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Felton Friends of Locally Owned Water, a grassroots organization that fights to gain public control of the town's water system, has put itself on the map when it comes to fighting privately owned corporation California American Water Co.
Over the past year, stories about Felton's water fight have been featured in local media and in an entire chapter of the book, "Thirst: Fighting the Corporate Theft of Our Water," published in March.
The small-town fight for water resounds far beyond its borders, especially when reports such as the International Water Management Institute's projection of global water scarcity are released.
In a special issue on water privatization, Fortune magazine predicted that water promises to be one of the world's greatest business opportunities and will be to the 21st century what oil was to the 20th: "The precious commodity that determines the wealth of nations."
Since the 1990s, there has been an increase in the purchasing of publicly owned water systems by private companies, sparking the philosophical question: Is water a human right or a for-profit commodity?
Jim Mosher, director of the legal team for Felton Friends of Locally Owned Water, makes notes in front of the gate to Cal-Am's Orchard Road tank. Lucjan Szewczyk/Press-Banner
Most of Santa Cruz County's water is publicly owned. Why is it different for Felton? Felton has had a long history of private ownership dating back to the 1800s and hadn't paid much attention to it until recently. In January 2002, Citizen Utilities Co. of California, owner of Felton's water system, sold to Cal-Am.
Cal-Am is owned by American Water Works, which is owned by Thames Water Aqua Holdings, a subsidiary of multinational RWE Aktiengesellschaft of Germany. RWE is one of the largest for-profit water providers in the world.
A few months after purchasing Felton's water system, Cal-Am wrote a letter to California's Water Resources Control Board that stated: "At this time, we are anticipating an increased demand for water in the future. We have a new business locating to the Felton area that will require between 200-300 acre/feet annually to meet its water requirements."
Several Felton residents became alarmed over the "new business" referred to in the letter.
"To put this in perspective," said Jim Graham of FLOW, "the entire Felton customer base consumed only 422 acre-feet of water in 2001. An acre-foot contains 325,851 gallons. Some 200 to 300 acre-feet per year is equivalent to 65,170,200 to 97,755,300 gallons, or 178,548 to 267,822 gallons per day. What business could possibly require this much water?"
Some Felton residents wondered if a bottling company was coming to Felton, because the area generally has a surplus of water, making it a water gold mine. Evan Jacobs, community-relations manager of Cal-Am, said he doesn't know what business the letter was referring to in 2002 but asserts that "California American Water does not, nor has it ever, intend to bottle water from Felton or the Santa Cruz Mountains."
Additional concerns were sparked over a 74 percent rate hike, and several Felton residents got together to fight for public ownership of Felton water under the name of FLOW.
Jacobs said such rate increases are normal: "Water rates have increased throughout the county, from Davenport to Soquel Creek to the city of Santa Cruz to Scotts Valley to San Lorenzo Valley Water District. Every district has different rates because the cost of service is different in each area, as are the funding mechanisms."
"The Public Utilities Commission rate-setting process is an open-book process that matches rates with cost of service. Our costs and expenditures are reviewed by accountants, engineers and other experts to ensure that the rates charged are fair and just," he added. "We are one of the only water utilities in Santa Cruz County that has a payment assistance program for seniors and families that are struggling financially."
Despite the prospect of an increase in property taxes of $600 a year for as many as 30 years, Felton voters in July 2003 passed measure W. It allocates $11 million for SLV Water District to purchase the Felton system from Cal-Am.
However, Cal-Am has so far refused to sell. "Cal-Am does not plan to sell because we feel we are doing a good job," Jacobs said.
Not everybody agrees. Barbara Sprenger of FLOW said she believes that a publicly owned system could provide better water service for less money.
"When Cal-Am took over Felton's water system, they increased rates to the point that we pay twice as much for water as our neighbors in SLVWD," she noted. "Service has gotten much worse since Cal-Am took over. Our calls are now answered in Indiana rather than locally, and repairs are frequently delayed or handled from Monterey."
"We're paying for the high salaries of layers of non-local management in Monterey, Chula Vista, New Jersey and Essen, Germany," she said.
"It will actually work out to be cheaper in the long run to purchase our water system than to pay Cal-Am's high rates. Most of Santa Cruz county water systems are publicly owned and are running more efficiently, openly and cost-effectively than Felton's water system. There is no good reason for our water to be owned by a distant corporation."
Because Felton residents are eager to purchase, and Cal-Am is not selling, the fight has erupted into legal battles.
In early 2007, RWE announced that it wanted to sell off American Water in an initial public offering of stock, a move required approval from the Public Utilities Commission and its counterparts in other states.
Felton citizens wanted the PUC to force Cal-Am to sell its Felton portion to the water district. On May 3, the PUC approved the public offering without requiring that Felton waterworks be sold separately first.
Asked why the PUC didn't require Cal-Am to sell Felton, commission spokeswoman Susan Carothers said, "the issue is not under the jurisdiction of the PUC and must be settled by the courts."
Despite setbacks from the PUC, Felton citizens are still trying to acquire Felton water through another strategy: eminent domain. Jim Mosher, coordinator of FLOW's legal team, said, "the SLV Water District filed an eminent domain lawsuit against Cal-Am. On May 9, Judge Paul Burdick denied Cal-Am's request for a change of venue, to move the lawsuit out of Santa Cruz County. On June 21, Cal Am contested Judge Burdick's ruling."
Betsy Herbert, the water district's environmental analyst, said the district is waiting to hear whether the appeals court will dismiss Cal-Am's appeal of Burdick's ruling on the change of venue or hear arguments in court.
If the venue stays in Santa Cruz County, the right-to-take trial will be Jan. 14 in Santa Cruz County Superior Court. Should the water district prevail in that trial, a jury trial would follow the next month to decide the fair market value of the Felton system.


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If the Industrial Revolution did not begin in Western Europe, could it have or would it have began somewhere else?
I read "Guns Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond and it really made me think. He said once "If another continent was blessed with environment and resources like Europeans, than they would have built skyscrapers and Helicopters" or something to that effect. I dont want this to turn into a racial/cultural debate by any means. I am merely asking if Technology was inevitable? I believe Diamond was correct in much of his assumptions he made in his book, but i do believe he was being overly deterministic? Anyway, is modern society just a fluke? What would have happened if the Industrial Revolution did not begin when it did?
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Apr 17 2013: It would have i think most inventions are a result of us and the world we live in and id go even further and say that even scientific discoveries can be seen as direct result of shifting worldviews in the world, the persons immaterial because of the process we describe with "the time has come" "the time is ready" this becomes fairly obvious when you check history and see how often a discovery was made by 2 persons (independant of each other) within a timeframe of a few months.
In the end the process of discovery is not centered on people but on groups of people (a country, a cultural group) where many many individuals fail, or go ahead trying to find a way and fail. The person making the discovery reaching the goal is simply the one having learned from others mistakes and putting together the indivdual puzzle pieces (maybe there will be some exceptions).
From this point of view its also immaterial to discuss what would have happend if an invention hadnt been made in europe as youd have to change the whole flow of history and culture inorder to create a sound world in which said discovery couldnt have been made.
The importance of culture become even more obvious as they found out that in ancient egypt there was an inventor who had allready discovered steampower however it wasnt used for anything else then small gimmicks/toys, its potential just couldnt be realized in said culture.
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Total words written for week of August 5th, 2013: 7437Writing streak: 46 days
Total words written during streak: 39409
Average daily wordcount for the week: 1062
Average daily wordcount for the streak: 866
Short post this week as I started my new job today and it's wiped me out a bit. It also isn't a job where I can write when it gets slow unlike my last job (goodbye Lawn Care Express and thank you for hiring me when I desperately needed a job), so my writing time is going to be heavily weighed toward writing. You'll see less of me on the blog and on Twitter, although I still will post here at least once a week and on Twitter a few times a day, mostly in the evenings.
Anyway, the words. I had a huge week, averaging over a thousand words a day and smashing my self-imposed 7000 word goal for the week. I'm aiming for another 7000 word week this week.
On the novel front, I have no idea how many words total I have, but I know it's well over 10000 by this point. I'm enjoying the words a lot and the story makes me want to write everyday. Most importantly, I believe this is a novel I will be able to hammer-edit into something shiny and fun to look at. I'll update you more on Mecha Fighting Academy Novel when I can.
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I'm really sorry about the delay.
"You stayed."
"You, the prefect, decided to stay out all night. On a school night."
"Yes, now Der, can you please—just please—shut up."
Logan, exhausted, dropped his head into his hands again. Still thinking over what had happened the night before, the parts he could understand anyway.
Julian was either a genius for being able to mess around with his head so easily or the most idiotic drunk in the world.
Logan had not been staring at Julian.
He hadn't.
Most certainly not.
So when Julian had drunkenly asked him something, he was thinking perfectly clearly while staring at the exposed tan skin and the sharp V of his hips, he just wasn't…
Why on Earth had he gone to the gas station in the first place?
Julian hadn't wanted him to come.
He could've just…never seen him again.
Found another distraction.
And then Julian was yelling at him.
Logan was pulled out of his thoughts. Julian had curled up into a fetal position on the dusty old couch, the lollipop back in his mouth as he looked dramatically upset.
Ramirez was yelling from the garage and Logan was growing angrier, fighting against it. He couldn't blow up here, not here.
He had a promise to keep.
To Kurt.
He closed his eyes for a brief moment, taking a deep breath.
He could not break that promise.
"Alright Julian," He popped open the first aid kit sitting on the table before kneeling next to the sofa. "Give me your hand."
"G' away."
"I need to clean it."
Logan's already almost nonexistent patience was running thin as Julian continued to ignore him.
"'Lright, alright, you need to keep it in your pants Lolo."
Logan felt an odd strangled noise emit from the back of his throat as Julian turned around to face him, still lying on his side, and a devious look in his eyes. "What are-"
Julian all but pulled Logan on top of him, quickly pinning the stunned blond underneath him and slipping the lollipop between his lips as his hand brushed his hips. Quickly slipping under his waistband as his lips went to his neck.
His soft lips planted a kiss on his neck, working a trail up to his ear as he nibbled his earlobe and earned a quiet gasp from the blond beneath him.
He slowly started to stroke him, simultaneously pulling his pants down further with his bloody hand.
What surprised Logan the most wasn't the feeling of him pressed flush against him as Julian trapped him beneath him, or the fact that he had his hand around him and-dear God-he knew what he was doing.
It was that he didn't want this to happen. Well, not at this moment.
It was strange because for once Logan was actually going to listen to whatever little voice he had in the back of his head.
Even though he felt like he couldn't get enough of Julian's lips on his skin, he was drunk and Logan was not one to take advantage of that.
It was not specifically Julian—that's what he told himself.
Logan, pulled out of his stunned haze at the feeling of dry blood against his skin, snatched Julian's wrist and pulled his hand away. Sitting up, Julian fell back against the couch as Logan reached for the rubbing alcohol.
He calmly twisted Julian's wrist and started to clean the blood away, his cheeks tinted slightly with blush as he glared at him.
"What is it with you?"
He drunkenly attempted to push Logan away, or pull his wrist away before groaning in annoyance and sprawling back on the couch. Digging in between the cushions, he replied calmly.
"I'm not nearly drunk enough."
Pulling a bottle of rum out, Logan instantly plucked it out of his hands and set it on the table. Changing his mind, he took a quick sip before returning to the task at hand.
What ever heated or sparked air that they previously shared disappeared as Julian gave up and stared at his lap as Logan' continued to clean his hand, avoiding each others' eyes and sitting in silence.
Logan absentmindedly wrapped the gauze around Julian's knuckles; he'd had plenty of experience with bandaging himself when he was at home and Derek wasn't there to help.
He couldn't help but let his thoughts slowly stray towards Kurt.
Would he ever be able to comfort him or patch him up like this?
…Logan was always the one that needed to be pulled back together…
Automatically kneeling in front of him and brushing his hair off his forehead to clean the gash near his hairline, ignoring the incredulous gaze that Julian gave him.
Logan was hardly paying attention to what was going on, half lost in his thoughts and using the rest of his attention to clean the gash.
He didn't notice when he stroked his thumb comfortingly across Julian's jaw, cleaning the cut and turning his attention to the one on his cheek.
Could he ever accept the fact that Kurt would never look at him like that?
His hand jerked and Julian hissed quietly as he pressed down on a bruise.
Logan saw the garage again and he mumbled. "Sorry."
"Did your highness actually apologize?"
Julian pushed his hand away, rolling his eyes as he sunk like rock onto the sofa—if rocks groaned and complained about drinking too much.
Holding up an aspirin and bottle of water, Logan sat on the edge of the couch and glanced at the clock.
"Go ahead; go back to that little school of yours."
Julian had his arm thrown over his face as he said this, as if he were used to people just walking out on him.
Logan stood up, making sure that he could hear his footsteps as he walked away before turning around and watching Julian carefully.
This wasn't the plan.
This most definitely was not going according to plan.
He should be halfway out to the car by now, trying to find another way to get over Kurt.
Why wouldn't his feet move?
Julian kept his eyes covered as he turned to face the couch, his back to Logan as he curled up.
Logan tilted his head at the sight.
Why did he feel the need to hide and shield himself from him?
The familiar stranger who he constantly ran into at the most convenient times.
He barely knew him; actually, he really didn't know him.
Whoever you want me to be.
That was the appeal of meeting someone you didn't know, and never really getting to know them.
They turned you into whomever or whatever they needed and he did the same.
…Yeah, Julian was far too…
-interesting for Logan to simply leave.
He grabbed the blanket on the table and quietly lay down next to him, throwing the blanket over him and pulling him close.
Logan himself could barely believe he was doing this, but he couldn't just walk out the door without knowing.
Julian elbowed him tiredly, "I thought I told you to leave."
He snorted and kept his arms loose around him as he spoke to the back of his neck. "Obviously, I didn't listen."
"Don't you ever do what you're told?"
"Nope, it's my birthright."
He could hear Julian's scowl as he unsuccessfully tried to shift away from him, muttering under his breath, "Fucking politicians."
Logan sighed and settled into the soft cushions. "We did have a date, you know."
He wanted to go back to Dalton.
He wanted to stay here.
Why did he want to stay here, damn it.
"Did you get into a fight or something?"
The silence that answered didn't deter him.
"Look, if you need-"
"I don't need anything from you."
Logan almost wished that Julian was back to that crazy guy he was back outside, when he was still enjoying his buzz and insane enough to drive Logan to nearly explode.
What is it with this guy?
He seemed to be asking a lot of questions like that lately.
As he was about to ask again, Julian spoke.
"I hate being little spoon."
Logan blinked in surprise at Julian's offhand comment as he visibly relaxed in his arms.
In his arms…
It only seemed to hit Logan how…fluffy this was.
Personal, almost.
He didn't know whether the sudden jump of his heart to his throat was a good thing or a bad thing.
"Is there any possibility that you have an iPod on your person? I sleep better with music."
Julian was already starting to drift off and Logan shook his head as he looked around the room for a radio.
Without turning around, Julian pulled the blanket tighter around him.
"Don't bother, Ramirez doesn't have one."
Giving a discontented sigh, Julian suddenly moved closer to Logan, his back pressing against his chest.
Logan opened his mouth then closed it, contemplating the sudden idea that popped into his head.
Which was idiotic.
And sappy.
And something he would only did for Blaine.
He grimaced at the painful memory before turning his attention back to boy in his arms, who for some peculiar reason managed to get Logan to actually care. Taking a deep breath and turning his lips to brush them against the back of his neck before quietly whispering.
I heard there was a secret chord
That David played and it pleased the lord,
But you don't really care for music, do you?
Well it goes like this; the fourth, the fifth,
The minor fall and the major lift
And the baffled king composed his hallelujah.
Logan ran his fingers through his hair as he stared at the cup of coffee on the table in front of him.
He had ended up singing them both to sleep, and then woken up in the Derek's car in the parking lot at Dalton.
Well…as dates go-in my case…it could've been worse.
No note or anything.
Logan could take a hint.
He was practically scolding himself, and for what?
It was his own imagination that let the idea run away with him that maybe Julian could distract him. He didn't actually believe that.
He groaned as his thoughts flurried and it stopped making sense at all.
He did not care like that.
He cared because there was a guy-who he was previously going to take out to dinner-who was beat up for God knows what reason and Logan's conscience decided to start screaming and fighting before he walk out.
So why did you sing him to sleep, why did you fall asleep next to him?
Frowning as he felt a tug in his gut he quickly took his pills that he had forgotten were sitting in the palm of his hand before flipping the TV on.
Sitting back with his notes and coffee, he loosened his tie before taking a sip.
Some idiot had left the TV on one of those tacky gossip shows, spewing exaggerations about celebrities that no one cared about anymore.
Must've been Cy.
Rolling his eyes, his annoyance was already simmering down as the medicine worked its way into his bloodstream. He searched for the remote, ready to turn change the channel before the busty blonde woman on screen started talking.
It was a panel called 'Where are they now?'
Celebrities that either disappeared from the showbiz or simply quit.
"That wasn't…."
Logan quickly turned up the volume, taking another sip of coffee and staring at the screen intently.
He hadn't even really seen anything, but there was no harm in double checking.
Unless another Stuart decided to walk in and see what he was watching.
"….Dolce Larson and Travis Armstrong, where are they now? Dolce is apparently working in Africa with non-profit organizations and who knows where the has-been director is? After his string of flops, his son and he just dropped of the map…"
Logan spat out his coffee as a family picture came on screen.
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|64o 6.00' West 64o 46.00' South
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|40 ha
|0 - 48m
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Site description Litchfield Island lies less than a kilometer to the south of Norsel Point, Anvers Island, at the western extent of Arthur Harbour. The IBA is defined by the boundary of Antarctic Specially Protected Area No. 113 Litchfield Island, which was designated to protect an unusually rich and diverse terrestrial habitat, with a wide range of wildlife (ASPA No. 113 Management Plan, 2009).
The geology of Litchfield Island comprises tonalites, granites and other volcanics (ASPA No. 113 Management Plan, 2009). Relief is varied with numerous low summits, the highest of which is 48 m, and there are several small ponds on the island. In the 1960s, one finest examples of maritime Antarctic vegetation existed on Litchfield Island, including an extensive moss carpet dominated by Warnstorfia laculosa, and several areas covered by Polytrichum strictum and Chorisodontium aciphyllum (ASPA No. 113 Management Plan, 2009). By 2001, Antarctic Fur Seals (Arctocephalus gazella) had severely reduced the abundance and variety of vegetation on Litchfield Island's lower slopes. However, on higher slopes, vegetation remains intact and recent declines in the population of Antarctic Fur Seals may be facilitating regrowth of vegetation on previously damaged slopes (W. Fraser, pers. comm, 2009). Other species described on Litchfield Island include the two species of flowering plants found in Antarctica: Deschampsia Antarctica and Colobanthus quitensis.
The nearest scientific station is Palmer (US), ~1.5 km to the east. See Ant012 for more information on Palmer Station and local climate.
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Other biodiversity Antarctic Fur Seals (Arctocephalus gazella) commonly haul out on Litchfield Island from February onwards each year, although numbers have reportedly decreased in the Arthur Harbour area in recent years (Siniff et al. 2008). Elephant Seals (Mirounga leonina) haul out along the shoreline of Litchfield Island for much of the year and Weddell Seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) are also occasionally observed. Crabeater Seals (Lobodon carcinophaga) and Leopard Seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) are regularly observed on ice floes near the IBA (ASPA No. 113 Management Plan, 2009). See Ant 012 for information on other species observed nearby.
Protection status ASPA No.113
References ASPA No. 113 Litchfield Island: Management Plan; ASMA No. 7 Palmer Basin and Southwest Anvers Island: Management Plan (2008); Palmer LTER project URL: http://pal.lternet.edu/, accessed: 04/08/2010.
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Robert's right. It hasn't been marketed particularly well and if the media boys perpetuate any confusion over it's place, content and scale then there could be trouble ahead.
How absurd would it be if what should have been an exciting event ends up as a disappointment. Not because of what it actually is but because of the expectation of it being anything more.
Perhaps the PR boys just got a little too excited and got ahead of themselves. It's easily done with something of this magnitude. Universal have done well to complete this project in such a good time scale and they deserve all the plaudits for that. Don't spoil the ship for an Ha'peth of tar. Promote it sensibly and WWOHP will be an unmitigated success.
The only thing that would hamper this project from a PR standpoint would be if it had opening delays -- a la RR&R. But I suspect Universal has learned its lesson and is confident that it will be ready to go.
Can you imagine someone who has never been to Universal stumbling on to Spider-Man for the very first time? Wow...I wish every time could be like the first time! Uh, when riding theme park attractions, I mean. ;)
I'll concede that a story on Universal in Florida is a minor blip on the radar compared to all the other news around the world and that maybe it doesn't merit the extra 5 minutes to a large media outlet. I'm just saying that if you are going to report it, please be as completely informative and factual as you can.
edit: I agree with TH that I don't think it will have a huge impact on visit planning and all that stuff. People trip planning to Universal will likely get info about Harry Potter and Universal from their website or a site like this one. Something like this is just a small example of a problem with the media. Half and 3/4 truths are becoming commonplace within our news.
Think about Star Wars weekends. They are among the best attended weekends at DHS. What's special about them? Star Tours is open. Ah, but it's open all the time. There's walkaround characters. And a few extra trivia shows and behind the scenes previews. And the stars. The people behind the masks if you will. All in all, not that much of a change to the park's overall makeup. But why do people attend? They love the world of Star Wars and want to be a part of it. They want the stormtroopers wandering around as if they live there. They want to wear their Jedi robes and look normal. They love the Ewok trying to steal their stroller. Sure, they love to meet the celebrities too. But I wager a bet the main reason they go is to be part of the all-inclusive Star Wars galaxy that DHS turns into several weekends a year.
THAT is why Harry Potter will be a success at IOA. Not because the ride is spectacular (I have it on the best authority it will be) or there's a great roller coaster (DD is a great coaster and will continue to be). And not because a future attraction or show is state of the art either. People will come to BE a student at Hogwarts. Even for just a couple of hours.
The issue is that I do not think the press in some outlets were not clear on what exactly was going on. Sorry to all you press people out there, but sometimes they get it wrong or misunderstand a quote and turn a story in a way that is not completly true.
Then again, Robert has a point. Many people do not really research what they are getting into when going to the Orlando Area. Many assume that Dora, Sesame Street, Shrek, and Madagascar are in Disney World so a new park would not be far fetched for them. Also, we gotta rememebr for the people who are not of this site, most do not even know what Universal Orlando or Disney World actually physically look like. It would be close to impossible for Universal to open another Gate at this point.
So yeah, people just read headlines sometimes and there will be people no matter what you tell them will think its a whole new park, but Universal can clarify it quickly. Though I wonder, if the headlines were Universal's exact words? (Conspiracy Theory anyone??)
I'm writing about the millions of other visitors - the schlubs who arrive at the park at 11am, without having bought tickets. Who think that Epcot is part of the Magic Kingdom. Or that Universal is part of Disney World. The people who ask "What time is the three o'clock parade?" The folks who get a FastPass with a return time three hours from now... and dutifully avoid riding any other rides until then. In short, the clueless masses forming the crowds that we who go online do the research to avoid.
Those people, whose money nevertheless makes the theme parks we love possible.
All they know about WWOHP is what they've seen in the headlines from USA Today and EW. I don't doubt that many, if not most, of them will be very pleased once they get to IOA.
But a few thousand - heck, even a few hundred - visitors in those first weeks feeling that they've been short-changed by not getting an entire theme park could be enough to create a PR backlash against the project. (And, trust me, there will be some Disney loyalists online egging them on, hyping the complaints in the misguided belief that anything anti-Universal must somehow help Disney.)
Why take this risk? Why continue to use misleading verbiage to describe this exciting project? Why not get in front of the public message with an aggressive ad campaign that promotes the IOA brand?
Here's another suggested pitch: "Why wait for three years for a new Fantasyland when you can see Harry Potter at Universal's Islands of Adventure this summer?"
Get aggressive, Universal. Don't let uniformed copy editors at places like USA Today and EW define this project for you.
I can easily imagine this will be a recurring issue for Customer Service, but nothing they can't handle with years of practice dealing with that FAQ.
And Rob is right too. The place is going to be swarmed and suck the money out of families, but then again, thats the point I would see! Its like the outlandish lines for Fantasmic, still after all these years. Though, I wouldn't mind a wand myself :)
That being said, Universal does have a PR problem, and that's Rockit. Any announced opening date for WWHP is going to be deemed a lie based on the problems with getting Rockit opened this year. WWHP is right on track for a spring opening like they say, but convincing the masses, and especially convincing the bloggers and press, is going to be very difficult. If I were UO, I would be pushing the marketing department to really stress that the dates are in fact legitimate. I would be constantly doing interviews and belaying fears. I would set a grand opening date in stone (and make it an achievable one) and put so much stock in having to meet that goal that naysayers can't argue that it's false. That's the real PR hurdle; not worrying about whether the average guest thinks a "park within a park" means a whole separate entity or just a totally emmersive interactive experience.
They didn't say 'Wizarding World of Harry Potter' will be a new theme park, but that it will be a new theme park area.
But you do raise some interesting questions. I'm eager to see how Universal handles this.
Universal would absolutely LOVE to have that particular problem! ;)
We often write for a tiny audience in reality, even though so many people supposedly read us.
I used to work in Washington DC at the US Capitol Building and I can't count the number of times I was asked by people ,that were from America and would come right up to me in front of the Capitol Building, where the Capitol Building was. I was sometimes even asked which room the President lived in.
However, I think this could actually help Universal, assuming tourists are smart, which can be a stretch ;) because people will see the headline "Harry Potter Theme Park" and be more apt to read the article then if it read "New Harry Potter Land within IOA" and once they read the article, if they plan to vacation there, they will do the research and realize it is just a land in IOA before showing up bewildered at the gates.
And even if it were just a ride, I still think Harry Potter faithful would flock to Universal for it...I know if they were to build a new ride based on Indiana Jones or the Pirates movies, I would be on a plane to that park ASAP


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