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Ian McClendon - Lobbying Blog #3

Posted by Ian McClendon on
The Triangles on Grays Ferry Gateway Project has been on a hiatus since its last Community Meeting on March 29th. Some major names were present at such as Terri Paone from the Presidents Anna Verna City Council Office. Also State Representative Babette Josephs was there in the break out groups. 

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Anna C. Verna                                                                                                                 babettejosephsweb     Babette Josephs 

Babette Josephs, State Representative, lives near by Grays Ferry and in the meeting she stated that she "has been watching this effort very closely, that the future of this area will be decided by the neighbors, and that what ever decisions are made she will be there to help out!" As the State Representative of the 182nd District she controls a office in Grays Ferry, a District office on Walnut St., and another House of Representatives office in Harrisburg. Honestly who knows how much assistance can she be for the rapid recreation of Grays Ferry?



(2) District Office
1528 Walnut St. Suite 501 
Phila., PA 19102
P: 215.893.1515 
F: 215.560.5816 

(3) Harrisburg Office
House of Representatives, Room 300 
P.O. Box 202182
Harrisburg, PA 17120-2182
P: 717.787.8529 
F: 717.787.0861 

(1) Grays Ferry Office
Barrett-Nabuurs Senior Center
28th & Dickinson St.
Phila., PA 19146 
P: 215.952.3376 
Wed. 8:00-4:00 pm
http://www.babette.org 


As for Terri Paone, I wasn't able to find much background about her. Terri is a member of the (PHCD) Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation Board of Directors. Her presence at the citizen group meeting doesn't seem to useful in pushing forward for the actual changes of Grays Ferry but although Paone could contribute good ideas for the structure and design of improving the area.  

The organizations that sponsor The Gateway Project are:

SOSNA
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CCRA
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SSWBA
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and SOSCDC.

With the help of all these local organizations the community was able to have hired 2 traffic engineers from the Philadelphia Streets Department to review the map, traffic flow, and local business import and exporting areas. At the meeting that I attended last year the engineers where there for the first time and presented many different blue prints of re-mapping the area.   

Here are the blue prints represented in detail of the 5 important safety issues that the community wanted the engineers to tackle: 

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To view all of the detailed blue prints from PSD: CLICK HERE
(Since the meeting before the one in March there seems to be no new additions to the blue prints itself) 


This is just that time where not much, or any at all, action is being taken for the Gateway Project. Now, Im not saying that the citizens, organizations, and the whole community is just lying on their back and giving up but that this is not the right time to focus on a single area of Philadelphia when America is struggling itself. I believe that in a couple years when the economy is back on track Grays Ferry would be first in line to receive notice from City Hall accepting much needed recreation. 
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Philadelphia Curfew Law Update

Posted by Sade Skelton in American Government - Laufenberg on
​My lobbying topic was Philadelphia Minor Curfew. Since the summer is over and school has resumed the curfew hasn't had the same publicity it had in the summer time. Beings though less kids are out during the school year at unreasonable hours the curfew law isn't pushed as hard as it was in the summer time. Just recently the curfew was just passed as a law and would not only apply to University City & Center City but throughout the entire city.Within the next 2 years the city has to prove the effectiveness of the curfew law to the City's Council. The Mayor agrees that this curfew will not stop the violence in the city but it's a good start towards it. Many of the city's residents disagree to this law says it's just a way to punish the youth. 

https://docs.google.com/a/scienceleadership.org/viewer?url=http://www.phila.gov/pdfs/curfewBill.pdf

http://articles.philly.com/2011-10-28/news/30332379_1_new-curfew-mobs-minors

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Music Melodies Compose My Thoughts

Posted by Anonymous in Technology - Hull on
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I chose black so the white letters and white earphones are emphasized.

The picture of me is very simple and I have a very intricate swirl of thoughts representing music. I speak music to represent I represent it. Note that the word are Qis not very important, so it is relatively smaller.

From http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/, I learned that a slide should not cram info. From http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2008/08/learning-from-the-design-around-you-ikea.html I learned that there are certain colors that contrast , so I have a black background. From, http://www.apple.com/iwork/tutorials/#pages-hero I learned how to use Keynote’s Alpha.

http://buzzmarketing.com/2010/11/26/advertising-techniques/ taught me to  use the word “you” or “your” far more than “I” “me” or “we.” And to make things pop out.

I bled my picture out the side and made the headphones pop out against the black. My thoughts of music spiral from my head into ooblivion. There is a minimum of words on my slide. They are absolutely relavant. And they are tilted slightly

 

 

Alexis_McCormick-Q2-Media_Fluency

Posted by Alexis Mc Cormick in Technology - Hull on
​ Here is a Slide Design I thought was a good resource. 
I learned that having a bold color stand out would make your slide look better. And having a item replacing a letter makes it look nice and would catch you eye.

Here is another Slide Design that I though was good aswel. 
It help me out because having a million words on word slide which makes the reader go crazy. So put your words in simpler form.

When I read then Zen link I learned that the picture can bleed of the page. And also I learned that the slide should have a cycle so the eyes of the reader will go around and around and around.

I chose the theme of before and after. The reason for this is because as i grew I released what life really was and that you cant depend of everyone and you have to do things by yourself but you still need help. Just like a flower, it grows on its own but it still needs water and sunlight to grow beautiful and strong.
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Donesha Lee Q2 Media Fluency

Posted by Donesha Lee in Technology - Hull on
​Script (Technology)

 

I followed all of the rules from Ms. Hull’s rubric and www.zachholman.com…

 

1) DESIGN (Color, Size, and Shape)

2) KNOWLEDGE 

3) APPLICATION  

4) PRESENTATION 

5) PROCESS 

 

- One slide.

- A visual theme.

- Make “Size” matter!

 

With the above rules in my head I created a slide with diverse color, big readable text, and connected my visual graphic with my text too tell a story.

DoneshaLee Graphic Design y2

Timothy Ingram Q2 Media Fluency

Posted by Timothy Ingram in Technology - Hull on
I first started off thinking about my life and what I want to do with my life. I knew I wanted to succeed in life and go down the right path. So I decided to put A PATH TO SUCCESS. Then I decided to put a path with men going in the right direction because they want to succeed like me. Also I thought it was a good idea to put a success point, when they reach there access point. I pick these certain colors because it my favorite color and it expresses me.  

http://zachholman.com/posts/slide-design-for-developers/

 

I used this because it gave me a idea how to express myself and how to support my words.  

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Kenyatta Bundy's Slide

Posted by Kenyatta Bundy in Technology - Hull on
On my presentation I made sure that I had a counteracting of COLORS from the CONTRAST of the darker red to the black the the lighter red fonts. Also i made sure the SIZE of the fonts that were more important were larger then that of the other fonts. Also the SIZE of the pictures compared to the fonts are a little larger. Also the alignment and patterns of the pictures were in corners.
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Get to Nomi (know me) !

Posted by Nomi Martin-Brouillette in Technology - Hull on
I put my name in to have that be the central focus. Then, I put things  am intersted in surrounding my name. My name is eye-catching. It is the thing that will most be remembered. My color os not distracting, but will draw attention. My text is big. There are very few words. The colors of the signs are corresponding so the eye will not have to take in too much. This is why i placed everything as I did. 
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El Proyecto de Trader Joe's (Sabrina Stewart-McDonald

Posted by Sabrina Stewart-McDonald in Spanish 3 - Gierke on
​To work as a Tomato Picker in Florida is:
-to have long hours
-to be treated badly by bosses
-to work in the sun
-to make only minimum wage after they collect over 2 tons of tomatoes.

Trabajar como un Recolector de Tomates es:
-tener horas largas
-recibir tratamiento malde jefes
-trabajar en el sol
-ganar soló salario minimo después recogen más de dos toneladas de tomates.

The problem with buying tomatoes from Trader Joe's is that:
-we are allowing people to pay the workers so little
-we are ignoring the rights of other human beings.

El problemo con compramos los tomates de Trader Joe's es que:
-permitimos personas pagar trabajadores malo. 
-ignoramos los derechos de otras humanos.

What can we do?
-start a petition
-protest against Trader Joe's without violence
-not buy any tomatoes from Trader Joe's

¿Qué podemos hacer?
-hagamos una petición
-Protestamos contra de Trader Joe's (sin violencia) 
-no comparamos tomates de Trader Joe's
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Gabriel's Cancion... thingy.

Posted by Gabriel Pingitore in Spanish 3 - Gierke on

Centelleo centelleo pequena estrella

Trabajo de Trader Joe's es muy dificil,

Ellos no tienen remuneracion adecuada,

y recoger tomates durante todo el día

Espero que las cosas cambien muy pronto

Porque me encanta Trader Joe's!


El trabajo en Trader Joe no es justo.

Deben hacer más que ellos.

Me encanta la comida Trader Joe's.

En realidad es demasiado barato


Recogiendo tomates durante todo el día

Es muy caliente cuando lo hacen

Pero a pesar de que no es justo

Alguien tiene que hacerlo!


Era una broma,

Yo no soy esa media,

Pero esperemos que Trader Joe's fija su problema pronto,

Porque yo tengo hambre de unos tomates...


 - What it's like to work as a tomato picker in Florida?

Es muy dificil porque es trabajo mucho. Hace mucho calor y no es que mucho dinero. (The people are forced to work in the heat to lift very heavy barrels of tomatoes for very low prices. This is a very bad problem that can hopefully be solved).



- The problem with buying tomatoes from Trader Joe's?

Si ousted compra los tomates, que apoyan de trabajo. Pero es difícil a evitar. (If you buy tomatoes from Trader Joe's, then you support the work that the people are doing in Florida. Or it simply shows your ignorance towards where the tomatoes are actually coming from).



- What we can do about it?

Podemos hablar con los gentes, y mostrarles el problema. (A lot of people aren't aware of the problem happening in Florida, so maybe if they knew, then they could help change things with us and spread the word).

Trader Joe's Project

Posted by Morgan Marant in Spanish 3 - Gierke on
  • what it's like to work as a tomato picker in Florida 
    The work is really hard and painful. They usually work in horrible conditions and for little pay. 
  • the problem with buying tomatoes from Trader Joe's
    Trader Joe's has refused to boycott companies that make it possible for these conditions to continue. The workers would like one cent more per bucket of tomatoes.
  • what we can do about it 
    We can boycott Trader Joe's and write letter to the CEO. It's not fair for working people to earn less than minimum wage. 
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Q2-Stop Motions

Posted by Dejah Harley in Advanced Art - Hull on
The first three projects for the quarter were stop motions. A stop motion is basically when you take pictures to make a video. You can do this by taking pictures of things in progress.
    With my first two stop motions I focused on the things that we do with our hands. The first things that came to mind was food and water. Therefore, I took one picture at the beginning and moved my hand 2 centimeters closer to the Reese's™ cup like I was trying to eat and took a picture. I keep doing this every two centimeters until I took a bite of  the Reese's™ cup. Another part of this stop motion was my friend drinking a bottle of water. The same concept of taking the pictures that was applied to me biting the Reese's™ cup was applied to her reaching for her water bottle and drink it. After taking all those picture i uploaded all of them from my camera to iMovie. I Then, make each picture fit the screen and take up only .2 seconds of the video. This was able to make it so that it would look as if it was a video playing. Sadly this video cannot be uploaded. However, I uploded the video to my blogger account. Here is the post.
    With my third stop motion I took the project a step further by making everyone who agreed to help do a dance. The dance I chose for them to learn was the robot. It was simple and I knew the perfect song that I would play in the background of the video. The same concept used to make the last stop motions was applied to this one. The only thing different was that I edited the video to make it seem like it was more of a music video or a trailer for a song. The song playing in the background is "D.A.N.C.E." by Justice. The video is shown beneath this post.
    The things that i learned from doing this project are that it is important to keep the same frame or dimensions of the picture to make it seem like the video has more of a flow. I problem that I had while making this project is that you have to take many pictures for the video to be long. Within the second video, I took 140 pictures at it is less than a minute long. Overall, I had a good time doing this project.

Don't Buy The Tomatoes/No Compra Las Tomates

Posted by Mecca Sharrieff in Spanish 3 - Gierke on
Click Here for the website to my project. (Aquí es la pagina de mi proyecto) 

La solución ... a difundir el conocimiento ds buena idea por qué muchas personas puede saber sobre las situación y habla sobre maneras hacer mejor. 

Los mandatos son correctos en el parte de "What You Can Do/Qué Puede Hacer". 

Me gusta el formato, pero yo no quiería un foto de los tomates, porque es muy típico tener. Quiero las personas a imaginar la situación con su mente.

Trader Joe's Tomatoes

Posted by Longnu Nhan on
For this project we had to create either a movie, flyer, or anything we would like to do to create an advertisement to make a difference at Trader Joe's. Para ester proyecto hemos tenido que crear una película, volante, o cualquier cosa que nos gustaría hacer para crear un anuncio para hacer una diferencia en Trader Joe. I decided to create a video because I'm more of a visual person. Decidí crear un video porque yo so más de una persona visual. It's a big deal because farm workers in Florida are working their hardest to give us our healthy eating. It's fair enough to give them a one cent raise because it could make a difference in someone's life. They're working harder then most of us so let's be nice and agree to this event. Es difícil trabajar como obrero agrícola, porque el clima es horrible. Creo que debería haber una petición de estos trabjadores del campo para obtener un aumento.