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Feds Nab Suspected White Supremacist Planning Vegas Attacks

A man who authorities say worked as a security guard has been arrested and accused of plotting to firebomb a Las Vegas synagogue or a bar catering to LGTBQ customers, officials said Friday.

An FBI-led anti-terrorism task force on Wednesday netted the 23-year-old suspect and identified him as Conor Climo of Las Vegas, U.S. Attorney Nicholas Trutanich said in a statement.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Koppe on Friday ordered the suspect to remain in federal custody pending an Aug. 23 court appearance on a federal firearms charge.

Climo's court-appointed federal public defender didn't immediately respond to messages.

Court documents say Climo communicated by encrypted internet chat with people identified as white supremacists, and told an FBI informant in recent weeks that he was scouting places to attack.

"Threats of violence motivated by hate and intended to intimidate or coerce our faith-based and LGBTQ communities have no place in this country," Trutanich said.

Documents point to a 2016 news report by KTNV-TV in Las Vegas about Climo patrolling his neighborhood wearing battle gear and carrying an assault rifle and survival knife. He shows and describes to a reporter the four, 30-bullet ammunition magazines he is carrying.

Neighbors expressed concern, but Climo was not arrested at that time.

Las Vegas police Officer Aden OcampoGomez noted Friday that Nevada is an open-carry weapon state and Climo broke no laws.

Trutanich said Climo was arrested Thursday after a probe involving at least one undercover online contact and an FBI confidential informant who reported that Climo "discussed, in detail, how to build a "self-contained Molotov" incendiary device.

Investigators serving a warrant at his home found hand-drawn schematics and component parts of a destructive device, according to the criminal complaint, including flammable liquids, oxidizing agents and circuit boards. They also confiscated an AR-15 assault-style weapon and a bolt-action rifle.

The charge against Climo accuses him of possessing an unregistered firearm in the form of the component parts of a destructive device.

"Climo would regularly use derogatory racial, anti-Semitic and homosexual slurs," the U.S. attorney's office statement said. "He discussed attacking a Las Vegas synagogue and making Molotov Cocktails and improvised explosive devices, and he also discussed conducting surveillance on a bar he believed catered to the LGBTQ community."

Climo could face up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine if he is convicted.

Source: https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/national-international/White-Supremacist-Attack-Plan-Vegas-Synagogue-Gay-Bar-531061131.html

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The Best Thing That Happened This Week: The Phillies’ Bamboo Voodoo

The Best Thing This Week

The man behind the Phillies lucky bamboo. (Brad Miller | AP/Matt Slocum; bamboo | Getty Images)

The month of June hadn’t been kind to the Philadelphia Phillies. The team went into Monday night’s game having lost seven straight, including a 15-1 mauling by the Atlanta Braves and regular shellackings of the bullpen by the Marlins and Nats. Sure, now the Mets were in town, and the Mets suck, but not as badly as those lowly Marlins before they feasted on the Phillies’ bones.

So what’s the new kid in town to do? Novice Phil Brad Miller, an infield utility guy acquired just as the team got mired — he’s played for seven Major League teams so far — vaguely recalled having once bought some bamboo while in a similar minor-league slump (bamboo being, of course, a plant that brings good luck according to the ancient Chinese geomancy principles of feng shui). So he went to Chinatown and bought a little pot of the stuff and stuck it in his locker.

That night, the Phils finally broke their loss streak with a 19-hit, 13 run eruption worthy of Vesuvius.

The next day, Miller headed back to the same shop in Chinatown and bought “the biggest plant they had,” setting it smack in the middle of the clubhouse. Again, the Phils won. “It was bound to happen for us to go off,” Miller said modestly after the game, adding. “Now we have the big boy over there. The granddaddy of ’em all.”

Coincidence or not, the mini win streak sent “brad miller bamboo” trending on Twitter (sample tweets: “The Phils are now 2-0 in the Bamboo Era”; “Trust the Plant”). Miller gifted manager Gabe Kapler, ejected from Tuesday’s win (with a whole lotta cursing) for just the second time in his career, with a planter of bamboo for his desk. The Phils snagged their first walk-off win of the season on Wednesday. And on Thursday, Maikel Franco and Jean Segura slammed bottom-of-the-ninth homers to seal the four-game series sweep. As for Miller, he found himself with a new nickname: “Bamboo Brad.” It looks good on ya, kid.

Source: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/06/29/best-thing-phillies-lucky-bamboo/

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This startup wants you to take a month-long sabbatical

The premise behind Amble, a startup offering planned sabbaticals for creative types, sounds enticing even for the non-outdoors-y among us: Go off the grid for a month, contribute your skills to an impact-focused project and cast burnout away from your life by exploring some of the country’s most beautiful sights.

Launched in 2018 by UX consultant Ilyssa Kyu, Amble led a half dozen creatives last fall to Yosemite National Park for its pilot program. The majority of the four weeks was spent trekking and touring the sites, with about a third of the time spent working on branding and design projects for two nonprofits: the Yosemite Conservancy and the Mariposa Arts Council.

Partnership with local organizations, Kyu said, serves the double purpose of subsidizing part of the program’s cost, and allowing otherwise workaholic professionals a chance to take a break.

“Creative people need an excuse to give themselves that self-care, so it’s an interesting chance to get away and travel, which inherently offers inspiration, while applying your skills and doing meaningful work,” said the founder, a former P’unk Ave staffer.

The program has a next pilot trek scheduled for April. This time, the company will offer a group of professionals a chance to explore the Sierra Foothills in central California. There, interested creative professionals will work on a series of small creative projects for Mariposa, Calif.-based nonprofit Sierra Foothill Conservancy.

The cost of the month-long trip — which includes lodging, tours and programming — ranges between $1,400 and $1,600. Think of it as a subsidized Airbnb at around $50 a day, Kyu said.

We’re pleased to announce the upcoming Spring 2019 program (Apr 15-May 14) with the Sierra Foothill Conservancy in the Sierra Foothills of central CA during peak wildflower season! ??

Applications are now open and close JANUARY 26TH at midnight EST: https://t.co/TAnaQGnPCX

— Amble (@amblethere) January 8, 2019

(For most people, a month-long break away from work is just not a possibility. Those of you in need of a quick getaway can check out designer Lauren Hallden’s Philly Day Hiker. If you’re starting to feel the toll of burnout or stress, take a look at Generocity’s guide of accessible mental health resources.)

Kyu said the inaugural program left participants “feeling pretty refreshed and inspired” with more confidence in their own work and craft. This time around, the push for the incoming cohort is to leave all client work behind and truly unplug.

“People are not able to fully enjoy their surroundings if they still have to bring their work with them,” Kyu said. “The idea of a sabbatical is to take a creative break.”

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The Secondhand Harms Of Drinking Impact 1 In 5 Adults, Study Says

(CNN) — About one-fifth of adults in the United States have experienced some form of harm due to someone else’s behavior while drinking. That’s according to a study published Monday in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, which found that in 2015, an estimated 53 million adults — or nearly 1 in 5 — said they had experienced at least one harm attributable to someone else’s drinking in the past year. That harm ranged from property damage to physical injury.

“One thing to think about with the one-in-five number is that it is only limited to a snapshot in time of about a year. So probably more people have actually been harmed by someone else’s drinking at other times in their life,” said Katherine Karriker-Jaffe, a senior scientist with the Alcohol Research Group at the Public Health Institute in Emeryville, California, who was an author of the study.

“So it might be an underestimate of the negative impacts of alcohol on people other than the drinker,” she said.

The study involved analyzing data on 8,750 adults who answered survey questions from two databases: the 2015 National Alcohol’s Harm to Others Survey and the 2015 National Alcohol Survey. The surveys were conducted from April 2014 to June 2015. The study did not include children.

Each adult was asked whether they had experienced any of 10 different types of harm in the past 12 months caused by “someone who had been drinking.”

The different types of harm included harassment; feeling threatened or afraid; having belongings ruined; having property vandalized; being pushed, hit or assaulted; being physically harmed; being in a traffic accident; being a passenger in a vehicle with a drunk driver; having family or marital problems; and having financial trouble.

The researchers found that 21% of women and 23% of men in the study reported experiencing at least one of those harms in the past year. The most prevalent type of harm was harassment, according to the data.

When it comes to harms other than harassment, “for women, the most prevalent are family and marital problems or financial problems due to someone else’s drinking and a close third runner-up would be driving-related harms — so riding with a drunk driver or actually having a crash caused by someone who had been drinking,” Karriker-Jaffe said.

Other than harassment, “for men, the driving-related harms were the most common, followed by property damage and vandalism,” she said.

Overall, women were more likely than men to report harm by a spouse, partner or family member who had been drinking, and men were more likely to report harm because of a stranger’s drinking, the data showed.

The study had some limitations, including that the data was self-reported, which lends itself to bias if a person in the study was not answering survey questions honestly.

Also, more research is needed to determine whether similar findings would emerge for other years, as the data was collected in 2014 and 2015.

The study findings were “fascinating” for Aesoon Park, an associate professor of psychology at Syracuse University in New York, who has conducted research on alcohol use and misuse but was not involved in the new study.

She noted the study found that younger adults were more likely to experience a broad range of secondhand harms due to someone else’s drinking compared to older adults.

“We know now that people who are 18 to 25, they are showing the highest rates of alcoholism,” Park said.

“What is interesting about this study is that not only is it about alcohol use disorder, but it shows how the secondhand effect of alcohol is also affecting that same age group,” she said. “The second interesting part to this is the gender inequality.”

She said both men and women seem to be affected by the secondhand effect of alcohol, even though men are more likely than women to drink excessively. “So it highlights a gender inequality of the secondhand effect of alcohol,” Park said.

Dr. Timothy Naimi, a physician and alcohol epidemiologist at Boston Medical Center in Massachusetts, wrote an editorial published alongside the study Monday.

“The underreporting of harms among some individual respondents, coupled with the fact that previous harm leaves some portion of the population unable or less likely to participate in surveys because of premature death, injury, or psychological distress, suggests that even this robust prevalence is likely an underestimate,” Naimi wrote.

“This is an emerging area of investigation in its relative infancy and is one that needs nurturing and growth,” he wrote in part. “Prevention of secondhand effects from others’ drinking at the population level must be driven by structural, environmental interventions that reduce excessive drinking.”

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Source: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/07/01/the-secondhand-harms-of-drinking-impact-1-in-5-adults-study-says/

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Do Yoga Surrounded by Plants at This Ultra-Relaxing Greenhouse Yoga Series

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So warm and green, you’ll almost forget it’s winter.

Join the Fairmount Park greenhouse yoga series to enjoy yoga surrounded by plants this winter. Photograph courtesy Fairmount Park Conservancy.

It may be the most wonderful time of the year, but the month of December can also be kind of, well, depressing. All the pretty fall colors are gone, the grass turns into a soggy brown mess, and the days are short and cold.

But! BUT! There’s a fix for that! The Fairmount Park Conservancy is once again hosting their annual indoor yoga series at the (heated!) Horticulture Center, which means that you have a ton of opportunities to surround yourself with warmth and greenery. The series, which kicks off on December 16 at 1 p.m., will include hour-plus-long yoga classes that’ll end with extra-long savasanas. And new this year, while you lie back on your mat for a nap — er, for your final resting pose — at the end of class, Johnny Baba will play Himalayan singing bowls and a Nepalese gong to help you fully unwind.

The classes are $15 each, but they’re free for members of the Fairmount Park Conservancy — which, FYI, only costs $35 to join. So if you’re planning on hitting up more than two of these classes, it’s totally worth going for membership — a double win, because you’ll be helping out Philadelphia’s parks while you’re at it.

The Fairmount Park greenhouse yoga classes are currently scheduled for December 16 and January 6, 13, and 27, though there will be more classes added to the schedule every few weeks here. All classes will run from 1 to 2:30 p.m., and you’ll want to bring your own mat and water (and a cloth to clean your mat, as the greenhouse flooring will get it dirty).

Ready to join in on the tropical fun? Head here to claim your spot.

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Source: https://www.phillymag.com/be-well-philly/2018/12/03/fairmount-park-greenhouse-yoga/

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Inside Look: The Narrowest House in Philly May Just Be This One in Manayunk

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Someone managed to fit an 840-square-foot, two-bedroom house into a 9-foot by 162-foot lot. Buy it and you'll have a real conversation starter.

4435 Silverwood St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19127 | Photos: Courtesy Copper Hill Real Estate

When the listing agent for this house for sale brought it to my attention, the first thing I asked him for was the history of its lot. It would seem to me that there’s a story behind how this hillside block in Manayunk got subdivided so that one of the lots on it was a mere nine feet wide. (He couldn’t find one, sad to say, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t one. Maybe an amateur historian reading this can fill both of us in.)

Luckily for whoever built this house on it somewhere around 1916, the lot is also 162 feet deep. It also slopes uphill from the street.

What all this means, then, is that if you buy this house for sale, you will own what is truly a one-of-a-kind house — quite likely the narrowest in the city — with a unique backyard to match.

This house has two bedrooms and two baths. In form, it’s a trinity that went to a taffy pull.

Living room

Kitchen

The first floor consists of the foyer. Upstairs you find the living/dining room and the kitchen. The next two floors each contain a bedroom, with the master on the top floor.

Patio

Backyard from patio

Rear elevation from backyard

Thanks to its steeply sloped lot, the doors leading to the grotto-like, arbor-covered rear patio lie at the back of the third floor. Everything behind and up the hill from the patio is yours to shape as you wish.

Master bedroom

Balcony

The fourth-floor master bedroom has a balcony facing Silverwood Street.

The house is completely up to date, with new appliances, cabinets and quartz countertops in the kitchen, Mitsubishi split-unit air conditioners and attractive tile bathrooms, one of which has a marble tile shower.

Each of the rooms has plenty of space — it’s just long and narrow space. Should that produce the occasional feeling of claustrophobia in you, Main Street’s shops, bars and restaurants are a couple of blocks downhill. So are both Pretzel Park and Manayunk Regional Rail station.

THE FINE PRINT

BEDS: 2

BATHS: 2

SQUARE FEET: 840

SALE PRICE: $194,900

OTHER STUFF: The house is currently occupied by a tenant who rents it for $1,495 per month. The tenant will leave when the sale closes, but you might give some consideration to buying this house for rental income as well.

4435 Silverwood St., Philadelphia, Pa. 19127 [Ryan Garrity | Copper Hill Real Estate via Zillow]

Source: https://www.phillymag.com/property/2018/09/27/inside-look-the-narrowest-house-in-philadelphia-maybe-in-manayunk/

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Report: At least three Eagles assistant coaches won’t be back in 2019

Earlier this week, Doug Pederson said that all three Philadelphia Eagles coordinators will be back for the 2019 season: Mike Groh, Jim Schwartz, and Dave Fipp. Pederson didn’t say anything about the status of other assistant coaches, however.

As it turns out, the Eagles will be making some changes to their coaching staff this offseason. Geoff Mosher and Adam Caplan are reporting wide receivers coach Gunter Brewer, defensive line coach Chris Wilson, and assistant offensive line/tight ends/run game coach Eugene Chung will NOT be back in 2019.

It’s not surprising to see that Brewer, who was hired from the college ranks last offseason, will be gone. We just speculated about this possibility on Wednesday:

Should the Eagles replace wide receivers coach Gunter Brewer since players seemingly had a lot of issues with lining up in the right places in 2018?

Brewer is reportedly expected to be hired as Louisville’s new wide receivers coach. Meanwhile, the Eagles will be looking for their fifth receivers coach in five years.

It’s more surprising that Wilson won’t be back. The Eagles’ defensive line has been very productive since he’s been in Philly and he’s Fletcher Cox’s former college defensive coordinator/defensive line coach. Then again, it’s not like Wilson was coaching up a bunch of no name d-linemen; he had a lot of talent to work with. And the Eagles aren’t firing him as much as they’re not renewing his deal. Maybe he wants to move on.

It’s also a surprise the Eagles aren’t keeping Chung around given how admirably the offensive line has performed over the past couple seasons. I can’t help but wonder if Frank Reich might be targeting him for the Colts’ o-line job that recently opened up. Maybe Chung feels like he doesn’t have opportunity to move up with Jeff Stoutland ahead of him in Philly.

It remains to be seen who’ll replace Brewer, Wilson, and Chung. The Eagles did hire Carson Walch to be an assistant wide receivers coach last year. Philadelphia has also had defensive quality control/assistant defensive line coach Phillip Daniels on staff since 2016. T.J. Paganetti has spent two years as an Eagles offensive quality control/assistant offensive line coach.

We could hear more about potential replacements over the next couple weeks. Stay tuned.

Source: https://www.bleedinggreennation.com/2019/1/17/18187126/eagles-nfl-rumors-coaching-chris-wilson-gunter-brewer-philadelphia-wide-receiver-defensive-line-news

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Bright Germantown twin with full renovations wants $245K

A 19th century home that’s been renovated with some farmhouse-style elements, just came on the market for $245,000.

The three-bed, 1.5-bath place on West Duval Street has undergone a total makeover since it last listed a year ago. The front porch of the home, which was once enclosed, has been opened up, allowing more light into the first floor. Inside, there’s plenty of exposed wood beams and trim, along with concrete countertops and a farmhouse sink in the kitchen.

The bedrooms sit upstairs, along with a bathroom that sits behind a sliding barn door, adding to the home’s rustic-but-chic style.

But with the massive renovations comes a price jump. The home, which was built in 1888, last sold for $80,000 in 2017. If you’re eager to check out the new space for yourself, there’s an open house on Sunday from noon to 2 p.m.

Source: https://philly.curbed.com/2018/10/18/17995634/germantown-twin-home-house-sale-renovations

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Take a Look Inside Fishtown’s New Rock Climbing Gym

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Philadelphia Rock Gyms is celebrating its grand opening on December 8th.

Philadelphia Rock Gyms Fishtown is the neighborhood’s new venue for bouldering, top rope, and lead climbing. Photograph by Zach Schwartz

What we’ve decided will be the “year of indoor rock climbing” in Philadelphia is already well on its way. Tufas Boulder Lounge opened in Kensington in July, Reach Climbing and Fitness and The Cliffs are both working towards opening in 2019, and on December 8th, Philadelphia Rock Gyms will celebrate the grand opening of their fifth location in the region.

Philadelphia Rock Gyms Fishtown is a petite 6,000-square-foot climbing facility located inside the recently renovated 2424 Studios. The gym features bouldering, top rope, and lead climbing, plus a fitness room where you can warm up and improve your strength. There’s also a shower so you can clean up after your workout, and a retail shop where you can purchase all the climbing gear you need.

The walls at Philadelphia Rock Gyms Fishtown were designed by Walltopia. Photograph by Zach Schwartz

There’s a section devoted to bouldering, plus more walls for top rope climbing. Photograph by Zach Schwartz

Exposed wood ceilings add an industrial touch to the renovated space at 2424 Studios. Photograph by Zach Schwartz

There’s plenty of roped climbing available at the new Philadelphia Rock Gyms Fishtown. Photograph by Zach Schwartz

While the gym had its soft opening on November 27th, allowing members of other area Philadelphia Rock Gyms to come check out the new location, it’ll fully open to the public on December 8th. During the grand opening celebration, you can check out all the new walls while enjoying free food, music, raffles, and discounts on membership.

Can’t wait to get started? For those who are new to rock climbing, the gym is currently selling a $45 “Intro to Climbing” package that includes top rope climbing and bouldering lessons, plus all the rental equipment you’ll need and a two-week membership to test the skills you’ve just learned. Already a pro? A daily pass to the gym is $18.95 — and you can rent a gear pack for $10.

Philadelphia Rock Gyms Fishtown is located at 2412 E York Street in Fishtown. Take a look inside via the photos here, then go check it out in person this December.

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Source: https://www.phillymag.com/be-well-philly/2018/11/27/philadelphia-rock-gyms-fishtown/

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5 big questions about the future of tech in Camden

The storyline of Camden, N.J., as a City on the Rise that’s overcoming its troubled past could be at a pivotal moment.

The stats on crime seem to say so, with official data showing a double-digit drop in violent crimes during the first nine months of 2018. Go back just five years and you’ll find the South Jersey city atop a list of the country’s most dangerous.

Per some local leaders and entrepreneur types, the evolution is also starting to show in the local business community. One recently rebranded small business group wants innovation to be part of a rising tide that lifts Camden’s profile to support the drop in Camden’s poverty numbers.

When it comes to growing a tech ecosystem across the bridge in Camden, what’s the roadmap? As with any transformation, it starts by answering a handful of targeted questions. Here are a few:

No matter where companies are based, tech talent is sparse. Locally, companies like Penji, goEmerchant or Monster Roster will need to attract and retain the developers that make their tech run.

Meanwhile, at Hopeworks Camden’s new HQ, executive director Dan Rhoton is looking past just luring. Inside a 6,000-square-foot headquarters, Rhoton is connecting Camden youth to training in web development, digital marketing and other fields.

Glassboro, N.J.-based Rowan University, with its Camden campus 15 minutes away, has a Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. It hosts hackathons and has a VR research hub. Rutgers, which quietly shuttered its Camden Co-Lab innovation space, has a few research labs at its Camden campus. What is academia doing to spur entrepreneurship amid its graduates?

Subaru, the Sixers and their Innovation Lab, and controversial energy industry supplier Holtec among others companies that have relocated to South Jersey could — like Comcast and Penn do in Philly — beckon tech talent into the area.

A lot of that business relocation, no doubt, is fueled by $1 billion in state tax breaks.

But, as Inquirer columnist Kevin Riordan puts it, promises of jobs in exchange for tax breaks have routinely gone unfulfilled. Should taxpayers be footing the bill to benefit politically connected business leaders?

You’ve heard this selling point to investors: Back Philly companies and your VC dollars will go further than in New York. But they’ll go even further in Camden, where operating costs are even lower.

Still, despite a weak 2017, venture capital flows more freely on the Philly side of the Delaware river. Access to capital might be on its way, though: Earlier this month, N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy proposed a $500-million fund to pump resources into Jersey-based startups. Khai Tran, CEO of Camden-based Penji, said the news were well received in Camden.

Camden, like Philly, is a minority-majority city according to U.S. Census data. Will the next generation of tech companies in Camden also face diversity challenges?

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For once, let's celebrate Philly's clean and green achievements

Heavy storms ahead

As of October, local rain totals are already well above the city’s annual average of 42 inches, making heavy storms a frequent experience for Philadelphians in 2018. Many climate change models show a wetter future for our region, giving the implementation of innovative solutions added urgency.

For those unfamiliar with green stormwater infrastructure (GSI) as a tool for stormwater management, Green City, Clean Waters is very much what it sounds like: a greener city means cleaner waterways. By incorporating more green spaces into urban landscapes that would otherwise prevent rainwater from soaking into the ground, Philadelphia is achieving major reductions in the two largest sources of pollution hampering local water quality—excess stormwater runoff carrying urban contaminants, and sewer overflows caused by an overwhelmed system.

These landscaped green systems, such as rain gardens and planted curb extensions that enhance pedestrian safety, are managing tens of millions of gallons of stormwater every time the city gets heavy rain, and the program is surpassing benchmarks established by state and federal regulators.

Source: http://planphilly.com/eyesonthestreet/2018/10/19/for-once-let-s-celebrate-philly-s-clean-and-green-achievements

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What the triumphant return of Philly's former Metropolitan Opera House means for North Broad Street | Inga Saffron

Best of all, the neoclassical exterior has been impressively restored, with the original arched arcades, pilasters, and dentil moldings to enliven the long Broad Street facade. It won't be as glamorous as Hammerstein's original, which featured a lacy iron canopy over the entrance, but Blumenfeld plans a restaurant facing the street. It will be called "Oscars," of course. A neon blade sign, reminiscent of one that existed in the 1930s, will go up at the Poplar Street corner.

Source: http://www2.philly.com/philly/columnists/inga_saffron/metropolitan-opera-house-north-philadelphia-blumenfeld-hammerstein-20181115.html

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Meet Old Saint Gritty: The Kenzinger Bearing Santa That Philly Needs and Deserves

Meet Old Saint Gritty: The Kenzinger Bearing Santa That Philly Needs and Deserves

December 13, 2018

And a Very Gritty Christmas to you…

New wheatpaste today by Marisa Velázquez-Rivas sees Gritty as Santa complete with a box of “Phestive Philly” goodies!

You can find the wheatpaste now at Girard avenue and Hope street, but this spot gets buffed by its building owner pretty regularly so you likely don’t have much time to see it if you did want to see it in real life. That is, of course, until Gritty visits us all on the evening of December 24th. And I guess in that case you should follow Marisa’s lead and leave out Kenzinger and yellow mustard topped Philly pretzels!

Check out our Summer 2018 interview with Philly street artist Marisa Velázquez-Rivas here!

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Source: https://streetsdept.com/2018/12/13/meet-old-saint-gritty-the-kenzinger-bearing-santa-that-philly-needs-and-deserves/

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Can South Philly Hold On to What’s Always Made It Unique?

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It’s our most famous neighborhood, defined by its immigrants and its characters, by intermingling (sometimes clashing) cultures — and by near-constant change. Where does it go from here?

The rapidly changing South Philly. Photograph by Adam Englehart

In the late summer of 1981, very much against my Catholic mother’s wishes, I had just moved into a rowhouse at 17th and Naudain — then the very bottom edge of Center City — where my new boyfriend lived. Mom, who’d recently been diagnosed with cancer, was coming for her first visit, reluctantly. The neighborhood was admittedly sketchy — most of Center City was, back then — but I was proud of our chic little home, with its new sofa and drapes and the garden planted out back. Mom knocked, I opened the door, and she peered past me into the narrow hallway.

“Oh my God,” she said, and not in a good way. “It’s just like Morris Street.”

That was where my mom grew up: 128 Morris Street, in the heart of South Philly. A hundred or so years ago, for reasons that are lost in the sands of time, Casimir Norvilas, a Lithuanian immigrant, moved there. He was still in his 20s, but he’d already lived an exciting life, having served in the merchant marine and fought Pancho Villa on the U.S.-Mexican border.

In Philly, perhaps calling on some leatherworking skills acquired on the horse farm near Vilnius where he grew up, he opened a shoemaker shop. He married a fellow Lithuanian immigrant, bought the house on Morris Street, and had three daughters, the eldest of whom was my mom.

The part of the city where he settled was traditionally a point of entry for immigrants. It was close to the docks where ships arrived from the Old World; those same docks provided jobs for laborers whose only skill was brute force. The first big flush of migrants to the city had been Irish, pried from their hearths in the 1840s by a potato blight that caused widespread starvation, killed a million people, and drove another two million to exit the Emerald Isle. The next was Italian, propelled by the “unification” of small city-states and the breakdown of the peninsula’s feudal system. Some seven million mostly Southern Italian peasants decamped for foreign parts.

The Morris Street house where the author’s mom grew up. Photograph by Michelle Gustafson

Since then, wave after wave of newcomers has inhabited the rowhouses of South Philly, on both the east and west sides of Broad Street — Southern blacks with the collapse of Reconstruction, Eastern European Jews starting in the 1880s, more Italians after World War II ended. Mexicans moved north under the 1942 bracero (“one who works using his arms”) program, and smaller tides of Cubans and Puerto Ricans and Vietnamese and Cambodians and Liberians landed here, too. South Philly was a place to gain a foothold, to begin anew, to build something from nothing for impoverished families from all over the world. Then your kids got the hell out.

That was what Mom did. She made her way to Girls’ High, which was then at 17th and Spring Garden, and after graduating went even further up Broad Street to Temple, where she met my dad. Together, they began a family and a series of successive moves away from South Philly, to Willow Grove and Glenside and finally bucolic Doylestown. They raised a solid middle-class clan of four kids and a dog on a third of an acre there.

Which is why, I think, the house on Naudain Street so unnerved Mom. When you’ve spent a lifetime trying to escape the past, it can’t be easy to realize that your child just cheerfully leaped back in.

That was the only time Mom ever visited me and Doug, who eventually became my husband. She died three months later. I’d like to think it wasn’t seeing the house.

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The workingman’s homes that make up Philly’s rows were built in the mid-to-late 19th century, as the city underwent rapid industrialization. But there were rowhouses even before that; witness the city’s oldest block, Elfreth’s Alley. William Penn envisioned his city filled with gracious single homes set amid green lawns, but it didn’t take long for speculators to slice up the blocks he laid out and eke the most from them by erecting rowhomes. The city was built atop clay, which is what you make bricks from, which is why the rowhomes were brick.

I have the vaguest memories of the house on Morris Street; Poppy’s shoemaker shop and the penny-candy place next door made more of an impression on me. I know this, though: Mom’s parents, like so many new arrivals here, found the fact that they were allowed to own land amazing. Slaves from the South and serfs from the Baltic States and paesani from Italy had all fled societies in which “real estate” belonged to the master or czar or king. To buy for yourself even the postage-stamp property beneath a rowhouse was a marvelous thing.

Which is one reason newcomers stayed put. “People would move to South Philly because it was close to jobs on the waterfront or in the garment factories,” says Bryant Simon, a history professor at Temple. “Then they created a culture that reminded them of where they were from.” They opened butcher shops and bakeries, planted grapevines in tiny backyards, built churches and fraternal organizations. They dug in, deep.

A window near 8th and Tasker. Photograph by Michelle Gustafson

Southern Italian immigrants, notes Penn city planning and urban studies professor Domenic Vitiello, had a particular pattern of migration: “They settled in groups of people from the same town. You could identify them — this block from this village in Abruzzo, this block from this village in Calabria.” Mexican immigration, Vitiello adds, would later follow this same pattern.

My mom’s mom’s sister, Adeline, married an Italian my grandfather fondly called “Goombah Jimmy.” We only visited Adeline’s house, on Wolf Street near Broad, for the Mummers Parade and the occasional funeral, but it stood out because it was so unlike anything else in my bland suburban life. People drank, hard; everyone was loud; the women and the food — Italian sausages, kielbasa and pierogies — smelled wonderful; and in an upstairs bedroom there hung the biggest painting I had ever seen, a full-size reproduction of Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, with all that bare-breasted flesh. Who could look away?

I went back to South Philly recently and checked out the house on Wolf Street. There were potted plants taking the sun beside the front stoop. Mom’s people were farmers at heart. She would have liked that.

I went to Morris Street, too, to see what was left of number 128. It looked good — the trim all freshly painted, a fancy ornamental door. There was a planter beside it, too. The houses on Mom’s row are tiny — under a thousand square feet, with two bedrooms and a single bath. Yet when she was a kid, her family took in a boarder to help with the bills, which wasn’t rare. A 1904 survey of the area from 8th Street to 9th Street between Carpenter and Christian showed that 41 of the 167 houses were occupied by three or more families. That’s a tight squeeze.

Bryant Simon says you can tell when a neighborhood gentrifies by the house numbers; newcomers prefer sans serif fonts. There’s a lot of sans serif on Mom’s block. Another clue: the four new three-story townhomes with garages and roof decks. They have three bedrooms and two and a half baths and, you can bet, one family apiece.

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Mom’s old house sold for $43,000 in 1995; today, its estimated worth is $218,985. The big difference between people buying in South Philly these days and those from the old days is that the latest arrivals don’t land here with nothing. They bring along advanced degrees and SUVs and Mitchell Gold sofas and IRAs.

Back in 2011, Kate Mellina and her husband, Dave Christopher, moved from Asbury Park to Philadelphia, where Mellina had grown up: “In the Northeast — St. Timothy’s parish. But my dad was from South Philly. St. Monica’s. You forget how Philadelphia is defined by its parishes.” The couple, both artists, were looking for an area that was “up-and-coming,” Mellina says, and they bought a house in East Passyunk, overlooking the famed Singing Fountain. “It was not quite as developed then,” Mellina says, “but you could see it was on its way.”

Not long after they moved in, one of the couple’s friends happened on a vintage photo album at Lambertville’s Golden Nugget flea market and recognized some famous faces posing with the grinning strangers inside: Bob Hope, Tony Bennett, Johnny Mathis, Liberace. On the back of the album was the photographer’s studio address, on East Passyunk Avenue. “Our friend knew we’d moved in around there, so he gave it to us,” Mellina explains. “He said, “Here’s your housewarming present — find out who these people are!”

Naturally, Mellina says, she started by showing the album to her neighbor, “Frank from around the corner, who’s been here forever.”

“Oh, that’s Palumbo’s!” Frank said.

“We were like, ‘What’s Palumbo’s?’” Mellina had never heard of the now-defunct nightclub at 8th and Catharine that hosted everyone from Sinatra to Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. back in the day. It started life as a boardinghouse for immigrants sailing from Italy; legend has it they’d arrive speaking no English but with signs around their necks that read PALUMBO’S.

Plenty of Palumbo’s stars were homegrown. South Philly’s rowhouses all looked alike on the outside, but they sheltered singular individuals inside. The roll call just of those who passed through South Philly High at Broad and Snyder is startling: Marian Anderson, Mario Lanza, Chubby Checker, Jack Klugman, Frankie Avalon, bandleader Lester Lanin, composer Vincent Persichetti, NBA founder Eddie Gottlieb, world heavyweight boxing champ Tim Witherspoon, mayor Frank Rizzo, boxing trainer Angelo Dundee … It’s hard not to feel optimistic in a neighborhood where just a few streets over, a Jewish punk named Eddie Fisher grew up to divorce Debbie Reynolds so he could marry Elizabeth Taylor. America. What a country.

“South Philly is a real neighborhood,” says Kate Mellina. “It’s a mix of people whose families have been here for three or four generations — in the same houses — and new people moving in with dogs and babies.”

Since the album was foisted on her, Mellina has visited senior centers and the local library in her quest to identify the non-famous people in its pages. She discovered that it had belonged to Arthur Tavani, a writer for a little local newspaper. “His sister was still alive then,” she recalls, “living in the same house they grew up in. She greeted me like a long-lost daughter.” Mellina also talked to Carmen Dee, who’d been the bandleader at Palumbo’s, which burned down in 1994. And she’s chronicled her efforts at a website, Unexpected Philadelphia, that lets you scroll through the photos in case there’s anyone you know.

“South Philly is a real neighborhood,” says Mellina. “It’s a mix of people whose families have been here for three or four generations — in the same houses — and new people moving in with dogs and babies. Everyone seems to get along. You take your lawn chairs out front in the summer, and people parade by with the kids and the dogs.” Asbury Park, she notes, actually was a small town — “but it didn’t have that small-town feel.”

The small town has gone big-time over the past decade. Townsend Wentz, Nick Elmi, Chris Kearse, Lou Boquila, Lynn Rinaldi, and Lee Styer and Jessie Prawlucki have all opened restaurants along this stretch of East Passyunk. The neighborhood has coffee shops, twinkly string lights, a British pie shop, and Artisan Boulanger Patissier. You’ll find dim sum and doggie boutiques, a retro typewriter repair shop, breweries and bike stores, not to mention a yoga studio that recently hosted a visit from an alpaca. It’s a freaking hipster paradise.

A block or so north, the paradise ends.

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Philly’s Italian Market, which stretches along 9th Street roughly from Dickinson to Fitzwater, started out as a Jewish market. It’s now mostly Asians and Latinos who run the iconic sidewalk stalls. To go from twinkly Passyunk Square to, say, Giordano’s produce stand just above Washington is sort of a shock. The market hasn’t gentrified. It still has flies in summer and burn barrels in winter, and wooden skids and flattened cardboard boxes are piled everywhere. (“That’s not real trash,” Bryant Simon teases when I raise the subject of the market. “They bring it out every morning so it looks like a scene from Rocky.”) It also has guys who pick out your tomatoes for you, thank you very much, and put them in a bag. The area is a good example of the challenges of gentrification. “How do you maintain the market while the neighborhood changes?” asks Simon. “That’s a delicate balance. Tourists can only buy so many vegetables.” Anthony’s Italian Coffee & Chocolate House has stood here for four generations. Now it has online ordering, and seasonal lattes like the Spring Fling and the Crème Brûlée.

There have been fitful efforts to start up a Business Improvement District for the market, so merchants can kick in to gussy things up. A few years back, Michelle Gambino, business manager for the South 9th Street Business Association, described her vision for the future, with organic foods and craft booths alongside the homely produce carts: “We’re hoping that the look will continue to be Old World, but just upscale.”

To add to the balancing act, New York developers have so far unveiled three iterations of an apartment building planned for the heart of the market, right at 9th and Washington, ranging from six to eight stories in height. The latest version has 157 units. Merchants and shoppers panicked when plans showed the driveway to the building’s underground parking right on 9th Street, where it will surely disrupt the market’s traffic and pedestrians. So much for Old World.

“There are two processes going on in South Philly right now,” says Bryant Simon. “Longtime residents are being displaced by new immigrants and by high-end creative-class people.” In other words, old South Philly’s getting squeezed from both sides.

The Italian isn’t the only market in South Philly. The busy commercial stretch of Washington between 6th and 16th earned the soubriquet “Little Saigon” thanks to immigrants who settled there after the Vietnam War. (Condé Nast Traveler once dubbed the area “Pho Row.”) The city’s Asian population has continued to grow, jumping by 42 percent from 2000 to 2010; Philly is now home to the East Coast’s largest population of Vietnamese immigrants. At Horace Furness High, near Mom’s old house, 48.5 percent of the kids are Asian.

In Little Saigon, too, change is coming. Developers have proposed new rowhomes and duplexes, plus parking spots, on the site of the Hoa Binh shopping center, which occupies almost an entire block at Washington and 16th. The current shopping center isn’t pretty. But neither are most newly built rowhomes, when you think about it.

There may be no better example of South Philly’s metamorphosis than what used to be the Edward W. Bok Technical High School at 8th and Mifflin, where neighborhood kids not bound for college once studied tailoring and plumbing, hairdressing and bricklaying. After closing down in 2013, the Art Deco building, constructed in the 1930s by Franklin Roosevelt’s Public Works Administration, was reborn as BOK, an urban playground with a roof-deck bar, boutiques, “maker spaces,” tattoo artists and, of course, yoga. “I think BOK is a fascinating symbol,” says Bryant Simon. “There are two processes going on in South Philly right now. Longtime residents are being displaced by new immigrants and by high-end creative-class people who value urban spaces and are knowledge workers.” In other words, old South Philly’s getting squeezed from both sides.

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We tend to think of “South Philly” as the Rocky world that’s east of Broad Street, but Point Breeze and Grays Ferry are South Philly, too. They were settled along familiar lines, first by European Jews, then by Italians and Irish, and finally by blacks driven west from their original stronghold in what had been farm country near 7th and South. There were race riots here in 1918, touched off when a black woman moved in; thousands battled in the streets. By the 1920s, according to a resident quoted in Murray Dubin’s South Philadelphia: Mummers, Memories, and the Melrose Diner, from Lombard Street to Washington Avenue between Broad and 20th was “solid black.” Still, racial strife bubbled up regularly. In 1997, then-mayor Ed Rendell had to negotiate a compromise with Louis Farrakhan to ward off a planned protest.

Today, Point Breeze is ground zero for Philly gentrification. The median housing price in the most gentrified section rose from $29,000 in 2000 to $234,000 in 2016, while the population of black residents changed from 80 percent to 46 percent. Bryant Simon, who wrote a book about Starbucks, says you can trace the spread of gentrification in coffee shops. He mentions developer Ori Feibush, who fueled Point Breeze’s gilding by opening OCF Coffee House at 20th and Federal “as a way of planting a flag. He was smart about that.”

Neighbors playing at 2nd and Porter. Photograph by Michelle Gustafson

For many residents of western South Philly, Feibush, who’s been building new townhouses everywhere, has become the face of black displacement. In 2015, he ran against incumbent 2nd District Councilmember Kenyatta Johnson in a bitter primary fight that stirred race into the already boiling pot of tax assessments and abatements and property values. Johnson won. In May, he introduced a bill that would ban from Grays Ferry and Point Breeze the balconies and bay windows featured on many newly constructed rowhomes — a pointed up-yours to Feibush and gentrification. The resentment is understandable.

Racism has a long history throughout South Philadelphia. “It would have helped if Frank Rizzo didn’t tolerate white resistance, or if there had been no redlining,” Simon says. Old photos of South Philly High show integrated sports teams as far back as 1918, and black and white cross-country runners in the ’50s with their arms draped around each other. But as recently as 2009, black students were beating up Asian immigrants. Following a boycott, a new principal, and a Justice Department investigation, matters have improved.

In fact, says Penn’s Vitiello, you could make the case that since the 1970s, South Philadelphia has been the city’s most successful neighborhood in terms of immigration: “A wide variety of refugees has found it comfortable and livable. There’s a wide variety of ethnic groceries, goods and services. The housing stock is still affordable. There are still plenty of absentee landlords who see new immigrants as an important source of income.” And many older residents, he says, “welcome newcomers in a very humane way. They appreciate that their neighbors are here just trying to raise their kids and provide for themselves.” It was former mayor John Street, he points out, who first established sanctuary protections in Philadelphia back in 2001, along with Irish-born police commissioner John Timoney.

“Change related to new immigrants is nothing new in South Philly,” Bryant Simon says. “It’s never been without tensions. Change is kind of perpetual there.”

To some extent, Vitiello says, politicians here have embraced immigrants because they know that without them, the city would be shrinking, not growing. He puts Michael Nutter in this economically motivated camp. But Jim Kenney, whose parents came to the U.S. from Ireland — and who grew up five blocks from my mom’s house, at 3rd and Snyder — “has consistently been more about treating people as humans, as neighbors,” he says.

At the same time, South Philadelphians, Bryant Simon points out, have always shown “a commitment to maintaining their turf.” Historically, this is the land of mobsters and payola, not touchy-feely empathy. “We make fun of yoga studios and deck bars serving IPAs,” Simon says, “and the identity that goes along with certain cultural practices.” But alpaca yoga isn’t South Philly’s big problem now: “The real tensions are over real estate values.”

On the positive side, he notes, “Change related to new immigrants is nothing new in South Philly. It was always a place of immigrants. It’s never been without tensions. Change is kind of perpetual there.”

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I used to live in South Philly. In 1988, Doug and I bought a little rowhouse near 20th and Snyder for $35,000. We were ready to have kids and wanted some stability. We were an odd fit for the neighborhood back then. There was nobody our age on our block; old people lived there, and their kids drove in from Jersey for Sunday dinner. One entire wall of our bathroom was mirrored; it became our daughter’s favorite part of the house. Once, when I was taking the bus into Center City with Marcy when she was two, a nun asked what parish we belonged to. “We don’t go to church,” I told her. “Surely you’ve had her baptized,” she said. I shook my head. She looked me dead in the eye and said, “Do you want your daughter to go to Hell?”

Most people, though, were nice to us. Johnny from the auto shop across the street would invite us in for barbecued deer during fall hunting season. In winter, we pushed the kids in strollers beneath rainbows of Christmas lights. In summer, there were walks to the water-ice stand and cooling showers from fire-hydrant sprinklers. The mobster’s mom down the block wouldn’t let her grandson come to Marcy’s birthday party, but she did show up afterward with excuses and a gift.

After six years, we got tired of chasing guys with guns off our stoop, of worrying that the kids would get hit by cars, of the endless litter and the fight to find parking. I longed for a real garden, not a couple of barrel planters. We escaped to the suburbs, just in time for Marcy to start school. We sold the house for less than we’d paid for it, to two Cambodian brothers. We always have been terrible at real estate.

Today, the house we dumped for $32,500 is worth an estimated $195,954. I go back to see it, for old time’s sake. The neighborhood is still dotted with bodegas and pharmacies and Chinese takeout joints, but there’s a new coffee shop that delivers through Grubhub. Our place looks tidy and kempt; there are a host of potted plants beside the front door, which is painted deep blue. The house numbers are a bougie font. The young woman who lives there now walks dogs for a living. We exchange emails, and I ask if the bathroom still has that mirrored wall. She LOLs. It does.

In nearby Girard Park, I pick my way through downed tree branches from a recent storm to view a plaque honoring Kenyatta Johnson for nabbing $600,000 in improvements to its drainage, benches and walkways. Within eyeshot of the house where a pipe bomb blew up Phil “Chicken Man” Testa in 1981, I join a woman sitting on a park bench with a little girl in a stroller. I smile and tell her my daughter learned to walk right in this park. She smiles back. “I’m the nanny,” she says.

A nanny. In Girard Park. It’s the beginning of the end.

Not so fast, says Vitiello. “South Philly is pretty big,” he points out, “and gentrification moves in waves. There are some indicators that suggest South Philly will keep growing, and others that suggest its growth will be slow and halting.” That means South Philly’s seemingly impossible balance of old and new, rich and poor, black and white and everything else, could endure. Large tracts here, Vitiello insists, should remain affordable for a long time to come.

Maybe so. All I know is, there’s new three-story housing going up across 20th Street from our old place, no doubt with garages and roof decks.

Oh my God. It’s just like Morris Street.

Published as “True South” in the July 2019 issue of Philadelphia magazine.

Source: https://www.phillymag.com/news/2019/07/06/changing-south-philly/

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Woman Raped at Gunpoint in University City

What to Know

The woman was attacked around 4 a.m. Saturday along the Walnut Street Bridge connecting Center City to the Penn campus.

Police said the woman had just gotten into her car when the suspect slipped into the passenger seat and pulled out a gun.

The suspect was last seen fleeing under the Walnut Street Bridge. Police spent hours searching for clues.

Police are looking for a man who they say raped a woman at gunpoint in the University City section of Philadelphia early Saturday morning.

The assault happened around 4 a.m. along the Walnut Street Bridge near World Cafe Live as the 38-year-old victim was leaving a party, University of Pennsylvania police said.

As the woman made her way to her car and got inside, she started looking for her purse, which is when a man got into the passenger seat, pulled out a gun and then raped her, according to police.

The suspect is described as a black male about 6 feet tall, with a goatee and a large build. Police say he is about 25 years old and was wearing a black hoodie and black pants at the time of the attack.

He was last seen running away under the Walnut Street Bridge.

The victim was taken to the hospital. Police say she has no connection to the nearby University of Pennsylvania, though university police are assisting the Philadelphia Police Department with the investigation.

Officers spent hours searching the area for clues. A K9 officer also swept the scene.

University and city police have increased patrols around the campus since the attack.

Students can also use the school's free, 24/7 walking escort service by calling 215-898-9255.

Source: https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Woman-Raped-at-Gunpoint-in-University-City-502842142.html

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Data Jawn organizers want your data analytics pitches

Organizers of Data Jawn, the yearly data analytics-themed event, have opened up a call for submissions of data-centric talks for its upcoming edition, happening June 12.

At the event, organizer Daniel Larson says, the mission is to keep putting the spotlight on the most interesting cases of data-related work happening in the Philly area.

“I hope to get submissions about people using data for social good, how data is being used across industries, and talks from students about projects they are working on,” said Larson, a data analyst and associate director of institutional research at Drexel University. “I am really interested in how data professionals are dealing with the topic of privacy.”

Like last year, the event is again looking to feature a diverse lineup of speakers. For the 2018 edition, it partnered with Meetup group Data Philly to broaden help its roster better reflect the city’s demographics.

“I am hoping to encourage first time presenters to submit talks as well,” Larson said. “If anyone wants feedback on their ideas before submitting, I am happy to provide some.”

Data Jawn first took place in 2015, as an initiative led by data analytics firm RJMetrics. Last year, it made a comeback thanks to a group of local data analysts from CompassRed, Stitch and Fishtown Analytics, with RJMetrics founder Bob Moore as emcee.

Here is one cool takeaway from the 2018 event: According to an analysis of 1.3 million tweets from around the country, Philly is one of the least positive-tweeting cities in America.

Pitch your talk

P.S. Looking for more avenues to put your work out there? Consider writing a guest post for Technical.ly.

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Source: https://technical.ly/philly/2019/02/18/data-jawn-analytics-pitches-philadelphia/

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PA Task Force-1 deploys ahead of Hurricane Michael

NORTHEAST PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) --

As they say, sometimes there is no rest for the weary.

Several of the members of Pennsylvania's Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue just returned from 19 days in South Carolina, providing relief to those affected by Hurricane Florence.

This time, 45 members are headed for Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama ahead of Hurricane Michael.

6abc's Dann Cuellar was there as the group prepared for the mission.

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