[UC] Elephants spotted on 45th Street

[Krfapt]

Well, actually they were white rather than spotted elephants. And they weren't trampling down the lovingly tended lawn gardens but were being hauled across the sidewalk from automobiles to the Spruce Hill Community Association Clubhouse and Cultural Center at 257 S 45th.
 
The bad news, though, is that Pauline Borkon, who's responsible for the White Elephant Sale at the Spruce Hill May Fair (it's this Saturday) says that while some have been arriving in Datsuns, they should be coming in droves. This, by way of saying that the contributions of kitsch to the collection of stuff to be sold at the fair have been relatively sparse this year.
 
After receiving a blood oath that none of the money from the sale would go to support the historic district nomination, I agreed to help by issuing this plea. If you have items around the house you no longer want or can use, or think are too tacky for your sophisticated tastes but will appeal to the hoi polloi in the neighborhood, please consider donating them. To do so, bring them to 257 S 45th between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm (someone can correct me if these hours aren't quite right) any day this week.
 
For additional information, including clarification of what they're looking for most diligently, call 215-349-7825 between the above hours.
 
Always at your service and ready for a dialog,Al Krigman

[UC] Voter Registration Summer Internships

[Fred Wolfe]

I am passing information about this opportunity for students along to list, 
in the case that any of you might know someone interested in this 
internship program. If anyone knows of voter registration efforts being 
made here in Philadelphia, I'm sure that they could find some help from 
folks subscribed to this list.

Fred Wolfe, Parish Administrator
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Chestnut Street at 37th Street Walk
215.387.2885
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I am writing you on behalf of the Faithful Citizenship Project, an 
interfaith non-partisan voter registration drive sponsored by the National 
Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice.  Our goal is to do voter 
registration in the religious community for the upcoming Nov. 2 
election.  We want to make sure that the voices of people of faith are 
heard in this year's election.

We are offering internship programs for students through our Faithful 
Citizenship Summer program.  It is a 10 week paid internship program where 
interns will work in one of our six sites (Chicago, Syracuse/Elmira NY, 
Oklahoma City/Tulsa, Twin Cities, Portland OR, and Kansas City) to register 
people of faith.

Please consider passing the attached flyer on to interested students, 
especially those that will be living in those areas and are looking to put 
their faith in the dignity for each person into action.  Also, feel free to 
check out our website by visiting http://www.nicwj.org/ and clicking on 
Faithful Citizenship Project.  There is more information on there about the 
internship, the project, as well as a bulletin insert that we created about 
voter registration from the ELCA tradition.

Please let me know if you have any questions, and also please let me know 
if you have any suggestions for how to get the word out about this.

peace, Mike
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[UC] Street trees

[Dan Myers]

Dear Zardus,
If you were ever into any planting, you'll underdtand that Philadelphia WAS
stupid when it originally set up these "Street trees". Planting trees that
grow 80-100 feet in the air, under wires is just plain stupid. Also, the
planting of the ever-hardy-but-unknown-sex-tree of Gingko Biloba IS always
unwise. But now as, Fairmount Park tree afficanados, we can plant a tree
that only grows 20 or so feet under wires, and not have to be pruned by
PECO, which hires Asphundt (sp?).

Grass, in my opinion is the worst thing between the curb and sidewalk.
There's no "pretty value", it's hard to keep( you should mow it at least
once a month, and sometimes needs extra watering, fertilizer, etc), and it
proves to me the owner should be in a suburb, not here in the city. There
are plenty of groundcovers, like Mazus reptans for example, that have small
flowers twice a year can be tread upon like grass, and be so much easier to
take care of than turf. Or be even more creative...put down some moss, if
the ground is wet. Unless you are talking about ornanmental grass, which I
don't think you are, common grass should be left to suburbia.

My 4 cents. I'm Jewish so I count for the interest I've gained.
- Original Message - 
From: "William Zardus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 3:21 PM
Subject: RE: [UC] water heater question


> Trees are good but planting them in the area between
> sidewalks and curbing doesn't make any sense to me,
> unless you think growing a tree directly under power &
> telephone lines is a good idea.
>
> I always wonder what someone is thinking when they
> plant a tree under a power line.
>
> Maybe they think their tree will have a 6th sense
> and somehow know to grow around the power line
> so that Aspundh wont have to come out and
> butcher it 10-15 years after it was planted ?
>
> The best thing to plant between sidewalks and curbs
> is green grass.
>
> WRZ
>
> Original Message Follows
> From: Kyle Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RE: [UC] water heater question
> Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 08:36:43 -0400
>
>  >Do you happen to have curbside fencing ?
>  >A lot of installers like to "get over" on dopes
>  >who have curbside fencing, especially if
>  >their last name is Diller or Cassidy.
>
> Alas, no. my curbside fencing has all been forceably removed by drunks and
> miscreants. Perhaps I can use the sawed apart halves of the water heater
to
> protect my plants from being trod upon. I was also thinking I could just
> plant a tree there.
>
> Maybe next weekend.
>
> Kyle
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[UC] the "good guys" can do no wrong

[Cozzzmik]

good article on what's happening to Iraqi POW's at the hand of American and British soldiers...
~cozzzmik.
 
POV: the "good guys" can do no wrong===http://www.counterpunch.org/fisk05022004.htmlVictims of Our Own High-Flown MoralityThe "Good Guys" Who Can Do No Wrong By ROBERT FISKWhy are we surprised at their racism, their brutality, their sheer callousness towards Arabs? Those American soldiers in Saddam's old prison at Abu Ghraib, those young British squaddies in Basra came -- as soldiers often come -- from towns and cities where race hatred has a home: Tennessee and Lancashire.How many of "our" lads are ex--jailbirds themselves? How many support the British National Party? Muslims, Arabs, "cloth heads", "rag heads", "terrorists", "evil". You can see how the semantics break down.Add to that the poisonous, racial dribble of a hundred Hollywood movies that depict Arabs as dirty, lecherous, untrustworthy and violent people -- and soldiers are addicted to movies -- and it's not difficult to see how some British scumbag will urinate into the face of a hooded man, how some American sadist will stand a hooded Iraqi on a box with wires tied to his hands.The sexual sadism -- the bobby--sox girl soldier who points at a man's genitals, the mock orgy in Abu Ghraib prison, the British rifle in the prisoner's mouth -- might be a crazed attempt to balance all those lies about the Arab world, about the desert warrior's potency, the harem, polygamy.Even today, we still show the revolting Ashanti on our television stations, a feature film about the kidnapping of the wife of an English doctor by Arab slave--traders, which depicts Arabs as almost exclusively child--molesters, rapists, murderers, liars and thieves. It stars -- heaven spare us -- Michael Caine, Omar Sharif and Peter Ustinov and was made partly in Israel.Indeed, we now depict Arabs in our films as the Nazis once depicted Jews. But Arabs are fair game. Potential terrorists to a man -- and a woman -- they must be softened up, "prepared", humiliated, beaten, tortured. The Israelis use torture in the Russian Compound in Jerusalem. Now we torture in Saddam's old jail outside Baghdad and -- for this is where British soldiers beat a young Iraqi to death last summer -- in the former office of Saddam's most murderous chemical warfare fascist, the awful "Chemical" Ali.And the officers? Didn't the British lieutenants and captains and majors in the Queen's Lancashire Regiment know that their lads were kicking to death a young Iraqi hotel worker last summer?That man's fate -- and the documentary evidence proving that he was murdered -- was first revealed by The Independent on Sunday in January. Didn't the CIA boys at Abu Ghraib know that Ivan "Chip" Frederick and Lynddie England, two of the American soldiers in the photographs published last week, were obscenely humiliating their prisoners?Of course they did. The last time I saw Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, commander of the 800th Military Police Brigade in Iraq, she told me she had visited Camp X--Ray in Guantanamo and found nothing wrong with it. I should have guessed then that something had gone terribly wrong in Iraq.I remember how in Basra, on the eve of a visit by Tony Blair, I visited the British Army's press office in the city to ask about the death of 26--year--old Baha Mousa. The dead man's family had given me British documents proving that he had been beaten to death in custody, that the British Army had itself tried to pay off the family if they would give up any legal claim against the soldiers who so cruelly killed their son.I was met with yawns and a total inability to furnish information about the event. I was told to call the Ministry of Defence in London. The officer I spoke to appeared weary, even impatient about my inquiry. There was not a single word of compassion for the dead man.Back in September last year, General Karpinski was with a small group of journalists in Abu Ghraib -- the same ghastly prison in which thousands were put to death by Saddam, the same jail in which Frederick and England and their American buddies were standing their hooded Iraqi prisoner on a box with supposed electrodes on his hands -- and General Karpinski took some delight in escorting us to the old Saddam execution chamber.She led the way into the concrete room with its raised dais and gallows, and -- in front of us all -- triumphantly pulled the gallows lever so that the trap door clanged down. She urged us to read the last messages scrawled on the walls of the neighbouring death row by Iraqis awaiting Saddam's vengeance. But there was something wrong about her prison tour.There was no clear judicial process for the prisoners and there was no mention -- until I brought it up -- of the mortar attack on the American--held jail which killed six of the inmates in their tents in August, when General Karpinski was already in command of Iraq's 8,000 prisoners. They had been given "counselling"

Re: [UC] Ailanthus information

[William Zardus]

A lot of parks are filled with parasite vines like this
killing useful trees.
It's good there are people like you willing to volunteer
to do stuff like that for a whole summer.
When they did away with the draft they should have
replaced it with some sort of mandatory service to
the country for a year or two.
The only exemption would be for people
who join the military out of high school.
There are lots of things like this that could be done
to make things better at a minimal cost.
WRZ
Original Message Follows
From: Naomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [UC] Ailanthus information
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 09:48:28 -0400
I spent an entire summer in Mannassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia
as a volunteer removing "Trees of Heaven" because they were an invasive,
non-native species taking over areas of the park. They are nasty, horrible
weeds cleverly disguised as trees. They send a tap root down nearly as tall
as the tree itself which has to be dug up completely. They also send out a
large web of surface roots. When removing these trees, you need to remove
ALL of these roots or new little baby "Tree of Heavens" will sprout from the
rings of root bits left in the soil. It was the hardest job of my life and
if I never see another "Tree of Hell" it will be to soon.
Naomi
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RE: [UC] Free May Events at the Penn Alexander Community School-Please Forward Widely

[FX Winkler]

Nope. People within the catchment who don't have a gas bill or electric bill. A lease won't do! Jonathan Cass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 


You mean folks who don't live within the catchment area and are improperly (no matter how well intentioned) enrolling their children in the school?
Jonathan A. Cass 

-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of FX WinklerSent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:03 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [UC] Free May Events at the Penn Alexander Community School-Please Forward Widely


I heard that there are restrictive new rules at the "exclusive" Penn Alexander Academy meant to keep out the p'oh folk who are trying to get their kids in the school?
Has anyone else heard this?


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Re: [UC] Boycott the party for the park???

[FX Winkler]

"Why can't the people who litter in the park act like normal human beings and pick up after themselves."
 
I agree. Studies show that people in lower economic groups are more likely to letter. It correlates to education. Since most of the users of the park are in the lower socio-economic groups ... these are the people who litter.
 
Am I entitled? No ... I happen to pick up my trash and some of the trash of others. If I'm paying for services, I expect service. Since the service isn't happening, why should I pay?
 
Maybe we should use the schools as a means of reaching out to those children whose families are too poor, or too dumb to know not to litter.David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why can't the people who litter in the park act like normal human beings and pick up after themselves. How entitled do you have to feel to expect some outside organization to pick up your trash for you? Give us all a break with the whine and cheese about the "white liberal elite...". Pick up your own trash (like civilized human beings do 99% of the world over), and if you don't like being around dogs off leash, walk somewhere else. There is a great big world out there waiting to be explored.:>
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RE: [UC] Boycott: Party for the Park

[FX Winkler]

F*ck you assh0le. William Zardus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
FranK:Don't take this personally, but the quality of messagesreally seems to go down precipitously when I leave youguys alone, for more than a day or two.I'm probably going to have start monitoring thelist a little more closely for awhile.I think my inspirational messages and unusual insightswill be the perfect antidote to this sort of negativity.WRZOriginal Message FollowsFrom: FX Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: [UC] Boycott: Party for the ParkDate: Wed, 5 May 2004 10:03:46 -0700 (PDT)I will not support the FoCP because I don’t think they reflect the needs of the park. Tony West speaks of the ‘urgent’ need for the community to come out and support the event. What he really means to say is the liberal white elite who has the money to support the
 event.
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[UC] RE: Boycott: Party for the Park

[FX Winkler]

Mr. Goldstein,
 
Thanks for the reply. I think I would be a lot happier with the whole situation if UCD did nothing else but help to make sure the trash cans were kept from overflowing.
 
Well, that and I still think that the ambassdors should refrain from playing basketball in uniform.
 
FX WinklerEric Goldstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


Mr. Winkler:
 
I am very sorry that you feel this way.  I hear you about the trash and it's for that very reason that we need people like you to support the fundraiser.  The City can only afford to collect the trash one day per week (usually Tuesdays) and we (through the fundraiser) have been able to add an additional day per week (usually thursdays or fridays).  The Dept. of REC. will also add their full-time seasonal maintenance person to the park next week.  That will help tremendously with trash in the Park.  Did you know that Clark Park is the most actively permitted park in the REC. park system?  It gets a lot of use!  You should also know that UCD and FOCP are not enforcement agencies (dogs off their leashes).  You, as a citizen and Park user, can help to correct things you do not like by making your voice heard in City Council and with the Police.  All we can do is try to
 improve the overall condition of the park, which we have for five straight years through the generosity of hundreds of people that live in University City as well as several foundations and corporations.  People contribute as little as $5 and as much as $20,000 each year because the Park is free and available to everyone.  Finally I can tell you that you are wrong about UCD.  There's not a person on my staff that doesn't care about the needs of individuals in the community.  The needs of individuals in this community are front and center for this organization and are the very reason we get up and come to work.  We are tremendously proud of what we do and what we have accomplished.
 
I hope you will support the fundraiser for the good it has done for the Park, if for no other reason.
 
Eric.
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I will not support the FoCP because I don’t think they reflect the needs of the park. Tony West speaks of the ‘urgent’ need for the community to come out and support the event. What he really means to say is the liberal white elite who has the money to support the event.
 
Tony also speaks of expanded maintenance – what about regular maintenance? I was walking through Clark Park this morning and noticed that there were trash cans overflowing with refuse left over from this weekend. This is the fourth week now that the park has been strewn with trash left over from the weekend. 
 
Why support organizations that can’t even collect weekend trash on the weekend, or at least the first thing on Monday? 
 
I also walked past the dog bowl and saw the free range doggies let off-leash by their owners. What happened to the dog park? 
 
I don’t support UCD because I don’t think they really care about the needs of individuals in the neighborhood. I’m tired of watching the UCD ambassadors ‘hanging out’ at Sunoco, leering at the young women walking around the Penn Campus, and playing basketball in the park.
 
Boycott the Party for the Park. Demand better service  - don’t reward bad service and bad behavior.
Anthony West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 




DEAR FRIENDS OF THE PARK,
 
Only seven days remain before the 5th Annual Clark Park “Party for the Park” on Thursday, May 6th from 5:30 to 8pm. It's urgent that the whole community come out to support this event, which is the *only source* for the expanded maintenance program that keeps Clark Park an adornment to our community! If we don't raise the money, the park will start to deteriorate at once. It's that simple.
 
This year’s theme, “Into the Enchanted Woods,” will feature great food and cocktails, music by Jay Ansill, prizes for best costume, and a Silent Auction. 
 
The expanded Silent Auction features: gift certificates to restaurants including Rx, White Dog Cafe, Davio’s, and Manayunk Brewing Company; overnight packages for local hotels and B&Bs; great seats at your favorite Philadelphia professional sports venues and the Army/Navy game; and items from Ben & Jerry’s, The Philadelphia Zoo, Lagos, Computer Connection, Amtrak, the Bridge Cinema de lux, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and many more!  Remember that 100% of your 

Re: [UC] Boycott: Party for the Park

[FX Winkler]

Misguided as it may be ... I don't think I'm being either cynical or de-constructive.
 
The trash and the dogs really piss me off. Especially since I believe that no one else cares. I'd like to write what I really think about the trash situation and the unfriendly ambassadors, but then people would lable me a "racist."
 
I'm STILL tempted to drop laxative doggie treats throughout "the bowl."
 
I'm going to go take a chill pill. Excuse me for getting irate.
 
"R.B. Womer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Pardon me, but this is really misguided.We live adjacent to the park. Before the first Party in the Park, and theoutside maintenance it made possible, trash collections were often two orthree weeks apart, even in the summer. Grass routinely grew a foot tallbetween mowings. We and our neighbors picked up the trash in theplayground and along 43d Street, and had no problem filling a few trashbags every weekend.Clark Park is vastly more pleasant and usable for EVERYONE because of theParty in the Park. If that means that those of us with the ability to payfor tickets are making possible greater enjoyment of the park for everyone,that's fine with me.I would invite Mr. Winkler to do something constructive. How about adonation toward the new playground equipment? How about participating intree plantings and
 clean-ups?Cynical and divisive complaints are not constructive.Rick WomerMessage text written by FX Winkler:>I will not support the FoCP because I don’t think they reflect the needsof the park. Tony West speaks of the ‘urgent’ need for the community tocome out and support the event. What he really means to say is the liberalwhite elite who has the money to support the event.Tony also speaks of expanded maintenance – what about regular maintenance?I was walking through Clark Park this morning and noticed that there weretrash cans overflowing with refuse left over from this weekend. This is thefourth week now that the park has been strewn with trash left over from theweekend. <
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Re: [UC] Poor Folk and Clark Park

[FX Winkler]

It's not just them. The weekend users are the worst.Jonathan Cass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 


You mean those fine impoverished folks who find the money and time to congregate in the park during lunch time and drink bottles in brown paper bags which are then left strewn about along with cigarette butts?
 
Jonathan A. Cass 
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of FX WinklerSent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:03 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [UC] Elephants spotted on 45th Street


I suspect that merchandise is scarce because the Friends of Clark Park doesn't really serve the interests of the people who care about the park ...
 
and the majority of the users are the impoverished residents outside the catchment who don't gove a damn!"S. Sharrieff Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:









 
 
Humorous Al.
 
I suspect that merchandise is scarce due to the
increase in porch sales in the area this past year, 
maybe 1 per week.
 
S.
 
 
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:40 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [UC] Elephants spotted on 45th Street
 

Well, actually they were white rather than spotted elephants. And they weren't trampling down the lovingly tended lawn gardens but were being hauled across the sidewalk from automobiles to the Spruce Hill Community Association Clubhouse and Cultural Center at 257 S 45th.

 

The bad news, though, is that Pauline Borkon, who's responsible for the White Elephant Sale at the Spruce Hill May Fair (it's this Saturday) says that while some have been arriving in Datsuns, they should be coming in droves. This, by way of saying that the contributions of kitsch to the collection of stuff to be sold at the fair have been relatively sparse this year.

 

After receiving a blood oath that none of the money from the sale would go to support the historic district nomination, I agreed to help by issuing this plea. If you have items around the house you no longer want or can use, or think are too tacky for your sophisticated tastes but will appeal to the hoi polloi in the neighborhood, please consider donating them. To do so, bring them to 257 S 45th between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm (someone can correct me if these hours aren't quite right) any day this week.

 

For additional information, including clarification of what they're looking for most diligently, call 215-349-7825 between the above hours.

 

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Re: [UC] Ailanthus information

[Naomi]

Title: Re: [UC] Ailanthus information



I have to agree. If Kerry is for reinstating the draft for both men & women with no educational deferment and no conscientious objector status (as I have read but have not heard directly from Kerry), there needs to be a non-military option like volunteering in the school systems or hospitals or in the local and national parks. There's so much work that could be done by a strong volunteer work force that would really improve the quality of life for so many.  And volunteer work is so rewarding and humbling all at the same time. 

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From: "William Zardus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "William Zardus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 20:06:53 +
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [UC] Ailanthus information


A lot of parks are filled with parasite vines like this
killing useful trees.

It's good there are people like you willing to volunteer
to do stuff like that for a whole summer.
When they did away with the draft they should have
replaced it with some sort of mandatory service to
the country for a year or two.

The only exemption would be for people
who join the military out of high school.

There are lots of things like this that could be done
to make things better at a minimal cost.

WRZ


Original Message Follows
From: Naomi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [UC] Ailanthus information
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 09:48:28 -0400

I spent an entire summer in Mannassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia
as a volunteer removing "Trees of Heaven" because they were an invasive,
non-native species taking over areas of the park. They are nasty, horrible
weeds cleverly disguised as trees. They send a tap root down nearly as tall
as the tree itself which has to be dug up completely. They also send out a
large web of surface roots. When removing these trees, you need to remove
ALL of these roots or new little baby "Tree of Heavens" will sprout from the
rings of root bits left in the soil. It was the hardest job of my life and
if I never see another "Tree of Hell" it will be to soon.

Naomi

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RE: [UC] Free May Events at the Penn Alexander Community School-Please Forward Widely

[Dubin, Elisabeth]

That makes some 
sense.  Anybody can fill out a lease form and say they have a lease.  

 
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  [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On 
  Behalf Of FX WinklerSent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 4:34 
  PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE: [UC] Free May Events at the 
  Penn Alexander Community School-Please Forward Widely
  
  Nope. People within the catchment who don't have a gas bill or electric 
  bill. A lease won't do! Jonathan Cass 
  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
  

You mean folks who don't live within the catchment area and are 
improperly (no matter how well intentioned) enrolling their children in 
the school?
Jonathan A. Cass 

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  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of FX 
  WinklerSent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 1:03 PMTo: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Cc: 
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: Re: [UC] Free May Events at the 
  Penn Alexander Community School-Please Forward Widely
  
  
  I heard that there are restrictive new rules at the "exclusive" Penn 
  Alexander Academy meant to keep out the p'oh folk who are trying to get 
  their kids in the school?
  Has anyone else heard this?
  
  
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[UC] Chill out

[Mark Krull]

Is this comment really needed???
-Mark-Original Message- From: FX Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: May 5, 2004 4:36 PM To: William Zardus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [UC] Boycott: Party for the Park 


F*ck you assh0le. William Zardus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
FranK:Don't take this personally, but the quality of messagesreally seems to go down precipitously when I leave youguys alone, for more than a day or two.I'm probably going to have start monitoring thelist a little more closely for awhile.I think my inspirational messages and unusual insightswill be the perfect antidote to this sort of negativity.WRZOriginal Message FollowsFrom: FX Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: [UC] Boycott: Party for the ParkDate: Wed, 5 May 2004 10:03:46 -0700 (PDT)I will not support the FoCP because I don’t think they reflect the needs of the park. Tony West speaks of the ‘urgent’ need for the community to come out and support the event. What he really means to say is the liberal white elite who has the money to support the event.




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RE: [UC] Boycott: Party for the Park

[Samuel Nicolary]

Any relation to "The Fonz"?

-- 
Sam Nicolary

On Wed, 5 May 2004, FX Winkler wrote:

> F*ck you assh0le. 
> 
> William Zardus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FranK:
> Don't take this personally, but the quality of messages
> really seems to go down precipitously when I leave you
> guys alone, for more than a day or two.
> 
> I'm probably going to have start monitoring the
> list a little more closely for awhile.
> 
> I think my inspirational messages and unusual insights
> will be the perfect antidote to this sort of negativity.
> 
> WRZ
> 
> 
> Original Message Follows
> From: FX Winkler 
> Subject: [UC] Boycott: Party for the Park
> Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 10:03:46 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> I will not support the FoCP because I don’t think they reflect the needs of 
> the park. Tony West speaks of the ‘urgent’ need for the community to come 
> out and support the event. What he really means to say is the liberal white 
> elite who has the money to support the event.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [UC] Boycott: Party for the Park

[BGAndersen]

Hey Frank,

Before you go bustin' a blood vessel, remember Zardus is not a real person. He's probably giggling at you right now because he got a rise from you.

BGA

In a message dated 5/5/04 5:00:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


F*ck you assh0le.

William Zardus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
 FranK:
Don't take this personally, but the quality of messages
really seems to go down precipitously when I leave you
guys alone, for more than a day or two.

I'm probably going to have start monitoring the
list a little more closely for awhile.

I think my inspirational messages and unusual insights
will be the perfect antidote to this sort of negativity.

WRZ


Original Message Follows
From: FX Winkler
Subject: [UC] Boycott: Party for the ParkSubject: [UC] Boycott: Party for the Park

I will not support the FoCP because I donât think they reflect the needs of
the park. Tony West speaks of the âurgentâ need for the community to come
out and support the event. What he really means to say is the liberal white
elite who has the money to support the event.

[UC] Am Sign Classes

[HomeschoolerUSA1]

Hi,

Does anyone know of any classes or private teachers of Am Sign in the University City Area?  I'm a homeschooler.

Thanks
Mom on the go!

RE: [UC] Elephants spotted on 45th Street

[S. Sharrieff Ali]

 

The White-Elephant sale is associated with

The Spruce Hill Community
Association (SHCA).

 

Get your elitist organizations straight!

 

J

 

S.

-Original Message-
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FX Winkler
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 12:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [UC] Elephants
spotted on 45th Street

 





I suspect that merchandise is scarce because the
Friends of Clark Park doesn't really serve the interests of the people who care
about the park ...





 





and the majority of the users are the impoverished
residents outside the catchment who don't gove a damn!

"S. Sharrieff
Ali" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:





 

 

Humorous Al.

 

I suspect that
merchandise is scarce due to the

increase in porch sales
in the area this past year, 

maybe 1 per week.

 

S.

 

 

-Original Message-
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday,
May 05, 2004 6:40 AM
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [UC] Elephants spotted on
45th Street

 



Well, actually they were white
rather than spotted elephants. And they weren't trampling down the lovingly
tended lawn gardens but were being hauled across the sidewalk from automobiles
to the Spruce Hill Community Association Clubhouse and Cultural
Center at 257 S 45th.





 





The bad news, though, is that
Pauline Borkon, who's responsible for the White Elephant Sale at the Spruce
Hill May Fair (it's this Saturday) says that while some have been arriving in
Datsuns, they should be coming in droves. This, by way of saying that the
contributions of kitsch to the collection of stuff to be sold at the fair have
been relatively sparse this year.





 





After receiving a blood oath that
none of the money from the sale would go to support the historic district
nomination, I agreed to help by issuing this plea. If you have items
around the house you no longer want or can use, or think are too
tacky for your sophisticated tastes but will appeal to the hoi polloi in
the neighborhood, please consider donating them. To do so, bring them to 257 S
45th between 5:00 pm and 7:00
pm (someone can correct me if these hours aren't quite right) any
day this week.





 





For additional information,
including clarification of what they're looking for most diligently, call
215-349-7825 between the above hours.





 





Always
at your service and ready for a dialog,

Al Krigman













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RE: [UC] Free May Events at the Penn Alexander Community School-Please Forward Widely

[S. Sharrieff Ali]

Hmmm….and what rules would that be?

 

S.

-Original Message-
From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of FX Winkler
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 12:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [UC] Free May Events
at the Penn Alexander Community School-Please Forward Widely

 





I heard that there are restrictive new rules at the
"exclusive" Penn
 Alexander Academy
meant to keep out the p'oh folk who are trying to get their kids in the school?

Has anyone else heard this?











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RE: [UC] Elephants spotted on 45th Street

[S. Sharrieff Ali]

 

 

Humorous Al.

 

I suspect that merchandise is scarce due
to the

increase in porch sales in the area this past year, 

maybe 1 per week.

 

S.

 

 

-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:40 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [UC] Elephants spotted on
45th Street

 



Well, actually they were white
rather than spotted elephants. And they weren't trampling down the lovingly
tended lawn gardens but were being hauled across the sidewalk from automobiles
to the Spruce Hill Community Association Clubhouse and Cultural Center at 257 S
45th.





 





The bad news, though, is that
Pauline Borkon, who's responsible for the White Elephant Sale at the Spruce
Hill May Fair (it's this Saturday) says that while some have been arriving in
Datsuns, they should be coming in droves. This, by way of saying that the
contributions of kitsch to the collection of stuff to be sold at the fair have
been relatively sparse this year.





 





After receiving a blood oath that
none of the money from the sale would go to support the historic district
nomination, I agreed to help by issuing this plea. If you have items
around the house you no longer want or can use, or think are too
tacky for your sophisticated tastes but will appeal to the hoi polloi in
the neighborhood, please consider donating them. To do so, bring them to 257 S
45th between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm (someone can correct me if these
hours aren't quite right) any day this week.





 





For additional information,
including clarification of what they're looking for most diligently, call
215-349-7825 between the above hours.





 





Always
at your service and ready for a dialog,

Al Krigman

Re: [UC] Elephants spotted on 45th Street

[Benseraglio2]

In a message dated 5/5/2004 10:38:41 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Humorous Al.
 
I suspect that merchandise is scarce due to the
increase in porch sales in the area this past year, 
maybe 1 per week.
 
S.
 
Al, you should seriously consider putting your professional expertise to work and establish a futures market for porch sales in the hood. Then for example we could see what clawfoot bathtubs were going for, and do a little dealing before we even went out to the actual sale itself. Speaking of clawfoot bathtubs, I see in the latest BUCKS magazine that poor Gott(ie) wound up in some suburban rich folks' tastefully restored barn out in no mans land somewhere between here and the Big Apple. They painted his feet black, which was sort of a nice touch, although I'm not sure how historically accurate it was.
 

Ross Benderhttp://rossbender.org
 

 
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 6:40 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [UC] Elephants spotted on 45th Street
 

Well, actually they were white rather than spotted elephants. And they weren't trampling down the lovingly tended lawn gardens but were being hauled across the sidewalk from automobiles to the Spruce Hill Community Association Clubhouse and Cultural Center at 257 S 45th.

 

The bad news, though, is that Pauline Borkon, who's responsible for the White Elephant Sale at the Spruce Hill May Fair (it's this Saturday) says that while some have been arriving in Datsuns, they should be coming in droves. This, by way of saying that the contributions of kitsch to the collection of stuff to be sold at the fair have been relatively sparse this year.

 

After receiving a blood oath that none of the money from the sale would go to support the historic district nomination, I agreed to help by issuing this plea. If you have items around the house you no longer want or can use, or think are too tacky for your sophisticated tastes but will appeal to the hoi polloi in the neighborhood, please consider donating them. To do so, bring them to 257 S 45th between 5:00 pm and 7:00 pm (someone can correct me if these hours aren't quite right) any day this week.

 

For additional information, including clarification of what they're looking for most diligently, call 215-349-7825 between the above hours.

 

Always at your service and ready for a dialog,Al Krigman

 
 
 

[UC] Fw: A google funny

[KAREN ALLEN]

From: "Beverly Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Barbara Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fw: A google funny
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 19:33:46 -0700

I received this today and pass it along for you to enjoy if you haven't 
seen
it already,
Bev

  1) Go to www.Google.com.
  > 2) Type in (but don't hit enter): "weapons of mass destruction".
  > 3) Hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button instead of the normal "Google
  > search"
  > button.
  > 4) READ CAREFULLY what appears to be a normal ERROR message. Make sure
  > you
  > read the whole error message.
  > Someone at Google apparently has a sense of humor. Try this soon,
  > before
  > someone at Google fixes it!



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RE: [UC] Fw: A google funny

[Kyle Cassidy]

It's called a "google bomb" you can do it to. Get fifteen or twenty friends
to link a particular passage to a particular web page wait till the web
crawlers have found your pages and kapow. The real question is when is
google going to realize that any company with any initiative can do the same
thing and mcdonalds starts linking "healthy food" to their web
page... 

What google _did_ remove were links to pages critical of L. Ron Hubbards
Church of Scientology:

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/22/xenugoogle020322


Kc

-Original Message-
From: KAREN ALLEN [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 9:45 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [UC] Fw: A google funny





>From: "Beverly Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Barbara Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Fw: A google funny
>Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 19:33:46 -0700
>
>
>
>
>I received this today and pass it along for you to enjoy if you haven't
>seen
>it already,
>Bev
>
>
>   1) Go to www.Google.com.
>   > 2) Type in (but don't hit enter): "weapons of mass destruction".
>   > 3) Hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button instead of the normal "Google
>   > search"
>   > button.
>   > 4) READ CAREFULLY what appears to be a normal ERROR message. Make sure
>   > you
>   > read the whole error message.
>   > Someone at Google apparently has a sense of humor. Try this soon,
>   > before
>   > someone at Google fixes it!
>
>
>



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