Saturday, April 1, 2017
A Second Chance
From Tasting Table -
New Beginnings
How the formerly incarcerated are finding hope for a new life in kitchens across America
BY ALISON SPIEGEL
While being one of the fastest-growing sectors of the economy, according to the National Restaurant Association, it's also an industry having trouble filling entry-level positions.
"People are really struggling to find reliable, engaged team members," Joe DeLoss, founder of Hot Chicken Takeover, says. "It's a pretty pervasive problem." This translates to an incredible opportunity, financially and socially, for both the formerly incarcerated and food businesses.
The restaurant industry is currently the "top employer of former inmates in the United States," Saru Jayaraman, cofounder and codirector of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC), says in an article for Fast Company. Indeed, the culinary world across the board—from fast-casual joints to fine dining spots, bakeries to food trucks—is stepping up to the plate.
https://www.tastingtable.com/dine/national/restaurants-formerly-incarcerated-drive-change
New Beginnings
How the formerly incarcerated are finding hope for a new life in kitchens across America
BY ALISON SPIEGEL
While being one of the fastest-growing sectors of the economy, according to the National Restaurant Association, it's also an industry having trouble filling entry-level positions.
"People are really struggling to find reliable, engaged team members," Joe DeLoss, founder of Hot Chicken Takeover, says. "It's a pretty pervasive problem." This translates to an incredible opportunity, financially and socially, for both the formerly incarcerated and food businesses.
The restaurant industry is currently the "top employer of former inmates in the United States," Saru Jayaraman, cofounder and codirector of Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC), says in an article for Fast Company. Indeed, the culinary world across the board—from fast-casual joints to fine dining spots, bakeries to food trucks—is stepping up to the plate.
https://www.tastingtable.com/dine/national/restaurants-formerly-incarcerated-drive-change
Resist With Your Pocketbook
From GrabYourWallet.org
https://grabyourwallet.org/What%20We're%20About.html
https://grabyourwallet.org/What%20We're%20About.html
The Haves and Have Nots
From the Guardian -
Living under a tarp next to Facebook HQ: 'I don't want people to see me'
The sprawling Silicon Valley campus has cafes, bike repair services, even dry cleaning. But across the road a homeless community epitomizes the wealth gap
By Alastair Gee
In a patch of scrubland across the road from the Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley, a woman named Celma Aguilar recently walked along some overgrown train tracks. She stopped where a path forked into some vegetation, just a few hundred yards from the tourists taking photos by an enormous image of a “Like” icon at the campus entrance.
“Welcome to the mansion,” Aguilar said, gesturing to a rudimentary shelter of tarps hidden in the undergrowth.
The campsite is one of about 10 that dot the boggy terrain, and are a striking sight alongside the brightly painted, low-slung buildings housing the multi-billion-dollar corporation. The contrast epitomizes the Bay Area wealth gap.
Harold Schapelhouman, a fire chief whose department has dealt with conflagrations on the land, said he was struck by the disparities. “Their employees are very well taken care of. They have on-site medical facilities, dry cleaning, bicycle repair, they feed them and there are restaurants that are there. It’s amazing what Facebook does for its employees. And yet within eyeshot – it really isn’t that far – there are people literally living in the bushes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/31/facebook-campus-homeless-tent-city-menlo-park-california?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
Living under a tarp next to Facebook HQ: 'I don't want people to see me'
The sprawling Silicon Valley campus has cafes, bike repair services, even dry cleaning. But across the road a homeless community epitomizes the wealth gap
By Alastair Gee
In a patch of scrubland across the road from the Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley, a woman named Celma Aguilar recently walked along some overgrown train tracks. She stopped where a path forked into some vegetation, just a few hundred yards from the tourists taking photos by an enormous image of a “Like” icon at the campus entrance.
“Welcome to the mansion,” Aguilar said, gesturing to a rudimentary shelter of tarps hidden in the undergrowth.
The campsite is one of about 10 that dot the boggy terrain, and are a striking sight alongside the brightly painted, low-slung buildings housing the multi-billion-dollar corporation. The contrast epitomizes the Bay Area wealth gap.
Harold Schapelhouman, a fire chief whose department has dealt with conflagrations on the land, said he was struck by the disparities. “Their employees are very well taken care of. They have on-site medical facilities, dry cleaning, bicycle repair, they feed them and there are restaurants that are there. It’s amazing what Facebook does for its employees. And yet within eyeshot – it really isn’t that far – there are people literally living in the bushes.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/31/facebook-campus-homeless-tent-city-menlo-park-california?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1
Friday, March 31, 2017
When the Ducks Had Just One
From the Undefeated -
Oregon basketball team’s first out-of-state black player paved the way with his struggles and success
The Ducks’ majority-black roster didn’t always look that way — but my father is part of the reason it does
BY KURT STREETER
It’s a team picture I’ll always cherish, even though I’d never seen it until 11 years ago, shortly after my father died.
It shows him as a young man, in the early 1950s. He was in college then, at the University of Oregon, where he was a fixture on the basketball team. In the photograph he’s No. 11, sitting in the front row, a familiar gleam in his eye. His teammates were all white. My father, Mel Streeter, was the only African-American player on the Ducks.
As much as I love this photograph, it also presents a mystery. My dad didn’t talk all that much about his playing days, or what it was like to be a dark-skinned, 6-foot-4 black guy in a virtually all-white town and a virtually all-white state in the years of Truman and Eisenhower. I can’t stop wondering what those days were really like for him.
https://theundefeated.com/features/oregon-ducks-basketball-ncaa/
Oregon basketball team’s first out-of-state black player paved the way with his struggles and success
The Ducks’ majority-black roster didn’t always look that way — but my father is part of the reason it does
BY KURT STREETER
It’s a team picture I’ll always cherish, even though I’d never seen it until 11 years ago, shortly after my father died.
It shows him as a young man, in the early 1950s. He was in college then, at the University of Oregon, where he was a fixture on the basketball team. In the photograph he’s No. 11, sitting in the front row, a familiar gleam in his eye. His teammates were all white. My father, Mel Streeter, was the only African-American player on the Ducks.
As much as I love this photograph, it also presents a mystery. My dad didn’t talk all that much about his playing days, or what it was like to be a dark-skinned, 6-foot-4 black guy in a virtually all-white town and a virtually all-white state in the years of Truman and Eisenhower. I can’t stop wondering what those days were really like for him.
https://theundefeated.com/features/oregon-ducks-basketball-ncaa/
Podcast Love
From the New York Times -
Liked ‘Serial’? Here’s Why the True-Crime Podcast ‘S-Town’ Is Better
By AMANDA HESS
“S-Town” is not another tale of a journalist trying to solve a murder with just a microphone and a little elbow grease, and thank God. Instead, “S-Town” transcends the podcast procedural with a destabilizing narrative structure in which one small-town mystery leads to another, all surrounding Mr. McLemore and his acquaintances. There is that murder, but also a treasure hunt, a land grab and a mysterious benefactor. Mr. Reed’s investigation turns psychological and emotional — into how people come to be branded as bad, and the hidden relationships among men in the rural South.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/arts/true-crime-podcast-s-town-serial.html
Liked ‘Serial’? Here’s Why the True-Crime Podcast ‘S-Town’ Is Better
By AMANDA HESS
“S-Town” is not another tale of a journalist trying to solve a murder with just a microphone and a little elbow grease, and thank God. Instead, “S-Town” transcends the podcast procedural with a destabilizing narrative structure in which one small-town mystery leads to another, all surrounding Mr. McLemore and his acquaintances. There is that murder, but also a treasure hunt, a land grab and a mysterious benefactor. Mr. Reed’s investigation turns psychological and emotional — into how people come to be branded as bad, and the hidden relationships among men in the rural South.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/arts/true-crime-podcast-s-town-serial.html
This Will Wake You Up
From Food & Wine -
The Most Caffeinated Coffee in the World Is Now Available in the US
By Mike Pomranz
Launched in 2016, Black Insomnia, a South Africa-based coffee company, is the most recent brand to claim that title, saying it has scientific proof that its blend is the most caffeinated in the world – with “dangerously high levels of caffeine” as the brand awkwardly boasts. And now, the king of caffeinated coffees is finally available in the US.
http://www.foodandwine.com/news/black-insomnia-coffee-available-us
The Most Caffeinated Coffee in the World Is Now Available in the US
By Mike Pomranz
Launched in 2016, Black Insomnia, a South Africa-based coffee company, is the most recent brand to claim that title, saying it has scientific proof that its blend is the most caffeinated in the world – with “dangerously high levels of caffeine” as the brand awkwardly boasts. And now, the king of caffeinated coffees is finally available in the US.
http://www.foodandwine.com/news/black-insomnia-coffee-available-us
We invited Ugandan Olympic hopefully Brolin Mawejje to forerun the slope...
http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/the-extraordinary-story-of-ugandas-first-major-snowboarder/74962
Wow!
From Deadspin -
Here Is A Rugby Player With His Face In Another Rugby Player's Bare Ass
By Billy Haisley
http://deadspin.com/here-is-a-rugby-player-with-his-face-in-another-rugby-p-1793895706
Here Is A Rugby Player With His Face In Another Rugby Player's Bare Ass
By Billy Haisley
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| Photo credit: Matt King/Getty |
Play Only. Keep Your Opinions to Yourself.
From the Washington Post -
NFL players and the value — and potential cost — of political activism
“It’s amazing, I think, to see how many people will call us ‘athletes’ and will tell us we need to be in the communities and we need to serve in the different communities that we play in or live in,” Boldin said, walking the tunnels beneath Capitol Hill, hustling from House to Senate side Thursday afternoon. “But as soon as you take a political stand, they tell you, ‘Stick to football.’ You can’t have it both ways. If you’re expecting me to be a role model for younger kids or for society in general, how is it wrong for me to speak out when I do see injustices?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/nfl-players-and-the-value--and-potential-cost--of-political-activism/2017/03/30/8d8793d8-1580-11e7-9e4f-09aa75d3ec57_story.html?utm_term=.bb676013577f&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
NFL players and the value — and potential cost — of political activism
By Barry Svrluga
“It’s amazing, I think, to see how many people will call us ‘athletes’ and will tell us we need to be in the communities and we need to serve in the different communities that we play in or live in,” Boldin said, walking the tunnels beneath Capitol Hill, hustling from House to Senate side Thursday afternoon. “But as soon as you take a political stand, they tell you, ‘Stick to football.’ You can’t have it both ways. If you’re expecting me to be a role model for younger kids or for society in general, how is it wrong for me to speak out when I do see injustices?”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/redskins/nfl-players-and-the-value--and-potential-cost--of-political-activism/2017/03/30/8d8793d8-1580-11e7-9e4f-09aa75d3ec57_story.html?utm_term=.bb676013577f&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
Thursday, March 30, 2017
Lessons From "The Wire"
From the Huffington Post -
This Law School Created A Criminal Justice Class Based On ‘The Wire’
Long live Omar’s code!
By Taryn Finley
The University of Pittsburgh Law School is bringing the real life lessons from HBO’s classic series “The Wire” to the classroom.
The 3-credit course, “Crime, Law and Society in ‘The Wire,’” will use the Baltimore-based drama to analyze many of the contemporary issues in the criminal justice system. According to the course description, these include, “drug enforcement, race, confessions, police manipulation of crime statistics, mass incarceration, use of force, gender, criminal organizations, gun violence, and honesty and accountability in law enforcement.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/law-school-criminal-justice-class-the-wire_us_58dd1601e4b08194e3b7b3e8?9r68b0avqi7msra4i&
This Law School Created A Criminal Justice Class Based On ‘The Wire’
Long live Omar’s code!
By Taryn Finley
The University of Pittsburgh Law School is bringing the real life lessons from HBO’s classic series “The Wire” to the classroom.
The 3-credit course, “Crime, Law and Society in ‘The Wire,’” will use the Baltimore-based drama to analyze many of the contemporary issues in the criminal justice system. According to the course description, these include, “drug enforcement, race, confessions, police manipulation of crime statistics, mass incarceration, use of force, gender, criminal organizations, gun violence, and honesty and accountability in law enforcement.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/law-school-criminal-justice-class-the-wire_us_58dd1601e4b08194e3b7b3e8?9r68b0avqi7msra4i&
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