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Butcher's block counters in kitchen?
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- ben.batros Jan 22, 2012 01:08 PM
We're considering renovation of a kitchen, and initially intended to get butcher's block (wooden) countertop on our island, with stone (say granite) on the main bench. We're now thinking of using butchers block for the lot - we love the look of it, we haven't seen any granite or similar stone that we like (some lovely dark marble, but not willing to deal with the constant worries about spilled acids marking), and the savings are considerable.
I know that it will require initial and then periodic oiling. But are there any other issues or disadvantages that we should take into account? Concerns around gas ranges or anything similar? Anyone out there jumped this way, or considered it and then thought better?
Here is a fairly recent thread where some of your questions came up:
We had a home in our last city that came with butcher block countertops. Certainly have their advantages, but for me the primary disadvantage was that they need more maintenance than my current countertops do. Being a porous material they are prone to staining and to wear. Now, you can sand them and refinish but they do mar and mark easily, especially if you put a hot pan directly on the countertop by accident or leave, say, a cup with something on the bottom on the countertop overnight. This is also why I didn't go with marble, but I digress.
An advantage is that you can sand and refinish the butcher block countertops to refresh them, but I found that they look "tired" fairly quickly. They also give a rustic look to a kitchen which is something that I didn't want with our current new kitchen. Now, something else to consider is how you are going to use the countertop, If, as you say, you want to oil the surface, this means you are looking at a countertop suitable for prep work? In this case, be prepared for water damage to take its toll, so best not to have them around water sources. Water splashing and so on can cause your countertop to turn black in areas. So if you want your countertop for display vice using as a food prep surface, you might want to get a different finish on the countertop in those areas. Say, the island is for food prep with one finish and the rest is for "display" with a water resistant finish.
At the end of the day, though, the countertops can be refinished so if you LOVE the look, go for it, knowing about the maintenance requirements and possible downsides.
Are you talking about a butcher block set in the counter? I am not a huge fan of that idea. There is nothing really bad, but I just don't see a lot of advantages compared to an individual butcher block. The only advantage is the look. Aside from this, you cannot move the block, you cannot really clean block as easily....etc.
I have a maple butcher block counter, very thick, about 8ft long. Also very expensive about 15 years ago. It still looks great. I've cooked in restaurants all my life, so this is what I wanted in my house. To clean in a restaurant, use bleach and a heavy scrubber..I do this at home but only a few times a year..I use one end of the counter for prep work (sometimes with sometimes without a cutting board). Guests can sit on both sides of the counter while I'm cooking and chopping. I see reviews of marble and granite and tile...no reviewers like butcher block....because they are interior decorators....not cooks....I say go for it
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PS many years ago, maybe 10, in my restaurant...The Board of Health came in and said "remove all maple cutting boards (all custom made....maybe $5,000) and replace with plastic....We did this....another $3,000. Then, a year later... they said "plastic is no good, take out all plastic cutting surfaces and replace with wood...you can use the wood again.....wood, long gone....Amazing gov't shizzle....don't get me started on the thousands of dollars they made us spend on Smoke Eater machines (all frome only one company) and then outlawed smoking..but I still like butcherblock..
I have butcher block counters. In addition to the maintenance issue, I would add: 1) Easy to stain. My counters have stains from cans and pans left to long as well as some blotches I have no idea where they came from. 2) Easy to mar. Scratches and dents will quickly discolor. And it's very easy to mar the surface. I used a cutting board without noticing that a few grains of rice were caught between the board and counter, and they got pressed into the wood. Now I have 7 or 8 rice shapes decorating the counter top. 3) Guests think that since it's butcherblock, they can use it as a chopping board.
All that said, I still like my weathered and well used/misused counter tops, but don't expect yours to be pristine after a couple of years. If you can live with that, go for it.
Grew up in a home with a large cooking island with 1.5" thick edge grain maple butcher block.....40 years later I just sanded it for my parents and oiled with warm Boos mystery oil. It looks as good as when it was first installed. In renovating our own kitchen, we installed a large central prep island of 3" thick end grain maple that we keep sufficiently oiled to prevent any spill stains. The end grain is dense enough to allow cutting with minimal knife marks and yet soft enough to allow my knives to hold their edge reasonably well. Best thing is that the knife marks virtually disappear every time we oil the wood. Cleaning with a damp cloth, occasional scraper and very rare bleach solution is no more complicated than applying a bees wax to our raw cherry wood table. I would not use butcher block adjacent to a sink or even try to cut a sink hole through the laminated wood but having a cooktop there is not a problem.
I have half stone, half butcher block in my kitchen. Each has advantages.
The butcher block (maple, cut, fit and joined myself from Lumber Liquidators -- total cost well under $450 for a large island and one 7 1/2-foot linear run) is soft and forgiving. Your ceramic and glass cookware won't be any problem. It resists skidding better than any other material when you're using something with a hard surface, such as a big glass bowl.
No, it's not going to look pristine -- but that's not my style. I cook a LOT. My kitchen is a lot like my carpentry workshop. I don't have any desire to keep it looking like a showroom 24/7.
The stone has advantages too -- mainly that it's impervious to water, doesn't stain and lets me set 500-degree pans down on it (which I don't do anyways -- I use trivets). But the stone is hell on your dishes, glass herb bottles and the like.
If I had it to do all over again, I'd be 50/50 on either going with what I did, or saving up for another year or so and splurging on all stainless steel with an integrated sink. The cost there is hellacious, but it's probably the most practical solution. Soft, non-reactive, easy to sterilize. The downside: It's very industrial looking, and if scratches and dents bother you, you'll lose your mind.
I love my butcher block. I would NEVER put a sink into it, though. I'd show you a friend's house with the sink set into very high-end butcher block, which has completely de-laminated and now needs total replacement. The only way I'd consider using it next to water would be if I would get a huge stainless sink with built-in drain boards on both sides.
re: barryofthenorth
no, no! something has gone wrong with the installation, or else it wasn't such high-end block after all. My stainless prep sink is undermounted to my butcher block counter on my prep island, and it sees constant use. I build the kitchen in '97 and haven't had a moments trouble. BTW, this is a high-humidity climate and the damn WALLS of the house have some water damage, but not this butcherblock.
re: danna
Seriously, I think it's how it's used. If it's not kept oiled and water wiped up every use, there are going to be problems with wood around a sink, unless you put some other type of finish on it. They guy on TV, Holms, doesn't even like wood floors in a kitchen because of the potential for water damage. I've seen my son-in-laws get enough water on the counter it looks like a car wash. They are not compatable with a wood countertop near a sink.
re: mikie
Just to add my two cents. I have had a built in butcher block next to my sink for 34 yeas and have never had a problem. Also have a small butcher block island, and love it. True it's not a thing of beauty, but I cook and the way my kitchen functions is much more important to me. I certainly wouldn't put it in for all the counters, but for certain work places it's wonderful.
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Are you saying next to or encircling?
re: escondido123
Next to. Plus I also have wood floors in the kitchen and have had for about 20 years, and LOVE them.
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I too love wood floors and have had them in most of my kitchens...old houses so wood was original. But I stand by my comment that sinks set into butcher block are a nightmare waiting to happen...speaking from experience and repeated observation.
re: danna
This house was built by a multimillionaire architect for himself. Trust me -- it was highest quality. It's used by people who hire caterers regularly and do tons of dishes. It's a nightmare.
Wood and water don't mix. Get glue involved and things get even worse. That's physics. Can't change it.
I think it's great for the island, but my concern for counter top is the area around the sink and faucet. There is a lot of water in that area and it's going to be tough to keep that area from discoloring or worse, from all the water potential. I have a couple of son-in-laws that help out by washing dishes for my daughters, they splater water just about everywhere, no way this would work for them. On the other hand if you never splash and always completely dry the area, you might get away with it. You just have to be alot more careful with wood than you do some of the other countertop materials. If the oiled surface is not kept current it will stain easier than most other surfaces, it will show knife marks if someone cuts on it, and it can scorch if a hot pan gets set on it. Our old electric drop in stove top got hot enough to discolor the light formica counter top, so I would see this a potential problem for wood as well.
Butcher block around a sink is truly asking for sadness. If you have an undermount sink it will take a little longer, but eventually the bits of water that accumulate around the sink and faucet will soak into the wood and cause it to turn black...there is nothing you can do to stop this. I have seen this many times and even polyurethane can't stop it from happening, just delay it. Truly do not go with wood around the sink, but it will be wonderful on the countertop on the island. As to the dark marble, get that honed and you won't have to worry so much about the spilled acids etc.
re: escondido123
I heard all this before I installed mine, and I'm so glad I didn't listen. I sand and mineral oil it once every 2-3 years. The faucet has been leaking for several years now. Now that you mention it, there is a very slight circle of dark around the base of the faucet, maybe 1/8 inch. It's causing no problem whatsoever. I'm pretty slack about maintenance and wiping up water, although I grant you my clean-up sink is mounted to granite. It's the prep sink that's under the block.
OP, if you don't put a sink near your chopping area, you'll be scraping your prep detritus into a pail...a mess. I chop, I scrape a few inches to the right w/ my knife (you MUST undermount), I run the disposal. It's the best thing ever. It does stain, though...So I think you would want to be consistent about only chopping colored veggies (beets, pomegranites, raspberries) in one spot. Also don't set a wet can on it.
re: danna
Consider yourself fortunate. I just put in new cabinets and only a couple of weeks after found a slight drip in the plumbing under the sink. Even though the plywood bottom of the cabinet had a finish on it, within that short time there is a dark spot about the size of a golf ball. This was from a slow drip in the drain pipe, believe me, I thought this thing was leak free before I stoped checking on a regular basis. If your wood is getting wet, you're going to have an issue at some point.
re: mikie
I agree that wood can be problematic in the kitchen. They let our dishwasher leak onto the hardwoods upon installation and in the time the slackards left the puddle in the kitchen, it managed to put a faint, but perceptible warp in some of the boards. But there seems to be something about this 1 1/2 thick hard maple butcher block that behaves very differently from other wood.
And you're right...since I'm planning to get old in this house, I need to start looking for another faucet. It might take 20 years to cause a prob, but i guess I'll still be there when it does!


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If Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan has coached his final game, his players will have the satisfaction of knowing he went out on top. The club announced Thursday evening that the longtime pitching coach was taking a leave of absence to be with wife Jeanine as she continues to recover from surgery to remove a brain tumor. Duncan missed more than a month down the stretch to be...
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Cardinals' Duncan taking leave of absence
St. Louis Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan is taking a leave of absence to attend to wife Jeanine as she recovers from surgery to remove a brain tumor. The team said Thursday night that no timetable has been determined for Duncan's return. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the 66-year-old Duncan intends to step down. The team said general manager John Mozeliak and...
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Shelly Duncan - Starter?
A story over at MLB.com caught this writer's eye today. That happens every once in a while when certain headlines are read quickly and the headline reads, "Duncan prepared to be more than a role player." So the Fan went ahead and clicked the link with a scoff waiting to form at the back of the throat. Seriously!? Shelly Duncan? Duncan, of course, is the son of Dave...
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As of Tuesday evening, DTE Energy had restored power to about 171,000 of the customers impacted by the high winds and lightning that hit southeast Michigan Sunday afternoon.
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DTE Energy said about 1,000 customers remain without power early Thursday morning after more than 140,000 homes and businesses lost service.
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Storms brought down about 800 power lines, and it could take crews until late Thursday night before all connections are restored.
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About 58,000 homes and businesses are still without power; and trees are down across the region.
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A second wave of thunderstorms moved across metro Detroit Wednesday, knocking out power to more than 50,000 homes and businesses.
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Scores of tree branches broke and fell from the weight of ice during the pre-Christmas storm, which knocked out power to roughly 650,000 homes and businesses.
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Magisterial enquiry set up for Nido's death, severest form of punishment for the culprits: Delhi CM
Addressing a group of protestors at Jantar Mantar who were demanding justice for Arunachal student Nido Taniam, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday said that a magisterial enquiry has been set up to find out the real culprits behind the death of Nido, and added he would make sure that they get the severest form of punishment.
"We have asked for a magisterial enquiry in this case. Some people had said that there was no need for it as the case was being enquired by the Delhi police, but when the police itself is one of the accused how can we trust their investigation," said Kejriwal.
"The enquiry will be over in three to four weeks, and we will get to know who all were involved. If the Delhi police would have handled the case alone we would have never got to know the truth," he said.
"There will be no delay in this case. If he does not get justice now he will never get it. Even if the police are involved, we will make sure that they get the most severe kind of punishment," he added.
He further asked the people protesting to form a committee to deal with these issues and said that the Delhi Government would notify it once it is formed.
"You all form a team or a committee and give us a list of names of the members of the committee and we will notify that committee on the behalf of the Delhi Government which deal with these issues," said Kejriwal.
The people protesting criticized Kejriwal for not being present at the day of the protest.
"Where was Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) when we protested in Lajpat Nagar? The party needs to be there for us if anything happens of this sort happens to us again if they think that even we are the people of this country," said one of the protestors.
"This is not the first time that a young person from the north east has been killed because of the way they look. We are fed up of the way in which the way we are victimized in this country. We are looking for solution and we want Nido to get justice," she said.
"How many more children will have to face this? If this is not discrimination done by the community, done by the police, than what is?" she said.
"Even the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) is a racist act, which suspects the young children of north east to be terrorists. Show us that after so many years of being a republic the time for change has come and we are not looking back," she said.
"This is not a one day road show we will be here till Nido does not get justice. We are asking for the permission of a committee which will look after all forms of discrimination against the people of the north east," she added.
A message from the victim's father was read out to the protestors and the AAP in which he had demanded capital punishment for the culprits.
"The father has demanded capital punishment for all the culprits and the suspension, and action against the two police personals who took his son to the crime spot, and allowed the mob to beat him up," said another protestor.
Delhi Urban Development and Education Minster Manish Sisodia said that Nido's case was a conspiracy to divide India.
"Whatever happened with Nido is conspiracies to divide the country .The culprits are people who want to cut out the country into parts," said Sisodia.
He also said that the history of the north east will be added in the test books of Delhi from the next session onwards.
"We also agree that the history of the north east should be included in Delhi text books and it would be adequately included from next session onwards," he said.
"I will try my best that the people of Delhi are taught to respect the people of the north east and to respect an Indians," he added.
Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi on Monday had met the protestors at Jantar Mantar and said that the culprits would not be spared.
Addressing the protest carried out by North Eastern activists, Rahul said, "My spirit and heart is with you. I am 100 percent with you. You can expect very strict action against people who did this."
Describing the incident as totally unacceptable, Gandhi assured that Nido will get justice, and the culprits will not be spared.
"There is only one India. And that India belongs to all of us. We are going to ensure you get respect in this country," he added.
Nido Taniam, a student from Arunachal Pradesh, had reportedly gone to Lajpat Nagar on January 29 in search of an address, and was allegedly mocked by someone at a shop for the style his hair.
In a fit of rage, Nido broke a glass at the shop but he paid money for that. Afterwards he was allegedly beaten with sticks.
The next day, when he didn't wake up, his friends rushed him to AIIMS, where he was declared dead.
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Neptune's largest moon Triton.
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These are one of those situations that if you simply step back and use common sense you will see that its really not sensible that bmw M would use a restrictive elbow if there was 10hp on the table from using a slightly larger diameter pipe. The diamter being smaller is not necessarily more restrictive. Its likely calculated based on desired intake air velocity whichi requires a certain diameter. Larger diameter means slower moving air. So while it may move "more" air, the air is slower and would take more time. This intake does not have a restriction for air in totally stock form.
Evidence is in the GTS 4.4 stroked engine which uses the identical intake box as the stock s65 m3. Clearly a 4.4L if anything requires more air and the stock setup provides enough air for that so our stocker engine has more than enough air.
I think a dyno gain is for the filter only but to each his own. M would not leave 10hp on the table if it were a matter of tweaking the intake elbow diameter. Just makes zero sense
Auto manufactures leave HP on the table all the time. They decide what is their desired performance number is and what will meet Global needs/laws/standards and stick with that. I have been adding HP to cars since I was 16 and this has always been the case.
Let's look at the m3. Why did BMW make a heavy ass muffler when we know it could be made much lighter reducing weight which will make the car quicker. Couldn't BMW make a filter which is more like after market versions to get 1-2 more HP? Couldn't BMW software tune more HP out of these cars? Couldn't BMW install higher flow cats while still passing all emissions. If all these things were done and the car can produce say 430-440 HP stock instead of 414, why did BMW not do this? If the car had 25 more HP but cost 1k more would it sell less or more?
If you can answer why BMW did not do the above and BMW can only get 414 out of the S65 motor then I will retract my questions and admit you are the BMW master
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A Bray Wanderers footballer was one of three young Kildare residents to have received suspended sentences for the sexual abuse of a teenage girl, a court has heard.
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"Space is hard and today was a tough day."
One pilot is dead and another seriously injured after the craft exploded over the Mojave desert.
One pilot has died and another is seriously injured after a rocket belonging to billionaire Sir Richard Branson's space tourism venture crashed during a test flight. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo rocket came down in the Mojave Desert in California. An eyewitness reported that the craft exploded in flight after ignition. A Virgin Galactic spokesman said the […]
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We had been with friends on Monday evening and was a total disappointment.
Service started wherein the waitress got us a glass of water and then removed the straw in front of us from one of the glasses before serving it. Only to ask if we wanted a straw as if doing us a favor.
When it came to taking the order, midway between taking our order she just walked off to ask another waiter some doubts which she had to clarify. Only to come back to us without even apologising.
We had asked for burgers to be medium well done and when she got us the order the burgers were well done. When we called her back and asked her about the burger she did mention that they were not as requested. Seems to be very surprising that she agreed that they were not as requested.
Most of all she kept coming back several times to ask us if we needed anything else. Not once, not twice but several times. If we want anything else we would ask for it and would prefer not being intruded upon always. Once is good enough.
A big disappointment on a Monday evening especially when it was not a busy evening. If you're based in Chelsea then this place should at least live up to its reputation.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
We recently booked Henry J Beans Apartment 195 for our wedding reception. Wow! What a fantastic night that was put on for us. We kicked off around 6pm to be greeted by name at the door by the doorman and manager on duty. After our champagne and canapé reception we went on to do a really fun cocktail class where myself, my husband, and our guests each took turn in making 3 cocktails. We found the bartenders provided to be very knowledgeable and friendly throwing in some banter to keep the laughs up.
We then continued on to our 3 course meal which was very reasonable price wise. The food all came out in good time and was all of a very good quality. Again the staffs were great and got everything set up for after our meal whilst we were eating.
After we finished our meal the music came on and we kicked promptly into party mode. It was a good that we could plug our Ipod in to their sound system and run our own playlists all night.
All in all we had an amazing night and would definitely look first to booking Apartment 195 for any future functions. Thanks again to the staff and management for making our night so memorable.
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Monday, November 07, 2011
I visited HJB in Chelsea for a couple of drinks and some food on the 8th of October. The weather was great so we were lucky to enjoy it in the garden by the fountain-which was off unfortunatly. The setting is beautiful! Service was really quick and friendly. We ordered our coctails and food with a waiteress who helped us choose-and that was a very good recomendation! We waited around 10 minutes for our drinks which I have to admit was very quick as it was very busy.
Cob salad I ordered was massive and so were the ribs that my partner had. After first cocktails we opted for a bottle of wine which was delivered within 5 minutes!
While we were eating the menageress and a waitress checked back on us.
I have to say that the service has been very friendly, attentive and knowlegable, the food great portions and delicious. I don't really understand the negative comments bellow as our experience was very good.
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Clearwater fire lieutenant resigns after admitting to having sex in station10/31/14 Public Safety
CLEARWATER — A fire lieutenant here resigned in September after admitting to investigators that he had sexual relations with women while on duty in the Fire Station 51 workout room, dive truck and his dorm, according to department records.
Fire Chief Robert Weiss first learned of the allegations against Lt. Stephen Coward in August when he received a package in the mail that included an anonymous letter and a flash drive containing 40 messages between Coward and the women, as well as a video of the lieutenant and a woman in a bunk room....
Police: Clearwater wrestling coach accused of hitting students had a history of similar claims10/22/14Crime
After catching the student smoking a cigarette, Scott Stern told him he had three options.
Stern could call his mother, or the boy could choose the hard way or the mental way, according to police records.
On that morning in 1998, the Pinellas Park High student chose the mental way. He later told police Stern ordered him to strip naked, hold a ruler on his head, and called him an idiot, records state....
Clearwater Central Catholic wrestling coach charged with hitting two students10/21/14Crime
CLEARWATER — A wrestling coach arrested Tuesday on charges that he hit two students after forcing them to strip naked was previously investigated for similar claims, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said.
Scott Stern, who worked at Clearwater Central Catholic High School for 12 years, faces two counts of battery.
Detectives believe there may be other victims.
"It's sick stuff," said Pinellas Sheriff Bob Gualtieri. "There's all kinds of real heavy sexual overtones with this."...
Largo shooter had complained about neighbor he fatally shot, Sheriff's Office says10/14/14Crime
LARGO — Nicholas Lowery had plans: He wanted to marry his girlfriend, get promoted and start a family.
But on Monday morning, as he and his two roommates left the apartment on a cul-de-sac off Seminole Boulevard, next-door neighbor Thomas Malooly, 77, fired shots into the parking lot, killing Lowery.
Malooly later killed himself inside his home, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office said. No one else was hurt....
Clearwater men accused in $200,000 counterfeiting scheme10/08/14Crime
CLEARWATER — They used glitter pens, eight printers, and creamy resume paper to concoct a sophisticated counterfeiting scheme that spanned from a Clearwater Beach apartment to a North Carolina hotel room, police said.
Michael Scott Miller, 28, and Nicolas Secor, 20, are accused of producing nearly $200,000 in fake $100 bills and were arrested last month after an investigation involving several agencies, including the U.S. Secret Service....
Police: Thief stocking up on truck batteries10/06/14Crime
PINELLAS PARK — The batteries began disappearing in September from scrapyards, rental truck lots, tree-trimming businesses and moving companies.
By the end of the month, more than 100 batteries from dozens of trucks were missing in the commercial area near 126th Avenue N and 49th Street, police said.
"The amount of thefts and burglaries we were experiencing was becoming overwhelming," said Pinellas Park spokesman Sgt. Adam Geissenberger. "It was at that point that we decided to conduct surveillance."...
Pinellas' top cops take turns patrolling the streets10/04/14 Public Safety
The black Chevy Tahoe with flashing blue and red lights followed Jacqueline Ferrarini as she barreled south on 34th Street N at 75 mph.
Despite the sirens and lights in her rearview mirror, Ferrarini, 47, kept driving the Chevy Camaro and only stopped when she entered a dead-end parking lot.
The driver's door of the Tahoe opened and Sheriff Bob Gualtieri emerged. Other deputies soon arrived and arrested Ferrarini on several charges, including fleeing and eluding, and drug paraphernalia possession....
Undocumented workers reporting more wage theft cases to Clearwater police09/25/14Crime
CLEARWATER — They are roofers, landscapers and cleaners, but all told Hispanic outreach officer Raymond Croze the same story: Their bosses owed them pay.
Within the past three months, the Clearwater Police Department has received nearly a dozen reports of undocumented workers accusing their employers of withholding wages ranging from $400 to $1,200.
Hiring undocumented workers is illegal and punishable by fines of up to $16,000 per worker. But under federal labor laws, every employee, regardless of their immigration status, must be paid....
One dead after gunshots, crash on Gulf-to-Bay in Clearwater09/24/14Crime
CLEARWATER — A man who died early Wednesday after shooting himself and crashing his car while fleeing Pinellas sheriff's deputies had tried to run from police in the past, authorities said.
At least two other times in the past two years, James A. Smith sped away from Clearwater police. Officers first tried to stop Smith, 22, on Feb. 25, 2013, when he failed to brake at a stop sign. Smith sped away and drove in the center of Druid Road, a two-lane street, forcing some drivers to pull onto the shoulder to avoid being struck, police said....
Critical report led to Belleair police chief's resignation09/18/14 Public Safety
BELLEAIR — Police Chief Thomas Edwards resigned from the department this week after the release of a scalding report that details the deep divide between him and some of his officers.
His resignation comes more than one year after Detective James Howard, the agency's union representative, met with Town Manager Micah Maxwell in July 2013 to express concerns about Edwards' leadership style, including officers being yelled at in public, favoritism, and failing to update the department's outdated policy manual....
Family sues Brown Boxer Pub in patron's death09/17/14 Public Safety
The family of a man killed outside the Brown Boxer Pub & Grille in Clearwater Beach is suing the restaurant.
David McTamney, 51, was asked to leave the restaurant at 483 Mandalay Ave. on Oct. 14 for acting "intoxicated and disorderly," Clearwater police said last year.
Moments later, Paul Clarence Stucker, who was working as a bouncer at the Brown Boxer, grabbed McTamney and dragged him to the exit, according to records. Once outside, Stucker got on top of McTamney and maintained him in a chokehold for several minutes, records say....
Pinellas sheriff warns deputies after learning of racially charged Facebook posts09/04/14 Public Safety
Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri has cautioned his deputies about what they share online after learning about a detective's racially charged Facebook posts.
Gualtieri sent out an agencywide email after being told of Detective Thomas Swetokos' posts by a Tampa Bay Times reporter.
"It has been noticed that some members are posting things on social media," he wrote, "using profanity and making statements that may be interpreted as derogatory or in some cases even discriminatory."...
Still hope for solving Pinellas Sheriff's Office's only unsolved double murder08/31/14Crime
At first, Mark Smith called every few days.
Days turned into weeks. Weeks turned into months. Months turned into years. The calls to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office became fewer and seemed more fruitless.
Today marks 25 years to the day that Smith's brother Gary and sister-in-law Sally were killed in their home. It is the Sheriff's Office's only unsolved double murder....
Seminole triathlete loses leg after accident in Utah08/31/14 Human Interest
ST. PETERSBURG — David Caras enjoys biking, swimming, and running triathlons. He cares for puppies for Southeastern Guide Dogs during the weekends and travels often for his job as an avionics instructor.
But his active life came to a sudden halt Thursday when Caras of Seminole was struck by a sport utility vehicle while jogging during a business trip in Utah.
He lost his right leg, fractured a hip and broke several ribs....
Clearwater deputy chief resigns after four years with agency08/29/14 Public Safety
CLEARWATER — Deputy Chief Sandra Wilson is resigning from the Clearwater Police Department.
Wilson's resignation comes about a month after City Manager Bill Horne chose Dan Slaughter, previously the patrol major, as the agency's new chief when Tony Holloway left to lead the St. Petersburg Police Department.
"It was more of a mutual thing. I wanted to kind of create my own staff," Slaughter said. "It's not a situation where there are any negative issues, or anything like that. … We discussed it and, ultimately, it was her decision."...


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Michelle Plouffe scored 19 points for the Utes.
Utah vs. No. 7 Cal - AP Photos
Utah fell to No. 6 Stanford 44-65
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Levrets on Crozon: "Paige is another one of those multi-dimensional kids with the ability to shoot the basketball and play close to the basket. We don't know yet if she's going to be a 3 or a 4. That will shake itself out, but obviously, she has the ability to score the basketball as we've seen with Canada Basketball and at times during her freshman year."
Fast Breaks: A multi-threat perimeter player ... has gained valuable experience playing in the Canadian National Team program.
2013-14: Sidelined with injury.
2012-13: Played in 30 games with 10 starts (missed several late-season games with an injury) ... 4.0 points and 2.3 rebounds per game ... 16.4 minutes per game ... 22-of-27 (.815) from the free-throw line ... 16 steals ... scored five points in first career action in season opener vs. Denver (11/10) ... seven rebounds vs. Southern Utah (11/13) ... 10 points vs. Weber State (11/24) ... 13 points on 4-of-5 shooting, including 3-of-3 from three-point range vs. Utah State (11/27) ... five points and five rebounds vs. Houston Baptist (12/15) ... seven points vs. UC Irvine (12/20) ... 11 points, eight rebounds vs. Stanford (1/6) ... six points vs. Arizona State (1/20) ... 10 points, eight rebounds and three steals against Stanford (1/25) ... scored all 13 points against California in the first half, going 4-of-4 from the floor (3-of-3 from three) and 2-of-2 from the free-throw line in the half, while hitting a three-pointer with seconds remaining in the half to cut the Golden Bear lead to four at the break (1/27) ... 13 points and a team-high six rebounds vs. USC (2/1) ... five points vs. Oregon State (2/10) ... three rebounds vs. Washington State (2/24).
High School: Played for the Canadian National Team in the 2012 U18 World Championship for Women, the 2011 U19 World Championship for Women, the 2011 Pan-Am Games and the 3x3 World Championships ... was the second-youngest player on the U19 team ... also played with Canada at the 2010 U17 World Championship for Women ... a three-year member of Team Saskatchewan ... a versatile athlete who won provincial championships in 4A basketball (2011), volleyball (2010), high jump (2012) discus (2010), AA women's hockey (2009, 2010), and speed swimming (several races from 2001-08) ... also finished second in the province in discus (2012), volleyball (2011), high jump (2009, 2010) and the shot put (2009) ... has bronze medals in the provincial championships in basketball (2009, 2012) ... 2011 Humboldt area Junior Citizen of the Year.
Personal: Daughter of Leanne and Gary Crozon ... Emergency Medical Services major.
Career Highs Points 13, three times (last vs. USC, 2/1/13) Rebounds 8, twice (last vs. Stanford, 1/25/13) FGM 4, three times (last vs. California, 1/27/13) FGA 12 vs. UCLA (2/3/13) 3 FGM 3, three times (last vs. California, 1/27/13) 3 FGA 6 vs. Colorado (1/13/13) FTM 5 vs. USC (2/1/13) FTA 6 vs. USC (2/1/13) Assists 1, eight times (last vs. UCLA, 2/3/13) Steals 3 vs. Stanford (1/25/13) Blocks 1, twice (last vs. USC, 2/1/13) Minutes 37 vs. California (1/27/13)


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The Django project, a well-known Python webapp framework, recently changed all its uses of the database terminology "master/slave" to the alternative terms "primary/replica".
The "master/slave" terminology has been in use for many years in the database world, but those terms can have racially-charged and offensive connotations. So I wholeheartedly applaud Django for getting rid of them.
However you may be wondering what on earth those terms were used to describe in the first place. To explain, we need a little background on database systems.
Persistence and Consistency
"Database" is one of those generic computer science/engineering terms that applies to a bunch of different things. However in this context we're talking about software that stores and retrieves organized collections of data.
Two of the most important properties of a database system are persistence and consistency. Persistence means that the database doesn't lose data. Consistency means that data always obeys any rules required of it. For example, a voting system will likely require that every user can only vote once. It turns out to be very tricky to guarantee both persistence and consistency in a reliable way, a topic I may return to in a future post.
Persistence typically requires that the data be stored on more than one machine. Otherwise the failure of a single machine may cause data to be permanently lost. This is known as replication.
Replication makes achieving consistency harder. For example, if two different machines have different versions of the data, which is the true version? One common way of dealing with this is "primary/secondary" replication.
Primary/Secondary Replication
In Primary/Secondary replication, one of the machines in the system is chosen as a primary or master, and all the other machines are designated as secondaries or replicas. All write operations (creating, updating and deleting data) go to the primary. After processing the write operation, the primary sends a message to each of the secondaries telling them to apply the same write operation.
In this scheme the secondaries are always a little bit "behind" the primary. The time between processing a write on the primary and processing it on a secondary is called the replication lag of that secondary. Because the secondaries may not be completely up-to-date, the primary is considered to be the "source of truth". If you need absolute consistency you must read your data from the primary. However if you can tolerate a little staleness, you can read from the secondaries, and take some of the load off the primary.
If the primary breaks down, one of the secondaries can be promoted to become the new primary. However before it can do so it must process all the outstanding replication messages it received from the old primary, to ensure that it's up to date. The process of choosing a secondary to promote is called master election.
What's in a Name?
As you can see, the old "master/slave" terminology is not only offensive but also a misleading analogy (can a "slave" be promoted to "master"?). The term "replica" is both inclusive and informative, and using it is a win-win. Kudos to Django for this change I hope many more projects follow suit.
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"They have no character. They have no guts. They lack courage. I'm old school. If I've got something to say, I'll say it to your damn face. A lot of times people don't like that, and they'll punch you. But that's their opportunity, and that's the way you do business in this life: You say it to their face."
Russell Stookey
A recent episode of This American Life told the story of Gene Cooley, a resident of the small town of Blairsville, GA whose reputation was destroyed by vicious anonymous posts on Topix. The quote above is from Cooley's lawyer, who successfully sued to unmask Cooley's online tormentors. The segment is fascinating and well worth a listen, especially given the rise of Secret.
Secret, the recently launched "anonymous twitter" app, has taken the tech industry by storm with its combination of personal confessions, trolling, Silicon Valley inside baseball, and bashing and trashing of companies and people.
Anonymous discourse has its place: It provides a safe space in which vulnerable people can express themselves without fear. It can give a voice to people marginalized by incumbent power structures in other media. But anonymity also creates a place where lies, slander and bullying go unchecked.
In a notable recent example, someone published an anonymous Medium post attempting to discredit Julie Ann Horvath and her claims of harassment at GitHub. Contrast this with Horvath's courage in discussing her experience. She described specific incidents, named names, and put her own credibility on the line to do so. She took a risk in order to speak out, and I don't doubt that she's been threatened and intimidated for it. "Jane Doe" on the other hand, wants to trash Horvath without putting anything on the line, and it's hard to believe anything he/she says when there are no consequences to lying.
Anonymity can be a corrective against privilege. When the deck is stacked against you, it may give you a safe way to be heard. But, on Secret and elsewhere, it's too often used in exactly the opposite way. And this is especially grating when so many courageous people, especially women, do in fact speak up publicly, often at great risk.
If you're going to attack someone publicly, even if you're convinced you're telling the truth, use your real name, and stand behind your allegations. Because that's the way you do business in this life: You say it to their face.
In my last CS101 post we began to discuss different programming language paradigms, and how they affect the performance, correctness and universality of programs. In this installment we'll provide more detail on one of the most important distinctions between programming languages, namely how they provide modularity.
Programs can be huge: Even a modest webapp may consist of hundreds of thousands of lines of code. One of the main concerns a programmer has is how to structure a program so that it's readable and maintainable by herself and others. Having one gigantic lump of code is as untenable as trying to build a house from a single giant pile of bricks, lumber and hardware.
Instead, much of the art of programming consists of breaking the program down into components, or modules, and then further breaking down those modules into submodules, and so on down. Modules provide organization and structure through separation of concerns, i.e., a single module is responsible for a single area of functionality.
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GitHub is in the news right now, and not in a good way: Engineer Julie Ann Horvath has resigned from the company, alleging serious incidents of harassment and inappropriate behavior.
People seem to be focusing on some of the more prurient allegations - office hula-hooping and so on - but are largely ignoring what to me might be the worst offense: another engineer "passive-aggressively ripping out [her] code from projects [they] had worked on together without so much as a ping or a comment."
Unfortunately, outside the engineering community it's not always obvious what GitHub is, and why this kind of behavior, bad anywhere, should be especially unacceptable there. But to understand GitHub, you first need to understand how software engineers work together.
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In my last CS101 post I described how programming languages are an intermediary between human language and machine code: the logic operations implemented by a computer's circuits. In this, and my next few posts, we'll look at programming languages in more detail, and discuss different language designs and capabilities.
Assembly Language
The earliest and simplest programming languages were assembly languages. An assembly language is just a slightly more human-readable version of a system's machine code. It uses mnemonics to represent individual logic instructions, and allows the programmer to use labels to refer to memory locations. A program called an assembler turns assembly language code into proper machine code.
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Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham got into some hot water recently for controversial comments about women in tech. This follows a previous dodgy statement of his about "founders with foreign accents", and another saying "I can be tricked by anyone who looks like Mark Zuckerberg".
I've never met Graham, but by all accounts he's a well-meaning guy who doesn't maliciously discriminate. And he acknowledges at least some of his prejudice, which is more than most people who worship at the cult of meritocracy are willing to do. Unfortunately, however, the underlying bias emerging from Graham's statements is common in Silicon Valley.
This bias is typically not due to an intent to exclude women, immigrants, people of color or older people. Instead it's the result of an unhealthy and extreme reverence for one, and only one, archetype: The Hacker.
Boyz n the Hoodie
The Hacker archetype is a 20-something, hoodie-wearing, white male. He grew up with enough economic privilege to be able to teach himself programming as a teen. He's so consumed by computing that he no time for such trivia as social skills or a dress sense. His drive and ambition to "innovate", "disrupt" and "change the world" leave him with little patience for rules or standards of conduct. His mantra is "Move Fast and Break Things" (especially other people's things). He's the Silicon Valley realization of two tropes rolled into one: the pioneer and the self-made man (who is almost always a man, and almost never self-made).
The platonic form of The Hacker is, of course, Mark Zuckerberg.
Now, Paul Graham claims to have been misquoted. I take him at his word that his comments about women were only intended in a narrow context. But his correction, with its further harping on and on about "hacker this" and "hacker that", is actually more revealing than his original statement. All his statements above, including this correction, make it abundantly clear that, to him, the only kind of person who counts is The Hacker. And Graham is far from alone in this thinking.
When Did a Hack Become a Good Thing?
In journalism, a "hack" is a pejorative term for a writer who churns out large amounts of low-quality content. In programming, a "hack" denotes an inelegant solution, typically to band-aid over a problem until a more comprehensive solution can be written.
Yet somehow, in the past decade, "hacker" became a compliment. Facebook, for example, built its entire corporate culture around "The Hacker Way", a mish-mash of truisms about fast iteration and prototyping, such as "done is better than perfect".
Graham takes this even further, staking out a distinction between CS majors and hackers, to the detriment of the former. For example:
The problem with that is I think, at least with technology companies, the people who are really good technology founders have a genuine deep interest in technology. In fact, I've heard startups say that they did not like to hire people who had only started programming when they became CS majors in college.
Somehow, being a self-taught, college-dropout programmer with no industry experience has become not a liability but a badge of honor. This is a great shame, because true technological innovation often requires knowledge, experience and maturity.
Many conversations about "tech" are actually about products, or worse, about money. Modest UX tweaks are frequently lauded as "innovation". But there's also a lot of truly heavy lifting to be done in the tech industry, and this requires expertise, talent and rigor, qualities that we must look beyond the "hacker pool" to find.
Prejudice Matching
It's hard for an early-stage investor to predict eventual returns based on little more than a pitch deck. There are few objective measures by which to judge an early-stage startup. So VCs fall back on "intuition", sometimes more honestly referred to as "pattern matching". And what better pattern to match than ur-hacker Zuck, the founder of a company that went from $0 to $100B in eight years?
The trouble is, what's really going on is mostly just confirmation bias and selection bias, and on a hopelessly small sample size at that. "Pattern matching" is really just an anodyne synonym of "prejudice".
It may not look like prejudice, because the focus is less on what you are (a woman, a person of color, over 40) than on what you're not (a Hacker). So it may not be grounded in overt sexism or racism, but it's all the more insidious for that. At least with Pax Dickinson you know what you're getting into. It's harder to deal with discrimination that isn't aware of its own existence.
Hacking The Hacker
This prejudice's obsession with a single archetype is also its weak spot: Deconstruct the Hacker and you weaken the bias it engenders. By challenging various aspects of this archetype we can reduce its near-mystical significance in Silicon Valley. Take away the pattern, and pattern matching becomes much harder.
So think of this as a call to arms: Let's hack The Hacker!
It's not that conforming to the Hacker archetype is bad of itself. It's that mythologizing just one type of person necessarily excludes others from access to capital, jobs and other resources. Not to mention the fact that it also creates a lot of false positives: bad ideas that get funding because the founder "looked right". And such poor allocation of capital is bad for everyone: investors, hackers and the rest of us.
So the goal is not to take down any individual, but to rid the Hacker ethos of its glamor. To say that it's fine to be a Hacker, and equally fine not to be one. Whatever your background, and however you got to where you are, investors like Graham should have open minds about you and your ideas.
As we've discussed in previous installments, computer programs are sequences of instructions that tell computers what to do. Any software that runs on a computer - be it Mac OS X, Google Chrome, the Apache web server or Candy Crush Saga - is a program, and someone has to write that program.
The problem is that people speak English(*) while computers understand the 0s and 1s that trigger their circuits. This is where programming languages come in.
Meeting The Computer Half Way
A programming language is an intermediary between English and the low-level instructions computers understand. It's a compromise between the looseness of natural languages and the structured formality required for machine interpretation.
For example, a human might say:
I want to print all the whole numbers from 0 to 9.
And another human might express the same idea with a different sentence:
I want to print all the non-negative integers less than ten.
This loose informality of natural language makes it unsuitable for communicating with computers. A computer natively understands only the very low-level machine code instructions baked into its circuits. But humans can't easily compose machine code directly.
Instead, the human writes instructions as a program, in a programming language.
For our example, we'll use the programming language Python:
for number in range(0, 10): print(number)
This program is structured enough for a computer to interpret, but also "English-y" enough for a human to write. In this case, even with no programming experience at all, you can probably figure out what it means.
If your computer has Python installed you can see for yourself that computers have no problem understanding this program. On a Mac, go to Finder -> Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal, type
python -c "for number in range(0, 10): print(number)"
into the terminal window and hit enter.
Compilation and Execution
What's going on here?
"python" is a command (**) that runs programs written in the Python programming language. When you run it as above it does two things:
Compilation is the act of turning the program from Python into machine code. Execution is the act of applying the machine code to the computer's circuits. If the program is written correctly then the execution will yield the result the programmer intended.
The program above compiles into machine code that looks something like this:
Note that even this machine code is illuminated using English-y words. What the computer really sees, of course, is just a lot of zeros and ones.
Programming is the art and science of turning informal ideas into a description just formal enough for a computer to understand. The computer then takes it the rest of the way:
In my next post I'll discuss some of the programming languages in common use today (and also explain that I slightly cheated in describing the output of Python compilation as machine code).
(*) No anglocentrism intended. But in practice programming languages are always English-based.
(**) This so-called command is itself a program: a special kind of program whose job is to run other programs! You may be wondering what language the "python" program itself is written in? It can't be written exclusively in Python because then what would run it? This and more will be discussed in my next post.