[UC] Penn Science Cafe presents Dog My Cats - Feb 16

[Linda Lee]

-- Forwarded message --From: Penn Arts & Sciences Date: Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 3:54 PMSubject: Penn Science Cafe Presents Dog My CatsDog My Cats: Why Cats Are Not Small Dogs In Shelters The Obvious, the Occult, and the Counterintuitive World of Animal Shelteringwith Michael Moyer, VMD, Rosenthal Director of Shelter Animal MedicineWednesday, February, 16 2011, 7 p.m.MarBar2nd Floor, Marathon Grill40th and Walnut StreetsMenu items available for purchase.Cats, sheltering, homeless animals, and prospective adopter markets are not always in perfect alignment. The situation for dogs is better, but for certain breed types, still not very good. Dr. Moyer is a former animal shelter executive, a practicing veterinarian, and more recently, an educator in a field of high stakes, scarce resources, and often absent data. Moyer has also held various elected and appointed positions within these organizations, notably having served as the PVMA's President for the year 2004 and was awarded the PVMA Veterinarian of the Year award for 2005. He is currently the President-Elect and Board Member of the American Animal Hospital Association.Hauling science out of the lab for a night on the town, the Penn Science Café offers the Philadelphia region an opportunity to pitch questions to leading scientific experts who drop the jargon to explain their work in layman's terms. Featuring faculty from the School of Arts and Sciences—as well as Penn's schools of Engineering and Applied Science, Medicine and Veterinary Medicine—all Penn Science Café events are free and open to the public.RSVP to Gina Bryan at brya...@pobox.upenn.edu or 215-898-8721.RSVPs are required.Upcoming Penn Science Café events includeMarch 16, 2011STEALING THE PAST: COLLECTORS AND MUSEUMS OF THE 21ST CENTURY with Richard Leventhal, Curator, Penn MuseumApril 20, 2011FROM BARBERSHOPS TO BASKETBALL COURTS: CULTURALLY RELEVANT INTERVENTIONS IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY with Howard Stevenson, Associate Professor of Applied Psychology, Graduate School of EducationMay 18, 2011NEUROECONOMICS: DECISION MAKING AND THE BRAIN with Joe Kable, Associate Professor of Psychology:Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, University Communications and the School of Arts and Sciences

[UC] Found Dog - maybe Akita mix

[Linda Lee]

from craigslist:Found Dog in West Philly! (St. Bernard Street)Date: 2011-02-13, 10:03PM ESTReply to: comm-jtbgb-2213225...@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]I found this sweet, youngish, overweight, neutered male today. I'm guessing he's an Akita mix. Does anyone know him? He is NOT Bear, the missing Akita mix that there are signs about in the same neighborhood- we think someone must have dropped him off on that block assuming he was Bear. Location: St. Bernard Streetit's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Re: [UC] Breaking news via Marty Cabry about the Windermere demolition!

[Joe Clarke]

Thanks Melanie, et al.  for your persistance and finding the information for
me to participate.  I sent an email to Marty Cabry.

Take Care,

Joe Clarke

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 7:14 PM, Melani Lamond  wrote:

> Marty Cabry just phoned & asked me to share this update from Councilwoman
> Blackwell's office:
>
> "We've been granted 48 hours for the judge to review our request to set
> aside the L&I ruling from Friday (for immediate demolition).
>
> When the judge makes that decision, we are hoping that he'll allow some
> type of "salvage" for pets & possessions."
>
> GREAT NEWS!  We still need to continue to communicate our concerns, so that
> they can be shared with the judge & city officials.  But many thanks is due
> to Jannie Blackwell & Marty Cabry for their work on this today!
>
> Happy Valentines Day, everyone!
>
> Melani
>
>
>
> Melani Lamond, Associate Broker
> Urban & Bye, Realtor
> 3529 Lancaster Ave.
> Philadelphia, PA 19104
> cell phone 215-356-7266
> office phone 215-222-4800, ext. 113
>
>
> 
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[UC] Breaking news via Marty Cabry about the Windermere demolition!

[Melani Lamond]

Marty Cabry just phoned & asked me to share this update from 
Councilwoman Blackwell's office:


"We've been granted 48 hours for the judge to review our request to set 
aside the L&I ruling from Friday (for immediate demolition).


When the judge makes that decision, we are hoping that he'll allow some 
type of "salvage" for pets & possessions."


GREAT NEWS!  We still need to continue to communicate our concerns, so 
that they can be shared with the judge & city officials.  But many 
thanks is due to Jannie Blackwell & Marty Cabry for their work on this 
today!


Happy Valentines Day, everyone!

Melani



Melani Lamond, Associate Broker
Urban & Bye, Realtor
3529 Lancaster Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
cell phone 215-356-7266
office phone 215-222-4800, ext. 113



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[UC] WINDERMERE

[Cindy Miller]

KYW reports 48-hr. stay of demolition.

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[UC] Update: Action to save the Windermere cats & help tenants get their possessions back

[Melani Lamond]

There is information circulating now that "the City is demanding 
demolition with the live pets inside and without letting residents 
retrieve their irreplaceable items...The bldg owners are trying to 
fight them..."HOWEVER, I wonder if this is the building owners' latest 
ploy to pass the buck, which I understand has been going back and forth 
for a few weeks like this:  It's L&I's decision --> It's the owners' 
decision --> it's the insurance company's decision --> it's the owners' 
decision --> it's L&I's decision...


AN UPDATE I can share is this:  one part of "the city" which is 
actively on the case here is Jannie Blackwell's office.   The 
Councilwoman, and also Marty Cabry from her office, were at the 
demonstration on Saturday and were at the building again early this 
morning.  Jannie Blackwell herself signed the petition asking that 
demolition be delayed.  She has long been a compassionate advocate for 
the displaced, so this situation is something she cares deeply about.


I was at her office early this afternoon to hand deliver our petitions 
with over 250 signatures on them to Marty Cabry.  He assured me that 
the Councilwoman is working very hard on this.  He said they are in 
contact with the owners & are waiting for a judge.  He said that TROs 
(temporary restraining orders) are not unusual when buildings are to be 
torn down.


There are also, according to Marty, several things the owners have to 
do before the building can be knocked down, relating to asbestos 
inspection, etc.  Since those things are not yet done, there can be no 
actual demo yet.


HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Marty said that it is helpful to have the petitions and other 
communications to show that many folks are strongly concerned about 
this.  I hate to flood Marty's email box, but I'd suggest that we help 
him, and help Councilwoman Blackwell, show that we are concerned by 
emailing or faxing notes to their office.


Marty's email address is marty.ca...@phila.gov.  I've cc'd him here.

The fax number for Jannie Blackwell's office is 215-686-1933.

Please send notes thanking them for their help and telling them how 
much you support getting the cats & possessions out of the building 
before demolition begins.  Help the Councilwoman's office to keep the 
pressure on!


Thanks,

Melani

Melani Lamond, Associate Broker
Urban & Bye, Realtor
3529 Lancaster Ave.
Philadelphia, PA 19104
cell phone 215-356-7266
office phone 215-222-4800, ext. 113


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Re: [UC] Action Needed: Call the Mayor's Office re: Windermere

[Krfapt]

Dear well-meaning neighbors:
 
Does anybody think Mayor Nutter is going to override the L&I  inspectors 
who declared the building to be an imminent danger? Does anybody  think that 
Commissioner Burns is going to get some inspectors who will now say  that the 
building is safe, after some of their colleagues said it wasn't?
 
If so, whoever thinks either of these things, please contact me  
immediately! I will give you the email address of someone who works for a bank  
in the 
Ivory Coast and is looking for a trustworthy person in the US to receive  
and then invest $7,045,231.20 from the account of someone who died  intestate 
in a cruise ship hijacking. (You can buy the building with this  money, 
then, when you own it, you can go in there yourself).
 
Al Krigman
  

   


 
In a message dated 2/14/2011 2:49:48 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
l...@verizon.net writes:

Just posted by Eli Green (with City Kitties):


We have confirmed that it is  the City that is demanding demolition with 
the live pets inside and without  letting residents retrieve their 
irreplaceable items.  The bldg owners are trying to  fight them - the owners 
want to 
secure the building so that people can go in,  before demo!  PLEASE CALL THE 
MAYOR'S OFFICE, and demand that they allow  residents and rescuers access to 
the building before demolition to get the  cats out and so people can get 
their belongings. The more pressure, the  better. His email address is: 
_michael.nutter@phila.gov_ (mailto:michael.nut...@phila.gov)  and phone number 
is 
215-686-2181.   You will  get a live person when you call this number who 
will record your complaint.   



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
SAMPLE  LETTER:













Dear Mayor Nutter:

As Mayor of Philadelphia, you know how important  homes are to the 
residents of your city. Homes aren't just the places we  live--they are the 
repositories of our belongings, the places our beloved pets  live, and where we 
go 
at the end of the day to feel safe.

The  residents of the Windermere Apts. in West Philadelphia have lost so 
much of  their homes due to a fire last month. Please help them to avoid 
losing  everything--including their living, suffering animals.

I ask you to  please stop the demolition of the Windermere Apts. until 
rescuers have been  able to save the cats inside, and residents have been able 
to get in and  safely remove their salvageable possessions.

I urge you to make this  situation better, instead of  worse.

[UC] Action Needed: Call the Mayor's Office re: Windermere

[Linda Lee]

Just posted by Eli Green (with City Kitties):

We have confirmed that it is the City that is demanding demolition  
with the live pets inside and without letting residents retrieve their  
irreplaceable items.   The bldg owners are trying to fight them - the  
owners want to secure the building so that people can go in, before  
demo!  PLEASE CALL THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, and demand that they allow  
residents and rescuers access to the building before demolition to get  
the cats out and so people can get their belongings. The more  
pressure, the better. His email address is: michael.nut...@phila.gov  
and phone number is 215-686-2181.   You will get a live person when  
you call this number who will record your complaint.


SAMPLE LETTER:

Dear Mayor Nutter:

As Mayor of Philadelphia, you know how important homes are to the  
residents of your city. Homes aren't just the places we live--they are  
the repositories of our belongings, the places our beloved pets live,  
and where we go at the end of the day to feel safe.


The residents of the Windermere Apts. in West Philadelphia have lost  
so much of their homes due to a fire last month. Please help them to  
avoid losing everything--including their living, suffering animals.


I ask you to please stop the demolition of the Windermere Apts. until  
rescuers have been able to save the cats inside, and residents have  
been able to get in and safely remove their salvageable possessions.


I urge you to make this situation better, instead of worse.

Thank you,
name, Philadelphia.

His email address is: michael.nut...@phila.gov and phone number is  
215-686-2181.


Eli R. Green, MA, MEd
e...@citykitties.org
www.CityKitties.org

[UC] WAYS YOU CAN SUPPORT THE WINDERMERE TENANTS

[Linda Lee]

From City Kitties (excerpted from yesterday's posting on their  
website):


Our work is not done. We must continue to support the Windermere  
tenants — our neighbors — in their efforts to retrieve their  
irreplaceable possessions. And we must ensure that this NEVER happens  
again.


Here is what YOU can do:

1. Go to 4800 Walnut Street at 8:45am tomorrow, 2/14. Windermere  
residents, the Walnut Hill Community Association, City Kitties  
volunteers, neighbors, and other supporters will be there to meet the  
owner and the demolition company. Let’s keep the pressure on them.


2. Call or email the below people and calmly, politely inform them  
that the City of Philadelphia’s response in the wake of this disaster  
was unacceptable. Tell them that the City failed the tenants and their  
pets at every turn, and that we will hold City agencies accountable  
for their inaction, poor communication, and lack of support.


Office of Mayor Michael Nutter
215.686.2181
michael.nut...@phila.gov

Office of Emergency Management
Samantha Phillips, Assistant Managing Director
samantha.phill...@phila.gov or 215-686-4465
Joan Przybylowicz, Deputy Director for External Affairs/Public  
Information Office

joan.przybylow...@phila.gov or 215-686-4474

3. Write a letter of support and thanks to George Bengal, Director of  
Law Enforcement at the PSPCA, and copy Sue Cosby, PSPCA CEO. Let them  
know that the animal cruelty investigators/humane law officers did an  
amazing job. We can’t thank George and his team enough.


The Pennsylvania SPCA
350 E. Erie Avenue
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19134
sco...@pspca.org

4. And last but certainly not least, you can support the Windermere  
tenants by making a donation to the Walnut Hill Community  
Association’s fund for victims of the fire. Donations to the Red Cross  
and Salvation Army do NOT go directly to the victims. Donations to  
WHCA will make it directly into victims’ hands.

[UC] PLEASE ATTEND THE RALLY THIS MORNING

[Linda Lee]

This is so very urgent!

Begin forwarded message:


the contractors are here already - please come out to 48th and Walnut!
we need a lot of people!  they've begun unloading heavy equipment,
and news crews are here.

jb

On Monday, February 14, 2011, JB Farley  wrote:

Please forward this on!

Demonstration today (Monday) at 9:00 am to prevent the demolition  
process from beginning.  Please join us!


On January 10, the disastrous Windermere Court apartment fire was  
at the forefront of Philadelphia's attention.  As traumatic as that  
day was, the last month has been a lot worse for the former  
residents.  While the entire greater Philadelphia community went  
out of its way to show us love and generosity, the city and the  
building owners have left us stranded in a twilight zone.


The city has no way to deal with the repercussions of a disaster  
like the Windermere fire.  We were 90 households.  Imagine if the  
city faced a larger disaster!  How would it respond?  There was  
terrible co-ordination between organizations, with little evidence  
of information-sharing.  There was no central clearinghouse for  
information about the fire, the displaced residents, the  
investigation, or the future of the building and its contents.


The former residents had to build that on own own.  With a lot of  
hard work, we generated our own list of displaced Windermere  
residents and their contact info, which the city later asked for.   
They didn't have their own.  Some of us trudged down to City Hall  
and the MSB, and some of us searched on-line, all to track down any  
available documents related to the fire, because we couldn't get  
answers from officials supposedly in charge.  In meetings, we found  
ourselves having to brief the city on developments, instead of the  
other way around.


We took responsibility for one another.  The city, the management,  
and their insurance company instead played a game of “Pass the  
Buck,” and they've been playing it for too long now.  We need to  
know if we or our representatives will be allowed into the  
building.  Right now, if you talk to the owners, they say it's up  
to the insurance company, and the insurance company says it's up to  
L&I, and L&I says it's up to the owners.  It's like rocks-paper- 
scissors, except we always lose.  As we scrambled to find answers,  
they rushed through the demolition approval process.  Demolition  
proceedings are due to start Monday morning, February 14.


While there is damage throughout the building, most of the 90+  
units were not destroyed.  The contents of those apartments were  
not magically destroyed that day.  As the sun rose the day after  
the fire, sitting just out of arm's reach were family photographs,  
priceless heirlooms, fireproof lock boxes containing birth  
certificates and immigration documents and cash savings, love  
letters, gifts, books, mementos.  Some of that is still in the  
building (perhaps).


Much much worse, there are still pets in the building. Although we  
were assured a week after the fire that no pets had survived,  
owners of missing pets did not give up.  A grassroots effort has  
managed to lure missing animals into baited traps and get them back  
to their owners.  After our protest at the building this last  
Saturday, the PSPCA broke the locks and entered the building with a  
warrant.  They rescued one cat, almost trapped another, and saw  
fresh evidence of many cats still living in the building.


The PSPCA also gave us our first complete picture of what the  
inside of the building looks like now.


It's been ransacked – looters emptied the contents of drawers onto  
the floor, pried open lock boxes, left furniture untouched but took  
the electronics.  A number of registered guns are missing.  This is  
no surprise.


The city had already pulled police presence off with no notice to  
us shortly after the fire.  Then, the private security that  
replaced them was pulled off last Tuesday.  We only found out when  
we checked on the building ourselves.  Former residents had to form  
our own security patrols, walking a beat around the building with  
the wind chill below freezing every night.  Suddenly, now that  
demolition is imminent, the security company has reappeared.


The police said that when they were guarding the building, they  
only let authorized people in.  The management and the security  
company say they didn't let any looters in either, and that any  
looting happened prior to their watch.


The owners said they had a plan to clean the building and make  
basic repairs – that was weeks ago.  Our city council  
representative said she initiated a plan to get insured contractors  
into the building to retrieve our property, but called it off after  
the owners claimed permission had to come from L&I – that was weeks  
ago.


Why have we been abandoned like this?

Our neighbors lifted us up in our time of need.  The Red Cross, the  
Salvation Army, the Bibl