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E. HOLMES DISTRICT -- While the rest of the students enjoyed a snow day, junior Trey Hawkins made his way north to an unlikely winter destination.
After stopping briefly at a Goodwill store, where his partner scored a "new" shirt, the teens continued on to a deserted Cedar Point, where they engulfed themselves in interviewing park personnel and shooting video footage.
Hawkins, a roller coaster enthusiast, was drawn to the Sandusky amusement park as the first step in a long process of making a video short, to be included in an upcoming episode of "Inside the Nest," Hiland High School's video news production.
Enrolled in the school's digital media class, Hawkins is a member of the "Inside the Nest" staff.
The class is taught by information technology coordinator Rob Moser, and it is being transitioned into the enrichment/art curriculum under the guidance of Chris Franks, who is learning the ropes from Moser as they team teach this year.
Franks spent the past several years teaching art in the valley elementary schools -- Charm, Flat Ridge and Wise -- but lost his job when budget cuts forced a reduction in force for the current school year.
The district's enrichment teacher was retiring, and "we didn't want an unemployed art teacher," said Superintendent Joe Edinger, who said Franks, now employed through the Tri-County Educational Service Center, works in the district by contract, and the district can use enrichment funds to provide the class.
The program, started by Moser about 10 years ago, got its beginnings as an extracurricular, but has since been worked into the curriculum, offered as an elective to juniors and seniors.
One of the first things they learn is the "10 fingers." Now, well into the second semester of instruction, the 13 students easily recite the 10 key factors to consider when shooting video: Wide, tight and medium (angles), action and reaction, eyes and nose (vertical and horizontal alignment), direction, audio and lighting. Following these rules even those students who lack a natural eye for composition can be successful, he said, often telling students that by keeping those "10 fingers" in mind, "you will never watch TV the same again."
They use video cameras, still cameras, computers and a variety of programs for editing sound and images. They do far more than producing a news program.
They've done a photo montage, Christmas song videos and right now are working on stop-motion animation, bringing together more than 300 frames of still images to form 30 seconds of video. Mixed media can include anything from typical clay sculptures to candy pieces, Legos, paper and other objects that can be manipulated and re-arranged.
It's another way of telling a story, said Franks, noting, "art, in its purest form, started as a means to communicate. It's transformed over the years, and now we have moving motion pictures."
Within the class, students are given great artistic freedom. Junior Hunter Herrera has focused more on audio than video, investing about seven hours of time in layering and mixing tracks from Frank Sinatra's "That's Life" with The Glitch Mob's "Beyond Monday."
"I like the sound of The Glitch Mob and I've always liked Frank Sinatra, Herrera said, explaining his inspiration for the yet-incomplet four- to five-minute audio piece.
Beyond the actual projects they work on, the class teaches students about teamwork and budgeting their time, said Moser, who will hand over the reins to Franks come next year.
Franks, who continues to teach art in the elementary school, said he hopes to apply what he's learned from Moser and expand on some of the visual arts, including experimentation with text, graphics, color and shadows.
"We're working with creative thinkers," he said, noting he will continue to draw on creative suggestions from his youngest students, who have few boundaries when it comes to expressing themselves artistically.
Reporter Christine L. Pratt can be reached at 330-674-5676 or by email at email@example.com.


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The RCMP in Nova Scotia are dismissing a reference in a Supreme Court of Canada decision that says they did not adequately respond to a woman's calls for help before she tried to hire a hit man to kill the husband she said was abusing her.
The case of Nicole Ryan attracted national attention last month when the Supreme Court took the rare step of ordering a stay of proceedings, saying it would be unfair to subject her to a new trial.
Ms. Ryan was arrested in 2008 when she tried to hire an undercover RCMP officer to kill Michael Ryan, who was accused in court documents of threatening to kill her and her daughter. The teacher from southwestern Nova Scotia was originally acquitted of counselling to commit murder in 2010, a decision that was upheld by the province's appeal court.
In its Jan. 18 ruling that stayed the charges, the Supreme Court also questioned the RCMP's conduct in the case, saying it was "disquieting" that police mounted a sting operation to arrest Ms. Ryan rather than respond to her husband's threats.
"It seems that the authorities were much quicker to intervene to protect Mr. Ryan than they had been to respond to her request for help in dealing with his reign of terror over her," the ruling said.
"While she had engaged the police and other agencies in an effort to assist her in the past, the evidence was that her problems were viewed as a 'civil matter.'"
Ms. Ryan's lawyer, Joel Pink, has argued that his client called police at least nine times seeking protection from her husband. Mr. Pink could not be reached for comment Friday.
In response to the criticism of how the Mounties responded to Ms. Ryan's calls, the commanding officer for the RCMP in Nova Scotia released a statement on Friday saying officers had acted appropriately and professionally.
Assistant commissioner Alphonse MacNeil said an internal review confirmed the RCMP did not receive a "multitude" of complaints from Ms. Ryan about domestic violence.
"We responded when she called us," Mr. MacNeil said in an interview. "If she had given us information when we were there to indicate that she had been assaulted or threatened, we would have proceeded with laying a charge."
He said he didn't know how many times police responded to Ms. Ryan's residence or how many times she called to ask for help. But he said there was only one time – in November 2007 – when she accused her husband of threatening her, which resulted in a charge of uttering threats against Mr. Ryan.
Mr. MacNeil said a court order subjected Mr. Ryan to several conditions and police seized weapons from his home, but the charge was later withdrawn by the Crown.
The RCMP commander said some of Ms. Ryan's other calls to police involved civil matters, such as arguments the separated couple were having over ownership of property.
At one point, he said, police were called because the couple's dog had been left outside in the cold, again because of a dispute over ownership.
"Those examples have nothing to do with domestic violence," Mr. MacNeil said.
"Based on my review, there was nothing in there … where we could lay charges or take further action."
Mr. MacNeil stressed he was concerned media reports had suggested the RCMP wasn't interested in dealing with domestic violence.
"There was an impression left that we didn't respond when she called. We did respond when she called. We did what we could to protect her in those cases."
Mr. Ryan came forward shortly after the Supreme Court decision to argue that the allegations against him are false, and that he was never given the opportunity to defend himself in court.
Mr. Pink has said he has no doubt his client is telling the truth and that the trial judge made a finding on evidence. The Crown says Mr. Ryan was not called because it was felt his evidence wasn't necessary to refute his wife's defence of duress.Report Typo/Error

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Chipotle Cranberry Date Chutney: "Don't feed bears!"
Generally on Thanksgiving the cranberry sauce is the odd man out. Either it's guiltily shimmied out of a tin can and onto a small plate, homemade and then somewhat forgotten in the rush to get a first piece of pie, or just plain admired for its good looks against the turkey's pale flesh. This year we decided to try something different. I had found this fabulous recipe for Cranberry-Date Chutney from One Hot Stove. I felt it needed a little smokiness and some citrus so we added a chipotle and some orange zest. The result was spectacular and unexpected. Not only was it a prize at the table, we've been using the leftovers ever since. It kept really well considering there's no dairy or other highly perishable ingredients.
We put it into three beautiful pies to give some sweet and smokey umph to berries and apples. It was my first try at a butter crust! She was an incredible, flaky crust, but what a fussy little b*tch. Any overworking and she turned tough and hard. Thankfully, though we coaxed her into flaky submission.
We also swirled the chutney with yogurt and mixed it with wheat berries, nuts, and dried fruit for a smokey alternate to Heidi's Wheat Berry Breakfast Bowl.
The special sauce that perks up the oldies at a holiday party is everyone's favorite.
Beware of Bear
In other news a black bear has been roaming around near our back door. There was a 75 pound pumpkin not two feet from our door that the bear helpfully rolled down the front steps and ceremoniously plopped 10 feet away before abandoning the project altogether. We spent a few days all asking each other who had moved the pumpkin. When our horticulturist extraordinaire, Tom, rolled it over he discovered the above claw marks. Upon further investigation he found a huge bear print heading off of our front walk. Previous bear sightings included my dad encountering the bear in the driveway and Matt spotting it out by our wood shed some 100 feet from the door. We are accumulating a number of local black bear stories. The males, who can reach 600 pounds and 6 feet in height, have been spotted in the yards and dumpsters of many surrounding neighbors.
An electrician, Jeremy, who came to install lights near mom's pizza oven admits to (probably drunkenly) feeding a bear marshmallows from the safety (ahem) of his deck through the (presumably skimpy) wooden railing. He considered the bear, "a dumb, lumbering animal" while it first seemed disinterested with the marshmallow and shuffled forwards and backwards, and then finally chomped down on one. Before he knew it, however, the bear spotted his cat and lept over Jeremy's head to grab the small feline, which thankfully flew indoors like cats do. The moral of Jeremy's story, as he so eloquently and wisely put it while he stood stunned on his porch and nearly escaped death: bears are not dumb. Our moral: humans are dumb. Stay tuned for more stories…
Chipotle Cranberry Date Chutney
3 cups fresh cranberries, rinsed and any bad ones discarded
3 cups dates, seeded and chopped
3 cups water
Sea salt
Zest of 1/2 orange
1 chipotle, stem removed and wiped down with a wet paper towel
Bring all the ingredients, except the chipotle, to a boil on medium in a heavy-bottomed sauce pan. Once it comes to a boil, add the chipotle and turn down to simmer. Cover and simmer until the berries are soft, about 15 minutes. Taste and add salt. Remove from heat and puree in a blender. Taste and adjust seasonings.


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Nuclear Union - Development Halted & Renamed
I mentioned in the forums earlier this month that Nuclear Union might be suspended, or canceled, Thanks to Joxer we now have confirmation from a site called Red-Buzz.
It seems developement has been suspended due to 1C-Softclub pulling the plug. All is not lost though as the developer Best Way is looking for a new publisher.
I've just finished recording How Games Are Made podcast with Dmitry Morozov, founder of Best Way company, game designer of Men of War series. It will go live in next couple of days, but it's in Russian, so I'll share some details with you here.
Much discussed Nuclear Union from Best Way was closed half a year ago right after Gamescom 2013. 1C-Softclub decided to focus on distribution instead of publishing and scraped it. It's a pity, because Nuclear Union was actually 1C's idea – they wanted to publish a Russian Fallout, every post-Soviet developer's elusive dream.
Best Way owns assets and engine, but not the script, so they are remaking the project now. It will change title and story, but not the genre or setting. Best Way is looking for partners to finish a post-Nuclear Union (that's my name for the game, not official one).
Information aboutNuclear Union
SP/MP: Single-player
Setting: Post-Apoc
Genre: Action-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Canceled


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by Jacob G. Hornberger
President Obama's reaction to the alleged Iranian assassination plot reflects, once again, the dictatorial powers that the president of the United States now wields in foreign affairs.
As many commentators are noting, the whole scheme appears to be as bogus as a 3-dollar bill, but that isn't really the point. The point is that we now live in a country in which the ruler wields the omnipotent power to send the entire nation into war for whatever reason he wants, bogus or not.
That's not the way things were supposed to be. The Framers didn't devise a system where the president had that omnipotent power. When they called the federal government into existence with the Constitution, they delegated the power to declare war to Congress and the power to wage war to the president.
Thus, under the Constitution Obama is required to come to Congress with a request to declare war on Iran (or even to impose sanctions on the country). Presumably Congress would say, "Show us the evidence on which you're relying for your request for us to declare war on Iran."
At that point, it would be "put up or shut up" time for Obama and his FBI, Justice Department, CIA, and Pentagon. They would have to submit their evidence to rigorous scrutiny from Congress, just as they're going to have to do in a criminal trial of the alleged assassination plotter, Manssor Arbabsiar. (That's assuming, of course, that they don't send Arbabsiar down the "enemy combatant" route by removing him from the jurisdiction of America's constitutional judicial system and delivering him into the clutches of the U.S. military.)
That's not to say, of course, that Congress would necessarily decline to issue a declaration of war but rather that it's an important barrier that Obama might not be able to overcome. Since war necessarily involves death, destruction, spending, debt, inflation, and infringements on liberty, that's why the Framers decided to make it difficult for the president to send the nation into war against other nations.
But Obama doesn't have to concern himself with that barrier. He now wields the authority to ignore that constitutional provision. When it comes to war, he is the declarer. He is the decider. He — and he alone (along with his advisers in the CIA and Pentagon) — decides whether America is going to war against Iran or any other nation.
And what happens if Obama sends the nation into war and the whole assassination plot turns out later to have been bogus? No problem. Obama will simply take the same position that George W. Bush took when he sent the United States into war against Iraq without the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war. Like Bush, Obama will simply claim that he regrets the error but that the troops are bringing "freedom and democracy" to Iran anyway.
The principle is actually no different with respect to Obama's power to assassinate Americans. He doesn't need a trial to determine whether a person really is engaged in an action that warrants a non-judicial execution. He is the decider — the determiner. He reviews the evidence and if he's convinced of the person's guilt, that's all that's necessary. He issues the order to take out the person, and the order is carried out by either the Pentagon or the CIA. No judicial review. No congressional impeachment. Just the omnipotent power to assassinate, along with the omnipotent power to send the nation into war.
Meanwhile, as the U.S. government accuses Iran of sending agents to conduct an assassination on American soil, the U.S. government continues to wield the post-9/11 "emergency" power to send its agents into any foreign country on earth to kidnap people, torture them, rendition them to dictatorial regimes to be tortured, or assassinate them.
It's all enough to remind Americans of the dictatorial power that their ruler now wields in foreign affairs as well as the rank hypocrisy that people all over the world find so offensive.
Jacob Hornberger is founder and president of the Future of Freedom Foundation.
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Calculating "load"
Hello, new guy here.
I have questions regarding how many lines I need to my breaker, wire gauge etc.
Here's what I need to do:
This is for my basement. I have a room where I have 12 x 35W halogen potlights. Also run 2 computers, scanner, fax, various other misc. electrical devices. An airbrush spraybooth, TV, and a couple other floor lamps. All in 1 room (approx. 15'x35').
My question, is there a way to calculate the gauge of wire I need to use and breakers etc. I have some open spots on my breaker, and I have an unused 2x15amp breaker switch for using 1 slot on the breaker (sorry if the terminology is way out of whack).
I've hooked up some lines previously so am somewhate familiar with this stuff.
15 amp breakers use 14 gauge wire and 20 amp circuit use 12 gauge wire. Unless you have a extra long cable run there is no need to calculate anything regarding wire size.
The calculation you need is called a load calculation.
Most likely if you put your lighting loads a 15 amp breaker and your cord and plug stuff on general purpose 20 amp branch circuit(s) you will be fine.
15 amp breaker = 14 awg copper wire
20 amp breaker = 12 awg copper wire.
Use 5-15r receptacles like these below for 15 amp circuits or 20 amp circuits the 5-20r is not required on a 20 amp branch circuit that serves more than one receptacle in the USA .....if in Canada I believe you must use 20 amp receptacles on 20 amp circuits and 15 amp receptacles on 15 amp circuits.
15 amp (5-15R) ... 20 amp ( 5-20R)
In the Usa and Canada....
A 15 amp branch circuit protected by a 15 amp circuit breaker will give you 1800 watts of power
A 20 amp branch circuit will give you 2400 watts of power.
It's becoming common to put entertainment equipment on its own 20 amp branch circuit.
Example.... You have 12 x 35watts = 420 watts... so you still have 1380 watts of power left on a 15 amp branch circuit. The idea here is if you approach 1800 watts of connected load and that load is all going to frequently be on at the same time then you need to design your circuits appropriately so you don't overload them. It is becoming more common for entertainment systems to require dedicated branch circuits because of the total load requirements. Anyway generally speaking lights on 15 and receptacles on 20 and you are usually fine.
I'm curious about the airbrush spraybooth. How many watts is that? I often run a seperate circuit for computers (20A) if it is in the budget. And what Stubbie said.
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Troubleshooting Milk Flavor Problems
Sometimes certain nutrition programs or management practices on the farm can cause off-flavor problems in milk. This can have long-term ramifications with consumers because of a poor tasting product. This can undermine consumer confidence in dairy products. Therefore, it is in everyone's interest to prevent these occurrences from happening regardless of the source. This fact sheet will address the common off-flavor problems and how they can be prevented.
Classification of Off-flavors
Off-flavors commonly found in milk can be classified in three basic categories – the ABC's of off-flavor development.
- Absorbed – feedy, barny, cowy, unclean, weedy, and musty.
- Bacterial – acid, malty, unclean, fruity, and putrid.
- Chemical – cowy (ketosis), rancid, oxidized, sunlight, and medicinal.
Absorbed flavor defects can develop before, during and after milking. It can occur when milk is left uncovered in the consumer's refrigerator or kept in cold rooms and dairy cases with other odor-producing foods.
Bacterial degradation results from bacteria that get into the milk upon contact with improperly washed or sanitized equipment, from external contamination, and is made worse by improper cooling. Infection of cows should not be considered as a source of high bacteria counts until all other causes have been eliminated.
Chemical defects can occur both before and after milking. The cowy or ketone flavor is the result of the animal suffering from ketosis. A foreign flavor can be caused by medications, a reaction to pesticides, disinfectants, or any number of contaminants. Rancidity and oxidation result from the degradation of milkfat.
Rancid Flavor
A soapy-bitter taste is identifiable with rancidity. There appears to be a seasonal affect with the months between July and September having the highest occurrences. Rancidity is caused by a chemical development, which continues until the milk is pasteurized. It involves lipase and other enzymes, which react with the milkfat to form free fatty acids. The key to prevention is to have intact membranes around milkfat globules. Causes of rancid flavor are those things that result in weakened or broken milkfat globule membranes.
Some farm related causes include:
- Lack of adequate protein in the diet.
- Not feeding enough total energy for the level of milk produced.
- Milking cows longer than 305 days.
- Added stress when milking cows more than two times per day.
- Air leaks in pipeline milkers.
- Flooding of pipelines and receiver jars.
- Partial or less than every other day collection of milk from farms.
- Freezing in the bulk tank.
- Over agitation in the bulk tank.
Some non-farm related causes include:
- Holding raw milk in processing plants more than 48 hours after collection.
- Failure to empty and wash raw milk storage tanks every processing day.
- Air leaks in pipes.
- Running pumps in a starved condition.
- Homogenization prior to pasteurization.
To correct a rancidity problem, start with the milk as processed and proceed back to the farm. Load samples of all milk received at the processing plant should be tasted regularly after laboratory pasteurization of 145°F for 30 minutes. Milk samples should be held for 48 hours after collection from farms and then tasted. Sometimes there is a slight butyric acid odor associated with rancid milk, but most of the time samples must be tasted to determine rancidity.
At the farm level, there are equipment observations that can be made. Check the pipeline and receiver jar during milking for foaming or flooding, or if the milk pump runs continuously. Check all fittings on pipeline milkers for tightness and close fit. Minimize air injection at claws and avoid over milking cows. No more than two units should be used on a 1.5-inch pipeline milker for each slope, i.e. two units on each side for a double slope line. Do not milk straight through weigh jars. Check the bulk tank for evidence of freezing or churning.
In herds with many late lactation animals, it may be necessary to sample milk from all four quarters on animals milking in excess of 305 days. The milk should be stored for 48 hours and then tasted. If milk samples taste rancid, some of their milk may need to be diverted from the bulk tank.
Maintain milk quality by keeping the herd somatic cell counts below 250,000 per ml. Check the ration program for proper fiber levels and particle size, fat content, and protein and energy levels appropriate for animal production.
Acid Degree Value (ADV)
Rancidity is characterized by the release of free fatty acids because of the action of the lipase enzyme. When consumers taste rancid milk, they are detecting the short chain fatty acids. An Acid Degree Value test can be used to measure the presence of long chain fatty acids. There is about a 70 percent correlation between flavor and ADV.
ADVs are more meaningful for raw milk samples from individual farms. In mixed milk on trucks or in silo tanks the effect of milk from one farm is minimized. Rancid milk from one farm may cause a rancid flavor in the entire tank. Therefore, ADV results from mixed milk are not very meaningful.
Milk samples from individual farms should have ADVs of less than 0.80. When results exceed 1.00, the milk will have a soapy-bitter taste. Some farms may have ADVs above 1.00 at the time of processing. ADVs should be conducted at the time the milk is processed rather than when the milk is received at the plant. When ADV results exceed 1.20, one can expect consumer complaints and a negative effect on consumption and sales. Action should be taken when samples results are above 1.00.
Farm Oxidized Flavor
Oxidized flavor is also a reaction of milkfat. Milk with a cardboardy or metallic taste is more common in milk during the winter and early spring. The off- flavor can be detected in raw milk, but sometimes not until two days after collection. It can also be a problem in any pasteurized milk or dairy product that has not been flavored. Causes are different than for the light induced flavor of milk purchased at stores, although the taste is similar.
Increased susceptibility of milk to the chemical development of oxidation is due primarily to less antioxidant in the milk. The main cause is the decreased amount of vitamin E, an antioxidant, in stored forages, which reduces the amount found in milk.
Once milkfat has begun to oxidize, the intensity will continue to increase overtime. The taste may not be apparent in the milk, but may be detected in high fat products such as butter or vanilla ice cream. In the majority of cases, oxidized flavor problems start at the farm.
There are several causes of oxidized flavor on farms or in processing plants. They include:
- Equipment surfaces improperly cleaned.
- Minerals in the water supply.
- Acid water and copper tubing.
- Use of chlorine sanitizers.
- Stored forages low in vitamin E.
- Feeding high levels of vegetable fats, i.e. soybeans, cottonseeds.
It is usually necessary to correct all causes of the problem before the off-flavor will disappear. Feeding extra vitamin E will not overcome excessive copper or iron in the water supply used to wash equipment or compensate for dirty milking equipment. There are corrective and preventative measures that can be taken. They include the following:
- Wash all surfaces that are exposed to milk after every use. Any milkfat or protein left in a bulk or storage tank, pipeline, milker unit, or pump oxidizes readily. Check all equipment on the farm, in truck tanks, and receiving rooms to be sure that they are clean.
- The presence of copper or iron in the water used to wash equipment will cause oxidized flavor. As little as 0.1 ppm copper or iron may cause a problem. Unless another water supply is available, treatment is necessary.
- Water in mining areas may be acidic. When copper tubing is used to transport the water to the milk house, some copper may be removed. It will settle on equipment surfaces and cause oxidation when milk comes into contact. Copper tubing should not be used for water in the milk house if the farm has acid water.
- Sanitizers are oxidizing agents, so solutions should be completely drained from all equipment. Chlorine precipitates metals, so iodine sanitizers are recommended for equipment when an oxidized flavor problem is present. However, it is not appropriate to rinse with water after sanitizing.
- Provide some green feed, i.e. pasture or greenchop to milking cows from May to October. These contain high levels of beta- carotene and vitamin E.
- Check the ration for adequate protein content. It should be appropriate for the level of milk being produced. Check that the milk protein content is normal.
- Ingredients that increase the proportion of unsaturated fatty acids in the milk may increase the milk's susceptibility to oxidation.
- Nutritional problems, which depress the milkfat percent, often increase the unsaturation of the milkfat and make it more susceptible to oxidation. To correct milkfat depression, evaluate the ration for fiber levels, particle size, fat content and source, and the cereal grain source (i.e. heat-treated, particle size, high moisture). Milkfat test is considered depressed when it falls more than 0.3 percent below breed average.
- Light exposure of milk in a glass or plastic milk line will not cause an off-flavor problem. The exposure time to sunlight, daylight, or fluorescent light is too short.
- When obvious causes have been corrected and the problem persists, add 1,000 or up to 7,000 International Units of vitamin E per animal daily for one to two weeks. This should be done only in extreme cases. Consult with a nutritionist before feeding these levels.
Feed Flavor
All feed flavors are absorbed through the cows system rather directly into the milk. Cows impart an odor and taste within 30 minutes of eating or breathing silage. It is strongest after about one hour.
The odor and taste of grass or corn silage, legume hay, and brewer's grains are the ingredients causing most of the problems. The two methods which odor can be transferred to milk is:
- Nose or mouth → lungs → blood → milk
- Mouth → digestive tract → blood → milk
Unclean Flavor
Some farm milk samples have an unpleasant, dirty after taste. This problem often occurs during winter. Frequently it is an absorbed flavor, like silage. Usually cows breathe air with a barny odor and transfer it to the milk.
Dust, dirt and manure can cause an unclean flavor of milk. Cows and their surroundings must be kept clean. Milking equipment that has not been properly cleaned and sanitized may be a factor.
Washing a cow's udder with water and failing to dry them is one of the primary causes of unclean flavors. Be sure excess moisture is removed.
In a small to average sized herd, a few animals with ketosis will cause an unclean flavor. This odor and taste is objectionable.
Follow these suggestions to prevent unclean flavor problems in milk:
- Keep floors, walls, and ceilings of milking and housing areas reasonably clean.
- Provide adequate ventilation to eliminate stale odors.
- Clip hair from the udder, teats, and flanks of milk cows.
- Provide adequately bedded stalls so that cows may lie down.
- Wash udder and teats with a sanitizer solution and dry prior to attaching milker units.
- Clean and sanitize all milk handling equipment between uses.
- In some circumstances it may be necessary to withhold milk from ketotic cows.
Milk is an excellent growth medium for bacteria. It provides the nutrients and moisture and has a near neutral pH. Off-flavors are the results of bacterial growth (psychrotrophs). The type of bacteria is more important than the number.
Psychrotrophs include many kinds of bacteria, all of which cause spoilage. Their ideal growth temperature is 65-70°F. Cold temperatures slow their growth, but do not kill them. At 45°F or above, bacterial growth is steady and off-flavors may be present in two to three days.
Malty flavor tastes like Grapenut cereal. The cause is due to Streptococcus lactis in poorly cooled milk. The problem can be exacerbated when the milk from one bulk tank is mixed with that from many others in a truck tank, then in a plant raw milk storage tank. A sample of milk from a farm bulk tank not cooled for 12 hours will always have a high bacteria count.
Malty flavor is generally a forerunner of a high acid flavor. It rarely develops in pasteurized milk. However, the characteristic flavor will remain after processing, although the flavor developed in raw milk. If not stopped by pasteurization, a malty flavor will later become high acid.
High Acid
Bacterial flavors are not acceptable in milk for fluid or manufactured purposes. Sanitation is the key to preventing high acid flavors. Spoilage is due to bacterial action on lactose (milk sugar).
All milk handling equipment surfaces should be washed after each use and sanitized just prior to reuse. This includes washing all milking units, pails, and pipelines on a twice per day basis. Bulk tanks must be washed each time they are emptied.
Milk from the bulk tank should be picked up at least every other day. Longer time periods between pickup and partial emptying of a tank causes problems. Any milk left in a bulk tank for more than three days has the potential of high bacteria counts and off-flavors in fluid milk and manufactured products.
Depending on milk composition, normal acidity test results can vary from 0.13 to 0.17 percent lactic acid. Before a hint of acid taste can be detected, this will usually rise to above 0.20 percent. Milk can safely be used for fluid purposes if acidity does not exceed this and there is no acid taste at the time of pasteurization.
Psychrotrophs cause flavors that are often described as stale, lack freshness, fruity, bitter, fermented or putrid. Frequently the titratable acidity may be near normal.
Putrid flavors are the result of bacterial contamination, storage temperature above 40°F, and age. Spoilage of the milk is by bacterial action on the protein rather than on the lactose. Putrid milk will curdle, separate, and may smell rotten if left for a few days.
The most common source of the problem is contamination in processing plants following pasteurization. Psychrotrophs do not generally survive pasteurization unless large numbers of the bacteria are present in the raw milk. Usually the contamination occurs because some part of the pumping, holding, and filling system is not properly cleaned and sanitized.
Putrid flavors may originate in raw milk caused by contamination and holding raw milk for three or four days after collection from farms. Occasionally, retail samples of milk are found with putrid flavors and excellent bacteria counts. This can result when bacteria counts in the millions are present in raw milk at the time of pasteurization. Proper pasteurization and packaging without contamination eliminates most of the psychrotrophs. Although all the bacteria are destroyed, the spoiled flavor remains. No heating, vacuum treatment or other processing procedure will lessen the flavor.
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Adamant they're not looking ahead, the ninth-ranked Huskers hit the road for the first time Saturday night against the undefeated Cowboys.
It seems hard to ignore a visit to Madison to take on No. 6 Wisconsin in a matchup many are calling the Big Ten's game of the year, but Pelini said any thoughts of facing the Badgers in the school's inaugural conference opener will have to wait.
"The last thing I'm worried about is what is happening two weeks from now, or Saturday for that matter," Pelini said. "I want to see today. We have enough work to do to fix us."
Most of that work has to do with shoring up a defense that allowed 21 fourth-quarter points in last Saturday's 51-38 victory over Washington. Nebraska (3-0) has given up more than 400 yards of offense the past two games, including 274 passing yards against the Huskies.
The defensive line hasn't stacked up well against the run either, allowing back-to-back 100-yard rushers for the first time since November 2007.
"It's all part of the process,'' Pelini said. "It's why they put 'coach' in front of our names. You don't panic. You look at it for what it is and work to get it fixed.''
Wyoming, meanwhile, has been outscored 137-26 in losing its three home games against top-10 opponents since 2009, but after averaging 492.3 yards of total offense thus far - 16th in the nation - there's hope for a better result Saturday.
Brett Smith, the first freshman quarterback to start for the Cowboys (3-0) since 1974, threw for 248 yards and a touchdown in last week's 28-27 win over Bowling Green.
"I think he is a good player. He is tough and I would say he is a winner," Pelini said of Smith. "He is a guy who makes good decisions and plays. He will run and make all the throws. He is a good one and I like his attitude. He understands the game and how to play. He's really intelligent and is a good player."
The Cornhuskers' secondary may get a boost with the return of cornerback Alfonzo Dennard, who is recovering from a pulled muscle in his leg. Dennard is back to full practice and is hoping to play against the Cowboys.
"In my opinion, I don't think there's a better corner in the country. I think he's that good,'' Pelini said.
With the defense struggling, the Huskers have relied mainly on an offense that has scored 40-plus points in its first three games for the first time since the school's national championship team in 1995.
Taylor Martinez threw for two touchdowns and ran for another against Washington, while running back Rex Burkhead rushed for 120 yards and two TDs as Nebraska totaled 464 yards.
"We've got no resentment toward the defense at all,'' said receiver Kenny Bell, who has caught three passes for 101 yards the past two weeks. "I've got nothing but faith that our defense will play lights out every week. Have they had their struggles? Perhaps. But it's a football game. No one can play perfect.''
Despite a heavy reliance on the offense, Martinez believes everyone is contributing equally as the Huskers look to start 4-0 in back-to-back seasons for the first time since doing it five straight times from 1997-2001.
Nebraska hasn't lost to an unranked non-conference opponent on the road since falling 40-7 at Penn State on Sept. 14, 2002.
"I'm just glad the whole team is doing pretty good right now, and special teams, offense and defense can contribute," Martinez said.
Wyoming, which survived last week's win by blocking an extra point with three seconds remaining, is seeking its first 4-0 start since opening 9-0 in 1996.
The Cowboys have lost 14 straight games against ranked opponents by an average of 34.1 points, last beating then-No. 22 Air Force 34-26 on Oct. 26, 2002.
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A BigSoccer blogger who goes by the name VioletCrown wonders if Major League Soccer is becoming "un-American" in its quest for on-field quality and commercial success. He writes: "With all the talk on expansion threads of 'MLS is becoming like the NASL, expanding too fast. I find it interesting that no-one has expressed any concern about how few Yanks play in MLS."
blogger, who goes by the name scaryice, compiles a list of the number of foreign players each MLS team is able to have on its
roster containing the names of senior international and young international players, plus green-card holders (who don't count as internationals).
Excluding Toronto, the only Canadian
team, each MLS team has an average of 7.75 foreign players they can field per team. Of course, young internationals only feature in rare circumstances, so the average is overblown. That said, it is
getting harder and harder for Americans to make MLS teams, a problem that leagues across Europe face with their domestic players. The bigger question though is: does it matter? With so many of
America's top young players seeking (and ascertaining) moves abroad, the answer is "no." If the quality of MLS increases and more of our better players want to stay for longer, that's a very good
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I'm slightly confused. So would I need a separate connection between the battery and the device in case there's no external power? or does this charger already handle it, so I'll only need to connect the battery and the device to this charger?
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A year ago we spoke to Zero Point about their extraordinarily ambitious Unity-powered tactical sci-fi shooter, Interstellar Marines. They told us about how they were largely relying on the support of the community, and pre-order packages, to get the game made. To that end they've been releasing a few bits and piece of technology to their pre-ordering folk, and the biggest release so far appeared yesterday, and is detailed in a video below. Deadlock 0.3.0 is a multiplayer game mode that should, the devs explain, give players a better taste of the vision they have for the game. It's also the first thing that Zero Point have released in some time, so it must come as a relief to those who have shelled out cash for the project. See below for more.
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Zero Point Explain Interstellar Marines
Earlier this week I took some time out of my merciless schedule of reblogging the trailers for the sequels to 2007 action games to have chat with Danish indies Zero Point. Game director Kim Haar Jørgensen told me about how Hired Guns, System Shock 2, and Deus Ex had all fed into the creation of their Unity-powered co-op sci-fi shooter, Interstellar Marines. You might have already encountered this "AAA Indie" project via Bullseye or Running Man, the browser-based mini-games that Zero Point have used to promote their title. The full game, however, is something much more formidable, as Jørgensen was to explain. It's quite project for just a handful of devs, so I was keen to find out how they were getting on.
Zero Point Explain Interstellar Marines
Zero Point want to explain their (frankly fairly impressive) Unity-powered first-person shooter, Interstellar Marines, to you. To do this they have created a four-minute trailer, which shows off the game in action, and talks about how you can support their attempt to make a full-blown FPS without the resources of a big studio. It's fun. It's even got some jokes in. Go take a look.
We'll be talking to Zero Point about their project quite soon.
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Interstellar Marines: "Running Man" Thinger
I've said it before, but I really like what Zero Point Software are doing with the little Unity teases that they are releasing for their game. The most recent is some "Advanced Combat Training", which you can play over on the main site.
The training takes place two kilometers below ground deep inside a secret military facility. Here you'll face an onslaught of challenging Combat Training Robot in a range of different training environments. If you succeed you'll be one step closer to becoming a part of the elite battalion of Interstellar Marines secretly being established as first line of defense against other sentient species.
And they've trailered it for our convenience, below. Good stuff.
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Interstellar Marines Reveals "Running Man"
Perhaps the most impressive thing about Zeropoint Software's unity-powered FPS Interstellar Marines is the way they've packed a website with tidbits leading up to release. You've been able to check out a bunch of the game models within the Unity plugin, and even test out some of the weapons. Folks who pre-order will now be able to play a test version of the game, called Running Man. All placeholdery stuff of course, but even that has a sense of style, and it looks as if Zeropoint have crafted the most solid shooter I've seen in Unity itself. I'm genuinely interested in seeing how this is going to turn out. Fancy trailery stuff below.
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Bullseye! Interstellar Marines' Boot Camp
The preview/hype campaign for Zero Point's upcoming 'AAA indie' shooter Interstellar Marines continues to be interesting. Following on from their Unity-powered 3D scene thinger, they've now made a browser-based minigame to show off some of the tone and feel of the thing. Sure, it's just about shooting pop-up targets – an FPS tutorial stage writ large – but they've made it more than the sum of its cursor-onto-cardboard-face parts.
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The Vault: Interstellar Marines Preview
Zero Point Software have released a clever new preview asset of their game, using the Unity plugin. It's a kind of "3D screenshot" that they're calling The Vault. You can go in and have a look around, and see some of the titular marines in 3D, frozen in time fighting some manner of shark monsters. It's pretty neat, and the dates on the vault walls suggest that more of these 3D vignettes will be revealed in the coming months. The sci-fi co-op shooter has been in development for quite some time now, so we're hoping this indicates the start of a more concerted reveal of just what's going on with the title the studio are calling a "AAA Indie" project.
Folks who can't be bothered installing Unity (and given the amount of cool stuff it's throwing up now, you probably should be bothered) can get a taste of the vault via a new teaser trailer which I've posted below.
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Army News Service
FALLS CHURCH, Va. – The Army's Ready and Resilient Campaign is now focusing on "intervention," not on "bystander" behaviors, said Sharyn J. Saunders, director of the Army's Ready and Resilient Campaign program.She said the change is a "big culture shift" away from just focusing on particular programs and getting PowerPoint presentations or lectures about the need to intervene.Now two or even several of the dozens of Ready and Resilient Campaign, known as R2C, programs could be "melded" or used in conjunction with one another to improve the health of entire units, she added.Saunders spoke during the Brain Health Consortium on Thursday at the Office of the Army Surgeon General.R2C programs focus on things like substance abuse, emotional health, nutrition, exercise, goal setting and even financial planning. That means surgeons might be partnering with mental health specialists or nutritionists to deliver desired outcomes for particular individuals or units that may need special help in certain areas, she said.That's already happening at installations Armywide, said Brig. Gen. Pat Sargent, deputy chief of staff, G-3/5/7, Army Medical Command.The Army has developed "platforms," such as Soldier-centered medical homes, patient-centered medical homes and community health promotion councils right down to the brigade combat team level, he said, explaining that the platforms are led by unit commanders.Those commanders have a team of primary care physicians, behavioral health specialists, physical therapists and others who advise the commander, manage care of the Soldiers, and sort through and interpret the health data so the commander can customize the help those Soldiers need.Sargent said commanders and enlisted leaders are starting to have conversations with their Soldiers about their health based on big-picture data for their unit. Sargent gave an example."I recall my time at Fort Hood, as a platoon leader, where you talk about a tank," he said. "There were folks talking about how you manage and maintain a tank" to the minutest details."So when a Soldier now gets a profile, for whatever reason, we're now targeting and trying to figure out what part of the system is helping that Soldier get back to a form of wellness," he continued, comparing the detailed approach to Soldier wellness to what the Army did in the past with its equipment.He added that such a profile could be for units as well as individual Soldiers or Family Members.Saunders said unit commanders are getting data on stressors that point to areas where improvement might be made to help the morale and readiness of their Soldiers. Such areas include family relations, communications, building connections and financial planning.That gives commanders a powerful tool to tailor programs that increase Soldiers' ability to cope, get through adversity, thrive and grow from their experiences, Saunders said."We're just starting that journey … and it will require changing the fundamental culture of the Army," she added.


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Hi , I have a question. I had a chin implant (size small) 3 days ago with local anesthesia. The Dr. put in a lot of licodaine. Now my face is very... READ MORE
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I had liposuction of the chin and neck and my left side is still swollen and its not symetrical with the right my left seems to droop Also i still... READ MORE
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I had a chin implant along with rhinoplasty Feb 13. I went to my post op and my Dr. said everything looked fine but started me on a cycle of steroids... READ MORE
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Chin implant looks crooked and swollen on one side. Is it normal to be more swollen on one side? (Photo)
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I wanted to kill the enemy and be a roughneck and cuss and spit tobacco, come home and do it again.
I copped it on the high seas—flotsam and jetsam,' says the 'roughneck.'
He could almost hear passersby say "goody-good" and "roughneck."
I kind of gloried in being a roughneck, I reckon, he added with a wry smile.
It was mighty slow, an' I'm still a roughneck; but I'm gettin' on.
"Afraid I'm rather a roughneck in that respect," said Dalgetty.
When a roughneck does something for you, it's proper to hand him some of your loose change.
But I expect one cabaret is about like another in these roughneck towns.
And as long as youre rooming with me—which I hope wont be long—Ill ask you to cut out that roughneck stuff.
Then the roughneck kicks because he got a belly full of Yukon.


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Re-read the rules that you agreed to when you signed up. Also see the "stickied" threads at the top of the newbie section.
Also don't be afraid to search for yourself both here on the forums and google.
Furthermore it is your responsibility to post in the correct section of the forum.
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"It makes me feel good to walk through there and know that some of the things that Negro League players played for has been preserved, and people can go in there, and look at it."
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Chicken with Curried Spinach Salad
The curry powder in the dressing and the shallots and apricots make this a special salad.
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Source: Everyday Food, January/February 2009
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
- Coarse salt and ground pepper
- 1/4 cup rice vinegar
- 2 teaspoons olive oil
- 2 teaspoons Dijon mustard
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 2 teaspoons curry powder
- 10 ounces baby spinach
- 2 shallots, halved and thinly sliced
- 1/2 cup dried apricots, thinly sliced
Place chicken in a shallow 2-quart microwave-safe dish with a lid; season with salt and pepper. Cover, and microwave on high until opaque throughout, 10 to 12 minutes, turning chicken halfway through. Let cool briefly; slice crosswise.
In a serving bowl, whisk vinegar, oil, Dijon, honey, and curry powder; season with salt and pepper. Add spinach, shallots, and apricots, and toss.


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This is a continuation of our previous discussion about the beauty and wonder that is xsd.exe. Now that we're all masters at creating auto-generated classes from XML schemas (or WSDLs), there are some very neat advanced tricks that we can leverage to make our code even cleaner and more efficient.
Tip 1: Adding Methods
Astute and inquisitive developers may have noticed something interesting about the classes that xsd.exe generates. Take a look at the generated version of our class that we created last time:
/// <remarks/>
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "2.0.50727.1432")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute(Namespace="", IsNullable=false)]
public partial class People {
Notice something there? I spy with my little eye... something blue. In fact, the something I'm so excited about is the meat in a blue-words sandwich: partial. Yes, xsd.exe marks all the classes it generates as partial. Coincidentally, if you look at that link, you'll see that Microsoft envisioned this exact application for partial classes; they cite this as a reason for creating them:
"When working with automatically generated source, code can be added to the class without having to recreate the source file. Visual Studio uses this approach when creating Windows Forms, Web Service wrapper code, and so on. You can create code that uses these classes without having to edit the file created by Visual Studio."
Neat, huh? So why do we care?
What if we wanted a super-simple way to get a Person's first and last name as one string, and we don't want to store that string in XML, since we already have the first and last name separately:
However, we don't have that in code:
So now what? We take note of the fact that PeoplePerson is a partial class and make a new file to extend it. In that new file, we add a FullName property:
namespace XmlDemo
partial class PeoplePerson
public string FullName
System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(firstNameField))
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(lastNameField))
if (sb.Length > 0)
sb.Append(" ");
return sb.ToString();
So now we have a convenient way to get a person's full name. However, notice that there's a hidden gem in there:
This attribute indicates to the serializer that it is not supposed to look at that property for either serialization nor deserialization. If you don't include that attribute, and serialize a PeoplePerson, you'll suddenly have a new element in the resultant XML, which doesn't match your schema. That element will be FullName. Including the XmlIgnore attribute prevents the serializer from doing anything with that property.
Naturally, you can also add methods. Those do not need any special attributes, because methods are already ignored by the serializer. You can even take it one step further and add private fields, additional constructors (you must leave the default constructor), etc.
I used this technique recently for a project wherein we, in essence, were storing a dictionary in XML. When we read the XML, I added a Dictionary<TKey, TValue> as a private field. I then added a LoadHash() method which would load that dictionary with values. Finally, I added a GetValue(TKey key) method to get the value out of the dictionary. This dramatically increased the speed of my application, because I was simply plucking values out of a dictionary.
However, using auto-generated classes also dramatically increased the speed of development. There were several times that I needed to add fields to the schema, and thanks to my auto-generated classes, I was a build away before those fields were automatically represented in my classes.
Tip 2: Source Control
One of the problems with using the pre-build event that we created last time is that you need to have write access to the CS file that's being auto-generated every time you build. That doesn't typically play well with source control, because this forces every developer to have every auto-generated file perpetually checked out. Naturally, this gets even more dicey when dealing with exclusive checkouts.
Instead, what I advise may sound slightly strange at first: don't check the CS file into source control. When adding the project to source control, undo the pending change for the CS file, as shown below:
Undoing the pending change (which is a pending add) will cause the CS file to remain outside source control. Once you've submitted the addition, your solution explorer should look as such:
Now, since the file is outside of source control, it can remain writable for every user. Thus, during build time, there is no need to check the file out, since every developer has their own writable file.
This has the caveat of meaning one (or sometimes two, as mentioned previously) builds are necessary to get a new developer on board. However, the saved frustration during the normal development process is well worth it.
For Further Reading
It is worth noting that the XmlSerializer does have a small performance penalty. Under the hood, when the serializer is first asked to handle a type, it actually dynamically inspects that type and generates code to perform the serialization and deserialization at runtime. In the case of stupidly large XML schemas (in the order of tens of thousands of lines) that code generation step can take literally a couple of minutes.
However, as described in this link, there is a companion tool, xmlser.exe, that you can use to pre-generate and thus pre-compile this code for you. This cuts down on the time required during execution to create and compile all that code.
In Summary
So, there you have it, a couple of useful and convenient tips to keep you happy with your auto-generated classes. Have any other tips you've come across or invented? Please leave a comment!


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Did you read the other day that some MPs had enjoyed a few late night drinks before voting on the budget in the early hours of Wednesday morning? I can't vouch for it myself. I'd once have been in the thick of it, but nowadays I'm safely tucked up in bed at that hour.
But it seems a sad state of affairs when folk can't have a drink after work without it getting into the newspapers, though the story probably started life on Twitter. Why? Because, so I keep reading, there are a lot of gossipy anoraks in the building who tweet whenever an MP breaks wind or fails to hold a door open for a lady.
All I can observe is that it does not require much concentration to enter the voting lobbies and vote for your own side, far easier than driving a car. In the old days when the Commons routinely sat until past midnight some MPs drank quite a lot.
I sometimes did myself in genial company at the end of a long day. Some emerged the worse for wear, others not so, much like any other walk of life. It doesn't happen much at Westminster any more because "family-friendly" hours, healthier lifestyles and the feminisation of the culture have combined to put a stop to it – much as they have in other walks of life.
Tuesday's late overspill into Wednesday – uncontrolled debates and use of procedure is always a good thing in my book – was a rare resort to old habits and with predictable results. Thank goodness one of the alleged culprits, guilty of excess, was a woman MP – a Tory woman MP too – because it will stop predictable moans about bloke-ish misconduct.
Life will go on and, as I never tire of pointing out, Winston Churchill presided over the war effort from 1940-45 with great distinction without always being entirely sober.
But the Speaker, John Bercow, seems to have entered into the mean spirit of the moment by suggesting in an interview with the Sunday Times (payment required) that the TV cameras which film parliamentary debate should be allowed to range more widely (at present they must focus on the MP speaking and not reactions around the chamber) so that rowdy misconduct can be monitored and dealt with.
I know what you're thinking: Bercow must have been watching the World Cup where a bit of camera replay would have come in handy at several crucial moments, not least on Sunday night when the reaction of the Dutch seems to have been to blame the British ref, Howard Webb, instead of blaming their own loutish players.
It shows yet again how closely related we are to our Dutch neighbours across the North Sea. I expect their miscreant bankers blame the ref too whenever they help foul the global economy.
But I digress. As a reformed hooligan, Speaker Bercow seems over intolerant of bad behaviour, like a born-again drunk lecturing on the evils of drink. PMQs has been quite well-behaved lately and rather dull in consequence. I doubt if it will last.
But in his campaign to rehabilitate parliament's battered reputation Bercow, enjoys poking the hornets' nests of vested political interests. No wonder that he puts so many backs up and gets called rude names, "a sanctimonious little dwarf" when correcting health minister, Simon Burns, only last month. He seems to thrive on it.
Bercow was in a more constructive mode recently in a speech which reminded MPs that the underlying purpose of PMQs is to allow backbenchers – not opposition leaders – to cross-examine the PM of the day about policies and procedures which are the PM's direct responsibility.
That translates as saying that PMQs is not meant to be the bunfight – "scrutiny by screech" – it has been for a generation – "the noise of which makes the vuvuzela trumpets of the South African World Cup appear but distant whispers by comparison," says Bercow.
Nor should it be dominated by grandstanding party leaders or detailed questions about hospitals in Hampshire and bypasses on the A1(M) as if the PM was an all-powerful president on the French or US model: not that they often allow themselves to be cross-examined as Nicolas Sarkozy showed in the L'Oreal affair until this week.
The Speaker is right, of course. PMQs has become what one ex-minister calls "a mixture of the grotesque and the absurd". Whether voters, watching the TV news, deplore a telling soundbite as much as many MPs claim to do is more disputable. As with much else I suspect we are ambiguous.
Since the tone first became bitterly partisan during the feud between Harold Wilson and Ted Heath, successive new leaders – Major, Blair, IDS, more recently Brown and Cameron – have denounced Punch and Judy politics, only to find their supporters demanding blood on the carpet. "It's boring. You've got to cheer up the troops," the whips tell them. Radio 4 dug up some early Thatcher the other day. She sounded pretty frosty.
Harriet Harman is only the latest opposition leader forced to go macho. Cameron's good intentions wilted after he found he was good at it. They often do.
Some MPs suspect that the unannounced shift whereby the names of soldiers killed in Afghanistan are now reported at the start of appropriate ministerial business every day of the week, not just at noon on Wednesdays, may partly be to free up partisan zeal inhibited by the grim roll call at the start of PMQs. Cameron is sensitive to the point: he knows it matters to families to hear their names.
What is to be done? Initially treated no different from other ministers' questions, PMQs was first formalised in 1881 to help Gladstone (then 72); later confined to Tuesdays and Thursdays only in 1953 to assist ailing Churchill (79); reluctantly made into two 15-minute sessions at 3.15 pm in 1961; and unilaterally merged into a single 30 minutes in 1997 by Blair.
Over the years party leaders came to gobble up more than half the time. A macho determination emerged – set by Thatcher – for PMs to answer every question, not refer them to departmental ministers where appropriate as had been the habit. Hence the emergence of the catch-all question which could not be transferred: would the PM list his/her engagement for the day? It allowed a follow-up question which was topical.
In his speech to the Centre for Parliamentary Studies, Bercow claimed real progress on the reform agenda, but admitted failure over "conduct, culture and content" of PMQs. He is not the first to face defeat. MPs have bemoaned its gladiatorial qualities for 20 years.
Bercow wants MPs to give him the authority to issue more red cards to persistent PMQ hooligans. He wants them to consider a longer, more reflective format, 45 or even 60 minutes, in which opposition leaders claims to six questions a week (the modern norm) would be diluted in favour of backbenchers.
Cameron is against an extended session and thinks 30 minutes is enough. Yet he seems unconvinced by Blair's innovation, the monthly televised press conferences at No 10. Two months in, Cameron is yet to stage one.
Bercow also wants a fresh review of the whole process of accountability at the top to see where MPs can do better.
It's not as if they can't have calm, constructive exchanges with a PM – or minister. They do it all the time when he makes a statement, did so over Cameron's torture statement last week, and his Bloody Sunday statement in June.
But few voters are watching such exchanges on the parliament channel and the Twitter police aren't interested in normal behaviour – so it's a secret.


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The US is the World's Biggest War-Monger | This Can't Be
Defending US empire around the globe at a cost of $1.3 trillion a year .... Then, there is another way the US is the worlds biggest war-monger.
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#6 Oct 29, 2012
The Evil pvssy obnoxious American Women are the biggest devil incarnate from the Great Satan, an evil bunch brainless Cavewomen who can not teach values human moral and nor sanctity of human life should never be touched, and can't even teach little warring devil boys/girls to make peace not world wars! The world see you Americans as warmongers!
United States
#7 Oct 29, 2012
The US is the World's Biggest War-Monger
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There is a massive deception campaign in the US, and in its global propaganda, which seeks to portray the United States as a poor set-upon nation that would like world peace but just has to keep a military stationed around the globe to police all the worlds trouble spots.
In fact, nothing could be further from the truth.
That truth is that the US is the biggest war-monger the world has ever known.
Lets start with its budget. According to research by the War Resisters League, the US, in fiscal year 2012, budgeted a total of $673 billion for the military, plus another $166 billion for military activities of other government departments, such as the nuclear weapons program, much of which is handled by the Department of Energy, or the Veterans Program, which pays for the care and benefits of former military personnel. Theres also another roughly $440 billion in interest paid on the debt from prior wars and military expenditures. All together, that comes to $1.3 trillion, which represents close to 50% of the general budget of the United States -- the highest percentage of a government budget devoted to the military of any modern nation in the world -- and perhaps of any government of any nation in the world
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#8 Oct 29, 2012
That spending represents also the worlds biggest percentage of national gross domestic product devoted to the military (GDP is a measure of all economic activity in a nation). Looking at the other countries with big militaries -- China, Russia, Britain and France -- not only does not one come even close in terms of the percent of GDP spent on its military, but taken together, all of their expenditures on their military combined total less than half what the US spends by itself.
Since the late 1960s, the US government has engaged in a sleight-of-hand to hide the scale of its military spending from the American people. It has done this by adding to the federal budget the amount of money spent on Social Security, the nation's retirement program, and Medicare, the health insurance program for the elderly and disabled. This is not a correct accounting however, because both of those programs are actually funded by a separate payroll tax paid by employees and employers, and the resulting trust funds are actually dedicated to the citizens who receive or will receive benefits from the programs. Using that fraud, the government and the politicians are able to claim that the US only spends 24% of the budget on military. Even that would be far above what is spent by any other nation in the world, but it is actually only half of what the US really spends as a share of its general budget.
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#9 Oct 29, 2012
One reason the US military budget is so huge is that the US operates some 900 bases abroad, in what amounts to a program of global empire. The organization Foreign Policy in Focus has estimated that the cost of keeping those bases operating is about $250 billion. Empire costs a lot more than that though.Theres also the cost of operating a global fleet of ships, including incredibly costly aircraft carrier battle groups. That cost, surely in excess of $100 billion when the cost of the ships is factored in, doesnt get broken out by the Pentagon.
Then, there is another way the US is the worlds biggest war-monger. This is in its role as the worlds biggest arms merchant. In 2011, according to reports, the US sold more than $66 billion in arms to the rest of the world, often, as in the case of India and Pakistan, or India and China, or Israel and Egypt and Saudi Arabia, selling weapons to countries that are mutually hostile to each other or even, as in the case of India and Pakistan, in a state of active conflict along their border. That $66 billion -- an all-time record for the US -- was an astonishing and depressing 78 percent of the global arms market for the year. Russia was the second biggest arms dealer, selling only a paltry $4.8 billion in weapons to the rest of the world.
None of these weapons the US is selling makes either the US or the world any safer.
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#10 Oct 29, 2012
Indeed, two of the biggest recipients of US military aid and weapons sales are Saudi Arabia and Israel. The Saudi regime last year purchased $30 billion in arms from the US that year. Meanwhile the US has been providing Israel with $3 billion in outright military aid each year for years. Israel also buys billions of dollars in weapons from the US each year. Saudi Arabia is a dictatorship and a promoter of instability within Syria, while it also props up dictatorships in countries like Yemen and Bahrain. In other countries, like Israel or Colombia, US aid encourages military actions which could lead to conflicts that would inevitably draw the US in as a participant.
The truth is that none of Americas military spending makes the US safer. While GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney, caught in some bizarre time warp, may think Russia is Americas biggest enemy, the reality is that there is no nation on earth that poses any military threat to the US itself, and to the extent that terrorism might constitute a threat of some kind, Americas trillion-dollar military is virtually useless against such small scale secret actions, which call for a police response, not a carrier battle group or a nuke.
Theres a good reason one doesnt see fanatics traveling to Brazil or China or New Zealand to blow things up: Those countries arent stationing their troops within other countries borders, and arent selling weapons to countries that threaten their neighbors.
The US government tells Americans that all that money they are spending on the military is designed to protect them from harm. In fact, the evidence over the years is that it is making Americans more vulnerable and less safe. Not only that, but the wars that the US has started over the years -- in Indochina, in Iraq, in Afghanistan and elsewhere --have led to the deaths of tens of thousands of young Americans (and of course to the deaths of millions of people in those countries, most of them civilians).
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#11 Oct 29, 2012
History has shown that a country that spends half of every tax dollar collected from its citizens on its military cannot hope to prosper. As President Dwight Eisenhower, a former top general in the US military who led US forces in World War II, once famously stated in a 1953 address to a group of newspaper editors:
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
Most of the rest of the world isnt fooled by American government accounting tricks. Being at the barrel end of the gun, people of other countries know how US military spending is a primary cause of war and terror in the world. But we Americans ourselves need to wake up to the massive damage that our military-obsessed political system is doing to our country, lest it ultimately destroys us. There is a clear reason that social programs in the US are threatened, that the economy is in a prolonged depression, that our education system is collapsing, and that our standing in the world has plummeted. It is our militarism, and the incredible amount of the national wealth that is being spent on it.
United States
#12 Oct 29, 2012
Our economy is based on war. We provide a service to the planet. We're the Terminix of the Universe. You're welcome.
United States
#13 Oct 30, 2012
Thank You ,For your the truth ! Militaristic USA is number one War Economy in the World!
United States
#14 Oct 30, 2012
American Moms are Bimbos, who make violent war mongering babies.
#15 Oct 30, 2012
why did Barbi Bush make Georgie Bush a war hero but scared to go to the front line ? why ?
Brisbane, Australia
#16 Oct 30, 2012
pewpew kachew!
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#17 Oct 31, 2012
Japan and China drop USD. Fish Eaters Traditional Catholic Forum: October 23, 2012, 09:30:PM: Welcome Guest ......
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Countries to Drop US dollar! BWHAHHHHHHAa
Saudi Arabia: The Telegraph reports that for the first time, Saudi Arabia has refused to cut interest rates along with the US Federal Reserve. This is seen as a signal that a break from the dollar currency peg is imminent. The kingdom is taking "appropriate measures" to protect itself from letting the dollar cause problems for their own economy. Theyre concerned about the threat of inflation and dont want to deal with "recessionary conditions" in the US. Hans Redeker of BNP Paribas believes this creates a "very dangerous situation for the dollar," as Saudi Arabia alone has management of $800 billion. Experts fear that a break from the dollar in Saudi Arabia could set off a "stampede" from the dollar in the Middle East, a region that manages $3,500 billion.
South Korea: In 2005, Korea announced its intention to shift its investments to currencies of countries other than the US. Although theyre simply making plans to diversify for the future, that doesnt mean a large dollar drop isnt in the works. There are whispers that the Bank of Korea is planning on selling $1 billion US bonds in the near future, after a $100 million sale this past August.
Venezuela: Venezuela holds little loyalty to the dollar. In fact, theyve shown overt disapproval, choosing to establish barter deals for oil. These barter deals, established under Hugo Chavez, allow Venezuela to trade oil with 12 Latin American countries and Cuba without using the dollar, shorting the US its usual subsidy. Chavez is not shy about this decision, and has publicly encouraged others to adopt similar arrangements. In 2000, Chavez recommended to OPEC that they "take advantage of high-tech electronic barter and bi-lateral exchanges of its oil with its developing country customers," or in other words, stop using the dollar, or even the euro, for oil transactions. In September, Chavez instructed Venezuelas state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA to change its dollar investments to euros and other currencies in order to mitigate risk.
Sudan: Sudan is, once again, planning to convert its dollar holdings to the euro and other currencies. Additionally, theyve recommended to commercial banks, government departments, and private businesses to do the same. In 1997, the Central Bank of Sudan made a similar recommendation in reaction to US sactions from former President Clinton, but the implementation failed. This time around, 31 Sudanese companies have become subject to sanctions, preventing them from doing trade or financial transactions with the US. Officially, the sanctions are reported to have little effect, but there are indications that the economy is suffering due to these restrictions. A decision to move Sudan away from the dollar is intended to allow the country to work around these sanctions as well as any implemented in the future. However, a Khartoum committee recently concluded that proposals for a reduced dependence on the dollar are "not feasible." Regardless, it is clear that Sudans intent is to attempt a break from the dollar in the future.
Iran: Iran is perhaps the most likely candidate for an imminent abandonment of the dollar. Recently, Iran requested that its shipments to Japan be traded for yen instead of dollars. Further, Iran has plans in the works to create an open commodity exchange called the Iran Oil Bourse. This exchange would make it possible to trade oil and gas in non-dollar currencies, the euro in particular. Athough the oil bourse has missed at least three of its announced opening dates, it serves to make clear Irans intentions for the dollar. As of October 2007, Iran receives non-dollar currencies for 85% of its oil exports, and has plans to move the remaining 15% to currencies like the United Arab Emirates dirham.
Russia: Iran is not alone in its desire to establish an alternative to trading oil and other commodities in dollars..
#21 Oct 31, 2012
"Politicians and the media have conspired to infantilize, to dumb down, the American public. At heart, politicians don't believe that Americans can handle complex truths, and the news media, especially television news, basically agrees."
Tom Fenton, CBS foreign correspondent
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