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Guest blog by ASPCA President & CEO Matt Bershadker
This week, The New York Times published a comprehensive investigation into deplorable animal treatment at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Meat Animal Research Center (USMARC), a sprawling complex of laboratories in Nebraska with the overarching mission to help meat producers make more money.
There, according to the Times' exposé, newborn piglets are accidentally crushed to death by their mothers, who have been scientifically bred to give birth to unnaturally large litters. Weakened and deformed calves are born to cows "retooled" to have twins and triplets when they usually bear only one calf at a time. And lambs born in open fields were left to die excruciating deaths during an experiment to see if their mothers, normally dependent on human help, would nurture their babies despite severe weather and predators.
This barbaric animal "experimentation" is not only cruel, but wildly out of step with modern sensibilities and ethical standards. It's even more appalling that such activities—conducted with the goal of helping a private-sector industry turn a higher profit—are subsidized by U.S. taxpayers.
You'd think we'd have laws protecting animals from such abject abuse. But farm animals—both in agricultural research and in on-farm production—are indefensibly excluded from the Animal Welfare Act, which sets standards for other kinds of animal research.
The problem doesn't stop there. This research feeds a larger agricultural system that treats animals like widgets—constantly striving to produce more, bigger, faster—with little regard for their pain. According to the Times, most of the research at USMARC is being done to help beef, pork, and lamb producers make up for an increased consumer interest in alternatives, like poultry. But widespread cruelty and genetic manipulation to speed the process are also rampant in chicken production. Most chickens raised for eating are bred to grow so huge, so fast, that they can barely stand up. Many collapse under their own weight and spend much of their lives lying in their own waste, with open sores and wounds. That's why the ASPCA is actively involved in improving those conditions.
It doesn't have to be this way. More humane alternatives are available, and consumers are demanding better. If we are to live up to the ideal of a humane society, Congress must close the legal loopholes that allow such abject suffering, consumers must vote with their wallets, and the animal agri-business industry must respond.
What You Can Do Now
Please take action: Use the form below to tell Congress to pass the newly introduced AWARE Act, which would require agricultural research at federal facilities to comply with certain standards of the Animal Welfare Act.
After receiving reports on Monday of a dog wandering on New York City's Grand Central Parkway in Queens, NY, two New York City Police Department (NYPD) officers responded and found an injured pit bull puppy sitting in the middle lane of the busy roadway. The officers carried the 6-month-old pup, first called "Rocky" and now named "Huxley," to safety, and transported him first to the ASPCA's office in Queens, and then to the ASPCA Animal Hospital in Manhattan.
ASPCA veterinarians performed surgery on Huxley's broken leg, and he is expected to make a full recovery. We'd like to ask anyone who has information about Huxley to please come forward. Thanks to the NYPD officers who rescued this brave dog!
While Huxley is not yet ready for adoption, there are many other adorable dogs at the ASPCA Adoption Center who are waiting to find homes. Please visit our Adoptable Dogs page to find your next canine companion!
Curious pup Otis leaves no stone unturned! This inquisitive guy loves to sniff around and explore his surroundings—there's nothing he'd like more than a Saturday by your side roaming Central Park. This funny guy will keep you laughing with his playful antics, but, like most city dwellers, he's in a rush to get to where he's going!
At times, Otis will bark to let you know he wants something and may be protective of his food, but our Behavioral team is available to give you tips on how to control this behavior. Otis would do best in an adults-only household with an experienced adopter who can give him lots of exercise and playtime. Adopt Otis today!
Otis is available for adoption at the ASPCA Adoption Center. If you are interested in adopting, please call our Adoptions department in New York City at (212) 876-7700 ext. 4120. To learn more about Otis, please visit his profile page.
Can't adopt right now? Do the next best thing and consider making a donation to the ASPCA.
Check out Otis in action as he plays with one of his friends from the Adoption Center!
Last May, we were excited to announce that the ASPCA has dedicated $25 million to assist animals in need in Los Angeles, California in a multi-year effort. The initiative is off to a strong start—in 2014, we were able to assist thousands of Los Angeles animals and their families!
Since the launch, we have provided the following services:
- Performed 3,500 free spay/neuter surgeries for pets at the ASPCA's fully subsidized spay/neuter clinic.
- Assisted more than 1,200 animals through the ASPCA Safety Net program, designed to keep pets in their homes and out of shelters by providing services to pet owners at risk of giving up their pets.
- Relocated more than 500 animals from overcrowded Los Angeles County shelters to communities where they have a better chance of being adopted.
- Distributed more than $1.3 million in grants to local animal welfare organizations and partners.
We've also worked to form relationships with Los Angeles pet parents, ensuring that they are aware of our services:
At a neighborhood event, ASPCA Community Advocate Elizabeth Gamboa met Carmen and her 11-year-old son. Elizabeth learned that the family's four-year-old terrier mix, Chico, was not neutered, soon a follow-up visit to Carmen's home, she provided a voucher for a free neuter, as well as a free ID tag, collar and leash. Chico was neutered at the ASPCA spay/neuter clinic. The family is now an ambassador for the ASPCA.
Maria brought her Chihuahua, Fanny, to our Baldwin Park shelter on a hunch that Fanny was ill. Maria could not afford veterinary services but loves 10-year-old Fanny, whom she's had since she was a puppy. Erica Macias, the ASPCA's Baldwin Park Safety Net manager, provided a voucher for a check-up for Fanny at a nearby clinic. The ASPCA covered her veterinary bill, which included treatment and medication for ear and skin infections, as well as vaccines.
We can't wait to help more animals like Chico and Fanny in 2015! We plan to add staff and increase surgeries performed at our spay/neuter clinic, expand our Safety Net initiative and increase the capacity of our transport program. Stay tuned for more updates to come as we continue our work in Los Angeles!
Thank you to our partners on the ground in Los Angeles, including Los Angeles County Animal Care Foundation, L.A. Animal Services, County of Los Angeles Department of Animal Care & Control, Downtown Dog Rescue, The Amanda Foundation, Stray Cat Alliance, Fix Nation, The Jason Debus Heigl Foundation, Found Animals Foundation, and the Spay Neuter Project of Los Angeles (SNP LA).
Kittens and puppies are cute as can be, but there's something about senior pets that is undeniably special. Older animals often have a calm wisdom that their younger counterparts lack—but their age can make it more difficult to find them a home. Such was the case with Adrienne, a sweet senior cat who was adopted and returned to the ASPCA after eight years. Though it's heartbreaking to see an animal lose their family, it made us that much more determined to find her a home that would last. Fortunately, Katherine D. showed up and gave her the "Happy Tail" she deserved.
Adrienne was adopted in 2005 when she was a little over one year old. In September 2014, after eight years together, her previous owner returned the fetching feline because she was moving to a place that didn't allow animals. Adrienne was now ten years old—officially a "senior"—and in need of a new home. She was diagnosed with untreated asthma and bronchitis and began a steroid prescription to alleviate her discomfort. After five weeks of treatment, she was ready for adoption, and luckily, Katherine D. walked through our door at just the right moment.
Katherine grew up with many pets from shelters like the ASPCA, but it had been a number of years since she herself had been a pet parent. Once her son grew up and moved into his own apartment, the timing finally felt right for her to adopt. "Now that things are calmer, I thought it would be nice to have a pet again," she said, so she began browsing adoptable cats on the ASPCA website. That's when she spotted Adrienne.
"I saw Adrienne on the ASPCA website and I loved the way her face looked," Katherine recalls. "She looked mellow and sweet and had beautiful eyes." Katherine was also drawn toward Adrienne's age, thinking that an older cat might enjoy lots of petting and be a good lap-cat. So she headed to the ASPCA Adoption Center with Adrienne "at the top of her list."
Katherine's first meeting with Adrienne did not disappoint. She recalls, "I could tell she was calm when we opened her habitat. She had the sweet face I'd seen on the website, and she didn't seem jumpy or nervous." Vets at the adoption center informed Katherine of Adrienne's asthma and told her that she would need a once-daily pill for the foreseeable future. Adrienne said, "I was happy to look after her and give her medicine, and since she was older and had been returned, I knew she really deserved a quiet home where she could rest and be un-stressed." She adopted Adrienne that day.
At Katherine's Brooklyn apartment, Adrienne settled in right away. "When she came out of her carrier, she didn't even try to run and hide," Katherine recalls. "I just sat on the floor with her and she immediately wanted me to pet her…a lot." It was the perfect fit, and in the weeks that followed, Katherine and Adrienne's bond only grew. She now often calls her "Lady Adrienne," as she acts very regal and thinks she's a Queen!
"I think Adrienne is happy in her new home," Katherine says. "She sleeps in the sun, hops up to come see me when I get home and basically sits near me wherever I am. She's the perfect cat for me." Though it took Adrienne eight years to find Katherine, we're pretty sure this is one "forever home" that will truly last forever.
If you're interested in adopting a senior pet, check out the ASPCA's dogs and cats over the age of three.


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More than a few dairy producers have experimented with cutting corn silage hybrids higher than normal in an effort to improve digestibility. The logic: most of the highly indigestible lignin is in the lower part of the stalks. By cutting them 18" or more off the ground, a more digestible feed with less lignin is put into the silo.
University of Delaware dairy nutrition specialist Limin Kung believes planting and harvesting brown midrib (BMR) corn silage hybrids may be a more worthwhile strategy for many of those producers.
In a 2006 study, Kung compared digestibility of BMR corn silage cut at a normal height to a conventional silage hybrid cut at normal and higher-than-normal heights. He found that NDF digestibility (NDFd) was about 12% higher in the BMR silage than in other hybrids in the study.
"A limited number of studies have shown that high-cut, conventional corn silage will increase NDFd compared to conventional corn silage cut at a traditional height," notes Kung. "But the increase is just one or two percentage points. That's basically insignificant, nothing to write home about. With BMR, though, the increase in NDFd can be very significant."
When Kung fed the silages to lactating cows, he found milk production, milk protein and lactose were all greater for cows fed BMR than for cows fed the high-cut silage or the silage cut at a conventional height. Dry matter intakes were relatively constant among all three groups.
Even so, producers need to consider some possible negative factors as they mull over options for utilizing BMR corn silage as part of an overall strategy to improve forage quality. Yield drag is one concern. Typically, you'll need to plant more acres to BMR to get the same amount of feed in the silo that you'd get from traditional corn silage or dual-purpose hybrids.
The good news is that the yield drag has been decreasing in recent years.
"Not that long ago, the yield drag for BMR on average was somewhere around 10-12%," notes Karl Nestor, senior nutritionist with Mycogen Seeds, which collaborated with Kung in the 2006 study. "Now, with genetic improvements, the average yield drag is probably closer to 5%."
Reduced drought tolerance of BMR compared to non-BMR corn is another possible negative.
"It's a matter of risk management," says Kung. "If you're in a dryland situation and find yourself in a drought year, you'll likely take more of a hit on yield with BMR than you would with conventional corn silage varieties."
One strategy worth considering: Target BMR plantings to soils that hold water well.
Dairy producers will also want to make sure they're working with a nutritionist willing to accommodate BMR in the ration.
"It feeds completely different," says Nestor. "If you're working with a nutritionist who isn't willing to make the changes in the ration that go along with BMR corn silage, you'll likely have some problems."
A key factor is that BMR is relatively high in energy. That means you won't feed as much grain. Also, because BMR is so digestible, you'll need to feed more of it. Mycogen recommends a minimum feeding level of 45 lbs/cow/day to gain a milk production increase of 4-5 lbs/day. In turn, that will mean more fiber in the ration.
"Going with a higher fiber level than what they're used to could be a problem for some nutritionists," says Nestor. "Traditionally, increased fiber is negatively correlated with feed intake. What people need to understand is that, since the fiber in BMR is more digestible, intake is nota problem."
Dairy producers can help their nutritionists manage BMR feeding programs by segregating BMR and conventional silage hybrids at harvest.
"If you blend them in the silo, you'll set up a nightmare for the nutritionist," says Nestor.


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Oui. Reading Lorelle VanFossen's, What Should Bloggers Apologize For and How?, made me stop to wonder if I've ever written anything offensive to anyone on this blog. She asked if we bloggers have ever regretted anything we've written.
No Regrets
I think there's a certain freedom of expression that comes with blog ownership and if bloggers write something regrettable, the horror of the experience can be enough to shut them up forever or they'll ride the wave of backlash without batting an eyelash. I may not agree with that dumb thing they wrote, but I try to respect their right to screw up royally and I move on. Sometimes for good.
Some blog writers get their jollies by hurting people on purpose. I doubt that's anything they regret and Lorelle's post is scrambled eggs to them. While I personally don't get a rise out of sites that degrade and humiliate other people, some blogs are designed to raise hell with no apologies. That's their whole point.
A long time friend once told me that I should never have regrets. She felt they're useless feelings that clog us up with nonsense. She says there are no regrets, only lessons we need to learn.
Another friend of mine would say to me, "Kim, let that one go! You don't need that [insert decorative language here]!" In her fun way, she was trying to get me to unwrap and untangle myself so that I could be free to grow and keep experiencing new things. And make more mistakes.
Is that not what some of us do with our blogs? Our readers watch us grow, learn, change, experiment and make mistakes. We can't be absolutely perfect every day.
So, if you've written something you regret in your blog, you can either torture yourself with a personal flogging, or just let it go. The reality is your mistakes remind us that behind your typed words there is a human being trying to figure out their Way.
I'm Sorry For
Lorelle writes,
The thrill of getting the news out first or getting your thoughts out now seems to be more important than the consequences of your words visible on the screen for all to see and search engines and other services to cache and save forever.
So have you ever published something and then regretted it and had to apologize for your actions?
Here is my list, just to cover my butt.
1. I'm sorry for not staying on topic. This is because I've long since forgotten what it is.
2. I deeply regret not writing something that the kind folks at Webpronews can use every day. I never know what the heck you people want, which is nice because when you run something from here, it comes as a sweet surprise.
3. I'm sorry for writing about my family. Some of you LOVE my "baseball pants in the freezer" stories and others of you…well. You haven't learned to go with the flow here. By the way, my boy hit a home run yesterday and I got a call late last night that he made the All Star Team for the league he's in now. He's got a double header on Saturday. I will come home looking like a giddy mom lobster unless I remember to wear sunscreen. Which I won't.
Sorry. Strayed off topic there didn't I.
4. I'm so sorry I'm not naughty and "bad girl" enough. Since my days as an erotica writer are over (as if) and I have clients that expect me to be professional and gorgeously smart, I've needed to run a class act here. This means there are some styles of writing that don't quite fit the "Blogger Guidelines So That Kim Behaves" document in my head. Now. For the record. The fact that I don't talk trash in this or other blogs doesn't mean I'm not a carefree dare devil woman with a talent for potty mouth quips. Some things are simply meant for the privacy of my own car.
5. I'm sorry for the occasional expertly written article or blog post. I'd write more of them but sometimes during the day I do that funny little thing called "work".
6. I regret going on vacation and leaving you all here twiddling your thumbs because I know darned well that if I'm not here, you get out of your daily "Visit Kim's Blog" routine and when I get back, I'm forced to retrain you all again to come back every day. When DID you all become little lab mice anyway?
The hardest thing about owning a blog is being perfect. I come here because I want to talk. I like you. I think it's so cool you stopped by.
7. I'm sorry I can't hug you in person.


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Hi Ms. Kibibi, What do you think of growth serums? Have you ever tried one?
I've never used a growth serum. I say do your research on the ingredients and test it out on a small area first. I have used oils and sprays that were said to promote growth. But I don't really remember them making a huge difference. Then again, I also wasn't keeping track at the time.
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quote:someone stronger with bigger weapons than you who doesn't want you to have that freedom so they will impose their will on you by force.
quote: That's the government now.
quote:Hell, the Chinese are immigrating over here in shipping containers!
quote:Our country was built by LEGAL immigrants.
quote:That dog won't hunt.
quote:Necessity is the mother of invention.
quote:the problem isn't immigration
quote:Our country was built by ILLEGAL immigrants Slaves and whoever else we could get on the cheap.
quote: Oh, that dog hunts, precisely because of your next assertion:
quote:Market forces will find a way around 'dectectors'.
quote:Like 'Sooners'?
quote:No. Our country was built by LEGAL immigrants like my grandfather who legally immigrated here from Czechoslovakia and was willing to do an honest day's work in the PA coal mines.


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Iran says IAEA visit to Parchin not possible before new agreement is signed |
TEHRAN – Iran said on Friday that IAEA inspectors will not be allowed to visit the Parchin military site before a new agreement is finalized.
"No agreement will be made about… a visit to Parchin before the framework of a (new) modality is finalized during the negotiations," Iran's ambassador to the UN nuclear watchdog, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, told the Persian service of the Fars News Agency.
"Two days of technical and intensive talks were held during which certain disagreements were resolved and some others remained," Soltanieh said in reference to the meetings held between Iranian and IAEA officials in Tehran on January 16 and 17, during which the sides agreed to hold more talks in Tehran on February 12.
The IAEA has called on Iran to sign and implement a structured approach document to resolve the outstanding issues and has stated that gaining access to the Parchin military site, which is located southeast of Tehran, is a priority for the UN nuclear watchdog.
The IAEA has claimed that Iran might have been trying to sanitize the Parchin site of any incriminating evidence of explosive tests that would indicate efforts to design nuclear weapons. Iran has dismissed the claim and has made it clear that access to the conventional military site would not be possible before an agreement is reached on the structured approach document.
Soltanieh added, "During this round of talks, steps forward were taken, and Iran was ready to continue the negotiations for another day. But (more) talks were set for Bahman 24 (February 12) because two of the IAEA representatives were scheduled to go on a mission in another country."
According to Reuters, IAEA Deputy Director General Herman Nackaerts, who headed the eight-member IAEA delegation, said in Vienna on Friday after returning from Tehran, "We could not finalize the structured approach to resolve the outstanding issues." He gave no further details.
And in a note sent to the IAEA member states about the two-day talks, the UN nuclear agency said that "important differences" between the two sides remained, Reuters reported.
Iran will not halt uranium enrichment for a second
In an interview with Al-Alam News Network on Friday, Soltanieh said, "The negotiations with the agency were successful in terms of bringing views closer and resolving certain disagreements, but a structured approach (document) will be signed after all mutual disagreements are settled."
"Agreement was made with the agency on certain issues, but no document has been signed yet," he said, adding, "The talks with the agency will continue to solve the disagreements."
He added that Iran is ready to clear up the existing ambiguities.
Elsewhere in his remarks, Soltanieh commented on the main bone of contention between Tehran and the West, namely Iran's uranium enrichment program, and said, "Iran has not halted and will not halt enrichment even for a second."
Iran's talks with the IAEA are separate from but still related to the negotiations between Tehran and the 5+1 group (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) over the country's nuclear program, the latest round of which was held in Moscow on June 18 and 19, 2012.
According to Reuters, the lack of outcome in talks between Iran and the UN nuclear watchdog may strengthen suspicions among analysts and diplomats that Iran would make concessions to the IAEA only if it won something in return from the powers, which unlike the UN agency can ease sanctions on the country.
The six major powers have demanded that Iran halt 20 percent enrichment, shut down the Fordo uranium enrichment facility, and ship all of its stocks of 20 percent enriched uranium out of the country.
Iran's main demand is that its right to uranium enrichment, as enumerated in the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, be recognized.
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Introducing our new series – London's Queen of the City column – written by our eyes and ears across the Pond. In this installment, the Queen takes on the current economic crisis, talking about its effect on the Square Mile (a/k/a London) and the need for constant vigilance.
Writing about City folk in general and bankers in particular has been a gruesome gore-fest lately. Ever more lurid stories of greed and excess and jaw-dropping incompetence have graced broadsheet, tabloid and web pages alike for months on end. One thing the Great British Public fail to forgive is being taken for a ride and, between the banks and the parliamentary expenses scandals, it's been a helter-skelter rollercoaster ride all the way.
In time-honoured fashion, we Brits have selected one or two personalities for particular condemnation. We used to stick them in the stocks and throw rotten eggs at them, but these days we're a bit more sophisticated: they get drubbed in the media.
In UK banking, the sites are set on Sir 'Fred the Shred' Goodwin, erstwhile jugular executive at The Royal Bank of Scotland who managed to finagle a staggering pension pot considering he'd brought an august institution to its knees with pure, erm, financial irresponsibility? Mismanagement? Rotten bad luck? Whatever, you pick. Fred fled. Somewhere nice, sunny and probably rather expensive.
The tax-paying populace took it considerably amiss that their heavily taxed pounds will now pay the unlovely Fred a massive pension, payable while he is only nudging 50. Peeved the people a lot, that did. Especially since they're losing their jobs in droves, or working way past retirement age to fund their old age.
Great British pragmatism being what it is, many wage earners shrug, carry on and accept that fiddling politicians and a handful of dodgy bankers are a small price to pay for stable and pretty safe democracy with a penchant for pageantry.
Which is where I disagree.
If you want to get me all het up and in a right royal bother about business bullies, tell me a story of injustice. Especially in the workplace. Our Fred the Shred shed, well, shedloads of people in his mission to cut costs. Maybe even some of those who were warning about his bank's dangerous exposure to toxic debt and the mortgage mess. But he got away with culling vast numbers, as have others and, sadly, will again, unless the corporate culture changes rather dramatically.
Her Majesty's Government is busy tossing expensive sops to the banks to keep them afloat while thousands lose their jobs and small businesses die for want of a line of credit from those self-same banks. Not much is flowing out from the banks in the way of loans, either mortgage or business. I'm no economist, but I do find that rather startling.
Rescuing really ailing businesses is, admittedly, a tricky scenario. Rescuing a bank on the verge of crashing and burning is seen by some as criminally stupid. You don't supply Viagra to a man with a heart condition, why inject cash into an institution which managed to lose nearly all of its stash of the readies before now?
I'll 'fess up a vested interesting the banking sector: my Consort, as we will call him, has worked for some of the biggies over the years. He's been treated extremely well and utterly appallingly by some household names, all who shall remain nameless.
Consort was working for a boutique investment bank earlier this year. Last year it paid its senior execs some eye-popping bonuses. From Christmas it neglected to pay him. He was told he had to keep going into work, and that the money would be forthcoming. It wasn't. No salary, no expenses, no healthcare, no PAYE, no National Insurance for four months. Eventually, in April, he was forced to leave, luckily scoring another position elsewhere. He still hasn't been paid by his former employers.
We're off to the Employment Tribunal in August to beg them to get him his cash. Meantime, we've been told that the bank's management is busy whizzing off assets and invoiceable income from his firm into other business ventures. When they've stripped it clean, they'll close the bit of the business that employed Consort (and about twenty others – all still unpaid, we hear). So when we get to court, there will be no viable business, no money, and no way of paying him even if he wins because all the assets have been shifted out. But we're doing it anyway because you have to stand your ground and shout when things like this happen. Rolling over and playing dead just encourages more bad behaviour.
It only takes a little spot of rot to spoil the barrel of apples. Letting the little sins slide in is a slippery slope. Squeaky clean, that's what City types need to be. It may be difficult to scrub out the bad practices that have become so prevalent, but that's no excuse for not trying.
Good behaviour goes with good governance, which begets trust, and trust brings profitable transactions benefiting everyone. Time we tried it.


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Hollywood is a good example of the latter. Dragged by its dysfunctional mother, Mayor Mara Giulianti, the city keeps sliding further into the stinking sludge. I mean that almost literally, since the latest scandal centers on the city's attempt to find a company to treat and remove its biosolid waste (yes, that would be a polite term for shit).
You've probably heard the basics by now. In March, the commission chose a firm, Minneapolis-based Schwing Bioset, which had proposed a cost of $15 million more than the firm ranked best by a committee of experts. One explanation: Commissioner Keith Wasserstrom performs work for Schwing Bioset that financially benefits both him and his law partner, Stacey Giulianti, the mayor's son. Wasserstrom even represented the company before officials of his own city, including Public Utilities Director Whit Van Cott. Since I wrote about it (see "Ooh, That Smell," April 15), it's been in the daily newspapers, and the Broward State Attorney's Office has begun an investigation. Next week, the commission will decide whether to overturn the vote and take new bids for the job.
Now, I could write pages about all the irregularities in this Schwing Bioset deal, about the strange changes in the initial bidding process, about the environmental questions and the mysterious involvement of the Seminole Tribe, which has apparently promised to receive the waste on its land in the Everglades. I could talk about the suspicious sales commissions the city plans to pay to the company and Van Cott's contradictory attempts to smear any competitors. And I could describe the involvement of a fast-talking buffalo farmer from Oregon named Larry Wakinyan who coaxed Wasserstrom to join Schwing Bioset last year.
Those are all damning facts for the investigation, but what I'm interested in showing now is the powerful emotion and pathos displayed by the city's chief proponents of Schwing Bioset. The passion surrounding the contract is a telltale sign of malfeasance; it's the pounding of heartbeats under the floorboards.
It began with the March meeting, which included presentations by representatives of both Schwing Bioset and the top-ranked firm at the time, Florida-N-Viro. After admitting she had an apparent conflict of interest, Giulianti proceeded to lead the meeting anyway, interrupting and grilling N-Viro reps mercilessly while giving Schwing Bioset a free ride. Wakinyan offered an unsolicited denial that he'd bribed anyone, and Wasserstrom gave an impassioned speech about the "immense pain" Native Americans feel when raw human waste is transported in trucks.
It was weird, folks.
Two months later, on June 16, Commissioner Beam Furr, who cast the deciding "yea" for Schwing Bioset in March, told the commission he'd changed his mind. He had done some research and come to the conclusion that the best companies in the nation, including industry giant Synagro, had been excluded from the process by Van Cott's narrow bidding requirements.
So he made a motion to rescind the vote. What happened after he made the motion should be taught in civics classes to show just how depraved the democratic process can become. I'll describe it in rich detail. Enjoy the show:
With Schwing Bioset's deal in jeopardy, Giulianti quickly fell into full panic mode on the dais. Her eyes twitched uncontrollably. She nervously rubbed her chin and methodically stroked the back of her hair. As Furr spoke about the flawed process, she fidgeted for a while before loudly interrupting the commissioner in midsentence.
Addressing City Attorney Dan Abbott, she asked if her conflict of interest would preclude her from voting on Furr's motion. Abbott calmly informed her that she should not cast a ballot. Then Giulianti began rambling.
"I think it's just totally -- totally -- inappropriate...," she said of Furr's action. "I mean, there has been a lot of money spent, I would assume, and this could open us up to legal action."
"Legal challenge from...?" Abbott nudged.
"We have had people who have responded to, um, whatever we call it. RFP? Was it an RFP?"
"Yes," Abbott answered.
How reassuring. The mayor, while discussing a contract worth tens of millions of dollars over the next several decades, didn't even know it was based on a "request for proposal."
The mayor continued, referring to Schwing Bioset: "Then they expended money and God knows how many weeks flying back and forth. I am very uncomfortable... I want to ask your opinion if we are vulnerable in any way that you could see legally."
"No, I don't think so," Abbott said.
There went the legal card. For the next several minutes, Abbott and other commissioners explained the rules of government to the flustered Giulianti, who muttered things like, "It's embarrassing and upsetting."
Furr, a school teacher by trade, then addressed Van Cott, a burly man with thinning brown hair who looks younger than his 57 years. He asked a simple question about the process.
"I believe the confidence of this commission has left me...," Van Cott said in a loud voice teetering with emotion. "I don't know that I can continue to do this. I can't pull rabbits out of hats. You have gotten the very best of me during the last nine years. My real question is if you still have confidence in me as a utility director, because if you don't, I am leaving. OK?"


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Joe and Sue Dolezal, Hays, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary Nov. 3 at the Smoky Hill Country Club, 3303 Hall, in Hays.
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I stayed here: http://www.oldpraguehostel.com/ nearby to the city and cheap. And quiet! :o) Have nice trip!
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plus prague!! definetly the best hostel with sauna and swiming pool and 5 min by tram to the centre...very cheap and clean...plusprague.com
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Personally I would recommend Clown and Bard Hostel - it's very cheap (259Kc per person per night in room for 6 people)- it's about 10min from the centre in a very quiet part of town and the atmosphere beside the bar is great.
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I've stayed in a hostel, the A&O Hostel. It is a good and cheap one, although not in the downtown. You can get there fast by subway, though.
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If you want somewhere cheap but like a party and not worried about standards, then Clown & Bard hostel. If you want somewhere cheap and homey, but a little more laid back, Sir Toby's Hostel.
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Great city, don't miss the opera, its state subsidized, easy to get tickets and the cheapest in Europe.
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I stayed at Yasmine Hotel. It was great ! Modern, friendly and the breakfast... wow!
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I traveled to Prague in 2008 and stayed at APARTHOTEL CITY which is located at 5 VLTAVSKA 11
PRAHA 5 - SMICHOV www.appartamento.cz.
It's with in walking distance to the Prague Castle and the charles street bridge. all you do is follow the river.
The Owners are Kristina and Gastone, Kristina is a funny go lucky person they can also arrange for pickup from the main Prague Rail station as the Taxi drivers can be over powering for people who are visiting Prague for the first time. Pick pockets are running rife in Prague and there are warnings every where about it. if you catch a taxi insist that they use the meter, if they don't, move to the next one who will. As the Hotel name says, it's an apartment, breakfast you have to pay for and other meals you have to go looking for your self. I booked the hotel through Venere, just do a search for date and location.
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It is not difficult to look for the cheap hotels if you know how and where to search for them. Cheap hotels can be found all over the place. You can find the cheap hotels wherever you go and it can also change your trip. What so amazing about the cheap hotels is that it can tighten your budget and enable you to experience the real holiday. The question is where these cheap hotels can be found.
What you may not know is there are many websites online that focus solely on providing you with discount hotels, flights, car rentals and the like. So, finding cheap hotel rates is as simple as searching online.
To help you better I am referring you one website that is specializing in cheap flights, hotels, and cruises. Visit http://www.flightnetwork.com/hotels. You can use the top left form to find discount hotel rooms in 1000+ destinations worldwide. Multiple hotel booking providers are queried for your reservation request and the results are combined together so you can compare room rates and choose the best hotel deal.
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I stayed at Hostel Elf. It was cheap and good and close to the city. I recommend you stay at Hostel Elf. There are a lot of hostels in Prague that are cheap and nice. You can read reviews on hostelworld.com You'll love it there, it's a great city.
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HomeTVAll My ChildrenEXCLUSIVE: Ex-Soap Bad Boy Victor Alfieri Talks Southland, Ron Howard and The Days of His Hollywood Life Jamey Giddens January 18, 2013 All My Children, Days of Our Lives, Southland, The Bold and the Beautiful, TNT 1 Comment Italian cop-turned-Hollywood player Victor Alfieri's life would make the basis for quite the compelling character on a daytime soap opera. Maybe that's why he ended up starring in so many when he arrived in La La Land from Rome? I recently caught up with the multi-soap alum to dish about his recurring role as passionate journalist Victor Cifuentes in TNT's Southland, which will premiere its latest season on Feb. 13. After he provides a sneak peek into what his character will be up to this season on Southland, talk turns to what a full circle moment it was for Alfieri to play a cop in 2009's Angels and Demons, the sequel to Ron Howard and Tom Hanks' monster box office hit The Da Vinci Code. Alfieri also shares deets about his turn playing a billionaire who goes penniless per his dad's dying wish in the romantic comedy A Secret Promise. Then we chat about the multi-tasking star moving behind-the-scenes to write and direct his own projects. Oh and for any lady hoping to get next to Days of Our Lives' former Franco Kelly — you gotta be down with his dog! Daytime Confidential: Soap opera fans know you from your turns as sexy, foreign villains on Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, All My Children and Passions. Now you're recurring on the hit cable drama Southland. What would you say is the biggest difference between doing a daytime drama vs. a primetime one? Victor Alfieri: As an actor I find no difference, simply because I love acting and every time I have a chance to perform, theater, commercials, films or TV, I do exactly the same thing — express myself. I love it and embrace it. If I really have to pick a difference, then it's the time element. In primetime or film, we have more time to work on the material and more takes to nail our performance. In daytime everything moves fast. You have to be that good. DC: Southland is set to return February 13 on TNT. Can you give us a sneak peek of what's in store for your character, journalist Victor Cifuentes? VA: Victor is still involved in the Sammy/Tammi storyline. He is still in love with Tammi and taking care of her and the baby. She now lives at his place. That upsets Sammy who still comes around and gives her a hard time. I always liked the show, the way it is filmed. It is very close to reality. DC: Prior to moving to Hollywood from Rome, you worked as an Italian police officer. Does being on the set of a cop drama feel like a full circle moment for you? VA: Not so much on Southland, since I play a reporter, but it definitely felt that way when I played a cop in Angels and Demons. I remember the audition process in that movie, four times before I met with Ron Howard. After the meeting he told me, "Well, I guess life is coming full circle for you. Now you are going to play a cop in this movie." I learned a lot from Ron, from the audition process to the actual filming. DC: You snagged the lead in the rom-com A Secret Promise, playing a billionaire playboy who gives up the glamorous life for one month, in order to fulfill his father's dying wish. What kind of research did you do to get into your character, Ferro Olivetti's, head? VA: The director Fred Manocherian took a chance. He believed in me and in my accent [Laughs]. I said accent, because the role was written for an American. I remember reading the script, and the scene that really struck me the most was Ferro's father dying. I related to that. I remember when my grandfather died. He was my father figure. Well, Fred made me screen test on that scene, and I nailed it. Otherwise, I could not relate to the fact that Ferro was a billionaire. I am not. But I definitely could relate to Ferro living penniless for a month. I mean I've been there. I moved to LA after I left the police force with one suitcase and $600. One Response maxsmom January 19, 2013 Mr. Alfieri has popped up on many of my favorite shows over the years and God Bless him for a successful graduation from soaps with a healthy, respectful attitude and for overcoming the curse of being insanely handsome. Log in to Reply Leave a Reply Cancel Reply You must be logged in to post a comment.
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And Then The Dark at the New Wolsey Theatre. A psychological thriller by Michael Lesslie. Pictures: Mike Kwasniak
By WAYNE SAVAGE, entertainment writer
Monday, February 11, 2013
It has been seven years since the fire; seven years since a mother and son died in the attic; seven years since Edward locked the door.Seven years later, he still sits in the room below, tormented by their ghosts, refusing to accept they are gone.
So begins And Then The Dark, Michael Lesslie's psychological terror laced thriller which gets its world premiere at Ipswich's New Wolsey tonight.
"That's very much the set up for the ghost play part of it as it were; there was a terrible accident, the husband and father of the people missing in the accident and presumed dead is haunted by it, but haunted by a reason beyond [just] that. A sense of guilt starts to come to bear today as a plot gradually unravels that has a more present threat than something seven years ago."
And that's all you are getting re the plot.
Michael came up with idea after talking with CMP, with whom he adapted the acclaimed West End play Swimming With Sharks, about why nobody was staging old style thrillers like Ghost Train, Gaslight and Rope.
One of the things he enjoyed about Swimming With Sharks was that it was comic; if the audience were laughing he'd pull it off, it was a visceral, immediate reaction. When he started reading thrillers and horrors, he realised scaring people was the same thing.
"I got excited about what would it take to do something that was really traditional but felt contemporary, wouldn't it be great to maximise the idea of the audience in the room, go 'right, let's stick the conventions, let's make it a single room, let's make the drama run in real time like a gradual choke hold on the audience'."
All the best of the old plays have a contemporary anxiety at their heart, he says.
"I don't want to give too much away but I thought the trust or distrust of a younger generation and a fear of increasing nihilism today, a lack of faith in the world beyond us when so much has been discovered and everything can be rationalised by science so what's happened to faith? Can you still believe and as a result can you still believe in ghosts.
"Also on a human level.. you asked what scares the actors, one of the things that scares me the most is regret. I looked at all these old ghost plays and they're all about regret. You look at thrillers and they're all about the present something coming to get you so marrying the two of them and bringing regret to bear today for a character was a real challenge. I'm as excited and nervous as the cast, waiting to see if it works or not."
In this day of high budget TV shows, films and computer games, is it harder to scare people face-to-face?
"I'm going to shoot myself in the foot here but I think the stage is the most effective way of doing it. I wouldn't say it's the most effective way of the scare lasting, film and novels can land a scare with you and truly haunt you for weeks. [But] being in the room with the thing terrifying you... that's scary."
So, what can audiences expect?
"I think they can expect a thrilling night out in the theatre, an entertaining ride that takes them on a journey but one also with real characters at its heart and that's hopefully moving and gives them something to think about. First and foremost it's meant to be a ball, you're meant to have a good night out in a kind of scary thrilling way."
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When doing a typical 5 gallon batch, or 10 or whatever volume your recipe called for; is that the pre fermentation volume, or is it the volume that you go for minus trub loss??? This is something I've always wondered. I myself have pitched yeast with both about 5 gallons of wort as well as a little bit more to give me 5 gallons after fermentation. The differences in the 2 are probably very minute but they are still present. What is the correct volume to have pre Germantown, and iftit really doesn't matter what do a lot of you guys go for and why?
Pre-fermentation* lol. For some reason my homebrewtalk app was glitchy and I was typing blindly for those last 2 lines.
I aim for 5.5 pre ferment so I get a full 5 in the keg.
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This is something I've been striving to get a better handle on every time I brew. I'm getting more and more familiar with my kettle (8 gal Megapot) and have found that if I collect 6 gallons and 1 quart from the lauter tun and maintain a "vigorous boil" for 60 min, I'll have roughly 5 gallon 1 qt after cooling and will end up with 5 gallons in the fermentor(s). This is a wide pot, and I think I'm loosing a lot to evaporation during the boil, but if I turn the heat down any more my boil will be less than "vigorous."
I design 95% of my recipes myself, so I aim for whatever I want to end up with post-fermentation. That amount varries depending on the size fermenter I have available usually. I brew from 1 to 6 gallons and anywhere in between. When I start kegging I'll likely design recipes so I end up with 5+ gallons of finished product.
I aim for 5 gal in the keg, which requires about 6 gal post boil on my system for an IPA, less hoppy beers a bit less.
I design my recipes for 7 gallons. I put 7 gallons in the fermenter
I usually target the amount that ends up in the keg after fermentation. So, for IPAs with lots of dry hops, I will usually design the recipe for 5.5-6 gallons into the fermenter. For other stuff that's going to ferment for a week and then go straight to the keg, (e.g. a mild) I will usually have 5.25 gallons into the fermenter, and leave about a quart behind as trub.


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"… so I was blown away by all the adaptations that can be made to a computer to make it fit the needs of a client."
"Microsoft has gone the extra mile on their computers to allow more people to use them."
"I thought the Microsoft accessibility options were awesome. To be able to completely control your computer with your voice is world changing for those with mobility issues. "
Students were asked to reflect on the presentation and discuss how the use of at least one of these features with a client would demonstrate their skill to integrate technology into their daily practice to support activities of daily living (ADL). As pedagogy would predict when students are learning new information they draw on what they know. For many of them they related the usefulness of the features they had just learned to family members with disabilities who have difficulty operating a computer. In one such example a student reflected on the usefulness of being able to modify the mouse:
"Another Accessibility option I think is useful is the mouse speed option (double click speed). For some reason my father has a hard time double clicking the mouse. It's funny because he thinks the harder you press, the faster it should go. Maybe that's why he does not like the iPhone. Anyway, the mouse speed really helped him open up icons on the screen faster. His dexterity with the left click sometimes makes it frustrating to him and [he] often gives up or waits until I come over.
Sometimes he claims that the mouse is not working but most of the time it is because he has failed to double-click the mouse with the right speed and touch. The mouse speed option allowed him to open up more icons on his own at the speed and touch he is comfortable with.
Reading the reflections students clearly conveyed a sense of eagerness to share their new knowledge with family, friends and future clients. Several commented on the importance of what they learned to their future work.
"They [accessibility features] would allow people independence to use their computers which has now become a major part of most of our lives today. By clients being able to use their technology independently, they are less of a burden on their caregivers and have the freedom to browse the web as they would like."
"The most important thing I think I could teach any client, though, is how to get to the Ease of Access Center. A client with just a little curiosity could figure out a great deal on their own if they knew about these features."
"By knowing these kinds of options on Microsoft, I could help the client to maximize the abilities that they still possess to their greatest advantage."
Working with professors and students in the Auerbach School of Occupational Therapy is just one of many ways enTECH seeks to fulfill its mission to provide information and assistance on assistive technology in the Kentuckiana region. Through these educational experiences we hope to enhance the health, wellness, and independence of children and adults with disabilities through the provision of creative assistive technology services and device solutions.


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Does Delilah go with her siblings?
Hi! I am new on this forum, and am pregnant with a baby girl due in May. I currently have 6 children:
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Lillyia Skye & Rosaleigh Rayne "Lilly and Rosie" (4)
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We were pregnant with Lilly and Rosie when we adopted Carter and Jude. We were gonna stop after we had Mary-Grace, but here we are again...
We have a list of baby names we like... what are your thoughts??:
Alleria (who we would probably call Ally)
Out of the list our favorite name is Delilah. While me and my husband love the name our family members seem to think its too close to Lillyia. What are your thoughts? Thanks!
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Delilah is too close to Lillyia and I think it sounds a little out of place with the rest of your kids. From your list, I'd also avoid Makenzie (you already have two Ma- names) and Leigha (Rosie's name ends in -leigh).
I like Amelia and Shiloh the best with Mason, Carter, Lilly, Rosie, and Mary-Grace.
If you like Alleria, what about Allegra or Eliora? Both have a nicer sound, IMO.** The opinions expressed above are not meant to be reflective of Nameberry as a whole but are my opinion and mine alone. **
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1. Twisted Blues 5:31 2. Cotton Tail 2:16 3. I Wish I Knew 5:30 4. I'm Just A Lucky So And So 5:55 5. Repetition 3:48 6. Something Like Bags 4:44 7. While We're Young 2:18 8. One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 7:38
Wes Montgomery appeared as leader or co-leader on a dozen Riverside albums, in a wide variety of formats ranging from organ trios to one with full string orchestra. Some of the most rewarding simply placed him in a studio with a superior rhythm section and let him deal with a mixture of ballads, blues, and swingers. This album, his fourth for the label, is a notable example of this straightforward approach. It features the flawless support of Ron Carter (in one of his very first sessions) and Hank Jones, and includes Montgomery's only entirely unaccompanied recording: "While We're Young."
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"I want to enjoy high quality golfing action. I can't get out of my super luxury home in this scorching heat." How many seconds would you need to dismiss anybody saying these lines as absurd? Not many, surely. However, Interactive Sports Technologies does not think this way. Impossible is never too difficult for the creative geniuses at Interactive Sports Technologies, who have now come up with a miracle device in the form of the High Definition Golf Simulator. It is 'so real' that it is 'barely unreal enough' to let you look forward to the real golf course!
The wraparound screen of this simulator presents a terrifically wide field of view. Depend on the ultra high resolution graphics to recreate the ideal golf setting for you in the living area of the castle you call home. Though this is not the first golf simulator to hit this unique market segment, but it certainly is among the most technologically precise and loaded ones. The tracking and measurement systems that translate yore movements to on screen action are so sophisticated that you would not be allowed to blame the inaccuracy of technology when you mistime your strokes. The simulator doubles up as a home theatre, so there is no value missing anywhere. The screen resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels combines wonderfully well with the 16:9 aspect ratio, the result of which is a life like display on the mega screen. Did we mention the touch screen facility? The world' most famous championship courses are all compressed and laid out in your home, courtesy the High Definition Golf Simulator from Interactive Sports Technologies.


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Paddy Moore MMA Workout
Bench Press (narrow grip)- 5 sets x 5 reps
Push Press/Bench Press- 3 sets x 3 reps
Seated Dumbbell Press-2 sets x 10 reps
Dips (Bodyweight)-2 sets x 12 reps
Dips (Weighted)- 2 sets to Failure
Close Grip Pulldowns- 3 sets x 10 reps, 8, 8
Deadlift- 5 sets x 5 reps
Bent Over Rows (Barbell and Dumbbell)- 2 sets x 10, 8, 8
Hammer Curls- 2 sets x 10 reps
Shrugs and Neck- 3 sets x 15 reps, 2 sets to Failure
Squats- 5 sets x 5 reps
Hamstring Curls- 3 sets x 12 reps, 10, 8
Abductor-3 sets x 12, 10, 8
Donkey Calf Raises-4 sets x Absolute Failure
Rolling Thunder (Grip Machine)-6 sets x Failure
Paddy also incorporates the following into these routines:
Floor Press- 3 sets x 10 reps, 8, 8
Power Cleans-3 sets x 12 reps, 10, 10, 8
Grapple Press-4 sets x 10 reps
Use axles instead of Olympic Bars
Strongman Stuff-Tire Flip, Log Press, Farmer's Walk, etc.
Work more on single reps for explosive power
Conditioning Routine:
30 Second Sprints at Max Heart Rate w/ 30 second rest
4 Mile Runs at a 6 Minute Mile Pace
Training at the Gym-Striking, Grappling, Wrestling, Takedowns, Calisthenics, Pushups, Pullups, Burpees, etc.
Paddy's strength trainer is Rob Frampton, who is a UK strongman athlete and owner of Strength-Tec, a strongman specialist gym in his area and training camp of the Portsmouth Strongman Association
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For planing places to visit in Mysore , let's divide this into three groups based on the distance from Mysore city. Further down you'll see the places based on orientation from Mysore.
1. Attractions in Mysore city
2. Attractions near Mysore
3. Places around Mysore
The first group is typically a few kilometers apart (about 15-30 minutes travel between attractions). The second group of attractions are located well outside the city, but are popular day trips from Mysore (about 1 hour travel from Myosre city). The last category of attractions are at some distance ( say, about 100km or 2hours ) from Mysore which are popular attractions around Mysore.
If your Mysore tour has a day's time or more to spare, consider other nearby attractions too. Practically there are way too many places one can visit keeping Mysore as base. It may require many day trips to cover even all those popular ones scattered around Mysore. If you are having limited time , pick a few based on your taste and time available. Various routes to explore places around Mysore is described below.
Places around Mysore city
Towards Somnathpur (east of Mysore)
Towards the eastern side is the ancient capital of Talakadu with numerous temples buried under sand dunes.
Near to Talakkadu is Somnathpur, known for the Hoysala style Keshava temple. If you start early, Sonmathpur and other attractions in the city can be covered in a day.It will be quite a whirlwind and needs your private transport. Also you you may skip Srirangapatna for Somnathpur.
Further east of Somnathpur is Shivanasamudra (Bluff) with the twin waterfalls – Gaganachukki and Barachukki ( Bharachukki). Mysore to Somnathpur distance is about 40km. Somnathpur to Talakadu is some 30km.
Bluff is another 35km northeast of Talakadu.
Somnathpur-Shivanasamudra-Talakadu make a triangular route ideal for a days trip, if one can start a bit early from Mysore and prepare for a bit hectic schedule. Both Shivanasamudra and Talakadu involves some trek. The road conditions near Somnathpur is not that great, add an extra 30min.
Also if you are traveling back to Bangalore direction, consider the NH209. You'll save time in driving back to Mysore.
Madikeri and Coorg area (west of Mysore)
Coorg district (with Madikeri ,its district capital ) located west of Mysore is popular tourist hub by itself. Coorg region is also a day trip destination from Mysore.
Tibetan settlement Bylakuppe is one its kind of place in this part of the country, further up Nisargadhama island is a popular picnic destination.
Madikeri town, the headquarters of Coorg too has numerous attractions.
West of Madikeri , about 45km from Madikeri town is Talakaveri and Bhagamandala. Talakaveri is the fountainhead of Kaveri river in the western ghats.There are some stunning views of the rolling western ghats on the way.
On the southern fringes of Coorg district is Nagarhole, a very popular national park and Irippu falls on the fringes. So is Dubare Elephant Camp, 30km east of Madikeri town and 100km west of Mysore. All these can make a ideal theme for an excursion from Mysore.
The distance from Mysore to Madikeri is about 120 km. That means about 3-4 hours travel by road.To that extend it is a very busy trip from Mysore, if you are thinking for returning to Mysore on the same day from Madikeri.
Kukke Subramanya and Dharmastala are important pilgrimage centers near Mysore. Mysore to Kukke Subramanya is shorter by the Bisle Ghat route (about 170km). However a more drive-able route is via Madikeri (about 200km)
Towards Ooty (south of Mysore)
Another doable day trip from Mysore is a combination of Bandipur (National Park) and Himavad Gopalaswamy Betta. This is on the Mysore to Ooty route.
And further southwest , about 140km from Mysore is the Wayanad district of Kerala, nestled in the Western Ghats known for its natural beauty. See also Mysore to Wayanad for driving directions.
Kabini River and Nagarhole National Park too are located southwest of Mysore. The legendary Kabini Jungle Lodge and many resorts Orange County, Bison Resort, Serai Kabini, Warterwoods etc
Towards Belur (northwest of Mysore)
A highly popular day trip from Mysore is Belur, Halebid and if you are willing for a trek, Shravanabelagola.
While the first two are popular tourist attractions for its dexterously carved Hoysala temples, Shravanabelagola is a very important Jain pilgrimage center.
The 17 meters (55 feet) tall Gomateshwara ( or Bahubali ) statue at the hilltop is considered as one of the largest monolithic statues in the world.
Mysore to Belur is some 150km. Halebid is another 18km northeast of Belur. Shravanabelagola is around 85km north of Mysore. Head towards Hunsur from Mysore. After Bilikere turn right towards Hassan. From Hassan you can head for Belur, Halebid and Shravanabelagola.
Beyond Belur is Chikmaglur , a popular hill station with numerous coffee plantations.
Towards Srirangapatna and beyond (north of Mysore)
Another popular religious destination in this direction from Mysore is the Vaishnava site, Melkote, that's about 50km from Mysore. On the way to Melkote some 40km north of Mysore is Tonnuru Kere, a popular spot among youngsters looking for some weekend splash.
Mandya on the way to Bangalore has many Hoysala era soapstone carved temples.
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Forget the beard, sideburns and seventies shades. Beneath that facade lies the most successful Formula One driver never to win a Grand Prix. And this weekend hes back. In an F1 race career spanning more than a decade, Nick Heidfeld has scored 219 points and stood on the second step of the podium no less than eight times. Quite a record.
So what can we expect when Quick Nick returns to the BMW Sauber fold in Singapore this weekend? More of the same would be a pretty safe bet. True, the F1.09 does not have the pace to add to his podium tally - and is certainly not likely to power him to that elusive maiden win - but it is more than capable of delivering the German a top-ten finish after 14 races away.
Heidfelds new team mate Kamui Kobayashi has proved that, scoring points at four of the last six rounds. It is the young Japanese that Heidfeld needs to emulate and not the departing Pedro de la Rosa, unceremoniously dropped by the Swiss squad after contributing just once to their 2010 championship tally.
Getting back in the groove should not be a problem for Heidfeld, who split with BMW Sauber at the end of 2009 after the German car giant quit the team and the sport. A new technical director aside - James Key, ex-Force India, replaced Sauber stalwart Willy Rampf in April - he is returning to a family he knows well, having previously spent a total of seven seasons at Hinwil.
Plus he has had recent track time in a Formula One car. It was something hed been getting precious little of in his original 2010 role as Mercedes GP reserve, but his recent switch to Pirelli tyre tester saw him racking up serious mileage in a 2009 Toyota. Back behind the wheel after several months away, it was hardly surprising the 33 year-old then jumped at the chance of a race return.
Some would argue he should have bided his time. With a few more Pirelli tests under his belt the value of his accrued knowledge of the Italian companys 2011 tyre offering might have proved seriously tempting to other teams. Then again, with the frontrunners having already firmed up their pairings for next season, and with BMW Sauber on the rise, finding a better offer may have proved tricky.
There is, of course, no guarantee Heidfeld will be sitting in a BMW Sauber cockpit next year. He has only been confirmed for the rest of 2010, which means he has just five races to prove hes still got what it takes, assuming there is even a vacancy for next season. And after his experience with De la Rosa, Peter Sauber will be expecting his new driver to deliver from the off, in all departments.
There is no reason he shouldnt. Singapore is a circuit he likes. He finished a strong sixth in 2008s inaugural Marina Bay race, even though 2009s was a miserable affair - he qualified eighth, was penalised for an underweight car (after a ballast mix-up by the team), started from the pit lane and then recorded his first DNF in 35 races after being taken out by compatriot Adrian Sutil.
The BMW Saubers performance will almost certainly be better than at low-downforce Monza and all being well he can even use his old seat from 2009. If the cars reliable, hell get it to the finish - after all this is the man who achieved a record 41 consecutive race classifications (until Sutil intervened).
The real question is how quickly will he get it there? Kobayashi will be a tough benchmark, given his strong form of late and his knowledge of the car - knowledge that Heidfeld would be well advised to plunder in Friday practice at Marina Bay. Kobayashi also has less pressure on his shoulders - he has already proved his worth this season and, as a result, is confirmed for the next.
To Heidfelds advantage, he knows the circuit while his team mate doesnt. And last year he out-qualified a certain Robert Kubica around it in identical machinery. He also has 167 Grand Prix starts on his side - thats over 150 more than the man on the other side of the garage. All in all it should make for a fascinating battle of youth versus experience. And Nick Heidfelds F1 future could just hinge on the outcome.
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