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Atlassian's Eric Wittman has said that this product contains "numerous innovations" not found in other Git offerings, including the ability to easily create a branch with a single click from a JIRA issue.
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The soft pink mauves could be found everywhere from furnishings to area rugs and accessories. But, what makes this color so great? It's so versatile!
Warm & Calm
On its own or paired with other neutrals, a beautiful blush creates a warm and inviting space like in this cozy bed found in the Stephen Shell showroom.
Make it Edgy
To make that beautiful blush a little more edgy, Anishka Clarke of Ishka Designs suggests adding a striking red.
The Sensual Side
Krista Nye Nicholas and Tami Ramsay of Cloth & Kind also loved blush but combined with nude hues to create a more sensual feel.
One thing is certain, every space could benefit from a little blush so let's take a look at some beautiful spaces that have incorporated this blushing new neutral into the space.
Blushing Sofas and Rugs
A blush sofa acts as a perfect backdrop for golden hues and interesting textures in this mid-century modern home designed by Linda Mazur. The blush tones are also picked up in the beautiful area rug.
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Pink may seem like an obvious choice for a little girls room, but as proven by this beautiful Dvira Ovadia design, a subtle blush color paired with cream white and black makes for a slightly more sophisticated take on a pink bedroom.
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The Benefits of a Kitchen Remodel in Fairfield, California
When it comes to making the most out of your household, it is important that you do your best to upgrade your property. Your home is one of the most important investments that you can make, so you need to take it upon yourself to protect this investment to the best of your ability. One of the best ways you can do this is with a kitchen remodel.
There are a lot of tips that you need to keep in mind if you're in the market for a kitchen remodel in Fairfield, California. In addition to the cost, make sure that you find the help of the right contractor and learn some design principles that will be useful. In this regard, read this article in order to get the most out of your next project.
First and foremost, let's take a look at the many advantages you will enjoy it by hiring a contractor to handle your kitchen remodel in Fairfield, California.
It will add to your property values
The main benefit of bringing in a contractor for the remodel is that you will notice a huge before and after uptick in your property value. It is always important to build equity in your home and one of the best ways to do this is to improve the kitchen in Fairfield, California. The kitchen is one of the most important areas of value in any household and will allow you to really fetch the greatest sales prices whenever you decide to put your home on the market.
Your kitchen will be lovely and more efficient
Just check out some pictures that contractors in Fairfield, California use to advertise their remodeling jobs. They do revolutionary work, which makes kitchens look far more lovely and efficient overall. There are numerous designs that you can choose between in this regard. Whether you are looking into improvements for small kitchens, would like a remodel on a budget want to do business with companies that handle full-fledged kitchen renovations in which cost is no object, you will be in good hands and glad that you took the time to do this.
You can make your home more eco-friendly
Another great benefit of reaching out to a remodeling professional is that your kitchen will be more green friendly overall. Green friendliness is an incredible benefit, because it lets you be mindful of the environment, while also lowering your utility bills. The savings you will experience in this regard are immeasurable. There are numerous professionals that can give you an estimate on your kitchen remodel in California, regardless of what you are looking for. So when it comes to kitchen remodeling tips, you'll be glad that you took the time to find a planner that helps you lower your carbon footprint while improving in California your kitchen in California.
You'll add some years to your home in Fairfield, California
You'll notice that you don't have the same itch to move when you revamp your home to the best of your ability. The reason for this is that you will feel as though you have a brand-new home when you decide to upgrade your kitchen in such manner. The contractors can lay out a number of plans to make your kitchen look revolutionary, or can work with you to create a custom kitchen remodel in Fairfield, California completely from scratch.
It can be a comfortable nook to enjoy breakfast
When you want to enjoy that fresh cup of morning coffee, It pays to do so in a kitchen you can fall in love with. You can achieve that when you look through some plans and layouts that let you upgrade your kitchen to the trends and styles that suit you the most. You'll be able to create the kitchen that you want in the colors that speak to you each and every morning.
Paperwork, Permits And Clerical Items
You need quite a lot of help when you are working on your kitchen in Fairfield, California, and you may ask the company to handle a few clerical items that you simply cannot do on your own. You may have all these things handled by the company before they arrive at your home in Fairfield, California:
The contractor is responsible for handling the job from start to finish, and you will find that it is simple to allow the contractor to tell you what must be done when they are working on your home. They will walk you through everything that must be completed, and they will start with permits for the home in California.
Permits for the home must be acquired before any work is planned, and you may speak to the company about any special permits you need. There are instances in which you need permits that have been created specifically for your home. There are many people who do not understand the scope of the project they are doing, and they will not get the proper permit before work starts. You must ask the person who is doing the work about the permits they have gotten for your home in Fairfield, California.
The contract for your job will be quite long, and it will include all the things that are to be done around the house. The house will be much safer when you have a contract that lays out how all the work is to be done. You may agree on all the people who are doing work around the home, and you may ask the contractor to give you an assurance that they will hire certain people to work on the space. This may include a number of artisans and subcontractors who will come to the home to work on everything from the flooring to the tile. They will work on their job before leaving, and the project manager for your job will ensure each person to managed properly.
The work that is done in your kitchen in Fairfield, California must conclude with a full inspection of the space because the local cod enforcement board may come to your home to look at the work that has been done. They may sign off on the work after your contractor is done, and you may ask your contractor to tell you how the work has been completed. They know if they are up to code, and they will help you avoid problems that may have happened with a company that does not do its own inspection.
There are many kitchens that may become new when you are using proper remodeling techniques. There are quite a few things that may be done in your kitchen in Fairfield, California to make it look beautiful, and you may change everything from the cabinets to the appliances. You will be much ore comfortable in the room, and you will find that it is quite simple to make the house look great because you have a majestic kitchen in California that will host your guests, make your family feel at home and allow you to cook your meals every night.


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Sometimes you crave something unique for your home. When it comes to flooring, it may seem like unique is hard to find. But, you don't have to get lots in the sea of beige carpets and oak hardwood floors. There's a category of hardwood flooring referred to as Exotics.
This category includes floors made from materials like bamboo, cork and lesser known woods like Brazilian Cherry. With these materials you'll get beautiful, distinct grains, new color variations and unique patterns.
Exotic hardwood floors can be stunning in a home. You even may find it hard to cover them up with a rug. Here's some exotic flooring inspiration from the Voyager Collection available at Carpet One Floor & Home.
The variation in color in this bamboo floor makes a bold statement. Marseilles from the Voyager Collection.
Cork is great for more than just wine bottles…like this floor – Barley Mill from the Voyager Collection.
Two-tones of cork flooring create a look that's truly unique. Millis from the Voyager Collection.
This bamboo look is serene a bedroom. Overture from the Voyager Collection.
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Hartford — In another effort to move national gun control legislation forward in Congress, President Barack Obama spoke with family members of Newtown victims and students and guests who filled the bleachers in the University of Hartford gym Monday.
"Connecticut has shown the way," Obama said. "And now is the time for Congress to do the same."
Obama told Newtown families that he would not forget them and thanked them for their courage. Pointing out that 90 percent of Americans support background checks for gun purchases, he said he did not understand why some in Congress were trying to prevent a vote on gun control measures.
He said he wanted all who were listening on Monday to contact their representatives and ask why they were not in favor of making it easier for law enforcement to do its job and harder for dangerous people to obtain guns.
After his speech, Obama took 12 family members of Newtown victims with him on Air Force One to meet with U.S. lawmakers in Washington.
"We are going to be taking to Washington tonight some of the most effective advocates for this cause, who are the families," said U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn. "Their faces and their voices will be in Washington this week, and team Newtown is going to Connecticut in the person of the people who have suffered the most grief and hurt."
Nicole Hockley, who lost her son Dylan Hockley in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings, introduced Obama. She said she had been paralyzed in shock for days after Dylan's death. There are still days she feels "empty" from losing her boy, she said.
"But now there is no going back for me, there is no way," Hockley said. "If you want to protect your children, if you want to avoid this loss, you will not turn away either."
Obama praised Hockley and other Newtown parents for their courage. "We are so grateful for their courage and willingness to share their stories again and again," Obama said.
Every family in the nation was shaken after Newtown, he said.
Since then "we asked what could we do, as a society, to help prevent a tragedy like that from happening again," he said.
In his speech, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said, "We are proud to join his (Obama's) effort to make sure that every state and ultimately this nation does the right thing and in doing the right thing, pay homage to those who have lost someone in our cities (and) our schools."
Malloy thanked the audience for its help in passing gun control legislation in Connecticut and said the laws "mark a turning point in the national debate."
The crowd went wild for Malloy, but not nearly to the degree it roared for Obama.
As Obama took the stage, members of the crowd stood, cheered, waived their arms and yelled, "We love you, Obama." During Obama's speech, one crowd member shouted out, "I love you," to which Obama said, "I appreciate that."
Most of the students and guests in the crowd wore green ribbons from the Newtown-based nonprofit Sandy Hook Promise. Many family members of Newtown victims have joined this nonprofit. Members recently wrote a letter to members of Congress urging them to pass legislation with background checks, limits to high-capacity magazines and increased penalties for gun trafficking and straw purchases.
Newtown family members will continue their effort this week as senators get ready to discuss gun control legislation. But 13 Republican senators sent a letter to U.S. Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nevada, on Monday saying they would threaten a filibuster on any legislation that would infringe on the American people's constitutional rights.
Obama said he wants universal background checks, a crackdown on gun trafficking and a restoration of the ban on military-style assault weapons along with strengthening school safety and helping people struggling with mental health problems to get treatment before it is too late.
Each of these measures is "common sense" and deserves a vote, he said.
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"How often do 90 percent of Americans agree on anything?" Obama asked. "You would think with those numbers, Congress would rush to make this happen. ..."
"They're saying they'll do everything they can to even prevent any votes on these provisions," Obama said. "They're saying your opinion doesn't matter. And that's not right."
To this the crowd booed, started chanting, "We want a vote, we want a vote," and stood.
"This is about these families, and families all across the country who are saying let's make it a little harder for our kids to get gunned down," Obama said.
He said those with "powerful interests" are good at polarizing the group and drowning out rational debate.
"But if our history teaches us anything, then it's up to us — the people — to stand up to those who say we can't, or we won't; stand up for the change that we need."
He said that ever since he first ran for office, he did not believe the country was as divided as politics would suggest.
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He said people have to listen to one another to move forward.
"That's what Governor Malloy and all these legislative leaders did," Obama said. "That's why they were able to pass bipartisan legislation."
At the event, state Rep. Diana Urban, D-North Stonington, sat near Meg Staunton, co-founder of grass-roots organization March for Change.
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Obama said the day of the Newtown shooting was the toughest day of his presidency.
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Obama concluded by saying, "Let's do right by our kids."
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Standing in the middle of the airport, I couldn't understand why my cousins were sobbing uncontrollably. They didn't do this when I visited Tokyo a few months earlier, or Hong Kong the year before. What was so terrifying about me taking a trip to America?
It was a month into my "visit to New York City" when my mother enrolled me in a local public school and I realized I wasn't going home any time soon.
I moved to America from Bangkok in 1999; I was nine years old and it was two and a half years since my father had passed away from lung and liver cancer. We came here because my dad always dreamed my older brother and I would get an American education and become more than retailers in a Thai mall like he and my mom were. At the time, my English skills didn't go beyond "Hello, my name is," so when it came to finding friends, it was a matter of whoever liked playing cards the most (spoiler alert: fourth graders were too cool for cards – and foreign languages).
After my first five months in public school, my brother and I were placed in private school in order to extend our student visas. I began seeing much less of my mom, who had to work 19 hours a day to pay tuition and provide for us. The only time I saw her was between 6 and 7 in the evening, when she came home from her day job at a Fifth Avenue jeweler and made us dinner before heading to her night job as a waitress at a Thai restaurant. Because I was young and didn't understand the sacrifice she was making, and because she never had time to explain anything to us, I began to resent her for the little moments. When she wouldn't walk me to school or take me to the mall on the weekend, I was confused by what could be more important to her than spending time with me.
I vented in my journal how much I hated her for the sudden "abandonment." Hate. It's such a strong, malicious word. When my brother found said journal hidden under my pillow, he made me burn the page so our mom would never see it.
By Christmas, I was assimilated enough to know that I had to have a Nintendo 64. Everyone in school talked about how awesome GoldenEye was, and how Super Mario was the shit. I might not have been able to gossip about our math teacher, but I was desperate for something – anything – to have in common with my classmates. I remember the look in my mother's eyes when she told us she couldn't afford a Nintendo, as if she'd let us down yet again.
Two months later, she managed to find us hand-me-down system from one of her coworkers, whose kid had already moved on from the 64 to the Sega Dreamcast. My mom got the kid a new game, and she got a hand-me-down Nintendo in return. Dear Dreamcast kid, I hope you're still playing Seaman because your dad made the worst mistake of his life. My mom did the opposite.
The Nintendo 64 provided a sort of solace I never knew I wanted. When I was stupidly hating my mom for denying time with me, I sought comfort in a round of Super Smash Bros. I practiced my English on Hey You, Pikachu! and considered it successful when that little yellow rat picked up the objects I told it to, or moved left and right as I directed. Paper Mario was the main reason I rushed to do all my homework – so I had time to finish the newest level before bed. When I got to school, I had something to chat about with my newfound American friends. I no longer felt like an outsider; they no longer looked at me as the alien.
The last game I bought for my Nintendo 64 was Pokemon Puzzle League. My mom is a huge puzzle gamer (to this day, she'll still kick anyone's butt at Tetris), so I thought we might spend time playing it together. Still, her job schedule didn't allow it. I was used to her rejections at this point and learned to be content with entertaining myself.
Things seemed to be normal as new normal can be until the summer of 2003. I went into Elmhurst Hospital for a yearly checkup, and by then I knew how it went: The doctor places a funny circle with ear pieces attached to it on your chest and asks you to take a deep breath; you tell him you have no food allergies, he sticks some weird lights in your ears, and you leave with a lollipop. Instead, the doctor pressed his hands against the left side of my stomach and scrunched his eyebrows, asking if my diet changed recently. Then he referred me to the ultrasound department.
Three hours, one ultrasound, and one CAT scan later, I was strapped to a bed and rolled into an ambulance. The blaring van took off as my mom and brother watched and I was whisked away to the pediatric oncology department at Mount Sinai Hospital. I soon learned I had stage 2B pancreatic cancer, and that I would need surgery to remove the five-pound tumor that had engulfed my pancreas and other lymph nodes.
Heartbroken and in fear of losing another family member to cancer, my mom quit her job to be by my bedside for the two-week recovery period. Every time she felt like crying, she walked out of the room to make phone calls to my aunts and uncles. She couldn't stand to cry in front of me, her 13-year-old daughter, because she thought I would be scared. I wasn't. When you're a kid and don't know the value of life and all that's ahead, you're fearless.
When I woke from surgery, to my surprise, a Nintendo 64 system had been wheeled into my room. I was the oldest kid in that department, and Mount Sinai let me keep the system until I was ready to go home. Naturally, my brother brought in all my favorite games from home, including Pokemon Puzzle League.
In the early days following surgery, I drifted in and out of a painkiller-induced haze. But I remember seeing my mom punching buttons, trying figure out the Nintendo controller so she could complete the Hard level of Pokemon Puzzle. When a nurse came in and laughed at a grown woman working so diligently on a Nintendo game, she responded that she needed to learn the game so she could play it with me during my recovery.
And we did. For two hours straight, we'd watch those little colorful gems twitch, turn, and disappear, and challenge each other to get better scores than the last game. When it came time for me to go home, my mom apologized for not being there as much as she'd like and promised to find time when things got better financially.
In 2005, I sold my Nintendo 64. By then, it had done nothing but collect dust because I was always at my friend's house playing her brand new Playstation 2. I still regret the moment I packed the set and sold it at my local GameStop, walking away with a mere $100 dollars in credit. I remember returning to that GameStop to find my exact cartridge of Pokemon Puzzle League on display in the window, and I knew it was mine because the high score was always "NattG" or "Mom."
Although the system and those games are no longer available for visitation, the fond memories will always remind me that gadgets can sometimes bring people together. In New York these days, it seems like we're increasingly plugged in and removed from the world around us, but that Nintendo 64 connected me to a whole new country. More importantly, it connected my mother to me.
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Install Debian Lenny on Stock Kurobox
Please backup ALL important data before proceeding!
This is a guide to installing the latest stable release of Debian Lenny 5.0.5 with 184.108.40.206 kernel on a KuroboxHG with stock firmware.
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Installation
- 3 Basic Configuration
- 4 Limitations
- 5 Change Log
- 6 Feedback
Whilst much information is available for installing various Debian releases on the Kurobox/KuroboxHG, most installations require re-flashing the device's firmware with uBoot. This guide details installation on a Kurobox/KuroboxHG running the stock firmware, eliminating the risk of re-flashing with uBoot. This is achieved by installing Debian Sarge 3.1 as an auxiliary operating system, using loader.o to load a 184.108.40.206 kernel and then booting Debian Lenny 5.0.5 from a separate partition.
The Installation procedure is very simple and summarised by the following steps:
- Force EM Mode
- Login via Telnet
- Partition the Hard Drive
- Transfer Debian Images
- Extract Debian Images
- Configure and Reboot
Following this, Basic Configuration is discussed:
- Initial Configuration
- Optional Configuration
- Install Services
Finally, Limitations are outlined to encourage further development.
Force EM Mode
EM mode is easily entered by installing a new drive in your Kurobox.
- SSH into KuroBox
- Erase MBR:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
- Reboot:
- Dismantle KuroBox by depressing tabs and sliding off sheath
- Remove hard drive by further dismantling and removal of screws
- Connect drive to another machine via IDE / USB->IDE converter
- Erase MBR:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk1 bs=512 count=1
- Reassemble KuroBox
- Boot KuroBox
Log In via Telnet
Assuming you have successfully entered EM mode, the Kurobox will assume the address 192.168.11.150 in the absence of a DHCP server. If you are running DHCP, please consult your DHCP client list to determine the Kurobox's address.
Login via telnet:
telnet 192.168.11.150
- Username: root
- Password: kuroadmin
Partition the Hard Drive
Our goal is to create the following partiton-table:
/dev/hda1 Bootable Type 83(Linux) 2GB for Sarge /dev/hda2 Type 82(LinuxSwap) 256MB /dev/hda3 Type 83(Linux) 4GB for Lenny /dev/hda4 Type 83(Linux) the rest of the Disk
- Clear existing partitions:
mfdisk -e /dev/hda
- Create new partitions map (2GB Sarge[boot], 256MB Swap, 4GB Lenny, xxGB Data):
mfdisk -c /dev/hda
- Create Sarge system partition:
n <enter> p <enter> 1 <enter> <enter> +2048M <enter>
- Make Sarge system partition bootable:
a <enter> 1 <enter>
- Make Swap partition:
n <enter> p <enter> 2 <enter> <enter> +256M <enter>
- Designate Swap:
t <enter> 2 <enter> 82 <enter>
- Create Lenny system partition:
n <enter> p <enter> 3 <enter> <enter> +4096M <enter>
- Make Data:
n <enter> p <enter> 4 <enter> <enter> <enter>
- Print partition map:
p <enter>
- Write partition map to disk:
w <enter>
- Format partitions:
mkfs -j /dev/hda1 mkfs -j /dev/hda3 mkfs -j /dev/hda4 mkswap /dev/hda2
- Mount Sarge partition:
mkdir /mnt/hda1 mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
- Mount Lenny partition:
mkdir /mnt/hda3 mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3
Transfer Debian Images
- Download the required images:
- Connect to the KuroBox via FTP:
- Address: 192.168.1.150
- Username: root
- Password: kuroadmin
- Transfer debian-sarge-184.108.40.206-kuroHG-20100722.tgz to /mnt/hda1
- Transfer debian-lenny-18.104.22.168-kuroHG-20100722.tgz to /mnt/hda3
Extract Debian Images
- Extract Sarge image with:
cd /mnt/hda1 tar xvzf /mnt/hda1/debian-sarge-18.104.22.168-kuroHG-20100722.tgz
- Extract Lenny image with:
cd /mnt/hda3 tar xvzf /mnt/hda3/debian-lenny-18.104.22.168-kuroHG-20100722.tgz
- Delete the images with:
rm /mnt/hda1/debian-sarge-188.8.131.52-kuroHG-20100722.tgz rm /mnt/hda3/debian-lenny-184.108.40.206-kuroHG-20100722.tgz
Note: If you are using a non-HG Kurobox, both Sarge and Lenny kernel images should be replaced by extracting http://www.genbako.com/kernelimage-188.8.131.52-kuroBOX.tgz to /mnt/hda1/boot' and /mnt/hda3/boot
Configure and Reboot
By default both debian installations are configured to acquire their address via DHCP with the hostname "KURO-BOX". If you need to change these details:
- Configure interfaces:
- Sarge
vi /mnt/hda1/etc/network/interfaces
- Lenny
vi /mnt/hda3/etc/network/interfaces
- Configure hostname:
- Sarge
vi /mnt/hda1/etc/hostname
- Lenny
vi /mnt/hda3/etc/hostname
- Configure DNS servers:
- Sarge
vi /mnt/hda1/etc/resolv.conf
- Lenny
vi /mnt/hda3/etc/resolv.conf
- Finally, to boot into Debian Lenny 5.05, type:
write_ok reboot
Basic Configuration
Initial Configuration
After a successful reboot, the following initial configuration steps are recommended:
- Log in via telnet
- Username: tmp-kun
- Password: tmp-kun
- Setup Terminal:
export TERM=vt100
- Switch to super user:
- Password = root
- Change root password:
- Create a user account:
adduser username
- Reconnect via Telnet as username
- Switch to super user
- Remove user tmp-kun:
deluser tmp-kun rm -Rf /home/tmp-kun/
- Update Package List:
apt-get update
- Upgrade installed packages:
apt-get dist-upgrade
Optional Configuration
By default the dual-boot installation will cycle between Sarge with stock kernel and Lenny with updated kernel after each reboot. Whilst this provides a safety net in the event that the Lenny installation fails to boot (i.e. reboot in Sarge, mount the Lenny filesystem and fix the problem), this behavior may be undesirable if you operate always-on services purely within Lenny.
To force the system to always boot Lenny with the updated kernel:
- Boot into Sarge and login as root
- Create a rebooter script:
nano /etc/init.d/kernel_check.sh
- Add the following content (replacing 2.4.17_mvl21 with your stock firmware revision [uname -r]):
#!/bin/sh # Check Kernel Version KERNEL=`uname -r` echo "Detected Kernel: $KERNEL" if [ $KERNEL = '2.4.17_mvl21' ]; then echo 'Rebooting...' /sbin/reboot fi
- Save the script
<ctrl>+o, <ctrl>+x
- Make the script executable:
chmod +x /etc/init.d/kernel_check.sh
- Register an @reboot crontab process:
crontab -e <enter> @reboot /bin/sh /etc/init.d/kernel_check.sh > /root/log.txt 2>&1 <ctrl>+o, <ctr>+x
Now, whenever the system boots into Sarge it will detect the stock firmware and force a reboot into Lenny with the updated firmware. This behavior will allow you to reboot the server remotely with confidence that it will return running Lenny. It also simplifies the boot procedure to a single button push.
Note: There are definitely much more elegant ways of achieving this behavior, this only serves as a simple example.
Install Services
Services will vary dependant on usage, however most users will require SSH, installed via:
apt-get install ssh
Ideally the auxiliary Sarge installation should not be necessary, however much work is required to facilitate this. Please let me know if you have such a solution.
Please let me know or amend this article if you discover solutions or further limitations.
Change Log
The shutdown and reboot limitations have now been resolved by means of a crontab @reboot script (detailed above). This script has not been incorporated into the repository images as it removes the built-in safety net that dual booting provides. (i.e. without the script if Lenny fails to boot you can reboot in Sarge, mount the Lenny filesystem and fix the problem; with the script if Lenny fails to boot you will need to force EM mode or remove the hard drive to rectify the problem).
The Sarge image referenced here is derived from http://www.genbako.com/debian-22.214.171.124/debian-sarge-220.127.116.11-kuroHG-20060702.tgz, patched with the 126.96.36.199 KuroboxHG image found at http://www.genbako.com/kernelimage-184.108.40.206-kuroHG.tgz / http://www.genbako.com/modules-22.214.171.124-kuroHG.tgz. The sources.list has been updated to reflect the current 'archived' status of Debian sarge and all updates as of 23/07/2010 have been applied.
The Lenny image referenced here is derived from http://www.revulo.com/kuro-box/Debian/lenny.html, patched with the 188.8.131.52 KuroboxHG image found at http://www.genbako.com/kernelimage-126.96.36.199-kuroHG.tgz / http://www.genbako.com/modules-188.8.131.52-kuroHG.tgz. All updates as of 23/07/2010 have been applied.
Feedback and discussion is welcomed via http://forum.buffalo.nas-central.org/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=22002


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Bacon-potato Salad
(Makes 4 to 6 servings)
1½ lbs. potatoes, such as Yukon Gold, cut into 3-inch chunks
2 eggs
3 pieces bacon, cooked till crispy and crumbled
2 green onions, chopped
1/3 cup Greek yogurt
2 T. good mayonnaise, such as Hellmann"s
1 tsp. Dijon mustard
Sea salt and pepper
Steps: Heat potatoes in a large pot with salted water. When it reaches a boil, turn down heat and let simmer 15 to 20 minutes or just until tender. Roughly smash them, with a hand masher or fork, making sure to leave large pieces.
While the potatoes are cooking, make hard-boiled eggs. Place in saucepan, cover with water and heat. When water reaches a boil, set timer for 10 minutes. When done, rinse eggs in cold water, then peel and chop.
Add chopped egg, bacon and green onions to potatoes.
Whisk together Greek yogurt, mayo and mustard, and fold into the potatoes. Taste for seasonings. Serve warm or cold.
Nutritional analysis per serving, based on 4: 270 calories, 11 grams fat, 32 grams carbohydrates, 10 grams protein, 114 milligrams cholesterol, 220 milligrams sodium, 2 grams dietary fiber, 37 percent of calories from fat.


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More Thoughts About Moving Objects Safely
Moving objects instead of copying them is a tricky notion to explain — and perhaps trickier than I realized, given how many questions I received by email about last week's article.
The question seems simple enough: When is it safe to move an object instead of copying it? Where the trickiness comes in is in trying to define exactly what the question means. Clearly, if I am the author of a class, or I understand thoroughly how that class works, I get to decide what it means for it to be safe to move an object of my class instead of copying it. So that must not be the important question. Rather, the important question is this:
If a programmer writes code that looks like it is copying an object, when is it safe for the compiler quietly to change that copy into a move?
Here, "safe" means that the change will not affect the program's results; just its performance. I understand that this definition is vague at the moment, but I expect to make it less so in future articles. The real point is that we are talking about a decision made by the compiler, not by any programmer; and we are looking for circumstances that
- Allow the compiler to make the decision to change a copy into a move without worrying about whether that decision might break code; and
- Are easy enough to define that we can be confident that the compiler will actually make these decisions without needing to rely on sophisticated optimization and program-flow-tracing techniques.
With these constraints in mind, let's look again at last week's example:
Thing t; work_on(t);
Here, we are assuming that
work_on takes a
Thing parameter (not a reference to a
Thing, which would call for neither copying nor moving), and that we wrote neither the
Thing class nor the
work_on function and therefore do not know about their internals. We are asking whether the compiler can move
t to
work_on's parameter instead of copying it.
Let's start by isolating this code:
{ Thing t; work_on(t); }
By enclosing the code in curly braces, we make
t a local variable in a block. As a result,
t must be destroyed at the
}, so we can be confident from this code that there is no possibility of
t being accessed between the call to
work_on and
t's destruction.
Most of the time, the situation is not that simple. Instead, the code is apt to look more like this:
{ Thing t; do_something(t); work_on(t); do_something_else(); }
Now the seemingly simple question of whether
t is used after the call to
work_on becomes impossible to answer. The reason is that
do_something might have a
Thing& as its parameter. In that case,
do_something can save the address of
t somewhere, and
do_something_else might use that address to access
t. Moreover, it is possible for
do_something and
do_something else to be separately compiled, and until the definitions of these functions are nailed down, there is truly no way to know whether
do_something_else will access
We can summarize these observations simply:
When code appears between when a variable is defined and when it is destroyed, a compiler cannot generally prove that that code will not access the variable.
The key difference between
Thing t; work_on(t);
is that in the latter example, no variable is being defined. Therefore, there is no possibility of code coming between the variable's definition and its destruction. Instead, we have a nameless object of type
Thing that we know will be destroyed at the end of the expression that contains its definition. This fact is the justification for basing the decision to move rather than copy on whether what is being copied is an lvalue or rvalue. In the case of an lvalue, there might or might not be code that can access the object after it is copied; in the case of an rvalue, such code cannot exist.
Moreover, the lvalue/rvalue distinction is a local one. To see what I mean by this, look again at the very first example:
Thing t; work_on(t);
without the curly braces. Is
t used after the call to
work_on? There's no way to know without seeing the code that follows that call. So if we allow the compiler to inspect that code in order to decide whether to copy or move
t in the call to
work_on, we have the weird result that code that occurs after calling
work_on might affect the behavior of the call to
work_on itself.
All of this discussion leads to a simple rule:
When we pass an rvalue as an argument to a function, the compiler will move that rvalue instead of copying it when it is possible to do so.
Next week, we'll look more into how the C++ type system helps the compiler decide when moving an object is possible.


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Those who follow the smartphone industry knew that Apple and AT&T had a very tight contract with the iPhone which has compelled the electronics maker to stay AT&T exclusive to date. However, it was unclear just how long that contract was good for, until now. According to unsealed court documents, AT&T has exclusive rights to sell the iPhone in the U.S. until 2012.
The documents come from a California antitrust class action lawsuit. The plaintiffs claim that Apple attempted to create an illegal monopoly in 2007 when it failed to reveal that the secret deal would make it impossible for them to transfer their phones to other carriers in 2 years, without unlocking.
The case also accuses Apple of antitrust violations for blocking third party applications, a concern that still exists thanks to Apple's blocking of Flash and Flash ports, actions the U.S. Federal Trade Commission is currently examining for antitrust violations.
The court documents read:
The duration of the exclusive Apple-[AT&T] agreement was not 'secret' either. The [plaintiff] quotes a May 21, 2007 USA Today article – published over a month before the iPhone's release – stating, "AT&T has exclusive U.S. distribution rights for five years-an eternity in the go-go cellphone world."…
"There was widespread disclosure of [AT&T's] five-year exclusivity and no suggestion by Apple or anyone else that iPhones would become unlocked after two years… Moreover, it is sheer speculation – and illogical – that failing to disclose the five-year exclusivity term would produce monopoly power…
While the contract with AT&T is surely tight, it's possible Apple could payoff AT&T to cancel the contract, attempt to amend it, or declare it breached and fight it out in court. There's a very real possibility, though, that it will simply stick it out till 2012, which would mean that 3 more years, and the next two iPhone models would be AT&T exclusive (in the U.S.).


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I feel good about this past year. It was a great one, full of adventures and fun. I had some goals, I reached some goals, I made some plans, I followed through with those plans. And when I think through the entire year, when I sit back and go over the months and weeks and days in my mind, most all of it brings to mind the word "family," and to me that means the year was a total success.
I learned some lessons this year too, some easy and quick, some that took a bit longer. I think I grew more during 2012 than any other previous year, which is a bold statement, especially for someone who has a tendency to really pick apart themselves and look, look, look at growth and progress and everything in between. I think one of the biggest things I learned was something I thought I already knew. Something that I was even pretty vocal about knowing...but as always, sometimes we are the ones who should take our own advice most of all. And in my case, talking about how "you can't please 'em all," how you can't make everyone like you, those were my oft-repeated words in 2012 that finally (finally!) sunk in.
Growing up I've always been more of a pleaser than not. Mostly a "stand alone in my opinion" kind of girl, but even through my slight out-spokenness and confidence, there are times I would only really want to "stand alone" in my opinion if someone else was standing there with me. Or to the side, at least. And as a teenager my people-pleasing nature wasn't obvious but it existed, and I think it's what led me to make some of the decisions I did and later on in life stretch myself way too thin. "Please everyone, and you'll please no one" should have been something I learned as I navigated the world in my earlier years but alas, it took me awhile, and sometimes making a million plans had me come across more as flaky than anything as I tried to make everyone happy at once.
And then with blogging. Oh, blogging. It's really the curse of blogging, to care too much about what others think. But inherently I think bloggers must care about what people think, because without that I'm not sure if we'd continuously put our lives on display, no matter how curated. We'd keep it locked up, in private journals, because then it would truly be for us, not for anyone else. And when I moved from Livejournal to Blogger years back I immediately felt different here. It was bigger, not as private, and I felt like there were just more people to read my posts. And so that part of me, that little part that felt scared to really put everything out there, reared its head now and again and made me think and rethink the things I shared.
As my blog grew that all changed even more, and if you read through my archives you'll see me occasionally talk about blogging and how uncomfortable I could feel that so many people were reading what I shared. That went away though, and right at the time (I thought) I was really starting to not care about all of that, trying to just be authentic and me and stop putting up walls in my writing, I discovered a small forum about this blog on a larger website.
Oh, what a turning point for me. Embarassingly enough I became intrigued and began reading what a small handful of the forum's users wrote about me. I'd post something and couldn't help myself checking in on that site to see what was said. Honestly, how crazy of me to want to see what negative things were being said about me...I think back now and I am appalled I ever spent so much time looking! At first Hank and I would laugh about it, I'd try to shake off some of the more hurtful things I'd see being said, but eventually after going on that website too much (and later even posting to it numerous times, foolishly thinking being present would help the situation) I started to get upset. I'd let the negative things I read cloud my mood and as hard as it is to admit, it really affected me. I wasn't sure why I would continously check it- it didn't make sense to me why I'd want to do that, but for some reason I felt like it was important to know what was being said. And all of this from a girl who loved to talk about how she really didn't care what people thought.
This entire thing was a lesson in many parts. One, I realized I cared a lot more about what people thought than I'd let on. And two, if I wanted to continue to enjoy blogging I needed to quit caring immediately and get over myself and this weird interest in seeing shitty things written about me. So I did. I stopped going to that website months ago, and haven't been back since. I have no idea what is written about me, if they're still writing about me, and now (after lots of work) I can say I finally don't care.
But it's not just the site. The website was just a large piece of the entire puzzle, and the lesson extends into so many different aspects of my life. In the second part of the year a friend of a friend decided she "hated" me for no reason after meeting me once. Odd, and something I'd never experienced. My typical reaction would have been to try and make this girl like me...go out of my way to show her kindness until she realized I was indeed a nice person, and that her unreasonable hatred was way off (why oh why is that my instinct?). But thanks to the "website" (honestly so silly to keep referring to it as such but I don't want to send over pageviews) my immediate reaction was not to care. And to sincerely not care. It was her loss, all the way, and I didn't need some stranger to validate me. It was a huge turning point in my personal growth and an "a-ha!" moment when I took a step back and realized that I wasn't just telling myself I didn't care, but I actually didn't care. Yes!
Getting to this point has freed me in so, so many ways. I feel so much happier blogging now, more authentic and oddly enough, I feel a lot more comfortable sharing posts like this again. There will always be someone out there hating on something. Sometimes it's me, sometimes it's not. I'm okay with either. And when I think about this past year and all of the love and family and happiness I experienced, I'm so lucky to have had this lesson admidst all of it, because as trivial as it may be in the grand scheme of things, it's allowed me to really focus on all of that goodness. And now that I'm here, I can only imagine how wonderful this next year will be both online and off, now that I'm truly able to just be me without worrying about the rest. I'll be focusing on the positive in 2013, and accepting that not everyone chooses to do the same...and knowing that it's completely okay if they don't.
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Make VIRTUALX_COMMAND nonfatal so that Xvfb is always killed. Return status at the end of CMake test phase. This fixes bug #406353.
Increase Xfvb resolution to address gimp test failure, bug #414853.
fix random bugs in eclass documentation, and convert to new @AUTHOR tag
virtualx.eclass should depend on xorg-server[xvfb] instead of -minimal, bug 357295
Always explicitely return 0.
Fixup die per gentoo-dev discussion. Thanks to Michal (mgorny) and Pavel (phajdan.jr) for spotting.
Sync virtualx.eclass from x11 overlay as per review ~week ago.
Document for eclass-manpages.
Make xorg-server optional on prefix (assume its available on the host, as it is not available in the prefix)
Remove usage of SANDBOX_DISABLED, per bug 107479
Allow changing the USE flag for the dependency
Fix typo, thanks to zx2c4 for spotting issue
Switch virtualx.eclass to use the "test" USE flag by default (bug 157998)
add workaround in virtualx to fix 'missing fixed font' (bug #278487)
Remove reference of X11R6 directory from eerror msg wrt #265911, first comments
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They're our dependents who rely on us for food, shelter and good health care. They're not just our best friends; they may be our heads of household, our consiglieri (cue "The Godfather" theme) or our reasons for getting out of bed in the morning -- long before we're ready.
In short, our dogs are our family.
So this holiday season, why not go the extra mile? Give your four-legged kinfolk a holiday basket he'll be sure to not re-gift.
You can customize this basket to suit your buddy's lifestyle. For the road tripper, Muttropolis carries dog car seats, travel bowls, and other clever transportable items. If she treks high-altitude trails, REI offers products for the extreme outdoors dog.
But what are basic items that every dog can use? Let's start with what keeps them coming back: the treats ...
No. 5: The treats
Nothing says Happy Holidays in dog speak better than special treats.
Your nearest Petco carries its own line of holiday treats. Its paw-shaped container adds a nice touch, making it ready for presentation in your gift basket.
PetSmart also offers a variety of Holiday-themed rawhide treats, everything from candy canes and snow men to reindeer and gingerbread men -- all of them excellent choices for healthy chewing.
But where will you put these treats after the unwrapping ceremony? After all, your pooch can't eat these treats in one sitting (or can she?)
No. 4: The treat jar
With a treat jar, you have ready access to tasty nibbles when pooch performs your favorite trick -- or when she begs until you can't stand it anymore. It also comes in handy for our pet sitters so they don't have to search for biscuits and jerky when we're at work or play.
Just about every pet store carries its own line of treat jars. Even stores that don't cater to pets offer stylish options.
Treats. Done. Now let's talk wardrobe. How about those Dodgers (or Yankees, or Cardinals)?
No. 3: Sports gear
If you're a sports fanatic, chances are your pooch is too. After all, yelling at the TV when your team is down 13 points minutes before a game ends would rub off on any dog. Sports gear for your canine means you not only have a loyal pal, but a loyal rally dog too.
Hot Dog Collars has an entire section of sports gear for pets. Keep your pooch warm in below freezing temperatures with a jersey bearing your team's colors for between $9.99 and $15.99.
Choose from leashes, collars, dog bowls, toys and dog tags showing team logos from the NHL, MLB, NFL, NBA or your favorite collegiate team, priced at $6 to $20.
A little searching on the websites of your favorite teams might also lead you to other dog novelties. Be sure to search with keywords "dog" or "pet."
And when Mother Nature calls during a big game?
No. 2: Poop bag dispensers
Walks are the highlights of a dog's day. But rushing to find poop bags right before you leave can cause your pooch to whimper with impatience.
The Four Paws Poo-Kins Dog Waste Pickup Bag Dispenser means you're ready to walk out the door after leashing your dog and putting on your shoes.
Available at Petco.com, this fun dispenser attaches to your dog's leash so it's there when you need it.
Petco also carries the Bamboo Waste Bag Dispenser that also attaches to a leash. Scented companion bags contain Arm & Hammer baking soda for natural odor elimination. The large size enables easy tying.
Since this is as sexy as this topic is going to get, let's move on to toys.
No. 1: Toys that don't stand a chance
Our canines are good at convincing us that they're smarter than the average dog. They sit and shake on command and bark at strangers to show that they have our backs.
But at the end of the day, they're furry creatures who'll spend 20 minutes chewing their toys to shreds. That's why holiday toys are a must in every dog's gift basket.
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The changing faces of the Bobby Valentine era
The changing faces of the Bobby Valentine era
The Bobby Valentine era began with mounds of optimism when he was introduced as Red Sox manager on Dec. 1, 2011.
Valentine arrived in Boston on Nov. 21 for an interview with team officials, and met with reporters afterward.
The new Red Sox manager was all smiles when he donned his new jersey at his introductory news conference.
Valentine was so giddy he even slid down a stair rail at Fenway Park.
A day after his introduction, Valentine traveled to the Dominican Republic, where he participated in David Ortiz's charity golf tournament.
Valentine shared some laughs with reporters when he met with them at the winter meetings in Dallas Dec. 7.
Valentine jumped into community service, and represented the Red Sox at the West End House Boys & Girls Club on Dec. 22.
Valentine quickly became a popular sight in Boston, and was cheered at a Celtics game on Dec. 30.
The good times seemed to continue at the start of spring training, where laughs were easy to come by as Valentine met with reporters.
The laughs continued as Valentine watched pitchers throw on the day they reported to camp.
Valentine and Kevin Youkilis (right) seemed to get off to a good start when they joked around with Red Sox executive vice president/business affairs Jonathan Gilula on Feb. 25.
Valentine chatted with Dustin Pedroia (left) and Adrian Gonzalez on Feb. 27.
Valentine smiled as he monitored workouts Feb. 28.
Valentine had some fun during a visit to the African Caribbean American Center in Fort Myers Feb. 29.
On the same day, Valentine shared some laughs with David Ortiz during a workout.
Valentine worked with Mike Aviles during an infield drill in early March. A report later surfaced that the manager and Aviles developed a rift because of a spring incident over an infield drill, but both denied any incident happened.
On Opening Day in Detroit, optimism still ran high around the Red Sox as Valentine shook hands with Tigers manager Jim Leyland.
By the end of the opening weekend, Valentine was looking for answers after the Red Sox had been swept in three games in Detroit.
There were some smiles back at home for Valentine and catcher Kelly Shoppach, as the Red Sox won the home opener, 12-2, against Tampa.
But on April 16, Valentine faced his first public controversy over critical remarks he made about Kevin Youkilis.
Youkilis did not play on the day after Valentine's remarks, and sat at the opposite end of the dugout from the manager during that day's loss to Tampa.
Valentine had to make many slow trips to the mound to make pitching changes. On this one, on April 17, he lifted Jon Lester from an 18-3 loss to Texas.
Valentine appeared to take a bite out of the ball when he made a pitching change during a loss to Texas April 18.
In perhaps the Red Sox' worst game of the year, Valentine used six relievers who gave up 14 runs over 3 innings in a 15-9 loss to the Yankees April 21.
Valentine was left looking for answers during this 4-3 loss in Kansas City May 9.
On May 25, Valentine had to help settle down his club after a benches-clearing incident against Tampa.
Valentine met with general manager Ben Cherington before a 9-6 loss to the Blue Jays June 25.
Valentine watched as the Red Sox lost the second game of a three-game sweep by Oakland July 3.
Back at home July 18, there was more to celebrate with Cody Ross after defeating the White Sox, 10-1.
Valentine saw little that he liked in a 9-1 loss at Texas July 23, part of a string of six losses in seven games.
Media scrutiny was intense all year for Valentine, including in this pregame news conference July 31, as the trade deadline passed.
Valentine allowed the Globe to profile him Aug. 4, when he spent part of a very busy day bicycling from Wellesley to Wrentham in the Pan-Mass Challenge.
He caught a few moments of rest in his Fenway Park office before the Aug. 4 game against Minnesota.
The Aug. 4 game turned into one of the toughest setbacks of the year. Valentine watched as his bullpen allowed four runs in the ninth to the Twins in a 6-4 loss.
Two days later, Valentine watched batting practice, with his team sitting just a half-game out of last place.
For a change, the media scrutiny wasn't focused solely on Valentine, as he walked past a scrum of reporters interviewing Cherington Aug. 6.
The focus was back on Valentine in Baltimore Aug. 14, when a report emerged claiming that players had gone to ownership seeking to have him fired. The Red Sox denied the story.
Valentine chatted with Adrian Gonzalez in the Fenway Park dugout Aug. 24, a day before the Red Sox finalized a trade sending Gonzalez, Josh Beckett, Carl Crawford, and Nick Punto to the Dodgers.
In early September, Sports Illustrated shined a light on the Red Sox' problems with a front-page photo of Valentine.
On Sept. 5, hours after a testy exchange in a Boston radio interview, Valentine watched the Red Sox finish one of their worst road trips ever — 1-8 — with a loss in Seattle.
Valentine removed Clay Buchholz from the game after he allowed a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the ninth inning of a 4-3 loss to Toronto Sept. 9.
With his team having lost six of the previous seven games, Valentine looked on early in what would become an 8-5 win in Toronto Sept. 14.
With his team out of contention, Valentine could only envy the pregame celebration of the Red Sox' 2004 World Series champions Sept. 25.
Valentine's final act with the Red Sox came in Yankee Stadium Oct. 3. The Red Sox lost the finale, 14-2 — their 12th loss in the season's final 13 games.


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Carpet One Floor & Home in Lima, OH does their part to help college-bound students (and parents) as they head off to school. In 2003 a friend of owner Lisa Hyland approached her about getting a piece of carpet for their daughter's dorm room at college. Lisa found a nice piece that was leftover from a claim and gave it to them. The family insisted on paying but Lisa felt that giving it to them was "the right thing to do". She knew that by the time parents reached that part of the process of sending a child to college they were probably "maxed out" on expenses.
Since this original gift, each year Lisa selects remnants of carpet (up to about 12 X 12') to set aside as "Dorm Carpet." These pieces may be remnants that have discolored over time; colors that just didn't sell for one reason or another or even pieces that were returned by the customer but not able to be returned to the manufacturer.
Each year, Carpet One Floor & Home in Lima, OH usually gives away anywhere from 5 to 10 pieces to recent graduates. "It's a great feeling to be able to do this and it's an awesome way to meet kids going off to college," say Lisa. "You get to hear about where they are going, what they plan to study and they are very, very grateful (especially their parents!)"
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Four days into the new job, the office walls are still mostly barren and scattered paperwork covers the desk as Denny Kline settles in as the Ridgecrest field representative for Kern County's new first district supervisor settles into his duties.
In those four day, he's traveled to Bakersfield, to Lake Isabella to meet with his Kern River Valley counterpart Pat Connell as they spoke to former First District Supervisor Jon McQuiston and his chief of staff. Then he's back in Ridgecrest.
"My first week here has been an absolute zoo," Kline said with a chuckle. "I think every time I've moved into a new office, you've got a day or two of 'we'll leave the new guy alone' so he can unpack his boxes."
Kline's background in public affairs and as a consultant are likely to pay huge dividends for the area.
Kline has been in and out of both corporate and government positions, including a stint as a civil servant at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division at different points in time, and as external affairs director for Boeing in St. Louis.
He's also served as NAWCWD's chief of corporate relations and more recently as a consultant for MIL Corporation before coming to his current post.
And like Gleason, he is a Navy man, having served from 1959 to 1962 before going into a career as a technical writer.
"When Mick decided to run for supervisor, I jumped on his bandwagon," Kline said. "I was excited that he had all the credentials one could ever look for in that position."
Kline said following the election, he and Gleason sat down — in retrospect what he called a job interview.
"We sat down to make sure that we were philosophically the same," he said.
Kline said Gleason had a strong set of principles and was unwavering.
"I do not think for a moment he would consider hiring anyone on his staff who wasn't fairly middle-of-the-road but dedicated to a sense of principles," Kline said.
He said those principles include Gleason's decision to charge forward in stamping out meth use and growing the area's economic base.
"He would like to broaden the economic base to do more to attract small businesses and keep East Kern growing," Kline said.
Kline said his job was to act as a conduit for Gleason, much as the other field representatives do, and convey the peoples' concerns to the county supervisor.
"Mick's biggest priority is perhaps to be accessible, so my priority is to be a conduit," he said.
Kline described his new role as a challenge, as it was different than any office he has been in before.
Part of that job, he said, was an ability to listen, something Kline seems up to task.
Gleason's approach to appointing representatives in Eastern Kern differs from his predecessor Jon McQuiston. Where McQuiston had one full-time person covering both Ridgecrest and Kern River Valley, Gleason has brought in two part-time people to cover the large territory.
Kline said that if either himself or Pat Connell were ever swamped with work, they would come in as backup to help.
Kline, having seen Ridgecrest when it was an unincorporated town in 1963, said the Ridgecrest of today was a bonus.
"I absolutely love the small town aspects of the place," Kline said. "I love how it politically presents itself."
A big benefit was the relative safety of the town, despite slight increases in crime rate in recent years. He said his daughter and her family had moved to Ridgecrest from Los Angeles.
Kline said much of his recreational time, like many people who have kids and grandkids in the neighborhood, is spent around family and proudly mentioned his grandson —Burroughs High's Jackson French — would be playing in a all-star football game in Adelanto.
"There are a lot of people who live here and stay here because this is a great town to raise a family," he said. "And if you care about family values — and most of us do — why not Ridgecrest?"


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