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CATHERINE PARR in The Tudors

↳ Season Four, Episode Nine - Secrets of the Heart

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Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny REVIEW

My review of the fifth and latest Indiana Jones Film: Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny is Directed by James Mangold; Written by Jez Butterworth, John-Henry Butterworth, David Koepp, & James Mangold; Based on Characters by George Lucas & Philip Kaufman; Produced by Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall, & Simon Emanuel; Starring Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook, Ethann Isidore, Mads Mikkelsen; Cinematography by Phedon Papamichael; Edited by Michael McCusker, Andrew Buckland, & Dirk Westervel; and Music by John Williams. Production companies: Walt Disney Pictures and Lucasfilm Ltd. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

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"....My mum was less keen on the cat. In an Irish Catholic household like ours, anything with the prefix “good” was shorthand for “probably not for children and definitely not for animals”. The good room, the good cutlery, my good Sunday coat. My dad fed Oscar the good ham. In the hierarchy of domestic crimes, this sits somewhere between dirtying the windows (which Oscar frequently did) and gratuitously putting on the heating. To call it the good ham is to imply that there was other ham, which is false. We ate our jam sandwiches in silence.

Male friendship is fascinating to me – I don’t mean that reductively. But, from what I have observed among my dad’s generation and class, it involves few words, an enviable frankness and a trailer. Someone is always borrowing someone else’s trailer. My dad communicated with Oscar in grunts – which is mostly, I should note, how he communicates with his family – but the cadence of the grunts was genial, jokey, two colleagues bonded by the familiar cynicism wrought by another day at the coalface..."

-Kate McCusker

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You're Not the Only One with Gifts

The Wolverine

Directed by James Mangold Cinematography Ross Emery Edited by Michael McCusker Screenplay by Mark Bomback Scott Frank

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Wee Michael's March / Frank's Reel (Live) - Michael McGoldrick, John Doyle & John McCusker

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Dafne Keen and Hugh Jackman in Logan (James Mangold, 2017)

Cast: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Dafne Keen, Boyd Holbrook, Stephen Merchant, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Richard E. Grant, Eriq La Salle, Elise Neal, Quincy Fouse. Screenplay: James Mangold, Scott Frank, Michael Green. Cinematography: John Mathieson. Production design: François Audouy. Film editing: Michael McCusker, Dirk Westervelt. Music: Marco Beltrami.

James Mangold knows something that James Cameron figured out on the first two Terminator movies and George Miller on the Mad Max series: that if you're putting together a big action movie with superheroes and sci-fi concepts, it's best that you keep the human scale in mind. That's the secret of Logan's success -- and to my mind the undoing of most of the blockbuster comic book movies, even those in the Marvel X-Menseries of which Logan is a part. Hugh Jackman's Logan/Wolverine character is a known quantity, and his performances have stood out through most of the films in which he appears. But Logan has never been a particularly human-scale figure: His adamantium superstructure makes him virtually invincible. But he has a troubled past, and in the beginning of Logan he's also physically ill, making him snarlier but also more humanly vulnerable than ever. Holed up in Mexico with the last of the X-Men, Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) and Caliban (Stephen Merchant), he's just trying to get by, procuring medicine for the nonagenarian Xavier, who has occasional seizures that, because of his telekinetic powers, endanger everyone around him. All of this is the usual fantastic stuff of the Marvel movies, but the humanizing of Logan takes place when he's faced with saving a young mutant named Laura (Dafne Keen), who has been created in a laboratory using some of Logan's own DNA. And so the story of the declining Logan, the dying Xavier, and the imperiled Laura develops a human emotional content that actually becomes quite touching -- especially as Logan is not at first inclined to acknowledge Laura as essentially his own daughter. Plot complications ensue because of the attempts of the biotech company that created Laura and a handful of other synthetic mutants, who have escaped captivity, to reclaim them by any means necessary. The slam-bang action stuff is well-done but the whole thing would be just routine without the fine performances of Jackman and Stewart, and especially young Keen, whose fiercely determined Laura reminded me of Millie Bobby Brown's work as Eleven on the series Stranger Things. This is evidently a great time for very young actresses.

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99 - 100 / 100 || Caps of Catherine Parr

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I have my belief, and in all its simplicity that is the most powerful thing.

Hunger, Steve McQueen (2008)

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Hunger (2008)

https://www.tellusepisode.net/hunger-2008.html

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Marcella  -  ITV / Netflix  -  April 4, 2016  -  Present

Crime Noir  (24 episodes)

Running Time:  60 minutes

Stars:

Anna Friel as Detective Sergeant Marcella Backland

Nicholas Pinnock as Jason Backland (series 1–2)

Ray Panthaki as Detective Chief Inspector/Detective Inspector Rav Sangha

Jamie Bamber as Detective Chief Inspector/Detective Inspector Tim Williamson (series 1–2)

Jack Doolan as Detective Constable Mark Travis (series 1–2)

Nina Sosanya as Detective Chief Inspector Laura Porter (series 1)

Charlie Covell as Detective Constable Alex Dier (series 1)

Sophia Brown as Detective Constable Leanne Hunter (series 2)

Amanda Burton as Katherine Maguire (series 3)

Hugo Speer as Frank Young (series 3; guest series 2)

Aaron McCusker as Finn Maguire (series 3)

Martin McCann as Bobby Barrett (series 3)

Kelly Gough as Stacey Maguire Barrett (series 3)

Michael Colgan as Rory Maguire (series 3)

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Hunger

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands’ death.

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Marcella Season 3 Episodes 1 & 2 Review

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Warning: this Marcella review contains spoilers.

A radical change of hairstyle is often an indication of a breakdown, which is the only honest way to describe the end of Marcella’s last season. That finale was a hard reset. Like an unhinged divorcee lobbing old belongings from the window of a moving car, the show rid itself of pretty much everything connected to its past and sped away cackling, off to a new start. 

After a two-year wait, that new start is finally here (it streamed on Netflix in the US last summer so spoiler-averse Googlers beware). Forget everything you know about Marcella Backland’s kids, colleagues and lovers – where we’re going, you won’t need ‘em. This is a new show, set in a new country, with a new premise: Marcella undercover.

A gut-led detective with unfailing instincts and a regularly failing grasp of the law (more than once, she’s been both lead investigator and chief murder suspect), Marcella has been fast-tracked into undercover work and appears to be a natural. She’s spent just 10 months infiltrating a powerful Belfast crime family and has already had sex with most of them and a marriage proposal from one, who’s dead now. (For comparison, it’s been 10 months since the first UK lockdown and in that time the only achievement I can lay claim to is having individually named the pigeons that gather on my kitchen windowsill to beg for peanuts.)  

The death of light-fingered Lawrence, money launderer to people-trafficking drug lords the Maguires, was episode one’s big shock. Not though to Marcella (or Keira as she is now) because she was the one who told the family he was on the take. Impatient for results, she made the unilateral decision to ramp up the investigation and chuck Lawrence to the wolves without informing handler Frank (Hugo Speer). It’s all part of a plan to take the Maguires down, or possibly, to join them. With Marcella, it’s hard to tell.

No sooner had we met Lawrence in his tastefully appointed home than we witnessed his skull being sprayed over the lawn of his employers’ even more luxurious mansion. Some of his skull was also sprayed over Marcella, providing a good excuse for one of her now-traditional trauma baths. At least once per season, we see the character overwhelmed by her psychological burden in the bath or shower, or braless in a baby doll nightie, her nipples repeatedly sneaking into shot as if they’re hoping to snag Anna Friel’s autograph. That psychological burden is heavier than ever in season three, so let’s hope their boiler’s up to it. 

Ordinarily, the strain of being Marcella Backland – the traumatised mother of a dead child she accidentally killed, and a subsequent sufferer of dissociative fugue states from which she awakens, usually in the bath, without any knowledge of where she’s been or whose corpse she’s dragged into the woods – is enough to unbalance her. 

Add to that the pressure of maintaining a secret identity inside a nest of brutal human-trafficking bastards who’ll bury you under the rose bed as soon as look at you, and it’s a perilous set-up. Shovel on top the trank habit introduced in episode two and it’s no great leap to see how Marcella will go from here to the future version we glimpsed in the opening tease standing over a bleeding Rav. 

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Marcella Season 2 Recap: the Ending, the Killer and Where Next for Season 3?

By Louisa Mellor

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Marcella Season 1 Recap

By Louisa Mellor

That’s right, not everybody from Marcella’s past has been excised. As coincidence would have it, the best one has landed on the very doorstep of the Maguires’ crooked mansion. In a side-plot involving the murder of the son of the Foreign Secretary (this show never goes small when it can go big), Ray Pathanki’s DI Rav is in Belfast. He’s recovered from the beating Marcella gave him before she went missing-presumed-dead, but will likely have one or two things to say about it when they eventually cross paths.

Rav’s not the only part of Marcella’s past brought along; there’s also the baby mobile music that haunts her from the night of little Juliette’s death. Is somebody deliberately torturing her by leaving its sheet music under her car windscreen, or did she black out and do that herself? 

One torture candidate is Rory Maguire (Michael Colgan), the germophobe brains of the family who lives cloistered in the attic like a villain in a Gothic novel. He has a photographic memory, we learn, so Marcella must be hoping there wasn’t any online press about that time her husband’s pregnant mistress was murdered, or that other time her son’s skull was almost drilled by a serial child-killer she brought down single-handedly with a knife. Papers hate that stuff. 

The reclusive Rory would have plenty of time to browse the online news archives when he’s not washing his hands or disporting himself onto a towel while watching his brother Finn (Aaron McCusker) bang Marcella through a custom floorboard peep hole. Either Rory’s onto our girl, or she’s enflamed his loins, either of which might explain why he came unexpectedly down to dinner in episode two and gave her the plaintive look of a pigeon on a kitchen windowsill

Fearsome family matriarch Katherine (Amanda Burton) is another suspect in the would-mess-with-Marcella’s-head game, but her work seems cut out maintaining an air of moral superiority while heading up the kind of operation that shrugs off multiple trafficking victim deaths as if they were bananas gone bad in transit.    

Yes, they’re a right bad lot, the Maguires, each straining at the leash to get the jump on each other. If anyone can take them down, says Frank with little to no qualification, it’s Marcella. Right enough, have at it then. This grimy story has caught our attention.

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Logan vs Black Clan

Directed by James Mangold

Cinematography by Ross Emery

Edited by Michael McCusker

Screenplay by Mark Bomback Scott Frank

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DAY 6 - RESULTS!

Artistic Gymnastics:

Riley McCusker finished 2nd of the Women's Individual All-Around Final.

Kare Eaker finished 4th of the Women's Individual All-Around Final.

Brody Malone finished 5th of the Men's Individual All-Around Final.

Robert Neff finished 7th of the Men's Individual All-Around Final.

Artistic Swimming:

Team USA finished 3rd of the Duet Technical Routine

Team USA finished 3rd of the Team Technical Routine

Badminton:

Timothy Lam def Frank Barrios of Columbia (21-10, 21-9).  He qualified for the Men's Singles Round of 16.

Iris Wang def Fatima Centano of El Salvador (21-8, 21-8). He qualified for the Women's Singles Round of 16.

Howard Shu fell to Brian Yang of Canada (21-18, 11-21, 6-21).

Ryan Shew/Kuei-Ya Shew def Mario Cuba/Daniele Marcias (21-17, 21-17). They qualified for the Mixed Doubles Round of 16.

Basketball 3X3:

Team USA Women's def Brazil (21-8) in the semi-final and Argentina (21-17) in the final.

Team USA Men's def Brazil (21-12) in the semi-final  and Puerto Rico (21-19). semi-final.

Beach Volleyball:

Jace Pardon/Karissa Cook def Carolina/Angela of Brazil (24-22, 21-16). They will face Argentina in the Gold Medal Game.

Mark Burik/Ian Satterfield fell to Luis Garcia/Andy Leonardo of Guatemala (24-22, 35-37, 11-15). They finished 10th of the Men's Volleyball Event.

Bowling:

Stefanie Johnson finished 18th of the Women's Single Qualifying Second Block (2373 points).

Shannon O'Keefe finished 6th of the Women's Single Qualifying Second Block (2583 points).

Jakob Butturff finished 1st of the Men's Single Qualifying Second Block (2991 points).

Nicholas Pate finished 6th of the Men's Single Qualifying Second Block (2759 points).

Boxing:

Men's Welter (64kg) Quarterfinals: Keyshawn Davis def Luis Arcon Diaz of Venezuela.

Women's Light (57-60kg) Quarterfinals: Rashida Davis def Krisandy Rios Ojeda of Venezuela.

Men's Bantam (56kg) Quarterfinals: Duka Ragan def Jorvi Farronan of Peru. 

Men's Middle (75kg) Quaterfinals: Troy Isley def Jorge Vivas of Columbia.

Canoe Sprint:

Team USA finished 2nd of the Women K2 500m Heat 1. They qualified for the final.

Jesse Lishchuk finished 6h of the Men K1 1000m Final.

Ian Ross finishe 7th of the Men C1 1000m Final.

Team USA finished 4th of the Men K2 1000m Final.

Elena Wolgamot finished 4th of the Women's K1 500m Final.

Equestrian:

Sarah Lockman finished 1st of the Dressage Individual - Intermediate I / Grand Prix Special.

Nora Batchelder finished 5th of the Dressage Individual - Intermediate I / Grand Prix Special.

Jennifer Baumert finished 7th of the Dressage Individual - Intermediate I / Grand Prix Special.

Team USA finished 2nd of the Dressage Team.

Handball:

Team USA Women's fell to Brazil (34-9). They will play for the Bronze Medal against Cuba.

Field Hockey:

Team USA Women's def Mexico (5-0). They're 1-0.

Modern Pentathlon:

Team USA finished 2nd of the Women's Relay.

Team USA finished 3rd of the Men's Relay.

Shooting:

Nickolaus Mowrer/Miglena Todorova finished 2nd of the Mixed's 10m Air Pistol Team Final.

Jay Shi/Nathalia Granados finished 4th of the Mixed's 10m Air Pistol Team Final.

Ashley Carroll finished 1st of the Women's Trap Final.

Rachel Tozier finished 2nd of the Women's Trap Final.

Softball:

Team USA Men's def Peru (20-0). They're 3-1. 

Squash:

Team USA Women's def Mexico (3-0) and Chile (3-0). They will play the Quarterfinals tuesday.

Team USA Men's def Chile (3-0). They will play the Quarterfinals tuesday.

Taekwondo:

Madelynn Gorman-S. finished 3rd of the Women's +67kg Event.

Jonathan Healy finished 1st of the Men's +80kg Event.

Paige McPherson finished 2nd of the Women's -67kg Event.

Thomas Rahimi fell to José Cobas of Cuba in the Quarterfinals of the Men's -80kg Event.

Tennis: 

Michael Redlicki/Kevin King def Lluis Miralles/Alberto Alvarado of El Salvador (6-1, 6-1). They qualified for the Men's Doubles Second Round.

Samuel Riffice def Francisco Llanes of Uruguay (6-1, 4-6, 7-5). He qualified for the Men's Singles Second Round.

Caroline Dolehide def Montserrat Gonazales of Paraguay (6-4, 2-6, 6-4). She qualified for the Women's Singles Second Round.

Waterski:

Regina Jaquess finished 1st of the Women's Slalom Final.

Erika Lang finished 6th of the Women's Slalom Final.

Taylor Garcia finished 5th of the Men's Slalom Final.

Erika Lang finished 2nd of the Women's Tricks Final.

Regina Jaquess finished 5th of th Women's Tricks Final.

Adam Pickos finished 3rd of the Men's Tricks Final.

Regina Jaquess finished 1st of the Women's Jump Final.

Taylor Garcia finished 1st of the Men's Jump Final.

Mary Howell finished 2nd of the Women's Wakeboard.

Weightlifting:

Mathlynn Sasser finished 2nd of the Women's 64kg Group.

Nathan Darmon finished 8th of the Men's 96kg Group.

Katherine Nyn finished 3rd of the Women's 76kg Group.

Wesley Kitts finished 1st of the Men’s 109kg Group.

📸: Lima 2019.

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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

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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/