January 19, 2016 6:00 AM
Morning Reads for Tuesday, January 19, 2015
Good morning! Georgians are back at work, back at school, and back at the Capitol.
- Weird, awful things are happening to cows in Braselton. (Like, exceptionally awful; don’t read while you’re eating.)
- I’ve come to the conclusion that the parents who bought Heely shoes for their kids several years back are probably the same ones who are sending them off to college with hoverboards. Which – by the way, AJC – they do not actually “levitate.”
- MARTA police will start wearing body cameras.
- I wholeheartedly agree with President Obama on this divisive issue.
- Longread: from Medium, The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems. This is a good thing to read while, say, sorting though an inbox full of mission trip GoFundMe requests.
- From Nicholas Kristof, a thorough, fact-filled analysis of why the Democrats may want to rethink their approach to gun control. Facts are friendly! One suggestion? Maybe don’t call it “gun control.”
- In the past ten years, hired killers, known as sicarios, have murdered more than 100 mayors in Mexico. If #IAmGisela isn’t already a hashtag, it should be.
- This Week in Hamilton! The issue on the table, from Vulture, is whether one should listen to the whole cast recording now, or save most of it as a surprise for when you get to see the show live in New York (or Chicago, or whenever it tours nationally)? I’m not going to see it until September, and it won’t be on television anytime soon, so I’ve listened to the whole thing (many times).
- Incidentally, someone told me recently that while he hadn’t listened to the cast recording yet, he’d heard that Hamilton was “boring.” To that, I say, listen to it, and you will likely reach the conclusion that while Hamilton is many things, to say it is boring is nothing but a lie straight from the pit of hell.
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Cattle mutilations? Yall should call George Noory on Coast to Coast. Where is Linda Moultin Howe when we need her?!
Terri, have you seen the Youtube video of Lin-Manuel Miranda and the MLK song he created for his elementary school music teacher?
Yes!
Smart play by the GOP – http://www.ajc.com/news/news/nbc-booted-gop-debate-replaced-cnn/np7YF/ – Replaced NBC with CNN for a February GOP debate. It is one thing to appear on a network that embraces political bias, quite another to be subjected to 2 hours of that bias in a debate format as happened with CNBC.
True, good move… Although I was hoping they’d bring back the Lying Brian Williams to moderate. Keeps with the theme of that pathetic network.
Provides for interesting read.
Crimes and offenses; regulate use of unmanned aircraft systems and images; provisions
http://www.legis.ga.gov/Legislation/en-US/display/20152016/HB/779
Curiuos how much of this is in conflict with https://www.faa.gov/uas/regulations_policies/media/UAS_Fact_Sheet_Final.pdf
although this seems to mostly address cameras
I would think they needed to add a clause for Registered Surveyors as they map as there is typically an overlap of the project with photogrametry or lidar applications with UAS or photogametry. This is being used more and more by the industry. Typically on a project you will overlap property lines for 100 feet or sometimes more depending on the flood study area. Now this is being accomplished with helicoptors or fixed wing at a resolution of 1 inch pixels.
Teri, good to know that someone besides me is sorting though an inbox full of mission trip GoFundMe requests! I thought my inbox might be unique. But I must say it’s good to see all these kids doing mission trips at spring break — instead of going to drunken orgies like we’ve seen down at Panama City Beach the last few years. So I’ll be chipping in what I can to help the ones I know.