Annual pass payment plan
Disney announces a monthly payment plan for annual passes. Florida residents can buy an annual pass to Walt Disney World with a down payment equal to the cost of a one-day ticket. The rest of the cost is split up among 12 monthly payments.
What are the benefits of being a Passholder? The list is long but most importantly, you have access to Disney “magic” all year — attractions, characters and events.
International sales center
Disney announces the opening of the first international sales center. The center is located at Tokyo Disney Resort in Japan, and it informs guests about the benefits of the Disney Vacation Club and allows them to purchase membership to the club.
The 15,000-square-foot interactive center will give guests a peek at Disney Vacation Club resort hotels as well as other vacation offerings Disney offers. Guests can see for themselves a two-bedroom model of the vacation home accommodations that DVC members and families can expect to find on the island of O’ahu at Aulani, Disney Vacation Club Villas, Ko Olina, Hawai’i.
Adds attraction audio descriptions
Disney parks adds a device that offers audio descriptions, closed captioning and amplified audio for guests with impaired hearing. The audio description describes the visual effects of some of Disney’s most popular attractions.
Audio Description, now available at Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World Resort, provides narrated audio for guests with visual disabilities by describing visual attraction elements, such as actions, settings and scene changes.
Volunteer reward program
The Disney Parks blog announces the “Give a Day. Get a Disney Day” program. Guests search the Disney Parks website for qualified projects and organizations. After completing their volunteer service, they receive an e-mail with a voucher for free admission to one park in either Disneyland or Walt Disney World. Thomas Smith, the Disney Parks social media director, states:
With this announcement, we’re looking for 1 million people with a passion to make a difference.
If guests are unable to use their free Disney ticket, they can donate it to an approved Disney charity.
Signs with WWE
Ring of Honor wrestling announces former champion, Daniel Bryan’s signing to WWE.
We congratulate Bryan on the beginning of this next journey in his brilliant career, and wish him all the best as he progresses. Many Ring of Honor fans refer to Bryan as the “best in the world” and we look forward to looking on in earnest as he shows everyone watching the wrestling world’s biggest stage just why that is.
La La Land performance
Lovato performs La La Land during Dancing With The Stars promoting her album Don’t Forget.
The 2nd American Revolution
Celente issues a press release stating America will see a second revolution in the near future that will occur in stages.
Over the intervening years, having watched the evidence develop and unfold, it is now not a matter of “if” revolution will happen. It’s only a matter of when.
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Tax Protests
Celente issues a press release stating American will start to battle politicians to lower taxes.
With the price of nearly everything going up double digits over the past decade (while inflation adjusted median household income fell nearly 4 percent during the same period), cash crunched and debt heavy Americans will wage tax cutting wars with hopes of reversing their economic downward creep.
Forcasts Economic 9/11
Celente issues a press release stating the US economy will crash and unemployment will hit an all time high.
Just as the Twin Towers collapsed from the top down, so too will the US economy from an Economic 9/11. When the high-stakes speculators, banks, brokerages, and buyout firms that leveraged billions with millions get hit … everything underneath them will turn to rubble.
Android announced
The Open Handset Alliance, a collection of 34 firms including T-Mobile, HTC, Qualcomm and Motorola, announces they plan to collaborate with Google to develop Android. They hope it will be the first open platform for mobile phones. Google CEO Eric Schmidt says:
Today’s announcement is more ambitious than any single ‘Google Phone’ that the press has been speculating about over the past few weeks. Our vision is that the powerful platform we’re unveiling will power thousands of different phone models.
Schmidt: Mobile ads ‘twice as profitable’
Eric Schmidt, chief executive at Google, expresses that mobile advertising is twice as lucrative as traditional online advertising:
What’s interesting about the ads in the mobile phone is that they are twice as profitable or more than the nonmobile phone ads because they’re more personal.
FDA approval
The FDA announces the approval of Neupro, the first skin patch designed to treat symptoms of early Parkinson’s disease. Neupro patches, which are changed daily, deliver rotigotine through the skin. Rotigotine is a member of a class of drugs called dopamine agonists, which mimic dopamine’s effects.
Parkinson’s patch approved
The FDA approves Neupro, the first skin patch designed to treat symptoms of early Parkinson’s disease. Neupro patches, which are changed daily, deliver a drug called rotigotine through the skin. Rotigotine is a member of a class of drugs called dopamine agonists, which mimic dopamine’s effects.
YouTube Awards
YouTube announces a feature called the YouTube Awards to recognize the best videos uploaded in 2006. Users can vote for their favorite videos and the winners will receive a trophy and recognition for their videos. Jamie Byrne, head of product marketing at YouTube, says it is unclear whether this will be an annual event or not:
We want to see how the community responds to it, but we can see this being something that grows as we continue to grow and becomes a bigger and more exciting event in the future.
Announces Boost deal
It will allow users of the Sprint subsidiary to share location, status updates, and other information, and is aimed at young and social subscribers.
Boost’s tagline asks the question ‘Where you at?’ And now Loopt’s social mapping service can answer that question for every Boost Mobile user.
Credit crisis to hit financial markets
Celente issues a press release stating the U.S will hit a credit crisis by the end of 2007. Millions Americans who over borrow and take credit or loans will not be able to keep paying their debt causing US financial markets to decline further.
Weighed down with massive loads of debt and locked into jobs that limit opportunities to pay it off, the paycheck to paycheck public will feel the pinch in their
pocket books and businesses will be hit hard in their bottom lines long before recession becomes “official.”
FDA approves Azilect
The FDA approves Azilect (rasagiline), a new molecular entity, for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The drug is a monoamine oxidase type-B (MAO-B) inhibitor that blocks the breakdown of dopamine, a chemical that sends information to the parts of the brain that control movement and coordination. Dr. Steven Galson, Director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, says:
This is a welcome development for the more than 50,000 Americans who are each year diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson’s is a relentless disease with limited treatment options, and each new therapy is an important addition to the physicians’ treatment options.
Feel Good Inc, Hung Up perfomrance
Gorillaz and Madonna perform Feel Good Inc and Hung Up during the Grammy Awards show promoting their albums Confessions On A Dance Floor and Demon Days.
