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- Janine Georg
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What challenges do feminist artists face in contemporary society?
my name is Janine. I am a student of Arts and Humanities at Birkbeck. I volunteer at the Victoria and Albert Museum. I have a full time job. I am an artist.
I am a feminist. I am a woman. I am gay.
I know this introduction is not really needed, yet I feel it makes the connection I have to the subject more clearer and shows my sincerity.
As part of my degree I have to write a about a subject I chose. After a breaking my head over subject I like but not love, brainstorming (I never believed this would work) helped me find this question.
'Which challenges do feminist artists face in contemporary society?'
Last summer (actually two summer's ago) I went to see Tracey Emin's exhibition 'Love Is What You Want' and I remember going through the exhibition and hearing rather shameful comments. Which I am not going to repeat at this point. Two years in these voices are still in my head, and I wonder what is going on? What happened to feminist revolutions? Why are so many women almost shamefully convinced that we have equal rights, when we do not? Sometimes I feel we are going back to the fifties again and I FEAR this place.
So I ask you what are your ideas on my question and what do you have to say on the subject of third wave feminism?
Are we really there yet?
gale kooser
Mar 10 2013: No Janine, we are not there yet. Men still get more pay for the same work, are noticed & listened to more then women and if you wish to sell your art work: Use a man's name.
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As an older gay artist, I learned a long time ago my work would faster if I just used my nick name, Which happens to be Max.
It's my middle name shorten.
I am NOT a shabby artist & my work sells around the world as long as I use my nick name. Once folks have bought my work & then learn I am female, all is fine, but not before.
A 3rd wave of Feminism? I am for it as I was in the 50's, but done a lot differently this time. We now have the world wide web at our fingertips and the education to use it to great advantage. The Queen of England is going to sign an equal right bill for all her subjects, including Gays, women, and others. Great step for all humanity.
Mar 10 2013: Hey Gale,
this sounds really interesting. What work do you do? And could you name one or two examples where you experienced challenges with your art in a male run world.
I am keen to hear more.
Take care
Mar 10 2013: I am a wildlife artist and most is custom work.
When I used to show my work in judging contests yrs. ago. I noticed a lean towards the male artists and it just wasn't I who felt this way. The males were doing animals in the raw: meaning every day survival mode. While the females were doing the softer side of life.
I changed my signature and started doing animals in the raw and my work started winning shows & sales went up. I never showed up at the shows but had a male friend take my place. He never said he was the artist just my rep.
After several shows, I stopped going and devoted my time & talents to custom work, used to have a web site (no longer). All by word of mouth now.Mar 10 2013: I had no idea. Thanks for letting me know that women's art doesn't sell. I'm stunned. I mean, art is art. I like what I like regardless of who painted it. But as I think about it, my stunned condition dissipates as what you have said sinks in and makes sense.
Mar 10 2013: There are many female artist out there who have had great success selling their work, but usually it is because they have had the money & connections to do so.Mar 10 2013: It is a misconception that, "Men still get more pay for the same work?"
Can you provide three examples?
There may be serval reason this appears to be the case; women are not in as many higher paying jobs, women are employed in different fields, comparison use statistical averages.
Josh S
Mar 10 2013: What rights are different for men then for women?
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Mar 10 2013: Shall we start with the lost right to own our own bodies?
Josh S
Mar 10 2013: abortions are currently legal in the US, though states can put limits on it. So if you want an abortion, go to a state with few regulations, there are plenty.
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So is this your one and only example of variation in rights? and by the way, the argument for abortion is the same for men as it is for women. Men are under the same restrictions, but we cant have babies. So in reality, in this situation there has to be differences in laws because women are physically different then men.
So anyways, do you have an actual response? is there any right that treats men differently then it treats women?
Gail .
Mar 10 2013: You said, "So in reality, in this situation there has to be differences in laws because women are physically different then men".
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If you think that you make sense, you will not begin to understand the rest either.Mar 10 2013: Dear Josh,
thank you for your interest in this subject. But I reckon if you want to see the inequality you need to start to see the world with different eyes. Do you have a daughter? I feel that this is always a very strong motivation for men to see the world in a different way.
Read a little more and try to avoid people who argue against equality of men and woman. Because essentially it is about just that. Equality.
Take care.
Fritzie -
Mar 10 2013: Janine, this subject has gotten a great deal of attention over the last maybe fifty years but particularly recently, with the mounting of pathbreaking exhibitions. The first stop I recommend for you is the website for Elle: Pompidou.
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There is a very important article from the seventies, I think, called something like "Why are there no great women artists?" It started a firestorm.Mar 16 2013: Janine; let me give you these caveats up front. I have never seen your work, nor the work of Tracey Ermin, so I may well be commenting ignorantly. I therefore am not personally criticizing or attacking your works; just tossing out generalities for discussion, which, admittedly, may not apply to you at all. If so, please forgive me in the context of my ignorance. First: because you're a feminist and gay, do you therefore assume that your works should be well received and popular? That you're "entitled"? Are you entering this field with a "chip on your shoulder"? Is there any true creativity or originality in your works, or are they just derivative, indistinguishable from the works of dozens of other feminist "artists"? Because you are female, you probably expect people to respond to your emotional expressions. But, this doesn't take the place of skill, craft, inspiration, individuality. So you have feelings? So does everyone else. So what? (Yeah, yeah, you're right; this is written by a straight man.)
You're good at expressing yourself? OK. So are all of the rest of today's artists. I believe, though, there's a higher art; that art which expresses that which is beyond our limited, finite selves. If there comes a time in your creating when the project itself, the painting, the sculpture, whatever, takes over and dictates to you what directions to go in, what colors to use, what must be done, and, when it's done, you stand back and say something like, "Well, I'll be damned; I didn't know I had that in me", then, maybe, you could call yourself a true artist. Best wishes to you, sincerely, in your creativity and future.Mar 15 2013: Janine, You statrt off the conversation with, "I an a feminist, I am a woman, I am gay." Are you looking for a fight or daring someone to say something that can be used against them .... is this supposed to make a difference to me?
Frankly I do not care a wit about any of that. I suggest you sign your paintings "J. Georg". If I like it I will buy it. Not because you are gay or not.
Stop throwning the gauntlet down and get rid of the chip. People will either like you or not based on who you are. Not your sexual preference. Same for your paintings. Do you want to be know as the gay girl who paints or a excellent artist?
I wish J. Georg all the best. Bob.Mar 12 2013: Nothing serious after Christopher Hitchens has died.
Just kidding.
Hello Janine, I must be living in a part of the world very different from yours. I mean, women do get raped in Delhi, but there is no problem for sale of an art by a female. The women still have challenges that are social and that is basically related to lack of education not on gender discrimination. If your account is true, it is too bad.
Equal right is a mirage. Have the right to be free to determine your life. It has challenges but not impossible. I think there are good many people who care a toot about your gender or sexual preference but are interested about the person in you.
It is sad that you are collecting negative experiences to zip up your armor.Mar 11 2013: Hello, in my opinion, one big challenge would be to change your introduction; you have written a very meaningful introduction, seem to want to emphasize that you are different and that often leads to inequality. One thing is to be different that all we are, and other is right to equality that e.g. women don't have around the world.
My point is that you are an artist and should be treated "only" as an artist and for the rest of us should not matter if you are woman, man, gay, black, white etc.. and as an artist you will express different ideas through your art, that could be about women, feminist, and other totally different topics... out of artist you are a person, the sexual gender could be important only when forming a couple and its only problem for the couple itself.
Relative to shamefull comments always exist in all areas and we have to catch only constructive criticism that help us to improve, the cheap criticism without critera and only made to harm must be ignored.
Sadly there is much work to achieve equality for women and we have to wait many waves.Mar 11 2013: Society has abandoned the class struggles like feminism, and now the die-hards hang on to the irrelevance of the cause.
isms, causes, those born in class warfare, are for those with high emotionality and marginal intelligence.
When you just be yourself, you are free. You want to make it a mission, or make the world see it your way? Your dilemma will never end. Shed the bolshevik class warfare chains, and live free! and allow others to too.Mar 10 2013: I'm a masculist. That's not divisive, is it?Mar 10 2013: Nope, Janine, we're not there yet. And yes, for women like me, it feels like we have been sent back into the dark ages. Things are even more disheartening for you than me because I am not gay, but the condition is no less difficult for me and those women who understand what we are talking about.
I really don't know how feminism relates to art though.
Mar 10 2013: Hey TED Lover,
when you say things have been difficult, what do you mean? This is exactly what I need. Examples of real experiences.
Keen to hear more.
Take care.
Mar 11 2013: RECENTLY (meaning within the last two years since I moved to my new location):
Where I live, women are thought to be persona-non-Grata. If you want to deal with a contractor or any other professional, you need a man to do the discussion or you won't be taken seriously..
#1: Shortly after moving into our new house, the man who did yard work for the former owner knocked on our door. My husband and I talked to him, and he gave us rates for various packages. I chose one and he came back the next day to do our yard. But when he didn't show up 2 weeks later, as we had agreed, I thought that I would have to hire someone more reliable. But in week 3, he again knocked on the door, asking which package we wanted. I reminded him of the one we had chosen. He said he remembered, but my husband hadn't told him that it was OK for me to make that decision,
#2: After moving here, we wanted to have some estate documents rewritten because of state laws. We hired an estate attorney who was born, raised, & educated in this state. I had to eventually tell her that I was in the room and if she was unable to talk to me or even look at me, we would have to find another attorney. She was surprised to discover that we considered it OUR estate plan - not his.
#3: After years of watching my husband's mental decline (he's much older than me), my husband finally agreed to allow me to go with him to his doctor (a Pakistani) who referred us to a specialist (born, raised, & educated here). That professional didn't believe me. My husband insisted that he was fine (as all who first enter into dementia do) and the doctor told ME that any problem he had must be me, because my husband is so intelligent. What damage he did! (My IQ = my husband's)
10 years ago, I was in 100% commission sales. My boss wanted to cut my pay because I was making so much more than the men. I had to remind him that I was commission - as were they.
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I've been the proud owner of my Syncrowave 180 for 4 or 5 years now and I ran into trouble with it. I was welding some 1/4" steel @ about 120 amps, nothing too demanding. I welded off and on for about 10 minutes and then walked away from it for a while. I came back to it and that's when the trouble started.
When I hit the foot pedal I get absolutely nothing. No arc, no gas. When I switch the machine from TIG to Stick (but with the TIG torch still hooked up), I get gas flow while I'm switching it, and when it is switched I can scratch an arc with the tungsten.
I checked all the cable connections, everything is good. I powered down the welder and unplugged it for a minute or so, plugged it back in and that didn't help.
I thought it might be the foot pedal. I tore it apart, it is a 5 wire pedal and there are two components in it. A limit switch and a 1K Ohm potentiometer. I checked the limit switch for continuity, it is good. I checked the resistance on the pot, it changes smoothly from 0-1K ohms across wires 1 and 2, and it changes smoothly from 1K-0 ohms across wires 2 and 3. It seems like this is right.
Anybody ever have a similar problem or have any other ideas? My next step is to investigate inside of the welder but I don't really know what to look for.
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06-01-2009, 01:06 PM #1Junior Member
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I'm having a problem with my Syncrowave 180, anybody ever seen this?
That "Limit switch" is the relay that turns the machines contactor and gas solinoid on and off. It may need to be adjusted if your not hereing the Click when you press the pedal.
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My pedal could be different, it is not a relay in the pedal. It is a limit switch.
It looks similar to this one: http://www.alibaba.com/sellinglead-g...showimage.html
It has two wires going to it and they are in the NC position.
I can hear it clicking when the pedal is assembled, so it is switching. That does help that I now know that it controls the contactor and gas solenoid, that's a good place to start when I tear into it.
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We call them "micro switch" over here.
Never heard of them as being a relay.
But I guess components are referred to by different names depending on which country you are in.
It may be clicking but is it actually working? as in triggering
Have you metered the cable back to the machine?
Checked plug front and back
The name "Micro Switch" is actually a company owned by Honeywell. There are various manufacturers of these small "mechanical relays".
We all say micro switch, as they were the first to introduce them.
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I have checked the switch in the pedal and it works as it should. Once again, it is not a relay. A relay is an electrical switch that is controlled by an additional circuit. Relays allow you to switch a high current circuit with a low current circuit. They require at least 4 wires. This switch has two wires, one input and one output. My guess is that there is a relay in the welder that this switch controls. Anybody else have any info on this? I'm really only looking for someone to point me in the right direction, or maybe give me a few possible scenarios of what I might find when I get inside the welder.
Even welders have a thorn in the flesh
Hey there cycle.. You said you checked the switches in the foot pedal and you found 5 wires. you checked 1 & 2 and you checked 2&3 did you ever unplug the pedal and check all the wires from plug to pedal for continuity.? plus check the male and female pins in the plug/socket.. It's probably some thing real simple and it was over looked. You will fine the cause take your time.... Bob
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As a matter of interest would you class a voltage switch as a mechanical relay?
Releco relays and others have a test button that manually closes 2 poles in the relay. Is this a switch?
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If possible find a good working torch , plug it in to your 180, if it works than you know what to do. dont tear it into machine if you dont have to. I'm sorry if somebody already mentioned that.

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- René Dupart
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Should there be different income tax rates in a country where opportunities are fully equal but incomes are highly unequal?
I know the assumption of equal opportunity is very unlikely to occur in real life, but I would appreciate your different thoughts on fair and unfair inequality. Especially since income inequality has become a topic of much debate in our time.
I'm particularly interested why you would think different taxes are fair in this hypothesized situation. Is it then equality of outcome you perceive as more fair? Or is there perhaps another explanation?
It appears to me that in politics, equality of opportunity is much spoken about, but that it is not used as an argument for progressive taxation, at least not in a manner where a link is established between the steepness of taxes and their view on the equality of opportunity. I tend to think of progressive taxation as a corrective measure for the perceived level of inequality of opportunity, but I'd be glad to hear different views on this topic.
Jan 16 2013: "But the issue of social immobility and poverty as raised by John is not really addressed by you."
sure it was addressed. i explained that redistribution does not help mobility. it cripples the entire society, and creates a bad environment for everyone. meanwhile, rich people can still circumvent the unworkable state solutions, thus have better opportunities. many experts agree that role models are extremely important. successful people will always be better role models than unemployed, unmotivated, uneducated people. there is simply no way around that. unless you are willing to take away all children, and raise them in camps.
setting the goal to give equal opportunity to everyone is an impossible goal. the state can not provide that. in fact the state can not provide any better than freedom can. the argument that freedom provides a less than satisfactory solution is not a good argument on the side of the state, as the state offers an even worse solution.
in freedom, if you have merits, you are hard working, smart, creative etc, you have much better chance to find someone who sees a possibility in you. who is willing to put up some money upfront, so you can develop your talents. if you have good ideas, you will more likely to find investors in a capital-rich free capitalist environment. freedom is the way that maximizes the possibilities to advance.
that is the maximum we can get. in a free environment, it takes 2-3 generations to get from the bottom to the top, if you have the attitude.Jan 15 2013: how would a tax correct opportunity inequality? if i work hard, my neighbor does not, and i have more money at the end, i will pay more taxes, and thus finance him, even if the opportunities are the same.
in reality, opportunity equality is a holy grail. you can chase it all day long, and never get any closer. not only that, but you can't even measure it in order to tell if you've got closer to it or not. the only thing we can really tell for sure is that variety and freedom increases it. the more ways one can advance, the more chance he will find one he can walk. suppose the only way to go ahead is through be a good soldier. should you be small, weak built, slow, have bad eyesight, you are screwed. but if being a scholar is also a possibility, you might find a glaring career.
a faulty view is "smoothing" everything out. the notion for example that so called "free" schools would equalize opportunity is just totally wrong. free of course is not free, but paid for through taxes. more taxes he might pay, a rich guy still can afford a good private school. or simply just give a better model/background for the kid. public schools on the other hand will be crappy as hell, for the entire dynamic of the situation creates an incentive for schools to be expensive and totally indifferent about quality.
Jan 15 2013: Really appreciate your thoughts. You're right that the free choice to work more than other would have you end up paying more taxes than others in absolute terms. What I'm curious about is, would you perceive this as fair - holding on to the assumption that opportunities are equal?
Jan 15 2013: "You're right that the free choice to work more than other would have you end up paying more taxes than others in absolute terms."
Yes, but in the end you'll still have more than the guy who didn't work hard, besides, chances are (most parents aren't particularly wealthy, hell not everyone has parents to begin with) you could only get that good job you have because the taxpayers helped you out at some point.Jan 15 2013: not at all. i would even consider flat tax be unfair, since we receive the same service. if i order a pizza, it costs me exactly the same as my neighbor. they don't make me pay more just because i earn more. so by the same token, i want to pay the exact same amount in money terms for government services as everybody else. that would be fair.
but no, that would still be not fair. the pizza company does not charge everyone by the same amount. they charge me only if i order a pizza. if i decide to make my own pizza, they might drop a little flyer in my mailbox, but otherwise leave me alone. that is fair.
everything else is not fair. it might be practical, or necessary, but not at all fair.
Jan 15 2013: "not at all. i would even consider flat tax be unfair, since we receive the same service. if i order a pizza, it costs me exactly the same as my neighbor. they don't make me pay more just because i earn more. so by the same token, i want to pay the exact same amount in money terms for government services as everybody else. that would be fair."
Except the rich get more pizza's from the government: when you own 5 houses you use up 5 times more police and fire department resources and foreign invaders are probably more interested in your superyach than in my bicycle, so national defense is primarily there to protect your assets. My bicycle doesn't require wide, thick roads, but the trucks of the companies you own do. You consume more fuel and hazardous materials so the government needs to clean up more. There are countless other examples.Jan 15 2013: Okay, so to paraphrase you horizontal equity represents fairness. This sounds very intuitive. In your earlier post you state that variety and freedom increase equal opportunity. Would taxing everybody with a similar amount contribute to our level of freedom? Would it not limit our choices if we'd all had a fixed tax burden?Jan 15 2013: taxes never increase freedom. tax itself is a limitation to freedom. instead of me, the legal owner, some government bureaucrat will decide what to do with the fruit of my efforts. how would that possibly increase freedom?
Jan 15 2013: A proportional tax (regardless its structure) would leave the option for a life without income tax, simply by not having income. Would this not provide a higher level of freedom than horizontal equity?Jan 15 2013: well, in that sense, yes, but how irrelevant is that? if i want to avoid taxes, i need to starve to death? or beg for food? it is hardly a real opportunity.
Jan 15 2013: I know, most people would not prefer a self sustained life, I know I wouldn't. But if I add up 1) more freedom = more equality of opportunity and 2) a proportional tax provides a higher level of freedom, then a proportional tax regime prevails if we perceive equality of opportunity as a justice norm.
Would you say rates should be flat in this instance or rather progressive or perhaps still regressive?
Really interesting Krisztián, looking forward to hear your thoughts.Jan 15 2013: "proportional tax provides a higher level of freedom"
i didn't agree to that. my position is that lower taxes provide more freedom.
i tell you what kind of tax system i would prefer, if the option of zero taxes are out of the question. my tax system would be this:
tax = (total income) * (tax rate) - (small sum)
the numbers should be tweaked so that (small sum) would be a bare minimum that allows some basic level of survival, like in a homeless shelter, eating bread and cooked maize, chicken wings and such things. tax rate should be no more than 25%. if the resulting tax is negative, the citizen receives this amount in cash. so the system also serves as a relief / unemployment benefit / aid / safety net.
benefits: progressive at the low end, flat at the high end. marginal tax is the same everywhere. there is no need for complex calculations and tax sheets, simply deduce X% from every income, and transfer right away. at the end of the month you get the (small sum) of money transferred to your bank account.
and i'm only at like half of the benefits.Jan 15 2013: "how would a tax correct opportunity inequality?"
Let's say we have two twin brothers: Bob and Steve. Both get a college education from their parents. After their education Bob works harder and gets more money because of it (that's hardly how things go in the real world, but we're assuming a perfect meritocracy here). Bob and Steve both have a son, Bob Jr. and Steve Jr. Steve doesn't have enought money to send Steve Jr. to college, Bob does have enough money to send Bob Jr. to college, so in essence Steve Jr. gets punished for the sins of his father. Then the state steps in and says "no, we can't allow this: Steve Jr. is not responsible for the actions of his father so we use tax money to allow him to go to college". Now the playing field is level again and taxes made that possible.
"a faulty view is "smoothing" everything out. the notion for example that so called "free" schools would equalize opportunity is just totally wrong."
They make one hell of a difference (the difference between a Dickensian story and the present situation where a person with poor parents, such as myself, can read, write, learn quantum mechanics and communicate with people from across the globe).
Jan 15 2013: "please don't pretend like you care if poor children"
this is not the acceptable style. correct if before we can move on.
Jan 15 2013: Corrected, I went off the rails there, but it's a subject I am passionate about. Lives are destroyed when children don't get opportunities, simply because their parents are not as rich as those of other children. If I have to give up some of my material luxuries in the form of taxes to give others the opportunities I had then I'll gladly pay those taxes because I know what it's like to be on the other end of the deal. I will never claim (pretend) I pulled myself up by my own bootstraps without the help of others, even though it would be financially advantageous for me to claim that, because I still have to be able to look myself in the eye. I invite everyone who would accuse my younger self of having an entitlement mentality to live 9 years in a children's home and then see how big their mouth is. People like Rush Limbaugh get paid millions to call people like my younger self "lazy" and "entitled", but what has he ever done that's so great and valuable to humanity? He never worked a day with his hands and never earned a college degree. He went straight from his comfortable upper middle class parental home to talking in a microphone while sitting on his fat ass.
I hope you can appreciate that.Jan 15 2013: redistribution of money always have multiple effects, and no doubt, some are beneficiaries. but it takes some more analysis to find out who and to what extent. just look at what we have today. we don't need to immerse in some high philosophy. look at how it worked out so far. public schools rob everyone a decade of their lives, college consumes another half, and the result is atrocious. children can't think, and they can merely read and write. education costs us huge sums, while teachers are not that well paid at all. and overall, we pay half of our incomes to the state, and what do we get in return? police does not work. healthcare either somewhat works or does not work, depending on the country. we are surrounded by legislation that does not work, but tie our hands. our children do not learn how to mobilize creativity, effort and hard work to achieve goals. we raise a generation of sheep that only looks at the shepherd for remedy for any problems they have. the economy stops growing, capital starts deteriorating, human capital rots as never, we do evil things against each other in the name of sacred things, and the demand for tyranny is back on the table.
do you want free schools if this is the price? what for? so they can learn the hymns to sing to our great leaders? so they can learn forged history? to learn useless "sciences"?
John Smith
Jan 15 2013: "we pay half of our incomes to the state"
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That's not even true in Sweden...
"police does not work. healthcare either somewhat works or does not work,
look at how it worked out so far. public schools rob everyone a decade of their lives, college consumes another half, and the result is atrocious."
Do you happen to live in Somalia? If not, go there and see for yourself how much of a difference even an imperfect system makes vs the law of the jungle. Most people wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for state provided modern medicine and wouldn't be able to read if it wasn't for state provided education.
"to learn useless "sciences"?"
Without which most of us wouldn't be alive. I find it striking that you can complain about sluggish economic growth and at the same time declare science useless. Without science economic growth would be exactly 0 forever.
"our children do not learn how to mobilize creativity, effort and hard work to achieve goals"
You sound like a priest. Besides, how many creativity would children learn in the coalmines or cornfields?
Worst of all you decry all institutions except the institution of property. Why do you think it's unnatural for there to be environmental legislations protecting everyone while you accept without question that a man can own land (who gets to decide who gets what piece of land?) and that children must be punished or rewarded for the failures or successes of their parents.
In your world a rich person would keep all the freedoms he has now and gain more, a poor person would lose ones like being able to go to sleep at peace, knowing they won't go bankrupt if they get in an accident tomorrow, the freedom to do things in spare time (80 hour workweeks are not necessary with a decent minimum wage) and gain "freedoms" along the line of "freedom to choose to drink from a polluted water source" and "freedom to quit and die in the gutter when your boss is abusing you". You define freedom way too selectively to take seriously.Jan 15 2013: "That's not even true in Sweden..."
US federal + local government spending: $6.3 trillion
GDP: $15.811 trillion
that is pretty close to half. it is not all from tax, you say? guess what, at the end, you pay for everything. you have been cheated.
"Most people wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for state provided modern medicine"
correction: most people wouldn't be alive if *nobody* provided medicine. do not compare the state service to zero. compare to what technology would allow today. just consider the number of new drugs that nobody can use, because the Great FDA said so. in my country, you can get state ultrasound diagnostics in a month. you can get private the same day.
--'to learn useless "sciences"?-- "Without which most of us wouldn't be alive. "
(NOTE: from this, i have to retype, because TED engine decided to cut the rest of my post, because i used less than signs. thanks TED)
mind the quotes. i learned to solve logarithmic equations. also poems from the 1400's.
"how many creativity would children learn in the coalmines or cornfields?"
populism anyone? guess what, elimination of crappy jobs was done by private sector, not the government. the 1800's was the single greatest period as far as life conditions goes. the government was barely involved with the economy back then.
"In your world a ..."
your interpretation of freedom is ... a little different than most. maybe you confuse that with opportunity. however, the free market already has proven itself the best tool to improve opportunities. for the masses, that is.
René Dupart
Jan 16 2013: If I may Krisztián, you clearly have a libertarian view on this, which is fine of course. But the issue of social immobility and poverty as raised by John is not really addressed by you. Please let us know what your take on that is, how do you, with a free market ideology, look at the fact that people who are born with rich parents have a higher likelihood of success and less for ending up in poverty? You did acknowledge its existence in your earlier posts. Should we accept and neglect social immobility as part of life or would you think there is a suitable measure to correct this?
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Let's keep this a pure exchange of ideas on the topic please. Much appreciated.Jan 15 2013: In a free market economy a flat tax won't collect enough revenue to ensure equal opportunity for everyone, at least that has never been the case in any real world country.
There will always be jobs that the market pays higher rates for, but the number of these jobs will also be limited, in addition, even in a perfect meritocracy people will rise because of luck. So it's: "anyone can become rich", not "everyone can become rich". It's like running a marathon with 100 equally skilled runners: only 1 will win even though they are all of equal skill. I think in the end the confusion stems from an erroneous interpretation of statistics: if a group of people all throw a dice once the expectation values for the outcomes are the same for everyone but it's highly probable someone will throw a 6 while someone else throws a 1. Expectation values are the outcome of an infinite number of repeats: they aren't worth anything when the number of repeats is small. Therefore, since life is too short to have many careers, equal opportunities don't imply equality.
Jan 15 2013: your very first sentence is an oxymoron. in a free market economy, there is no tax. if there is tax, the economy can only be sorta free.
Jan 15 2013: Right, "sorta free" it is then, what I was trying to say is that very strict controls on income inequality would be needed to make a flat tax viable (otherwise you either crush the poor, or have very low revenue), the difference between such a society and a society that has a free market, except for taxes, is so large that the latter can be called a free market, even though it's technically not 100% free.
I'm not sure a change in the progressiveness of taxes always needs to be backed up by a change in inequality, the progressiveness of taxes may not have been of the correct magnitude to begin with.
Jan 15 2013: Thanks John for your insights. Though it might seem like it, I'm not in favor of a flat tax. My point of view is that as long as there is -and in reality there will always be- inequality of opportunity, a corrective measure i.e. progressive tax is justified. But then it follows that a change in the progressiveness of taxes needs to be backed by arguments referring to changes in inequality of opportunity. Would you say this is a fair policy?


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1 pound
sweet Italian sausage, sliced
3/4 pound
lean ground beef
1/2 cup
minced onion
2 cloves
garlic, crushed
1 (28 ounce) can
crushed tomatoes
2 (6 ounce) cans
tomato paste
2 (6.5 ounce) cans
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1/2 cup
2 tablespoons
white sugar
1 1/2 teaspoons
dried basil
1/2 teaspoon
fennel seed
1 teaspoon
Italian seasoning
1/2 teaspoon
1/4 teaspoon
ground black pepper
I made this twice, first as written and it was GREAT! But then I did some mild modifications. I used all ground beef, addes red wine instead of water and added 1/2 tsp of oregano and rosemary plus 2 bay leaves. Put it in my crock pot for 4 hours and it was OUTSTANDING! I even had a true Italian guy tell me it was an outstanding sauce. I served it over spaghetti.
I made this just for kicks to see how other people make their sauce. This was just OK at best. First of all...there's already enough fennel seed in Italian sausage that adding more is complete overkill. And it's definitely lacking ingredients for a full, rich sauce...such as...bell pepper, mushrooms, fresh Italian basil, fresh spicy oregano, fresh parsley, and a bit of red wine. (by the way...red wine is what should be used instead of sugar) Also...1/8 to 1/4 cup olive oil in your sauce will keep it from coagulating and also makes it a healthier recipe. A couple pinches of black pepper and fresh thyme sprinkled on the sauce when served finishes it off.
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I've never written a review for a recipe before but this recipe was worth the effort. I made this as the recipe calls and it was fabulous. I've been making Italian food for a long time and this sauce was truly delicious. My Italian husband declared it the best sauce he's ever had!!
Hope you enjoy it. I am still amazed that the responces my other recipe has recieved.
Awesome meat sauce!!! I sauteed the beef and sausage separately as they tend to be greasy and added them to the sauce during the last half hour of cooking. I then sauteed the onion with a little olive oil and garlic until translucent. I then added the tomatoes and spices. I used red wine vs. water, added 1/4 tsp. of red pepper flakes, doubled the basil, added 2 tsp. of oregano, and 1 bay leaf. The fennel seeds are a nice touch! This sauce was so good and tasted even better the next day.
I was going to just use the meat sauce recipe from my favorite lasagna but thought I'd look around and see what's out here. What do I pull up? The sauce recipe from my favorite lasagna! This sauce is great as is, and the best part is, you can tweak it a bit as you like. add more garlic, less sugar, spicy sausage,...whatever and the end product is always delicious. I personally like a thick sauce so I omit 1/2 of the tomato sauce this recipe calls for, still delicous! Try it you will love it.
I started making this sauce a few months ago. Since then, I absolutely REFUSE to buy any at the store. I love to add in fresh tomatoes from our garden, but even without it, this sauce KICKS tail. If I learned how to put it up in jars, I'd keep it on hand all the time. It makes a ton, and it is the single best sauce I have ever eaten.
We took this to a pasta potluck and received many compliments and requests for the recipe! My daughter actually made it and said it was quick and easy. [But not quite as good as her husband's ;-)] Since everyone seemed to really like it I rated it five stars. Personally, it was too much meat for me and next time I will cut the sugar in half or omit it entirely. If you can find the Contadina brand tomato products I recommend using them. Their flavor is less acidic than other brands. This may be why I didn't think it needed the sugar. Their roasted garlic flavored tomato paste is the best!!
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After a major cardiac event such as a heart attack or open-heart surgery, you can't just continue with life as usual. Marge Connery and Juliette Pittman know that. They needed to make permanent, major lifestyle changes in order to keep their hearts healthy. So both, at their physicians' urging, entered Bridgeport Hospital's Healthy Heart Program (formerly Outpatient Cardiac Rehab), (which is recommended for anyone who has had a heart procedure, not just Bridgeport Hospital patients). Marge and Juliette's goals were to develop heart-healthy dietary habits, practice stress reduction techniques, get in shape, and learn how to exercise the right way for their heart condition. But it's not always easy—especially the exercise part. In fact, that can be downright scary.
After something as stunning as a cardiac event, "many people feel a huge fear of their own body," says Karen Nefores, RN, who was Marge Connery's rehab nurse. "Through Bridgeport Hospital's three-month, three-times-a-week program, we help them overcome this fear."
Participants start out exercising slowly, and progress at their own pace. They wear a heart monitor while they exercise and are guided every step along the way by experienced cardiac nurses like Lee Jimmie, RN and exercise physiologists like Wendy Bjerke and Denise Donofrio. Gradually, they begin to go further, faster, and they become more secure. With time and repetition, they improve their fitness level, gain more vitality and most importantly, strengthen their heart. Marge Connery's biggest obstacle was her schedule. As the mother of two young girls, a hairdresser, and a sales representative for Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc., she was so busy, she kept a list of everything she had to do each day. "I didn't have time for exercise and stress management," Marge recalls. "I showed Karen my date book, and she said, 'Oh, no, no, no—you need to slow down. You need to make your health your number one priority!'"
Financial advisors always say that in order to save, you can't just tuck away the dollars that are left at the end of the pay-check—you need to pay yourself first. "It's the same with cardiac rehabilitation," says Karen. "You can't thrive by squeezing exercise in when you have a few minutes at the end of a busy day. You need to put it at the top of your list. You need to pay yourself first. Establish a time and place to exercise, and don't skip it when your day gets full. Skip something else instead—something less important."
Suzanne Pollard Quintner, MS, RD (registered dietitian), cardiac rehabilitation coordinator and stress management instructor, feels the same when it comes to stress management. "Stress is definitely associated with heart problems," she says. "It's important to learn to let go of the small stuff. Meditation, guided imagery, and deep breathing are some of the methods we teach our patients to help them learn to unwind."
Juliette Pittman's main problem was that she wasn't eating well after she got home from the hospital. Cardiac Rehabilitation dietitian Deborah Zippel helped her with a personal consultation, and taste-tempting, heart-healthy recipes low in saturated fat. "I cook differently now," says Juliette. She also controls her portion sizes. "It's just a matter of cutting down," she says.
After her Healthy Heart Program (formerly Outpatient Cardiac Rehab) ended, Marge Connery opted to take Bridgeport Hospital's Project Heart Smart program, a six-week program open to anyone in the community who wants to reduce the risks of heart disease—whether they've had a heart episode or not. The once-a-week sessions include exercise, stress reduction, dietary advice, cardiac education, and delicious gourmet heart-smart meals.
"Project Heart Smart reinforces everything you've learned," Marge explains. "We heard about advances in treating heart disease, reading food labels, the difference between saturated and unsaturated fats…a lot of interesting information. We did stress management every week with Pam McLaughlin, APRN, and got to try tai chi and yoga as well. Stress management is a huge thing with me," she adds. "Also, the dietitian went over my diet. She gave me a list of things I can eat, not just what I can't."
Marge and Juliette have both learned to change their way of living, long-term, for their hearts' sake—and their families' sake.
"If I don't take care of myself," Marge points out, "who's going to take care of my kids?"
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This project was borne out of my dissatisfaction with commercially available dust extractors. After a fair bit of research I purchased one of the more expensive 'quiet' workshop vacuums, and was not happy with its performance (I sent it back unused after taking a dB reading of it). In exasperation at the dusty noisiness of it all, and wanting to re-use materials and spend as little as possible, I began the Dust Sniper (DS) project.
This DS ended up costing about £20 total. So it is possible to reused a bunch of stuff destined for landfill and end up with an aesthetically pleasing and useful tool-workbench. And of course we can learn loads about sound, cyclones and dust related jazz along the way. Because the DS's parts are mostly recycled, there is no comprehensive list of materials up front, instead I will give tips as we go along suggesting possible reclaimed bits that will do the job and where you might find them (if you don't care why we chose certain materials and just want a 'scavenging list', check out the last step).
My kingdom for some silent clean air
I'll throw it out there to begin with, most dust extractors are bad. Even the expensive ones, like the Festool, extract a continuing fee, needing regular bag and filter changes to keep working properly. The less expensive, well... lets just say they can be seriously bad for your mental and physical health, as you will find out if you follow along with this Instructable.
The Dust Sniper (DS) is effective and very quiet - the two main goals I had when starting this project. It does, however, fulfil these requirements at a cost. Namely, it is very heavy and big (compared to your average canister style vac), so it won't be perfect for everyone. This isn't necessarily the disaster you might think though. In fact it can be darn right useful if we use the DS as a mobile work surface. That way we will end up with nice clean air, a quiet place to create our mad jazz, and a super sturdy, rollable worktop thrown in! Ideal if you are still setting up a workshop, as I am.
Hi, I love this project and I am starting to build myself what will probably be a much less sophisticated version using a single shop-vac (either 1.25 HP or 2.0 HP). Just a couple of things aren't quite clear to me:
1. Do the holes in the inner enclosure seal around the intake hoses somehow?
2. What is the purpose of the round holes in the outer enclosure above the HEPA filter?
1. Yes, the intake holes join up with some flexible hose.
2. Those are there so that I have the option to duct the exiting air straight to outside (good on hot days to prevent overheating in the shop).
I scrapped my initial plans after the motor burned out in the old shop-vac I was building it around. It wasn't in the cabinet at the time, but it has occurred to me that wet/dry vacs cool their motors a bit differently to household vacs and might not do so well inside an enclosure.
Hi I love the idea of the cyclone and have made a mock up using plastic milk bottles.
I live in France and can't get hold of polycarb sheeting for the cone. Do you think that I could use transparent PVC instead.
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PVC could probably be made to work, but is a bit nastier imho. It has a lower impact resistance than polycarb and is worse environmentally, but is a bit cheaper. I'm sure you will have ploycarb suppers in France. Maybe under a different name? have you tried searching for lexan?
Yes I can get lexan but not 0.75. Minimum 2.5mm thick, I might try this and use a hot air gun for bending it. What do you think?
I still think you could find .75mm polycarb somewhere - try searching for 'polycarbonate film' rather than 'sheet' (or whatever film is in French...
Good luck let me know how it goes.
Try ultrasonic for measuring the level in your bucket.
The transducer can be mounted at the top (to provide "analog" measurement), or on the side (use as ON/OFF or "dump alert").
Sounds like it could be worth pursuing though. Any ideas for cheap/salvageable sources? My first thought was the car alarm doodars that clip on inside at the edge of the windscreen - probably plenty of them floating around at scrap yards or still in cars with alarms that have been permanently disabled or taken out. Would that be any good? Other ideas?
I still want to try the simple idea of using grounded antistatic bags over the viewing window (as MadScott and wingman358 suggested).
Using antistatic bags does NOT disrupt laser light,if the light is bright enough.
So combining laser tripwire(or multiple tripwires aligned to approx. level connected to Arduino or Raspberry Pi,or other analogue/digital measurement) with antistatic bags will be enough to keep sensors clean,and operable at the same time!
Since the dust fills up,it blocks laser light.
It triggers alarm,like those alarm systems,when laser light is blocked.
It's good to keep it off-center because the dust falls down,to the center,so it may malfunction. (seriously you don't want to get annoying BEEEP every time you use Dust Sniper!)
Or maybe multiple tripwires installed on different level,with Arduino,can make dust level indicator.
The only problem is,dust can block laser even the level is low.
If it weren't for static,this idea could be used instantly.
I currently have been researching dust extraction and have found the same problems as you did, Noise!
I will use your design to build my own DS as I fear a flash over may occur if I continue to work on my projects with the levels of dust currently in my workshop.
Many thanks.
Firstly, congratulation on a great project.
I have some questions if you dont mind. I am about to build something similar, but simpler. I have an Axminster vacuum (basically a hoover attached to a metal can!) and it is so loud... I want to build a basic box for it, sound proof it as best as I can and put on wheels so that it is mobile. So:
1) Heat should be okay as the filtered air comes out from under the lid (motor). Right?
2) The machine has a single hose for sucking in air (dust). In your machine, you have two separate baffle paths. Is this because you had two separate vacuum machines?
3) I plan to make a hole on the side for allowing me to connect a hose between the box and my tool. So that is how the sucked air comes in. I dont understand how your baffle gets the air out :-( Is it just the whole on the baffle's inside which allows the air to eventually make its way out? I dont see how you can connect a hose to the exit as there is no hose :-)
4) Also, why did you make the sand partition between the MDF and the metal sheet? Is this just for addtional sound proofing? If so, why not "wrap" the entire inner box with sand?
5) Finally, if I add a cyclone to the setup, where do you place the cork forest? Do you need one? If I dont end up using a cyclone, do I still need a cork forest? If so, where does it go?
Thanks so much in advance,
1. I'm not sure on your particular vac but heat shouldn't be a problem provided you have a sufficient path for the vac to suck incoming, and blow outgoing air - that's what cools the motor.
2. Yes.
3. Because the box is made to be air tight, the air only has one place to go once it has been ejected from the vacuum motor - ie. through the set of baffles and out the exit hole(s).
4. It was additional sound proofing I was experimenting with. I had run out of mdf by that point so it is made with the scraps I had - a thin piece of ply and a bit of sheet metal from an old microwave case. The sand sandwich works very well and It is worth having extra vibration damping in areas like this which the air is rushing through. As opposed to the enclosure box which is just designed to attenuate sound from the vac itself, the exit path is a bit more tricky: it cant simply 'enclose' the sound (because it need to let air through) so we want to absorb as much sound as possible with extra mass - sand is good.
5. If you use a cyclone I would be tempted to leave out the cork forest: the cyclone is already introducing resistance to the flow of air (effectively reducing your airflow), and it will also act to dampen sound (if made from polycarb). As to where to place it - that will depend on you enclosure arrangements - the 'cork forest' (hehe made me chuckle to hear other people using that name) is just another way to help attenuate sound in places that we need to leave unsealed for airflow. So in either case, cyclone or no, it could go right before the vac - but to be any use you want to build it into the structure of you enclosure. If you wanted you could make 2 cork forests to treat both the incoming air and outgoing air... Many options...
Hope some of that helps.
We don't have £ here. Can we still do this?
Seriously, it beats wearing a dust mask all the time.
Yeah, dust masks suck bad.
I can trade pop bottles for those.
I have a Whitworth hammer. Will that work for £ stuff?
Actually, It would probably be easier if we worked in cups of tea if that's any good for you?
Cultural differences are so hard to overcome.
I guess those of us in the colonies are doomed to a life of dust.
Also, if you are really hung up on having some sort of indicator on when your cans are full, you have all the materials right in front of you. Just cut your barrels down the middle about 15mm wide and on the inside glue a strip of clear plastic all the way tru and you will have an indicator window right in them!
Keep up the great work!
Or, alternately: isn't the interior of the bucket at below-atmospheric pressure? The tube could be connected to 'outside' air though a small hole. When the bucket is not yet full, airflow into the bucket keeps the tube below atmospheric. When the bucket fills past the tube, airflow stops. Let's see if I can attach a sketch of this idea... I can't decide if it'd be horribly finicky and impossible to implement, or if it would be perfect and elegant. :)
Electronic pressure sensors are around $15 new but maybe there's a good junk source for them...
Interesting ideas, thanks! Things are complicated a bit because the storage barrels themselves are in a partial vacuum (which fluctuates depending on whether the end of the vacuum hose is blocked or partly blocked). It is necessary to maintain the seal on the barrel so that the cyclones work right. My feeling is that adding another 'not-very-strong source of vacuum' would open a whole can of worms (big malicious ones at that).
An interesting idea though, thanks for sharing.
Any kind of optical sensor inside the barrel would be obscured just like the window, and other sensors are out because of the static. But yeah - weight would probably work.
I am not sure I am understanding you with this. The barrels 'float' off the floor, so that the DS can be wheeled around. They are screwed onto the base of the cyclones - their lids are firmly attached so the cyclones and everything remain stable.
Or did you mean putting the scales inside the barrels? That might work, if they were inside some kind of plastic bag - but then again the partial vacuum created would probably disrupt readings...
But also consider: my Handbook of Hardwoods claims the weight of European Oak usually falls in the range from 640kg/m3 to 820kg/m3, having an 'extreme but possible' range of 600 to 900kg/m3. And that is within one species. Pine is often round 500kg/m3. That in mind, I think density issues would be worth considering with the weighing approach. If you calculated in a good safety margin though, I expect it would work fine as an indicator - barrels don't have to be full before we empty them after all.
Thanks, again for the great write-up. I've just bought some Lexan and am trying to build my own cyclone dust extractor using the information in you;r write up.
You wrote that you are using a hot melt glue gun to glue together the lexan when it is rolled up. I have been trying this but I an finding it very difficult to squeeze the glue out, and roll the plastic up into the right shape before the glue sets up hard again. Do you have any glue-related hints?
I have been debating using some epoxy resin (Araldite). I've have great results with this before, and it allows more working time, but I haven't tried it on lexan. Do you know if Araldite would work?
Good stuff.
In regards to the gluing, it is best to roll up the shape you want first. Once it is in the correct position, hold it there with a little masking tape. Now for the inside of the cone (I presume it is the cone you are struggling with?), you can peel back a little flap, and run the glue gun's nozzle inside the seam, making a nice long bead. Let the flap close and press the parts together. Should work well like that. For the outside seam, I did it in stages - undo a bit of masking tape near the top, pull back making a flap and inject some glue under it, hold together till set, then move on to another bit, etc. When you are done and the cone shape is secure, you can run one continuous bead along the outside seam, to ensure air tightness.
Of course all this would be easier if you can borrow an extra pair of hands for a few seconds to hold the cone for you while you glue it.
As you mentioned you will have bad luck applying the glue then trying to wrap up the shape, because the glue will have set before you have it aligned correctly.
I am not sure about araldite, I have a feeling that it might eat away at the Lexan, and/or make it brittle and discoloured - if you want to try it, best bet is to use some offcuts you don't need first and see what it does.
Hope that helps, any more questions, just ask. Take your time with it and let us know how it goes.


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Sprinkle the fish with the remaining 1⁄2 teaspoon salt and the remaining 1⁄8 teaspoon pepper. Dip each piece into the egg white mixture, then into the panko mixture, pressing to adhere. (Discard any leftover panko or egg mixture.) Place the fish on the baking
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