| Take Skyscraper for a spin
First Planet Snoopy. Now Skyscraper. Cedar Fair will unveil a new thrill ride this summer in its Challenge Park activity complex. It joins Planet Snoopy -- a new children's area -- as Cedar Point's newest attractions for 2008. Skyscraper is a giant propeller ride that will spin guests in a full circle from two arms. Four riders -- two on each arm -- will sit in open cars with their feet dangling on opposite ends of the propeller. The arms spin riders up to 55 mph. At the highest point, riders will be upside down 160 feet above the ground. .
The weird, ever-evolving world of ARGs
Dan Hon used to start his day like any other law student at Cambridge University. While getting ready for class, he'd check his e-mail, voice mail, maybe do a little preclass preparation. One day while preparing for his finals, he came across the trailer for Steven Spielberg's movie Artificial Intelligence: A.I. and noticed something peculiar in the credits. "Sentient Machine Therapist Jeanine Salla" was listed in between "Costume Designer Bob Ringwood" and "music by John Williams." Finding a machine therapist an odd occupation, Hon decided to Google her name and came up with a surreal website concerning Salla, her life, and her employers. He researched some more, made phone calls, sent e-mails, and eventually found clues, patterns, a game called The Beast, and information all leading to a struggle for robot rights in the year 2142.
Music festival finds tiny Rothbury on the map
From Woodstock, N.Y., to Indio, Calif., rock-and-roll has a long tradition of turning sleepy, out-of-the way locales into rock meccas. Next in line could be tiny Rothbury,Michigan, which is set to host a massive rock festival over the July 4 weekend. More than 70 artists and bands -- including the Dave Matthews Band, Widespread Panic, John Mayer, 311, Modest Mouse, Snoop Dogg and Primus -- will play Rothbury, a four-day rock festival July 3-6 at the Double JJ Ranch & Golf Resort. The town of Rothbury -- which at last count had a population of less than 500 -- lies about six miles inland from Lake Michigan and about 24 miles north of Muskegon. Concert promoters and Grant Township officials finalized festival plans late Tuesday. .
Del Norte seeking reliable Internet
A study for rural broadband connectivity is making its way to Crescent City, which could quell service disruption problems. Redwood Coast Connect is inviting the public to attend a meeting on making broadband more accessible to Del Norte from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Thursday in the Cultural Center. There will be a short presentation before the meeting opens for public comment. Redwood Coast Connect is conducting a study to see where broadband services are needed and wanted in Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity Counties. The project's purpose is to identify opportunities for broadband development in the rural counties. California Emerging Technology Fund, with a consortium of regional funders, awarded Redwood Coast Connect $500,000 to determine supply and demand. Redwood Coast Connect will also be handing out paper surveys and doing random phone surveys this month.
Kessler livid after same-sex legislation hits House floor
But within 24 hours it was yanked off the special, or active, calendar and dispatched to the regular one, essentially killing it for this session.An insider told The Register-Herald that a head count revealed as many as 35 Democrats would have voted against and a like number of Republicans were opposed.Kessler, D-Raleigh, who keeps a huge, well-read Bible on his East Wing office desk, raised the specter of employers forced to hire an HIV-positive job applicant in a sensitive work environment such as a dentists office.But Chairwoman Carrie Webster, D-Kanawha, ruled him out of order and wouldnt let him talk.I want a point of order on you! Kessler shot back, and then Webster slammed down the gavel to silence his line of questioning.My son is a dentist, a livid Kessler said afterward. He hires several hygienists.
January 2006
See id. at 33-34, 1978 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 3934-36. FISA thereby “adopts the view expressed by the Attorney General during the hearings that enacting statutory controls to regulate the National Security Agency and the surveillance of Americans abroad raises problems best left to separate legislation." Id. at 64, 1978 U.S.C.C.A.N. at 3965. Such legislation placing limitations on traditional NSA activities was drafted, but never passed. See National Intelligence Reorganization and Reform Act of 1978: Hearings Before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 95th Cong., 2d Sess. 999- 1007 (1978) (text of unenacted legislation). And Congress understood that the NSA surveillance that it intended categorically to exclude from FISA could include the monitoring of international communications into or out of the United States of U.S.
Gunman Kills 8 in Jewish Seminary
That festive holiday falls during Adar, the month on the Hebrew calendar that started Thursday and is often marked with fireworks. That is what many students at the seminary said they thought they were hearing when the gunman opened fire. "I thought it was firecrackers, but then I realized it was too loud," said Itay Tuchfeld, who was in his room two floors above the library at the time. "I looked out my window and saw someone enter the library with a gun. He was spraying bullets in all directions." "I locked myself in my room and called my father, who telephoned the police," he told Israel Radio. Tzuker, the paramedic, arrived during the shooting. He and other witnesses said they heard both single shots and automatic gunfire from inside the building.
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