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6. I see animals in the pictures, do you have them every day?
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All shows and special events are free for members (pony rides, character shows, reptile shows, holiday events ,etc..) but you can also, walk-in without a membership and just pay the admission when you come in.
11. How long can we stay at the playground with paid admission?
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12. Is playing at the outside play space cost extra admission?
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Coal operators can resolve one issue related to mountaintop-removal mining by planning ways to develop sites after mining is completed, Rep. Bob Wise said.
Federal law exempts mountaintop-removal mines from reclaiming the land to its original contour if plans are drawn up for "a higher and better use" for the site, Wise, D-W.Va., said Saturday.
"Too many permits are relying on forestry and wildlife habitat as a final use," he said. "And when operators prepare their permit applications, too many are just going through the motions.
"We've got enough fish and wildlife habitat in this state," he said. "We don't need any more."
Wise's suggestions will be included in written comments to Gov. Cecil Underwood's task force on mountaintop removal. The task force is taking public comment through Tuesday. The panel is scheduled to meet on Dec. 2 to decide on final recommendations.
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Mr. Ladyuks Metropolitan Opera credits include Andrei Bolkonsky in Prokofievs War and Peace and Silvio in Leoncavallos Pagliacci. Last year he made his debut at Teatro alla Scala in the title role of Eugene Onegin and performed the role of Giorgio Germont in Verdis La traviata at the Teatro Fenice in Venice. Other credits include Onegin at the Paris Opera Bastille, Puccinis Madame Butterfly at the Gran Teatro del Liceu in Barcelona, Robert in Tchaikovskys Iolanta in Marseilles and Shchelkalov in Mussorgskys Boris Godunov at the Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels.
Recent engagements included performances of Onegin at the Royal Opera Covent Garden with a visit of the Bolshoi and a return to the Metropolitan as Harlequin in Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos and a debut at the Norske Oper in Oslo in a new Paul Curran production of Onegin. Upcoming are Marcello in a new production of La boheme in Oslo and a debut at the Ravinia Festival with the Chicago Symphony under James Conlon.
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The Montreal Canadiens have informed defenceman Tomas Kaberle that he will be the team's second and final compliance buyout.
The veteran defenceman has one-year and $4.5 million left on his current contract, which carries a $4.25 million cap hit.
The Rakovnik, Czech Republic native played in only 10 games with the Canadiens in 2012/13 and contributed three assists.
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Huntsville city leaders held another public forum at the Richard Showers Center Sunday, where they heard what residents had to say about the project aimed at revamping John Hunt Park.
Many people came out to look at the plans, ask questions, and bring new ideas to the table. The current plan includes new activity centers, walking trails, bike paths, and playgrounds.
"We have had a lot of ideas. There are a lot of people just wanting to know information. They want to make sure we are not going to take out all of the soccer fields before you have new soccer fields up and that we are going to make sure to take care of everybody, said Tommy Battle, Huntsville mayor.
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With the Kanawha Valley perhaps poised for one of its best boys basketball seasons in a long time, making one of the biggest jumps in the state Class AAA poll this week was none other than Capital.
The Cougars, off to a 3-0 start, vaulted into the No. 6 position in the first regular-season balloting after coming in 14th in voting for the preseason poll — and not even being part of the initial top 10.
It's the first time Capital has started a season 3-0 since 2007-08, when it won its first eight starts.
Senior guard Carrington Morris, an undeniable talent, leads the Cougars attack at 24.7 points per game, followed by Deandre Rogers (14.5) and the low-post tandem of Bryce Goldsmith (11.7) and Brad Grose (10.0).
Capital has already beaten George Washington and Hurricane, teams with a combined 7-1 record outside of their games with the Cougars. Each of those opponents was ahead of the Cougars in the preseason state poll voting.
Coach Carl Clark is cautiously optimistic as the season kicks into high gear this week with games against No. 3 South Charleston (4-0) and Winfield (5-2). He realizes his players have to stay together and complete the 22-game regular season the way they started it.
"That's always the case,'' Clark said. "You just don't know with these kids. But so far we haven't lost to anybody, and we have some kids who can play.''
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Logan coach Mark Hatcher is hoping and praying for another happy ending as his team goes another round with cancer.
The last time, it was Hatcher himself who was diagnosed with a cancerous kidney. This time, it's sophomore guard Skyler Miller, who again finds himself battling leukemia.
Miller, a football standout and reserve player on Hatcher's basketball squad, was diagnosed with leukemia last spring and fought it all summer, Hatcher said, undergoing chemotherapy treatments that were initially successful.
However, the blood disorder has recently returned and Miller now faces another round of treatments. He played in his final high school game of the season on Saturday in a 69-27 home win against Nitro, starting the game and scoring six points before an appreciative crowd.
"He's just a great kid,'' Hatcher said of Miller, who openly deals with his situation, including entries on his Twitter account, skymiller1.
"He's really vocal in the community about fighting cancer. He's a Christian kid, so he's done a lot of prayer stuff. He's got his own organization [Logan County Hope], which raises money for kids in this area [battling cancer].''
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"He was one of our strongest kids in weight-lifting,'' Hatcher said. "He was about 175 pounds when it hit him the first time, and he went down to about 115 in August — lost almost 60 pounds. Since August, he built himself back up to 142, 143.
"He battled it all summer. He fought back and got his body nice and strong again to get to play more. He's a fighter. He's not going to sit back and let it consume him. He's going to fight it with everything he's got.''


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The European history of the wild mouse is confusing and somewhat unclear. The first ride of this sort was built by the German Showman Heinrich and was called Teufelskutsche (Devil's Coach). Some sources date this ride to 1934, but the ride appears to have achieved its greatest popularity in the 1950s. Pinfari's first roller coaster, dating from 1954, was a wild mouse-type ride. Mack also claims to have developed the wild mouse. One of their brochures states:
In 1957 Mack built the first and original "Wild Mouse". The coaster was completely made out of wood and installed in Canada.
However, since a Wild Mouse ride had already appeared at the Oktoberfest by 1955, this claim cannot be completely accurate.
In any case, the German ride seems to have captured the imagination of North American ride importers and manufacturers. By the end of 1956, Patty Conklin had purchased a German Wild Mouse ride, and Ben Schiff had built a version. Eric Wedemeyer was arranging to import the German ride, and Joe McKee was designing a stationary version of the ride. For the next few years, wild mouse rides seem to have been among the hottest items (aside from permanent coasters) at parks and fairs in North America.
The biggest problem here is that the U.S. trade magazines do not identify the manufacturers of imported rides. The information presented here is from a variety of sometimes contradictory sources.
Heinrich developed the ride and produced a number of units for sale or export. Some of the North American rides have been attributed to Heinrich. However, being primarily a showman, Heinrich had limited production capacity.
Clones of the Heinrich ride were produced by Zierer, under agreement from Heinrich. All but the first of the Conklin-imported rides were obtained from this source. Reports about Zierer's previous involvement in roller coaster manufacture are somewhat contradictory.
Heinrich Mack's brochures and web site indicate that they produced their first wild mouse in 1957, and that it was installed in Canada. It is possible that their earliest wild mouse rides were produced solely for export.
The cars for the Conklin-imported rides came from Jhle (Ihle) of Bruchsal. The cars used on the Wild Mouse at Santa Cruz Beach and Boardwalk were purchased from Buchwald Gebrüder.
It is possible that there may have been additional German manufacturers that were manufacturing or exporting wild mouse rides. Anton Schwarzkopf built a roller coaster as early as 1957, but no evidence for construction of wild mouse rides has been found.
Amusement rides formed only a small part of Eric Wedemeyer's business, which included import and export of novelties and specialty gifts, as well as manufacturing (Simplex Tool and Die, Hamilton Art Metal, Hamilton Diecasting). In the amusement field, Wedemeyer was prominent in the mid to late 1950s as the importer of Roto-Jets, Strato-Jets, and Satellite Jets, manufactured in Germany by the firm of Kaspar Klaus. Wedemeyer claimed at the end of 1956 to have sold three German wild mouse rides to Palisades, Pontchartrain, and Whitney's Playland. However, he also mentioned that the German manufacturer had limited production capacity, and stated that an arrangement had been made with the German maker to have Joseph McKee of Palisades duplicate the ride. The rides erected at Palisades and Pontchartrain were constructed domestically, while Whitney's Playland later obtained a German ride from Export Sales. The first Wedemeyer-imported Wild Mouse ride appears to have opened at Boblo Island during the 1957 season. It appears likely that this ride was the first Mack Wild Mouse. Wedemeyer advertised Wild Mouse rides from 1956 until at least the end of 1957, and reported two additional sales in 1958. However, it is not clear what parks bought these rides, and installation has not yet been confirmed. By 1959, Wedemeyer's advertisements no longer mentioned Wild Mouse rides. Wedemeyer stopped importing rides by early 1962.
The Wedemeyer ads in the spring of 1957 are for
The Original "Wild Mouse"
A new Serpentine Roller Coaster
Built for us Exclusively by reliable German manufacturers.
We also undertake to construct this ride on inland locations with factory engineers under supervision of Mr. Joseph McKee, the famous Roller Coaster authority.
By fall of 1957, the ads distinguish the
Original Wilde Maus. Made in Germany. Portable. Sturdy and safe construction. Laminated wooden track. Preconvention showing, Boblo Park, Detroit.
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Devil's Coach. A stationary version of the wild mouse. Wooden superstructure built in U.S.A. Laminated tracks. Structural steel and streamlined, strapless cars made in Germany.
Morgan C. (Mickey) Hughes and John Christopher were partners in this firm from its founding in 1952 until Christopher's death in 1958. The mainstay of this business in the 1950s consisted of Hot Rods cars imported from Germany. The relationship of Hughes to the Conklin operation is unclear. Many Hughes rides were showcased at the CNE, but since Conklin also imported rides, they may have simultaneously been competitors.
In late 1955, Hughes observed a Wild Mouse ride in operation at the Oktoberfest. He described it for his American audience as having similarities to both Coasters and Virginia Reels, and noted that the German name for the ride (Wilde Maus) came from the skittish movement of the cars. Hughes claimed that he would have the ride on the Conklin midway at the CNE in 1956. However, it appears that he was unable to obtain one this year.
Hughes advertised one or more Wild Mouse rides at least from mid 1958 to early 1960. At the end of 1958, the ads were for
German Wild Mouse Cars
German Wild Mouse--Only 2 More for 1959 Delivery
while in spring 1960, the ads indicated
Available 2 Original German Wild Mouse Rides
Factory New Immediate Delivery
All examples of Wild Mouse installations cited by the Hot Rods ads during this period were rides imported by Conklin.
Conklin first announced the purchase of a German Wild Mouse ride in 1956. This ride was made by Heinrich and was purchased at the Oktoberfest from the showman Willenberg. It was claimed that this was one of only four such rides in existence at that time. The ride first ran on the Conklin midway at the 1957 Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) in Toronto, and was moved to Belmont Park in Montreal the following year.
Conklin purchased two more rides in early 1958, and at least five more in late 1958 or early 1959. These were manufactured by Zierer. Several were sold, several were used on Conklin midways at various locations, and two appear to have remained unsold at least until the end of 1959. It seems likely that the two advertised for sale by Conklin (under the name Fun Cars Ltd.) were the same as the two rides being offered by Hughes/Hot Rods. In late 1958, Conklin advertised
Conklin has been credited with providing plans that were used by Wright to build the Wild Mouse at Blackpool Pleasure Beach in the United Kingdom. Conklin also provided plans used for the Santa Cruz ride. Both rides opened in 1958, and both exhibit significant differences from the original German rides. The wooden track used on the UK rides has a slightly different construction from the original. The Santa Cruz ride used a conventional German-style wooden track, but this was produced by Timber Structures in California. The support structure was modified to meet local building codes. Some photographs of the Santa Cruz ride show a support structure which is partly steel, apparently a later modification.
In late 1959, Conklin advertised
At the end of 1960, Conklin indicated to Kennywood Park that two of the rides would be available for 1961.
This firm, headed by Mack Duce, began advertising wild mouse rides beginning in 1959:
At the end of 1961, this firm was still advertising a "German Wilde Maus." One of these rides was installed at LeSourdsville Lake in 1961. This ride was built by Heinrich.
Superintendent of Palisades Park, McKee built the first permanent wooden-structured wild mouse there in 1957. McKee may be responsible for the design of similar wooden wild mouse rides at a number of other locations, but details have been difficult to find. The Palisades and Pontchartrain rides used German-made cars. At the beginning of its opening season, the Palisades mouse used cars borrowed from the Conklin ride.
Ben Schiff of Miami, Florida, listed a Wild Mouse ride in Billboard's Spring 1956 ride survey and placed a ride in Roseland Park (NY) in mid-1956. This ride would have been the first Wild Mouse of any sort to operate in North America. It may have been removed after an ejection accident in September, 1956. Advertisements at the end of 1956 mentioned rides at Funland Park, Miami, Florida and Havana, Cuba. An estimated 20-30 rides were installed by 1960. Some of these may have been sold through a subsidiary called Amusement Industries Supply Corporation. The earliest rides were not designed to be portable, and the installation for the 1957 Kentucky State Fair required two weeks.
In early 1959, Schiff introduced a smaller portable version of the Wild Mouse. Schiff may have stopped producing the larger version in the United States, but sold the manufacturing rights to Butlin in the UK.
In addition to their other business interests, the operators of Casino Arcade Park in Wildwood built rides, showcased them at their parks, and then sold them. A wild mouse was installed at their new Sportland Pier in 1957. This ride was initially themed as Up-'n-Atom. The ride was relocated when the pier was expanded, and was later renamed Flying Tiger. A second ride was sold to Pacific Ocean Park, where it was named Flying Fish. The POP Flying Fish had a track structure that appears identical to that of the Schiff rides, although the Flying Fish-themed cars appear to be quite different.
Carl Miler (often mis-spelled as Miller, potentially causing confusion with a more famous roller coaster designer) appears to have built a few rides each year, booked them into fairs, and then sold them--three portable roller coasters were on the U. S. fair circuit in 1957. Miler first offered a Wild Mouse ride at the end of 1957. The first of these all-steel coasters was delivered to Royal American Shows in 1958. It was designed, in collaboration with Carl Sedlmayr, Jr., to be easier erect than previous wild mouse rides. Although an erection time of 6 hours was planned, the first set-up (in Saskatoon) required twice that. This was reduced to 8-10 hours (in Regina, Saskatchewan) using a crew of 21 for the second set-up. To improve portability, Royal American modified the ride at the start of the 1959 season. Miler produced at least one additional portable model and two park models.
The Herschell firm billed itself as the world's largest ride manufacturer. The Mad Mouse appeared in 1958 (at the Alabama State Fair, with Olson Shows), and a scaled-down version lacking the initial hairpin turns, the Mite Mouse, appeared in mid-1959. The Mite Mouse appears to have been targeted to kiddielands. The Monster Mouse, an enlarged ride with large initial drops, was introduced in 1963. This was sold both as a complete ride and as a modification package for the Mad Mouse. The Mad Mouse appears to have displaced the Schiff rides on travelling fairs, probably because it was much easier to set up and tear down. In 1960, Strates traveled with their own (Schiff) Wild Mouse, the Tinsley Mad Mouse, and the Dowis (Miler) Wild Mouse. The Mad Mouse was set up at every location, while the other two rides alternated. Herschell probably also had higher production capacity than Schiff or Miler, with a delivery schedule of about one ride every two weeks during the first half of 1959, later increased to one a week. More than 30 Mad Mouse rides were sold by 1960, with about half placed in parks.
The originators of Sky Wheels and Space Wheels have been mentioned in connection with the alterations to the Wild Mouse at Blackpool Pleasure Beach that were made in the 1960s. The top circuit preceding the switchbacks, containing a big drop and a shallower dip, was added at that time. Apparently this change was inspired by a similar alteration of the Velare's wild mouse at Nu-Pike in Long Beach, CA (shown below). There is no evidence that the Velare Brothers were involved in the initial construction of the Wild Mouse at Blackpool, which predated the arrival of a Wild Mouse ride at Nu-Pike.
Conklin contracted with Princeton Machine of Princeton, Ontario, to build a steel copy of the imported German rides. The track for this ride was imported from Europe (probably the Netherlands or Belgium). Only one unit was produced, as this design appears not to have been particularly successful. The ride was built around 1967 and was later installed at Playland in Vancouver.
No information except for an ad in 1958 offering complete plans for anybody wishing to build their own wild mouse. The home address was in Hollywood, CA.
There are pictures of one or more units of a portable wild mouse differing from all others described. The best documented example ended its working life at Old Indiana Park. The layout of this ride closely resembled that of the Schiff rides, with the lift on the right and a marked dip immediately after the hairpins. The ride also used the decorative entrance and exit gates of a Schiff ride. However, the all-steel support structure differed considerably from that of the Schiff rides. The track resembled that of the Schiff rides, but lacked the central pair of guide rails. The cars somewhat resembled those of the portable Miler rides, using a tire as a rear bumper.
A very similar ride first appeared on Royal American Shows around 1970. The ride at Rocky Springs Park may also have been of this type.
The structure of the track on the 1954 Pinfari ride is not clear in the photo on their web site.
The earliest German wild mouse rides had laminated wooden rails. In addition to the road rails, a central pair of metal guide rails was attached to the straight cross-ties. This arrangement is shown in panel 1 below. This structure was also used on the permanently installed wooden wild mouse rides. The wild mouse rides in the UK use a similar track structure, except that the ends of the cross-ties are visible below the laminations of the wooden rails.
The Schiff and Ramagosa rides have a steel track with a distinctly different structure. The road rails and the paired central guide rails are attached to U-shaped cross ties. Compared to more modern track structures, the track appears impossibly flimsy. This structure is shown in panel 2.
The Herschell Mad Mouse coasters have a more conventional style of non-tubular steel coaster track, with straight cross-ties and no separate guide rails. The track structure is identical to that used on the Herschell kiddie coasters. In fact, the Herschell ads for their 1960 portable roller coasters claim that they have Mad Mouse-style undercarriages. This track structure is shown in panel 3.
Miler Wild Mouse rides have a distinctive four-rail track with diagonal bracing and H-shaped cross-ties (panel 4). This is almost entirely unlike the structure of track used on most Miler kiddie coasters. Like the Herschell Mad Mouse, there are no central guide rails.
Some of the later rides may have had steel rails. The current Wild Mouse at Playland in Vancouver has steel rails that are very similar to those shown in panel 1.
Another variation in steel track structure was found on the Wild Mouse at Boblo Island in 1974 (panel 5). This retains the central guide rails, but replaces the rectangular running rails with rails formed from I-shaped stock. A similar structure was used on portions of the Devil's Coach in Guerneville, CA. In both cases, these appear to be later modifications to rides which originally had laminated wooden rails, as only portions of the track were steel.
Although not a wild mouse, but an enclosed coaster, the Wizard's Cavern ride located at Casino Pier, Seaside Heights, NJ utilizes a similar car and track structure. The ride was originally built by Mack in 1959 (as Broadway Trip) and utilized the standard wooden wild mouse track. When this was rebuilt and rethemed by Mack in 1968 (as Love Bugs), the original track was replaced with a steel track having central guide rails.
Rails and other continuous elements are shown in black, while cross-ties and associated structures are shown in gray. Not to scale.
1 German-style wild mouse track
2 Schiff Wild Mouse track
3 Herschell Mad Mouse track (portions are reinforced by an additional pair of rails below crossties, not shown here)
4 Miler Wild Mouse track
5 track used on Boblo wild mouse
Only the lift and top layer are shown. Not to scale.
1 standard layout: Scamper, Cedar Point; Mad Mouse (wooden tracked), Melbourne, Australia; Wild Mouse, Luna Park, Sydney, Australia; Wild Mouse, Playland, Vancouver, Canada; Pinfari's first, 1954
2 Wild Mouse, Palisades Park
3 standard layout (mirror image of layout 1): Schiff (standard) Wild Mouse; Mine Train, Frontierland, UK
4 Schiff (portable) Wild Mouse
5 Miler Wild Mouse
6 Herschell Mad Mouse
7 Herschell Mite Mouse (from 1959 ad)
8 Herschell Monster Mouse
Modifications made to wild mouse rides at NuPike and Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Only the lift and top layer are shown. Not to scale.
Original track retained in modified ride is shown in black.
Original track removed is shown in blue.
Track added as part of modification is shown in red.
These are grouped by type or manufacturer and ordered approximately by date of installation. The distinction between portable and permanent wooden rides may not be meaningful. The earliest German rides were both wooden-structured and designed to be portable, but when imported were generally set up as permanent installations. The division of the wooden wild mouse rides into three lists largely reflects the incomplete state of the information about these rides. The lists are extremely incomplete for any installations after 1960. Modern Wild Mouse rides (those manufactured after 1980) are omitted entirely.
Dates in parentheses are from advance reports of sales or commitments and are unverified. Note that these announced installations were sometimes delayed or cancelled.
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location [name] | builder | installation date | comments |
Palisades Park | McKee | 1957 | operated until 1971 |
Santa Cruz Beach & Boardwalk, CA | Norris House | 1958 | built in-house using plans supplied by Conklin; cars from Buchwald Gebrüder (?); operated until 1976 |
Pontchartrain Beach [Wild Maus] | 1959 | new Westinghouse air brakes installed 1960 |
location or operator [name] | importer | installation date | comments |
Conklin midway, Canadian National Exhibition (CNE) | Conklin | 1957 | moved to Belmont Park (Montreal) in 1958 and replaced by a new unit |
Boblo Island, Ontario, Canada | Wedemeyer | 1957 | |
Rye Playland, NY | Conklin | 1958 | park originally announced plans to acquire ride from Wedemeyer; replaced Aeroplane Coaster |
Belmont Park, Montreal, Canada | Conklin | 1958 | Conklin concession 1958-1959, then sold to park; ex CNE 1957 |
State Fair of Texas, TX | 1958 | ||
Gwynn Oak Park, Baltimore, MD | Wedemeyer | 1959 (?) | destroyed in 1972 by Hurricane Agnes |
Rainbow Gardens, PA | Wedemeyer | 1959 | |
Crystal Beach, Ontario, Canada | Conklin | 1959 | |
Frolic Land, Western Fairgrounds, London, Ontario, Canada | Conklin | 1959 | park operated only one season |
Whitney's Playland, San Francisco, CA [Alpine Racer] | Export Sales | 1959 | relocated within park; demolished 1972 |
Belmont Park, San Diego, CA | Conklin | 1960 | also mentioned in 1960 Hughes ad |
CNE | Conklin | 1960 | second unit at 1960 CNE |
LeSourdsville Lake, OH | Export Sales | 1961 | attributed to Adolph Heinrich; operated until c1964; possibly sold to Cedar Point |
Nu-Pike, Long Beach, CA [Wild Maus] | Hughes or Conklin | c1961 (?) | modified in 1960s; operated until closing of park |
Idora Park, OH [Wilde Maus] | 1962 | ||
Venice Amusements, Seaside Heights, NJ | probably Hughes | 1964 (?) | offered for sale after 1966 season |
New York World's Fair | Hughes | 1965 | |
J's Amusements [Devil's Coach] | 1977 | operated until 1990; ex Belmont Park (San Diego) | |
World Fair, Seattle | Conklin or Hughes | 1962 | remained at Fun Forest Park after end of Fair until 1964 |
Fun Forest Park, Seattle | c1965 | replaced earlier Wild Mouse at park | |
Lagoon, UT | Conklin (?) | 1965 | ex Seattle World Fair/Fun Forest; rebuilt 1973 (possibly enlarged) and advertised as New Wilder Wild Mouse; survived to 1989 |
Orange County Fairgrounds, NY | ex New York World's Fair | ||
Playland, Panama City Beach, FL | 1969 | ex Coney Island |
location [name] | installation date | comments |
Cedar Point [Scamper] | 1962 | operated until c1975 |
Springlake Park, OK [Wilde Maus] | 1961 | |
Tower View Amusement Park, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada [Rapids Ride] | 1965 |
location or operator [name] | installation date | comments |
Funland Park, Miami, FL | 1956 | operated until park closed in 1963 |
Funtown USA, Seaside Heights, NJ | 1957 | |
Paragon Park, MA | 1957 | destroyed in 1963 fire |
Riverside Park, Agawam, MA | 1957 | |
Savin Rock, New Haven, CT | 1957 | |
Marine Pier, Wildwood, NJ | 1957 | replaced by Zyklon (Z47) |
Roseland Park, NY | 1956 | listed in 1957 ad as 1958 commitment; possibly replacement unit for prototype? |
Gooding Amusements | 1958 | |
Gooding Amusements | (1958) | second unit (?) |
Kennywood Park, PA | 1958 | operated until 1960 |
Willow Grove, PA | 1958 | |
Beech Bend Park, KY | 1958 | operated at three major fairs in 1957 |
Arnold's Park, IA | 1958 | |
Charles Garvin | (1958) | for fairs; replaced unit that went to Beech Bend Park |
Coney Island, OH | 1958 | |
Myrtle Beach, SC | (1958) | doubtful; no park specified in 11/1957 Schiff ad; may be ride installed at Gay Dolphin Park in 1960 |
Geauga Lake, OH | (1958) | |
Venice Amusements, Seaside Heights, NJ | (1958) | |
Olympic Park, NJ | (1958) | |
Pee Wee Valley, Cincinnati, OH | (1958) | |
Revere Beach, MA | (1958) | |
Fun Pier, Wildwood, NJ | 1958? | advertised for sale 11/1959 |
State Fair Park, WI | 1958 | present until 1960, last year of permanent midway |
Strates Shows | 3/1959 | |
Buckeye Lake Park, OH | 1959 | ride remained until park closing in 1971 |
Willow Mill Park, PA | (1959) | |
Suburban Park, Manlius, NY | 1959 | concession owned by Cerbini & Razzano; moved to Coney Island after one year at park |
Cedar Point, OH | 1959 | |
Meyers Lake Park, Canton, OH | ((1959)) | listed in 11/1957 Schiff ad |
Waldameer Park, PA | (1959) | listed in 11/1957 Schiff ad and in 12/1958 sales list |
West Point Park, PA | 1958 | operated until 1976 |
R & C Amusements, Coney Island, NY | 1960 | moved from Suburban Park; SBNO many years after closing |
Playland Park, Council Bluffs, IA | (1959) | possibly not installed until c1965 |
Riverview Park, Des Moines, IA | 1959 | scrapped in 1979, after park closure |
Gay Dolphin Park, Myrtle Beach, SC | 1960 | |
Folly Beach Pier, SC | c1966 | ex Gay Dolphin Park; destroyed in pier fire 1/1977 |
Conneaut Lake Park, PA | 1961 | operated until c1990 |
Lauda Park, New Braunfels, TX | ex PA, ex FL | |
Chippewa Lake Park, OH | c1972 | ex Geauga Lake; operated until 1978; still SBNO 2009 |
Elitch Gardens, CO | ||
Pirate's World, FL | ||
Riverview Park, Chicago, IL | 1958 | |
Dorney Park, PA | 1958 | removed 1965 |
Sans Souci Park, PA | 1959 | sold in 1971 to Game & Fun Park, Buffalo, NY |
Chilhowee Park Funway, TN | 1966 | |
Wedgewood Village, OK | 1958 | |
Adventureland, North Webster, IN | enclosed | |
Lakewood Park, Barnesville, PA | ran until 1982; sold to Winter Park, FL | |
Keansburg, NJ | ||
Edgewater Park, Detroit, MI | 1959 | until park closing in 1981 |
Bushkill Park, PA | ||
Lake Quassapaug, CT | ||
Fun & Games Park, Tonawanda, NY | ||
Jacksonville Beach, FL | advertised for sale in 1961 | |
Dandilion Park, Muskego, WI | ||
San Juan Resort/ Indian Lake Playland, Russell's Point, OH | 1960 | relocated in 1969 |
Doling Park, Springfield, MO | ||
Melendez, Provo, UT | (1959) | new portable design |
Fun Junction, Grand Junction, CO | smaller model | |
Canobie Lake Park, NH | smaller model; present c1962 | |
Playtown Park, Morton, PA | 1959 | smaller portable model (50x97 feet); advertised for sale 8/1960 and again 10/1961; |
Animal Forest Park, York Beach, ME | 1960 | portable model; advertised for sale in 1961 |
Saratoga Resort, Lehi, UT | 1963 | portable model |
location [name] | installation date | comments |
Sportland Pier, Wildwood, NJ [Up-'n'-Atom/ Flying Tiger] | 1957 | ran until 1966 |
Pacific Ocean Park, CA [Flying Fish] | 1958 | removed after 1963 season |
Rocky Point Park, RI | 1958 | |
Crescent Park, Providence, RI [Flying Fish] | 1959 | closed with park c1978 |
Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, CA [Flying Fish] | conjectured ex POP |
location or operator [name] | mouse type | installation date | comments |
Olson Shows | Mad Mouse | 9/1958 | after initial appearance at Alabama State Fair, moved to permanent ride area at Fairgrounds |
McCrary/ 20th Century Shows | Mad Mouse | 1/1959 | |
Farrow/Wallace Bros. Shows | Mad Mouse | 1/1959 | |
Collins Shows | Mad Mouse | 1959 | |
Gooding Amusements | Mad Mouse | 1959 | unclear if these are in addition to or replace two Schiff units |
Gooding Amusements | Mad Mouse | 1959 | second unit |
Zoo Park, Columbus, OH | Mad Mouse | 1959 | distinct from Gooding's travelling units |
Bell's Park, OK | Mad Mouse | 1959 | |
Frontier Village, OK | Mad Mouse | 1959 | |
Marshall Hall Park, MD | Mad Mouse | 1959 | |
Oaks Park, OR | Mad Mouse | 1959 | may have operated at Oregon Centennial Exposition and PNE in 1959 before opening at Oaks Park in 1960; travelled annually to PNE from 1959 to early 1970s |
Revere Beach, MA | Mad Mouse | 1959 | |
Peppermint Park, Houston, TX | Mad Mouse | 1959 | |
Chain of Rocks, St. Louis, MO | Mad Mouse | 1959 | |
Kissel Brothers' Amusement Park, Cincinnati, OH | Mad Mouse | 1959 | |
Crafts Shows | Mad Mouse | 4/1959 | |
Kunz/Heth Shows | Mad Mouse | 8/1959 | |
Powelson Shows | Mad Mouse | 5/1959 | |
John F. Tinsley Shows | Mad Mouse | 6/1959 | |
Meyers/Gold Coast Shows | Mad Mouse | 1959 | |
Olson Shows | Mad Mouse | 6/1959 | second unit |
Nu-Pike, Long Beach, CA | Mad Mouse | 1959 | |
Lake Winnepesaukah, GA | Mad Mouse | 1960 | |
White Swan Park, PA | Mad Mouse | 1960 | |
Six Flags over Texas, TX [Sidewinder/La Cucaracha] | Mad Mouse | 1961 | operated until 1964 |
Enchanted Forest, IN | Mad Mouse | 1961 (?) | |
Lakemont Park, PA | Mad Mouse | 1991 | ex White Swan Park; ran to 2003 |
Little-A-Merrick-A, WI | Mad Mouse | 1992 | ex Enchanted Forest; extant |
Julia Davis Fun Depot, ID | Mad Mouse | status? | |
J's Amusements, Guerneville, CA | Mad Mouse | c1991 | closed 2003; SBNO |
Playland, Vancouver, Canada | Mad Mouse | 1958 (?) |
until 1978 (?) [see Oaks Park entry] |
Como Zoological Park, St. Paul, MN | Mad Mouse | 1960 | O'Neil concession |
Lakeland, Memphis, TN | Mad Mouse | (1960) | |
Western Playland, El Paso, TX | Mad Mouse | 1960 | converted to Monster Mouse in 1963 |
West Coast Shows | Mad Mouse | 1961 | |
King Reid Shows | Mad Mouse | 1961 | |
Federal Way Shopping Center, WA | Mad Mouse | 1961 | |
Funtown USA, Seaside Heights, NJ | Mad Mouse | 1961 | |
Freedomland, Bronx, NY | Mad Mouse | 1962 | |
Joyland, Lubbock, TX | Mad Mouse | 1976 | extant; ex Bell's Park |
Cliff's, Albuquerque, NM | Mad Mouse | early 1960s | ran until 1981; sold to Magic Mesa Park, Albuquerque |
Funtown, Chicago, IL | Mad Mouse | ||
Playland, Justice, IL | Mad Mouse | ||
Fair Park, Nashville, TN | Mad Mouse | 1965 | ex Freedomland; auctioned in 1987 |
Bertrand Island, NJ [Monster Mouse] | modified Mad Mouse (single hairpin) | 1983 | name and date from 1983 park brochure |
McMurtrey Shows | Mite Mouse | 8/1959 | |
Nunley's, Beth Page, NY | Mite Mouse | 1960 | |
Ocean Beach Park (CNF Amusements), New London, CT | Mite Mouse | 1960 | |
Palace Playland, Old Orchard Beach, ME | Mite Mouse | 1961 (?) | |
Coney Island, NY [Miller's Gold Mine] | Mite Mouse | operated until c1995 | |
Silver Dollar Shows [Nascar Racing] | Mite Mouse | extant | |
Western Playland, El Paso, TX [Big Mouse/Big Cheese] | Monster Mouse | 1963 | first Monster Mouse intallation; modification of earlier Mad Mouse |
Fort Worth Zoo, TX | Monster Mouse | may have replaced (or been modification of) Mad Mouse ex SFoT | |
Oaks Park, OR | Monster Mouse | operated until 1995; may have replaced Mad Mouse | |
Western Washington Fairgrounds, Puyallup, WA | Monster Mouse | extant | |
Quassy Park, CT [Monster/Mad Mouse] | Monster Mouse | 1983 (?) | extant; ex Playland, Rye |
Pacific Ocean Park, CA | Monster Mouse | 1964 | operated until 1967 |
Six Gun Territory, FL | Monster Mouse | mid 1970s | |
Fantasy Farm, OH | Monster Mouse | 1984 | gone before 1991 |
Playland, Ocean City, MD | Monster Mouse | ||
Dogpatch USA, AR [Frustratin' Flyer?] | Monster Mouse | present by 1972 | |
Lakeside Park, Salem, VA | Monster Mouse | ||
Rye Playland, NY | Monster Mouse | 1967 | may have replaced earlier German ride; removed around 1980 |
Family Funland, Farmington, NM | Monster Mouse | 2001 | extant; manufactured 1969 |
Rocky Glen, Moosic, PA | Monster Mouse | 1982 | |
Dispensa's, IL |
location or operator [name] | installation date | comments |
Royal American Shows | 7/1958 | |
Don Dowis | 1959 | |
Springlake Park, OK | 1960 | single season only; probably the Dowis unit |
Funtown Amusement Center, Atlanta, GA | 1961 (?) | operated to 1966 (?) |
Wonderland Park, Amarillo, TX [Cyclone] | 1968 | extant; 1964 unit (?) |
Playland, Ocean City, NJ [Mighty Mouse] | ran until 2004 | |
Lakeside Park, CO [Wild Chipmunk] | extant | |
Adventure City, Stanton, CA [Tree Top Racers] | 1999 | extant; ex Midway Amusements, Brisbane, Australia |
Funtown Pier, Seaside Park, NJ [Mighty Mouse] | 2006 | ex Playland; may have opened late in 2005 |
location or operator [name] | type or source | installation date | comments |
Playland, Vancouver | Princeton | 1979 | extant; from Conklin Shows; all-steel copy of German ride |
unknown | traveled with Royal American Shows c1970; resembles ride at Old Indiana | ||
Rocky Springs Park, PA | track structure resembles that of a typical Schiff Wild Mouse, but cars are different | ||
Old Indiana Park, IN [Mad Mouse] | differs considerably from standard Schiff Wild Mouse | ||
Joyland Park, FL | (1959) | ||
Olympic Park, Rochester, NY | 1960 | ||
Eagle Park, OK | |||
Magic Valley, PA | |||
Walled Lake, MI | Mad Mouse? | ||
Magic Mesa, NM | Mad Mouse? | ||
Lakeview Park, Royersford, PA | ? | ||
Melvin's Rides (later Trimper's Rides), Ocean City, MD | wooden? | ||
Wasaga Beach Playland, Ontario, Canada | |||
Seaside, OR | Miler (?) | ||
Fun 'n Wheels, Orlando, FL | |||
Willow Park, Butztown (Bethlehem), PA | |||
West View Park, PA | 1961 | ||
Burlington Beach, Canada | destroyed by storm c1978/1979; described as wooden, but possibly Schiff | ||
Suburban Park, Manlius, NY | present at park closing in 1973; SBNO 1974 | ||
Riverside Amusement Park, Indianapolis, IN | 1958 | ||
Fairgrounds Amusement Park (Mid-South Fair), Memphis, TN | (1961) |


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Alabama Football: 10 Reasons Crimson Tide Will Repeat as National Champions
By George Poindexter ,
Fresh off their 14th national championship, there is only one way for the Tide to go and that's down.
With a grueling upcoming schedule this fall and every one gunning for them, don't expect the Tide to go anywhere.
Even with the pressure of being on top of the mountain, here are 10 reasons why the Tide will be a serious threat to repeat as national champs.
All American Robert Lester pictured here
Robert Lester will be asked to do something he hasn't done before: be the bona fide leader of the nation's best past coverage from a year ago.
With only him and Dee Milliner returning after losing possibly two first-rounders in this upcoming draft, expect their leadership to step up to fill in the holes for a Nick Saban-coached unit.
They have JUCO transfers already enrolled in this unit and have the very capable John Fulton with two years of experience under his belt and the highly-touted Ha Ha Clinton-Dix helping Lester. Expect them to rank close to the best in defensive pass coverage.
The best thing about Alabama these days is they are replacing 4- and 5-star players with 4- and 5-star players. This should bode well for the Tide.
Jones passed on millions to help the Tide collect No. 15
After helping the Tide win two of the last three championships, what else could the nation's best interior lineman have to prove?
The answer: That he can do it again.
Jones is an ambassador of the program, a distinguished philanthropist and a future first-round pick. 2011's Outland Trophy winner will man the toughest offensive line that includes Chance Warmack, DJ Fluker and a host of highly-touted offensive juggernauts.
With only one starter departing in William Vlachos, expect this offensive line to produce the same violent attack as they pummel opposing defensive lines into submission.
I know what you must be thinking, there's no Trent Richardson in the backfield this year, which leads us to our next slide...
The violent and elusive style of Lacy was on display in the Championship game
Lacy may have been the missing ingredient in the Tide's lone loss on November 5, 2011. His battle with turf toe really hurt the Tide's depth that day. That, along with the kicking unit deciding not to show up, would eventually cost them the game.
Lacy headlines a running back corps that includes: 5-star Dee Hart and incoming sensation TJ Yeldon. (Sorry Auburn, I know that one still stings a bit.)
Expect the same crushing, bruising running attack from this corps as the competition for the featured back is sure to get the intensity of this three-headed monster going.
Carter, along with Marvin Shinn, DeAndrew White, Kevin Norwood and the incoming Eddie Williams, form easily Alabama's most talented receiving corps ever. These guys are big, fast and will be well-coached blockers to aid in 'Bama's rushing attack.
They have several guys 6'3" and taller and that may make them even more dangerous in the passing attack. Expect Nick Saban and the new offensive coordinator Doug Nussmeier, coming from pass-happy Pac-12, to not be conservative with this group.
Already among the nation's best in offensive production, Alabama ranked 16th in points per game, at 36 per outing. Expect more of the same, and an even more explosive outing as the Tide incorporate their new offense with these playmakers on the edge.
Alabama has won the recruiting national championship twice in Saban's first five years with two national championships; that's no coincidence. This year's class predicts to be even better, as they are serious contention to grab top prospects both in and out of state.
ESPN and Rivals have the Tide ranked No. 1, while Scout has them a close second currently and even still, they are expected to close with bang.
Expect these incoming freshmen and transfers to come in, play themselves into the schemes and provide quality depth to a defending champion that returns 15 of 22 starters.
Just looking at Alabama's schedule, it appears they have a pretty tough road to Miami to get to the national championship.
However, they play an LSU team that's going to start a first-year starter at quarterback. Judging how the two senior quarterbacks fared against the Tide, that doesn't bode so well for the Tigers.
They play an Arkansas team on the road that, let's face it, has looked severely overmatched against Alabama in recent contests. They open up with a running quarterback in the spread in a neutral site. Ask Jordan Jefferson how that worked out for him.
There are obviously some issues that they are going to have to deal with. Right off the bat, the Tide will play two national championship contenders away. Expect this veteran-laden team to be poised and instill in their underclassmen the opportunity they have in front of them and to learn to deal with being the hunted in the big games.
These first three weeks will be an excellent opportunity to get rid of the bugs and refine them for season's end.
2012 Alabama Crimson Tide Football Schedule | ||||
Date | Opponent | |||
Saturday 09/01/12 |
Michigan Wolverines Cowboys Stadium, Arlington, TX | |||
Saturday 09/08/12 |
Western Kentucky Hilltoppers Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, AL | |||
Saturday 09/15/12 |
at Arkansas Razorbacks Fayetteville or Little Rock, AR | |||
Saturday 09/22/12 |
Florida Atlantic Owls Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, AL | |||
Saturday 09/29/12 |
Ole Miss Rebels Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, AL | |||
Saturday 10/06/12 | --- | Open Date | ||
Saturday 10/13/12 |
at Missouri Tigers Faurot Field, Columbia, MO | |||
Saturday 10/20/12 |
at Tennessee Volunteers Neyland Stadium, Knoxville, TN | |||
Saturday 10/27/12 |
Mississippi State Bulldogs Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, AL | |||
Saturday 11/03/12 |
at LSU Tigers Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA | |||
Saturday 11/10/12 |
Texas A&M Aggies Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, AL | |||
Saturday 11/17/12 |
Western Carolina Catamounts Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, AL | |||
Saturday 11/24/12 |
Auburn Tigers Bryant-Denny Stadium, Tuscaloosa, AL | |||
Saturday 12/01/12 |
SEC Championship Game Georgia Dome, Atlanta, GA |
In a system where the BCS remains a mystery, BAMA has cracked the code
Let's face it, last year's championship rematch game was about as popular as watching an episode of MASH. People, by and large, hated it. Yet, in the eyes of the Crimson nation, they got it right.
These BCS opponents refused to look at the fact that 'Bama edged LSU in every aspect of the November 5, 2011 game, with the exception of the kicking game. Yes, most football fans would rather see an overrated LSU team clobber Oklahoma State rather than play the best available opponent.
With the precedent set where Alabama could possibly lose a game and still play in a championship without even winning its division or conference, it is downright scary to the rest of the college football. Who knows what changes the BCS will see this offseason, but it appears Alabama's victory may actually spark a change in the college football landscape.
Changing football is something they've definitely done before.
The TIDE know what it takes
Preseason rankings are out now and, boy, is the talent pool loaded and geared up to produce an exciting season. Most people have LSU, USC, Alabama, Oregon and Oklahoma to round out the top five, followed by notables, including: FSU, Michigan and other traditional powerhouses.
Now ask yourself this: Which program has players that have won a championship? In fact, of the programs mentioned, only Michigan and Oregon have won a recent BCS bowl game.
Asking their players to play in the pressure and pageantry that Alabama is used to may be a tall order for these teams to play in on a weekly basis. With early departures and expectations, it's going to be awful hard for these clubs to dethrone the Tide.
Expect the same result in early 2013.
Alabama may possibly have a star-studded QB duo coming.
How do you build off an offense and QB that won the national championship? You improve it.
This was the talk of last year's offseason—who would command the Tide's offense for another run? Alabama has won two championships in three years. That feat is remarkable in itself, but the most remarkable aspect of that feat is that in both years, they did it with a first-year starting QB.
McCarron edged Sims last year for the starting gig, but expect competition to be no cake walk for McCarron, especially with having to prove yourself all over again with a new offensive coordinator.
Whether Nussmeier elects to go with McCarron outright, Sims outright or a duo, expect this tandem to be poised and experienced in their quest for No. 15.
Did you expect any better reason
Could a No. 1 selection be any more obvious? I mean, really.
Saban promised after delivering 'Bama's 13th championship, "This is only the beginning." Boy, did he ever live up to his word.
There is not another coach in the game that's a better recruiter, motivator and game-planner than this man. He is stepping into elite company with each passing season and is holding his own against the most obnoxious and unrealistic fanbase in the country. Believe me, I'm one of those crazy 'Bama fans and we certainly expect this season to end in sunny South Beach with a championship.
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Great scenario to be in for a football coach, right? Saban went absolutely bananas on Alabama's lone penalty of the game. When asked later if he was close to considering being done, he cited this incident to prove how anal he is—he is absolutely obsessed with this sport.
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The Response of Adaptive Support Ventilation (ASV) to Varying Spontaneous Minute Ventilation at Different Compliance and Resistance in a Lung Model
R. Wayne Lawson,MS, RRT, David L. Vines, MHS, RRT, David C. Shelledy, PhD, RRT. The Universityof Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, TX
BACKGROUND:ASV is a servo-controlled mode of ventilation offered on the Hamilton Galileo,(Hamilton Medical, Reno, Nevada) designed to deliver pressure-targeted tidalvolumes as a variable rate, to achieve a target inute volume while utilizingprotective lung strategies. The mode will adapt to changing patient demand,from full ventilatory support to total spontaneous breathing, as the patienttakes over a greater share of the work of breathing. The purpose of this studywas to evaluate the ability of ASB to achieve targeted minute volumes in theface of varying levels of patient spontaneous ventilation, and under differentconditions of compliance and resistance, using a two-compartment lung model(Michigan Instruments, Inc., Grand Rapids, MI) to simulate spontaneous breathing.
Methods: Thedriver lung, lung B was ventilated using minute ventilations of 5L (f=10 bpmVt=500ml f=15 bpm Vt=335 ml f=30 bpmVt=165ml); 7L (f=10 bpm Vt=700 ml f=15bpmVt= 470 ml f=30 bpm Vt=235 ml); 9L f=10 bpm Vt=900 ml f=15 bpm Vt=600 ml f=30bpm Vt=300 ml). The spontaneous lung, lung A, was ventilated using ASV, programedfor an ideal body weight of 70kg. For each experiemental condition, measurementswere made at a normal compliance (0.05 L/cm H2O and resistance (2.7 cm H2O/L/sec),decreased compliance (0.02 L/cm H2O, and increased resistance 17.6 cm H2O/L/sec).Alveolar ventilation was calculated using the following formula (minute ventilationminus respiratory rate times deadspace). An anatomic deadspace of 150 ml waschosen as a normal value for a 70kg patient.
Results: Acrossall conditions combined, there were no significant differences (p>.05) foractual minute volume and calculated alveolar ventilation when driver minutevolume was 5L/m (8.97±2.93 & 6.56 ±1.83), 7 L/m (8.60±2.62& 6.45 ±1.57), or 9 L/m (9.06±2.50 &6.90 ±1.75).Under all conditions combined, there were also no significant differences (p>.05)between actual minute volume and calculated alveolar ventilation when complianceand resistance were normal (9.64±3.51 & 7.27±2.27), decreasedcompliance (8.67±2.74 & 6.12±1.58), or increased resistance(8.31±0.99 & 6.48±0.77). Table 1 displays minue ventilationand calculated alveolar ventilation for each level of spontaneous ventilation,compliance and resistance.
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Drive Ve | Ve Actual | Va Calc | Ve Actual | Va Calc | Ve Actual | Va Calc |
5 L/min | 9.73±4.74 | 7.16±3.12 | 8.87±3.06 | 6.09±1.61 | 8.30±1.04 | 6.42±0.47 |
7 L/min | 9.30±3.81 | 6.94±2.20 | 8.50±3.33 | 6.12±2.01 | 8.00±0.80 | 6.29±0.65 |
9 L/min | 9.90±3.47 | 7.71±2.51 | 8.63±3.09 | 6.15±2.04 | 8.36±1.37 | 6.84±1.57 |
CONCLUSION: ASV effectivelymaintained minute ventilation and alveolar ventilation under varying conditionsof spontaneous ventilatin, compliance and airway resistance.


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Carson Palmer | 33 | 11 |
Drew Stanton | 29 | 7 |
Ryan Lindley | 24 | 2 |
Caleb TerBush | 23 | R |
Palmer and Stanton are locks to make the roster. Lindley and TerBush are different matters. Neither is likely to play a snap in 2013. We'll give Lindley the nod however.
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Colin Kaepernick | 25 | 3 |
Colt McCoy | 26 | 4 |
Scott Tolzien | 25 | 3 |
B.J. Daniels | 23 | R |
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Brady Quinn | 28 | 7 |
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Later this spring, a team of scholars at Germany's Berlin-Brandenberg Academy of Sciences will complete the first phase of what will ultimately be an unprecedented, two-decade effort to throw light on the origins of the Koran.
The project, called the Corpus Coranicum, will be something that scholars of the Koran have long yearned for: a central repository of imagery, information, and analysis about the Muslim holy book. Modern research into Islam's origin and early years has been hampered by the paucity and inaccessibility of ancient texts, and the
reluctance of Muslim governments in places like Yemen
to allow wide access to them.
But, drawing on some of the earliest Korans in existence - codices found in Istanbul, Cairo, Paris, and Morocco - the Corpus Coranicum will allow users to study for themselves images of thousands of pages of early Korans, texts that differ in small but potentially telling ways from the modern standard version. The project will also link passages in the text to analogous ones in the New Testament and Hebrew Bible, and offer an exhaustive critical
commentary on the Koran's language, structure, themes, and roots. The project's creators are calling it the world's first "critical edition" of the Koran, a resource that gathers historical evidence and scholarly literature into one searchable, cross-referenced whole.
Critical editions - usually books rather than websites - are a commonplace in academia. University bookstores do a brisk business in critical editions of the world's best-known literary works, from "The Iliad" to "Hamlet" to "Das Kapital.Ó" As labor-saving devices for scholars and teaching aids for students, they can be invaluable. Presenting a novel or manifesto or play in its historical context helps readers to see the ways it was shaped by contemporaneous events and local attitudes, how it was built from the distinctive cultural building blocks at hand. Embedding a work in critical commentary - and critical editions often include essays that are sharply at odds with each other - gives readers a sense of the richness of possible readings of the text.
But the form takes on a special significance with holy books, where millions of people order their lives in accordance to what they see as divine language. Standard versions like the King James Bible or the regularized Cairo Koran (the version, first printed in 1924, that most Muslims have today) help to unite the faithful in one common reading of their holy book. A critical edition, on the other hand, by its nature, highlights the contingency of a text's creation and gives readers the tools to interpret it for themselves.
Among Koranic scholars, there's a great deal of excitement about the Corpus Coranicum, which will help them make better sense of a text that - despite the fact that millions regularly recite from it and live their lives according to its precepts - remains something of a historical and theological puzzle
"I think it is a big deal," says Jane McAuliffe, the editor of the Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an and the president of Bryn Mawr College, "it's a wonderful opportunity to do something that the field of Koranic studies has wanted to do for a long time."
At the same time, the impending publication of the Corpus has set off a small stir outside the scholarly world. Islam has a long and lively tradition of theological debate, but in recent years revisionist scholars in the Muslim world have been threatened, branded heretics, and even attacked for their work. Already, the creators of the Corpus Coranicum, in response to press coverage in Germany, have felt the need to publicly insist on al-Jazeera and in visits to Muslim countries that they have no intention of undermining the faith. In part what's to blame is the strict, austere form of Islam that is dominant in some parts of the world, but the friction also stems from the relationship all Muslims have to the Koran. To a mainstream Muslim, the Koran is not merely a divinely inspired text put together by disciples, as most modern Christians believe the Bible to be. It is the literal word of God, dictated directly to Mohammed. To question that is to insult the faith.
The fact that it will be born on the Web makes the Corpus Coranicum seem a quintessentially 21st-century project, but its roots actually extend back to the 1930s. Then, as now, Germany produced some of the world's leading Koranic scholars - proteges of the great 19th-century linguist, historian, and "Semiticist" Theodor Noldeke.
The archive that was to become the Corpus Coranicum was started by the German Arabist Gotthelf Bergstrasser, who traveled through Europe and the former Ottoman Empire photographing the old Korans he turned up. After Bergstrasser's death in a mountain climbing accident in the Alps, a colleague named Otto Pretzl took over, before he died in a plane crash while serving in World War II. That left the photo archive in the hands of a young scholar named Anton Spitaler.
Then, in a mystifying twist detailed in a 2008 Wall Street Journal article, Spitaler began to claim, falsely, that the photo archive had been destroyed in 1944 by an Allied bombing raid. Spitaler kept up this deception until the early 1990s, when he revealed to a former student of his named Angelika Neuwirth that he still had all 450 rolls of film. He offered to give them to her - she is today the head of the Corpus Coranicum project - and he died a decade later without explaining himself.
According to Islam, the Koran is a series of revelations Mohammed was given through the Angel Gabriel, starting in 610 AD and ending with Mohammed's death two decades later. Those revelations were recorded and compiled by Mohammed's followers. In the religion's early years, little need was seen for a standardized text - Mohammed and most of his followers were illiterate and as a result the Koran was meant to be recited rather than read (a tradition that remains central to Islam). Transmission was mainly oral, with written texts simply an aid. But within decades of Mohammed's death, conquests had ballooned the size of the Muslim empire and many of the original disciples were themselves aging and dying, and one of Mohammed's successors decreed a standard written version to unify the growing faith. In a pre-printing-press world, however, the process took time, and alternate versions continued to be written and read for decades, and perhaps centuries.
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I think the problem with this article is that it assumes the Quran is a written text that has been passed down through the ages, going through various changes and versions until it was "standardized". That isn't the Quran although it may be other books such as the Bible. It's really a Western way of looking at holy texts because of their own history.
The Quran is an oral tradition that has been passed down through the ages in an unbroken chain through memorization. Every "written" version of the Quran will have a page somewhere in there that certifies who the text was checked by. This scholar would have been one who has memorized the Quran and their lineage of memorization would go all the way back to the Prophet (s). On the earth at any given time there are thousands and now millions of people who have memorized the entire text. They check each other and keep the text alive and the same as it has been since the time of the Prophet.
Also, the problem with this "critical" edition is that it will assume the Quran is a man-made text that has been evolved from other texts. It's easy for that person to assume that when they read the story of Nuh and the flood in the Quran and then assumes that it has been taken from Biblical stories. But they don't realize that the source of the stories (God) is the same so you can't assume one was taken from the other.
I think Muslims should be wary of projects like these. The whole point of it is to prove something antithetical to Islam. They are implying that there are 'alternate versions' of the Quran, that it has been changed over time, that it is man-made. Untrue. I wouldn't allow them access to nothin' either
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By coincidence (?!) I happen to be (re) reading the book "The Story of the Qur'an" by Ingrid Mattson. It is a wonderful introduction to the whole issue.
These "projects" are definitely not going to provide any "insights" to muslims since their whole approach is based on disbelief hence the "critical" and "critique" used in connection with such studies. The best approach to such issues is the Prophets when he said to such people something like to you your faith and to me my faith. It seems these people are not seeking to understand what muslims believe, rather they seek to explain the qur'an in the light of their own thinking which based on a world view entirely the opposite of muslim beliefs.
For a true understanding of this issue I think one needs to have a very good grasp of qur'anic arabic AND go back to sources from before the colonial era i.e. 1500 CE or thereabouts AND read multiple sources since we need to bear in mind
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rather they seek to explain the qur'an in the light of their own thinking which based on a world view entirely the opposite of muslim beliefs.
so true bro!!
jazaks for bringing to our attention at least we can discuss the subject and educate ourselves before the onslaught.
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William Osborne and Abbie Conant |
Recent News and Featured Links | |
New!!! We now have a demo video and gallery for our new music theater work Aletheia. |
Dreams of Love, Chaos, and Time A reading and concert by Douglas Penick, Cynthia Homire, Deborah Marshall, and Abbie Conant. August 25, 2013 |
Please join us for a benefit concert for the Taos Opera Institute on August 11th, performed by the extraordinary musician Ted Ganger. For details click here. |
by Abbie to her poetry page. |
Dr. Jessica D. Butler has completed her dissertation about our music theater work and has been awarded a Doctorate of Musical Arts degree by the University of Iowa. |
in Texas, Oklahoma, and Mississippi in March and April for concerts and master classes. |
Eleven professors of music answer the question, "How do you help prepare your studnets to sucessfully enter the job market?" |
Jesús Fernando Lloret González, a professor at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Málaga, has completed his dissertation about our music theater and multimedia work and has been awarded his Ph.D. |
We have completed a video of as part of Abbie's sabbatical 2010-11. |
Updated March 2012. Recent News About Our Activities |
The webpage for our Taos studio is now completed. See photos, and listings for the 11 salons we have presented. |
is now on-line, along with the score. |
This site had 134,606 visitors from February 1, 2012 to January 31, 2013. Our site averaged 382 unique visitors per day, or 11,217 per month for the year. |