[UC] Privatization of parks, Daily News
Citizens, Once again our district is the vanguard for a city wide privatization of parks. I hope neighbors are beginning to learn to read corporate propaganda about public private partnerships. (link below) Daily News: While it is paramount that we protect, preserve and increase our park and recreational assets, we must do so in a way that leverages economic sustainability and growth. Working with the Parks and Rec Department, the Fairmount Park Conservancy and other partners, the commission will establish guidelines for revenue-enhancement that embrace entrepreneurship in ways that are appropriate and transformative... (see the Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein) ...Faced with a seemingly interminable financial crisis, cultivating private-sector support and investment in our parks and recreation system is essential. Compelling reasons to contribute to our parks and rec system abound. But to emulate the success of other cities, we need to replace onerous regulations with reasonable revenue-raising guidelines and create new opportunities for financial growth. We're already doing many things well in Philadelphia. But we need to get better at fostering entrepreneurship and efficiency, improving transparency and accountability and providing sensible pathways for private-sector participation. (The Clark Park Partnership, secret backroom deals, is what she means by transparency and accountability.) http://www.philly.com/dailynews/opinion/20100317_New_way_at_Parks___Rec.html?posted=yviewAll=y#comments Glenn PS: The Clark Park Partnership will convene at a secret unknown location on March 18th. In the interest of the new transparency, it is closed to citizens. You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
[UC] LOST DOG: Yorkiepoo (fr 900 blk of 42nd)
THis was just posted:Lost Dog (West Philadelphia)Date: 2010-03-17, 10:24AM EDTReply to:comm-ukyv2-1648080...@craigslist.org[Errors when replying to ads?]Small Yorkiepoo lost on Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at about 6:00 pm on the 900 Block of 42nd Street. Please return if foundto owner.R. Gaines267-808-2998Location: West Philadelphiait's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interestsPostingID: 1648080582
[UC] smoke detector scam?
Although the fire department does have a smoke detector program, there may be someone trying to case houses. Please see the 2 conversations below from our block listserve. 1. Perhaps this is not necessary (better safe than sorry though), but we had a strange occurrence at our house. Sunday, around noon, a man knocked at our door (4900 block of Cedar). He did not introduce himself and asked whether our smoke detectors were working. Once we told him yes, they are working, he turned around and walked away, and we noticed he didn't walk up to our neighbors. We thought it a bit unusual, and perhaps it was nothing more than that, but I wanted to put it out there since the fire department would have had an obvious uniform and they usually make an initial phone call. Did anyone else experience this visitor over the weekend? He looked to be 5'6'' ish, light-skinned African-American man, early thirties, medium build, and close-cut hair. He wore an all dark-blue uniform with a Ray name badge, and carried a walkie-talkie. 2. I spoke to the fire department, and they said this guy was not with them. They said that the fire department was not checking houses on our block this weekend, and that any legitimate person would clearly say that he or she is from the fire department and show ID. -- -- Dr. Gail Massey Room 243 John Morgan Bldg. Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6082 Ph:215-898-6850; Fax: 215-898-2401 E-Mail: gmas...@reo.med.upenn.edu You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
RE: [UC] smoke detector scam?
Did you call the police? He probably was casing your house for a burglary. If neighbors saw him on the block they'd be likely to pay no notice, thinking he was just a workman. Had you not answered, he would have probably tried to break in. Since you did answer the door, he had to say something to explain away his knock, and since you saw him he had to leave instead of going to the next house, which was what a person with legitimate business would have done. Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:08:47 -0400 To: univcity@list.purple.com; pf...@ccat.sas.upenn.edu From: gmas...@reo.med.upenn.edu Subject: [UC] smoke detector scam? Although the fire department does have a smoke detector program, there may be someone trying to case houses. Please see the 2 conversations below from our block listserve. 1. Perhaps this is not necessary (better safe than sorry though), but we had a strange occurrence at our house. Sunday, around noon, a man knocked at our door (4900 block of Cedar). He did not introduce himself and asked whether our smoke detectors were working. Once we told him yes, they are working, he turned around and walked away, and we noticed he didn't walk up to our neighbors. We thought it a bit unusual, and perhaps it was nothing more than that, but I wanted to put it out there since the fire department would have had an obvious uniform and they usually make an initial phone call. Did anyone else experience this visitor over the weekend? He looked to be 5'6'' ish, light-skinned African-American man, early thirties, medium build, and close-cut hair. He wore an all dark-blue uniform with a Ray name badge, and carried a walkie-talkie. 2. I spoke to the fire department, and they said this guy was not with them. They said that the fire department was not checking houses on our block this weekend, and that any legitimate person would clearly say that he or she is from the fire department and show ID. -- -- Dr. Gail Massey Room 243 John Morgan Bldg. Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6082 Ph:215-898-6850; Fax: 215-898-2401 E-Mail: gmas...@reo.med.upenn.edu You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
[UC-Announce] Sat 3/20: Liberian music, dance, and storytelling at Crossroads
Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 7:30 pm Fatu Gayflor, Zaye Tete, Kormassa Bobo, and Gbahtuo Comgbaye Music, dance, and storytelling from former members of the Liberian National Cultural Troupe now living in Philadelphia (and some of their local students). Crossroads Music 48th and Baltimore Ave. (in Calvary United Methodist Church) http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org or 215-729-1028 Tickets are $10, $5 discount, $15 for supporters, $5 for 12 and under. Tens of thousands of Liberians now live in West and Southwest Philadelphia ˆ more than in any other city outside of Africa ˆ and among them are some of the country's finest singers, dancers, and storytellers. At Crossroads, singers Fatu Gayflor and Zaye Tete, dancer Kormassa Bobo, and storyteller Gbahtuo Comgbaye will present a program of storytelling, dance, and music that will also include participation members of the audience and from some of the young people who have been studying with them here in Philadelphia. Fatu Gayflor started to sing as a child in her home village of Kakata, in northwestern Liberia. A member of the Lorma ethnic group, she was instructed in ritual and songs, and in playing the sasa (sekere), as part of the Sande society as a young girl. In 1978, the Liberian National Cultural Troupe (a dance and music performance ensemble) recruited the 12-year-old Fatu to come to Keneja, the national art village, where she studied traditional praise songs, wedding songs, laments, and so on. She learned songs from 16 ethnic groups across Liberia, and became a lead singer for the Troupe and toured in Liberia and internationally. She recorded her first two albums in Liberia, singing traditional songs with both local and imported instruments to appeal to younger Liberians. Her third recording was made in the Ivory Coast, where she lived for a while in a refugee camp following the eruption of the civil war in Liberia. In that recording, guitars and synthesizers are used a s well because the producers in the Ivory Coast wanted to give the traditional melodies a world beat sound. These records are widely known and beloved among dispersed Liberian communities: in Liberia, Fatu was known as Princess Fatu Gayflor, the golden voice of Liberia. Having lived in the Ivory Coast and in Guinea (also as a refugee), she sings traditional songs of many places. Now a resident of the U.S., she performs for Liberian ceremonies and celebrations in North America. She has performed in the Philadelphia Folklore Project's Philly Dance Africa program and taught at the Folk Arts Cultural Treasures Charter School. Zaye Tete, a singer and dancer, was born in Toweh Town, Nimba County in northeastern Liberia, where her parents and 12 siblings grew coffee and cocoa. She learned traditional dance and song from her father and, along with one of her sisters, performed on the occasion of the birth of a child, the visit of a dignitary, and on feast days following a death. who was a performer as well. In the 1970s, Liberian President William Tolbert saw Zaye perform on a visit to Nimba County and invited her to go join the National Cultural Troupe as a dancer. At the artists' village Kendeja, the 13-year-old, who then knew only her Dan language, studied both English and other academic subjects and singing and dancing from Liberia's other ethnic groups. At the end of the first year at Kendeja, she returned home to study with the Sande Society few months. There she was instructed in the history and proper social relations of the Dan people and learned and performed more traditional songs and dances. After a director of the Troupe overheard her singing Sande Society songs, she was trained as a solo singer as well as a dancer and toured nationally and internationally with the Troupe. In 1990, when the civil war reached the capital, she fled Kendeja on foot, reaching her family in Nimba County two months later. From there she crossed the border to the Ivory Coast. She stayed in Danane refugee camp in Liberia until November 2002, when war broke out in the Ivory Coast. At that time, she escaped to Ghana, where she lived in another camp until she emigrated to the U.S., in the summer of 2004. While in the Ivory Coast, she started a Liberian children's cultural troupe, recruiting kids from the refugee schools. With the help of an international non-governmental organization, she set up a practice hall, found other musicians and dancers to help with the training, and produced and sang and danced in performances in the camp, for the birth of a child, for arrivals of friends or relatives, and so on. Here in the U.S. she performs at Liberian celebrations and clubs. Born into a family known for its skill in dance and music, Kormassa Bobo has been dancing since she was a child. After ten years with with her father's Monigee Dance Troupe in Lofa County, she joined the new Liberian National Dance Troupe organized by the president of Liberia when
[UC] Looking for a window cleaning company
Does anyone know of someone who can do this job for one of my clients, and also for my own house? Thanks, Melani Lamond -- Melani Lamond, Associate Broker Urban Bye, Realtor PA License Number AB048377L 3529 Lancaster Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19104 cell phone 215-356-7266 - office phone 215-222-4800 #113 I-Fax 215-525-3460 Recipient of the most recent Greater Philadelphia Association of Realtors awards Diamond award for over $8 million in sales and ALL SIX of the West Philadelphia awards
RE: [UC] Health care myths about Canada, denver post
Does anyone know what has happened at the Dimitri's Restaurant (corner 45th Chestnut)? It has been closed for over a week.
[UC] 8static
The Inky gets down with 8static, our local monthly chiptunes show at Studio 34. We go every month! http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/88050672.html Frank You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named UnivCity. To unsubscribe or for archive information, see http://www.purple.com/list.html.
