Mall officials said Monday that months of negotiations with United Media, which licenses and syndicates the "Peanuts" comic strip, ended without an agreement.
That means that as of Jan. 19, the mall's 7-acre indoor amusement park, the largest of its kind in the United States, will no longer be called Camp Snoopy. Mall officials said they are in negotiations with other brands.
The park's attractions include more than 30 rides, a giant inflatable Snoopy, a World War I biplane ride and shops that sell "Peanuts" merchandise. The strip's creator, Charles Schulz, was born and grew up in the Twin Cities.
"The amusement park and rides will remain open and we are preparing to move forward in a new direction with new opportunities," mall officials said in a statement.
Source : Forbes
The US evangelist angered the Israeli government when, a day after Ariel Sharon had suffered a huge stroke, he said the Israeli prime minister was experiencing divine retribution for the withdrawal of Israeli settlers from the Gaza Strip.
"He was dividing God's land, and I would say: 'Woe unto any prime minister of Israel who takes a similar course', he told viewers of his long-running television show. "God says: 'This land belongs to me, and you'd better leave it alone'."
Avi Hartuv, a spokesman for Israel's tourism minister, said officials were furious about the remarks.
"We will not do business with him - only with other evangelicals who don't back these comments," he said. "We will do business with other evangelical leaders, friends of Israel, but not with him."
Mr Robertson's theme park proposal put him at the head of group of evangelicals who pledged to raise $50m (£28.4m) to build the Christian Heritage Centre in Israel's northern Galilee region.
The 125 acre site the evangelicals wanted is close to key Christian sites such as Capernaum, the Mount of the Beatitudes and Tabgha, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, where the gospels say Jesus performed the miracle of the loaves and fish.
Under a tenative agreement, Mr Robertson's group was to put up the funding, with Israel to provide the land and infrastructure. Israeli officials believed the park presented a lucrative opportunity to attract an estimated one million pilgrims a year.
The tourism minister, Avraham Hirschson, is one of Mr Sharon's biggest supporters and was a founder of the prime minister's centrist Kadima party.
Mr Hartuv, his spokesman, left the door open to continuing the project with financial backers who repudiated Mr Robertson's statement.
"Those that publicly support Ariel Sharon's recovery ... are welcome to do business with us," he said. "We have to check this very, very carefully."
Mr Robertson - who has previously called on the US to assassinate the Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez - was criticised for his comments about Mr Sharon by other Christian leaders and the US president, George Bush.
The theme park project underlines the way in which ties between Israel and evangelical Christian groups that support the Jewish state have strengthened in recent years.
The US Christian right - best known for television evangelism and its stars such as Mr Robertson and Jerry Falwell - has been among the strongest supporters of Israel.
Not all Israelis welcomed the theme park project, with some fearing that the ultimate aim of the evangelicals was the conversion of the Jews to Christianity rather than support for Israel.
Fundamentalist Christians believe that in order for Jesus to return, two preconditions are Jewish control of the land of Israel and the conversion of the Jews to Christianity.
Source : The guardian
Dans le cadre de cet accord avec les Parcs et Villégiatures Walt Disney, les clients de CanJet peuvent maintenant acheter des billets de Disney en ligne au www.canjet.com, ce qui permettra les Parcs d'Amusements de Disney et autres divertissements d'être conçus en fonction de la durée de leurs vacances et les intérêts de leur groupe. Ils peuvent les apprécier pour moins par jour s'ils restent plus longtemps. Par exemple, un forfait de sept jours pour les parcs d'amusements est approximativement $30US par jour ou, moins que la moitié du prix d'un billet simple par jour ($63US par adulte, avant taxe). "Nous sommes enchantés de travailler avec CanJet pour fournir la Magie de Disney par le site Web pour les passagers canadiens," dit Marlie Morrison, Directrice du Marketing d'Industrie de Voyage et de Ventes, Parcs et Villégiatures Walt Disney Canada. "C'est un bon temps pour visiter les Parcs et Villégiatures de Walt Disney en Floride avec tout ce qui est nouveau pour la 'Célébration la Plus Heureuse sur Terre', où de nouvelles attractions ont été importées des parcs de Disney autour du monde."
Mme. Morrison a précisé que, dans le cadre de ce nouveau programme, une famille de quatre peut apprécier des vacances six-nuits/sept-jours au Monde de Disney comprenant un séjour à un hôtel Disney sur la propriété avec des billets pour les parcs d'amusements pour aussi peu que $1,500 US - moins que $1,775 en fonds canadiens. Elle a dit, "Les paiements doivent être effectués en devise américaine, la différence des fonds canadiens basée sur le taux de devises étrangères publié par la Banque du Canada à la fermeture du 4 janvier, 2006."
CanJet est une division du Groupe IMP Limitée, Halifax, Nouvelle-Ecosse, qui a été récemment choisie en tant qu'une des meilleures 50 compagnies principales au Canada pour la deuxième année et est une des plus grandes compagnies d'aviation et aérospatiale au Canada. La division de la ligne aérienne fournit des tarifs économiques, un service à plus de quinze (15) destinations au Canada et les Etats-Unis avec Boeing 737.
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