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From: univcity-digest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2008/07/01 Tue AM 03:15:00 CDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: univcity-digest V1 #1017
univcity-digest Tuesday, July 1 2008 Volume 01 : Number 1017
In this issue:
[UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
Re: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
Re: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
Re: [UC] markets in schools and lettuce
Re: [UC] markets in schools and lettuce
Re: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
Re: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
[UC] Spying blah blah
[UC] BAMBOO last call
[UC] [Fwd: Re: Torture And L & I]
[UC] Fwd: PARROT
[UC] Everyblock - good info about philly
Re: [UC] markets in schools and lettuce
The real-estate Pennspiracy (Was: Re: [UC] [Fwd: Re: Torture And L & I])
Fw: Re: [UC] markets in schools and lettuce
Re: [UC] markets in schools and lettuce
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 08:41:16 -0400
From: "SH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
Hi,
Speaking of corporate rule - has anyone heard the rumor that a local comm.
Group wants to walmart 45th and Baltimore and install cameras to watch the
neighborhood?
Thanks for the info,
Sharon
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:46:08 -0400
From: Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
Time to stock up on black spray paint!
Frank
On Jun 30, 2008, at 08:41 AM, SH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Speaking of corporate rule - has anyone heard the rumor that a local
> comm.
> Group wants to walmart 45th and Baltimore and install cameras to
> watch the
> neighborhood?
>
> Thanks for the info,
> Sharon
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:12:09 -0400
From: John Ellingsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
Can you provide any more details about how you heard of this rumor?
What organization is the proposed org, or company? A Plus/Sunoco may
already have them in place.
It would certainly be a waste of money as it is well documented and
researched that CCTV is ineffective at preventing crime.
An article on their effectiveness in London:
http://tinyurl.com/286pab
John
SH wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Speaking of corporate rule - has anyone heard the rumor that a local comm.
> Group wants to walmart 45th and Baltimore and install cameras to watch the
> neighborhood?
>
> Thanks for the info,
> Sharon
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:11:06 -0400
From: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [UC] markets in schools and lettuce
Anthony West wrote:
> Ray, please. It's not "my original" market approach we're talking about;
> it's both the law of the land and an inevitability of human society,
> that market forces play a role in education as they do in so many other
> walks of life. They never have been absent from the field of education
> and they cannot be made to go away from it.
>
> Markets don't, in themselves, maintain inequalities. Segregationists who
> argue people of different classes should never live side by side,
> because that can only harm the lower classes -- they do maintain
> inequalities, don't they? I don't share their views.
>
> We have fundamentally different interests in this discussion. I am
> interested in the real challenges and choices facing urban education,
> because I have a kid in the system and that makes me think about the
> subject more than I otherwise might. You are looking for occasions to
> complain about Penn and capitalism, as usual (two obviously allied, but
> somewhat distinct, critters). Outcomes don't matter to you; only
> judgements matter. Always the same judgement, too.
>
> I'll leave you to your pet judgement. I'll continue to comment on the
> real challenges and choices. Urban education in Philadelphia is at a
> crossroads. Wherever it is headed next, one thing's for sure: it's not
> going back to that "egalitarian" quagmire of guaranteed low expectations
> for every child, especially when he's a child of color.
the solution to your school choice problem is simple: sell
your house and move out of the catchment area. why limit
your options now that your son has graduated to high school?
instead of freaking out about the system and the egalitarian
quagmire, shop around! it's outcomes that matter -- and
besides, only segregationists, not markets, maintain
inequalities.
..................
UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:15:01 -0400
From: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [UC] markets in schools and lettuce
Wilma de Soto wrote:
> You know something Ray?
>
> I rather kind of like the vegetable stand analogy, if I could pick fresh
> ready to eat vegetables, throw out the rotten vegetables and not buy ine who
> were just not up to par.
>
> That's the was private and many charter schools do it.
>
> The not up to par and rotten vegetables are the ones I HAVE to take and make
> a comparable meal as good or better than those who got the better product
> and put more money to put into it.
>
> Money I once had some access to, but must be sacrificed to charter schools
> and EMOs
>
> Some of us get to shop at Wegman's and others only at Food Rite.
haha thanks, wilma.
[yes, I like the analogy, too]
..................
UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:27:24 -0400
From: "Glenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
Hi Sharon,
The market at 45th and Baltimore, The People's Market, was shut down. I
don't know about the cameras but there is a trend in local closures.
O'Haras at 39th and Chestnut had also existed for decades before what has
been described as a "strongarm" closure.. Kelliannes had been a working
class bar at 44th and Spruce for decades. I knew the owner was having
trouble. A buyout offer was offered to him.
Another local establishment patronized by local working class folks and
ethnic minorities (name withheld to avoid additional harrassment) spent
$30,000 in legal fees to successfully sue Phila L & I for harrassment.
Of course, the Francisville 4 are homeless because the police and L & I
falsely accused vandalism of one of these cameras as a reason to inprison
those dissenters and seize their home.
In 2003, Penn via its surrogate UCD was bragging to the Phiadelphia Business
Journal about its use of L&I to intimidate Baltimore Ave businesses.
Essentially, if a business refused the strongarm tactics to "upscale" like
the famous Sugar Hill Bakery, L& I was used to intimidate them.
This misuse of government agencies has been almost universally used as a
society shifts to a totalitarian regime. Personally, I think we're past the
camera intimidation phase. Why bother with cameras when the police, L&I,
and all other government agencies are available to oppress, torture, and
inprison dissent to corporate rule? I expect Blackwater Inc. patrols in the
district unless the US invades Canada or Venezuela soon.
Ruled by corporate (confirmed):
1 Phila and Penn police
2. Licensce and Inspection
3. The Department of Recreation
4. Zoning Board of Adjustment
5. Department of Streets
6. Philadelphia School District
7. Philadelphia Historic Commission
8. Various elected officials
Take care,
Glenn
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Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 8:41 AM
Subject: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
> Hi,
>
> Speaking of corporate rule - has anyone heard the rumor that a local comm.
> Group wants to walmart 45th and Baltimore and install cameras to watch the
> neighborhood?
>
> Thanks for the info,
> Sharon
>
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:53:17 -0400
From: "Glenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
> An article on their effectiveness in London:
> http://tinyurl.com/286pab
>
John,
I also saw a brief BBC report. Apparently, in the UK, local governments
were using these cameras primarily for minor infractions like litter or the
famous "dog poop" crimes.
As I understood the brief report, local governments are being ordered to
stop this use or they will lose their cameras. The oppresive message this
"eye" sends out over the people has been judged to cause more damage than
benefit to society.
glenn
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From: "John Ellingsworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "SH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 10:12 AM
Subject: Re: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
> Can you provide any more details about how you heard of this rumor? What
> organization is the proposed org, or company? A Plus/Sunoco may already
> have them in place.
>
> It would certainly be a waste of money as it is well documented and
> researched that CCTV is ineffective at preventing crime.
>
> An article on their effectiveness in London:
> http://tinyurl.com/286pab
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> SH wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Speaking of corporate rule - has anyone heard the rumor that a local
>> comm.
>> Group wants to walmart 45th and Baltimore and install cameras to watch
>> the
>> neighborhood?
>>
>> Thanks for the info,
>> Sharon
>>
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Subject: [UC] Spying blah blah
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:48:17 -0400
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Subject: [UC] BAMBOO last call
Bamboo last call
come and get it
going fast
hurray
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:48:18 -0400
From: Joe Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [UC] [Fwd: Re: Torture And L & I]
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:47:47 -0400
From: Joe Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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I made an appointment with L & I to be tortured, but they never showed
up! What do you got to do to get them to come out?
But seriously now: I don't think that the vertical integration of
corporate America with L& I or the police department to route small time
businesses is very likely. It seems like the corruption that exists in
some of the city departments would thwart any meaningful alliance to
conquer Philadelphia and the world. I think the recent PHA, Kenny Gamble
& HUD fiasco shows how the "left hand is cutting off the right hand in
order to get to the money first. Ironically, the City may be our last
best hope to defeat the Military Industrial Christian Zionist Complex's
march to Armageddon.
However I do believe that Penn is another matter. It was just announced
that Penn Praxis was hired to do an evaluation of the Casino sites, to
see if it was rammed through. Rendell and Nutter are both Penn Alum's.
I believe the School Board has had a cozy relationship with Penn's
Graduate school of Ed for many years, providing it with many of its
own. I know that the NIS -- Neighborhood Information System -- is a
joint project between Penn school of Urban planning, Social Work, and
the City's Bureau of records. The online resource database for social
workers, S.O.S., was also a product of the City and Penn. Penn's got
its fingers in many pies. The financing of the Wharton School's
expansion deserves its own scrutiny. "Penn-gemoney" is here to stay and
it seems to operate below the radar of the local media (which has its
head in the clouds, literally, with its Dopellar 750, pregnant reporters
and Health reports that are really infomercials for cosmetic surgeries
that never seem to be covered by any insurance companies.)
Anyway, I gotta go now. There are also the good people that exist at
every level who don't go along with the plan.
Joe (longing for the return of the Pirhanna Brothers) Clarke
DINSDALE!!!!
Glenn wrote:
> Hi Sharon,
>
> The market at 45th and Baltimore, The People's Market, was shut down.
> I don't know about the cameras but there is a trend in local closures.
>
> O'Haras at 39th and Chestnut had also existed for decades before what
> has been described as a "strongarm" closure.. Kelliannes had been a
> working class bar at 44th and Spruce for decades. I knew the owner
> was having trouble. A buyout offer was offered to him.
>
> Another local establishment patronized by local working class folks
> and ethnic minorities (name withheld to avoid additional harrassment)
> spent $30,000 in legal fees to successfully sue Phila L & I for
> harrassment.
>
> Of course, the Francisville 4 are homeless because the police and L &
> I falsely accused vandalism of one of these cameras as a reason to
> inprison those dissenters and seize their home.
>
> In 2003, Penn via its surrogate UCD was bragging to the Phiadelphia
> Business Journal about its use of L&I to intimidate Baltimore Ave
> businesses. Essentially, if a business refused the strongarm tactics
> to "upscale" like the famous Sugar Hill Bakery, L& I was used to
> intimidate them.
>
> This misuse of government agencies has been almost universally used as
> a society shifts to a totalitarian regime. Personally, I think we're
> past the camera intimidation phase. Why bother with cameras I expect
> Blackwater Inc. patrols in the district unless the US invades Canada
> or Venezuela soon.
>
> Ruled by corporate (confirmed):
> 1 Phila and Penn police
> 2. Licensce and Inspection
> 3. The Department of Recreation
> 4. Zoning Board of Adjustment
> 5. Department of Streets
> 6. Philadelphia School District
> 7. Philadelphia Historic Commission
> 8. Various elected officials
>
> Take care,
> Glenn
>
>
>
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> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 8:41 AM
> Subject: [UC] RE: univcity-digest V1 #1016
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Speaking of corporate rule - has anyone heard the rumor that a local
>> comm.
>> Group wants to walmart 45th and Baltimore and install cameras to
>> watch the
>> neighborhood?
>>
>> Thanks for the info,
>> Sharon
>>
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:53:17 -0400
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Subject: [UC] Fwd: PARROT
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> Subject: PARROT
>
> A banded and sociable parrot has been found nibbling in my garden,
> it is very beautiful and is waiting here for its legitimate
> claimant. - Rick
>
> "Vividly colored bird of the order Psittaciformes, with a short down-
> curved hooked bill, a loud raucus voice, and grasping feet, it is
> frequently found feeding on fruits and seeds. The parrot is
> sometimes able to mimic the human voice, "
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From: Andy Diller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [UC] Everyblock - good info about philly
FYI:
http://philly.everyblock.com/locations/neighborhoods/cedar-park/
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 21:37:34 -0400
From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [UC] markets in schools and lettuce
The School Reform Commission (that is the School District's direct boss
these days) announced the sixth straight year of gains in test scores
since the SRC took over Philadelphia's public schools in December 2001.
The mood was upbeat at SD HQ on N. Broad St. this afternoon. It's not so
much that 2008 posted handsome gains; rather, the reform model the SRC
followed from the beginning was very research-oriented, very
outcome-oriented, and over time has delivered what it was asked to deliver.
From 2002 to 2008, the percentage of students rated "advanced or
proficient" in reading has gone from 23.9% to 44.8%. Those scoring
"advanced or proficient" in mathematics have gone from 19.5% to 49.0%.
"Below basic" numbers have tumbled accordingly -- in reading, from 49.4%
to 33.2%; in mathematics, from 59.2% to 30.8%.
A confident hope expressed by SRC Chairwoman Sandra Dungee Glenn was the
ever-more-impressive results delivered by the Philadelphia School
District will be rewarded by the General Assembly with substantial net
gains in this year's Pennsylvania State budget, which is in the final
hours of negotiations now.
The press conference was ill suited to single-school or single-manager
discussions. Dungee Glenn did, however, emphasize the SRC is relatively
satisfied with all three management models -- SD schools, charter
schools and EMO schools (which include the Penn partnership three)
because all three models have been showing impressive gains.
"We are moving away from model comparisons and an emphasis on
competitiveness," Dungee Glenn elaborated. "What we do need to learn
from those schools that are doing well, are best practices that can be
transmitted to other schools under different management."
At this point, I'm not prepared to follow Ray's advice and "move out" of
the SD's "catchment areas" -- just give up on Philadelphia, in other
words. There are remarkable signs our city may be in the process of
figuring out something new and important about urban public education.
Pessimism never goes out of style in this area, with good reason, so I
respect everyone's cynicism to a point. But we should stay open to the
possibility something new and better is coming down the pike -- maybe
even in our neighborhood.
- -- Tony West
> Anthony West wrote:
>> Markets don't, in themselves, maintain inequalities. Segregationists
>> who argue people of different classes should never live side by side,
>> because that can only harm the lower classes -- they do maintain
>> inequalities, don't they? I don't share their views.
>>
>> We have fundamentally different interests in this discussion. I am
>> interested in the real challenges and choices facing urban education,
>> because I have a kid in the system and that makes me think about the
>> subject more than I otherwise might. You are looking for occasions to
>> complain about Penn and capitalism, as usual (two obviously allied,
>> but somewhat distinct, critters). Outcomes don't matter to you; only
>> judgements matter. Always the same judgement, too.
>>
>> I'll leave you to your pet judgement. I'll continue to comment on the
>> real challenges and choices. Urban education in Philadelphia is at a
>> crossroads. Wherever it is headed next, one thing's for sure: it's
>> not going back to that "egalitarian" quagmire of guaranteed low
>> expectations for every child, especially when he's a child of color.
> the solution to your school choice problem is simple: sell your house
> and move out of the catchment area. why limit your options now that
> your son has graduated to high school? instead of freaking out about
> the system and the egalitarian quagmire, shop around! it's outcomes
> that matter -- and besides, only segregationists, not markets,
> maintain inequalities.
> ..................
> UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:45:25 -0400
From: Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The real-estate Pennspiracy (Was: Re: [UC] [Fwd: Re: Torture And L &
I])
I copy that, Joe. Furthermore, the notion Penn has nothing better to do
at its power breakfasts than conspire to take over West Philadelphia, is
a hoot. That'd be like sending in the Marines, to conquer ... Grenada.
Surely Wharton's strategists are capable of grander visions.
Pennspiracy theorists out there may enjoy what follows. When
Philadelphia voters became passive consumers of notorious Wharton secret
agent Michael Nutter, perhaps they didn't reckon on picking up all his
fellow Pennspirators as well. In addition to PennPraxis, whose sinister
effort to develop the Delaware River with community input and without
casinos has received big publicity lately, Nutter has been stocking his
cabinet with fellow Penn tools for months.
The list is long, but let's take a look at just one: Senior Penn Fellow
Mark Alan Hughes was just named Director of Sustainability -- Philly's
first "green czar". This engaging 007 of Ivy-League corporate
skullduggery had recently completed a stint posing as a columnist for
the working-class-cred Daily News (how fiendishly clever can Judith
Rodin get?).
In the course of his columnar duties, Hughes wrote a very interesting
column on ... that's right, the Penn Alexander School and real estate!
Check it out at _http://www.mahughes.org/showarticles.cfm?artid=207_.
Hah! That just about clinches it ... whatever "it" means.
- -- Tony West
Joe Clarke wrote:
> I made an appointment with L & I to be tortured, but they never showed
> up! What do you got to do to get them to come out?
> But seriously now: I don't think that the vertical integration of
> corporate America with L& I or the police department to route small
> time businesses is very likely. It seems like the corruption that
> exists in some of the city departments would thwart any meaningful
> alliance to conquer Philadelphia and the world. I think the recent
> PHA, Kenny Gamble & HUD fiasco shows how the "left hand is cutting off
> the right hand in order to get to the money first. Ironically, the
> City may be our last best hope to defeat the Military Industrial
> Christian Zionist Complex's march to Armageddon.
> However I do believe that Penn is another matter. It was just
> announced that Penn Praxis was hired to do an evaluation of the Casino
> sites, to see if it was rammed through. Rendell and Nutter are both
> Penn Alum's. I believe the School Board has had a cozy relationship
> with Penn's Graduate school of Ed for many years, providing it with
> many of its own. I know that the NIS -- Neighborhood Information
> System -- is a joint project between Penn school of Urban planning,
> Social Work, and the City's Bureau of records. The online resource
> database for social workers, S.O.S., was also a product of the City
> and Penn. Penn's got its fingers in many pies. The financing of the
> Wharton School's expansion deserves its own scrutiny. "Penn-gemoney"
> is here to stay and it seems to operate below the radar of the local
> media (which has its head in the clouds, literally, with its Dopellar
> 750, pregnant reporters and Health reports that are really
> infomercials for cosmetic surgeries that never seem to be covered by
> any insurance companies.)
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Liz
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Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:34:42 -0400
From: UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [UC] markets in schools and lettuce
Anthony West wrote:
> "We are moving away from model comparisons and an emphasis on
> competitiveness," Dungee Glenn elaborated. "What we do need to learn
> from those schools that are doing well, are best practices that can be
> transmitted to other schools under different management."
yes! that is exactly what I meant by "maybe it's time to
start looking at public schools not as competing vegetable
stands, but as places that prepare us for life -- inside and
outside the marketplace."
> At this point, I'm not prepared to follow Ray's advice and "move out" of
> the SD's "catchment areas" -- just give up on Philadelphia, in other
> words.
of course, I wasn't advising you to leave, I was prodding
you into explaining how one is to deal with the inequitable
delivery of/access to quality public education in the city.
hope is always fine, but in the meantime not everyone is in
an equal position where they can afford to wait and see, nor
is everyone in an equal position of mobility "when something
new and better comes down the pike." thoughts?
..................
UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
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