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Liberals do it with a smile and a shiv, but sometimes they forget the smile.
Oh yeah;
Liberals do it with scissors too.
Salon chicky says "sure my baby is a human life and I'm proud to kill it".
One of the blessings of lefties feeling their oats is we get to see just what is inside those black, dessicated things they call bleeding hearts.
Bumper stickers?
Dean Hall of the Washington National Cathedral today per Drudge ""But I believe that the gun lobby is no match for the cross lobby."
NRA Membership 4,200,000, growing.
Episcopal Church USA 1,951,000 and dying off.
The all time cleverest "do it" was penned by Cole Porter. "Lithuanians and Letts do it." Too bad nobody knows what a Lett or a Lithuanian is anymore.
Something new you learn every day, Peter, I would have though that was meme Latvians,
my work here is done.
I love that Cole Porter tune. Back when I had all my guitar chops with me, I played a George Van Eps solo instrumental arrangement of it. But the words are great.
Liberals Do It On The Backs Of The Middle Class.
Another successful crucifixion by the EPA:
Obama EPA kills power plant, 3,900 jobs in Texas:
The Las Brisas power plant had been part of a larger Las Brisas Energy Center project planned for Corpus Christi's Inner Harbor. Economists had projected that in the first 5 years of construction and operation the project would create 1,300 direct and 2,600 indirect jobs. Now none of those jobs will exist.
"These costly rules exceeded the bounds of EPA authority, incur tremendous costs, and produce no real benefits related to climate change," said Dave Freysinger, CEO of the aborted project.
Democrats are so afraid of doing it alone, they'll force you to do it with them.
Barry's commie buddy Van Jones lies to present the preezy as a garden variety American and seeks to disguise our tyrant in communitarian clothes:
Later, when asked (off tape) to define "communitarian," Jones was unable to answer or to point toward any source for a definition. He said there wasn't really a way to look up "communitarianism."
He did reiterate, however, that he saw communitarianism as a counterbalance to libertarianism, which he equated to "individualism."
Yea, economists! We do get all the hot chicks! Whoo!
On a related note: while borrowing my brother's spare Mercedes while my car is being repaired (and my Mother's, whose I also wrecked!) the motor seized up! No oil. Kaput! I'm only laughing so I won't cry...
So I'm wondering, what kinda bicycle should I buy?
--Later, when asked (off tape) to define "communitarian," Jones was unable to answer or to point toward any source for a definition. He said there wasn't really a way to look up "communitarianism."--
He can't look it up because he's inserting a superfluous "itarian" in the middle.
Try this one Van; c-o-m-m-u-n-i-s-m.
--On a related note: while borrowing my brother's spare Mercedes while my car is being repaired (and my Mother's, whose I also wrecked!) the motor seized up! No oil.--
Dude, there's this little flexible stick under the hood....
You may never borrow my car.
So I'm wondering, what kinda bicycle should I buy?
It's not about the bike.
BoE can borrow mine. I so want a new one. ;)
BoE, if you make it up to SE Alaska in a year or two, I might loan you a kayak, but that would be all.
I like Insty's sentence (I bolded it) behind his link to this story today from the Hill:
THE HILL: House Democrats propose opening gun makers to civil liability. I'd respond with an amendment making people who maintain gun-free zones liable for any violence on their premises.
Here is the GOP slogan for it's members:
"Endeavor to persevere"
...easy to sneak up on..
He did reiterate, however, that he saw communitarianism as a counterbalance to libertarianism, which he equated to "individualism."
In other words, it's antithetical to individual liberty.
Screw Boehner.
Mr. Speaker:
The House is poised to pass HR 325. I respect the sincerity of its supporters, but I must firmly dissent.
This bill accommodates spending at ruinous levels far beyond the limits set by the House budget. It sets a terrible precedent by abolishing the debt limit for nearly four months, giving an unlimited credit card to this administration.
I think members will be stunned by the borrowing that this moratorium makes possible – certainly thousands of dollars of new debt heaped on every household in America.
House Republicans have passed two budget plans that put our nation back on a path to fiscal solvency. If the debt limit were increased within that trajectory at two month intervals, it would require only small and incremental reforms each time. That would both avert default now and the fiscal crisis that we are fast approaching. I believe that is achievable and far preferable to the bill to be voted on today.
what kinda bicycle should I buy?
stationary, with a mattress next to it in case you fall off.
Liberals Do It To You.
Mark F,
Up here they are on the lookout for even another Alaskan reality TV Show. Not Alaskan State Troopers, not Alaskan Ice Truckers, not Alaskan Most Dangerous Catchers, not Alaskan whatever the hell else, this new one is offering to pay $3,500 a pop to participants in the new series, but the catch is you have to be a member of The Old Believers Russian Religious Sect.
Reality TV casting call for Alaska Old Believers on Kenai Peninsula
Each Russian Old Believer family will be paid $3,500 per show to be in the series, which the producers hope to air for three seasons...Old Believers separated after 1666 from the official Russian Orthodox Church as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon between 1652–66. Old Believers continue liturgical practices that the Russian Orthodox Church maintained before the implementation of reforms, and they were persecuted for it. Groups escaped to various countries around the world in the ensuing centuries, and are said to have come to Alaska in the 1960s.
I think they are the folks I see in the Safeway every once in a long while with all the gals in granny dresses and the mom's wearing head scarfs.
It's a good day when I can teach someone as smart as Narciso something new. Letts do it. LUN
Liberals Do It Only With Other Liberals.
But In The End They Screw Us All.
A beautiful 17 second video of our Sun celebrating New Years Eve.
I tried to post this yesterday, but my links to individual YouTube videos of this lecture triggered a SPAM filter, I guess, and it got lost.
Anyway, some of the comments on one of the threads yesterday - especially those by narciso, rse and others concerning liberal initiatives in the realms of education, Agenda 21, etc. - reminded me of the interviews and lectures that Yuri Bezmenov, a Soviet defector back in the '80's, did regarding the Communist strategies of subversion, demoralization, destabilization, crisis, and normalization.
IMHO, this is exactly what we see occurring here in America right now.
I invite all of you to watch this 1 hr video at your leisure, and ask yourselves, is this really happening? If so, what can we do to stop it?
Personally, I think it's much easier to KEEP your freedom than to have to fight to REGAIN it ..... but if fighting is necessary, it's better to do it NOW rather than after they've crushed the 2nd Amendment and completely changed our culture.
Tomas Schuman (Yuri Bezmenov) L.A. 1983
Step 1. Nationalize a private market.
Step 2. Eradicate what is left of the private competition.
Right on schedule:
"Senate Democrats are moving to make it easier for consumers to expunge some student debt in bankruptcy, but the proposal faces uncertain odds on Capitol Hill.
The proposal, unveiled Wednesday by Sen. Dick Durbin, the Senate's No. 2 Democrat, would target student loans issued by private lenders such as SLM Corp.'s Sallie Mae, Wells Fargo Corp. and Discover Financial Services. The bill would not apply to federal education loans, which comprise more than 80% of the roughly $1 trillion in outstanding student debt in the U.S.
Federal law prohibits, except in rare cases, private or federal student loans from being discharged in bankruptcy court. Consumer advocates say that has prevented many borrowers from unloading student debt even when the amount owed is so high there is little hope for them to repay. Most other types of consumer debt, including money owned on mortgages, credit cards and auto loans, can be discharged in bankruptcy."
Liberals Do It With Sandra Fluke
And Expect Us To Pay For It
In the spirit of Liberalism, I am happy to lend you my neighbor's car.
--So I'm wondering, what kinda bicycle should I buy?--
I would recommend a Santa Cruz. They have the most accommodating seats. I believe some models are even heated. :)
The Liberals are in a Catch-22 when it comes to gun control. In order to arrive at the final stage of a totalitarian/fascist state, they know they're going to have to implement certain ugly policies that will face resistance. (Ayers predicted they'd have to kill at least 25 million to accomplish their goal and he was probably underestimating). But an unarmed resistance is considerably easier to crush than an armed one, especially in a country like the US, where the resistance, when it comes, is likely to be centered in entire states in the deep south and mountain west, and in places like the Smokey Mountains in Tenn. or the Appalachians in W. VA, with vast swaths of wilderness terrain where government forces would be at a considerable disadvantage vs. the native hunters and fishermen.
So they need to disarm the population first before they risk doing something that will trigger a revolution or a civil war that they could very well lose, but the very act of attempting to disarm the population is likely to be the one thing most likely to trigger an armed resistance.
So their best chance is to get people to voluntarily surrender their weapons, hence the hysterical propaganda we've been subjected to since Sandy Hook. Unfortunately for them so far the propaganda only seems to be motivating even more citizens to go out and arm themselves to the teeth. And the more they push for gun control without public support, the more they risk ruining their chances for taking back the House in 2014, as well as maybe even costing them a Senate seat or two or three=.
In the end I think they'll only try for gun confiscation if they believe they've got the US military behind them, because that is what it will take. But again, Catch-22--even if they can get the generals to order the troops to fire on their fellow citizens, and even if the troops obey, they then run the risk of turning even more citizens against them.
Thanks, everyone! And Ig, my brother swore he checked the oil last month and hadn't driven it 50 miles since. He has taken the news with a great sense of humor...
Does the HCOAB come with the B? lol
Major General(ret) Paul Vallely Talks Obama Eligibility: Multiple Social Security Numbers; No Background Checks
(Ayers predicted they'd have to kill at least 25 million to accomplish their goal and he was probably underestimating)
There was an article in AmericanThinker a couple weeks ago that thanks to the march through the institutions that rse is all about, the number is down to 10 million now so we have that going for us.
Paul E. Vallely, Major General, US Army (ret) was born in DuBois, Pa.
He retired in 1991 from the US Army as Deputy Commanding General, US Army, Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii. General Vallely graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point and was commissioned in the Army in 1961 serving a distinguishing career of 32 years in the Army.
General Vallely is a graduate of the Infantry School, Ranger and Airborne Schools, Jumpmaster School, the Command and General Staff School, The Industrial College of the Armed Forces and the Army War College. His combat service in Vietnam included positions as infantry company commander, intelligence officer, operations officer, military advisor and aide-de-camp. He has over fifteen (15) years experience in Special Operations, Psychological and Civil-Military Operations.
NRA Membership 4,200,000, growing.
Episcopal Church USA 1,951,000 and dying off.
Wow, Old Lurker. I watched the video of Dean Hall & then got on the phone & joined the NRA. (copying centralcal!).
These are some times we are living in....
Were you joshing with us the other night about all those cars you have abused in your recently life?
If so, well you made me and all the other JOM guys feel awfully inadequate. And if you really had those world class machines, then damn, you go guy!
Mind you I give you a pass for wasting money on the women and booze which you admitted in the same breath with those cars!
TK, now you're dragging my grandfather's old command into birtherdom. As he would say, win the next battle, don't re-lose the last one.
--Does the HCOAB come with the B?--
That seems like an extremely personal question, Beasts, but I will ask her after her next ride on a bumpy road. :)
TK, and MY grandfather was also born in DuBois, PA so there you go with Henry and me!
Henry, your GF was a WP contemporary of my wife's GF I think and also might have been at the War College at the same time.
Small world.
OL, both WP and the Army were small in those days, they probably knew each other.
Probably so, Henry. My FIL was a child when his dad was at the War College and he used to tell stories of riding his horse from Ft. McNair over to Georgetown to attend school. FIL was WP 36 and the army was still very small and I think trained with wooden guns before your GF got them all real weapons it sounds like.
Janet...good move with the NRA. Some Dean, huh?
Technically speaking, henry and OL, The Major General drug himself into the fray.
Is the Major General a loon?
This Captain (SEAL), UNS(ret) drug himself into the fray awhile back:
Here he is talkikng about his Vietnam and Coronado, CA history:
If McClintock wants credibility, he (like the GOP) has to specify what spending he would cut. Would he reduce SS benefits, or Medicare, or Medicaid?
McClintock points to two House budgets which he claims put the country on the path to fiscal solvency. Presumably they had specific spending targets.
The Sierra Club is encouraging lawbreaking to stop the Keystone Pipeline.
He backed the Ryan Budget.
To show that he has "credibility" he even voted for it.
"If there were a jury of 12 good men and women and the evidence were placed before them, there would be absolutely no question Barack Obama was not born where he said he was and is not who he says he is."
Yes, that is the statement of a loon.
More here:
Not quite as bad as the fly on his lip photo, but there may be other shots to surface.
Looks like Drudge copied me!!! Their version of The Lord of the Flies.
I asked if the Major General(ret) was a loon but you took a quote from the Captain(SEAL), USN(ret) to answer the question?
It's enough to know that Frank Davis, was an influence he was a Stalinist who wanted a Federalstimulus, hated GM, considered
anticommunists like the Klan, similar sentiments to Wright, Ayers, Unger, Bell, et al
What is it about Obama which so attracts flies to him?
I encourage bonebreaking to stop the Sierra Club.
You have my vote, Iggy.
Fox News:
"Here are a few little-known facts about Paul Ryan's supposedly slash-and-burn budget plan.
"--Government spending increases almost every year over the next decade.
--Tax and other revenue rises year after year.
--The 10-year deficit is still $3 trillion.
"The fact that Ryan's spending plans grow the federal budget over the long term is one that could easily be lost in the political melee underway in the wake of his selection as Mitt Romney's running mate.
"To be sure, Ryan is proposing major changes to Medicare and taxation that Democrats see as problematic.
"But claims that Ryan is slashing spending don't quite square with the numbers. Those claims are convenient Washington shorthand for what Ryan's plan actually proposes -- which is to slow the rate of budget growth, but still allow the budget to grow."
No question it's better than nothing. But the people of this country will never allow it to happen, let alone a plan that actually did balance the budget. The fault does not lie with John Boehner or the GOP. The fault lies with who the American people have become.
And that is what many, many people have been urging for years they would indeed become.
We've spent some time with Vallely and his wife. He's a lovely man. No hint of ego or holier than thou attitude. Hard to believe he is that unassuming with that remarkable background.
A 233 Billion barrel oil field discovered in Australia..more peak oil
even educated flies do it (lun)
easy set up line, Clarice, you could have been a comedian's straight man, like Bud Abbott.
Boston Herald:
"U.S. Sen. John Kerry breezed through a relatively easy hearing as senators quizzed him about the growing Iranian nuclear threat and President Obama's actions following a terrorist attack in Benghazi before they vote on his confirmation as Secretary of State. 'My sense is your confirmation will go through very, very quickly,' said U.S. Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn), the ranking Republican on the committee, later adding, 'I know you're going to be confirmed in the next very few days.'"
What is it about Obama which so attracts flies to him?
They know what he's full of.
Ryan's plan is better than the current plan.
McClintock voted for Ryan's plan.
Therefore, McClintock lacks credibility.
What is it about Obama which so attracts flies to him?
They know what he's full of.
Frau-Van Jones knows precisely how to define communitarianism. He is a contributor to certain books I have. Moreover, the book Reflexive Modernization I mentioned today is graphic beyond my wildest dreams. Now I know for sure why I kept encountering the Communitarians in the definitions of College and Career Ready and also Positive School Climate.
Funny. I think they really did think no one would catch these actual definitions.
Beasts-I had an older VW bug in high school that my dad was quite proud of as he had very little in it and I had transportation. That's how he thinks. Never could get him to live vicariously through me like some parents. When I asked what I was getting as a high school present, he replied "College."
I made the same mistake of not checking oil. Later we were coming back from Hilton Head. Getting gas there was a woman in a Jag V12 sedan who had done the same. His comment is at least I learned my lesson on something easy and cheap to change out.
TK, that syllogism is absurd. McClintock lacks credibility because he hasn't said what spending he wants to cut, nor has Ryan. Ryan plays the old Democrats' game of calling a reduction in the rate of growth of spending a "cut."
Yes, the Ryan plan is better than nothing. No, the Ryan plan does not call for cuts.
I'll repeat: the Republicans can derive no benefit from the debt ceiling issue. And they won't.
DoT "Would he reduce SS benefits, or Medicare, or Medicaid?"
Until we hear someone say that out loud, we have not heard from a truth teller with brains to do simple math.
Until we elect the person willing to say that, there is no hope for pulling out of this spiral.
I think we call what McGee is looking for, is called the Borg, when you hear words like multiple literacies, that usually means that you don't have a grasp on the basic concept of reading, which Ray Bradbury was very prescient about, get rid of the impulse to read, and the books can be disposed,
rse, Instapundit has a link to a study by a Stanford professor which indicates when you factor out immigrant children and compare advantaged kids v disadvantaged kids, the US is performing very well in educational performance.
Yes, but you still are poaching the same vein of crazy, one notices she doesn't actually criticize it;
Daddy, that was a lovely Old Believer family pictured. It sounds a bit iffy, unless they jazz it up as the did with the Amish in the lousy, phony new "Amish Mafia". You do have it pegged about the over-abundance of Alaska-connected reality shows. "Ax Men" on the History Channel has participating company named Papac Logging, that is based on Prince of Wales Island. Sometimes I see familiar scenes, and my friends up there admit to knowing a couple of the morons on that crew. I imagine that I'll wind up knowing a few of the knuckleheads too, once I'm settled. The whole island, America's third-largest, has less than ten thousand inhabitants.
It may have been missed by some, but I posted some links to the hot T-Mobile gal on the old thread.
I'll repeat: the Republicans can derive no benefit from the debt ceiling issue. And they won't.
I may have overlooked your earlier postings on this, but I'm not following your point.
I am in favor of any gimmick that results in lower spending. Lower than what? Lower than what would happen in absence of the gimmick. While I share your disdain for applying the word "cuts" to that, the point is simply that we should do whatever will keep taxes (or inflation) from ultimately increasing more rather than less.
Republicans who commit to lower spending without specifying the cuts are simply refusing to play the game with the Dems of "you show me yours first," which always results in the media and whatever special interest group gets harmed screaming bloody murder. In that situation, the best bet is to force cuts via the debt limit, or by any other mechanism from which there is no escape.
It's not only that the American people say they want cuts in the abstract, but the minute you mention specifics they balk . . . It's that, from what I understand, so much of our economic activity today now comes from monetized federal spending (rather than private sector production of wealth), that if you were cut too much government spending too fast, you would precipitate a severe recession, if not a depression. A la Greece today.
It's a debt bubble. We can't quit borrowing, QE-ing and spending to any significant degree because it will all collapse, but if we keep on doing what we have been doing--or worse, if Obama and the Dems get their way--it's going to burst. DOOM no matter what we do.
It seems to me Ryan's plan is to slow down inflating the debt bubble while doing other things, like opening up energy production and slashing regulations and red tape, to stimulate private sector growth to cushion the blow that the slow down of government spending would do to the economy. That's what Romney was going to do if he'd won and it might have worked, although we would still have had to endure a pretty bad recession before things turned around, likely costing the GOP the House in 2014. So basically they would have had two years to turn things around. Would have been hard.
--"Ax Men" on the History Channel...--
It is no mean feat to make the flotsam and jetsam which make up logging crews look even stupider than they really are, but that show somehow manages to pull it off.
Is sequestration a "cut"?
Behind as normal but just caught a segment of the Dennis Miller Show that was very fun. Dennis had on some guy who was Bibi Netanyahu's former publicity guy, and they exchanged some very funny quips back and forth about the recent Israeli Election. For instance, explaining the Election, the guy said that in Israel, you don't vote for a particular guy, you vote for a Party, and this time there were some 35 parties running.
Dennis asked what sort of parties and the guy said there was one party which was the "Let us legally smoke marijuana" party. That got a big laugh out of Dennis who went off on a "how do they know if it's Kosher Pot?" riff to which the guy instantly replied that it has to be grown in a Rabbi's back yard. Very fun.
Anyhow, that got me thinking about the Left despising Israel. The Left is always out there for secularism, and do your own thing and against religious zealotry etc. They see the Mideast with it's Muslim BrotherHood Party, it's Hezbalah's, it's PLO's, it's anti-Zion Party, it's Party of Islamic Martyrs of God Party, etc, yet somehow the country they see as the problem is the one with the "Let Us Smoke Pot" Party.
It really makes zero sense at all.
"In that situation, the best bet is to force cuts via the debt limit, or by any other mechanism from which there is no escape."
But all Obama has to do is refuse. Then the spending stops temporarily at the places of his choosing, the public goes nuts and the likely outcome of it all is a Dem house in 2014.
What's your preferred alternative, DoT?
No, they are not, daddy, they hate Christian bitter clingers more, and Israeli settlers are like that
in spades.
Old Lurker@3:37 - Completely honest. Too many BMWs to count, an occasional Porsche, several Jags and nine Ferraris. But, the vehicle I loved the most was my 1992 Ford Bronco. I'm quite sincere about that, as well.
Go look at iowahawk's Earth Day Cruise from any year and you can see a different Ferrari of mine. Last year's cruise photo even includes the Beast himself, in all his glory...
It really makes zero sense at all.
Makes sense to me. They hate America and all that it stands for, and they know a strong Israel is good for America. They know that Israel's enemies hate America. It's an easy decision.
Ig@5:40 - I briefly watched that show for a few minutes the other night after you had posted the comment about your truck being visible in a forrest via Google Earth. Crazy!
Hope your more if an evil land robber baron dude than an ax kinda guy...
It would be tough for any company to remain in business long that engaged in the idiocies on that show. "Good" TV doesn't equal real logging.
They had a company on the first year which was run by a large but mild mannered guy who produced no drama, no flying axes, no pointlessly broken equipment or the like. Needless to say his company wasn't invited back. I haven't watched it since.
Logging is already incredibly dangerous enough when people act sensibly.
Guys like those clowns usually end up fired, if only so the rest of us can survive.
American Loggers about a company in Maine and Swamp Loggers about a guy in North Carolina were much more realistic and of course I don't think either one is still on; they didn't chase any employees with a running chainsaw.
rse@5:04 - Great story about the V-12. My Dad also drove a VW bug forever. He had no use for fancy cars...
The bummer now about the Media is that they are now all unleashed to promote Hillary. At least back when she was running in 2008 the Media had to choose sides, and they also had to keep her a bit on the back burner (no negative publicity) during Obama's second Campaign run.
But now that Obama is done, and she is out of the Administration, all their forces can be safely marshaled to burnish her reputation and devote themselves to getting her elected in 2016. That has already started (see yesterday). Biden has zero chance.
It will be awful tough to find a Dem candidate the MSM would sooner get behind than Hillary---1st woman etc, blah, blah, blah.
I don't see Cuomo or any of the other potentials having a ghost of a chance of challenging her. 4 Years is a long time of course, but still, who else out there do you guys see as somebody the MSM would carry water for more than Hillary? Michelle Obama?
Excellent summary of "Ax Men", Iggy. I've found myself wondering how you and they can be in the same business. Heck, even in the same species.
"What's your preferred alternative, DoT?"
I really don't have one, Jimmy. The point I am trying to make is that there is no way out because of the people we have become. Remember, the British threw out Winston Churchill in favor of Clement Atlee. They became the people they are today because they wanted to.
DoT, I'm going to remind you of your own oft-pronounced standard that you can't critique a view without having a preferred alternative. Not that that is binding on you, of course. :)
B.O.E. is this you?
Pretty car! It doesn't look wrecked, so maybe that isn't you, after all?
It really makes zero sense at all.
Like so many things. I constantly ask myself why Obama wants to destroy this country. He's out of power in 4 years and I can't imagine him doing anything for anyone but himself. Is it because he is too stupid to realize that is what he doing? I doubt it. Is it to make he and his buddies rich into eternity? That seems most likely - but sheesh what a price? How low, ungrateful and hateful would you have to be to do that.
The guy who lived in our condo building when we first came back from the UK had Tom Selleck's red Ferrari from Magnum P.I.
I asked him if I could sit in it and have my pic taken. He told me I would never fit. I'm 6'2" as NK and jimmyk can attest, and he was right, I couldn't fit into the car. But somehow Selleck could:)
He's an ideologue Jane.
They pave the road to hell with their fellow citizens not good intentions.
Jane, I don't think Obama sees what he's doing as destroying the country. To the contrary, I think he believes he's "saving" it, in both a physical and pseudo-spiritual sense. Which Democrat said something about government being the instrument for our collective salvation?
Sure, the rest of us see the destructive direct and indirect results of his policies and rhetoric. But he's in the "I'm making an omelet!" mindset, and doesn't give a rip if we wanted those eggs whole.
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Apple Customers Can Get Away With Anything
Mark Malkoff struggled heroically to get thrown out of an Apple store. Having a pizza delivered didn't do it. Bringing in a band didn't do it. Dressing as Darth Vader didn't do it. Not even the goat got him ejected.
The accomplished stunt comedian even roped his poor wife into his Apple Store exploits, staging a romantic date between the product aisles, complete with catered food, live music and a spurned request to turn down the lights.
He simply couldn't get thrown out of the store, as shown in the video to your right. With Apple Geniuses trained to constantly outdo each other as ultra positive "promoters," it's no wonder. The only way to piss those guys off is to buy too many of their products.

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The legislative session will end on May 27, 2013.
U-verse TV is available in parts of Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, Lubbock, Corpus Christi, Midland and Odessa and numerous suburban communities in those metro areas.


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- At 7:30 p.m., 20-year-old Gerald Antonio Baca of Sterling was issued a summons for theft at the Sterling Walmart, 1510 W. Main St.
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- At 3:50 p.m., 27-year-old Johanna Louise Leahy of Sterling was charged with harassment with shoves/strikes/kicks, domestic violence and child abuse – no injury at 1163 King Court.
March 6
- At 3 p.m., 18-year-old Kollin Aaron Ratcliff of Sterling was arrested for violation of a restraining order at 402 Washington.
Sterling Fire Department
March 11
- 4:45 to 5:15 p.m., duty medical call in the 400 block of Delaware Way with four responding.
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Letters to the editor for Thursday, November 28, 2013
Special thanks to community
The local Sikh community thanks the Almighty for all He has given us during this great American Thanksgiving tradition. People of the Sikh faith also firmly believe and share in this concept of giving thanks. This Thanksgiving holiday, Sikhs living in the Daytona Beach area have a special reason to be thankful to the Almighty for saving the life of a Sikh resident, Kanwaljeet Singh of Port Orange. He was shot on Feb. 23, 2013; this has been considered a hate crime.
The Sikh community of greater Daytona Beach, Mr. Singh, and his family feel very fortunate to be residents of this compassionate and kind community. We are extremely grateful to you, the residents, for all your outpouring of support and compassion during and after the incident.
On behalf of the Sikh Foundation of Central Florida and the local Sikh community, I am very appreciative and again want to thank the entire community, The News-Journal, local media, the Port Orange Police Department, law enforcement, Halifax Health Medical Center, Volusia County emergency medical technicians, and representatives of different faiths (Christian, Jewish and Hindu) who showed their personal support, sympathy and kind letters to the editor. We offer warm wishes to each of you for a happy Thanksgiving. We pray that you will have a safe, pleasant, blessed holiday season.
Dr. Harvinder S. Chadda
Port Orange
Chadda, a local dentist, is president of the Sikh Foundation of Central Florida.
When I was in the Army, a fellow soldier, without malice, asked me, "Do Jews celebrate Thanksgiving?"
Never having had that question asked of me, I answered to the best of my ability that all Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, and that includes Jews. We eat turkey (maybe not the ham) and all the other foods, and we celebrate the Native Americans saving the English settlers by sharing their food — for if the Indians had not offered their food, the settlers would have starved to death. All Americans share in that holiday, where we remember the bounty we have and the country we love.
The 9-year-old New York boy Asher Weintraub, whose father is in marketing, invented the "Menurkey," which combines the traditional Jewish Menorah and the turkey to celebrate both the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah and the American holiday of Thanksgiving since their dates coincide this November.
I find this new Menorah, the Menurkey, distasteful and sacrilegious.
It detracts from the historical symbolism of a heroic war of the Jews against their cruel Greek occupiers of the Jewish homeland, where they imposed their Greek gods onto the Jews under punishment of death.
The Jewish uprising defeated the Greeks and in the cleansing of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, one vial of holy oil was found.
The oil, which should have burned for one day, miraculously burned for eight days, hence the holiday of the Miracle of Lights, Hanukkah, and the eight-branched menorah.
Combining two holidays into one symbol is like combining the Fourth of July and Christmas and having a Christmas tree shoot off fireworks. No thanks!
Wm. J. Levy
Ormond Beach
About Judge Belle Schumann's Volusia shelter proposal: I found this to be a very interesting, as well as informative, article. After reading the recent report of concerns with revitalizing Daytona Beach's business district, I agree: Addressing the problems relating to the homeless should be the first priority.
It certainly is not difficult to figure out that this county shelter would save tremendous expense to the taxpayers and could also enable federal funding.
That said, is it not a sad fact that in order for a person to be sure of a roof over their head and a safer environment, they must first get arrested and taken to jail. The time, effort and monies spent in doing so are wasteful and dehumanizing.
Maybe at this stage in the lives of the middle-aged homeless, education is rather late. But that should always, in my opinion, be a prerequisite to incarceration.
Hopefully, this process will not drag on the way the last several years the Senate and House have discussed and bantered about before adopting any solutions for far too many important issues.
I lived in the Pinellas and Pasco county area for more than 20 years. The problems there seemed unsurmountable, but the plan did work. I see no reason why it cannot in Volusia County.
Kay Sullivan-Davis
Port Orange
This is such a perfect example of our wonderful representatives' attitude to us, the working class, and their egotistical better-than-thou attitudes toward themselves! If one of us gets caught buying cocaine or any other illegal drug, then we pay dearly.
What a joke U.S. Rep. Trey Radel's probation is, when in reality he should be fired and removed. Go try and get a job if you have a drug background. Try and get an apartment. But then, they are better than us, and not held to the same standards.
Ormond Beach


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Ex-LA gang member exonerated of murder, released
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A former gang member imprisoned for 19 years for a murder he didn't commit has been exonerated and set free.
John Edward Smith, wearing glasses and a tan striped polo shirt, walked out of a Los Angeles County jail on Monday night and was greeted by a host of TV cameras.
"I had good days and bad days, I stayed hopeful and that's all I could do," the 37-year-old said outside the downtown jail. "I'm not bitter at all, because that ain't going to get me nowhere. I've got to move on."
Smith said he was looking forward to "going home and seeing my grandmother," 79-year-old Laura Neal, who raised him. Family members drove him to her house, which she had mortgaged to pay for his initial defense, said Smith's lawyer, Deirdre O'Connor.
Earlier in the day, Neal used a walker to attend the hearing where a judge vacated Smith's convictions for murder and attempted murder in a gang-related drive-by shooting. She wept when Superior Court Judge Patricia Schnegg announced her decision.
Neal had waited anxiously for the hearing, which was delayed from Friday.
"It was hell," Neal said. "Friday was a big disappointment."
Prosecutors told the judge they were convinced that the lone eyewitness to the 1993 shooting had lied at Smith's trial, naming him as the gunman. Smith maintained he was at his grandmother's house when the shooting occurred several blocks away.
After Schnegg announced her decision, the courtroom erupted in applause, cheers and shouts of "We love you" as Smith smiled broadly. The judge thanked the crowd for their "enthusiasm" and the lawyers for both sides for "the opportunity to do justice."
Adding to the Hollywood-style courtroom drama, those applauding for Smith included pop star Chris Brown, who was in the same courtroom for his probation hearing involving the 2009 beating of his then-girlfriend Rihanna. Outside court, O'Connor said Brown shook her hand and congratulated her.
"I always knew he didn't do it," Neal told reporters after court. "I'm happy and sad. But the part of me that was in there with him — I'm free now too."
Smith was 18 when he went to prison. He told authorities he was at his grandmother's house with family when the shooting took place on Sept. 9, 1993, in a gang-infested area.
He said he knew nothing about the crime until his mother called to tell him about it.
The only eyewitness — a victim who was shot and survived — said police pressured him to identify Smith as the shooter. Prosecutors told the judge they now believe he lied, and Schnegg found the conviction was based on perjured testimony.
Smith's exoneration was pursued by Innocence Matters, a public interest law firm in Torrance.
The eyewitness, Landu Mvuemba, met with Innocence Matters representatives in 2010 and immediately blurted out that he had lied at the trial, said O'Connor, who heads the group.
"Within the first two minutes of the interview, Mvuemba recanted," O'Connor said. Mvuemba was 16 at the time of the shooting.
He told representatives of Innocence Matters, "The police told me they knew who did it," a defense motion stated.
O'Connor said Smith wept when she called him with the news about Mvuemba. "He said, 'Why did he do it? Why did he lie?'" O'Connor recalled.
Mvuemba said police pointed to Smith, whom he had known in elementary school, and told him other witnesses had identified Smith as the shooter. Mvuemba said he also was shown a photo of his friend DeAnthony Williams, who died in the shooting.
"I felt a lot of pressure to go along with it," Mvuemba said.
The two victims had been on the street examining the scene of another shooting the night before when a car pulled up and someone opened fire.
Mvuemba said he tried three times to tell authorities that he didn't see enough to testify, but his pleas were ignored.
"Mvuemba knew it was wrong to identify Mr. Smith as the man who shot him," according to the defense motion. "But when he saw his deceased friend's crying mother in the courtroom, he felt as if he had no other choice."
Mvuemba is currently imprisoned on a rape conviction.
Schnegg said she held many meetings with the defense and prosecution in the year since the recanting was disclosed. The judge said they lacked sufficient information to declare Smith factually innocent, but she vacated his convictions for murder and attempted murder, and ordered him released.
O'Connor said Smith's trial was undermined by ineffective assistance of attorneys who failed to investigate the case properly at trial and on appeal.
Smith's sister, Tiana Goodman, 25, said he would be meeting nieces and nephews who were born while he was in prison.
"This is a big day for our family," she said, tears running down her cheeks. "He kept his faith and never gave up."


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Guest Blogger — My husband relating a story from when he was about 6 years old.
One Christmas when we lived in Las Vegas, Nevada my older brother and I received some stocking stuffer type gifts from my maternal grandmother that caused me some angst. The gifts were small fishing items commonly known as "Hand Lines". These are nothing more than five or six inch long rectangular wooden frames spooled with woven fishing line (commonly called "squidding line") with a bobber, hook and weight attached. You go out on a dock and drop the lines over the side and fish with them.
I opened mine and was thrilled to see what I had. I exhibited the gift to my mother and told her I had a fishing line that was rated for up to 20 pounds!!! A huge fish!
My brother got the same thing and he exclaimed he had a line "rated for twenty, too!" I was crestfallen. My grandmother apparently thought my brother could land a fish two pounds more than I could.
Years later I realized what my brother had really said. I still get a chuckle out of it.


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1Everything you never wanted to know about kobjects, ksets, and ktypes
3Greg Kroah-Hartman <firstname.lastname@example.com>
5Based on an original article by Jon Corbet for lwn.net written October 1,
62003 and located at http://lwn.net/Articles/51437/
8Last updated December 19, 2007
11Part of the difficulty in understanding the driver model - and the kobject
12abstraction upon which it is built - is that there is no obvious starting
13place. Dealing with kobjects requires understanding a few different types,
14all of which make reference to each other. In an attempt to make things
15easier, we'll take a multi-pass approach, starting with vague terms and
16adding detail as we go. To that end, here are some quick definitions of
17some terms we will be working with.
19 - A kobject is an object of type struct kobject. Kobjects have a name
20 and a reference count. A kobject also has a parent pointer (allowing
21 objects to be arranged into hierarchies), a specific type, and,
22 usually, a representation in the sysfs virtual filesystem.
24 Kobjects are generally not interesting on their own; instead, they are
25 usually embedded within some other structure which contains the stuff
26 the code is really interested in.
28 No structure should EVER have more than one kobject embedded within it.
29 If it does, the reference counting for the object is sure to be messed
30 up and incorrect, and your code will be buggy. So do not do this.
32 - A ktype is the type of object that embeds a kobject. Every structure
33 that embeds a kobject needs a corresponding ktype. The ktype controls
34 what happens to the kobject when it is created and destroyed.
36 - A kset is a group of kobjects. These kobjects can be of the same ktype
37 or belong to different ktypes. The kset is the basic container type for
38 collections of kobjects. Ksets contain their own kobjects, but you can
39 safely ignore that implementation detail as the kset core code handles
40 this kobject automatically.
42 When you see a sysfs directory full of other directories, generally each
43 of those directories corresponds to a kobject in the same kset.
45We'll look at how to create and manipulate all of these types. A bottom-up
46approach will be taken, so we'll go back to kobjects.
49Embedding kobjects
51It is rare for kernel code to create a standalone kobject, with one major
52exception explained below. Instead, kobjects are used to control access to
53a larger, domain-specific object. To this end, kobjects will be found
54embedded in other structures. If you are used to thinking of things in
55object-oriented terms, kobjects can be seen as a top-level, abstract class
56from which other classes are derived. A kobject implements a set of
57capabilities which are not particularly useful by themselves, but which are
58nice to have in other objects. The C language does not allow for the
59direct expression of inheritance, so other techniques - such as structure
60embedding - must be used.
62(As an aside, for those familiar with the kernel linked list implementation,
63this is analogous as to how "list_head" structs are rarely useful on
64their own, but are invariably found embedded in the larger objects of
67So, for example, the UIO code in drivers/uio/uio.c has a structure that
68defines the memory region associated with a uio device:
70 struct uio_map {
71 struct kobject kobj;
72 struct uio_mem *mem;
73 };
75If you have a struct uio_map structure, finding its embedded kobject is
76just a matter of using the kobj member. Code that works with kobjects will
77often have the opposite problem, however: given a struct kobject pointer,
78what is the pointer to the containing structure? You must avoid tricks
79(such as assuming that the kobject is at the beginning of the structure)
80and, instead, use the container_of() macro, found in <linux/kernel.h>:
82 container_of(pointer, type, member)
86 * "pointer" is the pointer to the embedded kobject,
87 * "type" is the type of the containing structure, and
88 * "member" is the name of the structure field to which "pointer" points.
90The return value from container_of() is a pointer to the corresponding
91container type. So, for example, a pointer "kp" to a struct kobject
92embedded *within* a struct uio_map could be converted to a pointer to the
93*containing* uio_map structure with:
95 struct uio_map *u_map = container_of(kp, struct uio_map, kobj);
97For convenience, programmers often define a simple macro for "back-casting"
98kobject pointers to the containing type. Exactly this happens in the
99earlier drivers/uio/uio.c, as you can see here:
101 struct uio_map {
102 struct kobject kobj;
103 struct uio_mem *mem;
104 };
106 #define to_map(map) container_of(map, struct uio_map, kobj)
108where the macro argument "map" is a pointer to the struct kobject in
109question. That macro is subsequently invoked with:
111 struct uio_map *map = to_map(kobj);
114Initialization of kobjects
116Code which creates a kobject must, of course, initialize that object. Some
117of the internal fields are setup with a (mandatory) call to kobject_init():
119 void kobject_init(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype);
121The ktype is required for a kobject to be created properly, as every kobject
122must have an associated kobj_type. After calling kobject_init(), to
123register the kobject with sysfs, the function kobject_add() must be called:
125 int kobject_add(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobject *parent, const char *fmt, ...);
127This sets up the parent of the kobject and the name for the kobject
128properly. If the kobject is to be associated with a specific kset,
129kobj->kset must be assigned before calling kobject_add(). If a kset is
130associated with a kobject, then the parent for the kobject can be set to
131NULL in the call to kobject_add() and then the kobject's parent will be the
132kset itself.
134As the name of the kobject is set when it is added to the kernel, the name
135of the kobject should never be manipulated directly. If you must change
136the name of the kobject, call kobject_rename():
138 int kobject_rename(struct kobject *kobj, const char *new_name);
140kobject_rename does not perform any locking or have a solid notion of
141what names are valid so the caller must provide their own sanity checking
142and serialization.
144There is a function called kobject_set_name() but that is legacy cruft and
145is being removed. If your code needs to call this function, it is
146incorrect and needs to be fixed.
148To properly access the name of the kobject, use the function
151 const char *kobject_name(const struct kobject * kobj);
153There is a helper function to both initialize and add the kobject to the
154kernel at the same time, called surprisingly enough kobject_init_and_add():
156 int kobject_init_and_add(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_type *ktype,
157 struct kobject *parent, const char *fmt, ...);
159The arguments are the same as the individual kobject_init() and
160kobject_add() functions described above.
165After a kobject has been registered with the kobject core, you need to
166announce to the world that it has been created. This can be done with a
167call to kobject_uevent():
169 int kobject_uevent(struct kobject *kobj, enum kobject_action action);
171Use the KOBJ_ADD action for when the kobject is first added to the kernel.
172This should be done only after any attributes or children of the kobject
173have been initialized properly, as userspace will instantly start to look
174for them when this call happens.
176When the kobject is removed from the kernel (details on how to do that is
177below), the uevent for KOBJ_REMOVE will be automatically created by the
178kobject core, so the caller does not have to worry about doing that by
182Reference counts
184One of the key functions of a kobject is to serve as a reference counter
185for the object in which it is embedded. As long as references to the object
186exist, the object (and the code which supports it) must continue to exist.
187The low-level functions for manipulating a kobject's reference counts are:
189 struct kobject *kobject_get(struct kobject *kobj);
190 void kobject_put(struct kobject *kobj);
192A successful call to kobject_get() will increment the kobject's reference
193counter and return the pointer to the kobject.
195When a reference is released, the call to kobject_put() will decrement the
196reference count and, possibly, free the object. Note that kobject_init()
197sets the reference count to one, so the code which sets up the kobject will
198need to do a kobject_put() eventually to release that reference.
200Because kobjects are dynamic, they must not be declared statically or on
201the stack, but instead, always allocated dynamically. Future versions of
202the kernel will contain a run-time check for kobjects that are created
203statically and will warn the developer of this improper usage.
205If all that you want to use a kobject for is to provide a reference counter
206for your structure, please use the struct kref instead; a kobject would be
207overkill. For more information on how to use struct kref, please see the
208file Documentation/kref.txt in the Linux kernel source tree.
211Creating "simple" kobjects
213Sometimes all that a developer wants is a way to create a simple directory
214in the sysfs hierarchy, and not have to mess with the whole complication of
215ksets, show and store functions, and other details. This is the one
216exception where a single kobject should be created. To create such an
217entry, use the function:
219 struct kobject *kobject_create_and_add(char *name, struct kobject *parent);
221This function will create a kobject and place it in sysfs in the location
222underneath the specified parent kobject. To create simple attributes
223associated with this kobject, use:
225 int sysfs_create_file(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute *attr);
227 int sysfs_create_group(struct kobject *kobj, struct attribute_group *grp);
229Both types of attributes used here, with a kobject that has been created
230with the kobject_create_and_add(), can be of type kobj_attribute, so no
231special custom attribute is needed to be created.
233See the example module, samples/kobject/kobject-example.c for an
234implementation of a simple kobject and attributes.
238ktypes and release methods
240One important thing still missing from the discussion is what happens to a
241kobject when its reference count reaches zero. The code which created the
242kobject generally does not know when that will happen; if it did, there
243would be little point in using a kobject in the first place. Even
244predictable object lifecycles become more complicated when sysfs is brought
245in as other portions of the kernel can get a reference on any kobject that
246is registered in the system.
248The end result is that a structure protected by a kobject cannot be freed
249before its reference count goes to zero. The reference count is not under
250the direct control of the code which created the kobject. So that code must
251be notified asynchronously whenever the last reference to one of its
252kobjects goes away.
254Once you registered your kobject via kobject_add(), you must never use
255kfree() to free it directly. The only safe way is to use kobject_put(). It
256is good practice to always use kobject_put() after kobject_init() to avoid
257errors creeping in.
259This notification is done through a kobject's release() method. Usually
260such a method has a form like:
262 void my_object_release(struct kobject *kobj)
263 {
264 struct my_object *mine = container_of(kobj, struct my_object, kobj);
266 /* Perform any additional cleanup on this object, then... */
267 kfree(mine);
268 }
270One important point cannot be overstated: every kobject must have a
271release() method, and the kobject must persist (in a consistent state)
272until that method is called. If these constraints are not met, the code is
273flawed. Note that the kernel will warn you if you forget to provide a
274release() method. Do not try to get rid of this warning by providing an
275"empty" release function; you will be mocked mercilessly by the kobject
276maintainer if you attempt this.
278Note, the name of the kobject is available in the release function, but it
279must NOT be changed within this callback. Otherwise there will be a memory
280leak in the kobject core, which makes people unhappy.
282Interestingly, the release() method is not stored in the kobject itself;
283instead, it is associated with the ktype. So let us introduce struct
286 struct kobj_type {
287 void (*release)(struct kobject *);
288 const struct sysfs_ops *sysfs_ops;
289 struct attribute **default_attrs;
290 };
292This structure is used to describe a particular type of kobject (or, more
293correctly, of containing object). Every kobject needs to have an associated
294kobj_type structure; a pointer to that structure must be specified when you
295call kobject_init() or kobject_init_and_add().
297The release field in struct kobj_type is, of course, a pointer to the
298release() method for this type of kobject. The other two fields (sysfs_ops
299and default_attrs) control how objects of this type are represented in
300sysfs; they are beyond the scope of this document.
302The default_attrs pointer is a list of default attributes that will be
303automatically created for any kobject that is registered with this ktype.
308A kset is merely a collection of kobjects that want to be associated with
309each other. There is no restriction that they be of the same ktype, but be
310very careful if they are not.
312A kset serves these functions:
314 - It serves as a bag containing a group of objects. A kset can be used by
315 the kernel to track "all block devices" or "all PCI device drivers."
317 - A kset is also a subdirectory in sysfs, where the associated kobjects
318 with the kset can show up. Every kset contains a kobject which can be
319 set up to be the parent of other kobjects; the top-level directories of
320 the sysfs hierarchy are constructed in this way.
322 - Ksets can support the "hotplugging" of kobjects and influence how
323 uevent events are reported to user space.
325In object-oriented terms, "kset" is the top-level container class; ksets
326contain their own kobject, but that kobject is managed by the kset code and
327should not be manipulated by any other user.
329A kset keeps its children in a standard kernel linked list. Kobjects point
330back to their containing kset via their kset field. In almost all cases,
331the kobjects belonging to a kset have that kset (or, strictly, its embedded
332kobject) in their parent.
334As a kset contains a kobject within it, it should always be dynamically
335created and never declared statically or on the stack. To create a new
336kset use:
337 struct kset *kset_create_and_add(const char *name,
338 struct kset_uevent_ops *u,
339 struct kobject *parent);
341When you are finished with the kset, call:
342 void kset_unregister(struct kset *kset);
343to destroy it.
345An example of using a kset can be seen in the
346samples/kobject/kset-example.c file in the kernel tree.
348If a kset wishes to control the uevent operations of the kobjects
349associated with it, it can use the struct kset_uevent_ops to handle it:
351struct kset_uevent_ops {
352 int (*filter)(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj);
353 const char *(*name)(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj);
354 int (*uevent)(struct kset *kset, struct kobject *kobj,
355 struct kobj_uevent_env *env);
359The filter function allows a kset to prevent a uevent from being emitted to
360userspace for a specific kobject. If the function returns 0, the uevent
361will not be emitted.
363The name function will be called to override the default name of the kset
364that the uevent sends to userspace. By default, the name will be the same
365as the kset itself, but this function, if present, can override that name.
367The uevent function will be called when the uevent is about to be sent to
368userspace to allow more environment variables to be added to the uevent.
370One might ask how, exactly, a kobject is added to a kset, given that no
371functions which perform that function have been presented. The answer is
372that this task is handled by kobject_add(). When a kobject is passed to
373kobject_add(), its kset member should point to the kset to which the
374kobject will belong. kobject_add() will handle the rest.
376If the kobject belonging to a kset has no parent kobject set, it will be
377added to the kset's directory. Not all members of a kset do necessarily
378live in the kset directory. If an explicit parent kobject is assigned
379before the kobject is added, the kobject is registered with the kset, but
380added below the parent kobject.
383Kobject removal
385After a kobject has been registered with the kobject core successfully, it
386must be cleaned up when the code is finished with it. To do that, call
387kobject_put(). By doing this, the kobject core will automatically clean up
388all of the memory allocated by this kobject. If a KOBJ_ADD uevent has been
389sent for the object, a corresponding KOBJ_REMOVE uevent will be sent, and
390any other sysfs housekeeping will be handled for the caller properly.
392If you need to do a two-stage delete of the kobject (say you are not
393allowed to sleep when you need to destroy the object), then call
394kobject_del() which will unregister the kobject from sysfs. This makes the
395kobject "invisible", but it is not cleaned up, and the reference count of
396the object is still the same. At a later time call kobject_put() to finish
397the cleanup of the memory associated with the kobject.
399kobject_del() can be used to drop the reference to the parent object, if
400circular references are constructed. It is valid in some cases, that a
401parent objects references a child. Circular references _must_ be broken
402with an explicit call to kobject_del(), so that a release functions will be
403called, and the objects in the former circle release each other.
406Example code to copy from
408For a more complete example of using ksets and kobjects properly, see the
409example programs samples/kobject/{kobject-example.c,kset-example.c},
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Kite, Tom
Kite, Tom (Thomas O. Kite, Jr.), 1949–, American golfer, b. Austin, Tex. The 1973 Professional Golfers Association Rookie of the Year, he was also the 1989 Player of the Year. He won the 1992 U.S. Open, and was a member of the 1993 U.S. Ryder Cup team. The 1981 winner of the Vardon Trophy (for the lowest stroke average), he led the PGA in earnings that year and from 1989 through 1994 was the career earnings leader.
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Firestone Walker Velvet Merkin – Details on First Bottle Release
(Paso Robles, CA) : Firestone Walker Brewing Company's Velvet Merkin — the beer that almost wasn't—will soon heed the rallying cry of "release the merkins," as it is set to be offered for the first time in 22-ounce bottles starting on September 16.
The Vintage 2013 Merkin is an oatmeal stout aged for a year in retired bourbon barrels from Four Roses, Heaven Hill and others.
While it is not Firestone Walker's usual style to conceive beer monikers that are confounding, scandalous or comical, the brewery inadvertently achieved all three of these things with the name "Velvet Merkin" once upon a time. The name went off the grid for several years, but now it's back due to popular demand.
"Until now, all you could get was an occasional peek at Velvet Merkin during a special event or in the brewery tasting room," said Brewmaster Matt Brynildson. "This beer has earned a cult following, and people have been hounding us to release it—and to keep the name. I think some folks are going to wig out when they learn that it's finally available."
Velvet Merkin belongs to Firestone Walker's Proprietor's Reserve series, and was originally developed as a component of the brewery's annual barrel-aged Anniversary Ale blend.
The Vintage 2013 Merkin is limited to 3,500 cases of 22-ounce bottles. Below are additional details on the brewing, barrel aging and tasting profile of the Vintage 2013 Merkin:
Lower Alcohol, Higher Notes
With an ABV of 8.5 percent, Velvet Merkin is the first barrel-aged vintage beer that Firestone Walker has released with an alcohol level under 10 percent.
"With barrel aging, it's easy to gravitate toward higher alcohol beers, because the higher the alcohol, the better the chances that the beer will remain stable in the barrel over time," Brynildson said. "But we've gotten more and more comfortable with putting lower alcohol beers in the barrel, and there's this interesting synergy when you do that."
He continued, "Alcohol plays a huge role in the flavor profile of a barrel-aged beer. When you dial the alcohol level down, all sorts of other flavors come to the surface. With Velvet Merkin, the base beer begins with this dark chocolate and roasted coffee character, but after a year in the barrel, it comes out like milk chocolate with creamy vanilla undertones. You still get some of the classic bourbon barrel notes, but the lower alcohol level really allows this unique milk chocolate quality to come to the surface."
Merkin to Merlin and Back…
The original Velvet Merkin was made solely for the brewery's tasting room, starting in 2004. "I always wanted to make an oatmeal stout, and so I started making single-turn batches for the tasting room, just for fun," Brynildson said.
He added, "I came up with this fanciful name, because I thought it was hilarious. I never thought it would leave the tasting room walls. When we decided to bottle it as a fall seasonal release about four years ago, everyone got cold feet, so we changed the name to Velvet Merlin."
But the Velvet Merkin name was surreptitiously resurrected by Brynildson and the brewing team after they began aging batches of the beer in bourbon barrels at around the same time.
"Velvet Merkin is the barrel-aged version of that original oatmeal stout now known as Velvet Merlin," Brynildson said. "We've been making this iteration of Velvet Merkin for several years as part of our Anniversary Ale program, and now we think it merits its own limited release."
While not available to the public in bottles until now, Velvet Merkin has already racked up two gold medals at the Great American Beer Festival.
Get Your Merkin On at "Merkinfest"
Velvet Merkin will be officially unveiled at the "Release of The Merkins" party at Firestone Walker's Barrelworks in Buellton on September 14. Ticket availability is limited. For tickets and details, stay tuned at: www.firestonebeer.com/events/merkinfest.php
Velvet Merkin Tasting Notes
Beautiful chocolate, espresso and vanilla-bourbon aromas hold your nose hostage. Rich milk chocolate, bourbon and espresso create a dangerously smooth and incredibly drinkable barrel-aged oatmeal stout. Hoarding tendencies may occur.
2013 Vintage Merkin Lowdown
Style: Barrel-Aged Oatmeal Stout
ABV: 8.5% IBU: 33 Color: 80SRM
Malts: 2-Row Pale, Roast Barley, English Dark Caramel, Medium Caramel, Carafa Malt, Oats (15%)
Hops: U.S.-grown Fuggle
Aging: Barrel aged for one year on average in retired spirits barrels
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Freedom Watch with Judge Andrew Napolitano, weeknights 8:00 p.m. on the Fox Business Network
GLENN: Judge Andrew Napolitano, weeknights 8:00 p.m. on the Fox Business Network. This is really turning into a great little network, it is. I mean, it is ‑‑ it's very, dare I say libertarian and free‑thinking at night and fantastic. Judge?
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: You and I end up pushing the envelope, Glenn, to demonstrate to these people, many of whom also work with us on the Fox News Channel.
GLENN: Yeah.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: The virtues of the free market, which are incomparable to anything that the mind of man has created.
GLENN: I know. I mean, anyway. Judge, tell me about, if ‑‑ my wife and I had this discussion last night because she's going to fly commercially here in a couple of days.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: Right.
GLENN: And she ‑‑
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: She can't go through that machine because of who her husband is.
GLENN: Because you don't believe, nor do I, that those images would be deleted?
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: Absolutely not. We have a history of over a hundred of them being passed around the federal courthouse in Baltimore. Now, the federal courthouse is ten miles from the airport in Baltimore. Question: What were they doing in the courthouse? Well, somebody in the TSA sent some to a federal marshal via computer in the courthouse and they started passing them around. They may not have known who the people were, but we know that the government can't be trusted. You and I have written books and given dozens of speeches on government lying. It's well documented. It need not be recounted here. But the recent examples of the abuse of privacy show us that the government cannot be trusted with pictures of our private parts. And you are a target of people in the government because you have exposed them for what they are and they cannot be trusted with private information about Glenn Beck. That's given.
GLENN: I have news for you. I wouldn't allow my daughters, even if I was Joe Schmoe, I wouldn't let my daughters or I won't want my wife walking through it. I mean, I don't want my ‑‑ I don't want pictures of my daughters.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: Right.
GLENN: Or quite frankly my 5‑year‑old son. No.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: I agree with you. And this is why if I have to travel ‑‑ I'm not traveling this weekend. I'm already out at my farm and I'm able fortunately to drive there from the city. I would opt for the pat‑down and I would do a number of things. I've advised people on Freedom Watch, my show, and on your show when we talked about this the other day on the Glenn Beck program.
GLENN: So what do you do? What do you do?
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: Well, you resist within the limits of the law. You ask for the name, rank and serial number of everybody that touches you. You remember that the camera is the new gun. You take a picture of them before and after your cellphone goes through the x‑ray scanner. You protest loudly not to the point where they can't get their work done but you say to others there things like, is this America? Is this a free society? I buy a ticket on a private airline for a private flight. Suddenly a government agent is feeling me up. You embarrass, you humiliate, and you tell them, "You know, guys, the laws are about to change. The reason I'm asking for your name, rank and serial number is because you will soon be a defendant in a civil case and maybe even in a criminal case at this stage."
GLENN: Okay. Hang on just a second, Judge.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: Sure.
GLENN: Because I believe this is a ploy to sweep the TSA into the labor unions because they are all going to feel like they need somebody to protect them from the evil public. This is ‑‑ what you're suggesting I believe works exactly into the hands of the labor unions, which are already, they ‑‑ yesterday they ran a full ‑‑ I'm sorry, half‑page ad, AFL‑CIO defending the TSA and saying, "We're on your side, TSA."
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: Well, you know, Cousin Janet who, of course, is no relation to me. I use that phrase just to taunt her to come on my show. I've even invited her over to my Thanksgiving dinner, although my mother would have a heart attack if she showed up. But anyway, Cousin Janet said very simply that we may need to deploy TSA agents elsewhere in society. Could you imagine if they do this to us when we get on a train, when we get on a bus ‑‑
GLENN: Well, they're saying ‑‑
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: ‑‑ when you walk into the Fox building? Where will this end?
GLENN: They are saying that they are putting it in the trains now. That was the news I saw, what, about 10 minutes ago, Pat? That they are now going to put these things into ‑‑
PAT: Trains and metro.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: I know that provocations will lead to a stiffening of the government's back but it will also need to a realization that we cannot become a nation of sheep. It may also lead to this: I suspect a lot of those TSA agents hate doing this as much as we ‑‑
GLENN: Oh, I do, too.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: ‑‑ hate having them do it.
PAT: You know they do.
GLENN: I agree with you. I agree with you on that and that's why, that's why I disagree with you on the humiliate. I think inform them and be kind, be gentle, be as Gandhi‑like or as Christ‑like as you can but inform them that things are going to change, guys, and you don't want to do this.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: Well, I had that great libertarian singer Trace Adkins on my show.
GLENN: Yeah.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: And I asked him what he was going to do. He, of course, is going to suggest that he enjoys what they are doing and he welcomes more hands on his body. Now, you know him. He's about 6' 8," about 300 pounds.
GLENN: I know.
PAT: Yeah. That would be funny from Trace Adkins.
GLENN: I know.
PAT: That would be effective.
GLENN: It's pretty amazing. It's pretty amazing. Judge, God bless you, man, and keep it up. Would you do me a favor?
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: Sure.
GLENN: Go to TheBlaze.com today and look at the stories, what are they, Pat? There's three of them on revolutionaries and communists talking about, there's the animal liberation people that are sending bloody used razor blades to people and they're saying it's time for a revolution. You have the communists ‑‑
PAT: And socialists preparing for violence and revolution.
GLENN: Yeah, and calling for it now. All of the things, Judge, that we have talked about. And I would just like you to see these videos because you're a guy who really gets it.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: I will. I will.
GLENN: And I'd love to, I'd love to hear your advice on ‑‑
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: Gold and guns.
GLENN: Judge ‑‑
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: And God, but he's always with us.
GLENN: I love you. Thank you so much.
JUDGE NAPOLITANO: Love you, too. Happy Thanksgiving.
Same to you, Pat.
GLENN: You, too. Bye‑bye.


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Four dead after attack on Syrian anti-government student protesters
Reports say fellow students who backed the Assad regime joined forces with Syrian security to assault those involved in a protest march on a college campus in Aleppo.
| Beirut
Syrian security men and students wielding knives attacked a protest march at Aleppo University on Thursday, activists said, killing four and rounding up dozens of demonstrators who were demanding President Bashar al-Assad step down.
In an unusually bloody incident for Syria's hitherto fairly peaceful commercial hub and second city, video posted on the Internet showed young people chanting slogans against the ruling family and being drowned out by gunfire. Activists posted images of a bloodied corpse and what they said was a burning dormitory.
A British-based opposition group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said at least four were killed and some 28 other students were wounded, three critically. Some 200 were arrested in the latest violence to breached a three-week-old U.N. truce.
Knife-wielding youths had joined the security forces in the attack on fellow students on the Aleppo campus, the group said, adding that teargas had been fired on what started as the latest of an almost daily series of peaceful protests by the students.
"Freedom forever in spite of you, Assad!" chanted the young demonstrators in a video shot in early morning twilight.
There was no comment from officials and it was not possible to verify the account from the northern city whose relatively prosperous, business-oriented population has been slow to join the 14-month-old revolt against the Assad's four-decade rule.
Syria's middle classes, and substantial religious and ethnic minorities, are fearful that an uprising dominated by Sunni Muslims, who form 80 percent of the population, against an elite around Assad, which is drawn largely from his Alawite minority, could descend into the kind of sectarian and ethnic bloodbath they have watched destroy neighbouring Iraq over recent years.
From Aleppo, anti-Assad activists uploaded a picture of one young man who they said was killed, his shirt drenched in blood, and a video of a burning residence block, its windows shattered. Dormitory hallways appeared to have been smashed up and men were dragging furniture outside as students screamed.
The violence was one of many breaches of the three-week-old ceasefire in Syria, where 31 United Nations observers are touring to monitor the truce between state forces and rebels. Around 300 are expected to be deployed by the end of May.
The deal brokered by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has led to a small reduction in the daily carnage, mostly in cities were monitors are deployed permanently.
The head of the monitoring mission, Major General Robert Mood from Norway, told reporters during a trip to Hama on Thursday that observers were having a "calming affect" and that state forces appeared willing to cooperate with the truce.
"There have been steps taken by the government forces on the ground that indicate a better willingness to live up to the commitments made in the agreement," he said, giving no details.
But clashes have continued, with rebel fighters killing 15 members of the security forces, including two colonels, in a rural part of Aleppo province on Wednesday.
Security forces struck in other parts of the country, too, activists said. They fired mortars at a village in central Homs province and killed six people when they fired on villages in northern Idlib province.
While the city of Aleppo itself has rarely seen clashes, there has been a string of assassinations there, apparently by rebels. The Observatory reported the killing overnight of Ismail Haidar, son of the head of a pro-Assad political party.
Videos and activist accounts, however, are hard to verify conclusively because the government restricts media access.
On Thursday afternoon, protests again erupted at Aleppo University to denounce the overnight assault.
"It is hard to get any information from the students right now. The situation is tense. Security forces are surrounding the campus," said an activist in the city called Mustafa.
While most opposition areas in Syria have been overtaken by an armed revolt against Assad, peaceful anti-Assad protests had been staged almost daily at the university in Aleppo.
It is hard to assess if those protests reflect widespread sentiment among the younger generation native to the city or whether students living there who hail from rebellious hotspots like Idlib and Deraa might be taking a lead in Aleppo.
Syria's uprising began in March 2011 with peaceful demonstrations inspired by a wave of Arab revolts against long-ruling autocratic leaders, but it has become increasingly militarised in response to Assad's violent crackdown.
The UN says more than 9,000 people have died in the crackdown, while the Syrian government says it has lost at least 2,600 of its forces to "foreign-backed terrorists".
The Observatory cited student activists saying security forces ordered students out of dormitories, from where protests had been launched, and had shut the university until May 12.
Despite the turmoil, Syria plans to hold a parliamentary election on Monday under a new constitution which has allowed the creation of new political parities and formally ended decades of monopoly by Assad's ruling Baath Party.
Authorities say the election is part of a reform process, but most of the opposition dismisses it as a sham. (Additional reporting by Mariam Karouny in Damascus; Editing by Alastair Macdonald)


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Whether or not you're a believer in the universal benefits of public transit, this project deserves respect. To build a passenger rail station in the Beacon Hill area, south of downtown Seattle, contractors had to create the largest and deepest soft-ground sequential excavation method (SEM) tunnels in North America. SEM refers to the practice of digging a tunnel in sections, supporting each segment as you go. The pair of mile-long tunnels—part of a 14-mile light-rail project—were nearly twice the depth and diameter of previous such projects, running under a 352-feet-high hill. When initial test shafts found a surprisingly large amount of fine sand, engineers quickly rearranged the design and path of the tunnels, pioneering new construction techniques that should benefit future SEM projects in soft soils. The final result is inherently unassuming—the Beacon Hill station is 160 feet underground, accessible in 20 seconds by elevator—so the 642-ton, 330-feet-long earth-pressure-balancing tunnel-boring machine that dug the tunnels will have to stand testament to this nimble and literally ground-breaking project.
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Water is a big deal in Southern California, where demand for it continues to climb, and experts fear a major earthquake could trigger a dangerous shortage of drinking water. The 2009 OCEA winner Orange County's Groundwater Replenishing System helped tackle the first part of that equation, increasing supply by purifying wastewater. The Arrowhead Tunnels are designed to boost supply and also to prepare for the worst. The combined 9.6 miles of tunnels can provide six months of emergency water for some 15 million residents. The impetus for this section of the 44-mile-long Inland Feeder project was also its biggest challenge—the tunnels run east of the San Andreas fault, and through 20 fault zones. Similar to the Seattle project, this one required new drilling techniques, including the use of probe holes to assess ground conditions ahead of the huge tunnel-boring machines (TBM). Thanks to the new probing system, as well as the use of strain gauges to actively monitor tunnel pressure, the TBMs were able to dig faster, with fewer stops and starts. The real test of the tunnels will be their ability to stand up to a quake and support the local populace during the aftermath. But for now, this complex and difficult project appears to be $500 million dollars well spent.
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