Divya Triphala Churna is one of the best colon cleansers. It is a natural colon cleanser and helps to provide quick relief for constipation. It is a combination of different herbs that help in natural cleansing of the colon.
Triphala Churna is one of the best colon cleansers. It is a natural colon cleanser and helps to provide quick relief for constipation. It is a combination of different herbs that help in natural cleansing of the colon. It helps to remove waste substances from the body. It also helps in losing weight as it clears the colon from the waste substances. This herbal colon cleanser is made up of three different herbs that help to get rid of constipation. It also provides relief from other gastric disorders. It is a natural colon cleanser and removes toxins from the body. It also helps to increase appetite and maintains the normal functioning of the digestive organs. It may be used regularly for getting rid of any kind of digestive health problems. This natural colon cleanser helps by removing the waste substances from the body.
This is one of the wonderful herbal remedy that helps to get rid of digestive problems. It boosts up the functions of the digestive organs and helps to get rid of constipation and other such problems.
It is made up of wonderful natural herbs that are believed to be the best remedies for colon cleansing. It is a safe herbal remedy for colon cleansing.
It also helps to improve appetite. It also helps to get rid of flatulence and pain in the stomach.
It helps to give relief from nausea and vomiting. It is a natural colon cleanser that removes toxins from the body and improves functions of your digestive organs.
It boosts up the immune system and helps to get rid of recurrent infections of the digestive organs. It helps the stomach to release normal enzymes for digestion of the nutrients.
There are no adverse effects of taking this herbal remedy regularly. It boosts up the strength of the digestive organs.
It is recommended to take one teaspoon of Triphala churna with a glass of hot water half an hour before eating food once in a day.
Constipation is a common symptom and it may occur at any age. There are different causes of constipation in the people of different age groups. Children may suffer from constipation because they do not proper meals. Lack of proper food nutrients may produce constipation in children. Other causes of constipation include lack of exercise, eating fewer fibres, drinking lesser fluids and water, intake of prescription drugs, etc. People consume laxatives to get rid of constipation but they do not find cure for their problem.
There is loss of appetite and no desire to eat.
Take a glass of hot water and add two teaspoon of lemon juice and a pinch of black salt and drink it daily first thing in the morning. It helps in quick cleansing of the colon and removing all the waste products naturally.
Drink a glass of hot milk everyday at night before going to bed. It helps in cleansing of the colon and removal of waste substances from the body.
Aloe Vera juice is also believed to be an excellent home remedy for removing waste substances from the body. Drink half a glass of aloe Vera juice daily for getting rid of constipation.
Carrot juice mixed with orange juice is also a wonderful home remedy for removal of toxins. Mix half a glass of carrot juice with half a glass of orange juice and drink it regularly to prevent constipation.
Eat one teaspoon of amla powder daily with a glass of hot water every day in the morning for getting rid of constipation.
Drink one bowl of fresh vegetable soup daily at night for colon cleansing and getting rid of constipation. It increases the bulk of stool.
Eat one bowl of fresh fruits daily to enhance the fibre content in the body. Fruits increase the immune system and also help in colon cleansing.
Drink a cup of green tea daily for colon cleansing and getting rid of constipation. Green tea also boosts up the immunity and helps to get rid of digestive disorders.
Drink half a glass of amla juice. Add one or teaspoon of lemon juice in it. It will help in natural cleansing of the colon.
Avoid eating processed foods and fried foods that can disturb the functioning of your digestive system.
Drink lots of water for removal of waste substances from your body. You can also drink fruit and vegetables juices for colon cleansing.
One should do regular exercise for the normal functioning of all the digestive organs. Milk exercise and yoga can help to get rid of constipation.
Avoid drinking alcohol, tea and coffee for preventing digestive disorders. Such substances can aggravate the digestive disorders.
One should eat healthy diet to provide proper nutrients to the body and for proper functioning of all the organs in the body.


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Bigoted Views In Punjab Assembly
The Punjab Assembly on Tuesday took up the issue of the Khatam-e-Nabuwat clause in the Election Reform Bill 2017. The previous debate ended up in a huge controversy as religious parties jumped right in to steal the show. It also provided space to bigoted politicians to indulge in hate-speech against an already persecuted minority of the country. Keeping in mind that it had already been established that the change in wording was a clerical error, not propaganda of any party, we can see that the Punjab Assembly was a repeat of its national counterpart – only more widespread.
The debate in the Punjab Assembly again revolved around leaders professing extremist views and opening up the Ahmaddi issue all over again. Religious cleric and treasury member, Maulana Ilyas Chinioti, asked his party to catch the culprits behind the move to change the wording and start an investigation to resolve the matter. He openly said that the parliamentarians involved in this process should be punished. Member of Jamaat e Islaami, Dr Waseem, also joined in line with Maulana Ilyas and urged the government to take action in the case. Realising the pressure building up, Law Minister Rana Sanaullah also changed his views to condemn Ahmaddis.
It is a complete and utter shame that despite the Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, and even the military itself condemning the bigoted statements; leaders of various political parties continue to profess such discriminatory views. This is especially problematic for Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N), whose top two leaders have urged tolerance and peace, but are being ignored. This reflects on the hold (or lack thereof) that party leaders exercise on its member on ideological issues. It also show that the bulk of the PML-N leans right hard when they are trying to appease the extremist narrative builders.
If these people have the space to express their views with such vigour, the government must also do everything in their capacity to condemn them. This is a blatant violation of the laws under the National Action Plan (NAP). Wherever such conversations arise, they must be snubbed. Especially in Punjab, as violence against Ahmedis is endemic to the province. Hence, Punjab must be more responsible than all other political actors involved in the game.
The silence of senior Punjabi leaders, ministers and especially the Chef Minister in condemning this tirade in the assembly has not gone unnoticed.
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ZIP code 68626 is located in eastern Nebraska and covers a slightly less than average land area compared to other ZIP codes in the United States. It also has a slightly less than average population density.
The people living in ZIP code 68626 are primarily white. The number of middle aged adults is extremely large while the number of seniors is extremely large. There are also an extremely small number of single parents and a large number of families. The percentage of children under 18 living in the 68626 ZIP code is small compared to other areas of the country.
10 people per sq mi
Male 14 16 19 23 11 13 13 15 20 29 31 33 22 14 13 15 11 9
Female 10 16 18 18 8 14 8 13 17 27 20 33 17 17 20 13 16 8
Total 24 32 37 41 19 27 21 28 37 56 51 66 39 31 33 28 27 17
Under 5 14 10 24
5-9 16 16 32
20-24 11 8 19
85 Plus 9 8 17
Owner 2 15 27 53 54 28 34 12
Renter 5 9 8 9 7 5 7 2
Total 7 24 35 62 61 33 41 14
15-24 2 5 7
Male 4 1 4 2 3 3 2 4 4 4 2 5 5 3 2 9 2 8 2 2
Female 2 3 2 0 1 2 6 2 5 2 1 2 7 6 3 4 4 5 2 3
Total 6 4 6 2 4 5 8 6 9 6 3 7 12 9 5 13 6 13 4 5
ZIP code 68626 has a slightly less than average percentage of vacancies.
The majority of household are owned or have a mortgage. Homes in ZIP code 68626 were primarily built in 1939 or earlier. Looking at 68626 real estate data, the median home value of $115,300 is slightly less than average compared to the rest of the country. It is also slightly less than average compared to nearby ZIP codes. 68626 could be an area to look for cheap housing compared to surrounding areas. Rentals in 68626 are most commonly 3+ bedrooms. The rent for 3+ bedrooms is normally $750-$999/month including utilities. Prices for rental property include ZIP code 68626 apartments, townhouses, and homes that are primary residences.
For more information, see Brainard, NE home prices.
The median household income of $53,125 is compared to the rest of the country. It is also compared to nearby ZIP codes. So 68626 is likely to be one of the nicer parts of town with a more affluent demographic.
As with most parts of the country, vehicles are the most common form of transportation to places of employment. Instead of a commute, a higher percentage of people in 68626 are able to work from home than most places in the nation. In most parts of the country, the majority of commuters get to work in under half an hour. Most commuters in 68626 can expect to fall in that range. It is much more common for employees to have to travel over 45 minutes to their place of employment than most parts of country which could indicate bad traffic or that people typically live far from where they work.
Compared to other ZIPs, 68626 has a very small percentage of people that did not graduate high school. The area has some of the highest percentages of people who attended college of any ZIP.
Schools in ZIP Code 68626
ZIP Code 68626 is in the East Butler Public Schools. There are 2 different elementary schools and high schools with mailing addresses in ZIP code 68626.
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Elementary School at Brainard
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Q: lintOptions deprecated , What is the alternative? I have upgraded Android Gradle Plugin to 7.4.
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What alternative is to be used for this?

A: We can use the new Lint block.
The old lintOptions block is deprecated in Android Gradle Plugin 7.2 and replaced by the new Lint block. We can simply replace it and use it in the app-level build.gradle file like the below example.
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Alexander Glew, Ph.D., P.E. established Glew Engineering Consulting 20 years ago. Since then, it has successfully served clients world-wide with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and materials science engineering expertise. Dr. Glew has provided testimony multiple times for Intellectual Property (IP) litigation matters, International Trade Commission (ITC) cases, and International arbitration.
Alexander Glew, Ph.D., P.E. established Glew Engineering Consulting 20 years ago. Since then, it has successfully served clients world-wide with mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, and materials science engineering expertise. Dr. Glew has provided testimony multiple times for Intellectual Property (IP) litigation matters, International Trade Commission (ITC) cases, and International arbitration. (Fig1.) There are also several independent experts working with Glew Engineering to provide litigation support, many of them graduates from nearby Stanford University and The University of California at Berkeley.
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After decades in business and successful careers, Glew Engineering has procured an excellent technical book and handbook selection. (Fig. 2) It is vital when performing prior art research projects that books discussing mainstream technology at the time of publication are available. Using secure databases, staff engineers can perform literature searches with ease and competence in the field of semiconductor processing, semiconductor equipment, and mechanical engineering.
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Following the news and weather, a short break is scheduled for mandated station identification and commercials. On-air personality Xander then let listeners know Sublime would immediately follow.
Officials recommend switching stations "to anything else," even if that means a static signal, or turning the radio off entirely.
"With a collection of terrible songs fusing the worst possible reggae beats with limp rock-guitar licks, and lyrics about a dog for whatever reason, we always try and warn listeners ahead of time," WCYY said in a statement.
However, many stations in Maine extend the same courtesy to their listeners, with Bangor-based classic rock station 100.3 WKIT routinely warning listeners as to upcoming triple-plays of The Eagles.
Sublime, formed in Southern California, made a name for itself in the 1990s. In spite of being instantly identifiable with the west coast, its songs focus on subjects like drugs and sexualizing underage girls.
If they could could morph from "Twisted Tea in music form", to Allen's Coffee Brandy… They would rocket to number one in Maine!
If they could morph from "Twisted Tea" to Allen's Coffee Brandy, they would rocket to #1!
I appreciate a warning that my radio station is about to play 3 Eagle songs in a row. Heck! Please warn me to turn off the radio before playing any song by the Eagles, especially Hotel California.


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The Grand Lodge of New Zealand (NZGL) is the governing body for the freemasons within New Zealand under that constitution. Its full name is "The Grand Lodge of Antient, Free and Accepted Masons of New Zealand".  The Grand Lodge of New Zealand was constituted on 30 April 1890, however Freemasonry operated in New Zealand since at least 1837 under the older English, Irish, and Scottish constitutions.

History
In 1890 there were approximately 151 lodges under the various constitutions and upon constituting the Grand Lodge of New Zealand, 65 lodges joined.

The New Zealand Grand Lodge was constituted on 30 April in 1890 in the St. Augustine Hall located in Christchurch.  Official positions occupied for the evening were as follows:
 Grandmaster, R.W. Brother K. T. Gillon, Wellington;
 D.G.M., Brother Vincent Pyke, Dunedin;
 Senior Warden, Brother Dekenzi, Dunedin;
 Junior Warden, Brother Hamilton, Wellington;
 Senior Deacon, Brother Walkley, Palmerston;
 Junior Deacon, Brother Symoris, Auckland;
 Grand Treasurer. Brother Kirton, Feilding;
 Secretary, Brother A. W. Robertson, Wellington;
 Pursuivant, Brother Lindsay, Wellington;
 Grand Sword bearer, Brother George Fisher, Wellington.

The following officers were elected for the first Grand Lodge:
 Grand Master, Brother Henry Thomson, Canterbury;
 Deputy Grand Master, A. S. Russell, Auckland;
 Senior Grand Warden, Henry Feldwick, M.H.R., Invercargill;
 Junior Grand Warden, Douglas Hastings Macarthur, M.H.R., Feilding;
 Grand Treasurer, A. Kaye, Christchurch;
 Grand Registrar, John Joyce, M.H.R., Christchurch;
 Grand Secretary, Rev. W. Ronaldson, Dunedin;
 Grand Chaplain, Rev. W. E. Paige, Masterton;
 President of Board of General Purposes, C. A. C. Hardey, Rakaia;
 President of the Board of Benevolence, A. K. Kirk, Christchurch;
 Senior Grand Deacon, L. Borr, Nelson;
 Junior Grand Deacon, R. Price, Napier;
 Superintendent of Works, J. E. McElvie, Dunedin;
 Director of Ceremonies, H. J. Williams, Wellington;
 Biblebearer, G. C. Fownes, Wellington;
 Pursuivant, A. Kidd, Auckland;
 Organist, A. J. Booth, Dunedin;
 Swordbearer, W. W. Decastro, Blenheim;
 Tyler, C. E. Triggs, Christchurch;
 Assistant Standardbearer, W. Craig, Auckland;
 Assistant Swordbearer, J. Page, Aucklaud;
 Assistant Registrar, J. JL Hawkins, Palmerston North;
 Assistant Director of Ceremonies, T. F. Dodd, Balclutha;
 Assistant Secretary, W. H. Cooper, Auckland;
 Grand Stewards:
 C. Gilbertson, Invercargill;
 G. Edgecombe, Hamilton;
 H. Capten, Hawera;
 M. Grace, Carterton;
 T. Carr, Wellington;
 F. J. Dawes, Petone;
 F. E. Bridge, Reefton;
 J. A.. Kirby, Dunedin;
 Royers, Kumara;
 R. Dree, Gore;
 C. Hull, Christchurch;
 J. Grubb, Lyttelton;
 T. Bland, Brunnerton;
 Shearing, Tapanui;
 Walkley, Palmerston North;
 Crump, Palmerston South;
 Bray, Feilding;
 Dalrymple, Masterton;
 King, Coromandel;
 Hugh Valentine, M.H.R., Gore;
 Superintendents of districts
 Auckland: Malcolm Niccol;
 Wellington: not filled;
 Otago: Alfred Henry Burton, Dunedin;
 Southland: William Horatio Hall, Invercargill

References

External links
 NZGL – Home Page
 Te Ara – Men's Clubs
 Freemasons NZ – History
 Maps of Masonic Lodges in New Zealand
 Freemasonry in New Zealand

Grand Lodges
Freemasonry in New Zealand

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Everyone has heard or read about the ads that were supposedly posted by the Cruz campaign that had to be taken down. As it happens, so did Trey Gowdy (R-SC). Sitting on the Marco Rubio bus, the Chairman of the committee investigating the Benghazi attacks had plenty to say on the matter.
Gowdy released a video-tape in which he ranted at Sen. Ted Cruz.
"The truth matters. So when you run ads that have to be taken down because they're factually deficient. When you run ads so fake that you Photoshop someone's head on someone else's body... Come on!"
"Run on your record. But don't mislead my fellow South Carolinians with fake Facebook postings, ads that can't even withstand FCC scrutiny, and then photo-shopping pictures. Come on, you're better than that."
Gowdy earlier this year voiced his endorsement of Marco Rubio for the office of the president.
This is another incident in which Cruz's honesty has come under fire. Rumors about Ben Carson leaving the campaign trail in bid for the presidency supposedly came from the Cruz camp shortly after the Iowa caucus. Seizing on this event, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio made Cruz's integrity a point of discussion.
Cruz has accused Gowdy of engaging in a "smear campaign" as some question whether or not Gowdy's accusations will be detrimental to Ted Cruz.
Ted Cruz's campaign spokesman, Rick Tyler, said, "Does the Marco Rubio campaign really believe it's going to smear its way to victory?"
To date, no proof has surfaced to indicate whether Cruz was responsible for the fake Facebook post. Todd Harris, Rubio's senior advisor stated, "We don't know whether the Cruz campaign specifically was behind this Facebook post or not. What we do know is that there is a culture of dishonesty that goes from top-to-bottom in the Cruz campaign."
However, this is not about Marco Rubio nor Ted Cruz. This is about Rep. Trey Gowdy. Gowdy, an attorney, has not exactly been honest and forthcoming himself in his duties as Congressman, just like all the other 534 sitting in Washington, DC. Before pinching off the head of the messenger, let's examine things a bit.
Gowdy, when asked about impeachment proceedings against Barack Hussein Obama Soetoro Soebarkah, proclaimed, "Have you met Joe Biden?" This response appeared to be somewhat flippant considering the seriousness of the issues surrounding the man sitting in the Oval Office that are of a criminal and treasonous nature. Does Gowdy expect the American public to believe that impeachment is off the table because of who holds the office of the vice-president? Boehner did not agree with impeachment, but Boehner is now gone.
While questioning another's honesty, Gowdy needs to look at his own. Nowhere in the Constitution is the action of impeachment qualified to take into consideration who is the vice-president or whether a representative of the people agree with the action or not. Impeachment does not take into consideration public opinion or whether the citizenry asks for the action, supports the action or disagrees with the action. The law is clear.
In providing a flippant, almost sarcastic answer, Gowdy was being dishonest with the American public and those who elected him to office.
As Chairman of the committee formed to investigate Benghazi, what has been done so far? Who has been held accountable? So far, it's the same dog and pony show for the American public with no one in the administration even having one smidgen's bit of blame thrown at him/her. Yes, it was discovered that Hillary Clinton used a private unsecured email server located in her home against procedure and funneled secure, classified, secret emails back and forth using it. Where is Hillary now? She's campaigning for the Democratic nomination for presidential candidate.
Where is Gowdy? He's riding Marco Rubio's campaign bus chastising someone else for their dishonesty while failing to recognize his own.
As an attorney, one would think Gowdy would know the Constitution. Again, Gowdy is being dishonest if claiming he does. The impeachment action is one where he fails when citing who holds the office of vice-president as an indication against impeachment.
Another area where Gowdy fails in his knowledge is the "natural born citizen" requirement to hold the office of president in addition to attaining 35 years of age and living as a resident in the united States for 14 years. Publius Huldah has already cleared the air on the founders' meaning of "natural born citizen" here, here, and here. Building on Publius Huldah's work, Tim Brown covered "natural born citizen" and the muddying of the waters by Gowdy as well as Ted Cruz.
If Gowdy truly and honestly knows the impeachment clause not having a qualifier and understanding the "natural born citizen" definition as known by our framers, Gowdy is being dishonest with the American public, his constituents and misleading voters to support a man who cannot meet all the requirements established in the Constitution in his bid for the presidency.
Gowdy should take his own advice and stop misleading his fellow South Carolinians by being dishonest. He should not be factually deficient. After all, in his own words, "the truth matters."


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Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to identify the effects of exogenous factors, which have been somewhat controversial, on the price links between the energy and agricultural commodity markets. Our study differs from other studies by employing multivariate normal mixture models to capture the structural properties of the price dependencies in the underlying states. This paper investigates price dependencies from both quantitative and structural perspectives. By analyzing the overall dependencies and structural heterogeneity in the empirical results, we conclude that the global financial crisis is the most influential shock on the price links between energy and agricultural commodities. Because price links are vulnerable to financial shocks, our results also suggest introducing state-based analysis to risk management and portfolio diversification across the energy and agriculture markets during times of turmoil.


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Q: Корневой каталог в java ee проекте Использую tomcat, никак не могу найти корневой каталог, чтобы прописать путь к файлу. Приходится писать абсолютный, подскажите где он находится.

A: В tomcat корневой каталог считается относительно файла catalina.sh
Уменя он лежит здесь:
/opt/apache-tomcat/bin/catalina.sh


Written by Meredith Finch. Art and Cover by Ig Guara. Desperate for allies, Rose and Ila look for help in the most unlikely of places. Rose confronts the truth about-and feels the burden of-her magical abilities. Can she really be some kind of savior? Meanwhile, Thorne makes a heartbreaking discovery about his own role in the future of the land. 28 pages, full color. Rated T Cover price $3.99.


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// Linux contains platform specific configuration for linux based containers.
type Linux struct {
	// Capabilities are linux capabilities that are kept for the container.
	Capabilities []string `json:"capabilities"`
}

// User specifies linux specific user and group information for the container's
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type User struct {
	// UID is the user id.
	UID uint32 `json:"uid"`
	// GID is the group id.
	GID uint32 `json:"gid"`
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Draw me a Discovery
Bleeding Heart Café
166 Ann St, Brisbane City
6:30 - 8:30pm, 26 June 2014
Draw me a Discovery is a one-night Café Scientifique that will present audiences with an array of art and science collaborations.
The Café Scientifique event provides a place where anyone can come by and explore exquisite combinations of art and science.
With a variety of collaborations, Draw me a Discovery exhibitions will showcase the junction of the artist practice and scientific work.
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Irritation: A Comparative Study
Irritation. It's an emotion we commonly experience, both when we read grammatically suspect Coasterbuzz posts and when we go about our daily lives. But what causes that unwelcome feeling to flare up the most violently? A day at a Six Flags park? Waiting in line at the supermarket? Or something else entirely? In the interest of science, ARN&R managed to coax one of its writers out of his home and persuaded him to visit several potentially obnoxious venues where he would be exposed to asinine, obnoxious, stupid, and annoying people in massive numbers. Below are his comments on each potentially irritating venue, in reverse order of how much being at each one pissed the hell out of him:
5. Metallica Concert
Fears of having every possible human bodily fluid falling, dripping or violently projecting itself upon me by other audience members were not realized. Expected to be trapped in group of moshers or between combatants in fistfight, but proved not to happen. Expected the absolute dregs of human evolution to be in attendance, but generally this was not the case at all. Only major issues: the fat lady with the greasy hair next to me who kept singing loud and out of tune and with wrong lyrics; tremendous amounts of smoking in blatant disregard for city ordinances (which would have been forgivable depending on whether the smoke had given me a contact buzz, but, disappointingly, was almost entirely of the Marlboro variety); and large groups of fans leaving for a beer or sitting down when Metallica performed Creeping Death or The Four Horsemen immediately after jumping around and screaming for anything written since the Black Album. Mildly vexing for sure, but, all things considered, a far better experience with throngs of humanity than expected. Shockingly, this venue definitely had the fewest assholes of any of those sampled.
4. Orchestra Concert
You'd think going to the symphony would give you some respite from all the jackasses running around the streets these days. But apparently my refuge and temple, my sanctuary from having to deal with the unwashed Plebeians, my place to experience works of culture, has been invaded by the barbarian hordes. During a single concert, I was assailed by not less than seven old ladies slowly crinkling and unwrapping hard candies, taking over three excruciating minutes each time; four screeching babies who should not have been allowed in the hall in the first place, should have been immediately taken outside even if the parents were rude enough to bring them in the first place, and which, incidentally, were obviously being stabbed with sewing needles by their parents in order to maintain that sort of volume and length of ear-piercing obnoxiousness; two people allowing cell phones to ring, then picking them up, and then carrying on full-voiced conversations for several minutes; as many as a dozen dickheads in our section alone talking with each other in voices loud enough to drown out the music from the stage; and a group of sixteen that came in twenty minutes late being allowed and helped by the ushers to plow past us on the way to their seats, distracting me from a particularly favorite moment in one piece. What was this, a f*cking football game?
3. Grocery Store
Eight different screaming, filthy children crashed into me at one point or another. Was checking overpriced item in aisle at same time as someone else was checking something else directly across from me. This old lady came up and saw the aisle blocked, and instead of waiting three seconds as I very obviously started to nicely move my cart out of the way, she rammed as hard as she could into my shins with her cart two or three times and didn't even claim to be sorry. Bitch. And then I got to wait in a line to pay. Of course, since it was Saturday afternoon, and everyone in the free world was here specifically to annoy me, we had exactly one cashier and no one bagging groceries. After about three hours, was driven completely insane by woman in front of me, who waited until the entire six hundred items she had were rung up before asking to pay one third with her credit card (which she was then unable to run through the reader on her first fourteen tries), one third with a check drawn from the First National Bank of East Finland, and one third with pennies that she counted out one by one. She also waited until after all of this transpired to produce forty-five coupons, requiring everything to be done all over. All I have in my house is ketchup, tap water, and a seven-year-old can of Spam, but I'll happily live off that for the next month if it means I don't have to go back to this hellhole.
2. Movie Theater
The two seats my girlfriend and I occupied for a 9PM flick were obviously the only oasis available in a desert of stupid f*cks. We probably actually were able to both view and clearly hear approximately seven minutes of the entire movie. I see that movie theaters are not the place to come if you want to see movies. However, if you'd like to yell on your cell phone, run up and down the aisles, make drug deals, throw ice and popcorn at other people, and scream at the top of your voice to your little asshole friends all over the theater, then you'd probably have fun at Showcase North Haven. Although one can get a smug sense of satisfaction knowing that one has an IQ greater than every other cretin in this dump and their parents combined, it's actually not that much fun to be the civilization amongst the savages I'm never going to the movies again. My DVD player and TV may not be all that great, but at least I won't have to pay ten of my hard-earned dollars to watch films in the presence of the great unwashed scum of the Earth.
1. Visit to Six Flags New England
Good Lord, this place was full of assholes. No wonder I had a season pass and still only came here four times the whole season. Loved the teenagers fighting with each other who crashed into me. Shoved them off and they threatened to "get their boys and come f*ck me up." Charming. Six rednecks drinking bottles of malt liquor in line for Cyclone yelled disgusting things at young women and then tried to grab their asses. Two ACE members spotted me and followed me around for three hours, not taking hints that I hated them. Actively insulted them, and they still refused to leave me alone. Eventually I tired of their stupid top ten lists and general braying like donkeys about reride policies and their coaster button collections and told them I had to take a big shit. They followed me into bathroom anyway. Naturally I did not need to take a shit, but I entered stall and began making tremendous and disgusting farting and splatting sounds on my arm, encouraging them to think I was incredibly ill. After one hour of this, they finally realized their need for twenty rides on Superman was in jeopardy and left. Every coaster ride featured both a disgustingly muddy seat where some jerk stepped on it when getting out and a girl screaming as piercingly as possible in attempt to piss off other passengers during the ride itself. Line breaking occurred exactly 654 times during the day, generally right in front of security. More teenagers spat on people riding on T-bolt below their hang-out spot on the ride's exit ramp. Smoking occurred in line exactly 436 times without comment from nearby security guards. More teenagers threw rocks from roller coaster while in motion. Security promised to "look into it." Kids splashed in mud puddles trying to soil everyone else nearby. Parents of kids laughed merrily instead of beating the shit out of them as they deserved. Single train operation on all rides increased exposure to loud, smoking, line-cutting assholes to extraordinary lengths of time. Halfway through day, told self "oh, f*ck this. I'm going home."
We have a winner. I have never been this irritated in my entire life. Not even when I see George Bush on TV.
[Editor's Note: The original posting of this story unfortunately implied that JCK's girlfriend was incredibly fat ("...the two seats my girlfriend occupied..."). The author, of course, meant to say "the two seats my girlfriend and I occupied..." The author also wishes to state, for the record, out of fear of having his ass kicked by said girlfriend, that said girlfriend actually is quite tiny and occupies approximately one third of one seat, not two full ones. We extend our thanks to an alert reader who made us aware of this error, and therefore assisted the author in averting a potential ass-whupping.]
Enthusiast Harasses Tourist Bureau
With the news of the demise of the popular "flyers" ride at Paramount's King's Island, reaction ranging from outrage, to tears, to bed wetting permeated the enthusiast community. Many coaster enthusiasts were moved to pick their large rear ends off the couch to call the park and beg and plead for the flyers to stay for that outside chance that their parents might drive them across 5 states to the park to ride an attraction that is available at many local parks. While most of these calls were met with stiff resistance (and gut-busting laughter) one enthusiast managed to draw the ire of an entire country.
Ken Myers has been banned from traveling to the country of Australia after incessantly calling the "King Island" tourism department, located in Tasmania, Australia. According to reports from the beleaguered tourism officials, Myers' original call was very confusing to the clerk who had the misfortune of answering the phone.
After informing Mr. Myers that she had no idea what "flyers" were, and that this was the King Island tourism center, Linda Biron tried to deal with the situation amicably.
"Mr. Myers became enraged, screaming about BRD, or ERP, something like that. Maybe it was ERT. He kept saying he deserved extra time to 'ride the flyers' because of his impressive 'track record'. I told him my boyfriend also has an impressive 'track record' to try and get this creep off my phone and this seemed to calm him down. But he seemed to take an odd interest in my boyfriend when I said that, and asked just how long his 'track record' was. At that point, I hung up on him and reported the incident to my manager."
The King Island tourism center received no less than eight calls from Mr. Myers. According to reports, Mr. Myers became more and more belligerent with every call, threatening boycotts, vandalism and even "nasty messages on Coasterbuzz, whatever the hell that means" according to another clerk, Mr. Ted Gorfy. After the eighth call, the issue was brought up to Australian Police, as this was an international call. Mr. Myers was warned to stop calling under penalty of International Law, to never visit the country of Australia, and to possibly "get a life."
Mr. Myers was unavailable for comment, but his mother had this to say: "All I have to say is he better get off that damnable internet and work some more hours at the convenience store to help pay this phone bill! Between the eating and now this, his father and I are about ready to kick him out of the house. It has been 32 years you know. On second thought, maybe just the eating is enough …"
--BS
Great Escape Continues Renovations to Comet
According to a Great Escape official, the theme park will continue its well-thought-out updating of the legendary Comet roller coaster this offseason.
The partial reprofiling of the wood classic in 2004 was already a tremendous success, according to park reps, which makes the completion of the job all the more important.
"This ride has been a burr in our collective anus for years," said park spokesman Jack Lloyd. "That smooth ride, the incredible sustained speed, the incredible bounty of glorious airtime, the odd little laterals and dips...what a blight on the Great Escape landscape. So we started to fix it, naturally using the great know-how and expertise of Six Flags Corporate, which is a group that really knows how to take tender loving care of a woodie."
Lloyd noted that the reprofiling carried out thus far had encompassed most of the first outward leg of the Comet. Where before there were "pesky bunny hops" and "fun," now the Comet pretty much drops about thirty feet into a straight run of track that turns a corner into the return leg. "It's way more betterer this way," clarified Lloyd.
Lloyd indicated that the full reprofiling of the coaster would take place over this offseason, after which delighted patrons could look forward to experiencing a wood coaster that goes about eight miles per hour twice around a completely flat oval with no bunny hills or significant drops whatsoever.
Great Escape has not announced when the planned anal probes are scheduled to be added to the Comet trains.
[Editor's Note: Don't forget; ARN&R reported years ago on the direction Great Escape would take upon its purchase by Six Flags. Don't say we didn't warn you.]
First U.S. Installation of Screaming Squirrel Announced
An innovative S&S/Arrow family coaster will make its U. S. amusement park debut in Spring, 2005. The Screaming Squirrel, a production-model wild mouse-style ride where cars actually dive completely upside down, has previously only existed at the S&S facility in Logan, Utah, but that will change with the opening of a new installation of the compact ride at New Jersey's Bowcraft Amusement Park. Although Bowcraft is already home to a small Dragon model of junior coaster, the park has high hopes that being home to the unusual new Squirrel coaster will both bring the coveted coaster enthusiast demographic, as well as even more local guests, to its gates.
Although the Screaming Squirrel is available from S&S as a standard model, Bowcraft has decided to make its version stand out from potential copycats with extensive theming. According to park sources, park guests will approach the ride through a pine forest loaded with 6000 live and ominously chattering squirrels, which may or not pelt people on the head with acorns. Small groups of riders will next enter a preshow room where they will be subject to a simulated attack from vicious flesh-eating squirrels.
Following this simulated attack, riders board the unique four-person vehicles. Adding to the atmosphere, ride operators will wear realistic and comfortably warm squirrel fur outfits. During the ride's course of several dives and vertical switchbacks, the extensive theming continues with realistic and sudden attacks at random intervals by killer squirrels. The combination of a roller coaster ride, added to the utterly lifelike and terrifying squirrel attacks, is expected, in the words of a Bowcraft rep, to "make grown men squeal like pigs at the very sight of a common grey squirrel for the remainder of their pathetic natural lives."
The new ride will feature an advertising campaign based on the following slogan: "Bust Your Nut on the Screaming Squirrel!"
--JCK (with assistance from FMB)
X Already Dreading Solace Aftermath
In an exclusive ARN&R interview, X, the controversial "4D" coaster at Magic Mountain, confided that he's already dreading a post-Solace Magic Mountain event that will likely involve ERT for "those fat bastards."
"Life! Don't talk to me about life," the famously unreliable coaster reported, "Do you know how many times a day I'm vomited on? No, of course you don't. Why would you care about what I go through? You just want to sit your fat, human body on my aching structure and ride me. No one cares what I go through. No one cares about the incredible ache down my rear structural support ever since the last ERT."
"1,547. What? You don't know what that means? Of course you don't. That's the number of times I've been vomited on. Not that you care."
"I've been peed on 36 times as well," the manically depressed coaster added, "Oh, is that too much information? Well pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother to say it. God, I'm depressed."
"It's hard enough running the two or three days a week that I bother. At least half the load on my poorly built frame is kids and teenagers. But enthusiast ERT, my God! Every time I think the fattest person in the world has crammed into my restraints, another one sits down. What are these people so enthusiastic about anyway? Roller coasters or pork chops?"
"Oh great. I bet enthusiasts are going to hate me for saying that now. That's okay. Everyone hates me. People that ride me hate me for having a four-hour line. People that can't ride me hate me for being closed. Magic Mountain hates me for being so expensive to maintain. Arrow hated me for being so expensive to build and for pushing them into bankruptcy, like it was my fault they planned for the future as well as Milli Vanilli. Even other coasters hate me. None of them want to talk to me. Top Thrill Dragster used to speak to me when everyone hated him, but now he won't even return my calls. If you just ignore me I expect I shall probably go away."
At this point, X concluded the interview by breaking down.
--MOS (with just a touch of input from Douglas Adams [R.I.P. Douglas])
Six Flags Plots New Strategy
OKLAHOMA CITY -- Six Flags Inc (NYSE: PKS) will be overhauling its parks for 2005, stated chairman Kieran E. Burke yesterday at a meeting of stockholders.
"These are desperate times in America, and they require desperate actions on the part of forward-thinking management," he said.
Faced with sagging profits and dwindling attendance, the world's largest regional theme park operator has blamed everything from weather to terror threats for its lackluster performance. But Burke said that he had finally identified the true cause.
"I finally walked through one of our jewels, Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom. I must admit, it was a hole," he said shamefully. "The food was overpriced and unappealing, the rides were either broken down or had ridiculously long lines, there was trash everywhere on the midway and the bathrooms hadn't been cleaned since the previous season."
Burke announced a three-step plan for turning the chain around. The first step, he said, was to "not deny the tradition that Six Flags has developed in its long proud tradition." Customers, he said, flock to their parks for the unique Six Flags experience. "Rather than run from our guests' expectation, I intend to meet them head on."
Beginning in 2005, all rides will operate for only 15 minutes per day before the parks close. "This will ensure that our guests no longer have to fear rides constantly breaking down due to poor maintenance. With such a brief operating schedule, our crews will be able to keep the rides in top condition."
This practice will also turn a former deficit into an asset. "Long lines will no longer be a problem, since the rides will not be running." This will also allow the chain to cut its maintenance staff in half.
The second initiative is regarding the food service at the park. "We will turn to the masters of food service in the world, the United States Military. We have contracted with them for 2005 to provide MREs at all our parks. Our guests will enjoy the same quality food that our valued soldiers and Marines do." The advantage of this, Burke claimed, is consistency. It also will help instill patriotism in the guests, reminding them of the sacrifices our troops are making overseas.
The final change that Burke announced was in regard to the park's cleanliness. The challenge, he said, is the difficulty in finding low-wage workers who want to engage in the dirtiest jobs at the parks. So he plans to eliminate all of the park's restroom and waste reclamation facilities, along with most of the custodians.
"When I saw all the trash on the ground at Kentucky Kingdom, I realized that this was a potential gold mine waiting to be exploited." Rather than force guests to walk a few feet to throw their trash into a refuse container, Burke will encourage that guests throw their trash, and especially their food, directly onto the ground.
"We are purchasing 1500 roto-tillers, which will be used to mix the trash, which after all is fertilizer, directly into the ground throughout the day. This will not only help to nourish the thousands of dying plants in our parks, but also create much more of a quaint country fair atmosphere. It will also eliminate the costly maintenance of thousands of tons of poured concrete walkways."
Burke's novel solution to the challenge of maintaining restroom facilities follows the same idea. "Our parks are famous for their forested areas, but many of our guests never see the abundance of shade we provide. So our most-used park facility will be a deep hole in the forest serving as the park's lavatory, which will encourage our guests to commune with nature."
At the end of each day, the hole will be bulldozed and a new one dug out. "I did this all the time at home for my dog, just on a much smaller scale. If it's good enough for my dog, it's certainly good enough for Six Flags guests."
Burke is confident that his strategy will work. "We expect profits to grow by 75 percent next year, barring any more natural disasters or terrorist attacks. Or, you know, any weather that is not sunny and 72 degrees."
--JRD
It's a Threepeat!
Our good buddy NoGodForMe is on quite a roll lately. What with his disgusting anti-Jewish rants and his webpage describing how to test yourself at home to see whether you will fit into a Millennium Force or not, he's become a regular and deserving target of mockery in our Site O' the Weak feature.
Well, it ain't over yet. Behold another of his glorious webpages, Directions to Publix From the HRH, which luridly details, well, directions to Publix from Universal's Hard Rock Hotel. Apparently someone has loads of spare time to painstakingly document this important information. Not that anyone asked, but thanks for sharing.
Yep, that sets a new record, folks. NoGodForMe has achieved the first ARN&R Site O' the Weak Threepeat. We bow in total awe of NoGodForMe's level of suck.
We noticed today that Six Flags has blamed the weather for bad performance for roughly the 453rd time, and it brought us back, over two years ago, to when Paramount blamed a really good run of Rockford Files episodes on TV Land for its lowered quarterly results.
So step into the ARN&R time machine and enjoy...
Monkeys Carry Out Retribution
The scene was startling as coaster enthusiast Meredith Maxwell, 32, was recently chased about by angry monkeys at Lake Bobo Zoo in Tennessee. After the agile apes pursued Maxwell for several minutes, they caught up to her, hopped on her shoulders, hooted loudly, bared their teeth, and demanded a "full apology for Maxwell's insulting and degrading comments."
Monkeys Launch Their Surprise Attack
Apparently the Tennessee monkeys were attempting to enact vengeance for comments Maxwell made about their "simian brethren" at Busch Gardens Tampa three years ago. At a visit to BGT with her then-boyfriend, Maxwell allegedly noticed that the baboons in the Edge of Africa exhibit were busily picking nits from each other's back.
"Baby, look! Those monkeys are felching!" she reportedly told the stunned boyfriend, who promptly fell onto the park's pavement, laughing hysterically. To the boyfriend's delight, Maxwell continued to loudly insist that "felching" meant "picking nits," stunning both nearby park visitors and the baboons themselves.
The BGT baboons reportedly have never recovered from what they describe as Maxwell's "cruel and crude assumptions about the level of perversity involved in our sexual relationships." They further claim that "her accusations about the type of sexual practices we have was of course incorrect, but many park patrons continue to think we are deviants due solely to this woman's thinking 'felch' meant something besides what it actually means."
After being held hostage for several minutes, Maxwell arranged for her release by signing an apology for her accidentally harmful comments about the BGT baboons, and by providing a cookie to each of the Lake Bobo monkeys.
Human's Peace Overture to Monkey Accepted, Diffusing Situation
Zoo officials report that the monkeys would be sent to bed without their bananas for three straight nights as punishment for attacking a zoo guest.
ARN&R Writers Too Busy Having Actual Lives to Report on Everything
Recently, a mentally deranged coaster enthusiast accused ARN&R of failing to report on a number of topics of interest to him:
These guys claim to be reliable but can't even pick up on recent park news.
Who are we to believe anymore?
Missed topics,
PKI Flyer Removal and the campaign to save it.
IAAPA announcements.
HW additions
Tsunami.
These guys suck, Boycott them.
Naturally, we take this kind of criticism very, very, very seriously. Of course, we apologize that paying attention to world events, maintaining healthy relationships with our families and friends, engaging in romantic activities with other people instead of our fists, and having jobs doesn't always enable us to keep on top of pressing and extremely important events in the world of amusement parks in our spare time.
However, we might as well address the specific topics Coasterfanatic claims we haven't reported on, as his tragic Flyer-less future has apparently made him even more delusional than usual.
PKI Flyer Removal and Useless Campaign to Save It: Check out the current headlines. You've been insulted already.
HW Additions: Um. Here it is.
PPP: Um. Right here.
Xanadu: Well, it's true that we haven't mentioned the stupid thing that will never actually be built in the Meadowlands. But one cannot dispute that we did extensively discuss Xanadu recently.
IAAPA: It's in November, at least the last time we checked.
Tsunami: Ooooh. We missed it. Call Mayor McCheese. Tsunami was amazingly rough and gave us a big headache. Sorry we didn't get around to reporting that scrumptious and amusing tidbit!
Coasterfanatic failed to mention that we also haven't been writing much lately about freakish enthusiasts falling into the PKI reflecting pool while fighting over who snaps their flyers better, but rest assured we'll get on it right away, too.
--The Staff
Exclusive PPP Coverage
Just in time for you to use it at your corporate board meetings, our exclusive PPP PowerPoint presentation is available here.
We've received dozens of irate letters from people upset that our extensive and exclusive coverage of the Six Flags Great Adventure Fright Fest neglected to even so much as mention one of the main attractions. Circus Psycho, where the "Boardwalk section will be filled with carnival chaos, psycho freaks and demented clowns lurking around every corner," was not discussed in the article due to the fact that the situation described above is absolutely no different from what is seen in SFGRAD's Boardwalk section on any normal operating day. It was our intention to describe new attractions opened specifically for Fright Fest, not shill for a cheap renaming done in a blatant attempt to capitalize on the freakish and horrifying appearance of the park's clientele. Nevertheless, we apologize for the confusion this omission caused.
Fright Fest a Huge Hit at Six Flags Great Adventure
Given that Six Flags Great Adventure has recently been under fire over its choice of name for its new roller coaster, the park could only hope that its good name could be reclaimed with a successful Halloween celebration. With Fright Fest drawing in eager throngs, it's mission accomplished. ARN&R was recently able to experience the themed October festivities at SFGRAD, and presents this exclusive report on what guests can expect.
Hypnosteria is a fun-filled adventure for the whole family. In it, master illusionists moonlighting from their Quick Stop day jobs hypnotize crowds of eager guests into thinking that they have not been ripped off despite paying full price and finding half the rides closed and none of the bathrooms cleaned in the past three weeks. Note: this is not an optional attraction. All guests must experience Hypnosteria immediately after passing through security.
Dead Man's Party is an unusual attraction where a group of guests are wined and dined at a fete thrown by William Blake, the character portrayed by Johnny Depp in the film Dead Man. Like the movie, this attraction is designed to confuse and bore audience members. Any relationship between the attraction and Halloween was not fully explained in the promotional literature distributed by the park at the entrance gate.
Monster of Mock is a rather frightening show where a Ritz Cracker representative spends twenty minutes showing guests how to create a Mock Apple Pie using no actual apples.
Super Spooky Dolphin Show features aquatic creatures in their natural environment, except, in celebration of Halloween, they have been filled with the spirit of Satan and turned into blood-crazed demon-beasts. It is a remarkable sight indeed to see Spooky Dolphins, our cuddly friends of the sea, leaping out of their tank, doing back flips, waving their tails at the audience, and then dragging three or four children into the tank to devour. Guests are advised to avoid the first several rows, as the likelihood of being ripped limb from limb, or of getting bloody water all over their clothes from all the splashing, is much reduced. Most dolphin and whale show areas in theme parks have signs that say "You WILL Get Wet" for certain areas; this exhibit has signs that say "You WILL Get Eaten."
Finally, the exciting-sounding Ghoul Repellent, assumed to be a thrilling haunted house or trail, turns out only to be a special charm children can wear to ward off coaster enthusiasts attending the event. Disappointing.
More information about all these exciting attractions can be found at the Six Flags Great Adventure website.
Heimo Sued by Wicked Pictures Star
German Animatronic company Heimo recently received a lawsuit from Wicked Pictures. The adult film company's star Woody Ruffwood said the amusement park company has stolen his image and name for their new "Woody Ruffwood, the Talking Tree" concept.
"It would have been fine if I could get some royalties or something, but this is ridiculous," moaned Ruffwood. "I plug women for hours on end and this is the respect I get. What is this world coming to?"
Paulaner Franziskaner, Heimo's PR Director, said he didn't know what the confusion was about. He commented, "Ve don't know why Herr Ruffwood has such a hard-on for our tree. It is just a piece of wood that makes people happy."
The object in question is Heimo's new Woody Ruffwood attraction, a freestanding animatronic object that includes woodpeckers, beavers and owls with hooters that many swear are direct from nature.
Harmless Squirming Log or Shameless Ripoff of Porn Star's Good Name?
The professional plunger says the similarities are obvious. "Look at his nose; it hooks to the left, just like me. In addition, he can go for hours without stopping. I don't know if he had that nasty case of crabs a few years ago, but it wouldn't surprise me."
Despite the problems, Heimo has refused to take the tree off the market. Franziskaner commented that the company will "stand hard and firm" against the "laughable allegations."
--FMB
Utter Prick, or Complete Asshole?
That's the question of the day as we alert you to our Site O' the Weak. It refers specifically to the poster NoGodForMe (AKA Robert Viands), who takes a forum topic about a lawsuit involving Six Flags New England and goes on three separate racist tirades where he extensively details his hatred of Jews, and rips into women and Pakistanis while he's at it. He even specifically calls a Jewish poster on the forum some offensive things we don't find it necessary to repeat here. Perhaps a long day of drinking and attending Klan rallies prevented him from spewing more of his oral diarrhea about how much he hates any other people different from him.
Although there has been a fair amount of activity on the topic from people trashing this Neanderthal's worthless posts, we're a little surprised that there hasn't been more. Do you coaster enthusiasts actually tolerate this sort of racist filth? Between this guy and Psycho Loser Stalker Boy, the coaster enthusiast community is sure looking real good right now!
Just because inbred, sub-moronic rednecks have a delusional opinion doesn't mean it needs to be shared with civilized society. Keep the asinine racist and anti-Semitic comments to yourself and go f*ck some more goats and swine.
Holiday World's Plans Exposed
Holiday World today announced a large expansion of its Splashin' Safari water park, as well as a new flat ride and a second train on its acclaimed Raven roller coaster.
ARN&R, however, has learned the truth behind the park's plans, having acquired a confidential memorandum from Will Koch, head of the park, to employees. Its text is reproduced here exclusively:
TO: Staff
FR: Will Koch
RE: Rebranding the Park
You have all now received a copy of our press release announcing the significant expansion of the water park with our new wave pool called "Bahari," the new "Revolution" flat ride, and the second train on Raven. This memorandum provides you with further information about how this fits into my ultimate goal of the park being acquired and rebranded as "Six Flags Over That Empty Part Of Indiana."
In order to properly impress Six Flags corporate into purchasing the park, please note the following:
- We will consistently be running the second train on Raven, but the second train will at all times be completely empty.
- Although the water park is nearly doubling in size, we will be reducing our employee count in that area by 20% and throw away half of our tubes.
- The new flat ride will be inoperable for 75% of the time with no signage or explanation.
- Our popular "free soda" program will henceforth be limited to one two-ounce cup per day and will only include "Squirt" brand soda.
- Our popular "free sunscreen" program will provide only SPF 3 sunscreen. Additional sunscreen will cost $5 for a one-ounce bottle.
- We will immediately spend millions on an ad campaign featuring a freakish old person insisting that the park is fun while not actually doing anything to make it so.
I thank you for your cooperation in this exciting time.
I remain, very truly yours,
Will "Mr. Six" Koch
Coaster Enthusiast Photoshops New Girlfriend's Face Over Old Girlfriend's Body on Fan Website
Dan Rosenberg has finally agreed to talk to ARN&R about the drastic changes to, and subsequent removal of, his coaster fan website, coasterjunkie.net, last week. As many coaster web crawlers are already aware, coasterjunkie.net disappeared last week after the site was widely linked and ridiculed for some evident changes made to all the photos on the site.
"I didn't think it was going to be a big deal." Rosenberg said in an exclusive ARN&R interview, "I mean, Sarah [Rosenberg's new girlfriend] was really getting on my ass about having all these photos of Cheryl [his old girlfriend] on my website. She said it was "a shrine to Cheryl" or something like that. I figured if I did this, I could get Sarah off my ass without destroying my website. Because, I mean, pictures with Cheryl in them are like 75% of my photos."
2 of the over 400 photos Rosenberg (pictured above) "altered"
"To be honest, I didn't think anyone would actually notice. Up until last week, I thought I was pretty good with Photoshop," continued Rosenberg.
"Well, apparently...I'm not."
Having been ridiculed extensively and widely over the internet, Rosenberg is now unclear about the future of coasterjunkie.net.
"I'm thinking of getting a new hobby," Rosenberg said when asked about his future. "Like maybe Star Trek fan fiction, or collecting coin-operated video arcade games. It's become clear to me I should get a new obsession with every new girlfriend."
--MOS
It's Official: Kingda Ka Finally Receives Name Change
Following four days of intense discussions, the staff of Six Flags Great Adventure, along with several members of the Six Flags corporate offices, finally emerged, filthy, unshaven, and smelling like goats coated with used diapers, to announce the new name for the under-construction coaster formerly and controversially known as Kingda Ka. The name change was brought on by the discovery that many groups found the original name highly offensive, but what was to have been a quick meeting to determine a new moniker had become a marathon negotiation, as the Six Flags officials debated and discarded numerous possibilities, from King Caca to Kunta Kente.
At an official press conference, Six Flags Great Adventure's Vice President of Literary Affairs Baron Chauncy Jeffers Choate Butterworth IX proudly unveiled a handsome crayon poster which displayed the new title and theme for the 2005 gigacoaster.
"The reign of Kingda Ka is over," said Butterworth. "Bow to your new master, Kubla Khan."
Butterworth then assumed a look of ecstasy, flipped to a dog-eared passage in his leather-bound poetry tome, curled his hand upward for emphasis, and whispered the following:
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice!
Butterworth then sighed and shivered all over in a vaguely orgasmic fashion.
Subtitled Or a Coaster in Six Flags Great Adventure. A Fragment, Kubla Khan remains a ride that will set records for coaster height, speed, and wait time. Additionally, the name of the ride will maintain the all-important alliteration the staff knew it would have to have in order for it to maintain any credibility. However, the addition of extensive new theming will mean the ride will also be the most expensive amusement park attraction ever devised, multiplying by a googolplex the original price estimate from Intamin.
"We aren't worried about the money as much as we were even a few days ago," noted Butterworth. "Since some coaster enthusiasts keep insisting that it's totally acceptable for us to charge patrons astounding amounts of money while failing to provide even the most basic levels of sanitation, service, or operational rides, and that anyone who holds a negative opinion of our park is an idiot, it's pretty obvious that 99% of enthusiasts are brain dead morons who will give us wads of moolah no matter what we do."
He continued: "We're actually planning to double our costs next year, not open a single ride, and allow the monkeys from the zoo to put any part of their body into any part of the patron's body anytime they want, just to see how much we can get away with before the stupid shits wise up. But that's neither here nor there."
Although money is apparently no longer an object, Butterworth noted that there were some challenges ahead for the creative team in charge of theming Kubla Khan. "Building a proper Xanadu for this ruling coaster is not going to be easy," he admitted. "The 'caverns measureless to man' and the 'twice five miles of fertile ground' are going to prove particularly difficult to build within the confines of property we actually own. And since Samuel Taylor Coleridge has been dead for a hundred and seventy years, we have only minimal hope of getting him to assist with the theming as a creative consultant. But I'm sure everything will work out fabulously by May."
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately rocket coaster decree, bitches!" Butterworth concluded.
Six Flags officials refused to comment on whether, as has been rumored, their attempt to remain faithful to the Kubla Khan theme would mean that the new coaster would remain unfinished.
--JCK (Inspired by an idea from CSB)
Screamscape Contributor Files Suit Against Great Adventure Employee
Jason Knobler has filed a lawsuit against Carol Lipinski, an employee of the Dippin' Dots dessert stand. The complaint, filed yesterday, alleges that Lipinski "totally lied" about Six Flags Great Adventure's new coaster plans and, in fact, "totally made lots of shit up" during the course of the 2004 season.
Apparently, Knobler's deal with the three-hundred-pound Lipinski was for "sexual services" at prearranged meetings during the months of July and August. At the end of each session, it was arranged that Lipinski would service Knobler back with a new piece of information about Great Adventure's planned roller coaster for 2005, information that Knobler would send via his cell phone to Screamscape, hoping to break the story.
"I worked very, very hard for that information," said Knobler in a prepared statement, "and endured acts that would break most men. In the two months that I 'serviced' Ms. Lipinski, during those encounters, and their aftermath, I questioned my identity, my sanity, and my sexuality. And for what? She told me it was a 500 foot, B&M, inverted, launched coaster that went underwater. I want restitution!"
When contacted by ARN&R, Lipinski responded that she only told Knobler "what he wanted to hear." When asked about the lawsuit, Lipinski said she felt no ill will toward Knobler and, in fact, "wished he would call her sometime."
Fox News: Kerry "Really Likes Sky Princess, Scared of Hypers"
Following up on their amusing -- if completely fictional -- story suggesting that John Kerry declared himself a good candidate because, among other things, he gives manicures, Fox News also reported yesterday that Kerry is a "huge fan" of Sky Princess at Dutch Wonderland and that he is "pants-wettingly scared" of hypercoasters.
"In a speech given yesterday in central Pennsylvania, Kerry told the crowd that 'Sky Princess' at nearby Dutch Wonderland is as big a coaster as he can handle. He also stepped out from behind the podium and wet himself just thinking about riding Phantom's Revenge at Kennywood," wrote Fox's Carl "Honest, I'm Fair And Balanced Even Though I'm Parroting Republican Talking Points" Cameron. "Kerry then put on eyeliner and danced in a tutu before proposing to John Edwards," the story concluded.
Fox later retracted the story, reporting that Cameron "just got all fatigued again" and that "this time we told him it was a really bad thing." The Kerry campaign whimpered and accepted the apology.
Kingda Ka Name Removed From Six Flags Great Adventure Attraction
Following the storm of protest from various groups upset over the name of Six Flags Great Adventure's new roller coaster, the park has announced that the moniker "Kingda Ka" has been entirely eliminated from the ride. At an emergency meeting this morning, Six Flags Great Adventure and Six Flags corporate officials met to determine that the original name of the ride had proved unacceptable, as well as to discuss alternatives for renaming the record-setting one-trick pony. Following the meeting, Six Flags Great Adventure rep Joseph Stallworth gave ARN&R an exclusive interview detailing what had gone on behind closed doors.
"Naturally, the most important person from whom we desired input was that grubby little infant who came up with the original name of the ride," said Stallworth. "He just screamed and explosively soiled himself, which originally worried us since it seemed like that wasn't getting us anywhere. But then we remembered that if you do a Google search for "Kingda Ka" it asks you "Did you mean: king ka ka?" We combined that concept with the concept of the infant filling his pants with excrement, and decided to just go with King Caca, the world's first shit-themed launched ride. Man, that drooling baby is a serious genius!"
However, King Caca turned out to be a problematic name. "Basically, we all thought the name and theme of the ride were great, and certainly wouldn't tick anyone off," said Stallworth. "But financial nixed that one because they felt the cost of reworking the plumbing to produce three-hundred-foot jets of butt gravy would make the project too expensive. I told them that we could move the bathrooms right under the coaster, since we already regularly see substantial geysers of human waste spouting out of them and all over the floor, but they wouldn't budge."
"Once the Caca theme went out the window, we started to brainstorm again," said Stallworth. "I suggested King D' C*ck, which I thought was pretty clever since it would both play up the giant phallus appearance of the ride and also have no chance whatsoever of offending anyone. But that one was narrowly defeated, much to my disappointment."
"Finally," he said, "we had some discussions about calling the coaster Kunta Kente. But we weren't sure quite how to create an exciting themed experience that ties in to Roots, and we were also pretty sure that Geordi LaForge guy would cost us too much. After all, we'll have to keep about six hundred maintenance people on staff to handle this coaster breaking down every three minutes and flinging shards of metal around at 125 miles per hour, so we do have to pinch the occasional penny when it comes to incorporating star talent into our themed attractions."
"Oh yeah, and someone brought up calling it The Banshee, but I think there's some coaster already using that," he added. "So I guess that's probably out."
Although Six Flags has thus far failed to come up with a new name for the ride, Stallworth noted that there would be another round of meetings tonight, and that the park hoped to announce an exciting new title for the Coaster Formerly Known As Kingda Ka either tonight or tomorrow.
--JCK/VMA/MMS
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An action adventure like Indiana Jones, a science adventure like Jurassic Park and a human feel-good story like Slumdog Millionaire.
Masters of the Broken Watches is a must-read.
Sebastian Miles and his team of marine biologists stare at their watches. Time outside their lab has jumped forward by twenty-two hours. Minutes before this illogical space-time event, they were analyzing a mysterious glowing nodule extracted from an unknown marine specimen.
News of this marine life reaches powerful governments, inadvertently triggering a race to hunt, capture and control it. But these governments and their nationalist leaders have never faced a team of motivated scientists. They have no idea to what lengths Sebastian and his Paramarines will go in order to protect the species from capture and exploitation.
The first of a multi-book series, this genre-bending novel leaves readers on the edge of their seats. Thrilling like Blake Crouch and science-driven like Ted Chang, all approached in ways you've never seen before. A captivating adventure, a heartbreaking story of love, and a true display of human ingenuity and bravery in the face of overwhelming odds.


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Australia Aims to Launch Water-Hunting Lunar Rover in 2024
By Ryan Whitwam on November 5, 2021 at 2:33 pm
The moon is a big deal again. NASA is currently working toward a return to the lunar surface with the Artemis program and the (heavily delayed) Space Launch System rocket. Recently, the Australian Space Agency announced it would cooperate with NASA to send a rover to the moon in 2026, but a private Aussie rover could beat it there by two years. This robot, designed in cooperation with the University of Technology Sydney, will search for signs of water on the lunar surface, which could help support future exploration efforts.
This will be a pint-sized rover with limited capabilities, but the designers have come up with some interesting gimmicks. The 22-pound (10 kilograms) rover will measure just 60x60x50cm, slightly larger than your average proverbial breadbox. It will ride to the lunar surface aboard the Hakuto lander. Both the rover and the lander are being designed by ispace, a Japanese aerospace company that gained notoriety during the Google Lunar XPrize contest.
The rover will have a robotic arm, designed by Stardust Technologies (based in Canada) and Australia's EXPLOR Space Technology. The arm will sport sensors and cameras, some of which will be able to collect "haptic" data. The idea is the mission will beam back this data, and people on Earth will be able to "touch" anything the robot has touched with a special sensor glove. The cameras will also capture high-resolution images to render in virtual reality.
The Hakuto lander designed by ispace.
Currently, the team is testing different configurations for the arm. Once engineers have settled on a design, they will have to integrate it with the rover. Then, EXPLOR Space Technologies will test the fully assembled bot at a facility in Australia. This testing will replicate the conditions on the moon as much as possible, ensuring that the robot will be able to operate in harsh conditions while also maintaining contact with Earth.
As we look to the moon and beyond, having accurate geological data will help make long-term missions more feasible. NASA and other space agencies are very interested in so-called "in situ resource utilization." That simply means you harvest resources at the destination to build infrastructure, manufacture fuel, grow food, and so on. This can reduce the amount of mass we have to launch from Earth, which is phenomenally expensive. We can look forward to hearing more about the little Aussie rover in the coming months.
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Facebook mulled multi-billion-dollar acquisition of gaming giant Unity, book claims
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Less than a year after making a $3 billion investment into the future of virtual reality with the purchase of Oculus VR, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was considering another multi-billion-dollar bet to ensure that his company dominated the VR platform — buying Unity, the popular game engine that's used to build half of all gaming titles.
This claim is made in a new book coming out next week, "The History of the Future," by Blake Harris, which digs deep into the founding story of Oculus and the drama surrounding the Facebook acquisition, subsequent lawsuits and personal politics of founder Palmer Luckey.
In the early days while he was writing the book, Harris worked closely with the Facebook PR team and was granted regular interviews with key execs before, as he puts it, his "access came to an end." Harris claims that when researching the book, he gained access to more than 25,000 documents from sources, including a nearly 2,500-word email sent by Mark Zuckerberg to then-Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe, Sheryl Sandberg and a half-dozen other Facebook leaders detailing his interest in buying Unity. TechCrunch has not independently verified the contents of the email.
The email, dated June 22, 2015, lays out an argument for further prioritizing AR/VR and buying the game engine company. The proposed deal, codenamed "One" according to the book, would have brought one of the world's most recognizable game developer tool startups into the fold of the internet giant bent on bringing consumers on-board its upcoming VR platform as it looked to ward off competition from other tech giants.
Unity CEO John Riccitiello
The potential deal obviously did not end up going through, and since 2015, Unity has raised nearly $600 million on a valuation north of $3 billion. A report from Cheddar earlier this week noted the company was setting its sights on a 2020 IPO.
Nevertheless, the email seems to offer rare perspectives into Zuckerberg's thoughts on virtual reality and Facebook's competitive footing. Though only parts are referenced in the book, Harris has sent TechCrunch the full email embedded below:
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"We are vulnerable on mobile to Google and Apple because they make major mobile platforms," the email reads. "From a timing perspective, we are better off the sooner the next platform becomes ubiquitous and the shorter the time we exist in a primarily mobile world dominated by Google and Apple. The shorter this time, the less our community is vulnerable to the actions of others. Therefore, our goal is not only to win in VR / AR, but also to accelerate its arrival. This is part of my rationale for acquiring companies and increasing investment in them sooner rather than waiting until later to derisk them further."
Beyond staking a claim on the VR platform, Zuckerberg also frames an argument for owning Unity as a means of pushing competitors to support Facebook's other platform services.
"If we own Unity, then Android, Windows and iOS will all need us to support them on [sic] larger portions of their ecosystems won't work. While we wouldn't reject them outright, we will have options for how deeply we support them," Zuckerberg continues. "On the flip side, if someone else buys Unity or the leader in any core technology component of this new ecosystem, we risk being taken out of the market completely if that acquirer is hostile and decides not to support us."
Though, again, a Unity deal never came to fruition, Zuckerberg seems to be strongly in favor of the deal going through — though he notes there are clear challenges that could leave their efforts bungled.
"Going back to the question of whether it is worth investing billions of dollars into Unity and other core technology over the next decade, the most difficult aspect to evaluate is that we cannot definitively say that if we do X, we will succeed. There are many major pieces of this ecosystem to assemble and many different ways we could be hobbled. All we know is that this improves our chances to build something great.
"Given the overall opportunity of strengthening our position in the next major wave of computing, I think it's a clear call to do everything we can to increase our chances. A few billion dollars is expensive, but we can afford it."
Facebook did not comment on the email to TechCrunch. A spokesperson, however, did send along a statement about the book: "The book doesn't get everything right, but what we hope people remember is the future of VR will not be defined by one company, one team, or even one person. This industry was built by a community of pioneers who believed in VR against all odds and that's the history we celebrate."


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