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Wisconsin's partisan chasm: A case of divided voters or divisive politicians?
Gov. Walker's approval rating from Republican voters was 92% in a Wisconsin survey last month by Public Policy Polling.
His approval rating from Democratic voters was 9%.
Invert those two numbers and you get something very close to President Obama's ratings in Wisconsin: 93% approval from Democrats, 4% approval from Republicans.
In both cases, the partisan divide is bigger than anything Public Policy Polling has recorded for governor and president in the 40-plus states where it has polled since 2011.
Wisconsin is not just a microcosm of the red-blue divide among America's voters.
It may be the premier example.
And the phenomenon goes beyond voters' attitudes toward Walker and Obama.
Consider House budget chairman Paul Ryan, the GOP's 2012 vice presidential candidate.
His "favorability" rating in the same Wisconsin poll last month was 92% among Republicans and 8% among Democrats. Ryan inspires bigger partisan differences in his home state than any House member in America that Public Policy Polling (PPP) has polled on in recent years.
Take the state's two freshman senators, Republican Ron Johnson and Democrat Tammy Baldwin, who aren't as well known, well defined or polarizing as Walker, Ryan and Obama.
Yet the partisan gap in attitudes toward them is considerably bigger than it is for most Senators in other states, based on PPP's extensive state-level polling.
The common thread when it comes to all five politicians – Obama, Walker, Ryan, Johnson and Baldwin – is this: while they are popular (in some cases remarkably popular) with their own party's voters in Wisconsin, they have almost zero support from voters in the other party.
Why is Wisconsin such an extreme example of this kind of partisan division?
Is there something about the state's leading political figures – Walker is the most obvious case – that makes them lightning rods?
How much is the legacy of two years of unprecedented partisan warfare?
Or is Wisconsin just home to an unusually engaged and polarized collection of voters, a place where more people follow politics, have firm opinions and take sides than do in most other states?
"You have obviously a very polarized state where people within their parties are extremely committed to that party's politicians, and extremely down on the other party's politicians," says PPP's Tom Jensen. "It's unusual to have nobody who has any appeal across party lines."
"They've been through the demonstrations. They've been through the recall. They've been through an intensive political period where divisions were laid bare and made very strong and very pointed," says Mark Mellman, a D.C.-based Democratic pollster who has done a lot of survey work in Wisconsin.
While this analysis is based largely on one firm's polling, that's the only way to make apples-to-apples comparisons among different states, since all these surveys are done the same way by the same pollster. Public Policy Polling is a Democratic firm in North Carolina that does a great deal of independent polling at the state level. No other pollster has churned out so much public survey data in so many different states in the past few years.
Here's a closer look at what the numbers for Obama, Walker, Ryan, Johnson and Baldwin may tell us about Wisconsin's very stark partisan fault lines:
Walker: More than any other governor, Walker combines ultra-high support from voters in his own party with ultra-low support from voters in the opposing party. The end result is an evenly divided public. In last month's PPP survey, 48% of Wisconsin voters approved of Walker, 49% disapproved. Walker's overall ratings aren't very distinctive, placing him in the lower middle range of governors.
Two things set him apart. The first is that almost everyone has an opinion about him. Only 3 percent of those polled last month said they were "unsure" about his performance, the lowest figure for any governor in PPP's polling in recent years.
The second is the massive partisan split in attitudes toward him. There was an 83-point gap between Walker's approval rating with Republicans and his approval rating with Democrats.
In the 40-plus states where PPP has polled since 2011, no other governor has had a partisan approval gap nearly that wide (the chart below uses PPP's most recent polling numbers for each governor):
This partisan chasm has been a signature of Walker's polling numbers since the war erupted in Wisconsin over public-sector unions in 2011.
Some governors who are more popular than Walker combine great ratings from their own party's voters with healthy ratings from independents and the other party's voters. That's true of New Jersey Republican Chris Christie, who got 92% approval from Republicans, 56% approval from Democrats and 65% approval from independents in a PPP New Jersey poll last November.
Some governors who are less popular than Walker have poor ratings across the board, such as Illinois Democrat Pat Quinn, who got 38% approval from Democrats, 20% approval from independents and 9% approval from Republicans in a PPP November poll in Illinois.
But no governor elicits such starkly different reactions along party lines.
Obama: In the more than 40 states where PPP has polled since 2011, Obama has his biggest partisan approval splits in Wisconsin (93% approval from Democrats, 4% from Republicans). Other states with an especially big partisan divide on Obama include Minnesota, Virginia and Montana:
While Obama's Democratic ratings in Wisconsin are among his highest anywhere, his Republican ratings are his lowest anywhere. In PPP's polling, Obama does worse with Republican voters in Wisconsin and Minnesota than he does with Republican voters in the Deep South.
PPP isn't the only pollster that finds Wisconsin is especially polarized over Obama.
In Gallup's 2012 polling, the biggest partisan approval gaps for Obama were found in New Hampshire, Nevada, Wisconsin, Colorado and Washington state.
If the Walker numbers illustrate how some governors are more polarizing than others, the Obama numbers illustrate how some states are more polarized than others, at least over this president.
Ryan: Statewide surveys on House members aren't done very often, but PPP has done them on several high-profile House Republicans: Ryan, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, former presidential candidate Michelle Bachmann of Minnesota and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia.
All have very low ratings among their home-state Democrats -- no surprise.
But Ryan has easily the highest positive ratings (92% favorable) among home-state Republican voters, and therefore the biggest partisan ratings gap.
Ryan's presence on the 2012 presidential ticket helps explain his unusually high statewide name-recognition and appeal to the partisan base. But even before his selection for the ticket, he had higher statewide ratings in his own party than even most U.S. Senators do.
Johnson and Baldwin: Republican Johnson and Democrat Baldwin came to office in the past two elections, and their public images aren't as sharply defined as those of Obama, Walker and Ryan. But Baldwin is coming off a high-profile campaign still fresh in the minds of many voters. And in both cases, their approval ratings break down very starkly by party.
In last month's PPP poll, Johnson had 70% approval among GOP voters and 8 percent approval among Democratic voters. Baldwin had 8% approval among GOP voters and 84% approval among Democratic voters.
Baldwin had a better rating overall (45% approve, 40% disapprove) than Johnson (37% approve, 41% disapprove). She did a little better than him with independents; and her ratings with voters in her own party are unusually high for a U.S. senator, much less a new senator.
But what stands out the most about the two senators' numbers is that Johnson and Baldwin have the worst ratings (8% approval) from voters in the opposing party of the more than 50 senators PPP has polled on since the beginning of 2012.
The partisan divide isn't quite as stark for most senators, and for a few it's practically non-existent.
Maine Republican Susan Collins had approval ratings of 60% or higher from Republicans, independents and Democrats alike in a Maine PPP survey done in January. Alaska Republican Lisa Murkowski had a better rating from Democratic voters than she did from voters in her own party in a PPP survey in Alaska last month.
So what makes Wisconsin such a picture of partisan polarization?
The turmoil and conflict of the past two years is one explanation.
"Some states have more tensions than others," says Mellman, the pollster.
You can certainly find Wisconsin politicians in the pre-Walker era that had more crossover appeal than anyone in the state today (Gov. Tommy Thompson, Sen. Herb Kohl).
But it's hard to know how much of the state's partisan divide to attribute to the war over Walker's policies and how much to attribute to Wisconsin's basic political makeup.
Mellman notes that in some states, the partisan lines are more blurred, either because they have more moderate Republicans (as in the Northeast) or they have more conservative Democrats (as in the South).
"Wisconsin is a place that has fewer of each," he says.
Political scientist Alan Abramowitz of Emory University, who has written widely about polarization, says a more educated, engaged electorate may also help explain the depth of division, since voters who follow politics more closely tend to be more partisan and more aware of the differences between the parties.
Wisconsin is arguably such a place. In its automated polling, PPP has discovered that Wisconsin voters are more responsive to their surveys than voters in other states. Their Wisconsin polls often boast much larger samples (1,799 voters in last month's poll) than their surveys in other states (often under 1,000 voters) because a higher percentage of the people they call choose to participate.
"Those are states where people pay more attention to politics," Jensen says of Wisconsin and Minnesota. "Wisconsin is the easiest state in the country to poll in."
Wisconsin's high levels of engagement, its fundamental fault lines and the controversy and conflict of the past few years may all be pushing the state in the same direction.
Whether it's our politicians who are polarizing or our electorate that's polarized (or both), the result is the same.
Wisconsin is a place where the partisan divisions are unusually stark, and nobody's bridging them.
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|January 25th, 2009, 02:41 PM
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Feedback on the new MIller 165 Diversion TIG
Thinkin about buying the new Miller Diversion 165 AC/DC TIG welder. I know its pretty new but, does anyone have any experience with this machine?
Just lookin for some feedback about it. Not real familiar with the TIG process, so this will be my first machine. Couple people I've talked to dont seem to like the fact that the voltage control is on the torch, vs. the pedal. Gotta be some welders out there to help out a drunk painter
|January 25th, 2009, 02:45 PM
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i am not familiar with the machine but if you are not doing aluminum you dont need a voltage control on the torch or the pedal. it is a necesity for aluminum though. for aluminum i would prefer it on the torch because a foot pedal only works good if you are on the bench welding.
|January 25th, 2009, 02:50 PM
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http://www.millerwelds.com/products/...c_180_autoset/ i just got this one a few months ago and its pretty nice for shop use
|January 25th, 2009, 02:52 PM
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Depends on how you are going to use it, and what your budget is. I am not familiar with that machine. I personally have a Lincoln Precision Tig 185, which Lincoln has replaced with the precision Tig 225. Same machine basically but a higher top end voltage. I love my 185 for home use. I would not be afraid of miller equipment I work with allot of it every day at work. I just chose Lincoln equipment because of the specs and dealer support (and pricing) for myself here at home.
Let me give you a few of my thoughts
I looked at the manual for this machine on Millers site and there are a few things I would consider about this machine before purchase.
It's going to be more of a sheet metal machine than a Roll bar and suspension links machine due to it's max output of 150A. 150A will get you to 1/8"-3/16" but it will be maxed out. Anything above that will probably have to be done multi pass
The torch and the ground cable are not detachable- this is not good for serviceability. It will probably have a premium replacement cost. This will limit you also if you want to change to a different style or manufacturer of torch.
The torch is only 12' long- I run a 25' torch to minimize having to move the machine all the time. For this same reason I run a 15' whip on my MIG machine.
The control on the torch is really not an issue it is more a matter of preference and conditions you are welding around. If you are laying under something welding it is hard to work a foot pedal. There is a foot pedal optional for the miller machine. It also looks to have a proprietary plug on it so replacements and options will be limited.
The thing I personally would not like is the lack of manual control for, Post flow, AC balance, and Frequency Control. This stuff doesn't mean much for a beginner but can be helpful as you get more into Tig.
If this is all the machine you would ever need I would not be afraid to get one. I always tend to think of the future. I hate to buy something that I will out grow and end up spending more than if I would have upgraded from the start.
Welders are allot like Jeeps once you get started their's no end lol.
I started with a TSC Hobart 180 suitcase MIG machine Which I still have and use for light work up to 1/4" and a Oxy/Acet set but that started the ball rolling. Now my arsenal also includes a Lincoln Ranger EXT generator/welder with a LN-25 PRO wire feeder attachment 100' power cables, grounds, and gas hose the Precision Tig 185 and tons of miscellanies stuff. Now I'm looking for a Plasma Cutter
Check out the www.millerwelds.com and www.lincolnelectric.com Their is good info on both sites. Tips and tricks, manuals specs etc. They both also have a nice monthly e-news letter that has allot of good info.
But the most important thing I can say is BUY FROM A SHOP THAT WILL TALK
TO YOU AND HELP YOU AND WILL SELL WHAT YOU NEED AND NOT WHAT THEY NEED TO GET RID OF OR THEY HAVE BETTER MARK UPS ON. There is some excellent pricing on the net for welders but it's hard to get support from someone states away I have a local shop but prefer to drive 45 miles to someone I trust. These guys have been wonderful to me. /www.aaweldingsupply.com.
|January 25th, 2009, 05:54 PM
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" If this is all the machine you would ever need I would not be afraid to get one. I always tend to think of the future. I hate to buy something that I will out grow and end up spending more than if I would have upgraded from the start. "
Thats exactly what I'm worried about. I currently have been doing everything with my Miller 135. Been a great machine, but have kinda out-grown it. And if I'm to purchase another welder, I would rather get one thats going to do the job without hvaing to upgrade in a few years. Ju7st figured instead of buying a bigger MIG, why not go with the TIG. But with prices in the 2-3 thousand $ range the 165 seemed ideal. But again dont really now what its capabillites are. I want something that I can weld thicker metals with out pre-heating and double passes. Thanks for the input Jasper.
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Always go atleast one step up from what you think you will ever need. Check out Craigslist there are people all over the place selling slightly used welders at a fraction of the cost of new. If you are buying a name brand such as Miller any dealer is going to be able to service it if and when anything goes wrong, just make sure you are able to try the machine before purchasing. I just bought a Miller 251 mig from a guy off craigslist for 1/3 of the new price the welder still has a year and a half of factory warranty and works flawlessly. I noticed that he had many tig welders as well. PM me if you'd like his number.
|January 25th, 2009, 06:32 PM
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no stupid ass he isnt asking what the machine can do but what do you want? jasper is correct about post flow ect which makes life easier.honestly i get something with a water cooler torch. again my preferance but it will help. syncrowave 250 is what you need nigga buy that shit up
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|January 25th, 2009, 07:19 PM
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I asked what people thought of the 165, not MIG welders or syncro what evers.
Just want to know if anyone has used this machine and what they think of it.
I know there are a sh!t ton of better and more pricey machines, but was wondering about this one since Kevin at Bakers was going to give me a hell of a deal on it, thats all. I dont have $3000 to buy a badass TIG.
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I was in the same position and ponied up for a syncrowave 250dx.... not a single regret. and for what it's worth I have built every vehicle with a millermatic 150 mig from about 1994... it will weld up to 3/8" if you know what you are doing with the joints. I usually weld on 50-75% output... 1/8"-3/16" material.
|January 25th, 2009, 10:01 PM
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Does the shop where you are looking at this machine have a demo unit? If so ask if you can play with it, or if you can't Tig yet take a buddy if you can. Try it out. Our local shop doesn't have a set up to try things out or I would stop and play with one myself to see how they are. ("Bakers was going to give me a hell of a deal on it") Not knowing what that is, the Miller list is $1617.00 (I found it on the net for $1275.00) for the base machine. And if you want a foot pedal it list for $150.00 (found for $135.00 on the net) Check these guys out
www.harrisweldingsupplies.com They have the Miller Econo Tig (Which is the next step up from the Diversion 165 ) For $1535.00, and the Lincoln Precision TIG 225 for $1775.00 Both of these have free shipping, and I don't think any sales tax but not sure. It might only be $200-$400 to upgrade to the next size machine. One other advantage to the next step up machines is that they will stick weld also. This may not matter to you but thought I would tell you. If you want to weld thicker metals one pass I would lean toward the Lincoln because of it's 225A max. Also remember the Tig will require a different type of gas than the MIG. For home use 100% Argon will suit your needs so take into account the cost of another bottle of gas. Here is another net source also www.cyberweld.com I hope I'm not confusing you. Good Luck.
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what are you planning on building with it? suspension and roll cage? or just some body pannels? the reason i ask is it has a 20% duty cycle at 150 amps, if you are welding cage and suspension components you will be constantly shutting it down due to overheating.
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i cant do aluminum but for steel i use my 250 amp lincoln arc welder with 100% duty cycle and an air cooled torch. no adjustable amperage on the torch or foot pedal, they just get in the way. i use it for all of my fab work. works great!
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The Microsoft IT Academy is designed to provide educators and students with skills in Microsoft software, e-learning couress, and othe rrelevant ICT fields. Deux Project Limited functions as Microsoft's local support group; they will be providing laptops with Microsoft IT Academy software for one of the schools. As part of the Microsoft IT Academy curriculum, Microsoft will provide free email resources and over 175 e-learning courses. Because training resources are scarce in the region, the use of the Microsoft IT Academy, which will train both students and educators who can train future students, is a self-sustainable way to encourage ICT use in education in Lagos.
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Barclays Plc's plan to increase black ownership of its Zimbabwean unit needs further work, said the country's Indigenization Minister Saviour Kasukuwere.
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Barclays, the U.K.'s second-largest bank by assets, has said its business in in the southern African country is 32 percent-owned by Zimbabweans. George Guvamatanga, managing director of the unit listed on the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange, didn't immediately answer phone calls to his office today.
Under the country's law, foreign and white-owned companies must sell or cede 51 percent of their shares to black Zimbabweans or the state-owned National Indigenization and Economic Empowerment Board. Kasukuwere, a member of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party that pushed the law through parliament, said Barclays (BARC)'s plan needs more discussion.
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It doesn't rank up there with phrases like "if it doesn't fit, you must acquit." But when Chris Brown tried to speak for himself during a hearing in a Los Angeles courtroom yesterday, he got a gentle rebuke from his own attorney.
The hearing was on whether Brown should remain on supervised probation. And at one point, Brown raised his hand and started to ask to address the court about his upcoming schedule.
Attorney Mark Geragos interrupted, telling Brown: "I don't dance, you don't talk." Brown chuckled somewhat nervously as the judge said she might enjoy seeing Geragos dance in court.
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There is a trick question which pops up on a regular basis at do-it-yourself super seminars these days. The presenter asks how much a person can pay or contribute to their super.
Among a selection of possible answers is an amount up to the total of the tax concessional and non-concessional contribution limits. Another choice is as much as you want to contribute.
While the first offering seems the obvious answer, the truth is you can contribute as much as you want to your super as long as you are prepared to wear any contribution tax penalties on the excess amounts above the contribution limits.
Given these penalties can reduce a super contribution by a significant proportion – the potential penalty on an excess non-concessional contribution is tax of 46.5 per cent – avoiding excess contributions must be given a high priority by anyone saving for their retirement through super.
You really have to be quite mature about making super contributions these days, especially non-concessional contributions, says SMSF Professionals' Association technical director
How excess contributions are treated has since 2007 become one of DIY super's most complex issues, though in theory it should be simple.
It's complicated, says
The Income Tax Assessment Act lists annual contributions limits before you are up for penalty tax. These are the amounts that everyone should know: $25,000 at present for tax-concessional contributions if you were under age 59 on June 30, 2013 and $35,000 if you were over 59. For non-concessional contributions the limits are $150,000 a year with a right to combine three years of such contributions into one if you were under age 64 on July 1, 2013.
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Where you don't care how much tax you have to pay, as suggested by the trick question, Mansell says there are ways to make contributions that will exceed these limits. But you have to punish yourself deliberately as the super rules have their own contributions limit, especially for the non-concessional contributions, that are designed to help avoid excess contributions.
Whereas tax rules will tolerate excess contributions for those prepared to pay the tax, the super rules have the same contributions limits for non-concessional contribution with a different twist. These rules don't allow more than the annual limit to be contributed and require amounts in excess of this to be refunded.
If someone theoretically wanted to contribute a $1 million non-concessional amount to super, says Mansell, the super rules would allow only $450,000 to be accepted on behalf of a member who was under 64 on July 1 or $150,000 if the member was already 65 on that date.
The balance of the contribution, either $550,000 or $850,000, would have to be refunded to the member.
This is a positive rule, says Mansell, because it helps avoid excess contributions and the resulting 46.5 per cent tax this attracts.
That said, it doesn't work for everyone. Where individual contributions made are less than the contribution limit and a series of contributions take the total amount above the allowed annual limit, there is no right to a refund and the excess will be liable for the 46.5 per cent tax.
Mansell says there was an interesting tax determination that confirmed this a couple of years ago where the Australian Taxation Office expressed the view that a transfer of shares worth more than the $150,000 as an after-tax contribution was allowed on behalf of a 65-year-old member because there were three parcels of different shares involved, each worth less than $150,000. The total value of the shares was $155,000. The contribution was also accepted because the member satisfied the 40 hours in 30 days work test.
The bottom limit was that the shares were accepted as after tax contributions but the $5000 of excess value attracted an excess contribution penalty of 46.5 per cent tax.
The same would apply if there were several cash contributions that exceeded the annual limit.
If someone expected they could make a $450,000 contribution under the bring forward rule, but was only entitled to contribute $150,000 and they made a series of contributions each of them less than $150,000, they would be up for 46.5 per cent tax on the excess as a refund is allowed only where individual contributions exceed $150,000.
This point was highlighted by a reader who asked a series of questions on non-concessional refunds. How is a refund of non-concessional contributions determined? Is it the amount of excess contributions? How should any investment earnings be treated?
For example, if a member was 65 or over on July 1, 2013, satisfied the work test during the 2013-14 financial year and made a single $160,000 non-concessional contribution in the belief she could bring forward three years of contributions, $10,000 would need to be refunded, saving the fund penalty tax. The super rules allow the amount which is required to be refunded to be adjusted for investment earnings.
If the value of the amount to be refunded has increased due to investment earnings then the initial value of the amount to be refunded, plus investment earnings can be refunded. Conversely, if the initial value of the amount to be refunded has fallen due to negative investment earnings, only the current value of the refunded amount needs to be refunded.
If there is an intervening period between the receipt and refund of excess contribution, how any investment earnings should be treated is dealt with in the regulations, says Burgess.
The superannuation regulations, says Burgess, also allows for the refunded amount to be reduced for reasonable administration and transactions costs.
Another refund question concerns how any tax debit might be treated on contributions, especially where a fund is still in the accumulation phase.
As there is no tax on after-tax contributions, says Burgess, if any tax has been deducted from a contribution which is being refunded, say for example a concessional contribution which was received in breach of the contribution acceptance rules, this would be refunded by the ATO and subsequently returned to the member.
Where a financial year has passed between the contribution and the refund and there was excess tax paid on the earnings attributable to the excess contributions, the fund will need to lodge an amended tax return which would facilitate a tax refund.
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The U.S. beef industry began this week with positive news that access to the Japanese market will improve significantly. Following a week of rumors and unofficial statements, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk and United States Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Monday morning that the United States and Japan have agreed on new terms and conditions under which Japan will allow imports of U.S. beef from cattle up to 30 months of age beginning February 1.
Live-cattle futures rose sharply on Monday following the announcement. The February contract closed up $2.65 at $128.95, April closed at $133.43, also up $2.65 and June closed up $2.35 at $128.85.
The U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) estimates this expanded access will bring a 45 percent increase in U.S. beef exports to Japan, in value and volume, during 2013. Export value this year could reach $1.5 billion, compared with about $1 billion during 2012.
"This is great news for cattlemen and women and is a significant milestone in our trading relationship with Japan," said NCBA President J.D. Alexander. "Japan is a great market for U.S. beef and we look forward to continuing to meet Japanese consumer demands. This move is an important step forward in paving the way toward greater export opportunities to one of our largest export markets."
USMEF lists increased beef access to Japan as the number-one opportunity for U.S. beef exports this year. In 2000, prior to the discovery of BSE in the United States, our beef exports to Japan reached 1.16 billion pounds valued at $1.77 billion, and accounted for 43 percent by volume and 50 percent of the value of all U.S. beef exports that year. We also enjoyed a 53 percent share of Japan's beef imports at the time. USMEF notes that much of the lost volume was not made up by other countries, leaving a void in the Japanese market. In 2012, Japan imported a total of about 575,000 metric tons compared to 857,715 metric tons in 2000. USMEF sees that void as an opportunity for U.S. beef to regain market share in Japan.
Speaking to a group of USMEF staff and guests last week, USMEF Senior VP for the Asia-Pacific region Joel Haggard said retailers and meat buyers in Japan have been anticipating the change and are ready to buy U.S. beef once more becomes available. Retailers and food-service operators are likely to begin offering more U.S. beef once they have access to consistent supplies at more affordable prices.
"The U.S. beef industry – from farmers and ranchers to exporters – will benefit from increased exports to this premium market," says USMEF President and CEO Phil Seng. "At the same time, the trade and consumers in Japan will see a wider variety of beef products and improved availability of U.S. beef in the retail and food service channels."
Joe Parker Jr., president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, also praised the agreement. "Ranchers across the country are relieved to see these restrictions finally lifted, so they can again begin providing Japanese consumers with more of the safe and wholesome beef they want."
Prior to this agreement, Japan has limited its imports of U.S. beef to that from cattle 20 months of age or younger, a restriction added when Japan resumed imports of U.S. beef in 2005 following the BSE-related ban that began in 2003.


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Will Mubarak's trial bring down the Egyptian regime?
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Blake Hounshell is managing editor at Foreign Policy, having formerly been Web editor. Hounshell oversees ForeignPolicy.com and has commissioned and edited numerous cover stories for the print magazine, including National Magazine Award finalist "Why Do They Hate Us?" by Mona Eltahawy. He also edits The Cable, FP's first foray into daily original reporting, and was editor of Colum Lynch's Turtle Bay, which in 2011 won a National Magazine award for best reporting in a digital format.
Blake joined Foreign Policy in 2006 after living in Cairo, where he studied Arabic, missed his Steelers finally win one for the thumb, and worked for the Ibn Khaldun Center for Development Studies. Blake was a 2011 finalist for the Livingston Awards prize for young journalists for his reporting on the Arab uprisings, and his Twitter feed was named one of Time magazine's "140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2011." Under his leadership, in 2008, Passport, FP's flagship blog, won Media Industry Newsletter's "Best of the Web" award in the blog category. Along with Elizabeth Dickinson, he edited Southern Tiger: Chile's Fight for a Democratic and Prosperous Future, the memoirs of former Chilean president Ricardo Lagos, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012.
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The sight of Hosni Mubarak, lying prostrate on a gurney inside a cage in a makeshift courtroom while his sons Alaa and Gamal stood dutifully by, electrified the Arab world Wednesday, raising the prospect that the ousted Egyptian dictator may soon be held accountable for his crimes.
Yet for all the palpable excitement over Mubarak's trial, as well as that of several other top regime figures like former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly, the chaotic scenes in the courtroom — and the rock fight outside of it — did not exactly inspire confidence in the Egyptian justice system. In one particularly bizarre moment, a lawyer speaking on behalf of Mubarak's victims claimed that the man in the cage was an imposter, and that the real president of Egypt died in 2004. At other points, Mubarak was caught on camera picking his nose. Dozens of lawyers on both sides crowded the bar and shouted their demands, forcing the judge to shut them up.
The trial, which will resume tomorrow for Adly and for the Mubaraks on Aug. 15, is being held under the military rule of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the junta that deposed Mubarak in February at the height of a popular street uprising demanding his ouster. Although the SCAF adamantly denies meddling in the civilian court system, its claims of neutrality are about to be put to the test: Mubarak's lawyer is demanding that Field Marshal Mohammed Tantawi, the defense minister who is now Egypt's de facto ruler, be called to the stand, along with former intelligence cheif Omar Suleiman, who briefly assumed the vice presidency during the 18 days of the revolution.
Interestingly, Mubarak's defense team claims that it was Tantawi who was technically the ruler of the country from Jan. 28 onward, meaning that the infamous Feb. 2 "Battle of the Camels" in Tahrir Square happened on the field marshal's watch. That strategy seems dubious, however, given that this legal status was never communicated at the time — and it was not until Feb. 11 that Suleiman appeared on state television to announce that Mubarak had "resigned his position as president of the republic." [UPDATE: Al Jazeera's Evan Hill says that the defense is actually arguing that Tantawi was in charge of security, not that he was running the country.]
Still, it will be fascinating to see if Tantawi, Suleiman, and other senior figures like former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq will be dragged into the courtroom drama. The Egyptian regime was, and still very much is, a police state backed by the military. The circle of criminality and repression goes far wider than just a few dozen people. Mubarak isn't being tried for the 30 years of dictatorship, stagnation, and ruin he brought upon his country, but for the actions his subordinates took, allegedly under his orders, during the three weeks that brought him down. But there are no doubt many dark secrets that will come out during this trial, if the SCAF will allow it. Ironically, it might be the Big Man himself who, in trying to save his own neck and that of his sons, brings the rest of the system down with him.


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Three pin positive regulators
If I'm using something like an LM317, the ADJ pin has to pull current up through the lower resistor, R2, in the ADJ chain right?
Would this current be being pulled through the resistance by the Vref or the supply's output voltage?
I'm trying to work out a maximum resistance I can use for my ADJ chain so as to minimise current wastage, as this is very important in this application.
No current is pulled up the adj pin in the way you describe. The critical resistor is the one from the output to the adj pin, usually recommended as 240 ohms in the datasheet. All the reg does is output a voltage to make 1.25V appear at the adj pin.
You trade error/noise by making the resistor chain higher impedance. The minimum current requirement is detailed in the datasheet. Bear in mind also that the reg needs a minimum load to function as well.
... and, there is also a current 'coming out' of the adjust pin going to ground. That current is sourced from Vin through the internals of the regulator. It's a small current, see the data sheet, but if you make the two set resistors very large, the adjust pin current will make the output voltage deviate from the usual equation of R1 and R2. See the data sheet for the complete output voltage equation including the nominal adj current value.
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Thanks for the replies. A lot of the datasheets just imitate each other, so it's helpful to hear things said in a different way.
However, I'm still a bit confused about the ADJ pin's current. The datasheets refer to the current being drawn from the pin. How can the current be drawn, sourced, to the ground rail from a device that is connected to the positive rail?
Being dumb and looking at the + and - symbols on the rails, I always expected the pin to be sinking current.
I should say I, obviously, don't keep up to speed on the internal operation of regulators. :D
I have made an excel file for calculate voltages with this Iadj in mind.
Maybe this can be at some help.
LM317 calculation
If current consumption is such an issue, there are plenty of other regulators to choose from with incredibly small quiescent currents.
Have a look at some of the chips from Maxim and Linear Tech.
if all else fails you can modulate the ADJ pin and use the LM317 as an amplifier (yes, it really does work!).
keep your eyes peeled for LT1963 on EBay -- they show up every once in while.
(oh, the LT1963 has 5 pins, btw)
Thanks for your help everyone. The regulator in question isn't an LM317, but it's operation is the same.
This might sound really stupid, but I just want to check. When the manufacturer quotes an ADJ pin current, that's the very minimum current that must flow down the entire length of the ADJ chain assuming the load is above that which is required for regulation?
What is confusing me is that they say the Iadj current is being sourced from the ADJ pin, which is making me think it's only passing through one of the two resistors.
I understand that the regulators need a minimum load current to maintain regulation, and that this can be drawn down the ADJ chain rather than some other current sink or through a constant load.
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|The increasing complexity of micro actuators and micro sensors (e.g. electroplated micro coils, flux guidances, insulation and planarization layers) make new fabrication technologies and materials inevitable. For such purposes thick-film photo resists like SU-8 or AZ9260 enable the fabrication of high aspect ratio 3D structures. Electro-depositable photo resists (ED) have been successfully used to coat arbitrary geometries. The main difficulty of this technology exists in the different levels of the microstructures and substrate which results in a proximity distance, where diffraction effects distort the original mask structure. This paper reports on how the simulation of the high aspect ratio UV-lithography process is coupled to an evolutionary optimization algorithm in order to derive a suitable mask structure for a given design problem. Inside the main iteration loop an individual, represented by a mask layout, is manipulated in the manner of a DNA string evolving over generations. The simulation tool is used to asses the quality of each layout. Each layout is simulated and the result is compared by an exclusive-or of the resulting intensity plot with a reference bitmap. Depending on the resulting score a layout is either removed from the optimization process or selected for the next generation. Recombination of the selected individuals on the one hand and mutation on the other hand are used to derive new layouts.
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Gawker founder Nick Denton is one of the most aggressive and successful blog publishers around.
Which is exactly why online news sites should be paying close attention to his new, and public, strategy intended to re-focus his snarky snack-bite empire on hard, original news, video, some aggregation and TV-like timing.
Denton started with a good gut understanding of what works online, and built a federation of blogs that exploit a similar model (low overhead, smart and fast writers, efficient tech and ad sales) to great effect. Gizmodo, Gawker, IO9, Lifehacker are all category-leading blogs, or close to it; some of them (like Gizmodo) are starting to compete with traditional media as well.
But what is more significant, his operation is devoted to objective, metric analysis in a way that no one else is. Every Gawker story publicly displays how many pageviews and how many new visitors to the site it has delivered. In addition, Gawker Media's Manhattan headquarters has a large screen that prominently displays each writer's traffic totals — numbers that figure into writers' bonuses. Those numbers are at the core of the organization.
And carefully watching the data has shaped his strategy more than anything. It's also led him to be way ahead of the curve in many cases (I'm thinking of the way he started planning, in 2008, for a 40% decline in ad spending, long before the rest of the media were willing to face up to what was coming).
It's somewhat amazing, then, that he's willing to share the results of his insights. Lifehacker today hosted his thoughts on where Gawker Media is going in 2011.
Now, this could be a classic head-fake, and perhaps Denton is only publishing this plan to throw the rest of us off. But I don't think so. I think the advice in here is solid, and he's publishing it because the odds of his slow-moving competitors actually being able to capitalize on this information are slim to none. Meanwhile, Denton raises his cred among smaller publishers, editors and writers, some of whom may be eager to work for him at some point.
Be that as it may, there are some good pointers in Denton's roadmap.
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2. Aggregation is important for filling in the gaps between a few breakout stories each day. The solution? First, have two types of editorial staff: editors/curators, and reporters/producers/scoopmongers. Second, relegate the reverse-chronological "blog flow" to a sidebar, and make the big stories, not the filler, the center of attention.
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Big media better watch out. Denton's done with blogging; his next target is finding an even more profitable form of new media that blends aspects of blogging, magazine journalism, and TV.
And while that might be scary, Denton's also showing off things that we are learning here at Wired.com as well. Reporting matters. Breaking news and getting scoops resonates with readers. And once you have that, you don't have to be first with everything, and if you are late to a story, you can take the time to fill it out with smart commentary or additional, or contrarian, perspectives.
Threat Level and Danger Room are two great examples. Danger Room is a great mixture of original reporting, aggregation and smart commentary. Threat Level excels at original, smart and authoritative reporting on tough subjects, like cyber-crime, security and copyright — holding its own traffic-wise despite not having the velocity of a typical blog.
Denton's new format will be very interesting to watch, and doubtless we'll see many sites start to adopt pieces of it — probably right as Denton figures out his next step.
But rejoice, readers, writers and publishers: news is back, even if it doesn't look like what used to land on your doorstep every morning!
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I don't think it should be a flag either I was kind of being sarcastic but the new nfl he might be considered a defenseless receiver
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I don't think it should be a flag either I was kind of being sarcastic but the new nfl he might be considered a defenseless receiver
[quote user="jjj45"][quote user="heavyhitter"][quote user="jjj45"]I'm sorry, at first I thought you meant Canadian football and I was like, "what is this crap?".... then I saw the Caines uniforms lol
yeah, it was a good hit, but it's pretty easy to lay someone on their a** when they are about to make a catch and their back is turned to you. Good highlight if you're an FSU fan [:P]
[/quote]You know who Nigel Bradham is right. The guy is sculpted like Adonis and hits like a mack truck. Pretty sure this guy would ring your bell from any which angle it would have been from. Bradham had an assignment to make and executed perfectly IMO. Laron Byrd just happened to be the unlucky SOB on the other end.
[/quote]Hey im not discrediting him. It was a beastly hit. Obviously he took a good knock out tackle situation and made it spectacular. Just commenting is all.
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[quote user="BigBlueFanNJ"]I don't think it should be a flag either I was kind of being sarcastic but the new nfl he might be considered a defenseless receiver[/quote]Maybe so- Any player you want to nominate for "hit of the year"?
[quote user="THE_New_York_Giants"][quote user="BigBlueFanNJ"]Sad part probably a flag in the NFL now[/quote]
Defenseless receiver depending on if you hit a star player or not. If you hit a guy like Barden no flag, but if you do it to calvin, 15 yarder for sure[/quote]This is probably true, I'm still pissed about the Barden pick. Giants passed on some other prospects who have flourished in the league from that draft. Oh well, you can't hit on every prospect.
Well, I do remember that play. That is the hit that got Bradham ejected. The ACC later came out and said it was a clean hit and that Nigel did not make helmet to helmet contact( you can see in the clip he used his shoulder) and that he did not launch himself, which in college football is defined as leaving your feet.

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What did amy say when she got kidnapped by the silence?
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We don't know because she was kidnapped off screen between "A Christmas Carol" and "The Impossible Astronaut". We have absolutely no idea how long she was missing so she could have said any number of things.her ganger also got kidnapped by the leaders of the silence in america 1969 she said things about rory and the Doctor.


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This should be an interesting tidbit of information for those of you who are fans of the timeless classic THE GRADUATE and remember watching cheesy '80's drama series on television. As you may have guessed, the iconic sexy leg featured on the nostalgic GRADUATE poster wasn't owned by Anne Bancroft, who so devilishly portrayed the seductive Mrs. Robinson in the film. The leg in that poster actually belongs to (drum roll..) Linda Gray, who later became known to the world as Sue Ellen Ewing on the CBS program "Dallas". This information had been rumored, but was officially confirmed by Gray herself during an interview on "Anderson Live". Here's what she looked like in the 70's (in case you forgot) next to a picture of her today.
In 1967, Linda was a 27-year-old starving commercial actress, doing modeling gigs for $50 a pop before picking up a more steady career in the 70's. She says she was paid $25 for the gig ("for just one leg"), which has since become one of the most nostalgic promotional posters in cinema history. It may in fact be the most iconic "movie leg" of all time, right above Darren McGaven's prized desk lamp from A CHRISTMAS STORY. You'd think she deserved a bit more than $25, but at least she made a lot of money in the commercial industry, appearing in over 100 ads. Not to mention the success she gained as an actress later. In fact, in the most ironic of all ironies, Gray actually wound up PORTRAYING Mrs. Robinson once and for all in the theatrical production of Charles Webb's The Graduate in 2001. And we're just hearing about this now? Yeesh! Lately, the 72-year-old Linda Gray has been reprising her role as Sue Ellen Ewing on the TNT revamp of "Dallas". Talk about coming around full-ciircle.. twice in a row. It just goes to show you, the littlest things you do in the industry can have the greatest impact, even when especially when you're not looking.


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"Aston Villa boss Alex McLeish is heading to the United States to discuss ideas with NFL outfit Cleveland Browns ' head coach Pat Shurmur.
Randy Lerner, who owns both clubs, thinks it will benefit Villa, who sit 15th in the Premier League.
Chief executive Paul Faulkner said: "Alex felt this was an ideal opportunity to exchange ideas with his American counterparts."
The Browns are bottom of the AFC North division with just fours wins from 16.
Villa, meanwhile, have won just once in their last six Premier League games, a run that leaves them seven points above the relegation zone."
(I meant meeting Shurmur, not Lerner. Edit please?)
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Zubairi, Nabeel Ahmad (2005) THE TELEVISION IMPACT ON THE SOCIO ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF THE URBAN VILLAGES OF KARACHI DISTRICTS. PhD thesis, University of Karachi, Karachi.
Today Globalization with the improvement in the communication has changed the face of the globe. Local geographical boundaries have been invaded and eroded by the force of the modern mass communication. This change has brought many traditional and conservative cultures, in direct exposure has evolved as a strongest agent to disseminate programs carrying cultures of these sending countries Also in Pakistan, cable TV is the fastest growing medium in communication. Through this TV system the rural population has now gained access to the local as well as the foreign TV channels, which was not so earlier, PTV (Pakistan Television), which is the state owned TV channel had been the option for these villagers According to government publications, named PEMRA (Pakistan Electronic Media Regularity Authority) ÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂlast three years have witnessed growth of around 132% in the cable TV industry in Pakistan Considering this new trend, especially in the villages in Karachi, researcher was motivated to conduct study, by making exposure to the TV as an independent variable category, through different dimensions, and developing a correlation with the different indicators showing the socio economic changes in these villages Present research has been developed to test a total of nine Ho hypotheses, out of these nine hypotheses five Ho have been rejected. The make 55.5% of the hypotheses have correlation. Between the exposure to the TV in different dimensions and socioeconomic indicators of change. Surprisingly, exactly the same result in terms of the percentage is found from the Statistical item Table also. In this table, 55.5% of the answers have come out to be showing a change in the socio-economic conditions and attitudes in the village population. In this Statistical Item Table, total answers collected through the questions in the interview schedule. These were first tabulated, and then half of these answers were made as a yardstick to measure change A total of 3600 answers were collected. 1800 is the half of this total. 1998 answers came out from the category showing socio-economic attitudes and conditions, this makes 55.5% of the 3600 answers, and 1602 answers came in the category showing same traditional conditions and attitudes. These inferences are self-supporting, showing a congruence of results. This reveals that the rate of change is poor and weak in these villages, especially with the reference of TC exposure Present research is divided into six chapters. First chapter, is the chapter of Introduction. This chapter in detail discusses Karachi, its villages and the concept of development. Development has been a term jointly shared by economist, sociologist and even by the media persons. Further there is no single dimension to development first or the economic development. Historically economic development had been recognized as the single yardstick to measure development, especially the GNP. But in the recent years social variables have gained more value. It is now recommended to equate poverty first so that it will take care of the GNP. In details the chapter discusses this issue. Further in the chapter, the role of TV has been analyzed in the process of development. Issues of socialization such as that of Gender Images are mostly constructed through the media Chapter second explores different researches related to cable TV in Pakistan Further different TV and media researches have been analyzed with their role in socioeconomic relation. Pakistani study on TV, such as that by PEMRA, has been discussed in this chapter,. Few researches regarding gender have also been discussed Chapter third is about different theories, especially sociological, related with the issues of change and development. Karl MarxÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs and WeberÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs concepts regarding change have been discussed. Further cultivation Theory. Which is a media theory, has been analyzed, which states, that contents of the programs are not important but the time of TV exposure is important Chapter four is about the methodology applied in this research. Sampling techniques have been analyzed in detail. Further chi-square has been used as a technique for the testing of the hypotheses Chapter fifth is about the simple frequency tables, through which the variables have been represented. Contingency tables have been used for the testing of the hypotheses Chapter sixth in detail discusses the conclusions. In this research conclusion has been constructed jointly through the simple tables, contingency tables, relevant researches and theories. A Statistical Item Tables has also been developed to measure the socioeconomic conditions, attitudes and opinion. The results are congruent to each other The present research also includes seventeen sets of different photographs, depicting a visual view of the socio-economic conditions in the villages. This present effort is a bridge between the use of TV and sociological relationships related with it
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Gaming is serious business, of course, and the line can often seem to blur between console gear and military-grade hardware. The latest example of this potential convergence may be SteelSeries' 7G professional gaming keyboard.
We're not sure if it's as tough as the survivalist-oriented M779, but the 7G claims to be 10 times more durable than conventional keyboards. That means 50 million keystrokes, according to the company, thanks in part to mechanical switches that are plated in 18k gold. The no-click switches would probably come in handy for covert operations as well. No word, however, if it's compatible with night-vision goggles.