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Danica Patrick will likely make a routine return to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to drive a stock car for the first time at the legendary Brickyard, and she could be joined by Johanna Long in the Indiana 250 NASCAR Nationwide Series race Saturday, July 28.
But Patrick and Long won't be the first for a woman driver.
That honor belongs to Shawna Robinson, a Daytona 500 veteran from Des Moines, Iowa, who qualified at 11:33 a.m. on Aug. 4, 2001 at 171.966 mph, becoming the first woman ever to qualify a stock car at the historic 2 ½-mile oval.
Unfortunately, it was not fast enough to make the field for the eighth annual Brickyard 400.
"Tropicana gave us this chance," Robinson said at the time. "We'll focus on a full season next year. To try and compete at this level, it's hard when you're not running in anything else. A rookie driver and a rookie car, we did our best to get it done."
The next year, she made the field at Daytona and drove a limited schedule until taking time off to start a family. She got back in the mix after that, but again was on a limited basis until retiring.
The Brickyard "first" was one of an array of firsts in her career, from ARCA to the Goody's Dash Series to Busch/Nationwide to Cup. Robinson, now 47, got her start at a young age in the truck racing series spawned by her father, "Lefty," who was also part of the Iowa group of drivers that included Don White, former Daytona 500 polesitter Ramo Stott and Terry Ryan.
"My dad was my mentor," Shawna said this week. "There wasn't a weekend growing up that I wasn't at a racetrack. I had a chance to drive a sprint car once, but my mom was absolutely against it. We couldn't get that one past her.
"For me, Indianapolis was all about A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti, but I was never big on open-wheel racing. I always had a dream to go to NASCAR, so the Brickyard was a huge thing for me. Any aspect of being at the Brickyard is a notch on my list. But when you go anywhere and don't qualify, you beat yourself up for it."
Today, Robinson is in a business she started while still driving and has a studio in Matthews, N.C. There is Shawna Robinson Designs, Shawna Robinson Happy Chair, Shawna Robinson Special Events and, essentially, a complete layout of interior-decorating services.
She has done special custom work for a number of well-known NASCAR people.
"I don't regret walking away from my (last) team," she said. "Of course, Danica coming in and so forth, I was a little ahead of my time. In 1999, I came back to racing. I knew I would come back to racing after I had kids, and I did what I wanted to do.
"I'll go to the races every once in a while. I'd like to be a little more involved. I always thought I'd be involved in on-air broadcasting. It's real funny. I've been on the other side of the camera as a driver. It'd be interesting to be on the opposite side."
But with racing at the back door of her life, her first at the Brickyard is something that will stand forever.
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This is the Morning Shift, our one-stop daily roundup of all the auto news that's actually important — all in one place at 9:00 AM. Or, you could spend all day waiting for other sites to parcel it out to you one story at a time. Isn't your time more important?
1st Gear: The GM Plant That Refused To Die
The Truth About Cars reports on Friday afternoon's Tesla S ceremony, where excited owners drove their cars out the door in Fremont, Calif. Here at Jalopnik, Matt put together a helpful compilation of all the Tesla S reviews. I was struck by the place where those cars are being built. The Tesla factory is a GM plant that simply refuses to die — even though it was once considered one of the worst auto factories on the face of the earth.
I took a look at Fremont's history for Forbes, and my friend Frank Langfitt did a wonderful hour on the factory for This American Life. Simply put, the Fremont plant should have been like all those other plants that GM shut down (some of which the Racer Trust is trying to sell). It was too far away from the center of the GM universe. Its workers allegedly used drugs and drank on the job and put Coke bottles in door panels so the rattling would bug customers. In fact, GM closed Fremont in 1982, only to have it reopen in 1984 as the home of New United Motor Manufacturing Inc., its joint venture with Toyota.
NUMMI lasted a quarter-century before GM pulled out in 2009, and Toyota closed Fremont down in 2010. But just a month after it shut, Akio Toyoda agreed to buy a stake in Tesla for $50 million. There was a big federal loan and a tax break from California. And now, Fremont has come back to life as part of the Tesla saga. (Actor Mark Ruffalo tweeted this photo from inside the plant.) Sure, it has a lot fewer workers, and who knows what Tesla will actually do as a manufacturer. But, the Fremont plant can claim a notable spot in automotive history.
2nd Gear: The Only Time Mercedes SL and Kia Rio Will Be In the Same Headline
Forbes reports on the 15 hardest cars to buy right now, based on the number of days they spend on dealer lots according to TrueCar. The list has both luxury cars, like the Mercedes SL, Lincoln MKS and Lexus RX 350 (both of those are the 2013 versions) and fuel efficient models, like the Toyota Prius C, Subaru Impreza and Kia Rio. We'll see what happens to supplies of the latter as gasoline prices drop (it's still $3.60 a gallon around Ann Arbor, but there are predictions that it's going to drop to around $3 a gallon by the end of the summer). The story advises anyone who's going shopping for one of these in-demand models to wait a few months, to give demand a chance to subside.
3rd Gear: Dealership Leaks Details Of The 2013 Accord
The Detroit Bureau says a dealer in Tuscon leaked a bunch of details about the upcoming Honda Accord. Honda hasn't officially shown what the car actually looks like, except for a concept coupe that it showed at NAIAS. According to a press release from Chapman Honda, the car will have "niceties' such as Bluetooth, SMS audio text capability, Pandora Radio with an iPhone interface 'all bundled together in a Multi-Information Display." And, the Chapman folks say the car will feature lane departure warning, forward collision warning and LaneWatch blind spot alert while a backup camera will now become standard on all new Accord models.
Whatever Honda puts on the Accord, it really needs the car to be a hit. Honda faces a stiff challenge now from the Nissan Altima, and the new version of the Toyota Camry is better than the old one. Honda is really trying to get its mojo back over the next few years, so there are enormous expectations for the new Accord.
4th Gear: French Cars Coming To The U.S., Except They're From Toyota
Toyota says in a press release that it will begin shipping Yaris cars to North America from its plant in Valenciennes, France, instead of exporting them from Japan. It's the first time Toyota has supplied the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico with a car that's made in Europe. Toyota is going to send about 25,000 Euro Yarises annually starting in May 2013. Toyota is going to sink an additional 8 million Euro into the factory, and the American-bound Yaris will get a a 1.5 liter gas engine, an automatic transmissions and other things the car needs to meet regulations.
I visited the Valenciennes plant a few years ago, and it's an interesting place. Valenciennes (they call it Toyota Motor Manufacturing France or TMMF) was the second factory Toyota built in Europe, after its plant in Britain. France was pretty desperate to get the plant, because unemployment was 20 percent in the area when it opened (sort of Le Rust Belt of the country). Exporting the Yaris from there instead of Japan will also guarantee some production at a time when the European market is feeling shaky.
5th Gear: GM Spending A Ton Of Rubles
The Detroit News reports that GM is pouring another $1 billion into its Russian operations over the next five years. That includes doubling the production at its plant in St. Petersburg, which is known as GM Auto. It will grow from 98,000 cars a year to 230,000 by 2015, and employment will go from 2,500 workers to 4,000.
The investment reflects a couple of things. One, GM is betting that the Russian market will be stable enough to merit the spending. Two, GM wants to expand in a market where its sales are growing. But Russia has been a long, tough battle for a lot of carmakers. GM has been there since 1992, and it sold 243,000 vehicles there last year, good for 9 percent of the market, and it will probably exceed that this year. That might seem like pretty modest volume. But there are a limited number of places where carmakers can go and the Russian market is one of those "we'd better be there" kind of places.
6th Gear: Gas Prices Down, But Gloom Continues
The Wall Street Journal (sub. required) reports that the price of gasoline is dropping rapidly across the country. The Energy Department says the average was $3.53 for the week ended June 18, while a daily AAA tracking survey put it at $3.42 on Sunday. Gas has dropped for 11 straight weeks: Energy measured it at $3.94 a gallon in early April. Normally, that would boost consumer confidence, but the University of Michigan's measurement of consumer sentiment fell in May for the first time in 10 months. Why do we care? Remember those three factors that go into car sales: jobs, housing and consumer confidence. And, gas prices don't mean better days ahead. The Journal notes that gas prices dropped significantly in 2008, just before the country fell into its deep recession. Stay tuned for more on what these prices will mean.
BMW Reaps The Benefit Of Web Buzz [The Detroit News]
VW Shakes Up Chattanooga Plant Management [Nooga]
UAW Backs Pride Flag In Fort Wayne [UAW]
How To Cover The Auto Beat [Business Journalism]
Drug Kingpin? Nope, Car Salesman [BBC]
Canadian Parts Makers Recovering [Automotive News, sub. required]
Today in Automotive History
On this day in history in 1956, the last Packard rolled off the line in Detroit. Although Packard had been a formidable luxury brand before the Depression, it never recovered when production resumed after World War II. With sales dwindling, Packard merged with Studebaker in the hope of cutting its costs. The new Packard-Studebaker became the fourth largest manufacturer of cars in the nation. Studebaker was struggling as well, however, and eventually dropped all its own big cars as well as the Packard. In 1956, Packard-Studebaker's then-president, James Nance, made the decision to suspend Packard's manufacturing operations in Detroit, though the company would continue to manufacture cars in South Bend, Ind., until 1958. There's still time to see the decaying plant site before the remains are torn down.
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Im writing allot of blogs these days! I guess lots is coming out!
Safety is what you get with comfort! Someone taking good care of you!
I felt safe as a boy; for a while while my father was around! That was only a few years! I had no idea what or who he was or what he was about until he was gone! I thought he loved me! And that thought of him loving me held me in place and meant everything in the world to me; I thought I was his pride n joy! I was not! I meant nothing to him; it was all a lie and a game! So, what do I do next!
I hid! I had no place to go, no place to hide; nothing!
I had no strength to continue with anything! You must have people behind you as a child; for school, for relationships, for everything! You don't do things alone!
Children forced alone end up on the streets dead
ITs unfortunate what I went through!
I have to get the memories with these pschophants; out of my personality! Get them worked through!
My original life was not worked through! It was all rapped up in side myself, in my emotions! And its stayed within me!
Because it was within me; hidden! Others never saw my worth! They just wrote me off! I never showed them anything! they never asked! and to this day they never asked!
IVe had people in the present actually judge me so harshly; they thought I was a fool! they thought they were superior in every direction; they were superior in no direction!
I showed them nothing; they walked all over me! I will still show them nothing!
Safety development is what Im interested in! being safe outside! I need to feel safe!


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DUBLIN – Ireland will pay several hundred former residents of Catholic-run Magdalene laundries at least 34.5 million euros ($45 million) to compensate them for their years of unpaid labour and public shame, the government announced Wednesday following a decade-long campaign by former residents of the workhouses.
Justice Minister Alan Shatter apologized to the women — an estimated 770 survivors out of more than 10,000 who lived in the dozen facilities from 1922 to 1996 — that it had taken so long for them to receive compensation. The move marked the latest step in a two-decade effort by Ireland to investigate and redress human rights abuses in its Catholic institutions.
Shatter's decision came four months after a government-commissioned probe found that women consigned to the laundries were broadly branded "fallen" women, a euphemism for prostitutes. The investigation found that few actually were, while most instead were victims of poverty, homelessness and dysfunctional families in a state lacking the facilities to care for them.
In remarks to former Magdalenes, some of them in the press-conference audience, Shatter said he hoped they would accept the compensation plans as "a sincere expression of the state's regret for failing you in the past, its recognition of your current needs, and its commitment to respecting your dignity and human rights as full, equal members of our nation."
And in a challenge to the four orders of nuns that ran the workhouses, Shatter called on them to help pay the bill.
The orders — the Sisters of Mercy, the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of Refuge, the Sisters of Charity, and the Good Shepherd Sisters — all issued statements welcoming the payments plan. None offered any pledge to contribute and insisted their staff had done the best they could at the time, given the state's own inability to care for the women.
The nuns noted that they still were providing homes to more than 100 former laundry workers who chose to remain in church care when the last of the laundries closed, while virtually none of the nuns involved in running the workhouses was still alive today.
"We wish we had provided a better and more comprehensive service and shown more empathy, but we were also part of a system that had little comprehension or understanding of how to truly care for these women," said the Good Shepherd Sisters, who ran four laundries in Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Wexford. "We always acted in good faith and many of our sisters dedicated their entire lives to this work."
Shatter said the total cost of payments could reach 58 million euros ($75.5 million) if the maximum number of eligible women worldwide applies. The tax-free payments would range from 11,500 euros ($15,000), for women who spent less than three months working in a laundry, to up to 100,000 euros ($130,000) for those who spent 10 years or more there.
As part of the plans, former Magdalenes also will receive state-funded retirement pensions and free medical care at state-funded facilities.
Activists representing the so-called "Maggies" had demanded justice and state compensation since 2002, when a previous government launched a compensation fund for people abused in Catholic-run orphanages and workhouses for children.
Former Magdalene residents were declared ineligible, as the government contended that the laundries were privately run institutions with negligible state involvement. Taxpayers since have paid more than 1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) to more than 13,000 people who suffered sexual, physical and psychological abuse in the children's residences.
A government-commissioned investigation in February found that the state was legally responsible for overseeing the laundries, too. Prime Minister Enda Kenny offered an official apology for what he called "a cruel, pitiless Ireland" that had abused the women with " untrue and offensive stereotypes."
Investigators trawling through decades of the laundries' residency records found that more than a quarter of women were directly committed to the laundries by public officials, such as judges or truancy officers, and all residents spent their days in menial labour without access to education.
Most did laundry for hotels, hospitals and prisons, while others scrubbed floors or made rosary beads for the church's profit.
The report found that the average length of stay was just seven months, not the lifetime imprisonment commonly depicted in fictional works. It said 14 per cent stayed more than five years, and 8 per cent more than a decade.
Many hundreds checked into the facilities repeatedly for short periods, reflecting their poverty and the Irish state's inadequate facilities for homeless women. And until the 1970s, judges often ordered women guilty of crimes ranging from shoplifting to infanticide into the laundries rather than Ireland's male-dominated prison system.
The report did dispute depictions in popular culture of physical beatings in the institutions, noting that many Magdalene residents had transferred there as teenagers from Catholic-run industrial schools where such violence was common, and some survivors in their adult recollections failed to distinguish between the two. It found no evidence of such attacks in the nuns' care and, specifically, no complaints of sexual abuse by the nuns.
Ireland's compensation plans, http://bit.ly/19Ce2vt
Magdalene Laundries report, http://www.idcmagdalen.ie/


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So, does this count as the first mash-up in media history?
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This is the best idea in the history of driving. Either that or the worst. [Flickr via WPD]
Snoop Dogg "Can Live With" Two Year Norway Ban
Snoop Dogg was visiting Oslo last month ahead of a music festival when sniffer dogs popped him for carrying eight grams of herb and more cash than is legally allowed, which is apparently a thing. Snoop's lawyer, Holger Hagesaeter, announced Saturday that, as a result, his client has been barred from entering the country for the next two years and fined $8,700. In other news, Snoop Dogg gives not one fuck about Norway. Hagesaeter said that Snoop "can live with the decision" and has no plans to appeal. [WPD - Image: AP]
Money Bunny Blues
I think we can all agree that a giant rabbit that poops money down your chimney is an ideal non-denominational mascot for Festivus. It's like Santa and the Easter Bunny all rolled into one. [Cartoon Brew]
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What about Original Sin ?
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It is since Augustine that the phrase original sin has become a common usage in the church. The phrase does not appear in the Bible. Rom. 5: 12-21 is a description of the Adamic sin and not original sin. In the Pauline chapter on Resurrection, the contrast is not between original sin and salvation, but between death, and life. "For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive." (I Cor. 15: 21). In Pauline theology, all have become sinners in the sin of Adam and the free grace available in Christ is much more than what is needed to atone for the trespasses of Adam. The problem with the title original sin is that it gives the false idea that cohabitation of the married couple is a sinful act. The biblical basis for this is found in Ps. 51: 5, 'behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me,' is not a Christian idea, but an O. T. idea not in line with the sacrament of marriage and the Christian theology of the sexual coitus of the married couple as a sacred act of co-creation with God. The Christian teaching on the universality of sin, the inborn inclination towards sinning are all taken care of by the phrase Adamic sin. The question whether man commits sin because he is a sinner or whether he commits sin and become a sinner is only theoretical. The being and doing of sin go together.


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ORLANDO, Fla. — Antone Exum won't forget those smiles any time soon.
He has the picture to remind him of that time when he gave three random strangers a special Christmas gift. Three boys from the Bahamas who happened to be in a Best Buy in Orlando were the recipients of Exum's generosity Monday night. He offered to buy them anything in the store.
For Exum, a redshirt junior cornerback from Virginia Tech who is in town for this week's Russell Athletic Bowl, it was an easy choice to make.
"I think I was blessed to have a lot of fortunate Christmases when I was a kid, so I hope that every little kid deserves to have a perfect Christmas," said Exum, a Richmond-area native, recalling his spree before his team took to the practice field at the Citrus Bowl stadium.
Exum and his teammates were in Best Buy on a shopping spree provided by the bowl. Each player was given a $470 gift card to spend. And while many of them bought iPad 2s and DVDs, it was Exum who decided to give something back rather than take. He returned the headphones and DVDs that were in his cart — items that were "wants," not needs, according to Exum — and instead reached out to three boys he had seen earlier in the evening.
"I had my cart with my stuff in it, and I saw them walking and I was already thinking about it, so I put my stuff back and I was looking for these kids," said Exum, who said he saw the children earlier in the visit. "They were playing on the PS3 (display). That's actually what the littlest one ended up getting. I think that's what he wanted for Christmas."
It's not every day when someone offers to buy you just about anything in the store. As you can imagine, the two brothers and a cousin were a bit skeptical at first.
"They asked me like three times, 'So, we get anything that we want?' I said, 'Yeah, I got this money and I want you to go shopping and get what you want,'" Exum said.
The boys didn't appear to be football fans, leaving Exum to "… explain to them that I was here for a bowl game and this was our bowl gift."
The boys bought a PlayStation 3 game console as well as a Blackberry phone, but before long, Exum needed a little help. That's when teammates Tariq Edwards and Marcus Davis donated the remainder of their gift cards so the kids could purchase some games as well.
Before they parted ways, Exum took a picture of the four of them and posted it on Twitter.
"I just took the picture with the kids so I could remember them, and when I put it on there (Twitter), I started seeing people retweet it and then (teammate) J.C. (Coleman) texted me and said, 'You are about to blow up,' and I was like 'Why?' and he said everybody's talking about this."
Exum's tweet, along with his deeds, were all over social media, including a post on the popular blog Deadspin. Fans began sending comments to him on Twitter, and while he tried to answer each and every one back, he hit the limit for tweets in an hour.
"I was proud of him. It made someone else's Christmas better and I think he felt good about it," said Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer, who said Exum's actions were timely because the team chaplain had just spoken about giving.
The gesture made for a special Christmas.
"I know it was a Christmas that I won't forget, because I won't forget those smiles and the excitement on their faces when I told them they could get whatever they wanted in the store," Exum said.


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Looks like the good folks at Sony have decided to pick up the rights to "Predestination", a new sci-fi flick from The Spierig Brothers. The film is based on Robert A. Heinlein short story "All you Zombies" and focuses on a secret government group that sends people back in time to prevent terrorist attacks. Maybe they can go back and stop the whole Ska thing in the 90's too. Am I right?
Last week Tom Hardy said that "Mad max: Fury Road" wasn't going to be happening any time soon. But today Charlize Theron is saying that the film going into production next week. I don't know who to believe. Both of them are super hot. But in every interview Charlize Theron has annoyed the crap out of me. On the other hand Tom Hardy is a man with a penis. I'm really on the fence here.
Josh Trank made big waves with his "nobody will hug me and now I have super powers" film "Chronicle" so hopes are high now that he's been given the director role on the upcoming film adaptation of the classic video game "Shadow of the Colossus". The game tells the tale of a young chap who sets out to bring his one true love back to life by battling giant creatures who hold the power to revive her. It sounds insane but the game was awesome. Trust me. I'd never lie to you.
Word around the locker room is Mr. Gary Oldman has signed on to play the scientist who creates the great robot cop in the upcoming remake of "Robocop". Are you excited? I am.... I've run out of stupid crap to say.


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Somerset Place is a representative state historic site offering a comprehensive and realistic view of 19th-century life on a large North Carolina plantation. Originally, this atypical plantation included more than 100,000 densely wooded, mainly swampy acres bordering the five-by-eight mile Lake Phelps, in present-day Washington County. During its 80 years as an active plantation (1785-1865), hundreds of acres were converted into high yielding fields of rice, corn, oats, wheat, beans, peas, and flax; sophisticated sawmills turned out thousands of feet of lumber. By 1865, Somerset Place was one of the upper South's largest plantations.
From Somerset's earliest days through the end of the Civil War, people of different races, legal, and economic status lived on the property. A labor force of almost 200 men, women, and children was assembled before 1790. They were black and white, enslaved and free. Over the life of the plantation, three generations of owners, around 50 white employees, two free black employees, and more than 850 enslaved people lived and worked on the plantation.
By the mid-19th century, more than 50 buildings were clustered on the northeast rim of Lake Phelps, serving as the industrial complex and residential community. Included were barns, saw and gristmills, stables, a hospital, an Episcopal chapel, a kitchen complex, and 26 houses for members of the enslaved community. Homes for overseers, tutors, ministers, and the owner's family—along with a kitchen/laundry, dairy, storehouse, and smoke and salting houses—also stood here.
With the end of the plantation system, Somerset Place plantation passed into history. Nearly all the newly emancipated black families left the plantation before 1870. The financially crippled owners eventually sold and left the property, never to return. Today, this unique historical attraction is the only such North Carolina plantation preserved as a state historic site and open to the visiting public.
Somerset Place Becomes a State Historic Site
In 1939, after nearly 70 years of neglect and the loss of most of the original buildings, Somerset's main house and seven adjacent buildings were incorporated into the newly formed Pettigrew State Park. In 1969, these buildings and the immediate grounds were designated a state historic site under the N.C. Department of Cultural Resources, Office of Archives and History, Division of State Historic Sites and Properties.
The present-day historic site includes 31 of the original lakeside acres and seven original 19th-century buildings. With the goal of accurately representing the lives and lifestyles of the plantation's entire antebellum community, the Department of Cultural Resources has acquired the reconstructed Overseer's House and reconstructed representative one-room and four-room homes where enslaved families once lived, along with the plantation hospital.
Somerset Place stands today as a rather remarkable historic site. It offers an interpretive tour that meshes the lifestyles of all of the plantation's residents into one concise chronological social history of the plantation's 80-year lifespan. Through one general tour, visitors explore the lives of the plantation's owners, enslaved community, employed whites, and free blacks.
Plan a visit to learn more about the history of Somerset Place plantation.
Further Reading
Somerset Homecoming: Recovering A Lost Heritage
by Dorothy Spruill Redford and Michael D'Orso
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.
(Originally published New York: Doubleday, 1988)
Black Americans in North Carolina and the South
edited by Jeffrey J. Crow and Flora J. Hatley
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1984.
A History of African Americans in North Carolina
by Jeffrey J. Crow, Paul D. Escott, and Flora J. Hatley
Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 1992.
Recollections of My Slavery Days
by William Henry Singleton
Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 1999.


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UVA favored by 1 vs UNCheats. Lets hope they can pull it off.
That said, Tony Bennett can coach circles around Ol Roy. Go UVA! 9F
I've fallen off recently, so my battle right now is to not let a cold streak take me into the red, and hopefully I can get back to the $5K level or so by the end of the contest.
Went 3-1-1 this weekend for +950. Need to keep the momentum going to get back in the black.
I have officially given up on making any O/U bets. I'm -2,070 with those bets, and +820 ATS.
Of course, the next logical step in this process is to give up on making any bets at all. But degeneracy is a commitment, and I'm nothing if not steadfast in my commitments!
I would be on UNC and the under tonight but can't jump on when people have gotten much better lines. We'll see if I regret not forcing action.
I think UVA is better than the cheats, but I can't convince myself that UVA is going to win this one. It's related to my "never bet on State" rule. In it's full form, the rule is "Always bet on UNC and State to disappoint you...State by losing, UNC by winning."
I took the Over at 140.5. I'm not buying the "Virginia will be tired because of the short turnaround plus they have to travel" line. This game will be played in the 70s.
I tend to bet on UNC, figuring that I would gladly give up fake points for a real loss. So, going with that tonight.
Took the over, because UNC seems to go to the line an awful lot at home and that bumps up the score without running clock.
Did not check to see if TV Ted is calling the game or not, though.
I think UVa is better but to win I think they have to make Coby White play like a Freshman, or the way Freshmen used to play in the sepia-toned memories of my youth. This is arguably UNC's biggest game to date. If UVa can pressure White into a below average game, lose his grip on the magnitude of the moment for a bit and force him into a few turnovers--and turnovers are occasionally a problem for UNC, then I think UVA wins by 8 to 10. If White starts dropping dimes and hitting more than 30% on his 3s, watch out. I bet on the former.
The Cheats at home tonight is a Mother-Inlaw bet.
Veg Insider has it a Pick game with 140 o/u.


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Household Wealth in U.S. Decreased by $1.3 Trillion
By Courtney Schlisserman
June 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. household wealth fell in the first quarter by $1.3 trillion, extending the biggest slump on record, as home and stock prices dropped.
Net worth for households and non-profit groups decreased to $50.4 trillion, the lowest level since 2004, from $51.7 trillion in the fourth quarter, according to the Federal Reserve's Flow of Funds report today. The government began keeping quarterly records in 1952.
Americans are cutting back on spending as unemployment surges, home prices continue to drop and wealth evaporates, signaling any economic recovery will be slow to develop. The drop in net worth is one reason Americans are boosting savings, blunting the effect of the tax breaks and income supplements from the Obama administration's stimulus plan.
"It's going to be very difficult to have any recovery in consumer spending without jobs and incomes recovering first," said Christopher Low, chief economist at FTN Financial in New York. "The probability of a debt-financed consumer spending binge like we saw in the last expansion is essentially nil."
Retail sales rose in May for the first time in three months, an increase driven almost solely by U.S. shoppers returning to automobile showrooms seeking bargains and the rising cost of gasoline, a report today from the Commerce Department showed.
Smaller Decline
One positive aspect of today's Fed report is that the decreases in net worth are starting to ease. Wealth dropped by a record $4.9 trillion in the last three months of 2008.
Americans have taken on less debt as the economic recession unfolds. While the jump in savings rate to 5.7 percent in April was helped by an increase in incomes linked to the fiscal stimulus plan, some economists are forecasting savings will continue to rise as consumers hold back on spending.
Real-estate-related household assets decreased by $551.1 billion, following a $974.5 billion decrease in the fourth quarter. Net worth related to corporate equities fell by $347.8 billion the first three months of this year.
Owners' equity as a share of their total real-estate holdings decreased to 41.4 percent last quarter from 42.9 percent in the fourth quarter, today's Fed report showed.
Consumer debt fell at a 1.1 percent annual pace following a 2 percent decrease in the fourth quarter that was the first drop on record.
Mortgage borrowing was unchanged from January through March, the first time in a year it didn't fall, the Fed's report showed. Stabilization in real-estate lending adds to evidence that the housing slump is easing.
Total borrowing by consumers, businesses and government agencies increased at an annual rate of 4.1 percent last quarter compared with a 6.2 percent gain the prior quarter. The gain was paced by a 23 percent surge in borrowing by the federal government, reflecting spending linked to the stimulus plan.
Business borrowing decreased at a 0.3 percent pace after rising 1.5 percent the prior quarter, the Fed said.
Borrowing by state and local governments increased at a 4.9 percent rate.
The economy contracted at a 5.7 percent annual pace in the first quarter and consumer spending rose at a 1.5 percent pace.
Economists surveyed by Bloomberg News this month forecast unemployment will climb to 10 percent by the end of the year and lowered their projections for consumer spending in the second half of the year to an average 1.1 percent annual pace. For all of 2009, purchases will drop 0.7 percent, the worst performance since 1974, according to the Bloomberg survey.
Never ending growth has come to an end. Here are some more charts to support that statement:
Let's start with Total Revolving Credit Outstanding (credit cards). Here we see the first year-over-year (yoy) NEGATIVE growth:
Next is a chart showing Total Securitized Consumer Loans. Note that the dollar amount is falling. Remember that to have economic growth, each year must produce more credit than the year before:
Here's Personal Savings in Billions of Dollars, suddenly the highest dollar amount since the late 50's which is as far back as this chart has data:
And here's the Personal Saving's RATE:
Here's Household Debt Outstanding yoy percent change… note that it just went negative for the first time ever on this chart since the early 50's:
Here's one that should be given more attention, Corporate Net Cash Flow, percent change yoy. NEGATIVE 20%, that is huge and cannot be sustained for long:
Look for bankruptcies, personal, corporate, and governmental to rise dramatically in the next year as those who have been hanging on waiting for "the turn around" to come. Me, I'm Comfortably Numb...
Pink Floyd, Comfortably Numb:


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I set up the QuNexus for six channels of channel rotation. I set note toggle to on.
In Ableton:
- I set up six MIDI tracks, one per channel.
The output of MIDI tracks 1 & 4 are sent to (what I'll call) consolidated track A, which has an arpeggiator feeding an instrument.
The output of MIDI tracks 2 & 5 are sent to consolidated track B, which has an arpeggiator feeding another instrument.
The output of MIDI tracks 3 & 6 are sent to consolidated track C, which has an arpeggiator feeding yet another instrument.
That's the basics of it, tho I also add stuff like the "Scale" MIDI effect between the arpeggiators and instruments, and sometimes the "Chord" effect before the arpeggiator. Also, I've varied the routing, like 1 patch for one instrument, 2 for another, and 3 for the third.
This can generate some interesting ambiences, for sure.
And using this is where I discovered that the octave shift re-triggers EVERYTHING, so now I take that into account. You can hit STOP in Ableton (even if you weren't playing in Ableton) and all notes go off, but then you can hit an octave button and everything starts going again.


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Martyr Sabbas Stratelates "the General" of Rome, and 70 soldiers with him - Troparion & Kontakion
Troparion — Tone 5
You abandoned earthly rank and honor, / and as an athlete, confessed Christ God before the false and tyrannical emperors. / For His sake, you endured much suffering, O glorious one. / Therefore, splendidly adorned with the armies of heaven, / you have been crowned with a beautiful wreath of victory / by the King who reigns over all. / As you stand before Him, O Sabbas, / pray that He may save our souls.
Kontakion — Tone 4
You were shown to be an invincible athlete, most blessed Sabbas, / overcoming the snares of the barbarians. / You contended with faithfulness, / conquering a multitude of the invisible enemy. / Therefore, you have woven a wreath of victory. / Most glorious one, entreat Christ for those who honor you with faith.


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Kinsler leading off, Jackson fifth in spring opener
LAKELAND, Fla. -- Tigers manager Brad Ausmus hasn't yet announced his batting order for the start of the season, and he probably won't do that for a while. But he might have laid down a hint with his lineup for Tuesday's unofficial Spring Training opener against Florida Southern.
Ausmus didn't announce the full lineup, but he revealed the top half when asked how many regulars will play in the exhibition game. New Tigers second baseman Ian Kinsler will bat leadoff, followed by Torii Hunter, Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez. Austin Jackson, Detroit's leadoff man for the better part of four years, will bat fifth.
Ausmus didn't reveal the rest of the lineup, because some players involved hadn't been informed of his plans. He has made communication a point of emphasis as manager, and he said early in camp that he doesn't want players reading about their roles before they're told personally.
Ever since Kinsler's arrival in the Prince Fielder trade, Detroit's leadoff spot has been a mystery. He sat atop the batting order in Texas for five of the past six seasons, reaching base safely from that spot at a .346 percentage rate for his career and at a rate of .355 last season. Austin Jackson has a .342 career OBP leading off, .337 last year.
There's no guarantee that the batting order for the first spring exhibition game equates to the batting order for Opening Day, even if the regulars are playing. Like his predecessor, Jim Leyland, Ausmus said he plans to play most of his regulars long enough to get one at-bat before substituting for them. In some years, Leyland would put a player near the top of the order to get him an at-bat early and avoid playing him in the field too much.


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Hey, guys! It's been awhile, and also the world is kind of a disaster right now! Hurray!
At any rate, I wanted to share this crazy thing I've been working on for like three months because, well, I had to abandon my craft blog for personal safety reasons and I haven't had a presence in fandom communities since I quit Tumblr in like 2013. This is the place I have to share and given my favorite topic of exuberant essays I figured y'all wouldn't mind.
Behold, my quilt of over-intensity! I made a Captain America one last year, and then a Winter Soldier one for a friend. Everyone had to know a FitzSimmons one was coming, right? There are a ton of pictures and info under the cut. Two things: please excuse the lighting and quality of these photos—I work a night shift and never see the sun; second, share these wherever you want, I only ask that you please credit me and/or link back to here.


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San Francisco society was pirouetting and spinning last week among opening parties for the de Young Museum's Dutch Masters exhibit, the new SFJazz Center and the San Francisco Ballet.
On Tuesday evening, Dede Wilsey hosted a dinner in honor of the de Young's showing of artworks, including those by Rembrandt and Frans Hals, from the Royal Picture Gallery, Mauritshuis in The Hague. The exhibit, named in honor of its star canvas, Vermeer's "Girl With a Pearl Earring," will land at The Frick in New York in October. Wilsey's guests in the Herzog & de Meuron-designed pierced-copper-clad turret of the de Young included a horde of Dutch dignitaries, the Dutch ambassador, major museum donors and a black-tie cohort of Dutch masters of industry.
"If you're wondering which of the guests are Dutch, it's easy," the petite Wilsey pointed out. "The Dutch are the tall ones. All of them are very tall."
The exhibit's titular attraction, which rarely travels, was presented behind bulletproof glass, with a sturdy guard posted nearby. Also ogling the Frans Hals portraits were Jean Larette, Lisa Podos and Katie and Todd Traina.
On the same night at the SFJazz Center, a glassy box in ultramodern contrast to the Beaux Arts opera house nearby, bassist Esperanza Spalding joined Chick Corea in a swinging duo, as jazz stars Mary Stallings, and Pete Escovedo and even Bill Cosby on cowbells made for an electric evening. Shailene Woodley, Nancy Pelosi, Sako Fisher, Amy Tan, Danny Glover, Nion McEvoy, Charlotte Shultz and Delroy Lindo were among the fans taking in the performance.
On Thursday at the San Francisco Ballet gala, the theme was "Moving the Compass," an appropriate concept for the week. With Yahoo head Marissa Mayer, a longtime and staunch patron of the troupe, in Davos, Switzerland, the party lacked the usual glam-tech sizzle. But it more than made up for it with the arrival of Wendy Schmidt, wife of Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt. Schmidt, who wore a frothy pale blue Christian Siriano gown, has found herself in the middle of a media storm this month after daughter Sophie accompanied her father on a non-State Department sanctioned visit to North Korea. The younger Schmidt's sharp, witty and uncensored blog posts about her trip with her father to the capital, Pyongyang, went viral. A clip: "It might not get weirder than this. North Korea is a very, very strange country. Reminded me of the 'We're Not Worthy' bit from 'Wayne's World.' Just another example of the reality distortion field we routinely encountered in North Korea."
"She speaks with the candid, tech-savvy voice of her generation," said Wendy Schmidt.


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text: Hi everyone, I am trying to learn how to do socket programming. What I am trying to do right now is the following: 1. Client and Server which communicate on localhost using whichever port I designate 2. Server has a text file stored on it 3. Client can send a query to the Server to peruse the text file and get contents (for example if the text file is an address book, I want to be able to send the name of the person as a query and get the Server to return the address after browsing the text file). I am trying to do this in Linux because it seems to be the most simple out of all the operating systems in terms of complexity etc. If anyone could give me any pointers or a step in the right direction that would be GREAT! Thanks!!!!


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By Chris Wright
Michael Johnson circa 2008
Having made his last appearance for the club as a substitute against Scunthorpe in October 2009, Manchester City have today finally released long-dormant midfielder Michael Johnson. 'Tis a sad, sad day for football.
According to the Guardian, Johnson was offered a severance package by City before Christmas after being convicted of two drink-driving offences last September, but the 24-year-old declined – preferring to sit on his arse and collect his weekly wages (which we've seen estimated an anywhere between £25,000-£40,000 every seven days) while he became ever more out of shape and unfit.
Sounds like a dream job to us, but hey ho!
A photo of Johnson as he looks today is currently being circulated, which has been reacted to in some circles – i.e, Twitter – as if Johnson has transmogrified into the kind of freakish, heavingly obese 45-stone monster that has to be lifted in a specially-made sling by a tower crane just to get out of his chair.
In actuality, he just looks like a fairly normal young lad who's been injured for nigh-on three years a put a couple of stone on…
Yes, it's sad that a once-promising talent has petered out and, yes, it's also sad that he didn't appear to be able to help himself, but let's not get unnecessarily vicious about this people.
(Image: BBC Sporf)


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Brian Vickers set to be named full-time driver for MWR
Michael Waltrip Racing appears set to announce that Brian Vickers will drive for the team full time next year with Aaron's as his sponsor.
MWR sent out a media advisory Monday for a "major media announcement" on Tuesday. The announcement included the Aaron's logo and a photo of Vickers.
MWR general manager Ty Norris declined comment Sunday when asked about the possibility of an announcement that Vickers would drive the No. 55 car full time next season. Rich Lamprey, Aaron's director of sports sponsorships, also declined comment on its MWR sponsorship and the possibility of Vickers being the driver.
Team co-owner Michael Waltrip has repeatedly said that he wants Vickers to drive the car full time in 2014.
Vickers, who won the Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway last month, is in his second year as a fill-in driver in the No. 55 car, which is primarily driven by Mark Martin. Martin runs 24 points races in the car with Vickers behind the wheel for nine and Waltrip in for three. Martin, 54, has said that he would not return to the team next season.
"I feel very at home here and comfortable and confident in our chances to be successful, so this is where I want to be," Vickers said after the New Hampshire win.
"Aaron's has been phenomenal to work with. There are partners that just write checks and there are partners that are partners, and they have been that for MWR and they have been that for me."
Vickers is fifth in points in the Nationwide Series, where he competes full time for JGR. He has one win and three top-10s in nine Cup starts this season.
Vickers, who turns 30 in October, has three wins and 65 top-10s in 272 career Cup starts, primarily for Hendrick Motorsports and Red Bull Racing. He made the Chase for the Sprint Cup in 2009 but saw his 2010 season cut short after 11 races because of blood clots. He joined MRW on a part-time basis in 2011.


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There is a thin line between triumph and disaster, as Kilian Jornet discovered this weekend at the opening ski mountaineering World Cup race in Puy Saint Vincent, France. In the opening race he went off course and was disqualified, despite finishing third. But on Sunday's vertical race there were no mistakes and he came home first to secure victory.
"I'm happy with the result [of the vertical]," Kilian said. "My sensations were good. In the beginning Tony Palzer and I ran off ahead and at about half the race I managed to get away from him to finally achieve the victory. After the track error in the Individual Race I cannot assess the weekend positively, but I am very satisfied with the team's performance."
File image ©ISMF Press Office
The World Cup continues and the next stop will be the weekend of 24th-25th of January in Andorra, where an Individual and a Vertical Race will be held. The aim of Jornet will be "to be as high as possible" in both events.
Earlier, the Suunto ambassador spoke of his disappointment after what happened on Saturday. "It is a pity what happened. I was feeling in shape during the whole race but on the last downhill I got confused in a part that was not marked and therefore I got disqualified. Now I'll have to fight hard in all the races so that I can try to have a good overall position."
If there's one person who can do that, it's Kilian Jornet!
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You will notice I'm no longer writing multiple posts in a week at Shareology, since I'm publishing three times a week at Infor From the Source.
However, since the life span of a blog is approximately that of a fruit fly, let's take a moment to look at highlights of Shareology.
The Target branding article still holds up. Try an article or two on Ida Marie.
I broke the news that Louis Vuitton was opening in Galleria and Microsoft in Mall of American. Use the search box to the right.
Thank you for your past and future readership. Five is Fun!
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Dress up Paris Hilton 2
Name: Paris Whitney Hilton
Profession: celeb
Birthday: february 17, 1981
Sister of Nicky Hilton, Barron Nicholas Hilton and Conrad Hughes Hilton. Announced she would live on a farm for a new fish-out-of-water "reality" show called "The Simple Life" (2003). Daughter of Rick Hilton and Kathy Richards. For her 21st birthday, she threw five parties for herself in New York, Las Vegas, London, Hollywood and Tokyo.


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Android Binder
Binder is an Android-specific interprocess communication mechanism, and remote method invocation system.
- That is, one Android process can call a routine in another Android process, using binder to indentify the method to invoke and pass the arguments between processes.
- note that Android does NOT use SysV IPC for interprocess communication
- A good overview of binder is in the presentation Inter-process method invocation in Android by Tetsuyuki Kobayashi
- the binder implementation is in the kernel source at: drivers/misc/binder.c, with include file: include/linux/binder.h
- http://www.open-binder.org/ - where it came from
- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Binder.html - java interface to binder
- http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/IBinder.html - java low-level interface to binder feature
- http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/aidl.html - Android Interface Definition Language
Answers to questions
Q: Why does [Binder] need to be done in the kernel? Couldn't any of the current Linux IPC mechanisms be re-used to accomplish this?
A: Brian Swetland answers here:
I believe the two notable properties of the binder that are not present in existing IPC mechanisms in the kernel (that I'm aware of) are:
- avoiding copies by having the kernel copy from the writer into a ring buffer in the reader's address space directly (allocating space if necessary)
- managing the lifespan of proxied remoted userspace objects that can be shared and passed between processes (upon which the userspace binder library builds its remote reference counting model)
How it's used by Android
This is quoted from: https://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/25/3, in it's entirety. (I hope that Daniel and Dianne are OK with this.)
2009/6/19 Daniel Walker <email@example.com> > Most of these questions related to the fact that I don't think an > interface like this just slips into the kernel as a driver. Since it's > IPC, it's totally generic, and it's not part of a standard (i.e. POSIX), > we need to have some better and more specific information about it (or > atleast I do). Hi, sorry I have been slow to respond. I can give a summary of how binder is used in the Android platform and the associated feature set. I won't try to address other options, especially D-Bus, because honestly I haven't been following it for the last 3 or so years so don't really know its current state of art. In the Android platform, the binder is used for nearly everything that happens across processes in the core platform. Some examples of this, illustrating key features are: - The window manager and clients talk with each other through Binder. When a client starts up, it does a binder IPC into the window manager to create a new binder connection dedicated to that client. This is a common use of the capability model of the binder, where secure connections are given to clients which they can use for communication with the system. - The window manager and lower-level surface compositor talk with each other through Binder. There is as simple binder-based API that is used to allocate a surface for a window. This takes advantage of the Binder's fd passing and object identity facilities to allow the surface compositor to allocate area in a shared heap it manages: the window manager makes this request on behalf of a client application, and then passes that binder object over to the client process (it will retrieve the associated fd and map it for each unique heap it receives) for it to draw directly into the associated surface memory. The binder's object identity rules (an object has a single identity as it travels across processes, no matter how many times it does so or where it goes) are very convenient for managing this. - Separate components, like the window manager or surface flinger, may be switched between running in the same process or different processes with no change to their code. For example, in the current android platform these two components run in the same process, but we also have had run them in other processes and would like to do so on higher-end systems where there is more memory. This is not strictly a feature of the kernel part of the binder, but the IPC semantics it provides greatly ease its implementation: dispatching transactions to thread pools, synchronous calls with recursion across processes, etc. - The activity (or really application/process) manager also uses the binder for launching and managing components in a process. For applications, it creates a simple binder object for use as a "token" for the application. It gives this token to both the application and the window manager, and the application gives its token to the window manager when it adds windows. Because the binder maintains object identity, this model is used extensively in the system for security: you can hand someone a token, and then can hand that token to others, and you can always check whenever you get a token exactly who it was originally given to without any way for clients to spoof it. So the activity manager can say to the window manager, "all of this token's windows should be hidden," and the window manager can absolutely identify which windows came from that application through the token the app supplied with them. - The fundamentals of Android's security are a combination of uid-based permissions and binder capabilities. Some capabilities are direct (I give you access to my interface that you can call on), some are indirect (I give you a binder object as a token that you can compare against other tokens you receive to validate who it is). For permissions, every incoming binder transaction has associated with it the uid of the initator, which is used in numerous places where we want to only allow specific uids to access specific features. For example, there are APIs on the window manager to inject high-level input events into the system, and the implementation of those methods checks the calling uid to see if it is an application that has been granted the permission to do this. - The binder natively supports one-way and two-way calls. Its two-way calls are used extensively by all of the system services for incoming IPCs for better multi-threading: they are dispatched directly from a thread pool and the services acquire specific locks as needed to protect their state (rather than serializing all calls through one thread). More traditional one-way/async calls are used for communicating back with applications (or really for any service to send commands to a higher-level part of the system). - Many of the system services of course want to clean up state they have associated with a client process. For example, if an application process goes away, all of its windows should be removed. This is made easy by the binder's "link to death" facility, which allows a process to get a callback when another process hosting a binder object goes away. For example, the window manager links to the death of a window's callback interface, and other services have clients send a binder object token just to be able to find out when its process dies. The driver provides this facility by telling a process about the death of any objects it is watching. - The Input Method Manager is probably one of the better representative examples of how the binder facilities are used in the system: it is a relatively small component, but makes extensive use of binder object identities, capabilities, death links, and other features to arbitrate between N applications and M IMEs securely interacting with each other in a controlled way. A taste of this can be seen in the "Security" section of http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/inputmethod/InputMethodManager.html . One particular feature it relies on is allowing an application to hand it a binder object for an interface (here an InputConnection), which it can then send to an IME running in another process. That IME can now make direct calls on the InputConnection for just that application (it has been granted that capability) without having to go through the Input Method Manager intermediary process. One part of the binder protocol that is really nice but doesn't yet have a user space implementation is weak references. This allows a process to maintain knowledge of a remote object, without forcing it to stay around. At any point it can try to promote that to a strong reference (to actively call on the object), which will either succeed or fail based on whether the original object is still around or is not around because all of the strong references (either in-proc or remote) are gone. We never re-implemented the user space code for this because we didn't do weak references in the Java layer, but for native C and C++ code it is a very nice facility for managing object lifetimes. For a rough idea of the scope of the binder's use in Android, here is a list of the basic system services that are implemented on top of it: package manager, telephony manager, app widgets, audio services, search manager, location manager, notification manager, accessibility manager, connectivity manager, wifi manager, input method manager, clipboard, status bar, window manager, sensor service, alarm manager, content service, activity manager, power manager, surface compositor. > If for instance the main reason for Google using this interface is cause > a large number of android people once worked at Palm or BeOS, that's not > reason enough for it to go into the kernel. Or if this binder interface > really fits well with Java or C++ people and they just love it, that's > not really acceptable either.. It is true that a lot of the ideas of the binder came from previous work on BeOS and Palm's Cobalt. However, that is mostly inspiration: we started with the Open Binder code for very intial bringup, but entirely rewrote both the user space and driver code to address our needs for Android and to better fit with the Linux-centric design of the platform. I'm not sure what the relevance is of Java or C++ people liking it. Does this mean that the important thing is that C people love it and other languages don't matter? :) Anyway whether or not you "love" it I don't think is a matter of programming language but just design style, personal preference, and who knows what else. It has been extremely useful in our implementation of Android, as can be seen in just how much of the system sits on top of it, but that's all. Finally as far as someone else's comment of Open Binder being dead -- well it's an interesting situation. That particular code is no longer being developed, but basically the active development switched over to the fork/rewrite of it we have now in Android. You could maybe say that Open Binder was a research project, and Android is the shipping implementation. Though really, the main difference between them is that Android has a much simpler user-space implementation (because we didn't need the full features of Open Binder); there isn't any reason the full Open Binder environment couldn't be put back on top of the current binder. The binder shell is certainly a fun toy. :) See http://www.open-binder.org/docs/html/BinderShellTutorial.html for example. But a lot of the stuff there is just not hugely interesting for Linux/Android. -- Dianne Hackborn Android framework engineer email@example.com
obstacles to mainlining
Christoph Hellwig wrote (in June 2009):
The binders interface as implemented currently with it's fdtable munging and messing around with the user virtual address space has exactly zero chance to go properly upstream.
Daniel Walker wrote (in June 2009):
I think the biggest issue I have with the binder implementation is that it's doing far too much in the kernel, it's not just IPC. It's also thread management, memory management, and lots of other stuff that I haven't figured out yet .. A lot of it can already be done in userspace.
Marcel Holt
- Originally a feature in BeOS, Binder was a central construct for encapsulating software interfaces. One of the architects behind this mechanism was Dianne Hackborn, who is now a key employee at Android/Google. For more history see this interview.
- The Linux version of Binder was originally derived from a project by PalmSource to implement a CORBA-like message-passing or method invocation system. Documentation on that system is at: http://www.angryredplanet.com/~hackbod/openbinder/docs/html/index.html


text: Guest **DONOTDELETE** Posted December 30, 2000 Here's another whole thread that is beginning to develop inside another, so I've lifted a representative sample and started a new one here. This message from BOURBONV was a response about the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794...Subject Re: Distilling Wall of Fame Posted by bourbonv Posted on 12/28/00 4:53 PM From IP 22.214.171.124 John,I think you are over estimating the importance of the rebellion to Kentucky's distilling heritage. As a matter of fact I would be hard placed to name one distiller that can be traced to Pennsylvania that left for Kentucky because of the rebellion. There were several who came to Kentucky at that time but this had more to do with the fact that Kentucky had just became a state and it was suddenly easier to purchase land in Kentucky. The fact is there was very little impact on the distillers in Pennsylvania. The government for all of its efforts arrested very few people and only two people were ever convicted and they were both pardoned by President Washington. These two were described as one being "a simpleton" and the other "insane". My favorite quote from the rebelion comes from Thomas Jefferson who said that "an insurrection was announced and proclaimed and armed against, but could never be found" (Ford, Jefferson, VII, May 26, 1795). There were farmer distillers in Kentucky at the same time as the rebellion and they too refused to pay their taxes. The rebellion in Kentucky was just as "bad" as it was in Pennsylvania but the government refused to let this become common knowledge at the time because they did not think they could do anything about it. They could not get an army the size that they used in Pennsylvania over the mountains and they were afraid that if they did, The independent minded westerners would simply leave the union and be driven into the arms of Spain. So when you think about it the whole myth about the whisky rebellion does not make sense. Why would distillers leave Pennsylvania over the rebellion to come to Kentucky when Kentuckians were forced to pay the same tax and conditions politically were the same.I will give Hamilton this much credit for distilling history. The tax was based upon proof to be measured using a hydrometer so it did force distillers to learn to use a hydrometer.Mike Veach=John=http://w3.one.net/~jeffelle/whiskey Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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The Sony BRAVIA HX820 sits directly under the top dog BRAVIA HX925, but has most of the same electronic wizardry hidden away inside. We're hoping its position in Sony's 2011 TV line-up makes it a better value choice for anyone looking for the latest and greatest features. It concedes a few points on outright picture quality (in terms of specifications, at least) but it's otherwise equal.
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Super-protective mother!! Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Super-protective mother!! Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Family View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message aleê.!Joined: 19 Oct 2007Posts: 15 Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:00 am Post subject: Super-protective mother!! Hi! I'm Alessandra, from Brazil! I have a super-protective mother, sometimes I can't stand!! I ask her to go somewhere and she wants to know everything about it, like if I was a child! When I'm going to parties, sometimes she wants to talk with the mother or the father of the birthday girl/boy! Can you imagine!? Is your mother a super-protective mother too?? plis tell me your histories.. Back to top PANAGIOTISJoined: 07 Oct 2007Posts: 6Location: GREECE Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:18 pm Post subject: Re: Super-protective mother!! Hi, Alessandra. I'm Panagiotis from Greece. I'm boy 14 years old. In my family we are four brothers. My mother isn't enough protective. This is perhaps happens because I'm boy. But there are rules which are irrefrangible. BYE BYE [/b] Back to top PANAGIOTISJoined: 07 Oct 2007Posts: 6Location: GREECE Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: Super-protective mother!! [quote="aleê.!"][b][i]Hi! Here Is The Answer .......... FAMILY F = Father A=And M =Mother I = I L = Love Y =You Back to top aleê.!Joined: 19 Oct 2007Posts: 15 Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:57 pm Post subject: hi Panagiotis! nice to meet you! I have a cousin that is almost like you. His parents are very cool, and he can do it many things that I can't.. well.. I don't think this opinion of parents that boys can and girls can't, is nice. 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text: USL Weekend Round Up September 10, 200712:00AM PDT Previous Next Seattle Sounders claimed the Commissioner's Cup as USL First Division regular season champions after victories over the weekend. After missing the postseason in 2006, Brian Schmetzer's side made sure of a first-place finish after taking maximum points in their final two games. It was one of several issues that were determined in the final week of 2007 USL-1 regular season campaign, with the playoffs now set to begin on Friday. The final week's action started last Wednesday night in Montreal, as the Impact tried to keep their hopes of a first-place finish alive with a 1-0 win over Atlanta Silverbacks. The game was the last regular-season contest to be played at the Claude Robillard Sports Complex, as the Impact will be moving into a new stadium next season. There were two eventful games on Thursday evening. Carolina RailHawks had their playoff destiny in their own hands, but after an eventful US Open Cup semifinal defeat at Major League Soccer side New England Revolution on Tuesday night, Scott Schweitzer's side dramatically succumbed to a 5-0 defeat at Minnesota Thunder. Leo Gibson scored four of the Thunder's goals at James Griffin Stadium. In Seattle, the Sounders edged closer to finishing at the summit of USL-1 with a convincing 4-0 win over last-place California Victory. French striker Sebastian Le Toux scored a hat-trick for the Washington State club at Qwest Field. Two more playoff issues were settled on Friday evening. Charleston Battery joined California and Minnesota in missing the 2007 postseason after being held to a goalless home draw by Puerto Rico Islanders in their final regular-season game. In Vancouver, Atlanta secured a fourth-place finish after claiming a late 1-1 draw with the Whitecaps. On Saturday night, the Silverbacks playoff opponent was determined, as Rochester Raging Rhinos wrapped fifth place with a 2-0 win over Montreal Impact at PAETEC Park. Defeat for Montreal saw Nick De Santis' side end their regular season in third place. Meanwhile, in San Francisco, Carolina recovered from their midweek defeat in Minnesota to claim the last playoff spot in USL-1 with a 2-0 away win over California. There were two important matches played on the final day of the regular season on Sunday. Seattle got an early goal from Leighton O'Brien and a 13th clean sheet of the season from goalkeeper Chris Eylander (pictured), as the Sounders claimed a 1-0 victory at Minnesota and top spot in the USL-1 standings. In Vancouver, Portland Timbers set up a first-round playoff tie with the Whitecaps after claiming a goalless draw at Swangard Stadium. Portland finished second in the standings as a result, while Vancouver had settle for seventh place. With the regular season now at an end, the four first-round playoff ties sees Seattle (1st place) taking on Carolina (8th place), Portland (2nd place) facing Vancouver (7th place), Montreal (3rd place) meeting Puerto Rico (6th place), and Atlanta (4th place) clashing with Rochester (5th place). First leg ties will be played on Friday evening, while the second leg games take place next Sunday night. Previous Next


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Stories of how Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto draws inspiration for game design from his everyday life have become beloved bits of video game mythology. The Legend of Zelda sprang from his experiences playing outside in caves as a child, his family's pet canine sparked the idea for Nintendogs and so on.
But the principles that makes the execution of these brainstorms flow come from another part of Miyamoto's past. According to a Gamasutra interview with Super Mario 3D Land director Koichi Hayashida, it's the Nintendo icon's comics-drawing background that influences the level designs of his games:
"It's very similar to a narrative structure that you find in four-panel comics. Something that's talked a lot about in Japanese manga, for example, is a phrase, kishoutenketsu, where you introduce a concept, and then in the next panel you develop the idea a little bit more; in the third panel there's something of a change-up, and then in the fourth panel you have your conclusion."
In the article, Hayashida explains that the same principles show up when new game mechanics appear in Nintendo titles. And it's all because a young Shigeru used to read and draw comics as a youngster:
"He drew comics as a kid, and so he would always talk about how you have to think about, what is that denouement going to be? What is that third step? That twist that really surprises people. That's something that has always been very close to our philosophy of level design, is trying to think of that surprise."
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Returning to middle school may not sound like your ideal Thursday night, but the organizers of the Recreational Adult Dodgeball (RAD) League in Oakland have worked hard to create a significantly more appealing recess experience — one suited for adults. The amateur sports league, which meets in the gym of Claremont Middle School in Rockridge, hosts Thursday league nights in which hundreds of players across eight teams square off in fifty-minute matches that closely resemble the dodgeball competitions of your childhood. Head shots are not allowed, and the RAD Leagues uses soft "no sting" balls designed to ensure the games are pain-free. The group also hosts open gym nights outside of the league, which can give interested participants a chance to try out the game and practice dodgeball skills before committing to a team. After game nights, players usually head to George and Walt's, a nearby sports bar, where teammates can focus on the primary mission of RAD Dodgeball — meeting new people and socializing.
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