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The legislature may create taxing districts to meet the expense of local improvements without encountering the Fourteenth Amendment unless its action is palpably arbitrary or a plain abuse.

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based on area, without providing for equal depth of the assessment district results necessarily, and not merely incidentally, in subjecting owner of property having greater depth than that adjoining them to greater and disproportionate taxation, and is unconstitutional under the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Our office is located in Room 217 in Chicopee Building 1, 1180 E. Broad Street Athens, GA 30602-5410. We are a short walk from the Multimodal Transit Center, which you can get to on the UGA Transit Family Housing bus. There is bicycle parking to the left of the main entrance to our building. If you drive, cars with any valid UGA parking permit may park in the UGA lot across the street.

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Kevin is a landscape architect with over 17 years of experience in campus sustainability, planning and ecological design.  Prior to becoming UGA’s first Director of Sustainability in 2010, Kevin served various roles in the Office of University Architects with responsibility for planning, design and project management.  He has Masters and Bachelor degrees in Landscape Architecture, as well as a Certificate in Conservation Ecology and Sustainable Development, from the University of Georgia.

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Andrew is responsible for communications and outreach for the office as well as programs having an outward facing component serving the Athens community.  If you would like to form promotional partnerships with the Office of Sustainability, Andrew is your contact. He holds Bachelor and Masters degrees in education and a graduate certificate in non-profit organization administration. Andrew is formerly the recycling coordinator for the University and has represented UGA on the boards of the College and University Recycling Coalition, the Georgia Recycling Coalition, the US Zero Waste Business Council College and University Technical Committee, and as an ex-offico member of the Recyclemania board. Andrew is married and has 4 children who love to do fun things.

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Jason is a mechanical engineer and Certified Energy Manager with expertise in facility energy and water conservation, green building, and renewable energy. For seven years prior to joining the Office of Sustainability in 2014, Jason conducted energy and water audits and research studies on campus buildings as well as for clients in the commercial, industrial, agricultural, governmental, and utility sectors. He has volunteered as a shop manager at the BikeAthens Bike Recycling Program since 2008. Jason has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and an MSc in Advanced Environmental and Energy Studies from the University of East London.

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  154 Braden Keith | July 28th, 2012 | London 2012 Olympics, News

The time is here. After a long four-year wait, swimming has begun in London at the 2012 London Olympics.

Day 1 was loaded with upsets and heartbreak, and bracket-busters galore. In the men’s 400 free alone, two of the three medalists from last year’s World Championships failed to even final. Even one is rare, but three is massive.

Live Feed (in the United States).
Live results.

10:07 AM – Former NCAA Champion Bradley Ally from Barbados, currently training with Club Wolverine in Ann Arbor, Michigan, strikes first blood with a 4:21.32 to win heat 1. Iceland’s Anton McKee 2nd in a 4:25.

10:16 AM – Luxembourg’s Ralph Stachiotti strikes first blood to take down his own National Record with a 4:17.20. That puts him 2nd overall behind Belgium’s Ward Bauwens in 4:16.71.

10:21 AM – And a big one goes down! 17-year old Kosuke Hagino from Japan wins the first circle-seeded heat in 4:10.01, breaking his own Japanese National Record.

Men’s 400 IM

Four years later, after having sworn off the event for good, Michael Phelps was back to begin the events of the swimming at the 2012 London Olympic Games with a 4:13.33 to win the 2nd-to-last heat of this men’s 400 IM. That won’t leave him center-stage, but this swim was just incredibly relaxed. On his backstroke, his face showed more an effort to keep the water out of his mouth than any attempt at exerted breathing.

His breaststroke was even more relaxed, and coming off of the final turn, underwater cameras showed Phelps taking a big hard look at his competitor Laszlo Cseh of Hungary, and just pulling away to win the heat. Though with the relaxed pace, Phelps’ 2:13.33 to Cseh’s 2:13.40 seemed a bit insignificant, those .07 seconds would end up being massive. That’s because Phelps just barely made it into the final, and Cseh, the defending Olympic silver medalist, was left out as 9th overall.

That leaves the two-time defending Olympic champion in lane 8, and facing a wall coming off of the final turn in the evening.

This is the first stunning development of the swimming events at these Games, as the pace to final was more than three seconds better than what we saw at the World Championships last year.

Moving into the role of the favorite for that bronze (or better) is Japanese 17-year old Kosuke Hagino. He swam a 4:10.01 in the prelims to take the top overall seed and break his own Asian Record. The previous mark was held by him, from 2011, at 4:10.26. We might have just seen the emergence of the next great Japanese swimmer.

He’ll have to contend with a much more forceful Phelps, though, as well as a more stepped-up Ryan Lochte, who will be the 4th seed with a 4:12.35. He looked very powerful on his backstroke, but was run down by South Africa’s young Chad le Clos in the final 50 meters.

Brazil’s Thiago Pereira was also safely through in a 4:12.39, but he can’t be encouraged by his last 100 meters. Closing on the freestyle has always been his problem, and after being really fast through the 300, he faded hard. We’ll have to wait until the evening to see if that was designed for energy conservation.

The top 8 will be Hagino, Le Clos, Lochte, Thiago Pereira (Brazil), Thomas Fraser-Holmes (Australia), Luca Marin (Italy), Yuya Horihata (Japan), and Michael Phelps.

10:47 AM – Switzerland’s Danielle Villaris is the first to crack a minute in the women’s 400 IM, with a 59.42. That ties Spain’s Judit Ignacio Sorribes to win heat 2. A new Swiss National Record.

Women’s 100 Fly

American Dana Vollmer has wasted no time in getting her burners out early in this 100 fly. She took the top seed in prelims with a 56.25, which is a new American and Olympic Record. The old American mark belonged to her from US Trials, and the Olympic Record was a 56.61 belonging to the legendary Inge de Bruijn from the Netherlands from the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. (See more about the records here).

While these big records are always exciting, this is again an unnecessary early burn of energy for Vollmer. Greece’s Kristel Vourna was the 16th qualifier in 58.74, two-and-a-half seconds behind Vollmer. Had the American put in a bit of cruise-control, she could have still put in a 57-low and had a good lane in finals. With such a deep field, she can’t afford to be off of her best in the finals if she wants to take home the gold, but with 16 advancing she could have saved some energy. Still, she was able to slow up on the last 2-3 strokes, so there may still be something left.

Behind her, China’s Lu Ying looked very strong in 57.17 for the 2nd overall seed. She had a good back-half 50 of 30.52; but not quite as good as Australia’s Alicia Coutts (57.36) and Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom (57.45) for the 3rd and 4th seeds overall.

There is a big grouping of swimmers at 57’s, so the rest of the field will have to let Vollmer pull them along in the semi’s this evening to some concentrated swims. Jeanette Ottesen of Denmark was the 5th seed in 57.64; all of a sudden, the Danish medley relay starts to look very strong without anything resembling a weak leg. That also makes Ottesen a big medal contender in the 100 free, her better race.

American Claire Donahue also was safely through to the evening with a 58.06 for the 7th seed. The British pair of Ellen Gandy and Fran Halsall also qualified in 58.2 and 58.3’s. Not a great start for the Brits, after Joe Roebuck struggled in the men’s 400 IM.

Other notable finalists include Singapore’s Tao Li, a finalist from Beijing, in 58.34, and Sweden’s Martina Granstrom in 58.70.

Men’s 400 Free

Update: South Korea’s appeal of the 400 free DQ of Tae Hwan Park has been overturned. That means Canada’s Ryan Cochrane is out of the final. The below recap was written before the decision was made. Read more about the appeal here.

Pandemonium broke out in this men’s 400 free. As if Cseh’s miss earlier in the 400 IM weren’t shocking enough, defending 400 free champion Tae-Hwan Park of South Korea was disqualified in this men’s 400 free for a false start (one of the few ways to get the boot in a freestyle race). Park was DQ’ed for the same offense in this race in 2004. So stunned were his competitors that upon finishing the following heat, American Peter Vanderkaay looked at his counterpart Sun Yang of China and asked him “what happened?”.

Those two now become the big favorites, after more shocking upsets when Germany’s Paul Biedermann, the bronze medalist at last year’s World Championships, failed to final as well. Biedermann swam a 3:48.50 for 12th, leaving him more than a second away from the final.

Meanwhile, Yang and Vanderkaay qualified as the top two spots in 3:45.07 and 3:45.80, respectively. For both men, this was a bit slower than they were in prelims of the World Championships, but still easily got the job done.

Those two final’ing was not a big surprise. The other American, Conor Dwyer, placing 3rd was a huge shock. He swam a lifetime best of 3:46.24, which will put him opposite Vanderkaay, his Gator Swim Club training partner, in lane 3 for the final.

Hungary’s Gergo Kis was 4th in 3:46.77. Britain’s David Carry also made the final with a 3:47.25 for 7th with outstanding underwaters; not the Brit many expected to move through as Robbie Renwick was left out in 10th. Canadian Ryan Cochrane, who should have a better go in the 1500, just snuck into the final in 8th.

Update: NBC is reporting the officials might have gotten the wrong lane on the Park DQ.

Women’s 400 IM

The United States’ Elizabeth Beisel has in the least shown that she’s holding her taper from Trials just 4 weeks ago, as she took the top seed in the womens’ 400 IM in 4:31.68. But she is by no means a sure thing, as China’s Ye Shiwen swam a lifetime best of 4:31.72 for the 2nd seed. Shiwen is best known for her exploits in the 200 IM, where she is the defending World Champion. She didn’t show quite the same closing kick in this race that she’s famous for in the shorter IM, however the big time improvement shows that her other strokes have vastly improved. She’s very dangerous in the 200 now as well.

NCAA Champion, and the fastest all-time in yards, Katinka Hosszu of Hungary is the 3rd seed in 4:33.77, with a strong breaststroke leg carrying her to a good, though not season-best, time.

Outside of the top two, not many swam up to their best headed into the final; however, it was still a faster prelim than we saw at Worlds, so not too much disappointment either. The other Chinese qualifier, Li Xuanxu, also made the final safely as the 4th seed in 4:34.28. Spain’s Mireia-Belmonte-Garcia atoned for failing to make a single final at Worlds with a 4:34.70.

Britain’s Hannah Miley, Australia’s Stephanie Rice, and the United States’ Caitlin Leverenz were all safely into the final as well, though all three were nearly trapped by a slow 4th heat. Rice didn’t look good on the fly leg at all, which is concerning as that’s the stroke that would seem most affected by her recurring shoulder ailments.

Men’s 100 Breaststroke

The Olympics continued to show stepped-up standards to advance from early rounds. In this race, there were a full 12 swimmers who broke a minute, as compared to only 5 in the prelims of the 2011 World Championships. As many lows as there were in this first prelims session, this 100 breaststroke was just as high. The times included a top-seeded 59.62 from Australia’s Christian Sprenger. He is the World Record holder in the 200, but gave that event up this year to focus on this 100, thus far to big results.

Another 200 specialist, Daniel Gyurta, did very well in this race as well, as he took the 3rd seed in 59.76. That crushes his own Hungarian Record by half-a-second.

New Zealand’s Gareth Kean in with a  59.78 (another National Record). He looks to have continued his momentum from last year’s World Championships, where the whole New Zealand team swam extremely well. Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa was comfortable in a 59.7 as well, as was world leader Kosuke Kitajima in 59.63 for the 2nd seed overall.

Canada’s Scott Dickens became the first Canadian man to break a minute with a 59.85, and Brazil’s Felipe Silva barely snuck in as the 16th seed in 1:00.38. Both of the German swimmers missed the semi’s, as did three-time NCAA champion Damir Dugonjic from Slovenia.

Women’s 400 Free Relay

The top three in this women’s 400 free relay was not a surprise, with Australia (3:36.34), the United States (3:36.53), and the Netherlands (3:37.76) grabbing the three middle lanes for Saturday night’s final. The order, perhaps, might have been a bit upended, though.

There were some great splits in this relay. The American coaches, for their part, are going to have a very tough decision deciding who will go through to join Jessica Hardy and Missy Franklin in the final.

Lia Neal – 54.1
Amanda Weir – 54.4
Natalie Coughlin – 53.9
Allison Schmitt – 54.1

It would seem that Neal, going a lifetime best on a leadoff swim without the benefit of a relay start, would be put through. But the choice between Coughlin (a swimming legend who has a knack for getting Olympic medals) and Schmitt (who has tremendous upside in this race after just discovering her 100 free talents in the last year) is not so easy. Dana Vollmer can’t be counted out with how well she’s swimming, even though she wasn’t in the top 6 at the Olympic Trials.

The Dutch, despite being 3rd, may have made themselves even bigger favorites to defend their gold medal. Inge Dekker, who was purported to be the “weak” leg of the finals relay, split a 53.5 in the morning heat. When Hinkelien Shcreuder is subbed out in favor of the world’s best sprinter, Ranomi Kromowidjojo, this team is lethal.

Australia got a similarly fast split from teenager Brittany Elmslie, who split a 53.4 in her Olympic debut. She is totally new to the international scene, but has already declared that she thinks she belongs. Libby Trickett had a good anchor for the Aussies in a 54.1 of her own.

Denmark, China, and Japan were also safely through, with Sweden and Great Britain tying for 7th. For Sweden, that’s a great effort with Therese Alshammar scratching the relay; their star Sarah Sjostrom led off in a 54.3.

The Brits took a gamble leaving Fran Halsall off of this relay for prelims, but a 54.6 from Caitlin McClatchey kept them safe. Germany did not take the same gamble, leaving Britta Steffen on their prelims relay, but her 54.4 leadoff wasn’t enough to put them in the finals.

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Michael Phelps and Missy Franklin have done so well in the games and I’m sure they will continue to improve upon their victories. Missy in particular because she is so young has impressed me. The Olympics are being aired on several stations which kind of makes it hard to set the DVR. A Dish co-worker suggested I upgrade to the Hopper a few months ago which comes with three tuners so I can record all those stations and it also has four times more space than your average DVR! So far Phelps has become to most decorated Olympian by winning the gold medal in the 4X200 m free style relay. Congratulations Michael!

I’m seriously looking forward to the 100breast tonight. Everyone knows that 59 is not going to safe. Despite this, how many of these men have even been under a minute more than once in their lives?

Because of this, the TRUE top guys will really try to separate themselves, and we will probably see the eventual medalists rise out of the pack. I predicted that the minute barrier is going to be a flood gate this year. I’m glad to see it happen. I’m looking for a similar, but less dramatic, event in the m100free

Yes but even so, the Americans are really going to have to hustle to make finals; I can’t see either one of them medaling though. It’s a shame Shanteau won’t be in the 200.

Sooooooooooo the title of these posts’ll be updating live too?

Might have to unsubscribe in my Google Reader – NO SPOILERS!!

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This is my first tab on here, This song is Blind to the Beautiful, the beautiful
new song on the upcoming Fish album Feast of Consequences.

Blind to the Beautiful
Intro:  G
Interludes between verses are in G
Solo phrase is the chords for a verse then chorus.

                G                Am               C
The stars are fading, ashes to ashes and dust to dust,
                       G                Am                   C
The bread we have broken, the wine we drank from tarnished cups,
        F                    C          G
And I stopped believing in miracles a long, long time ago,
    F                    C          G
I lost my faith and I sacrificed my soul,
    Am               C                    G
I worshiped fallen idols, chased false prophets to an end,
            Am                C            G
To where I just can't see the beautiful anymore

             G          Am                    C
The ice retreating, mountains exposed in the sun,
              G         Am                   C
The earth is baking, raindrops precede the floods
        F              C                G
And hurricanes with children's names write our history
    F                    C           G
Signatures tracked by satellites on high,
                 Am               C                   G
We should have talked about the weather a bit more seriously,
           Am                       C
More than stocks and shares and corporate wares,
           G-C             G-C                      G
We were blinded by the skeptics and their greed
   Am                     C       G
I just can't see the beautiful anymore;
   Am                     C        G
I just can't see the beautiful anymore

    Am                         C                G
I howled and I cried when the melody died, the song was finally over,
             Am              C                       G
There was nothing to say, words stole away, their meaning lost in the ether,
 F                       C                   G
What there was left stopped making sense, a broken up alphabet, language dispersed
    Am                  C         G
I just can't hear the beautiful anymore

                 G      Am                 C
The oceans are rising, islands in time disappear,
              G        Am                      C
The canyons burning, forests consumed by the flames,
       F                   C              G
Wildfires rage across the plains to be starved by barren soil,
     F                 C              G
Deserted farms where seeds refuse to grow,
     Am                C                       G
I close my eyes to cloudless skies I dream of what we had before,
    Am                   C        G
I just can't see the beautiful anymore
     Am                 C         G
I just can't see the beautiful anymore
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Quick Hit: I Can’t Make This Stuff Up

So, the freshmen are watching Remember the Titans in conjunction with their just having read To Kill a Mockingbird and writing short character sketches.

I sent a permission slip home a couple of weeks ago but, despite my constant nagging, some of them showed up on the first day of screening without the signed form.  A couple of those kids asked if they could call their parents and ask them to send me an email giving them permission to see the film this morning, and I said yes.

One of their moms sent me an email giving her daughter permission to watch – get this – Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Apparently, Baby Girl went from “Remember the Titans” to “Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles” and never thought to question herself (or me) about it.  Apparently, neither did her mother, who was perfectly willing to let her kid see the film (for the record, she was okay with Titans, too, but still…).  I can only imagine what on earth they were thinking of me when they were under the impression that this was a part of our English class.

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It was the best laugh I had all week.

Filed under failure, film as literature, funniness, I can't make this shit up..., I've got this kid...., parental units, really?!, You're kidding...right?

4 responses to “Quick Hit: I Can’t Make This Stuff Up

  1. M

    Done, showing TMNT tomorrow in class.

  2. Right? I’ve never seen the film, myself, but I am considering finding it just for the hoot it would be for this kid…

  3. While I realize that it’s not the point of your post, do you have to get permission for all movies? I would totally understand if you do, it just seems to me that Remember the Titans is quite tame. It’s also fabulous, but the adult themes present in it are not violent, generally, or sexual. They’re a lot less overt.

  4. I don’t HAVE to get permission for every film, no. I do it, though, for a couple of reasons. One, I want to get in the habit of it; I’d rather get permission for an innocuous film than have a parent come back to me about a film that I thought was innocuous but that the parent has a problem with. Two, I like having the families see WHY I’m showing a film; all of my permission slips have course objectives and rationales for showing the movie in the class. I’m invested in having the kids – and their parents – see the REASONS. I don’t just show the movies to kill time, and that matters to me.

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iPhone Application Overview And Demo Videos

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It’s not official quite yet, but the iPhone App Store is live and you can download version 2.0 of the iPhone software – which is all you need to run the 552 applications currently available.

We’ve been gathering videos and overviews of many of the applications and have held them until now. We received demo vidoes for dozens of applications, ranging from basic games to complex GPS-enabled social networking applications. Below are some of our favorites.

Among the apps that we didn’t include below (primarily because of their simplicity) are Recorder (a voice recorder), Movies (movie showtimes), and iMaze (a basic maze game).

Social Networking On The iPhone:

The iPhone, with cult-like users and location aware technology, is the perfect social networking device. Earlier this year we speculated that someone would emerge with a killer social networking app for the iPhone. It turns out that there are lots of contenders.

Loopt – We’ve been tracking Loopt’s efforts around their iPhone application for months now. In April we posted early screen shots of the app without saying who had built it. Think of Loopt as a simple social network to find local businesses, message friends and send status updates with where you are (using the iPhones location technology). And a key difference with Loopt and many of the other networks below: you can meet new people who are nearby, if they choose to share that information. If everyone used this, you could see who’s single in a bar before you approach them (and flirt with them by phone first), and know the first name and job of everyone at that cocktail hour at the tech conference. We’re big fans of Loopt, and will have more news on them later today. For now, download the free application here.

Limbo – Limbo is another geo-aware social network that behaves like a mashup of Twitter, Loopt, and Whrrl. One of the app’s most compelling features is its grid-like diagram that visually groups your friends according to what they’re doing (for example, all of your friends that are Out Drinking will be lumped together, even if they aren’t necessarily drinking in the same place). The app accomplishes this feat by forcing users to select from a predefined hierarchal list of activities (while this might sound restrictive, the list is pretty comprehensive). This categorization allows users to see what they’re friends are up to without having to sift through each of their messages.

On the geo-positioning front, Limbo allows users to interact users who are within a close radius (about a quarter mile), in a manner that is similar to Loopt. You can download the app here for free.

MySpace – The MySpace iPhone app is everything you’d expect from a multi-billion dollar company: the app integrates seamlessly with the massive social network, allowing users to add friends, exchange messages, upload photos, and do just about anything else they could do from their computers at home. They aren’t yet integrating with the location features, but expect that in the near future. If you are a MySpace user, you’ll be using this constantly. You can download the app here for free.

ShoZu – The ShoZu iPhone app allows users to interact with a number of social websites, including YouTube, Facebook, Flickr, and a number of others. Users can upload photos to these services, comment on other users’ profiles, and send status updates, depending on the site involved. You can download the app here for free.

Utilities and Reference:

The introduction of the iPhone app store has effectively made the iPhone the ultimate utility belt. We’re seeing no shortage of apps that aim to make life easier for users, and while many of them are a little too simplistic (how many tip calculators do we really need?), others will be godsends for some people, serving up the latest sports news, on-demand drink recipes, and restaurant recommendations.

Save Benjis

Save Benjis – Save Benjis is a shopping tool that will look up a product’s price according to its model number. Using model numbers instead of product names helps take the guesswork out of pricing comparisons (for example, it would be much easier to compare two computers with their model numbers versus a name like “MacBook Pro”). The app integrates the Safari web browser, so users can browse and purchase goods on a website from their phone if they find a better price. You can download the app here for free.

Pocket Express

Pocket Express – Pocket Express is a news and information service that is available for a number of smart phones. The app allows users to browse through news articles written by the Associated Press on topics that include politics, science, and world news. Users can also browse through sports scores, weather reports, and movie information. You can download the app here for free.

Urbanspoon – Urbanspoon brings a fun (and gimmicky) solution to choosing a restaurant for dinner. After using the phone’s GPS to detect restaurants in the area, Urbanspoon presents you with a slot machine-like listing of cuisine types and price. To activate the slot machine, you give the phone a hard shake (the accelerometers inside the phone will measure the movement). The dials will spin around a few times, and you’ll be presented with a suggested restaurant (you can shake again if you’re not satisfied). You can download the app here for free.

Cocktails – Cocktails is a well designed reference for “potent potables” that will put traditional bar-tending guides to shame. Users can browse through a large index of drinks, search by ingredient or drink name, and label drinks as favorites for future reference. The app also includes information about the type of serving glass to use, as well as the date that each recipe was created (there are often multiple recipes available for each drink). You can download the app here for $9.99.

ForeFlight – ForeFlight is an iPhone app that is aimed towards pilots (both recreational and professional) rather than your average consumer. The app allows users to find nearby airports, maps, diagrams of airports, and lookup of plane information by tail number. The app also includes the A/FD, the Airport and Facilities Directory, which includes location data like field and approach information and location data on hotels. You can download the app here for a whopping $69.99 (the highest price in the store).

Audio and Video

App providers will make use of the 3G iPhone’s speedy network with streaming audio and video apps that will allow users to consume a near-limitless amount of content without having to sync up with their computers. Unfortunately, the iPhone is still unable to record video, so all media uploading will be limited to photos for now.

Kyte Mobile Producer

Kyte Mobile Producer – Kyte’s Mobile Producer is a mobile image uploading app. Users can upload the images they take from their iPhones directy to Kyte Channels that they’ve embedded in their blogs or onto their Facebook profile through Kyte’s facebook app. Users can also compile their images into slideshows, complete with captions and polls, which can also be played through the their Kyte Channels online. You can download the app here for free.

mdialog – mdialog’s iPhone app allows users to browse through content that have been uploaded to the video site. The app is reminiscent of YouTube, allowing users to share and bookmark their favorite channels, leave comments, and browse through a “What’s New Section”. Users can also attach polls to their videos. You can download the app here for free.

Pandora Radio

Pandora Radio, our flat out favorite application so far, is an audio app that streams music to the iPhone over Wi-Fi, 3G, or Edge. Pandora is a popular music service that creates a “Music Genome” to analyze music a user likes and then recommend new artists. Users can enter the name of an artist or song they like, and Pandora will generate a streaming playlist, even if they haven’t created a profile. You can try out the app here for free.

Update: Here is a late addition:

Jott – Self-dubbed “the notepad you’ve always dreamed of,” the Jott iPhone app records your voice and turns it into text. You can add items to specific lists and cross them off once you don’t need to worry about them any longer. Additionally, all of your notes are backed up online. You can try out the app here for free.

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Spigit Brings Enterprise Collaboration Tool To SMB’s

Could IBM be prepping more of its own location-aware technology and devices? According to a recent patent filing, it looks like it. On Thursday, Big Blue filed for a patent for a “method and system for location-aware authorization.” The inventors appear to be IBM engineers based in Rome, Italy.

According to the filing, the technology would provide a method and technology to control access to a device based on the location of that device. IBM gave the example of a company that only wanted employees to use a particular device in the office or their home and believe that their technology would allow the employer to control where the particular device can be accessed.

Here’s an excerpt from the filing:

The invention provides a method and system for location-aware authorization such as for electronic devices (e.g., mobile electronic devices). One embodiment involves authorizing access to a standalone system such as a mobile device, by collecting user credentials on the device for authentication, obtaining location information (e.g., geographical position) for the device from a locating module such as a satellite navigation module attached to the device, accessing profile authorization information for authenticating the user based on the user credentials and device location information (localization), authorizing access to the device by the user if the profiled authorization settings match the credentials and the position of the device.

Talk about GPS-lockdown.  In an age of mobile workers and telecommuters, such a product might be more of a hindrance than a help for most organizations.  But I could see putting something like that on servers or machines with super-sensitive data that are not supposed to leave the premises.  The big question looms: what will Big Blue, which reported strong earnings for 2009 this past week, do with this technology?

Thanks for the tip Anand S.

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Every feminist march I have ever attended has been corralled by cops. And the organizers of these marches cooperate with them. Mind you, I am young, don’t get out much, and haven’t been to a lot of feminist marches — but maybe that’s because in Guelph, feminist marches are rare. Take Back the Night and December 6th memorials occur annually, of course constrained by cops, small numbers, the fatigue of frontline workers and the hesitation of women who have never been in such a space before. Few organizations take on International Women’s Day programming and limit themselves to small and do-able events.

One of the highlights of my uneventful feminist life was the World March of Women in October 2000 (also contained by cops). More people showed than at the FTAA protests at Quebec City. However, the march was held on Parliament Hill on a Sunday, when not a politician, bureaucrat or business person was in sight — and the organizers wondered why the March didn’t get enough coverage. Public, vocal, visible, collective forms of women’s resistance against oppression seem to generally happen three times a year at ritualistic and symbolic marches that do nothing to threaten the very system that is killing women through violence, poverty and exploitation.

Am I the only staunch feminist who finds dominant feminist organizing boring and sometimes downright offensive? I feel that my community of fellow activists can’t compensate for this absence of connection with a vibrant women’s movement, because anti-capitalist activists are often (but not always) plagued by an inability to account for how capitalism relies on sexism and racism. In more concrete terms, there is not enough activist talk about how US imperialism or the Tory war on the poor in Ontario affect the lives of women in very specific but often unspoken ways.

There is a plethora of writing available in zines, online, and in public and university libraries that examines the praxis of anarcha-feminism and the history of women anarchists. This article is not concerned with classical anarcha-feminism or with the Emma Goldman fetish — it is rather an attempt to briefly critique the dominant women’s movement as well as the anarchist movement from the perspective of an activist involved in both. These comments are cursory, general points of departure for what I hope will become a longer article and an ongoing discussion with comrades.

From a divided movement to a homogenized institution?

The women’s movement of the 1960s and 1970s was rife with political divisions. In the US, for instance, the liberal feminists of the National Organization of Women focused on wining and dining with the likes of Jimmy Carter in order to win the Equal Rights Amendment. These liberal state-o-phile feminists butted heads with The Lavendar Menace, a NOW faction of militant lesbians who were sick and tired of the blatant homophobia of straight feminists. This is not to mention the anti-imperialist and anti-racist tendency of the women’s movement that some feminists tried to snuff out (and still try to) with their insistence that the gender system is the one and only class system women ought to bother fighting. Today, however, it seems as though there is little political diversity and division within the feminist organizations that have become veritable institutions. Or at least, if there are divisions, I’m not convinced that most women who don’t attend women’s studies classes or who don’t work as paid professionals within feminist social service agencies would know about them. I get the sense that there are so few and far between options for feminist action that feminists are often expected — by themselves and others — to rally behind whatever large-scale, visible feminist project takes centre stage, regardless of whether or not we actually agree with its political content. I wouldn’t argue against solidarity, but I also wouldn’t argue against a vibrant political diversity that is honest about differences amongst women and feminists.

The World March of Women, a global organization that coordinates massive marches and lobbying efforts, promotes the demand to eliminate all poverty and all violence against women and children. These demands could potentially be carried out in ways that are empowering for women — more than just signing a petition or learning about how to vote in the interests of women. Read by an anarchist or socialist, the demand to eliminate poverty could translate into revolution, in the long-term — or at least into direct action casework around housing, disability, immigration and welfare in the short-term. However, the World March of Women, which has garnered the support of practically every major feminist organization many industrialized and newly industrialising countries, envisions the elimination of poverty and violence as a goal that is attainable through encouraging states to “harmonize” their legal apparatuses through the signing of various United Nations conventions. This is one example of how the prickly relationship between feminism and the state poses a problem and a unique opportunity to anti-statist feminists.

Our State, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name...

Although exact dates and definitions are debatable, the “second wave” of the women’s movement in North America started with consciousness raising groups in the early 1960s and ended with the sex wars of the early 1980s. Somewhere in between, courageous women performed safe but illegal abortions on each other, took battered women in to their homes, and set up haphazard, grassroots rape crisis lines. Services that many women take for granted today at one point never existed, and were started by over-worked but determined women to take matters into our own hands and to begin the transformative work of healing from and combating gendered violence.

This Do-It-Yourself tradition, which began with underground feminist organizing, in some ways continues today in the “third wave” of the women’s movement, characterized by a super-abundance of vibrators, strap-ons, and homemade riot grrrl zines and demo tapes. Like it or not, the state has supported us through granting funding and passing laws — though never completely on women’s terms and sometimes not at all. The state has at least partially supported women’s struggles to establish women’s shelters, health centres, research programs, community centres, somewhat better legal procedures for rape survivors, abused women, and single mothers — and practically every other landmark in the course of women’s recent herstory.

Part and parcel of the women’s movement are the more formal efforts within parliament and the courts to guarantee rights, as well as to guarantee recourse to challenging abrogations of these rights. Concepts like “equal rights” have formalized within the state, and as such may have brought about small changes in popular consensus about some basic ethical issues — i.e. discrimination is wrong. The problem with liberal successes in gaining rights is that these rights are only conceptualized as inherent human rights as soon as a state document deems it so. These documents only have power insofar as the state can defend them by means of punishment and coercion, employed by the military, police, prisons, and, in the case of the human rights code in Canada, fines and compensation. To pose the question crudely, what does it mean for women that “equality” is an issue of public concern mostly because the state tells people it should be, and if they don’t support it then they’re fucked? And what does it mean that the same state that slashes, freezes, or refuses to create funding for social programs that are needed disproportionately by women — and the same state that brutalizes women and the communities they live in every day — is the same state that also claims to uphold and defend our so- called rights, and on which we depend for the funding of women’s services? Lobbying and other liberal political efforts made by the women’s movement have increased public knowledge of women’s oppression, and women’s access to public funding and legal structures that can help us survive in the short-run. These are important. But this comes at the cost of self-emancipation: freeing ourselves by our own means and on our own terms.

One of the implications of the relationship between the women’s movement and the state is the condition of the shelter movement. I speak in part from my limited experience with one particular women’s organization that runs a women’s shelter, but I feel that my suspicions about the shelter movement have been confirmed by other women I have spoken with and some reading that I have done on this topic. Shelters for women and children leaving a violent situation obviously need money to run — to pay staff, to maintain buildings, to offer quality counseling and resources to their clients. The state provides this funding, however funding has not kept up with population and caseload growth especially in recent years under the Tory government in Ontario. Shelters, like most other social service agencies, are cash- strapped. I get the sense that frontline shelter workers are overworked and deal with the same issues many workers face elsewhere: lack of workplace democracy, poor working conditions, and the creation of part-time casual shift work as a way to avoid offering permanent, unionized, full-time positions. Most women’s shelters started out with the same structure as grassroots feminist action and consciousness-raising groups — a collective, mostly consensus-based structure. (The legacy of the small-scale, non-hierarchical group contributed to the skills and knowledge of consensus building that activists today take for granted.) As the capacity of shelters grew during the 1980s and 1990s, the collective structures of many shelters (and feminist organizations in general) were gradually replaced by hierarchical boards of directors. Well-established feminist organizations are now characterized by a mass of professional feminist workers (most with degrees in social work, and in some organizations many are white and educated), boards of directors, and executive directors. Feminist activism has become trapped in the livelihoods of privileged professionals.

While the capacity of feminist organizations has grown because of state funding in so far as their services reach more women than they previously did, their dependency on the state has in other ways limited their capacity to grow with grassroots women’s struggles. Strapped for cash and preoccupied with getting by and providing the bare essentials of service, many feminist organizations seem to pay lip service to anti-oppression and accessibility.

Many shelters are not wheelchair accessible, can not provide service for women with disabilities who need one-on-one care, only provide services in English, and bar transgendered women from using their services. Furthermore, women with addictions and “mental health issues” often are refused service, as are women who need shelter because of poverty and, in the case of First Nations women, continued colonialism. Racist economic violence by the state often does not count as a form of abuse from which women may be fleeing. Collusion with the state also takes on the form of working relationships with Family and Children’s Services (which has a legacy of stealing children from First Nations and poor families) and the police. Within feminist organizations, there are certainly debates about these relationships with state agencies, and I do not think these relationships come from a place of malice or ignorance. At the same time, given these limitations, I think that women can’t always rely on feminist organizations to organize actions and change the world on our behalf. We have to start organizing our own marches, IWD events, and actions. Of course we can work with feminist social service agencies, but ultimately we need to take initiative and responsibility for our own liberation.

Unless the feminist pop culture magazine Bitch is truly the vanguard of the women’s movement (and unfortunately I don’t think it is), the women’s movement, as an organized collective force, rarely intervenes in the cultural sphere to forward its anti-patriarchal messages. Instead, decisions about how feminist messages are circulated in popular culture are made by marketing experts in the fashion and entertainment industries, so that a sort of “lifestyle feminism,” has captured the minds of this generation’s young women.

Some refer to this “lifestyle feminism” as “third wave feminism”. The latter term is an often disputed and sloppily defined signifier for a wide range of cultural expressions, from the politically astute riot grrrl D.I.Y. ‘zine and punk subcultures, to mainstream women’s music festivals like the Lilith Fair. Cultural expressions in the latter category are often devoid of any political demands, any outright identifications with what is still seen as the dirty “f” word. The Body Shop saps out women’s self-esteem and money and justifies this with fundraising for women’s shelters. Tampax claims in its ads that the itty-bitty portable tampon that fits into the palm of your hand is “the women’s revolution” — because, of course women would not want the size of their menstrual product to imply that their cunts are actually larger, dirtier, and less “discreet” than a piece of three inch long cardboard. Capitalism snatches, distorts, and sells any piece of resistance that it can. The commodification of feminist culture has convinced many that feminism is about making women feel good, no matter how this is accomplished. In common sense, if feminism does not conjure homophobic images of “man-hating” dykes, feminism connotes orgasms, greater consumer choice of lipsticks and menstrual products, climbing the corporate ladder. The most positive meaning feminism takes on in popular culture is that women can do whatever makes us feel good, even if it involves feeling good on the backs of less privileged women.

The reality remains that the majority of women have not benefited from the gains made by the women’s movement. While a few educated white women have gained equal opportunity with men in some areas of education and employment, many more white women and women of colour slog away at doing the world’s shitwork — as secretaries, nurses, pieceworkers, nurses, cleaners, cashiers, restaurant servers, and as unpaid caregivers for children, the elderly, and the sick. And of course economic, physical, and emotional violence continues to silence, isolate, and kill women. Feminism could mean women working to end the capitalist system that simultaneously relies on and recreates forms of sexism, racism, and heterosexism. But for many women, especially younger women who have no collective memory of the heyday of organized, collective women’s struggles, feminism no longer exists — all our demands seem to have been met by the state and corporations — and women’s self-determination lies in the ideology of consumer choice.

Feminism, meet anarchism

Many anti-capitalist activists bred by anarchist principles of non-hierarchical organizing and direct action tactics self-identify as feminists and charge their political struggles with an analysis of how race, gender, and sexuality play out within capitalism and within our own movements for justice.

References to anti-oppression have become a mainstay of recent anti-globalization organizing. For instance, one of the organizing and political principles upon which activists united for anti-G8 action in June of last year was “a clear emphasis on anti-oppression organizing and education.” The platform of the People’s Global Action network, which is regularly invoked during massive anti-capitalist demonstrations and direct actions, states that “We reject all forms and systems of domination and discrimination including, but not limited to, patriarchy, racism, and religious fundamentalism of all creeds. We embrace the full dignity of all human beings.” Anti-globalization activists concerned with anti-oppression can learn from the women’s movement what not to do in circulating anti-oppression theory in anti-capitalist discourse. Specifically, the mainstream women’s movement often relies upon statist definitions of oppression and thus also statist and reformist avenues to so-called justice.

The little glimpses of feminism that I have seen within the current anarchist movement look promising. When I refer to anarchists, I’m not only referring to members of NEFAC or to people who are publicly known as anarchists, but more importantly to all sorts of people who quietly plod away at anti-poverty and community-based organizing who use anarchist methods of organizing and who grapple, in unglamourous ways, with questions of revolution and oppression. I see within the anarchist movement a critique of the psychiatric industry and of prisons — which play a major role in the institutionalization, medicalization and social control of women, especially of women who resist. Many anarchists promote a critique of the binary gender system, of the social control of queer people, and create an alternative culture where sexuality is celebrated rather than censored — where sex trade workers are supported in their struggles for dignity, not patronized — and where the question of what constitutes empowering and liberating porn is an interesting discussion, rather than a taboo topic. I also see at play within the movement a radical reconceptualization of the human body that embraces differences and goes far beyond merely respecting state-defined standards of “access” and “mobility.” Further still, I see activists organizing against all borders and deeply racialized and class-stratified notions and operations of “citizenship”. To discuss the anti-racist strategies and discourse within this movement would take up a whole other article, but it is important to recognize that many (but not all) activists somehow associated with anarchism have a much more radical understanding of race and racism than is evidenced by the public personae of many white-dominated feminist organizations whose anti- racism ostensibly lies in their statements about being committed to diversity and multiculturalism. Most anarchists I know don’t have degrees in social work or women’s studies but through first-hand experience with community organizing understand how brutal canada’s “multiculturalism” really is — and most importantly, they’re willing to put their bodies on the line to do something about it. Lastly, and perhaps most obviously, people who were introduced to anarchism through the anti-globalization movement as well as seasoned anarchists for the most part understand how capitalism, through colonialism and imperialism, has created a world of relations of domination.

Understanding all of these forms of oppression, and how to struggle against them in solidarity with the oppressed, are essential to developing a feminism that is about the liberation of all women from oppressions such as heterosexism, sexism, and racism. Anarchism, though rarely theorized, tries to practice the critique and reorganization of power that the dominant women’s movement may theorize but has not consistently practiced. It would be of benefit to the organized aspects of the women’s movement to look to how an anti- racist, queer-liberationist, anti-ableist feminism is (but also a lot of the time is not) at the heart of anarchist practice.

Many anarchists also occupy themselves with developing economic and political alternatives to being dependent on the state, mass culture, and the capitalist system for survival. As I’ve already mentioned, the early second wave and the third wave of the women’s movement are just as D.I.Y. as any dumpster-diving, patch-making, train-hopping anarchist kid. But often both anarchist and feminist subcultural ventures remain nothing more than futile attempts to remove the individual — or a cluster of individuals — from an exploitative system that otherwise remains unscathed. Some anarchist communities have started the difficult work of building counter-institutions, communes and federations that would hopefully someday, in theory, make a state that has already been weakened by class struggle even more redundant. It would be interesting to see explicitly feminist communities and projects take on the goal of contributing to a dual power, but as it stands, feminist projects mostly remain either individualistically DIY or co-opted by the state.

Anarchism, meet feminism

The women’s movement has a lot to learn from the anarchist movement, but anarchists have a lot to learn from the women’s movement too. It is annoying that anarchists often don’t look outside of their own tight knit subcultures for guidance around issues of privilege and oppression. Discussions about sexism often start from scratch, with no reference to work that women have already been doing to decades around male privilege and violence. It would make sense that a community concerned about sexualized violence, abuse, or women’s poverty should look to the women’s movement for ideas and skills — but this is not happening. Anarchist communities cannot deal effectively with cases of sexual assault, racism, homophobia, and gendered divisions of labour within their communities. One example of this is how few anarchists know how to support each other through times of crisis and trauma, even though this skill could be gleaned from the feminist counseling tradition within the women’s movement. It is not enough that anarchist organizers include the words “anti-oppression” or “feminism” in their platforms — at a community level, all activists ought to be engaging in discussions about, for instance, what kind of feminism and what kind anti-racism they support. And supporting the struggle of women means more than deferring to the judgment of a couple vocal feminists within the community. And it means more than examining power dynamics within an organization, though this is essential. I think anarchist and feminist organizing, to really be effective in struggling against all oppression, has to take on work that directly builds power for women and that directly makes it difficult for the state, capital, and men in general to continue the war on women.

The next step: direct action against patriarchy

Disrupting the business of patriarchy involves disrupting the business of capitalism. It requires direct, vocal, concrete interventions into the workings of everyday life — in short, it requires direct action. I think that most anti-capitalist direct actions — because capitalism relies on and recreates racism and sexism, and because capitalism organizes labour and exploitation through racialization and gender — inherently have the potential to be feminist actions. However, this shouldn’t stop anarchists from targeting corporations and state offices specifically because of, for instance, their poor treatment of women workers or for their cuts to childcare. Nor should it stop us from targeting individual known rapists and abusers who have refused to change their violent behaviour. To explore the potential for the women’s movement and the anarchist movement to build solidarity based on a shared commitment to direct action against patriarchy is an idealistic task that would require, again, a whole other article. But I will say that I have desired on so many occasions while marching with candles to the tune of bread and roses to regroup in a small scale women-only affinity group and hash out a militant plan of direct action. I want women to tell those who hold power that we are serious, we aren’t leaving the downtown core or parliament hill once the march ends. Although we will probably always have a lot of healing to do from the violence inflicted upon us everyday, we are no longer going to postpone militancy until state funding rolls in or until the next annual general meeting of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women. Whether from frustration or boredom or from a larger militant strategy, I want us to find ourselves ready to fight — loudly, and with passion.


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Title: Travis the Chimp
Subtitle: a psuedo news story
Author: M. Megaceros
Date: 3/5/2012
Source: original text
Notes: I saw several stories about the incident in the news in 2010 and something about the tone of the reporting got under my skin. I resolved to write my own version of the “facts”.

It’s been said that humans and chimpanzees share 99.9% identical DNA. So close is the connection to chimps that beings from another planet, conducting an anthropological survey would probably conclude that humans are the third family of chimpanzees; that humans are nothing more than a large-headed hairless branch of the chimp family. In truth, it will surprise no one to learn that the human species is indeed considered a branch of the great ape family tree. Thousands of chimps live among humans. They exist in captivity, in research labs, zoos, show business and private homes. Here’s some other facts pertinent to the following story. At least 10% of American adult humans are currently taking anti-anxiety drugs. I suspect that close to 100% of American humans sate their anxiety and isolation in consumer culture and yummy convenience food. Travis was just such an American.

Travis was a 1990’s TV Star. Highlights in his career would include his work in commercials and several television sitcoms. He was born in the zoo. His parents were two captive chimpanzees. His career was long and extremely profitable for his owners. In his retirement, Travis lived in a suburban house. He was considered very bright. He was able to use and to flush the toilet, wear clothes, and was able to open the house front door with his own key. He was able to get his favorite snack foods from the kitchen when and as often as he pleased. There was always a large Tupperware bowl filled with a special mixture of Cheez-its and Corny Bugles. His favorite burger was a yummy BK Double Whopper with Bacon. He would often raid the freezer for pints of Hagen Daas, Double Butter Pecan ice cream. Like other Americans, he became obese on this diet.

Travis loved to go shopping with his “mother”, that is to say — his owner. They would spend hours at the mall, greeted by smiles from his fans. He could log in to the Web and had a special fondness for conducting Google searches. He loved looking for images of cute kittens. His computer screen-saver showed a tiny tabby cat clinging to the bottom rung of a ladder. The caption read, ‘hang in there, baby’ Though, it is doubtful that Travis was able to read it, he seemed to enjoy it very much. His owner joked to her visitors that Travis was trying to ’figure it out — like a puzzle’. Still, by all measures, Travis was a ‘good monkey’, as a friend of the family would later put it. So well behaved was he that he went everywhere with his owner in the car.

Travis liked to play X-box games, watch baseball, and go to the shopping mall. He was particular about his outfits and often spent time studying his appearance in a full length mirror. When on an outing, he would often spot a patrol car or policeman. When this happened, he would become visibly happy, bounce, smile and point. He probably felt a fondness for the kind, uniformed guards on the stage sets, where he worked for so many years. These network employees would often keep candy in their pockets — to give to the ape. Travis loved firemen too. But he held a special fondness for the men in blue. In short, Travis had become civilized; he was living the good life. A dream come true. American freedom in its purest form.

When Travis began to develop symptoms of anxiety and had panic attacks, his owner put him on xanax, a potent anti-anxiety drug. This increased his appetite even further and caused Travis to be lethargic and sometimes confused and short tempered. One morning, Travis asked to go on an outing to the park. Frustrated, his “mother” flatly told him no. She told Travis that she was far too busy to go outside. Travis asked repeatedly to be let outside. Perhaps, she said, if he was well-behaved they might go to the strip mall for ice cream cone...later. At this disappointment, Travis began to exhibit symptoms of extreme anxiety. He rocked back and forth, hugged himself and ran from the front door to the back. His “mother” became even more stern with him and threatened the usual punishments. Travis unlatched the door lock and ran outside. His “mother” tried to block his escape. In her desperation to control the animal, she grabbed a butcher knife and a garden shovel.

Later, in recounting the tragedy to the authorities, she added that she needed the tools, ‘for my protection’. When Travis refused to be subdued, she stabbed Travis in the chest with the knife, several times. In retaliation, Travis viciously attacked the her, ripping and biting her face and hands. A passing driver honked and chased the chimp away from his victim. Using his brand new silver Tahoe LT, Special Edition SUV, the driver chased Travis away and down the leafy street. When police arrived, Travis is said to have becalmed himself and smiled sweetly as he approached the police cruiser. Travis calmly reached for the door handle and opened the patrol car door to see the nice policemen and perhaps receive a candy.

The officers shot 160 pound Travis with their .40 caliber duty pistols, without hesitation. Witnesses say that Travis tried desperately to drag himself back to the protection his “mother” as police fired the killing shots into the animal. Media stories featured the usual rounds of interviews with shocked neighbors and relatives. Travis was said to have been a “quiet monkey...very nice and polite.” Other than that, he was said to be a good “boy”. Most news stories concluded their narratives with understandable pronouncements that wild animals should never be expected to become fully domesticated.

In fact, Travis’ chimpanzee mother Suzy was also shot and killed following an escape attempt in 2001. Wild creatures, news readers inform us, will never fully submit to domesticated life...as humans have so willingly have done. The more thoughtful of these programs are quick to remind us that apes can only truly thrive and be happy in the wild, in small quiet groupings — in the habitat where they evolved. We should not be surprised when a domesticated anthropoid like Travis goes mad — on a violent killing binge. Their analysis, though often interesting stop short, saying that although we humans are very close kin to chimps, humans are totally different in their basic needs. When a domesticated human becomes madly violent, it is merely a personal failing. In their speculations, these stories never seem to describe the habitat that humans evolved in. Or call attention to our distance from that habitat.

On the contrary, humans, it is implied — truly belong in towering glass and stone cities, surrounded large and small machines and somehow human lives are enhanced and refined by isolation, competition, routine and small personal humiliations. These stories never seem to make a connection with mass killings like the one at Columbine High School or Virginia Tech. These stories attempt to teach us the lesson that intelligent, well adjusted humans are satisfied to live a vicarious and mediated life — working long hours and eating bulk processed foods, watching the raging colored lights of computers and TV screens. And it is perfectly normal to have one’s ears flooded by the blaring din from electric amplification both day and night.

Our basic, fundamental needs are so vastly different than those of our closest cousins — the chimps, that critiquing our own domestication is irrelevant — not worth mentioning. In other words, domestication of apes is disastrous in all cases except in that of human beings. For humans, domestication is just fine.


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2015 Season Previews: Chicago Cubs

Over the next several weeks, The Baseball Haven will be creating season previews for all 30 MLB teams. You’ll find their projected records (based on PECOTA records from Baseball Prospectus, as of 2/15/2015), each team’s top three players (based on Steamer WAR projections from FanGraphs), and some valuable notes on each team, including likely bounce-back candidates, potential breakout players or fantasy sleepers, as well as a look back at offseason transactions which led to each team’s projections. Stop back frequently to see where your favorite team ranks!

Chicago Cubs

Courtesy: MLB.com
Courtesy: MLB.com

2015 Projected Record: 82-80 (2nd in NL Central, 14th in MLB)

Manager: Joe Maddon (1st season with Chicago, 781-729 in 11 seasons overall)

Top Three Players: 1B Anthony Rizzo (4.7), LHP Jon Lester (3.6), RHP Jake Arrieta (2.6)

Bounce-back Player: LHP Travis Wood

Wood posted an atrocious 5.03 ERA and 1.53 WHIP over 31 starts and 173.2 innings in 2014. He saw an increase in his walks (3.94 per nine) and a decrease in runners left on base (66.5 percent), both of which were career worsts. In addition to those numbers, Wood saw his strikeouts per nine reach career-high levels (7.57) and his home run per fly ball stayed below the league average (8.8 percent), so it wasn’t all bad; however, the highly inflated .320 BABIP, which was much higher than the career .278 BABIP. Wood doesn’t allow many home runs, he manages to keep the ball down (though, not at elite levels with a 33.2 percent ground ball rate), and he is entering his age-28 season, the supposed prime of his career, with only 738 major league innings on his arm. With a rapidly improving roster behind him and Jon Lester as a mentor, Wood is capable of an enormous, undervalued, and overlooked season.

Soler is just as good and capable of better than Bryant in 2015
Soler is just as good and capable of better than Bryant in 2015

Fantasy Player to Watch: OF Jorge Soler

All eyes will be on Kris Bryant whenever he is promoted from Triple-A, especially after his monstrous Spring Training, but Soler deserves just as much focus. The 6’4″ Cuban right fielder has a powerful swing and a solid approach at the plate. While he may never hit .300, he is more than capable of producing an on-base percentage over .370 in his first full season, as the 23-year-old sets himself up for tremendous opportunities to succeed. The biggest issue for Soler has been his inability to stay healthy, as the 2014 gave him the most plate appearances of his brief career when he reached 333 plate appearances over four levels, including 97 with Chicago. While everyone jumps at Bryant, do yourself a favor and grab Soler, who, if healthy, is likely to outproduce Bryant due to starting at the major league level on Day One.

Offseason Overview: The Cubs made several additions this winter. They added OF Dexter Fowler in a deal with Houston, 2B Tommy La Stella in a deal with Atlanta, re-signed RHP Jason Hammel, bought low on former All-Star catcher Miguel Montero, and, of course, made the huge splash in free agency by signing LHP Jon Lester. The Cubs made simple additions to improve their roster, teaming up the veterans with the superb group of young talent on hand. Now, Chicago has a more than capable leadoff hitter in Fowler (career .366 OBP) to set the stage for SS Starlin Castro, 1B Anthony Rizzo, Soler, and Montero in the meat of the order, with more help on the way if/when Bryant and Javier Baez are ready in the next month or so. Oh yeah…they got one of the best managers in baseball, as well.

The Verdict: To jump from 76-86 to 82-80 doesn’t seem like a big deal, but that would put the club in 2nd place in the division (based on PECOTA projections). This team is capable of a few more games than that, especially if they have consistency out of Rizzo, Castro, Fowler, and Soler. With utility-man Arismendy Alcantara filling a Ben Zobrist role, the Cubs have enough depth on the major league roster and within their system to overcome some injuries. Additionally, they have the talent to improve at mid-season, as 2014 MLB Draft pick Kyle Schwarber could be a highly-coveted bat at the deadline. This may not be the year, but the Cubs are on the rise, and they’ll be on the rise for the next several years.

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Old September 10, 2010, 12:41 PM   #8
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The 1st Variation H&R HUNTER (circa 1926-29) was derived from the H&R Model 1906, small frame, 7 shot .22 rimfire (initially short & long) and had a 10" octagonal barrel, although I have one with a round barrel. The TRAPPER model was the same lineage but with a 6" barrel. Both were issued with checkered walnut grips and in blue only. Value for one in V.G. to EXC. condition will range up to and over $400- they are collectible.
The 2nd Variation HUNTER (circa 1929-40) was derived from the larger framed Model 922, which derived from the H&R Model 1904. It also had a 10" round barrel, but was chambered for 9 rounds of .22 rimfire. This variation is scarcer than the 1st Var. and has sold for over $400 in Excellent condition.

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I think thats what happened when i took it apart. The ejecting/lifting spring (i think thats what its called) did snap pretty hard.
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The taurus is not a smoothbore... it doughnuts shot patterns. As for slugs, most said they were dismal...

THe taurus is a gun that does a few more things than a standard design but it does nothing as well as a single ammo firing weapon...

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An alternate explanation is that the primer explosion pushes the bullet into the lands, jamming it in place. This causes the burning powder to not have the normal expansion space because the bullet is not moving forward and the force of resistance is greater on a stationary object than a moving object.

This causes a "plugged bore" event and the pressure level in the cartridge increases to detonation levels, and then boom.

The exact causes of SEE aren't as important as ensuring the conditions that are known to cause it are avoided.

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My first deer rifle was a Ruger 77 in 6mm Remington Back in the day when some of the gun writers touted the 6mm Rem. as the caliber for the 'One gun hunter'. It was considered better than the .243 since it could hold a little more powder. I was never disappointed ... coyote to deer. The 6mm Remington never caught on, so I'd go for the .243 for a first rifle choice.

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Review: Edge of Tomorrow

June 7, 2014

edge_of_tomorrow_ver11Edge of Tomorrow

  • Starring: Tom Cruise (Oblivion), Emily Blunt (Looper), Bill Paxton (Twister) and more.
  • Directed by: Doug Liman (Mr. & Mrs. Smith, The Bourne Identity).
  • Synopsis: “The epic action of “Edge of Tomorrow” unfolds in a near future in which an alien race has hit the Earth in an unrelenting assault, unbeatable by any military unit in the world.Lt. Col. Bill Cage (Cruise) is an officer who has never seen a day of combat when he is unceremoniously dropped into what amounts to a suicide mission. Killed within minutes, Cage now finds himself inexplicably thrown into a time loop—forcing him to live out the same brutal combat over and over, fighting and dying again…and again.But with each battle, Cage becomes able to engage the adversaries with increasing skill, alongside Special Forces warrior Rita Vrataski (Blunt). And, as Cage and Rita take the fight to the aliens, each repeated encounter gets them one step closer to defeating the enemy.”
  • Rating: PG-13 for wartime violence, language and massive destruction/mayhem.
  • Must-Watch Trailer:
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The biggest comparisons that you may hear about the latest “Tom Cruise” movie will undoubtedly refer to the likes of Groundhog Day, Vantage Point, Source Code and perhaps even Denzel Washington’s lackluster Déjà Vu. Each of those films merit mention when it comes to Edge of Tomorrow, however, future time loop films now have Edge of Tomorrow to reference as one of the best cinematic uses of time as a plot vice that creates and contributes to the story in great fashion.

My one sentence review of Edge of Tomorrow follows the format of the film’s tagline:

“Rise. Watch. Enjoy. Repeat!” 🙂

My full review is below:

aynik-graphicnovel-cover_largeThis adaptation of the popular Japanese Manga graphic novel entitled “All You Need Is Kill” (which was the original title of the film) packs everything desired from a blockbuster into one film and intensifies the experience every time the story resets. The idea of a hesitant officer stuck in a time-loop of, understandably, the worst day of his life and forced to proceed through with death as his only certainty may seem the most basic of plots to begin, but the way it develops and keeps old things new and fresh is beyond impressive and entertaining.

Tom Cruise breaks out of the mold of “perhaps good, but definitely not GREAT” movies finally again and stars with Adjustment Bureau beauty Emily Blunt in this film full of action, aliens and acrobatics. Matching the well-done special effects, CGI and constructed sets and costumes, it is the overall progression of the film, tied with believable futuristic action, danger and motives and a good amount of decently fitting comedy sprinkled throughout that makes Edge of Tomorrow a film that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Most time-loop films fall to the redundancy of rehashing/reusing the same scenes all in the name of progressing the story. EoT craftily side-steps that trap and keeps the film fresh with every press of the “reset button.”edge3

A lot went into the making of this film. From writing an adaptation that stays truer to the source content than most, to the design of the Elysium-esque suits (of which Tom Cruise himself played a major part), to the wearing of the suits (Blunt cried the first day she had to don the weighty suit), to the acting and more. This story of survival, as Tom and Emily call it in the informative featurette below, combines combat, comedy, characters, cinematography and creative story all in one and it’s just so much fun!

This thrilling ride of adrenaline and action plays out like a video game mashed with your favorite anime series nd injected with a blended mixture of Groundhog Day, The Source CodeEnder’s Game and Starship Troopers. I stated to friends of mine who accompanied me to the IMAX 3D showing of it that it is as if this film took a lot of great elements from tons of enjoyable movies and made Edge of Tomorrow.edge5

Successfully entertaining, the film may take a few hits from some for the “staple” character types that are typical in films of soldiers. The identifying stereotypes or the acceptable shakycam use, etc. But the film is well-established in and of itself and audiences will have more than one reason to root for the protagonists as the end of humanity is on the line.

[Side note: Storming the beaches of France in the film, I found it (perhaps strategically) ironic that it released on D-Day.]

[Side note: Storming the beaches of France in the film, I found it (perhaps strategically) ironic that it released on D-Day.]

With a strong storyline (that generally follows its set rules of time travel and logic), great action and special effects, thrilling character chemistry, no unnecessary elements, plenty of fitting comedy and an innovative multi-angled view of the sequence of events to prevent boredom Edge of Tomorrow proved to be the right film for today. Fresh, fun and full of fight, do NOT let tomorrow pass you by!

My Score: 4.5 out of 5 stars for Edge of Tomorrowedge1

(Remember, to read this review of mine and over 300 more, check out THE ARCHIVE of movies I have reviewed anytime. Know before you go…or rent…or buy!)

Thanks for reading! Happy Watching!

T, The Focused Filmographer

13 Comments leave one →
  1. June 7, 2014 11:09 am

    It had a gimmick, but it used it well enough to where I didn’t care and just had a blast. Good review T.

    • June 16, 2014 7:38 pm

      it was a blast for sure, Dan! Thanks for reading. How have you been Dan the Man?

  2. Dave O. permalink
    June 7, 2014 8:13 pm

    Agree with the review. its a movie that lets you appreciate Tom Cruise doing Tom Cruisey things. We want to see him knocked down and we want to see him persevere. Its refreshing, energetic and a perfect summer movie with December sensibilities. This movie will resonate like seldom summer movies do. Go see it.

    • June 16, 2014 7:39 pm

      Thanks for reading and for the comment. Tom Cruise has a solid one here that is the movie summer audiences deserve

  3. June 10, 2014 2:04 pm

    I was shocked at how much I liked this film. Just did my review but the more I think about the film the more I think I like it. Love a pleasant surprise at the cinema 😀

    Great review Terrence

    • June 16, 2014 7:39 pm

      hahaha. I’m glad you loved it too! YES!

      • June 17, 2014 9:58 am

        It was really good! 😀

      • June 17, 2014 9:58 am

        Yes it was!

  4. June 18, 2014 1:03 am

    I had an absolute blast watching this one too T, and you’ve hit on all the points I thought of when writing my own review (coming up soon). Glad you liked it, and great review, man!

    • June 18, 2014 6:55 am

      man! I loved this movie and am sad it’s not getting the attention it deserves. So good! Thanks for the comment. I can’t wait to stop by and see your thoughts!

  5. Victor De Leon permalink
    June 26, 2014 4:23 pm

    Oh man. That GIF of Blunt spinning around with that sword thingy is so spic. Cannot wait to catch up on this one. Very nice review! Good work 🙂

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