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[chittlins]

Here's a link to follow SEAS on the nasdaq. I bought 100 shares just because two weeks back. I've done quite well buying stocks on bad press just like how I paid off my wife's and my college by buying depressed old school stocks like P&G back during the Clinton era Biotech/tech boom and sitting on them. I also had a first cousin back then that was the head of regulatory affairs for Merck. He never gave me info on them but always told me of others that were about to get approved for clinical trials and that would move stocks up to 500% in a day's worth of trading. If the company was approved for stage 3 testing, you could make boo coo dolla in a day.

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/seas

My 4th grade teacher taught us the basics of following stocks and played a stock game back then during home room. She had 20 plus 10 year old kids reading the business section of the paper every morning. They don't do that anymore. Kids are worse off for it. Of course, we all had some Disney as it even went for a 100 bucks a share back then in the mid 80's.

[chittlins]

SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. Announces Record Performance
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc. (NYSE: SEAS) today announced preliminary revenue results for fiscal year 2013. The results are subject to completion of the Company's audit procedures.

Driven by record fourth quarter total attendance at the Company's SeaWorld-branded parks in Orlando, Fla., San Diego, Calif. and San Antonio, Texas, total revenue for 2013 is expected to be approximately $1.46 billion which would represent a full-year record for the Company in its 50-year operating history.

Additionally, the Company reaffirmed its full-year 2013 Adjusted EBITDA guidance range of $432 million to $442 million. Final earnings anywhere within the guidance range also would represent a full-year record for the Company.

"We are very pleased with our fourth quarter performance, particularly for the SeaWorld-branded parks in Orlando and San Diego, which helped us to achieve record revenue for the year," said Jim Atchison, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

The Company expects to release final fourth quarter and fiscal year 2013 results in March 2014.

"In addition to the great holiday events that proved so popular last month, we have launched our year-long celebration of SeaWorld's 50th Anniversary. The success of the SeaWorld parks in 2013 suggests that the extraordinary experience offered in these parks is as meaningful today as at any point in our history," Atchison said. "But as strong as last year was for us, we are looking forward to another great year in 2014."

The fourth quarter also saw several other notable events for the Company, including Standard and Poor's upgrade of the Company's corporate credit rating as well as the completion of an underwritten secondary offering by the selling stockholders affiliated with The Blackstone Group L.P. of 18 million shares of the Company's common stock and the concurrent repurchase by the Company of 1.5 million shares of the Company's common stock directly from such selling stockholders.

In addition to noteworthy financial performance, Atchison said the Company also achieved a different kind of milestone in 2013: The Company's stranded animal rehabilitation program passed the 23,000-rescue mark late last year.

[chittlins]

My hunch about this film is further confirmed, It's absolute hooey.

Another trainer interviewed for the film speaks out:

http://micechat.com/54370-blackfish-backlash/

[chittlins]

Guess I've been following this closely and the even more pieces to the puzzle are lining up

It appears the OSHA investigator over the incident is sympathetic to the movie's cause and was at the film festival premieres.

Here's the micechat bit that starts to uncover it, scroll to the bottom

http://micechat.com/54871-seaworld-orlando-wild-days/?fb_action_ids=10151883335934205&fb_action_types=og.likes&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B743945548950948%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.likes%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D

She's been spotted in blackfish tshirts and killer whale socks and defending the quack Dr. expert on the facebook page of one of the trainers in the movie that has since spoke out against it.

It appears the OSHA investigator also stayed at a house leased by the movie folk during the trip to one of the premieres. Our govt. money at work, helping fund activisst taking down their enemies through bureaucracy .

[chittlins]

local news story

http://www.clickorlando.com/news/osha-investigates-employee-who-inspected-seaworld/-/1637132/24023248/-/sqyw0m/-/index.html

[Witention]

Just saw this, finally. I was shamefully made aware of the airtight bubble I live in (meaning, that I don't hear our read about everything)