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Visa-US Bancorp, Countrywide, J&J, Morgan Stanley in Court News
The case is US v. The Bank of New York Mellon Corp., 11-6969, US District Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan). Park City Eatery Balks at Credit Card Fines in Rare Court Fight Stephen and Cissy McComb say they managed their Italian eatery …
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New Indoor Ropes Course Under Construction at the Wilderness Hotel & Golf Resort
According to Joe Eck, general manager for America's largest waterpark resort, “This new attraction is going to be fantastic! It will tower 30 feet above the Northern Lights Mega Arcade and it will take guests to a whole new level of fun! …
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Commentary: Occupy Washington fights the cold
Early in the pre-dawn hours of Jan 5, Park Police went from tent to tent in the freezing night to wake up sleeping Occupy Washington protestors at Freedom Plaza, a block away from the White House. But they were not about to evict the 100 people camping …
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Hotelier Gaylord Partners with Parton, Rumbles with Rowling
Hotelier Gaylord Partners with Parton, Rumbles with Rowling
Convention-resort owner Gaylord Entertainment Co. mingled with the rich and famous this week, partnering with singer Dolly Parton to build a water park adjacent to its Nashville hotel and tangling with Texas billionaire Robert Rowling over its takeover …
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The End of a Sceirah Era
Wild Wadi Waterpark, which forms part of the Jumeirah Group portfolio, was launched in 1999 and is one of the largest of its kind outside of North America. Situated between sister properties Burj Al Arab, Jumeirah Beach Hotel and Madinat Jumeirah, …
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Making waves: Zehnder's Splash Village Hotel and Waterpark voted No. 1 family …
Zehnder's Splash Village Hotel and Waterpark was voted as the No. 1 family getaway destination by Metro Parent magazine, which is distributed monthly to more than 1600 locations in southeastern Michigan. The magazine's first Parent Picks! survey asked …
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Large fight turns to melee at Mall of America
Large fight turns to melee at Mall of America
"I'm used to some of the screaming because this is the Mall of America," which has amusement park rides, she said. "But this was a different kind of screaming." Mall officials said there were no lockdowns, no one was hurt and no weapons were involved. …
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Cedar Fair: California amusement park sale off
JMA Ventures LLC has decided not to move forward with the acquisition of the California's Great America amusement park in Santa Clara, Cedar Fair said. JMA Ventures and Cedar Fair had agreed to terms on Sept. 16 for the sale of the amusement park. …
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The Holy Land Experience: Florida's Christian theme park
The Holy Land Experience is a religious fundamentalist theme park in Orlando, Florida. It was founded in 2001 by Marvin Rosenthal, a Jewish-born Baptist minister, whose Zion's Hope organisation likes to convert Jews to Christianity; it was picketed by …
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DNR makes agreement for carp barrier on Coon Rapids Dam
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DNR makes agreement for carp barrier on Coon Rapids Dam
The Department of Natural Resources and Three Rivers Park District have agreed to allow construction of a barrier against aquatic invasive species at the Coon Rapids Dam. The 99-year-old dam bridges the Mississippi River between the cities of Brooklyn …
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Loveland Housing Authority director discusses plan for affordable housing at …
By Craig Young Reporter-Herald Staff Writer Sam Betters, director of the Loveland Housing Authority, poses for a picture Wednesday at the former Crystal Rapids Water Park site in east Loveland. The agency bought 4.3 acres and plans to build 70 …
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Silver Hawks new owner to spend $2 million on stadium renovations
Silver Hawks new owner to spend million on stadium renovations
“There's going to be a water park out there, where it's going to be a big splash pad, lot of dancing fountains and so forth,” said Andrew Berlin. “We're also putting a changing room out there knowing full well that as a parent you've got wet kids now …
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St. Lucie County Community Calendar, updated Jan. 17
Florida's Wonderful World Of Water: With South Florida Water Management District. Oxbow Eco-Center, 5400 NE St. James Drive, Port St. Lucie, noon, Jan. 28. 772-785-5833; oxbow@stlucieco.org. Shop & Adopt Event: Laura's Emporium Antique Mall, …
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Splash Kingdom Begins New Chapter of Family Entertainment Growth
Clearwater's team includes the very successful management team of the former Wild Rivers Waterpark in Irvine, CA. Greg Briggs, the former General Manager of Wild Rivers for more than two decades, will lead the operations of Pharaoh's. …
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Best places to escape the winter weather
Best places to escape the winter weather
When snow and sleet are on the horizon, these indoor destinations will make you think you've left DC behind for to warmer climes. Every day is summer at the Cub Run RECenter's indoor water park, which features two huge slides, a splash playground, …
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Best New Water Park Ride
You can nominate any new water park ride at outdoor or indoor water parks (including indoor water park hotels) that opened anywhere in the world during 2011. Water rides in amusement parks (such as raft rides or shoot-the-chute rides) are not eligible.
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Former Wirth Companies executive pleads guilty
Former Wirth Companies executive pleads guilty
Wirth's highest profile projects include the Waterpark of America near the Mall of America, the Grand Rios Hotel and Waterpark in Brooklyn Park and the luxury Grand Hotel Minneapolis downtown. Wirth, Damiani and Murry were all charged in August with …
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Hotel helps homeless families
Working with Family Promise, a nonprofit organization that houses homeless families in a network of churches, the hotel offered the families a weeklong stay and prepared a full slate of activities and meals. That includes a water park visit, …
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2011 Year in Review: Martin County
The complex, which would be the first of its kind in the area, would require county commissioners to create a zoning code specific to the land of Extreme Sports Water Ski Park and Hotel. While the debate drags into the new year over who will pay for …
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Texas Choice Rebrands as Magnuson Hotel Waco
The hotel, situated conveniently near Baylor University, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame (below right), Waco Waterpark and other famous attractions, also affords guests a free Continental breakfast, free high-speed Internet, and business and leisure …
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Nothing says Valentine's love like a duck
Nothing says Valentine's love like a duck
Not a real duck of course, but a 2012 Duck Derby Lucky Duck – and this Duck is the gift that keeps on giving with a free Kalahari water park pass. For $ 20, your sweetheart will receive ownership of a Lucky Duck which will be racing in the 2012 Duck …
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Kalahari Resorts and Convention Center Helps Clean the World
Home to America's largest indoor waterparks, the authentically African-themed Kalahari Resorts and Convention Center has partnered with Orlando-based social enterprise Clean the World to collect and recycle hotel soaps and shampoos to help fight the …
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Water park reopens with a $3m splash
Water park reopens with a m splash
There has also been an upgrade to the toddlers' pool and repairs to the main and junior pools. Mr McKechnie said the facility was extremely popular. The park, previously known as Kalamunda Wet n Wild, includes a spa pool, an Olympic-size pool, …
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Fun in Florida
After a morning sweating it out on the white-knuckle rides, a trip to the water park was the ideal way to cool down. The FlexTicket gives you entrance to two parks – Wet 'n' Wild and Aquatica. Both are exhilarating or as relaxing as you wish, …
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Water Park open again
By Kaitlyn Offer, Midland-Kalamunda Reporter Formerly known as Wet N Wild, the park did not open last summer after it was discovered that extensive electrical, filtration and pool upgrades were required. Management of the 30-year-old facility has since …
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Road Trip! Destination: Indoor water parks
The Old West is the theme in this wild and wet Columbus, Ohio, frontier, where visitors can whoosh their way through 12 water slides, including the Raging Bull, Ambush Alley, Shoot Out Racer and Rattlesnake Falls. Brave souls might take on Blackout …
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Economy weighs heavily on Florida working class
Economy weighs heavily on Florida working class
The large working class in the populous area surrounding Interstate 4, which runs from Tampa on the Gulf Coast to Daytona Beach on the Atlantic and straight through the heart of Orlando's theme park zone, often holds the key to a candidate's success in …
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Independent Film Alive and 2.0 at Sundance Film Festival 2012
By John Arundel PARK CITY, UTAH – With January's demise of the Old Town Theatre on King Street, it was time to reassess the viability of the big-budget movie genre as a whole, especially given owner Roger Fons ending pronouncement that Hollywood's …
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