Tuesday, September 5 2017

Hello Tuesday. It's James.

The Ohio Renaissance Festival returned over the weekend, and Zoey Miller has 10 reasons why you should be excited. These 10 reasons also double as a to do list, so head down, eat a giant turkey leg, and nerd out for a day.Navigator full story: 10 Reasons To Be Thrilled That The Renaissance Festival Has Returned

The Rundown:Weather: 75. Mostly cloudy.To do: The monthly rock film series Reelin' & Rockin' returns, in partnership with CD102.5. This month's screening is at Big Room Bar and features Pink Floyd The Wall (trailer here.) Brian Phillips will have music trivia starting at 7:30 PM, and the film screens at 8:30 PM. More info here.

**Giveaway**It's your last day to win a Hot Chicken Takeover combo pack that includes a free shirt and meal. Give it a whirl and possibly have lunch on us and HCT.Enter here!

The Tuesday Conversation:Saturday will mark the first time in 74 years that John Crawford won't be in the seats for an Ohio State home game. Crawford passed away last Wednesday night at the age of 86. His attendance streak is remarkable, but so is the story of his life. [Dispatch/Blundo]A 13 year old Athens girl has raised over $100,000 for breast cancer. After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Jordan Phillips decided to sew and sell coffee cup holder cozys. She sold tens of thousands of dollars worth on her own, and then made a deal with Wal-Mart to stock over 200,000 in Wal-Mart stores. [Athens News]Columbus Underground has their monthly photo roundup of all large scale construction happening in the city. There's so much exciting construction in progress right now, including developments in the Arena District, Columbus Commons, and downtown on High Street. [CU/Evans]

Longread for your lunch break:Things have changed so much that the idea of a janitor at a company making her way into the executive level sounds ludicrous. But Gail Evans did just that at Kodak in the 1980's.The New York Times looks at Gail's career path and contrasts it with Marta Ramos, a janitor at Apple today.The two make similar salaries, inflation adjusted, but one difference is that Evans was an employee of Kodak, receiving four weeks of paid vacation, reimbursement of tuition expenses, and a yearly bonus.Marta isn't an employee of Apple. Like most large corporations today, Apple outsources every service it doesn't consider core, so Marta works for a janitorial services company. She receives no vacation time, no bonuses, and there's certainly no possibility of transferring to another department within Apple, as Gail Evans once did at Kodak.New York Times: To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now

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