With baseball season in full swing, here’s a list of some of the more creative, generous or ludicrous perks players have received…

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/worklife/04/24/weird.baseball.contracts/

I’m currently residing on the advisory board for this great non-profit.  We have some real momentum now!

Providing sanitation to developing third world nations is a dirty job, but someone has to do it!

Wherever The Need (WTN) www.wherevertheneed.org, a leading non-governmental, non-profit organization targeting the crises of sanitation worldwide, in conjunction with Earth Day has sponsored the “Eco San and Sustainable Design Competition,” to advance the state of the art in ecologically conscious sanitation and emergency relief systems. The competition, created by architect Ron Goldman (FAIA) of Goldman, Firth and Rossi was open to students of SCI-Arc, OTIS, and USC.

Designs were judged by a panel that brings a background of design excellence and social responsibility at the highest level:

·         Steve Kanner, FAIA -former LA AIA president and award winning architect

·         Ray Kappe, FAIA -- founder of SCI-Arc, pre-fab background, award winning and esteemed architect on a national level

·         Michela Abrams – President and Publisher of DWELL Magazine

·         Leo Marmol, FAIA -award winning, background in pre-fab 

·         Steve Fleischli, WTN Advisory Board, attorney & former President of Waterkeeper Alliance

Awarded were: 

Single designs  

SCI-Arc -   HONOR AWARD   Jeffrey Kuruvilla, Kainoa Westermark and Ruben Alejandre 

OTIS – MERIT AWARD    Base completion: Rachel Fausto – cocoon, Krystal Scott - folding frame, Cristina Luna -- up-hut, Maihoua Vang -- bamboo strings, Erin Gollocks Murray -- pooj hut and Esther Lee -- garage can   

Multiple designs  

USC - CITATION   Yuan Yu Chang 

USC -- HONOR AWARD   Bernice Ngo and Ming Ngar Lo 

USC -   CITATION   Leon Wood  

Community designs  

SCI-Arc - CITATION     Nanao Shimizu and Dohnbi Kim  

SCI-Arc - HONOR AWARD   Michael He and Nina Handelman

SCI-Arc - CITATION   Hector R. Campagna Oliveros

SCI-Arc - MERIT AWARD Anna Androsova , Janica Ley and  Melody Nazareno

http://blog.drinkneuro.com/

For my fellow Downtown L.A. peeps…

Last week, Matt Geller, vice president of the SoCal Mobile Food Vendors Assn., told us he’ll be opening up a mobile food truck lot in Little Tokyo at 216 S. Alameda St. The project is on schedule, and the mobile food court will open Thursday for lunch service.

Readers of our last post expressed hopes that there would be more than the three to four trucks per service Geller had planned, but their preliminary posted schedule shows that the lot is currently sticking to those numbers. Here’s the lineup at present:

Thursday, 11 a.m.

• Kabob N’ Roll
• Tasty Meat
• Vesuvio

Friday, 11 a.m.

• India Jones
• Komodo
• Slice Truck

Friday, 5 p.m.

• Flying Pig
• Fresser’s
• Grilled Cheese Truck
• Sweets Truck

Saturday, 5 p.m.

• Barbie’s Q
• Frysmith

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2010/02/preliminary-schedule-for-downtown-la-food-truck-lot-announced.html

Republic of Brown – We scour the planet to bring you the best in Indo-cool

Have you noticed that Indo-cool is everywhere these days? Indians have taken things up a notch in the entertainment and lifestyle scene creating hip fashion, cutting-edge music, entertaining films, powerful literature and so much more. The world has taken notice. And this is only the beginning.

At Republic of Brown we’re bringing it together for you in one place, delivered right to your inbox – the coolest Indian-inspired fashion, movies, music and art from around the globe.

http://www.republicofbrown.com/

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