DAN medics and researchers answer your questions about dive medicine.How is a dive professional supposed to stay in shape when we're advised to avoid vigorous exercise within 24 hours of diving? What kind of exercise is recommended for a divemaster or instructor who dives daily?
The problem you describe is, unfortunately, something of an intractable one. There is no easy solution. A compromise is almost always required. The simplest rule is that the highest-intensity exercise should be separated from diving, particularly from more extreme dives.
Some runners run every day regardless of other activities. The first recommendation for such people is that they dive very conservatively. This advice is by itself a problem since it is difficult to quantify "conservative," and the spirit of the recommendation is not generally understood in the diving community. Diving within the limits of a dive computer or table does not necessarily constitute conservatism. There are a variety of different limits, and many divers have developed symptoms while adhering to them. Computers or tables provide estimates for a variety of people and exposures based on limited input.
A major challenge in appreciating the risk of decompression sickness (DCS) is its probabilistic nature. The fact that a diver might tolerate a given exposure once, twice or 10 times without incident doesn't mean the exposure is safe. If DCS results from the 100th exposure, this is not an undeserved hit — the diver simply ended up on the wrong side of the probability line that day.
Humans have a tendency to let good habits erode when nothing bad happens. We tend to increase our driving speed and push depth and/or time limits on dives. Furthermore, we often fail to appreciate that we are not being as conservative as we once were. This can lead to surprise when things go bad.
This surprise can create a tendency to look for some factor to blame. With DCS, dehydration is often the scapegoat. The reality in most cases is that a similar state of hydration probably existed on many other dives. The real problem with this tendency is that it may encourage the diver to ignore the depth-time profile, which is by far the most important factor. While it can be comforting to identify a simple cause, it is a disservice to safety. The risk of DCS is affected by a large number of factors acting in complicated concert. True conservatism is required to increase the likelihood of consistently safe outcomes.
The daily runner will have a sense of the normal pains and discomfort associated with his or her exercise. Atypical pain or discomfort in a diver will raise suspicion of a decompression injury. Again, the ideal choice for this person would be to limit diving to conservative exposures. The next best choice would be to fit in the intense physical activity as far from diving as possible. It is safest to limit physical activity to that with very low joint forces — the closer to diving, the lower the forces. Modest swimming, for example, involves much lower joint forces than running. Cycling can also involve lower joint forces than running. These are not absolutes, though. It is not enough to choose an activity that might have low joint forces; it is necessary to practice it in a way that ensures low joint forces.
The practical approach is to separate physical activity from diving, with the lowest-intensity exercise closest to the diving. Swimming and walking typically produce less strain than intense cycling or running. High and repetitive joint forces should be minimized. The diver should be mindful of the activity level and honestly appraise the risk. By making small decisions that consistently favor the slightly safer option over the slightly more aggressive, an adequate safety buffer can be created.
This is not a simple answer, but reality is messy. Exercise, especially intense exercise, can increase the effective decompression stress. If it is not avoided, an honest appraisal of conditions and actions is important to control the risk. If a problem does develop, it is best to skip the denial and blame phases. DCS can and does happen, often following dives that were assumed to be safe.
Ultimately, each diver should appreciate the risks, work to control them and accept that diving involves complicated hazards. Getting bent should not be considered a personal failing. Being open to the possibility of DCS can start a diver down a very positive road of preparedness and action to reduce risk at every opportunity. Employ physical activity thoughtfully; ultimately the self-aware and self-critical (honest) diver will likely end up being the safest one.
— Neal W. Pollock, Ph.D.
I'm 56 and in good health. Three years ago I had an idiopathic pulmonary embolism. I am no longer taking anticoagulant medication, and I remain very active. Can I dive?
Several things need to be considered when evaluating fitness for diving after a pulmonary embolism. First is the cause, because it is important to determine the risk of recurrence. Determining this risk may be difficult in your case because your embolism was idiopathic (of unknown origin). Next the damage to the lung must be assessed. Scarring and/or adhesions may prevent proper gas exchange, making diving unsafe.
DAN is not in a position to determine an individual's fitness for diving; a physician must make that decision. The best way to begin the process of assessing your fitness to dive is to get a high-resolution spiral CT scan to determine if there is damage to the lung tissue. If there isn't, and exercise tolerance is normal, diving can be considered.
Pulmonary hypertension and other associated medical conditions may restrict your exercise tolerance. Certain medications can have side effects that might limit your ability to dive safely, so you should discuss all medications you take and your complete medical history with your doctor.
If your doctor approves your return to diving, request this approval in writing so you can provide documentation to dive operators, who will likely require a written statement before allowing you to dive.
On a recent dive a buddy rolled backward into the water, and his tank valve hit me on the head. I saw a flash and was disoriented for a few seconds. I've been lightheaded and have felt a little out of it for the past few days. I'm guessing I should avoid diving for the time being; when will it be safe for me to get back in the water?
You are absolutely right to avoid diving for now. The primary concerns following a head injury are lapses in consciousness and the risk of seizures. Even a brief loss of focus can lead to a loss of buoyancy control and a rapid ascent with potentially dire consequences such as pulmonary barotrauma or arterial gas embolism. Seizures underwater can cause loss of the regulator, loss of airway control and, ultimately, drowning. Seizures that occur out of the water are typically transient and manageable events; seizures that occur underwater are typically fatal.
Person is confused but remains conscious.
Time: Symptoms clear within 15 minutes.
Person remains conscious, but develops amnesia.
Time: Symptoms last more than 15 minutes.
Time: Unconsciousness lasts for seconds or minutes.
Please note that the clock starts not with the initial injury, but at the time you become symptom-free. If you are still experiencing symptoms of a head injury such as headaches, seizures, periods of amnesia or any other symptoms, the waiting period has not yet begun.
These recommendations are all general guidelines; you should be evaluated by a physician trained in dive medicine before considering a return to scuba diving — for your own safety as well as others'. Remember, diving is a buddy sport, and any event that occurs underwater also affects your buddy, other members of the dive group and potential rescuers.
Please feel free to contact us at +1-919-684-2948 for further questions, and encourage your doctor or neurologist to do so as well.
I'm Taking This Medication...Can I Dive?
Drinking and Diving: Is It Safe?
Sore Toes: DCS or Fin Foot?
Beber y Bucear: ¿es seguro?
Pies doloridos: ED o "Fin Foot"?
Why Might Diving Make Exercise Seem Easier?
Are AEDs Safe in Wet Environments?
Os DEAs são Seguros em Ambientes Molhados?
¿Son los AED seguros en entornos húmedos?
Can I Dive with My Medical Condition?
Eu Posso Mergulhar com Minha Condição Médica?
¿Puedo bucear con mi condición médica?
Who to Call First: DAN or EMS?


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Pay attention to your energy and emotions. As you move along your days, notice your peak moments. When are you absolutely at your best and feeling like a hero? Ensure you make the best use of these optimal moments to shine. Plan your agenda accordingly, so you become (even) more effective and efficient. I found out that writing these blogposts (in draft) on Tuesday evenings work best for me. So I can finalise them on Wednesday, in time to create for my weekly inspirational newsletter.
If you keep doing what you've always got, you'll end up with what you've always got. Create new habits and change your routines. Examine them, play around with them and have some fun. Ask yourself for example how you can optimise your morning or evening ritual. By tuning into your body, you'll pick-up the right signals. For example, I've taken on early morning swim sessions to help support my back. Being able to incorporate this exercise routine in my busy schedule.
3. Pave the roads that lead to results.
Notice what works for you. Simply by observing what moves you closer to your goals. Then be sure to "pave the road", so you can travel more easily on them. Make sure it is easy to stick to those new habits that support you. For example by doing groceries one time a week, buying only healthy foods. I'm a big fan of the the 100.000 idea I've shared in my book "How to Become a Marketing Superhero". I've noticed that when I omit to use it, I feel less focused and more anxious the other day. So I've deliberately incorporated it in my daily ritual before going to sleep, by putting a notepad on my nightstand.
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Three growing start-up cities in South America
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Entrepreneurs take note! You want to take a look south of the Rio Grande for your next venture. Strong start-up culture is no longer limited to places like Silicon Valley, New York City and Austin, Texas. South American cities are gaining international attention for their robust start-up communities, low cost of doing business and impressive pool of tech talent. Not to mention, a number of South American governments are taking action to make sure that their cities play a role in the next wave of innovation by providing subsidies and other incentives. Here are three that stand out.
Santiago, Chile Santiago has been dubbed as the "Chilecon Valley" of Latin America and for good reason, too. Chilean government, universities, private corporations and investment funds made a concentrated effort to transform Chile into a entrepreneur hub. The state-backed accelerator Start-Up Chile is a six-month program that offers graduates about $35,000 in equity-free financing and a one-year visa. Since its launch, Start-Up Chile has graduated more than 1,100 start-ups. And earlier this year the organization launched a follow-fund called Start-Up Chile SCALE to give certain graduates even more support.
Of each graduating class, which usually comes to about 100 companies, about 10 start-ups are selected to receive an additional $100,000 in equity-free financing as long as they meet certain requirements and agree to keep their business in Chile for at least a year. One key thing Chile did to help attract international attention as a start-up hub was open its doors to foreign entrepreneurs as other countries were shutting theirs, said Sebastian Vidal, executive director of Start-Up Chile.
"We tried to concentrate all of our efforts on a really clear value proposition. The two main benefits were 40K equity and the second was a one-year working visa," Vidal said. "We realized we had something in our hands that no one was doing before, which was a start-up visa and this value will open a lot of doors for us."
Medellin, in Colombia is tucked in the Aburra Valley of the Andes Mountains of Colombia, Medellin is becoming one of South America's hottest new places for start-ups.
At the centre of the growth is the government-sponsored organization Ruta N, which is an innovation and business centre for new companies. Among other things, the corporation offers young companies support in key areas of business including finance, recruitment and public relations. Another reason entrepreneurs may want to take a strong look at Colombia is because it's coming online quickly. The Colombia government is working to bring 63 percent of its population online by 2018, according to a report by Colombia Reports. It also boasts 69 percent smartphone adoption, according to the GSMA "Mobile Economy" report for Latin America.
But besides its strong public sector involvement, Medellin also has a lot to offer new businesses because of its location, said Erik Stettler, director of Socialatom Ventures, a venture capital and private equity firm that has invested in 35 start-ups across Latin America and has very strong operations in Medellin. Much like San Francisco, Medellin boasts a mild climate and is relatively small in size, Stettler said. "It's a great physical place to live, there's a great quality of life, a low cost of living and great sense of inclusion," Stettler said. "It is a smaller city than a lot of other start-up hubs in the rest of the world, but like the Bay Area, size isn't the only thing that matters.
What matters is the concentration of talent and the dynamic of how different parts interact with each other. It's about how friendly is the environment in terms of how coherent are the developer groups, the public sector and the universities, and how comfortable it is in terms of the political climate." Medellin has helped young companies like Viajala take off. The travel search start-up recently raised $500,000 in seed funding led by the VC firm Altabix. Viajala, which has less than 10 employees, has grown 30 percent every month for the last year in terms of revenue and is on trajectory for continued growth, said Stettler, whose firm is invested in Viajala.
"They are well on their way to becoming a huge company," he said. "We will have some more pretty dramatic cases coming out of Medellin very soon."
There are a lot of reasons an entrepreneur might like Buenos Aires: A low cost of living, a high quality of life, accessible transportation and a relatively low cost of doing business. But the real reason for start-ups to come to the city is because of the people, said Lisa Besserman, founder of Start-Up Buenos Aires.
"There's this incredible entrepreneurial spirit that I have never seen anywhere else in the world. Because of or in spite of the economic instability or the political turmoil this country has faced, it's created this breed of entrepreneurs that work really hard to create their own visions," Besserman said. And if you are looking for tech talent, look no further. Buenos Aires has a strong pool of tech workers that is gaining the attention of major companies around the world, Besserman said. "A lot of start-ups are either coming here to start subsidiaries and open up operations or outsourcing their tech teams to Argentina.
There's a high quality of tech talent here at a very low cost. I'd say between 25 to 35 percent of the cost in the U.S.," she said. "We have actually seen companies outsource tech talent to Argentina or try to recruit talent from Argentina to bring back to their home country." Besserman launched Start-Up Buenos Aires, an organization working to strengthen the start-up community, about two years ago. SUBA provides resources and hosts classes and workshops for entrepreneurs on things like how to pitch investors to how to run a crowdfunding campaign. It also helps give start-ups some international exposure.
"We partner with international organizations on global initiatives. We bring activities that are happening around the world to Buenos Aires. For example, pitch competitions, hackathons, start-up week, anything that is happening around the world, we work as an organization to bring it here," she said. The city is also home to Mercadolibre, one of South America's most successful tech companies. The e-commerce outfit is now traded on the Nasdaq, and its founder Hernan Kazah launched Kaszek Ventures, which is one of the biggest funds in South America.
(This article was written by Cadie Thompson and was published by CNBC on May 8, 2015)
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Selections from 2019: Habitable Zone Narrows for Complex Life
By Susanna Kohler on 31 December 2019 Features
This schematic illustrates a star's traditional habitable zone (green), in which a terrestrial planet could support liquid water. But other factors also determine whether life could persist on a planet. [NASA/Kepler Mission/Dana Berry]
Editor's note: In these last two weeks of 2019, we'll be looking at a few selections that we haven't yet discussed on AAS Nova from among the most-downloaded papers published in AAS journals this year. The usual posting schedule will resume in January.
A Limited Habitable Zone for Complex Life
Main takeaway:
A team of scientists led by Edward Schwieterman (UC Riverside) has demonstrated that the habitable zone — the range of orbital distances around its host star at which a planet can support life — becomes significantly narrower when exploring where complex life can exist, as opposed to just microbial life.
Some constraints on the habitable zone, with a few sample exoplanets plotted for reference. The darkest blue region shows where risk of CO2 and CO toxicities are lowest and a planet would be most likely to be able to support complex life. [Schwieterman et al. 2019]
Why it's interesting:
By identifying planets that lie in their host stars' habitable zones, we can narrow down our list of targets in our search for life beyond Earth. But traditionally, "habitable zone" merely refers to the range of distances at which a planet can support liquid water — and this definition ignores the many additional constraints that could limit the ability of different life forms to exist on a planet. Schwieterman and collaborators' work explores one of those constraints by considering what orbital distances would result in a buildup of toxic gases — carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide — in the atmospheres of planets that would make them unfit for complex life as we know it.
Why this significantly limits our options:
Schwieterman and collaborators' work indicates that carbon dioxide toxicity alone limits the habitable zone for simple animal life to half of the traditional habitable zone around a Sun-like star, and that region shrinks to less than a third of the traditional habitable zone for more complex life like humans. In addition, carbon monoxide toxicity is a significant problem for planets that receive a large amount of ultraviolet radiation — like those orbiting M dwarfs. This suggests that the entire habitable zones of M-dwarf stars may be ruled out in the search for some complex life.
Edward W. Schwieterman et al 2019 ApJ 878 19. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab1d52
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Richard Blake Parker (born June 19, 1985) is an American professional baseball pitcher who is currently a free agent. He previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, Seattle Mariners, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels, Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, and Cleveland Indians. Parker was drafted by the Cubs in the 16th round of the 2006 MLB draft, and made his major league debut in 2012.

Career

Amateur
Parker was born in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He attended Fayetteville High School in Fayetteville, and the University of Arkansas, where he played college baseball for the Arkansas Razorbacks. In 2005, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Bourne Braves of the Cape Cod Baseball League. Parker was drafted by the Chicago Cubs in the 16th round of the 2006 MLB draft, being signed by scout Brian Milner.

Chicago Cubs organization
Parker began his professional career in 2006 as a first baseman, third baseman, and catcher, and did not start pitching until 2007, splitting the season between the AZL Cubs (11 games) and Boise Hawks (8 games), with a combined record of 2–0 and a 2.39 ERA. He was an AZL post-season All Star in 2006.

In 2008, Parker played for three teams—the Peoria Chiefs (23 games; with whom he was a Midwest League mid-season All Star), the Daytona Cubs (20 games), and the Iowa Cubs (two games)—going 4–2 with a 2.13 ERA and 12 saves in 45 games combined. In 71 innings, he allowed only 50 hits while striking out 75 batters.

He split the 2009 season between the Tennessee Smokies (10 games) and Iowa Cubs (45 games), going a combined 2–3 with a 2.70 ERA, saving 25 games in 55 appearances. His 22 saves with Iowa were 5th-most in the Pacific Coast League. In  innings, Parker allowed 44 hits and struck out 77 batters. He then played for Mesa in the Arizona Fall League, and was named a Rising Star.

Parker began the 2010 season with the Iowa Cubs, and split the year between Iowa (35 games) and Tennessee (13 games), going a combined 1–5 with a 4.21 ERA. In 2011, he went 4–5 with a 3.23 ERA in 53 games split between Iowa (37 games) and Tennessee (16 games).

The Cubs promoted him to MLB on May 17, 2012. He pitched only six innings with the Cubs in 2012.

In 2013 with the Cubs he was 1–2 with one save and a 2.72 ERA, in 49 games, as he struck out 55 batters in 46 innings.

In 2014 with the Cubs he was 1–1 with a 5.14 ERA, in 18 games, as he struck out 24 batters in 21 innings. With Iowa, he was 0–1 with a league-leading 25 saves and a 1.77 ERA in 35 games. He was a Pacific Coast League mid-season and post-season All Star in 2014.

In 2015 he did not pitch in the major leagues, and was limited to three games at Triple-A Iowa, as he had season-ending surgery to remove loose bodies in his right elbow.  Parker was released from the Cubs in May 2015.

Seattle Mariners (2016)
On December 17, Parker signed a minor league deal with the Seattle Mariners. The Mariners promoted Parker to the major leagues on August 4, 2016, and he pitched only one scoreless inning for them in 2016. In 2016 he was again a Pacific Coast League mid-season All Star, playing for Tacoma.

New York Yankees (2016)
On August 9, 2016, the New York Yankees claimed Parker off of waivers. With the Yankees, he was 1–0 with one save and a 4.96 ERA in 16 games.

After the 2016 season, the Los Angeles Angels claimed Parker from the Yankees off of waivers. On November 23, 2016, Parker was claimed off waivers by the Milwaukee Brewers. The Brewers designated him for assignment in December, and he was claimed by the Angels on December 23.

Los Angeles Angels (2017–18)
The Angels named Parker to their Opening Day 25-man roster for the 2017 season. In his first season as an Angel, Parker enjoyed career bests in every statistical category. He was 3–3 with 8 saves and a 2.54 ERA, with 86 strikeouts in 67 innings, and pitched in 71 games (6th-most in the American League). His WHIP of 0.83 tied for third-best among American League relievers.

Parker signed a $1.8 million contract with the Angels for the 2018 season. Despite pitching to a 2–1 record with a 3.26 ERA in 67 games while also collecting 14 saves, striking out 70 batters in 66 innings, and finishing 41 games (8th-most in the American League), he was non-tendered by the Angels in the offseason.

Minnesota Twins (2019)
On January 14, 2019, Parker signed a one-year deal with the Minnesota Twins. On July 24, Parker was designated for assignment by the Twins. In 2019 with the Twins, he was 1–2 with 10 saves and a 4.21 ERA, in 37 games.

Philadelphia Phillies (2019–2020)
On July 30, 2019, the Philadelphia Phillies signed Parker to a major league contract. For the Phillies in 2019, he was 2-1 with a 5.04 ERA in 23 games (2 starts; the first of his professional career) over 25.0 innings in which he struck out 31 batters (11.2 strikeouts per 9 innings). Parker re-signed with the Phillies organization on a minor league deal on February 5, 2020. On August 11, Parker was selected to the active roster. In 2020 for Philadelphia, Parker pitched to a 3-0 record with a 2.81 ERA and 25 strikeouts over 16.0 innings pitched in 14 appearances. On October 30, 2020, Parker was outrighted off of the 40-man roster and elected free agency.

Cleveland Indians (2021)
On February 16, 2021, Parker signed a minor league contract with the Cleveland Indians organization, worth $2.5 million in incentives, and was invited to the Indians' 2021 major league spring training camp. He began the 2021 season with the Columbus Clippers of the newly-formed Triple-A East. On June 5, 2021, Parker was selected to the active roster.

Parker became a free agent on November 3, 2021.

St. Louis Cardinals (2022)
On March 26, 2022, Parker signed a minor league contract with the St. Louis Cardinals. He was released on July 6, 2022.

Personal life
Parker and his wife, Jordan, have three sons and one daughter.

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What does Arthur Scargill have in common with Donald Trump? Attacking the media - Nicholas Jones - Blog and Archive Website.
Donald Trump's attacks on the truthfulness of the main stream media might have shocked the political establishment in Washington, but they have been a tried and tested ploy of South American revolutionaries – and were the weapon of choice for Arthur Scargill during the 1984-85 miners' strike.
Studies just published by the British Journalism Review and the Columbia Journalism Review explore the thinking behind the tactics of lashing out at reporters and accusing them of peddling fake news.
In his paper for the BJR, Nicholas Jones says Trump's brazen assault on the veracity of journalists has been as calculated and carefully crafted as the abuse fired off three decades earlier by Scargill.
Words and phrases used by the NUM President in his sustained denigration of the main stream media were almost interchangeable with the tirades of the US President about the ethics of the leading American news outlets.
When Trump harangued reporters and television crews corralled in media pens to accompanying boos from his supporters, his attacks mirrored Scargill when he berated the British news media for supporting Margaret Thatcher.
"What does Trump have in commons with Hugo Chavez? A media strategy" is the title of the CJR's examination of the link with the media tactics of Latin American populists. An unrelenting attempt by the US President to undermine the credibility of the mainstream media was straight out of their revolutionary playbook.
The study found that Trump's rhetoric had remarkable similarities with the tactics to mobilise supporters that were deployed by Ecuador's Rafael Correa, Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, Bolivia's Evo Morales, and Argentina's Cristina Kirchner – along with the late Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. They all rose to power in campaigns that targeted the media, and once in office, they continued their attacks.
"The No. 1 enemies of Evo Morales are the majority of the media," said the Bolivian President; President Correa described his critics in the press as "liars"; Ortega called journalists "children of Goebbels"; Chavez frequently rounded on the media for being "coup plotters and fascists"; and Scargill denounced reporters for being a bunch of "piranha fish" that would always remain loyal to Thatcher.
The CJR says the necessary first step of a speech fomenting greater political polarisation is to marginalise the media, and more broadly undermine its ability to provide a shared unifying narrative, by lashing out at the media at public events, condemning and vilifying individual journalists.
Donald Trump's brazen assault on the truthfulness of journalists in the US Presidential election was as calculated and carefully crafted as the abuse fired off three decades earlier by Arthur Scargill, President of the National Union of Mineworkers, during the year-long pit strike of 1984-85. The similarities were uncanny. Words and phrases used in their sustained denigration of mainstream media were interchangeable: Trump's tirades about the ethics and veracity of leading American news outlets could just as easily have been uttered by Scargill as he berated the British news media for supporting Margaret Thatcher. As I watched Trump harangue reporters and television crews corralled in media pens to accompanying boos from the crowd, I could visualise myself back at a miners' rally, standing there with the rest of the media pack, arm outstretched, holding my microphone, being denounced as vermin by Scargill, and getting jeered at by the strikers.
Firing up their supporters, be they strikers or voters, was a priority for Trump and Scargill, just as it was for two other underdogs who in my experience had deployed the tactic of blaming the journalists in their midst for the hostility they faced in the news coverage of mainstream press, television and radio. BBC reporters were a constant target for the Reverend Ian Paisley during Northern Ireland Troubles of the 1970s, as they were for Nigel Farage when promoting the United Kingdom Independence Party, and then campaigning for Leave in the EU Referendum.
My awareness of techniques for denigrating the media used by egotistical leaders when out on the campaign trail had been heightened by a rare insight into Scargill's tactics. By chance, during an unexpected four-hour car journey early in the miners' strike, I had an opportunity to probe his thinking behind the effectiveness of a warm-up routine in which he regularly denounced journalists – a strategy that seemed like a mirror image of the ploys that would be used decades later by Trump.
In June 1984, three months into the pit strike, I gave Scargill a lift all the way from a union conference in Llandudno to his London flat in the Barbican. As the journey wore on, and the two of us chatted away, he became ever more revealing about his varied strategies for squaring up to media hostility. Sometimes he was so effective in pinning responsibility directly on to those reporting the strike, that the boos and jeers of the audience turned nasty, and young miners would start to threaten working journalists. Fresh in my mind was the menace in the air at a strike rally earlier that June after Scargill had been accused in an infamous Sun front page of making a Hitler-style salute, a slur that prompted a fearsome rebuke.
In persistently abusing the media Trump had seemingly made precisely the same calculation as Scargill. His ten years as host of the American television game show, The Apprentice, meant he needed no lessons in manipulating the media, or in chasing the highest possible ratings. He understood only too well that high-profile attacks on journalists were taken seriously within the media community. Accusations of bias caught the attention of newsrooms, and one likely consequence was that editorial and production staff were far more likely to give his speeches a prominent position in news schedules. Whatever the backlash among opinion formers, this was of little consequence when the shared objective was the over-riding need to keep the rank and file fired up.
Scargill's speeches at strike rallies were the same heady mix of bombast and menace, laced with savage asides, put-downs and jokes, a music hall style routine that the activists greeted with lengthy standing ovations. As with Trump, there was an X factor about him, and I am sure the news channels would have realised that Scargill's ability to shock made for compulsive viewing, and that if the pit dispute had taken place in an era of 24-hour news, radio and television channels would have been equally reluctant to pull away from the NUM President once starting a live broadcast from one his speeches.
Live transmission of rabble-rousing speeches is no longer a one off because they have another life on social media. Short clips or even lengthy extracts are uploaded on to a multitude of platforms, and often reach an audience via the internet that far exceeds that of the original live broadcast. Trump's campaign team drove the online agenda with an audacity unmatched in any previous election, backing up his rallies with a barrage of postings that more often than not paid scant attention to truth or accuracy. While a British trade union facing the full force of the state would inevitably have had to come to terms with a far harsher environment than the post-truth level of communication that was apparent in the Brexit campaign, and then re-surfaced with a vengeance in the US Presidential election, there is now a whole panoply of highly-inventive ways to by-pass the stranglehold of the established media of press and television.
Whereas Farage and Trump could take advantage of many other avenues to speak directly to the public without having their messages mediated by the established media, Scargill had no such leeway. If it had been possible for a trade union struggling against Mrs Thatcher to exploit the range of social media that is currently available, I think there is every possibility that she might well have been forced to reach a settlement with the NUM rather than pursue a fight to the finish until half the men had given up the strike and returned to work.


Being an innovator and leader in its field, Genentech makes a wide range of educational resources available to its staff. However, the organization had a challenge: with over 10,000 staff who were time poor, had rigorous schedules, different learning styles and learning goals, professional training was difficult to implement, time consuming and disruptive.
Small World Social created an educational app, which combated these obstacles in its key functionalities. Combining learning styles, using text, video, interactive content and in-person training the app was designed to provide accessibility to all employees. The app is mobile and tablet friendly and has offline capabilities, so it can be used regardless of WIFI or location.
To combat the difficulties of varied schedules and timetables, we allowed users to create their own learning timelines, to plan courses when it suited them using the calendar tool, which seamlessly integrates into their Google calendar. By allowing users to manage their own learning, our app could measure and deliver realistic data to training managers.


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 * Graphology Misc Specs
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 * Testing the miscellaneous things about the graph.
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import assert from 'assert';
import {addNodesFrom} from './helpers';

export default function misc(Graph) {
  return {
    Structure: {
      'a simple mixed graph can have A->B, B->A & A<->B': function () {
        const graph = new Graph();
        addNodesFrom(graph, ['Audrey', 'Benjamin']);

        assert.doesNotThrow(function () {
          graph.addEdge('Audrey', 'Benjamin');
          graph.addEdge('Benjamin', 'Audrey');
          graph.addUndirectedEdge('Benjamin', 'Audrey');
        });
      },

      'deleting the last edge between A & B should correctly clear neighbor index.':
        function () {
          const graph = new Graph({multi: true});
          graph.addNode('A');
          graph.addNode('B');

          graph.addEdge('A', 'B');
          graph.addEdge('A', 'B');

          graph.forEachEdge('A', edge => graph.dropEdge(edge));

          assert.deepStrictEqual(graph.neighbors('A'), []);
          assert.deepStrictEqual(graph.neighbors('B'), []);
        },

      'exhaustive deletion use-cases should not break doubly-linked lists implementation of multigraph edge storage.':
        function () {
          const graph = new Graph({multi: true});
          graph.mergeEdgeWithKey('1', 'A', 'B');
          graph.mergeEdgeWithKey('2', 'A', 'B');
          graph.mergeEdgeWithKey('3', 'A', 'B');
          graph.mergeEdgeWithKey('4', 'A', 'B');

          graph.dropEdge('1');
          graph.dropEdge('2');
          graph.dropEdge('3');
          graph.dropEdge('4');

          assert.strictEqual(graph.size, 0);
          assert.strictEqual(graph.areNeighbors('A', 'B'), false);

          graph.mergeEdgeWithKey('1', 'A', 'B');
          graph.mergeEdgeWithKey('2', 'A', 'B');
          graph.mergeEdgeWithKey('3', 'A', 'B');
          graph.mergeEdgeWithKey('4', 'A', 'B');

          assert.strictEqual(graph.size, 4);
          assert.strictEqual(graph.areNeighbors('A', 'B'), true);

          graph.dropEdge('2');
          graph.dropEdge('3');

          assert.strictEqual(graph.size, 2);
          assert.strictEqual(graph.areNeighbors('A', 'B'), true);

          graph.dropEdge('4');
          graph.dropEdge('1');

          assert.strictEqual(graph.size, 0);
          assert.strictEqual(graph.areNeighbors('A', 'B'), false);
        }
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      'keys should be correctly coerced to strings.': function () {
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        assert.strictEqual(graph.hasEdge(3), true);
        assert.strictEqual(graph.hasEdge('3'), true);
      }
    }
  };
}

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This is a guest post written by Jack Harold of Affiliate Home Business.
Is Search Engine Optimization (SEO) the way to go in 2011? Some people find it a waste of time. The general feeling is that it is either too much work or the results take too long to materialize. Is it really worth the time and effort? Well, look at this. Your efforts take a month to show up but your website is able to stay at the top position of the SERPs for the next few months. Is it worth it? You bet!
Google has been doing a lot to improve the search quality. If you have read my article on "Google: Are You Really Serious About Tackling Webspam? I Doubt It!" over at John Chow's blog, I try to be sore to deny that fact but it is true. Google has been making changes to its search engine almost every single day that hardly anyone will notice it. To keep up with Google's pace, you certainly need to know what not to do and what has to be done to keep your website ranking high up on the SERPs.
Today, I will just like to emphasize on 4 pointers that you can take away from this article here. 4 top SEO mistakes that you should avoid in 2011.
In 2010, we have seen how powerful and how prevalent social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook have grown. I can assure you that in 2011, the social media game is going to get even more powerful. Are you sharing your posts or links on social media sites? Are you aware that Google is trying to incorporate real time Tweets into their search results? The power and future in SEO is no doubt social media optimization. It will be a great loss for your website if you are ignoring the social networking altogether.
If your business mainly caters to local customers, then you will have to get on Google Maps or Google Places. It is a good strategy to focus on your local market first as customers will generally make purchases from local companies. People tend to trust local companies more; at least they feel closer to them. Now that mobile marketing is also getting bigger by the day, you have to be heard on the local market at least.
The topic on content farms was greatly discussed a month ago as discussed in my guest post on John Chow's blog. Getting out ranked by websites which are apparently content farms is simply annoying and I believe Google will take serious action next to penalize such websites. On our part, we have to ensure that our websites are providing the quality and value that people look out for.
To SEO optimize your blog, it is important that you pay attention to your internal linking within your blog. Getting more links to your internal pages will result in more link juice to that page and in turn, your main domain will get more link juice from its internal pages. One way is by sharing related posts via links at the end of each of your blog posts. For me, I use a simple WordPress plugin called Yet Another Related Post to share related posts. This will then help to improve the internal linking within my blog.
Are there any more that you feel that it is important as well? Share it with us below in the comments section!
Guest Post By: As CEO of Affiliate Home Business, Jack Harold is an experienced Internet marketer and has helped thousands of his students to apply Internet marketing strategies to succeed online. If you will like to know how to make money online, you can grab a free copy of his exclusive "The Rags To Riches Blueprint" at his website, Affiliate Home Business.
I see the importance of social networking, but zi do not see the link from that to SEO?
Check them out. Might give you a new perspective on things.
In it he mentions possible future changes in the search engines to combat content farms. (And I agree, it is rather frustrating when you see a no-value site like this take yours over in the search engines.) Well, Google recently HAS made some changes to it's algorithm to combat sites such as this.
Here is a quote from Google's last blog post; "This update is designed to reduce rankings for low-quality sites—sites which are low-value add for users, copy content from other websites or sites that are just not very useful. At the same time, it will provide better rankings for high-quality sites—sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on."
One thing you mention is going local. Now, my site offers services on a global scale, and yet I've been seriously thinking of ways to improve my sites local results as well. Any thoughts on this? I have yet (procrastination anyone?) to create an About Me page, and I can include my local area in that, but are there any other suggestions you may have on making sure that the search engines know where my blog originates from to get better local results?
Thanks and thank you for the post. Awesome, awesome tips!
Linking internal pages is really one of the things that has to be worked out. I myself just began to interlink my posts, which I believe is not only useful for the search engines but for your readers as well.
However, I doubt that Google will penalize the content farms. Else they will also have to penalize wikipedia, about.com, and all other popular content farms. They still have their place on the web. I just think that they will lower it's relevancy rate, but not totally ignore it since it also adds value.
Using some form of related posts plugin should help you with internal linking – YARPP is one that works well on this blog. As far as content penalties for content farms – I don't know, I read some reports that they are might be doing some manual adjustments for the more know, such as those you mention but the small operators can definitely be hit hard by this.
Doing things that are useful to your readers will help you in SEO. The point is that anything that makes your site better for your visitors makes it a better site. And anything that makes it a better site, should make it more attractive to the search engines.
Thanks for sharing the info Jack. Social media will be key player in the coming years Many companies realize that and that is why they give importance to promote their brand in facebook and twitter.
Quality should be always preferred over quantity. In the recent algorithm update Google gave a slap to content farms and that is really a good move.
Do you think that ignoring nofollow links is also a mistake?
Jen, I've also pondered over when or if there will be an upcoming change and/or an SE's algorithmic rectification of 'nofollow' links, and am yet to see the point of penalizing and not following any links for whatever reason. If a person doesn't want to link to a site or allow links in the comment field, then there shouldn't be a link there, period. The old method of incorporating automatic 'nofollow' attributes into blog's comment fields to prevent spam, did nothing but penalize other legitimate commentators. If a person can't maintain their blog, has trouble detecting spam or the inability to moderate their comments effectively, then that is their problem. There is still some debate on whether 'nofollow' links still pass any "link juice" or not – over time, but I'm not qualified to speculate on that one. However, it is very obvious that 'dofollow' links are rewarded/credited/analyzed like all links should be.
As for the rest of this post, I think that a solid internal linking structure (like what is found on Wikipedia, for example), is one of the best tips on this particular blog entry. Heavy internal linking, in a way, shows that your site is an authority on its subject matter with the internal references/pages/posts to back up the content that is found within the site. However, I think that if you know your content well enough, you can easily deep link throughout your posts without the need for "related links" plugins, etc.
hI Jack, you definitely point out the most important SEO mistakes. SEO+SMO has become a necessary approach for online marketing this year.
I totally agree with the points you make in this post. I tend to link to other posts in my original post instead of using the plugin, but to each his own!
Yes definitely the social networking is the thing to do at the moment but because everyone is going it i sometimes get lost in all the posts and tweets! And unless your company has someone dedicated to do all tweets and all the other things normal person who runs a business just doesn't have enough time for that!
I agree with Bowmannave. Content is KING. Good honest content will attract the right buyers. And will reward you accordingly.
However, I am not totally convinced about the safety and security of Facebook or Twitter for that matter.
Here is a CNNMoney article about Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg Fan Page Hacked which did not leave a good taste in my mouth.
Social Networks may have their place. But what is the price you have to pay for using them?
Let us all carefully consider the matter.


Prior to 1801 there were only a few trails which were traveled by horsemen or more often on foot. At the 1801 town meeting it was resolved to start laying out roads. These early roads were probably a widening of the trails to accommodate the width of a wagon or an ox team.
From 1801-1843 the roads were the responsibility of the property owners. Apparently over the years more and more roads were laid out because highway overseers numbered 15 in 1804 and 41 in 1843. There were so many in fact that the town purchased a book to keep road records in.
In 1844 a Highway Commission was established and the commissioner was to fix permanent boundaries for the roads. The property owners were still responsible for the work but the commissioner was to see that the work was done. He was also to check each year to see that the work was completed.
In 1875 the population of Edinburg was 1,495 (from the year 2000 census it is 1,384); the Highway Commissioner, Daniel Gordon, was making $200.00 a year and a new highway was being built starting at Wait and Noyes Store in Batchellerville (now the Old Country Store).
In 1895 the town bought their first road scraper for $110.92. By 1899 the cost of a scraper had risen to $275.32 (perhaps this was a larger one).
By 1910 property owners were to build approaches (driveways?) to the road at their own expense under the direction of the road superintendent.
In 1914 a road worker was making $.19 per hour and teams plowing the roads (horses plus a man) were making $.35 per hour.
In 1919 a completed road cost $1,005.00; blanket insurance was taken out on the road workers and a road machine was purchased for $200.00.
A large snowfall in 1922 cost the town more than usual for snow removal. Land was purchased from the Methodist Church to make a safer corner. At this time our Edinburg four corners was only two corners.
In 1923 the town refused to pay for broken auto springs caused by rough roads but the following year a woman did collect $300.00 for damages received on road construction.
The new county road from Edinburg to Northampton was built in 1925. By 1926 the road superintendent was getting $5.00 per day and $40.00 per mile to keep the roads in shape.
With the creation of the Sacandaga Reservoir, 40 miles of new highway were built around the reservoir in 1927-1930.
All the town roads were dirt until the 1950's when the process began to blacktop them. A government funded plan (the Erwin Plan) made this possible.
By the 1970's Edinburg was crisscrossed with almost 80 miles of highway (approx. 35 miles Town and 44 miles County). In 1975 the highway department moved from the old town barn (site of the Rural Museum) into the new town hall/barn complex on Military Road.


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Searsmont News
By Joyce and Mickey Sirota | Jan 09, 2020
Photo by: Joyce Sirota Some of the 19 hikers who participated in Searsmont Town Library's Jan. 4 Georges River walk.
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Searsmont in Winter
It looks beautiful outside (woodpiles topped with so-far-not-too-much snow, snow-dusted conifers, far views, ridges with white open-field coats, red winterberry highlighted against white). It smells good (clean snow, wood smoke). It sounds good (wind in trees, winter birds). We complain about moving white stuff around, dealing with ice, banking foundations with brush or straw – waiting for "poor man's snowy insulation. But Searsmont is really beautiful in the winter.
A shout out from local Scouts
Jim Robbins tells us Searsmont Cub Scout Pack 35 is reorganizing. Several boys (Cub Scouts welcomes girls, too) want to be Cub Scouts, and there is some leadership in place. To make this happen, they need four adult leaders, some of whom would be willing to be den leaders. "Boy Scouts of America is an outstanding youth program that teaches leadership and life skills while having fun both indoors and outdoors," Jim told us. If you are interested in making Searsmont a better place for boys and girls, call Jim Robbins at 745-1482, or email jimsret@rlco.com to find out more.
The library's free Ensemble Concert Series began Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. (snow date Thursday, Jan. 23) with Mes Amis, a gypsy guitar trio that will be heating up the library with some hot guitar chops. The next concert in the series is the Jordan Benissan African Drum Ensemble on Feb. 18. Thank you, Onion Foundation.
Story Hour is every Saturday at 10 a.m. Tuesday at 2 p.m. is a "Movie Matinee." On the horizon (so to speak), "Looking Up! The Searsmont Night Sky" astronomy program will be on Friday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m.
Maine Public Television broadcasts "We're All in This Together: A Searsmont Documentary" Thursday, Jan. 16, at 9 p.m.and Saturday, Jan. 18, at 2 p.m. DVD copies are available at the Town Office and library for only $5.
The office will be closed Monday, Jan. 20. For weather closures, check WLBZ-TV, WABI-TV, or searsmont.com.
About 200 dog licenses for 2020 are late. Contessa in the Town Office says that after Jan. 31, the license fees of $6 for spayed/neutered dogs and $11 for those not spayed or neutered go up to $31 and $36. "It's a state-mandated fee," Contessa says. She tries to call you about license renewals, but needs to know your new number. So if you've changed yours, call 342-5411 and give her an update.
Goings-on about town
Bright red northern cardinals are at Searsmont bird feeders in the snow, but as fellow town correspondent Tom Seymour notes, not many hairy or downy woodpeckers have joined the chickadees, nuthatches, goldfinches, mourning doves and juncos. Let us know what birds to add to the "Searsmont Bird List."
Support your local Scots. Tickets are still available at mainecelticcelebration.com for the Maine Celtic Celebration's Robert Burns Dinner (and optional pre-dinner whisky tasting) on Saturday, Jan. 25, in Belfast. This project is overseen by Searsmont's Claudia Luchetti. Searsmonter Chris Brinn will be one of the Celtic music performers. Wear tartan or recite a Robbie Burns poem and you could win a prize.
'Explore the Wilds' of Searsmont January walk
Nineteen people (and two energetic dogs) enjoyed a three-mile walk in the woods Jan. 4, when Sarah Crosby and Bill Evans led "Explore the Wilds of Searsmont!," part of the Searsmont Town Library's year-long "Maine Inside and Out Project."
Your correspondents were there, and were reminded once again how beautiful Searsmont is, how varied the landscape, how filled with history over 200 years it is, and how pleasant it is to spend time with neighbors.
The group entered land owned and opened to hikers by the Robbins family on School Street (the uphill continuation of Ghent Road) at the gated section west of Appleton Ridge Road. Most walkers had never been there before – it was our first visit in our 30 years in town. Walking past old home sites on what is now a woods road, we followed a cross-country ski and snowshoe track to the Georges River on the Georges Highland Path, and gathered at one of the wooden benches built as part of an Eagle Scout project.
It was a magical sight. The river rushed past, the rocks in its bed covered with mushrooms of snow, the water so clear you could see the bottom. The firs and hemlocks were dusted with snow, the blue blazes on the path's trees standing out clearly. We walked along stone walls and the remains of mills and bridge anchors.
Did you know that the Searsmont stretch of the river had 17 mills operating in the mid-1800s? Searsmont mills made shingles and barrel staves, and made lumber for window sashes, blinds, barrels, and water pumps (think "butter churn" with a rubber valve inside)? Did you know that Searsmont made carriages, coffins and bedsteads? There was a tannery, a shoe factory, a hotel, and with the river as the center of local industry, nearly 1,700 people living here.
We stopped to admire, to take a picture or two, and to chat with each other about what is going on in town and in our lives. When we got to our guides' end point, we turned around and walked back to our hike's trail head atop Appleton Ridge.
It takes a village to put on a program like this, so the library wants to thank Sarah and Bill for leading the walk, Charlie LeRoyer, and Maria Salvaggio and Bill – and many others – for their trail work, the Robbins family for making the land available for hiking, and the Rudman Library Trust and Moosewood Funds of the Maine Community Foundation for their financial support.
The next free "Maine Inside and Out" program will be Friday, Jan. 31, at 6 p.m. at the library. Keith Dunson of Belfast will present "Looking Up! The Searsmont Night Sky," an explanation and exploration of what we see in the winter sky at night. This family-friendly event will begin in the library and, weather permitting, will move outside for viewing through Keith's 8-inch telescope.
And while we're at the library, some people have asked how much it costs to be a library patron. Free for Searsmont residents, for non-residents it is just $5 a year. Library hours are Tuesday from 9 a.m to 7 p.m., Thursday from 3 to 7 p.m., Friday from 1 to 5 p.m., and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
A scene from the Searsmont Town Library-sponsored walk Jan. 4. (Photo by: Joyce Sirota)
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New town project is facing the axe
PUBLISHED: 10:04 06 January 2006 | UPDATED: 11:27 04 May 2010
CONTROVERSIAL plans for a major new town, which would merge the villages of Wilburton and Stretham, looked set to be given a resounding thumbs-down by planners yesterday afternoon (Wednesday). Councillors were urged to throw out the Mereham development be
CONTROVERSIAL plans for a major new town, which would merge the villages of Wilburton and Stretham, looked set to be given a resounding thumbs-down by planners yesterday afternoon (Wednesday).
Councillors were urged to throw out the Mereham development because it would lead to a significant loss of countryside and was not in keeping with national or county planning policy.
Plans for the town, which include 5,000 homes, a shopping centre and schools, were drawn up by building giant Multiplex, which is behind the new Wembley Stadium project.
The scheme, on 1,687 acres of land between Twenty Pence Road, in Wilburton, and the A10, has prompted a flood of protests.
More than 500 letters of objection were received from residents and parish councils across the district urging planners to reject the project.
Cambridgeshire County Council, the East of England Regional Assembly and the Campaign to Protect Rural England also lodged objections to the plans.
Multiplex has argued that the Cambridgeshire Structure Plan fails to deliver the scale of housing growth required to ensure the county meets the Government's housing target.
It claimed its site was more "deliverable" than alternative ones within the area and significant weight should be attached to this issue when determining the planning proposal.
But officers told members of East Cambridgeshire District Council's planning committee in a report: "There is nothing in the current submission to suggest that this site is capable of delivering housing faster than other alternative proposals and, even if this were to be the case, we would need to balance carefully whether the short-term benefits associated with increasing the housing supply outweigh the long-term harm of locating a major development in an unsustainable location."
Officers were worried about the increase in traffic using the A10, despite Multiplex's plans to widen the road, and felt that the new housing would be too far away from the main employment area of Cambridge.
Members were told a similar application had been received on three previous occasions and it was difficult to see what material changes had taken place.


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Gulfport Energy Provides Utica Shale Results and Updates Field Status Following Hurricane Isaac
OKLAHOMA CITY, Sept. 4, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gulfport Energy Corporation (Nasdaq:GPOR) today provided production results on its Boy Scout 1-33H well in the Utica Shale and reported on the status of its West Cote Blanche Bay ("WCBB") field following Hurricane Isaac.
Gulfport's Boy Scout 1-33H tested at a peak rate of 1,560 barrels of condensate per day, 7.1 million cubic feet ("MMCF") per day of natural gas, and 1,008 barrels of NGL per day assuming full ethane recovery and a natural gas shrink of 25%, or 3,456 BOEPD.
Gulfport's Boy Scout 1-33H well was recently brought online from its resting period. The well tested at a gross peak rate of 1,560 barrels of condensate per day and 7.1 MMCF per day of natural gas. Based upon composition analysis, the gas being produced is 1,310 BTU rich gas. Assuming full ethane recovery, the composition above is expected to produce an additional 142 barrels of NGLs per MMCF of natural gas and result in a natural gas shrink of 25%. In ethane rejection mode, the composition is expected to yield 84 barrels of NGLs per MMCF of natural gas and result in a natural gas shrink of 17%. Gulfport currently anticipates it will begin flowing the Boy Scout 1-33H into a sales pipeline by mid-to-late September.
Hurricane Isaac Update
Gulfport's WCBB facilities sustained no apparent damage from Hurricane Isaac and Company operations personnel began restoring production to the field Sunday, September 2, 2012.
Gulfport reports that after inspection of the WCBB facilities by Company operations personnel, the facilities are intact with no apparent damage from Hurricane Isaac. Both the drilling and completion rig have returned to the WCBB field to continue with Gulfport's previously announced drilling program and Company operations personnel began restoring production to the field Sunday, September 2, 2012.
About Gulfport
Gulfport Energy Corporation is an Oklahoma City-based independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company with its principal producing properties located along the Louisiana Gulf Coast and in the Permian Basin in West Texas. Gulfport has also acquired acreage positions in the Niobrara Formation of Western Colorado and the Utica Shale of Eastern Ohio. In addition, Gulfport holds a sizeable acreage position in the Alberta Oil Sands in Canada through its interest in Grizzly Oil Sands ULC and has interests in entities that operate in Southeast Asia, including the Phu Horm gas field in Thailand.
CONTACT: Investor & Media Contact:
Paul K. Heerwagen
pheerwagen@gulfportenergy.com
Source: Gulfport Energy Corporation


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From The Business Pages, Oct. 31, 2008
By Clay Risen
It's not the most important financial story right now, but the clever (or too clever by half) corner by Porsche in Volkswagen stock gets an excellent write up, and break down, from The New York Times' Floyd Norris. Separately, Brad Delong has been talking about it for days on his blog. For those interested in financial history, this is one for the books.
Just some Friday fun, at the expense of others: Watch CNBC's Charlie Gasparino, who was supposed to provide the end-of-day wrap up, instead says: "Whadda I got? Shoot the capitalists. That's what I got."
Elizabeth Warren, among others, will be glad to know that a growing number of experts believe the 2005 bankruptcy reform law, which made it very hard for individuals and small businesses to seek relief, also contributed to recent bank collapses by making it easier for creditors to unwind derivatives held by a failing company. Cold comfort for debt-strapped middle-class Americans, but nice to see at least the law of unintended consequences is still working. Explains DLA Piper's William Goldman in the Financial Times: "The changes were introduced to promote the orderly unwinding of transactions but they ended up speeding up the bankruptcy process … They wanted to protect the likes of Lehman and Bear Stearns from the domino effect that would have ensued had a counterparty gone under. They never thought the ones to go under would have been Lehman and Bear."
National crisis watch, MERCOSUR edition: Standard and Poor's has downgraded Argentina's credit rating to B-/C. Though the agency says it doesn't expect the country to slip further, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has been at loggerheads with opponents over a plan to nationalize pension funds, and she's generally considered not up to the challenge of pulling her already struggling country through a deep crisis.
--Clay Risen
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I was having problem with my athens log in today as I tried to access Criminal Justice Matters - My computer became convinced I was from various institutions and would forget my UWE log in within about 3 seconds. However for those of you who do not benefit from a university subscription service I noticed Volume 71 was offering free access. Certainly worth a visit! It was particularly pleasing that that specific edition was available given that it contains an article of mine: Prison: More than detention?
All UWE students should have access to all editions.


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Saddle Pals (June 6, 1947)
Posted on August 16, 2011 by Adam Lounsbery
Of the movies Gene Autry made after serving in the Army Air Corps during World War II, Saddle Pals is my favorite so far.
That's not to say that I loved the picture. I think Gene Autry is a great country singer, but as a leading man, I find him flat. But Saddle Pals is funnier and generally more entertaining than the last few Autry pictures I've seen, and it wasn't a chore to sit through.
The picture begins when the beautiful, wealthy, and devil-may-care Shelly Brooks (Lynne Roberts) buzzes Gene, his boys, and their cows with her brand-new Lincoln. Of course, she blows a tire not long after, and Gene's such a gentleman that he doesn't hold her bad behavior against her, and changes the tire for her.
Shelly's brother Waldo T. Brooks Jr. is raising rents on all the ranches in the valley so his wealthy family can be even wealthier. Not only is it unfair, it's downright illegal, says attorney Thaddeus Bellweather (Irving Bacon), and he'll handle the case for Gene just as soon as he gets back from trout season … which is going to last a long time.
So Gene and the Cass County boys (his backup band/ranch hands) head to the Brooks ranch to talk to Waldo, who turns out to be an effeminate, hysterical, rubber-faced hypochondriac played by Sterling Holloway. It turns out that Waldo is barely in control. It's the Brooks Land Corporation that's raising rents, under the direction of their evil leader Bradford Collins (Damian O'Flynn).
Waldo gives Gene control of his money. Gene tells Collins that he wants to buy into the corporation. Gene is then forced to come up with $50,000 in 30 days. He comes up with most of the money by selling off the Brooks's show horses, and then decides to throw a rodeo to raise the rest of the money.
Shelly and Waldo have an adorable little sister, Robin (Jean Van), who wants desperately to be a cowgirl. She's got the skills to pay the bills, so Gene puts her in the rodeo, but Collins uses the fact that she's a minor to get Gene in trouble with the law.
Collins doesn't stop there. If you've ever seen a B western from the '30s or '40s before, you know those greedy land-grabbing real estate barons never stop at legal malarkey, and sure enough, by the end of the picture there's an out-of-control wagon on fire with Robin inside, and Gene and his horse Champion Jr. in hot pursuit.
The songs in Saddle Pals are generally good, even though there's no single stand-out number. The songs include "You Stole My Heart," "Which Way'd They Go," "The Covered Wagon Rolled Right Along," "Amapola," and "I Wish I Never Had Met Sunshine." Also, Sterling Holloway, who's sort of like a less-funny, more-irritating version of Jim Carrey, is used judiciously in the picture, and most of his scenes are humorous, if not exactly hilarious.
Posted in 1947, June 1947 and tagged Damian O'Flynn, Gene Autry, Irving Bacon, Jean Van, Lesley Selander, Lynne Roberts, Musicals, Republic Pictures, Sterling Holloway, Westerns. Bookmark the permalink.
Sioux City Sue (Nov. 21, 1946)
Posted on December 14, 2010 by Adam Lounsbery
Frank McDonald's Sioux City Sue repurposes the script from the 1939 comedy She Married a Cop and takes its title from one of the most popular songs of 1946. It was Gene Autry's first film after he completed his service in the Army Air Corps during World War II.
More comedy than western, Sioux City Sue is lightweight fluff, but if you like Autry's music, there's plenty of it. (Although, if you're like me, you'll be a little sick of the title song by the end of the picture.)
In a plot that makes no sense if you stop to think about it for longer than half a second, a pretty blond Hollywood talent scout named Sue Warner (Lynne Roberts) casts Autry in an upcoming movie without telling him that he'll never actually appear onscreen and is in fact voicing a singing donkey in an animated feature.
Things have changed a lot. Now, Hollywood stars regularly lend their voices to animated features. It's nice work if you can get it; no time in the makeup chair, no difficult location shooting, and you can take your toddlers to the premiere. But in 1946, no star would ever dream of being in a cartoon. It's hard, though, not to be delighted and amused by the premiere of the cartoon feature in Sioux City Sue. The little donkey with Autry's voice, singing to his sweetheart on horseback, both of them wearing western duds, is pretty gosh-darned cute.
But Autry's been lied to, and that rightly doesn't sit well with the man. Of course, during the making of the film, Sue fell in love with him, so the big question for the second half of the picture is whether or not she'll be able to convince him she's sorry. She does her darnedest, quitting her job and coming to work on his ranch as a cook and general menial laborer.
This being a Republic western programmer, there's an action-packed climax, and it's up to Autry and his wonder horse Champion to save the day. The last few minutes of the picture, which involve a dynamited dam, a flood, and a cattle stampede, are exciting. But for the most part, Sioux City Sue is a laid-back and easygoing good time.
Posted in 1946, November 1946 and tagged Armand Schaefer, Bert Dodson, Champion, Comedy, Edwin Mills, Forrest Burns, Frank Marlowe, Frank McDonald, Frankie Marvin, Fred Allen, Fred S. Martin, Gene Autry, George M. Carleton, Harold Miller, Harry Cheshire, Helen Wallace, James Conaty, Jerry Scoggins, Joseph Dubin, Ken Lundy, Kenne Duncan, LeRoy Mason, Lynne Roberts, Michael Hughes, Minerva Urecal, Musicals, Olive Cooper, Pierre Watkin, R. Dale Butts, Ralph Sanford, Reggie Lanning, Republic Pictures, Richard Lane, Sam Flint, Sioux City Sue, Sterling Holloway, Tex Terry, The Cass County Boys, Tommy Coats, Tristram Coffin, Westerns. Bookmark the permalink.


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acknowledge it was plugged in. Any tips or suggestions? BTW, I installed the Swiftkey app and think it is working great withthis size tablet.
acknowledge it was plugged in.
what kind of keyboards are you using? A standard generic keyboard worked great for me.
A simple keyboard from a mac. Gonna try again with a generic. Hard to come by one these days as all mine are bt. Like I said the swift keyboard is working great so not a high priority.
Just a standard Dell USB keyboard. However, it does have a little USB hub built-in so maybe it was drawing to much power? I'll try to find a smaller one with no extra circuitry.
Tried another keyboard and working great. Super easy.
That's the problem. The Android ROM on the Airpad currently disables support for USB hubs. We're working on re-enabling that support and releasing a new ROM.
The Android ROM on the Airpad currently disables support for USB hubs. We're working on re-enabling that support and releasing a new ROM.
On a similar note, has there been any progress with support for bluetooth dongles?
I thought to use a powered hub to connect more than one device.
The hub provides 5v @ 500mA to each of its ports.
if there is a new firmware release coming out -- how does it get applied?
Will I need a special driver for firmware load mode? Windows 7 Pro.
find them or documentation on how they are used.
I do have the Android SDK installed and ADB works as expected.
The firmware gets applied by installing a special driver for Firmware load mode and connecting the Airpad with the Airpad's ESC key held down. I have posted the Airpad's factory ROM in a new thread.
If you are technical and wish to decompile the ROM into component files and rebuild new ROMs, then there is discussion of that sort of thing, along with additional tools, over in SlateDroid's "Unlisted RK2918" forum.
We don't yet have a firmware fix for USB hub support. I will post a new ROM when that is available.
Where do I get the Windows 7 driver for load firmware mode?
loading program to select the file and send the data?
OK I follow what to do.
to run all the 'partitions'?
Figured I'd reply to this similar subject rather than starting a new post to consolidate any future searches.
I'm also having issues getting a USB Keyboard to work. I purchased a case with a built-in keyboard (specifically http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004TJJPG8/ref=oh_o02_s00_i00_details ) along with a HDE USB A Female to 5-Pin Male Adapter ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002S7PS8M/ref=cm_cr_asin_lnk ). I did so as it was the exactly the config someone else had success with inside the comments of Amazon (I'm assuming he did not Root the device). Verified that that the keyboard works on a PC.
I have the Airpad 7p with ICS (4.0.1 - NOT Rooted). I can't seem to figure out how to get the Android Tablet to see the keyboard. Any advise of what I need to do or what I'm doing wrong is appreciated.