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  Millennium Point -
Millennium Point is Birmingham’s flagship Millennium project, built to celebrate and encourage science, technology and education in Birmingham and the wider region.
Millennium Point is also home to two pioneering education initiatives for school aged children - the University of the First Age and the Young People's Parliament – as well as many other firms and organisations from the public and private sectors.
Millennium Point is home to two visitor attractions - Thinktank, Birmingham science museum, and the IMAX® Cinema - together with a number of educational institutions and a wide range of commercial tenants.
www.millenniumpoint.org.uk   (182 words)

  
 Millennium Force Coming to Cedar Point   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Millennium Force's statistics are staggering: with a monumental 310-foot-tall first hill at a 45-degree incline, speeds of 92 mph over 6,595 feet of track and a first drop of 300 feet at an extraordinary 80-degree angle, this mega-thriller will awe riders with its dynamic world-record-breaking dimensions.
Millennium Force will use prototype roller coaster technology with a newly designed elevator cable system to carry the coaster trains up the towering lift hill versus a traditional lift chain.
Millennium Force will challenge riders to a 2-minute, 45-second rampage over the rails that begins with a 310-foot-high lift hill, followed by a 300-foot drop at 92 mph.
www.themeparks.com /cp/millennium01.htm   (764 words)

  
 Rollercoasters: Cedar Point Millennium Force Photos
For the new millennium, the park's owners wanted something large, unique, and attention grabbing that would cement their place as the largest and best rollercoaster park in the world.
Millennium Force has been criticized for lack of airtime, but it is not devoid of negative G's.
The Cedar Point Website offers a large amount of information regarding Millennium Force, including a personal construction diary by Monty Jasper, the park's VP or Maintenance and Construction as Millennium Force was built.
idexter.com /coasters/parks/cedar_point/millennium_force/mf_index.html   (1744 words)

  
 Thinktank - about us
Millennium Point attracted one million visitors in its first year and was officially opened in July 2002 by HM The Queen during her Jubilee visit to the city.
Millennium Point opened on Saturday 29 September 2001 – on time and within budget – and was opened officially by HM The Queen during her Jubilee visit to the city on Tuesday 2 July 2002
Millennium Point, awarded a £50 million grant by the Millennium Commission, is one of the country’s landmark millennium projects and is the keystone of Birmingham’s Eastside regeneration.
www.thinktank.ac /aboutus/pressstory8.htm   (575 words)

  
 Millennium Point - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Millennium Point is a complex in Birmingham, situated in the developing Eastside of the city centre.
The front car park of the building was converted into the T-mobile Fan Park which housed a large screen which would air football matches of the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Millennium Point is set to become the "hub" of the Ventureast development.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Millennium_Point   (436 words)

  
 MILLENNIUM ACTRESS + TOKYO GODFATHERS - DVDs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Millennium Actress takes many of the same themes (down to the same basic structure) of performance and meta-reality, stage and screen, cradling them in a story about a man's lifetime of unrequited love for an actress, herself suffering from a lifetime's unrequited love for a mysterious revolutionary.
Tracing the point at which reality begins and fantasy ends is beside the point of Millennium Actress: contemplating the futility of trying to draw that line when it comes to the weight of memory on an individual's psychic and emotional development is closer to the core of Kon's concerns.
DreamWorks presents Millennium Actress on DVD in a 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer that is as sharp and colourful as the palette warrants, though edge enhancement does prove occasionally distracting.
filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/millenniumtokyo.htm   (1059 words)

  
 Flow-Rite Controls Millennium SPW
Millennium SPW™ is bar none the most innovative.
After being completely redesigned the Millennium SPW™ valve is capable of working independent of water pressure (3-35 psi), allowing you to use whatever existing water supply you may have.
In addition, the new valve includes a built in water barrier to block the propagation of a flame front from entering adjacent cells in the event of accidental gas ignition.
www.flow-rite.com /millennium   (174 words)

  
 Millennium Point
Millennium Point is a stimulating focal point for technology-based learning, research, commerce, study and leisure.
Millennium Point is leading the regeneration of the Birmingham Eastside City Centre, It is a £114million purpose-built development providing state-of-the-art resources and facilities for discovering and utilising technology.
Millennium Point is a celebration of the region's innovative skills and a focus for the understanding and application of technology in the new millennium.
www.tic.ac.uk /aboutus/mp   (349 words)

  
 Cedar Point and Millennium Force Redefines Roller Coasters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Unthinkable in 1989, Cedar Point was the first in the world to go beyond 200 feet in height on a roller coaster with the #1-rated 205-foot-tall Magnum XL-200 and stunned the amusement park sphere in the process.
Construction of the behemoth Millennium Force, which began with site-clearing in August 1999, is nearing completion after a complex and intricate two-year design and development stage with internationally acclaimed roller coaster architect Werner Stengel of Germany and engineers from the ride’s manufacturer, Intamin AG of Switzerland, along with Cedar Point’s Planning and Design Department.
With Millennium Force’s structure finished, work is rolling along on detailing the coaster, engineering and installing the pneumatics, finishing the loading and unloading stations and completing the ride’s tunnels and special effects.
www.themeparks.com /cp/millennium07.htm   (679 words)

  
 Cedar Point information: The Point Online: Rides: Millennium Force
Millennium Force is probably the most hyped roller coaster in the history of roller coasters.
Millennium Force features a cable driven lift, which means that you reach the top of this hill in 20 seconds.
Millennium Force is located at the beginning of the Frontier Trai.
www.thepointol.com /millenniumforce.html   (433 words)

  
 Cedar Point Main Page at RideZone
Sandusky, OH Cedar Point is one of the largest traditional parks in the US with more roller coasters than any other park.
Cedar Point has a lot of rides and there is likely to be something for everyone.
Millennium Force is a trademark of Cedar Point
www.ridezone.com /parks/oh/cedarpoint   (397 words)

  
 MILLENNIUM MINING & CONSTRUCTION SERVICES Pty Ltd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Millennium Mining and Construction Services Pty Ltd is committed to safety of it's employees and has duty of care to provide a safe working enviroment.
Millennium Mining and Construction Services Pty Ltd also believes the same duty of care is incumbent on all employees as individuals.
Millennium Mining and Construction Services Pty Ltd will provide education programmes on the harmful effects of drugs and alcohol in the workplace and will ensure that the drug and alcohol abuse is a regular topic at safety meetings on all sites.
www.millennium-mining.com.au /policys.htm   (731 words)

  
 BBC News | TALKING POINT | Millennium landmarks - Are they cursed?
The Millennium Bridge in London, the latest structure opened to commemorate the turn of the century, has been closed after just two days because it sways excessively.
First there was the much-maligned Millennium Dome, and then the London Eye, the giant ferris wheel which failed to open at the start of the new century due to a problem with the clutches.
The only beneficiaries were the politicians who saw the millennium projects as a way to further their careers.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/talking_point/788015.stm   (529 words)

  
 MILLENNIUM CHECK.POINT
Some time ago students of the school of architecture were presented with the challenge of creating virtual architecture for developing communications at the turn of the millennium.
Using computers wherever possible for modelling original ideas and presenting them visually, they were to create virtual constructions which would give full rein to their imagination and let them express what they are experiencing, sensing and feeling.
MILLENNIUM CHECK.POINT is a pause, a sign, an inspiration, a point of passage, a border crossing point, a point at which to shift out the weight and ballast of the past, and at the same time a back door through which we can get back values we have lost...
www.abf.cz /forum/millenium-en.asp   (674 words)

  
 Millennium Force, Roller Coasters, All the Rides, Cedar Point
Millennium Force destroyed 10 world records when it debuted in the first year of the new millennium.
Millennium Force takes its passengers over 6,595 feet of steel track that includes 310-, 169- and 182-foot-tall hills, two dark tunnels and two 122-degree overbanked turns.
Millennium Force is a high-speed giga roller coaster.
www.cedarpoint.com /public/park/rides/coasters/millennium_force/index.cfm   (363 words)

  
 News : BIRMINGHAM SCHOOL OF ACTING MOVES TO MILLENNIUM POINT   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A summer move to new premises at Millennium Point secures the long-term future of Birmingham School of Acting in the City.
A 24 year lease has been signed today (Tuesday) between UCE Birmingham, Millennium Point and Birmingham City Council and work will begin shortly on the new facilities which will include seven new performance spaces including an area for public performance by the school.
Millennium Point, the region’s landmark Millennium project, is a centre for science, technology, learning and fun.
www.uce.ac.uk /web2/releases06/3991.html   (454 words)

  
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The Millennium Force, which debuted in 2000, was down last week because of a mechanical problem.
Cedar Point's Millennium Force was voted the No. 1 steel roller coaster in survey results released in May by The National Amusement Park Historical Association, the country's largest amusement park enthusiast organization.
Millennium Force was named as the top steel coaster, an honor it has held or shared since 2002.
www.pointbuzz.com /news.htm?id=937   (602 words)

  
 Design Finalised For Millennium Point
Nicholas Grimshaw Architects have unveiled the final design for Millennium Point, the £110m landmark regeneration project in Birmingham.
Millennium Point will house a shopping and leisure complex, science museum, IMAX cinema and university.
Millennium Point is scheduled to open in September 2001.
www.fmb.org.uk /publications/masterbuilder/february99/12c.asp   (129 words)

  
 The Point Online- Millennium Force Cable Break
Millennium Force, the tallest roller coaster in North America at 310 ft., had a cable break during testing on Sunday, September 2nd.
Sunday was the first day Millennium Force had been down for an entire day since its opening in May of 2000.
Many television stations have been covering this story, and The Point Online will keep you update on what is going on with the number one ranked coaster in the world.
www.thepointol.com /mfbreak.html   (278 words)

  
 Fan The Flame by Leonard Tim Hector   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The end of that painting from the viewer's point of view is what happens to be a line of ordinary people on the right led by what is quite rightly believed to be a portrait of Michelangelo himself.
Note again, my Man of the Millennium's point, it is in the ordinary, the bull, the ancient Greek ordinary citizen that western civilisation will be saved as men and women search for a more complete expression of the human personality in a more complete democracy.
CLR James as my Man of the Millennium demonstrated through art, history, economics and the science of society that is the mass of ordinary people who will deliver modern civilisation, or the global village will collapse in an overwhelming tide of barbarism.
www.candw.ag /~jardinea/ffhtm/ff990604.htm   (3501 words)

  
 BBC News | TALKING POINT | Wales Millennium Centre: Landmark or liability?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The decision to build the Millennium Centre is a very welcome one for those who live in Cardiff and along the M4.
Cardiff is a big place for big projects and the Wales Millennium Centre is just such a project, however the International Film Festival of Wales should be returned to Aberystwyth as a point of principle, apart from anything else.
The Millennium Centre will be a landmark for Cardiff and a focal point for the arts.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/talking_point/1775150.stm   (3049 words)

  
 Tactical Knives
Unlike tanto’s however, the chisel-point is replaced with a continuous hollow grind all the way to the Millennium’s lethal point.  To keep the point from being fragile, I level the hollow-grind just as it approaches the point so the edge there is thicker, for strength.
A Millennium Stiletto: Handled in the now extinct Rag Micarta, with a 6” double-edged 154CM blade and the available shoulder rig, this is an ideal concealed carry weapon.
Without the angled point or the serration’s the Millennium Fighter is offered in a wide range of sizes, all of which are lighter, faster and stronger than most fighting knives available today.
www.hossom.com /index_page0002.htm   (500 words)

  
 Welcome to the tic short digital festival
Millennium Point is an exciting centre of national importance, Millennium Point leads the regeneration of Birmingham City's Eastside.
All four components are housed within the newly constructed Millennium Point landmark building, which is supported by the Millennium Commission.
Through the use of advanced information and communications technology, Millennium Point enables 'virtual access' to many of its facilities - a true centre for the new millennium.
www.tic.ac.uk /cinematic/MP.asp   (352 words)

  
 Millennium Partners: In The News
His Millennium Partners is making a $2 billion bet that rich people in other big cities will be willing to pay a fortune (how does $2.2 million for a four-bedroom apartment sound?) to live like Upper West Siders.
By the end of next year Millennium plans to have opened high-end condominium buildings - with swank hotels, huge gyms, and in one case a movie complex - in Washington, Boston, and San Francisco.
A similar development in Miami should be finished by 2002, and Millennium is considering projects in Atlanta, Toronto, and elsewhere.
www.millenniumptrs.com /pressrelease.cfm?presscenter_index=12   (756 words)

  
 Coaster Dude's Top 10 Roller Coasters
Nevertheless, making Millennium Force the best roller coaster in America is not only its awesome height, but also the fact that the first drop plummets down at an incredible 80°.
Realizing the key features of Millennium Force are its first drop, and the blazing speed it provides, they emphasized those aspects of the ride.
By the time the train roars through its final high speed turn, and then smoothly brakes to an abrupt halt, after 6595 ft of track, the riders are left exhausted and breathless as they wipe the tears from their eyes (courtesy of the blinding rush of wind in their faces).
www.coasterdynamics.com /CoasterDynamics/Top10Coasters.html   (1639 words)

  
 Millennium Force - Cedar Point - Experience The Point
On July 22, 1999 Cedar Point told the world they were going to build a roller coaster defeats gravity like no other...
Some thought Cedar Point was crazy for making a coaster so high, others waited and waited for opening day to come.
No matter how tight the lap bar is pulled down on you you still feel like you are getting thrown out of seat in Lake Erie (Note: Millennium Force is the smoothest thing in the world, even when it throws you from your seat, it does it in a very smooth way).
www.experiencethepoint.com /rides/millforce.asp   (367 words)

  
 Thinktank, Millennium Point
Thinktank is Birmingham's unique and award-winning museum of science and discovery housed at Millennium Point.
Within the Millennium Point centre, Curzon Street, Birmingham, West Midlands.
Millennium Point is fully accessible for people with mobility difficulties.
www.aeroflight.co.uk /mus/uk/s-t/thinktank.htm   (220 words)

  
 Cerner Corporation: Point of Care
Cerner is dedicated to providing caregivers the tools to cast out errors at the point of care.
Each of our point-of-care solutions, both unified and standalone, use bar-code technology to improve caregivers workflow and help to prevent clinical errors at a patient’s bedside.
Cerner Millennium POC and Cerner Bridge POC barcode point-of-care solutions increase patient safety by reducing medical errors at the bedside.
www.cerner.com /public/Cerner_3.asp?id=26416   (122 words)

  
 Millennium Point (Archive)
The regeneration of Birmingham's Eastside is being spearheaded by the construction of an important landmark building — Millennium Point.
Opened in September 2001 and costing £114 million, Millennium Point is one of the UK’s major millennium projects.
The partners in Millennium Point are Birmingham City Council, the University of Central England, and Birmingham Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
www.birmingham.gov.uk /GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=3150&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=0&MENU_ID=0   (303 words)

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