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In one of the most exciting times for film festivals in Australia, the 32nd Alliance Française French Film festival kicks off today (March 3). At the artistic direction of Karine Mauris 2021 is a year she says will give us “a moment to breath and escape from these challenging times”. This is exactly what Karine has planned with 37 films that will make you “dream, laugh and cry” she said.
There is something truly remarkable about French film. And even if you can’t speak the language, you quickly become immersed in the film where the subtitles become a blur to the scene. There is no doubt the French have mastered drama and there is no debate they wrote the book on love.
These are just some of the exciting elements of French film to look forward to. This year the festival welcomes even more female Directors than ever before and a world of strong independent female characters. With the like of Aline – the Celine Dion bio she never knew about. The Godmother – while it has other translations and titles, Mama Weed sums up what this one is about. Finally, The Rose Maker – Eve and her rose farm that is coming into hard times.
Headlining the festival is the International Premiere, Eiffel. Starring the beautiful Emma Mackey most famous for her role as Maeve in the highly successful comedy-drama Sex Education. As you guessed it’s a biopic of the man himself Eiffel. A wonderful journey through Paris in the late 19th century.
The festival really has something for everyone to escape and look through the window into France. This year’s Call Me By Your Name LGBTQIA vibe is, Summer of 85. Giving you a hit of the 1980s and young love.
How To Become An Astronaut is the journey of French Astronaut Thomas Pesquet and how he became a national hero.
In partnership with Palace Cinemas, you can find screenings all over Australia. Head to the website affrenchfilmfestival.org for session times and information. And keep an eye out for Novastream’s reviews in the coming days to help you decide.
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That’s right Young Tiger Jr NTR who is desperately looking for one big hit is working hard for his upcoming movie Joru (this is also tentative working title as NTR is looking for a better and two-world title for the movie) under Santosh Sreenivas is also preparing up for his next with Sukumar as Young Star.
The script for the movie is already done, and if we are to go anything by rumors the makers are looking at titling the movie ‘Young Star.’ And in this regard, producer BVSN Prasad has registered the title with the AP state Film Chamber.
NTR is keen on shedding away his hitherto mass image and the Young Star title could be an apt one to play role of a youngster (Young Star or youth). The movie is being produced jointly by BVSN Prasad and Reliance Entertainments and the movie will start rolling from May. There is no official statement from the makers regarding the title of the movie.
We need to see how much magic Sukumar – NTR combination could work on the celluloid!


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Director Guillermo del Toro has sadly confirmed that there’s absolutely no chance of Hellboy 3 happening.
Hellboy 3, the long-rumored, long-awaited sequel to 2008’s Hellboy 2, is officially dead. Director Guillermo del Toro Tweeted out the news today, stating that despite his best efforts, the was absolutely no chance of the movie happening.
Back in January this year, he promised to have a sitdown with Perlman and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola to discuss the movie. It appears as if that didn’t go quite as planned.
Hellboy 3 Sorry to report: Spoke w all parties. Must report that 100% the sequel will not happen. And that is to be the final thing about it— Guillermo del Toro (@RealGDT) February 21, 2017
Based on del Toro’s Tweet, it looks like he has spoken to everyone who could be involved in the film, including executives at Universal Pictures and pivotal actors, such as Ron Perlman.
This isn’t the first time a del Toro movie has been in danger of never being made, with the fate of the Pacific Rim sequel being up in the air for years before being officially confirmed last year. But this is one of the first times the director has actually admitted defeat, so baring some kind of miracle we can assume that Hellboy‘s story is over.

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Background: Achieving optimum blood glucose control in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is difficult. Some primary care physicians (PCPs) delay the start of insulin use because of the uncertainty in intensifying insulin therapy. The objective was to develop and validate a computer application (CA) that helps PCPs to make decisions about insulin therapy in order to achieve a significant improvement in glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c).
Methods: This was a cluster-randomized clinical trial. Fourteen primary care centers (PCCs) in Madrid with 66 PCPs and 697 T2DM patients on insulin therapy were randomly divided into two groups of seven PCCs each. In the intervention group, seven PCCs included 39 PCPs and 365 T2DM patients on insulin therapy. These PCPs were free to use the CA. A further seven PCCs were assigned to the control group with 27 PCPs and 332 T2DM patients on insulin therapy. The control group did not use the CA. The duration of the trial was 18 months to validate the CA. The outcome was a change in HbA1c from baseline.
Results: In the intervention group, the final HbA1c was 7.19% (standard deviation [SD] ± 0.93), with a difference from the start of -0.69% (p = .001). In the control group, it was 7.71% (SD ± 1.37), with a difference from the start of -0.09% (p not significant).
Conclusions: This CA helps to improve HbA1c figures of T2DM patients with insulin when it is used by PCPs to make decisions when starting, continuing, or changing insulin and its dosage.
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Welcome to Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley at East Palo Alto. Four Seasons brings the high-touch appeal of its legendary service and luxury to the innovative capital of high tech. In the hub of Silicon Valley, ten minutes from Stanford University, this intimate hotel is the centrepiece of the new University Circle complex, and the gateway to Palo Alto's most exclusive residential area. "The Four Seasons Silicon Valley, property is centrally located to the area's three major cities: San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose, and has gorgeous spacious rooms, a rooftop pool, one of the best spas on the peninsula and an excellent restaurant." TravelMuse, June 2008Offering the area's most luxurious accommodations, the 200 contemporary guest rooms – including 27 suites – are comfortably furnished, featuring natural woods and a warm neutral palette. Most of the light, airy rooms have floor-to-ceiling windows to admit the California sunlight. Stylishly functional to allow guests to remain productive and focused, these rooms offer one king bed or two double beds, a flat-screen television and up-to-the minute technology. The extra-spacious marble bathrooms are bright and inviting, incorporating signature Four Seasons features: deep soaking tubs, separate glass-walled showers, WCs with telephone in a separate alcove and flat-screen televisions.Always Complimentary Hotel shuttle service within 5 miles (8 kilometres) of the Hotel and Internet access in the Business Center are just two of the services and amenities we have always included as part of your stay – with no added charges.Minutes from the best of Palo Alto, an intimate, art-filled setting for your business event – with Four Seasons cuisine and flawless service to perfect every moment. From meetings in the stylish ballroom to cocktail receptions around the pool, enjoy a highly advanced, distraction-free setting with flawless Four Seasons attention to detail.An inspiring array of restorative and beauty treatments promotes the art of well-being in the Hotel's full-service spa. Treatments may be enjoyed in seven personalised treatment rooms – including a wet treatment room – and range from body therapies and massage to facials, manicures and pedicures. In-room and poolside treatments may also be arranged.Spa guests with confirmed appointments for 60-minute treatments are welcome to spend time at our rooftop pool, either prior to or at the conclusion of their treatment. Guests who would like to have access only to the Spa's steam rooms, whirlpool, outdoor lap pool and locker room amenities are welcome for an applicable daily fee. Poolside cabanas may also be reserved for an additional fee.QuattroIn Quattro, guests enter an airy, dynamic ambience with glass on three sides, accented by the natural warmth of rich hardwood floors. Dramatic lighting changes the mood at night. A shimmering water wall and outdoor fireplace enhances your experience of al fresco, all-day dining on the large terrace.Quattro showcases northern California cuisine with an Italian twist at breakfast and lunch. The dinner menu features contemporary Italian cuisine, accompanied by boutique wines from California, a wide selection of Italian wines, as well as wines from around the world.SpecialtiesThe restaurant's light, contemporary cuisine is complemented by daily specials, innovative desserts and seasonal menus. A children's menu is available.
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We are located 19 miles south of San Francisco Aiport and 15 miles north of San Jose Airport. Taxi ranging from $45-$70.
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At Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley we offer a traditional breakfast menu sourced with local ingredients and a California flair.
Service animals complying with ADA Title lll regulations are allowed.Yes!
Pets are allowed.
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A Cave House in Spain’s Setenil de las Bodegas
Nineteen beautiful whitewashed hilltop villages dot the landscape of Andalucia in a region northwest of Malaga and east of Seville. These are collectively known as the Pueblos Blancos or White Villages of Andalucia. Each has its own character and distinctive beauty. During our recent month-long stay in Spain, we spent 3 days driving through this region, gawking in wonder as each successive village appeared around the corner. But what stands out most about our time exploring the Pueblos Blancos was the night we stayed in a cave house in Setenil de Las Bodegas.
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Setenil de las Bodegas wasn’t originally on my radar for our 3-day road trip through the White Villages. I had planned on using Ronda – perhaps the most famous Pueblo Blanco – as our base to explore the area. I found a perfect Ronda apartment rental with a spectacular view overlooking the town’s famous bridge. But, it was only available for two of our three nights. After finding a place with this view….
…I wasn’t willing to even consider a different rental in Ronda. So, I started looking for a night’s rental in a different White Village for our third night.
Setenil de las Bodegas is one of the closest White Villages to Ronda on the map, so I Googled more information about it first. I found that it’s famous for its many cave houses and cave businesses lining a ravine that cuts the town in half. Dating back as far as prehistoric times, the natural caves in this area were used for dwellings. As the centuries passed, and the hillsides here were occupied by the Moors, and then the Spanish, the caves were enlarged and house fronts added.
Once I saw the images of this unique town, I immediately knew that we not only need to stay there, but that we needed to stay in a cave house in Setenil.
And luckily, I found a great one on Booking.com with availability on our intended night – Casa Cueva El Arrabal.
Upon Entering a Cave House
Casa Cueva El Arrabal is located at the bottom of one of Setenil’s oldest and most historic streets – Calle Herrería. This steep street descends along a set of stairs with cave houses on one side and not-cave houses on the other. Higher up on the very same cliff sits what remains of the town’s 12th century fortress and the town’s cathedral.
Our host Elisa met us upon arrival, and when she opened the door, we were amazed at how modern this cave dwelling was. Of course, I had seen pictures online, but still….you never know for sure with a vacation rental until you enter and actually see it for the first time. I was especially surprised at how spacious it was.
The back wall of the entire house is mountainside. The chisel marks made while creating a bigger space are obvious. Many of the cave houses in Setenil were natural caves first, then enlarged over the centuries to created bigger more comfortable dwellings. Plaster and drywall meet chiseled rock wall to create a beautiful and unique living space.
The Grand Tour
Casa Cueva El Arrabal has three levels.
Main Floor – living room, kitchen, bathroom.
Second Floor – Master bedroom and bathroom along with a small balcony.
Top Floor. Large open bedroom with three single beds. The ceilings are lower up on top.
Everything inside this cave house was top quality – floor tiles, railings, bathroom fixtures, bedding, HVAC, appliances. It also featured lots of floor lightening to accentuate the beauty of the rock walls.
And it was spotlessly clean!
Plus, Elisa clearly understands the needs of travelers. Amenities can be hit and miss with vacation rentals. But here, the kitchen was well stocked with coffee, tea, spices, and even a few small snacks. The bathrooms were well stocked with soap and shampoo.
We loved our 20 hours in this cave house in Setenil de las Bodegas, and both agreed that it’s our favorite vacation rental of all time.
Clicking here takes you directly to Casa Cueva El Arrabal’s Booking.com page.
What did we do in Setenil? Well, a place like this begs to be wandered. Other than the castle tower, there aren’t a lot of landmarks here (and it was closed when I passed by). I was absolutely content to just wander and explore and photograph this unique town at various times of the day during our short stay.
Here’s a sampling of what I saw…
Eating in Setenil
Like everywhere we went in Spain, Setenil had plenty of restaurants to choose from. The highest concentration of these are located on Calle Cueves del Sol – down in the ravine that cuts through the center of town. On this street, the restaurants are double-cool….cave-restuarants recessed under a huge rocky overhang.
Dinner at El Mirador
Our host recommended that we try El Mirador for dinner. I had already noted its high 4.8 Google rating as I was tripping our visit, so it was already on my radar.
But El Mirador is located on the bottom floor of a cliffside hotel, not in a cave on Calle Cueves del Sol. We decided to opt for what we hoped would be the best food in town for dinner, saving the still-important cave dining experience for breakfast the next morning. Had it been daylight, the restaurant has a great view of the valley and hillsides on the other side of town.
We were the first customers of the evening, walking in right as it opened at 7:30. Even after a month in Spain, we never grew accustomed to the Spanish way of eating dinner at 9 or 10 or 11.
The chef was running a little late that night due to unforeseen circumstances. The owner apologized and spent time at our table explaining the menu to us. He spoke excellent English, personally arranged to have English copies of the menu printed for us, and guided us through the restaurant’s philosophy, along with some of his personal menu recommendations.
El Mirador’s concept is basically farm-to-table using only the best locally sourced ingredients. The food was excellent and so was the service.
We started with a plate of local sheep and goat cheese….
Then an appetizer of roasted artichoke, with Iberian ham, pumpkin hummus, and a poached egg….
For our main courses…oxtail risotto with asparagus and mushrooms
…and tuna steak with onion confit & yucca chips.
Food in this part of Spain is much less expensive than in the United States. Even fine dining. This meal cost around $65 including two glasses of wine, a large bottle of mineral water, and the 10% service charge.
Breakfast at La Bodeguita
For breakfast, we absolutely made it a point to eat on Calle Cueves del Sol. It was a chilly morning and so we opted for a table in the sun with a great view along the street.
We enjoyed a great version of the typical Spanish mid-morning breakfast – toast with crushed tomato, olive oil, and salt. Throw in two coffees and we spent a whopping $6.
Parking and Associated Adventures
Elisa recommended a large underground parking lot on the opposite side of the hill on the outskirts of town called Parking Los Caños. It was free. There was a gate and a booth for collecting payment, but the gate was up and the booth wasn’t manned. I don’t know if this is usual or not – we were there during off-season.
Street parking is not available near the house, and I would definitely not recommend trying to drive on the narrow streets of central Setenil anyway. I watched many locals drive their cars backwards up certain streets to reach their tricky destinations.
It’s a 250 meter walk from the parking lot to the house. It’s not a flat walk however. In fact, we had a bit of an adventure getting there. Google Maps took me up a steeper hill and then down all the stairs of Calle Herrería …with all our luggage. The flatter route is at the south end of the parking lot where the wooden staircase is.
Based on personal experience, our upper and lower backs strongly recommend finding the house and the easier route first. And then haul in your luggage.
Be Aware of Siesta Time
Businesses in Setenil de las Bodegas very clearly observe the Spanish tradition of late afternoon siesta shutdown. By the time we parked, struggled through the streets with our luggage, and situated ourselves inside the cave house, it was 4pm.
I went out to find a nearby market for a quick snack, and struggled to find much open. In the bigger Spanish towns we stayed in, we could always find stores that didn’t close during the late afternoon hours.
This was more difficult in the smaller Setenil. At first, I thought perhaps, the whole area was mostly residential. But as I walked around again in the early evening, businesses began to show themselves for their evening hours.
A Cave Base?
Could Setenil be used as a base for exploring the area and other White Villages? Absolutely! We loved Ronda, and staying next to the bridge was an unforgettable experience. But, staying at this beautiful cave house in this wonderful town of Setenil was also unforgettable.
So, in retrospect, we would have switched things around. One day in Ronda and two days staying at what is now our favorite all-time vacation rental – this cave house in Setenil de las Bodegas.
You can click here read about another great experience we had while traveling in Spain – taking a Cooking Class in Seville. And here to read about 3 Great Day Trips from Seville or about Searching for the Best Alhambra Viewpoints
And you can click here to read about another favorite vacation rental of ours – The Sevier Valley Ranch & Cattle Company in Southern Utah.
I love how picturesque this town is. And the cave house…wow! What an incredible experience!
Certainly a favorite 24 hours during our Spain trip!
This is an amazing blog! So enjoy seeing these beautiful locations.
Looking forward to your next trip!
Thanks Pam. I am too!!!
I’ve been eagerly awaiting this post and it did not disappoint! This is definitely my kind of town and accomodation. I am in awe of these pictures – the home, restaurants and the ravine are beautiful. And Calle Cuevas del Sol is darling! Adding this to my future Spain itinerary for sure.
Setenil definitely needs to be added to the list!
Those cave houses look interesting, I’ve seen the odd one in other places but not on that scale. The cheese platter looks delicious too.
Cave house communities can definitely be found in other parts of the world, and the Sacromonte district of Granada also features cave houses and restuarants, though not nearly as cool as Setenil
I loved reading this article, Steven! Setenil looks like such a cool town. I’d seen a couple of your photos on social media and wondered how exactly those buildings were in a cave but seeing the photos in this post helped me visualize it better. The way the cave overhangs Calle Cueves del Sol is so picturesque and I would love to have breakfast there. Your accommodations looked wonderful and I especially loved the tilework in the kitchen.
Yes, there were so many little details like that telework that made this cave house extra nice
Beautiful and so cool! I really want to visit the white villages in Spain. And definitely adding Setenil de las Bodegas and a cave-house stay!
I wish we could have explored even more of them. Certainly several gems out there
Carina | bucketlist2life
OMG why have I never heard of this place? This needs to go on my bucketlist. Sleeping in a cave house sounds so cool!
Definitely needs to be on your list!
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I knew about Ronda but I had never heard about Setenil. It looks like a must-visit village, so picturesque! The cave house seems a great place to stay, to fully experience Setenil.
That’s what I thought too. Why just visit, when you can sleep there?
Paul (Paul Passing Through)
Such a unique place! It looks like such a scenic and memorable place from your photos and descriptions. Are all the dwellings manmade then or are there some where its natural cave? I’m also curious if there are any special enhancements to the architectural supports that you noticed during your stay? BTW, I want that cheese platter!
I think that the original cave houses were natural and then manmade caves were added over the centuries. Ours didn’t have any additional supports that I could see, but I could be wrong about that
Elena at TravelByExample
A great example of how something good comes out of something bad – you couldn’t book a hotel for three nights, but then you got a chance to discover Setenil de las Bodega 🙂
Such a great experience staying in the cave house. Though I feel I would be consious walking under the rock hanging above my head :))
I wondered about the same thing, but I didn’t feel claustrophobic at all. Our was quite spacious. We toured some smaller cave houses in Granada, and those would have been difficult to stay in
For cavers like E & me this little village seems to be the perfect place. I love how you can see the bare rock wall from inside the dwellings and how whole streets appear to get swallowed up by the rock face. As usual, your blog post contains lots of lovely food. I’ve recently been experimenting with oxtail, so that oxtail risotto with asparagus and mushrooms would be a dish would be top of my list.
Oxtail is such a common ingredient in Andalucia. We had it a few times. This oxtail was cooked the best of any. Very tender.
Mitch - Very Tasty World
We visited Ronda and Seville on a short trip earlier this year, and we clearly missed out by not visiting Setenil. What a wonderful place. It’s amazing how the mountain dominates so many of the streets and buildings. The cave house looked like a brilliant place to stay. I wish I had eaten before viewing the pictures of your dinner – I’m feeling very hungry now!
I remember seeing your pictures of Ronda on Instagram and they really whet my appetite for our trip a few weeks later. Shame you didn’t get a chance to see Setenil, but there is so much to see in Andalucia
Ok so I am saving this for when we visit Andalusia, a big item on my Europe bucket list. I would have thought of staying in Ronda but this looks incredible. I absolutely want to stay i this cave house in Setenil de las Bodegas, it looks so cool and an amazing experience.
Setenil is so close to Ronda that you could definitely stay there and just pop over for a day in Ronda if you wanted
Wow what a cool and unique place to stay! It’s incredible how they built the homes and stores into the mountain side. I’d love to stay in one of these one day! Oh and that food looks so good…
The food in this part of Spain was spectacular. Every single meal. This was one of our best though 🙂
Chalk and cheese travels
I have been looking forward to this all week looks amazing I’m clicking that link soon and staying. I’m partial to a little siesta myself so that sounds great ill just remember to stock up beforehand.
I hope you do get the chance Richard. We loved it!
Hello! Found your post trying to finalize our Spain itinerary. Thought we were going to stay in Ronda but your post has me torn! I have saved the link to Casa Cueva but do you have a link to the apartment you stayed at in Ronda? Would love to compare. Thanks!

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Not One Seat is a grassroots, 100% volunteer-led organization. It is made up of people from across Toronto and around Ontario who are deeply concerned about the damage another Ford majority could do to our community. The organization was conceived of and founded by Tim Ellis, a rave DJ and climate advocate who is passionate about our city, our planet, and our democracy. Tim was quickly joined by a determined team of individuals, and the horizontal nature of the organization means that no one person is the "leader" - decisions are reached by consensus of the organizing team. You can read more about why Tim launched Not One Seat here.
Not One Seat is built on an innovative distributed organizing model that allows people with shared values to connect, organize, and self-direct their efforts towards the shared vision. Using off-the-shelf technologies like AirTable, Google Docs, and Discord, Not One Seat connects people online into an amplification network that can organically deliver our message far and wide, while also organizing on the ground in each of the 25 Toronto ridings to talk directly to voters and secure pledges to unite behind the candidate best positioned to defeat Ford's PCs in that riding.
Not One Seat uses a rigorous model to select our Unity Candidates, looking at candidate resume, campaign strength, fundraising, assets like incumbency and campaign experience, local polling, community engagement, and recent (last three) election results.
Not One Seat is an open-source campaign model that is open to replication by any who are interested.

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The problem of infertility is more than a problem of one couple or one family. This problem concerns every one of us, as the “infertility” diagnosis is not only an issue of healthcare, but also of the socioeconomic position, the issue of state and business responsibility. In this connection, we, the staff of Lada Clinic, consider it necessary to introduce a social Day against Infertility.
There are free of charge consultations on infertility with the use of ultrasound by the fertility specialists of our Clinic that are held every Thursday. Anyone can schedule an appointment within the current month for any Thursday. We will be happy to see you in Lada Clinic and we are ready to stand up with you for the possibility of healthy pregnancy!

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Everyone know that the Super Bowl is big business. But what does that really mean? Sports business expert Rick Horrow has some insight on actual figures and explains the value of winning a Super Bowl for the team and for individual players.
Phoenix, AZ – Here in Arizona and elsewhere, NFL fans are nearing the end of Super Bowl week, and apparently, we’re all really
Not just from all the weather-induced flight
delays, driving around in traffic, attending SRO press conferences, and endless
parties. It goes a lot deeper than that.
The game’s being played by the defending Super
Bowl champions and a team that’s been there six times in 14 years, in a region
that last hosted a scant seven years ago.
Between the NFL season’s domestic violence
scandals, concussion worries, and the PSI of the game balls used two weeks ago
in Foxboro, we’ve grown really weary of controversy.
And with the sky-high cost of entry and the
attractiveness of one’s couch and HDTV at home, it’s much simpler, cheaper, and
personal energy-conserving to just watch the Super Bowl at home.
Have all these factors resulted in a serious,
nationwide epidemic of Super Bowl fatigue?
Let’s examine the symptoms.
Coming off last year’s win, Seahawks backers
early on might have shown signs of fan fatigue. According to travel website Orbitz,
the Patriots have 13% more fans flying to the Glendale area than the Seahawks
do. This came despite the fact that airfare from Seattle to Phoenix on average
is around $682, a relatively small sum compared to the $844 it costs to fly
from Boston to Phoenix.
However, far more Patriots fans traveled to
Indianapolis the last time the team reached the Super Bowl, in 2012.
Nonetheless, Super Bowl XLIX Host Committee
spokespeople affirm that hotels in the Phoenix region are more than 90% booked,
at an average nightly rates of $277 with a three night minimum. That rate is
89% higher than the same February weekend rate in this popular snowbird
destination last year, and rooms are 68% more full.
Host market Phoenix is
using the Super Bowl to showcase revitalization of its downtown. More than $4
billion has been invested in the market since the Super Bowl was last held in
the Glendale in 2008. The development includes 50,000 square feet of new
retail, a completed Phoenix convention center, 20 miles of light rail, 1500 new
hotel rooms, and more than 30 new restaurants.
A wrinkle that other
Super Bowl communities don’t have is that the Waste Management Open golf
tournament is being held in Scottsdale at the same time.
Tiger Woods is playing
in the 2015 event for the first time in 13 years, and with the Super Bowl in
town. It could be the best attended Waste Management Open in history. By
the way, last year’s attendance of 563,000 surpassed the 2008 record when the
Super Bowl was last held in Arizona.
The Super Bowl is scheduled for Sunday, the same day as the
tournament’s final round. Organizers scheduled tee times so that the tournament
would end about 45 minutes before the Super Bowl begins. (Good luck getting
from North Scottsdale to Glendale in that time—and you’d better hope there’s no
While most people in town for Super Bowl week
won’t actually attend the game come Sunday, those who will initially thought
they’d see lower ticket prices as a result of blasé fans. Not so – while prices
slumped right after the Conference Championship games, fan fatigue hasn’t
disrupted the normal Super Bowl ticket price hike in the week leading up to the
game. 2015 Super Bowl ticket prices have now skyrocketed, with the average
secondary market price on Thursday topping $8,000.
The big question for broadcaster NBC is whether
this year’s Super Bowl will top the record 111.5 million viewers who watched
the big game last year. With the Seahawks seeking back-to-back titles, Katy
Perry ruling halftime, and the game featuring such marketable stars as Russell
Wilson, Tom Brady, and Richard Sherman, record ratings are admittedly a strong
But recent history shows that year-to-year Super
Bowl ratings don’t follow a linear upward trajectory. With 111.3 million
viewers, the 2012 Super Bowl broke all previous viewership records. However,
Super Bowl XLVII in 2013 witnessed a sharp decline to 108.4, as the Ravens beat
Another factor that could seriously erode TV
numbers: In addition to its broadcast, NBC is live-streaming the game without
user authentication, a trend continuing from previous years. When NBC streamed
the game in 2012, it drew 2.1 million unique users – far fewer than many grainy
amateur cat videos on YouTube today.
Speaking of pets, you have to wonder when Super
Bowl ad watchers are going to get sick of the endless stream of too-cute horses
and puppies. No time soon, apparently. Anheuser-Busch reports that hordes of
fans clamor for its Clydesdales every year. GoDaddy was forced to pull its new
puppy ad – but not because early viewers online didn’t want to see the puppy,
they just didn’t like the way he was treated at the end of the spot.
Advertisers are paying
upwards of $4.5 million per 30-second spot, up nearly $400,000 from last year’s
rates. Anheuser-Busch leads the way with advertisements totaling at least 4 ½
minutes, and $35 million. Also expect to see a lot of traffic from carmakers,
as it least six auto manufacturers have bought ad time.
Meanwhile, NBC created a
Tumblr page to serve as the online home of Super Bowl commercials. Needless to
say, there are no shortage of places that you can go online for Super Bowl
At the end of the day, all this activity leads
to is dollar signs for the Valley of the Sun – the greater Phoenix area expects more
than $500 million in economic impact over the week.
As we know, there is
no such thing as revenue fatigue.
Rick Horrow (@RickHorrow) and Karla Swatek (@kswak) on Twitter.
One of the marquee storylines of Super Bowl 49 is the quarterback matchup, which features two of the most marketable players in the NFL today. The Patriots are led by Tom Brady, who endorses products for Dodge, Uggs, and Under Armour. He’s also recently appeared in ads for daily fantasy sports website DailyMVP. Brady brings in an estimated $7 million annually from his off-field endorsement deals.
On the other sideline, the Seahawks are led by third-year quarterback Russell Wilson. Despite his relative youth, Wilson has one of the NFL’s most robust marketing portfolios. He’s appeared in ads for companies including Pepsi, Microsoft, Bose, and Alaska Airlines. While Wilson’s exact endorsement income isn’t known, it’s almost definitely more than the $660,000 he made on the field this season. Expect his next contract with the Seahawks to be one of the most lucrative in NFL history.
Rick Horrow: DeflateGate Pumps Up Super Bowl Mania
An “incredible rush to judgment” against the New England Patriots for allegedly using deflated game balls reflects the hype surrounding Super Bowl XLIX more than any moral outrage over suspected cheating, says sports business entrepreneur, professor and commentator Rick Horrow.
The big game, scheduled for Feb. 1 between the Seattle Seahawks and the aforementioned Patriots, is “probably now going to be be bigger than ever as a consequence,” the CEO of Horrow Sports Ventures told “MidPoint” host Ed Berliner on Newsmax TV Thursday.
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That’s unless the NFL rules that New England did cheat and must replay the AFC Championship, although that punishment — one of many available to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell — is vanishingly unlikely, said Horrow. The NFL is investigating whether the Patriots used deliberately deflated, grip-improving footballs on Sunday in their blowout win over the Indianapolis Colts.
Patriots coach Bill Belichick — who once drew a record NFL fine for secretly videotaping a visiting team’s workouts — told reporters Thursday that he was “shocked” by the deflation allegation and knew nothing of doctored game balls.
“It may be probable he may know nothing,” said Horrow. “His people may have done nothing. His people may have done a lot, and left him out of it. He may have said, ‘Do what you need to do,’ and they interpreted the wrong way.
“There are 50 scenarios that will make lawyers, case study drafters and marketing people crazy,” said Horrow, adding, “In the sage words of [Green Bay Packers quarterback] Aaron Rodgers, ‘Maybe we ought to relax a little bit.'”
“I do know the Patriots would’ve beaten the Colts by 30 or 40 points, no matter what the conditions were that day,” said Horrow. “They were that much better.”
These owners can afford to pay for a few Super Bowl ads.
When the Seattle Seahawks and New England Patriots square of Sunday in Super Bowl XLIX, it will not only pit two football’s best teams up against each other, but also two of the NFL’s richest franchises.
CSN Chicago Sports Business Insider Rick Horrow took a look at the remarkable growth of both franchises. Patriots owner Robert Kraft bought the team in 1994 for $172 million; two decades later the franchise is worth $2.6 billion.
Seahawks owner Paul Allen is worth $60 billion, and his football team accounts for $1.3 billion of that.
See what else Harrow had to say about these two teams, as well as how the Bears stack up against the two of them in terms of worth.
Watch the complete Sports News Minute in the video above and follow Rick Horrow on Twitter@RickHorrow.
As we addressed in a post in early December, seen here,
No industry is hotter these days than daily fantasy sports. Websites have raised tens of millions of dollars in venture capital funding, and DraftKings recently was valued at $200 million. FanDuel expects to have more than 1.1 million active users and pay out more than $1 billion in prizes in 2015. With business booming, expect to see more teams sign sponsorship deals with these companies in the near future.
Well, we predicted it….
The new company in the category is Mondogoal. Earlier this month, Chelsea FC became the latest club to announce a pay fantasy platform partnership with the UK and Boston based company that has now built pay fantasy games for a growing number of elite clubs, ranging from FC Barcelona to AS Roma to Manchester City.
Combine this with the well documented rise in interest in soccer in the United States, record numbers for World Cup, lucrative Bundesliga, La Liga,and Barclays Premier League TV deals with broadcasters like FOX and NBC, and the continued steady growth of Major League Soccer; add in data analytics and gaming engagement to the mix– and the international marketplace is more than primed for a daily fantasy soccer takeover.
Mark Bell, Head of Licensing at Chelsea FC, said on the Mondogoal-Chelsea relationship,
“As a club we always looks to engage our global fan base in new ways, we see fantasy as a next great opportunity, and are proud to partner with Mondogoal on this new venture. We have seen studies that show US daily fantasy sites get 70% of their revenue from NFL games, but around the world 70% of global sports wagering is directed at soccer, so this partnership should be well received by our followers.”
Yes Mondogoal is fast growing, yes it runs daily contests – but the major order-winner over major players like DraftKings and FanDuel is the license to operate globally. This means that Mondogoal is the only daily fantasy sports site available for cash play in multiple major markets around the world.
Down to the money – Mondogoal has an impressive roster of investors with backgrounds at Google, eBay, Morgan Stanley, Bingham Dana & Gould, and JBoss. Smart money says for teams, leagues, brands, and ancillary businesses to buy into this new-age marketing platform. Daily fantasy is fully entrenched in the international sports landscape and that’s here to stay.
CSN Chicago Sports Business Insider Rick Horrow discussed why people go to the Super Bowl, namely, the players. The players’ notoriety leads fans to spend extravagant amounts on tickets. They players themselves have social power, and a lot of that comes from the endorsements and sponsorships that keep their names in the news.
Russell Wilson checks in at number two on Horrow’s Power 100 list. Bears don’t pop up until number 30, Matt Forte, and Brandon Marshall at 44.
Chicago isn’t caught up to players on the Super Bowl teams in the Power 100, yet, and Horrow has an idea why.
“The proof is, you put a winning team around somebody, your marketability gets much better,” Horrow said.
Watch the complete Sports News Minute in the video above and follow Rick Horrow on Twitter@RickHorrow.
Bust: Increased carriage of SportsNet L.A., the regional sports network with rights to Dodgers games, isn’t likely to happen before the start of the 2015 MLB season. Around 70% of the Los Angeles market still is without access to the channel, as distributors argue over the network’s subscriber fee.
Boom: MLB Commissioner Bud Selig this weekend officially retired after 22 years on the job. During Selig’s tenure, MLB saw its annual revenue grow from $1 billion to about $9 billion. Selig also was responsible for introducing interleague play and instituting a tougher PED program.
Hope: MLB next season wants pitchers and hitters ready to play right out of commercial breaks in an effort to speed up the pace of play. The union’s response to the proposal isn’t known, but if implemented, games could be shortened by 10-15 minutes.
What it means: While Selig accomplished a tremendous amount as Commissioner, he leaves several pieces of unfinished business for his successor, Rob Manfred. In addition to speeding up games, Manfred needs to combat baseball’s declining popularity among younger generations, new stadium efforts in Oakland and Tampa, and a media rights dispute between the Nationals and Orioles.

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Plans to build more than 50 miles of border wall are underway in one Texas county. And residents there are worried that it will increase the risk of flooding. That story on All Things Considered from NPR News.
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A third male – aged 28 – has been arrested by police for serious assault on a man, aged 24 in Lodge Place, Sutton, on 22 November. He is being questioned at a south London police station.
Two males arrested earlier in connection with the incident have been bailed to return to Sutton Police station in January 2017 pending further enquiries.
Sutton’s Detective Superintendent Fran Smith, Deputy Borough Commander, has issued a statement reaffirming that serious violent incidents in Sutton Town Centre are extremely rare. Detectives are working hard to investigate these crimes as thoroughly and as quickly as possible.
She reassured residents that crime in Sutton is continuing to fall. For the seven priority crimes designated by the Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime, which includes violent crime, there has been a 2% reduction in the 12 months to November compared to the same period the previous year.
Det Supt Smith said: “Our approach over recent years has been to work closely with residents and local communities to make Sutton even safer. We are determined to keep crime low and keep Sutton one of the safest boroughs in London.”


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Fwd: Getting a shout out about the GM rally
chapter7 at tlio.org.uk
Sat Jun 25 21:52:35 BST 2011
> The Spuds don't work.
> Delivering the answer to GM crops-
> Outside the Forum, Norwich, noon, 23rd July 2011.
> British trials of Genetically Modified blight resistant spuds have
> been failing for the last ten years. But a conventionally bred
> variety of blight resistant potatoes has been available for 7
> years. So why are we still paying for their dangerous experiment?
> Come ride with us on the back of a trailer load of safe effective
> spuds as we go to deliver them to the doors of the Sainsbury
> Laboratory outside Norwich. It's one of only two possible open air
> trials for GM crops in Britain this year, and has already cost the
> taxpayer £1.7 million. Join us for pedal powered tunes, fine
> organic chips and good cheer as we go and show them that we've
> found the potatoes they're looking for. Emma Hockridge, the Soil
> Associations head of Policy, Pete Riley, chair of the GM Freeze
> campaign, Gerald Miles, potato farmer and others will be inviting
> the John Innes Researchers to join them in debate.
> Sunday 24th June
> Countering the GM come back
> Make a weekend of it by sticking around under for a day long camp
> to plan the next stages of the campaign. Help build projects on
> everything from getting the GM oil out of takeaways to next years
> proposed GM wheat trials, raising awareness of the new studies on
> human health effects to European public decontamination solidarity
> work. Camping spaces available from Friday pm onwards. For
> practical details see www.stopgm.org.uk/gathering-momentum or ring
> 07595 506673
> A tale of two spuds...
> For the last 10 years, researchers at the Sainsbury laboratory at
> the John Innes Centre in Norwich have spent 1.7 million pounds of
> public money failing to develop a genetically modified potato
> resistant to the fungal disease blight. Public rejection of the
> risks associated with eating genetically modified food means that
> even if the engineering involved was successful, there would be no
> market for the crop.
> Meanwhile, 7 years ago a small Welsh research charity dedicated to
> conventional breeding techniques developed a spud that is
> spectacularly resistant to blight. Not only does the crop pose no
> threat to health, the environment, or neighbouring farmers; it
> works. Over 6 different varieties are now available, and being
> grown on a commercial scale.
> Why this, why now?
> The campaign against GM crops ten years ago was so successful that
> GM almost completely vanished from our fields and supermarkets, and
> most of the public have forgotten the issues associated with the
> technology. But in many other parts of the world peasant farmers
> have been desperately fighting its spread, and laws are changing in
> Europe that would make it much easier for GM to be grown in
> Britain. The coalition claims it intends to be “the most pro GM
> this country has ever seen”, and an application for a GM wheat
> trial has just been submitted for 2012.
> GM is an outmoded technology that continues to waste money in
> failing projects, while simultaneously threatening the very science
> that's actually producing working alternatives quickly and cheaply.
> The biotech companies have gone unchallenged in their claims that
> GM can create genuinely useful crops when in fact all the
> significant advancements in the last decade have come through
> conventional breeding.
> With the renewed threat of GM on the horizon lets get together
> again to show the rest of the country (and each other) that we're
> still here, and we've got an even better case than ever. This is
> the perfect opportunity to demonstrate that it's us, and not the
> corporations, that have the answers to the food crisis.
> The event is being co-ordinated by Stop GM in conjunction with the
> Genetic Engineering Network.
> For more information please check this briefing on the potatoes
> from the GM Freeze<http://www.gmfreeze.org/uploads/
> 63A_spud_briefing_jic_final.pdf> and how to get hold of the
> solution www.sarvari-trust.org.
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Established in 1934, the Tygart Valley Homestead was the second New Deal community built in West Virgina. This settlement of 195 homes is comprised of three communities (Daily, East Daily, and Valley Bend) and featured not only subsistence farming but also a rural industrial initiative, the Kenwood lumber mill, which supplied wood for a commercial furniture operation.
Originally named the Red House settlement, the town of Eleanor changed its name to honor the First Lady who made such an impact on the community. Eleanor was the third settlement community built in WV.
The Cahaba Project, also known as “Slagheap Village,” was built in 1935 on land vacated by the Trussville iron furnace used during World War I to provide pig iron. The furnace operated from 1889 to 1919 and was dismantled in 1933.
Skyline Farms was an attempt to transform ex-tenant farmers into independent landowners in Appalachian Alabama. Some of the earliest Anglo-American folk music recordings in the Library of Congress were recorded at Skyline Farms in 1939.
Located in west Alabama, most of the residents of Gee’s Bend are the descendants of slaves from the former Pettway plantation (and bear the surname Pettway). These residents purchased farms from the government during the New Deal. For much of the last century, the women of Gee’s Bend have produced some of the most striking examples of American vernacular art, sharing them among the community and storing them within their homes.
In 1935, 203 families from Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan relocated to the Palmer Homestead in the fertile Matanuska Valley near Anchorage.
In March 1935, construction began on the 80-acre Baxter Tract purchased for the Phoenix Homesteads. Although initially organized to feature a cooperative agricultural venture, the Homestead Association soon hired full-time workers to tend the dairy and poultry operations. This commercial agricultural venture resulted in the association being able to pay off its indebtedness to the Federal government. Forty of the sixty adobe homes constructed in the Pueblo Revival style still stand in the community’s historic district.
Similar to Tupelo, Mississippi, Dyess Colony, Arkansas, is more well-known for being the home of Johnny Cash than being a homestead community. Named after Arkansas’ first WPA administrator, William Dyess, the farming settlement was incorporated in 1936 to provide relief to farmers who had suffered from flooding and drought in the 1920s.
In 1935, the WPA launched the $1.5 million Cherry Lake Rehabilitation Project. Officials selected 500 families residing in Tampa, Jacksonville, and Miami, and moved them to a 15,000-acre communal tract they called Cherry Lake Farms.
Located in west-central Georgia, Pine Mountain Valley featured cooperative agricultural programs as well as recreational, park, and cultural facilities. This settlement benefited greatly from its close proximity to Warm Springs and FDR’s “Little White House.”
Built in 1937, Greenbelt was designed as a cooperative garden suburb that would be a model of modern town planning in America.
Although most famous for being the birthplace of Elvis Presley, Tupelo, Mississippi was also the first city electrified through the Tennessee Valley Authority. The U.S. Government established the Tupelo Homesteads as a farming community where homesteaders were employed at a textile factory. In 1940, the National Park Service incorporated the community into the Natchez Trace Parkway and since 1953, all the remaining houses have been used by the NTP as employee quarters or for other administrative purposes.
Eight farmsteads were built in Nebraska. Six to ten families settled on each of the eight large-acre plots to farm cooperatively.
Established in 1936, the Borough of Roosevelt, New Jersey, was originally called Jersey Homesteads. Located in western Monmouth County, the Federal government established the community as an agricultural-industrial cooperative community for Jewish garment workers and farmers.
Located south of Albuquerque, forty-two families settled Bosque Farms in 1935. The families settled in tents and other temporary housing until new 2-3 room adobe homes were built. By 1939, it became apparent the soil was not suitable for farming, so the community turned to dairy operations, which had become very successful by the 1960s.
Established in 1934, Penderlea Homestead Farms was a cooperative industrial community created to provide penniless tenant farmers, bankrupt farm owners, and unemployed ex-farmers in North Carolina a means to make a living and to provide self-sufficient rural communities.
The Tillery Resettlement Farm was one of the largest resettlement projects in North Carolina and one of only 15 African-American projects in the United States. The resettlement farm, whose name was changed to the Roanoke Farms in 1936, covered 18,00 acres.
In 1930, the federal government acquired several plantation tracts and launched the Scuppernong Farms Project on the North Carolina coast. The FSA divided the land into single-family farms for sale, with 40-year mortgages to white and African-America farmers.
The Westmoreland Homesteads was the first settlement built in Pennsylvania hoping to aid unemployed bituminous coal miners and their families. By 1937, the community of Norvelt (derived from a combination of Eleanor and Roosevelt) featured 254 homes, a cooperative farm, store, and garment factory.
Established in 1937, Penn-Craft was the second community built in Pennsylvania. Located in the southwestern part of the state, the American Friends Service Committee actually administered this community andstrove to ensure ethnic and racial diversity, a high-degree of self-help, and a strong sense of democracy in the new community.
Cumberland Homesteads is a planned New Deal Community built by the Division of Subsistence Homesteads between 1934 and 1938 in middle Tennessee on the Cumberland Plateau which is a few miles south of Crossville, TN. The community eventually consisted of 262 homes, a school, a park area, as well as a stone water tower and governmental building.
By the end of 1939, a total of 77 relocated farm families were working and living on the Ropesville Farms near Lubbock.
In 1937, the Sabine Farms project provided new farms for 75 African-American families in Texas. The community featured a cucumber shed, cooperative cannery, beauty shop, general store, doctorâ€™s office, weaving loom, baseball diamond, smokehouse, and community center which was built by an all African-American Civilian Conservation Corps.
Aberdeen Gardens was designed for the resettlement of African-American workers in Newport News and Hampton. This is the only community built in Virginia solely for African-Americans and consists of 158 single-family homes, a school, and a commercial center built between 1934 and 1937.
Greendale is another of the three “Greenbelt Communities” built in the United States as pre-planned communities to create jobs and provide families with good housing at reasonable rents.

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What Mason Mount and Jorginho did to Romelu Lukaku ahead of Chelsea vs Liverpool FA Cup final
Chelsea pair Mason Mount and Jorginho played a prank on Romelu Lukaku recently.
Lukaku turned 29 on Friday the 13th of May, a fact that was overshadowed somewhat by comments that emerged from the striker’s agent on the day.
The Belgian has had a fairly tough time back at Stamford Bridge this season. However, despite being something of a bit-part player for the Blues, Lukaku is still the club’s top scorer in all competitions, having netted 15 in 45 outings, two more than both Kai…


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LAHORE: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan on Friday said that Pakistan played an important role in eliminating Big Three from the structure of the International Cricket Council (ICC).
“Big Three was an undemocratic set-up and Pakistan was the only country which raised its voice against this set-up from the very beginning and made the cricket-playing countries realise that Big Three was not going to truly serve world cricket [with equality] because it was favouring certain member countries of the ICC which was an injustice,” Shaharyar said while talking to reporters.
He was addressing a news conference at the National Cricket Academy after returning from Dubai where he attended the ICC meeting along with PCB executive committee chairman Najam Sethi.
“We [the PCB] were at loss due to the creation of Big Three in the ICC and with its abolition, Pakistan will get the [monetary] benefit of $39 million,” the PCB chief stated.
“We due to Big Three set-up suffered in many ways. For example, we were scheduled to play six [bilateral] series with India; but they backed out of the commitment due to which we suffered huge financial losses,” he added.
“With the abolition of Big Three, now the ICC will be more professional and democratic as its member countries will get equal financial benefits and representation in the Council,” said the PCB chairman.
Answering a question, Shaharyar said the Big Three set-up was adversely affecting world cricket, adding that several promises were made to Pakistan but not fulfilled which caused huge financial losses to the PCB.
“Now with the elimination of Big three from world cricket, we hope that a new era will begin in the ICC, and in Pakistan cricket,” said Shaharyar.
Commenting on the proposed visit of an International XI team to Pakistan in September this year, the PCB chief said that the matches would be staged in Lahore, not Karachi.
“Most of the things relating to the [planned] tour of International XI have been finalised; only players’ selection is to be carried out. And it is not possible to hold their matches in Karachi as during the PSL final [held on March this year] security arrangements were made and reviewed at Lahore,” Shaharyar said.


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Film-maker Rob Zombie is to write and direct a new film in the Halloween series, says the Hollywood Reporter.
The former White Zombie frontman is a fan of the original film
Zombie, also a rock singer, told the trade paper that the movie will take "a totally different approach to make [Halloween] scary again".
"The look and the feel is going to be completely different," he said.
John Carpenter directed the 1978 original, about masked killer Michael Myers. Zombie has made House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects.
Halloween, which starred Jamie Lee Curtis as a babysitter terrorised by psychopath Myers, made over $60m (£31.3m) worldwide - a record for independent film at that time.
Zombie said that he sought Carpenter's blessing to make the new film.
"He was very supportive, which I thought was very important," said Zombie.
"I feel like Halloween is his baby, and I wanted to be very respectful."
The new film will disregard the numerous sequels that followed Halloween.
"Halloween started off as a very terrifying concept, a terrifying movie. But over the years, Michael Myers has become a friendly Halloween mask," Zombie said.
"But I think the story and the situation is scary. All it needed was someone to come in and to take a totally different approach to make it scary again."


Are the pet waste bags at City receptacles biodegradable?
The bags placed at Cooper Dog Park and Lee Lake for pet waste are not biodegradable. Public Works Department staff say the storage life of biodegradable bags is 12 to 18 months when stored in ideal conditions and six months or less when stored in less than ideal conditions, depending on exposure. This would put the life of biodegradable bags for Bartlesville at six months or less and likely not a practical option.
Is there a fine for not picking up after your pet?
There are no specific City ordinances relating to pet waste; however, there are ordinances prohibiting littering and illegally disposing of trash that could apply. To make a complaint, the person observing the offense would need to contact the police department and provide the name and address of the offender’s owner for a report, and then go to Municipal Court any Tuesday or Thursday at 8 a.m. to file a formal complaint. The fine for littering is $325.
What’s the fuss over pet waste anyway?
For those of you allowing your pets to leave their mark on public property, please rethink this. According to several sources researched for this inquiry, pet waste contains bacteria that could pose health risks to other animals, including humans, and often ends up in the city’s waterways where it can come into contact with humans. Not to mention it is unsightly, smells bad and draws flies and other insects to city paths, parks and sidewalks. Using a pet waste bag is the single most effective way to dispose of waste, so make sure you have some with you before embarking on your outing.


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In light of all the election hubbub and outward political focus, there is one question students should be asking concerning their college-where is SGA?
Aside from first-year elections, the campus has heard very little from our elected student representatives. As students looked outward on the national election, our own student government and campus politics seem to have fallen to the wayside.
The upperclass students probably remember the almost omnipresent Robin Weinstein.
Every leader has a different personality and style; however, the absence of a prominent and outspoken leader may greatly impact how the SGA is perceived.
The first-years may adopt an opinion that the SGA is a defunct student organization that is a mere figurehead, a tradition that is kept for lack of anything better to replace it.
We know that this is not true because SGA has continued to impact student life and university policies. They have helped raise funds for the fitness room, added an extra day to move-in-day after winter break and submitted many other proposals.
Since there has been little news about current proposals that SGA is working on, we have cause to wonder about the involvement of the student population in campus affairs. Is SGA not looking deeply enough into the fabric of the campus community, ready to give those loose threads a pull?
As we have said in the past, a college campus can be a seedbed for revolution. Maybe students are statisfied with the status quo and are therefore not submitting recommendations and proposals.
If the election campaign frenzy and political excitement taught us anything, it should be a more vivid awareness of how important democratic systems are to the health of an institution.
We are all stakeholders in the campus community and the decisions that are made in this organization. Every student should have an invested interest in the policies and decisions that are being made at this school.
We are suggesting that students speak a little louder and that SGA digs a little deeper. Posting minutes on the SGA bulletin board is not enough. Minutes can give an overview of a meeting but are inherently ineffective in capturing the true essence of an issue.
Representatives, we want more than free food and giveaways. Engage us, challenge us and most of all communicate with us. We want to know what you are doing, even if it is nothing.
Students, the administration has done everything it can except go door to door to get you to speak out.
Silence indicates that there are no issues, no problems that could be remedied and no processes that can be strengthened or streamlined to make the university run more efficiently.
We commend those who have spoken; now, let’s do something.


Plans for twinning Kal Tire Place are dominating debate in Greater Vernon.
Leading up to Saturday’s referendum to borrow $13.2 million for the project, 16 information booths have been set up, with 675 people stopping by.
“It’s been really good to hear the concerns and questions,” said Doug Ross, the City of Vernon’s director of recreation services.
“There are some reoccurring themes. Something starts on social media and people show up at the information booths.”
Driving much of the discussion is parking at Kal Tire Place and what may happen if a second ice sheet is constructed into the north parking lot.
If the project proceeds, Ross says there will be a net loss of one parking space as existing parking is reconfigured and a new area is opened at the south end.
“When the race track issue is resolved, there will be a plan for other amenities there. We will need parking for those amenities and we can tie parking to Kal Tire Place,” said Ross.
People are also asking why Greater Vernon needs another arena.
“It’s not an extra rink, it’s a replacement for Civic,” said Ross.
Questions have also arisen about ice facility demand.
Ross says Civic is booked weekends from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. and weekdays from after school to 10 p.m. from September to April.
At Kal Tire Place and Priest Valley Arena, the ice is used from 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. on weekends and from 3:30 to 10:30 p.m. Monday to Friday. Between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., the facilities are at 75 per cent capacity with hockey clinics and other events.
Civic is not used for non-prime time ice to reduce staffing costs.
“If we have a twin facility, we create non-prime time capacity with the same staff person already at Kal Tire Place. There is no additional staffing expense,” said Ross.
Some residents have suggested significant dollars will still be pumped into Civic while the twin sheet is constructed, but Ross says that’s not the case.
“We would spend a minimum amount to keep it operational,” he said, adding that Civic would be decommissioned when a new facility opens in fall 2018.


Police have renewed their appeal for help in finding a woman who went missing from St Ives before the weekend.
Lucie Bray, 39, was last known to be out on a shopping trip in Redruth last Thursday.
She is thought to be driving a grey Volkswagen Polo, registration WK09 SJX.
Police say they are becoming “increasingly concerned” for the welfare of Lucie, who needs medicines that she is not thought to have with her.
She is being treated as a high risk missing person by police and officers have made a number of checks and searches, but to no avail.
Police are now appealing for the public’s help in tracing Lucie.
She is described as being of slim build, with short, dark hair, wearing a dark blue beanie hat, a black anorak and a dark grey body warmer.
Anyone spotting Lucie or with any information is asked to please contact police on 101 ref 418 020114.


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