Pennsylvania Dairy Kid – Milking Cows

Some pretty neat camera work of the milking process - strip, dip, milk - from an old-fashioned tie stall barn in Pennsylvania. Producing that wonderful beverage that makes everything from coffee in the morning to dinner at night a little better. Clunk-clunk of the pulsator.

8-14 Day Outlook – Friday January 22

With all this talk of it getting cold February, NOAA isn’t predicting a big cool down for the end of the month heading into February. Something to watch but with the strengthening sun angle every day, it gets harder and harder to have long periods of cold.

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Germany Expected To Put Right-Wing AfD Under Surveillance For Violating Constitution : NPR

Germany's Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, is constantly on the lookout for potential threats to Germany's democratic constitutional system, and it has wide-ranging powers when it finds them.

"This agency has the power — and not only to do surveillance on fringe groups, domestic terrorist threats, but also to keep an eye on any political institution, like a political party," explains Melanie Amann of the German newsmagazine Der Spiegel and the author of a book about the AfD. "Like if their program becomes more radical or if they notice that a political party, maybe that's even sitting in the parliament, goes into a direction that might be harmful to our political system."

The agency has wrapped up a two-year investigation into Germany's largest right-wing opposition party, the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, and is expected to announce soon that it will place the entire party under surveillance for posing a threat to Germany's political system and violating the constitution. The unprecedented move would mean that all AfD lawmakers, including several dozen in Germany's parliament, would be put under state surveillance.

Today’s Almanac for Friday January 22

Today’s Almanac

Night before dawn is 6 hours and 47 minutes,
Dawn starts at 6:47 am and runs for 30 minutes,
Sunrise is at 7:17 am which is 4 hours and 42 minutes before noon,
High noon, the transit of the sun, is at 12:07 pm,
From twelve noon to the sunset at 4:56 pm is 4 hours and 56 minutes,
Dusk lasts for 29 minutes concluding at 5:26 pm,
Leaving 6 hours and 33 minutes until midnight.

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