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Thomas Sowell: Why President Obama is completely wrong on tax rates
One of the big advantages that President Obama has, as he plays "chicken" with the Congressional Republicans along the "fiscal cliff," is that Obama is a master of the plausible lie, which will never be exposed by the mainstream media - nor, apparently, by the Republicans.
A key lie that has been repeated over and over, largely unanswered, is that President Bush's "tax cuts for the rich" cost the government so much lost tax revenue that this added to the budget deficit - so that the government cannot afford to allow the cost of letting the Bush tax rates continue for "the rich."
It sounds very plausible, and constant repetition without a challenge may well be enough to convince the voting public that, if the Republican-controlled House of Representatives does not go along with Barack Obama's demands for more spending and higher tax rates on the top 2 percent, it just shows that they care more for "the rich" than for the other 98 percent.
What is remarkable is how easy it is to show how completely false Obama's argument is. That also makes it completely inexplicable why the Republicans have not done so.
The official statistics which show plainly how wrong Barack Obama is can be found in his own "Economic Report of the President" for 2012, on page 411. You can look it up.
You may be able to find a copy of the "Economic Report of the President" for 2012 at your local public library. Or you can buy a hard copy from the Government Printing Office or download an electronic version from the Internet.
For those who find that "a picture is worth a thousand words," they need only see the graphs published in the Nov. 30 issue of Investor's Business Daily.
What both the statistical tables in the "Economic Report of the President" and the graphs in Investor's Business Daily show is that (1) tax revenues went up - not down - after tax rates were cut during the Bush administration, and (2) the budget deficit declined, year after year, after the cut in tax rates that have been blamed by Obama for increasing the deficit.
Indeed, the New York Times reported in 2006: "An unexpectedly steep rise in tax revenues from corporations and the wealthy is driving down the projected budget deficit this year."
While the New York Times may not have expected this, there is nothing unprecedented about lower tax rates leading to higher tax revenues, despite automatic assumptions by many in the media and elsewhere that tax rates and tax revenues automatically move in the same direction. They do not.
The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction.
This has happened as recently as the George W. Bush administration and as far back as the Reagan administration. Moreover, tax revenues went up when tax rates went down, as far back as the Coolidge administration, before there was a Congressional Budget Office to make false predictions.
The bottom line is that Barack Obama's blaming increased budget deficits on the Bush tax cuts is demonstrably false. What caused the decreasing budget deficits after the Bush tax cuts to suddenly reverse and start increasing was the mortgage crisis. The deficit increased in 2008, followed by a huge increase in 2009.
So it is sheer hogwash that "tax cuts for the rich" caused the government to lose tax revenues. The government gained tax revenues, not lost them. Moreover, "the rich" paid a larger amount of taxes, and a larger share of all taxes, after the tax rates were cut.
That is because people change their economic behavior when tax rates are changed, contrary to what the Congressional Budget Office and others seem to assume, and this can stimulate the economy more than a government "stimulus" has done under either Bush or Obama.
Yet there is no need to assume that Barack Obama is mistaken about the way to get the economy out of the doldrums. His top priority has always been increasing the size and scope of government. If that means sacrificing the economy or the truth, that is no deterrent to Obama. That is why he is willing to play chicken with Republicans along the fiscal cliff.
Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His Web site is www.tsowell.com.
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Gentrification, assaults on the poor and on women's rights are hate crimes
Here in "ground zero" Detroit, we are aware discriminatory bullying (Republican classism) is victimizing the majority of U.S. citizens and people of color in particular. Moreover, a lot of us see that — short of civil war — the only way we can recover popular control of "the system" and restore some semblance of justice is to peacefully identify and eradicate the cause of our common distress. In Detroit, we call that "speaking truth to power."
Our mission to do that has been made more difficult because some of our neighbors, both within and surrounding Detroit, have been deliberately misled by mainstream media, which is heavily influenced by revenue from advertisers as well as ownership's connections.
Opposed to the defensive power, which unions and such traditions as autonomous "home rule" reserve for private citizens, Lansing Republicans and a clique of "business-minded" opportunists who want to exploit Detroit would have us believe the offensively parental, primarily Republican assertion that we, "the People," need less political power and more oversight to "emergency manage" our resources and governance.
By limiting their "takeovers" to cities with high percentages of minority citizens, these aggressors have successfully relied on prevailing racist stereotypes and attitudes to make their aggression seem justified. (The realization Caucasian communities can and probably will be taken over the same way has not hit home yet, although people familiar with Hitler and World War II may have a clue.)
So, the idea that the residents of Detroit are inferior and incapable of self-governance is the divide-and-conquer propaganda we're up against here.
One result of such Republican propaganda (a tool of class warfare, used to promote divisive racism, sexism and elitism) is an apathetic, general acceptance of authorities routinely prioritizing profits over people. The idea that "all's fair in love and war" seems to have been extended, so we're now encouraged to believe "all's fair in business-as-usual!"
More and more judges are buying the excuse "But it was necessary, because we had to make a profit!" New laws are regularly fitted with "loopholes" to allow for increased profits, (balanced by losses to others) as if the widening gap between "the haves" and "the have-nots" were not a serious economic and social problem.
While the rich continue to get richer and the poor get poorer, statistics show if one is poor and/or not Caucasian, one's chances of obtaining even-handed justice are disgracefully low, with an ever-increasing likelihood that conviction will result in a sentence to captive labor.
Our society is doomed if this keeps up, if our leaders fail to recognize and declare that class warfare is a hate crime, and forbid/prosecute it as such. And yet, President Obama and the federal Department of Justice (DOJ) apparently deem it wisest to look the other way.
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Legal Ethics in the Employment Law Context: Who is the Client?Posted October 2nd, 2009 by Ariana R. Levinson
The first draft of my article Legal Ethics in the Employment Law Context: Who is the Client? forthcoming in 37 Northern Kentucky Law Review, Issue 1, is now available. Here's the abstract.
The question is: Who is the client? Many ethical decisions attorneys must make emanate from this basic question. Thus, for those employment lawyers who represent, interact with, or sue unions or corporations, it is important to understand who the client is for different purposes such as representation, the attorney-client privilege, and ex parte communications. Because Kentucky recently adopted new rules of professional conduct, this paper uses Kentucky law as a microcosm through which to think about this larger question. Kentucky's prior rules were based on the prior version of the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct, still at least partially in effect in approximately twenty-two states. And the current rules mirror, almost identically in pertinent parts, the current model ABA rules, known as Ethics 2000, on which approximately eighteen other states model the pertinent rules. This recent change permits scholars and attorneys from a wide variety of states to benefit from the insights about Kentucky law.
Section I discusses the law governing a corporate employer attorney's relationship to the client and summarizes the law applicable to a union attorney's relationship to the client. Section II describes the duty of confidentiality and its relationship to the attorney-client privilege. Section III considers how far down the chain of command an employer or a union can assert the attorney-client privilege. Among other topics, Section III discusses relevant rules of evidence, related authority dealing with employers, cases regarding unions asserting the privilege, and fiduciary exceptions to asserting the privilege. Section IV addresses privileges related to the attorney-client privilege that a union may, in some circumstances, be able to assert. Finally, Section V discusses the law governing ex parte communications with employees of a represented employer.
Industrial Justice: Privacy Protection for the Employed - final draftPosted October 2nd, 2009 by Ariana R. Levinson
The final draft of my article Industrial Justice: Privacy Protection for the Employed is now available. Here's the abstract.
As the nineteenth century drew to a close, Samuel Warren & Louis D. Brandeis proclaimed that technological change necessitated new protections for the right to privacy. Today, new protections for the right to privacy are called for once again because, in the American workplace, technological change continues unabated and little privacy is afforded employees from employer monitoring using the technology. Moreover, employers are disciplining and terminating employees based on information uncovered by monitoring. Recently, many employees have been terminated for off-duty blogging. Employees are often disciplined for using e-mail for personal reasons while at work. And global positioning systems ("GPS") have been relied on to discipline drivers and other employees.
This is the first academic article to provide a detailed review of labor arbitration decisions governing the right to privacy from employer monitoring in over thirty years. The article uses the decisions, on employee privacy and technologies such as GPS, e-mail, and the Internet, as a springboard to propose privacy protections in the non-Union private sector workplace. It, thus, fills a gap in the academic literature. The framework suggested provides the greatest protection for off-duty behavior, intermediate protection for on-duty expression of thought, such as through computer usage, and baseline protection for on-duty actions. It could be implemented through legislation of minimum rights or mandates for employers to adopt safe-harbor policies.
Review of Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, MiraclePosted October 2nd, 2009 by Ariana R. Levinson
The final draft of my book review is now available. Here's the abstract.
Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is a must-read for lawyers and legal scholars in the areas of food law, environmental law, agricultural law, and education law. Indeed, I recommend it to anyone interested in the future of the planet or our children. The over-arching point of Kingsolver's book is that Americans should eat more locally-grown food. Kingsolver's position is that eating locally-grown food promises to be part of the solution to several of the major problems facing us at the start of the 21st century, such as global warming and childhood obesity. Many of the issues that Kingsolver addresses are legal ones, and many of the implications of her arguments also bear on legal topics. This review discusses the legal issues raised by the book and provides annotation to relevant legal articles, including articles on increasing opportunities for food production in local economies; global warming; childhood obesity; the Federal Farm Bill; the Plant Variety Protection Act of 1970; pesticide pollution and loss of wildlife habitat; lawsuits involving patented plant varieties; laws and regulations related to genetically modified foods; labeling laws governing Recombinant Bovine Somatotropin Hormone; proposals to reduce the public health risks of mad cow disease in the United States; green zoning; local ordinances governing community gardening; elimination of the regulatory quota system for tobacco; and the National Animal Identification System.
New British Supreme Court Sworn InPosted October 1st, 2009 by Kurt X. Metzmeier
Marking one of the more dramatic reforms in the British legal system, the new Supreme Court was sworn in yesterday. Replacing the Law Lords on their ridiculously high benches, the new high court is more eye level but no less grand in gold trimmed robes and their £60 million new courtroom in the old Middlesex Guildhall. The establishment of the new court fulfilled a long delayed Labour Party promise, although critics claim it was "dreamed up over a glass of whisky" by Tony Blair to replace the old Lord Chancellor as high court judge with Lord Falconer, Blair's old roommate. Nonetheless, it establishes more independence in the court system in a nation with fewer formal checks-and-balances than any other common law nation.
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Departing HyphensPosted September 30th, 2009 by Judith D. Fischer
The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary has eliminated thousands of hyphens, Reuters reports. A new edition of the dictionary has combined some formerly hyphenated words into single words (bumblebee and chickpea) and others into two-word phrases (ice cream and test tube). The decision was partly based on a visual consideration--the belief that hyphens in the middle of words look ungainly. The editors had also observed that people are increasingly unsure about how to use hyphens, especially in the age of text messages and tweets.
This does not change the rule that a compound adjective placed before a noun must be hyphenated, especially where its meaning would otherwise be unclear. The modifier two-word, above, is an example of such a compound adjective. It would be ambiguous without the hyphen.
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Works In Progress of Interest to Labor and Employment PractitionersPosted September 28th, 2009 by Ariana R. Levinson
I had the great pleasure of attending the Fourth Annual Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law, hosted by Seton Hall University School of Law, this past weekend. I heard a number of excellent presentations on works in progress. These included the following presentations. William Herbert's "Certification without an Election in the Public Sector," Brishen Rogers's, "Towards Third-Party Liability for Wage Theft," Harold Lewis Jr.'s "A New FRCP, Rule 68.1," Kevin Kolben's "Towards an Integrative Theory of Transnational Labor Regulation," Sara Slinn's "First Contract Arbitration: Multi-Jurisdictional Evidence from Canada," Steve Wilborn's "Laval, Viking, and American Labor Law," Jeff Hirsch's "Communications Breakdown: Regulating Employee Access to Information," Jarod Gonzalez's "Striking Preemptory Strikes from Civil Jury Trials," Marcia McCormick's "Agency Adjudication of Employment Discrimination," and Scott Moss's "Litigation Myths! Explaining Pervasive Gaps Between What Courts Say and What Courts Actually Do."
Several may be of particular interest to practitioners. These included the following presentations. Samuel Estreicher's "Improving the Administration of the National Labor Relations Act without Statutory Change," Keith Cunningham-Parmeter's "The Future Rights of Unauthorized Workers," Mitchell Rubinstein's "Employers in the Borderland: Employers and Quasi-Employers," Suja Thomas's, "The Motion to Dismiss Under Iqbal and Twombly: The New Summary Judgment Motion," and Joseph Seiner's "Employment Discrimination Implications of Iqbal and Twombly."
There were also reports on Chapter Six (Other Torts) and Chapter Two (Privacy) of the proposed Restatement of Employment.
I believe that Seton Hall University Law School intends to podcast at least some of the presentations. I will post again if and when I discover that podcasts are available.
FREEdom to ReadPosted September 28th, 2009 by Virginia Mattingly
The American Libraries Association has designated September 26-October 3, 2009 as Banned Books Week. The annual celebration is designed to celebrate and show support for intellectual freedom, the First Amendment, and free and open access to information.
The University of Louisville's Libraries celebrates each year with a read-in. Several UofL students and librarians will read samples from popular pieces of fiction as well as banned and challenged classics from a list of top 100 novels of the 20th Century. Some of my favorite authors are among them - Vonnegut, Tolkien, and Faulkner.
This year I read The Butter Battle Book by Dr. Seuss (1984), a clever satire about the nuclear arms race that was removed from the children's collection of several school and public libraries because of its anti-war message. I recently checked out a copy of Thomas Paine's writings from the Louisville Free Public Library. The collection includes Common Sense (1776) and Rights of Man (1791), both of which were challenged because of their subversive messages.
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Enhancing Roadmap Paragraphs -- Legal Writing TipPosted September 21st, 2009 by Ariana R. Levinson
Last week my seminar discussed roadmap paragraphs. Most of you (who read this blog) are probably already familiar with a roadmap paragraph, one that sets out the points that will be discussed in more depth in the sections or sub-sections to follow. It is vital that an introduction contain such a paragraph because legal readers are busy individuals who like to see the conclusion and supporting points up-front. The roadmap paragraph is also important because it provides an overview of what will follow. The roadmap helps the reader to place the sections in context as they read. It also permits those who read no further than the introduction to get an understanding of the entirety of the argument. Roadmaps are used in all forms of legal writing including briefs and articles.
Building upon the idea of the roadmap paragraph, Volokh suggests an interesting variation that may help the flow of your article. Rather than use one paragraph as a roadmap, try including in your introduction one paragraph on each of the points to follow. For an excellent example of such an approach, we read Jean Sternlight's article, Creeping Mandatory Arbitration: Is it Just?
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"Money Doesn't Talk, It Swears"Posted September 18th, 2009 by Joseph A. Tomain
Last week, the United States Supreme Court called a special session and heard oral arguments in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. This case has grave implications for the continuing influence of money in politics under the guise of First Amendment free speech rights for corporations and unions.
On behalf of Citizens United, Theodore Olson stated that the "most fundamental right that we can exercise in a democracy under the First Amendment is dialogue and communication about political candidates." While true, this statement does not necessarily require equating the rights of corporations and unions to enage in dialogue about political candidates with those of people who actually vote for them.
Further, although the Supreme Court has considered money a form of protected speech, money does not persuade like mere words. If you ask me to paint your house because you really need to paint it before the winter and it's simply a nice thing to do, I probably will not be persuaded. But, if you ask me to paint you house for $100,000, I may be persuaded to grab my paint brush and get to work.
Imagine what Congress may be persuaded to do when the health care industry and its lobbyists spent $1.4 million per day from Janaury to March alone. In short, money persuades people with a power that mere speech does not possess. This type of avaricious power needs stronger checks against its influence on our political process, not less. Indeed, that's why individuals like Professor Lessig start organizations like Change Congress.
Speaking of individuals, I must admit some despair when I see Floyd Abrams argue on behalf of amicus curiae, Senator Mitch McConnell in Citizens United, especially when Abrams seeks to rely New York Times v. Sullivan to support his arguments against the constitutionality of limiting corporate and union spending on campaigns during elections. Surely, Mr. Abrams appreciates the difference between defending the Fourth Estate that is supposed to be a check and balance on governmennt and defending the rights of corporations and unions to influence politics with aggregated wealth. Alas, perhaps I should take Mr. Abrams' advice and get over it.
Even Stephen Colbert showed his legal chops in discussing this case during his signature segment, The Word, with the word being: Let Freedom Ka-Ching and interviewing Jeffrey Toobin. During both segments, Colbert discusses the 1886 case, Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad and its questionable reliability.
But the concerns of corporate (and union) speech date back farther than 1886. Indeed, Thomas Jefferon and Abraham Lincoln both expressed the need to be mindful of the harmful effects that aggregated power and wealth can have on our democratic system of government:
Thomas Jefferson:
"I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
Abraham Lincoln:
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
In closing, the First Amendment should not provide refuge for the poweful influence of money in politics as free speech, especially for artificial entities that do not speak, do not vote and whose primary objective is profit. Indeed, as Bob Dylan notes: "Money doesn't talk, it swears."
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I just did my first all grain batch last night and it took a looong time for the 6+ gallons to get to a boil. I know a lot of you use propane, just wanted a bit more info on that. Is that something you must do outside? I live in a suburb of Cleveland, so we have some pretty mean winters. I do have a garage, however. If I do have to brew out there, is the cold air going to be fighting with the propane burner to get me to a boil? Using something like that inside seems like it's probably a no-no, but just checking!
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Takes me about 15-20 min to go to boil with 6 gallons with keggle. Did you reset your regulator?
If you had the regulator on when you turned the valve for the tank open it will run at a very low speed.
crank everything shut and then open the tank first. that will reset.
also, Never noticed that much of a difference brewing outside here in the winter
I wouldn't chance brewing with propane in a garage not only because of carbon monoxide danger but also because of the fire danger, but that's just me...and NC has some very soft winter weather compared to northern Ohio's.
How many BTU's does your burner have? It used to take my turkey fryer a long time to achieve a boil, but now that I have 120K BTU burners, it's like lighting the Space Shuttle Main Engine below that brew.
Also, if you are an AG brewer, when you drop your first runnings into the boil pot are you using the flame to go ahead and start heating it up to a near boil? I do that to ensure that any enzyme activity is halted and also so that my brew day is shorter. Even with the strong burner setup I have, it takes 10-15 minutes off of the time to achieve boiling.
Outside is a must!!! There is an episode of Basic Brewing Radio that gets the local fire expert on, and he even recommends being totaly outside. I have done several batches in the garage, and am still here, so that is what I am going to keep doing.
I would think that the amount of time that it takes to boil would be more dependant on your burner rather than the temperature. I have a turkey fryer, and the problem I have is too much boiling, I have to move the pot off so there is not as much heat, or else there is non stop boilovers with too much of a vigorous boil.
I brew in Illinois in the winter. I use a ten gallon pot on a turkey fryer burner. It doesn't take too long to get to a boil. i have to crank it up a little more but it's not noticeably longer than brewing in the summer. I might use a little more propane but I still get a full two all grain brews out of a propane tank.
I also brew in the garage. I wouldn't call it a fire hazardy any more than using your grill on a wood deck lol. If it makes you feel better have a fire exstinguisher in your garage lol. Leave the garage door open so you don't get fumed out. I actually just leave mine half way open and turn a fan on to get some air moving. You might have to rig up some kind of wind barrier around your burner depending on how windy it is that day and depending on how your garage faces.
At the end of the day. I would rather brew when it's 0-10 degrees out with my burner cranking away in the garage than when it's 90-100 with the burner going in the garage. Grab some gloves, a hat, a big beer, and pull up a chair and you're set.
I'm betting your regulator only goes to 5psi. I bought a turkey fryer kit, only to find that the regulator was very weak.
As for brewing in the cold, I don't think the problem will be with the boil - it'll be maintaining mash temps (if you're mashing in a kettle). You may want to wrap the mash tun in a towel.
Finally, I brew in my garage and like it a lot. Especially for keeping leaves out of the BK. When it's really cold, I just crack the garage door a foot or two for some gas exchange, and huddle up real close to the kettle!
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I've brewed in my garage quite a few times in the winter and I'm practically down the street. The brewing itself is pretty straight forward, it's the clean-up that is more of a pain for me in the winter.
I don't actually have a propane burner yet, I brewed on a stove and am looking to brew with a burner, just looking for advice. You guys are very helpful!
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Non inertial cavitation is the process in which a bubble in a fluid is forced to oscillate in size or shape due to some form of energy input, such as an acoustic field. Such cavitation is often employed in ultrasonic cleaning baths and can also be observed in pumps, propellers, etc.
Since the shock waves formed by cavitation are strong enough to significantly damage moving parts, cavitation is usually an undesirable phenomenon. It is specifically avoided in the design of machines such as turbines or propellers, and eliminating cavitation is a major field in the study of fluid dynamics.
Inertial cavitation was first studied by Lord Rayleigh in the late 19th century, when he considered the collapse of a spherical void within a liquid. When a volume of liquid is subjected to a sufficiently low pressure, it may rupture and form a cavity. This phenomenon is termed cavitation inception and may occur behind the blade of a rapidly rotating propeller or on any surface vibrating in the liquid with sufficient amplitude and acceleration. A fast-flowing river can cause cavitation on rock surfaces, particularly when there is a drop-off, such as on a waterfall.
Other ways of generating cavitation voids involve the local deposition of energy, such as an intense focused laser pulse (optic cavitation) or with an electrical discharge through a spark. Vapor gases evaporate into the cavity from the surrounding medium; thus, the cavity is not a perfect vacuum, but has a relatively low gas pressure. Such a low-pressure cavitation bubble in a liquid begins to collapse due to the higher pressure of the surrounding medium. As the bubble collapses, the pressure and temperature of the vapor within increases. The bubble eventually collapses to a minute fraction of its original size, at which point the gas within dissipates into the surrounding liquid via a rather violent mechanism, which releases a significant amount of energy in the form of an acoustic shock wave and as visible light. At the point of total collapse, the temperature of the vapor within the bubble may be several thousand kelvin, and the pressure several hundred atmospheres.[citation needed]
Inertial cavitation can also occur in the presence of an acoustic field. Microscopic gas bubbles that are generally present in a liquid will be forced to oscillate due to an applied acoustic field. If the acoustic intensity is sufficiently high, the bubbles will first grow in size and then rapidly collapse. Hence, inertial cavitation can occur even if the rarefaction in the liquid is insufficient for a Rayleigh-like void to occur. High-power ultrasonics usually utilize the inertial cavitation of microscopic vacuum bubbles for treatment of surfaces, liquids, and slurries.
The physical process of cavitation inception is similar to boiling. The major difference between the two is the thermodynamic paths that precede the formation of the vapor. Boiling occurs when the local vapor pressure of the liquid rises above its local ambient pressure and sufficient energy is present to cause the phase change to a gas. Cavitation inception occurs when the local pressure falls sufficiently far below the saturated vapor pressure, a value given by the tensile strength of the liquid at a certain temperature.
In order for cavitation inception to occur, the cavitation "bubbles" generally need a surface on which they can nucleate. This surface can be provided by the sides of a container, by impurities in the liquid, or by small undissolved microbubbles within the liquid. It is generally accepted that hydrophobic surfaces stabilize small bubbles. These pre-existing bubbles start to grow unbounded when they are exposed to a pressure below the threshold pressure, termed Blake's threshold.
The vapour pressure here differs from the meteorological definition of vapour pressure, which describes the partial pressure of water in the atmosphere at some value less than 100% saturation. Vapour pressure as relating to cavitation refers to the vapour pressure in equilibrium conditions and can therefore be more accurately defined as the equilibrium (or saturated) vapour pressure.
Noninertial cavitation is the process in which small bubbles in a liquid are forced to oscillate in the presence of an acoustic field, when the intensity of the acoustic field is insufficient to cause total bubble collapse. This form of cavitation causes significantly less erosion than inertial cavitation, and is often used for the cleaning of delicate materials, such as silicon wafers.
Cavitation is, in many cases, an undesirable occurrence. In devices such as propellers and pumps, cavitation causes a great deal of noise, damage to components, vibrations, and a loss of efficiency.
When the cavitation bubbles collapse, they force energetic liquid into very small volumes, thereby creating spots of high temperature and emitting shock waves, the latter of which are a source of noise. The noise created by cavitation is a particular problem for military submarines, as it increases the chances of being detected by passive sonar.
Although the collapse of a cavity is a relatively low-energy event, highly localized collapses can erode metals, such as steel, over time. The pitting caused by the collapse of cavities produces great wear on components and can dramatically shorten a propeller or pump's lifetime.
After a surface is initially affected by cavitation, it tends to erode at an accelerating pace. The cavitation pits increase the turbulence of the fluid flow and create crevasses that act as nucleation sites for additional cavitation bubbles. The pits also increase the components' surface area and leave behind residual stresses. This makes the surface more prone to stress corrosion.[2]
Hydrodynamic cavitation describes the process of vaporisation, bubble generation and bubble implosion which occurs in a flowing liquid as a result of a decrease and subsequent increase in pressure. Cavitation will only occur if the pressure declines to some point below the saturated vapour pressure of the liquid. In pipe systems, cavitation typically occurs either as the result of an increase in the kinetic energy (through an area constriction) or an increase in the pipe elevation.
Hydrodynamic cavitation can be produced by passing a liquid through a constricted channel at a specific velocity or by mechanical rotation through a liquid. In the case of the constricted channel and based on the specific (or unique) geometry of the system, the combination of pressure and kinetic energy can be created when the hydrodynamic cavitation cavern downstream of the local constriction generating high energy cavitation bubbles.
The process of bubble generation, subsequent growth and collapse of the cavitation bubbles results in very high energy densities, resulting in very high temperatures and pressures at the surface of the bubbles for a very short time. The overall liquid medium environment, therefore, remains at ambient conditions. When uncontrolled, cavitation is damaging; however, by controlling the flow of the cavitation the power is harnessed and non-destructive. Controlled cavitation can be used to enhance chemical reactions or propagate certain unexpected reactions because free radicals are generated in the process due to disassociation of vapours trapped in the cavitating bubbles[citation needed].
Orifices and venturi are reported to be widely used for generating cavitation. A venturi, because of its smooth converging and diverging sections, has an inherent advantage, over the orifice, that it can generate a higher velocity at the throat for a given pressure drop across it. On the other hand, an orifice has an advantage that it can accommodate more number of holes (larger perimeter of holes) in a given cross sectional area of the pipe.[3]
Hydrodynamic cavitation can improve industrial processes. For instance, cavitated corn slurry show higher yields in ethanol production compared to uncavitated corn slurry in dry milling facilities.[4]
This is also used in the mineralization of bio-refractory compounds which otherwise would need extremely high temperature and pressure conditions since free radicals are generated in the process due to the dissociation of vapours trapped in the cavitating bubbles, which results in either the intensification of the chemical reaction or may even result in the propagation of certain reactions not possible under otherwise ambient conditions.[5]
In industry, cavitation is often used to homogenize, or mix and break down, suspended particles in a colloidal liquid compound such as paint mixtures or milk. Many industrial mixing machines are based upon this design principle. It is usually achieved through impeller design or by forcing the mixture through an annular opening that has a narrow entrance orifice with a much larger exit orifice. In the latter case, the drastic decrease in pressure as the liquid accelerates into a larger volume induces cavitation. This method can be controlled with hydraulic devices that control inlet orifice size, allowing for dynamic adjustment during the process, or modification for different substances. The surface of this type of mixing valve, against which surface the cavitation bubbles are driven causing their implosion, undergoes tremendous mechanical and thermal localized stress; they are therefore often constructed of super-hard or tough materials such as stainless steel, Stellite, or even polycrystalline diamond (PCD).
Cavitating water purification devices have also been designed, in which the extreme conditions of cavitation can break down pollutants and organic molecules. Spectral analysis of light emitted in sonochemical reactions reveal chemical and plasma-based mechanisms of energy transfer. The light emitted from cavitation bubbles is termed sonoluminescence.
Hydrophobic chemicals are attracted underwater by cavitation as the pressure difference between the bubbles and the liquid water forces them to join together. This effect may assist in protein folding.[6]
Cavitation plays an important role for the destruction of kidney stones in shock wave lithotripsy. Currently, tests are being conducted as to whether cavitation can be used to transfer large molecules into biological cells (sonoporation). Nitrogen cavitation is a method used in research to lyse cell membranes while leaving organelles intact. Cavitation plays a key role in non-thermal non-invasive fractionation of tissue for treatment of a variety of diseases.[7] Cavitation also probably plays a role in HIFU, a thermal noninvasive treatment methodology for cancer.[8]
Ultrasound is sometimes used to increase bone formation, for instance post-surgical applications.[9] Ultrasound treatments and/or exposure can create cavitation that can potentially "result in a syndrome involving manifestations of nausea, headache, tinnitus, pain, dizziness, and fatigue.".[10]
It has been suggested that the sound of "cracking" knuckles derives from the collapse of cavitation in the synovial fluid within the joint.[11] Movements that cause cracking expand the joint space, thus reducing pressure to the point of cavitation. The gas dissolved in synovial fluid is primarily carbon dioxide. It remains controversial whether this is associated with clinically significant joint injury such as osteoarthritis.[12]
In industrial cleaning applications, cavitation has sufficient power to overcome the particle-to-substrate adhesion forces, loosening contaminants. The threshold pressure required to initiate cavitation is a strong function of the pulse width and the power input. This method works by generating controlled acoustic cavitation in the cleaning fluid, picking up and carrying contaminant particles away so that they do not reattach to the material being cleaned.
Major places where cavitation occurs are in pumps, on propellers, or at restrictions in a flowing liquid.
As an impeller's (in a pump) or propeller's (as in the case of a ship or submarine) blades move through a fluid, low-pressure areas are formed as the fluid accelerates around and moves past the blades. The faster the blades move, the lower the pressure around it can become. As it reaches vapour pressure, the fluid vaporizes and forms small bubbles of gas. This is cavitation. When the bubbles collapse later, they typically cause very strong local shock waves in the fluid, which may be audible and may even damage the blades.
Cavitation in pumps may occur in two different forms:
Suction cavitation occurs when the pump suction is under a low-pressure/high-vacuum condition where the liquid turns into a vapour at the eye of the pump impeller. This vapour is carried over to the discharge side of the pump, where it no longer sees vacuum and is compressed back into a liquid by the discharge pressure. This imploding action occurs violently and attacks the face of the impeller. An impeller that has been operating under a suction cavitation condition can have large chunks of material removed from its face or very small bits of material removed, causing the impeller to look spongelike. Both cases will cause premature failure of the pump, often due to bearing failure. Suction cavitation is often identified by a sound like gravel or marbles in the pump casing.
In automotive applications, a clogged filter in a hydraulic system (power steering, power brakes) can cause suction cavitation making a noise that rises and falls in synch with engine RPM. It is fairly often a high pitched whine, like set of nylon gears not quite meshing correctly.
Discharge cavitation occurs when the pump discharge pressure is extremely high, normally occurring in a pump that is running at less than 10% of its best efficiency point. The high discharge pressure causes the majority of the fluid to circulate inside the pump instead of being allowed to flow out the discharge. As the liquid flows around the impeller, it must pass through the small clearance between the impeller and the pump housing at extremely high velocity. This velocity causes a vacuum to develop at the housing wall (similar to what occurs in a venturi), which turns the liquid into a vapor. A pump that has been operating under these conditions shows premature wear of the impeller vane tips and the pump housing. In addition, due to the high pressure conditions, premature failure of the pump's mechanical seal and bearings can be expected. Under extreme conditions, this can break the impeller shaft.
Discharge cavitation in joint fluid is thought to cause the popping sound produced by bone joint cracking, for example by deliberately cracking one's knuckles.
Cavitation can occur in control valves.[13] If the upstream pressure is just above the vapour pressure, then it is possible that the pressure will drop below the vapour pressure as the fluid flows through the valve. If the pressure recovers after the valve to a pressure that is once again above the vapor pressure, then cavitation will occur.
When water flows over a dam spillway, the irregularities on the spillway surface will cause small areas of flow separation in a high speed flow, and, in these regions, the pressure will be lowered. If the velocities are high enough the pressure may fall to below the local vapour pressure of the water and vapour bubbles will form. When these are carried downstream into high pressure region the bubble collapses giving rise to high pressures and possible cavitation damage.
Experimental investigations show that the damage on concrete chute and tunnel spillways can start at clear water velocities of between 12 to 15 m/s, and, up to velocities of 20 m/s, it may be possible to protect the surface by streamlining the boundaries, improving the surface finishes or using resistant materials.[14]
When some air is present in the water the resulting mixture is compressible and this damps the high pressure caused by the bubble collapses.[15] If the velocities near the spillway invert are sufficiently high, aerators (or aeration devices) must be introduced to prevent cavitation. Although these have been installed for some years, the mechanisms of air entrainment at the aerators and the slow movement of the air away from the spillway surface are still challenging.[16][17][18][19]
The spillway aeration device design is based upon a small deflection of the spillway bed (or sidewall) such as a ramp and offset to deflect the high velocity flow away from the spillway surface. In the cavity formed below the nappe, a local subpressure beneath the nappe is produced by which air is sucked into the flow. The complete design includes the deflection device (ramp, offset) and the air supply system.
Some larger diesel engines suffer from cavitation due to high compression and undersized cylinder walls. Vibrations of the cylinder wall induce alternating low and high pressure in the coolant against the cylinder wall. The result is pitting of the cylinder wall, which will eventually let cooling fluid leak into the cylinder and combustion gases to leak into the coolant.
It is possible to prevent this from happening with the use of chemical additives in the cooling fluid that form a protective layer on the cylinder wall. This layer will be exposed to the same cavitation, but rebuilds itself. Additionally a regulated overpressure in the cooling system (regulated and maintained by the coolant filler cap spring pressure) prevents the forming of cavitation.
From about the 1980s, new designs of smaller petrol (gasoline) engines also displayed cavitation phenomena. One answer to the need for smaller and lighter engines was a smaller coolant volume and a correspondingly higher coolant velocity. This gave rise to rapid changes in flow velocity and therefore rapid changes of static pressure in areas of high heat transfer. Where resulting vapour bubbles collapsed against a surface, they had the effect of first disrupting protective oxide layers (of cast aluminium materials) and then repeatedly damaging the newly formed surface, preventing the action of some types of corrosion inhibitor (such as silicate based inhibitors). A final problem was the effect that increased material temperature had on the relative electrochemical reactivity of the base metal and its alloying constituents. The result was deep pits that could form and penetrate the engine head in a matter of hours when the engine was running at high load and high speed. These effects could largely be avoided by the use of organic corrosion inhibitors or (preferably) by designing the engine head in such a way as to avoid certain cavitation inducing conditions.
Some theories relating to diamond formation posit a possible role for cavitation—namely cavitiation in the kimberlite pipes providing the extreme pressure needed to change pure carbon into the rare allotrope that is diamond.[20]
Cavitation occurs in the xylem of vascular plants when the tension of water within the xylem becomes so great that liquid water (of sap) vaporizes locally and dissolved air within the water expands to fill either the vessel elements or tracheids. Plants are generally able to repair cavitated xylem in a number of ways. For plants less than 50 cm tall, root pressure can be sufficient to redissolve air. For larger plants, they must repair cavitation by importing solutes into the xylem via ray cells, or in tracheids, via osmosis through bordered pits; this causes water to enter as well, which can then redissolve the air. In some trees, the sound of the cavitation is clearly audible, particularly in summer, when the rate of evapotranspiration is highest, and can be used to determine the rate of cavitation. Deciduous trees shed leaves in the autumn partly because cavitation increases as temperatures decrease.[21]
Just as cavitation bubbles form on a fast-spinning boat propeller, they may also form on the tails and fins of aquatic animals. The effects of cavitation are especially important near the surface of the ocean, where the ambient water pressure is relatively low and cavitation is more likely to occur.
For powerful swimming animals like dolphins and tuna, cavitation may be detrimental, because it limits their maximum swimming speed.[22] Even if they have the power to swim faster, dolphins may have to restrict their speed because collapsing cavitation bubbles on their tail are too painful. Cavitation also slows tuna, but for a different reason. Unlike dolphins, these fish do not feel the painful bubbles, because they have bony fins without nerve endings. Nevertheless, they cannot swim faster because the cavitation bubbles create a vapor film around their fins that limits their speed. Lesions have been found on tuna that are consistent with cavitation damage.
Cavitation is not always a limitation for sea life; some animals have found ways to use it to their advantage when hunting prey. The pistol shrimp snaps a specialized claw to create cavitation, which can kill small fish. The mantis shrimp (of the smasher variety) uses cavitation as well in order to stun, smash open, or kill the shellfish that it feasts upon. Their appendages do wear out as a result, which is not a problem because the animal moults every three months.[23]
In the last half-decade, coastal erosion in the form of inertial cavitation has been generally accepted.[24] Vapor pockets in an incoming wave are forced into cracks in the cliff being eroded, then the force of the wave compresses the vapor pockets until the bubble implodes, becoming liquid, giving off various forms of energy that blast apart the rock.
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
An Afternoon of French Music
Here's one for the power of the personal invitation. When you're marketing a concert (or whatever, I'm sure), all the nice posters and advertising don't go as far as a personal invitation from someone who is involved. The Calgary Civic … Continue reading
Perfect Pitch – Update
When I started this blog a little over a year ago, one of the first things I wrote about was my gradual loss of absolute pitch ("perfect pitch"). It's an aging thing – normal, and to be expected, much like vision … Continue reading
Are the French suites French?
It happens that the French Suites of Bach are not really French at all ( just like the French horn is German, and the English horn is neither English nor a horn. It's thought to have originated in Silesia, which … Continue reading
No Warm-up? Really?
Stephen Hough, concert pianist by night and writer of things musical, theological and all sorts of things, blogs for The Telegraph (in the U.K.). I stumbled upon a series of practice tips that he wrote fairly recently. One is his … Continue reading
Simply Divine
Angela Hewitt was simply divine Thursday night. It was the most inspirational recital/concert I've attended for quite a long time. In the last 10 years, since I have chosen to focus more exclusively on teaching, I've re-discovered my first love … Continue reading
Wantin Somethin So Bad
Half-Blood Blues is a current best-selling novel by Esi Edugyan, a Canadian, as it happens. The story is about a few jazz musicians of various nationality and race caught in Berlin and Paris at the beginning of World War II. … Continue reading
Piano Books as Gifts
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I've always hated mac and cheese. I'm not sure why I just can't eat it. I used to like it but for some reason I stopped, Might be the smell idk.
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Album Rating: 3.5Literally just got into Fathers of the Icy Age today damn
fuck me what are you wierdos talking about. HE WROTE A REVIEW UNDER THAT SCORE YOU KNOW
anyway ANYWAY, noctus, my man, my nigga. great work, pos'd fo dayzzzzz. i still haven't listened to anything from this band but this delightful little review makes me think about changing my wicked ways.
oh I almost forgot -- :]
Digging: Mitski - bury me at makeout creek
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off
Are you going to review if we get there one day will you please open the gates? :]
Slightly above average, but the first one in the trilogy was much better IMO. Gonna try give one few more spins.
Album Rating: 3.0Your review was overall really good. I really want to pos but there are many errors:
"Perhaps one of the most eclectic of the long-running black metal bands, and arguably one of the more prolific, but even to this day perhaps one of the most mysterious."
There is no subject in the sentence
"To this day you'd be hard pressed to find even a picture of the band that is even slightly revealing, be it that they're hooded, so veiled in black/white pictures that what you think is a figure may actually be something else, covered in roots or the picture is so dark you can't really see anything."
semi colons would make your sentence look so much cleaner and this isn't the only instance in your review, there are many
" Every mistake in the first two albums rectified, every good aspect of the previous albums capitalized on, many more good things added, for a band that has been making albums since 1995 the fact they're still progressing and discovering things, arguably even still innovating is such a promising prospect that deserves excitement."
there are at least 2-3 errors in this sentence, I'll let you figure it out.
"synths and guitars all work to compliment each other every single instance is extraordinary"
coma after "other"
"Another aspect of this album that needs to be mentioned is the flow of it, a serious flaw of the previous two albums in the trilogy which sounded hacked together, Cosmosophy flows beautifully and really feels like a convincing and elaborate journey through disorienting and captivating soundscapes that only Blut aus Nord could do justice in this medium."
this is a run on sentence
--it seems this review wasn't proof read, or if you did proof read and feel these examples are correct you need someone else to proof read your work. I'm not sure if english is your first language but other other than these mistakes I enjoyed your review and this album is quite solid.
I doubt the album is this good. I'll have to check it.
Digging: Pet Shop Boys - Please
Yea bro Noct is from Wight island UK ::]
sweet rotten sound record
Digging: Owen Pallett - In Conflict
coma after "other"
Album Rating: 3.0np bro
Album Rating: 3.0"Perhaps one of the most eclectic of the long-running black metal bands, and arguably one of the more prolific, but even to this day perhaps one of the most mysterious."
Still no subject
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offi don't really understand what you mean, i think that sentence is fine and works in context with the previous and following sentences ]:
i added something to it though, how's that?
Album Rating: 3.0I think I may review Odinist to curve the fapping in that general direction ; ).
Digging: Ash Borer - Cold of Ages
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offi didn't like that one as much but i'll give it another listen [:
Album Rating: 3.0It's tight and to the point (and fucking disturbing to listen to).
Album Rating: 3.0"I think I may review Odinist to curve the fapping in that general direction "
Would love to see it Wiz, I've still yet to listen to it
"i don't really understand what you mean, i think that sentence is fine and works in context with the previous and following sentences ]:"
you only needed to add a subject only, it's all messed up now, see below:
"Perhaps one of the most eclectic of the long-running black metal bands"
before "perhaps" all you need to add is "They are", and you never need to capitalize a word after a semi-colon
Album Rating: 3.0Some of the spoken word shit on this album sucks immensely.
Album Rating: 4.5Nope...
Digging: Skaphe - Skáphe
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Offdone, thanks captain :]
Album Rating: 3.0np bro, you're a great writer and I just want you to excel. I've always enjoyed your reviews and I apologize for the earlier altercation as that was never my intention. :]
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