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8 new must-try roller coasters of 2013
As amusement parks open for the season, many of them are debuting highly anticipated roller coasters. This summer, whether you’re a roller coaster fanatic or a novice along for the ride, expect thrills and chills as you spin, twist and dive on some of the wildest new coasters of 2013.
As amusement parks open for the season, many of them are debuting highly anticipated roller coasters. This summer, whether you’re a roller coaster fanatic or a novice along for the ride, expect thrills and chills as you spin, twist and dive on some of the wildest new coasters of 2013.
Price: Adult single-day ticket purchased online starts at $44.99
This December, the adrenaline-pumping El Loco roller coaster will replace the original attraction, Rim Runner at the indoor amusement park, Adventuredome. The coaster will provide riders with a feeling of weightlessness as it barrels down a 70-foot drop that delivers a 1.5 negative vertical g-force. Along the coaster’s 1,300-foot track, riders will also experience a 45-degree outwardly banked turn, a barrel roll and a 180-degree twist, all within 75 seconds.
Price: Adult all day ride pass, $27.95
Deemed the “world’s first upside-down, underground wooden roller coaster,” Hades 360 delivers powerful turns and high speeds (up to 70 mph) typically uncharacteristic for wooden roller coasters. The ride features a 360-degree upside-down loop, a 90-degree twist underground in complete darkness and a 110-degree over-banked turn. At one point, the coaster slowly climbs 162 feet and then dives 134 feet at a hair-raising angle of 65 degrees.
Price: Adult all day ticket pass, $39.99
The Coast Rider is a wild mouse-style roller coaster, meaning its track is flat and it lacks banking and inversions--but don’t let that fool you. The coaster still packs enough punch for a heart-racing experience with its max speed of 37 mph and its sharp and dizzying turns.
Price: Adult single-day ticket purchased online starts at $36.99
Costing roughly $10 million to build, the wooden roller coaster, Outlaw Run, is an impressive feat on its own. The coaster overlooks the Ozark Mountains and incorporates a western stagecoach theme with a stagecoach depot station and stagecoach-like cars. As the coaster races up to 68 mph through upside-down twists, a double barrel roll and a 162-foot drop at 81 degrees, the intricate wooden panels supporting the track blend together.
Price: Adult one-day general admission, $58
Set to premiere this summer (no specific date set yet), the Undertow will send riders spinning as they travel at speeds reaching 40 mph along the 1,410-foot track. The coaster features seven four-person spinning cars and because passenger size and weight determine the spinning pattern, each ride is a different experience. The coaster also features an 80-degree banked turn and a 360-degree carousel spin.
Price: All-day rides pass, $31.95
Although not a roller coaster, Dollywood’s River Rush is just as suspenseful. The 1,176-foot water coaster reaches a height of four stories and features a 25-foot drop at a 45-degree angle. Riders climb onto a 4-person toboggan-style raft and are propelled around hairpin turns and launched through dark tunnels. As you travel through the rapids, expect to get wet.
Price: Adult Splash Country one-day ticket, $47
This summer seems to be the season of the wooden roller coaster, as the Gold Striker is yet another wooden roller coaster that blasts stereotypes out of the water. The coaster ride begins with a steady climb up a chain lift hill followed by a 103-foot dive through a tunnel, a 80-degree banked turn and a bunch of dizzying twists. The coaster reaches speeds of 53 mph and a height of 108 feet.
1. Gatekeeper, Cedar Point, Ohio
As amusement parks open for the season, many of them are debuting highly anticipated roller coasters. This summer, whether you’re a roller coaster fanatic or a novice along for the ride, expect thrills and chills as you spin, twist and dive on some of the wildest new coasters of 2013.
Price: Adult single-day ticket purchased online starts at $44.99
2. El Loco, Adventuredome, Las Vegas
This December, the adrenaline-pumping El Loco roller coaster will replace the original attraction, Rim Runner at the indoor amusement park, Adventuredome. The coaster will provide riders with a feeling of weightlessness as it barrels down a 70-foot drop that delivers a 1.5 negative vertical g-force. Along the coaster’s 1,300-foot track, riders will also experience a 45-degree outwardly banked turn, a barrel roll and a 180-degree twist, all within 75 seconds.
Price: Adult all day ride pass, $27.95
3. Hades 360, Mt. Olympus Water and Theme Park, Wisconsin
Deemed the “world’s first upside-down, underground wooden roller coaster,” Hades 360 delivers powerful turns and high speeds (up to 70 mph) typically uncharacteristic for wooden roller coasters. The ride features a 360-degree upside-down loop, a 90-degree twist underground in complete darkness and a 110-degree over-banked turn. At one point, the coaster slowly climbs 162 feet and then dives 134 feet at a hair-raising angle of 65 degrees.
Price: Adult all day ticket pass, $39.99
4. Coast Rider, Knott’s Berry Farm, California
The Coast Rider is a wild mouse-style roller coaster, meaning its track is flat and it lacks banking and inversions--but don’t let that fool you. The coaster still packs enough punch for a heart-racing experience with its max speed of 37 mph and its sharp and dizzying turns.
Price: Adult single-day ticket purchased online starts at $36.99
5. Outlaw Run, Silver Dollar City, Missouri
Costing roughly $10 million to build, the wooden roller coaster, Outlaw Run, is an impressive feat on its own. The coaster overlooks the Ozark Mountains and incorporates a western stagecoach theme with a stagecoach depot station and stagecoach-like cars. As the coaster races up to 68 mph through upside-down twists, a double barrel roll and a 162-foot drop at 81 degrees, the intricate wooden panels supporting the track blend together.
Price: Adult one-day general admission, $58
6. Undertow, Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk, California
Set to premiere this summer (no specific date set yet), the Undertow will send riders spinning as they travel at speeds reaching 40 mph along the 1,410-foot track. The coaster features seven four-person spinning cars and because passenger size and weight determine the spinning pattern, each ride is a different experience. The coaster also features an 80-degree banked turn and a 360-degree carousel spin.
Price: All-day rides pass, $31.95
7. River Rush, Dollywood, Tennessee
Although not a roller coaster, Dollywood’s River Rush is just as suspenseful. The 1,176-foot water coaster reaches a height of four stories and features a 25-foot drop at a 45-degree angle. Riders climb onto a 4-person toboggan-style raft and are propelled around hairpin turns and launched through dark tunnels. As you travel through the rapids, expect to get wet.
Price: Adult Splash Country one-day ticket, $47
8. 20Gold Striker, California’s Great America
This summer seems to be the season of the wooden roller coaster, as the Gold Striker is yet another wooden roller coaster that blasts stereotypes out of the water. The coaster ride begins with a steady climb up a chain lift hill followed by a 103-foot dive through a tunnel, a 80-degree banked turn and a bunch of dizzying twists. The coaster reaches speeds of 53 mph and a height of 108 feet.
Price: Adult single-day ticket purchased online, $45.99
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Shocked by Jiah Khan's death, 12-year-old boy commits suicide
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Babu, a fifth class student of Gurunanak Basti in Sri ganga nagar district, on Tuesday committed suicide by hanging himself from a ceiling hook in his home, investigating officer (IO) Ramesh Kumar said on phone on Wednesday.
Deceased's family members told the police that the boy was repeatedly watching Jiah's suicide episode on TV news channel, and he was probably upset and ended his life when no one was inside the house, IO said.
The boy's body was handed over to his father after postmortem, IO added.
US student hacks ICSE website, exposes anomalies in results
For Debarghya Das, it started as a simple request from two of his anxious friends who wanted to know their board results a day before they were made public. What came of it may not only create a problem for Das, a budding software engineer, but has probably exposed the poor web security system of the country.
This computer science student from the US' Cornell University claims to have broken into the system of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) and accessed the results for the entire country.
This led to loads of data crunching and statistical analysis to deduce that the "marks had been tampered with".
When Mail Today reached CISCE, it was holding a meeting over the hacking. However, till late at night, no official was available for comment.
"There is not a shadow of doubt in my mind that the CICSE board is fraudulent and guilty of marks tampering. Whether they changed some results by plus or minus 1 or plus or minus 5 is irrelevant. Fact is, they changed some results," wrote Das in his blog that was posted on http://deedy.quora.com.
"The Indian School Certificate (ISC) determines college admissions to a wide array of Indian colleges that impose strict cut-offs for admission. One mark can change your fate. In such an abhorrent system, even the simplest case of making a 93 a 92 could change a future. Adulteration of these marks is absolutely unacceptable," the article further states.
Das told Mail Today that he does not fear any legal action.
"I have only accessed data available in public domain. What I can definitely conclude is that regardless of whether marks were tampered with or arise out of a special policy decision, something is definitely wrong," he told Mail Today late on Tuesday.
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/icse-isc-icse-hacking-debarghya-das-cornell-university-cisce/1/278719.html
This computer science student from the US' Cornell University claims to have broken into the system of the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) and accessed the results for the entire country.
This led to loads of data crunching and statistical analysis to deduce that the "marks had been tampered with".
When Mail Today reached CISCE, it was holding a meeting over the hacking. However, till late at night, no official was available for comment.
"There is not a shadow of doubt in my mind that the CICSE board is fraudulent and guilty of marks tampering. Whether they changed some results by plus or minus 1 or plus or minus 5 is irrelevant. Fact is, they changed some results," wrote Das in his blog that was posted on http://deedy.quora.com.
"The Indian School Certificate (ISC) determines college admissions to a wide array of Indian colleges that impose strict cut-offs for admission. One mark can change your fate. In such an abhorrent system, even the simplest case of making a 93 a 92 could change a future. Adulteration of these marks is absolutely unacceptable," the article further states.
Das told Mail Today that he does not fear any legal action.
"I have only accessed data available in public domain. What I can definitely conclude is that regardless of whether marks were tampered with or arise out of a special policy decision, something is definitely wrong," he told Mail Today late on Tuesday.
Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/icse-isc-icse-hacking-debarghya-das-cornell-university-cisce/1/278719.html
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