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As police continue to search for suspects in the recent off-campus killing of two 23-year-old graduate students from China, University of Southern California administrators and police plan to announce a reward for information in the case.
The $125,000 reward is scheduled to be announced at a 1 p.m. news conference Friday by the Los Angeles Police Department and USC officials at the scene of the shootings of Ming Qu and Ying Wu. The electrical engineering students were shot early Wednesday in the West Adams District.
A spring social set for 4 p.m. Thursday at USC's Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering was canceled, and a memorial service was be held instead.
"It's tragic, very tragic, I don't know what to say," said Pratik Bhalgad, a USC engineering classmate.
The pair had double-parked in a BMW sedan on Raymond Avenue south of Adams Boulevard – in a residential neighborhood several blocks west of campus – when a gunman fired on both of them. Neighbors reported hearing gunshots on an evening that was so rainy other sounds may have been difficult to perceive.
The male student, Ming Qu, escaped the car and was gunned down. He was found on the porch of a nearby residence. Neon Tommy, a campus online news source, posted a photo of blood on the doorknob of the home where Qu was found.
Qu's family has applied for visas to come to the country, according to the Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles.
Detectives said on Wednesday morning that they were reviewing surveillance tapes but have no substantial leads. Witnesses saw a man running from the scene.
"At every stretch we see police standing from DPS but even then these things happen, it's really unfortunate," said Deepak Karkala, a USC engineering classmate.
USC public safety officials were meeting early Wednesday to come up with answers to frequently asked questions about the off-campus killings. The university now has a "safety kiosk" in place, with 24-hour staffing, at the site of the shootings.
The kiosk is located three blocks outside the area where campus police usually patrol, and university officials hope it will help calm fears.
"It's a team of detectives who told us they would be working seven days a week to get this solved," said Captain David Carlisle of the USC Department of Public Safety. "With their skills, I'm pretty confident it will happen. It's just a matter of when."
"Nothing else can be done. You can't have security everywhere, you have to be careful always," said Pratik Bhalgad, a USC engineering classmate.
A vigil on campus Wednesday night drew hundreds of students.
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Company profits slipped by more than 25 percent in 2017
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Officials say the biggest hit to the company's bottom line came from one-time tax charges.
Monroe-based company had quarterly sales of $413.6 million, up 6 percent from a year ago when sales totaled $389.9 million.
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Toyota's suppliers said the automaker might not ask them to cut prices as the weak yen will boost profit.
Over the last two years the strong yen made Toyota impose some reductions, but now suppliers expect these reductions to be eliminated during the April-September period. This week Toyota announced it has increased annual profit target by 10% and last month, President Akio Toyoda said that automaker in Japan begin to see 'light' as the yen continues to become weaker, with more than 17% against the dollar.
"With the yen now in decline, Toyota no longer has any real cause to sustain that pressure" on parts makers to cut prices, Issei Takahashi and Masahiro Akita, auto analysts at Credit Suisse Group AG, wrote in a report last month.
Toyota, which manufactures almost 45% of its vehicles in Japan, said it will maintain its domestic production of around 3 million units annually, compared with rivals Honda and Nissan which chose to shift some output overseas due to the increasing yen. Analysts predict that price cuts, which increased to 4% in fiscal years 2011 and 2012, will decrease to 1.5% this year starting April 1st.
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The following are the complete WWE and TNA road schedules for this weekend.
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-NXT event in Starke, Florida on Saturday, March 29.
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UK urges N Korea to calm rhetoric
Britain has joined calls to North Korea to calm escalating rhetoric after the reclusive communist state declared a "state of war" against its southern neighbour.
The threat is the latest in a series since the United Nations imposed new sanctions in response to the country's latest nuclear test last month.
Young leader Kim Jong Un threatened the US on Friday after its B2 bombers took part in an annual training exercise with South Korea.
Analysts believe the inflammatory language is aimed at pushing Washington into talks and that the regime would not risk full-blown conflict, but tensions are high.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We have noted today's statement from North Korea.
"We have made clear to North Korea that its long-term interests will only be served by constructive engagement with the international community. These threatening statements will only seek to isolate it further. The armistice agreement has enabled the Korean peninsula to benefit from 60 years' peace. Maintaining it is in the best interests of all."
A statement issued via Pyongyang's state news agency said that "from this time on, the North-South relations will be entering the state of war and all issues raised between the North and the South will be handled accordingly".
Any military provocations "will not be limited to a local war, but develop into an all-out war, a nuclear war", it added.
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With the crispness in the air, there's no doubt that Fall is here. With the cooler temps, comes some of my favorite activities of the year: sweater weather, apple-picking, pumpkin everything and Halloween. As a kid, I loved heading to the beach in the fall months because it was the time for locals to take back our beach. There's nothing quite like being at the beach in the fall. It's like a whole different creature!
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Monthly Archives: February, 2009
What Caused the Food Price Hikes During 2008?
Here is the presentation made by Yasuaki YAMAURA, Secretary General of Consumers Union of Japan (CUJ), as one of the programs at the World Foodless Day in Tokyo on October 16, 2008. The Present Situation of the Food Crisis In … Read More
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cuj-jr-146 (pdf) Japan Resources No 146 Cold and sunny in Tokyo today – it is February and we are pleased to publish our latest issue of Japan Resources. Read about how Genetically Modified foods are accelerating the global food crisis, our … Read More
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Being a supplier to Toyota is a coveted position, and the Japanese car company is dedicated to helping ensure that its U.S. mold suppliers for the company's U.S. manufacturing operations provide the best molds at a globally competitive price.
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Erlanger, KY) has a better way to deal with tool and mold suppliers. Recently I was invited to attend a Tooling and Mold Suppliers training seminar that helps these suppliers understand the Toyota way, and what they need to do to be a good supplier to Toyota and it's Tier Ones. It was refreshing to experience an automotive OEM willing to actually help their suppliers be successful! It's a business model that the Detroit automakers could emulate.
Through its Purchasing Tooling Cost Analysis Group (PTCAG), Toyota has determined the cost of molds based on the types of molds and the various components used, in all regions around the world. The purpose of this is to make sure that the company is paying the "right" price for the mold, not necessarily the "cheapest" price or the "highest" price....
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A GROUP of big hearted youngsters have raised hundreds of pounds for a military charity in the name of a fallen Barnsley soldier.
Members of the Kidz Du Care group staged a variety show at the Dearne Playhouse in Goldthorpe on Friday, June 15, and raised £850 for Help For Heroes.
They chose to support the charity after Private Matthew Thornton, 28, lost his life when he was caught up in an explosion in Afghanistan in November 2011.
The show in his honour saw more than 40 young people, aged four to 17, take to the stage to sing, dance and perform.
Project co-ordinator Jill Arkley-Jevons said: "It was a wonderful show. We had 32 difference scenes incorporating different styles of dance, comedy and singing.
"There were tap dancers, street dance and even a Lady Gaga tribute act.
"They did really well to raise that much money and it was another example of the good work these kids are doing."
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Thai Elvis
Elvis is alive, and working the clubs of Chiang Mai, Thailand – with the help of his mother. I met the young pretender, 23, and his mother at a concert commemorating the 30th anniversary of Elvis' death.
His mother heard Elvis for the first time a couple of years ago, fell in love with the King, his sweet melodies and gyrating hips, and began a mission to transform one of her sons into Elvis. She hopes to enroll him onto an Elvis program at a college in Memphis, Tennessee. Currently she is booking him into as many venues as she possibly can. AM
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Venue was great with bar staff / owner very helpful and Alexis doing a great job as venue captain.
The music lounge was a lovely intimate space and ideal for the type of show I was doing.
My audience sizes were typically between 20 and 40 depending on the day and how much flyering had been done but found 40 people too many for the room as it got very hot (luckily the weather was terrible otherwise it could have been hotter).
Overall a highly enjoyable experience and given the chance would love to use the same venue again next year (1 great review, 1 not so great review).
There are a few comments to make regards some very small issues with the venue (these are not complaints just observations as they did not make a great deal of difference for me personally)
There were a few ocassions when I turned up and the mic wasn't working but that was not a huge problem given the size of the room.
An issue with external noise during my show was due to the entrance to the banquetting hall having a gate rather than a door and being so close to the rear door of the music lounge. My show was interupted on most days if the other shows had a particularly noisy section or when the audience left / arrived for the other show given the staggered start of the 2 rooms (not a criticism of the other shows as this was inevitable given the physical layout of the venue).
The show before me was always finished more than 15 minutes before I started and by just doing stand up there was no need for me to do any real set up and I would normally spend the time before my show chatting to audience members or trying to convince a few extra people to come in.
My show would typically start up to 5mins late as there always seemed to be a handful of latecomers.
I was on before the Sheality show and once I was notified about the drinking glasses situation I tried to remember to remove them all (mostly successfully). I always left the room in the same layout as I had found it.
I normally stayed in the bar after the show for 1 pint and if not officially shepherding people into the show as they always shouted out for members to make their way into the room, I always made a point of asking people who looked lost what they were looking for and guided them appropriately.


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Expanding My Repertoire22 Mar 2014 / Paul Epps
My piano teacher asks me if there are any pieces I want to learn . . .
"How about . . . ?" and here I name a piece by Chopin.
"This one?" she asks and starts to play it.
"It's hard."
"Well, it sounds quite impressive but I think if you break it down it's just arpeggios and thirds."
"No, it's not just thirds," she says and starts to play it again to show me. "And that's with the left hand. Do you think you can play that with your left hand?"
"My left hand's not very good."
"I know."
"So that one is too hard."
"OK, how about . . . ?" and here I name another piece by Chopin.
"That's the only piece that's harder than the first one."
"How about this?" I ask, and play a YouTube video on my phone.
"What is that?"
"It's from a film called The Piano."
"Is that New Age music? It's not classical music."
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Dave goes Back to the Future and powers up his old Tandy 1000 computer.
Will it work?, will it choke?
And how to channel your inner Woz to design your own Turbo Board.
(Check out the ROM BIOS version 1.00.00 !!)
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Dave goes Back to the Future and powers up his old Tandy 1000 computer.
Will it work?, will it choke?
And how to channel your inner Woz to design your own Turbo Board.
(Check out the ROM BIOS version 1.00.00 !!)
Podcast: Download
Dave looks at the Digilent Open Scope MZ Review, an $89 open source oscilloscope, logic ...
If it was working before it was put in a reasonable storage place, I say yes!
Maybe the problem with the first switch on was the PSU electrolytic capacators, or the cap in the reset circuit…
Now it's running, give it a job to do! Mke it into a clock or something…
How about an episode on FPGA's, are they usable by a non professional? What does the programming look like?
Great podcast dave, I really enjoy them, keep them coming!
I'd also like to see an episode on FPGAs. Every site on the web about FPGAs gives a great overview of what they are and how they work internally, but they never tell you what they're good for or when to use them.
Another vote for a blog entry on FPGAs. I'd love to hear an overview on what they're good for, & the "gotchas" associated with them.
Hi Dave, great blog, reminded me of my first PC, it was a fully pimped XT, my parents bought it so dad could work at home. I liked drafting back then so my parents bought me AutoSketch V1.0 (we did every upgrade till V5.X) then I found EasyTrax and I was in love 😉
It was slow, needed more ram, and a HDD, the HDD was easy, parents handed over plastic card and I was resented with a box wooohoo 20MB HDD with controller, the ram was a bit more of a problem as not many expansion cards existed back then, but I found an article in a magazine, it involved soldering extra ram chips on top of the existing ones with a few pins bent out and jumpered to a PCB with the extra address decoding, I was surprised at age 12 I was allowed to do this on "the family computer" but after a bit of work and a few days trouble shooting it worked 🙂
The speed mod was found in EA IIRC it was written by you I guess as the circuit was the same 🙂 mine was not needing to be so small as the clock chip was under the drive bays (my PC was an XT clone with a full sized case that hinged up at the back) also added a reset switch 🙂
Wow what memories, as I made friends in the computer industry, the machine slowly grew up to a 486Dx2 66Mhz with a 250Mb HDD, network card (arc net) and a VGA monitor (the original was CGA).
I agree that hardware should be re-purposed.
Find it a job it can do until the end of it's functional life.
This blog is always entertaining and informative!
The intro was snazzy!
Nice mod. FPGA artical would be good, mabey your veiws on the various languages used and how blocks of code are meant to interact! I have done some fpga stuff but found it ticky to get anything more complex than pong working.
Born in 1985..
Hi Dave,
Great blog, I can't wait till your next blog is online 🙂
I like your new intro too.
Keep up the good work.
Need any help or info with your blog, let me know.
Dave, Great Blog! It keeps me entertained without making me feel overwhelmed ( I am only into my 2nd year of a Computer Engineering degree).
The new intro is a bit cheesy with the graphics but in a good way. The geek in me loves that it is an actual chip and that you know what it is; ie no canned public domain image.
I will eventually have a class dedicated to FPGA and would love to see an intro into it. Maybe even a series about it with a simple project using an emulator of some sort.
Keep up the good work, I can't wait on the next post!!
Intro is cool, keep up the good work.
Man, your blog is great.
Keep it running.
You have reached Brazil !
Wow! That's right. Some people where not even born then. I still have my first and second computers (Mac + HX20) from the those "1984" days. It has been that long.
Wow, animating with Altium! They really do want it to do everything for everyone!
OT comment….
Love the guest appearance in the webinar Dave 😉
What webinar?
Hi Dave,
The Altium FPGA embedded instrument Webinar that Marty did this week 🙂
There is a still shot of you with a NB a PCB and the three monitors 😉
Obviously some random guy that just happens to look like me, I get that a lot!
Let me guess, he looks stupid like he doesn't know what he's doing with that hardware? Probably just a marketing guy or a paid male nerd model.
I'll have to investigate this egregious attempt to cash in on my image :->
Lol Dave,
It is a dead ringer for you 😉
I would ask for your royalties lol
The image was used for a worldwide production lol
I never went the PC route in the beginning. Indeed, back then the PC was very much inferior when compared to alternatives. The Amiga in 1985 revolutionised the computer world, and were it not for the blundering idiots that managed Commodore I think we would all be using Amiga computers today. Or at the very least, Amiga would have easily displaced the MAC.
But, times move on and it just goes to show that the *best* product isn't always the winning product. It all comes down to marketing in the end, and Commodore management were very poor at that.
Good blog. I love firing up my old computers. This inspired me to get my old Spectrum out of the attic, and it actually worked first time!!! Impressed! 🙂
Encouraged by my Spectrum success I decided to get some of my old Amiga computers down today. My A1200 and my CD32 worked fine first time, but the A500+ reports an error at reset and my CDTV fails to power on at all.
I've opened the A500+ and a battery for the clock has been oozing its innards out all over the motherboard. We'll see what happens once I've removed the battery and cleaned the board!!
Hi Brian,
Finally someone mentions the Amiga! Truly a superior computer at the time, I have the whole collection now :-).. Love the fact that the manuals came with schematics too.
The leaking battery issue is a common problem, you need to remove them from all your Amigas before storage, or the leaking gunk will cause serious damage! So far nearly all my Amigas from 85-94 are still working..
Wait, I might have missed something…
You mentioned that they were using an external crystal even though an internal oscillator was present on the chip. You mentioned that you might be able to use that internal oscillator when you were first investigating a solution.
Was the internal oscillator also running at 4.77? Then you just swapped the external one for a 20mhz? So the factory mode (external crystal) became 20mhz and the overclocking switch really enabled the 4.77mhz internal one? I guess you built an UN-turbo switch! 😀
And did you really have the processor overclocked to 20mhz back then? WOW!!
The internal oscillator circuit required the external crystal, sorry for the confusion. Almost unheard of back then to have a chip or micro with an actual full internal oscillator, unlike these days.
The 20MHz external crystal got internally divided, as did the other external crystal input you could switch too, so the processor switched between 4.77MHz and 8MHz.
If you think there's "so much waste" in the EE hardware world, you should see what's happened to the software industry.
This past week, I was up on the attic and spotted my old TRS-80 Model III sitting there and was really tempted to do what you've done and get it out. I think you've inspired me to use up my next free day messing with it. When I was very young, like middle school age, I wrote a Z80 Disassembler so I could hack the ROM based OS of the thing! Great memories. Back then, instruction set docs described the instruction with a graph and showed all the timings as an annotated image. Those manuals are still up there.
Sadly, In spite of my interest in hardware, I've always been stuck in the software world. I do a little hobby electronics and that's it. If I ever get so rich I have money to burn, I'd love to go back to school and get a EE degree. Don't even ask me why… I guess I just love the stuff and I know I suck at hardware! (as the blog says)
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Reflections of the Sky
Please welcome a guest to my blog today… my dear friend, Joy, from Unfolding Your Path To Joy visits us with her unique and beautiful perspective on life! I can't remember where it was she and I first connected, but it was somewhere out there in the ethers of blogland… and I'm so grateful to have her inspiring presence in my life! Thank you, Joy, for sharing with me and my readers this sweet glimpse of your amazing life!
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I live on a sailboat docked in a slip in a beautiful marina in So Ca. When I stand on the dock, I see the harbor water leading to the expanse of ocean, I see majestic hills that I enjoy hiking in, I see the sky stretched like the Universe canvas'–always changing, yet so beautiful because of the changes..
I love watching the sky. There is so much to learn from it. I love the bright, sunny days when the sky is blue, not a cloud in sight. The sun is brilliant, sending its rays to warm my skin, to glisten off of the harbor water. I love cloudy days–watching the 'clouds roll in' covering the canvas of sky. I know that the sun is there even if I cannot feel its warmth or see its rays touch anything. I love all of the beauty of the sky..the night sky with the moon sending its moonbeams through my hatch as I sleep, the stars shining brightly. Some nights so cloudy that all around me is black. And in my harbor we have "June gloom"–a heavy fog rolls in around sunrise and settles down until late afternoon. It lifts as quickly as it settled in, and all is bright and sunny again. We also have some huge electrical storms..lightening slices through the sky..thunder rolls…Some days I hear that there are water spouts out in the ocean..I try to stay away from those (*grin ocean/land, I think I prefer water spoutless days)…
I find the sky fascinating well– one because I know it's been created by a Force so huge that I cannot fathom it..and two, because it is always there yet ever changing..to me a huge parallel to my life. All throughout the day, when I look at the sky, the changes actually comfort me because I can tell from the position of the sun–and later the moon–the progression of the day…All is well…The changes are familiar to me yet– as in the case of storms– sometimes unexpected. I choose to celebrate the beauty of the sky each and every time..Living on the boat I call the sky 'my ceiling'…so in that sense then, I choose to celebrate the beauty of my home…
As I look at the sky, I am making a choice…just as when I look at life. My perspective affects my thoughts, words, actions. I believe that what I focus on grows, so then in my life my perspective is key..it affects the direction of my life, the paths I choose to take, the progression of my day…My perspective is my choice…I choose to celebrate the good in everything. If that sounds "pollyannaish" then I do apologize, but it is a reality for me; exactly how I choose to live. I may find that the sun is not shining on a day I really wanted it to, or that the wind is still on a day I wanted to sail..or any number of potential disappointments..I choose to incorporate the external into my internal…So, if the sun is not shining I may choose to celebrate the clouds and the opportunity to perform tasks I wouldn't have had I been out playing–which then leaves open space for something marvelous to fill. I call this concept unfolding..instead of resisting external circumstances as they are presented to me, I allow them to guide me along my path. So, if the wind is still, I may choose to curse the wind for not co-operating, or I may choose to enjoy another opportunity I would otherwise not have had. In all cases, it is my choice to embrace the moment as it is with what I've been given; I may not change the external conditions, but when I choose to embrace it I allow my heart to remain open to infinite possibility.
In my personal life, when I allow my heart to remain open, then beauty, joy, delight, wonder swoop in. I choose to accept those gifts. I choose to then use that energy to share with others from a well of abundance and peace, to create within my own life, to parent joyfully, to live fully. Because I believe that what I focus on grows, then when faced with a choice to celebrate or moan..I choose celebrate..and the interesting fact is that each celebration leads to the next, so I may look back upon a full day and find it was full of Divine, not void of anything at all. If I choose to focus on lack of, instead of abundance in…then lack of grows and I truly do not want to live such a small, stress filled life.
I am not saying that less than positive does not exist..I am saying that when faced with less than positive, it is my choice what to do with it. In today's society, we are often bombarded with less than positive within a day..day in and day out that truly adds up and can zap one's Spirit. In my own life, I've chosen to limit the opportunity for less than positive to be present..as one example I do not have TV, nor do I watch, listen to, or read the news. As a member of this community on Earth, I should be and am fully Aware of local and global events, yet I am not bombarded with endless details of less than positive surrounding them because I choose to limit the access. My life has been sprinkled with experiences that have been extremely less than positive..yet in each and every situation I choose to find and celebrate the good. I do not have control over external events, but my internal control setting on Love allows me to direct the way those events affect my life.
In closing, I have two young children. There are natural stages of growth where one is overcome with transition/change..there are times of confusion, doubt, frustration, discouragement, pain, hormonal overload…I understand all of the external. What my heart wants for my children is to experience life fully, to tap into life's abundance, to recognize that they are surrounded by Love, Joy, Beauty, Peace and can choose to celebrate those gifts at any moment, regardless of external circumstances…My ten year old daughter has quite the spirit and when in the throes of emotion or in the depths of a situation that is less than favorable for her…before I can even acknowledge her… she will sometimes look at me and say "Yes, Mom, I know I can turn it around, but for this moment I choose not to.."
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair finally making its way to US Audiences
Well, it's about time.
Quentin Tarantino has been teasing us with this one for years. But the folks over at AICN, while looking at the schedule for Tarantino's grindhouse takeover of the New Beverly Cinema, discovered something decidedly awesome.
Tarantino is finally premiering the extended, complete, heart-bursting, eyeball-ripping Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair.
The film will presumably premier with the extended animated sequence detailed by our colleagues over at the Playlist, as well as being, according to Tarantino himself "the unrated combined version which has never been seen in the United States."
So if you live in LA, drop by the New Beverly on March 27. And if you don't, pray that this is just the beginning.
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I'm very happy to announce that my new book Highway Sky is now live.
Highway Sky is a collection of road poems published here on Coyote Mercury and in various fine journals, 'zines, sites, and anthologies over the past seven years.
As of right now, Highway Sky is available in paperback in the following places: Amazon, my e-store, Barnes & Noble, and probably most anywhere else you can order books. There is also a Kindle edition and a free .pdf edition version is available for review or creative remix. Contact me for more info.
The following poems from the collection were previously published. Where there are working links, they can be read online. My thanks to the editors of the following journals for publishing these…
"Sonnet Found in a Road Atlas" Verbatim Found Poetry (Jun 2015)
"a hundred miles out" tinywords (Apr 2015, Issue 15.1)
"All the Way" Synchronized Chaos (Mar 2015)
"Three Scenes from the Road" The Lake (Mar 2015)
"windshield rain" A Blackbird Sings: A Book of Short Poems (Woodsmoke Press, Sep 2012)
"if there are angels" feathers (Apr 2012)
"North Through Fog." Houston Literary Review (Feb 2011)
"Night at the Interstate Diner." qarrtsiluni (Dec 2010 – The Crowd issue)
"Highway 73 to Port Arthur." a handful of stones (Jul 2010)
"Deeper into Texas." America Remembered (Virgogray* Press Chapbook Anthology Jul 2010)
"Miles (Never Once Imagined)." Carcinogenic Poetry (May 2010)
"I-10 Eastbound." Carcinogenic Poetry (May 2010)
"We Talk of Trains." ouroboros review (Jul 2009 – No. 3)
"A Texas Highway in Springtime." Bolts of Silk (May 2009)
And, thanks to The Poetry Storehouse for making "For Gasoline" and "angels" available for creative remix. (Incidentally, all of the individual poems in Highway Sky are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial license so if you want to envideo/remix… have at it.)
Many of the poems first appeared here in draft form. You can read those early drafts here. Some are draftier than others, but I offer my sincerest thanks to the many people who commented, critiqued and left feedback on these drafts over the past seven years. It has meant a lot to me.
I hope you'll check it out and help spread the word. Thank you.


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Derbyshire kept alive their slim hopes of qualifying for the Twenty20 quarter-finals with a two-run victory to end Durham's chances. Replying to the Phantoms' 172 for four Phil Mustard and Graham Onions came together with Durham looking well out of contention at 112 for seven in the 15th over.
They got the target down to nine off the last over but wicketkeeper Mustard faced only the second ball, driving a single to long-off to remain unbeaten on 67. When Onions lofted the fourth ball over extra cover for four only three were needed, but he drove the fifth straight back to North then sliced a catch to deep gully to fall for 31 and Durham finished on 170 for eight.
Leicestershire moved joint top of the north division by beating Yorkshire, despite Michael Lumb's 66. The Foxes, who won by 21 runs with three balls remaining, are level on points with Nottinghamshire, while Yorkshire now need victories from their last two group matches to feel confident of qualifying for the last-eight draw.


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Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic
The University's first residential undergraduate campus is located on the banks of the Naryn River, the longest river in the Kyrgyz Republic, and nestled amidst the Tian Shan Mountain range. UCA's School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPCE) also has a Town Campus in Naryn.
UCA Naryn Campus
The UCA Naryn Campus launched in September 2016. It is the first phase of a larger vision for the 252-hectare site, gifted by the Kyrgyz Government. Classes commenced for the inaugural class of 71 undergraduates at the Naryn Campus on 5 September.
Phase I includes a 13,927m² space for 150 students featuring state of the art classrooms, library and laboratories; secure, modular student dormitories and faculty and staff residences. Its international standard athletic facilities, including two tennis courts and a football pitch are open to the public and UCA's Sports Dome offers indoor athletics year-round. When the final phase is complete, the campus will accommodate 1,200 students and span 125,000m².
To prepare the campus site for construction, UCA established two nurseries and planted 60,000 trees, plants and shrubs to replant on and around the UCA campus site. Using stone sourced from the Naryn River, UCA constructed over 2.4 kilometres of green and gabion wall, securing campus boundaries and stabilising the Naryn River bank. UCA diverted high voltage power lines when routing a portion of the Naryn State Road off the campus site. Telecommunication lines were redirected onto the site.
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In 2008, UCA began constructing its Naryn Town Campus. The 3,000m² building was officially opened in 2011 and houses the University's School of Professional and Continuing Education (SPCE). It faces the 2,300 m² Naryn Central Park, developed by UCA for the citizens of Naryn. The facility is equipped with state of the art learning technologies, two computer laboratories, four classrooms and a 7,476-volume library. The School has become a leading provider of adult and continuing education, reaching nearly 23,000 learners in the Kyrgyz Republic.
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The University of Central Asia (UCA) opened its first campus in Naryn, Kyrgyz Republic on 19 October 2016 with Kyrgyz Prime Minister Sooronbay Jeenbekov and UCA Chancellor, His Highness the Aga Khan. The ceremony was held under the patronage of President Almazbek Atambayev.


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sorry for the long wait folks, i had some issues in real life.Anyway wowwy alot changed and was updated from information i gathered around about all the stuff i missed. Looks like Conquer broke apart due to "lack of officers cooperation" some claimed. TERRORIST has been wiped off the map since last week by indignant.Without the fights with Conquer ,TERRORIST is starting to decline. Alot of their players left or just went inactive.I didnt believe it until i checked it out for myself.Only a handful of active players still play only. Yes you may be wondering who the heck is indignant. After Enrage broke up they split into 3 groups (some went to other factions) like indignant,RoC, and Karma. RoC began losing power because some of their key players dont log on much anymore or some went to other guilds so RoC lost all there lands to UnderDogz,Halo,indignant,and Radiance. Now i heard Radiance lose alot of their old players and recent players however some miracle happened and they manage to start recovering again. Looks like GD will be owning alot of lands for a while until a new super faction is created to resist it. XTAINTEDX beat Dominus a few times and just when Dominus had only 2 lands left. XTAINTEDX began to lose power and Dominus pushed them to the upper left side corner. We all know Pinoy want there little land back on the lower left corner of the map but however big boy xWarx is covering it so they have to wait for the map to reset again.Liberate is a old faction i've seen around and they finally got a land again. It's weird that all these old guilds that died out years ago are starting to comeback. Evolution and RoC is a example of old guilds. I wont be suprised if Triad,Yakuza,Caesar(Salad),and Tao try to make a comeback.Anything is possible right? Well thats it folks for the update! Cya later
This finally the 4th week since the map reset for the descent expansion!!
XTAINTEDX managed to take control the top 3 lands in orange. Enrage recieved a very deadly blow to the army they once held with pride. Rumors is going around that alot of Enrage split to join RoC and Karma faction mainly.After weeks of failing to beat Radiance, Karma finally gathered enough force to beat Radiance 3/9/12. Halo faction got wiped off the map after controling 3 lands including City Of The Lost and then lost it to Enrage alt fac call ObeyToast. Tresspass was on a killing spree as they spread south but finally came across a equal faction that stopped them called Morality. Morality successfully defended off the invaders since map reset including Tien, Pinoy, and Tresspass.Golddigerz is attacking 1k tomorrow 3/11/12 20:18. Mighty Domius lost to SlvrDigerz which is Golddigerz alt faction. Which shows Dominus power is weaking if they lost to a alt faction on the map. Cerebal successfully defended it's land from Alianza. _TheFlood is being ganked by two factions call XTAINTED and UnderDogz. Drakon faction made no attempt to attack this week unless they got outbid by Dominus if they were going after RoC 1 land they had. Swamp of The Wraith was lost to Tien that was controlled by Synesis. "WaR" a alt fac took Violence off the map at B.Dreams Island. Lets not forget the upcoming power faction that i mentioned in my last review. Conquer lost a bid in one of the weeks but managed to pick up and take King Feast which was held by TERRORIST and Dreaming Cloud which was held by Defcon. Rumors is going around that Conquer current leader SnipersShot booted his director ArtemisSpade along with Arkivir and Sligstorm from faction because they caused to much drama and is stepping on fellow members face with trash talking so they went to TERRORIST to get their revenge back against conquer. Drama is going back and fourth between thesr two factions however this is only a game and TERRORIST is bash talking to provoke Conquer. Lets see in the next few week how the turnout will be for both of these factions as TERRORIST are "Scared" so they are calling on alliance factions to fight Conquer off. Thats covers this week coverage on the latest battles. Thank you reading and have a nice day!
Next week after factions capture all of the Lvl 3 lands for this week is where intense wars are going to happen. The only faction failed to capture a land was Wasp. GoldDigrz and Enrage are practically neighbors for this map reset and I feel bad for _TheFlood because they are between those two fierce some factions. Karma and Enrage lands are connected to Drakon so if they decide to poke Drakon it will be a outrageous fight. From rumors spreading around it seems Conquer is a new up rising powerful guild. The real Radiance is neighbors with xWaRx to the left and Conquer to the right under City of the Plume. The old legendary faction RoC came back but from what i heard it's a Enrage alt fac but don't be fooled because they can put up a decent fight and they are located under Dominus's land Misfortune. A chunk of random alt factions from radiance,gold,enrage is located left of dominus. Alianza and XTAINTEDX are neighbors but soon one will ransack the other one.TERRORIST finally wins a piece of land after multiple attacks on the map when other guilds held those territories. I have to admit they are a persistant guild that never gives up and finally it pays off for them to survive this long to win a pve tw. Other than that the rest of the map has small guilds that will be fighting each other for control for power and fame!! Wish all the guilds with the best of luck and never give up.
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The Accord coalition for inclusive schooling has welcomed plans by the National Union of Teachers to campaign for an end religious discrimination in school admissions.
Speakers at the Global Ecumenical Conference on Justice for Dalits last weekend gave a human face to the 3,500-year-old system of institutional caste-based discrimination.
If we are to have publicly funded faith schools, then they must serve the whole community, says Anglican vicar Jeremy Chadd. They mustn't exist to prop up one community, nor to offer escape routes from a more diverse real world to those who already have all the advantages in life.
The Liberal Democrats have become the first mainstream political party in Britain to admit that many faith schools currently pursue unnecessary discriminatory practices in admissions and employment, and to pledge to challenge them.
Are Christians in Britain an unacknowledged majority or a persecuted minority? Some are trying to say they are both!
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has said that faith groups using public money should not 'proselytise' or discriminate in the provision of services to their communities.
Half of the Catholic adoption agencies that the Church threatened to close if they were required to work with gay couples have now adopted the new equality law following an exemption period that ended on 1 January.
A London borough has won its appeal against a ruling that it unlawfully discriminated against a Christian registrar who refused to perform same-sex civil partnerships.
Well done Theos! The think tank set up by the Bible Society did a survey the other day which I had missed until I came across it just now.
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Whales hold a mystique in their alien familiarity that in the last fifty years drove campaigns to "save the whales" but in the past conflicted whalers. Behemoths from a world hostile to man, we know little of their lives. Majestic creatures that seem to dance as they erupt from the water, some species "sing" to each other in a language that eludes yet captivates us. Intelligent and curious animals, the brains of some whale species have spindle neurons similar to those in humans that control judgment, social behavior, and emotions. Many whale species live in pods and have strong family ties. Far-ranging nomads, whales migrate with the seasons. As recently as 2007, a 19th-century lance was found in a living whale, evincing their long lifespans.
Artists turn their wonder from whales into metaphoric and symbolic works that pulse with energy and emotion. Graffitti artist DALeast and Mark Brooks use energetic ribbons and paint spatters to portray the whales' figures. Daniel Danger, Emek, DALeast, and Jens Harder capture the emotional power of a whale breaching from the sea. Sarah Dennis reminds us of their stately calm, while Barry Moser and Dan McCarthy draw from the battle for survival, showing their strength and scars. Enjoy ten pieces of whale art by nine artists.


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American Foxhound
One of America's native breeds, the American Foxhound is also one of our rarest. This tall hound sports a close, hard coat that can be any color. The Foxhound in this country is used for four purposes, thus calling for hounds of different characteristics: competitive field trial hounds and "trail" hounds (speed is most important), fox hunting hounds (slow workers with good voices), and pack hounds (15 to 20 hounds or more, used by hunt clubs and farmers).
- Personality: Sweet-tempered and easygoing, but also stubborn and independent
- Energy Level: Very Active; They could be called "Springsteen hounds" because, baby, they were born to run; lots of exercise required
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- Shedding: Seasonal
- Grooming: Occasional
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- Height: 22-25 inches (male), 21-24 inches (female)
- Weight: 65-70 pounds (male), 60-65 pounds (female)
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Arizona Immigration Reform, A Look Back
The battle over immigration reform has entered its second year and the landscape now looks very different than even a few months ago. Arizona took the lead and offered the draconian (and unconstitutional) SB 1070 and at least 20 states lined up to propose similar measures.
But in at least six states those proposals have been voted down or simply withered on the vine. At least as many can't make it out of committee.
Even in conservative Utah their efforts at immigration reform have produced a bill that many of the backers of the Arizona approach dismiss as amnesty. The Utah bill, passed on Friday, creates ID cards for "guest workers" and their families so long as they pay a fine and don't commit serious crimes. Immigrants who entered the country illegally would be fined up to $2500 while those who entered the country legally but were not complying with federal immigration law would be fined $1000.
As the bill's author state Rep. Bill Wright noted "[s]ending a few people home will not solve our problems."
So why the sea change? Most immigration policy experts point to state budget woes as the primary motivator for moving away from the Arizona approach. The massive expansion of police power contemplated by the Arizona-style immigration measures means spending money on added enforcement, not to mention the costs associated with defending the measures in court. States are looking ways to reduce spending, not increase it.
Additionally, businesses have shown an uncomfortableness with the economic consequences associated with unpopular measures. Despite best efforts to spin the story otherwise, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is facing growing pressure to curb these kinds of efforts and if she doesn't may even face a recall. And while SB 1070 still has support among Arizonans, other immigration measures pushed through this year are not as popular.
So what does this all mean? If there can be any consensus drawn a year later, it is the importance of a broad-based national solution to the challenges of immigration reform. Congress took a stab at it last year but was stymied by Republicans. Given the current makeup of the House of Representatives there's no reason to think any reasonable reform will come anytime soon.
Which means states will continue along in a patchwork fashion and the issue will most likely be decided through court challenges. For those who support the Arizona approach to immigration reform, that is not good news.
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The St. Claude Food Truck Park, presented by St. Claude Main Street and My House NOLA, will showcase two of New Orleans' favorite things – food and music – with the area's first and only food truck park.
From October 2 – November 8, the St. Claude Food Truck Park will pop-up in a vacant lot at the corner of St. Claude Avenue and Feliciana Street. The park will come to life each Thursday – Saturday night from 6 – 9 p.m., offering neighborhood residents and visitors from across the city an opportunity to come together and dine on a variety of unique cuisines.
There will be at least three food trucks at the park each night, rotating among the area's most popular "meals on wheels." Also available for purchase will be domestic and specialty beers that pair with the weekend's food truck offerings.
Picnic tables will provide seating and places to gather under strings of holiday-style lights. In addition to live local bands, entertainment will be provided by members of SCMS' two youth programs – New Orleans Youth Sound Experience (NOYSE) and NOLA Mix. The food truck park will also feature portable restroom facilities, bike parking and security.
It's been a while since we asked for your help to make New Orleans a home for food trucks. Since that time, you've watched our small industry grow as we've been allowed to take it to the streets (at least most of them). But a piece of the puzzle is still missing - food truck lots, where you can find lots of your favorite trucks in one place, near where you work and live, are still illegal in New Orleans.
This Tuesday at 3 o'clock, the future of food truck lots will be decided. We're asking the City Planning Commission to allow the creation of food truck lots throughout the city. The plan being proposed by the Commission has so many requirements that food truck lots would not be viable. For instance, it prohibits food truck lots from operating more than 3 days a week, and requires lots to have 1000 square feet of space for each truck, even though a parked truck takes up less than 200 square feet.
Many of us food truck owners will be there so that our voice is heard. But this affects you eaters as well - if you want food truck lots where you live and work please join us at the Council Chambers of City Hall this Tuesday, Sept. 9th.
Thanks for all of your help and support,
Taylor Jackson
Political Director, New Orleans Food Truck Coalition
Here's some recent data on the impact of food trucks across the US -
"According to the National Restaurant Association's 2014 forecast, food trucks make up one of the fastest-growing sectors of the restaurant industry, with 2013 sales of nearly $700 million, or about 1 percent of total U.S. restaurant sales — not bad for a business model that didn't exist before 2008. A 2012 study by Emergent Research projected that food truck revenue would quadruple to $2.7 billion by 2017."
New food truck commissary in the works! "Nall said that his commissary would be a one-stop shop for food trucks. It will offer not only food storage and kitchen space but also propane, disposal of greywater and a secure lot to park the trucks."
New Orleans food truck operators, however, cite the lack of a shared commissary where truck operators can cook and store food as the biggest hurdle facing the sector.
I recently visited Denver, CO and Portland, OR and was amazed to see food trucks and carts set up practically everywhere. Alleyways, vacant lots next to restaurants, sidewalks, pedestrian malls, etc. I dont' propose to intentionally hurt brick-and-mortar restaurants but...May the best food purveyor win! I would also love to see more foot traffic in LOTS of areas of town.
Great quote from Charles Pizzo on last week's victory: "Food trucks: while people look at this as "who won, who lost," the reality was a far more complicated, complex and challenging set of considerations and compromises that got the issue to this point---and more time than perhaps anyone realizes. A whole lot of people behind the scenes have been dedicated to both sides of this issue. I pray for common ground going forward."
Congratulations everyone ... "Expansion of food trucks gets OK from New Orleans City Council" www.nola.com/politics/index.ss...
A months-long legal struggle to expand the opportunities for food trucks to operate in New Orleans ended in apparently complete victory Thursday when the City Council gave 6-0 approval to an ordinance authorizing 100 such trucks -- many times the...
Interesting perspective from NYC in today's New York Times:
"The food-truck business, I realized, is a classic case of bureaucratic inertia. The city has a right to weigh the interests of food-market owners (who don't want food trucks blocking their windows) and diners (who deserve to know that their street meat is edible, and harmless). But many of the rules governing location were written decades ago. ... I was reminded of corrupt countries that I've visited, like Iraq and Haiti, where illogical and arbitrarily enforced rules create the wrong set of incentives."
"Calling it unconstitutional and unlikely to stand up to a legal challenge, Mayor Mitch Landrieu has vetoed a recent City Council ordinance easing restrictions on food trucks in New Orleans. Landrieu suggested that the ordinance, sponsored by Council President Stacy Head, did not go far enough in liberalizing a provision intended to protect brick-and-mortar restaurants from competition by food trucks."
Great op-ed from NOFTC President Rachel Billow in today's paper: www.nola.com/opinions/index.ss...
"Research and first-hand experience demonstrate that food trucks provide important benefits to the communities they serve. They are a great way for culinary entrepreneurs of all backgrounds to start their own businesses. They bring food options to underserved areas, brighten up blighted neighborhoods, increase foot traffic, and complement store-front businesses. Food trucks also generate tax revenue and create jobs. And they feature delicious, innovative cuisine."


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Most broadband ISPs charge by the megabyte for data transferred over a set monthly limit, so that broadband connection can turn from boon to bane all too quickly.
Broadband users are more vulnerable to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. In a DDoS, hackers take control of the PCs connected to a broadband network and, without the owner's knowledge or consent, use them to attack another part of the Internet.
The innocent broadband customer could become involved in litigation if their "zombie" PCs were found to have contributed to the attack.
Prevention is better than cure, so it is preferable to attempt to prevent an attack than sweep up the remains afterwards.
Many think the consumer grades of the Windows operating system are secure, but they are not. Businesses should install Windows 2000 or XP, which provide encrypted passwords and secure disk storage.
But even here you must be wary because these operating systems make parts of a PC's hard drive available to a network by default. Closing off these "default shares" will prevent unauthorised access to files stored on the hard drive.
Gibson Research Group and Microsoft's developer website (MSDN) have information on securing Windows from these types of attack.
Firewalls have been around for almost a decade now, but few are aimed at small business.
Black Ice Defender and Symantec's Internet Security 2002 are cheap but they lack professional features such as the ability to protect virtual private networks and remote reporting support. Black Ice has also failed to prevent some types of intrusion.
The open-source operating system GNU/Linux is a cheap alternative for smaller organisations.
Although training, integration and staff wages may cost more than with a solution from Microsoft, the low purchase price is attractive.
Mandrake Security's Single Network Firewall can be updated through the Web to keep abreast with the latest Linux security patches and can be configured remotely with an in-built secure connection. It also e-mails security alerts.
An alternative firewall for the mobile worker is Tiny Personal Firewall 2.0.
AusCERT found that insider abuse, especially of e-mail, was more common than hacking. One way to reduce the risk is to prevent your users from visiting sites not related to their jobs.
Software such as that offered by Perth company Webspy, which details how workers use the Internet, bolted on to a firewall with proxy filtering, is an ideal combination.
Software such as the KaZaA Media Desktop and Morpheus make it easy for computer users to share files - often pirated music and videos - which may open a company up to copyright infringement litigation. Also, the large files chew up expensive bandwidth.
KaZaA has been implicated as a security risk by researchers from the United States because its complicated user-interface encourages users to share everything on their PC's hard drive, potentially leaving corporate secrets open to anyone on the Internet. It also carries spyware - software that snoops on a user's activities and reports back to unknown third parties.
A recent spyware addition, Altnet, liberates the host PC's processing capacity and gives this to a Californian company, Brilliant Digital. Although it promises to take only a small amount of each PC's spare capacity, if you have a few PCs this can rapidly amount to a costly hardware expense.
If it all seems too much, a final option is a cyber security guard or Managed Security Service (MSS). It takes care of firewalls, intrusion detection systems, anti-virus programs, and Web and e-commerce servers, leaving you to concentrate on your business.
Meanwhile, be suspicious of cut-price providers and always get references.
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An upper-class woman recovering from a suicide attempt, Margaret Prior has begun visiting the women's ward of Millbank prison, Victorian London's grimmest jail, as part of her rehabilitative charity work. Amongst Millbank's murderers and common thieves, Margaret finds herself increasingly fascinated by an apparently innocent inmate, the enigmatic spiritualist Selina Dawes. Selina was imprisoned after a séance she was conducting went horribly awry, leaving an elderly matron dead and a young woman deeply disturbed. Although initially skeptical of Selina's gifts, Margaret is soon drawn into a twilight world of ghosts and shadows, unruly spirits and unseemly passions, until she is at last driven to concoct a desperate plot to secure Selina's freedom, and her own.


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A chill wind passed through the trees on Highland University's campus, showering gold and burgundy leaves down onto the cobbled walkways. The warm red buildings that normally looked so alive and inviting were cold and foreboding in the autumn light. Students hurried along the paths, shoulders hunched, shrouded in blacks and grays, some pale and drawn, others red-eyed and sniffling. A funeral had taken place that morning. A funeral for a young man of 21, taken from life too early.
That man was me.
Or should I say is me? The body of me at least. I was hit by a drunk driver walking back from work one night. I remember seeing the lights, hearing the screeching tires, and then there was pain. Shouting broke through my foggy mind. "Need an IV….broken….name, Alec Hart….not gonna make it…." Then blackness took me. I didn't relive my life in some dreamy procession of scenes; there was no warm light or tunnel, just darkness, darkness and silence, all around, consuming me. And then the clarity came, clarity like I'd never known before. I was dead. I was really and truly dead, and though it was odd to think of, I wasn't sad or scared, it felt right, like I knew it was my time. The next thing that came was a sudden weight and I felt like I was dragged down and down, through endless time and space until I found myself at my own funeral, watching it not from the air, but from the empty space beside the preacher.
I have to admit, I was touched by the number of people that came, many of whom I hadn't realized felt a connection to me in any way. Right in front of the crowd was my family, all silent and crying, holding onto each other like they'd blow into dust with the next breeze. My heart ached for them, but I was distracted by an obvious absence. My best friend since first grade and current, or maybe former now, roommate at the university, Louis Ross, wasn't anywhere in the crowd or the cemetery. He was supposed to be there, we'd known each other too long and been too good of friends for him to not be.
As soon as the service was over, I left to find the man I'd thought my friend. Every one of his hang outs were dead ends though, the pizza parlor that we worked at was closed today, the college commons was almost empty, he wasn't under his favorite shade tree, not that the bare branches offered much shade now, the library and dorm lobby were also almost empty. I finally went to check the dorms. I found our room, 318, much the same way it was before my death. My half of the room was littered with band posters and instruments, a stack of blank music sheets still on my desk, Louis' side held an odd collection of book and movie paraphernalia, though it was much more organized than my side ever was. Curled up on the narrow bed was Louis, his lanky form twisted under the covers, face pale and sunken under his auburn hair. To my shock a needle sat on the night stand and as I looked, I saw tell-tale bruises on his arm.
Stepping back as the realization settled over me, I looked him over sadly. My closest friend, the wonderful kind man I'd known so long, was doing this to himself? I'd thought he'd be smarter than this. Approaching carefully, I tried to touch his hand only to see my fingers pass right through. This did elicited a reaction however, Louis shivered and cracked open a vacant grey eyes to scan the room, he paused to look at my bed a moment before rolling away and putting his back to it and stilling once more.
I could only watch him sadly and watch I did. Over the next few weeks I witnessed my belongings being removed from the dorm, I saw my other friends coming to terms with my death, even my family beginning to smile and laugh again after days of mourning, but Louis only got worse. With each day that passed, he sank further and further into his depression and into drugs. He was soon skipping classes, he stopped going out with friends, it became rare for him to even leave the lonely room 318 in fact.
On one of his rare outings to do the laundry, I followed him as always, keeping a worried and stressed eye on him, but I noticed a heat on my back. At first I thought it was someone gawking at Louis yet again, but when I stopped, the heat stayed on me, not on Louis. Turning fully, I saw a girl sitting across the lobby watching me intently. It was Marie Jenkins, a self-proclaimed freak and eternal pessimist. I'd never talked to her much before, but I'd heard she did séances and other weird and creepy things. Figuring that it couldn't hurt to try, I walked toward her, amazed when her eyes followed my every step.
When I was standing right in front of her, I couldn't help but tilt my head curiously. "So the rumors were true, you can see me….well, ghosts at least, not just me." I said slowly, half expecting my voice to crack from days of silence, but that didn't seem to matter anymore, having no physical voice box to worry about.
Marie tilted her head as well, but nodded slightly. Standing smoothly, she motioned for me to follow as she headed outside. I didn't pause more than a second before walking along behind her. I was dead already so there was little more that could be done to me. Not to mention the fact that Marie could be my only shot at fixing things.
Once outside and walking along a nearly empty path, Marie began to talk, eyes glued to the bricked walkway before her. "You've been here almost a month now, what's making you stay here Alec? You can't possibly want to stay her for all eternity can you?"
A small bubble of rage rose in my stomach at her words. Had she really known I'd been here for a month, and only now that I approached her was she even acknowledging me? Swallowing down my anger, I slowly shook my head. "I have to set things right with Louis before I move on. You know him, my roommate, Louis Ross."
Marie was silent a moment. "You're worried about his addiction aren't you?" she asked softly, when she received no reply, she could only sigh. "I'm not sure that there is much that can be done for him."
"Of course there is something that can be done for him!" I shouted. "He knows what he is doing is wrong, I can see it in his eyes every day, he's just stuck. He needs someone to help him." I knew Louis could beat this, I knew he could pull himself out of this rut he'd gotten himself into, but he couldn't do it on his own. "You have to help."
"I don't have to do anything Alec, and don't you dare assume otherwise." She snapped, turning toward me with a glare. "You never did anything for me in your life and I have no connections with Louis."
"Exactly, I didn't do anything to you! I left you to your own, I was never cruel or cold to you and I know for a fact Louis has tried to befriend you before, yet you were the one to push him away." I shot back coldly, effectively shutting her up for a short time.
Pausing, she fidgeted with the sleeves of her jacket, seeming to try and ficure out exactly what to say. After a long silence, she looked up at me, nodding slightly. "Fine. I'll try to help, but if it doesn't work, I'm going to stop and you will leave me alone, no matter if you can move on or not." She whispered.
It took all my strength not to show my relief as I nodded my agreement. Leading her back to the dorm and the laundry room that Louis was using, I had to keep stopping to wait for her, having grown so used to walking right through people that I got several yards ahead without any effort. "You should invite him to a movie this weekend. Maybe the Friday the Thirteenth marathon at the old town theatre, he'd have trouble turning that down." I said slowly, looking back at her expectantly until she nodded her assent.
When we got to the laundry room, I quickly came to Louis' side, looking him over quickly to see if he'd done anything he shouldn't in the short time I'd been gone. He sat in a chair by the window, staring out the window absently, seeming almost zombie-like. Looking between him and Marie, I frown. "Well? Go ahead." I say quickly.
Glaring at me a moment, Marie slowly stepped forward. "Hey Louis…" she said lightly, sitting on the edge of the table in the center of the room. "I heard that you like movies and I won two tickets to that marathon in town this weekend….Maybe you could come with me?" she said smoothly, seeming completely innocent in her words and actions.
Louis only turned his grey eyes onto her, expression not changing for a long time, though a spark of recognition lit in his eyes at the mention of the marathon. I had planned on taking him as a surprise before my death, so I knew he'd love it. Finally a small hint of a smile pulled at his lips. "That….that would be nice…" he whispered. This alone floored me. He actually gave her a real reaction.
Marie nodded and told him where and when to meet her before turning on her heel and leaving without a word. I wanted to follow and thank her, but I doubted that she'd appreciate that much, so I stayed by Louis. I stayed by him the next two days and was losing hope that he'd pull himself together for the 'date', but early on Saturday, he woke up and got ready to go to the movie marathon. If that wasn't miracle enough, the fact that Marie was actually waiting there with two tickets almost made me feel like I was dying a second time.
Louis was completely unresponsive to her at first, but as they walked to the theatre, he began to give her short responses and even make an effort to ask questions every now and then. Marie was clearly unhappy with the whole situation initially, frowning at him and rolling her eyes when he wasn't looking, but after a few responses from Louis, she seemed to relax. By the time they made it to the theatre, Marie seemed completely at ease and Louis was showing more life in him than he had in a long time.
This left me almost feeling like a third wheel. I had already fallen far behind them as they walked and when they sat in the theatre, I decided to sit in the projector room instead. Watching them from the little window, I was honestly surprised by how well it seemed to be going. Louis even managed a chuckle or two at Marie's jokes! Who knew that she could be so good for him?
The rest of the day flew by as I watched Louis continue to interact with Marie and by the time we got back to campus, they'd already decided to meet again for the sci-fi marathon next weekend. And so the next two months flew by, Every weekend Louis and Marie would meet up to go to the theatre, even going out to lunch with each other every now and then, every weekend I'd watch from a distance as Louis smiled and laughed. Through the week he seemed to be a little more active, going out of the dorm more, attending classes again, hanging out on the lawns with friends.
By the time winter set in fully, Marie came to seek me out and pulled me aside to a private study room. "How is he doing?" she asked slowly, something more clearly on her mind.
"He's doing better. He's not shooting up as much and he's awake a lot more than he used to be." I answered, almost sounding like a proud mom or something. I knew he could do it and she hadn't believed me. I almost wanted to say 'I told you so'.
"Good, good." She mumbled distractedly. Finally looking to me, she frowned. "He'll continue to do better from now on Alec….so I think it's about time you consider moving on, going where you belong." She said quietly, eyes not leaving mine. "You know you don't belong here." She added.
Pausing in shock, my mouth fell open before I looked down at my hands. I knew I didn't belong, I could feel it, but I didn't want to leave either. I'd grown accustomed to my life as a ghost, as the ghost of room 318, as the phantom of Highland University. It felt like giving up on life almost, even if I was already dead. "I'm not sure I know how any more." I admitted.
"Talk to Louis….say your last goodbyes to your family, the rest will take care of itself." She said, seeming to want to touch me, but knowing she couldn't. And I had to admit that I felt like I need a hand to hold at the moment.
Not saying anything to her, I turned and left the study room, passing right through the wall to think on my own. I had to seriously consider if I was ready for this, if I was strong enough to let myself move on. I had no idea what was beyond this, no idea where or if I'd even be going. What if I just faded from existence all together? Would it hurt? Would I even know what was happening?
Despite that, I knew I had little choice. I'd have to move on. I'd have to go on or watch everyone I knew slowly fade away and be left almost completely alone, no one even knowing I existed any more. So with a heavy heart, I went to my home, watched my family and came to terms with leaving them. I knew that no matter what had happened, I loved them and they loved me, so I had no reason to regret leaving them behind. There was nothing to be fixed that wasn't already understood.
That evening I went back to room 318 and to Louis. Sitting on the desk, I watched him for a long time before letting out a slow breath. "Well, who would've thought that it would come to this Louis? Me, trying to say goodbye, and you, unable to hear me." I chuckled, looking to my hands. The sound of Louis scribbling away on his homework claimed the following silence and then I smiled. "You're doing good Louis. You're doing real good. You'll overcome these drugs soon and you'll move on and I'll watch from wherever I end up. You'll have kids and a life and when we finally meet again when your time comes, I'll let you hear it for putting me through this man. You'll be just fine from now on, I know it." I nodded, slowly standing. Stepping forward, I reached out, figuring I could stop my hand before it went through his shoulder and fool myself into believing I had accomplished something, but this time my hand actually hit something solid. It didn't pass through!
Head snapping up, Louis looked around, having clearly felt the touch. Then his eyes settled on me just as I felt the weight I'd felt when I was being pulled back to earth. "Alec?" he asked softly, eyes huge.
Giving him a small smile, I nodded. Raising my hand in a final goodbye, I chuckled. "Ask Marie about everything. I'll be seeing you." I smiled before I was finally released from my holds on this world, fading from his sights.
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Exxon Mobil, the world's largest company by market value, said net income exceeded $10 billion for a third consecutive quarter as rallying crude prices made up for the biggest production decline in three years.
Oil and natural-gas production fell 3.8 percent to the equivalent of 4.28 million barrels of crude a day, the largest decline since the third quarter of 2008, according to Bloomberg data. The drop was smaller than the double-digit production shortfalls reported earlier this week by rivals such as BP, ConocoPhillips and Hess.
Third-quarter profit rose to $10.33 billion, or $2.13 a share, from $7.35 billion, or $1.44, a year earlier, the Irving, Tex.-based company said Thursday in a Business Wire statement. The per-share result was in line with the average estimate of 19 analysts in a Bloomberg survey. Sales rose 32 percent, to $125 billion.
"These guys keep pushing the oil out and selling it like it's going out of style," Douglas Ober, who manages $1.6 billion at Adams Express Co. and Petroleum & Resources Corp. in Baltimore.
The last time Exxon's quarterly profit exceeded $10 billion for three consecutive periods was 2008, when Brent oil touched a record of $147.50 a barrel and the company reaped $45.22 billion in full-year net income. So far this year, Exxon shares have risen 12 percent, poised for the best annual performance since 2007.
Exxon's 41 percent profit increase was the second-largest among major oil companies that have announced third-quarter results. Only Royal Dutch Shell, the world's third-largest energy company by market value, boasted a larger jump, by doubling net income to $7 billion.
State-controlled PetroChina lifted third-quarter profit by 7.8 percent. BP, owner of the Macondo well that erupted last year in the Gulf of Mexico, posted a 3.6 percent decline in net income. ConocoPhillips, based in Houston, said third-quarter profit fell 14 percent.
Rounding out the largest international oil companies, Chevron and France's Total SA are scheduled to announce results Friday, followed by Rio de Janeiro-based Petroleo Brasileiro next month.
Brent crude futures, the benchmark for two-thirds of the world's oil, jumped 46 percent during the July-through-September period to average $112.09 a barrel.
Exxon chief executive Rex Tillerson plans to spend as much as $37 billion this year to find untapped oil and gas reserves, construct gas-export terminals and expand refineries and chemical plants.


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Matt McHale of By The Horns:
"And I've gotta tell you, after Chicago's super-epic 128-127 triple overtime victory over the Boston Celtics, Ifeel mostly dead. The game lasted nearly four hours. By the end, poor Doug Collins (who was calling the game for TNT) sounded like he had lost control of several vital motor functions, and maybe a few cognitive ones as well. I can totally relate. I feel like poor Mark Wahlberg at the end of The Perfect Storm, treading water in the middle of the ocean during a hurricane and thinking, "What the [bleep] just happened…"
Jeff Clark of Celticsblog:
Earlier this series I saw some Bulls fans talk about how evenly these teams are matched up because of the Garnett injury. I wrote that off as a little bit of optimistic homerism. I was sure that the Celtics were the better team and they would prove it on the court. I was wrong. The Celtics may indeed be a better team, but right now, with the current lineup, in this series, at this moment in time, these teams are as evenly matched as you'll ever see.
Henry Abbott of Truehoop:
Celtics close the most important game of the season, in triple overtime, and the lineup is Rajon Rondo, Brian Scalabrine, Ray Allen, Stephon Marbury, and Eddie House. Who would have predicted that a year ago? They were without injured Kevin Garnett and Leon Powe. James Posey is a Hornet. And Paul Pierce, Glen Davis, and Kendrick Perkins had all fouled out.
Kelly Dwyer of Ball Don't Lie:
The game was all you could ask for from the very beginning, with dozens of phenomenal plays and soul-killing mistakes on either end. This was an absolute dogfight between two teams that appear to want nothing more than to line up for a jump ball to start yet another overtime.
Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN:
Allen has acted in movies, but he seemed to play it straight on the possibility of a Garnett return. He said Garnett is "anxious," but wouldn't you be if you had to watch Marbury? Nope, all Allen knows is that Garnett spends his game on the bench in street clothes, "which I don't like." "So far, it's one of the best series I've ever been a part of," said Allen. One of the best? Can we see the video of the others? Anyway, the best thing about this series is that there will be a Game 7. The worst thing? There won't be a Game 8.
Much more analysis from Celtics Hub on the way.
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In Iran, a solemn ceremony of the laying of the Foundation stone of the second phase of Bushehr NPP (project of the Bushehr-2). The project will also be carried out with the participation of Russia.
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