#Civic Works Real Food Farm

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Agritecture Design Workshop Fosters Community Revitalization in Baltimore via EcoFarm Model

Hello Fellow Agritecture Readers,

It is Team one's pleasure to share the experience our team had during the two-day Baltimore Agritecture Design Workshop. On day one of workshop, we were introduced to our respective interdisciplinary teams. Team one had a variety of professionals including a design architect, a landscaper, an engineer, a community organizer, and multiple entrepreneurs and students.workshop, we were introduced to our respective interdisciplinary teams. Team one had a variety of professionals including a design architect, a landscaper, an engineer, a community organizer, and multiple entrepreneurs and students.

After some light networking, the three teams engaged in a crash course of knowledge sharing on different topics related to vertical and urban farming. This session was primarily lead by experts at Blue Planet Consulting and by sponsors Hord Coplan Macht, Urban Pastoral, and Natural Concerns. included topics such as: the need of  urban agriculture in current conditions, a crash course on the economics, and even a talk on the local Church's efforts to realize East Baltimore’s revitalization.of  urban agriculture in current conditions, a crash course on the economics, and even a talk on the local Church's efforts to realize East Baltimore’s revitalization.as: the need of  urban agriculture in current conditions, a crash course on the economics, and even a talk on the local Church's efforts to realize East Baltimore’s revitalization.

VIEW DRONE FOOTAGE OF THE WORKSHOP CANVAS DESIGN SITE HERE

These talks were co-organized by Agritecture and by the event’s gold-level sponsor, BMoreAg. BMore Ag is a Baltimore based benefit LLC that is working to realize a community urban agriculture center in Baltimore. The teams were energized to know that our efforts and ideas at the workshop would contribute to actual plans that have been set in motion.

Yet at the same time, day one was a humbling experience to process so many well-rounded lessons on vertical farming techniques. We were feeling a bit overwhelmed about how we were going to use these insights on the fly for our workshop project.We brainstormed few ideas on how to design our project which is community centric, self sustain, bring Jobs to community and a model to be replicated for other community projects.

Below are Team one Participants:

Lisa Ferretto - Architect & Sustainability Director Esther Kim - Landscape Architecture Student Dan Feingold - Landscape Foreman  Martha Brown - Grower Kevin Stanley - Grower Julie Buisson - Entrepreneur/Horticuturalist  Abdul Samad K - Software Engineer Eyal Li - Student Crystal Forman - City Government & Urban Agriculture Community Organizer Bobby Cunningham - Urban Agriculture Lobbyist

Day Two:

During breakfast on the 2nd day we had one final short educational presentation on the +farm project, which is DIY project for anyone who wants to try on vertical farming techniques. After that wrapped up it was time to apply what we learned on day one during the workshop’s deep design dive.

Necessary facilities were allocated to each team to kick start their work. With Lisa from the architecture firm Hord Coplan Macht leading team one, we divided ourselves into groups to work on different sprints of project deliverables as part of our final presentation.

We first worked on values, our project should be centered and build upon:

1. Healthy food and well-being 2. Education 3. Employment 4. Sustainability 5. Community connection.

Once we finalized our team values, we started analyzing site map provided by organizing our team. Some of our team focused on how to use existing facilities, structures, onsite farm to its full potential before proposing new structures while other groups focusing on what crops to grow, marketing the concept, and formulating the project budget.

As the morning passed, our team’s enthusiasm grew. Our vision was coming together to transform the site into a space where the community can learn, grow and depend on healthy food and better lives. By the end of the allocated time, we had put together all the pieces for final presentation and preparing ourselves for tough competition with other teams.

With all respective dignitaries and judges seated, the teams were ready to pitch in their presentations.  The long day of hustling to prepare the best plan to revitalize and build community in West Baltimore was completed. It was now time for each team to present their pitch with different ideas on how to utilize site space efficiently, which crops to grow and how to make space self-sustain.

Team one presentation was started by Lisa Ferretto explaining site architecture:

Site Design

The “Perlman Place” site design focuses around a center gathering space upon which all other elements radiate out.  Pedestrian connections draw people into this center from Sinclair Lane, E. North Avenue, N. Collington Avenue, and N. Patterson Park Avenue.  Vehicular traffic travels one way north on Perlman Place with on street parking and traffic calming measures at the center. From this center “square,” one will encounter the Welcome Center-  the existing house on the site that has been renovated to include an entry lobby, retail grocer, sharing center, tool library, offices, and support spaces such as storage and restrooms.  The southern wall of this building will have a large mural that brands this new Perlman Place Community Ag Center and will be integrated with a new entry, windows and garage doors opening to an exterior gathering space off of the square with a covered pergola, picnic tables with an outdoor grill.

The new hydroponic farms consist of 2 buildings and total 25,000 square feet.  Photovoltaic (PV) Panels are on the roof and rainwater is collected on the south ends for irrigation of all the farms.  The west hydroponic farm is connected to the renovated house or Welcome Center, while the east hydroponic farm is connected to the new Learning Center. The Learning Center consists of 2 classrooms, one of which opens to an interior teaching kitchen, as well as support spaces include one office, restrooms, and storage.   This new classroom building will be net zero energy and water and the southern wall will have garage doors opening to an outdoor classroom area with an outdoor teaching kitchen.

A Memorial Garden (already in conception on the existing site) is to the east of the “Perlman Place” center and a Playground Garden is to the west – both with relocated fig trees to act as a buffer to the existing alley.  To the southeast of the center, are the Research Farms - 2 trailers that will demonstrate additional alternate farming techniques.  Community Gardens are in their existing location, but enhanced with collected rainwater irrigation and other support services.

The majority of the existing farms of Civic Works Real Food Farms are intended to stay and to be operated in collaboration with the new Perlman Place Community Ag Center.  A geothermal well field under these existing farms can efficiently heat and cool the new Hydroponic Farm buildings and potentially the new infill houses in the surrounding blocks.  The block along N. Collington Avenue is planned to stay residential with renovation of the existing houses as needed and new infill construction is planned to fill in the vacant gaps. Pedestrian connections are planned through the N. Collington Avenue residential block as well as the N. Patterson Park Avenue Real Food Farms block to tie back to the “Perlman Place” center.

Sustainability Considerations

Water – Rainwater Collection, filtration. 

Energy – Solar energy, Geo Thermal.

Circulation – People

Other team members explained different methods proposed to grow different crops, budget necessary to complete project,federal and state tax credits available.

Fresh organic produce grown year-round.

80% of produce is marketed to local markets and restaurants for profit.

20% is distributed to local consumers at a not-for-profit rate through churches, markets, and schools.

Campus education initiatives - green building and alternative farming practices.

Interactive learning activities in farming and cooking, specialized for children. Additional classrooms and outdoor space for community activities.

Long term work opportunities in technical positions

After answering few questions from Judges, we prepare to hear final decision which team presentation was selected, to our surprise Team one collaborative effort was selected for Cities West Baltimore Revitalization Project. We were thrilled and humbled to win the judges nod, but in reality, every participant was a winner. The experience was informative, productive and insightful, cheers to Baltimore.

Giving Back

The final highlight of the event was a very special moment, when a $1,500 check was donated to the Mary Harvin Transformation Center courtesy of M&T Bank. The Mary Harvin Transformation Center is a local community development corporation in Baltimore that supports youth and families with the goal of assisting them in their quest to move towards quality living. It was absolutely delightful to be a part of an Agritecture Workshop that connected, educated, and gave back to the city.

About the Authors:

Abdul Samad K, B.Tech Information Technology,MBA Systems is a Payments and solutions Consultant at Capgemini USA.  He has 10 Years of experience in developing Complex software legacy systems.Volunteer in New York CoderDojo Chapter.

LISA M. FERRETTO, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP is a Sustainability Director, Senior Associate, and Architect at Hord Coplan Macht.  She has over 21 years’ experience and has worked on a variety of project types throughout her career including community planning, housing, and education. She is a frequent lecturer, has volunteered with AIA COTE, the City Repair Project, and Green Building Task Forces. Lisa is a Climate and Green School Leader; SEED and Eco-Charrette Accredited; a MD Green Building Council member, founder of GREEN events | Baltimore, and was recognized as one of Maryland’s 2016 Top 100 Women.

Learn more about Agritecture Design Workshops: http://agritecture.com/workshop

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the other day when it was especially gorgeous outside kai and i got some food from this cafe place called bird in hand and i hated it but i recognize that it was high quality stuff and kai liked it a lot but anyways our shared email got this email from said cafe announcing that theyre partnering with Civic Work Real Food Farm as a CSA pick up location and like. thats kais job! she is singlehandedly partnering with all these places to make her farm's CSA more geographically diverse! she is the food marketting and outreach person! she she MADE the CSA! i love her!

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The Erasure of Rancho Los Amigos, and L.A.’s Public Health Care Story

At a time when societal inequity is heightened, places like Rancho Los Amigos Historic District remind us of our humanity and the importance of providing medical care to those who are most vulnerable. 

Yet, the road to health care in the United States and Greater Los Angeles is a complex story with highs and lows throughout history.

Communities have generally adapted, and our built environment evolved, in response to public needs—establishing new types of hospital facilities, zoning laws to ensure to fresh air and light access and separation of incompatible land uses, and sanitation infrastructure providing clean water and sewer systems.

Various health scares over the years have also left their physical imprint, whether it be the polio epidemic or tuberculosis (TB), both contagious and infectious diseases. The 1902 Barlow Sanatorium and Respiratory Hospital, for instance, provided patients with TB a slow recovery treatment centered on the clean, dry air of the West. Tucked in the Elysian Park neighborhood of Echo Park, Barlow continues today in its original location and historic bungalows, which are listed as an L.A. Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM). 

One of the oldest places representing local public health care is the currently endangered Rancho Los Amigos in Downey. From poor farm to a nationally renowned medical facility, Rancho’s campus tells the stories of the thousands of people who passed through their doors—people who have been traditionally marginalized and forgotten, including those with medical and mental health issues, and those who are elderly or experiencing destitution.

Today, Rancho Los Amigos (south campus) is threatened with nearly wholesale demolition, as the County seeks to fast track its effort to use portions of the site for a massive expansion of operations for the county and a Probation Headquarters. Please help us preserve this part of L.A.’s history before it is too late.

A Rarely Told Chapter 

 In Los Angeles County, the public health system traces its roots to 1878 with the opening of the first county hospital. Ten years later, the County opened a Poor Farm—later renamed Rancho Los Amigos.

The poor farm system was based on the simple idea to offer people experiencing destitution access to work, housing, and medical care. Throughout the U.S. various state and county administrations assumed this role and responsibility, especially prior to the establishment of the Social Security safeguard.

While some are unfamiliar with poor farms, there are many others for whom ‘ending up on the poor farm’ has negative connotations. One reason is that poor farms shared the County’s responsibility for treating patients with psychiatric diagnoses, something they were ill-equipped to handle. Poor farms established themselves as early examples of sustainable, self-sufficient living, with residents—then referred to “inmates”—providing the labor to run the agricultural operations, raising livestock and growing food. In many ways, poor farms were early forms of the American welfare system.

With its initial 124.4 acres of rural farmland, Rancho operated as a classic poor farm. As its medical operations and the number of people served grew, its agricultural roots and farming operation decreased. The farm became more of a convalescent hospital than a traditional county poor farm. In the early 1930s, the Poor Farm officially changed its name to Rancho Los Amigos (“ranch of the friends”).

Contagious outbreaks, now and then 

By the late 1940s and early ‘50s, the U.S. was experiencing a surge in polio outbreaks, including L.A. County. Like COVID-19, there was no known vaccine at the time for the infectious disease. Polio was also referred to as the “invisible enemy” with the virus spreading through person-to-person contact. Social distancing was employed, as were travel and commerce restrictions in hot zones.

The difference between now and then is polio primarily affected the young, children who could catch the virus and ultimately experience death or paralysis and a lifetime of crutches, wheelchair, or being placed in an iron lung (respirator allowing them to breath). During the summer season polio flared up with swimming and wading pools feared especially as transmitters for the virus. Concerned parents pressed on civic leaders to drain or fill in the pools. Today you can still find remnants of this remedy.

To address the growing epidemic Rancho adapted its focus in the mid-1940s and operation as a polio respiratory center, expanding to a northern campus and eventually becoming one of the leading post-polio respiratory centers in the world. By 1955 polio was finally addressed through a vaccine developed by Jonas Salk. Rancho would then slowly transform itself into a respected rehabilitation center.

Throughout its history, Rancho Los Amigos ebbed and flowed in terms of its operation, with a constant theme of overcrowding, expansion periods with new facilities, and evolving its focus and mission. It would grow to well over 500 acres in size and serve nearly 3,000 patients at its peak. By the late ‘40s, it was primarily operating as a hospital with minimal agricultural operations, prompting the selling off of the property.

Planned demolition of a historic district 

 By the early 1990s Rancho’s south campus was whittled down to 74 acres and effectively abandoned with most of its 100+ buildings vacant. For well over a decade, the Conservancy has been working closely with various County representatives in regards to Rancho and its future, with numerous reuse and redevelopment proposals coming and going. During this time Rancho has been listed on the California Register and determined eligible as a national historic district.

Without adequate security and maintenance Rancho has been allowed to deteriorate and buildings fall into accelerated disrepair. In recent years, contributing buildings within the historic district have been destroyed due to neglect, vandalism, and a recent spate of numerous arson fires.

The current deteriorated conditions and neglect which have occurred under the County’s stewardship are now cited by the County as a health and safety concern and justification for the proposed demolition of the historic district. Despite not planning to redevelop the entire site or impact all the remaining historic buildings, the County is planning to virtually demolish it all.

Under a new proposal by the County, the historic district would be lost; 105 structures and resources, including 61 historic buildings. Even buildings not impacted by the proposed project are planned to be removed with no meaningful alternatives, a failure by the County to adhere to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Overall, the project would retain just five contributors to the current historic district: the 1926 Administration Staff building;1930 Casa Consuelo patient; 1913 water tower; 1909-26 Power Plant building; and a Moreton Bay fig tree.

We strongly believe there is a “win-win” scenario available to the County where both preservation and new construction is possible. The opportunity exists to modify the County’s plans by pairing new construction with adaptive reuse, and a potential public-private partnership. 

Our job in preservation is to unpack and better understand our public health care past, and show how places like Rancho help make this story real and, if lost, so much more difficult to understand. If we do not stand up for the places and people that represent our public health care past and show us how we got here, we stand the risk of forgetting where we have been and how far we have come. 

Rancho Los Amigos and all it represents to our public health care past and present is deserving of a better fate than demolition. Help us convince the County that we can do better. 

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Group Meeting, 31 Jan

Meeting Minutes (recorded by Annie)

Logistics

Ethics form filled out

Left blank: section on research materials to be prepared

Informed consent forms

Participant information sheets

Interview schedules

Questionnaires

Free-form discussion

Algorithmic Food Justice Project

‘Ecological capital’

Methods of measuring ecological benefits?

What ‘matter’ matters to whom?

E.g. bees matter to Gemma; trees matter to Rosie’s dad

Systems rely on shared beliefs

Volatility of financial system (e.g. value of currencies dependent on public perception/attitudes, political status)

TRUST is key to these systems being upheld

Social mobility

Films: Joker, Parasite (Gemma)

Are there alternatives to government welfare?

‘community projects’?

Attract a particular type of person?

Can smart city tech be used to empower people to occupy many roles in society, as opposed to one determined, fixed role?

Book (re: predetermined roles in society): Anthem by Ayn Rand (Annie)

City as playground

1st week reading (Rosie?)

disjuncture between smart cities for corporate vs civic good

Social good evaluation of city as ‘fun’

Gentrification?

Measuring impact? How?

Ideas of play in the city (Rosie)

Piano stairs - encourage use of stairs

Talking bin - encourage use through fun interaction

Would redesigning everyday objects to be fun catalyse behaviour change?

Could contradictory solutions be the answer?

Gamification of values (Gemma)

Monopoly = capitalist values

Could we gamify other social values?

Libraries

Library of tools

Group trip?

Social media study of types of libraries?

Somerset house cooperative collective

Access to tools & facilities

Enabling small projects & innovation

Seed library

What kinds? Trace history and learn about diversity over time

Raising awareness-- things are not just the way we see them now

Alex’s light stories

‘Library of lights’ -- understanding meanings over time

Reuse

Freecyle = terrible website

Why? UI / IA / etc - design eval?

Could a connection between a ‘freecycle’ type website and real physical/material library precipitate a wider message?

Pain points: epic clearouts with moving

TIME is the limiting factor

Adherence to values through behaviours takes TIME and RESOURCES

E.g. veganism takes time & knowledge to cook and money to buy

Olio: food sharing app

Obnoxious adverts (inappropriate sexual references?)

How does it work? Do people pick up the food?

Trade programs / valuing waste

Algo. Food Justice participant: gave food in exchange for recycling, measured by weight

In Oregon, cash for recycling

In Germany, coupons for recycling

Extremely organised, incentivised

In these scenarios, people see waste as a resource

How can we transform wider public perception of waste as a resource?

Can we put the onus on corporations instead of consumers?

Flytipping everywhere - everyone piles on, legitimising practice

‘Social capital’ - Badrilliard (Rosie)

Art world, affluence

Anthropologist Marcel Moust, The Gift (Rosie)

North American society (Pot Latch?)

Burning stuff in ritualistic way

Alternative values of exchange, value, $

Gemma’s 1st blog post: social movement of trees empowering people

South London project in Greenwich -- Farmopolis

Reclaimed strip by Thames - old cargo

Also something similar in NYC

Wilderness festival! - nutrition, wellness, music

Wayward company - art, design, farming

Brownfield parks -- implications of ‘covering over’ old dumps & polluted sites?

Freshkills park (Joyce)

Tugman park, Eugene Oregon (Annie)

London garden bridge project; cancelled

Cancelled because of cost?

But what is the cost of NOT building these resources?

How do we quantify ecological & social value?

Does this rely on our definition of success?

‘We Live in an Ocean of Air’ exhibit, Saatchi 2019 (Annie)

Making visible the invisible symbiotic relationship with trees & plants

Does visibility = change in behaviours / policies?

TED talk on synthesis of air in 20 yrs time (speaker?)

Ice Cream exhibit (Rosie)

Visualising emotion

Article in HCID kitchen (Gemma)

Factories humanising employees & customers

‘The Rise of Surveillance Capitalism’ (Joyce)

People as data, not humans

Emotional AI surveillance implications

Game: ‘The Quiet Year’  (Joyce)

Concepts raised- follow up?

Philip Pulman books, Golden Compass (Rosie)

Particles of dust in air - create meaning?

Mushrooms & cannabis as revolutionary materials

Building materials

Food (minerals, proteins, etc)

Medicine (physical & psychological)

Album on Shutterstock about Hemp (Rosie)

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And public health officials are enthusiastic about how much faster they could get a single shot distributed, particularly in vulnerable communities that might not otherwise have access to a vaccine. “This is a potential breakthrough,” said Dr. Joseph Kanter, the top health official in Louisiana. With its first allotted doses, the state is holding a dozen large Johnson & Johnson vaccination events at civic centers and other public places, modeled after what has worked for flu vaccines. As Johnson & Johnson’s production ramps up over the next few months, Dr. Kanter said the shot would allow his state to slash costs for staffing and operations related to the second doses: “The J & J vaccine brings a lot to the table.” Judged by how well it prevents severe disease, hospitalization and death, the Johnson & Johnson shot is comparable to those made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. And although it has a lower overall efficacy rate in the U.S. — 72 percent, compared with roughly 95 percent for the others — experts say comparing these numbers is not useful because the companies’ trials were conducted in different places at different times. The Johnson & Johnson vaccine also can be kept at normal refrigeration temperatures for three months — ideal for distribution at nonmedical sites such as stadiums and convention centers. “There are circumstances in which it is going to be a really good option or maybe the best option,” said Dr. Matthew Daley, a senior investigator at Kaiser Permanente Colorado’s Institute for Health Research and a member of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s independent vaccine advisory committee. Only four million doses were shipped this week, and the company’s manufacturing lags mean that it will be at least a month before states start receiving significant supplies. Because of that gap, state officials are treating the first wave of doses as a moment to test different ways to deploy them. Patrick Allen, the director of the Oregon Health Authority, said that the first doses in the state went to a variety of settings, “to see if we learn anything from its use.” Those included mass vaccination sites around Portland, adult foster care homes and pharmacies not included in the federal government’s pharmacy program. Health officials will evaluate the success of each of those sites to figure out a plan for the larger shipments. Many state health officials said they were focused on getting the vaccine to people who might be harder to reach for a second dose, such as those who are homeless or on the verge of release from prison. In North Carolina, this category includes the mobile agricultural communities in the state with three- or four-week work seasons. Mandy Cohen, the state’s health secretary, said that large meatpacking plants in the state such as Smithfield and Tyson Foods were interested in the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and had been consulting with her department. And because the vaccine tends to have fewer side effects than the other options, it’s appealing to people who don’t want to risk missing a day of work to recover from chills or fever, she said: “There are a lot of folks who are like, ‘I’m much more interested now that you tell me I only have to get a shot one time instead of two.” “I don’t think it’s an inferior vaccine, and that’s why I’m taking it for myself,” said Ms. Cohen, who was scheduled to get the Johnson & Johnson shot on Friday. At small, independent pharmacies, the vaccine has caused a surge of excitement. Steve Hoffart, the owner of Magnolia Pharmacy in Magnolia, Texas, a small town outside of Houston, has received calls and emails from residents anticipating its arrival this week. He said he hopes to hold a Johnson & Johnson event for teachers on March 13. Schools in the area have struggled to find substitute teachers during the pandemic, and a vaccine that does not require a second visit and more time off was a significant development, he said. Tim and Joyce Staab, who live in Chillicothe, Ohio, a town of about 20,000 an hour’s drive from Columbus, were two of the first Americans to receive the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Both had general vaccine appointments scheduled for later in the week. But then they got notice Wednesday that an independent pharmacy near them had received 100 doses of Johnson & Johnson’s shot. Ms. Staab, 68, is hesitant about needles and liked the one-and-done approach. Mr. Staab, 67, said he thought the vaccine was a better choice for health providers like the pharmacy where he received it. “They don’t have the resources, I don’t think, to be dealing with really hard to store” vaccines, he said. States have been able to customize and tinker with distribution plans in part because the federal government did not issue prescriptive guidelines for where and who the vaccine should go to. This winter, as the Food and Drug Administration’s authorization of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine approached, federal officials involved in vaccine distribution pushed for the shot to be used in a more centralized way, either at large stadiums and mass vaccination sites run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or only in pharmacies, according to officials familiar with these discussions. But the White House preferred to allow states to tailor their own plans, as they had done for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines. Although health experts are enthusiastic about the potential public health benefits of the new vaccine, some also fear that the public’s interest will wane once vaccines become less scarce. If given the choice among brands, some people may reject Johnson & Johnson’s, seeing it as an inferior choice. At Black churches across the Mid-Atlantic region this winter, Darrell J. Gaskin, a professor of health policy at Johns Hopkins University and a pastor, and Rupali Limaye, a scientist at the university who studies vaccine hesitancy, have counseled and reassured hundreds of pastors and congregation members of African Methodist Episcopal Zion churches in virtual presentations, emphasizing the Johnson & Johnson vaccine’s safety and prevention of severe Covid-19 and death, including among the Black volunteers in the company’s trial. Dr. Gaskin said it was crucial for officials to emphasize the benefits of the vaccine at the beginning of its distribution, so people “don’t feel like there’s a luxury vaccine and then the non-luxury vaccine.” “We’re facing disparities related to Covid,” Dr. Limaye said. “How do we reduce disparities? We get a product out that’s one dose and that’s stable.” One of Dr. Gaskin’s church’s members, Patricia Cooper, a teacher in Washington, D.C., said that President Donald J. Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a vaccine last year and the label “emergency use authorization” suggested to her that the federal government may have rushed its reviews of vaccines, leaving her jittery about their safety. But she said she was eager to get a vaccine, especially Johnson & Johnson’s. “This one is more appealing to me,” she said. “Who likes to get stuck more than once?” But Mr. Allen, the Oregon health official, warned that using it in more specialized ways could contribute to skepticism about its quality. “If you start getting a little too cute about targeting its use, you maybe feed distrust potentially of, ‘Well, why am I getting that vaccine? And, I’m in this special population and people who aren’t in this special population aren’t getting this vaccine,’” he said. Federal health officials have promised a way to crack down on the Johnson & Johnson vaccine potentially being used in inequitable ways. Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, the chairwoman of the Biden administration’s new health equity task force, said at a White House news conference this week that distribution of the vaccine “should be even across communities.” “We will be tracking biometrics, such as ZIP code and social vulnerability, to see where vaccines are going,” she said. “And should certain vaccines go consistently to certain communities, we will be able to intervene.” Some state officials believe that pairing the new and old vaccines can help show that they are equally important. Mr. Allen said that Oregon was creating similar distribution plans for Johnson & Johnson and Moderna because both vaccines can be stored in refrigerators for the short term. The state is treating the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine as the one with “special considerations,” with its stricter shipping requirements and large packages of vials more suited to mass vaccination sites, he said. Managing the vaccines from Johnson & Johnson and Moderna in similar ways, he said, would help avoid “equity questions and potential concerns, based on perceived differences between the vaccines, some of which are real and some of which aren’t.” Source link Orbem News #Eager #Johnson #Johnsons #People #Vaccine

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A New Lease on Life 2: Death Was Only the Beginning

A quick note regarding dialogue and odd words: Symbols at the end of a word or statement mark vocabulary terms or references defined at the end. If a word is followed by a dash or ellipses, it's translated or defined at the end of the chapter. I try to define most of the stuff that's really odd, heavily altered due to pronunciation, and local slang that non-local readers might not pick up. If you see a - or ~ at the end of a SENTENCE, it means the sentence or paragraph has been 'explained' in the same way; this will become necessary once Amber starts letting her oddities (and going through crisis-induced 'relapse' speech which is heavily brogued) but the relapses aren't really a frequent occurrence until the end of Part I.

This chapter dedicated to Volunteers. You put your life on hold to bring life to others, all without any thought of compensation. My old community is one of countless forever changed by volunteers, from search and rescue to donations to rebuilding. Thank you…our debt to you can never be repaid enough. Also dedicated to the real-life inspiration for 'Aaron,' whom I owe my very life to.

MAJOR TRIGGER WARNINGS! Including but not limited to Tornadoes, Severe weather, Town destroyed by tornadoes and severe weather, shock, graphic imagery, corpses, violent death, mentions of religion.

Suggested Listening: Linkin Park "Iridescent"          

2: Death Was Only the Beginning                  

             Willsdale, Missouri, Sunday May 8th, 2011          

The sound of violent retching woke Amber with a start; sometime during the night she'd apparently fallen off the sofa and now lay sprawled on the carpet in a pile. As sleepy disorientation faded into exhausted annoyance, she glanced off to her right. Sure enough, the bathroom door hung wide open spilling bright light out into the cramped hallway. "Good thing ya got short hair, Willis," she muttered, crawling back on the lumpy sofa. "I ain't gotta feel guilty 'bout not holdin' it back for ya."

"Fuck you, O'Brien—" her friend's guttural retort was interrupted by another round of heaving.

"I told ya that whisky'd kill ya," she reminded matter-of-factly as she swiped a long brown braid back over her shoulder. "Yer usual beer's water compared to Scotch whisky; smells like goat piss, too." Clutching her stiff back, she stumbled off the sofa and limped into the tiny kitchen seeking coffee. A note tacked to the fridge told her their host had already headed to work, and the bitter perfume of coffee filled the dog-scented air. As she dug through the cabinet for a mug a tiny, half-blind and completely neurotic black and tan Chihuahua danced at the back door, growling and barking at her. "Quiet, Nina—Uncle Aaron's hungover." Not surprisingly the dog simply snapped and growled again, then scattered when Amber came to open the back door.

"Let the damn thing out!" Aaron groaned into the toilet. "My head's KILLING ME!"

"Again, not my fault - I tried'a warn ya." Since Nina wouldn't willingly come within several yards of anyone but Ma Willis, Amber propped the back door open and returned to the coffee maker, grinning when the neurotic dog rocketed out the back door like the vet was on her heels. The door shut and her mug set up, she took a cup of water and a bottle of Mtn Dew in for Aaron. "Why on Earth your cousin thought gettin' you drunk was a GOOD idea, I'll never know."

"Oh, come'ere you sweet, beautiful bitch!" Aaron rasped; knowing he didn't mean her, Amber shoved the soda at him and left, laughing under her breath. Some things never changed, and his Mtn Dew addiction was among those things. So too, she contemplated with a crooked grin, was the way the three best friends got along by harassing one another.

The Terrible Trio started with Amber O'Brien, only daughter of a Scottish immigrant and completely unable to fit in with the locals even after she took on their twang. It quickly became a duo with the inclusion of Mercy Ross, a bristly beauty with an affinity for cows and a horrible homelife. Then in High School the two odd friends met Aaron Willis - a son of a local and the very definition of a Country Bumpkin. Years went by and the three friends only grew closer, grew more obnoxious toward one another, and grew into a fixture in town. Even after Aaron's family left Willsdale for nearby Glenville after Graduation, they still kept close contact until he moved into a double-wide trailer near Amber's home.

Supposedly Aaron Willis was completely disinterested in love, sex, and the like - he'd never shown any interest in anyone and spent years oblivious to Amber's puppy love crush on him - but deep in her heart Amber was sure he'd never be attracted to her even if he weren't apparently asexual. That ship, after all, had long sailed...she wasn't the sort to pine after someone who couldn't return her feelings and it became clear in time that they would have been horribly suited. Still, even if romance was an option, Amber was sure she wasn't Aaron's 'type' - she was plain, barely 5'3, and morbidly overweight. Her brown hair started going grey in her teen years—supposedly a hereditary thing—and she couldn't walk a straight line if she was paid to. Love had never been in the cards for her, and ever since she was hit by a van during college, neither had meaningful work.

'God almighty, quitcher whinin' O'Brine!'- she reminded herself fiercely. 'I'm alive, I'm not dyin' in an RCF, I've gotta roof over my head, food in my cabinets, an' two kickarse friends. Things could be so much worse than monthly booty calls, sexual frustration, an' an end-table ass.' Mid-rant Aaron collapsed at the rickety wooden table, burying his head in his arms.

"Please tell me Ma left donuts," he mumbled.

"Nope, just pizza," she grinned, poking his springy blond curls. "Your favorite…but it's got pickles on it."

"Sacrilege!" he spat rushing to the fridge. "She didn't—she wouldn't!" A moment later he slanted a suspicious glare at her over the rims of his glasses, his off-kilter blue eyes narrowed. "Quit pickin' on the hungover person. Pickles on pizza…you need yer head checked."

"We a'ready know that, Sugar," she grinned, snagging an éclair from the box. "Thanks for the YouTube footage, by the way: 'Drunkard milks bull,' sure to be a hit."

"I WHAT?!" he squawked. "Oh, HELL NAW! You post that an' I'll piss in your garden! On your roses!" The two friends bickered good-naturedly for the rest of the morning, never realizing that their world had changed forever.

Hours later Amber's beat up Red Civic pulled up to an empty driveway…a driveway with no standing building behind it.

Once Aaron's hangover had abated they'd returned to Willsdale, blasting Quiet Riot and Black Sabbath the whole way. As they crept over the city limits, though, the now silent car deafened the occupants stunned by their surroundings. It wasn't quite sinking in…how could so much have happened in one weekend?

The once-bustling small town was nearly gone, and what was left in its place could only be described as a war zone. Vacant cars lay crumpled along the road between downed utility poles. Fallen, splintered trees littered the landscape. There was debris everywhere—hanging in trees, pinned under fallen structures, blowing along the ground—Amber never even noticed tears streaming from her eyes or murmured reassurances from Aaron. Every structure they passed was demolished, every landmark they knew was erased. The power station, the cemetery, the house always surrounded by suicidal free-range guinea hens...all that remained was rubble-strewn dirt and asphalt. She knew what she'd find there, and she hated to see it, but before she knew it, she'd pulled into her own driveway.

Her house, the tiny shotgun shack she'd lived in for years, was reduced to a pile of timber and siding, her struggling garden buried under a ton of shattered brick and shingle.

"Amber," Aaron called repeatedly as she wandered from her car to what was once the front step. "Amber, wait!" She shook her head deliriously as she dug frantically through the debris pile over the porch; in her shock-addled mind, all she could think of was getting inside and curling up on the sagging plaid couch. It never even registered that not only was the sofa probably ruined, the house itself was no longer standing. Cursing, Aaron scrambled over fallen timber and fractured supports to tear Amber away from the ruins.

"No!" she cried frantically, fighting to get free. "It's my home! I've gotta—"

"AMBER!" he shouted, framing her face in callused hands. "Amber, it's gone! You're gonna hurt yourself if you keep this up!" Memories flashed before her eyes, blocking out the familiar blue eyes staring into her own. Without warning, dry, chapped lips met hers fiercely as strong arms held her like she was about to be ripped out of them. When he finally let go, she buried her face in his shoulder, sobbing brokenly as they slid to the sodden ground. As if mocking them, the clouds broke open anew; thunder rolled, lightning flashed, and torrents of rain mingled with hopeless tears.

             Sunday, May 15th, 2011          

Over a week later, Amber and Aaron were still sheltered at City Hall with countless other refugees. Neither had a home to go to, now, and Aaron wasn't able to get word out to his mother with the phone lines and cell towers down. Though he didn't understand, Amber wouldn't contact her family - her mother and father, or even the cherished and gruff grandparent she affectionately called "Gran'Da," insisting it was pointless. With every tearful story and gut-wrenching news report on the radio, the truth became clearer. The night after they drove up to visit his mother an EF 5 tornado spawned outside of town. By the time it fizzled out, it had destroyed much of the town, many of the outlying farms and homes, and left hundreds dead or homeless. Amber's home was gone, Aaron's home was gone, and no one could get ahold of Mercy Ross; Aaron worried what this might mean, and heaved a weary sigh.

Search and rescue teams descended on the ruined town with a vengeance early on, working their way through it with military precision. Everywhere, codes had been spray painted on crumbled structures and vehicles. How many survivors, how many dead, what hazards were present…just overnight, Amber's life had become an endless parade of neon x's, scribbled codes, and body bags, interspersed with canned soup and crying children. Every hour of every day it rained more and more, and Amber sat in a quiet corner staring blankly at the wall.

Aaron Willis watched her forlornly as he helped hand out bottled water. She'd been afraid of storms longer than he'd known her and he was used to witnessing anxiety attacks over the smallest rainstorm. Now, though, now she seemed almost empty and never spoke. Something was dreadfully wrong with his friend, but he had no idea what he could do. It was heart-rending to see her so dull and lifeless. Worst of all, he'd kissed her—finally given in to his years-old hidden crush and kissed her—but for whatever reason, she didn't realize the significance. She probably thought he was just trying to comfort her, he reasoned darkly, absent-mindedly crushing an empty bottle into nothing. Frustrated and helpless, he threw himself into making himself useful in any way he could and making call after call that never went through. When the rain finally let up that afternoon, unbeknownst to the rest, Amber left her corner and slipped away.

At first, she just wandered aimlessly, hopelessly lost in the town she'd spent her whole life in but following some lure only she saw. Everything was changed, everything was gone, but she felt nothing at all. Surely she should be feeling something, she thought blandly as she walked past a bloodstained, crumpled truck wrapped around a tree. Surely the horrors around her and the circling vultures should be jarring at the very least.

A battered wooden sign came into view as she crested the hill. Though most of the letters had been stripped off by rain and grit and the building behind was half-toppled, she knew without a doubt where she was. After all, she spent the last several years scrubbing the school from top to bottom every weeknight; she'd know it with her eyes closed. She drifted through the shattered glass doors in a daze, scanning the trashed hallways without notice. Her feet led her to the library and a familiar shelf she'd spent her teen years reading top to bottom. Debris was brushed aside halfheartedly until she found her target.

Dark of the Moon. It was a poetry volume long out of print and rarely found outside of libraries, and while she was a student, the book spent more time in her backpack than on its shelf. Such a shame for such a wondrous book to be lost forever, she thought hollowly as she gently leafed through now fragile pages.

Movement out the window caught her eye; thunder rolled, clouds menaced and a jagged grey tear loomed overhead. Off to the southwest was the monster she'd feared most of her life, and it was heading her way. The numb woman watched the horizon in disinterest, uncaring of the strange disembodied ticking sound or the sudden feeling of calm that washed over her. Rain pelted the cracked glass windows and wind howled, kicking up clouds of debris from the already battered landscape. A deafening, grinding roar like a fork in a disposal shattered the air as the tornado drew nearer. Amber stared it down never flinching as her ears ached from the pressure.

Perhaps...perhaps this was her only choice - the only way she'd ever find peace. If she was in her right mind, she would be horrified by the thought...but she wasn't in her right mind at all. That foul monster stole her home, stole her town, stole her very life, but there was one thing it would never steal…

Heedless of the broken glass underfoot she dropped to her scarred, aching knees. Head bowed, she prayed—prayed for the safety of her friends and family, prayed for the souls of those touched by the tornadoes' destruction, and prayed for peace in the afterlife. The window exploded inward and shattered glass rained over her head but her only regret was that she'd never found a love worth living for.

A bedraggled team searched the school for survivors. "HEY!" shouted the tall black man as he clambered toward the woman kneeling before the shattered windows. He checked Amber's neck but recoiled at the bloody wound at her forehead; the body was long grown stiff and she had no pulse. "Why on earth did you come here?" he wondered aloud. "Why didn't you seek shelter?"

A block of cloudy green glass lay nearby, the corner stained with blood - a glass brick. Her cold corpse told a vile story of a woman in shock who was taken by surprise and died from head injury, and showed plainly what happened when humans pitted themselves against nature. At least, the man considered with a grimace, it was likely quick - she died on her knees, possibly praying for her life, but at least she didn't suffer.

His brown-haired companion noticed the book cradled in her arms and wrenched it free, wincing at the way the body fell to the floor from the motion. The book's title wasn't ringing any bells. "It's a shame," the first-responder remarked as they eased the stiff body into a black bag and zipped it closed. Someone would come by later on and cart her to the morgue with the storms' other casualties for identification. "This book clearly meant something to her, though - she thought it was worth dying for. It'd be a pity to leave it behind when the building will just wind up razed." Moments later the team had moved on, a neon orange code on the tiles of the front entryway Amber's only memorial.

             A vast, dark place somewhere beyond Time

            'Wha…where am I?' Amber thought distractedly as she scanned her surroundings. The last thing she remembered was a book…what book? Oh, right; Dark of the Moon, that poetry anthology that she'd coveted for years. Why did she covet it, though? Was it not hers? No matter how she tried, the details of her life were slipping away like grains of sand through her fingers.  

   She existed in a vast expanse of bleak, black nothingness, her only company the incessant ticking of a legion of unseen clocks. How did she get here? She couldn't recall—everything was a blur! Confused, she wracked her brain for answers that continued to evade her. In a deeply engrained stress habit, she reached to pull one of her twin braids over her shoulder, intent on tugging at the loose tuft at the end.  

   Nothing happened. Though she knew she'd moved and her brain had sent the proper signals, she had no braids—no hands—no body! 'What's happened to me?!' she thought frantically. 'Did I…no, it can't be…I didn't…die…?' She trailed off, her uncertainty solidifying into begrudging realization. 'I'm dead. I'm farkin' dead. Well, this sucks. But if I'm dead, why'm I so alone? This place is dead even for the Afterlife. Unless…' Not for the first time, she wondered if her beliefs hadn't been rightly placed. If there was no God, no Heaven or Hell, then where was she? Of course, she reasoned, if that was true, why was she even conscious that she existed? Without a body of her own, how could she exist?

Unbidden, familiar words filled her memory in between ticks and tocks.

This is the vestibule to Hell, where those who would make no choices in life are condemned. Neither warm nor cold, believers nor blasphemers—you see them in the hills. They chase a banner they will never catch.

'Of course,' she realized bitterly. 'Inferno—Niven and Pournelle's take on Dante's Divine Comedy. I read that danged book to tatters, an' it never e'en occurred to me. I must be in the vestibule in a lil' bronze jar. Great….at least my fat arse finally fits in a 'one size fits all' container.'* But if I'm in a jar, that means I can get out!' Focusing with all her strength, she repeated the phrase that had been Allen Carpenter's saving grace. 'Fer the love'a God, get me out'a here!'  

   If she hadn't been stuck in a little bronze jar in Hell, she'd have heard crickets; instead, she only heard the maddening ticking sounds. Amber winced, going over the phrase again in case she'd misspoken; maybe her would-be rescuer had passed her by over rudeness? 'Um…please?'  

   Her tiny empty world was sucked into oblivion as she hoped against hope that she wouldn't wake up at the feet of Benito Mussolini.** 

Translations

- "Quitcher whinin' O'Brine!" - 'Quit your whining, O'Brien!'

Up next: "One Life Ends, Another Begins"

                     Notes:        

*Amber calling herself fat is a self-defense mechanism—an unhealthy one. It's always much easier to call yourself fat and insult your own behind, for example, than to hear someone say the same thing about you. Remember, real beauty isn't dependent on your waist, your hips, your butt, or any other impermanent BS like that.

**Waking up at the feet of Benito Mussolini. This is a reference to Niven and Pournelle's book Inferno. When Carpenter found himself out of his little brass bottle, he woke up at Benito's feet staring at his own navel, convinced it was the most beautiful sight he'd ever seen. You really should read the book regardless of that scene—it's a hoot!

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$36,000 in a week: How local news partnered to fight hunger and poverty in Philly

The belief that Philadelphia is the greatest city in the world stems from a civic pride rooted in innovation. Our reputation as a “city of firsts” spans disciplines and transcends industry.

But Philly’s position at the front of the pack isn’t always something to celebrate. Right now, a bigger percentage of our residents live in economic hardship than in any other large U.S. city, and the number of people experiencing hunger here is rising, even as it declines nationwide.

Can we harness the city’s innovative spirit and use it come up with solutions that attack these pervasive problems?

That’s what we asked with the Full City Challenge, an initiative launched this year by the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia in partnership with Billy Penn. And after seven months of planning, six weeks of applications, a daylong workshop and an exhilarating two-hour pitch party at the end of February, it’s clear the answer is a resounding “Yes!”

It took an impressive collection of Philadelphians to reach that conclusion:

Self-starters willing to envision new pathways, and put in the work to feel them out

A diverse cohort of leaders willing to volunteer time and expertise

Sponsors and individuals willing to donate actual cash and services to the cause.

Thanks to all these groups working together, the first-ever edition of the Full City Challenge mobilized $36,000 in philanthropic funds — and we’re not done yet.

$5,000 grand prize $2,650 raised on GoFundMe

When Oscar Wang began speaking, a hush came over the room. Gathered at Green Soul restaurant for the Full City Challenge main event, 120 party-goers stopped chattering and turned their heads to listen.

A recent college graduate himself, Wang stood on stage and invited the audience to consider the tale of a local student struggling with an unfortunately common choice: keep up with his studies, or maintain the fast-food job he’d taken to help his mother pay for insulin.

“Instead of having to choose between being a learner or an earner,” Wang told the crowd, “we want to create a new paradigm: the learning earner.”

HospitalityTogether can make that happen, Wang declared.

His five-minute pitch had been honed during a rapid incubator held at the University City Science Center. In a meeting room at the Quorum gathering space, Wang and his partners — restaurateur Judy Ni and admissions expert Dustin Rodgers — had examined and re-examined every inch of their proposal.

Danya Henninger / Billy Penn

The set of advisors assigned to the group included representatives from the Philadelphia Foundation, USALA radio and Wharton Social Impact. As the experts provided guidance and suggestions, the HospitalityTogether team refined their presentation on the spot.

“We gave Oscar some feedback,” marveled Phil Fitzgerald, director of grantmaking at Philadelphia Foundation, “and five minutes later he’d incorporated it into a brand new pitch.”

One week later, the refinements to the spiel — in which Wang was tasked with explaining the problem, the solution, the methodology and the outline of a pilot test program within the span of just 300 seconds — proved out their worth.

“Who is that guy?” whispered United Way chapter head and Broad Street Ministry founder Bill Golderer, taking in the scene as one of the six local food celebs on the Full City Challenge judging panel. During the post-presentation Q&A session, Golderer piled on the compliments.

“Forget about Tony Robbins,” he told Wang, comparing the young man to one of the country’s most successful marketing speakers. “You’ve got this.”

$2;500 matching prize $12,900 raised on GoFundMe

Poised speechmaking goes a long way toward convincing people that your social impact project is worth putting money into, but it isn’t everything.

That became apparent when the judges convened to pick their winner. Ensconced in Green Soul’s mezzanine private dining room while everyone else mingled downstairs, the half-dozen local food luminaries debated the qualities of the five inspirational projects they’d just been presented.

Each project had already proven itself by being designated a Full City Challenge finalist, besting dozens of other praiseworthy projects in the process.

Although the purse we dangled wasn’t all that big, we also offered the winner advice, exposure and strategic assistance in implementing a pilot.

Danya Henninger / Billy Penn

“Be sure to make that clear,” advisor Megha Kulshreshtha of Philly Food Connect had suggested in an early steering committee meeting. “List out the nontangible benefits. This is a lot more than just the $5,000.”

Good advice. Thanks to help in spreading the word — by the Broke in Philly reporting collaborative, by Economy League board members, and by others across the city — the combo of funds and assistance was enough to garner more than 30 submissions to our call for new ways to use the city’s rich food economy to lift up Philadelphia.

It wasn’t easy to narrow the field. Reviewing the contenders, we returned often to one of our original charges: that the project should rely on collaboration.

Why’d we deem that critical? There’s already a lot of good work going on in the city, so creating new cross-discipline or cross-community or cross-generational connections might be just the thing to spark fresh ideas.

Danya Henninger / Billy Penn

Perhaps none of the Full City finalists exemplified that concept better than the Rebel Market, a team comprising three organizations that had never before worked together.

“We’d heard of Siddiq [Moore, of Siddiq’s Water Ice] before,” said Rebel’s Jarrett Stein, “but this is what caused us to finally reach out.” They also tapped Tom McCusker of Honest Tom’s Taco Shop, and the trio joined forces to come up with a plan for a healthy, affordable corner store run by Philly students, for Philly students.

At Green Soul, the collaborative spirit proved infectious. Rebel’s proposal received serious consideration from the judges — and scored thousands more in GoFundMe donations over the course of the night.

Victory V Farms

$8,225 raised on GoFundMe

Philly Food Rescue

$2,750 raised on GoFundMe

Care About Restaurant Employees (CARE)

$2,875 raised on GoFundMe

Kait Moore Photography

Crowdfunding plays a growing role in modern philanthropy, and GoFundMe was an integral part of the Full City Challenge.

During the rapid incubator a week before the main event, a GoFundMe coach flew in from California and worked with each of the finalist teams to set up a campaign page. Along the way, she imparted lessons applicable to many kinds of individual fundraising. (Use lots of photos! Start by telling people you know! Set a small, attainable goal and grow it as you go!)

The resulting campaign pages, which went live the day after the workshop, provided a way for party-goers to vote in real-time: whichever team had raised the most by the end of the night would be awarded the People’s Choice prize.

But it’s not easy to convince a room full of strangers you’ve got an idea worth funding — even if you know they’ve come specifically to hear your pitch.

On stage at Green Soul, Frank Sherman of Victory V Farms struggled somewhat to give voice to the salient points he’d used multiple times before (the project already has some big money investors behind it). His loss for words notwithstanding, the idea to turn abandoned buildings into vertical farms that produce food for and employ neighborhood residents still raked in thousands of dollars on the crowdfund platform.

When it was her turn to present, Philly Food Rescue’s Victoria Della Rocca started with a wry twist on a classic Philadelphia phrase: “We the people…are hungry!”

Kait Moore Photography

As her spiked heels deftly navigated a tangle of microphone wires, Della Rocca spoke clearly and forcefully about building out a tech platform that connects volunteers with restaurants and supermarkets to solve the last-mile problem of getting fresh food to hungry Philadelphians.

“Is this about not wasting food, or about feeding those in need?” one of the judges wanted to know. “It’s about creating more dignity and access for those in need,” she replied.

Maria Campbell, the one-woman force behind CARE, got so wrapped up in explaining the issues facing the people who work in hospitality — the 130,000-plus workforce in the Philly region faces much higher rates of depression and disease than other industries — that she only made it halfway through her prepared pitch.

“Ask about her pilot program,” the judges were charged as they started their Q&A.

Philadelphia International Airport MarketPlace PHL PIDC

Green Soul University City Science Center CIC Philadelphia GoFundMe

Saxbys  Woodrow’s Sandwiches Di Bruno Bros. Pure Fare Evil Genius Beer Quaker City Shrubs

As the judges tallied scores and debated contenders’ merits, serious queries traded time with jokes ping-ponging around the table.

“I want this one because it’s gonna save me money,” said Han Dynasty proprietor Han Chiang. “But does this program replicate what’s already out there?” another judge wanted to know.

Danya Henninger / Billy Penn

On the official scoresheets, having a clearly defined pilot was given extra heavy weight for a couple of reasons.

One, it could jumpstart a test-and-learn culture, the modern business model where fast-failing ideas are viewed as useful tools. Second, the Economy League and Billy Penn only had $5,000 to offer — not enough to fund any of these projects fully, but surely enough for a small trial.

How will that trial play out for Full City Challenge grand prize winner?

Stay tuned to our coverage. You’ll get a front-row seat as we help HospitalityTogether help Philadelphia live up to its potential as the greatest city in the world.

Source: https://billypenn.com/2019/03/10/36000-in-a-week-how-local-news-partnered-to-fight-hunger-and-poverty-in-philly/

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Emotional Endings

The last five days have been CRAZY. We left our house! The house we built together. The house we became 5. The house these two goobers grew, learned, and bloomed in their personalities. We started a farm here! Our chaotic house. We learned what we are skilled at: chickens and goats, and what we aren't good at: non-castrated sheep. We spent the last two days driving. We drove from 4am Sunday until 11pm. Of course we had breaks in between, ate some food, lots of gas fill ups, and constant potty breaks. Let me paint a picture for you... Imagine being in a car with three kids (6, 5, and 2) driving across 4 states. Then add two cats in separate carriers. Then add two goats in the back in crates. Then add a 6x12 trailer hitched onto the back! Then put yourselves in-between a 26foot U-haul hauling a truck, and an RV hauling a civic. CRAZY INSANE NONSENSICAL. The first day was utterly exhausted. Not only was it tiring getting up at 3am, but I already started feeling sick the day before. So now Im driving to Colorado with a full cold, stuffy and runny nose, sore throat, cough, headache, plugged ears.  The kiddos watched movies, played games, read books. I didn't fully think about downloading Audible until halfway through the day. It was a fantastic idea. I finished a book this morning and was able to enjoy the amazing mountain views much better than than yesterday! 

Tonight is our first night in our (temporary) Colorado home. They're seriously hysterical! They left us a gift basket with Colorado swag, bubble guns for the kids, and lots of candy! We have the entire basement which includes two rooms and a bathroom. So far we’ve felt nothing but welcome and like we've known these people for more than 6 hours. We had a Chick-fil-a picnic in the kids room and now were resting outside.  My fingers are swollen, I already feel dehydrated because you need to drink SO MUCH MORE water here, but it will all work out. Well get used to the altitude (usually takes around 3 months for your red blood cells to catch up). Looks like we will be moving Friday. We may go to a museum, tomorrow we will be heading to our new house so I can at least see the outside, and well be joining a family dinner Thursday here.  The air smells nice here. It feels fresh. It isn't cold, but the air is crisp and feels so comfortable. I am already missing people back in California, having a tough time wrapping my head around the fact that this is for real happening, and that were here not just on vacation. Sometimes it feels too good to be true. I can't wait to just be in our new home, settle in, and continue this new adventure. 

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How "Plant" Is Designing The Future Of Food And Education

CONTENT SOURCED FROM FORBES

Karim Giscombe is one of those quiet revolutionaries. Meeting him in the exclusive Spring Place members club in Tribeca in NYC, he cuts an unassuming figure, stylish and low key. He speaks with a measured intensity, his eyes watching you to see if you’ve understood the full gravitas of what he is attempting to do.

This former Bank of America Merrill Lynch director (his LinkedIn Profile calls himself a ‘reformed capitalist’) has embarked via his new venture Plant on a crusade to feed the world (using the power of schools, technology and branding) and create a new category which he dubs ‘Agriculture as a Service.' When asked why he’s doing it, his response is simply, “Everybody’s gotta eat.”

Karim Giscombe

First some context: The global demand for food is rising exponentially and will reach all-time highs by 2050 as the population approaches 10 billion people - and agriculture is not prepared for that. There are many efforts underway aimed at potential solutions and Controlled Environment Agriculture (indoor farming as it most commonly labeled) is taking center stage because of the many benefits of this growing process. If the goal is to find the balance between resources and production, right now it seems clear that the future of food must be indoor, local, energy efficient and infinitely scalable.

The business of food is changing and forcing the incumbents to respond to the new dynamic.  Amazon acquired Whole Foods, while in Europe Tesco and Carrefour have launched a NATO-style alliance to increase purchasing power, Dell Computer has partnered with vertical farm operator AeroFarms to better understand crop data, and Wendy’s recently announced plans to only purchase greenhouse grown tomatoes beginning in 2019. Other notable mentions include moves by industry leaders such as Tyson Foods, Bayer, Hormel, and Nestle.

Investment has also gained momentum seeing the opportunities, with names like SoftBank, Google Ventures, and KKR placing big bets on the future of agriculture. William Blair & Co. has dubbed it “the AgTech Revolution” and Goldman Sachs has said the growing market may be worth $240 billion by 2050.

Giscombe and the team at Plant are taking an innovative approach looking at under utilized land in and near city centers and applying cutting-edge technology to modernizing food production and distribution - while re-imagining public education at the same time. This first-of-its-kind Public/Private Partnership model is a combination of equally ambitious Infrastructure Development and Social Design projects that have the potential to change many narratives.

“Plant is a platform solution.  A service provider operating high-tech greenhouses that can produce and deliver a wide range of fresh, post-organic fruits and vegetables at competitive price points, locally.  We’re unconstrained by land availability in most geographies and even with a starting footprint of 6 million sq. ft. per market, we’re just scratching the surface. Solving the production problem is only a part of the challenge; there are numerous improvements needed to the supply-chain itself.  This is our focus. It’s the holy grail of retail known as the “Last Mile” and this is where we believe we can have the most impact. This is what On-Demand Agriculture is all about. This is what consumers want. There is no reason to limit our thinking,” Giscombe states. "It’s about resources, balance, and most importantly- people.  We believe in building systems for people, not around them.”

Plant’s operation is carbon neutral and more environmentally sustainable, using concentrated solar power and hydroponic systems to refine a process that already out-performs traditional agriculture.  Nutrients are delivered through a treated water system and there is no use of agri-chemicals such as pesticides or insecticides and food safety measures control who and what enters facilities, reducing the risks of contamination and food-borne illness.  

Proximity to urban centers makes it possible for them to optimize produce for quality and taste in lieu of shelf life and providing year-round access to fresh produce.

It's not just the hardware - but the software that’s taking the game to a whole new level. Giscombe says “It’s not widely understood that Big Data is now an integral part of agriculture and that the two will be inextricably connected going forward.  When we tell people we’re in the data business there’s this look of confusion at first, but after a while they get it. To be the best at our core service business, we made the decision to partner with the best in component providers early on. One of our key partners is iUNU out of Seattle.  Their crop management and analysis system LUNA, uses computer vision and artificial intelligence to monitor the health and progress of all crops under cultivation allowing us to detect growth down to the millimeter and create 3D models of plants to improve growing recipes — the light, water, temperature, and nutrients — with each new planting.  In other words, we’re collecting and synthesizing a lot of data.”

What may be the most exciting element of the work Giscombe and his team are doing though, is Plant for Tomorrow, #P4TMRW, the not-for-profit research and development initiative the company has launched to collaborate with School Districts and educational institutions. Starting with middle-school grades, the initiative provides access to relevant and in-demand skills (technical and humanities-based) for more students at the peak of their developmental curiosity.  There is no cost to the schools as the initiative has been designed to be self-sustaining.

Plant-operated commercial farms on district-owned land (up to 1 million sq. ft.) generate revenue from produce sold to distributors within the predetermined local service area. “It’s not really a solution if we can’t reach everybody. Outside of school, there’s still a community that needs to eat. Our produce makes its way to commercial and residential kitchens giving us greater reach and making a greater impact. We’re starting with Broward County Public Schools because this is home. They’re also the sixth-largest in the country, serving a highly diverse population,” Giscombe says.

The Plant4Tomorrow Prototype.

And what’s the secret sauce? “Design. We literally started with the design.  We needed to create an experience that would grab our audience (the kids), while seamlessly integrating into the civic landscape and N55 made that possible,” Giscombe says, referring to the partnership with the Denmark-based group (architect Anne Romme, artist Ion Sørvin and engineer Anne Bagger) to create the eye-catching structures.

The Plant for Tomorrow mission is to foster lifelong learning for all, through active education transforming schools into more expansive learning hubs for the broader community.  It’s a quadruple bottom-line idea in terms of producing social value and an economic development catalyst as the initiative also creates a significant number of jobs.

“One of our guiding principles at Broward County Public Schools is applied learning, where we seek to create opportunities for students to apply what they are learning to real-world scenarios. This innovative Public/Private Partnership with Plant for Tomorrow will deliver on this goal; giving our students a unique educational experience while addressing major agriculture/food issues. This partnership will also generate funding for in-school programs and ensure the sustainability of this initiative. This is a win for our students, it’s a win for public and private partners, and it’s a win for the environment.”

— Robert Runcie, Superintendent, Broward County Public Schools

Plantation Middle School, the site for the first Plant4Tomorrow.

Giscombe, a father himself, is passionate when he says “Our kids are far ahead of us when it comes to processing power, yet we continue to empower them to blindly follow old paths.  In case you haven't heard, they’re hip to that- and have not-so-politely declined. Their voices today, sound a lot like we once did. And though we willingly set aside the aspirations of our youth, this generation won’t be silenced, and we couldn't if we tried.  Everything is connected today, and how we engage our kid's factors into their view of what's next, and more importantly, what they choose to do about it.”

Now if you’re thinking this seems like an enormous undertaking all around, you’re right.  To create the kind of runway necessary to commit to and see through what will take years to fully deploy, the company is partnering with leading boutique investment bank, B.C. Ziegler, to lead the issue of tax-exempt revenue bonds for the bulk of the financing across the U.S. markets in which the company is establishing operations.  

The bonds are expected to be available in the market before year-end, with further international expansion on the cards, though the company is tight-lipped about which ones specifically. Plant and Plant for Tomorrow are also open to working with brands, especially those who have an interest in helping innovate across the food and education systems, to partner in scalable and sustainable ways.

Beyond the technology and the business opportunity, what gets Giscombe really energized is the potential for whole scale transformation of the social contract between people and their food. He speaks passionately about this new era.

“It’s a new relationship, plain and simple," he explains. "Around the world, social systems are failing, people aren’t interested in new rhetoric and instead opt for new approaches to old and new challenges.  The new standard to which government, industry, and business at-large are being held accountable, is purpose. The new kids on the block are taking over the conversation, bringing new solutions to the table announcing a new paradigm; now we’re bringing the people to the table; through food."  

"If it wasn’t a movement before, we’re taking responsibility for making it one."

[lycraspleen3-blog]

Living in Spring Garden: A Neighborhood Guide

Neighborhood Guide

Once home to the captains of nearby industries, this elegant neighborhood boasts a wide variety of architectural styles.

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As the 19th century progressed, Philadelphia’s new money showed it had arrived by building flashy mansions like this one on Green Street in Spring Garden. Just about all of them survive intact, but some, like this one, have been subdivided into apartments. | Image via Zillow

Spring Garden is Philadelphia’s original ritzy suburb. The land that now comprises it was where William Penn established an estate called Springettsbury Farm. How this morphed into “Spring Garden” is lost to history, but by the early 1800s, after Penn’s estate had been subdivided several times, Philadelphians were calling the area by that name.

Spring Garden began to take its current form around 1850, shortly before it and the rest of Philadelphia County was consolidated with the city to form today’s City of Philadelphia. From 1850 to around the time of the Centennial, large Italianate houses went up on the subdivided tracts formed from William Penn’s estates as the city street grid extended into the district. From the Centennial onwards to the 1930s, the city’s new-money merchants, beer barons and captains of industry remodeled existing houses and built newer, grander ones in the popular styles of the Victorian period. As a result, Spring Garden’s northern half, now a city historic district, has one of the widest varieties of 19th-century architectural styles in the city.

Something else it once had was industry. The district’s southern half housed the sprawling Baldwin Locomotive Works, the nation’s largest builder of locomotives in its heyday, plus a host of firms that thrived off the Baldwin factory’s business. All of these have long since disappeared, replaced by newer houses, apartment buildings, civic institutions and cultural treasures like the Barnes Foundation and the Rodin Musuem.

Spring Garden Housing Prices at a Glance

Median single-family house value: $780,500

Median condo/co-op value: $288,400

Median monthly rent: $1,688

What You Can Buy in Spring Garden

Bright MLS image via BHHS Fox & Roach Realtors

Extra-Spacious Atrium Home with Photo Studio and Workshop in Converted Livery Stable

2133-35 Mt. Vernon St. | 5 beds, 4 full, 1 half baths, 7,923 square feet,* $1,750,000

*Figures include a 1-bed, 1-bath guest suite and a 1-bed, 1-bath rental apartment included with the property.

Bright MLS image via Keller Williams Philly

Modern Bi-Level Condo with High Ceilings in Converted Meeting House

655-59 N. 16th St. #6 | 2 beds, 1 bath, 1,037 square feet, $359,900

Bright MLS image via BHHS Fox & Roach Realtors

Renovated Condo with Wine Cellar in Classic 1850s Townhouse

2033 Spring Garden St. Apt. 1 | 2 beds, 2 baths, 2,621 square feet, $595,000

Public Transportation in Spring Garden

SEPTA Broad Street Line: Spring Garden and Fairmount stations

SEPTA Bus Routes: 2, on 16th and 17th streets; 4 and 16, on Broad Street; 7 and 48, northbound on 22nd Street and southbound on 23rd Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, Hamilton Street and 21st Street; 32, on Ben Franklin Parkway and Pennsylvania Avenue; 33, on 19th and 20th streets; 43, on Spring Garden Street; 49, on 20th and 21st streets

Food Shopping in Spring Garden

Supermarkets: Klein’s Supermarket, 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue, in the Philadelphian; Whole Foods Market, 22nd Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, in the Dalian

Neighborhood grocers: A&A Food Market, 1700 Walnut St.; Alejo Grocery Store, 1634 Mt. Vernon St.; Museum Market, 1800 Spring Garden St.

Specialty grocers: Tela’s Market & Kitchen, 1833 Fairmount Ave., on the Francisville side of the street

What a Real Estate Agent Says About Spring Garden

“Spring Garden is perhaps the best location to live in the city. It is a comfortable walk to Center City, the Barnes Museum, the Art Museum or the Franklin Institute. Easy access to the Schuylkill bike paths and Boat House Row make Spring Garden a favored location by those who enjoy outdoor activities.

“In the late 19th century, Spring Garden became the neighborhood of the prosperous brew masters and city merchants like Wanamaker and Stetson. The wealthy Philadelphians built impressive Victorian homes on tree-lined streets with front gardens and carriage houses. Most of these historic residences have been restored to showcase the beautiful architecture of the past. The community is now a rich mixture of generations and the diverse Philadelphia cultures.

“Spring Garden offers a wide spectrum of home choices. There are low-rise and high-rise condominiums ranging from $200,000 to over $900,000 as well as renovated, restored and new townhomes from $500,000 to $2,000,000.   The street, size, condition, outdoor space and parking determine the price.

“The Spring Garden area provides some of the best small shops and businesses in the city. Fairmount Hardware provides everything the weekend renovator needs. Coffee shops and neighborhood delis offer pleasant rest stops between errands. Area restaurants offer a spectrum of fine cuisine from the BYOB French bistro to exceptional hamburgers, fries and beer.”

—Julie Welker, Coldwell Banker Welker Real Estate

Photo: G. Widman for Visit Philadelphia

Local Color

Cutting across Spring Garden’s southwest quarter from Logan Circle to the northwest is the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the grand boulevard that is the signature achievement of the City Beautiful movement in Philadelphia. The street is also one of the city’s most popular sites for street fairs and festivals as well as races like the Philadelphia Marathon, held each fall. Another harbinger of fall on the Parkway is the annual Made in America Festival, which takes over the Parkway from Logan Circle to the Art Museum each Labor Day weekend. The two-day music festival organized by Jay-Z has become at once one of the city’s signature events and one of the many banes of the Parkway’s neighbors.

Photo: Community College of Philadelphia via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC-BY-SA-3.0 US

Did You Know?

No one would call Spring Garden a “college town,” but the neighborhood is home to the largest institution of higher education in the Greater Philadelphia region. The Community College of Philadelphia, whose campus incorporates the historic former United States Mint on Spring Garden Street, enrolls more than 34,000 students in associate’s degree, certificate, continuing education and career training programs.

Almost all of its students commute to the main campus or satellites in Northeast and West Philadelphia from throughout the city, but lately, the college has sought to attract international students as well. A key piece of that effort is The Hamilton, a new apartment building next to the campus in which the college is a major investor. Developed by Radnor Property Group and managed by Bozzuto Management Company, the Hamilton also welcomes long-term residents who wish to call Spring Garden home.

House price and rent data from Zillow Home Value Index and Zillow Rent Index, February 2019

Source: https://www.phillymag.com/property/2019/03/29/spring-garden-neighborhood-guide/

[benito-cereno]

Hey, Benito! If I remember correctly, you live in Lexington, right? I'm moving there in a couple of months and I was wondering if you had any Secret Insider Tips I could have. (Places to go, places to not to go, any local events or festivals to not miss) I live in East Tennessee now, so it shouldn't be too different from what I'm accustomed to. Anyway, any advice you have would be greatly appreciated. PS; the pooping log comic you did with Nedroid is a Christmas classic.

What’s up my dude

I do indeed live in the greatest city on Earth. This city is full of rad people and dope things to do and I hope you will love it as much as I do (impossible).

I actually put together a Google Map for friends of mine who were coming to visit for the Lexington Comic Con. Maybe you will find it useful. It is not exhaustive, and really shows my personal priorities (food, comics, books, music, movies, public art), but it should give you a bit of a place to start.

If you’re looking for somewhere to buy comics, go either to Collectibles Etc or A+ Comics. There are other options, but these are the two best ones.

Shop at the Kentucky Fun Mall (either online or at their brick and mortar location on Brian Ave) and load up on sweet Kentucky gear. Real Kentuckians love our commonwealth and are not shy about showing it.

You should bookmark New Circle Circular or like their page on Facebook. It’s The Onion, but for Lexington. It’ll take a second to get a lot of the jokes, but a) when you do, it’s fucking hilarious, and b) it helps you get a taste for the city.

Don’t be afraid to go to local events. There is always rad shit happening, especially downtown. There was just a barbecue festival there, Pride is coming up, Fourth of July parade, etc. If you hang out in front of the courthouse long enough, someone will eventually set up a kettle corn stand and some kind of event, parade, or demonstration will start up any second. If you can only make it to one thing, DO NOT MISS the Thriller parade, where thousands of zombies recreate the classic music video all the way down Main Street. Lexington has the largest parade of this type in the world. (It’s at Halloween, naturally.)

Find out where the March Madness Marching Band is performing and go there. That’s where the party is at.

Look into the local music scene. There’s lots of cool stuff. Go see shows at Cosmic Charlie’s, The Burl, The Green Lantern, Al’s Bar, Broomwagon, etc. My favorite local band is Ford Theatre Reunion, but your tastes may vary. Maybe you’d like Big Fresh or Damned African Descendants or Non-Compliant or Them God Damn Bangs?

Hopping districts include North Lime, the Distillery District, and National Ave. Big shopping areas include Nicholasville Road and Hamburg. There is a new complex of shops and restaurants called The Summit at Fritz Farm. It is overall pretty bougie, but there’s a Shake Shack in it and my dude Dan Wu is about to open a ramen spot there.

I apologize in advance about the huge pit in the middle of our city. We all hate it, too. It’s been there a long time, with no end in sight. It’s some fucking capitalist nonsense.

If you look at my Google map and look at the murals layer, that will show you the various works of public art created as part of our annual PRHBTN festival, where muralists from around the world come and paint cool things to beautify the city. If you just go from mural to mural, you will see a lot of cool spots in some of the most vibrant areas of the city.

If you drink soda, start drinking Ale-8 as soon as you get here. It is delicious and will help you blend in. A cocktail made from Ale-8 and bourbon is called either a Kentucky Gentleman or a Kentucky Motherfucker, depending on who you ask.

Similarly, if you do dairy, look into getting some beer cheese when you get here. Make sure it’s from somewhere local. Dad’s Favorites would be fine to start. [edit: I have been corrected. Dad’s makes lots of cheese spreads, but none of them are actually beer cheese. You could buy some good beer cheese at the deli at the Save A Lot on Southland Drive. It’s good, and you can also get the best fried chicken in town while you’re there.] Lots of places will have it. Real Kentucky beer cheese is not hot queso made with beer like some chain restaurants have started selling. Real beer cheese is served cold and has a similar consistency to whipped cream cheese.

See a movie at the Kentucky Theater. See a midnight movie, or one of the summer movie classics, if you’re here in time.

If you like art, check out the Gallery Hop schedule to get a taste of the local art scene. There are free snacks everywhere at these things, btw.

See a play at Summerfest.

Go see a Legends game, even if baseball isn’t your thing. It’s pretty fun.

Go to Keeneland, the best horse track in the world (Churchill Downs is overrated; don’t @ me).

We got parks everywhere! Go see the Horse Park! Bike the Legacy Trail! Go to the Ashland estate and pay homage to Henry Clay, the Great Compromiser!

Watch WKYT, that’s the best for local news. Listen to WRFL.

Buy flowers at Michler’s, get your hair cut at Fleet Street, buy books at Joseph-Beth, and you might as well get the Rod Hatfield Chevrolet jingle stuck in your head now. And you might as well get into UK basketball, because you can’t escape it and there’s actually a pretty good sense of civic pride that comes along with it. If, coming from east TN, you are a UT fan, dump all your orange shit in the trash where it belongs. ;)

All right, that should be enough to get you started, I think! Feel free to hit me up at any time if you have any other questions.

[sinangoral2017-blog]

[07.01.17]  it seems a bit strange to wrap up my last couple of days in japan with a dissection of yesterday’s visit to typeone and spoon, but trust me - i think it’ll all make sense. even if you’re bored by ‘car culture,’ my hope is that if you read this entry, you can gain an appreciation for something that is considered as one of the many staples of japan’s nationalistic pride.

i’ve explored incredible architecture in tokyo and osaka. i’ve studied farming techniques in odawara and tottori. i’ve witnessed japan’s craze with electronics, anime, music, and video games in akihabara. and, of course, i’ve eaten the strangest foods throughout the whole country. still, one unexplored realm that was staring me in the face remained - japan’s precedent-setting tuner and automotive culture. ultimately, the impact that automotive magnates like toyota, subaru, datsun (nissan), and honda had on the world through design strategies and economic competition is something that i wanted to soak up before i left. 

those of you who know me well likely are aware of my interests in automotive design and mechanics. i’ve always been a tinkerer, taking the utmost solace in working on my 1967 chevy c10 pickup truck. i also, for a while, seriously invested my time into motorcycles, all to satisfy what seemed to be a growing obsession with motor related things. at the helm of this obsession, for numerous reasons, was a fan-boy obsession with the history and work of the honda motor company. 

the birth of honda is an incredible one, rich with stories of war complications, clashing nationalistic ideals, and redemption. though i won’t go into it, if you’re interested, you can learn more, here. in many ways, it’s this impressive story which had paved such a promising future for the company. it is also the catalyst of my obsession with honda’s racing heritage, history, and its overall ethos. honda, like so many of the other big-name japanese automotive companies, echoes the same japanese discipline that i’ve been citing in my previous posts, but at a greater scale and over a longer time. 

with this nationalistic respect towards honda (and others) comes an equal appreciation of their tuner companies. just as how mercedes benz signs over tuning rights to AMG, chevrolet trusts callaway, and subraru works intimately with STI, honda’s racing name relies on spoon. spoon, which deals with the design of various aftermarket parts, depends on the mechanics and fabricators at typeone for installing. in this way, a complicated, albeit communicative relationship is formed between honda, spoon, and typeone, and thus all are on a national spotlight. 

as it turns out, my visit to typeone and spoon had just occurred after the world famous automotive journalists at jalopnik wrote an article on their own summer visit. seeing what they saw, and what they didn’t, for that matter, was extremely thrilling. when considering that spoon and typeone are almost hidden with their modest street fronts and minimal signage, the fact that they output such exciting and precedent setting work is surprising.

the clinical cleanliness of the shop is overwhelming. i’ve never seen a metal fabrication station so clean. the sheen given off by the clean and polished floor is akin to the reflectivity of still water. i apologetically glanced at the two mechanics in the shop as i squeaked past them in my sandles, but neither of them seemed to care. both were busy at work, attending to the lime green ap2 2005 honda s2000 restoration, only speaking when they needed to. “8!” one would grunt, followed by “10!” it took me a while to realize that, while one mechanic was under the car, he was calling on his other mechanic who was above the car for various socket sizes. they explained to me that they were ‘completely rebuilding the body from the shell on up.” (the s2000 isn’t a traditional body-on-frame vehicle, but rather a more sophisticated and single-piece monocoque. you can imagine, then, the intense hours it takes to reshape any bent or corroded metal, just on the frame, alone.) the owner had purchased the vehicle as an original owner, driven it for close to ten years, sensed nothing wrong, but wanted to be sure the vehicle was pure as per the the purists at typeone. so yes - a stock car, returned to stock. still, the project has taken over 2 months so far. with an incredibly dedicated attitude, the mechanics take their time to be sure that the best thing that they can possibly create is delivered.

along with the cleanliness of the place, the architecture of the shop is worth describing. it’s a two-story complex, where customers drop off their s2000s, civics, and integras on the first floor. a master engine builder works on the vehicles’ motors down here, and is equipped to fully disassemble and rebuild any motor, if need be. a car is then transported above with a hydraulic lift, where all other facets of the vehicle are attended to (suspension, chassis, body, paint, etc). as such, most of the work happens on the second floor, which is also where all of my photographs were taken (with the exception of the s2000 that was for sale on the street).

a pretty neat later model civic hatchback was in the corner of the shop, stripped of all ‘unnecessary luxuries.’ do you like carpeting? unnecessary. sound deadening material? no need. all plastics - even the door trims - were eliminated to save weight. seeing the exposed shift linkage was pretty cool - a stock piece, i was told. 

i actually held my breadth when i saw the “holy trinity” (maybe only i call it that) of vehicles - an original 1965 honda s800m coupe, an ap1 2003 honda s2000 race car, and a 2016 honda s660 racing prototype. seeing this evolution of the s-line from old to new was something quite special for me, especially since i am an s2000 owner and geek myself. i had never seen an s660 in person (we can’t even import them into the states if we wanted to), so seeing one right in front of me - let alone a race spec, carbon-fiber adorning car - was just nutty. the s2000 was a cup car that the team have been racing for a couple of seasons. i especially admired all the dents, rust, and loose parts that still embellished the car. noone changes them, apparently, because noone has to. you can tell where certain parts have been spray painted over, and where bondo filler marks remain. so cool - because racecar. 

personally, i’m really excited to see what spoon and typeone does with the new civic type r - a highly anticipated and acclaimed return by honda to the ‘r’ sport series. daisuke (my contact there, and also the second daisuke i��ve met in japan) expressed interest in this as well, though he said he cannot comment on it much at the moment. 

as i pack my bags and get ready to return to minneapolis for a couple of recovery days before iceland, i can’t help but reflect on my month in this incredible country and be amazed at the diversity in experiences i’ve had. at a basal level, my time at typeone and spoon helped feed my hunger for all-things-honda. more importantly, however, my recent visits helped me better understand why the japanese are so proud of what they do. may it be culture or food, textiles or vehicles - japan is full to the brim with discipline, ability, and pride, and i think that they’re utterly justified. and so, it’s for this reason that i cap off my visit to this enigmatic part of the world with a strange entry on a set of honda tuner companies. 

the next time i write, i’ll be in the comfort of my minnesota home and in the company of my brilliant mom who will hopefully be feeding me exuberant amounts of traditional turkish food. she’s a busy woman with work, so wish me luck on that last one. 

japan, it has been real. thank you. sayonara!

[falconridgegrp-blog]

Construction Links Network: Weekly Round Up January 5, 2019

Welcome to this week's edition of the Weekly Round Up published by Construction Links Network. Below are the links to all the news items published on the network over the past seven days. If you have a news item that would be of interest to our readers and website visitors, please contact us.

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Until next week,

Arnie Gess, President

Toronto condo party likely to sober up in 2019

UK invests in micro-robots which could make roadworks a thing of the past

Code change submission deadline extended to January 14

Contract to repair Port Dalhousie Piers awarded

Quebec's anti-corruption unit blames media coverage for recruiting troubles

Window and cladding replacement project at Sault Ste. Marie's Civic Centre behind schedule

Nova Scotia hospital redevelopment project begins search for design team

Toronto's Manulife Centre adds a more friendly facade

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Swift Current approves design work for flood mitigation

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Premier Ford could 'sabotage' Toronto waterfront plans based on Sidewalk Labs concerns

How this smart sign changes how real estate agents sell

Construction Foundation of B.C. – Program gets skills, training for youth entering workforce

Thunder Bay sees big drop in construction permits last year

Sydney Opal Tower residents evacuated for up to 10 days for crack investigation

Landmark study provides roadmap to enhancing architect-manufacturer relationship

Public meeting to be held in early January on proposed Stratford, PEI affordable housing project

Member News – ASSE International publishes performance requirements for commercial and food service water treatment equipment utilizing drinking water

This algae-powered exterior cladding turns polluted air into fresh oxygen

Renovation of the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve paddocks – A Prestigious Architecture Award

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Factory-made homes grow more popular as cities face housing crunch

City of Montreal contemplating total ban on oil-burning furnaces

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51 developments apply for Better Buildings project in B.C.

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City of Ottawa sues contractor and architects over leaking Glebe garage

Province backs BMO expansion and revitalization of Victoria Park in Calgary

Cambridge hospital suspends legal action against former contractors on its $187-million expansion project

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Montreal architectural firm Daoust Lestage selected to design New Market Square development in Winnipeg

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Death toll in Russia apartment blast rises to 38

Finalcad raises $40 million to digitize the construction industry with apps and analytics

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J-CAT Enterprises, LLC launches business to stop lacerations and impalements at construction sites

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Lower Colorado River tops list of most endangered in U.S.: ‘The future looks very bleak’

Lower Colorado river canal fields. (Photo: Justin Clifton)

The Lower Colorado River topped this year’s list of the 10 rivers most in danger from pollution and environmental degradation — particularly if President Trump carries out his plans to undo protections put in place under the previous administration.

American Rivers’ annual report, released Tuesday, cites the possible consequences of budget cuts proposed by President Trump for rivers throughout the United States.

The Lower Colorado provides drinking water for one in 10 Americans, in metropolitan areas including Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Phoenix.

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“If the Trump administration and Congress don’t continue to address the water issues in the Lower Colorado Basin, we’re facing a real crisis in that region,” Bob Irvin, the president and CEO of American Rivers, told Yahoo News. “We are experiencing historic droughts in the Colorado Basin, and that’s a result of climate change. Unless we pay attention to that and actually address the impacts of climate change on water supplies in the basin, things are only going to get worse.”

The river also supplies water for over five million acres of farmland. Irvin said the water irrigates fields that provide roughly 90 percent of the nation’s winter vegetables.

The Lower Colorado starts at Lee’s Ferry, a natural corridor between Utah and Arizona, and runs through Nevada, Arizona and California. So much water is drawn along the way for agricultural, industrial, municipal and recreational purposes that it dries up before it reaches its natural mouth in the Gulf of California. American Rivers calculates its annual economic value at $900 billion.

Water demand in the region is outpacing the river’s capacity, and the ongoing drought, intensified by climate change, makes the situation worse. The water level in Lake Mead, the reservoir behind Hoover Dam, has been dropping at 12 feet per year on average.

Farming along the Lower Colorado river. (Photo: Amy Martin)

If the crisis is not addressed, the Bureau of Reclamation would need to enforce limitations on water delivery, forcing farmers and homeowners to scale back their water use. This would have harsh economic consequences throughout the Southwest.

American Rivers is calling upon Trump to follow former President Barack Obama in prioritizing the sustainability of American rivers, and on Congress to fully fund the Department of Interior, the Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which have provided support and resources for new water transport and conservation projects.

“That’s why we’re bringing the nation’s attention to this incredibly important river, as well as the other rivers on this year’s most endangered list,” Irvin said. “We can allow the progress that’s been made on rivers like the Lower Colorado to be reversed or we can let Congress and the Trump administration know that we’re not going to stand for that.”

Environmentalists and scientists have denounced Trump’s attacks on Obama-era environmental protections. He has signed an “Energy Independence” executive order that starts the process of dismantling the Clean Power Plan, which limits greenhouse gas emissions from coal-burning power plants. He also signed other executive orders advancing the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines.

Green groups say Trump’s proposed budget cuts for the 2018 fiscal year would also undermine river preservation and restoration projects across the country. Trump’s EPA is reviewing the Clean Water Rule, which has protected rivers from development and pollution.

Preserving the Lower Colorado is a priority for the region’s Latino population. It’s important to their heritage, culture and livelihoods.

Maite Arce, the president and CEO of the Hispanic Access Foundation (HAF), a nonprofit dedicated to improving the lives of Hispanic people in the United States and promoting civic engagement, said roughly one-third of the country’s Latino population lives in the Colorado River Basin, which includes portions of seven states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.

Lower Colorado river canal in the desert. (Photo: Justin Clifton)

“The Colorado River water has been overtapped, overused, so the future looks very bleak,” Arce told Yahoo News.

The HAF works with longtime residents, including farmworkers, in the Lower Colorado Basin near the U.S.-Mexico border and with other stakeholders on mitigating the harm of water shortages.

Arce said preachers have been delivering sermons on the moral obligation to protect the river and be “good stewards of God’s creation.”

“There are such strong cultural connections to water and to the Colorado River. It’s part of their heritage and way of life. They see it as a lifeline,” Arce told Yahoo News. “Their jobs are very strongly connected to the land there, but they understand the water is what makes it possible for them to grow food for America.”

“This is where what used to be an ocean becomes a trickle,” Arce said. “We’re encouraging the new administration to increase investment in critical water infrastructure. And, of course, that has to happen with a really strong group of local folks at the basin.”

American Rivers and the Hispanic Access Foundation say the president and Congress should support water management solutions throughout the country, including:

Prioritize long-term, market-based water-sharing agreements over year-to-year arrangements

Help make existing infrastructure more efficient

Promote water reuse and treat wastewater so it can be recycled and used for irrigation in the place of fresh, clean water

Protect natural environmental features, such as forests, wetlands and aquifers that conserve rainfall and regulate river flows

“The reality is the United States has tremendous thirst for clean, safe drinking water and water to irrigate our crops, and that’s not going to go away,” Irvin said. “What we are asking Americans to do is to let Congress know that having clean and abundant supplies of water from our rivers is important and to not cut the programs that are necessary to insure that.”

The Morelos Dam on the Lower Colorado river. (Photo: Justin Clifton)

On April 3, White House press secretary Sean Spicer announced that Trump — in an apparent attempt to soften his reputation as an enemy of the environment — would donate his first-quarter salary of $78,333 to the National Park Service, an agency of the Interior Department. The gesture failed to win over environmentalists, who pointed out that the administration’s budget proposed slashing the Interior Department budget by 12 percent.

“If Donald Trump is actually interested in helping our parks, he should stop trying to slash their budgets to historically low levels,” Michael Brune, the executive director of the Sierra Club, said in a statement. “This publicity stunt is a sad consolation prize as Trump tries to stifle America’s best idea [the national parks]. It’s a distraction that falls far short of the $12 billion needed to address the current backlog of park maintenance and does nothing to offset the almost $2 billion Trump asked Congress to cut from the Department of the Interior in his budget.”

Here are the United States’ 10 most endangered rivers for 2017, according to the new American Rivers report:

1: Lower Colorado River in Arizona, California and Nevada

Threat: Water demand and climate change

2: Bear River in California

Threat: New Dam

3: South Fork Skykomish in Washington

Threat: New hydropower project

4: Mobile Bay Rivers in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi

Threat: Poor water management

5: Rappahannock River in Virginia

Threat: Fracking

6: Green-Toutle River in Washington

Threat: New mine

7: Neuse and Cape Fear Rivers in North Carolina

Threat: Pollution from hog and chicken farms

8: Middle Fork of the Flathead River in Montana

Threat: Oil transport by rail

9: Buffalo National River in Arkansas

Threat: Pollution from massive hog farm

10: Menominee River in Michigan and Wisconsin

Threat: Open-pit sulfide mining

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