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☆ I was one of the first to ride the Splash Mountain replacement at Disney World. After years of controversy, it's a whole new ride.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-14 | by ( Megan Dubois | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

I was one of the first to ride the all-new Tiana's Bayou Adventure attraction at Magic Kingdom. download the app Email address Sign up By clicking “Sign Up”, you accept our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy . AdvertisementIn 2020, Disney announced it would close the popular but controversial Splash Mountain at both Disney World and Disneyland. In its place, Disney created a new "Princess and the Frog"-themed water ride called Tiana's Bayou Adventure, with the company's first Black princess front and center. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

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☆ Tiana's Bayou Adventure is the next step in Disney's $60 billion theme park investment
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-10 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

In this article DIS Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTTiana's Bayou Adventure opens June 28 at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida! Tiana's Bayou Adventure, the rethemed Splash Mountain, is set to reopen June 28 at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. Featuring characters from Disney Animation's "Princess and the Frog," Tiana's Bayou Adventure takes guests through the swamps of New Orleans as Tiana preps a massive Mardi Gras celebration. The revamp of Splash Mountain into Tiana's Bayou Adventure is part of a bigger strategy for Disney to infuse relevant, fan-favorite intellectual properties into its existing rides and theme parks. A preview of Walt Disney Imagineering's audio-animatronics for the upcoming refresh of Splash Mountain, Tiana's Bayou Adventure.

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☆ I've traveled on all 5 Disney cruise ships. I have 2 clear favorites, and there's only one I'm not in a hurry to book again.
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Jill Robbins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

So far, we've been on all five Disney Cruise Line ships — Disney Magic, Disney Wonder, Disney Dream, Disney Fantasy, and Disney Wish. AdvertisementMy favorite ships are Disney Wonder and Disney MagicDisney Wonder is one of my favorite ships. Disney Wonder also has my favorite Disney Cruise Line restaurant, Tiana's Place. Disney Wonder and Disney Magic have nearly identical deck layouts, as do Disney Dream and Disney Fantasy. Unlike the other Disney cruise ships we've been on, Disney Wish doesn't have a specific area for adults-only lounges.

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☆ Jim and Pam Knew How to Survive a Soul-Crushing Office
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-08 | by ( Alexandra Molotkow | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +20 min

Office crushes, in all their mercurial glory and pain, continue to shape our working lives in deeply meaningful ways. But through all these changing norms, workplace crushes remain remarkably common. Jim, after all, doesn't even ask Pam on a date until the season-three finale of "The Office." That most workplace crushes never lead to consummated relationships doesn't make them any less powerful. An admitted serial crusher, she still gets work crushes — last year she counted "a solid eight."

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☆ Disney's parks are its top money maker — and it plans to spend $60 billion to keep it that way
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-07 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +12 min

It had been more than a year since the Covid pandemic had forced Disney's domestic parks to shutter, but D'Amaro, chair of Disney's experiences division, was confident guests would flood back in when the gates reopened. Revenues fell 35% in 2020, a nearly $10 billion decrease from the $26.2 billion the experiences division had tallied in the year before the pandemic. The experiences division posted record revenue of $32.5 billion in fiscal 2023, a 16% increase from the prior year. Its innovations, from ride mechanics and animatronics to creature design and immersive architecture, have made Disney's parks a standout in the industry. Storytelling is at the heart of everything across Disney's experiences division.

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☆ Disney reveals more on huge Magic Kingdom expansion, one part of a $60 billion investment
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-04 | by ( Natasha Chen | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Glendale, California CNN —Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, the “wildest ride in the wilderness,” sits at one edge of Disney World’s Magic Kingdom park, the most visited theme park in the world. “It’s probably the largest expansion ever at Magic Kingdom,” Michael Hundgen, Walt Disney World site portfolio executive, said Tuesday during a rare media event previewing new Disney attraction designs and technology at its Walt Disney Imagineering facility in California. Disney’s 10-year investment planThe Magic Kingdom expansion is one part of a $60 billion investment Disney has said it’s planning for its parks, cruises and experiences over the next decade. But any plans for expanding the theme park footprint at the Disneyland resort would need Anaheim city approval because of zoning issues. This is really a wild experience.”Charita Carter, executive creative producer at Walt Disney Imagineering, worked on the project from its inception about four years ago.

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☆ A woman said she booked the 'world's worst Airbnb' with stained bedsheets, a bed bug on the wall, and 'eerie vibes'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Lindsay Dodgson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

She shared footage of the property on TikTok, showing bugs in the bathroom and stained sheets. AdvertisementA woman said she spent the night in her car after discovering her Airbnb had stained bedsheets, a bed bug on the wall, and "eerie vibes." "I'm convinced I actually stayed at the world's worst Airbnb," Taylor said in the video. AdvertisementTaylor posted another TikTok where she attached screenshots of the Airbnb listing. "In the description of the property on Airbnb, it did not mention anything about the building being old and not taken care of.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — Antibodies found in early results of a historic new vaccine trial are expected to give endangered California condors at least partial protection from the deadliest strain of avian influenza in U.S. history. The so-called bird flu reached the U.S. in February 2022 after wreaking havoc across Europe. “We’re thankful that we’re getting any immune response,” said Ashleigh Blackford, the California condor coordinator for the U.S. Dr. Carlos Sanchez, the Oregon Zoo’s director of animal health, said wildlife officials faced questions about undertaking the bird flu vaccine study. She hopes the condor study will lead to bird flu vaccines for other endangered species.

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☆ Fans bid seaside farewell to Sinead O'Connor with songs, flags and flowers
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Padraic Halpin | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

[1/5] A hearse carrying the coffin of late Irish singer Sinead O'Connor passes by during her funeral procession where fans line the street to say their last goodbye to her, in Bray, Ireland, August 8, 2023. REUTERS/Clodagh KilcoyneBRAY, Ireland, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Thousands gathered outside Sinead O'Connor's former seaside home on Tuesday to bid farewell to the outspoken Irish rock star, some singing along to hits blasted from a vintage Volkswagen camper van, others showering her hearse with flowers. Crowds gathered along the seafront at Bray, just south of Dublin, clapped and cheered as O'Connor's coffin passed in a hearse. Irish President Michael D. Higgins and prime minister Leo Varadkar joined O'Connor's family at a private funeral service, state broadcaster RTE reported. "Sinead O'Connor was a very sensitive soul but was very strong for other like her," said Kelleher, 30, who moved to Dublin from New York with her husband Stephen last year.

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☆ Disney’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ rakes in $117 million at the US box office on opening weekend
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-29 | by ( David Goldman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Disney’s live-action movie “The Little Mermaid” brought in $117.5 million at the US box office in the fifth-best opening for Memorial Day weekend in history, according to Box Office Mojo. Despite the controversy, the movie was among the most successful films ever to debut on Memorial Day, Box Office Mojo reported. Last year’s “Top Gun Maverick” tops that list with $160 million at the US box office over the long holiday weekend. That came in a hair lower than “The Little Mermaid” with an opening weekend haul of $116.8 million. Including international ticket sales, “The Little Mermaid” brought in $185.8 million over the weekend.

☆ Disney still has plans to spend billions in Florida despite its battle with DeSantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Sarah Whitten | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Ron DeSantis, Disney remains committed to the state of Florida. Those figures have been repeated by CEO Bob Iger and parks chief Josh D'Amaro over the past few months, as tensions between Disney and Florida lawmakers have continued to ratchet up. Disney recently scrapped plans to open up a new employee campus in Lake Nona, Florida, citing "changing business conditions." "And this includes things like the transformation of Epcot," he explained. "It includes things like there's a new Star Tours attraction coming, we have a new Tiana attraction that's coming.

But because Moms for Liberty is working on such a local level, opponents have found plenty of opportunities to take action. “I just got back from forcibly re-closeting myself for 90 minutes to infiltrate a Moms for Liberty meeting. I want to go be a part of this.’”Darcy Schoening says her Colorado Springs chapter of Moms 4 Liberty has about 250 people in it. CNNThere were no confrontations at the Moms for Liberty meeting held in a Mexican restaurant in Colorado Springs. Schoening of Moms for Liberty explained why she viewed asking a child what pronouns they preferred was “indoctrinating” them into questioning their gender.

☆ A New Survey Erases Male Artists From the Western Canon
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-02 | by ( Tiana Reid | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

But although her index of names succeeds in providing some answer to the question posed in Linda Nochlin’s trailblazing 1971 essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?,” Hessel does less than Nochlin did, 50 years ago, to unsettle the terms of the question itself. Can inserting women into the art-historical canon interrupt the system of canonization itself? Why does Hessel rely on the same methods of archival organization — linear history, market-based tastes, distinct genre boundaries — that played a part in producing women’s very exclusion? How instead might the fact of women’s presence disrupt the presuppositions of art’s place in the world? An especially moving chapter, “The Body in Sculpture,” initiates an answer.

☆ A stranger hired me as her assistant so I could quit my day job and turn my photography side hustle into a full time business. Here's how I did it.
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-14 | by ( Alexandra York | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Tiana Duarte-Kargbo took her photography side hustle full time after a stranger offered her a job. Lean in to opportunitiesA photo from Tiana Michele Photo. Tiana Michele PhotoI always thought photography was fun but never took it too seriously. I was a dancer, but when COVID-19 hit, dance jobs became nonexistent and I was suffering from some serious injuries. Those jobs paid the bills until I was ready to take Tiana Michele Photo full time.

☆ How to become an Amazon influencer and how much the program pays
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Amanda Perelli | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Here's a breakdown of how to become an Amazon influencer and how much creators earn from the program. "We are looking to [influencers] to tell us what they want and what they need," Katie Scott, director of the Amazon Influencer Program, said of the program. Amazon's Influencer Program operates as an extension of its online Associates Program, the company's affiliate-marketing program for creators, publishers, and bloggers. Read more about becoming an Amazon influencer:How much does it pay to become an Amazon influencer? The Amazon Influencer Program will occasionally run limited time incentives around new projects, the company previously told Insider.

☆ Livestream shopping took China by storm. Now Amazon, TikTok and YouTube are betting the QVC-style pitches will take off in the U.S.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-14 | by ( Katie Tarasov | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Livestream shopping took China by storm over the past three years. In the U.S., TikTok, Amazon, Walmart , Shopify and YouTube are all getting in on the game. On Amazon Live, influencers pitch products live from the intimacy of their own homes. Tiana Young MorrisTiana Young Morris first went viral in 2020 for videos in which she tried on wigs and then reviewed them. Amazon continued its live-shopping investments with the launch of Amazon Live in India in September.

☆ Some passengers were 'crying' after an oven caught fire on their flight to South Africa
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-11 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An oven fire broke out on a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Johannesburg on Thursday. "There was a lot of crying," passenger Tiana Cline told Insider. "There was a lot of crying," Tiana Cline, who was on the flight, told Insider. Flight attendants told passengers seated at the back of the plane to move down the aisle to avoid inhaling the thick smoke coming from the oven, Cline said. One of the stewards emerged looking like a "chimney sweep" after being enveloped in thick smoke, she said.

☆ Disney World closed Splash Mountain after allegations of racism. Not everyone's happy.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Julianne Mcshane | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +4 min

Walt Disney World has closed its famous Splash Mountain water ride, the Magic Kingdom attraction that for years had been criticized for having racist roots. Goodbye, Splash Mountain,” read the caption of one video that had more than 1,300 likes Tuesday afternoon. The website for Tokyo Disneyland does not indicate if or when its Splash Mountain ride will close. A representative for Walt Disney World did not immediately respond to questions Tuesday. Splash Mountain is no stranger to controversy: In 2018, it made headlines when Walt Disney World banned a man who rode it while holding up a "Trump 2020" sign.

☆ I styled Anna Sorokin while she was on house arrest. She was way funnier than her 'Inventing Anna' character, and her taste in fashion and art is incredible.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Eboni Boykin-Patterson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

He styled Anna Sorokin for an interview from her home, where she is on house arrest. Anna Sorokin, or Anna Delvey, as she was known as in her scamming days, is different from the character on "Inventing Anna." At the time, I had watched only the first half of "Inventing Anna" — just bits and pieces here and there. When we got there, there was a whole glam team of makeup artists and hairstylists who got to work on Anna and Kenneth. Pop culture has the ability to make anyone into an entire brand, and Anna has pop culture's attention.

☆ Dwayne Johnson says running for president is ‘off the table’
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-07 | by ( Kelly Murray | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —Many were hoping Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson could be a potential rock for America, but instead, the beloved actor and businessman intends to be a rock for his daughters. A bid for president is “off the table,” Johnson told Tracey Smith with CBS News Sunday Morning. Dwayne Johnson poses during the black carpet for the "Black Adam" Fan Event at Museo Anahuacalli on October 03, 2022 in Mexico City. Hector Vivas/Getty Images South America/Getty ImagesAdmired the world over, one poll from 2021 found 58% of Americans would have liked to see Johnson as the next president of the United States. In the same poll, 58% said they would support actor Matthew McConaughey.

Shannon uploaded his kids' reaction to the trailer to Instagram in celebration of the new Black iteration of the classic princess movie. Like so many other Black children and parents, the LaNier's felt they were being seen when the new version of Ariel swam by with her red locks trailing behind her. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReuters spoke to Shannon, Chandra and their son Carter, 6, and daughters McKenzie, 9, and Madison, 11, about what having a Black Ariel means to them. McKenzie said she was happy that there's a Black mermaid because it's good for children to have a princess or prince that looks like them. "Seeing now how a princess can have their skin color and there's someone besides Princess Tiana and Princess Jasmine that represents them - it's a good thing for me," said their mother Chandra.

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