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Vaccination with a harmless relative of West Nile Virus could protect people against the deadly disease, suggests a new study in mice.
Australian scientists successfully immunised mice against WNV using a DNA vaccine that led to live and replicating Kunjin virus in the animals. Although Kunjin virus is genetically similar to WNV, it only rarely causes illnesses in humans and these are not fatal.
Mice given the Kunjin DNA vaccine "were solidly protected against disease" even when injected with lethal doses of WNV, says the team, lead by Roy Hall and Alexander Khromykh at the University of Queensland in Brisbane.
They say the findings suggest that such a vaccine "may provide a rapid, convenient, and effective vaccination strategy against further [human] outbreaks of WNV", such as that currently affecting the US. At present, there is no cure or vaccine for WNV.
"As a concept, it's feasible, as the Kunjin virus is considered by many to be an attenuated form of WNV," says Ernie Gould, a virologist at the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Oxford, UK.
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WNV, which originates in Africa, arrived in New York in 1999 and subsequently swept across the continent. Its predominantly infects birds and is transmitted to people and other animals via mosquito bites. In 2002, WNV caused a record 4156 cases and 284 deaths in the US, an experts predict that worse may come in 2003.
Kunjin virus, which also infects birds, belongs to a family of viruses called flaviviruses, along with WNV and yellow fever. Gould, an expert on flaviviruses, says that Kunjin is the most recently evolved virus in the family tree.
To produce the vaccine, Hall and his colleagues generated DNA that is "complementary" to the RNA of the Kunjin virus. They placed the DNA in a biological structure called a plasmid and injected it into mice.
The plasmid transported the DNA into cells in the mice and the cells then produced copies of the RNA. After three to four days, blood samples showed the virus was indeed replicating and the mice appeared not to suffer any illness.
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The researchers also included a gene mutation known to cap the virus's ability to reproduce. This reduces the chance of the animal becoming ill and the virus's ability to spread via mosquitoes.
After 19 days, the antibodies detected in the blood of the immunised mice protected them against both the New York strain of WNV and natural Kunjin virus.
Gould told New Scientist that the principle of using a live but weakened virus as a vaccine was "perfectly sound". However, he says its suitability for people would depend on gathering lots of data from clinical trials. "There's always the risk that it may prove to be more virulent than we believe it is at the moment," he warns.
Journal reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1834270100)
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How much is a worker's life worth? Answer: $7,000
Remember back in November of last year when we told you the tragic story of Jdimytai Damour, a 34-year-old temporary worker at a Long Island Wal-mart who was crushed to death by a mob of shoppers storming the store for Black Friday deals?
Well, yesterday OSHA announced the results of their investigation into the incident -- and their findings confirm that the tragedy was entirely preventable:The employee was "stepped on by hundreds of people" as other workers attempted to fight their way through the crowd, [Nassau County police Detective Lt. Michael] Fleming said.
"Several minutes" passed before others were able to clear space around the man and attempt to render aid. Police arrived, and "as they were giving first aid, those police officers were also jostled and pushed," he said.
"Shoppers ... were on a full-out run into the store," he said.
Mr. Damour's death, in other words, was no accident. It was not a freak occurrence nobody could have foreseen. It was predictable, given Wal-Mart's failure to take appropriate measures to deal with the near-riot situation their marketing department had whipped up.OSHA's inspection found that the store's employees were exposed to being crushed by the crowd due to the store's failure to implement reasonable and effective crowd management principles. This failure includes providing employees with the necessary training and tools to safely manage the large crowd of shoppers.
So what's the punishment for shocking corporate negligence that results in the death of a worker? OSHA hit them with the maximum fine allowable by law -- $7,000.
That's right. Seven thousand dollars.
A man is dead. Wal-Mart could have -- should have -- prevented it. And their punishment is a paltry $7,000 fine.OSHA has issued Wal-Mart one serious citation under its general duty clause for exposing workers to the recognized hazard of being crushed by the crowd. The citation carries a proposed fine of $7,000, the maximum penalty amount for a serious violation allowed under the law. OSHA issues serious citations when death or serious physical harm is likely to result from hazards about which the employer knew or should have known.
Mr. Damour's case is not the only one where corporate negligence that resulted in a worker's death was punished with a slap on the wrist. Last month, Rebecca Foster told the House Education and Labor Committee about the death of her son Jeremy, who was killed in 2004 at the age of nineteen when a piece of machinery at his place of work -- modified in violation of OSHA safety rules -- caught his shirt and strangled him to death:
How much was Deltic Timber, the company responsible for that death fined? $2,250:
President Barack Obama has brought in a new team at the Department of Labor that is committed to ensuring that every worker has a safe workplace. But they can only do as much as they are empowered to do by the law. And the laws that govern worker protection on the job are shockingly toothless.When we received our copy of the OSHA report we were not surprised to see the notation of the company's actions being at fault for the fatality. But we were appalled to see the amount of the fine: $4,500. Surely this was an error. Shortly afterwards we read in our state newspaper that the amount had been reduced to only $2,250. Did they place a value of our only son's life at this amount? It was as if OSHA had patted Deltic Timber on the back and said "Good job guys. You only killed one person."
Congress has the opportunity to fix this. The Protecting America's Workers Act is legislation currently before the House of Representatives that would strengthen a range of protections for workers on the job -- including raising the minimum fine in cases like Damour's to $20,000, with a potential maximum of $50,000. And that means companies like Wal-Mart will be more likely to give their workers the health and safety protections they deserve.
You can help pass this important legislation by urging your Representative to support the Protecting America's Workers Act.
It's too late to save the lives of Jdimytai Damour or Jeremy Foster. But it's not too late to ensure that the laws provide appropriate punishments for corporations whose reckless indifference to the safety of their workers results in lost lives and broken families. So take action and tell your Representative to act today.
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Overcrowding in prisons is a prevailing problem across many nations in Africa, with the practice of holding prisoners on remand compounding the issue. As a result, in some countries a good majority of the prison population is made up of those awaiting trial. Reports clearly show that prison conditions in Malawi are inhumane and fundamentally breach human rights. Overcrowding is such that if one prisoner turns over at night, all prisoners must turn over.
The poor of Malawi face physical, financial and language barriers to legal aid. Most live in remote rural areas, live on an income of $1 per day, and do not speak English – the language of the court. With no representation poor Malawians are often held in custody for months, or years, until a trial court acquits or sentences him/her. Dockets are regularly misplaced with prisoners becoming lost in the system, unsure of what they are in fact charged with or how long they will be there. The Open Society & UNDP Justice Initiative report, The Socio-economic Impact of Pretrial Detention, recognises that most pre-trial detainees pose no threat to society and should not be in detention. The consequences of the breadwinner of a household, or the primary carer of a family, being held on remand indefinitely pending trial can be dramatic in a country such as Ireland. In Malawi, the socio-economic consequences are profound.
Contributory factors within the justice system include poor record keeping, incorrect data, excessive case delay, poorly trained Magistrates, judicial decisions based on uninformed case management and failure on the part of criminal justice institutions and libraries to obtain up to date legislation.
Of further concern is the lack of qualified lawyers in the country. The system of legal aid is governed by a new Legal Aid Act which makes the Legal Aid Department (or Bureau under its new guise) an independent body, with the Ministry of Revenue holding the purse strings. The Act has not been nearly as effective or accessible as it should be. The Act allows the Ministry of Justice to hire private practitioners under the scheme but low rates of pay is one of the main obstacles to retaining lawyers. Malawi spends 1.5 cent per capita on legal aid – the UK spends $60 per capita. Mark Stapleton in his recent article Empowering the Poor to Access Criminal Justice – a Grass Roots Perspective notes that of the approximately 300 registered lawyers, only 120 are in private practice working mainly in the two major cities and "few outside the Legal Aid Department provide criminal representation" (page 8, note 43). During one needs assessment visit of this project it was learned first hand that by the second half of any given year there may be only one lawyer left working on criminal files within the Legal Aid system. That is one lawyer to represent a population of 14 million.
Malawi adopted the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy (MGDS) in 2006 as the main strategic policy document designed to assist Malawi in attaining its Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Central to the MGDS is democratic governance and the development of a strong justice system, rule of law and human rights. Despite the goodwill of the Malawian government it is unable to afford to radically overhaul the elements of the criminal justice system that lead to such overcrowding. By reducing overcrowding, conditions for prisoners improve thus enhancing Malawi's observance of the human rights of prisoners and remandees.
In tackling access to justice for the poor, IRLI has sought to implement mechanisms in partnership with local actors to remove obstacles to free legal aid in the short-term (such as capacity constraints and shortage of lawyers) in order to bring about direct change at beneficiary level, while developing systemic, sustainable interventions aimed at providing long-term benefits to the wider criminal justice sector.
The project has now placed three volunteer Programme Lawyers in Lilongwe to work with the Legal Aid Department and the Department of Public Prosecutions: Eithne Lynch, Jane O'Connell and Paul Bradfield BL.
In order to change the situation of illegal detainees, the first intervention IRLI and Legal Aid undertook was to reinforce their civil and political rights by granting access to justice and addressing the actual pre-trial detention. In August 2011 IRLI conducted a baseline study in Maula adult prison on the homicide pre-trial detainee population and length of time spent on remand. It was observed that the ten longest serving homicide detainees had spent an average 2,006 days (5 years 181 days) on remand with no trial in sight. Due to IRLI's work with Legal Aid this has been reduced to an average of 1,417 days (3 years and 322 days), resulting in a reduction of 1 year and 224 days by the end of the pilot year. It is anticipated that this will drop to 1,022 days (2 years and 292 days) by September 2013, therefore effectively cut in half.
Through participatory planning with criminal justice sector actors, it was identified by IRLI that an emphasis on alternatives to incarceration, particularly promoting restorative justice practices, could bring about systemic changes for those entering the criminal justice system. It is operated without long term need for lawyers, and is triggered at first contact with the law. A diversion programme was devised within Lilongwe Main Police Station to bring access to justice to minor offenders allowing them to be reprimanded for their behaviour without exposing them to the risk of illegal detention. This has prevented offenders, who can be dealt with in a more effective manner, from overburdening the prisons and courts, allowing them to return to their lives without disproportionate detrimental effect to their livelihood and family. IRLI is now looking at implementing diversion throughout the Central Region.
IRLI also invests significantly in capacity building and human rights training for legal professionals, police and magistrates. In this regard, the project sends teams of Irish lawyers to Malawi on a rolling short term basis to supplement the work of the Programme Lawyers.
IRLI volunteers Ruth Dowling and Eithne Lynch won the Bar Council Human Rights Award at the 2013 Irish Law Awards for their work in Malawi. You can watch a video on our work here.
You can also donate directly to the project here at www.mycharity.ie. More information is also available on 'IRLI in the Media' and on our 'Blog'.
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|Charles H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) was an English Baptist preacher, author, and editor. Pastor of the Metropolitan Tabernacle from 1861 until his death. Founded a pastors' college (1856), an orphanage (1867), and edited the monthly The Sword and the Trowel magazine.
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Spurgeon: Prince of Preachers by Lewis A. Drummond. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Publications, ©1982. ISBN 978-0825424824. Definitive biography of C.H. Spurgeon. 896 pages.
Spurgeon: A New Biography by Arnold Dallimore. Carlisle, Pa.: Banner of Truth Trust, 1985. ISBN 0851514510. 252 pages.
Travel With CH Spurgeon: In the Footsteps of the Prince of Preachers by Clive Anderson. England: Day One Publications, ©2002. ISBN 1903087112. Biography and travel guide. 128 pages.
Mrs. C. H. Spurgeon by Charles Ray. Pasadena, TX: Pilgrim Publications, 1973. Originally published in 1903. eBook edition
C. H. Spurgeon: The People's Preacher / presented by Andy Harrison; written, produced and directed by Crawford Telfer. An international co-production distributed by Vision Video, Worcester, PA, 2010. Excellent documentary drama of the life and times of Charles H. Spurgeon. DVD, 70 minutes.
The Prince of Preachers with Dr. Ken Connolly. A 56-minute documentary on the life of Charles H. Spurgeon. Santa Ana, CA: International Baptist Missions, ©1994. VHS.
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Susannah Thompson Spurgeon (1832-1903): Author, book supplier, and devoted wife of C. H. Spurgeon. They were married in January, 1856 and they had twin sons, Charles and Thomas. She started a Book Fund to give theological books to ministers, preachers and missionaries and by 1902 had distributed more than 10,000 volumes. She wrote three books, including A Basket of Summer Fruit.
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For the Science Hill swimming and diving squad, this season is about more than maintaining a standard of excellence. It's about soaring to new heights.
So far, so good for the Hilltoppers, who served notice to the rest of Region 1 earlier this season by stomping rival Dobyns-Bennett in a dual meet.
"We've got a really strong team this year," said senior Tyler Mills, who competed in the Junior Nationals this past summer. "Usually we don't have so many underclassmen, but the thing about this year is we have strong underclassmen so it's a really deep team, better than we've had the last few years."
Case in point, freshman Daniel Chang is ranked No. 1 in the nation in the 100 and 200 butterfly races for the 13-14 year-old age group.
It's not just the boys' side, however, where Science Hill is raising the standard. The girls' team had just one defeat at the end of the calendar year, and that came at the hands of Chattanooga private school GPS.
Marlee Jennings believes the team's success is a result of them being such a close knit group.
"Most of us have been swimming so long together," Jennings said. "It's just we're so close and we work together as one team."
The banner year comes on the heels of last season's Region 1 championships where the boys won 10 of the 12 individual events and the girls similarly dominated their part of the meet. Head coach Chris Coraggio said his team is blessed with its senior captains.
"The leadership from our seniors has been invaluable," Coraggio said. "We have some traditions at Science Hill and they've been very good about helping to mentor some of the younger kids."
Besides Mills, other senior boys are Sonny Kadam, Jacob Skowronski and DJ Smith. On the girls' side, two-time Region 1 diving champion Madison Beamer and distance swimmer Madeline Ford are senior leaders, along with Jennings and Amber Honeycutt.
Some of the top boys' underclassmen are junior Clay Robbins and sophomores Nathan Bier and Sean O' Connor. Girls standouts include junior Tessa Wilson and freshman Jessica Green.
One of Coraggio's greatest talents has been placing the right swimmers in the right events. In the case of Mills, he has excelled in both the 100 butterfly and freestyle races.
"Neither one pulls ahead of the other for me," Mills said. "The weird thing is I'm equal in both of them so I haven't been able to decide which one is my best event."
However, he is much more in tune with the shorter races than the longer ones.
"I'm a natural sprinter I guess," he said. "I don't really like the distance races. It's like I'm able to be a sprinter and not think about it."
Ford is the total opposite. She finds the distance events more suited to her skill set.
"When I started swimming, it just clicked with me," Ford said. "I enjoy the distance and the pacing of the longer events. A lot of swimmers are like, 'Swimming the 500 is ridiculous,' but I love it. I love swimming the long distance."
Ford explained a swimmer has to be focused in the longer races. It's not about going all out in the training as understanding how to hit a certain pace.
The hope is all the training pays off with new records posted at the Freedom Hall poll. Last season, Mills broke a trio of school records set by Kyle Owens, who has gone on to star at Auburn and compete in the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials.
"It's nice to have somebody like Kyle to set my goals, numbers where I can compare myself to," said Mills who is committed to the University of Tennessee in the fall. "It's a motivating factor, although I'm my own swimmer and will try to be as successful as I can be. If I can get to that level, I will get to that level."
Science Hill's tradition also plays a big part in the girls' motivation with such names as Anna Miller and Jenna Street filling up the record books.
"It's always fun when we can take one of those records down and replace it with a new one," Jennings said. "The goal is to build on what we've already established, but always to get faster than we were."


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Many of us who are single hate this time of year with the fire of a thousand suns. Maybe that's a little too dramatic, but what else can you say about a holiday solely focused on happy couples trading romantic gifts during what is often the coldest, slushiest month of the year? Plenty of singles will be stuck alone indoors this V-Day, forced to sit through mushy jewelry commercials on TV or sappy ballad requests on the radio.
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The movement of static stretching involves elongating the muscles when the body is at rest.
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Also referred to as isometric stretching, static stretches hinder one's explosive ability and has been proven detrimental to performance and increases joint instability which can result in injury. This is precisely why this type of stretching is not recommended before physical activity but instead, should be performed after activity or during rest.
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A static stretch exercise can be done targeting any muscle group while breathing properly. Below is a list of stretches that can be performed once at a time…
- Chest Stretch
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As you are probably aware, static stretching vs dynamic stretching is quite different.
This form of stretching helps to improve overall flexibility and can be performed any time of the day other than prior to a workout. Perform this once for each tight muscle two times daily for as little as 4 minutes each time, holding each stretch between 15 and 30 seconds at a time for optimal gains, sometimes even longer.
You simply won't maintain your flexibility gains if you hold for less than 15 seconds. Specialized tension receptors in the muscles correlate with these kinds of isometric stretches and when done accurately and properly, the tension receptor sensitivity will diminish, allowing further muscle relaxation and a greater stretch to be applied.
Typically, static stretching exercises for your hamstrings for example, simply involves you to focus on the hamstrings by leaning forward and holding that position for several seconds.
Targeting one muscle group is key, but it is imperative not to utilize static stretches prior to your workouts. Reasons behind this include a reduction in blood flow to the targeted muscles, a decrease in central nervous system activity, which inhibits communication between muscles and a reduction in force output.
In addition, muscles tend to relax, temporarily causing them to weaken, resulting in an imbalance between opposite muscle groups. Simply put, a static hamstring stretch will cause them to become significantly weaker than the quadriceps, making the body much more susceptible to muscle pulls, tears, or strains.
Again, it is crucial not to perform static stretches prior to any work out or physical activity but rather during the cool down stage of activity or better yet, during rest. On the contrary, it has high value for improving "passive" flexibility: in other words, it is beneficial in everyday life endeavors distant from any kind of athletic performance.
Anything from bending, squatting, and kneeling can be great in these everyday situations.
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As carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in the atmosphere rise, the bar in achieving reductions in global CO2 auto emissions is being set higher and higher. Mandatory CO2 emission reduction targets, set by European Union legislation, require all new cars to emit a maximum of 130 grams of CO2 per kilometer (g/km) by 2015 and 95g/km by 2020. These targets represent reductions of 18 and 40 percent, respectively, from the 2007 average of 158.7g/km. The progression of emissions legislation in the US, Japan and other high car density nations is similarly demanding. Every 110 kgs of weight saved on a car reduces CO2 emissions by 10g/km, and fuel consumption by nearly 5 percent.
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The heavy rains in the country may come as a blessing in disguise for farmers who are yet to plant. Some farmers have no fertilisers while others have been forced to wait until the rains subside as the farms have become too muddy for them to plant.
However, the weatherman says that in Western, Lake Basin and Highlands West of the Rift Valley, the rains could go on until June.
In Central region, rainfall will continue until mid May with a possibility of going on until June.
"In most parts of Rift Valley and in Nairobi, the rains could go on until the second to third week of May. In the coastal strip, it will continue into June while in North Eastern, the rains could go until the first week of May," Kenya Meteorological Department assistant director Ayub Shaka said.
Shaka is urging residents in Muran'ga, Mukurwe-ini, Keiyo and Baringo areas in Central and Rift Valley regions to be cautious as the heavy rains could trigger landslides.
Special Programmes PS Andrew Mondo says Kenyans should heed the warnings given by the weatherman.
In Kisumu and Homa Bay counties, more than 1,650 people have been displaced by floods, according to the Kenya Red Cross statistics. Some 330 households have been affected.
Red Cross West Kenya regional health officer Benson Simba warned that with the continuing rains, more people are likely to be displaced.
"Due to heavy downpour in some parts of the region, several rivers like Auji and Nyamasaria in Kisumu have broken their banks causing unprecedented damage. Many households have since been marooned and many people affected," Simba said.
The worst hit areas are Kisumu East, Nyando and Nyakach districts within Kisumu county and Rachuonyo district in Homa Bay county.
"The number of children below the age of five who have been affected stands at 320,500 females and 315 males hence the need to improve healthcare among the population," he added.
Simba said classes have been disrupted in five schools in Kisumu and Nyando districts, noting that both Kassagam primary and secondary schools in Kisumu, St Alloys primary and St Joseph secondary schools have been marooned. Nyando Miruka Primary School is also affected.
"The floods have destroyed business premises and a section of Nyamasaria bridge along the main Nairobi-Kisumu highway. This has affected traffic flow," Simba said.
He warned that River Nyando and seasonal rivers like Ayweyo, Nyamasaria and Ombeyi are likely to break their banks soon.
Nyando and Nyakach are perennial flood zones in Kisumu county and residents have called on various organisations and the government to come up with a long-term solution to the menace.
In Budalangi, residents have adapted to an annual programme of moving to higher and safer grounds whenever the area floods.
"Though measures have been taken to confine the water in the rivers, which causes floods when massive water flows from the bursting River Nzoia, more reinforcement needs to be done to tame the water," Shaka said.
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The Geek Social Hierarchy Chart
By Great White Snark | August 5, 2010
You had me at "the only thing lower than erotic Furries is writers of erotic Star Trek fan fiction starring Furry characters."
I don't find much to fault in this chart by The Brunching Shuttlecocks describing the social hierarchy of different types of geeks. My only nit is that "comic book fans who only read X-Men spinoffs" are considered on the same level as "Trekkies who get married in Klingon garb." Uh, no. A comic book fan would have to work pretty hard to earn that much pity.
What say you? See any discrepancies? And, no, your vote doesn't count if you're a Furry. Or a Klingon-garbed Trekkie.
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Amanda Says:
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Woohoo! Second Tier!
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August 6th, 2010 at 12:04 pm
What this chart forgets is overlapping areas, You can be the top tier and the bottom tier at the same time. Therefore they should've used a ven diagram in addition or some mention that should you overlap any of these areas you are equal to the awesomeness of Furry kind.
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By RUTH MORGAN
For the Oktibbeha County Heritage Museum
Know Mississippi Better Train
Governor Henry L. Whitfield called a mass meeting in Jackson, MS in 1925 with the object of the meeting to "adopt some plan whereby the opportunities, possibilities and resources of Mississippi might be effectively presented to the outside world."
Mississippians from 26 counties attended. Lieutenant Governor, Dennis Murphree proposed a plan of "The Know Mississippi Better" Train, a special train to carry representatives of Mississippi, exhibits of Mississippi resources, literature, and public speakers to visit across the country proclaiming Mississippi. The plan was adopted.
The original trip was such a pronounced success that the personnel of the party voted unanimously to continue the enterprise, which it did for many years. Sixteen hundred of Mississippi's best citizens are enthusiastic "alumni" of this recognized statewide institution. It traveled more than ninety thousand miles or approximately three times around the world.
The "Know Mississippi Better Train" was the longest Pullman Special Train in the world. It was the last word in travel luxury. Nearly all of its cars were Drawing Room and Compartment cars and was air-conditioned. Two air-conditioned dining cars furnished the finest meals available.
Each year a comprehensive exhibit of Mississippi products was carried and shown to multiple thousands of people. Personnel was annually selected with care and only representative citizens were accepted. For the 1937 trip, 300 Mississippians applied for reservations "after" all reservations had been awarded. "It was one of the most effective messengers of Good Will and a permanent and pronounced success."
The "Know Mississippi Better Train," inaugurated in 1925 but was called off during the war. It resumed in 1946 when more than 200 goodwillers begin a two-week special train tour through the West. Dennis Murphree, former lieutenant governor and governor, was in charge. Twelve states and Victoria Canada were visited. The last train was in 1948.
Queen For A Day
The Queen For a Day show opened with host Jack Bailey asking the audience—mostly women—"Would YOU like to be Queen for a day?" After this, the contestants were introduced and interviewed, one at a time, with commercials and fashion commentary interspersed between each contestant.
Using the classic "applause meter," as did many game and hit-parade style shows of the time, Queen for a Day had its own special twist: each contestant had to talk publicly about the recent financial and emotional hard times she had been through.
Bailey began each interview gently, asking the contestant first about her life and family, and maintaining a positive and upbeat response no matter what she told him. For instance, when a woman said she had a crippled child, he would ask if her second child was "Okay." On learning that the second child was not crippled, he might say, "Well,
That's good, you have one healthy child."
The interview would climax with Bailey asking the contestant what she needed most and why she wanted to win the title of Queen for a Day. Often the request was for medical care or therapeutic equipment to help a chronically ill child, but sometimes it was as simple as the need for a hearing aid, a new washing machine, or a refrigerator. Many women broke down sobbing as they described their plights, and Bailey was always quick to comfort them and offer a clean white handkerchief to dry their eyes.
The harsher the circumstances under which the contestant labored, the likelier the studio audience was to ring the applause meter's highest level. The winner, to the musical accompaniment of Pomp and Circumstance, would be draped in a sable-trimmed red velvet robe, given a glittering jeweled crown to wear, placed on a velvet-upholstered throne, and handed a dozen long-stemmed roses to hold as she wept, often uncontrollably, while her list of prizes was announced.
The prizes, many of which were donated by sponsoring companies, began with the necessary help the woman had requested, but built from there. They might include a variety of extras, such as a vacation trip, a fully-paid night on the town with her husband or escort, silver-plated flatware, an array of kitchen appliances, and a selection of fashion clothing. The losing contestants were each given smaller prizes; no one went away from the show without a meaningful gift.
Bailey's trademark sign-off was "This is Jack Bailey, wishing we could make every woman a queen, for every single day!"
Mrs. Stanley (Julia Nash) Carroll of Starkville Becomes Queen For A Day
One of the interesting highlights of our "Know Mississippi Better" train tour was the selection of Mrs. Stanley (Julia Nash) Carroll of Starkville as Queen for a Day in the Jack Bailey radio show in Hollywood on August 9, 1946.''Mrs. Carroll left home with the thought in her mind that "maybe" she would be selected. However on Thursday before the broadcast, she wired her family: "Be sure and listen in as I have a ticket for the broadcast."
When the program opened and the man making the selection for contestants saw Mrs. Carroll with that expectant look on her face, he asked her, "What would you like to do if you were selected Queen for a Day?"
Without a moment's hesitation she answered, "I would like to talk over the radio and tell my folks back home how wonderful you people in California are." She was selected as one of the 5 participants.
She was the second one called to the microphone by Jack. After some of his familiar chatter and laughter, he asked her: "What do you people back in Mississippi do?" Without a moment's hesitation Mrs. Carroll replied, "We dairy and raise cotton and corn."
"Dairying! What is that?" asked Jack Bailey.
"Milking cows."
"Do you milk?" the master of ceremonies asked.
"No, the help milks the cows," replied Mrs. Carroll which was followed by an uproar of laughter.
"What do you do?" Jack asked?
"I teach school," Mrs. Carroll replied.
"How much do you make?"
"$125 per month," was the reply.
"Is that all, give the lady a $10 bill," Jack Bailey said to one of his assistants.
During his talking and fun making, he snatched the bill from her making her look foolish for a moment. Continuing his chatter and waving, the $10 in front of Mrs. Carroll, the tables were changed when she grabbed the bill and stuck it down her blouse. This brought the house down and Jack stepped to the edge of the platform and exclaimed, "she put it in the Mississippi bank folks."
After the other contestants were questioned, the case was handed to a committee of five judges selected from the audience who were unanimous in their choice of Mrs. Carroll. The Mississippi delegation went wild with rebel yells and it was remindful of a touchdown yell at a State-Ole Miss game.
Following the coronation ceremonies, the sponsors, Duz and Alka Seltzer, awarded her gifts. Among the gifts were an electric iron, a vacuum cleaner, an expensive bottle of perfume, an 8 mm movie camera, a chest containing a dozen pair of nylons, a beautiful gold pin in the shape of a crown, a bouquet of American Beauty roses, a tailored suit and accessories to match, a bathing suit, a Ronson table lighter, and several pair of sunglasses to match any dress.
After the presentation of these prizes, she was whisked away in a big limousine with a police escort to a beauty parlor for a hair-do and a facial and from there for a two hour motorized ride. She was guest of Dick Jergens and Lawrence Welk at the Aragon and was honored with a dinner at the Miramar overlooking the Pacific Palisades.
Mrs. Anne Edmonson Aiken, granddaughter, remembers...
I have many fond remembrances of my grandmother. I remember all the talk in the family of the excitement when she was crowned Queen for a Day! One of the prizes she was awarded was a dozen pair of nylons. During this time, nylon was rationed because of the war, so this was quite a gift! She taught the veterans, was a leader in boy scouts, was the KA housemother and was active throughout her life in contributing to society.
Mrs. Rebecca Nash, neighbor, remembers...
It was sooo Mississippi! Listening to her on the radio, her voice sounded so Mississippi and different from the other voices.
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Have you ever had a LEGO brick turn squishy on you? Because that's what they're made of, ABS plastic.
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'Frozen' trailer takes Disney's new princess on a snowy adventure
The first full-length trailer for "Frozen" has arrived and with it a new Disney princess, voiced by "Veronica Mars" star Kristen Bell. While speaking to Zap2it at D23, Bell said that she wanted her princess, Anna, to be the most awkward of the bunch and the trailer delivers that in spades.
The movie finds Anna on a quest with a maintain man ( Johnathan Gross), his reindeer and Olaf, a snowman ( Josh Gadd). After living their lives in a place that is sunny and picturesque all year long, a sudden freeze sets over anything, and that's a problem that needs to be fixed.
Idina Menzel plays Elsa, who is both Anna's older sister and the Snow Queen behind the chilly temperature. "Frozen" is in theaters November 27.
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So glad to see two classics – Timex and J.Crew – teamed up this fall. One of these watches is definitely on my fall wish list. The question is, which one? Maybe I don't have to choose… the bands can switch out! {via A Little Sussy}
I used to be such a watch whore. Now I don't even own one! I had a very similar watch back in h.s. and had a dozen or so bands that I could switch out. Everything old is new again!
09-25-09 » 3:05 pm »
The Lil Bee
Ooh…orange or khaki would be my choice! I have a Tommy Hilfiger watch that has switchable bands. I haven't worn it in a while…the colors are very preppy/springy…but perhaps when the weather gets warm again. Right now, though, I'd love one of these watches. The colors are perfect!
09-29-09 » 3:53 am »
i definitely dog-earred this page in the catalogue last week. and am getting the 'army green' for my hubby this christmas. he swoons for anything classic army. and i simply love love love them too.
oh kelly you have such fine taste.
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Here were 1 and 2. And leading up to the sinking in 2014, here are some old photos.
And then January 16, 2014. The next few photos by Bjoern Kils, of NYMedia Boat.
Here was her sonar signature, as her exact location of sinking was marked. Photo from Bjoern.
A nameless salt sent in this photo.
And by early February 2014, the boat was brought back to the air . . . rise again. Photo below by Orlando Martinez.
March 2014, and the rehab had begun, if only the preliminaries to rehab. And a lifesaving award was granted.
During the summer, there were some articles like this one in Professional Mariner magazine.
And by November 2014, Sea Lion looked like this. Notice the funnel on the ground.
In February 2015, the funnel was in place and hull coatings applied.
By mid March, her externals looked ready to return to the water.
And then yesterday, about two weeks after she splashed back in, she was at work pushing a barge
through the Buttermilk Channel.
If you need a soundtrack, try this. Bravo, Sea Lion.
Photos not otherwise attributed by Will Van Dorp.
If you're wanting to see the sixth boro, New York Media Boat is an excellent way to do it.
The sixth boro has pyramids?
It does have fortifications, here patrolled by Gelberman.
And lots of interesting names, making for great juxtapositions.
And every now and then some seldom seen boats pass like this one, always out there but rarely –it seems–coming in close.
Kendall J. Hebert for a closeup!
I regret I didn't get a close-up of the stack.
Ron G rotates through the sixth boro now and then.
So . . . back to those pyramids, there're over by South Amboy, at Amboy Aggregates. Sand Master is involved, of course.
Thanks to Ashley Hutto for the pyramids and Sand Master photos. All others by Will Van Dorp.
Iron Mike . . . 1977 and 53′ loa . . . has lots of character
although I don't know what engine/horsepower moves her. Anyone?
Haggerty Girls . . . late 2013 and a surprising 110′ and 4000 hp . . . with RTC60 must be the newest tug in the sixth boro. Click here for a photo of her first arrival in NYC.
If we were talking birds, Pacific Reliance (red stacks) would be called an exotic, not common to this habitat. Pacific Reliance . . . built in 2006 and 121′ loa uses 9280 hp to move her payload. Alongside is Quantico Creek, 90′ loa launched in 2010 and rated at 3000 hp.
Brooklyn, 76′ loa, launched in 2000 with 2000 hp has had lots of identities in her 14 years of service.
And finally . . . dwarfed by the Lower Manhattan skyline in February, it's Pegasus.
Built in 2001, 75′ loa and rated at 1900 hp.
All photos by Will Van Dorp, yesterday, thanks to mobility by New York Media Boat. Check them out here.
Here and here are previous posts on a Rockaway Beach replenishment dredging operation that has now ended. Sea Wolf is still local, but the vessel on the horizon ("atop" the red buoy) has now moved to southern NJ. Remember, for most fotos, doubleclick enlarges.
Weeks' Trevor was assisting in this project.
Also assisting was George W.
But here's the powerhouse, the dredge. Let's take a tour.
In spite of about 16,000 total horsepower, C. R. McCaskill is not self-propelled. To see what towed the dredge to the south, see the foto at the end of this post. All that power moves the cutterhead on the submerged arm (called a "ladder") that extends to the sand at the bottom of the Channel here. At the top end of the ladder are two huge pumps (you could stand inside the pump housing) that suck the sand and whatever else off the bottom and send it as a slurry to a point on the beach some miles away. Click here for a pdf that shows the beautiful (ok . . . roll your eyes) virgin red cutterhead with green teeth. Each tooth weighs around 35 pounds!
Here inside the dredge are some
interesting astounding facts about the machine.
See the sand colored building on the horizon off the stern of McCaskill? That's the area around 105th St. Rockaway Beach where the sand is headed through piping powered by this vessel. The first few fotos in this post were taken at that beach. There'll be another Rockaway post soon.
Candace towed C. R. McCaskill south. I missed her when she was in town, but John Skelson caught her here. Click on the foto to see John's complete shot. Many thanks to John for use of that shot from his Flickr page.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, except for the one shared by John Skelson. For more info on each of the Weeks tugs, click here. More McCaskill tomorrow.
I'm back, with lots of gallivanting to catch up, but first . . a whole lotta fotos from this morning in the sixth boro. Any ideas what's going on here? What is that gray blur in the center of the foto and why are the gulls so frenzied? Be forewarned . . . this post has so many twists/turns . . . it's divided into parts, even though I took all these fotos in the span of less than an hour.
Part 1
Answer: It's how over three million cubic yards of sand is being added to Rockaway Beach . . at least for a while. Here's what the NY Daily News says about it. Here's an article and video from Dredging Today.
And here . . . off in the Rockaway Inlet are the machines mining and pumping the sand, seen closer up in this recent tugster post.
Part 2. Notice the piping coming from the stern of McCaskill.
I could not resist wondering about these birds whose name rhymes with "lovers."
Part 3. Follow this sweep of fotos as I turn to the left.
An Atlantic City billboard on Far Rockaway? Is a mixed up sense of geography part of Sandy's legacy? I keep turning left.
A Potemkin village and that's an A Train station to the right?
See the silvery cars of the A train? It's a Boardwalk Empire set in the wasteland of eastern Rockaway Beach . . . . I was hoping to buy some of that food at those prices!
Of course, I had to look behind.
I half expected to find some Aral Sea boats back here too.
Part 4. Once back on the boardwalk, I saw this fishing boat about a quarter mile from shore. I'm guessing it's unrelated to the sand piping and pumping, but . . . who knows.
All fotos today by Will Van Dorp.
So what travels through this piping?
C. R. McCaskill was launched just over a year ago with a bottle of champagne across one of the 35-pound teeth of the cutterhead. Click here for a foto and story.
For more technical info on McCaskill's capabilities, read this article by my friend Brian Gauvin and published in the August 2013 issue of Professional Mariner magazine. In the article, he talks about McCaskill's ability to send dredge spoils six miles through a pipe to restore and create marshes to serve as hurrican barriers in Louisiana.
So although I haven't seen it happen yet, I'm concluding that this vessel can pump whatever comes from the East Rockaway Inlet to the location three or so miles to the west, where you saw Trevor, George W, and Sea Wolf operating in yesterday's post.
Three years ago I took fotos on another cutterhead suction dredge– one that's a half century old–operating in the KVK back in 2010. Click here for some of those fotos, including one that shows the size of the pump used to move dredge spoils from point of "collection" to point of "use."
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who most recently saw a Weeks tug at work in a dredging project in a North Carolina Inlet. My question is . . . does anyone have fotos to share of C. R. McCaskill's transit from its inaugural work in Louisiana to its current location in the sixth boro?
And Sabine . . . looks like she was launched back in 1980 from here.
Thisjust in . . . the Daily News story on this post-Sandy project, as seen from a politicophile POV.
title sounds provocative? Well, I'll subtitle this "whole lotta dredgin' 6." It's been almost three years since I've used this title, but . . . when Sabine's this close to the beach and
there's a tube in the water, there must
be a shear leg or
two lurking nearby, although I wonder if these are shear legs . . . technically speaking.
I'm not positive what Sea Wolf
George W, and
and Trevor were doing . . . other than arranging the dredge spoils pipe,
with Sabine monitoring . . .
ut it has to do with the mother dredger ship some distance away. Fotos of her . . tomorrow. And if there's a dredger's rainbow and someone gets a pic, I'd love to see it.
All fotos by Will Van Dorp, who found a reason to lurk awhile along NYC's Copacabana/Ipanema . . . .
No, this isn't the January River. I leave for there today, but this . . . !! These next four fotos come from the perspicacious bowsprite, taken yesterday afternoon. The tug in the foreground is Sea Wolf is 1982. In the background is –of course–Ellis Island, 1900. In between with the yellow stack is
Yankee, 1907. Her long history includes a stint as Machigonne moving passengers across the sixth boro from Ellis Island to other boros and to NJ. The tow began at the far right of this foto.
More tugster on Yankee when I return, but before then, I'm sure there'll be other info.
Six plus years ago, a friend Mike caught these fotos of Sea Wolf's sister–Sea Lion–moving an unusual vessel named Abora III out of the Morris Canal to sea. The reed craft made it more than halfway across the Atlantic.
All fotos by bowsprite. Advance notice came thanks to Rod Smith, who once worked as deckhand on Yankee and who will have his own account of this move . . . to Brooklyn. Here (2007) and here (2011) are my previous posts with Yankee fotos from New Jersey. Click here to get some backstory–and video of Sea Wolf departing with ferry– from a supporter who wanted to keep them on the watery edge of Hoboken.
Now, I pack and head south myself. Vou escrever mais em breve.
Two weeks ago, Sandy raged, leaving a deadly and disastrous trail through the sixth boro and surrounding land masses. Athena has also blanketed us, through many green leaves somehow remain on trees. Companies are attempting to return to routine. Ever notice how much the KVK channel zigzags, as seen here with APL Spinel tailing Meagan Ann and her scow. The strait's not at all straight.
Clearly what's blasted from and scooped out of the AK is virgin rock.
Sandy scoured away much of the volunteer vegetation along the KVK. A foto taken here a month ago would show lots of weeds and a quite living tree.
The absence of cover makes it easier for this hawk to spot the "shore squirrels."
Storms eroding a beach sometimes uncover shipwreck (here and here) , treasure, skeletons . . . all manner of stuff. See the last foto here, taken about 20 years ago. The surge along one section of the KVK unearthed dozens of these bricks. Is Belgian Syndicate a local firm?
A fair number of government boats are still around, like this one . . . taking advantage of unseasonal warmth . . . and
Clean Waters, a Region 2 EPA vessel I'd heard about but never seen until yesterday. Given Region 2's size, I wonder how many other vessels–I saw Kenneth Biglane once once and that was already three years ago–they have and where they're usually homeported.
Wright and Kennedy (only the stacks are visible forward of Wright's house) are still in town. Understandably, some folks I've talked to still live in conditions far from normal.
I'm guessing this train–unusual as it is– has to do with the completion of a job, not Sandy: Sea Bear tows a train of eight or nine vessels, including Iron Wolf.
Yet, recreational sail has returned. Sun Dragon is the nearer.
Line handlers aboard CSAV Rio Aysen . . . (check their recent stops at that link) take in all this harbor activity. Vessel is named for a river in southern Chile.
All fotos yesterday by Will Van Dorp, for whom the sixth boro is among other things an ever-changing puzzle.


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Although our team is the Cincinnati Reds and today's transgressions are expected by sports columnists across the United States, games like these happen to everyone. Take a look at the A's/Yankees game. Barry Zito got chased out in the 2nd with 7 earned runs and the A's are currently losing 11 to 1 in the 4th. So I guess what I am saying is, it may be frustrating to be a Red's fan today but hey, at least we aren't A's fans!


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It really seems like winter completely disappeared right around January 1 this year. You can probably measure the rainfall we've had since then in a juice glass. The weather has been so nice that it already feels like June, even now in the middle of April. And even though my days are still consumed with tasting and exploring Pinot Noir, I have already moved full throttle into my summertime mode for wines: crisp, dry wines that can handle a chill are already taking up a solid shelf in my refrigerator.
Working at home like I do, when the weather starts to act like summer, there's a change in the routine. I go into "passive cooling" mode hoping to push off the inevitable firing-up of the air conditioning. That means windows open at night and early morning, then shut and shades closed during the day.
That same movement into warmer weather triggers my wine consumption shift from mostly reds to white and rose wines.
If you've been reading this column for a while you probably know that I am a Sauvignon Blanc and Rose nut. But I drink a lot of other white wines as well. I've assembled a list below of some of the mostly local wines I am drinking right now and would recommend you check out.
Let me say up front, that these are not necessarily the most complex or most expensive wines of their respective types; some of them are great values. I'm buying these for casual sipping and sharing with friends — and so I'm much more concerned about finding wines I can afford to keep buying and enjoy all through the summer.
The lists below are organized by wine variety or type and the wines are listed in alphabetical order. Any of these qualify as "go to" wines as far as my summer sipping is concerned.
ROSE: Lately I am finding myself really attracted to rosé wines. I love the brightness of the strawberry and other fruit flavors, but truthfully, I love the color of the wines as much as the wines themselves. It puts me in a better, more festive mood and they really make a meal feel like summertime!
Anaba Wines Turbine Pink Sonoma Valley 2012, $22
Bryter Estates Pinot Noir Rosé Sonoma Coast Gap's Crown "Jubilee" 2012, $32
Cochon Old Vine Rose 2011, $21
R2 Wine Company Hannah Rose Rosé 2011, $18
SAUVIGNON BLANC: This is definitely the most frequently consumed white wine in my household or when I'm out. I love the crisp, bright-fruited styles and find that they really do pair well with any casual summer dishes. The Merriam bottling listed below is from outside the Sonoma Valley (actually just south of Healdsburg) but I mention it because it is definitely the best SauvBlanc I have had to date this year — really worth seeking out!
Bartholomew Park Sauvignon Blanc Sonoma Valley 2012, $24
Kunde Sauvignon Blanc Sonoma Valley Magnolia Lane 2011, $17
Merriam Vineyards Sauvignon Blanc Russian River Valley "Danielle" 2012, $18
Schug Carneros Estate Sauvignon Blanc Sonoma Coast 2012, $20
CHARDONNAY: I am a very selective Chardonnay drinker. I do not really enjoy the over-oaked, big bruiser versions of this wine. I prefer those that offer more structure and elegance with the oak in the background, or no oak at all.
MacRostie Cellars Chardonnay Sonoma Coast 2011, $25
St. Francis Winery Chardonnay Sonoma County 2010, $15
Sebastiani Vineyards Chardonnay Sonoma County 2011, $14
Sojourn Cellars Chardonnay Sonoma Coast Sangiacomo Vineyard 2011, $45
OTHER WHITES: There are a lot of other interesting white wines, from White Rhone blends to Riesling to Pinot Blanc/Pinot Gris. The common thread again for me is bright fruit and very crisp acidity, because that is what makes them the most versatile for sipping and pairing up with a meal. Here are several I like:
Anaba Wines Coriol White Rhone Blend Sonoma Coast 2010, $28
Gundlach Bundschu Gewurztraminer Sonoma Coast 2012, $22
Pey-Marin Riesling Marin County "The Shell Mound" 2011, $29
R2 Wine Co. Vin Blancs White Rhone Blend 2010, $24
Greg Walter has been in wine and food publishing for more than 30 years, 15 of which were spent as a senior editor and later president of Wine Spectator magazine. Today he writes the PinotReport newsletter (Pinotreport.com) and publishes books through his Carneros Press imprint (Carnerospress.com).


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There are two recent trends I really hate: DevOps and the notion of the "full-stack" developer. The DevOps movement is so popular that I may as well say I hate the x86 architecture or monolithic kernels. But it's true: I can't stand it. The underlying cause of my pain? This fact: not every company is a start-up, though it appears that every company must act as though they were.
How 'DevOps' is Killing the Developer
Great Products Seem Obvious in Retrospect
Note, this page originally appeared on the sandman.io blog.
sandman automatically generates a REST API service and web admin from your existing database without requiring any code!
When you look at the most disruptive technology products of the last few years (or months, decades, etc), you may notice that the products themselves seem "obvious". It's almost impossible to believe that there was a time when a service like didn't exist. Or when to find out what friends and family were doing we had to call them and ask. Or when a centralized place to share videos didn't exist on the Internet.
Dropbox, Facebook, and YouTube all share the same quality: in retrospect, they seem obvious. In fact, some would say that they didn't actually do all that much. Personal profile sites already existed. Wasn't it just a matter of time before someone made them pretty and easy to use? And posting videos on the Internet was never difficult, so it's inevitable that someone would eventually create a centralized place for it.
In a way, it's true. These services took an existing (or "near-existing") technology and productized it. The key, though, is that Dropbox, Facebook, and YouTube fulfilled desires we didn't even know we had. Each of these web giants evoke a "that's it"-style shoulder shrug today, but they noticed opportunities where no-one else did. They grew big by seeing need where it didn't yet exist.
Enter Sandman
Sandman (on GitHub here) often evokes similar reactions when I describe it to people. "That's it?" they wonder aloud. "Doesn't something already exist to do something like that? Surely someone must have already done this. It seems so obvious!". Sandman, which builds a web admin and REST API service on top of your legacy database without requiring any code, seems like such an obvious product that most people assume it already exists. In fact, many people say that they had the same idea, but never followed through.
To be sure, Sandman is no technological marvel. It takes two technologies which are well established, ORMs (Object-Relation Mappers) and code generation, and marries them in a simple, straightforward manner. The result, however, is nothing short of magic.
Your Database, In Your Browser
I love the look on people's face when they first run Sandman. They enter the details of their existing database, hit enter, and bam!, Sandman has opened a browser tab pointed at their new admin site. There in front of them is all of their data, waiting to be manipulated.
For technical managers, other groups within the organization, and even external clients, the ability to add, edit, and delete information buried deep within an enterprise database is unparalleled. Forget about clunky GUI tools that connect to a single database and make you use SQL to add data. Just use your browser to fill a simple form, where most data is already auto-filled for you, to make the change to your data.
"It's stored in a database," is a phrase that probably evokes a shudder from most technology managers and programmers. With Sandman, hearing that something is "stored in a database" is the same as hearing "you access that through a beautiful, easy to use web tool that has been tested by hundreds of people". Sandman really does "free" your data.
Sandman Makes Things REST
When I'm showing Sandman to a developer, I ask them to
curl a
simple URL after they've connected Sandman. Without fail, their eyes light up when they realize the
clunky, over-complicated legacy database (the kind that exists in every
enterprise) now has a super-clean REST API.
"Imagine how easily we can run custom reports," they say. "Better yet, we can have Sandman generate them on-the-fly and simply give our users the URL of the results!" Interacting with legacy databases in the enterprise will never be the same.
Rather than having to find and install drivers and write different code for each type of database they connect to, developers can simply program against a single, RESTful service using battle-tested open source libraries. The amount of code that Sandman makes redundant is shocking. Sandman changes the way that developers create services, for the better.
Surely This Already Exists!
By now, some readers are thinking, "Surely this technology already exists! It's so obvious!" It does now. Sandman represents the effort required to marry ORMs with code generation to automatically, with no coding required create a REST API and web-based admin interface. Before Sandman, this "obvious" service really didn't exist. After Sandman, nothing will quite be the same.
Heading to PyCon!
I'm sitting in the airport with my lovely wife (who's watching me type this) waiting to board my flight to Montreal. I'm quite excited to attend my first PyCon, indeed my first large conference ever. If you're going to be there, let me know! Hit me up on Twitter (@jeffknupp), email me at email@example.com or text me at (419) 455-6877. I'll be in town until Sunday afternoon, so please get in touch! Looking forward to meeting a few readers...
Don't Write Python Scripts, Write Python Libraries
When someone asks why the
if __name__ == '__main__' idiom should be used, I
say it's because it makes turning your "script" into a "library" a seamless
act. Novices often write a series of one-off Python scripts that exist only as
long as it takes to finish and run them. More seasoned developers have accumulated a set of libraries they've written over
the years.
Last night I needed to properly parse a fully-qualified domain into its constituent parts (top-level domain, second-level domain, sub-domains). I found one library that looked promising, but it used a hard-coded list to represent all of the possible TLDs. The problem is this list changes with some frequency, and I needed to get it right.
So, fine, there's no third-party package that exactly fits my needs. Rather than just bolt on the domain parsing functionality to the application that required it, however, I turned it into a first-class citizen: a library (more accurately, a Python package). Heck, I even released it with unit tests and hooked it up to TravisCI.
Why would I take the extra time required to make this a reusable library? Two main reasons: first, this is a straightforward problem that should be solved once and never thought of again. Any time you encounter situations like that, do the right thing and write a small library. Second, because it's a general enough task, I wanted to make it available to others so that they didn't need to keep solving a problem that's already been solved.
Solved Problems
As developers, we waste a ton of time on solved problems. Whether it's due to "Not Invented Here"-itis or general ignorance, I've seen entire systems duplicated by different teams in the same organization. I would argue that being able to sense when a problem likely has an open source solution is an integral part of being a "good" developer.
So in the interest of saving everyone a bunch of time, I wrote the package, released it, and am happy to accept bug reports (and will fix them). What's more, the library becomes another tool in my tool belt rather than a few random functions in a script I'll never use again.
As developers, we should be working together on the mundane stuff so that we can all go off and work on the cool stuff. Please, don't make other people solve your problem over and over again. Do it once, make a library, and release it to the world. You'll save all of us a lot of time.
Why My Blog Uses My Home-grown Python Static Site Generator
Recently, I've seen a number of nice-looking blogging platforms pop up. Each basically let's you write your content in Markdown, shows you a live preview, and can keep posts unpublished until you're ready to bestow them upon the world. They all look nifty, but I'll never use them.
Why? I've been using blug, my Python-based static blog generator, to generate
this site for years. blug was designed with a certain workflow in mind (mine)
and has grown since then. I have a private fork of the public
blug repo where I
have all my settings and special templates. That repo is the one that sees the
most love (and I'm long overdue for a sync between the private code and the
public). But more importantly than
blug being tuned for how I work,
blug gives
me something other blogging platforms don't: control.


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Hello Amp experts,
My LK500-ZC does not have an ALC output for my rigs. Flex-3000, no problem, I just turn down the output power. Same for my FT-100D. My third radio is a Kenwood TS-530SP. When properly tuned, it puts out 140 Watts. If I drive my amp that hard, my tuner will arc. I installed a 0 to -10 Volt power supply and control it with a pot. I tested in CW and the control works just fine. It seems to work in SSB, except I still get voice peaks of 140 Watts! Is there a good way to control the output power of my TS-530SP???
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