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Small cow herds milked by hand on family farms provide the milk for cheese produced by the Middlefield Original Cheese Cooperative, which has set an open house for Friday and Saturday. During its 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. hours both days, all its own cheeses will be 20 percent off. Home-baked Amish foods and crafts will also be sold as freshly made frozen custard is churned, weather permitting. The cooperative is at 16942 Kinsman Road in Middlefield.
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A suspended Moorestown policeman pleaded innocent Monday to charges of sexually assaulting three juvenile females and cruelty to animals involving other sex acts.
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Defendant Robert Melia Jr., 38, of Cottage Avenue is charged in a 45-count criminal indictment with multiple counts of sexually assaulting the girls in his home between 2000 and 2008.
Police also allege he had sex with cows in Southampton.
In addition, he is charged with official misconduct in office.
Melia's former girlfriend, Heather Lewis, 33, of Stockton's Bridge Road, Pemberton Township, pleaded innocent last week to similar charges involving the girls and a boy.
Defense lawyer Mark Catanzaro entered innocent pleas for Melia before Superior Court Judge Thomas Smith Jr. on Monday to those charges and also to six counts of endangering the welfare of a child and one count of invasion of privacy.
Police raided Melia's home in April and confiscated alleged pornographic material and Melia's computer. Both defendants were arrested April 12 and indicted last month by a Burlington County grand jury.
The stepfather of one of the girls contacted police about the alleged abuse, according to the grand jury indictment.
Melia is free on $410,000 bail while Lewis has been in the Burlington County Jail in lieu of $300,000 bail since her arrest.
Moorestown police director Harry Johnson suspended Melia on April 12, immediately following his arrest.A suspended Moorestown policeman pleaded innocent Monday to charges of sexually... more
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Three men are in Police grips for allegedly stealing 9 cows at Tongo Baare in the Talensi-Nabdam District of the Upper East Region.
The men were arrested on the dawn of Sunday October 16 around 1:30 am at Bukere, a suburb of Bolgatanga, where they had approached a cattle farmer offering to sell the stolen cows for GH¢1,000, which was rather cheap considering the market price of about GH¢3,600.
The cattle farmer became suspicious in view of the price at which the three were offering the cattle; so he called in the Police who arrested the men.
A son of the owner of the stolen cattle, Mba Ante, who spoke to DAILY GUIDE at Bolgatanga, said his father found out a few days ago that the number of cattle in his ranch had reduced and immediately mounted a search for them in the area and in nearby communities.
A source close to the Police said one of the suspects was a native of Bolgatanga.Three men are in Police grips for allegedly stealing 9 cows at Tongo Baare in the... more
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British artist/rockstar Nina Silvert's new music/ performance project Nina Silvert's Milk, with visual media by artist Ramon Salgado-Touzon, uses Milk as a symbol for world inequality, greed and corporate corruption. It makes specific reference to the Nestle African babymilk scandal and the similar recent sales of toxic babymilk formula in China.
Performed at ACT ART 06 - 7th of November 2008.
www.ninasilvert.com
www.myspace.co.uk/ninasilvertBritish artist/rockstar Nina Silvert's new music/ performance project Nina... more
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The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said no part of the animal's carcass entered the human food or animal feed supply. The cow was discovered on a farm in the Pacific province of British Columbia.The Canadian Food Inspection Agency said no part of the animal's carcass entered... more
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NORTHFIELD, Minn. - The St. Olaf men's swimming and diving team won five events at the Cows, Colleges and Contentment Classic including the 200 yard medley relay (1:35.00).
In the 50 free, the Oles claimed four of the top six spots with Nelson Westby finishing first (21.96), Adam Meyer in second (22.55), followed by Brock Edwards (22.80) and Luke Murrel (23.01) finishing fifth and sixth, respectively.
Junior Nate Bentley and first-year Chase Liaboe went one-two in the 1650 yard freestyle at 17:20.10 and 17:54.34.
Sophomore Chris Bateman took first in the 400 yard IM with a 4:14.10. Bateman also finished second in the 200 breaststroke with a 2:14.74.
Jake Koch finished first in the 200 IM with a 1:59.61 while also claiming second in both the 100 breaststroke (1:00.65) and 100 butterfly (53.94). The Oles' Adam Meyer finished third in the 100 butterfly with a 53.97, followed by a fourth place finish from Luke Money at 54.87.
In the 200 butterfly, Luke Money took second with a 2:05.60, Chase Liaboe third at 2:08.17 and Nate Bentley sixth at 2:11.57.
Sophomore Danny O'Keefe finished third in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:06.89. NORTHFIELD, Minn. - The St. Olaf men's swimming and diving team won five events... more
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KUPANG, E. Nusa Tenggara: The Office of the State Minister for the Development of Disadvantaged Regions has provided 225 cows for residents living in Belu regency, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT).
"The provision of cows is part of a program to develop the border area and they are being given to 15 farming groups in border areas," East Nusa Tenggara Animal Husbandry Agency head, Yermias Kali Taek, told The Jakarta Post on Saturday.
"Each group consists of 15-20 residents."
Belu regency shares a land border with the former Indonesian province of East Timor which gained independence in May 2002.
"The total fund for this program in East Nusa Tenggara is more than Rp 728 million (US$66,181)," said Yermias.
"The fund is transferred directly to each group's account and should only be used for activities related to cattle farming."
The groups receiving the aid are spread across East Kobalima, Kobalima, Lamaknen, South Lamaknen, Lasiolat, Nanaet Dubesi, East Tasifeto and West Tasifeto districts.
Yermias said the groups would receive the aid in late November because the agency was currently disseminating the program to the farming groups.
"The program is the continuation of a similar one held last year when only two groups received cattle," he said.
"As the program was considered successful last year, we are expanding the program this year with more farming groups receiving cows." -- JPKUPANG, E. Nusa Tenggara: The Office of the State Minister for the Development of... more
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Research funding, agroterrorism, and farm labor were among myriad topics of discussion when hundreds of bovine practitioners came together in late September.
The American Association of Bovine Practitioners' 41st annual conference ran Sept. 25-27 in Charlotte, N.C., jointly with the meeting of the American Association of Small Ruminant Practitioners.
The incoming AABP president and program chairman, Dr. Richard L. Wallace (see profile on page 1530), focused on the welfare of dairy and beef cattle as the subject of the general sessions. Numerous speakers addressed animal well-being in modern livestock production relevant to public perceptions and industry realities (see page 1527).
Several sessions examined gender and generational issues that are influencing recruitment of veterinary students into bovine practice (see page 1529). The AABP held its first job fair during the conference.
Speakers also looked closely at more specific issues—including the scarcity of funds for research on animal health, feedlots as a front line against agroterrorism, and training programs for Spanish-speaking farm workers.
[more at the website]Research funding, agroterrorism, and farm labor were among myriad topics of discussion... more
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Life as we know it is built on a series of seemingly insignificant elements - things that we often take for granted, if we think about them at all.
In a brand new series, called The World Without... Fred Dove examines the consequences of removing just one of those insignificant elements, and discovers some surprising possibilities.
What would this mean for daily life around the world? What might we be using instead today?
The first programme in the series, The World Without...Cows, considers the value to global society of all things bovine.
What would our world be like if early man had not domesticated the fearsome aurochs - the likely anscendant of all modern domesticated breeds of cattle?
Fred discovers just how important cows have been to religion, to medicine and indeed to civilisation all around the world, and examines the bovine link with global warming.
What is the future of our cattle? Could we face a future without cows?Life as we know it is built on a series of seemingly insignificant elements - things... more
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BRIDGEWATER — A cow that escaped from a butcher shop at North and Pleasant streets Monday is still on the loose, police said Tuesday night.
First off, what butcher has live cows delivered? Is that really cost-effective? Is it possible that Bridgewater has not been informed that there are refrigerated locomotive cars and the like that can transport this meat?
The cow outran authorities after it became loose while it was being unloaded from a trailer into a pen, police said.
Presumably by “authorities” we are talking about police or some sort of barnyard provisional army. Either way, both are likely to have access to cars, motorcycles, human legs—something quicker than your average bovine.
The cow took off down the road, and officers responded to direct traffic and make certain no cars hit the animal.
The butcher, meanwhile, ran a counter operation, attempting to route the cow into the oncoming traffic, knowing that he could recoup some of his recent profit loss—incurred by his bringing in live cattle and reminding customers that their sloppy joes once had a face with sad eyes—by getting it tenderized for free.
But when farm workers responded to try and get the cow into a trailer, it went into wooded areas, police said.
Please note that Bridgewater Police Department appears to have “farm workers” on retainer for these sorts of situations. They are also likely feuding with the Duke boys.BRIDGEWATER — A cow that escaped from a butcher shop at North and Pleasant... more
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Four cows and three goats never made it across the Rio Grande because they failed to have the proper crossing papers.
The animals were seized Tuesday at the Rio Grande City Port of Entry by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers.
Federal laws dictate that animals being exported and imported out of the United States must carry health certificates to ensure they are disease free before crossing the Ports of Entry.
Authorities said the 22-year-old man trying to cross the cows and goats didn't have the health certificates so the animals were seized.
The animals are valued at $3,450. They have been turned over to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.Four cows and three goats never made it across the Rio Grande because they failed to... more
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Almane Luxama did not know it yesterday as he headed to Haiti with his 1-year-old son, Dumanel, but some kind Massachusetts residents are planning a homecoming gift for the pair: two cows.
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Luxama, a poor farmer, had sold his only two cows to seek medical care for Dumanel, who was born with a hole in his skull and a cyst in his brain. Left untreated, Dumanel would surely have died, but Dr. John Meara, chief of plastic surgery at Children's Hospital Boston, happened to see the boy while volunteering in Haiti last spring and helped arrange for Dumanel to be brought to Boston and operated on for free at Children's.
The Globe carried a story about Dumanel's complex surgery Monday, and three readers quickly responded with offers to help replace the cows. Children's Hospital referred them to Partners In Health, a nonprofit famed for providing healthcare to the poor in Haiti and elsewhere. It helped put together Dumanel's trip to Boston and will continue treating him in Haiti.
Anne Beckett, a patient coordinator for Partners In Health, said yesterday that she had looked into how much milk cows cost in the area of Haiti where the Luxamas live: It would be $250 for a so-so one, $500 for a good one, and $800 for a bull that could help with plowing.
She has received calls from the three people who want to help, and she said "it sounds like there's really enough interest that we'll be able to replace what he lost." The help is especially needed, she said, because while Almane Luxama was here caring for Dumanel as he recuperated, flooding destroyed the family's crops.
John and JoAnn Pike of Norfolk plan to use their family's Christmas gift money to buy a good cow or a bull for the Luxamas. They hope to gather small donations from friends as well. Another donor, Christopher Shustak of Holden, keeps a small herd of Jersey cows as pets, and said in an e-mail that he empathized with Almane Luxama: "I adore my cows, and would be heartbroken if I ever had to sell them."
Beckett said a social worker at a Partners In Health clinic could buy the cows for the Luxamas, and the donations would reimburse the clinic. Sometimes the needs in a place like Haiti can seem overwhelming, she said, but the response to the Luxamas' story "is a testament to how generous and kind people are when the need is really concrete."Almane Luxama did not know it yesterday as he headed to Haiti with his 1-year-old son,... more
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An old fridge thrown off the International Space Station last year is set to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere shortly, according to reports, delivering a volley of 100mph space frag debris to an as-yet unknown impact site.
The refrigeration unit in question is the Early Ammonia System (EAS), a 1400lb tank intended to furnish backup supplies of the unpleasant-smelling coolant to the space station in the early stages of its construction. As the ISS neared completion it became surplus to requirements.
The disused stink-tank might more normally have been shipped back to Earth aboard a space shuttle, but in the end no room was found. Astronaut Clay Anderson dealt with the problem briskly in July last year, flinging the hefty three-quarter-ton unit off the end of the space station's robot arm along with an old camera mounting also deemed no longer necessary.
In the year-plus since, the orbital pong-bomb has gradually slowed down due to the friction exerted by the extreme upper atmosphere, thus descending and becoming subject to more friction and so on. In effect, the EAS has hung above our heads like an evil-smelling Sword of Damocles, which might suddenly plunge down to release its payload of eyewatering space niff at any time. The tipping point at which the slowing and dropping suddenly accelerates and the descent begins in earnest is expected imminently; surviving pieces of the EAS should reach Earth today.
"This has got a very low likelihood that anybody will be impacted by it," said NASA's Mike Suffredini, quoted by MSNBC. "But still, it is a large object and pieces will enter and we just need to be cautious."
NASA exploding-space-fridge experts have worked out that the largest pieces of tank which could survive might be as big as 15lb and travelling at 100mph. The fridge-frag shower will most likely fall out at sea, but might conceivably hit a populated area if things turn out unfortunately.
The greatest danger associated with the plunging pong-barrel would be impact damage from the pieces, rather than its ammonia contents - which would be sure to have vapourised by then. Nonetheless, NASA's Suffredini added:
"If anybody found a piece of anything on the ground Monday morning, I would hope they wouldn't get too close to it."
There were never any plans to engage the innocuous coolant assembly with a volley of missile-defence interceptors fired from US Navy cruisers, as happened the last time an American tankful of stinks came down from orbit out of control. ®
An old fridge thrown off the International Space Station last year is set to re-enter... more
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Angus beef is soooo delectable! Those who have partaken of it can attest to that. Many people say that unlike ordinary beef, the meat of Angus cattle is different. It is so soft that it melts in your mouth! It might be interesting to know how these special breed of cows produce such tender flesh. My good friend Edwin Lopez of EWTN told me once that Angus cows are caged in very small stalls that they could hardly move. And precisely because they could not use much their muscles, their meat remains soft and tender, unlike our native cows that freely move around in barns and graze in farm lands.
[more at the website]Angus beef is soooo delectable! Those who have partaken of it can attest to that. Many... more
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LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -- Fire destroyed a barn in Lancaster County Monday morning.
The blaze broke out at about 3 a.m. in the barn at the Donegal Creek Dairy Farm.
Police officers spotted the fire while on patrol. They said flames could be seen from several miles away.
Wivell said the barn is insured, but he does not plan to rebuild.
"A lot of those cows have value on them, but then they were carrying calves and, you know, that next generation and so you don't account for that,” said Wivell. “So, you know, it's just a very hard loss."
Damage is estimated at about $600,000.LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. -- Fire destroyed a barn in Lancaster County Monday morning.... more
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GHAZIABAD: Forty-five cows have died after eating "poisonous substances" dumped in an open field by major pharma units in Ghaziabad, police said
on Saturday.
Circle Officer C.P. Singh said that a First Information Report has been filed on a complaint by local residents of this Uttar Pradesh town, adjacent to the national capital. A probe has been launched.
The cows and their calves were foraging in an open area near National Highway 58 in the Meerut Road Industrial Area, where major pharma companies located there allegedly dumped their chemical wastes. GHAZIABAD: Forty-five cows have died after eating "poisonous substances"... more
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Two weeks ago, a series of paranormal events began to occur at The Creamy Cougar, WSU’s beloved ice cream and cheese store. It culminated in the appearance of extremely unscary ghost cows that have apparently made permanent residence inside the shop.
“I was closing on the 17th of this month when I started to hear something I couldn’t explain coming from the freezer,” Creamy
Cougar employee Daniel Fultz said. “I opened the door and realized I was hearing a disembodied cowbell. The next day, a
couple of customers complained there were four stomachs floating above their table. On the 20th, I saw the first full cow. It just
appeared in thin air in the middle of the shop and just stood there looking stupid. I tried to shoo it away but my hand kept slipping
through the body. It’s been more than 10 days and the damn thing refuses to move.”
A second and third cow appeared Oct. 23 and 24, unmenacingly staring down customers as they ate.
“It’s more irritating than anything,” said Crystal Hall, WSU junior and frequent Creamy Cougar patron. “You just sit there waiting
for it to do something, but then you remember it’s just a stupid cow.”
The first organization to investigate these historic yet humdrum events has been WSU itself. Reports so far indicate nothing
interesting will ever happen.
“It’s not surprising cow spirits would return to a dairy shop. History dictates that spirits tend to return to places that had extreme
significance in their mortal existence,” said John Nail, a graduate student in the department of supernatural research.
“It marks a major turning point in paranormal studies all around the world, but frankly we’re pissed off this whole event has been
so incredibly lame,” he said.
“Cows in life lacked the intellectual capabilities to be spooky, so why would you expect anything different in the afterlife?” Nail
said. “If anything, they were more dangerous when they had bodies. It’s not like it would hurt to be kicked by something that
isn’t tangible.”
These yawn-inducing farmyard phantoms, however, are causing a great deal of annoyance among Creamy Cougar staff.
Employees are complaining about the high amounts of ectoplasmic cud that litters the building.
“It’s a real pain in the ass to try to clean something that cannot be removed with anything from our dimension,” Creamy Cougar
employee Beverly Newborn said.
An unnamed employee was arrested Monday after attempting to kill a herding dog in the back room so the dog’s spirit could
chase the haunted heifers from the building.
Last week the Creamy Cougar managers lost the last of their patience and hired a priest to perform an exorcism to rid the ice
cream shop of the cadaverous cattle once and for all. The ritual was considered a disappointing failure due to the cows being
unable to comprehend Latin or the power of Christ.Two weeks ago, a series of paranormal events began to occur at The Creamy Cougar,... more
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Linda Shepertycki, Canwest News Service
Published: Thursday, October 30, 2008
WINNIPEG -- A University of Manitoba scientist says he's figured out how to cut the amount of greenhouse gas belching from cows by as much as 200 litres a day -- feed them grain instead of grass.
For the past four years, Ermias Kebreab has been analysing cow burps at the National Centre for Livestock and the Environment south of Winnipeg to measure the amount of methane dairy cows produce when they are fed different types of food.
About 98 per cent of the methane from a cow is emitted through its mouth -- "only two per cent comes out the other way," said Mr. Kebreab.
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Traditional wisdom holds that grass is less of a contributor to global warming than more energy-intensive crops like grain.
However, Mr. Kebreab's report, published in the Journal of Animal Science, shows that may not be the case.
Yesterday, in a dairy barn, Mr. Kebreab recruited a gentle old Jersey steer named George to demonstrate how the study worked.
The bovine guinea pig was guided into a Plexiglas feeding compartment with a hooded collar around his neck to trap the gases.
A hose sucked the stinking gas out of the feeding area and into a machine that measured the methane.
In the published study, Holstein dairy cows were fed grasses alternating every other week with grains.
The amount of methane they produced was measured.
The grass-fed cows produced 600 to 700 litres of methane per day, compared to about 500 litres a day per grain-fed cow, Mr. Kebreab said.
That information could help Canada reduce its greenhouse gas and more accurately predict its methane emissions from cattle.
It's estimated that 8.3 per cent of Canada's emissions are caused by farming, and 32 per cent of that total comes from methane-producing cows.
Mr. Kebreab says the grasses cows eat are harder to digest than grains, so they produce more gas. Grain-fed cattle, meanwhile, also produce more milk.
For now, Mr. Kebreab's findings are being used in the United States, not Canada, he said.
"We've developed the model here and the Americans use it," Mr. Kebreab said.Linda Shepertycki, Canwest News Service
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MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay—Lightning struck only once -- but 52 cows are dead at an Uruguayan ranch. The newspaper El Pais reports that the cows had pressed against a wire fence during a storm when the lightning bolt struck in the northern state of San Jose.
A photograph released by the San Jose Police Department shows the black and brown cows lying dead in a long row.
The newspaper said Friday that veterinarians at the scene confirmed the cause of the deaths, which happened Wednesday. The veterinarians told the newspaper that cows often crowd around fences to seek protection during storms.
Meteorologist Fernando Torena told the newspaper he wasn't surprised that a single lightning bolt killed so many cows. But he called it "very bad luck."MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay—Lightning struck only once -- but 52 cows are dead at an... more
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WINNIPEG — Cows and bulls were under pressure at the Winnipeg Livestock Market on Tuesday.
Total head count: 1,100.
Slaughter cattle 250: Choice steers and heifers $79.50-$87.50 per cwt; cows, dry fed $42.75-$52.25; good fleshed $35-$42.75; lean $20-$35; good bulls $45.50-$61.25.
Feeder cattle 850: Steers 700-800 lbs $85-$99, 600-700 lbs $90-$100.50, 500-600 lbs $95-$103, 400-500 lbs $100-$114.50, under 400 lbs $100-$111; Heifers 600-700 lbs $80-$89.50, 500-600 lbs $85-$91. WINNIPEG — Cows and bulls were under pressure at the Winnipeg Livestock Market... more
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