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Thousands of alumni attended Saturday's Homecoming game against Coastal Carolina — Liberty won 58-13 — and took advantage of all the other sporting events, recreational activities and new facilities the campus has to offer.
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During the month of March we celebrate Women's History Month and the many contributions generations of women have made to the fabric and culture of this great country. Texas has been home to scores of influential, intelligent, colorful and unforgettable females. From Emily West, the Yellow Rose of Texas, to Bessie Coleman, the nation's first African American female aviator, and down the line to political trailblazers like U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison and Texas' 45th Governor, Ann Richards — Texas is no stranger to powerful and strong women.
One of these was Elizabeth "Lizzie" Ellen Johnson, a young woman from Hays County, Texas, who did not let social norms of the day stop her from pursuing her dreams. Born on May 9, 1840, in Cole County, Missouri, Johnson and her family relocated to Hays County in the mid-1840s, where Mr. and Mrs. Johnson established the Johnson Institute, a private secondary school. After attending the Johnson Institute, Lizzie Johnson began teaching there and at several other schools in Central Texas. Though she continued teaching, she also took on bookkeeping duties for several well known cattlemen, such as George W. Littlefield and William H. Day. On top of these responsibilities, she found yet another way to earn extra money — by moonlighting as a freelance writer. Using a pen name, she wrote articles of short fiction for magazines and newspapers, such as Illustrated Weekly. Over time, she earned and saved enough money to invest in something she had observed and determine lucrative — cattle. Johnson first invested in a Chicago cattle company, and after three years, she had made significant profits that she in turn used to buy cattle and land.
Johnson registered her cattle brand on June 1, 1871, under the name of Elizabeth Johnson. She then purchased 10 acres in Austin - paying $3,000 in gold dollars. According to some historical accounts, Johnson was able to grow her herd during the Civil War by overseeing a process called "brushpopping." With so many men away at war, and with few fences to keep cattle corralled, the population of unbranded cattle in the brush of South Texas began to flourish. During those times, unbranded cattle were "finders' keepers" for those willing to round them up and transport them. Johnson employed hands to do her "brushpopping" for her - or combing the thicket for cattle.
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A woman who marched to the beat of her own drum, Johnson is perhaps best remembered for the literal trail she blazed when she became the first woman in Texas to drive her own herd of cattle up the Chisholm Trail. It is said that Williams accompanied her but drove his own, separate herd. It was in this way that they would lead the rest of their married life - together but separate. Successful in business—due mostly to Johnson's acumen—the couple enjoyed traveling and Johnson had a love for fine clothes and the newest fashion trends. When Williams passed away in El Paso in 1914, it is said that Johnson purchased a $600, top-of-the-line coffin for him, and when she signed the bill of payment, she wrote across it, "I loved this old buzzard this much."
In her final years, Johnson became somewhat of a recluse. She often dressed as if she were impoverished and survived on a meager diet of soup and crackers. For these reasons, when Johnson passed away on October 9, 1924, it came as quite a surprise to Austinites to learn she left behind a fortune of nearly $250,000. Family members found thousands of dollars in diamonds locked away in her basement and other colorful items like exotic parrot feathers around her house.
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Sources: Texas State Historical Association; The Cowgirls by Joyce Gibson Roach; Celebrating Texas distributed by McDougal Littell; Womenintexashistory.org, a project of The Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation for Texas Women's History.
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by Bob Fles
The Local was privileged this past week to interview Admiral Horatio C. Lion, commander of the Navy Seals.
Local: Admiral Lion, first of all, congratulations to you and your Seals on the marvelous job that you did in Pakistan to get rid of Osama bin Laden.
Lion: Thank you.
Local: Is it true that you also just carried out a secret undercover mission here in Chestnut Hill?
Lion: That's correct, although there are obviously limits on how much I am at liberty to reveal to you.
Local: Obviously. Most if not all residents of Chestnut Hill seem to have slept through the operation. You must have planned it meticulously and executed it flawlessly.
Lion: Basically that's true, although we had one operational glitch.
Local: What was that?
Lion: As we moved in, we hit the cobblestones at the corner of Germantown Avenue and Bethlehem Pike. Three of our military Hummers were disabled on the spot, broken axles, blown tires, that sort of thing. A couple boys whacked their heads on the roofs and were knocked silly, but Seals are tough customers, you know. They just said, "Coach, I'm okay. Put me back in." We carried on.
Local: Wow, that Germantown-Bethlehem corner does take a toll. How much of the target of your mission can you tell our readers?
Lion: If I tell you everything, I'll have to kill you.
Local: That's top secret, all right. Can you clarify the purpose of your mission at all?
Lion: Let's put it this way. At some point, every civilization reaches a point at which it must make hard decisions to move forward, or it will fall into an irreversible decline. You move ahead or you die.
Local: And Chestnut Hill has reached that point?
Lion: You said that, not me. We performed our standard save-a-society mission here, though; didn't we? Draw your own conclusions!
Local: Wow. Is this the mission where you have to destroy something to save something?
Lion: It's an immutable law of nature, and it applies to civilizations as well. When the forces of defeatism, obscurantism, red herringism and dastardly obstructionism converge, they must be neutralized if the society is to survive and progress.
Local: Admiral Lion, I'm getting your drift. You're saying that you had to…uh…neutralize certain parties or forces that have been obstructing the necessary progress that a civilization must make if it is to adapt to changing conditions and circumstances and thrive in the long run?
Lion: And you must show no mercy to those forces, boy. No mercy. Their roots run deep underground, and they'll choke out all new life.
Local: So it seems that your targets were certain… groups opposing all change in the name of—in the name of what?
Lion: Oh, they give it many lofty-sounding names. You'd think they react to an easement the way normal people react to pornography. But it all comes down to preserving their parking spots, their views, their property values, the smell in the air outside their mansions, the water in their moats.
Local: So I'm thinking now that you went after the…ah…parties fighting every change in Chestnut Hill, whether that's a new restaurant or an expanded art museum or Big Belly trash compactors or the growth of a college or an environmentally focused charter school moving into vacated property or…
Lion: Whoa, son, if I verify all that, I'll have to kill you.
Local: But don't you see that it all fits? Every attempt to change opposed, all progress thwarted, communal responsibility cast aside, a fanatical clinging to a baseless retrogressive dogma that we must cling to a past that never really existed, a willful blindness to history, and an irrational and ultimately destructive fear of the future! It all fits!
Lion: You said that, not me. We call it the bring-back-yellow-fever mentality.
Local: Is it really one big organization attacking any and every effort to effect change?
Lion: Let me put it this way. Like another group I'm sure you're familiar with, they're not all members of one top-down organization, and they're not all involved in each operation. They communicate together, they share information and resources, and some operatives do cross from one small group to another.
Local: You mean like the Tea Party, or are you saying like the Taliban or even like Al-Qaeda?
Lion: You decide.
Local: One last question, Admiral Lion. When you neutralized these forces, did you actually use the…shall we call it the Pakistani method?
Lion: No bodies dumped at sea or even in the Wissahickon, if that's what you mean. Not that we didn't have some Seals favoring ultimate neutralization. But I can reveal no more than that.
Local: Well, let me ask you this question. The Local has received a number of concerned queries about ghostly sightings and sounds emanating from the abandoned Greylock Manor on Chestnut Hill Avenue, where the Green Woods Charter School was going to go. We figured that Greylock's haunted; that's all. But is there any chance that you've locked all of the obstructionists in there to preserve Chestnut Hill from their bring-back-yellow-fever machinations? And if you've locked them all inside Greylock together, won't they eventually starve to death?
Lion: By now you should know that if I answer your questions, I'll have to kill you at the very least. But, just hypothetically now, let's say a certain obstructionist group is locked in there without any chance of escaping, but there's, hypothetically, mind you, a note on the table that says they can call for all the take-out vegan wraps and organic sun chips they want, just as soon as…
Local: Let me guess. Just as soon as the Good Food Market reopens in Chestnut Hill.
Lion: You said it, not me.
Chestnut Hill resident Bob Fles, former head of the English department and later on Upper School Head at Chestnut Hill Academy, is actually a very peaceful man who does not believe that "obstructionists" should be eliminated from this earth. He even believes they should have a right to bear children.


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"It's a lot of success, but it's more than that. What happened is that various studios have decided to share their films with our audience. It's easier in some ways, but more complicated in others. But the result is we show stronger films and gain more prestige."
Those choices continue to be dense this year with highlighted films such as "Jeff Who Lives at Home" opening the festival in East Hampton and the film "Butter" as the kickoff film in Southampton. The closing film will be "The Artist" and the Centerpiece film is "Like Crazy."
Mr. Nugent pointed out that last year's Centerpiece "The Debt" is now in general release. One of its stars, Jessica Chastain, visited the film festival as a Breakthrough Performer. She has since appeared in movies such as Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" and "The Help." This year's film "Like Crazy," a love story, won the grand jury prize at Sundance for best picture and has received raves for its subtle yet real and moving performances by the leads, Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones.
"The Artist," about the end of silent films in Hollywood, seems particularly apt today with society's constant casting away of recently developed yet rapidly outmoded technology. The French film has been lauded for treating the silent movie genre as an art form of its own rather than a forgotten medium. "The Artist" has been embraced by the film community and critics since it was shown at Cannes this year. It has also been gaining buzz for being the first film since the 1920s that could receive a best picture Academy Award nomination, while being, for the most part, silent.
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"Butter" takes a not terribly nice look at Middle America through the guise of competitive butter carving, with a cast led by Ty Burrell and Jennifer Garner. Mr. Burrell's character in this satire has carved Newt Gingrich and scenes from "Schindler's List," which earned him the nickname "The Elvis of Butter." When he steps down from the carving competition, his wife enters the fray with a previous flame, played by Hugh Jackman, and she will stop at nothing to make sure the championship stays in the family.
Other participants in Conversations this year will include Rufus Wainwright, David Bailey, Bruce Weber, Harry Belafonte, Dick Cavett, Matthew Broderick, and Alec Baldwin. The breakthrough performers will be Emily Browning, Stine Fischer Christensen, Ezra Miller, and Anton Yelchin.
This year the festival has a new partner in Italy, the Perugia International Film Festival. As a result the Hamptons festival will include six of the Italian festival's films: "Corpo Celeste," "A Quiet Life," "Return to the Aeolian Islands," "Sul Mare," "We Have a Pope," and "The Wholly Family."
"We noticed some really strong films coming out of Italy," Mr. Nugent said. "It seemed like a real moment, a movement like the French New Wave." When the opportunity to partner with a new Italian festival arose, it seemed a perfect chance to share that moment here, he said.
At least one familiar face from East Hampton will add a little stardust to his résumé during the festival. Brad Loewen, a bayman and former town councilman from Springs, appears in the short film "The Sea Is All I Know," written and directed by Jordan Bayne and starring Melissa Leo and Peter Gerety. Mr. Loewen's natural ease on camera in showing Mr. Gerety how to pull in the nets from his family's centuries-old pound traps gained him an unplanned part in the film and a Screen Actor's Guild card application in the process. Mr. Loewen said about the film in April, "It's a human story about a very human dilemma and I'm very grateful for that." The film has been well received at other festivals and was released in Los Angeles last week to qualify for Oscar consideration.
Asked if there was any overarching theme or significant trend this year, Mr. Nugent, who was still in the thick of preparations, said it was difficult to say, but he did note that the effects of the economic downturn continue to be evident in filmmaking. "Film is a medium where traumatic events take a little while to present themselves. When there is a crisis or a tsunami, a poet writes a poem or an artist can make a painting right away." Because of the lead time involved from idea to conception, production to editing, and editing to release, films take longer to make their statement on those events.
"It is often a little while after the fact that you see films respond to that and can say 'Yes, there is a trend.' " He said movies in the festival such as the documentary "Hard Times: Lost on Long Island" are indicative of that trend.
Another trend in America, bullying, will receive much attention in the festival. There will be a screening of Lee Hirsch's documentary about bullying among American youth, "The Bully Project," which will also receive the Brizzolara Family Foundation Award for a film of Conflict and Resolution. It is the first time the award will go to a film not about an international conflict. A panel discussion with the director and experts in school bullying will be presented along with an outreach program to schools in the area.
A full festival guide will be included in next week's edition of The Star.


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It now seems the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) are at an impasse on the cross-strait service trade agreement. Yet the issue is simply too important, Taiwanese need to know what the implications of the agreement are, and some way must be found to break the deadlock between the two parties.
A debate between President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) and DPP Chairman Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) is the most effective way forward. However, each wants something different from it.
Ma wants to get away from the quagmire of domestic politics and to return to the cross-strait arena, his comfort zone. Su hopes to dispel doubts over his own leadership and regain the authority befitting the leader of the opposition party.
Each man is convinced that he has the upper hand.
Ma believes he has more authority over the issue; Su believes he has better oratorical skills. Both are confident of victory, and both welcome the debate.
Taiwanese are not concerned with whether Ma and Su accomplish what they want. They are concerned with whether Ma and Su can provide answers on aspects of the trade pact they have yet to address.
The kerfuffle on the agreement has been going on for two months, meaning the public is familiar with its key issues and with the parties' stances. If the debate merely consists of both sides sticking to their party lines, avoiding the serious issues and not reflecting on the points they are most often questioned on, the significance of this crucial debate will be undermined.
Ma and Su each have specific answers they need to provide.
Ma first needs to account for why the decisionmaking process entailed closed-door meetings, and explain how the negotiations can be more effectively monitored.
Second, he needs to explain how the government will assist those industries affected by the agreement and how it plans to deal with challenges posed by Chinese businesses and Beijing.
Third, after the agreement is inked, what will be done to sign free-trade agreements (FTAs) with other countries?
Fourth, given that the agreement will further cross-strait trade, how will the government avoid Taiwan's economy being locked onto the Chinese economy?
Su, for his part, needs to account for how Taiwan will deal with the challenge posed by South Korea, given that it has already signed FTAs with 45 countries.
Second, given that South Korea and China could sign an FTA next year, much earlier than was originally expected, how should Taiwan respond?
Third, Su needs to clarify how the DPP is to respond now that many countries have expressed reluctance to sign agreements with Taiwan until China has.
Fourth, Su is opposed to the agreement now, but should he be elected, will he accept it in government?
The only way the debate can convince people is if all parties move beyond party politics. However, if all Ma and Su do is regurgitate party lines and repeat the attacks we have seen pro-blue and pro-green media launch, the debate will be useless and will only worsen the current deadlock between the parties.
Ma and Su must both realize that the only way to benefit the public's perception of them and to solve the crisis facing the nation is to elevate the level of the debate. After all, after the debate itself there will be a further 16 public hearings in the Legislative Yuan. If the leaders themselves are incapable of stepping up to the occasion, how can we expect the public hearings led by KMT and DPP legislators to contain any real, sincere discourse?


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Oh A Delphi pool
That's what they used to call this stuff.
Mine's the one witha copy of the "Shockwave Rider" in it.
The Tories are waving a £1m taxpayer-funded crowdsourcing prize under the noses of developers to produce a website that can "harness the wisdom" of voters to "resolve difficult policy challenges". According to shadow culture secretary and ex-tech PR man Jeremy Hunt, the prize money would be paid for out of Cabinet Office …
Wow, how can someone get the facts so wrong while demanding evidence and research.
First a paediatricain is not a foot doctor but a child specailist. At least the doctor bit was right.
Secondly the story is almost an urban myth. The story Dennis_J is alluding to is (I presume) the one referred to here news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4719364.stm and no doctors of any sort were beaten up. El Reg even gets a mention as one of the spreaders of the myth so maybe it is not all Dennis's fault :)
Never let the facts get in the way of a good story! Unless further evidence and research can produce a story about a paedo podiatrist being beaten up.
If you are campaigning under the flag of "change" you cannot claim to be conservative, methinks. And although running after things that sounded spiffy in 2007 doesn't betray down-with-it-ness, it's still not
The outcome of the project is quickly gauged: read through the last 50years of letters to the Daily Mail --- it is distilled from the same slice of the population of complainos (or slightly more literate, seeing as they managed to write an address and stick a stamp in the correct place), and show us one good idea proposed there.
It's like crowdsourcing a brewing process and being surprised you get something as undrinkable as stella or irn bru.
The only reason democracy works is that stupid people are less likely to vote and even less likely to take something up with their elected representative.
"collective wisdom" doesn't exist. It makes no sense logically and often leads to really stupid situations. See stock markets. Or "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds", http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1853263494
"so-called experts" - Oh yes, because studying really hard to get into the Uni course that lets you study really hard for even longer is totally meaningless. Quick someone tell HR! And the NHS.
Typically bloody stupid thing for a politician to say. Only in Britain do we get politicians who studied politics, then got a job in politics, then became an MP and finally became a cabinet minister with no experience with anything outside of politics!
They want talented web application developers to build them a site worth £1m, but everyone who hasn't built the winning site will walk away with nothing after spending weeks or months working on it at their on expense?
Can someone design me a new website please? I will award the developer of the best site £10,000. Those whose efforts I didn't like can shove off without so much as a penny, but thanks for your ideas anyway. Yup, this system is a great way to do business and drive the economy.
...perhaps you could have a site where people can submit suggestions, call them petitions if you will, then other people can add their names...
...and then we can ignore them.
At least it makes it look like we are at all interested in what the little people think. And we are building a nice list of email addresses of dissenters.
You can send my share of the 1,000,000 to the charity of your choice.
Such a system might be able to harness the opinions of many, but it wouldn't be representative. The general population is *not* well represented by the sort of folk who participate in online comment forums. That shouldn't come as a surprise to fellow Loyal Readers.
Furthermore, elementary statistics tells you that the more data points you take, the more you tend to the mean, or in this case the mediocre. I don't want difficult policy decisions made by the wisdom of a crowd such as the ones that hang around on "Have Your Say", or even El Reg. I prefer to have leaders, with vision.
I wonder if I can email that thought to Conservative Central Office? Don't expect they'd listen...
a far more effective system would be compulsory voting. Don't bother to vote and you can shut up about how you dislike the current government elected into office. Don't bother to vote three times and you never vote again.
Recently the lack of voter turnout has given great encouragement to those in office, they rather like the disinterested masses not caring about what they have planned as it makes it easier for them to carry on regardless of popular opinion.
Ban the use of the term "in power", as, in a true democracy, politicians are elected into OFFICE not power - that would reside with the electorate.
Encourage proportional representation and coalition governments, so that we get a true and effective picture of peoples political sympathies.
The effect of the above on policy making would be far greater in my opinion, we should also remind politicos who has the power on a daily basis.
>IF rant over goto END<
@AC 31/12 1447 - I was going to say - Jeremy Hunt? Is that rhyming slang?
@Dennis -Too right. Wisdom of crowd = Mob rule (unless perhaps you have to pass some sort of test to be part of the crowd)
And you thought New Labour were bad? You ain't seen nothin' yet.
Here's another example - Cameron gave a speech recently railing against "Health & Safety" where every instance of supposed HSE lunacy he mentioned was listed in the "Myths" section of the HSE website - WTF is this all about,eh??
You can only vote if you pay income tax or are in receipt of a state old age pension.
This would take out both the losers at the bottom brain dead non-contributing leaches and the inherited wealth leaches.
And make it compulsory.
And dismantle the party system so that the MP you elect is there to represent the interests of his constituency.
thing you'd need to have a "NONE" option as well, otherwise voters would be putting votes down for random parties just to have voted.
Also, the lack of voter turnout could also have something to do with a lack of things to vote on... I mean I'd love to have a say in how the country is run, but we just get the same load of crap from the various parties. And similar though their policies are, they'll still ignore them and do whatever the hell they want when they get into office.
And parties should have a well defined, well thought out, vision. Something that can be described in nice, neat case studies and can be subjected to scrutiny by opposing politicians and the public
We could also do with some sort of QoS criteria for manifesto pledges. Some suggestions:
* "It's got to be specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely (The SMART rule)"
* "It's got to be costed out. Not to the nearest penny- that'd be impractical and ridiculous for a pre-election manifesto- but the numbers should add up to within a couple of tens of millions or two of what they eventually turn out to be. (The Price is Right rule)"
* "The Party, once elected, will have a duty to at least try to do what it said (The RONSEAL rule- the party does what it says on the tin)"
* The Manifesto Pledges must always be phrased so that they're pushing the UK forwards towards a goal rather than pulling us back to "How it used to be" (The ROSE TINT rule)
* Any promises made by the party in the manifesto must have some sort of evidence to back it up- either scientific evidence or (where appropriate) references to a faith. (The Put Up or Shut Up rule)
* No manifesto pledge can benefit other countries when no- or a lesser- benefit is derived for the UK, i.e. we always have to break even or profit somehow. The benefit to the UK can be in "feel-good factor" but this must be quantified somehow.
All of which, if breached, are punishable by a handicap in the next election/a fine for the Party once they're out of office/the repealing of honours and other such benefits gained by Party members while in office based on the severity of the breach
but if that is ok, then vote for my party, and I will run some odd competition of national importance, such as name the next integer number after 2, is it:
a. 1
b. 2
or drum roll
c. ---> 3 <---
Now, I will be paying the winners from public money, the princely sum of 10million pounds a piece, and there will be more than one winner. But, I can only do this if my party is elected to govern the country, so a nod's as good as a wink to a blind man.
Pfft, just don't vote Labour in disgust, vote for whatever would create a hung parliament, the least damage they can do and the more hamstrung these jokers are the better for everyone else. So, probably best to vote for some of the more obscure parties.
.. if you put enough effort into it. Have a look at the 21st Century Town Meetings on AmericaSpeaks.org .
You don't need to be representative when collecting creative ideas - the point is to get lots of different ideas, rather than just implementing the first idea you think of (e.g. large databases to solve each social problem).
You only need a representative sample to rank the alternatives when people have come up with the suggestions.
Getting thousands of people to tell their stories and come up with ideas is at the centre of a lot of e-democracy projects (see, e.g., huwy.eu).
<produce a website that can "harness the wisdom" of voters to "resolve difficult policy challenges".>
The wisdom of voters ? Are they the same ones with the torches and pitchforks that hang around castles in the old Hammer horror films ? Or the ones that claim an old woman turned them into a newt (I got better though).
Looks like under the Tories we can expect illegal immigrants to hung,drawn and quartered (lets return to traditional methods) and dole scroungers being forced to build roads etc.
The Monster Raving Loony Party start to look more attractive every day.
Shurely you jest ...
we already know how to effectively calculate the IQ of a crowd, you just take the IQ of the dumbest member, and divide it by the number of people in the crowd ...
Still, hats off to the tories for trying to suggest that the people might actually have some input on policies ... someting thats not happened in any governement for many years ...
The truly savvy IT type bidding for this contract would do well to remember to mention "and this is the page where you can control the outcome of the poll .."
I'll get my caot .. its the one with the big list of IP addresses and voting tendencies in the pocket.
"difficult policy challenge" (DPC): wholesale spying on your internet connection
solution: encryption, vpn
DPC: border security
solution: strip down to your undies when asked to remove your shoes
(nothing to hide, nothing to fear, eh?)
DPC: voter disaffection
solution: scrap the monarchy, declare Lisbon treaty and UK-USA extradition treaty invalid until they pass a referendum vote
Ford tried to produce a car based on popular opinion buildng in all the features that most people wanted. Pioneering market research based design. It was ugly as hell and a total flop. Much as they like to think they are, the public are not experts at anything other than what they individually like and any mass polling of anything gives only the lowest common denominator - which is no way to run a country! The country needs good leadership, not popular leadership and Joe Public is an idiot!
'wisdom of the British people is much greater than that of a bunch of politicians or so-called experts'
If we take the advice of the British public we'll have Jeremy Clarkson in power, reintroduction of the death penalty, be invading Russia because Putin forgot to send an Christmas card, minorities in camps and learning by rote (off a pink atlas).
I'm sick of the public thinking their opinion is as credible as that of an expert. I don't completely trust experts, but I'll take them over some bitter retiree's uninformed view any day.
Democracy is a great way of making decisions if the final choice doesn't matter. However, if the policy needs to be compatible with some aspect of reality, like "affordable" or "physically possible" then only a complete idiot would let the decision be made by people who didn't know about that constraint.
It is true that there are lots of people (and not just the retired) who could do a better job than career politicians. It is also true that opening up the decision-making process would improve the quality of government. However, a web-site to be hi-jacked by every lobbyist in the country (and possibly beyond) and producing decisions that will inevitably be "considered" by cooler heads behind closed doors, delivers on neither.
On the other hand, it has given Dave more column inches on a slow news day.
I hope that the Tories here want innovative solutions. We're not just talking another forum or petition site, that would be pointless. The best way I can explain is by analogy.
Looking at the poor programming Q&A sites a year ago, would you have expected StackOverflow to appear from nowhere and trounce them all, with better questions, better answers, easier to use and search? It doesn't do anything specifically new, but it gets the reward mechanism right with points and badges. It uses a nice mixture of voting and quality improving editing.
In the policy arena there'll be similar surprising improvements. Maybe it'll give you a simple basic questionnaire, before you can edit the policy on any subject. Perhaps its voting will use YouGov like demographic weighting. Who knows, but there's sure lots of things to try that are betting than just shoving a bill on a wiki, or making another petition site.
Yet it is evident that voters HAVE no wisdom, which is why (a) they vote for representatives that they hope have it and (b) they voted Labour in the last election. Crowdsourcing this kind of thing is the same as making policy by opinion poll - guaranteed failure, especially if said crowd (or poll) can be manipulated. Which they can. Easily.
Most people when asked are in favour of hanging, but change their minds when they look at all the issues, consequences and problems.. that's what we pay politicians to do.. go through the excruciating detail of any question.. then take the rap if it turns out to be wrong.
We already have a mechanism for politicians to duck responsibility for big contentious issues : referendums. Whilst most people would happily lynch a paedophile found in a children's school.. it's no basis for government..
..but then £1 million is not a serious sum.. it's just X-factor politics for politicians that can't write their own lyrics..
See, all the people who would vote to bring back the judicial killing of prisoners can do so. Their vote is recorded, tied in against their details and if such a new law is introduced, their name goes on a list.
Now, when it's time to give someone a go on the old neck-stretching machine, the person to do the dirty work gets their name pulled from that list. Compliance is compulsory - consider it like jury service if you will. Hey, if you voted for it, you'll have no problem with watching someone die by your own hands, right?
And if the victim is proven post-mortem to be innocent, the executioner gets to be told about that too.
I'm almost beginning to like this idea. Almost.
It won't be the Daily Fail readers but the Sun worshippers (you really can't use 'read') with another version of the Twat-O-Tron that produces all Slimey Davey wants to hear.
A few nudges in the right direction and it'll be more foreign workers bulding more jails to lock up foreign people in while those that run the companies that run the jails relax abroad in foreign countries with thier off-shore banking securing huge profits.
There is no such thng as 'common sense' as everyone has thier own idea about what is 'common' and don't realise the irony. "We're all individuals, here"


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- Massive Land and Naval PvP Battles: Thousands of players can participate simultaneously in wars and sieges on land and sea, in real-time, on a single server.
- A Huge, Seamless World: The world of Agon is a large open world that consists of both land and water and gives the freedom to players to uncover its hidden secrets.
- Flexible Roles: Choose role at will, switching from meat shield to master mage to benevolent healer. Players can switch between roles, skills, spells, and ability boosters on the fly. Develop your skills in all roles and experience the game in a multitude of different ways over time or specialize in a single role and be the one your friends depend on to fulfill that calling.
- Full Loot: You keep what you kill. Players can loot all of the goods from a slain enemy, and vice versa.
- Persistence: Players can affect the fabric of the game world, constructing and fortifying cities across Agon and building empires that last as long as they can defend them.
Darkfall: Unholy Wars is a new game, and upon its release, Darkfall 1.0 will be shut down. Characters will not be transferred over. Everyone will start over with a brand new character.
Players who have ever purchased a Darkfall account will not have to purchase a client for Unholy Wars. They will simply pay their subscription fee.
Fall damage has been increased to reach the cap of the game, and if a player takes enough fall damage to kill them, that player becomes incapacitated. The 'Slow Fall' spell is a great utility added to the game to counteract this, but it is on a long cooldown. People can become incapacitated from bunny hopping.
No specific new races have been announced, and no races have been removed (as far as I've seen). Melee reach is supposed to be more normalized and balanced. For example, look at the Ork and Human pictures on facebook and compare the two. The Ork is definitely beefy but he isn't much larger than the human. It is probably safe to assume that a similar approach has been taken for the other races as well.
Players will be able to switch between roles, but only have one selected at any given time.
Roles are not classes, but temporary specializations.
The game will include four (4): Elementalist (mage), Primalist (priest), Warrior (fighter), and Skirmisher (ranger).
Warriors can wear heavy armor. Skirmishers can wear medium armor. Spellcasters can wear light armor or robes. There is evidence to believe that some robes will affect spellcasting.
A Warrior has access to a range of melee, defensive, and combat oriented skills.
A Skirmisher has access to light weapon and bow skills.
A Primalist has access to priestly magic. And an Elementalist to powerful magery.
The Warrior and the Skirmisher role will also offer a choice of 4 schools each which will be opposing in pairs exactly like the magic schools.
The Warrior role is probably self explanatory but the Skirmisher is a medium armored role that can be either close combat oriented or use a bow to deliver deadly hits from a distance.
There are quite a few things we believe you will find interesting that are related to this role system and we will present it in detail in the future.
*Insta-cast offensive ray spells have been removed from the game, due to their imbalance.
There are two types of magic: priest (primalist) and mage (elementalist).
The mage is intelligence based and can select two schools from Fire, Earth, Water, and Air. Fire blocks Water and vice versa.
Earth blocks Air and vice versa. The mage will also select one school to be primary and the other to be secondary.
This will further diversify mages. For example, a player who selects Fire as the primary school and Earth as the secondary school will have a considerably different playstyle and spell selection compared to someone who selected Earth as their primary and Fire as their secondary.
Another example: Fire is supposed to be more useful for longer-ranged attacks against multiple targets, while Air will be more favorable for close combat in smaller numbers.
The priest is a wisdom based spellcaster and can select two schools from Life, Pain, Law, and Chaos. Simliar to the mage, Life blocks Pain and vice versa. Law blocks Chaos and vice versa.
New spells and spell effects have been added.
There are more robes, which can affect gameplay.
Minor Incantations is both intelligence and wisdom based. It is also available to all characters, no matter what they are wearing. There are five utility spells in this school, and none of them require reagents to cast.
Major Magic will also be available to anyone.
Mana Missile – Your typical low level damage dealing spell.
Heal Self – The standard self healing spell for all characters.
Light – Can be cast on enemies to illuminate them or on allies to illuminate dark areas. Our differed lighting system is what makes this possible.
Slow Fall – Falling damage is quite perilous in Darkfall 2.0. The cap for fall damage has been increased quite a bit and you will take such damage for shorter drops than in the current game. Also falling damage will leave you incapacitated if it exceeds your current hit point total.
If you are out alone or with friends that is a minor inconvenience as you will either recover on your own or get revived. If you are being chased by an enemy though, a gank is more likely to follow. Slow fall will be life saving in such situations but it needs to be timed quite accurately to be effective.
Beacon – A spell for marking targets.
A lot of work has been done in balancing magic and making the effectiveness of spells make more sense.
The primary factor when determining spell effectiveness is the governing attribute. Intelligence and Wisdom levels will play a major role on how much of an impact you do while casting spells.
Of course Intelligence based spells only take this attribute into consideration with Wisdom based ones doing the same. Staves have been rebalanced and their rank now plays a more prominent role in the effectiveness of the spells you are casting.
No word has been spoken about Witchcraft, Necromancy, Spell Chanting, or Arcane magics. It is probably safe to assume that these schools have taken on new names and reworkings in the Priest role.
Yes, there will be some more "boss" monsters, both roaming around and some guarding dungeons.
Also, most monster loot, namely high-end, has been rebalanced to better suit the risk vs. reward scenarios.
They have been implemented but should only very slightly affect gameplay. It will definitely hinder the "squirrely-ness" of some people engaged in melee combat.
Movement affects the amount of crosshair wobble.
Most cities have been reworked to be easier to navigate by sorting them into districts. For example: cities now have a magic district or a crafting district, etc.
There will be four NPC cities per racial area, three faction cities, and one capital.
Teleportation chambers have been removed.
Many cities that were previously accessible via a mountain or other terrain have been reworked to require either spells or the provided entrances. All cities have at least two entrances now.
A lot of the empty areas of the map that were filled with water have been removed, or brought closer together.
Pre-suring is supposed to be removed.
When crafting, as you skill up to new levels, you'll stop gaining from lower levels items. In order to gain up to higher levels, you'll need to make items close to or at your current level.
Failures are also handled in a different way. While the failure rate has been increased a bit, the closer you are to a recipe not giving you skill gains, the more likely you are to succeed in crafting that recipe. Additionally, failing will not mean that you lose all of your materials every time, but there will be a chance to loose all, some or no materials at all.
To give you an example of all of the above, a weaponsmith starting at skill level 1 will be able to create, among many other items, a Crude Militant Greataxe. This is a rank 0 Greataxe of the Militant style. As his skill increases, he will be failing less and less and at skill level 25 he will have an almost guaranteed success at crafting this item as well as all other items of this rank. Once he hits 25 he will need to switch to a rank 1 recipe to continue increasing his skill.
All crafting skills now have a mastery to go with them. Some new skills have been introduced as well. Shields will be crafted with the shield crafting skill. Staves will be crafted with the staff crafting skill. Tailoring is used for cloth items, such as robes and bags. Leatherworking is the skill used to make leather armor.
Tools for crafting no longer exist. You simply need to be at the appropriate crafting station and have the required resources.
Rare ore plays a major role in a variety of crafting skills. In addition to being used in crafting weapons and armor, it can also be used to infuse other materials like wood and leather. Higher ranks of items require an infused variant of the specific material. Woodcutting can be used to infuse wood with rare ore to produce materials like selentine wood, furthering the depth of crafting.
Tanning and weaving are two new conversion skills. Skinning some creatures produces raw hides instead of leather. These hides need to be cured to become usable leather. You can combine raw hides with rare ore to make materials like neithal leather. Cloth, which can now be crafted, will be made with the weaving profession. Herb gathering nodes can now produce cotton, which can be processed into cloth, or infused with rare or to produce materials like leenspar cloth.
This system spreads the rare materials across all professions.
When a player becomes incapacitated, he slowly regains hit points until he is above zero, at which point he can press the spacebar key to revive himself. If the player fails to press the spacebar in the alloted time, he will be returned to his bindstone. This change makes ganking enemies more crucial in fights, and allows a little more room for error in some situations that aren't related to PvP. It also makes higher-end monsters more dangerous, because if a damaging hit would take you below -10 hit points, it kills you outright.
The limbo state is one that has been in discussion for a while. Basically when a character is ganked, he is able to quickly re-equip himself, hopefully with an already prepared bag, from his bank and return to an area relative to his corpse. There isn't much time granted to do this so players have to be prepared.
Also, this feature has a gold cost related to the value of the items you decide to equip during this limbo (the re-equipping). This is aimed at reducing a players downtime so they can continue to play, should they decide to risk more of their gear to re-enter the fight.
The limbo feature will have a sensible cooldown. The gold cost increases for using the limbo feature successive times. There is a limit on how many times someone can use this feature in any given 24-hour period. Again, the respawn location is fairly large and completely random, so the player takes a chance at spawning right in the middle of his enemies after using this feature.
There will be a new chat system, offering more flexibility and customization, while being less intrusive and more user friendly.
There is a ton of work being done to graphics, world-building, lighting, GUI, etc.
Some dedicated item hot bars have been added for items such as weapons and reagents.
The training areas consist of a series of chambers where the players can train before they move on. Training works like a gauntlet tutorial, beginning with movement and scaling all the way up to spellcasting and combat.
This is sure to be a fun experience, and well worth the wait, even for veterans, because the training process has an epic ending! After training, the player is transported to the actual world. The entire system is to enhance the new player experience and lessen the learning curve at the beginning of the game.
Mount ownership is being reworked to fit the alignment system.
When a player dismounts, the mount will remember its owner for a brief period of time. If a different player jumps onto the mount, that player will be flagged a criminal and anyone can attack them without penalty. Guard towers will also attack players flagged criminal from this. This is a simple implementation to lower the risk of dismounting in crowded areas or NPC cities. This also helps newer players out, because they are usually the ones unaware of Darkfall's mount thieves when they first get a mount.
The grind is theoretically lessened, due to the player's ability to become viable more quickly within his chosen role.
The initial market plan: The market exists in all racial capitals and chaos cities. Players can buy and sell any item in the game here, but also place orders to buy and sell. If an item was not placed onto the market at the market you are buying it from, you can pay a courier cost to have it delivered to you, or you can travel to the market it is located at and pay the listed price.
Player concerns have made the implementation of the market delayed, due to the nature of Darkfall. It will not be implemented at launch.
There are some new ships to be crafted, as well as a mastery version of the skill. This mastery skill will open up new ships aimed at naval warfare. Speed, armor, layout, and maneuverability are all features giving each ship it's own area of expertise.
All ships will be craftable using all NPC holding workbenches.
There is a Fishing Trawler, which is used strictly for fishing. The ship has only one cannon at the back. You can only fish with this particular ship and all fishing equipment has been removed from other ships (Not sure how this affects fishing poles without a ship).
The Launch ship is a smaller ship that can be used by smaller parties to participate in naval combat.
The Coastal Runner has no cannons but is easily the fastest ship on the seas. This ship is useful for transporting goods or people across the water as fast as possible. This ship will have a very low amount of hit points.
Another ship is the Sea Scraper. This ships act like an underwater submarine, scraping across the bottom of the ocean. This ship moves slowly, but can uncover hidden treasures and bring them to the surface.
Siege equipment and mount crafting are receiving similar reworkings.
Some thought is going into whether or not larger ships can push smaller ones.
There will be a point system implemented. This point system is a way for players and clans to monitor their progress and provide more gameplay options.
The first points are player points. PvP, PvE, harvesting, crafting, etc. grant player points. These points can be used to perform other actions within the game. There is also an achievement system, which is linked to the point system.
Clans can also gain points. Clan members gain points for themselves and their clan while participating in related activities. This also comes with an achievement system.
Villages will essentially belong to player holdings around them but not just to one holding. There will be an ownership overlap for all villages and clans that own a holding will need to secure the villages that correspond to it if they want to reap the rewards. Clans that do not own a holding or want to profit from a village that is not within their holdings influence can still do so as there is a pillaging mechanic that serves exactly that purpose.
Essentially, a clan holding gives to the clan that owns it potential sovereignty over specific villages. Neighboring holdings will also have potential sovereignty over these villages. There will be a constant struggle between neighbors for control of villages and in turn resources generated by them. Add to this the occasional pillaging clan that will try to profit from poorly defended villages and you can hopefully see why we are so excited about this feature.
Clan holding resources nodes will remain within city walls, but won't perform as well or yield as much if the surrounding villages aren't in that particular clan's control. The nearby villages have a direct effect on what the resource nodes provide.
Areas that have a higher risk to gather from potentially have a greater reward or yield.
Resource Monoliths are control points scattered across Agon which can be used as a more profitable way to harvest crafting resources, creating a PvP hotspot.
Any player can capture a monolith by grabbing the ownership mark from it if it isn't already captured. The current capture holder of the monolith will have resources added to his bank and backpack, similar to how Villages work with gold now. The player can lose control of the monolith if he logs off, leaves the control area, or is killed. When someone loses control, the ownership mark returns to the monolith, becoming free to grab for anyone else.
Clan cities are no longer the almost-exclusive way of getting rare resources, such as ingots. Sea Fortresses, player villages, and resource monoliths, all being outside the relative safely of player holdings, will provide the bulk of materials for crafters to create the best equipment with. This will create many more PvP hotspots.
Permissions for access to clan features can now be individually assigned to members, they are no longer grouped into arbitrary and inflexible ranks. Permissions are organized into "categories" like Membership, Politics, Conquest etc. For each category there is also a management option that allows any member with it to assign or remove permissions of that specific category to other members.
There is also a Master permission that is automatically assigned to the clan leader and allows him to edit any and all member permissions.
Also to make things simpler, permissions are linked. That means that if for example someone is assigned the "Edit Recruits" permission, they automatically receive the "View Recruits" permission. If a management permission is assigned to a member, that member automatically receives all permissions in their category.
Each permission will have an associated title, the clan member can chose one of the titles from their assigned permissions to display as their clan role. For example, being assigned the "Edit Recruits" permission will give that member the option to display the "Recruiter" title.
Military Ranks still exist but are now related to PvP related performance and they are granted automatically upon achieving specific goals. The do not however grant any clan related permissions.
This will provide a lot more flexibility to Clan Leaderships as well as a way to let specific members handle tasks they are good at.
Apart from that, work is also being done on a new contract system. At this moment this system is being developed to be quite open ended so that it can be used in various ways if we so choose. The first application of it however has to do with mercenary like contracts. We feel that sieges is an activity that even small clans that do not own a holding must experience as it's a quite unique feature of Darkfall.
To that end we are implementing this contract system to serve as an organized and structured way for such clans to participate, contribute and even profit from siege related activities. Of course our aim is for the system to be also usable by clans that want to have mercenary work as their primary source of income."


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To qualify for 2010 Top Safety Pick, a vehicle must earn good ratings in the moderate overlap front, side, roof strength and head restraint tests and must offer electronic stability control.
The photos and videos shown here may be of a different model, model year or body type from the one selected. The ratings of one vehicle often apply to other models if they are built on the same platform. In addition, a test of a vehicle from one model year may apply to earlier or later model years if the vehicle hasn't been significantly redesigned.
This rating applies to vehicles other than the specific model and body style tested.
The Ford Fusion, Mercury Milan, and Lincoln Zephyr were introduced in the 2006 model year. The Zephyr was renamed the MKZ beginning with 2007 models. All three cars were restyled beginning with the 2010 model year, and the Mercury Milan was discontinued after the 2010 model year.
Beginning with 2007 models manufactured after January 2007, structural reinforcements were added to the floor ahead of the front seats, and the hard plastic "ramp" bolted underneath the carpeting near the base of the accelerator pedal was modified to improve occupant protection in frontal offset crashes. In addition, the standard side airbags were changed so that they would deploy in severe frontal offset crashes. (Note: information about when a specific vehicle was manufactured is on the certification label typically affixed to the car on or near the driver door.)
The tested car was manufactured after all modifications had been made.
Measures taken from the head and chest indicate low risk of injuries to these body regions in a crash of this severity. Forces on the neck when the head hit the roof rail indicate that neck injuries would be possible, but head acceleration from this hit was low. Forces on the right tibia and foot indicate that injuries to the lower leg and foot would be possible.
Dummy movement was well controlled. During rebound, the dummy's head hit deployed side curtain airbag and the roof rail above it.
How this test is conducted
The Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan were introduced in the 2006 model year. Beginning with 2007 models, design changes were made to the side curtain airbags and door structure and trim to improve occupant protection in side impact crashes. Also, side airbags became standard beginning with 2007 models (optional in 2006 models).
Further modifications were made to the front door trim starting with 2007 models manufactured after January 2007 (note: information about when a specific vehicle was manufactured is on the certification label typically affixed to the car on or near the driver door). Both cars were restyled beginning with the 2010 model year.
Two tests of the Fusion were conducted, one manufactured before the January 2007 front door trim changes were made, and one manufactured afterward. These vehicles are rated separately, except that the structural ratings and rear passenger injury and head protection ratings for both vehicles are based on both tests.
The Mercury Milan was discontinued after the 2010 model year.
Driver — Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.
Passenger — Measures taken from the dummy indicate a low risk of any significant injuries in a crash of this severity.
Driver — The dummy's head was protected from being hit by any hard structures, including the intruding barrier, by a side curtain airbag that deployed from the roof and a side airbag that deployed from the seat.
Passenger — The dummy's head was protected from being hit by any hard structures, including the intruding barrier, by a side curtain airbag that deployed from the roof.
In the test, the strength of the roof is determined by pushing a metal plate against one side of it at a slow but constant speed. The force applied relative to the vehicle's weight is known as the strength-to-weight ratio. This graph shows how the ratio varied as the test of this vehicle progressed. The peak strength-to-weight ratio recorded at any time before the roof is crushed 5 inches is the key measurement of roof strength.
A good rating requires a strength-to-weight ratio of at least 4. In other words, the roof must withstand a force of at least 4 times the vehicle's weight before the plate crushes the roof by 5 inches. For an acceptable rating, the minimum required strength-to-weight ratio is 3.25. For a marginal rating, it is 2.5. Anything lower than that is poor.
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Metallica's James Hetfield Jams With Kids at Rockin' the Bay Benefit Concert
James Hetfield has been a long time supporter of Little Kids Rock, an organization which provides music instruction and instruments to public schools. The Metallica frontman was honored with the charity's inaugural 'Livin' the Dream Award' at their annual Rockin' the Bay Benefit Concert in Menlo Park, Calif., over the weekend, and Hetfield performed "Enter Sandman" with some of the kids during the event (watch the videos below).
"I'm a firm believer in creative expression through music. It is important to have it available from a young age, which is why I support Little Kids Rock's mission to make music education accessible to children," said Hetfield via a press release. "I've seen how music changes people's lives for the better and I am honored to have a part in helping the organization enrich young lives through the lifelong gift of music education."
In addition to Hetfield, drummer Jeff Campitelli (Joe Satriani) and Marcus Henderson (lead guitarist in the Guitar Hero series) also participated in the event that helps raise money and awareness to help revitalize music programs in districts where they have been impacted by budget cuts. Little Kids Rock currently funds music programming for more than 112,000 public school kids in 12 different states.
In addition to his charitable endeavors, Hetfield is also one of the legendary frontmen in metal. He's in the quarterfinals of Loudwire's Greatest Metal Frontman competition, competing against Pantera's Philip Anselmo to try to advance to the final four. You can cast your vote here.
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Pneumatic motion control — using compressed air to power actuators, air motors, grippers, and the like — is a long-proven, time-tested technology. Pneumatics applications are found in most any industry, and performance requirements and design parameters can vary widely.
In life sciences, for example, compressed air is used in patient care devices like respirators. They require high precision and controllability, and often light weight and small size. At first glance, a rail-car braking system may appear far removed from a respirator, but it also requires reliability and controllability despite extreme temperatures and dirty environments.
Pneumatics in robotic manufacturing for automotive assembly and metal stamping requires repeatable, tight-tolerance motion control. Food and beverage packaging demands high-speed automation. Controls on commercial vehicles must be compact and accurate, with quick response times. And industrial automation and processes like energy production require long-lasting, powerful systems.
These examples illustrate both the versatility and variety of pneumatic systems. And designers naturally focus on actions and outputs when developing a compressed-air circuit, considering factors such as function, size, energy consumption, power, and capacity.
Regardless of application requirements, proper air preparation is a must if the system is going to perform as required for the longest possible service life. Here's a look at what designers should consider to select the right filters, regulators, and lubricators to keep systems running efficiently and hassle free.
First, keep in mind that air produced by a compressor is typically hot, wet, and dirty. The first step in good air preparation is to filter out contaminants that interfere with proper operation and shorten equipment life.
Moisture vapor in the air exiting a compressor outlet will condense to liquid as the air cools. This can reduce efficiency and capacity. Water is most efficiently removed at the lowest possible air temperature and highest pressure. Thus, air should be cooled with an aftercooler near the compressor outlet, along with dripleg drains, automatic drain valves, or filters to remove water upstream of any pressure-reducing valves. A properly sized general-purpose filter will remove liquid water.
Removing liquid water does not remove water vapor from the air. Applications ranging from paint spraying to locomotive braking may require that all vapor be removed. To do this, air dryers are needed. The three principle types are refrigerant, regenerative adsorbent, and deliquescent absorbent dryers, and they vary in terms of drying capabilities and operating costs. (For more information on air dryers from our Fluid Power Basics section, click here.) Also note that all dryers will be compromised if contaminated by liquid water, oil, or water/ oil emulsions, so they should always be used in tandem with filters and air coolers.
Solid particle contaminants can be introduced through the ambient air or by corrosion or wear in the compressor. Most standard air-line filters remove coarse particles 40 μm and larger. Fine particle filtration (10 to 25 μm) is required for high-speed pneumatic tools and process-control instrumentation. Filtration ≤10 μm is essential for air bearings and miniature pneumatic motors. And for tasks such as paint spraying, breathing air, and food-safe applications, particle removal below 1 μm is essential. High-efficiency coalescing filters are required to remove such fine particles from the air stream.
Generally, it is inadvisable to provide finer filtration than is absolutely necessary because fine filter elements trap more dirt and become blocked more rapidly. But when needed, use standard air-line filters as prefilters to avoid overburdening high-efficiency elements with coarse particles.
Oil, another contaminant in compressed air, can exist in three forms — an oil/water emulsion, aerosol, or oil vapor. Standard air-line filters can remove emulsions.
Aerosols — small particles between 0.01 and 1 μm in size — can only be removed by special coalescing filters. These are typically rated by the amount of air they can process at a given cleanliness level, normally a maximum remaining oil content of 0.01 ppm in the exit air. Flow that exceeds the rating will not only increase pressure drop across the unit (and, therefore, energy costs) but, more importantly, remaining oil content will increase. Again, protect coalescing filters from particulate and water contamination with air-line filters mounted immediately upstream.
Oil vapor is typically present in such minute quantities that it can be ignored except in sensitive applications like food and beverage processing, pharmaceuticals, and breathing air. Passing air through an adsorbing bed of activated carbon, after flowing through standard and coalescing filters, removes oil vapor.
Once all contaminants have been considered, the degree of cleanliness for each machine or part of a plant can be determined. Using the proper filter in the right location minimizes energy and maintenance costs. Always determine the volume of air involved in each stage as undersized, inappropriate filters are a prime cause of high energy costs.
Pressure Control
All pneumatic equipment has an optimum operating pressure. Exceeding this pressure doesn't mean higher productivity; it just causes excessive wear while wasting compressed air. To use compressed air most efficiently it is necessary to reduce the pressure of air leaving the compressor to the precise level an application requires.
Systems tend to operate at two pressure levels — compressed air stored in a receiver at higher pressure (optimizing filter performance and energy efficiency); and air used by actuators and other devices, usually at a pressure 10 to 20% lower. This arrangement ensures the compressor is not constantly running.
Regulators (pressure-reducing valves) control pressure. They have two important performance characteristics: regulation (maintaining consistent outlet pressure regardless of inlet pressure) and flow (maintaining consistent outlet pressure regardless of flow rate). The precision of regulation and flow required will dictate the type (and cost) of the regulator.
Most regulators fall into four categories: general purpose, pilot-operated, precision, and special purpose. Most general-purpose regulators are diaphragm types, though piston versions are used where equipment demands higher flow capacity for a given size. Relieving regulators can be adjusted to lower downstream pressure without actuating downstream equipment. To adjust a non-relieving regulator to deliver lower pressure, downstream equipment must be cycled or a 3/2 shut-off valve used to expel excess air.
Pilot-operated regulators control outlet pressure by means of an air pressure signal produced by a precision regulator. This means, for example, that the regulator can be mounted in large distribution mains but controlled remotely from the shop floor. Engineers usually use this type of control where a continuous process requires a large, steady air flow.
Precision regulators are normally used for instrumentation applications where fast response, exact repeatability, and control of outlet pressure are necessary. These units have a limited range but superior flow and regulation characteristics. Precision regulators also can relieve up to 80 to 90% of their flow for specialized applications, such as tensioning belts, paper rolling, and balancing.
Special-purpose regulators can be based on any of the other types, with application-specific modifications. For example, they may be constructed of special materials like stainless steel, have high relief flows, or operate with a plunger instead of a handwheel.
Combination filter/regulators clean air and control pressure in a compact unit, saving space and costs. Specialized filter/regulators remove fine particles of oil, offering precise regulation.
The next important step in processing compressed air is introducing a lubricant, usually oil, to ensure operating equipment performs efficiently without excessive resistance or wear. (Note that oil carried over from a compressor is a contaminant that has lost its lubricating capabilities and should be filtered out.)
The most widely used lubricator is the aerosol lubricator which, incidentally, was invented by Carl Norgren in 1927. Two types of aerosol lubricators are oil-fog and micro-fog. Both use reservoirs or bowls filled with oil. The lubricated air or "fog" generated by oil-fog lubricators has relatively large oil particles that cannot rise or travel far before dropping out of the air stream. So install oil-fog lubricators near the equipment they are meant to service, and never below it.
Micro-fog lubricators atomize the oil in the bowl, creating light particles less than 2 μm in size. This fog can travel upwards and for long distances through complex feed lines. Micro-fog units can also ensure proportionate distribution through numerous lubrication outlets, making it ideal for multiple valve-control circuits. Only about 5 to 10% of the oil in a micro-fog system becomes an aerosol, so it works well in applications requiring only small amounts of lubricant. By adjusting the drip rate, oil delivery can be raised to approach that of an oil-fog lubricator.
The other type of lubricator is a positive-displacement injection pump. It does not continuously deliver lubricant like aerosol lubricators but, rather, injects the same amount of lubricant every cycle. This type of lubricator is often used on conveyor chains, for example. Several injectors can be joined together on a manifold to lubricate at several different points at the same frequency.
Most valves and cylinders powered by pneumatics are prelubricated and, in most applications, do not require additional lubrication during their service life. Once they reach the end of their lubrication life, non-repairable cylinders must be replaced. Other components can be repaired, but technicians must apply new grease before they are put back into service. In addition, contaminated air will gradually compromise the original grease lubricant and shorten seal life.
Lubricated air prolongs prelubricated components' life and performance. Applications that have high cycles, operate at high speeds, or use large diameter bearings generate heat that speeds the deterioration of internal lubrication. Laboratory tests show that cylinder life in these applications can be doubled by using lubricated air. Lubricated air is also essential for equipment that is not prelubricated; for example pneumatic hand tools, such as screwdrivers.
Lubricated air extends cylinder life, but it also washes out the original lubrication. So once lubricated air is introduced, it must always be used. The amount of oil for sufficient lubrication will vary with each pneumatic device. So always follow equipment manufacturers' recommendations. From regular inspection and servicing, technicians can determine the optimum setting and adjust the amount delivered.
Compressed air is powerful, so pneumatic systems must have safety features designed in and maintained to protect equipment and personnel.
The first consideration is overpressure protection. Components in pneumatic systems often have a pressure rating lower than that generated by the compressor. If for some reason the regulators do not maintain safe working pressure (SWP), downstream components exposed to excess pressure can malfunction or fail.
The most common overpressure protection is a relief valve. This device holds system pressure at a constant level at or below the stated SWP. Commonly there is a 10% overpressure allowance. Relief valves should operate only when the system exceeds regulated pressure, so they need to be set to a pressure higher than that for the regulator. A common problem is a relief setting too close to the system operating pressure, causing the relief valve to vent air during normal operation.
The relief device must also be sized to match or exceed flow through the part of the systems it protects, without system pressure rising above the acceptable overpressure level.
Finally, consider start-up. Loading during start-up can cause unnecessary wear on moving parts, and sudden movement can injure personnel. Soft start (also called slow start) valves prevent such problems. They let air gradually pass from a compressor to the pneumatic system. Adjusting the valve controls the rate of pressure build-up. The valves usually have a spring-operated internal poppet design, which is usually set to open, or "snap," when pressure reaches between 40 and 70% of full-line pressure. It is more economical to set these devices near the equipment they are intended to protect than to fit a larger valve to the whole distribution system.
For more information on air preparation, visit www.norgren.com.