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Dear MySQL users, MySQL Connector/C 6.1.2, a new version of the C API for client/server communication for the MySQL database management system, has been released. This version of Connector/C provides full support for MySQL 5.6 protocol. Connector/C is compatible with the client libraries (libmysql). It includes all the features in the MySQL client library shipped with MySQL servers 5.6 as well as prior versions. You can recompile existing code linked with Connector/C 6.1.2 without any code changes. You can use Connector/C to run and build client applications which communicate with MySQL server versions from 4.1 to 5.6 without a need to do a complete server installation. The release is now available in source and binary form for a number of platforms from our download pages at http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/c/ MySQL Connector/C 6.1.2 will also be available for downloads via the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud in approximately 1-2 weeks. For information on installing, please see the documentation at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/connector-c/en/connector-c-installation.html Enjoy! Kent Boortz The MySQL build team at Oracle ============================================================================== Functionality Added or Changed * The implementation of condition variables specific to Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 was removed from the source code because MySQL is not supported on those platforms as of MySQL 5.6. Note This change has the following implication: Previously, Connector/C 6.1, while not officially supported on Windows XP or Windows Server 2003, could be used on those platforms. This is no longer possible. (Bug #17332056) * MySQL now supports the use of client-side plugins that implement tracing of communication between a client and the server that takes place using the client/server protocol. Protocol trace plugins use the client plugin API (see Writing Plugins (http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.6/en/writing-plugins.html)) In Connector/C source distributions, a test protocol trace plugin is implemented in the test_trace_plugin.cc file in the libmysql directory. This can be examined as a guide to writing other protocol trace plugins. * Static libraries built with VS2008, VS2010, VS2012 are now distributed as part of Connector/C packages for Windows: ZIP and MSI. New directories named vs9, vs10, and vs11 located under the lib directory contain static libraries and corresponding pdb files built with VS2008, VS2010, and VS2012, respectively. Bugs Fixed * The CLIENT_CONNECT_WITH_DB flag was improperly handled in the C client library. This could lead to a malformed packet sent to the server. (Bug #17351732) * The mysql_real_connect() C API function could leak memory if it failed. (Bug #17337684) * The mysql_options() C API function could leak memory if called more than once with the MYSQL_SET_CLIENT_IP option. (Bug #17297012) * The Connector/C MSI package was missing the following files: ChangeLog, README, LICENSE, COPYING, INFO_SRC, INFO_BIN. (Bug #17261526) * The Connector/C RPM package was missing the following files: INFO_SRC, INFO_BIN, my_print_defaults, perror. (Bug #17261610) * On Windows, a MySQL client program that simply used #include <mysql.h> could not be compiled due to missing Windows declarations in that file. The same program would compile on other platforms. (Bug #16409270) * The libmysql.dll library was missing several symbols: my_init, mysql_client_find_plugin, mysql_client_register_plugin, mysql_load_plugin, mysql_load_plugin_v, and mysql_plugin_options. (Bug #69204, Bug #16797982)
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UK supplier intros 8.9in, SSD netbook as world goes 10in, HDD
UK system builder CMS Computers has unwrapped its latest netbook, the Zoostorm Freedom, and an entirely unexceptional item it is too.
Well, almost. We're pleased to see CMS equipping the Freedom with an 8.9in display, which we reckon is the sweet spot for small, cheap computers - despite most vendors telling everyone that no, we really want a 10in machine.
CMS' Zoostorm Freedom: standard spec
CMS has also opted for an 8GB SSD when everyone else is shifting to bigger but less rugged HDDs.
That said, the Freedom's design is nothing special - and neither is the spec, which is a just below netbook-standard 1.6GHz Atom N270 CPU, 512MB of 667MHz DDR 2 memory, 533MHz frontside bus, GMA 950 integrated graphics, 0.3Mp webcam, two-in-one memory card reader, 10/100Mb/s Ethernet, VGA and three USB ports.
On the plus side, the Freedom has 802.11n Wi-Fi rather than the more commonplace 802.11b/g. CMS claims a four-and-a-half hour battery life from the Freedom's 4400mAh battery.
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The spring artichoke crop is celebrated each year in Castroville, which bills itself as the Artichoke Capital of the World. This year, the festival on May 18-19 will include a parade, chef demonstrations, a competition in three-dimensional fruit and vegetable artwork and a classic car show.
Sponsoring the festival is Ocean Mist Farms, the largest grower of globe artichokes. From the company's website, oceanmist.com, here's a simple way to bake an artichoke.
To learn more about the Castroville festival, go online to www.artichoke-festival.org.
Easy Baked Artichokes
Makes 2 servings
2 large globe artichokes rinsed and trimmed
1 whole lemon, cut in half
4 cloves of garlic, slivered
4 tablespoons of olive oil
Sea salt to taste
4 sheets of heavy-duty foil wrap
Preheat oven to 425 degrees.
Squeeze 1/2 of a lemon on the top of each trimmed artichoke. Drizzle each artichoke with 2 tablespoons of olive oil (allowing oil to go in between artichoke leaves).
Stuff slivers of garlic between leaves of each artichoke. Sprinkle each artichoke with salt and any other herbs desired (such as finely chopped rosemary or sage).
Double-wrap each artichoke with two layers of heavy- duty foil. Seal them well on top by twisting and pinching foil packets. Place foil packets of artichokes in oven and bake.
For jumbo or large-sized artichokes, bake for 1 hour and 20 minutes; bake medium-sized artichokes for 1 hour
Remove artichokes from oven. When cool enough to handle, unwrap artichokes and enjoy with additional lemon; or scoop out the fuzzy center of the baked artichoke and use as an edible bowl filled with soup, stew or dip.
Recipe from Ocean Mist Farms, Castroville.
Trimming an artichoke
• To prepare an artichoke for cooking, first rinse it well under cold water.
• With a sharp, serrated kitchen knife, cut about 1 inch from the top of the artichoke.
• Then, trim the stem about one-half inch or remove the stem if you need it to sit up on a plate for stuffing or filling. (Since the artichoke stem is a continuation of the delicious heart, don't cut it off unless you need to.)
• Finally, if desired, use kitchen shears to snip off the thorns on the tips of the artichoke petals. (This step is optional, as the thorns tend to soften with cooking).
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On January 15, 1947, the severed body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was found in a vacant lot in Los Angeles. The case went cold and remained unsolved up to today, but former LAPD detective Steve Hodel has long believed his father murdered Short, nicknamed the Black Dahlia.
Hodel authored a book, "Black Dahlia Avenger," in which he said that his father, doctor George Hill Hodel, committed the murder at the "Sowden House" in Hollywood where the family lived at the time. It turns out the elder Hodel was a person of interest at the time, but was released. He died in 1991.
The Nov. 9 search of the historic house was conducted with the TV show "Ghost Hunters." Hodel participated in the search along with a cadaver dog trained to sniff for human remains. Although it was filmed, the segment with Buster did not air in the Jan. 16 episode. [Update: You can see a clip of the cadaver dog here at SyFy.com.]
Buster's sense of smell led to a vent just outside the basement where he alerted detectives to the scent of human decomposition. Hodel said soil samples from the basement have been sent to a lab for analysis, but he believes the dog was onto something. "We have established as fact that the basement ... some 66 years after the murder, still holds the smell of death."
The Black Dahlia murder remains part of popular culture. The mystery was most recently covered in the 2006 film "The Black Dahlia," starring Scarlett Johansson, Josh Hartnett and Hilary Swank.


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CBOE paying $6M to settle SEC charges on oversight
WASHINGTON The largest U.S. options exchange has agreed to pay a $6 million penalty to settle federal charges that it failed in its duty to enforce trading rules.
The Securities and Exchange Commission said Tuesday that the penalty being paid by the Chicago Board Options Exchange was the first imposed against an exchange for failures of regulatory oversight.
The CBOE is a self-regulating organization, like Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. They are charged with enforcing trading rules for their members. The SEC has broad oversight over the trading. But it leaves the day-to-day monitoring to the exchanges and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
The SEC said the CBOE failed, among other things, to prevent abusive short-selling by a member firm. Short-selling is when a trader bets a stock will lose value. Regulators say excessive short-selling targeted at weak companies can push them into collapse and fan market volatility.
The alleged failures occurred from 2008 to 2012.
The exchange agreed to take corrective action but neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing. The SEC also censured the exchange. Censure brings the possibility of a stiffer sanction if the alleged violation is repeated.
The SEC said that in 2008 the CBOE moved from one department to another its monitoring of member firms' compliance with a rule designed to curb abusive short-selling. That had a negative impact on the CBOE's enforcement of the rule, the agency said.
The CBOE said all the corrective actions required or recommended by the SEC, in addition to remedies the exchange came up with from its own review, have been put into effect or are in process.
"This settlement marks a significant step in putting the SEC matter behind us," the exchange said in a statement.
Short-sellers borrow a company's shares, sell them and then buy them when the stock falls and return them to the lender pocketing the difference in price.
Options give the holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy and sell stocks or other financial assets in the future.
The CBOE is the only place to trade two popular options, one a bet on the future price of the Standard and Poor's 500 stock index, the other a type of insurance against wild swings in stock prices.
The settlement comes about two weeks after the SEC fined Nasdaq $10 million for the exchange's own computer failures and decisions alleged to have disrupted Facebook's public stock offering last year. The fine was not over a failure of oversight.


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OK, here's the situation. Someone posted an algorithmic question on SO.
There were 2 main answers.
One was stock "you can use this standard data structure - see details on Wiki". Basically, a priority queue.
One was mine, which had a somewhat-original (at least, I don't recall ever reading an official moniker for it) data structure. Actually, two of them, one for each possible domain of data distribution.
BOTH algorithms were faster on average (mods AND look-ups) than the standard Priority Queue when applied to that user's problem domain.
The proof, aside from fairly simple O(n) analysis, is that as of today, the OP commented on my post that my data structure was the best he could use and accepted my answer.
However, at the time of posting, a couple of people down-voted it initially, with incorrect excuses like "algorithm does not work" (based on incorrectly reading my answer), "Wiki data structure is better" (without reading my O(n) analysis or comprehending it). First down-vote was from a competing Wiki question.
Then it seemed to be lemming-like down-voting, including at least 2 serial down-voters that were since cleansed by SO team as per my report.
So, since most of the current down-votes if not all are based on people being obviously technically wrong as acknowledged by original poster, is there some sort of appeals process on SO whereby a technically competent moderator/superuser can review the Q, determine whether the people who down-voted also posted incorrect comments as reasons for down-voting, and fix this?
Please note that this is mostly a question of fairness - at my rep level, the current "-6" rep from the Q are not really that big of a deal (and the main problem was the opportunity cost of people not voting my A up when the thread was active due to seeing negative score and a long thread of comment criticisms - which I can't get back anymore since the thread is no longer active).
And yeah, I'm whining :) But it was a behavior of a couple of people that was grossly unfair and totally contrary to the spirit of SO.


text: Too many academic careers are shaped around writing journal articles nobody reads and planning twice-weekly lectures to a diminishing class of students. flickr/Sixth Lie December 3, 2015 Shift away from 'publish or perish' puts the public back into publication Andrew Walker, Australian National University Prime Minister Turnbull has signalled a desire to move away from a 'publish or perish' academic culture toward one that prioritises public impact and engagement. It's a challenge scholars should embrace.


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And yet another Miami reality show takes to the airwaves, this one centered on sexy Latina models competing for a contract.
It's called Model Latina and kicks off tonight (Sunday) at 9 p.m. EST on SiTV.
The premise revolves around 15 Latina models housed in a Miami mansion competing for that lucrative prize of $10,000 as well as a contract with Q Management and exposure in Latina Magazine.
Obviously, it is no American Idol.
But we're hoping it is no Miami Social either.
So what can we expect?
That depends on whom you ask.
According to the Si TV press release, we should expect to see "15 stunning, fiercely determined women as they call upon their inner strength, beauty and intellect to prove they have what it takes to be this year's model."
But according to Barry Garron of the Hollywood blog Past Deadline, it's nothing but a cheap imitation of America's Next Top Model."
However, Garron was won over by the sincere personalities of the contestants, three who are from Miami:
"What makes watching this tolerable is the only element the producers couldn't have planned--the genuine, unvarnished personalities of the contestants. Even with the post-tryout interviews conducted in what looks like a padded cell, the sincerity and desire of many would-be models shines through."
The show is in its second season. Last year, former JLO apparel model Jessica Caban emerged as the winner, landing a contract with L'Oreal plus some acting roles.
We give it a thumbs up just for the fact they didn't cast Ariel Stein on the show.
Check out the trailer below of one of the three Miami models.


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Most organizations have a pretty good idea of which sensitive data is most critical to them. Depending on the kind of business entity, the data types can vary considerably. For financial organizations, the most critical data is most often consumer personally identifiable information (PII), including account and credit card numbers. In healthcare organizations, the major concern is still PII, but with a HIPAA twist to include protected health information. For other companies, the most critical data may be other nonpublic data, such as customer lists or intellectual property.
Regardless of the data types, in order to protect this sensitive data from insider threats (and outside, frankly), it is imperative for an organization to have as much knowledge of its data as possible. That means not just which data it is, but where it is, how it is used -- within and outside of the organization -- and the potential consequences if it were to become lost or stolen.
All that said, however, I do not support the idea of needing to know everything about sensitive data before taking steps to protect it. To the contrary, I stand firmly on the side of action, always assuming an organization and executive team know enough about the data to take effective protective measures. This is a delicate balance. On one hand, an organization may want to fully understand its data prior to deploying expensive data protection technologies. On the other hand, if the process of understanding the data is a multiyear project, the critical data may be subjected to unnecessary risk in the meantime.
So how does an organization maintain the right balance? For the sake of sensitive data, it is always prudent to take immediate action on the data already known to be the most critical. This could be, for example, the intellectual property of a technology company. Employing technologies in the short term to safeguard this intellectual property is the first and most important step. Once the most critical data is secured, the organization can then focus attention on identifying other sensitive data types. This could include data such as HR and employee data, which, in many cases as consumer PII, is subject to data breach notification laws in all but a handful of U.S. states.
Finally, a sensitive data review is always recommended. This process can be as simple or comprehensive as judged necessary. All data owners in an organization should be involved to ensure no sensitive data is overlooked. Each data set can be analyzed to map out approved handling procedures and identify any holes, determine appropriate storage locations, confirm approved data handlers, establish the correct process for breach response for that specific data, gauge the probable impact of data loss, and apply a risk ranking so the organization can know which of the sensitive data types have the greatest potential for collateral damage.
Armed with this newfound knowledge, an organization can protect all sensitive data, employ data protection tools on new data sets, uncover better data handling procedures, and take other appropriate steps to mitigate data loss risk.
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XULRunner File Remove Bug and Work-around
I'm working on a tool based on XULRunner that generates some content. (HTML content, images, etc.) It produces a directory to put the content into, and then offers the user the option of viewing that content right away.
The problem lies in leaving that content open in a another application like a web browser. Upon returning to the tool, and attempting to re-publish the content, an NS_ERROR_FAILURE exception is thrown coming from the nsIFile.remove call to remove the directory recursively. This is because of some sort of file exclusivity the web browser process has already.
So easy, just catch that error, inform the user to close their content in any other open application, rinse and repeat, right? Well unfortunately under XULRunner on Mac OS 10.5, the initial failure gunks up any further attempts. So even reinitializing a new nsIFile instance doesn't work. Only restarting the app works! Yech.
Well I found that manually doing a recursive loop and removing each file individually, and then removing the parent directory, works. Definitely not efficient, as the native code would be better over JavaScript. (TraceMonkey should help with this right?) But there isn't a grossly high number of files or that deep of a hiearchy anyways.
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President Barack Obama on Thursday renominated Justice Department lawyer William Orrick III to a San Francisco federal judgeship, a move widely expected after the Senate earlier this week failed to take a floor vote on his previous nomination.
Orrick was among dozens of judicial nominees renominated by the White House because the previous Congress failed to take action on their judgeships. The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Orrick's nomination last August, and he has not encountered any organized opposition to confirmation.
But Orrick now will have to go through the Democrat-controlled committee one more time. A deputy attorney general for the past three years, Orrick is the son of the late San Francisco federal Judge William Orrick II.
Sen. Barbara Boxer recommended Orrick for a judgeship last year, along with Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jon Tigar. The Senate in December approved Tigar's judgeship on a voice vote.
Obama has two more Bay Area federal judgeships to fill in the coming term. Sen. Dianne Feinstein's search committee has already begun vetting candidates to replace former Chief Judge James Ware and San Jose U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel, now head of the Federal Judicial Center in Washington, D.C.
Howard Mintz covers legal affairs. Contact him at 408-286-0236 or follow him at Twitter.com/hmintz.


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Before and After: Must-See English Manor Home
A British couple gloriously restores an 18th-century manor house in Northern England
It seems hard to believe that only a decade ago this handsome circa-1740 manor house surrounded by rolling countryside was a crumbling warren of hostel-like "bedsits" with a trailer park in its walled garden. In those days, the house and garden served as a makeshift campsite with entire rooms roped off because they overflowed with garbage. "The house was in near-derelict condition," recalls Londoner Paul Townley, who, together with his wife, Gaynor, was attracted to the rugged northeast England countryside and boldly acquired the property in 2002.
Known as Thorpe Hall, the classical-style stone house in Wycliffe, County Durham, underwent a lengthy renovation. The trad-minded Townleys, with the assistance of talented designer Mark Gillette, realized their ambitious vision—a beautifully restored and decorated home that seamlessly weaves past and present. In 2010, their massive restoration of the house won commendations from England's prestigious Historic Houses Association and The Georgian Group. Today the property sustains the Townleys' sporty, country lifestyle of hunting, fishing, and shooting as well as entertaining.
Photography: Francis Hammond
Interior designer: Mark Gillette, Mark Gillette Interior Design Ltd., Mollington Grange, Parkgate Road, Mollington, Chester CH1 6NP, UK; 011 44 124 485 1897, markgillette.com.
Garden designer: Arne Maynard, Arne Maynard Garden Design, 14 Baltic St. E., 2nd Floor, London EC1Y 0UJ, UK; 011 44 207 689 8100, arnemaynard.com.
Front Entry
"Until all the bits go in, it isn't really a home," says Gaynor, who collects porcelain and early paintings and prints including the two 17th-century British ancestor portraits flanking the outer hallway.
The front door to the attractive entrance is crowned by a decorative fanlight. The unfussy Georgian facade has sash windows divided up by delicate new glazing bars mirroring the originals.
Wallpaper (strie): Brunschwig & Fils, brunschwig.com.
Hanging lantern; area rugs: antique.
Portraits: owner's collection.
Drawing Room
To decorate the home's interior, Gaynor turned to 20th-century icons Sibyl Colefax and John Fowler for inspiration. (There's a well-thumbed copy of Chester Jones's Colefax & Fowler: The Best in English Interior Decoration in her library.) "It's an interpretation of the style," Gillette says. "The quintessential English drawing room is about layers and subtleties."
Drawing Room
In the double-height drawing room framed by Doric columns, the mood is set with an attractive mix of English and French antiques. A curvy canapé (settee) is dressed in a sumptuously textured floral jacquard, and a pair of cushy sofas are wrapped in rich, olive-green velvet trimmed with deep bullion fringe.
The elegant room is distinguished by its Doric columns and decorative plaster cornices; the "Venetian Damask" wallpaper is by George Spencer
Wallpaper ("Venetian Damask"): George Spencer Designs, georgespencer.com.
Area rug (antique Aubusson); chairs flanking mantel: Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Sofa; lounge chair to right of sofa: owner's collection.
Lounge-chair fabric ("Beaufort"): Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com.
Sofa end tables: antique.
Fauteuil to left of sofa; area rug (antique Aubusson): Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Fauteuil fabric: Claremont Furnishing, claremontfurnishing.com.
Tapestry pillows on chairs: antique.
Settee behind sofa; art above settee; tables flanking settee: antique.
Settee fabric ("Beaumarchais"/Ivoire #B7510002, by Braquenié): Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com
Library Before
The library had dark green walls, red drapery panels, and white bookshelves.
After: Updated Look
The original carved fireplace mantel and marble surround define the room. Faux-suede wallpaper and emerald silk damask curtains by Lelievre frame the arched windows. The bookshelf exterior was painted a cool blue color while interior shelves were painted a complementary hue.
Wallcovering ("Faux Suede"/Terra-Cotta, by Cole & Son, discontinued): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Ceiling paint ("Clunch" #2009): Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com.
Damask window treatment ("Tournelle"/Emerald #4128-07, by Lelievre): Stark, starkcarpet.com.
Bookcases; mantel: existing.
Sconces on bookcases ("Library Swing-Arm Wall Light" #WA0238.BR): Vaughan, vaughandesigns.com.
Sofa ("Howard"); coffee table (custom): Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Sofa fabric (by Colefax and Fowler): Cowtan & Tout, cowtan.com.
Coffee table fabric; tan fabric on lounge chair by sofa: Isle Mill, islemill.com.
Coffee-table top: antique tapestry.
Plaid fabric on lounge chair: Nobilis, nobilis.fr.
Floor lamp; fire fender; round table to left of plaid chair; desk; desk chair: antique.
Desk pad: Asprey, asprey.com.
Magnifying glass on desk: antique.
Area rug (needlepoint): Gallery Yacou, galleryyacou.com.
Sisal carpet: Tim Page Carpets, timpagecarpets.com.
Inner Hall Before
Though the Georgian facade dates to 1743, a 13th-century tower that once occupied the property probably shaped an internal courtyard that also gave form to the rest of the house.
After: Blue Beauty
Enclosed in the early 20th century, the Wedgwood-blue space is now called the inner hall. Sunlight streams through an octagonal cupola (or lantern) into the inner hall, which like almost every room in the house is graced with superbly crafted architectural elements—neoclassical Adamesque plasterwork, a delicate wrought-iron balustrade, a fireplace framed in marble with a crisply carved mantel, and arched niches for displaying sculpture. "The work was all carried out by local painters and craftsmen," Gaynor says.
The internal courtyard was enclosed and incorporated into the rest of the house during the Edwardian period, but designer Mark Gillette took it to another level with elaborate plasterwork and a new chimneypiece as well as mirrors that give the illusion of an even bigger space.
Blue wall paint: Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com.
Area rug: Crucial Trading, crucial-trading.com.
Chandelier; mirrors; armchairs: antique.
Tables under mirrors: Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Art over mantel: David Wade Fine Art, wadeart.co.uk.
Striped fabric on armchairs: Claremont Furnishing, claremontfurnishing.com.
Blue under-skirt on table; patterned over-skirt on table: Zoffany, zoffany.com.
Kitchen Before
A focal point of the kitchen pre-update was a large fireplace dating to the 18th century.
After: Modern Kitchen
An 18th-century stone-arched fireplace now houses an Aga range in the original kitchen. Paul and Gaynor often gather with friends in the kitchen's dining area.
Paint ("Off White #3 and "Light Blue" #22): Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com.
Stove: Aga, agaliving.com.
Backsplash behind stove: Fired Earth, firedearth.com.
Island cabinetry (custom): Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Flooring: French limestone, honed and tilled.
Kitchen Dining Area
Just beyond the kitchen island, a casual, accommodating dining spot exudes country charm.
Dining table and chairs: antique.
Chandelier and wall sconces (commissioned, custom, by Richard Taylor Designs): Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Breakfast Room
The carved mantel, elaborate pediment, and ornate dentil cornice survived intact and just needed cleaning. A collection of intriguing 19th-century botanical specimens hang on the wall above a painted console.
Dining table; chairs (Gustavian): owner's collection.
Seat fabric on dining chairs: Brunschwig & Fils, brunschwig.com.
Console table (20th century); lamps on console (antique): Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Plant specimens above console: Julia Boston Antiques, juliaboston.com.
Art flanking mantel: owner's collection.
Dining Room
The decorating details sprinkled throughout the house are equally ravishing—rock-crystal sconces and chandeliers, hand-block-printed wallpaper, plus tasseled and fringed pillows covered in damask, needlepoint, and antique tapestries. The dining formal space features Farrow & Ball's ornate "St. Antoine" damask wallpaper and the original chimneypiece.
Wallpaper ("St. Antoine," colorway discontinued): Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com.
Ceiling paint ("Beige Shadow"): Sanderson, sanderson-uk.com.
Sisal rug: Crucial Trading, crucial-trading.com.
Area rug (antique): Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Chandelier: Vaughan, vaughandesigns.com.
Dining table (antique): Patrick Sandberg Antiques, antiquefurniture.net.
Dining chairs: Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Chair-front fabric; chair-back fabric: Brunschwig & Fils, brunschwig.com.
Server to right of dining table; table to left of mantel; mirror over mantel: antique.
Drapery ("Lulli"); drapery trim: Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com.
Dinnerware; stemware; flatware; table accessories: owner's collection.
On the ground floor, a dogleg staircase leads to a grand landing and lovely arched window fancifully dressed with fluted pilasters and a pediment.
Wallpaper (strie): Brunschwig & Fils, brunschwig.com.
Carpet on stairs: Roger Oates Floors & Fabrics, rogeroates.com.
Settee; commode beside settee; area rug: antique.
Settee fabric (by Boussac): Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com.
Master Bedroom Before
The grand space had a lot of red going on.
After: Country Charm
"Waking up here on a Saturday morning is a joy," says Paul, who enjoys a bustling house full of life—barking dogs, roaring log fires, and overnight guests sleeping under canopied beds in some of the 15 bedrooms (with nine bathrooms decked out as comfortably as sitting rooms).
The elegant, comfortable room has a 19th-century canted bay window, which is now framed by puddled curtains.
Wallpaper ("Plain Stripe"): Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com.
Chandelier: antique.
Area rug (Aubusson): The Rug Co., therugcompany.com.
Carpet: Stark, starkcarpet.com.
Drapery (by Hodsoll McKenzie): Zimmer +Rohde, zimmer-rohde.com.
Bed: Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Duvet: Chelsea Textiles, chelseatextiles.com/us.
Canopy fabric (silk): Zoffany, zoffany.com.
Canopy trim: custom.
Sconces at bed ("Library Swing Arm Wall Light" #WA0238.BR); lamp on 3-drawer chest ("Villandry Crystal Vase" #TG0049.NT): Vaughan, vaughandesigns.com.
Bedside tables (18th-century); sofa; bench in front of sofa; desk; 3-drawer chest (18th-century); mirror above chest (19th-century): antique.
Sofa fabric: Brunschwig & Fils, brunschwig.com.
Lounge chair facing sofa: existing.
Chair fabric (by Colefax and Fowler): Cowtan & Tout, cowtan.com.
Master Bedroom Detail
A crystal vase table lamp by Vaughan sits on an 18th-century Italian painted chest of drawers.
Dressing Room
Homeowner Paul's French-polished, mahogany-paneled dressing room by artisans Houghtons of York.
Hanging light (antique): Christopher Butterworth Antiques, christopherbutterworth.com.
Chair: owner's collection.
Paneling (custom, French polished mahogany panels): Houghtons of York, houghtons.plus.com.
Blue Bathroom
One of nine bathrooms in the home, this spacious room is defined by a cool blue-gray color scheme. A lovely wallpaper wraps the walls, while a coordinating paint color makes an appearance on the trim, the chair, and even the tub.
Wallpaper ("Hummingbirds," by Cole & Son): Lee Jofa, leejofa.com.
Trim paint ("Dufour"): Zoffany.com/paint.
Bathtub: AstonMatthews, astonmatthews.co.uk.
Bath faucets: Barber Wilson, barwil.co.uk.
Chair: antique.
Chair fabric (by Colefax and Fowler): Cowtan & Tout, cowtan.com.
Mirror ("Handpainted Chinoiserie Mirror" ): Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam, nicholashaslam.com.
Sconces ("Welford Mirror Wall Light"): Vaughan, vaughandesigns.com.
Towel rails: (for similar, Towel Rails by Drummonds): Architonic, architonic.com.
Chair bysink: antique.
Guest Room
One of 15 bedrooms at Thorpe, the flora bedroom's light green walls, framed botanical prints, and floral patterned drapery panels all make for a pleasing place to rest.
Drapery and bed drapery ("Honeysuckle" #1090, by Colefax and Fowler): Cowtan & Tout, cowtan.com.
Paint: custom mix.
Interior bed drapery; headboard fabric: Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com.
Bed (custom); botanical prints: Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Bench at end of bed: antique.
Carpet: custom.
Area rug: needlepoint.
Neutral Bath
A twin vanity and "Oak Leaf" mirror in this bathroom are certainly beautiful, but an 18th-century Swedish chandelier over the tub is steals the scene.
Ceiling paint ("Lime White" #1): Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com.
Door and trim paint: custom.
Vanity (custom): Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Vanity countertop: marble.
Faucets: Barber Wilson, barwil.co.uk.
Mirror ("Oak Leaf"): Paolo Moschino for Nicholas Haslam, nicholashaslam.com.
Sconces (19th-century); chandelier (18th-century Swedish): antique.
Carpet: custom.
Drapery ("Honeysuckle" #1090, by Colefax and Fowler): Cowtan & Tout, cowtan.com.
Drapery trim: custom.
Bathtub; table beside bathtub: existing.
Bath faucets: Barber Wilson, barwil.co.uk.
Hunt Room Before
In the hunt room, there was room for cosmetic updates. The fireplace lacked lacked a proper surround.
After: Upgraded Hunt Room
So immersed in country life is Paul that he's been appointed high sheriff of County Durham. It's largely a ceremonial role that requires a lot of entertaining, Gaynor says. But it's one of England's oldest offices, dating back more than a thousand years to Saxon times when duties included protecting the monarchy and collecting taxes.
Wall paint ("Mouse's Back" #40): Farrow & Ball, farrow-ball.com.
Ceiling paint ("Beige Shadow"): Sanderson, sanderson-uk.com.
Paint on inside of closets ("Crimson"): Zoffany, zoffany.com/shop/paint.
Flooring (limestone): Stone Age, stone-age.co.uk.
Long table; umbrella stand: antique.
Chair by umbrella stand (antique); table holding sink (custom); mirror (custom): Mark Gillette Interior Design, markgillette.com.
Chair fabric: Pierre Frey, pierrefrey.com.
Sink: Villeroy & Boch, villeroy-boch.co.uk.
Hunt Room
Painted in Farrow & Ball's mossy gray "Mouse's Back" and featuring a Victorian bird case, the hunt room offers country squire accoutrements—walking sticks, fishing rods, and Wellington boots.
Entry Hall
The back entrance floor is paved in original black-and-white marble tile laid in a diagonal pattern. "We preserved what we could," Gaynor says.
Furniture: owner's collection.
Art over console: antique.
Exterior Before
An expanse of green lawn surrounded the home.
After: Lively Plantings
Arne Maynard, a Chelsea Flower Show gold medal winner, designed the garden. Globe allium abound in this southwest view of the space.
But even with a full house, the Georgian manor remains tranquil, which is a special part of its charm. "Thorpe Hall is a very still house," says Gaynor, who relaxes on weekends in the orangery and garden designed by acclaimed garden designer Arne Maynard. "We spend every evening in the kitchen garden."
Gorgeous Drive
The eight-year restoration project involved a lot of less glamorous work as well—the house required a new roof, for instance, and virtually every pipe and wire was replaced. The delicate Georgian glazing bars that divide up the sash windows, including the tall, arched windows, were also replaced. "About the only thing we didn't touch is the exterior because it's an official English Heritage listed building," Paul says.
Homeowners Paul and Gaynor Townley in their vintage Jaguar in classic British racing green.


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Here's my synopsis of Chapter 17 of Twilight, by Stephenie [sic] Meyer.
Chapter 17. The Game
Edward drives Bella home. Jacob The Indian and his father, Billy The Old Indian Dude are there waiting for Bella's Father. Edward reads their minds and gets mad because Billy The Old Indian Dude is there to warn Bella's Father that Bella is dating a Beautiful Sparkly Vampire. Hundred-year-old Edward refers to Jacob The Indian, who is a year or two younger than Bella, as a "child."
Edward leaves so Bella can get rid of the Indians by lying to them. (She's really good at it. True Love imparts all kinds of important life skills.) Jacob The Indian doesn't know anything, so Billy The Old Indian Dude sends him out to the car for something so he can talk to Bella alone. Billy The Old Indian Dude is surprised to learn that Bella knows all about the Cullens being Beautiful Sparkly Vampires. He's worried, but Bella doesn't care. Her lies work and the Indians leave.
Bella gets a phone call, but she's disappointed because it's only
Bella tells her Dad she's going out with Edward. Bella's Dad confuses him with Emmett The Big One and says he's too old for her (little does he know). Bella explains that he has the wrong
Edward comes over and is polite to Bella's Dad. Bella's Dad brings up watching baseball. Bella seems surprised that Edward isn't surprised that Bella actually told her father the truth for once. Edward and Bella's Dad are amused because she doesn't really like baseball, which makes Bella mad. Edward and Bella get in Emmett The Big One's Monster Jeep, which Edward has borrowed, and drive off to the woods for the baseball game.
They get to the woods, where Edward wants to carry Bella to the baseball field. Bella refuses, because she might barf if he carries her. Edward starts kissing her to confuse her out of refusing. It backfires, though, because Bella starts to get her freak on again, which makes Edward mad, because if he ever gets his freak on, he will, of course, kill her.
Edward carries her through the woods, and she doesn't get sick because she closes her eyes. They get where they're going, and Bella falls on her butt, which Edward finds funny. That makes Bella mad, and they bicker pointlessly until Edward has another of his mood swings and says how much he loves Bella, that he hates that he might kill her, and blah-blah-blah.
They get to the field, which is actually some sort of meadow that's twice as big as a baseball stadium. Bella talks with Esme The Motherly One, who says various motherly things to her.
The Beautiful Sparkly Vampire baseball game starts. (Yes, Ben, they're playing with metal bats in a thunderstorm.) Emmett The Big One bats first, and he hits the ball with a shattering, thunderous crack of impact that echoes off the mountains. That's why they only play during thunderstorms: to disguise the crack of the bat.
(Aluminum bats. Which are actually incapable of producing any sound by hitting a baseball except "Ping!" I suppose Beautiful Sparkly Vampires with superhuman strength might produce a really loud "PING!" but I don't think that would be well-disguised by a thunderstorm.
"What was that?! It sounded like somebody hitting a baseball really hard with a metal bat."
"Nah, it must have been thunder."
"Oh. I guess you're right. I always get the ping of an aluminum bat mixed up with thunder."
"Yeah, me too.")
Emmett The Big One hits the ball way into the trees, but it's not a home run, because then Edward couldn't run after the ball and catch it all beautifully and gracefully. The Beautiful Sparkly Vampires continue playing Beautiful Sparkly Vampire baseball -- with Carlisle The Wise Leader hitting the ball so hard it makes a boom (not a "ping!") so loud that it hurts Bella's ears -- but none of this hard hitting damages the bat or the ball, which are apparently just as indestructible as Beautiful Sparkly Vampires.
This goes on
(Check the pull-down menu under "Ongoing Series" in the left side-blog for more Twilight chapters.)


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UNStudio aimed high as they attempted to redefine common practice on city planning, with their Singapore situated residential tower. With an ever-burgeoning population and an intense stress on producing enough urban housing the Scotts Tower provides a logical, efficient solution to help ease these demands. Desiring to conserve space whilst maximising live, work and play areas, imaginations turned skywards as they sought out an untouched arena in which to construct.
Lead architect, Ben van Berkel, described his creation's distinction thus: "An interesting facet of The Scotts Tower is the way that it reacts to the urban context of Singapore. Instead of the more usual means of planning a city horizontally, we have created neighbourhoods in the sky; a vertical city where each zone has its own distinct identity."
The 18,500 sq m, 32-storey building was the first completed success created under the Far East Organisation's new SOHO brand. Containing 231 units in total, ranging from 1 bedroom apartments to 4 bedroom penthouses, the tower aims to appeal to a diverse mix of prospective buyers of varying means. One of the motivating ideals behind the project was to imbue this lone structure with the feel of a condensed district; to inspire a communal spirit. The vertical city concept saw interpretive divisions dissecting the complete into three independent scales; namely the 'city', the 'neighbourhood', and the 'home', whilst residential blockings provide unique bonding within all inhabitants.
The interior of many of the apartments has been purposefully left largely blank and unblemished, allowing room for individual tastes and preferences, of the buyers themselves, to take hold. Units come in differing types and scales, with no standard distribution of outdoor space either, rejecting the notion of uniformity. Whilst attaining an array of panoramic cityscape views, from personal balconies, or the shared 25th floor sky terrace, an unlikely opportunity is equally afforded to relax amongst patches of vegetation.
At the building's peak is cultivated a small rooftop garden, for a lucky select number to enjoy. The 'sky garden', one of two sky frame terraces, has been introduced above the third cluster of apartments, where, with the obligatory stunning viewpoint, can be obtained free use of Jacuzzi pools, a swimming pool and a dining deck.
Available to all, including non-residents, will be an expansive extension to a nearby green area, allowing its progression right up to the tower's base. Incorporated into this multi-layered environment will be recreational facilities, such as: a 50m lap pool with sunning deck, a children's pool, a wellness pool, dining & BBQ pavilions and massage and gym pavilions. All clear examples of the promoted fusion of activity and social platform that runs throughout Scotts Tower.
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Employee Assistance Program
Little Company provides an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) to all its employees and family members. The program provides confidential help in the form of support, counselling and referrals for a variety of issues in daily living. Support is available in the areas of: relationships, parenting, children/adolescents, domestic violence, alcohol/drug use or dependency, grief and bereavement, anxiety or depression, stress, coping with change, and legal or financial matters. To access our EAP online, go to www.perspectivesltd.com
Employee Referral Program
If you are a regular status staff employee, you are eligible to receive a $500 bonus for referring an applicant who is then successfully hired into a regular status position by Little Company.
Adoption Assistance
The adoption assistance program is designed to provide employees with financial assistance related to adoption. Regular status employees budgeted to work a minimum of 40 hours per pay period are eligible for adoption assistance after one year of employment. The benefit pays up to $3000 per adoption.
The Hospital also provides the following benefits:
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Q: I am going to add an aeration system this year to my 1-acre pond. What are my options?
Doug – Cordova, AL
A: Now that's something we like to hear! Aerating a pond, which involves pumping life-sustaining oxygen into the water via a bottom diffuser, is good for your fish, good for your water quality, and good for minimizing algae blooms.
It can be tricky figuring out the right aeration system for a pond, particularly if it's oddly shaped, but it's important to get it right. If your aeration system is not sized correctly, you could risk reducing the oxygen levels and building up toxic gas in the water, resulting in an increased chance of fish kills, algae blooms and thick pond muck – not something you want in your pond.
We offer aeration options for ponds of all sizes and shapes. Choosing the best Airmax® Aeration System for your pond will depend on two basic factors: your pond's volume and its shape.
Pond Volume
You need to know your pond's water volume in order to select a unit that's capable of circulating and oxygenating all the wet stuff in your pond. To calculate your pond's volume, you'll need to measure its length, width and depth.
Of those numbers, depth is the most critical component when choosing an aeration system. The deeper your pond, the more efficiently and effectively a bottom diffuser plate will aerate it. If your pond is shallow or irregularly shaped, you'll need more diffuser plates to adequately aerate the water.
We offer made-in-the-USA aerators for both shallow-water and deep-water ponds of various sizes, including:
- Shallow Water Series™ Aeration System: We suggest this system for ponds up to ½ acre and up to 6 feet deep that require multiple aeration plates due to depth restrictions. It's designed to provide maximum aeration and circulation in even the shallowest water bodies via its powerful dual-diaphragm compressor and weighted diffusers.
- Pond Series™ Aeration System: We recommend this single-plate to four-plate system for ponds up to 4 acres, up to 21 feet deep. It can be easily adapted to fit small or odd-shaped ponds for maximum aeration and even circulation.
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Pond Shape
Finally, pond shape plays an important role in ensuring proper aeration. For simple, contiguous shapes like circles and ovals, a standard aeration system like the Pond Series or Lake Series will fully circulate all of the water without the risk of stagnation. If you have an odd-shaped lake or one with interconnecting segments and angles, consider using a system with multiple aeration plates.
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It has to be said that in mid-November, with 2012 coming to a close (seriously, how fast has this year gone?!), most of the year's biggest talking points have already been milked: Frank Ocean's coming out party, Obama being re-elected and Kendrick Lamar altering the trajectory of hip-hop (for good, hopefully). But that doesn't mean there isn't plenty to look forward to in the coming months. J. Cole's Born Sinner (which is shaping up to be a stellar effort–just lend an ear to "Miss America"), Kid Cudi's Indicud and Pusha T's G.O.O.D. Music debut all await us in early 2013. Oh, and not to mention the prospect of new Kanye, Jay-Z and Eminem albums (fingers crossed!) But in the meantime, hit the jump to peep some new tracks and videos from this week that will help hold the anticipation over 'til then. Shouts to Public Enemy, Hot Sugar, OverDoz., Dyme-A-Duzin and REKS.


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The Mother of Invention.If I call this new gluten-free bread an Irish soda bread, traditionalists will snicker. Raisins are not traditional in a true Irish soda bread, you see. If a soda bread has raisins in it, it's called Spotted Dog over yonder, 'cross the pond in the Emerald Isle (or so I'm told). I never knew this, growing up on the white clapboard wilds of the Connecticut shore. I was blithely ignorant of this quaint canine moniker, despite a hefty streak of familial Irish blood. We ate more pierogi and kielbasa in our culturally eclectic house than Irish soda bread and tea. So my own first home baked Irish soda bread recipe had raisins in it.
And, actually, why not?
When it comes to traditions, I'm the first to admit- I am an upstart. I wiggle and chafe beneath constraint and "should" like an itchy school girl with pinching new shoes. I admire traditions. From afar. At least, in theory. In an abstract, symbolic way. The meaning and the message is more interesting to me than formula. When it comes to formula, I usually prefer to wing it.
Which is why I enjoy gluten-free baking.
My skill set groove runs deep on the intuitive side. If a recipe calls for x amount of flour and I sense the dough is too wet, I'll add more flour until the dough feels "right" to me. Experience helps. No doubt about it. The process of trial and error gives you a feel for gluten-free dough, an inkling about the muffin batter and how it might behave on any given day. Which varies, I hate to tell you.
So I pay attention to elements like humidity, and room temperature. Weather.
Bread dough will behave differently on a hot and humid day than it will on a windy, cold one. Your kitchen changes with the seasons, you know. So recipes may have to change a wee bit, too. The amount of milk or brown rice flour may need to be adjusted. Tweaked a tiny bit toward wet or dry.
Baking gluten-free is more of an art than a science.
Baking gluten-free is more of an art than a science.
I recommend you tune in to your ingredients and learn how they behave. Learn how humidity affects flour- notice it's dampness. Or dryness. Dry flours will soak up more liquid. Damp flours are heavier, and may need less moisture. A cool and drafty kitchen may require a longer rise time than a hot and sultry one. A thin metal bread pan may bake the outside of a loaf faster than the inside can keep up. Your oven may run a tad hotter than you imagined. Or lag behind and never quite pre-heat itself (do your gluten-free baked goods end up gummy in the center?).
Gluten-free baking requires your full attention. A dash of patience. An intimacy with your ingredients. A willingness to adjust. And most of all, developing an intuition you can trust.
Karina's Gluten-Free Irish Soda Bread Recipe- with SpotsTweaked from my original recipe posted in 2011-- by Karina Allrich.
Use your favorite milk, or non-dairy milk- but note that non-traditional coconut milk and a touch of coconut flour add a subtle fragrant tenderness to this easy, rustic quick bread. If you cannot use coconut, try your usual milk choice, and substitute the coconut flour with sweet rice flour.
Preheat the oven to 375ºF. Line a 7-inch or 8-inch cake pan with a piece of parchment paper.
1/2 cup brown rice flour or gluten-free oat flour
1/2 cup sorghum flour, gluten-free oat flour, or millet flour
1/2 cup almond or hazelnut flour
1/2 cup tapioca starch or potato starch (not potato flour!)
1/4 cup organic coconut flour
1/4 cup organic light brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon fine sea salt
2 teaspoons double acting baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 teaspoons xanthan gum
3 organic free-range eggs or egg replacer
6 tablespoons light olive oil
3/4 cup coconut milk, soy milk or non-dairy milk
1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
1/2 to 3/4 cup currants (or raisins)
Whisk the flours and dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl.
Combine the wet ingredients together in a separate bowl.
Make a well in the center of the dry ingredients and slowly pour the wet into the dry ingredients, gently mixing as you go. I use a soft silicone or rubber spatula to do this. If you need a little more coconut milk to moisten the dough, add a tablespoon at a time and stir in.
When the dough is evenly moist and sticky, add the raisins and stir by hand to mix them in.
Scrape out the dough and plop it into the center of the lined cake pan. Use oiled or wet hands to mound the dough into a rustic round loaf. Dot with extra raisins, if you like and press them in a bit.
Slice a smallish criss-cross into the center of the dough.
Place the pan into the center of a preheated oven. Bake for about 30 to 33 minutes, until the loaf is golden and firm. Insert a wooden toothpick into the center to test for doneness.
Cool the pan on a wire rack for five minutes, then turn the loaf out of the pan to continue cooling (you don't want a steamy bottom!).
Serve slightly warm with your favorite buttery spread and some fruity jam.
Recipe Notes:
Rustic soda breads are really best eaten warm from the oven. This latest version is tender and slightly sweet- perfect for tea time.
If you have leftovers, I would wrap and freeze the remaining bread to preserve the texture and taste. Thaw and warm it up in the oven or grill slices with a pat of butter.
This recipe is gluten-free and dairy-free.
To make it vegan, use your favorite egg replacer equivalent to 3 beaten eggs- about 6 tablespoons of liquid. See below for a link to my vegan Irish Soda Bread with Millet.
Yield: 8 to 10 slices
Recipe Source: glutenfreegoddess.blogspot.com
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More gluten-free Irish soda bread recipes:
My vegan Irish Soda Bread with Millet
Elana's Pantry Gluten-Free Irish Soda Bread
Gluten Freedom does up one of my earlier Irish Soda Bread recipes...
For substitution help, please see my guide to baking with substitutions here.


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Consensus Report
Cumulative Environmental Effects of Oil and Gas Activities on Alaska's North Slope (2003)Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
The report identifies accumulated environmental, social and economic effects of oil and gas leasing, exploration, and production on Alaska's North Slope. Economic benefits to the region have been accompanied by effects of the roads, infrastructure and activities of oil and gas production on the terrain, plants, animals and peoples of the North Slope. While attempts by the oil industry and regulatory agencies have reduced many of the environmental effects, they have not been eliminated. The report makes recommendations for further environmental research related to environmental effects.
Key Messages
- Decisions about where, when, and under what conditions industrial activities are permitted on the North Slope are made by many federal, state, municipal, and other agencies. Communication among them has usually been weak and sporadic. Decisions generally have been made on a case-by-case basis, without a comprehensive plan and regulatory strategy that identifies the scope, intensity, direction, and consequences of industrial activities judged appropriate and desirable.
- Air pollution is a concern to many North Slope residents. Little research has been done to quantify the effects of air pollution on the North Slope or to determine how local and regional air masses interact.
- Animals have been affected by industrial activities on the North Slope.
- As a result of conflicts with industrial activity during calving and an interaction of disturbance with the stress of summer insect harassment, reproductive success of Central Arctic Herd female caribou in contact with oil development from 1988 through 2001 was lower than for undisturbed females, contributing to an overall reduction in herd productivity.
- Because natural recovery in the Arctic is slow, the effects caused by abandoned and unrestored structures are likely to persist for centuries. They could accumulate further as new structures are added in the region.
- Bowhead whales have been displaced in their fall migration by the noise of seismic exploration. The full extent of that displacement is not yet known.
- How long damages caused by seismic surveys and other off-road travel will persist is not known, but some effects are known to have persisted for several decade.
- Human-health effects of oil and gas activities have not been well documented. Although some problems on the North Slope increased use of alcohol and drugs, increased obesity, and other societal ills are evident, it is not possible to say with the limited data available to what degree they are the direct result of oil and gas activities.
- If recent warming trends continue, their effects will accumulate over the next century to alter the extent and timing of sea ice, affect the distribution and abundance of marine and terrestrial plants and animals, and affect permafrost. Such changes would eventually affect existing oil-field infrastructure and would continue to affect the usefulness of many oil-field technologies and how they affect the environment. Climate change also would affect arctic ecosystems and Native Alaskan cultures as well as the way they are affected by oil and gas activities.
- Industrial activity on the North Slope has grown from a single operational oil field at Prudhoe Bay to an industrial complex of developed oil fields and their interconnecting roads, pipelines, and power lines that stretches from the Alpine field in the west to Badami in the east. A highway and pipeline cross the state from near the Arctic coast to Valdez.
- Major oil spills have not occurred on the North Slope or adjacent oceans through operation of the oil fields.
- Many activities associated with oil development have changed the North Slope landscape in ways that have had accumulating aesthetic, cultural, and spiritual consequences.
- Modern western culture, including oil development and the revenue stream it created, has resulted in major, important, and probably irreversible changes to the way of life in North Slope communities.
- Networks of seismic trails and trails of other off-road vehicles, ice roads, and ice pads cover large areas of the tundra. They cause concern because of the damage they do to vegetation and because of their visibility from the air.
- Offshore exploration and development and the announcement of offshore sales have resulted in perceived risks to Inupiaq culture that are widespread and intense and are accumulating effects. The Inupiat of the North Slope have a centuries-old nutritional and cultural relationship with the bowhead whale.
- Proposals to explore and develop oil resources in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have resulted in widespread, intense perceived risks to Gwich'in culture that themselves are accumulating effects. The Gwich'in Indians of northeast Alaska and northwest Canada have a centuries-old nutritional and cultural relationship with the Porcupine Caribou Herd.
- Roads have had effects as far-reaching and complex as any physical component of the North Slope oil fields. In addition to their direct effects on the tundra, indirect effects are caused by dust, roadside flooding, thermokarst, and roadside snow accumulation.
- Seismic exploration is expanding westward into the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska and southward into the foothills of the Brooks Range. Current technology and regulations governing seismic-exploration permits and other off-road travel have reduced but not eliminated damage to the tundra.
- The communities of the North Slope have not been adequately involved in most research in the region. As a result, some important information concerning accumulated effects is missing or sparse.
- The current, altered way of life of North Slope communities will be impossible to maintain unless enough money continues to come into those communities from outside sources after oil and gas activities cease.
- The full accumulation of effects of oil and gas activities to date, as well as future accumulation, cannot be assessed without better quantitative information about the ways in which various kinds of effects extend for various distances.
- The high predation rates have reduced the reproductive success of some bird species in industrial areas to the extent that, at least in some years, reproduction is insufficient to balance mortality.
- The new technology has reduced but not totally eliminated damage to the tundra.
- The oil industry and regulatory agencies have made dramatic progress in reducing the effects of new gravel fill by reducing the size of the gravel footprint required for many types of facilities and by substituting ice for gravel in some roads and pads. Much less attention has been directed to restoring already disturbed sites.
- The ready availability of new sources of food from people in the oil fields has resulted in increases in predator densities.
- The tundra of the North Slope has been altered by extensive off-road travel. Networks of seismic-exploration trails cover extensive areas.
- Water for ice roads and pads and for other purposes is taken from lakes on the North Slope. Water depth has a great influence on the distribution of fish in coastal-plain lakes because lakes shallower than 1.8 m (6 ft) freeze to the bottom in winter.


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The Ejs Einstein's Train and Tunnel model displays the famous thought experiment from special relativity where a train enters a tunnel as seen from two points of view. In one case the train is seen in the reference frame of the tunnel, while in the other case the train is seen in its reference frame. The relative velocity and the rest length of the tunnel can be changed via text boxes. You can modify this simulation if you have Ejs installed by right-clicking within the plot and selecting "Open Ejs Model" from the pop-up menu item.
Ejs Einstein's Train and Tunnel model was created using the Easy Java Simulations (Ejs) modeling tool. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the ejs_ehu_sr_train.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. Ejs is a part of the Open Source Physics Project and is designed to make it easier to access, modify, and generate computer models. Additional Ejs models for special relativity are available. They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or Ejs.
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The "Apache Desktop Reference" by Ralf S. Engelschall, published by
Addison Wesley is a concise and complete quick reference meant for web
server administrators who are already familiar with Apache. However
newbies can also use it as a companion to the numerous Apache "text" books
available in the market.
Ralf, a member of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF), is well known as
the author of mod_rewrite and
mod_ssl. In his foreword, Roy T. Fielding, chairman of
the board of directors of ASF commended that this book provides a level of
insight regarding the inner-workings of Apache that you won't find in a
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Groundwater contamination from toxic waste dumped decades ago at a nearby factory in the Severn area has prompted widespread testing of residential wells and put eight homes on bottled water, state officials said.
The eight households have been notified that they have unsafe levels of industrial solvents in their wells, according to the Maryland Department of the Environment, and two other homes have been found to have levels below those deemed to pose health risks.
State officials said they are anxious to complete testing for the chemicals — including possible carcinogens — at dozens of other homes that had yet to respond to requests to check their wells.
"We don't know how long it's been in the wells," James R. Carroll, manager of the state's land restoration program, said of the contamination.
State officials say the source of the contamination is an idled factory three-quarters of a mile away in Hanover, where high levels of the solvents have been found moving underground in the direction of the neighborhood. From the late 1960s until recently, the plant fashioned metal components for electric power transmission lines.
The land has had several owners but now is occupied by Kop-Flex Inc., a subsidiary of Emerson Electric Co., a multinational manufacturer based in St. Louis. The company is supplying bottled water to the eight homes.
Emerson said in a statement that the company is still investigating whether it is responsible for the groundwater contamination.
"If the investigation results demonstrate that the Kop-Flex site is the source of the contamination, Emerson will offer to connect their homes to public water supplies, if available," the company said.
Chris Nidel, a lawyer who said he represents occupants of four of the homes on bottled water, criticized the pace of the state's investigation and the treatment of his clients and others in the neighborhood. After the first off-site well found contamination last year, he said, "it was months before they came back in the neighborhood and started testing wells and told residents in January that they were drinking poison."
Nidel questioned why the company and state regulators are limiting the extension of public water to the eight homes with unsafe wells and not talking about cleaning up the contaminated groundwater.
Long-term exposure to the three chemicals found in the greatest concentrations in the residential wells can cause liver, kidney, lung or nervous system damage, according to a fact sheet prepared by the Department of the Environment.
One of the three, dioxane, is deemed likely to cause cancer, while another, 1,1-Dichloroethene, or DCE, is considered a possible carcinogen. Levels of DCE in the eight homes are up to 32 times the threshold considered safe by federal health authorities.
Residents say they are worried and upset — and still have many questions.
"I've been drinking the water for 50 years," said Phillip Hinkle, 51, who said he grew up and raised his children in three of the homes identified with contaminated wells. "I've been in three of those chemical holes all my life."
Jack Hinkle, his 64-year-old brother, said he has lived in one of the houses with a contaminated well since 1981. He said he's more concerned about his two grandchildren than himself. Though the household now uses bottled water for drinking and cooking, he said they are still bathing and showering in the tainted water and he worries that they might be inhaling toxic chemicals.
Health officials "said taking a bath or shower, as long as it was fast, wasn't real harmful," he said. "You try to get a kid to take a fast shower."
Authorities have known about contamination at the Kop-Flex plant for decades, but did not realize that it was fouling the Severn wells until about four months ago.
Seven of the contaminated wells are on Twin Oaks Road and one on Old Camp Meade Road. Tests of more than 170 wells in the neighborhood have found no hazardous chemicals.
The 25-acre tract was listed by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1988 as a potential candidate for cleanup under the federal Superfund law.
Sampling in the mid-1990s found contamination in the soil and groundwater that was linked to the use of degreasing solvents and the disposal of industrial wastewater into a drainage field on the property from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. Elevated levels of seven hazardous chemicals were found at the time.
Emerson bought the plant in 1996, three years after the facility stopped using the primary solvent found in the groundwater, said Robert Amberg, a spokesman for Emerson. Manufacturing continued there using different chemicals, he said, but stopped about a year and a half ago.
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Carroll said Emerson had exercised due diligence when it bought the plant.
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Carroll said the company has been directed to drill other monitoring wells to try to pin down the extent of the underground contamination. The company is not being required to hook up or provide bottled water to homes with relatively little or no contamination in their wells, he said, as their water is deemed safe to drink. The two wells with low levels of contamination will be checked every few months.
"We don't know whether they were higher or not in the past," Carroll said, "and what we will do is continue to track the situation going forward." If new contamination is discovered, he said, those homes would get bottled water as well while authorities work to find alternative water for them.
Matt Diehl, a spokesman for the Anne Arundel Department of Public Works, said the county is working with an engineer for the company to extend a water line to serve the affected homes. He could not say when that would occur. As for other residents in the area who might want to hook up for reassurance, he said they would have to pay the usual hookup fee and other charges, which can run into thousands of dollars.
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Don't buy from these companies at Xmas! Collective Shout releases annual 'crossed off' list of corporate offenders
Cross'em off your Xmas list 2014
As published at Collective Shout
It's that time of year again! With the Christmas season upon us, retailers are taking it up a notch competing for your business.
Now is the time to remember the companies who objectified women and sexualized girls to sell products and services. They do not respect women and have refused to change their ways. They should not be allowed to profit on the backs of women and girls.
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While major department stores Target and Kmart opted to withdraw Grand Theft Auto V after a campaign lead by women survivors of violence, Big W chose profits over ethics, continuing to sell a game where players can brutally murder women for fun. Big W was also the target of a petition calling for removal of sexualised Christmas t-shirts. Read more here.
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City Beach
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Fresh One/Fresh Boost
Fresh Boost used pornographic images, including simulated sex acts to advertise their coffee bean grand, Fresh One. Read more here.
Online marketplace CafePress has a long history of selling clothing and merchandise with sexualised, porn-inspired and pro-rape slogans and imagery, including on clothing for babies and toddlers. Read more here.
Ultra Tune
Ultra Tune came under fire for their sexist ad using rubber clad dominatrix women to promote car accessories. Read more here.
Schick For Men's 'Get Closer' campaign is a classic example of objectification, using women's bodies and breasts to promote men's hygiene products. We hijacked their campaign. Read more here.
Bonds reignited their BOOBS outdoor advertising campaign, objectifying women and defining them by their 'perky', 'saggy' or 'bouncy' breasts. Several years ago we successfully lobbied Bonds to withdraw bras for six year old girls. Read more here.
Honey Birdette
Honey Birdette is a sex shop masquerading as a high-end lingerie store in shopping malls around the country. Honey Birdette persists with violating advertising standards with its porn-themed shop front advertising. At Christmas Honey Birdette goes out of its way to link "Santa Claus" with sex using slogans such as "Santa baby…" and "Santa's toy shop." Read more here.
Myer failed to respond to a petition calling on them to withdraw sexually objectifying in store advertising for Viktor and Rolf perfume. Myer also defended using sexualised images to advertise lingerie throughout Westfield, including in the food court beside Mcdonalds. Read more.
American Apparel
American Apparel continually depicts women and girls in pornified ways. This year the UK Ad Watchdog upheld complaints regarding an American Apparel ad ruled they sexualized schoolgirls. Read more here.
Retailers funding Playboy branded sexual exploitation
Collective Shout has continued to highlight companies which profit from the mainstreaming, normalising and embedding of a major brand of the sex industry into mainstream culture.
Hooters restaurant promotes the sexual objectification of female staff, sexism and sexual harassment. This doesn't stop the venue from openly marketing to children, hosting children's parties and 'kids eat free' style promotions. (Thanks to a successful protest led by Collective Shouts Townsville coordinator, construction of a 'Hooters' restaurant in the area has been abandoned). Read more.
Bavarian Bier Cafe
Bavarian Bier Café was forced to withdraw ads comparing women's bodies to meat after community uproar..
Goodtime Burger
Goodtime Burger in Bondi, NSW, used porn-themed advertising to sell burgers. They responded to complaints with this faux apology.
Eatons Hill Hotel
Despite a protest including a 29,000 strong petition calling on Eatons Hill Hotel to refuse to host rapper Tyler the Creator whose lyrics glorify violence against women, the hotel failed to act in the best interests of the community. (Due to our campaign,Tyler the Creator was refused entry to New Zealand).
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DENVER – An exclusive exhibit of the works of Vincent Van Gogh has closed in Denver after a 40-hour marathon.
"Becoming Van Gogh" closed Sunday after staying open around the clock for its final two days. All tickets were sold out.
The Denver Post reported that the crowd included both club kids and parents pushing strollers.
The show featured both works by Van Gogh, including early drawings, and other artists who influenced him to help explain how Van Gogh developed as an artist. It took about seven years to assemble all of the works, some of which were loaned by the Tate Gallery in London and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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