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Epoch Times
01-07-2025
- Health
- Epoch Times
Best Frugal Way to Tell Mosquitoes to Buzz Off
Let's talk about mosquitoes. Not the gentle, Disney-style ones with big eyes and a cartoon voice. I mean the real deal—those tiny vampires who think your backyard is an all-you-can-eat buffet and your ankles are the appetizer. I've tried it all. Citronella candles, bug zappers, garlic spray, and whatever essential oil blend my neighbor swears by. (Spoiler alert: It smells like feet and does absolutely nothing.) But one mosquito control trick actually works—and it's not fancy, high-tech, or expensive.
Time of India
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Prince William Under Fire To Modernise Monarchy: Disney-Style Ceremonies Face Backlash
IANS / Jun 25, 2025, 11:55AM IST Is Prince William about to break royal tradition in a way that shocks the monarchy? Sources close to the palace reveal whispers that the future king is being urged to scrap the age-old, extravagant coronation ceremony, a ritual critics are calling "Disney-style pageantry." With rising public scrutiny over monarchy spending and a shifting cultural tide, insiders suggest William may lean toward a modern, minimalist coronation that distances itself from opulent displays like the billion-dollar crown and historic regalia.
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Business Standard
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Standard
Disney to open new tech-centric theme park in Abu Dhabi, 1st in West Asia
Disney has announced plans to build a new theme park in Abu Dhabi, expanding its business in West Asia. This will be the seventh Disney resort in the world. The new Disney theme park will be "tech-centric". It will be built in partnership with Miral, a company in Abu Dhabi known for building immersive destinations. The park will be located on Yas Island, a popular tourist spot in Abu Dhabi. Disney Abu Dhabi resort details The park does not have an official name yet. However, it will include Disney-style entertainment, themed hotels, special restaurants, shops, and lots of storytelling. It will also try to blend both Disney's history and Abu Dhabi's culture. 'The waterfront resort will be located on Yas Island, a world-class destination for entertainment and leisure, connecting travellers from West Asia and Africa, India, Asia, Europe and beyond. This seventh Disney theme park resort will combine Disney's iconic stories, characters and attractions with Abu Dhabi's vibrant culture, stunning shorelines and breathtaking architecture,' Disney's press release said. 'Abu Dhabi is a place where heritage meets innovation, where we preserve our past while designing the future,' Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, chairman at Miral, said. The new resort will be fully built and developed by Miral, the company behind several family attractions on Yas Island. Disney and 'imagineers' will handle the creative design and oversee the operations to ensure a good experience. Once complete, Miral will operate the resort, continuing its partnerships with top US and European entertainment brands. Disney CEO Bob Iger said, 'This is a thrilling moment for our company as we announce plans to build an exciting Disney theme park resort in Abu Dhabi.' 'As our seventh theme park destination, it will rise from this land in spectacular fashion, blending contemporary architecture with cutting-edge technology to offer guests deeply immersive entertainment experiences in unique and modern ways,' he added. Disney has not announced the opening date yet.
CairoScene
07-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CairoScene
A Disney Theme Park & Resort Is Coming to Abu Dhabi
The first of its kind in the Middle East, the new Disney theme park and resort will join Ferrari World, Warner Bros. World, and SeaWorld on Yas Island. Yup, it's official—Disney is setting up camp in Abu Dhabi. The Walt Disney Company is teaming up with Miral, the developers behind Yas Island's blockbuster attractions, to bring a brand-new Disney theme park and resort to the UAE capital. Set along the sparkling shoreline of Yas Island—already home to Ferrari World, Warner Bros. World, and SeaWorld—the upcoming Disney resort will mark the brand's first-ever theme park in the Middle East and its seventh destination worldwide. Think of it as the magical missing puzzle piece in one of the world's most entertainment-packed islands. So, what's coming? While exact details are still under wraps (we're crossing our fingers for Aladdin's Agrabah in real life), the resort is expected to include classic Disney-style rides, immersive lands, themed hotels, and experiences where you might just run into Elsa, Buzz Lightyear, or even Moana by the water's edge. And yes—Mickey and Minnie are on the guest list. Imagineers (Disney's legendary creative wizards) will be working hand in hand with Miral to bring the dream to life, blending beloved Disney storytelling with Abu Dhabi's futuristic skyline and deep cultural heritage. No opening date has been confirmed yet, but one thing's for sure: Disney in Abu Dhabi is no longer a fantasy.
Daily Mirror
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mirror
Ross Kemp's horror over relative who 'threatened to cut off mum's head with kitchen knife'
Actor Ross Kemp makes the grim discovery about his great grandfather's older brother in the latest instalment of Who Do You Think You Are? on BBC1 EastEnders hard man Ross Kemp tells of his sadness over the 'dreadful' discovery his great uncle was a violent alcoholic who was blacklisted from British pubs - and never spoken about by his family. For BBC1 's Who Do You Think You Are? the actor turned TV presenter finds that Albert Chalmers was brought up in a Portsmouth pub alongside his ten siblings, who included Ross's great grandfather Arthur, nicknamed Pop. He imagines that the family might have had a 'Disney-style' existence, perhaps similar to his alter ego Grant Mitchell, who spent most of his time in The Queen Vic alongside his mother Peggy, played by the late Barbara Windsor. But while Ross's great grandfather Arthur was nicknamed Pop after Popeye, because of his successful life on the high seas, his great uncle Albert's time in the navy didn't end well after he was discharged. The actor discovers he spent years gathering court charges for being drunk and violent, with one report revealing he threatened to decapitate his own mother. Reading from the story in the local paper at the time, Ross says: 'It was alleged he threatened to cut his mother's head off, and everyone else in the house, at the same time chasing after her with a table knife.' Calling him "a bit of a wrong 'un", Ross learns that his behaviour not only led to several spells in prison, but also to him being barred from every pub in the land after he was named on the 'blacklist' of the 1902 Licensing Act. The 60-year-old dad of four says that the story relates to his long-running role in EastEnders. 'It doesn't matter whether I'm in Afghanistan or Columbia, I'm always going to be Grant Mitchell in a leather jacket going 'get outta my pub!' 'One story in the family, which I think has been very conveniently forgotten, is about Pop's brother, my great uncle Albert, who was a bad man. A blacklister.' After learning more about his ancestor he ends up feeling some sympathy for Albert, who was sent to the Inebriate Reformatory for three years to try and cure his out-of-control drinking. The facility, contained within a prison in Warwick, aimed to reform inmates with no medical treatment other than denying them access to booze. It didn't work and, just one year into his term in 1914, Albert was moved to a psychiatric hospital back in Portsmouth, at the age of 31. Ross, who has made award-winning documentaries, says the same problems are still commonplace today. 'Having been to prisons in the UK recently, I see mental health issues and I see people with addiction issues. It's dreadful to think that in four generations, very little has changed,' he says sadly. Looking at a photograph of his troubled ancestor, he adds: 'I feel very sorry for him. I look at the picture and think 'there was a life there'. And he wasn't remembered by anyone, even by his own brother. My great grandfather never mentioned him to his daughters and it was definitely not handed down to my mum and certainly wasn't handed down to me. 'Albert's life was never really mentioned in the family history. This is not what I was expecting. I thought they all lived in the pub and it was all slightly Disney. The reality is my great uncle was an alcoholic with mental health issues and there is nothing romantic or sweet or sugar-coated about that.' Ross says he can relate to both Pop, born in 1892, and older brother Albert, born a decade earlier, being in the Navy because he has always loved the sea. Brought up by his detective dad John and hairdresser mum Jean in Essex, Ross said that he and his brother Darren were taken on many trips around Europe in the early 1970s before it became popular. 'We travelled at an early age when a lot of people weren't doing that. I've always loved being in water. I strongly suspect that there is a connection to the ocean and to travel is in my DNA,' he says, before setting out on his journey of discovery. In the programme he learns that his maternal great grandfather Pop transferred from the merchant navy to become an ordinary seaman at the start of WWI, quickly rising to become a quartermaster by the age of 22. When the actor wonders if there is any truth to the family story that he was later shipwrecked, he finds out that in 1943 Pop's troop carrier, the Duchess of York, was bombed while en route to Algeria, 300 miles off the coast of Portugal. Dozens of men lost their lives when the ship sank, but Pop was one of the lucky ones, rescued and taken to the Allied-controlled port of Casablanca 700 miles away. Ross, who is a qualified diver, becomes tearful as he imagines what his ancestor went through that day, saying: "I've been on my own in the water for a period of time and it's frightening – you start to hallucinate. I've been lost at sea twice when I was diving - of course, it's nothing like what Pop would have gone through, with the horrors of oil in the water, flames, and dead men floating around you.'
