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one of those old-school carnival games of strength where you swing a big mallet to try to ring a bell on top of a pole, although these days mostly lights and digital numbers. come from Medina, Ohio, to his IAAPA to buy rooms for his activity center. can tell my he joked about King Hammer. one-armed guy got a higher score than Some members have a more serious purpose. Charles Walker is conservation chairman of the National Carousel Association, a group that tries to save the older wooden carousels.

try to get them to save their he said, but chuckled that, compared to the on the rest of the here back in the dark Bob company, BRC Imagination Arts, designs attractions for museums, and he worries that many scholarly institutions including big names like the Smithsonian and the Louvre are increasingly out-of-step in a video- game world. audience has drastically changed, and museums have Rogers said. still showing dead stuff in glass boxes. Museums need to start speaking the same language that the guests use. I tell all my clients, sure ing with bait that is interesting to the and not just interesting to the The in this case, are mostly minnows the young, Gen audience that is the next big demographic wave.

Author and William Draves told a seminar that the industry should be focusing not on baby boomers or Generation as their customers, but on Gen the demographic born between 1980 and 1999. The good news, he told them, was is a group for whom tangible goods are becoming less important, and experiences are becoming more important. Experiences are what you offer, and why they come to A few hundred very lucky Gen Ys had the run of the midway; their parents were attending and pulled them out of school. Bradley Clawson, 14, had with his family from Provo, Utah, where his dad designs waterparks. He was shooting basketballs at one of those slightly-too-small baskets in the arcade game NBA Hoops.

Pausing a minute, slightly winded, he on where he would normally be: be in history right now, then going to math. I get to miss all He smiled. Larry Seidman, the 50-ish CEO of a California promotional agency, decided he need ed some NBA Hoops time, too. He stripped off his suit coat and dropped it on the at his feet as he grabbed a basketball. Sometimes the difference between adults and kids at IAAPA is primarily height.

Like the carnivals of old, when the fall weather turns chilly, IAAPA will move on after its stop here. It rotates among the only three U.S. cities big enough to host it: Atlanta, Orlando and Las Vegas, and next year, turn. Amusement: This crowd takes care of fun business Continued from 1 Photos by RICH ADDICKS Staff Sandy Byers works for Jurassic Journey, which sells replicas of dinosaurs and ice age mammals. Vandon Menning, 7, of Torrance, plays a water gun game at the convention of the International Association of Amusement Parks and Attractions at the Georgia World Congress Center.

The event has attracted about 24,000 people from 90 countries. LIVING Group tackles auto safety Auto safety and Wreck Fest? They only sound incongruent. Volunteers with Atlanta-based Road Safe America will be at Georgia pre-game street festival Saturday to promote the second annual Drive Safer Sunday, observed the Sunday after Thanksgiving. The festival begins hours before the kickoff in the Tech vs. Duke University game, on top of the Peters Parking Deck.

Road Safe America also will pass out Drive Safer Sunday information Nov. 25 in Athens, in partnership with the Sigma Chi fraternity, in front of the fraternity house at 590 S. Lumpkin St. Live-action penguins sing, they bray By ELEANOR RINGEL GILLESPIE In the animated movie (opening today), those emperor penguins you remember from of the have added a few new tricks to their repertoire. Along with waddling, swimming and transferring eggs, these penguins sing, and one our hero, Mumble (voiced by Elijah Wood) is a born dancer (Savion Glover provided movements via a motion-capture technique).

Penguins that sing or dance? It raises so many questions, we turned to Jennifer Odell, senior biologist at the Georgia Aquarium, responsible for the care of its 15 African penguins. Do any of your penguins sing or dance? No. Not unless they do it when not around. Do they have any special talents? They sing, but they bray, like donkeys. They dance, but they waddle, and if moving fast enough, I guess it could look like dancing.

Would you say any of your birds have genuine star power? Ruby. just really socialized. She comes right over when people are looking at the exhibit, and not at all camera-shy. It takes a certain kind of survival skill to make it in Hollywood. Which of your penguins do you think would have the best chance? Dodo.

just got that tough-guy attitude. He take anything from anyone. African penguins are found on the southernmost coast of Africa, breeding on 24 islands between Namibia and Port Elizabeth, South Africa. They from a warm climate, so they do really well in aquarium says Georgia Aquarium senior biologist Jennifer Odell. At the attraction, their water is kept at 55 degrees and the air at 70 degrees.

good eaters, with a diet of including herring, mackerel and capelin. fed twice a day and eat as much as they want, to a third of their body weight Odell says. Adults weigh 6 to 7 pounds and stand 18 to 25 inches. have a pretty fast metabolism. They might eat more if a female getting ready to lay an egg or just before they molt, which they do once a year, between May and These penguins have been with little ID bracelets made of different beads.

The bead closest to the belly is the sex bead, pink or blue. African penguins are also called black- footed penguins or jackass penguins due to their braying call. Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Howard Pousner Fifteen African penguins live at the Georgia Aquarium in downtown Atlanta. Because they are from a relatively warm climate, they do well in aquarium conditions. JOHN SPINK Staff KNOW YOUR GEORGIA AQUARIUM PENGUINS Way down under, mingle with the swimming birds NEW YORK TIMES Like penguins, polar expeditions have never been so hot.

Or, rather, cool. Anyone hoping to see the emperor penguins in Antarctica should book now for November 2007. Quark three Emperor Penguin Safaris are sold out for this year; there are a few spaces available for next expeditions, leaving Nov. 6 and 18. Quark has added a third trip to its 2007 schedule a 38-day expedition departing Dec.

1 to four emperor penguin rookeries, from the Falklands to Australia. Prices for the trip start at $38,400 per person, not including airfare. Information: quarkexpeditions.com. A British company, Discovery Initiatives, is offering a dozen 25-day trips through the Falklands, South Georgia and Antarctica in 2007. (This expeditions are sold out.) Passengers will learn about the history of the region, as well as the wildlife.

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