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Tig Welding Stainless Steel – Walking the Cup vs TIG Finger

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Tig Finger™
A popular tig welding technique for stainless steel is walking the cup. But it does not always work best. And for some applications, it is not permitted because it leaves scratches on the surface of the metal sometimes. A Tig Finger comes in handy for situations where walking the cup does not work or for where those scratches the tip cup makes on and around the weld are not tolerate.

Both Tig welding techniques are shown along with a shameless plug for my Tig Finger product.

http://www.weldingtipsandtricks.com/tig-weld.html

Australia: Still A Prison Colony? Russell Brand The Trews (E339)

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In this episode of the The Trews I respond to recent comments from Joe Hockey on the housing crisis in Australia and compare it to mass incarceration.
Links on prison reform:
www.cut50.org/
http://www.sentencingproject.org/template/index.cfm

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http://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/justice-and-prison-reform/prison-reform-and-alternatives-to-imprisonment.html
Link on housing Australia: https://www.getup.org.au/negative-gearing?t=b2gnbFk1E&utm_content=8649&utm_campaign=Joe%20Hockey%20told%20you%20to%20get%20a%20better%20job&utm_source=blast&utm_medium=email
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Produced directed & edited by Gareth Roy.
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Trews Theme by The Rubberbandits
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Comparing US and EU farm subsidies

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Donations: http://www.ukip.org/donations | http://www.ukipmeps.org
• European Parliament, Brussels, 11 October 2012

• Speaker: Stuart Agnew MEP, UKIP (Eastern Counties), Europe of Freedom and Democracy (EFD) Group – http://www.stuartagnewmep.co.uk

Reply: Jean-Christophe Bureau , AgroParisTech, Paris Institute of Technology; Research associate at CEPII (Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales). Co-author of “Agricultural Trade Restrictiveness in the European Union and the United States”.

• Items on Agenda:
– Presentation of a detailed briefing note on “Latest US Farm Bill developments”
– Amendment to the Commission proposal COM(2011) 625 final/3 for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy

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• Video: EbS (European Parliament)

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/ep-live/en/committees/video?event=20121011-1500-COMMITTEE-AGRI
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• EU Member States:
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Estonia, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, United Kingdom

How to Breed Romagnola Cattle – TvAgro by Juan Gonzalo Angel

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The Romagnola is a breed of cattle from the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. It belongs to the Podolic group of grey cattle. Romagnola cattle were used principally as draught beasts in the past; since the mechanisation of agriculture in the middle of the twentieth century they have been bred primarily for beef production.
As with other European grey cattle, it has been suggested that the Romagnola breed derives from Podolian cattle from the steppes of eastern Europe, possibly brought to Italy by invading Goths in the fourth century AD or by the Lombard king Agilulf.[1] This hypothesis is based on the zoological theories of the nineteenth century, going back to the Bos taurus podolicus of Johann Andreas Wagner. It is not supported by modern genetic, zoological or archaeological research.[2]

There were in the past a number of local sub-types of Romagnola cattle, including the Bolognese in the area of Bologna, the Ferrarese in the area of Ferrara, a mountain type (“di monte”) and a lowland type (“gentile di pianura”). Selective breeding towards the modern type began in about 1850, and the resulting stock won prizes both in Italy and abroad. In Paris in 1900 the Romagnola was judged jointly with the Hereford to be the “best beef breed”.[1]

The Romagnola was however principally a draught breed, and was bred for that purpose, with massive and powerful foreparts and short strong legs. Following the progressive mechanisation of agriculture in the years after the Second World War the breeding strategy changed completely, and was directed towards beef production. To this end, cross-breeding with Chianina cattle was attempted, but did not give the desired results.[1] A herd book was established in 1963.[3]

More than 80% of the registered Italian population is in Emila-Romagna; there are small populations in Abruzzo, Basilicata, Campania, Calabria, Lazio, Lombardy, Le Marche, Puglia, Tuscany and the Veneto.[4] Some animals were exported to Scotland in the early 1970s and the breed is present in small numbers in Great Britain, Ireland, North and South America, Australia, New Zealand and Africa.[5][6]

Numbers in Italy have fallen sharply since the Second World War. In 1952 there were 450,000 head; this fell to 250,000 in 1965, to 120,000 in 1977 and to 45,000 in 1980.[1] At the end of 2013 the total number recorded for the breed in Italy was 13,054.[4]
Characteristics

Romagnola cattle are ivory-white, tending to grey on the foreparts, particularly in bulls; the skin and natural openings are black. The colour of the coat varies with the season, and is darker in winter. The horns are light, lyre-shaped in cows, half-moon-shaped in bulls; they are slate-grey in young animals, becoming pale at the base and dark at the tip with maturity. As with all Podolic cattle, the calves are born wheat-coloured but become white at about three months.
Fuente

Juan Gonzalo Angel
www.tvagro.tv