lawyers to them.
10:51 am: So while the judge is asking them questions, the detainees are doodling and reading the Koran (I assume) as if they're not part of the trial instead of the subjects of the trial. So this is going to take a while.
11:22am: Well, that's it for the morning, now we're on a linch break. Where's my chicken club sandwich?
11:39am: Ok, burka woman is back and she's asking that all women in the courtroom be forced by the court to "dress appropriately" so the defendants won't commit sins. She even got chuckles from the media-types here at Fort Meade and exclamations from the women in this room of "Oh, my God".
11:45 am: KSM's attorney is asking for a list of names of the people who are sitting on the prosecutor's side of the room because "if there are some shadowy people" it would upset his client.
12:00; Walid Salih just interrupted the proceedings yammering something about how the Americans are just intent on killing the defendants like we did Qaddafi. So the judge told him to behave and, surprisingly, he did.
Wait! Burka woman is back. Stand by. She says she's a lawyer and she's presented her quals to the court. I'm guessing she's Cheryl Bormann, counsel for Walid Salih.
12:25 PM; Yeah, all of the lawyers are introducing themselves to Judge Pohl and their qualifications so they can root out any "shadowy figures". Just so you know each of the five defendants have two military and a civilian lawyer – so that's fifteen people right there introducing themselves to the judge. So this is just useless time wasting bullshit by the defense team.
12:40; OK, they're on break until 1340 hrs. Oh, good, AFN commercials. I guess nothing has changed.
Scrolling around the internet, I see that the Associated Press has a reporter in the pool at Guantanamo, so you can compare how they're covering to this little blogger guy.
1:56 PM: Back in session and they're complaining that the speakers in the courtroom aren't all working. So let's waste some time discussing that.
Bormann (Burka woman) is complaining that she didn't get enough time for lunch because it takes guards so long to remove the defendants at the break. This trial won't be over before the end of the year if we're going to discuss every damn bit of minutiae like lunch breaks.
2:12 PM: Nevin (KSM's counsel) is questioning Judge Pohl's contact with the previous judge of the Military Commission. Judge Pohl says he hasn't had any contact with her since the mid-90s. Now Judge Pohl is explaining the process by which he was appointed.
12:37 PM: Nevins is still questioning the judge and trying to get him to disqualify himself with questions about legal courses he's taken and books he's read since 9-11. His questions are specifically about enhanced interrogation and torture. The judge answered "Mitigation is in the eye of the defense counsel". That if something the defense believes something mitigates his client's offenses, it's up to the counsel to argue tht.
When asked if he belongs to any clubs or organizations, Judge Pohl answered "just the United States Army".
Nevins brought up the judge's religious affiliations (Nevins contends that religion will be part of the trial), the judge refused to answer.
Nevins asked the judge if he knew any Muslims, Pohl answered that it was irrelevant and refused to answer.
2:45 pm: Continuing his questions, Nevin asked Pohl if he had contacts with either the Bush or Obama Administration, Pohl answered "no".
When asked where he was on 9-11, Pohl answered Fort Bragg, NC.
2:51 PM: Pohl is being asked about his service in the war at Afghanistan and Iraq and he was a circuit judge in Germany who made the trip as a judge to Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait and witnessed some indirect fire.
He knew a few people who were killed in the war, but claims that won't affect his ability to judge this case. Nevins asked how Pohl thinks he can be impartial in the event of the deaths of his acquaintances. Pohl said the same as in any case. pressed on the question, "My job is to run a air trial for all parties".
Personally, I would have punched Nevins in the throat by now. This judge has infinite patience.
2:57 PM; Nevins asked Pohl if he thought this is an appropriate forum for the trial. Pohl answered that Military Tribunals were formed by Congress, and so, Nevins will have the opportunity during the trial to question the authority of the Tribunal.
3:02 PM; Nevins asked Pohl if some nebulous writers somewhere who said that Pohl's trial in the Abu Gahraib case disregarded the participation of higher officers or political influences in that case. Pohl responded that he is not going to defend himself against every speculation in the vast media of his past performance.
3:06 PM; Nevins is complaining because he can't discuss torture with his client or his client's history in jihadist activity. Pohl responded that that subject is "not of great import" to the case.
3:12 PM; Nevins' final question was Judge Pohl's retirement date. The judge said when he reaches mandatory retirement.
3:21 PM: Burka woman (Bormann) asks Pohl if he would agree that he should be a an expert on applicable laws in this case, and he replied 'yes' and then "have you (Judge Pohl) ever practiced law in a civilian court", "no" "have you ever judged a case that involved more than 10,000 pages of discovery?" "probably not". "How about more than 20,000 pages of discovery" "It's not an appropriate question". "Have you ever judged a case with more than one defendant?" He answered that it's not relevant.
So she goes and declares that he doesn't have the expertise to judge the case. Without strangling her, he told her to go on to the next question.
An alarm went off in the courtroom, our handlers tell us that it was because someone took a cell phone into the courtroom and then they resumed grilling the judge.
3:35 PM; Now she's asking him how many trials he's presided over that didn't involve service members. He says three that "never went to adjournment"
3:37 PM: "How many trials have you presided over when the defendants were Muslims?" "None that I know of."
3:39 PM; Pohl recommended that Hasan face the death penalty. Any arguments from my folks? "My reasoning is on the public record, so I'm not going to sit here and answer questions that are on the public record."
3:57 PM; Recess in the prosecution of Judge Pohl for prayer time until 1645.
4:26 PM: Stand by, I may have a family member's perspective on the trial in few minutes, he's bringing me some coffee.
4:42 PM: I just talked with a family member of a victim who said "The terrorists are better behaved than their lawyers" He went on to say this illustrates why they fought so hard to keep the trial out of the federal courts because of the circus the lawyers have made out of it so for. One of our handlers said that the main reason the lawyers are showboating is for the media coverage. I told him that might work against them because the media in this room is losing interest. Like I said in the comments, about half of them have left because they were worn down by the bullshit. My sense is that the media will be less interested if this is the boring crap the media will have to sit through at the trial. But, then I'm no journalist, or a lawyer for that matter, so what do I know?
4:52 PM; So now the judge is being questioned by Air Force Major Sterling Thomas (counsel for Ali Abdul Aziz Ali) how the judge can be fair if he reads the news everyday, the judge said the question isn't relevant. Major Thomas then asked him if he thinks the system (the tribunal system) is broken in this case. The judge in essence that he will do his duty.
"Have you or any of your staff had contact with JTS GTMO staff?"
"I certainly haven't discussed the case with any of them." "The CIA?" "No."
5:04 PM; James Harrington (counsel for Ramzi Bin Shibh) [one of the detainees is interfering with the microphone's reception with a necklace and admonished] says he objects to the entire tribunal.
5:10 PM; Harrington is questioning the judges relationship before this trial with the prosecution, and the judge denies any relationship with any of the team.
5:12 PM; Now being asked about his qualification under ABA standards for a judge in a capital case, he replies in the affirmative.
5:14 PM; now his reading habits are being questioned.
5:17 PM; Ali Abdul Aziz Ali's counsel James Connell; stutters "Does your oath have an impact on your day-to-day activities?" Now they're just making shit up to get more time in front of the cameras.
5:31 PM; Navy CMDR Walter Ruiz – the last one – is asking questions about his assignment to be the guy who selects judges.
As some background on Judge Pohl, I talked to one of our handlers who considers Judge Pohl his mentor. He said that Pohl is one of the most patient people he's ever met. That is obvious by this interrogatory. The person I talked to said that whenever he had a sticky question, Pohl was the first person he'd call.
5:50 PM; Ruiz asks Pohl if he suffered any significant loss in the stock market as a result of 9-11. The judge answered that he didn't know. "I do not consider myself a victim in any way shape or form as a result of 9-11, other than the fact that I'm an America."
Ruiz; "So you do consider yourself a victim."
Pohl: " I was saddened by the things that I saw that day, like I was saddened by what I saw after the tsunami in Japan."
Ruiz continues that line of questioning and asking about victims of bombings in Afghanistan.
"I don't consider myself a victim of 9-11. I saw things that saddened me"
Ruiz is trying to tie Pohl's comment about being an American to the contention that he's a victim of 9-11. Utter drivel. Ruiz is a crybaby, servicemember or not.
5:58 PM; So, looking around the room, almost everyone is on Facebook. I think the lawyers have lost the media war.
6:04 PM; Now somehow Pohl's retirement plan is being questioned, Pohl says he has no plans to retire.
6:09 PM; Ruiz is done, but for some reason Nevins has some more shit to say. Apparently, they're reserving their challenge to Pohl as the judge in this case. All of the slimy little bastards concur.
6:12 PM; Nevins complains that he's an ignorant turd and doesn't understand what is "classified information". More specifically, he says that classified information in this trial differs from the general definition as outlined by Executive Orders.
6:16 PM; Connell whines that he doesn't know the appropriate cover sheet for his client's statements.
6:25 PM; The government read the charges; Conspiracy, Attacking civilians, attacking civilian property, murder, interfering with the operation of an aircraft, and terrorism.
6:32 PM; The government says they can be ready for trial on August 1st, the defense lawyers say they concur but we're waiting for Ruiz to consult with his client.
6:38 PM; Pohl tells the defense that the next session will be June 12 to entertain all motions in the trial.
6:43 PM; Ruiz complains that it's not enough time for him to prepare.
6:45 PM; Nevins is upset that they're not discussing alternative dates. I think Nevins is on the judge's last nerve.
6:58 PM; Apparently, Bormann (burka woman) sits in the back of the room and she's the only counsel who doesn't sit at the table with her client, probably in deference to Islamic traditions. I just thought I'd mention that.
But anyway, she's upset that her client was brought to trial in restraints because he didn't want to come to the courtroom – she wants the judge to issue an order to not force her client to come to trial. [Someone was just told by the judge to put their shirt back on but I can't see who that was]. She's worried about her client's safety.
6:59: Nevins is upset that his client was strip searched before being brought to court and it "inflames the situation". "The situation" being the little terrorists have attitude problems.
7:12 PM; They called another prayer break until 8pm, but, I'm closing up shop and going home. There'll probably be a lot of drama now, cuz that's the way my luck goes, but it's 2 1/2 hours to get home and it's late. Sorry. Out here.


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Better timings
Using gprof, I found that:
- The image translation from RISC OS Sprite to screen mode was unoptimised (i.e. making two unoptimised function calls per pixel). This, I improved, but it only made a small overall difference since it occurs after the rendering work is done in the emulator.
- gprof is useless for following what's going on in the emulator generated code.
With that six or seven line code change, the situation is now that the BeagleBoard renders the celtic_knot3 file in a little over 37s, down from 85s.
|x86 PC: 14s, Beagle Board: 37s
The branch fixup code currently avoids having to clear the code cache by calling the fixup code using LDR pc, [pc, #...], having stored the code address in a scratch register. That way, only the word loaded by that instruction has to be changed to point to the generated code instead of the fixup routine, and the next time the instruction is reached, the fixup routine will be bypassed (although the setup for the call remains).
Further possible improvements to be tried:
- Modify the first instruction of the fixed up code to be a proper branch to the address, as well as the current change; if the code falls out of the code cache by itself, the next time the code is run it will be quicker.
- Clear the ARM code cache explicitly, so that the faster code will be called straight away. This may be slower, due to the overhead of a system call the first time the branch occurs.
If you compile with -DSTANDALONE, it will create an executable that takes the name of a file that should contain ARM instructions, and run them (only really useful with gdb, to see what's going on).
The handling of unaligned memory accesses is still incorrect (except on my custom kernel, which fixes up the accesses in the old fashioned way).
Update: http://ro-lf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ro-lf/ROLF/rolf/Libs/Compatibility?view=tar downloads the whole ROLF compatibility library, including the include files and disassembly code. (I can't check this at the moment, but...) The following should generate an executable on an ARM system:
tar xf ro-lf-Compatibility.tar.gz cd Libs/Compatibility/ # Possibly other subdirectory touch config.h # Usually generated by the ROLF configure routine gcc -o standalone_emulator arm_arm_emulator.c arm_d*.c -DARCH_ARM -DSTANDALONE -DDISASSEMBLE -Iincludes -I.


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McCain's opposed, but he's not alone
At issue is a proposal to give veterans educational benefits equal to the highest tuition rates of a public college or university in their state, as well as a monthly housing stipend determined by geographical area. Originally the subject of a standalone bill by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., the plan has been bundled by Democratic leaders into an emergency war spending bill for fiscal 2008 and 2009 that now is under consideration in the House.
The proposal resonated with lawmakers eager to demonstrate continued support for active duty troops and veterans, but posed a quandary for fiscal conservatives concerned about ever higher costs as more individuals leave active duty.
McCain, echoing Bush administration objections, says the proposed benefit is so generous that it could actually encourage service members to leave the military as soon as they qualify, thereby undercutting recruitment and retention efforts. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, provided some ammunition for this line of argument in an analysis for Senate Budget Committee Republicans released on May 8, estimating the plan would increase direct spending by $51.8-billion through 2018.
Obama, however, maintains it's important to provide robust levels of aid to returning service members at a time when rising tuition is pricing thousands of Americans out of a college education. And he's depicting McCain as a stubborn holdout, willing to turn his back on veterans to uphold his fiscally conservative principles.
"I have great respect for John McCain's service to this country … but he's one of the few senators of either party who oppose this bill because he thinks it's too generous," Obama said in a May 12 speech in Charleston, W.Va.
As we write this, negotiations continue on Capitol Hill to find a version of the bill that will be palatable to all sides. But we don't need to follow the ups and downs of the legislative efforts to effectively judge the accuracy of Obama's remarks on the original bill.
Obama says McCain is "one of the few" senators who considered that original legislation to be too generous. In doing so, Obama neglects to mention that McCain is one of 21 Republicans who, with independent Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, lined up behind an alternative proposal by Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., that would expand the government's Montgomery G.I. Bill program by increasing a monthly education stipend to $1,500 from the current $1,100 maximum. The stipend for individuals who complete at least 12 years of service would rise to $2,000. Graham's plan offered other benefits, as well, though it did not guarantee money for a full college education.
The Graham plan was defeated, but 42 senators voted for it. That, on top of the fact that 21 other senators were early proponents of the cheaper alternatives puts McCain in the company of more than "a few." With that in mind, we conclude that Obama's description of McCain as some kind of rare dissenter in discussions to improve education benefits for veterans to be Barely True.
Editor's note: This statement was rated Barely True when it was published. On July 27, 2011, we changed the name for the rating to Mostly False.


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Mayor T.W. Permenter spent a few minutes this week becoming the first Pinehurst citizen to sign up for the Blackboard Connect mass notification system recently implemented by the Pinehurst City Council. The service is of no cost to the citizens as it was funded by a port security grant through the South East Texas Regional Planning Commission. City officials will use the service to send out alerts of an emergency or non-emergency nature pertaining to severe weather, water boil notices, evacuations, hazardous material spills, fire advisories, water main breaks, road closures and any number of other situations, officials report. The service can even be used to notify people of outstanding warrants if necessary, Pinehurst Police Chief Fred Hanauer said.
The messages can be sent to home phones, cell phones, e-mail addresses or social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. Hanauer has already sent out a voice recorded welcome message to all Pinehurst citizens with published phone numbers outlining the uses of the service.
"The system will also augment our primary emergency services and existing communication channels to keep our citizens better informed," Hanauer said.
Citizens wishing to receive future messages at a different phone or wanting to add alternate phone numbers can visit the City of Pinehurst website at www.cityofpinehurst.com and click on the link that says "SIGN UP NOW – SERVICES BY Blackboard Connect. Sign-up for the Blackboard Connect service is also available by completing a form and returning it to the City of Pinehurst city hall; the sign-up form is available at city hall or by e-mail upon request. For questions pertaining to Blackboard connect and its uses, contact the Pinehurst Police Department at (409) 886-2221.


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Scuderia Ferrari's week in South Korea began this evening in Seoul with Marc Gené's participation in an event at the Ferrari dealership in the South Korean capital, Forza Motors, which has been representing Ferrari for five years in this ever-growing market that is full of potential. The Scuderia's test driver first met up with a group of local journalists, then he had dinner with the Prancing Horse's best Korean clients.
"It's always a pleasure to meet our clients, who are the lifeblood of Ferrari," Marc told www.ferrari.com. "Speaking with them, I perceived a great passion for the company and an ever-growing interest in Formula 1. From Friday we will be on track at Yeongam: the goal is to do our best, as ever. We know that the situation in the two championships is not easy but in sport you must never give in. It's clear that from the point of view of development, we are now concentrating ever more on the project for the 2014 car. We will also try to use these last six races of the year to collect information that could be useful for next season."
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FOXBORO – The late Woody Guthrie, had he been a football fan, would take one look at these New England Patriots and say, "This train is bound for glory."
This team has the look of a team ready to make the franchise's fourth straight trip to the final four, and with a personnel grouping that lends a brighter outlook than each of the previous three.
But there is some temporary indigestion as we try to swallow the latest NFL development.
The harbinger of potential doom is dressed in stripes, lending furrowed eyebrows to consumers and insiders alike. What if the refs keep this revamped, increasingly physical Patriots defense from its perceived destiny? What if the bulk of Brandon Browner's skill set is negated once he gets back from his four-game suspension?
The good news at the moment is that no team is safe, it would appear, as penalties are up around the league. The Saints have drawn 42 infractions, far and away the league's highest total through two preseason games. The Patriots, meanwhile, are eighth with 26. Last year, they had the fourth-lowest total in the NFL with 75 penalties.
Through 62 preseason games, officials have called an average of 23.7 penalties a contest (11.8 per team). During the 2013 regular season, an average NFL game featured 12.7 total penalties.
All these penalties, at the moment, fall into the Bonnie Raitt "Let's give 'em something to talk about" camp. That would be flags, though. Not love.
The points of emphasis have been underlined, and the officials are using August games to reiterate that illegal downfield contact, defensive holding, and hands to the face will not be tolerated.
For now, it's no easy task to put aside the preseason proliferation of yellow hankies.
"It's tough," prized cornerback Darrelle Revis said Tuesday. He continued. "It's tough I think we've just got to work through it. Teams have been working through it during this preseason. I think it's a learning situation for everybody. It's a new rule. The refs are trying to do the best they can. As players, we're trying to do the best we can. By keeping our hands off the receivers down the field. And that's a learning process.
"Maybe in the regular season, things might change. You never know. At this moment, man, everybody's just trying to do the right thing by following the rules."
There could be hope once the games count in the standings, rather than as auditions for not just players but for 33-yard extra points and points of emphasis.
"Hopefully, we don't see as many flags as we've been seeing this preseason," safety Devin McCourty said on Tuesday.
Although, if the last two years are any indication rather than being an outlier, the Patriots may get closer to the ultimate prize the more flags are thrown on their behalf. Last year, eventual Super Bowl-champion Seattle led the NFL with 152 penalties, with the AFC-champion Broncos the runner-up at 132. In 2012, the eventual-champion Ravens committed a league-high 145 penalties, with NFC champ San Francisco third at 126.
Of course, St. Louis was third in 2013 (123) and second in 2012 (129), and the Rams are 14-17-1 in that time.
At this point, it is not so much the rules as the level of enforcement, and the slaps on the proverbial wrist are piling up.
"Things that you might have gotten away with, you might not get away with," McCourty said. "But I think it's hard to try to change your whole game. We don't want to start giving up long passes and touchdowns just to say, 'I didn't want illegal contact.' So hopefully, they just reduce the flags and we get to play a little bit."
While every team has had to see firsthand how well more yellow complements their franchise's colors, from a coaching angle, the overarching teaching philosophy has not changed.
"We coach the players to play within the rules," Bill Belichick said on Monday. "We've always done that. That's all we'll ever do."
Eagles head coach Chip Kelly had similar sentiments, albeit a different way of putting them, after Friday night's three-and-a-half hour affair that included 28 penalties.
"You don't have to agree with the speed limit, but if the cop's out there with a speed gun, you better take your foot off the gas or he's going to pull you over," he said. "It's the bottom line. Rules are rules, and you've got to follow them."
Kelly's point is a valid one, except that it seems as if the rules are being enforced at a pace on par with the parking attendant who starts writing the ticket the second the meter hits 0:00, even as you start to open your car door.
If a flag does show up near a defensive back after a play, however, McCourty says the player, no matter the flag frequency, doesn't expect it.
"I think as a DB, you're trained never to look for a flag," he said. "You know, just watching even last night, watching the (Browns-Redskins preseason) game, it seems like, every couple of plays, there's another flag.
"It'll be tough for people trying to watch the game and have work in the morning and stuff like that."
It will take more than frequent flags to derail these Patriots. But these flags are hard to ignore.
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The Aldrich Alert
A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 1 Issue 9
In his acclaimed PBS video series entitled "The Ascent Of Man," the late philosopher, Jacob Bronowski skillfully leads the viewer to the conclusion that doubt must play a guiding role in our lives. Doubt should not be confused with indecision or lack of conviction, for doubt allows us to question what we see and visualize what might yet be. And, doubt leads to tolerance.
Once a person becomes convinced that he alone posses the truth, he stands poised but one short, terrible step from acting on that truth by persecuting those who do not share his beliefs. The result is intolerance, leading to violence, unfettered by the law (which can be changed by those in power) or moral code. This is the ultimate lesson of the Holocaust Museum.
Our forefathers knew that lesson not only from history, but often from first hand experience. When the original colonists met to organize a nation, they acted boldly to establish, as Lincoln said, "a new nation conceived in liberty, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights." Simply put, in this nation, all religious beliefs would be tolerated. And, while certain groups may disagree with one another, they would allow each other the freedom to practice their faith as they saw fit.
The recent attacks by Senator John McCain against the so-called "religious right" of his own party, have heralded a new low in national campaigning. His attacks on his opponent, Governor Bush, were demagogic and untrue. The ringing tone of his voice, the faulty logic of his argument, and his attempt to promote guilt by association must have sent chills down the collective spines of members of many groups who are all too often the victims of hate and oppression - notably blacks, Jews, and even Catholics.
Fortunately, the voters of America are too sophisticated to fall for such an obvious trick. During the past few days in New York, the Catholic population has rapidly withdrawn its support for Senator McCain. They correctly view the attack on tolerance from a presidential candidate as posing a much greater long-term danger to their well being than the teachings of a small southern college.
We are a nation of laws; laws which we have created in lieu of the edicts of a king or dictator; laws designed to protect and not simply direct; laws which are ultimately derived from the Judeo-Christian code of morality. And, while we may disagree with the way a law is enforced (such as when a policeman pulls a motorist over for speeding) we do not hate the person involved for doing his duty.
Senator McCain, like millions of his fellow servicemen through the course of our nation's history, fought to protect the rights and freedoms of people with whom he may have personally disagreed. In the course of that battle, he paid a terrible personal price. It is unfortunate that he has chosen a very different philosophy in his race for the presidency and lost the opportunity to truly inspire a nation starved for genuine heroes.


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When is it O.K. to use an unfamiliar word? When is it not O.K.? - is endlessly argued, yet even so, sometimes, notwithstanding the debates' endlessness, fresh insights and original formulations are coined. One of these, I think, was Dwight Macdonald's distinction, made in his marvelous survey of Webster's Third for The New Yorker (March 10, 1962), between unusual words (O.K.) and words ''that belong in the zoo sections of the dictionary'' (not O.K.). I should think most people would agree, for instance, that arachibutyrophobia would be an example of the latter (the word defines the fear of peanut butter's sticking to the roof of your mouth). James Jackson Kilpatrick, in his book ''The Writer's Art,'' takes a position on the dogmatic side against the use of unfamiliar words and cites me, however kindly, as a prodigious offender (the Lord delivered Kilpo into my hands, because his proscriptive passage against long & unusual words contained four long & unusual words). Mr. Kilpatrick likes to quote Westbrook Pegler, who denounced the use of what he called ''out of town words.''The tough — and subjective — question is: Which words are too annoyingly strange to use?
And was it eristic for Schwartz to use "eristic"?
''ERISTIC: (i ris/ tik) adj [ Gr. eristikos, d. erizein, to strive, dispute d. eris, strife ] of or provoking controversy, or given to sophistical argument and specious reasoning.''If it was eristic to use "eristic," did Schwartz mean to offer word mavens a little inside joke, or — more amusingly — did he mean to send a secret signal to Buckley fans?


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'Independence Day' Director Blows Up White House Again
He's the man who blew up the White House. At least on film. Director Roland Emmerich is a pro at reducing American landmarks to rubble in films such as "Independence Day" and "The Day After Tomorrow." Don Steinberg joins Lunch Break to explain how digital effects have changed for the new movie, "White House Down."
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A Russian deal to sell advanced anti-aircraft missile systems to Syria is imminent, information relayed to the United States by Israel indicated.
Unnamed U.S. officials said information from Israel was being analyzed and refrained from commenting, reports in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times said.
The reports say Syria is seeking to buy advanced Russian-made S300 missile batteries able to intercept manned aircraft and guided missiles.
White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One en route to Texas the administration is aware of the reports and disappointed in Russia's continued support of the Assad regime.
"We have consistently called on Russia to cut off the Assad regime's supply of Russian weapons including air defense systems that are destabilizing to the region," Carney said. "We have also long said that Russia could play a more constructive role in Syria."
The Wall Street Journal said Syria has been making payments on a 2010 agreement with Russia to purchase four batteries for $900 million. The latest transaction took place this year, the newspaper said, adding the package included six launchers and 144 operational missiles each with a range of up to 200 miles. Delivery was expected in three months.
The sale, first reported in the Journal, came as U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry sought to enlist Russia's aid in facilitating a political transition in Syria and bringing an end to the conflict in which more than 70,000 people have been killed, The New York Times said.
The White House announced British Prime Minister David Cameron planned to meet U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington next Monday to discuss Syria, the newspaper said.
Meanwhile, a leader of the Western-backed section of the Syria opposition complained, in an op-ed article Thursday in the Chicago Tribune, of a lack of action against the regime of Syria President Bashar Assad for the alleged use of chemical weapons
After indicating for months that chemical weapons use would change the Obama administration's view about intervening in Syria, "the administration's reluctance will only embolden the Assad regime, as well as other rogue governments that might possess chemical and biological weapons," wrote George Sabra, acting president of the Western-backed National Coalition for Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces.
"U.S. inaction is giving the Assad regime, after two years of wanton bloodshed, a green light to take even more outrageous steps to kill innocents," Sabra said. "This undermines America's moral leadership."
Obama defended his cautious approach, saying Tuesday he would make decisions based on the facts and not "on a hope and a prayer."
Obama, who has said the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a "red line" and be a "game-changer," reiterated his view the evidence of such use was insufficient to require action or enable him to unite U.S. allies behind a response.
"The time has come for assertive U.S. action to lead international efforts to end the bloodshed," Sabra said in the newspaper, calling on Washington and its allies to promote his group, commonly called the Syrian National Coalition, "and an interim government, which are diligently implementing seeds of democracy while marginalizing the extremists."
He called on the international community to "urge the United Nations and Russia to send an unequivocal message to Assad to refrain from using chemical weapons and ballistic missiles against his people."
"The international community must also establish safe zones with protected air space from any shelling or missiles to allow for the free movement of Syrian refugees back into their country, and the delivery of humanitarian aid to internally displaced people. Also, it should provide medical facilities and supplies for injured civilians," Sabra said.
The Obama administration had no immediate response to the op-ed piece.


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I've been consuming mass quantities of yerba mate these days and I've been drinking it the traditional way, thanks to the fine people at Natural Latitudes, who were kind enough to supply me with a mate (drinking gourd) and bombilla (filtered metal straw).
NL recommend that you fill your mate about 3/4 of the way full when you begin your busy day of yerba mate drinking and keep topping it off with hot water until you are unable to squeeze any more more flavor from the leaves.
I've been doing things a little differently, I must confess, after one not so impressive experience with this method. I tend to start with two spoonfuls of yerba mate for the day's first infusion and then add a spoonful for each additional infusion. Works quite nicely and my wife, the unrepentant c***** drinker, has even developed a taste for the stuff.
London's Independent has discovered yerba mate, which they suggest may be "A weight-loss tea that's full of antioxidants..." It's also said to be favored by such luminaries as Madonna, Hilary Clinton and Matt Dillon, though the reporter who penned the piece was clearly not enamored with it's unique flavor. Now I'd have thought that someone who can choke down a cup of c***** could stomach just about anything, but hey, what do I know?
Anyhoo, the article appeared in today's online edition of the Independent. Check it out here.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
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Interesting. Just started reading this blog, and just started drinking Yerba Mate the other day. It's pretty addictive stuff! My gourd's still drying after curing, so I'm excited to see what I'll be able to do once I can drink it in the more traditional, (supposedly) less bitter way in a few days.
- William I. Lengeman III said...
There's probably not a lot of middle ground when it comes to yerba mate. I think you either love it or hate it. After having tried it in loose form I have to say that I'm rather hooked.
- kelly said...
Why do so many companies grind up their yerba mate?
I am trying to uncover the reason for this--as, like tea, wouldn't it oxidize faster...
And, do you know who has an organic, non-ground product?
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Mayoral candidates participate in final debate
Mayoral candidates incumbent Jim Suttle and Councilwoman Jean Stothert participated in the last formal debate before they begin a big campaign weekend.
Supporters and voters filled the tables at the Omaha Press Club Friday afternoon. Undecided voters were among the guests hoping to learn more about the candidates.
Suttle and Stothert verbally sparred on their track records with issues like the fire union contract.
"Her contract is costing the city of Omaha $9 million that we did not have to spend," Suttle said.
"I will say the numbers speak for themselves. Our contract saved an additional $125 million in pensions. It saved immediately $680,000 a year in health care," Stothert said.
The candidates' statements had voters wanting to do their own research.
"For people who want to go out and make a fair decision, you have to go look for yourself," said Scott Miner.
"Maybe neither were high on specifics today," said Sandi Bruns.
The mayor won Bruns support for how he handled the flood of 2011.
"I think he's doing a good job. He should get another term," Bruns said.
Miner sided with Stothert's approach to make Omaha more business friendly.
"I think she came out on top," he said.
The general election is May 14. Polls will be open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Early voting starts Monday at the Douglas County Election Commission.
The deadline for voter registration is next Friday at the Election Commission Office near 115th and Burke streets.


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CLEMENT LIVINGSTONE KING F.O. In Memoriam In the late afternoon of Thursday, July 8, 1965, a plane out of Vancouver exploded in flight, carrying to their deaths fifty-two passengers and crew members, among them Clement Livingstone King, the senior partner of Deloitte, Plender, Haskins & Sells, Canada. At the age of forty-nine, Clem King could reasonably have expected that his most productive years still lay ahead. He was by nature inclined to look beyond the present to the farther range. He had the intellect and determination to bring into being plans that for other people would have remained merely dreams or aspirations. So many of these, formed or partly formed, must have died with him. For his partners, his tragic loss is thus particularly great. Indeed, it was recognition of these qualities that, in 1954, had led Walter J. Macdonald, who was then organizing Deloitte, Plender, Haskins & Sells, Canada as a national firm, to induce Clem to become partner-in-charge of Toronto Office. Clem was at that time, and had been for eight years, filling the important post of Executive Secretary of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. Before that he had been for five years Executive Assistant to the President of the University of Alberta, where he had earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree. He had qualified as a chartered accountant in 1940. Late in 1959, Walter Macdonald died, and Clem was chosen senior partner of the firm. It fell to him to weld, by leadership and inspiration, the several firms that had been merged in the previous six years. The Canadian practice today is Clem's best memorial. Clem was undoubtedly among the most widely known chartered accountants in Canada. He was Secretary of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, and had served on important committees of the professional bodies. He was a member of a number of clubs and was particularly active in The Canadian Cancer Society. But for many Canadians, and for many in the United States and the United Kingdom, Clem will be best remembered as a friend. He enjoyed meeting people and was particularly adept at removing awkwardness from any social gathering involving strangers. With those close to him, he would talk sometimes of his goals in life which were invariably demanding because he set such high standards in everything. Although he must have been disappointed often with the conduct or performance of others, he was more charitable to their weaknesses than to his own. Clem is survived by his wife, Ella, a son at university and a daughter of high school age. His family were very important to him, and although his work was demanding he planned it so as to spend most weekends at home. He enjoyed his summer cottage and water-skiing when he was able to get away, as well as other outdoor activities such as golfing. Any death is a loss, but the premature decease of a man such as Clem King is a real tragedy. He was so intensely alive, was so important in the lives of so many people, and had so many things to do that we wonder that he could cany such a load of responsibility. He was ambitious, but not just for himself—his firm came first. He was trustworthy in the finest sense. In some measure all his associates have been influenced for the better by him; it was indeed a great privilege to have known him. JAMES G. DUNCAN 11
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Religious factor must be strengthened in bilateral relations - Russian Patriarch tells Ukrainian PM
Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia has said that the development of relations with Ukraine ranks among his priorities and that the religious factor must be strengthened in bilateral relations. Relations between Ukraine and Russia "are the central, not peripheral task," the Patriarch said during talks with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko at Moscow's St. Daniel monastery on Wednesday.
Patriarch Kirill also said that he highly values the opportunity to establish "a contact and dialogue" with representatives of the Ukrainian authorities and that the "religious factor" plays a significant role in bilateral relations.
Ukraine and Russia have a common religion, history and culture, he said.
"Together, we are the bedrock on which the East Orthodox civilization rests. This must help us build relations in all directions," he also said.
But Patriarch Kirill expressed regret that the religious factor "is not fully involved in the sphere which can be characterized as relations between Ukraine and Russia."
"For us Kiev is synonymous with Constantinople. It is the spiritual capital city of Russian Orthodoxy," he said.
Given this, it is becoming clear "how important the religious factor is in the life of our people, and what an important role it can play in relations between our countries," said Patriarch Kirill.
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March 16, 2009
Back in 2007, the New York Times famously proclaimed that the evangelical movement in America was cracking up. Since then, the media has relished exposing what they see as fault lines in evangelicalism over such issues as abortion, marriage, and the environment.
The pundits seized upon President Obama's decisive electoral victory last fall to opine that evangelicals were no longer the political force they once were.
And just last week, a well-known evangelical blogger predicted the "collapse" of evangelicalism in America within the next decade, even though he also predicted that out of the ruins of evangelicalism, "new forms of Christian vitality and ministry will be born."
But the American Religious Identification Survey of 2008 gives me reason to think that the predictions of evangelicalism's demise are greatly exaggerated. In fact, quite the opposite may be true.
Although the survey, published by Trinity College, boldly proclaims that Americans are "slowly becoming less Christian," it also points out that 34 percent of all American adults now identify themselves as "Born-Again or Evangelical Christians." That's no decline from previous years.
While the report shows that mainline denominations like the Methodists, Lutherans, and Presbyterians have experienced "sharp numerical declines" over the past decade, the number of evangelicals within Christendom is increasing. Some 45 percent of all Christians now identify themselves as evangelicals or born again.
"What is significant," the survey says, "is the recent spread of Evangelicalism well beyond Christians affiliated with those groups that are members of the [National Association of Evangelicals], so that millions of Mainliners and Catholics now identify with this trend."
So what does all this mean? It means that the single largest voting block in America remains evangelicals. No other single group comes close. It also means that America still is, by and large, a conservative nation. This is why, for example, we ought not to be surprised (even though the media is flabbergasted) that voters across the country time and time again uphold traditional marriage.
Yes, the evangelical movement is growing, which is good, but numbers don't mean everything. For example, a new Barna survey shows that only 19 percent of evangelicals hold a consistently biblical worldview. What this tells me is that we're growing in numbers, but we've got to do a better job making disciples.
And here's where some see a coming collapse, but I see an enormous opportunity—an opportunity to re-catechize believers, to re-introduce them to the glories of Christian truths, to train them to defend and live out their faith winsomely, reaching out to the needy and hurting as Christians have done for two millennia.
I can't help but think of William Wilberforce, the English parliamentarian who led a small band of believers to eradicate the British slave trade. These men and women, inspired by God, shared their resources, talents, and faith, and not only put an end to a great evil, but they also formed the heart of a movement that quite literally sparked revival and transformed the culture of Britain. It began with a handful of the faithful.
Just think what God might do with 34 percent of the American population calling themselves evangelicals—if those evangelicals re-capture their first love, present a winsome witness, and do the good works God has prepared for us to do.
Chuck Colson's daily BreakPoint commentary airs each weekday on more than one thousand outlets with an estimated listening audience of one million people. BreakPoint provides a Christian perspective on today's news and trends via radio, interactive media, and print.


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I am here to try and help you.
I am NOT here:
1. For you to sell me a timeshare.
2. To discuss the rising price of bus passes.
3. To render a 2nd opinion on your friend's 3rd cousin with MS in Wyoming.
4. To look at > 2 pictures of your children, grandchildren, dogs, doll collection, spouse, car, trailer home, or the fish you caught last weekend.
5. To look at the catalogue of huge, 3-wick, foul-smelling candles that you sell.
6. To help you decide what to do with your investment portfolio.
7. To tell you if your new dress makes your ass look fat. Let's face it- the dress has nothing to do with it.
8. To hear about your great blackjack strategies at the local Indian casino. If you were that good at it, you wouldn't keep asking me to waive your $15 co-pay.
9. For you to sell girl scout cookies, campfire candles, chocolate bars, or any other of your kid's school fundraising stuff to.
10. To answer your questions about getting a passport.
11. To listen to the great deal you got on bedroom furniture in 1959.
Thank you.


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One of the first things I realized was that I should have been studying about this whole process while I was waiting for the results. Since I didn't do that, I spent most of yesterday trying to figure out where to start. I still need to do a good deal of reading but here's how I decided to approach things - at least for now.
The thought of trying to figure out how I am related to 614 people is starting to seem like an impossible task. Heck the thought of trying to figure out how I am related to 25 people sounds pretty daunting. How can you even do that? I mean lets say I match with someone and we figure out we have a common ancestor. Is that then definitely the reason we matched or is it possible that we have some other common ancestor that one or both of us do not know? Obviously, I still have a lot to learn about this process.


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Tooling Update
Zapp Tooling Alloys Opens U.S. Operations
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German-based Robert Zapp Werkstofftechnik GmbH, a distributor of PM materials for the European and Asian tooling markets, has opened Zapp Tooling Alloys, Inc., in Summerville, SC. The new location—18,000 sq. ft. of warehouse and office space—carries ZPM-brand tool and high-speed steels in plate, round and flat bars, in several alloys including equivalent alloys to CPM 3V, 9V, 10V and S90V.
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General Education Program
All students studying toward a baccalaureate degree at Shawnee State University are required to complete the University's General Education Program (GEP). The GEP is a group of courses that gives students the opportunity to acquire the characteristics of an educated person — something quite distinct from the goals of other courses associated with the degree programs offered by Shawnee State.
Most courses required for a specific degree program are meant to give you the ability to practice a profession and further your professional education. The goal of Shawnee State University, however, goes beyond professional education to prepare you to function effectively in the multiple roles demanded by contemporary life. In this respect, the General Education Program supports the University's mission statement.
NOTE: The GEP is a combination of required and elective courses, grouped in categories, each chosen for the contribution it makes to the skills or knowledge characteristic of university graduates.


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Billionaire Noise Club
Now that the party primaries are mostly behind us with only a few July 31 runoffs standing between voters and the November elections, there is ample cause for concern for a political landscape that has been radically altered by the Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case. The ruling that corporations have the same free speech rights as individuals would have confounded the Founding Fathers, even in a time before such massive wealth was concentrated in so few hands.
In a revealing exchange back when he still engaged with ordinary voters on the campaign trail, Mitt Romney proclaimed, "Corporations are people too, my friend." Under the new rules, they are also anonymous people who can inject unlimited amounts of money into huge political action committees called Super PACS and operate with impunity while the candidate on whose behalf the vitriol is spread can pretend ignorance. Of course, during one of the interminable GOP presidential debates where a rival upbraided Romney for a Super PAC attack leveled on his behalf, this political fiction was unmasked when Romney at first played dumb and pretended he hadn't seen the spot only to deliver a ringing defense of the contents of the spot he supposedly had never seen less than a minute later.
A recent article in a national magazine profiled 16 right-wing billionaires who are backing Romney – and details what they expect in return for their secret investments. At the top of the list are the Koch Brothers who despise the EPA believing that enforcing environmental laws is an unnecessary impediment to their many businesses.Why does this matter? In this election cycle, it is predicted that spending linked to the Koch network will total more than the $370 million that John McCain raised for his entire presidential campaign four years ago.
As Texas industrialist Harold Simmons recently bragged to The Wall Street Journal, "I have lots of money, and can give it legally now – just never to Democrats." He wants to store radioactive waste from 36 states in an underground dump in Texas – without oversight by the EPA. Simmons spent a lot of money in 2004 on the Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry, as did another Texas financier, homebuilder Bob Perry.
Perry – no relation to Gov. Rick Perry, except as major campaign donor – doesn't like it when ordinary people go to court to seek justice from, say, a shoddy homebuilder. His group Texans for Lawsuit Reform swings a big stick in political races in an effort to block the path to the courthouse door. Ask Tuffy Hamilton. When he stood up for the people of Bridge City after Hurricane Ike and refused to thwart their right to legal counsel, Perry, Perry and TLR struck back and financed a massive attack campaign that resulted in Hamilton's defeat after a decade as a reliable conservative in the House. He did not survive the vicious attack by the Billionaire Noise Club. You saw it – and it should be a warning to us all.
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Kilner Clip-Top Jar Beverage Dispenser
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This beverage dispenser is an oversized version of the iconic Kilner canning jar, complete with the classic embossed Kilner logo and clip-top lid. Offering a super-tight seal for transport to picnics at the park or just to your backyard, it's perfect for serving fresh fruit juices or water.
- Made of clear glass.
- Glass stamp says: "KILNER Original. Est. 1842. 100% Quality. 8 Litres."
- Chrome-plated steel clip-top and silicone seal help keep the contents fresh.
- Tight-seal lid makes it ideal for transporting to picnics.
- Zinc-finish steel spigot.
- For cold beverages only.
- Place near edge of table to provide clearance for glasses under spigot or on an elevated base.
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- 8 1/2-qt. cap.
- 8 1/4" diam., 14 1/4" high.
- Made in China.
- Use & Care
- Hand-wash.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Jthe701Coordinator from Awesome Summer Piece Saw the first review and you know what I did? I got one at my local store, had the associate fill it with water, and we checked for any leaks while the spout was open. No leaks, so I bought it and have used it multiple times since then, each time earning me compliments. Great way to serve the WS Sangria - I use frozen fruit in place of ice so there isn't any watered down flavor.Date published: 2015-04-15Rated 1 out of 5 by NLoree from My dispenser leaks :( This leaked the first time that I filled it with lemon water. I chose to keep it, since I bought it online and it would be a pain to return. I figured that I'd buy some food safe sealant and fix it myself, but I'm super disappointed in this product.Date published: 2015-02-03
Is there a stand that is compatible with this dispenser?Hi Jmebk. The diameter of this beverage dispenser is 8 1/4". It would fit on either of these bases: https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/white-ceramic-beverage-dispenser-base/ - 9" diameter https://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/white-hapao-beverage-dispenser-base/ - 9.5" diameterDate published: 2019-11-23


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Best of 2011: Super late edition part 1
By Chris Troy
My 2012 is off to a brutal start, as the first day of the year started with me having no power in half of my apartment for 4 days, but rebounded when I went down to DC for MAGfest 2012 for another 3. The latter was rad, but explains my absence. NO WORRIES, NOW I'VE RETURNED, I CAN TALK ABOUT TOYS THAT CAME OUT LAST YEAR, SEVERAL OF WHICH YOU CAN STILL PURCHASE AT FPNYC!! So without further delay, my ultimately meaningless list:
Let's start off with some import goodness shall we? While not the strongest year for Figma as a brand (IMO, people who love them some Madoka may disagree), Max Factory managed to pop out a few rad figures this year, one of them being the Figma based on Evangelion 2.2 's Mari. In a sea of Asuka/Rei merchandise, Mari was a welcomed addition and her Figma, which came with a cockpit and a ton of variant parts and accessories, was great. In addition to that, the Dorothy (of Big O fame) Figma dropped as well, and I am bias as hell towards Big O merch, so that makes the list. Also Robocop, because, well, he's Robocop; why wouldn't he, right? 2012 looks solid too, as we're expected to get a Figma based on Guts from Beserk, as well as Samus Aran of Metroid fame. This is best in life. We still have the Eva girls and Dorothy in stock BTW, as well as several other characters I couldn't tell you about.
Revoltech had a stellar year, especially if you're into giant robots. Evas? A ton of them, all of them rad. Zone of the Enders finally got some love, with the release of Jehuty, and more are on the way apparently, which pleases me to no end. A ton of American properties got some love as well, including the likes of Iron Man, War Machine, Optimus Prime, and Bumblebee, rocking their Michael Bay designs. 2012 looks to be full of more giant robots AND more movie stuff, including the likes of Pixar movies NOT named Toy Story. In the words of Achewood's Ray Smuckles "That's alright, coz that's okay." And wrapping up the super pose-able import toy trinity is SH Figuarts: which, while delivering awesome Godzilla, Gundam, Dragon Ball Z, Megaman X, and One Piece figures, stole my heart with the release of their Tiger and Bunny line. This line is hot, and I think we had the Tiger and Bunny Figuarts in for like a few hours before they sold out. We do have a nice variety of non-T&B Figuarts still in stock though, so hey, it's not a complete loss if you come in looking for some. We also got a ton of new Gunpla in this year, including kits from the new series Gundam Age. Continue reading


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Close to Erie International Airport, Erie Children's Museum, and Erie Zoo
Our Wingate by Wyndham Erie hotel near Erie International Airport is located just off I-90 with easy access to I-79. We offer close proximity to restaurants, shopping, and great outdoor fun. With comfortable, convenient amenities, we are the perfect choice for business and leisure travelers alike.


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My Turn: Canyon Springs, Round 4
Special to the Sun
TRUCKEE, Calif. – Once again the real estate development team of Canyon Springs is trying to push their agenda through.
The new development plan proposal calls for the development of 284 acres and 185 units (with potentially as many second dwelling units) in eastern Truckee.
The possible impacts to our community include: significant traffic increases (2,000 to 2,500 trips) daily on Glenshire Drive; increased noise pollution; decreased property values for existing residents; increased suburban sprawl; long-term construction noise and traffic; threatened wildlife habitat; decreased fire and evacuation safety.
The Draft Environmental Impact Report has been completed and can be reviewed and commented on by March 6. The report states that aside from certain intersections, Glenshire Drive (between Martis Peak Road and Donner Pass Road) would be suitable for the influx of additional traffic that this project would generate.
In its present condition, Glenshire Drive is a hazard during the winter season. The wheel ruts are so deep that the plow blades cannot effectively remove snow pack and ice the blades can only contact the highest portions of the road. When it rains, the water runs lengthwise down the road following the wheel ruts rather than off the road shoulders. Additional traffic will only exacerbate this problem.
The DEIR traffic report is done during the dry season and does not take into account ice and snow. Why is that? Winter happens every year out here.
I know of a number of people who have had head-on collisions on Glenshire Drive during winter conditions and have, myself, opted to turn into the shoulder or snow bank to avoid an oncoming vehicle sliding out of control. To state that this road is up to the task of handling such a significant increase in traffic is absurd. If this project is approved, will that road be rebuilt and maintained on a more frequent basis? Who will pay for that?
The DEIR also states that noise pollution would be less than significant if this project is approved. Huh? Traffic is noise, construction is noise, and construction traffic is noise.
We have until March 6 to submit written comments on the DEIR. Address comments to: Denyelle Nishimori, Senior Planner, 10183 Truckee Airport Road, Truckee, CA, 96161
Neil Pankler is a Truckee resident living in the Glenshire subdivision.