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The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) and SeaWorld were behind in justice again final week. OSHA still says that SeaWorld’s trainers are not as protected as they could be when operative around a torpedo whales. OSHA formerly imposed a law on a sea park saying that they “install earthy barriers between a trainers and torpedo whales” or “require a trainers to say a smallest stretch from a torpedo whales.” These mandate contingency be finished by Jul 27. The accurate smallest stretch was not specified, so SeaWorld asked for a six-month prolongation to finish investigate on this distance.

SeaWorld has been operative with other aquariums to establish accurately what that stretch should be. SeaWorld Animal Training Curator Kelly Flaherty Clark spoke in justice about a procedural changes SeaWorld had put in place. According to WKMG-TV, trainers are “now compulsory to stay 3 feet divided from torpedo whales if they are kneeling on a prosaic surface. Trainers contingency be 18 inches from a corner of a pool if they are station nearby a whales. Trainers might still hold a torpedo whale or massage a behind while station subsequent to a animal on a submerged edge in a pool, as prolonged as a tutor is positioned along a side of a animal’s physique between a blowhole and tail. The tutor contingency stay divided from a whale’s mouth and tail and have an shun track if a whale were to move.” Clark did acknowledge that it is probable for a whale to spin 360 degrees on a ledge.

When a conference is done, a decider will establish if SeaWorld will be given a six-month extension.

After all a new reserve measures are put into place, OSHA will come behind and re-evaluate SeaWorld and their employee’s safety.

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BOSTON — we remember my initial revisit to Fenway Park like yesterday — since it was.

During a 8 years I’ve worked during The Berkshire Eagle, I’ve common utterly a few of my firsts with you, dear readers: My initial time skydiving, my initial outing to Haiti, my initial time eating alligator.

Here, we share with we another staggering first: My initial outing to Fenway Park for a Boston Red Sox game.

As we mentioned final week in a column, we recently incited 31. I’ve also lived in Massachusetts scarcely my whole life. we wear my Bay Stater standing with pride.

But we will admit, there are a few clearly American/New England traditions I’ve not nonetheless taken partial of: I’ve still never been to Maine. I’ve never been to a Disney thesis park. Up until Monday, I’ve never been to a Major League Baseball margin to see a game.

A integrate of months or so ago, my crony Todd Robert asked me to join he, his mom Connie and his aunt Ann to their annual event for a Boston home opener. At first, we suggested he move a improved ball fan than I.

Having grown adult carrying hockey-loving and hockey-playing family members, I’ve always been a Boston Bruins fan. we possess their gear. we ridicule during a Habs and a Penguins with a best of them.

My beginning memories of a Boston Red Sox had to do with listening to a games on a radio on automobile rides with my grandfather from Pittsfield to Millbury to revisit his parents.

Later, while roaming a halls of a S.I. Newhouse

School of Public Communications during Syracuse University, my alma mater, we satisfied a iconic Red Sox announcer Sean McDonough was a associate Orangeman.

Later on in life, on comfortable summer nights, I’d still listen to radio broadcasts while pushing around in a automobile or sitting on a friend’s porch.

Otherwise, that’s my customarily tie to a Red Sox.

But Todd insisted.

“Opening Day during Fenway is something we consider everybody should knowledge in life,” he said.

So we gave in and took a time off.

Monday’s outing easterly enclosed flitting a Kayem truck, a central manufacturer of ballpark franks for Fenway. we deliberate it a good omen.

We done good time, nearing in Beantown around 10:30 a.m. After checking into a Hotel Buckminster (our room had a perspective of a Green Monster), we went to squeeze a punch and some beers during a Cask ‘n Flagon on Brookline Avenue, another initial for me. I’ve been to a area of Brookline and Yawkey Way utterly a few times, to revisit a crony hospitalized during Beth Israel and to see a unison during a House of Blues, and to squeeze a punch during Bertucci’s.

After lunch, we headed over to Yawkey Way where we was wooed by a travel wizard and a tiny throng that cheered me on for attending my initial opening day during Fenway.

We went by a sheet and bag check lines, entered a confluence and afterwards a impulse came — my initial glance of a field.

“You couldn’t have asked for a improved day for baseball,” was a word we overheard some-more than once as we walked adult a ramp to Right Field Section Box 91 and Row GG. we couldn’t have concluded more. We had blue skies, comfortable object and a beautifully manicured immature margin before us. The day was zero brief of perfect.

The diversion itself, for those who watched, was some-more of a pitching compare between a Boston Red Sox and a Baltimore Orioles, with a 0-0 measure until a bottom of a seventh inning when Daniel Nava strike a crowd-rousing three-run homer. Clay Buchholz tender me, and a park, pitching a plain 7 shutout innings.

In a meantime, we enjoyed a amicable ambiance of a ancestral field.

For me, other highlights of a day enclosed a man sitting in front of me who introduced himself as Mick. He had a Syracuse shawl on, so we done tiny speak and we shortly schooled he and his mother have a timeshare in Lee and we both reason Moe’s Tavern nearby and dearly to a palates.

I got to see a lapse of Pedro Martinez to a margin and hear a 150-member Jimmy Fund choir sing ballpark favorites and a National Anthem, in respect of their 60-year partnership with a Red Sox. we couldn’t assistance yet feel choked adult when former Jimmy Fund patients collectively threw initial pitches to Red Sox associates like pitcher Tim Wakefield and stream third baseman Will Middlebrooks.

I cheered ecstatically when a ballpark cameras focused on a exquisite NASA wanderer Buzz Aldrin, who we remember from when he visited my facile schools in a 1980s and ‘90s in a Berkshires.

I will also perpetually remember a honeyed and brave park staff member and chair chaperon Kathy Gould. At a start of a game, after mentioning it was my initial time during Fenway, we inquired about a red carnation pinned to her jacket. “It’s something they give us for opening day,” she explained.

At a finish of a ninth inning, she came over to me unprompted, unpinned a flower and handed it to me. “I customarily put it in between polish paper to safety it,” she advised.

I asked her how prolonged she had been with Fenway. “Thirty-three years,” she said, “Even before we were born.”

My knowledge on Monday, yet my initial day during Fenway, has assured me to lapse for many more.

To strech Jenn Smith:
jsmith@berkshireeagle.com,
or (413) 496-6239.
On Twitter: @JennSmith_Ink

Condo-hotels have always had a uneven record in a U.S. The pile-up in genuine estate values commencement in 2008 exceedingly influenced a judgment and prices fell from 50 to 60 percent and sales dwindled to roughly zero.
 
Most of these condo-hotels were unsustainable from a financial viewpoint, possibly for particular consumers or investment companies. Most units operated during a disastrous money upsurge as projections of occupancy and ADR’s fell good next expectations.
 
Nearly all a condo-hotels on a marketplace went by bankruptcy, and when a creditors put a properties on a wholesale, unsettled skill marketplace they became bargains that were snapped adult by savvy investors.

But a marketplace is changing and there are new opportunities. The pivotal is to find a right new business denote that will make these properties successful.

Every review and civic liberality marketplace has endless information on hotel occupancy rates and ADRs that can be used for analogous research to establish a let value of a property. The genuine estate information is customarily really good for residential properties including villas and apartments/condominiums. But condo-hotels are most harder to consider as it is a multiple of genuine estate and hospitality. What is blank is a pricing and quickness of a sales of a condo-hotel units to particular investors

In some cases a condo-hotel can be serve segmented into a “shared ownership” module by subdividing a apportionment of a units into fractionals, private chateau clubs (PRC) and even to timesharing section weeks. This new denote provides pricing and income coherence some-more suitable to a stream market.
 
In 1983 Marriott was a initial liberality code to welcome a genuine estate common tenure marketplace by entering a timeshare market. Later Marriott stretched to a Ritz Carlton PRC and even residential review genuine estate. They were fast followed by Hilton, Disney, Hyatt, Four Seasons, Melia Group, Wyndham and Holiday Inn–all offered opposite forms of common tenure genuine estate or whole tenure residential projects, underneath their particular liberality code names.
 
The usually organisation to transition from genuine estate to liberality was a Trump Organization, that was creatively a residential developer and after developed into a review developer. Now Trump is removing into a common tenure timeshare attention with a churned use golf plan nearby Aberdeen in Scotland. (I done a timeshare display to Donald Trump 20 years ago. He told me that no developer done any decent increase in timesharing and ushered me out of his office!) Trump’s new-found coherence and eagerness to try new business models has authorised him to tarry and pullulate in formidable times.
 
Thus, a developer who is considering a condo-hotel plan has to establish a pivotal member for success. Is it a genuine estate sales? Or a liberality let revenues?
 
An Orlando condo-hotel, purchased in 2011, was structured along a following lines–the developer cost of $125,000 for a 2 bedroom unit; 2012 occupancy of 80 percent on an ADR of $120; a income separate of 80 percent to owners and 20 percent to a developer; and sell sales cost of $245,000 to a owner. The developer had a sum domain of $120,000 and a owners perceived annual sum income of $28,032. Everyone done a distinction as it was a right ratio for success.

As prices come behind from a bottom of a recession, a ratios are apropos adverse again. Land and construction costs are increasing, and a sell prices developers can assign are compelled by a top boundary of a occupancy and ADR ratios, a income separate and a sell pricing. Very few consumers are prepared to finance a detriment on their condo-hotel unit.

However, if a developer allocates 50 percent of a condo units to a common tenure program, afterwards estimable revenues and increase can be achieved. Currently in a Orlando market, a cost of a condo section to developer is $160,000 and a sell cost stays during $245,000, providing a sum domain of $85,000 to a developer. However, a timeshare member sells a section week for $20,000 on normal for 52 weeks for sum revenues of $1.04 million. Timeshare sales and selling costs catch 70 percent, formulating net income of $312,000, reduction a $160,000 initial cost, withdrawal a sum domain of $161,000 for a timeshare units.

The mix of whole tenure vs. common tenure units can be stretchable to concede for changes in a marketplace and a consistent expostulate to maximize increase and money upsurge for a developer, and yield a good product for a sell consumer.
 
Developers of condo-hotels have to adjust and be stretchable in sequence to sell a units to a consumer and a new models being employed in Florida are an denote that these projects can still be successful.

Michael Butler is a authority and owners of Midlan International, a Florida-based consultancy that works with all aspects of a review genuine estate industry.
 

CHICAGO, Apr 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — The really thought of what’s enchanting will take on new definition in a world’s many famous review end this November. For a initial time, a Walt Disney World Resort will be a backdrop to For A Cause, a 501(c)3 nonprofit classification that orchestrates multi-day gift walks in vacation destinations that singly concede participants to travel for a gift of their choice.

The Walk The World event, partial of a A Walk Around The World – Fundraising Walking Event array (https://www.awalkaroundtheworld.org ), is a walk-only fundraiser singular to 50 participants and takes place Nov 14-18, 2013. Over a march of 3 days, walkers will strike a sidewalks and walkways of a Walt Disney World Resort, averaging some-more than 10 miles a day, following a suggested tour by a resort’s thesis parks and other locations. The journey will take them by resorts like Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, H2O parks like Disney’s Blizzard Beach, and several of a famed thesis parks, including a Magic Kingdom, where walkers will knowledge all a sites and attractions along a way, during their leisure. In addition, everybody will have a possibility to suffer organisation meals, activities, shows, fireworks and some special surprises, according to Robert Webber, boss of For A Cause.

“There are so many revolutionary Walt Disney World fans that are going to adore a thought of visiting their favorite thesis park while walking to lift income for their favorite charity,” Webber says. “In years past, A Walk Around The World participants have trafficked to castles in Europe and trekked miles via chronological destinations, though this is a initial time they’ll be given a possibility to revisit Cinderella Castle and travel miles via a anticipation destination. It’s going to be some critical fun — a Walk will be both enchanting and meaningful. If your feet get a small tired, we can only bound on one of a fascinated rides and take a break!”

The registration price for Walk The World is $350 per chairman and includes camp during Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort, organisation meals, and organisation thesis park tickets. Single participants will be interconnected with a roommate, nonetheless singular bedrooms are accessible for an additional charge. Walkers contingency be 14+ years aged to participate. There is a smallest fundraising requirement for a gift of a participant’s choice.

“As with all For A Cause events, Walk The World will put participants adult in gentle accommodations, offer glorious food, and an memorable knowledge — this time done probable by a unusual environment and pushing during a world’s many famous thesis park and resort,” Webber says.

A finish list of frequently asked questions regarding to registration, lodging, and travel logistics is accessible at: https://awalkaroundtheworld.org/FAQ.html. The event’s categorical website is: https://awalkaroundtheworld.org/Home_Page.html.

For some-more information about For A Cause, revisit www.rfac.org  

About For A Cause
A 501(c)3 nonprofit classification that is grounded in a goal to vitalise and enthuse people to make a disproportion in a universe for those who are reduction fortunate. Orchestrating rarely unique, artistic and sparkling walking and cycling events, For A Cause differentiates itself from other fundraising events by permitting a participants to select a charity/nonprofit that will advantage from their efforts. Event participants are people who travel or float for all from breast cancer to AIDS/HIV, homelessness, diabetes, childhood cancers, disabilities, and more. Together, they’ve lifted over $500,000 while walking or cycling in implausible destinations worldwide — Italy, Ireland, France, Spain, Scotland, a Netherlands, and, soon, a Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.

Contact:

Robert W. Webber
President, For A Cause
Website: www.rfac.org 
Email 
Cell: 773-960-4365

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Toon fans and film historians only don’t know what to make
of Walt Disney Animation Studios‘ “Get a Horse!”

There’s a genuine atmosphere of poser surrounding this animated
short. The fact that it’s finished in black-and-white, facilities rubber-hose, pie-eyed
versions of classical Disney characters and has Walt himself providing Mickey’s
speaking voice suggests that this is something that Disney has dug out of its
vault. And nonetheless still others during a studio are suggesting that “Get A Horse!”
might indeed be an wholly opposite arrange of animal. A intense reverence to
those early Mickey Mouse shorts that was personally put together by some of top
animators operative during WDAS today.

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So what indeed is a law here? For now, a Mouse is
keeping a trap shut. Suggesting that those who have to know make their approach to
France on June
11th. Which is where “Get A Horse!” will be creation a universe entrance at
the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Where executive Lauren
MacMullan, writer Dorothy McKim and animation fable Eric Goldberg are
expected to be on hand.

And since accurately are this contingent of animation all-stars headed
to Annecy this year? Will Lauren,
Dorothy and Eric be divulgence what unequivocally went on with “Get A Horse!”
? Did  they indeed assistance out with the
restoration / execution of a Mickey Mouse brief that Walt close down for some
reason?

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Because — trust it or not — there indeed were a few of those over the
history of Walt Disney Studios. Take — for instance — “The Plight of the
Bumblebee” AKA Production 2428. This Mickey Mouse brief (which was being
directed by Jack Kinney and featured some superb animation by Freddy Moore)
was suspended by Walt behind in 1951 since a Old Mousetro wasn’t happy with the
way a story was moulding up.

So is this what happened with “Get a Horse!” ? Or
this WDAS prolongation a equine of a opposite color? We’ll know some-more after Annecy
next month. Know this, though: If a rumors are true, “Get a Horse!”
will do a path of a festival circuit this summer before it afterwards goes into wide
release after this Nov as a charcterised brief that accompanies Disney
“Frozen” into theaters.

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So what do we folks consider a genuine understanding is with this Mickey
Mouse short? Is “Get a Horse!” something old? Something new? Or
something inbetween?

Your thoughts?

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — It’s not too late to get a understanding on your family vacation.

While a deals maybe harder to come by this year, some experts charity us some crafty tips to still find savings.

KDKA talked with Ruth Nagy from AAA Travel and Taryn Grant from Worldview Travel in Washington, Pa.

Click Here For AAA Travel Deals

Click Here For World View Travel Deals

10 Helpful Tips:

Tip #1: Late-Night Booking

If it looks like a hotel, journey or craft is all requisitioned up, check behind late during night. Nagy says that’s when computers dump register that’s been on reason though not indeed paid for.

“Usually by midnight those sets drop,” pronounced Nagy. “So if you’re a night owl, what wasn’t accessible during 3 o’clock this afternoon competence be accessible by one o’clock this morning!”

Tip #2: Disney Deals

We found Walt Disney World is charity discounts during a resorts again this Summer.

It’s charity adult to 30% off during some fine resorts, 20% off some assuage resorts and 15% off some value ones.

Click Here For Disney World Deals

Grant says those value resorts are already a good deal, and we found a rate during a All Star Music Resort for $76 a night.

“When you’re adult in a morning, you’re out of a hotel,” pronounced Grant. “You’re in a park and we don’t come behind until it’s time to go to sleep. Do we unequivocally need a oppulance resort?”

Also, remember that Disney resorts have a giveaway convey from a airfield and back.

Tip #3: MouseSavers.com

The MouseSavers.com site has deals on hotels not owned by Disney. For instance, a rate during a Best Western nearby a park is $15 a night reduction if we book by MouseSavers.

 Click Here For MouseSavers Deals

Tip #4: AAA’s 48-Hour Deals

AAA is now charity something it calls 48 hour deals. They’re all for hotels during a accumulation of destinations this Summer.

The deals come out any Tuesday, and we have dual days to book them before they disappear. Some are special deals for AAA, others are hotels deals that AAA has compiled.

Click Here For AAA’s 48 Hour Deals

“It’s hotels that are perplexing to fill adult space,” pronounced Nagy.

This week, a hotel outward Orlando charity 50% off. Another one on Miami Beach was charity a 30% percent discount.

Tip #5: Restricted Fares

If you’re engagement a cruise, Nagy says go by a transport representative since they have entrance to limited fares for certain groups that we won’t online on your own.

“My law coercion fares, my troops fares, my seniors fare—-you have to go by a transport agent,” pronounced Nagy.

Tip #6: Travel Midweek

Our experts contend you’ll save income to many destinations by roving midweek.

In one case, Nagy said: “It was a family of six, and they saved roughly $1200 by changing it to a midweek depart instead of a weekend departure.”

Tip #7: Really Last-Minute Deals

Waiting until a final notation isn’t routinely a good idea, though Grant says in singular instances, we can get a good deal.

She books some vacation packages by Apple Vacations, that uses uninterrupted licence flights from Pittsburgh.

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“Because it is a charter, if you’re stretchable with your vacation.. a closer it gets – if a moody is still accessible – they will cocktail some specials into a computer,” pronounced Grant.

Tip #8: If You Can Stand a Heat, You Can Sometimes Save

Nagy says if prohibited temperatures don’t worry you, going to Las Vegas And Cancun when a heat rises, generally means prices drop.

The normal high heat in Jul in Las Vegas is 106 degrees. However, Nagy offers a solution: “You book one of those hotels on a tram, and we never unequivocally have to travel outward in a heat!”

There are deals right now during Vegas.com.

For example, there was a understanding for adult to 50% off during Treasure Island progressing this week, though it went quick and that sold understanding is now gone.

 Click Here For Treasure Island Deals

Tip #9: End of Summer Savings

If we take your vacation during a really finish of Summer, it will save we money.

“It can be several hundred dollars a chairman less,” pronounced Nagy. “If we wait until after Labor Day.”

But we don’t always have to wait even that long. We found a three-bedroom townhouse in Myrtle Beach, that is some-more than $1400 a week in mid-July.

However, if we wait until late Aug a weekly cost drops by $375 dollars.

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Tip #10: Hotel Tonight

If you’re fine with really last-minute plans, check out a app Hotel Tonight.

Click Here For Hotel Tonight Options

Everyday commencement right during noon, it lists deals that night for hotels in a accumulation of opposite cities.

The deals are reduction than we could get on your possess by going to a hotels’ websites.

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Clifford’s large food play is partial of a vaunt entrance to Orlando Science Center
(Orlando Science Center)

There’s an heterogeneous brew of party options this week during Orlando’s thesis parks and attractions.

+ The roving vaunt “Adventures With Clifford a Big Red Dog” opens Saturday during Orlando Science Center. The displays learn Clifford’s Big Ideas, that embody notions such as personification fair, desiring in yourself and assisting others. The adventures embody a “xylo-bone” to play and upsized equipment such as Clifford’s dish. And a large red one himself lives adult to his name during 9 feet. The vaunt is enclosed in unchanging acknowledgment to Orlando Science Center. Saturday hours are 10 a.m.-noon for science-center members, afterwards noon to 5 p.m. for ubiquitous public. More details: OSC.org.

+ Saturday is May a Fourth, that has developed into a “Star Wars” holiday — “May a Force be with you,” we know. Legoland Florida will symbol a arise Saturday and Sunday with a Lego Yoda Build, a Yoga Scavenger Hunt in Miniland, Lego Star Wars Video showings and more.  The activities are enclosed in unchanging Legoland admission. (Details: Legoland.com) Meanwhile, Disney’s Hollywood Studios presents a one-day Limited Time Magic eventuality on Saturday that salutes “Star Wars” with impression interaction, merchandise, “Symphony in a Stars” fireworks and a family-style chronicle of Jedi Training Academy that lets adults get in on a lightsaber action. It’s enclosed in unchanging Studios admission. (Details: LimitedTimeMagic.com)

+ The Epcot International Flower Garden Festival marches on, with Tommy Roe (“Dizzy”) during America Gardens Theatre on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The weekend’s visiting HGTV celebrity is Casey Noble (“Design on a Dime”). Details: DisneyWorld.com/flower.

+ SeaWorld Orlando’s Viva la Musica fest wraps adult Saturday with a unison by El Gran Combo. It’s enclosed in unchanging park admission. Details: SeaWorldOrlando.com.

+ The Orange County Regional History Center is rotating out partial of a “A Year in a Life: Backstage to Onstage during Universal Orlando Resort.” The featured shred about Mardi Gras will be transposed Saturday with materials associated to Universal Cinematic Spectacular and a Universal Superstar Parade, both of that debuted final year during Universal Studios. Details: TheHistoryCenter.org.

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