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Kamikazi, BumbleBee, Mega Drop, Tango, Zipper, Starship! What do these awe-inspiring, jaw-dropping words have in common? These are the names of but a few of the rides that will appear at the 2009 Antelope Valley Fair and Alfalfa Festival. Of course the fair will sport the traditional Ferris wheel, bumper cars and carousels. But new, this year, will be spinning coasters, hydroslides and more.
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Wi-Fi mesh brings e-ticketing and inventory management
By John Cox , Network World , 08/17/2007
Today the sprawling California State Fair opens in Sacramento and Bil Lowry will be watching a key part of it – the carnival midway operation -- through a set of computer screens monitoring a Wi-Fi mesh network.
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THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
By KIMBERLY EDDS
Climbing onto clanking carnival rides that can be reduced to a pile of nuts and bolts in less than two hours is enough to make even the most daring thrill seeker shiver.
But before you sidestep strapping into the dozens of whirling, turning and stomach-dropping attractions at the Orange County Fair in favor of a trip to the petting zoo, there's something you should know: You might actually be safer on those rides than you think.
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Lutheran, The , May 2006 by Favre, Jeff
Carnival business turns on good times
For Charlene and Guy Leavitt, life really is fun and games. Married for nearly 30 years, the Leavitts, members of Mountain View Lutheran Church, Phoenix, own possibly the country's largest carnival-Ray Cammack Shows.
Just how large is their operation, known to most as RCS? The carnival, which travels to 11 events annually in California, Arizona and Texas, has 15 food stands, 55 rides and 33 games. It takes 165 trucks and 110 RVs to haul the business and more than 1,200 employees to move RCS from one venue to the next.
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Houston Chronicle - March 9, 2009, 4:38PM
Ken Hoffman
I have a basketball hoop on my garage. When I have nothing to do, I go outside and shoot free throws in my driveway. Thousands of free throws ... for free.
Yet once a year, I go to the carnival at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo and pay $2 to shoot one hardly free throw. It’s stupid, I know. But I do it because I can make that shot.
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Running away to the circus no longer means running way from modern technology. Wireless mesh networks developer Firetide said Tuesday that its portable network solution is now being used by Ray Cammack Shows (RCS), a North American carnival midway company.
Carnivals put on by RCS get 9 million visitors annually. Maintaining the necessary business environment to serve all those people, while moving frequently from site to site, used to be a challenge. No longer. Now the company can use Firetide’s technology to set up a mobile, wireless environment wherever it goes that’s capable of supporting all business functions—including real-time e-ticketing, inventory management and time card tracking for more than 500 employees.
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For Charlene and Guy Leavitt, life is a merry-go-round – literally.
For nearly 20 years, the couple has successfully owned and operated Ray Cammack Shows Carnival, the premiere carnival company in the country, while at the same time raising six children, establishing a home in Arizona, and dedicating time to their staff and their church.
For their devotion to the industry, their family values attitude and their place in L.A. County Fair history, the couple will be honored by the Los Angeles County Fair Association on Thursday, Sept. 11, at the annual L.A. County Fair Premiere Party.
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