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International Polar Bear Conservation Centre Opens Today in Winnipeg

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PROJECT FIRST PHASE OF $26 MILLION JOURNEY TO CHURCHILL THEMED EXPERIENCE, DESIGNED BY THEA AND AZA AWARD WINNER PORTICO GROUP

Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (January 23, 2012) — The International Polar Bear Conservation Centre, which will care for orphaned, injured, and problem polar bears, opens today at Assiniboine Park Zoo.  The modern new facility is a key component of the new Journey to Churchill exhibit currently under construction at the Zoo as part of the Assiniboine Park Conservancy’s overall $200 million redevelopment plan.

Journey to Churchill, designed by Portico Group, is one of the most comprehensive projects ever undertaken in Canada aimed at issues related to climate change, polar bears and other northern species.  This fully integrated initiative combines elements focused on research conservation, education and public display to provide a venue that will bring the North to mainstream Canadians while bridging the gap between field research, the conservation world and the general public.

When complete, Journey to Churchill will feature polar bears – as well as other species – in three distinctive zones along the fascinating 10-acre route.  In each zone, visitors will experience a variety of landscapes and animal viewing areas.  Interpretive signage, interactive displays, and audio-visual components will reinforce the messages of biodiversity, climate change and conservation.  The Zoo describes each zone in the exhibit as follows:

Zone One: Wapusk Lowlands
Visitors head from the prairies through the boreal forest, where they will see moose, black bears, whooping cranes and gray wolves, and head north to the expanse of the tundra.  With the sound of the wind in their ears, they round a corner and see the snowy owls, while caribou stand alert on a hill behind them.  To their left, arctic foxes play in the grasslands while musk ox graze on the rise above and higher still, the first glimpse of the mighty polar bear.  With no visible barriers between the species, visitors will experience the vastness of the tundra.  Interpretive content will describe the age, scale, fragility, and beauty of the tunda and the many species that depend on it. 

Zone Two: Gateway to the Arctic
The Gateway to the Arctic will be a primary viewing point for polar bears and ringed seals.  Interpretive media helps visitors learn about physiological adaptations to life on and under the sea ice.  From inside a 10 foot wide acrylic tunnel, visitors will be provided the rare opportunity to view these creatures from below the surface of the water.  The large swimming area provides physical exercise and a place to frolic and dart between the ice chunks.  With only a clear wall bisecting the two species habitats, the polar bears and seals see and smell each other, creating a dynamic and enriching environment.  This interaction between the seals and polar bears will be part of what puts this exhibit at the forefront of arctic zoo experiences.

The domed Aurora Borealis Theatre will be a place of wonder and awe.  With the play of the northern lights above and the encircling wall projecting a 360 degree horizon, visitors will appear to stand in a vast expanse of Arctic landscape.  Through a short film, they watch the Arctic’s seasonal beauty unfold and learn about the people, plants and animals that live in Canada’s northland.  After hours, the theatre becomes a dramatic backdrop for storytelling or concerts.

Zone Three: Churchill Coast
By their very nature, parks are places where families and friends can come together to have fun, celebrate important occasions, or just relax and take time out.  This immense social value is part of the “glue” of a healthy society.  The Churchill Coast brings all of these elements together in the culmination of the Journey to Churchill.

With a façade resembling the town of Churchill, visitors will feel as though they have been transported to the northern frontier.  The landscape will include bear dens that can shelter a bear on a hot summer’s day, or house a mother bear with her new cubs.  Visitors can watch the bears from the Tundra Grill, a 150-seat restaurant, while they enjoy their lunch.  The adjacent Polar Playground is designed to engage children in a polar-themed wonderland of active participation.

Journey to Churchill is scheduled to be completed in October 2013.

The Chuck Jones Experience: A Review

Martin Palicki
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by Christopher Kirkman
When people talk about animation, they are often pulled to two very distinct ends of the spectrum: either animation is an amazing and reverential art form, or cartoons are just for kids. But when one walks into The Chuck Jones Experience, a unique interactive exhibit dedicated to one of the masters of animated films, I was captivated by the chronicles of an amazingly talent animator, and dizzy with the memories of antics from a certain rabbit and duck.
In other words, I was really excited. As a writer, I occasionally get to visit some exciting venues and meet celebrities, but Chuck Jones is something of an inspirational hero of mine and to visit this new exhibit AND have Jones’ grandson, Craig Kausen, be our personal guide was something of a dream come true

Charles M. Jones helped to create some of Warner Bros. Studio’s most famously known film stars. His legacy is lovingly and passionately presented here as a fitting addition to the family attractions inside the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Even before entering, visitors are treated to several interactive gags, straight out of the Acme archives: giant spinning tops, a pair of spring shoes and an inviting “Do Not Pull” sign on a box of fireworks. Anyone who has visited Toon Town at Disneyland or Disneyworld will find some familiarity with aspects of the exhibit, but with a different flavor.
After picking up tickets at a booth that looks like it was pulled from one of Chuck’s animated shorts, visitors enter through a dark hall whose walls are inscribed with quotes from the artist. Emerging into the light, guests are instantly immersed into the cartoon world of Jones’ mind, a street comprised of brightly colored sign posts and store fronts owned and operated by familiar characters. A stylized movie theater gives guests a brief history of Jones’ life and his characters.

Exiting the theater, guests will get the unique opportunity to view a recreation of Jones’ office, complete with a portion of his actual library and the desk on which he drew key sequences for How The Grinch Stole Christmas on. The walls are adorned with original sketches and a few awards Jones earned during his career, excluding his four Academy Awards. A “window” to the outside world occasionally treats viewers to characters lounging on the sill or walking down the street. This may just be a re-creation of Jones’ office, but there is something of a tangible magic about it that you wouldn’t find in a regular museum.
Past the office, the tour enters into a character-centric room with sketches and a “How do you measure up” display, but Jones’ creations really come to life as you round the corner into a cartoon soundstage. Daffy Duck directs Wile E. Coyote and the Roadrunner as Bugs Bunny operates the camera in a life sized 3D re-creation of a Jones piece entitled “Lights, Camera, Action!”. Guests can take their mark on the X, just below Wile E.’s anvil, if they dare.

In the final rooms of the tour, visitors pass through a hall with a giant video wall on one side, featuring many classic moments from dozens of films, and on the other wall a timeline of the 300 plus titles Jones directed during his career. As guests step into the light, a cornucopia of interactive demonstrations await kids of all ages. Bring your own drawings to life using pencil, paper and a zoetrope – a slotted wheel that, when spun, make individual sketches come to life. Or take a turn at the foley station where guests lend their voices, claps, clicks, pops and whatever other sound they can conjure to a famous Looney Tunes moment.
The Chuck Jones Experience is a unique opportunity to learn more about a talented artist in a very entertaining way. Sketches, photos and paintings are found throughout the exhibit and many, including the last, unfinished commissioned piece Jones ever painted, have never been viewable by the public until now. But this isn’t JUST about Chuck.
Plenty of other artists are represented here too. Mickey Mouse, Tom & Jerry, even Spongebob Squarepants adorn the walls of the gallery because, after all, this is about the world of animation at the end of the day. guests who want to see if they have what it takes can bring their own drawings to life at The Chuck Jones Center for Creativity, where short classes in basic animation are taught by visiting animators in a classroom adjacent to the Experience’s gift shop.
It was Jones himself who said “The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.” The Chuck Jones Experience is filled with that love, and will undoubtedly be filled with those who love the characters Mr. Jones helped bring to life.
The Chuck Jones Experience opened January 19th, 2012 in a brand new 10,000 square foot expanse inside the Circus Circus Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, NV. Admission is $19.95 for adults, $14.95 for children 5-17 years and free to children aged 4 and under.
Christopher Kirkman is an old school nerd: designer, code monkey, writer, gamer and Star Wars geek. As owner and Editor-In-Chief of Media Geeks, he takes playing games and watching movies very seriously. You know, in between naps and watching TV.
Visit the Media Geeks website for more from Christopher and to see additional photos from his tour of The Chuck Jones Experience.

Kennedy Space Center Offers Guests Rare Opportunity to See Two Space Shuttles at Once

Joe Kleiman
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by Joe Kleiman, IPM Online News Editor

Courtesy Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex

Cape Canaveral, FL, USA (January 21, 2012) — The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex announced today that through January 31, guests on the KSC Up Close Tour will have the rare opportunity to view both space shuttles Atlantis and Endeavour inside the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB).  At almost 53 stories, the VAB is one of the largest buildings on the planet.  Originally designed for the Apollo missions to the moon, the VAB was later modified to prepare the space shuttles for launch.

The shuttles are in the VAB as part of a transfer process to and from the Orbiter Processing Facility, where they are being decommissioned and prepped for exhibition.  When their new homes are complete, Atlantis will be headed to a $100 million facility at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex scheduled to open in 2013.  Endeavour will be flown to Los Angeles at the end of 2012, where it will become the centerpiece of the new Air and Space Center at the California Science Center in Exposition Park.  Meanwhile, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air & Space Museum announced yesterday that “NASA will soon be announcing when it will deliver the Space Shuttle Discovery to the Museum.”  Discovery will go on display at the Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center, located at Dulles International Airport in Chantilly, VA.  It will be replacing the shuttle test vehicle Enterprise, which will be flown to its new home at New York’s Intrepid Air-Space-Sea Museum this summer.

In addition to the shuttles headed to their respective museums, the Museum of Flight in Seattle received ownership from NASA on January 19, 2012 of the Full Fuselage Trainer, a full-scale mockup of the space shuttle used for systems testing and astronaut training.  The trainer will be partitioned and flown in five or six flights from Houston to Seattle on the only remaining Super Guppy in operation.  The Trainer is scheduled to open to the public mid-June.

Super Guppy, courtesy Johnson Space Center

Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is operated by Delaware North.  www.kennedyspacecenter.com

Madame Tussauds Washington DC Celebrates 40th Anniversary of Michael Jackson’s First Solo Recording

Joe Kleiman
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Courtesy Madame Tussauds Washington DC

Washington, DC, USA — Madame Tussauds Washington DC opens it’s limited engagement travelling exhibit, THE MICHAEL JACKSON EXPERIENCE January 2012. The “MJ Experience” is included as part of The Presidents Gallery by Madame Tussauds regular general admission price.

The attraction hosts the first-of-its-kind exhibition, featuring three Michael Jackson figures from various stages of his career; The Jackson 5 Years, The Bad Era, and the “This Is It” Michael.

Madame Tussauds Washington DC features the travelling extravaganza through March 13, 2012. During this time, Washington DC visitors will get to see all three figures up close and have their picture taken in front of each wax likeness.

Michael Jackson’s relationship with Madame Tussauds spanned a quarter of a century. His first sitting in 1984 led to subsequent sittings and a visit to the London attraction by “the gloved one” in 2005 with his children. Jackson has been sculpted six different times and is the most widely exhibited figure in the Madame Tussauds worldwide empire.

In recognition of the 40th anniversary of Michael’s solo career and to celebrate the launch of its MJ Experience traveling exhibit, on Sunday Jan. 22, Madame Tussauds will host 20 dancers (ages 13-18) dressed in MJ-style costumes dancing to a medley of his hits outside of the attraction.  Additionally, following the performance, Madame Tussauds will unveil a two-foot tall wax replica of Jackson’s iconic glove.

Madame Tussauds is a property of Merlin Entertainments.

http://www.madametussauds.com/Washington

Bellagio Celebrates Chinese New Year with Help from TINY FX Fogger by Look Solutions

Joe Kleiman
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Courtesy Look Solutions

Williamsport, MD, USA — The Year of the Dragon came early to the Bellagio’s Conservatory & Botanical Gardens which feature a colorful display replete with animatronic dragons to welcome the Chinese New Year. Look Solutions’ TINY FX fogger enhances the magical atmosphere, which captivates Las Vegas visitors of all ages.

Over 22,000 flowers were used to create this year’s display, which includes a towering red pagoda, a pair of 25-foot blue animatronic dragons coiled around a cylinder of water as they pursue a huge red pearl suspended above them, and four additional 15-foot animatronic dragons surrounded by bridges, red silk Chinese lanterns, a gazebo and a pile of I-Ching coins. The practice of Feng Shui was employed to position the flow of water in the display.

“Everything in the display is larger than life; they’re all big props,” says Tina Rath of 4Wall Entertainment, a bicoastal full-service lighting company specializing in entertainment lighting systems. “This year some of the props look like burning incense, which we have created by using Look Solutions’ TINY fogger. The fogger’s size made it the perfect choice for incense effects in the tableau.”

Truly small in its footprint, the lightweight TINY FX consists of just two components: the machine and its battery pack. According to Look Solutions, “It delivers efficiency and punch in a unit that’s easy to use anywhere.“

“The TINY has been working great in the Bellagio display,” Rath reports. “We have been happy with Look Solutions products and use the Unique2 hazer for other applications.”

Troy Eckerman of Chroma Designs Inc. in Spring, Texas was the lighting designer for the Chinese New Year display.

ABOUT LOOK SOLUTIONS
 Based in Germany, Look Solutions manufactures high-performance fog machines, haze machines, battery-powered mini-foggers, low-foggers, accessories and fluids at reasonable prices. Look Solutions USA, located in western Maryland, serves customers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. For more information, or to request a demo machine for evaluation, visit www.looksolutionsusa.com or call Hunter Totty, Director of Operations, at 1-800-426-4189. Look Solutions’ Technical Service line is 646-300-0520.

Veteran Animal Curator Pat Sharkey Named Executive Director of Oceans Aquarium

Joe Kleiman
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Concept art courtesy OARSC.

Coventry, RI, USA — Pat Sharkey, General Curator at the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, RI, has taken the reigns as Executive Director of the Oceans Aquarium Research and Science Center.  Sharkey has almost thirty years experience in animal husbandry, having also been General Curator at Moody Gardens in Galveston, TX, and an Assistant Curator at SeaWorld San Diego.

Plans call for a 10 million gallon aquarium featuring five main tanks, one for each of the world’s oceans, a giant screen 3D theater, museum exhibits, shopping and dining venues, and education and research facilities.  A location has yet to be announced.

www.oceansaquarium.org

Lighting Designer Paul Turner Chooses Prelite Studios For Radio City Christmas Spectacular Theater Shows in Boston and Durham

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Courtesy MSG Holdings/Durham Performing Arts Center

San Francisco, CA, USA — Before the 2011 Radio City Christmas Spectacular opened in Boston and Durham, North Carolina, lighting designer Paul Turner partnered with Prelite Studios to preprogram the lighting for everyone’s favorite holiday shows.

The most recent company of the Christmas Spectacular transitioned from being arena-based productions to traditional theatrical presentations. Boston’s Radio City Christmas Spectacular was staged at the Citi Performing Arts Center – Wang Theater and the Durham show at the Durham Performing Arts Center (DPAC).

“Since we were no longer in arenas we were starting from scratch with a new hang and a new lighting console,” says Turner. So he joined Prelite’s Rodd McLaughlin in a rehearsal space in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina about ten days prior to the load-in at DPAC to previsualize the two versions of the show based on their new staging requirements.

McLaughlin, who served as Turner’s lighting programmer for the Christmas Spectaculars, notes that lighting for the shows was designed with two venues in mind. “Fixture placement and trim heights were kept as consistent as possible, and we programmed using X, Y, Z coordinates (i.e., 3D space) to ease the transition between locations: If we needed to make changes onsite we just updated where the lights were in the console and the presets would automatically update themselves,” he explains.

Turner’s moving lighting complement, which was based on the original theater design of Radio City’s lighting designer of record David Agress, featured Martin MAC III Performances front of house and MAC 2000 Profiles and MAC 700 washes overstage. A traditional theater front of house hang of conventional fixtures rounded out the design. Two grandMA consoles were networked together for lighting control.

Working with Prelite enabled Turner to turn off the scenic elements as needed, making them invisible at times to better see what the lights were doing. “We used Autodesk 3ds Max to model the scenery and set up the previs. We then used our own custom scripts to quickly export that data to grandMA 3D,” McLaughlin explains. “We continued to use previs throughout the process even when we had the real lights as we were able to ‘see’ behind curtains that were brought in or when the carpenters were working on another scene. Resolving the flips that occur when using X,Y,Z was considerably easier when we could see the rig from above without the legs and borders in the way.”

Jeff Capitola was the producer of the Radio City Christmas Spectaculars with Gary Memi serving as the onsite producer. Brenda Gray was associate lighting designer and Devon Allen assistant lighting designer.

The time between the Christmas Spectacular shows in Durham and Boston found Turner again teaming with Prelite. “We had a Prelite mobile system for two days to preprogram Mary J. Blige’s show at Club Nokia in LA as part of the American Express Unstaged live-streamed concert series in partnership with VEVO and YouTube,” he says. Mike Baldassari was the TV lighting designer for the show with Turner acting as lighting director/programmer.

A proponent of Prelite for the last decade, Turner has seen the technology evolve as his lighting needs have grown and changed. “There have been great improvements in Prelite’s hardware and software,” he reports. “We no longer wait for processing – we can have the whole rig turned on and it will look the same onstage as it does in the Vision software. I can preprogram complex musical numbers outside the theater without the cast and scenery – that’s a serious time saver.”

ABOUT PRELITE
Prelite was founded in San Francisco February 2000 by Tom Thompson and Norm Schwab as a place for lighting designers and programmers to use technologies to previsualize lighting projects. Its success led to the launch of Prelite NY in June 2001 by Kim Grethen and Rodd McLaughlin. The bicoastal company provides studios where previsualization and creativity take center stage away from the distractions and interruptions of a chaotic work environment and where clients save time and money and minimize stress. Prelite also offers on-site previsualization services for those who prefer the convenience of working at the venue. For more information, visit www.prelite.com.

SeaWorld and Ruckus Team For Digital Storybooks

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Orlando, FL and Wilton, CT, USA  /PRNewswire/ — SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, a leader in nature-based family entertainment, and Ruckus Media Group, the global children’s digital media company, today announced a multi-year licensing deal to create digital storybooks that will inspire kids and families to connect with animals and the natural world. The stories will be based on SeaWorld’s animals, attractions and education and conservation efforts.

This is the first digital publishing venture for SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment. Under the agreement, Ruckus has been granted worldwide rights for these new consumer products and applications.

Reflecting SeaWorld’s commitment to conservation, a portion of all the proceeds from the digital interactive books will be donated to the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund. The Fund is a non-profit charitable foundation that supports wildlife research, habitat protection, animal rescue and conservation education around the world.

“We’re honored to bring SeaWorld into the Ruckus family of mobile educational entertainment, and look forward to creating digital stories and unique experiences that capture the excitement and wonder of the sea. Our stories continue to spark children’s never-ending interest in the natural world,” says Rick Richter, CEO, Ruckus Media Group.

The first three books in the SeaWorld series will launch this spring, including three interactive storybooks for kids ages 3 to 8 that appeal to emerging, beginning and independent readers. The interactive storybooks will connect kids with SeaWorld’s killer whales, penguins and sharks and will be available at the App store for Apple mobile devices. New children’s storybook apps will be released throughout the year.

“For 50 years we have been creating nature-based entertainment and educational experiences for kids and families, and these storybooks are a new avenue to inspire future generations to care for animals,” said Jim Atchison, president and chief executive officer of SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment. “Our parks, our animals and our team members make for fascinating stories that entertain as well as educate for a greater purpose.”

The education and narrative-driven stories, based on nationally recognized curricula, are designed to inspire enthusiasm for the natural world and will include exclusive photo, video and audio content from SeaWorld.

Available for a variety of digital and mobile platforms and devices, the storybooks will inspire children and families to visit SeaWorld virtually and learn about animals and the natural world we all share.

ABOUT RUCKUS MEDIA GROUP
Ruckus Media Group introduces traditional storytelling for today’s ways of telling stories by creating applications for mobile devices that entertain toddlers to teens from their fingers to their minds, at home or on the road — and invite their imaginations to grow. Launched in September 2010, Ruckus is now home to 17 children’s interactive storybooks, including the iTunes-bestselling MY LITTLE PONY: TWILIGHT SPARKLE, TEACHER FOR A DAY, based on the ever-popular Hasbro toy characters; Parents’ Choice and Mom’s Choice award winners SPOT THE DOT by pop-up legend David A. Carter and CHUCK & FRIENDS: FRIENDS FOR THE LONG HAUL; About.com Readers’ Choice Award Winner and Best App award finalist A PRESENT FOR MILO, written and illustrated by Mike Austin; THE VELVETEEN RABBIT: TOLD BY MERYL STREEP and other Read-Play-and-Record-Along classic animated storybook apps; and forthcoming projects with Hasbro, Crayola, and other beloved brands.

ABOUT SEAWORLD PARKS & ENTERTAINMENT
SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment owns and operates 10 U.S. theme parks including the well-known SeaWorld, Busch Gardens and Sesame Place brands and inspires 23 million guests a year to celebrate and conserve the natural world through up-close animal encounters, educational attractions and innovative entertainment. SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment also is a global leader in animal care and conservation. The company cares for one of the world’s largest zoological collections — more than 60,000 animals — and has rescued more than 18,000 orphaned, injured or ill wild animals over the past four decades. SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment has contributed more than $50 million to conservation, wildlife rescue and environmental stewardship programs worldwide. It is a portfolio company of Blackstone and employs 20,000 people nationwide.

James Heaney Leaves Disney Cruise Line To Become CFO SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment

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Orlando, FL, USA (January 20, 2012) /PRNewswire/ — SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment today announced James M. Heaney, former Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance and Travel Operations for Disney Cruise Line, will join the company as Chief Financial Officer.

Heaney brings nearly 25 years of finance, analysis and operations experience to his new role. The bulk of his career has been spent in the travel industry, initially with Royal Caribbean Cruises and later with the Walt Disney Company. Before leaving Disney in 2011, Heaney had risen to CFO with additional responsibility in Revenue Management, Travel Operations, and Risk Management for the company’s cruise division. In that role he managed the cruise line’s call center, air/sea department, terminal operations and ground transportation system.

“Jim will be a great addition to the senior leadership group at SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment,” said Jim Atchison, President and Chief Executive Officer. “In addition to the significant roles he has played in managing a large and complex organization, he also brings experience in other types of travel businesses and has proven skills in leading functions outside the traditional scope of finance.”

Heaney played a key leadership role in the launch of Disney’s cruise business and made significant contributions in finance and operations as Disney Cruise Line evolved into one of the segment’s most prominent operators.

Prior to joining Disney in 1994, Heaney worked as a finance manager for Royal Caribbean Cruises, where he provided analysis, projections and strategic planning services for the company’s operations segment. Heaney began his career with Gould Electronics as a financial systems analyst and moved to Pueblo Xtra International, a grocery store chain based in South Florida, in 1989.

At SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, Heaney will lead the company’s Finance, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Accounts Payable, Internal Audit, and Planning and Development groups.

Heaney earned a bachelor’s degree in Operations Management from Texas Tech University and an MBA with an academic emphasis in finance from the University of Florida. He lives in Celebration, Fla. with his wife and two children.

SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment inspires people to celebrate, connect and care for the natural world through the power of entertainment. The company owns and operates 10 parks across the United States. The parks play host to more than 23 million guests each year and provide lasting memories through up-close animal encounters, world-class shows and rides, and themed attractions. Locations include SeaWorld parks in Orlando, San Diego and San Antonio; Busch Gardens parks in Tampa, Fla. and Williamsburg, Va.; Discovery Cove and Aquatica in Orlando; Sesame Place near Philadelphia, Pa.; and water parks Adventure Island in Tampa and Water Country USA in Williamsburg.

SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment also is a global leader in animal care and conservation, helping animals in need around the world. The company has rescued more than 20,000 orphaned, injured or ill animals over the past four decades and contributed $50 million to conservation, wildlife rescue and environmental stewardship programs worldwide. The SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund, a non-profit, 501(c)3 charitable foundation, supports wildlife research, habitat protection, animal rescue and conservation education in the U.S. and around the world.

SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment employs 20,000 people and is a portfolio company of Blackstone.

Registration Open for CIAE 2012 Gaming and Attractions Expo in Guangzhou, China

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China Import & Export Fair Pazhou Comlex, courtesy China Foreign Trade Centre

Guangzhou, China — Following the success of last year’s event, the 8th China Guangzhou International Game & Amusement Exhibition (CIAE) is scheduled to take place March 9-11, 2012 at the China Import and Export Fair Pazhou Complex.  The event promises to be one of the largest game and amusement expositions in Asia.

A number of exhibitors are already confirmed, including SEGA, NAMCO, TAITO, KNT, COSMIC, ZONE LASER GROUP, IGS, Astro Corp, Wahlap, Sealytec, Shiyu, Dragon World, Mecpower, Game Plus, Macrown, Huatong, KN&U, Wecom, Huahai, G-LOOK, and Belrare.

CIAE 2012 presents a unique opportunity to explore China’s gaming and amusement industries.  Guangzhou is within a two hour drive of more than 2,000 companies involved in the gaming and amusement industries and a short drive to Macau and Hong Kong.  Gaming machines manufactured in Ponyu Province accounted for over $20 billion in international sales last year.

For more information or to register, visit www.chinaamusement.com

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