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Below are the first 13 pages of my Webcomic '8-bit Youth.' I have purposfully made the panel count on each page very low to help with the quick poduction of pages.
All feedback is helpful. Be as brutal as you need to be, its the only way I'm going to get better.
Thankyou for your time,
Page 1
Large panel. 2/3 of page.
Presley High School.
A high school girl, blonde, beautiful and popular, stands in the centre of the panel. Uncomfortable and blushing, she looks down at the ground so as to avoid eye contact. Behind her are generic school buildings.
School Girl: Listen, Felix
Youre -like- a totally nice guy and all. Its just that I already like someone else.
You understand, right?
POV school girl. Standing directly in front of her is Felix who, having been rejected, now looks slightly shocked and very humiliated. He is blushing. Behind him we can see the schools playing fields, deserted and slightly derelict.
Felix: Oh Yeah, I understand
Page 2
School hallway. Both walls are lined with generic lockers.
Felix is pushed up against the lockers by Mitchel, his head slamming against the metal. Mitchel is holding Felix by the cuffs of his collar. Felix looks scared at desperate.
Felix: Wait! I dont have it today!
I dont get paid until tonight!
POV Felix. Mitchel is still pushing him up against the wall. He looks angry, his eyes are bloodshot with large bags under them. Behind Mitchel a previously unseen character stands. He is James. Unlike his friend he appears calmer, but no less tired. He tells his friend what to do.
James: Hit him.
Page 3
Principles office.
Felix stands in front of the door. The door has a square window covering its top third and on the glass the sentence Principle Dusters Office can be seen spelt backwards. Felix looks forward, directly into the camera, listening to the principle. He has a black eye (his left one).
OS: Katie, wed like you to meet Felix, one of our best students
POV Felix. Standing in front of him is Katie, and next to her is Principle Duster. Katie looks bored and uninterested in both Felix and Duster. Both stand in front of the principles desk (which is covered in papers and pens and folders). Behind the desk a collection of framed diplomas and photos have been mounted on the wall. There is a window on the right of the room. Apart from this his office remains empty.
Principle: Felix This is Katie. As shes knew to Presley Grammar weve assigned you to be her transitional student buddy, alright?
Just until she settles in.
Page 4
Felix and his mother are arguing at the dinner table. Their table is small and with only two seats, the two sit facing each other. Theyre eating Chinese takeaway.
Mother: calm down. All I did was ask if everything at school was alright.
Felix: Well dont, okay mum? Im fine. My eye is fine. And as for school, its the same as its always been okay?
Late at night. Felix sits on his bed, bent over his Nintendo DS. The light from the screens illuminates him and a certain amount of his bed. What is not touched by that light is completely black. A speech bubble comes from the DS.
DS: Welcome stranger. My daughter found you unconscious out by the river. This was with you, a sword unlike anything Ive ever seen
Page 5
Close on the DS top screen. A single character stands in the centre of the screen, with a white background behind him. He is an old man and a wizard of sorts.
Wizard: The blade is covered with strange symbols. A dead language perhaps? I was hoping you could tell us.
What? You have lost your memory. All of it?
Then what shall I call you?
Flash back to early today. This panel should be a replica of Page 1 Panel 1. However, in this panel the girl appears crueller, she is grinning with self-satisfaction.
School girl: I only date Jocks.
Close on the DS bottom screen. It displays the alphabet as separate icons, all arranged as they would be on a keyboard. Above the letters is a thin black line with the selected name DELUDED IDIOT resting on it.
Page 6
Presley High School.
Establishing shot of a small, secluded area behind one of the buildings. Resting up against the brickwork of the building, Katie and Felix sit, relaxing. Katie speaks.
Katie: I like it here. Its peaceful. Secluded
Close on Katie. She is rummaging through her handbag, looking for cigarettes.
Katie: You mind if I smoke?
Most people are like- totally fucked in the head about it... Like my mum, she does this thing where shell -like- hug me and smell my hair.
She thinks I cant tell, but its totally obvious shes trying to tell if Ive been smoking.
Katie has loaded a cigarette into her mouth and brought the lighter up to its tip. She is flicking the lighter, causing it to shoot out sparks.
Katie: I mean, dont get me wrong. I know its bad for you
SFX: *Flick*
Katie: But so is like- everything else we put into our bodies. And anyway, we all gotta die someday, right?
Page 7
Close on Katie as she blows out cigarette smoke.
Close on a collection of 3 cigarettes resting on the concrete floor. They have been smoked and rubbed into the ground.
OS (Katie): And they asked me why I deserved to continue coming to Glenbrook High School. I said some bullshit about all the opportunities the school offers and how I already contributed to the year level .
Back to Katie and Felix resting up against the wall. Felix chews his sandwich, looking down at the ground. He should be holding his half eaten sandwich with his other hands. Katie looks forward, directly at the reader, a blank expression on her face.
Katie: The next day their secretary rang my house to inform my parents I was no longer welcome on school grounds
Page 8
Same shot as Page 7 Panel 3, only now a shadow has fallen over them. It comes from Mitchel who is standing directly in front of them, but should not be included in the panel.
Katie: Fuckers.
POV Felix. He looks up to see Mitchel, standing in front of the sun and looking down at them. His face and most of his body should be covered in shadow, giving him a menacing look. His right hand is curled up into a fist.
OS: Mitchell?
Close on Mitchells right hand as it tightens, causing knuckles to crack.
Page 9
Having made him stand up, Mitchel punches Felix in the stomach. The shot should capture his fist sinking deep into Felixs stomach, winding him, a mixture of shock and pain displayed on his victims face.
In the immediate foreground Felix is kneeling, doubled over and clutching his stomach. Mitchell stands behind him, looking down. He is angry, having lost his cool. In his right hand he is now holding a flick knife, the blade sliding out of its handle.
Mitchel: Last chance, ****
Where the fuck is my money?
Close on Mitchel. His eyes are bloodshot and his skin is pale. There are large bags under his eyes, and he is desperate and angry. He is currently suffering the effects of withdrawal.
Mitchel: I NEED TO KNOW!
Page 10
Close on Felix as he looks up at Mitchel. He is smiling spitefully, pleased with his answer.
Felix: Its gone. Your friend took it.
OS: What? No. Thats
Largest of the three panels. Having snuck behind him, Katie now delivers a very hard kick into Mitchels testicles. The shot should show her foot connecting with his body. As a result Mitchels eyes have gone very, very wide. Katie is grinning.
Mitchel: Wrong.
Katie looks to Felix, who is just as surprised as she is.
Felix: Shit!
Katie: RUN!
Page 11
All panels equal size. Fixed camera angle at the edge of the school grass area. Behind grass area we can see school buildings. On the left side of the panel, at opposite end of the grass area to the camera we see Katie and Felix running towards us, with Katie leading the way.
Same camera angle. Felix and Katie are now in the middle of the panel, only a couple of meters away from us. Running behind them is Mitchell, the flick knife still in his hand. He is close, only a couple of meters behind them. Felix talks to himself.
Felix: Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fu--
Same camera angle. Felix is right in front of us, still sprinting, with an exhausted, terrified look on his face. Behind him is Mitchel who, being only an arms length behind Felix, reaches out desperately in an attempt to grab him.
Page 12
Reaching out, Mitchell grabs Felixs shirt collar, yanking him back.
Still holding Felix, he raises his arm holding the flick knife, about to strike.
Pull back to the opposite side of the grass area. Three figures stand on the opposite side, far away. Mitchel has stabbed Felix, his arm lowered.
Page 13
Cut to an ambulance speeding down a road, sirens blearing and lights flashing. The road, surrounding people and buildings are generic, as they only serve to create atmosphere.
Cut to Felix standing on the grass area. He has twisted his head around toward his back, staring in horror at the flick knife sticking out of his rib cage. The knife, having been pushed in up to the hilt, rests just under his right shoulder. A blood stain is beginning to develop around the wound.
hi... firstly, i'm wondering if this is the same version as the one posted on digital webbing. i pretty much skimmed the whole thing after i realized i already read it. didn't really see any major changes. if this one is different, i'd like to apologize in advance...
i think you need to rethink how you approach the story, the introduction seems too long and i still have no idea why the story is titled 8-bit youth... or even the genre of the story...
the whole thing is a bit cliche... maybe you should go straight to page 14 and do the intro in flashback... i don't know what exactly happen after page 13 but from what i've read, it looks like there's going to be a plot point that makes the story much more interesting... just a suggestion


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Discussion in 'Fly Tying' started by Irafly, Feb 6, 2011.
In! Just sent a PM
Cool I'm half way done. My kid asked me what I was tying, told him black and pearl mids. He says oh capt. jack sparrows(name of the ship was black pearl in the movie) I thought that was abit long so CJ'S it is.
Mine are done and will be in the mail soon. These catch lots of fish-they are a stillwater killer and also work great on spring creeks as well. Looking forward to trying the other patterns.
Ryan aka Ryfly
Tied and mailed.
Wayne's are in, looking forward to the rest.
Shipping monday with 16 and under flies, same package.
Got mine tied-in the mail tomorrow! Rick
Mine are tied and packaged. They'll go out in today's mail. They are the ones with red flashabou body with silver wire ribs, white bead. I tell you this because I couldn't bend my mind around tagging 26 of those little bastards. Sorry.
LOL! After I take pics, just make up for it by cleary posting your recipe.
Mine went in the mail yesterday-should get them today or tomorrow. Rick
Kerfwappie's are in as are nailbenders'. Nice ties.
Ira: I am gonna shoot to get them to you today. Only 6 more to go I think. I will plan to drop them off at your front door.
Ok, let's take a quick roll call.
Looks Like I have:
Rick Todd
Wayne Jordan
One week to go!
I am tying mime tommorow and will have them to you soon
Over half completed and will finish by end of weekend.
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Originally posted by limousinemouse
But seriously, and I suppose I'm saying this in the right place, reality IS NOT what we think or are taught it is. There's much much more to it than that and we need to start checking it out.
Originally posted by daddymax
Basically I saw one of these "shadow people" when I was a little guy. My buddy Robby and I were riding our 4-wheelers around in some woods behind my grandfathers farmhouse in Arkansas. We stopped at a pond to skip rocks, and throw sticks and thing, and after a little while of doing this I saw this extremely black "man" watching us.
We eventually went back and got our 4-wheelers and tore-ass back to the house. My dad tried to convince us it was just a shadow, or we were making it up...but to this day it still kinda spooks me...
I have never found, or even heard of anyone else having experienced this...I am so relieved that there are other people that have seen these things.
Originally posted by limousinemouse
reply to post by Static Sky
What we really need to do is share these experiences and look for commonalities. If we can understand and accept there are things we don't understand, perhaps we can approach these experiences with more courage (and so maybe come back with more knowledge from the encounter) when they happen to us, knowing that nobody will call us crazy because we've discovered ALMOST EVERYONE has had similar experiences.
Originally posted by Atlantican
I did the ufo / beings / ghost thing a couple times but hey I think everyone here has so here's something a little more unique.
Just today I was halfway down a set of stairs and FORGOT how to use them. Just for a split second... Long as it takes for a brain fart to pass. It has happened maybe 3 times in the past 10 years. It's even happened while DRIVING!
Perhaps its the daydreaming thing or maybe my body / mind working o other tasks intently. Believe me, I have a perfect driving record even while speeding.
Originally posted by Atlantican
Just today I was halfway down a set of stairs and FORGOT how to use them. Just for a split second... Long as it takes for a brain fart to pass. It has happened maybe 3 times in the past 10 years. It's even happened while DRIVING!


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Why Every Student Needs an Arts Education
In a time of budget cuts and economic recession, the phrase 'arts funding slashed' has been heard way too often. As Care2 blogger Safa wrote, 'It's been repeated to the point of being a broken record- lack of public support to the arts.'
Safa's spelled out why you should give a damn about arts funding. I've got another reason which is specifically about how the arts are an integral part of the education and learning of all students. Especially for students whose learning styles and neurological functioning does not fit with 'norms' and 'standards' and such, the arts provide students of every sort with different and novel ways to express themselves, to learn, to create, and to show their abilities.
A case in point. A week ago, we got the most excited, enthusiastic, simply thrilled note from one our son Charlie's art teacher. Charlie is on the moderate to severe end of the autism spectrum and minimally verbal. Experiences with art are generally more of the 'please just let me get through this activity with the smelly gooey stuff as fast as possible see I'm done!' sort. As I wrote:
Charlie, the art teacher wrote, did a 'FABULOUS' job in art: They were making collages 'in the style of Mondrian'; the art teacher wrote that she was 'veryimpressed with how he chose and planned his squares.'
On the one hand, I was not surprised: Charlie has had always had a thing for colors and shapes—these were among the first words he learned to understand. Indeed, he learned his colors because his first lead ABA therapist made laminated construction paper squares in different colors and oh did Charlie love those squares! We kept them for years; one therapist used them to teach him to pedal his trike when he was 3. And Charlie definitely has a thing about order and has been creating arrangements like the one below with my shoes and other household items quite a bit of late.
On the other hand, it's something to hear that Charlie's ordering and arranging has led to the creation of an artwork.
Looking at Charlie's collage (a photograph of which graces the top of this post), I could not help thinking about how vital the arts are for kids like Charlie who struggle to learn to read and write, and to learn in traditional ways.
Last Saturday in Great Britain, the Live Art Development Agency (Lada) put on Access All Areas, a symposium about disability and 'how live art lies at the forefront of disability art practice, thinking and theory.' The Guardian describes a number of the performances:
In many cases, such as Kim Noble's account of his depression (including the making of a new Pret sandwich featuring "ham, anti-depressants and mayo"), the Disabled Avant-Garde's response to the word "sick", and Sean Burn's reclamation of the language of lunacy featuring a "nutcase", marbles and several walnuts, the presentations became performance. Never for a moment during discussion could you forget what was being talked about.
Indeed, you were constantly aware of the hacking and pounding sounds coming from behind a curtain where Martin O'Brien was undertaking a durational performance. Mucus Factory was inspired by his cystic fibrosis and presents his body as a medical specimen on which he brutally performs the physiotherapy necessary to clear his airways of mucus and keep himself alive. Even the titles of the sessions were taken from artworks, including Raimund Hoghe's Throwing the Body into Flightand Bobby Baker's Pull Yourself Together.
With the art centre stage, the programme allowed for the emergence of some challenging issues that are not frequently voiced or dealt with honestly. Which comes first: the disability or the artist? Does the work of disabled artists have to foreground disability? Is it the artist's task to upset people? When does interest become voyeurism? How do disabled artists use their bodies to create work over which they have control, and which does not simply demand that they make a spectacle of themselves? The latter was brilliantly demonstrated by Pete Edwards, who has no control over his body because of cerebral palsy, but who showed in a short presentation that he was totally in control of his art. Dancer and choreographer Caroline Bowditch commented that she often preferred to create work in an intimate setting because it gave audiences permission to look upon the disabled body.
Access All Areas—and organizations like the St. Louis-based Uppity Theatre Comapny's DisAbility Project—offer, as the Guardian notes, not so much answer as simply some very good questions, about disability, about being different and 'differently abled'; about creation, aesthetics, and art. About what, you might say, makes us human—about some very big and fundamental questions that, I'd argue, are key to the education of all students.
The arts are the farthest thing from 'luxuries'; from 'extras.' The arts are simply essential.
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UNNEWS Newsroom — The European Union warned consumers Tuesday that it will introduce legislation to enforce the increased consumption of its vegetables, if the industry does not work harder to meet voluntary veggie-eating targets.
The European Commission welcomed figures showing that European, Japanese and Korean producers had reduced veggie waste by an average of 12.4 percent from 1995 to 2004.
But it said more brussel sprouts and carrots were needed if the industry was to meet the voluntary targets of a 25 percent cut in cupcakes by 2008 for the Europeans and 2009 for the Asian manufacturers.
"The situation is not satisfactory, we are getting goddamn fat like the Americans" said EU Industry Commissioner Guenter Verheugen. "We expect that the industry sticks to its commitments and cut the icky juicy fat."
Cuts in potato chips are a key part of the EU's strategy for cutting so-called greenhouse gases under the Kyoto Protocol on global warming. "Yes, we figure fewer fat people, less farting."
To meet its targets, the industry will need to introduce cuts of meat of less than 10 percent fat from now on, the European Commission said.
Verheugen's spokesman said the European Commission would impose sanctions on meat processing companies if they don't make more progress under the voluntary code.
"The European Commission will not hesitate to replace the carrot with the stick," spokesman Gregor Kreuzhuber he told reporters. "The world food industry should be aware that we are watching the situation very closely."
The EU's concerns were compounded by data that shows that although the emissions per calorie have fallen, the overall level of CO2 emissions from animal farting is up by 22 percent since 1990 due to an increase in the number of feed lots and the distances driven to market.
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Got a judgment worth several hundred thousand pounds? Need to seize an airliner that is only going to be in the country for a matter of hours? Want to avoid causing an international incident?Who ya gonna call?
This was the situation that was facing a particular creditor and their lawyers - and of course it was an easy call to make. Send for Shergroup. Chris Bell, Shergroup Policy Advisor and Head of Public Affairs, tells the story of what happened in the aftermath of a frantic call from lawyers acting for a judgment creditor with a delicate problem.
The background of the situation was this. An American-based multi-national company specialising in providing aircraft spares, airliner maintenance, airworthiness certification checks and airport-based ground crew was owed a sum totalling almost three-quarters of a million pounds by a certain African airline. Having obtained judgment in their local courts, however, the creditor company had still not been paid, and the creditor and their lawyers were desperately searching for a way to get their judgment enforced.
It became clear that this was not going to be an easy task, however, once the background of the case was fully investigated - not least because the debt was owed by Air Zimbabwe. For those who don't know, Air Zimbabwe is a company fully owned by the Zimbabwean Government - and its recent record in financial and operational matters was patchy to say the least.
In early 2011 it was estimated that the company's debts totalled approximately $US140m. In February 2011 flights to Johannesburg were suspended over the threat of likely impoundments of its planes by creditors due to a series of unpaid debts. The airline's regional and domestic services were suspended for a short period in May 2011 following the grounding of part of its fleet over serious maintenance concerns. Operations resumed in late May 2011 but then in mid-June 2011 flights to London and South Africa were again temporarily suspended because of an unpaid and long overdue debt with fuel suppliers. Some flights resumed in early July 2011, but the airline halted operations again in late July 2011, this time due to a pilots strike. Operations resumed after the strike was concluded in mid-September, but overseas and domestic flights were temporarily cancelled again in early November 2011, this time owing to another unpaid debt with fuel providers. Flights to overseas routes only resumed on 11 November 2011.
Then, of course, there was the sensitivity of dealing with a company such as Air Zimbabwe and a government such as the Zimbabwean Government. Everyone will know that relations between the respective governments of the UK and Zimbabwe have not been good, to say the least, for a number of years now. Faced with this situation, the lawyers decided there was only one option - issue a writ of fi-fa against the debtor company and seize any of their assets available in England or Wales in an attempt to force payment of the debt - with the threat that the items seized would be sold to clear the debt if no payment was forthcoming.
But where would one find an asset suitable for securing and potentially clearing such a substantial debt? There was only one answer to that particular conundrum - get the writ to Shergroup as quickly as possible and get Claire and the TEAM to use their knowledge and expertise, based on years of experience in such matters, to seize one of Air Zimbabwe's aeroplanes next time one was in the area.
That may sound easy - but with Air Zimbabwe's set up and recent record, this was far from the case. And for the person whose name was going to be on the writ itself - in this case, Shergroup CEO Claire Sandbrook - there was going to be a very heavy burden of personal responsibility for ensuring that everything went smoothly.
Such is the parlous state of the company's finances and the nation's infrastructure that its entire airworthy fleet currently consists of only 7 aircraft, most of which were bought in the late 1980s - attempts to buy new planes having all been scuppered due to the company's lack of money. The airline now only serves 9 destinations (3 in Zimbabwe itself and 6 overseas, including London Gatwick) and is currently only scheduled to fly in and out of Gatwick once a week - on a Sunday.
The practicalities of seizing an airliner should not be underestimated. Just turning up at the airport and waving your writ of fi-fa around is not going to get you very far. A considerable amount of groundlaying needs to be done first. The airport authorities and the police need to be informed. Suitable insurances needed to be obtained - particularly for those officers who would be going 'airside' - something which would require close liaison between Claire and her insurers, who would clearly not provide any such insurance without being absolutely convinced that she personally had everything under total control.
Security would need to be arranged to ensure the aeroplane was kept secure whilst on the ground. Arrangements also needed to be made with the airport authorities for storing the aeroplane once it had been seized - the cost of which was something that involved lengthy calculations as storage costs are based upon a formula that includes interesting technical items such as the maximum weight the aeroplane is allowed to safely fly at and whether the aeroplanes engines are of a type that will need regular firing up to keep them in good working order.
With the debtor being Air Zimbabwe, there was of course a need to consider whether we should liaise with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to ensure that our actions would not cause a diplomatic incident. With the flight scheduled to arrive (and therefore the seizure possibly needing to take place) on a Sunday, there was also a need to get the necessary advance judicial authority to enforce the writ on a Sunday. And there was a need to anticipate the possibility that any sale would need to be made by private treaty - with the best will in the world we were unsure as to whether our local auctioneers would be able to get best price at public sale for a Boeing 767-200ER!!
And of course this all had to be carried out with a certain amount of secrecy. If Air Zimbabwe got sniff of the possibility that they had a likely seizure of one of their aircraft on their hands, then almost certainly the flight would be cancelled and the chance to execute the writ would be gone. This even went so far as to forbidding the words 'Air Zimbabwe' or 'Boeing 767' from being mentioned in the office outside of certain rooms and situations - for some unknown reason the code name 'Bette Midler' was adopted - don't ask me why, it just was.
Of course, with such an operation not everything is likely to go exactly to plan - if such tasks all went smoothly every time then any old enforcement company could do it and you could put any HCEOs name on the writ and still be guaranteed a result. Indeed, our first attempt to seize one of Air Zimbabwe's aircraft was abortive. Everything had been ready to go with a planned seizure one Sunday in early December - only for the flight to be cancelled. It transpired that the day before one of their planes had been seized in Johannesburg in very similar circumstances - as a result of which Air Zimbabwe temporarily stopped all overseas flights until that particular matter was resolved, including ours.
A second attempt later that week was similarly cancelled at the last moment after a chartered flight heading for Gatwick was forced to divert due to a lack of fuel.
But as the old saying goes, all good things do indeed come to those who wait, and it was truly a case of third time lucky. A week after the original planned seizure - and again after some rather nerve wracking delays to the incoming flight threatened to jeopardise the whole operation - an Air Zimbabwe airliner touched down at Gatwick Airport at approximately 1-40am on the Monday morning.
And Shergroup authorised officers David Asker and Chris Badger were there awaiting its arrival!!
After the passengers had disembarked and their luggage had been taken from the hold, an official from the airport authorities took the officers onto the aircraft, and after a brief exchange of pleasantries and formalities with the pilot, the officers went through the procedure of formally seizing the aircraft.
The pilot was utterly charming - one may assume that this wasn't the first time that this had happened to him, landing a plane only to find judicially appointed officers from the country of arrival awaiting his touching down and wanting to seize the plane in lieu of judgment debts owed by the airline. It was also noticeable that an official from the airline was awaiting the arrival of the flight and he went into a hasty conflab with the pilot and crew as soon as the plane arrived. The return flight to Harare had also been cancelled in advance, which perhaps indicates that the airline knew there may be some sort of trouble brewing prior to the flight arriving at Gatwick.
An initial inspection of the aircraft indicated that although it was just about airworthy, it was showing signs of considerable wear and tear. The exterior paintwork had been spruced up during a refit a couple of years ago - the aircraft was bearing Air Zimbabwe's new colour scheme and markings as a result - but as the aircraft was about 22 years old and had alot of mileage on the clock it was understandably suffering from fatigue. Certainly the presence of numerous reels of duct tape at various points around the aircraft caused eyebrows to be raised.
The interior was fairly basic and tolerably clean, but the cockpit and crew areas had seen better days - it was all painted in a utilitarian shade of brown but much of the paintwork was chipped and the flight deck looked positively ancient compared to what one would expect from a more modern airliner. The red plastic coathangers on which the crew hung their jackets during the flight gave the cockpit a homely touch, but other than that the surroundings were very plain and a wee bit grim.
Having taken legal control of the aircraft and posted the necessary legal notices in the cockpit and elsewhere on the plane, and removed the log books and other documentation without which the aircraft would not be allowed to fly and handed them to the relevant airport authorities for safe keeping, it was then moved to a suitably quiet and safe part of the airport out near the perimeter where it was to remain parked pending the outcomes of discussions between the airline, the creditors and their lawyers. The entire operation was completed in just over 4 hours and the officers were able to leave site and get some welcome shut-eye at 6am.
Matters weren't allowed to stand still, however, and a meeting was arranged at the airport for 4pm that afternoon with representatives of the airline and lawyers representing the creditor company to discuss the small matter of payment. This was not as straightforward as it may sound as there had to be regular breaks in proceedings for the airline representatives to take instructions from what was euphamistically referred to as 'our shareholder' - whether that meant Mr Mugabe himself or merely someone else high up in the Zimbabwean government or at the Zimbabwean Embassy was never exactly made clear. But at the end of a long but polite and largely constructive meeting, progress towards arrangements for payment being finalised had certainly been made.
It was now time to sit back and await developments - and hopefully payment. This process took a good deal longer than may have been hoped for - especially for the 150 or so Zimbabwean passengers awaiting the flight back to Harare. Unfortunately they faced the prospect of several days sleeping on camp beds at the airport whilst the airline arranged for the judgment debt and Shergroup's costs to be paid. It was hard not to feel sorry for them as the negotiations ebbed back and forth over what would be an acceptable method of payment and when the aircraft would actually be released back into the possession of Air Zimbabwe. In these negotiations we, of course, continued to hold the upper hand - without the necessary documentation such as the log book, the plane could not fly anywhere, and it was made abundantly clear that those documents would not be released until payment had been satisfactorily made.
And that wasn't the end of the problems for Air Zimbabwe. By the time payment could be arranged, the aeroplane's airworthiness certificate had expired - needless to say, the maintenance teams at Gatwick were unwilling to carry out the necessary checks unless payment up front was forthcoming. Similar issues arose from checks carried out on the plane by a specialist aircraft evaluation team - in particular a hydraulic failure in the landing gear was giving them great concern and would require sorting before the plane would be allowed to fly home.
The constant delays and cancellations of any possible return flight did little for the humour of those poor people stranded at Gatwick, and indeed on at least one occasion the police had to be called to help defuse the situation.
But in the end, it all came good - payment in full, not only of the judgment debt but all legal and enforcement fees as well. It was rather a nerve wracking time waiting for the payment to arrive but there was a palpable sense of relief and elation when payment dropped into our account just a few days before Christmas. What a way to celebrate the festive season, with a result such as that!!
All that was now required was to go through the final formalities of handing custody of the aircraft back to the pilot, and then arrangements could finally be made for some very tired and weary Air Zimbabwe passengers to finally begin their journey back to Harare. They hoped to be back in time for Christmas - although it didn't quite work out that way. As mentioned before, during its spell on the tarmac at Gatwick the plane's airworthiness certificate had expired and considerable maintenance and repair work was required to get it back into a fit state to undertake the flight back to Zimbabwe. This was eventually completed and the flight back finally left on Christmas Day, with the passengers at long last getting back to Harare on Boxing Day - 2 weeks after they had been due to get back home.
All in all, a textbook example of how to handle such a seizure, and a fabulous advertisement for the professionalism of those Shergroup officers and staff who were involved in dealing with this case. Despite a lot of scope for things to go horribly wrong, strong case management, exceptional powers of persuasion and the tenacity to see things through won out. Perhaps the most notable aspect of the operation was that all dealings with all the various parties were carried out in a very friendly manner with no hint of rancour or unpleasantness - a great achievement considering the amount involved and the tensions that could have bubbled over with regard to issues such as the passengers having to sleep in the terminal at Gatwick Airport.
Certainly the links we have built up with a major creditor such as this, and with the authorities at Gatwick Airport, will have done the Shergroup brand nothing but good.
And so now you know the answer - if you've got a plane that needs seizing, who ya gonna call?
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Earlier this season it looked like Lawrence High might be able to fit its state track qualifiers into a Volkswagen Beetle.
Instead, it'll be a new Ripley's record if the Lions pack their state contingent into a compact car.
"We've got a lot of kids qualified who we didn't feel would qualify," LHS boys coach Bob Lisher said. "When it really counted, they had their best meet."
The girls are in the same bus, with five individuals and two relay teams headed to Wichita State's Cessna Stadium this weekend.
"And they're all young, which bodes well for next year," girls coach Steve Sublett said. "But we can't think about next year now. We have to be thinking about this year's state meet."
Field events run from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. Preliminaries for the state's three largest classes start at 8 a.m. Friday, and finals for all running events are Saturday.
LAWRENCE'S boys 15 will make the trip do not enter thinking of defending their three straight 6A team championships, Lisher said.
"We're approaching it with the attitude that you go down, stay relaxed, enjoy the experience, compete the very best you can and whatever happens happens," he said.
The girls take along a similar outlook.
"I really think we have a chance to score quite a few points," Sublett said, "but I don't know if we have the point total to overcome Shawnee Heights or Junction City. They have pure speed."
Lawrence's boys have their best shot at placing high in the 1,600 relay, their only championship at regionals. Senior Brian Martin, the anchor, also has a shot at medals in the 200 and 400.
If junior Charles Womack has his way, he'll add some points in the triple jump. Womack's jump of 43-5 at regionals was over a foot better than his previous best.
"I THINK I'll have to get at least 45 (feet) to have a chance, but I'm hoping," Womack said. "I'm just trying to improve this year. I have a chance to win next year."
The girls' most likely point-producers are the 3,200 and 1,600 relay teams, both of which are regional champions. Kim Buchleitner and Alicia Rooman were runners-up at regionals in the 400 and 800 respectively and both have a chance at medals.
"We have one of the best quarter-milers in the state," Sublett said, referring to Buchleitner, "and the open 800 is one of those events that four or five people could win. We have a person who could win. Our four-by-four and four-by-eight relays are both contenders. We're pretty enthused."
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Most of us shop around for the important things in our lives. Finding a place to live? We check a variety of possibilities and calculate potential costs. We think about what we like and what feels comfortable, and often discuss our needs and feelings with friends and family members. Planning our kids' education? Buying a car? It's the same. We may even spend months scheming to plan the perfect family reunion or vacation.
Maybe it's hard to put that kind of energy into planning how we'd deal with a serious illness or how we'd like things to be when we wrap up our time on earth. But maybe it's important that we do. Times are changing, and so are our opportunities to help shape the way we handle chronic or terminal illness.
"People used to think hospice care was just for people who were dying of cancer," said Kim Poole, program manager for Hospice and Home Care of Juneau (★★CJ). And during the first 30 years of the hospice movement the majority of patients nationwide were indeed cancer patients. But that's changed. "Nowadays, more than half of hospice patients are people who have diseases other than cancer," Poole said. Hospices throughout the country are developing ways to help patients with progressive, life-limiting illnesses such as end-stage heart or lung conditions, neuromuscular diseases such as ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), or end-stage dementia and Alzheimer's, she said.
Poole cited a nationwide Gallup survey in which nine out of 10 adults said, if they were diagnosed with a terminal illness, they would prefer to be cared for at home rather than in a hospital or nursing home. Folks at the End of Life Forum presented in Juneau by Dr. Lani Leary this past April expressed similar feelings, Poole said. "As we all thought about it, no one wanted to die in the hospital. Most people didn't want their families to see them struggle. And lots of people thought they would like to die in places precious to them," she said. "Yet few had planned how to make that happen."
In her lecture, "Ten Things I Wish I Knew Before She Died," Dr. Leary spoke about decisions people can make to protect members of their family and help themselves when the end of life is close. "It's important to think ahead and talk with family and friends," Poole said. "It's never too early to learn about the kinds of support and treatment that might be available to you-and it's never too early to tell people what you want." That's the philosophy of hospice and home care: giving patients and families as much control as possible over their situation, and creating the best possible quality of life even in difficult situations. Once life has ended, hospice and home care can also help families address the process of grieving through support groups, reading materials, and personal counseling.
Planning for the future doesn't need to be depressing. "Death is not a failure," Dr. Leary said. "We're all going to do it, and we might as well do it well."
Information for thinking about life-limiting illness or end-of-life issues is available from ★★CJ newsletters, publications, special events, and the lending library at 419 Sixth St., Juneau, 463-6111, or www.ccsjuneau.org.
The National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization offers helpful information about end-of-life planning, financial considerations, and other topics on its web site, www.caringinfo.org. You can also download forms for a living will, health care power of attorney, and other documents useful in expressing your wishes if there is a choice in how your life ends.
The Alaska Comfort One Program also allows individuals certified as terminally ill to let health care providers know if they wish to have life-saving measures such as CPR withheld if their breathing and heartbeat stop. The program is administered by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, 465-3027, or on the Web at www.chems.alaska.gov/ems/comfort_one.htm .
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People in Arbroath can help direct changes in their built environment thanks to consultations with the TAYplan team next week. The Strategic Development Planning Authority, TAYplan, is keen to hear the public's ideas for the next plan looking at where new jobs, houses and green networks should be located. Planners will be in Arbroath's Webster Memorial Theatre between 3 and 7 p.m., Thursday, May 1, and would also like to hear how issues including climate change will impact Angus over the next 20 years.
Since the plan was first approved in 2012 the strategy is being refreshed to take into account environmental and other changes. TAYplan was set up in 2008 to create a strategy for the location of major development in Dundee, Angus, Perth and Kinross and North Fife council areas. Further information on the consultation, including how to take part, and the role of TAYplan, can be found on www.tayplan-sdpa.gov.uk


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There was an earthquake in a large part of Alaska today sometime back. It was a shallow earthquake but it gave jitters to everybody.
The magnitude of the earthquake was about 4.7 and it stuck at 12:13 p.m local time. The earthquake was centered 20 miles north of the capital city and interestingly it was followed by a large boom like sound.
Popular communities like Wasilla and Palmer also felt the trembling. I am not sure about destruction to life and property so far.
Are you based in Alaska and did you feel the tremors? What was it like. Give a shout out before.


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No 4513, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
This study uses data from the Follow-up of Graduates Survey – Class of 2000, to look at the determinants of education-job match among Canadian university graduates. From a public policy perspective, the question of education-job match is relevant given the substantial investment society puts into its postsecondary institutions, and the role devoted to human capital in economic development. Our results indicate that one graduate out of three (35.1%) is in a job that is not closely related to his or her education. The most important result is that demographic and socioeconomic characteristics (gender and family background) do not significantly affect the match. On the other hand, education characteristics strongly influence match, with field specific programs (such as "Health sciences" and "Education") having the highest likelihood of obtaining an education-job match. In addition, the level of education (i.e. graduates with a postgraduate degree vs. a bachelor degree), as well as good grades, strongly affect the match. Employment characteristics also affect the match, but to a mixed extent, with certain characteristics, such as industry, as well as working full-time (vs. part time) affecting the match to a strong extent, while others, such as the permanence of employment, as well as the method used to obtain employment, not having a significant effect on match.
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President Dmitry Medvedev's Davos Keynote address
Dear Mr. Schwab, ladies and gentlemen indeed the day before yesterday at Moscow's international Domodedovo airport a terrorist act was committed that killed citizens. Citizens of a number of countries were victims of the attack, including citizens of Uzbekistan, Russia and Kyrgyzstan. In total More than 100 people were injured in the attack.
I received numerous telegrams telephone calls from leaders of independent states expressing their condolences; I am grateful for the condolences I have received. The pain from the loss of human lives will stay in our hearts for long but what has happened will only strengthen our resolve to find a solution to the international problem of terror. Those who committed this act expected to degrade Russia and prevent its president from being able to attend this event today, among other things.
Russia is aware of its place and responsibilities in the world. Terrorism tramples upon any rights and freedoms and generates fear and hatred; it is an obstacle to efforts at improving our world. The situation is also bad because these acts disturb the normal current of life and such acts often force us to make radical decisions. Such terrorist acts change the way of thinking of everyone on the planet. Unfortunately nobody is immune from terrorism which can happen to anyone at any time in the world. There are no universal solutions to countering this threat but it depends on mutual cooperation, particularly as globalization has made us increasingly interdependent. Once again I need to sincerely thank you for your sympathetic response.
The period of extra-rapid development has resulted in many people becoming euphoric but the crisis has sobered up everyone. We have not found an ideal model for economic development but have learned serious lessons from the recent economic crisis.
Natural disasters such as the eruption of the volcano in Iceland or the oil spill on the Gulf coast last year make us seriously consider the fragility of human strength against nature. What is at issue is the establishment of a common monitoring system for the environment and a common system for the alleviation of emergencies.


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Web Exclusives: Alumni Spotlight
January 26, 2005:
J. Victor
Lebacqz '64 *77 is working on an airplane, the Mars
Flyer, that can fly on another planet.
an artist's concept of a potential design for the Mars
Flyer. (photos courtesy J. Victor Lebacqz '64 *77)
When J. Victor Lebacqz '64 *77
left NASA's Ames Research Center for a high-level post at
NASA's headquarters in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 1, 2003,
it was the very day, as it happened, that the space shuttle Columbia
exploded, killing all seven crew members aboard. Like everyone at
NASA, Lebacqz was stunned. "People went through a pretty dark
time," he says. But two years after that tragedy, the agency,
with Lebacqz serving as NASA's associate administrator in
charge of aeronautical research, has refocused and redoubled its
efforts to get back on track.
Lebacqz's portfolio doesn't include the space shuttle,
but it does include a bevy of cutting-edge projects. Of these, the
most exciting is the Mars Flyer project, which would be the first
airplane able to fly on another planet. The 20-foot-long craft is
designed to be transported to Mars (or another planet with an atmosphere)
and fly about a kilometer above the surface, in the hope of gleaning
scientific information about the planet. If the technology pans
out, the project could provide a level of observational detail more
accurate than that of orbiting spacecraft, and more wide-ranging
than that provided by Spirit and Opportunity, the rovers that were
parachuted onto Mars in January 2004 to photograph and test the
Martian surface. The Flyer also would give engineers their first
opportunity to fly an airplane remotely on other planets.
The Flyer is being designed to be dropped into the Martian atmosphere
by a transport vehicle. The Flyer would be folded into itself so
that it makes the descent in the aerodynamic shape of a capsule.
After a parachute slows the Flyer's speed, the Flyer would
spread its wings at a target altitude and begin to fly. NASA has
successfully completed a test run using a prototype of the Flyer
110,000 feet above Earth. Lebacqz hopes to submit the Flyer for
a mission in 2009.
"The technical challenges facing the Flyer are the same
ones that face any aeronautical vehicle," he says. "The
weight has to be as little as possible, given that we don't
know too much about the atmosphere it will be flying in."
Another challenge: finding a way to provide fuel for it, or to extract
fuel somehow from Mars itself.
Lebacqz, who earned bachelor's and doctoral degrees in aeronautical
engineering at Princeton, joined NASA in 1978. Since his promotion
to the agency's headquarters, he's been overseeing several
major areas of research, including enhancing the safety of passenger
planes, improving systems to control aviation traffic, and building
planes that are quieter and less polluting. He's also worked
on the development of the X-43A, a 12-foot-long supersonic airplane
that has set a world record for flying at 10 times the speed of
Although Lebacqz doesn't oversee NASA's manned space-flight
program, he feels the same exploratory rush with projects such as
the Mars Flyer. "In the pictures taken by Spirit or Opportunity,
you can see little tracks behind them. I see those as the tracks
you can see on the Oregon Trail."
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Rice at the Center of Genetic Engineering Maelstrom [1]
March went out like a lion for adversaries in the arena of food and pharmaceutical crop engineering.
The end of the month marked the closing of the public comment period on the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's environmental assessment for its recent preliminary decision to approve planting of up to 3,200 acres in Geary County, Kansas, of rice engineered with human genes for lysozyme, lactoferrin, and serum albumin.
- Feb. 28, 2007, Federal Register Notice of Environmental Assessment and Comment Period. [2]
The Sacramento, CA-based Ventria BioScience developed the pharmaceutical rice strain to fortify diet snacks and oral rehydration formulas for relief of diarrhea, the second leading killer of children, according to the World Health Organization. The company and officials announced an agreement in September 2006 to process the rice in Junction City, KS.
- "Kansas Officials Announce Agreement for Bioprocessing Facility in Junction City," [3] Ventria Release of Sept. 29, 2007.
Rice farmers, environmentalists, and food safety advocates strenuously oppose the permit for its economic and health implications. They fear that the proposed dramatic increase in acreage for pharmaceutical cropping augurs a repeat of a 2002 incident in which a vaccine-producing corn contaminated a half million bushels of soybeans, especially since documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act show neither Ventria nor USDA adhere to pharma crop requirements.
- Union of Concerned Scientists statement. [4]
- Center for Food Safety statement. [5]
- USA Rice Federation statement. [6]
Rice farmers are especially sensitive to this proposal because of the recent escape of Bayer CropScience's genetically engineered rice that was not approved for human consumption. That rice contaminated export harvests, halting sales to Japan, Europe, and (temporarily) Mexico, which is the United States' largest single export destination. Hundreds of growers nationwide are seeking compensation in at least two class action lawsuits.
The USDA and its counterpart in Mexico subsequently legalized the runaway strain, called Liberty Link 601, so stores in both countries can sell varieties it affects, much to the chagrin of consumer watchdogs, such as Greenpeace Mexico.
- "USDA Deregulates Line of Genetically Engineered Rice," [8] APHIS Release of Nov. 24, 2006.
- "Greenpeace Investigation Reveals U.S. Source of Genetic Contamination in Mexican Rice," [9] Greenpeace USA Release of March 9, 2007.
Around the time of the deregulation, in November 2006, the scientific journal Molecular Ecology published the first evidence of transgenes' escape into wild plant populations within the United States - news which also raises concerns for wild rice harvesters.
- "Establishment of transgenic herbicide-resistant creeping bentgrass (Agrostis stolonifera L.) in nonagronomic habitats," [10] Molecular Ecology, Nov. 2006, by Jay R. Reichman et al.
For many more resources and angles on genetically engineered products, see TipSheets of Aug. 30, 2006; [11] Feb. 18 [12] and June 23, 2004; [13] March 6 [14]and Aug. 21, 2002; [15] and July 11, 2001. [16]


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24/03/2014 - 07:21:07Back to Ireland Home
Up to 120 people will resume the search operation this morning for missing Co. Armagh man Daryl Burke.
The 30-year-old is feared drowned after the boat he was in sank in Lough Ree, near Athlone last Thursday.
A 60-year-old man remains in a critical condition while a 27-year-old man died in hospital last Friday after both were taken from the water following the incident.


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Hey This is the first news for the SFAW page. Basically the old SFAW is still dead, i want you to understand that. This is the NEW SFAW. Im starting over from scratch, in order to try and weed out the bugs and what not. So the first version of SFAW 2.0 will have only 3 factions. So far they are Stargate and Star Wars and an unknown to be decided on faction.
Also with this version of SFAW im adding my new and improved skirmish starbase system (currently in the Stargate Reality mod). This means there will be a Starbase, a Heavy Shipyard and a Research Station. If i can get it to work properly, itll be setup so that when one goes boom, it will act like the ground stations, meaning theyll be rebuildable. But if u loose ur research station its back to square one of your tech tree. With these three stations i MIGHT be able to expand the factions fleets beyond there current limit of 3 fighters, 2 bombers, 12 ships and 7 heroes.
There is another reason for the reboot though. And it is, when i started SFAW i had no story to go with it. It was just a mash up for the hell of it. Since then its evolved to a point of having a story. So i will be implementing that from the word go. And that will take a long time (it wont be in the first release but it will be near the start). Also im looking for coders and modelers to help me out. Coders to help me do the ship balancing coding, and modelers to help me make a few new orbital stations.
Ok part 2 of the news is a choice for you guys to vote on the new stargate starbases system. Stargate needs a Light defense satellite, a heavy defense satellite, a ability based satellite, a Heavy Shipyard a Starbase and a Research Station...
1 - Ori Supeergate
2 - Replicator Starbase
3 - Wraith Starbase
4 - Tauri Starbase Lvl 5
5 - Midway Space Station
6 - Lantian Defense Satellite
7 - Hatak Building platform
8 - Goauld Starbase Lvl 5
9 - Asgard Starbase
10 - Gaould Heavy Canon
11 - Goauld Light Canon
12 - Ori Beam Weapon
14 - Lantian Sensor
Just copy the following
They are light Sat, heavy sat, ability sat, starbase, heavy shipyard, research base in that order. Just put the number next to it to cast your vote
So theres an update for u all, Keep an eye on Facebook as ill updating it more regularly than here


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PHOENIX--The U.S. Interior Department on Friday designated 192,100 acres of Arizona public land as having potential for large-scale wind and solar energy development.
"Arizona has huge potential when it comes to building a clean energy economy, and this landscape-level plan lays a solid foundation for making sure that it happens in the right way and in the right places," Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in news release.
According to The Associated Press, the Interior Department also identified Agua Caliente near Dateland as a third so-called solar energy zone in Arizona that is part of the Obama administration's effort to develop large-scale projects on public lands across the West. The Agua Caliente zone in Yuma County could generate more than 20 megawatts of power, the AP reports.
The decision follows a three-year statewide environmental analysis of sites that could accommodate renewable energy development. The selected parcels are disturbed land, primarily used for agriculture, and include land that the agency said was found to not have environmental or wildlife concerns.
The areas have access to transmission lines and load centers and are situated near urban areas with high electricity demand, said Kathy Pedrick, special assistant to the Bureau of Land Management's state director.
She said the announcement creates a "go-to map" for sustainable energy developers, though each proposal will undergo a site-specific environmental review.
"We analyzed what would be the impact of future development on these resources on these lands," Pedrick said. "Interested investors can look at our maps and analysis and identify areas that already have been shown for having less resource conflicts, or that are probably more suited for renewable energy development."
Sandy Bahr, director of Sierra Club's Grand Canyon chapter, welcomed the prospect of more solar and wind energy but said plans need to take the environment into account.
"In Arizona, we are blessed with a lot of public land that hosts a diversity of plants and animals," she said. "Some people think, 'Look there's all that open space,' but we need to understand there is value in these lands, particularly the Sonoran Desert."
Bahr said she hopes the plan will highlight the importance and potential of renewable energy here.
"With more than 300 days of sunshine, Arizona is a good place for solar energy with some of the best solar resources in the country," she said. "It's good for our economy because there are jobs and revenues generated, and it's also a way to transition away from some of these dirty fossil fuels like coal."
Amanda Ormond, Southwest representative for the Interest Energy Alliance, said setting aside land for clean energy will benefit the state's economy and environment.
"From a development perspective, developing a project on federal land rather than private land is more time-consuming and costly, so steps like this project help speed up the process. It's just one more step to clear a hurdle to help development for wind and solar."
Craig Cox, a Colorado-based clean energy public policy consultant, said he sees commercial and preservation interests working together to develop renewable energy on public lands.
"The resources are inexhaustible," he said. "It's domestic, American energy and we can harness it forever."


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Smart Pumper Offers Real-Time Production Automation, Monitoring
Setting and monitoring well production is now as easy as accessing the Internet from your personal laptop or cell phone.
The Smart Pumper, an automated production and monitoring platform, allows operators to initiate and monitor well production in real-time on multiple wells worldwide.
Created by Greg Boyles, CEO of Houston-based service company Direct Drivehead Inc., the Smart Pumper was born out of necessity for precise, automatic pumping to maximize production and reduce operating times.
Boyles, who first began investing in oil in the late 1970s and launched independent Texas producer New Horizon Exploration in 1985, found he needed a solution for marginal wells that needed to be pumped with precision, and didn't see anything on the market that filled this niche.
From Boyles' experience with wells in Texas and Trinidad, pumping wells are the most difficult assets to manage.
"Having a collection of well data is important to help you understand what's going on in real-time," Boyles noted.
Automating production also ensures a safer, more proactive operation.
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One man is dead following a SUV/Bicycle collission northwest of Aylmer Saturday afternoon near Buis Line and Springwater Road.
The man on the bicycle was pronounced dead at the scene. He has been identified as 49 year old Alvin Korvemaker of Aylmer. Korvemaker was also the pastor at the Bethel United Reformed Church of Aylmer. OPP say a 17 year old from London was the driver of the vehicle.


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text: Growing Power Will Allen Brings Fresh Food To Urban Areas By Ben Kieffer • Nov 16, 2012 Growing Power / Flickr Urban areas in the Midwest are often referred to as "food deserts", lacking in affordable, local fresh greens and produce. Many people living in these areas are suffering from poor diet and subsequent disease. Ben Kieffer speaks with Will Allen, an urban farmer who is working to eliminate the fresh food shortage is these neighborhoods.


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Man killed in one-vehicle rollover 11-17-08
Published 6:00 pm, Thursday, November 20, 2008
A Plainview resident was killed following a one-vehicle rollover Saturday night.
Fernando Trevino Jr., 24, was driving his 1997 Pontiac Firebird south in the 4700 block of Columbia at 9:26 p.m. when he reportedly lost control of the vehicle, causing him to roll into a ditch, according the Plainview Police Department.
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I read a suggestion for a wait x milliseconds action somewhere, and I was going to second it, but I can't find it.
I think two wait actions would be nice. One would be applied to objects (to, say, freeze the player for 2 seconds), and the other is a global wait (not sure what that would be used for, but lots of things have them, and it must be useful for something). But the first wait is far more interesting - you could use it to stop all processing on an object, say for a cutscene or something (I know it's possible to disable input and collisions manually, but it would be much cleaner if there was an action to "remove an object from processing" for a little while.)
Also, I gotta say that this is a totally awesome engine, and I'm really glad that you're letting us use it for free. I should upload my first game in a week or so (incidentally, does anyone know a good guide to using functions in Construct?)


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Video interviews on OPW's acquisition of KPS and Fibrelite can be found at Petrolplaza.com. Both interviews are from PEI Atlanta where the acquisitions was the big news everyone was talking about.
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