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The complete story of the life and times of rock star, Owen Connor. His early life, his mom's struggles and then the mysterious disappearance of his love of his life. Read his struggle to escape his hell, and then the aftermath and the conclusion to his life story.

Risograph zine containing excerpts from other zines in the series: Join the Resistance (2017), Modern Problems (2016), Fuck the Internet (2015), The War Continues (2014), and Fight the Power (2010).

The size and significance of public infrastructure investment impacts on costs and productivity of private enterprise, and thus on economic health and growth, has proven nebulous to empirically substantiate. Various studies using alternative theoretical and econometric methodologies, and for different time periods, sectors, and countries, have tentatively established that such a productive impact exists and is statistically significant. It also seems smaller and more variable over time, space, and sector than was implied by initial studies on the "public capital hypothesis". One piece of the puzzle that has received little attention, however, is the role of spatial spillovers in driving infrastructure investment benefits. Such spillovers are not only conceptually important, but could also shed light on discrepancies between studies for different data, and particularly aggregation levels. In this study we apply a cost-based model to state-level U.S. manufacturing data, for capital, production and non-production labor, and materials inputs, and for the 1982-96 time period, in an attempt to untangle the private cost-saving contributions of inter-and intra-state public infrastructure investment. We carry out two kinds of spatial adaptations-a spatial autocorrelation adjustment and a spatial spillover theoretical modification-to the estimating system consisting of a Generalized Leontief cost function and input demand equations, to address this issue. We find that intra-state public infrastructure benefits appear larger in magnitude when inter-state spillovers are directly recognized, as well as being invariably statistically significant. Inter-state spillovers are also directly beneficial to manufacturing firms, although their contribution appears smaller in size when temporal serial correlation is recognized in addition to spatial correlation.

We assess the cost reducing impacts of increasing stocks of "high-tech" equipment (O capital). Our empirical analysis is based on a dynamic production theory model and annual data for two-digit U.S. manufacturing industries (1952-1991). We find evidence of overinvestment in O capital in the mid to late 1980s, following a period of strong investment incentives in the late 1970s. By the end of the 1980s, however, the returns to investment and falling prices for O capital more than justified the high investment levels in nondurable goods industries, and the benefit-cost ratio was also increasing for durable goods industries. The underlying substitution patterns suggest that high-tech capital expansion increases demand for most capital and non-capital inputs overall but saves on materials inputs. In durables industries, however, both energy and "other" capital appear somewhat substitutable with O capital, and in nondurables industries increasing high-tech intensity may be a factor underlying stagnating labor demand.

Whether or not a county policy establishing paid time off violates the cash-basis law will depend upon whether the obligation to pay employees is contingent upon future events. Should the policy provide that an employee is entitled to a lump sum payment at some point during employment or upon separation, the cash-basis law requires that funds be available prior to approval of payment. Cited herein: K.S.A. 10-1101; 10-1113; K.S.A. 2006 Supp. 10-1116, as amended by L. 2007, Ch. 82, section 2; K.S.A. 10-1116a; 10-1116b; 10-1116c; 19-101; 19-212; 44-313; 44-315; 75-1123; K.A.R. 49-20-1.

Two types of full thickness compact crack arrest (CCA) specimens have been used to characterize the crack arrest toughness of a 15.5-mm-thick ship plate steel in both the L-T and T-L orientations. One was a modified version of that used in ASTM Standard E 1221, and the other was based on the proposed procedure of Crosley and Ripling [1] for non-plane strain testing. The latter specimens employed a strain age embrittled chevron notch as the crack starter. The testing was performed over the temperature range from -40° (the nil-ductility transition temperature (NDTT) of the steel) up to -5°C. None of the results from the ASTM E 1221 type specimens met the validity requirements of the ASTM procedure. Even though they had the largest dimensions allowed in the test specification, the limited thickness of these specimens meant that they were too small for valid plane strain testing. In the non-plane strain test procedure, the in-plane dimensions are scaled to the expected crack arrest toughness at the test temperature, and the main qualifying requirement is for the crack to be arrested at a point in the specimen lying within certain defined limits. Although difficulties were encountered with variability in run/arrest behavior, this specimen gave some useful crack arrest toughness data for this steel, particularly with regard to the relatively high values obtained when testing near the top of the test temperature range. The effectiveness of the crack starter technique used in both type of specimens is also discussed, as well as possible modifications for future tests.

Although food processing sector production is inherently linked to the availability and prices of agricultural materials (MA), this link appears to be weakening due to adaptations in input costs, technology, and food consumption patterns. This study assesses the roles of these changes on food processors costs and output prices, with a focus on the demand for primary agricultural commodities. Our analysis of the 4-digit U.S. food processing industries for 1972-1992 is based on a cost-function framework, augmented by a profit maximization specification of output pricing, and a virtual price representation for agricultural materials and capital. We find that falling virtual prices of MA and input substitution have provided a stimulus for MA demand. However, scale effects have been MA-saving relative to intermediate food products, and disembodied technical change has strongly contributed to declining primary agricultural materials demand relative to most other inputs.