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If Spider-Man — and indeed the entire Marvel canon — has taught us anything, it's that being a super-hero isn't as easy as it looks. But if you think that's difficult, try writing one… especially when you're aware of all the inherent flaws of the genre, no matter how much you love it. In Superpowers, author David J. Schwartz writes up not one but five newbie superheroes, and decides in working with them to zig where most writers (and readers) zag, just to see what would happen. What's the zig — and what happens? David J. Schwartz uses his super-typing powers to explain.
I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point I became a person who has a lot of skepticism about the things I love. Pulp fiction? Love it–aside from the bits where women always bring trouble, the mysteries rarely make actual sense, and the bewildering etymology of the word "gunsel." Latin American literature? Transcendent, if you've got a tolerance for metric tons of macho, the dominance of Catholic themes, and a fascination with incest. The Lord of the Rings? It still gets me–except for the part where it's all about buttressing flawed monarchies, defining good and evil along racial lines, and, well . . . elves.
Which brings me to comic books, specifically super-hero comics. I can't get enough of these stories, and I have the long boxes to prove it. I love the discovery of weird abilities, the monthly struggle to do the right thing, the last-minute victory against overwhelming odds. This despite the rampant sexism in comics which presents women as ornaments or victims in order to appeal to the fantasies and insecurities of adolescent boys; despite the fact that I worry that heroes with unlimited power and unimpeachable virtue make some readers complacent about the state of truth and justice in the world; and despite the fact that the struggles between costumed figures often seem too mythic to say much about the mistakes and choices made by normal humans.
I like mythic, too, but for Superpowers I made a decision early on: no super-villains. No silly men with overly complicated plans, no giant monsters, no shadowy government organization pulling strings. In a way super-villains make it easy on heroes; obviously _someone_ needs to do something about Dr. Unpleasant, and who better than the ordinary sanitation worker who's just received the strength of a gorilla from a radioactive plantain? This is how writers and editors avoid having decent, hard-working Captain Banana beat up on normal civilians, which is all well and good except for the part where crime becomes something perpetrated by archetypes instead of people.
That wasn't going to work for me, because what I really wanted to talk about was power–political, military, and personal–and how we use it. The story is about how these five college kids in Madison, Wisconsin wake up one morning with new abilities, and how that changes their lives. It's about their good intentions and the bad decisions that follow. In a way, power itself becomes a villain, because the thing that they discover is that once you have that sort of power, it's very difficult _not_ to use it.
Which is all well and good, but there's one thing that villains do really well, and that's drive a plot. My Rule One for writing–hopefully every writer's Rule One–is DON'T BE BORING. The challenge for Superpowers was, having decided to forgo the slug-fest, not to go to the other extreme and write a full-bore angst-fest. How to avoid that? My personal crutch is humor, and there's a lot of comic potential in not knowing your own strength, or having no control over when you're going to turn invisible. Keeping it light works until the point where it's necessary to knock that crutch out from under the reader and beat them with it. Hey, you don't need a villain; you've got me!
Did I say that I love superhero stories? I do, and as much as Superpowers is about Big Ideas, it's also about the sheer fun of being able to fly, or to run the two-minute mile in less than a second. Yeah, these are power fantasies, but I think we've all imagined what it might be like to do those things. I also had a lot of fun referencing–both openly and in ways that only the true geeks will pick up on–the characters and stories that I obsessed over in my teens and twenties. Many of which did the sort of thing that I've tried to do with this book–tell a good superhero story with full awareness of the problems inherent in the genre.
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VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI linked last month's riots in England to the corrosive effects of "moral relativism," and warned that preserving social order requires government policies based on "enduring values."
Benedict made his remarks on Friday to Britain's new Vatican ambassador, Nigel M. Baker, at a meeting in the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, outside Rome.
The moral basis of government policies is "especially important in the light of events in England this summer," Benedict said, in an apparent reference to riots in London and other English cities last month, which left five people dead and caused at least 200 million pounds ($320 million) in property damage.
"When policies do not presume or promote objective values, the resulting moral relativism ... tends instead to produce frustration, despair, selfishness and a disregard for the life and liberty of others," the pope said.
Benedict called on government leaders to foster the "essential values of a healthy society, through the defense of life and of the family, the sound moral education of the young, and a fraternal regard for the poor and the weak."
The pope's words echoed remarks by British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said last month that the riots were a consequence of his nation's "slow-motion moral collapse."
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VW Amarok Pickup Heading to Canada?
Quite possibly, according to remarks by Volkswagen of Canada's Media Relations Manager, Thomas Tetzlaff.
The VW Amarok is a rest-of-the-world compact pickup that competes against the likes of the global Ford Ranger, Chevy Colorado, Toyota Hilux and others, yet until now, it hasn't set foot on North American shores.
Tetzlaff recently said that VWoC was "very interested," in the Amarok but at the present time is still "proceeding very slowly and very cautiously."
VW has been in discussions with its dealer body north of the border and according to Tetzlaff there has been some "very positive feedback." That said, he did also mention that there needs to be a strong business case to bring the Amarok to market in Canada, which could prove difficult since Canadian vehicle regulations closely mirror those of the US and with a 10th the population, it's often hard for automakers to justify introducing vehicles purely for Canadian consumption.
That said, VW has done so in the recent past, with its City Golf and Jetta, essentially facelifted versions of the fourth generation car that were sold alongside the fifth generation Rabbit/Jetta models, plus Acura with it's Civic derived EL and CSX.
If the VW Amarok does indeed go on sale in Canada, it's likely it will be offered with a diesel engine, giving buyers a true, fuel thrifty alternative to the likes of gasoline powered mid-size and full-size half-ton rigs.
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TOP scorer Danny Ings signed off the season win a goal - his 26th in all competitions - as Burnley drew 2-2 at Reading.
The Clarets had to come back from behind, after a 16th minute own goal by Kieran Trippier.
But after Scott Arfield equalised soon after, Ings' fine finish gave Sean Dyche's side a 2-1 lead before the break.
Reading, who went into the game in sixth, dropped out of the play-offs momentarily.
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MATT McClure's first home goal earned Gareth Ainsworth his first point as a manager in a spirited performance by Wycombe Wanderers.
The 20-year-old striker, who fell down the pecking order under former boss Gary Waddock, rose highest to meet a pin-point cross from his new manager on 12 minutes.
Guy Madjo cancelled out McClure's effort by nodding home his first goal for Plymouth Argyle in an entertaining encounter at a rain soaked Adams Park.
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Providing Wanderers put in a similar shift over the rest of the season, they may well look back on tonight as the point in which the road to recovery began.
And performances like this will also do Ainsworth no harm whatsoever in what is effectively an interview period for the top job.
The caretaker manager made three changes from Saturday's defeat away at Dagenham – including a recall for himself down the right-hand side.
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Argyle responded immediately, with Alex MacDonald and Ross Jenkins going close during a five minute spell of sustained pressure.
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Leon Johnson wrapped his leg around a defender to prod the ball agonisingly past the post after an Ainsworth corner caused confusion in the Argyle defence.
A game of pinball then broke out in the Pilgrims box on 37 minutes. Jo Kuffour was sent clear by Stuart Lewis but his low effort was blocked by a last gasp challenge from Blanchard.
The ball fell to Lewis but his drive was blocked, sparking a scramble in the Pilgrims box before the ball found its way back to Lewis, who fired wide.
But for all Wanderers' good work, Plymouth should have levelled on the stroke of half-time with Onismor Bhasera nodding wide at the far post.
Thumbs up from the caretaker manager as he walked down the tunnel to deliver his half-time team-talk. All was going well.
And the Blues came out fired-up again, Kuffour going inches wide with a placed shot.
Cole found a fizzing low drive from full-back Charles Dunne too hot to handle, spilling at the feet of McClure but the young striker's out-stretched boot failed to direct the ball goal-wards.
But the visitors, who were still puffing their cheeks after that let off, went straight down the other end and equalised.
MacDonald lofted in a cross from the right to Madjo, who placed his header back across goal to notch up his first goal in Plymouth colours.
It was like a scene from the Matrix, as the ball span and bounced in slow motion past a despairing Archer dive to level the match.
But besides Pilgrims' glovesman Cole being called into making an instinctive point-blank save to deny captain Gary Doherty's bullet header, the game settled down midway through the second half, with neither side wanting to give anything away.
The impressive McClure, making his first start of the season, was forced off with an injury and gaffer Gareth went off to a standing ovation on 77 mins after giving his all to the cause.
The visitors saw more of the ball but never really tested Archer, who extended his emergency loan earlier from Tottenham earlier today, as the game threatened to peter out.
But it sparked back into life in injury time, with Cole making a brilliant Gordon Banks-esque save from Joel Grant after Morgan's shot was blocked by Curtis Nelson.
And Conor Hourihane almost won it for the Pilgrims at the last, as his rasping shot rattled the bar.
Honours even and a fair result, but a hugely encouraging performance by Wycombe who now have a platform to build on as they look to climb up the League Two table.
Attendance: 3,161.
Wycombe Wanderers: Jordan Archer (GK), Danny Foster, Charles Dunne, Leon Johnson, Gary Doherty, Gareth Ainsworth, Stuart Lewis, Josh Scowen, Joel Grant, Matt McClure, Jo Kuffour.
Subs: Lee Harrison, Dave Winfield, Matt Spring, Dean Morgan, Anthony Stewart, Junior Morias, Olly Taylor.
Plymouth Argyle: Jake Cole (GK), Curtis Nelson, Robbie Williams, Maxime Blanchard, Darren Purse, Alex MacDonald, Conor Hourihane, Ross Jenkins, Onismor Bhasera, Guy Madjo, Warren Feeney.
Subs: Rene Gilmartin, Paris Cowan-Hall, Luke Young, Nick Chadwick, Rhys Griffiths, Joe Lennox, Andres Gurrieri.


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NEW ORLEANS — The city broke ground Wednesday on a new firehouse, community center and $44.9 million in street repairs in the Lower Ninth Ward.
Construction on the new Sanchez Community Center will begin this spring and is expected to be completed in summer 2014.
The $19 million building will be 65,000 square feet on the lakeside corner of North Claiborne and Caffin avenues.
It will include an indoor pool, gymnasium, senior center, health clinic, New Orleans Police Department substation, computer lab, dance room and game room.
"We're ecstatic about that," Mayor Mitch Landrieu said of the many amenities the new center will have.
The new community center will replace a popular pre-Katrina facility that was damaged beyond repair during the storm and later torn down.
Construction was delayed because engineers found they needed to use concrete pilings, rather than wood pilings, because of the soil, Vince Smith, director of capital projects, told a crowd during a neighborhood meeting in January.
With that issue resolved, a test pile program was set to begin in February.
"It's going to be quite a building," said District E City Councilman James Gray, who represents the Lower Ninth Ward, adding that the new construction shows faith in the neighborhood. "If you haven't invested in the Lower Nine yet, you're late."
The river side of the corner will include a new firehouse for engines Nos. 22 and 29.
Construction on that combined facility will begin in January 2013 and should be completed in spring 2014. The project is projected to cost $4.1 million.
The new, 9,000-square-foot firehouse will be able to house two companies — the number of men who operate a truck — and three apparatuses. The engine companies were in separate locations before Katrina.
The structure will be raised 17 feet with living quarters for the firefighters on the second floor. Fire Superintendent Charles Parent has said that any future firehouses built will include living quarters above the garage in an effort to prevent them from being taken out of service in any future floods.
The old Engine No. 22 building, located at Egania and North Galvez streets, was a slab structure. The former Engine 39 building, located on St. Claude Avenue at Tupelo Street, was raised a few feet off the ground.
Both buildings flooded with the rest of the neighborhood during Katrina.
Engine No. 22 was torn down, and Engine No. 39 was never reopened. Since the storm, firefighters have worked out of a trailer on the site of the future Sanchez center.
"This is going to be a great corner," said Deputy Mayor Cedric Grant, who oversees the city's capital projects.
The $44.9 million in street repairs are part of the Lower Ninth Ward Recovery Roads Program.
The initiative, part of the $239.7 million FEMA-funded Recovery Roads Program, will begin this spring and wrap up by fall.
Planned street improvements include full replacement of pavement, resurfacing of the uppermost layer of street pavement and repairs of smaller areas of damaged pavement. Other repairs will include sidewalks, corner ramps and curbs.
During Wednesday's news conference to announce the upcoming work, Landrieu took the opportunity to show off phase one of the Lower Ninth Ward Streetscape Project, which was recently completed.
The beautification project covers North Claiborne Avenue between Andry and Lamanche streets and includes sidewalk improvements, landscaping, lighting, a walking path on the neutral ground and public art space.
Phase two will extend the walking path toward Tennessee Street. Construction on that phase will begin this spring and is expected to cost $1.9 million.
Grant and Landrieu acknowledged that the flurry of work about to begin will be an inconvenience but asked residents to bear with them during the coming months.
"It's about to get uncomfortable," Grant said. "Work with us."
"There will be inconvenience with great progress," Landrieu added.


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Slow Down and Save Your Money for School Supplies
School starts next week in Fairfax County! That means everyone needs to slow down in the school zones and make sure they are operating their vehicles in a safe manner. Officers will be looking out for the safety of our youth, who are sometimes still half asleep, as they make it to school.
Please, slow down in school zones. Be observant of slowing and stopped buses, and the children in their vicinity. Do not pass a stopped school bus. Make sure that you and your children are properly secured in a seat belt or car safety seat. Violators will be ticketed; your money is better spent on school supplies.
Have a safe and happy school year.
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•Comedy •Romantic comedy •Romance110min | Release date in South Korea : 2008/05/22
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Inspired by Shakespeare's classic of the same name. Yeon-su is a beautiful but naughty young woman whose family became millionaires overnight. All men fall in love with her at first sight, but Jeong-do, the only son of a respected family, has no regard for her. Yet despite this, the two fall in love and get married. However, their conflicting families shake up their wedded bliss. 12 and over.
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|3rd November 2011, 01:24 PM
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V-Link, Fireface, Dip Upsampler I don't hear a difference
O.K. not a DIY topic but anayways.
The last couple of days I have spent a lot of tme comparing different playback options from my PC into my DEQX crossover/preamp.
I was playing for years with a RME fireface wich I bought not only because of it's firewire to spdif conversion but it also is a very good soundcard for use with measurments software, I'm a DIY guy after all.
Having read all the rave about async USB and specially about the Musical Fidelity V-Link I just bought one. Set it up in my system and guess what, I can't hear the slightest difference between the V-link and the Fireface, none, zip, nothing. Hmm, interesting. The fireface was using ASIO playback, the V-link standard windows XP playback wich according to everyone is much worse.
So I got curious. Is it just me, is it the deqx wich doesn't give a **** what it is fed with or what.
After a couple of hours of switching back and forth I pulled everything I had for computer playback out of the closet and started comparing stuff.
I have tried several different firewire cables, several different USB cables from standard printer cable to a quite expensive AudioQuest type. I have tried a DIP upsampler in between everything, Tried several spdif cables and aes/ebu cables from dirt cheap to way too expensive. Tried several software players with direct sound, kernel streaming, ASIO (don't have wasapi becuase off winXP) And at the end, Nothing and I mean nothing made any difference. Well actually there was one thing I tried wich made a slight difference and that was the difference between playback from my laptop or playback from my desktop computer.
What does this tell me. Again, it might be just the DEQX. I don't have another DAC around to compare and besides it's not easy to compare beacuse the DEQX is my crossover as well. Maybe I'm just totally deaf or maybe everyone else is super sensitive. For me it's clear, I'm not going to spend any time anymore trying to improve my PC audio playback. Changing a tweeter for instance makes a bazillion times more of a difference to the whole system.
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Intel E8200 processor, bla bla bla
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bass: W-baffle with two JBL 2205H powered by UCD700
Mid: PHY-HP HB21-LB15 on open baffle powered by a Patek gainclone
high: Veravox 5s as dipole tweeter and ESS Air motion transformer powered by a Hiraga 20W classe A
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|3rd November 2011, 01:54 PM
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Just measured the Fireface and the V-link spdif output with my scope. The V-link looks very very good. Has some rounded edge but no overshoot and very low noise. The Fireface looks worse but has a faster risetime but with overshoot so don't know which one is better. depends on the DAC used I guess.
Would like to try the difference into a typical NOS DAC because they are more sensitive to the input signal. From what I see from the measurements I guess the V-link could be the better one then. Anyways, my V-link is going back to the store.
I'm keeping the Fireface for a couple of reasond. first it has cost me a lot off money and It won't pay itsellf back. Second, the playback is unconditionally stable. Nomatter how heavily I use my PC it just plays on without a glitch, the V-link start to stutter then. Third, it's part of my measurment system.
|3rd November 2011, 04:55 PM
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yeah i'd say its the deqx as it resamples everything to 24/96 anyway so i'm not sure what you hoped to achieve by feeding it a cleaner bitperfect spdif input as it will be torn to pieces and put back together again using the local clock and digital filter and then torn apart again for multiple channels and EQ. same as your different playback softwares not quite sure what they could do feeding the deqx. there of course will be some some amount of the jitter residual passed along and added to by the deqx, but i would doubt it would be enough to be audible between units. you would have to use the external clock input on the deqx and perhaps run the same clock from the gear you were testing, that would probably mess with the xo and filters though.
but the fireface is a superb rock solid piece of hardware, the drivers on the RME gear are simply the best i have ever encountered.
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|3rd November 2011, 05:09 PM
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if you tapped the i2s on the v-link and injected it after the crystal semi receiver you would stand a better chance of hearing the difference.
on that note...you even have an upsampler externally too and maybe in some of the tests up sampling in the software, so you went USB->async reclock->spdif->reclock and upsample (what rate?)->spdif->receiver and reclock possibly downsample to 24/96 but at least resample-> DAC->multichannel filter-> amp-> speakers........
thats a shmozzle mate, truly. how to hear jitter and clock edge differences from the very beginning of that seems an impossible task and i would have been skeptical if you HAD heard any differences between units
i'm not sure how the XO filters work in the DEQX, so there could be another set of resampling in there
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|3rd November 2011, 07:15 PM
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Hi Qusp,
I don't know how the DEQX handles it's input signal. I have asked the DEQX team a couple of times but they won't tell. The only thing they did tell is that it does not resample anything, not sure about any relocking though.
If you feed it with 44.1 kHz all the filters are handled in 44.1 kHz. It does not upsample to 96kHz.
I have tried the Monarhy Audio DIP upsampler but I don't hear a difference but that's because it upsamples to 96kHz with empty data. I do hear a difference with 24/96 recordings though. Upsampling does not increase resolution. Normally I only use the DIP to convert the toslink from my TV to AES/EBU so I can feed it to the DEQX. It's not being used in between the DEQX and the Fireface normally, just did that to compare.
The reason I was doing this whole experiment was because Steve Nugent from Emperical Audio told me that the DEQX was very sensitive to jitter at it's input and I would defenitly need one of his reclocker and expensive cables to cure the problem. Could be, but if this is true I would at least hear some difference between my "cheap" solutions. Someone else told me the other day that I needed a spdif cable wih cost at least 1/3 of the price of my DAC to hear a difference, what a *******
I guess a better clock inside the DEQX would do more, but that's only a guess since I don't know how it handles it's input signal. Would like to know though.
And yes, you are right about the Fireface. Rock solid, never let me down. I use it as a DAC preamp as well when I'm fooling around with passive loudspeakers.
An yes again, the DEQX messes up the bits pretty good, so speaking of bit perfect playback seems silly but if the source ain't right then the rest never will be. Funny thing is that I did hear a slight difference between my destop and my laptop. That might have to do with system grounding I guess.
I also hear a slightly bigger difference between either computer solution and the spdif output from my CD player. Not that any of the two is better then the other, just different.
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I was a novice at break making when a neighbor gave me this recipe 15 years ago. Now bread making is one of my favorite things to do. This recipe won a blue ribbon at the Clackamas County Fair in 1993.
- 2 packages (1/4 ounce each) active dry yeast
- 4-1/2 cups warm water (110° to 115°), divided
- 3/4 cup vegetable oil
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- 1/4 cup molasses
- 2 teaspoons salt
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- 2 cups quick-cooking oats
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- 1. In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in 1/2 cup warm water. Add oil, sugar, molasses, salt, wheat germ, bran and remaining warm water; mix well. Add oats, whole wheat flour and 2 cups all-purpose flour; beat until smooth. Add enough remaining all-purpose flour to form a soft dough. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 1 hour. Punch dough down and shape into four loaves. Place in a greased 8x4-in. loaf pans. Cover and let rise until doubled, about 30 minutes. Bake at 350° for 30-35 minutes. Remove from pans and cool on wire racks. Yield: 4 loaves (16 slices each).
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THE HAGUE (Oct. 1)
The Netherlands Minister of Justice, Dr. Carel Polak, has refused pardons to three Nazi war criminals serving life sentences in Breda prison for their roles in the deportation of 100,000 Dutch Jews during World War II. Dr. Polak, who is Jewish, acted after the Cabinet decided against introducing a law that would have made it possible for the Nazis to be freed on probation. Public opinion was opposed to such a law. The prisoners, the last three Nazi war criminals still incarcerated in Holland, are Josef Kotaella 61, Fritz Ausderfuenten, 59 and Franz Fischer, 67.


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"You couldn't write the script!", so the expression goes. Well, the twists in the final few overs of the Cornwall Cricket Board's Indoor Sixes Knockout Cup Final would have taken a fair amount of imagination to write, it's true.
Truro CC's up-and-coming indoor sixes team have beaten the previously 'unbeatable' St Austell twice in a fortnight and will now carry the Cornish flag into the national rounds of the ECB competition, where they begin away to the Devon champions on February 16.
The holders got off to the worst possible start, losing the prolific brothers Mike and Gary Bone for 0 and 3 respectively, both to the bowling of Cornwall player Rob Harrison.
Matt Ellison was also out with the score on just 20, but the inevitable recovery, this time from Scott Barrott (19) and Callum Wilson (24), saw the 4th wicket out on 58 runs.
St Austell were all out for 88 in just 11 overs, thereby wasting a valuable six balls of their innings, but the hostile attack of Harrison, Kyle van Rooyen and Neil Ivamy must take great credit for this.
They bowled a crucially accurate length, just short of what would be necessary outdoors, and moved the yellow ball about, which contributed to 'keeper Tim Marrion claiming two victims 'caught behind'.
St Austell were never going to give up their title without a fight and the Truro innings began steadily, but was set back by the loss of openers van Rooyen and Liam Lombard to run outs, something which was always on the cards.
Marrion and Harrison then scored an unusually high number of 'ones', ie. singles into the wall, not run, before the latter was out with the score on 68, bringing in Ivamy. The fielding of both sides had been razor sharp and the ball was flying around, making 'backing up' the most hazardous of occupations!
It all came down to an equation of 25 to win from three overs, a pretty much even situation. Ten runs then came from the tenth over, six of which were extras. 15 from 2 overs, then, perhaps just in Truro's favour?
Two wickets still to fall, but next came a brilliant over from St Austell's 'man of the match' Wilson, conceding just two runs and taking the wicket of Ivamy. Now 13 were need from just six balls, surely St Austell were the favourites?
Dot ball first (13 from 5), six from Marrion (7 from 4) – had Truro edged in front? Dot ball (7 from 3) – back to evens or the holders on top? What followed, no-one saw coming, I suspect … yes, all seven from the next ball, as Tim Marrion's drive beat the diving Matt Lloyd to score four, plus two for running and another from the overthrow in a desperate attempt to run him out.
Much the underdogs until two weeks ago, Truro had scraped home to beat St Austell twice and march into the national competition. The next hot ticket, one suspects, is the League Final on March 23, when the two sides will be overwhelming favourites to meet once again.
Result: St Austell 88 (C Wilson 24*, R Harrison 3-18), Truro 89-4 (T Marrion 31*) – Truro won by 2 wickets.
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Just as Norville Barns lands a dull job in the mailroom of the Hudsucker corporation, the firm's founder is taking a suicide leap from the top floor. In order to take control of the business, the board must force shares to decrease in value rapidly, so they put Norvill in charge.
The Brothers Coen, director Joel and producer Ethan, are the most exciting contemporary filmmakers never to have had a crossover hit. All their films from Blood Simple via Raising Arizona to Barton Fink have been frankly brilliant, laden with awards and adored by critics, but the mass audience has never been there. Here, collaborating with uberproducer Joel Silver and co-writer Sam Raimi, the Coens go for an archetypally populist story but tell it in an arcane style that won't disappoint their fans but will prove hard to take for many.
Evoking the Hollywood urban fairytales of Howard Hawks or Frank Capra, this is set in a magical New York in 1959 where Norville Barnes (Robbins) arrives to take a job in the mailroom of the monolithic Hudsucker Industries just as the firm's founder (Charles Durning) takes a suicide leap from the top floor. Executive Mussberger (Newman) reasons that the board can only take control of the company if they make the stock plummet until they can afford to buy it, so he recruits the mooncalf Norville as the company's new president. A hard-bitten lady journo (Leigh, doing a neat Katharine Hepburn-cum-Rosalind Russell turn) exposes Norville, feels guilty about it and then falls for him, and the empty-headed genius' stupid idea turns out to be the hula hoop, whose instant success sends Hudsucker stock rising and prompts Mussberger to extreme dirty trickery.
The Silver influence can be seen in the sheer scale of the production, reflected in the amazing architecture of the Hudsucker Building, which is half-Metropolis and half-Gotham City with a giant clock that relates to the inner workings of the universe. While the story and the characters are perfect pastiche, making them hard to be involved with, human warmth is imported by the sheer joy of the directorial flourishes. Always a master of the set-piece, Joel Coen stages a remarkable montage illustrating the snowballing of the 50s hoop craze. He also pulls off a wonderful side-trip into fantasy as Durning's angelic ghost shows up in the finale to influence the outcome of the plot.
The dark vision of Blood Simple or Barton Fink is mellowed slightly by the comic by-play and the oddly innocent, though corruptible, romantic leads. Like all Coen films, this has a human character who represents a demonic force (the Devil here is a little man who scrapes dead execs' names off their office doors), but it tries for balance by including an angelic time-keeper who helps restore the order of the universe. While not to everyone's tastes, this is without doubt one of the most exhilarating films of the year.
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WASHINGTON -- More than 180 computers, at least one containing classified material, are missing from the FBI along with some 450 weapons, officials said Tuesday.
A total of 184 laptops are missing, including 13 that are believed to have been stolen, officials said. They said that in addition to one known computer containing classified information, three others that are missing might also have classified material.
As for the weapons, some 184 weapons were stolen and 265 were lost, said officials, discussing the problem on condition of anonymity. They said some of the weapons were used in crimes.
The revelation came on the eve of an FBI oversight hearing on Capitol Hill -- at which bureau whistleblowers were scheduled to testify. The FBI has been under fire for weeks for missteps, including the failure to provide defense lawyers for Timothy McVeigh with thousands of pages of evidence documents in the Oklahoma City bombing case.
That problem forced a postponement of McVeigh's scheduled May 16 execution for the crime, and he was put to death by lethal injection on June 11.
In connection with the problem disclosed Tuesday, Attorney General John Ashcroft has asked the Justice Department's inspector general to do a department-wide review of inventory controls over guns and other law enforcement equipment.
The weapons that are missing are mostly sidearms, officials said, but also include submachine guns.
Questions about the missing equipment are sure to surface at today's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt, the committee's chairman, opened oversight hearings on the FBI earlier this year after a series of high-profile mistakes, including the missing evidence in the McVeigh case and the discovery that veteran agent FBI agent Robert Hanssen spied for Moscow for years. Hanssen pleaded guilty to several counts of espionage on July 6 and is to be sentenced in January.
Wednesday's hearing, with FBI agents including Assistant Director Robert Dies and Deputy Assistant Director Kenneth Senser scheduled to testify, was to focus on the FBI's management but now will likely be dominated by questions about the missing guns and computers.
About 13 of the missing weapons had been used in crimes, mostly robberies, FBI officials said.
Bureau officials said that, altogether, the FBI has roughly 50,000 guns and 13,000 computers.
The FBI has determined that 66 weapons were lost in connection with a retired agent and about four were carried by agents who were either fired or died, officials said.
They also said that that some weapons apparently were lost during training operations with other law enforcement agencies -- and said that laptops sometimes are lost as they are passed around from office to office.
The missing computers and weapons were discovered during a comprehensive inventory of equipment undertaken at the behest of the Department of Justice following the recent series of problems at the FBI.
FBI officials said Tuesday the bureau tracks lost weapons, but also said this was first time that a serious effort was mounted to try to get a total accounting of missing equipment from all FBI field offices.
This is not the first time the federal government has misplaced computers with sensitive information on them. The State Department misplaced a laptop with highly classified information in early 2000.
The guns and computers reported missing Tuesday represent equipment that has been lost, stolen or otherwise unaccounted for over the last 11 or 12 years, FBI officials said.
The FBI has ordered all field offices to do a comprehensive inventory of all equipment worth over $500 by Sept. 30. Components that fail to make the deadline could see their appropriations withheld, officials said.
They also said the bureau will open criminal investigations into what happened to weapons that were given to some agents who have retired or been fired.
News of missing FBI equipment follows a Justice Department inspector general's report last March showing that the Immigration and Naturalization Service couldn't find some 540 weapons.
Justice Department officials said that 44 of the INS guns were found, 130 are considered lost or stolen and 119 were incorrectly reported as missing. The INS is looking into what happened to the other 246 weapons.
Associated Press reporter Jesse Holland contributed to this story.
This article published in the Athens Banner-Herald on Wednesday, July 18, 2001.
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VICKERS 610 VIKING 1B G-AIVE CRASH on
IRISH LAW, near LARGS, 21 APRIL 1948
On the evening of Wednesday 21 April 1948 a British European Airways Vickers Viking aircraft flight S200P out of Northolt bound for Renfrew Airport struck Irish Law in the North Ayrshire hills. Miraculously, all 20 passengers and crew on board escaped before the aircraft was consumed by flames. Today, substantial wreckage is still present on the windswept hillside.
For the 60th anniversary of this amazing incident, I am researching the events of that night with the view to writing a substantial, non-profit making piece of work.
Some information has already been sourced, however, I am keen to have input from people who had first hand experience of the events that night or thereafter, plus information from passengers relatives. If you can help in any way at all, I would be pleased to hear from you.
All sources of information will be acknowledged in the finished work.
Please contact:
Viking Information
60 Bittern Court
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
website: www.groups.yahoo.com/group/vikingcrash1948/
Website just been updated with new information and links.
Thanks - I'll continue to post any updates on here.
Some useful publicity as a result of a press release we issued:
Good news then. Spoke to four elderly inhabitants of Largs last month when they were on holiday in Mallorca and asked them about the plane crash, 'Yes, we remember the train crash in town!'
The project is progressing well. We have had some excellent press coverage including the Evening Times, Largs & Millport News, Sunday Post, and a large article is forthcoming in the Scottish Sunday Express on 10 June.
We have been able to speak with a relative of one of the passengers, a friend of another and have a few more leads to follow up.
Hope you can post a link to the article when it is published!
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I have loaded good quality scans all press coverage of our project onto the photographs section of the yahoogroups homepage we have at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/VikingCrash1948/
FWIW here are a couple of scans of old black and white photos of sections of the wreckage.
My youthful appearance in the second photo, taken by John Martindale, suggests the photos were taken about 1969 or 1970.
Thanks for the photos!
Hi All
Just bumping this post up again. Needing information on the captain. We have some details on John Ramsden which may help to trigger some memories...
DoB: 10 July 1919
Qualified as RAF pilot 1940Had Class B pilot's licence endorsed for DH89, DH89A, Dakota, Ju52 and Vikings.
Landed at Renfrew nearly 400 times in two years.
Lived in Newton Mearns, East Renfrewshire.
Was English.
Flew Rapides from Donibristle, Fife. Flew for the FAA for Communciations Flight.
Does any of this trigger any memories with anyone? If so, no matter how small a fragment, we'd like to hear from you! Many thanks.
Scans of our project press coverage can be found at http://www.atcu04.dsl.pipex.com/vickers_viking2.htm and subsequent pages. Enjoy!
We're very sorry to announce that Denis Clifton passed away late last
night (28th September 2007) at the age of 84. Denis or Cliff as he
liked to be known - was the First Officer on the Viking flight in
1948. He was particularly helpful in aiding the survivors of the
Viking crash. Realising that the elements might take their toll before
search parties could find them, he made the correct decision that they
should make their own way to safety. He then led the third party of
survivors down from the crash site to safety.
We were fortunate enough to contact Cliff four months ago. Over the
past four months we talked with him by telephone on a number of
occasions. It was immediately obvious from the first call what a warm,
friendly, generous and unassuming man Cliff was. He was very positive
about our project and answered so many queries we had about the
accident. Cliff invited us both to meet and stay with him at his home
near London, which we had planned to undertake in November.
Only four nights ago we discussed with Cliff his long, varied and
fruitful aviation career. Stretching over four decades, he flew
assorted aircraft in a range of conditions all around the world. His
career started in 1940 when he joined the RAF at the age of 17. A year
later he learned to fly in Canada, training in sub-zero conditions on
Tiger Moths and then Harvards. Qualifying in May 1943, Cliff then flew
anti-sub patrols in Hudsons from near Halifax in Canada. In 1944 he
was quickly sent out to Burma. After a rapid conversion course, Cliff
did supply and troop droppings duties and glider towing in C-47s.
After being de-mobbed in 1946, his civil career began. Flying for BEA
and later British Airways, he flew a range of aircraft: Vikings,
Ambassadors, Viscounts, Vanguards, Tridents and Tristars. He then
became a Senior Training Captain with BA on Tridents and Tristars, and
later flew long haul flights all around the world on Tristars. In 1978
he left BA to join Gulf Air, where he served as a Senior Training
Captain on Tristars. During this time he was based in Bahrain and
later Hong Kong. After retiring in July 1983, BALPA awarded him a well
deserved BALPA Gold Star.
Other than the Viking accident, Cliff had another very close call in
September 1962. Just after taking off from Turnhouse in a Vanguard,
the aircraft was struck by 120 seagulls. Two engines failed, while the
other two were very close to failure. As Captain, Cliff particularly
distinguished himself by steering the aircraft back to Turnhouse. The
subsequent report read: "A serious and almost certainly fatal accident
was only narrowly averted. This was due to the exemplary manner in
which the emergency was handled by Captain Clifton and his crew: the
Captain displayed the highest possible standard of airmanship." For
his actions on this day, Cliff received a Queens Commendation medal.
Our memories of Denis Clifton will be of a man who achieved a great
deal through his aviation career, and as a man who could keep his
composure under the most intense circumstances. But we will remember
him also as a true gentleman.
Our thoughts are with his wife and family.
James Towill and Dougie Martindale
The first edition of our newsletter, Viking Crash Research News, is now available. Please send a PM with your email address if you would like a PDF copy.
I see from your latest addition to your site the crew list (apart from the ages) is identical in format and detail to the one I produced for XF702 after a fair bit of research, no one source gave all of the details so I know it wasn't looked up easily. I had to use the accident report, newspaper articles and the new armed forces memorial, that helped iron out a couple of errors in the accident report with service numbers.
By the way Iain C. MacLean (the only crewman you don't have an age for) was 20 at the time of his death.
For Sqn Ldr Harry Harvey the accident report records RAF Kinloss Wing AE Ldr though on my site I only put RAF Kinloss Flying Wing.
Peak District Air Accident Research
Aircraft Wrecks: The Walker's Guide
A little bit late, but...!
As the days draw closer to a new year and the 60th anniversary of the crash of Viking G-AIVE on Irish Law, we thought wed announce that we will be holding an event at Lochwinnoch RSPB Visitor Centre at 1pm on Sunday 20 April 2008 the day before the 60th anniversary of the incident. On the day, James and Dougie will be giving an illustrated talk on the project which will also include the first public airing of video footage of Vestals steward, the late Con Moroney, talking about his experience of the crash. We also hope to have a couple of surprises on the day!
At this stage in the project, were piecing together all the information obtained from a plethora of sources and assembling it into readable, logical format! Looking through the folders of paper copies, correspondence, maps and technical data, and delving into numerous computer files it is really pleasing to have located all this valuable information in a comparatively short period of time. There are still a few little areas to be clarified, but the research phase of the project has more or less been concluded thats not to say if more information becomes available that we wont be interested!
Of course, our research would have been far less profitable had it not been for us communicating with a great many people who have helped us with details of their relatives, friends, colleagues and the events of that night nearly 60 years ago. To all of them, a great many thanks. We are also pleased that so many other people have expressed an interest in the project, with over 70 recipients of our Viking Crash Research News publication in locations as far away as Ireland, the US, Canada and Australia. Our press coverage, from local newsletters and papers to national publications proves that there is great interest in what - pardon the cliché - was a miracle escape.
In other news, Dougie has nearly completed a 1:72nd scale model of Viking G-AIVE. A resin and white metal kit was used as the basis of the model, with extra details added in brass rod. The painting has almost been finished, with only the decals left to apply. These decals were custom designed so that Vestal could be depicted in the livery worn at the time of the crash. The model will be on display at our April event.
Through Lady Hunter, we have made contact with Mrs Brenda Moore, who has kindly provided us with details about her late husband Hobart Moore and his colleague Jimmy Wilson. We had guessed that Mr Moore and Mr Wilson were travelling together on business but she has been able to confirm this. We have also been able to trace some details of the last years of the Captain of the flight, John Ramsden. An appeal for information is due to appear in the March 2008 edition of Icarus, the publication for retired employees of British Airways (and BEA/BOAC) and we hope that this might produce further details of both John Ramsden, and the Radio Officer, Arnold Lloyd. Both of these players in the story have been possibly the most difficult to locate information about.
It just remains for both of us to thank you all for your kindness and interest in our project. We wish you very best wishes for 2008.
Over the past 18 months we have been researching the crash for our book Viking Down!, with an intended publication date in 2009. To commemorate the 60th anniversary of the crash, we are holding an event at the RSPB Nature Reserve Centre at Lochwinnoch at 2pm on Sunday 20th April 2008. This is a free event and all are welcome. To book a place at the event please call the reserve on 01505 842663 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
During the event, we will be holding an illustrated talk detailing many aspects of our project. This talk will cover how and why the crash occurred, and show just how close a call it had been for them all. But we will also concentrate upon the human element of the story by discussing the lives of the passengers and crew. We will discuss how they escaped from the burning plane, how they fared on the hillside, and their treks to safety.
The stewards two sons are both intending to travel from Buckinghamshire to the event. They are kindly allowing us to show some fascinating video footage of their father Con Moroney discussing the crash. Dougies father John Martindale will also be delivering a slide show covering some of more interesting wrecks he found in the 70s with the investigation group SWAIG. This will feature a few of the local wrecks, the Hudson on Ben Lui, and the story of how the group were involved in the recovery of a German bombers engine from the Moray Firth.
Somehow this got lost here yesterday evening at 2104 hrs...
As I send these words to you, it was 60 years ago - give or take a few minutes - that BEA Vickers Viking G-AIVE impacted on the side of Irish Law near Largs.
And so was to begin a remarkable story of survival which myself and Dougie have been researching for nearly two years.
Yesterday, we presented a talk on our project to a 'capacity crowd' of over 30 people at a village not too far away from the incident area. We were delighted to be joined by two of the sons of the steward on board the flight, Con Moroney. Today, Shaun and Martin visited the crash site; thankfully it would appear the weather was much better than on 21 April 1948!
We would like to continue to thank you for your interest in the project and we'll continue to keep you updated on developments.
Best wishes,
James Towill and Dougie Martindale
Yahoo webgroup - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vikingcrash1948/
November 2008 Progress Update
Firstly, our apologies for the lack of updates recently - this has basically been because we've been busy writing! Viking Down! is progressing nicely, and as we commit the fruits of our research to prose, we are still receiving new information more than two years after the project began.
During the summer, we have received further information on the subsequent career of Captain John Ramsden, however, there are still some pieces of additional information which may yet appear, not least, a photograph of the man in question.
In October, we were delighted to finally meet Enid Clifton, wife of Denis Clifton, co-pilot on Vestal during a weekend in Buckinghamshire and Surrey. We once again met with Shaun and Martin Moroney and with them, visited Brooklands Museum in Weybridge and together, we were welcomed aboard their static display Viking. A very rewarding weekend indeed, and a pleasure to see the Moroneys once again.
We thank you once again for your interest in our project and wish you the very best for the festive season.
James Towill
Dougie Martindale
A fascinating thread and website, I wish I'd spotted it sooner. I used to live in a high rise tower block in Paisley with a perfect view across west Renfrewshire towards Irish Law, 'The Law' in fact being the only thing impeding my view of Largs bay and the coast. I remember people talking about the crash and as a young aviation enthusiast, rounding up a gang of mates to go cycling in the area hoping to discover the crash site (we never did).
It was particularly fascinating as back in those days (early 80's) there was Vickers Valletta (I think) on the fire dump at Glasgow Airport and as kid's we were told it was the same as the plane that crashed on Irish Law (ok I know it wasn't quite the same thing).
I look forward to your book on the subject, and perhaps one day soon I'll pay a visit to the actual crash site.
Go n-ithe an cat thú, is go n-ithe an diabhal an cat !
Hi all
In this, the week of the sixty-first anniversary of the crash, we thought it was time to update you on how the project is progressing. Currently, we continue to busily write away with a number of sections nearing completion and some areas being redrafted. Some parts have proved an enjoyable challenge and we're happy with the way in which the writing is developing. We have also been working on some cover concepts, again, with pleasing results.
...and still, we are receiving new information! In the past couple of weeks, we have tracked down the son of Mr (Johannes) Sejersted and are in communication with him. You will remember that the Sejersteds were the Norwegian couple aboard the flight en route to a honeymoon in the US after business in Scotland.
Some photographs from our Brooklands Museum visit last October to see a surviving Viking can be found on Gordon Lyons' site at http://www.aircrashsites-scotland.co...nds_viking.htm and coverage of our project can be found at another page http://www.aircrashsites-scotland.co...rs_viking2.htm .
Best wishes,
James Towill
Dougie Martindale
Viking Down!
The Dramatic Night An Airliner Crashed In The Scottish Hills
by James T M Towill and Dougie Martindale
AMP Books
The book is a product of four years research and writing by Dougie and myself. It is a comprehensive account of the crash of an airliner in 1948, providing a detailed analysis of the crash as well as full coverage of the lives of the passengers and crew in the decades beyond.
On the evening of 21 April 1948, a Vickers Viking airliner carrying four crew and sixteen passengers crashes into a windswept Scottish hillside. The blazing aircraft bounces over the hillside before finally coming to rest. Remarkably all twenty occupants manage to scramble clear with only burned hands and other minor injuries. They then watch helplessly as a raging inferno consumes the fuselage of the aircraft.
Yet their ordeal has only just begun. Having braved the fire, they must next survive the elements. Dressed only in frocks and suits, they are forced to shelter from the winds that sweep mercilessly over the hillside. The Captain and one passenger leave the scene to alert the authorities. Several hours later the two men succeed in reaching civilisation. The Captain then leads the first of several search parties that scour the moorlands in search of the crashed airliner. But a complete lack of visibility and terrible conditions underfoot prevents any of the rescue parties from finding the survivors.
By dawn the remaining passengers and crew have spent the entire night huddling together for warmth in a shelter built from the wreckage. Fearing the rescuers will not find them before the elements take their toll, a decision is made by the crew. They must make their own move, trekking out over desolate moorland in a bid to survive.
Viking Down! tells the full story of events on that fateful night. Illustrated with numerous maps, drawings and period photos, the authors reveal how and why the airliner crashed into a Scottish hillside. The fascinating story of how the twenty men and women coped with such dreadful adversity is also covered. These personal, technical and historical elements knit together to form a remarkable tale of human survival.
Since this is a human drama story it is suitable for all readers and not just aviation enthusiasts. The book cover is attached.
Our research project has featured in a number of Scottish newspapers. These can be viewed at Air Crash Sites Scotland:
Photos of the us studying a real Viking at Brooklands Museum in Surrey, England can he found at:
In total there are 144 pages (13 in colour), 55 images, 10 maps and 9 illustrations.
Ordering Information
The price is 16.50 & p&p and it can be ordered from AMP Books at:
Alternatively you can order by UK cheque to either Dougie or myself. The price for UK cheque is £16.50 (£14 & £2.50 p&p). Please private message for details.
Book Launch
On Saturday 26th March we are holding a book launch meet-and-greet at the RSPB Lochwinnoch Nature Reserve in Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire between 1pm and 3pm. If you live locally and are available, we would be happy to see you on the day. And of course, copies of Viking Down! will be available.
We would like to thank everyone for assisting us along the way. Dougie and I could not have completed the book project without the support of our many contributors. We hope you enjoy Viking Down! and finding out more about this remarkable episode in local history.
Best regards
James Towill
Dougie Martindale
Congratulations on an epic effort!
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Senior guard Elaina Fearer scored 19 points, and sophomore guard Morgan Barlock added 16 against Huntingdon. Sophomore forward Katie Biller had nine points and team-leading 11 rebounds.
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I'm a chatty person once you get to know me and usually I start the conversations on this, shame people don't carry them on :D but yeah feel free to fire me message, always up for a blether, I'm not looking to jump on everyone I see, I've been single for 20 years, I'm hardly desperate. Finding good friends and then working up to more is how I roll so lets see what happens.
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