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Blood Sport: Revisiting Traction… Er, Action, Park
If you were compiling a list of things you may have experienced in your youth if you grew up in New Jersey, you might include knowing all the sites in the opening credits of The Sopranos, and that a "piney" isn't a tree. One other touchstone that many New Jerseyans have in common is getting seriously injured at Vernon Valley's now defunct amusement park, Action Park. So, let us now fondly reminisce and compare scars. Break out the first-aid kit and put a lawyer on retainer: we're going in search of bodily harm in the mountains of northwestern New Jersey.
"The Action Never Stops…At Action Park…"
Losing Skin On The Alpine Slide
The Alpine Slide was called Action Park's most popular ride in a 1986 New Jersey Herald article––one that a park official declared "the safest ride there is," noting that a 90-year old grandmother and mothers with babies on their laps had taken a ride on it. The same article said that the slide was responsible for "more accidents, the majority of the lawsuits and 40 percent of the citations" against the park. The Alpine Slide concept was simple enough: you sat on a sled and descended down concrete tracks using a hand brake to control your speed, either slowly or at a speed described by a former park employee as "death awaits." If you were lucky, your injury would consist of some lost skin and the sting of Mercurochrome. Lose control of your cart on the Alpine Slide, however, and it would simply crash through the haybale barriers, your body subject to the laws of gravity and nasty hillside rocks. Take the ride too slowly and you would find yourself rammed by the person behind you. At least 14 fractures and 26 head injuries caused by the slides were reported between 1984 and 1985.
The Alpine Slide was also responsible for Action Park's first death: that of a 19-year-old park employee in 1980. According to the website rideaccidents.com, "a malfunction caused a wheeled sled to derail from its cement track after it failed to properly negotiate a curve. The victim…was thrown from the car down an embankment. He sustained a fatal head injury when his head struck a rock." On another occasion, some kids supposedly snuck into the park one night to ride the Alpine Slide in the dark. One kid headed down first and just disappeared into the night. His friends could not find his twisted body in the dark until it was too late. If that story is true, it's one death that didn't make the papers.
The Alpine Slide no longer exists and the concrete tracks have been removed, but you can still see where it was located if you take a ride on Mountain Creek's Gondola and look below.
You'll Be Shocked on the Kayak Ride!
The Kayak Ride, which allowed people to paddle tiny boats through white water, was never very successful because it was short and the kayaks would get stuck in their own tracks. It was particularly unlucky for one 27-year-old man from Long Island during the summer of 1982. He fell or got out of his kayak, and in the process of trying to get it back, stepped near an exposed wire that was under water. He was taken to a nearby hospital in New York State, where he was pronounced dead. Two of his family members were also electrocuted, but lived.
Despite park officials' denials, the coroner's report proved that the man died from cardiac arrest due to electrical shock. Action Park was quick to point out that the victim didn't have any burns, but the coroner said, "You don't have burns when you are in the water like that…When you're wet, you're a dead ringer for a good electrical shock." A wiring defect, described as either a "nick" or a seven-inch "gash," depending on whose account of the findings you read, was later determined to be the cause of the electrocution.
The ride, drained for investigation, was never opened again, because as a park official told the New Jersey Herald at the time, "people will always be intimidated by it."
The "Grave Pool"
The Tidal Wave Pool was a huge freshwater pool––100 by 250 feet long and eight feet deep––that could hold 500 to 1,000 people. Four large fans forced air into the pool and created waves, which could reach a height of 40 inches. The waves were generated for 20 minutes at a time, with 10-minute breaks in between. Two people drowned in the "Grave Pool": a 15-year-old boy in 1982, and an 18-year-old man in 1987. Many more have come close, despite the fact that 12 Red Cross-certified lifeguards were stationed at the pool at all times.
One problem with the pool was that many of its users were not good swimmers. "Action Park attracts many people from urban areas who have few chances to swim and frequently must be rescued from the water," said one park official in 1987. "They don't know how to swim and jump right into the water." Even good swimmers would forget that the fresh water waves were not buoyant like waves in the ocean, so they would have to work harder to stay afloat. Crowded swimming conditions meant that people would bash into each other, the sides of the pool, or the ladders as they tried to get out of the water while the waves were on. Some people would simply sink to the bottom, seemingly unaware that the pool's depth dropped down in level as you moved from one end to the other. Think about it this way: former employees claim that lifeguards at the Tidal Wave Pool could often claim 30 "saves" a day, whereas your average lifeguard at a pool or lake might rescue one or two people in an entire summer. That's an awful lot of responsibility to put on 12 teenagers.
Other Ways To Hurt Yourself in Waterworld
There were other water rides to be conquered in Action Park, which is good because right after the double tragedies of 1982 occurred, the Herald reported that water slides accounted for more than half the amusement industry accidents in 1981. In New Jersey, the state Department of Labor regulates amusement park ride safety. An official with the department told the New Jersey Herald that, "The biggest ride with accidents is the water slide." Another official backed this up, saying that riders were often to blame for their own injuries: "They hang on to the sides and wait for their buddies to come down and then ride down together." Sitting on a mat, he said, reduced the risk of injury, but "that takes the joy away from the ride." Joy such as the "freshwater enemas" that one could get on the Super Speed Water slides. Or, Lane #7 of Surf Hill, which was known as the "back breaker." Surf Hill was also a hotspot for park employees, who knew they could see some serious injuries or lost bikini tops as they lunched at the nearby snack bar.
Action Park's Waterworld was also home to non-slide rides like Roaring Rapids––involving several people riding a "whitewater" raft––and the Tarzan Swing, which allowed you to swing over an icy-cold body of water and throw yourself into it. Roaring Rapids, according to accident reports filed by Action Park in 1984, caused injuries such as fractured femurs, collar bones, and noses and dislocated shoulder and knees––kind of like "Deliverance" without the banjo. The Tarzan Swing was known for scraped toe knuckles and also the shock that people would experience when their bodies were immersed in the icy cold water below. The water was so cold that people would forget how to swim once they hit it. A 1984 death at the park was unofficially attributed to the victim not being able to take the shock of the cold, resulting in a heart attack.
The Legend Of The Loop
It is a ride of legend and fantasy, a waterslide that never totally was. Its 360-degree loop loomed over park-goers as they entered Waterworld, taunting them with both its inaccessibility and improbability. It supposedly dismembered test dummies and maybe even a few park employees in trial runs. It was the Cannonball Loop slide, and it was actually open for about a month in 1985 before being closed by the Advisory Board on Carnival Amusement Ride Safety––an act the Herald called "highly unusual."
Employees who tested the ride reported that if you entered it going feet first, you'd come out of it head first, and vice versa. One person got stuck in the loop, necessitating the construction of a hatch that could be opened to extract people from that part of the ride. According to one employee who spoke with the Herald, "There were too many bloody noses and back problems" that resulted from riding the Cannonball Loop. It has long since been dismantled.
Driving Danger Across Route 94
Motorworld, located across the street from Waterworld, was also capable of injurious fun. Patrons treated the Super Go-Karts like bumper cars, which caused serious head-on collisions. One employee recalls hearing the sick snap of a patron's arm breaking as a result of a crash. While the carts didn't go too fast due to built-in governors that controlled the speed, park employees knew how to override them with tennis balls, which would allow the carts to go up to 50 miles an hour. LOLA cars, which were miniature Indy race cars, cost additional money to ride and could also be adjusted for speed. The Tank Ride, while perhaps not the most dangerous ride for park attendees, was certainly the worst assignment for park employees––not because of the people driving the tanks, but because of the tennis-ball shooting guns that surrounded the ride. Patrons had the fun-filled opportunity to shoot tennis balls at the people in the tanks––so, should a park employee need to go down into the tank "pit" on the occasion of a crash or stuck tank, park attendees could happily fire away at them.
The Super Speedboats could go up to 35-40 miles an hour and were treated like bumper boats by park attendees. They were also set up in a swamp, in the middle of which was a small, rocky island populated by an uneasy alliance of water snakes and lifeguards. One day, two park attendees were driving their boats into each other and they crashed. One of the boats flipped over, its driver strapped in and stuck underneath the water. The lifeguard on duty had to dive into the swamp, where he reports that he was followed by all of the snakes that were keeping him company that day. He flipped the boat over and promptly ripped the wristband off the soggy driver, who may have been too drunk or high to even realize what had just happened to him, never mind the presence of many water snakes all around.
A Word About the Employees
You may have noticed a certain youthful quality to the many people on staff at Action Park. Maybe a slight resemblance to the cast of the movie Logan's Run or the characters in Lord of the Flies. You would be right: it was hard to find an employee over the age of 30 in the park. It was truly a teen-run show, and it manifested itself in many ways, from ride attendants willfully ripping the entrance wristbands from park attendees who misbehaved to staff knowing all of the places that one could get stoned and/or drunk and hide from supervisors. Action Park got into trouble for letting underage employees run rides, too, so chances are your personal safety may have once been in the hands of a fourteen-year old tripping on acid.
That'll Leave A Scar
If you were injured, know that you were in good company. In 1986, the Herald reported the previous year's reported accident toll at Action Park: more than 110, including 45 head injuries and 10 fractures. And it is important to stress "reported," because the park got into a lot of trouble with the state for not reporting accidents. Despite this, Action Park, unlike other amusement parks in the state at the time, was fined just once between 1979 and 1986 for not following procedure. The Herald said this was not the case for other amusement parks, which would be fined for first offenses. Did Action Park get special treatment?
What made Action Park different from other amusement parks was the control that patrons had over their ride experience. Part of the thrill was the danger involved. People, park officials would note over and over again, were often responsible for their own injuries, and park attendees tended to agree with them. Interviewed by the Herald about a week after the 1982 kayak ride electrocution, one person said that he had more concerns about driving on the L.I.E. to get to the park than about going on any of the rides. People continued to use the Wave Pool, too. "You know," said a park attendee, "if somebody jumps in and can't swim, that's their problem."
Park officials were always quick to point out that the park had over a million visitors each year––maybe 12,000 on a busy weekend––which makes the actual injury rate statistically small. Regardless, enough injuries occurred that Action Park eventually bought the town of Vernon new ambulances to keep up with the injury volume. In 1987, the Herald also spoke with the director of the ER at a nearby hospital, who said five to 10 people were brought there daily from the park. Injuries included "ankle sprains, cuts and contusions, and…a few broken bones," with injuries most often occurring "from slipping at swimming pools or cuts from water slides." He also noted that many of the injured came into the ER with alcohol on their breath––not surprising, as beer kiosks were more plentiful than ice cream stands at Action Park.
Action Park closed rides as the lawsuits stacked up and liability insurance became more and more expensive. Locals began referring to the ailing attraction as "Class Action Park." Motorworld took the biggest hit, but rides on the Waterworld side suffered, too. It didn't help when a bus crashed on its way to the park in 1992, killing five would-be park attendees. By the time Action Park was bought by Intrawest in 1997, it was doing badly in attendance. Intrawest morphed it into Mountain Creek Waterpark and reopened it in 2000, putting a "family fun" spin on the place by eliminating alcohol, asking patrons to cover up offensive tattoos, and building expensive condos in the swamps of Motorworld. Intrawest isn't technically in charge of it any more: they leased it to a company called Palace Amusements that specializes in waterparks.
We asked the staff at Mountain Creek Waterpark for an official take on the incidents recounted here, but none of them worked there when it was Action Park and they declined to comment. They did send us a letter that stated that Action Park underwent some significant "cultural, operational and physical" transformations in the process of becoming the Mountain Creek Waterpark. They've won industry safety and customer satisfaction rewards since these transformations occurred and wanted to make it clear that this new waterpark is not the death trap you so fondly remember. In short, Mountain Creek is no longer worthy of inclusion on a list of unique-yet-painful Jersey experiences you survived and can get nostalgic about years later. You'll have to get your scars elsewhere. —Joanne Austin
We Called It Accident Park!
Being a former employee of the company that owned "Accident Park," as we jokingly called it, I found the place most amusing. It brings back memories of me as a kid, begging my parents to take me there, mainly for the go-carts. Towards the end of the park's operation, one of the last rides to be introduced was this sort of reverse bungee jump. Riders would be placed in a harness and attached to a bungee cord between two towering poles and held to the ground as the cord was stretched. Once enough tension was attained, it would be released and the riders would be shot into the air like marbles in a slingshot and then free fall back to earth, still attached to the bungee. We often wondered how many whiplash cases came out of that ride. –Jersey Ed
All I Remember Was Blood
Most kids growing up know of at least one person who died in a car accident. But, if you grew up where I did, you know of at least one person who was seriously injured at Action Park.
When you entered Action Park, there were three things that immediately got your attention. The first was the Alpine Slide, one of the only non-water rides in the park. You'd get on a low plastic seat with wheels and a bar for "steering." Then, they'd put you on a long, cracked, downhill racetrack and send you on your way. No helmets. No brakes (none that worked anyway). No warnings about the fact that a misplaced hand could result in a chopped-off finger. No stopping the crazy kid behind you from smacking into the back of your head. What fun! They actually had the audacity to have a "slow" lane and a "fast" lane. They should have been called "injured" lane and "dead" lane.
The second thing that would catch your eye was the abandoned slide. Action Park built an enclosed water slide, like a tube, that followed all sorts of twists and turns, and then, just for fun, did a complete loop, like a ROLLER COASTER loop. Upside down! Let me remind you that riders of this would not be in a car, not on a train, not on anything but water…water that would, with the help of gravity and magic, supposedly propel them through a narrow tube that loops completely upside down. Needless to say, it wasn't long before some woman got caught in the top of the loop. The ride was closed, and, just as a morbid reminder, the loop was left in tact and on display for all to see.
There was, however, a physics-defying ride that the park chose to keep open, one that I proudly experienced firsthand. It was a cluster of four or five short, fast water slides that ended by shooting you out into a lake. Various kids would fly out at various times, landing on each other or on some misplaced sharp rock. One of these vigorous "shoots" was particularly intriguing, as it would suck you in and then immediately make an abrupt 90 degree turn. Not a 45 degree turn. Not even a nice, slow, smooth, curvy 90 degree turn. No. It would literally slam you into a wall and toss you in a different direction and then project your young, gnarled body into a gooey pond of crying kids and water snakes. It was awesome.
Finally, the third thing that would catch your attention was the ubiquitous "first aid cart." Kind of like a golf cart, piloted by two zitty teens wearing oversized EMT shirts, the cart would inevitably be seen looping through the trails, grass, and little forests that surrounded the park. But, when you saw it, you wouldn't see a kid with a scraped knee. You'd see a kid holding a blood-soaked towel on a huge head wound, you'd see a gash the size of a Big Gulp on someone's leg. Blood, blood, blood. All I remember was blood. All for under 25 bucks a person. –Alison Becker
Brothers in Bloody Arms…and Legs
The first I ever heard of Action Park was from the altar boys at our local church. They went each year as an end-of-summer trip sponsored by the parish. Each time, they came back with horrific tales, ones that made you think they only returned alive because they were attending the park on a trip sponsored by God Himself. They came back not just with stories, but with visceral evidence to prove their stories were true. Most often, this evidence came in the form of second-degree burns suffered in collisions on the Alpine Slide. One kid came back to the neighborhood after a trip to Action Park with a sprained ankle––the story went that he was riding a train that transported patrons between different sections of the park. The train stopped on a bridge, then caught fire. He was forced to leap to safety from this flaming train, injuring his ankle in the process.
My first and only trip to Action Park came during my middle school years, when my brother and I were invited to go to the park with two friends of ours who lived a couple blocks away. My parents were hesitant to let us go, knowing all the stories they had heard of Action Park, but eventually allowed us to attend. I remember that harrowing day as if it were yesterday.
Upon entering the park, we saw a waterslide, an enclosed green tube, that went in a full loop-de-loop. Even as a 12-year-old, I understood how physics would not allow anyone to come out of that tube with anything but mangled, broken limbs. According to the people I was with that day, the slide was never actually used by humans. During its test runs, done with realistic dummies, the dummies came out time and time again with their heads and arms ripped off. So it stood, merely as decoration.
My most personally terrifying experience came on a slide called the "Cannonball." When I went on this slide, I was at the top of a hill. It seemed normal. There was no warning that halfway down the ride I would be shot into a pitch black tube. This was incredibly daunting. It became even worse when the tube opened back up only when it emerged sticking out from the face of a cliff. This slide sent unsuspecting riders shooting out of a cliff face some two stories above the water with absolutely no warning. It was just high enough that you had time to think and panic about your situation. Rider after rider, myself included, would scream in terror before hitting the surface of the slimy green water with a sickening slap. After this, the victims of the ride would gather at the edge of the pool to watch others suffer the same fate. It was like all the victims of a car wreck gathering at Dead Man's Curve to watch the next car smash into the median.
The Tarzan Swing was a real treat as well. This ride was simply a beam hanging from a 20-foot-wire above a pool of stagnant water. One by one, people would grab the beam and swing out above the water, until they reached the swing's apex, when they were expected to let go and plunge into the icy cold depths below. The wait to go on this ride was about three hours. Hundreds of people waited their turns, watching each person go before them. This led to an interesting phenomenon – riders realized they had a captive audience. The ride turned into a contest to see who could shout or do the most lewd thing while people watched them fly through the air. People giving the finger, shouting descriptive and awful things, and undressing in midair were commonplace.
There was also a cliff-jumping attraction at Action Park. I remember this because divers would jump into a pool that was used by anyone, not just those who had previously cliff-dived. So, many people thought they were just going swimming, and had no idea that human bodies would be flying at them from 30 feet high in the sky. There was exactly ONE lifeguard in this situation who was occupied 100% of his/her time tending to those who smashed into each other during these high-dive collisions.
The ride to rule all others at Action Park was unquestionably the Alpine Slide. This was an ingenious way to utilize the ski slope Action Park was built on. Stone tracks were laid down the side of the mountain. Riders would ride up a ski lift with a large sled hanging from the bottom. At the top, an attendant would take the sled off, put the rider on it, then send them careening at absolutely dizzying speeds down this stone track.
There were a number of things about the Alpine Slide that made it the best, yet least safe, ride ever. The first was that the track was positioned directly below the ski lift, so everyone riding down it was spit at by people floating in the sky above them. Secondly, the brakes never, ever worked on those sleds. Your sled either went supersonically fast, or so slow that you would be slammed by the supersonically fast sled behind you. People often fell off their sleds onto the stone tracks while going upwards of 40 miles per hour. You can imagine that during the summer, in shorts, bare human skin on a stone track at that speed led to nothing but lacerations and burns.
Action Park was a true rite of passage for any New Jersey kid of my generation. When I get to talking about it with other Jerseyans, we share stories as if we are veterans who served in combat together. I suspect that many of us may have come closest to death on some of those rides up in Vernon Valley. I consider it a true shame that future generations will never know the terror of proving their grit at New Jersey's most dangerous amusement park. –Chris Gethard
Action Park Was Designed to Hurt People
I remember my only visit to Action Park as a kid and remember hurting myself several times and witnessing everyone in my party get injured as well. Before I go into detail, allow me to remind you of a few specifics.
I remember the upside down water slide called the "Cannonball Loop." It really should have been called "absurdity." I was about 11 at the time and could have told anyone or the designing engineer, for that matter, that it was a not only a liability but a horribly bad idea. Could you imagine pushing a 250-pound whale of a kid through there a few hundred times a day? Statistically, it was bound to destroy some unlucky child.
It does not surprise me that I still remember all these details––the park looked like it deliberately was designed to injure people. The rope swings in particular had large boulders strategically placed in a large pile underneath the platform and a portion of the small pool that people would be landing in.
The river rapids ride was great. Under-inflated and overloaded rafts would slam into walls and sharply-angled concrete. On one of these turns, my friend's mother, as the raft literally buckled in half like a taco, flew into his knee and BROKE her nose. Blood was pouring out all over and the lady supposedly watching for injuries looked like she couldn't give a crap.
I also remember a cage in the park where you could put on a parachuting suit and actually fly through the air. I did not try it––I had already seen enough. –Greg Shpunder
Traction Park Employee Spills His Guts
I worked at Action Park! And there was some very important craziness going on. First, the grass skiing. That was so long ago, most people will go, "Holy shit, I forgot about the grass skiing!" We used to grass ski on the mountain in the summer. That was stupid. Only knee pads were recommended (that means they were not required). The grass skis were still in the basement of the lodge when I worked there in the early '80s.
Then, they built the skateboard park––a masterpiece design where the smooth bowls were isolated by the BLACK TOP PAVEMENT between them. Who thought that was a good idea? The blacktop did not even meet the cement at a smooth edge. That skate park was responsible for so many injuries, we covered it up with dirt and pretended it never existed before we even thought of grander ways to hurt people, like the Honda Odysseys. Before the minivan of the same name, Honda made a 4-wheel, knobby-tired go cart, which well predates ATVs. That was wicked fun! (Mostly for the employees, who would ride them through the park terrorizing everyone in our path.) And that was when we weren't driving our CARS through the park!
I worked on the Water World side. Motor World, which had many more toys to play with, was hard duty in the hot sun––no place to be in July when you can watch the girls on the water slides. Now, a few points of interest:
The Alpine Slide was not cement; it was fiberglass––which explains why your skin would fall off when you fell off. We used to thumb through 10 carts to get a good fast one before going for it. The attendant teenager would give us employees a lot more than the usual 20 seconds at the top for the poor soul in front to get a good head start. Picture croquet, at high speed. I did not die that night when I fell off the slide––I am alive and well in New Hampshire.
The Cannonball Loop was the brainchild of some Swiss guy they imported on a week-long visa. I was one of the idiots that accepted you-know-who's crisp $100 bill to test run it. That was my last ride. $100 did not buy enough booze to drown out that memory.
All the wounds and injuries are true, including the idiot who jumped off the diving cliff into the 40-foot deep whatever-they-ended-up-calling-it pool––and he could not swim. After that, they painted the pool white so they could see bodies lying on the bottom.
Nothing was more fun than test driving the big water slides we built with the "down the toilet bowl flush" through the big tunnel––which we assembled from huge culvert pipes lined with tons of rebar, gunite, and empty beer cans. The filters we built were so big you could find bodies in there too! After we were all beaten up, we had to drain the whole thing and coat it with urethane foam. I can still smell the xylene!
And let's not forget the brewery! On the Motor World side, no less! This is not a joke. Action Park was a pioneer in the microbrewery fad, and got a brewer from Germany to come over here and make high-octane suds. Yeehaw! We used to steal kegs, drink the beer, ride the Indy cars down Route 94, crash the Indy cars, get the Indy cars back to the park without anybody seeing us (there were only three cops in Vernon back then) and then go for a swim at the pools to sober up. I do not recall any night security at the park, ever.
Action Park brings back a lot of memories. Especially the drunken debauchery at the employee Christmas parties––are those guys wearing motocross boots and tuxedos? If you ever get bored, go dig up the skateboard park––I'm sure it's still there. –Amazingly-not-wheelchair-bound Tom Fergus
Watching The Friction at Action Park
My favorite pastime at Action Park was watching people on the Alpine Slide ––especially when someone would fall off the sled but continue down the shoot of the slide. A friend of mine actually melted his nylon/polyester shirt to his skin on the Alpine slide. Then there were the numerous walking wounded burn victims at the various water slides over the course of a day. People just wearing a bathing suit and no shirt would travel at high speeds in rough fiberglass composite slides that made for friction burns you can only describe as criminal. Ah, the good old days!
Also, if you recall their ad's tag line: "Come to Vernon Valley / Great Gorge, Action Park…" which we revised to: "Be rushed from Burns in Valley / Great Gauze, Blood Park…" –John C.
A Survivor from Action Park Writes In
I was fortunate enough to have actually ridden the Action Park loop-de-loop water slide! Contrary to some reports, there was actually some level of safety associated with this particular ride. After climbing several stories of splintery wooden stairs, an attendant would weigh you in. Someone must have decided that a certain weight profile was necessary in order to complete this human physics experiment.
After this, you were instructed to take off any jewelry you might have on and herded to another station. An attendant there would then hose you down with icy-cold water. This pre-rinse was necessary to make sure that you were wet and slippery enough to make it around the loop. After a quick "keep your head down" instructional lesson, off you went into the "Humonga Cowabunga" -style straight-down speed tube that did not end in a flat slowdown lane but a full size 15 or 20 foot roller-coaster-style loop. When it was all over, the slide shot you into kind of a puddled wet mat instead of an actual pond or pool.
The only ill effect I suffered was a bit of a headache. By the time I rode it, they had added an escape hatch with a little window right before the loop started in case you didn't make it all the way around. Action Park was a great place that stuck around a little longer than it should have in an increasingly lawsuit-prone society. –Steve Braybrook
Action Park Had Her In Stitches
There are two things I remember about Action Park. The first was the "Freefall" water slide. This meant a person had to hike up a ladder and then slide straight down at some unbeknownst speed on top of a minute amount of water (the lighter you were, the faster you went). The bonus was at the end, when you got to pull your swimsuit down from around your neck and out of places you didn't even know existed on your body. People would actually hang out at the end of the ride for the free shows. I saw things I never imagined. –Luscious Linda
Banged Up And Bloodied Alpine Sliders
Ah, Action Park! I remember it well, but what stands out clearest in my memory is that at the bottom of the Alpine Slide a few paramedics would just stand around waiting for someone to need their assistance. They knew that it was a matter of WHEN and not IF some poor kid would get banged up and bloodied.
Also, they had some round boat-type things that acted sort of like bumper cars in a pool. My rather large father attempted to get into one of them and proceeded to get stuck tight and fast. I remember standing there with my little sister, burning with embarrassment as three stoners, er, staff members, took about 20 minutes to extricate my poor dad. Gotta love an amusement park that has no rules or guidelines! –Cyn
More Traction Than Action
I definitely remember Action Park as a kid. My mom and her friend took me, my brother and her friend's kids to Action Park only once. After much nagging, my mother finally agreed to take me on the Alpine Slide. My first clue that this was a bad idea should've been the blood-covered teenager being carried half-way down the mountain after her car flipped over. Of course, I was too young to think, "this might be a bad idea." Well, I was scared out of my wits and almost ripped the so-called "brake" right off, I was pulling on it so hard (to no avail). I don't remember going on anything else because I think I probably blocked it out of my memory. –Andrea Lyn Van Benschoten
Seizure Day at Action Park
I went to Action Park in the early 1990s with a church group for what I though would be a day of fun. Besides having my towel and flip flops stolen and going barefoot all day (my feet hurt so bad), I saw something I will never forget. A man was walking when he suddenly fell down on the pavement and began having what looked to me like a seizure. A park janitor was sweeping in the area, and instead of going to help the man, he swept around him and then stepped over him and walked away! I could not believe it. I ran over to him and the friend I was with began yelling for help.
Finally, a cart with what looked like two sixteen-year-olds showed up and took him away. God knows what happened to him! –Marc Beiner
"Gumbys" at Vermin Valley Great Gore
I am a former manager––in fact, the former head of security––for the now defunct Traction Park. The stories you hear are extremely truthful and not fabricated or embellished at all.
It sounds more impressive than it was; any security officer who lasted more than two years seemed to get the job eventually. I got it at the mature age of 21. I was unfortunately there when many of the ill-fated occurrences took place, including the 1987 drowning at the grave pool, numerous horrific accidents, and wild brawls that led to trips to the hospital.
Action Park was Extreme before Extreme existed––extremely dumb. Numerous bars and beer stands scattered strategically around the park could keep one in an alcohol-induced state of bravado practically all day! Combine that with a terrain which allowed for a lot of mischief to go unnoticed and you've got the makings for, well, a lotta Action! Action Park attendees were affectionately referred to as "Gumbys," because you bounced off the ground when you hit!
I don't know anyone who grew up in Vernon in the '70s or '80s who either didn't work and or get injured there. I could fill an entire issue of Weird NJ with gross and strange things I witnessed in my four year there. One thing I do know for sure––NO ONE shed a tear when the place we referred to as "Vermin Valley Great Gore" was sold and closed. I have not been back in years, but I know some people who work at the new resort standing in its footprints and I have been told (and observed from a distance) that it is a fine company trying to make Vernon the wonderful resort town it always aspired to be. So if you are looking for something macabre, you will have to look elsewhere: The Cannonball Loop has left the building. –Jim DeSaye
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using namespace System;
using namespace System::Collections::Generic;
using namespace Microsoft::WRL;
using namespace Microsoft::WRL::Wrappers;
using namespace ABI::Windows::Foundation;
using namespace ICU;
using namespace Common;

ICUFactory::ICUFactory()
{
}

Settings^ ICUFactory::CreateEmptySettings()
{
	Settings^ settings = gcnew Settings();

	settings->Add(Setting("ICU_DECODE", false));
	settings->Add(Setting("ICU_ESCAPE", false));
	settings->Add(Setting("ICU_BROWSER_MODE", false));
	settings->Add(Setting("ICU_ENCODE_PERCENT", false));
	settings->Add(Setting("ICU_ENCODE_SPACES_ONLY", false));
	settings->Add(Setting("ICU_NO_ENCODE", false));
	settings->Add(Setting("ICU_NO_META", false));

	return settings;
}

String^ ICUFactory::GetName()
{
	return "InternetCrackUrl";
}

String^ ICUFactory::GetDescription()
{
	return "Wininet URL parsing functions.";
}

List<UriProperty>^ ICUFactory::Create(String^ uriAsString, Settings^ settings)
{
	List<UriProperty>^ properties = gcnew List<UriProperty>();
	pin_ptr<const wchar_t> uriAsPinPtr = PtrToStringChars(uriAsString);
	const wchar_t* uriAsWChar = uriAsPinPtr;

	static const size_t bufferSize = 2084;
	URL_COMPONENTSW components;
	components.dwStructSize = sizeof(components);
	components.lpszExtraInfo = new wchar_t[bufferSize];
	components.dwExtraInfoLength = bufferSize;
	components.lpszHostName = new wchar_t[bufferSize];
	components.dwHostNameLength = bufferSize;
	components.lpszPassword = new wchar_t[bufferSize];
	components.dwPasswordLength = bufferSize;
	components.lpszScheme = new wchar_t[bufferSize];
	components.dwSchemeLength = bufferSize;
	components.lpszUrlPath = new wchar_t[bufferSize];
	components.dwUrlPathLength = bufferSize;
	components.lpszUserName = new wchar_t[bufferSize];
	components.dwUserNameLength = bufferSize;

	BOOL result = InternetCrackUrlW(uriAsWChar, uriAsString->Length, SettingsToFlags(settings, true), &components);

	if (result)
	{
		wchar_t canonicalizedUrl[2084] = L"";
		DWORD canonicalizedUrlLength = ARRAYSIZE(canonicalizedUrl);
		result = InternetCanonicalizeUrlW(uriAsWChar, canonicalizedUrl, &canonicalizedUrlLength, SettingsToFlags(settings, false));
		if (result)
		{
			properties = ComponentsToProperties(canonicalizedUrl, &components);
		}
		else
		{
			properties->Add(UriProperty("InternetCanonicalizeUrlFailure", String::Format("{0}", GetLastError())));
		}
	}
	else
	{
		properties->Add(UriProperty("InternetCrackUrlFailure", String::Format("{0}", GetLastError())));
	}

	return properties;
}

List<UriProperty>^ ICUFactory::Combine(String^ uriAsString, String^ relativeAsString, Settings^ settings)
{
	List<UriProperty>^ properties = gcnew List<UriProperty>();
	pin_ptr<const wchar_t> uriAsPinPtr = PtrToStringChars(uriAsString);
	const wchar_t* uriAsWChar = uriAsPinPtr;
	pin_ptr<const wchar_t> relativeAsPinPtr = PtrToStringChars(relativeAsString);
	const wchar_t* relativeAsWChar = relativeAsPinPtr;

	wchar_t combined[2084] = L"";
	DWORD combinedLength = ARRAYSIZE(combined);
	BOOL result = InternetCombineUrlW(uriAsWChar, relativeAsWChar, combined, &combinedLength, SettingsToFlags(settings, false));

	if (result)
	{
		static const size_t bufferSize = 2084;
		URL_COMPONENTSW components;
		components.dwStructSize = sizeof(components);
		components.lpszExtraInfo = new wchar_t[bufferSize];
		components.dwExtraInfoLength = bufferSize;
		components.lpszHostName = new wchar_t[bufferSize];
		components.dwHostNameLength = bufferSize;
		components.lpszPassword = new wchar_t[bufferSize];
		components.dwPasswordLength = bufferSize;
		components.lpszScheme = new wchar_t[bufferSize];
		components.dwSchemeLength = bufferSize;
		components.lpszUrlPath = new wchar_t[bufferSize];
		components.dwUrlPathLength = bufferSize;
		components.lpszUserName = new wchar_t[bufferSize];
		components.dwUserNameLength = bufferSize;

		BOOL result = InternetCrackUrlW(combined, combinedLength, SettingsToFlags(settings, true), &components);

		if (result)
		{
			properties = ComponentsToProperties(combined, &components);
		}
		else
		{
			properties->Add(UriProperty("InternetCrackUrlFailure", String::Format("{0}", GetLastError())));
		}
	}
	else
	{
		properties->Add(UriProperty("InternetCombineUrlFailure", String::Format("{0}", GetLastError())));
	}
	return properties;
}

List<UriProperty>^ ICUFactory::ComponentsToProperties(const wchar_t* url, URL_COMPONENTSW* components)
{
	List<UriProperty>^ properties = gcnew List<UriProperty>();
	properties->Add(UriProperty("ICU.Url", gcnew String(url)));
	properties->Add(UriProperty("ICU.ExtraInfo", gcnew String(components->lpszExtraInfo)));
	properties->Add(UriProperty("ICU.HostName", gcnew String(components->lpszHostName)));
	properties->Add(UriProperty("ICU.Password", gcnew String(components->lpszPassword)));
	properties->Add(UriProperty("ICU.Scheme", gcnew String(components->lpszScheme)));
	properties->Add(UriProperty("ICU.Path", gcnew String(components->lpszUrlPath)));
	properties->Add(UriProperty("ICU.UserName", gcnew String(components->lpszUserName)));
	properties->Add(UriProperty("ICU.Port", String::Format("{0}", components->nPort)));
	return properties;
}

DWORD ICUFactory::SettingsToFlags(Common::Settings^ settings, bool forCrack)
{
	DWORD flags = 0;
	// crack & combine & canon
	if (settings->Get("ICU_DECODE"))
	{
		flags |= ICU_DECODE;
	}
	if (settings->Get("ICU_ESCAPE"))
	{
		flags |= ICU_ESCAPE;
	}

	if (!forCrack)
	{
		// Combine & Canonicalize
		if (settings->Get("ICU_BROWSER_MODE"))
		{
			flags |= ICU_BROWSER_MODE;
		}
		if (settings->Get("ICU_ENCODE_PERCENT"))
		{
			flags |= ICU_ENCODE_PERCENT;
		}
		if (settings->Get("ICU_ENCODE_SPACES_ONLY"))
		{
			flags |= ICU_ENCODE_SPACES_ONLY;
		}
		if (settings->Get("ICU_NO_ENCODE"))
		{
			flags |= ICU_NO_ENCODE;
		}
		if (settings->Get("ICU_NO_META"))
		{
			flags |= ICU_NO_META;
		}
	}
	return flags;
}

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Q: jQuery drag and drop expands What I want to do is drag the cube over the box.
The box expands and the cube can be placed on one of the 3 'timelines'.
my html:

my javascript:
$(function () {
    $(".drag").draggable({
        revert: "invalid",
        snap: '#t3, #t2, #t1',
        snapMode: 'inner'
    });
    $(".timeLine").droppable({
        over: function (event, ui) {
            $(this).css('height', "66px");
            $(".timeLine #t1").droppable({});
            $(".timeLine #t2").droppable({});
            $(".timeLine #t3").droppable({});
        },
        out: function (event, ui) {
            $(this).css('height', "24px");
        },
        drop: function (event, ui) {
            $(this).css('height', "24px");
        }
    });
});

Jsfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/H7XV9/
As you can see it is possible to drop it on t1, t2 and t3.But I only want t2 and t3 to be droppable when the timeline is expanded!

A: Use:
overflow:hidden

on t2 and t3
jsFiddle
Also, I converted them to a class rather than id. It's illegal to have multiple IDs in the real world, it should be illegal in HTML too.
Update from OPs comments
Markup
To each t# class I added a drop class

JavaScript
$(function () {
    $(".drag").draggable({
        revert: "invalid",
        snap: '.t3, .t2, .t1',
        snapMode: 'inner'
    });
    $(".drop").droppable({ // Just assign the event to the drop class now
        over: function (event, ui) {
            $(this).parent().css('height', "66px");
        },
        out: function (event, ui) {
            $(this).parent().css('height', "24px");
        },
        drop: function (event, ui) {
            $(this).parent().css('height', "24px");
        }
    });
});

New JSFiddle

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Tap Tap Theatre proudly presents 'Men', a brand new play featuring at the Udderbelly at this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Frank and Syrus have been stuck for three years. When Suze and Bianca explode into their lives, Frank is offered a lifeline. But can he find his way out? An unforgettable look at a life behind closed doors, Tap Tap Theatre presents a tender and enthralling dark comedy about the unthinkable things we do for the people we love, from Royal Court Young Writer and Bruntwood Prize nominee Miriam Battye.
Directed by Theo Scholefield, Men marks Tap Tap Theatre's Edinburgh debut as a part of Tap Tap's Edinburgh 2013 season.


Burlington County Freeholder Director Joe Donnelly recently announced that the county is kicking off a logo contest.
All Burlington County High School students are encouraged to become a part of county history by participating in the contest.
"Our county seal is a part of our history and will stay a part of the county, but we are looking for a logo that represents what is happening in the county now and also take us into the future," said Donnelly.
The logos will be judged for originality, creativity, relevance to the county and connection with the tag line.
One grand prize of $250 will go to the chosen logo and nine additional $25 prizes will go to finalists.
Logo finalists will be displayed on the county website. All submission must be at least 1 MB in size and sent electronically by emailing Donnelly at Donnelly@co.burlington.nj.us and must be received by 4 p.m. on March 29. Submission must include the student's name, school and grade as well as contact information.
"We are looking forward to seeing how creative our students can be with their designs," said Donnelly.
The county is hoping to get sponsors to help us out with the prizes.
Anyone interested should contact Donnelly at the Burlington County Freeholder's Office at (609) 265–5020.
A list of the contest rules and guidelines can be found on the county website www.co.burlington.nj.us/freeholders or for more information please call (609) 265–5028.


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Q: iTunes Connect: App transfer specifics I'm currently planning the transfer of some apps from one iOS-Developer-Programm to another. Now Apple introduced the option to transfer the apps via 'Transfer App' in iTunes connect (more details in the ITC FAQ)
Apple specifically says, that

You cannot transfer iCloud enabled apps or apps using iCloud entitlements, Passbook IDs, certificates, or notifications.

Q: Would it be possible to upload a new version with push-notifications disabled in the App-ID and then use the 'Transfer app'-utility?
My reasoning goes thus: theoretically it should be possible to do this, once the push-notification capability is disabled.
However, since this feature is quite new and Apple has posted barely any information on how it works (apart from this really short FAQ), I'd rather ask around before trying and failing miserably.
So: does anyone have already experience with transferring apps that didn't stick to Apple's rules?


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Manuel José de Arriaga Brum da Silveira e Peyrelongue (; 8 July 1840 – 5 March 1917) was a Portuguese lawyer, the first attorney-general and the first elected president of the First Portuguese Republic, following the deposition of King Manuel II of Portugal and a Republican Provisional Government headed by Teófilo Braga (who would succeed him in the post following his resignation).

Biography
Of his early life details are brief: Arriaga was born  to an aristocratic family; son of Sebastião José de Arriaga Brum da Silveira (c. 1810 – Setúbal, 18 October 1881) and his wife, whom he married on 24 December 1834, Maria Cristina Pardal Ramos Caldeira (c. 1815 – ?). Arriaga's father was a rich merchant in the city, only son, and property-owner, whose heritage traced his lineage to the Fleming Joss van Aard, one of the original settlers of the island of Faial (of the male line to a Basque family of small nobility) and whose second cousin was Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, 1st Marquess of Sá da Bandeira. The young Manuel was also the grandson of General Sebastião José de Arriaga Brum da Silveira, who distinguished himself in the Peninsular Wars, and grand-nephew of the Judge of the Supreme Court, who between 1821 and 1822 was also a representative for the Azores in the Constituent Courts.

The Arriaga family included six children, of these the following siblings:  Maria Cristina, the oldest (a poet, referred by Vitorino Nemésio in his obra-prima Mau Tempo no Canal); José de Arriaga, a historian (known for História da Revolução Portuguesa de 1820, published in 1889 and Os Últimos 60 anos da Monarquia, published in 1911); Sebastião Arriaga Brum da Silveira Júnior, agricultural engineer (after studying abroad, he worked on land recuperation projects in the Alentejo); and Manuel, the fourth in line of succession (who decided early on to concentrate on politics).

Education
Arriaga had his primary education in his native city of Horta. Around the age of 18, he moved with his younger brother (José de Arriaga) to Coimbra to study at the University of Coimbra in the Faculty of Law (from 1860 to 1865), where he distinguished himself for his brilliant mind and notable oratory. During this time he adhered to philosophical positivism and republican democracy, where he frequently joined others is discussions on philosophy and politics, showing a capacity for argument and imagination. His republican idealism, considered subversive, caused a rift between him and his conservative monarchist-leaning father (a supporter of the traditionalist King D. Miguel); his father would break-off ties with his sons (for those subverse ideals), forcing the older Manuel to work as a private teacher to support his and his brother's studies.

After finishing his studies in 1865, Manuel worked as a lawyer in Lisbon, but, desiring to be a teacher, he competed for the 10th chair at the Escola Politécnica (Polytechnical school) in 1866, as well as the chair in History in the department of Letters. Unsuccessful, in 1875 he ended up working in Lisbon both as an English teacher at the local secondary school, and as a lawyer.

Later, he established a legal practice, and quickly developed a clientele, which permitted him the financial security to assist his brother in completing his studies. Between many of the causes he defended while a lawyer, in 1890, he was the advocate for António José de Almeida, after he wrote "Bragança, o último" a treasties against King D. Carlos in the academic journal O Ultimatum.

Ten years later, on 26 August 1876, he joined the Comissão para a Reforma da Instrução Secundária ("Commission on the Reform on Secondary School Instruction").

Politics

A member of the Portuguese Republican Party (before 31 January 1891), alongside Jacinto Nunes, Azevedo e Silva, Bernardino Pinheiro, Teófilo Braga and Francisco Homem Cristo, he was an active parliamentarian during the constitutional monarchy of King Luís I; he was involved in the debates on the reform of education, the penal code and prisons, in addition to electoral reform. By this time doctrinaire republicans had, by that time, been replaced by others in the party affiliated with masonry or the nascente Carbonari associations. He was also elected deputy for Funchal (1883–84) in the minority Republican government and later Lisbon (1890–92). A pragmatist, he actively promoted the Republican cause, while maintaining good relations with the Roman Catholic Church, unlike some of his contemporaries in the Republican movement. But, at the same time, he was combative and critical of what he saw as the "lethargy of monarchical governments, the [general] wastes and luxuries of the royal family. Yet, he ardently denounced irregularities in his own government, especially when some Ministers transferred funds from the government coffers into private hands.

Following the establishment of the Republic (5 October 1910), young Republican students in Coimbra entered the installations of the Senate, and vandalized the Hall and furniture used in Doctoral ceremonies and damaged paintings of the last Portuguese kings.  In order "to impede other depravities Dr. António José de Almeida (Republican from the first hour) invited Dr. Manuel de Arriaga to be rector of the old University and gave him leave on 17 October of 1910 in a ceremony without academic ceremonies, which was enough to curb student enthusiasm".

During the period of the Provisional Government, he became the Attorney-General of the Republic premièring in that way a paladin of Republican propaganda and as one of the more caustic Portuguese.

As one of the older figures of the Republican regime (he was 71), he was elected President on 24 August 1911; he did not campaign for the position, and noted that it was a heavy burden, which he believed he was personally incapable of fulfilling its duties, but accepted it "for the good of the Republic". The other candidate was Dr. Bernardino Machado (who would also become President later), but it was António José de Almeida who had suggested Manuel Arriaga at the end of Teófilo Braga's Provisional Government. As Almeida had believed Arriaga "was one of the few if not the only man in the Party who worked well with everyone and whom the Lord Christ didn't speak ill".

The Presidency was itself not an enviable or prestigious position; although the elected person, for a time, occupied a large home in Horta Seca, they were required to furnish the home at their own cost, pay rent and had no transport budget, nor personal secretary (Arriaga would ask his own son to help him in this role). Later, the first President lived in the Palace of Belém, but not in the main building, but rather an annex off of the Pátio das Damas. This occurred in a period when personal divisions between different factions had splintered the Republican cause; António José de Almeida would form the Evolutionist Party, Brito Camacho the Republican Union, while Afonso Costa would continue to front the main Republican Party (renamed the Democratic Party). Manuel de Arriaga, for his part, would select the politician and journalist João Chagas to head his first government. In his personal autobiography, Arriaga recounted how he hoped that he would not be another factor to divide Republicans, especially in a time where there existed a need to work together; it was a difficult period historically, due to the exasperation of the "religious question", constant social agitation and political party instability (associated with "Machiavellian strategies" of some politicians) that fermented during the infancy of the First Republic. Frequently, Arriaga was unable to contain these tensions and often had to deal with counter-revolutionary revolts, such as the Royalist attack on Chaves led by Captain Paiva Couceiro. During his mandate, several governments fell; there were eight changes in the Prime Minister's office, disorder in the streets, violent reactions against the church, as well as counter-revolutionary monarchist movements. Finally, he invited Dr. António José de Almeida to lead the government, but he refused, and opted for the Republican Afonso Costa, who would govern off-and-on until 1917. Hated, but feared, he governed and even sought to restore some order and economy to the public accounts. Although Afonso Costa was able to reduce the deficit, the instability and conflict between Parties persisted, made more critical by internal politics and growing international tensions in 1914 (that would eventually begin World War I).

Arriaga deplored the circumstances, going so far as to announcing his intent to resign unless a coalition or non-party government could be installed that resolved the outstanding issues of amnesty and separation of church and state. But, subsequent governments would not resolve the issue immediately; on 22 February 1914 an amnesty was conceded for those not accused of violent actions, and eleven leaders of subversive groups were released, but the Law of Separation remained unrevised.

Revolt to resignation
Continuing political intrigues inevitably forced the first Republic down the path towards dictatorship. At the onset of the First World War, there was also pressure from the Portuguese colonies in Africa, principally Angola and Mozambique and the National Assembly had decided, while remaining initially neutral in the conflict, to send troops to those colonies which fronted German possessions.

The new Republic was now increasingly unmanageable, and further, there were divergences developing between the government and the army. At one point, a military contingent in Oporto attempted a coup d'état in Lisbon, which was suppressed. The government suggested disbanding the regiments involved, but their leaders appealed to General Pimenta de Castro. In an attempt to mitigate these problems, Manuel de Arriaga wrote to the three party leaders (Camacho, Afonso Costa and António José de Almeida) in order to come to an accord and form a unity government, but Afonso Costa did not react well to the proposal. The President then withdrew his support for the government, then-presided by Vítor Hugo de Azevedo, and to calm the Army called on General Joaquim Pimenta de Castro (who had been the Minister of War under João Chagas) to form a government. Arriaga had known and placed his confidence in Castro. But, Joaquim Pereira Pimenta de Castro selected for his ministers, seven military officers, who did not permit the re-opening of Parliament, and provided an amnesty for convicted monarchists involved in the Attack on Chaves He made changes to electoral law and began governing as a dictator, which was only supported by the Evolutionist Party (Portugal) and the group led by Machado dos Santos on the political right of the Republicans.

What had started as an attempt to eliminate an inevitable conflict between the armed forces and the political class, eventually resulted in a bloody conflict. The parliamentarians, meeting secretly on 4 May 1915 in the Palácio da Mitra, declared Arriaga and Pimenta de Castro outside the law, their acts undemocratic and essentially void. Then, on 14 May, in a revolt instigated by members of the Democratic Party, elements of civil reactionary groups and supported by elements of the Navy began what was essentially a civil war; there were many deaths and injuries on both sides.  The well-intentioned and pacifist Arriaga had only one option; twelve days following the start of the uprising, he resigned from the Presidency. In his resignation letter, he stated that the deaths during the revolt were needless, that Pimenta de Castro's regime was less a dictatorship then earlier governments and that 1914–15 laws had given future governments unusual war powers.

He paid heavily for his political naivety; as the author Raul Brandão noted the man, "although profoundly altruistic and magnanimous, good-natured and honorable", had rapidly turned into a political criminal and accused of duplicity with the dictatorial and violent Pimenta de Castro. In his resignation (to his ministers and Party) he defended himself against these unjust accusations and declared his well-intentioned loyalty to the Republican cause, which he had supported throughout his life (but which had abandoned him disillusioned). The parliamentarian, writer and journalist, Augusto de Castro later recounted a conversation with the former President, shortly before his death (in 1917):
"The man, an admirable magistrate, with an aristocratic comportment and a romantic look, who once was one of the most handsome boys of his time, had transformed himself, in half-a-dozen months, into an old, curved and pathetic man...Arriaga recounted to me one of his unique pleasures during his exile...his flowers, garden and poetry...in that afternoon, seated in his garden, seated in the warmth of the sun's rays, I told the old man my predictions. That politics was not made for idealists nor poets, like him...Arriaga listened silently, forcing a smile respectively. Eventually, tears covered his eyes...And while making small patterns in the carpet with his cane, he told me, with an irony...'I am a political criminal, my friend'...I wanted to comfort him, and remembered his sense of pride in popular sentiment and justice, that yet remained in his soul...the people that you had esteemed, continue to respect and love you. That much is true. There are few in the theater, in public, who caricature you..."

But August de Castro ended his story by noting that upon leaving the ex-President's home he purchased a newspaper that referred to Arriaga as a renegade and traitor, and thought, "never, like that afternoon, did politics seem so cruel and a sinister thing".

Manuel de Arriaga was replaced as President by Professor Teófilo Braga in 1915, who had led the provisional government following the abdication and exile of King Emanuel II.

Later life
In 1874, Arriaga had married Lucrécia Augusta de Brito de Berredo Furtado de Melo (Foz do Douro, Porto, 13 November 1844 – Parede, Oeiras, 14 October 1927), from a family friendly to the Arriagas (from the island of Pico). The ceremony occurred in a chapel near Valença do Minho, where her father was General and Governor. For a few years the couple lived in Coimbra, where Manuel de Arriaga flourished in his law practice. Six children were born, two boys and four girls, and the family regularly spent their holidays in Buarcos.

Following his resignation, Manuel de Arriaga died in Lisbon two years later on 5 March 1917. His home, near Rua da Janelas Verdes, overlooked the boats in the Tejo, and in the room where he died there were photographs of the two men he most admired, Victor Hugo and Alexandre Herculano, while above his bed, an image of Christ. In the end, former-President Arriaga's image was rehabilitated by the Portuguese media for his "intelligence, patriotism, benevolence and his honor for the manner in which he exercised his functions". This was further enhanced by his public papers and documents, as well as the work of several intellectuals.

Arriaga was buried in the Prazeres Cemetery the day after his death. In 2004, by decision of the Assembly of the Republic, his body was moved to the National Pantheon.

Published works
Although a distinguished lawyer and orator, most of Arraiga's works were presented to the public, but also included published:
 O Partido Republicano e o Congresso (The Republican Party and the Congress), presented at the Clube Henriques Nogueira (11 December 1887);
 A Questão da Lunda (A Question of Lunda), represented in the Chamber of Deputies (1891);
 Descaracterização da Nacionalidade Portuguesa no regime monárquico (The De-characterization of Portuguese Nationality in the Monarchical Regime) presented in the Chamber of Deputies (1897);
 Começo de liquidação final (Beginning the Final Liquidation)
 Sobre a Unidade da Família Humana debaixo do Ponto de Vista Económico (About the Unity of the Human Family under the Economic View)
 A irresponsabilidade do poder executivo no regime monárquico liberal (The Irresponsibility of Executive Power in the Liberal Monarchical Regime)
 Contos Sagrados (Sacred Stories)
 Irradiações (Diffusion)
 Harmonia Social (Social Harmony)

Notes

References

External links

1840 births
1917 deaths
People from Faial Island
Presidents of Portugal
19th-century Portuguese lawyers
Portuguese republicans
Portuguese Republican Party politicians
Portuguese people of Basque descent
Portuguese people of French descent
Portuguese people of Flemish descent
Democratic Party (Portugal) politicians
Azorean politicians
University of Coimbra alumni
Azorean jurists
20th-century Portuguese politicians

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Duncan Robinson All 243 Three-Pointers Full Highlights (2019-20 Season Three-ilation Part II)
The days passed, and Duncan grew increasingly concerned at his body's strange response to his solitary practices. After much experimentation, he had precisely pinpointed the problem: if his two feet were planted behind the three-point line, his shooting arm would begin to spasm. Anywhere else on the court, he could shoot with no difficulty. If he lined up with one foot on the line, then brought up the ball like he was going to shoot, he could stand there for minutes feeling nothing but boredom, but the second he brought his foot an inch backwards, the unexplained twitching would resume. Changing gyms hadn't helped. Even going to a gym with a shorter three-point line hadn't helped. Nothing had helped.
Duncan knew he should seek medical advice, but was reluctant to do so. What if news of his strange condition got out? He remembered how Markelle Fultz had been torn down in the media because of his supposedly psychosomatic shooting struggles. Duncan knew the same could happen to him if he revealed that his body (or his brain) was trying to stop him from taking three-point shots.
The possibility of seeing a therapist had crossed his mind, but he definitely didn't feel like he had some kind of a mental block affecting him in any way. His jumpshot from just inside the arc was just as pure as ever. His mechanics were fine. He wasn't going through a slump. It was absolutely absurd.
And his dreams…
It was difficult for him to seize onto concrete details of his oneiric experiences. The concept of a "library", an overwhelming feeling of imminent discovery…those were the only two things he could recall. Were the recurring dreams and his uncooperative right arm somehow linked? They didn't seem to be, but Duncan figured that if he was going insane, a lot of seemingly disconnected things could be gathered under the umbrella of insanity. And he often found that, when attempting a three-pointer, a glimpse of something unknown was lurking just beyond his vision.
Now, he set a pen and paper next to his bed as he prepared for sleep. If he woke up from a dream, any dream, he would quickly jot down as many notes about it as he could remember. Hopefully, by repeating the exercise for a few nights, he would have enough details to glean a better understanding of exactly what his psyche was trying to communicate to him.
The door swung open and the rows upon rows of books were in front of him once again. A ray of sunlight shone through the cloudy window, robbed of its golden hue and turned an ashen gray by the dust which floated everpresently through the air. At random he perused the shelves, eyes glancing across those withered spines with no titles, restlessly trying to find the one volume that he sought. He would pluck one off the shelf and inspect is pages, only to find small black text in an unfamiliar script.
His arm was twinging violently, distracting him. A ploy by the library itself to keep its bounty of knowledge out of his hands? Or a ploy by his mind to protect itself from the unfathomable teachings to be absorbed from these ancient works? Either seemed possible.
His feet took him to another part of the room, one draped in shadow. Peering through the dimness, a wide gray-leather spine stood out to him. With trembling hand, he removed it and gazed at the front. There was a title embossed in gold, written in the familiar Latin alphabet:
"Codex Triplici," it read.
He could barely control his spasmodic arm enough to lift the cover and look at the first page. There was more text here in Latinate letters. His breath quickened, but as he rushed to being reading those words of undoubtedly great importance, his sight began to lengthen as if his consciousness was being stretched through spacetime. The words were soon too small to read. The hands holding the book were so far away, like they were part of a different universe.
He blinked once, and it all ended.
Duncan sat bolt upright in his bed, upsetting Mrs. Chips, who had been slumbering next to his torso. Scrambling to grab his pen and paper, he wrote two words that held no meaning to him: "Codex Triplici". But as he gripped the paper and stared at his writing, trying to parse meaning from it, the ink began to fade.
Alarmed, Duncan wrote it again. He had barely finished dotting the final "i" when the C of "Codex" vanished. Again, he wrote the mysterious phrase and again, it disappeared. Faster and faster he wrote, but the letters were disappearing faster than he could pen them. Soon, he had forgotten what he was supposed to be writing. He furiously commanded his mind to remember, but those banks of memory were empty.
The blank paper taunted him. He crumpled it up and threw it against the wall. His anguished thoughts would not let him return to sleep, and he was still awake when the first rays of dawn pierced through his blinds.
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Milwaukee Bucks Unveil New Logos/Colors, Jerseys & Court
By mgdmhl, May 30, 2014 in Sports Logo News
KDubK414 220
The arena and stadium behind the scenes guy.
Location:Milwaukee, WI
Favourite Logos:Every Brewers Logo, Montreal Expos, Others I can't think of right now.
I love, love, love this!!!! And Gothamite is right! Couldn't be happier with this!!!
pmoehrin 1,116
The primary logo I think its a bit of a downgrade IMO, but still much better then what they had in their green and purple days, so by no means am I arguing it for worst look in the league either.
Two things I don't like about it. The dropping of the red and the angrier looking Buck. If you brought those two elements back I would be fully on board.
What I do like about the change are the alternate logos. I think the Wisconsin logo is brilliant. The blue throw me off a bit at first but once you explain that its the water borders for the state it brings it into context. I'm not aware of any team that does something like that and I think its a really unique look in every way that's positive.
The circular logo is solid as well. From afar it doesn't look like much but up close you start to see the subtle details with the basketball design stand out more. Font logo is nice as well.
We'll see what the uniforms look like. I don't have any expectations. Just hope its nothing too crazy or too simplistic. If the logos are any indication it will try to strike a compromise between the two, which is my hope.
Overall I just wish they would have kept the primary and swapped in the two alternates, but I'm okay with the change.
bosoxlover12 25
Great job by Conrad for his mockups of the logo
The released one is on the left, Conrad's on the right.
Very close to the real deal, nicely done.
seattlesonicsofsacramento 98
Favourite Logos:KC Royals 1968 Rejected Cow, Fresno Grizzlies 2015 Fresno Raisin Eaters 1906 Throwback, MIA Marlins 2015 Cuban Heritage Night, POR Trail Blazers 1970-90 Primary/Alt, SEA Mariners 1999 TAtC Home Alt
I still think there's too much open space on the left and right sides of the Buck itself. I don't know what they could've added there, but it feels like something needs to be there.
Agreed. All that white (cream) space seems especially off given how cramped the wordmark and the double outline look in that roundel.
I'm coming around to the new buck. imo not a definite improvement, but not bad either.
The state outline logo captures the fauxback feel that their color scheme signals they're shooting for, but idk how much I buy into it.
Tigers6884 493
Location:Michigan
Favourite Logos:Detroit Red Wings, 80's Detroit Tigers logo, Robo Penguin, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, teal and purple Diamondbacks, Montreal Expos, Philadelphia Phillies 70s-80s maroon,, teal Florida Marlins, throwback Lions logo
I LOVE the new logos and color scheme! I'm glad that they're not taking steps backwards by reverting back to some old logo or uniform (I'm talking about you, overrated Irish rainbow uniforms), but instead they are going with a fresh, clean, original look. Huge upgrade, in my opinion.
JQK 1,120
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Location:Western Hemisphere
Favourite Logos:Hartford Whalers
Love the classic feel to all of these marks. Well done.
frosty06306 176
The M-neck is really my only gripe, it's just... strange - potential for some pretty cool unis though.
j'villejags 2,276
Is it possible that only the alternate uniforms will make use the blue? It just seems odd it's only on the tertiary logo. It also has more of a throwback feel to it than the other logos.
Germanshepherd 1,006
The only gripe I got is the font. Woof. That tries to be modern and traditional and fails miserably.
sportsherald 24
Location:Edmonton
I like Conrad's better!
UnclearInitial 1,590
Trequartista
Location:Dzekoburgh
I really can't understand the reason to drop red to add a color they've never worn. Just swap red and blue, and it couldh have been a great update on the brand.
habsfan1 3,754
Rise Above Mediocrity.
Location:Longueuil, Québec
I feel the same way. The new scheme still looks good, but it's kind of ironic that they're going with a very vintage-based logo while using a color combo that's not part of their history.
And dropping the red in favor of the duotone is making me think of the Sonics a bit. Brighten up the beige a few notches, and you've got Sonics colors.
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From http://www.nba.com/bucks/new-logo (Click on images to zoom in)
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Location:Philadelphia Pa
Favourite Logos:Eagles Lakers Falcons Old Brewers Logo with glove
Beautiful and classic. 100 times better than the red and green.
TheOldRoman 1,292
So, the Bucks are now the San Diego Padres. A largely middling franchise which has gone through many different color schemes, most uninspiring (including the present one), which seems uneasy with looking good or being settled. The right Bucks color scheme was green and red. The second choice is Irish rainbow. These aren't good, and even worse, it's another damn color scheme for the Bucks. What did Bucks fans want? I can't say for sure, but I'm certain it wasn't green with beige.
Bucks fans seem to be on board so far. We'll see.
Paul Lukas' of Uni-Watch/ESPN take on the new logos
The Milwaukee Bucks will have a new look next season, beginning with a new logo set and a fresh color scheme.
Details of the team's new visual program were unveiled Monday night at the BMO Harris Bradley Center. A few elements had been shown in a teaser video released earlier this month, and some other details had leaked on Twitter over the past two weeks, but this marked the first official confirmation of the team's redesign. New uniforms will follow in June.
And therein lies the rub -- it's frustrating when a team unveils only certain parts of its new design while keeping the uniforms under wraps. Everything that's been unveiled so far was developed within the larger context of the Bucks' new uniform set, so it's difficult to assess the various components in isolation. (And for what it's worth, the feeling here at Uni Watch HQ is that the new uniforms are very good -- better than the logos -- and will be a big hit when they're unveiled in June.)
That said, here are the details and thoughts on what's been unveiled so far:
The Bucks are going with green and cream, with blue and black being used for accents and trim. The use of cream -- an unusual choice -- reflects Milwaukee's nickname, "the Cream City," which was inspired by the pale yellow bricks used in many of the city's buildings.
Uni Watch's take: Love it. Green and cream are an inspired pairing, and the blue is used judiciously and effectively. Well done.
The primary and secondary logos
The team's familiar deer's head logo has been reimagined. The inner antlers suggest the shape of a basketball and the chest looks like an "M," both of which appear in the new secondary logo.
Uni Watch's take: A mixed bag. The new deer has more character than the old one, but the slanted eyes feel like too much of a "tough mascot" cliché. And while the basketball within the antlers is a nice touch, the ball-based secondary logo feels a bit generic. Similarly, incorporating the "M" into the deer's chest is clever, but the "M" logo by itself looks more like a minor league baseball logo.
The tertiary logo
Here we have a stylized shape of Wisconsin with the team name shown in diagonal lettering. The strips of blue show the areas where the state is bordered by water.
Uni Watch's take: Very nice. Here's hoping this logo gets a lot of use in the team's marketing and promotional campaigns.
The typeface
While the rest of the sports world is going with pointlessly eccentric typefaces that are often hard to read, the Bucks have opted for a straightforward block font. In addition to being used on the logos, this font will also be used for the team's new uniforms, due to be unveiled in about two months.
Uni Watch's take: Kudos for keeping it simple. But here's a little nugget of what might have been: At one point the design team tinkered with giving the type a drop shadow. We wish they had stuck with that -- it looks so good!
Overall, a solid B seems like a fair grade for what we've seen so far. But that grade will go up when the uniforms are unveiled.
Stay tuned -- tomorrow we'll have a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at how the Bucks' redesign was developed.
Conrad. 2,887
The One & Only
Location:Dallas, TX
Interesting typeface treatment option they didn't go with (from Paul's article):
Shadojoker 1,701
Whoa!!?? Kinda a retro/classic font too! Surprise they didnt go with this font. Either one would've work. No biggie.
Now as the Raptors...they dropped the ball completely.
My issue with the blue is that I thought Wisconsin didn't have a blue collar workforce any more.


Just curious if you ever get kick-back about ideas like this as "mysticism"? Suddenly that seems to be a hot button for a lot of evangelicals. I personally don't see how "hearing from God" and "being in tune with his spirit" suddenly became so controversial.
I don't get any pushback on this but I can see why one would. We humans can use "God told me" to validate our personal wishes. God wants me to be happy so I'm leaving my wife. Well, that kind of thought is easily rejected–though it is one I have heard many times.
At bottom, does God speak to us today? And how? Only through the Word? Through our desires?
It could be mystical to hear from God but one would have to evaluate the speaker. How do they use this kind of language?
Thanks for raising the issue. Also, hope you are doing well.


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Pastor of Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church in Port Orange, FL
Native to Wisconsin, Fr. Chris Hoffmann earned a degree in accounting at Marquette University before graduating from St. Mary's Seminary in Baltimore. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1987 and has had nine assignments.
In 2000, while pastor of St. Clare, he worked with 15 other clergy to found the FAITH (Fighting Against Injustice Towards Harmony) organization, a DART affiliated group, and became its first co-chair.
After a move to Haines City, FL in 2003, he again worked with his parish to covenant with PEACE in Polk County, another DART affiliate organization.
Fr. Chris is currently pastor of Our Lady of Hope Catholic Church in Port Orange, FL, which is a member of FAITH in Volusia County. FAITH and nine other DART organizations in Florida are currently working to reduce youth arrests by having law enforcement issue civil citations (an alternative to arrests).


I once worked at the Strand Bookstore doing backroom stuff like putting on pricing stickers and shrink-wrapping books all day. As anyone who worked there during the 2000s can attest, the place had no air conditioning and it sweltered. Our lives were all pretty aimless and nobody spoke very much.
One day after work, I went home and wrote this.


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The Future of Technology in Education with Sam Franklin
Sam Franklin is the VP of Schools for AltSchool, a network of tuition-funded pre-kindergarten through 8th-grade lab schools throughout San Francisco and New York City. Prior to his current job, Sam worked as the Executive Director for the Office of Teacher Effectiveness at Pittsburgh Public Schools. Beginning his teaching career as 6th-grade math and science teacher as an AmeriCorps member, Sam went on to receive his MSPPM from Heinz College in 2007. Utilizing the ideas developed in his systems project, Sam founded the Pittsburgh Science and Technology Academy (SciTech), one of the highest overall performing public high schools in the city.
Earlier this year, Heinz Radio host, Sara Jackson was able to sit down with Sam and pick his mind on topics ranging from how his education at Heinz helped put him on a path to success, to general leadership strategies he has picked up over the years, and where the future of education policy may be going in the U.S.
To learn more about Sam, check out his full bio and support information on the AltSchool site, or follow Sam on Twitter @samfranklin1000
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Heinz Radio is a podcast created by the students of Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College. Students host conversations with faculty, community members, and professionals at the intersection of public policy, technology, and the arts.


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hello there! i propose to you this photo ,. took it like always near my home. I was impressed to see how the rock in the background divide the sky into two parts.. and this inspire me for the title !
Here's a panoramic image of the falls taken at sunset. I put a monochrome spin on this one. Some of you may remember the original image and I actually think that I prefer this version more than the previous.