[OOC] Surwall - South of the Wall

[WildKnight]

I hate you both.

[Thamewolf]

Originally Posted by VPA_Shadow00

Only if he's a half dragon samurai elemental celestial vampire werewolf.

What ECL is that?

[Aitrus]

Question for you guys. It doesn't affect me right now, but what happens if, at higher levels, a magic user casts successive Summon spells? Will multiple creatures be summoned and begin disappearing at spaced intervals? Can a magic user summon multiple creatures of the same type?

[Rinjo]

Yes and Yes. Each is treated as a different spell with a different duration.

[WildKnight]

Also, you can use higher level Summon spells to bring up multiple creatures from lower level spells. Sometimes it's advantageous to summon 3 or 4 (or more) weaker creatures rather than going for the highest level you can, because it allows you to manipulate the battlefield.

[VPA_Shadow00]

I'm going into finals week with two papers and two plays due in my Composition, Government, and Creative Writing Classes, with a looming Calculus exam just beyond that, so, I am going to be posting infrequently until May... I will try to squeeze in a post when I can.

[Thamewolf]

Ahh... isn't college fun? Got a couple of 20 pagers and a 10 pager on the burner myself

[Aitrus]

Makes me glad I never went, nor do I think I will ever need to. Ah, the joys of working for the Government!

[WildKnight]

My Dad works for the (US) Government, and "joy" is a word he rarely uses to describe it.

[Aitrus]

Well, it does have it's downsides, but I work within the military establishment, so there's a little more joy to be had, and fewer downsides.

[VPA_Shadow00]

Eight page paper due tomorrow, two pages written. I will post Friday. Wish me luck.

[Thamewolf]

Good luck! Got a ten pager due Monday myself, but I'm going with my wife to visit the in-laws this weekend (her mother's birthday/Easter) so I gotta get it finished this week. I should have Internet access while I'm there, but just in case I don't, you'll know why I'm not posting.

[VPA_Shadow00]

One hour, six hundred words. Approximately four hundred words a page, five pages left to write... Approximately two hundred minutes to go... Oh geez, procrastinators deserve their fate.

[Rinjo]

Good Luck.

I don't envy you right now... when all else fails find an obscure book and judiciously borrow.

[VPA_Shadow00]

I am at the seven page mark, with one page left before I hit the minimum page requirement.

I have five more paragraphs to write until I've touched upon everything in my outline however, after having thrown out a bunch of stuff which I realized I could not fit into ten pages.

Also: I am writing about unions and politics and the disparity of wealth in America. I think I identify pretty strongly as a socialist. I mean socialism isn't a perfect system, but it's a whole hell of a lot better than unregulated capitalism.

Case and point.

"NEW YORK and PITTSBURGH, March 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Institute for Global Labour & Human Rights (formerly National Labor Committee) is releasing a new in-depth report "Dirty Parts/Where Lost Fingers Come Cheap: Ford in China." which documents worker rights violations—including workers maimed when factory management turned off critical safety equipment—at the Yuwei Plastics and Hardware Products company in Dongguan, China. According to workers, 80 percent of the factory's production is for Ford. The Yuwei factory has a U.S. office and warehouse in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Workers earn a base wage of just 80 cents an hour, working 14-hour shifts and 7 days a week. During the peak season, workers toil 30 days a month, often drenched in their own sweat. Prospective hires are told they must "work hard and endure hardship."

On March 13, 2009, 21-year-old Worker "A" had three fingers and several knuckles torn from his left hand when it was crushed in a stamping machine. He was making "RT Tubes" for export to Ford. Management deliberately instructed the worker to turn off the infrared safety monitoring system so he could work faster. "We had to turn it off. My boss did not let me turn it on," said Worker A. He had to stamp out 3,600 "RT Tubes" a day, one every 12 seconds.

We are aware of at least four serious injuries—maimed hands and fingers—over the last several years. Seriously injured workers are fired. New workers receive no training or safety instruction before being assigned to operate dangerous machinery.

Worker A received a total payment of just $7,430 for the loss of three fingers, leaving his hand basically inoperative. Workers Compensation for a similar accident in the U.S. would result in a $144,292 payment."

LINK: http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/news/new-332.html