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SeaWorld’s Unique Waterpark Launches Spring Travel SeasonTourism executives from around the world, guests and colorful entertainers dedicate the grand opening of SeaWorld’s newest park, Aquatica, Friday, April 4.To celebrate the first new park to open in Orlando in eight years, a vibrant dedication — inspired by the tribal traditions, music and entertainment of the South Seas — will officially “bring to life” the waters of Aquatica and celebrate having fun.SeaWorld’s much-anticipated new park wows guests from around the world with its innovative new take on the traditional waterpark. Aquatica’s design and diversity of attractions takes the high-speed thrills you expect at a waterpark even further by blending them with up-close animal interactions and guest comfort. Aquatica joins sister parks SeaWorld and Discovery Cove to create a trio of immersive marine life adventures found nowhere else in the world. SATELLITE FEEDS: Friday, April 4th, 2008 Friday, April 4th, 2008 2:30 PM - 2:45 PM ET 6:30 PM - 6:45 PM ET Galaxy 26 Galaxy 26 C-Band C-Band Transponder 18 Transponder 18 Downlink Freq. 4060 Horizontal Downlink Freq. 4060 Horizontal Monday, April 7th, 2008 Monday, April 7th, 2008 3:00 AM - 3:15 AM ET 1:30 PM - 1:45 PM ET Galaxy 26 Galaxy 26 C-Band C-Band Transponder 18 Transponder 18 Downlink Freq. 4060 Horizontal Downlink Freq. 4060 HorizontalNEWS: The Grand Opening of SeaWorld’s waterpark Aquatica - the first Orlando park to open in eight years.FORMAT: Soundbites and B-roll.ADDITIONAL RESOURCES: Video, contact information and more available at: SOUNDBITES: * Chuck Cureau - Aquatica’s Ambassador of Splash B-ROLL INCLUDES: * Aquatica’s Grand Opening celebration inspired by the music and entertainment of the South Seas. * The colorful slides and attractions of Aquatica. * Aquatica’s animal inhabitants including black and white Commerson’s dolphins. VIDEO PROVIDED BY: Busch Entertainment Corporation (BEC)Contact: FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL: MultiVu Media Relations, 1-800-653-5313 EXT. 3 Busch Entertainment Corporation (BEC)

DUBAI, UAE, April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire/ — The 2008 World Summit of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (WSIE) — the most inspiring gathering of its kind in Dubai — concluded this afternoon, calling for improving the role of innovation as a catalyst for peace and development to improve the quality of lives for billions of people worldwide.The three-day summit, organized under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, brought together over 800 delegates from all walks of life.A specially-designated innovation team, the Innovivors — a convergence of innovative minds joining hands to create ingenious solutions to the pressing issues facing emerging societies — made a series of recommendations, portraying an inspiring look at how the future will unfold. The recommendations, which reflected the experiences, surprises, brilliance, splendor and foresight of the future leaders, formed the roadmap for utilizing innovation for peace around the globe.The recommendations include Branding Peace to influence the hearts; the Innovation Passport for Youth to allow outstanding young entrepreneurs and innovators to travel freely; Innovation for Peace Academy to envision, design and integrate an educational curriculum to build innovation capacity; unveiling a Innovation Community Portal to foster co-existence and cultural dialogue among youth worldwide focusing on various spheres; and use the power of Cognitive and Imagination tools to help youth express their intentions and innovative aspirations. Also envisaged is a WSIE-promoted Competition for Peace where a talk with a global organization would be initiated to promote peace around the globe.In his comments after the plenary session which agreed on the actionable recommendations to encourage innovation for peace and entrepreneurship in the changed global milieu, Sam Hamdan — the Chairman and Chief Strategist of Global Leadership Team and Architect of WSIE, said: “Over the last three days, we have heard leading experts from around the globe express their ideas and inputs to achieve tangible social and spiritual transformation and using innovation for peace. I am proud to announce that we have successfully adopted the recommendations made by our creative Innovivor Team and blueprint has been initiated. However, Innovation for Peace and social transformations cannot be achieved without the support and collaboration of all facets of the society. We aim to move forward along the tangible blueprint put forth by WSIE 2008 to improve the role of innovation as the catalyst for global peace.”Sam added: “The Summit provided an unparalleled experience to facilitate a change of perspective that has forever changed the way everyone looks at their businesses, partnerships and for that matter, the society at large. The charter of Innovation for Peace, designed in a city distinguished for innovation and entrepreneurship, is the perfect roadmap to achieve lasting peace across the world.”Prior to the plenary session, experts took part in a debate on ‘The Power of Entrepreneurs to change the world: Living a life of chaos and creativity.’ The debate, moderated by Piero Formica, professor at Jonkoping University, provided a deep insight into the world of innovative entrepreneurs who have envisioned and dominated markets through valued-added products and services.More than 800 top names from across the globe attended the three days of innovation theatres, interactive workshops and thematic experiences to build a foundation for increased innovation.The 2008 WSIE was supported by the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), multiple agencies of the United Nations, the African Union and leading international business councils and multinational corporations. Strategic sponsors include Sorouh, HP, Agility, Geopost, PepsiCo, Nokia Siemens Networks with CNBC Arabiya as the official broadcaster and Emirates Airlines as the official carrier.NOTE: Media interested in interviewing Sam Hamdan — the Chairman and Chief Strategist of the Global Leadership Team — should contact Michele Wallace at 1-917-741-5147.For further information, please contact: Tania Tavoukjian or Michele Wallace Global Leadership Team Medialink Direct: 961.3.457.321 Mob: 1-917-741-5147 Office: 961.1.804.772 Email: Fax: 961.1.804.771 E-mail: WSIE

MANHATTAN, Kan., March 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Many assignments for college classes go no farther than between the student completing it and the professor grading it.But assignments in Michael Wesch’s anthropology classes at Kansas State University have been seen around the world and by as many as 1.5 million other people.The spring 2007 intro to cultural anthropology class created the video “A Vision of Students Today,” which has been viewed more than 1.5 million times and prompted others to respond with their own videos. The video is up for a YouTube award for most inspirational video of 2007. It features Wesch’s class describing what it’s like for them to be college students today. Mark Hanson, senior in anthropology, Manhattan, did much of the camera work. The video can be viewed at The digital ethnography class is an upper-level anthropology class at K-State in which students examine YouTube and the future of the website that lets users share videos with one another. Wesch assigns two videos, the first of which is a viral video project. The other video assignment is more research-based, Wesch said. The videos are posted at “The purpose of the viral video assignment is so that students start to think about what attracts viewers to a video and what is the culture of this video world and how you tap into it,” Wesch said. “A lot of them come in and they’ve never made a video before.”I often get asked how do you teach students to make a video, and all I do is just ask students to make a video. It’s the wrong way to go about it if you tell them how. I save the face-to-face time in class to talk about the aesthetics and the video culture.”When these videos make their way onto the Internet, often via YouTube, the students’ work gets exposure in a way that traditional classroom assignments don’t. A video posted in February by Jessie Stone, senior in anthropology from Bakersfield, Calif., received comments in Portuguese just a few hours after being posted. Her video, which has been viewed at least 1,000 times, explores the way in which video means that political candidates are judged as much on how they look or dress as their qualifications and stances. You can watch Stone’s video, “Those Groovy Politicians,” at Another video with at least 1,000 hits is “Introduction to Girl Talk” by Nick Kimminau, a December 2007 graduate from Andover. Kimminau used a mash-up of music videos found on YouTube to accompany a song that another artist created by layering songs over one another. You can watch Kimminau’s video at Adam Bohannon, a senior in anthropology from Overland Park, took Wesch’s digital ethnography class in 2007. One of his videos has gotten nearly 4,000 views. You can view it at Bohannon’s video skills led to a job with Diigo, an online research tool that’s better explained through video than through words. That’s why Diigo had Bohannon create a video to explain what it’s all about. The video can be viewed at Bohannon now is working on creating teaser and tutorial videos for a new version of Diigo, as well as helping evaluate alpha software. He said the company gives him creative leeway with his videos but also offers opinions and suggestions when they conference via Skype.”It’s a great learning experience and eventually leads to some pretty awesome results in the end,” Bohannon said.Several K-State graduates are among those whose videos have found popularity on the Internet. Rebecca Roth is a December 2007 graduate from South Lyon, Mich., and research intern with Ethnographic Insights. At K-State, she created “The Internet Has a Face,” which garnered more than 10,000 hits and will be featured on the AT&T Tech Channel. Roth’s video can be viewed at Robert Hinderliter, a May 2007 graduate, has gotten more than 26,000 views for “A History of YouTube,” which can be viewed at Wesch’s students and their video projects also have drawn attention of media from NBC to BBC. Yet the students’ work makes its way around the Internet without orchestrated marketing.”That gets at the complexity of today’s media environment,” Wesch said. “The students don’t advertise. They get the videos out on blogs, people start linking to them, and other people find them.”Kansas State University