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For the next two weeks the Afterword presents excerpts from Joey Comeau's new novel One Bloody Thing After Another. Joey Comeau is a Toronto-based writer and graphic novelist. His previous works include the web comic series A Softer World and the novels Lockpick Pornography and Overqualified. You can follow him on Twitter.
Prologue, Part one
The window in the upstairs hallway is open. No wonder it was so cold last night. Ann slides it closed, hard, and goes down to the kitchen.There's a bowl of cereal laid out for her breakfast, and Ann's younger sister Margaret is already shoveling food into her face. Milk dribbles down Margaret's chin.There's cereal all over the tabletop.
"You're disgusting," Ann says. "Your friends will wait for you, you know. You don't have to choke it down like that."
"Hey, go slow," their mother says, coming into the kitchen. She's dressed up, in a gray-and-white suit, and she twirls once for her daughters. "What do you think?" she says. "Professional? Hire-able? Is the red scarf too much?"
"You look great, Mom," Ann tells her. Margaret just keeps eating. Their mother bends down to get something from the floor. It's a couple seconds before Ann realizes that her mother hasn't come up again. She leans over, and sees that her mom wasn't picking something up at all. She's crouched down, holding a hand to her throat.
"Are you okay?" Ann says.
"Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine, Ann." Her mother clears her throat. "Sorry. I just have something. . . ." she clears her throat again louder, and then stands up, smiling. She clears her throat again.Then again.
Even Margaret is looking up from her cereal.Their mother coughs. And then she coughs harder. There's a bit of blood on her lips now.
She smiles. "Wish me luck today!" she says.
Prologue, Part two
Ann's mother was perfectly qualified, but her interview did not go well. Afterward, she ran out of the conference room holding her red scarf over her mouth, leaving two men, Jeff and Alex, sitting in silence for a long time.
Between the two of them they have interviewed thousands of men and women for various jobs. It has never before gone so ridiculously badly. They're just sitting there. They should clean this up and call the next applicant.They're on a schedule, after all. But instead they sit in silence.
Alex looks at the door where she ran out, and then he looks at the wet, bloody chunk of god-knows-what sitting on the table in front of them. The thing she coughed up, partway through the interview.That poor woman.
"That did not go well," Jeff says. He can joke because none of the blood landed on him.
• Excerpted from One Bloody Thing After Another, by Joey Comeau. Published by ECW Press.


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RIM's insistence that everything is just rosy when it's clearly not could – and should – spur shareholders to sue the company, Jean-Louis Gassée, former president of Apple's products division, told The New York Times Sunday.
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WASHINGTON, D.C.-The Council for Advancement and Support of Education today announced the 2012 recipients of its Distinguished Service Awards.
The annual awards honor individuals and organizations for extraordinary service to education and the field of educational advancement, which includes alumni relations, fundraising, communications and marketing.
CASE will recognize the six recipients at a luncheon on Monday, July 16, in conjunction with the CASE Summit for Leaders in Advancement in Washington, D.C.
The 2012 CASE Distinguished Service Awards winners are:
Rita Bornstein, recipient of the E. Burr Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award. Bornstein, president emerita of Rollins College in Florida, is a nationally recognized leader in higher education and the advancement profession. Following a distinguished career in advancement and academia, she assumed the presidency of Rollins College in 1990. During her 14-year tenure, she guided Rollins through various levels of achievement, including its most ambitious fundraising effort that raised more than $160 million for academic programs, scholarships, faculty chairs and facilities. Bornstein was elected chair of the CASE Board of Trustees in 2005. As chair, Bornstein oversaw CASE's expansion into Asia-Pacific, Mexico and Africa as well as a renewed focus on ethics and diversity in the advancement profession. She has also served as a mentor to many professionals during the past 35 years and continues to build her influence and reputation through writing, speaking and assisting heads of institutions to be strong leaders.
Timothy H. Ubben, recipient of the Ernest T. Stewart Award for Alumni Volunteer Involvement. Ubben is a 1958 graduate of DePauw University. For more than 30 years, Ubben has been an active volunteer and served as a member or leader of various boards and committees, including president of the Alumni Association Board of Directors, member and chair of the DePauw University Board of Trustees and honorary chair of the National Campaign Committee. In his nomination letter, the president of DePauw University noted that Ubben has "elevated this institution's national reputation and redefined student and faculty opportunities" through his volunteer involvement and significant gifts that created several academic programs. This includes multiple gifts to establish 15 Ubben Endowed Chairs and an endowed lectureship that brings world leaders to DePauw's Midwest campus.
Larry D. Lauer, recipient of the Frank L. Ashmore Award for Service to CASE and the Advancement Profession. Lauer is vice chancellor for government affairs at Texas Christian University. He is a recognized expert in educational advancement, especially in integrated marketing, and has served as a speaker and author of many books and articles on the topic. Throughout his advancement career, Lauer has shared his marketing experience by volunteering as a faculty member at CASE conferences, a trustee on the CASE board and a member of the CASE Commission on Communications and Marketing. In addition to his leadership and marketing expertise, Lauer has served as a mentor to many in the profession and has brought his principles and practices of integrated marketing to institutions around the world.
David M. Rubenstein, recipient of the James L. Fisher Award for Distinguished Service to Education. Rubenstein is co-founder and managing director of the Carlyle Group. Throughout the years, he has provided significant financial and volunteer support to many institutions, including the University of Chicago Law School, Duke University School of Public Health and Johns Hopkins. His volunteer work includes serving as chair of the board of trustees at Duke University and trustee of the University of Chicago. Beyond his work with higher education, Rubenstein is involved in numerous other causes that advance education. This includes purchasing rare documents and sharing them with the public. Examples include the Magna Carta, a signed copy of the Emancipation Proclamation and a rare copy of the Declaration of Independence, which are housed at various sites in Washington, D.C.
Jack R. and Mary Lois Wheatley, recipients of the Distinguished Friend of Education Award. Jack R. and Mary Lois Wheatley are long-time supporters of Brigham Young University. They made their first gift nearly 40 years ago in support of an academic chair. Since then, they have played a significant role in various academic, cultural, building and beautification projects that have benefitted thousands of students and campus visitors. This includes purchasing thousands of trees for BYU, financing and helping design one of the most popular campus art museums in the western part of the United States and providing financial support for BYU students to spend a semester studying in Jerusalem. In 2008, the Wheatley's founded the Wheatley Institution to enhance the scholarship and academic experience at BYU. Mr. Wheatley has also served as co-chair of the BYU President's Leadership Council, co-chair of the institution's "Lighting the Way for the 21st Century" capital campaign and has devoted hundreds of hours to help conceptualize and plan numerous buildings on the campus.
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[lastfm]Wyclef Jean[/lastfm] says he plans to fight the Haitian electoral council's decision to bar him from running for president in the country's upcoming election. Jean was initially barred from the election because he has not lived in Haiti for five consecutive years, but in a new statement, the hip-hop star claims he has met the criteria.
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Another post about SquareSpace logo builder<\/a>? Yes. Another one. I just wrote a brief post on valuing the designer as more than a tool<\/a>. But that's not the only point that we should draw from the tizzy about the SS logo builder<\/a>.<\/p>\n
[Brief recap if you didn't read the previous post: SquareSpace launched a logo design tool, and people on the internet tweaked out.]<\/p>\n
Some of the criticism leveled at SquareSpace accused them of devaluing the work done by designers. The criticism is similar to what we see when large companies hold design competitions, or more smarmy companies utilize spec work strategies to fleece designers out of being paid.<\/p>\n
I think that's a misreading of the situation.<\/p>\n
Design can<\/em> be a force for good<\/h2>\n
Design as a cultural force is a tricky thing to wrap your head around. Before the advent of personal computing, design was squarely in the hands of those who could afford to do it – either as a function of their access to the tools, or the economic standing required to purchase it. \u00a0Even with the proliferation of good software and hardware, design is still the easiest way for us to distinguish the 'haves' from the 'have nots'. Think about how quickly you can pigeonhole someone's class by looking at the way their clothing is designed. Or sitting in a cafe, and seeing someone working away on a clunky Gateway. This happens a million times a day in a million different ways.<\/p>\n

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I live in Minneapolis – home of the recently deflated Metrodome, a sports arena designed in the 1980s that looks like a nuclear fall out bunker topped by a marshmallow. Whether or not you believe in publicly funding sports stadiums, it was a detractor for a the city – a way of separating a first class city from a second class city. \u00a0As much as I love design, and believe in the value of it – it is used to separate people as often as it is to unify them.<\/p>\n
We at Modern Tribe do some branding work, it's not our focus but it is a service that we provide. It's also expensive. It's expensive because the process has taken a long time to develop, and the people on our team have spent years crafting their skills. It's expensive because we are good at it and our market sees the value in that skill. But for every company like ours, there are half a dozen companies that charge 2x, 5x, or 10x to do similar work. And for every one of those, there are a half a dozen more that charge a fraction less.<\/p>\n
Certainly, there is a gradient of value. I believe we provide more value than hiring a designer off of Fiverr<\/a>. Certainly when it comes to branding, Pentagram<\/a> delivers more value than us. \u00a0But that's not to say that I think if Fiverr is all you can afford, then crap is all you deserve.<\/p>\n
It's often those who have the least, who would benefit from good design the most.<\/h2>\n
What should a well designed logo cost: $100,000,000? \u00a0$100,000? $10,000? \u00a0$5,000? \u00a0$1,000? $500? $50? $5?<\/p>\n
At each one of those price points, you filter out a group of people. If good design \u00a0costs more than $10,000, then those with less must not deserve good design. If good design costa more more than $50, than those with less don't deserve good design.<\/p>\n
Bad design has real world effects. Those effects are often felt most strongly by the low income population.\u00a0Replace logo, with Health Care Exchange. I'm technically savvy, and can spend all day screwing around with a crap website trying to buy health insurance. I can read Mark Jaquith's hilarious twitter feed,<\/a> and laugh rather than weep. \u00a0But if you get your internet access at the library in 30 minute bursts – or if you work from the hours of 8am – 6pm when the website was 'open' you will have a greater understanding of the value of good design and the real tangible effects of bad design.<\/p>\n
You can argue that the Health Care Exchange is an argument for spending oodles of cash on design. But you'd be wrong. It highlights the perverse and wonky relationship that good design and economics has. That expensive doesn't always mean good, and cheap doesn't always have to mean crappy.<\/p>\n
When you spend all day hustling proposals, finding clients, aspiring to grow your own business, and<\/em><\/strong> trying to do good work – it's easy to forget that there many who would be absolutely be thrilled to use your services, but cannot afford them. \u00a0What ever tools we, as the design industry can give to those people – to lower the bar to realizing the benefits of good design – we should encourage and applaud.<\/p>\n
Kudos to you SquareSpace for giving those with fewer resources better tools.<\/p>\n
p.s \u00a0Non-profits can get our plugins for free.<\/a><\/p>\n


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I'm just going to get straight to the point here. Assassin's Creed Multiplayer needs a DLC which features playable ASSASSINS... Not Templars! I personally enjoy playing as an Assassin more than I enjoy playing as a Templar.
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Make a DLC for AC3. You won't have to worry about it being randomley incorporated into the game because I have thought of a story to come with it. Im sure most of us are fimilar with the group known as 'ERUDITO'. For those who aren't, basically it is just an unknown person (or group) which is trying to reveal the secrets of Abstergo Industries. Using this group known as Erudito, lets say they hack into the Abstergo Industries training system and instead of Templars using the training program, the Assassin's use the training program.
Alternativley, if this option seems a bit far fetched or disliked you could simply say that the assassin's built their own training program or the winners of every multiplayer match get to be the assassin's in the next round and the loosers are the templars.
I will be glad to see where these ideas might go. Please do take these ideas seriouslt because I believe that a DLC Multiplayer pack such as this could be very popular.
'Vittoria Agli Assassini!"
Also if you unlock the hacked files for the characters you find out that some of them actually were Assassins, not all the characters are Templars!


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A lawyer said Tuesday he's trying to negotiate a plea deal for a New York woman facing felony charges in Las Vegas after being accused of performing illegal eyelift surgeries. Defense attorney James Gallo, representing Jing Qu, made his comments while awaiting a brief appearance before Las Vegas Justice of the Peace Melanie Andress-Tobiasson. The judge postponed an evidence hearing in the case until March 26.
Gallo told The Associated Press that Qu is a physician from China and has performed more than 20,000 medical procedures. However, records show she is not licensed as a doctor in Nevada. Qu was arrested in November on two felony charges of practicing medicine without a license and a burglary charge. Las Vegas police said a resident in a community southwest of the Las Vegas Strip complained about cars blocking his driveway and officers found people in a neighboring house wearing medical scrubs.
Police said the 38-year-old homeowner, who was found with a bandage over her right eye, told officers she paid $1,000 for an eyelift procedure. The burglary charge derives from Nevada law making it a felony to enter a building to commit a crime. The case drew comparisons with an illegal buttocks enhancement surgery in a back room of a Las Vegas tile store that left a 42-year-old woman dead last April.


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BRITAINS Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, has just revealed the policy of the British government on Iraq or has he?
He said that Iran must be persuaded to co-operate over its nuclear programme by peaceful means.
He added for good measure: nobody is talking about invading Iran, reasoning that Iran is not Iraq.
This has been taken to mean that Iran has not been weakened by 13 years of the most vicious UN sanctions, as was Iraq from 1990 to 2003 when 1,500,000 of its people died from lack of food and medicines, and when the whole country outside Kurdistan was deliberately starved.
As everybody knows a bully is always loth to attack the fully fit. They want them weakened first.
However, before the assault on Iraq, the British government was singing a similar tune, saying that war was not inevitable, and all that it was seeking to do was disarm Iraq of its non-existent wmds, and once that was done there would be peace.
The whole world now knows Bush and Blair were using fake intelligence about wmds and Iraqs supposed attempts, via Niger, to obtain uranium for nuclear weapons to prepare the way for war.
For at least one year before March 2003 the British government was committed to going to war against Iraq alongside the US, it was just a matter of seizing the right moment to invade. Now a similar scenario is being worked on once again.
Iran says that it has the right to have a nuclear programme for peaceful means, since its oil resources are fast depleting.
The US and the UK say that Iran is intent on making a nuclear bomb and because of this allegation it cannot be allowed to have a nuclear programme and nuclear research.
The same countries have meanwhile allowed Israel to secretly amass over 200 nuclear weapons, and both India and Pakistan, two of its allies, have recently acquired nuclear bombs without even a protest from Washington and London.
The US and the UK are seeking to draw up a new imperialist law or diktat. No country, outside of them and their allies can be allowed to acquire a nuclear programme.
The US, Britains strategic master, is prepared to go to war on this issue, and Israeli generals are already stating that they should strike Iran and bomb it into submission.
The US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when asked the same question as Straw replied, that the US has no intention of taking military action against Iran at the moment.
The Israeli general Uzi Dayan has said that Israel must use its full military might against Iran.
Meanwhile, the US along with the UK and the EU is hauling Iran in front of the stooge UN Security Council where they are relying on the Stalinist leaderships of Russia and China not to veto life threatening sanctions against the Iranian people, thus beginning the slippery slope to another imperialist war.
Iran meanwhile broke the UN seals to its Natanz nuclear research facility on Tuesday because it wants to produce electricity, not because it is pursuing nuclear weapons.
The fact of the matter is that Iran has as much right as does the US, UK or Israel to develop nuclear power.
In principle it has every right to develop the same kind of nuclear weaponry that is currently being used to threaten it by the US, UK, and Israel.
The imperialist powers and their allies do not have the sole right to harness and develop nuclear power.
Having seen how the treacherous imperialist powers lied their way to sanctions and war against Iraq, the trade unions must defend Iran and declare that the first casualty of any move to war or sanctions against Iran will be the Blair government.
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Flatulence removed from "The Judge Jones School of Law"
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The Rembrandt of flash animation and I are working to enhance "The Judge Jones School of Law." As a first step we have made the animation less offensive to more refined sensibilities. All the overt flatulence has therefore been removed. Go to www.overwhelmingevidence.com for the less objectional version of this animation (we are keeping the original, however, so that when the history of evolution's demise is written, all versions of this animation will be available to historians).
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Where's the justice for those of us without refined sensibilities who can appreciate ribald humor?
I'm just getting a kick out of how frequently the word "fart" is being used around here lately.
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Colvin's homer the difference for Colorado
ST. LOUIS -- The Rockies spent Tuesday night benefiting from two personnel decisions that went right. Tyler Colvin, obtained this winter from the Cubs in a four-player deal, hit his 10th home run of the season, for all of the team's runs, and left-hander Jeff Francis, reclaimed from the obscurity of Triple-A, threw five solid innings in a 3-2 victory over the Cardinals at Busch Stadium. "Unlike a lot of situations this year, we won a game tonight, and our pitching staff made it stand up," manager Jim Tracy said.
The victory -- which was in doubt until Rafael Betancourt blew a 92-mph fastball by a looking Jon Jay to notch his 13th save -- was the seventh in the last 25 games for the Rockies (31-49), who entered the day tied with the Cubs for baseball's worst record. The Rockies prevented the Cardinals (42-39) from making a move on the National League Central-leading Reds. Colvin's three-run homer off Joe Kelly (1-1), his second long ball in as many games against the Cards in what will be a four-game set, gave the Rockies a one-run lead in the third inning. Colvin -- who came with infielder DJ LeMahieu in exchange for infielder Ian Stewart and Minor League pitcher Casey Weathers after hitting .150 last season with Chicago -- has pushed his way into regular playing time with the Rockies. He found his swing during Spring Training, and since June 9 he has seven home runs and 22 RBIs in 18 games, including 16 starts. The homer came on a changeup -- the type of pitch that would have given him trouble last season, with his pull-conscious swing. "That's a changeup, and that's exactly what I wanted to do there. I don't want to hook it foul, so I was looking the other way, and I ended up pulling it," Colvin said. Said Kelly: "The right pitch. I wanted it. I just threw it bad." Francis (2-1), a onetime Rockies ace who rejoined the club early last month after toiling for the Reds at Triple-A Louisville, allowed two runs or fewer for the fourth straight outing. Matt Holliday, a teammate of Francis' on the 2007 NL champion Rockies, hit a two-run homer in the first, but Francis handled the Cards thereafter. "I love being here. I love playing for this team," said Francis, who went 6-16 with a 4.82 ERA in 183 innings for the Royals last year. "They gave me a shot, and so far I've pitched well to take advantage of that. Hopefully, it sticks." The toughest inning for Francis was the third, when with two out, Jay and Holliday singled, and Carlos Beltran walked. But Francis shattered Allen Craig's bat and escaped the jam on the resulting line drive to third baseman Chris Nelson. Francis joined the Rockies on June 9 and gave up 10 hits in 3 1/3 innings in a loss to the Angels, but the Rockies have won his five starts since. Francis, who threw 77 pitches on Tuesday, has been the symbol of the four-starter, pitch-limit system. The system has drawn questions, but the Rockies say that all they need is modest starting pitching. The club is 17-10 when the starter goes at least three innings and gives up three runs or fewer, 19-11 when the starter goes at least four with three runs or fewer, 20-15 when the starter goes five and yields four runs or fewer, and 22-20 when the starter goes four and allows four runs or fewer. The problem has been the many starts in which the starter didn't meet those standards. Francis improved to 6-1 with a 3.09 ERA in 11 career games, including 10 starts, against the Cardinals. After Colvin's homer off Kelly, the Rockies loaded the bases with two down. But Kelly reacted quickly to snag Nelson's line drive, and he also got Carlos Gonzalez -- who singled in the third to extend his hitting streak to 11 games -- to pop up to shortstop Rafael Furcal to end the fourth with bases full. The Cards had two on and two out in the seventh when Matt Belisle replaced Rex Brothers and got Holliday to bounce out to Nelson. With two out and runners at the corners in a difficult ninth, Betancourt, who had blown three of his previous five chances, bested Jay on an 0-2 pitch.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Hardball in the Rockies, and follow him on Twitter @harding_at_mlb. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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If I signed a job offer letter but later decidee that I did not want the job, can I just walk away or is the job binding?
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The Tide is rolling right now with commitments, coming off their spring game weekend. The latest is from a big time defensive prospect from the Sunshine State, as just a few minutes ago, Pensacola, Fla. defensive lineman D.J. Pettway made it official and committed to Alabama.
"Yeah, I did it earlier today,†Pettway said. "I committed around 11:40 (central). I called coach (Nick) Saban and he was very happy about it. He's glad the process is over for me and ready for us to move on.â€
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"No it wasn't. Florida State made a late run. It was tough and a hard decision. But I came home from Alabama this weekend and talked about everything with my mom and dad. In the end I just realized Alabama was the best place for me. The distance is nice and I love that hometown feeling I get there. Alabama has a real good staff and that team plays together. They are a big family.â€
Pettway, 6-3 and 255 pounds, will be one of the top rated defensive end prospects from the state of Florida. He finished his junior season with 85 tackles, 25 tackles for a loss and 16 sacks.


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In this, the age of being able to record your own CD in your basement, the adage, "just because you can record your own CD doesn't mean you should," has never been more true, especially in the smooth jazz realm. The market has been flooded with, let's face it, tons of just terrible recordings, mostly done by artists playing all the parts themselves on their keyboard workstations. None of the above applies to the new CD by saxophonist Neamen, So Free.
A 2003 graduate of the University of Arizona with a degree in Jazz Performance, Neamen gets it. The best smooth jazz is really instrumental R&B, and it has to be part of your soul, not just something you want to do to make a buck or two, for it to be any good. That this music resonates deeply within this young artist is a statement that can be taken to the bank.This professional recording expertly produced by the up and coming young keyboardist and guitarist Jay Soto, is full of great tunes, hip melodies, rock solid grooves, and spritely powerful saxophone playing by Neamen. On this disc the young artist shows himself to be a musician of the highest quality. Playing with such power and soul one can't help be reminded of Dave Koz's early recordings, back before he was lured into following radio industry defined standards.
The first three tracks are all solid winners. "Candy," "Let's Chill, and "So Free" are so commanding, authoritative and energetic you'll think this young artist is at least twice as old as he is because certainly no youngster can play with the command of his saxophone and be so locked into a rhythmic pocket at such a young age.When things do finally slow down, as on the "Don't Say Goodbye," you won't want the groove to end. Neamen's soprano is so velvety and silky you'll absolutely find yourself luxuriating in his sweet sounds. No matter if he's playing the melody or taking an improvised solo, every one of his phrases is played from his heart and makes the best musical sense. Other highlights include the Tower of Powerish "Who Dat," and "Feels Like Heaven," that features a nice half-time groove feel and honeyed backing vocals. It's also nice to have a fusionish "Cooling The Plasma" included on the disc. It's too bad smooth jazz radio is dying, because this guy gets it. Don't let the death of smooth jazz deter you, if you love smooth jazz this disc is well worth picking up.


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If being arrested, fined, sued and publicly humiliated wasn't enough punishment for Michael Lasseter, the die-hard Georgia fan whose idiocy brought the Atlanta airport to a standstill last November, he has received perhaps the most painful sentence of all: a Dawgless fall.
At a hearing Wednesday, a Clayton County judge sentenced Lasseter, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor trespassing, to 10 days in jail, 500 hours of community service and barred him from attending any University of Georgia football games this fall.
Lasseter's problems began on Nov. 16 when he was trying to catch a flight to Mississippi for a UGA football game. After clearing security, Lasseter realized he left his camera bag in the baggage claim area. He retrieved the bag and headed back to the terminal. However, worried he might miss the flight, Lasseter decided to bypass the long security lines by running past security guards and going the wrong way down an escalator.
Still on heightened alert from the terrorist attacks two months earlier, Hartsfield officials decided to evacuate roughly 10,000 people from the massive building complex. The airport was shut down for four hours. Hundreds of flights were canceled in and out of Atlanta disrupting air travel across the country.
In exchange for Lasseter's guilty plea, prosecutors dropped three other criminal charges.
In addition to the criminal charges, Lasseter was fined $3,300 by the Federal Aviation Administration. To offset some of the losses caused by canceled flights, AirTran Airways filed a civil suit against Lasseter for $100,000. A settlement of that lawsuit was announced Wednesday for what an airline spokesman called a ''very modest'' payment.
Two days after Lasseter's security breach we wrote in an editorial that his behavior ''indefensibly stupid'' given the intensity of airport security after the Sept. 11 attacks. We also said he should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law as an example to deter others from having such a flippant attitude toward public security.
While Lasseter did not get suffer the full weight of the law, we are satisfied he received a just and reasonable punishment. Besides, there's something fitting about denying a man access to the very thing that drove him to act so irresponsibly in the first place. Call it poetic justice. In fact, to some Bulldog fanatics, Lasseter's exile from Georgia football games may even border on cruel and unusual punishment.
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The Effects of Refineries on Neighborhood Property Values
Capitalization of negative neighborhood externalities may be affected over time by household sorting, events that attain public notoriety and the relative proximity of adjacent parcels to the externality. Using a 1,999-observation database spanning thirteen years all three of these issues are empirically investigated for two petrochemical refineries. As expected, evidence of sorting, short-term event effects and nearby proximity are all found to be contributors to capitalization. The extent of nearby buffering land areas also appears to contribute to reducing capitalization.
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Researchers at the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM) helped develop a new iPad and iPhone application that aims to protect critically endangered North Atlantic right whales from collisions with ships. Kurt Schwehr, affiliate assistant professor, research associate professor Lee Alexander, and research scientist Roland Arsenault, provided technical expertise for the development of key aspects of the WhaleALERT app launched this month.
Scientists from UNH's Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping (CCOM), led by Jim Gardner, have mapped the deepest part of the world's oceans in greater detail than ever before. Measurement of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific was completed to help determine the exact extent of US waters in the region.
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My husband and I are getting seperated. We have to live seperately for a year before we can get a divorce. I am moving out and he is willing to buy me out of our home, now. What is the equation you use to figure what he should pay me? There is a tist - his parents gave up $50k for a down payment that is to be paid back at the tiemt he house was sold.
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I'm not surprised. TVs are generally something bought in 5 - 10 year cycles. Most people will have upgraded to an HD TV prior to the roll out of smart TVs.
In a recent report from market research firm NPD, only one third of Americans (42 million out of a pool of 115 million) have televisions that can display content downloaded from the internet. The quarterly Connected Home Report covers devices that are able to deliver said content through fixed or wireless networks. The figures shown illustrate a wide open market for companies to penetrate and offer solutions, including the Apple TV and Xbox One.
Interestingly, the devices covered in the report not only include Smart TVs, but video game consoles, Blu-ray Disc players, media players, computers, tablets and smartphones. As well as concluding that there's significant room for competition and growth in the space, NPD also conducted a survey of 5,000 individuals as part of the report, which provided an insight into what consumers want from such hardware.
Wireless connectivity and the overall user experience both topped the results chart. 67 percent of those surveyed said the ability to connect to the internet over WiFi was their main concern, followed by a user-friendly remote control, minimal buffering for loading content and an easily navigated home screen.
Streaming devices are on the rise, which is what many companies are releasing these days. With more and more home owners looking to streaming devices for content, we could see competition heat up with companies attempting to capitalize on this seemingly booming market.
Do you have everything connected up on your TV? If so, what device(s) do you use?
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I'm not surprised. TVs are generally something bought in 5 - 10 year cycles. Most people will have upgraded to an HD TV prior to the roll out of smart TVs.
I'm surprised it's that high a figure. Up until very recently, a smart TV was a lot more expensive than a regular one, and people keep TVs around for a lot longer before replacing them than with phones or computers.
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I'm surprised its that high too. There are a lot of older people who will never do it no matter how easy just because it "seems" too complicated. Just won't bother. My mother may try to do it with urging from me, but then I'll have to deal with her "tech support" calls, so I leave it alone.
I don't see the value in a smart TV. My bro in law bought a TV recently and my TV is about four years old and I didn't really see a crazy enough difference. I also don't see the point of having cable with so many different options on watching shows. Really I wish channels like ESPN, and local channels would do more mobile and death from cable companies. They'd make more money and I could watch ESPN without having Comcast rip a new one in me.
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The title is quite misleading which is leading to the confused comments. 1/3 of TVs are not "Smart TVs" but are TVs that have been *made smart* using any number of methods including using a video game console, computer, etc... So I've got a regular TV but since I've hooked a computer to it using HDMI/VGA, it counts. I just bought my parents Chromecast for $40 and that counts too. Frankly, I'd be interested to see how it breaks down by device type. I would imagine that actual Smart TVs would represent a very small fraction of the actual method of making the TV smart. If that is the case, it's bad news for the TV manufacturers.
I wouldn't even bother looking at a TV's smart functions, for my next TV I'd look in to 3D purely as a novelty but not as a must. The only thing that I'm interested in when looking at a TV is the picture quality. But with the amount of connected tech I'd be plugging into it, there would be no reason for me to even bother accessing smart functions. At this moment in time my dumb TV has a desktop PC a PS3 and a Minix Neo x7 Android TV box. I most definitely wouldn't say my dumb TV is daft!
I'm definitely in the 2/3. Main TV is analog JVC that's been going 13 years strong. Although we inherited a 720p LCD from my sister-in-law when she relocated, we don't watch TV on it. I use it as a monitor much to my wife's disdain.
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As the prices get lower (under $1,000 for a 50 in), people will get a smart TV as a normal buy instead of an upgrade to it as it seems to be now. In a couple of years, it won't be an option anymore whether people use it or not. Kinda like some people still buy smartphones but don't take advantage of the features they offer.
not too surprising, like others have said most people had already bought a new TV by the time Smart TVs were becoming a thing but furthermore I also think that they just aren't as good as a standalone device. My Google TV blows my Blu-ray player out of the water when it comes to streaming content and most Smart TVs are just the same thing that companies do for their Blu-ray players. A Roku, Apple TV, Google TV or Fire TV are going to give a much better user experience I'd think. Lastly a stand alone player can be moved around from TV to TV making any TV "Smart".
I don't know - I literally JUST bought a TV yesterday and I was specifically looking at 'dumb' TVs. I was really excited to see LG's webOS set, but I'm not going to pay an extra 100-200 just so my TV can connect to the internet. That's why I have an Xbox, a Chromecast, and a Wi-Fi Blu Ray player. All of which are easier to control and have more apps available than most TV interfaces (Okay, I hate to admit it, but Samsung has a brilliant interface and control if you're willing to pay for it).
All-in-all, I don't know that smart TVs will ever be a necessity. It'd be nice for my parents who don't care about anything but Netflix, but we'll see if that will carry the industry.
I have a Sony/Google tv box plugged in to my tv and it is great, though it needs a software update. I'm not sure I see the point of having the smarts built into the TV when many other things can handle the smart functions. Having a separate game console, streaming box, or blu-ray player handle the smarts makes it easier to update the smarts without buying a whole new TV.
I don't want a Smart TV. All I want is a giant, beautiful, dumb monitor that can display the content from the actual "smart" devices in the living room.


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Worlds Factory is the only English review I can find for Realms of Arkania HD. Let me be frank we all know the game is still a mess so the score given is 10/100.
Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny is a buggy, unfinished game that needs a lot of work, and frankly it doesn't deserve your money in this state.
Crafty Studios has apologized for the release and seems to be doing everything they can to fix it, but if the concept intrigues you then buy it when it's a finished product months down the line.
Gamers are more well-informed than ever and it's inexcusable to release a game like this, especially considering alternatives like crowdfunding.
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Cubs lose finale, and possibly Ramirez
Big Z battered in 5 2/3; slugger to have sore wrist examined
By Carrie Muskat / MLB.com
Ramirez was to fly back to Chicago on Thursday to have his sore right wrist examined, leaving the team minus two key bats in the lineup. They were missed.
Craig Biggio, Lance Berkman and Brad Ausmus each belted solo homers and Luke Scott drove in three runs to power the Houston Astros to an 8-2 victory Wednesday night over the Cubs, who lost their fourth straight and were unable to move into a tie with the first-place Milwaukee Brewers.
Carlos Zambrano (14-8) picked up his 1,000th career strikeout and broke his umpteenth bat but couldn't get one run of support when he was in the game. He missed his second attempt to become the first 15-game winner in the Major Leagues.
Zambrano gave up seven runs -- the most off the right-hander since his start June 1 -- on eight hits over 5 2/3 innings, striking out six.
"He was fighting himself today," Cubs manager Lou Piniella said. "I hadn't seen the bat over the knee. We had to calm him down a couple times. He expended too much energy. His location wasn't really good, and with two strikes, he didn't put hitters away like he has been."
More on the bat later. Zambrano agreed with Piniella's assessment.
"I tried to do too much," Zambrano said. "I was feeling good today, but I was trying to do too much. I was fighting myself, and that shouldn't happen."
Zambrano notched his 1,000th career K when Scott struck out swinging in the second inning. The right-hander, who turned 26 on June 1, joins an exclusive club of pitchers who have reached 1,000 career strikeouts before their 27th birthday. Big Z is the third to do so this year, joining San Diego's Jake Peavy and Cleveland's C.C. Sabathia.
Others who reached 1,000 strikeouts before their 27th birthday since 1980 include Kerry Wood, Pedro Martinez, Dwight Gooden and Roger Clemens.
Biggio added to his hit list with one out in the Astros' third, when he smacked his eighth home run and 3,024th career hit. One out later, Berkman walked, Carlos Lee singled, and both scored on Scott's triple to go ahead, 3-0.
Berkman connected leading off the fifth, his 20th homer, and Mike Lamb added a two-out, two-run double in the sixth, which chased Zambrano. The Astros then loaded the bases against Scott Eyre, who walked Scott to force in a run and give the Astros a 7-0 lead.
|"We had to calm him down a couple times. He expended too much energy. His location wasn't really good, and with two strikes, he didn't put hitters away like he has been."
|-- Lou Piniella, on Carlos Zambrano
"We're just going to stretch and play," Piniella said.
That didn't work. The Cubs offense continued to stall in Day 3 without Soriano. It didn't help when Ramirez was scratched before the game because of his sore wrist.
"I've been guilty of it just like everybody else," Cubs shortstop Ryan Theriot said. "You get up there and try to press a little bit and try to do too much instead of staying in your game plan. What happens is when we start to struggle to score runs, guys put a little bit of pressure on themselves to do it all.
"With 'Sori' out of the lineup, now everybody has to pick it up a little bit and do a little more instead of staying with their game. We're trying to be Alfonso, which is impossible. It's a different ballgame when he's not in there."
Chicago loaded the bases with one out in the fourth, but Astros starter Roy Oswalt (12-6) got Zambrano looking at strike three -- prompting Big Z to break his bat over his knee as he headed back to the dugout. Theriot lined out to end the inning.
"I like to give everything I have," Zambrano said. "What made me mad was some good pitches to hit, and I was thinking too much. I have to go out there and hit whatever is coming. If he throws me a fastball, that's the pitch I'm supposed to hit -- that's why I'm upset."
The Cubs did tally in the seventh, when Theriot singled, reached third on Jacque Jones' double and scored on Derrek Lee's groundout. Theriot also hit an RBI single in the eighth. The Cubs went 2-for-34 with runners in scoring position for the three-game series.
"We couldn't get anybody across," Lee said. "It's one of those series we didn't play well offensively."
The Cubs stranded 13 on Wednesday. Piniella wasn't aware the numbers with runners on were that bad.
"I'm putting the wrong lineups out there," he said. "I've got to figure out who's going to get the timely hitting done."
Wednesday was Game No. 16 of the team's extended stretch of 20 in a row, and there has been no chance to catch its breath.
"I'm not complaining about anything," Piniella said, "but at the same time, you get a lot of days off when you don't need them, and then you get caught in a stretch in the summer heat when you're playing 34 out of 35 days, and it makes it difficult."
The Brewers have a day off before beginning a three-game series against the Astros. The Cubs travel to Colorado for a four-game series against the red-hot Rockies. The next off-day is Monday, and they will have to grin and bear it.
"Hopefully this thing turns around in Colorado," Piniella said of the lack of offense. "We're missing two big bats out of the lineup, and we just have to tough it out. What can I say?"
The Brewers lost, 19-4, on Wednesday to the Rockies. A win for the Cubs, and they would've shared first in the National League Central Division.
"What's been amazing about chasing Milwaukee is that when they were hot, we were hot, and when they're cold, we're cold," Piniella said. "It's been rather odd. They've given us enough chances. Sooner or later, we better take advantage of it."
Carrie Muskat is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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