Disney Officials Considered Combining Disneyland and California Adventure
November 10, 2010 No CommentThis isn’t completely surprising given the underwhelming public response to California Adventure in the early days: Disney considered turning Disneyland and Disney California Adventure into one massive Anaheim park to improve business, the Disney president told the Wall Street Journal . Bob Iger, the president and chief executive officer who took over the company in 2005, told the Journal that Disney California Adventure was mediocre when it opened almost 10 years ago. The Wall Street Journal posted Monday an interview with Iger in which he discusses different aspects of the company, including the Disneyland Resort. Read the full Disney president story HERE . Disney officials went so far as designing a concept for one park, Iger said. “We debated, ‘Should we make it one park?’ Raise the price at Disneyland, and suddenly one ticket buys you the whole thing. I even had Imagineers design that. (But) we would have had to put in transportation systems. It would have cost us so much money to put the monorail in. And to do other things to create one park. That didn’t make sense,” Iger told the Journal. “We all concluded that the only way we would improve returns on that park is if we made it better and we made it bigger. And we decided to put what is now (around) $1 billion into that.” California Adventure’s woes in the early days were fodder for jokes on The Simpsons.
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CAPTION:The former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had a habit of turning ordinary objects into symbols, including the black-and-white checkered head-dress that came to represent the Palestinian quest for a homeland. (Nov. 9)
Continue reading …By Amy Goodman If a volcano kills civilians in Indonesia, it’s news. When the government does the killing, sadly, it’s just business as usual, especially if an American president tacitly endorses the killing, as President Barack Obama just did with his visit to Indonesia. Related Entries November 9, 2010 Obama Reaches Out to Muslims on Indonesian Trip November 9, 2010 Washington Laughs at ‘Revolution’
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12:17 PM Wednesday Nov 10, 2010 Share Email Print Expand Shrink Two funds created to provide relief for cash-strapped Holocaust survivors were raided for more than $42 million (NZ$54 million) with the help of several people who were supposed to administer the funds, federal authorities said as they announced charges against 17 people. US Attorney Preet Bharara described the decade-long scheme at a news conference where he said the money was stolen from the Conference on the Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, a not-for-profit group that disburses funds provided by the German government to individuals and organizations. Aided by six corrupt employees, the claims conference approved more…
Continue reading …Rough edges cut deep: Android still facing years-old unlock screen bug, Gmail 2.3 attachment woes have Google stumped
November 10, 2010 No Comment
So, that new 2.3 version of Gmail that launched in September? Yeah, we’d steer clear if you haven’t nabbed it yet. Google’s currently trying to track down a bug that’s leaving many users (including our own hapless Chris Ziegler) unable to download any attachments. Interestingly, or disconcertingly if you’re of the pessimistic sort, Google actually has a “Gmail attachment issues investigation” page set up to allow highly technical users to submit debug reports of the problem. Sure, we’re all for crowd sourcing, but we also wouldn’t mind a big sturdy “hey guys, we’ve got this” on an issue of this magnitude. The worst part? You can’t revert to the old version of Gmail if you’ve got the latest OTA update on your fancy new T-Mobile G2. Interestingly, while we were discussing this issue, ensconced in the Engadget HQ jacuzzi, adult beverages in hand, we got a tip from some poor soul detailing a bug that’s been in Android since the G1 days. Basically, if you fail at the pattern unlock too many times, the phone will ask you to enter your Google account info to unlock your phone. Sounds like a smart security feature, but unfortunately it doesn’t work. The insanely detailed thread on Google’s Android bug tracker reads like a history of the Android platform and the futility of man rolled into one, with various workarounds being discovered for different phones, and many desperate users resorting to wiping their phones and starting over. Sure it’s minimal in the grand scheme of things, and plenty of platforms have outstanding bugs years after release, but we figured a little *bump* couldn’t do anyone any harm. This one’s for you, Dylan R. Rough edges cut deep: Android still facing years-old unlock screen bug, Gmail 2.3 attachment woes have Google stumped originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:01:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …The Salt Nazi : Mayor Bloomberg’s latest health campaign — cutting salt intake — has targeted soup as one of the big sodium offenders to be taken down with new city ads. The ads, which will be plastered on subways for the next two months, feature a half-opened can of soup with a geyser of salt spewing from the top and forming a heap around the can. Trying to put fear into the hearts of salt-aholics, the ads will warn that excessive sodium “can lead to heart attack and stroke” and list average amounts of salt in various foods, such as salad dressing and frozen pizza. So of course, Bloomberg is setting a good personal example. Or is he? An admitted fan of dumping salt on his own food, Bloomberg said the biggest culprits behind high-salt diets are the food processors that include copious amounts of sodium in canned soup and other prepared foods. Classic nanny state politician.
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Auburn football coach Gene Chizik defended his quarterback Cam Newton Tuesday saying at a news conference that allegations of the player cheating while at Florida are “pure garbage.” (Nov. 9)
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Auburn football coach Gene Chizik defended his quarterback Cam Newton Tuesday saying at a news conference that allegations of the player cheating while at Florida are “pure garbage.” (Nov. 9)
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Auburn football coach Gene Chizik defended his quarterback Cam Newton Tuesday saying at a news conference that allegations of the player cheating while at Florida are “pure garbage.” (Nov. 9)
Continue reading …Auburn football coach Gene Chizik defended his quarterback Cam Newton Tuesday saying at a news conference that allegations of the player cheating while at Florida are “pure garbage.” (Nov. 9)
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