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Down on the farm - Sky Tower pilot talks Pilot David Turnock was so devastated at his marriage break-up that he threatened to fly into Auckland's Sky Tower on election night last year. In his first interview, he talks to Nicola Boyes about depression, lost love and being behind bars.
The videos on former pilot David Turnock's office shelf are predictable: Top Gun and An Officer and a Gentleman - dashing aviators who won the girl. He has seen them dozens of times and, at 34, Turnock is New Zealand's own aviation celebrity of sorts. He lost his girl and nearly his life on national television on election night last year. September 17 was not significant, he says, it just happened to be the day he stole a plane from Ardmore Airport, threatened to fly into Auckland's Sky Tower and finally ditched into the sea off St Heliers. Further details released on the WSVG Finals New York, NY-November 9, 2006-The World Series of Video Games, presented by Intel, today announced further details of tournament formats and tech specs for the Finals. The WSVG Finals will take place at the Chelsea Piers Sports & Entertainment Complex in New York from December 9-11, 2006.The Counter-Strike 1.6 finals tournament will be hosted on Dell's XPS M1710 Laptop systems. The system features the Intel?Core?2 Duo processor T7600 (2.33GHz/667MHz FSB), a breakthrough in dual core performance with amazingly low power consumption. The XPS M1710 also includes 2GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM, 100GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive, and Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 802.11a/g Mini Card (54Mbps). Ten teams have qualified to compete in the Counter-Strike 1.6 tournament finals. Teams will compete in double-elimination brackets on maps: de_Dust2, de_Inferno, de_Train and de_Nuke for a grand prize of $50,000, Rolex watches and computer systems.The Warcraft III: Frozen Throne finals tournament will be played on Dell M1710 Laptops and also feature the Intel Core 2 Duo Processor T2600. Capcom has succeeded in introducing a genuinely impressive next generation new IP this year, in the form of zombie slayer Dead Rising. The firm is hoping to repeat the trick in the new year with shooter Lost Planet. Next-Gen spoke to North America marketing boss Mark Beaumont… . The first ever "hits" collection for those British brothers Oasis hits stores tomorrow. Stop the Clocks, while technically a "best-of" compilation, features no songs from the Oasis disc Be Here Now, and only one song each from other recent albums. New to DVD Nov. 21 The sequel to the blockbuster Ice Age hits stores tomorrow. Titled The Meltdown, it follows the characters from the first movie once "the chill is gone" (hence the title The Meltdown). Also coming to DVD is the Owen Wilson comedy You, Me and Dupree. New CDs Nov. 28 Remember Incubus? They have a new CD called Light Grenades coming out on the 28. The Ying Yang Twins return as well with a disc titled Chemically Imbalanced. New to DVD Nov. 28 "Good God! It's Kane! The Big Smelly Monster is here!" Jim Ross couldn't have said it better. What Iraqis are blogging about...and trying to live through. Here is the link to make it larger if need be, take a LONG look at this map and realize it is neighborhoods fighting neighborhoods, and many people being forced out of the mixed neighborhoods to create more territory for either the Sunni or Shiite majorities that result from such actions. The mainstream media have fallen in love with blogs, launching them on everything from politics to life in Las Vegas to bowling. But does the inherent tension between the blogospheres anything-goes ethos and the standards of traditional journalism mean this relationship is doomed? By Dana Hull The San Antonio Express-News has a bowling blog. The News Tribune in Tacoma, Washington, has a fly-fishing blog. A pet blog is popular at the Commercial Appeal in Memphis. Several newspapers have launched parenting blogs. The Fourth Estate has fallen fast and furiously in love with blogs, from news-driven ones about professional sports teams, real estate, crime, Hurricane Katrina, immigration and local and national politics to zanier ones that dive deep into niche subcultures.
Add your thoughts to our daily Editorial Page discussion. Letters of up to 250 words should include your name, town of residence and phone number. We will not publish the phone number, but use it to verify each writer. E-mail letters to opinions@qctimes.com Mail them to Quad-City Times, 500 E. 3rd St., Davenport, Iowa, 52801 'Tony Hawk's Project 8' tops latest games for new PlayStation 3 Over the years, readers have said their favorite video-game reviews are the ones in which I compare games to pop culture or ex-girlfriends (which ones are high-maintenance, etc.). But it's the holidays, so I need to stay in news-you-can-use mode. Hang in there, fans of dating parallels. Anyway, here's a straight-up look at more releases for the brand-spanking-new PlayStation 3. "Ridge Racer 7": Once again, you drive super-sleek race cars at 200 mph and beyond, through concrete jungles of cities, under dark tunnels and around mountain curves. As usual, you make hairpin turns by briefly letting off the gas, then stomping on the accelerator while sliding around corners. The courses are pretty, though many seem like leftovers from "Ridge Racer 6." The real value may be in racing up to 14 players online. Helping the needy as a matter of faith For eight years, an unusual group of people has regularly gathered for an unofficial breakfast meeting with Forest Grove school Superintendent Jack Musser to discuss issues related to families and youth. The group, made up of local pastors, is unusual in that it represents both liberal and conservative churches. In Washington County, many interdenominational groups are unofficially divided: Liberal Christians tend to end up doing things with other liberal Christians, while conservative Christians are likely to work with one another. The many Christians in the middle mix with either group. But in the county, there are many opportunities for Christians with diverse views to come together. In the end, some say, broad-based interdenominational and even interfaith efforts can benefit not just the community but Christianity itself. Mega event organisers owe responsibility to megapolis It seems that festivities and recreational and cultural activities in the metropolis have not come to an end with the conclusion last week of arms and military equipment exhibition - the Ideas - at the Expo Centre. |
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