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RESCUED FROM a gas chamber in Ala., Daniel the beagle has become a causecélèbre among animal-rights activists who call this form of euthanasia inhumane.State Sen. Andrew Dinniman hopes to put an end to this practice in Penna. Storypage 5.

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T h e P h i l a d e l p h i a P u b l i c R e c o r d C a l e n d a rDec.15-

City’s Christmas Crèche dedication

at NEC of Love Pk., 16th & Arch, ad-

jacent to Christmas Village, 3 p.m.

Carols by St. Francis Xavier School

students. All invited.

Dec. 15-

Berean Institute Christmas Open

House at 1901 W. Girard Ave., 5-9

p.m. For info (215) 763-4833.

Dec. 15-

Christmas Celebration in 6300 block

Germantown Ave., 6-7 p.m. Corpo-

rate and community donations wel-

come! For more info, to make a

donation, A. Neal (215) 438-1768 or

A. Alexander (215) 844-9345.

Dec. 15-

Join Stephanie Singer for an evening

of political comedy at “This Is the

Week that Is”, 1812 Productions’

yearly political satire. Tickets, $20,

cover cost of theater ticket, plus a

donation of any size (from $1 up to

the legal individual maximum of

$2,600). For info John Barber (484)

469-0633.

Dec. 17-

Volunteers needed to help wrap gifts

for Councilwoman Jannie Black-

well’s Christmas Holiday Party for

Homeless. Join her in City Hall Rm.

401, 9 a.m. Call to sign up (215)

686-3418.

Dec. 17-

Phila. Federation of Young Republi-

cans hosts Christmas Party at Liber-

ties, 705 N. 2nd St., 3-7 p.m. Tickets

$20.

Dec. 17-

Committee to Elect Brett Mandel

hosts Auld Lang Syne cocktail re-

ception at 2303 Lombard St., 6-8

p.m. Contributions $100 to $1,000.

For info www.brettmandel.com.

Dec. 17-

Black Professionals Christmas Party

at African American Museum, 7th &

Arch Sts., 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $50 includes

live music, entertainment. For info

Earl Harvey (267) 244-3860.

Dec. 17-

N.W. Futures PAC Christmas Bash

at 5547 Germantown Ave., 9 p.m.-1

a.m. $20. BYOB. For info Derek S.

Green, Esq., (216) 205-4988.

Dec. 20-

Councilwoman Jannie Blackwell

hosts City’s homeless at her annual

Christmas Party at Pennsylvania

Convention Ctr., 3-7 p.m.

Dec. 20-

State Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown

hosts Winter Wonderland Open

House at Sayre HS, 58th & Walnut

Sts., 5 p.m. Clowns, face-painting,

magic show, child-safety, constituent

services. Santa will come with gifts

for children. Free but must RSVP for

ticket (215) 879-6615.

Dec. 22-

State Rep. Vanessa Lowery Brown

hosts Winter Wonderland Open

House at HS for Future, 4021 Park-

side Ave., 5 p.m. Clowns, face-paint-

ing, magic show, child-safety,

constituent services. Santa will come

with gifts for children. Free but must

RSVP for ticket (215) 879-6615.

Dec. 29-

Friends of Council Majority Leader-

Elect Curtis Jones hosts “Black Out

Party” at 4130 Main St., next to

Manayunk Brewery, 8 p.m.-1 a.m.

Dress in black. VIP Cocktail 6-8

p.m. $1,000 host, $500 sponsor,

$250 VIP, $50 general admission,

guest. For info Dorian Stanley (732)

642-2163.

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Casey Wants SEC Probe Of China

Scams To Tap US Capital MarketsUS Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) re-

leased a letter to Mary Schapiro,

chairwoman of the Securities and

Exchange Commission, calling on

the agency to investigate how

some Chinese solar companies are

accessing US capital markets, a

practice that is putting America’s

solar industry at risk and exposing

investors to potentially untold dan-

gers.

“Over and over again China has

refused to play by the rules. It’s

time for the SEC to get to the bot-

tom of this and force them to do

so,” the Senator said. “The de-

mand for solar energy across the

country is going up, and that in-

creased demand should benefit US

companies rather than Chinese

companies who refuse to play by

the rules.

“New reports indicate Chinese

companies are using offshore hold-

ing companies to circumvent

American legal barriers and gain

access to American capital mar-

kets. Further, once these invest-

ments have been made, investors

have limited shareholder protec-

tions and non-existent recourse

against fraud.”

Recent activity in the solar-energy

industry illuminates the issues at

hand. In recent years, a number of

Chinese solar-panel producers set

up shell companies in the Cayman

Islands to sell shares on the New

York Stock Exchange and NAS-

DAQ. American investors re-

sponded, investing heavily in these

companies. These investments

quickly proved unwise as China

began to heavily subsidize its do-

mestic solar industry and drive

worldwide prices down, hurting

the stock prices of the shell com-

panies.

Investors have no recourse to con-

front these situations. First, US in-

vestors cannot properly vet their

investments. Under Chinese law,

accounting data is confidential,

which means investors cannot ver-

ify accounting data from Chinese

firms. Without this verification,

Chinese firms should not be al-

lowed on US stock exchanges

under any circumstances. Further-

more, even in cases of fraud, US

investors are not able to regain

their money, because China will

never allow any US legal decision

to be enforced.

Fattah Rolls Out Bill To Spur CoopsCongressman Chaka Fattah (D-

Phila.), Congressional leader for

the national cooperative move-

ment, especially urban coops, in-

troduced the National Cooperative

Development Act yesterday.

“It’s high time for cooperatives – a

great idea that has emerged from

and gained success in our urban

neighborhoods as well as rural

communities – to move onto the

national radar,” said Fattah, whose

Philadelphia district includes nu-

merous thriving coops. “This leg-

islation brings federal resources

and a policy priority to the effort.

“Cooperatives are a special kind of

economic stimulus. Cooperatives

benefit the communities they serve

while building opportunities for

shared wealth. Cooperatives are

truly vehicles for protecting the

middle class and creating eco-

nomic growth,” Fattah said.

The Fattah bill, HR 3677, author-

izes $25 million a year through

2016 to create and fund the Na-

tional Cooperative Development

Center.

Cooperatives are owned and con-

trolled by the people who use the

coop’s services or buy its goods.

They range in size from the local

corner store to Fortune 500 com-

panies, and can include insurance,

healthcare, housing, recreation ma-

terials and equipment as well as

more traditional uses such as rural

electricity. Overall, US coopera-

tives account for more than $3 tril-

lion in assets, over $500 billion in

total revenue, $25 billion in wages

and benefits, and nearly 1 million

jobs.

“We have food deserts in low-in-

come urban areas where food co-

operatives are often the only

enterprises willing to bring food

security and nutrition while an-

choring the buy-local campaigns

we see happening everywhere,”

Fattah said. “Every new or ex-

panded cooperative, regardless of

the goods or services it provides,

will be a job creator and an eco-

nomic engine where it’s most

needed.”

Fattah pointed out cooperatives

still face many problems, including

difficulty in gaining access to capi-

tal, which can stunt the growth of

even the most successful enter-

prises.

In addition, Fattah noted, “the

unique nature of the cooperative

ownership model requires that co-

operative operators receive spe-

cialized training and assistance in

setting up the governance, opera-

tions, and financial structures that

are required to run a successful co-

operative.

“Co-ops need help the federal gov-

ernment will now be in a position

to provide,” Fattah said.

The National Cooperative Devel-

opment Center will:

Award grants to nonprofit organi-

zations, colleges, and universities

so that they can provide technical

assistance to operating coopera-

tives or groups that are attempting

to form cooperatives;

Provide guidance, information on

best practices and technical assis-

tance to communities seeking to

establish cooperatives;

Create a revolving loan fund to

provide loans and seed capital to

groups who are attempting to form

cooperatives;

Provide funding for training of

providers of technical assistance

and supporting existing profes-

sional development training for or-

ganizations engaged in cooperative

development;

Establish cooperative development

centers in areas that currently do

not have them.

State Police Urge ‘Blue Light’ To Honor Fallen Officers

Pennsylvania residents are asked

to display a blue light in their

home or office windows during the

holiday season to remember fallen

law enforcement officers and their

survivors, State Police Commis-

sioner Frank Noonan said yester-

day.

“Project Blue Light” was devel-

oped by COPS, or Concerns of Po-

lice Survivors, a nonprofit

organization based in Missouri that

represents more than 15,000 fami-

lies of officers killed in the line of

duty.

In 1988, Dolly Craig wrote to

COPS she would be putting blue

candles in her livingroom window

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son-in-law, Daniel Gleason, who

was killed in the line of duty while

serving with the Philadelphia Po-

lice Dept.

“The color blue is symbolic of

peace,” Noonan said. “By display-

ing blue lights, you will show you

support America’s law-enforce-

ment officers. Any police officer

passing by it on some dark, cold

winter’s night will be warmed by

the kindness it implies.”

Noonan said 93 members of the

Pennsylvania State Police have

been killed in the line of duty

since the department’s founding in

1905.

Leach Hails Study Of State’s Death PenaltyState Sen. Daylin Leach (D-

Delaware) was pleased the State

Senate on Wednesday adopted SR

6, a measure that would create a

bipartisan task force and advisory

committee to study the capital

punishment system in Pennsylva-

nia.

Leach, who previously drafted leg-

islation that would repeal the death

penalty, expressed satisfaction

with the Senate resolution’s adop-

tion.

“It’s important to remember that

the death penalty is a State pro-

gram which, like all other pro-

grams, we must continually

reevaluate,” Leach said. “Is it cost-

effective? Is it reliable? Does it ac-

complish its intended goals? These

are all things that we need to ex-

amine, and I’m glad that my col-

league Sen. Greenleaf offered a

resolution to do so.”

The task force will be comprised

of four appointed senators and the

advisory committee will consist of

30 members who have expertise in

the state’s criminal justice system.

To complete the study, the task

force and advisory committee will

receive assistance from the Justice

Center for Research at Penn State,

the Pennsylvania Interbranch

Commission on Gender, Racial

and Ethnic Fairness and the Penn-

sylvania Joint State Government

Commission.

The study will address issues that

could impact the effectiveness of

the capital punishment system in-

cluding cost, bias and unfairness,

proportionality of crime to sen-

tence, impact on and services for

family members, mental illness

and mental retardation, fairness of

juries, the quality of counsel pro-

vided to capital defendants, alter-

natives, public opinion and other

concerns.

Leach noted that in 2007, the

American Bar Association of

Pennsylvania reported that Penn-

sylvania’s capital punishment sys-

tem is racially and economically

biased and runs the risk of execut-

ing innocent people.

Law Would Outlaw Painful Gas Chambers For PetsThrough the efforts of State Sena-

tor Andy Dinniman and the pas-

sionate voices of animal advocates

throughout the state, Daniel’s Law

advanced in the Pennsylvania Sen-

ate, unanimously passing the Sen-

ate Ag and Rural Affairs

Committee this week. The law will

make it a crime for animals to be

euthanized in a carbon dioxide gas

chamber.

Daniel’s Law was named after

Daniel the beagle

(http://www.danielthebeagle.com),

who survived an Alabama carbon

monoxide gas chamber this fall.

Since surviving the experience,

Daniel has been adopted by New

Jersey dog trainer Joseph Dwyer,

and has embarked on a trail of ani-

mal advocacy that has taken him

from the Statehouse to animal

rights rallies to the Anderson

Cooper television program.

“Today is an important victory for

thousands of animals in Pennsyl-

vania, yet there are more than 30

other states that still permit the gas

chamber and other inhumane

forms of animal euthanasia. These

animals need someone to advocate

for them,” said Dwyer. A listing of

states that have banned this form

of animal euthanasia, as well as

those who allow carbon dioxide

gas chambers, is available at

http://www.danielthebeagle.com.

Named after the Biblical figure

who survived the lion’s den,

Daniel is on a state-by-state mis-

sion to outlaw inhumane forms of

animal euthanasia and promote an-



imal adoption.

“Daniel’s story reflects that even

the most perilous circumstances

can ultimately lead to a positive

outcome. We are tremendously

grateful for the leadership efforts

of Sen. Dinniman in advancing

Daniel’s law through the State-

house. He is an example of how

our state’s leaders protect not only

the interest of our human citizens,

but those that can’t speak with a

voice – our animal population,”

said Dwyer.

Boyle Bros. Rejoice At Temple/Fox Chase Pact

State Reps. Brendan and Kevin

Boyle (both D-Northeast) released

the following statements in re-

sponse to the announcement Tem-

ple University Health System and

Fox Chase Cancer Center have

signed an affiliation agreement:

“Fox Chase Cancer Center is a

world-renowned facility that has

been an asset to the Fox Chase

community,” said Brendan Boyle.

“I hope this affiliation marks a new

and innovative direction in cancer

research and treatment in Philadel-

phia.”

“Fox Chase Cancer Center has

been a cornerstone of the commu-

nity for decades. Its existence not

only helps fight cancer but serves

as an engine of economic growth

and jobs in the Fox Chase/Rock-

ledge area,” said Kevin Boyle.

“When I was elected to office last

year, I pledged to do all I can to

keep this facility operating in our

community. This announcement

demonstrates Fox Chase Cancer

Center is here to stay.”

Friends Of Wissahickon Receives $10,000 Grant

Friends of the Wissahickon has been

awarded a grant of $10,000 from REI to

support the Sustainable Trails Initiative,

FOW’s multi-year project to make the

50 miles of National Recreation Trails

in Wissahickon Valley Park a physically

and socially sustainable system that

works for all park users.

“REI Conshohocken is thrilled to help

support stewardship of the Wis-

sahickon’s trails,” says Charles Kline,

REI outreach coordinator. For 13 years,

REI Conshohocken has joined FOW on

workdays in the Wissahickon, part of

Fairmount Park, supporting projects

such as clearing trails and removing in-

vasive plants. Community volunteers

from FOW and REI will have the op-

portunity to help restore 3.3 miles of

natural surface (dirt) trails within Wis-

sahickon Valley Park between Bell’s

Mill Road and Northwestern Avenue.

These trails are widely used by the pub-

lic for outdoor recreation and also serve

as the outdoor classroom for the Wis-

sahickon Environmental Center envi-

ronmental education programming. REI

was founded in 1938 as a consumer co-

operative to purchase high-quality out-

door equipment for its members.

During the past six decades, REI has

grown into a renowned supplier of spe-

cialty outdoor gear and clothing.

The Friends of the Wissahickon,

founded in 1924, is a nonprofit organi-

zation dedicated to preserving the Wis-

sahickon Valley.

FOW works in partnership with

Philadelphia Parks and Recreation to

restore historical structures throughout

the park, eliminate invasive plant

species, monitor watershed manage-

ment issues, and restore trails through-

out the Wissahickon Valley Park with

its Sustainable Trails Initiative. For

more information or to become a mem-

ber, visit www.fow.org.



Attorney Oleg V. Nudelman has

joined Archer & Greiner PC as an

Associate in the firm’s Commer-

cial Litigation Group in Philadel-

phia.

Prior to joining the firm, Nudel-

man was an associate in the

Philadelphia office of Mont-

gomery, McCracken, Walker &

Rhoads, LLP. His experience

spans a broad range of complex

commercial litigation, including

patent matters, pharmaceutical liti-

gation and corporate bankruptcy.

Nudelman graduated from Haver-

ford College in June 2005 with a

BA in economics and growth and

structure of cities. He served as co-

chair of the Honor Council.

Nudelman obtained his law de-

gree, summa cum laude, in May

2009 from Washington & Lee Uni-

versity School of Law. While in

law school, Nudelman served as a

member of the Virginia Capital

Case Clearinghouse and as a staff

writer on the Washington & LeeLaw Review.

He is fluent in Russian. Born in

Kiev, Ukraine, and raised in

Cherry Hill, N.J., Nudelman cur-

rently resides in Philadelphia with

his wife.

Archer & Greiner PC is a full-ser-

vice regional law firm with more

than 200 lawyers and eight offices

in Haddonfield, Hackensack,

Princeton and Flemington, N.J.;

Philadelphia; New York, N.Y.; and

Wilmington and Georgetown, Del.

The Firm has been serving Fortune

100 clients, small to medium-sized

businesses and individuals for

more than 80 years. Each office

provides full-service litigation and

transactional capabilities in nearly

every area of law including corpo-

rate, estate & trust, family & mat-

rimonial, labor & employment,

litigation, medical & personal in-

jury and real-estate services.

Nudelman, Commercial Litigator,

Joins Archer & Greiner

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