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In addition to the electronic theses found in the ASU Digital Repository, ASU Theses and Dissertations can be found in the ASU Library Catalog.
Dissertations and Theses granted by Arizona State University are archived and made available through a joint effort of the ASU Graduate College and the ASU Libraries. For more information or questions about this collection contact or visit the Digital Repository ETD Library Guide or contact the ASU Graduate College at email@example.com.
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Practical communication systems are subject to errors due to imperfect time alignment among the communicating nodes. Timing errors can occur in different forms depending on the underlying communication scenario. This doctoral study considers two different classes of asynchronous systems; point-to-point (P2P) communication systems with synchronization errors, and asynchronous cooperative systems. In particular, the focus is on an information theoretic analysis for P2P systems with synchronization errors and developing new signaling solutions for several asynchronous cooperative communication systems. The first part of the dissertation presents several bounds on the capacity of the P2P systems with synchronization errors. First, binary insertion and …
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People gather in Centennial Plaza in Midland, Texas, on Saturday for a candlelight vigil held in honor of four veterans who were killed when a freight train hit a parade float.
MIDLAND, Texas -- Warning signals at a railroad crossing activated before a parade float pulled in front of an oncoming train and the resulting crash killed four veterans, federal investigators said Saturday.
National Transportation Safety Board member Mark Rosekind said at a news conference that the warning signals were activated before the float pulled onto the track.
The train slammed into the flatbed trailer carrying veterans and their spouses during a parade in their honor on Thursday, killing four vets and injuring 16 people injured. Hundreds attended a vigil in Midland Saturday night for the victims.
Rosekind gave this timeline of the crash, The Associated Press said, based on review of video from the train and a sheriff's vehicle that was behind the trailer:
- 20 seconds before collision: Bells and lights activated as first tractor trailer is safely crossing the tracks
- 13 seconds before: Gates start to descend
- 12 seconds before: Front of the second tractor trailer starts crossing in front of the train
- 9 seconds before: Train starts sounding its horn
- 5 seconds before: Train engineer uses emergency brake
The collision killed Marine Chief Warrant Officer 3 Gary Stouffer, 37; Army Sgt. Maj. Lawrence Boivin, 47; Army Sgt. Joshua Michael, 34; and Army Sgt. Maj. William Lubbers, 43.
Investigators on Monday will conduct a "sight distance test" to understand what the train engineer and the driver of the truck that was struck might have seen before the collision, Rosekind said.
"You know there was a lot of activity going on with other noises going on," Rosekind said.
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Undated family photos. From left: Sgt. Maj. Gary Stouffer; Sgt. Maj. Lawrence Boivin; Army Sgt. Joshua Michael, and Sgt. Maj. William Lubbers.
Robert Accetta, lead NTSB investigator on the crash, said his team had not yet interviewed the driver. "We don't know what the driver may or may not have seen," he said.
NTSB officials declined to identify the driver or the company that owned the truck.
The crash in Midland occurred during a "Show of Support" parade that was to kick off a weekend of events to salute U.S. veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Some veterans and their spouses aboard the float jumped off to escape the collision in the seconds before it happened.
Pam Shoemaker, who was riding in the float that crossed the tracks ahead of the one that was struck, said earlier this week she saw a railroad crossing bar come down just before the crash.
This article includes reporting by NBC News staff and Reuters.
Four people were killed and 17 injured when a flatbed trailer carrying twelve veterans and their spouses during a Midland, Texas, parade was hit by freight train as it was crossing over railroad tracks. NBC's Janet Shamlian reports.
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GreenTech Media has reported that the federal government, via the Department of Energy, has granted $300 million for cities to work with industrial partners to buy alternative-fuel vehicles and set up refueling stations. The list of city winners, under the Clean Cities Program, includes New Haven, San Bernandino and Chicago. Some of the highlighted projects include natural gas garbage trucks in New Jersey, using landfill natural gas in Atlanta and Texas incorporating propane-fueled buses. The DOE estimates that these 25 projects will offset the usage of 39 million gallons of petroleum annually. That is nothing to laugh at for both environmental and foreign policy concerns.
In an unrelated story, Government Technology reported that city government in Washington, D.C. has adopted ZipCar technology to manage its communal fleet of vehicles. In the process, the city has been able to better organize its fleet and reduce its size. Here are some of the notes on the FastFleet program.
The city ultimately eliminated 360 vehicles from its fleet, bringing the total to approximately 1,200 (not including law enforcement vehicles, which aren't eligible for the program).
At press time, DC Fleet Share used 58 passenger sedans — 56 of which are hybrids and two of which are powered by alternative fuel. Burns said the district's vehicles are parked at several large office complexes that are home to city government. Between 10 and 25 Fleet Share cars are parked at each site.
Both of these programs are great news. Think about how many vehicles every city owns, from cars used for everyday puposes to police cars, firetrucks, ambulances, street cleaners, garbage trucks, school buses, delivery vans, postal service vehicles, maintenance vehicles and much more. Many towns and cities furthermore have their own refueling station for this vehicles. Transferring a percentage of these cars and trucks to alternative fuels and beginning the process of building the infrastructure to refuel them has enormous benefits to both the environment and the communities.
One of the greatest challenge of alternative fuel vehicles is there are few places to get the right fuel and frequently there is no standardized fueling method. When government begins the process in tandem with industry standards are easier to set and the foundation is laid for private car-owners to follow. Such progress is even more reassuring when fewer vehicles need to be owned, as in DC. Clearly this is a savings for the taxpayer, but is also a savings for congestion and fuel usage as well. Lower congestion and better fuel usage are two pillars of cleaner, more efficient transportation. Public transportation represents a large part of the solution, but certain vehicles will never be eliminated. Making those vehicles better is a step forward.


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Google Maps' Street View has long allowed us to see what places look like from afar, as if we were the ones driving down those streets. But we were never able to get out and go see what the inside of an interesting store along said street looks like. But that's changing.
Google Business Photos are essentially interior Street View shots, allowing you to get a 360-degree view of a store or restaurant. Google has been photographing businesses since last year, but they're just now putting the results online. Businesses from Austin, Baltimore, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and Washington, D.C. are included, and it'll presumably grow from there.
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I've attempted to be kind to Dwayne Johnson in the past, trying to find some mythical sense of upside to dreck like "The Rundown," "Doom," and "The Game Plan." Well, the honeymoon is officially over if "Tooth Fairy" is any indication of Johnson's career ambition. Though I suppose it's harmless in the long run, "Tooth Fairy" is profoundly unfunny and infuriatingly conventional, forgettable the very minute it commences. I've always hoped Johnson would find a proper footing in Hollywood, but if he's going to waste his affability on nonsense nosepicker entertainment, there's little motivation to remain interested in his future cinematic activities.
Derek (Dwayne Johnson) is a minor league hockey titan who earns his nickname "Tooth Fairy" for the way he smashes into his opponents on the ice. A loudmouth cynic who's seen his own dreams crushed by injury, Derek spreads his bile to Tess (Destiny Whitlock), explaining to the six-year-old girl that there's no such thing as a Tooth Fairy, horrifying her mother/Derek's girlfriend, Carly (Ashley Judd). Summoned to the land of fairies for the crime of disbelief, Derek is fitted for wings and sent into service as a Tooth Fairy, under the guidance of bosses Lily (Julie Andrews) and Tracy (Stephen Merchant). On assignment to retrieve various loose teeth, armed with a magic pouch of tricks, Derek is required to consider real magic and the power of dreams as he furiously attempts to balance life as a fairy with his hockey hopes.
I blame "The Game Plan" for this junk. The Disney hit gave Johnson the confidence to take on more lucrative family entertainment, assuming this was his core demographic after all his action bonanzas fizzled at the box office. Fortunately, "Tooth Fairy" is not a Disney film, it's a Fox release, meaning it's simply idiotic and shoddily produced rather than maliciously sentimental. Overall, the movies share the same idea: ego-drenched sports hero finds salvation in the purity of kids. The twist here is magic, the fairy kind that lends the former Rock a pair of CG wings, dresses him up in powder blue silk pajamas, and has the former professional wrestler trading punchlines with a perennially regal Julie Andrews. It's a fantasy-comedy that shines a blinding slapstick spotlight on Johnson that's completely undeserved, but man-oh-man does the actor ever enjoy his ample screen time mugging like a lunatic for the camera.
The screenplay for "Tooth Fairy" is credited to five writers, which is an insane notion if one considers how banal the jokes are and how pre-digested the emotion is in the film. It's a feature built around the high-concept idea of a burly jerk sentenced to a fairy world, but there's nothing even remotely clever here to feast upon, blowing a perfect opportunity to razz the conventions of masculinity with a few puckish jokes that didn't involve Johnson making bug-eyed faces or subjecting himself to some sort of VFX humiliation. Perhaps I was expecting too much from something this unsophisticated and pun-crazy, but with Andrews and Merchant in supporting roles (Seth MacFarlane cameos, as does Billy Crystal, reminding the world that his eight-year-long exile from movies was justified), "Tooth Fairy" could've made a few left turns to engage older viewers. The effort is always appreciated. Instead, the film remains in a comedy coma.
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English SDH and Spanish subtitles are offered.
"Tooth Fairy Training Center" (20:29) is actually a kid-centric exercise program, with a cheery host leading a group of "recruits" in a series of stretches and workout routines themed as training for fairy combat. It's actually nice to see something that encourages movement for little viewers, but I must admit this is perhaps one of the weirder DVD supplements I've ever seen.
"Fairyoke" (3:51) offers a duet of "The Wind Beneath My Wings" with Johnson and Merchant, with a karaoke-style presentation to help viewers join the performance.
A Theatrical Trailer is included.
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The CD jacket of Inner System Blues, the third album by The Last Days of May, is covered with multihued portraits of sad-faced, weary businessmen. They stand in groups, immobilized by despair, as if they'd just been shown a glimpse of an alternate existence, a sunnier life where freedom cradled their futures. Like the face screaming down from King Crimson's Court, these men have no idea what to do with their newfound knowledge.
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A man being tried on allegations he planned attacks on Israeli tourists in Cyprus has admitted being a member of the militant group Hezbollah and staking out locations that such visitors frequent, his lawyer said Wednesday.
Hossam Taleb Yaacoub's admissions follow accusations that the Lebanon-based Hezbollah was behind a bombing in Bulgaria that killed five Israeli tourists. Authorities here have been reluctant to link the Cyprus case to the attack in Bulgaria, but both have fed concerns about militant activity in Europe.
Lawyer Antonis Georgiades noted that Yaacoub, who is Swedish and Lebanese, told a Cyprus court that he came to this country on business with no plan to harm anyone. But Yaacoub, 24, also admitted that an unidentified man in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is based, gave him the "mission" of recording flight arrivals and bus routes of Israeli tourists and checking out a hospital parking lot.
Georgiades said Yaacoub acted alone in Cyprus and that instructions where given to him "in complete secrecy" by a man whose face he couldn't see. The lawyer said that while his client's actions may raise suspicions, there is no hard proof that Yaacoub was planning an attack.
Cyprus police arrested Yaacoub last July, several days before the bombing that killed the five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver.
Yaacoub pleaded not guilty to eight charges including conspiracy and consent to commit a criminal offense and participation in a criminal organization. Yaacoub initially faced 17 terrorism and terrorism-related charges according to police, but prosecutors dropped any reference to terrorism in the new charges without explanation.
The European Union, of which Cyprus is a member, has not formally designated Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.
According to notes explaining the charges, prosecutors say Yaacoub knowingly conspired with others to "abduct a person for the purpose of subjecting him to harm or attacking him to cause grievous bodily harm" and was prepared to carry out missions around the world on the orders of others against Israeli citizens.
Yaacoub is alleged to have carried out his surveillance and recording of movements between November 2011 and January 2012 and in the first week of July 2012.


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DESTIN, Fla. — Steve Spurrier is sticking with his plan to pay players.
South Carolina's outspoken coach first floated the idea at the Southeastern Conference's spring meetings last year. Fellow coaches and league administrators listened, but it made little, if any, progress.
He trotted out his stipend plan again this week and said Wednesday that football coaches voted 14-0 to present the proposal to league athletic directors. The ADs will discuss it and decide whether to present it to school presidents and chancellors for an official vote Friday.
"We're trying to get extra money for living expense, academic expense, game-related expense to our players because of the tremendous amount of money — billions — they're bringing" in, Spurrier said.
Spurrier's plan seemed farfetched in 2011, but then the NCAA Division I Board of Directors started working on a proposal that would give scholarship athletes $2,000 toward the full cost of attendance — money that covers expenses beyond tuition, room and board, books and fees.
The NCAA has delayed implementing the stipend while seeking feedback on an issue that was met with criticism and concern.
Spurrier and others, especially those in the powerful and wealthy SEC, believe $2,000 isn't even enough.
Spurrier and his SEC colleagues would like to give football and men's basketball players "approximately $3,500 to $4,000" — out of pocket — for the entire year to cover expenses.
"We as coaches believe they're entitled to a little more than room, books, board and tuition," Spurrier said. "Again, we as coaches would be willing to pay it if they were to approve it to where our guys could get approximately get three-, four-thousand bucks a year. It wouldn't be that much, but enough to allow them to live like normal student-athletes.
"We think they need more and deserve more. It's as simple as that."
It's not really simple, though.
When asked if his plan included all 85 scholarship football players, Spurrier said, "Well, that's where it gets a little tricky."
Other issues are sure to arise, too.
Would the plan be in compliance with Title IX? Is it really fair to offer the additional stipend only to student-athletes in revenue-generating sports? And what about the notion that giving extra money to football and men's basketball players in the SEC essentially would amount to a free-agent system that could entice the nation's top kids to sign with the richest conference?
"It's one of those things as coaches that we're constantly fighting for kids and doing everything we can to help them," Vanderbilt coach James Franklin said. "And I really appreciate that. I'm the same way, but on the same hand, I also know it's more complex than we maybe think it is and there's a lot of things that go into it. You have to be aware of that.
"Yeah, it's easy to just talk about football doing it, but if you're going to do it, you can't just do it for football and basketball. You have to do it for all the sports and it can't just be for schools in the SEC. It has to be all over the country."
Spurrier recalled making $75,000 annually at Duke in 1987, plus $25,000 for his weekly television show, and pointed out how coaching salaries have multiplied repeatedly in the 25 years since. All but two SEC coaches — Kentucky's Joker Phillips and Mississippi's Hugh Freeze — makes at least $2 million annually.
But Spurrier noted that scholarship athletes haven't benefited from the ever-growing boon, getting marginally more than the room, board and books Spurrier got when he played at Florida in the 1960s.
LSU coach Les Miles agreed.
"We recognize that the income producers are both the football and basketball programs, period," Miles said. "So there's a want to say with this extra income we would like to provide cost of education and cost of expense stipends to those players. We recognize that it's going to be difficult for every team on every campus — volleyball, gymnastics, baseball, etc. — to come up with the same number.
"What we're saying is the revenue-income sports, certainly football, would share the income that's being produced, paying it back to those guys. It would be a difficult task putting it to work, but I think it's something we all want to push forward."


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INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis' police chief resigned and two other top officers were suspended Tuesday over the latest blunder in the case of a fatal crash involving a police officer authorities believe was drunk.
The city's mayor and public safety director also called in the FBI to help restore public confidence in a police department they say has endured decades of neglect and corruption.
The developments came a day after prosecutors informed police Chief Paul Ciesielski that a key second vial of blood from Officer David Bisard had been mishandled and left unrefrigerated in a police property room annex. The revelation cast doubt about whether authorities can show Bisard was legally drunk in August 2010 when he drove into a pair of motorcycles stopped at a traffic light, killing one rider and injuring two others. Bisard is awaiting trial on reckless homicide and other charges.
"At best, this matter shows gross incompetence, at worst possible criminal intent," said Mayor Greg Ballard, who declined to elaborate.
Ciesielski was not at Tuesday's news conference and did not immediately return a message left with a department spokesman. He will remain with the department as a captain.
Public Safety Director Frank Straub placed Deputy Chief Valerie Cunningham, Lt. Paula Irwin and a civilian property room supervisor on paid leave. Deputy Public Safety Director Rick Hite, a 32-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, was sworn in as acting police chief.
Allegations of a cover-up in Bisard's case started shortly after the crash, when prosecutors announced a blood test showed he had a blood-alcohol level of 0.19 more than two hours after his squad car plowed into the motorcycles, killing 30-year-old Eric Wells and injuring two others. Many were incredulous that neither police at the scene nor the medical personnel who drew the blood and evaluated Bisard for injuries realized he was drunk. An internal police investigation found Bisard was driving 73 mph in a 40 mph zone and using a laptop computer for messages not related to police business.
Marion County Superior Court Judge Grant Hawkins last year found the first blood test was improperly administered by someone not legally certified to take the sample. Last week, Hawkins gave prosecutors permission to test a second blood sample. But prosecutor Terry Curry said his office subsequently discovered the vial was moved from the main police property room to the annex in November.
Indiana University law professor Fran Watson said the lack of refrigeration could allow defense attorneys to question its validity.
Straub was brought in by Ballard more than two years ago to reform the police department, but Bill Owensby, president of the Indianapolis chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, said he also should go.
"I don't know how you can run an investigation when it's going well, then hand it off when it's not going well," Owensby said.
Straub rejected such suggestions, saying problems with the department dating back half a century could not be fixed in a couple of years. He also said property room procedures have not been updated since 1980.
"This is 30 or 40 or 50 years of neglect and what I've heard from the management of the police department over and over and over again during the two years and four months that I've been here is that, 'We knew this was going on, we just never bothered to fix it. We knew officers were drinking on duty. We knew that officers were going to strip clubs, but we didn't take action. We didn't hold ourselves or those officers accountable.'"
Attorney Linda Pence, who represents Wells' parents in a federal lawsuit against Bisard and the city, said the latest development confirmed her "worst presumptions."
"I'd like to say that I'm surprised, but I believe that the conduct in this case from day one was inappropriate and this confirms that it is a very deep issue within the department," Pence said.
Bisard's attorney was out of town Tuesday and didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.


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The LG Optimus 7 is a touchscreen bar-phone which runs on Microsoft's new Windows Phone 7 OS. It's powered by a - Windows Phone 7 typical - Qualcomm QSD8650 CPU at 1 GHz and supports quadband GSM/GPRS/EDGE as well as triband UMTS/HSDPA (7.2 Mbps)/HSUPA (5.7 Mbps) at 900/1900/2100 MHz which makes it one of the few Windows Phone 7 smartphones which can be also used with North American UMTS networks. Furthermore, the Optimus 7 features Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi b/g/n, an FM radio and the Windows Phone 7 typical aGPS receiver and sensors. With its 3.8" capacitive WVGA LCD touchscreen, it's one of the smaller sized Windows Phone 7 devices.
The 5 megapixel autofocus camera on the back, which comes with a LED flash and mirror next to the lens for self-portrait photos, also allows HD video recording at 720p.
The Optimus 7 comes with a total internal memory of 16 GB and this memory is - again Windows Phone 7 typical - not user upgradeable. Furthermore, the device comes with a removable 1500 mAh Li-Ion battery, yet one of the more powerful batteries used on a Windows Phone 7 smartphone. At a size of 125 x 59.8 x 11.5 mm, the device weights 158 g. Made of plastic and metal, it feels rocking solid and the curved design makes the Optimus 7 looking even smaller than it actually is while the design also contributes to the fact that the Optimus 7 nicely fits into the palm.
Bellow the touchscreen, the device features the Windows Phone 7-typical Back, Home and Search keys which aren't touch sensitive but physical keys. Unfortunately they aren't backlight illuminated; however since there are three keys only and they are well tactual, it's even not a problem to use the keys in the dark.
On the left, the device has the volume up/down rocker while on the right, the device features the Windows Phone 7 required camera key as well as micro USB port for synchronization and charging, which is protected by a flap. On the top, the device has located the power button as well as the 3.5 mm stereo headset jack.
Since Microsoft had a clear vision of what Windows Phone 7 should be or not, it also made some pretty strict software requirements. This means that neither manufacturers nor carriers are free to leave any Windows Phone 7 features and applications while both are free to add customization and further applications to enhance the user experience and make the device a little bit more unique as well as more carrier and manufacturer related; something LG did quite well.
Nevertheless, all Windows Phone 7 devices have two things in common: The unique tile user interface and the hubs.
Windows Phone 7's tiles are located on the Start or home screen and they are easily recognizable visual shortcuts for applications or content that users can set in an arbitrary location. Tiles, that use the Windows Phone 7 tile notification feature, can update the graphic or title text, or increment a counter, enabling users to create a personalized Start screen experience. The tile layout is customizable and can feature shortcuts to applications, contacts, web sites, music, maps locations, etc. It's pretty flexible and customizable and yet pretty unique for a mobile operating system.
The hubs bring together related content from the Web, applications and services into a single view to simplify common tasks. Windows Phone 7 includes six hubs: People, Pictures, Music & Video, Games, Office and Marketplace.
Other Windows Phone 7 applications and services include Messaging with SMS and MMS support, Bing Search, Bing Maps, Alarms, Calculator, Calendar and Internet Explorer.
However, LG went even further and preinstalled three Windows Phone 7 unique and LG exclusive applications: Play To, Panorama Shot and ScanSearch.
Furthermore, LG's Optimus 7 features its own app category within the Windows Phone 7 Marketplace where LG offers exclusive content for Optimus 7 owners. This will - for instance - also include soon another unique Windows Phone 7 application called Voice to Text which allows users to transcribe their voice into text, bringing a new level of convenience to send E-Mails, tweets and Facebook updates as well as taking notes.
Final Conclusion
On the first sight, the LG Optimus 7 might look like any other Windows Phone 7 smartphone and as a matter of fact, that's what Microsoft had in mind when it created its new mobile OS. Doesn't matter which Windows Phone 7 device a customer is using, he or she should always find a minimum set of applications and services by always using the same user interface. Therefore Microsoft isn't allowing graphical user interface modifications anymore, as it was possible with Windows Mobile. On the other hand, Windows Phone 7 leaves enough room for manufactures and carriers to enhance this experience and make their own Windows Phone 7 device an even better one.
The LG Optimus 7 comes with the minimum set of required specs by featuring a 1 GHz CPU, 2.8" WVGA capacitive touchscreen and 5 megapixel autofocus camera. But the design is quite good; in reality the LG Optimus 7 looks even better than on any marketing shots I've seen and it fits very well into the palm. The stainless steel battery cover feels rocking solid like the rest of the device feels high quality. The only exception might be the power on/off button on the top which became a little bit too small; twice as big wouldn't hurt.
However, the real strength are the software enhancements LG added to the benefit of the device. It should be noticed that Microsoft is yet not officially providing the camera and compass API to developers except hardware manufactures and LG took the opportunity to develop a unique argument reality application which is both - handy and fun! Also I'm a big fan of the Optimus 7's DLNA support which worked quite well in my tests, doesn't matter if I tried it with Windows 7 PCs or TVs. Sure, I would like to see a deeper integration into the main OS, for instance into the music, video and picture hubs but it's a start making the Optimus 7 a great multimedia companion!Last but not least I'm addicted to use my smartphones as a camera and the 5 megapixel camera makes sufficient photos. Quite handy is the inbuilt mirror for self portrait photos - a feature which isn't widely used anymore.
The strong 1500 mAh battery really does well and it shouldn't be a surprise at all that such kind of powerful smartphones need a recharge every night. However, the battery lasts long enough for a (working) day and even leaves some more power for the night which means that the Optimus 7 has to be rarely charged during the day.
All together I was more than pleased to test and use LG's first Windows Phone 7 smartphone during the past 3 weeks and best of all - one lucky the::unwired reader can also win one Optimus 7, courtesy of LG. Just follow the link bellow and follow the instructions!
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Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova eased into the third round of the Qatar Open on Tuesday, dominating their opponents with straight-set victories.
Williams, who will regain the No. 1 ranking if she reached the semifinals, showed no signs of the back or ankle injuries that troubled her at the Australian Open during her 6-2, 6-1 win over Russian qualifier Daria Gavrilova.
The third-ranked Sharapova, who won the tournament in her two previous appearances, downed French qualifier Caroline Garcia 6-3, 6-2.
American Sloane Stephens, who defeated Williams at the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, defeated Anna Tatishvili 6-2, 6-2.
Williams broke Gavrilova to go up 4-2 in the first set and took a 5-0 lead in the second. Williams then saved five break points before serving out the match when the 160th-ranked Gavrilova hit a forehand long.
Sharapova broke the 172nd-ranked Garcia twice go up 3-0 in the first set. Garcia won the next two games but Sharapova broke for a third time. The second set went with serve through the first five games until Sharapova broke to go up 4-2, and she clinched the win when the Frenchwoman hit a forehand long.
"I was quite happy with the way I played, because my opponent has already played a few matches here so she's been able to get in that match atmosphere," Sharapova said. "So I wanted to start really strong. I had a tough match against her in my previous encounter where I played three sets. I really wanted to start better this time as opposed to last time."
Sharapova was joined in the third round by 11th-ranked Marion Bartoli, who downed former French Open champion Francesca Schiavone 7-6 (5), 6-3. The loss leaves Schiavone, who has fallen to 54th in the rankings, winless in four matches this year.
The Italian had the upper hand early, taking a 4-1 lead. But Bartoli turned things around, saving five break points to make it 4-2 breaking back in the next game when Schiavone doubled faulted. She won the tiebreaker with a return winner.
After trading breaks early in the second set, Bartoli took advantage of Schiavone's errors to go up 4-2. She closed out the match when she chased down a volley and fired a backhand winner down the line.
"The first set was extremely tough," Bartoli said. "It was a hard battle. I knew from coming from indoor clay court I wouldn't play my best tennis for the first 30 minutes. ... But I felt I really fought really hard on the court. I didn't show any frustration."
The only seeded player to lose Tuesday was No. 12 Maria Kirilenko of Russia, who retired with a right shoulder injury against fellow Russian Ekaterina Bychkova after trailing 3-0.
Yanina Wickmayer of Belgium also withdrew from the tournament with a lower back injury, as did Varvara Lepchenko of the United States with an upper respiratory illness.
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It's snowing today, after snowing all night, and our garden is under wraps, in plastic bins, on top of a heating pad.
It's just a little too chilly and wet to do any gardening today, other than making sure the plants are happy.
This year, we're starting a new garden area in our tiny front yard. It's covered with boards and chicken wire to keep the cats out - other than that, we haven't done anything to it. We're waiting for our plants to grow large enough and for the weather to get warm enough for planting in the ground (rather than in styrofoam cups).
Right next to our front yard garden area, elm branches hang over the down-below fenced yard.
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Shortly I'll have to get packed to go on a field trip. I hope the weather improves and that the mud isn't too much for the buses!
GARDEN UPDATE: The bins are now out from under the tarp, but it's still snowing.
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- Gaelyn said...
You are certainly getting a lot more snow than we are, and our isn't sticking. Hard to garden this way.
- Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 12:25:00 PM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Still snowing... !
- Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 12:54:00 PM PDT
Looks beautiful! Would you believe yesterday (5-11) it was 91 in LA, and right now at 9:30am its 78. Maybe its all that heat from the burning oil. I wish you could send some of that cold our way.
- Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 7:45:00 AM PDT
- Silver Fox said...
Can't send it! It's circling round the region, stuck here. :)
- Wednesday, May 12, 2010 at 8:39:00 AM PDT
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SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook has become the latest Bay Area technology company to launch a ferry service for its employees.
A Bay Area newspaper reported Thursday that the social-networking giant began chartering a 30-person water taxi Feb. 4 to take employees from San Francisco to Redwood City. The taxi is free and runs round-trip service on Tuesdays and Fridays.
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Gold futures have notched their biggest one-day fall in more than a year.
Gold for June delivery plunged $63.50 to close at $1,501.40 an ounce Friday, the largest drop since February 2012. It was the lowest price since July 2011.
One trigger for the slide was a government report Friday that U.S. wholesale prices fell in March by the most in 10 months. Investors tend to buy gold when they expect inflation to increase. Any indication that prices aren't rising will prompt investors to sell gold.
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Gold was already declining in recent months on signs of strength in the U.S. economy and expectations that interest rates might increase. Disagreement among Federal Reserve officials over when to wind down its economic stimulus program has led traders to anticipate that U.S. interest rates might edge higher sooner than previously thought. That would tend to strengthen the dollar and weaken gold, since another reason investors buy gold is to hold it as an alternative to U.S. dollars. When traders expect the dollar to rise, they would sell gold.
Gold peaked at $1,900 an ounce in August 2011, during the market turmoil that occurred after Standard & Poor's downgraded the U.S. government's credit rating. It has more recently traded as high as $1,792 an ounce on Oct. 4. Since then it has fallen $291 an ounce, or 16 percent.
Silver also got caught up in the drive to unload precious metals. Silver for May delivery plunged $1.366 to $26.3310 an ounce, a loss of 5 percent. Gold's daily loss was equivalent to 4 percent.
In other metals trading, copper for May delivery fell 8.35 cents to $3.35 a pound, July platinum fell $39.90 to $1,495.90 an ounce, and June palladium fell $24.25 to $709.10 an ounce.
Crude oil fell $2.22 to $91.29 a barrel as falling stocks and a weak report on U.S. retail sales added to concerns about global energy demand.
OPEC, the U.S. Energy Department and the International Energy Agency, which represents a group of oil-consuming nations, all lowered their outlook for global oil demand this week.
In other energy trading, wholesale gasoline lost 2.92 cents to $2.8018 per gallon. Natural gas added 8.3 cents to $4.22 per 1,000 cubic feet. Heating oil fell 2.73 cents to $2.8718 per gallon.
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On the Road in Vietnam: Da Lat's Easy Riders take KSR for a the Ride of a LifetimeAnne Merritt
For the Vietnamese, Da Lat's cool altitude makes it an agricultural hotspot, while the pretty vistas and mountain landscapes makes it a honeymoon capital as well. The temperatures, which can dip down to freezing in the coldest months, has attracted overheated expats since the French colonial days. This quirky town boasts layers of personality, and the best way to see it all is with Vietnam's quirkiest tour group, the Da Lat Easy Riders.
First of all, let it be known that you don't need to go to a tourist office to find the Easy Riders. Odds are excellent that one of the group's 75 members will find you, spotting your rucksack a mile off and wheeling up with directions to hotels, tips on local food to try, and of course, promotion of their services. Though their touting may seem assertive, especially if you're just stepping off a long bus ride, these guides are some of the friendliest people you'll meet in Vietnam.
Even tourists who normally drive their own bikes will benefit from the guides' witty understanding of the city and its surroundings. Whether your passion is rural temples, exotic farms, or waterfalls, the Easy Riders will tell you the most popular sights in the area and help you tailor your itinerary to fit your tastes. Don't shrug off the odder-sounding sights, like persimmon storehouses or coffee plantations. The spots are likely run by friends of your guide, and they will give you demonstrations and offerings that no museum could.
On the morning of my tour, when the rain drizzled down on Da Lat, my guide showed up at the guesthouse with raincoats to spare. Throughout the day, he answered every question under the sun, from "who was Le Loi and why are so many streets named after him?" to "how do Vietnamese people feel about tourism?" with an impressive command of the English language. At the end of the day, with a head full of facts and a camera full of photos, I was all too pleased to sign my guide's comment book, which was dense with pictures and kind notes of other customers.
The Easy Riders will give you a heap of options for how to fill your day. Below are some of Da Lat's most popular destinations:
Crazy House
The daughter of a Vietnam's second communist president studied architecture in Russia before building this elaborate guesthouse, which looks like the psychedelic set of a children's show. It's worth exploring for the Smurf-village-like designs, and the ensuing discussion of "…but is it art?"
Lake of Sorrow
For a dose of local folklore, ask your guide to share the legend behind this popular honeymoon spot, where two young lovers met a Shakespearean fate.
Prenn Falls
Though waterfall enthusiasts may want to head further out of town for the bigger falls, this spot, a scenic 10km-ride out of town, is surrounded by pretty hiking paths.
Silk Worm Breeder
For any traveller who's dropped a few dong on silk souvenirs, it's interesting to see the rustic beginnings of this elegant fabric. Here, you can watch silkworm cocoons being boiled to unravel the threads, and ask questions to the patient staff (here, the Easy Riders will serve as interpreters).
Persimmon/Coffee/Strawberry Farms
Not only are the farmlands beautiful on the outskirts of Da Lat, it's interesting to watch the leafy green origins of the coffee plant, or the persimmon's lyme-curing process. More interesting is the insight you'll get into Vietnamese agriculture, and how its economics changed after the Soviet Union's collapse.
Old Train Station
If Da Lat's faux-Eiffel tower has you contemplating French colonialism, don't miss this French-built train station, which looks more suited for Lyons than Southeast Asia. While the museum-like station is a bit lacking in displays, the old-model locomotives and grand architecture are telling of France's high hopes for Vietnam as a colony.
While Easy Riders tours can vary in price, depending on whether you book several days with your driver. The 20$ I paid for a full day (and raincoat) was well worth it.
Anne Merritt is Canadian and has an English Literature degree. She has worked as a journalist for a university newspaper. She is currently living in Ayutthaya as an ESL teacher and is sharing her experience of Thailand with KhaoSanRoad.com.


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Hellblazer (1988-2013) is a comic book series by various authors and artists, based on the character of John Constantine, a magician-cum-conman created by Alan Moore for his run on Swamp Thing.
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Issue 3, Going for It by Jamie Delano[edit]
- John: [Thinking] I've never bothered with the cats for this ritual - too hard to catch, and they shriek like fury when you impale them. Anyway, all that messing about with rotten corpses and pain stuff is just to impress the marks - all you really need are the right contacts and a bit of nerve.
- John: [Aloud] Wake up Blathoxi, you bladder of bile. It's me, John Constantine. I want a word with you. C'mon, you pus-sac. Don't keep me waiting. I'm calling in your marker, now.
- [A demon dressed as a butler appears]
- John: Who the hell are you? I called for the lord of flatulence, not one of his discharges.
- Steward: In Hell I am the steward of the club wherein the Lord Blathoxi takes his ease. He commands me to inform you that your ritual was incompetent and insulting. You should have used the cats!
- First Demon: I think we're going to have to skin him and tan his hide.
- Second Demon: Good, I need some new seat-covers for the BMW.
Issue 41, Dangerous Habits, Part 1: The Beginning of the End by Garth Ennis[edit]
- John: I'm the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I've got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the last drop of your blood, I'll drive your demons away. I'll kick them in the bollocks and spit on them when they're down and then I'll be gone back into darkness, leaving only a nod and a wink and a wisecrack. I walk my path alone... who would walk with me?
- John: Few people really think about dying... paranoids worry about it without really understanding it. Victims of fatal accidents and murder don't have time to think. You only really think about it if you take the time to. And you only take the time if you know it's going to happen.
Issue 44, Dangerous Habits, Part 4: My Way by Garth Ennis[edit]
- John: All I ever wanted was for the world to be free of your kind, whether you were here in Parliament on in senate or junta or Hell or Heaven. Maybe that's pointless, then. Maybe the people are too small and scared to be free. Maybe they want you there, shitting all over them. But like a salesman who's only too eager to sew up his market and stitch up his customers, you're happy enough to exploit that. Aw, sod it. Sod you. For whatever it's worth, you were always the enemy. So you can listen to what I have to say. Matt was right. I'm not ashamed. I'm not ashamed.
Issue 50, Remarkable Lives by Garth Ennis[edit]
- King of Vampires: You seem very sure of yourself, you little mortal bastard, so I'll tell you what.... If you can tell me why your ordinary, piss-boring life is better than mine, you can walk out of here alive. If you can't, I'll cut your throat and drink my fill and leave you half alive forever.
- John: Easy. Can you go for a walk in the park and hear the birds sing in the morning? Can you kiss a girl and know she loves you? Can you go out and get pissed with your mates? I can. And just so we're sure who's better off, why don't we sit here together and watch the sun come up in an hour or so?
Issue 76, Confessions of an Irish Rebel by Garth Ennis[edit]
- John: [on Dublin] There's something about a town where nothing gets done 'cos they're all in the boozer talking about the best way to do it.
- John: What was dying like?
- Brendan: Could've done it in me sleep.
- John: You did.
- Brendan: There yeh are, then.
- John: Tell you who else is dead, came as a complete surprise: Terry Butcher. Header did him in.
- Brendan: Oh? I'd heard he ended up in a pie. D'yeh remember the time he lost his head wi' me? 'Cause I laughed at his idea for the book about the serial killer?
- John: Was that "The Noise of the Sheep?"
- Brendan: I tried to tell him, but what can yeh do?
Issue 78, Rake at the Gates of Hell Part 1 by Garth Ennis[edit]
- John: Christ, I hope she's strong enough. After this it starts getting nasty.
Issue 79, Rake at the Gates of Hell Part 2 by Garth Ennis[edit]
- John: It's just the way of it, son. We all sell our souls sooner or later.
Issue 81, Rake at the Gates of Hell Part 4 by Garth Ennis[edit]
- John: Now I'm just like the bastards I've hated all me life.
- John: You're not getting the bloody bible out are you?
- Father Kellaway: Yes, I am. I think you need it.
- John: Got all the bog roll I need.
- Father Kellaway: This is the word of god!
- John: The edited word of God. Your mob had that little book locked away in Rome for a thousand years, Father. D'you know how much they chopped out? Changed? Made up?
- Father Kellaway: They were Holy Men
- John: They were wankers. They screwed everything that moved, killed anyone who messed them about and fed off the suckers they preached to... What would've stopped them doing a quick re-write on that thing?
- Father Kellaway: I don't know what you think gives you the right to pass judgement on the Catholic Church.
- John: First Priest I ever met tried to cut my dick off with a razor blade. That do it?
- Father Kellaway: ... What's that got to do with rewriting the scriptures?
- John: And they couldn't even do it properly, could they? Ever wondered why he's a god of Vengeance in the Old Testament and Love in the new one? Why An eye for an eye becomes Turn the other cheek
- Father Kellaway: But...
- John: Shut up for a minute, will you? And what about the end of it? "Love me or you'll burn in hell!" That sounds like a spoilt kid!
- Father Kellaway: It isn't for us to judge...
- John: I said SHUT UP! I'll Judge! I'll judge whatever I soddin' well want! That's all the pricks've left me!
- Father Kellaway: Who?
- John: THE PRICKS WITH THE POWER! I tell you what, Father, the next time you're talking to your lord - You tell him from me, right, you tell him Constantine won't give in. You tell him no matter how bad or sad it gets, how much it falls to bits on me. How many holes there are in me worthless soddin' life... [Grips Kellaway's Bible] I'll never plug 'em with this Bollocks!
Issue 82, Rake at the Gates of Hell Part 5 by Garth Ennis[edit]
- John:You came back to find me: here I am. Whatever you want to do, wherever you want to go, just say the word and I'll do it. You want me to leave London and give up magic and even knock off the soddin' Silk Cut, no problem. Anything . Anything at all. I'm yours.
- Kit: I'm sorry...
- John: No. I don't want it. I don't want sorry, I don't want just friends, it's just bollocks that's what it is!
Issue 83, The End of Rake at the Gates of Hell by Garth Ennis[edit]
- [John, dying of lung cancer, coughs up blood while the First of the Fallen stands over him and gloats]
- The First of the Fallen: The air pressure alters and the air fills up with artichokes/A smell of piss and sodium, a noise like bitches twisting inwards, caught and left for carrion/(Razorlight, Razorlight)/And/I/Fall.
- John: What the fuh- hch-- What are you on about?
- The First of the Fallen: It's your friend's poetry. The twenty-nine-year-old teenage rebel. Execrable, isn't it? How does a bitch twist inwards? And is it only me, or do poems that don't rhyme reflect a fundamental lack of effort?
[Hugging Helen goodbye]
- John: When I let her go, it felt like life itself was slipping through me fingers.
Issue 129, Son of Man, Part 1 by Garth Ennis[edit]
- John: We are not children of celestial fuckin' light, walkin' arm-in-arm into the Age of Aquarius. We are wankers who wreck the planet an' piss on each other, 'til half the world's starvin' an' the other half's busy findin' new ways to keep from noticin' it. That's the fuckin' limit've our potential, believe me.
- [On hating children]
- John: I know, I know. "You were one once." I was a sperm once, but you don't see me wantin' to cuddle up to a fuckin' wankstain, do you?
Issue 130, Son of Man, Part 2 by Garth Ennis[edit]
- Church Congregation: Satan! I'm worshipping Satan!/'Cause Satan has the things I adore.../Satan! I'm worshipping Satan!/'Cause Satan keeps me stocked with drugs and whores!
- Mrs Potter: How are we supposed to worship alongside these-- these perverts? These practitioners of the black arts? This is blasphemy!
- Rick the Vic: Mrs Potter, that's what the church of the blessed reconciliation is all about... How can we expect our dear lord god to welcome his fallen angel back into the fold, to love the unlovable-- if we ourselves turn our Satanic bretheren away from our door? Please, Mrs Potter. In the name of universal peace: share your hymnbook with Lord Gorgamoth Scumflagon.
- Brendan: What in the name've Jaysis is he doin' this for?
- John: Bet with the Pope.
Issue 132, Son of Man, Part 4 by Garth Ennis[edit]
- John: Some soddin' possessed brat's about to rip this town apart an' God knows what else an' all of a sudden big bleedin' expert Chas Chandler turns into a fuckin' necromancer? Do me a favour...!
- Chas: 'Least I know how to drive a cab.
- John: Gettin' pretty fuckin' lippy in your old age, aren't you?
Issue 133, Son of Man, Part 5 by Garth Ennis[edit]
- Fuckpig: You belong here, don't you, Constantine? This is your world. Eyelids slit off and babies on hooks. Guttings and rapings. I swear to fuck, yours is the kind of life serial killers wank off to.
Issue 134, Haunted, Part 1 by Warren Ellis[edit]
- Detective Inspector Watford: [On seeing a boy inhaling from an aerosol] I had one like 'im the other day. Little girl. She did five cans of that. Froze her lungs solid. Nine years old.
- John: Hello, Watford. Life in the police still a little ray of sunshine every day, is it?
- Detective Inspector Watford: Never been a better time to be a copper, John. Thought we'd miss a Tory government something chronic, you know? But this new lot: "tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime." Great stuff. Things get worse every bleedin' day. It's like Maggie never left office. Lovely jubbly.
- Clarice: John, I've known you a long time. I know you. I've known what you are since I went down on you in Highgate Cemetery when you were twenty-four years old. You're an adrenaline junkie. Don't turn some poor dead girl into today's fix. She can't deserve that.
Issue 138, Haunted, Part 5 by Warren Ellis[edit]
- Clarice: Talk to me, John.
- John: Dead girlfriends, Clarice.
- Clarice: Ah. Your favourite drug.
- John: And magic.
- Clarice: Your favourite fuck.
Issue 139, Haunted, Part 6 by Warren Ellis[edit]
- John: My name's John Constantine, and here I stay: haunted by London. And London, haunted by me.
Issue 143, Telling Tales by Warren Ellis[edit]
- Man: I got into a fight with this bloke last night. Didn't like the way her was looking at me girlfriend, know what I mean? Weird fucker, he was, all covered in tattoos and shit. And, you know, I was a bit lagered up, know what I mean? He hit me. Here. And his hand was all twisted up when he did it, and he was laughing. So I go to the bog this morning, and... well, I've got it in the bag here. I think I shat out me own heart.
Issue 175, High on Life, Part 1 by Mike Carey[edit]
- Angie: I'm into [magic] meself. I can probably help you.
- John: Okay. So who are the big players locally? If I want my wife's toy boy to start shitting razorblades, who do I go to?
- Angie: Oh, for fuck's sake!
- John: What about zombies? Say I want to shag one, or rent a few to work someone over. Or I'm desperate to score a pint or so of baby blood. Where's the best place to buy?
- Angie: Is that the lot, or is there more after the adverts?
- John: I'm just making a point, love. Magic's a nasty game. Go and play with your dad's chainsaw instead.
Issue 176, High on Life, Part 2 by Mike Carey[edit]
- Detective Inspector Watford: It's half past three in the sodding ante meridian. Whoever you are, your organs of generation are in hanging in the balance. Speak.
- John: You couldn't find a balance big enough for my balls, Watford. Are you ready to play "Inspector Fuckwit Investigates"?
- Detective Inspector Watford: Constantine, Interpol has got you down as dead. If you're looking for directions, move towards the light.
- John: Can't, your fat arse is blocking the view.
Issue 177, Red Sepulchre, Part 1 by Mike Carey[edit]
- John: I've already blown my cover, so I may as well drop my pants and bugger it properly.
Issue 182, Black Flowers Part 1 by Mike Carey[edit]
- Slimy Demon: I am the emissary of King Arawn Pen Annuvin, who wishes you health and plenty.
- John: Plenty of what? Mucus on my duvet?
Issue 186, Third Worlds, Part 3: The Pit by Mike Carey[edit]
- Angie: You're going to stoke up on magic mushrooms and talk to ghosts?
- John: I'm going to take a dream walk. Find some of the locals and have a chat. This is a quick and easy way to get started.
- [Later]
- Angie: And this is all historically authentic, is it? The torches? the mushrooms? The stripping down to your y-fronts?
- John: I told you, they died out. And they didn't have a written language. This just-- just felt--
- Angie: A) Pretentious. B) Stupid. C) A good excuse to get naked. Jesus wept!
Issue 194, Ward 24 by Mike Carey[edit]
- Peter Gill: Thank Christ I can put this thing away now. I hate guns. Killing someone with a gun-- that's like shagging with a rubber on.
Issue 213, The Gift by Mike Carey[edit]
- John: My talent's for lying. For sticking the knife in when people least expect it. Then walking away with a smile and a wave before they even realize they're bleeding.
Issue 214, R.S.V.P. Part 1 by Mike Carey[edit]
- John: Four o'clock and it's already getting dark. Solstice only a few days away. Winter magic, where we kill and eat the sun to give us strength to make it through the cold. Only it feels like it's already dead.
John has been handed an invitation to a magician's ball.
- John: Well I'm just lost for words, mate. Overwhelmed, that's the only word for it. I mean, two hundred generations of bearded old geezers have used magic as a tool for unlocking the mysteries of creation. Breaching the walls of life and death. Stuff like that. But fuck them if they can't take a joke, right? It's time we all put our glad rags on and had a good old knees up. A verbal answer? I'd rather have my guts drawn out with hooks than waste an evening with a shower of chinless fuckwits like you.
- Etheridge: That's-- I'm-- I find that really disappointing, John.
- John: I don't know where it comes from, this impulse to set everything by. To save it up. As if the past doesn't die unless you give in and fucking bury it. Or as if you can read your own past, like runes. But the past is another country, and there's razor wire along the border and machine-gun nests every fifty yards.
Issue 215, R.S.V.P. Part 2 by Mike Carey[edit]
- John: So. Magic. What's it all about, then? I wonder what you were after when you go into the game. It's usually something. Something specific that you think is worth taking risks for. Money. Sex. Revenge. Power. Enlightenment. Thinner thighs in thirty days. It's a long time ago for most of you, I know. Maybe you don't remember. Fuck, maybe you don't even want to. But I'll tell you something for free. At rock bottom, it's always about the same thing. It's always about entropy. The Universe is winding down. Things fall apart. The moving finger writes, and what it writes is "Tough shit." You can't get something for nothing. Like God said to Adam when he kicked him out of the garden, "Now you've got to work for a living." If there ever was a free lunch, it ended right there. So we push and we pull and we sweat. Putting in a shit-load of energy to get a little back. Third Law of Thermodynamics, right? The one we all love to hate. Cheers. But with magic, it's different. Or it could be. Case in point -- this fine old plonk. How did it get here? Grapes had to ripen. Peasants had to toil. Some plucky kid in Marks and Sparks had to zip a long the aisles with his pricing gun. Lots of effort. Lots of energy. And once it's gone, it's gone. When things fall apart -- they do not put themselves back together again. But if you ask a demon to bring you some wine -- or jiffy some up with a spell -- well, you're cheating the taxman, aren't you? It comes for free. No grapes. No peasants. No entropy. So here we all are, then. Chasing the earthly paradise. Trying to sneak back into Eden through the back door, because work is for mug punters. You stupid arrogant little shits. We're not playing fire, -- here we're playing with napalm. There's a war on and we're whoring with the enemy for pennies. Innocent people die when we fuck up. And we fuck up all the time. Oh, don't get me wrong. Eden's a nice place. I was there a few months back. Left a piece of myself buried in the ground there, for reasons I won't go into. So I can tell you, God hates our kind most especially. The cheats. The hellblazers. The collaborators. Look -- this is what Heaven has to say to the likes of us.
- Clarice: They'll never forgive you. As long as you live, no magician in the world will ever lift a finger to help you again.
- John: London isn't the world, Clarice. It just thinks it is. You people need to fucking well get over yourselves. I like to think I've helped.
- Clarice: You showed them their death. You showed them how small they are.
- John: Yeah. Total perspective vortex, that's me. They should give me a vote of fucking thanks. After all, there's no point in kidding yourself, is there? That way madness lies.
- John: All my best mates. Just like old times, eh? Because the old times were never less than fucking terrifying. I don't know if they're an honor guard or a jury. Probably both. So I walk down the avenue they've left between them, past Frank, Ben, Judith. Looking them all in the eye, one at a time. Because you can't smack a roomful of people in the face with their own mortality and then hide under the bedclothes when Death comes calling on you.
- John: It's coming on to rain, with perfect timing. The first drops running down my face so that from a distance you could mistake them for tears. Don't you believe it, mate. Don't you fucking believe it.
Issue 232, Wheels of Chance, Systems of Control, Part 1 of 2 by Andy Diggle[edit]
- John: (internal) The old place still smells the same, that's the wierdest part. Beneath the new carpets and the fancy wallpaper, the gloss paint and velvet drapes-- --the lingering taint of blood and sweat, piss and shit. The tang of human fear. Takes me right back, it does. I never expected to come back. Not after last time. I thought I was done with this place. Thought it was done with me... But here I am again, back for one last ride on the merry-go-round. Except this time, I'm the one who's in control. And that's what it's all about, ennit? Control. Last time I slept here, I had none. Not even bladder control. But things change. People think magic's a way of transforming reality-- but in the end, you find that all that you've really changed is yourself. Which probably explains why every magician I've ever met's a self-absorbed arsehole. Still, first rule of magic: perception is reality. You gotta look the part. Button-down collar. Pinstripe suit. Ben Sherman. Good British label. Cuff links and cologne; it's been a while. There... nice and sharp.
- John: I don't watch the ball. I watch them. Like I said-- You make your own luck. Perception is reality. And it doesn't matter a tuppeny toss where the ball actually lands... Just as long as they see what I want them to see.
Issue 235, Joyride, Part 2 of 3 by Andy Diggle[edit]
- John: So, I carry the lodestone back to my flat in Brixton in a second-hand ASDA bag. The romance of the mystic arts, eh?
Issue 238, The Smoke by Andy Diggle[edit]
- John: Effra's a Naiad, or a Nixie. Or possibly an Undine. I dunno, I'm a little fuzzy on Celtic Water Spirits. Whatever, she's the guardian of a minor river that used to flow from what's now Crystal Palace, heading north through Brixton to the Thames. But that was a long time ago -- and as the city built up around her, river Effra gradually got built over. A hundred and fifty years ago it disappeared altogether, becoming another of London's fabled Lost Rivers, channeled through underground culverts and storm drains... and Effra's been down there ever since, guarding her namesake with no one but the sewer rats to worship her. Not that you'd know to look at her that she's been down on her luck. She's every man's wet dream -- almost literally. Beautiful, fun-loving, and drinks like a fish... Unfortunately, she also fucks like a fish, but that's water spirits for you
All His Engines, graphic novel by Mike Carey[edit]
- Chas: You'll still need a driver. And there's me martial arts training-- that'll come in handy.
- John: Tai Kwon Wheel Wrench? Shut up now, okay?
- Melosa: He wants to know if you're-- devout. If you believe.
- John: Devout? No. But there's not a lot I don't believe in.
- Mictlantecuhtli: You forget yourself. I am no upstart demon, scrabbling in the dirt of the human soul. I am Mictlantecuhtli. I am a god.
- John: Great stuff. I'm John-- and I'm a bastard.
- John: Happy Families. What's that all about, eh? A bloody busted flush is what it is. You surround yourself with other people so the night doesn't seem quite so dark. Shout down the sound of the wind with arguments about whose turn it is to wash the dishes. Best not to kid yourself. Best not to give any hostages to fortune. You're on your own in the end. Always. Where else would you want to be?
The Knowledge, graphic novel by Simon Oliver[edit]
- John: [On the phone to Chas] Chas, no pressure or nothing, but if and when I ever get back to London, I'm expecting to find the same shit-hole that was there when I left -- and not a pile of smoldering ruins, okay?
Sandman Presents: Love Street, mini-series by Peter Hogan[edit]
- Estella: I think we should drink to love. That's what Pammie would have wanted.
- John: I generally drink because of it, darlin'.
- Oliver: To ideals, then?
- John: Yeah.... All right. I think I've got a couple left.