Category: Blog
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Florida: Cuban Sandwich
(View the full album here) This was a really amazing sandwich, though kind of terrifying experience to actually get the sandwich… I have had Cuban Sandwiches before but this was much better. I read somewhere that there is something about the way they prepare the ham in traditional cuban sandwiches that is different and…
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Dry Tortugas National Park & Key West
(View the full album here) Key West looked like it would be a lot of fun normally. It was kind of terrifying at the moment because basically not a single person was wearing a mask anywhere in the town, and everything was very close together so there wasn’t really any way of avoiding the unmasked…
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Rogue Planet Dream
I had a dream and wanted to write it down. Maybe eventually I will work this into a short story. an asteroid is discovered on a long elliptical orbit that passes several potentially habitable worlds. The gravity on the asteroid is close to Earth normal. Humans decide to colonize it in order to drop…
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USP 530 – Session 7
March 10th Session Seven: Alternatives to Policing and Incarceration This session will focus on alternatives to policing and incarceration. Over the last six decades, the movement to reduce policing and mass incarceration has been growing in the United States. In this session we will be guided by the following questions: Why is there a movement…
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Everglades National Park
(View the full album here) The Everglades! What a cool and interesting place. There is lots of sun for the solar panels and lots of nature to explore. The weather in Florida is great this time of year. It stays warm and breezy, even at night, and it’s not too humid yet. This is my…
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Hot Springs National Park
Hot Springs is a small town in Arkansas. It’s also a National Park. It’s very strange as far as national parks go, to have the park and town mixed together like this. There is no entrance fee for example and the visitor center is a shop in the town. The only hot springs are…
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USP 530 – Session 6
March 3rd Session Six: Surveillance in Cities – Assignment #1 DUE TODAY This session will focus on the impact of increased surveillance in cities. For every 1,000 people in SF, there are over 3 cameras and the District Attorney’s office has access to almost ⅔ or their data (ABC7 News). Cameras are disproportionately in Tenderloin, Chinatown,…
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USP 530 – Assignment 1
CJ Trowbridge 2021-03-02 USP 530 Assignment #1 Choose a social problem that will impact cities in the future and use the healthy cities wheel framework to identify how urban authorities should address this problem – fill out every section of the wheel. Assemble a diverse and inclusive group There are many different kinds of…
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Yosemite National Park
(You can view the full album here) I know what you’re thinking. You stopped at Yosemite in between Texas and Florida? Well yes but there are three reasons. First, I had to get my car smogged in California. Second, Texas was a fucking mess at this point. Third, the firefalls! Also I was lucky enough…
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USP 530 – Session 5
This session was canceled February 24th Session Five: Alternative Business, Housing, and Food Ownership Models and Structures I Alternative Business Ownership Structures: Worker Owned Cooperative Businesses Worker-owned cooperatives are businesses that are owned and managed by their workers. Although there are variations, typically, each worker owns a share and all shares are owned by…