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Age of WuShu Liang -- An Detailed Report On What Works And Precisely what Does not
This week I wanted to try out the two options that were put up for polls, and once again Age of WuShu Liang Manager Earthquake and Massively columnist Patrick Mackey joined me to explain, hand out tips, and to help me remember how much of a newb I still am.I continued to play around with the Demon Heart Chain Hand, the set of abilities that won a poll a couple of weeks ago.
I'm definitely enjoying it but need to expand on it a lot more. It doesn't seem to stack up to my twin-bladed abilities, but it's not really supposed to. Demon Heart can be used as a supplemental skill set, and Age of Wushu is a game that allows players to learn as much as they'd like.However, autoguard isn't as bad as people think. In fact, it is an exceptional answer to poor latency and is completely controllable. The truth is, not many people understand it at all, and even fewer realize the benefits of the system.This physical inability to study up came well after my already-established love for virtual travel, however. I am an explorer of virtual worlds, an occupation that does not permit sitting at one stop for long. But this hurts me as a player. I realize this and accept it.
I needed those raiders and min-maxers to keep money in the developer's pockets so I could continue to have places to explore. They, on the other hand, needed weirdos like me to push for Age of WuShu Liang content and tools for roleplay so that there was always a narrative or point to what they did. Without a reason, raiding and hardcore play is just work and math. Despite this mutual need, though, their way of play is closer to what I would call "gaming" than mine and so feels more important than mine.
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UBS economist Maury Harris early on Thursday forecast the unemployment claims number would be little changed and also that the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia's index of regional factory activity would increase to a reading of 5.0 for April from 2.0 in March. A reading above zero indicates expansion. The Philadelphia Fed later announced that the index reading for April was just 1.3. "The indicator for overall activity remained slightly positive this month," the bank said in a statement "but other broad indicators were mixed. Indicators for new orders and employment were weaker this month." The consensus among economists is for the Philadelphia Fed's index of current activity to come in at 3.3.
The KBW Bank Index ( I:BKX) was down 1% to 54.20, with 17 of the 24 index components showing afternoon declines, including Bank of America ( BAC), which was down over 2% to $11.44, following a 5% decline on Wednesday.

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Harrison Waid should really learn to pick on guys his own size.
The San Jose State punter was ejected from Saturday's contest against Minnesota after the 6-foot-1, 183-pound Spartan started a fight with a Minnesota player that quickly escalated to involving multiple members from both teams. Waid entered the game for an onside kick and ran down the field in a hurry after his effort, but a Gopher had already scooped it up. As Waid was reaching the ball, however, defensive back Derrick Wells leveled Waid with a pretty good shoulder hit.
Waid was knocked down from the block, but he got up in a hurry and immediately went after Wells. Some pushing and shoving ensued, and the punter even managed to incite a mini-brawl before refs were able to settle things down. Waid was then called for a personal flagrant foul and was ejected from the game.
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At a briefing 20 September 2004 for delegates at the IAEA´s General Conference, experts highlighted nuclear power´s history and prospects in the context of global energy needs, focusing on results of a recent international conference.
The civilian nuclear power timeline started on June 26, 1954 in the town of Obninsk, in the former USSR, when the first nuclear power plant was connected to an electricity grid providing power to residences and business. On that date, nuclear energy crossed the divide from military use to civilian application.
In the briefing, the IAEA´s Mr. Ian Facer, Scientific Secretary to the "International Conference on Fifty Years on Nuclear Power - the Next Fifty Years" held in June in Moscow and Obninsk, summarized the conference´s main findings. The Conference, which hosted over 400 participants from 39 Member States, generated positive and productive discussions. The conference´s main findings centred on public communication, design and development of advanced nuclear systems, non-electricity developments, nuclear safety and security developments, the nuclear fuel cycle and waste management and nuclear energy for sustainable development.
Mr. Hans-Holger Rogner, from the IAEA´s Nuclear Energy Department, previewed the future nuclear energy scenario and addressed the Agency´s activities on energy planning and capacity building in interested Member States and cooperation within the UN system on sustainable energy development.


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Dr. Carson has written and taught extensively, specializing in American intellectual history. His most recent book, The Rebirth of Liberty (1973), covers the founding of the American Republic from 1760 to 1800.
T. S. ELIOT said on one occasion that our civilization would end not with a bang but with a whimper. This was not so much a prediction or prophecy as it was a pithy commentary on a prominent characteristic of our era. But if it be taken as prediction, there is something lacking in it. It does not tell us how the end is likely to come, does not fill in any of the details of the coming anemic apocalypse. There is now mounting evidence, however, of how at least American civilization may end. It may come about in some such fashion as this.
At some time in the not too distant future the American productive machinery could grind to a creaking halt, be still and remain
Let the answers to these questions wait a bit, and let us examine some clues as to what could bring about such a state of affairs. The following are excerpts from items which appeared on the pages of a single edition of a morning newspaper, the Atlanta Constitution, November 25, 1975.
Item One: A former secretary to Fulton County Commission Vice
The three-member Fulton County personnel board is expected to decide Tuesday whether the secretary will be reinstated.
Item Two: The DeKalb County school system has come into compliance with federal law by no longer forcing married or pregnant students to participate in a special educational program, a school administrator announced Monday.
That law, Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, states that female students cannot be discriminated against for any reason…
He also denied that a recent complaint from the husband of a former Towers High School student caused the school system to hurry the policy change.
"We had almost come to a conclusion," he said, when a man identified by school officials as Bill MacArthur received some publicity and threatened to file suit. MacArthur alleged his wife was being discriminated against when she was forced to leave Towers and attend open campus.
Item Three: A group of determined Washington Redskins fans who are also lawyers filed a suit Monday against the National Football League stemming from the controversial Mel Gray touchdown reception.
The group is asking U. S. District Court Judge George L. Hart to issue a temporary restraining order preventing any scheduling of playoff games until the court makes a ruling on a controversial call that went against the Redskins in Washington's overtime loss to St. Louis two Sundays ago.
According to one of the complainants, George Morse, the suit asks Hart to either have the teams finish the game from the point just prior to the controversial St. Louis touchdown pass, or to call the game "no contest" and figure precentage points in the standings as if it were a tie.
Item Four (a quotation from a prison warden): "It seems like we never get a final conviction on anything any more. After all appeals are exhausted arising out of the original trial, we go into the habeas corpus process all over again. I have an administrative assistant who is in court today. His job was set up to assist me, but he spends 95 per cent of his time in court on habeas corpus hearings. . . ."
Item Five: The Atlanta chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) is peeved that Mayor Maynard Jackson has not replied in two weeks to its recommendations on minority participation in city architectural projects.
In October Jackson requested formation of an AIA liaison committee to make such recommendations, chapter President M. Garland Reynolds said Monday….
The AIA spent several weeks meeting with other groups in coming up with its recommendations, Reynolds said.
Reynolds' Nov. 10 letter to the mayor was prompted by Jackson's insistence earlier this year that minorities be given a part of the contract for architectural and engineering work for the planned expansion of Hartsfield International Airport.
Item Six: (involves promotions of police officers in the City of Atlanta, the oral examination used, the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), and the Afro-American Patrolman's League.): Complaints against the new exam centered on the nebulous nature of the orals, which included 10 questions based on hypothetical situations. The judgment of good and bad answers was left to the interview boards. Both for sergeant and captain the boards were made up of two white and two black superior officers, plus an attorney. . . . A variety of attorneys was used, and most of them were black.
The issue of using more than one attorney on each board is part of the basis for a legal challenge of the new exam as that challenge is being prepared for court filing by attorneys for the FOP. The lawyers contend the city ordinance authorizing promotional testing specifies that one lawyer be used, rather than a succession of lawyers, so that each candidate is interviewed by the same board.
Item Seven: MARTA [Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority] is opposing an application before the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) to establish a van service in the metropolitan Atlanta area.
The rapid transit authority opposes such service because it could increase competition in the lucrative charter bus market. . . .
MARTA also objects to the application . . . because under federal rapid transit funding laws, MARTA could be required to purchase the private company if the company could prove that MARTA's tax-supported transit operation competed unfairly.
Item Eight: Inmates who seized five guards as hostages and holed up in five cell blocks at a city prison on an island in the East River released the three remaining hostages Monday on the promise they would not be prosecuted.
The promise of amnesty so angered the guards at the Rikers Island jail that about 300 of them immediately stormed off the job. . . .
Finally, a spokesman for mayor Abraham Beame said the guards agreed to go back to work when Beame promised to meet Tuesday afternoon with Harold Taylor, president of the guards' Benevolent Association, on the matter.
There were other items in the same paper that might have been quoted. One described a malpractice suit in Augusta, Georgia
Common Characteristics
There are some common threads running through all these incidents. One is that they all involve government at one level or another and in one way or another. A second is that all of them involve some sort of proceeding: a report of a liaison committee, a lawsuit, a habeas corpus hearing, a school board ruling, a Personnel Board investigation, an application before the Public Service Commission, and a conference between a mayor and a representative of prison guards.
Above all, however, they all involve one or more technicalities: whether a football player held a pass long enough for it to be a completion, the claim of a secretary that she had "intimate relations" with a commissioner which led to her firing, opposition to a local van service because of the intricacies of a Federal rule, whether there should have been only one attorney sitting in on all the tests or several, the endless appeals made by those who have been convicted and sent to prison, whether married students should be sent to a special campus, and so on.
According to many who make such characterizations, we live in an age of technology. There is no gainsaying that this view has much to support it. If technology be understood to include the mechanical and electronic devices by which we sort, sift, stuff, open, move, inspect, light, heat, cool, start, stop, weigh, measure, pour, record, and perform the myriad acts which can be done in this fashion then our age is certainly in some respects a technological one. Such characterizations, of course, always vie with others which may be equally apt, such as, the age of steel, the age of electricity, the age of antibiotics, and so on.
However appropriate any or all of these may be, we have moved unwittingly into a new age, the Age of the Technicality. The signs abound that more and more ruling bodies are spending more and more of their time and that of the citizenry in applying these technicalities to the warp and woof of our lives. It may not happen that way, but it looks as if it could. At some time in the future the whole adult population of the country and most of the children could be tied
What is more likely, if the trend continues, is that more and more of the population will have more and more of their energies dissipated in these undertakings to the point that the necessary useful work is no longer performed. The whimper with which American civilization may end will be that of the-one-too-many complainants, the straw that breaks the camel's back.
At any rate, we are certainly in the midst of an age of technicalities. Anyone who doubts this should examine the evidence around him with more care. As this piece was being written, the mail brought an excellent example of such technicalities, a "Statement of Fair Credit Billing Rights," as presented by Sears, Roebuck and Company. Since anyone who has a credit card probably received one of these, it may be useful only to present excerpts and highlights from this wondrous set of instructions:
The Federal Truth in Lending Act requires prompt correction of billing mistakes.
1) If you want to preserve your rights under the Act, here's what to do if you think your bill is wrong or if you need more information about an item on your bill:
a) Do not write on the bill. On a separate sheet of paper write (you may telephone your inquiry but doing so will not preserve your rights under this law) the following:
i) Your name and account number.
ii) A description of the error and an explanation (to the extent you can explain) why you believe it is an error. . . .
iii) The dollar amount of the suspected error. . . .
b) Send your billing error notice to the address on your bill. . . .
i) Mail it as soon as you can, but in any case, early enough to reach Sears within 60 days after the bill was mailed to you.
2. Sears must acknowledge all letters pointing out possible errors within 30 days of receipt, unless we are able to correct your bill during that 30 days. Within 90 days after receiving your letter, we must either correct the error or explain why we believe the bill was correct….
3. After we have been notified, neither Sears nor an attorney nor a collection agency may send you collection letters or take other collection action with respect to the amount in dispute….
4. If it is determined that Sears had made a mistake on your bill, you will not have to pay any FINANCE
CHARGES on any disputed amount. If it turns out that we did not make an error, you may have to pay FINANCE CHARGES on the amount in dispute. .
5. If our explanation does not satisfy you and you notify us in writing within 10 days that you still refuse to pay the disputed amount, we may report you to credit bureaus. . . . But Sears must also report that you think you do not owe the money, and we must let you know to whom such reports were made. . . .
6. If Sears does not follow these rules, we are not allowed to collect the first $50 of the disputed amount and FINANCE CHARGES, even if the bill turns out to be correct…
7. This monstrosity is a technicalitarian's (if I may coin a word) dream. It requires little imagination to guess the disputes that could arise over technicalities involved in these rules. For example, which period would be running at any given time: the 10 days, 30 days, 60 days, or 90 days? Who decides whether an explanation is adequate, or whether the customer or the creditor has complied with all the rules? Do Sundays and holidays count? Suppose the customer only owes $10 when the dispute arises but that he subsequently charges $40 more. Suppose the creditor has made a mistake, or has not followed the rules. What is the total amount to be allowed the customer under the$50 rule? The possibilities for contentions are almost unlimited. Even a Philadelphia lawyer would be able to work his way through such a maze only with the greatest difficulty.
The above is not an isolated instance of government intrusion into our lives with intricate technicalities. Nor does it contain the most obtuse examples of detailed rules which have to be followed. In fact, these rules are fairly simple compared with some that have been promulgated. In the last several years the federal government has initiated technicalities with more comprehensive application than ever before. Several new agencies have been set up, each of which promulgates rules for virtually every private undertaking in the country.
The OSHA
One of these is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, authorized by act of Congress in late 1970. Its rules apply to virtually all businesses "affecting" interstate commerce, which nowadays means nearly all of them. By June 17, 1974, its "Safety and Health Standards" ran to 326 triple-columned 81/2 x 11 pages in a tiny print that will assure eyestrain to readers. A little examination of some of these "standards" will illustrate the lengths to
Here are the rules for "Ladders, Fixed" as they appear in a handbook which abridges them for general industry:
a. All fixed ladders shall be designed for a minimum concentrated live load of 200 pounds.
b. All rungs shall have a minimum diameter of 3/4 inch, if metal, or 11/s inches, if wood. They shall be a minimum of 16 inches in clear length and be spaced uniformly no more than 12 inches apart.
c. Metal ladders shall be painted or treated to resist corrosion or rusting when the location demands.
d. Cages, wells, or ladder safety devices for ladders affixed to towers, watertanks, or chimneys shall be provided on all ladders more than 20 feet long. Landing platforms shall be provided each 30 feet of length, except where no cage is provided, landing platforms shall be provided for every 20 feet of length.
e. Tops of cages on fixed ladders shall extend 42 inches above top of landing, unless other acceptable protection is provided, and the bottom of the cage shall be not less than 7 feet nor more than 8 feet above the base of the ladder.
f. Side rails shall extend 3½ feet above the landing.
The following are some rules for trenching:
(a) Banks more than 5 feet high shall be shored, laid back to a stable
slope, or some other equivalent means of protection shall be provided where employees may be exposed to moving ground or cave-ins. . . .
(b) Sides of trenches in unstable or soft material, 5 feet or more in depth, shall be shored, sheeted, braced, sloped, or otherwise supported by means of sufficient strength to protect the employees working with them. .. .
(c) Sides of trenches in hard or compact soil, including embankments, shall be shored or otherwise supported when the trench is more than 5 feet in depth and 8 feet or more in length. In lieu of shoring. the sides of the trench above the 5-foot level may be sloped to preclude collapse, but shall not be steeper than a 1-foot rise to each ½-foot horizontal. When the outside diameter of a pipe is greater than 6 feet, a bench of 4-foot minimum shall be provided at the toe of the sloped portion.
Civil penalties for the violation of these and other such rules can run to as much as $1,000 per day for failure to comply after a citation has been issued. Criminal penalties can go as high as $20,000 fine and one year in prison.
An Equal Employment Opportunity Act was passed in 1972. It authorized an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and prohibited discrimination on the basis of sex, color, religion, or national origin in their hiring practices by most employers of 15
(a) The Commission has determined that an employer's rule which forbids or restricts the employment of married women and which is not applicable to married men is a discrimination based on sex prohibited by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. It does not seem to us relevant that the rule is not directed against all females, but only against married females, for so long as sex is a factor in the application of the rule, such application involves a discrimination based on sex.
(b) It may be that under certain circumstances, such a rule could be justified within the meaning of Section 703 (e) (1) of Title VII. We express no opinion on this question at this time except to point out that sex as a bona fide occupational qualification must be justified in terms of the peculiar requirements of the particular job and not on the basis of a general principle such as the desirability of spreading work.
What follows is the Commission's view of what can appear on a job application form as it may refer to sex:
A pre-employment inquiry may ask "Male, Female"; or "Mr., Mrs., Miss," provided that the inquiry is made in good faith for a non-discriminatory purpose. Any pre-employment inquiry in connection with prospective employment which expresses directly or indirectly any limitation, specification or discrimination as to sex shall be unlawful unless based upon a bona fide occupational qualification.
About the only "bona fide occupational qualification" based on sex which the Commission has recognized is in acting, where a male or female is being portrayed.
Environmental Protection
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was set up in 1970 following a great hullabaloo about the environment. Its goal is to establish and maintain harmony between man and his environment, a rather tall order even for a government agency. To this end, according to an information sheet issued by it, "The Agency sets and maintains air and water pollution standards, regulates the sale and use of pesticides, sets standards for noise and ambient radiation, develops techniques and procedures for solid waste management, studies toxic substances, conducts research, and demonstrates new pollution control methods and technology." Since every act of man does, in some way, affect the environment, it is fairly safe to say that so long as it has the momentum behind it, this agency will spread its umbrella to cover more and more activities.
The Age of the Technicality, then, is upon us. Moderns have sometimes been amused by the tales of the intricate debates of scholars in the Late Middle Ages under the sway of scholasticism. But one wonders what a Duns Scotus (a medieval scholar whose name gave rise to the term "dunce" because of the meticulousness of his analyses) would think of our efforts to determine whether or not the reference to sex in an application form was made in good faith or not, at what point the decibel emission from some machine contributed significantly to noise pollution, what amount a bank over five feet should slope every 1/2-foot, and so on. Whether 10,000 angels could dance on the head of a pin might not have been a very good quest ion but whether 200,000,000 Americans can survive 10,000,000 regulations is.
The Age of the Technicality has been fostered, no doubt, by a number of trends and developments. We have been bent during the Modern Era toward precise quantification and the development of tools and instruments for doing it. Technology has spawned techniques for turning problems into technicalities. The courts have welcomed an ever larger number of cases which hinge on technicalities. There are many interested parties — such as technicians, scientists, lawyers, and bureaucrats — who benefit from the focus on technicalities. Above all, however, we have been thrust into the Age of the Technicality by the determination to use government to force us to do what some believe to be good and right. The result is the politicalization of life, and drastic decline in choice and freedom for the individual.
Forced to be Good?
It is no part of the purpose of this article to enter into the question of whether any of the objects sought by the myriad rules and regulations are good and desirable. There are many things it might be good for us to do.
It might be good if each of us attended church every Sunday. It might be good if we all had the same basic beliefs. It might be good if each of us had a balanced diet, exercised at regular intervals, and consumed only the blandest of food and drink.
It does not follow, of course, that if or because it would be good we should then turn to government to force everyone to do any or all of these things. It does follow, however, that if we turn to government to make us do what is good and right we shall have complex laws, intricate rules and regulations, bounteous litigation. Numerous hearings, expanding bureaus, and lives entangled in more and more technicalities. It follows that more and more of our time and energy will be devoted to enforcing and complying with and contesting these technicalities. There are deeper dimensions, as already implied, to these efforts to make people do good by law.
When we are compelled to do good by government, no virtue attaches to our doing it; it is only expedient for us to comply with the law. Not only does this reduce the moral dimensions of our lives but also compulsion breeds resentment and resistance which produces a perverse pleasure in evasion and in sabotaging the effort. A breach occurs between the governors and the governed, a breach which can widen into a gulf. A finicky government invites the contempt of the citizenry. A populace whimpering over violations of technicalities invites the contempt of each for all. The minute intrusions upon liberty tend to foster a contempt for life itself.
Can one, after all, imagine George Washington and his men suffering at Valley Forge in defense of our "Fair Credit Billing Rights"? If such had been their object, they might better have surrendered, retained the connection with England, and got the legislation a little sooner under the Labour government. The tyranny of technicalities is tyranny, but it is oh such petty tyranny that a man must grasp its whole impact before he sees it as worthy of his opposition.
Step by Step
We have fallen under this tyranny of technicalities bit by bit and step by step, though in recent years the pace of their imposition has increased rather rapidly. The method of those who have sought their imposition has been to focus upon some real or imagined problem, to propose its solution by way of some Federal program, to enact a law, and to set up some regulatory agency.
At first, such agencies usually dealt with some particular business: railroads, banks (the kind in which money is deposited), labor unions, and trusts. Over the years, more and more institutions and activities have come under such regulation, and now omnibus agencies — such as, EPA, OSHA, and EEOC — are being created.
Opposition to individual impositions has often been difficult to' mount; the stated object often had broad appeal, and it is often precarious to oppose what is perceived to be good. The result has been that we have come into the Age of the Technicality so gradually that it would be difficult to determine when we arrived.
It is fairly clear, however, that the Age of the Technicality cannot be brought to an end either by opposing the creation of any more such agencies or by eliminating the abuses in the existing ones. There are already enough agencies with sufficient impetus to entangle us interminably in technicalities. It is not the abuses which pose the greatest threat but the resolute carrying out of what has been authorized. The effective level of opposition finally is at the level of principle.
Is Government the Right Tool?
The development needs to be grasped whole, its impact on the economy and on our lives seen for what it is, and opposition made to the attempt to force us to be good by law. Any other approach falls into debates over such things as whether or not women should have equal pay for the same work as men. That must not be the issue. The issue — regardless of rate of pay — is whether government is the proper instrument to impose it.
The issue may be brought into focus for us better if we imagine that the men who predominate in the legislature should decide that women should be paid, say, ten per cent less than men for the same work. But, it may be objected, that would be unjust. So it would, and so is a government decree that women should be paid the same. Government is in no position to determine the value of an employee; only an employer can do that, and justice requires that he pay an employee what he is worth to him. Those who are concerned about government preventing pollution need to understand that they are also talking about government authorizing some level of pollution. Virtually all the technicalities with which we are embroiled have to do with the conditions under which that which is prohibited is allowed, or that which is allowed is prohibited.
Protect the Individual to Do the Best He Can
The Age of the Technicality is not, itself, the age of safety and health. It is the age of the endless hearings, debate, and litigation over the degree of safety, health, and whatever. The principle on which it can be foreclosed is that government should attend to its tasks of protecting us from wrong and leave to us the business of doing good. When it does so, it will not need commissions, boards, agencies, and bureaus to interpret and impose myriad rules and regulations. These exist to permit what the legislature knows it should not prohibit but can discover no principle by which it can be allowed within the framework of law. That is reason enough for government not to be involved. The tyranny of the technicality will end when enough people realize that the legislation which has authorized it should be revoked. Until that happens, however, we should all hope that to some degree we live in an age of technology, for in the Age of the Technicality men will be increasingly too entangled in technicalities to do anything else much. Machines will have to do most of the work, if it is to be done.


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TriNet's SMBeat, an analysis of trends in key human capital economic indicators for small businesses, reports employment in the New York tech sector received a 2.5% bump in June as the state continues to challenge San Francisco as a tech hub and start-up incubator. Net job growth in New York tech has outpaced Silicon Valley consistently since March.
While New York beats California in employment growth, the same does not hold for salaries. The average salary for the NY tech sector is $94,000 compared to $120,000 nationally and $143,000 in California. Likely factors to the salary differential are highlighted in TriNet SMBeat data which shows NY tech workers trend younger and more female than the CA tech population.
Silicon Valley and New York aren't the only hubs for innovation; the future looks bright for the Georgia tech sector as the state works to provide $100 million in venture capital funding to startups over the next few years. The state's efforts to court technology companies and entrepreneurs are paying off with hiring activity at 5.89% for the month. Additionally, strong job creation showed net growth at 3.74% in June, significantly outpacing Silicon Valley's growth of 1.31%.
The complete SMBeat report is available here.


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I'm Not Even Gonna Lie, Hell Yeah I'm ShallowI'd find someone to bang..
Not like *bang, bang*
BUT like BANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG ALL NIGHT LONG. Yep, 24 hours worth >:) Is that even possible? Oh jee buzz, it's so obvious I am a virgin D:
And I wonder why I some creepy fans >.>
I bet alot of girls wish they could say what you just said .

Good for you.
NOI I AM NOT DAMMIT..... i just love her its not a relationship
I'm so cool!
yeah I am pretty great.. Oh how great it is to be me.
NO I AM NOT UGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH explain in detail how i am married huh

and you two need to lez out already
Yeah I have a lot of stamina.
what no i was talking to you silly :P but lovely wants to join i bet xD
I could do 24 hours in my sleep... No seriously I have slept for over 24 hours before. Woke up having no idea what day it was or anything.
but don't suddenly be like Oh john bad news i'm gonna die then claim you were misdiagnosed afterwords -___-
hahaha fine you can just use me for that ,.... and wayslove
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By Sheena Dooley | Iowa Watchdog
DES MOINES – Gov. Terry Branstad will again try to push his agenda for comprehensive education reform.
Earlier this year, Branstad tried and failed to get lawmakers to agree to a package of proposals.
Branstand and Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds, both Republicans, announced they will hold 14 town hall meetings across the state in the next month to solicit input from Iowans on overhauling education in the state.
The meetings are similar to those held a year ago, when the governor first introduced his blueprint for comprehensive reform, which included overhauling teacher preparation programs, educator evaluations, higher standards with stronger student assessments and supporting innovation in schools.
A Democrat-controlled Senate failed to pass the plan. The lack of change prompted the U.S. Department of Education to deny the state's waiver request to free it from the requirements of No Child Left Behind and create its own accountability system.
The federal government has granted Iowa a temporary waiver, giving leaders additional time to meet the requirements of the permanent waiver.
The reforms, which Branstad has made his top priority, may have a better chance this time around if Republicans gain control of the Senate and retain their hold on the House. Task forces are studying individual parts of the reforms and will provide reports to lawmakers when they reconvene in January.


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NEW ORLEANS — An audit report released Monday found that over the past four years, the Recovery School District was unable to account for $2.7 million in moveable property items.
The report also found problems with the accuracy and timeliness of the district's ability to record employee separation dates, which without proper documentation has the potential to result in overpayments for terminated employees.
According to the Louisiana legislative auditor's report, "For the sixth consecutive year, RSD did not ensure that movable property was safeguarded against loss, including loss from unauthorized use and misappropriation."
Of the 1,633 items identified as missing, 1,380 were computers or computer-related equipment. In 2012 alone, 908 items with a value of close to $1.5 million was identified as unlocated.
In one incident, 26 laptops and 20 iPods worth about $17,000 were stolen from the storage room of a school directly run by the RSD. The auditors found that with individual schools being held responsible for conducting annual inventory for 2012, the district's decentralization, lack of accountability and lack of training for property custodians contributed to the problem.
In a response letter to the audit, RSD Superintendent Patrick Dobard wrote that, "The $2.7 million noted in the finding is an extremely misleading number as a large percentage of the property noted as lost in fact is still in the schools serving the educational needs of the kids in the RSD's system of schools. The RSD would estimate that 70 percent of the noted assets have incorrect location codes."
Dobard's response said that property has moved between schools, and that the issue was compounded as schools rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina, "when property control did not receive proper attention and mass quantities of property was purchased without proper protocols for data entry."
Dobard wrote that corrective action, while "not an easy fix given the historical complexity," will be taken through conducting inventories at each of 10 sites undergoing transformation, as well as at sites that the RSD believes may have a large amount of property marked as unlocated.
Dobard also wrote that the RSD would implement a new process to add accountability and for controlling the transfer of property.
Instead on relying on individual governing charter operators, known as local education authorities, to reconcile inventory, Dobard wrote that RSD employees will conduct as many as possible, "given the lack of incentive for accountability on the part of LEAs in property reporting."
The audit also detailed 10 incidents at six schools in which the RSD reported about $74,000 in missing or stolen movable property. Of the 97 items reported, 70 were computers. In three of those incidents, totaling about $20,000 in property, there was no sign of forced entry. Of the total amount reported stolen, about 8 percent was listed as recovered.
Of the property reported stolen, Dobard wrote that, "many reasonable measures are taken to protect the assets in RSD buildings," including 24-hour security guards and monitored security systems.
The report also concluded that the RSD was not recording employee separation dates in an accurate and timely way. According to the report, "This is the sixth consecutive year that we have cited RSD for inadequate controls over its payroll process."
For the 2011-2012 school year, the auditors tested 14 employees. For all 14, the final separation dates were not entered prior to the close of employee's last pay period, with the lateness ranging from seven to 107 days.
The RSD did not have supporting documentation to confirm the separation dates for eight of the 14 tested, according to the report, thus making it impossible to detect whether or not overpayments had been made.
In his response letter to the auditor, Dobard wrote that the RSD separated 762 employees during the last school year, and "acknowledges that every one of them should be processed timely and have proper documentation."
Dobard wrote that the RSD has implemented a biweekly payroll review and has strengthened communication between the central office and school-based staff.
The RSD currently oversees 12 direct-run schools. More than half of the RSD's direct-run schools will either close or be taken over by a new charter operator for the 2013-2014 school year. The RSD also currently oversees 56 charter schools under 27 autonomous governing boards.


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For cash-strapped Americans wanting to upgrade their vehicles and reduce their environmental footprints, the government's Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS, aka Cash for Clunkers) initiative seems like a dream come true. Trade in your old car, get $3500 to 4500 worth of credit for a new, more fuel-efficient vehicle, save on gas costs, give a boost to the auto industry AND reduce CO2 emissions. It's ostensibly a win-win situation. But while the program may be taking gas-guzzling, CO2-emitting cars off the road, where exactly are our clunkers ending up?
CARS administrators estimate that the program's $3 billion budget will be enough for 750,000 clunker trade-ins. Meaning 750,000 new cars sold off the lot while 750,000 oldies that might otherwise have been resold are shredded and discarded. An estimated 3 to 4.5 million tons of car waste material is already sent to landfills every year and some auto industry reps are worried the program will amplify the problem. "Cash for Clunkers might look good on paper, but in reality it has many unintended, irreversible consequences," said Aaron Lowe, the vice president of government affairs for the Automotive Aftermarket Industry Association, back in March when CARS was being proposed.
The rules explicitly state that all engines and drive trains (driveshafts, differentials, etc.) – parts that might otherwise be salvaged by mechanics - must be destroyed. Recently posted videos on YouTube show dealers wrecking the components by pouring combinations of water, silica and sand into the vents; when the mixture heats up, it crystallizes and hardens rendering the engine completely useless. Without working engine parts, which can provide an estimated 60 to 80 percent of the value of a dead car, many scrappers will simply send the whole crushed vehicle to the landfill.
That is not to say, however, that none of the clunker material will be recycled and reused. Most cars are stripped of their steel and aluminum before being sent to landfills. According to the CARS website, dealers are encouraged to remove parts of the vehicle (other than engine and driveline parts) that can be resold prior to crushing it. A new partnership between the American Chemistry Council, Argonne National Laboratory, and the US Council for Automotive Research is also working to increase recycling of plastics and fabrics in cars. But in the rush of the Cash for Clunkers phenomenon, who knows how many dealers and scrappers will take the time to strip the disabled vehicles, particularly if they hold little financial value.
There is no doubt that reducing CO2 emissions is a positive thing, but in this situation, is what is good for our atmosphere bad in terms of waste and landfills? What do you think?


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Movie directed by Guy Hamilton. Cinematography by Ted Moore. Gallery includes movie stills featuring Sean Connery as James Bond, Honor Blackman as Pussy Galore, Gert Fröbe as Auric Goldfinger, Shirley Eaton as Jill Masterson, Bernard Lee as M., Tania Mallet as Tilly Masterson, Harold Sakata as Oddjob, Desmond Llewelyn as Q., Lois Maxwell as Miss Moneypenny, Cec Linder as Felix Leiter, Martin Benson, and Austin Willis.
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The House is working on a plan that could allow for more than $600 billion in Pentagon spending. However, the bill is far from the same proposed by Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel earlier this year.
John Donnelly, editor of the CQ "On Defense" blog, discussed the NDAA with Capital Insider.


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Wayne Douglas Underwood, age 41 of Pulaski, died Thursday February 4, 2010. He was preceded in death by his parents: Floyd and Charlotte Moore Underwood, a sister; Brenda Lawson.
He is survived by a sister: Stephanie Lane of Radford: two brothers; Floyd M. Underwood of Pulaski, John Underwood of Pulaski. Also survived by several nieces and nephews.
Memorial services will be held Saturday March 13, 2010 at the Bread of Life Chapel on Robinson Tract Road in Pulaski at 2:00 p.m. with the Rev. Mabel Caudill officiating. The family will receive friends shortly after the service at the church.
Arrangements by Seagle Funeral Home, Pulaski.
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Broke decapping pin
I foolishly broke my decapping pin on my rcbs .45 die. I'm fairly new to reloading and I was wondering which replacement pin to get. I know I'll need a large pin but I saw a pack that had "headed" pins. I was wondering what the difference is between the headed and normal.
Use whichever came out of the die. Pins are either straight cylinders, or have a "head"on one end to keep them in place, depending on the design of the die.
You'll break more, so get a pack of them.
I wasn't home to check, but thank you. I bought the wrong kind but, might as well take your advice and stock up.
Call Rcbs and they will send you a few. Get the long threaded shaft that goes thru the deprimer., also.
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Raleigh, N.C. — Tensions between House and Senate Republican leaders – and within the House Republican caucus itself – rose to the surface Thursday in conflicts over the House's proposed permanent rules.
House Resolution 481 would set the permanent rules by which the House files, moves, debates, amends and votes on legislation for the remainder of the two-year session. Its sponsor, Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, is House Rules Committee chairman, the right-hand man to House Speaker Tim Moore.
Lewis clearly wasn't expecting much debate over the resolution at an 8 a.m. meeting of his committee Thursday. But he was greeted by a slew of amendments and some pushback from other Republicans over how the House should conduct business.
Rep. John Blust, R-Guilford, ran a series of four amendments that would have constrained the ability of House and Senate leaders to insert unrelated – and often unpopular – provisions into more popular pieces of legislation as a way to get them passed easily.
One of those amendments would have forbidden the inclusion of non-budget policy items in a budget bill.
Blust said previous budget provisions striking teacher tenure and instituting an A-F grading system for schools were not positions the House would have approved. But Senate leaders insisted on their inclusion in the budget, and the House couldn't amend them out of the conference report. That amendment failed.
Another of his amendments would have forbidden the inclusion in conference committee reports of any material that wasn't contained in either the House or the Senate versions of a bill. Blust pointed out that, because conference reports cannot be amended, members are often stuck voting for something they wouldn't otherwise approve, a position that he said undermines the democratic bicameral process.
As an example, he cited Senate leaders' insertion of a provision moving the state's presidential primary back to February into the conference report on the voter identification bill. That change could cost the state five-sixths of its delegates at the Republican National Convention. Even though it had never been debated in a House committee, Blust said, "We had to vote for it."
The amendment won approval 11-8.
But after a recess, the committee reconvened with more members present who are loyal to Moore, who also made an unusual appearance in the meeting.
Rep. Justin Burr, R-Stanly, ran an amendment that would have allowed the House as a whole, by resolution, to have some input in setting spending targets in advance of the budget. Those targets are generally handed down by chamber leaders to Appropriations Committee chairs with no input from rank-and-file members, even of the majority party, and are not subject to debate in budget subcommittees.
"This would let the House say we approve, we agree with what those targets are going to be, in advance," Burr argued. "Once we get to the budget, it's too late to change those things."
In previous sessions under former Speaker Thom Tillis, Burr was part of the budget leadership team that set those targets. But after running unsuccessfully against Moore for the speakership, Burr was demoted to a budget vice chairman.
Burr's amendment was ruled out of order by acting Rule Committee Chairman Rep. Skip Stam, R-Wake, after consultation with Moore.
"For what reason is this not in order?" Blust protested.
"It conflicts with the rest of the rules," Stam said.
"What rule?" Blust inquired, clearly frustrated.
"This is not a debate," Stam replied.
Reps. Jamie Boles, R-Moore, and Jason Saine, R-Lincoln, then moved quickly to reconsider the vote on Blust's successful amendment, saying it would weaken the House's negotiating position in conference committees. The amendment was brought back before the committee and then soundly defeated.
Asked after the meeting how banning new material from conference reports would have weakened the House's position, Saine said it would "tie the hands" of House negotiators.
"When you come into a negotiation room with nothing to negotiate, then it's take it or leave it," Saine said.
Saine referred to the "multiple weeks" of negotiation between the House and the Senate over the conference report on the gas tax bill approved this week.
"We were able to get there because our hands weren't tied behind our backs," he said.
When WRAL News pointed out that the conference report on the bill didn't include any new material, Saine replied, "But there were discussions. It allowed for things to happen.
"There were, within the walls of the conference committee, different proposals floated out there. So, it allowed for the process to work, people to talk," he explained. "Even though I think Rep. Blust's amendment was well-intentioned, I think it would hamper what we're able to do."
The resolution was added to the floor calendar for Thursday afternoon. After a lengthy Republican caucus meeting, it passed 107-1 with no floor debate.